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😔 Megyn Kelly Fumes Over Charlie Kirk Not Being Named Time’s Person of the Year: ā€˜A Thumb in the Eye’

TheWrap

This might come across as insensitive… but what on earth did Charlie Kirk do in 2025 to deserve Person of the Year? Besides getting shot… If getting assasinated is the requirement, I’d like to nominate Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, and their spouses, Mark and Yvette.

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šŸ“§ December 10, 2025

Letters from an American

The final document began with a preamble explaining that a UDHR was necessary because ā€œrecognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,ā€ and because ā€œdisregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.ā€ Because ā€œthe advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the
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🧻 I hate the Pantone color of the year

Sticky comics

In fashion language, white suggests luxury, like, you don’t have to work, because if you worked, you’d wear a more practical color that won’t get stained within 5 minutes. Staying clean is a privilege — the aristocracy keeps their hands clean and the working class gets dirty for them.

I’m going to go out on a limb and play the contrarian: I kinda like the color of the year. But I do think they are on to something here when it comes to privilege, white nationalism, etc. Especially as the class gap continues to grow

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šŸ’£ Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?

The Economist

Many of the new lawyers installed in senior posts over recent months ā€œdon’t care what the right answer isā€, bemoans the former senior JAG. ā€œThey spend all their time trying to figure out what the administration wants and then reverse engineer how to get to it.ā€

I called it out a while ago, but at a minimum, Trump is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, and now I think it’s pretty clear he and Hegseth are guilty of international war crimes as well. Since Trump is such a great ā€œbusinessman man,ā€ he should be familiar with

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šŸ”¬ The Undermining of the C.D.C.

The New Yorker

Since Trump returned to office his Administration has fired or muzzled government scientists with disfavored views on nutrition and climate change; cancelled funding for long-running surveys on food insecurity and global health; dismissed independent committees focussed on air pollution, health-care disparities, and hospital infections; and pulled support for research into vaccines.

The list of things that has devastating real world impact on millions of real Americans goes on and on and on and on. And for what?

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šŸ„ A Battle with My Blood

The New Yorker

Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost. Maybe it’s because I don’t have much time to make new ones, and some part of me is sifting through the sands.

A pretty devastating personal reflection on leukemia from Tatiana Schlossberg—and how her cousin, RFK Jr. is decimating the healthcare system and pulling funding for research into many of the drugs she has or could’ve used during her fight with cancer.

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