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"Before it was a vegetable, it was an herb," with the H pronounced, obviously.
I don’t really like cooked celery (raw is delicious) but this was very interesting history nevertheless:
www.epicurious.com/ingredients/...
www.epicurious.com/ingredients/...
The Secret History of Celery
How the crunchy stalks went from Victorian centerpiece to ubiquitous football snack.
www.epicurious.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"Before it was a vegetable, it was an herb," with the H pronounced, obviously.
The largest inflorescence in the plant kingdom is flowering now in the middle of Rio de Janeiro.
It's 25-feet tall and composed of millions of flowers. Crowning the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, its emergence marks the end of the life of the tree.
youtube.com/shorts/g9j6Y...
It's 25-feet tall and composed of millions of flowers. Crowning the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, its emergence marks the end of the life of the tree.
youtube.com/shorts/g9j6Y...
Rare palm trees bloom once in a lifetime before dying in Rio
YouTube video by CNN
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The largest inflorescence in the plant kingdom is flowering now in the middle of Rio de Janeiro.
It's 25-feet tall and composed of millions of flowers. Crowning the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, its emergence marks the end of the life of the tree.
youtube.com/shorts/g9j6Y...
It's 25-feet tall and composed of millions of flowers. Crowning the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, its emergence marks the end of the life of the tree.
youtube.com/shorts/g9j6Y...
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
Make America jaundiced again.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Make America jaundiced again.
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It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
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Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
Calling oppressive political and social practices exhausting in big public ways can be dispiriting rhetoric for fighting against oppression.
How about publicly calling awful systems and oppressive practices "infuriating"instead? Save the "exhausting" for intimates and comrades?
How about publicly calling awful systems and oppressive practices "infuriating"instead? Save the "exhausting" for intimates and comrades?
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Calling oppressive political and social practices exhausting in big public ways can be dispiriting rhetoric for fighting against oppression.
How about publicly calling awful systems and oppressive practices "infuriating"instead? Save the "exhausting" for intimates and comrades?
How about publicly calling awful systems and oppressive practices "infuriating"instead? Save the "exhausting" for intimates and comrades?
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Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@juliaturner.bsky.social @thehighsign.bsky.social @slate.com I'm excited to listen to Amy Poehler's interview with Kate McKinnon after hearing your endorsement.
Another quasi-celebrity interview with KMcK that precipitated warm and fuzzies for me (so uncool!) was Hillary Clinton's, on her pod.
Another quasi-celebrity interview with KMcK that precipitated warm and fuzzies for me (so uncool!) was Hillary Clinton's, on her pod.
Kate McKinnon, and Your Questions for Hillary
Podcast Episode · You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton · 04/06/2022 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
@juliaturner.bsky.social @thehighsign.bsky.social @slate.com I'm excited to listen to Amy Poehler's interview with Kate McKinnon after hearing your endorsement.
Another quasi-celebrity interview with KMcK that precipitated warm and fuzzies for me (so uncool!) was Hillary Clinton's, on her pod.
Another quasi-celebrity interview with KMcK that precipitated warm and fuzzies for me (so uncool!) was Hillary Clinton's, on her pod.
Did it this afternoon.
You ever drunk dial your senator?
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Did it this afternoon.
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I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
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Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
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Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
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Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
yep
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.
Abe the capybara trilled his way into our hearts.
October 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Abe the capybara trilled his way into our hearts.
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Resistance has a history.
And it mattered profoundly.
Successful or not, it showed backbone and a will to resist—and inspired others to do the same.
It fueled resistance in the North.
And it mattered profoundly.
Successful or not, it showed backbone and a will to resist—and inspired others to do the same.
It fueled resistance in the North.
When Anthonhy Burns was kidnapped in Boston in 1854 under the auspices of the Fugitive Slave Act, thousands of ordinary white and Black Bostonians responded with outrage like this and stormed the jail in an unsuccessful attempt to free him.
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Resistance has a history.
And it mattered profoundly.
Successful or not, it showed backbone and a will to resist—and inspired others to do the same.
It fueled resistance in the North.
And it mattered profoundly.
Successful or not, it showed backbone and a will to resist—and inspired others to do the same.
It fueled resistance in the North.
The worst thing about following so many of these (excellent) political reporters is their perodic forays into sportsball posting.
(Other bad things include depression and dismay about authoritarianism etc.—not their fault.)
(Other bad things include depression and dismay about authoritarianism etc.—not their fault.)
October 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The worst thing about following so many of these (excellent) political reporters is their perodic forays into sportsball posting.
(Other bad things include depression and dismay about authoritarianism etc.—not their fault.)
(Other bad things include depression and dismay about authoritarianism etc.—not their fault.)
Lana Del Rey and Lillet: where's my caftan?
October 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Lana Del Rey and Lillet: where's my caftan?