If you have an air fryer, are you using it? Cathleen wondered that. She suggests trying out Taste's recipe for Air Fryer Poached Eggs:
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4 eggs
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Buttered toast, to serve
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Step 1Pour enough boiling water into four 250ml (1 cup) ovenproof ramekins (or dishes) until the water reaches halfway up the sides. Using 4 eggs, crack one egg into each into each. Place in the air fryer basket and cook at 200C for 6 minutes for soft centres (see notes). Open the air fryer basket and stand ramekins in the air fryer basket for 1 minute to finish cooking and cool slightly. CAUTION: the ramekins will be very hot. Be very careful and use an oven mitt, if you have one, or a tea towel when removing the ramekins from the air fryer basket.
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Step 2Use a large dessert spoon to carefully scoop out the cooked eggs and transfer to a plate lined with paper towel to drain slightly. Place eggs on toast and season, to serve.
News? From Friday's Al Things Considered (NPR):
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
Immigration enforcement agents have shot three people this week, and state and local officials are angry. In Minnesota, where an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good on Wednesday, Governor Tim Walz decried the FBI for excluding state investigators from the case, and state and county prosecutors say they will collect evidence for their own investigation. And in Oregon, officials say they're also doing their own investigation after two people were shot and wounded by a Border Patrol officer yesterday. NPR's Martin Kaste joins us now from Portland. Hi.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: Hi, good afternoon.
SUMMERS: Martin, let's start with Minnesota and the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good. Yesterday, the state said the FBI had excluded them from the investigation. Now the state's going it alone?
KASTE: Yeah, that's what Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty announced this morning, that her agency and the state were going to collect their own evidence. She said she respects the FBI's process, but they think their investigators are crucial to this, and if it came down to it, she says, Minnesota prosecutors have the jurisdiction to bring their own charges against the agent.
SUMMERS: How common is it for local prosecutors to do their own investigation?
KASTE: Well, locals may do their own investigations. And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the evidence means.
Yesterday afternoon, NPR had an expert who notes "And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on case that's still being investigated." Friday morning, C.I. noted:
They are not supposed to be discussing the case. C.I.'s called it out, NPR's expert has called it out.. We need to all be clear on this, they need to shut up. Their only comments is that they can't comment in the midst of a federal investigation.
This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Friday:
Protests have taken place in multiple US cities after a woman was shot dead by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis.
Federal officials said Renee Nicole Good, 37, had tried to run over immigration agents with her car and that the officer had been acting in self defence.
The city's mayor, however, said the agent who shot her had acted recklessly, with other local officials saying Good had simply been "caring for her neighbours" when she was shot at close range.
A classmate of Minneapolis shooting victim Renee Good has paid tribute to her, a day after she was killed by an ICE agent.
Willo Schubarth and Good, then named Renee Ganger, attended Colorado’s Coronado High School together and were in the same graduating class, CNN affiliate KRDO reported.
Laying flowers at the site where she was killed, Schubarth told KRDO that Good was one of the first people to reach out to him when he joined the school.
Vice President JD Vance said today that Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old queer mother of three who recently murdered by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis — was part of a “larger, sinister left-wing movement that has spread across our country,” NOTUS reported.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also repeated the exact same language during a press briefing today. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has accused Good of “domestic terrorism.” Good’s mother said her daughter had never protested against ICE agents.
In a social media post, the president called Good “a professional agitator” who “viciously ran over the ICE officer.” He blamed the shooting on the “Radical Left.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the administration’s version of events “bulls**t.”
Analysis of multiple videos showing Good’s murder (conducted by The New York Times and The Washington Post) showed that the agent was not in the path of Good’s vehicle.
Murray: “It is unquestionably an act of war to invade a foreign nation, kidnap a foreign leader, even a dictator, and leave dozens of bodies—including civilians—behind…This is the United States Congress. And we have a constitutional role to be a check on the President. Only Congress can declare war. And Congress did not authorize the use of force against Venezuela.”
ICYMI: Senator Murray Responds to Trump’s Illegal Military Operation, Address to the Nation
***WATCH: Senator Murray’s full floor speech***
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, took to the Senate floor to denounce President Trump’s brazen act of war in Venezuela and slam the Trump administration for instigating regime change and military strikes in Venezuela without any legitimate justification, consultation with Congress, or any kind of long-term strategy to deal with the fallout.
Following her vote to advance a War Powers Resolution she cosponsored, S.J.Res.98—that would block the use of the U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress—Senator Murray urged her colleagues in Congress to assert their Constitutional role over the power to declare war and press forward to restrain Trump’s war-mongering and make sure he cannot put American boots on the ground without the approval of the American people and their representatives in Congress.
Today’s successful vote to advance this War Powers Resolution sets up further debate and amendments ahead of a vote on final passage, likely next week.
Senator Murray’s remarks, as delivered on the Senate floor today, are below:
“I am beyond outraged that President Trump would commit such a brazen act of war as he has done in Venezuela—with absolutely no notice—except to the oil companies they told and newspapers they leaked it to, no consultation with Congress, no legitimate justification for these unauthorized strikes, nor any kind of serious long-term strategy.
“It is unquestionably an act of war to invade a foreign nation, kidnap a foreign leader, even a dictator, and leave dozens of bodies—including civilians—behind.
“Would my colleagues still nod their heads and go along with it if a country tried to do this to American leaders? Of course not. So, we should stop playing dumb.
“Trump can’t just say magic words and pretend this wasn’t a major military operation.
“This is the United States Congress. And we have a constitutional role to be a check on the President. Only Congress can declare war. And Congress did not authorize the use of force against Venezuela.
“Now, I opposed the war in Iraq from the outset—and the parallels to what President Trump has kicked off in Venezuela are glaring. And I absolutely will not support any large-scale military conflict in Venezuela or a dangerous and expensive occupation.
“We have a President ignoring the problems he has caused in our own country, all to start a war no one asked for, with no legitimate justification, no concern for the servicemembers who are being put in harm’s way, and absolutely no long-term strategy.
“Seriously—the only thing that was clear after the briefing yesterday is that Trump has no serious plan. First, Trump was ‘just bombing alleged drug boats.’ Then, Trump was ‘just seizing oil shipments.’ And the next thing you know, this Administration is sending the military to abduct a foreign leader.
“So, I have to ask—what is next? And where is next? How far is this going to go? Because it is clear that this is not over.
“Not when Trump keeps saying we will run the country. What is Trump’s plan to ‘run’ Venezuela exactly? How long are we going to be there? How many of our people is he going to send? Who is even in charge? And how are we paying for this?
“There are no serious answers. The only thing we do know is why Trump is doing this—for oil. Because this clearly is not about ending tyranny and establishing a democracy, since Trump outright dismissed any possibility of helping the opposition party to build a true democracy.
“And it’s clearly not about drug trafficking—after all, not even a month before this, President Trump pardoned the former President of Honduras who was convicted of the same crime.
“But the real reason, it’s so painfully obvious this was always about the oil, why? Well, it’s pretty simple: Trump keeps saying it! He literally said, and I quote, ‘the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil.’ That was the President.
“Is this America First? Of course not! It’s Big Oil barons first. It is billionaires first. It is Trump first. First to rake in profits mind you—not first to put themselves in harm’s way.
“You can bet, when Trump says he’s not worried about boots on the ground—it’s because he’s not talking about his boots. He’s not talking about his kids—he is talking about yours.
“Congress cannot stand by and shrug our shoulders. We have a Constitutional responsibility here.
“It is important that a majority of Senators voted to rein in this President’s reckless actions. But if we want to put an end to this war-mongering—we need to keep pressing until we have a veto proof majority.
“Today’s vote is not the end of the line. So, I urge all my colleagues to join us in asserting our authority and continuing to send President Trump a simple message: no American boots on the ground. No trading blood for oil. No war.”
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