Open thread.
PSA: At noon I will put up a post for the 4 baseball games that are being played today. Has to go up a bit early because I am leaving the house at noon and I want to be sure it posts.
Let’s keep that post just for baseball and we’ll have other posts throughout the day as usual.
Looks like the games run from 1pm to around midnight, so when I get home this afternoon, I’ll put a link to the BASEBALL post in the sidebar under Featuring.
lowtechcyclist
Should we have been able to access the test post if we could remember our password?
(I tried a few variations on what I thought was my password, and had no luck.)
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: No
That was a test of the ability to make an entire post password protected. It worked as predicted. If you have the password, you can read it. if you don’t, you can’t.
It was not a password for the site. You can still see every other post on the site.
There was nothing in the post to see. Just a test post for Joelle so we can decide if that’s a good way to share the wedding video without a bunch of internet assholes marking it up
Only front-pagers have passwords to WordPress.
There are no passwords for regular readers and commenters.
The need for a password was for that ONE POST ONLY
I put the word TEST in the title thinking that would signal that it’s a test and not a regular post to comment on.
SiubhanDuinne
I didn’t even know I had a BJ password. This feels odd.
lowtechcyclist
@WaterGirl:
Guess I don’t need to reset mine, then, assuming I have one. (Like SubaruDiane, I wasn’t sure.)
Peale
@lowtechcyclist: There is no password. This is all just a dream. The one where you suddenly find yourself taking a test in a course that you didn’t attend classes in for the entire semester. Updated to the current day where tests are online.
Just remind yourself as you sleep that you are an adult and no longer in university and that should get your heartbeat down to normal levels without having to wake up.
There is no test. You are done with that.
Jackie
BREAKING NEWS:
Part of a NYC public housing highrise collapsed. Thankfully, no reports of injuries – as of yet. Live conference with Eric Adams right now
ETA: News is back to government shutdown. Carry on!
Ruviana
Thank goodness! I thought I was losing my mind!
la_caterina
@Peale: I still have that dream 27 years after law school!
Mr. Bemused Senior
This is a test. This is only a test. Had it been an actual alert…
[I’m quite sure that I don’t have a BJ password.]
WaterGirl
Please read my comment at #2!
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: The whole thing offended A Ghost To Most, so it was worth it whatever its ostensible purpose was.
piratedan
still irritated that a fair bit of what I am seeing reported in the Press is stating that Democrats are shutting down the Government, grrr…. but I suppose that lackeys and lickspittles are going to lack and spit.
mapanghimagsik
I did try:
Password
Your password
Your Password Below
JDVanceCouchfucker
Kirklin
@Peale:
The voice in the back of my mind is laughing at you. It’s a disdainful and mocking laugh, one that every Bond villain wishes was in their repertoire. And it just asked me if I meant to wear /that/ while on camera.
Geminid
Thank you, WaterGirl for posting this press conference.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: So a password will be assigned to posters who request one will eventually be via email? Like zoom chats?
lollipopguild
Password? You want my Password? You will get my Password when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
(I am kidding!)
scav
My cheap thrill was typing in “no” for the password. Nice to get the curmudgeon up and going so early.
Jackie
@Geminid:
Agree. Thanks, WaterGirl :-)
Captain C
@Peale:
I had the (kind of) opposite once in college (or maybe just an ‘even worse’): I dreamed that it was finals time and I had forgotten that I was even in a class. In the dream, I finally got that resolved, only to remember that there was another class that I was enrolled in that I had completely forgotten about. Then I woke up.
No, I didn’t have the best attendance record as an undergrad. Why do you ask?
Scout211
Just in time for Trump to follow up on his threat to withhold funds to NYC in order to affect the election.
White House freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure funding
Old School
Scout211
@Old School: Good. Thanks for posting that. It is welcome good news this morning.
jonas
Shutdown brinksmanship usually doesn’t go well for the “blocking” party. That’s almost always been Republicans, and they caught a lot of shit for it which is why they usually ended up caving in the end. Jeffries and Schumer and every Dem Congressperson is going to have to go into overdrive flooding the zone with the reasons they’re doing this and getting ahead of every Republican smear trying to blame them. In contrast to previous shutdowns, though, Dems are defending something very popular, namely ACA subsidies, which affect millions of people. Republicans were always stonewalling over yet another way to screw poor/vulnerable people or cut taxes for rich people and that didn’t help. Pressers like this are helpful, but this needs to be an all-hands-on-deck, across all media platforms 24/7 effort if it’s to get past both the MSM’s obtuse bothersiderism and the GOP and WH’s own propaganda machine.
Mike E
@Peale: in that dream I’m not wearing pants! I couldn’t figure out my size at Chico’s! xD
rikyrah
and this is AFTER they are cooking the books:
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
CNBC: “Very disappointing. It was a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in negative 32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August was revised down sharply, the month now showing negative 3,000 compared to the initial read of positive 54,000 … the labor market is softening.”
x.com/atrupar/status/1973389752477876343
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I appreciate your sharing the reasoning and the prospect of seeing the wedding again. (You posted your explainer after I commented.)
rikyrah
Spencer Hakimian
@SpencerHakimian
Q: You’ve alluded to the interest the reshoring of manufacturing that Trump’s tariff regime is doing, but reports say that we’ve lost to 80,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office.
Lutnick: Well, that can’t be true.
x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1973134052958855632
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne had a school dream recently. Amazing how some of that persists.
eclare
Pretty photo today.
RevRick
@Scout211: Typical thuggish behavior from our thuggish administration. Laws are passed and Trump/Vought chooses to break the law and use the appropriations as weapons of extortion.
trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist:
Autocomplete is my friend.
Right up until it is not.
I’ll presume password is smashword.
Geminid
@Jackie: This is a good opportunity to see our House members in action. There is plenty of debate here about Democratic messaging, but it seems like many people only hear about this messaging second hand, and often through cherry-picked quotes. So it’s a good thing to see the unfiltered message.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I mistakenly thought that “test post with password” would translate into “nothing to see here”.
I was mistaken
edit: What was I thinking??? :-)
Mark
My dreams are about high school. I didn’t make it too far in college. Anyways, in my dream I am back in high school. It has been so long that I can’t remember where my locket is, let alone the combination. There is a test coming up for a course that I never attended the classes for. I don’t even know what classroom this is taking place in. I don’t have these dreams to often anymore, but they still haunt me from time to time. I graduated from high school in 1975.
RevRick
The password for Joelle’s wedding photos is JohnCole!
CaseyL
I’m glad everyone else is confused by the password test. I had no memory of ever having a BJ password, so I tried a few passwords that I’ve used a lot in the past and neither one worked.
Asparagus Aspersions
My useless congressman, David Schweikert, is running for governor next year, opening up a competitive House seat in AZ! I really hope we can field good candidate – I think that seat is flippable.
dexwood
Knew it was a test, but just as a lark I entered Fuckpassw0rds.
Suzanne
@Asparagus Aspersions: Marlene Galan-Woods is running as a Dem for the seat Schweikert currently holds. She’s the widow of Grant Woods (longtime AZ Attorney General and graduate of my high school). She also was another local news anchor for years. They’re not all crazy Kari Lake!
FYI: I lived in Chandler, Tempe, Mesa, and Phoenix for decades. Moved away in 2020 but spent years suffering through terrible Republican government.
JCJ
@Peale: A few months ago I had a dream that my cat and I were in Salzburg Austria and we were sitting down to take a French exam. Since I do not know any French I was quite anxious, while my cat picked up the pencil in his little paw and got to work. I went to ask a question (auf Deutsch), but the proctor would not answer in either German or English. I then woke up because I was so stressed about failing the exam. I have no idea how the cat did on the exam, but I imagine all he needed to answer was however a cat says “meow” in French.
WaterGirl
Is anyone watching the press conference? I have to leave the house in 15 minutes so I’m getting ready to go and can’t watch. If you are watching, can you summarize? Or maybe it’s running late?
rikyrah
Chris Sommerfeldt
@C_Sommerfeldt
Mayor Adams’ office now confirms he used to date his “sports czar,” Jasmine Ray, before tapping her for the $161K-a-year City Hall post in late 2022.
