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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 11h

🍜 Baked chicken, hydroponic spring mix, green and red peppers, carrots, cremini mushrooms, mixed grape tomatoes and black olives with sea salt and fresh ground peppercorn, Maui onion ranch dressing and french bread croutons for #lunch on #Sunday. Restaurant quality #food made from scratch at home.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 1d

🍜 Chickpea Maafe ( #vegetarian West African groundnut stew) over an authentic West African recipe rice. I usually make this dish with goat, lamb or chicken and stir in cooked leafy greens such as amaranth. (This was still spicy and delicious without the meat and leafy greens.)
#homemade #food
#Vegan

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 1d

🍜 𝙍𝙀𝘾𝘼𝙇𝙇
#food
Publix® is recalling its store brand French vanilla ice cream because of an undeclared egg allergen.
@cnn.com via @firstalert4.com:

www.firstalert4.com/2025/10/18/i...

Ice cream sold at Publix recalled over undeclared allergen

Publix has issued a voluntary recall of one of its store-brand flavors of ice cream.

www.firstalert4.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 1d

Mehdi Hasan documents that #Trump chose 5th graders as the White House Press Secretary and Communications Director.
(@mehdirhasan.bsky.social)
( @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social)
Sadly this stupidity is not an SNL skit. This is the reality in the Trump White House.
#WhiteHouse
#KarolineLeavitt
#Stupid

David French commenting on his repost on X: childish and pathetic.
Mehdi Hasan posts:
In response to HuffPost query about who suggested Budapest, White House Press Secretary Caroline leavitt responded " your mom did,"and White House Communications director Steven Cheung replied "your mom..."

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 2d

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Apparently you didn't reach your free article limit this month or your using a browser, like Brave®, which allows site by site settings which can override some paywalls.

I'm able to read the articles but I'm aware that not everybody could so I included an alternative.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 3d

ICE busts Chicagoland cop, says cop was here illegally. The Chicago suburb says cop had federal authorization to work or he wouldn't have been hired
@cnn.com ($)
www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...
[#Free:
www.fox32chicago.com/news/hanover... ]
#immigration #Trump #migrants #police

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

www.cnn.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 4d

🍜 Thai dinner - Pad Kee Mao Gai (ผัดขี้เมาไก่) and gafae yen, traditional Thai iced coffee (กาแฟเย็น).

#chicken #cuisine #International
#food

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 5d

Conrad Wallem would like to stay with St. Louis City SC, but like many, it's up in the air www.stltoday.com/sports/profe...
(Archive:
archive.ph/jrico)
#ConradWallem #soccer
#StLouisSC
#StLouis #Missouri
#MLS #sports

Conrad Wallem would like to stay with St. Louis City SC, but like many, it's up in the air

Conrad Wallem is with St. Louis City SC on a loan that ends Dec. 31. A decision on where he'll play next season awaits a new sporting director.

www.stltoday.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 5d

LA County declared a state of emergency to provide legal and rent relief for families affected by a recent, coordinated surge in ICE raids and immigration enforcement actions. The move highlights the local response to federal policy. #LACounty #ICEraids #Immigration #RentRelief
rb.gy/r4evsn

Los Angeles County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials have declared a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

rb.gy

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 5d

Store brands and other private label products have been improving over the years.
🍜
#food
northamerica.visionmagazine.com/private-labe...

Private Labels Are Upstaging Big-Name Foods - Vision Magazine

In the North American retail sector, private labels are shedding their bargain-bin image and becoming consumer favorites.

northamerica.visionmagazine.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 5d

🍜 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧!!

Consumer Reports® found extremely 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 levels of lead in most major brands of protein / nutrition powders.
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
#food
#safety #FoodSafety
#nutrition
#consumers
#poison
#lead

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d

The next generation.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 6d

#Trump arrives in #Egypt for the #Gaza summit. #BBC commentators, on World News feed mentioned all the unanswered questions and conflicts in understanding between #Israel and #Hamas going forth.
BBC reports the treaty already faces its first crisis.
www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...

Joy in Israel as hostages return but families say Hamas not honouring deal to return the dead - live updates

Hamas says it will return the bodies of four hostages today, but has told mediators it does not know the location of some of the other 24.

www.bbc.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 7d

I still have mine inherited from my mother and occasionally I'll put something on the food feed plated on them.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 7d

🍜 Poulet de Dijon aux herbes de Provence, baked sweet potato with ghee, sea salt and cinnamon, sauteed fresh brussel sprouts, asparagus, red, green and orange peppers, red onion and Knorr® Aromat® seasoning accompanied by a mug of freshly brewed coffee with Saint Brendan's® Irish Cream.
#food

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

“Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’… Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear

Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

www.wsj.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed. It's inexcusable.

The Insanity of it all is just mind-boggling -- except it's not. It all contributes to destabilization.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 8d

#Update - apparently a lot of those termination notices were sent due to a "coding error"and have been rescinded. The article has been updated to reflect this.

What a clown show.
I wonder how many people will die because of these cuts and the incredible incompetence.🤬
#CDC

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 8d

What an evil twisted man.

CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre.

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 10d

🍜 Drats. When I looked at the post about the venison soup above, I realized I left off whole kernel corn on the ingredients. I'm usually careful about that.

I think that happens when I'm trying to edit for BlueSky's character limit.
#food

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 11d

🍜. Venison vegetable soup (made venison meat and venison bone broth, carrots, baby red potatoes, multicolor fingerling potatoes, green beans, peas, carrots, tomatoes, seasonings, spices, garlic) #WildHarvested #conservation #soup #homemade #food #venison
#hunting #Midwest
#cooking

Venison vegetable soup and potatoes in the instant pot.

Venison vegetable soup with fingerling and baby red potatoes in a big bowl ready for serving. Homemade and delicious with wild harvested venison, venison bone broth.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 12d

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My late night snack: chicken fried rice and tall glass of lemonade, also pictured with Kikkoman soy sauce.

I didn't make this tonight, but it was delicious and extremely convenient.

It's times like these that I am grateful to have a commercial upright deep freezer.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 12d

🍜 Deluxe garden salad - baked lemon pepper chicken, home garden tomatoes, raw asparagus, cremini mushrooms, carrots, cucumber, red & green peppers, black olives, avocado, pickled brussel sprouts, Knorr® Aromat® seasoning, Ocean's Halo® Maui Onion Ranch dressing & French bread croutons.
#food

Deluxe garden salad before I added the salad dressing and croutons: baked lemon pepper chicken, home garden tomatoes, raw asparagus, cremini mushrooms, carrots, cucumber, red & green peppers, black olives, avocado, pickled brussel sprouts, Knorr® Aromat® seasoning.

Unopened container of Ocean's Hallo® Maui onion ranch dressing.

Knorr® Aromat® All purpose savory seasoning, original packaging.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 14d

I hated "liking" that comment because I believe you are correct, but the current situation in the United States is heartbreaking and infuriating. Nothing to like about the correct situation.

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Robert Weiter @robertweiter.bsky.social · 14d

In case you haven't been following the #SupremeCourt decisions recently, I'm not sure we can take that for granted anymore. #SocialSecurity #benefits #Trump

A A satirical image of Donald Trump tearing up a large check made out to the American people titled Social Security benefits marked void with the caption Trump's new budget plan. Behind him an American eagle in a frame with a question mark reflecting "what in the hell is he doing?"

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