Greetings! The nation’s 250th anniversary isn’t until July 4, 2026.  However  Donald Trump already has plans to mark that momentous day with the biggest celebration of patriotism in American history, reports the Daily Signal.  For some reason, I dread what that celebration will look like…Olivia Troye, Mike  Pence’s national security director during the first Trump administration, has advice for those who plan to be part of The Donald White House 2.0.  Troye foresees a toxic bro culture inside the West Wing and warns women going there to proceed with extreme caution. (We Lived It)…Most overused phrase of 2024: “said the quiet part out loud”…With a huge dose of snark, the Washington Free Beacon spotlights ten other “criminals” apart from  Hunter Biden who deserve a Joe Biden pardon.  The list includes Sam Brinton, Stormy Daniels’ mouthpiece Michael Avenatti, and (natch) Hillary Clinton…Woke is not quite dead yet, according to the New York Post’s John Mac Ghlionn.  His  article points to 200 million video game players in the U.S., making it  “the perfect platform for DEI tenets to flourish.” He reports that the hugely popular Call of Duty video game franchise just introduced its first nonbinary character with they/them pronouns…Here’s the political book I’m most eagerly awaiting in 2025.  CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson have teamed up on a nonfiction tome about “Biden’s insistence on staying in the 2024 race,” according to scoop machine Oliver Darcy in his newsletter Status.  No word on the book’s title or pub date. But I’d say that how Biden clung to power way past his expiration date is 2024’s great underreported political story and I can’t wait to devour the inside dish…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard