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"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

🧵 Let us also remember that the First Amendment prohibits “law[s] respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Nighthawks at the Diner street mosaic, Rogers Park, Chicago

Super awkward...

Great suggestions. Be open to the magic of the street.

A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

The question is before us. 🧵

Mamdani’s message is as American as apple pie, and that’s why he drives reactionaries of many different political stripes crazy.

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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Ongoing 2026 storyline: A ragtag alliance of doughty, courageous, and often bickering rebels brace and push back against the continuing onslaught of the psychopathic king, his sadistic henchmen, their rich sociopathic cohort, and an evil cult.

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Challenge made

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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Let’s f’ng go

True for us in the U.S. as well.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

What an inspired choice of a location for a swearing in

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

I want to share this with you because this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen: this is Carol of The Bells - we call it Shchedryk - performed by Ukrainian military and a veteran in Kyiv main railway station . But I must warn you: it will break your heart. And then, it will heal it again.

"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief

So much for promoting the general welfare.

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

We have work to do

My favorite thing about Triscuits is that no one could remember why they were called that, so someone tracked down the earliest advertisement for them and discovered it's short for "Electric Biscuits". Because electric ovens were an exciting new thing at the time.

So much of 80s mythos is conservatives lying to themselves about their stalwartness. But their ascendancy under Reagan, like their ascendancy under Trump, came with hypersensitivity about social change. And in both cases, they simply believe that their sensitivity is natural and justified.

I'll never get used to the way major media outlets frame this stuff as a matter of differing opinions, as opposed to just grotesque, obvious, deadly corruption

"That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us."

Four Candles?

Glad to talk to someone about what’s happened in Austin over the last 20+ years

Mayor Brandon Johnson gave his “full and complete endorsement” on Monday to a push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort. https://to.wttw.com/4sitElv

Our mafioso-in-chief

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

Some good news

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Bari Weiss protecting corrupt elites. News at 11.

How I’m walking out of 2025

When we win, we will still have a great deal of work to do to reconstitute our country. We will need new laws, Constitutional amendments, and prosecutions of the guilty. We will need to rebuild trust and rebuild institutions. /1

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

We need to see that the two-party system has a major role in our problems. But, not voting only furthers the status quo.

Choosing to take Trump’s call on speaker with her door open

"Emerging from this dark period in our history will require a sweeping, comprehensive strategy of repudiation and repair, one that encompasses the substantive, the procedural, and the symbolic."

A Nichelle Nichols tribute post for her birthday. What an incredibly beautiful woman.

Fascism never changes

Imagine if Stephen Miller hated poverty as much as he hates brown people

HEB is ready for NYE