I see all these conversations happening telling people not to consume new holiday decor every year and am slightly perplexed because I thought a significant charm of the holidays is pulling out the same old decor that's been a part of your Christmas for 42 years.

Christmas decorations are just gonna forever have a Mom memorial aspect to them. Some of her angels set up here. We both loved old fashioned Christmas decor.

In a mater of months the richest man alive, who was not elected, has cut USAID and now 700,000 are dead. The billionaire president is doing everything possible not to give 42 million people access to food. Just in case you’re wondering what the history books will focus on.

If I wasn't already boycotting them this would make me avoid the store. I have been known to pass over my shopping basket/cart to the 4th employee who asked if I needed help and walk out of other stores.

Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape reported atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the western Darfur region, an aid group said Saturday, and the U.N. human rights chief warned that many others remain trapped. https://to.pbs.org/49Omiz8

Might decorate for Christmas.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court leaves an order in place that requires the Trump administration to provide full SNAP benefits for November.

Just to be abundantly clear, Republicans could end this shut down at any moment, and they are choosing not to over and over again.

Not pro-life. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Needed to visit a sick kid today and was able to pull together a gift from my "gift drawer" where I keep random things I thrift that I believe will make good gifts in the next year. It comes in handy often for care packages.

This is the first of my new holiday designs! I’d love to make one for your family in whatever color palette you desire. This one is 12” wide and about 24” long, on a 15” dowel. $80 + shipping (probably about $15). Prices will be the same/similar, depending on size!

something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid during the shutdown. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr.!

Videos on Instagram haven't been loading and this is probably good for me.

I read the book The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio years ago and sometimes wish that world still existed. Where, without competing with computers and having to give away a vast digital footprint, I could enter contests with silly little poems and win a years supply of canned ham.

Phrases like "on my heart", "hear my heart," "hurt my heart" all sound like someone putting on a show and manufacturing what they think is a moving emotional display. Is this a consequence of growing up evangelical? (Of note: Break my heart, with all my heart, just sound cliche to me but not fake)

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

The U.S. military has killed dozens of people in targeted strikes on small vessels in waters off South America since early September. https://to.pbs.org/4hCqmoj

Ok now maybe they'll go back to work and let us have Healthcare *and* food in an effort to save their seats in the next election.

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

Near as I can tell Democrats won every race. When was the last time that happened ? Can't wait for the mid terms ;-)

To round out the excellent news for Denver kids and families tonight: Congratulations Dr. DJ Torres! We’re thrilled to see a clean sweep of champions for public education winning in Denver tonight.

Oh my gosh it's so nice to wake up and not feel doomed.

this reads like a news bulletin from 120 years ago, save for a couple details (i.e. the first Muslim/South Asian as opposed to say Jew or Italian)

The paper, he points out, is still on. 🤣

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

BREAKING: The Democrats have seized the majority in the Minnesota Senate!

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

and we don't have to settle for shitty candidates a year out from the midterms. we can hold out for better. we can always hold out for better

There's so much blue. I'm excited and hopeful for our neighbors and also have some ptsd.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

Very happy for Georgia!

WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia. That seems...significant.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Oh my gosh it's so nice outside and I am stuck inside a building with the heat on. Miserable. STOP ROASTING PEOPLE.

A skill I have is "remember someone said something about X" and be able to use search keywords to find it.

"Eglon lived in the cool chambers of his palace with plenty to eat, while his subjects lived in hunger on the barren hills of the countryside." Trump out here doing literal Biblical evil king deeds, building gilded places to feast while people go hungry.

Like with all abusers, the pain is the point

Last Thanksgiving my husband and I went to my parents house early on Thankagiving day. The rest of the family couldn't make it so it was just us four. We watched the parade and made a feast. As the calendar turns to "first holiday season without mom" I'm grateful for the memory.

I have this guttural ache when someone tells me they used AI to craft the most basic of task and saved themselves 10 minutes.

Two federal judges ruled that President Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

I have once again been diagnosed as old. After the indignity of needing bifocals/progressives, I've now been told I have arthritis. . .in my shoulder.

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

I *hate* when I'm doing something like taking out trash and people nearby say, "trash day again!" I get i shouldn't be that annoyed by it but WHY does this happen? 😭 I'm left with silence as a response which seems rude or a "yup." which also seems rude. What in the world is happening.

Read an article that said ppl who sent AI to mtgs and skipped it themselves made more money. Article also indicates the AI notes OFTEN missed *important* context. THIS STORY IS ABOUT UNNECESSARY MEETINGS HOLDING PEOPLE BACK, NOT THE BENEFIT OF AI.

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. It’s retaliation & it’s wrong