Headlines & images like this are angering & dispiriting for the relative handful of us who follow the actual science on COVID & who try to protect their long term health in an ocean of denial. But the good news is they must be getting scared. More people must be slowly catching on.

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

Never forget that many of the Epstein survivors went to the police. They went to the FBI. They named names. The system protected Epstein & the other predators. Just as it’s doing now. No predators should be redacted. Expose them all.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

We need displacement place a tent 500 shekels A tent itself 2,200-3,000 Plastic sheets or covers for protection 2,400 Transportation to move the family 2,000 Building a simple bathroom1,500 💰 The total cost of displacement is around 10,000 shekels tinyurl.com/fashamaidtrend

I love these Christmas decorations. You might even spot them in your own country – the brand takes part in fairs around the world. 🇺🇦 Koza Dereza

Spotted in Kyiv today – the Christmas Tree of Light, made from the uniforms of DTEK energy workers (Ukraine’s largest private energy company). A symbol of gratitude to all who keep our lights on.

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN EAST ASIA Never happened anything like this ,this time of the year 31C in CHINA 22.5C Sogwipo SOUTH KOREA- Record December heat Minimums up to 18C in Korean Peninsula In NORTH KOREA Records December warmest night pulverized everywhere

Looks like I’ve found a new hobby – visiting local markets and discovering little treasures. Even if my posts help Ukrainian artisans just a tiny bit, I’m happy. They deserve to be seen. Just look at these cuties I saw today.

Greetings from Kyiv! Just wanted to remind the world that this city (oh, this country) stands. Filmed earlier today – from my eyes to yours.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

How fitting it is that the heavily mutated (and aggressively spreading) Covid variant BA.3.2 has been nicknamed "Cicada," for what better way is there to react to this mutated subvariant than by wanting to emulate the humble cicada by screaming?

The start of Covid’s 7th year is the perfect time to revisit the pandemic hobbies you have abandoned: you can get back to baking and puzzles, reading and calling friends; and you can even get back into doing what you can to protect other people. * 301 librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/p...

Damn. These redactions need to be reviewed for compliance with Congress' orders. Over 200 pages that are straight up ◼️⬛️◼️⬛️⬛️◼️? Yeah.... not buying that they're just victims' names over & over & over.

Disabled people tried to warn you We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist

I don't know who needs to hear this but withholding medicine from groups of people out of animus for their class is a UN textbook definition of genocide.

If you can't find the words , Read this. It has all the words.

'John Muir, co-founder of the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation, a UK charity campaigning for the improvement of clean indoor air, said any investment in the devices was well worth the money'. There's a poll in this article - please vote. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...

Yo @safety.bsky.app are you all just deleting every single account from Gaza on sight? Because this person hadn’t even heard of Bluesky when I started talking to her- made an account yesterday and made ONE POST. She’s a published journalist by the way.

While waiting for the power to return, let me show you these candles — their natural honey scent is so rich that even a non-honey person like me was pleasantly surprised. And their slogan? Perfect. Made in Ukraine.

Home Depot is providing us with yet another reason to never shop at Home Depot. Lowes invests in the local community and works with a wide variety of social support groups. Home Depot's top execs and shareholders, in contrast, dump millions into Trump's campaigns and actively support ICE.

25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study. Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

A new study has found that “People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of developing dementia,” so if you want to protect your brain you should eat some Brie, and to protect your brain you should also do what you can to avoid contracting Covid.

It is not so much that I am tired of hearing Christmas songs wherever I go but that I am tired of hearing Christmas songs interrupted by coughing wherever I go.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 18 December 2025 🔹Active cases: 201 (+18.9%) 🔹Active outbreaks: 38 (+31.0%) 🔹Resident cases: 162 (+22.7%) 🔹Staff cases: 39 (+5.4%) 🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 401 (+1) @SamRaeMP www.health.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Australia: COVID-19 – information for residential aged care providers – emergency leave. "Unpredictable COVID-19 outbreaks are still occurring in aged care homes and the broader community, so emergency leave continues to be available for permanent aged care residents until 31 December 2026."

‼️HISTORIC Insane Minimum Temperature of 28.5C at Chuuk HOTTEST DECEMBER NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MICRONESIA HOTTEST NIGHT EVER RECORDED ANYWHERE IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE this time of the year Record heat keeps sweeping all tropics

The professor told me on the last day a student had asked why she had worn a mask all semester and so she told him: that most students miss a few classes, but based on how many students miss a few classes she has a hunch that Covid and flu come to her class every day.

My friend, who is optimistic, insists that right now it is vital to believe that next year will be better than this year was. And, my friend, who is pessimistic insists that right now it is vital to believe that next year might be better than this year was.

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the ten million inhabitants of Burundi.” Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet Hardcover – 14 January 2026 by Chuck Collins

Greetings from Kyiv, with warcoffee during another regular power outage. Somehow, I’ve grown to love this ritual of coffee outside. It’s not about desperate acceptance of reality – it’s about love for life.

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

When you hear people ask “what never came back after Covid?” calmly and politely tell them that what never came back (what never will come back) are the more than 7.1 million people who lost their lives to Covid, and that number is still growing for we are not yet “after Covid.”

Another small Australian December #flu thread. In the ~3 days since my last update (13DEC), detections have risen by 5,569. That's a daily rate of 1,856 (up from 635 in the previous update).

"If risk accountability means that current sellers get less money for the homes they sell, that is good. Those homes are worth less money than they used to be. Suppressing risks doesn’t make property worth more, it just dumps the losses on the next buyer." alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...

"If we were seeing more TB.... Blah.... Blah.... Blah..." - Balloux When you cannot appreciate the #Leonardi_Effect doi.org/10.1016/j.tu...

AOC: “President Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after the worst of the worst — What we have seen is that ICE is not overwhelmingly going after criminals — In fact, over 70% of people currently detained in detention facilities do not have a criminal record”

"Lourdes" sent us this photo of farm workers pruning gala apple trees in WA State. "We earn 50 cents a tree and if we move fast we can make about 200 trees in a day." #WeFeedYou

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

Just a beautiful moment in Kyiv – because life goes on.

Queensland records worst #flu season in a decade, with cases 18 per cent up on last year www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

By now you have probably heard the bad news: that yet another study has found that Covid can cause long-term brain alterations. So now you should really hear the good news: that there is still time for you to alter your behavior so you don’t catch Covid.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...