“Mother Mary wearing a respirator mask to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands, wrapped in a thin blanket that looks like aluminum foil. Masked centurions with sunglasses and green vests labeled “ICE.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/e...

When Apollo outgrew our Kaluku Nursery and moved up to Rhino Base, it marked a pivotal step on his path back to the wild. This secure sanctuary gives him the space to build independence while still benefiting from expert care and close monitoring. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...

🌱Giving the ghaut a little glow up after the rains so I can plant papyrus on the banks. Sections have the original old stone walls..that part is easy. I’m cleaning & setting stones as I go on the rest of it. Two days in & it feels like I’ve rubbed off my finger prints. Tomorrow I might wear gloves😉

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president. Just fucking pathetic.

There’s no legal designation or entity in the United States now for ‘dual citizens’ by the way. But I would LOVE to see them make Israelis renounce their Israeli citizenship.

Many of the dual citizens I’ve met over the years were women and their children. That is probably still the case. Republicans really hate women and children, don’t they?

Over/under on the number of days until Gold Bar Bob Menendez gets his sentence commuted? I'll start the bidding at 60.

The stories on the health insurance subreddit are horrifying. Sooo many people will be unable to afford coverage. The premium increases are unbelievable. Some families are having to choose to cover just the children, or just an ill parent. It’s tragic.

Kavanaugh stop

Anyone else send their college kids the wx forecast!? Otherwise this one would be in tennis shorts and a hoodie…he still might be🥺

“If it wasn’t for the Hispanic population coming to New Orleans after Katrina, we’d still be gutting houses. And I can’t abide and just stand by while my friends get toted off for no reason. I’ve had enough.” NOLA protests kick off for swamp sweep.

The Trump administration fired numerous New York immigration judges on December 1. Those immigration judges worked at 26 Federal Plaza, which also houses the ICE's field office and has become an epicenter for arrests of migrants and protests over Trump's hardline immigration agenda reut.rs/4ivVnuB

A cold northwest wind flows over the Sea of Japan creating dancing cloud streets.

It’s the holidays and the end of the year and a lot of people (women) are asking, how does she do it all? Answer: she doesn’t www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

Waiting for congress to step in here…

La folie almayer / Almayer's folly - 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112065

A great role advertised here - Director of the Productivity Institute at the University of Manchester jobs.economist.com/job/36740/di...

Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?

🇪🇺 EU to provide Ukraine with €90bn to cover two-thirds of its financing needs in 2026-27

There ain't a corrupt politician this man won't pardon. His belief that powerful people should get away with crimes is not the kind of bipartisanship we need.

I have no words.

And now, Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar, who was charged with his wife with accepting $600K in foreign bribes. Insanity.

Sweet baby Jesus. Forgetting to pregame the advil before the big morning project in the garden was a tragic error.

I was thrilled to see a magnificent Great Blue Heron on the Harlem Meer this morning. What do you think of this gray on gray capture? 🩶🖤🩶 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

Barbunya pilaki with rice plus pickled peppers and chilis is my go to bean dish, it's delicious and easy. vidarbergum.com/recipe/turki...

I personally add cumin and vegetable or chicken stock for extra flavour and drop the potato. I also make lots so I have some left over for the next day when it's extra tasty. When possible, I serve it with Turkish style rice vidarbergum.com/recipe/how-t...

If you want to make more of a meal of it, then you should make this the previous day to serve it as a side dish. vidarbergum.com/recipe/auber...

Spain overwhelmed by 2.3 million citizenship applications from Franco-era descendants

German army chief says contact with US military cut off by Pentagon www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Bird of Peace. Photo taken this morning from St Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.

There is no diplomacy in the democratic sense: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

An 18 point swing isn't 'a ton.' It is literally without precedent in contemporary US history. Even the 2010 Tea Party wipe out was 17 points, and that's only because the 2008 margins for Democrats were completely absurd on account of the financial crash and Bush being utterly radioactive.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

The U.S. Senate voted in favor of two federal prosecutors in North Carolina joining the federal bench as trial judges, including a former clerk to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas whose views on abortion and the death penalty have spurred Democratic opposition reut.rs/3MbDc13

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

BREAKING: US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states reut.rs/48JkN4t

What are we watching? The trailer for Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation. buff.ly/sojePsv

Elon Musk's AI bot says it would kill every Jewish person on earth to save Elon Musk. We talk so much about antisemitism, but somehow it's not considered antisemitic to use Elon Musk's apps.

The Trump admin is systematically firing immigration judges across the country for no reason other their above average grant rates. The goal is to transform an imperfect system which aimed for fairness into a rubber stamp mill, leaving only the “deportation judges” they want.

It’s election day in #Tennessee! Have friends or family in House District 07? Give them a call today to make sure they have a plan to get to the polls for Aftyn Behn! #democratsabroad #votefromabroad #aftynbehn #fliptnblue #electionday #USpolitics

Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.

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This is hysterical 😂 www.reddit.com/r/GuysBeingD...

As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration. popular.info/p/jared-kush...

Good lord

Hegseth’s “response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.” (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...