21 Dec: #WinterSolstice, “when the earth begins to waken under the kiss of light, when new hopes rise in frozen hearts”. #FolkloreSunday

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

I'm not a lawyer, but isn't this negligent homicide?

Re: Epstein Files Leaked GOP memo gives step-by-step instructions on how to use DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) a psychological manipulation tactic, to dismiss any Trump wrongdoing, and instead villainize Dems and frame Trump as the victim couriernewsroom.com/news/leaked-...

Like Trump, RFK Jr. is leading a revenge tour against anyone who criticizes him. His latest target? Pediatricians. This cruel escalation of his Make America Sick agenda means more infants will die, more kids will get sick, and more families will suffer—all because RFK Jr. is a snowflake.

Golden age. 🇺🇸

"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

tRump talks about Somalis stealing billions via fraud; however, what he doesn't mention is that the ring leader was a White woman named Aimee Bock. He also doesn't mention Senator Rick Scott, whose former company committed fraud, also in the billions. Oh, that's right. He's not Black. 🙄

They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

So according to the Republican party, you need to eat less and stop buying toys for your children.

I would appreciate it if everyone would replace "Antifa" with "Anti-Fascist" in every conversation, article, and hearing forthwith.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

New from me in @prospect.org: ICE is opening a school inside one of their concentration camps and the outfit they picked to run it is a virtual education company that's been failing students for years. Stride, aka K12, was also accused of securities fraud just a few days ago.

Step one: Don’t let anybody in from outside. Step two: Don’t let anybody out from inside. It’s the Soviet way.

Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Beware of sociopaths like Lin

Trump wanted to issue a commemorative stamp with his face but a market study showed 65% of Americans would spit on the front side while the other 35% would lick his back side

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

You guys, if your kid gets liver disease you just have to cash out your Dell bucks that are invested in AI slop machines and Trump crypto coins and you should have more than enough to cover the bill for the hospital that’s 3 counties away and any prescriptions through Trump Rx

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

This! This! This!

“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism. Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...

We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

I got a link to this nonsense from Medicare.gov today. I find it totally exasperating that my tax dollars are being wasted on this moron who really just wants to be on TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mjE...

This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos” Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.

The Department Of Homeland Security AND the ICE X social media accounts are BOTH based in Israel and run by Tom Alexandrovich, the child ra*ist arrested in Vegas and rushed out of the country by DJT before he could be tried. Weird. 🤔

Why don't the big banks and payment processors step up on Small Business Saturday and offer to waive merchant fees on credit/debit card purchases at small businesses? Because they won't, I pay cash whenever possible.

I hope in 2026 we can move off the idea of boycotting this or that business/institution/entity and get on with shunning them permanently. I've been shunning certain businesses and people since Trump's first go-round and it has not been difficult to find other ways to shop or be entertained.

-Feminist News

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What?! Trump lying???

TBH my favorite Thanksgiving dessert is another helping of sweet potatoes. The pie tastes so much better for breakfast tomorrow!