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May the Middies be chewed to death by the Mouse.

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NEW • Domhnall Gleeson photographed for NBCUniversal’s Emmy Season celebration with Entertainment Weekly

Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) and Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) on stage on Halloween, October 31, 1985, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Now, I thought I'd wait until May 18, but I already had myself burned out from setting it aside and creating it at the last minute as May arrived, so I hope you admire this labor of love I made.

When I thought about following companies that released films for DreamWorks Animation post-DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures (via Viacom); 20th Century Studios (via News Corporation, then 21st Century Fox) and Universal Studios (via NBCUniversal), I realized one thing: they all had an iconic yellow character; that was the perfect idea for this occasion: pitting Shrek against irritating yellow characters of those companies.

Fittingly, SpongeBob, being the poster child of relentless annoyance, was first, with Patrick tagging along; they'd believe Shrek was Squidward or some other reason. They took from May 6 to 10 to finish.

Next were the Simpsons, consisting of Homer, Marge, and Bart; Bart may have made more than a few cracks towards Shrek, whatever resulted in Homer strangling him, while Marge looks on in dismay. They took from May 14 to 15 to finish.

What a cast! 🤩

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

A federal judge has dismissed former Republican California U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes’s defamation lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and NBCUniversal, ruling the network did not act with “actual malice” in reporting that Nunes refused to turn over a package from a sanctioned Russian agent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a 24-page opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel granted summary judgment to NBCUniversal, writing that “no reasonable jury could find that NBCU made the statement with constitutionally-defined actual malice.” Nunes, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and chief executive officer of his social media company, filed the lawsuit in 2021 after an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show aired a segment about a package addressed to Nunes from Ukrainian legislator Andrii Derkach. Derkach was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2020 for acting as a Russian agent and attempting to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

Maddow told viewers that Nunes “has refused to hand [the package] over to the FBI, which is what you should do if you get something from somebody who is sanctioned by the U.S. as a Russian agent,” relying on a news story by Politico. According to court documents, Nunes and members of his staff testified that the package was turned over to the FBI on the same day it was received. Nunes also sent a letter to then-Attorney General William Barr advising him of the package’s arrival. [...] Castel rejected Nunes’s arguments that Maddow and MSNBC distorted the Politico reporting and ignored other news stories that stated the package had been appropriately handled. According to the ruling, Maddow and Gnazzo said they were not aware of a follow-up article quoting a fellow Republican lawmaker saying the package had been turned over to the FBI. Nunes also argued that Maddow’s long history of criticizing him, identifying 36 episodes in which she discussed him by name, proved personal bias. But Castel wrote that “bare assertions of bias are insufficient” and found no evidence that the statement at issue was published with a “high degree of awareness of ... probable falsity.” “In context, Maddow’s reference to Nunes as an ‘easier hit’ refers to Maloney’s information that there was a package receipt for the delivery to Nunes from Derkach, which provided ready support for part of the claim,” Castel wrote, referencing Rep. Sean Maloney’s comments during a prior MSNBC interview.