#fox.com/house

[grayheartart]

Democrat Lies: Media Shrugs and Stays Silent After Perpetuating "Russia Disinformation" Hoax for Years.

..."In 2020, CBS News’ Lesley Stahl literally laughed mockingly at then-President Donald Trump when he raised the Hunter Biden laptop and what it revealed about the Bidens."... ..."former Chief of Staff at the CIA and Department of Defense Jeremy Bash, who told MSNBC that the laptop “looked like Russian intelligence” and “walked like Russian intelligence.” He dismissed the relevance of the laptop before the election by declaring that “this effort by Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post and Steve Bannon to cook up supposed dirt on Joe Biden looks like a classic, Russian playbook disinformation campaign.” Bash, like others behind the conspiracy theory, was later given an intelligence position by Biden."... ..."CNN’s Alex Marquardt told viewers, “We do know it is a very active Russian campaign.”...

..."the Washington Post has continued to suggest that this reporting was accurate. One of the leading purveyors of this false story was the Post’s Philip Bump, who slammed the New York Post for its now proven Hunter Biden laptop story."...

..."In 2021, when media organizations were finally admitting that the laptop was authentic, Bump was still declaring that it was a “conspiracy theory.” Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bump continued to suggest that “the laptop was seeded by Russian intelligence.”... ..."Former CIA Director John Brennan, one of the 50 who signed the letter, also claimed that the laptop bore “the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.”... ..."James Clapper, a former director of National Intelligence and CNN analyst, said the laptop was “classic, textbook Soviet, Russian tradecraft at work.”... ..."Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., who told the media not to join Giuliani as a “vehicle for Russian disinformation.”... ..."Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, insisted that the laptop was clearly “Kremlin propaganda.”... ..."This long-debunked claim was even recently repeated in Congress by Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who claimed that the laptop could not be authenticated even though it was just authenticated and introduced in a federal prosecution."...

Every single Democrat in this post lied to your face for years about a laptop that belongs to a child raping, crack addict. The only reason they did this is to help Biden and his family from facing the consequences of their actions. Democrats happily lied to the general public and perpetuated a "Russian Disinformation" hoax for years to save face for Biden, a dementia riddled old man and garbage father.

[stephantom]

To get a sense of some of the activity in 2004-2009 not covered by this, you may be interested in some of these old Livejournal communities (navigate to the archive and click back to the year’s entries you want to see):

House_MD_News: https://house-md-news.livejournal.com/2006/

Housefic: https://housefic.livejournal.com/profile/

Housefic_meta: https://housefic-meta.livejournal.com/profile/

Housefic_pens: https://housefic-pens.livejournal.com/profile/

HMD_Finders

House_Wilson: https://house-wilson.livejournal.com/profile/

House_Cuddy

House_videos (fanvids)

House_episodes: https://houseepisodes.livejournal.com <- most of the posts are locked to members, but its a great time capsule from when people would upload whole episodes to megaupload and post them and then share mirror downloads etc.

Here’s an example of a roundup post for 1 random day in the House fandom (August 31. 2006): https://house-md-news.livejournal.com/6179.html

there were 5 fics posted in 2004 (the bar is just nearly imperceptible)

of those fics, one was hilson and two were chouse

no clue what happened in 2019??

included covid because i think the-plague-that-gives-you-a-disability is probably related to why it's gotten so popular in the 2020s

[24worldnewsnet]

Ukrainian forces destroyed dozens of Russian warplanes with a drone attack on air bases deep within Russian territory on Sunday. Ukrainian forces destroyed 40 aircraft in the attack, which an official says took more than a year to orchestrate. Russia's defense ministry confirmed the attack on Sunday, saying it struck five airfields. The operation saw drones transported in containers carried by trucks deep into Russian territory, he said. The drones reportedly hit 41 planes stationed at several airfields on Sunday afternoon, including A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22M aircraft, the official said. Moscow has previously used Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-22 long-range bombers to launch missiles at Ukraine, while A-50s are used to coordinate targets and detect air defenses and guided missiles. GEN. KELLOGG REVEALS WHAT CONCERNS HIM ABOUT RUSSIA Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy oversaw the drone strike inside Russia, sources say. (Getty Images) The White House told Fox News that President Donald Trump and his administration were not warned of the attack ahead of time. Ukraine says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally oversaw the drone attack. "We are doing everything to protect our independence, our state and our people," Zelenskyy said in a statement. President Donald Trump was not notified ahead of Sunday's drone strike, the White House says. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) The strike comes just a day before Ukrainian and Russian officials are set to meet for a second round of ceasefire talks in Istanbul, Turkey. PUTIN MASSES 50,000 TROOPS ON UKRAINE'S NORTH FRONT AS TRUMP AGAIN AGREES TO MEET RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN LEADERS A series of explosions also struck bridges in Russia near Ukraine's border on Saturday, though Ukraine has not taken responsibility for the attacks. Ukrainian soldiers from the 115th Brigade Mortar Unit conduct mortar training, as members of the Anti-UAV unit test an FPV drone inhibitor in Lyman, Ukraine. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images) A highway bridge over a railway in the Bryansk region was blown up at 10:50 pm (1950 GMT) on Saturday night just as a passenger train carrying 388 passengers to Moscow was passing underneath, Russian investigators said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Just four hours later, a railway bridge over a highway was blown up in the neighboring Kursk region, showering the road with parts of a freight train, the investigators said. Fox News' Sarah Tobianski, Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report. Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.

[darkmaga-returns]

I was a bit surprised at law prof Jonathan Turley’s restraint preceding the sentencing of Trump, today. He had made his views on the lawfare against Trump abundantly clear over a matter of years, but seemed a bit, well, restrained going into today.

However, with sentencing over he unloaded in a must read article, for those who followed this travesty. Some highlights:

With the Trump Sentencing, the Verdict is in . . . for the New York Legal System Jonathan Turley ^ | January 10, 2025 | Jonathan Turley Below is my column at Fox.com on the sentencing of President-Elect Donald Trump. The conviction should be overturned on appeal. However, the most lasting judgment will be against the New York court system itself in allowing this travesty of justice to occur. Here is the column: … Merchan has brought down the gavel on the New York legal system as a whole. Once considered the premier legal system in the country, figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F. Engoron and Juan Merchan have caused the system to be weaponized for political purposes. Trump will walk away from this trial and into the White House in less than two weeks, but the New York system will walk into infamy after this day. The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total “b—s–t.” It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses. Merchan not only allowed those charges to be brought to trial but then added layers of reversible errors in the effort to bag Trump at any cost. For that, he was lionized by the liberal media and many New Yorkers. However, Trump still managed to pull in 3.6 million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election.

[bllsbailey]

Key Trump ally comes out against massive emergency spending plan: 'This bill should not pass'

Billionaire and key Trump ally Elon Musk came out in opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson's proposed bill to keep the government funded on Wednesday.

Musk attacked the bill on social media, arguing the 1,547-page document is full of "pork." The legislation is designed to avoid a Friday government shutdown and fund the government through March.

"This bill should not pass," Musk wrote bluntly on X.

Republican congressional leaders have defended their plan for a stopgap spending bill, arguing it would allow President-elect Trump to have a greater influence on spending when the question comes up again in the spring.

MIKE JOHNSON WINS REPUBLICAN SUPPORT TO BE HOUSE SPEAKER AGAIN AFTER TRUMP ENDORSEMENT

Vivek Ramaswamy, another ally of Trump, expressed skepticism of the bill Tuesday night, but did not oppose it outright.

"Currently reading the 1,547-page bill to fund the government through mid-March. Expecting every U.S. Congressman & Senator to do the same," Ramaswamy wrote on X.

Trump himself has not weighed in on the budget battle, but several GOP lawmakers had expressed skepticism of a large funding package earlier this week.

