Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 1mo ago • 100%

Tacos!

Beans and rice cooked in diluted pineapple juice, with peppers, corn, and pineapple tidbits. Then your usual taco fixins (lettuce, onion, tomato, hot sauce) on a store-bought tortilla.

politics queermunist • 2mo ago • 92%

Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type

>**Fascism is an insufficient term**, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type. Also, [Guerilla History pod companion episode](https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-far-right-of-a-special-type-10-theses-w-vijay-prashad) to go with the article. What really struck me was *Thesis Five*: the far right of a special type provides a partial answer to the loneliness epidemic that comes with advanced capitalist alienation. It doesn't build real community or friendships or relationships, it's more like everyone being in the same fandom. They wear signifier merchandise and signal to each other with specialized language and all consume the same significant cultural products, but they don't actually build real community. Instead they build ephemeral pseudo-anonymous online communities and temporary community through mass mobilization (rallies, marches, etc). They often don't know each other by their real names, or anything about each other's families, or their tastes outside of what they use to signal how antiwoke they are to each other. But this is the closest thing millions of people have to community, even while the epidemic of loneliness continues untreated. Building community is a radical act.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 3mo ago • 90%

Grilled Veg Wrap

It's got onion and tomato and lettuce and cucumbers and jalapenos and bell peppers and smokey tvp and some spicy sauce 🤤

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 4mo ago • 92%

Loaded mashed potatoes with a side of spicy cauliflower morsels

The potatoes are mixed with fried tvp, peas, and carrots. The cauliflower are breaded and airfried, coated with a spicy buffalo barbecue sauce. Miiiight have cooked a little too much tho 😅 Also here's an action shot 

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 5mo ago • 89%

Potato Shipwreck

Carmelized onions and garlic, cubed potatoes, bell peppers, and egg substitute; topped with hot-sauce, with a cup of white chai on the side.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 6mo ago • 88%

Chili Topped With Airfried Beans

Just a simple chili made with four tomatoes, one onion, half a bell pepper, a three chipotles in abado sauce, a clove of garlic, a couple tbsp of chili powder, a tbsp of oil, and then topped with nooch and air fried kidney beans. I think I'll spring for mango or pineapple next time.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 7mo ago • 89%

Bean and Rice Enchiladas

And here they are ready for action 

chat queermunist • 7mo ago • 50%

damn April Fools got me good

Okay so I knew we had a holiday on Easter weekend at my job and I assumed we'd have Good Friday off, since that's what literally every other job I've had has done and since it's a semi-holiday. Nope, we got Monday off. April fools! 😂 So now I just burned two attendance points because I was a no-call-no-show *and* lost out on holiday pay. Death to America.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 8mo ago • 80%

Spicy Soy Sauce Ramen

Did you know soy sauce Top Ramen is vegan? Maruchan isn't so don't get em confused! The greens are raw sweet peas and green onion.

Palestine queermunist • 8mo ago • 97%

What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa

www.democracynow.org

>SUSAN ABULHAWA: I want to say that the reality on the ground is infinitely worse than the worst videos and photos that we’re seeing in the West. There is a — you know, beyond people being buried alive en masse in their homes, their bodies being shredded to pieces, these kinds of videos and images that people are seeing — beyond that, there is this daily massive degradation of life. It is a total denigration of a whole society, that was once high-functioning and proud and has basically been reduced to the most primal of ambitions, you know, being able to get enough water for the day or flour to bake bread. And this is even in Rafah. >And the people in Rafah will tell you that they feel privileged because they’re not starving to death, while their families in the north, the ones that they can reach, because Israel has basically cut off 99% of communication — what remains are basically communications by people who have, you know, set up some ingenious ways to keep internet in the north. But most people in the north have no idea what’s happening. As a matter of fact, at one point — I’m sure you all know Bisan Owda, who is on Facebook. She explained to me she often goes up to the border between Khan Younis and the middle area in the north where you can’t go beyond, and she explained to me that an aid truck, that sort of pushed its way through but was eventually fired on, had — people came up and ran up, thinking that the war was over and people were returning to the north. So, most people in the north are in total darkness and hunger and really have no way of communicating, no way of figuring out where to get food. >And, you know, what we’re hearing on the ground is surreal. It’s dystopic. What I witnessed personally in Rafah and in some of the middle areas is incomprehensible. And I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that. I recommend listening to the whole thing, but this is the most harrowing part for me. The death toll is likely a massive undercount and, if the Zionists have their way, *we will never be allowed to know the truth.*

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 8mo ago • 73%

Veggie BLTs

I've been slowly adding more and more veggies through experimentation, but now I'm at the point where I either need to use bigger tortillas or just be more picky about which veggies I want 😅 this is the configuration I'm using right now, though in the summer I like to use avacado instead of sauce.  I heat the tortillas in a pan with a light coat of walnut oil and black pepper and assemble my fixins in the pan itself.  Sauce is also homemade! I save all the vinegar from pickled jalapenos and then mix that with equal parts coconut oil in a heated pan, then combine it with whatever seasoning I'm feeling like during that batch (rn I'm using nooche, though sometimes I go for an onion sauce or mustard). It's not super precise so there's no recipe, I've just got a feel from experimentation. Also the fake-on bits are actually a cheap local veriety I've found. Basically just smoke and salt flavored crunchy soy chips. Once I'm done, I pack up my chopped veggies to do this again in a couple days. I usually make four at a time every two days, and these are my pre-shift and mid-shift work meals. Served with a thicc pea protein chocolate drink. 