Ray resigned Friday before revealing she’s publishing a book about her “hidden relationship” with Adams.
x.com/C_Sommerfeldt/status/1973123084552118724
kindness
And true to form, the MSM is blaming both sides without going into what Democrats want, nor explaining that Republicans are out and out lying about what Democrats want. Instead they repeat what Republicans say leaving it up to the listener to decide. Modern media is driving us to dictatorship.
Fair Economist
@rikyrah: This jobs report is from the private company ADP, and the Trump administration can’t cook it (at the moment)
The article is very Trump-friendly because job loss is not “softening” – that would be job gains dropping from the 200,000 we saw under Biden to the 100,000 or so when Trump took over. An actual loss is “declining” or something like that. And any job loss at all is often a prelude to recession.
Melancholy Jaques
@WaterGirl:
It wasn’t clear who was being tested. I don’t know about others, but I was worried because I didn’t study at all.
CaseyL
@Jackie: The cause appears to be a faulty gas line (?), and the damage, so far, to be confined to a ventilation shaft.
So: not another Champlain Towers, thank all the gods.
PaulWartenberg
you mean the password wasn’t Swordfish?
/rage
New Deal democrat
If you are looking for a nice diversion, here’s long, fun thread on Bluesky:
“What is the worst city you’ve visited?”
bsky.app/profile/getthebagcoach.bsky.social/post/3lzyndqy6sk2g
There are well over 100 replies, most of them pretty good and/or funny.
There are 2 big cities, both in the same State, clearly in the lead. There are probably about 50 nominations for smaller cities, that seem to break down into 3 categories: (1) nasty people, (2) long term economic devastation, and (3) culturally kitschy trash.
Captain C
@rikyrah:
That’s an interesting turn of phrase for this story.
Melancholy Jaques
@la_caterina:
I haven’t worked as a lawyer in 20 years, but I still occasionally have the dream where I come into the office and somebody says “What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be in court.”
Captain C
@kindness: “Republicans stated one thing, the Democrat Party stated something else, who knows what’s true? It’s too bad there’s not an entire profession theoretically devoted to finding this out and reporting it to the public.”
New Deal democrat
@rikyrah:
@Fair Economist:
And that is just private sector employment. If this shutdown lasts longer than next week, there are over 100,000 federal workers who took the DOGE buyouts who will appear in next month’s report.
While ADP is noisy compared with the official report, over the longer term – like a 3 month moving average – it captures the “official” trend pretty well.
So far, surprisingly, strong consumer spending by the top 10%, is keeping the economy from going into recession. If the stock market declines, all bets are off.
lowtechcyclist
@WaterGirl:
Oh sure, but that just meant no meaningful content in the hidden post. It could have also been a test of whether BJers could access it, so I tried.
I have a few low-security passwords that I use online in places like this where the worst someone can do with my password is impersonate me (and who would bother?), so I tried those, without success obviously.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I got the message that the test post was WaterGirl checking if the password feature was functioning, but I couldn’t help but enter “12345”. Of course, I understand WaterGirl is smarter than a Spaceball, and no, that’s not the combination I have on my luggage (though there was a stretch of time when that was the password on my work email, and I didn’t have the ability to change it; let’s just say my office uses a different IT outfit these days).
lowtechcyclist
@lollipopguild:
Passwords? We don’t need no stinkin’ passwords!
Asparagus Aspersions
@Suzanne: Same! I grew up in Phoenix – we moved there at the end of the Mofford years, and yes, it was so many years of terrible Republican leadership. I went to ASU, and finally moved away from the Valley in my late 20s.
I was casual friends with one of Kari Lake’s nephews. He was a normal human being, unlike his aunt, who’s about 1 step away from barking at the moon.
Now I live in France – I took my kid to Phoenix last year for his first American Halloween. We also went to the AZ State Fair, and now he thinks of Phoenix as a magical wonderland.
Searcher
@mapanghimagsik: I tried “your password”, “the password” and “hunter2”.
Suzanne
@Asparagus Aspersions: You and I might have overlapped….. I went to UA for undergrad and ASU for grad. Moved to AZ as a kid in 1988 and moved away in 2020. I was active in my local LD for a long time, and I volunteered for many, many Dem campaigns over the years.
