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Nick Hooper's avatar

What a cool family.

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Mysterysurf's avatar

The great Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950. Here's the Replacements and their tribute to the man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDASfSMHHPQ

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Or.G's avatar

If you ever hear me play a DJ set you will hear The Letter.

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tehbaddr's avatar

Caturday Redux from almost a year ago!

https://substack.com/@tehbaddr/note/c-48225669

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Biff52, Wonkette Refugee's avatar

That's art.

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Thalia Is Not Amused's avatar

I dreamt that there were riots going on outside Fox News. The chants went something like:

"They're lying to you! They're stealing from you! They're laughing at you!" Over and over again. It was pretty scary, and I'm glad I woke up when I did.

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josephebacon's avatar

Give it a month and those rioters will be outside the New York Times calling them Gawdless Liberals.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Shit, I think I’d go back to sleep and lucid dream that.

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satch's avatar

And the MAGAts all had their fingers in their ears.

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

Nyah nyah I can't hear you.

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la bibliotequetress's avatar

Hi, Matthew! I found this recipe in my inbox too late for Christmas, but I like Marsala and love eggnog so I figured I'd pass it along.

Also, highly recommend subscribing to Domenica's substack!

https://www.domenicacooks.com/blog/homemade-vov

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Craig Nixon's avatar

1/2 𝑐𝑢𝑝 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜ℎ𝑜𝑙, 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝐶𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟

Oh shit, I'm IN.

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la bibliotequetress's avatar

Just like high school!

Some how, I ended up with a bottle of Bacardi 151 a few years ago that has been sitting unopened in my pantry. Figured I might swap that out instead. It's still strong enough to embalm the egg yolks, I think

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Craig Nixon's avatar

A neighbor just got taken out in the ambalam. Not an unusual sight, there's 200 apartments here.

They don't normally cover the patient's head/face with a sheet, tho, do they?

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Eileen's avatar

Wow.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Meat wagon express!...

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Anarchy Pony's avatar

Not if they're alive, no...

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Sigh. That may be the neighbor that has been giving me a lot of help - walking to the mailbox, taking out garbage, etc. Her own health hasn't been good of late.

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Eileen's avatar

...shit....

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Bell tolls for thee...

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Let’s hope not.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Welp...after the load in, they turned the lights off, and didn't seem in a real hurry on the way out.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

Yeah, not a hopeful sign.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I mean I hope it wasn’t your neighbor.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

WTF? It's TWO people.

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Thalia Is Not Amused's avatar

Oh, no! I'm so sorry, hon.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

I'll find out what went on later. It's icy out there right now.

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MorganX's avatar

You have to post an update, this sounds crazy. How safe is the 'hood?

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

:hugs:

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Craig Nixon's avatar

‘𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞’ 𝐝𝐨𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤: 𝐔𝐒 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬

𝐴 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑜𝑟 – 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦?

Among the many odd things to come out of Donald Trump’s political movement – see ear bandages, doomed boat rallies and rubbish dancing – one that could be here to stay is more prosaic: the creation of a series of rightwing marketplaces and products seeking to capitalize on anti-establishment fervor.

In recent years a number of platforms have sprung up to sell conservative-made items, from “anti-woke” dog food to pro-America lipstick, in a pushback against what they claim is “cancel culture” in the US – and what others might see as a fairly cynical attempt to cash in on rightwing Americans’ political beliefs.

“When all of this wokeness started to happen and cancel culture, and then you start to see these companies stand up and say, ‘We’re not supporting this conservative or this Christian value any more,’ and just really lines in sand were starting to get drawn,” Drew Berquist, the national spokesperson for Mammoth Nation, told The Need to Know Morning Show, a North Dakota-based rightwing radio show, in December.

“And a lot of people were trying to figure out: OK, well, who are the good companies? Who are the companies that share our values, that support our constitution, support our troops or, you know, our Christian values as a country.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/28/anti-woke-shopping-public-square

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Eileen's avatar

How the hell could lipstick be pro- or anti-ANYTHING?!

[Unless it's on so-called lips that have received one of this era's so-called "facelifts." Then it's just a personality enhancer....]

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Oh, I can't wait until they all go broke!...

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tehbaddr's avatar

Anti Woke Dildo Emporium We Carry Freedom Fleshlights!

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Craig Nixon's avatar

OMG, I just had a vision of a Fleshlight with PAB's mug plastered on it.

That would do, umm...things to my anatomy ensuring I would have no need for a Fleshlight. Retreat!

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Why did I click? WHYYYY?????

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Eileen's avatar

Hey, so did I....

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paperlesstiger's avatar

Not a speck of gay cereal.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Yup. Just these here manly Wheaties, with...Bruce Jenner on the box?

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"M"'s avatar

Irony Wheaties

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

What's Christian about supporting perverts like Gaetz and trump? And how is supporting a traitor like trump supporting the Constitution? These people are full of shit.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

This place is totally insane.

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josephebacon's avatar

It's totally Right Wing Jesus which is a blend of Calvin and Ayn Rand.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

The anti-woke crowd IS the establishment. Sheesh!

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

Don't tell them that, they seem to relish the idea of being outlaws.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Most outlaw move they'll ever pull is a dine & dash at the Golden Corral.

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josephebacon's avatar

And now raw milk peddlers are calling their product "anti-woke" too. So when suckers get sick from it do we call them "anti-woke" as well??????

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Anti-woke, dead, potato, potahto

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

anti-alive

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R. Riddle's avatar

I don't know why this is something "new" - I've seen and blocked ads from shops like this on Facebook since 2016.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

Because they are totes anti establishment what with them controlling everything.

So there.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

LOOKITMELOOKITMELOOKITMEEEEEEEEEEE!

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Loomer? Izzat you?

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Shocktreatment's avatar

"The Dumbest Shit For The Dumbest Shits!"

Every short con peashooter is going to buy a pallet of point-of-purchase crap and rebrand it, wait for 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀𝘿𝙊𝙈! Pine tree air fresheners for your rearview mirror...

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

I want to do a video game called anti woke where you run around destroying all the woke. Could have some really fun level bosses.

And then in the end, when all the woke is destroyed, you get hunted down and killed because you are no longer useful.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

IT CANNOT BE ANTI ESTABLISHMENT IF THEY OWN ALL THE LEVERS OF GOVERNMENT GODDAMN IT

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

"Anti woke dog food"...food that kills your dog?

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

and what others might see as a fairly cynical attempt to cash in on rightwing Americans’ political beliefs.

lol. Cause that is precisely what they are, Guard. No company has abandoned their "christian" values.

What they mean is they sometimes show brown or queer folk on a commercial. It is bigotry. It is always, only, ever, bigotry. And cashing in on bigotry is big business right now.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

Remember the absolute PANIC over those Benetton ads a decade or two ago?

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swmnguy's avatar

As I keep saying, corporations follow the money. They never did DEI out of virtue, but because it's good business all around.

If the money were in cannibalism, they'd do that.

The big corps aren't going to chase the MAGAs because they already have their money. But grifters will go after the scraps.

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Nancy Naive's avatar

“Joe Rogan convinced that Trump knows ‘something’ about UFOs - but won’t say what”

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da95ac92a19c341c50471951b7d20ac1621580174e06f73f18a094c4de982ba8.jpg

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"M"'s avatar

Donald doesn't know anything about anything

So Joe Rogaine is a bald-faced liar to imply that he does

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

the Unwashed Fucked-Overs...

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

He learned it from watching Zecharia Sitchin on TV.

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[Redacted]'s avatar

DonOld has powers.

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

What PAB "knows" wouldn't even fill a thimble.

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josephebacon's avatar

Ok this is another bunch of Joe Blowgan bullshit I'm gonna hear the kids talk about in the YMCA locker room...

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R. Riddle's avatar

I'm convinced Joe Rogan makes shit up for ratings.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

Joe Rogan is actually an alien pod person who was injected with nanobots his last roid shoot.

I read it on the internet, so it must be true

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tehbaddr's avatar

You know all that icky gross stuff he used to make people eat on Fear Factor? That's what his diet consists of on this planet, because he can't get the giant sand bugs they eat on his home world.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Can we just stop platforming the stupid people?

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"M"'s avatar

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Monsieur Grumpe's avatar

Joe is a slut (not in the nice way) who will say anything that will keep his numbers up.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

THAT cannot happen soon enough.

The filthy orange felon who will be fouling the White House for ANOTHER four years is the fucked up result of all of this digital derpidity.

Haven't we suffered enough?

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tehbaddr's avatar

"digital derpidity"! Internet Idiocy, Media Mindlessness...

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Nancy Naive's avatar

It’s mildly entertaining though.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

You don’t get brainwashed.

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satch's avatar

To get brainwashed, it helps to want it.

