Just two days after Sutton Mosser turned 3, she was killed, and now her mother is accused of murder.
People <a href="https://people.com/crime/mich-mother-claimed-to-hear-voices-through-the-tv-before-killing-toddler/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab">reported</a> that Justine Johnson, 22, has been charged “with felony murder and first-degree child abuse stemming from the Sept. 16, 2021, death of her daughter.” Mosser died due to multiple stab wounds, the outlet reported, noting that Johnson has pleaded not guilty to the crime.
Johnson, who lives in Michigan, reportedly told an investigator from Iosco County Child Protective Services (CPS) that SpongeBob SquarePants was on TV when she heard sinister voices through the television. She also told this official that the voices in the television threatened to kill her unless she harmed her daughter, according to a copy of the police report <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/06/us/michigan-mother-daughter-murder/index.html">obtained by CNN</a>.
She reportedly told police that the television told her &#8220;they were going to kill me&#8221; if she didn’t hurt her daughter and that she “blacked out” and did not remember attacking Mosser.
The outlet also reported that a CPS official told police that Johnson claimed to be going through a heroin withdrawal on the day she allegedly killed Mosser, and that she also used cocaine on that day.
Iosco County Prosecutor James A. Bacarella told CNN that his “office intends to proceed to trial, so a jury&#8221; can determine whether Johnson is guilty or innocent.
&#8220;This case is a horrible tragedy and I cannot imagine the level of grief felt by the family that loved this child,&#8221; he added.
Johnson’s mother, Alisa, told CNN that her daughter “loved her child” and that “the people are portraying her as someone she is not.&#8221; Alisa also reportedly told police she wanted Johnson to stay at her home so she could help her take care of Mosser.
CNN reported that Johnson’s brothers found Mosser’s body.
“According to a police report, Oscoda Township Police officers responded in the early morning hours of September 17, 2021, to a home in Oscoda Township after Johnson&#8217;s brother, Knesley Johnson, called police and reported finding a human foot sticking out of a black garbage bag,” the outlet reported.
Johnson’s other brother, who is a teenager and not named in media reports, told police that he woke up around 6 p.m. and saw his sister doing what he thought was drugs in the bathroom. When he asked his sister where Mosser was, Johnson allegedly replied, “mind your f***ing business.”
The younger brother left home for a few hours and returned home to find no one. When Knesley returned from work, the teenager asked him where Johnson was and began searching the home, which is when he found the foot in the garbage bag. Knesley then called the police.
Police found Johnson walking along a railroad track sometime after. She originally refused to answer police questions.
While investigating Johnson’s apartment, police found blood on the floor and a partially full bathtub with “a red tint consistent with blood,&#8221; though it is unclear whose blood.

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Las Vegas Raiders rookie cornerback Damon Arnette recently mocked kids network Nickelodeon for suggesting animated character SpongeBob Squarepants is gay in a Pride Month tweet. The athlete argued that bringing up the character&#8217;s sexuality at all was premature given the cartoon&#8217;s general audience and emphasized that the character is &#8220;a sponge for kids.&#8221;
&#8220;So now spongebob gay lol&#8230;.,&#8221; posted Arnette on Sunday, &#8220;2020 doing so many people wrong. He a sponge.. they tryna expose these kids to everything to (sic) early.&#8221;
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So now spongebob gay lol&#8230; 2020 doing so many people wrong. He a sponge.. they tryna expose these kids to everything to early.
&mdash; Damon Arnette (@damon_arnette) <a href="https://twitter.com/damon_arnette/status/1272272901685645313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Arnette then <a href="https://twitter.com/SpongeBobDatGuy/status/1271945967051444224">retweeted</a> a post from a &#8220;SpongeBob Squarepants&#8221; Twitter account captioning the news of the character allegedly being gay. &#8220;N**** I ain&#8217;t gay,&#8221; the quote-tweet said.
On Monday, Arnette reiterated that the sexuality of a cartoon sponge need not be discussed and stated that he is not a &#8220;homophobe,&#8221; apparently in reaction to accusations.
&#8220;I’m sorry if I offended a lot of you guys,&#8221; the former Ohio star wrote. &#8220;I’m in no way a homophobe, I just feel like a sponge shouldn’t be gay OR straight.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a sponge for kids,&#8221; he again emphasized.
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I’m sorry if I offended a lot of you guys. I’m in no way a homophobe, I just feel like a sponge shouldn’t be gay OR straight. It’s a sponge for kids.
