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When Could The Government Shutdown End And What Might Finally Force Breakthrough?
When Could The Government Shutdown End And What Might Finally Force Breakthrough?
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by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Oct 19, 2025 - 03:40 PM
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,
With the federal government shutdown now in its third week and officially one of the longest in modern U.S. history, Congress remains at an impasse with no negotiations underway to end it.
In the absence of talks, the clock is now ticking towards a string of critical dates and pressure points that could test lawmakers’ resolve and potentially break the stalemate.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/when-could-government-shutdown-end-and-what-might-finally-force-breakthrough
October 18: Io, Europa, and their shadows cross Jupiter
The Moon and Venus hang close together in the predawn sky, sharing the sky in the constellation Virgo. An hour before sunrise, look east to spot Venus, the brightest point of light, blazing at magnitude –3.9 nearly 7° above the horizon and climbing. The delicate crescent Moon lies to its upper right, just 4° to the planet’s west.
Through a telescope, Venus appears 94 percent lit, its gibbous phase opposite the Moon’s thin crescent phase, with only some 4 percent of our satellite lit this morning. Venus’ disk stretches 11” on the sky, making its phase readily visible in the eyepiece.
Below them is the 3rd-magnitude star Porrima (Gamma Virginis), a famous double star with components about 4” apart, easy to split in a telescope. They are nearly identical blue-white suns that shine at roughly the same magnitude.
The Moon will pass 4° due south of Venus at 6
https://www.astronomy.com/observing/the-sky-today-sunday-october-19-2025/