Welcome to Day 10 of the 2025 Government Shutdown: Yesterday, despite the shutdown, the senate passed the $925 billion national defense bill, which allows everything from new submarines and fighter jets to an annual pay increase for troops. That said, because of the shutdown, members of the military may not get their paychecks—for the first time in the history of America—come October 15.
Trump Did Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize: Hahahahahahahahaha! He wanted it so badly, too. Loser.
María Corina Machado Wins Nobel Peace Prize: She is an opposition leader in Venezuela who lost the 2024 election to President Nicolás Maduro. The prize committee praised her for “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” Kind of the opposite vibes of ol’ Trumpty Dumpty’s vibes! Sorry, Don!
Ceasefire in Effect: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza. Now both sides have 72 hours to make good on their side of the deal—Hamas will release the 20 remaining Israeli hostages and Israel will release “around 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 detainees from Gaza.” The BBC also reports that “about 600 humanitarian aid trucks are expected to enter Gaza daily.” Read Trump’s full 20-point Gaza peace plan here.
Seattle School Board Rejects Cops at Garfield: The plan, supported by Mayor Harrell, would’ve placed a uniformed SPD officer on Garflied’s campus, but Capitol Hill Seattle reports that the school board had “concerns over disproportionate policing and the district’s failure to implement community recommendations in its proposal.”
Trump Cannot Send the National Guard to Chicago: Yesterday, a US district judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot “federalize or deploy” the national guard to Illinois for two weeks because she had “seen no credible evidence that there is a danger of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.” The Trump administration will likely appeal.
And! The National Guard Can’t Fuck with Protestors in Chicago, Either: A federal judge in Chicago also granted a temporary restraining order yesterday, blocking federal agencies from interfering with protestors and any journalists covering those protests. They can’t arrest or use physical force against journalists and they can’t use “riot control” weapons including tear gas and other “less-lethal” weapons and ammunition against protestors.
Oregon Might Not Be So Lucky: Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals began considering whether or not the Trump administration is allowed to deploy the national guard to “war ravaged” Portland. The 9th Circuit Court ruled on Saturday that they could not be deployed, but the Trump administration appealed the ruling and now the appeals court is being a butt about it. Judge Ryan Nelson, one of three judges on the panel (and a Trump-appointee) doesn’t really see a problem with it. “What I’m struggling with is, the president gets to direct his resources as he deems fit, and it just seems a little counterintuitive to me that the city of Portland can come in and say ‘No. You need to do it differently,'” he said. EXCEPT FOR THAT TRUMP IS LYING??? There’s no war-torn city! There is no insurrection! Trump and his fascist bootlickers are trying to supress freedom of speech and the right to assemble because they want to shut up the people who are protesting his administration’s ILLEGAL ABDUCTIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS.
When You’re Being Mean to Portland, This Is Who You’re Being Mean to:
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
— The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My Brain Hurts: It was very hard to make sense of all the lawsuits and rulings and the national guard can be deployed here but not here at least for now but not later nonsense so early in the morning so please join me while I take a soothing brain break and watch a baby hippo named Mars refuse to get out of the pool.
Okay, let’s dive back into Hell!
Remember When Qatar Gave Trump a Luxury Jet? Today Pete Hegseth announced the US will build “a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.”
Hegseth: “I’m also proud that today we’re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
MAGA Babies Plan “All-American Halftime Show”: The racist crybabies at Turning Point USA are so mad about American musician Bad Bunny being booked to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show that they’re planning their own “All-American” halftime show, which will also feature American performers. They’re asking supporters to vote on which music genres they’d like to see represented, including “Anything in English,” and some Turning Point dudes whose names I refuse to commit to memory say they want Creed to headline.
Seattle Sports Update: At 5 pm the Mariners will play Game 5 in their post-season series against Detroit and the anxiety is palpable. We are not used to playoff baseball! We have, as a city, forgotten how nervewracking it can be! The winner will advance to the American League Championship Series to take on the Toronto Blue Jays, who are not an American team. Baseball! In other sports news, the Seattle Kraken kicked off their 2025-26 by beating the unnecessarily orange Anaheim Ducks 3-1.
