Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Charles Boyer, Disneyland's master illustrator. #DisSky

New bench slap just dropped. They are coming at a truly astonishing rate. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

So exhausting..

Share your favorite image from Star Trek TNG.

Released on this day in 1987, the sixth studio album by #DepecheMode was "Music for the Masses". It featured such recognizable tracks as "Strangelove" and "Never Let Me Down Again".

Amidst nice words and failed promises, heat still kills California farmworkers www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/opn-...

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

George E. Hardy was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot at 19 years old and completed 21 missions across Europe during World War II.

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights! Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede... #TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

CSU faculty's privacy at risk after CSU Los Angeles complied with a request with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to hand over employee contact information. Please get in touch with us immediately if you receive matters related to this issue.

I really hate to say this, but the only thing that deserved the rope in this year's #ScaryFarm Hanging show... was the script. 😬

Caturday! Zoomies edition. G'morning. ❤️🐈

Oralè Resister Fight Back! Vote Yes Ca 50 #YesOn50 #VotaYes50 #USDemocracy

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Loved the #IntoTheFog gallery show at @knottsberryfarm.bsky.social Scary Farm! Found an amazing hand-pressed woodcut on handmade paper called "Arrival of the Spectral Iron Horse" by Brian Mazatl Nicolás-Espinoza of [IG] @MacuahuitlPress. I love all local artists, but this was truly special.

This COVID outbreak is no joke, gang. Lots of folks turning up positive. Time to * Get that new Vax if you can * Stock up on masks * Stock up on COVID tests - they are selling out * Make a battle plan to take care of yourself if you need to quarantine * Avoid larger events if you are vulnerable

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

Oralè Resisters 50501SoCal No Kings LA Celebrate Dia De Los Muertos Bring family friends pictures. March for Our disappeared Los Desapareciós Of our Communities in Los Angeles by ICE agents and bounty hunter. #NoKings March October 18 2pm Downtown Los Angeles! #50501SoCal #USDemocracy

This weekend, the president directed DOJ to accelerate the persecution of his critics. I’m on his enemies list, but I’m unfazed. Whatever happens, I have the same plan. And I can sum it up for you in one word: defiance. www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

I'm Here At The New Beverly Cinema In Los Angeles Getting Ready To See The Classic Comedy Film From Universal Pictures Called 40 Pounds Of Trouble. #40PoundsOfTrouble #UniversalPictures #TonyCurtis #SuzannePleshette #Disneyland #Disneyland70 #D23 #VintageDisneyland #Disney

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

The Kabbalistic Tree of Baking Whereby divine Volume emanates to the lower vessels & is differentiated into units

Career milestone: Our performance tonight at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta will be my 2,000th live show!

Calling all job seekers in CA-44! #TeamBarragán is hosting our annual Jobs Fair on October 3rd where community members will have the chance to talk with employers and hear about job openings in the district.

Going back into the fog this Thursday! @knottsberryfarm.bsky.social #ScaryFarm

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Good boy Rusty helping me finish setting up a late-start class for tomorrow.

A pencil test by Glen Keane for Treasure Planet (2002), dir. Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Feature Animation

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Terror at 20,000 feet. #AirForceOne #StephenMiller #Spirit #TwilightZone #MAGA #Trump

Farm workers were harvesting vegetables in Arvin, CA. They told us it was 105° and they were still working when they sent us this photo. #WeFeedYou #CALOR

Take a moment to listen to David Blight, a Pulitzer-winning historian who knows something about the Civil War. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

I never knew I needed "Los Spooky Noches at Pilgrim World" till now. Tim Burton outdid himself.

Just a reminder that boycotting Disney parks and not buying their merch or going to their movies is even more effective than canceling streaming. Especially Disney parks.

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money! tough!!

@knottsberryfarm.bsky.social #ScaryFarm opens tonight! New Bloody Mary maze reveals Mary Worth is sister to...Sarah Marshall. 😈 www.ocregister.com/2025/09/17/k...

Congratulations to Oralia and Michele for being named the 2026-2027 Disneyland Resort Ambassadors

A bunch of the Lower Decks crew moved onto working on this project including several people from my Background Paint team, I hope you check it out on Netflix!

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

“The threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...