no joke this is why Men Should Read Novels instead

Any analysis of how Republicans are doing with redistricting that assumes Missouri is a done deal *cough* politico *cough* should probably follow reporters who actually know how the state works Not just me @stltoday.com @missouriindependent.com @kcur.org @kansascity.com @stlpublicradio.bsky.social

Press : so are you funding coal miner healthcare Chris Wright : no Press : are you standing up for coal miner unions Chris Wright : no Press : are you standing up for health and safety mining regulations Chris Wright : no Press : so yo- Chris Wright : giving tax cuts to Coal barons, yes

The DNC is contributing staff and financial resources to help bolster a referendum effort to place the new map up for a statewide vote.

Over the weekend, we received reports of federal agents from ICE and Customs abusing their power. And now, we're being told the Trump Administration wants to deploy 100 military troops to Illinois. One thing is clear — none of this is making Illinois safer.

Werner Herzog voice: “I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”

Google pays $24.5m bribe to Donald Trump.

Pay no attention to the fact that these are also not funded if the government does not shut down because Republicans needed to give their billionaire donors a handout.

Pritzker: "For Donald Trump and the MAGAs in Congress, this is not about fighting crime or public safety ... this is about consolidating power in Donald Trump's hands. What he plans to do with that power now or during the 2026 elections should worry all of us."

I didn't get much sleep last night. I don't have the energy for local politics train wrecks. There's too much other shit we need to focus on.

"Bending over backwards to appease Trump for any reason — to protect yourself or your institution, to demonstrate your bipartisan apolitical bona fides, to secure a government deal — absolutely never ends well."

You mean that meeting where Zelenskyy was correct about everything and Trump and Vance came off looking like whiny Russian tools?

Surveilled societies are oppressed societies. How many times do we have to tell these people NOT to build the Terror Dome?

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” is a great line to be whispered in a hushed, scared voice over an assaulting montage of glitching warping FOX news footage for the trailer to an A24 horror movie about the next few years.

This is what’s happening to grocery prices while you’re being distracted btw. It’s literally unprecedented.

Klein kept asking "what do you do when 30% of the country believes things that are beyond the pale?" and the answer is that you hold the line even more firmly! He seems to think that we should should compromise with them but that's a doomed project electorally and indefensible morally.

I'm working on a Politically Speaking Hour on @stlonair.bsky.social segment about how autistic people in STL, Missouri or the Metro East are reacting to President Donald Trump's Sept. 22 press conference. If you want to talk with me this week, send me an email at [email protected] or DM me.

The too familiar ritual of parsing the shooter’s socials to see which side gets to claim him really needs to acknowledge only one side fights to make the decision to commit mass murder as frictionless as possible.

The worst thing the Missouri legislature has ever done for travel in the state was vote to expand Highway 70 /travel rant

Who was the President? Biden.

Missouri's Governor just signed the GOP's illegal map. It will now be sued.

So much of modern politics can be summed up with the understanding that to most of corporate media, and by thus extension to a lot of the voting public who don't have time to dig deeper, the performance matters so much more than the content.

As a Missourian, gotta say, the target swing voters these consultants talk about smell this bullshit miles away. Voters want candidates who stand up for what they believe in. They do not want to be fed market tested pablum. If you want swing voters, decide what you believe and stand up for it.

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A "good amount" being 0% of the time

Republicans have 54 of 100 seats in the Senate and a majority in the House and the presidency. What are they doing to keep the government from shutting down?

FTR, I don’t think we need to run anti-choice Democrats ANYWHERE. But certainly not in 3 states—even if they’re red—that just passed pro-choice initiatives/amendments. Please just stop it. You have to stand for SOMETHING. And Klein doesn’t seem to stand for anything but cloying both-sidesism

So if the lung is made of wood... SHE'S A WITCH!

He is correct. The most respected bodies in the world on the subject of genocide have made this declaration after careful investigation. It is an established fact.

It’s a good sign that protests against Trump are being organized in smaller towns like Hillsboro, Farmington and Festus, MO (traditionally red areas) — Find one Oct 18. Say no to fascism. #nokings

Portland declares ICE facility out of compliance, demands its clearance. www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

Here’s what I really don’t understand: the primary winners aren’t sent down from space or something. We have the power to determine who wins. Meaning that (for example) if I really want JB Pritzker to win in 2028, I can volunteer and organize to help make that happen!

Through spite and caffeine, all things are possible

"War-ravaged" Portland today... #WarRavagedPortland

to be honest a bunch of the founders would have probably been less concerned by "mohammadans" than irish catholics like walsh

I think there is a direct relationship between punishing people for mourning George Floyd and punishing people for not mourning Charlie Kirk.

For now. If the White House should happen to be occupied by a Democrat there will suddenly be all manner of reasons that president must be constrained; and the powers afforded this president will be rescinded; until such time as a Republican is in office. SCOTUS is forsworn.

Only talk about the secret plans for socialist domination with people you know.

Calling all Missouri Voters! We need YOU to come sign initiative petitions protecting same-sex marriage and expanding anti-discrimination laws in Missouri, this weekend @towergrovepride. Come find our booth on the east side of the festival, indicated by the pin!

The Constitution is definitely not a living document after John Roberts got through with it.

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

Donald Trump after leaving the Supreme Court

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

In a more responsible journalism environment, the journalist asking "so which political rival are you going to try to imprison next?" would be sacked for not following that up with "are you aware that's illegal?"

so between this and the rescission of unspent grants that Congress had delegated to bike lanes and greenway projects, this admin's just waging an all-out war on bikes?

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/