my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.

The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?

THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has concluded "regular forces" means the military, and has therefore ruled that Trump does NOT have authority to deploy the National Guard under §12406. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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...

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Trump: "Tell me what you think of my 'Master of Ceremony' abilities. If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make “hosting” a full time job?"

“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.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Walk around Washington, DC, and you may spot murals and yard signs honoring Sean Dunn, aka "Sandwich Guy." But the 37-year-old rejects the hero label. So I’d like to suggest we salute a different group instead: the grand jurors who declined to indict him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Looks like this was shared on GlobalTV in Canada and someone recorded it and sent it to multiple groups for wide distribution. Love it!!

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

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.

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

Utterly lawless: "Agents lined up Latino workers and released people they said were U.S. citizens. They questioned and detained 57 people, including people who said only that they wanted a lawyer." www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...

New legislation from Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD) would "require the immediate removal of Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to prevent future actions to rename it or other historic landmarks or memorials."

“Windmills interfere with radar” is even dumber than “solar power only works during the daytime.”

This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...

CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific" cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

Photographer, anthropologist Alegra Ally accompanied the Nenets seasonal migration, to show the lives of indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic #WomensArt

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

PITTSBURGH — Trump’s racist ice goons repeatedly punch a man in the face on camera www.instagram.com/reel/DSb2rPX...

Extremely bleak

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

It's the oil, everyone.

ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody. We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.

@ucs.org has released a letter you can write to your Congressperson to save @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Share your voice on the significant value of this bedrock climate and weather insitution. Your story matters! secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.

MAGA: I voted for a $400 million ballroom, war for oil w/Venezuela, remodeling public golf courses in DC, jets to Qatar, AI chips to China, Trump calling himself the first Jewish president, pardons for drug traffickers & politicians, Epstein files coverup, & failed indictments!

One of the dumbest EXECUTIVE ORDERS and also so so so reckless and dangerous. If fentanyl is a "weapon of mass destruction," then will the people who procure it, store it, & distribute it be treated & prosecuted as terrorists? If so, good luck, MAGA. Good luck. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

This is extremely important

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas. But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis. “The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

This is the big story: 1) The President ordered a killing campaign outside of the law. 2) He got OLC to make up a fake war to justify killing real people. 3) And he got the military to carry out the killings. Purporting to justify those killings is aiding in covering up that plain reality 👇 2/2

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

FORBES: “The Gun Murder Rate In Australia—Where 15 Were Slain At Bondi Beach—Is 6,000% Lower Than In U.S…” www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...