“I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus,” says Charlie Brown, shuffling through the snow as other kids frolic to a song about the holiday’s happiness and cheer. Why do we need a holiday season to emphasize it?” he laments). But “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is maybe the most uncomplicated, most sincere and most direct. Watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” this year, what stands out for me is that nothing changes for Charlie Brown to “solve” his depression. But maybe, in this moment, with the hope of something else ahead, it’s the way we’re supposed to feel.

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AdvertisementPerhaps audiences have Hollywood to blame for establishing a genre that feels like it relies so heavily on stereotypes. “It’s funny rewatching a couple of Christmas films and reminding myself about them,” says Isibeal Ballance, the TV producer who worked with writer-director Mark Gatiss on subversive Christmas drama The Dead Room. “The problems start if you also finish in a familiar place.”AdvertisementNot all Christmas shows follow this cookie-cutter approach. AdvertisementIn the psychological horror Better Watch Out, stereotypes about Christmas are manipulated to trick the viewer into thinking they are in familiar territory. And then to drive the knife in, we continued with the holiday stereotypes ― characters wearing ugly Christmas sweaters, serving hot cocoa to the carollers ― to create a disturbing juxtaposition with the unfolding events.

DEI gradually received more negative connotations starting around 2022, as it came to be associated with what’s now termed “woke” ideology. I concluded the article with this:“(The) BLM and woke/DEI (movements) became an albatross around the neck of urbanism. How these became linked is understandable; how these became separated deserves exploration.”How did urbanism become connected with DEI and the “woke” phenomenon? Is it realistic to address matters of segregation, economic inequality and economic mobility get addressed in an economic fashion, and not a moral fashion? Pete has more than twenty years' experience in planning, economic development, and community development, with stops in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Goodbye to the MetroCard that transformed how New Yorkers traveledNew York City’s MetroCard transformed one of the world’s busiest transit systems and is set to be phased out by December 31, 2025. CNN’s Meena Duerson talks about how the MetroCard’s introduction 30 years ago expanded access for New Yorkers, and how the little yellow card has become as symbolic as the city’s famous landmarks.

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Paramount makes new hostile offer for Warner Bros. DiscoveryParamount has upped the ante in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, announcing Monday that Oracle founder Larry Ellison will personally guarantee over $40 billion. The announcement comes after the Warner Bros. board of directors has rejected Paramount’s bid multiple times, opting instead to go with an offer from Netflix, which WBD, the parent company of CNN, says is more valuable. CNN's David Goldman reports.

Greg Tomhave will officiate and burial will be at Benton County Cemetery in Sauk Rapids. Arrangements have been entrusted to Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home in Sauk Rapids. Ethel married Raymond Forbes on August 26, 1955. Ethel enjoyed working in her garden and watching wildlife. Ethel loved children and enjoyed teaching and caring for them.

Extreme weather concerns for the Christmas holiday California state fire and rescue chief Brian Marshall joins ABC News Live to discuss the biggest weather dangers right now, from flash flooding to mudslides, and how to stay safe if you're traveling.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose work helped bring down Theranos is now taking on Silicon Valley’s biggest AI players — accusing them of looting his books to build billion-dollar chatbots. The complaint accuses the companies of pirating books and feeding them into large language models that power popular chatbots — without permission or compensation. 5 Carreyrou filed the lawsuit alongside five other writers against Google, Elon Musk’s xAI, OpenAI, Meta Platforms, Anthropic and Perplexity. According to the new complaint, class members in the Anthropic settlement will receive “a tiny fraction (just 2%) of the Copyright Act’s statutory ceiling of $150,000” per infringed work. The writers say that outcome illustrates why class actions fail to hold AI companies accountable.

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U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington granted Zaid’s request for a preliminary injunction, after he sued the Trump administration in May over the revocation of his security clearance. Zaid’s request called it an act of “improper political retribution” that jeopardized his ability to continue representing clients in sensitive national security cases. In August, the Trump administration said it was revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials. AdvertisementZaid said in his lawsuit that he has represented clients across the political spectrum over nearly 35 years, including government officials, law enforcement and military officials and whistleblowers. “This court joins the several others in this district that have enjoined the government from using the summary revocation of security clearances to penalize lawyers for representing people adverse to it,” Ali wrote in his order.

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