I truly love this quote from @brookegladstone.bsky.social about the importance of speaking truth to *each other* if only to remind ourselves that we are not completely losing our minds.

I agree, I think this hits the nail on the head when it comes to allegory vs. applicability, and I ALSO have a half-formed thesis about the ways this story of a Carol is informed by "A Christmas Carol," which I think is not something the writers put there but is still worth pondering

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

Feels like not enough people are connecting the recent discourse about the "male loneliness epidemic" with the fact that we spent years before this telling cisgender heterosexual men that the worst place you could be was the "friend zone."

It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal

My 8yo saw my Christmas brooch and said, "Mom, I didn't know you had an Oogie Boogie pin!"

If this was your friend you'd be trying to talk them down from their obviously manic mental health episode.

Seeing this too late. Bookmarking for next year

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

May I also propose "Let It Snow," which has the advantage of being unambiguously consensual in its horniness

I've always been a little uncomfortable with the "friendly government agencies are tracking Santa/issuing anumal permits/inspecting the sleigh's contents" jokes, and now I know why. This is grotesque.

a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS. b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.

we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.

An Australian bird. In the comments someone says “homeboy sounds like an Atari” which is true 😂

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

This is literally one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen, anywhere.

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

An exceptionally well-researched piece on Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social. It’s well worth your time. The irony that Greg points to is that the Miller-Trump immigration approach will make America less great, less prosperous & untrue to its best traditions. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

That’s @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social’s music!

Democrats should be politicizing the hell out of this tragedy, as in "The people of this country deserve a functional FBI"

Brooks wrote this column in 2011, the same year he was pictured with Epstein in the photos released today by Dems Let’s All Feel Superior www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/o...

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

I sure hope this new guy has the instinct for moral leadership and public witness we've come to rely on in the Archdiocese of NY.

I love this for us (New York I mean)

I've been stuck in the house with sick kids since Friday, and the data is in: the absolute worst, most irritating background noise is endless episodes of "SpongeBob Squarepants."

MFW I'm visited by three spirits.

You all got me way too hyped up for this new "Knives Out" and its goofy Anglo-Catholic cosplay. It's a solid third place out of three for me.

So wait they withheld jobs data in October because it was a disaster and only published after a partial bounce back???? That’s a big scandal!

this is perfect

My son's Spanish homework was a worksheet that listed celebrities and asked him to choose the right adjective to describe them. He needed help because he didn't know who most of them are. (It seemed about 10 years old, and he's 14.) Salma Hayek, Danny DeVito, Ricky Martin, Penelope Cruz... Nope. 1/

The President of the United States must not use his platform to verbally attack citizens or residents of the U.S. Not politicians, not recently deceased celebrities, not members of a minority group he personally dislikes. Unfortunately, we chose not to hold Trump to that standard a long time ago.

The only thing Donald Trump believes is that opposing him, in any way, is the worst thing a person can do. He thinks failure to support him is a capital offense, and he always has. Now, as president, he thinks it's literally treason, and it makes him SO MAD that people still get away with it.

I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.

Anecdotal observation: the flu is tearing through my kids' school, and presumably the larger community, right now. Four out of six in my house went down with it this weekend, and we all had flu shots. Are you seeing this where you are? It's really messing with our mid-December schedule!

I think one of the things that shook me out of being a conservative the most was the contrast between the way my family members talked about normal colleges and what it was actually like attending one.

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

This entire weekend

If you use AI for anything, even to make a little flyer for your community event, know that I am saying BOOOOOOOO to you. But if you employ people to make art, and then you do this, BOOOOO is the politest of the things I am saying to you.

This is at least the third incident I'm aware of where immigration agents attacked workers on a private residential construction site. Here is one I covered in October, in Chicago. bsky.app/profile/cram...

This is a persecution. The sin of Sodom, for real. Shame on us.

MARY POPPINS (1964) — 2:00 pm ET — 2h 19m (TCM Premiere) (TCM 100th Birthday Tribute: Dick Van Dyke) Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson; directed by Robert Stevenson A magical nanny whisks a banker's two children into whimsical worlds filled with unforgettable characters #TCM #TCMParty

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...