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Lucas Brown Eyes (Oglala Lakota)

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Lucas Brown Eyes is a super funny Oglala Lakota television writer, who sold the first-ever Native American family comedy to Fox in 2017. He has written for shows on Netflix, Freeform, and Disney, but he has dominated on Twitter for years and is definitely someone to follow!

Here’s one of our favorite Lucas Brown Eyes twitter jokes.

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Brian Bahe (Tohono O’odham Nation/Hopi/Navajo)

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Brian Bahe is a hilarious standup comedian and writer, and his Twitter game is so strong that he was even written up by Vulture! Pre-COVID he co-hosted the Brooklyn-based standup shows “Star Fuckers: Astrology but Make It Comedy” at Union Hall and “Butt Dream” at The Rack Shack, which is New York’s only comedy show in a lingerie store. Post-COVID he’ll be headlining Caroline’s On Broadway, as part of their Breakout Artist Series.

Here’s one of his great stand-up comedy sets pre COVID.

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Adrianne Chalepah (Kiowa/Apache of Oklahoma)

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As one of the founders of the Ladies of Native Comedy, Adrianne Chalepah has been taking over stand-up comedy stages, from Hollywood to Indian Country, for years. She’s even opened for Michelle Obama and wrote the final chapter of the popular children’s anthology series “Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever!” Whether she’s acting, performing, or posting hilarious jokes on social media, she brings the laughs everywhere she goes.

Here’s her amazing stand-up comedy set from First Nations Comedy Experience!

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Azie Dungey (Pamunkey)

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As a writer for “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” on Netflix, “Sweetbitter” on Starz, and “Twenties” on Showtime/BET, Azie Dungey has been killing it in television writers’ rooms for years! We strongly recommend checking out her hilarious Twitter and Instagram accounts, and if you want to see her acting/writing genius at work, you’ve got to see her super-viral and super funny web series “Ask A Slave” on Youtube. It’s two seasons deep, but we recommend just starting from the beginning and thanking us later!

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Tai Leclaire (Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk Nation)/Mi’kmaq)

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To watch Tai (short for Taietsarón:sere) perform live character-based sketch comedy is to see comedy personified. He’s currently working as a staff writer on the Peacock series “Rutherford Falls,” but when he’s not writing he’s bringing his sketch comedy and stand up chops everywhere, from Austin Sketch Fest to the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre’s “Character’s Welcome” teams in New York City.

We recommend checking out this Tai Leclaire live comedy piece about a Native shaman exorcising a basic white ghost. It’s SO good!

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Dash Turner (Yurok)

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Dash Turner was previously an editor of the all-POC satire publication Flexx, so it’s no surprise that he’s one of the sharpest comedians in the game right now. Whether he’s doing stand-up with Tai Leclaire and Brian Bahe as part of their New York City-based Native-centric stand up shows “Thanks But No Thanksgiving” and “No Settlers,” or laying down an insanely funny tweet, Dash is definitely a comedy guy to follow.

Here’s one of our favorite Dash Turner tweets about Native American sports mascots!

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Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock/Hunkpapa Lakota)

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— Tiffany Midge (@TiffanyMidge) March 15, 2019

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If David Sedaris were a Hunkpapa Lakota woman, she would be Tiffany Midge. Fresh off the release of her hilarious book “Bury My Heart at Chuck E.Cheese’s,” which includes satire essays like “Fifty Shades of Buckskin,” Midge isn’t afraid to go there with her comedy. If you want to check out one of Indian Country’s best satirical minds, look no further.

Read her Pushcart Prize-winning McSweeney’s article “An Open Letter to White Women Concerning the Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Historical Amnesia” here.

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Bobby “Dues” Wilson (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota)

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As a member of the legendary all Native sketch comedy group The 1491s, Bobby “Dues” Wilson has been holding it down in Native comedy for nearly a decade. And much like fellow 1491s member Sterlin Harjo, he’s been taking Hollywood by storm too. You can find his writing on “Rutherford Falls” on Peacock, along with Sterlin Harjo’s “Reservation Dogs” on FX, and watch some of his world-class sketch comedy performances on The 1491s Youtube channel.

Check out one of our favorite Bobby “Dues” Wilson led 1491s sketches, “The Avatars” here.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo (Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee))

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo is every bit a renaissance person in the comedy space. From writing cartoons for Adult Swim’s “Final Space” and Cartoon Network’s “Mao Mao,” to working as a professional Dungeon Master, to co-writing the amazing full-length musical “Starry” about the life of Vincent Van Gogh (We know, right!?), Kelly is versatile, hilarious, and absolutely worth your follow.

Do yourself a favor and give the full “Starry” musical a listen on Spotify!

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Marc Yaffee (Navajo)

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Marc Yaffee’s been in the game for a long time, and he just keeps getting funnier! You might already know him from his appearance on the Showtime stand-up comedy special “Goin’ Native,” his hilarious stand up shows all around the world, or as part of the Pow Wow Comedy Jam Tour. If you don’t know him, start getting acquainted because he’s still one of the best in the stand-up game and he’s just getting started!

Check out his amazing Dry Bar Comedy special from 2019 here!

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Kaitlyn Jeffers (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (Dakota))

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Kaitlyn Jeffers is no stranger to Los Angeles stand-up comedy audiences. She slayed crowds at the first-ever showcase of Native American comedians at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles in 2018 and 2019, and she brings her punk rock comedy sensibilities to online satire publication “The Hard Times” as a writer. She’s an exciting young voice in the stand-up scene, and we strongly encourage you to give her a follow!

Here’s one of her many great Hard Times articles.

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Monique Moreau (Cree/Saulteaux)

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A twelve-year veteran of stand-up comedy, Monique Moreau is a pro comedian and so funny to boot. She’s performed everywhere from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to San Francisco Sketchfest to shows all over Los Angeles. Her yearly show “Weighted Blanket,” featuring comedians and musicians on the autism spectrum, is pure comedic joy.

Check out Monique’s hilarious stand-up set from last year’s “Ghost Of Christopher Columbus Theater Smudging Spectacular” at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Kyla Garcia (Taíno)

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A Native comedian firmly in the artist/activist space, Kyla Garcia has been killing it with experimental comedy pieces that’ll leave you laughing and screaming “preach!” When she’s not acting or protesting with the nonprofit The Valley of Change, she’s dropping amazing comedic spoken word pieces, like her great video “John Smith Was a F*ckboy”.

Be sure and follow her on the socials, and check the amazing “John Smith Was a F*ckboy.”

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Tim Fontaine (Anishinaabe (Sagkeeng First Nation))

I got added to a nice list of Indigenous comedy-types on the same day my partner gets racially-profiled and I get angry over some fucked up news stories. So if you’re a new follower, stick around. I’m also funny sometimes.

— Tim Fontaine (@anishinaboy) October 7, 2020

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Along with Tiffany Midge, Tim Fontaine is one of the top voices in satire. His news parody site, which he founded, Walking Eagle News, is like The Onion for Indian Country. And with headlines like “Your uncle, cousins deliver stimulus package to area rez dogs”, he more than lives up to the hype! Besides his writing, Tim is also a super funny performer and storyteller, dominating the stage at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and “The Beaverton TV Show!”

Rather than choose one Walking Eagle News article we recommend just making Walking Eagle News your homepage.

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Tonia Jo Hall (Hidatsa, Lakota/Dakota)

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Tonia Jo Hall has only been in the game since 2014, but in six short years, she’s become Native American sketch comedy royalty. With her character “Auntie Beachress,” and her funny and motivational videos about her personal life and family, Tonia is a comedian that will be cracking audiences up for years to come!

For a steady drip of all things Tonia Jo Hall, definitely follow her on the socials. If you’d like a quick Tonia 101, check out this helpful primer put together by North Dakota’s KX News!

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Siena East (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

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If her appearance on the Buzzfeed series “Bridesmaids Share Their Horror Stories” is any indication, Siena East is one of the funniest young storytellers in Los Angeles. She’s performed killer standup and storytelling everywhere from The Comedy Union to ACME Noho, and her Twitter game is legit hilarious.

To see her amazing storytelling in action, check out her “Bridesmaids Share Their Horror Stories!”

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Howie Echo-Hawk (Pawnee/Athabaskan)

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Howie Echo-Hawk is a hilarious stand-up comedian and writer who performs with the energy of a young Andy Kaufman or Maria Bamford. To watch them is to watch controlled comedic chaos distilled, and we are here for it. Besides live comedy, Howie is also one of the founding members of the Seattle based Native American performance collective Indigenize Productions. Howie is doing amazing work, and you should check them out.

