#KrampusBroughtChristmas cookies! pic.twitter.com/UPSiBbSJuY — Parody Pam (@PammyJC) December 10, 2022 I've not read any of The Dark is Rising sequence, but given that Robert Macfarlane mentions it here in the same breath as Alan Garner and Ursula K Le Guin I am really looking forward to this radio adaptation.https://t.co/wr3GS4SuV5 — Jon James (@Jon_A_James) December 15, …
Readership Capture
Monday Morning Open Thread: Hot Soup & Stone Cold Facts
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Hot soup and stone cold facts — that's how we get the job done For The People. -NP pic.twitter.com/SiEbBxLnl9 — Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) December 16, 2022 Well worth a listen, if you need my prompting! Hanukkah is a special time in our home. As we join millions worldwide in celebrating miracles, we remember that light …
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Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president. He vowed to take on China and bulk up American manufacturing. He said he would reduce the budget deficit. Yet after two years as president, it’s Joe Biden who is acting on those promises. https://t.co/m1n084li9e
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 18, 2022
Get out the extra blankets and make sure you’re stocked up on batteries:
"Coldest air of the season." Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows in. https://t.co/zu29mi0SiN
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 18, 2022
WaterGirl’s got us covered here — her livestream post should go up at 12:45pm:
"Attempted coup." The House committee investigating the Capitol riot is expected to make criminal and civil referrals against former President Donald Trump when the panel makes its final public presentation Monday. https://t.co/CKgDm2h2O5
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 18, 2022
Concerning Twitter’s Main Character for the Duration:
Anyway, my new standing policy on Elon Proclamations is to wait 72 hours to see if he gets cyberbullied out of them before freaking out.
— Checkless Starfish Who Can Change His Name (@IRHotTakes) December 18, 2022
Speaking of assassination coordinates — the Washington Post tracked down that stalker, and apart from having nothing to do with the airport, turns out the dude is actually stalking Musk’s former girlfriend / baby mamma Grimes. That’s gotta sting.
Monday Morning Open Thread: Putting in the Work
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‘Tis the season! We invited students from across Washington, D.C. to make ornaments and celebrate the holidays with us. pic.twitter.com/MP1NgvDTc4 — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) December 9, 2022
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“I’m very proud of her”
Love this: Hillary Clinton praised VP Kamala Harris in a new interview she did last week and said Kamala should get credit along with President Biden for what the administration has accomplished. pic.twitter.com/HDD9BEIuVf
— diane-jefferson (@dianejeffersonc) December 7, 2022
President Joe Biden is set to play host to dozens of African leaders in Washington this week as the White House looks to narrow a gaping trust gap with Africa — one that has grown wider over years of frustration about America’s commitment to the continent. https://t.co/L3gkyawWe3
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2022
Senate Dems have elected their leadership team: pic.twitter.com/rty4m2ko0W
— Jordain Carney (@jordainc) December 8, 2022
This will open up hundreds of miles of historic salmon habitat, improve water quality, and revive the fishery and restore the river that the Basin Tribes have relied upon since time immemorial. pic.twitter.com/oqUIGgLOLf
— Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) December 8, 2022
The holidays as we know them wouldn’t be possible without transportation workers who go into overdrive this time every year, powering supply chains that deliver in every part for America. pic.twitter.com/8xIolkv3MR
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) December 7, 2022
Still more work is ahead as we invest to make our supply chain more resilient for the future. https://t.co/bRZxLyZTr4
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) December 11, 2022
Across the aisle…
*experience in STEM
*popular with celebrities such as Donald Trump and Kanye West.
*comes across as warm, human compared to Blake Masters https://t.co/zWbBo9yJCl— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) December 7, 2022
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Congratulations, Senator Warnock!
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Warnock: "Just because people endured long lines … the rain and the cold and all kind of tricks in order to vote, it doesn't mean that voter suppression doesn't exist. It simply means that you the people have decided your voices will not be silenced." pic.twitter.com/KdNyIc3Ozc — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 7, 2022
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Just called @SenatorWarnock to congratulate him on his win.
Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Ultra MAGAism, and most importantly: sent a good man back to the Senate. Here’s to six more years. pic.twitter.com/ibx5aprVs3
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 7, 2022
Georgia voters said they wanted a Senator who would fight for them—and made it a reality when they reelected @ReverendWarnock to the U.S. Senate. Congratulations, my friend. pic.twitter.com/uFKbyInyJL
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 7, 2022
And thank you @staceyabrams for your tireless work for Georgia voters. https://t.co/012Pr30yzz
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) December 7, 2022
Thread (from a fellow campaign organizer):
This is @quentinfulks – campaign manager for @ReverendWarnock. The guy who just won arguably the most difficult campaign of the cycle. He thread an incredibly tiny needle to win. Q deserves all the accolades coming his way tonight. All of them. pic.twitter.com/j5V70vFrjL
— Anne Caprara (@anacaprana) December 7, 2022
Big ups to everyone in Georgia who was willing to be a Democrat in a place where it wasn't easy to be a Democrat.
— ?? Simply Loving To Permanently Be Online ?? (@BobbyBigWheel) December 7, 2022
Herschel Walker was meant to be white conservatives’ trophy. A Black caricature, and a cruel example of what they could accomplish in a state they’ve rigged with voter suppression. Shame on them.
Congrats to Sen. Warnock. Congrats to all of us. https://t.co/FCZjN7e56S
— Ja'han Jones (@_Jahan) December 7, 2022
Not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934 has a Democratic president in his first midterm election seen every sitting Democratic senator re-elected. Raphael Warnock’s win in Georgia tonight is historic for Senator Warnock — and for President Biden.
https://t.co/C4vtGi40un— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) December 7, 2022
Area NYT people have not met any Republican primary voters. https://t.co/oKwKDnMfIb
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 7, 2022
Metro Atlanta poses a huge problem for Republicans in 2024 and beyond.
These counties keep getting bluer every election. And given that much of the shift is because of population growth and diversification, it may end up being quite durable.https://t.co/g9WLXBFWgg
— Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1) December 7, 2022
"The defeat of Walker…culminated a disastrous year for Donald Trump, who set himself up as a Republican kingmaker only to watch his Senate candidates in NV, AZ, PA and now GA — as well as his picks for governor in AZ, MI and GA — go on to defeat" https://t.co/HNVXjnXsZg
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) December 7, 2022
Readership Capture: A Breathing Space
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One of my favorite White House traditions was telling Thanksgiving jokes – which at least I thought were funny. Here’s a look back at some of my favorites: pic.twitter.com/t2azgScNau — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 24, 2022 Vanity Fair: … Noah has interviewed President Obama twice before on The Daily Show: once virtually during the pandemic …
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After Obama praised young people for rocking the vote a few weeks ago, Noah pointed out that the percentage of young voters turning up for elections seems to have actually declined over time. “What is always true is that young people are going to vote at slightly lower rates than old people like me,” Obama said. “Because they’ve got better things to do. Michelle and I are sitting at home eating dinner. We’ve kind of run out of things to say. Well, let’s go vote,” he said, garnering a big laugh. “Young people—Malia and Sasha—they’re out. They’ve got all kinds of stuff.” …
From the Washington Post‘s review of “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times” :
… The title refers to the importance of recognizing one’s own light and becoming empowered by it. The book emerged, in part, from admirers’ queries, and while Obama readily admits she doesn’t have all the answers, she can offer her “toolbox,” the techniques and strategies she uses to manage her self-doubt and anxieties, and ward against hovering cynicism and low-grade depression.
