Allyson Hogan
@allysonhoganwrites.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Watcher of movies/TV/plays. Cat owner. Not necessarily in that order.
I'd just gotten used to "who was president in 2020?" as the defining political question of the era, not sure I'm ready for "who is president in 2026?" to join the fray
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoMarkwayne Mullin: "You have a Biden administration that is failing the American people"
there’s a point in this dumb bullshit answer where he says “primary residence, or you have to live, whatever that means” and it’s like, dude, you’re the attorney general of texas, of all people, you, specifically, are expected to know *exactly* what that means, more than any other single individual
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayKen Paxton when asked by a Fox host about his 3 primary residences (out of his 15 homes). This should clear it up! “So, when we bought a new house, we moved our primary residence to – to a house. So that was both were dictated by the Constitution, and then they changed the Constitution."
ya know, as pathetic as changing it immediately was, if apple does it now it'll be 100x worse
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoBurgum says Trump "reached out to Apple directly" about changing Lake Ontario to Lake America and adds, "I'm sure we may be seeing that change coming up soon"
I think this is my first time getting a close look at Trey Gowdy and how is this the news, how is this not a Disney movie about a puppy kidnapping ring. His haircut was done by the villain team at Pixar. Come on now. How. HOW?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agoTrump on South Korea: "When they aren't willing to go for you you just can't be a stupid person and help them. They want our help."
Tom Homan on why DHS is sending deportation flights into dangerous condition in Haiti: "We're just enforcing the law, and we're doing it in a way the American people voted for"
Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRFK Jr defends measles: "In 10 years, there have been 3 measles deaths in America. There are now about 1.2 million deaths every year from food-induced illness. The media and certain demagogic politicians are constantly trying to scare us about infectious disease."
this is one of those instances where Trump's inability to deliver a speech that's under a half hour long really hurts him. nobody wants to hear him riff about Venezuela and Iran for an hour+ at an event that's supposed to be nonpartisan and in honor of other people
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump is speaking to complete silence at the NASA center. Not a single person is applauding or reacting to anything he says during his brazenly partisan speech.
Hehe, I read this post before looking too closely at the cover, and I didn’t realize at first that SWAGGER was the name of the magazine. I thought you were just thanking your own inherent swagger 😂 Both equally applicable, I’d say! Congrats—you’re wonderful on Pluribus, and the cover looks amazing!
Samba Schutte@sambaschutte.bsky.social · 3d agoLook ma I’m on a magazine cover✨ Thank you SWAGGER🫶 #pluribus #appletv
Lutnick says Trump is “the greatest fundraiser and greatest builder ever”
"Good times. Great memories." -- Fox & Friends' tribute to Karoline Leavitt is just a supercut of her being a condescending jerk to reporters. Imagine being proud of acting like this.
The blood of every last CHILD on his hands, the network's hands, all of their hands. Every single person willfully spreading these lies and preventable diseases. Absolute Moloch worship .
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoDr Oz: "I don't want anyone in America concerned inappropriately. We don't know exactly what happened in PAG yet. We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time. We lived this during covid."
“Circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling” — El-Sayed says gender affirming care for kids should be left up to parents and doctors, not the government
Obviously no school has ever *medically* transitioned a student, with or without the parent’s knowledge. She’s talking about stuff like “using a student’s preferred name” and hoping the dimwitted base will imagine covert medical procedures.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoLinda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"
It's beyond insane that every major paper and news org just let's these pieces of shit lie with every breath they can muster. This is no different than the Comet Pizza basement horseshit only this time it's coming from the Secretary of Education.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoLinda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"
Awesome, so ... you're worried about the price of groceries and not foreign affairs. Quick question -- what do you think happened this past year that caused the steady spike in the price of groceries? What totally-divorced-from-foreign-affairs issue?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk."Who else wasn't a politician when they started the job? Our president, President Trump ... we're worried about the price of groceries, not Taiwan" -- Fox & Friends did a puffy pre-recorded interview with Darline Graham to try to rehab her image ahead of tomorrow's runoff
one of the many, many things to hate about this admin is the way in which all of these unqualified idiot cabinet heads have no real responsibilities related to their official portfolios and just make the rounds on cable news as uninformed gadfly mouthpieces
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Sean Duffy: "The fact we provide their security for them, and they take advantage of us? ... I think you're gonna see Mark Carney come to the table very very quickly, because it's gonna be devastating for his country."
Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early? LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so BASH: But elementary school? McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary
BRENNAN: The president twice said the MMR shot may be lethal. Do you want to clarify that? DR OZ: We want parents to have the autonomy to decide what their kids receive BRENNAN: But he used the term 'lethal.' Do you want to clarify? OZ: The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine
when you finally do the thing you’ve been procrastinating forever and it didn’t actually take that long so instead of feeling proud of yourself for finally doing the thing you’ve been avoiding your first instinct is to feel stupid and guilty for not doing it sooner
Trump: "John McLaughlin, the great pollster, just told me that if 'you ran today, nobody would be within 20 points.' I believe that's right. Unfortunately we have a little rule and regulation that says you're not allowed to run. If they'd like to change that, I'd be very happy."
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"
Brooke Rollins: "We've now moved more than 5m off of the SNAP fraud rolls ... you've got a lot of people moving off the program, which is the goal, at least for conservatives. We don't want to measure the program by how many are on it. We want to measure by how many we are moving to real work."
One assumes this is just the usual Trump BS. But perhaps it’s worth saying that if Trump issued an order to bomb Oman because he’s peeved at them, it would be an illegal order which should not be obeyed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrey Yingst: "I just got off the phone with President Trump ... the president told Fox News that Iran should raise the white flag of surrender ... the president said that if Oman gets in the way, 'we'll bomb the s**t out of them""
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
I hate this bit where executives “brag” about working 20 hours a day like, congrats, you are bad at prioritizing, are severely sleep deprived, and your cognitive function is impaired. is that supposed to be a flex?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoCNBC: There's a piece in the WSJ detailing how Trump mended his relationship w/ Musk, & you're part of it. It says Musk appreciated your appointment to lead NASA. ISAACMAN: I haven't read it. In fact, I don't have an opportunity to lift my head up much for current events. We're going 20 hours a day
oh nooooo, looks like i gotta create a new system to help me do my work instead of doing my actual work
Returning from the Nato Summit in Turkey, Trump used a planeload of reporters as an unwitting decoy during a severe assassination threat, subpoenaed journalists who reported something was amiss, then stood up at a black-tie dinner and told those same journalists they’re lucky he puts up with them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoNew in PN: Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor "The episode highlights the grossly dysfunctional relationship between POTUS & the media, which puts up with ever-escalating abuses as the price of access, & routinely normalizes Trump’s erratic & even criminal behavior."
I know at least a half-dozen adults who are obviously on the spectrum and never got diagnosed because it just wasn't a thing when they were kids
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoRFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"
Except, you know herd immunity and a few decades of pediatric progress.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on tampering with childhood vaccine schedules: "The worst thing that would happen would be nothing happens. We're not going to lose anything."
