ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Home Alone is still the GOAT xmas movie.

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

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

As anti-queer backlash and state erasure intensify, citizen archivists are fighting back by saving LGBTQ+ history before it disappears. Groups like @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and the @qzap.bsky.social show how preservation becomes resistance. inthesetimes.com/article/figh...

Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why over 3,800 baristas are striking: "The average barista receives just 19 hours per week, leaving them one hour short of the cutoff to receive company benefits." inthesetimes.com/article/work...

Fetterman ends 2025 as Trump’s top Democratic supporter in the US Senate A legislative tracker found that Fetterman voted in support of Trump and the Republican Party 26% of the time since he retook office. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/22/f...

Days before Christmas and masked federal immigration agents continue to take people from Chicago's streets. Video and photos shared to social media depict agents taking at least one man from the Logan Square neighborhood this morning, just west of the Armitage/Kimball intersection.

this, from Bari Weiss's 9pm editorial call, is just complete and utter horseshit. she can't even do damage control right

Among national calls for a moratorium on data center construction, it’s rejection from local communities that may put a stop to the growing AI oligarchy. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports: trib.al/HiCxDCa

I love this so much Elizabeth, as you predicted their talent is going to eat her alive

Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to an presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS's owners are trying to win. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

this is cool

"As @lewispants.bsky.social describes in @objectivejournos.bsky.social, “fascist leaders thrive on an ill-informed public.” Wallace, citing @dreanyc123.bsky.social, notes that movement journalism’s 'purpose zero' is 'to challenge fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation.'"

INBOX: first reported by @objectivejournos.bsky.social, one of the biggest funders of nonprofit journalism in the U.S. @knightfoundation.org, has edited its “About” page to remove its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) section, according to archives obtained through the Wayback Machine.

Federal labor investigators are looking into the overnight death of an airline maintenance technician killed in a crash between two cherry-picker machines at Denver International Airport, authorities confirmed Friday.

I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

It's quaint to talk about inflation reports and surprising softness on the margins when in 13 days the out-of-pocket cost of health insurance is going to rise for 26 million households by an average of 75%

TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social attempts to figure out why Trump enjoys the Rush Hour movies so much, and what happens when dictators fall in love with a medium like film. "North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Il, like Trump, was obsessed with popcorn movies." flaminghydra.com/issue-465/#m...

The U.S. military said Wednesday that it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people on the same day the House rejected efforts to limit President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels. https://to.pbs.org/4oZJPBa

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

"transgender adults of today were kids once" it does mean a lot, to have someone with any power actually speak such words aloud

AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year. It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study. www.theverge.com/news/845831/...

Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum called on the UN to intervene for peace, while Brazil’s Lula volunteered to mediate talks.

A growing body of evidence links antibiotic overuse in meat production to infections in humans.

One bill would jail doctors who prescribe gender-affirming care to trans youth. Another would block Medicaid dollars from funding that care.

This happened last week but I'm still not over ICE's choice to cut off her wedding ring. Needless, punitive cruelty. The feds can't successfully prosecute her for any crime. All they can do is punish her in the moment & they try as best they can. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

whose rent went down?

Donald Trump hasn’t even bothered to make a case about why military action off Venezuela’s coast is in our national interest, writes Daniel DePetris.

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

Our society only seems to promote people who think the point of art is to hold a finished product, rather than the process of creation. I'm ashamed to admit how much it bothers me that you can be so obviously ignorant and still be taken seriously.

Kim Reynolds reading this news

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman, and Ella Cook, a sophomore, were killed in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday. Umurzokov was studying biochemistry and neuroscience, while Cook studied math and French.

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From a friend a few minutes ago whose family member works at an Amazon warehouse in the south Puget Sound: > [Worker] is currently at work around that area and surprise surprise, Amazon isn't letting anyone evacuate.

This year's report on the state of journalist safety, from RSF: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

I spoke with workers at the NLRB about the impacts of a year long lack of quorum, at least 100 staff leaving an already underfunded agency, and corporations like SpaceX trying to gut labor law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of deja vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus.

"Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE."

The death toll of Sunday’s shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach rose to 16, officials said, designating the attack as a terror incident that targeted the city’s Jewish community. Forty people were hospitalized.

Two gunmen attacked a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation. https://to.pbs.org/4qduzlw

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the last adult theater in Iowa has closed.