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Free Chat Friday, Week 1

01/03/2025 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, peeps, …er, whatevs!! I’m still waiting for the coffee to kick in, and I’m full of hope that eventually it will. We’ve been bingeing a replay of Ted Lasso this week, and I’d MORE

The Best and Worst of 2024 — Free Chat

12/31/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Well, there’s good news and bad news — 2024 is over, and 2025 is almost here! Ugh. With few options of good news to report, and a New Year on our doorstep, let’s take time MORE

Good morning, News Viewers, and happy Friday as we wind down 2024 and drag ourselves into (Project) 2025! During these days of Trump purgatory, waiting for the fresh hell of our Derp Leader and his MORE

Happy Holidays: December 25, 2026

12/25/2024 Ms. G 0

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Holidays! It’s quiet around the News Views newsroom because we’re enjoying the holidays and spending time with our families. Whatever you celebrate or don’t, just enjoy the day and MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 51

12/20/2024 PMSwithESP 0

It was the last Friday before Christmas, when all through the House, All the creatures were stirring — Including Muskrat the Louse… Good Friday morning to one and all — on this final stretch of MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 50

12/13/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning all, and welcome to Week 50, and Day 348 of the year 2024, with eight days left until winter. Really. Currently a crisp 12°, so a nice prelude to “winter.” For the second MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 49

12/06/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, and welcome to the coming weekend, with Christmas coming faster than a Trump Train. I really need a concept of a plan because I still have a pumpkin on the front porch, while MORE

Free Chat: Happy Thanksgiving!

11/28/2024 Ms. G 0

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Thanksgiving or whatever you celebrate. We’re not doing much today but will have a bunch of people over on Saturday. I was just going to make a seafood paella MORE

Free Chat Friday: November 22, 2024

11/22/2024 Ms. G 0

Good Morning, News Viewers, and Happy Friday! Are you all getting ready for Turkey Day? Got plans? A concept of a plan? How’s The Fascist Guy’s proposed cabinet doing? Cartoons do some ‘splaining: Please feel MORE

Free Chat Friday: November 15, 2024

11/15/2024 Ms. G 0

Happy Friday, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend! Welp, the hangover from the election is somewhat over but the pain has just begun. I’m just thankful that I live in a state that took MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 45 (ugh)

11/08/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, News Views friends. As you can see, it’s Friday. How did we get here? To Friday, I mean? I’ve experienced a few days of “real life” interruptions, days and nights turned on end, MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 44

11/01/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, News Viewers, hope you all are coping well with your Halloween sugar hangovers as we head into another Friday, and one last weekend filled with hair-raising, terrifying creatures on the last leg of MORE

Free Chat Friday: Week 43

10/25/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, News Viewers, and welcome to Freaky Friday! It’s getting scary out there, whether you’re counting down to Halloween, in six days, or Election Day, in ten. In either case, as President Obama has MORE

Free Chat Friday: October 18, 2024

10/18/2024 Ms. G 0

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Friday. I don’t know about you guys, but, I can hardly wait until the election is over. But, I have a feeling, just a hunch, the aftermath is not MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 41

10/11/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, News Viewers, another week has passed, or so they say…. It’s been a whirlwind, and that’s almost an insulting understatement when the perfect storm of nasty GOP politics meets natural disaster along the MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 40

10/04/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, News Viewers, welcome to the 40th week of the year, where we are 31 days out from the 2024 Election. My, where have the last nine years gone? It feels like nine years MORE

Free Chat: September 27, 2024

09/27/2024 Ms. G 0

Wow—another month is almost done! Happy Friday, News Viewers, and Welcome to the weekend. Feel free to share any memes, gifs, video clips you may have stumbled on that relates to the crazy world we MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 38

09/20/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good Friday morning, News Viewers, on this 38th week of the year, a week that seemingly went to the dogs (and the cats, the pets… of the people). We’re watching the Republican Limbo, how low MORE

Free Chat Friday: September 13, 2024

09/13/2024 Ms. G 0

I don’t do math so, I have no clue what week it is and I’m too lazy to figure it out. Happy Friday, News Viewers! As you can see, we’re still missing our lovely Rachel…damn, MORE

Free Chat Friday Week 36

09/06/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning Free Chatters, it’s another week without our free chat goddess Rachel, and believe me, we miss her as much as anyone. Today we’re looking back at Week 36, can you believe it? This MORE

Happy Labor Day: September 02, 2024

09/02/2024 Ms. G 0

Today, we celebrate labor and all present, past, and future workers. However you celebrate the holiday, be safe and enjoy the day and each others company!

Free Chat Friday, Week 35

08/30/2024 PMSwithESP 0

Good morning, News Viewers, and welcome to Labor Day Weekend! Apparently the later mornings and earlier evenings have truly signaled the wind-down of summer and the return of school buses. Eventually leaf blowers and the MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 34

08/23/2024 Community 0

Good morning News Viewers, members of the jury, esteemed members of the press, and those braving the political circus, this week we witnessed a curious phenomenon at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. At the MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 33

08/16/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

Good Morning, News Viewers, and do my eyes deceive me? I’ve turned on the dreaded “Morning Joe” and both Joe and Mika are on at the same time, both laughing at something quippy. Mika isn’t MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 32

08/09/2024 Rachel Kennedy 0

Happy Friday News Viewers 🥳🤘 and what a Friday it is — remember the line from Romeo and Juliet? “I do spy a kind of hope,” said the Friar. . . .— and so do MORE