Sue Gibson
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Activist: Feminist, anti racism, pro democracy. Native Texan, current Missourian. ACT*UP
#ExpectUs
Why not? He’s doing a bangup job😒
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#IDontLikeBeingRudeBut
having to deal with a utility company’s automated phone system brings out the worst in me.
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Animated Scream
Alt: primal scream
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Let’s see how many followers 60 Minutes and all the other CBS accounts can lose in a day.
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Elmo: Let The Challenge Commence Meme
Alt: Elmo looking upward, arms raised, fire in the background: “Let The Challenge Commence!”
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Mike Luckovich
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About | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month | Library of Congress
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a...
https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/
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Mother Jones
2 days ago
ICE’s Delaney Hall is being slammed with lawsuits. The state of New Jersey is suing GEO Group, the company that operates it, seeking a court order for full access by health inspectors, who since Wednesday have lacked it.
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ICE's Delaney Hall is being slammed with lawsuits
The converted prison "should be closed because of health and human safety,” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/ice-dhs-delaney-hall-baraka-sherrill-lawsuit-shutdown-strike-detainees/
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Reveal
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NJ politicians are sending in cops and imposing curfews while ignoring protesters' concerns and a hunger strike that DHS claims doesn't exist.
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New Jersey officials impose curfew to stifle anti-ICE protests at Delaney Hall
Federal and state officials have ignored the demands of hunger-striking detainees.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/new-jersey-officials-impose-curfew-to-stifle-anti-ice-protests-at-delaney-hall/
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Indivisible ❌👑
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Ask local businesses and workplaces to become Fourth Amendment workplaces that keep your community safe from ICE. Check out this toolkit from Siembra NC to get started canvassing in your town.
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Fourth Amendment Workplace Toolkit | Indivisible
https://indivisible.org/resource/fourth-amendment-workplace-toolkit/
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The EPA proposes two rules re: PFAS in drinking water. One will rescind Biden-era regulations for PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA, & Hazard Index mixtures. The other will extend compliance deadlines for PFOA & PFOS Max Contaminant Levels til 2031. Comment period closes 7/20.
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https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0654-0001
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An open letter to Sen. Schmitt, Sen. Hawley, Rep. Onder.
Immediately and publicly use every tool at your disposal to DENOUNCE the violence happening at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and at all detention centers...
https://resist.bot/letters/0ae29dce-dded-461a-9373-056b43c695b3?utm_source=resistbot&utm_medium=Resistbot&utm_campaign=open-letter&channel=messenger
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After all, it’s the American (business) way😒
www.newstribune.com/news/2026/ma...
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‘You need further increases’: Southwest CEO indicates flight prices may stay up when jet fuel costs come down | Jefferson City News-Tribune
Airline jet fuel prices will eventually come down, but that doesn't mean the cost of flights will, according to Dallas-based Southwest Airlines' chief executive.
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/may/30/you-need-further-increases-southwest-ceo/
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Margaret Chase Smith had words for you on this date 76 years ago.
“The U.S. Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been....
https://rs.bot/8fzYT6
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Buttercup Q. Skullpants
4 days ago
Imagine if a woman president drooled over Coast Guard graduates and praised their muscles.
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“Millions of Americans are dropping their health insurance this year, and millions more are expected to lose their coverage in the years to come.” The turmoil is entirely a matter of Republican policy choices. “Now, millions of Americans will pay the price.”
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Millions of Americans are losing their health insurance
The GOP’s Big, Beautiful Bill sought to roll back the Affordable Care Act. Now, the human costs are becoming clear.
https://www.vox.com/good-medicine-newsletter/489937/us-healthcare-insurance-marketplace-aca-enrollment
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The Volatile Mermaid
4 days ago
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Rep. Mike Levin
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There is no world in which this is okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵
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Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department
Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.
https://www.notus.org/us-news/samuel-philip-alito-trump-treasury-department
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“Trump is threatening to exile hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants.”
www.vox.com/politics/490...
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MAGA’s civil war over immigration is over. Silicon Valley lost.
Trump is threatening to exile hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants.
https://www.vox.com/politics/490186/green-cards-trump-adjustment-status-h-1b-tech
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#TypesOfVehiclesInASongOrMovie
Jane Honda
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Mother'S Day Toast with a Martini
Alt: Jane Fonda with a martini, smiling, making a toast.
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Photo: Members of the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia protest outside the White House in 1924. (Library of Congress)
boundarystones.weta.org/2020/08/21/v...
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The Voteless Voters of Washington, D.C.