"We talked with the speaker up until this weekend, the only discussion was ‘How long is this clean CR going to be?’ And suddenly we find out – I heard rumors over the weekend – they’re negotiating with a health care package that included PBM stuff," Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital before the bill released on Tuesday.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall on Oct. 26, 2024, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Johnson has given lawmakers three days to read the bill, setting up a vote for Friday. He has argued that the bill's massive bulk is due to natural disasters and other incidents that must be paid for but are out of the government's control, rather than the omnibus spending plans of previous years.

Speaker Mike Johnson proposed his continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown on Tuesday. (Getty Images)

The GOP currently holds just a one-seat majority in the House, meaning Johnson will likely have to rely on Democratic votes to pass the bill. The legislation must also pass the Senate by the Friday deadline to avoid a shutdown.

Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.

[dashboarddiaries]

Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen (@thelaurenshippen) and Cher McAnelly (@overchers). Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription by Laudable.

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[intro music]

Cher: This week on Dashboard Diaries - Cher McAnelly prepares to tune in for season 100 of Grey’s Anatomy because she isn’t a quitter. 

Lauren: And Lauren Shippen gets on the message boards to search for clues in the promo for next week. 

Cher: And this is Dashboard Diaries, a podcast for you – the folks who are in this internet bunker with us. We talk about what’s going on in our favorite hell site, get into what we like to call “tumbl-lore,” do fandom deep dives, and share the times when we’ve gone feral over a new ship.

Lauren, how’s it going? How is life?

Lauren: It’s full of ER at the moment ‘cause we are watching through all of ER.

Cher: What are you thinking, so far?

Lauren: I am loving it. Because it is scratching that itch in my brain of having a procedural. Every week I get to see a contained story and follow along with my friends and there’s like 300 episodes. 

Cher: We love a procedural. 

Lauren: We do.

Cher: We love a sitcom. And that brings us into today’s episode topic – procedurals and sitcoms. 

[game show trill]

You’re watching ER ... one of, I would say, the most iconic procedurals in the history of television.

Lauren: I think so.

Cher: Maybe I’m being hyperbolic, but I don’t think so ... 

What are some of your other favorite sitcoms and procedurals? What’s your kind of relationship with this type of television or these television genres?

Lauren: Yeah, I mean, when we were talking about what we wanted to sort of tackle next in an episode in terms of topics – and you brought up sitcoms and procedurals – that just like really excited me. Because I think that we talk so often on this show about how we want longer seasons. How we want more seasons of things that come faster and sooner. And there really is a void that is in my life being filled by a couple of things but procedurals are really where I got into television. The things that brought me into TV as an obsessive person that did make me go to the message boards on fox.com and talk about what the promo for next week revealed about what was going to happen for shows like Bones, the X-Files, Grey’s Anatomy – I fell off ... I AM a quitter (laughs). So ... I eventually fell off of Grey’s Anatomy. And I also eventually fell off Bones as well. There’s something to be said for very, very long-running procedurals and sometimes a dip in quality that can occur. 

Cher: When is a good time to say “goodbye...”

Lauren: Exactly. But House ... all of these things where every week there’s a case of the week and you’re kind of building these characters up over time. And then also a lot of sitcoms, too. And a lot of the shows that I’ve loved from the last ten years have been sitcoms. Some shortly lived, some a little longer lived. Santa Clarita Diet, Superstore, New Girl was huge for me. So, yeah, I think it has always been a consistent part of my television-watching diet. And something that I am more intentionally seeking out now. 

But how about you? What is your relationship to these ... I don’t want to say “formulaic” because I think that sounds derogatory and I don’t mean it to be ... but these intensely structured shows? 

Cher: Yeah. Similarly, sitcoms and procedurals were my entryway into television both from just kind of a nostalgia, connecting with people pov, also from a passion is-this-a-world-I-want-to-continue-working-in pov. I remember watching the series premiere of CSI with my parents. Perhaps at too young of an age to be watching CSI with my parents!? I think I was seven at the time...

Lauren: Oh boy ... yeah. (laughs)

Cher: But every Friday we would order pizza and watch CSI. We would tape it and watch it on Friday nights. And it was just such a wonderful experience. You get your case of the week and it’s wrapped up by the end of the week. You kind of have the follow through of the relationships of the characters but every week it’s wrapped up in a nice enough bow that you feel satisfied with each individual episode versus some of these other really intense shows that we also love and are diving into later in this episode-

Lauren: Of course.

Cher: We will definitely be talking about Severance, which I think falls into this other category of television-

Lauren: Oh my god, yeah.

Cher: ... where every episode it’s like, “What ... sorry, WHAT just happened!?” I think Gossip Girl ... would you consider Gossip Girl a procedural? There’s a question I have that we can discuss later in the episode – yes, we have the kind of general, we know the overall traits of what a sitcom or procedural is but what really makes a show a sitcom or procedural – are there any unexpected ones? I feel like Gossip Girls ... is it a procedural? Not really, but it kind of ... it’s more of a soap but Grey’s Anatomy is a soap and Merlin is another one where I was like, they did kind of have the case of the week on Merlin ... but anyway ... 

Lauren: That’s true. Yeah! 

Cher: I’m getting ahead of myself because I feel like there are so many different ... the Venn diagram has a lot of overlap. There’s a lot of shows that can fit in multiple buckets. But anyway. I digress...

A lot of my favorite shows that made me love television and just love the industry are procedural and sitcoms. Friends, again, is one of those really nostalgic shows that I grew up watching. Again, probably watched a little bit before I should have been. But who among us wasn’t watching some slightly more grown-up TV. Nick At Night-

Lauren: Totally!

Cher: Wild stuff. And all the sitcoms ... the made for young adults or teens sitcoms that we grew up watching. That’s a whole other bucket of fantastic/interesting television to dive into. Anyway ... 

Yeah, I think formulaic-affectionate is maybe the best way to describe-

Lauren: Yeah!

Cher: You know what you’re getting into each week. Because it’s a smaller story each week with kind of like an overlapping generally already structured story line you can have these long, long seasons whereas with these generally, I would say, more convoluted in-depth shows, like Severance, where they’re telling you perhaps one specific story or true detective where it’s an anthology series – every season is a new case. But it’s just the one case for the whole season. 

That must be a little more challenging to make that – a 22 episode season. Versus, hey, we have Brooklyn 99, we have this police precinct and every episode they have some new different cases to go on. All the law enforcement ones are similar with all the medical ones. There’s so many different smaller story lines to play with. Which I also think makes it an exciting world to play within from a fan perspective. Because it’s really easy to imagine additional scenarios, which I think plays into fandom and why sitcoms and procedurals continue to stay popular on Tumblr even after they’re no longer on air. Supernatural being a great example of this.

Lauren: Right. I think my next question to you is going to be what do you think is Tumblr’s relationship to procedurals and sitcoms? I guess maybe we should take a step back first and sort of try and define a little bit more narrowly what these things are. I think a sitcom is a sitcom. I actually don’t think we need to define that. Right? 

Cher: You’re right. Yeah. Well ...

Lauren: It’s a half hour ...

Cher: I have a Tumblr post to talk to discuss with you on that exact topic. But we’ll circle back.

Lauren: Wait, no. Please, please read it.

Cher: Essentially ... I either saved it as a draft to Dashboard Diaries or re-blogged it, but the TLDR; is the user posed a question that I found really interesting. And the question was, it was actually a poll, “Is Star Trek a sitcom?” And the answer options were, “No; Yes, but it’s not funny; Yes, and it is funny” and then a couple other “I haven’t seen it or don’t have an opinion.” 

I thought that was such a funny question because never in a million years would I think of Star Trek as a sitcom. I think my answer is an unequivocal “no” there even as someone who hasn’t watched much of Star Trek. But how is this something that is seemingly so objective? Obviously we know what a sitcom is. You were about to say the very clear ... and yes, those are 20 minutes, one set cast, whatever, and this person is like, “Is this 45 minute sci fi series a sitcom?” 

Lauren: Drama, sitcom. 

(laughter)

I’ve watched all of Next Gen. And all of Picard. Those are the two Star Trek shows that I’ve seen in their entirety. And there are definitely episodes of Star Trek Next Gen that are sitcom episodes. Because ultimately a sitcom just means situational comedy. Right? It’s comedic stuff that’s happening in a situation. Right? Where the comedy is coming from the situation that the characters are in. 

But yeah, on the whole, of course not – Star Trek is not a comedy. But also I don’t think that people would necessarily consider Star Trek a procedural. And I do think that Star Trek kind of is ... Yeah, I guess if we’re defining sitcom as 30 minutes, the comedy is coming from the situations that these people are in versus the comedy coming from the people that they are or some sort of overarching plot line. There can be overarching beats and there can be returning jokes and things like that. But when we think of modern sitcoms we think of like Abbott Elementary, right? Classic sitcom. I’m trying to think of what other sitcoms are on TV these days.

Cher: What We Do in The Shadows. Ghosts.

Lauren: What We Do in The Shadows. Yeah. 

Cher: St. Denise, which is a new one that I’m excited about.

Lauren: Ooh, okay! But I think procedurals are a little bit harder to define, right? Because it’s like there’s some that are very, very clear cut. Law & Order. The entire Law & Order universe. CSI and the CSI universe. Procedurals. Clear cut. The casts are consistent but I think that something that is really true in a procedural, a pure, pure procedural, like Law & Order – I think a fundamental truth of a procedural in its truest form, and this is actually I think why ER might fit into this, is that there is no single character that is load bearing.

Cher: Ooh, I think that’s really interesting.

Lauren: You can ultimately ... and actually Grey’s Anatomy, right? I was going to say the exception to this obviously or what some more modern procedurals did starting in the 2000s was you have one cast member or two cast members who are load bearing. Right? And House, it’s House, you can’t have House without House. Bones, it’s Bones. You can’t have Bones without Bones. But you think in Grey’s Anatomy, you can’t have Grey’s Anatomy without Meredith Grey. But eventually you do!

Cher: Yeah. 

Lauren: Right? And so I think that is the purest form of procedural. And then there’s sort of the spins on procedural where it’s like the elements are still there. Where each episode is sort of its separate thing. And there’s returning characters and maybe an overarching plot sometimes or multi episode plots and things like that. But it is kind of a Swiss army knife of a show where you can kind of just do whatever. 

I think ER is a little bit of that. I think the X-Files was sort of the first one to do that, where it’s like a monster of the week but there’s no overarching mythology. And I’m leading up to a point here which is that the thing that X-Files did was the establish a sort of monster of the week that is picking up the procedural format, but then adding this element of this is about this relationship between these two people. And this is about this much larger thing that’s happening, where the seeds are sown for that from the very beginning. Which ultimately is the format that Supernatural built off of. 

Is Supernatural a procedural? 

Cher: Absolutely. YES. I think so.

Lauren: Okay. You say unequivocally yes?

Cher: Yes.

Lauren: Okay. 

Cher: Similarly, monster of the week, ensemble cast that does, I would say, is anchored by two characters but ... yes but no, but pretty much. I very much think it is a procedural. It’s essentially CSI with demons. 

Lauren: Right. And I think crucially the other piece of a procedural is that you should be able to ... and yeah, I’m using the term “procedural” to encapsulate monster of the week stories as well. I think you should be able to jump into pretty much any episode and be able to enjoy yourself. And understand the basics of what’s going on. I do think that if you jump into any episode of Supernatural you understand these guys are brothers, they hunt monsters, and that’s kind of all you need to know about the show in order to enjoy it. Right?

Whereas something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you jump into an episode in season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and you could have no idea what’s going on. It’s like you understand that she is a vampire slayer because it’s in the title. But ... that is a very serialized show. 

Cher: ... a monster of the week kind of show. It’s really interesting the serialized versus procedural. I think very much what makes a procedural a procedural or a sitcom a sitcom is like there is a universe or world established that you can, as you said, fall into really at any point and ... yeah, there’s intricacies that you don’t get but you kind of get the TLDR; and you can watch any episode as its own stand alone thing and generally get the gist. 

Even now as I’m saying, Supernatural is absolutely a procedural. Obviously. Imagine showing someone an episode of season 13 of Supernatural.

Lauren: (laughs)

Cher: Out of context. And just expecting them to understand. I have not gotten that far, which ... brings you back to the re-watch that I should be doing. But I feel like that would be chaotic. 

Lauren: I mean, this is where Supernatural straddles a funny line. Because there are absolutely episodes in later Supernatural that you could drop somebody into and it’s like, yeah okay, I get it. Just sort of through osmosis of understanding what a monster of the week is I think every episode establishes pretty quickly that these two guys are brothers and that is a central relationship in the show. 

One of my favorite episodes in season 12 I think has this absolutely fantastic run of episodes in the first half of the season. There’s Stuck In The Middle With You, which Richard Speight directed. And there’s Regarding Dean which is the one where he has amnesia. And there’s this episode called The Life & Death of Asa Fox, I think, where they go to a hunter’s wake basically. That has a lot of rich text in there around Sam and Dean’s sort of legacy within the hunter community, stuff with their mom, stuff with people that they’ve know in the past, etc. But it is a bottle episode and you could just drop somebody into that and they would have a great time just watching a well told monster story. 

If you drop somebody into The French Mistake, the one where they go into an alternate dimension where they’re on the set of Supernatural and everybody thinks that they’re Jared Padelecki and Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins is playing Misha Collins. That I think (laughs) would be hard to explain. 

Cher: You know what, Lauren? It is so funny you say that because, first off, side note I am becoming less and less convinced as I’m speaking that Supernatural is a procedural. 

Lauren: So confident.

Cher: But the second is when I first started working at Tumblr, one of the first campaigns I worked on as I mentioned in a previous episode at some point over the past couple of years is that one of the first campaigns I worked on when I started at Tumblr was with Misha Collins. In order to prepare ... and it was at a Supernatural convention. I hadn’t seen Supernatural – any of it. And so in order to prepare for it one of my co-workers, shout out to Amanda Brennan, our meme librarian, an icon, we booked a conference room for an afternoon and she showed me what she felt were the most important episodes of Supernatural to show to someone before I embarked on my Supernatural convention adventure.

It was a decade ago now. I’m struggling to remember what all of them were but I do know that one of the episodes was that episode, The French Mistake. I was sitting there like, yeah ... I think we should have maybe watched something else. I think we did. She showed me the first episode and then two or three other, but yeah, I think maybe I want to amend my statement and say that Supernatural started as a procedural and became something else entirely.

Lauren: 1000%. Which is sort of true of the X-Files as well. I think that this sort of goes back to the question we were asking earlier and I think all of this kind of feeds into the grander question I have which is are procedurals interesting to Tumblr fandom at large? I think the answer might be kind of not really. On a large scale.

Cher: Yeah, I would-

Lauren: [crosstalk 00:17:52]

Cher: Please, complete your thought.

Lauren: No, no, please. 

Cher: I would say they are. I would say yes and no. There are a lot of procedurals that hit on Tumblr in ways that they seem to not hit elsewhere. House feels like a really good example of this. 

Lauren: Oh, that’s a good point.

Cher: It consistently trends on Tumblr. 

Lauren: That’s a good point. House is a good one.

Cher: Criminal Minds is in fandom I’m pretty sure this week. Again. I think they are, they’re making a new season, but that had been off the air forever. But I mean, Spencer Reed, are you kidding me? 

Lauren: I mean, yeah, obviously. 

