Kyle Rittenhouse hospitalized following bite from venomous spider

NBC News ^ | May 7, 2026 | David K. Li

[Twotone]

"Opened fire," not "defended himself." No bias here...

[unixfox]

"Opened fire," not "defended himself." No bias here...

If he was only black.

[nickcarraway]

The people he shot were all white.

[Jan_Sobieski]

“The spider, like the commies, also thought it was a good idea to come after me while I was armed,” Rittenhouse posted. “He did not survive.”

Nice bit of trolling! Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[nickcarraway]

The people he shot were all white.

[Carry_Okie]

Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin,

"Civil rights" my skinny a$$.

[Vision]

“Opened fire”

Try the truth NBC, he was defending himself.

[Vision]

“The spider, like the commies, also thought it was a good idea to come after me while I was armed,” Rittenhouse posted. “He did not survive.”

Damn!

[Vision]

NBC is disgusting.

[BrexitBen]

” David K Li “ ??????

[Striperman]

The spider did not survive,lol

[Texas_Jarhead]

Damn NBC, you are so good at dimocrating, “Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin...”

[dfwgator]

The spider never had a chance.

[RandallFlagg]

Dear Kyle,
Save this article and sue NBC for slander.

[Flaming Conservative]

I’ve been bitten by a brown recluse twice. If I recall, I was treated by an antibiotic one time. The other time I didn’t require treatment. I had a home health patient once, who had been bitten under,her arm. It swelled up very large, so when she went to the ER for something else, she asked the doctor if he would lance it. He obliged her. She ended up up on a ventilator and nearly died. Lancing it spread the toxin throughout her body. (This happened before she was a home health patient. Not on my watch).

[Tell It Right]

I’m surprised that NBC didn’t say it was racist for Kyle to kill “a brown recluse”.

[NorthMountain]

brown recluse,

That's a seriously nasty spider bite.

[duckbutt]

They are nasty beasts. My sister got out of her car one night and walked under the tree near the driveway. She felt something very light brush her face —must have been a spider’s web? Anyway, she was bitten on her forehead by a brown recluse. She tried to ignore it but the skin became necrotic. It ended up a plastic surgeon had to cut a silver dollar-sized hole in her forehead to remove the bad flesh and do a skin graft from her underarm. Still bears the scars.

[GingisK]

...with splotches of red.

[BenLurkin]

What 2020 civil rights rally?

Or is that what they’re calling the BLM riots.