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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it’s NOT
‘a peace deal.’
it IS a release the
Hostages deal. but
haven’t the pro-genociders
ALWAYS SAID — RELEASE THE HOSTAGES
AND THE ‘WAR’ IS O V E R!? so Will they be walking
that Back once Hamas releases the fucking Hostages?
A. they
ALREADY
fucking ARE.
shifting the Goalposts
is what they
Do BEST.
@50: lol, the deal has been always been: release the hostages, disarm, and exit government. 😃 Why are you so keen for Hamas to keep its weapons and keep governing Gaza? Shouldn’t you be against those two things? 😉
I’d
LOVE
to see
Hamas
drop their
Guns and Leave
and let Gazans
and Palestinians
RUN THEIR OWN
Fucking Country, how
about You?
@46: Oh gawd. I suggest a better attitude.
@52: Hamas dropping its guns and leaving, you say? Why that’s Point 9, Point 13, Point 19, and Point 20 of the 20-point peace plan! 😁 Israel is all about it, but sadly Hamas is now saying that some of these points do not interest them. 😛
Very well, the duly elected government of Gaza is entitled to its position! 😆 But if Points 9, 13, 19, and 20 are off the table, then don’t expect Israel to abide by Point 3 (freeze the battle lines and no more air and arty strikes) or Point 16 (end the occupation and withdraw from Gaza). Peace deal gotta work both ways, you see? 😉 It’s land for peace, not land for nothing. 😂
The architects of the peace plan are not naive, least of all the plan’s pro-Hamas architects in Qatar and Turkey. If an international stabilization force actually goes in, the disarmament and disempowerment of Hamas can proceed even in the face of Hamas’s objections, and Israel would still have to follow its ceasefire and withdrawal obligations. (This is Point 17 of the plan.) 😃
As you can surely appreciate, this framework places the international stabilization force in the driver’s seat when it comes to securing a lasting peace. A strong force that actually disarms and disempowers Hamas will compel a rapid Israeli retreat, but a weak force that allows Hamas to fester will allow a continued Israeli occupation and counter-terrorist strike regime. So it’s largely up to the international community how serious they are about peace in Gaza. Take down Hamas, and this can all be over. Keep playing footsie with Hamas, and Israel will just have to mow the grass again. 💥💥💥 It’ll be just like Lebanon, except here it will be the international force that has to decide how hard to squeeze the terrorists, whereas in Lebanon, it’s the cabinet and the army. 😃
@42: “So, yer sayin, Hezbollah followed the terms of the agreement, albeit slowly, and Israel didnt?”
thumpus made the unjustifiably generous assumption you actually knew something about the topic upon which you commented, and you swiftly repaid him for his folly. (Hey, we understand; it’s probably the closest you’ll ever get to proving him wrong on something…)
UN Resolution 1701 [https://docs.un.org/en/S/RES/1701(2006)] required (among other things) Hizbollah to withdraw from the Israeli border, to north of the Litani River.
“It was unanimously approved by the United Nations Security Council on 11 August 2006. The Lebanese cabinet unanimously approved the resolution on 12 August 2006. On the same day, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that his militia would honor the call for a ceasefire. He also said that once the Israeli offensive stops, Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on Israel would stop. On 13 August the Israeli Cabinet voted 24–0 in favor of the resolution, with one abstention. The ceasefire began on Monday, 14 August 2006 at 8 AM local time, after increased attacks by both sides.
“As of 2024, the resolution was not fully implemented. Hezbollah and other armed groups in southern Lebanon have not withdrawn at all; in particular, Hezbollah has since significantly increased their weapons capabilities, amassing approx. 120,000–200,000 munitions (short-range guided ballistic missiles, short- and intermediate-range unguided ballistic missiles, and short- and long-range unguided rockets), and has increased the deployment of its armed forces south of the Litani River, developing tunnels, weapon stashes, airstrips and military installations.[2][3][4][5] Lebanon has also accused Israel of not fully withdrawing from Lebanese territories (northern part of Ghajar village, the Shebaa Farms, and the Kfarchouba hills), and of violating their air and maritime borders.[6]”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1701)
Later in 2024, after Israel’s pager and radio attacks had crippled Hizbollah, additional Israeli military action finally compelled Hizbollah to withdraw north of the Litani, thus fulfilling that part of Res’ 1701. Only after that expulsion could the civilians in the north of Israel return safely to their homes.
