Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

One good thing that the Covid pandemic brings us are accessible antigen tests. In addition to the now usual Covid antigen tests I bought a box of these quadruple tests, even including adenovirus. Every household should have Cov/Flu/RSV tests at home to know what you are dealing with when sick.

HUGE thank-you to everyone who's donated so far, bringing me closer to having zero dental debt. Even if I don't meet my goal, it'll be easier to pay off this debt in 2026, thanks to your contributions. Every bit definitely helps! 🦷❤️‍🩹 gofund.me/99fe23038 #DentalCare #Healthcare #MutualAid #GoFundMe

A few of our many Black Santa ornaments. The last two pics are front/back of an ornament we hade made in honor of Mr. Fred the year he transitioned to the ancestors, New Orleans' original Chocolate Santa

Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.

Exactly what we expected

A Continuous Struggle The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. www.akpress.org/a-continuous...

This year, D.C. residents were regularly reminded how vulnerable our local laws and political systems are — and how easily daily life can be disrupted by the federal government. But @samdelgado.bsky.social reports, it was also a year when we fought back. Here's how:

University of Maryland archivist John Davis notes in his new book Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC, zines originated in the 1940s with fans of science fiction literature and comic books.

Putting aside what this skeet is referring to specifically i do feel, the best way to fight back against *motions at everything*, is encouraging a revival of the "decentralized, peer-to-peer" era of the internet of the pre-facebook era Learn to torrent guys, gals, and NB pals

Low vibrational people. I’m sure these same folks still shop at Target (when there are other local low-cost options) and eat at Chick-fil-A.

Happy Birthday to Jean-Michel Basquiat, born on this day in 1960. I find myself mourning his death and imagining who he could have been if he hadn’t died in 1988. I believe his prolific art practice was him reckoning with his own mortality. (Portraits by James Van Der Zee, 1982)

New York, this moment belongs to you. Please join us for the Inauguration of a New Era on January 1, 2026.

When Vance and Erika Kirk officially get together, let's agree to not retcon nor rehabilitate Usha Vance's reputation in that flatliningly dumb centrist "Free Melania" way, please

Caption: Breaking news 🚨🚨🚨 when you test with us, you now get a free test AND zines, masks, and peppermints (as a treat)!!! Use the link in our bio to get tested and keep your people safer during the holiday season :)

Tonight, the pet sitter (same one from last year) came by for an initial visit, getting the keys and details on my cats' care. Before he crossed the threshold, I handed him a KN95 mask, which he put on without fuss. Told him I'm seeing my elderly parents, though no explanation was really necessary.

On Friday, the federal judge Casey Pitts ordered a halt to courthouse arrests in Northern California and the Pacific Islands. A final ruling on whether the practice can continue is expected in the coming months. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-i...

If you haven't seen "Who Killed Vincent Chin?, you should. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

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.

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Still thinking about the small group of about five or six self-proclaimed Christians (with two children in tow) who I saw protesting in front of the Planned Parenthood in LIC this past weekend. So wild to me that anyone thinks that PP equals abortion clinic. 🙃 #ReproductiveHealth #Queens #NYC

This new book is a call to action and a guide for building an inclusive and intersectional reproductive justice movement. Loretta J. Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried provide a history of abortion politics through a reproductive justice framework that centers those most vulnerable.

A seasonally relevant quote for today (posted during a break from the rain—which is not quite like warm soup, at least).

Portland woman testifies that police lied about ICE activity in Oregon when 12 to 15 agents surrounded her vehicle, and she called 911 for help on December 10th. "I have a question for the police. If you refuse to do your job, are you prepared for us to do it for you?"

If we can raise $1k in the next three days, we're going to get another drum for our risograph so we can give away free posters and zines printed with a color that's not just red or black (as much as we love red and black of course). Donate now: donorbox.org/red-emmas-2025

Digitization requires hiring people to do this specific kind of work, either as full-time permanent employees (ideally) or grant-funded, project-based workers (more common). Storing digitized content costs money (server space, "in the cloud," etc.). Keeping up with evolving technologies costs money.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

if you spike news stories to please a fascist, you too are a fascist

A Black man runs the museum for added context.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

HUGE thank-you to everyone who's donated so far, bringing me closer to having zero dental debt. Even if I don't meet my goal, it'll be easier to pay off this debt in 2026, thanks to your contributions. Every bit definitely helps! 🦷❤️‍🩹 gofund.me/99fe23038 #DentalCare #Healthcare #MutualAid #GoFundMe

Rest In Power to Betty Reid Soskin www.grandviewindependent.com/betty-reid-s...

POUNDER: My biggest tickle was when you said…one day, “You know, I think I’m going to make it to 100.” So you put away the idea of “Fade” and started back on brighter colors. Betye Saar turned 99 years old on July 30, 2025. www.interviewmagazine.com/art/at-94-be...

The transformation of Etsy from a marketplace for handmade items to a marketplace for resale of mass-produced items with misleading keywords and list prices seems like it leaves an open market niche for a marketplace for handmade items.

There are more where he came from, but I only put him out this year.

BOOGIE NIGHTS is a Christmas movie

Happy Birthday to Samuel L. Jackson born #OnThisDay in 1948 in Washington D.C., seen here in an early cameo role in the romantic comedy "COMING TO AMERICA" (1988) dir. John Landis with Eddie Murphy, Shari Headley, Arsenio Hall *WARNING* adult language 🎬 Paramount Pictures

Saturday, I returned to Museum of the Moving Image to see on the big screen “Crossing Delancey” (1988), part of MoMI’s Writers’ Room series celebrating screenwriters. Susan Sandler, Crossing Delancey’s screenwriter, spoke at the screening. 🎞️ movingimage.org/event/crossi... #80s #movies #Queens #NYC

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

In an attempt to thwart Zohran's plan to freeze the rent next year, Eric Adams is stacking the RGB deck with these folks: 1️⃣ Alex Armlovich 2️⃣ Arpit Gupta 3️⃣ Christina Smyth 4️⃣ Lliam Finn 5️⃣ Sagar Sharma Learn these names—and get ready to fight back by getting in formation with @tenantbloc.bsky.social.

Inbox: Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on the steps of City Hall at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1 with Mark Levine and Jumaane Williams. In addition to the City Hall ceremony, Mamdani's team says there'll be a "public block party" on Broadway with space for tens of thousands more to gather.

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

Happy Winter Solstice! On midwinter’s day, the sun sets between the pair of stones that form the largest trilithon at #Stonehenge Farewell to the shortest day of the year, as we look forward to lighter days ahead! ☀️ #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

Years ago, at a book club meeting in a Park Slope, Brooklyn, brownstone, I laughed so loud that the hosts’ baby got startled. “That lady’s loud!” said one parent to the baby. As the only Black person present, I could have read that as a microaggression. But in that moment, it was also fact lol 😆

A cool fun with about dental devices is that they have a life time at which point they need to be replaced. Fillings, implants, bridges, everything. Sooner or later they need to replaced. It's not cheap. And it's often not covered by insurance, which is ridiculous.