INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

Monument to the immigrant in the fog, New Orleans

The great author/inventor/ animal behaviorist Temple Grandin was born in 1947. Diagnosed with “brain damage,” she devised her treatment for her Asperger’s. www.templegrandin.com

Thanks to photographer Stella Hamilton, who is at Astoria the Wild Turkey's side every evening to offer care (including fresh water) and guidance in the often-crowded urban park The Battery so that Astoria can safely fly up to her roosting tree. 🦃 ❤️

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

Just because you make it to Westminster doesn't mean your dogs back home are living the plush life. Here's what authorities found at an illegal kennel in Pennsylvania that bred top show dogs. (Gift link. Pls support local journalism) tinyurl.com/4hxwd2fr

State Department shuts down passport services at dozens of rural public libraries in Pa., threatening their survival and forcing residents to travel longer distances for assistance. My story here: tinyurl.com/526rcad9

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

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When people who put their names on buildings actually built them, like this farmhouse near Gettysburg.

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

A Century Of Living History: Harriet Tubman’s Descendant Dies At 98 www.blackenterprise.com/descendent-o...

Enjoy some music pals. Love the guy's shirt...Adopt a Dog 😸 youtu.be/XjjT4mN-Mq0?...

From LA to Chicago, press arrests were used to silence protest coverage across the country in 2025. Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it. Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:

Arkansas will become the first state to lose PBS. The state-wide network will switch to local programming in 2026 — after a vote by a board appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "We want our states in the driver’s seat when it comes to educational television" arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS

The University of Alabama’s decision to suspend two student magazines has sparked criticism and outrage on the campus.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Kudos to the student journalists at www.browndailyherald.com who have covered the mass shooting with utmost professionalism while dealing with unspeakable trauma themselves.

Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

Andrey Pilipenko (Russian Artist, born 1967) "Two Loneliness Just Met", 2020. Oil on Canvas Painting. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

This would be a laughably absurd change but for the Biden administration’s rationale for the change in the first place: to help the disabled better read State Dept. documents.

ICYMI: A #Philly fairy tale (complete with happy ending) to start your week off right.

New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights

Trump administration alters name on portrait of a top Biden public health official - the first transgender appointee confirmed by Senate - and former Pa. health secretary, NPR reports. tinyurl.com/3umuksxa

My favorite line in the AP obituary of the inimitable architect, Frank Gehry: His survivors include his wife, Berta; daughter, Brina; sons Alejandro and Samuel; and the buildings he created. tinyurl.com/2mkb4akc

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

US photographer Diane Arbus, Two Ladies at the Automat, NYC,1966 #WomensArt #Saturday

ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected. The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.

Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent

Rolling into the weekend like…

The Texas Quote of the Day: "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. " ----- former Texas governor Ann Richards, known (partly) for her immaculate silver locks

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

As a reporter, I can't imagine standing by quietly while a powerful person I was reporting on spoke to a colleague like that. It just wouldn't be in me to keep my mouth shut.

NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court. More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

He is risen

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt

In Canada, Paul McCartney leads his audience on an extraordinary magical history tour.

Overcrowding (80 in a cell), frequent fights, people in mental health crisis, meals of cold tomato sauce over rice. A released detainee gives a grim glimpse inside Moshannon detention facility in Pa. by @iveythewriter.bsky.social via @pennlive.com tinyurl.com/387pwbzt

The moon peeks through ‘Second line in the sky’, a temporary art installation commemorating the victims of the January 1 attack, Bourbon Street, New Orleans

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Daily sketch 🌅🪾🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? #art #artsky #sketch #ink #painting

Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat