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ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

Just learned there is a “drag queen Grateful Dead” tribute band called Bertha, and they look/sound so much fun!

Would you like to watch Hattie Mae eat some snacks?

When Scalia rewrote the Second Amendment in Heller, I warned that he would have “blood on his hands” from the carnage he was enabling. The Second Amendment protects a “militia” right, which was the understanding of the courts for 200 years. The “individual right” rewrite is a suicide pact.

Wow. Democrats just flipped the Whoville Mayor's office, which has been held by republicans since 2003. This is in a Trump plus +30 area too.

I’m trying to remember the last time someone so drastically overestimated their own public appeal Michael Bloomberg?

We shouldn’t have to live like this. I’m not THAT old, and I remember we *didn’t* live like this. Powerful segments of society have made a choice that the regular scene of dead bodies in classrooms is an acceptable cost of doing business, and we shouldn’t have to accept that. I’m sad and I’m angry.

they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances

@apnews.com: At least 2 killed and several more hurt in shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 13,1943

Gat dammit. I want ONE BUTTON I can hit to TURN ALL THAT SHIT OFF FOREVER.

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I was one of these guys and what I watched happen was that a handful of tech companies took the work of all those free software evangelists and built trillion dollar monopolies on top of it while the free software creators got nothing and went broke.

My hometown paper forgot to put words in a headline.

genuinely what the fuck does this even mean

Started handing out my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine this weekend! It includes shoutouts to @bkindivisible.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and SO MANY OTHER GREAT GROUPS! Download it digitally at zinefun.fyi !

Neighbors handing out whistles and zines to protect neighbors against ICE as part of @handsoffnyc.bsky.social's Weekend of Community Action! They're at 5th Ave. & 13th St. in Brooklyn until 3:30 pm! For more events around the city this weekend, visit handsoffnyc.com !

Selfie Saturday

LET’S CELEBRATE SATURDAY WITH NANCY AND SLUGGO

hell yeah brother

never vote for a republican

Feeling normal about this

Still in lockdown. Christ almighty. Sending huge hearts to everyone at Brown and with friends and family at Brown.

Almost certainly assumed one of their own had parked it there, which they are of course allowed to get away with.

this would prob work on me too

13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Five transgender inmates at the Utah State Prison are suing the state for allegedly preventing them from receiving needed hormone therapy since HB252, a ban on prison GAC, was passed earlier this year.

Huge thanks to everyone who came out to our @comixaction.com event at Chinatown Soup last night! We folded @handsoffnyc.bsky.social zines, decorated bags for Heart of Dinner groceries for seniors, and had an incredible time! Check out @johnleedraws.bsky.social and this gorgeous moon goddess bag!

It's no longer breaking news, but we just learned this, and I can't stop laughing

btw probably gonna make an "A.i." abolitionist zine next

"It should not be torn down quietly. Its destruction should be a public event. It should be pledged on the campaign trail by Democratic candidates." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

Your friendly reminder to be patient, polite, and wear a mask while doing your Christmas shopping this weekend, retail workers are not elves we are humans whose lower backs hurt

13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- FL files RICO lawsuit against WPATH, Endocrine Society & Amer Academy of Pediatrics for practicing medicine, using Cass Review to accuse them of promoting "discredited clinical guidelines...to sell memberships."

I love Providence, Rhode Island very much and hate a fucking gun.

I have been afraid of this for Uyghur folks in the US

The Beatles uploaded and shared a video of Geese playing “Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey”. Imagine The Beatles sharing your band. Thats pretty dope. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yJatHp/

“I will only process the world in terms of good guys and non-human enemies” is perfect shit from war professor radio tom

They’ll make a calendar for anything.

It’s important for everyone to know that today Harrison Ford gave me a crooked smile

who do yall think is president in the timeline where wcw won the monday night wars

stealing valor from crows YES fuck all the boring hacks stealing valor from crows* * for the purposes of this metaphor, i am also a gat damn crow, and so are you, most likely

in how the grinch stole christmas (2000) they refuse to arrest the grinch and accept his apology for stealing the presents because whoville actually defunded the police and now practices radical post carceral restorative justice

And just a reminder, there is legal US precedent from 2012 for the government killing Americans via drone strike. That was overseas, but still a precedent set that the Trump admin can now cite.

bless the student journalists www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Starved of funding & with increasing demand, Natl Gender Service--Ireland's only public health service for trans adults--closes its waiting list & will take no new patients after Mar 2026. Wait for the 2,470 currently on its list is 4.5 years.

this is obviously very serious but the comments on this post are incredible

Pluribus is so gorgeous. It’s also somehow getting slower by the episode. Hell I’ll keep looking at it.

35,000 jobs? Aside from the DOGE cuts, when was the last time any U.S. institution cut that many jobs?

This is fine

This is a devastating and disgusting story out of Charlotte. Wonder why LEO won’t name which platform the 44yo man who is accused of raping a 13yo girl met the girl on. amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/busines...