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Noma Larkey's avatar

Good Caturday morning Wonkers. This was our Friday night movie pick. Oh, those silly outrageous Canadians!

https://youtu.be/cvOUHnZ9M20

Coopers' Christmas

Using a second-hand camcorder, the youngest Cooper son Teddy records his dysfunctional family's holiday when an estranged uncle causes trouble.

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Stroke1's avatar

The Big Finish:

Band I saw once.

''Let it Roll'' medley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UboSdR4932w

--30--

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Craig Nixon's avatar

𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

A perennial complaint of Democrats is that they are “out messaged” by Republicans. That perception is undeniably true. But it is also undeniably true that it is easier to craft “effective” messages when you are unconstrained by the truth and immune to shame—as is the case with Trump.

Telling voters what they want to hear without concern for keeping promises or honoring campaign statements is a short-sighted strategy. At some point, people will realize they have been snookered.

Sadly—for the American people—Trump doesn’t care that his supporters will discover that he is a fraud and a cheat. Indeed, for many Trump supporters, that is part of his charm. But the day of reckoning for Trump's lies is coming more quickly than he thought.

Does any of this matter to us? Yes. The campaigns for 2026 and 2028 are underway. Trump's trail of broken promises and failed initiatives has commenced—and we should be keeping a list for future reference.

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/cracks-in-the-maga-coalition

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

'At some point, people will realize they have been snookered.'

Will they? These people are D-U-M stupid and delusional. Many/most will go to their graves believing every lie they've been told.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

He ran to stay out of prison, all else is gravy and bonus and 𝘙𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘕𝘎𝘌!

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Donnie conned the MAGA dolts into giving him their votes - and now he has no further use for them. Under the bus they go, with every other person he's used, ruined, and discarded.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

that.

And it is important for us to make sure his fans do not forget the mistake they have made. YOU brought this on yourself. YOU did it to yourself. Maybe your hatred of queers or blacks or women is not a good enough reason to toss your rights to the fascists after all.

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josephebacon's avatar

They are totally brainwashed by the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine. Nothing will stop those suckers from voting Republican.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

As we’re all roasting pigeons under that bridge.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

While also true, rewarding 'em for bad behavior is no way to get them to not make the same mistakes in the future.

Also, they cannot have my pigeon. They got bootstraps I hear tell

(I tell a lie, I would share my pigeon, even with a magat, bleeding heart bleeds eternal)

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satch's avatar

Everything you said was correct. Its also true that people don't like to admit they were wrong, or worse, played for chumps. I've never made the mistake of thinking that PAB is stupid. He's a master con man, and it will be a while till the scales fall from the eyes of 77 million supporters.

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

12th of never?

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Eileen's avatar

And that's a long, long time....

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

It pisses me off that TRUTH is considered to be "bad messaging". I really am going to die angry.

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Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

Well, it's either that or admit that the US is basically a fascist state with a weak resistance.

This also kind of reminds me of the "bias avoidance" issue with the media. Telling the truth is less important than not seeming biased.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

that.

Also how they leave out how the conservatives pretty much own all the message boards.

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satch's avatar

The definition of "Talking down to people" is showing them how facts contradict "sincerely held beliefs".

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

how dare you question their sincerely held beliefs with your facts?

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The Wanderer's avatar

The Chinese New Year starts in February, and the South China Morning Post enlisted a feng shui master to lay out some customarily vague predictions based on the various animals of the Chinese zodiac. Please note that The Homunculus was born in the Year of the Dog:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3292305/year-snake-2025-predictions-12-zodiac-signs-how-your-health-luck-wealth

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Chinese horoscopy can be entertaining, "Time to revolve anticlockwise bracket leftly while securing position with other hand"

Oh wait, that was directions for a complicated Chinese cat toy...

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

“The big theme for Dogs this year is romance and love. The Year of the Snake is great for them to get married or have babies; but those in committed relationships should beware, your romantic energy is so strong that it can start love triangles.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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The Wanderer's avatar

So a triangle between him, Sunk Mole, and his Reichsfooey in charge of immigration?

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swmnguy's avatar

That's a problem for dogs every year. Or is that Doggs?

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

Good morning everyone. I think I may sleep through the next few years. I am SO tired lately.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

So this week our store had some Standing Rib Roast on sale (like a really good sale), which unbenknownst (at the time) to me is better known as prime rib. Eldest convinced me to try making it because the picture looked good. Eldest is a carnivor, possibly obligate, which is astounding since eldest weighs all of 130 when wet and wearing redwings.

