Dear Outraged GOP representatives,

Put your money where your mouths are by revoking Johnson’s speakership and sign on to articles of impeachment.

Anything less is consent.

#Cowards

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark to Trump in her New Year’s address:

“Throughout the year, we have had to listen to a lot: Threats, pressure, derogatory speech — and this from our closest ally through decades — about taking over another country and its people, as if they were an item one could buy and own. This is outrageous. Denmark lives up to its responsibilities, and it will not be us seeking a conflict. But have no doubt: We will stand firmly on the principles of right and wrong.”

Mark Warner with a great statement on #Venezuela and Trump's violation of the rule of law.

WTF?!

Trump — the owner of 18 golf properties — abuses the presidency to cancel the lease on the land used by a competing golf course, which offers a more affordable price than his own golf course in D.C.

I am out of words. Is there a stronger word than corruption? This presidency is just… unfathomably corrupt.

https://youtu.be/Kwlku2mbZtU?si=fAGOOJqP6g4uOwIz

Ooh, I’ve got a good one: Let’s let 2026 be the year we stop having arguments in our heads with people who don’t exist about things that haven’t happened.

My New Year’s resolution for 2026 will be the same as it was for 2025:

Be deeply aware of what deserves my time and energy, consciously opt out of what doesn’t, so I can fill my days with what truly matters.

Keeping this in the back of my mind has become increasingly important to me, and 2025 only reinforced it.

Happy new year! During 2025 my all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds, and this picture shows what happened in the sky. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

50 Years of Changing David Bowie Hair Styles in One Animated GIF

https://www.openculture.com/2015/01/50-years-of-changing-david-bowie-hair-styles-in-one-animated-gif.html

Folks interested in science should be interested in Retraction Watch, which is now 15 years old. Started by medical journalists Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus, the site is the only one (that I know of, anyway) that uncovers and tracks scientific retractions, errors, and other controversies. My best friend of 27 years happens to work there too, but that's besides the point! They do vital work no one else is doing. Their year-end summary is impressive.

#science

https://retractionwatch.com/

I saw my aunt this weekend. I always admired her growing up: she was a dedicated dancer, bird watcher, traveler, and general arts-enjoyer. I took up ballet and piano because I wanted to be just like her.

I just found out that she started all of those hobbies after she got sober in her 40s, shortly before I was born. Her defining characteristics, in my eyes, have occupied less than half of her life.

It was a nice reminder that you can start a new chapter of your life whenever you’d like.

there's a lot of bullshit and disappointment about 2025 being a boring version of the future but this video is righting a lot of wrongs for me

Good to see RedState finally recognizing the villains in their own tent. Too bad the rich white male owners of the NFL really don’t care about you. I see a FrontLine expose in our future.

"On KC Chiefs Move, Using Taxpayer Dollars Is the Only Play Kansas Ever Tries”

https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2025/12/27/on-kc-chiefs-move-using-taxpayer-dollars-is-the-only-play-kansas-ever-tries-n2197520

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Martin Luther King Jr.

#Quote

Frost

#LeafScrolling #Nature #Photography