SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Johnson admits that he's received all necessary paperwork to swear in Grijalva, but is going to delay her swearing in for over 2 weeks www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Swiss microfluidic chip-cooling tech startup Corintis raised a $24M Series A, a source says at a $400M valuation, and announces adding Lip-Bu Tan to its board (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala expressed confusion and surprise at some points during the seven-minute court session when a federal grand jury impaneled in Alexandria, Virginia, returned the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey Thursday night."

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

No one with a normal sized penis would ever think of doing this

The Green Mountains of Vermont are beautiful this time of the year.

Nogales, AZ 95% Hispanic Presidential 2024: D+38 AZ-7 Special Election: D+70 32 Point Shift Left!

We have (many) votes counted from Arizona's special election: Adelita Grijalva, the Democrat, leads by a huge margin of 71% to 28%. That's with 75% of the vote reporting. Harris won the district 61/39. (This is the race to replace her father Raúl Grijalva.)

well that escalated quickly

Donald Trump and Melania get on an escalator at the UN and it immediately stops working 🤣

This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

Has anyone heard anything from Elon if he’s going “to war” about the H1B visa?

I know the day is early.. 8:22 AM PDT, but this could be the dumbest comment I will see today.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

> @apnews.com

The 218th signature needed for the Epstein discharge will come from a representative expected to win their seat on September 23rd. That's next week. If you were wondering why the temperature is so hot right now. www.politico.com/live-updates...

For those in Phoenix area, channel 7 on OTA is Nexstar

Jon Stewart will be hosting a special edition of The Daily Show tonight, Comedy Central says. He usually only hosts on Monday nights.

You’d think someone would say something. @wsj.com @jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/ins...

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While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

Take the pledge (easy to do since they have nothing worth watching) .. never, ever watch ABC or CBS. These companies have no value if very few people watch. Do not watch those who enable totalitarianism.

> @brianstelter.bsky.social

here's a direct link to canceling your Disney+ account. post your cancellations in the comments. www.disneyplus.com/commerce/acc...

Colbert-Kimmel 2028: You can’t shut us up

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

Fuck Brendan Carr Fuck the FCC Fuck Nexstar Fuck ABC Fuck Charlie Kirk Fuck Erica Kirk Fuck Turning Point Fuck JD Vance Fuck Stephen Miller And fuck that thin-skinned little bitch Donald Trump

“…The two sources familiar with the internal deliberations say that multiple ABC execs knew Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line. But it didn’t matter. The government was angry, and wanted another liberal scalp.”

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

A giant record "warm blob" of water in the North Pacific Ocean may change jet stream patterns this winter. The last time this happened was during the brutal winter of 2013-14. The Twin Cities had 53 subzero nights that winter. Can it happen again? #mnwx www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Some details from a Hyundai worker who was detained: - Forced to sign arrest warrants - Cells for 72 people with 4 toilets and 2 urinals, all exposed - Moldy bunk beds - Given spoiled water - Put in prison uniforms No wonder the Korean government is launching a human rights abuse investigation

RIP, Robert Redford.

Trump is getting trolled hard in the UK.

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

(THR) - Channel 4 is welcoming Donald Trump to the U.K. with a special program: an unbroken catalogue of over 100 falsehoods, distortions and inaccuracies he’s come up with since taking office in January. @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

Discovery on this would be incredible.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

South Korea to probe potential human rights abuses in US raid www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kari Lake's speech at the DC memorial for Kirk was wild because she obv. condemned the alleged murderer that killed the guy she literally knew for years but his dad was Republican so she went with "By all accounts those parents did a good job raising him until he was sent off to be brainwashed."

That is a surprise