Republicans across the country are trying to make it harder for citizen-led ballot initiatives to succeed. The Missouri legislature put Amendment 4 on the ballot to make it impossible. Gift link to me on Amendment 4 - Vote No in August!

Missourians - vote No on Amendments 4 & 5 next month and tell your friends! Here’s the KC Star on the mess that is Amendment 5. I’ll have a piece up tomorrow about Amendment 4

"They are changing the rules of the game and hoping we don't notice." Amy Jones, SEIU Healthcare We notice and we are going to show them who has the power by voting NO on Amendment 4 and 5 💪

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Missouri and Kansas have only a few more months to lower their SNAP payment error rates or face millions in new costs for food assistance benefits.

*all the jackhole moderates who lined up behind sexual predator cuomo to try to stop mamdani, rn*

Anti-abortion government officials are coming for online speech, targeting websites that do nothing more than tell people what their options are, how to find a doctor, and where abortion remains legal. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture

Fine. This one made me laugh out loud.

News: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, celebrated Mass for 500 participants (some pictured here) at the Outreach conference for LGBTQ Catholics at Georgetown today. We will post his homily, which moved many in the congregation to tears, later. We are so grateful to His Eminence.

The correct analogy is in Alice: "Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to—"

NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

I wrote about Republicans' red tape strategy: missouriindependent.com/2026/06/15/m...

TSA selected me for extra screening again in December and exposed to my husband and kids that I was carrying 12 writing utensils in my purse. Happy to report, I'm down to 9 pens, 3 pencils, and 2 crayons.

How am I supposed to declutter my house when it is full of art?

Call me a troglodyte, but I miss plug in head phones a little bit

Republicans knew this would be a huge problem and did it anyway:

Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

Lawsuit asks judge to force decision on Missouri gerrymandering referendum missouriindependent.com/2026/05/18/l...

Google sucks so bad now. I googled “stl airport” and all it will give me are results about Miranda Lambert. (I have been delayed at Lambert for 8 hours)

I wrote about the cruel so-called “born alive” bill the Missouri legislature passed. Don’t know how these people look themselves in the mirror making life worse for grieving parents in service of a propaganda campaign

8-yr-old *sang* the whole wiki page of JJ Wetherholt for bedtime reading.

No, I am not doing dishes to get out of Mario Party!

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

Same.

I don’t like it.

If pregnancy centers get public money, they should meet medical standards missouriindependent.com/2026/04/21/i...

Me on MO passing a bill that was supposed to make it easier for pregnant women to divorce. The bill is so poorly written that it will harm some women without eliminating the main problem under the prior law. Multiple Dems told me they understood the problems then voted for it without amendment:

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

JFC. Expel all 4, the Democrats first. How could the Democrats let this happen?

I just sang the star spangled banner while wearing the cardboard mustache from the pizza box, hit every note. But my children won’t tell me I’m talented.

Get the f out of the race, Eric Swalwell. Republicans are fine with men this evil and stupid. Democrats cannot be.

we don’t owe the “why didn’t she report it” crowd a single response

As much as I appreciate seeing the anti-birthright people getting a 7-way beating on the merits, part of me wishes Roberts had just stood up and said: “motherf***ers, an EO is just an email to your staff. It’s not a law, and it damn well isn’t an amendment. Get the f*** out.”

Justice Jackson is on it.

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't know where my birth certificate was when I rushed to the hospital to give birth, and I still don't. Kinda a problem for proving citizenship so my babies could get birth certificates.

Catherine Hanaway's definition of "domicile" in her census lawsuit also implies this. Insanity.

There was a time when I could find a lot of legit information about the exact thing I needed to know by googling two or three words in quotation marks.

delta airlines chatbot pretended to transfer me to a "live representative" named Abegail who proceeded to lie to me repeatedly when I asked if she was human. Wasted a ton of my my time before it finally told me it couldn't actually solve my problem and I need to call the customer service number

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled lawmakers had the authority to pass a new congressional map last year, left intact the state’s photo-ID requirement for voters and struck down limits on voter-registration and absentee-ballot outreach. #moleg #mogov

“Matt Walsh podcast is not appropriate for children” is the first feedback I’ve ever left for an uber driver. It was a long drive from the airport

What are the most important missions that the US is drawing resources from to expand the war in Iran?

How Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt learned to stop worrying and love regime change missouriindependent.com/2026/03/09/h...

1/2 This 2-line bill is so poorly written it will hurt other women. It could have been easily fixed & I did everything I could to explain that. Multiple reps told me they understood the problems, then voted for it anyway. I'm most mad about the indifference from dems/purportedly pro-repro people.