It's burning down around the inflatable frogs & the chicken. No storefronts in a mostly residential area. 🙄🙄🙄

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

A Major New Constitutional Clash Erupts in Oregon talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Well, I guess rampant, toxic misogyny is good for ONE thing. 😒

History repeats.

Happy October! We’re shut down! The government shut down last night. No idea how long that might last.

Quick Links: Govt. Shutdown, trump’s Economy, Jimmy Kimmel, Tylenol The Rapture scheduled for yesterday appears to have been canceled. Which is good news for me. I have a busy day ahead and didn't really want to spend it kicking down random doors to rescue Raptured people's pets.

If that Rapture's gonna happen they better get after it. It's almost midnight here.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Kimmel’s coming back apnews.com/article/jimm...

Mood.

It would be DEEPLY funny if the rapture actually happens next week but we all get raptured & the folks wanting it are stuck here. (I'm not going unless I get to bring my dog.)

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

Did this freak actually come out to pyrotechnics and YMCA? At a funeral? He is such a fuckin weirdo.

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Quick Links: Vaccines & Kimmel A few links to stories about Jimmy Kimmel and vaccines.

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

All you need to know in Chicago is that Nexstar is WGN-TV Ch. 9, WGN-AM 720 and News Nation, while Sinclair is Marquee Sports Network. Do with that what you wish. Personally, I want to avoid supporting businesses that act this way.

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3k). People overall believe Jimmy Kimmel's comments were acceptable. Further, people found FCC Chair Brendan Carr's comments about planning to retaliate *unacceptable.* And overall, people strongly disapprove of canceling Kimmel's show today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

I'm rewatching @adamconover.net's Adam Ruins Everything & I just got to the S3 episode where they mention sell-by labels. Adam says drinking spoiled milk is safe because of pasteurization? That... can't be right? I've been barf-my-guts sick off spoiled milk.

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Good. They should be freaking out. It SHOULD spill over into theme parks and cruises. I don't have to spend these dollars on you, Disney+.

Y'know, I genuinely don't even understand what the point of having so much money IS if you're not using it to tell people to fuck off when they try to bully you or order you around. Like, Disney has so much money the mind boggles. But Carr lips off and they immediately bend over? Like, why?

Re: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, etc. This is fascism. This is the line in the sand. Pick your spot and stand. Cancel your services and tell them why you are. Call your reps. Go to the protests. Do what you can, where you can.

Cancelling all my streaming services, folks. Just absolutely done with this bullshit.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Bullshit. SUCH bullshit. First Colbert, now Kimmel - they're punishing people who dare speak truth to power.

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

People are talking past each other in a really ugly way about data sharing, and as someone who has both written terms of service for large-scale digital platforms, and built infrastructure for gathering data for campaigns, it's important to understand the context of threats people are speaking to…

Walmart has 'em in MI. Probably other pharmacies, too. Walked in, got my shots, no hassles.

Side note: I cannot begin to convey to you how much better you will feel if you simply get off the Internet/computer & go do something else with your time. Read a book. Go for a walk. Do the dishes. The Internet is rotting your brain.

JUST IN: All job sectors except healthcare are down. We are in a “no hire” economy. And unemployment for young people just hit 10%. - Bureau of Labor Statistics

What work? His hate speech? His misogyny? His gleeful calls for violence? I don't know who Newsom's talking about here, but it ain't Charlie Kirk. Kirk was just spreading hate & fomenting violence.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Great tips for if you watch the video (accidentally or if you have to, for some reason) of the Kirk shooting here. FYI - the video is apparently VERY BAD, so if you see links to it, PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk shot in Utah Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative youth group, got shot in Utah today.

TACO. Fight like hell, people.

My "kitchen table issue" is that I would like to not live in a fascist hellscape.

I am completely delighted with this statue.

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.

The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.

CW: Sexual assault Men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. We can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your state and local leaders to take concrete steps to stop Trump’s authoritarian crackdown: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...

There is no war in Ba Sing Se