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Made a 9x13 tiramisu bc halving the recipe seemed silly. Replaced the 2 eggs with 1c extra heavy cream bc I couldn't be bothered making a meringue. Made some additional sideways substitutions and ground some chocolate into the cocoa topping. It won't be as delicate, but it will be good.

Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility - Insider NJ Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.”

$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.

www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

There's nothing like a cat plastering himself up against the patio screens to generate enough impetus to finally staple down the loose sides. A raccoon caused that damage easily a decade ago and we and the other cats just lived with it, but Frankie has no chill.

In the absence of olives, a pickled pepperoncini will do for a martini.

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

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It doesn't stop.

floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

This is not to say stop calling. Just, that the one subject don't waste their time strategy is not enough. At least show some emotion and talk to the person who picks up. It's not politics as usual anymore.

If the Executive refuses to listen to Congress and the courts, then the tally of how many people called re what is irrelevant. Especially for someone who is in silent lockstep. So today I just told the person who answered that we won't forget his complicity no matter what comes or how long it takes.

Called Tom Kean Jr again because I have little individual power but I can at least talk to a person and theoretically they will log the call. I do feel like the strategy behind calling is broken with the breaking of our government.

I don't know how anyone can still work for Congressman Tom Kean Jr. He's an empty suit.

Screenshot of DHS web page for Enhanced Drivers Licenses. Text: Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) are state-issued Enhanced Drivers licenses that provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship when crossing the U.S. border in a vehicle. They are issued in a secure process, and include technologist makes travel easier. EDLs are a low-cost, convenient option for entering the United States from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean through a land or sea port of entry, in addition to serving as a permit to drive. DHS has been working with individual states to enhance their drivers licenses and identification documents to comply with travel rules under the Western Hemisphere Travel initiative (WHTI), effective June 1, 2009. EDLs are available in the following states: Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, Washington.

The amount of confusion re Real ID and the SAVE Act is surely intentional. A regular Real ID only confirms identity; US citizenship isn't required. The SAVE Act specifies Real ID that confirm citizenship. There's only 5 states with that, and they're optional. The star is not enough for the SAVE Act.

"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."

Having a mayor support ICE so much that he wants to send a chiding letter to the governor and state attny general, despite the fact that ICE is refusing to see that detainees receive due process before they are disappeared, is not exactly a comfortable feeling as someone who is not yt.

Yep, she's got nothing better to do with her time. 🙄

Is Tom Kean Jr really just sending the same form letter out to respond to every call? I need to do a comparison of these emails because nothing in them was specific to my concerns whatsoever. I've been limiting my calls to a single central issue and they aren't mentioned in any of them.

Yeah, I need to start dehydrating zest. Herbs have a lot of potential, too. Luckily some of those are easy to grow at home.

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Since cocoa is going to be an issue, it's time to test out the vanilla wacky cake. But vanilla is in the same boat so a different flavoring needs to be tested: herbs, molasses, etc. The principle is simple, without egg a cake lacks strength but a modest 1 layer cake doesn't need a lot of structure.

I've gone a bit 🤷‍♀️ with my veg garden. I keep combining cool weather mostly brassica seeds and sprinkling them around every few days. This is not how to succession sow! Meanwhile my favas and peas are finally breaking ground and the new persimmon tree has buds. So at least spring is still springing.

Hey, while the urge to stockpile is totally understandable please spare a thought, and some $ and time if you can, to mutual aid efforts. Stockpiling isn't a option for many and food banks, and programs like Meals on Wheels and those that get locally grown food to schools have already been cut.

"We thought he was being rhetorical" isn't the flex people think it is. He did or tried to do all these things last time. Are children in cages so easily forgettable? Intimidation? Lies? Tax cuts for billionaires? Attacking services that help everyone? The sheer incompetence? And yes, even tariffs?

I'm unreasonably excited to be making fondant potatoes.

They keep kidnapping LEGAL RESIDENTS and throwing them in ICE prisons in Louisiana because they believe they'll get more favorable decisions for Trump under the 5th Circuit's jurisdiction (which has mostly Republican appointed judges).

The Kean teletownhall was 34min of full throated support of the current admin, Musk, & DOGE, a bit of spin on ICE kidnapping pple, and dodging around the uncomfortable bits of the budget disc. Since there's no follow up & all the questions are screened, there's neither accountability nor nuance.

Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

1/ He wasn’t kidding when he told people 2024 was the last election they’d ever have to vote in if he won www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

All of these signal chains are government records. Are they all downloaded? Being properly stored? Transparency in government matters; apparently, it matters so much that this crew was willing to compromise highly sensitive information in order to avoid it.

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

Why did i just get a call from the USPS trying to sell me business services?