Ren "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender
@renjender.bsky.social
Queer writer-performer/producer making a film, writing at NY Times, NPR, Village Voice and Slate. 2021 National Critics Institute Fellow. *Deeply* petty. Gmail: njender Insta: renjender. https://renjender.contently.com
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Here's my semi-daily recommendation
People keep asking if the gay hockey show is good or bad but it is simply too horny for either of those words to apply
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Here's my semi-daily recommendation
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
I'm in Mexico City and every day I forget a little more about what a mess the US is right now-until I come on here (or listen to NPR).
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm in Mexico City and every day I forget a little more about what a mess the US is right now-until I come on here (or listen to NPR).
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And “He regularly breaks the law and all of our signed & ratified international treaties.” We don’t mince words or use euphemisms about this stuff for anyone else. Just the One Special Boy.
Saying Trump is “transactional” is just a gentle way of saying he’s corrupt. Every power he has been trusted with, he treats as a way to extract favors and benefits from anyone he sees as situationally vulnerable.
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And “He regularly breaks the law and all of our signed & ratified international treaties.” We don’t mince words or use euphemisms about this stuff for anyone else. Just the One Special Boy.
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I will note that, once again, @people.com does a better job here of reporting accurately while upholding human dignity than many of the supposedly serious outlets. The ethos of Teen Vogue lives.
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]
Pastor, 51, Comes Out as Transgender During Emotional Church Service: I'm 'Truly Happy for the First Time in a Very Long Time'
A pastor came out as transgender during a recent church service in Rochester, N.Y. Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf made the announcement while wearing a stole with a rainbow pattern.
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I will note that, once again, @people.com does a better job here of reporting accurately while upholding human dignity than many of the supposedly serious outlets. The ethos of Teen Vogue lives.
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"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
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I'm going to be real with everyone, Olivia being a fixer for RFK Jr, killing negative stories about him, coordinating with the Trump campaign to get RFK connected, etc, while covering all of them, is worse than Trump calling a reporter piggy.
oh my fucking god she writes like Olivia. Are these people all in the same book club or something
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm going to be real with everyone, Olivia being a fixer for RFK Jr, killing negative stories about him, coordinating with the Trump campaign to get RFK connected, etc, while covering all of them, is worse than Trump calling a reporter piggy.
Lisa Taddeo is one of the world’s worst writers and I’m so glad others are catching onto this.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Lisa Taddeo is one of the world’s worst writers and I’m so glad others are catching onto this.
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Bruna Ferreira, the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Ferreira, who was born in Brazil and still faces possible deportation, was arrested last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son.
Ferreira, who was born in Brazil and still faces possible deportation, was arrested last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son.
Mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew released from ICE custody
Bruna Ferreira was arrested and detained last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son from school.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Bruna Ferreira, the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Ferreira, who was born in Brazil and still faces possible deportation, was arrested last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son.
Ferreira, who was born in Brazil and still faces possible deportation, was arrested last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son.
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Gorsuch: My mom wanted to kill the EPA and I'm here to finish the job one way or another, even if it makes me look stupid, inconsistent, and unconcerned with any form of legal analysis.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Gorsuch: My mom wanted to kill the EPA and I'm here to finish the job one way or another, even if it makes me look stupid, inconsistent, and unconcerned with any form of legal analysis.
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Unhinged almond mom behavior from the CMS administrator
SCOOP: Dr. Mehmet Oz, the CMS administrator and former daytime talk show star, has recently been emailing all federal workers in his agency weekly tips on “Crushing Cubicle Cravings” and how to avoid snacking in the office.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Unhinged almond mom behavior from the CMS administrator
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In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
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One of my classics
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
One of my classics
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Convicted Felon Drumpf was essentially found guilty of this 34 times already
NEW:
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Convicted Felon Drumpf was essentially found guilty of this 34 times already
Since I’m in Mexico City for Christmas this year I’m thinking of getting a miniature orange tree as my living Christmas tree. They’re taller here than in the US too.
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Since I’m in Mexico City for Christmas this year I’m thinking of getting a miniature orange tree as my living Christmas tree. They’re taller here than in the US too.
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our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Killer doesn’t want to be confused with ICE agent #shorts
YouTube video by Stanzi
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December 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Nobody can convince me Stallone dont have dementia
Sylvester Stallone and Paul Stanley look like they have both been lying in state for about a week. 😬
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Nobody can convince me Stallone dont have dementia
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First date idea: Help me shovel my driveway
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
First date idea: Help me shovel my driveway
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I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
seriously, can anyone give me a reason why reporters refuse to express huge budget numbers, that they know are meaningless to their audience, in a context that makes them understandable -- such as a percentage of the budget? I NEVER get an answer to this question.
If every budget number was presented as a percent of budget, percent of GDP, and percent of 10 year GDP, a large fraction of the population would have a pretty good understanding of the relative sizes of these items and budget proposals pretty quickly
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
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A whole hateful sect of this country relies on everybody else lying to themselves about what “funny” and “joke” actually mean.
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A whole hateful sect of this country relies on everybody else lying to themselves about what “funny” and “joke” actually mean.
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My pal Jota Mun (also one of my mentos!) has their documentary coming out on PBS tomorrow!
Please check it out!
Heart aching and eye opening work.
Please check it out!
Heart aching and eye opening work.
A queer Korean adoptee returns to Seoul to reunite with her birth mother — a journey that opens old wounds and reveals new paths toward understanding.
POV's BETWEEN GOODBYES premieres 12/8 at 10PM on PBS. #BetweenGoodbyesPBS #POVonPBS loom.ly/NOLn1Ts
POV's BETWEEN GOODBYES premieres 12/8 at 10PM on PBS. #BetweenGoodbyesPBS #POVonPBS loom.ly/NOLn1Ts
December 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My pal Jota Mun (also one of my mentos!) has their documentary coming out on PBS tomorrow!
Please check it out!
Heart aching and eye opening work.
Please check it out!
Heart aching and eye opening work.