Alison Cook
@alisoncook.bsky.social
Omnivore, part-time misanthrope, rabid Houstonian. Lapsed restaurant critic, newsletter writer at https://alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io
They damn well ought to be.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
They damn well ought to be.
One of the most lucid explanations of the lose/lose proposition confronting American girls and women—and others born into patriarchal cultures—that I’ve ever read.
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
One of the most lucid explanations of the lose/lose proposition confronting American girls and women—and others born into patriarchal cultures—that I’ve ever read.
Reposted by Alison Cook
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.
Reposted by Alison Cook
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.
That book happens to be in my bedside stack. Moving it up in the queue.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
That book happens to be in my bedside stack. Moving it up in the queue.
You’re on the entropy express.
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You’re on the entropy express.
It strikes again. And again.
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It strikes again. And again.
Definitely what’s happening
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Definitely what’s happening