IT’S A VALID CONTENTION:  The idea of abolition – ie the moral belief that all slavery is wrong everywhere, rather than simply not wanting to be enslaved oneself – likely could only have arising in a northern european protestant culture. Only here is labour considered noble and dignified, everywhere else it is seen as demeaning. Thus in other societies the slave is seen as lesser because of the fact of their slavery.

And for the x-iled.

I DON’T THINK THEY UNDERSTAND, ACTUALLY:  It may seem petty to deny entry to EUrocrats, but it’s all they will understand.

LOL:  The US Department of War does “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

OH, COME ON. WE NEED THIS STUDY:  Probably Just a Joke.

INTERESTING:  Am I really Northern Italian? I tested it with a reference panel. A reproducible workflow using AADR. 

THE CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE:  Welcome to my cockeyed, corrupt world of the State of Washington.

A HEROINE OF FRANCE.

What a queen ❤️ https://t.co/VCiD7K4YQr

— Common Sense Extremists (@crushmarxismnow) December 28, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Right about now, the funk soul brother.

SOMALI PIRATES UPDATE:

🧵THREAD🧵

The legacy media didn’t miss the Minnesota Somalian fraud story.

They actively dismissed it as made up, racist, or xenophobic.

Before the stories are quietly edited, I’ve got screenshots. ⤵️

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 28, 2025

PRIORITIES:

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— Mrs B (@attackdogX) December 28, 2025

THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE A FIRST-WORLD NATION INTO A THIRD-WORLD NATION:

Remember how shocked everyone was when Kamala Harris strangely chose quirky Tim Waltz as her VP running mate?

What if it wasn’t a strange decision at all and a calculation based on access to billions of dollars of Somali fraud money that could be funneled to her Presidential… pic.twitter.com/rG58i5fo4p

— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) December 28, 2025

And many of our so-called elites don’t care, so long as they still got theirs.

READER FAVORITE: Grass Fed Colostrum Powder. #CommissionEarned

THIS IS THE CORRECT TAKE:

I’m at a point where I just don’t think progressive technocracy can do anything,

Say you allocated $100 million to fix potholes.

I could see connected NGOs manufacturing potholes to fill and gobbling $80 million to no net benefit.

I could see the academic/ expert class…

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 28, 2025

Our hope — and Trump understands this — is to take away the Other People’s Money before we all run out.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: The Babylon Bee Would Like To Inform Tim Walz We Are Now A Functioning Daycare In Minnesota.

We at The Babylon Bee would like to let Governor Tim Walz know that we are now a fully functioning daycare in Minnesota serving literally millions of children.

After taking a long, hard look at our business model, we felt it financially prudent to expand beyond satire into the Minnesota daycare business, opening a very real daycare called “Li’l Bees”. We are incredibly proud of the fact that after just one day in operation, Lil’ Bees is taking care of four million children and serving seventy billion meals to starving kids every single day. It’s not much, but we are glad to be playing our little part to serve Minnesotans.

Mr. Walz can make out the check from the state government to cover those expenses to Seth Dillon, proud owner and operator of Lil’ Bees. The check will need to be mailed to a Florida address, which is standard operating procedure for Minnesota daycares.

To be fair, many other “news” outlets already consider themselves to be in the daycare business as well. The Bee is simply making it official.

SACRAMENTO EXPORTED ITS POLLUTION TO NEIGHBORING STATES, AND CHARGED CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS FOR THE PRIVILEGE:

So absurd that California claims to "lead" other states in renewable energy and then buys their non-renewable energy to keep the lights on. At 11:15 p.m., 34.5% of the state's electricity demand is met by imported power. (California electricity rates have doubled in ten years.) pic.twitter.com/uC9prHIAQY

— Susan Shelley (@Susan_Shelley) December 28, 2025

UPDATE (From Ed): In 2023, the Epoch Times reported that “California Dumps Nearly Half of Its Hazardous Waste out of State.” In 2008, City Journal was describing California’s need to import energy from other states as “California’s Potemkin Environmentalism.” “‘California practices a sort of energy colonialism,’ says James Lucier of Capital Alpha Partners, a Washington, D.C.–area investment group. ‘They rely on western states to supply them with power generation they are unwilling to build for themselves’—and leave those states to deal with the resulting pollution.”

THIS IS AN AGE OF MIRACLES AND WONDERS: 2026 Chevy Corvette E-Ray Exceeds 1.0 g on All-Season Tires in Our Test.

AN ANGRY TIPPING POINT:

They told generations of American citizens that the American dream was no longer attainable, while giving third worlders the American dream for free. A tipping point has been reached.

— Just T.J. the Army Vet (@thomas_garrard) December 28, 2025

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

AND IS HE CASHING THE CHECKS? How Long Before Tim Walz Is Indicted?

STAY STRONG: Toniiq NAD+ Supplement 1500mg. #CommissionEarned

MICROBIOME NEWS: How gut bacteria could help to diagnose teen depression.

CHANGE: Patel finalizes plan to close FBI’s Hoover building in DC.

DO THIS FOR LEFTY WEBSITES: New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings. Honestly, if this covers Bluesky and Reddit I might be persuaded to go along …

RIC GRENELL: Trump Kennedy Center Filing $1M Lawsuit Against Musician Who Canceled Christmas Show as Political Protest.

Musician Chuck Redd, this year’s host of the annual Christmas Eve concert, canceled the event following the Center’s board voting unanimously to rename the institution, “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”

“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told the Associated Press Wednesday, hours before the event was scheduled to take place.

Grenell, who has worked assiduously to restore the struggling institution, is not taking the politically motivated cancellation lying down.

“Your dismal ticket sales and lack of donor support, combined with your last-minute cancellation has cost us considerably,” Grenell wrote Friday in a letter to Redd obtained by Breitbart News. “This is your official notice that we will seek $1 million in damages from you for this political stunt.”

Grenell hammed the artist for hurting an institution created to promote the arts throughout the nation, not to serve as an insulated haven for liberal elites.

“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” he wrote. “Regrettably, your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left, who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances at our national cultural center.”

Protesting against the renaming of the Kennedy Center and stomping away from his Christmas Eve concert was quite a savvy PR move by Redd, transforming his name recognition, heretofore mostly known to hardcore jazz cultists, and getting lots of headlines, which should likely improve his bookings in urban nightclubs. (See also: Hollywood’s full employment act for Alec Baldwin ever since 1998, when the actor “suggested on national television that people stone House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL) and his family to death.”

CHANGE: Survey: Teen Substance Abuse Hits Historic Low for Fifth Year.