Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium

A bowl of candy and a bowl of russet potatoes.

I've had three kids opt for the potato!! 😍😍😍

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Happy Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle!

I'll try to remember to wish you a happy Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in Oct. 6. 😊

Not Orthodox but I recognize this as St. Thomas the Apostle. Were you named for him?

Cesar Chavez holding a shofar while attending a Yom Kippur service in 1971

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

America Is No Longer a Safe Haven for the Russian Opposition ICE is deporting asylum seekers into the arms of Putin’s secret police.

Many genuine opponents of Putin’s regime could now be threatened by the Trump administration’s immigration policies, writes Christian Caryl.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

I got carjacked by a dog once! It was a hot day in OK and the dog was loose in traffic. I pulled over to see if it had a tag, but then it jumped in my car and refused to leave. It was a big snarly dog. I had to have a firefighter get the dog out using the long pole with the hook on the end.

prescient (from 3 months ago)

This is a yellow tomato that has been sliced in two. The middle part is red. It calls to mind a Georgia O'Keefe painting, maybe? Sure. That's it. This is an art appreciation post, nothing more. Art and tomatoes.

Here is a tomato I grew in my garden and sliced into this evening. The cultivar's name is Gin Fizz. And that is the extent of my comments on the matter.

jeeezus

I have a doctorate in theology and I diagnose Don Jr. as having a gravely disordered character and a critical deficit of basic human decency.

It accidentally just flirted with a Carolina chickadee so it's reminding itself of the subtle differences between the two species.

Thank you!

When do you think it will be clear when the severe weather will arrive in Tulsa? My nightmare is a school pickup line situation. My kid's school building is a century old. Trying to decide whether to just bring him home early.

The fact that Fountain Park and The Ville got hit, and especially the tower collapse and death at Centennial Christian, is just so unfair and heartbreaking. So many churches would have been empty on a Friday afternoon but not them. They were feeding the hungry.

We were never supposed to have this much access to stupid people’s thoughts

A beautiful hand-lathed gavel made of black walnut.

(Background: I'm in my late 40s and I'm in law school trying to start a new career and it's really hard and I'm spending Mother's Day studying for finals.)

Y'all, my 17yo made me a handmade GAVEL for Mother's Day! He made it himself on a lathe!! 😭😍

The use of "worse than 9/11" for events or situations in which not a single soul has died is a weird Republican hyperbole tic that really tells us how their minds work. Mike Kelly (PA-16) used that line on the day that birth control became available without a co-pay under the ACA.

It's unhinged.

A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Eastern kingbird sitting on a rear view mirror, as viewed from the car driver seat.

This was my friend in the carpool pickup yesterday. Recently fledged, completely charming.

(Btw at first I misread "lukelukeluke" as though it rhymed with ukulele so if you ever need a nickname...)

I'm so sorry! I hope you feel better very soon!

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee’s disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer | CNN Politics Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to serve in the role permanently, says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter who is an alleged Nazi sympa...

NEW:Trump’s DC attorney nominee Ed Martin is apologizing, saying he didn’t know about the alleged Nazi sympathizer views of a Capitol rioter he repeatedly praised.

But audio saved by CNN’s KFile shows Martin discussed those views on his podcast — undercutting his claims.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

The President of the United States can hand out clearances like candy if he chooses to do so. Things like this are legal because no one ever thought about the possibility of a POTUS being a completely irresponsible person.

Oh good!! I'm glad you found the energy to make a GoFundMe because I would like to chip in!

We were advised that now would be the right time to get a new car, and that's how I learned that there are apparently people who buy new cars!

And maybe that's good, that there are such immediate and swift aggregated consequences for saying things in ways one shouldn't say things? But it does sometimes feel that it cedes all the discourse to people who are perfectly happy to be offensive because they don't care about anyone's opprobrium.

And the threat of that cumulative effect is enough to make me and I expect others just not say much online anymore because we know ourselves well enough to expect that we will sometimes say stupid things even when we're trying to behave decently.