Even after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, the women of D.C. had to fight for their voting rights
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/08/21/voteless-voters-washington-dc
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“The last director of the National Park Service…agreed that the Trump administration seems to have it in for the Park Service and worried that the guardrails that used to prevent the executive branch from doing whatever it wants with park land are disappearing.”
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Race cars and cage fights — on National Park land? | Jefferson City News-Tribune
President Donald Trump plans to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary -- and his own 80th birthday -- in June by watching bare-chested and bloody UFC fighters kick, punch and choke each other on th...
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/may/31/race-cars-and-cage-fights-on-national-park-land/
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“No democracy can survive if tens of millions of its citizens refuse to fight to protect it because they ‘don’t do politics’.… Now is the time to engage.“
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White Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy Movement
If You Want Democracy in this Country You Have to Fight White Supremacy
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/white-supremacy-is-an-antidemocracy?r=rtcoc&utm_medium=ios
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Trump destroyed USAID. Now people are dying.
ProPublica’s Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester examine how America’s foreign aid cuts are threatening the survival of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
https://revealnews.org/podcast/trump-destroyed-usaid-public-health-crisis-doge/
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Activism works!
missouriindependent.com/2026/05/29/r...
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More cities are pressing pause on data centers as local backlash grows • Missouri Independent
Hearing backlash from residents, cities and counties across the country in recent weeks have blocked planned data centers amid concerns over rising electricity prices and environmental harms. The loca...
https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/29/repub/more-cities-are-pressing-pause-on-data-centers-as-local-backlash-grows/?utm_source=newsletters.missouriindependent.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=missouri-s-tax-fight-lands-in-court&_bhlid=98ce4963e20549de051811aadf8ad0a427a54461
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Rural hospitals warn $50B in grant funding won’t offset looming federal cuts | Jefferson City News-Tribune
Rural hospitals in Missouri say a $50 billion federal investment in rural health care will be insufficient in offsetting upcoming reductions in federal Medicaid reimbursement that will put additional ...
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/may/29/rural-hospitals-warn-50b-in-grant-funding-wont/
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Keep this handy.
truthout.org/audio/ice-ca...
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ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back.
“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says journalist John Washington.
https://truthout.org/audio/ice-camps-are-not-untouchable-heres-how-communities-can-push-back/
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Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times | Andrew Lawrence
After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is heading
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/stephen-colbert-late-show-replacement-byron-allen
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Judge to decide Monday whether Missouri tax overhaul stays on August ballot • Missouri Independent
A Cole County judge will decide soon if a measure proposing to eliminate the Missouri income tax will appear on the Aug. 4 primary ballot.
https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/29/judge-to-decide-monday-whether-missouri-tax-overhaul-stays-on-august-ballot/
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“At-will employment and the subminimum wage for tipped workers are both rooted in the employer backlash to Emancipation.”
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Reversing Labor Laws Rooted in Slavery - National Employment Law Project
At-will employment and the subminimum wage emerged from the backlash to Emancipation.
https://www.nelp.org/reversing-labor-laws-rooted-in-slavery/
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“When we say this is the worst America has ever been, we inadvertantly erase the people who survived worse with fewer rights, fewer tools, fewer witnesses, fewer protections,….and we also rob young folks of….proof that people have fought monsters before.”
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This Is Not the Worst Time in American History. And Telling College Graduates That It Is Makes Them Easier to Defeat
While liberal speakers preach despair, the right is telling its graduates to prepare for war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/this-is-not-the-worst-time-in-american?r=rtcoc&utm_medium=ios
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“Johnson’s effort to distance himself from this Republican dirty tricks operation is rapidly losing credibility. We have uncovered links between two more sham PACs and the treasurer of Johnson’s campaign committee.”
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Two “progressive” super PACs linked to House GOP
Two newly formed super PACs which purport to be progressive are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a Popular Information investigation reveals.
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/two-progressive-super-pacs-linked?r=rtcoc&utm_medium=ios
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An open letter to Sen. Schmitt, Sen. Hawley, Rep. Onder.
Investigate ICE’s detention facilities, EXPOSE the conditions that immigrants are facing, and BLOCK any additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol.
https://rs.bot/beg7Ha
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“…an unregulated online casino that, according to state gambling regulators, is operating illegally.”
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Trump promotes unregulated online casino after $1 million Super PAC donation
On Truth Social, Trump has repeatedly promoted Stake, an unregulated online casino that, according to state gambling regulators, is operating illegally.
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/trump-promotes-unregulated-online?r=rtcoc&utm_medium=ios
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Missourians deserve clean, safe drinking water.
