Staci D. Kramer
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Shabbat shalom. Sending a little extra light your way on this first Shabbat of 2026.
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At the end of a very long Saturday, this is where I landed:
“Where we are is an extremely difficult moment, and that is reality, but it need not be where we go. In this moment, then, there is a chance to create a better America, as hard as that might be to see this weekend.”
“Where we are is an extremely difficult moment, and that is reality, but it need not be where we go. In this moment, then, there is a chance to create a better America, as hard as that might be to see this weekend.”
A new, old type of lawlessness as Trump attacks Venezuela — and an opening for a better America
The legal discussion is dark in the wake of the U.S. military taking Nicolás Maduro to the U.S. The path America is on today, however, is not where we need to go.
www.lawdork.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 AM
At the end of a very long Saturday, this is where I landed:
“Where we are is an extremely difficult moment, and that is reality, but it need not be where we go. In this moment, then, there is a chance to create a better America, as hard as that might be to see this weekend.”
“Where we are is an extremely difficult moment, and that is reality, but it need not be where we go. In this moment, then, there is a chance to create a better America, as hard as that might be to see this weekend.”
“Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” 🐳
January 4, 2026 at 5:29 AM
“Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” 🐳
>>If Trump understood what he was saying, he was violating all concepts of checks-and-balances. If he didn’t understand, he is incapacitated.<<
The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
fallows.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 AM
>>If Trump understood what he was saying, he was violating all concepts of checks-and-balances. If he didn’t understand, he is incapacitated.<<
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January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Just gonna leave this here
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Just gonna leave this here
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First challah of 2026 ... after my longest Friday baking break in years. The aroma of Shabbat.
January 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
First challah of 2026 ... after my longest Friday baking break in years. The aroma of Shabbat.
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Shabbat shalom. Sending a little extra light your way on this first Shabbat of 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Shabbat shalom. Sending a little extra light your way on this first Shabbat of 2026.
Reposted by Staci D. Kramer
Sharing breaking news?
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
January 3, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Sharing breaking news?
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
Sharing breaking news?
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
January 3, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Sharing breaking news?
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.
🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.
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This is a stark reason—one of several—to be very cautious here. Others: Almost everyone involved is an unreliable narrator. It’s night. It’s the new year weekend and so still a holiday time for most journalism staffing operations.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
Whatever the fuck is going on is clearly very bad and an era of fake/recirculated video making it very hard to tell what is real is making it even worse.
January 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
This is a stark reason—one of several—to be very cautious here. Others: Almost everyone involved is an unreliable narrator. It’s night. It’s the new year weekend and so still a holiday time for most journalism staffing operations.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
Shabbat shalom. Sending a little extra light your way on this first Shabbat of 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Shabbat shalom. Sending a little extra light your way on this first Shabbat of 2026.
First challah of 2026 ... after my longest Friday baking break in years. The aroma of Shabbat.
January 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
First challah of 2026 ... after my longest Friday baking break in years. The aroma of Shabbat.
The St. Louis Blues are unbeaten in 2026. 🏒
January 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The St. Louis Blues are unbeaten in 2026. 🏒
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I'm mentioning this today for no reason:
Nearly everyone in DC and Silicon Valley supported the 2025 law making non-consensual intimate images (including AI faked ones) a federal crime and requiring social media companies to take down such material within 48 hours.
How's that going?
Nearly everyone in DC and Silicon Valley supported the 2025 law making non-consensual intimate images (including AI faked ones) a federal crime and requiring social media companies to take down such material within 48 hours.
How's that going?
January 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I'm mentioning this today for no reason:
Nearly everyone in DC and Silicon Valley supported the 2025 law making non-consensual intimate images (including AI faked ones) a federal crime and requiring social media companies to take down such material within 48 hours.
How's that going?
Nearly everyone in DC and Silicon Valley supported the 2025 law making non-consensual intimate images (including AI faked ones) a federal crime and requiring social media companies to take down such material within 48 hours.
How's that going?
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🚨 IMPORTANT: *Official* avg. 2026 #ACA rate hikes will likely be lower than KFF's 114% estimate for three critical reasons...
