December 21, 2025
I’M DIVIDED ON THIS: Trump Green‑Lights Marijuana Drug Schedule Change, But Stops Short of Federally Legalizing Weed.
I do believe people have the right to go to h*ll any way they please. OTOH there’s a difference between legalizing a psychoactive substance in times of plenty and well being, and legalizing it when the vast majority of the young feels marginalized and despondent. The second can go really ugly fast. Right. I know. Not a prefect time, ever. And yet–
THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT ISN’T IN DANGER, BUT THE NONSENSE NEEDS TO BE STOMPED EVERY TIME: Ben Shapiro at TPUSA: Conservative movement in danger “from charlatans who … traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty”.
WELL, IT’S THAT OR DIE: Farmers are rising up in Europe, fighting the EU Bureaucratic Tyranny.
GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM: 4 People Dead, 9 Injured After Mass Stabbing Attack and Smoke Bombing at Train Station.
December 20, 2025
OPEN THREAD: It’s all you.
STOCKING STUFFER: Toenail Clippers for Thick Toenails. #CommissionEarned
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: A Much-Needed Exposé of Academic Fraud: A new book reveals why academic-publishing incentives must change. “Perhaps the most (in)famous case of research fraud is that of Dutch professor Diederik Stapel, who published many papers on social psychology and was something of a rock star in the academic world—until he was exposed as a fraud. Bazerman writes, apropos of one of his papers, that ‘Stapel was confident his hypothesis was true, but the actual data didn’t support it. So Stapel sat at his kitchen table and began typing numbers into his computer that would produce the intended effect.’ After initially getting away with that, Stapel stopped doing any research at all, merely fabricating data to support his conclusions. When finally exposed, he admitted everything.”
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MAGA ADMINISTRATION REDNECKS BASE VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS ON [CHECKS NOTES] DENMARK: U.S. to drop childhood vaccine recommendations as it looks to Denmark, Washington Post reports.
NO THANK YOU: “Unintended Steering Wheel Movement.” “If you’ve noticed the steering wheel in your BMW X3 moving without you touching it, you’re not going crazy. According to a new recall submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, several thousand 2025 and 2026 BMW X3 crossovers have a problem with their steering system software that could cause the wheels to move unintentionally.”
READER FAVORITE: 10inch Under Cabinet Lighting, 2 Pack Rechargeable Motion Sensor Light. #CommissionEarned
TREAT YOUR FACE: La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Face Moisturizer. #CommissionEarned
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
“HISTORY IS ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER,” BUT MAYBE ESPECIALLY NOW:
Amazing thread from 2018 that ended up being Wrong About Everything.
SJWs lost, spectacularly, and undid norms that allowed what they did to be turned back ferociously on them.
It is true we all have to deal with the mess that was made by it. https://t.co/UNE9RQ5O7r
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 20, 2025
THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Return of the King Edition.
Okay, John Hinderaker went and did it last week! He has abused his stewardship of TWiP and went full Die Hard Christmas Movie Denialist! As the Dude says in The Big Lebowski, this aggression will not stand, man! To restore proper balance in the universe, I [Steve Hayward] am staging a coup d’tat, and am taking over this week’s TWiP. To mix movie references further, John has done a Denethor-level job as Steward of TWiP; time for the Return of the (TWiP) King! Actually, like the Gaza and (prospective) Ukraine ceasefires, we’re going to share power, and alternate TWiP each week. And so as the great John McClain would say on basic cable Christmas season reruns, “Yippie-ki-yay, melon-farmer!”
‘Tis the season:
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
