This could've been the cover of my book Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy, or maybe it can be a sequel about how the conservatives in our government are doing the exact same things now to control our cultural content and customs.

I think I missed hearing about this last year, this looks amazing! Nintendo shows off Mario, Zelda, and 135 years of history in a new Kyoto museum www.npr.org/2024/10/02/g...

Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.

Not sure how this protects the security of the US. And BTW these same Christians couldn't even get a visa to the US right now.

Did Nigeria request US assistance in combatting the Islamic State or did we just run a military operation in a sovereign nation without its permission?

The glue, used up on purpose. The Old Man, when the turkey fell. Flick, his tongue stuck. Ralphie and Scut Farkas in the alley.

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

The alt text is the christmas present you didn't know you wanted.

This is what we in the trade call "3am Le Mans commentary", and it's probably a bad sign if your non-24 hour sport has it

Was murdering random Nigerians and random Venezuelans on boats and sending random people of all sorts of non-white ethnicities to all sorts of horrible fucking places "worth" some of y'all's alleged moral superiority or

As the US bombs Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa - on Christmas, which half of Nigeria celebrates - realize there could be no diplomatic negotiations about this beforehand because the US pulled its ambassador out of Nigeria last week.

PTSD symptoms can be reduced through treatment including a video game www.uu.se/en/press/pre...

"...and there were no streetlights in the area." Imagine if this state actually, you know, mad sure roads were well/properly lit. www.wral.com/news/local/p...

The U.S. Supreme Court has awarded Trump prosecutorial immunity for any crimes he commits while acting as president. Unsurprising then, that President Trump would feel free, even emboldened to order the U.S. military to violate the Geneva Convention and commit whatever other war crimes, abroad.

The link between gluten & Celiac disease was established in the 1950s Renée Richards was playing women’s professional tennis in the 1970s RAIN MAN won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1989 Willful ignorance of the past is the glue that binds modern conservativism together

This should've been the White House message this year.

After 2,600 years, we finally know how static electricity really works www.popsci.com/science/how-...

A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story: Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole. Randy, his arms down. The Old Man, when the lamp broke. Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

Michelle Gatting: “my career may feel uncertain right now” NOOOOOOOO

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

This. Christian privilege is having the entire calendar arranged around your most holy day while Jewish faculty are told they can't have their most holy day off because it's in the midst of Fall semester.

There's more evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine lowers risk of preterm birth, hospital stays and death.. 🧪🦠 www.sciencenews.org/article/bene...

Been saying this shit forever. This is the one that always blew my mind. Not even J6. This is the one. We got the guy on a recording shaking down Georgia for votes. Not some aide.

MEMPHIS: “Tennessee House Republican leaders will push a plan in 2026 to install a Memphis-Shelby County schools oversight panel to seize significant decision-making authority from the locally elected school board…” 🤔 GOP = Government Overreach Party www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...

What the fuck.

We have an update at 3pm: the hottest Christmas on record, and the hottest it has been so late in the year. #cltwx #ncwx

Kinda seems like Trump punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters (who tried to help him steal the election) from prison should be a bigger story

it bums me out that Die Hard has become defined by “lol it’s a Christmas movie” shit in the last 20 years because it makes you forget that it’s like a scientifically perfect action movie

At 2pm we have now the hottest Christmas on record in #Charlotte in 147 years. #cltwx

Zelda Game Inspires Engineering Course, Research Paper www.asme.org/topics-resou...

Looks more like the blank face emoji to me… 😶 Scientists spot ancient 'smiley face' on Mars — and it could contain signs of life www.livescience.com/space/mars/s...

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Merry Christmas! Gus does not understand why we can bring nature inside but he cannot.

Did you know that Christmas Day is one of the biggest filmgoing days of the year? If you’re headed to a matinee today, remember that theater operators are working extra hard to make the movies magical for you and yours. Be sure to thank them and to treat them and your fellow filmgoers kindly!

Words That Shouldn’t Kill Your Holiday Spirit But Totally Do. I’ll go first: “Press at seam with back of spoon…”

and to my Jewish friends, a happy go to the movies and eat Chinese food day

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

How Dark Is Deep Space? NASA’s New Horizons Mission Finally Reveals the Answer gizmodo.com/how-dark-is-...

Zhou embodying the Christmas spirit Zhou’s cat embodying the Tifosi’s 2025 spirit

The Strange Allure of Blue Food www.atlasobscura.com/articles/his...

Merry Christmas, y’all. We are grateful for each and every one of you. 🎄

Ya'll the footnotes. I have never seen anything like this.

Merry Christmas, Pittsburgh!!

Release the Jack Smith transcript.

Judge Bissoon who just ruled against the DOJ attempting to get personal data of trans patients & former patients, was appointed by President Obama. Your reminder that the record 235 judges appointed by Biden & guided through by Schumer & previously appointed ones are what’s holding things together.