Sarah “family is everything” Ditum

i was gon make a bean pie for tomorrow but i guess i'll make it for nye. we got 2 sweet potato pies and cookies. making more cookies and cupcakes tomorrow.

I made cornbread dressing, candied yams, and tini's mac n cheese along with a caramel cake that I'm making in the morning. I bought the turkey and rolls from a restaurant.

Betty Reid Soskin died this week. She was 104. To the world, she was the National Park Service's oldest active ranger when she retired at age 100. To me, she is Aunt Betty open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...

wow we just finished this lol. i miss the old muppets 😩

Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month. buff.ly/NntUdNz

Man its like just so invasive and gross feeling to see "Edit Image" appear over other people's images. Musk decided to give us the only kind of gift he can for christmas, sickening disappointment. Best of luck out there folks.

animal (muppet) is an aries

Mom: Does CashApp have his own money? Me: Who? Mom: What’s Rihanna’s boyfriend’s name? Me: *laughs uncontrollably*

old art) COVID-santa

lol what was in walmart 😑😂

Happy holidays, folks. I hope next year is a little kinder.

he was so insistent about trying to tear open one particular package under the tree, i thought for sure someone had wrapped food of some kind. it was dog toys. he found and tried to open his own present. how did he know that. can he read?

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.

jamaican rum & cola

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Happy Holidays, y’all… 🎄🎄🎄

The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here lataco.com/ice-license-...

yeah this is every xmas

I have several reasons I (& plenty of people I know) want this book. I want it because any hope we have of building a true democracy going forward hinges on media literacy & critical thought. It couldn't be a more urgent need in this time of legacy media capitulation, AI fakes, and media silos. 1/2

Since the pandemic this country's damn corporations have thrown into overdrive the biggest "fuck you" to workers, patients, consumers, and constituents. Full speed ahead and damn the humanity. 100mph with the cowcatcher on, plowing into cars, pedestrians, baby strollers, dogs.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Starting January 7, the Department of Education plans to withhold a portion of the wages of around 1,000 defaulted borrowers. The number will gradually increase within the following months. trib.al/HdyRT8s

A call box.

I will NEVER get over seeing new, sealed Nicki Minaj vinyl records at the fucking FLEA MARKET

The U.S. has normalized road fatilities. 40,000 killed each year—the equivalent of 110 jumbo jets crashing—and we just think it ia normal. We build our cities and towns for dumbass trucks and SUVs rather than kids and families, and call it "freedom."

What's y'all's favorite Southern meal?

top tier!

my favorite character from grinch

Awww, Cindy Lou Who #TheGrinch

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six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

Y'all know of any books (fiction) themed around NYE that I could read?

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Happy Christmas Eve (to all who celebrate) Someone kindly donated $50 yesterday to start us off. Please continue to share this post. 💕✨

The Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, who directed the documentary “Jenin, Jenin”, has passed away aged 72. Read Suha Arraf’s piece from 2021 on how Israel stifles Palestinian filmmakers like Bakri, and how they continue to resist through their art. Suha Arraf www.972mag.com/censorship-m...

On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.

also a big Not Knowing Basic Vocabulary issue.

One big Holocaust education issue in the US is that people don't know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp (though the two were often linked), so they assume that people referring to a "concentration camp" are being unfairly hyperbolic in a case like this.

All the ones I've done over the years so far ❤️

Made myself a little age guide :>

People just now, in 2025, having the astounding insight that our whole government has the abuser / enabler parent dynamic. 😑 Just now. Open-mouth flabbergasted to recognize it. 😑😑

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

By this time tonight I was meant to have made my bread sauce, cranberry sauce and begun the gingerbread stuffing, and yet I find myself, tasks still undone, on my sofa, with drink and cake to hand, happily gazing at my Christmas-Grotto-garden. Rather thrilled with my new light-up deer, I must say.

Saint Nicolas, Op. 42: He journeys to Palestine Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Benjamin Britten www.shazam.com/track/561363...

They always scapegoat, oh it’s those racists over there, never what I have to do as someone who was raised white under white supremacy.