I don't think I'd be that difficult to babysit. I finish my snacks, I'm potty trained (mostly), and I never put up a fight at naptime! 😁

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. Democracy dies in ▪️.

To paraphrase something Lawrence O'Donnell once said: People wouldn't make jokes about the president if the president himself wasn't such a joke.

This is profoundly un-American. No—that's not right. It's *anti*-American. It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions. The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

Carrizo Plain sunset from Nov 12 of this year. #Sunset #Photography

Happy Holidays!

Another immigrant died in ICE custody, aka GEO Group private prison. Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, a 46-year-old Eritrean imam and lawful permanent resident from Ohio, died while in U.S. ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania on December 14, 2025.

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

This is one of our favorites!

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

youtu.be/5-bEeqDeKZw?... Looks like they found rumps bug out jet

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

When in AD 2025 someone on social media responds to being corrected like a normal, decent adult who accepts they were wrong and makes no big deal of it:

Dear listeners, When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song. Not as escape — as evidence. Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds. If hope is hiding, it often hums first.

i really dig the new Banksy work. nothing better than a child's imagination

"Imam Fouad’s death is not an isolated tragedy, it is the predictable outcome of a violent detention system that continues to cage people for profit and punishment."

Robert Redford walking into Robards’ office: “They botched the redaction.”

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

Support independent media.

A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents: It does not provide immunity for prior crimes. It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet. Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.

We're not following the "rule of law": we're just being too polite. It's ok for the felon to send his posse to act as ICE agents who literally grab & hurt innocents. It's ok for him to withhold & redact 90% of the files. We sit there waiting for all the Ts to be crossed, i's to be dotted b4 we act.

"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote." {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond. truthout.org/articles/pol...

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930 #Christmasghoststories

"The skepticism isn't just in polls," Axios reported. "The Financial Times reported that Apollo CEO Marc Rowan — a onetime contender for Trump's Treasury job — has told investors the firm is cutting risk and piling up cash for 'when something bad happens.'" #InflationNation

WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her? BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it? BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk

Put this one up at the White House.

Bari Weiss and RFK Jr are exactly who we said they were.

Jeff Landry is a moron with zero foreign policy experience, knowledge, or qualifications. ZERO. Nothing. More insanity.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

This would make a great puzzle #art #photography #abstact #macro

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: youtu.be/4xIIwb3Rky8

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

In Moscow, they call her “our girl Tulsi” for a reason.

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

thebulletin.org/2025/12/thre... When they told you they wanted to destroy the administrative state, you should have believed them! The goal is autocratic dominionist control by a transnational criminal syndicate.

Jupiter - Two hour time lapse showing 3 moons and the Great Red Spot. This was the 2nd of the night. C6- ASI585 -IR720 Pass filter #astronomy #astrophotgraphy

New at Fight the Fire: "It defies reason and credibility that Trump was mentioned and shown so infrequently in Friday’s release by DOJ when he was all over documents and photos from the Epstein estate recently released by Democrats." All links and subscriptions are free.

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

The small imperfections on this shell create illusion of stars #417 taken 6:24 pm #photography #abstract #art #macro #abalone

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

This Epstein files "release" is the most disgusting cover up in American history

I produced many paintings and drawings of Portsmouth and Southsea but I won't put loads of them on here all at once. Here's a watercolour that was done on a little beach at Sally Port, Old Portsmouth and you can see the masts of the Warrior in the distance #art #watercolour #Portsmouth