“We’re running out of good ideas.” Speak for yourself, Vox.

checking out the new ismaili center in houston, which is the first in the united states and the 7th in the world

Two US Army soldiers and an American civilian interpreter were killed today in Palmyra, Syria after an ISIS gunman attacked a US delegation and Syrian forces. Several people are injured. US is reportedly flying war planes at a low-altitude over the area. taskandpurpose.com/news/two-us-...

saw this a while back but gat DAMN. this actually made me cry.

"Richest country on earth"

Mass shootings finally hit the Ivy Leagues. American exceptionalism!

Writing an article about how drunk driving should be legal and then smugly describing anyone who disagrees with me as the most pro-carceral and anti-civil liberties people on the planet

mine were good i think because i had to get a booster 32 years ago when i came to nyc for film school - BUT I’M GLAD I CHECKED!

I’m like 87% sure this was a prop in the first season of The Good Place

Don’t forget to rest your fuzzy punim on your fluffy henteleh after a long hard week of doing cat business. #Caturday (Axl is from the streets of Brooklyn so we presume he speaks Spanish and Yiddish)

watching WILD AT HEART (1990) for the first time, will report back

"New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland. Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- TX Atty Gnl Ken Paxton, locked in unexpectedly tight 3pt Senate race, expands lawsuit against two GAC doctors claiming they falsified med & billing records to conceal the care they were providing & obtain Medicaid reimbursement.

Went to a dinner tonight around the corner and paid the oldest to watch the youngest. But also paid the youngest to “watch”the oldest—though we told him he couldn’t tell his sister. Dinner was at 7. Got home at 9 and both kids were in their rooms. Always love to see a game plan executed well.

Back on my bullshit.

What struck me the most about this, two years after Clinton High School integrated, the school was bombed and destroyed. NYT says most likely by the Klan. Jo Ann Allen Boyce was already pulled out of the school. The family moved to Los Angeles. Only 2 of the Clinton 12 graduated from Clinton.

Hell yeah bunch of videos of MJL sitting in with Magnolia and Johnson last night. Played Just Be Simple, Dark Don't Hide It, Blue Factory Flame, Texas 71 and a few others. www.instagram.com/magnoliaandj...

one for the "abolish, if not incinerate, ICE is becoming the normie position" files

Help why does every teen today dress like the cast of Mad About You season 3

Old Tim Ferriss point: hard to monetize drinking more water and meditating

Nothing in the rules that says an old man that hasn’t played in 5 years can’t go on a Super Bowl run

"fraudulent and sham" No sh*t.

Thinking about every parent’s top home priority: mudroom shoe storage cabinetry

Speed limit dialogue on here is one of the most tiresome (and that’s causing something) because it always boils down to some people who think they’re special boys and laws shouldn’t apply to them.

I also enjoyed spending time with The Most Catholic Man Alive. That said, and truly appreciating the camera and slowness… let’s get fucking moving already man.

people always say of people they hate, “I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire,” but why not your piss isn’t gonna extinguish those flames, now they’re getting pissed on top of their current problems (the fire)

I’m sure 5-6 influential people can find a way to make it so that not buying ads during a CBS town hall show is a violation of Weiss’s first amendment rights

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth’s War Crimes By @joepatrice.bsky.social

So Gollum messed up Animal Farm? Can’t we just be impressed that he has any artistic vision at all after everything he went through in Mordor?

After attending their 3rd press conference of the day, students at the Brown Daily Herald have been steadily posting updates, including information about people being taken out of the libraries in buses.

@contextfreecbb.bsky.social

everything else aside Bari Weiss' Erika Kirk thing feels so late. erika kirk has been doing interviews nonstop it feels like

Bold for a SUBSCRIPTION consumer product that can be cancelled in a fit of pique!

"As rain pounded the cloth of her makeshift tent in central Gaza one night recently, Jihan Khalaf kept watch with a flashlight to ensure her three children didn’t drown in their sleep." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“In court Monday, an officer testified that police have been called to the apartment roughly two dozen times in the last year and a half. Prosecutors also detailed a long relationship between Saxon and the victim that began when she was 18 years old and he was in his 40s.”

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Reports of active shooter at Brown University. HOWEVER, news is VERY unreliable rn. Officials mistakenly announced a shooter was in custody. It was wrong; but, that was the headline on TV news stations across the country and CNN too. Stay skeptical for a while, including about casualties.

RIP Uncle Noam’s inbox lmao

Sounds like someone bet 100 Gs that his substack would be doing better than HCR’s by the end of the year and is starting to worry.

see this, post a #comics cover you love

We have two paint spots open tomorrow. Post here if you want one or both. @solarfish.bsky.social ?

instead of sleeping in her cat bed, Zoey has fallen in love with an empty cardboard Diet Coke pallet from costco. just like mommy!!!!

"She served lasagna, baked for an hour with a blow dryer, ginger ale mixed with a splash of strong black tea (which tastes somewhat like flat dark beer without the alcoholic kick), and chocolate cake decorated like a Christmas tree."

cool thread for cool kids

Guys like the person in the screenshot took all the wrong lessons from Trading Places

Hm can't relate to that!

‘We’re living in terror’: fears in southern Syria over Israel’s growing occupation Residents say incursions and raids have increased since forces first entered country a year ago after fall of Assad www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...