Oh, Hey: The Government is still shut down. I know that’s hard to believe since the Trump Administration is still doing daily damage to American institutions (literally!) and ICE agents are still abducting people off the streets, but today is Day 22. It’s possible SNAP benefits won’t be issued to several states in November if the government doesn’t reopen.
Portland Represent: Senator Jeff Merkley from Portland took to the Senate floor at 6:21 last night to condemn Trump and his authoritarian puppets, and his still at it this morning. He said, “President Trump wants us to believe that Portland, Oregon, is full of chaos and riots because if he can say to the American people that there are riots, he can say there’s a rebellion. And if there’s a rebellion, he can use that to strengthen his authoritarian grip on our nation.” He then praised Portlanders for not “taking the bait” and instead demonstrating with “joy and whimsy.” Stay inflated, frog friends. Watch Merkley live on C-SPAN.
Speaking of Portland: Do you follow our Portland Mercury pals on Bluesky and Instagram? They’re out there reporting on the front lines as federal agents are deployed to the city.
I Did Nazi This Coming (JK We All Did): Trump wanted Paul Igrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, but Igrassia had to withdraw himself from consideration after Politico uncovered racist texts he allegedly sent in a group chat. In one message he allegedly wrote, “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it.”
Weather’s Gonna Get Wild: The National Weather Service’s Dustin Guy says the PNW is gonna get “a bit of a roller coaster of weather” this week. It’ll be rainy and windy here, and the mountains might get some “significant” snow. I personally LOVED this morning’s thick fog. I stared out the window and took a sip of coffee like I was in a General Foods International Coffee commercial circa 1985. “Jean-Luc!”
Thanks, I Hate It: VP JD Vance met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem early this morning to “keep the truce on track,” according to NPR. The Israeli media is calling the Trump administration “Bibisitters.” Over the weekend, Israel claimed Hamas killed two of their soldiers so they launched airstrikes that reportedly killed 26 Palestinians.
Arizona’s Suing Mike Johnson: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson still has not sworn in Adelita Grijalva, the Congresswoman who won the election in Arizona about a month ago. He keeps making excuses and sometimes even flat-out lies about why he’s not swearing her in. Arizona’s AG has had enough of Johnson’s dick behavior, so she’s suing him and the House. Why’s Johnson putting it off? Several outlets speculate that it could be because a petition to release the Epstein files needs just one more signature, and Grijalva has said she’ll sign it.
Speaking of Sex Criminals: In October, Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being found guilty of two counts of transportation for prostitution but he’s going to appeal. His attorneys filed a notice of appeal on Monday. On Monday, TMZ claimed a White House official told them Trump was considering pardoning Diddy, but the White House has denied it. TMZ stands by its story.
Coe’s Moving Again: If you went to last night’s live taping of My Favorite Murder at the Paramount, you heard Karen Kilgariff tell the story of Spokane’s South Hill rapist Kevin Coe. Despite being sentenced to life (multiple times, actually!) and being “retained indefinitely” as a sexually violent predator under Washington’s Community Protection Act, Coe was released earlier this month due to his “deteriorating health” including severe depression, stroke, heart disease, and loss of mobility that required a walker. He was initially released to a home in Federal Way, but (shocking) they didn’t want him, so the State relocated him to Auburn, but the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe kicked him out, too. He’s back in Federal Way for now.
Harrell’s Scrambling to Appear Nice: On Monday, Mayor Harrell signed an executive order to fight food deserts and “ensure our children, older adults, people with mobility issues, and families have equitable access to fresh, local, affordable, and culturally relevant food and medicine.” The plan includes $12 million of food-related investments in next year’s budget. Sounds decent, right? Of course it does. The election is less than two weeks away. Just keep in mind that in July, KIRO 7 reported that the city spends an estimated $6 million on graffiti clean-up. That money could help a lot of people! If only Harrell wasn’t afraid of a friendly hot dog.
Sweater Weather: Yesterday PWHL Seattle (our brand new Professional Women’s Hockey League team) unveiled their inaugural jerseys and they’re great! Seattle is emblazoned across the front the way the original PWHL teams did for the league’s inaugural season. But what’s their name? Still TBA, actually! The franchise says they will announce the name ahead of their season—which starts November 21 in Vancouver—and a logo will be incorporated into next year’s sweaters. Weird, but okay! I’m just excited for more hockey. PWHL Seattle’s home opener is November 28 at Climate Pledge.
