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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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.
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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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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.
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Absolutely fucking freak outcast behavior to care about or talk about trans people as a group and not as just some guy or lady you know. "Hey bud how's it going" etc.
December 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Absolutely fucking freak outcast behavior to care about or talk about trans people as a group and not as just some guy or lady you know. "Hey bud how's it going" etc.
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Federal ban on healthcare for trans youth passes the House. Horrific day, horrific precedent. We continue to hurtle toward genocide.
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Federal ban on healthcare for trans youth passes the House. Horrific day, horrific precedent. We continue to hurtle toward genocide.
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Pour one out for Dan Bongino
December 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Pour one out for Dan Bongino
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Dems might just have to retire the “I’m rubber you’re glue” approach to talking about trans rights
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Dems might just have to retire the “I’m rubber you’re glue” approach to talking about trans rights
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
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I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
Miriam Adelson may genuinely be one of the most evil people on the planet.
if Alan Dershowitz and Miriam Adelson want to explain how a deceased man will seek a third presidential term I'm all ears
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Donald Trump says Adelson pledged $250m as pair teases third term | The Jerusalem Post
Adelson spoke at the event, mentioning that she had spoken with Trump lawyer and known Israel defender Alan Dershowitz about the legality of a third Trump term.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Miriam Adelson may genuinely be one of the most evil people on the planet.
I'm willing to bet that the person in that photo is an adult. But Greene is going to use this bullshit anyway.
cites sterility as a reason to ban trans healthcare for kids.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm willing to bet that the person in that photo is an adult. But Greene is going to use this bullshit anyway.
Imagine being a right-wing newspaper columnist whose job consists of writing like 800 words per week while making 6 figures and saying this.
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Imagine being a right-wing newspaper columnist whose job consists of writing like 800 words per week while making 6 figures and saying this.
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The woman the media is desperate to paint as a kinder, gentler Republican is displaying pictures of what she claims are topless kids in her effort to cut off their lifesaving healthcare and imprison their parents and doctors.
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The woman the media is desperate to paint as a kinder, gentler Republican is displaying pictures of what she claims are topless kids in her effort to cut off their lifesaving healthcare and imprison their parents and doctors.
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Yeah, LinkedIn Year in Review, that's because everyone I know got laid off.
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yeah, LinkedIn Year in Review, that's because everyone I know got laid off.
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Wow okay cool I’m glad this speech is garnering attention because it felt historic and sent shivers down my spine
Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it
Rep. Sarah McBride makes rare personal remarks in opposing anti-trans bills
“My biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain,” the congresswoman said on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday morning.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Wow okay cool I’m glad this speech is garnering attention because it felt historic and sent shivers down my spine