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In 2012, Ken Layne sold Wonkette to me, a then-39-year-old then-unemployed then-single mother then in Los Angeles. I’m Rebecca Schoenkopf. I’ve worked in newspapers since 1991 (seriously), have a master’s from USC in specialized journalism focusing on urban policy, and have taught journalism and political science in the University of California system.
Since I couldn’t do this alone, and since I threw out all the moneychangers in my temple and let God and the universe and our readers provide, I’ve hired Doktor Zoom, Evan Hurst, Robyn Pennacchia, and now Marcie Jones full-time with excellent health care, as well as terrific regular freelancers like Dominic Gwinn, traveling photojournalist, Sara Benincasa, Gary Legum, Michael Mora, Erik Loomis, Martini Ambassador, Ziggy Wiggy on the movie nights, Cakes We Like in the bake shop, and Hooper, your Friday night bartender. Source
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Search ArticlesWelcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Brain Driller!
Brain Driller with Crab Rangoon from the local Chinese joint. Crab Rangoon and tiki drinks go together. Greetings, Wonketeers! I’m Hooper, your bartender. Wednesday was National Painkiller Day, and I have some Big Feelings about this tasty pina colada variation. It’s a lovely drink, but there’s some nasty history behind it. And in 2026, I’m not in the mood to excuse it anymore. Let’s make a Painkiller Brain Driller and talk about Pusser’s Rum in unflattering terms.
Trump Vengeance Machine Teleports To His First Impeachment
Like Jenna Marbles, now-again-President Donald J. Trump has got three looks. But instead of Homeless Guy, Twelve-Year-Old Boy, and Hooker, his troika is God, Business Deal Man, and Consequences Of His Own Actions Weaseler-Outer. Allow this week’s cover of New York Magazine* to summarize the past year. The Consequence-Weaseling is going great, no one in the history of all time has ever weaseled out of so many potential consequences of their actions so quickly. Except the weasel.
ICE Times, Not Nice Times
Photo by Daniel Born on Unsplash In the Senate yesterday, talks to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown broke down again, with Democrats refusing to budge on issues like identification for federal officers and having an actual judge-signed warrant before they bust down your door.
Reps. Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell, You Are *Both* GTFO!
What a difference an hour makes! Yesterday, after suspending his campaign for governor of California, Rep. Eric Swalwell resigned his seat in the US House as well. Then an hour later, so did Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas. And now Swalwell is facing a fifth accuser, who claimed today that he drugged her, raped her and choked her unconscious.
DOGE Demanded 'Barney' PowerPoint To Explain TB, Guess That Was Still Too Hard To Follow
Don’t you forget about DOGE! Turns out Elon Musk’s secretive sleeper cells of loyalist idiots were more numerous, secretive, and somehow even stupider than we already knew, and new reports from the Washington Post and in a forthcoming book from a whistleblower, “Into The Wood Chipper” (Wonkette affiliate link), plunge the depths! To quickly recap, DOGE busted into government agencies within months of Donald J.
Trump BEELYON DOLLAR Epstein Birthday Book Lawsuit Tossed By Judge
For icing on the wacky cake that was President Donald John Trump’s very bad, unhinged and no good weekend of failures, a federal judge in US District Court in Miami on Monday threw out his $10 BEEELLYON dollar defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, his frenemy Rupert Murdoch, and reporters for publishing that bawdy birthday doodle-prose letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in his 50th birthday book last July.
Eric Swalwell: Some Pig.
“You seem mature for your age, and really I’m 20 at heart!” we can imagine him saying. After a full weekend dragging his heels, finally on Sunday night California Rep. Eric Swalwell suspended his campaign for governor of California. So which is it, you made “mistakes in judgment” that you are sorry for, but only the serious allegations are fake? They are all serious, ya fucko.
'Trump Before Trump' Viktor Orbán, You Are GTFO!
So long, farewell. Gif found on Internet. Oh boy, is this exciting! On Sunday, Hungary voted in a landslide against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s corrupt and Russia-hugging Fidesz party, in the highest turnout in a Hungarian election since the collapse of Communism in 1989. Now the Prime Minister Designate is opposition party leader and centrist conservative Péter Magyar. YOWZA! And after Orbán threw all that AI disinformation slop and even JD Vance at the problem.
Hungarian Rhapsody! Tabs, Mon., April 13, 2025
Artemis II photos, giffed by your pal Martini Glambassador! Happy Monday indeed! Sunday afternoon surprise! Seems JD Vance’s charms did not do the trick, and Hungarian dictator-scented prime minister Viktor Orbán conceded that he and his Fidesz party lost power to a supermajority of the moderate-conservative Tisza party in a landslide with the biggest voter turnout since 1989!Bad news for Russia and conservatives everywhere, and especially for the Trump regime.
Wonkette Movie Night: The Iron Giant
It is 1957 and an outsider has arrived in Rockwell, Maine. The outsider comes from beyond what we know, a being from beyond our Earthly boundaries. Crashing into the ocean, a massive metal monster rises above the waves, surprising a desperate boat captain, his vessel sinking after smashing into the unknown behemoth. The seaman escapes to the shore but everyone ignores his fish tale, it is not a white whale nor a mermaid, it is unknown and unbelievable.