jenbmiller.bsky.social
Writer, editor, reader, 🌈 wife, mom. Longtime journo, former Boston Herald, now health communications. X exile.
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I sometimes sub apricots for plums in Marian Burros’ torte, also subbing ~1/4 cup cornmeal for some of the flour and ~1/4 cup olive oil for some of the butter and use about 1/2 cup sugar instead of a whole cup. Fast, easy, delicious, everyone likes it warm with vanilla ice cream.
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What a sweetie. My current favorite names for a dog are Sammy, Frankie and Chuck.
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Thief in the Botanical Gardens. Flowers are disappearing and the bunny garden keeper starts accusing all his friends. He’s obsessed. Then he rigs up a surveillance camera and SEES HIMSELF sleepwalking and night snacking on the flowers. He is his own villain! Incredibly disturbing to 5 year old me.
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How about SNAP, CHIP and Medicaid?
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Excellent. good to know, I will be trying this without ever mentioning the exact ingredients to my child.
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That sounds and looks amazing. No bitterness from the eggplant?
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Also a long way short of “the US will no longer bomb Yemen.”
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I was wondering if they maybe chased him from a different era? The Klan couple kept saying there hadn’t been Choctaw in the area for years. And Sammy’s music bridges time…
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Way to go! Can’t wait to see what you do in the new gig.
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I saw that tour in Somerville, MA, two nights (one for each record), sold out in an old theater. Stephen Merritt commented midway through that the way the crowd knew each song so well that they waited until the very very end to cheer and clap was actually freaking him out. Truly unforgettable show.
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I would have gone back to bed as soon as the orange beads started dropping on me.
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That’s the big question for sure… I’d like to read that piece too!
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Withholding fed funding has been used to incentivize states for ages tho right? 60s, civil rights/ed funds. 80s, drinking age/highway funds. Bush 2, No child left behind/ed funds etc. Scotus shot down Medicaid expansion/funds — & trump is well beyond that — but the practice predates race to top?
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Top of WSJ homepage too.
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2 people I know flew out of Logan (internatl flight) earlier this week. AFTER they got boarding passes and went thru TSA and scanned passes at gate, armed officers - they weren’t sure who - checked everyone’s passport on way to plane. Passengers baffled - no one had seen anything like it before.
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Excuse you, it was friends of his who are English professors Emily.
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Not disagreeing that veterans are likely to be affected in many ways by many of the orders, but the DEI EO includes an explicit carve-out for vets.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Really good column, Jeff. Thank you for writing this.
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No - they published a piece by their editorial board noting (a bit snidely) Warren’s criticism of RFK around tort issues.
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
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I’ve been thinking of it as a sequel to Bob Roberts.
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I’m not sure they’re all broken, at least in the usual sense of being vulnerable or wounded. I think some are extremely high functioning and rarely experience what most of us would think of as psychic or emotional or spiritual pain. They just really enjoy hurting people. And they’re very good at it.
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Wow. I hope @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social records and releases this - it’s stunning. That lyric change is so powerful and gives the entire song a different cast - it suddenly hits like an old school protest song.
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I think he was just loving his new toy? And the idea of producing wedding photos that did not at all resemble anyone else’s wedding photos? Which - mission accomplished!
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Perfect way to put it! We are still close friends and we have wonderful memories of that day - but we’ve basically never spoken about the photos.
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He chose, for reasons between him and his god, to use a Holga. The photos look like they were found in the attic of a World War I veteran who spent a lot of time in the marshes of Belgium. 2/2
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When we got married, I asked my best friend/best man, a gifted commercial photographer who did glossy shoots with big crews around the world, to bring a camera and take the photos of our small ceremony. 1/2
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I think it’s not uncommon to assume people who are clearly, even famously ignorant and incompetent will not be effective at carrying out dangerous plans. I took Jane’s post as a reminder that historically, many have proven extremely competent at doing their worst, no matter their prior failures.
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Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin both have been publicly critical of the pardon.
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GA is around 32 weeks but vast majority of women were getting vitamin D at 40 weeks?
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So well put, Emily. I felt the same way — one level it’s this offbeat bro road movie with two very engaging leads. And at the same time it’s a dead serious story about how we all deal with pain, guilt, family, history. So well done.
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Honestly @cpsc.gov should mandate pie harness seatbelts in cars.
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Good quality composite will look like wood and hold up forever - you’ll never have to worry about rot, termites etc. We used it on our old building’s porches after talking to two architects and many contractors. If you choose wood, get ipe. It’s expensive but extremely hardy (and beautiful).
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Seconded! Also, Brandi Carlile’s memoir Broken Horses is an outstanding audiobook. She’s a great narrator. And she sings something at the end of each chapter that relates to her life, just her and an acoustic guitar, and it’s really cool and moving.
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Done! HBD and thanks for highlighting this great org.
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I really love this one by Charles Simic.
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What a great thread. This IF Stone collection is a fave, esp his Vietnam work — the forensic use of congressional records, obscure government agencies, etc to single-handedly expose Pentagon lies *weekly*. Incredible lessons in investigative journalism - just ask questions and do a little math.
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Years ago I was talking to a 70-something pressman at my old paper about how worried I was about the industry. He laughed and said the day he started on the presses as a teen, an old timer’s first words to him were, “Kid, walk right back out that door. Radio’s going to kill this business.”
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What a beautiful thread. Here are a few of mine.