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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ADT just slapping their stickers all over windows and making Seattle look like trash! Seattle is disgusting!
Donald Trump definitely should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. In a few weeks if this deal holds, Norway will regret it. Remember, Obama got it just for winning his election – he didn’t resolve any conflict.
@1 – Stupid cope. Even you are noticing now. It’s not even good graffiti, it’s just shitty gang graffiti vandalizing someone’s business.
@2: I’m with Megan on this one. Anyone else? Let’s all sing it together: Hahahahahahahahaha! Loser 🙂
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, deliberately ignored by Slog because it doesn’t fit their “progressive narrative”:
Shooting in Seattle’s Capitol Hill leaves 1 dead, another injured; police seek suspect
by KOMO News Staff – Thu, October 9th 2025 at 9:10 PM
SEATTLE — A shooting in the Capitol Hill neighborhood left one person dead and another in serious condition Thursday evening, according to the Seattle Police Department (SPD).
The SPD confirmed the incident occurred near East Pike Street and Broadway. Officers responded to the scene after reports of gunfire in the area.
Seattle Fire Department crews treated the victim at the scene before transporting them to Harborview Medical Center (HMC), according to the SPD.
At 9:09 p.m., the SPD posted on X that while investigating, officers learned of a second victim, a bystander, who arrived at HMC with a gunshot wound.
The SPD said as of 9:50 p.m., one of the shooting victims died while being operated on, while the second victim was reported to be in “serious condition.”
No suspect is in custody, police said, and officers are asking the public to avoid the area as the investigation continues. Police continued to note they believe multiple suspects were involved, and that all suspects fled the scene on foot.
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-department-shooting-gun-violence-capitol-hill-neighborhood-investigation-east-pike-broadway-gunfire-harborview-medical-center-hmc-custody-sfd-spd#
… remember, goofy naive White Seattle “progressives”: “No Description IS the Description”.
“Welcome to Day 10 of the 2025 Government Shutdown:”
68% of Americans don’t think the government shutdown will impact them according to a PBS Newshour poll.
@2 How many felonies did Obama have when he got his?
“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.'”
FUCK
YES and
BRAVISSIMO.
All
Append-
ages Crossed!
@6: A prior felony in the United States doesn’t preclude a Noble prize.
“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 protest-
ing his administration’s
ILLEGAL ABDUCTIONS
OF AMERICAN
CITIZENS.”
FUCKING
BRAVISSIMA
MEGAN SELIG!
C U @
the GULAG!
While The Stranger and the Nobel committee is delighting in being petty the actual winner of the peace prize dedicated it to Trump
“She later said, in an X post in English: “I dedicate the prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!””
https://www.reuters.com/world/nobel-peace-prize-winner-be-announced-year-overshadowed-by-trump-2025-10-10/
You don’t have to like someone to acknowledge something they did was really good and if he does bring an end to the conflict in Gaza I hope we can all agree that is really good.
If trump was a normal president and the peace deal holds he would surely get his little award next year. Unfortunately he is currently busy deploying the military against his own people and i can only assume the peace prize people frown upon those kinds of things even if he did something cool somewhere else.
“Lawyers for the Department of Justice argued that Immergut “impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief’s military judgments,” in briefs submitted to the 9th Circuit”
When Trump says a city is war torn who is a federal judge to look at the facts and determine that it isn’t? He has plenary authority!
@8 “A prior felony in the United States doesn’t preclude a Noble prize.”
What is that, like a store brand Nobel Prize? Some kind of participation trophy? Trump should definitely get one of those. The “medal” could be chocolate wrapped in gold foil.
You’re right… they’re probably more worried about the future felonies he’s about to incur when they finally find out how many women and underage girls he’s raped… and the fact that he’s constantly committing treason and war crimes against his own country… or whatever.
still
it IS thee
Nobel Peace Prize
Highly Coveted
by our Bombastic
$upporter of Genocide
(HEY, IT’S ISRAEL! – IT’S OK!)
who thinks “peace” is when you
Begin to stop killing innocent children
Considering that Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat were both awarded the prize while being unapologetic warmongers I’m not certain how much respect to give this Peace Prize.