@53: “I suggest a better attitude.”
The continued extreme bitterness our hard-leftie friends here at the Stranger, headline posters and supportive commenters alike, voluminously spit at actual peace really tells us a lot about them, doesn’t it? They’ve believed all along this conflict would end badly for Israel. Now it’s ending favorably for Israel, and so they’ve done all but admit openly that they’d rather have the war back.
They couldn’t even express the most token of verbal support for peace until we called them out for not doing so, and now we’re dragging them, kicking screaming biting scratching every last inch of the way, toward the most gracelessly ungrateful and begrudging acceptance of peace possible. (Well, at least they’re no longer applauding vandalism of buildings at the UW, or supporting the harassment of American college students for Jewishness, real or perceived.)
@54: just to add a little editorial: this is a good plan! 😄 If you, like me, love the Palestinian people and want Palestinians to exercise sovereignty and self-governance, then this is the plan for you! 😘 If you want to see the Palestinians live in peace, free from terror and occupation, then this is the plan for you! 😄
The only reason not to support this plan is if you hate Israel and were hoping to see Israel defeated, destroyed, or otherwise humbled as a result of the war in Gaza. The plan does not contain any provisions for that. 😂 Better luck next war! 🤣🤣🤣
@56: Exactly! In their ongoing sore-loser bitterness, our hard-leftie friends have overlooked the reason Hamas attacked on 10/7: to scuttle Saudi Arabia’s official recognition of Israel. That recognition requires Israel to reciprocate by committing to a two-state solution. So that path to the two-state solution can now resume.
Of course, that might require (among other things) our friends to recognize that chanting, “From the River to the Sea,” and openly applauding those very same 10/7 attacks, might not be the best way to encourage work toward a two-state solution.
@57 Netanyahu will never accept a two-state solution. Heck, he (and other parts of the Israeli right wing) propped up Hamas for years explicitly to prevent a two-state solution. That worked well, didn’t it!
@58: Doesn’t matter what Netanyahu wants. He is old and facing an unfavorable election. 🤣 Even if he wins, he’ll presumably know better this time than to trust Hamas’s commitment to peaceful governance! 🤣
The anti-Israel left’s weird personal fixation on Netanyahu has never made sense. The biggest impediment to Palestinian statehood is not the personal preferences of one Israeli man, it’s the Palestinians’ widespread, decades-long commitment to wiping Israel off the map by force of arms. 😂 That worked well didn’t it! 🤣
@58, 63% of Israeli’s currently OPPOSE a two state solution. 65% opposed a two-state solution in 2023, prior to the 10/7 attack. There hasn’t been majority Israeli support for a two state solution since 2012, when there was 63% support.
Those trends mirror those of polls of Palestinians.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/547760/life-israel-oct-charts.aspx
It is not the right wing in Israel that stands in the way of a two state solution but a broad swath of both Israeli and Palestinian societies.
It seems the U.S. and Europe wish to imperially impose a “solution” on these societies that neither wants. So much for your ostensible support of indigenous self-determination.
@60: Here, try reading the very first line at that URL:
“DECEMBER 21, 2023”
I humbly suggest you appraise yourself of more recent events!
@60
“So much for
your[*] ostensible support
of indigenous self-determination.”
That’d Be a
Bingo mr.
Magoo.
*thumpfnsorna
emotikonners
Who needs a
Mind-Meld
when ya
Got ai?
from the Chris Hedges Report
Interview:
Israel Gets What It Wants
and Then Ignores
the Agreement
Hedges recently joined
George Galloway on MOATS
to discuss the Gaza peace plan
which
violates one
international
law after another [*]
by Chris Hedges; October 11, 2025
*”International Law”!?
what a JOKE!
to supporters of
a Genocidal (Your
Opinion May [of Course!]
Vary) Israel, “International Law”
means WhatevertheFuckyoucan-
getAwaywith — Just Like
OUR Fascist in thee
Whitest of Houses
Cadet Bonespurs
happens to
“believe.”
