Happy holidays from me and the four grandkids.

This is profoundly un-American. No—that's not right. It's *anti*-American. It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions. The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.

This is what's known as "consciousness of guilt"

This is the best thing I’ve read recently. Thank you, Qasim!

Bit of a wild story. Hearing this second hand, but buckle up. ICE attempted to pull a Kavanaugh stop last night (Christmas Eve), pulling over my mom’s boss (an LPR). He proved his immigration status, but they decided to go after the coworker he was with instead. It gets wilder from here… 1/

The President of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it.

A shout out to all the people who put their bodies on the line to protect our immigrant community & our rights. Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Chicago) was checking on someone injured by #ICELawlessness (with a broken leg), when ICE agents demanded then shoved, handcuffed & arrested her. Speak out!

Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

My dad died last May. More than anything else, history was what we shared in common. As we have the first Christmas without him, I reflected on what that meant. open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...

Finally, the Christmas piece you’ve all been waiting for—the one that connects the fates of C.W. McCall and Mannheim Steamroller. David Buck outdid himself this time: tedium.co/2025/12/25/c... new @tedium.co

This is such a lovely and sweet story.

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”

CBS is a CECOT sellout. The administration has made its policy clear. So there’s no need to give them a platform to lie and distort the facts while we sit, watch, and witness evidence to the contrary #USDemocracy

I miss having a real president.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Gosh - so shocking something like this has gone sideways www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Dr Ryan French 👏👏👏😲 “As a solar astrophysicist, I spent a lot of time looking at solar flares this year. Out of them all, this X1.9-class SolarFlare from December 1st was my favourite! The plasma motions are simply mesmerising.”

Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.

A good list here: theconversation.com/from-coelaca...

Regular mass protest remains necessary.

We must break down barriers between groups, between justice movements and find common ground in our struggles for a better, more just world 🤝 As the year comes to an end, we’ve taken a look back our work building connection at the intersection of climate and migrant justice.

Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Supplying weapons to a country committing war crimes/genocide violates both federal and international law.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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

JD Vance: “her street girl persona is about as real as her nails” Jasmine Crockett: “How about you stop worrying about me, until we are on the Senate floor together & work to stop your boss from bankrupting our country while engaging in the largest corruption scheme we’ve ever seen?!”

Mentor Ohio Fridays thru January 9 Rally to Protect Democracy

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Western Mass: the best resource for planning your week of #resistance: in-slwm.org/wp-content/u... #FightBack #Community #mapoli #StandUp #StopICE #DueProcess #WhatCanIDo #indivisible @in-slwm.bsky.social #WesternMA

Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season. People are supporting economic boycotts to show discontent with businesses capitulating to Trump’s agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.” — President of Colombia Gustavo Petro

Hegseth and Trump are abusing their positions to punish Mark Kelly for telling a truth they did not like. It is an attack on the First Amendment and makes government lose credibility.

The LAPD shot two people within 24hrs of each other. One was a person allegedly in a mental health crisis, the other had “what looked to be a gun” and it reads like he was shot in the car. The dept has shot 46 people this year.

"The standout in Burlington started with two people and has grown to as many as 750..." gazettenet.com/2025/12/12/a...

Why would the NYT publish such hateful garbage? Why elevate this man with a history of writing anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate? Again, using a tragedy to promote extremism, hate, and justify Israel's genocide.

God damn. What incredible guts this guy has. I once took a bat away from a guy who was beating someone with it, and I can't imagine that I would have done this. Not from that distance, not having to slip through the cars. Just a ridiculous act of heroism.

I would also add that Trump has pulled lots and lots of federal agents normally tasked with investigating serious crimes off those duties to do immigration enforcement with ICE. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?

This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES SOUND DAY 12 DECEMBER 2O25 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES 95K EPSTEIN PHOTOS TONIGHT I HONOR REP. BENNIE THOMPSON HE TORCHES FBI Michael Glasheen !! ANTIFA !!! Where is it headquartered? Where in the U.S. does Antifa exsist? Watch as Glasheen bumbles OBLIVIOUS FOOL !!

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Again, what more do you need to see from the Dem Establishment? This is disgusting. www.politico.com/live-updates...