Appropriate music.

INSIDE JOB, SEASON TWO, DROPPING NOV 18!!1! Break out your tinfoil, kids! Inside Job is a Netflix animated series about the employees of a shadowy government contractor in a world in which every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard is real. The comedy is hilarious, the characters endearing, and the writers do their homework. Fans of Archer will appreciate this show.

ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE BELONG TO US: An 18-state coalition… has filed a brief in support of parental rights in a lawsuit against an Iowa school district’s policy that withholds information on a child’s gender identity from their parents.

CONGRESSCRITTER MAXINE WATERS DODGES HARD QUESTION (AGAIN): Waters avoided reporter Hillary Vaughn’s question when asked if Democrats who received campaign cash from FTX should give it back, saying, “Well, I don’t want to get into that. As a matter of fact, both sides, Democrats and Republicans, have received donations. So thank you.”

CRYPTO-BRO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE: John Ray III, a veteran insolvency professional who oversaw the liquidation of Enron, said in a court filing on Thursday that FTX was the worst case of corporate failure that he had seen in his more than 40-year career. And SBF keeps running his mouth when he should be STFU.

FREE LUNCH: Feast your eyes upon the Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program Application. Now make a -4 saving throw against sanity.

EYES WIDE SHUT: Obligatory, gratuitous link to tabloid celebrity sex party exposé. Because I had to imagine a naked Bill Maher, now you have to as well.

NOT SURE IF THIS IS REAL: Like everything else coming out of the Russia-Ukraine war, take it with a big pinch of salt. Video appears to show Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy taking time out from defending his country from Russian invasion to make a music video. Sick AT4 solo, Volodya (or actor playing him).