ABOVE: Always loved Kerwin.

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BELOW: Keep reading for Zuck fucking us, DeWine signs anti-gay bill, fighting fire falsehoods and more ...

NBC NEWS: Thanks to aspiring alpha Mark Zuckerberg, Meta is fine with calling gay people “mentally ill.”

ADVOCATE: Idaho is angling to the be state that pushes the newly conservative SCOTUS to ban gay marriage again.

RANDY REPORT: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R), supposed one of the kinder, gentler Republicans, just signed a Don't Say Gay bill into law.

HUFF POST: The factors that conspired to make this L.A. winter an unusually fertile ground for runaway fires.

LAIST: Republicans pretend water was absent from L.A.

TWITTER: Social media is pretending that water tanks were empty ahead of the L.A.-area wildfires. The media is exacerbating this perception. It is FALSE. It is a FALSE rumor invented to attack Democrats:

At the latest press conference, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass debunks MAGA propaganda that there is no water to fight the wildfires and that the tanks weren't filled prior to the fires breaking out.

Does MAGA ever stop lying? pic.twitter.com/O4JOU3dvkE

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) January 9, 2025

YOUTUBE: Jamie Lee Curtis is giving $1M to fight the L.A. fires. Her words on the disaster last night:

THE AP: Trump will be sentenced tomorrow, following New York's highest appeals court turning down his lawyers' attempt to forestall it.

The King of So Bad, It's Good (Image via Chicago Review Press)

ADVOCATE: Bruce Vilanch's It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time is out, and it's recalling his insane career, including writing The Star Wars Holiday Special, working with Paul Lynde, writing Eartha Kitt's disco hits and more.

The impetus for the book came from being on a lot of podcasts during COVID, with younger people asking about these pieces of ... well, let’s call them “television history.” Shows like The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Brady Bunch Hour and The Paul Lynde Halloween Special have taken on a second life on YouTube, and people always ask the same question: How did this happen? And have the people responsible paid their debt to society?

NBC NEWS: Elon Musk is now admitting his brag that he'd find $2 trillion in wasteful spending to cut ... probably won't come to fruition.

REUTERS: Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum hits back at Trump, suggesting we now call the U.S. and all of North America Mexican America.

TWITTER: Great view of Pence sheepishly shaking Trump's hand at Carter's funeral, while Mother Pence pointedly ignores Trump AND Melania.

🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert:

Karen Pence.

If you incite a mob to kill someone’s spouse and continue to lie about it for the next four years, that person shouldn’t respect you or shake your hand. We’re with Karen. pic.twitter.com/SdRZDAsl0y

— Principles First (@Principles_1st) January 9, 2025

POLITICO: Be afraid of Tulsi Gabbard, very afraid.