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Archives: December 25, 2019

A Happy Christmas painting received as a gift

Anti-government concert in Medellin draws thousands

A Visit from St. Nicholas BY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE

When do Democrats regain control of the US Senate? 2020 or 2022?

USA Apprehended 18,000 Brazilians on Border in 12 Months

Even though I don't celebrate Xmas, I want to wish a beautiful holiday to my president

Excellent gif found on Twitler's Twitter Page

Has Trump Played Golf Since He Went For Is.....

Two sewage spills reported in Bremerton

Lime to pull e-bikes from Seattle, bring them back with scooters in spring

Johnny Cash had a knack for deciphering Morse Code & was 1st American To Know Stalin Was Dead

My Merry Christmas meme... 🎄❤️🥰🎅🦌

Coomplaints from some white historians about the NYT's "1619 Project".

Really weird--Christianity Today did NOT break with Trump b/c he's drastically cutting food stamps!!

Anyone remember from why back when the Pigpen cypher?

Bloomberg campaign vendor used prison labor to make calls for 2020 presidential bid

🐦 DEC 27 at 6PM - Laconia NH Town Hall with Bernie Sanders

My cat gets the crazies around 9 PM, fast asleep at 2 AM

Democratic Groups Plot to Make Impeachment Trial Painful for GOP

How many ways the Democrats could regain control of the US Senate in 2020?

Rappelling Grinches, siren light shows and hordes of football fans brighten the holidays for sick ki

Who Were The Diggers, Levellers & Ranters? English Civil War

Washington, 23 other states will get minimum wage hikes in 2020

2 More Washington E. coli Cases Linked To California Romaine

MERRY CHRISTMAS

New Russian Method to Silence Dissent: Military Service in the Arctic

Endangered rays may have secret nursery in Mexican waters

Grandma Gets The Best Surprise From Her Family

These Dogs Are Obsessed With Christmas

Iowa Woman Who Said She Attacked Teen Because She Was 'Mexican' Also Struck Black 12-Year-Old

Huge Bear Trapped In Dumpster Gets Help From Cops

North Korea never halted efforts to build powerful new weapons, experts say

Teeny Opossums Grow Up And Run Back To The Wild

Report: FBI looking into pardons by ex-Kentucky Gov. Bevin

BAMBOOZLED 😂

This dog's transformation is the best Christmas miracle ever 🐶❤️🎄

(Jewish Group) Federal lawsuit filed against weekly anti-Israel demonstrations in front of Michigan

These shelter dogs all got the best Christmas present -- a family ❤️🎄

She smiles so much that she sneezes 😍

Fredo Trump once again displaying his stupidity.

(Jewish Group) McDonald's public menorah is Hanukkah symbol in Brazilian Amazon

(Jewish Group) Guinness World Records certifies world's most valuable dreidel

Happy Kwanzaa ! Kwanzaa 101 for the uninitiated self conscience or confused

Mandatory Tuesday Mike Malloy Truthseeker thread! There Has to be a Morning After!

Happy Kwanzaa ! Kwanzaa 101 for the uninitiated, self conscience or confused

Melania answered NORAD Santa calls by herself -- after Trump's blunder last Christmas

US Space Force: Providing Technologies like. . . GPS! Who knew?

Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

*Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Discusses My Own Words

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Mike and the Mechanics - Silent Running

For Christmas

Let's Make This Don & Rudy's Last Good Xmas for a Loooooong Time (Ferret/Shower Cap)

Will Gender Reemerge?

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

My oven has been on for eight hours solid

One of the things I hate about getting old (70) is that I'm still excitable but more slow-witted.

Happy Holidays, DU!

Rockin Around The Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee

The Republican Party is NOT dead. They said the same thing about us in 1972

Want a good laff - Crop duster sprays a community with Holy Water

The Who- Christmas

Tweet of the Day...From the Obamas

Bawawaaa.. Kucinich Endorses Gabbard for potus..

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Leaves Hospital After Losing Memory in Fall

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Leaves Hospital After Losing Memory in Fall

Former President Obama delivers holiday gifts at Washington children's hospital

Did I miss the picture of Melania's White House Christmas decorations?

