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I'm going to make less sweet, dark chocolate brownies with 2 heads of roasted garlic in them. This just seems like it would be so delicious for some reason. My plan is the roast the garlic and then kind of mash it up and put it in the batter and also reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe. Does this sound disgusting? Am I insane?
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Hi Ask Culinary,
I went to Mexico last year and had the best Caesar salad (I know, I know). The restaurant heated up what I think is Parmesan in a half ring. The texture and heat made the salad. I’ve attached a link to a picture below.
My question: what is this Parmesan half ring thing called? I can’t find out how to make it because I don’t know what it’s called. I would really like to try this technique.
I really appreciate anyone who can advise.
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I'm making two pork butts. I have a great sounding recipe, but I'm unexpectedly short on ingredients and the store is closed and won't open in time. SO, the first butt is brining and is supposed to brine for 2 hrs. When my 2hrs are up, can I remove the one butt and put the second one in it?
From a food safety perspective, I don't think enough time will pass to matter.
How about from a meat treatment perspective?
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Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump's one-time personal lawyer and fixer, gloated on CNN about how Trump may soon join him in the ranks of convicted felons.
Speaking to CNN, Cohen admitted that he was a "convicted perjurer," a "convicted felon," and a "disbarred lawyer."
But Cohen — who Trump's spokespeople have previously labeled a "disbarred felon" in statements to Insider — also alluded on CNN to how the label of "felon" might soon apply to Trump, too.
"Oh by the way for Donald, since we're talking about convicted felons, see you on Tuesday, pal," Cohen said, referring to the day that Trump is expected to be arraigned.
The grand jury voted Thursday to indict Trump, making him the first former president to ever face criminal charges. The charges Trump was indicted on in New York were likely linked to a $130,000 hush money payment to the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels.
Cohen was a key witness in the investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to felonies linked to these hush money payments, including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and bank fraud. He was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2018, and was disbarred by the New York Supreme Court in February 2019.
In a statement provided to Insider on Thursday, Cohen said that "no one is above the law." He said that that he takes solace "in validating the adage that no one is above the law; not even a former President."
Furthering the similarities between himself and Trump, Cohen referenced his "Al Capone theory" in the interview with CNN, saying that Trump, like him, would be punished for tax fraud.
He has put forth his "Al Capone theory," which refers to the notorious crime lord, numerous times.
"I always called this the Al Capone theory," Cohen told CNN on Thursday. "They couldn't get him on murder, extortion, racketeering, bootlegging, etc. They got him on tax evasion. If that crime, Don, was enough for me to be charged, fined, convicted, and sent to prison, why am I any different from Donald Trump?"
Cohen and a spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
I impulsively decided beef shank can replace lamb leg and now I'm panicking.
We are hosting a dinner for a few of our friends and i was originally planning on making a lamb dish but because i wasn't able to get lamb leg, i decided to replace it with beef shank although I have zero experience cooking it. (My thought process was pretty much that i need red meat with bone and that i have before replaced lamb with beef in other recipes)
The dinner is supposed to be today (as I'm writing this i notice i have about 13 hours to have a ready meal) and I'm starting to panic about my meat choice. If anyone can help me with any of my concerns, I'd greatly appreciate it!
The recipe starts with boiling the meat for a long time (lamb leg i usually boil for about 3 h) and then it goes in the oven for about 30 more minutes with other things. I thought based on online recipes that beef shank boils about 3 h but now I'm also seeing some say it's 4-6 h. If i reserve 4 hours for the boiling part, is that enough? I'm using cast iron pot.
I only now realized that i wasn't thinking at the meat counter because i bought shanks based on weight not amount of pieces. I have 4 pieces and 5 people eating and i don't even know how much meat will be left in the shank after it's done cooking. I assume 4 pieces can't be enough with any math so i'll have to go buy extra meat to add. Problem is i don't know if I'll be able to get more shanks so if i add another type of beef, will it overcook and what type is best? I was thinking of short rib as a first choice and "regular" stew meat as my second option (because that's almost always available.)
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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham tried to raise money for former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign just hours after the latter was indicted by a New York grand jury on Thursday.
"But you need to help this man, Donald J. Trump, they're trying to drain him dry. He's spent more money on lawyers than most people spend on campaigns," said Graham, a longtime Trump ally, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Graham thrice called for viewers to visit Trump's fundraising page.
"DonaldJTrump.com, go tonight, give the president some money to fight this bullshit," Graham said, urging conservatives to "fight back at the ballot box."
"If you believe Donald Trump is being treated poorly and wrongly, stand up and help him and pray for our country, pray for him. Go to DonaldJTrump.com and give money so he can defend himself," Graham said later.
"Give the man some money so he can fight," Graham added on a third occasion, again mentioning Trump's website.
In the interview, Graham joined hardline GOP figures in blasting Trump's indictment, which is linked to a 2016 election-eve hush-money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The senator called the case "legal voodoo" and "political persecution" that will "fall like a cheap suit under legal scrutiny." Graham also cast doubt on the testimony of Michael Cohen, Trump's one-time personal lawyer and fixer. Cohen previously admitted to paying $130,000 to Daniels just before the 2016 election to stop her from saying she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury on Thursday.
The indictment comes as the former president is making a run for the White House in 2024.
Trump's campaign also has a history of aggressively soliciting donations whenever he's faced with legal trouble. After Trump falsely predicted that he would get arrested on March 14, the Trump campaign pumped out multiple fundraising emails calling for contributions. Trump fans then sent the ex-president $1.5 million within three days.
The announcement of his indictment has triggered a tidal wave of fundraising messages from other politicians on both sides of the aisle, The New York Times reported.
Trump's campaign jumped in on the action by debuting a white T-shirt that says: "I stand with Trump" on Thursday evening. The shirt was touted in an email to supporters seen by Insider, as a reward for donating $47 to Trump's campaign "until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT."
Other GOP figures, such as Missouri senator Josh Hawley and the National Republican Congressional Committee, are also cashing in on the indictment, per The Times. The Democratic Governors Association and multiple Democrat PACs have sent out their own donation requests since Trump's indictment, The Times reported.
A representative for Graham did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment sent outside regular business hours.
I like to make khao soi/ khaosuey. One of the toppings that go really well are crispy fried onions(we only have red onions here). Unfortunately, sometimes the fried onions become soggy by the time we are ready to eat. How can I ensure I have them stay crispy ?
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had "SUCH RESPECT" for the New York grand jury — but he was singing a different tune just one day later, after he got indicted.
The grand jury voted Thursday to indict Trump. The charges are likely linked to a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 Presidential election.
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, before getting indicted, Trump wrote: "I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE."
He wrote that the break was because the "EVIDENCE IS SO OVERWHELMING" in his favor that "THAT THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON."
Trump made that post after news broke that the grand jury might take a break from probing the hush money payments case.
In a Truth Social post after his indictment, however, Trump seemed to have lost his newfound respect for the jury.
"These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America," Trump wrote.
He added: "THE USA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD NATION, A NATION IN SERIOUS DECLINE. SO SAD!"
The exact charges against Trump have not been revealed yet, but two sources told CNN that Trump is looking at more than 30 charges related to business fraud. These low-level felony charges are likely related to the 2016 election-eve payment to Daniels. The indictment has not been unsealed.
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Current and would-be Republican rivals largely rallied behind Donald Trump on Thursday, illustrating the difficulty the former president's primary foes will face as they try to navigate the fallout from a historic indictment.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's best-positioned potential rival, vowed not to cooperate with any extradition requests Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may need to get Trump out of Florida. Insider previously reported how DeSantis has little power to thwart such a request as the Constitution requires interstate extradition.
"The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head," DeSantis, who is expected to announce a presidential campaign in May, said in a statement. "It is un-American."
—Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 30, 2023
Even former Vice President Mike Pence, who has condemned Trump's role in the January 6 Capitol riot, heaped criticism on Bragg's decision to prosecute the case.
"I think the unprecedented indictment of the former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage," Pence told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "And it appears to millions of Americans to be nothing than a political prosecution that's driven by a prosecutor who literally ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president."
The grand jury's indictment remains sealed for now. The Manhattan probe was said to have zeroed in on a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels made shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels has claimed to have had an affair with Trump in the 2000s. Trump has denied that he had an affair or that he did anything wrong as a result.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who not so subtly hinted in her announcement that Trump's time was up, said the grand jury's indictment was "more about revenge than it is about justice."
