Alison Cook
@alisoncook.bsky.social
Omnivore, part-time misanthrope, rabid Houstonian. Lapsed restaurant critic, newsletter writer at https://alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io
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Alison Cook
@alisoncook.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Not ready to see Christmas decor at the superstore today, but I made an exception for these holiday taco piñatas 👹
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
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Love that this sentence works with every stressor
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Love that this sentence works with every stressor
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
I saw this little dude in my grocery store parking lot. It seemed like a visitation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I saw this little dude in my grocery store parking lot. It seemed like a visitation.
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Year three. Make nachos a Thanksgiving tradition.
for the second year in a row, we've added nachos to the thanksgiving menu, as a thing for everyone to eat while the turkey cooks
highly recommended.
everyone loves nachos.
highly recommended.
everyone loves nachos.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Year three. Make nachos a Thanksgiving tradition.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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That friend? Shawn McCreesh, the twerp who wrote the NYT piece about Jeffrey Epstein’s emails as a reminder of the glorious bygone days of journalism.
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
Since this hasn’t been discussed: Olivia Nuzzi got the job at Vanity Fair because she is best friends with Mark Guiducci’s partner. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
That friend? Shawn McCreesh, the twerp who wrote the NYT piece about Jeffrey Epstein’s emails as a reminder of the glorious bygone days of journalism.
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
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Imagine dealing with fucking Stephen miller and JD Vance all day every day meeting mamdani must have been like drinking a tall glass of Diet Coke with the good ice after crawling through a burning desert for a week lol
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Imagine dealing with fucking Stephen miller and JD Vance all day every day meeting mamdani must have been like drinking a tall glass of Diet Coke with the good ice after crawling through a burning desert for a week lol
This is good:
This is how purity culture and rape culture intersect to make girls the authors of their own objectification and abuse.
If men are presumed to be weak of flesh, what can we expect when young women and girls look, dress, and act a certain way?
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
If men are presumed to be weak of flesh, what can we expect when young women and girls look, dress, and act a certain way?
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is good:
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Much, much more background here on the ongoing — and increasingly open — GOP movement to Christianize Texas public schools.
🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA."
That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.
That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Much, much more background here on the ongoing — and increasingly open — GOP movement to Christianize Texas public schools.
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He seems a little upset. Maybe something about those files
Trump this morning suggested executing Democratic members of Congress, reposting a Truth Social user who called to "HANG THEM"
Trump Suggests Hanging Democratic Members Of Congress
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
He seems a little upset. Maybe something about those files
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Taking "ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter" energy into everything now.
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Taking "ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter" energy into everything now.
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Lindsey LITERALLY argued it was cool for the FBI to have the phone records OF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES (there's reason to believe Members of Congress numbers were whitelisted). But not for the same to happen to him when he aided an insurrection.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Lindsey LITERALLY argued it was cool for the FBI to have the phone records OF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES (there's reason to believe Members of Congress numbers were whitelisted). But not for the same to happen to him when he aided an insurrection.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
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Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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Ken Starr helped Epstein get the 2008 "sweetheart deal" that allowed him to avoid prosecution.
'Hugs' and holiday wishes: Inside former Baylor president's emails to Epstein
Ken Starr helped Epstein get the 2008 "sweetheart deal" that allowed him to avoid prosecution.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ken Starr helped Epstein get the 2008 "sweetheart deal" that allowed him to avoid prosecution.
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The Supreme Court interfered with Obama’s signature policy, the one that opponents literally dubbed “Obamacare”
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Supreme Court interfered with Obama’s signature policy, the one that opponents literally dubbed “Obamacare”
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Boy bitten by a crawfish, drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola. Her proud father sent this to Michelangelo to show what a talented daughter he had. Michelangelo agreed! Today is her day.
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Boy bitten by a crawfish, drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola. Her proud father sent this to Michelangelo to show what a talented daughter he had. Michelangelo agreed! Today is her day.
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just take four seconds and think about the use of the word "lost" as a reference to a thing which, by implication" we used to HAVE. Is HAVING the relation that matters here.
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
just take four seconds and think about the use of the word "lost" as a reference to a thing which, by implication" we used to HAVE. Is HAVING the relation that matters here.
Thread:
Trump and Hegseth's "Department of War" rebranding is more than just a name. It signals their vision of a force that disdains legality, as if whoever commits the most war crimes wins.
But as new research by @doncasler.bsky.social and @robertralston.bsky.social shows, the change is very unpopular,
But as new research by @doncasler.bsky.social and @robertralston.bsky.social shows, the change is very unpopular,
Most Americans oppose the ’Department of War’ rebranding
Even 42% of Republicans are no fans of the change.
goodauthority.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thread:
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These Epstein emails make at least one thing abundantly clear:
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
These Epstein emails make at least one thing abundantly clear:
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
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also who else could larry summers complain to about being friend zoned?
he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
also who else could larry summers complain to about being friend zoned?
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November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sick
Essential reading. Donald Trump dispatches as his ambassador to Copenhagen a man who has been established by Danish intelligence to be deeply engaged in secret plans financed privately by Peter Thiel for an American invasion and occupation of Greenland, writes Danish intel analyst Jacob Kaarsbo.
Intel Brief Greenland Special
Denmark now hosts a US ambassador who personally supports the idea of US takeover of a part of our Kingdom
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Sick
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I can't help but think that capybaras would be immensely chill overlords
Which mammal would make the best benevolent ruler of Earth?
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I can't help but think that capybaras would be immensely chill overlords