Jen and Noam chat about Ron Desantis’ love of thigh food, culture war grifting, dark money grifting, Xi Jinping throwing his weight around (metaphorically), and a bunch of other things

We will be on Callin at 8:30pm Eastern where, barring any Earth-shattering events that need to be discussed on a Wednesday, we’ll be doing an October-long series on horror movies / TV shows 

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

DeSantis, thigh food aficionado:

https://www.ft.com/content/3aa3b7a6-8f72-4c37-82dd-d98946198aa7

Time to argue about hummus being colonization (again):

https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1583909464607928320

CNN makes a list of election deniers:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1583819058151297029

Whatever you do, don’t call MTG’s rise to prominence a comeback: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/briefing/marjorie-taylor-greene.html

The Dark Money Grifter Summit:

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1583506004007788558

Xi Jinping is a jerk:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-congress.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

https://twitter.com/ProfYangZhang/status/1583788208894414849

Sacheen Littlefeather was not a real Native woman:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php

Wikipedia editor banned for saying Sacheen Littlefeather was not a real Native woman before it was cool:

https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1583877263275134979

Warp speed, Pride flag: 

https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1583143019444068352

Climate change activists being attention whores (again):

https://twitter.com/AufstandLastGen/status/1584185689541054464

https://twitter.com/VickieGuerrero/status/1581353771216818176

Alexa, not the Amazon assistant, the Isralei Love Is Blind contestant who…might be a Zionist:

https://twitter.com/melissaeweiss/status/1583098510387224577