Rebecca Let Dok Zoom do the News Email for Aug. 17, Hoo Boy!
Probably a better outcome than letting Pigeon Drive the Bus. Somewhat Better.
“I bet I can do this without breaking Substack,” said Dok, happily tempting fate.
Look, it’s tabs!
Jessica Tarlov is our new favorite Fox News person, but we worry for her, because won’t that place make her develop a twitch?
Ron DeSantis is ready to let Disney off easy if it just capitulates and does everything he wants.
Ron DeSantis's FLAWLESS VICTORY, Graciously Ready To Let Disney Stop Suing Him
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his presidential campaign starting to drip and melt like a Mickey Mouse ice cream bar dropped on a hot Orlando sidewalk in August, says he’s ready to “move on” from his culture war fight with the Walt Disney Company, as long as Disney just drops its lawsuit a…
Men are the problem. It’s always men. Almost always.
Now we’ll never see his Obamacare replacement.
Trump Maaaaaay Not Do TOTAL EXONERATION Press Conference After All. Sorry If You Got A Babysitter Already.
We called it. Again. Yesterday, Wonkette had a jolly little post about poor Axios, having a panic attack and about to throw all its bullet points out the window, because it was freaked out over Donald Trump’s busy schedule. Court dates! Campaign events! Five things on his schedule in two weeks! What kind of meta-human can pull off such a feat!
Bad news: the decision is unhinged and bad law. Good news: for the moment, it won’t do anything. And it includes the stupidest thing ever written in a federal court dissent.
All he wants is recognition that plotting coups is important work.
Mark Meadows Pressures Federal Judge To Find 11,780 Reasons To Disappear His Georgia RICO Case
Is it official government business to offer a state employee campaign cash to speed up a vote recount? Asking for Mark Meadows, who just filed a motion to remove his criminal prosecution in the Fulton County RICO case to the (federal) Northern District of Georgia on the theory that he was doing VRY SRS White House chief of staff business when he tried to…
Poor Roodles McPoodles
Weed! Weed and ‘bortions for everyone! Also meet our new weedbortion mascot, Weedlord Bucky!
Suck It, Ohio Republicans, Come November It's WEED-BORTION TIME!
Earlier this month, the good people of Ohio firmly gave the boot to a Republican-sponsored bill that would have made it far more difficult to amend the state constitution. That means that an amendment protecting abortion rights that’s on the ballot in November w…
Karen Bass, Marcia Fudge, and the White House remind us that government can actually do good things. Your end-of-day Nice Time Open Thread!
LA Mayor Karen Bass: Maybe Unhoused People Need Roofs Over Their Heads, Not 30-Page Forms Proving They're Poor
Until she won election as mayor of Los Angeles last November, Karen Bass was a member of Congress, representing California’s 37th district and serving for two years as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. And until Joe Biden tapped her in 2021 to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge was also a member of Congress, representing …
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Weedlord Bucky is totally dope.