Take Congressperson Wesley’s Bell’s survey and tell him what you think: iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/i... @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social

#OtD 19 Dec 1916 the @IWW union was outlawed in Australia for its opposition to World War I. Initially the union continued to grow but eventually the repression began to bite and caused the union to decline in 1917. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e...

the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back with a flamethrower

Even if age verification laws require data deletion, you have to trust every website and third-party verifier will actually do it. That's a lot of faith to place in companies with spotty track records—and a risk that doesn't exist when a bartender just glances at your ID. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Folks can submit comments opposing these transphobic proposed rules here:

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We know Starbucks has the money - CEO Brian Niccol was paid $96 million for just 4 months of work. In fact, Starbucks has the highest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. That’s not normal!

“Just this week, court filings emerged showing the administration's six-page list of words some Head Start programs cannot use in their federal funding applications, including "disability," "race" and "women."” *this article claims backlash against DEI was widespread. No, it is a few loud people.

@annieknk.bsky.social maybe the 5g people were right to be worried but wrong about what they were worried about? (No one in my circle is as flabbergasted by this as I am so I have to reach out to celebrities on the internet.)

Online age verification isn't like showing ID at a bar. It's more invasive, affects far more transactions, and poses serious privacy, security, and free speech risks that in-person checks never do. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding. The skill being taught is thinking

It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job

What do all these betting apps coming to MO think is going to happen? We don’t have disposable income. AI is taking our jobs and our water. They just want to be the last place you type in your last credit card number. #thevoid

It's time for everyone's favorite game of calling around 25 area pharmacies to see which one has the medicine I need and then frantically telling the doctor who won't see his computer till 4pm, to send in a script that won't be filled bc they'll be out by 4pm

#TransparencyFail No Way To Run A Govt #395681 Soooo much secrecy involving proposed Data Center at heavily corporate welfared Armory boondoggle And most St. Louis City electeds are OK with it *insert Walk of Sad gif* 🧵

More universities I will never work at. This essay was definitely a planned grift.

Sen. Eric Schmitt has apparently been mainlining extremist outlets like Revolver, founded by State Department official and open white supremacist Darren Beattie. More on Beattie and what he's been up to at State here: wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-extrem...

could be a great day to preorder 👀 @haymarketbooks.org

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Great interview by our beloved Travis View with Thomas Kelly, an academic who wrote an article debunking When Prophecy Fails - a classic in the field of New Religious Movements. I had heard there were problems with that book but I really did not know the half of it soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...

Agents were expected to arrive in New Orleans on Friday to begin staging equipment and vehicles before the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the people familiar with the operation. They are scheduled to return toward the end of the month, with the full sweep beginning in early December.

Vote for the Garden Glow!

Let eric schmitt know if you are happy he brought the fbi to Saint Louis. He lets you vote as many times as you want.

NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling. Story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...

Better question: What if when the author of this opinion commits a crime we deport him to Europe?

This appears to be a reasonable take until you read it. This guy still want to deport people who have not been convicted of anything. just because you are charged with a violent crime doesn’t mean you are guilty of a violent crime. Kind of the whole hinge of our justice system that.

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

He should watch that movie. Doesn’t end well for billionaire who wants to be immortal.

Today, we’re taking a look at Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bold plan to eliminate the income tax in Missouri. Critics say an ill-fated tax experiment in Kansas should serve as a cautionary tale.

The Trump-Vance administration’s efforts to dismantle the Dept. of Education are illegal. As the Dept. is thrown into chaos, the country’s most vulnerable children — including those with disabilities, who live in rural areas, or are low-income — will suffer the most.

Disability education should not be put into HHS because it's not a health issue, it's an education issue. The idea that disability = health is dehumanizing and, frankly, simply wrong.

Unfortunately I have no plans of shutting up about the sale of one of our city parks to build a parking lot. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Cara Spencer's theory of government is that sucking up to Donald Trump will somehow help the city. With today's news about the Trump admin revoking a $197m grant and killing a job-creating battery plant in north city, she may want to revisit that theory.

Completely predictable. Mayor Spencer's new CEMA chief is a Republican who threw her a fundraiser during the campaign.

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

A report shows the program only defended 343 people facing eviction in its first year, far short of city's goal of 1,352. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

The safest communities are the ones with the most resources, not the most police. Local leaders in DC need to invest in real safety solutions that reach people with the resources they need when they need them most.

Just got a call from my pharmacist saying express scripts contacted them to suggest a generic option for one of my antidepressants. Turns out it was not a generic but a completely different medication that I had tried before but did nothing. Pharmacist sounded so tired at end of call.

🚨 The One Big Beautiful Bill Act excludes public health degrees as well as several other health professions degrees. This change could restrict access to federal loan support & affect the public health workforce. Learn More & Get Involved: aspph-webassets.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Call+to+Acti...

Where data is available, health outcomes in a variety of categories tend to be worse for bisexual people than for gay, lesbian or straight people. But since the tendency is to lumps us in with other categories, we rarely receive targeted interventions, so the disparities will continue.

Bi/pan + people are the largest sexual minority group. Both cis and trans queer folks are more likely to be bi than anything else. Yet bi erasure is common..including in epidemiology. A report from the San Francisco Human Rights Commission refers to bisexual people as the "invisible majority."

Not applying for a phd there.

#NASW Indiana Chapter is gravely concerned about Indiana University-Bloomington School of Social Work removing lecturer Jessica Adams for using a Pyramid of White Supremacy graphic. The course is part of approved curriculum. Full statement: tinyurl.com/3meeev6v

“What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If [they] want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that’s because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs.” Another banger from @citymystic.bsky.social.

That's because it's an aesthetic movement, their aesthetics are just trashy

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

“there are Epsteins everywhere for those with eyes to see.” literally ask any woman you know. most of us yelled about it in 2017, when it seemed possible for a brief moment that it actually mattered.

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