As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

Some great festive news. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Oh my god.

Maybe this is what set him off: youtu.be/XkEy_IttHKE?...

Hey, if you live in South Carolina's 88th House District... get out and vote today for Col. J. Chuck Hightower! What more can you do it on Christmas Eve Eve...

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

so much winning

A friend has sent me this photo from the website of the Sandringham Estate. That fireplace looks *remarkably* familiar, doesn't it? bsky.app/profile/jame...

The Donald J. Trump and Epstein Island

Let me get this straight. Only individual doctors can recommend vaccinations, but only politicians can decide trans kids care. These MAHA folks are truly nuts.

So political consultants are the human equivalent of AI chat bots? That does explain a lot.

Finally! #JusticeForMica

While the state is taking credit for “finding” Dallas Humber, she was in fact identified and publicly outed as the voice of Terrorgram by antifascist researchers. We keep us safe. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/her...

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

Speaking ill of Rob Reiner, now that should cost you your job

This was a hideously long week, but on Tuesday I took my kid to see a band and eat at a ramen place as an early Christmas present, and at dinner we were seated next to this table of like eight guys. Thickest Chicago accents I've ever heard in real life. Loud as hell. Couldn't help but overhear.

Sunday Taquitos #6: “Your papers, please.” Art by Ivan Ehlers.

Fck Christmas youtu.be/hdX3eRMXOD0

Genius 😻

Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

Oh by the way also Trump lost one in the House today - 20 Republicans voted with the Dems to pass a bill to restore federal worker union rights Trump tried to remove with an exec order. Came to the House floor via a discharge petition.

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Just thinking about the 2024 economy for no reason.

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Americans want to be able to afford to buy a home, but private equity firms are gobbling up entire neighborhoods, pricing families out, and the GOP and Trump instead blame immigrants for this. The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis

I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

The Sobering Center is a jail-and-hospital deferment program. If someone gets picked up for public intoxication, they can choose the Center instead of jail. No hoops, no moralizing, no paperwork marathon. Just a bed, some crackers. A place to sober up. That’s it. /2 soberingcenter.org/donate/

This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.

600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead. Quick summary by me:

“I was just so disappointed that with all of the serious issues facing our nation,... and it’s the president trying to save his own skin by holding a majority in Congress,” Walker added. “It’s so that he’s not impeached again. That’s all this is about.”

NEW: An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities. t.co/PWrWcuna1k

Trump’s “peace plan” in one cartoon that rings true.

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards

"Indiana normally revises its congressional map once a decade after the census." No kidding. Gosh, that's exactly what the constitution calls for - in EVERY state. Stop pretending anything Texas has been able to get away with is normal.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.

i’m so happy for him

It’s like the people behind Fyre Festival were running the federal government.

PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: @punchbowlnews.bsky.social