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50 wonderful things from 2025 Each year, critic Linda Holmes looks back on the year and compiles a list of the things that brought her joy.

It’s one of my favorite days of the year! Here are my 50 Wonderful Things From 2025.

Thanks as always to the editors who help wrangle this bear.

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

my annual list of my all-time top 100 board games is now up, a bit later as I removed Amazon links in favor of smaller vendors: meadowparty.com/blog/2025/12...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video YouTube video by Hank Green

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

JD Vance & @JDVance • 1h Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military. • 2.5K 174.4K O 40K Ill 975K 企 Brian Krassenstein @ IK @krassenstein • 1h Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime. @ 1.1K 2> 175 企 JD Vance v @JDVance • 1h I don't give a shit what you call it

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Took a peek at BGG and there was controversy because the map shows Ukrainian cities as part of historical Russia…and it released the same year as the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.

At this time of day on July 2, I’m drawn to think of the several thousand US troops spread out in an ever thinning line along Culp’s Hill, on the US right. All afternoon, units have been pulled from this position to bolster the left flank - Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, and Cemetery Ridge

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere.

www.nokings.org#map

No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.

47 years ago, the Catholic Church elevated a Polish Archbishop in a moral and spiritual challenge to the cruelty and immorality of the Soviet empire. Today, they elevated the first American.

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Highly recommend! Great game!

I’m SICK of everyone bringing politics into boardgames.

#boardgames #bgg

I was asked to share our story live on CNN this morning. U.S. tariffs are threatening entire industries - including ours: Toys & Games. Trump Republican... | By Price | Facebook I was asked to share our story live on CNN this morning. U.S. tariffs are threatening entire industries - including ours: Toys & Games. Trump Republican...

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The final chapter of the epic trilogy is coming this summer!

ANNOUNCING UNMATCHED: BATTLE OF LEGENDS VOL 3

Pandora, Loki, the Chupacabra, and Blackbeard are joining the legendary roster.

Get notified when pre-orders open: https://vist.ly/3mvgkt7

K! So! We spent this week figuring out how the tariffs, inflation and other bullshit is going to affect business. Time to thread.

For those not in the know, I'm the Director at Hachette Boardgames USA and I import games for foreign publishers and market and sell them in the US.
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A tweet by @topherflorence that reads, "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"

No one EVER learns the lesson of Surf Dracula

Meet the Faceless Cusk We all know that one of the juvenile pleasures of Wingspan is calling out the birds that sound like human anatomical features. Abbott’s Boobie! American Woodcock! Truly, I will never age past…

Finspan! It's about fish, you know. After birds and dragons, I wasn't sure we needed to head to the sea for another 'span. I was wrong. This is a simpler, smoother take on Wingspan, going the other direction after Wyrmspan. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/01/17/f...

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2

#jurassicpark #blender3d

The Best Board Games of 2024 The best board games of 2024 have made this the greatest year for board games in recent memory. Keith Law picks the best of the bunch.

My ranking of the top ten new board games of 2024 is now up at @pastemagazine.bsky.social - and this was probably the hardest year ever for me to make my picks: bit.ly/49RsoNj

Season’s greetings, Cabalists! It’s time for our favorite episode - The Secret Cabal Holiday Jamboree! We discuss our time at Pax Unplugged, feature Doggerland by Super Meeple, and play our annual Newlywed Game Founders Edition. Enjoy holiday extravaganza! thesecretcabal.com/episodes/epi...

The best board games we played in 2024 Building community at the table

In what has become a bit of a holiday tradition here @polygon.com, I asked dozens of writers, designers, YouTubers, actors, and personalities from around the hobby and beyond about the best board games they played this year.