SHE’S RIGHT YOU KNOW? Why Paywalls Exist and Why Serious Writing Needs Them.
January 1, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR EVERYONE. MAY 2026 BE BETTER THAN 2025: And remember, every year takes us a year away from 2020. So, getting older is worth it!
December 31, 2025
THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:
As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, it’s a mistake to judge a law or program by the stated good intentions of its creators. You have to judge it by the incentives it creates. This program creates vast financial incentives for fraud…so that’s what we get.
— Jim Williams (@Alpowolf) December 31, 2025
Related:
DAVID SACKS: "In California, we have $24 billion going to homeless programs, and yet the number of homeless people keeps rising.
They can't pass an audit. The state refuses to even permit an audit. We know there's massive fraud going on in that program." pic.twitter.com/Nx7wFR3OOg
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) December 31, 2025
PETER THIEL: FLORIDA MAN.
NEW: Peter Thiel is opening an office in Miami for his personal investment firm, Thiel Capital.
Thiel just put out this press release. Why? Because he is trying to show publicly that he is a taxpayer in Florida, not California.
Note that it says the lease was signed Dec. 2025. pic.twitter.com/S9qh1nf1pX
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) December 31, 2025
CONGRATS TO THE FINNS. WELL DONE!
Permanently seize the ship and the cargo. Prosecute the ship's officers for espionage and sell the cargo and the ship. Use the money to repair the damage to the cables. pic.twitter.com/EHvyUGbzbb
— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) December 31, 2025
WHEN A GUY NAMED “CATTURD” IS THIS OPTIMISTIC, ATTENTION MUST BE PAID:
2026 is gonna be the best year ever for the United States.
Block or mute all black pill, Panican, pessimistic losers.
100 things can be going perfectly and one thing wrong. And they’ll dwell on that one thing wrong all day, every day, on X.
Eliminate these losers from your…
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 31, 2025
Actually, I kinda think he may be right.
WELL, DAVID FRENCH:
I’m an AO OG, but if @DavidAFrench is referencing MAGA’s critique of the MSM’s coverage of the recent rampant fraud in MN and elsewhere, respectfully, he’s just wrong.
I’m a regular reader of both the @nytimes and @StarTribune, and helped prosecute fraud in MN as an AUSA.
— Joe Teirab (@JoeTeirab) December 31, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Party on. 2025 has exceeded my expectations, and I expect 2026 to be an excellent year.
ROGER SIMON: The New Year Will Be Great Says This Positivist.
By the time you get this, or open it, it will probably be 2026, or close to it.
If you are celebrating until the crack of dawn, more power to you. We’re not, having spent the last few days in Miami, eating our heads off. That city has fantastic restaurants to go with the weather.
Nevertheless, my optimism for the new year abounds for two reasons:
One, the older I get, the more I know that staying positive is the best way to live. Optimism and pessimism are self-fulfilling prophecies.
More importantly, perhaps, I don’t think I am looking through rose-colored glasses, maybe just slightly tinted ones, when I say the world has never looked better.
Read the whole thing.
WHY DO MEN HAVE BEARDS? An Evolutionary Explanation.
GODSPEED, IRANIAN CITIZENS:
“The Iranian uprising is a nightmare for the Western left.
No Gaza, no profitable victimhood, no veil to defend, just a people who want freedom.
So they look the other way, they stifle, they stay silent.
The truth disturbs more than the mullahs.”#Iran https://t.co/NRFecFJsR4— Sativa (@Sativa888) December 31, 2025
Related: Iran says regime loyalist killed as protests turn violent.
Chances of Iran regime falling surge as unrest spreads.
Iranian protests expand beyond economy as students demand freedom, end to regime rule.
UPDATE:
BREAKING:
The Iranian anti-regime protesters have taken control of the city of Ramhormoz in the Khuzestan Governorship.
They are now burning down the regime’s local government HQ pic.twitter.com/AjaK0hJ7NZ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 1, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
We found the first immigrants that liberal writers at the New York Times are prepared to criticise: white Americans pic.twitter.com/9Wab4CdRa3
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) December 30, 2025
POWER ISN’T THEIR CHIEF VALUE. IT’S THEIR ONLY VALUE.
Elon Musk: The people demanding vaccine passports are the same ones who say you don't need an ID to vote.
“Hillary and Obama in prior speeches were hard-nosed about not letting in anyone who's a criminal into the country, having secure borders, all that stuff. So why did they… pic.twitter.com/xyJbqSrLsk
— ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) December 31, 2025
DAVID IS TOO KIND HERE:
Well, "Marxism Tonight," Woodrow Wilson literally imprisoned Eugene Debs, his Socialist opponent in the 1912 election, under the Alien & Sedition Act for making anti-war speeches in 1918, you illiterate retard https://t.co/HyXkxoIrCz
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 31, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed): The Hater’s Guide to Woodrow Wilson. “I come now not to explain Wilson, but to hate him. A national consensus on hating Wilson is long overdue. It is the patriotic duty of every decent American. While conservatives have particular reasons to detest Wilson, and all his works, and all his empty promises, there is more than enough in his record for moderates, liberals, progressives, libertarians, and socialists to join us in this great and unifying cause.”
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HAHA: Is our children learing?
UNEXPECTEDLY:
Did I call it or did I call it? https://t.co/q6yi4Qum4R pic.twitter.com/Ii9UyuehbE
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) December 31, 2025
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data.
FIGHTING TRIM: Navy doubles annual PT test requirement, updates failure guidelines. “The new policy also stipulates that sailors who fail three physical fitness assessments within four years will be processed for administrative separation, whereas the previous policy stated that two or more consecutive PFA failures would lead to the administrative separation process.”
QUESTION ASKED:
What if I told you our national debt is the tab for the mass looting of the American economy and the mass theft of the American dream?
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 31, 2025
Of course it is. But Ohio’s Republican governor responds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's office on potential fraud at childcare centers in Columbus– which has the second highest Somali population in America:
"This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business." pic.twitter.com/hCE3B0b3Dz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 31, 2025
DIMINISHED LEFTY INFLUENCE, GOOD. HAVING THEM COME BACK TO X… YUCK:
Blooosky is coming back to Twitter.
Big cultural defeat. They didn’t have any gravitational pull and they became nearly invisible when they left.
Libs’ cultural power is dramatically diminished and will have to face a new reality that contradicts their bloated self importance. https://t.co/ed2Xl42meI
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 31, 2025
OH SWELL, NOW I NEED TO CHANGE ALL MY SUMMER VACATION PLANS: Mali and Burkina Faso announce reciprocal travel ban on US citizens.
STEAK, LIKE BEER, IS PROOF THAT GOD LOVES YOU AND WANTS YOU TO BE HAPPY: In Defense of Steak: Listen to Your Body, not the Bug People.
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