A Black man created ranch dressing — and most people never knew.
Kenneth “Steve” Henson, born in Nebraska in 1918, was a plumber who cooked for his crew in Alaska. One day he mixed buttermilk, mayo, herbs, and spices… and ranch was born.
In 1954, he and his wife bought land near Santa Barbara and named it Hidden Valley Ranch. Guests loved the dressing so much they begged to take jars home. By 1957, stores were selling his dry mix. Orders exploded. Factories followed.
In 1972, Clorox bought the recipe and the name for eight million dollars. Ranch went nationwide. By 1992, it was America’s #1 dressing.
But the man behind it? Nearly erased.
Every salad, every wing, every fry dipped in ranch — that’s his legacy. He mattered. He was the blueprint.
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A Mississippi family whose 1-year-old child was killed when police fired into a moving vehicle said they want authorities to release the video showing whether officers were in danger of being struck when one of them opened fire. https://t.co/Qyj86d24wh
There’s a pretty extensive history of our government purposely flooding the streets with drugs for inexcusable reasons — to quell rioting and Black liberation, to fund illegal wars, etc. This is just the latest verse in the same song.
James Dorsey is 94 years old. Born on Ellerbe Plantation in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1931. He still does not have a birth certificate because the plantation never recorded his existence. The effects of slavery did not end with emancipation. They followed our people into the most basic records of identity. This is NOT ancient history.
Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
The Reflecting Pool arrests by Park Police should terrify everyone. The federal government is fabricating accusations out of thin air simply to protect one man from his own embarrassing failure.
There is no sabotage. This is insane.
This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.
Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.
The cost of that work is classified.
Estimates say north of a billion.
The number is enormous, and you are paying it.
Now the part they bury.
Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.
So follow the chain.
A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.
A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.
We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.
Grift in plain sight.
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This was 49 years ago… all those racist white kids in the video are 55-75 today. They run the country, run the judicial system, serve as police chiefs, etc. Let that marinate, bro.
Bill Maher mocked the Obama Presidential Center as a billion-dollar monument to ego. Ro Khanna had the better answer.
"It's a unique story of the possibility in this country of someone who had no shot. When I was in law school, they said to me, your Indian-American, you're of Hindu faith. Go to the Capital because you'll never get elected to anything. And then Barack Obama happened, and he changed the direction of this nation for millions of people."
Family of Jameson, the dog fatally shot by LAPD during a Knicks championship celebration, says it will sue if the department does not admit wrongdoing.
(Via TMZ)
The release of the bodycam footage has brought millions of new eyes to Jameson's story.
Now comes the important part: making sure the conversation doesn't end here.
Every repost, every reply, and every mention helps ensure that Jameson is remembered and that his family's voice continues to be heard.
Today, let's show that this story matters. Let's make #JusticeForJameson the most trending hashtag on this platform and ensure that Jameson is never reduced to a forgotten headline.
#JusticeForJameson 🐾💙
The National Guard, along with local police, have been dispatched to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to guard the algae.
As you can see at the end of this clip, the algae is safe. Well done.
Trying to hide Black history. But Harriet Tubman was the first American woman to lead a military assault. During the Combahee River Raid, 700 Black people were liberated. Put some respect on her name