Rachel

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis The federal government’s narrative of the Minneapolis shooting conflicts wildly with video footage of the incident shared online.

NEW:

Trump, Vance, Noem and the MAGA influence network are not just pushing a version of the Minnesota ICE shooting, they are trying to rewrite reality

www.wired.com/story/maga-t...

Make it viral.

If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

He has his jeans ironed. I also tried to imagine him knocking on my door and taking a seat in my dining room. It was an exercise in laughter.

I guess this qualifies as a foggy Christmas Eve. I would rather have a bit of snow, though.

I haven't finished up the stocking stuffers purchases. Ugh.

Boughs of Anthony Joshua holly about to deck the Jake Paul halls

We discovered last Friday that I have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (Wed and Thurs) off work and my husband has Christmas Day and the day after (Thurs and Fri) off work. Kinda dumb.

YOU CANNOT ‘BOTH SIDES’ FASCISM AND DEMOCRACY. (FUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA)

Firing over 100 immigration judges.

Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.

Pausing asylum decisions.

And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.

Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."

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You should be proud!

That is good news! I struggle with house plants. I have two that have survived my neglect. The cats like to "help" care for them. I hope your plant continues to thrive. Her blooms are pretty.❤️

The Latin teacher is creative. He has them write stories in Latin. At Halloween had them create monsters by drawing characteristics (written in Latin) out of a hat. He comes home with so much more energy and creativity on Latin days. I really wish he would have taken it before Senior year...

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

My kid is taking Latin I his Senior year of high school. He loves it, which just blows my mind. Anyway...just got an email from his teacher. He has this in his signature block:

tū nē cēde malīs, sed contrā audentior ītō

“Do not give in to misfortunes, but advance more boldly against them”

Awww! That fantastic!

Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection that can be transmitted during childbirth and have long-lasting effects. The vaccine has been shown to be effective in preventing the disease. The CDC's guidance has been in place since 1991, and hepatitis B cases in children have dropped.

I need some joy-scrolling to offset the doom. Anything Happy happening that you'd like to share?

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

an example of starting to believe your own bullshit. does anyone think being a drug smuggler is a "fight"? It's a business. they're so deep into this "narco-terrorist" language they're thinking these are some kind of hardened cocaine ideologues. theyre all eager to join Mar a Lago.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Skip it and watch John Oliver's exposé on Bari Weiss, her billionaire-bankrolled 'university', and her Free Press employing two worthless hires in what looks to be mostly empty office space.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Roger Marshall is a tool. The very definition of an old, white guy who continues to fail upward.

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

"Underbussing" is a word I have only seen in print in the last two days, & gotta say, as neologisms go this is a good one.

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social's (invaluable) Letters from an American:

"Every soldier is taught from week one of basic training that the Constitution outranks any individual. And they learn, early and often, that their duty includes refusing unlawful commands—even from senior officers, even from civilian officials."
-- Retired Army lt. general below at @thebulwark.com

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Holidays, days off, long weekends...it sure makes it more and more difficult to want show up to a day job.