Things to BoOoOoOoO! Halloween is coming, and we have a list of creepy crawly events if you want to get into the, ahem, spirit of things. Get it? Spirit? Like a ghost! Boo! Nico Swenson also has a roundup of local haunted attractions if you like getting yelled at by strangers and screaming in public.
Speaking of Screaming in Public: I am so stoked for Winona Fighter’s show in Seattle! December 8 at Showbox SoDo. I hope they play “I’m in the Market to Please No One,” which is really fun to scream at the top of your lungs.
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@50
“(This may well be
the closest the Stranger gets
to admitting the peace it detests
continues to hold in Gaza — no re-
ports of violence over the past few days.)”
that’s Right
Wormtongue
us Anti-Genociders
fucking HATE IT WHEN PAL-
ESTINIANS AREN’T BEING MURDERED.
also@50
“Now this same crew
[Scum, in thumpfnsornaese]
silently walks around every opportunity
[whenever wormmy Wants us to?]
to demand Hamas disarm
[because The Worm-
tongue SAYS
SO],
and pointedly
ignores how Palest-
inians continue to die
[because the
nutnyahoo’s IOF Con-
tinues to Murder them?]
because Hamas remains armed.”
oh.
we Never
sawr That one
comin’, wormmy. Sick!
when the Wormtogue says
“you Want the Ceasefire
to be a Ceasefailure!”
he’s actually saying
if you predict a thing will Fail and
it DOES Fail, you Actually WANTED IT TO FAIL
so Therefore
you DON’T Give a FUCK
about Gazans and. you. never. Did.
Two years of posturing, preening, posing and pretending they actually cared about Palestinian lives just got completely drowned by a week (and counting) of their thunderous silence.
tensorna on October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
FUCK
YOU.
@3 What should be done with rapists and murderers, if you are one of those naive libprogs who wants to “abolish prisons”?
Lock them in a room with you? Inhumane, yes, but hilarious. Two birds, 2 peds (hint, it’s a pun).
‘The Israeli media is calling the Trump administration “Bibisitters.”’
The joke’s a little deeper than merely a humorous pun in English. Netanyahu once used the term in a re-election advertisement, to refer to himself. So the Israeli media has turned his own joke back upon him.
Seriously, any peace deal at the end of a ruinous (for Gaza) war will need a lot of diplomatic attention. Persons who just spent two years condemning the war, like so many here, could add their voices to demands for peace. That they now repeatedly choose to stay silent comes as disappointing, to say the least. (Note: “disappointing,” NOT “surprising.”)
KA-CHING! We hit the Tensorna (a.k.a., Cressona) jackpot again this morning. “Persons who just spent two years condemning the war, like so many here, could add their voices to demands for peace” – can projection get any more insane? This person has literally – using thousands upon thousands of words – advocated for billion dollar munitions handouts to the Zionist authorities, most especially when K. Harris did it back in Oct-Nov 2024. They have literally never advocated for peace, they have only advocated for mounting war, with annihilation of the Palestinians considered as reasonable collateral damage.
Another one for my impending book of quotes.
Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.
Over 450 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors and intellectuals have signed an open letter demanding accountability over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations.
“We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust,” the signatories write. “Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel.”
Signatories include former speaker of the Israeli Knesset Avraham Burg, former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, British author Michael Rosen, Canadian author Naomi Klein, Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Glazer, US actor Wallace Shawn, Emmy winners Ilana Glazer and Hannah Einbinder, and Pulitzer prize winner Benjamin Moser.
The signatories urge world leaders to uphold international court of justice (ICJ) and international criminal court rulings, avoid complicity in international law violations by halting arms transfers and imposing targeted sanctions, ensure adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza, and reject false claims of antisemitism against those advocating for peace and justice.
We bow our heads in immeasurable sorrow as the evidence accumulates that Israel’s actions will be judged to have met the legal definition of genocide,” the letter reads.
The appeal follows a sharp shift in public opinion for US Jews and the wider electorate over the last few years. A Washington Post poll found that 61% of US Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and 39% say it is committing genocide.
Among the broader American public, 45% told the Brookings Institution they believe Israel is committing genocide, while a Quinnipiac survey in August found half of US voters share that view, including 77% of Democrats.
Other signatories to the letter include the Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, playwright V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), American comedian Eric André, South African novelist Damon Galgut, Oscar-winning journalist and documentarian Yuval Abraham, Tony award winner Toby Marlow and Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm.
“Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, then, but a fulfillment of it,” the signatories write. “When our sages taught that to destroy one life is to destroy an entire world, they did not carve exceptions for Palestinians.
We shall not rest
until this ceasefire carries forward
into an end of occupation and apartheid.”
by Joseph Gedeon
oodles:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel
from The Times Of Israel:
Mandy Patinkin draws fire for saying
Israel doing to Gaza what was
once done to Jews
Jewish-American actor tells
NYT of getting bad ‘vibe’ from Netanyahu
in chance 1980s meeting; wife Kathryn Grody
says antisemitism claims being used to silence criticism of Israel
[and Fucking HOW]
Patinkin, who is perhaps best known
for his role as Inigo Montoya in “The Princess Bride,”
also invoked the character’s line from the movie in which he said,
“I have been in the revenge business so long.
Now that it’s over, I do not know what to do
with the rest of my life.” Recalling the quote,
Patinkin said,
“I ask Jews
to consider what this man
Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-
wing government is doing to the Jewish people all over the world.”
“They are endangering not
only the State of Israel, which I care
deeply about and want to exist, but they are
endangering the Jewish population all over the world.
To watch what is happening, for the Jewish people to allow this to happen to children and civilians of all ages in Gaza, for whatever reason, is unconscionable and unthinkable,” said Patinkin.
[well
Yeah,
Mandy:
BUT HAMAS!]
“And I ask you, Jews, everywhere, all over the world, to spend some time alone and think, Is this acceptable and sustainable? How could it be done to you and your ancestors, and you turn around and you do it to someone else?” continued Patinkin.
As far as I am concerned,
compassion for every person in Gaza
is very Jewish, and the fact that I abhor the policies
of the leader of that country does not mean
I’m a self-hating Jew or I’m antisemitic,”
Grody continued, adding that Netanyahu’s
politics are the “the worst thing
for Jewish people.”
–by By GRACE GILSON; 15 July 2025
more:https://www.timesofisrael.com/mandy-patinkin-draws-fire-for-saying-israel-doing-to-gaza-what-was-once-done-to-jews/
oh, no
if a Jew says abso-
Lutely ANYTHING Negative
about bibi’s “War” on Palestinians
then they
according to
@tS’s reich wing
commentariat, that
PROVES they’re both
Self-Hating AND Anti-Semite!
and wormmy & Co’ve been
Preaching That for TWO
FUCKING YEARS!
sorry, Mandy
but They
Know
best!
right,
wormmy?
Right!?
@55
“[Wormtongue thumpfnsorna] have
literally never advocated for peace,
they have only advocated for
mounting war, with annihil-
ation of the Palestinians
considered as reason-
able collateral
damage.
Another one for my impending book of quotes.”
Libretto68 on October 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
May I quote you on that?
KAFUCKING
-CHING!
indeed.
@17 You don’t like black people but also don’t like rapists. Almost 60% of rapists are white… so do you only hate black rapists or ?
gotta
Thank
God that
God is White!
what’re
the Odds!?
@55: Peace comes when Hamas is beaten. Sad that Hamas decided to use their kids’ bedrooms as fighting positions, but that’s kind of on them ya know? 😜
yeah Hamas
Needs to
GTFOA.
@58 – you have trouble understanding per capita stats, huh
I think all rapists should be publicly executed by a firing squad, regardless of race
Also, as I have previously proved on another Slog thread a couple of weeks ago, most “white sex offenders” are not actually “white”, but are brown latinos, erroneously classified as “white” that you’d be crying about if they were being deported. A perusal of almost every state’s sex offender registries proves me right. This false classification of brown non-whites falsely inflates the “white sex offender rate”.
@60 & 61
but the World
is Waking Up to
Israel’s utterly bullshit
excuse of Blaming it ALL
of fucking Hamas.
bibi’s
Rapicly
running
outta Time
see: @ 56a & b.
is
nutnyahoo
in his Desperation
willing to Stake it ALL
on One Fell Schwoop?
can he Lure The
Fool Bonespurs
In with him?
stay
tuned
@59 kristofarian: +1 BINGO. That’s exactly what MAGAs and RWNJs want everyone to see.
Oh, NO!! Jesus wasn’t Jewish! He couldn’t POSSIBLY have olive skin, deep brown eyes, and
jet black curly hair or be born DIRT POOR in the Holy Land. He’s supposed to be an ugly orange
king with his own private ballroom where the White House USED to be. Film update at 11.
It’s among many warranted reasons why I’m an atheist with no regrets.
@65 kristofarian: OO!! Can Bibi and Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf both go down in flames together, preferably while screaming for mercy even though it’s over four decades too late? Pretty please? Let it be so! Let this finally be the death of the GOP, their RWNJs, and MAGA tools. Good riddance.
