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Alison Cook

@alisoncook.bsky.social
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Omnivore, part-time misanthrope, rabid Houstonian. Lapsed restaurant critic, newsletter writer at alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io

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Carlos Eats @carloseats.com · 7h
Sushi wars roll into America as Japan’s top chains face off www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
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Sushi wars roll into America as Japan’s top chains face off
About 45% of Americans say they like or love sushi, according to a recent National Seafood Association report.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 7h
Breaking: "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital." Calls for a 3rd party review of Pike's botched execution. Tennessee had planned to kill another person on Dec. 3.
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12h
Two absolute lunatics
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20h
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Eelaware @eelaware.bsky.social · 16h
He paid for them after
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 22h
Two of the world’s largest pine cones. A heavy Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri, left/taller) and a long sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana, right/shorter. IG: @bigtreehunters www.instagram.com/bigtreehunte...
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 20h
I will admit that today I am feeling a great nostalgia for Texas. I love the fall storm season (as opposed to the spring storm season, which may kill you) that finally breaks the miserable heat of summer, the way that first real rain in months is musky and dank and the next one is a little sweet.
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Obed Manuel @obedmanuel.bsky.social · 21h
I haven’t heard a single gunshot in Mexico since I moved here in January. I visited my mom in Dallas for three days and heard a gunshot the first night I was there.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 21h
Elon Musk's America PAC just reported exercising another $1.9 million of free speech on Sept. 29 regarding elections in 10 different states (only one of which contains his legal residence). docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
Federal Election Commission, United States of America (logo). Link to FEC Home Page
Federal Election Commission
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
SCHEDULE E
INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES
FILING FEC-2015607
Committee: AMERICA PAC
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: PAIGE COGNETTI
Candidate ID: H6PA08293
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Pennsylvania in District 08
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 09/29/2026
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 09/30/2026
Person Completing Form: CHRIS YOUNG
Date Signed = 09/29/2026
Amount Expended = $8132.65
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $159992.05
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: BOB BROOKS
Candidate ID: H6PA07188
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Pennsylvania in District 07
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 09/29/2026
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 09/30/2026
Person Completing Form: CHRIS YOUNG
Date Signed = 09/29/2026
Amount Expended = $7778.75
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $147931.02
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: JANELLE STELSON
Candidate ID: H4PA10104
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Pennsylvania in District 10
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 09/29/2026
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 09/30/2026
Person Completing Form: CHRIS YOUNG
Date Signed = 09/29/2026
Amount Expended = $7764.94
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $151589.17
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: REBECCA BENNETT
Candi
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MMOC @solarfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh hell no, neighbors, fuck right the fuck off with that. These aren't carryover from last year. They went up this week.
The front door of a home sporting Christmas decorations in September
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is a good point
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love testimony days in the US Senate.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
O frabjous day
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think of Schlichter as the would be L Ron Hubbard of white nationalism. But a shittier writer.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus christ
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is fully slumped forward in his chair with his eyes shut at his 2pm event
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026
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To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
Add-on patents have increased drug patent periods from two years to over six.
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big Crayfish! phys.org/news/2026-09...
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Biologists battle over North America's largest crayfish
When Caitlin Bloomer wrestled the massive Crawzilla crawdad—yes, that's its actual common name—out of the muck during a biological survey in Kentucky, she was convinced it was the largest crayfish eve...
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They like Trump and want him to win
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The further Putinisation of America. The government lies about military casualties in a war it cannot win.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shamed into doing their job
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀👀
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
propublica.org
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shots fired: 👹
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Lisa @hotchipsandmayo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
qt what you bring to interviews instead of iced coffee, wrong answers only
Yes it's a whole deep fried chicken in a bloody mary
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El Oompo @oomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
qt what you bring to interviews instead of iced coffee, wrong answers only
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Federal law prohibits the use of public funds for 'publicity or propaganda,' said former White House lawyer Norm Eisen, which Trump’s ad is openly violating. 'This commercial is a shocking transgression of those legal provisions,' he said.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chicken's dream
painting chickens on a fountain in a flower garden
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Epic thread. EPIC 👹👹👹
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the fact that so many of these people never had to campaign except on trump's coattails just becoming more apparent every day too
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mivven @ghostsghouls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It cannot be overstated how much Bret does not make an argument in this column. He does not list a single worthy book he thinks was excluded. He clearly has not read the vast majority of the books. His entire critique is just “these books are written by women and minorities, which is bad”.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jesus. "Garcés is the main provider for his young family. He has a young son with a disability and is responsible for the costs of his treatments."
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the really cool things about this case is that one of the lead plaintiffs is Lioness - a nonprofit run by women who did time in sweltering Texas prisons themselves. Then they got out and spearheaded this lawsuit that could drastically improve life for all their sisters still inside.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is such a lovely Houston story
nytimes.com
This Houston Restaurant Is the Busiest Uber Eats Restaurant in the World (Gift Article)
Aga’s, an Indian-Pakistani spot, generates more Uber Eats deliveries than any other single-location business around the globe. A visit shows that’s only the start.
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