Perfect October Reading: In our latest issue, notable Seattle goth Bess Lovejoy wrote about the Comet Lodge Cemetery on Beacon Hill and all the little children who have haunted the area for generations. It’s a must-read, especially on this perfectly drizzly October day.
How about one more Mars video, as a palate cleanser?
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@96
have you Seen
the Devastation that
we’ve $ponsored, thumpfnsorna?
perhaps that’s because the IOF
has targeted/Assassinated
150+ Journalists in Gaza
along with the Massacre
of Untold Palestinians
although if Anyone can See
the Great Humor in That
it’s Gotta Be our dear
olde friend, the
thumpfnsorna!
insert Hystericalaffing
Emoticon hereabouts
@94 You’re actually worse because you’re one of the sub groups that MAGA hates and not just a random racist white dude like Biped is. You’re the slug voting for the salt… the tree voting for the axe… he’s just racist. You’re a really fucking dumb racist.
Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza
While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.In December 2023, nearly three months after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies gathered members of the country’s media.
Run out of Tel Aviv University, in a modern building on the campus surrounded by well-kept lawns and native trees, the INSS had a controversial task for the congregated press: Assess how the media was responding to Israel’s war on Gaza.
For months on TV,
nationalism, grief, and revenge
had mixed freely. Israeli victims’ testimonies
were common, as were first responders’ accounts.
[just like Here
thanks to our Pro-
genociders on derr Schlogg]
The idea of a second Holocaust,
requiring a massive military response,
was regular talking point. But the suffering
in Gaza was hardly noted. By mid-December,
close to 20,000 people in Gaza had been killed.
The group summoned by the INSS—keeping anonymous for fear of backlash—hoped to examine their own media’s self-imposed iron curtain on the disaster unfolding on the other side of the border.
Across local media, Israeli troop movements are
detailed, and impassioned analysis continues. But
the mainstream press has steered far clear of questioning
the high civilian death tolls and level of destruction in Gaza.
Palestinian voices have been silenced,
the report noted, and the Israelis who called
for an end to the war were often canceled. On hard-
right Israeli news, like Channel 14, when an image is shown
of a dead Gazan, it is not to show the costs of the campaign.
Instead, it is
almost always to
celebrate the effectiveness
of the Israel Defense Forces or to
illustrate the supposed ease of Hamas’ pro-
paganda campaign in fooling a gullible Western press.
There have been “only a bare scattering of reports on the huge scale of the humanitarian crisis” on television, Anat Saragusti of the Union of Journalists in Israel, a labor organization, wrote in the liberal daily newspaper Haaretz. And there are only a “handful of reports on primetime mainstream media telling the story of Palestinian civilians.”
The Israeli public
has been left to form
its opinions based on social media,
independent outlets, and what it can cobble
together from mainstream news items that hew to the IDF line.
In a political atmosphere largely dominated by
an explosive mix of grief and nationalism,
foreign news reports on atrocities are
regularly dismissed as “blood libel”
driven by antisemitism.
[now There’s a
Familiar tune]
A poll conducted in May found
that 64 percent of Israelis don’t want
additional information on what happens in Gaza.
The media, created
by and for the people, is
both complicit in constructing,
and blinded by, this national ethos.
by Paul Tullis and Mioran Barka
oodles:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/israeli-media-gaza-channel-televsion-press-distorted-view
@97: “perhaps that’s because the IOF has targeted/Assassinated 150+ Journalists in Gaza”
Right, right, “Journalists” like the beloved Mr. FAFO, a rifle-toting, uniform-wearing Hamas fighter who made it all the way to the ceasefire before getting schwacked by the Doghmush militia yesterday! 😂 Every muqawim with an iphone is a “journalist” ha ha ha! And in Mr. FAFO’s case he was also a doctor, a relief worker, a schoolteacher, etc etc, a pretty busy schedule on top of his duties for Hamas 🤣🤣🤣
@98 – What’s wrong with being “racist”? Are you some kind of goofy Creationist who denies Evolution and believes that “God created everyone Equal”?
