House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA.) says the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.
-- The Associated Press (@apnews.com) Oct 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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To our North, Canadians enjoyed a peaceful three-day Thanksgiving Day weekend watching football, baseball, and hockey with a normal, functioning government in Ottawa. To our South, the Mexican people are excited with President Claudia Sheinbaum who celebrated her one year anniversary in office with a whopping 70% approval rating: Claudia Sheinbaum Kicking --- as Prez.
Meanwhile, in the US we're suffering with a morbidly-obese senile racist pedophile with a 40% approval rating who sabotaged the economy, endangered national security, and deployed the military against his own people, all while he and his family members in the TCF and oligarchs made Mammon-like fortunes this past year:
**** NASA Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) in California Firing Ten Percent of Workforce ****
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cutting 550 jobs, around 10% of its staff. The layoffs are allegedly part of a broad "realignment of its workforce" and not a result of the government shutdown. The cuts will affect positions across the NASA center's technical, business and support areas: www.jpl.nasa.gov
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