A Brief History of Pumpkin Pie in America | Inside Adams Love pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving? Read the history of this traditional Thanksgiving dish.

The Pumpkin Pie is the perfect example of the "Columbian exchange" whereby Native American foods became integrated into European food culture. The modern pumpkin pie, of course, is entirely a product of the mass canned food industry which emerged ~100 years ago. blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...

In theory that enables leveling/unlocking to happen via the campaign as well as the (other) online modes, in practice when I saw what the post-campaign Endgame mode is... 😬

Belated update: I'm not the only one believing that there's going to be some deliberate scapegoating: bsky.app/profile/eagl...

The damage done by treating Trump's victory as some sweeping mandate in the first eight months of his term really was massive, but ending that collective delusion - i think with the help of last week's elections - really is having profound impacts.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts.

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Comparing the Caribbean Extrajudicial Killing Spree to Afghanistan is a smear against people who upheld their obligations to the Constitution and the LOAC in Afghanistan.

OK, I listened to the last 20 minutes of the episode (the whole section about the tattoo).

Here's what i heard: 1/

If you are in NY on Wednesday, I will be moderating this discussion of B'Tselem's research and recent report on the genocide in Gaza. Link to register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I appreciate Star Trek Online for not only NOT making fun of this but even making THAT CANDLE an in-game item!

Republicans in ‘Bare-Knuckle Brawl’ to Stop Missourians From Voting on Gerrymander Read more here.

Missouri voters have the power to veto the state’s new GOP congressional gerrymander at the ballot box – but national Republicans are ramping up their efforts to stop them from having the final word. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Whatever strained and implausible justifications the OLC opinion may purport to provide for the killing spree at sea, the public statements of the administration recently have boiled down to:

Just follow orders.

That appears to be the operative rule the administration wants to establish.

Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.

US proposal at the UN for Gaza stabilization force faces concerns from Russia, China and Arabs A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries.

Russia and China have put forward their own UNSCR proposal on the postwar future of Gaza with no references to a US-ran colonial style "Board Of Peace" and stronger references to the two state framework.

Meanwhile, the US has tried to placate concerns by inserting clearer language on a 2SS.

H.Res.876 would formally recognize Israel's genocide in Gaza and push the United States to meet its legal obligations to prevent and punish genocide.

Tell Congress: Recognize and Punish Israel's Genocide in Gaza Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the new resolution that would formally recognize Israel's genocide in Gaza and push the US to fulfill its legal duty to prevent and punish genocide.

If your congressperson is not on this list, use this website to urge them to sign onto H.Res 876 today.

List of Congresspeople signed onto Tlaib's resolution to recognize Gaza genocide

AOC
Omar
Carson
Casar
Balint
Dexter
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Green (TX)
Jaypal
Johnson (GA)
Khanna
McGovern
Lee (PA)
Pocan
Pressley
Ramirez
Simon
Velazquez
Watson Coleman

Compelling and thought provoking piece by Pau Perez Sales "One occupation, Two Realities: Psychosocial Mechanisms that Make Genocidal Acts Possible" The first article in this issue: tidsskrift.dk/torture-jour... @diplomatofnight.com

Rooting for both sides of the political aisle in the US to notice international law & institutions exist and that to the extent they're flawed it's like 78% caused by the US refusing to play ball

As it so happens: bsky.app/profile/dipl...

Got an answer:

"Abdul opposes blank-check funding to any foreign military. When we act in accordance with the rules-based international order to enforce international law, Abdul supports targeted support for allies, such as in Ukraine."

"In 1992 New York tried to create a review board for NYPD officers accused of misconduct.

Thousands of off duty cops responded by chanting racial slurs, breaking through barricades outside of city hall, smashing car windows, attacking pedestrians and blocking traffic across the Brooklyn Bridge."

“police kidnap de blasio’s daughter and issue veiled threat demanding mayor authorize specific tactics” was blip in the press

And NYPD "Adams's protective detail kidnapped an Italian crypto investor and brought him to gangsters who sexually tortured him for his password" "forced him to smoke crack"

steam machine de la abuela

I spoke with Kat about defensive arm sales too:

“I don’t really think any weapon is a defensive weapon. Right now I think if we’re sending any weapon to any country, including Israel, if there’s any possibility those are being used to commit war crimes, we have to suspend them.”

At Northwestern tonight for an #IL09 candidate town hall including four Dems vying for the seat

Biss, Abughazaleh, Pyati and Amiwala are here tonight

In other words the map combines the settlements, outposts, and all land which is controlled directly by the Israeli military via firing zone, de-development (banned for Palestinians altogether) and other uses.

Great Q.

Most maps showcase settlement as mere dots or lines— which in visual terms can serve to diminish the actual scope of control Israel exerts over land in the oPt. This map is showcasing all the land which Palestinians cannot develop on + all settlements, outposts minus Pal metro centers.

This is the map, commissioned by a mid level State Department employee in 2013-2014 and then unearthed and presented to Kerry who then presented it to Obama in 2015, which allegedly shocked Obama to his core and led him to not veto UNSCR 2334 in December of 2016.

The Maps of Israeli Settlements That Shocked Barack Obama An image in a government briefing book helped a State Department official see “the forest for the trees” in the West Bank—and then was shared with the President.

story here

Good book