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My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day:

Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu
December 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
I just read Bruce David Forbes “Christmas: A Candid History” which has some fascinating thoughts on how the nativity stories don’t agree with each other at all:
In fact, if you think about it, the Christian New Testament says surprisingly little about Jesus' birth. It is generally acknowledged that, of the various books eventually included in the New Testament, Paul's letters were written earliest, and those letters say nothing specific about the birth of Jesus? Perhaps Paul knew nothing about a nativity story of Jesus, or perhaps he did not considerit important. Among the various New Testament books, the four gospels tell us the most about the life story of Jesus. Christians disagree about whether the gospels were actually written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, or by authors representing traditions associated with those people, but for convenience I will use the personal names. What is important here is that only two of the four gospels include a nativity account. The gospel of Mark, the one that most scholars say was the first of the four gospels to be written, begins in the very first chapter with John the Baptist and John's baptism of Jesus, who by that time was already an adult. In other words, Mark's gospel totally skips the birth of Jesus. The gospel of John, which is different in many ways from the other three gospels, begins with some famous, flowery words: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." A few verses later John writes, "And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth" (John1:14). Of course, Christians eventually applied those two verses to the nativity story, but there is nothing else about Jesus' birth in the gospel of John. John tells us nothing about a baby lying in a manger, no wise men or shep-herds, no birth story. That leaves us with two gospels, Matthew and Luke, and they do provide nativity stories, but they are quite different from each other. In Matthew, an angel announces to Joseph the forthcoming birth of Jesus, and Matthew's narrative also includes wise men, the moving star, and the family's escape to Egypt to avoid Herod's persecution. None of that is in Luke's gospel. Instead, Luke tells of an angel appearing to Mary rather than to Joseph, and the gospel of Luke is the one that includes shepherds and a multitude of angels appearing to them in the fields. None of that is in Matthew's gospel. The two gospels agree on a few basic things, such as the names of Jesus' parents and Mary's virginity. Overall, each gospel provides only a minimal account of the birth of Jesus, with different details. When Christians eventually got around to organizing a special annual celebration of the birth of Jesus, they had to take the few crumbs provided by Matthew and Luke, put them together, and then add some additional tradi-tions, in order to get much of a story to work with. If you examine the rest of the Christian New Testament, there is nothing more to amplify the birth story of Jesus. Out of twenty-seven total books in the New Testament, only two tell about Jesus' nativity, and their accounts are quite brief. The overall point is that, for the early Christians, the Christmas story was not a primary focus, and the Christian scriptures are evidence of that. By the way, one other factor also discouraged an observance of the birth of Jesus. In order to have a birthday party for someone, it helps to know the day on which the person was born. In this case a huge problem looms, because nothing in the New Testament indicates the month or the day of Jesus' birth, and there is even some uncertainty about the exact year. Putting questions about the year aside for a moment, consider first the issue of the month and day. The gospels of Matthew and Luke provide no direct indication of a date for the birth of Jesus, and scholars have found no external forms of evidence, and no other traditions, to solve the mystery. In the second and third centuries some Christians tried to determine the date of Jesus' birth, but their conclusions varied widely. One hint that people often seized upon was that Luke's gospel said the shepherds "were living in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8). Does that point at least to a general season of the year and thus help narrow things down? Perhaps, but not much, because shepherds in the region tended their flocks outside for at least three seasons of the year, excluding only winter. With a variety of arguments to support their views, assorted Christians in the second, third, and fourth centuries argued for March 25 and 28, April 19 and 20, May 20, and November 18 as the birth date. If we ask about the specific day on which Jesus was born, the honest answer is that we simply do not know.3 I mentioned that there are even questions about the year. Most of us assume that Jesus was born in the year 1, with Jesus' birth as the dividing line between BC and AD. That calendar system for numbering the years, which has become a dominant system in many parts of the world, was developed by a monk approximately five hundred years after the lifetime of Jesus. The monk, Dionysius Exiguus, or Dionysius the Short, intended to create a calendar that would place Jesus at the center. But he made a m…
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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annecaprara.bsky.social
Finally, I’ll say this. All the theories and ideas and calls for resistance that get posted here? They’ve gone through my mind and my boss’s mind too. But we know intimately what this administration is capable of - how lawless they are willing to be. How far they’re willing to take it.
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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danielwaweru.bsky.social
Excellent
Seizing power for the sake of religion might be an effective response to this fear, at least for a time, but the anxiety remains, the profound dis-ease with other people, including other Catholics, precisely in their otherness. Anxiety views such otherness not only as strange but also as threatening. From this point of view, the stakes are too high for the true believer to be squeamish about domination. One simply must seize power to protect the integrity of the faith, to protect the truth. So the American Catholic right has sought power and association with the powerful. It has done so with some success. But Jesus has already described success such as this: “Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward” (Matthew 6:2).
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.
chrisdeleon.bsky.social Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social

I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.

Weiss; What did the driver say.

Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.

Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece — planned for Sunday night's show — could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. That's according to two people with knowledge of events at the network who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing job security.
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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mattdpearce.com
Perhaps we should film a debate between a concentration camp guard and an abandoned toilet over whether CECOT is good. Brought to you by Bank of America.
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 5d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
flickityflarn.bsky.social
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6d
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Biggest technological revolution in our lifetime and it's not AI:
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 8d
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
flickityflarn.bsky.social
Nothing sums up the Trump economy better than this
conorsen.bsky.social Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 7d
You can make the case that the outlook for residential construction in 2026 is the worst it's been since the GFC, and the outlook for investment banking (IPO's/dealmaking) in 2026 is the best since the GFC. Not sure if those can both happen, but that's the tension.
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
flickityflarn.bsky.social
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go… oh here we go
December 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
flickityflarn.bsky.social
"One of the weirder dynamics of the Trump era: When we picture a disaster scenario, we imagine those in charge trying to alert an apathetic public. But [it's] the reverse; liberalism’s leaders seem unsure, while the rank and file are screaming at them to fight."

newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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puckarooni.bsky.social
I felt compelled
a digital drawing of a cockatiel eating a croissant while sitting on a "no stopping" sign
December 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
then we fucking fight it anyway
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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thenorthsace.bsky.social
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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surcomplicated.bsky.social
Oligarchy is a form of government as natural to human beings as any other. The desire to rule over others is not going to go away--the question is how we *constrain* that desire, & ppl who see history only through the lens of a final moral perfection and metaphysical liberation miss actual progress.
December 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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abeardedpanda.bsky.social
I think a lot of people don't fully appreciate that this administration and all of the people backing it are in it to make content as content creators
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13d
I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself
December 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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edburmila.bsky.social
It would be very difficult to convince anyone who wasn’t alive in the 1980s of just how popular Far Side cartoons were for a while.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve?

I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)

A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.

And now we

keep

finding

tiny

glass

ducks

On the floor.
Tiny blue and pink glass ducks
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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janecoaston.bsky.social
imagine if your salary dropped from $42K to $36K. you would not say "it is down slightly."
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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conorsen.bsky.social
Businesspeople being Time Person of the Year in the past 30 years:

1997 Andrew Grove (LTCM in 1998)
1999 Jeff Bezos (dot com bust in 2000)
2010 Mark Zuckerberg (debt ceiling/European debt crisis, Aug/Oct crashes in 2011)
2021 Elon Musk (stocks down big in 2022)
2025 Architects of AI (??? in 2026)
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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dangercart.bsky.social
Stealworkers
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM