This New Years Eve, I remind myself-
Lo alecha...it is not yours to finish the task, neither are you free to desist from the work.
A core aim of authoritarianism is to erode our will to resist so they coast to total control.
A toast to our commitment to be Too Fabulous for Fascism.
#BraveOfUS

I spent the best part of two days at Two People's Bay trying to see its "Noisy" cousin.

Simply the most hidden bird I've ever encountered.

The thyroid supplements have worked like magic for my old boy, hope you have the same experience (pictured top—the chonk is BACK after 6 months of meds)

Finally watching the newer Total Recall movie, and I will be very disappointed if there isn’t an exploding robotic head.

Watching The Goonies, where bad guys actually get caught.

This is today’s “featured photo” in my iPhone photo library. Trajan’s making a goofy face… he’s such a goober. 🤣

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

You know what, I’m feeling marginally less flippant about this insanity now that I know I’m on a list in a dossier prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs as a “key influencer” of antisemitism. This is munted.

Greatness

Part of it has got to be that he spews so much lying BS, the media is not paralyzed, but slow to act. That's by design, Bannon's flooding the zone.

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

seems to be a small hole at the site of discoloration

White-tailed Eagle from the door of the cottage. #birdingScotland.

S$X is Art

Watching this back almost makes me emotional. People are good. People care about their neighbors. People also care about people they’ll never meet. Here’s how $5 donations added up to $3M in proof of that this year, week after week.

Putin spending all week screaming from the rooftops that he does not want peace and has no intentions of backing down from his maximalist aims in Ukraine.

Meanwhile world’s most perceptive, people-savvy empath:

"It is wrong for the American people to countenance this policy as anything but appeasement." The painful truth.

"I can't stop thinking about Rob Reiner and the tragic irony of the one day I ever spent with him." He worked to save kids, but couldn't save his son. My latest at @thebulwark.com, on politics, parenting, and lessons learned.
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