Cher: And so there are I would say quite a few. Not every procedural hits. I think it does take something like special, like that Tumblr finds-

Lauren: Like [Matthew 00:18:33]. (laughs)

Cher: But I still struggle to explain why House hit but maybe Grey’s Anatomy didn’t.

Lauren: Sherlock Holmes!

Cher: Honestly, I think House’s personality immediately ... gruff man.

Lauren: You take Sherlock Holmes and John Watson and you put them in any kind of universe and that’s, it just hits. Right? It just hits. 

Cher: But also in Dr Who ... Dr Who I would say is a procedural. Very much so.

Lauren: Very good point. 

Cher: And really hit. So, yeah, I think it takes a special type of procedurals and a lot of procedurals can I think feel a little too ... I don’t want to say bland for Tumblr because that’s not ... maybe we even cut that because Grey’s Anatomy is not bland. It is a rich tapestry of stories. Even though it never really hit on Tumblr. Anyway ... if you’re looking for writers ... I have ideas!

I’m interested actually that maybe we can dive into a discuss what the hook is on Tumblr for the procedurals when they do hit. What makes Criminal Minds hit but shows like SVU that have been running forever – they do well, but Criminal Minds I mean definitely has a chokehold on Tumblr and House in ways that similar shows do not.

Lauren: Right. I am also realizing that I’m leaving out one of my biggest procedural joys currently and also one of Tumblr’s biggest fandoms which is 911. Which is of course a procedural. But I think similarly to Grey’s it is a procedural soap. I think having those soap elements. It’s like every cast member on that show is load bearing. You remove one of them and the whole house of cards kind of could potentially come tumbling down. Which was not necessarily the case in the first season, right? Because Connie Britton was sort of the main POV character and then she left after the first season. And they sort of had to recalibrate and rather than sort of recalibrating with ... maybe it’s okay if we can kind of just let people come and go. They were like, okay no, we are adding this character Eddie and this is our cast now. These are the people and this is not going to change. And it basically hasn’t changed since. They’ve added certain people that have become supporting but ... they added Eddie and then Buck’s sister, too, Maddie. And those two additions kind of secured the cast. 

Cher: You know what? I think honestly you’ve hit on a really good point on something that ... the aspects of procedurals that hit on Tumblr versus ones that don’t. I think that consistent cast is really key. Grey’s Anatomy started, season one has the same cast and it had many of the same cast members for multiple seasons but I think they killed off one of the key cast members at the end of season one, if not season two. And then the cast members just started shuffling in and changing. It was a lot of adjustments within the fandom. At one point they just ... I think they were like, “We’re losing too many doctors.” So, they decided to create a hospital merger subplot where there’s five new doctors that have to come in.

Lauren: Oh, dang.

Cher: I know why they did this. They’re like, “New principal cast will start big so that we can ...” But Grey’s Anatomy has had one of the most consistently changing casts of a show that I’ve watched kind of in any memory.

So, I think that consistency is really key. 

Lauren: I think it is key. And it’s funny, I think it’s hard to tell ... in my mind Bones was my first really big fandom. Right? Bones had never really been big on Tumblr. 

Cher: Which surprises me.

Lauren: It’s kind of surprising.

Cher: That’s pretty “Tumblr.”

Lauren: I mean, it’s David Boreanaz, it’s a very nerdy female lead. It’s Scully and Mulder kind of sexual tension. There’s a great ship in there. But I mean part of me wonders ... and listen, I actually never finished Bones because I was really frustrated with the way that they ultimately got the ship together that I kind of fell off of it after they got together because I was like, “I’m mad about how this happened.” Which is the risk that you run when you get the couple together. But part of me wonders if it’s just because Bones started airing in 2006. Same thing with Grey’s Anatomy. And it’s like it just wasn’t really able to catch on, on Tumblr in the same way. Because by the time Tumblr was really gaining ground in fandom the shows were kind of toward the end or sort of very much in the middle of their runs. Which then is a theory that totally falls apart when you consider Supernatural. (laughs)

Cher: Supernatural is its own ...

Lauren: It’s own thing! It’s truly its own thing.

Cher: Its own genre, its own universe. I would absolutely take a course on Supernatural and its cultural significance.

Lauren: 100%.

Cher: Would you consider Sherlock at procedural? Because it obviously had this huge overarching story line but it was ... yes, it had the episode, the case of the week, but it also had so few episodes and I think one of the things that marks procedurals is many, many episodes.

Lauren: That’s the thing. Sherlock is like ...

Cher: An anthology? 

Lauren: No, I mean, it is a case of the week. There actually really isn’t that much of an overarching plot. There isn’t a second season in terms of Moriarty but that’s it. And they tried to do an overarching plot in the last season and ... I have a lot of notes. 

Cher: I think quite a few people do, too.

Lauren: I think a lot of people have some notes. Sherlock is a miniseries. That is the only thing that ... it is nine TV movies. Because each episode is an hour and a half long. The episodes all came out a year or two years apart. And yeah, that is its own thing. Whereas like Elementary, absolutely a procedural. And it’s interesting and I think this goes to the particular type of fandom on Tumblr. House, big on Tumblr. You’re so right. And a lot of that has to do with House’s character but also I think with his relationship with Wilson. And also just Robert Sean Leonard is just so wonderful. As too is Hugh Laurie but yeah. 

Whereas Elementary I think has its followers on Tumblr but it’s not huge despite the fact that it is also a Sherlock Holmes procedural that has lots of episodes. And Lucy Liu who everybody alive loves. But ultimately the relationship between Sherlock and Joan is like ... people don’t really ship them, right? And it would be a straight ship if people were to ship them and people I think on Tumblr in general are sort of less interested. Which I think it also counts a little bit for like the lack of interest around Bones. I think there’s of course exceptions to this – X-Files sort of transcends ... everybody loves Mulder and Scully because that is a love story for the ages. But I think in general. Yeah, fandom is maybe more inclined to get into a show if there’s two characters of the same sex to ship in there. I also have a whole thing about ... I wrote a paper on this in college ... about Sherlock and Elementary and at the time the ... oh, I actually did talk a little bit about House and then the Robert Downey Jr movies and how ultimately the only adaptation out of all of those that actually got the relationship correctly from based off of what it is in the stories was Elementary. Because despite the fact that it was a man and a woman, Elementary at least in what I watched which was back in the first season, was never going to put those two characters together in a any kind of romantic ... there was no sort of subtext or anything like that. And that to me is ... they got the bro relationship the best in that show. So, maybe that’s part of it, too, is ... Anyway, I digress.

I do think that cast consistency is a big thing. And then obviously having somebody to ship. But yeah, it’s interesting how as much as we want lots of episodes of things, that is not necessarily enough to get Tumblr into a show. I think my other big question is sitcoms. Sitcoms in my view do not create the same kind of fandom fervor as dramas do. Does that feel true to you? What’s your perspective?

Cher: I agree. I think people love sitcoms. They’re passionate about them. They enjoy them. They’ll post about them. I feel like there’s a fun that is kind of being had with sitcoms. And they do trend really well on Tumblr. People dive into them. There’s so much fic. But yeah, I think there’s something about the emotions evoked from a drama and the connection that you feel to characters in a drama that creates fandom waters that run deeper. I don’t know. The fandom feels deeper in that sense. 

I mean, how many cons are there for series that are even stand alone drama series? I love sitcoms. 30 Rock is one of my favorite shows. I love What We Do in The Shadows. I think the final season is happening this year or ... which I am sad to see but I’m excited about it. Maybe there would be an audience for a convention but I don’t think it would be the same. I think it’s very ...

Lauren: And of course Our Flag Means Death kind of broke this mold. Our Flag Means Death is very straight ahead a sitcom. 

Cher: It is. 

