"It was just revealed that the regime knew—even before Trump took office—that Homan was recorded taking $50,000 in cash during an undercover FBI sting." open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

"The American Revolution was not just a revolt against British rule. It was a revolt against three ancient tyrannies that had dominated human society for thousands of years. Warlord kings. The morbidly rich. And theocrats." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

"In a bold move to staunch the exodus of audiences from his renamed Kennedy Center, on Thursday Donald J. Trump announced that he was cutting ticket prices 5000 percent. 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Minute Cryptic - 1 January, 2026 "Chicken crosses avenue to get to the other side?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (26,898 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

(Thu 1.Jan) #waffle1441 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 463 🧞 #wafflegenius wafflegame.net Good scores are possible with this one. There are 3 simple double swaps to start plus 1 that's pretty simple but less obvious. Then you need to create a 4-way. The words are pretty simple.

(Thu 1.Jan) #Polygonle 1250 3/6︎ ◢︎  ◣︎  ◤︎  ◆︎  ⬢︎   ◼︎  ◣︎  ⬢︎  ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.polygonle.com Oh jeez, LOL, how come it took me so long to see this? 😄

(Thu 1.Jan) #Wordle 1,657 5/6 #Wordle_NYT ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 94/52 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 68/17 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 78/15 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 99/39 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99/- Overall 86 skill/31 luck Just rushed through it without really thinking, lol... almost failed... once I started thinking the bot gave me 99s, lol... 1 in 20 are missing it

(Thu 1.Jan) 🙂 Daily #Quordle 1438 5️⃣3️⃣ 8️⃣🟥 m-w.com/games/quordle/ Ridiculous words, lol. Was rushing and went letter chasing, but wouldn't have solved this, anyway, even going my normal route.

(Thu 1.Jan) Daily #1418 1️⃣6️⃣⬛1️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣⬛0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣⬛1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣⬛0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣⬛1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣ sedecordle.com #sedecordle A couple tricky words, but an overall low stress way to start the new year

(Thu 1.Jan) #Pips #136 Easy 🟢 0:21 LOL, wasted some time with a wrong start Pips #136 Medium 🟡 5:53 Had to do math to see what would go where because I got tired of guessing, lol Pips #136 Hard 🔴 2:32 There are 3 ways to start the lower right—I started wrong, but the second try worked

(Thu 1.Jan) #Strands #669 “Not your average joe” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 I'm not sure how some of these words fit the topic, but what to I know? LOL...

"Donald Trump spent the entire last day of 2025 on a Truth Social spree that reads like a manic manifesto explaining how to run two separate countries—one that applauds him on command, and one he treats as illegitimate by default." open.substack.com/pub/whatdidd...

"There are four key lessons that we can and must take out of 2025. 1. Pushing back is essential — and it works. 2. The courts, particularly the lower courts, are helpful. 3. Even the U.S. Supreme Court — this Supreme Court — has some limits. 4. The people matter." open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

"[I]f 2025 has taught us anything, it is that Trump is not invincible. He is not all powerful. In fact, if 2025 is any guide, much of what he attempts will fail, or will cause significant political damage to his own party." open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

After observing Erika Kirk, Jeff Tiedrich has identified the following: "so, apparently, the five stages of MAGA grief are denial, anger, podcasting, publicly making out with JD Vance, and selling merch." open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

A scientist replies to RFK, Jr last summer... “Scientist here. Mitochondria do not present challenges to faces, movements, or social connections. Maybe those kids just don’t like you because you’re staring at them like a creep who wants to give them measles.” open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

"There simply isn’t a sufficient excuse for being an adult so sheltered from facts and so truth-deprived that you can’t see Trump’s complete sociopathy and you can’t discern the existential threat he and his party are to this nation." open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

"Chicago is holding a fun snowplow-naming contest, and Mayor Brandon Johnson has already chosen his favorite: “ABOLISH ICE.”" open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

"The world didn’t need the ingenuity of Woodward and Bernstein to expose the naked criminality and kleptocracy of Donald Trump... "What was required was for journalists, writers, and political leaders to stand up and do the right thing. That hasn’t happened." open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Starting the year with some New Year's Wontons... 😋😄

My New Year's wish to the current occupant of the White House...

"The hallmark of the first year of [🍊💩]'s second term has been the attempt of [🍊💩] and his cronies to dismantle the constitutional system set up by the framers of that document when they established the United States of America... 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

(Wed 31.Dec) #waffle1440 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 462 🧞 #wafflegenius wafflegame.net This one isn't trivial. There are 4 double swaps on the starting board, and none of them are simple. Some of the words are unexpected. And the yellow letters don't help a lot.

(Wed 31.Dec) #Polygonle 1249 2/6︎ ◤︎  ◆︎  ◢︎  ◆︎  ◥︎  ◆︎  ⬢︎  🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.polygonle.com Easier to find than the Wordle, lol

(Wed 31.Dec) #Wordle 1,656 5/6 #Wordle_NYT 🟩⬛⬛🟨🟨 94/81 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟨 78/11 🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛ 77/25 🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛ 99/25 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99/- Overall 89 skill/35 luck Too tired to think about it, so just went letter chasing..

