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Rumi, checking her emails: Bills, fanmail, bills, stupid ad deals, something that probably should have gone to Bobby, fanmail... oh huh. Someone is asking if they can make a parody of one or more of our songs.

Mira: People already do that, don't they? We encourage it.

Rumi: Yeah, but this guy's asking anyway.

Mira: Huh. That's considerate of them. Who is it?

Rumi: Some parody artist named Alfred Yankovic.

Mira: Oh, I think I've heard of him, isn't he kind of a big deal in the states-

Zoey, kicking open the door: YES YES YES TELL HIM YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES A MILLION TIMES YES LET HIM DO WHATEVER HE WANTS WITH OUR MUSIC

Mira: Definitely a big deal.

Zoey: ASK HIM IF HE'S DOING A POLKA MEDLEY PLEASE I NEED TO HEAR GOLDEN ON THE ACCORDION THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE OH MY GOSH DO YOU THINK HE'LL LET ME CAMEO IN THE MUSIC VIDEO-

Rumi: So... we tell him yes?

Mira: We tell him yes.

I started this project back in January and for most of a year, every week, I came up with the highlights of what the Biden-Harris Administration did. I did it because it felt to me our media and national conversion was broken, our government was doing huge things that it felt like almost no one knew about. It's amazing how often I struggled to find a single news source that wanted to cover a huge life changing project.

This is the last Friday before Election Day, and if you haven't already voted, take a minute to go back and look at the last 40 weeks, and decide, do you like these things or want literally the reverse on every issue.

Week 1 January 19th

Week 2 January 26th

Week 3 February 2nd

Week 4 February 9th

Week 5 February 16th

Week 6 February 23rd

Week 7 March 1st

Week 8 March 8th

Week 9 March 15th

Week 10 March 22nd

Week 11 March 29th

Week 12 April 5th

Week 13 April 12th

Week 14 April 19th

Week 15 April 26th

Week 16 May 3rd

Week 17 May 10th

Week 18 May 18th

Week 19 May 24th

Week 20 May 31st

Week 21 June 7th

Week 22 June 14th

Week 23 June 21st

Week 24 June 28th

Week 25 July 5th

Week 26 July 12th

Week 27 July 19th

Week 28 July 26th

Week 29 August 2nd

Week 30 August 9th

Week 31 August 16th

Week 32 August 30th

Week 33 September 6th

Week 34 September 13th

Week 35 September 20th

Week 36 September 27th

Week 37 October 4th

Week 38 October 11th

Week 39 October 18th

Week 40 October 25th

Feel free to reblog this or go back and reblog a favorite, one that impacts your life or the one from the week of your birthday, whatever.

Cold hot chocolate aka chocolate milk

Cold coffee

Behold concerned Brit

Death Star Stormtroopers: “Freeze!”

Han: (panicking, trying to come up with a lie): Woah there don’t shoot, uh, you can’t shoot us because—because this guy is Darth Vader’s son! You don’t want to be responsible for shooting Darth Vader’s own flesh and bone do you?”

Luke: *glares incredulously*

Stormtroopers: “That is the dumbest thing—”

Leia: (done at this point, absolutely done with this rescue, better than Han at lying) “Exactly! Why would we tell you something so phenomenally insane if it weren’t true! Why do you think Darth Vader is so obsessed with finding Rebels, huh? Call him he’ll tell you!”

Luke: (also done, much better than Han at lying): “Or you could just shoot us; I’m sure my father, Darth Vader, inventor of the lightsaber, would be thrilled to meet the men who killed his son and his son’s friends.” *waves lightsaber arrogantly*

Stormtrooper 1: “Maybe we should call this in. I mean—he’s got a lightsaber, so that’s—that’s Vader stuff anyway.”

Stormtrooper 2: “are you kidding me right now?”

Leia: *shoots them while they’re distracted*

Han: “…We’re friends?”

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Tarkin: “The rebels said what? You incompetent fool, how could you buy such an absurd stalling—”

Vader: “My…son…”

Tarkin:

Darth Vader: This is Darth Vader—I am in command of this space station—hand over my son or I will destroy your miserable Rebel base personally.

Room Full of Miscellaneous Rebels:

Mon Mothma: “…Does anyone have something they want to tell me?”

Leia:

Luke: 

Han: [in a whisper] “Stop looking at me like that!”

Mothma: “Captain Solo? Did you have…something to share with the room?”

Luke: “I think I’m going to be sick”

Han: “Uh, no your uh Senatorship. I’m done saying words. Forever.”

Leia: “Now that’s an even more moronically bold-faced lie than earlier!”

Han: “Well excuse me, princess, it worked didn’t?”

Luke: [slightly hysterical] “Yeah, it worked, and now Darth Vader thinks I’m his son!”

Han: “How was I supposed to know the man actually did have a long lost child?! How was anyone supposed to have guessed that?”

Chewie: “HhHHURR!”

Han: “Oh you stay out of this, I didn’t see you coming up with clever suggestions before.”

