2024.09.04

Christian group recruits ‘Trojan horse’ election skeptics as US poll workers
Lion of Judah enrolls poll workers in Trump-aligned swing state tour, which experts say could be ‘hazard to democracy’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers

Clarence Thomas’s wife thanks group for efforts to block court ethics reforms
Ginni Thomas writes ‘thank you so, so, so much’ to group for fighting effort to rein in wayward supreme court justices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/clarence-thomas-wife-supreme-court-ethics-reform

‘A ton of Covid out there’: US summer wave not taken seriously enough – experts
Epidemiologists push newly approved booster vaccines as current virus strain threatens at-risk groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/covid-19-summer-wave

Trump-backed Senate candidate caught on tape disparaging Native Americans
Tim Sheehy, locked in tight race with incumbent Democrat John Tester, repeatedly referred to Crow tribe at fundraisers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/tim-sheehy-native-americans-montana-senate-candidate-republican

It's the NoDak hat edition!
Trump Could Easily Win if he Wasn't so Stupid (w/ Heidi Heitkamp) | The Bulwark Podcast
https://youtu.be/WBs8DyMgzeU?si=q7mn99qMZgSsxTNh

Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/sep/03/queer-review-daniel-craig-william-burroughs

Slow Horses season four review – Gary Oldman roars like a bear dipped in chip fat
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/04/slow-horses-season-four-review-gary-oldman-roars-like-a-bear-dipped-in-chip-fat

Food! Glorious Food!

Speedy, silky and saucy: Alice Zaslavsky’s prawn, macadamia and asparagus stir-fry – recipe
Alice Zaslavsky
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/05/easy-stir-fry-recipe-prawn-macadamia-asparagus-alice-zaslavsky

How to make dan dan noodles – recipe
A step-by-step guide to making this quick noodle dish laced with smoky chilli oil and tingly Sichuan pepper
Felicity Cloake
https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/sep/04/how-to-make-dan-dan-noodles-recipe-felicity-cloake

Apple doughnuts and pumpkin snickerdoodles: Edd Kimber’s cookie recipes
Apple doughnut-flavoured cinnamon cookies and pumpkin cookies with masala chai spicing
Edd Kimber
https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/sep/04/apple-doughnuts-pumpkin-snickerdoodles-recipe-edd-kimber-cookie

‘A drizzle, a dollop and a crunch’: the secret to plant-based eating
Bettina Campolucci Bordi, as told to Isabelle Rodney
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/03/a-drizzle-a-dollop-and-a-crunch-the-secret-to-plant-based-eating

Plant-based cooking is its own cuisine. We all can learn from it.
You don’t have to be vegan to want to learn to cook good plant-based dishes.
Column by Joe Yonan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/01/vegan-plant-based-cooking-joe-yonan/

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