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CHristmas came early www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

A grandmother will spend Christmas with her family after ICE held her for nearly five months. She’s had a green card for 30+ years and lived in the U.S. since childhood. Her detention ended only after public and congressional pressure. www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...

Nöel Coward called his style of work ‘touch and Gauguin,’ and although this sounds pretentious, it was his way of describing the colours he used. The majority of his paintings are of Jamaica; he first visited the island with Ian Fleming, in 1948.

Japanese artists are fleeing Bluesky because Elon just made all of their work editable by GenAI bsky.app/profile/hele...

Christmas innovations that you can’t believe nobody thought of until somebody did: Icicle lights and THIS

Merry Christmas to all the bakers who get up a little earlier to make Christmas morning sticky and bright and with enough cardamom star arms for everyone to have 2 without fighting ❄️❄️

What’s are the weird things you find yourself doing at your parents’ house? I just straightened all the artwork.

If “Santa” is up late wrapping, let this playlist by @timmiller.bsky.social power you, er, him: open.spotify.com/playlist/5qP...

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

This Pope slaps

Motion is Hope - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kVWjkV

Very interesting! Alex explains in the thread, but the tl;dr is that many Japanese users are fleeing Twitter for bluesky because of the reported addition of the "edit" button that lets anyone modify any image you post with AI. So artists are understandably very upset.

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

That cover? 💯

On the Christmas Eve, celebrating the birth of someone whose family fled persecution and who preached tolerance, I’d like to share this very personal essay I wrote back in 2018, about opening our hearts a homes and getting so much more in return. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Just about to take off from SFO to SAN and plane turned back to gate for weather

Bullies suck and uniqueness is good

Of course

Elon found a way to make his Nazi cesspool worse. Amazing.

When we did this profile, the White House refused to make Stephen Miller available for an interview and took days to give us their response. It turns out they were collecting testimonials from people willing to say they like him

Santa Claus is off making his Christmas Eve journey around the world. Keep tabs on his location with NORAD's annual Santa tracker:

PSA: any artists still using Twt… Now anyone can edit your art with Grok and claim it as theirs. Merry Christmas and Please Leave that Cesspit.

staffer: you talked to the little girls? trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked staffer: what

Sitting in an airport restaurant and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer has played THREE times in under 40 minutes. Also I have never met anybody who likes Little Drummer Boy, purge that shit from playlists.

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Some dude wanted me to know how non profit journalism fundraising should work. Guess these mansplainers have a lot of time on their hands today, instead of helping the women in their lives prepare for holiday celebrations. Assuming they have any.

This encapsulates what has driven me crazy about since she was trying to get professors fired when we were college classmates — this air of condescension, like she’s working for the common good and just trying to get you to do the same. Obviously it’s grift but the TONE of it just kills me.

Holy shit it’s been truly great to have a bunch of fucking men I’ve never heard of in my life start DMing me their profound thoughts and explaining copyright law to me, even though they’ve never once had to weigh suing the federal government and I have!

You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.

Yes. “Restoring the integrity of the news is a difficult task” is quite a thing for someone with zero experience in news to say to accomplished reporters about their work. (Opinion journalism =/= news journalism, speaking as someone who has worked in both)

Because Musk isn’t content to destroy only one Texas ecosystem.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

NYC, this is a very unpleasant flu and you'll be miserable if you catch it. RSV and Covid are here too. Holidays make it far more likely you'll get these. CDC says 4.6 million flu cases have been reported nationally. 49,000 people hospitalizations. 1,900 deaths. You have masks at home. Put'em on!

Great day to be flying from SF to San Diego 😵‍💫

Amazing: "when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic… The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape. Several years later, after the pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted, the distinctive urban beak shape returned…" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...

Why did Trump slap his name on the Kennedy Center? @artcrimeprof.bsky.social gives our friends at @revealnews.org an answer: It's about power.

Truly amazing how often people, usually though not always, men, will pipe up and inform you that they are an expert on something where you actually are.

BREAKING: DOJ now says they have one MILLION more documents to release and it will take WEEKS to finalize this.

An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Here's to all the people doing all the emotional labor and heavy lifting of the holidays. and by people I mean mostly women, still.

Our first lamé duck president

The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

Something new for the festive table? Look no further than these fine examples of citrus sculpture, from "The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling" (1910) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-ornamental-orange-peeling-1910

The president of Planned Parenthood Southeast, whom @byninamartin.bsky.social reported on a few months back, has resigned. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...