24 December 1939 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Elias Podolsky, was born in Antwerp to Moshe and Batia. In October 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- ▶The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

And then we act like it’s a mystery why we have so many gun deaths 🇺🇸

"Sudan’s war is devastating cities and displacing millions. For photojournalist Mohamed Zakaria, leaving El-Fasher was the only way to continue reporting." youtu.be/A-BxnSCAIQ0?... via @the-people-dissent.bsky.social #Darfur #DarfurNews #Sudan #SudanNews

If Trump wants to be the most transparent president in history, he can waive his 60 days and ask Judge Cannon to release Jack Smith’s report now. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Message to President Trump from Greenland Tupaarnaq made by a greenlandic woman, which is a EU citizen.

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I'd rather drink goat's blood.

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

I'm not sure what was decided at Stonehenge during the winter solstice this year, but I approve of the new god/ruler/emperor/pagan supreme being or whatever the rank is of the one that was chosen:

No means no, Donald! STOP GROPING GREENLAND.

💔 Toretsk. Another ghost town in Donbas that no longer exists. The war brought the most terrible destruction of cities in Europe since World War II.

This is your annual reminder that “The Thin Man” (1934) is a Christmas movie. And it is fantastic.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced it would “pause” leases for five large offshore wind farms, imperiling the fast-growing clean energy industry

Another year, another stack of great books to read. PBS News Hour’s Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. https://to.pbs.org/4oJC81Q

Mystified by Dems worriedly telling everyone to be careful because the letter is probably fake. There's no proof it's fake. Just take the win! Act like Republicans for once and run with it. Assume it's real. Donald Trump is a pedophile. Make headlines. Do TikTok videos. Shove it down their throats.

Afore God, a mad host.

It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.

“Clinton is in the Epstein files!” Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know. The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news

🗞️From Dan Rather tonight: "What happened to (60 Minutes) Sharyn Alfonsi’s piece is no less hard to take even, though anyone could see it coming. The barbarians are no longer at the gate. They have breached the walls and are now running the show."

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

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

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US' Denmark describes his comments as “completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island news.sky.com/story/trumps...

lady looks like she's about to ask the ghostbusters if they're gods.

Ring Out, Solstice Bells — Jethro Tull

Consumers Energy has filed yet another request with the Michigan Public Service Commission to raise natural gas rates by about $240 million — roughly a 10 percent hit to customers — even though regulators just approved a substantial increase earlier this year.

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

Seven House Democrats joined Republicans to pass HR 4371, the so called Kayla Hamilton Act, a bill that hands ICE more power over unaccompanied migrant children. Wrapped in “public safety” language, it does the opposite. #Immigration #HR4371 #KaylaHamiltonAct #ICE #MigrantChildren #HumanRights

We know there are hundreds of good Americans at the FBI and DOJ who also want to see justice for Epstein’s victims and survivors. To anyone who worked hard on the files and is now seeing their work being hidden by their own DOJ, there are whistleblower protections.

Saying impeaching these fascist is "premature" should itself be impeachable. Impeachment is his sworn constitutional duty. Primary this useless waste of space please.

Happy Winter Solstice! ✨

Think of your biggest financial risk: it's not your stock portfolio, it's losing your paycheck. That's why unemployment is the single best measure of economic health—when people can't earn a living, everything else in the data is just background noise. And unemployment is rising.

21 December 1932 | A French Jewish boy, Samuel Goysenstein, was born in #Hayange. During the war, he lived in Paris. He was deported from #Drancy to #Auschwitz where on 16 August 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. If they wanted to lower your health care costs, they would. The truth is: Republicans do not care one bit if your health care premiums explode.

“The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are the same ones making sure we’re also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced.” - @merirei.com My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social

How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.

The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.

Solar overtakes coal even in Texas, and the trajectories are clear. Trump can flack all he wants for his fossil fuel donors, but markets move inexorably toward clean energy.

🎶I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta have access to files