Meanwhile, at Stonehenge… (USA Today coverage: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/12/22/video-cat-stonehenge-winter-solstice-2025/87889642007/)

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

If I were a billionaire I simply wouldn’t be fighting with strangers on the internet on Christmas Eve

And the Vampyre Lestat, who did NOT die...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Oh we haven‘t done it this year yet so for good measure: - „Hallelujah“ isn‘t a Christmas song it‘s a horny Jewish song - „Baby It‘s Cold Outside“ doesn‘t need anymore terrible new versions it never lacked consent it‘s about a horny woman wanting to fuck a guy despite societal expectations

@goingmedieval.bsky.social just watched the silent passion of joan of arc movie and WOW. thank you for recommending on the pod! one question: do you know which score you heard on your first viewing? mine had voices of light which was incredible.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Care is the holy grail of automation. Because we need it to survive, but it's too labor-intensive to be profitable, even as it gets more expensive. And because we could make it a public good, but only by raising taxes on billionaires. So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

Hell yeah, keep it going pitchfork.com/news/ticket-...

Listen. One Simple Trick™️ to make sure you’re anti-Zionist not slipping into anti-semitism as an American? Is make sure you’re as mad that the piece of shit murderer MbS is welcome in the White House & blatantly buying influence over the Trump family & allies & US policy as you are about ie AIPAC.

But overwhelmingly, with the exception of that little Appalachian family church and the Black Churches, the Protestants asked if she was a member, or hung up on her. One pastor told her, verbatim: “Benevolence is for our members.”

Guess who was ready to feed a starving infant? The mosque. They just wanted to know what brand and where to bring it. A Black church. A Buddhist Temple. A little family church run by a great-grandpa in the Appalachians. Multiple Catholic Churches.

A woman on TikTok did a very simple experiment: With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula? Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed. religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...

AND WHEN YOU FUCK UP YOU MUST MAKE AMENDS

Society will remain broken until we deal with this

A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender. All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.” And I’ve thought about that every day since.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning: "God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Sucking off Bill Clinton would explain a lot actually

Most woke opinion: since incorporated bodies are people & you’re eligible to run for president of the USA if you were born here OR if you were here when the constitution was ratified, Canada can & should run for president of the USA. Native & First Nations tribal gov’ts can too, also Lake Michigan

Priests being arrested

That’s one of JB Pritzker’s goons arresting a priest. And that fucking liar says he’s “protecting” protesters.

When you have to check if it’s The Onion or a real headline.

im considering leaving the platform over this. shame on you, bluesky.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

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The man who took food and medicine from the world’s poorest people, condemning thousands to a miserable death, is the world’s first trillionaire.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

“Hear me president Trump when I say this. To get to any of us you will have to get through all of us.”

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

um i just found out what a limnic eruption is, what the heck @volcanojess.com

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded. Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

i used to get a pack of frozen broccoli and cauliflower and steam it in the microwave, then add a bit of cheese and eat.

For anyone unclear on why this shutdown is still going, or why it’s not just affecting social services like SNAP but all the military branches too (which is unprecedented)

i just saw that blue jays players were wearing 51 on their hats in support for alex vesia and. oh my heart ❤️

LA.

this is what i was telling even non-baseball fans who arent angelenos. i know there are dozens of reasons to root against the dodgers. but this means so much to us - the altadena and palisades fires, the national guard, the ice raids, all of it.

I don't have a feeling about baseball but Los Angeles has been through hell this year and something that makes this city feel good is good

that was the best world series i have ever witnessed in my entire life.

my boys kiké, mookie, and yama did me proud tonight 💙

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”