#minneapolis uprising

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lucien Bruggeman and Katherine Faulders at ABC News:

In the hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, allies of former President Donald Trump rushed to denigrate the Minnesota Democrat, seizing on criticism of his handling of the riots in the wake of George Floyd's murder in May 2020. "He allowed rioters to burn down the streets of Minneapolis," Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice president, said Tuesday.

But at the time, Trump expressed support for Walz's handling of the protests, according to a recording of a phone call obtained by ABC News -- telling a group of governors that Walz "dominated," and praising his leadership as an example for other states to follow. "I know Gov. Walz is on the phone, and we spoke, and I fully agree with the way he handled it the last couple of days," Trump told a group of governors on June 1, 2020, according to a recording of the call, in which he also called Walz an "excellent guy." "I was very happy with the last couple of days, Tim," Trump continued. "You called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins." Trump also suggested on the call that it was his encouragement that sparked Walz to call in the National Guard: "I said, you got to use the National Guard in big numbers," Trump said. A spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign said Wednesday that was untrue.

[...] "Governor Walz allowed Minneapolis to burn for days, despite President Trump's offer to deploy soldiers and cries for help from the liberal Mayor of Minneapolis," Leavitt said in a statement to ABC News. "In this daily briefing phone call with Governors on June 1, days after the riots began, President Trump acknowledged Governor Walz for FINALLY taking action to deploy the National Guard to end the violence in the city."

Trump's contemporaneous approval of Walz's decision-making in the wake of George Floyd's murder undermines one of Republicans' most vocal lines of attack against the vice presidential nominee. Critics have accused Walz of stalling the mobilization of the National Guard to quell rioters who set fire to 1,500 buildings, caused some $500 million in property damage, and were linked to at least three deaths.

Donald Trump and his right-wing media allies are attacking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for his handling of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis; however, in 2020, Trump had praised Walz for his handling of them, per an ABC News story.

[chaddavisphotography]

Lake and Minnehaha during the Minneapolis Uprising on May 28th, 2020.

[horseforeplay]

no, i do not believe this level of delusion about the pandemic being “over” is sustainable. i have noticed people behaving in ways they never would have before c19, like they know deep down that things are not OK and they’re scared. international travel, huge parties, etc. i don’t know. i guess i’ve been surprised and disappointed by mass human cruelty and indifference before but i really do believe there will be a tipping point. once activists can catch their fucking breath? maybe? it took 10 years of AIDS before ACT UP took to the streets. i don’t want to wait 10 years. i’ll push as hard as i fucking can but unfortunately i’m close to bed-bound by long covid at the moment. i do not want to die. c19 activism feels like a tipping point for climate change action, anticapitalist action, and abolition action. this can be a radicalizing moment. they made the US slightly more accessible for a MINUTE and then yanked it away but we *saw* it. we saw it!!!!!!!!!! efforts to squash c19 precautions go hand-in-hand with squashing anti-police protests: they know that the summer 2020 uprisings were able to happen because enough people, for a brief moment, were freer than they had ever been in this fucking evil country. when people are given resources, they give a shit. cops were the only maskless faces in the streets of minneapolis and that is not a coincidence. the old world is fucking scared and wants you to get sick and die. c19 deaths keep climbing, your yard is burning or flooding or bogged down by smoke, cops have killed more people each year since 2020. that’s the “normal” everybody is trying to convince you it’s sooooo fun to go back to. fuck off. fuck off. there will be a crack and we will kick it open

[radicalgraff]

Memorial murals around the world for George Floyd, whose murder by Minneapolis police on 25 May 2020 sparked uprisings in cities around the US, and protests against police racism in various cities around the world.

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

This is what I was printing the other night when I took pics of my zine set up.

[godzilla-reads]

💫 Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

“Being helpful and kind is almost always more efficient, in my experience.”

In this teen sci-fi graphic novel, two nonbinary teenagers form a bond and manage to find each other through space and time no matter what. But when war is threatening the home of one, can they survive together?

This book is advertised as a romance and I think that’s poor marketing because the book contains multitudes and what’s hinted as a romance is only a very minor occurrence. This book felt like so much more than that.

