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Same Time Next Year: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that Democrats would agree to end the shutdown in exchange for one more year of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies – an attempt to further pressure the GOP to make a deal.” Democrats present offer to end shutdown as air travel situation gets worse. (One wonders if the air travel situation is getting worse to pressure them to make a deal… In other news, we have a pretty important election in a year.)
+ The Next Phase in Gaza: “The move relegates Israel to a secondary role in determining how and what humanitarian relief can enter Gaza, according to people familiar with the transition.” WaPo: U.S. steps up presence in Gaza to support fragile ceasefire.
+ Sudan: “They would select people and execute them in front of us and then say – ‘bury your brother’ – and we would cover them with soil. I saw them kill 18 people with my own eyes and then people had to bury them with their bare hands.” A roundup of news from Sudan.
+ Sentiment(al): “University of Michigan survey reading is slightly above levels that sentiment sank to amid historic inflation that hit in 2022.” Consumer Sentiment Falls Toward Record-Low Levels. Meanwhile, AI stocks head for more than $800 billion in losses this week.
+ An American Story: “The police in Whitestown, Ind., the small but growing town where the shooting took place, said that two residents had been inside the home that morning when the cleaners arrived. The residents believed their home was possibly being broken into and called 911. In the five minutes between the call and when the police arrived, one of the residents fired from inside the home and struck the woman in the head.” Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home.
+ Drunk on Power: “The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores, which provide service members and their families with access to tax-free consumer goods, have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider.” Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves. (This is the first time alcohol has made me puke before taking my first sip.)
+ Now That’s Using Your Noodle: How to cook the perfect pasta – we used particle accelerators and reactors to discover the key. (Now if they can just discover the key to turning my glucose monitor alarm to silent…)
+ Getting the Picture: They say a picture paints a thousand words. But using today’s prices, it paints at least a trillion of them. This photo from the Oval Office after someone fainted could be the most perfect representation of the Trump era ever recorded. Is there a Nobel Prize for Sociopathy?
