Merry Christmas! Fight fascism!

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Maybe this is why we're not meant to live forever. It becomes very exhausting and at some point we need a rest.

Thank you to Congresswoman Joyce Beatty for speaking up and speaking out. The Trump 2.0 regime is a disgrace to America and has zero credibility.

Powerful

On the same day he voted against lowering health care premiums, U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) says the best way to tackle affordability is to earn more. "Look, there are three ways to make things more affordable. Earn more, keep more of what you earn and drive down prices."

Although Trump’s abhorrent political beliefs are ultimately more damaging to the nation, his reprehensible personality is more shocking to me on a personal level. I can’t fathom how anyone can support someone who is so obviously a terrible human being.

I know Republicans have done a yeomen’s job dumbing down a significant portion of America’s populace over the last several decades, but how can ANY person look at, much less listen to this guy, and still think to themselves that he has the slightest business leading our country’s health agencies?

My vote:

Say it with me: The Trump administration MURDERED the men clinging to the boat. #Murder

This is more like it.

@volodarskij.bsky.social 🕯️ He died defending his native land. YAROSLAV VESLOPOLOV Forever 24. "My parents had seven of us. The Lord gave us to live in a friendly family. From childhood, my father taught us to work, and my mother taught us to love each other." 1-2

He’s not dead yet…

Hundreds of black vultures (Coragyps atratus) roosting on Paint Creek Dam. Black vultures are aggressive, particularly towards livestock and other animals. They attack and kill vulnerable animals like newborn calves, lambs, and piglets, often hunting in groups (like velociraptors). #bird 🦉📷

I'd much rather live next door to a Somali refugee family than a MAGAt. 100%

#2025

My mom would have been 98 today. She died in May & I've thought a lot about her life & challenge of living with failing eyesight for many years and finally loss of all useful vision. I'm an afterlife skeptic but I truly hope she's with her parents, seeing something beautiful. I love you, mom.

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~Dr. Seuss Artist, Joe Gilronan

#photography 📷

Male Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 🦉 #bird North America's smallest woodpeckers have special feathers that prevent inhaling wood chips while pecking. Their brain is protected from shock by a pad of spongy material between their bill and their skull.

A rare winter visitor to Ohio. Female Evening Grosbeak - Coccothraustes vespertinus. 🦉#birding Cool fact: It's powerful beak can exert up to 125 pounds of force to crush seeds and other hard food items, which is stronger than the average human's bite force.

Feeder birds. 🦉#birding Male Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis - nonmigratory, sometimes sing duets with mate Male House Finch - Haemorhous mexicanus - males get their red color from carotenoids in their diet of seeds and fruits

I remember watching my kids doing this, all the while not recognizing the religious trauma they would deal with throughout their lives. Huge regrets. www.instagram.com/stephanie.st...

We have normalized horrifying, shocking, and unacceptable behavior from this president. It has to stop. Now.

Crescent #moon, shot from my car window with my old Nikon Coolpix. Isn't it remarkable that this amazing heavenly body is almost 240,000 miles away? #photography

If Adam picked the apple...

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Posted today by my friend, Anna. Love you, friend!

I drive a 2012 Camry with 200K+ miles on it. I'd still be paying on it with a 15 year car loan. The banks will love this idea 🙄🤬

du·ress /d(y)əˈres/ noun: duress Threats, violence, constraints, or other action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will or better judgment. "confessions extracted under duress"

Good morning Frank! Skircle me in 😁 Do we still have time to send the Dems to Oz for spines, or did the tornado already take off? Hydrate, caffeinate, blast a banger, and remember that joy is resistance too. Let’s make it a good one. Mind your Wile Smile Laugh Love Live #BlueCrew☕💙🎶☮️

Should be...

Cold day work in progress, helix knitted beanie. #knitting

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

My and my partner of 20+ years, except he's the one on the chaise. I would have absolutely sworn he said "interesting". He's the only person I know whose first activity on a cruise was to sleep for 4 hours.

The real moochers aren’t the needy on SNAP. They’re the billionaires feasting on tax breaks and subsidies.

"Donald Trump demonstrated the situational awareness of a tub of mayo" - Rebecca Solnit