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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • The strategy of prominent Republicans flipping to vote for Harris is specifically designed to help Republicans win Congress.

    If Republican voters are demoralized by the prospect of Trump, a lot are going to just stay home and not vote at all. That would lead to a Democratic electoral sweep.

    Cheney and other Republican ghouls’ best option to avoid this is to give permission to their voting base to toss their Presidential vote to Harris, but also get them into the polls so they can be reliable Republican voters down the ticket and try to keep the House and take the Senate.

    FFS, quit giving the enemy oxygen.





  • The nominees were:

    • “X-Men ’97” (Disney+)
    • “The Simpsons” (Fox)
    • “Blue Eye Samurai” (Netflix)
    • “Bob’s Burgers” (Fox)
    • “Scavengers Reign” (HBO)

    From my outsider’s perspective, this was a battle between Blue Eye Samurai and Scavengers Reign, with Netflix willing to put the weakest promo campaign behind Blue Eye Samurai winning out over HBO letting the superior Scavengers Reign utterly hang out to dry (after giving the series screening rights up to Netflix after all).

    Joseph Bennett, Charles Huettner: Keep making great shit. You have fans. Crowd-fund if you have to. People are here for what you’re serving.













  • I have to say that I’m really skeptical of what I’m seeing here.

    The trailer seems to be painting a narrative of a trans person having a road trip with their movie star friend (and a film crew) and learn that the American heartland isn’t as awful as they’d feared and that all her shit is internalized (see: “I’m not really afraid of these people … I’m afraid of hating myself.”). I really hope there’s more to it than that.

    I’m midwestern and trans. I know so so so many people who would be pleasant and congenial to my face, then turn right around and vote to take away my health care and civil rights without a second thought (or even imagining that they were being two-faced).

    I really hope this trailer is a bait-and-switch; something to get trans-skeptical folks in the door under the guise of reinforcing notions they already had, then pulling the rug out with a more nuanced story.