The Jellicle Ball is coming, motherfuckers.
The Jellicle Ball is coming, motherfuckers. RUM TUG TUGGER IN THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR COMPANY OF CATS. PHOTO BY MATTHEW MURPHY.

Don't forget: Cats the Movie can't stop/won't stop. Everyone keeps writing about it. I hate to be the bearer of bad news with this hot and frisky take, but it might be good. And by good, I mean it'll be a purrfect catastrophe.

Former national security adviser John Bolton is scheduled to testify in the #ITMFA inquiry: Impeachment investigators have requested Bolton appear next week to testify, but he hasn't confirmed whether or not he'll show up.

Local leaders call out racist slur spraypainted on a Shaun Scott yard sign: Yesterday, Scott campaign aide Enrico Doan posted on Twitter that a campaign sign for Scott had been defaced with the n-word. Mayor Durkan, Council Member González, and Police Chief Best condemned the racism in Twitter posts. Best said the police are investigating the vandalism:



Staffers at sports news blog Deadspin "revolt" after an editor is fired: Writers and editors at the blog—which also covers media, culture, and politics—received a note from its new management (G/O Media) "to steer clear of stories that do not have a connection to sports," writes CNN. In protest, staffers populated the blog's homepage with popular non-sports-related stories all day yesterday. Deadspin's interim editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky tweeted later that day, "Hi! I've just been fired from Deadspin for not sticking to sports." It's getting messy.

The New York Times highlights Amazon's "deluge of election cash" (again): and lets Amazon's Biden-backing general counsel, David Zapolsky, peddle the same falsehood that Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce's president and CEO Marilyn Strickland said on KUOW last week: “If you look at where the money is coming from, from all of the political action committees, there are about 20 different PACs contributing, and it’s about evenly split between the number of PACs and the amount of money raised by both business and labor,” said Strickland. Zapolsky parroted that line to the Times: “It’s a lot of different interests that are engaged in this election, including organized labor, which is donating funds that are of equal magnitude, if not more." But, as Lester Black wrote yesterday: "Strickland’s message sounds pretty convincing, but there is just one problem: It’s complete bullshit."

Congress members demand that Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg resigns: In his second day of testimony, representatives were not easy on the CEO, whose company's 737 Max aircraft is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. Seattle Times has the full transcript. Some quotes:

Rep. Jesus Garcia, D- Illinois:
“Either way, Mr. Muilenburg, you’re still the captain of this ship. A culture of negligence, incompetence or corruption starts at the top and it starts with you. You padded your personal finances by putting profits over safety and now 346 people, including 8 Americans, are dead on your watch… I think it’s time that you submitted your resignation, don’t you?”

Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Florida:

"I have lost all confidence, Mr. Muilenburg… I think many of the families have asked for your resignation. And I have thought for a long time, I don’t want to blame you, but at some point you have to take full responsibility of the negligence of these two flights. And I want to ask you: Are you going to be stepping down as CEO of Boeing?”

Netflix attempts to justify why it won't release Netflix viewership data: Netflix head Scott Stuber says they hide the data because it "actually free[s] up their narrative form so that [artists can] tell stories that weren't [influenced] night after night by those numbers." LOL. Sure. It's not because Netflix is fibbing at all.

New poll gets Tulsi Gabbard a little closer to qualifying for the November Democratic debate: The USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows Gabbard receiving 4% support of Democratic voters, placing her higher than Kamala Harris.

Gates Foundation CEO steps down from Facebook's board: Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann will step down at the end of the month, writes GeekWire. The company says it will name a replacement in the next few months.

Remember to vote: Otherwise Tim Eyman will get ya.

This should explain Initiative 976 from r/SeattleWA

Twitter will ban all political ads: starting November 22. The announcement was made over Twitter by CEO Jack Dorsey this afternoon. Here's the thread:





Will Twitter be able to implement their ban? As Facebook and Google have shown in Washington state, calling a ban is much easier than implementing a ban. Then again, Facebook is doubling down on allowing candidates to boost misinformation, so maybe the problem is just that Facebook and Google DGAF.

The Brits better get out those Twitter ads while they can: It's been roughly 24 hours since a December 12 UK general election was announced, and campaigns are already revving up on social media. The BBC documented and analyzed ads on Twitter from Conservatives, Labour, the Scottish National Party, and other parties who are ready to frame the election to their advantage. Here are a few of the ads: