Timmothy Frink
@twifferthegnu.bsky.social
An enigma wrapped in a mystery encasing a soft nougat center and enrobed in chocolate.
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December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
“For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
December 15, 2025
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December 14, 2025
December 14, 2025
Last Sunday, on December 7, Mydelle Wright, a well-regarded preservationist, filed a declaration before a court, saying that President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
December 14, 2025
visited the anne frank house today. it's painful to see my country clearly heading down this same path. the horrors of the past were meant to be a warning, not a playbook.
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
visited the anne frank house today. it's painful to see my country clearly heading down this same path. the horrors of the past were meant to be a warning, not a playbook.
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December 12, 2025
December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
December 12, 2025
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December 11, 2025
December 11, 2025
On Tuesday, President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
December 11, 2025
this is fantastic
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
this is fantastic
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December 10, 2025
December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Hu...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
December 10, 2025
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December 9, 2025
December 9, 2025
When G.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
December 9, 2025
vacation is in full swing and i am full of sausage and beer.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
vacation is in full swing and i am full of sausage and beer.
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December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
December 6, 2025
the enigma of introversion is that being stuck in a crowd of people is terrible and sometimes terrifying. yet sitting out on a terrace just listening to the hum and thrum of a crowd, feeling the life life of a city below, is remarkably peaceful.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the enigma of introversion is that being stuck in a crowd of people is terrible and sometimes terrifying. yet sitting out on a terrace just listening to the hum and thrum of a crowd, feeling the life life of a city below, is remarkably peaceful.
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December 5, 2025
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
December 5, 2025
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December 4, 2025
December 4, 2025
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
December 4, 2025
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December 2, 2025
December 2, 2025
The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
December 2, 2025
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"When the brass slid an envelope under our door that said, 'EVERY SINGLE ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,' we didn't hesitate. We selected eighty-six testers and sent them to 189 countries to test 1,500 faux firs."
We Are Wirecutter, and Last Winter We Sent Eighty-Six Reporters to Test Fifteen Hundred Artificial Christmas Trees. Twelve Haven’t Returned
We believed we were capable of anything. We had already used 22,000 bagels to test 280 brands of toasters in North America. We sent twenty-five rep...
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"When the brass slid an envelope under our door that said, 'EVERY SINGLE ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,' we didn't hesitate. We selected eighty-six testers and sent them to 189 countries to test 1,500 faux firs."
"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."
I’m a Holiday Gift Guide Writer, and I Really Need You Pricks to Start Playing Backgammon
On the whole, I love my job writing holiday gift guides. I get to curate beautiful lists designed to help you, the consumer, bring joy to your love...
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
white supremacy is, at it's core, deeply stupid. the only thing white people are superior in is skin cancer rates. this admin clearly demonstrates the attraction racism has for incompetent idiots. none of them have any idea what responsibility is.
New in PN: This is what a white supremacist administration looks like
"The Republican Party of today, embodied as it is in Donald Trump and the administration he leads, is no longer so worried about being called racist, because it has unashamedly taken white supremacy as its cause."
"The Republican Party of today, embodied as it is in Donald Trump and the administration he leads, is no longer so worried about being called racist, because it has unashamedly taken white supremacy as its cause."
This is what a white supremacist administration looks like
Also: Can Democrats pull off a huge upset tonight in deep red Tennessee?
www.publicnotice.co
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
white supremacy is, at it's core, deeply stupid. the only thing white people are superior in is skin cancer rates. this admin clearly demonstrates the attraction racism has for incompetent idiots. none of them have any idea what responsibility is.
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December 1, 2025
December 1, 2025
President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
December 1, 2025
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November 30, 2025
November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
November 30, 2025
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November 29, 2025
November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
November 29, 2025
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November 28, 2025
November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
November 28, 2025
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November 26, 2025
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
November 26, 2025
this is beautiful
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
this is beautiful