I so rarely take a good picture, but online this little close-up of our Christmas tree.

Kitties say, “Merry Christmas”

Fox Friday is a thing, right? Our neighborhood couple has been out and about a bunch lately. They’re so jaunty.

I’m on X occasionally to see the right’s latest stream o’ bullshit & to call them morons and pedo-lovers. Hey, we all gotta have a hobby. Watching the main influencers now shocked, shocked by Trump’s speech and Reiner crap is something. They really imagine they can reclaim their humanity. No chance.

[Nixon voice] My God. My reaction: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation." Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:

Let’s go Hoosiers!

Happy, Caturday! May we all get a nap as cozy as Archie’s.

If this is real, then it’s about the clearest example yet that we do not yet live in a fascist state. You think the SS would just stand there looking at these people mocking them?

This

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

THIS. 👉

If I were a Dem politician right now, I would go out of my way to hire Sarah Longwell, Rick Wilson and Tom Nichols. We can learn from these folks, get insight into GOP thinking and they’re just out there, ready to help us all get out from under Trumpism. Country over party folks!

After seeing many of the responses to Tom Nichols post about someone else's list of words Dems should stop using, I am really looking forward to the mime-based revolution progressives are planning for 2026.

I’m against Alligator Alcatraz, but if anyone deserves to be there it’s Ghislaine Maxwell.

I don't know about you'all, but I see a noticeable influx of maga trolls and bots have entered bluesky.

This is The Last Supper now.

Seeing a lot of "RFK IS Wrong About Autism" headlines. Well, duh. Strike the word "austism" and replace it with "everything" and it saves time.

A liberal is a neoconservative who has been mugged by reality

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Who did this?

Cancel your Amazon account, folks. Hit the oligarchy where it hurts. You don’t need Amazon for shipping anymore. Everyone ships now.

Today is a good day to re-post this little jewel. 💙

Trump/Musk = Tax Cuts for the Rich, Pain for Middle Class

Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.

Social Security damage alert. I’m on Social Security. I typically see a pending deposit from nearly 2 weeks before payment. I should get it next Wed. No pending deposit yet. Nervous

The reason why congressional Republicans are so upset about the SCOTUS ruling is because now they have to actually do their job and legislate on cuts to government spending that they claim to favor, when they would much rather prefer an unelected oligarch do it for them.

Dems totally screwed the pooch on trans players in women’s sports.

Well. If we’re going to echo the turn of the last century, bring me your artist group manifestos, underground clubs and networks, and deep resolve to be anything but a vessel of the hate swirling around us.

Just what we need is to own Gaza. Super. Just super.

As everyone here shouts about Musk taking over the power of the purse, while GOP reps and Senator are shrugging about it; I hate to inform you that just 3 months after Hitler was named Chancellor, the Reichstag voted to give him all the power, eliminating checks and balances. March is that month.

The first rule of White Club is YOU CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT WHITE CLUB

Trump Foreign Policy youtu.be/Kg_LDeUEiWY?...

I am but one old lesbian, but I’m done with Zuck, Mysk and Bezos. I’ve cancelled all accounts with them. Don’t need them in the slightest. You’re my last social media, Bluesky.

Saturday night deserves a groove. youtu.be/FIF7wKJb2iU?...

1/ A thread about X, Threads and this demand we accept what tech bros demand we view, discuss, see, engage with and how obviously ridiculous it is from a personal perspective and from a free speech perspective.

2/ I'm a 58 year-old lesbian who grew up in a very small, very conservative, very white midwestern town. I was a remarkable athlete and got a scholarship to a power Big 10 team. My entire childhood, I got asked if I wished I were a boy because I liked sports.

3/ Everyone I played with was called a dyke, whether they were gay or straight. My coach threatened my scholarship if I came out. AIDS was raging in 1984 when I went to school and anyone who came out then in the midwest worried about losing jobs, family, and scholarship..because you would.

4/ Gays hunkered down in made families to protect themselves as much as they could from the corrosive homophobic world. I struggled so much in college...the pressure of staying in the closet and losing my scholarship. The fear of not finishing college and being unable to escape where I was.

5/ And so I left the midwest. Conservatives always said, "If you don't like us hating you and keeping you from opportunity, there are other states to live in." So I went to CA. My life improved financially, personally, emotionally, culturally. I met new people from all over the world.

6/ I engaged with remarkable, accomplished people of every color and culture. I left the gigantic bubbled that was my hometown of 98% white christians. It's now 97% christian and has only grown by 2000 people in nearly 40 years. Who have they engaged with outside of their bubble. No one.

7/ Is my CA world a bubble? Sort of. Certainly politically. But, I grew up in a conservative place and understand those folks. Some are lovely humans, some are utter assholes. Some are absolute trash losers. There has never been a time they've though, "Perhaps I should accept gay people."