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That one time Hugh Hefner put a dick on the cover of Playboy. pic.twitter.com/JeVxbcaqb7

— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) September 28, 2017

There was always a Plus/Minus thing going on with Hefner.

There's a solid truth about Playboy's exploitation of women and the hyper-pimping of an arbitrary "standard of beauty" that continues to fuck with way too many people's heads.

There's also a very real thing where The Playboy Foundation contributed to some important social progress:

Comedian Dick Gregory revealed in an interview that Hefner provided $25,000 toward a reward that Gregory later credited with helping break one of the civil-rights movement’s most notorious cases: the murder of three young civil-rights workers in Meridian, Mississippi.

Hefner was also an avid supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and would go on to serve as a significant funder of the Rainbow PUSH coalition helmed by King acolyte Jesse Jackson. (Hefner donated to a number of progressive and legal causes throughout his life, including funding America’s very first rape kit, via his charitable foundation.)

So I'm not minimizing or equalizing. I'm trying to see as much of the whole thing as possible.

Deep In The Heart Of Texas

Dale Hansen - the sports guy at WFAA in Dallas.

And oh yeah - if you buy this shit:

@Seahawks @NFL

THE PROTESTS ARENT ABOUT OUR FLAG???

RETWEET THE HELL OUT OF THIS#NFLBoycott#TakeAKnee#LockThemUp#MAGA pic.twitter.com/ba2iidqljW

— ᎿᖇᏌᏣᏦᏋᖇᎦᏊᎲᎰᏋ (@cjlongoria07) September 29, 2017

...I've got a border wall you might be interested in.

Especially when it's just too easy to find the real thing.

What do you do in the victory locker room? You victory dance.#SEAvsAZ pic.twitter.com/qJoVyG6ZM8

— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) January 4, 2016

Please stop wondering why I call you guys Rubes, OK?

The Buzz

Buzz Burbank (@MichaelJElston) does the straight up news - with that old familiar liberal bias most closely associated with reality.

(Loads of fun with Political Spoils starting at about 13:38)

Keith

Slice-n-dice it any which way - it still adds up to industrialized fuckery.  The only real question is how much of that fuckery is illegal?

Today's Tweet

The temperature is going up.  AGW is a real thing, and the changes in climate are being driven by it.

Please either get next to all that, or get the fuck outa my government.

Aug 2016-Warmest Aug in 136 yrs, tied w/ Jul 2016 for warmest month ever recorded, 0.98°C warmer than mean August temp (1951-1980) #climate pic.twitter.com/Ua12K9LWtJ

— Laurel Coons 🌀🔬 (@laurelaubrie1) September 27, 2017

Trae Crowder

Kaepernick's protest is not about what you want it to be about. It's about what Kaepernick says it's about.

And by the fuckin' way - the only reason "conservatives" are using the word "disrespectful" is because Lee Atwater and Roger Stone managed to teach them not to say "uppity".

Sam Bee

Samantha Bee - Puerto Rico etc

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea

Another good Randy Rainbow parody:

Today's Tweet

This is one very good reason why you get up off your butt and not only go vote, but find others who might agree with you and get them out to vote too.

Our little experiment in self government goes down the shitter if we don't do the work.

Just so we're clear what's going on here, the GOP is using its stolen SCOTUS seat to devastate a major source of Democratic political power. https://t.co/0Kq8jG4AtH

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 28, 2017