Happy Holidays! This week, co-host of 12 Days Pod @12dayspod.bsky.social and Christmas enthusiast Cara Zelaya @carazelaya.bsky.social is back on the pod to talk about Sarah Smith’s 2011 film, “Arthur Christmas.” Episode available wherever you listen to podcasts! www.buzzsprout.com/1638073/epis...

pls understand I watched a Lifetime movie (a new venture for me, believe it or not) and it WAS in fact the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Christmas movie and IT WAS in fact a disaster and now I DO NEED to force you to listen to me talk about it

Cara and Dan review "A Christmas Puzzle" on @12dayspod.bsky.social christmaspodcasts.com/85-a-christm...

We need you all to know that there is a Lifetime Christmas movie based on Taylor Swfit and Travis Kelce's relationship and yes we watched it and yes it's more terrible than you'd imagine.

Here to inform you that Jonathan Taylor Thomas did a Christmas movie with Jessica Biel (???) and it came out the same weekend as A Bug’s Life and The Rugrats Movie (tough) It’s also very hilariously bad.

This week we watched Jonathan Taylor Thomas' "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Why are they like 16 and in college? He's not really fighting with his dad? How is that even the premise?? JTT is the villain!! Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...

We just dropped an episode on 2015's The Night Before and it devolved exactly the way you think it would. Millennial nostalgia? Check. Michael Shannon supremacy? Check. A surprising amount of M&M talk? Also check. Listen to our latest episode of @12dayspod.bsky.social now!

New episode! This week we unwrap Rare Exports: a Finnish Christmas tale that’s equal parts horror, humor, and holiday spirit. We talk old men, Krampus theories, and the naked elves no one asked for. 🎧 Listen NOW:

Another year, another Vanessa Hudgens Christmas cinematic universe entry. Available now on our latest @12dayspod.bsky.social episode:

We’re talking Michael Bublé’s grocery store era, arguing with Alexa, and yes - @carazelaya.bsky.social applied to The Circle. Episode 80 of 12 Days Pod is here! Listen now 🎧:

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We’re calling it: Arthur Christmas might just be the most millennial take on Santa yet. On this week’s 12 Days Pod, we talk Letterboxd reviews, family legacies, and the elves holding it all together. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/7...

On today’s episode we cover the truly iconic and hilarious Arthur Christmas. The movie is so good and the @letterboxd.social reviews are even better. Listen to the episode now! ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...

I’m generally consistently annoyed at the Google AI but it did flatter me when describing @12dayspod.bsky.social.

It’s that time of year again when my feed becomes 80% Christmas movie discourse. My podcast @12dayspod.bsky.social is back for season 6 with a three-episode premiere: A Very Merry Muppets Christmas, Remember the Night, and Noelle. Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0Epc...

Season 6 is here. The movies are festive. The commentary is questionable. 🐸 A Very Merry Muppets Christmas 💍 Remember the Night 🎁 Noelle It’s cozy. It’s unhinged. It’s 12 Days Pod. Listen now 🎧

Has someone said that Joe Rogan actually did end up being our national Fear Factor? Surely someone has made that observation before? Bueller?

ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Your wallet has been taking a hit this year. You can blame the mass deportation policies of Trump and Stephen Miller, which have ensnared and scared off the skilled workers who feed us and are the backbone of the agricultural industry:

Bad Bunny doing the halftime at the Super Bowl is going to be a pure celebration of Latinidad. Not a word of English. Puerto Rico on the biggest stage. Banderas everywhere. I’m thrilled.

For those who don’t know, having a very high fever during pregnancy could cause a miscarriage. Tylenol helps reduce fevers. Take the Tylenol.

Give the @aflcio.org comms team a raise

It’s better in a union! 💍

With the exception of one person, no one in our unit makes more than $75K. Most of us live in NYC, and, famously, it’s expensive. To be considered moderate income in the city, each of our members would need to make at least $90,720, according to the city government.

Management keeps saying they can’t afford to adopt our economic proposals. But they’re hiring contractors left and right to handle podcast and video production, they won’t share the full breakdown of the organization’s budget, and now they’re teasing layoffs — after hiring new managers.

We’ve proposed multiple remedies, including back pay for those who effectively worked two jobs at RNG, annual raises beyond the paltry COLA, and covering more of our health-care premiums.

A fourth member has not received a merit raise since being hired in 2022 — all while managing an increasing workload, including fundraising campaigns, creating graphics, and launching a new newsletter.

For nearly a year, one unit member created every single website graphic and produced our flagship podcast. Another managed every single one of our social platforms. And third edited every single story and ran the website. All with no support and no additional pay.

When we set out to negotiate a stronger contract, we wanted to prioritize pay equity, dignity, and fairness — heavy on pay equity. Until recently, most of our six-person unit worked without a manager for more than 6 months, taking on our old supervisors’ responsibilities without appropriate pay.

🧵 We’ve been bargaining with management for the *entire* summer, and we wanted to give y’all an update. (Spoiler: No, we don’t have a tentative agreement.)

The regulations this “AI chainsaw” cuts could get more workers hurt on the job, more people sick, and let greedy companies pollute more. DOGE is using AI to make these decisions—and it could cost people their lives.

Huge news: The bipartisan bill to restore federal workers’ union rights has majority support in Congress! Call your representative NOW and tell them to sign the discharge petition to give the Protect America’s Workforce Act a vote. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

It’s way past time working people got their fair share. We don’t have to settle for an economy where top corporate CEOs make 285 times what their median workers make. aflcio.org/Paywatch

I guess I’m watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and South Park on a regular basis again? Who knew my television diet would circle back to peak 8th grade me?

I can’t explain it but I’m convinced that lower-lid eyeliner making a return is the ultimate recession indicator.

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

President Trump signed into law a job-killing bill that rips health care from 17 million workers to pay for tax breaks to the rich—and we’re making sure workers know about it. Join America’s unions on the road this summer as we fight for freedom, fairness and security for all!

America’s unions are hitting the road this summer to meet with workers, organize, and fight for our freedoms, fairness and our security—because they’re ALL on the line thanks to the Trump admin’s big, ugly anti-worker agenda.

Still thinking about the fact that earlier today I accidentally bit my tongue and my husband said “it’s cause your teeth are growing.”

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Just a friendly reminder that Massachusetts feeds its schoolkids for free by taxing millionaires and there have been zero negative effects from this policy.

Some people are into politics because they care about how policy impacts people. They like winning elections, and build coalitions to do so. Other people are into politics as aesthetics, because their stances make them feel edgy and superior. They like losing and complaining, and shun coalitions.

There’s some good in this world and it’s worth fighting for. 🥹❤️

Let me repeat: DOGE made up a conspiracy to take over the Social Security Administration and now THEY HAVE OUR SOCIAL SECURITY DATA.

The administration's escalation of violence—at workplaces, in communities, and now toward a U.S. Senator who was simply asking a question—needs to stop.

Let's be absolutely clear: physically assaulting a US Senator for simply asking a question is disgraceful. We stand with Senator Padilla and all those peacefully defending working people against this administration's attacks.

The idea that the FBI could not allegedly identify the SENATOR OF CALIFORNIA is the most absurd lie. Especially when that Senator says “I am Senator Alex Padilla.”

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism. https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested

I love that immigrants are such “leeches to society” that ICE bursts into *checks notes* their places of work to kidnap them.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

Elon came to Washington to root out “waste, fraud and abuse.” Instead, he dismantled life-saving programs, hurt workers across the country and around the world, and left behind chaos and cruelty. This administration gave him the free rein to do it.