Read Howie’s viral Medium article “As a Native American Comedian, I wasn’t mad at the SNL Thanksgiving Sketch, I was just disappointed” here!

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Jackie Keliiaa (Yerington Paiute & Washoe)

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Jackie Keliiaa has been killing it in the Bay Area stand-up comedy scene for a minute, and folks are finally starting to take notice of just how funny she is! Jackie has opened for everyone from Nikki Glaser to Judah Friedlander, and her monthly stand up show “Amazonians” is a Bay Area comedy institution.

Check her out on Instagram for regular updates on her live shows, and be sure and watch her June 2020 stand up set from Nowhere Comedy Club!

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Darrell Dennis (Secwepemc)

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You can’t talk about Native American/First Nations sketch comedy without mentioning Darrell Dennis. As an actor, he was the first-ever Native cast member in the history of any Second City companies. “The Guilt-Free Zone,” which is an APTN comedy series Darrell directed, head wrote, and acted in, was nominated for two Canadian Comedy Awards. He’s performed everywhere from the Just For Laughs Festival to the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and last year he won Just For Laughs’ “Stand up and Pitch” competition for his TV sitcom pilot “Big Game”!

In short, Darrell Dennis is a comedy powerhouse who should be on everyone’s radar. Check out his legendary performance at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

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Mylo Smith (Crow Creek Sioux)

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There’s a disarming, universal appeal to Mylo Smith’s comedy that needs to be seen to be believed, and he has the rare ability to pull laughter from everyone, from elementary school students to a jaded comedy audience. Mylo‘s been a staple of the Native comedy scene since the late 2000s. He’s still killing it over a decade later. If you want to smile, we recommend checking out his official Facebook page.

Check out Mylo’s hilarious Facebook video “Natives Always Watching The Same Movies.”

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Robert Hall (Blackfeet)

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— Ol’ Loyal Rez Dog (@DeadDogLake) October 11, 2020

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Robert Hall may have started his @DeadDogLake Twitter account just to fanboy over rez dogs, but he’s turned into one of the funniest Twitter accounts in all of #NativeTwitter. From his funny memes to his posts highlighting some of the cutest dogs on any reservation, his is definitely a Twitter account to follow.

Though it’s tough to narrow Robert’s comedic output down to just one tweet, this is one of our favorites.

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Reg Charging (Lakȟóta/Dakȟóta)

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Reg Charging has only been slinging Rez comedy on Twitter for a few years, but in that time, he’s established himself as a powerful comedic voice on #NativeTwitter. His video shorts and sketches are so funny and so on point, and he carries himself with the confidence of someone who has been making people laugh for decades.

Check out his hilarious video short “Every News Story on Natives ever” to see what we’re talking about.

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Tiio Horn (Mohawk Nation of Kahnawake)

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Fans of the TV series “Letterkenny” are no strangers to Tiio Horn’s comedic acting chops, and anyone who follows her on social media knows that it’s not just her character that’s great with jokes! Her social media game is so funny, and she also hosts the great “Coffee With My Ma” podcast where she interviews her activist mom about her life.

Follow her on all the socials, check out all of her acting work, and definitely listen to “Coffee With My Ma” for a show that’s as heartwarming as it is hilarious.

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Jim Ruel (Bay Mills Ojibwe)

I really thought more people would learn to juggle during this pandemic.

— Jim Ruel (@nativecomedian) October 2, 2020

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Jim Ruel’s laid-back comedic stylings have cracked up audiences from Indian Country to Hollywood, and everywhere in between. Smart, and with the comedic delivery of the funniest uncle on the rez, he’s worth a follow, and someone you should absolutely see the next time he does a show in your town.

Check out his set at the Native American Comedy Slam.

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Joey Clift (Cowlitz)

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Joey Clift was one of only a few Natives who made it onto a house team at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in Los Angeles. He used his position there to boost up other Native comedians who deserve to be showcased. In 2018, Clift started producing and hosting the first-ever all Native American comedy showcase in UCB’s 20-year history. The show is called the “Ghost of Christopher Columbus Theater Smudging Spectacular” and it was on Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day because, of course.