Andy Biggs is also apparently running for Gov. VOMIT. My HS crush is a relative of his, LOL.
Mr. Bemused Senior
No love for “abc123”? Or “passw0rd”
[ ETA xyzzy ]
MisterForkbeard
@New Deal democrat: The AI boom is floating the economy, looks like. Huge amounts of the stock market are floating on expectations of AI gains. If those don’t materialize, there goes the entire economy.
Baud
Via Reddit
scav
@Mr. Bemused Senior: plugh.
Asparagus Aspersions
@Suzanne:
We totally overlapped – I moved there as a kid in 1989 and was there for almost 20 years. Had loads of LDS kids as classmates and friends, which I didn’t realize was unusual until I left the state. (It also meant that when I went to go see The Book of Mormon with my husband, I appreciated it on a much different level than he did).
God, Andy Biggs! Arizona has always had its share of nuts though, no? There were various state legislators like Karen Johnson and Barbara Blewster who were often in the news when I was growing up, usually because of reasons like expressing surprise that a Jewish colleague didn’t have a large nose.
Scout211
I am encouraged by this.
Maybe the media will notice this and place it in their front page entertainment section since that section likely has higher traffic than their political content.
Thank you celebrities. We need your loud voices.
Suzanne
@Asparagus Aspersions:
Paul Gosar has entered the chat! Nutcases galore.
Spending my formative years in Mesa, where I was surrounded by equally large cohorts of LDS people, right-wing evangelicals, and fairly culturally conservative Catholics…… man, did that make me the godless feminist heathen I am today.
mrmoshpotato
@Mr. Bemused Senior: And now I have The Jackson 5 running through my head.
Rusty
@Fair Economist: The rule of thumb used to be job growth had to be 125,000-130,000 a month just to account for an expanding working g age population. So even zero is a lot more than softening. Biden would get hammered any time the number was less than 125k, but now we live in crazy time.
frosty
@Suzanne: For years I had the “forgot to go to class and here’s the final” dream, always set in the 1902 wing of my high school. About 20 years ago, the district built a new school and had an open house at the one I attended. Some of my teachers were there!
After I had walked through and saw my old classrooms I never had that dream again. It didn’t mean anxiety dreams ended – instead, now I’m trying to find the commuter train I rode to work for 14 years.
Shalimar
@Mark: I used to have a dream starting roughly 15 years after high school where they lowered several of my grades and decided I didn’t have enough credits to graduate, so I had to go back and take classes with kids half my age. It was not a good recurring dream.
David Collier-Brown
@Captain C: Me three: I sat down in the wrong row of a statics-and-dynamics exam, found it was really hard, and only later found out I had written the test for the next higher year, and got a C. (Some subjects you can just “logic out”)
M31
hmmmm, I tried the passwords
fucktrump
fucktrumpthatfucker
fuckthatfuckingfuckertrump
yeah I know but it was fun to type
Shalimar
@WaterGirl: I tried the password I would have used for this site if it ever required a password, which I don’t remember ever having. It did not work. Yes, instructions could have been a little clearer, but no harm done other than wasting 10 seconds that I could have used for finally curing cancer.
Soapdish
SHUT ‘EM DOWN!
youtube.com/watch?v=LXCrkY5WNA0
Mark
@MisterForkbeard: I bought some TSM(Taiwan Semiconductor) a little over a year ago. It’s up 63% so far. Very volatile though. I also took a modest position in INTC(Intel). It’s up 67% in just a few months. I bought Intel strictly as a turnaround candidate, not a long term investment.
Scout211
That’s a darn shame. But didn’t you hear? Trump ended childhood cancer by executive order. Karoline Leavitt said so.
But the devil is in the details:
I’ve heard that AI is quite an amazing medical professional, scientist and researcher. 🙄
Old School
@Scout211:
I’m confused. I thought that’s what the medibeds were doing.
Belafon
@Scout211: And when it fails to cure cancer, it’ll be the fault of medical research, not that ML is nothing more than a tool and not a replacement for research and hard work.
Princess
@Scout211: Imagine lending your child with cancer to participate in a photo-op charade like that.
MisterForkbeard
@Scout211: AI is fantastic at certain sets of medical things. For example, it’s really good at identifying cancer using comprehensive test results (give it an xray or CAT, some blood results and so on) and it can give a very accurate guess as to whether or not someone has cancer, often more reliably than Doctors. That’s nice.
That’s also not what’s going on here. This order looks like “do a minor thing with AI and I’m claiming credit for solving children’s cancer”
lollipopguild
@PaulWartenberg: Thank you for the Marx Bros reference.
trollhattan
For expressing blog mood, we now turn to Charles Darwin, via Letters of Note.
Eyeroller
@MisterForkbeard: It’s much worse than that, I suspect. The AI-addled techbros who have had excessive influence in this administration are convinced that we don’t need scientists anymore, because AI will make all the new discoveries we need. So they don’t see a contradiction between defunding and/or firing scientists and claiming they will do things like cure cancer (and why just “childhood” since cures for those would help at least some adult cancers as well).
trollhattan
@Old School:
“Once and for all” in lieu of all those cosplay cancer cures.
Let us now return to 1971 and Nixon.
JoyceH
Hey I know the Dem position on the shutdown is that they’re trying to reverse the drastic cuts to health care which will double some people’s insurance and close rural hospitals and so on, but there’s an easier battle-ready explanation. Republicans have shut down the government to keep from swearing in the final vote needed for the discharge petition. In other words, they’re shutting down the government to protect wealthy and powerful pedophiles. Ending as always: Release the Epstein Files!
(I’m waiting for the shuttle to the airport – heading out to three weeks in the UK.)
Mo MacArbie
I couldn’t resist trying “password”. I’m having better luck with not opening that tab back up to try “skullfuckakitten”. Stay strong, stay strong, stay…
laura
Man, my Democratic Senators and Congress Members* are sure excellent in their representation of California. I see my diminutive powerhouse Doris Matsui right over his shoulder. Proud to be in their ranks and on the right side of this hideous national mess.
*fuck Ro Khanna who used ageism to beat the actual progressive Congressman Mike Honda, and then sidled up to his silicon valley owners to my ongoing dismay.
scav
Trained pigeons are also possibly “promising surrogate observers of medical images” tested specifically on breast cancer images (NIH link). Can we have an entire bubbly sector of the economy based entirely on them? Hell, I think they have even been tested in bombs as targeting crew (go Skinner!). They’re likely less of a drain on the electrical grid and don’t rely on an infinite immigrant monkey-based labor-force.
Soprano2
@Suzanne: I had a music anxiety dream, always about piano. It was time for me to perform at the recital, and somehow I had fooled my piano teacher for a year that I was working on the piece when I actually wasn’t. I haven’t had that dream for a long time, though.
Soprano2
@Scout211: This must be why they think they can cut all that research money; the AI creators have convinced FFOTUS that all we need now is AI in order to cure cancer. *rolleyes* What an idiot…..
Mel
@Peale: @Suzanne:
My nightmare always started with a dream about casually getting on a bus to chaperone a group of kiddos on some sort of field trip.
The kids drop silent, I look down, and -ta-da- I had forgotten to put any clothes on, but for some unknown reason had on a pair of clunky, klompen-style Clark’s clogs. (In retrospect, not sure what was more awful, the unexpected and horrifying lack of clothes, or the clogs.)
Talk about waking up in a panic!
Citizen Alan
@Melancholy Jaques: I used to have a recurring nightmare in which I am called in regarding a job I had unsuccessfully applied for years before and told that I had actually been hired for that job after all and that I would need to complete all the work that I was supposed to have been doing all this time within the space of a week.
Belafon
@Citizen Alan: The other day I dreamt about needing to debug my alarm clock’s source code. I don’t have an alarm clock, I use my phone.
Mel
@Citizen Alan: Wow. That is one for the stress dream record books. It makes me shudder just thinking about it.