Lauren: But the fandom around it was really, really fervent. So, yeah, maybe there’s not a magic bullet. I do think that ultimately it is about the characters that you are making connections with. I think you’re absolutely right. That’s why drama tends to appeal a little bit more to sort of fandom intensity because obviously you’re dealing with more kind of deep human emotions in a drama, more directly obviously the best sitcoms do that same thing. But yeah, it’s really just about the character. That’s really what it comes down to.

Cher: Yeah. I’m actually interested to see now ... I’m going to fandom just to see even just a quick look at the proportion of the top shows even this week that are comedy versus drama ...even in the purest sense. Sitcom and procedural aside. 

So, right now the top, two weeks ago, so the week ending on the 9th of February, the first show was The Grammy’s which makes sense. That was relevant. But then the next few are Arcane, Severance, Gravity Falls, Squid Game, Interview With A Vampire, 911, the Owl House, then Has-been Hotel, Miraculous, Lady Bug, Danny Phantom, Supernatural, and it goes on. Criminal Minds is on it. Agatha All Along is on there. But I would say of this list of 20 shows, Owl House, Danny Phantom ... 

Lauren: Gravity Falls.

Cher: Has-been Hotel. Good Omens is #15. Definitely a comedy. But also a drama. 

Lauren: Good Omens is the only live action one on that list. All of the rest are anime. Which is interesting.

Cher: Really interesting to consider as well. Yeah. Huh. 

Lauren: Tumblr, what is going on with your psyche!? There’s a real consistency with Tumblr around these things, right, where it’s like ... Severance doing so well is also fascinating to me. That is not a show necessarily that when I was watching the first season I was like, “Oh, Tumblr is going to go crazy over this show.” That would NOT have been my assumption. And so it’s interesting to me that ... obviously Severance is an incredible show. But it doesn’t totally read as Tumblr bait to me. So, it’s been really interesting to see the sort of excitement around it. I’m thrilled that people are jazzed about it, but it’s like ... I wouldn’t have called that one. 

Cher: Really? Yeah. I mean, I have been waiting for Tumblr to latch onto it. I feel like I agree with you, on the surface you would think Tumblr and Severance are definitely ... there’d be some community on there, but I can’t see it being the biggest show. But I do feel like there are some kind of emotions and vibes from Severance that are like evoked in a very uniquely Tumblr way, aesthetic honestly of the show itself being a huge thing. It’s a beautiful show to watch. And I think the cinematography and that kind of side of Tumblr, which obviously isn’t the biggest thing when it comes to fandom. It doesn’t hurt. I honestly think one of the things that perhaps pulled people into watching Severance was the aesthetic of the show. 

Lauren: That makes a lot of sense.

Cher: They started to see an image and were like, “Oh, this is really beautiful, let me check it out.” And because they already were interested enough to give it a chance. I think otherwise a lot of people would have turned it off after the first or second episode because it starts really slow and confusing. The amount of people who I have had to convince. I actually ... my friend who came and stayed with me this weekend, she has watched the first three episodes of Severance and was like, “I couldn’t get into it.” I was like, do you want to try again? I love the show. So, we watched the first couple of episodes again and I was like, do you want to watch the third? What are you feeling? And she’s like, okay so yeah it just still ... I can’t get hooked. I was like, you know what, that is valid and we don’t have to watch it. But yeah, I think it’s definitely ... it doesn’t immediately hook you or strike me ... I agree with you, as a show that Tumblr, would really sink its teeth into. But honestly, the more I watch it, the more it feels obvious like oh yeah, Tumblr would love this. It’s hard to explain.

Lauren: Yeah, I mean, I was thinking earlier when you said, “Is there a way to do something that’s not sort of like case of the week but still has lots of episodes?” The thing that I thought of is the X-Files kind of invented the monster of the week format. And around the same time, a little bit earlier, Twin Peaks was breaking the idea of what a TV show could even be. Right?

I think, not to be a TV nerd for a second but I don’t know necessarily that younger fans on Tumblr would sort of understand just how revolutionary Twin Peaks was at the time. And it only lasted for two seasons. Right? Sort of famously they tie up the main plot line halfway through season two and the show falls apart. But David Lynch who recently passed away ... he did 22 episodes of a show in which you absolutely ... not only can you not drop into episode 4 of Twin Peaks and know what’s going on, dropping into episode 1 of Twin Peaks and you barely understand what’s going on. Right? There’s a deep, deep surrealism obviously to all of David Lynch’s work. But to that show especially. And it being so challenging to audiences where it was like ... first of all, the opening title sequence is like two minutes of the slowest music you’ve ever heard in your life over nature footage. It’s crazy.

Cher: Yeah, I will say I’m really happy for the “skip intro” feature that now exists. 

Lauren: Yep. I watched Twin Peaks on Netflix dvds and I did not have that option. But yeah, I saw all of this because there is a version of Severance that is ... I guess the main plot of Twin Peaks probably was like 26 episodes overall. There’s a version of Severance that is like that long. And it’s interesting because it’s like Twin Peaks sort of ran out of steam after a certain point. And as great as Severance is and as great as Twin Peaks was you actually I don’t think can sustain those types of shows for very long. 

Twin Peaks now, I know that they did a new Twin Peaks revival, but if you made the original Twin Peaks now it would be three seasons of eight episodes each. That would be the show. 

I wonder if Severance is sort of speaking to the Twin Peaks surrealist lovers on Tumblr.

Cher: I think Severance is Parks and Rec meets Twin Peaks. 

Lauren: Yeah! (laughs) Honestly! That’s a pretty good description, actually.

Cher: Yeah. And I completely agree with you. I feel like it scratches both of those itches. There are a wide variety of television enjoyers who can find something that they like in Severance. The bizarreness and just ... I’ve watched season one a couple of times. I just started a re-watch again because we’re how halfway through season two. And I’ve got to say, every single thing ... every little hint, not EVERY hint, the vast majority I did not come up with myself. I just have read them, theories on Tumblr or Reddit. And then I re-watch and I’m like, “Oh, that makes so much sense. I didn’t notice that.” 

I always wonder how people notice these things in these really convoluted surreal bizarre confusing shows that are bread crumbing everywhere. I wish I was that observant. But yeah, it must be hard to sustain that level of intensity and detail. Because it’s like every frame is being hyper analyzed. Imagine someone doing that to like Grey’s Anatomy or ... [crosstalk 00:36:31] That’s where these in-depth ... Twin Peaks, every single frame is so intentional. Every moment of that show is ... same with Severance. I think one of the cast members were being interviewed and someone said this is one of those shows where there is zero room for improve in any way whatsoever. I think Ben Stiller was saying this and that’s what makes the actors even more incredible in what they’re doing because they have to stay within those such hyper specific parameters. 

Lauren: Totally.

Cher: Whereas in sitcoms especially there’s definitely lots of improv and [crosstalk 00:37:04]. I mean, essentially sitcoms are just extended sketch comedy that are kind of within a specific world or universe. And procedurals, I’m sure there’s some light improv. You don’t need to get the line exactly right. 

Lauren: Definitely.

Cher: Imagine if someone said “fetid moppet” on 911. 

(laughter)

So, I think yeah there’s so much more than can be played with in sitcoms and procedurals, which also means that for the fandoms there’s a universe that they can kind of enter and they already have the kind of tools laid out for them to create fic, to play around with scenarios, to say how would this scenario play out for the cast of The Office. And I love all those posts where it’s like, “Here’s this x, y, z scenario,” and then they lay out how each person/character would react to this scenario. 

Lauren: Yeah.

Cher: That is much harder to do within the confines of these other universes, these more serialized shows.

Lauren: I think that this is why the MCU was so big in fandom for such a long time is because essentially that is just a very, very big budget procedural TV show.

Cher: Sitcom – Wanda Vision.

