Kristina Thornton

i hear color, write stories, teach ESL, baby my garden, love my man, believe strongly in the Oxford comma, and milk life for all it's worth. Its worth?

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Norway’s players and fans did the Row together after beating Senegal 3-2 and advancing to the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since 1998

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

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

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Today’s attacks on humanitarian workers are war crimes. The world cannot accept this as normal. Too many aid workers have died like this around the world. Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council but it attacks UN and WCK vehicles in Kherson, Ukraine. While the aid workers survived unharmed, one resident died. This war needs to end now. The suffering needs to end now. We are an American-based NGO @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS @SecRubio #ChefsForUkraine

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

A little girl in a shelter in Lebanon told WCK Chef Corps member Aline she was craving Kibbeh Labanieh. "Can you make it," she asked, "like you're my mom?"
So Aline did. Spiced meat and pine seeds from the forests of southern Lebanon, hand-rolled and fried, served over rice in a warm yogurt sauce with coriander and garlic. A dish that takes time—because some things are worth taking time for.
This Mother's Day, we're thinking of every mother displaced from her home, every child craving a taste of normal, and every person who shows up to cook with love when it matters most. Try Aline's recipe for Kibbeh Labanieh at home: https://t.co/OcVXbrWdUs #ChefsForMidEast #MothersDay

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine.

We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave.

It was a wonderful kind of day.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

I pay internet for this

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

Under U.S. law, that is not just a Hungarian problem. Foreign governments are barred from spending money in American elections, and Americans are forbidden from soliciting or accepting it. If these allegations are true, this is a direct attack on the integrity of American democracy.

We need a full investigation by Congress, the FEC, and the DOJ. The American people deserve to know exactly what flowed from Orbán’s government into this country’s political ecosystem, who was on the receiving end, and what it bought.
https://t.co/pMFylxAkbQ

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The physics of 16 uncoupled pendulums

[📹 Marcel Clemens]

[Ottawa Charge @PWHL_Ottawa]

🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney and 🇫🇮 President Alexander Stubb have taken the ice for some drills with us!

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Tulip fields in The Netherlands.. 😊

[Taichi for Health @StaminaFitnes]

Chinese longevity hacks better than morning matcha

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Greenland 🇬🇱 is not “a poorly run piece of ice.”

Greenland 🇬🇱 is far more than ice — it is a democratic society with free elections, rule of law, and a people who determine their own future.

We are not a talking point in someone else’s rhetoric — we are a people with dignity, history, and self-government under the Kingdom of Denmark.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I love it -- JD Vance comes to a foreign country to openly campaign for a candidate ahead of an election, and then accuses other countries of interfering in those very elections.

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

WCK's seed distribution is underway once more in Ukraine!🌱

Our teams are delivering seed kits to families across the country, including frontline communities. Through this initiative, people receive carefully selected seeds to grow their own food at home, providing reliable access to fresh ingredients and restoring a sense of normalcy and self-reliance. These distributions mark the start of a new growing season, shaped by care and hope. #ChefsForUkraine

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Four years ago, in these very days, the fate of Kyiv was finally decided.

Here, in the small dacha village of Moshchun on the outskirts of Kyiv, on the banks of the Irpin River, Russian forces suffered a decisive defeat, and on March 21, 2022, Ukrainian troops cleared the area of the enemy, securing a decisive victory in the battle for Kyiv.

It was here, in Moshchun, that Russian forces managed to cross the Irpin River at the only point and threaten a breakthrough directly into Kyiv.

It was here that the heroic 72nd Mechanized, as well as units and formations of the territorial defense, special operations forces, the National Guard, and volunteers (including foreigners), fought a heavy battle to prevent this, and the fate of the capital hung by a thread.

But the heroism of the defenders prevailed. Russian forces, in particular the ill-fated 155th Naval Infantry from the Pacific and elite VDV units faltered and retreated from Moshchun.

Not a single Russian soldier ever set foot within the administrative boundaries of Kyiv.

It is sad, but Moshchun barely survived the battle of 2022 -- it became largely depopulated and significantly destroyed, although residents have already rebuilt and restored much.

It is always very quiet there.

The local community and authorities have for several years now been arranging and developing an open-air memorial museum called “Angels of Victory.”

On the very site where Ukrainian trenches once stood in opposition to advancing Russian forces. I went there again a couple of days ago to pay respects to the souls of the fallen soldiers.

This is a place of mourning and a place of the greatest gratitude, one that every person who values the ideals of the free world should visit.

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

As the partial U.S. government shutdown continues, we're working with our longtime partner and Chef Corps-owned restaurant RASA to serve delicious Indian dishes to TSA agents working without pay. Today, we served agents at BWI airport, who told us that they're grateful not to worry about their next meal and are loving the flavors RASA is serving up. #ChefsForFeds

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

New York subway rule: Dogs must be "carried in a bag" when boarding.
As a result, this regulation has directly sparked a creativity contest among New Yorkers..

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

We have been told that Gaza’s borders are closed indefinitely. If they stay closed, @wckitchen will run out of food this week. We are cooking 1M hot meals every day. We need food deliveries every single day to feed hungry families who are not part of this war. All the NGOs in Gaza need more food, medicine, medical equipment, fuel, tents, personal care every day. We cannot wait...let the humanitarian trucks go through today! #ChefsForGaza