Fair and even-handed coverage as always from @anneliseh.bsky.social and @missouriindependent.com Despite Missouri Republicans acting their worst, covering the anti-LGBT bill hearings that stretched deep into the night

There's only one time you will ever hear Missouri Republicans saying look to European countries as a model. That's when they claim a European country bans transgender healthcare. Problem is, they are getting their facts wrong on which countries. #moleg www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...

Today at 4:30, the #moleg Emerging Issues committee will hear 7 anti-LGBT bills. 4 bills removing the SAFE act sunset and 3 sports bans for transgender youth. These bills are discriminatory, solve no budget shortfalls, pave no roads, and attract no businesses to Mo. house.mo.gov/AllHearings....

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The #moleg Emerging Issues cmte. has noticed up 7 anti-LGBT bills to be heard Tuesday, Jan 20th at 4:30 PM. HB 1608, 1672, 1854, and 2033 gender transition procedures, and HB 1607, 1663, and 1973 sports bans. @lizsaila.bsky.social @erininthemorning.com house.mo.gov/AllHearings....

MAGA judges rubber stamp the lower court declaring trans healthcare, "fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties" Logic can be next applied to adult GAC, abortion care, or any politically charged healthcare practice. @lizsaila.bsky.social @erininthemorning.com @esqueer.net

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld a law barring minors from receiving cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and gender transition surgeries and prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for all ages. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a ban on gender transition surgeries, cross-sex hormones and other gender-affirming care for minors.

St. Louis PrideFest will see more regional acts, expanded VIP benefits and the return of its $10 entry fee for its 46th festival year.

Continuing 🧵 discussing #moleg bills the Missouri Republicans are pushing to target the adult LGBT community. HB 2314 and SB 1389 are bathroom bills that target any business in the state. Other bills target schools or government buildings, but these bills aim for society-wide bans. 1/6

Missouri Republicans are pushing drag show ban bills. However, HB 1702, 2407, and SB 1164, 1476 don't target just drag shows, but every gay bar, winery or restaurant, and Pride festivals. A 🧵 discussing the wide scope of these #moleg bills. 1/8

2nd day of #moleg Missouri Legislative session, and House and Senate leaders gave speeches on what the priorities will be for session. Jobs, lowering taxes, and fixing roads made the talking-points, but today we see what actually got referred to committees. Turns out a lot of culture war first!

The #moleg Missouri Legislature begins session today, and the House and Senate pre-filed 1866 bills. Of those, 34 are explicitly anti-LGBT. Other bills are facially neutral, but aimed at LGBT people. Follow bills @lizsaila.bsky.social and the LGBTQ+ tracker docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The #moleg Missouri legislature getting attention for all the wrong reasons. These measures won't solve budget shortfalls, fix roads, or attract businesses. Its just culture war all the time.

1. Missouri prefiled bills are in, and the anti-trans panic continues. One even goes as far as to ban social transition in schools. Any teacher who "supports" it, including name changes, pronouns, or "treatment," would be fired. Even with parent permission! Subscribe to support our journalism.

Its the 2nd day of pre-filing of #moleg bills in the Missouri House and Senate. So far the Mo Senate pre-filed 565 bills, the text of each bill is not available yet for all, but 13 of which are obviously anti-LGBT. A 🧵 1/

Its the first day of Pre-filing of #moleg bills in the Missouri House and despite a snowy day 485 were filed. The text of every bill is not yet available, but 15 bills are obviously anti-LGBT.

I've been thinking about Matt Furie a lot during this period of political frog realignment, so I made this comic dedicated to him.

I'm rapidly reaching the point where not only will I not read NYT articles, but I will start blocking people who offer NYT article Gift links. Go peddle your trash elsewhere. #birdcageliner

I am extremely pleased the left is taking back frogs from the far right. 😀🐸🐸🐸

"Placing prohibitions on certain procedures for trans children in the [Missouri] constitution — would be unprecedented in the United States and likely impossible to reverse." -- via Annelise Hanshaw @missouriindependent.com missouriindependent.com/2025/10/15/h...