“Across a Field of Starlight” holds a special place in my heart after reading Blue Delliquanti’s author’s note about living in Minneapolis (where I’m from), living as a queer person (which I am), and experiencing the turmoil of political movements such as the uprising (which I was here for). The book holds a vaster meaning when you see how freedom and human rights are easily taken or, similarly, when people thrive under a peaceful, love-filled community.

The characters were all so well created and had depth and nuance that I’m very happy to see. Now this is pretty science-fictiony with the dialogue and concepts and I’d greatly recommend it.

[transfemmbeatrice]

A divide has quickly emerged between them and people who have not been sucked up in the emotion, activists and radicals who are incredulous at the enthusiasm, trying desperately to remind these Walz-pilled posters that Democrats are currently behind the genocide in Gaza, that Kamala is in fact already in power. Comrades from Minnesota have pointed out that Walz, who was a national guardsman himself, was the one who sent in the National Guard to put down the George Floyd Uprising in Minneapolis, and that Walz, despite getting to the governor's mansion on a campaign focused on climate and ecological justice, crushed an indigenous led water-protector movement to push forward the Line 3 Fracking Pipeline. The aforementioned enthusiastic supporters are responding with some variation of "yeah, we know, but stop killing our vibe".

These two groups are talking past one another. The memers are responding to a structure of feeling, an experience of hope and joy, an affect, one that I sometimes share. On multiple occasions I have been moved by seeing the nominees actually stand up to these creeps and call them what they are, by witty and dismissive press releases or in front of cheering crowds. It's a powerful image, it feels good, at least in the moments where the crowd isn't chanting "USA! USA! USA!" And many of the memes have been really fucking funny.

The Cassandras, meanwhile, are speaking with hard-won-knowledge and wisdom from decades in the fight, and are trying to stop people from rushing into the same mistake made during Obama's campaign, or indeed Bernie Sanders' (or Corbyn's, or Syriza's, or Podemos' etc. etc.) They're trying to protect these erstwhile friends from throwing themselves behind a campaign that can only ever betray them. But because they're not acknowledging the power of the affect shift, perhaps because they genuinely don't share it, they are left sounding to the memers like they're arguing against feeling good itself.

…

But all of that good feeling, that sense of victory, of hope and possibility, do not come from or belong to Harris and Walz. While it is a relief that the Democrats finally brought a knife to the knife fight (instead of their traditional book of etiquette), they could and should have already done this a dozen times before.

Vicky Osterweil

[domoralactsmvmt]

Reading List (in progress)

Feel free to contact me with suggestions to add, or reblog with your own:

Books:

Alexander Michelle: The New Jim Crow

Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote

Carol Anderson: White Rage

Azeem Rafiq: It's not Banter; It's Racism

Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught

Slavoj Žižek: Against Progress

James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time

Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility

Ibram X. Kendi: How to Be an Antiracist

George Lakey: How We Win

Kiese Laymon: Heavy

Michie, Feinstein, Rogers & Corbyn: Monstrous Anger of the Guns

Crystal Fleming: How to be Less Stupid About Race

Walter Johnson: The Broken Heart of America

Heather McGhee: The Sum of Us

Khalil Gibran Muhammad: The Condemnation of Blackness

Tanuro, Wilder, Achcar, Hannah and Fortune: Resisting Trumpism

Clara Zetkin: Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win

Leon Trotsky: Fascism - What it is and How to Fight it

Leon Trotsky: The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany

John Foot: Blood and Power - The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

Hope & Mullen: The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition - Fighting back from lynching to abolition

Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law

Glenn Singleton: Courageous Conversations About Race

Cornel West: Race Matters

Isabel Wilkerson: Caste

Williams & Blaine: Charleston Syllabus

Derald Wing Sue: Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence

Articles: -Hannah-Jones, Nikole. (2019). The 1619 Project. The New York Times Magazine. -Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (2014). The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic. -DiAngelo, Robin. (2017). Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism. Huffington Post. -McIntosh, Peggy. (1989). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible -Knapsack. Peace and Freedom. -Serwer, Adam. (2020). The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. The Atlantic. -Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. (2020). Don’t Understand the Protests? What You're Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge. Los Angeles Times. -Hinton, Elizabeth. (2020). The Minneapolis Uprising in Context. Boston Review.

