Sunshine and warmth this Thursday morning in California’s Central Valley —  another fine fall day in the making.

Weather we can appreciate, although the heat is man made. And despite the shit that is in the air squirted up by the T-Rump, the infamous Epstein files continue to generate asshole mouth sewage:

We don’t want the pieces of the Epstein files that James Comer and Pam Bondi decide to dribble out. We want ALL of it except for sensitive victim info. Would your Bible be the Bible without Matthew? Then again, your Bible may be missing Matthew based on how you behave. bsky.app/profile/atru…

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-10-23T14:23:30.384Z

Further via The Hill:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday shot back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over an accusation that their party is “sitting on the sidelines” during the shutdown fight and as subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are set to expire.

“Well, bless her heart, that’s an absurd statement,” Johnson told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins when asked about Greene’s remarks.

“Obviously, these conference calls are monitored by media, so we’re not going to have actual strategy discussions on a line where you have hundreds of people listening in, because it would be reported on the front page,” Johnson replied.

In a lengthy post Wednesday on social platform X, Greene said “more of my Republican colleagues are finally talking about the unaffordable health insurance crisis, but yesterday on our GOP conference call Speaker Johnson said he has ideas and pages of policy, but did not say a single policy plan.”

Collins had quoted Greene as saying that she found it “unacceptable” that the GOP was “sitting on the sidelines doing nothing to fix this health care disaster that is leading many Americans into financial ruin.”

And down the rabbit hole:

Senate fails to pass bill to keep essential federal workers and troops paid throughout government shutdown
The Senate has failed to pass legislation that would keep federal workers deemed essential and troops paid throughout the ongoing government shutdown – now in its 23rd day.

With a 54-45 vote, the upper chamber didn’t meet the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the Shutdown Fairness Act, introduced by Republican senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

Three Democratic senators, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and Georgia senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, broke ranks with their party and voted in favor of the bill.

Shit nowadays every day reminds me of this from long ago:

Shutdown into a showdown, or not, yet here we are once again …

(Illustration out front: Salvador Dali’s ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion,’ found here.)