@10 The real question is whether the current agreement brought an end to the conflict in Gaza. Sure, it brought an end to this phase. Which is great. But if it doesn’t lead to significant motion on a 2-state solution, if Hamas isn’t disarmed and kicked out, then it doesn’t resolve the underlying problem. We’ll just be back to where we were 3-5 years ago with a low-level conflict that flares up every now and then.
Maybe Trump will win it next year for accepting that gold plated personal jet as a bribe and then allowing them to build a Qatari Air Force Base in Idaho?
Trump is the king of peace? Nope. But maybe the king of children that won’t eat their peas… I take one second to think of the little boats of innocent fishermen that he is using giant missiles to kill. I don’t see this dumb fuck authoritarian stooge as a good example of a champion for peace. He is trying to create war abroad and at home so he can use that as an excuse to suspend elections or use the military to intimidate voters. Allowing his ICE InCEls (can’t spell Incel with ICE) to pop pepper balls into innocent protesters causing cranial and spinal damage. Go castrate yourselves MAGA, you rapist-pedophile protecting goon squad. and yeah FUCK YOU! Release the Epstein files, Trump is a Pedophile rapist LOSER!!!
can’t spell INCEL without ICE.. Gotta make sure I made that right…
Breaking: Nobel Prize Total Landscaping awards President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
I think Bad Bunny should sing “Born in the USA” in both English and Spanish just to fuck with the haters.
Ross @22…
That sounds perfect. The chorus in English, the verses in Spanish, tweaked to reflect current times.
The slog commenters deserve the Nobel prize because two continuous years of them furiously typing endless hectoring screeds at each other has led to a lasting peace in Gaza.
I truly don’t understand the own goal that is TP’s alt Super Bowl halftime show. You all had the coverage of Kirk’s killing to whitewash (pun intended) the racist BS spewed by Charlie, but you decide a Puerto Rican is a bridge too far thus you need an English only alternative? These folks are dumber than I thought (and I had an exceptionally low bar).
“… two continuous years of them [US]
furiously typing endless hectoring screeds
at each other has led to a lasting peace in Gaza.”
it’s lasted Precisely
how long since Israels’
Most Recent Bombing?
maybe 12 hours?
well
in AIPAC
Parlance that’s
Nearly Plenty Long Enough
I DARE THEM to
PROVE ME
WRONG.
and No
reich wing
Knuckleheads
that is NOT a CALL
for more War. WTFF?
@10: That was very nice of her, and I hope it makes him feel better and fling less ketchup at the walls.
District13refugee @10: “While The Stranger and the Nobel committee is delighting in being petty the actual winner of the peace prize dedicated it to Trump.”
Very well said, my friend. Yet another example of President Trump’s stalwart support for a heroic opposition figure who’s standing up against a brutal, repressive regime, just like with Alexei Navalny or Jamal Khashoggi. It’s a good thing America has its swagger back defending democratic institutions worldwide against the rising tide of authoritarianism.
shoe-in for Nobel Sleaze prize next year for sure!
In recent statements, Hamas seems to be backpedaling on international supervision of governance in Gaza (Point 9 of the 20-point peace plan) and relinquishing its own role in the governance of Gaza (Point 13 of the 20-point peace plan). Hamas rejecting a peace plan? Who could possibly have foreseen it! 🤣
If Hamas can walk back the governance issues, then Israel is free to walk back its own commitments regarding cessation of air and artillery strikes in Gaza (Point 3) and increasing entry of aid into Gaza (Points 7 and 8). Though if I were the Israelis, I’d wait till I had all the hostages in hand before sending any heat downrange! 😄
Hopefully, Palestine’s friends around the world can move quickly to deploy the international stabilization force. The longer Hamas remains in Gaza, boasting about its intentions not to relinquish weapons or governance, the more likely it is that the Israelis will decide to take them at their word and starting lighting them up again! 😝 It’ll be just like the “Lebanon scenario,” except in a much smaller geographic footprint. 💥
Meanwhile Biped, if you want full coverage news, check the fucking news asshat.
This is a short alternative news blog.
@31 – so many of you “progressives” seem to get your only “news” from Slog AM, it explains your naivete.