(Wed 31.Dec) 🙂 Daily #Quordle 1437 5️⃣6️⃣ 8️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ Some tricky words in this one... fortunately no typos in this like I did in the sedecordle, lol

(Wed 31.Dec) Daily #1417 1️⃣7️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣⬛0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣⬛0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣⬛1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣⬛1️⃣2️⃣ 🟥🟥⬛1️⃣3️⃣ 🟥🟥⬛1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣6️⃣ sedecordle.com #sedecordle Too many typos...

(Wed 31.Dec) #Pips #136 Easy 🟢 0:41 This game is so slow on my laptop, LOL Pips #136 Easy 🟢 0:41 Odd one.. Pips #136 Hard 🔴 2:59 At first it looks like it shouldn't be too hard, but then you realize it is trickier than you think, lol

(Wed 31.Dec) #Strands #668 “One good turn deserves another” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 The spangram is more than a little irksome, LOL, but it does kind of draw a picture, and yeah... this one isn't too hard...

"The unfolding Trump-Kennedy Center saga has rapidly become one of the most stark and unsettling examples in recent memory of political ambition trampling over cultural heritage, legal norms, and artistic freedom." open.substack.com/pub/whatdidd...

Lots of shit news in here but this was a bright spot "Democrats scored a significant win in Iowa as Renee Hardman captured the State Senate seat in District 16 with 71.5 percent of the vote. That result represents a 27 point Democratic overperformance" open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Worth reading even if you already know it "Taken together, the deposition transcript...frames the cases as evidence driven, legally grounded, and insulated from partisan considerations, even as Republicans on the committee continue to challenge their legitimacy." open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

There's so much more in this than Epstein crap—you need to read or listen to the whole thing "Let’s be clear about what former workers described. They are describing sexual assault and sexual exploitation facilitated through Trump’s private club..." open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

New Year's Eve... last day of 2025... holy fuck—3 more years of this?

"Inherent contempt is the third type of contempt power Congress possesses—not used since 1935. But Congress used it repeatedly before the civil and criminal contempt laws were passed." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

(Tue 30.Dec) #waffle1439 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 461 🧞 #wafflegenius wafflegame.net An easy double swap, a hard to see 3-way, and a harder to see 4-way... but the words aren't bad.

(Tue 30.Dec) #Polygonle 1248 3/6︎ ◢︎  ◣︎  ⬢︎  ◤︎  ◆︎  ◣︎   ◼︎  ⬢︎  ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.polygonle.com Well, this was a lot less thought than the Wordle, lol. I had all the letters in the word after my 1st 2 guesses—just needed to place them correctly, which was easy to figure out, lol

(Tue 30.Dec) #Wordle 1,655 2/6 #Wordle_NYT ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 94/82 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 86/97 😂🤣😂 Overall 86 skill/89 luck ummmm... this word was just to eliminate possibilities, LOL, I wasn't actually expecting it to hit... 😄

(Tue 30.Dec) 🙂 Daily #Quordle 1436 🟥4️⃣ 9️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ Oops... typed a wrong word by mistake, and needed that extra turn due to too many 50-50s

(Tue 30.Dec) Daily #1416 0️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣⬛0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣⬛0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣⬛1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣⬛1️⃣7️⃣ sedecordle.com #sedecordle Wow, my starters sure lined up well with this one, lol

(Tue 30.Dec) #Pips #134 Easy 🟢 0:27 Trickier than usual for an Easy one... Pips #134 Medium 🟡 1:57 Oh jeez, this one is tricky, too... Pips #134 Hard 🔴 1:08 Oh wow, lucky guesses to start that ended up being right

(Tue 30.Dec) #Strands #667 “2025 Top Twenty” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵🟡🔵 🔵 I have no clue what any of these are, except maybe one that I vaguely recall, lol...

TLDR: Trump is a Russian asset open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Holy crap — I had no idea she was this good 😮 youtube.com/shorts/mgQde...

"[the] latest shitbrained idea: marble armrests for the seating at the Kennedy Center. "because who among us hasn’t sat in a theater, watching a performance, and thought ‘you know what would make this experience so much better? if the armrests were rocks.’" open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

"after the election, the press went into overdrive, churning out piece after piece in which they promised us that if we all click our heels together three times, everything will be okay." open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

"...Artists are objecting to the transformation of a national cultural institution into a political monument. For decades, the Kennedy Center stood as a rare space that transcended party lines. That reputation is now in jeopardy." open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

I had forgotten about the first video in this post, and I know I shouldn't take pleasure in watching it, but damn, it sure is pleasurable to watch… "for fuck’s sake, don’t announce that “God has cleared a path for us today” JUST BEFORE YOU CRASH YOUR CAR..." open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

"And at the heart of the problem [in the American bourbon market] is one brutal fact: the United States has lost 85% of its export market in a single year. This is the power of the Canadian boycott." open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Although it seems like everything that comes out of Washington is a disaster, thanks to the fetid diaper-load occupying the White House, the cities and states seem to be in better hands… open.substack.com/pub/contrari...