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At least he didn’t overreact.

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Welp. President Catheter deployed 700 Marines to Los Angeles to … I don’t know, intimidate or enflame some protestors, maybe both? Things in Los Angeles are tense thanks to a series of ICE raids last week that targeted Home Depots and elementary school graduations. This led to thousands of protestors surrounding an ICE detention center. President Doinkus federalized the National Guard (which California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing him over), made veiled threats to arrest Newsom, and now has activated the military against people exercising their First Amendment rights.

It’s easy to believe that this is merely an attempt to distract us from his failing “Big Beautiful Bill,” his spat with Elon Musk (which led to the humiliating Epstein files allegation), his tariffs debacle, and his ever-falling poll numbers. And I don’t doubt that using this as a distraction is certainly a piece of his calculation here. But don’t forget, he’s been itching to do this strong man shit for years. Ever since the George Floyd protests in 2020, President Cosplay Dictator has been chomping at the bit to set the U.S. military on our civilians, and now there’s no one in the administration to stop him. He’s been HOPING for another protest, ideally in a Blue state where he could enflame the situation by sending in the military and then triumphantly showing his followers he crushed the “violent” liberal opposition. This is a chilling development and one that needn’t have ever happened.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

— Josh Zingher (@zingherpolisci.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T00:39:11.003Z

I hope the protestors do not overreact to this unnecessary military presence; I hope there are no instigators insinuating themselves within the protestors to enflame things further; and I hope this ends quietly and peacefully and with very few usable images for Fox News’ propaganda (although your grandma has already seen those Waymos burning on a neverending loop, so the damage is done). Until then, we all hold our breath, I suppose.

Meanwhile the fascists are gonna do fascist shit:

Oh, and OBVIOUSLY Dr. Phil was riding along with the ICE raids that started this entire shitshow last week. Of course he was.

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Eric Kripke swears he’s not trying to predict the future on The Boys, but we just keep catching up to him.

The season ends with Homelander essentially in charge of a country where martial law has been declared. Is this choice an attempt to stay ahead of reality, or is it a prediction of where we might be when season five starts?
I mean, we wrote all that before the election. We had, in hindsight, naïve hopes. Heading into the final, climactic season, it’s time to blow the doors off. It’s time to change the world. We kept threatening that Homelander is going to take over the country. It’s now or never. At the time, we were like, “Well, let’s make it a cautionary tale. Hopefully everyone will say, Whoo! We dodged that bullet.” And then we all got hit with the bullet. So we’ll see. I won’t spoil season five, but there’s a lot of stuff that we were writing in season five that has sort of already come to pass. People come up to me like, “Will you just please write a fucking happy ending?” And I’m like, “I don’t really have control over any of this.”

Viola Davis, Don Mischer, Ryan Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Mike Post, and Henry Winkler will be inducted into the TV Academy’s Hall of Fame, and these are great choices but HOW IS HENRY WINKLER NOT ALREADY IN THERE?

The BET Awards were last night: here are your winners.

Disney now entirely owns Hulu.

Nick Frost, who will be playing Hagrid in the upcoming Harry Potter series, addressed the whole JK Rowling of it all, saying, “She’s allowed her opinion and I’m allowed mine, they just don’t align in any way, shape or form.” He then elaborated when asked if the controversy regarding Rowling’s transphobia will overshadow the series: “I don’t know,” adding: “But maybe it shouldn’t blow over? We shouldn’t just hope it will go away, because it makes it easier. Maybe we should educate ourselves.” And that’s a good answer! But he’s also choosing to make more money for a virulent transphobe, so.

This article claims you’ll be “shocked” to learn Christopher Nolan’s favorite TV show, but anyone who actually watched The Curse all the way through will totally get it.

Ms. Rachel really doesn’t care that Olivia Munn won’t put her show on for her kids, and neither should y’all, honestly. 

Martin Scorsese had some directing notes while appearing on The Studio, but didn’t share them because he didn’t want to overstep, apparently forgetting that he is MARTIN FREAKING SCORSESE. Sir! Feel free to step in anytime!

This is just a very fun list of bad props, CGI, and other errors in TV shows and movies.

Cry me a river, Adam Brody. 

Jonathan Jackson explains why he’s leaving General Hospital: he and his family live in Tennessee, and the travel was too much to deal with. It’s almost like a reverse Lucky, if you think about it.

Days of Our Lives‘ emotional funeral for John Black, which is airing this week, was filmed while actor Drake Hogestyn was still alive, and with his blessing. He passed away the weekend after it was filmed.

#MeToo

Jared Leto has been accused of preying on at least 9 underage girls. He denies the allegations.  His behavior has been an open secret for literally decades. 

Alex Cooper has accused her college soccer coach of sexually harassing her. 

Sophia Bush hinted at suffering “every kind of abusive” treatment while on Chicago P.D. — without saying it explicitly.

Former Dallas Cowboy Greg Hardy has been accused of domestic violence by his girlfriend. 

Please do not stalk the biggest pop star in the world. 

Quick check in, as I’ve been out of the country for a week: have we dropped the Epstein files yet? No? Huh.

Brit Eady is suing Bravo over including that oral sex photo that Kenya Moore passed around on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and implying that it was her in it. And I gotta ask, where on EARTH were the Bravo lawyers on this one, because how are you going to allow that to make it on air?

Russell Simmons is suing Warner Bros. Discovery for the 2020 documentary, On the Record, which featured multiple women accusing the music executive of rape and sexual assault.

Last week, Blake Lively dropped the emotional distress claims in her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni because to move forward with them, she would have to turn over her medical records to Baldoni and his team. Baldoni’s team treated this as a HUGE WIN!!!!! for his side, suggesting she basically admitted she was a liar or somesuch. However, the bulk of her lawsuit against him for sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of It Ends With Us remains active and will go to trial in March.

In response to her lawsuit against him, Baldoni had filed his own lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, The New York Times, and Lively’s publicist, for $400 million for defamation, breach of contract, and business interference. However, a judge just threw out the defamation piece of his lawsuit, and he has until June 23 to amend the suit as a breach of contract and business interference case.

As you might imagine, Lively is very pleased with the decision:

“Like so many others, I’ve felt the pain of a retaliatory lawsuit, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us,” the actress and recent Time 100 honoree said on her Instagram Story Monday. “While the suit against me was defeated, so many don’t have the resources to fight back. “I’m more resolved than ever to continue to stand for every woman’s right to have a voice in protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity and their story.”

I have not been posting about Sean Combs while his trial has been inching along, and that’s deliberate. In large part, I feel like talking about it every week turns it into a drama, a soap opera, and minimizes what sounds like a horrific universe of violent physical and emotional abuse that lasted for years (decades?). Pajiba does a great job here of explaining the “contentification” of the case, and how it contributes to a culture of victim blaming, which we saw in the Amber Heard case, the Megan Thee Stallion case, and which we are watching happen in real time in the Blake Lively case. I will return to the story once there is a verdict, and not before then. Just in case you were wondering.

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