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/interview-israel-gets-what-it-wants
@62: How petty you are. You have no interest in peace. Donald Trump is better than you.
@63
how willingly-
Ignorant and eagerly
swallowing of reichwing
nutjob Propaganda you are:
it Isn’t a “Peace Deal.”
it IS a disarm-Hamas
and-Get-ON-with
the-Plundering
of-Palestine
“deal.”
donald jenius
Eltrumpfster
Belongs in
Fucking
Prison
“Even if he [bibi nutnyahoo] wins,
he’ll presumably know better this time than
to trust Hamas’s commitment to peaceful governance!”
–@thumpfnsorna, re-writing
History, somewhere above
bobo PROPPED UP HAMAS
for fucking Decades to
Split Palestine into
Two. he’s a Master
Manipulator at
Machiavellian
Mechinations
and then shut down
Security days before
10/7/23 precisely
where Hamas
invaded
Israel
your ugly Narrative is
patently Disfucking
“Honest”
@64: It has better chance for peace because it has billions behind it from Gulf states who don’t give a shit about the Palestinians but do want a prosperous Gaza Riviera and that the Palestinians can get branding for Trump luxury hotels and resorts and get rich themselves.
You gotta a problem with that?
@64: “bobo PROPPED UP HAMAS for fucking Decades to Split Palestine into Two”
When Hamas was a charitable movement, Israel supported them just as Israel supports countless other charities, foreign and domestic, throughout the occupied territories. 😃 When Hamas was the duly elected government of Gaza, Israel supported them just as Israel supports every other duly elected Palestinian government. 😁 Only when Hamas revealed that they were more committed to jihad than to charity or governance did Israel decisively turn against Hamas. 😛
In retrospect, Kristofarian is probably correct: Israel should have destroyed Hamas back when Hamas appeared to be merely a charity or a government. Excessive leniency in the face of Palestine violence has been a consistent policy failure of Israel for decades, although it has taken Israel a long time to wake up to it. I’m encouraged that even an “antizionist” like Kristofarian is finally starting to see it. 😂
@63, @65, @66: Our hard-leftie friends here have become so incredibly upset at the mere prospect of peace in Palestine, they keep forgetting they are supposed to hide their pro-Hamas sentiments. The current peace deal works for Israel, it works for the Palestinians; the only entity it does not work for is Hamas, which is why our friends hate it so much.
This great article in the WSJ describes how we got to this peace deal: by isolating Hamas, leaving Hamas with no other option:
“When Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya first saw President Trump’s plan for peace in Gaza, which demanded his group disarm with few concrete steps to make sure Israel would end the war, his immediate reaction was no.”
[…]
“But two days later, Hamas came back to Arab mediators with a yes. The deal hadn’t changed. The pressure on Hamas had.”
[…]
“Once Trump got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly agree to end the war, Hamas was cornered as the lone holdout.”
Much much more, deliciously: (https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-coordinated-squeeze-play-forced-hamas-to-accept-a-deal-it-didnt-want-7753f9c8?mod=world_lead_pos1)
Also — and more deliciously, in a literal manner — hundreds of trucks, laden with thousands of tons of food and other humanitarian assistance, have entered Gaza:
“The Egyptian Red Crescent said it dispatched 400 trucks loaded with more than 9,000 tons of humanitarian aid slated to cross into Gaza on Sunday. The aid includes food baskets, flour, fuel, medicine and supplies such as tents, blankets and mobile bathrooms.
“A total of 600 trucks entered the enclave, in line with Israel’s commitments under the cease-fire deal, an Israeli official said.”
(https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-its-ready-to-hand-over-20-living-israeli-hostages-8bf40741?mod=world_lead_story)
@67
“… they keep forgetting
they are supposed to hide
their pro-Hamas sentiments.
The current peace deal works for Israel,
it works for the Palestinians; the only
entity it does not work for is Hamas,
which is why our friends hate
it so much.”
