Samantha Powell

@sdpowell1.bsky.social

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Writing about fashion. Writing about other things. Zoë not Zelda. She/her.

Speaking to journalists following the [Spain vs. Belgium] match, Lamine Yamal said his sibling had informed him of his plans one day earlier. “I was at physio and he called me, using my mum’s phone, and told me that he was going to stick his tongue out tomorrow,” the right-winger explained. “So that’s why when I saw him on the screen, it really made me laugh.”
Lalas exclaimed, a trademark rhyme that elicited polite smiles from Lowe and Ibrahimovic. Henry, meanwhile, laughed and shook his head in mock wonder, repeating the words “Sarr over the bar” in the manner of a fond parent congratulating his five-year-old on successfully rhyming “cat” with “mat”. The beauty of Henry’s performance in this epic TV mismatch is that his cloak of Gallic outrecuidance has lent the contempt in which he plainly holds Lalas a measure of deniability. Is Henry mean, or just French?
"My heart breaks for children who don't feel safe letting their parents into their world. But divorcing a young child's school life from their home life doesn't resolve the underlying underlying of an unsupportive family," she said in a statement. "It can leave that child more alone. I voted for this bill because I believe the answer is to bring families in, and I'll keep working so every kid in Southwest Washington has support both at school and at home."
Kylian Mbappé on the most recent concert of Vanity Fair.
Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) burns a paper replica of a Confederate flag as he walks through a state Capitol hallway on Thursday. Credit: Martin B. Cherry / Nashville Banner
Dress with navy and white striped top and a navy skirt.
Dark navy and white striped shorts.
"'Do you enjoy Western Civilization? Freedom? Equal justice? Thank a crusader,' he writes in the book. 'If not for the Crusades, there would have been no Protestant Reformation or Renaissance. There would be no Europe and no America.'"
"Tattoed on Mr. Hegseth's biceps is the Latin phrase 'Deus vult,' or 'God wills it,' which he has described as a 'battle cry' of the Crusades, the ruthless medieval wars where Christian warriors fought to take Jerusalem from Muslim rule. Mr. Hegseth sees those battles as perhaps the most formative in the history of the free world. In his book 'American Crusade,' published in 2020, he describes the Crusades as 'bloody' and 'full of unspeakable tragedy,' but argued that they were justified because they saved a Christian Europe from the onslaught of Islam."
Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton wearing a wig that looks like the crest of a very fancy bird.
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America.
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Rose Field (The Book of Dust Volume Three) by Philip Pullman
A bear stuffie with a red bow on her head.
A black, stuffed doll with pink wings and a tutu.
"Nationalism therefore so seemed readily manageable within the framework of a bourgeois liberalism, and compatible with it. A world of nations, it was believed, be a liberal world, and a liberal world would consist of nations. The future was to show that the relationship between the two was not as simple as this."
"What made this period of history [the 1860s] relatively so bloody? In the first place, it was the very process of global capitalist expansion which multiple tensions within the overseas world, the ambitions of the industrial world, and direct and indirect conflicts arising out of it. Thus the American Civil War, whatever its political origins, was the triumph of the industrialized North over the agrarian South, almost, one might even say, the transfer of the South from the informal empire of Britain (to whose cotton industry it was the economic pendant) into the new major industrial economy of the United States. It might be regarded as an early if giant step on the road which was in the twentieth century to turn all the Americas from a British to an American economic dependency."
A copy of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Lucy Sante
Three pounds of boneless, skinless chicken thighs One pound of potatoes One bunch of green onions Salt Pepper Paprika Six cloves of crushed garlic Three teaspoons of Jamaican yellow curry powder One sprig of rosemary Two sprigs of thyme
Transfer chicken to large pot or Dutch oven Add water until chicken is just covered Add chopped green onions and stir Place rosemary and thyme on top and then braise for 20 minutes While chicken is braising, cube potatoes and parboil for five minutes When 20 minutes have passed, remove rosemary and thyme but save before adding parboiled potatoes and mix into chicken Put rosemary and thyme back into the pot and braise for another 30 minutes Remove rosemary and thyme and let water reduce by half via braising Keep an eye on it so it doesn't burn
Cube chicken thighs and put in bowl Add salt, pepper, paprika, crushed garlic, and curry powder Mix until evenly distributed and chicken has yellow color Cover and put in fridge for either one hour or overnight (I suggest overnight) Brown chicken for 5-7 minutes in pan with neutral oil (I used canola)
Me wearing a black and white striped, open stitch sweater from Rag & Bone.
Dark gray and white striped, relaxed, open-stitch sweater.
Under the settlement, on Sept. 29, $22 million will be paid on Trump's behalf to the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the construction of a $200 million ballroom that Trump is building at the White House.
A brown teddy bear with a red bow on top of her head.
A fresh and woody fragrance that is reminiscent of early movie dates in a dark and cool theater. FEATURING: Dark "Morello" Cherry, White Floral Musk, Aged Vintage Cedarwood, Salted Popped Corn.
My bright red manicure.
A selfie of me wearing thick, tortoise shell glasses and a yellow and white striped shirtdress.
Lashing Our Over Russia and Jobs Days, Trump Displays His Volatile Side The president had been on something of a winning streak. But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn't bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.
"One night a thunderstorm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our bed: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. As for me, the tempest took hold of me with tyranny: I was roughly roused and obliged to live. I got up and dressed myself, and creeping outside the casement close by me bed, sat on is ledge, with my feet on the roof of a lower adjoining building. It was wet, it was wild, it was pitch-dark...I could not go in: too resistless was the drought of staying with the wild hour, black and full of thunder, pealing out such an ode to language never delivered to man—too terribly glorious, the spectacle of clouds, split and pierced by white and blinding bolts."
Floral print, flared skirt dress with a dark blue background and deep pink and red flowers.
"Never was economic euphoria among businessmen higher than in the early 1870s, the famous Gründerjahre (the years of company promotion) in Germany, the era when the most absurd and obviously fraudulent company prospectus found unlimited sucker-money for its promises."
"Most of the advances in mass production engineering came from the United States, pioneer of the Colt revolver, the Winchester rifle, the mass-produced clock, the sewing-machine and (via the slaughter-houses of Cincinnati and Chicago in the 1860s) the modern assembly-line."
George and Bertha start making out on the couch (great), but then it cuts to the KITCHEN? WHY? Do I have to read fanfic to make up for this? Straight fanfic? During Pride?
Adoption papers for my childhood Cabbage Patch doll sent to me by mother who throws nothing away.
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
All the revolutions had something else in common, which largely accounts for their failure. They were, in fact or immediate anticipation, social revolutions of the labouring poor. They therefore frightened the moderate liberals whom they pushed into power and prominence – and even some of the more radical politicians – at least as much as the supporters of the old regime.
Chile in Their Hearts by John Dinges
The other thing I love re: list, is that people who know you are looking at it and accurately guessing how and why each topic transition worked. “Yep, yep, that tracks” “Who WOULDN’T see the move to campus protest”
Sam Edelmam horsebit loafers with gold accents.
Bread pudding with a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a candle stuck in it.
Woman Before Fashion: Diane von Furstenberg exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Alice Coltrane: Monument Eternal