This thread is a great reminder that despite our current troubles, this is an amazing country. Fantastic responses!

Kluddniklas

“While humanity seeks to become ‘god’ in order to dominate others, God chooses to become man in order to free us from every form of slavery. Will this love be enough to change our history?” - Pope Leo

A most touching story. Happy Christmas, everyone! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Merry Christmas From Sydney! 🎄🌴 We attended a lovely service last night and sang my favorite Christmas carol (O Holy Night)— feel free to share the powerful anti-bigotry lyrics with any Christians in your life who need the reminder:

Imagine a world where we take care of our neighbors.

To fill with hope.🎄

Echoing Pope Leo XIV, Florida bishops urged Trump to stop deportations during Christmas Masses. Trump said no — and the bishops called him the Grinch.

I held this footnote up to the light.

Not The Onion

Put it up on YouTube as well.

In 1915 my wife's maternal grandfather came to America on a boat from Lebanon. By 1917 he was fighting for America in Europe. Wounded, he survived. He returned and started a family. His son got into Harvard. His son's son followed. Yesterday his great grand daughter was admitted to the class of '31.

One thing about fascism is how it creates fantasies of terror in order to rationalize terror. "The Jews are doing terrible things, so it's ok to do terrible things to them to prevent it. You may not like it, but the choice is either that or surrender." We see this mental process constantly in MAGA.

The industry aims to build a superintelligence by assimilating unthinkable volumes of data dating to the dawn of the written word, yet apparently tweaking the models to account for separate regulations across several states is a level of complexity that would paralyze the whole project...

Queen

What is he… 60 years old in this pic? It should never be appropriate for the party of family values for a man to be embracing girls younger than his grandchildren like this. Disgusting.

The most honest analysis I can give you. Pls read, pls share. Ukraine Is Being Pushed Toward a Deal That Ignores the Core Issue: Russia’s Ongoing Aggression and the Erosion of International Law www.onestnetwork.com/post/ukraine...

Dress nice to the airport so your measles spots don’t scare the other flyers

No.

“Mr. President, the Speaker and various of your cabinet members consistently claim, when asked for reaction to comments you’ve made, that they haven’t heard what you said. Do you think that Speaker Johnson and Tom Homan should stop ignoring you be paying more attention to you?”

Being a "warrior", throughout history, is not a meme. It is not an "own". It is not a high-five. It is a solemn responsibility fraught with moral peril, which is precisely why ethical codes of conduct are so vital. They permit warriors to live with themselves, and not become a monster.

With the CEOs from major autos companies standing behind him, saying nothing.

The two Americas: Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

Thiel needs a conservatorship.

The way CEOs, media figures, and self-declared “thought leaders” behave towards Trump, you’d think his favorable/unfavorable polls were the exact opposite of what they actually are.

Wine Car Job

"Donald Trump is about to order the government to pay him 'damages' for the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago mansion and for special prosecutor Jack Smith’s two investigations of him...He’s going to pay himself $230 million."

Love this so much. Well done NC. We should adopt this anywhere ICE goes. Guerrilla warfare by ICE require Guerrilla tactics by the resistance.

Putin kills kids every day.

Real Training Day vibes here. End of the line and knows it.

Repost with iconic fictional band.

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

I didn't catch this until i saw @intense.wiggling.me 's post but he literally says "I, then say your name, do solemnly swear" oh my GOD

Without accountability, they will never learn responsibility.

This.

Seems to me it makes more sense to just fix the health insurance premium subsidies instead.

Millions of people are worried about going hungry without SNAP benefits. TRUMP:

Not only are they substantially increasing the cost of healthcare but now they also want to override state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt.

Amen.

Please let this end Putin.

Criminal ICE

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

The MAGA cult

You see again why fascists have to move fast as the power comes from never being held accountable for what you've already done. bsky.app/profile/carl...