Joe Adalian

@tvmojoe.bsky.social

West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

Given how few networks/streamers bother to take general questions from the press, it's always a good thing when a platform's suits actually do so. But if you're going to have a press conference billed as 30 minutes long, only taking 4-5 questions over about 15 minutes is pretty, pretty lame.

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Forgotten TV@forgotten.tv · 5h ago

📺 #OnThisDay 1976: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜!! debuted on ABC! 🎉𝟱𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆! Sitcom from Eric Monte w/3 working-class teens in Watts: Raj (Ernest Thomas), Dwayne (Haywood Nelson), and the unforgettable Rerun (Fred Berry). Only 65 eps, but sold into afternoon strip reruns where it really found fans.

Also, you would think this story would get play, given how endlessly the enthralled media repeat the claim that Trump has this amazing endorsement record. Hard not to think that racist GOP voters saw a Black man with an Arab-sounding name and just went, “Nope, voting for guy who dropped out.”

Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social · 5h ago

Absolutely wild that the first hit you get when Googling the results of #MI8 and Trump is a Fox News headline claiming the Trump-endorsed candidate won. He *lost*, badly, to someone who had dropped out of the race! The actual story has the news right, but the Google hed is a total fabrication.

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https://www.foxnews.com

Trump-endorsed Amir
Hassan wins Michigan 8t...


1 hour ago — Trump-endorsed Amir
Hassan won the Republican primary in Michigan's 8th Congressional District,...

Absolutely wild that the first hit you get when Googling the results of #MI8 and Trump is a Fox News headline claiming the Trump-endorsed candidate won. He *lost*, badly, to someone who had dropped out of the race! The actual story has the news right, but the Google hed is a total fabrication.

G michigan 8th cd trump


https://www.foxnews.com

Trump-endorsed Amir
Hassan wins Michigan 8t...


1 hour ago — Trump-endorsed Amir
Hassan won the Republican primary in Michigan's 8th Congressional District,...detroitnews.com

GOP's Smith scores upset in mid-Michigan US House race after dropping out
Melissa Nann Burke
Aug. 4, 2026Updated Aug. 5, 2026, 11:58 a.m. ET
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A GOP candidate who dropped out of a mid-Michigan congressional primary defeated
President Donald Trump's endorsed candidate, Amir Hassan of Flint, on Wednesday in an upset that disrupts the Republican Party's plan for how to win a competitive U.S. House seat.

One of the biggest fallings of our pathetic mainstream media is they NEVER demand Vance have to answer for his outright unabashed hateful bigotry. This is the man that started the smearing of Haitians in Ohio. He continues here. He’s never questioned or called out for it. He’s the VP. A disgrace

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Pretty clear watching the Kornacki Cam that NBC News is telling him he needs to wrap up (guessing by 2 am ET), but Steve is begging them to let him stay on until the race is called. Give the people what they want, NBC!

Watching RIDE OR DIE on Prime Video (it’s fun), but in the ep where Octavia Spencer meets her future husband, he says he wants to hear all about her “bucket list”—in 1997. The phrase basically didn’t exist until the movie was written! Anyway, I’m only on ep 3, but it’s a very enjoyable watch.

Watching RIDE OR DIE on Prime Video (it’s fun), but in the ep where Octavia Spencer meets her future husband, he says he wants to hear all about her “bucket list”—in 1997. The phrase basically didn’t exist until the movie was written! Anyway, I’m only on ep 3, but it’s a very enjoyable watch.

Almost 7 p.m. and it's still 115 degrees in my part of the Las Vegas Valley-- hotter than Phoenix, which is not normal (though not unprecedented.) I am so ready for fall and brisk 90 degree days...

Sorry to do this again, but: My BlueSky has been malfunctioning again, with post disappearing as soon as I post them…and then showing up 5-8 hours later. But I think it may be fixed? Like or reply if you see this circa 4:46 pm PT Saturday? Thanks

I wrote about the lies Trump and his cronies repeatedly told about the Reflecting Pool damage. After Jeanine Pirro's admission that poor workmanship caused the damage, no one can whine about 'fake news.' There's a link in comments to my column. 📸Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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