09/23/25

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 23.

Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

According to a 2023 Pew Research Study, 4% of US adults say they identify as bisexual, while 3% say they identify as being gay or lesbian. But bi erasure is a serious problem because pretending like bisexuality doesn’t exist and people just “haven’t decided yet” leads to a stigma around bisexuality. But if 4% of Americans say they identify as bisexual, I mean… that sounds pretty real to me.

And now, the news.

Jimmy’s Back Baybee (Kind Of)

-via Deadline, Variety, and The Hill

Starting with the news that the Jimmy Kimmel Show will air again – but with an asterisk.

Disney called Kimmel’s comments “ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

I… whatever. Whatever! Insensitive? Grow up! This is very obviously a statement written to appease Dear Leader but hey – we got em back on the air.

Unless your ABC affiliate is one of the 39 ABC-affiliated stations owned or controlled by Sinclair Broadcast Group’s thumb. They will, instead, play the news.

Sinclair is owned by a wildly conservative family and not only do they want a formal apology from Kimmel but he needs to give a “meaningful” donation to Turning Point.

No idea what meaningful means. The chair on Sinclair said Kimmel’s comments were, “inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country.”

He was a podcaster!

Anyway… Kimmel’s back and that’s lovely.

Him being pulled from the air was the worst part of the story. Full stop. But can I tell you what is also not good, just on a personal note? Like, what doesn’t feel good in my tum tum?

Ted Cruz called the FCC’s move “dangerous as hell” and “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’” (Although he said it on his podcast and you know how I feel about these elected officials having podcasts… it’s absurd. You should not have time for a podcast! What are you doing?)

Anyway, he said that and then Mitch McConnell said, “As a First Amendment guy, myself, I think he’s probably got it right. You don’t have to like what somebody says on TV to agree that the government shouldn’t be getting involved here.”

Oh my god… I hate being on the same side as them! Rough. Rough moment for a Kim, that’s for sure.

Congratulations Jimmy. Happy for you. I’m gonna… go do some thinkin’ for a while.

Trump Tries Tylenol to Autism

-via AP News

On Monday, Trump made a wildly (wildly!) unfounded and dangerous claim linking Tylenol and vaccines to autism.

Now, autism and vaccines have long been (incorrectly) tied together despite science (do you remember science? We used to have it until late January 2025. It was pretty cool!) disproving it time and time again. But conspiracy theorists have continued to put that lie over and over again.

This one’s new, though!

He literally said, “Don’t take Tylenol.”

I wonder how Johnson and Johnson will feel about that. Probably not thrilled about the namedrop, that’s for sure!

He specifically was saying this in regards to pregnant women. He also urged mothers not to give it to infants. Adding and fathers – I don’t know what to tell you. If it’s a girl you don’t meet her until she’s 24 and you go on The View to say if she wasn’t your daughter, you’d probably be dating her.

Ew. I’m sorry.

Look, not unlike for everything, of course it would be great to get more answers when it comes to autism. However, when there’s already been proven testing in one arena – backtracking and pushing back just because the vibe doesn’t match your brand or the brand of a guy who is friends with ravens… that’s not helping anything.

And I do understand that ravens are very smart and we have to be nice to them because they remember faces and can do rudimentary math, but if you’re seeking out friendship with them, perhaps that should be what you do all day. If your morning starts with let me talk to my raven friends and catch up real quick the rest of your daily schedule shouldn’t be, and then go to my high-ranking government job.

Art Caplan, New York University’s bioethicist, called Trump’s remarks, “the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies, and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority.”

Tell us how you really feel, Art.

Trump also said the FDA would start telling doctors that acetaminophen “can be associated” with an increased risk of autism, but when asked for justification for this, he couldn’t provide it.

Because you can’t provide something that doesn’t exist.

That’s why I can’t provide a reason that Kelly Clarkson has yet to put out a full Kellyoake album. The reason doesn’t exist.

But while my example is only mildly annoying, what Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr (cursed sentence) did on Monday was incredibly irresponsible.

Take the same percentage of medical advice as the number of medical degrees that the two of them have.

Zero.

Consult a doctor before starting a medication regimen.

No raven doctors allowed.

Unless they are Ravens as in the One Tree Hill mascot – that’s probably fine, as long as they then went to college after high school.

Government Shutdown Looms (Repeat)

-via CBS News

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before but… the government is about to shut down.

Honestly – have we tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?

Trump will meet with Congressional Democratic leaders Schumer and Jeffries this week after they sent him a letter demanding a meeting and said democrats would not support a “dirty spending bill” that doesn’t address their health care priorities.

They have until September 30th to get this figured out.

This is kind of the story of the government recently… nothing but continuing resolutions to just fund for a few more months until we can get to the next budget fight. Neat! Super cool! Good system.

Yeah so if you just go around the back of the capitol, there’s a button – turn it off for a couple minutes and then turn it back on. Should reset the whole thing.

We’ll probably talk about this as we get closer to the 30th because both sides will want to hold out until the last minute. Obviously, temperatures are high, so honestly, who knows if a shutdown will happen. There’s still plenty of time for negotiations. Which probably isn’t particularly soothing information for the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people, who won’t get paid during a shutdown. But hopefully it can be avoided.

Something super unhelpful is that when I alta vista’d “how many people stop getting paid if the government shuts down” the top story was “Democrats Threaten a Shutdown Over Radical Left Insanity” – that is on the official White House website.

It might not be a button. It could be a plug. You’re gonna have to root around back there, it’s possible there’s some dirt on it. But I’m telling you – a hard reset will fix this whole thing.

And that’s it. That’s the news.

Hey, apparently today was supposed to be the rapture. According to a bunch of people on TikTok.com. So if you’re hearing this, either there was no rapture or there was and… uh oh for us I guess.

Or third option… there are podcasts in heaven?

No… no there are podcasts in heaven. Hell is empty, and all the podcasts are here.

Anyway, I’m proud of bisexuals! The whole LGBTQ+ spectrum. Whether you’re out, in, got a little toe out, there is a place for you here. Don’t let some small minded doofuses try and tell you otherwise.

It’s also International Day of Sign Languages and to those watching on YouTube with the captions, I’d like to say (what-up friend?)

That joke is my favorite. I’ve done it before too. Cause I’m really doing the sign! So silly.

Anyway, more than my silly jokes that I will recycle until they are no longer funny and then I’ll continue using them until they come around to being funny again, because you are timeless… I’m proud of you.