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Ched-Z, the Cheez-it mascot

Ched-Z even officiated a wedding!

@hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social @jasonkirk.fyi @celebrityhottub.bsky.social Last year at the Citrus Bowl, they actually did have a Pop-Tarts style mascot named Ched-Z, who was not edible (sadly). They also auctioned off a Cheez-it branded hot tub

— Dallas McCash (@littlemccash.bsky.social) 2024-12-29T16:23:57.872Z

Can a marriage even be legal if officiated by a Cheez It?

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) 2024-12-31T21:12:59.602Z

Homage to a classic

— Niels Grotum (@ngrotum.bsky.social) 2025-01-01T00:02:24.279Z

25 years since Y2K

Y2K turned out to be nothing because of the hard work of many people. I worked at a government agency. Our agency spent years planning for it and everything went smoothly.

Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!

— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) 2024-12-31T21:32:26.305Z

Wow it’s the 25th anniversary of Y2K where nothing happened because a bunch of us did a metric fuck-ton of work in ‘99 testing and upgrading IT infrastructure systems. Wildest thing I worked on replacing was a CP/M system in a critical role – it booted from 8” floppies, and a VAX with a 9 Track tape

— Marie Fromm (@mallorys.bsky.social) 2025-01-01T00:51:34.885Z

Trump lies about the New Orleans killer

The guy was an American, not an immigrant. Trump’s lie will stir up anti-immigrant sentiment and I don’t expect him to correct it.

Great column by @nberlat.bsky.social:"The ugly truth is that Trump and MAGA wanted the attacker to be an immigrant, and now that they know he isn’t, they’re shameless enough to just to forge ahead with pretending that he is."www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-new-…

— Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T18:04:24.185Z

"First, he flunked a test of accuracy, pushing misinformation within hours of a deadly attack. Second, he flunked a test of decency, trying to exploit the attack to advance an ugly and misguided agenda. And third, Trump flunked a test of credibility."

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-01-02T19:18:16.780Z

Donald Trump is actively using what happens in New Orleans to promote a fake anti-immigration agenda. It's shameful.

— Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) 2025-01-01T19:43:13.387Z

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-01-02T15:07:09.370Z

Alternative headline for your consideration, NYT:Trump dishonestly uses New Orleans attack to demonize immigrants

— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2025-01-01T23:05:38.193Z

Minutes after Fox falsely reported the New Orleans truck attack suspect had just crossed the border, Trump claimed that he was an immigrant. The Fox-Trump feedback loop is back. http://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/new…

— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) 2025-01-02T18:10:46.746Z

Trump flunks 3 key tests following deadly New Orleans attackWithin hours of the New Year’s attack in New Orleans, the president-elect simultaneously flunked tests of accuracy, decency and credibility. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo…

— Democracy Skies in Blueness – Resist (@democracyblue.bsky.social) 2025-01-02T15:03:12.906Z

This isn’t rocket science. He lied. He pushed erroneous garbage without knowing facts, knowing full well his base will never pay attention to the clarification.

— Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) 2025-01-02T03:53:02.692Z

YouTube video of the T.A.M.I. Show

The T.A.M.I. Show from 1964 had an all-star lineup (copied from the YouTube description):

The Barbarians The Beach Boys Chuck Berry James Brown and The Famous Flames Marvin Gaye (with backing vocals by The Blossoms) Gerry & the Pacemakers Lesley Gore Jan and Dean Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas Smokey Robinson and The Miracles The Rolling Stones Diana Ross and the Supremes The Wrecking Crew

It’s available on DVD and Blu-ray from Shout Factory

Terrible Republican behavior in North Carolina

Gutting the power of the governor and attorney general who are Democrats. They also have a bad challenge to an election they lost.

1/ A Republican judge who narrowly lost a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is trying to get around 60,000 ballots thrown out based on a theory that some election deniers worried was too extreme: http://www.propublica.org/article/jeff…

— Doug Bock Clark (@dougbockclark.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T14:51:39.796Z

The President and Vice President should publicly condemn what NC Republicans are doing as we condemn illiberal acts across the world. What NC Rs are doing is wrong, and our leaders should say so.

— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2024-12-14T14:53:36.956Z

Since the Tea Party take-over of the North Carolina GOP, the state has moved to the forefront of undemocratic measures to protect minority power.

— Cas Ⓜ️udde 🤷‍♂️ (@casmudde.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T23:21:32.111Z

Among other things, the bill moves authority over elections to the state auditor—not a role that oversees elections anywhere else—simply because a Republican happened to win that race last month

— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) 2024-12-11T22:01:09.316Z

Republicans are also trying to overturn their loss for North Carolina's Supreme Court, whose 5-2 GOP majority legalized gerrymandering & upheld voting restrictions in 2023.The only way voters can make elections fairer is electing a Dem majority, but the GOP stealing this seat would shift it to 6-1

— Stephen Wolf (@stephenwolf.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T21:54:01.690Z

🚨BREAKING: Third Count a Charm: Riggs Wins North Carolina Supreme Court Race! http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2024-12-10T22:29:04.612Z

Everyone should know about what's happening in North Carolina. Republicans are using Trump's playbook to try to overturn an election. I wrote about it last week:

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2024-12-08T16:56:53.385Z