Holly Figueroa O'Reilly

So happy you liked them!

I saved the best item in the Marcenet Mercantile shipment for last: Bourbon Marshmallow Millionaire Shortbread. @hollyoreilly.bsky.social, I eagerly await your return to chocolate-making (and thanks for letting me nick your photo!).

A circular black and white sticker on an off-white box: “Warning! Opening this package will cause extreme happiness”

Rough day yesterday, but I got home to find a box from @hollyoreilly.bsky.social’s Marcenet Mercantile and I had a Belgian Chocolate Covered Marshmallow and… well, the warning sticker was correct.

I'm *still* recovering! But yes, definitely feeling better. <3 how about you?

4/ If the price of chocolate falls, we may reopen the chocolate part of the business in the fall.

There are few things in this world I love to do than being a chocolate maker and a chocolatier.

I am heartbroken.

marcenetmercantile.com/p/cherry-blo...

3/ We've made the decision to close up the chocolate part of our shop after that chocolate is gone, which we estimate will be about 2 weeks.
marcenetmercantile.com/p/mendiants/...

2/ Chocolate makers saw this coming. After Christmas, I bought 100 lbs of chocolate at a slightly elevated price, but nothing like what it is today.

marcenetmercantile.com/p/bourbon-ma...

1/ As most of you probably know, I own a bakery/chocolate shop called @Marcenetmerc marcenetmercantile.com
Because of the threat of tariffs on agricultural goods and the effects of climate change, chocolate prices are at a 50-year high. You can read about it more here.

5/ It's going to be a great spring and summer of berry picking and jam and jelly making. Hell, if the price of eggs ever comes down, we'll be making cookies as well. ♥️https://marcenetmercantile.com/p/lemon-saffron-marmalade/7gn5z83J9sqS2LLGLVkS

Hang in there, Steph. ❤️

9/ I could go on and on about how the Trump administration is fucking people left and right. Social Security? Fuck em. Medicaid? Fuck em. Medicare? Fuck em. Farmers? Federal workers? Women? The LGTBQIA+ community? Trans people in particular? Migrants. Your 401k? Fuck em all. #TrumpRecession

10/ Thank you for reading this far. 😀

TL;DR: We are closing the chocolate shop at
@marcenetmerc
until at least autumn 2025, but you can get sweet treats for the next 2 weeks or until the chocolate runs out. Use code SPRING25 for 10% off your order.
marcenetmercantile.com/p/fruit-to-b...

9/ I could go on and on about how the Trump administration is fucking people left and right. Social Security? Fuck em. Medicaid? Fuck em. Medicare? Fuck em. Farmers? Federal workers? Women? The LGTBQIA+ community? Trans people in particular? Migrants. Your 401k? Fuck em all. #TrumpRecession

8/ COVID patients in the ICU during the beginning of the pandemic right up to the day he got sick. Now, he cannot work in his capacity as a physician or any other job, so he gets social security disability. He's paid into SS for 40 years. Now, Trump wants to take it away.

7/ ...having a hypoxic brain injury due to an 18-hour heart attack and two strokes that were misdiagnosed during his first night at the hospital. If the AML doesn't kill him, the dementia will. He was only 54 when this all started. He used to be a doctor who cared for...

6/ I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Truly, your support has helped us pay our mortgage more than once. My husband still has AML, but it's subsided after his stem cell transplant and he's doing better. The lingering problem is that he has dementia from...

5/ It's going to be a great spring and summer of berry picking and jam and jelly making. Hell, if the price of eggs ever comes down, we'll be making cookies as well. ♥️https://marcenetmercantile.com/p/lemon-saffron-marmalade/7gn5z83J9sqS2LLGLVkS

4/ If the price of chocolate falls, we may reopen the chocolate part of the business in the fall.

There are few things in this world I love to do than being a chocolate maker and a chocolatier.

I am heartbroken.

marcenetmercantile.com/p/cherry-blo...

3/ We've made the decision to close up the chocolate part of our shop after that chocolate is gone, which we estimate will be about 2 weeks.
marcenetmercantile.com/p/mendiants/...

2/ Chocolate makers saw this coming. After Christmas, I bought 100 lbs of chocolate at a slightly elevated price, but nothing like what it is today.

marcenetmercantile.com/p/bourbon-ma...

1/ As most of you probably know, I own a bakery/chocolate shop called @Marcenetmerc marcenetmercantile.com
Because of the threat of tariffs on agricultural goods and the effects of climate change, chocolate prices are at a 50-year high. You can read about it more here.

Mexicans warned not to travel to Texas over measles Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.

See, all we had to do was ignore a deadly virus until it started spreading like wildfire to stop people from crossing the border.

Great job, Trump, you fucking lunatic.

www.borderreport.com/news/health/...

If you're new here, following me and all, you should know I was a nomad for a few years through, oddly, mostly places that have overcome tyranny & occupation & genocide.

Here's a few things I learned along the way.

Hey thanks for the plug Gutfeld. You’re as bad as Hannity. Don’t you guys have anything else to cover? That’s right. You can’t say anything critical of Trump or Musk! Sad! Hear my response later today on the show.

Unleashed Jim Acosta is the best Jim Acosta.

The Jim Acosta Show Episode 3 - With Director of Center for Politics at UVA - Larry Sabato My discussion with Larry about the White House walking back Trump's pledge to rebuild Gaza as the "Riviera" of the Middle East, Musk, and my new role at the University of Virginia.

Watch episode 3 of “The Jim Acosta Show” with my special guest, Larry Sabato, Director of Politics at the University of Virginia. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

omg, could be the same dog! <3 what a sweetheart. So sorry you lost your girl.

Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032 A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday the chance of impact is slightly more than 1%.

Finally, some good news.

apnews.com/article/newl...

Not irresponsible. Self preservation.

54 here.

Eat dessert first.