What’s wrong with being “racist”? Are you some naive goofy Creationist who denies evolution and believes that “God created everyone Equal”?
What’s wrong with being racist? Are you an Evolution-denying Creationist?
I m just here
so I don’t
get fined
@100 we Get It:
in thumpfnsornaville
EVERYONE’S a Terrorist
just like with Eltrumpfster!
cuz if you Don’t Support The Regime
you MUST BE an ANTIFA Anti-
AIPAC, JEW-HATING ANTI-
Fucking SEMITE
Amiright
thumpfnsorna?
Am I Right or What!?
AUG 12, 2025
Israel Has “Deliberate Strategy” of Killing
Palestinian Journalists Like Anas al-Sharif: U.N. Expert
AUG 11, 2025
“Silencing the Coverage”:
Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera
Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza
Israel Bombs Iranian State TV Headquarters,
Killing 3 in Latest Attack on Press
MAR 27, 2025
“If You’re Reading This, It Means
I Have Been Killed”: Palestinian
Journalists in Israel’s Crosshairs
MAR 25, 2025
Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed
by Israel Was Placed on “Hit List” Before His Death
DEC 26, 2024
Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Dozens,
Including Five Journalists;
Three Babies Freeze
to Death
Mouin Rabbani on What Really Happened
in Amsterdam Between Israeli Soccer
Fans & Local Residents
OCT 18, 2024
Gideon Levy: Death of Sinwar Won’t End
Israel’s War While U.S. Gives
Netanyahu Free Rein
in Gaza
SEP 09, 2024
Inside the Brutal Siege of Jenin:
Israel Targets Children, Journalists
& Civilian Infrastructure
“Trying to Repeat the Nakba”:
Israel Launches Largest Military
Raids in West Bank in Two Decades
AUGUST 28, 2024
JUL 09, 2024
“On the Record with Hamas”: Jeremy Scahill
Speaks with Hamas About Oct. 7,
Ceasefire Talks & Israel
Israel’s Architecture of Occupation: Eyal Weizman on Gaza
& Targeting of Jewish Pro-Palestinian Voices
MAR 22, 2024
FEB 07, 2024
Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy:
Only U.S. Pressure on Israel Can End
Gaza Assault, Lead to Truce
JAN 17, 2024
How Israel Bombed Al Jazeera Journalists
& Blocked Rescue of Cameraman
Samer Abudaqa Until He Died
JAN 08, 2024
Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate: Israel Is
Targeting Media in Gaza to Hide Its
Atrocities from the World
DEC 29, 2023
“Utterly Illegal”: U.N. Special Rapporteur
Slams Netanyahu’s “Voluntary Migration”
Plan for Gazans
DEC 18, 2023
Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara
on IDF Killing AJ Journalist, the 3
Hostages & U.S. Support for Israel
DEC 01, 2023
“Mass Assassination Factory”: Israel
Using AI to Generate Targets in
Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll
NOV 28, 2023
Jeremy Scahill: Israel’s “Lethal Lie”
About Al-Shifa Hospital as Hamas
Base Was Co-Signed by Biden
SEP 22, 2023
Despite “Symbolic Rebukes” of Israel &
Netanyahu, Will Biden’s Legacy
Be Apartheid?
JUL 18, 2023
Israeli Forces Blindfold &
Handcuff Palestinian Reporter
Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta
STORYJUN 23, 2023
From Drone Strikes to Settler Attacks,
Israel Intensifies Effort to
“Completely Take Over
Palestine”
from the River to the Sea?
MAR 28, 2023
Palestinians to Pay the Price as Netanyahu
Pauses Judicial Overhaul While
Further Empowering Far
Right
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this oughtta satisfy
even Your Blood-
lust, you two!
at Least
for now