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who also served in Trump's Cabinet, struck a similar tone in his response.
"Prosecuting serious crimes keeps Americans safe, but political prosecutions put the American legal system at risk of being viewed as a tool for abuse," Pompeo wrote on Twitter.
Some Republicans have mused about a Trump lane occupied by a less bombastic figure such as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. But Youngkin too was quick to lash out at the indictment.
"Arresting a presidential candidate on a manufactured basis should not happen in America," Youngkin wrote on Twitter.
The tone of their responses isn't surprising. Top Republicans also rallied around Trump after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago resort in what was later revealed to be an investigation into the improper storage of classified documents.
Previous polling has also illustrated that the Republican base is extremely sympathetic to Trump's views. A Quinnipiac University poll found before the news broke that 3/4ths of Republicans would not view charges as disqualifying. A whopping 93% of Republicans also agreed that the New York investigation was "mainly motivated by politics."
Recent national polls have also shown Trump building on his lead extremely early in the GOP presidential race.
Of the potential or declared 2024 candidates, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson responded in the most muted way. Hutchinson, who has not shied away from criticizing Trump in the past, cautioned that Americans "need to wait on the facts.
"It is a dark day for America when a former President is indicted on criminal charges," Hutchinson said in a statement. "While the grand jury found credible facts to support the charges, it is important that the presumption of innocence follows Mr. Trump."
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Tonight, I was blind-baking a pie crust to make a butterscotch pie. I put the crust in the pan, and crimped and pricked it. Then, I lined it with parchment paper and poured in ceramic pie weights.
After the crust finished baking (about 12 minutes later) I lifted the parchment paper and pie weights out. When I did this, I noticed that some of the weights have a fuzzy black mold on them. This is only the second time I've used these weights. When I first bought them (about a year ago) I thought it would make sense to wash them. I'm assuming some moisture remained inside them, which is what caused the mold.
Is it still okay to consume this pie crust, since there was parchment paper in between the weights and crust? I'm worried that the mold spores could somehow have traveled through the paper, and could make someone sick if they eat the pie.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to take over Walt Disney World's governing board in Florida may have backfired due to a prior obscure agreement that new governor-appointed board members argue stripped them of their power.
The contentious agreement, approved without fanfare a day before DeSantis assumed more control of Disney's land, is the latest in an apparent feud between the governor and the company.
And in setting the expiration terms of the agreement, Disney invoked an obscure property law known as Rule Against Perpetuities, setting the date for "twenty one (21) years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles IIII, King of England living as of the date of this Declaration."
"This essentially makes Disney the government," board member Ron Peri said during a meeting on Wednesday. "This board loses, for practical purposes, the majority of its ability to do anything beyond maintain the roads and maintain basic infrastructure."
For close to six decades, Disney has operated its expansive theme park and resort in Florida under a specially designated district that lies between two counties. A board, previously known as Reedy Creek Improvement District, oversaw the area and had free reign of development processes, such as zoning and infrastructure, and even control of its own fire department, essentially operating like a separate municipal government. Disney also had the authority to appoint district board members.
This special status came under threat when Disney entered the fray of DeSantis' culture war last year, after the company publicly objected to Florida's proposal to ban the discussion of sexual orientation in K-3 public classrooms.
In a show of political force, DeSantis, who is a likely contender for the 2024 Republican nomination, attempted to dissolve the Reedy Creek district. But the dissolution would have placed the burden of paying for a fire department and road maintenance, among other services, onto taxpayers in Orange and Osceola counties. Residents would also have had to pick up the district's hefty $1 billion debt.
Instead, Florida lawmakers passed a bill in February to end "Disney's self-governing status" and give the governor the authority to appoint new board members to the district. Reedy Creek was renamed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and DeSantis appointed five supervisors, including a parents' rights activist and three Republican donors.
But the new supervisors are now saying that previous board members entered an agreement that effectively stripped them of their powers.
"We're going to have to deal with it and correct it," board member Brian Aungst said during a meeting on Wednesday. "It's a subversion of the will of the voters and the Legislature and the governor. It completely circumvents the authority of this board to govern."
Board member Bridget Ziegler also tweeted on Wednesday that "if unlawful actions were taken, this development agreement will be nullified."
—Bridget Ziegler (@BridgetAZiegler) March 30, 2023
According to the agreement text, Disney was given a slew of powers including development rights for the next thirty years, or 2053, and the authority to approve any design improvements.
A "declaration of restrictive covenants" also bars the district from using Disney's name, characters, symbols, or any other Disney-owned intellectual property.
DeSantis has previously suggested that his new board members will be able to tailor the type of entertainment at the park, though it's unclear how they would be able to do so.
"When you lose your way, you gotta have people that are going to tell you the truth," DeSantis said when signing the law that granted him authority over the district in February. "All these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate."
The agreement DeSantis-appointed members are now objecting to was signed on February 8, a day before the Florida House voted to change the existing governing body.
According to Wednesday's agenda documents, the new district is seeking legal counsel from four firms including Cooper & Kirk. The firm has received more than $2.8 million in legal fees and contracts from the DeSantis administration, The Orlando Sentinel reported.
"All agreements signed between Disney and the district were appropriate and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida's Government in the Sunshine law," Disney said in a statement to Insider.
DeSantis communications director Taryn Fenske said in an emailed statement to Insider that the "Executive Office of the Governor is aware of Disney's last-ditch efforts to execute contracts just before ratifying the new law that transfers rights and authorities from the former Reedy Creek Improvement District to Disney."
"An initial review suggests these agreements may have significant legal infirmities that would render the contracts void as a matter of law," Fenske wrote. "The new Governor-appointed board retained multiple financial and legal firms to conduct audits and investigate Disney's past behavior."
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With several models of tanks to choose from, a large supply of armored vehicles, and an undeniable numbers advantage, Russia's fleet of tanks should ostensibly be decimating Ukraine's on the battlefield.
Instead, the struggling superpower has racked up error after error more than a year into the war, resulting in staggering equipment and battle losses as Ukraine attempts to even the playing field ahead of an influx of Western tanks expected to arrive in the coming months.
While the current state of the conflict — a brutal stalemate in Bakhmut — has not been defined by tank warfare, earlier in the war tank battles captured international attention, including when Ukraine used abandoned Russian tanks to shore up its counteroffensive in Kharkiv last year, and during Russia's failed siege of Vuhledar earlier this year, which was the site of the largest tank battle yet.
The armored vehicles' great strength on the battlefield is three-fold, according to Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel and a senior advisor with the Center for Strategic International Studies security program. Tanks provide mobility, firepower, and protection, Cancian told Insider, offering soldiers the luxury of moving and shooting at the same time.
But when it comes to tanks, practicality is only part of the equation. One of their key capabilities, according to Jeffrey Edmonds, a Russia expert at the Center for Naval Analyses and former US Army armor officer, is the psychological impact they have on the enemy, known as the "shock effect."
Symbolic or not, tank warfare remains a vital aspect of the ongoing war for both sides with Russia reportedly returning to storage to restock its depleted supply and Ukraine continuing its crusade for further aid.
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Throughout the war, Russia has primarily relied on four different models of tanks: T-64s, T-72s, T-80s, and T-90s, with T-72s making up the bulk of their fleet thanks to years of Soviet-era production and more modern updates to the vehicles.
While each tank type has its own distinct style, Cancian and Edmonds told Insider that the vehicles are part of a similar lineage, with each generation of tank representing an updated version of the last.
As a general rule of thumb, "the newer the tank, the more capable it is," Cancian said of Russia's fleet.
But there are exceptions to the rule, the military experts said. The Russians relied on the T-72 so heavily during the Cold War that countless updates and refurbishments rendered the model's capabilities comparable or even superior to that of its direct successor, the T-80, which is generally considered less successful and reliable than the T-72 or the T-90, the latter of which is thought to be Russia's most advanced tank, Edmonds and Cancian said.
Russia's tank design is the product of lessons learned in World War II, according to Edmonds, and as a result, the vehicles tend to be smaller and lighter than Western tanks, as well as lower to the ground, which makes them harder to hit, but also less powerful in a matchup against a heavily-armored, NATO-sized vehicle.
Not accounting for wartime losses, Russia is believed to have started the conflict with an army fleet of about 3,000 tanks, according to several reports citing the International Institute for Strategic Studies — nearly double the number of Ukraine's estimated 1,500-strong pre-war fleet.