The show was standing room only, so they did it again in 2019 along with an all-Native improv show the day before Thanksgiving which also sold out. Still, the best part of the show was that several great Native comedians got writing and acting jobs in part by performing in these shows. And that’s what really made the shows a “success” in Clift’s eyes.

Today, Clift is a cornerstone of the L.A. Native comedy scene with a joke-filled social presence, game-changing gues on podcasts, and a continued love of all things Garfield. – ZJ

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The Lakers Won With Defense And That Will Dictate Their Offseason Moves

Post author By GoneTrending
Post date October 12, 2020

The Lakers closed out a title on Sunday night with a dominant defensive performance in which they allowed just 36 first half points and effectively shut the door on the Heat by halftime. It was a sensational showing and a fitting end to a title run that was defined by their defense.

On their way to the Finals, L.A. was tasked with slowing down three of the Western Conference’s best offensive teams in the Blazers, Rockets, and Nuggets, all of whom have very different, but similarly effective, approaches, and did so thanks to their adaptability and versatility. The Lakers showed they can play great defense whether going big or small, equally adept at slowing isolation heavy offenses as well as pick-and-roll. In the Finals, they faced a Miami team that presented their own unique challenges, namely Jimmy Butler and a number of shooters on the perimeter, and they shuffled up their coverages to slow and frustrate Butler as best they could and force the ball to go elsewhere while keeping Miami’s best shooters from getting open looks consistently.

For so much of this season, dating back to the offseason, so much conversation was spent on whether the Lakers had enough shooting around LeBron James and Anthony Davis to win a title. While there were some valid questions about their offensive firepower, what those role players were able to do defensively mitigated the need to have elite shooting because they could hold opponents in check and not need to be an elite shooting team — although they certainly got some big contributions in that area in the postseason from guys like Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

Coming off of this championship run, the Lakers enter an offseason with plenty of reason for optimism about their chances to repeat in 2021, but also with some key decisions to make and/or wait on from players on their roster. Anthony Davis is expected to land a supermax extension from L.A. this offseason, barring a stunning turn of events in which he actually explores the free agency landscape, but it’s the other player options on the Lakers that are most interesting.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Avery Bradley, Rajon Rondo, and JaVale McGee all have player options they can pick up this offseason, with KCP’s serving as the most interesting one. The others would all be welcomed returners, namely Rondo, who played a major role in their postseason success in the later rounds as he returned from injury, and proved he’s still an excellent 16-game player that is more than worth keeping around for another playoff run. But it’s hard to see a significantly strong market for their services elsewhere that would push them to ditching Los Angeles and another shot at a title. KCP, however, was often the third-best offensive player on this Lakers team and his player option of $8.5 million is probably a bit below market value given his play this postseason — although, that will be determined by any cap shakeup we get from NBA and NBPA negotiations. For all the complaints Lakers fans had about KCP at times in the regular season, his postseason showing was unassailable, and whether by way of a player option or in a renegotiation for a new, longer-term deal, one would expect him to be a priority for the Lakers this offseason.

If all four return, the Lakers would have 11 players under contract, with one — Quinn Cook — non-guaranteed if they want to open up another spot. Dwight Howard, should he be willing to return on another minimum deal, seems likely to be back on the roster after what he provided them in the playoffs. For the most part, that should mean the Lakers look a lot like what they did this year, but they’ll surely want to do some tinkering on the periphery to bolster their rotations and continue to find some upgrades in the form of vets willing to take minimums or exception deals to make a run at a title.

The biggest loss is likely going to be Markieff Morris, who one would assume played his way into more money than the Lakers will be able to afford to their buyout market pickup from this year. There will be plenty of shooters that line up to play alongside James, but as we saw this year, the Lakers will put a premium on players who can give them strong defensive effort and, preferably, some versatility on that end as well. They’ll need a Morris replacement, capable of spacing the floor as a three or a small-ball four next to Anthony Davis, with enough physicality to at least be an impediment to opposing power forwards, but L.A. enters this offseason in a really good position to be at the top of the list for veteran free agents.