Citizen Alan
@Mel: Weirdly, I’ve had the “naked in public” dream, but in my dreams, no one ever seems to notice. I’m naked but standing behind a plant or behind my desk or something, and no one pays any attention to my state even though I’m obviously naked from the waist up. It’s like the fear that’s being triggered is not actually being seen naked and exposed but rather the anxiety that someone will notice that I’m naked and exposed and call attention to it at any second. I assume it ties in with my Imposter Syndrome.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Scout211:
Fran Drescher was vocally anti-vax during COVID. I’m sure she still is pretty woo. We don’t have to agree on a lot to agree that MAGA is a serious threat to the first amendment and our constitutional government more broadly. So welcome to the correct fight, Ms. Drescher.
dc
@trollhattan:
I love this, I should put it in my email sig.
rikyrah
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) posted at 8:01 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
I asked Trump’s former OMB director @MickMulvaney to simply acknowledge it’s a lie that undocumented immigrants get ACA subsidies (they don’t), and he ended the interview rather than answer the question.
“Would you agree that not a single dime of ACA subsidies goes toward undocumented immigrants?”
“Listen, we don’t do this on this show… I’m not gonna do this anymore.”
t.co/BjAQmB8hVG
(x.com/briantylercohen/status/1973191553360543846?t=v8FVcel6EbICCykq30FOOQ&s=03)
rikyrah
Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) posted at 5:29 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
“Health care for illegal aliens” is the new “immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield.”
The Republican playbook is simple: make up a baseless lie, repeat it every chance you get, hope and pray that everyone blames Democrats for the crises you created.
(https://x.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1973153155950190744?t=En2WkREqAmT6O7Z3GA5CHQ&s=03)
rikyrah
Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) posted at 11:43 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
BREAKING: Congressman Jamie Raskin moments ago, regarding Republicans shutting down the Government and avoiding the release of the Epstein files:
“They all said they wanted the Epstein files released, and then they had 1000 FBI agents working around the clock, and guess what they saw. Donald Trump’s name apparently all over the files and they came back and said ‘nothing to see here, we’re gonna sweep it under the rug. Call off the talking points everybody. Now we want to cover up the Epstein files.’ We’re not going to allow them to do that!”
t.co/k5aqUwQGOs
(x.com/EdKrassen/status/1973428447968989278?t=W8hsVOqlVlH1WbSfX3lDCA&s=03)
Paul in KY
@Peale: You get those dreams too!
cain
@rikyrah: and this works because the media never asks follow up questions.
Someone should remind the media that they also depend on healthcare.
rikyrah
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 11:58 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
Lawrence: One of the examples you’ve put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson’s Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.
Boyle: Ironically, Mike Johnson has one of the largest medicaid populations of any district nationwide. But I do want to stress that, yes, this is dramatic and will be awful if you’re on medicaid, will be awful if you’re on one of the Obamacare exchanges, will be awful if you’re on medicare. But it’s actually the health care of all of us, regardless of how you obtain it. Because even for those of us who might not be on one of those programs I just mentioned, premiums are set to rise. And by a dramatic amount, literally beginning in a matter of hours. So that is what is at stake. That is why we have a sense of urgency. That is why we can’t wait three months or six months or nine months.
t.co/SGy5TzD01Q
(x.com/Acyn/status/1973251222812639352?t=F4vB2v5qTNL-wxONLqNH7Q&s=03)
Paul in KY
@mapanghimagsik: That’s a good password.
rikyrah
umichvoter![]()
(@umichvoter) posted at 7:14 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
Jack Ciattarelli’s Lt Gov nominee on tonight’s debate:
“All taxes are on the table…but not for millionaires” t.co/J1t0jAHa0q
(https://x.com/umichvoter/status/1973179746239525297?t=kJiFLDRIgkfaP92lefqldQ&s=03)
rikyrah
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 11:17 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
After the Trump administration sought to privately email some crucial spreadsheets instead of filing them on the public docket, a judge scolds:
“We have no secrets here. The government needs to file everything publicly and needs to do so now.” t.co/77PNuHZEDP t.co/i2CJjmbBPS
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1973422056290263531?t=Y_Y8CgUz7gK-JJynQ5cPwQ&s=03)
rikyrah
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 9:09 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
How can you negotiate with Republicans in Congress to fund the government when as soon as you reach an agreement you know that Trump’s OMB director will just withhold the funds? t.co/v2YVu9F1Rg
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1973389921264996730?t=pO9RKbMqriTV9CLmClhQeQ&s=03)
Paul in KY
@Captain C: I have a class that I just can’t seem to make it to. It’s an important class, but weird shit keeps happening that makes me miss it repeatedly. Until the final.