Even with thousands of tanks on the battlefield, however, diversity among the vehicles has been slim, with Ukraine relying exclusively on its collection of T-64s and T-72s, the same types of tanks that Russia is using.
Enemies forced to face one another using near identical tanks is a result of the countries' shared Soviet history. When the war started, both sides were armed primarily with the same Soviet equipment. But even with the overlap, Cancian and Edmonds said the Russian versions of these tanks, in particular the T-72s, are likely more advanced than their Ukrainian counterparts, given years of updates that Ukraine never had reason to make.
On paper, Russia undoubtedly has the better specs. But the battlefield tells another story.
"The lethality of the system depends on much more than the system itself," Edmonds said of tanks. "It depends on the crew, but it also depends on how it fits into the battlefield and how it integrates with other components of combat power."
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Not only has the Russian military been struggling to properly utilize its tanks, but it has also had one hell of a time trying to maintain them.
Stunning February updates from the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Oryx, an open-source intelligence analysis platform, estimated that Russia has lost about half of its operational tank fleet — more than 1,500 tanks — since the war began. The staggering losses reportedly hit Russia's store of T-72s and T-80s especially hard, with IISS suggesting the country's supply has been depleted by two-thirds, according to reports.
"The conventional wisdom is that the Russians aren't following their own doctrine," Cancian said. "They have not been using their tanks as part of a combined team."
A key part of effective tank warfare is using the vehicles in tandem with infantry, air support, artillery, and engineers — a tactic known as combined arms, according to Cancian and Edmonds.
In one of the earliest displays of dysfunction, the Russians sent a convoy of unprotected tanks straight into an ambush in Bucha just weeks into the war. Then, earlier this year, the Russians repeated the very same mistake in Vuhledar, leading to the loss of more than 100 tanks, several of which were seen smoking and blazing in the Ukrainian snow.
Had the Russians practiced combined arms, they might have sent an infantry team ahead of the tanks to clear the terrain for incoming vehicles and scout possible attack points. But that type of cohesion takes training, and lots of it, Cancian and Edmonds said, a particular struggle among the Russians, who receive most of their training on the job.
"They clearly came into this with a lower level of tactical training than we thought," Edmonds said of the Russian military.
Cohesion among Russian soldiers is unlikely to improve as Russia sustains more than 220,000 casualties, a top UK defense official said this week, citing US intelligence. That number represents a stunning figure that has undoubtedly exacerbated already-existent personnel problems within the military.
Not only do the Russians have too few people to provide proper infantry support, the army seems to be running out of people to operate the remaining tanks. In Vuhledar earlier this year, Ukrainian troops said they captured a Russian medic who was forced to drive a tank, despite his medical background.
Russia's repeated mistakes have been costly, forcing the country to rely on older tanks they've since pulled from storage, including T-62s, T-55s, and T-54s, some of which date as far back as the 1940s.
These decade-old replacements are slower and lack the fire control of modern tanks, Edmonds said; they are generally less effective than their updated counterparts, though still have the capacity to be lethal.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has contributed to Russia's depleted supply, having captured several advanced T-72s ,T-80s, and even some T-90s from the enemy, though the country has also lost between 450-700 tanks itself, according to reports citing the IISS. The Ukrainian military seems to be better at operating their tanks on a tactical level, Edmonds said, citing the army's greater flexibility and initiative.
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Following months of pleading from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine finally secured the promise of a long-desired tank haul from several Western countries earlier this year.
The US has pledged to send Ukraine 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks in the coming months; the UK is preparing 14 Challenger 2 tanks to send; Germany promised 14 Leopard 2 tanks; and several other European countries have also pledged to send tanks from their fleet of German-made Leopard 2s.
It's a hefty haul of Western tanks which boast better armor and fire control than the Russian T-72s, Cancian said. All three Western tank models are larger than most Russian tanks and are "quite survivable" thanks to their advanced armor, according to Edmonds.
"Those three tanks are all essentially equivalent," Cancian said, though he gave the slight edge to the American-made Abrams tanks, which have been upgraded more often than the Leopards and Challengers.
It's still unclear when the Western tanks will arrive or what role they will ultimately play in Ukraine's future offensives. Tank usage in the conflict has been minimal in recent weeks as the battle of Bakhmut — an ongoing slog of attrition — rages on.
"This stalemated frontline where we are right now, this is not a good environment for tanks," Cancian said. "Tanks need to break into the open."
The incoming vehicles could help shake up the current state of the war, according to Edmonds.
"Tanks were designed precisely for that," he told Insider. "To be brought in to make something static…very fluid."
The much anticipated Ukrainian spring or summer offensive will likely be an attempt to break into the open and upset the Russians' lines, Edmonds said, a goal that would be aided by a fleet of tanks.
But the number of incoming Western tanks — less than 150 — is unlikely to change the tides of war. Cancian predicted that the tanks will be enough for the Ukrainians to execute "one good" attack as part of their counteroffensive.
"You just have a numbers problem. Even if they're really good, which they are, the numbers are just too small to fundamentally change tank warfare," he said.
The Russians, despite their flailing tank usage thus far, are believed to have thousands of old tanks still in storage to which they can return even, and especially, if they continue to sustain significant equipment losses.
"The Russians, like the Soviets, never threw anything away," Cancian said.
But the promise of incoming Western tanks sets the stage for possible additional equipment assistance to Ukraine in the future, Edmonds said.
"The longer this war goes on, the more effective this type of support will be," he said.
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Video captured a heated exchange between Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Wednesday, two days after an attacker shot and killed six people, including three children, at a school in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Covenant School shooting on Monday reignited debates over gun violence in the halls of Congress. A video shared by Bowman, who represents New York's 16th district, showed him shouting "they're freaking gutless, they're cowards" before Massie, who was walking by, asked what he was talking about.
"I'm talking about gun violence," Bowman replied. Each lawmaker proceeded to talk over each other as they commented on open carry laws and allowing teachers to carry firearms.
At one point, Massie — who represents Kentucky's 4th district and once shared a Christmas photo of his family toting guns — told Bowman to "calm down."
The New York representative then shot back: "Calm down? Children are dying! Nine-year-old children!"
—Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) March 29, 2023
Bowman tweeted the video of the exchanged and wrote: "Republicans won't do SHIT when it comes to gun violence, but try to tell me to calm down. NO. We can't calm down. People are dying everyday while we wait."
Representatives for Bowman and Massie did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.
Massie, wagging his finger at Bowman, told him that there hasn't been a school shooting in the schools that allow teachers to carry guns and asked if he would co-sponsor a bill.
"Carry guns?" Bowman screamed. "More guns lead to more death! Look at the data. You're not looking at any data. You're carrying the water for the gun lobby."
An analysis by the Giffords Law Center found nearly 100 publicly reported incidents of mishandled guns at schools, including a teacher unintentionally firing a gun in class during a safety demonstration in 2018.
Bowman, a former middle school principal, repeatedly asked Massie, "have you ever worked in a school?" He spent 20 years in public education and founded a middle school in the Bronx before being elected to Congress in 2020.
Massie, meanwhile, has consistently worked to expand gun rights and co-chairs the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus with far-right conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
—Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) March 29, 2023
After the exchange with Bowman, another video showed Massie's response to a question about whether there's a role for Congress to do anything on guns.
"Yeah, absolutely," he said. "Next week, I'm reintroducing a repeal of the federal Gun-Free School Zone Act. It's the deadliest bill that's ever been passed."
The photo Massie posted on Twitter in 2021 showed him with his family members, each holding a weapon and smiling, around a Christmas tree. "Merry Christmas!" he wrote. "ps. Santa, please bring ammo."
—Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 4, 2021
He posted the photo days after a shooting at Oxford High School north of Detroit left four students dead and several others injured.
Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who represents the district where the Nashville mass school shooting happened, posted a similar gun-filled family photo for Christmas in 2021.
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Avid gamer and disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will lose access to his favorite game, "League of Legends," while living with his parents on bail — if conditions proposed by his lawyers are approved.
Bankman-Fried's lawyers reached an agreement with New York prosecutors on Monday to ban him from using most electronic devices while awaiting trial, per court documents seen by Insider. His trial is set for October 2.
Under the proposed conditions, he'll be allowed to use a mobile phone that's not connected to the internet and a laptop with access to a small list of websites. His parents, who have computers and phones, agreed to block Bankman-Fried from accessing their own devices with a password. "Monitoring software" will also be installed on their electronics if bail conditions are approved.
