From the mysterious East, now comes Carrnac the Magnificent with his infallible predictions for the New Year, 2026.

For those infidels keeping score at home, exactly one year ago today, Carrnac gazed into his crystal ball and presciently predicted both the acquittal of Karen Read and the conviction of Tania Fernandes Anderson.

Perhaps not the toughest calls in the world, Sahib. But as we used to say back in the Raj, a W is a W.

And now, the envelopes please:

Embattled MN Gov. Tim Walz resigns, one step ahead of the posse, to become the newest adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Institute of Politics.

That way Walz won’t have to travel far to personally pick his inevitable Profiles in Courage Award next spring.

At her sentencing in federal court on Jan. 29, plus-sized BLM grifter Monica Cannon-Grant will declare that she is a victim of, you guessed it, racism.

After his inevitable conviction on corruption charges, crooked Democrat state Rep. Chris “Flim Flam” Flanagan will tell the judge that he too is a victim, of a debilitating mental disorder.

Kleptomania.

The State Police will take over the probe of the $400,000 lobster theft in Taunton, but will quickly be forced to issue a statement denying that any troopers were involved, despite the obvious similarities of the crustacean heists to many other crimes committed by MSP troopers in recent years.

Shabbily dressed NPR-listening pensioners will continue to wear their ridiculous masks in public, as they fantasize about once again having the opportunity to vote for Kamala Harris.

The auction of Karen Read’s restored 2021 black Lexus SUV will bring in more than $200,000 for her legal fund.

Over-under on how many more multi-million-dollar food stamp “anomalies” the feds will uncover in the illegal-alien districts: four.

Take the over.

A local TV newscast will be canceled. No one will notice.

Lawrence Mayor Brian DePena will not graduate with honors from his most recent ESL class.

As a matter of fact, el alcalde won’t graduate, period.

As spring arrives, Mayor Wu asks Archbishop Henning to bless the city’s sacred bicycle lanes.

On April 4, Gov. Healey will hold a special ceremony to commemorate the three-month anniversary of not a single blade from one of her beloved wind turbines breaking off and crashing into a cranberry bog or the ocean.

On Patriots Day, Gov. Healey will issue a proclamation commemorating the Minutemen who fired the shots heard ‘round the world in 1775, noting that “most of them were Somalis, you know.”

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox will retire due to ill health. Everybody got sick of him.

Mayor Michelle Wu will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US on July 4 by personally burning an American flag on the Boston Common.

Later in the day, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani will try to one-up her as the most radical mayor in the US by burning two Old Glories in Times Square.

MA Attorney General Andrea Campbell will indict exactly the same number of corrupt Democrat politicians in 2026 as she did in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Which is to say, zero.

After a lengthy run by the local team in the NFL playoffs, Sen. Ed Markey will once more take to the Senate floor to congratulate, as he did in 2017, “the Boston Patriots.”

When asked about new quarterback Drake Maye, Markey will pay him the ultimate compliment:

“He could be the next Babe Parilli!”

Throughout 2026, leading up to primary day, Rep. Seth Moulton will continually be saying to himself:

“I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”

There will be no progress made in rebuilding the Cape bridges.

But the price tag will rise by another $10 billion, the completion date will be pushed off to 2050, and people will begin to fondly reminisce about how competently the Big Dig project was run.

The corrupt state judiciary will continue to rebuff the attempts of state Auditor Diana DiZoglio to audit the corrupt state Legislature.

In an unrelated development, the corrupt state Legislature will approve another massive pay raise for the corrupt state judiciary.

When convicted on corruption charges, crooked Suffolk County High Sheriff Steve Tompkins will blame, you guessed it, racism.

Brian Albert, former Boston cop and now Brockton private eye extraordinaire, will hold a press conference to announce the hiring of his two newest very ethical crack sleuths – Michael Proctor and Kelly Dever.

As Albert introduces them, music from AC/DC blares from the loudspeakers – “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.”

ATF agent Brian Higgins is unable to attend the festivities, but telephones congratulations to his drinking buddy – with a butt dial.

The investigation of the racist emails at UMass in 2021 continues into a fifth year with no resolution and no suspects.

The investigation into the racist defacing of the black professors’ portraits at Harvard Law School in 2015 continues into an eleventh year with no resolution and no suspects.

There’s a dry spell – the Globe will blame global warming.

A lot of rain – ditto.

More snow than normal, or less – you only get one guess what caused it.

Same with hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and failing (or is it increasing?) maple syrup production.

Is there anything global warming can’t do?

Anything bad that happens in the economy – Trump’s fault, just because.

Any good economic news – Trump’s just cashing in on the Biden boom.

Gov. Healey will appoint LaMar Cook to the State Parole Board – but only after yet another thorough background check by the State Police.

LaMar’s term will be for five years, to run concurrently with his own prison sentence.

On New Year’s Eve, the last American leaving Boston will turn out the lights.

(Buy Howie’s new book, “Mass Corruption: Vol. 1, The Cops,” at amazon.com or howiecarrshow.com/store.)