Alison Coffey
@acoffey.bsky.social
Popular with gnomes.
(also: psychotherapist, humanist, existentialist, Iowa City citizen, Survivor fan, reader, vegetarian, and The National stan)
(also: psychotherapist, humanist, existentialist, Iowa City citizen, Survivor fan, reader, vegetarian, and The National stan)
New York Times Cooking tells me the sugar cookies are life changing and, well, look at me heating up my oven.
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New York Times Cooking tells me the sugar cookies are life changing and, well, look at me heating up my oven.
I wish I didn't have to say the name Louis CK to tell you how much I don't want to hear another word about that man and his stupid journey or whatever.
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I wish I didn't have to say the name Louis CK to tell you how much I don't want to hear another word about that man and his stupid journey or whatever.
Are Boygenius back together again? Making any albums? I need them.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Are Boygenius back together again? Making any albums? I need them.
Will this be actual news anywhere? When Leavitt is asked about it, will she shrug it off with a non answer? Will the reporter be called stupid? We blow up boats with supposed drug runners but free cartels? I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, AMERICA!
Trump offers no explanation for his decision to suddenly free a leader of a Central American drug cartel from US prison, but observers broadly expect that the pardon was bought for ready cash. www.ft.com/content/04cd...
Donald Trump to pardon former Honduran president serving 45 years on drug charges
Clemency for Juan Orlando Hernández comes ahead of fraught elections in Central American country on Sunday
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Will this be actual news anywhere? When Leavitt is asked about it, will she shrug it off with a non answer? Will the reporter be called stupid? We blow up boats with supposed drug runners but free cartels? I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, AMERICA!
Reposted by Alison Coffey
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
America Is Becoming Dallas
"The common thread that runs through all of the elements of this particular Dallas lifestyle is the implicit belief that the world is here for us, and no one else."
open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
"The common thread that runs through all of the elements of this particular Dallas lifestyle is the implicit belief that the world is here for us, and no one else."
open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part Two: Sprawling to Freedom
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
America Is Becoming Dallas
"The common thread that runs through all of the elements of this particular Dallas lifestyle is the implicit belief that the world is here for us, and no one else."
open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
"The common thread that runs through all of the elements of this particular Dallas lifestyle is the implicit belief that the world is here for us, and no one else."
open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Better we start studying those dystopian novels.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Better we start studying those dystopian novels.
Reposted by Alison Coffey
This is infuriating. We are shepherds for the voiceless, including the pollinators that we need to help grow our own food. (But also--they need to exist for their own sake!) Not to mention PFAS is a very terrible thing in the human food chain.
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Trump EPA Approves Its Second ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide in Two Weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram for golf courses, lawns and food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, and oats. The pesticid...
biologicaldiversity.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is infuriating. We are shepherds for the voiceless, including the pollinators that we need to help grow our own food. (But also--they need to exist for their own sake!) Not to mention PFAS is a very terrible thing in the human food chain.
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
I thing you do once you're a certain age is obsessively compare yourself to other people around your age and wonder if you look as old as they do. I don't like it, but I do it. Mostly celebrities. I thought I was going to age gracefully and it's not like I'm signing up for plastic surgery but shoot.
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I thing you do once you're a certain age is obsessively compare yourself to other people around your age and wonder if you look as old as they do. I don't like it, but I do it. Mostly celebrities. I thought I was going to age gracefully and it's not like I'm signing up for plastic surgery but shoot.
I mean yeah, for sure. Also, be nice all the time to everybody, Sean Duffy. Like, make it a thing our government does.
Also, I'm sticking to sweats.
Also, I'm sticking to sweats.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants. n.pr/4oWRh0K
The U.S. Transportation Department is urging air passengers to be on good behavior
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I mean yeah, for sure. Also, be nice all the time to everybody, Sean Duffy. Like, make it a thing our government does.
Also, I'm sticking to sweats.
Also, I'm sticking to sweats.
Do we think they secretly loved each other this whole time?
Fawn Hall marrying Oliver North somehow feels like the most normal thing that happened in 2025.
Iran-Contra figures Oliver North and Fawn Hall marry after 40 years
The pair shredded documents to cover up secret arms sales to Iran in a scandal that rocked Ronald Reagan's White House.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Do we think they secretly loved each other this whole time?