Podcasts: -Hannah-Jones, Nikole. 1619. The New York Times. -Muhammad, Khalil Gibran and Ben Austen. Some of My Best Friends Are. Pushkin. -Carroll, Rebecca. Come Through with Rebecca Carroll. WNYC Studios. -Biewen, John. Seeing White. Scene On Radio. -Raghuveera, Nikhil and Erica Licht. Untying Knots. SoundCloud. -Moyo, Thoko. A historic crossroads for systemic racism and policing in America. PolicyCast. Featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Erica Chenoweth.

If you need help getting your hands on any materials, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or another trusted person with inter-library access.

[chaddavisphotography]

A sticker reading "MPD receives training from the IDF. To serve & protect settler colonialism. All colonizers are bastards" found on a post outside the former Minneapolis police third precinct.

[lizardsfromspace]

The nominees for Best Picture, 2040 were announced today! The nominees include...

"...it's not that I don't want to include them, but you have to think about middle America and the foreign markets..."

Drag Queens for Liberty. This life-affirming dramedy tells of how a group of trans people and drag queens fought a library censorship campaign in their small town in the early 2020s.

"...fired from Scream 7 for 'false statements about genocide'..."

The River and the Sea. This fact-based war drama follows a Palestinian father trying to save his family from the bombings of 2023, and an Israeli soldier who begins to have his doubts about the war.

"...I couldn't vote for Selma because of how divisive they were, claiming Hollywood is racist..."

Minneapolis. This docudrama follows several individuals in the uprising in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

"...Hollywood isn't a bunch of snaggletoothed hillbillies, how can they say we're racist?"

SoWhite. This biopic details the efforts of activists to make the Oscars acknowledge people of color's performances. Watch these films and more compete at the Oscars, where we honor art that grapples with the world as it is and takes bold stances, this February, 2040.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Overall I like Walz but I’m also really not looking forward to the rest of the country digging into the Minneapolis Uprising again

[reasoningdaily]

A rightwing extremist boasted of driving from Texas to Minneapolis to help set fire to a police precinct during the George Floyd protests, federal prosecutors said.

US attorney Erica MacDonald said on Friday that she had charged Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old Texas resident, with traveling across state lines to participate in a riot. The charges are the latest example of far-right extremists attempting to use violence to escalate national protests against police brutality into an uprising against the government, and even full civil war.

The case also reveals the extent of the coordination between violent members of the nascent far-right “Boogaloo Bois” movement operating in different cities across the country.

According to the criminal complaint against Hunter, on 26 May, as intense protests broke out in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd by a city police officer, a “Boogaloo Boi” based in Minnesota posted a public Facebook message: “I need a headcount.”

Hunter, a resident of Boerne, Texas, which is roughly 1,200 miles away, responded: “72 hours out.”

Another “Boogaloo Boi”, based in North Carolina, posted a public message the same day: “Lock and load boys,” he wrote, adding, “the national network is going off.”

“Boogaloo” has long been used on online message boards as an ironic term for a second civil war, one that might be sparked by any government attempts to confiscate Americans’ guns. But in 2019 and early 2020, the memes about a coming “boogaloo” began to coalesce into an anti-government, pro-gun movement, with armed “Boog bois” showing up at protests, some wearing the “Boogaloo” uniform of a bright Hawaiian shirt paired with a military-style rifle.

In the late winter and early spring of 2020, researchers noted a growing number of “Boogaloo” groups on Facebook, many of them posting explicitly about military tactics and killing government officials, as well as the proliferation of “Boogaloo”-themed merchandise for sale, such as flags, patches, and Hawaiian-print gun accessories.

Prosecutors say that Hunter would later describe himself to Austin police officers as “the leader of the Boogaloo Bois in south Texas”.

By 28 May, during a night of the most intense unrest and destruction in the city, Hunter was in Minneapolis, just as the 3rd precinct police station, known locally as a “playground for renegade cops”, was being set on fire.

Video shot that night shows a person later identified as Hunter firing 13 rounds from a semiautomatic assault-style rifle on the 3rd precinct police station while people believed to be looters were inside. He then high-fived another person and shouted, “Justice for Floyd!” according to the complaint.

Later, he privately messaged Steven Carrillo, another alleged “Boogaloo Boi” in California, urging him to “go for police buildings”, according to the federal criminal complaint.

“I did better, lol,” Carrillo allegedly replied.

Hours before Carrillo sent that message, according to the complaint, federal prosecutors say Carrillo had driven to Oakland with an accomplice, and, as protesters were demonstrating blocks away, shot two officers guarding a federal courthouse in downtown Oakland, killing one, David Patrick Underwood.

Carrillo was later charged with killing another law enforcement officer, a Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy, in an ambush attack in June.

According to the complaint, Hunter would later post multiple messages on Facebook bragging of his actions in Minneapolis on the night of 28 May and morning of 29 May, writing, “I set fire to that precinct with the Black community,” and, “My mom would call the FBI if she knew.”

“I’ve burned police stations with Black Panthers in Minneapolis,” he claimed in one message, and in another, “The BLM protesters in Minneapolis loved me.”

Police in Austin, Texas, stopped a pickup truck, in which Hunter was a passenger, on 3 June for multiple traffic violations. Hunter had six loaded magazines for a semiautomatic rifle in a tactical vest he was wearing. Officers also found multiple firearms in the truck.

Several days after the stop, federal agents learned of Hunter’s online affiliation with Carrillo. MacDonald said Hunter made his initial court appearance on Thursday in San Antonio, Texas. It is unclear if he has an attorney.

Hunter is the third alleged “Boogaloo Boi” to be charged in connection with protests in Minneapolis. Across the country, the “Boogaloo” movement has been linked to more than two dozen arrests and at least five deaths this year, including the alleged plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer.

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

if you'd like to read it, here it is!

Here in Minneapolis the 3rd precinct police station we burned up during the George Floyd riots is still sitting there scorched with concrete barriers & barbed wire. They had a sign up that said like "Clean Up Begins 2024 ☺️🕊️🙏🏻" but it's still untouched, like a holy or cursed place. Part of the landscape. I pass it almost every day. It's an enormous source of pride for our community.

[starbooge]

Protesters set fire to Minneapolis police precinct as Trump attacks uprising on Twitter | PBS News

[brookston]

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[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 10.11

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Kraken Day

Mato Grosso do Sui Day (Brazil)

Moi Day (a.k.a. Huduma Day and Utamaduni Day; Kenya)

Mother Jones Day

Myths and Legends Day

National Bookkeeper's Day

National Cinema Day (India)

National Coming Out Day

National Kim Day

National Kimberly Day

National She Survived Herself Day

National Spread Joy Day

Revolution Day (Macedonia)

Sarandi Battle Holiday (Uruguay)

Saturday Night Live Day

Teacher’s Day (Micronesia)

Uprising Against Fascism Day (Macedonia)

Wine-Press Day (French Republic)

World Day Against Fracking

World Day of Roads

World Obesity Day

World Perimenopause Day

You Go, Girl Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Sausage Pizza Day

Southern Food Heritage Day

World Biryani Day

World Dulce de Leche Day (Argentina)

Independence & Related Days

Belia (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Sirland (Declared; 1997) [unrecognized]

2nd Friday in October

Arbor Day (Namibia) [2nd Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Durin’s Day (The Hobbit) [When Last Moon of Autumn & 1st Sun of Winter Appears in Sky Together]

Fish & Chips Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Follow Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Forest School Day (UK) [2nd Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Frugal Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

International Children’s Palliative Care Day [2nd Friday]

International Foster Carer Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]

National Boss Day [Weekday closest to 10.15]

National Haunted House Day [2nd Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Vet Nurse Day [2nd Friday]

World Day Against the Death Penalty [2nd Friday]

World Day of Botanical Gardens [2nd Friday]

World Egg Day [2nd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning October 11 (1st Full Week of October)

None Known

Festivals Beginning October 11, 2024

Acadia's Oktoberfest (Bass Harbor, Maine) [thru 10.12]

Arkansas State Fair (Little Rock, Arkansas) [thru 10.20]

Bridge City Gumbo Festival (Bridge City, Louisiana) [thru 10.13]

Bridgeville Apple-Scrapple Festival (Bridgeville, Delaware) [thru 10.12]

Celtic Colours International Festival (Cape Breton Island, Canada) [thru 10.19]

Charlevoix Apple Fest (Charlevoix, Michigan) [thru 10.13]

Coffee Fest Minneapolis(Minneapolis, Minnesota) [thru 10.12]

Conroe Catfish Festival (Conroe, Texas) [thru 10.13]

Cranberry Harvest Festival Cook-Off (Grayland, Washington)

Cuero Turkeyfest (Cuero, Texas) [thru 10.13]

Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival (Port Angeles, Washington) [thru 10.13]

Ethnic Expo (Columbus, Indiana) [thru 10.12]

Fall for Greenville (Greenville, South Carolina) [thru 10.13]

Festivals Acadiens et Creoles (Lafayette, Louisiana) [thru 10.13]

Goats Music & More Festival (Lewisburg, Tennessee) [thru 10.12]

Hands and Harvest Festival (Highland County, Virginia) [thru 10.13]

Harvest Day Festival (Headland, Alabama) [thru 10.12]

Hood River Valley Harvest Fest (Hood River, Oregon) [thru 10.13]

Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Lynchburg, Tennessee) [thru 10.12]

Kingstree Pig Pickin' Festival (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) [thru 10.12]

La Habra Corn Festival (La Habra, California) [thru 10.13]

Lake George Oktoberfest (Lake George, New York) [thru 10.13]

Lenexa Chili Challenge (Lenexa, Kansas) [thru 10.12]

Long Beach Oktoberfest (Long Beach, California) [thru 10.12]

Louisiana Gumbo Festival (Chackbay Choupic Fair Grounds, Louisiana) [thru 10.13]

Marunada [Chestnut Festival in Croatia[ (Lovran, Croatia) [thru 10.13]

Milford Pumpkin Festival (Milford, New Hampshire) [thru 10.13]

Maryland State BBQ Bash (Bel Air, Maryland) [thru 10.12]

Oakhurst Fall Festival (Oakhurst, California) [thru 10.13]

Octoberfest (Cleveland, Mississippi) [thru 10.12]

Oktoberfest (Red River, New Mexico) [thru 10.13]

Oktoberfest St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) [thru 10.13]

Parke County Covered Bridge Festival )Parke County, Indiana) [thru 10.20]

PAX Australia (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 10.13]

Pumpkin Festival (Littleton, Colorado) [thru 10.13]

Rio Vista Bass Derby & Festival (Rio Vista, California) [thru 10.13]

South Jersey Pumpkin Show (Woodstown, New Jersey) [thru 10.13]

Taste of the Beach (Pensacola, Florida) [thru 10.12]

Trigg County Country Ham Festival (Cadiz, Kentucky) [thru 10.13]

Turkey Trot (Yellville, Arkansas) [thru 10.12]

Warsaw International Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 10.20]

Watonga Cheese Festival (Watonga, Oklahoma) [thru 10.12]

Witch-Craft (Hammonton, New Jersey) [thru 10.12]

Weimar Onion Market (Weimar, Germany) [thru 10.13]

Feast Days

Æthelburh of Barking (Christian; Saint)

Agilbert (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Sauli (Christian; Saint)

Andrew Logan (Artology)

Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Roman Catholic Church; Martyrs)

Anne Enright (Writerism)

Bruno the Great (Christian; Saint)

Cainnech of Aghaboe (Christian; Saint)

Canicus of Ireland (a.k.a. Kenny; Christian; Saint)

Day of Wayland the Smith (Pagan)

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saints)

Elmore Leonard (Writerism)

François Mauriac (Writerism)

George Ault (Artology)

Gomar (Christian; Saint)

Gratus of Oloron (Christian; Saint)

Gummarus (a.k.a. Gummar or Cromer; Christian; Saint)

James Barry (Artology)

James the Deacon (Church of England, Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)

Joe Simon (Artology)

John XXIII, Pope (Roman Catholic Church)

Lommán of Trim (Christian; Saint)

Maria Soledad Torres y Acosta (Christian; Saint)

Meditrinalia (Old Roman festival in honor of the new vintage)

Navaratri Dusserha (a.k.a. Dasain, Dashain, Dasara; Hindu, Nepal)

Nectarius of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Nicasius, Quirinus, Scubiculus, and Pientia (Christian; Saints)

No Falling Down Day (Pastafarian)

Old Michaelmas Day (Celtic)

Philip the Evangelist (Christian; Saint)

Play Nice Day Day (Pastafarian)

Ramos (Positivist; Saint)

Sunbeam Sliding Sunday (Shamanism)

Vinalia (Roman Wine Festival)

The Wig (Muppetism)

Zenaida and Philonella (Christian; Saint)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Yom Kippur begins (Day of Atonement) [9-10 Tishrei]

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chung Yeung Festival (a.k.a. Festival of Ancestors; China, Macau) [9th Day, 9th Moon]

Double Ninth Day (Buddhism) [9th Day, 9th Moon]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Binary Day [1110] (6 of 9)

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [48 of 57]

Premieres

The Addams Family (Animated Film; 2019)

The Backyardigans (Animated TV Series; 2004)

Bad Times at the El Royale (Film; 2018)

Bat Out of Hell, by Meatloaf (Album; 1977)

Body and Soul, recorded by Coleman Hawkins (Song; 1939)

A Boy and His Dog (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1936)

Can’t Slow Down, by Lionel Richie (Album; 1983)

The Case of the Gilded Fly, by Edmund Crispin (Novel; 1944)

Charlie Chan in Shanghai (Film; 1935)

The Death Cure, by James Dashner (Novel; 2011) [Maze Runner #3]

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, by Shulamith Firestone (Book; 1970)

Drop Dead Fred (Film; 1991)

First Man (Film; 2018)

The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1981)

From Russia with Love (UK Film; 1963) [James Bond #2]

52nd Street, by Billy Joel (Album; 1978)

Four Seasons of Love, by Donna Summer (Album; 1976)

The Goldfinch (Film; 2019)

Gotcha (Video Game; 1973)

Hook, Line and Stinker (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)

Island, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1962)

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1957)

Killer Queen, by Queen (Song; 1973)

King Solomon's Ring, by Konrad Lorenz (Novel; 1949)

Knife of Dreams, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2005) [Wheel of Time #11]

Laura (Film; 1944)

The Long Kiss Goodnight (Film; 1996)

The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov (Novel; 1930)

MFKZ (Animated Film; 2018)

Mindwalk (Film; 1991)

Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (WB Animated Film; 2022)

Oklahoma (Film; 1955)

Orlando, by Virginia Woolf (Biography; 1928)

Parasite (Film; 2019)

Plagues and Peoples, by William H. McNeill (History Book; 1976)

The Poseidon Adventure, by Paul Gallico (Novel; 1969)

Remo Williams (Film; 1985)

Saturday Night Live (TV Series; 1975)

The Shot Heard Round the World (America Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1975)

The Snow Man (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)

Snuff, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 2011) [Discworld #39]

Streetlife Serenade, by Billy Joel (Album; 1974)

30 Rock (TV Series; 2006)

To Have and Have Not (Film; 1944)

Touch, by Sarah McLachlan (Album; 1988)

The Transporter (Film; 2002)

Tuck Everlasting (Film; 2002)

Where’s Charley?, by Frank Loesser (Broadway Musical; 1948)

Without You, by Harry Nilsson (Song; 1971)

Today’s Name Days

Bruno, Jakob (Austria)

Andronik, Emilijan, Filip, Gaudencije (Croatia)

Andrej (Czech Republic)

Probus (Denmark)

Aldo, Aldur, Eldur, Haldo, Haldur, Heldur (Estonia)

Ohto, Otso (Finland)

Firmin (France)

Alexander, Bruno, Georg, Manuela (Germany)

Brigitta (Hungary)

Firmino (Italy)

Maira, Monta, Silva, Tince (Latvia)

Daugvydė, Germanas, Rimdaugas, Zina, Zinaida (Lithuania)

Kennet, Kent, Kevin (Norway)

Aldona, Brunon, Burchard, Dobromiła, Emil, Emilian, Emiliusz, Germanik, Maria, Marian, Placydia (Poland)

Filip (Romania)

Valentína (Slovakia)

Begoña, Juan, Soledad (Spain)

Erling, Jarl (Sweden)

Zina, Zinaida (Ukraine)

Canice, Ken, Kendall, Kendra, Kennedy, Kenneth, Kenny, Kent, Kenton, Kim, Kimball, Kimberley, Kimberly, Kimberlyn, Kimi, Tate, Tatum (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 285 of 2024; 81 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 41 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 9 (Wu-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Tishri 5785

Islamic: 7 Rabi II 1446

J Cal: 15 Orange; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 28 September 2024

Moon: 58%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 5 Descartes (11th Month) [Erasmus / Montaigne]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 20 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of October

Zodiac: Libra (Day 19 of 30)