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You might know Marilyn, Roo and Irene. None of Pippa's kids are around now.

Thanks @Skylover I wish they could go back to the '90s or early '00s credits.

This Politico "reporter," whose father follows various hatemongers like Kristi Noem and Libs of Tiktok, may be the most pathetic journalist I've seen on Twitter (which is saying a lot). Hand-in-hand with the smugness and victim-playing are the pundits and flacks who continue to insist on a red wave and twist themselves into knots to downplay any breaks from the reality they are giving everything to make happen.

The whole thing is so confusing (made worse by the Cuomo-appointed judges nuking the original district maps). As far as I could figure out, Pat Ryan is not running for this seat in November. He is running for NY-18 (he won the primary for that last night). Josh Riley is running in November, while Molinaro is running in NY-19 again. With so many seats at risk I think they just didn't want to throw money at a special election. They did the same with the Texas seat that Mayra Flores won for the GOP in June (getting her endless adoring media attention that Ryan is, naturally, not getting). They did put some in once it was getting close. I'm not sure if it was a good thing in this case they didn't get as involved. I just hope they can keep up the momentum as the media is already bound and determined to rig a GOP landslide at all costs.

Thanks @victoria foxton as always for your tags.

More of the media reminding us of their agenda, even pushing the joke that is Selena Z.

Ron DeSantis' takeover of various school boards was a demoralizing way to start the night, but in more positive news, Pat Ryan (take that, Frank!) kept the swing seat NY-19 (Antonio Delgado resigned to become lt. governor). Various polls, including from various Democratic polls, had the Republican, media hyped Marc Malinaro, winning by 8-10%. The DCCC, stretched very thin, didn't spend a lot of money here (VoteVets did spend 500K). Ryan won in part due to rural counties not showing up as much while blue counties overperformed, but he also very pointedly, with no apologies, ran on choice, in spite of a media ecosystem that loves to jeer Democrats who take this approach (just ask Mark Udall). Some will say special elections don't matter, they will say New York is not important, or that Biden narrowly won in 2020 so Ryan narrowly winning is not a big deal, but this was a seat seen as a likely pickup until not long ago. If this type of energy and smart campaigning can be kept in 2022, it is still going to be very hard, especially in some states, but at least there's a chance.

I've seen some upset over this being put out on Peacock so soon and how much it will impact the box office.

In the last few days I'd noticed the accounts that are often tied to ops and strictly follow narratives given to them, like Jack Pussbag or whatever his name is (who was heavily involved in pushing the Canadian trucker convoy, Pizzagate, etc.), were launching hard attacks against Fetterman, all the way to bot-heavy hashtag trends calling him Uncle Fester to outright ridiculing him for having a stroke. Given how close Trump and Oz are, and how tied they likely are to the same murky figures, I assume this is a Hail Mary after the news that McConnell was cutting him off. You'd think Oz's campaign would let them do the dirty work, but no, clearly not: The irony is a lot of Fetterman supporters are Bernie groupies who relished these types of attacks against Biden (and before him, Hillary). Now that Fetterman is likely seen as part of the establishment, and they are drawn to this type of aggressive trolling, I wonder if some of them will end up supporting Oz...

I skipped that at first so thanks for telling me. I wonder what Erika did want them to do with Viki. I'm glad she didn't want to go for Viki/Mel.

JFP was the one who wrapped up that story, yes, very abruptly. Sometime I should go back and watch Dorian/Mel but at the time I felt like there was so much emphasis on how annoying Dorian was meant to be to Mel, and generally how great Mel was, that I kept waiting for him to be paired with Viki.

I think Javier, Linda and Eddie were all last seen during the Labine period (wasn't Javier's last story Tea playing games with him and it backfiring - I hated everything with Tea so I have no idea anymore).

@Vee You're right, Labine did Hank/Carlotta. I forgot to mention that Angel Square was also pretty polarizing/weighed heavy in Malone's last year.

The last major story he'd written was the Men of 21 stuff, Carlo's return, Bo going undercover as an Irish terrorist and Patrick arriving in Llanview. He'd also brought Drew and Rachel back onto the canvas - I think his ultimate plans may have been for a Drew/Nora relationship but I'm not sure. I remember a lot of talk from some about how Luna's death story felt like a retread of Megan's death story, him just redoing his old work (even though he said he cried while writing the scripts).

What a surprise to see two of the most pro extremist "respectable" outlets carrying water for their god.

Too bad they have one of the most offputting hosts in the history of TV...

A good interview with Barbra I'm not sure I'd seen going around before.

Dee's main problem was how quickly she seemed to burn out from being put right in the heart of the show. Annie I never feel like is an actually important character, even though she was heavy in story for a few years.

I remember Corday supposedly being involved with the huge changes for the worse at Soap Opera Weekly because they had some mild criticism of the soaps. I know soap magazines, like all other magazines, couldn't have lasted, but still, if a genuine place of constructive criticism had lasted longer, the soaps might not have careened so far off a cliff in quality and arrogance to any real change over the last two decades. Of course so many these days are so busy trying to have "shade," get likes, and have their pals laugh as they go on about an actor being too fat for them to get hard for, the constructive concerns are drowned out, but that's partly because the middleman between unfiltered fan views and a brain dead show was stomped out.

That's probably about the best summary I saw on Twitter. If he was kinder offline then it's another reminder of just how toxic and detrimental social media tends to be, and also a reminder of why you should not base your life and personality on that type of persona as so many soaps fans or bloggers tend to do. Anyway, I hope he is at peace.

I had forgotten about all of that. Eesh. My heart breaks over everything Kristoff went through.

That's terrible news. Nelson's columns were so widely discussed when I got on here and I will always remember that period of time, which was exciting and interesting, much moreso than anything on the soaps themselves by that point, even when I had my own criticisms of the whole thing. I'm sorry to hear of his passing. This whole month has felt like another closing of a door on soaps, but we keep them alive in our own individual ways, generation to generation, as Nelson himself did. Rest in peace.

Thank you so much for finding all of this and sharing it with us @jam6242 I wish we were in a world where these shows were readily available, but this is nearly as good.

In past years this would have happened. I can't imagine how Bill Bell or the Cordays (not Ken) would have reacted in a similar situation. I know the industry they worked in is gone, it's not just about soaps and lack of respect for them - look at the ugly way those working at the Discovery properties have been treated this month - but you can see the lack of care in everyone involved being blindsided by this move. There's no way this dogshit is going to attract paying customers, unless DAYS has a billionaire fan out there who can keep things afloat. It's something I just try not to even think much about because the whole thing is sad. No soap should be set up to fail that way. I guess this is the monkey's paw of the production schedule that has kept DAYS on for a decade as, essentially, a zombie soap, but it still feels wrong.