Happy Hour News Grandpa Sundowner's brain is gone, someone poured in a can of split pea soup in its place: “Who” is the funniest possible response, that’s classic. But, his brain is mush, there’s no there there as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland. What’s that you say, Grandpa Sundowner? “...on the grounds of being a Democrat and hurting my fee-fees,” Fat Nixon wailed. “Take a law, Bondi!"

After declaring that Trump has "plenary authority", Miller stopped and stood mute for several seconds before CNN cut away.

Now that’s a good big sister. (Hat tip: Scissorhead M Davis)

Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Thanks Charlie!) email thingie leads with: BOOTS ON THE GROUND: After months of spiraling threats from the White House, the first U.S. troops will hit the streets of Chicago today. It’s the third American city to receive the Trump treatment in four months — over the heads of fierce protests from state and civic leaders — and marks another major escalation by the president.

The consumers of news and information, the people formerly known as the audience, have gone into the production side.

As we know, there is no report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ever since Hair Füror YOU’RE FIRED'ed Commissioner Erika McEntarfer earlier this year and replaced her with Cap’n Bismarck EJ Antoni —who has since been cashiered— and now with the shutdown, American companies are navigating in the dark. The W$J reports: The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There…

The Marvel of the Shutdown Follies: CNN: "There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning. In Nashville, so many controllers have stayed home the facility, which guides planes into and out of the airport, is closing. Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

A word of warning to Portlanders: Word. The Journos at NOTUS email thingie have raised a point: What is the end game for Republicans. A: they don’t know. Republicans question blue-city deployments: Republican senators told NOTUS that they support Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops into cities like Chicago and Portland — with one caveat. “If it becomes non-temporary, that’s a different matter entirely,” Sen.

"If the governor can't do the job, we'll do the job," Trump said.

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

There’s a story, but I don’t want to know what it is.

CalvinLaw. Ursula’s testimony in the Senate makes Bill Barr look honest and forthcoming: You can go to any of the socials and search for Bondi and find all sorts of clips. I expect that tomorrow will be an embarrassment of riches.

“Yeah, I could take him,” Smokey muttered before falling asleep, “maybe tomorrow." (Hat tip Scissorhead M Davis)

Last night I was at my branch of the Seattle Public Library (SPL) picking up a book (John Scalzi’s Kaiju Preservation Society, if you must know) and I saw the display for Banned Books Week. As some of you know, I think libraries rule and librarians are total badasses, and SPL in particular is one of the baddest-ass'ed of ‘em all (is too a wurd).

I don’t think that the jaded Yutes of Today are going to find this compelling.

’All of them, Katie!’ This blurb in Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie) morning email thingie gives us yesterday's FUBAR of the day today: Let’s make a deal? Trump yesterday signaled he may be willing to engage with Democrats, saying he’d “like to see a deal made for great health care,” per the WSJ. But Trump’s suggestion that talks are ongoing was a little confusing, given Leavitt, had…

I certainly hope Hair Füror doesn’t get any ideas about our billionaire media overlords.

The sun sets early: So you don’t have to hear that voice: Collins: The supreme court rejected the appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her conviction. Trump: Who are we talking about? Collins: Ghislaine Maxwell Trump: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.