Luke: [fully hysterical] “Darth Vader KILLED my father, I can’t believe I even went along with the lie—what would Ben think of me—”

Leia: “No Luke, don’t do that yourself—this is Han’s fault”

Han: “I saved all our lives! You wanted to go into a trash compactor!” 

Leia: “Because you wandered onto the Death Star with no plan!”

Luke: [curling into a ball] “I just wanted to be a pilot…”

Room Full of Miscellaneous Rebels:

Mothma: 

Leia: “I—what?”

Luke: “Yeah but he didn’t say in front of stormtroopers! On the Death Star!”

Mothma: “I’m sorry when you say old man—who exactly are you referring to?”

Luke: (miserable) “It was a stupid joke that Ben—I mean Obi-Wan—made. My aunt and uncle had just—he was trying to take my mind off things but man, he really was insistent about it. 

Han: “Kept repeating it. I don’t think he really got jokes, you know.”

Luke: “I mean, he was a hermit. For like, twenty years.”

Leia: “…So Obi-Wan Kenobi, told you, Luke, that your father was Darth Vader? Repeatedly? And you just. Didn’t believe him. And Vader does.”

Luke: “I—oh. Oh. But…Anakin Skywalker is my father! Ben ALSO said Vader betrayed and murdered him!”

Han: (placing a hand on Luke’s shoulder) “You know, you do, uh. Kind-of have to be close to someone to betray them.”

Luke: “…No. It—it can’t be true. It’s impossible!”

Mothma: Remembering Padme making snarky comments about Ventress (an extremely tall, powerful Sith/Military Leader who dropped out of the public sphere towards the end of the war) and how she couldn’t seem to keep her hands off Obi-Wan or Anakin, not that it was any of Padme’s business. 

Mothma: “Did…did General Kenobi mention anything about your mother?”

Luke: “No…my aunt and uncle didn’t know who she was, either. He—he didn’t visit Tatooine much, but at my grandmother’s funeral he brought a, um, well they described her as “a fancy woman who looked like she didn’t get a lot of sun. But. That could really describe anyone, considering they were moisture farmers. Do you think—you think Vader might be…”

Ackbar: (also remembering Ventress) “…has anyone ever asked Darth Vader his—her—their—preferred pronouns?”

Leia: 

Misc Rebel Leaders:

Chewbacca: 

Luke: “ …No?”  

Darth Vader: “No. I am your Father. Join me and together we shall—”

Luke: “I will never join you, Father. You killed Ben, and my other father! I’d rather die!”  

Darth Vader: “…Your mother’s death was—a tragedy—the true blame for which rests at the feet of Kenobi.”  

Luke: “I—okay I’m still mad about the murders, obviously. But I don’t want to keep dead naming or misgendering my parental figures, so before you kill me—because you’ll have to kill me, because I’m not joining you—what name did my mother choose for herself? And also what pronouns did Ben prefer?  

Darth Vader: (shattering the floor in rage and confusion): He never told you the name of your MOTHER?!?!  

Luke: “I agree that was…uncool of him. Still not an excuse for murder.”  

Han:“I’m trying to respect family boundaries, but I have SO many questions.”  

Stormtrooper holding Han: “Same.”

Leia: “Yeah, those two are not having the same conversation.”  

Stormtrooper holding Leia: “Well, I think it’s great that Vader’s son is being so supportive of his parents identities.”

Leia: “I just can’t believe Obi-Wan Kenobi would be a homophobe—I feel like we’ve made an incorrect assumption somewhere. Maybe Vader wasn’t Ventress?”

Stormtrooper holding Han: “Well, you might as well ask—we’re definitely all going to be killed for overhearing this much.”

Han: “Alternate suggestion—if we sneak away while they’re shouting at each other, maybe we won’t die? The rebels are actually pretty soft on empire deserters.”

Stormtrooper holding Leia: “Shut up, I can’t hear!”

Vader: “…I did…destroy Anakin Skywalker. He was weak and I…replaced him.”

Luke: (confused and hysterical) “You kidnapped me? From Anakin and Padme? And then Ben kidnapped me back? Are you insane? That doesn’t make me your son! Not that it matters anyway!”

Vader: “You are my son—reach out to the force, you know it to be true!”

Luke: “Oh gods—you—my mother—did you…you monster!”

Vader: (angry and frustrated) “I feel like you are deliberately misunderstanding me now. We were married. Your mother chose me.”

Luke: (frustrated and angry) “You said she chose Anakin Skywalker!”

Vader: “Yes. Both Anakin Skywalker and Padme Nabariee made their own choices.”

Han: “Oh PLOT TWIST.”

Stormtrooper holding Han: “Wait, you followed that?”

Luke: “Just to be clear—no-one is, or was, trans? And what’s your name? Or is it just Darth? Is Darth a name?”

Leia: “HOW DID OBI-WAN KENOBI AND MY PARENTS FIT INTO YOUR POLYCULE?!”

Leia: “Maybe…hear me out—maybe it’s a cloning thing?”

Luke: “You think I’m some kind of…hybrid clone of Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, and, uh—”

Stormtrooper A: “Ohdeargods.”

Leia: “Padmé Amidala Naberrie. She’s a legend. If you really do share some of her DNA—though I’m still not completely convinced Vader wasn’t lying about all or some of what he said—

Stormtrooper previously holding Leia, henceforth known as ‘Stormtrooper B’ or ‘Carl’: “Vader doesn’t really lie. He’s actually really blunt about things. Usually. I think he was pretty off today…what with the whole long lost son thing.”

Luke: “He was telling the truth, whatever the truth is. I could feel his anger…so much anger. I think—I think I might really be his son. Maybe…could Vader be Padme? Would that work?”

Stormtrooper A: “Oh gods. I—What did I DO?”

Han: (awkwardly patting Stormtrooper A on the back) “Relax kid, you done good.”

Carl: “Man, I even bet on him being human—half the guys thought he was some kindof droid. Guess they’re all dead now. So. Doesn’t really…matter.”

Leia: “I’d say I’m sorry but considering I lost my entire planet earlier today it would be a bit insincere. And Senator Amidala would never become a fascist. I still can’t believe she was willingly involved with one.”

Trooper A: “Darth Vader—he was just—and I—”

Carl: “…Let’s talk about Luke’s corellian holodrama parantage again, huh? I feel like that was a safer topic. What if Vader used to be Anakin Skywalker? ‘Killed a weaker version of myself’ sounds like the sort of thing a guy like that would say.”

Trooper A: “I’m going to die. We’re all going to—”

Han: “ENOUGH ALREADY! You hit Darth Vader in the back of the head! We get it! You wanted to live! We all wanted to live! Rebels will probably give you a medal! But news flash—this ship is too small for four people and if you don’t shut up, I will space you.”

Leia: “Can you not yell in my ear?”

Han: “Oh, excuse me your highness, I’ll just move to the other side of this one-seater tie-fighter. Oh—wait!”

Luke: “No, my father was a Jedi. Ben would have said if Anakin fell to the darkside—if he became Darth Vader. Hells, Vader would have said that!”

Carl: “If you say so. Neither of them seem like very clear communicators when it comes to this, if I’m being brutally honest.”

Leia: “Maybe we can talk with Mothma, figure it out logically. The movements of clone wars generals and Senators were both matters of public record. What’s your exact birthday?”

Luke: “Empire Day. The actual day it started, 19 years ago.” 

Leia: “Huh. That’s…an interesting coincidence.”

Luke: “Yeah. I guess.”

Leia: “No I mean—that’s my birthday.”

Han: (sarcastically) “Maybe you’re long lost twins!”

Leia: “I—I am actually adopted.”

https://meidasnews.com/news/republican-mayor-of-3rd-largest-city-in-az-endorses-harris

John Giles, the Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, wrote an OpEd today for the Arizona Republic stating the reasons why he is endorsing Kamala Harris for President. Mesa is the 3rd largest city in Arizona, and the Arizona Republic is the largest newspaper by circulation in the crucial battleground state. 

Giles listed the following reasons why he can't support Donald Trump: 1. He refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, and continues to do so. 2. He continues to trash the American legal system to delegitimize it. 3. He orchestrated the "fake elector" scheme in Arizona. 4. He orchestrated the sham "audit" of the election by the Arizona Senate and Cyber Ninjas. 5. He blocked the bipartisan border bill negotiated in the Senate. 6. He treated Infrastructure Week like a joke when cities like his badly needed it.

7. He is a convicted felon and threat to the nation. 8. He has threatened to abandoned NATO. 9. He has eroded public confidence in our institutions. 10. His advisors and associates drafted Project 2025, which is a threat to our freedoms. 11. He is crude and vulgar. Giles then listed the reasons why he isn't just anti-Trump, he is also pro-Harris: 1. The Administration delivered on their promise with infrastructure funding for the Phoenix-Mesa Airport, and made technological investments in the transportation sector. 2. Thousands of new jobs are being created in Arizona with the CHIPS Act. 3. She has taken a strong stand against gun violence. 4. She has taken a strong stand for women's rights which are under assault from MAGA Republicans.

Giles then concluded with the following: "We can choose a future for our children and grandchildren based on decency, respect and morality — or succumb to the crudeness and vulgarity of Trump and J.D. Vance and the far-right agenda they would champion.

Arizona leaders like McCain and Sen. Mark Kelly have embodied the commitment to country over party. And it’s that same high caliber of character and leadership I see in Vice President Harris.

That’s why I’m standing with her. Kamala Harris is the competent, just and fair leader our country deserves. This year too much is at stake to vote Republican at the top of the ticket.

It will take Arizona Republicans, independents and Democrats standing together against a far-right agenda. Let us put country over party by voting to stop Trump and protect our democracy."

Powerful stuff. 

Winning back Arizona is crucial for Donald Trump. It is difficult to see any electoral path to victory for Trump without Arizona. He has continued to support candidates in that state like Kari Lake and Blake Masters who are toxic to moderate voters. He continues to attack the McCain family, who remain popular with those same moderate Arizona voters.