‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’ Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

It really must frustrate Trump and Putin that Zelenskyy is not corrupt.

Right after security at the Milwaukee airport there are big signs that say RECOMBOBULATION AREA hanging over some benches and I think that’s beautiful.

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

North Carolina businesses turn constitution into a doorstop against ICE. Siembra trains owners to demand judicial warrants, effectively barring agents from private workspaces. Strategy shifts resistance from protest to procedure. Fourth Amendment is a potent tool for delaying or preventing arrests.

Another one from me: The Trump administration has omitted data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports. prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...

I found my usual painting palette mixed all together in this bundle of gorgeous merino wool! 🤩😍 Working on a needle felt right now using it, and can't wait to use it in a wet felt, too!

She loves a spotlight

Dark, Little Golden Books.

I retire from 37 years of professional editorial work in higher education next week. Here is how I’m planning to spend a large chunk of my time.

A man (20s?) wearing high vis and paint splattered clothes is ambling along with a button eyed, jolly miniature poodle. Tiny Poodle is a woolly cloud of adoration and wants to share the love with everyone, but High Vis Man is training her to heel with treats, the odd kind word and many a pat. (4)

A big brown cow MOOOOS to her calf as it gambols in a field strewn with white daisies and long grass. Meanwhile a group of four small humans (1-4?) playing in a nearby park freeze and turn as one to look wide-eyed at the noise. What WAS that magnificent sound? (2)

🧵Spotted on a Country Walk in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a stunning valley: A couple (20s?) in comfy clothes throw a frisbee for a VERY energetic dog. Energetic Dog is racing here to CATCH. And there to LEAP. Running circles as her humans leisurely steal a smooch. Bird song drifting on the air. (1)

In her order to release Mr. Abrego, Judge Xinis notes that she will be using the preferred term "noncitizen" in her opinion rather than "alien," and cites an interesting source in doing so.

Trump and Republicans took $1 trillion out of Medicaid and Medicare and gave it to the wealthy in his big beautiful Bill. The idea that the country can’t support affordable healthcare for citizens is ridiculous. These are policy choices. The Republicans support the wealthy. End of story.

A small reminder that Ukraine is already a democracy and that they don't exactly need elections right now in the middle of a defensive war against Russia and its eternal Dear Leader and his team of creative idiots in the Kremlin.

Delia Ramirez to Kristi Noem: "Resign or be impeached. Whatever you choose, the American People will have justice."

Organ trafficking Sounds illicit but I'm sure Pianos are worse #vss365 #haiku

There it is.. #politics

The Ruzzians would need 30,000,000 MEN and ANOTHER 100 YEARS to take all of Ukraine at the current rate of advance. Let's be generous and say the front line breaks at some point and say another 30 or 40 years... That's a colossal underperformance and embarrassment. You cannot get past 1 Border State

FIFA thought giving needy man-child Donald Trump his silly "peace prize" would save their World Cup from being hosted by a demented police state.

Ted's 4th gotcha day today. He was born in September, but we celebrate both days. 🎉 🎊 🎆 🎇

Disney used to sue daycares for copyright infringement.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

what I want, actually, is for this man to have the same healthcare as his poorest constituents

'tis the season to continually say: "I do not give grades. I just evaluate your work. You earn grades."

Historians have discovered there were presidents before Trump who *also* engaged in frequent hand shaking yet they didn't always have bruises and bandages on the backside of their hands. Even Sleepy Joe Biden, who was perpetually just seconds away from dying of old age, came out unscathed. Really!

Sometimes, you just have to make something with your hands to feel better

I dumped Facebook back in 2015. It was discovered that "META" provided Russia election rich data via Cambridge Analytics. Russians used that data to target voters and get Trump elected. Fancy Bear a Russian hacker group hacked the DNC emails in 2015. FCK FACEBOOK www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Reminder: Only a few weeks away until California’s mask ban for law enforcement officers goes into effect— Beginning January 1st, #ICE & other agencies operating in the state will no longer be allowed to use face coverings that hide an officer’s identity

Small joy: figuring out the tubular bind off so I can read my work. 1x1 rib. Knits are purled on and #knit off. Purls are knit on and purled off. I was constantly getting lost on the steps doing the hem. I'm much more confident and even on the first cuff #RoseFrostSweater #BrownSheepYarn

The report, compiled by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS), warns that the US “uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”

@#showmeyourknit#knitsky#

🎉 BREAKING: WE DID IT! 🎉 After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map! This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.

Trump sent Vance there twice. He threatened to cut off all federal spending to the state. He vowed to back primary challengers of any Republican who voted against him here. He posted their names online, prompting his fans to send them death threats. But all that failed, so now he wasn't involved.

Think who benefits from a division between Europe and the US? This had been a Russian ambition for some time. Trump’s brutal attacks on Europe, which follow his new international policy claims that Europe faces ‘civilisation erasure’, are a boost to far right. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Disney who were going even after fan artists for copyright now giving both money and copyrights of their original characters to a hideous image shitting machine. #Sora #SoraAi #Disney #FuckAi

they are so sad looking when they are recovering

I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”

I did not anticipate so many people noticing my knitting. If I had, I would have been more consistent about which color I held dominant. In any event - I'm back home with my yarn stash and I have arm holes! #KnitSky

That's not how executive orders, the constitution, or states rights work.

🚨BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he has issued a “full pardon” to Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state sentence — even though presidents have no constitutional authority to pardon state-level crimes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Whitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption. This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.

One of my faves is from “I Wonder As I Wander”: “Jesus the Savior did come for to die / For poor ornery people like you and like I.” I love “ornery.” It's a regional (N.Carolina/Appalachia) pronunciation of “ordinary.” But it might also mean unruly or cantankerous, like “an ornery old cuss.”

Christmas songs have some of the best lines in all hymnody. • A weary world rejoices • Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother • The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight • God is not dead, nor does he sleep What’re your favorites?

OpenAI & Disney announced a deal to license more than 200 copyrighted characters to OpenAI’s Sora platform. This deal helps mainstream an unregulated & dangerous technology and raises concerns about displacement of human writers, actors, and directors. So much is at stake.

Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him. www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...

One day I will make a quilt with a clear finished outcome in mind from the start. Today is not that day 🙄 #quiltsky

BREAKING: DOJ has failed to indict Letitia James for a THIRD time! It's like Christmas around here!