An extraordinary warning of where the Country may be heading and a warning to Trump not to go there, by a widely respected “conservative” judge. It didn’t get much attention when published in April, but well worth a read today.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

During today’s press conference by the Attorney General she said that Abrego Garcia had engaged in activities which included abuse of “humans, children and women.” News flash to the AG: WOMEN ARE HUMANS! They don’t need to be placed in a separate category.

Bad day for Trump. Court orders Trump to rehire probationary workers he illegally fired. Judge finds Trump probably violated the Constitution when he took executive action against a law. Rubio in hot water for trying to deport green card holder. Putin mocks Trumps’s Ukraine peace plan.

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

(Trump Vance meeting just before meeting with Zelenskyy:)
Vance: Mr. President, just remember, we all want the mining deal, so you have to help the Ukraine, because if Putin wins he won’t honor a Ukrainian agreement
Trump: Right. To get the mining deal, Ukraine has to lose.
Vance: (Whata putz..)

Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong
open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

Trump’s world: Countries he’s threatened to invade or annex: Canada, Mexico, Panama Greenland/Denmark. Countries targeted for tariffs: Colombia, China. Countries threatened with tariffs: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, EU. Areas threatened with ethnic cleansing: Gaza.

We all know how this is going to turn out. The only countries which will accept Trump’s plane loads of deportees will be Russia, North Korea and Iran. And Trump will remove all trade restrictions on these countries.

A heartbreak

Rest in peace Cecile Richards

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄
🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

“Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory …will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Lincoln, first inaugural address.

Definition of perfect pitch: Assad “falls” out a window and lands on Putin.

The World’s New Trump Strategy? Trump’s declaration of a trade war against Mexico, Canada and China is childish in its bluster and vacuousness. But the responses of Mexico and Canada were forceful and unyielding nature. No coddling or playing to Trump’s ego. “Hit us and we’ll hit you back.”

Milley: Don’t lecture me about women in combat. Women have been in combat…

Trump’s nominees: Incompetence as a component of loyalty. Trump, the self-described stable genius, must always appear as the smartest man in the room and never seen to be upstaged by any staff. With cadre of unqualified he has nominated, he may well succeed. In Munchkin land, he will stand tall.