Among those that would seem to be the most intriguing potential additions would be someone like E’Twaun Moore, a solid defender with switchability that is also an excellent three-point shooter, who might get bigger offers elsewhere but could see a shot at a ring and take it. Wesley Matthews seems likely to either pick up his player option in Milwaukee or re-sign there on a new deal, but he’s someone the Lakers would certainly make a push for if he explores other contender options. In the frontcourt, should they move on from Dwight or JaVale McGee decides to go elsewhere, Nerlens Noel could be an interesting option on the free agency market.

You will see every shooter on the market tied to the Lakers in some form or fashion, but they seem to have a very clear vision of what they want to do on the defensive end and any addition they make will have an eye towards the playoffs and need to fit what they want to do on that end.

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What’s On Tonight: ‘The Third Day’ Provides Some Clarity, And ‘We Are Who We Are’ Sees A Power Struggle

Post author By GoneTrending
Post date October 12, 2020

If nothing below suits your sensibilities, check out our guide to What You Should Watch On Streaming Right Now.

The Third Day (HBO, 9:00pm EST) — The Jude Law and Naomie Harris-starring series sees islanders preparing for a highly anticipated birth while Helen’s true intentions start to become clearer. While that’s happening, Ellie meets a peculiar girl who introduces her to an area not usually seen by outsiders.

We Are Who We Are (HBO, 10:00pm EST) — Sarah and Richard’s power struggle gets ugly while their wives begin to grow closer, and Caitlin looks to Fraser for help. This show is Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s first stab at a TV series, and it will appeal to the Euphoria audience while they await Season 2.

Manhunt: Deadly Games (CBS, 10:00pm EST) — Richard Jewell continues to fight the campaign against him while a serial-bomber investigation elsewhere could result in a crucial development. You’ve heard the story of the fallout from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, now witness the TV dramatization (as opposed to the sensationalized movie version) of one of the most complex manhunts on U.S. soil.

In case you missed these selections from over the weekend:

Charm City Kings (HBO Max film) — During an acclaimed Sundance Film Festival debut, our own Vince Mancini singled out Meek Mill for his star turn in the coming-of-age story. Vince also praised the stunt work in this movie produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Jahi Di’Allo Winston (Queen & Slim) co-stars as the teenage Mouse, who wants to fit in with the Midnight Clique group of bike riders while wavering between influences. One of those influences happens to be Mill’s stunt-happy ex-con, Blax, whose interests appear to be at odds with a detective (William Catlett of Black Lightning) and the teen’s mother (Teyonah Parris of If Beale Street Could Talk), who both want Mouse to reach his full potential, rather than dig into gang life.

The Right Stuff (NatGeo series on Disney+) — This eight-episode limited series (with two episodes dropping on Friday) is based upon Tom Wolfe’s landmark 1979 book about the American space program’s birth and the day-to-day lives of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. It’s an anti-nostalgic glimpse into what essentially functioned as the first U.S. reality show, and it’s executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Hubie Halloween (Netflix film) — This movie might be wonderfully funny escapism for you, or it might be Adam Sandler’s revenge for not receiving an Oscar nomination for Uncut Gems. Perhaps it can be both things? Regardless of intent from the Sandman, settle in for the latest Happy Madison production, which follows Sandler’s Hubie Dubois, a Halloween safety crusader who gets sucked into a murder mystery. Kevin James and Kenan Thompson play cops, and more co-stars include Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta, Noah Schnapp, Steve Buscemi, and Maya Rudolph.

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Pete Buttigieg gave the best possible answer to Fox News’ ‘late-term abortion’ questions

Post author By GoneTrending
Post date October 12, 2020

The subject of late-term abortions has been brought up repeatedly during this election season, with President Trump making the outrageous claim that Democrats are in favor of executing babies.

Biden and Democrats just clarified the fact that they are fully in favor of (very) LATE TERM ABORTION, right up unt… https://t.co/JdzHYus2rO

— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1601984735.0

This message grossly misrepresents what late-term abortion actually is, as well as what pro-choice advocates are actually “in favor of.” No one is in favor of someone having a specific medical procedure—that would require being involved in someone’s individual medical care—but rather they are in favor of keeping the government out of decisions about specific medical procedures.

Pete Buttigieg, who has become a media surrogate for the Biden campaign—and quite an effective one at that—addressed this issue in a Fox News town hall when he was on the campaign trail himself. When Chris Wallace asked him directly about late-term abortions, Buttigieg answered Wallace’s questions is the best way possible.

“Do you believe, at any point in pregnancy, whether it’s at six weeks or eight weeks or 24 weeks or whenever, that there should be any limit on a woman’s right to have an abortion?” Wallace asked.

“I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we’ve gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line,” Buttigieg replied, “and I trust women to draw the line when it’s their own health.”

Wallace wanted to clarify that Buttigieg would be okay with late-term abortion and pointed out that there are more than 6000 women who get third trimester abortions each year.

“That’s right,” responded Buttiegieg, “representing one percent of cases. So let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it’s that late in your pregnancy, than almost by definition, you’ve been expecting to carry it to term. We’re talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made.”

Pete is getting Biden votes from Fox viewers, full stop. https://t.co/IgMQ5gYhJr

— Occam’s Razor (@Occam’s Razor)1602461073.0

And that’s really the gist of the pro-choice stance. Why would we want the government to be involved in our most difficult medical and moral dilemmas and decisions?

Some may try to argue that an abortion isn’t “a medical decision,” but that is objectively untrue, especially in the case of late-term abortion. There are thousands of different scenarios that might lead to needing an abortion, and laws that place arbitrary limits on those decisions do real harm to families who are already suffering a loss.

Take the story of sitting U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, who just shared his family’s tragic story “of how gut-wrenching and complicated decisions can be related to reproductive health” with Elle magazine.

Peters and his first wife were excited to welcome their second child to the world, when his wife’s water broke four months into her pregnancy. There was no way for the baby to survive without amniotic fluid, and they were told to go home and wait for the miscarriage to happen. But it didn’t happen. His wife’s health deteriorated, and when she went back to the hospital three days later, the doctor told them the situation was dire. She could lose her uterus within hours, and her life was at risk as well if she went septic due to uterine infection. He recommended an abortion. However, the hospital refused to allow the procedure due to its anti-abortion policy, despite the doctor’s appeal to the board.

“I still vividly remember he left a message on the answering machine saying, ‘They refused to give me permission, not based on good medical practice, simply based on politics. I recommend you immediately find another physician who can do this procedure quickly,'” Peters told Elle.

The couple was able to get into another hospital and get the necessary procedure because Peters was friends with the chief administrator. But the experience illustrated how an abortion isn’t always the choice to end a pregnancy out of convenience—or even the choice to end a pregnancy at all. Peters’ wife called it “traumatic and painful,” and said in a statement, “If it weren’t for urgent and critical medical care, I could have lost my life.”

Savita Halappanavar, a woman who needed an abortion in Ireland and was denied one, did lose her life in a high-profile 2012 case that prompted voters to overturn the abortion ban in the Catholic-majority country 2018. And there are too many other stories of close calls or having to endure painful experiences to make drawing legal lines far too fuzzy a prospect to endorse.

Whether it’s about the life or health of the mother or about the life or death of the fetus, the decisions surrounding the end of an individual pregnancy shouldn’t be made by the medical professionals and families involved, not by government officials.

@marcusvaldes @MeredthSalenger @DrDenaGrayson @PeteButtigieg My baby didn’t have a brain. I needed a late abortion.… https://t.co/MUBCmPmm5M

— Weldon McGside (@Weldon McGside)1602515563.0

Buttigieg summed that idea up perfectly and compassionately in his town hall response.

Here’s the full clip of Wallace’s and Buttigieg’s exchange.

Pete Buttigieg on late term abortion

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Once again, well said, Mayor Pete. Being pro-choice isn’t about being pro-abortion, but rather pro-keep-the-government-out-of-my-personal-medical-decisions and trusting women and medical professionals to make those difficult choices for themselves.

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The Scariest Shows On Netflix Right Now

Post author By GoneTrending
Post date October 12, 2020

Last Updated: October 12th

Making a scary show is tough enough, and making a scary show that’s also compelling entertainment is practically a minor miracle. That’s reflected in the selection of Netflix‘s content library, too. But the small sampling contains quite a few certified gems, not to mention some terrifying programs that don’t quite fall under the horror umbrella. Read on for a reader’s digest of the scariest shows on Netflix currently lurking in wait for you to watch, and know that there’s no shame in sleeping with a nightlight all the way through Halloween.

This will be replete with spoilers, so read at your own discretion.

The Haunting Of Bly Manor

1 season, 9 episodes | IMDb: 7.9/10

Mike Flanagan gave us all nightmares with his previous Netflix horror series, The Haunting of Hill House, but this new story — that features a few familiar faces for fans of his original work — feels a bit different. We’re ditching the haunting of one dysfunctional family for the heartbreaking tale of two orphans who, after their au pair dies in a very tragic manner, are assigned a new nanny (You’s Victoria Pedretti), who quickly upends things, for better and worse.

Ratched

1 season, 8 episodes | IMDb: 7.4/10

Ryan Murphy is back to give us his twisted take on the origin stories of one of horror’s most notorious villains. Sarah Paulson plays Nurse Ratched before her One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest days as she arrives at the asylum and starts making some necessary “improvements.” Of course, she has ulterior motives, which include freeing deranged serial killers and tempting patients to commit suicide but she also flips out on co-workers who try to steal her peaches from the breakroom, so hey, at least there will be some comedy paired with the madness of this show.

Penny Dreadful

3 seasons, 27 episodes | IMDb: 8.2/10

John Logan’s playful, yet disturbing, tribute to Victorian horror mixes and matches both original characters and bit players from classics like Dracula to tell an unnerving tale of Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), a former explorer desperately searching for his family with the help of mysterious medium Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), a Wild West performer with a past (Josh Hartnett), and an arrogant anatomist with a dark secret.

The Twilight Zone

4 seasons, 156 episodes | IMDb: 9/10

Rod Serling’s timeless collection of strange tales of the macabre and supernatural lives today almost as a novelty object, a look back into a time of simpler, more transparently allegorical storytelling. Serling’s finest half-hours were part social commentary, part masterfully composed exercises in tension, part pulp genre indulgence, but the charmingly dated special effects have greatly diminished the show’s capacity to shock. There’s still plenty of fear to be found in The Twilight Zone, however. It just sets in hours later, as the viewer’s laying in bed wondering just how plausible it would be for neighbors to turn on one another in the face of a mysterious external threat. The most fearsome monsters in this vintage series were always the humans and our many failures — distrust, ignorance, bigotry, malice, you name it — are far more hazardous than that week’s ghoul. Serling’s scares get under your skin and slowly work their way up to your brain, burrowing into the little corner in the back of your mind still afraid of the monster under the bed.

Bates Motel

5 seasons, 50 episodes | IMDb: 8.2/10

This prequel to Psycho shouldn’t be able to wield as much power to shock as it does; even if you haven’t seen Hitchcock’s immortal 1960 thriller, you know the friendly kid gets all stabby in the shower when he puts on a wig. And yet, young Norman Bates’ inexorable transition into the homicidal corporeal ghost of his controlling mother still scandalizes and surprises. For one, the incestuous heat radiating from stars Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga is engrossing and stomach-turning in equal measure. But watching the subtle manipulations she works on him, the gaslighting, the deceptions, and the mind tricks, the depth of their dysfunction takes on a scariness all its own. A brain’s a powerful thing, and when one person can exercise total control over someone else’s, darkness creeps in. Norma lays the seeds of insanity in her own son, and knowing just how they’ll blossom doesn’t make watching the process any less painful.

The Kirlian Frequency

1 season, 5 episodes | IMDb: 7.6/10

This web series from Argentina migrated to Netflix not too long ago, and it’s been scaring the sh*t out of people who happen to stumble on it ever since. An animated, short-form horror show, the story revolves around a radio that broadcasts only at night from a small town deep inside Buenos Aires Province where all kinds of macabre and supernatural events occur. It’s twisted and beautifully crafted and the easiest binge-watch you’ll find on this list.

Dead Set

1 season, 5 episodes | IMDb: 7.8/10

Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, was a media critic before he got into fiction, with a particular focus on the unethical behavior and cheap theatrics of reality television. Brooker presented a good cynical, misanthropic front, but as you watch Dead Set, his 2007 series, his concern with how television, especially reality TV, is too often built on dehumanizing and destroying people comes to the fore. And all of that was condensed into one five-episode series.

Dead Set’s premise is simple: the Big Brother house (and yes, it’s the real set) is crashed by a swarm of zombies and a bunch of self-centered celebrity wannabes have to try and take shelter from the undead. It was, blatantly, a stunt, right down to casting multiple real members of former Big Brother casts in small roles. Brooker even talked the network into airing all five episodes on five consecutive nights leading up to the finale broadcasting on Halloween 2008, which makes it perfect for binge watching. What’s admirable is how dedicated Brooker is to the show’s conceit, and it shows the balance of criticism and scares he’d bring to Black Mirror just a few years later.

The Walking Dead

9 seasons, 152 episodes | IMDb: 8.3/10

The zombies on AMC’s blockbuster program often serve allegorical purposes in the show, representing any sort of external threat that puts disparate collections of people into crisis mode and revealing extreme truths about human nature pushed to the edge. But of course a zombie series must also be a horror series, and while the show tends to err away from traditional horror filmmaking, there’s still plenty of room for jaw-dropping set pieces of suspense and terror. The zombies themselves have grown ever more gruesome as the show’s budget has increased proportionally with its popularity, but it’s the desperation of life post-outbreak that disturbs audiences the most. Drastic times drive ordinary, good people to commit craven, self-serving, or even sadistic acts. No suggestion the show makes is more unsettling than the idea that decency can no longer exist in a world gone mad.

Twin Peaks

2 seasons, 30 episodes | IMDb: 8.8/10

David Lynch’s foray into the small screen has maintained a fiercely devoted cult audience due to its trapped-in-amber ’90s style, surreal sense of slightly-off humor, and deep ensemble of lovably eccentric locals in the lumber town of Twin Peaks, Washington. Lynch and his co-creator Mark Frost displayed such a talent for inhabiting a wide array of tones and styles, that when they occasionally shifted the dial to “horror,” it came like a knife out of nowhere. Lynch works in the visual language of dreams, his tendrils of terror creeping out from the periphery of consciousness and gradually turning an ordinary scene into a nightmare. Killer BOB, the villain of the initial stretch of “Who Killed Laura Palmer?” episodes, may very well be one of the most horrifying characters in the history of the TV medium, his human form masking a primal, animalistic violence. Later episodes would fly off the rails in a spectacular fashion following creative clashes between the showrunners, but when Frost and Lynch were working in perfect harmony, they could compose unexpected nocturnes of pure fear.

Black Mirror

5 seasons, 22 episodes | IMDb: 8.8/10

This speculative-fiction series has packed more ideas and complex philosophizing into seven episodes than most shows manage over several seasons. Like a sleeker, tech-themed Twilight Zone successor, it explores the potentially ruinous effects of leaps forward in cybernetic and virtual innovation, following these possible futures toward the darkest possible outcomes. (Some of these episodes have turned out to be eerily prescient; in one episode, the British Prime Minister violates a pig on national television to placate a kidnapper, which actual PM David Cameron allegedly did for real during his college years!) Unsurprisingly, the cumulative effect of technological advances is usually something deeply disturbing.

American Horror Story

8 seasons, 106 episodes | IMDb: 8.1/10

Living proof that a show need not be well-calculated, intelligent, or even coherent to be scary, Ryan Murphy’s anthology series has made it five seasons by throwing everything at the wall and using whatever sticks. The gambit of starting from square one with new characters in a new plotline every season suits the show well, in that it frees the creators from consequences, American Horror Story‘s enemy #1. The complete absence of internal logic makes effective storytelling of any sort virtually impossible, but it allows Murphy the freedom to assemble whatever traumatizing tableaux might cross his deranged mind without worrying about how it might fit into a larger narrative. Spectacle has historically been Murphy’s strong suit; American Horror Story is really no different from Glee, except the elaborate production numbers have been replaced by displays of hair-curling gore and graphic disfigurement. Everything else is extraneous, and Murphy’s job is to get it out of the way to make room for the fireworks.

The Haunting of Hill House

1 season, 10 episodes | IMDb: 8.7/10

Mike Flanagan knows how to do horror, and his series for Netflix, The Haunting of Hill House, is proof of that. The show, like the book off which it’s based, follows the fractured Crain family as they try to make peace with their dark and twisted path. Of course, through some carefully-timed flashbacks, we see why the Crain siblings are so messed up: They lived in a haunted house as children, a house that eventually caused the death of their mother. There are plenty of frights to keep horror fans interested in this thriller, but the real point of this show is investigating trauma and its lingering effects. Makes sense that horror is the best way to do that.