@40 “The longer Hamas remains in Gaza, boasting about its intentions not to relinquish weapons or governance, the more likely it is that the Israelis will decide to take them at their word and starting lighting them up again! 😝”
Hey tensorna look at this guy drooling over a potential “resumption of bloodletting” you gonna give him a good scolding or what?
I mean that murder & nonfatal (so far) shooting literally happened on Capitol Hill, which is really the only neighborhood Slog pays any attention to. I understand the “why” of why they didn’t mention it, though. It wouldn’t be “progressive”!
Thank you, Megan, you made my day! I gleefully join you in the “HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa–loser!” directly at Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf, the Worst. Occupant. of. the. White. House. Ever.
I have no qualms whatsoever about El Taco Donaldo receiving a well-earned No Bull Piece of Shit Prize, however.
I recommend that it be very fittingly in the shape of a glowing orange rubber turd. ;-D
@2 & @8: Just quit while you’re two and a half centuries behind, Calvin dear. ;-D
@4 OriginalCinner: I’m with ya regarding the “HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa—loser!” at El Taco Donaldo.
@22 Ross: +1 For the WIN!!!!
This is a bit off topic, but wtf is up with the ad to “Rally to Elect Kshama Sawant to U.S. Congress” on October 12th??? Hard pass—-she endorsed El Taco Donaldo in 2024!
@33: No, because in previous comments, he expressed (GASP!) actual support for the peace deal, instead of just dumping all over it and saying it simply must fail.
Also, if you had this thing called “reading comprehension,” you’d know that @30 had, yet again, expressed hope the peace deal would succeed, and was calling out Hamas for endangering it.
@33: nah I’m hoping Hamas surrenders like the whole world is telling them to. You no? 😉
@30. Thumpus. Totally agree on the 1982 vibe right now. The Kabuki is to allow Hummus to surrender honorably, akin to some helpless besieged city that might be willing to “accept terms.” Or, as was/is custom (and right and proper), go full Ottoman.
Terms to Hummus; Lay down arms, and in the immortal words of Lord Humongous (preferred pronouns – Warrior of the Wasteland & Kingola of Rock and Rolla) “Just walk away.” Hummus leadership and hardcore fighters board vessels and, just as in the PLO’s all expenses paid cruise out of Beirut that year, depart for distant shores.
But where? I see two distinct options;
Send them to the “Epstein Islands” around St. James and basically enact the very policy that Yasser Arafat effected to his unruly Black September fighters…sex and housing. Here is a lovely recounting of the program, courtesy of….wait for it….Atlantic Monthly (2015).
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/send-them-chocolate/626283/
Bring them to US shores. Deputize them. Deploy them to protect ICE facilities. Watch Trantifa melt in cognitive dissonance.
@38 “Terms to Hummus”
Can’t believe you’d forfeit your sophisticate persona for such a limp dick ethnic “joke”
@38: The Lebanon parallel I had in mind was less 1982 and more 2024. According to the 2024 ceasefire, Hizbollah is supposed to withdraw north of the Litani and disarm, and Israel is supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon and stop air and arty strikes.
In reality, Hizbollah slow-rolled its withdrawal and disarmament, although it did all but stop shooting at the Israelis. In return, the Israelis retained their best firebases in Lebanon and continue to bomb Hizbollah whenever and wherever they want, but they don’t attempt to seize additional territory. 💥
It’s a win for Israel, in that Israel gets to hold on to its bases in Lebanon and gets to keep shooting at Hizbollah but Hizbollah doesn’t get to shoot at Israel. In exchange, Hizbollah gets to survive, at least for now … although the vultures in the Lebanese cabinet have started to circle. 😁
I anticipate a similar outcome in Gaza. Hamas will fake it on the disarmament and disempowerment fronts, which will justify Israel in holding onto the Yellow Line (roughly half of Gaza’s acreage) and conducting frequent airstrikes on HVIs and other such small-scale targets of opportunity. In exchange, and so long as Hamas doesn’t shoot back, they get to stay alive, at least until the vultures in the PA (backed by the international stabilization force) can pick their bones. 😎
@ too late for anyone to read…
I figure she dedicated her Peace Prize to Trump as a way of saying “please stop blasting our boats out of the water” through flattery.
