The Hall of Fire

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2024 3:26 am Mexico is holding elections today. More than 30 political candidates in that country were murdered this year.*

*Italics mine

It doesn't matter in the Republican party any more, does it?

Nice! For some reason, I could pick out the spangram word when I first looked at the puzzle. I don't think I've ever had that happen before with 'Strands', I play Squaredle a lot, which is similar, but you can rotate the table in Squaredle which sometimes helps a person find words you couldn't get i...

I have a feeling Trump, from a persecuted, calculated, marketing point of view, would find going to jail a fund raising - rallying gold mine. Not to mention the opportunity to encourage violence.

Not so lucky in wordle today.
Wordle 1,079 5/6






Strands #91
“Nailed it!”



Connections
Puzzle #357

Oh no, I won't be getting into any such conversations. I'm not trained in recovery from cult indoctrination.

My neighbor posted this on FB ..

Not only no remorse, but seemingly an active desire to encourage harm, and the platform to do so.

Wordle 1,078 3/6




I blew connections.

Strands #90
“Start the day right”

Yeah, I took a chance rather than doing a 2nd elimination word and got very lucky. I was shocked.

Connections
Puzzle #355






Wordle 1,077 2/6



Strands #89
“On the yellow brick road”

I get that, N.E., but I think a lot of his followers will shrug this off as 'boys will be boys'. If I were a U.S. citizen, the national security risks posed by the mishandling of top secret files by a sitting president would certainly be a much greater concern to me. I agree that the mishandling of...

Wordle 1,075 4/6





Connections
Puzzle #353






Strands #87
“A good workout”

There, there Inanna, tomorrow is another day.

Wordle 1,074 3/6




Finally, a connections I didn't completely blow.
Connections
Puzzle #352





Strands #86
“All atwitter”

It's easy to blame the media, or rich people, or whoever else. I advocate looking in the mirror. While it's true that people believe what they want to believe/we are a product of our own making, it cannot be denied that some have the where-with-all to have have more influence than others. Influence...

Frelga wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 6:29 pm

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 5:32 pm I'm not buying it. The media follows the people, not the other way around.

Yes, and we know which people.

Rich people. Or perhaps that is Reich people.

The media silos are a real problem. A decades or so ago the various nightly news channels and main news outlets would disseminate roughly the same information so that the average person (who wasn't looking for subversive, conspiracy laden views) had a similar news intake as their neighbor. Now, 'alt...

Wordle 1,068 3/6




Connections
Puzzle #346





Strands #80
“Home grown”

For those who didn't want to bother with math... Truth Social stock continues to hold about the same value ($48.38 at the close of business today), but today the company released its financials for January-March 2024, which reveal "Revenue of $770,500 and Net Loss of $327.6 Million." That...

Inanna wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:45 pm Strands, in payback mode, is unsolvable for me today.

If you want a hint for today: