#Maxwell’s House

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season 8 episode 2

[saywhat-politics]

April 19 (UPI) -- The Republican House Oversight Committee chairman has denied requests by two Democrats to check on a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, though the GOP has sent their own delegations to tour the notorious prison he is at.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky sent letters to two House members telling them they can "spend your own money" to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported March 15.

Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Maxwell Frost of Florida wrote to Comer on Tuesday "requesting authorization" for an official trip. They said also want to check on others held there and invited Republicans to make the trip to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca.

The congressmen sought Congressional Member Delegations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention site. The Democrats noted official trips afford them more oversight and security resources.

[lillythecakat-blog]

Sockathan Week! @blueberry-starsss

Day2 Alternate Universe! I did when they turned to Puppets from The Owl House ⭐️🌙

[skipppppy]

Accidentally pours my heart out onto the page and shares the characters from a story I’ve been working on since I was 15 ahaha (cries)

A rough summary of the plot:

Alba knows she’s marked for death on her 16th birthday as part of a prophecy to become a mortal vessel for an incorporeal goddess, who also happens to be her mother. When she’s transferred to a school for spellcasters, she finally decides to do something about it.

It’s called “School of Crows” and I’d love to make a show or a webcomic out of it one day!

[tomorrowusa]

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN-05) is one of a dwindling number of Republican House members to hold town hall meetings with constituents. The one she held on Friday in a suburb of Indianapolis went about as you would expect.

Less daring than Rep. Spartz is Rep. John James (R-MI-10). Like most House Republicans, Rep. James is hiding from his constituents. So Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10) are holding a town hall in Michigan's 10th so that James's constituents will be able to voice their concerns to elected officials in the federal government.

Republican congressman from Michigan won’t meet with voters—so Dems are doing it for him 

Murphy and Frost are intelligent and energetic speakers. They are worth catching in Warren, Michigan on Saturday if you live in the area.

[didanagy]

BLEAK HOUSE (2005)

dir. justin chadwick and susanna white

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The neon-illuminated Maxwell House and Mayflower Doughnuts coffee shop at the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Broadway, December 1945.

Photo: Andreas Feininger via kodakslides/Instagram

[gooberscollage]

I have this house I built from a kit a few years ago and I finally decided to put my hams hams in it for a little photo shoot. They fit kind of perfect after all. This was fun to do I might do more toy photography at some point :3

Under the cut is the unedited, transparent photo and some close ups.

[girlactionfigure]

Meet the Maxwell House Haggadah, a Seder favourite.

For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal, when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

Joseph Jacobs from the Lower East Side started an advertising firm in 1919. Jacobs was determined to introduce the value of marketing to the growing population of Jewish Americans. That’s when he met Joel Owsley Cheek of the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company, parent company to Maxwell House coffee. Jacobs met with Cheek to discuss placement of ads for Maxwell House in Jewish publications.

Consulting a rabbi from the Lower East Side, who declared that technically coffee beans were like berries and therefore kosher for Passover, Jacobs secured a rabbinical stamp of approval for Maxwell coffee in 1923.

Years later during the Great Depression, Maxwell House turned to Jacobs for marketing help as the company was losing money to discounted coffee competitors. The idea was to give away a free Haggadah with every can of coffee.

It worked. According to a market report commissioned by the Joseph Jacobs Organization to guide its marketing efforts, Maxwell House became the coffee of choice for Jewish households around New York City.

The Maxwell House Haggadah remained largely the same through the 1940s and ‘50s, and soon achieved the status of a Passover classic. Yet the 1965 version marked a definitive break with the past. As 1960s culture introduced more minimalist, graphic art, raging against the classicism of the past, the haggadah’s images changed to reflect the times. And though the written text remained largely the same, the addition of English transliterations of blessings and prayers hinted at Americanizing Jews’ loss of Hebrew reading skills.

For the next 30 years, very little changed in the haggadah. But in 2000, it finally received a visual makeover, as seen in an advertisement that year. Stark graphics, popular since the mid-‘60s, were replaced with nostalgic photos depicting an intergenerational family at a Seder. This tender imagery invoked tradition at a time when many Americans had grown more distant from their Jewish communities, prompting concern from Jewish leaders.

In 2009, the haggadah achieved worldwide fame when President Barack Obama used it to conduct his first White House Seder. Shortly after, it underwent a complete overhaul for the 21st century. Maxwell House’s version was now less illustrated and included more written text, like the haggadahs used by more religious Jews. By eliminating antiquated words like “thee” and “thine,” the new version felt more relevant for a younger and more secular Jewish population.

In the following years, various versions have been distributed, in 2019 Maxwell House released the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel version entitled “Midge’s Haggadah”.

Still, the Maxwell House Haggadah is the most widely used Haggadah in the world with an estimated 50 million copies in print.

Source: Humans of Judaism, Wikipedia,

Kerri Steinberg, Department Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Otis College of Art and Design, The Conversation.

Rabbi Yisroel Bernath

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Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 2B

Book summaries below:

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (The Cerulean Chronicles)

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.

An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

Fantasy, romance, series, adult

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat's rule. When tragedy befalls Imperial Prince Taam, his Thean widower, Jainan, is rushed into an arranged marriage with Taam's cousin, the disreputable Kiem, in a bid to keep the rising hostilities between the two worlds under control.

But when it comes to light that Prince Taam's death may not have been an accident, and that Jainan himself may be a suspect, the unlikely pair must overcome their misgivings and learn to trust one another as they navigate the perils of the Iskat court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war... all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.

Science fiction, romance, arranged marriage, politics, mystery, adult

[jambread23]

Late Halloween / anniversary post!!! The ghost beaters as the ghost busters!

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Bonus

[oogaboogasphincter]

THANK YOU FOR 300 FOLLOWERS!!! 🥳🫶🥹💘

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I’ve never done something like this before, so if it’s a massive failure please bear with me 😭 Nevertheless, I can’t wait to try this out and share some silliness with you all! And again, thank you so much for 300 followers 🩷🩷🩷

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Guys. GUYS. I was thinking about a Wolf 359 social media au and I came to an earth shattering realization. Kepler is a story time youtuber. he’s a fucking STORYTIME YOUTUBER. I’m having a moment.

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(2007, Restricted Access, RA3019) Bootleg mix by Quentin Harris and Timmy Regisford

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