Just a wee test blog post.

ACLU petition to the Supreme Court asking for a ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti to protect the rights of trans people (which really means all of us) needs only 4114 signatures to reach 250,000 (at the time of this writing):

https://action.aclu.org/petition/defend-trans-freedom

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5154260-liz-cheney-trump-russia-reagan/

Well… not *everything*, Liz. Reagan was a racist homophobe, too.

«Trump instead placed the blame on former President Biden in an interview Tuesday, decrying what he characterized as reckless spending during the previous administration.

“Inflation is back. No, think of it: Inflation’s back,” the president told Fox News’s Sean Hannity during an interview alongside tech billionaire Elon Musk that aired Tuesday night. “And they said, ‘Oh, Trump,’ and I had nothing to do with that.”»

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5152657-donald-trump-rising-inflation-doge-tariffs-economy/

I wonder how long that excuse will work.

«…trying to finagle exceptions to President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders or cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service that freeze hundreds of billions of dollars, including money for farmers and infrastructure projects.»

https://wapo.st/4k2j5yO (gift)

Here we go. Exceptions for me, none for thee.

Trump is going to act like the arch villain that was bullied as a child. “How do you like me now?”

«Sadly the player in question, who in a bout of nominative determinism goes by the handle Morgan ‘RepulseGod’ Bamford, didn’t have the stones to deliver their apology in-person…»

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/epic-sues-fortnite-cheater-donates-his-winnings-to-charity-forces-him-to-publicly-apologise-bans-him-for-life-and-all-but-sends-him-to-his-room-without-dinner/

I’m not a gamer, but this headline is just too good. Are you paying attention, *New York Times*?

(Do women have stones? Women have stones, right?)

«Plus, USAID’s inspector general was recently fired (illegally, as you’d expect) for releasing a report estimating that nearly half a billion dollars worth of food aid was going to waste — stuck in ports, or in transit with no plans to distribute it, or just plain rotting in warehouses.»

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-evil-usaid-cuts-hurting-farmers

Hey, I found some waste, fraud, *AND* abuse.

https://www.tiktok.com/@westmoreland_pops/video/7469227380796558635

I keep coming back to this in my head.

It’s a bit long for a tiktok (I guess? I don’t watch a lot of tiktok), and he takes a while to come to his point (kind of gently), but it’s a good point.

It’s not that MAGAs are wrong, that’s not the point.

The point is “you were lied to.”

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020436-sheet-pan-sausage-with-peppers-and-tomatoes?unlocked_article_code=1.x04.-Owg.YqjbOgpnPuJZ&smid=share-url

Occurs to me. I’ve been seeing a lot of “weeknight sheet-pan” recipes in the Times (I get the Cooking emails).

And, it occurs to me: some of these things might make good dipping sauces for pita bread. The meat (bone-in chicken thighs, whatever) and the oily stuff, with the veggies, chickpeas, whatever.

Or, I could just throw some kind of dough thingie under all that, maybe pre-bake/broil to crisp it up so it doesn’t get too soggy.

And that would be…

Pizza.

And, suddenly, I’m flashing on Italian families in the 1900s in New York City. She comes home from working at the Triangle Shirt factory or whatever. He comes home from digging the New York subway system. And they need to get supper on the table.

Now, it’s the Times’s hifalutin’ “sheet-pan” recipes.

https://act.commoncause.org/forms/tell-the-nc-supreme-court-we-matter/

Hey, NC peeps! The NC supreme Court race is STILL undecided, while Republicans look for a way to steal it.