gasp. one of my favorite foods of all time. perfection on a plate

haha i am a similarly narrow purist on salmon but smoked is one of the three acceptable ways to eat it, to me

you are reminded that it is the name-calling of these self-proclaimed celebrant-inheritors of the legacy of the insurrectionist confederacy that is tearing the country apart

i ate it up as a kid lol, but maybe my grandma's were just especially good, i've definitely had bad before

hahaha but which, tommy's, tomy's, tommie's, toms, etc.

nobody out there better be saying matzo brei, shit slaps, you're just not using enough salt

haha i feel like i must have had it at some point but i can't recall anything about it

like if hershey's made a low-sugar option lol

can i say gelt? some of the worst chocolate i've ever had was gelt

i'm sure there is some bad upland southern food my mom ate growing up but everything i know of it came to me by way of a woman who immediately left louisville for new york then europe then los angeles so i've never had any of it lol

kentucky food will kill you but that means nothing's bad, just dangerous

racking my brain on this but the three things that could be called "my" food are ashkenazi american jewish food which i guess you could throw up gefilte fish for? i like it well enough though. and then kentucky cuisine and southern california cuisine which are just banger after banger after banger

if i had a nickel

Honestly the most worrying thing about Becerra is that he just doesn't seem to have thought about the housing crisis very much. Dealing with the housing crisis is and will continue to be the California governor's #1 job.

chat is it good when companies are claiming ownership of people's likenesses and identities abstracted from their selves

overstated it a bit i think. there is some utility in seeing how they're weighted against each other in respondents' to the "immigration" question. but you still need the narrower questions for comparison

continue to think recent events have shown us the lack of utility of "immigration" polling not disaggregated into "the border" and some legible form of "interior immigration operations"/deportation

if this polling result surprises you, i am issuing emergency guidance for you to touch grass immediately

also, new rice bowl secret unlocked: refined sesame oil works very well for lacy-edged fried eggs

and rice and ssamjang and scallions and sesame seeds but that is all incidental. to Egg

a bowl of rice topped with scattered thick red sauce, scallions, mixed sesame seeds, and a lacy-edged fried egg split to spread jammy orange yolk over the rice

sometimes lunch is just Egg

and bread. always bread! the menu this week includes, of course, a bean toast, as seemingly always, but also a crouton situation!

haha it's been like two weeks!

very much looking forward to the caramelized leeks and cannellini beans in miso-dijon-tarragon dressing with jammy eggs and toasts this week lol. but i need some variety!

calling a mental health check on myself because everything i can think to cook involves some combination of miso, dijon, peas, leeks, white beans, and eggs

pete hegseth is so bad at his job that we're like one tick away from the gray zone being like "actually, pete hegseth is good, because he effectively stands against american imperialism"

the united states will be a weaker country with fewer friends, less influence, and fewer options, likely for the rest of my life

Not Enough Goons theory proved right yet again

MAGA simply doesn’t have enough True Believers to carry out its agenda in the broad, hegemonic way Trump & his ilk desire. every thing we can do to throw sand in the gears *does* make a difference because it pulls resources from affirmative projects

the knee is the nose of the leg

a movie that is gay, aesthetically stunning, and not terribly interesting upon closer interrogation. it’s just like me