I remember the first time I cooked beans in Haiti. It was 2010, right after the earthquake. I thought I knew what I was doing…Spanish-style, the way I always had.
The women cooking in the camp stopped me. They showed me their way. Slow-cooked…mashed into a purée…served over rice.
In that moment, I learned what it really means to help after a disaster. You don't come with your own recipes. You listen. You follow. You learn.
16 years later, that lesson is still the foundation of everything @wckitchen does in Haiti. Our local teams and @HASHaiti partners are cooking that same recipe - the right recipe - for families displaced by violence. And this past year, comforting food like those beans, that purée, that bowl of rice have added up to 10 million meals.
#ChefsForHaiti
After the dams came down on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe didn't wait for nature to fix itself.
For decades, four hydroelectric dams turned a living river into stagnant reservoirs. They blocked salmon and steelhead from 400 miles of spawning grounds, fueled toxic algae blooms, and raised water temperatures past what the fish could survive.
When the last dam came down in late 2024, the river ran free again. But the exposed reservoir beds, 2,200 acres of bare sediment, were unstable and wide open to invasive species.
So the Yurok Tribe got to work. Along a 38-mile stretch, tribal crews hand-sowed billions of native plant seeds, planted 76,000 trees and shrubs, and seeded 28,000 acorns.
Nearly 100 native plant species. All by hand. All from seeds collected locally and grown out specifically for the restoration.
It's already working. Salmon are spawning in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century. Lupines and willows are stabilizing the banks. The river is breathing again.
The Klamath is now the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, and the people doing the heaviest lifting are the ones who have lived along that river for thousands of years.
@MollyJongFast@HunterBiden I am so glad. I am embarrassed to say how close I came to drinking when grandpa fascigarchy got elected. I didn't. I celebrated 41 years clean and sober in December.
It’s so hard, but the thing my dad did for me was that he never let me go. As much as I tired to run I always knew he was waiting. And I know I tortured him. It still makes me cry to think about what I put him through. But I came back. And he was where he always was waiting to love me.
🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC
Why was Thomas Crooks in contact with the Butler County, Pennsylvania Sheriff’s Office prior to the alleged Trump assassination attempt? Why did he have a detonator in his pocket and what was its function? Was it home made? Why was the local medical examiner told to leave the roof where Crooks’ body lay? Why haven’t the people who claimed to have had an altercation with Crooks over his alleged disdain for Trump, ever speak out? Why did Judicial Watch have to sue to get these records? Why are they heavily redacted? Why do we still know so little about what happened in Butler nearly two years later? Why the secrecy?
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FBI records obtained through a Judicial Watch lawsuit reveal that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Trump shooter Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt. The records remain heavily redacted, concealing the nature of the communications. The documents also reveal a SWAT officer recovered a cell phone and a remote device with an antenna from Crooks after he was killed.