My family has always gone all-in for Christmas Eve. We’re a family of band/choir geeks and drama nerds, all grown up. This isn’t one continuous memory, but rather a collection of remembrances.

I grew up with a fraught relationship to Christmas. For some reason I love it, even though every year wound up kind of miserable—my dad was a maudlin and then aggressive drunk; my mom would try to put together a reasonable Christmas for the kids even though every year was worse, financially and personally, for her,…

I’m not going to say that this is my best holiday story, but today I got an awesome gift- a gift that brought me this bang-out of joyful suprise that I didn’t think was possible for any reasonable adult to have:

And now this is the thread in which we share the things we have as Christmas tree toppers:

I’ve told this one pretty recently on another thread, but I still love it.

Created an account just for this. First I have to say, Métis is not just a term she used. We are a nation, with our own language and kinship networks, and she most definately knew this. At some point it is easy to believe she just didn’t know/had a family story, but that would have stopped making sense many, many…

The denialism.  Running into people who would insist that covid was overblown because, believe it or not, there are other diseases that kill a lot of people too.  Or that hurting the economy is worse than the disease.  Or that the vaccine is going to be worse than the disease. 

I am giving the majority of the topics in this dirt bag the same side eye my older cat Minerva (more commonly known in the house as Miss Tubbs or Tubby) is giving my xmas decorations. She is appalled and is standing in protest to the morons who are fucking so much shit up (or, in the case of Maria, just exist as…

I’m glad that, even when he claims to want to help us, he’s actively stopping an eviction moratorium as part of that deal that would actually stop me and millions of others from going homeless in january. very thorough, good fucking work you asshole.

I, for one, think it’s sweet that Facui still believes in American people believing in reason.

• Here’s the House Republicans just plotting a coup out in the open like that is a normal thing that happens. [Politico]

Also, I was today years old when I realized that the Electoral College is a thing you can sue.

After a certain point it just sorts them all into "has lice."

For all those third party assholes that weren't enthusiastic about Clinton, you have to give her her due. She was the one that said half of them are irredeemable deplorables, and she was as right then as she has proven to be every day since. 

Yep. I can really sum it up with a brief version of a story I told on here under another burner account. I spent years and years listening to my conservative acquaintances bitch about Obama and liberals. I really tried to listen and understand. One day, I finally got a bit fed up with all the “need to protect myself” r…

51 days - how long it took Republicans to ram through tax breaks for the rich & corporations in 2017.
30 days - how long it took Republicans to rush Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court.
219 days - how long the Republicans have been sitting on the relief package passed by the Democrat-majority House of…

This makes me so angry. My employer is going above and beyond, in that we’re getting fully paid for quarantine while we

Flynn is openly advocating an actual military coup. He is a traitor.

Do any of these dinguses actually know what “Cancel Culture” means? A mayor here is refusing to remove a Columbus statute because of “Cancel Culture,” and she used the scare quotes. I think she has bigger ambitions than small city mayor, she also refused to change the name of Paul Manafort Drive, although Senior does…

At this point, I’ll take any and all small silly ways to survive this winter I can get. Barely clinging on to the rope at the moment. I’m effectively at the point that in regards to anything going on in the world that I, personally, can’t make a real visible change right this moment, I’m out. Wrote all the letters,…