Happy Christmas eve morning! My mother, who hosts Christmas, seems to have the flu and the boys woke up with runny noses. How are you doing?

utterly bizarre outfit tbh

enjoying the quiet but critical work of "former entertainer"

from the "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" article

If the Grinch steals my Christmas I will lose my shit

ack !! my youth is slipping away !! as evidenced by the fact that im talking like cathy !!

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

I'll do it. I imagine most people would, honestly I mean, it's impossible to spend a day overnight anywhere. Maybe the arctic circle in winter. But anyway, it's fine. Any of those guys can crash here. Seems irrelevant, but it's fine.

Stephen Miller finds it impossible for anyone else to consider immigrants as human beings so he's happy to go on air and say "would those journalists host the people we deported for a night to keep them out of torture prison?" as though getting people out wasn't exactly the point of the reporting.

we aren’t talking enough about the precision it takes to land a right hook on this chin

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

"Hannah, what's it like to have adhd?"

My father-in-law is watching a YouTube channel where a guy looks for and sometimes finds old silver dimes; his catchphrase is "it's dime time." As far as I'm concerned my father-in-law is the only person using YouTube properly.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

We're showing the kids It's a Wonderful Life for the first time, and I got to pause the movie and explain that Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street were named after the characters from It's a Wonderful Life

What do you do for Christmas breakfast? We usually do like eggs and bacon with tube cinnamon rolls, and tbh it's not that exciting

There are ways in which having kids helps with ADHD. There are more external consequences and structure. It's harder (tho not impossible) to forget to make dinner when there are kids asking to eat. However, a baby fucks with my workflow so bad. You need a bottle now? Right when I finally got going?

Same for Charlie Brown Christmas. They literally stop the special in the middle to quote scripture directly to the audience. Extremely sincere

maybe lawsky has discussed this before — but are there any other instances in which a specific scotus justice's name became a term of art, the way it has with "kavanaugh stop"? there are countless examples where a case caption becomes a name ("miranda rights") but justice's name seems uncommon.

Ughggggg

What's your favorite kind of nog at the holidays?

We really ought to be doing some kind of advent, even just a secular one. Holidays hit harder if you're preparing for them with a little fasting and some light self-deprivation

ACAB includes Santa

Any time I’m out with a group of people and they start to debate whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich or if Die Hard is a Christmas movie I change the subject to ICE raids and Jeffry Epstein to change the mood in the room

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Favorite Christmas youtube videos to do holiday chores to To begin with, youtu.be/opXFR6ab214?...

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

Did everyone else already know that Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is based on a book by the same author and illustrator as the Frances the Badger books?

There just aren't enough people who want to oil a snake

Maybe this sounds hyperbolic, but the people who run our state are literal sulfuric demons from hell bent on increasing the stock of human suffering

these “christian nationalists” aren’t afraid enough of hell

A local store is doing a "12 days of Christmas" special. Today is day 11, they say. Which means Christmas is over by the 25th of December

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

roll a deception check with disadvantage

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

"Two Rabbits with a Sled' (1894) illustration by celebrated English author Beatrix Potter #Womensart ❄️

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

I really thought that 60 minutes stories were 60 minutes long

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

This image has influenced my aesthetic for at least 35 years

am i drunk or is this fucking hilarious

When they ask me what radicalized me

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough