Some good news! “As cities move into 2026, the lesson is clear: surveillance is a choice, not a mandate, and your community has the power to refuse it.”

In case you had any doubt what Trump wants from Ukraine: “…the talks will focus in part on Ukraine’s postwar recovery, which Trump said could deliver huge economic gains. ‘There’s a lot of wealth to be had,’ Trump remarked.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Look at your prescription label if you take this. ⬇️

Good! Call your members of Congress to stop the insanity across the nation with their bounty hunters.

I still haven’t figured out how to keep current with some of my favorite bsky accounts. Even though I maintain a Following feed, I miss most of the posts.🫤 I wish there were a Notifications option like the one I had on Twitter.

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025.

🚀If you’re a space buff, if you like astronautical thrillers, this is MANDATORY reading!! I’ve read Col. Hadfield’s previous two novels plus just finished his latest FINAL ORBIT. I really, really, really recommend them all. 📚💙 Unputdownable. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The president of a freedom living people, which fought and defeated an imperial power to build the nation and later defeated two totalitarian dictatorship in parallell, seeks to accomodate the present evil in its armed aggression against another freedom loving people. The legacy…

The Russians are exposing U.S. weakness & ineffectiveness in peace negotiations… Russia attacked Kyiv & other parts of Ukraine w/hundreds of missiles & drones Saturday, ahead of what President Zelenskiy said would be crucial meeting w/Trump to work out deal to end war. apple.news/AdMhEYYFpRie...

This sounds unconstitutional & unethical! @marcelias.bsky.social @normeisen.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com @andrewjweinstein.com @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov #Voices4Victory Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds stateline.org/2025/12/18/t...

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The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. It was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science https://to.pbs.org/4qygWgV

We need to make sure the next AG has sharp teeth & will punish ICE thugs to the fullest extent of the law!

On Christmas and every day, never forget that humans are our own and our planet's worst enemy. But also best hope! 👇🏼👇🏿👇🏽

Carol of the Bells in the Kyiv metro. Voices from the embassies of Germany, France, and the UK performed Shchedryk underground — a simple, powerful sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thank you to everyone who stands with us. us.

Listen.🎵 Merry Christmas. 1968. 2025. ⚡️🌎 🎼 We’re still dreaming of a better land, where all of us walk hand in hand. Wondering why can’t that dream come true.

Harkens of Nazi Germany. We must stop this horror show. The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul the U.S. immigrant detention system and hire contractors to renovate industrial warehouses that will hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time. GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4axtwZ4

✨True XmasEve story. I had a few grocery items to pick up this afternoon. I couldn’t reach 1 of them on a top shelf (I’m short) but there was a gent nearby with white hair & beard & rotund tummy, so I asked him if he could reach it for me. I didn’t ask his name. But he wished me a Merry Christmas.😭🎅🏼

Songs don’t save the world. They save people. …And people do the rest.

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In a time when we’re faced with increasing weather catastrophes brought about by climate change, this is a disastrous move by the Trump administration. 🌪️💨🔥

“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The internet has everything.

SCOTUS tells Trump no on deployment of Illinois Nat’l Guard, finding a valid exception to the Posse Comitatus Act doesn’t exist. Huge loss for the Trump Administration. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

🗓️🎄🦌 Holiday vacation begins. Not a moment too soon. 😵‍💫😴🌛 Cheers.🍷 (Seriously, I’m so tired) 🤦🏻‍♀️

Americans can't afford groceries, housing, healthcare or utilities. Trump's answer: Give another $67 billion tax break to Big Tech, and their billionaires who gave him millions in donations, to write off their R&D retroactively. This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.

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Lexington, Greenville, Spartanburg!!! You have elections today! VOTE! #scpol

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Here’s the story #CBSStateTV & the Trump regime doesn’t want you to see re: horrific human rights violations occurring at #CECOT in El Salvador. Thank you, @meiselasb.bsky.social for bringing light to this on MeidasTouch. THIS is why we need independent journalism. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

To be clear, this should be one of the biggest scandals to ever reach the presidency. DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President. It’s a complete affront to Justice.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.

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My god. From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:

Trump’s transpo Sec Duffy community noted for taking credit for what Biden did

COLORADO — Trump rejects a federal disaster relief request, because the state is run by Democrats. Sen. Bennet: “Trump continues to use Coloradans for political games; it is malicious and obscene.” www.denver7.com/news/local-n...

💛🕯️A light in the darkness.

New from Nick Turse of @theintercept.com who first broke the “double tap” story

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Contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Tonight, a very special edition of “Five Questions” that helps us understand how ordinary people become heroes and defenders of democracy. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

"DOJ sources — including officials who’ve actually seen what’s inside the Epstein files — are telling me there’s real concern after today’s so-called “release.” Because documents that should have been turned over today aren’t just heavily redacted — they appear to be missing."

Putin says "Russia will achieve liberating its historic lands militarily." He means Russia's 1914 imperial borders.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

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