Wizard Ben

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Taking this into consideration, it would be a slasher film.

The spirit of the one true saint nick that always sort of happens to be in these Hallmark movies fills the body of a disgruntled mall Santa in the quaint Holliday town. He has been given a divine santa mission. These corporate business lesbians must fall in love with plaid wearing Christmas tree veterinarian charity worker men... Or die.

The women are sent man after man, and with each failed introduction and seduction the men are executed in final destination type ways by the mall santa for failing. Each man, of course, takes the bullet *for* the woman they've been sent after because they're 100% the Hallmark romance man trope. But these men are also being snatched out of their normal lives to do this and so many people blame the women for their deaths.

consideration, it would

be a slasher film.

At one point she goes "ok, but hold on - if he didnt do it then why did he confess?" She was FLOORED when I told her that he hadn't. That he has maintained his innocence since the start.

And this is my mother, who is usually across this kind of thing. She had no idea about the missing bodycam footage that happens to align with the time they took his backpack out of sight before bringing it back and opening it for the """"""first""""" time and finding the supposed evidence inside.

She straight up thought that HE was the one who called himself in. Thought he'd gone to Macca's for a last burger then called the cops on himself and confessed. When she learned that wasnt true, she was SHOCKED.

Keep talking to people about this. Keep reiterating that they havent found him guilty of anything yet, and that they've breached his rights in several different ways since arresting him, and that he and the UHC shooter are almost certainly different people.

More interestingly, to me at least, is that in the 1960s and 70s he was a great radical political cartoonist, and sadly, many cartoons of those days are still just as relevant today. A small selection:

An investigation into the etymology of “meh” discovered that it may have Yiddish origins, but the first use of “meh” as a word expressing indifference came from a July 9, 1992 Usenet post complaining about Melrose Place. John Swartzwelder was credited with first introducing “meh” into a Simpsons script, and when reached for comment, he claimed he heard it from an advertising writer who said it was the funniest word in the world—in the early ‘70s. No matter its origins, The Simpsons was responsible for making it one of the 20 words that defined the 2000s, according to BBC News online. [x]

Thank you so much Reno @kamenridergaysex for this adorable art of the Decade Gang! ☺️

Documenting the Damage: 100 Harmful Policies from the First 100 Days of Trump's Second Term

The second Trump administration has had the busiest first 100 days of any US presidency in nearly a century. Since January, I've been keeping a spreadsheet documenting 900+ policy changes and political developments. I then bundled many of the most important changes into 100 topics areas and wrote a summary of each of them, providing a semi-comprehensive account of the tremendous changes to US politics which have occurred.

PDF version of the full report

Website version of the full report

Medium versions:

Introduction + Part I: Democracy and Government

Part II: Civil Rights and Liberties

Part III: Economy and Public Services 

Part IV: Environment and Energy

It's completely free, brilliantly made, and I am incredulous that it had been so narrowly shared on Tumblr.

I am in awe of what Brett has done here. Please click through and read at least some of this because I think people are really missing out on what an incredible tool this is.

There are a ton of things to panic about, to take immediate action about, to be outraged about - you shouldn't feel guilty about missing an HHS rule change while you're protesting ICE or having your gender erased - but part of why this document is so impressive is that it DID keep track of those changes and rollbacks that are blips in the news cycle, and it did so pretty much in real time. The fact that it was completed so soon after the first 100 days is staggering, and it's so incredibly useful to have this as a reference NOW instead of as a retrospective five years after the fact.

Really. Seriously. This is so fantastic. Please take a look at it.