The @wsj.com, which Trump is suing over it’s Trump/Epstein birthday card scoop, continues to break news about their relationship, here that many young women/girls working at MAL spa were sent over to Epstien www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

This is so real. Thinking of it as a regrouping year — next year may all the flowers bloom

“The family reluctantly returned home in August… two months after a consultant they hired found lead — a dangerous neurotoxin — inside the house. After their insurer, Farmers Insurance, dismissed those findings and cut off payments for their hotel, the Van Nesses had little choice but to return”

World’s most slo-mo rickroll

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down. There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

does a movie need a plot. can it not simply have: a hat

Yikes

Welcome, my sisters and brothers and all beloved siblings, welcome to the Church of Love and Biscuits.

The actual best thing to do with nog is to stir a slug of it into your coffee

Here is a nice floor.

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it. n.pr/4qfSDVj

Photos remembering Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist. She died at the age of 91.

Omg, finally. Last time we looked at cars we ruled out anything that had much more than music/maps on touchscreen

movies prepared me to be wrongfully accused of my wife's murder much more often than it's so far happened

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

I hate to say it, but Katie Miller specifically really should retire from public life, as befits a lady. The rest of us can stay

I don’t understand it at all — it seems incredibly inefficient — but I do watch the smart Gen Zers I know do this a lot and YES there are a lot of conspiracy theories, but they do also know quite a bit of real stuff

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

Today, ecologist Matias Hernandez and I found THIS! A gigantic desert hyacinth (Cistanche phelypaea) like a sunbeam in the sand. To see a specimen like this in full bloom is magic💫

Attempting snow boarding lol

Yes—truly a bizarre spin on the facts

What a beautiful photo from last night’s snowfall. Photo credit: Adam Gray for The New York Times

Glad to see our president spent Christmas…bombing a field next to a healthcare facility in a peaceful village in Nigeria

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Honestly I know marriages that have happened for this metaphorical reason

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

this just reminded me how playlist stories are my favorite things

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Germans love the Christmas movie The Hard

Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus. Are the fascists okay?

Curious. If someone with millions of followers tweeted “enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas” at people in the Trump administration, what do we think the FBI would do?

"Merry Christmas (War Is Starting)"

Appreciating the photos of all your Xmas wins (foods/crafts you or your loved ones made, views from your walk, animals being great, something cool you found, general coziness)

Gorgeous

“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” Incredible stuff from our leader, who I thought was planning to make America great again and whose second term has three Christmases to go

Hoo boy. Especially since Trump has spent a huge amount of $ and political capital rounding up a mostly Christian ethnic population here

most days i just make snark. on holidays i also make gorgeous chocolate meringue pies. 💃

look at this crazy jello my mom makes

Amazing

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

This totally makes sense somehow

Merry Christmas from hellscape San Francisco!

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Christmas rainbow in DC @capitalweather.bsky.social

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?

For your festive viewing pleasure, Netflix has KPop Demon Hunters: Fireplace. I have so many questions.

🎄 Christmas Day RnS Notes ✍️ @djggg.bsky.social with 2 hours of Crayons To Perfume 7-9PM ET! Listener Request Christmas…all your favorite girl group and female fronted songs as requested by you! The swingin' sounds of the 60's when you're over the Christmas music. @wfmu.bsky.social #wfmu

Each year on Gurpurab (the birthday of Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak), when I share about it on social media, something beautiful happens: the comment section gets filled with warm wishes and kind words from those people who don't share my faith. Today, on Christmas, (1 of thread)