Alan Rickman stars in two great Christmas classics, Love Actually and Die Hard. The cast of Love Actually would make for a great action movie.

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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

Kyrie Elise Stealthy Stefanick quit when she learned only mister misters can make it to the top of MAGA world. But can she take these broken wings to a gig on CBS? by Maureen Dowd

these documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve

Less than a year after planning her move into the penthouse suite at the Waldorf Astoria on Park Ave where the US Ambassador to the UN gets free lodging, Elise is stuck in North Country, New York and on her way out of Congress.

Guess who’s not going to be governor? 🤣

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.

ICE is thug scum

Zed is dead

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

As a Quaker organization, we abhor all violence because we believe every person has sacred worth. We are deeply disturbed by the wanton, unrestrained violence we are seeing this administration carry out - both at home and abroad. Thank you, Sen. Murphy, for sounding the alarm.

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

Mark Vientos better get a first baseman’s mitt

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

He’s joking about killing people. He’s a sociopath.

It will always be a stain on America that we elected this motherfucker to be president. Twice!

something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us

Outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC, as ICE conducts brutal raids across the City, a reminder in the lead up to Christmas that Mary & Joseph were refugees. @riseandresist.bsky.social

Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...

Hoosiers!

I hope Indiana kicks Ohio State’s ass. It probably won’t happen, but one can hope.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

I can't afford eggs, my kid has the whooping cough, and the data center down the road has caused my electricity bill to triple. But at least the mascot for my town's high-school football team is still a drunk guy dressed up as an American Indian.

Agree completely

I would say Trump has turned up the Racism Dial to 11 but he probably just broke the thing off completely. Didn't think this man could still shock me.

We never deserve forgiveness for putting this man in power twice

It isn't a war. If it were, the strikes are still war crimes. The drugs weren't headed to the U.S. The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords. Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America. Everything else Marshall says is correct!

I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.

Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.

There is no best team in football

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

If we go to war with Venezuela, it won’t be about drugs, and it won’t stop drugs. It’ll be about oil, just like Iraq.

Huh what nation in Lincoln’s time had 11 states

The thing is, all of their stupid plans will go wrong Aside from life being life and that’s what happens with plans, they are arrogant, dumb and ill advised People will die Americans and otherwise Keep records They had better be held accountable

I don’t think it’s good when the American president publicly calls someone “seriously r*****ed.” That’s a word we tell kids in school to never ever say. If a schoolteacher said that word, there’s a good chance they’d get fired, and justifiably so.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA. It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

RFK Jr. is neither a joke nor a well-intentioned proponent of public health with a few kooky beliefs. He's a menace, evil even by the standards of Trump's inner circle, and the failure of the political press to convey this is maddening

We are

What if we’re the shithole country?

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My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I'm going to die because RFK Jr. cancelled the clinical trials that might have cured my cancer. But at least I know there won't be any same-sex couples in the next Frozen movie.