8 December 1907 | A Czech Jewish woman, Alžběta Buschová, was born in Kostelec nad Černými Lesy. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

Cole Caufield should not be picked for the US Olympic team because he's too small and doesn't check or something. Yeah, don't pick him. Excellent idea.

What the Absolute Fuck. (ht @bakerdphd.bsky.social)

Dobes stops Amulet Boy and the Habs win in the shootout!

TEX GON' GIVE IT TO YA

Never in doubt Habs

In Pluribus Carol says at the end of one of her tapes ‘is anybody listening? And how the fuck would I know?’ So that’s like being a hobby podcaster…..

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

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Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history. So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced. And people are just throwing it away.

It's getting so that I don't know which Ford government scandal or bamboozle to focus on anymore.

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS (hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

Never in doubt Habs

S4E13 Don and Betty meet for the last time at the Draper place. Don has not lived there for a year. He reaches in a cabinet above the stove and finds a bottle of rye. Don Draper or Clark Nutcracker? This is the only Mad Men animal cognition crossover 'joke' ever.

Trump is a real tough guy picking on Somali immigrants, Venezuelans or a few guys in a boat. Standing up to Putin, which the world needs him to do, he's a shivering little coward wetting his pants.

All of us at faculty meetings

3 December 1892 | Jewish woman, Esther Bekker (nee Dworska) was born in todays Poland. She emigrated to Norway in 1895. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

George Will: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”

3 December 1903 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Leser, was born in Krakow. A watchmaker. In #Auschwitz from 17 October 1941. No. 21846 He perished in the camp on 23 October 1941. --- Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U

"You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you, and many are failing." — Pope Leo XIV

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Phil Hartman on 3rd Rock

Good read from @radiofreetom.bsky.social. “In the name of God, Pete Hegseth, go.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I played in the NFL, which, I promise you, has access to healthcare strategies that the average person just doesn’t have, and where cost really isn’t an issue. You don’t do MRIs on a whim.

It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him. So there’s that, too.

It's another #CNDOP miracle! OK, it's not a miracle, we just recorded is all..... Here's @jbrodbeck.bsky.social with the Jonathan Files. broken-area.com/the-jonathan...

@dbrodbeck.bsky.social, @jbrodbeck.bsky.social and I welcome @solidarityforever.bsky.social, @70stvdetectives.bsky.social and @forgotten.tv to the podcast as we discuss some good Christmas specials. And some creepy ones. In our Rockford and Baa Baa Black Sheep podcast mashup.

In Episode 7 of 'Defunct' for #CNDOP @solidarityforever.bsky.social talks about pro lacrosse in the 70s, @docpinko.bsky.social tells us about putting ferrets down your pants (seriously) and I talk about the early days of the ABA talkingisdead.com/defunct-spor...

In this #CNDOP episode, I tackle China Beach while @solidarityforever.bsky.social looks at Baywatch. bestepisodeever.com/best-episode...

It's #CNDOP (Canadian National Day of Podcasting) so how about a Canadian podcast that in various forms has been around since 2005? Well @isamichaud.bsky.social and I have you covered broken-area.com/blog/2025/12...

In this #CNDOP extravaganza, @kenhernden.bsky.social and I discuss Sharpe's Eagle www.tangentialconvergence.com/2025/11/rifl...

It's a very special #CNDOP crossover episode of Boyington's Bastards and 200 Dollars A Day wherein @docpinko.bsky.social and @jbrodbeck.bsky.social and I welcome Chris Cooling, @70stvdetectives.bsky.social @solidarityforever.bsky.social to talk Christmas TV. www.200adayplus.com/2025/12/epis...

OTD in 1918 USSR invaded Latvia. This is how Russia became the world's largest country. We keep peacefully attacking our neighbours.

OTD in 2012 the siege of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk began. Assad forces, backed by Russia, cut off all food and used starvation as a weapon.

I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.

30 November 1892 | A Pole, Jan Guzik, was born in Boguchwała. A gardener. In #Auschwitz from 13 April 1942. No. 29546 He perished in the camp on 30 June 1942. --- "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.

Local area rage farmer experiences massive crop losses due to face-eating leopards.

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

Gotta make sure that the white/Christian nationalists continue to hold the reins of power with in the party. This is older than MAGA. This is a deep-seated ugliness that the party and its predecessors kept under polite wraps and is now feeling emboldened enough to be in the open.

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

are the guardians of the galaxy real

We're doomed. Like, we were already doomed, but we're even more doomed.

I’m staring into the abyss, I don’t like the look of the abyss Mark Corrigan

I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face

28 November 1921 | Czech Jew František Kohn was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. He did not survive.

BREAKING I still love Mad Men

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.