Merry Christmas to everyone whose joy isn't heightened by the misery of others.

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”

The only ones to text so far are Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean Combs, looking for pardons.

I found the comments on the last post about bird names in other languages fascinating! Today pictures of long-tailed tits - there must be some good names for these little, charismatic, unstoppable, insect-guzzling miniature forces of nature! #Birds #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography

“Mr. Epstein’s tan, leathery skin is folded into a smile; in one photo a bit of blond hair is peeking out from under the large black redaction box. In another photo we see what looks like a young foot in a Croc. One photo shows a note that says someone…. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

🚨The MAGA Cult wants to destroy PBS because they don’t bow down to their dear leader like 60 minutes does.

Billionaires didn’t appear out of nowhere. Their rise mirrors our national debt - dollar for dollar, decade for decade. Since Reagan, wealth went up, taxes went down, and the bill went to everyone else. At what point do we say enough?

Venezuela resorts to floating storage as onshore tanks fill up amid ship seizures www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Despite Trump’s promises, likely no peace in the Middle East anytime soon. Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan: "The logic of surrendering weapons is inherently unacceptable.

Morgan Stanley sees hundreds of gigawatt hours of battery demand from data centers by 2030; Tesla, Amazon, Oracle to invest in Bolivia data centersMorgan Stanley: “We note that battery storage could experience significantly greater demand than we currently forecast stemming from the data center oppo

🇺🇸 According to NBC News, tensions are rising within Donald Trump’s administration between Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff over the coordination of peace talks on Ukraine. 👇

🇫🇮 Finland plans to increase the number of reservists to nearly 1 million. As part of this change, the government intends to raise the upper age limit for reservists from 60 to 65.

Macron: Greenland belongs to its people. Denmark stands as its guarantor.

🇺🇲Donald Trump has officially announced the construction of “Trump-class” battleships (missile battleships in today’s terms). The first ship of this class has already been named USS Defiant. According to Donald Trump, this will be the fastest and largest battleship in world history.

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Wishing you all a wonderful...

Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.

Little kid just wants to hear about Santa and Trump wants to talk about himself again. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Mr Cuban, I just wanted to quickly thank you. My husband has XXXX cancer, a rare gastrointestinal cancer. We are between insurance right now and when we went to pick it up we were informed it was $29,000. We were able to get it from CostPlus for $990. Thank you for saving my husband's life.

That's what those people pray for. Their thoughts & prayers. They pray for more victims to sex assault.

Hang the treasonous traitor!

Today in Politics, Bulletin 277. The latest on the new Epstein files drop, and everything else that happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Senator Ted Budd of NC ensured his family received the maximum PPP loan of $10 million while voting against Covid relief for his constituents. Corruption personified

New in PN: Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA "RIP to the Heritage Foundation, which functionally died this week, as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit. The Suspect: Trump and his posse of online shitposters. The weapon: Antisemitism. The room: Phoenix Convention Center."

Epstein’s IDF shirt found in the files. The design on the shirt is the insignia of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Golani Brigade. #OpDeathEaters

Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

CBS News has capitulated but Democracy Docket never will. I created it without any corporate backers or private equity investors. It's only accountable to its members who help support its 22-person team. Become one now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

December 23, 2025 A collaboration with @lizadonnelly.bsky.social tonight...

Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.

This issue alone is going to cost them seats in places they don’t expect. They don’t understand the grass roots anger and hostility there is about this, and billionaire CEOs of Cantor Fitzgerald like Lutnick aren’t going to fool them with their con men sales pitches.

The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.

To take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas More #RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky

(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on. @reuters.com www.producer.com/daily/china-...

I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator

Trump orders 30 Biden-appointed ambassadors to return home threatening gaps abroad

Four-byline alert: 🚨 @nytimes.com #DOGE @fahrenthold.bsky.social @sangerkatz.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social @aliciaparlap.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

European report calls on countries to update strategies on sexually transmitted infections The report is in response to a continent-wide surge in STIs since 2014. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Vaccine policy should be guided by evidence. The evidence doesn’t support the U.S. copying Denmark’s. 🔗 Read the full Viewpoint from the Vaccine Integrity Project: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Take some time over the next few days to watch my interview with Gov JB Pritzker. I think you will learn something about politics, elections and the fight for democracy. youtu.be/oA0uttMI5rc?...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s military takeover of Chicago will not go forward after the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling halting his attempt to send hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hilarious. The second any Republican publicly disagrees with Trump about something he attacks them & goes after them. Has primaried dozens. Calls Greene a traitor. Attacked Indiana Repubs. This entire movement is viciously vindictive against anyone who dares to step out of line.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the New England State Area Conference of the NAACP and the Massachusetts Alliance for Retired Americans, my law firm has filed a motion to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Massachusetts' complete voter registration database.

December 21, 2025

Boycott CBS.

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

The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...