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one thing i post every christmas is my piece about charles dickens’s washout brother www.chicagomag.com/city-life/de...
How Charles Dickens's Screw-Up Chicago Brother Turned the Second City Against Boz
When Charles Dickens toured America for the last time, he gave Chicago the cold shoulder, as well as his widowed Chicago sister-and-law. The local press attacked him as a Scrooge and a hypocrite, but ...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
one thing i post every christmas is my piece about charles dickens’s washout brother www.chicagomag.com/city-life/de...
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
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This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Bullies suck and uniqueness is good
What was your takeaway from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, when you watched it at a kid?
a stuffed reindeer with a red nose and a white tail
Alt: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
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December 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Bullies suck and uniqueness is good
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Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
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Here's to all the people doing all the emotional labor and heavy lifting of the holidays.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here's to all the people doing all the emotional labor and heavy lifting of the holidays.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
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I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
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December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Ok since my entire timeline is praising Trading Places, which I agree is great, and you plan to watch it with Zoomers you better prepare them for the train scene or they will look at you in absolute horror. That part does not age well.
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Ok since my entire timeline is praising Trading Places, which I agree is great, and you plan to watch it with Zoomers you better prepare them for the train scene or they will look at you in absolute horror. That part does not age well.