Christmas song of the day. Jody Glenham - Christmas List (Fa La La) jodyglenham.bandcamp.com/track/christ... I just found out 2 of my go to Christmas music sources are here on Bluesky, so hello to @christmasagogo.bsky.social and @christmasagogo.bsky.social! (waves)

From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.

Hillary Clinton isn't running for anything and you can argue she can freelance all she wants, but Harris sent bill and ritchie torres to michigan to communicate that, too

Brutal "band of brothers" profile from Reuters tracking 11 young Ukrainians who volunteered this spring and deployed to the front together. Zero of these men are still fighting today. 4 were wounded, 3 are missing, 2 deserted, 1 fell ill, and 1 killed himself. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.

And the "high profile example" thing mentioned in the thread always results in disabled people being treated with suspicion.

This is such a weird take It's expensive and difficult to get accomodations in US universiities for the first time, especially for students who still need a formal diagnosis I've spent time trying to help numerous students navigate that system - never have I wondered if they were "faking"

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

Yes. defector.com/the-conserva...

The boat bombings also expose the lie that this sociopathic ideal of manhood is somehow more "rational" than empathy. On the contrary, Pete Hegseth is giving strong Colonel Kurtz madman vibes.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Tuesday to make Illinois the first state to issue vaccine recommendations independent of the CDC. Democrats believe Illinois should ensure healthcare regardless of decisions made by the federal government.

If he was late to his shift at the Rite Aid the next morning as well then this racoon is literally me on a snowy night in 1997

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

Morning Kitten

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

I am not on TikTok but I am deeply aware of the history of the Jewish people, was made to go to six hours of Hebrew school weekly for five years and genuinely believe the actions of Israel do not represent the values of the Jewish faith and I do not appreciate being condescended to at this scale.

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine. She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

A reminder, as we approach the holiday season of WE WANT TO HOLD THE BAAAAAABY, that no one has a constitutional right to time with your children and your kids are not therapy animals for older relatives.

i wrote for flaming hydra about my sober-addict relationship to all the drug use in The Last Waltz flaminghydra.com/issue-454/#t...

the British assault on its own citizens' rights continues. I will never forgive the perpetuators.

Everybody sings stupid songs to their cat, but this cat had the best stupid cat song of all time. It's even got a Brian May guitar solo.

This is the way.

This feckless weasel

And I recognize that it is up to left-wing Christians to be louder about it, to shout down the idea that Focus on the Fucking Family speaks for all of us, to point out that nothing in the teachings of Jesus Christ requires us to be Rules Cops about someone else's life.

thread from the Supreme Court today:

I don't think we can ignore the fact that Indiana GOP lawmakers spent months insisting they weren't going to do this and relented less than 24 hours after one of them publicly revealed she was threatened with a pipe bomb.

More info on Des Sanchez and the criminalization of anarchist zines. Hell, *I* have some of these zines: theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...

oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...

I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face, sobs admiral who committed war crimes for leopards.

“In this industry, no one expects that anyone's going to be able to change anything. We have to drive all the traffic from our social media to OnlyFans by ourselves. And we're getting more and more burnt out every year, because all of the promotion relies on us.”

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

We don't need to reform the media, we need the left to adopt the same F You attitude towards it that the right deploys so effectively.

They’re also weirdly protective of “their culture”, while us, native citizens of their country love when foreigners participate in it. It’s always “appropriation” for them because that’s the only speck of their origin they can cling to. You’re American, it’s okay to be an American.

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

Sean's 100 has been a highlight of my Decembers since 2010.

it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much. www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

@sailormoondamus.gobirds.online I feel like this album is somewhat your vibe, especially this song. erinmckeown.bandcamp.com/track/itsa-v... It comes with a hymnal too.

Christmas song of the day. The Swimmers - The Christmas Sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=15rz...

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

I appreciate that at least one of these got slapped with an adult content warning.

The Sexy New Right Wing is just Nazis, just like grandpa kicked out of Europe only way greasier. Once you listen to even one of these people for ten seconds, you realize there's nothing new here. "Oh, you find non-white people inferior? Amazing insight, never heard that before, wow."

reframing the well-deserved response you received from parker as specifically "nastiness" is one of the reasons why no one believes you've spent your entire career advocating tirelessly for the rights of trans people, btw.

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.

New Yorkers, if you're ready for more canvassing & organizing, @socialists.nyc is launching a "massive field effort to build productive pressure on legislators and the governor to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and fund universal child care." actionnetwork.org/event_campai...