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@dogwoodblooms Don’t know about soup beans but I learned how to make great northern bean soup from a combo of Beatty Crocker and my wife’s Mama. We love that stuff, especially on a cool fall day. With cornbread too!

Have you ever heard of soup beans? When I was growing up in WNC, Mamaw and Papaw made meatless suppers once or twice a week. Those meals usually consisted of soup beans seasoned with pork and various sides: fried taters with onions, cabbage, boiled taters, fresh sliced maters, homemade canned green beans, fried green maters, ramps, or wilted lettuce. You never knew what sides would show up on the plate, but there would always be a variety—and the meal was guaranteed to come with a slice of cornbread. Daddy liked his soup beans with a spoonful of mayo on top. Mamaw took hers with diced raw onion. Papaw doused his with Texas Pete. I don’t know what made me think of soup beans today… I think I’m craving them. Which is weird. I ate so much of them during hard times that they started turning my stomach. You don’t really hear the term “soup beans” in the eastern part of North Carolina. It makes my heart a little sad. “Pinto beans” sounds too plain. Anyone else call them soup beans? 👀

@ElieJarrougeMD I went KETO and dropped off weight I’d carried for year. But I just can’t sustain it. I like sandwiches, potatoes, and burritos. I like fresh fruit too including bananas, apples, melons, oranges and all the berries.

16 weeks later, we had tapered him OFF ALL meds. A1C: 5.8. BP: 122/74. Weight: down ~35 lbs. This isn’t a miracle. This is what happens when you treat the cause instead of the symptoms. He had a dietary disease for 11 years. Nobody told him DIET was the solution.

A 54-year-old man comes to me on 3 diabetes medications and 2 blood pressure meds. Weight: 225 lbs Fasting glucose: 192 mg/dl A1C: 9.1 BP: 158/96 His doctor’s next step? Add insulin 💉 and one more BP med 💊. I had a different idea… 🧵

@RocktownBill @ElieJarrougeMD What do you eat to get that much potassium naturally?

@ElieJarrougeMD I consume over 4,700mg of potassium from food daily and consume less than 1,700mg of sodium and my average BP is 117/75. 58 year old, 204 pound man.

@ventotene12 @AmericanGwyn I think that Sam's counterpart is the Shire. He represents the love & purity along with service aspects among other things.

@AmericanGwyn Interesting that Sam doesn’t have a counterpart. Unless you say Sauron

1. We’re in the middle of The Return of the King in my speculative fiction class and one of my students pointed out the way Tolkien pairs his characters a foil or counterpart: Gandalf/Saruman, Boromir/Faramir, Frodo/Gollum, Éomer/Éowyn, Legolas/Gimli, Merry/Pippin, etc.

@StephenM @RealDeanCain There is one measure that may be useful to consider. Votes. Does the influx flip the balance of power? There’s your positive impact.

By every measure and metric, mass third world migration has been an unmitigated disaster for the West.

@Matt_Pinner fishing expedition

Name ideas? 👵

@BreannaMorello Not surprised

Today is November 20, 2025 and not a single Democrat from the Obama-Biden regime has been arrested.

@SenSchumer The Schumer shutdown?

The last 41 days have exposed the depths of Trump's cruelty. He shut the government down longer than any president in American history. He took innocent kids, veterans, and federal workers as political hostages—all because he refuses to fix the healthcare crisis.

@BasedMikeLee No. And frankly that never was it's intent.

Has Obamacare—“The Affordable Care Act”—made healthcare affordable for you?

@SydneyLWatson 2002 - I paid $0 and $0 copay Pre ACA - $8,400 and $25 copay Now $19,200, $50-100 copay plus $5-7,000 deductible. All cost annual. Effectively the same insurance But my pain means more people have access to the system.

@SydneyLWatson Good study case for how socialism works.

Did Americans actually ever have decent health insurance and reasonable payments? Or has it always been a shitshow? I've only been here long enough to experience the "shitshow." 🥲

@PeriklesGREAT a.k.a. murder (Michigan)

What is this game called ?

@Matt_Pinner Dorothy, , Irma, Grace, Nancy, Peggy, Agnus, Gertrude

Can someone suggest a super old-fashioned girl name Not Hazel.

@TRHLofficial I'm surprised that it isn't.

Another angle: Venezuela is an ICC member state. If the attack met certain criteria, which is cast under a pretty large net, (distance, property, etc), the ICC could investigate the U.S. bombing of the boat as a war crime, but that isn’t happening.

Holy shit.

@TrumpsHurricane It’s good, but no.

Is Five Guys worth the price ??

@annvandersteel Obviously

Well…

@LibertyCappy Anyone else having 3 eggs and 0-1 slices of toast?

@ladygreenkirtle Simple. I’d want to have family come over to visit and spend some time together. Time is the best gift.

If you were a man who owned so many books you couldn’t read them all in a lifetime and you always drank out of the same mug and wore your clothes until they fell apart or your wife threw them away, what would you want for your 64th birthday? Asking for a dad

@FoodPleaser Trade in the fries for onion chips and you’re good to go

What’s your first thought when you see this meal?