Trump vs. Nixon: The difference between 2019's impeachment and Watergate is shame

Trump Has A Christmas Meltdown And Attacks Pelosi During Call With The Troops

Team Trump wants you to own the 'liberal snowflakes' at your family Christmas party

Merry Christmas Outtakes from the Obamas

Chance meeting at grocery store last night...

Santa Claus

A startlingly different kind of Christmas song:

Christmas Eve Gin-Buzz. (I'm out of vodka.)

Korn - We Care Alot (Faith No More Cover) (Fan Made Music Video)

Randy Rainbow's Christmas with Rick Perry

Happy Xmas from John and Yoko

The Sanders Institute raised more than $361,000 last year from a total of 13 large contributions

Christmas Eve/Sarajevo

Making a list and checking it twice.

'Zat You, Santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong

Lessons from John Dingell: Civility trumps partisanship

If you enjoy going to the movies on Christmas Day..

New Trump Website: Campaign Wants To Help Supporters Argue With Snowflake Relatives

So This Is Christmas, John Lennon

Mery Christmas DU

Putin Is Like Trump

Silent Night, history of the world's favorite Christmas carol

Bearded bank robber throws cash in air and yells 'Merry Christmas' in US

'And visions of being a strongman dictator danced in his head'!!

Pundits saying Trump will be re-elected

Two Wisconsin dogs escaped before being rescued by a bus driver on a cold winter's night

Merry Christmas from the Obama family

Unlike other First Ladies, Melania Trump isn't defending her husband. People are noticing

☦️Orthodox Feastday of the Incarnation of Our Lord

Twelve Months Of Trump's Mess (2017 - Lest we forget) - Parody - Don Caron

Watching Some Evangelicals Turn On Trump Is A Real Good Sign

A President under impeachment

☦️Eastern Orthodox Church: Feastday of the Nativity

Maybe nothing much really... just looking at the candidates pictures...

Orthodox ☦️ Christian Feast of the Nativity

Sledding near Boulder

Yes, Virginia.

Valparaso wildfire: Dozens of houses destroyed in Chile

Colleges are turning students' phones into surveillance machines, tracking hundreds of thousands

The Daily Show: Everything Is Stupid - Holiday Edition

The Daily Show: The Mike Pence Yule Log

Merry Christmas Mr President.

Orangeous addressing service members from his desk at maralargo---

2020 US Senate Election- US Senate seats Democrats have to win to regain control in 2020.

Drivers were surprised to see a moose casually strolling across an intersection in Anchorage, Alaska

Have yourself a real Merry Christmas !

...and this is all perfectly normal.

Bloomberg campaign to use little-known company he founded for digital strategy

'Contemptible': outrage as Rudy Giuliani attacks George Soros as 'hardly a Jew'

New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster

Authorities shot a woman during a botched raid at her home. The real suspect was already in jail.

Omarosa: 'No one has ever played Donald Trump quite the way' Pelosi has

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate!

Grammy, Emmy and Tony winning songwriter Allee Willis dies; composed Friends theme & September

Trump Announces Judicial Nominees; December 23, 2019

Caption 1874 Santa

Rudy Giuliani's anti-Soros tirade exposes three uncomfortable truths

Riley Howell, hero student in UNCC shooting is being honored as a 'Star Wars' Jedi

The Star

This would blow the mind of a lot of religious Republicans.

Holiday Lights: A Reuters photo album of illuminated Christmas celebrations worldwide.

Santa at work

This is about right and wrong

Chris fuckin Cilliza on CNN

Afghan official says Taliban abducted 26 peace activists

Cooking with white wine

and now, my annual presentation of the uplifting xmas story of Danny the Carwiper.

I'm making Figgy Pudding for dessert tonight.

A quote from the UPI...

It's Christmas Day!

China calls on US to take 'concrete steps' with North Korea

Chuck Todd admits he's not good at his job in Rolling Stone interview

I Believe in Father Christmas

Sorry #IMPOTUS, there IS a war on Christmas, and you are the cause

'Zat You, Santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong

68 Years Ago Today; early Civil Rights leaders Harry and Harriette Moore are assassinated

2 Drumpt cultists were in a hurry to make it to

Jesus, the Missing Years

Why Biden's endorsement edge matters

Merry Christmas to all of my DU friends!

It's cold and dark outside--Jeannie is still asleep.

Merry Christmas vets or happy holidays

Calvin (of C&H) channels a Trump tweet on Christmas morning...

