Jon Kung

@jonkung.bsky.social

Farmer Jack Era Detroiter. Cook, Content Creator. Cookbook author. www.Beacons.ai/jonkung

Went to a charity event where the dress code was “formal cocktail with flair”. I don’t know what that meant but I decided to try a couple of things. While some things didn’t line up exactly I don’t regret my choices.

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We didn’t walk down an aisle. There was no handing over of anyone to anyone else. Instead, we did a short Chinese Tea Cerimony where we served tea to my parents, aunts, and godparents.

I don’t know if people have realized that we have lost well over a decade of our lives to Trump. Like, he’s literally polluted our lives, our families, our communities and it’s years and years of rage and lunacy thanks to him and his supporters.

Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer. If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.

With all due respect to Jonathan Bailey eating a popsicle, the Padma Lakshmi/Mellissa King duo — whatever that may be — is hands down the hottest moment of 2025.

Mary Sheffield isn’t just the first Black woman to be Detroit’s mayor. She’s also the youngest Black woman to be the mayor of a major US city (being a city with a population of 250k or more).

Lately, I think a new greenish flag of mine for electing a state official has been the fact that they are ineligible to run for president. I want a politician who is here to do the task at hand without worrying about how their actions can affect a run for the presidency later on.

Americans will never truly embrace any kind of substantial societal betterment until we stop thinking of poverty as a punishment that was earned. This “deservedness” is the seed of morality that grows in a capitalist mindset and that permeates everything from education to politics to worship.