The federal government is rolling back the rules that keep forever chemicals out of our drinking water. New Jersey set its own limits and cut...
https://resist.bot/letters/d69c3038-b25d-47e5-8c29-4a34ef62d290?utm_source=resistbot&utm_medium=Resistbot&utm_campaign=open-letter&channel=messenger
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Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — built or being built. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/
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Judge Sanctioned Private Prison Giant for Destroying Evidence in ICE Death Suit
In a wrongful death suit about an ICE detainee, a judge wrapped CoreCivic responsible for destroying video — the first-known such sanction.
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/24/ice-corecivic-death-private-prison-judge/
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ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence
Social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, Colorado law enforcement officials warned, ...
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice-dhs-social-media-white-supremacist-violence/
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As tick-related ER visits climb, MU Extension recommends permethrin | Jefferson City News-Tribune
MU Extension recommends treating clothing with a repellent called permethrin to combat ticks when outdoors this season.
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/may/24/as-tick-related-er-visits-climb-mu-extension/
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#WhatNeedsMaintenanceIs
democracy.
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John Muller
11 days ago
Fascism is obsessed with exclusion and purity. After an initial outbreak, where adherents unleash pent-up resentment against the designated out-group scapegoat, fascist movements are prone to shrink and devolve into infighting and paranoia, as unorthodoxy is purged and zealots jockey for position.
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Write your congressional representative!
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An open letter to Rep. Onder.
REJECT cuts to children’s mental health funding, and SUPPORT federal investments in school-based mental health services, children’s behavioral health systems, a...
https://rs.bot/2PjQ3s
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#WhenTheresTooMuch
, I take a little road trip to get rejuvenated.
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Erik Loomis
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This Day in Labor History: May 21, 1968. The Poor People’s Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. This was Martin Luther King's last campaign. It did not succeed without his leadership, but would have been difficult to pull off anyway. Let's chat!
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Cole County Missouri is so proud of their “baby box” where under resourced women can drop off their babies. And then, this.
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Kids Keep Getting Stuck in Hospitals, Even After Being Cleared for Discharge - KFF Health News
Some children are healthy enough to leave the hospital after a medical stay but have no place to go. Across the country, the practice of allowing children to remain hospitalized “beyond medical necess...
https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/hospital-boarding-social-stays-children-kids-missouri-illinois/
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Wrap02
16 days ago
This 2026 ballot will be the most complex & confusing Missouri ballot of my >50 yrs voting lifetime. There are also Initiative Petitions/referendums awaiting signature verification/certification by Hoskins, Secretary of State, that will make the list in this reporting longer.
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“The same poisonous ideology that built the Confederacy, sabotaged Reconstruction, and instituted Jim Crow is slithering its way through Republican states to suffocate representative democracy.” ~ Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
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Hooray for women prosecutors!
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Minnesota county charges an ICE officer in a nonfatal shooting during Trump's immigration crackdown
A Minnesota county prosecutor has charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the sta...
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-charges-sosacelis-bd78efd7f341a9bd9c1acc2c0037a958
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An open letter to Rep. Onder.
I demand that you REJECT any additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The American people across identities...
https://resist.bot/letters/774b07ca-3222-4e79-8fa6-fe2dcfcea504?utm_source=resistbot&utm_medium=Resistbot&utm_campaign=open-letter&channel=messenger
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An open letter to Sen. Hawley, Sen. Schmitt.
“This week, the U.S. Senate will stage an argument so absurd it will be talked about for a thousand years…. Of course, the current U.S....
https://resist.bot/letters/c9745c9e-49a6-472c-924d-6a1f01827b55?utm_source=resistbot&utm_medium=Resistbot&utm_campaign=open-letter&channel=messenger
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“…The Missouri House hasn’t functioned with an actual supermajority for some time. …Kehoe never called special elections for a number of vacant House seats. That prevented Republicans from…trying to eliminate the majority-minority 1st Congressional District.
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6 takeaways from a less contentious 2026 Missouri legislative session
Republicans and Democrats generally got along during the 2026 session but did clash over income taxes and abortion.
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-05-18/6-takeaways-from-a-less-contentious-2026-missouri-legislative-session
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“It takes a special kind of cruelty to meddle in end of life care for political reasons.” ~
@bridgettedunlap.bsky.social
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Missouri’s new anti-abortion law will hurt families in medical crisis • Missouri Independent
It takes a special kind of cruelty to meddle in end of life care for political reasons. The so-called “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” passed last week does just that. It is part of a l...
https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/18/missouris-new-anti-abortion-law-will-hurt-families-in-medical-crisis/
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