A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

I love how our congressfolks are tweeting through abdicating their posts and responsibilities. just... tweeting through it.

it is truly a shame to live in a state full of people who want to make the state better, but governed by people hell-bent on obliterating every good and decent thing about being here

The U.S. housing market slump dragged into its fourth year in 2025 as sales remained stuck at a 30-year low with rising home prices and elevated mortgage rates keeping many prospective home shoppers out of the market. https://to.pbs.org/3NJTu1O

Trump Net-Approval On: Immigration: -23% Venezuela: -24% Foreign Policy: -24% Economy: -25% AP-NORC / Jan 11, 2026

Columbo arresting AI for murder

the people (me) yearn for reliable comprehensive public transit and punk and metal covers of pop songs

the ICE list only lists three people from MO (two in KC, one near Warrenton), which tells me Missourians aren't doing a good enough job at doxxing Nazis.

Here's a good 85-minute episode about the bad 900-page book. youtu.be/U5WFMi_SlgM

I think people impacted by the tornado deserve a more thorough explanation as to the delay in spending the state funds.

Almost a full year through, and all Spencer has to show for her stint as mayor is disregard and abject failure — you know, the stuff everyone paying attention to her prior experience warned y'all about in the first place.

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

damn the TTRPG discourse has been boring as fuck the last few months. if y'all are gonna argue loudly about something, at least make it an interesting topic.

Polling during Biden's Presidency showed that Americans believed unemployment was at *all time highs* when it was actually at all time lows. The media comprehensively and systematically lied to Americans

A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎 www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

Officials tweeting about national horrors as if they're passive cable news watchers instead of the people tasked with stopping them is a deliberate form of demoralization. A smug shrug of contempt for the citizenry.

As always, the gulf between the bald reality of the situation and the seeming lack of urgency among Democratic leadership in Washington is crazy-making.

The governor of #Missouri is trying to push the "end state income tax" bill saying how it will help residents. But he is sure staying silent about this one part of the bill that will let them raise taxes everywhere else.

I have a story that gets into this coming, but it's kind of hard to describe how ubiquitous the ICE/DHS presence is in Minneapolis — and, in turn, how pervasive the community pushback has become. In certain parts of the city, evidence of either — or both — are just, like, everywhere you look.

Replacing income tax with a patchwork of other taxes will never work because no one consumes at a rate that would compensate for the consistent bulk of regular tax revenue that income tax provides.

Bandcamp bans AI music

The hardest lesson I've had to learn as an adult is that most people's ethics end when their feeling of convenience does – exemplified by everything from genAI adoption to road rage.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

when you're thinking about how half these ICE goons can't do a 15min mile (4mph pace): the speed you walk from point A to point B is 3mph. 4mph is a brisk walk.

Missouri Republicans are the simplest most brain-dead libertarians in the game. literal toddler understandings of how society and the world work.

Truly a fucking joke that Kehoe's trying to shove this through when Sam Brownback tried this in 2012. It failed so abysmally that it was repealed in 2017. Kansas lost hundreds of millions of dollars, obliterating infrastructure. It's one of the biggest KS government failures in the state's history.

no slop on Bandcamp, thank you Bandcamp

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

“The alleged leak to ICE List, a self-styled ‘accountability initiative,’ is believed to be the largest ever breach of DHS staff data. It appears to include names, work emails, telephone numbers, roles, and some resumé data, including previous jobs of federal immigration staff.”

Please email your local library and politely complain about Libby's AI "Inspire Me" feature. Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

once more with feeling

Hey so rivetgeek aka Wil has had me blocked for a bit, but he just added my friend, a trans woman, to a blocklist that he keeps specifically for "MAGA, transphobes, racists and fascists" because it responded to him with the same dismissive energy he gave them This is bullshit, report it and him

i know this isn't exactly mindblowing but i'm fucking mad that it's easier to become an ice agent than to get a us visa slate.com/news-and-pol...

Physical media is the investment you make once and own forever.

the Beastie Boys are helping me along this morning

I talked to @jasonfurman.bsky.social about the Trump admin's decision to launch a first-in-history criminal inquiry into Fed chair Jay Powell—and what happened in other countries when leaders compromised central bank independence. (Tl;dr it wasn't good!) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Newsom must never be president. He must never even get close.

REMINDER: The Trump administration was required by law to release all the Epstein files by Dec 19 and still has not released 99% of the files

🌱 New Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar seedstl.org/wp-content/u... 🌱 January Garden To Do & Tips from Missouri Botanical Garden & University of Missouri Extention Lots more on the blog

BREAKING: Republicans are trying to abolish the estate tax, as part of a bill they call "Making the American Dream Affordable Again." The reality is this would let the super-rich transfer their wealth to the children, and cost the government $281 billion over the next decade.

when their time's up, Spencer and Green are both getting the boot. petulant children running the city government, the both of them.

🚨 Feds Heads Up, St. Louis

Hey, somethings up at McCausland near Dale by the restaurant black unmarked fed vehicles. The guy went into oncoming traffic to get around me. They’re behind that Greek restaurant the block before Dale. #stl 7:51am

some good anti-ICE chants to find in history