ALL THE RAGE… AND INSANITY:  Intersectionality is all the Rage – Just Ask “Turtle Island Liberation Front”.

ON STILTS AND WEARING A FUNNY HAT, AT THAT:  Stupid Stupid Stupid.

NEWS FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE:  Boston Mayor: Somalis are Lifting the City Up, Setting Example for Rest of the Country.

AND OUR ANSWER IS VERY SIMPLE:  Don’t touch our boats. OR our free speech:  Everyone freaking out over European sanctions today simply hasn’t done the reading. What is happening now is the resolution of a 60-year-old question that the world has not (yet) answered: in a world where law is confined to borders, who gets to write the laws of the Internet?

And for the x-cancelled. 

NOISOME THINKS HE’S RULING ZIMBABWE:  Newsom Loses More CA Business and Wants to Take Away the Farm.

DEMOCRATIC STATES HATE CHILDREN, ANYWAY:  Democratic states sue to block cuts to US children’s gender-affirming care. 

HAPPY “WE CROSSED A FROZEN RIVER IN THE DARK TO KILL OUR ENEMIES IN THEIR SLEEP” TO EVERY USAIAN OUT THERE:  Praying is a good idea too. Like praying we’re not forced to do it again:  Washington’s Resounding Prayer at Valley Forge

DANCES WITH ALIENS IS MOSTLY STUPID, BUT WELL OBSERVED:  Zoe Saldaña sparks backlash for claiming her ‘Avatar’ character is ‘racist’.

FROM JACK BARUTH:  Cat Tales: Short Stories Of Friends And Ferals.

Four years ago, writer and racing driver Jack Baruth left the suburbs, with his wife, to build a home in rural Ohio. Their twelve empty acres proved to be anything but. In this collection of short stories, he details a bitter and bloody feline struggle for control of field and forest between scar-faced, furtive Albino Kitty and muscular, pitiless Tiger Dad. Against a dark background of deadly winters and relentless coyotes, Albino and Tiger fight tooth and nail against each other, a few formidable interlopers, and their own ambitious sons. Each believes that only one of them can survive, and they are right.

IT NEEDED DOING:  Into the Woodshed for Long Past Due Education.

THE RULERS OF AIR STRIP ONE SEEM TO HAVE DECIDED TO COPY THE GERMANS:  A Cheerful Message of Yuletide Tyranny. Baby, it’s cold pretty much everywhere.

MERRIEST OF CHRISTMASES TO ALL: From us here at Instapundit headquarters.  And from me and Indy-cat as well. (I tried to put a Santa hat on him.  The bleeding has stopped. But no Santa-hat-cat picture for you. Sorry.)

LOL. WHAT LOSERS SAY.

FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris angrily scolds "how dare we speak Merry Christmas?! How dare we?!" because illegal immigrants may not get to celebrate Christmas.pic.twitter.com/J4S8uJZMJq

— MRCTV (@mrctv) December 22, 2025

WHEN ARAB AIRLINES SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND WESTERN AIRLINES SAY HAPPY HOLIDAYS:

Dubai is more Christmassy than San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/LUHonH2WsP

— Srishti 🫧 (@Starlight_Scrib) December 24, 2025

Well, to be fair, they’ve banned the Muslim Brotherhood.

WINSTON CHURCHILL’S CHRISTMAS EVE MESSAGE TO AMERICA (1941): “This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle…. [B]efore we turn again to the stern task and the formidable year that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”

HARSH BUT FAIR:

Truth 🤡 pic.twitter.com/G8G2D9aKLu

— TR Smith (@ToddSmith955247) December 24, 2025

THE FUTURE IS NOW:

A Tesla with no safety monitor in the car and me sitting in the passenger seat took me all around Austin on Sunday with perfect driving

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2025

Do you sit back there thinking about how you and your team have built something that’s going to save countless lives in your lifetime and forever after your lifetime? You should if not.

Fucking legends.

— Mike P (@mikepat711) December 24, 2025

Related:

Oggi, su Il Sole 24 Ore, racconto perché Elon Musk sta creando una ricchezza enorme.
Per comprarsi un’isola? Una mega barca? Un super aereo? No.

Lo fa per realizzare ciò che molti “buoni” dicono di voler fare, ma non fanno: risolvere il problema della povertà sulla Terra pic.twitter.com/sDDxqOpLGS

— Andrea Stroppa 🐺 Claudius Nero's Legion 🐺 (@andst7) December 24, 2025

Translation: “Today, in Il Sole 24 Ore, I explain why Elon Musk is creating enormous wealth. To buy himself an island? A mega yacht? A super plane? No. He does it to achieve what many ‘good’ people say they want to do, but don’t: solve the problem of poverty on Earth.”

OPEN THREAD: Visions of sugarplums.

THE NORTH POLE’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

I’m told Santa’s pretty flexible about this stuff; the items in the second photo wouldn’t be a bad choice, either.

SEEMS LIKE THERE’S A LOT OF PRIOR ART HERE: Russia patents space station designed to generate artificial gravity: According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force. I mean, using rotation to generate centrifugal force pseudogravity goes back at least to von Braun, and maybe Tsiolkovsky.

BARI WEISS CHIDES CBS REPORTERS OVER ‘WINNING BACK TRUST’ IN CHRISTMAS EVE EMAIL, while claiming 60 Minutes backlash was due to ‘slow news week:’

Weiss defended her decision in a Christmas Eve email with the subject line ‘Building Trust.’

‘Right now, the majority of Americans say they do not trust the press. It isn’t because they’re crazy,’ Weiss began the message, which was leaked online by Zeteo reporter Prem Thakker.

‘To win back their trust, we have to work hard,’ she continued. ‘Sometimes that means doing more legwork. Sometimes it means training our attention on topics that have been overlooked or misconstrued.

‘And sometimes, it means holding a piece about an important subject to make sure it is comprehensive and fair.’

* * * * * * * *

‘We are not to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media,’ she said, in an apparent reference to veteran journalist Sharyn Alfonsi’s argument that ’60 Minutes’ had been advertising her ‘Inside CECOT’ segment on social media all week.

Instead, Weiss said, CBS News journalists ‘are out to inform the American public and to get the story right.

That’s certainly a valid goal for the network to shoot for; Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric and Scott Pelley have all just entered the conversation.

Exit quote: “Sources at the network even told CNN, ‘People are threatening to quit over this.’”

Let them. It’s an awfully hollow threat, considering How many J-school graduates would absolutely kill to work for any network television news team.

Related:

The Axios reporting makes very clear that Bari was totally correct in pulling the segment.

The hacks who put it together just straight up refused to report what the US Government said in response, and then made it sound like they had refused to comment! pic.twitter.com/tTW4GAeNBs

— Maxwell Meyer (@mualphaxi) December 23, 2025

CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE ARDENNES: Christmas 1944: The Battle of the Bulge.

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS.

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

THEY’RE ALWAYS WRONG, IT SEEMS. BUT NEVER IN DOUBT! The Eco-Zealots Were Wrong Again.