As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Our @dananessel.bsky.social is leading on this, btw.

One week left to make an impact during our Winter Member Drive! Help us finish the year strong. Become a member in minutes: https://propub.li/497S1tj

Everyone just smile when your mom tells you about that ne’er do well cousin who says he’s a “project manager” for “building data centers” who says he uses chatGPT for his job. We all know he sells pills out of his girlfriend’s dad’s basement (which is a real job)

Totally normal and not at all batshit insane way for a president to spend Christmas Eve.

All We Want for Christmas is the Abolition of All Police Seen in Vancouver. #ACAB #FTP

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

Trump thinks he’s such a big ratings draw. No, he’s not. CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump, just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only 2.65 million viewers tuned in, down from 4.1 million in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

For me, the real lesson of Frank Capra’s delightful holiday film “It’s a Wonderful Life” was never as powerful as it is this year. Some thoughts. ⬇️ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-a-wonderful-life-f9b

Chile has spent a decade oscillating between the center left and the center right. José Antonio Kast’s election is a departure—as well as an echo of a regional trend toward authoritarianism. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

just saw a video asking “i wonder if the people who are like ‘good art is good art regardless of how it got made’ (ie ai) would also enjoy watching ai-generated sports/games/matches” and i can’t stop laughing. it’s such a great parallel that they’ll never accept.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes. The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it. But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

They want a national abortion ban. It’s why they went after Roe. Banning it for veterans is just another step in removing our autonomy and controlling our bodies. Reproductive freedoms are worth fighting for and veterans deserve better. www.ms.now/news/abortio...

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LeCyeIU

Shorter Chatterton: "How dare people judge me by the content of my character."

JFC. Vile, evil ghouls.

President Free Speech has struck again!

This is one of our favorites!

A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.

Look….. I know I’m an adult so it’s different…… but I feel like this year’s Christmas is the least Christmas-y I’ve ever experienced. Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.

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.

Every time I post about this lately I get a lot of dismissive responses, but I'm sorry this is nuts & seems @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app are doing nothing to deal with the situation. Just in last hour dozens of accounts following me, all hawking same AI platform. Thinking about locking my account soon

Will there be snow in your hometown this year for Christmas? ...probably not! But! you can get a hot chocolate and browse thru 83 years worth of data to see how many snowy holidays you got to enjoy growing up. Relive those glorious snowy mornings, or find out if those were rarer than you remember!

A white Christmas remains the ideal scenario. Not very likely these days though in Germany.

Hegseth Orders Strike on North Pole Narcoterrorist

That schools named themselves and their mascots after the confederacy in the mid-1950s as a response to desegregation is the central premise of Rebel Spirit podcast. @akilahhughes.com and I even did a segment about this high school.

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”

Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??

Donald Trump has been accused of holding a party for prostitutes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in yet another FBI file relating to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

okay!!!

President Donald Trump announced a new class of battleships to build out what he has dubbed the Navy's "Golden Fleet" that he says will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far -- 100 times -- more powerful than any battleship ever built."

Here are a couple of the wonderful cats I photographed at the shelter yesterday - only two days left to donate to my fundraiser for them! Let's see if we can get it up to $8,000! givebutter.com/n5l31M

One generous serving of orange loaf. Still warm

One Christmas I told Santa I wanted the Americans who control 90% of the wealth to pay 90% of the taxes.

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MAGA sex education

Please cancel your partnership with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft and terminate your AI "Academy," @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org. You say you want to shape how "A.i." is used. But you're just funneling existing garbage from these garbage corporations onto students and teachers.

Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an ‘F-Minus’ ‘They keep making it look like we have something to hide,’ a White House official complains to Zeteo, writes @swin24.bsky.social, @premthakker.bsky.social, and @andrewperez.bsky.social. Read it here: zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...

It's because SCOTUS said in it's ruling to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, that the courts must show deference to trump on national security issues. He's been repeating it like he learned a new word ever since. bsky.app/profile/muel...

👇👇