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As predicted, Elsbeth Tascioni's (Carrie Preston) eccentric quirks wore thin in the show's second season. This week's season three premiere proved that the ability to score top-notch guest stars remains the show's greatest asset. Stephen Colbert starred as a more... Read more...

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 1d

Elsbeth is back! I wrote about the premiere here:

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 1d

'Strangers With Candy' Reunion Ends Tragically on 'Elsbeth' Season Premiere

Bohemian Rhapsody on Chickens

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

It's Spirit Halloween season. They usually have some inflatable costumes.

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Friday!
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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

🤣🤣🤣 I took a date to see Cronenberg's Crash & that's the only thing I can think of that's less romantic 🤣🤣🤣

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

Bring Her Back (HBO) is truly the most "what the hell did I just watch" movie I've seen in a while. Bloody and tense with a CW for violence against children. A solid performance by newbie Sora Wong.

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

No. Hegseth never said "base," he said "facility," and it already exists.

Ruth Ware is giving Harlan Coben a run for his money on Netflix. The Woman In Cabin 10, which made Dustin's list of best books this summer, premieres today, October 10th, on the streaming service. The film stars Keira Knightley,... Read more...

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

Trailers! Trailers! Trailers!

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 4d

Three Trailers: Ruth Ware and Kathryn Bigelow’s New Projects and at Least Holt McCallany Is Working

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

It doesn't actually sound like we're building ANYTHING just allowing them to continue using our facilities for training, which happens a lot to my understanding. So maybe Hegseth doesn't know WTF he's talking about?

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 4d

So this is a deal Biden made in 2022?

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 6d

US Gov: Well, we fucked this all up. Let's fuck it up even worse, that should fix it. Right?

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 7d

My 14 yo really wants this $210 pair of jeans. I told him he & his friends should chip in, buy them together & take turns wearing them. "You can be the brotherhood of the smiling pants."
He did not appreciate the reference.
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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 8d

You always know

The good news about Monster: The Ed Gein Story is that Ryan Murphy barely had anything to do with the writing and directing of it. Max Winkler (son of Fonzi) keeps the story on track for the most part, and... Read more...

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 8d

Hey. I wrote this about Netflix' new season of Monster. Check it out, even if you're not going to watch the show.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 8d

Netflix’s ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Forgives the Unforgivable

The trailer for Deathstalker made me question what year it is. Director Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman) doesn't seem to have strayed very far from Roger Corman's aesthetic in the 1983 original. And the star, Swiss actor Daniel Bernhardt, bears a... Read more...

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 11d

Friday trailers!

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 11d

Mads Fights Monsters and an ’80s Fantasy Classic Gets Remade in This Week’s Three Trailers

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 11d

Fire all of them. Primary every single one. If now is not the time to be "alarmist" when is?!
Feckless, lazy & power hungry.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

“I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be ‘alarmist’…”

Well, that explains a lot.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

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Almost 90 years ago, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a congressional body that investigated alleged disloyalty and a wide array of activities deemed "subversive," was formed under the guise of rooting out the red scourge of communism in the... Read more...

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 12d

Last night I spent some time reading about the HUAC & how Jane Fonda is never afraid to follow in her father's activist footsteps. Give it a read.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 12d

Jane Fonda Revives Hollywood’s Committee for the First Amendment

Dr. Jane Goodall, legendary animal rights advocate, dies at 91

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 13d

😭😭😭😭

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13d

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wednesday statement.

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 13d

Frankenstein is here in all of its Gothic glory. Check out the trailer below.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 13d

Trailer Watch: Spooky Season Officially Begins With Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein'

As we do with so many of del Toro's projects, we've been talking about Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for a long time. The anticipation is part of the fandom! With the same eye for bold, luxurious... Read more...

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 15d

Is it bad for SecDef to record himself telling our troops to commit war crimes? Let's turn to The Hague to find out...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 15d

Something to put in the W column!

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 15d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 16d

There have been at least 324 mass shootings – defined as when at least four people are shot, not including the shooter – in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
We're 271 days into the year.

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JenVegasInNY @jenvegasinny.bsky.social · 16d

Jeffries' gotta gooooooooooo