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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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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Defense Secretary is bragging enthusiastically about an upcoming public execution he plans to oversee
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 08/10/2026
If you ever read my book THE FAMILY PLOT then you know *precisely* how amazingly shitty this is 👇👎
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
evergreen
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New on my newsletter: Wondered if I'd love Annam Vietnamese the way I did when I first visited last year. Yep, even more: alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io/annam-revisi...
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Annam revisited
I hadn't been back to Annam since the upscale Vietnamese spot and its gifted self-taught chef, Kaytee Nguyen, received a Michelin nod last year. I actually gave a yip of joy when I saw that Annam had...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am sorry to say I laughed
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We are not worthy
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you have to work over 4 hours at minimum wage to buy a 80 count box of name brand trash bags
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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John Mone @johnmone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah yes, divorcing Ken on Biblical grounds but yes, tell us how to vote Aunt Lydia
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some guy in the throes of salmonella poisoning: only the strong and intellectually curious like me should have the right to vote
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
good times
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Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m sick of watching our elected leaders dismantle our public school system — and disrespect our teachers and superintendents in the process. My opponent was in Midland last week and said he “proudly stands beside” TEA commissioner Mike Morath...
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI ‘journalists’ start to appear in Canada globalnews.ca/news/1208652...
OTTAWA – Quebec correspondent “Geneviève Tremblay” — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch.



She wasn’t the only one. All of We News’ reporters and editors seemed to be malfunctioning on Friday, sending out error messages whenever The Canadian Press tried to ask them questions via chat.

That can happen when your “journalists” are — like the virtual staffers at We News — just fake personas generated by artificial intelligence.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
me t00
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wait wait wait could that thing fly?
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it begins.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I missed this in the Constitution.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
jeff
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
maha, bay-bee
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Terri Langford @tlangford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts apnews.com/article/ken-...
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 01/10/2026
boy, the room temperature in this clip *in texas* is something
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Rebekah Young @rebekahwyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SOUND UP 🥹
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Chutes N. Ladders
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This month prepare for an unprecedented level of fuckery from all directions They are terrified and desperate and prepared to do hitherto unthinkable things
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unbelievable.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ordered!
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That there is some hard-nosed transactionalism.
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Carlos Eats @carloseats.com · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
Two absolute lunatics
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTH
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
He paid for them after
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jeez
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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's floating skull @machete.gay · 30/09/2026
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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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m in Houston, compulsively checking the radar. 👹
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes, the aroma after the first real rains in awhile is intoxicating. My first transfiguring experience of it was passing through Ozona. I can still smell it.
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Obed Manuel @obedmanuel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting point.
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Alison Cook @alisoncook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This has to end. Absolutely has to.
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