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Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE By Ed Shanahan and Stella Raine Chu 17 y.o. William McKernan said, “Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped. I used to go to [P.S] 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country.”

Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."

The depressing part is that Netflix winning would be objectively terrible for viewers and society and yet somehow a successful Paramount bid would be far more terrible

All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl

8 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- United Methodist pastor Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf of Rochester NY comes out mid-service: "I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man." [Watch the vid]

Fmr. VA Gov. Jim Gilmore: What Hegseth et al Are Doing Is a “War Crime” IF It’s a War, “Straight-Up Murder” If It’s Not a War bluevirginia.us/2025/12/audi...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 08,1943

When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it. No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 08,1945

i know this is styled as "trump says" but we really have to stop phrasing things this way. an executive order can't do that.

Money buys impunity.

NEW: FIRE positions itself as an alternative voice for free expression, but an analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social found deference to religious-based viewpoints in free speech debates — and in some cases, the elevation of those views over all others. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 08,1948

Free reaction meme shot

Attention NYC: We made it past the earliest sunset of the year. No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later. So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.

Every day I'm so exhausted by this government of TV personality idiots who don't know how to do their jobs or even what their jobs are

IT’S MONDAY TAKE YOUR TIME… NANCY IS THE BOSS AROUND HERE

Even now, 11 mos into a disastrous administration that has upended how we live, the media exec class doesn't get it. Trump doesn't give two shits about AI. Contrary to this lede, he's not betting his presidency on lightly regulate AI. He just wants to make more money www.axios.com/2025/12/08/t...

The Trump Administration's cruelty towards the trans community truly knows no boundaries as a new scheme seeks to strip trans women of protection against rape in prison. That's our top story to lead off your week in trans news at Assigned Media.

State Sen. Julie Gonzales announces she'll challenge U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper from the left in next year's Democratic primary in Colorado. coloradonewsline.com/2025/12/08/j...

These are the same men who won't -create private nursing or pumping spaces -provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of) -give men parental leave so they can support new mothers -FUND SNAP

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has filed paperwork to place her name on the March primary ballot for U.S. Senate.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 05,1939

And yet an actual narcotics boat off of Miami -- to the tune $28 million in cocaine -- didn't get blown out of the water. Weird, that. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

I will be very honest, the daily ads for weight loss drugs in every conceivable form of media - from live tv to streaming to reddit ads to the spam emails my email provider can’t weed out to the ads on the sidebar of the emails - has been incredibly taxing mentally as someone recovering from an ED.

Just saw a CSPAN video of RFK Jr and Duffy doing a pull up competition in some kind of transit space (missed if it's an airport or train station). And just...why? WHY?!

This morning on my morning walk, which is just the length of my 1/2 mile road and back, I picked up about 30 aluminum cans, the majority of which were natural light and keystone light. Aside from proving some of my neighbors are assholes, it also proves that bad beer is for bad people.

While I was in our home office, typing up minutes for a board meeting, my husband texted me this photo. The red line is pointing to a suet cake. 😅

Oh, this is good news. I love waking up to good news.

"ensouled digital beings" makes me want to vomit. that's FICTION. not anything a corporation should be allowed to sell as an actual real-world PRODUCT. fuck this entire pack of lies.

Former Rep. Colin Allred announces that he's ending his second campaign for U.S. Senate and will instead run for Texas' 33rd Congressional District. This sets Allred up for a Democratic primary battle against Rep. Julie Johnson, who is running for #TX33 after GOP gerrymandered her seat.

Lessons in Magic and Disaster is one of the best books of 2025 according to Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor...

May all of our universities, military commanders, and mayors have the courage of the guy who used to host The Man Show.

From “Governor Hot Wheels” to “Bleach blonde bad-built butch body.” U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who just announced her run for U.S. Senate, has become known for her alliterative, blunt language and viral comebacks. We’ve rounded up her most incendiary quotes. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/08/t...

Not laughing at bullshit "jokes" is incredibly powerful.

Hmmm, so you’ll be ‘policing’ people’s ’thoughts,’ that’s a novel idea

I've appreciated Rachel Scott ever since she was the ONLY legacy journalist I saw who correctly described Trump's use of "China virus" as racist. Not a surprise but also totally abhorrent to see Trump attacking her today.

yeah cool sure also too why not a full on gym why not a podcasting station why not a raw milk bar why not a crypto farm

8 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- This is 2nd time in past 30 dys anti-trans provisions have been stripped from must-pass bills. The temporary funding measure passed when 8 Dems defected in Senate was widely expected to have anti-trans riders but none were in final House-Senate version.

This is about forcing women out of the workforce

My husband got a thermal imager for...I don't even know. Look how hot this little dog is. 😅

This at the same time that Texas passed a law (on hold in court right now) banning Gay Straight Alliances and other LGBTQ clubs in schools

She's been in this for two hours and has already texted us for money. It's going to be a long ass winter.

A federal judge in Boston on Monday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to restore Turkish national Rümeysa Öztürk's record in a critical online database used to clear student visa holders for work in the US.

8 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- NDAA still contains school sports ban but even this was narrowed to apply only military academy cadets, _not_ to opposing team members. A slate of other anti-trans provisions sponsored by Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) were also stripped out, leaving her furious.

I just choked on my coffee at the instant image of Caviezel doing the blank-stare Bolsonaro-in-the-hospital-yet-again face.

The great thing about GenAI is it saves a lot of time for people who don't think and don't give a shit and wastes an immense amount of time for everyone else.

Here's me then

Open the schools

Please help if you can! <3

so many of these people operate as if trump will always and forever be president.

i have no basis for this but i do think public sentiment around trans stuff is going to change at some point soon only because everything moves at 2x speed and i think eventually there will be fewer and fewer returns

Don’t trust/repost aggregator sites that don’t provide links or use alt text. Two big red flags indicating a high probability of bullshit.

lol "Tariffs imposed by President Trump on China have caused Chinese exports to the US to drop by nearly a fifth. But China has throttled back its purchases of US soybeans & other products by almost the same rate, continuing to sell 3x as much to the US as it buys." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...

there's a certain level of opinion journalist who thinks being an opinion writer for a magazine should carry some sort of important reverance but unfortunately for them, noone except other journalists read that stuff

oooh I've been pushing against "hallucination" for some time for this very reason, and "mirage" never occurred to me as a solution. Now I'm #TeamMirage.

8 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In huge win, sweeping anti-GAC surgical ban for servicemembers stripped from Natl Defense Auth. Act (NDAA). Altho was in _both_ House _and_ Senate versions, Congressional negotiators stripped it out at the last minute.

obviously this story is going around bc the game is on but @michaelshapiro.bsky.social really is a great reporter and this is one of my favorite stories he's done since i've known him:

"Thinking is hard, and often frightening; Arendt suggested that people who were 'just following orders' welcomed a permission structure that discouraged thought. But any relief they felt did absolutely nothing to relieve them of culpability."

Steve Harvey: The BONES of Santa Clause... have been leaking WHAT for 17 THOUSAND years?

Curious about the homes we're looking at in Japan? Here is one we may ask to see in person. It's about $19,000. share.google/gy1mjoSGmY1B...

Everyone involved in the operation of the camp needs to be tried.

love sitting armpit to armpit in the poorly ventilated tin can with a man who’s just knocked out an arms and abs day at the communal pull-up bar

"Mostly I think the attempted patriarchal mass murder of this woman's career and personhood is a freaksome lynching the likes of which we will look back up with a dazed compunction." So do we just not edit things anymore or what

almost certain this was written by "A.i." "snuggling beneath warm, fluffy blankets" sounds just so miserably generic.

Please do this action. So many people have these diseases and more to come.

i don't know about y'all but MY comics are literature!

Reminder that this is a real picture of a real sharpie-written note to self from the president in 2019 🫠

I don't think the CFP committee will look favorably on kansas city if they lose this one

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60 percent is crazy

Achievement to unlocked: being flipped off by a customer while yelling Merry Christmas at them as they storm out

"well, we lost $27 million this year, but we expect to balance the budget next year" riiiiighht. Oh, and in the article, they say CU won't cut sports or resources for student-athletes but will rather cut "expenses” 🙄

As an alum of the US Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, "Good riddance to bad rubbish". Alina Habba is no longer pretending to be the US Attorney. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...

Parker shooting 35mm with a Minolta SRT. #BelieveInFilm

So that’s who the Christmas Shoes were for, the child’s momma was an opossum.

very good profile of James Talarico in @texasmonthly.bsky.social by the ever-wonderful Allegra Hobbes: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

just remembered the university of cincinnati did this and it cost them like 16k over the course of installing, replacing, and then eventually removing again

7 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- 15 UK mental health charities write to Equalities Minister saying the suggested new anti-trans single-sex spaces policy will “deepen existing inequalities and pose significant risk to the mental health of trans and non-binary people across UK”.

If you plan to get an America The Beautiful National Parks pass, do it before the year ends. They’re apparently putting his face on the cards in 2026.

Steve Stockman was convicted in 2018 for soliciting money for a bogus charity, and he was forced to remain in federal custody ahead of sentencing after the judge deemed him a flight risk. Stockman's 10-year prison sentence ended when Trump commuted his punishment in 2020.

Your man here wondering which he needs first, the restroom or the defibrillator

Cruel and unusual punishment, human rights violations, whatever you call it, it's so grossly immoral and illegal. The idea that "we don't torture" was baked into U.S. political culture for decades -- the government obviously didn't live up to it, but violators could at least be shamed into stopping.

In which you are given the opportunity to gaze upon my shocked face.

Extreme Bill Simmons brain damage on this list, which indeed captures many of the best episodes of television of the century, but has to include Vanderpump Rules, Survivor, Jersey Shore etc. SHUT DA FUCK UP www.theringer.com/project/best...

A Louisiana immigration judge has granted bond to Bruna Ferreira, the 33-year-old Revere woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

I hate that I am made to root for Netflix against my will

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Please try every cookie you want to try. (In the Talmud we're taught that we'll be held to account in the world to come for every good thing we refused to eat or drink, so if you choose *not* to try every cookie you want to try, you might want to start planning how're you'll explain yourself.)

"just include an unsubscribe link instead of being weird" challenge, difficulty level impossible

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Taylor Swift should leave Travis for Jalen Pitre

Is there a third, non-shitty option for who can buy Warner Bros?

I've been to Mauna Loa and seen the live read-out of the CO2 monitor. It felt like looking down the barrel of a cannon.

The Trump administration has the distinction of being the dumbest of administrations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This entire administration is packed with psychopathic sadists, all the way down.

I regret waiting this long to read Earthsea, my youthful teenage fan energy was wasted on a Harry Potter lol

Lonsdale coming for Lehmann is just the latest in leopards-eating-faces violence (given how much Quillete and Lehmann have given intellectual cover to awful ideas under the guise of 'heterodoxy'), I don't think missile strikes are the answer here either but I'm just a 2D checkers player

"thank you for your attention to this matter" has to be one of the most obnoxious phrases to enter into the lexicon during trump 2, right