My Black Bean Soup for an Instant Pot (dried beans) or with stove top instructions (canned beans). Hearty, filled with veg and spice, vegan. Jalapenos optional.
Enjoy.
https://nostagliaandescapism.blogspot.com/2024/10/black-bean-soup.html

@Jorro

What really matters.

Sandhill cranes at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico

—Jim Zuckerman

Nancy Mace is so “concerned” with protecting women she voted against the violence against women act and supports sexual predator Trump -
@DeanObeidallah 🇺🇸

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/nancy-mace-is-so-concerned-with-protecting

It’ll probably be the last time you can get these free in the mail. Take advantage of it while you can! ✌🏻❤️😷
https://special.usps.com/testkits

It’s so hard to tell AI generated photos…
“People often ask me how to know for sure if an image was created by artificial intelligence. So I marked in the attached photo (in the red circles) some clues that make me suspect that it's a fabricated photo, although it's not possible to say with absolute certainty in this case.”

—David Arenson

I guess proving your innocence does not rank very high.

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-assault-allegations-police-report-trump-e6ebec0a1a5c7fb51cb5e2198f5e12a5

#Thursday

The British-born director of a tony Washington, D.C., preschool was arrested Tuesday morning on charges that he solicited graphic sex abuse footage of a 9-year-old boy, via the child’s father — who was actually an undercover FBI agent.

#News #WashingtonDC #LawAndCrime

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-dc-national-child-research-center-abuse-james-carroll-b2649979.html

International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
The court had sought the arrests of Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, over war crimes in Gaza. It also issued a warrant for Hamas’s military chief.

Ukraine uses British storm shadow missiles for the first time to hit Russian targets:

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-strikes-russia-with-storm-shadows-for-the-first-time-bloomberg-reports/

It's cold outside, but warm #InTheLibrary. An economics class is visiting later to learn about the Marshall Plan -- what better place than at the #MarshallFoundationLibrary?

#Cats

If it works, it works.