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Morning news roundup and things to read!
Good morning, good morning! We’re still alive she said! And we deserve to be!
What’s fascism? Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly had a definition (“Trump,” basically) and Bill Kristol agrees. JD Vance can goooooo fuuuuuuuuuck. (The Bulwark)
The Charlie Kirk Rules of Free Speech. Wow was that guy an asshole! (Also The Bulwark)
Get your Disney/Hulu cancellation shoes on, and start annoying their advertisers too! (Christopher Armitage)
Look, everyone, JD Vance found the “Marco Rubio does all the jobs” joke! Congratulations JD Vance!
Well here’s the start of a list of Epstein Files clients, sure sounds like, from Julie K. Brown, the reporter who brought Epstein to the forefront back in Trump I, and her colleagues. (Gift link Miami Herald)
Trump judge says Trump administration and Kristi Noem are big liars who lie, and they may not deport the Guatemalan children. Go Trump judge! (Opinion)
“Why do we hire dipshits? It’s simple. After the 2016 election, we got yelled at a lot by right-wingers. How could you report such negative stories about Trump by printing the words he says? Why don’t 100 percent of your stories talk about Hillary Clinton’s emails, rather than just the ones on the front page? They had a point. So, despite the fact that throughout the last year, the right has decided they hate everything from Keurig to the NFL, we have decided to do the journalistically correct thing and capitulate entirely.” (McSweeney’s)
Why does John Roberts hate precedent and the Supreme Court? (The New Republic)
Don’t you want your refrigerator to blare ads at you? Of course you do! That’s why Samsung says it’s ads-everywhere “pilot program” is “strengthening the value” of owning their fridge. (The Verge)
Please don’t use the chatGPTs for your marital counseling, I mean! (Futurist)
If these American servicemembers keep refusing to stop being Black, we will just have to fire them. (Navy Times)
This week’s Saturday Night Movie Club! ZiggyWiggy was originally going to do Moonstruck but after Robert Redford died, they’ve decided to switch to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Join them tomorrow (Saturday) at 8 p.m. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is available for free on the Internet Archive. $3.99 in the usual places.
Come to My Mallory McMorrow fundraiser, or I will have so many uneaten foods and a bartender serving SIX PEOPLE drinks! McMorrow is Cool, and we Like her, and we desperately need Democrats in the Senate who get that HELLO, EMERGENCY. Join us at my Detroit home, Sun., Sept. 21, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. even if you’re not in Michigan (you can hang out with us on Zoom!); here’s where you can buy tickets! Hooray!
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In another episode of seen outside of ziggy's window, last evening I hear a car crash, I went on the balcony to check it out, it was a rear-ender. The woman in the back car had been going fast enough to crumple her hood and she was injured. The guy she hit was being really cool, helped her to the curb to sit down. Couple others started to help but no one thought to put the car in park, it started rolling backwards because they're on a hill. The guy that had been hit starts chasing it, saying "oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" the whole way as it was headed for either the bus stop or a busy intersection. So I was saying oh shit too. But he was quick and was able to jump in and hit the brakes. (It miraculously missed an entire line of cars that had backed up behind the crash.) I applauded his efforts. Then a whole bunch of emergency people showed up, lady went away in an ambulance, fire department put stuff around the leaking car and the guy chatted with a bunch of cops and waited for a tow truck. And that's rush hour in Cleveland Heights.