Best wishes and thanks to all the healthcare workers, first responders and support staff working on Christmas and during the holiday season. Here's to a happy, healthy 2026.

What an excellent list by Ray @country_mile and has several of my favorites especially The Sun Kings & Lovejoy @lovejoy-official.bsky.social who released some absolutely brilliant singles 👌👍👍👌 Best Singles 2025 countrymilerecords.wordpress.com/best-singles...

A deeply secure thing to say.

Please, please get your vaccines. Good for you. Good for community. Good for healthcare system. Emergency wards coping with 'extreme overcapacity' in flu season: cbc.ca/news/canada/... #VaccinesWork

And so it begins … One very simple truth: Elvis is Christmas Whitehorse A WHITEHORSE WINTER CLASSIC

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

President Free Speech has struck again!

Today’s reward for smattering of rain, Bald Eagle sighting, suburban, coastal hiking was reading which inspired listening to @katebushmusic ON STAGE

“On social media, he has spread vile antisemitic conspiracy theories, such as that Jews ran the slave trade and perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In his public posts, he derides Jews as “demons,” “rats,” and “viruses” – classic tropes used to dehumanize Jewish people”

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…? Raping children and covering up for ‘em.

"We hope there are strong commonalities that value our children because our preference is to work collaboratively with the government. But make no mistake – we will continue to fight for our children if we have to." www.aptnnews.ca/featured/nat...

First line of 39-page opinion from Judge Amir Ali in DC: "The Constitution forbids government officials from using their power to retaliate against people for their speech.. even when the speech is critical of the government" Judge restores security clearance to whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid

Too impatient to wait for the FM broadcast? cod.ckcufm.com/programs/589...

Cartoon by @murphycartoons.bsky.social. When Justice is “Just Us”.

Today’s reward for completing @ckcufm.bsky.social homework celebrates living above the library. The Mavericks EN ESPANOL A voice so powerful it can’t be confined to only one language.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) issues statement blasting Trump Admin's partial release of redacted Epstein files: "The new documents that Congress has forced the Dept of Justice to release make one thing clear: We are witnessing a criminal White House cover-up"

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

ICE data confirms: •Only 3.1% of people sent to CECOT have a violent criminal record •Only 3.4% of people they arrested in Chicago have a violent criminal record •More than 75K people they've arrested have no violent criminal record •Nearly 100% are Latino This is not due process. This Is Fascism.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

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

Darling of the US right Russell Brand facing more charges in the UK, including rape and sexual assault www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Debunk the immigration crime myth www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... "...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...

#GVerse I leave you with this, #GoodNight Sweet Dreams! #TImeLineCleanse #FeelGoodMoment This 5-year-old pianist moved everyone to tears… ✨ A reminder that music has no age. Pure talent, pure emotion. ❤️ #Remember Life is Beautiful!

In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

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

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Global TV (in Canada) had last night's original 60 Minutes episode including the pulled segment on CECOT on its app and website today until about 5:45pm ET. I was watching it when it got yanked - but bootlegs abound. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

Today’s reward for practicing is more listening inspired by reading. @katebushmusic LIONHEART

Today’s reward for beautiful sunny, suburban, coastal hiking was a quick bike ride downtown where I went CD digging at Value Village and was further rewarded with a magnificent find. QUARTETTE I’ve been on the lookout for anything Quartette since I discovered some Colleen Peterson LP’s

This is an interesting project. Note the through line here: Telling stories about how government is failing people to lay groundwork for imagining something different and better:

In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.

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.

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

At least 15 files that were released by the Justice Department Friday in relation to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were no longer available on the department's website on Saturday

#GVerse 😂😱🤣

🧵2/3 1000 Ways to Hide Epstein Files for a Dummie Administration #ABlueView ... Or how dangerous ...

🧵3/3 1000 Ways to Hide Epstein Files for a Dummie Administration #ABlueView ... or how unbelievable.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

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To paraphrase a fool to more accurate effect: If you don’t have healthcare, you don’t have a country. Gift link wapo.st/4amcTzk

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Today’s reward for sleet in the forecast, beautifully sunny, smattering of rain, suburban, coastal hiking. More celebration of the musical legacy of Joe Ely HONKY TONK MASQUERADE Great songs perfectly rendered.

`Mass gun ownership always leads to mass shootings. My column in today's Sunday National.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year