Today's the 12th Day of Christmas, and tonight is Twelfth Night, a time for wassailing and carousing. An angel drummer makes a noise on the 15th Century font at Upton, Norfolk. He's playing knackers, originally naqqāra, a drum type brought back to Europe during the crusades. 1/3

Some good news in these horrible times.

🤗 I hope he is the real deal

Oh so WTF I spelled chili wrong. It's not the SAmerican country, it's the easy to make Sunday dinner. And he invaded Venezuela! I'm on the continent.

I am making chile for dinner today.Something they like and I will bask in their compliments and appreciation while 5 and 4 ask for hot dogs which I never buy. I do have bananas and yogurt drinks which they like and I will bask in their compliments for buying the mango flavor and not strawberry.

So always easier to ask forgiveness than permission, is Congress even asking for an I'm sorry, or hiding under their desks always the go to answer?

I come from a patriotic family. 🇺🇸Stepdad served. Uncles served. My brother served. My mom encouraged political debate from my friends and me. All have passed. Here I am routing for NATO. Mexico. Greenland. Ukraine. What is wrong here? One man and his party.

Get out of his bathtub!

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Nothing like food shopping at 7:30am cause you were watching tv all day Sat, Pres talk smack about his mighty military that he gave the mid finger to when he was supposed to join up. Yes, the people's military is the best. Too bad they have the worst draft dodging commander. Reminder, jello aisle.

Please add Tom Cotton Brain to any list being prepared of DAF Republican elected officials who think anyone takes what he shares as pearls of wisdom instead of Trump's fake gold, 42nd street swag.

💯 agree. My litmus test for 2028 is can our candidate win in the south? We have to break through there. We cant he be down something like 100-10 in the electoral college in the first hour of voting. You have to do better with southern voters.

I much prefer the frog pics thank you than any Trump soc media post. The frogs are much more interesting, honest and ribbit truth, flies and female frogs, pls., and hold the oil.

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Trump can pardon 6 convicted king pin drug traffickers. Invade a foreign country and dethrone a president on suspicion only just to replace him with a president who will say yes to our demands. Yet, we can’t lock up a pedophile thieving convicted rapist with 91 felony counts against him.

You elect a reality TV host, you get a dose of reality. His billion dollar, 5th Ave., Mar-a-Largo, filthy rich friends, oil companies, dark money donors reality.

I am not buying into the same old, same old. I know how we got here and I know who and what are responsible. I am watching Mamdani closely to see how his new and different works out for New Yorkers. Elected officials work for all the ppl. Mamdani shared that on the trail. Gotta be something better.

Good morning on this 4th day of Jan. New year, new choices, new invasion, maybe new way for Trump and his robber barons to make more money, Venezuelan oil. Oh where to take this new, 'not helping the American ppl?' Trump is unpopular, but so are Dems. Any path lead to a more direct democracy?

Almost 20 years ago, I warned we were heading toward a world where states invade each other at will, and that America had an obligation to restore the higher bar for going to war. Not gonna say I told ya so, but...well, okay, I will. There's a reason I chose these quotes to open the book.

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youtu.be/DvFIIgLnmpM?... Please watch and share. This is the problem we have in our society. Justice needs all of us not just some.

Bay of Pedo Pig invasion.👹

Sox weeks ago Trump pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes he now abducts Maduro for. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

So does capturing Maduro, give Americans their Health Insurance back? Does attacking Venezuela, lower Grocery prices for Americans? Does raiding a foreign country, give the American economy a boost? Does arresting a foreign dictator, bring justice to the Epstein victims? Valid questions, right?!

Good morning BlueSky."There are years that ask questions and years that answer," Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. I don't know what kind of year 2026 will be, but I do think we all had a lot of questions that remain unanswered. How did we get here, really? And how do we get out?

Reasons it’s ok to forcibly remove a president, according to the US president: - doing crimes with family - targeting vocal opponents - domestic use of security forces - humanitarian crisis denial - weaponization of Supreme Court - dismantling democratic elections - ruinous economic policies

Tulsi Gabbard in 2019: "The United States needs to keep our hands off Venezuela... end these destructive and wasteful regime change wars... proven to cause more problems, increase suffering, increase instability for the people in the countries where we wage these wars. In Latin America especially".

Good Morning and Happy Saturday! Have a great day! ☕️ ❄️

My last couple days with my grandson, we walked at twilight with the full moon. He is 8 and fascinated by the ice below.

Good Morning #BlueSky Friends ‘Healthy, Happy, Loved, Aligned, & Blessed’. That’s the vibe from this day forward. Have a great day! 💕

I am a believer in law/order, following rules and our Constitution. The 1st amendment provides for peaceful protest, to speak ur mind as long as there is no imminent harm to another, to allow the press to give us the facts. And C&B is clearly outlined. It is Congress who has failed to do their job.

It is not the now I am so concerned with though there is plenty to bite one's nails over, but the continuation of this admin with Vance as its leader. If Democrats do not take the House and try for the Senate, what does that portend? If Amers back more Republican authoritarianism, what then?

happy bday English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, b.1892. "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost." "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

MAGAts will be very very busy attending these incredible performances by these outstanding superstars!

And glory. Don’t forget the glory. They want cheering crowds and ticker tape and flyovers. Rubio wants to ride into Venezuela as The Liberator.

I’m sure it was easy. Rubio has been fixated on this for years and Trump’s brain is oatmeal. He just yammered about glory and defeating socialism.

I wonder how Marco Rubio talked Trump into invading Venezuela? Maybe very rich, ailing presidents almost 80 yrs old really do just want to play golf all day.

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What do you do with a pres who has very limited oversight by Congress, the SC and none at all by his prty? Rely on the courts which can have their decisions possibly overturned by SC judges? Hopefully steps are being taken in the event Vance is elected in 28, God forbid. Win the H&S. Impeach Trump.

If I was a Democratic Senator, I would have to tell Trump what a joke his gaudy taste in fake gold, the ballroom and his crap arch are and all will be demolished as soon as his moving van leaves the grounds. He can look as the demolition machinery enters the grounds. And I would say it repeatedly.

AMEN!! And let their victories be a sign of encouragement from the Gods of what will (hopefully) be a SHELLACKING of REPUKES in Nov. otherwise TRUMPKIN will remain UNneutered.

See you later.

I have tried to promote this as much as possible. MSM seem to be ignoring it completely. We know our promotion helps. But should we really be trying to push peace on a national level. WAKE UP MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

New in PN: The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives "Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."

Uh oh, too much couch time and too many chocolate covered cannolis. 😔

I like presidents who report from the oval office at prime time and not text like an irate teenager whose friends left him out of the stickball game because he can't hit a pensy pinky ball or catch on the fly. Name calling, lying whenever his mouth opens or his fat fingers fly over his keyboard.

Good morning BlueSky. Happy Friday. Time to get busy. Gratitude in my attitude, got it. See you later.💚🌴💛☀️💜🇺🇸💙🕊️

I am beating the 🥁 for Dems in 2026 to take what you can from a Mamdani win, maybe not his message, but his taking it to the streets and internet process. Okay not only streets but the highways and byways, the hollers and hills, you got the gist. And remember the ladies, Spanberger and Sherrill. 💙

Capitol Hill reporters, please ask Republican elected officials why they have no issues with Trump accepting a plane from Qatar, gifts from South Korea and other countries and money from crypto regulation changes in violation of the emoluments clause of our Constitution.