Lies.

16 Israel-based human rights organisations have denounced Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s decision to block renowned aid charities from operating in Gaza ⬇️

Then ‘gender critical’ transphobic activist-journalists drop headlines like this after years of replacing the word “people” with “ideology”…. Nobody should be surprised that trans people are upset! TERFs barely bother with dog-whistles anymore, when talk of trans-extermination is so blatant! 😖

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Also, polio returned to Gaza.

Carole was young in 1971. But I was younger.

Hegseth Apologizes After Striking Drug Boat Carrying Don Jr.’s Supply

This winter the Israeli government has not stopped committing genocide in Gaza, and the US has not stopped funding it.

Apparently, it’s called Hogmanay.

Like Nelson Mandela Place, which used to be the address of apartheid South Africa’s consulate in Glasgow.

I didn’t know Pope Leo W was a Villanova alum. #Philly

She’s exactly where she deserves to be, but how wild is it that the President of the United States is wishing citizens the worst and wants them to rot in hell? Wild times, folks…

I just took a mock Life in the UK test without studying for it and got 91% right. 75% is needed to pass. #optimism

List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending: apnews.com/article/gaza...

Israel Strips UNRWA of Diplomatic Immunity www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

In my experience, the best way to help a country succeed is to not invade it.

Health insurance *in the United States*, one must add.

Gmail to Let Users Change Their Addresses While Keeping Data www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/t...

Winter rain floods Gaza camps as Netanyahu heads for US meeting apnews.com/article/isra...

New York subway ends its MetroCard era and switches fully to tap-and-go fares apnews.com/article/metr...

Game changer

Today I embarrassingly found myself thinking along the same lines as 45/47.

Brigitte Bardot (1934–2025) www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

If you take a domestic flight in the US, you might see threatening signs trying to bribe you to “self-deport”. Only in Spanish, so you know who they’re targeting. Horrifying and anti-American. Meanwhile, every single business we passed near the airport, including the TSA itself, was hiring.

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Little to no additional snow accumulation is expected after some New York City areas were hit with the heaviest snowfall in years, forecasters said.

If Trump wants to put his name on everything here’s an idea

Marking. All. Done. ✔️

Blasphemy!

❤️❤️❤️HUGE CONGRATS!!!❤️❤️❤️

“Like gender, the state is precarious, sustained through repetition and exposed to constant unravelling.” What can queer theory tell us about Palestinian statehood?

Palestine will be free. #Dundee #Scotland

Trump’s heartwarming Christmas message starts with “Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein.” Remind me what he scored on that dementia test?

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Am I the only person who actively suffers at weddings?

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

وفاة القيادي الفلسطيني عصام مخول عضو الكنيست السابق ‪https://www.alquds.com/ar/posts/220951‬

Christmas Tree Lot Guy So Ready For Annual 46-Week Vacation https://theonion.com/christmas-tree-lot-guy-so-ready-for-annual-46-week-vaca-1849919748/

Kennedy Center’s Christmas Eve Jazz Show Canceled After Trump Name Added to Building www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Trump once again threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of major networks over what he deemed unfavorable coverage of him and his administration.

I don’t mean this as shade to the migrants at all who have found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place but it was always clear that the plan was never to actually pay them

محمد بكري (١٩٥٣–٢٠٢٥) amad.ps/567621

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This reminds me that when I was 4 or 5, I wanted to pick up a half-eaten pretzel off the pavement. My mother stopped me and asked, “what if someone sick took a bite off it?” To which I replied, “well, what if a doctor took a bite?”

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

Conversely, lots of things that are AI often do not get recognized as such. As an example from this semester, a student told me that a professor banned the use of AI and then suggested they use grammarly to edit their writing.