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Editor-in-Chief πŸ’Ž Pop Heist Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel Drag πŸ‘  Barb Hardly I guess I'm in Minneapolis. https://popheist.com/ brett at popheist dot com

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XFO19 Open Hand Closed Fist by brettwhite Don't slap a man in a hovering wheelchair.

A mug design, specifically.

www.teepublic.com/mug/88607030...

07.03.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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COBRA-LA 87 GI Joe The Movie by brettwhite La la la la la

For all the real ones.

www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8862...

07.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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'Survivor' 50x02 Recap: 'Therapy Carousel' - Pop Heist Cirie remains the queen of the social game, Aubry catches a break, Joe and Rick butt heads, and Christian ... needs a new pair of pants.

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05.03.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Shoresy' is Better Than 'Ted Lasso' 'Shoresy' is one of the best shows airing right now, an emotionally satisfying, uplifting, and singular merging of sports drama and comedy.

'Shoresy' is one of the best shows airing right now, an emotionally satisfying, uplifting, and singular merging of sports drama and comedy.

buff.ly/9vtS8Ax

06.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 6
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'G.I. Joe' Episode 3 Recap: Heeere's Snake Eyes! Everybody loves Torpedo, the Joes dive for heavy water, and Maj. Bludd stays winning.

No seriously, what does Torpedo get up to when he's on shore leave?

06.03.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Backtalk.

But Barb's is Showtime.

06.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Two days of getting a full night's uninterrupted sleep, and waking up at 7, and going to the library to work on this GI Joe: The Movie/Cobra-La feature piece. I've now hit a wall, though, and am falling asleep at desk.

06.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@popheist.com subscriptions are a great deal and will improve your mode in these dark days.

05.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe? The bios riff on the original filecards. I wonder if they'd hire Larry to rewrite his own work. Was it just someone from Impel who had read all of the GI Joe comics? But what're the odds they had someone like that already on staff? The Marvel cards were written by Brevoort, IIRC

05.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

(Also how are Golobulus and the Royal Guards' birthplaces known, but classified; Nemesis Enforcer's is unknown (?); and Crystal Ball's of all people is *definitely* Cobra-La? You think the *bat wing guy* and the *serpent man* were born in France or something?)

05.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anyway -- it's good that it's taken this long to write this thing, because I *just* discovered that the '91 trading cards wrote the Cobra-La characters out of the story with an earthquake, and somehow Crystal Ball ended up catching a stray.

05.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Mind you, this is after I hit up a Target at 8:35 AM-ish because there were reports of four Cobra-La Royal Guards being on the shelf. I arrived five minutes after someone scooped them all up. I know this because, yes, I'm in a *facebook group* for ..... minnesota toy collectors ...

05.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I arrived at the library at 9 AM to continue working on

THE COBRA-LA CORPUS FINALE

which, at this point, is about three months late.

05.03.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kyle Chandler can green my lantern any day. Or, uh, Hal my Jordan. Train my John? Whatever -- he's so hot. I would enjoy having sex with him.

04.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
In Defense of Effeminate Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

By Ben Appel

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsβ€”or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβ€”they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, β€œthere would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsβ€”or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβ€”they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, β€œthere would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

03.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 4609 πŸ” 753 πŸ’¬ 160 πŸ“Œ 188

Queen

03.03.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

16.07.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 1951 πŸ” 639 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 42
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This dirtbag

03.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 793 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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'RuPaul's Drag Race' 18x09 Recap: Splitting Heirs - Pop Heist The queens show out in "Fannie: The Hard Knock Ball," strut the runway in beige eleganza, and then deliver a tearjerker of a lip sync.

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02.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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i could be reading the news, or i could be researching info on the very divisive new character risk so i can give him his own filecard text

02.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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just killing time in this interminable apocalypse by making my own energon universe gi joe trading cards just for fun just to keep my mind active and at some kind of peace

02.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And tell him he has to work on it from an office in the Mariana trench

28.02.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
28.02.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, I assumed Max Landis has DIED since everyone is talking about him.

What a disappointment.

27.02.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We joke because Max Landis is the son of another scumbag who doesn’t get nearly the same amount of dragging.

27.02.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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No Landis should be involved in a movie where this is a vehicle.

27.02.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You can't blame Max Landis for being the way he is. He had a helicopter parent

22.12.2024 02:13 πŸ‘ 873 πŸ” 185 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 40

Ever had a conversation w someone, but it’s not really a conversation because every time you open your mouth, they cut you off after 3 words and talk for 5 minutes about whatever they already wanted to say?

Ever done that live on camera in a room full of professional peers?

It’s not that fun!

27.02.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had the misfortune of being in the same room as @kielphegley.bsky.social having to interview Lax Mandis, and Kiel trying to wrangle this monster's unchecked ego into something usable was ... herculean.

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