If you see the train to Easter Pkwoozner, you'd gawd damn better get on, because it is likely your only chance.

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

With that Supreme Court ruling and the 60 Minutes segment breaking quarantine and the hilarious Epstein File redaction blunder, I'm hope for a Christmas Cerebral Hemorrhage Miracle.

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

When your family arrives for the holidays, what is the first game you play together? #boardgames #tabletopgames #dicegames #ttrpg #cardgames #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

I'm going to guess that the "battleships" the fuckhead is babbling about are already-planned missile frigates or cruisers the DOD was working on, and ran by the fuckhead as something new based on "his idea."

"NEWS: Judge orders Trump to give due process hearings to all migrants sent to CECOT." www.youtube.com/shorts/Om1zQ...

Doomscrolling Watch. 7 minutes. Australian family hangs out around the pool on Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcin...

Daphne dropped off at kennel. Loafing around until dinner, which will be some kind of take-out. At 6:30 I change into travel clothes, pack frozen fruitcakes into my roller bag, and head for the airport for a red-eye flight to Newark. Very grateful my sister and family are picking me up.

Careful, young lady. The next ghost you take a shot at might be a cabinet member. bsky.app/profile/funk...

Fred Meyer offered a deal where if you bought 10 gallons of gas at one of their service stations you could get a $3 off coupon for their grocery store. My car's gas tank has a capacity of 9.8 gallons.

I'll second this. I've been donating to HIAS for a couple of years now.

Most people are pretty damn great. Find the awesome people in your neighborhood and organize with them. Fuck the "leaders" who suck up to fascists. We save each other. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Nearly overwhelmed by so many of our "leaders" and elites vacuously pushing astronomical evil into the world on a daily basis... ...but today I got to spend time with bunch of folks wrapping donated gifts for immigrant school kids and I have to remember that MOST OF US ARE ACTUALLY AWESOME.

For no reason in particular en1.savefrom.net/1-youtube-vi...

OUT: Striesand Effect IN: Weiss Effect

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Dropping Daphne off at the boarding kennel in 45 minutes, and feeling guilty for leaving her with strangers. And more guilty for feeling relieved to be off for a week. Dogs are a lot of work.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

It's an Elf-Help DORK TOWER MONDAY! In what's become an annual tradition of sorts, Christopher Eliopoulos' wonderful Elves are back to bring some Holiday Cheer! www.dorktower.com/2025/12/22/e... Christmas is a time for Sharing (and Reposting and Reblogging)! Enjoy!

My cousin's daughter and her husband moved to a town on the coast of Main and bought a beloved "Five and Ten" store, which if ONE of them had done it after a breakup and move out of the Big City would be SUCH a setup for a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Another look at my finished Krampus marionette/puppet 🌲

"Colbert's Canceled Christmas" Slick and funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...

I posted on @boingboing.net about Stephen Colbert's special cartoon, "Colbert's Canceled Christmas" boingboing.net/2025/12/22/c...

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

It is Forefather's Day. When a bunch of uptight fundamentalists took a wrong turn and ended up in Massachusetts. Affirmation Coyote reminds their friends in the middle lands of the Coyote Continent that it doesn't matter when your family arrived here. www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

See you all next year!

Pissed off CBS journalists could do their bit in giving 🍊🐷 his well-deserved, long-overdue coronary, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage. It might end their *job* but not their *careers.*

In an episode of the Great British Baking Show I saw yesterday, the entrants baked and decorated yule log cakes, and holy hot damn, I'd love one of those right now, and I wonder if WinCo or Fred Meyer has any.

Me to Bari Weiss

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Happy light, everyone ❤️‍🔥

Watch it before it gets taken down 60 Minutes CECOT video. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

You're a bunch of god-damned cowards. You've let down the public and betrayed the legacy of Murrow and Cronkite. Tell your "ombudsmen" to get stuffed and let investigators and reporters do their jobs.

1) Finished a bunch of season and half seasons this week. "Son of a Critch," season three, was more sentimental and less tween sitcomedy of errors. The show is leaving Netflix, but it looks like there's a fourth season out there. Hopefully it ends up on a service I have.

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

Christmas penguins always bothered me, as they live in the South Pole and most holiday lore takes place in the northern hemisphere. Friends and I have adopted the extinct Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, as the official holiday "penguin", which we celebrate on the solstice. Merry Auksmas, everyone.

Throwback from 2007. Happy solstice and blessed Yule, everyone.

Up to a few months ago, Daphne got her evening kibble from one slow feeder bowl. Then I split the meal between two slow feeders, just to spread things out more. Now she's convinced that somehow she's eaten less, and bugs me for more when she's finished those off?

Doomscrolling break. Seven minute watch. "Bluey" could delve into fraught stuff. This one dealt with estranged siblings and infertility. And still be pretty funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFks...

I LOLed.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Elf on the Shelf therapy group. I needed this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYD...

Happy Solstice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ce...

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

Just like the oligarchs wanted! Know where your Republican legislator's offices are. Show up in groups. Coordinate who's bringing the pitchforks, who's bringing the torches, and who's breaking windows across town so the cops are too busy to respond.