Daniel J. Willis
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This woman is a hero and an inspiration.
Part 2: @harlanpdx is facing the consequences of his actions. Its incredible what information is public. #portland #fafo #fuckaround #sexism #misogyny
TikTok video by Alex ✨
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December 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This woman is a hero and an inspiration.
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New York City just went 12 calendar days without a single homicide, raising new concerns about Zohran Mamdani's approach to law enforcement.
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New York City just went 12 calendar days without a single homicide, raising new concerns about Zohran Mamdani's approach to law enforcement.
This is your regular reminder that lowering the interest rate usually increases the flow of money through the economy at the cost of juicing inflation, but when the economy is stagnant for reasons unrelated to fiscal policy it just makes everything more expensive.
Breaking news: The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point for the third time this year, seeking to shore up a softening labor market even as inflation builds and leaving the prospect of more cuts next year unclear.
The Federal Reserve cuts rates again, amid mixed economic signals, signals one more cut next year
The Fed cuts interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday for its third consecutive meeting, seeking to steady a softening labor market
wapo.st
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is your regular reminder that lowering the interest rate usually increases the flow of money through the economy at the cost of juicing inflation, but when the economy is stagnant for reasons unrelated to fiscal policy it just makes everything more expensive.
Remember when “never read the comments” was a thing? Now we made comments even more frictionless and for some reason that led to using them to dictate public policy.
this idea that ones twitter replies represent ANYTHING of note is a good example of how social media can fry the brains of the weak willed
the thing about the Free Press types is that when you push them on their actual ideology, it's NIMBYism
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Remember when “never read the comments” was a thing? Now we made comments even more frictionless and for some reason that led to using them to dictate public policy.
CC: @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social. You should probably co-sign!
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
CC: @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social. You should probably co-sign!
It still blows my mind that Fox News viewers don’t wonder for even a second how undocumented immigrants are both so poor they’re leeching off the government and can also afford to buy a house when the viewer likely can’t. That doesn’t click even a little?
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It still blows my mind that Fox News viewers don’t wonder for even a second how undocumented immigrants are both so poor they’re leeching off the government and can also afford to buy a house when the viewer likely can’t. That doesn’t click even a little?
Chris Farley’s Puff Daddy is at it again.
David Spade gave Fox News their gift early this year, regurgitating many of their asinine “War on Christmas” culture war talking points that were already tired during the Obama administration.
Fox News Applauds David Spade For Peddling Their War on Christmas Nonsense
Spade is upset about a shopping mall that seemingly doesn’t exist
www.cracked.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Chris Farley’s Puff Daddy is at it again.
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Bari Weiss just appointed anchor Tony Dokoupil to CBS Evening News.
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bari Weiss just appointed anchor Tony Dokoupil to CBS Evening News.
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
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He's also wrong on principle in that the very purpose of a Constitution and legal rights in a democracy is protecting them from public opinion
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
He's also wrong on principle in that the very purpose of a Constitution and legal rights in a democracy is protecting them from public opinion
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things that cost more than an annual COYOTE membership ($68) right now:
roast chicken at Zuni Cafe in SF ($75)
basket weaving kit ($98)
the Wildfang Oxford button-up that I’m always looking at ($88)
ChatGPT Plus for DIY mental breakdowns ($120)
6,480 Genesis Crystals in Genshin Impact ($100)
roast chicken at Zuni Cafe in SF ($75)
basket weaving kit ($98)
the Wildfang Oxford button-up that I’m always looking at ($88)
ChatGPT Plus for DIY mental breakdowns ($120)
6,480 Genesis Crystals in Genshin Impact ($100)
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
things that cost more than an annual COYOTE membership ($68) right now:
roast chicken at Zuni Cafe in SF ($75)
basket weaving kit ($98)
the Wildfang Oxford button-up that I’m always looking at ($88)
ChatGPT Plus for DIY mental breakdowns ($120)
6,480 Genesis Crystals in Genshin Impact ($100)
roast chicken at Zuni Cafe in SF ($75)
basket weaving kit ($98)
the Wildfang Oxford button-up that I’m always looking at ($88)
ChatGPT Plus for DIY mental breakdowns ($120)
6,480 Genesis Crystals in Genshin Impact ($100)
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Yes Americans famously love austerity, especially when it’s pitched to them by a guy who was currently building a gold leafed ball room
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yes Americans famously love austerity, especially when it’s pitched to them by a guy who was currently building a gold leafed ball room
…diversity move?
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
…diversity move?
I don’t at all like that he’s only a year older than me and a grandfather. I am not old enough to be a grandfather.
The Indianapolis Colts have signed 44-year-old Philip Rivers out of retirement to the practice squad. The QB last played in the NFL in 2020. https://cnn.it/3Mp8dPf
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I don’t at all like that he’s only a year older than me and a grandfather. I am not old enough to be a grandfather.
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
It's pretty easy, right? Feed it, walk it, clean its litter box.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's pretty easy, right? Feed it, walk it, clean its litter box.
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Get the freaking shingles vaccine. Shingles is one of the most unpleasant things I’ve experienced, it’s like having something rubbing on a sunburn all the time. No vaccine side effect could be worse than that.
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
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Get the freaking shingles vaccine. Shingles is one of the most unpleasant things I’ve experienced, it’s like having something rubbing on a sunburn all the time. No vaccine side effect could be worse than that.
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I can’t agree that people stopped “virtue signaling” because the term almost instantly became meaningless; it was applied to any expression of caring or thoughtfulness. I don’t think the vice signaling came from an absence of virtue signaling, rather from the non-cessation of expressions of decency
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I can’t agree that people stopped “virtue signaling” because the term almost instantly became meaningless; it was applied to any expression of caring or thoughtfulness. I don’t think the vice signaling came from an absence of virtue signaling, rather from the non-cessation of expressions of decency
I’m not doing a GIF because I can only add one and I’m indecisive.
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’m not doing a GIF because I can only add one and I’m indecisive.
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Mark Zuckerberg believed in the Metaverse so much he changed his company's name to "Meta" in 2021 and spent over $70 billion on this fantastical virtual reality chat space that has less functionality than VR Chat.
Now, in 2025, he doesn't even mention it. And investors still give him money to burn
Now, in 2025, he doesn't even mention it. And investors still give him money to burn
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Mark Zuckerberg believed in the Metaverse so much he changed his company's name to "Meta" in 2021 and spent over $70 billion on this fantastical virtual reality chat space that has less functionality than VR Chat.
Now, in 2025, he doesn't even mention it. And investors still give him money to burn
Now, in 2025, he doesn't even mention it. And investors still give him money to burn
This is a very brave, very cool woman. But I can't get over her parents explicitly telling her to inform her congregation that they do not support her, that's downright sociopathic.
(If one or more of your parents is similarly sociopathic I'm sorry and I assure you the problem is their sociopathy.)
(If one or more of your parents is similarly sociopathic I'm sorry and I assure you the problem is their sociopathy.)
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 10:03 PM
This is a very brave, very cool woman. But I can't get over her parents explicitly telling her to inform her congregation that they do not support her, that's downright sociopathic.
(If one or more of your parents is similarly sociopathic I'm sorry and I assure you the problem is their sociopathy.)
(If one or more of your parents is similarly sociopathic I'm sorry and I assure you the problem is their sociopathy.)
On a similar note, I'm resigning as King of Spain.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba says she is resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
On a similar note, I'm resigning as King of Spain.
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Let's be sensitive to our language choices this week!
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Let's be sensitive to our language choices this week!
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washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
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