The conditions also say Bankman-Fried will be prohibited from accessing any video games or gaming hardware that "permit chat or voice communication."
The lawyers propose that his laptop would only have access to FTX websites and the crypto exchange's transactional database, his lawyers' websites and Zoom meeting room, government websites, read-only blockchain explorers, Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, DoorDash, UberEats, and Netflix.
Bankman-Fried will also be given access to several news outlets, such as Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Insider, as well as the MLB and NFL websites, the proposal suggested.
No games or gaming platforms were listed.
This might be a blow to Bankman-Fried, who said in January that he was playing video games alone while under house arrest.
Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in the Bahamas in December, previously touted his penchant for the online game "League of Legends."
"Why do I play so much League of Legends?" mused Bankman-Fried in a February 2021 Twitter thread, where he talked about his gaming habits.
"I'm (in)famous for playing League of Legends while on calls," Bankman-Fried tweeted.
"Some people drink too much; some gamble. I play League," he added.
—SBF (@SBF_FTX) February 4, 2021
He was even caught playing the online multiplayer game, which allows players to communicate via both text and voice, while in a pitch meeting, according to Ramnik Arora, FTX's head of product.
But Bankman-Fried isn't very good at playing "League of Legends," according to billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Musk tweeted in December that Bankman-Fried "was bad at League," while Ocasio-Cortez in November mocked the FTX co-founder for being a "Bronze III" player.
Meanwhile, the game's developer, Riot Games, asked a Delaware court in December to nullify a seven-year sponsorship deal between one of its subsidiaries and FTX. It said the exchange owes Riot Games millions in payments and caused the developer "reputational harm" after its collapse.
Bankman-Fried is accused by the US of funneling billions of dollars in FTX customers' funds into his cryptocurrency trading firm, Alameda. He faces multiple criminal fraud and money laundering charges, which he pleaded not guilty to. He was indicted on Tuesday and accused of trying to bribe Chinese officials with $40 million.
Representatives for Bankman-Fried declined to comment when reached by Insider.
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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Former President Donald Trump said he feels "like Elvis" after his single with the J6 Prison Choir topped the charts and outranked Taylor Swift.
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he was elated that his track was doing so well. The song, "Justice for All," was released on March 3, and topped the US iTunes charts on March 11.
"The J6 is beating Taylor Swift. It's Donald Trump and the J6 prisoners, and on iTunes, and on Amazon, and on Billboard, which is the big deal," Trump told Hannity in an interview that aired on Monday.
"Number one, Donald Trump," he added. "So now I feel like Elvis."
—Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) March 28, 2023
"Justice for All" was sung by a group of men incarcerated for their suspected role in the Capitol riot. Known collectively as the J6 Prison Choir, they sang a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" from behind bars.
The men then requested that Trump lend his voice to the recording, per CNN. The final version of the song is interspersed with a voiceover from Trump, where he recites the Pledge of Allegiance from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach. The song ends with the men chanting "U-S-A" several times.
Trump and Swift have publicly feuded in the past.
In 2020, Trump tweeted that he would send the National Guard down to Minneapolis after protests erupted over George Floyd's murder, writing that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
Swift tweeted her response to his comment, saying: "After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? 'When the looting starts the shooting starts'??? We will vote you out in November."
Trump's interview with Fox News comes amidst an ongoing investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg into Trump's potential involvement in hush money payments to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump could face up to four years in prison if convicted.
A Trump spokesman and representatives for Swift did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
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The Antigua and Barbuda government wants an abandoned $81 million superyacht out of its harbor.
In a notice on March 21, the government of the Caribbean nation declared the vessel "abandoned" and said it intends to sell it, unless removed, to pay off the money it owes for food and fuel.
Gaston Browne, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, said on March 20 that his government had received offers of over $50 million for the 267-foot yacht, according to the Daily Observer, a local media outlet. The yacht, named the Alfa Nero, has a gym, a hair salon, and an infinity pool.
The US Department of the Treasury previously linked the Alfa Nero super to Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev, who the department said is a "close associate" of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Guryev — who is the founder of fertilizer company PhosAgro and has a net worth of $10.1 billion — has been sanctioned by the US, the UK, and the EU for his links to the Kremlin amid the Ukraine war.
On Tuesday, a legal representative for Guryev told Bloomberg that the vessel does not belong to the tycoon.