Lauren: Yeah, and sitcom! Just the movies alone, right? And just thinking about the sort of halcyon days of Avengers Tumblr and everybody sort of imagining these sitcom scenarios in the Avengers tower with everybody living there. And it’s like yeah because you’re sort of getting these case of the week episodes with each of the ... and then you get the episode where the overarching plot kind of comes together and then you go back into sort of your little separate corners. And the MCU is laid out as a TV show. 

Cher: It’s essentially the CSI universe or whatever it is!

Lauren: Right! Basically!

Cher: Oh my gosh. That is so ... I think that’s a great POV and I feel like we could talk for another hour about this especially given I haven’t seen the new Captain America but I do know that Chris Evans had a cameo or role in it in some capacity. Is that completely wrong?

Lauren: Did he!?

Cher: Did I make that up? 

Lauren: I mean, spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World, if you are listening to this – Bucky Barnes, Sebastian Stans shows up for half a second. Yeah. Okay, so just to as briefly as I can do my Feels Corner ...

[gentle music]

I am having a lot of feels lately about Bucky Barnes because I always am having feelings about Bucky Barnes. I re-watched The Winter Soldier at the end of January when I was on a plane. That movie still rips. It’s still one of the best movies of the last 20 years. And then I was like, you know what? I haven’t watched Falcon and The Winter Soldier since it came out. I want to re-watch it before seeing the new Captain America movie. So, I re-watched Falcon and The Winter Soldier and then I went and saw the new Captain America movie two days ago. 

Without getting too deep into my feelings about the new Captain America movie because I don’t want to spoil things and also that would be another episode unto itself ... something that I got really in my feels about with Falcon and The Winter Soldier is I think at the time when I was watching it I was so ... I had such Bucky Barnes goggles on around like how they were dealing with this trauma and the fact that they were addressing his trauma literally at all ... that like I didn’t fully appreciate everything else around it. But something that really struck me on this go ‘round and my partner reminded me, “No, you talked about this when we watched it the first time.” And I was like, oh, okay. So, I noticed it the first time. But then I think it felt even more significant now.

The show is like really, really textually politically engaged. In a way that I don’t think any Marvel property has been since Winter Soldier. Winter Soldier is saying – preemptive strikes are bad. (laughs) And trying to protect yourself by arming yourself against the world is fundamentally fear and fear mongering rather than actual justice or freedom, right?

And Falcon and The Winter Solder is saying a bunch of stuff about the dangers of nationalism, about the American government, specifically the American military’s abuse and experimentation on Black men. Which is a thing that happened in history and a thing that Falcon and The Winter Soldier is very engaged in directly. And there’s this whole conversation around the super soldier serum being essentially a tool of supremacy and the idea that for as long as anybody wants to make super soldiers, supremacy will stay alive. And this is within the context of Bucky’s story within Hyrda who are literal Nazis. And then Sam, a Black man being given the shield and then saying “no” to it only to watch another White blond guy who ends up becoming a super soldier because he essentially is a supremacist – and then having to take back the shield from that guy. 

I was just sort of so shocked because ... and it gave me a lot of hope for what Brave New World might ... okay, it’s a lot of the same team behind Brave New World as Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Hopefully Brave New World will also be political. I think that team got really hamstrung by the fact that Marvel continues to make movies by committee I think. And I think that there were some missed opportunities around the political statements that move could have made. And so I’m just in my feels about ... I would not necessarily call my own art deeply political. I think all art is political because all people are political because we all exist in a society that is fundamentally political. It’s impossible not to.

But I think more than ever it’s important for large companies to be making directly political art because of the time that we live in and the regime that we currently live under. And it was both very heartening to watch Falcon and The Winter Soldier and remember that these big companies can be bold and say something. And also disheartening knowing that they’re maybe not feeling quite as bold now. And also at the time Falcon and the Winter Soldier did not get a lot of attention.

That is interesting to me as well. So, I guess I would just say I would encourage all artists out there and all lovers of art out there to make political, art to engage with political art, to talk about it, to appreciate it, to pay for it. Because I think now more than ever it’s important to have. That was such a long-winded Feels Corner. I’m sorry. What’s got you in your feels?

Cher: Well, no, I completely agree with you, Lauren, on yeah every step of the way. And honestly the ... even going back to the sitcoms and the procedurals, a lot of these stories, the things that stand out the most to us are those stories of resilience and are those moments where we see ourselves in and learn from these characters and the situations in which they’re put in and how they handle them and what they learn from them. 

Lauren: Superstore captures 2020 better than anything ever will.

Cher: Yeah. And I mean, oh my god, being able to confront the world and its horrors, frankly, through comedy is one of the most important ways to learn, to be able to cope, to be able to grow. I really think comedy is so important and yeah, could not agree more with you that it’s one of our most powerful and important mediums to make a statement and yeah. I always even used to have maybe a little bit of guilt about going into the entertainment space versus using my degree in environmental policy, which I do have because I initially wanted to be an environmental lawyer, and then I remember these kinds of things. Like what we’re talking about here which is that, yeah, entertainment, the messages shared through entertainment can have so much impact. You can do so much good in this space.

Lauren: Absolutely.

Cher: With that, my Feels Corner, because I know we’re coming up on the end of the episode ... I mean, as we mentioned before, Severance, I am so deep in Severance. If you looked at my blog right now you’d think I had become a Severance fan blog and you would be right. (laughter) I also saw a post about someone calling your innie your “work-sona” and I’m losing my mind over that. 

And there was a huge moment in Yellow Jackets this week. I don’t want to spoil it but huge fan moment this week. Real big shipping victory I would say in general. 

Lauren: I’ve got to know! **spoilers for Yellow Jackets** TURN AWAY! IF you don’t want to hear it.

Tell me. I want to know. 

Cher: Okay. Shawna and Melissa actually ended up kissing at the end of the episode. 

Lauren: Whoa‼ 

Cher: Melissa kissed Shawna while Shawna had a knife to her neck. So, real ...

Lauren: Oh yes, okay, that’s what I’m talking about.

Cher: Victory all over. There’s a lot of discourse and fun in the fandom right now because ... I saved some posts for us to share to Dashboard Diaries. The fandom actually a few weeks ago was joking about Shawna and Melissa getting together. Being like, hmm, what’s that backwards hat, how’s that going for you, Melissa? I see you looking at Shawna. And then they actually ... and so everyone is losing their minds being like, oh my gosh, it’s actually canon!? We made this up as a bit. (laughter)

Lauren: That is the best!

Cher: So, really enjoyed that. And then just a small aside because I feel like I haven’t seen anyone talking about this. It has nothing to do with anything else we’ve talked about. But I just need more people to be talking about this. Two movies in the past month have come out. One is called Dog Man, the other is called Wolf Man. Dog Man is an animated children’s movie about a dog that’s a cop. Wolf Man is a rated R horror movie about a man who is a wolf. 

Lauren: How is this not Barbenheimer?

Cher: Yeah, how is this not Barbenheimer!? I looked on Tumblr, there was maybe one post about it and it was barely like ... it was kind of like, oh, yeah, ha ha that’s funny. No one is ... there is no discourse about this. Also something-something a joke about inside you there are two wolves or inside you there is a dog and a wolf man. I don’t know. Innie/outie, Severance. It all ties in.

Lauren: It all ties together. 

(laughter)

Cher: And finally, less my last week on Tumblr and more the coming weeks on Tumblr – here is your annual reminder that the anniversary of the dress and llamas on the loose is coming up. 

Lauren: And what is the exact date for that?

Cher: February 26th, 2015.

Lauren: Okay, wow. Ten years!

Cher: Yeah.

Lauren: Wow.

Cher: Big anniversary.

Lauren: That’s crazy. Well, by the time this episode comes out that will have passed actually.

Cher: Oh my gosh!

Lauren: So, we’ll have to be sure to re-blog something to the blog.

Cher: Well, happy dress and llama versary, Lauren.

Lauren: Happy dress llama versary! 

Cher: Inside you, there are two llamas on the loose. (laughter)

Lauren: I do like thinking about if there were a Barbenheimer event for Dog Man and Wolf Man the name would either be Wolf Dog or Man Man. 

(laughter)

Cher: Inside you there are two dresses.

Lauren: It all connects.

Cher: Inside you there are two llamas. Inside you there are two dresses. Inside you there is Wolf Man and Dog Man. There’s an innie and an outie. 

Lauren: There’s a lot going on in there!

Cher: There’s a lot to unpack. 

And with that ... 

I’m Cher McAnelly and you can find me at OverChers.Tumblr.com. 

Lauren: And I’m Lauren Shippen, and you can find me at TheLaurenShippen.Tumblr.com.

Cher: This has been Dashboard Diaries. And ... 

[outtro music]

Lauren: May your anons always be loving.

Cher: Your dash always refreshed.

Lauren: Your gifs always be loading.

Cher: And your ships always canon.

Lauren: May the fics you’re reading always be finished.

Cher: And the answers you seek always in the re-blogs.

Lauren: Thanks for scrolling with us!

It's time to talk about the art of the procedural and sitcom! What makes them tick? Why do we miss them? What does Tumblr have to say about them? Plus, feelings about Severance and political art.

Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.

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AHS Apocalypse: Welcome to Murer House

JESSICA JESSICA

jessica and jesus have 4 letters in common? coincidence? i think NOT

1) HERE WE GO GAYS

2) madison and the one guy (i can’t remember anyone’s names) are iconic already

3) you can see more of the outside of the house. it looked like there was a greenhouse around the back left.

4) the house looks different from what i remember. like the stair placement

5) wow a spell to force them out of hiding. that sounds like a bisexual. ‘more crowded than a french youth hostel’

6) THE MUSIC Scared ME I ALMOST DROPPED MY CHICKEN

7) YES TATE AND DADDY HARMON FUCK YEAH mr harmon dragging tate aboit who he is

8) violet is still floating around cool and ignoring tate cool cool

9) it seems like everyone is stuck in a loop.

10) ‘even people protected by magic aren’t safe in this house’ wow chills

11) ‘look out the window and cry while i master bate’ big mood

12) is madison actually being sympathetic

13) red ball = BO (i really want to know more about him he deserves better honesty)

14) BILLIE YAY SHES HERE also did she just confirm that nora and madison montgomery are related somehow? perhaps aunt and niece

15) CONSTANCE YAY CONSTANCE ‘i’m constance langdon and this is my fucking house’ FUCK YEAH MAN THERE SHE IS THE QUEEN IS BACK

16) so constance is dead?

17) MOIRA YES BITCH

18) HHold yo what’s going with constance and the sudden voice drop? wait what

19) madison does hAve feeling. i’m glad we are actually seeing her talk about something as personal as her body issues and her first nude scene.

20) i’m so happy moira is getting out of that house. since the beginning that’s all she ever wanted. it’s so pure and the look on her face is priceless

21) jesus fucking christ. so constance really did try her best to raise michael bc she thought it was her responsibility. and she wasn’t fit for it so she died in the muder house bc that’s there her family is and where she’s confortable. but what happened to michael? how did she get to mead and did he model mead after constance? but constance’s story doesn’t make all that much sense lined up to meads character and demeanor. is she lying? also i wasn’t expecting that she had a daughter with no eyes. i still hate the fucking mirror room. it’s awful bc constance put addie in there as a punishment.

21.5) michael really did grow over night so he still has some characteristics that’s of a child. he doesn’t know how to process any of it.

22) constance has big dick energy

23) ‘crying while you double click your mouse’ LMAO

24) ‘i want to be like you dad’ ‘you didn’t spring from my nutsack! i couldn’t even create something as monsterous’ damn tate

25) okay so ben really did try to help michael but after he killed that lesbian couple turned against him and that’s probably triggered it. it was going so well but BAM

26) vivian still looks pretty and it’s scary how much michael looks like tate in the rubber man costume.

27) i forgot that michale had a twin. maybe he’ll play a part in it

28) apparently it’s an hour and a half episode cool nice

29) MEAD SHES HERE WITH LESLIE GROSSMAN

30) they just started worshiping him and micahel said ‘who are you’ me too man. he’s been worshipped as satan since the beginning cool.

31) okay so michale is literally the son of satan cool cool cool. like the shadow and everything behind him and the birds very spooky for halloween awesome. i had a feeling it wasn’t really tate while reading other theories. it only looks like tate.

32) also wtf was up with the fox.com halloween commercial that was spooky damn.

well it seems that next week the whole coven crew is back together and mertyl and evie be boojee together.

anyone have any thoughts about today’s episode?

michael really didn’t have a chance wow.

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The scary stuff Bidens White Home and DOJ may need finished to assault dad and mom: Jim Jordan

That is scary stuff: Rep Jim Jordan Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sounds off on the alleged collusion between the Nationwide College Boards Affiliation and the White Home and Justice Division on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’ Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, revealed the “scary stuff” that President Biden’s White Home and Justice Division may need engaged in to focus on schoolchildren’s dad and mom on “Life, Liberty & Levin.” In September 2021, the Nationwide College Boards Affiliation despatched a letter to Biden evaluating alleged threats of fogeys involved about essential race idea to home terrorism. It learn, partly, that “the classification of those heinous actions may very well be the equal to a type of home terrorism and hate crimes.” The NSBA coordinated with officers from the White Home and Justice Division earlier than sending its letter to Biden, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported, citing inside emails. NSBA COORDINATED WITH WHITE HOUSE, DOJ BEFORE SENDING NOTORIOUS ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISTS’ LETTER: EMAILS Jordan requested if the White Home and Justice Division knew the letter would come with the directive to weaponize the Patriot Act towards dad and mom. “[I]f your White Home and our Justice Division that we pay for — in the event that they’re encouraging a left-wing political group to put in writing them a letter as a pretext to go after dad and mom, to go after mothers and dads who merely try to do what’s finest for his or her youngsters’ schooling — in case you encourage that, in case you put that within the letter, that’s scary stuff.” Jordan mentioned an unknown Justice Division official determined: “After we go to this pastor’s home, we’re not going to name him up and have him meet us someplace. We’ll go to his home with 20 brokers, weapons drawn, kick in his door and do it in entrance of his spouse and kids.” “Somebody made that call. Who was it?” MAYORKAS WON’T NAME 1 DOMESTIC TERROR, WHITE SUPREMACY CASE REFERRED TO DOJ The Ohio congressman referred to as to carry the accountable events accountable and — “most significantly” — change how the Justice Division operates. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP He advisable the division deal with equal remedy below the legislation and legislation enforcement, relatively than treating People and fogeys like terrorists. Graham Colton is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions will be despatched to graham.colton@fox.com and on Twitter: @GrahamGColton. Originally published at San Jose News HQ Originally published at San Jose News HQ

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Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents.

Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car near the intersection of California Route 29 and Oakville Cross Road.

Pelosi allegedly handed officers his driver’s license and an "11-99 Foundation" card when they asked for his ID, according to the documents. The 11-99 Foundation is a California Highway Patrol charity that supports officers and provides scholarships for their children.

Pelosi allegedly exhibited "signs of impairment" during field sobriety tests and officers "observed objective signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication," according to the documents.

PAUL PELOSI TO BE ARRAIGNED ON DUI CHARGES WEDNESDAY

Nancy Pelosi's husband poses for a mugshot following DUI arrest. (Napa County Department of Corrections)

Those allegedly included "red/watery" eyes.

"He was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcohol beverage emanating from his breath," the complaint alleges.

The other driver, identified only as John Doe, was standing outside an SUV, according to the documents.