News queermunist • 8mo ago • 84%

Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

www.cnn.com

And you all told me the blue maga border bill that Republicans rejected was 4d chess.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 8mo ago • 83%

Beans and rice on tortilla chips

Kidney beans and rice with taco seasoning, caramelized onion and garlic, *and* I found out I can get dried habaneros near me! Definitely growing those this year, I forgot how good they are (haven't had any since before the pandemic 🥲 ) Also that Perrona sauce is... okay. It's really sweat, throws off everything. Also not nearly as spicy as I was hoping! It's a cool color, you can't really tell but it's actually green, but it just didn't hurt me the way I like 😌

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 9mo ago • 80%

Bean & Rice Tacos

Pintos and white rice seasoned with cumin, cayenne, garlic, nooch, salt, msg, walnut oil, and then served with taco fixins on hard shells 💪

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 10mo ago • 75%

Garbanzo Fajitas

🥵

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 10mo ago • 63%

Butter beans, raw brocc, and white rice

I used to think I didn't really like beans, but when I got an airfryer I decided to see what they'd be like if I cooked them differently. Amazing~✨ Smaller beans become a delicious crunchy topping or filling, highly recommended, but what's *really* interesting is those huge butter beans. They're *disturbingly* similar to chicken breast when cooked this way, so I cooked up some white rice, cut up some ice cold broccoli, and fried up some butter beans 8 minutes with walnut oil at 400^o^ F And that's it! Super simple but so so *sooo* good.

World News queermunist • 11mo ago • 91%

Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

www.reuters.com

In Khan Younis, many of those taking flight on Monday were already displaced from other areas. Abu Mohammed told Reuters it was now the third time he had been forced to flee since abandoning his home in Gaza City in the north. "Why did they eject us from our homes in Gaza (City) if they planned to kill us here?" he said. At a home in Khan Younis that was struck overnight, flames licked the collapsed masonry and grey smoke billowed out from the rubble. A child's stuffed toy of a sheep lay in a pile of dust. Boys were picking through the wreckage. Next door, Nesrine Abdelmoty stood amid damaged furniture in the rented room where she lives with her divorced daughter and two-year-old baby. "We were sleeping at 5 a.m. when we felt things collapse, everything went upside down," she told Reuters. "They told (people) to move from the north to Khan Younis, since the south is safer. And now, they've bombed Khan Younis. Even Khan Younis is not safe now, and even if we move to Rafah, Rafah is not safe as well. Where do they want us to go?"

News queermunist • 11mo ago • 77%

‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

www.theguardian.com

The end of the article jumped out at me: >The Palestinian health ministry said 40 patients died on Tuesday, after five days without the fuel needed to power generators that fed dialysis machines and other vital medical equipment. The hospital had also run out of clean water, and doctors said they were subsisting on dates to survive as food supplies dwindled to nothing. >Corpses were piled in front of the hospital, with staff too terrified to move between buildings. The UN’s office for humanitarian affairs said staff at al-Shifa, for decades the linchpin of Gaza’s medical system, had begun preparations for a mass grave to entomb 180 bodies in front of the facility, as there was no way for them to leave in order to bury the dead.

Antiwork queermunist • 11mo ago • 92%

36-hour shifts, 80-hour weeks: Workers are being burnt out by overtime

www.nbcnews.com

Of particular note: >The Association of American Railroads, which represents freight railway operators, said its members have been hiring in recent years to address staffing needs and recognize employees' desire for better scheduling. The group said the number of overtime hours worked by BMWE union members increased to 4.7 hours per week in 2022, compared to 4 hours in 2016. >Cory Ludwig, who works as a machine operator repairing railway tracks in Iowa, said he’s been working Saturdays and some Sundays along with 10- to 12-hour shifts since September. Recently, he worked 13 days without a day off. With the mandatory Saturday work, he’s had to rely on friends and relatives to take care of his five-year-old and nine-year-old kids. He said the overtime demands have increased as he’s seen the number of workers assigned to his crew go down. >“You fall asleep and then you wake up in the morning and you go right back to work. It can really break a person down, it gets really wearing on a person after a while,” Ludwig said. “With less people trying to do the same amount of work, working long hours, working multiple weeks in a row without one day off, you get irritated and you get burnt out.” >Recently one of the union’s members had been working 22 hours straight when he fell asleep on the job, an error that could have put his colleagues’ lives at risk but also could have been avoided had the employee had a rest period, said Ballew. Another member was recently disciplined for refusing to work through his scheduled days off on short notice so he could care for a family member having health issues, Ballew said. >“The stress it puts on marriages and parenting and the things you leave behind for your spouse to deal with or the things you miss, that kind of stress builds up,” said Ballew. “In the rail industry, we have noticed recently a spat of suicides and I can’t help but think there is a correlation there.” Thank God Biden stopped the railroad strike! I swear if I hear another fucker say that the railroad workers got everything they wanted because Biden helped them negotiate I'll lose it. Good thing I voted for the lesser evil in 2020! Gosh if I had stuck to principles we'd have had a genocide or something 😒

chat queermunist • 12mo ago • 96%

Was listening to Democracy Now and an Al Jazeera journalist said something that had me screaming

www.democracynow.org

I recommend listening to the whole thing, but here's the nug: >YOUMNA ELSAYED: Yes, I just want to say one thing. I want to say this, and I want the world to remember my words. In my culture, in my language, we say, ”Kama tadinu tudan, walaw ba’ada heen.” In your culture, in your language, they say, “What goes around comes around.” And when it comes around, like this whole world is watching the genocides happening in the Gaza Strip, we shall be watching, too. Israel fucked up. God damn journalists saying this openly? I mean, obviously the Western press won't cover this, but this is after Biden went whining to Qatar to reign in Al Jazeera lol I held my nose for that shit in 2020 "to stop fascism" but fuck, this motherfucker endorsed genocide anyway. Not making that mistake again 🤢