"As we have informed the Antiguan authorities, Mr Guryev neither owns nor controls the Alfa Nero and has simply used the vessel from time to time under commercial charter since 2014," said the representative, per Bloomberg.
With the luxury vessel running up a large bill, Antigua and Barbuda authorities still plan to sell it if no one claims its ownership by March 31, Bloomberg reported, citing the Antigua port manager.
The authorities intend to use the yacht's sale proceeds to pay down a $500,000 debt it owes to the Antigua Yacht Club Marina for fuel, per Daily Observer. The rest is to be used toward the development of Antigua and Barbuda.
Browne said in a March 16 Facebook post that the vessel was also running out of money to feed its crew. It has been in the Caribbean nation for more than 18 months, he said.
The yacht also poses a risk to the Antigua harbor, Browne told the Daily Observer.
"Anything could go wrong. Maybe some of the doors could open and start to take on water and it sinks," Browne said. He added the Alfa Nero could also be uninsured and this could cause issues for the harbor.
"We are talking about billions of dollars of assets in that harbor. And you can imagine if that vessel was to catch fire what will happen," Browne said, according to the Daily Observer.
Falmouth Harbour, where the Alfa Nero is moored, is a hub for luxury yachts.
Guryev did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment sent via PhosAgro.
March 28, 2023: This story has been updated to reflect comments from Guryev and the Antigua port manager.
I made a dish that called for ginger garlic paste. I didn't have any so I made some by mortar and pestling some ginger and garlic, and putting the leftover into a squeeze bottle in the fridge.
A couple weeks later, it is now a light green color. It smells fine and seems fine, but I am wondering. is it OK to use? Is the green from some mold? Does garlic+ginger morph into some poison I should not be eating?
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I started off following a recipe that I saw online to make large batches of roux. I'm making gumbo for a special occasion and from the get go the roux didn't look right .. I'm no cook and I can certainly start over but is there a way that I can salvage this roux?
Instructions were to use oil and flour so I mixed them together in a stainless steel heavy bottom wide pot. I waited until the oil was bubbling warm, not hot, and emptied a gallon and a half of oil since I am making a large batch.
This was my first mistake.
I then mixed the oil with the flour and it became a thick brown gravy kind of mixture. I attempted 1:1 of both.
I followed the next instruction which was to put it inside the oven at 350 and stir every 20 mins for 2 hours. 1 hour in and it kind of looks like scrambled eggs. The color is not brown, it's a frothy yellowish. This was for gumbo.
Is this still usable? Should I wait another hour and a half for it to thicken?
Reddit?
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I’m making corn tortillas. The recipes i found say to just add corn flour, salt and water. I remember making flour tortillas and the recipe called for lard. Do you not need fat in corn tortillas?
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Two major cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin and Ether — are trading about 3% lower on Monday, after the Commodities Futures and Trading Commission, or CFTC, sued Binance, its CEO Changpeng Zhao, and former chief compliance officer Samuel Lim, for regulatory violations.
Bitcoin and Ether prices are around $27,000 and $1,700 per token respectively, per CoinMarketCap data. Both cryptocurrencies had hit all-time highs when they surged past $69,000 and $4,800 in November 2021.
The news also spurred ether outflows from Binance to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars over 24 hours, CoinDesk reported Tuesday, citing data from Nansen, a blockchain data analytics firm.
The US regulator said in a complaint filed in a Chicago federal court Monday that Binance breached eight provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act.
The CFTC said Binance "lucrative and commercially important 'VIP'" customers, including institutional customers in the US while disregarding registration and regulatory requirements under the US law. The federal agency is requesting the court to order monetary penalties on the exchange, as well as trading and registration bans.
Binance's Zhao wrote in a Monday blog that the CFTC's complaint was "unexpected and disappointing" as the exchange has been "working cooperatively with the CFTC for over two years."
"Upon an initial review, the complaint appears to contain an incomplete recitation of facts, and we do not agree with the characterization of many of the issues alleged in the complaint," he added.
A Binance spokesperson told Insider in an emailed response for comment late Monday that the exchange has made "significant investments" over the past two years to ensure it doesn't have active US users on its platform. Measures include ramping up its compliance team by more than seven times and spending an additional $80 million on external partners to support its compliance program.
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