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The Viral Tulip Patchwork Bag Everyone Wants to Sew 🌷

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Your Kids Will LOVE These 4 Fried Rice Ideas!

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Delightfully Tart Lemon Shaker Pie

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This Tastes Unreal 🤤🍋

This lemon cake is incredibly soft, moist, and finished with the perfect sweet-tangy lemon drizzle 🤍
Simple ingredients, but the flavor tastes like something straight from a bakery.

Perfect for weekend baking, family gatherings, or when you’re craving something bright and fresh.

Ingredients:
Lemon — 1
Eggs — 3
Sugar — 1 cup
Oil — ½ cup
Flour — 2½ cups
Baking powder — 1 tbsp

Bake:
350°F (175°C) for 40 minutes

Drizzle:
Powdered sugar — 2 tbsp
Lemon juice — 1 tbsp

Pour the glaze over the warm cake and let it soak in for extra moisture 🍋✨

Soft, fluffy, fresh and full of citrus flavor.
Save this recipe and try it soon!

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Chewy coconut macarons toasted edge 😋

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Homemade Cough Drops

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No-Knead Bread! I don't buy bread anymore!

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Natural Electrolyte Sports Drink

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[WWD @wwd]

@bts_bighit's long-awaited reunion wasn’t just a performance — it was a cultural moment. For their “Arirang” comeback, the group stepped out in custom Songzio looks that fused traditional Korean dress with avant-garde, armor-inspired design, turning each member into a modern-day protagonist.

"I tried to build a story where these members become some sort of heroes, some sort of warriors who are fighting in these turbulent times and then leading to a brighter future," Songzio told WWD.

Read more on the making of the show's costumes: https://t.co/uA3UxzA2mu

[Heritage Medicine @DrPaiwanFan]

When I make this salad, there's nothing left!

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stop applying for bank loans like a normal person

there are $2.3 billion in government grants available right now that you never have to pay back

not loans. not credit. free money from the federal government sitting in databases that 99% of business owners have never opened

https://t.co/qroTJxGzyK has 1,900+ active grant opportunities RIGHT NOW. the SBA has grants. the USDA has grants for rural businesses. the department of energy has grants for clean tech. state governments have their own programs. cities have their own programs. there are grants specifically for:

women-owned businesses (SBA Women's Business Centers + Amber Grant: $10,000 monthly, $25,000 annually)
veteran-owned businesses (StreetShares Foundation, VetFran)
minority-owned businesses (MBDA grants, National Urban League)
businesses in rural areas (USDA Rural Business Development Grants up to $500K)
businesses in specific industries (SBIR/STTR grants for tech and research: $275K-$1.5M)
businesses creating jobs in underserved areas (Community Development Block Grants)

nobody applies because the application process is intentionally intimidating. 20-40 page proposals. budgets. timelines. impact statements. most business owners see the requirements and close the tab

that's exactly what they want. fewer applicants means less competition means higher approval rates for the people who actually submit

SBIR grants (Small Business Innovation Research) give tech startups $275K in Phase 1 and up to $1.5M in Phase 2. the acceptance rate for Phase 1 is around 25%. one in four. that's insanely high for free money. most people assume it's 1% and don't bother

USDA Rural Business Development Grants go up to $500K for businesses in rural areas. if your business operates outside a major metro, you might qualify. population threshold varies but generally towns under 50,000 population. a huge portion of America qualifies

the Amber Grant gives $10,000 every month to a woman-owned business. the application is one page. one page for $10,000 in free money. they've given away millions and the applicant pool is embarrassingly small relative to eligible businesses

btw, the application is not about your business. it's about their mission. every grant-making organization has specific goals. job creation. innovation. community impact. environmental improvement. your application needs to show how YOUR business accomplishes THEIR goals. frame everything around impact, not revenue

hire a grant writer if the grant is over $50K. professional grant writers charge $2,000-$5,000 and have 40-60% success rates. spending $3,000 to access $275K is the best ROI in business

apply to 10-15 grants simultaneously. it's a numbers game. the people winning grants are applying to everything they qualify for, not just one and praying

now combine this with 0% credit:

get $150K in 0% business credit to fund operations TODAY while your grant applications process (grants take 60-180 days). if you get approved for a $275K SBIR grant, the grant money pays off the credit cards. you've been operating on free capital the entire time and now have $275K in non-dilutive funding with zero debt

even the government wants to give you money. you just never asked

(we build full capital stacks: 0% credit + grant positioning + SBA. link in bio for business owners doing $250k+/yr)

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Hormone balance salad 😊

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how to de-seed a pomegranate

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Zimmermann ALWAYS delivers.🪡

impeccable styling

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Sencillo pero delicioso…

Pasta con tomate y queso:

El arte de la cocina 🧑‍🍳

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You will always make a Focaccia recipe like this after seeing this recipe.

Ingredients ⬇️

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Golden, buttery, and bursting with tender apple slices... this Gateau Pomme is pure French comfort in every moist, fragrant bite. Love it!! ❤️🥧✨️

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Matthieu Blazy’s keeping up the good work. 🙂‍↔️

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5 Healthy High-Protein Snacks