On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

And if they take that course of action, in the same press release that they announce that action they should remind people that ALL federal workers need to be paid and the senate has a bill to do that while keeping Americans healthy. Surround themselves with furloughed staff while doing it.

They should sue to discover where the discretionary funds are as if they’ve “identified funds to do this,” something else is not being funded that was authorized. So rather than saying you can’t pay the troops they need to be saying you can’t override previous congressional priorities

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

If Marc Benioff gets his way and the National Guard invades SF I’m gonna have to do this again…

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Science works, and even as he defunds it and attacks the credibility of scientists and their work he will enjoy the fruits of modern medicine.

If Benioff is MAGA now that’s a huge signal that the Silicon Valley big money donor base is basically gone for Dems (it’s a signal of other things, too, obviously)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Drawing of the Day
US Government shut down, House covering up Epstein files, Senate ends the war in Iraq after 23 years, and Marc Benioff wants the National Guard in SF

I’m sure I could go faster if I wasn’t doing it by hand but I’m leaning into analog instead of AI

Timeline cleanse: M is for Monkey

Drew this last night and have now done A through N

He only wants it because Obama got one too

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her 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

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

Anyone else worried Trump is going to bomb Venezuela more now that a woman from there won the Nobel Peace Prize? Also worried for Norway….

Drawing of the Day:
Where are the troops going?
US Gov still shut down, Israel accepts phase one of peace deal, federal judge says troop deployment in Chicago isn’t legal, and Trump’s DOJ indicted NY AG Letitia James

If it were in charge, I'd be posting up billboards and mobile bus signage and YouTube ads to that effect esp in swing districts.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

WHO THINKS THERE SHOULD BE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (no session since 9/19😡)? ✋

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