Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom

@doktorzoom.bsky.social

Wonkette writer & senior editor I'm just an animal, looking for a home. Retweets do not imply comprehension. Born at 318.43 ppm atmospheric carbon. He/him In Idaho, but not of Idaho.

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Jul 29, 2026, 8:23 PM Pinned

We really like the cut of his jib!

He'd better not milkshake duck us, goddamn it.

Montana Dem Candidate Sam Forstag Is Scaring Wingnuts, And It's Beautiful
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wonkette.comMontana Dem Candidate Sam Forstag Is Scaring Wingnuts, And It's BeautifulBlue-collar progressive populist, no Nazi tattoos.

@wonkette.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:50 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

yup that's what 12 extra inches of sea level looks like

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:35 AMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.

@eyepatchguy.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:58 AMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:42 AM

Nice!

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:30 AM

Goddamn, two in one evening! no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. How is babby formed?

@esqueer.net Oct 8, 2026, 6:14 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:09 AM

Kid Zoom just told me about one internet tradition I was not previously aware of: "Spiders Georg." Look it up yourself.

Yay. I'm living out XKCD 1053 today!

Also hooray for Susan Hoover, who described/transcribed the cartoon here, as copypasted into the alt text.

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The title is Ten Thousand. The comic has two panels.
The left panel says: I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know
things. Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every
day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time.
Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0%. Fraction who have heard of it by 30
approx = 100%. US birth rate is approximately 4 million per year. Number hearing
about it for the first time is approximately 10,000 per day.
The right panel has two stick figures. A box at the top of the panel says: If I make fun
of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out
on the fun.
Stick figure 1 says: Diet Coke and Mentos thing? What's that?
Stick figure 2 says: Oh man! Come on, we're going to the grocery store.
Figure 1 says: Why?
Figure 2 says: You're one of today's lucky 10,000.

The hover text says: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
The gist is, if we scoff at people for not knowing X or not using Y, not only is that
unkind, but you lose out on the fun of teaching someone something new and fun and
2
useful.
Ironically, when I described the interactions I had observed, and their relationship to
this comic to a couple of people yesterday, neither one of them was familiar with this
particular episode, so they were two of yesterday's lucky 10,000, who now get to find
other people to introduce to the concept of supportive enlightenment. And now that
you have all been introduced or reintroduced to this comic, you have the opportunity
to spread it forward.

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:17 PM

I'm not sure about this draft headline for the story I'm doing on the Senate race in South Carolina. "Frightened By Annie Andrews, Republicans Expel Own Digestive Tracts, Like Sea Cucumbers Wearing Red Ties."

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:39 PM

As I 'splainer further here, the Medicare bribes are coming from a mostly-unused fund for "improvements" that Team Trump noticed was just sitting there.

The $90 payments will wipe out the fund, too.

www.wonkette.com/p/donald-tru...

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:36 PM

Well sure the bribes are corrupt, probably illegal, and won't offset higher costs Trump caused. They won't help Republicans in the midterms, either.

Donald Trump’s Midterm Scam: Pathetically Measly Healthcare Bribes For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others
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@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:02 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America.

Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

@them.us Oct 8, 2026, 4:25 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

Basic fact-checking reveals the ad has nothing to do with the state of Ohio or Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.

@evanbernick.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:36 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

Easily my favorite detail:

There was the incident that became known as "the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with
the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch
P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were
integrated into the program.

@muellershewrote.com Oct 8, 2026, 6:17 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

NEW: We knew in April that DOJ was investigating Hutchinson. Now NBC reports they are seeking a grand jury indictment for lying to Congress. The thing is, she didn't lie to Congress. She testified truthfully about what someone else told her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

@dennycarter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:55 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

This is the thing. If AI is supposed to save you time for the things that Really Matter, and reading a book to your baby is not something that Really Matters, then what are you doing? These guys really just want AI to live their lives while they grind Kalshi and Polymarket all day every day.

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:45 PM

Trump’s political career is the apotheosis of politics as a kind of tent revival, complete with fake faith healing, portents of apocalypse, and promises of divine wrath for the unsaved.

How The 1980s Televangegrifts Prepared The Way For Donald Trump
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@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:39 PM

You know it’s a great idea when an American Enterprise Institute dude calls it ‘inexplicable.’

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@swin24.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:19 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

I wanted to flick at two things in particular in here 1) the growing fear among Ohio gop and Trumpland elites that a “Bradley effect” among voters, particularly the GOP’s own voters, could help sink Vivek’s Ohio guv run (it’s Ohio so it’s hard to believe but recent polling shows him trailing Acton…

@carnes.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 4:39 PMReposted by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

@doktorzoom.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:47 PM

This, kids, is why Archie & Edith Bunker singing "Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again" was perfect shorthand for how out-of-touch Archie's politics were in 1971. Playful reminder that fascism invokes nostalgia for an idealized but imaginary past. (Gee our old LaSalle ran great!)

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