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NAPA COUNTY AUTHORITIES RELEASE PAUL PELOSI MUGSHOT WEEKS AFTER DUI ARREST

Both of them declined medical treatment at the scene, but Doe on June 2 told Napa County prosecutors that he had begun suffering pain in his upper right arm, right shoulder and neck the day after the crash. He also complained of headaches and said it was difficult to lift things with his right arm, according to the documents.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and husband Paul Pelosi. (Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images)

Pelosi allegedly injured the other driver "while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence," the first count in the two-charge complaint reads.

HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI'S HUSBAND, PAUL, ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA, CHARGED WITH DUI

Investigators later determined he had a blood-alcohol content of .082%.

Pelosi’s attorney, Amanda Bevins, told Fox News Digital, "I believe that the drug reference is part of the statutory boilerplate language in the complaint."

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Previously, descriptions of property damage and injuries stemming from the crash had been withheld.

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Records show Pelosi was bailed out the morning after the crash for a $5,000 sum.

Speaker Pelosi's office has previously said it would not comment on the incident, which a spokesperson said happened while she was on the opposite side of the country.

Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports

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Paul Pelosi to be arraigned on DUI causing injury charges Wednesday

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Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney's Office said in a press release on Monday.

The charges stem from a crash on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi's 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that evening.

Mugshot for Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Napa County Department of Corrections)

Pelosi, 81, allegedly had a blood alcohol content level of .082% when a sample was taken about two hours after the crash.

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The district attorney said that misdemeanor charges were filed "based upon the extent of the injuries suffered by the victim." It's unclear what those injuries are and the driver of the Jeep was not arrested.

Pelosi or his defense counsel will enter a plea at the arraignment on Wednesday. A defendant in a misdemeanor DUI case does not have to be present in the courtroom for an arraignment under California law.  

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and husband Paul Pelosi. (Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images))

The district attorney said when charges were filed in June that the punishment for DUI causing injury as a misdemeanor "includes up to five years of probation, a minimum of five days in jail, installation of an ignition interlock device, fines and fees, completion of a court ordered drinking driver class, and other terms as appropriate."

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A spokesperson for Paul Pelosi did not return a request for comment on Monday.

Paul Best is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Paul.best@fox.com and on Twitter: @KincaidBest.

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Arizona Supreme Court rules 98,000 people whose citizenship is unconfirmed can vote in pivotal election

So much for protecting American Votes, what a bunch of dumb asses! 

Nearly 98,000 people whose U.S. citizenship has not been confirmed will be allowed to vote in the upcoming state and local elections, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The ruling came after a "coding oversight" in state software prompted the swing state's Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to insist that he would send out ballots to those affected anyway.

The database error called into question the citizenship status of 100,000 registered Arizona voters, affecting individuals who obtained their driver’s licenses before October 1996, and subsequently received duplicates before registering to vote after 2004.

Fontes and Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County recorder, disagreed on what status the voters should hold following the "coding oversight."

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes looks on during a House Administration Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. (Bonnie Cash/Getty Images)

A voter fills out her ballot during early voting. (Reuters/Nick Oxford)

Richer filed a special action Tuesday asking the state Supreme Court to settle the question.

"It is my position that these registrants have not satisfied Arizona’s documented proof of citizenship law, and therefore can only vote a ‘FED ONLY’ ballot," Richer wrote on X.

SCOTUS GIVES PARTIAL VICTORY TO GOP TRYING TO ENFORCE PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO VOTE IN ARIZONA 

FILE - A woman walks to cast her ballot after filling it in a privacy booth while voting in the gubernatorial election in Newark, New Jersey, Nov. 2, 2021.  (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

The error comes as Arizona Republicans and a conservative watchdog group have been pushing for stricter voting measures that require proof of U.S. citizenship to participate in state and federal elections. Arizona is also a swing state that flipped blue in the 2020 presidential election. 

Fox News Digital's Jamie Jospeh and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. 

Story tips and ideas can be sent to sarah.rumpf@fox.com and on X: @s_rumpfwhitten.

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Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, was arrested on suspicion of DUI on May 28 Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents. Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car near the intersection of California Route 29 and Oakville Cross Road. Pelosi allegedly handed officers his driver’s license and an "11-99 Foundation" card when they asked for his ID, according to the documents. The 11-99 Foundation is a California Highway Patrol charity that supports officers and provides scholarships for their children. Pelosi allegedly exhibited "signs of impairment" during field sobriety tests and officers "observed objective signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication," according to the documents. PAUL PELOSI TO BE ARRAIGNED ON DUI CHARGES WEDNESDAY Those allegedly included "red/watery" eyes. "He was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcohol beverage emanating from his breath," the complaint alleges. The other driver, identified only as John Doe, was standing outside an SUV, according to the documents. NAPA COUNTY AUTHORITIES RELEASE PAUL PELOSI MUGSHOT WEEKS AFTER DUI ARREST Both of them declined medical treatment at the scene, but Doe on June 2 told Napa County prosecutors that he had begun suffering pain in his upper right arm, right shoulder and neck the day after the crash. He also complained of headaches and said it was difficult to lift things with his right arm, according to the documents. Pelosi allegedly injured the other driver "while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence," the first count in the two-charge complaint reads. HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI'S HUSBAND, PAUL, ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA, CHARGED WITH DUI Investigators later determined he had a blood-alcohol content of .082%. Pelosi’s attorney, Amanda Bevins, told Fox News Digital, "I believe that the drug reference is part of the statutory boilerplate language in the complaint." Paul Pelosi Superior Court Page 1 (Napa County) Previously, descriptions of property damage and injuries stemming from the crash had been withheld. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Records show Pelosi was bailed out the morning after the crash for a $5,000 sum. Speaker Pelosi's office has previously said it would not comment on the incident, which a spokesperson said happened while she was on the opposite side of the country. Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports

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Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents.

Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car near the intersection of California Route 29 and Oakville Cross Road.

Pelosi allegedly handed officers his driver’s license and an "11-99 Foundation" card when they asked for his ID, according to the documents. The 11-99 Foundation is a California Highway Patrol charity that supports officers and provides scholarships for their children.

Pelosi allegedly exhibited "signs of impairment" during field sobriety tests and officers "observed objective signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication," according to the documents.

PAUL PELOSI TO BE ARRAIGNED ON DUI CHARGES WEDNESDAY

Nancy Pelosi's husband poses for a mugshot following DUI arrest. (Napa County Department of Corrections)

Those allegedly included "red/watery" eyes.

"He was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcohol beverage emanating from his breath," the complaint alleges.

The other driver, identified only as John Doe, was standing outside an SUV, according to the documents.

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NAPA COUNTY AUTHORITIES RELEASE PAUL PELOSI MUGSHOT WEEKS AFTER DUI ARREST

Both of them declined medical treatment at the scene, but Doe on June 2 told Napa County prosecutors that he had begun suffering pain in his upper right arm, right shoulder and neck the day after the crash. He also complained of headaches and said it was difficult to lift things with his right arm, according to the documents.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and husband Paul Pelosi. (Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images)

Pelosi allegedly injured the other driver "while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence," the first count in the two-charge complaint reads.

HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI'S HUSBAND, PAUL, ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA, CHARGED WITH DUI

Investigators later determined he had a blood-alcohol content of .082%.

Pelosi’s attorney, Amanda Bevins, told Fox News Digital, "I believe that the drug reference is part of the statutory boilerplate language in the complaint."

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Paul Pelosi Superior Court Page 1 (Napa County)

Previously, descriptions of property damage and injuries stemming from the crash had been withheld.

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Records show Pelosi was bailed out the morning after the crash for a $5,000 sum.

Speaker Pelosi's office has previously said it would not comment on the incident, which a spokesperson said happened while she was on the opposite side of the country.

Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports

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