Okay
I’ll Say it
Again — FUCK Hamas*
let ’em Drop their
Weapons and END
THEIR REIGN OF TERROR
Over Palestinians
who Haven’t fucking
VOTE FOR THEM SINCE
2007.
what ‘your friends’
Hate is your trumfpian
MAGAtty lies, Wormtongue
well-Earning your Nickname here Daily.
time will tell
and quickly if I
guess correctly this
‘peace deal’ our wholly-corporate-
Owned MSM are so Fond of will Evaporate
like a drop of water in a desert.
It’s AWESOME
they’ve Paused the
Genocide — but with
Israel and the US Dictating
the Terms, for how it survives
is a fucking two-headed coin toss.
*and
you Two
thumpfnsorna
“It’s AWESOME
they’ve Paused the
Genocide — but”
That’s a helpful acknowledgment krisofarain, but don’t dwell on after the “but” – as that fodder is the source of your provocation and your passion. What you’re actually afraid of is what happens to you psychologically if the peace deal holds. You should prepare yourself for a rhetorical letdown.
For our friends who complain that Israel and the US imposed a peace deal on Hamas, the first URL @67 goes into detail about how other countries took a very hard line with Hamas:
“A Coordinated Squeeze Forced Hamas to Accept a Deal It Didn’t Want
“Under pressure from its overseas hosts and increasingly reviled at home, the militant group had little choice but to relent”
First came the news Hamas’ prime terror tactic had not merely failed on it’s own terms, but had provided Israel with an excuse to avoid signing onto the peace deal:
“Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting.”
Then they bluntly told Hamas the consequences of not signing:
“The next day, joined by Turkey, they warned him that if Hamas didn’t approve the plan it would be stripped of all political and diplomatic cover; Qatar and Turkey would no longer host the group’s political leadership, and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a say in Gaza’s postwar governance, the officials said.”
[…]
‘Critics have long wanted Arab mediators to do more to pressure Hamas into ending the war. But this time, conditions were ripe.
‘“I think everybody just wanted to be done with this,” said Michael Ratney, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and top diplomat in Israel.’
But wait, there was more! Hamas faced pressure inside Gaza as well:
“Hamas also was under growing pressure at home—short on funds, barely able to keep up a guerrilla war against Israeli forces that have seized much of Gaza, and facing a Palestinian public that has suffered hunger and ruin and just wanted the war to be over.”
Faced with the complete loss of all external support, and an internal population which just wanted an end, Hamas signed.
(We should note a similar combination of internal and external pressure worked simultaneously on Israel, with Israelis just wanting the war over and their hostages home, and the US and other partners also pressing for Israel to apologize for the attack on Qatar, and sign for peace with Hamas.)
Oh no they got Mr. FAFO! He was just on his way to cure someone’s cancer as part of his journalism duties! Why, Doghmush, whyyyy? 😂😂😂
Slog will ignore this in tomorrow’s Slog AM because it’s all black people killing/shootimg black people:
“8 People Dead and More Than 20 Injured After 3 Separate Homecoming Shootings in Mississippi on the Same Night”
https://people.com/8-dead-over-20-injured-after-3-separate-homecoming-shootings-mississippi-11828739
More of the same:
Shooting at packed South Carolina bar kills 4 and injures at least 20 others
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — A mass shooting early Sunday at a crowded bar on an idyllic island considered to be the largest Gullah community on the South Carolina coast has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.
A large crowd was at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island when sheriff’s deputies arrived and found many people with gunshot wounds. An estimated 5,000 or more Gullah people living on the island trace their ancestry back to enslaved West Africans who once worked rice plantations in the area before being freed by the Civil War.
https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-shooting-st-helena-147cdcdee43deff913afa548cf28de6e
Photos of perps:
Jackson FBI seeking public’s help in identifying Leland mass shooting suspects
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The FBI Jackson Field Office is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying unknown suspects in the Leland, Mississippi, mass shooting on Oct. 11.
The deadly incident left 16 victims shot.
According to the Washington County Coroner’s Office, four of those victims were pronounced deceased on the scene and two later died from their injuries in the hospital.
Local law enforcement is currently investigating this incident, with federal assistance from the FBI.
According to the FBI, it appears the incident was sparked due to a disagreement between several individuals.
The FBI Jackson Division also asked that any members of the community with information related to this case contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov.