Fight breaks out when woman wraps gifts for 'other boyfriend'

Notre Dame cathedral has just 50% chance of being saved, rector says

Hosting Christmas and freaking out -- stranger invited without me being told

So we got a present from our friends near Phoenix.

What movies do you watch every Xmas?

The only pitcher to strike out Teddy Ballgame (Williams) 3 times in a game?

😀🇺🇸🎃🥧☀️❗️😋

Merry Christmas Mr. President is trending on Twitter... and it's for Barack Obama!

After breakfast I gave our sons a group gift

If you're looking for a chuckle...

I found this amusing character on InstaGram

In the 1980s, Trump banned Christmas decorations to harass his elderly tenants (from 2016)

Trump Campaign Site Offers Help In Winning Arguments With 'Snowflake' Relatives

Australia - Area Burned +/- 5 Million Hectares - Between Maryland And West Virginia In Area

New YouGov Poll

How Bible-Thumping Hypocritical Tobacco Liars Became Bible-Thumping Hypocritical Climate Liars

As Fracking Companies Falter, Industry Now Claims That Cleanup Would Make Things "Uneconomic"

Barack and Michelle couldn't stop laughing during their first Christmas address

Moscow Mitch Coughs Up Pre-Chewed Pap At Presser About His "Concern" About Global Warming

Combine wack job beliefs, guns, and minor celebrity, and you get this...

This is great... Opinion Rhapsody

so, if you don't believe in Santa you get

My kind of Christmas song

TV Funhouse: The Narrator That Ruined Christmas (from 2001)

Christmas with the #MAGits...

You're A Mean One

''As we head into a new year, let us rededicate ourselves to a world of peace and justice.''

What It Looks Like When a Hospital Erases $11.9 Million in debt

Rudy exposed his anti-Jewish attitude. His anti Soro's comment is true hatred.

Bad Xmas Movies: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't.

Happy Holidays Y'all on DU

... these are the educators we loved in 2019

'Distortion, dissembling and digital skulduggery': Disinformation becoming normalized in elections

My single post for today...Merry Christmas, DU. Taking the day off from Trump.

Opening gifts this morning, I found a new clock radio among them.

Trump Wants Supporters to Confront 'Snowflake' Relatives

Wishing a peaceful and merry Christmas from myself, Jane, and our family to all who are celebrating

Democratic and Republican held US Senate seats up for re-election in 2020- most to least vulnerable.

Christmas TOONs - Yes, America, There Is A Santa Claus

Frustrated With Political Leaders, Community Activists Fighting Climate Crisis, Winning Elections

Covfefe

David Weissman: "I was a mess back then as an angry Trump supporter."

Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt

My favorite non-mainstream media outlets. Sharing my list (probably missing a few) . . .

Joe Biden's Christmas Message:

Jesus... this is a real tweet from a real government agency:

JOYEUX NOEL! Spotted having Christmas Day brunch at the @RitzCarlton in Paris: JARED KUSHNER & IVA

Arlo Guthrie Pause for Mr. Clause

Merry Hollidays

Conservative Columnist Calls Trump a 'Sick Human Being' for Hateful Attack...

TOXMAP, FEDERAL DATABASE ALLOWING PUBLIC TO TRACK U.S. POLLUTION, SHUT DOWN AFTER 15 YEARS BY TRUMP

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GENERAL HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!! nt

Christmas and holiday greetings to GDP.

36 Corvettes, Hidden for Years in a Garage, Will Be Given Away

"Mama, please come double my Depends. It's Christmas!" . . . Please come CAPTION Lou Dobbs!!!

'Merry Christmas, Losers'

What were the WORST movies of the past decade (2010 to 2019)?

How families find joy in seeing a black Santa at Christmas

In aftermath of Ukraine crisis, a climate of mistrust and threats

Happy Christmas and Merry Holidays!!

Why Northern Europeans Get Pernicious Anemia (Vit B12 Deficiency) A Hypothesis Involving Peat Fuel

Christmas Day 2019

Jamal Khashoggi's words remembered

I read it is about 100 000 children at our border

Have a new Christmas grand baby this morning!

Pull up your chair and your eggnog: 'Pets Read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'

A literal army of bots and Trump Supporters, pushing Trump IQ 156 or better.🙄

Merry Christmas from Your Favorite President!

