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Nearly three years ago (I tried to look up the exact date but no luck), @Schneider_CM first pitched me on co-hosting a comprehensive Saturday Night Live podcast to coincide with the show's 50th anniversary. Today that series launches.
Scot Bertram
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Scot Bertram
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- Detroit Free Press Sunday edition prints the lie that Jacob Blake was killed by police.
- The sitting President calling half the country "garbage" would seem to demand more extensive media coverage than a rando comedian's bad joke but check back four days from now and I guess we'll see.Pres. Biden tonight: “Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
- It's not a "Trump administration effort." It's the law. Debated and passed in both chambers of Congress and signed by the President. A judge is now ordering that public monies be spent after the Congress of the United States specifically passed a law declining to spend them.Judge blocks Trump administration's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood detroitnews.com/story/news/nat…
- This is 100% a fake letter. Right? Right? chicagotribune.com/advice/ask-amy…
- This is total garbage. A complete lie. The seed/garden ban was in effect well into April. In fact, the order wasn't even *issued* until early April. This is also known as "planting season."MICHIGAN GOV. WHITMER ON COVID LOCKDOWNS: "We had to make some decisions that in retrospect don't make a lot of sense, right? [...] We didn't want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. [...] It was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway..."
00:00Readers added contextOn Mar 23, 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued MI's 1st stay-at-home order banning non-essential in-person work. On Apr 9, 2020, she extended the order, closing garden centers & nurseries at stores. Sources: clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/… and michiganradio.org/health/2020-04… - AMC is breaking into its showing of POLICE ACADEMY to have two talking heads shame the film's joke writers, 38 years after the fact, for not living up to 2022 standards on race, gender, and sexuality. Hey, enjoy the movie!
- New poll has Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson with a 6.6% favorability mark and 80% unfavorable. politico.com/f/?id=00000195…
- Colbert has at least two dozen highly-paid writers and the best they can come up with is endlessly screaming "F**k you!" into the void.VIDEO - Colbert Slams RFK Jr. For Cutting $500M from Vaccine Development: ‘F*ck You, You Roid-Addled Nepo-Carny’ grabien.com/story?id=539722
- She has issued 168 executive orders this year, bypassing the Michigan House and Senate.
