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Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 12h

Boy, that cartoon is right on the money

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 13h

Great question. TBH, they already “spent” Humpy’s first win at, amazingly, the perfect time. After this it really doesn’t matter. But I would like to know how long they’ve been planning for him to win at a critical moment.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 14h

It’s all too much.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 15h

Wish more people would say this. From the start it’s been a gag to make “Antifa” seem organized and scary.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, please.

Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 1d

SCRAP THE CAP
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Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, for Pete’s sakes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and about how the M's staff must have been long-gaming it, saving his first win for a special moment, and decided to spend it in the 15th inning last night. It's all too much.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

So here's to Diane Keaton, who did tons of good movies and made me feel better when I made a blunder at a charity gala many years ago.

#dianekeaton #rip

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

So then I felt a whole lot better. God bless her! Later that evening I served dinner plates to Garry Shandling and Robin Williams, without spilling anything, and then Bob Saget did a cheerful and remarkably dirty comedy routine for the gathered crowd.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

As I was coming to grips with that, she smiled at me, the bemused Diane Keaton smile. She'd seen the whole thing. I remember raising my eyebrows, like "I can't believe that just happened", and she said sympathetically, "I know, I know!"

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

Finally his embarrassed girlfriend dragged him away. I felt terrible. Half-empty tray finally back in hand, I turned -- and found myself face to face with Diane Keaton. You couldn't mistake her, of course, that famous face.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

...the awful stereotype of a raging Hollywood agent that we've all seen. I picked up the flutes and tried to make it right -- I remember, absurdly, offering to pay to dry-clean the suit -- but he just wouldn't let it go. He kept screaming at me in the midst of this packed charity crowd.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

He and his girlfriend had been talking with a small circle of people, and the champagne went right down the side of his very nice suit coat. I apologized profusely, of course. But he was having none of it. He was livid. He cursed me, called me an idiot and a loser, and generally behaved like...

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

During cocktail hour I was carrying a tray of full champagne flutes in the crowded glass hotel lobby and -- horrors -- tipped over three of them, right onto the expensive suit of a young studio exec or agent. He was about my age, early 30s.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

So here's my Diane Keaton story:

30 years ago I volunteered to wait tables at a charity gala in Santa Monica led by comedian Bob Saget. It was a big fundraiser for scleroderma, a terrible disease that his own sister had died of. A lot of his fellow comedians and stars turned out.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 1d

Miss him on the Guardians, but happy to see him thriving in SEA

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 2d

"Literally built by game designers" -- unlike so many other games.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 2d

23% of quizzers get this question wrong; can you get it right? Find out at week's news quiz from @us.theconversation.com U.S. and yours truly:

theconversation.com/the-conversa...

Quiz question about who Donald Trump has chosen, in his 20-point peace plan, to work on his proposed "Board of Peace" to govern Gaza. Choices are wrestler John Cena, former UK PM Tony Blair, the late Henry Kissinger, or "all of the above."

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 3d

It seems odd that the Browns would get rid of Flacco (rusty as he is) for as little as a 6-5 swap. Any insights on why it made sense to them?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 3d

Alternate-universe name for the nerd in Archie comics.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 4d

Dude who handed Bush/Cheney the 2000 election, then voted to trash voting rights and campaign finance laws, tut-tuts about overreach by any one branch of the government and decries “vulgarity” in public life. All as he flogs his big-bucks memoir. How awful.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Justice Kennedy, Off the Bench but Still Rendering Opinions

www.nytimes.com

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 4d

Heh.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 4d

who should the NFL choose for its halftime show: Bad Bunny, who sold out basically every major arena in the country last year, or Lee Greenwood, whose current tour features the following dates

leegreenwood.com
Fri, OCT 17
Niswonger Performing Arts Center of
Northwest Ohio
Van Wert, OH
Sat, OCT 18
Ohio Star Theater at Dutch Valley
Sugarcreek, OH
Fri, OCT 24
Rayne Drop Inn Il
Marion Center, PA
Sat, OCT 25
State Theatre Center For the Arts
Uniontown, PA

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 4d

Harming the weakest and most vulnerable: the Trump touch. In a just world he, Musk, and the DOGE team would be tried for murder.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.social · 4d

Sherpas now using colorful toddler walking ropes to lead large groups up Mount Everest.