Brooke Jarvis

Only thing for it is to try the recipe and find out

THE BEST WHISKEY CAKE EVER INGREDIENTS: 1 or 2 quarts of whiskey, 1 teaspoon sugar, baking powder, 1 cup dried fruit, brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, lemon juice, nuts DIRECTIONS: Before you start, sample the whiskey to check for quality. Good, isn't it? Select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. Check the whiskey again. It must be just right. To be sure the whiskey is of the highest quality, pour one level cup of whiskey in a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat. With an electric mizer, beat 1 cup butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one seaspoon of thuger and beat again. Meanwhile, make sure the whiskey is of the finest quality--try another cup. Open second quart if necessary. Add 2 arge legs, 2 cups fried druid and beat til high. If druid gets stuck in beters, just pry it loose with drewscriver. Sample whiskey again, checking for tanscist city. Next, sift 3 cups of pepper or salt (it really doesn't matter which). Sample whiskey again. Sift 1/2 pint of lemon juice, fold in chipped butter and strained nuts. Add 1 babblespoon brown thugar or whatever color you can find. Mix wel. Grease oven and turn cake pan to 350. Pour into cove and ake. Check the whiskey one last time and bo go get. Cheers.

Happy Thanksgiving! Please enjoy this recipe for whiskey cake that I found in an otherwise normal community cookbook I found at my mother-in-law's house

Flashes of an overextended Milo Minderbinder trying to get everybody to eat cotton dipped in chocolate

when its definitely not a hostage situation

The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA

Really! Do you relate to the things the subjects say? I felt a little kinship via my lack of a sense of smell, which I think also affects the way I remember experiences, smell being so tied to memory.

Go on!

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

I've brought up this wildly fascinating Larissa MacFarquhar article to basically every person I've spent time with during the past month. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.

for example: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Houses Collapsing Into the Sea? It’s Not as Baffling as It Looks.

I wrote this week's Screenland column about the houses collapsing in the Outer Banks, an unusually visible example of a problem--the potentially rapid collapse of assets in a quickly changing world--that's much bigger www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/m...

James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

I've posted before about how much I enjoy the random and detailed pedantry of fact-checking. Just off a call that required watching YouTube clips to parse the correctness of a simile involving the way Imperial Walkers fall over in Star Wars.

update: bsky.app/profile/samt...

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk

During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.

Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists

you just haven't seen any of them for the last 15 years because they go to another school

Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says

Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid.

It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...

“We’re going to help Americans with their ACA premiums by sending everyone a paper bag of ripe bananas.”

Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds "You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.

Where we are in the climate crisis: Amazonian dolphins dying in hot tub lakes. www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

He beat the wrap, they must be reuben those charges www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit

when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

Pennsylvania voted for Trump in 2 of the last 3 presidential elections, we have a Republican senator, and a closely divided state legislature. But sure, by all means call us a blue state.

Bear killed after wandering into Seattle Seattle officials tried to capture black bear alive after finding him underneath the back deck of a home, but the young male died after being jolted with stun guns and hit with tranquilizer darts.

Oof, poor thing www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12915...

Oh wow. Glad you're ok. Poor deer.... I've seen groups of them on the side of I-5, wanting to cross, looking trapped.

Apparently they're quite active lately in the arboretum. These weren't aggressive but they weren't fearful, either. I saw three total; two came out of the woods to play-fight each other, and were easily within 15 feet of three different groups of humans at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Just reported a cool coyote encounter I had recently on Seattle's urban carnivore citizen science tool, and I have... questions for the people who saw a bear in Denny Triangle and a mountain lion in Montlake. carnivorespotter.org/urban-carniv...

Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...

"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

"These notes describe orphan wells spewing toxic water near homes or into streams, leaving scars of salt residue. A homeowner reported that his grandchildren often play near a purging well. Ranchers have lost calves, which, drawn to the salty water, died after drinking it."