Jess Gitner

A 5pm sunset is devastating. Once again, I am asking why people like fall 😭.

Disney+ and Hulu Cancellation Rates Doubled Amid Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Saga According to Antenna, Disney+'s churn for the month increased from 4% to 8%, while Hulu climbed from 5% to 10%

Yeah, holy shit — Disney+ and Hulu lost *twice* as many users as they signed up last month, even counting accounts given away w/ bundles, promos, etc. Every media company has to see now that folding to Trump is an existentially bad business decision. www.thewrap.com/disney-plus-...

I am only finding some peace that this wasn’t my fault… and in fact the failure of a Patagonia pocket. Check your pockets, folks. Didn’t know this was something I had to do 😪.

I lost my keys briefly too, so guess it could’ve been worse. Sigh.

Find My feature is also tormenting me 🥲. I saw them at the theater and contacted them, only to be told nothing was found. Tonight I see them out in Manchester, MO. I will write them a letter I suppose.

Now it is 12:30am, and I am still tormented by my lost Airpods.

It finally got cold here in STL, so on Friday, I took my beloved @patagonia.com Talus jacket from the closet and wore it to a comedy show.

I stopped laughing when I realized my pocket delaminated and everything I put in it just fell right out… onto the silent carpeted floor I might add (cont’d).

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

🤮

Texas Tech’s limits on gender identity discussion deepen fears of politics breaching academic freedom Professors are afraid to publicly speak out, system leaders left key questions unanswered and advocates worry for LGBTQ+ students’ mental health.

Free speech, or something www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

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Remember: this is $20, supports a library in a city under attack by the federal government right now, and it makes Matt Yglesias mad 😹

Luckily, my handyman had that thing that beeps when there is a current so he yelled down when I got to the right breaker 🙏🏻

Today I had to cut power to the garage. Eventually, I figured out how to do it, which was by flipping the breaker labeled “microwave.” That, in a nutshell, is home ownership 🙃.

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

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over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does

a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains

one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

So happy for Anisimova 🥹. What an incredible match for both her and Osaka!

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Me watching Anisimova vs. Osaka past my bedtime. I am so, so invested in this match 🫣😅.

I just found it. Looks like that particular match is locked for me and is only on ESPN, but not ESPN+ (thru Hulu). Lame!

Damn, I searched it still didn’t come up. I have ESPN+ thru Hulu.

Tuned into ESPN+ to watch the Pegula match and devastated it’s on on. Just girls and boys matches 😪.

What gives?!

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert Let's go chasing waterfalls.

“You not believing it doesn't make it true. You not understanding it doesn't mean it isn't understood. Your ignorance gives you no authority. Your skepticism doesn't make you wise.” @juliusgoat.bsky.social

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77% of registered Democrats say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But only 6% of congressional Democrats (13) have called it a genocide.

75% of registered Democrats oppose military aid to Israel. But only 19% of congressional Democrats (40) are co-sponsoring the Block the Bombs Act.

Clown show in FL

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics ON SWIFT HORSES | Official Trailer (2025)

Was excited ON SWIFT HORSES hit Netflix this weekend, but it just didn’t feel very complete.

The good: Gorgeous, gorgeous people. Drool to Jacob Elordi. Gay stuff 👯👯‍♀️. Fun gambling scenes. 1950s costumes/visuals.

The bad: I just didn’t care enough about the characters 🥲.

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Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro—who claims she’s helping Trump fight crime in D.C.—will no longer charge people for illegally carrying shotguns and assault weapons in public, which is a felony offense under D.C. law.

Washingtonians, do we feel safer yet? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A lot people are proudly ignorant. It’s wild. If I’m clueless about something, I keep it cute and quiet.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Yeah, this look right here that Nala was giving Simba was absolutely NOT family-friendly.

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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