Additionally, the FBI Jackson Field Office is encouraging the public to share any personal videos or photographs of the incident as any piece of information could assist investigators on the case.
The FBI has established a specific digital media tips website for the Leland mass shooting incident where tips, video, and photos can be submitted anonymously.
https://www.wlox.com/2025/10/13/jackson-fbi-seeking-publics-help-identifying-leland-mass-shooting-suspects/
White Seattle “progressives” are so naive lol
@59: “The anti-Israel left’s weird personal fixation on Netanyahu has never made sense. The biggest impediment to Palestinian statehood is not the personal preferences of one Israeli man, it’s the Palestinians’ widespread, decades-long commitment to wiping Israel off the map by force of arms.”
It makes perfect sense, and for the reason you gave. The “From the River to the Sea” crowd already needed a simplistic answer to a complex problem, and if that simplistic answer helps them to evade responsibility for the correct answer, then they’ll take it every time.
Think Slog AM will finally mention this tomorrow? Nah, they will ignore it. It doesn’t fit their naive White Guilt “progressive narrative”:
A third victim and city council rep public safety plan as 18-year-old victim in deadly Broadway and Pike shooting identified
“The 18-year-old shot in the chest and killed in this week’s deadly shooting at Broadway and Pike has been identified and a third victim hit in Thursday night’s chaos of gunfire has been reported after a male suffering from a grazing gunshot wound arrived at Harborview Saturday night.
Police are investigating the bloodshed including possible connections to the homicide last month a few blocks away at 10th and Pike that left a 26-year-old shot to death inside the vehicle he was driving.
Meanwhile, the neighborhood’s representative on the Seattle City Council says officials “owe our neighborhood more than statements or open letters” and has released a five-point plan for “meaningful public safety investments in Capitol Hill and First Hill.”
The King County Medical examiner says 18-year-old Jaydon Jameson [FULL NAME: JAYDON WENDEL NATHANIE [sic] JAMESON] died of multiple gunshot wounds in the Thursday night slaying.
CHS reported here on the chaotic just after 8 PM assault at the troubled corner of Broadway and Pike that has been a center of focus for the Seattle Police Department and neighborhood public safety concerns. The shooting left Jameson dead and sent another person hit in the crossfire to the hospital Thursday night. An apparent third victim was reported by the hospital Saturday night.”
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/10/a-third-victim-and-city-council-rep-public-safety-plan-as-18-year-old-victim-in-deadly-broadway-and-pike-shooting-identified/
So, looking at the banner ad still atop this site, how did the Seattle rally for Sawant’s “…anti-genocide, pro-worker campaign for Congress to DEFEAT warmongering Democrat Adam Smith” go, what with no longer any “genocide” or “war” to monger?
@78 the lack of coverage probably says more than her bloviating.
Of more interest is all three progressive candidates for Seattle; Wilson, Rinck and Foster blew off the debate at the Washington athletic club. I guess they think they are cruising to victory and have nothing more to be gained from additional public scrutiny.
@78: “no longer any “genocide” or “war” to monger”
The genocide is not over! The genocide is never over! Israel is genocide! Other nations have the right to self-determination and sovereignty, but the Jewish nation does not! If you believe Jews should have the same rights as other people, then you are a genocide! 🤣🤣🤣
“The anti-Israel left’s weird personal fixation
on Netanyahu has never made sense.”
–@thumpfing Worntongue, above
right.
thee Most Fascist
Prime Minister in Israeli’s
History, determined to Keep the
Fuck OUTTA COURT — AND PRISON
can only Do So
by CONTINUING
his Genocidal “War”
on a TRAPPED Mostly-
DEFENSELESS/Un-armed population
now
Why on Earth
might those looking
to End the Fucking Genocide
look to the
MAIN Fucking
Perpatraitor? it just
don’t make no SENSE!
why? Why? WHY?
“The biggest impediment
to Palestinian statehood is not
the personal preferences of one Israeli man,
it’s the Palestinians’ widespread, decades-long
commitment to wiping Israel off the map by force of arms.”
your
AIPAC
Narrative
oh-so-Quickly
wears thin, mein fiend:
Israeli Officials
Are Openly Saying They
Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza
Israel’s top officials
are openly declaring
that they intend to term-
inate the Gaza ceasefire af-
ter they get their hostages back.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has posted a tweet
https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1977253298580160601
in Hebrew which machine translates as follows:
“Israel’s great challenge
after the phase of returning
the hostages will be the destruction
of all of Hamas’s terror tunnels in Gaza,
directly by the IDF and through the international
mechanism to be established under the leadership
and supervision of the United States.
