Connections Puzzle #1089 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

What if we invested in transportation infrastructure instead of data centers? Imagine a system where NJTransit runs on time and doesn’t break down weekly!

if you are a man considering weighing in on the latest graham platner story i urge you to take a beat. women who are your peers are watching.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Wait, the Nazi Tattoo guy was *also* shitty to women? No. Couldn’t possibly be. Who could have guessed at such a thing??

This was just lovely.

The Canadian Screen Awards are so incredibly sweet, and no one gets played off the stage. Restorative.

PSA: You can stream The Canadian Screen Awards on the US on the CBC You Tube Channel.

Wait, Sophie Nelisse was the lite girl in The Book Thief?

Dropped off my ballot today. Really annoyed that no one primaried Cory Booker (I was once a huge fan). Will really miss my Rep @repbonnie.bsky.social. She’s a real one. #NJ12

OMG, I’m a ballet girl. The dying swan in the Hacks finale is killing me

I suspect that part of why companies hire so many programmers on H1-B visas is because they act as a deterrent to unionization - not only for those employees, but for all the people they work with. It's psychologically harder to unionize when you're asking someone to risk deportation.

And yet, real disposable personal income is negative year-on-year — by more than a full point.

Burgum praises Trump for "helping to keep the price of gas down at home"

Still no cygnets. Everyone walking in the area is apparently monitoring and vested. It takes a village 🦢

Cuz it’s dumb, and the people who like it are culty and often rude?

BREAKING: According to GasBuddy, 12 states set new all-time records for the highest gas prices on Memorial Day ever seen before: WA, CO, HI, OH, WY, MI, MT, OR, MN, NE, AK, SD and MI.

The subtext for a lot of the war on higher education is: “My relationship with my kids is terrible, and this cannot possibly be my fault.”

It’s wild to live in a big swimming pool they’re filling with concrete because they don’t want black people to have anything that’s pretending to be a country

You can sum up Pope Leo's 42,000-word encyclical on AI in just 3 words Don't be evil I wonder if anyone has thought of this before. Stay tuned for my column on Google and the threat to democracy, later today

the lesson of big data should have been 'not only are you the product, you're also the unpaid research for products you've never heard of'

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester 🌞

This beauty is from CNBC this past weekend. It's one of many media outlets that ran with yet another "trump says" headline on the Iran war that is devoid of facts and context. Of course, since then the US has started bombing Iran again.... Good job everybody. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/23/u...

CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now

A kind and decent man. A great boss. A man of integrity who sailed the ship well through terrible storms. This will forever be a Jay Powell stan account.

Where TF is Cory Booker? NJ voters want to know.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Shout out to Senator Kim who backed up these words with action today. He’s down at Delaney Hall putting his body on the line and getting pepper sprayed. More of this. Senators have power and the media’s attention. They need to use it.

like, the one thing impressed upon me as catholic was that we take care of each other, EVEN the ones we don’t like & ESPECIALLY the ones we don’t want to & resistance to that meant you needed to convert your own damn heart and yes you should feel badly when you don’t want to, that’s your conscience

I put a couple of dishes in the dishwasher so my household chores are “95% done” The remaining 5% of chores are putting up a new fence and planting a new garden and painting all of the upstairs bedrooms

Cadbury: Caramello Milka Hazelnut

19% of income going to gasoline! Good Lord...

💯 and also please and excuse me!

Hmm, is this why Neue Gallery recently was absorbed by Met Museum? It’s a phenomenal (mostly Lauder’s) art collection that would be at risk in the event of lawsuits. Also, no one likes a filthy benefactor.

Another factor is American Exceptionalism. Other countries have much better or more cost-effective healthcare and outcomes but Americans are carefully trained to pay no attention to what happens elsewhere because *obviously* everything American is best. Ahem.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

FTR: All the Light We Cannot See is one of my favorite books of all time (I even took a side trip to St Malo). That said, so far Cloud Cuckoo Land (also by Anthony Doerr) reads like a less good Elif Shafak novel 🤷🏻‍♀️. #Booksky

JFK completes mostly successful Dallas parade.

Oh goody! @libbyapp.com did some kind of “upgrade”, and I lost my “Read” tag list that I’ve been curating for a year and a half. I use it as the feeder to my holds. Not amused. #Booksky.

#Booksky 📚

“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

GALLUP: share of Americans who think economic conditions are getting worse rose to 76% in May (highest reading since May 2023) while only 20% say they are getting better. (via Schwab)

Everyone should know their names. Their constituents should flood their lines with calls.

I have requested a report from the Joker and Penguin about what they are doing to prevent crime in Gotham

JFK is a goat rodeo.

I mean look at Bezos. Yes ordering books online was an innovative idea. God bless. And how did Jeff get those books to people to make his billions? The post office that taxpayers built and subsidized for over 250 years.

also when Musk promised a $1 trillion deficit reduction... how's that going chief

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."