It’s Christmas Eve!!! Did you just feel a flash of panic as you realized you forgot someone on your gift list?!? If it’s a kid, then BUTTS IN A BOX is a perfect gift, and we have a gift certificate you can download and wrap. Then we’ll ship the box in January. www.buttsinabox.com

We had too much fun putting together this activity booklet, so we hope the kids have a blast going through it! #kidlit #kidsgift #stemgift

It has puzzles, jokes, facts, & coloring items that are a small taste of what's to come with the mailings every 2 weeks from one of the animals. Huge thanks to illustrator David Creighton-Pester for letting us use his adorable book art! Order BUTTS IN A BOX to get this awesomeness for your kiddos!

It's Day 24 - the last of our box item reveals!!! Did we save the best for last? We think so because we worked hard on this one, and we're very proud of it. It's the introductory activity booklet, with a colorful spread for each animal. www.buttsinabox.com 1/2

We have so many fun stickers! I want to keep the sparkly ones all to myself! #kidlit #gifts #giftideas

Are you ready for Day 23? Two days ago, we revealed the stickers specifically for the “Battle of the Butts” animals, but there are sooooo many other stickers in the boxes. It’s a totally random assortment of glitter and shine and encouraging animals! Order a BUTTS IN A BOX: www.buttsinabox.com

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Things are getting extra silly with today's item, since we're encouraging kids to make their own poop shapes!💩 But it's STEM related, we promise! Crafting the shapes out of clay helps them see how the various geometric forms interact with the environment. Plus it's fun! #kidlit #holidaygift

Day 22 is finally here! And it's a silly one - brown air dry clay for making poop shapes! It's an activity included in the initial box to experiment with various shapes to learn why wombats poop cubes. It's silly fun but also educational!🤪 Order a BUTTS IN A BOX for your kiddo! www.buttsinabox.com

What is striking here, of course, is that no one was apologizing for being white at any point, outside of some very unusual academic hothouse environments. What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'

I've been sharing these stickers with kids since "Battle of the Butts" first released, and they always seem to be a big hit. Hoping the BUTTS IN A BOX recipients love them, too! #kidlit #holidaygift #giftidea

Running late on the Day 21 reveal... It’s a fun one for stickers fans! The Battle of the Butts animals posed for a booty-ful sheet of stickers. Decorate anything from your water battle to your walls with animals doing remarkable things with their rumps! Order BUTTS IN A BOX: www.buttsinabox.com

Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.

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Judge J. Michael Luttig

Scrolling through, I was sure this one was going to be the worst of it. And then it wasn't!!!

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.

Currently at the funeral for the penny, happening at the Lincoln Memorial:

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

I LOVED the booty themed trophy illustrator David Creighton-Pester created for "Battle of the Butts!" While we couldn't quite recreate that awesomeness in toy form, we wanted each BUTTS IN A BOX recipient to have their own BUTTS trophy. And it's squeezy, so it doubles as a fidget toy/stress ball!

Are you ready for the Day 20 reveal? It's a Battle of the Butts trophy! As the judge in this booty battle, you can award it to the animal you think has the superior posterior, or you can award it to yourself for being awesome! Order BUTTS IN A BOX for your kiddo! buttsinabox.com #kidlit #stemgift

Hey, so. The world is awful, etc. And because of that, I'd like to ask a favor: Please spend a few minutes between now and New Years sharing the work you were most proud of this year. People might have missed it, but also, it's nice to see people feel good about the work they do

Not only are our long-time allies not sharing valuable intelligence with the US, they are very likely providing Trump & Company bogus info knowing it will end up on Putin’s desk the same day

Bill Clinton is obviously revolting and deserves whatever comes his way. But to show him in the Epstein files while covering up anyone who might be a political ally or in political power is despicable. It is corrupt and evil and shows complete disdain for the women abused and for justice.

Jack Smith wants to testify in public - Republicans refuse. He wants his depo tape made public - no again. The second strike boat video? - nope. Epstein files law complied with? - not today. Vote on ACA? - maybe next year. Republicans: Hide, obstruct, lie, delay, deny.

Need something to write on your poop emoji sticky notes from yesterday? Then OF COURSE you need this pencil with a poop emoji eraser!!! 😆💩 #holidaygift #giftideas

It's time for the Day 19 reveal! Are you tired of poop emojis yet? Of course not! Which is good because we have yet another one in the box to make your kids giggle! This one is a pencil with a poop emoji eraser. You know you want one, so order BUTTS IN A BOX now! www.buttsinabox.com #kidlit

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok. Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies. Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.

I want to pretend this means it's joever for tiktok but, look at twitter. nothing is ever going to actually make people move, even if another better altenative exists. I think we need to make peace with a) social media will always eventually enshittify b) people will never care or change

With tiktok *officially* becoming a Nazi propaganda organ, now's a good time to remind you that you can use several browser extensions to simply disappear any tiktok content. Don't even let it load, you can make it vanish. You don't need to ever even see a thumbnail of Nazi tinged AI slop.

everything is so fucking stupid

Brian and I had way too much fun for people our age trying different marker types on the color-your-own stuffed animals and then washing them out to start over again. It's therapeutic! #kidlit #perfectgift #holidaygift #kidsgift

The Day 17 reveal is related to yesterday's color-your-own stuffie. We wanted to make sure everyone had a way to decorate theirs, so we're including these vibrant washable markers in each box. And we tested it to make you can wash them out and design again. Order BUTTS IN A BOX - buttsinabox.com

"[Elon probably] knew it would be horrifying to others. But he decided that it was a better approach to shut it down, fire everybody, shut them out, and then go rebuild." A test of whether the U.S. can recover its moral health after all this is whether we hold Elon Musk, genocidaire, accountable.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’ Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen. newrepublic.com/post/204475/...

A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.

We've had fun coloring our own stuffies! We experimented with different marker types and then washed them in the sink and even the washing machine to see what happened. Turns out, depending on your markers, you can experiment with various looks or get stuck with your first try.😆 So choose wisely!🫣

The Day 16 reveal is ... a color your own stuffed animal! We're team STEAM in our quest to mix art and science, so we looked for box items with flair. On the surface these stuffies have no color, so the kids must turn them into vibrant creatures! Order a box now for your kiddo! www.buttsinabox.com

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

This is Deejay. He wanted to offer you a big nose and tiny tongue during this trying time. 14/10 (IG: deejayelgolden)