Greetings, Wonketeers! I’m Hooper, your bartender. This will probably be the last cocktail I’ll write for you on this platform – we’re moving to Substack! To commemorate this totally stress-free and not-at-all-scary change, I thought I’d provide you with a cocktail featuring 151 proof rum. It’s smooth, tasty, and flammable! Here’s the recipe: Ankle Breaker 1 oz Hamilton 151 proof rum 1 oz Heering Cherry Liqueur 1 oz fresh lemon juice 1 oz simple syrup 2 shakes orange bitters Shake all ingredients carefully. Strain into a rocks glass or tiki mug. Garnish with cherries and a small umbrella ..read more

it's been two and a half years since Donald Trump's Chosen Creeples tried to end democracy, and the Feds are still shaking treason bedbugs out of the national couch cushions and bringing them to justice. Honey I Facebooked The Evidence Just two days ago in Kentucky (Motto: "No Dok, Not Tennessee"), Luke Hoffman, the fellow in the hoodie and the tacticool vest up top, was arrested by the FBI and charged for his role in the attack on the US Capitol, thanks to his wife's social media posts bragging about what a great patriot he was. The Lexington Herald Leader has the deets: According to the a ..read more

This week the State Election Board of Georgia sued True the Vote, Inc in Fulton County Superior Court to force the non-profit to turn over evidence undergirding its election fraud claims. True the Vote (TTV) has been kicking around the wingnutosphere for years, and has recently been dogged by allegations of tax shenanigans and "loans" made to its founder Catherine Engelbrecht. But two years ago it was flying high, after its preposterous claims of election fraud were featured in Dinesh D'Souza's "documentary" 2000 Mules. TTV claimed to have uncovered rings of ballot stuffers by correlating bu ..read more

Last fall, a trio of rightwing candidates running on a culture war platform won the majority of the seats on the five-member school board for Temecula, California. They were supported by the "Inland Empire Family PAC" that presents itself as supporting "parental rights," as long as it's parents who want to ban "critical race theory" and to fight "forced LGBTQ+ acceptance." Don't you dare call them bigots, the bigots are the LGBTQ+s, who insist on not being invisible. The new board quickly voted to ban critical race theory in the town's schools, and followed that up in early June with a three ..read more

Psst, hey! Buddy! Psst! Over here! That’s right, it’s me, Nancy Mace, principled moderate Republican congresswoman who occasionally bucks the party orthodoxy! I’m the allegedly reasonable white woman from the GOP that cable TV shows love to book, and I reward them by sometimes saying something like “Hm, maybe our party needs to be less pro-shooting children in the face,” or maybe “Executing women for seeking abortions is perhaps a tad bit of overkill, no pun intended, ha ha, Dana Bash, next question!” Then when no one’s looking I’ll accuse the Chinese Communist Party of threatening America’s ..read more

At noon Pacific (3 p.m. Eastern) today, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) will be officially on strike, after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for a fair contract fell through. This is the first time both actors and film and television writers from the Writers Guild of America have been on strike at the same time since the writer's strike of 1960, and the first time that SAG-AFTRA has gone on strike since 1980, so it's a pretty big deal. It's not something the union takes lightly, g ..read more

A round of applause for the state of Maine (Motto: "No, we're not Canada. Yes, we speak English"), where Gov. Janet Mills (D) earlier this week signed into law HB 535, which will give transgender teens aged 16 and 17 the ability to consent to gender-affirming hormone therapy in certain circumstances. It's a hell of a nice change from the national rightwing movement to rile up Republican voters by picking on trans kids, and is likely to do trans teens a world of good. Previously! Minnesota Nice Time: Give Us Your Trans Refugees, America Jay Inslee: Send Me Your Trans Kids And Women Needing Ab ..read more

File under "Nice fuckin' grift if you can get it" and "These goddamned people" and "Wait is that legal?" The New York Times (gift link) is reporting that a Trump super PAC literally paid Melon Trump to walk her fuckin' ass downstairs at Mar-a-Lago, say a few words into the microphone, and walk her fuckin' ass back upstairs. That's right. It was $155,000 American ameros, and it was for "speaking engagement." Downfuckinstairs. At her own goddamn house. BRB gonna go take a shit and do some shadow puppets on the wall while we're there, PAY US. Read some Maggie Haberman while we're gone: A super ..read more

You might be thinking, "Wait, a hair salon that isn't LGBTQ+ friendly? What does that involve? Just a bunch of bumpits and girls getting fancied up to look hot for their dads at the purity ball? Aggressive French braiding situations? Still doing the Rachel like it's 1995?" And you might be right. But up in Traverse City, Michigan — it is up toward the northern part of the state, not all the way to the Upper Peninsula but close — there is some broken trash woman named Christine Geiger, who owns (co-owns according to her LinkedIn) a broken trash salon called Studio 8 Hair Lab, and she made CLE ..read more

Ninety-eight percent of SAG-AFTRA actors have authorized the union to join the writers strike. Say goodbye to television, your only friend. (Entertainment Weekly) The Supreme Court agreed to hear Moore v. United States, a tax case that Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas's friends probably have at least a passing interest in. Patriotic Millionaires go deep on it and ooof. Did CNN aggregate this Jamie Dimon interview with The Economist poorly, or is he just a total dipshit? ("Both" is of course acceptable.) Like, maybe it was smarter than this? In an interview with The Economist released Tuesday ..read more