This is
the primary signif-
icance of implementing the
agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing
Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons.
I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.”
Hamas has not agreed to any demilitarization or destruction of its tunnels.
There is no way to demilitarize Gaza
and neutralize Hamas of its weapons
against their will without continued
warfare, something Israel has demon-
strated it cannot do without killing
shocking numbers of civilians.
–Caitlin Johnstone; October 13, 2025
fucking OODLES bitches:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-officials-are-openly-saying
so much for your
Beloved “Peace
Plan.”
but keep
Clutching
your AIPAC-
Mandated Narrative
wormmy — perhaps it’ll
warm your cockles this Winter
whilst Palestinians
are Murdered and
Starved and
Frozen to
Death
Video-streamed
“Live,” Planet
Fucking
Wide
@81: lol that’s Point 13 of the 20-point peace plan: No more weapons, no more tunnels. 😃 What, you want a peace plan where Hamas keeps the weapons and tunnels? This is why they call you a Hamasnik! 😂
Point 16 says the international stabilization force can perform the demilitarization work, but if the international force doesn’t do it, then Israel can do it for them. Point 17 says Hamas doesn’t get to say no to any of this. 😁 What, you thought Hamas would disarm out of the goodness of their hearts? 🤣
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide
pose as its saviours, survivors return
home – to a wasteland
Today, Sharm el-Sheikh will host the
most high-profile gathering of global
leaders in the Middle East of recent years.
Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Pedro Sánchez and others are meeting “to end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, and usher in a new era of regional security and stability.”
If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future.
One where there is no reckoning,
no addressing of root causes.
Only
a hurtling
into the imperatives
of cleanings-up and workings-out.
All the while illegal occupation continues,
and another chapter of Israel’s violations is furtively
closed without accountability not only for Israel, but for its sponsors.
But many all over the world
who have witnessed the massacre,
and all that went into sustaining it for
two whole years, will not so easily forget.
The secure future of those in Gaza,
and Palestine in general, is not something
that can be delivered by the thieves-turned-protectors.
Without
the empowerment
of the Palestinian people
and their self-determination,
there can be no faith or trust in Israel or
its allies to deliver that constantly invoked “lasting peace”.
The killings have mercifully stopped for now in Gaza,
but there must now be a refusal to normalise
what will follow – a return to a status quo
in which we all keep on pretending
that Palestinian life is viable un-
der the authority of Israel.
-by Nesrine Malik
more:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/gaza-summit-sharm-el-sheikh-genocide-middle-east
oh
and
by the
WAY!??
Mariners
WIN GAME
ONE OF THE
American League
CHAMPIONSHIP Series!
One
Down
3 to GO!
for a Trip to
the World
fucking
SERIES.
stay
fucking
Tuned, bitches!
The Stranger, and supportive commenters, continue to grumble over this so-called peace deal. Meanwhile, from the WSJ:
“The United Nations said it is scaling up humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza, bringing cooking gas to the enclave for the first time since March when it was banned by Israeli authorities. The U.N. said it also brought in tents for displaced families, frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour and medicine throughout the day Sunday.”
The article goes on to say the UN will deliver 190,000 metric tonnes of aid in coming days.
@82: Huh. It’s like our friends who keep criticizing the peace plan haven’t even read it, whilst those of us who support it have not only read it, but can cite it in detail. What could possibly explain this strange dichotomy? (I mean, our friends know absolutely everything about this peace deal — especially how it simply must fail! — just ask them.)
from Caitlin’s Newsletter
They
Seriously
Expected Parades
And Trophies For Pausing A Genocide
I’ve seen
a lot of empire
loyalists going “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. And then at some
point you’d start wondering
why the guy isn’t in jail.
They actually expected
a bunch of parades and tro-
phies for pausing a genocide.