&mdash; Damon Arnette (@damon_arnette) <a href="https://twitter.com/damon_arnette/status/1272579528594870272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In a missive marking the beginning of Pride Month, Nickelodeon introduced a rainbow-colored version of their hit cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, showing the anthropomorphic yellow sea creature dressed in his typical outfit of a white shirt and brown pants, but with the addition of a tie printed with the LGBTQ &#8216;pride&#8217; flag,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-suggests-spongebob-squarepants-is-gay-in-lgbtq-pride-month-tweet?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">The Daily Wire</a> reported Sunday.
&#8220;Although the tweet doesn’t explicitly say SpongeBob is gay, the two other &#8216;rainbow&#8217; character treatments, released alongside SpongeBob, are of queer characters,&#8221; the report added, a bisexual character from &#8220;The Legend of Korra&#8221; and a transgender actor, Michael D. Cohen, who plays Schwoz from &#8220;Henry Danger.&#8221;
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Celebrating <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pride</a> with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month 🌈 ⁣ (🎨: by <a href="https://twitter.com/ramzymasri?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ramzymasri</a>) <a href="https://t.co/pENmTaQB0h">pic.twitter.com/pENmTaQB0h</a>
&mdash; Nickelodeon (@Nickelodeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nickelodeon/status/1271795092391682048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by The Daily Wire, the show&#8217;s creator Stephen Hillenburg said years ago that SpongeBob is “asexual.&#8221;
“We never intended them to be gay,” Hillenburg told People magazine of the sponge and his friend Patrick. “I consider them to be almost asexual. We’re just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show.”
Last year, animated PBS series “Arthur” kicked off its 22nd season with a gay wedding. In the episode, entitled “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kids-cartoon-arthur-has-character-come-out-amanda-prestigiacomo">Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone</a>,” third-grade teacher Mr. Ratburn marries a man as Arthur and his classmates look on. “It’s a brand new world!” one of the students yells after the children figure out Mr. Ratburn is marrying a man.
At the time, <a href="https://www.glaad.org/">GLAAD</a>, an organization representing the LGBT community, cheerfully commented on the shocking move by PBS. “Congratulations Mr. Ratburn!” the group tweeted, adding a rainbow emoji.
In 2017, Disney reboot film “Beauty and the Beast&#8221; included a character played by actor Josh Gad, LeFou, who struggled with his sexual attraction for Gaston, according to director Bill Condon. The director championed a “nice, exclusively gay moment” in the film.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-suggests-spongebob-squarepants-is-gay-in-lgbtq-pride-month-tweet?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">Nickelodeon Suggests SpongeBob SquarePants Is Gay In LGBTQ Pride Month Tweet</a>
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In the wild, sea sponges aren&#8217;t known to have sexual preferences, but according to a tweet by children&#8217;s programming network, Nickelodeon, at least one cartoon sponge might practice an alternative lifestyle.
In a missive marking the beginning of Pride Month, Nickelodeon introduced a rainbow-colored version of their hit cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, showing the anthropomorphic yellow sea creature dressed in his typical outfit of a white shirt and brown pants, but with the addition of a tie printed with the LGBTQ &#8220;pride&#8221; flag.
“Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” the network said in the tweet.
Although the tweet doesn&#8217;t explicitly say SpongeBob is gay, the two other &#8220;rainbow&#8221; character treatments, released alongside SpongeBob, are of queer characters, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/13/nickelodeon-pride-tweet-hints-spongebob-squarepants-is-gay/">the New York Post</a>: &#8220;Korra from &#8216;The Legend of Korra,&#8217; who is bisexual, and the transgender actor Michael D. Cohen [who plays Schwoz] from &#8216;Henry Danger.'&#8221;
&#8216;Fans have known for a while Korra was gay/bisexual &#8212; as it was revealed in the show itself and actually written into the script. Again, not so much with words&#8230;but just action,&#8221; entertainment news outlet <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/13/spongebob-squarepants-gay-lgbtq-pride-month-nickelodeon/">TMZ added</a>. &#8220;As for Schwoz, the actor who plays him &#8212; Michael D. Cohen &#8212; is a transgender man in real life &#8230; something that wasn&#8217;t revealed until recently. He transitioned decades ago. Now, when it comes to the Krusty Krab fry cook &#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say folks had their suspicions for a long time now. If you know, you know &#8230; we won&#8217;t break it down for boomers.&#8221;
News of SpongeBob&#8217;s sexual orientation is, of course, not exactly news. &#8220;Fans of the nautical cartoon, which began airing in 1999, have long-suspected Spongebob to be gay. In one 2002 episode called &#8216;Rock-a-Bye Bivalve,&#8217; Spongebob and his best friend Patrick parent an abandoned scallop like a married couple,&#8221; the New York Post said.
