New cut!! Starting the year fresh!

Some good advice from @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social:

A year ago my cat, kid and I were checking into a hotel because our hot water heater and furnace were busted suddenly and our chimney wasn’t properly vented, and we were at risk for carbon monoxide. We were gone 15 days. I love hotels. That was not fun.

Another media company caving to incremental authoritarianism. I will never call it by that illegitimate name.

She was actually in the series.

In today's @thebaltimorebanner.com I learn to play spades! Invite me to your cookouts! www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Chill cloudy post holiday day and I’m quilted in with Cmas candy & books from Santa by local authors @bsivad.bsky.social Brett Davis & @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social Leslie Gray Streeter Might stay here all weekend…

People whose choices don’t affect you in any way: - Women wearing bonnets in public - Families wearing matching PJs at the holiday hotel brunch - People buying food you don’t approve of in the grocery line - Black children laughing Mind your own.

“On Tuesday, however, Ms. Loomer said nothing about the newly released materials, which showed, among other things, that federal prosecutors had determined that Mr. Trump had flown on Mr. Epstein’s private plane more times than they originally knew.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Woke mean being cognizant of and awake to danger. That’s what journalism is. If you are anti woke you are fake news. Signed- a 32-year career journalist.

Sounds like a host problem.

If you can’t write you aren’t a writer. If you steal from other writers you are a thief.

The Preacher’s Wife is perfect and I’m so happy to be introducing my kid to it. He was intrigued by the beautiful Whitney and I want him to know who she was.

I used to be ok at guitar but now I suck, so I’ve started taking lessons more than 20 years later with my original teacher. This one sucks but I’m keeping it honest for the sake of progress.

His mama called him the Kennedy Center, I’ma call him the Kennedy Center.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

Delightful! Thank you @sataylormd.bsky.social !!!

I am irritated by how often I see him speak and think “He got a point.” What is going on?

This isn’t governance—it’s cruelty dressed up as Christmas. Mocking immigrants while people lose healthcare, families suffer, and America embarrasses itself globally. Power without empathy is moral bankruptcy, and this administration proudly puts it on display.

Seems bad.

Charlie Kirk: "Why do we let low IQ Black people take our jobs?" David Mamet: "He's like the Jesus Christ of YouTube."

NO.

I am a GenX music writer who watched women geniuses be rescued to a bikini because the patriarchy in the magazine box insisted on it. Maybe this is her choice. But I’m sad.

Almost all of us were from poor people. From disenfranchised people new in a place. Crapping on those who are where you were. You suck.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.

RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Gross.

There might be less to put in the stockings this year because of the economy. In today's @thebaltimorebanner.com we talk about how to explain to your kids. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer? COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances

Highly recommend. This man’s life has nothing to do with mine but I saw myself in it a little as a parent and friend who has to weigh how I center myself in others’ life and how I can better be present because there is no do-over.

For @thebaltimorebanner.com I want to talk to Maryland-area folks with front-facing jobs like retail, restaurant, packaging stores, traffic enforcement and others who can be on the wrong end of public frustration. In the holiday season, what do you need from the public in terms of patience?

We keep telling you to keep our names out of your mouths and you don’t listen.

I turned in my first complete draft of my novel to my agent for approval and then it goes to the publisher on Thursday. Between now and the October 26 release, a lot of editing and back and forth. But it has a beginning, middle and ending. Yay.

Last year I wrote about "Wicked Part 1" and allyship. I have more thoughts for @thebaltimorebanner.com about #wickedforgood and that subject. Anyone wanna talk for a column? (Maryland preferable!) www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Stop platforming white supremacists.

As God as my witness, this is the best thing ever.

I literally blocked a popular person I used to respect who quoted me so his minions could harass me. Bye.

Don’t give up America ⬇️

My contribution to the discourse around "should writers be paid or should you steal their work" is: Yes, we should be paid. ALSO! I'm very proud of my book. If you buy it, I do not mind what format you buy it in, where you get it or if you get it from a library 💚 bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

When Mark Kelly spoke to the troops, he wasn’t talking politics. He was reinforcing the pillars of a free country.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

NEW: Trump DOJ once again BUSTED for yet another lie told to a federal judge, this time in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s cases: DOJ told Judge Xinis Costa Rica wouldn’t take Abrego Garcia & instead he has to be deported to Liberia, with which he has no ties at all. Turns out, it’s a LIE.

Right wing troll who pretends to live in places he does not is upset with Twitter for revealing his actual location. How's he supposed to con people if it does that? So not fair!!!

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

I have recreated from memory my ancestral Streeter macaroni and cheese recipe. I get to stay Black and in the family. It’s very reassuring.