Happy Kwanzaa ❤️🖤💚

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elze van den Ban #Dutch urban planner chief engineer of Rijkswaterstaat (Dept of Public Works) @ Zuiderzee Works. Introduced curvatures rather than straight lines into urban planning process. 1st woman from Netherlands to graduate as civil engineer in Delft. d. #OTD 25 Dec 1973 bit.ly/3WYS1Vu

It's almost Christmas.

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.

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Despite strained relations between the Vatican and Israel during the war in Gaza, Catholic and Jewish leaders in Haifa are trying to build trust between their communities, which live largely siloed from each other.

Leadership isn't a gala with billionaires at Mar-a-Lago; it’s a surprise visit to a children’s hospital. Remember which one actually served the people.

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Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in #England Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws #UK 🇬🇧 #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #AnimalAg #AnimalRights #AnimalLaw #Animals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Bucks County’s Homeless and Housing Insecure at Risk After Trump’s Proposed HUD Funding Cuts | “What makes this moment especially dangerous isn’t just the funding risk — it’s the instability...When systems are forced to react instead of plan, the result is always more expensive and less humane.”

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How much Toilet Paper is too much Toilet Paper

Do you remember My Secret Identity?

Happy Chinuka

This is so very very ding dang sweet. I may/may not have cried. Love - you know? It's a whole thing!

we did a ton of advocacy at @ggwash.org this year and in this post @alexbaca.bsky.social @kaihall10.bsky.social @acornpark.bsky.social look back at all of the things we advocated for ggwash.org/view/101936/...

@albomp.bsky.social has invited Isreali war criminal Isaac Herzog to Australia. We don't want him here. Unless it is in shackles ready to be sent up before the ICC to face trial. Sign the petition. Tell the government we have no time for murderers here. c.org/vvVvFJptMt

tbh starting to take “voting doesn’t matter, force does” as “I want to abdicate civic or communal responsibility and have Someone Else take on the burden of politics for me”

Since the beginning of this year, the org I volunteer with has spent $45,910.34 solely on sending alerts to let ppl know where 🧊 is operating. In Dec we’ve already spent $5,779.00. We’re truly a tiny grassroots org and we serve THREE counties. Please help us keep our neighbors safe next year.

NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)

When government is actually organized crime, war becomes the tool of thieves. The west should approach it as such. From the Kyiv Independent

#anthonyjoshua www.thesun.co.uk/sport/287168...

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Wow! The end state is that these corporations don't want you to actually go the grocery store. They want you to shop for groceries online - because in the actual store it is harder to change the price for individuals. You see this in reduction of check out lanes, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr...

Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.

A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities.

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

The 60 Minutes correspondent who worked on the segment alleged in an internal email that pulling it from airing was “not an editorial decision, it is a political one."

I love painting holiday cards for our friends and family. This one of a Winter elf, is a favorite.✨🎄✨

“MAGA was my idea,” Trump said last month. “MAGA was nobody else’s idea.” And what it may turn into later doesn’t seem to be any of his concern. lnk.thebulwark.com/3MPvxG2

I feel so sorry for Donovan's family. His death could have been prevented. "Family members said a "risk protection order" expired this month, which allowed Metayer to purchase a handgun he would use "to take his own life in our family home" on Dec. 15." www.wusf.org/local-state/...

Unfettered capitalism has enabled billionaires to monopolize nearly every sector, from agriculture and pharmaceuticals to high tech and media. When wealth concentrates to that degree, truth becomes optional and propaganda replaces facts as the dominant currency of society.

In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.

Thousands March Against Trump In Freezing Weather

Yes! 👏👏 About time, too! Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

What do we really know about Palestine? youtu.be/THl20pkSDfo?...

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic... DeSantis is deflecting. Neither Wilson nor Coolidge would have stooped to what DeSantis did

Boycott CBS.

Andrew Tate looked cream crackered by round 4 of whatever that was. We should just make a new boxing division called "Media Personalities who could do with a slap"

For the launch of Kronika, a digital platform that aims to preserve independent media, four journalists — Pethő, M. Gessen, Ramón Zamora, and Sevgi Akarçeşme — discussed their experiences witnessing the rise of authoritarian regimes. Read more here: pen.org/lessons-for-...

Hanukkah is about holding onto light during the darkest part of the year. Thank you @ifnotnowmovement.org for inviting me to celebrate resilience, community, and hope with you all. Wishing everyone a safe and joyful last night of Hanukkah. May it be a lighter year ahead.

“I wish to God you could pay more money.” I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.

Shout out to quality stepdads. You make a difference. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 (Please don’t add anything crass or beyond the context of this message to this post.)