I’ll bring the red wine, popcorn, and dark chocolate. 🙂
@55: Thanks for validating my quote. You successfully avoided advocating for peace, just as I’d said. Again, disappointing, but not surprising.
“They have literally never advocated for peace,”
Written during the second consecutive week of my strongly advocating for the current peace plan. (Folks, you just cannot make this stuff up!)
“Another one for my impending book of quotes.”
Why wait? Provide some quotes of me advocating for “annihilation of the Palestinians” (with URLs, of course) now. Go ahead. (Snicker.)
you
been
Championing*
for Genocide since
10/7/23 Wormtongue
and a person’d
hafta be a Fool & a
Glutton for punishment to
even Begin to sift thru your oodles
and oodles of to quote Catalina — “Vile Projections.”
Hard
fucking
pass, thnx
*And Snickering
It’s time for supporters of ceasefire and peace to stand up to Hamas:
‘In the two weeks since a U.S.-brokered truce in Gaza, Hamas is making one thing clear: It isn’t going away.
‘Hamas is pushing for a postwar governance role in negotiations with Arab mediators. That stance is at odds with President Trump’s 20-point peace plan, which calls for the U.S.-designated terrorist group to give up power “in any form.”
‘Hamas has probed Israeli defenses prompting Israeli airstrikes in response and raising worries about the fragility of the cease-fire. And it has launched a bloody campaign against rival Palestinian groups, a show of force demonstrating that it remains the only power capable of ruling the Gaza Strip.’
(https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-has-calculated-it-can-survive-in-gazaand-rule-961adc85?mod=hp_lead_pos6)
And what bold response do Hamas’ bloody violations of the truce receive from our very, very, VERY loud past proponents of disarming Israel to force a ceasefire?
.
.
.
(Crickets.)
speaking of
very, Very, VERY
loud ‘past’ propo-
nents of a Genocide:
you’re
FREE AS
FUCK to Stand
up to Hamas any
fucking Time you Wanna
wormmy. NO ONE
is Stopping
You.
so,
wormmy,
how’s that
‘Peace Plan’
of yours Coming?
from Democracy Now!:
As Israel Pushes
to Annex West Bank,
Norwegian Refugee Council
Condemns Growing Settler Violence
“I was there three years ago, the last time.
I’ve been there now for more than 30 years altogether.
And I was shocked to see how many new illegal settlements are strategically put on all hilltops in large parts of the countryside in the West Bank, at the same time as the thugs, the violent settler gangs from these settlements, attack every single day Palestinian rural communities, very vulnerable Bedouin communities, torch their houses, torch their mosque, their school, steal their livestock and divert their water.
So, you see how the place is annexed and the occupation deepens — because this is occupied land — every single day now. And it’s changing as we speak.
I think the settler movement felt they had a free hand to do whatever they wanted on the West Bank, and it happened in the shadows of the war in Gaza.
Every single day, Palestinian houses are demolished. Every single day, their communities are attacked. Every single day, people are beaten up, thousands of olive trees are uprooted. I mean, it’s happening as we speak.”
–Norwegian Refugee Council’s Jan Egeland,
just returned from the occupied West Bank.
Independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who filmed Sunday’s violence against Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Turmus Aya, compared the Israeli settlers’ attack to a lynch mob.
… Nathaniel and a group of Palestinians were . . . chased by a swarm of Israeli settlers carrying stones and clubs. Jasper Nathaniel is a U.S. citizen. Also with him, a Palestinian man, Yasser, g[o]t into a car as settlers then try to smash the back window.
oodles more on the . . . ‘ceasefire “agreement”‘?
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/24/west_bank_jan_egeland
Another week of the Gaza ceasefire, another week of the Stranger and supportive commenters not saying anything which might possibly be (very generously) construed as advocating for continued ceasefire.
At this rate, inauguration of a Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel would be an event in schoolchildren’s history books, long before the Stranger (and commenters) even (bitterly) acknowledge the cease-fire had lasted.
so
wormmy
When were
YOU gonna call
on Israel to Cease with
all the fucking War Crimes?
let the 1,000 fucking
Supply Trucks come into
Gaza feed the Starving Gazans?
Provide them with
DESPERATELY NEEDED
MEDICAL SUPPLIES? HOW
ABOUT FUCKING WATER?
FOR DRINKING OR TO
CLEAN THEMSELVES?
this is Not gonna
look Good on
your Grave-
Stone.