If you want to sob into the holidays, check out Goodbye June on Netflix. Directed by Kay Winslet and starring her, Helen Mirren and Toni Colette.

It’s 76 degrees at 4:30 pm. It’s raining (that wasn’t in the forecast at all). The tourtière (no, spell-check, not the “torture”) is in the oven. Happy Christmas Eve!

I remember when they tried this theory on for size. Lasted less than a day. Major fail.

I wonder how many X-ray crystallographers were as chuffed as I was to see Carmelo Giacovazzo's book, Fundamentals of Crystallography, on [TV]. Easter egg: Walter White was a crystallographer before becoming a teacher. @bsky.app we need a spoiler tool like they have on Threads!

The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Good morning and happy holidays, here are some classic crime novels and more recent reissues I loved reading throughout the year, and I’m making this an annual tradition for the column:

The first of my year-in-review posts for 2025 - What did I write and what did I read? Check it out at bevvincent.substack.com/p/reading-an... You don't need to subscribe (but you can if you want to!)

"[Nelson embodies] the best of Texas: you can be a freak, a weirdo, a cowboy, a rancher, a cello player, whatever," Beto O'Rourke said. "He's the patron saint of that—growing his hair, rejecting corporate music, and just being a good f--king human being."

Contact lost with jet carrying Libya's army chief, says Turkey

Have to admit, I have had similar thoughts when the first two issues arrived here, wondering if the postman thinks it's a survivalist or even a doomsday cult thing. Also wondered what neighbors might make of it if it ever got misdelivered to them.

It’s achingly Canadian—including some rather dubious acting by the secondary characters—but I loved CARDINAL (especially the brutally cold fourth season) and I hope there’s a world where he can retire and spend comfortable days with Delorme.

The anonymous artist Banksy on Monday revealed a new mural in London, timed for the holiday season with what seems to be a message both sweet and damning, in what has become something of a Christmas tradition for the muralist.

Alert! The e-book of Stephen King's classic THE STAND is on sale for just $1.99! If you've never read it, this is a great opportunity!

For @rollingstone.com, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.

This drip-feed is the worst possible scenario for Trump.

The Justice Department released more files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation that include some references to Donald Trump. Follow live updates.

According to two veteran homicide detectives who once served at the LAPD — including the former cold case detective who oversaw the Elizabeth Short investigation — Marvin Merrill (aka Marvin Margolis) is probably responsible for both the Short murder and the five murders attributed to the Zodiac.

Greta Thunberg has been arrested on terrorism charges for speaking out in support of the Palestine Action hunger strikers. FUCK this British government. https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842

Macron: “Greenland belongs to its people. “Denmark stands as its guarantor.”

Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.

Tapping @lincolnproject.us @sonsofliberty.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social JIC.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Jimmy Kimmel will deliver the so-called alternative Christmas message, a uniquely British tradition, in which he will speak out against fascism on Britain’s Channel 4.

Cuba gets the Venezuela fallout.

Gold price climbs above $4,400 to hit record high

Ukrainian drones have hit the Russian deep-water port of Taman. It’s currently on fire. #explodey

Ten people rescued after boats pulled into sinkhole in Shropshire canal

@cgolden.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social

Timeless Christmas hit is the gift that keeps on giving for Wizzard

I'm one of the six, and giving love Hamilton near Coolidge Corner. Apologies for using the word vibe. www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...

A man was arrested on Sunday after a bizarre killing with a bow and arrow, an hourslong standoff and an early-morning fire that shut down a street in a New Jersey suburb.

60 Minutes is no longer a news magazine. Their new editor-in-chief has delegitimized it, bending knee and neck to the Trump regime. apple.news/AjJ2qFtJTTLO...

The body will continue its way through the Milky Way.

Russian Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died after a bomb under his car detonated. In the heart of Moscow. It’s a mystery who’s responsible. #NowhereisSafe

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

I think we are all in agreement that The Sheep Detective trailer has no business looking as entertaining as it does, and everyone involved in the ad campaign deserves a bonus. Yes?

First 2 issues just showed up in my mailbox. My postal dude now thinks I’m a survivalist but, what the hey, thank you @badhandbooks.bsky.social

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

Time to update the record for when the Senator attends college games.

A mass shooting killed at least nine people and injured 10 more at a tavern near Johannesburg, South Africa, the police said on Sunday.

Signing limitation pages is a little bit like eating a bag of potato chips. Once I get started, I have a hard time stopping!

I had not been paying much attention to the skyrocketing cost of RAM, but when I finally dived into the topic I was astounded. The increase, driven largely by the AI boom, will eventually affect almost all consumer electronic gear - from PCs to phones to cars.

The brown jay returned multiple times, giving birders several chances to see it.

#JigsawPuzzle I started this one before Halloween (bought it at @murderbooks.bsky.social ) and finished it a week before Christmas. It has foil highlights that were at times helpful and at times confounding!

Book Mail Flight or Fright Edited by Sai King @stephenking.bsky.social and Bev Vincent @bevvincent.bsky.social Stories that have always reminded me that I've made the right choice by remaining on the ground. Just wish they could've put those stickers on the back.

Next, Lockdown by Bev Vincent (@bevvincent.bsky.social). A more contemplative story about a small island community insulated from the superflu, deciding how to navigate their isolation and paranoia. Shades of Storm of the Century and Dolores Claiborne to this one. Loved it.

"If that thing is chasing me, ain't no way im stopping for a garbage can."

Season 4 of THE WHITE LOTUS