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Stephanie Damassa
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Trees give us these for free!
A red maple leaf with yellow veining
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"What a weird day. Jan. 6, 2021. Made this while watching a coup. Best vegan caesar I've ever had. I know this salad isn't named after Julius Caesar, but wow irony huh? Oh and didn't use nori."
October 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Ooh yes don’t miss the podcast. Congrats! (Someone made these for our PB book club)
A button that says “ask me about Robert Caro’s 1974 masterpiece The Power Broker”
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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As far as innovations in the last decade, Little Sesame hummus >> AI
A photo of the label for Little Sesame Mexican Street Corn hummus
September 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Everything is terrible but it’s GBBO night and I had leftover strawberry frosting in the freezer
A lemon strawberry Swiss roll cake or whatever it is called A slice of lemon strawberry jelly roll
September 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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“I added sherry vinegar to the balsamic for a bit more bite and topped with burrata because I am alive and like joy.”
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I love NYT Cooking comments so much
This recipe seemed familiar to me, like I had seen it before under a different name. Then I made it and realized, it was "Satan's Recipe for Burnt Potatoes and Ruined Sheet Pans." Proceed with caution. The high oven heat and long cooking time evaporates the liquid (for what it's worth, my sheet pan had no problem containing the potatoes and liquid, so don't worry about that - you have bigger problems here) and the sugars from the lemon juice scorch and burn. Use a lower temp, and watch closely.
September 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Nice little IPCC exhibit at the recently renovated Air and Space Museum
Stacked IPCC reports to demonstrate the broad scientific research
August 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Graph from Navigator poll showing "most concerning issue about budget" - As many as 18 million children could lose school meals is the top issue
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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It’s Jose Andre’s’ wife’s gazpacho recipe weather
Recipe for Tichi’s gazpacho from Jose Andres first cookbook
July 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Eerily timely passage from the book I’m reading (One Summer: America. 1927 by Bill Bryson
Passage reading “The other important effect of the Mississippi flood was that it forced the federal government to accept that certain matters are too big for states to handle alone” Paragraph about how Coolidge was embarrassed to sign the Flood Control Act because it was the beginning of Big Government
July 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Welp www.edfaction.org/wp-content/b...
Detail grid from EDF poll showing strong opposition to the Republican budget proposal with opposition to most components, led by cutting funding for medicatid (73 oppose, 22 support)
July 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Some of the Final Four in our family chip bracket
Cool ranch Doritos, voodoo and Tostitos lime
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Some good news: the spoon I was missing was in the compost
A spoon buried in compost
June 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Hit 5,000 miles on the minivan today 🚴‍♀️
Photo of a Rad Power Bikes odometer reading 5,000
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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They should run more buses on rainy days
Norman rockwell painting of man standing up
May 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Reader, we bought it
Magnet from the National Zoo That says “they didn’t have my name”
May 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Screenshot of text from Washington Post story reading: "Travis Forgues, who runs a creamery in Westby, Wisconsin, with his wife, Amy, said he is waiting for a roughly $55,000 REAP payment to help cover a solar panel installation. The couple filled out the USDA’s survey last week and indicated they would make no changes to their project. “I hope that we didn’t make a mistake with that,” Forgues said. “When you’re trying to talk about solar or energy independence, this is not a DEI issue. And, quite frankly, if it was a DEI issue, who cares?”
April 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Fortunately the Redbuds don’t care about the Dow
Pinky purple Redbud trees in full bloom filling the frame
April 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Those scooters are so dangerous
A car flipped on its side on a busy intersection in DC
January 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Rock Creek remains undefeated no matter who is president
January 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Folks, humoring your 7-year old can often be a very bad choice
A photo of a box of novelty jelly beans where they look the same but one is pomegranate flavored and one is “old bandage”
December 29, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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The Ventures Christmas album cover
December 24, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Obsessed with this insane run-on sentence in The Power Broker
A 100+ word sentence in the book the Power Broker, page 479
December 15, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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A purple and pink sunset over rowhouses in DC
December 7, 2024 at 11:59 PM