Louise Bourgeois was born on this day in 1911.

The mimosas are kicking in. 💚❤️🎄🍊🍾

Merry Merry Christmas!! 💚❤️💚❤️🎄

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Something for your holiday listening pleasure. @colbysharp.bsky.social and I take a look back at children's books in 2025 on The Yarn podcast: theyarn.slj.com/2025/12/24/t... @slj.com

Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. Read their stories here: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

Quote with your favorite pic from 2025.

Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest park ranger when she retired in 2022 at age 100, and a trailblazer in preserving the history of Black Americans and women, died Dec. 21. She was 104. www.kqed.org/news/1206821...

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

By the way, PBS SoCal lost all of its federal funding this year. There's TONS of really amazing programming and you can get unlimited streaming on the PBS app on any Roku/Apple/etc device for literally $5/month. I've been binge-watching Frontline over the holiday. pbssocal.org/give sign up here

21st December 2025 10.11

This melting snowman s'mores cookie is my new favorite thing.

What is the term for singing one word & slipping into a ton of different notes in that one word? Christmas carols have a ton of those & I love it. I've been belting them out in church. 😂🎼🎶🎵

He’s such a petty petty person. Please refer to the post below when folks start complaining about Zohran on this issue in March.

NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2025-05-24: Deimos Before Sunrise #Astronomy #NASA #Space

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It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

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Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

20th December 2025 08.32

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I hope it’s not true. But if it is, man, what a run. 🙏🏼 @latenightercom.bsky.social latenighter.com/news/snl-bow...

NEW: After months of trying, Democrats in Congress were finally allowed into the holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza. Rep. Dan Goldman said he was told by ICE officials that 60% of those detained in NY did not have criminal records. With @oliviabensimon.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

HarperCollins staff "were told to work in “pairs” when meeting Walliams and were advised not to visit his home." This guy visited schools.

Real question is, if HC paid a member of staff off, why didn’t they drop him then? Ie continue to put other young female staff in danger FOR YEARS? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9197cdb...

Holiday PB Countdown: How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen, @candlewickpress.bsky.social. #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #Christmas #winter. 📚

The value that libraries deliver is multidimensional. Through 2026 I have been highlighting studies from different sectors that that show the value librarians and knowledge specialists deliver. @cilip.bsky.social Information professional, Winter 2025 p14 tinyurl.com/3cabn965

16th December 2025 10.45

Use today to remember how incredible Rob Reiner was. Not to repeat what we already know about Trump.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Remembering Lester Bangs who understood rock'n'roll and understood who we were, too. He would have been 77 yesterday. I used to run into him on 6th Avenue, and he'd invite me up to his loft to play me something I just had to hear. His enthusiasms were infectious, his generosity of spirit unbounded.

This is a beautifully written tribute. This whole thing doesn’t feel real, but the joy and love of movies, as well as people, that Rob Reiner brought to his work is unmatched. ❤️ www.rogerebert.com/tributes/as-...

That headline..

Statement from the Lear Family on the death of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. Rob Reiner described Norman Lear as his second father.

14th December 2025 08.28

So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant

It's a winter freakin wonderland. 💙🥰

I did not expect to see chickens in the cemetery today.

Got these for my Peanuts-loving husband.

August Beckwith, who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, went missing for 24 days. His mother credits people experiencing homelessness with keeping him alive. “It is almost certain that people who have very little themselves stepped forward to help him survive,” she said.

Pete Buttigieg on Indiana’s Redistricting: “You know, a big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered — to make him feel inevitable — and yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable & you are not without power—”

Happy Birthday, Frankie, baby. 💙 #bobbysoxer4ever

What REALLY ended the Vietnam War was the GI Antiwar Movement. Ground troops led the way for several years. But the final blow was when air force pilots refused to bomb civilians anymore. They were refusing illegal orders.