Bear Gulch Fire 100 Percent Contained: Over five months, the fire (likely caused by humans) burned 20,000 acres. Areas inside the perimeter may continue to smolder for a while, and debris may flow onto Forest Service Road 24 and the areas around Lake Cushman, but it’s donezo, reports KING 5.
Trump’s Homeless First Strategy: A Trump administration policy change could endanger “housing first” programs to address homelessness. Stable housing for hundreds of local households and $41 million for programs in Seattle in King County are in jeopardy. This is dumb as hell. Housing First may not always be implemented perfectly, or even well, but data shows low barrier housing works better than high barrier housing when implemented correctly. Roughly 170,000 people nationwide could end up homeless again. This does not solve homelessness.
Past Got Your Tongue? Trump told reporters that if a measure that ordered the Justice Department to publish the Epstein Files crossed his desk, he’d sign it.
He May Get His Chance: Today, the House will vote on a bill just like that. If this happens, count on a push alert from every website on earth.
Joseph, Don’t Take the Handles: Joseph Emerson, the off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut a jet’s engines on a 2023 passenger flight, has been released on time served. Federal prosecutors had asked for a year in prison for nearly killing 83 people. He’ll be on probation for three years. Emerson, whose friend had recently died, claimed he hadn’t slept in over 40 hours. He believed he was daydreaming when he went for the controls, he said. Emerson pleaded guilty to the federal charges, and no-contest to state charges.
Mariners Re-sign Josh Naylor: For $18.5 million, he’ll stay with the team another five heartbreaking seasons. We’re glad. To Mariners management, I have only one thing to say…
Tough Guys Can Be Sensitive, Too: The wood chapel outside the Northwest African American Museum is an art piece by former Seahawk defensive lineman Michael Bennett. Jas Keimig has more on “Night Chappel” and Bennett in the Seattle Times.
Another Terrible Whale Story: Scientists euthanized a young humpback whale beached near Yachats, Oregon. It sucks. There’s no moral to this story other than to stay away from derelict crab fishing lines if you’re a humpback whale in his prime. I’d tell people not to leave behind their derelict crab lines, but they won’t.
Weather: There’s a 30 percent chance of rain before 1 p.m. on this mostly cloudy day. Some clouds and patchy fog tonight.
Cosmic Delight: If the clouds roll away, we may see the Leonids meteor shower tonight. They’re gone by the 30th (and may stay gone until 2099) but they’re just coming off their peak.
Diva Down: Cloudflare, a software company that helps companies handle traffic, experienced an outage this morning. It took a chunk of the internet down with it.
UN approves US Peace Plan for Gaza: Trump’s plan will deploy an international stabilization force to Gaza for two years, which is meant to secure border areas, protect civilians and disarm non-state groups like Hamas. Trump will oversee the force. Arab states pushed for a late addition: a tentative, ambiguous reference to a future Palestinian state once Gaza is rebuilt. UN Chief Antonio Guterres said it was an important step toward long-term peace. Russia and China abstained from the vote. Hamas, which would be disarmed under the plan, rejected the measure. It said it won’t disarm and that the plan undermines the Palestinian right to self-determination.
A Little War, for Balance: Trump isn’t ruling out sending troops to Venezuela. He isn’t ruling out diplomacy with President Nicolas Maduro either. Though we’re off to a rocky start there, buddy. Accusing Maduro of running a cartel without credible evidence and extrajudicially killing people off his shore doesn’t inspire warmness.
Wow, but duh: Ninety-seven percent of the 614 immigrants arrested in Chicago’s immigration raids (Operation Midway Blitz) had no criminal record, according to Department of Justice records. Trump’s claims that his agency is going after the “worst of the worst” are obvious bullshit.
Woke Pope: Pope Leo XIV urged countries at COP30, the UN climate summit in Brazil, to take urgent climate action. God’s creation is “crying out in floods, droughts, storms, and relentless heat,” he said. (Over that volume, I imagine God is hard to hear.) COP30 is in its second week. We’re not participating. The Trump regime’s official stance is that global warming is a hoax.
About Time: David Richardson resigned as acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He’s best known for being a do-nothing loser. Employees told the AP he’s hard to reach, even in an emergency. Do we see the problem here? He returns to the private sector, where his un-talents will be better appreciated.
A quick song for your Tuesday: Take it away, Tony.
@48
“the alliance between western progressives and Hamas”
for a sicsokbott
you surely Are a
Lying little Bitch!
😁 lol lol lol lol 😁
@49: lol here comes Kristofarian to warn everyone about the (((Zionist))) education conspiracy 🤣🤣🤣
@48: “… the basis for the alliance between western progressives and Hamas.”
