the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

pain

I feel bad for the Lions. They had to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas this year

(Jimmy Stewart voice) Merry Christmas!

Current* conditions near Duluth, MN:

three christmas movies left in the challenge

Special Xmas-week bonus, available only on Columbus Underground – the lost map from Columbus in 50 Maps! Also, a rundown of the top pedestrian and bike stories of 2025:

Taking the bus to the Rickenbacker Airport this morning. Pray for me

I hate it when places try to make their bike racks look like some sort of art sculpture.

More and more are saying Christmas Vacation is a Marxist critique of capitalism badfaithtimes.com/christmas-va...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Completely unrelated to the post below and for informational purposes only, but there’s a variable traffic sign in downtown Columbus between 3rd and 4th on Mound Street. Also, @thewaroncars.bsky.social will be in town next month for their book tour

dropping my dog off for boarding

New from me! Chicago has far too many bus stops to provide efficient service for its riders—nearly twice the national standard. I reimagined what Chicago's bus network could do to make it look like its peers. citythatworks.substack.com/p/a-plan-for...

This blows everything wide open

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

we have cowboys stadium at home ☀️

A federal judge said HUD cannot dramatically change its funding policies on homelessness for now. States, cities and nonprofits say the proposed overhaul would push thousands back onto the streets. n.pr/3MMVjL5

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

Not now babe, I’m working really hard on making 8 people laugh

can check

when i eat too much tylenol

willingly going to easton the last saturday before christmas. pray for me

Defiance, Ohio legend Greg Kampe

There’s a lot going on here, but the worst is having 149 pictures with over 50 of them being exterior shots of the building and surrounding city

Behind the scenes - Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas youtu.be/sqWJD1ov6oY?...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

I didn’t get enough cans for Christmas shoes this year

Do you ever watch a movie starring Laurel and Hardy and wonder why Hardy has a “Hitler mustache” then look it up on Wikipedia and see it’s called a toothbrush mustache and was stylish until Hitler, but that Donald Trump’s dad used to sport one after World War II and that explains so much?

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Columbus folks: tons of social media reports of ramped-up ICE activity in town, focusing on Northland and on the west side, up to Hilliard. The Dispatch just published this, with video of these fuckers tacking a guy on a bike and dragging him off. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

ICE is making its way through Columbus. CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) is giving gift cards to families to keep them home and fed. If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...

“Well, Christmas needed its Moneyball, it needed analytics. I’m always saying this.” Moneyball *is* a Christmas movie. I will die on this hill 😤

searched my photos for “Abolish ICE” and this was from 2018. that feels like a lifetime ago

Billionaires are getting richer from massive data centers while they raise our costs, take away our jobs, and make us sick by dirtying our air and water. We deserve leaders who will fight back and keep our people safe. Is that you? wfpus.org/DataCenters

also from that article, a rendering of a proposed light rail on High St downtown www.dispatch.com/picture-gall...

Fuck the three Democrats who were the difference on this passing and especially fuck the Democratic leaders who made no effort to whip them into line and who will do nothing to punish them after the fact. I will never support a party who cannot pass the most basic tests of human decency.

just discovered this incredible album and now I need to set up a Plex music server and host a “Christmas album challenge” next year

When your 311 request says that the bike lanes have already been plowed. 🫠

“Inside a downtown Columbus church on Dec. 18, more than 160 people will be recognized. Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor. They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.” www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...

“There are so many aspects of our work that our staff care about and want to improve, and we haven’t been able to without that collective voice. … We have to hold strong and remember this union is for us, and we are doing this to equalize the power.” matternews.org/community/be...

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