Ok anyone familiar with Judge Judy?

St. Pete Man Passed Out Marijuana to Random People "Because It's Christmas"

The Merriest of Christmas and

Cluster of 5+ magnitude quakes strike off Vancouver Island

Plastic dinosaurs are made from real dinosaurs.

In dark days for democracy, it is up to all of us to bring in the light(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Another Handel Oratorio

Inside the new social media lab monitoring South Carolina's feelings about 2020 politics

You raised $365.50 on December 24, 2019 ActBlue POTUS donation links

Trump's base of support continues to be much softer than advertised

Trump's Evangelicals: what they are thinking?

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time

Governor Northam owes it to Democratic voters of Virginia to enforce the law.

Speaker Pelosi to Chump and Moscow Mitch: NO MERCY

neo-republican party is like the Berlin Wall

Trump Calling for Americans to 'Exemplify the Teachings of Christ'

Trump calls for 'deeper understanding and respect' in Christmas message

Senator Lisa Murkowski 'Disturbed' Mitch McConnell Coordinating Impeachment Trial with Trump

Hi everyone. Hope your Christmas is going well

Washington's smoking age raising to 21 on Jan. 1

Local chef spends his birthday giving food to those in need

Yellow elves from OS (we have one in our yard with a dragon)

Randy Rainbow: A Jew For Christmas

Climate change in 2019: Leaders continue to ignore the science

This is sad: 200+ low-income people displaced by a fire this morning.

Cartoons 12/25/19

E-Mails Show Racism Stephen Miller Brought To Trump White House Rachel Maddow MSNBC

Troll the ancient Yuletide carol

NRA Collapsing Under Scandal, Criminal Investigation

AMAZING Animals Reacting to Music

George Frideric Handel Messiah

It's a great Christmas for me so far. I just finished listening to/watching Last Waltz and that

Absolutely THE best headline I have seen all month

Merry Christmas from the Joe Biden family:

Ivanka shared this picture--ripe for captioning--from her holidays in Paris... (ok, I'm bored)

Merry Christmas to all Pit Bulls chained up in yards, or in shelters, awaiting death

Has anyone gotten a car for Christmas?

A Christmas story from Switzerland

Retrumplican Debate Camp -Featuring a young Donnie Shit for Brains

My Christmas/New Years wish is that the asshole in the White House is evicted for 2020. n/t

What's for Dinner, Wed., Dec. 25, 2019 Christmas Day

Notre Dame Rector: 50% Chance It Can Be Saved 'The building is still very fragile,

PBS WATCHERS: 100+ PBS Member Stations Now Streaming *LIVE* On YouTube TV

Anyone Know If Chic Fil A Is Open Today?

"Strangest Christmas Yet", Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

Entire turkey sous vide

Bear In Backyard Has A Blast Playing With This Ball He Found

Opinion: Impeachment Is The Christmas Present Trump Deserves

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette digital replica

OK, Boomer and GenX DUers. Help me out here. I distinctly recall seeing Elton John on Wonderama

'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.' Quote from Gladstone

LEGO Block Structures as a Sub-Kelvin Thermal Insulator

Pope Francis, in Christmas Speech, Urges Nations to Tend to Refugees

Murkowski 'Disturbed' by McConnell Coordination

The Boston Celtics were in Toronto this afternoon. A tweet from one of their players...

Potbellied Pig Finds His Soulmate -- In A Chicken

A little holiday confusion...

An offshoot of Meals on Wheels, Ani-Meals on Wheels helps feed the pets of disadvantaged older adult

Merry Christmas to my DU family.

Family Shocked To Find Giant Bear Has Moved In Under Their House

Yui Yoshida wanted me to let you all know that she's out of rehab tomorrow

How 2019's Market Top Parallels the 2008 Financial Crisis (w/ Sven Henrich)

Just discovered Dornford Yates---Barry books similar to Wodehouse, Chandos books to the Saint books

Christmas Day at TEB's house:

Christmas Day at TEB's house:

GOP senator 'disturbed' by McConnell impeachment remark

WaPo: Trump has tried to cut billions in foreign aid to fight corruption despite calling it priority

I had to pull over to the side of the road, to get a picture of tonight's sunset

Argentine minister to review police performance in Maldonado case

His bike just crashed.😆

RAH! Restore American Honor!

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