My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

Pup and I went for a stroll in the snow. The silence of snow in a city is a secret pleasure.

I fucking love this. Insufferable billionaire who cannot see beyond his opinions. What a twit.

My pup got a new moose toy for Christmas. He is now snoring, while cuddling with Moose.

U.S. strikes ISIS in Nigeria after Trump warnings on Christian killings. The United States is just randomly going around the world killing people now. As well as at home. apple.news/APaWS_L5KQ9e...

Watching It's A Wonderful Life again and thinking it's wild how when George talks about how hard it is for a working man to save up $5,000, that's still true, but now it costs way more than that for a down payment on a house. Until politicians get serious about shit like this, we'll get more Trumps.

I have been thinking about this song for days now

I would kill for poutine right now

Note to self. Ahem. Those things that matter for your flimsy, grasping attempts to salvage any Christmas feeling? Like the cinnamon rolls? In a new place. Questionable grocery bakeries? I bought them. I have a bakery right across the street FFS. I abdicated. A huge regret. Never again.

Another option: eating the charcuterie board by yourself, over three days. Interspersed with the fantastic spread of all the appetizers you could hope to share… but eat them all yourself over three days. Appetizer breakfast is amazing. This has been glorious.

"As freedom comes from giving love, so prison comes with hate." —The Muppet Brothers Marley

all hail this modder

It is torture. We are allowing this to occur. Sickening

What we have now is a two-tiered society with a wealthy few at the top and the vast majority of Americans struggling to make ends meet. It’s corrosive to our economy and democracy.

“I voted once for Trump in 2016 — I’ve learned right wing media is just a propaganda machine… ask yourself if the principles of this administration are actually in line with the teachings of Jesus. All they’re doing is exploiting the poor for the benefit of the billionaires.”

I am so grateful to hear the voices of my loved ones today. Calls and messages mattered today

And human beings are not packages, you fascist ghouls 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Was feeling a bit in the puddles about Christmas this morning. Nostalgic for a place that does not exist anymore. Went to the LL Bean store, as one should not when one is lamenting Maine’s pull on one’s soul. Now look like an extra on a Hallmark movie, in a room that smells like wood smoke & balsam

Yes. Yes. Perfect.

I was just reminded of this - how a felon and convicted sexual abuser stole money from children with cancer but enough USA citizens thought he was the sort of person who should lead their country that he is President FOR THE SECOND TIME www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.

The only decent response to someone announcing they have terminal cancer is to think of them and their family and friends, and hope or pray for peace and strength. How you respond to the challenges of others is who you are.

Trump's "concept of a health care plan" is...y'all are fucked. At this point, it won't be long before doctors from third world countries start doing mission trips to the US.

Is this one of the greatest scenes in movie history? I think so — that’s why “It’s a Wonderful Life” is my all-time favorite.

Cheryl Strayed’s newsletter makes my life richer. This post is just…ebullient “But what really makes it good—what always makes books really good to me—is just how fucking excellent and incisive and unexpected the sentences are.” A Few of My Favorite Things open.substack.com/pub/cherylst...

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-...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

i included bari in an earlier draft of this piece, and i think a lot of it still applies to this latest moral crisis. rotting at warp speed. www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

the vice president is a klansman

Stein: What is typical after a storm like this is that the federal government provides about 50, 60, even 70 percent of the damages in relief dollars to help a region recover from a massive hit. So far, North Carolina has received about 11 percent.

personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys

They're so transparent they're removing photos of Donald Trump. And now I'm getting an "access denied" message when I go back to look.

Early this year, Erik Prince told Breitbart that he had helped put the “Letter of Marque” idea in Senator Mike Lee’s head. Lee has now introduced a bill to make the idea a reality... www.breitbart.com/politics/202...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

KANEW: “To hear Chris say the system is broken — he has a front row seat to how broken it is. When people slip through the cracks, they end up at RAM… The people who say we can’t afford MEDICARE FOR ALL are lying to you. We can’t afford NOT to do this.” 🏥

Christ

"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

Sign of the day…Bangor, Maine

The Big Star documentary gives me life. I still have an Alex Chilton mindcrush

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

I am irrationally giddy about this.

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

This is metal

Powerful