Only thing that seems to work with him.
@40
So, yer sayin, Hezbollah followed the terms of the agreement, albeit slowly, and Israel didnt?
Why would anyone trust them again?
“Why aren’t the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?”
If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he’ll attack the kid again.
–@Caitlin Johnstone; @caitoz.bsky.social
·
but they’re not Cheering!
but they’re not Cheering!
but they’re not Cheering!
yeah
we Heard
ya the First Time, wormmy
“I anticipate a similar outcome in Gaza. Hamas will fake it on the disarmament and disempowerment fronts, which will justify Israel in holding onto the Yellow Line (roughly half of Gaza’s acreage) and conducting frequent airstrikes on HVIs and other such small-scale targets of opportunity.”
–@thumpfnsorna on October 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump’s Sham Peace Plan
There will be no peace in Gaza.
Only the temporary absence of war.
There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine,
all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines,
going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They
end the same way. Israel gets what it wants initially
~in the latest case the release of the remaining
Israeli hostages!while it ignores and violates
every other phase until it resumes its
attacks on the Palestinian people.
It is a sadistic game.
A merry-go-round of death.
This ceasefire, like those of the past,
is a commercial break. A moment when the
condemned man is allowed to smoke a cigarette
before being gunned down in a fusillade of bullets.
Once Israeli hostages are released,
the genocide will continue. I do not know
how soon. Let’s hope the mass slaughter is delayed
for at least a few weeks. But a pause in the genocide
is the best we can anticipate. Israel is on the cusp of em-
ptying Gaza, which has been all but obliterated under two
years of relentless bombing. It is not about to be stopped.
This is the culmination of the Zionist dream.
The United States, which has given Israel
a staggering $22 billion in military aid
since Oct, 7, 2023, will not shut
down its pipeline, the only
tool that might halt
the genocide.
Israel,
as it always does,
will blame Hamas and
the Palestinians for failing
to abide by the agreement,
most probably a refusal~true
or not~to disarm, as the proposal
demands. Washington, condemning
Hamas’s supposed violation, will give
Israel the green light to continue its genocide
to create Trump’s fantasy of a Gaza Riviera and
“special economic zone” with its “voluntary” relo-
cation of Palestinians in exchange for digital tokens.
–by Chris Hedges; October 10, 2025
from The Chris Hedges Report
oodles:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-sham-peace-plan
Oh
and the
fawkin’ Mariners
WON! the Mariners
are Going to the American
League Championship Series!
Seattle WINS!
now
it’s off
to beat
the Foreigners:
them damn Toronto Blue Jays.
Imagine That:
fucking Canadians
wanting to play ball in the
WORLD fawkin’ SERIES!
oughtn’t we
Annex ’em
Firstly?
“Even if the ceasefire holds,
we’re still going to see the results
of months of starvation conditions,
which means more death caused by the
country that now wants us to applaud their restraint.”
–jACAB; @jacabovermyhead.bsky.social
o.m.f.g.
Whom does
This remind us of:
“Better question….
WHERE ARE ALL THE
FREE PALESTINE PEOPLE?
They ran up on Joe everyday and still bothering
@kamalaharris.com at her book signings…
I haven’t seen them at any of Trumps shit?
Near ICE facilities? 🤣🤣🤣 I think them
bitches are really anti-palestine!
Some fucking moles!”
–pokeratlstyle.bsky.social;
@pokeratlstyle.bsky.social
that Tenor!
that Tone!
so friggin’
Memrable
hmmmm . . .
@42: “yer sayin, Hezbollah followed the terms of the agreement, albeit slowly”
lol I’m saying Hizbollah said yes when they really meant no. 😉 Hamas is already signaling they will do the same with the 20-point peace plan. Such naughty boys! 🤣
But the deal is, if you don’t actually disarm and go away, then you don’t actually get your land back, and Israel gets to keep popping your dudes, lol. Serves them right! 😆
@35: One thing we agree on is that Kshama Sawant would be terrible in Congress. Nevertheless she has a right to advertise for her campaign, auntie dearest.