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  1. says

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Justifying his characterization of Chicago as a crime-ridden war zone, Donald J. Trump claimed on Monday that thousands of the city’s residents were seen “running for their lives” over the weekend.

    “They were running like dogs,” he said. “You’d run, too, if you were being chased by Antifa.”

    Trump said that thousands of people running in the streets was a common occurrence in “Democrat cities,” noting that what happened in Chicago over the weekend has also taken place in New York and Boston.

    A photo of the Chicago Marathon accompanies this Borowitz Report.

    https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-claims-thousands-of-chicagoans

    It’s satire, but not that much different from the delusional statements Trump makes about Portland of Chicago.

  2. says

    For the convenience of readers, here are few links back to the previous set of 500 comments on The Infinite Thread.

    https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/infinite-thread-xxxvii/comment-page-1/#comment-2280451
    I usually look for reasons to vote FOR specific candidates in primaries […]

    https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/infinite-thread-xxxvii/comment-page-1/#comment-2280513
    New York Times: “An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and Britain’s ascendant Reform U.K. party.”

    https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/infinite-thread-xxxvii/comment-page-1/#comment-2280512
    Airports in more than a half-dozen U.S. markets have declined to display a video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem blames congressional Democrats for the government shutdown and any related travel delays.

    https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/infinite-thread-xxxvii/comment-page-1/#comment-2280510
    The president is already lying about his record on grocery prices. But his administration expects his anti-immigrant agenda to make matters worse.

    https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/infinite-thread-xxxvii/comment-page-1/#comment-2280501
    Chinese goods getting 130 percent tariffs.

  3. says

    Comment #2 correction: “Portland OR Chicago.”

    In other news, as reported by the Associated Press:

    Israel and Hamas moved ahead on a key first step of the tenuous Gaza ceasefire agreement on Monday by freeing hostages and prisoners, raising hopes that the U.S.-brokered deal might lead to a permanent end to the two-year war that ravaged the Palestinian territory.

    Other news, as reported by The Washington Post:

    Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline. The Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times.

  4. says

    New York Times:

    At least eight people were killed across rural Mississippi after shootings broke out in three towns on Friday night and early Saturday morning during the heart of high school football season. Two of the shootings, in Heidelberg, Miss., and Rolling Fork, Miss., occurred on public high school campuses that were hosting games.

    New York Times:

    Four people were killed and four others critically injured after an early-morning shooting on Sunday at a bar on St. Helena, an island off the coast of South Carolina, according to the authorities.

  5. says

    New York Times:

    The 21 museums operated by the Smithsonian Institution, many of them top tourist attractions in Washington, were closed as of Sunday morning as the federal government shutdown stretched into its second week.

  6. says

    NBC News:

    The White House on Friday released a memo from President Donald Trump’s physician summarizing his visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center earlier in the day, which included a Covid vaccine booster and a flu shot.

  7. says

    As reported by ABC News, the pope quoted Hannah Arendt:

    Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the ‘ancient art of lying’ and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press.

  8. says

    Whiny Trump makes Israel-Hamas ceasefire ceremony all about him

    […] Trump traveled to the Middle East on Monday to mark the first phase of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in which Hamas agreed to release the final hostages held captive in Gaza in exchange for Israel releasing detained Palestinian prisoners.

    And true to form, Trump made the day all about himself, basking in the praise of Israel’s far-right leaders, who lamented the fact that Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, said Trump should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, declaring in a speech that Trump is a “colossus who will be enshrined in the pantheon of history.” [Scoff]

    “What the world needs now are more leaders who are brave, resolute, strong, and bold. The world needs more Trumps,” Ohana added of the U.S. president who has sicced the military on his own citizens and has turned Customs and Border Patrol agents into masked goons who violently arrest anyone they think looks Hispanic.

    Netanyahu, meanwhile, gifted Trump a golden statue of a dove—another hideously ostentatious trinket Trump can add to the White House he’s defiled with tacky gold ornaments. [Yuck]

    And later, Netanyahu bragged in a speech before the Israeli parliament that he nominated Trump for the Nobel and said it’s “only a matter of time” before Trump gets it.

    Then in Egypt, where Trump traveled for a “Peace Summit,” Trump whined about not winning the prize—which was awarded on Friday to a Venezuelan woman fighting for democracy who dedicated the prize to Trump anyway for his “decisive support.”

    “We have Norway. Oh, Norway, aye aye aye! Norway, what happened? Norway, what happened?” Trump said in a speech at the summit, referring to the country that awards the annual award.

    In the same speech, Trump also made Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif go up to the podium to “say what you said to me the other day”—which evidently was a boatload of over-the-top praise about how Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. [JFC]

    “I would say that Pakistan had nominated President Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for his outstanding extraordinary contributions to first, stop war between India and Pakistan, and then achieve ceasefire along with his very wonderful team,” Sharif said. “And today again I would like to nominate this great president for Nobel Peace Prize.” [video]

    Before his whining that he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave a speech in Israel in which he bragged about the weapons he sent to Israel that were used in their war against Hamas.

    “Bibi Netanyahu would call me so many times asking for weapons I never even heard of, but we got them here didn’t we? You used them very well,” Trump said.

    Trump also embraces dictators like Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

    And he embraces other world leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban—who has silenced dissent in order to remain in power. On Monday, Trump even took time to praise Orban, who he called “fantastic” and a “great leader.” [sheesh]

    Indeed, when giving out this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the award committee described why Trump will never win the award.

    “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended—with words, with courage, and with determination,” the committee wrote.

    [Trump is a] man who is trying to silence dissent, imprison his enemies, and ignore laws to remain in power[…]

  9. says

    On Monday, President Barack Obama returned for an interview on the final episode of “WTF with Marc Maron.” The comedian and podcast host asked the former president his thoughts on Canada’s ability to reconnect with its core values in resisting President Donald Trump, compared to the United States’ more ambivalent reaction.

    “The question has always been, can we pull off this experiment in which people are showing up from all over the place?” Obama explained. “They’re not tied together by blood. They don’t necessarily worship God in the same way—or worship God at all. They speak different languages. They have all these weird foods. They show up with these odd customs. And some of them were dragged here in chains and some of them had their land taken from them and their culture destroyed. And out of all that, can we create a shared creed that allows us to live peacefully together and get stuff done?” [video]

    […]

    Link

    More at the link.

  10. StevoR says

    How ridiculuous :

    South Australia’s premier has questioned the use of the word “toxic” to describe the state’s ongoing algal bloom, despite the word being used in government advice and by scientists researching it.

    “A lot of people refer to the algal bloom as the ‘toxic algal bloom’ — it’s not toxic,” Peter Malinauskas told ABC Radio Adelaide.

    Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/algal-bloom-not-toxic-sa-premier-says/105884118

    For those who have forgotten or are unaware, stacks of dead sea life of all varieties have been washing up on South Aussie beaches for months now.

  11. whheydt says

    Re: Lynna, OM @ #5….
    The obvious solution is to ban high school football (and bars).
    (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Though to be fair, banning competitive high school–and college–football does have considerable appeal…)

  12. StevoR says

    Deadly clashes between Hamas and a rival clan broke out in Gaza City on Sunday as the Palestinian armed group fought to restore order in the enclave, as Israeli forces withdraw from areas under its control.

    Dozens of people were reportedly killed and others were wounded in gun battles between Hamas security forces and fighters linked to the powerful Doghmush family in the Sabra neighbourhood in the south of the city.

    …(Snip)..

    ..In the days leading up to the ceasefire, Hamas fighters were reported to have clashed with members of the Al-Mujaida clan in Khan Younis.

    Dozens of people were reported killed and injured in the violence on 3 October, which followed a series of tit-for-tat killings and kidnappings between the two groups.

    Members of the Al-Mujaida family have ties with Hamas’s main Palestinian rival, Fatah.

    Hamas has had an uneasy relationship with the Doghmush family since coming to power in Gaza almost two decades ago.

    Clan members have associated with officials in Fatah and founded the jihadist group the Army of Islam, and Hamas has accused both families of collaborating with Israel.

    Source : https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-clashes-see-dozens-killed-new-phase-gaza-begins

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