Paul in KY
@JCJ: That’s a pretty trippin dream!
Lyrebird
@New Deal democrat:
Thanks, that was fun!
This commenter (a comic book colorist!) and her friend with a Cole-style beard trying ice cream seem like they would fit in here really well.
Fester Addams
@WaterGirl: Oddly, the password was not “NoPants”
Paul in KY
@Scout211: He sure got fleeced on that air conditioner, though…
dmsilev
RIP Jane Goodall, age 91.
The pallbearers will presumably all be chimpanzees.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@New Deal democrat:
None of the people in that thread have ever been to Chamois, MO when it comes to “worst places”.
rikyrah
Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) posted at 4:05 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
Senator Murkowski was the deciding vote to block the release the Epstein files. Before casting that vote, she never declared her connections to Ghislaine Maxwell, her husband Scott Borgerson and a wealthy donor who owns an Alaska newspaper. t.co/G7AVvsWtpx
(https://x.com/tarapalmeri/status/1973132041953612129?t=-K0EylZJMnO_yNGa68Vl_g&s=03)
rikyrah
Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) posted at 10:00 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
The ACA has been around for over a decade. If undocumented immigrants were collecting subsidies, you’d have seen MAGA lawsuits stacked higher than Trump hats made in China.
(https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1973221515358511252?t=heV0dNzQHECm5AmHNUWuTQ&s=03)
rikyrah
David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier) posted at 11:43 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a “criminal,” but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents…. t.co/9nsvz6bjX4
(https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/1973428659395633667?t=OUAjHph_h6AY-c9tuD21RQ&s=03)
Booger
@rikyrah: Dating before tapping?? How quaint!
debit
RE: dreams. My current stress dream is that I’m getting married, but I don’t know to who, and I am all alone in a dressing room and cannot get into my dress, my hair is a mess and I have no toiletries or makeup. And I can’t leave the room to ask for help, because I’m not wearing anything more than a slip.
This is actually better than my previous stress dreams, which involved having to be somewhere, being very late, and on foot. I then become so tired that I can’t even walk anymore and wind up crawling.
And even that is better than the stress dreams where my car is suddenly beyond my ability to control and I start crashing it into things and people.
I’ve had a lot of stress dreams.
The Unmitigated Gaul
@Asparagus Aspersions: “Now I live in France’ – what a lovely expression.
MagdaInBlack
@rikyrah: Surprise surprise, right?
SiubhanDuinne
The great Dr. Jane Goodall has died. She was 91. It feels like a member of the family has passed. RIP.
sab
@debit: My stress dreams are about going on a cruise and missing the ship so it leaves me behind in a foreign port where I can’t speak the language.
Other stress dream is getting lost after a meeting on a large urban campus (business, hospital or university) where I can’t remember where I went in so I don’t know where to find my car.
Cathie from Canada
Just wondering – if only the front pagers are allowed to see the wedding video anyway, couldn’t you just email it to them? Or do a private YouTube channel and send them the link?
And by the way, congrats to Joelle and John
PAM Dirac
@trollhattan: I started a not quite 50 year career in cancer research as a National Cancer Society summer scholarship winner in 1971 working at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. When I started the lab I was in still had a bunch of reagent bottles filled with different colors of water because some news program filmed in the lab in realtion to the new act and thought the buffers that were actually used in the lab were too boring. One thing I only realized many years later was how dramatic a change that legislation was. It was in large part due to the lobbying of Mary Lasker (video of VInce DeVita talking about that). It was also related to the success in the chemotherapy of Hodgkin’s disease. Up until that point a good chunk of the scientific community and almost all commercial drug companies thought looking for cancer treatments was a waste of time. I have often wondered if that was the reason some early pioneers in cancer treatment like Trudy Elion were able to work in the field because it was considered a dead end field. Anyway, lots of memories from those early days.
Paul in KY
@The Unmitigated Gaul: Yeah. I was a tad envious of that statement.