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The Heritage Foundation DESPISE all women, much like their entire fascist death cult of a "religion" does

And full offence intended?

Anyone who has ever actually believed that these batshit insane goosestepping pedophiles care about women as anything more than brood mares to be used as breeding stock by rapists and child molesters is so fucking stupid that I wouldn't trust them with metal cutlery

The Heritage Foundation and all other organisations made up of "people" like them who belong to this misogynistic, racist, antisemitic death cult are batshit insane pedophiles whose end goal is a fascist neo-nazi theocracy in which women only exist as slave labor and white women specifically exist to be breeding stock to try and bring about their white supremacist goal of trying to create some kind of aryan "master race"

None of this is a conspiracy theory or conjecture or a worst case scenario.

This is all stuff that the Heritage Foundation literally states in plain black and white when they talk about their goals

spiderman dances to the beat

I'm not gay. I'm not gay. I just dance in a gay gay way.

For context,

Torment Nexus : "an idea that is so bad and dangerous in theory and practice that its indistinguishable from capitalist satire".

This is a modern approximation to the average Anglo-Saxon’s hlaef (loaf)

“. . . the Anglo-Saxons held their own feast of the opening of the harvest upon 1 August, the hlaef-mass, or loaf mass, from which derived its Medieval English and Scottish name of Lammas. As such it appears regularly in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, explicitly (in 923) as the feast of first fruits. The same name and title are echoed in another early English text, the Red Book of Derby. It was clearly by then the custom to reap the first of the ripe cereals and bake them into bread which was consecrated in church upon that day: a book of Anglo-Saxon charms advised the division of this holy bread into four pieces and the crumbling of each one in the corner of a barn in order to make it a safe repository for the grain about to arrive there. The festival was also known in medieval times as the Gule of August, a term which has vexed linguists, who have only been able to suggest that it signifies the Yule of August, a period of rejoicing similar to that of December. The difficulty evaporates if it is simply an Anglicization of the Welsh gwyl meaning feast, the Welsh name for 1 August being gwyl aust, the feast of August. Certainly the arrival of the time when the first of the harvest could be gathered would have been a natural point of celebration in an agrarian society, and the importance of the first day of August was already so well established by 673 that the Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus decreed that the annual synod of the newly established church in England should be held then. It would seem very likely therefore, that a pre-Christian festival had existed among the Anglo-Saxons upon that date . . .”

—Ronald Hutton Stations of the Sun

This is my favorite part of the recipe for cooking the “bread” that an average Anglo-Saxon (aka a poor one) would have eaten: “each side will probably take as long as it takes to say nine or ten Lord’s Prayers. This is how they measured cooking time in the medieval period.”

The Lord’s Prayer in Old English (I do actually recognize some of the words!):

‘Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum: si þin nama gehalgod to becume þin rice. Gewurþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg. And forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum. And ne gelæd þu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele soþlice.’

I used 130 grams of all-purpose flour (not at all authentic but what I had) and added enough water to make a dough. Then kneaded it for 5 minutes and shaped it into two rounds.

“When the Anglo-Saxons were rich enough to own metal objects, they made brooches, not measuring spoons.”—The Early English Bread Project

I then went ahead and measured the time by chanting the Lord’s Prayer as mentioned above because this didn’t seem like simply a practical element to keep time, but you know, magic! Incantation! And since I planned on eating one of these to test it, and saving the other for Lammas rituals, the magic seemed like an essential ingredient.

Eight repetitions was plenty.

And I can’t help myself, a little syncretism with my Slavic Děduška blessing the bread for me.

Did I like this hlaef? No, I did not. I’m a spoiled lady of modern times, I guess. 🤷‍♀️

The Early English Bread Project said that traditionally the butter and cheese that would have been eaten with it was very salty which is why it was made without, but our modern butter and cheese probably didn’t make up for the lack. If I make it again to eat, and not just for ritual, I will probably add salt.

Do visit The Early English Bread Project for the types of flour thatwould have been used depending upon your degrees of poorness. And for such pithy comments as:

If you want to have an authentic stomach ache, you could add cockle, a troublesome weed that grew among the grain. Excavations in York showed that tenth-century bread had enough cockle to have given the eaters digestive discomfort.

Next I made the leavened rich person version based on the recipe at the bottom of this post.

I cut the recipe in half as I knew no one else in the house would be interested in experimenting. I divided it into two loaves (hlaefs?). One to taste test and one for Lammas rituals.

Maybe I should have adjusted cooking times since I made smaller loaves. The outside was quite crusty.

This was much more to my refined tastes, however! 😜 I had it for second breakfast with butter and honey.

If anybody actually reads this and experiments, I’d love to hear your results/opinions.

Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:

Texas provided no evidence that Houston-based midwife Maria Rojas violated the state’s abortion ban, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday. The state’s Fifteenth Court of Appeals reversed a temporary injunction order shutting down three clinics in the Northwest Houston area that the midwife owned and operated. The injunction was part of a March 2025 civil lawsuit brought by Ken Paxton, the state attorney general and a leading anti-abortion advocate, over allegations that Rojas violated the state’s near-total abortion ban. Paxton is now the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, facing Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in a close race. “This is a real win because the state — for nearly a year and a half now — has been able to make these allegations, argue that this woman who has dedicated her life to caring for mothers and families has done something wrong,” Jenna Hudson, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, told HuffPost.

Paxton’s office also brought criminal charges against Rojas last year, shortly after the attorney general announced his Senate bid. Rojas was the first person to be arrested and charged for allegedly violating the state’s near-total abortion ban, with Paxton accusing the midwife of providing illegal abortions and practicing without a medical license. Both the civil and criminal cases are ongoing, despite the injunction reversal. The way Paxton’s office has handled the case is highly unusual, according to Hudson and several other attorneys who spoke with HuffPost. Rojas’ criminal attorneys told HuffPost last year there is little evidence against Rojas other than the 30-page affidavit filed by Paxton’s office at the time of her arrest. Rojas was arrested and held in jail for 10 days on an exorbitant $1.4 million bail. Although she was arrested in March, she wasn’t indicted for another three months. She was also held in jail at the time of her injunction hearing for her civil suit.

“It’s incredibly unusual. This is not the way that it’s supposed to work,” Hudson said. “That is one of the many reasons that it’s clear to us this is just part of a political attack. The state is so desperate to find someone to accuse of having violated the abortion ban that it conducted a shoddy investigation, and it targeted this trusted community midwife without any evidence.” A spokesperson for Paxton’s office told HuffPost on Friday that the attorney general’s office will seek review of the appellate court ruling from the Texas Supreme Court.

[...] Even with this victory, Hudson said it will be nearly impossible for Rojas to reopen the three clinics that were shut down due to the injunction. Rojas’ midwifery license has been suspended pending the outcome of her criminal case, and her movements are restricted because she is court-ordered to wear an ankle monitor. She also had to give up the leases on the clinics because she couldn’t afford to pay them while not working. [...] Despite the fact that both criminal and civil cases will continue, Hudson underscored that this is still a victory for Rojas and other providers in the state. “This moment where an appellate court has definitively said that the state has not presented any evidence that she did something wrong, and therefore improperly received this order that shut down her clinics is a real moment to be celebrated,” Hudson said.

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