Parker Molloy
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
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The FCC Just Admitted It's Not Independent Anymore
During today's Senate hearing, Brendan Carr denied the FCC is independent. Minutes later, someone edited the agency's website to remove the word.
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Carr's Senate testimony made clear what critics have been saying for months: the FCC is now a tool of the Trump administration. www.readtpa.com/p/the-fcc-ju...
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saw some angry responses to this piece, which is fine, but it is abundantly clear that the pro-AI faction in this country is about to start hammering hard on the line that water fears are overblown, using Masley as a source
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
saw some angry responses to this piece, which is fine, but it is abundantly clear that the pro-AI faction in this country is about to start hammering hard on the line that water fears are overblown, using Masley as a source
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if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
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I love this guy's speedrunning effort to become the biggest dipshit in the league
go hawks
go hawks
Puka Nacua stands firm that concussions are not real, but admits ACL tears are legitimate injuries.
www.reddit.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I love this guy's speedrunning effort to become the biggest dipshit in the league
go hawks
go hawks
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i've seen a retort that allowing puberty blockers for cis kids is different because prescribing them for gender dysphoria is "off label" and not the same use, which is true, but at the same time, do the bone density/irreversibility concerns just... not apply to cis children? it's the same drug!
But of course the same hormones (or even surgery) are allowed for kids if the purpose is to align their sex with the sex assigned at birth.
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
i've seen a retort that allowing puberty blockers for cis kids is different because prescribing them for gender dysphoria is "off label" and not the same use, which is true, but at the same time, do the bone density/irreversibility concerns just... not apply to cis children? it's the same drug!
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In the new year you're going to watch Netflix constantly debase itself to secure regulatory approval for its merger with Warner Brothers. This is just the start:
Netflix cancels gay military series ‘Boots’ the Pentagon called ‘woke garbage’
“Boots” followed the story of Cameron Cope, played by Miles Heizer, a gay teen from Louisiana who is bullied and “finds new purpose — and unexpected brotherhood — with his motley …
nypost.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In the new year you're going to watch Netflix constantly debase itself to secure regulatory approval for its merger with Warner Brothers. This is just the start:
Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
Once again, fuck you, Olivia Nuzzi
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Once again, fuck you, Olivia Nuzzi
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
So we can all agree that when the Epstein files come out, anything making Trump look bad will have been redacted and/or removed, right-wingers will treat questioning this as a crazy conspiracy theory, and mainstream media will push the "Trump did nothing wrong" angle, right?
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So we can all agree that when the Epstein files come out, anything making Trump look bad will have been redacted and/or removed, right-wingers will treat questioning this as a crazy conspiracy theory, and mainstream media will push the "Trump did nothing wrong" angle, right?
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Oh, I see. We're doing self dealing autocrat mad libs.
Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Oh, I see. We're doing self dealing autocrat mad libs.
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For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas' 'anti-Harvard' university is losing its founders
Who will teach the "Forbidden Courses" now?
www.chron.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
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Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
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Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren
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The hypocrisy of the networks carrying this speech but turning down far more substantive speeches from Biden and Obama is off the charts.
There was zero news in this speech which merited primetime coverage by broadcasters. Absolutely zero.
There was zero news in this speech which merited primetime coverage by broadcasters. Absolutely zero.
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The hypocrisy of the networks carrying this speech but turning down far more substantive speeches from Biden and Obama is off the charts.
There was zero news in this speech which merited primetime coverage by broadcasters. Absolutely zero.
There was zero news in this speech which merited primetime coverage by broadcasters. Absolutely zero.
Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022
In a nationwide address that major US TV networks are carrying live, President Trump announces 1,450,000 military members will receive a "warrior dividend" of $1776 before Christmas.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022
I really, truly hate Republicans. www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
![The National Republican Senatorial
Committee continues to experiment with an occasionally odd Al-driven ad strategy this cycle, this time in Maine.
Earlier this month, the Senate GOP campaign arm dropped Meet Team Ossoff's Illegals, an atonal pastiche of an NFL broadcast targeting the Georgia Democratic senator. This 30-second spot, The Janet Mills Collection, singles out Maine's Democratic governor — who is running to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins — for her stance on transgender rights.
In the fuzzy, lo-fi style of a 1980s infomercial, an affectless female voice coos about Mills'
"confusing" suite of gender policies, such as
"forc[ing] girls to compete against biological males," and says she comes with a "no parent-permission required estrogen kit."
Though Mills did sign into law a 2023 bill allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to receive gender-affirming therapy, in certain contexts without parental consent, the child depicted injecting drugs with a comically oversized vintage syringe behind his parents' backs looks to be much younger than that.
Nothing Mills has ever actually said makes it into this all-AI spot, which, in the language of a nostalgic mass-media idyll, depicts Maine's sitting governor as a creepy drug pusher.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/bafkreiexjqu55fgtybiq673dp76nf2enhc4vueg4es7gluygfw4gpf4kv4@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I really, truly hate Republicans. www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
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"Don't worry, it'll fail in the senate." Ancient cis proverb
December 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"Don't worry, it'll fail in the senate." Ancient cis proverb
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Buzzfeed under Ben Smith as Editor-in-Chief chose to hire Benny Johnson over more qualified and talented people despite the fact that Benny had worked for Breitbart and the Blaze and only fired Benny because he plagiarized. Ben Smith gets no credit.
This quote from Ben Smith in Mother Jones' profile of Benny Johnson. Honestly, great call from the haters. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Buzzfeed under Ben Smith as Editor-in-Chief chose to hire Benny Johnson over more qualified and talented people despite the fact that Benny had worked for Breitbart and the Blaze and only fired Benny because he plagiarized. Ben Smith gets no credit.
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It's rather incredible to me how many sports outlets' primary takeaway from this livestream was that Nacua criticized NFL refs and not that he did something EXTREMELY antisemitic during it. AA is practically the only one to actually highlight this.
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It's rather incredible to me how many sports outlets' primary takeaway from this livestream was that Nacua criticized NFL refs and not that he did something EXTREMELY antisemitic during it. AA is practically the only one to actually highlight this.
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this is what I want to be sharing on social media tonight. but there's so much hate out there. still, take a minute I think.
I’ve been debating whether to share this, but … I figured out yesterday what song he was singing and then they played it so he could sing along with it. I honestly think it’s amazing how he’s following pitch and feel.
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
this is what I want to be sharing on social media tonight. but there's so much hate out there. still, take a minute I think.
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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.