The Monday Edition - Sep 21, 2020
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Solo quiero ser vista. I only want to be seen.
Award-winning author Mark Oshiro’s new Latinx YA fantasy, Each of Us a Desert, is a queer coming-of-age story about two young women finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life—available now.
Gaming, Bethesda Game Studios, Microsoft, Xbox

Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Many Others Going to Xbox as Microsoft Buys Bethesda, ZeniMax Media

doom is coming to microsoft
Oh and let's not forget the price tag for this: $7.5 billion in cash.
News, Lisa Murkowski, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Susan Collins

Sens. Susan Collins & Lisa Murkowski Are Once Again Asking Us to Believe They’ll Finally Do the Right Thing for Once

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (L) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) share an elevator
We are all Charlie Brown and they are Lucy with that damn football.
News, 2020 Election, Lindsey Graham, MJ Hegar, United States Senate

Four Senate Races You Should Be Supporting That Aren’t McConnell/McGrath

A small group of demonstrators protests outside the US Capitol on the early morning of September 21, 2020 in Washington, DC, as they marched from the home of US Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) to the court. - Graham is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and will oversee the confirmation hearing for a nominated Supreme Court Justice. US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would nominate a woman to succeed late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president's desire to "to move quickly" on the process, despite Democrats' vehement opposition, is likely to dominate the campaigns -- alongside other hot-button issues such as the coronavirus and America's ongoing racial reckoning -- ahead of the November 3 election. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
There will very likely be hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee for a new Supreme Court Justice. Here are the members who are facing serious election challenges.
TV, 2020 Emmys, Euphoria, Zendaya

Zendaya Made History With Her Emmy Win!

Zendaya as Rue in Euphoria
Congrats to Zendaya. You deserved this win (and so many more), and I can't wait to see what you do next!
Movies, Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Calls Out Hollywood’s Silence on China’s Concentration Camps

judd apatow
"China has bought our silence with their money."
AMP Featured, Technology, China, donald trump, tiktok

TikTok Avoids Ban and Tricks Trump

An Indian mobile user browses through the Chinese owned video-sharing 'Tik Tok' app on a smartphone in Bangalore on June 30, 2020. - TikTok on June 30 denied sharing information on Indian users with the Chinese government, after New Delhi banned the wildly popular app citing national security and privacy concerns. "TikTok continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law and have not shared any information of our users in India with any foreign government, including the Chinese Government," said the company, which is owned by China's ByteDance. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran / AFP) (Photo by MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)
TikTok lives to meme another day and sort of humiliated Donald Trump in the way they did it.
TV, Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff, WandaVision

WandaVision Trailer Is an Emotional Journey for Fans of Scarlet Witch

Wanda Maximoff in WandaVision
Out of nowhere, Marvel decided to gift us all with the beauty of the WandaVision trailer, and instantly, I felt absolutely terrible for Wanda Maximoff (and I wanted to know what Kathryn Hahn's entire deal was).
Movies, horror (genre), Janelle Monáe

Antebellum Is So Concerned With Instilling Trauma That It Forgets to Tell a Story

Antebellum (2020) Janelle Monáe in Antebellum (2020)
More than anything, Antebellum is so in love with its concept that it participates in the dehumanization of every Black character that is not Eden/Veronica, and everyone in the film is just a collection of boring tropes. There is nothing there.
TV, Emmy Awards

Here’s What 2020’s Socially Distant Emmys Were Like

Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel battle a literal trash fire on stage at the 2020 Emmy Awards.
The 2020 Emmy Awards ceremony aired live tonight, and after last year's no-host show, things were back to normal on that front while being completely upside down in every other way, as we've become accustomed to lately. Above, you can see Jimmy Kimmel deliver his monologue, which began in kind of a jarring way, though not quite in the way you might expect.
Big on the Internet, fan art, She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany

Things We Saw Today: Everything Sucks But at Least We Have Tatiana Maslany as She-Hulk Fan Art

tatiana maslany jennifer walters
Are you tuning in for the Emmys tonight?
TV, Maya Rudolph, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Good Place

Maya Rudolph Says The Good Place Judge Was Based on RBG

the good place
Maya Rudolph is one of those rare actors that immediately elevates any project she's a part of.
TV, Disney+, kamala khan, Ms. Marvel

Disney+ Assembles a Powerful Roster of Directors for Ms. Marvel

Kamala Khan
Are you excited for Ms. Marvel? Who do you think should play Kamala Khan?
AMP Featured, News, Journalism, riots, Trump

Trump Calls Police Shooting Journalists “A Beautiful Thing”

ali velshi george floyd protests
Just when we think Donald Trump can't get crueler, more authoritarian, or more vindictive, he plummets to new depths.
Big on the Internet, David Harbour, Stranger Things, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: David Harbour Teases Season 4 of Stranger Things

Stranger Things
The actor stars alongside Scarlett Johansson in Black Widow, which has seen its own release date postponed due to the pandemic.
TV, Ratched, Ryan Murphy, Sarah Paulson

Ratched Delivers The Very Best and Worst of Ryan Murphy

sarah paulson
With terrific performances, rich production design, and the signature WTF horror camp that Murphy does so well, Ratched almost matches its own ambitions, but falls just short of the mark.
Big on the Internet, abortion, Republicans, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Republican Doug Collins Excoriated for Gloating Over RBG’s Death

doug collins
If you're disgusted by what Collins tweeted and by the ghoulish republican response to RBG's passing, now is a great time to donate to Rev. Warnock's campaign.
Big on the Internet, Democracy, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Let Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Memory Be a Rallying Cry to Save Democracy

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, injury, healing, ribs, supreme court
We can be sad because we've lost RBG. But we don't honor her memory by giving up and giving in to our despair.
AMP Featured, News, politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

RIP RBG

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died today due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer at 87 years old. The second woman ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, she was a giant whose impact cannot be overstated. We are profoundly shaken by losing her, but we will forever be inspired to follow in her footsteps.
Big on the Internet, Halloween, Humor, nick lutsko

Things We Saw Today: This Spirit Halloween Theme Song (With a Twist) Is Everything

a distressed man sings about spirit halloween
Comic musician Nick Lutsko has written the official Spirit Halloween theme song and, friends ... it is a masterpiece.
Movies, Cuties

French Cinema Group Stands By Cuties in the Face of America’s Embarrassing “Violent Reaction”

image from the netflix movie cuties
UniFrance, which works to promote French cinema internationally, has released a statement offering its "full support" to director Doucouré.
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