Her strategies include the support of family and friends (particularly a group of women she calls her Kitchen Table) and hobbies such as knitting, which she picked up during the coronavirus pandemic. It allows her to focus on the “power of small actions, small gestures, small ways you might allow yourself to reset and restore.”…
Despite her extraordinary gifts and accomplishments, Obama acknowledges that she worries about her looks; finds the label “angry Black woman” reductive; and is still pursued by the nagging question: “Am I good enough?,” especially in spaces that prize straight White maleness over our myriad differences. Her father often told her, “No one can make you feel bad if you feel good about yourself.” To that, she responds: “It took me years to absorb my dad’s maxim more fully into my own life. I grew into my confidence slowly, in fits and starts. Only gradually did I learn to carry my differentness with pride.”…
Obama doesn’t hold back about her anger and frustration at former president Donald Trump and the way he handled the pandemic and the assault on the Capitol. She talks about the sadness she felt after the 2016 election and about the fact that so many Americans viewed Trump as a sort of corrective to her husband. It made her question whether the Obama years had meant anything:
“It still hurts. It shook me profoundly to hear the man who’d replaced my husband as president openly and unapologetically using ethnic slurs, making selfishness and hate somehow acceptable, refusing to condemn white supremacists or to support people demonstrating for racial justice. It shocked me to hear him speaking about differentness as if it were a threat,” she writes…
‘Is everyone doing this perfectly but me?’ Michelle Obama on the guilt and anxiety of being a mother – and her golden parenting rules https://t.co/9VEAxlrYWW
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 12, 2022
… By her own measure, my mom is nothing special. She also likes to say that while she loves us dearly, my brother and I are not special, either. We’re just two kids who had enough love and a good amount of luck and happened to do well as a result. She tries to remind people that neighbourhoods like the South Side of Chicago are packed full of “little Michelles and little Craigs”. They’re in every school, on every block. It’s just that too many of them get overlooked and underestimated. This would probably count as the foundational point of my mom’s larger philosophy: “All children are great children.”
My mother is now 85. She operates with a quiet and mirthful grace. Glamour and gravitas mean nothing to her. She sees right through it, believing that all people should be treated the same. I’ve seen her talk to the pope and to the postman, approaching them both with the same mild-mannered, unflappable demeanour. If someone asks her a question, she responds in plain and direct terms, never catering her answers to suit a particular audience. This is another thing about my mother: she doesn’t believe in fudging the truth.
What this meant as we transitioned into the White House was that any time a reporter posed a question to my mom, she would answer it candidly rather than soft-pedalling her thoughts or hewing to any set of talking points generated by nervous communications staffers.
Which is how she surfaced in the national news, describing how she’d been dragged kicking and screaming from her quiet little bungalow on Euclid Avenue and more or less forced to live at the nation’s most famous address. She was not being ungracious; she was just being real. How my mom expressed herself to the reporters on this matter was no different than how she’d expressed herself to me. She had not wanted to come to Washington, but I had flat-out begged her. My mother was the rock of our family. Since the time our daughters were babies, she’d helped us out around the edges of our regular childcare arrangements, filling the gaps as Barack and I often improvised and occasionally flailed our way through different career transitions, heavy workload cycles, and the ever-burgeoning after-school lives of our two young girls…
As a parent, you are always fighting your own desperation not to fail at the job you’ve been given. There are whole industries built to feed and capitalise on this very desperation, from baby brain gyms and ergonomic strollers to SAT coaches. It’s like a hole that can’t ever be filled.
I’m sorry to say that this doesn’t end with any one milestone, either. The desperation doesn’t go away when your kid learns to sleep or walk, or graduates from high school, or even moves into their first apartment and buys a set of steak knives. You will still worry! You will still be afraid for them! Even now, my husband, the former commander-in-chief, can’t help but to text cautionary news stories to our daughters – about the dangers of highway driving or walking alone at night. When they moved to California, he emailed them a lengthy article about earthquake preparedness and offered to have Secret Service give them a natural-disaster-response briefing. (This was met with a polite “No thanks”.)
Caring for your kids and watching them grow is one of the most rewarding endeavours on Earth, and at the same time it can drive you nuts…
TaMara, I think, already posted an extract from this interview, but here’s the whole thing if you want to watch it:
Open Thread: Leftovers, the Best Part of Thanksgiving
This post is in: Food & Recipes, Open Threads, Readership Capture
Thrilled to be interviewed by @RashaAlAqeedi at @newlinesmag. We talked about my new recipe, Thanksgiving vegan biryani, and how immigrants bring their flavors to this American tradition.https://t.co/pumnRD18mX — MirriamZary 🇦🇫 (@mirriam71) November 24, 2022 …For the Seddiq family of northern Virginia, Thanksgiving is always an event. Immigrants from Afghanistan, they first arrived in America in …
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Pozole for thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/S6JQGRtHpB
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) November 24, 2022
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) November 24, 2022
(h/t Ozark Hillbilly)
Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies https://t.co/5z8d64MoO3
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 23, 2022
… “Our findings are the first real indication of complex cooking – and thus of food culture – among Neanderthals,” said Chris Hunt, a professor of cultural paleoecology at Liverpool John Moores University, who coordinated the excavation.
Hunt and his colleagues have even tried to recreate one of the recipes, using seeds gathered from nearby the caves. “It made a sort of pancake-cum-flatbread which was really very palatable – a sort of nutty taste,” Hunt said.
The burned food remnants – the oldest ever found – were recovered from the Shanidar Cave site, a Neanderthal dwelling 500 miles north of Baghdad in the Zagros Mountains. Thought to be about 70,000 years old, they were discovered in one of many ancient hearths in the caves…
“We present evidence for the first time of soaking and pounding pulse seeds by both Neanderthals and early modern humans (Homo sapiens) at both sites, and during both phases at Shanidar Cave,” said Dr Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanist at the University of Liverpool, who led the study.
“We also find evidence of ‘mixtures’ of seeds included in food items and argue that there were some unique preferences for specific plant flavours.”
The research, published in Antiquity, adds to mounting evidence of plant consumption by both early modern humans and Neanderthals, in addition to meat. Wild nuts and grasses were often combined with pulses, such as lentils, and wild mustard.
Hunt said: “Because the Neanderthals had no pots, we presume that they soaked their seeds in a fold of an animal skin.”…
(And yet some complain about the primitive cooking facilities at our in-laws’ gathering.)
(h/t NotMax)
This is no ordinary cake. Composed of three layers of corn bread, interspersed with sweet potatoes, marshmallows, and stuffing, frosted in mashed potatoes & gravy, and finally topped with a Cornish game hen, this cake’s a Thanksgiving feast
(I’d rather eat a Neanderthal pulse flatbread with wild mustard… but that’s just me.)
Sunday Morning Salmagundi Open Thread
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Global sport organizations may *all* be critically broken. (There will, however — FYWordPress permitting — be a Qatar vs Ecuador Open Thread at 10:45am EST, just before the start of the first game.) The Phrygian cap, the symbol of freedom during the French Revolution has been chosen the mascot of the Paris 2024 Olympics https://t.co/bBIwYYBavo …
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Human ingenuity remains vibrant…
I want to meet the person who came up with this fucking cover pic.twitter.com/g6i81krXv3
— Sam ?? ?? (@nukedtoronto) November 16, 2022
?? Not only do I love the cover, but I definitely also want to read the book!
— Rebecca is @[email protected] (@arkhamlibrarian) November 17, 2022
The long maybe-goodbye continues…
I watched 30-50 feral hogs glitter in the dark near the Tannhoüser gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tweets in rain
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) November 18, 2022
Thank you dear https://t.co/1dN2PaZjUq
— ??????? ????? ?????? (@muntazer_zaidi) November 18, 2022
i will ask the fuckin boatman for the goddamned wifi password
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) November 18, 2022
inspired by real events please enjoy this one page RPG called "I do not want a mastodon" in which you are given a mastodon you do not want by well meaning people who do not understand that you do not want a mastodon pic.twitter.com/YlAe0OevQI
— Oliver Darkshire ?? (@deathbybadger) November 11, 2022
if you like dice games then here is a list of one page rpgs
you do not have to toss me any coin, but please remember the world is burning and you can't take it to hell with youhttps://t.co/gotLgKhUXg
— Oliver Darkshire ?? (@deathbybadger) November 11, 2022
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