Please avoid all salads, including word.

Young people make art and think, read about it open.substack.com/pub/cohevins...

A U.S. citizen working for an evangelical aid group has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where aid groups are struggling to contain a surging outbreak that has already killed over 600 people.

NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.

Incredibly powerful day sharing the @besmartforkids.bsky.social program at MO Suicide Prevention Network’s statewide conference. The conference is open to all—community members, coalition partners, survivors, 1st responders, educators, clinicians. We spoke to folks from across MO, in every category.

This man truly curses everything he touches.

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

Re this thing everyone is talking about, some unsolicited advice. Before you hit Post, review what you’ve written. If you’re sharing a sentence with a “but” clause, omg no.

Trump eliminates dozens of safety regulations, fulfilling campaign promises to the gun industry. What’s frustrating: policy being gutted is not “divisive” as NYT claims here. Fact is, Americans everywhere by HUGE majorities believe in background checks on gun sales. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

🇺🇸Happy Independence Day! A throw back to 2016–the year everyone around here was obsessed with HAMILTON (except the 8th grade social studies teacher who refused to allow these boys to discuss it). “…And when push/Comes to shove/I will send a fully armed battalion/To remind you of my love!”

The SCOTUS decision striking down the Hawaiian people’s ability to say where a person may carry hidden, loaded guns is—as Justice Brown Jackson wrote—protecting guns. To the court’s extremists private property rights and Hawaiian traditions are nothing compared with the gun lobby’s right to profit.

FACT: Amendment 4 is a PERMANENT amendment to the constitution that changes the rights of citizens in Missouri, making it nearly impossible to pass ballot measures. Vote NO on Amendment 4 on Tuesday, August 4th!

“‘This event gets better every year, bigger every year.’ Tables were lined up nearby with organizations such as @momsdemandaction.org, Dream Tree Academy, the Central Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association and others sharing family resource info.” www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/a...

Missouri @momsdemandaction.org volunteers had a fantastic meeting this morning with staff in Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office. Congressman Cleaver co-sponsors 2 lifesaving gun safety bills, and we were pleased to be able to thank staff and share our personal stories. @cleaver.house.gov #GSU2026

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin joined #GSU2026 at breakfast, rallying volunteers headed to the Hill.🇺🇸 We will get there, she said, to the place where we’ll have laws in place that end gun violence. When that’s done, we’ll have to work hard to remember this batshit crazy time. @momsdemandaction.org

Nearly 1,000 of our most passionate volunteer leaders have gathered in DC for our marquee training conference, Gun Sense University!

Sen.Chris Murphy gives excellent rally speeches—like he does it every day. Rallying a thousand #GSU2026 advocates ready to lobby on the Hill tomorrow, he recounts how this movement started after Sandy Hook. The DC policy failures and lifesaving successes since then. 1/2 @momsdemandaction.org

Long day of travel, but super excited to be with hundreds of my fellow volunteers at Gun Sense University—and to reconnect with our big Missouri chapter delegation. @momsdemandaction.org @everytown.org @studentsdemandaction.org

New York's entire vibe today is like a class about to give the substitute teacher a breakdown

Missouri courts have sided with a clarified version of Amendment 5, an effort by Republicans to restructure taxes by vastly raising our sales and use taxes, a.k.a. the Everything Tax. Another fun fact: efforts to fight back in court are subsidized by the Missouri Association of Realtors. #moleg

For @texasobserver.org, I did a deep dive into Brandon Herrera, a gunfluencer and now Republican congressional nominee who has spread memes associated the extremist Boogaloo movement and rationalized lethal violence against people with certain political beliefs. www.texasobserver.org/brandon-herr...

When asked for evidence, he resorts to insults. When pressed for answers, he ends the interview. That’s not strength. It’s what happens when the facts aren’t on your side. The American people deserve better.

Important to stress that: a) Pelley isn't some resistance hero, he's a reactionary centrist; b) Even this wasn't enough for Bari

Coverage of the powerful #WearOrange event held last night in downtown Columbia, Mo. 🧡 Proud to work alongside Erika Buford (and Powerhouse Community Development) to host this event that honored, listened to, and lifted up survivors. @momsdemandaction.org @everytown.org abc17news.com/news/columbi...