Reposted by Alison Coffey
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
Everyday annoyances that make me irrationally angry: aggressive driving, cars purposely w/o mufflers, banging pots, litter, men spitting on the sidewalk, gum chewing
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Everyday annoyances that make me irrationally angry: aggressive driving, cars purposely w/o mufflers, banging pots, litter, men spitting on the sidewalk, gum chewing
Ugh, well, Robitussin Maximum Strength Nighttime Cough DM was not the thing that would knock me out and stop me from coughing and not sleeping all night long despite my hopes. Is there a thing? Do I have to double my dose? she asks at 2:30 in the morning after waking yet again b/c of a coughing fit.
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Ugh, well, Robitussin Maximum Strength Nighttime Cough DM was not the thing that would knock me out and stop me from coughing and not sleeping all night long despite my hopes. Is there a thing? Do I have to double my dose? she asks at 2:30 in the morning after waking yet again b/c of a coughing fit.
How is Pluribus going to end? I know you don’t know. I just can’t imagine where it might go. Here for the journey, Vince.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
How is Pluribus going to end? I know you don’t know. I just can’t imagine where it might go. Here for the journey, Vince.
So many great performances in movies this year. One of those times I’m glad I’m not a voting member of the Academy. *
*I do not know what other times there might have been.
*I do not know what other times there might have been.
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
So many great performances in movies this year. One of those times I’m glad I’m not a voting member of the Academy. *
*I do not know what other times there might have been.
*I do not know what other times there might have been.
My top 5 movie genres:
Neurotic people being humorously neurotic
French people talking, smoking, and drinking
People doing research and drinking coffee and typing
The woman who feels like an outsider and yearns
Melancholy but also beauty and meaning making and we are but stardust
Neurotic people being humorously neurotic
French people talking, smoking, and drinking
People doing research and drinking coffee and typing
The woman who feels like an outsider and yearns
Melancholy but also beauty and meaning making and we are but stardust
Top 5 movie genres:
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My top 5 movie genres:
Neurotic people being humorously neurotic
French people talking, smoking, and drinking
People doing research and drinking coffee and typing
The woman who feels like an outsider and yearns
Melancholy but also beauty and meaning making and we are but stardust
Neurotic people being humorously neurotic
French people talking, smoking, and drinking
People doing research and drinking coffee and typing
The woman who feels like an outsider and yearns
Melancholy but also beauty and meaning making and we are but stardust
Does he even know how people get health insurance? Like, what the costs are, how it works? What does he think he means when he says "go out and buy"? Like it's just a one time fee and then everything is covered? I just feel like he has no idea what he's talking about. I mean, I know he doesn't.
Trump on healthcare: "I've had personal talks with some Democrats about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. This was my idea ... why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?"
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Does he even know how people get health insurance? Like, what the costs are, how it works? What does he think he means when he says "go out and buy"? Like it's just a one time fee and then everything is covered? I just feel like he has no idea what he's talking about. I mean, I know he doesn't.
Reposted by Alison Coffey
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
These are weird times. Maybe all times are weird in their way? Just can't stop thinking about how in Nineteen Eighty something there was a picture of a politician on a boat with a blonde woman on his lap. She was not his wife. Somehow that was a big deal then.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
These are weird times. Maybe all times are weird in their way? Just can't stop thinking about how in Nineteen Eighty something there was a picture of a politician on a boat with a blonde woman on his lap. She was not his wife. Somehow that was a big deal then.
And Megyn Kelly asks, but if she's 17, is it really so wrong?
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
And Megyn Kelly asks, but if she's 17, is it really so wrong?
Reposted by Alison Coffey
Study; USAID programs have saved over 90 million livesover the past 2 decades. Researchers estimate that if current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived are likely to die.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Study; USAID programs have saved over 90 million livesover the past 2 decades. Researchers estimate that if current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived are likely to die.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
My uvula hurts. Maybe from coughing? Anyway, that's a new thing. Not sure how to address my uvula pain.
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My uvula hurts. Maybe from coughing? Anyway, that's a new thing. Not sure how to address my uvula pain.
Reposted by Alison Coffey
Trump’s Top Officials Spent Wednesday Trying to Pressure Boebert talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump’s Top Officials Spent Wednesday Trying to Pressure Boebert
After weeks of delay by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Adelita...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Trump’s Top Officials Spent Wednesday Trying to Pressure Boebert talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Mick Jagger singing the theme song for Slow Horses makes me giggle a little every episode because it just so Mick Jagger. Can Mick Jagger be any more Mick Jagger?
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Mick Jagger singing the theme song for Slow Horses makes me giggle a little every episode because it just so Mick Jagger. Can Mick Jagger be any more Mick Jagger?