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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 1d

It's #BurgerFriday on @alisoncook.bsky.social's newsletter, and I'm all in. This sounds divine. And I love me some touchscreen ordering, because really, who wants to talk to other people?

Burger Friday: Narwhal Jousting Club

Sorry, Cantina Barba. You'd slipped the last time I ordered your cheeseburger, and now I've got a new Houston fave in the affordable category. It's the gutsy number at the Narwhal Jousting Club, a ma...

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 2d

Juanito’s 👹

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 3d

I hate the digital ones. They break so often. I now get mine used from a place here in the east end. Old fashioned agitator machines.

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 4d

It has to happen. But I fear the Dems are not equal to the moment.

Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 5d

Okay I laughed

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6d

A better world is possible

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 6d

“Get in on the terror while it’s good.”
Too true.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6d

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer82.bsky.social · 6d

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

Trump has so transformed and degraded the machinery of American government that it isn't enough to just beat him or his successor. Someone has to rebuild the liberal democratic state.

America Needs a Project 2029

The road back from here will be harder.

www.thebulwark.com

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 7d

Poor Dizz

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8d

Back in Chicago. The last time I remember seeing this many helicopters flying overhead I was in Kabul

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7d

Setting my alarm so I can go line up for the sturgeon drop

cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 8d

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will release 2,000 fingerling sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River, hoping that in 15 to 20 years they will come back to reproduce.

Once abundant Lake Erie fish to be stocked Saturday at three Cuyahoga River sites

The sturgeon population in Lake Erie was depleted starting in the 1800s and now efforts are underway to bring it back.

www.cleveland.com

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 7d

An edamandate, if you will.

Scayor Howard Vander @mayor.bsky.social · 8d

this is really just gonna end with a national mandate requiring us to eat soybeans three meals a day

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 7d

It’s such awful news.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7d

On Bari Weiss, corporate media’s capitulations to trump, the rise of fascism — and why we need independent journalism more than ever.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/03/b...

Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to Read This

Bari Weiss’s reported hiring at CBS News is the latest example of corporate media capitulating to Trump.

thebarbedwire.com

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 8d

New on my newsletter: there are few things more cheering than discovering a serious new bakery within striking distance. Coastal Bake Shop is a boon to Houston’s east side and the Bay Area: read about it at alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io

A well-browned croissant with many layers swirled across its circumference, and a pointy, layered little tail end that makes it look like a pastry sea creature. It sits on a vintage spring-green plate with scalloped edges, and a peach and its darker green leaves peeking out on the left side.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 9d

For #nationalpoetryday, one of my favourite short poems. "Ireland", by Paul Muldoon.

Paul Muldoon

Ireland

The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 10d

rare jpgs

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 9d

Heh, I just decided it was sag paneer o’clock.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 11d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 10d

Since they’ve cut food inspections at the FDA, the burden is now more on consumers to protect ourselves from contaminated food: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

10 Really Risky Foods Right Now - Consumer Reports

In this look at 10 really risky foods right now, CR shows you how to protect yourself from food poisoning from these foods and in general.

www.consumerreports.org

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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 10d

Pretty much.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11d

You don't want a sandwich to be too dry but you also don't want it to be too wet. Aristotle called this "the golden mean"

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11d

President Trump was met by silence as he began his Quantico address, a contrast from the rousing applause he expects at his speeches.

“I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” Trump said. “If you want to applaud, you applaud.” wapo.st/4gSqzmS

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