it's potato time (potato-thyme sourdough using raw, grated potato, a trick I stole from Dan Lepard)

Today's the last day. Best sale of the year!

From the moment I touched his weathered carapace I just knew. This was the creature for me, and to hell with journalistic ethics.

"This is the experience of living in a world that was never built for you: having to explain and defend yourself while providing infinite amounts of labor at the demand of people who do not recognize their nondisabled privilege." This is an essential read.

The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

For my money, The Style Council is the greatest socialist dance band there ever was, and they just remastered the video for My Ever Changing Moods to HD. Bonus: Bikes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmVk...

contender for greatest headline of 2025 slate.com/advice/2025/...

This is tantalisingly close to £3k. The news moves on, but the lives of Jamaicans are still very difficult. Every bit helps (shares cost nothing but can be incredibly helpful). www.gofundme.com/f/huricane-m...

Tom Nichols: you see you can’t call this fascist because for one, he’s allowing his blood and soil rant to be taped, and two, he’s not a threat to me personally.

Please read and share this story if you haven't!

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him. Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

in conclusion,

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

okay but genuinely I would love to see this. we have the recipes posted. we have the evaluation criteria. this is the nerd website. we CAN do this.

The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...

SOME PIG (derogatory).

Austin Becker developed an early warning system to protect critical infrastructure from storms. His project’s funding was eliminated in April. It does seem important.

“Finally, we got an ICE agent who crossed the line so bad, he got arrested,” Attorney Greg Kirakosian said in a statement to L.A. TACO. The full story: lataco.com/gerardo-rodr... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Trump and Pete Hegseth just killed three more people in another bombing, this time in the Pacific. The dead were said to be part of a "designated terrorist organization," which is itself utterly absurd. No evidence provided.

"I am Spartacus" except everyone is admitting to felony sexual assault of a minor

Brought to you by the guy who thinks "asylum seekers" come from insane asylums.

"he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he used to slice it so thin that it would liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system."

The last time I wanted to fuck a 17 year old was when I was 17 years old

Great news obviously, but surely this is a Doctor Who episode? The Sausages of Tremedioth.

Nextdoor rebrand is wild

I’m still fighting every day to get the answer to this question and now I have a FORM. Please for the love of God fill out the form (or email your answer to cweaver@theatlantic). I’ll let you know how it all works out in the end!!!! docs.google.com/forms/d/11de...

Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...

we regret to inform you that Milkshake Duck

If you’re in NYC and want to see an awesome reading, this is this afternoon!

pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin sourdough (roasted pumpkin, toasted pumpkin oil, toasted pepitas).

Your #sundaybake is this fabulous Bread Soufflé. While it's baking, read a little interesting #foodhistory and just how essential bread is to life—or at the very least, to life in France. jamieschler.substack.com/p/souffle-au... Enjoy your Sunday. Bake. Oh, and please share.

Don't worry, Nora. We don't blame you for the Nuzzi profile. That's obviously Carl Bernstein's fault. bsky.app/profile/anna...

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

“Fusarium graminearum”, a toxin smuggled into the US by a Chinese scientist now facing charges, is a fungus that can wipe out wheat and barley crops. A research professor of plant pathology says the case highlights serious vulnerabilities in American agricultural biosecurity: buff.ly/nggAjSd

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it

We really are spoiled here.

I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.

You don’t hate the press enough.

The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.

wow, turns out Larry Summers is in fact the repulsive misogynistic pig that it was blindingly obvious he was in 2005

Truly heartbreaking. x.com/leylahamed/s...

the Carville/Podesta crowd thinks it’s a dead end because they’re down the same cul de sac worst reboot of No Exit ever

lol

everywhere RFK goes he should be confronted with so many duck noises that he develops a case of this

(Bluesky mod after I threaten to drop a piano on Mr Bean’s head) it would not be funny if it was you would it. A piano on your head. Not so funny now huh. You’re grounded. Apologize to Mr Bean

I think this is exactly right, by the way

I'm sorry, but this is an untenable and patronizing framework because it creates a situation where all criticism is shouted down to protect journalism. We need to be able to talk about broken systems. Are other journalists the sole arbiter of what's "good" or do we, as consumers, have any say?

even if you took this at face value, it would cost so much more money than it would save yes, even “in the long run” yes, even that one person who really was running a scam that one time