Actually not sure they could wear redwings. Might be too heavy for them.

Anyway, I cooked it last night, and other than the time that the internet suggested being longer than what they suggest, it was pretty fucking amazing.

The jus was a fail though, since I hadn't had any wine. But that was ok, it did not need any sauce.

10/10 will buy when on really good sale again.

Also reminded me of a true story: My pop would take us out to a 1 on 1 dinner when we graduated 8th grade, which was a big deal as we did not eat out often, and having 1 on 1 time with dad was pretty rare. I ordered the prime rib, thinking it was ribs.

It was not ribs. They brought me a huge hunk of meat and I was all...the fuck is this? But I felt bad for my dad so I said nothing, and tried it, and discovered that prime rib is pretty amazing.

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Stroke1's avatar

They cooked the roast beast!

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

I sure did!

And I lack a rack, so I did what the internet suggested and cut the ribs off, then put the meat chunk ON the ribs as the rack

hol-ee-fuck, stroke. I nibbled those ribs afters (as one does) and that was the most amazing meat product I have ever had in my mouth, which was saying much because the roast itself was so damn good

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

edit: also, I have one sharp fucking knife, sliced through it like butter to get those ribs off. Good damn knife.

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satch's avatar

Doesn't this take us back to our caveman roots?

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NatalyaResists's avatar

Our local store had an excellent sale as well, and we roasted it on Christmas Day. In my experience, a decent leave-in thermometer really helps to get it right. It's always my first choice for a special meal.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

I do not have one of those, though I may have to buy one XD

I checked it after the time, and it was not yet even approaching the "rare" temp, so I left it in longer, and then I thought my thermometer was broken so I cut it, and then put it in for longer, and back and forth

But I did not ruin it so this is a bonus XD got it to medium, let it stand and all, only the very very center was still more medium rare but that is ok. The ends were nice and well done for hubby, for he is a fucking heathen and will only do well done, the rest was a perfect medium for everyone else.

Total win and more

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NatalyaResists's avatar

Nice!

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AJ Milne's avatar

I do prime rib for Christmas every year. Still some left this. Probably lunch and dinner again.

A few years (including this) when I am getting a nice one at the butcher I have inspired others to do the same.

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

My BIL makes it every year for Christmas Day. I don't eat much beef but he makes it SO good.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Prime rib is a regal piece of flesh, and has been traditional for family Xmas feasts for years.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

And it is SO friggin easy!

Like not as easy as the king crab. That is just "stick in boiling pot and let it steam for 10 minutes" easy.

But pretty easy

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The Wanderer's avatar

I dragged out my immersion cooker and did prime rib sous vide one year. It was magnificent.

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Jen's Yaed Apple's avatar

I just did it in my oven. Set it to "roast" cause it is a convection thingy thing or whatever, but I was doing roast so I figured, I should use roast

This is the skill level I am dealing with XD

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swmnguy's avatar

I believe it is the original Roast Beast.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Here we are...still.

𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛?

No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday.

The 17 standing committees, whose leaders were selected by the House Republican Steering Committee, will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated on Jan. 3. No people of color were selected, either.

Do we honestly think women won’t be involved in the writing and creation of bills and laws and committee work? Of course they will. Will they receive credit for their work? Likely not — they will be behind the scenes writing the questions and statements and legislation for committee men. Their work will be taken and used by the men acting as committee chairs.

Women, even women lawmakers, have been pushed behind the scenes. This makes it difficult to put women’s issues front and center.

We are being pushed back into the shadows. Behind the curtain. And if the Republicans have anything to do with it, probably behind the veil.

Let’s not forget that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was passed by Congress in 1972, but it has not yet been ratified and is not part of the U.S. Constitution. The ERA has been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982, but it has not been ratified.

https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/citation-required

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SayItWithWookies's avatar

The House will be shut down over the New Year's break to install the new glass ceiling.

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

It's 15 feet thick.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

And installed at a height of six feet three inches.

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Rosy red ASS's avatar

This comes as no surprise to me. Soon they will try to take away our right to own property, have a credit card and vote. Thanks America for doing this to all of us.

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Hops: 86/47 or bust's avatar

I hope Phyllis Schlafly is enjoying her time in hell.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Hoping they found an extra hot corner for her.

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Stroke1's avatar

The Senate however ... Shelley Capito heads up the Energy Committee.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Well, there’s a shocker. Republican women won’t care.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Susan Collins is very concerned.

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