Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Jill Wine Banks, Joyce fans, and me, Barb McQuaid.

Kim will be back next week, and we already miss her.

Kick off the new year with some hashtag sisters-in-law gear.

Hoodies and t-shirts are available at politicon.com slash merch.

You can find the link in our show notes.

I got lots of nice messages from people who told me they received hashtag sisters-in-law merch for holiday gifts.

I was pleased to see that, but it's still

not too late. You can start your new year with some Sisters in Law merch. In today's show,

we're going to be discussing Jack Smith's now public testimony before Congress, the Minnesota

daycare fraud scandal, and Chief Justice Roberts' annual year-end report and what to expect in the

year ahead at the Supreme Court. But before we start, sisters, I wanted to ask you, you know,

do you ever read that thing the Washington Post puts out? I think they've put it out now since

1978, the ins and outs of the new year. It's, you know, it's a little bit tongue and cheek, but they often

talk about fads, you know, things that are going to be out of fashion in the new year and things

that are going to be in fashion in the new year. And they've got a lot of things on that list,

you know, clothing and language and all kinds of things. I wondered if either of you had any

predictions of things that might be out for 2026 and other things that might be in. Joyce,

you look like you're chopping at the bit. What do you got? You know, I love this. I mean, I look

through this every year. I read through it carefully. You know, I thought briefly about buying the sneak arenas. I looked at pictures of Basque waist wedding dresses. Do buy chocolate. Do buy chocolate is on the list. You know, but the elegant dip in the Basque wedding dresses, they were so pretty. I checked out Filipino coffee shops, but we don't have any

in Birmingham yet, and they look amazing. So I'm going to be checking it out when I travel.

You know, lists like this are always really fun. This one obviously has some serious tones, too,

because of the moment that we're living in. And, you know, they spoke a little bit about Supreme Court decisions that were upcoming.

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