Karen Dalton Beninato
@kbeninato.bsky.social
Writer, words in The New Republic, NOLA, Huffington Post, Earth Island. Nonprofit co-founder. Was publicist for legendary Dr. John; now working with badasses artists including Grammy nominated Corey Henry. Grammy mentor.
https://karendaltonbeninato.com
https://karendaltonbeninato.com
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Candy Paw will grant one, and only one, wish per customer. #Caturday
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Chicago turkey photos from earlier this year:
A few photos of the turkey walking this morning near the Midway Plaisance.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Chicago turkey photos from earlier this year:
Didn't take a Thanksgiving plate picture because I already ate every damn thing on it. Celebrate safely, and don't get the turkey stuck on your head!
a man stands next to a woman wearing a turkey head and sunglasses
Alt: a man stands next to a woman wearing a turkey head and sunglasses
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Didn't take a Thanksgiving plate picture because I already ate every damn thing on it. Celebrate safely, and don't get the turkey stuck on your head!
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Me: Okay, no politics at my place during thanksgiving
Cat: Mao
Cat: Mao
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Me: Okay, no politics at my place during thanksgiving
Cat: Mao
Cat: Mao
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So, was it Terry’s murderous craze or his friend’s murderous craze? If I’m being told to forget the marijuana I need a clearer explanation of the reasons.
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So, was it Terry’s murderous craze or his friend’s murderous craze? If I’m being told to forget the marijuana I need a clearer explanation of the reasons.
Coming up next on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Gwar on the Ocean Spray Cranberry float performing Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer 🎤
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Coming up next on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Gwar on the Ocean Spray Cranberry float performing Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer 🎤
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I love the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade because it’s the only time of year where one can hear a statement like “And, coming up, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles float featuring a performance by Busta Rhymes” and not even blink an eye.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I love the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade because it’s the only time of year where one can hear a statement like “And, coming up, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles float featuring a performance by Busta Rhymes” and not even blink an eye.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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It was never going to be Mueller or Epstein or any well-laid plan crafted by the moral opposition. It was always going to be some ragingly on-tilt rando chasing a completely different objective coughing up proof the assassination attempt was staged with energy so divorced it blots out the sun
I started out a skeptic but I'm now fully sold on the idea that Ryan Lizza's revenge-porn blog will, as pure collateral damage, bring down the president of the United States
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It was never going to be Mueller or Epstein or any well-laid plan crafted by the moral opposition. It was always going to be some ragingly on-tilt rando chasing a completely different objective coughing up proof the assassination attempt was staged with energy so divorced it blots out the sun
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I hope my whole family is ready for me to deliver a power point presentation on the Lizza/Nuzzi situation at Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I hope my whole family is ready for me to deliver a power point presentation on the Lizza/Nuzzi situation at Thanksgiving.
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This Creedence from 1970’s been sounding exponentially prescient for quite a while now
I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This Creedence from 1970’s been sounding exponentially prescient for quite a while now
I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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The suspect in the National Guard shooting served for 10 years in the Afghan Army alongside U.S. Special Forces. A relative says he has a wife and five sons, hadn’t spoken to him in months, and doesn’t know why he carried out the attack.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The suspect in the National Guard shooting served for 10 years in the Afghan Army alongside U.S. Special Forces. A relative says he has a wife and five sons, hadn’t spoken to him in months, and doesn’t know why he carried out the attack.
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents. Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility.
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents
Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents. Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility.
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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youtu.be/TpMikc2QdBs Via Bruce Sterling, some charmingly retro cyberpunk from today’s Beograd
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
youtu.be/TpMikc2QdBs Via Bruce Sterling, some charmingly retro cyberpunk from today’s Beograd
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Rush Hour 4 starring Bolsonaro and Trump in a cell, carving hate mail to Mark Kelly on the walls with a spork.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Rush Hour 4 starring Bolsonaro and Trump in a cell, carving hate mail to Mark Kelly on the walls with a spork.
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
Such a Night from Dr. John - 49 years ago today, for those who observe The Band's The Last Waltz.
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Such a Night from Dr. John - 49 years ago today, for those who observe The Band's The Last Waltz.
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
Smart year to have kept the cookbooks.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Smart year to have kept the cookbooks.
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
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What you need to know about this year's flu season: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
A New Flu Variant May Make Cold Season Brutal This Year
U.S. flu rates remain low, but experts are keeping an eye on a new strain that’s been linked to unexpectedly early and severe seasons in several other countries
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What you need to know about this year's flu season: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...