Social media fans of SpongeBob were also quick to point out that the sea sponge is a &#8220;queer icon,&#8221; especially after an extended run on Broadway.
Of course, SpongeBob&#8217;s sexual orientation would be a surprise to his creator, Stephen Hillenburg, who called the cartoon sponge &#8220;asexual&#8221; in an interview with <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/spongebob-asexual-not-gay-creator/">People Magazine</a> back in the early 2000s, seemingly chastizing viewers for ascribing any type of orientation to a perpetually childlike cartoon character.
&#8220;We never intended them to be gay,&#8221; Hillenburg said, referring to SpongeBob and his best friend, sea star Patrick. &#8220;I consider them to be almost asexual. We’re just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show.&#8221; Nickelodeon, which aired SpongeBob SquarePants, reportedly agreed with Hillenburg&#8217;s assessment of his characters.
Hillenburg, though, gave the interview in a less woke time. He passed away in 2018 of ALS, leaving the character open to interpretation.
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&#8220;Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?&#8221;
You know you know the answer. It&#8217;s SpongeBob SquarePants, the iconic cartoon character loved by kids and adults alike, who on Friday turned 20 years old.
The animated sponge spends his days getting into wacky adventures along with his buddies Patrick Starfish, Squidward Tentacles, and Mr. Krabs. And without speaking down to children, the lovable, absorbent square doles out some life lessons along the way.
But a University of Washington professor thinks SpongeBob is violent and racist.
Yes, seriously.
Holly M. Barker has penned a <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/734722/pdf">piece</a> titled, &#8220;Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom.&#8221;
&#8220;Billions of people around the globe are well-acquainted with SpongeBob Squarepants and the antics of the title character and his friends on Bikini Bottom. By the same token, there is an absence of public discourse about the whitewashing of violent American military activities through SpongeBob’s occupation and reclaiming of the bottom of Bikini Atoll’s lagoon. SpongeBob Squarepants and his friends play a role in normalizing the settler colonial takings of Indigenous lands while erasing the ancestral Bikinian people from their nonfictional homeland,&#8221; reads the abstract for Barker&#8217;s piece.
Barker&#8217;s abstract asserts that SpongeBob has colonized Bikini Bottom &#8212; the underwater home to the lovable characters &#8212; and claims the cartoon is &#8220;whitewashing&#8221; the &#8220;violent American military activities&#8221; against natives on Pacific islands, specifically the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, used by the U.S. military for nuclear testing:
<blockquote>This article exposes the complicity of popular culture in maintaining American military hegemonies in Oceania while amplifying the enduring indigeneity (Kauanui 2016) of the Marshallese people, who maintain deeply spiritual and historical connections to land — even land they cannot occupy due to residual radiation contamination from US nuclear weapons testing — through a range of cultural practices, including language, song, and weaving. This article also considers the gendered violence of nuclear colonialism and the resilience of Marshallese women.</blockquote>
The Bikini Atoll remains uninhabitable, and some conspiracy theorists claim the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants were mutated by the testing.
Barker declares that as an &#8220;American character&#8221; allowed to live there, SpongeBob showed his privilege of &#8220;not caring about the detonation of nuclear bombs.&#8221;
“SpongeBob’s presence on Bikini Bottom continues the violent and racist expulsion of Indigenous peoples from their lands (and in this case their cosmos) that enables U.S. hegemonic powers to extend their military and colonial interests in the postwar era,&#8221; she wrote.
Barker even rips the theme song, saying it denounces Bikini Bottom as full of &#8220;nautical nonsense.&#8221;
“The song’s directives, ensconced in humor, provide the viewer with an active role in defining Bikini Bottom as a place of nonsense, as the audience is instructed ‘If nautical nonsense be something you wish… drop on the deck and flop like a fish,&#8217; &#8221; she wrote.
Barker says the children&#8217;s show is full of gender bias as well, writing, “all of the main characters on the show are male.” Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel that lives underwater with the aid of an old-fashioned diving suit, is, of course, a female, but Barker says she&#8217;s just a token.
In conclusion, Barker writes, “We should be uncomfortable with a hamburger-loving American community’s occupation of Bikini’s lagoon and the ways that it erodes every aspect of sovereignty.”
Nautical nonsense, indeed.

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Nickelodeon Suggests SpongeBob SquarePants Is Gay In LGBTQ Pride Month Tweet

SpongeBob Squarepants Is A ‘Violent,’ ‘Racist’ Colonizer, College Professor Says