Every September, Every Shutdown

It’s already more than decade, a routine every year, every September, the wealthiest nation in the world, facing potential government shutdown. A critical no paycheck [temporary] for federal employee. When same time for this year, Speaker Mike Johnson confirms they’re planning to attach extra budget for member security to a CR, in the wake of Charlie Kirk. That enhanced spending is set to expire at the end of the month, a luxury, and tempting perks in the wake of crisis, exact perks in my country Indonesia for politician only.

House Republicans want to move a stopgap government funding bill this week. Democrats may not go along.

The House GOP aims to continue current spending until around Nov. 20, then negotiate on three Senate-passed bills, which could also address lawmaker security.

“We may need a short gap funding measure … to allow the negotiations to continue,” Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday.

Democrats aren’t aware of any serious negotiations and want a health care deal. “If Republicans follow Donald Trump’s orders to not even bother dealing with Democrats they will be single handedly putting our country on the path towards a shutdown,” said a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

All eyes will be on whether House Republicans can move their plan. “Republicans are obviously in control if they stick together,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. “Then it will depend on Chuck’s politics.”

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If you feel powerless to help Gaza, you still has a choice: donate. When so much of what exists is false, authenticity is a powerful weapon we can wield that the state never could. So if you feel lost, hopeless, depressed, angry and afraid, I implore you to return - again and again - to the feeling of love that exists within you that brought you here in the first place. It is only through this that we can remake the world. To redress Gaza's famine, displacement, and destruction, independent and impartial humanitarian organizations - UN agencies, international and national NGOs - must be allowed to deliver relief at scale. To salvage Gaza's people from the devastation inflicted by Israel, it must be unified with the West Bank to form an independent and sovereign Palestinian State, not to be parceled and colonized by the former.

Please keep donate Gaza especially if you, as reader, has [background] International Relation [whatever universities]. IR Graduate means [you must, at least] get some semester [about] studying Middle East [in macro, not specifically Gaza].

We need more people to share fundraisers instead of only talking about Gaza. Some people think that those in Gaza don't need money but that's wrong. Almost everyone lost their source of income while essentials, food & medicine get sold for astronomical prices. So I put my attempt in all social media as I can, in twitter / X, in substack [since October 2023 I put link donation], in bluesky or bsky, in threads, in instagram.

Link to donate World Food Programme - Palestine appeal: click here

[Daniel Brühl]

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Most campaign shared or circulated in social media are for REAL people in Gaza. They're legit. There are a lot of small campaigns for struggling families. This is their only lifeline. By donating & sharing, you are literally making history and alleviating part of their pain

Please do not rely on me alone for sharing your campaign. I'm only 1 person and sometimes I'm not online which is unreliable. I never ignore anybody on purpose but I have a very limited capacity & very little energy and time.

[Refaat Alareer IF I MUST DIE] Refaat Alareer was extremely hungry, November 2023, days before killed by Israel airstrike. If November 2023 already [one-by-one Gazan] extremely hungry, imagine August 2025.

Dec 9th, 2023, New York City, 4.10am —- with update total languages to be 310 as of July 1st, 2024, 3.52am New York City, and then, to be 350 languages as of July 28th, 2024, 1.37am ====== newest update as of July, 3rd, 2025 [actually already 384 languages but let I keep saying 380 to pretty number]

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[Refaat in NYC]

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