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.

Me on one of the 10 lawsuits involving the Trump-demanded gerrymander of Kansas City. Also: Missourians, vote no on Amendment 4 and tell your friends. missouriindependent.com/2026/03/10/r...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Lol’d

Both the Christian Nationalist Ohio bill and the Missouri copycat one include major historical errors listed as “examples” of the “positive impact of religion.”

I somehow missed that Andrew Bailey was at the Georgia ballot raid.

I wrote (without swearing!) about Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway's ugly and ridiculous lawsuit seeking to redo the 2020 census to exclude non-citizens. There is more effed up about this lawsuit than I had space for: missouriindependent.com/2026/02/10/m...

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

Another one bites the dust. (Unless AG Hanaway appeals, in keeping with the Missouri tradition of burning as many tax dollars as possible on junk harassment lawsuits) www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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.