They thought they’d get applause and adoration
and then everything would go back
to how it was pre-2023.
That’s adorable.
That’s precious. Not gonna happen,
but it’s cute that they thought it would.
Drop Site News reports that after the ceasefire was announced
Israeli troops went on an arson spree and torched food,
homes and critical infrastructure to ensure
that Palestinians would have
nothing to return to:
Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”
–by Younis Tirawi and Yaniv Cogan; October 12, 2025
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf-soldiers-set-fire-food-homes-sewage-treatment-plan-after-ceasefire-announced
I keep thinking
the Israeli military has run out of ways
to shock me, but they somehow keep finding new ones.
–Caitlin Johnstone; October 13, 2025
oodles
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-seriously-expected-parades-and
THANK GOD
Israel FINALLY
Paused their Genocide
and the HOSTAGES
and Palestinian Prisoners*
Held in Israel Hell~Hole Prisons
can return — Gazans to a bombed-
out Hellscape without Sanitation Running
Water, Medical Supplies, Hospitals, fucking HOMES
*including
CHILDREN
“It’s like our friends
[with “friends” like the Worm-
tongue, Who tF needs Enemies?]
who keep criticizing the peace plan
haven’t even read it, whilst those of us who
support it have not only read it, but can cite it in detail.”
–thumpfnsorna on October 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
yep.
it’s all
just Wine
and Roses
now, Ain’t it,
Wormtongue?
Cite THIS:
Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes,
and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant
in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”
The destruction of Palestinian structures following
the departure of soldiers who had used them
as temporary bases has been a hallmark of
Israel’s approach to Gaza for two years.
In July, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham collected testimonies from soldiers describing a myriad of arson methods. “Every Arab house we entered had olive oil […] We poured the oil on the sofas, on anything flammable in the apartment, and then we ignited [it] or threw in a smoke grenade.
This was a common practice,” one of them described.The agreement came after months of a concerted effort to render Gaza uninhabitable by destroying residences and civilian infrastructure, culminating in the ground invasion of Gaza City and the leveling of several high rises in Gaza City.
In September, Israeli government minister
Gila Gamliel told Channel 7 News, “We have already
completely annihilated 75% of the entire [Gaza] Strip.
There remains 25%, which, as you know, it too…
we are now taking over [the city of] Gaza—
there will be nothing left there that would
really [have] the potential to be habitable.”
The Israeli military did not provide comment by press time.
[allow me:
But Hamas!]
The images posted to social media stand
in stark contrast to the message put
out on Truth Social by Trump:
“Israel will withdraw their Troops to
an agreed upon line as the first steps to-
ward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.
All Parties will be treated fairly!”
The burning of buildings taken over and used
as command centers upon departure has
been a consistent Israeli policy in Gaza,
Lebanon, and the West Bank. The
scope of the carnage on Thursday
night, however, went beyond any
previously recorded individual
arson spree.
Among the structures Drop Site discovered
had been set on fire by the departing soldiers
was the Sheikh Ajlin Sewage Treatment Station,
a central component of Gaza City’s sanitation network.
Monther Shoblaq, Director General
of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility
(CMWU) in Gaza, said the attack is a blow that
could push Gaza City’s wastewater system “to point zero.”
He added the plant is “one of Gaza’s oldest”
and warned that its destruction will set back
planned reconstruction efforts by years.
“I mean, they signed a ceasefire,”
Shoblaq said. “Why
set it on fire?”
–by Younis Tirawi and Yaniv Cogan; October 12, 2025
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf-soldiers-set-fire-food-homes-sewage-treatment-plan-after-ceasefire-announced
“Why?”
Indeed.
didja
Cite it
wormmy?
speaking of “Peace” Plans
(Oh! and Profiteering!):
DID QATARI MONEY DRIVE TRUMP’S PUSH FOR GAZA CEASEFIRE?
Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar —
a close ally where he and his family have key business deals
THE NOTION THAT President Donald Trump’s recent push toward a ceasefire in Gaza may have been motivated, in large part, by his failed campaign to win a Nobel Peace Prize is well-documented. Less discussed is Trump’s close relationship with Qatar — a Gulf state ally where he, his family, friends, and the U.S. have increasingly significant ties.
