"You any good at Photoshop?" "I'm not bad, I guess. How may I-" "Need you to edit the knob out of this shot." "Sure thing, boss."

History will now always have the brilliant #ChristopherAnderson Vanity Fair photos, showing what a vile little clown #MarcoRubio is. (Complete with shoes that appear 2 sizes too big, to compensate for…something?)

I'm worried that if another pandemic begins the US will suppress the info (until things are completely out of control) so as to cover for their own ineptitude and failed policies. In other words, a lack of honesty that will cost lives.

Health minister says U.S. health institutions no longer trustworthy partners #Canada The issues with misinformation in the U.S. are “a big preoccupation,” Michel said, and a reason that Canada needs to look to other like-minded countries. globalnews.ca/news/1159152...

President Zelenskyy will meet today with Prime Minsiter Carney at 1:05pm (local) in Halifax, Nova Scotia

In addition to striking thermal power plants, russian drones also damaged a hydroelectric power plant above Kyiv.

Zelenskyy: “Ukraine has clear “red lines” — these are its territories and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation under any circumstances.” I hope to see these lines not being crossed tomorrow. So does Taiwan, Cyprus, Greenland.. and others.

Many doctors chiming in on how to help fix Canada's ER crisis with no mention of respirator masks or mitigating constant waves of viral illness. It's painful to witness!

I won’t sugarcoat it: this was an exhausting, cruel, terrible year. On this week’s Coffee Klatch, Heather and I try to make sense of what the country endured in 2025 — and what lessons we can take into 2026.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

It also puts me in mind of this Dorothy Parker holiday poem that I discovered this year.

Had to verify that this wasn't AI or something. It's not. The crucified Christ appears in the original, the central panel of the Saint Columba Altarpiece (a.k.a. "Adoration of the Kings"), Rogier van der Weyden's 15th century triptych. www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/j...

This is what's known as "consciousness of guilt"

Some good videos on this issue can also be found on this YouTube channel by Vanessa Wingårdh. www.youtube.com/@VanessaWing... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aVR...

OpenAI partnered with NORAD Santa Tracker this year to ensure that no corner of American government or childhood tradition is free from the Sacred Slop Funnel: openai.com/index/norad-...

President Trump participated in calls with kids today to discuss Santa Claus' travels being tracked by NORAD's, a tradition now in its 70th year. Less traditional were some of Trump's comments. Trump tells child he wants to ensure "bad Santa" isn't "infiltrating" U.S. www.axios.com/2025/12/25/t...

Please, people, read books. Even bad books make your brain work.

Merry Christmas.

Okay, artists. Twitter can now outright steal your work, and unsurprisingly, the ToS was updated to SPECIFICALLY allow for AI content theft. Grok can remove watermarks. It can remove signatures. You can no longer justify Twitter with "but my audience..." They. Are. Stealing. Your. Work.

And by the way, #AI is also damaging people’s critical thinking skills while also causing a worrying uptick in climate damaging energy consumption. www.bbc.com/news/article... #Grok #ChatGPT

If Bari Weiss really wants CBS to "win back Americans' trust," she should resign and tell the pro-authoritarian, anti-free speech Ellisons to let real journalists do their jobs. www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-boss-bar...

🎅🎄 Merry Christmas 2025 🎄☃️

Truer words. It's going to be a quiet one for me this year and I am okay with that. I'm throwing on fuzzy socks, making hot chocolate, and doing some serious cocooning with plenty of books to read. Only poking my head out to shovel as needed! Merry Christmas. 🎄☃️

I just came back from a walk, it’s -7C. some light snow and a very dark night. Christmas Eve is always very quiet outside due to the reduced activity; so peaceful To those who’ve suffered a loss, it takes time but you will get through it. You will. Merry Christmas to you and yours Heather.

Christmas in the East Wing 2025:

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

I know it may be a struggle to feel a #Christmas spirit right now, but if you’re able, try to take a break from the horrors, however you can. A lighthearted movie from the before times. Time with family and/or friends. Quiet reflection on a walk. Snuggles with pets. But I wish you all, some peace.

“Hey, I’ve got an idea. How about we wait until Christmas Eve and tell them we found a million more documents?” “Yes! brilliant!” www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...

"If you squinted hard, you could see they were the true, classical liberals. *Except they weren’t.* And all their work dismantling the social safety net and regulatory state served only to concentrate power in a demented demagogue and his chattering coterie of clout farmers." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Everyone should read this week’s WSJ story on Trump selling pardons. It’s some of the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen—you can literally corner him at one of his lame parties and walk away with a pardon. How is this not the biggest story in the country?

Stephen Miller has a new target: children. Not adults, not gangsters, not even the occasional scandalous politician kids. The New York Times reports he’s now framing the children of immigrants as a “problem” that must be solved.

Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:

Myself and Dusty Towne, wish all who celebrate, a happy Xmas eve. youtu.be/liOtOSR_Pp0 #Christmas2025

The full video is entertaining. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgi...

This is what happens when you fire a shit ton of government employees and you have a fucking amateur do your redactions. www.instagram.com/p/DSoSWs-DpX...

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923)

To my mind, anyone who thinks it’s “premature to impeach” anyone from the current US administration is complicit in their crimes and should themselves be removed from government.

The most obvious explanation is likely the truth. The leaders in this administration are evil. Pure evil.

Listen to this great interview with @marcelias.bsky.social. He’s one of the few people sounding the alarm with the urgency it requires. Now, try to square that with Dems like @kaine.senate.gov saying it’s “premature” to call for impeachment of #PamBondi. Fight NOW with all that is available.

They’re cutting down the tree they are sitting in. It’s amazing how stupid they are.

I have to wonder what the goal is with these utter abominations? To desensitize the public? Allow any grotesque behaviour so the public starts tuning it out? Keep people distracted & enraged? What? The sociopathy of this regime truly knows no bounds. #KristiNoem #DHS

The #BlowupDollofHate thinks removing 2.5 million (a tiny sliver of whom have any criminal record), is a good thing. That’s 2.5 million fewer taxpayers. Hundreds of thousands of fewer restaurant workers, consumers, fewer skilled tradespeople, farm workers, care workers, PSWs, needed labourers.

🧵 Inside CECOT (60 Mins) - Dec 2025 (Clip) archive.org/details/60mi...

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Embarassing indeed.

These accidentally uploaded then removed pieces of evidence from the #EpsteinFiles would suggest there is damning evidence against Trump himself that is actively being covered up. Meanwhile, the narrative in corporate media is that Trump is merely covering for others. #Coverup for Trump is ongoing.

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