Missouri public schools, Medicaid need $1 billion more to continue current programs missouriindependent.com/2025/10/09/m...

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

I realized I didn't share a gift link. Please read and share! I know you already know about the refrigerator mother myth,* but most people don't, and I really think it's important context for what's happening here. *actually you might not! Now you do! www.startribune.com/trump-rfk-jr...

ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

"how memes become law" post-it note found on my desk and I can't remember if that is something I meant to read or to write

I am grateful to write for a publication that won’t fire me for calling it as I see it. WP firing Karen Attiah for stating the obvious scares me in a new way. She was fired for less than what I wrote (which makes me think it was pretextual).

Bad news, guys!! The Rep of my gerrymandered district says we can’t be against the new gerrymander anymore- because someone donated $. Gosh darn it!

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Me on Sen. Eric Schmitt’s racist speech:

The Missouri Independent’s staff won 28 awards Saturday — including 10 first place honors — in the annual Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. #moleg #mogov

something that drives me nuts is how legacy media will write that "scholars question legality" of a trump administration action when there is not a shred of evidence that it is in fact legal. it leaves room for the federal government to manufacture a legal justification when literally none exists.

Sure he’s a weird white nationalist. But when you see Eric Schmitt I want you to remember this: theappeal.org/missouri-att...

Missouri is not sending our best. Eric Schmitt is trying to out racism Bailey 🧵

‘We are sweating’: Missouri kindergarten vaccination rates fall below immunity threshold missouriindependent.com/2025/08/26/w...

“We are dealing with gunshot wound injuries from a high-velocity weapon,”

“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”

We will have a major disaster resulting from the gutting of government, and all the warnings will be well documented

New: The Trump administration is now targeting race-neutral efforts to achieve racial diversity. This marks a striking shift from what some opponents of affirmative action had previously argued. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

It’s like the time Trump misstated the trajectory of a hurricane and then waged weeks of campaigning to prove he was right, finally modifying the hurricane map with a sharpie. Except this time there is a specific man’s life in the balance. It’s a Kafka-esque nightmare.

“Someone had phoned in an order for dozens of pizzas to be delivered to the homes of Democratic lawmakers, leaving his name as that of the man who fatally shot a lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota.”

This is the overview you need to understand Andrew Bailey’s “corruption, incompetence and grandstanding”

Re-upping my latest on MO Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is going to be “co-deputy director” of the FBI, i.e. co-Dan Bongino. bad for the country, potentially good for Missouri Bailey has been engaged in a legally atrocious, expensive & very harmful to Missourians audition for Trump.

Andrew Bailey brought his obviously frivolous lawsuit against Media Matters—in which he tried to pervert to the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act to punish speech—at the behest of Stephen Miller

The Kansas City Chiefs donated $25,000 on Tuesday to a PAC supporting Republican candidates for the Missouri House. The donation comes two months after the legislature approved a $1.5 billion stadium funding plan aimed at convincing the Chiefs and Royals to stay in Missouri. #moleg #mogov

Free speech and association champion Josh Hawley:

Missouri AG erred in asking Supreme Court to overturn order legalizing abortion #moleg #mogov

This is what I said that sent a twitter-like crowd of bluesky-ers after me:

You guys scare me. You win! Let’s all block each other!

On this day two years ago, local cops raided the offices of the Marion County Record newspaper in Kansas for investigating the police chief. One year ago @journalist-sherman.bsky.social and I visited Marion to cover the continued fallout. Read our Kansas Press Association Award-winning series here:

AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real. Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Missouri’s minoritarian red state government, which cemented its own rule 5 years ago by overturning an anti-gerrymandering law passed by a majority of Missourians, is now successfully clawing control of its blue urban centers by overturning minimum wage, sick pay, and control of our police.

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is using taxpayer money to attack DEI efforts, sue Starbucks and IBM, and silence shareholder speech—all to make workplaces more white and male. His own mom was a DEI pioneer. He’s suing her legacy.

I wrote about Missouri AG Andrew Bailey lighting taxpayer dollars on fire to impress Trump & MAGA in his crusade against women and non-white people:

Josh Hawley led the Jan 6 coup attempt for Trump in Congress and sold his soul on Medicaid for nothing. Trump instantly turned on him for trying to do something about electeds trading stocks:

This is a good article with a bad headline. The article makes clear that it could be prevented if it wasn’t so @!&$ easy to get these kinds of weapons in other states: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...

WTF is wrong with google? I know it’s been broken for a long time, but I didn’t expect it to tell me what X/twitter thinks about the issue I was looking for. Is this a new feature they just launched?

We know that there will be elections because Trump’s folks are demanding state voter roll information.They are working to gerrymander Texas even more. They are relaxing the IRS rule to allow churches to endorse candidates. There will be elections or else they wouldn’t be doing all these things.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to massively reduce the size of the Department of Education Amy Howe has the context:

A must-read from @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social on Hawley choosing to run from his duties as hundreds of thousands of Missourians now face the consequences. missouriindependent.com/2025/07/07/j... #MOSen #Medicaid #TaxJustice

I wrote about the possibility that Republicans who abandoned their principles to vote for Trump’s bill were scared not just for their seats, but for their physical safety:

Getting concerned the Onion’s coverage of Hawley is better than mine :(

Missouri's abortion ban is enjoined once again! Good news drop on a terrible day: www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/2416-CV...