🚨BREAKING crossword news🚨

ALYSA (5) now valid
And LIU (3) gets a new cluing angle

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Buck is not right! Maybe bock?

ME IRL

#BaseballSeason

A distant star: On the trail with Bob Weir Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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Two heroes: Bragg and Springsteen. There's enough love to go around!

“American Mercy: The Case for Clemency” The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Mark Osler and now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: After months of controversial and norm-busting clemency grants by bo…

"American Mercy: The Case for Clemency" sentencinglawandpolicy.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/a...

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK, 1968

Too late! I did feel my first contribution underestimated the amount of joy this blog brings me.

Off-topic. Day started out really crappy, and then I saw this and laughed out loud. Thank you! "One is the loneliest DORITO that you'll ever do. Two can be as bad as one—they're the loneliest DORITOs since DORITO one." May have to contribute again. You have no idea how happy this made me.

I do wish the Venn diagram of thing-knowers and opinion-havers had more overlap.

Jill Sobule’s Fans Always Made Sure She Had a Place to Perform — and to Stay (Gift Article) After her label dropped her, supporters showed her she could still make it in music.

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Would love their contact info if you have!

Off-topic, but I loved your write-up today. Is there a non-Amazon source for the Penner & Sinnock crossword book?

YouTube video by Joe Ely - Topic Deportee (feat. Ryan Bingham)

RIP, Joe Ely.

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His cover of Downbound Train is amazing. A singular voice that will be missed so very much.

Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.

Latest on South Carolina measles outbreak: "Of the 111 measles cases recorded in that area...105 involved people who were unvaccinated while three involved those who were partially vaccinated...At least 254 people had been placed in quarantine as of Tuesday"

YouTube video by Keyser Soze Raul Malo - Downbound Train

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Awful news. His cover of Downbound Train will make you weep.

YouTube video by NPR Music The Mavericks: Tiny Desk Concert

RIP Raul Malo of The Mavericks!

supreme court to decide whether part of constitution is part of constitution

SO happy to hear that someone is going to an actual theater today!

5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off

5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...

Happy Birthday! I spend every morning with you!

My hero and birthday sharer! ❤️

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.

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'Why don't you just get your kid vaccinated?' Public frustration grows amid measles outbreaks “For many in our community, they’re frustrated, like, ‘Why don’t you just get your kid vaccinated?’” said Dr. Mysheika Roberts, health commissioner for Columbus, Ohio.

“...When you make a decision not to vaccinate your child or to delay the vaccination, you’re not just impacting your child and your household. You can be impacting that entire community..."

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I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by