...all of which will be completely ignored by the Trump Regime a few weeks from now.
acasignups.net/26/01/02/imp...
...all of which will be completely ignored by the Trump Regime a few weeks from now.
acasignups.net/26/01/02/imp...
IMPORTANT: *Official* avg. 2026 premium hikes will likely be lower than KFF's 114% estimate for three critical reasons...
Last week I issued a warning that once the 2026 ACA Open Enrollment Period ends in a few weeks, the Trump Regime is likely to crow about total enrollment "only" dropping by perhaps a million people co...
acasignups.net
January 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Charlottesville/Albemarle folks! Have your ACA premiums risen? Have you downgraded to a plan with higher out-of-pocket costs? I'm working on a story for @cvilleweekly.bsky.social and want to hear from you. DM me or email news at c-ville dot com.
🚨 IMPORTANT: *Official* avg. 2026 #ACA rate hikes will likely be lower than KFF's 114% estimate for three critical reasons...
...all of which will be completely ignored by the Trump Regime a few weeks from now.
acasignups.net/26/01/02/imp...
...all of which will be completely ignored by the Trump Regime a few weeks from now.
acasignups.net/26/01/02/imp...
IMPORTANT: *Official* avg. 2026 premium hikes will likely be lower than KFF's 114% estimate for three critical reasons...
Last week I issued a warning that once the 2026 ACA Open Enrollment Period ends in a few weeks, the Trump Regime is likely to crow about total enrollment "only" dropping by perhaps a million people co...
acasignups.net
January 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Charlottesville/Albemarle folks! Have your ACA premiums risen? Have you downgraded to a plan with higher out-of-pocket costs? I'm working on a story for @cvilleweekly.bsky.social and want to hear from you. DM me or email news at c-ville dot com.
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![Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia42izz36bkhdteb5743objgf2s3whe3kblmnxnwjvgggtu66ea54@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Reminder to BlueSky newcomers—if you want to immediately fill your feed with NFL talk ahead of the playoffs, subscribe to my starter pack!
Adding new accounts all the time 👇
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Adding new accounts all the time 👇
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January 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Reminder to BlueSky newcomers—if you want to immediately fill your feed with NFL talk ahead of the playoffs, subscribe to my starter pack!
Adding new accounts all the time 👇
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Adding new accounts all the time 👇
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>>I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay.<<
lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
January 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
>>I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay.<<
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#OnThisDay in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt shut down Indianola MS post office to prevent a mob from pushing out Minnie Cox, a Black female postmaster they tried to kill. (Black postmasters were killed in SC & GA.) The Indianola Post Office now bears her name.
mississippitoday.org/2025/01/02/1...
mississippitoday.org/2025/01/02/1...
January 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
#OnThisDay in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt shut down Indianola MS post office to prevent a mob from pushing out Minnie Cox, a Black female postmaster they tried to kill. (Black postmasters were killed in SC & GA.) The Indianola Post Office now bears her name.
mississippitoday.org/2025/01/02/1...
mississippitoday.org/2025/01/02/1...
>>I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay.<<
lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...
January 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
>>I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay.<<
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Welcome to the Public Domain, GEORGIA ON MY MIND (1930) 🎶
The song that captured hearts & became a state anthem in 1979—and now, in 2026, it belongs to everyone.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
The song that captured hearts & became a state anthem in 1979—and now, in 2026, it belongs to everyone.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
January 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Welcome to the Public Domain, GEORGIA ON MY MIND (1930) 🎶
The song that captured hearts & became a state anthem in 1979—and now, in 2026, it belongs to everyone.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
The song that captured hearts & became a state anthem in 1979—and now, in 2026, it belongs to everyone.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
Brutal. Absolutely brutal.
January 2, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Brutal. Absolutely brutal.
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Nice implementation of the Romm Publishing House's Vilna typeface by Ross Ilan Elovitz, soon to be shared in our list of open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License
January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Nice implementation of the Romm Publishing House's Vilna typeface by Ross Ilan Elovitz, soon to be shared in our list of open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License