In February, as Palestinians in Gaza had just begun to return to their homes amid a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, Trump called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza so that he could redevelop it into a “Middle East Riviera.”
After Israel breached the Trump ceasefire in March, Trump put little overt pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end his war as the death toll mounted.
Trump didn’t object when Israel attacked Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.
That
changed
suddenly after
Israeli fighter jets
launched 10 missiles at
a residential building in the
Qatari capital of Doha in early September.
Israel’s Peace Plan: Assassinate the Ceasefire Negotiators
The building in Doha housed Hamas political leaders and their families who at the time were engaged in peace talks with the Qataris serving as mediators. While the Hamas officials survived the attack, the strike killed six people, including a Qatari security official, and injured several others, including civilians.
Trump immediately took to Truth Social to say he was “unhappy” with the Israeli operation and denounced the strike on Qatar, which he called a “close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace.” Suddenly, Trump was facing pressure from his allies in the Middle East.
A U.S. ceasefire proposal followed several weeks later, with Trump strong-arming Netanyahu to accept. “He’s got to be fine with it. He has no choice. With me, you got to be fine,” Trump told Axios.
Prior to the press conference announcing his plan, Trump cornered Netanyahu in the Oval Office and pressed him to apologize over the phone to Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani for the September 9 airstrike.
A Qatari official reportedly helped write Netanyahu’s apology, along with the White House, and remained in the Oval Office to ensure the Israeli leader stayed on script, according to Politico.
Trump went on to start the press conference
by praising the Qatari leader as a
“fantastic person” who
“wants peace.”
–by Jonah Valdez; October 11 2025,
oodles:
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/11/qatar-trump-gaza-ceasefire
this
Ain’t
AIPAC-
Approved
Is it, wormmy?
you’d better
give us TWENTY More
Reasons why You (& Donald!) are right:
Remember Your Narrative!
Preach, wormmy!
preach.
“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.'”
–@the Stranger
yeah
Funny
it Is how
this shit all works
and ‘they’ say
Republican Jesus
‘works in Mysterious ways.’
@89: “DID QATARI MONEY DRIVE TRUMP’S PUSH FOR GAZA CEASEFIRE?”
YES! You gotta a problem with that?
@91 Ya’ll worried about a couple of mexicans sneaking over here and opening up amazing taco stands while Donald Trump is bringing Qatar fighter pilots to just chill in Idaho is pretty wild.
like I Said koolie, Republican
Jesus doth Work in
Mythterious Ways.
it only took
Cadet Bonespurs
TEN MONTHS (thedjt
PROMISED US Two Weeks)
(‘spose he was Exaggerating?)
to Shut the Genocide the fuck Down
it’s the KEEPING
it Shut Down that’ll
be the Test of His Potency
and how much
MONEY is innit for him.
Hmmmm:
perhaps
We, the People
could all get M4A
if we Paid HIM sufficiently?
and Daycare!?
think it’s
worth a shot?
or a Stab, rather?
how bout a good
Old “College Try”?
sound kinda like
‘koolidge’ don’t
ya Think?
@92: I’m not the “Ya’ll” your narrative wants me to be.
@93: You’re in for a very rough day. I’d stay away from the news. You’re gonna crack and it won’t be pretty.
@94b:
“You’re in for a very rough day.”
Why? What’ve you Heard?
“I’d stay away from the news.”
Tell us More, koolie!
“You’re gonna crack and it won’t be pretty.”
nonsense.
I cracked
Ages ago and
it was INCREDIBLE
or maybe
it was just the
hallucinogenics
And a Different World
is not only Possible
but She is On
her Way.
time to
Wake tf
UP koolie:
your
Republican
Masters’ll have
You in one of their
Work/Concentration/
RE-Education Camps before
you even know it. see you There, little buddie
https://youtu.be/B3ytkyn3vUU
@88: Oxfam claimed that same wastewater plant was destroyed in July last year, HRW claimed that same wastewater plant was destroyed in December last year, and now Drop Site News (lol) claims that same wastewater plant has been destroyed in October this year. 😂 It’s like that “last remaining hospital in Gaza” that has been reduced to rubble at least six times! 🤣