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Merry Christmas, folks. Let’s take a lesson from Elf Local 1225 and stand together.  Most importantly, let’s not forget what this time of year is supposed to mean. It’s not about masks or or vaccines. It’s about peace, unity and togetherness.

Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published in 1843. It has not been out of print since. There wasn’t long to wait for Marx’s bestseller, The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. It too has never been out of print.

A sweeping new history of American comics traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.

"The idea that people would take up arms against an American election has gone from completely farfetched to something we have to start planning for and preparing for," says an expert on gun policy and constitutional law.

By giving a growing fascist social and political movement in the United States a classically authoritarian leader, Trump shaped and exacerbated it, and his time in politics has normalized it.

Poor people and low-wage workers understand the basic message of Christmas. When the justice of God comes to those at the bottom of society, it is good news for all of us.

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My kids shouldn’t have to color their Santa Claus figurines with brown ink like I did. “America is less and less white, but a melanin-deficient Santa remains the default in commercials, mall casting calls, and movies,” - Aisha Harris.

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Wednesday morning, several dozen Amazon workers at two separate Chicago-area delivery stations staged a walkout to demand raises and safer working conditions, making it the first time the tech giant has seen a multi-site work stoppage in the U.S.