As it was nicely put at the beginning of the IDF-Hamas war:
‘…a misguided transposition of Western identity politics onto the Middle East that collapses all nuance and reduces a complex situation into a simple binary of “oppressor versus oppressed.” As such, leftists in English-speaking nations tend to see Palestine (including Hamas) as an oppressed, brown victim class whose freedom-fighting “resistance” against their oppressive, white, US-backed colonizers in Israel is a righteous cause with which to stand in solidarity. This simplistic view of the long-standing conflict in the Middle East leads to confused and contradictory thinking, as seen in the slogan (and now meme) “Queers for Palestine” brandished at anti-Israel rallies. It’s worth exploring just how incoherent this concept is.’
(https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/queers-for-palestine-and-the-death-of-irony)
‘leftists in English-speaking nations
tend to see Palestine (including
Hamas) as an oppressed,
brown victim class’
-@the Wormtongue,
propagandizing derr
Schlogg, just above
Hamas IS the Oppressor
and we ALL Can See it
and your evil Narrative
is Dying wormmy.
on the Wrongest
Side of History
you And your
AI siksock-
puppet
Are
@51
we can See your evil narrative
Dying right in front of our
very Eyes thump-
fnsorna. see:
@49
and Now
the World
is Seeing it
TOO.
“Wow, this place certainly has turned into a haven for bigots, xenophobes and Israeli influnce peddlers.
Maybe it’s time for the comment section to go the way of the Portland Mercury before it turns into the cesspit at Willamette Week.”
Boo hoo, people with opinions that conflict with Progressive Religious Dogma are commenting here, shut it down!!!
Everyone needs to understand that kristofartian is, in real life, Calvin Priest, Kshama Sawant’s husband. He has nothing else to do. Imagine being married to her, you’d probably turn into kristofartian too.
Expanding on @48 & @52, that Queer Majority article went on to describe how Pro-Palestinian advocates denounced any citations of actual LGBTQ+ human-rights records by governments in the Middle East. The reason, of course, is that Israel is the only country in the region where LGBTQ+ persons can live openly, and this obvious fact invalidates the Pro-Palestinian narrative of Israel as the lone oppressor, and of Hamas as the liberator.
The Stranger would go to great lengths in validating this criticism, firmly subordinating LGBTQ+ interests to Pro-Palestinian activism:
‘As Dave MacBale, a queer Palestinian Washingtonian, said, “There’s homophobia in Palestine because Palestine is on planet earth. If you ask any woman or queer person or trans person if they feel like they have full rights or full liberation anywhere in the world, they will all tell you no.” That includes the United States, MacBale added.’
(https://www.thestranger.com/news/2024/06/28/79578010/congressional-candidate-emily-randall-loses-the-left-after-taking-a-pro-israel-stance)
Blithely ignoring the difference between, “full rights … full liberation” and ‘summary execution without trial,’ allowed the Stranger to denigrate Israel’s human-rights record, whilst dismissing any concern about the miserable human-rights records of other governments in the region, Gaza’s included.
Someday, long after we will all always have been opposed to Hamas, the Stranger may come to regret the damage its fanaticism on Palestine did to LGBTQ+ rights everywhere, Gaza included.
Nice Caddyshack metaphor, Vivian. Bravo!
Hey, Danny Noonan—we’re all set for you to sink a birdie and dethrone Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf ad nauseum.
Hey, Smails—double or nothing he makes it?
Hey, Mr. Gopher……
It’s going to be an interesting midterm.
How ironic that everyone in Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf’s goon squad HAS a criminal record.
ICE agents and their lackeys, as usual, are barking up the wrong tree.
@24 kristofarian: The trolls are getting SO terminally stupid they fall right into their own quagmires these days.
It’s getting too easy to slam dunk ’em.
@55: Oh, I get it. You’re the latest in the trio of trolling idiots pulled ran-dumbly out of Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trump’s cavernous butt. Which one are you supposed to be, Larry, Curly, or Moe?
@45
“I’m just stating
what I think is an
overwhelming moral
and practical case against
the particular choices [thedjt]’s made.
If you support those choices
and want to defend them convincingly,
then you have to make a case for them on their merits.
By demanding instead
that Trump’s critics pledge allegiance
to a patently unrealistic ideal and declaring victory when
they refuse, you’re essentially just creating and destroying a straw man.”
CKathes (brilliantly, as per usual), seen here
Schooling mister magoo (our resident myopia-
denying Nihilist) in a take that’ll Never get taken,
sadly, ad astra, ad vomitas and ad fucking infinitum
@55
damn! I’ve been
Outted by a piece
of Cutlery. well done!
Kudos, to You, “Sharpie”!
(or, having perused your
‘poo’-infused postings, do
you Prefer “Sharpoo”? keep me
Posted!
@56
“Someday, long after
we will all always have been
opposed to Genocide, the Wormtongues
of this World may come to regret the damage
their fanaticism on Gaza/Palestine and devotion to
AIPAC did to Mother Nature, LGBTQ+ rights, Jewish
People, fucking Israel, oh and what the Hell, Humanity.”
there.
