Kill a mother in cold blood, kidnap the cutest little kid I have seen all week in a fucking pokemon hat, the cutest possible hat, then arrest a bunch of clergy members?! Of multiple kinds of faith practices? Do they have a comeuppance kink or something? like wtf do they think is going to happen??

Math not mathin'. Kehoe doesn't care.

“it appears Thao was taken half-naked in 10 degree weather simply because he’s Asian.”

I can’t even muster a giggle for The Onion anymore

Pregnancy is being attacked nationwide. Missouri must defend its constitutional protections. 📰: @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social: missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/p...

The Insurrection Act does require an actual insurrection. The violence in Minneapolis is almost exclusively one-sided. People yelling at you, calling you names, and recording you on a cell phone isn’t violence. And if the courts let Trump say it is, we’re in a lot of trouble.

Opening day of Missouri abortion-rights trial focuses on decades of state restrictions missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/m...

this is how you do anti-fascism and affordability.

I wrote about how important the protections against criminalization of reproductive care that we put in Missouri’s constitution in 2024 are. Our legislature has put a new initiative on the ballot to take them away:

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Our goodbye from CBS News:

Josh Hawley launches new anti-abortion group as Missouri gears up for 2026 vote #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

I disclose my face off anytime I write about anything I’m involved with, and I am a nobody with no interesting conflicts of interest. How could the NYT let this happen?

The distance between pregnancy and care in Missouri missouriindependent.com/2025/12/04/t...

Too little, too late, but something:

I wrote about our new MO Attorney General doubling down on the remnants of the federal lawsuit attacking access to mifepristone in a filing filled with misinformation:

Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

This is another heartbreaking and horrifying story of a woman killed by an abortion ban. These legislators who continue to deny the effects of the laws they pass are despicable. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I received the deceptive text from the RNC. It’s carefully worded, but looks like other election fraud cases to me. RNC may have crossed a legal boundary, confident that our AG won’t do anything. See eg.:

This is unbelievable.

See also this misleading text I and probably thousands of others got yesterday that is meant to scare us into removing our signatures. I think it might be illegal despite the carefully deceptive wording. But the RNC knows our AG won’t do anything

wow. WOW.

I wrote about the Missouri GOP's attempt to lie to voters about the ballot measure to re-ban abortion. It's particularly egregious that they are lying about incest victims, that is, child rape victims:

I’m the most rigid person about how unconsented touching of any kind is illegal. and yet, I lol’d: “The jury determined that the launching of the 12-inch deli sandwich from what the government described as “point-blank range” was not an attempt to cause bodily injury, preventing a conviction.”

No one ever asks him why he couldn’t accomplish the same thing by arresting these people instead

Last night was huge rejection of Trump's plan to rig midterms: -CA passes prop 50, giving Dems up to 5 new seats -VA elects Dem gov & leg, boosting redistricting chances -ME voters defeat voter suppression initiative -Dems retain majority PA Supreme Court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I’m rooting for Mandami and hope his crazy difficult job goes okay. I will NEVER EVER EVER forgive the Democratic Party for failing to kill the possibility of Cuomo.

Go see a play. It at least read this excellent column.

I saw a play! Go see a play. Me being me, I wrote about about how the characters' legal situation should be different: missouriindependent.com/2025/10/24/t...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

“Running a state is not supposed to be a game of ‘what can I get away with?’” ~ @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social missouriindependent.com/2025/10/13/g...

“Without the hands, the poster would have been okay, the district’s chief academic officer told Inama this spring. But with the hands, it violated a West Ada School District policy, enacted in 2022, which requires all classroom displays, posters, flags, etc., to be “content neutral.””

Amen.

Uh, no. Come and get me, Secretary! “Any signatures already gathered, Hoskins said, are not valid and gathering them before his approval of the petition form is a misdemeanor.”

Missouri republicans abandoned any connection to decency long ago.

State and federal courts have denied nearly all paths for relief or even the use of modern DNA testing for Lance Shockley’s strong innocence claim, leaving intervention from Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe as likely the only option. This will be the first execution for the “pro-life” Catholic governor.

I wrote about how I'm mad that I have to collect signatures to reverse the unconstitutional gerrymander of Kansas City!

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe. Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error. Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

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).