Mo judge signs off on completely deceptive ballot language. Mo Republicans are going to try to repeal reproductive healthcare before it is even fully phased in from the voter-approved Nov '24 amendment. #mogov #moleg

Honestly “Republicans are shutting down the government to hide the Epstein files” is pretty good messaging.

Photo dump from the always beautiful Tower Grove park #STL #STLpridefest #Towergrovepride Happy Pride 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Every time I read one of his Tweets it just reminds me we are being governed by your oldest relative who can work a computer and saw a chain email and wanted you to read it. FWD:fwd:RE:RE:re:RE:

The always magical Tower Grove Pride parade #towergrovepride Happy Pride 2025 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

If anyone is curious to learn why Missouri has become what it is now, this article is a great start. Written 2022 by @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social still incredibly on point.

FCC announces new rules for Mergers & Acquisitions approval. No longer requiring examination of anti-competitiveness, just a streamlined check to see if either company employs late night comedians.

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people. Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Vowing a 'Different style'" = Same agenda, but let the underlings grandstand a bit more.

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is allowed to access patient health information as part of its investigation into the Washington University Transgender Center, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. #moleg #mogov

Still prefer Sleepy Joe over Trump's Shitshow

“It seems that if you have any independent thought, or even just raise a question, you have a problem with this Republican Party,” said Sen. Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield. “And that is not the Republican Party that, 15 years ago when I first ran for the House, that I was part of.” #moleg #mogov

Inflation is up, tariffs costing us more, economy slowing down, hiring slowing down, entire industries disrupted by the feds chaos. There is none of the promised prosperity in all this DOGE/Fed/Trump chaos. Vote these bums out.

So, the Epstein files are still hidden, congressional districts are being redrawn without a census, and they are restricting the people of Missouri's Initiative Petition process. Vote the bums out.

Went running and they played Total Eclipse of the Heart and What is Love back to back on The Arch ❤️🎼❤️ 😄🎵😉

Missouri is indeed in. Lawmakers will return to Jefferson City next week to draw a new congressional map that would convert the 5th Congressional District into a GOP-leaning seat. This is a major turning point for Missouri politics:

270 between Ladue and 64 being under construction for the last decade, what a mess

Was at a friendly get-together, and the hostess' lesbian daughter and girlfriend were there. Guests remarked how happy they seemed and if marriage was considered. I genuinely had a moment, do I want to be *that guy* and talk about Obergefell and Kim Davis, now? I kept quiet. 😕

Missouri's attorney general is leaving to become a co-deputy FBI director. Among other things, Andrew Bailey drew nationwide attention, and bipartisan scorn, in 2023 for unsuccessfully trying to bar transgender adults from accessing gender affirming care:

MAGA to transwomen: Just be a feminine man Vikings cheerleader: *exists* MAGA: NOT LIKE THAT!!!

3 years cancer-free! ❤️🎉🎉

Skeevy Bachelor Confessions: I Re-used The Lunch Plate for Dinner! 😱

@trixiemattel.bsky.social put out a List of Queer Films and its time for some summer viewing! Some I've seen before, some I haven't seen in years, and others are new to me! ❤️🏳️‍🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5h...

Outstanding segment with @markmaxwelltv.bsky.social outlining the public safety breakdown in the Grove during Pridefest weekend. #STLPride #PrideSTL www.ksdk.com/video/news/p...

America striving for a more just society. Happy Pride St Louis 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️ #stlpride #stlpridefest #prideparade

Rep. Raskin is 🔥

Bumping this. SCOTUS today invented a parental veto on school curricula. No discernable limits on what a parent could object to. Evolution, heliocentrism, carbon dating, dinosaurs, its all up for grabs. This is way more than just LGBT storybooks.

In a @pewresearch.org survey earlier this year, 56% of US adults favored making it illegal for health care professionals to provide minors with medical care for a gender transition. That was up from 46% in 2022. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.