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If some superstar Knicks fans (Taylor? Jay-Z?) want to attend on Monday and upstage this bad-luck weirdo from Queens being in the building I think we'd all be grateful. nymag.com/intelligence...

But wait, this is how big the reflecting pool already was.

Scott Pelley calls Bari Weiss on a further string of lies.

Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes the right way. by Ezra Klein

A gorgeous night to be in Centralia with so many Boone County Dems for the Anchor Fest parade! We are so excited to flip Missouri House District 44 for Bekki Brewer this November. #moleg @boonedems.bsky.social

Last night mid-Missouri @momsdemandaction.org volunteers gathered at the Columbia Library for a productive local meeting. We covered the Missouri Legislature’s session which ends Friday—a hectic time when we're watch dangerous gun bills closely, in a year where many have been moving forward. #moleg

A recent Rutgers University study is one of the first to focus specifically on the link between exposure to gun violence and chronic pain. It’s part of an emerging body of work on the physical health toll of gun violence. Read more: thetr.ac/tGHlu

In the Missouri legislature today, both chambers are debating bill language that would put more guns in our schools. The proposal to create a program for something called "Missouri Rangers"--a program to designate a new group of people who'd be able to carry firearms onto school property.

Like seriously who pays extra $70 for the privilege of having a middle seat in row 21 is that even a thing that someone does.

“In 0 out of the last 3 presidential elections, did Black turnout come anywhere close to parity,” said Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice. The overall national turnout gap has “exploded” over the last 15 years, he added. Alito’s claim is “simply not factual.”

MISSOURI FRIENDS: Gun extremists in Missouri are trying to pass dangerous, gun lobby-backed legislation before session ends next week, May 15. Join me in telling our lawmakers to oppose these dangerous bills: bit.ly/4nf3vlk @momsdemandaction.org #MOleg

Reality TV grifters all the way down

Happy Stop Day everybody

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

I asked my focus group of Republican-leaning independents whether the redistricting wars would have an effect on their vote this fall. The group was undecided, mostly asking questions about which side was trans.

Everyone who wants to talk about the public health crisis of gun violence, mass shootings, political violence... What if we agreed NOT to use terms set by the gun lobby to talk about the world we want to see? Imagine it. Then stop yourself from typing the phrase "gun control." @momsdemandaction.org

🤣 “He would not admit to lying, which he clearly did in the podcast,” Rep. Subramanyam said, referring to Lutnick’s remarks on Pod Force One. “I had to ask him whether he and I were in the same room just now because I couldn’t understand his meaning of ‘we were in the same room together.’”

Alternate headline: "the popularity of major label artists is almost always a carefully constructed lie, especially in the social media era when follower numbers can be bought" www.thedailybeast.com/artists-are-...

Columbia's Earth Day Fest offers “a lot of opportunity to hear from people on different issues that matter,” said Kristin Bowen, a volunteer for @momsdemandaction.org. “It’s just a brilliant place to meet our neighbors and talk about an issue that is important to so many of us.”

Higher ed is under authoritarian attack. Joining the fiction that all college is a sociology class you don’t like, and that Dem politicians are beholden to it, doesn’t help. Around 40% of Americans went to or are in college. No other group that big gets cast by so many national figures as abnormal.

Our hearts break for the victims, survivors, and the entire Carrollton community, who have been impacted by this devastating shooting. We should be able to run errands without the fear of being shot.

"Despite more than 5 million tickets sold (for World Cup matches), this demand has not yet translated into strong hotel bookings"<--does this mean tickets aren't being sold to actual humans (just scalping bots who presumably don't need hotels)? Or that nobody's in a rush to come here? Or both?

This is a blunt summary of something I think about A LOT.

A good way to defy governmental oppression is to use old-school state abbreviations—N.Y., Conn., Calif., Ill., Del., etc.—instead of the post office versions (except on envelopes and packages, where they belong). ✊🏼