Fixed it
for ya. Very
Well Put, evn 4 U!
@59: “Which one are you supposed to be, Larry, Curly, or Moe?”
grizelda’s snappy boomer insults always sound like the dialogue to some vietnam war movie or something. Like that must have slayed in 1972 or whatever 😂😂😂
@59
nevertheless,
I join you, auntie GEE,
in your Yoeman’s Work,
slamdunking & debunking
these Fascists and Trolls @tS!
thank you!
@61
thumpfnsorna
Wormtongue, popping up,
and Right On Cue! Kudos 2 U, 2!
@13
for someone
who Refuses to read
my ‘Unreadable’ comments
who gets dizzy when their tunnel
vision gets tested, you Surely seem to
know ALOT about my comments’ Contents.
how Is this even Possible?
b. why do you need
2 accounts (bipps “Buggers”
bippie AND Sharpie “Sharpoo!” MacSharpie)?
c. how on Earth’re
you even Able to
keep Track of
’em Both?
d. I can Barely
‘keep track’
of my me-
asly One.
f. Happy
Trolling!
@46 “the All Gaza All the Time crew here”
You mean you and thumpus?
@65
no.
wormmy
wouldda said
Team AIPAC if he’d
meant ‘him’/them. he was including
d13R, “Buggers” McBippie, and KkKoolie McAide et nausea
in his All-Gaza-All-the-Time crew.
@65: lol I’ve noticed Gaza is a lot less fun for you now that your genocide narrative is in tatters. 😂 you been so quiet lately, what happen? 🤣
@61: It’s been going on for years and she’s steadily getting worse. So cringing! Friends and family have had interventions to no avail. Best we can do is say a prayer for her – God Bless.
@67 “your genocide narrative is in tatters”
Disagree.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds
@67: “your
genocide nar-
rative is in tatters.”
oh, thumpfsorna T.
Wormtongue, you
Crack Me UP!
@10:
😄That’s why
the UN Security Council
peace plan calls for Gaza to dis-
arm but not for Israel to disarm. 😎
thumpus on November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM Report this
Odd, aF
I find it, you,
thumpfnsorna T.
Wormtongue, to put
ANY Stock atall in the U. N. Security
Council, the very same one Who DECIDED
ISRAEL IS COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN GAZA*
whilst you, and your puppetmaster, the
Wormtongue, spent Billions of Pixels
on denying the FUCK Outta
That, for the past TWO
fucking years.
kristofarian on November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
*UN Human Rights Council:
“Israel Has IN FACT Committed Genocide in Gaza”
“now that your genocide narrative is in tatters. 😂”
two fucking years.
now is the Time
for you to Declare:
You’ve ALWAYS been
Against the Genocide
in Gaza, Wormtongue!
see: @60
@69: ha ha, that’s your source? The Human Rights Council has a standing agenda item to criticize Israel, the only country for which such a permanent mandate exists. 😄 They’ve issued more condemnations of Israel than they have all other member states combined. 😅 Your press release could just say, “Israel-Basing Committee Bashes Israel.” 🤣
@70: Heh, I think you might be mixing up the UN Security Council and the UN Human Rights Council? Because one of those bodies speaks with the force of international law and one of them does not. You might want to sort out which is which? 😂
@71 “The Human Rights Council has a standing agenda item to criticize Israel”
That’s what happens when you habitually violate human rights
ah
Butt
@1312
you do Not
‘Understand’:
Israel
according to our
far reichwing commentators
IS THE V I C T I M.
and Gazan Civilians?
the fucking
PERPS.
please to make
a fucking
NOTE
of it?
thnx!
@73: “That’s what happens when you habitually violate human rights”
You’d think so, but it turns out no, it’s a permanent double standard for Israel. 😜
@73 https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyaXZxOWV0emk5dWVmZzh6dzN0enB3ZmZ6Zng2MGI0Y3l6cjExMHBmdyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/KIejvpaS6QrAOdCLvu/giphy.gif
@69: Hey, thanks for validating my points, above!
“The Council had already adopted 100 resolutions against Israel, more than one third of all country-specific resolutions in the Council’s history. At the same time, attempts to adopt resolutions on other situations were blocked by the very States now decrying double standards. The sponsors of the draft resolution sought only to target Israel. They did not care about human rights; they did not care about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex persons in their own countries…”
(https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-council-summary-record-of-the-57th-meeting-agenda-item-7-human-rights-situation-in-palestine-and-other-occupied-arab-territories-a-hrc-52-sr-57-excerpts/)
Neither did Dave MacBale. Neither did the Stranger. Someday, long after everyone has always been against Hamas, these failures to support LGBTQ+ rights may live on.
@77: not much room for human rights when half the docket every year is taken up with pummeling Israel! 😄 Ironically, the council’s anti-Israel reports would carry more weight if the council were less prejudiced against Israel – there would be at least the appearance of impartiality, which would enhance credibility. 😛