“When Scrooge changes, Dickens doesn't let him wallow in shame. Scrooge simply acts. He pays people fairly. He gives generously. He shows up. He becomes part of the community he once treated as an inconvenience.” youtu.be/VTW_cFJePpU?...

Imperialist Checklist: 1. Christmas Day ✅ 2. Low Approval Ratings at Home ✅ 3. Bomb Africans ✅

“And Dickens keeps reminding us the ghosts aren't supernatural, they’re perspective. So when this story comes around each year, it isn't asking whether you feel generous. It's asking whether you've mistaken self-interest for wisdom.” youtube.com/watch?v=VTW_...

I wonder! But the sad thing is that some Nigerian Christians actually asked the US to intervene, and some are now jubilant that this bombing happened. The Nigerian govt even said it's collaborative. Never mind that it's on Xmas Day & that there might be innocent people caught up in the maelstrom.

Harriette Moore taught with books kept hidden under her desk by & about W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora N. Hurston, L. Hughes, & more. She appointed a student look-out so if School Sup't. came, he wouldn’t catch them. See Jarvis Givens ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/fu...

#tdih 1951 The home of Harry T. and Harriette Moore in Mims, Florida was bombed by Klan — killing them both on their silver wedding anniv. #Terrorism The Moores (parents and teachers) organized with the NAACP for voting & labor rights and against lynching. 🧵⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mo...

So, they’re getting the band back together. wiscomichiganlife.com/wp-content/u...

#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land. This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...

I can’t even imagine any other result. These zones are never designed to give anybody in need an “opportunity.” They are designed to decrease the risk for the vultures looking for more vulnerable people to exploit. They extract resources FROM a community and send it somewhere else. It’s colonialism

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The pontiff began by asking for “justice, peace and stability” for Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Israel and Syria. www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/e...

Belle mentioned Smedley Butler again. youtube.com/watch?v=2a_M...

Spanish colonial authorities responded with a cruel set of laws to limit the rights of Black people, whether enslaved or not. Punitive laws designed to control & prevent similar insurrections. Of course, resistance to enslavement remained constant, see lesson ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/po...

#tdih Christmas, 1961 Aaron Henry (Miss. NAACP pres. & pharmacist) & Coahoma County NAACP organized Christmas boycott of white-owned stores in Clarksdale, Miss. Henry & other Black leaders convicted for "Conspiring to withhold trade." #TeachTruth More ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...

On this day in 1956, Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama bombed the home of civil rights activist the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth while he was celebrating Christmas with family.

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When a paper is owned by billionaires does it become impossible to utter the word “corruption”? Seriously, could it be more obvious? You think this is a policy dispute? Wake up.

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What a nightmare for those children. They need to ask Santa for universal Healthcare to pay for these kids therapy.

A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers. trib.al/z7ZUF62

That indeed is the fun of it. I don’t want some entity to do that work for me. And until it becomes more trustworthy, I really don’t see the point of herding everybody into using a tool that is so often wrong.

"The parents they cried and the miners they moaned, 'See what your greed for money has done.'" -- "1913 Massacre" a Woody Guthrie song #tdih 1913 Calumet, Michigan Italian Hall disaster killed 73 people (59 children)💔, from families of striking copper miners. ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

Bari Weiss is trust destroying agent. I didn’t trust her the first time I learned she existed and my opinion has only gotten worse the more I learn. I’m tempted to compare her to AI, but I’m not sure both initials fit. Seeing her name is only good for learning new ways to describe bad writing.

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.

In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

"My view of the conduct of the CAA is consistent with them as an organisation which is not 'playing it straight' but is seeking to use the criminal justice system, in this case for improper reasons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

This guy just introduced a bill to promote creationism in school. If he gets his Arizona kids will be able to ride the Charlie Kirk highway into perpetual economic redundancy. youtube.com/watch?v=flMT...

A legend indeed

Well at least in Canada you can still protest genocide...

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On this day in 1946, the all-white University of Tennessee men's basketball team forfeited rather than play against Duquesne University's team and its one Black player.

The math of DOGE was never remotely feasible and I personally think it's embarrassing we let musk pretend to be an engineer

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Did you know the chocolate chip cookie that we know and love is less than 100 years old? The Library of Congress has a copy of the book in which the very first chocolate chip cookie recipe appeared, "Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes." blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...

Azerbaijani authorities have intensified their long-running crackdown on the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, building on years of politically motivated prosecutions and intimidation. Read more:

I mean, of course apnews.com/article/isra...

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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

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