Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Yayoi Kusama, All about Happiness, 2013 #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Nico ~ Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Chelsea Girl, 1968) #Nico #BOTD #MusicSky Beautiful early Velvets song written by Lou Reed, and featuring Jackson Brown, Lou Reed and John Cale on the backing track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZ2...

Absolutely gorgeous 😍 The reindeer made me remember one of my favorite photos: Berenice Abbott, Bleeker Street, New York, 1947

The Beatles meet a snowman at the Finsbury Park. Rehearsing for The Beatles’ Christmas Show, a variety stage production featuring the group. It ran at the Astoria Cinema in Finsbury Park, London for 16 nights, ending on 11 January 1964. #ChristmasCountdown

The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Message, 1965 #TheBeatles #christmasvibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoSJ...

RCA Victor Disney Victrola, 1950 Christmas Magazine Ad. #Christmas #ChristmasVibes #VintageAd

Jean-Michel Basquiat ~ ‘Crowns (Peso Neto)’ (Executed on Christmas Day in 1981) #JeanMichelBasquiat #BOTD

Christmas in London, 1955

Christmastime in NYC, 1940s #Christmas #NewYorkCity

Christmas shopping, 1950s #Christmas #ChristmasShopping #Photography

Christmas at Marshall Fields Department Store Chicago in the 1930s. #Christmas #ChristmasCountdown

Christmas display in grand court of John Wanamaker department store, Philadelphia

Winter display at Bullock’s Wilshire department store, Los Angeles, 1937

The toy department at Peter Jones Department Store, London - Christmas 1947

Christmas display in Wanamaker’s toy department of penguins and a tree hung with stockings, 1930 #Christmas #christmascountdown

Christmas at Wannamaker’s Department Store, New York City, circa 1920.

Thomas Nast ~ Merry Old Santa Claus from Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881 (Wood engraving) Nast, who first drew Santa Claus for the 1862 Christmas Harper’s Weekly cover, and then for the next 20 years, is credited with inventing the image popularly recognized as Santa Claus. #Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio ~ Skating (from A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965) #NowPlaying ...now Christmas has officially begun. youtu.be/Kn4Y3sHyfsg via @YouTube

A still of Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife, 1947 #Christmas #ChristmasVibes

American fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky, whose work was featured prominently in Esquire, Look, and Life before photographing extensively for Harper’s Bazaar. Carmen dressed by Mollie Parnis, Harper's Bazaar October 1958.

Good Evening✨ Pell Street, dusk #Photography

#JeanMichelBasquiat #BOTD #ChristmasCountdown

Jean-Michel Basquiat Christmas ornaments. #JeanMichelBasquiat #BOTD #ChristmasCountdown

Cole Phillips ~ Between You, Me and the Lamp Post, cover art of the 1909 issue of Life Magazine. #Christmas #Christmasmood

American fashion photographer Clifford Coffin, called the greatest of Vogue magazine’s 'lost' photographers and a wild and eccentric bohemian. Dior's Tulle Ballgown, The Grand staircase at the Paris Opera House, 1948. #Photography

The Bird and The Bee ~ Carol of the Bells #NowPlaying Magnificent interpretation from Inara George and Greg Kurstin. #Christmas #ChristmasMusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYLa...

American actress Piper Laurie, c.1950s #ChristmasVibes #ChristmasTree🎄

Spearmint ~ Julie Christie (from A Different Lifetime, 2001) #NowPlaying #JulieChristie #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKLd...

British actress Julie Christie, 1965 #JulieChristie #ChristmasVibes #ChristmasTree🎄

Good Evening✨ Pell Street 3:30pm #Photography

A Bacterial Christmas Tree from the lab #Christmas #ChristmasCountdown

The competition in the Trump administration to be the first to tip off Putin must have been fierce.

For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment. When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.

Marah ~ New York Is A Christmas Kind Of Town #NowPlaying Happy Monday🎄 #ChristmasMusic #ChristmasCountdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0R...

Shopping for Christmas cards in New York City, 1912 #Christmas #ChristmasVibes #Photography

Christmas toys in a shop window, New York City, ca. 1910 #Christmas #Photography #NewYorkCity

‪Christmas Shopping in New York City✨ #Christmas #ChristmasCountdown #NewYorkCity

Nina Pace ~ Winter Solstice #WinterSolstice2025

Russian photographer Pyotr Nosov Christmas Ornament sale at the Detsky Mir store, Moscow, December 1967.

Saul Leiter ~ The Corner of Spring and Elizabeth Streets, 1950s #SaulLeiter #Photography #WinterVibes #NewYorkCity

Saul Leiter ~ 3rd Ave 10th Street NYC, 1952 #SaulLeiter #Photography #WinterVibes #NewYorkCity

Saul Leiter - Mailmen in the Snow

Thought they’ll gladly ship your money off to Venezuela but only to kill fishermen and the occasional cocaine dealer

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