People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon

looking into it

“The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri’s alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- PATHA files for immediate injunction against New Zealand's recent banning of blockers for trans kids, saying it was "enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence or best-practice decision making."

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- The official portrait hanging in HHS for Adm. Rachel Levine, who served 4 years as Biden's Assistant Secretary for Health, has been altered to reflect her deadname.

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Judge issues injunction against Georgia ban on GAC for inmates, finding it cruel & unusual punishment: "The state is responsible for the well being of any person it holds in its custody...whether that person has gender dysphoria or another diagnosis..."

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Kirralie Smith, Australian anti-trans campaigner, fined & ordered to publicly apologize after being found guilty of targeting 2 trans women who play soccer for extensive online harassment.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Resistance libs welcomed South Park into the anti-Trump fold with open arms. Our founder Evan Urquhart was a bit less joyous to see the anti-woke edgelords of South Park recognize, at last, the dreadful pandora's box that widespread anti-wokeness opened up. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Look, it's bad that it's a cat. What if it's a kid?

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

State Sen. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, wrote a letter inviting President Donald Trump to join him in meeting with the Somali community, to understand how Somalis are “woven into Minnesota’s fabric.”

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

I think all of the following things: 1) that some degree of violent conflict is inevitable because thousands of ICE combatants will not peacefully submit to judgment for their crimes; 2) that we should try to minimize violence as much as possible, because it will be horrible; and

Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Biden, generally a lukewarm backer of trans rights as President, uses Intl International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference speech to slam Reps/Trump for turning trans rights into "political football...into something scary, something sinister."

Yup. You already know what I'm going to say: Slice by race. 1) In the US, ~1 in 4 people aged 28 to 29, are Hispanic. For people that were 17 at the beginning of the year, but are 18 now, it's closer to 27%. 2) Hispanic people have had the largest drop in their approval of Trump. You all know why.

Agent report: "The agent escorted the client's girlfriend's friend (CGF) to her residence at [REDACTED]. The agent declined several requests to join the CGF in singing a Morgan Wallen song and asked CGF to please remain seated. The agent then held the CGF's hair back while she vomited. End report."

🤔Um... This is exactly the America I grew up in. Do y'all know how many times I've been stopped by the cops for no reason and searched? Ok, so she's 4'11 and under 100 lbs. I was 4'11 once, but today I'm 6'3 and over 300 lbs. What exactly is the height/weight cutoff where it's OK to pull me over?

America spends so much money on absolutely BS like ICE and mass incarceration that I’m not even fully convinced that to fund all the social programs we deserve would even need a major tax increase. We could probably just stop subsidizing cruelty.

Pedophile POTUS deciding which kids should die from preventable diseases.

WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation that has reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections by 99 percent. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...

Just like the police, FBI agents must get a warrant to search your home. No matter the agency, law enforcement officers are bound by the Constitution.  Swipe through the thread to learn more about your rights when interacting with the FBI.

A guy came up to me yesterday when I was holding my sign & asked me questions while recording with his phone. It wasn't until he asked what I thought about the "Somali fraud scandal" that I realized he was a jackass. Now I know to say "Hi! I don't consent to being recorded!" right away.

I was congratulating a friend on a big milestone in her life and realized that I needed to be careful what I typed as there is a big difference between “milestone” & “millstone”.

yeah it does take some of the schadenfreude out of watching a horrible woman be appropriately punished for her horribleness when she is the only one it happens to 💀 but this is America, where sex is always punished worse than killing people, so

Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

Love to see a documentary that wanders through England or France, does lots of weird-angle shots of, say, Notre Dame, and saying things like "How did ancient Europeans build this structure? A civilization with low literacy and almost no education, but somehow able to move stone blocks weighing..."

5 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Former Obama natl security assoc. Lucas Schleusener says group called STARRS & Trump advisor Laura Loomer combing thru fed employees' posts for anything showing they're LGBTQ+ & harassing them or getting them fired in a "Lavender Scare" purge like the 1950s.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Thinking about the time my astro PhD program tried to fail me on my comp by not asking my physics profs for questions for me because they didn’t like that I had taken physics courses and then I passed by answering questions from astro electives I hadn’t taken because they were ridiculously easy

5 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Department of Justice instructs its inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails for standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming inmates from sexual violence -- a key part of 2003's Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).

I think one of the reasons the Nazi takeover of Germany is a helpful parallel for what’s happening in academia specifically is that unlike the Jim Crow US where integration hadn’t happened (not even during reconstruction), Jews were integrated into the German academy and had to be forced out Also

Ever wonder why the New York Times abandoned balance and impartiality to lead an old-fashioned newspaper crusade against trans equal rights? In one of our most read stories for the year, @evanurquhart.bsky.social took readers behind the scenes at NYT. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Like. I. Said. These people aren’t leaving NYC.

Glad to see this reporting.

Trans people are disproportionately young, and everybody says young people get their news from TikTok, which is why we made short video a priority in 2025. That's why we're so excited to see a video of ours reach 100K views for the first time!

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried the actions of the panel, whose current members were all appointed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a leading anti-vaccine activist before this year becoming the nation’s top health official. https://to.pbs.org/4oApFO4

In the UK, Girlguiding and the Women's Institute have banned trans women from membership, despite long histories of acceptance. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you this story.

The "compromise" is that they banned trans women. What was the alternative? Expelling them from the party entirely?

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

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Now is a good time to read @marthasjones.bsky.social incredible scholarship on this subject: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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