They did it!! The Columbia Public Schools board just voted UNANIMOUSLY to enact a secure storage resolution that will educate mid-Missouri families about the importance of secure firearm storage. So proud & grateful for the board's thoughtful work to prioritize school and community safety. #BeSMART

Joined the packed campaign kick-off for Rep Gregg Bush who represents southern/eastern parts of Columbia. Gregg’s the only nurse serving in the Missouri Legislature. It’s clear from issues he spoke powerfully about tonight and the legislation he’s worked on that he’s serving with deep compassion.1/3

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

If you don’t recognize any of these songs, time to schedule your colonoscopy

he sleeps by day

This story about a dumb dumb student's weaponization of Turning Point USA tactics against her OU instructors and her university would've been more than disturbing enough. But then comes the part where her mother is a criminal from Missouri with a podcast.

Since federal agents arrived in Chicago, many violence intervention groups have shifted their resources to cover more immigration justice work, using their networks of street outreach workers to be vigilant of government violence and adding more immigrant-specific services.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

The stark acknowledgment has drawn parallels to neighboring Kansas, which experienced a budget disaster roughly a decade ago.

What can we understand about someone who writes about "moral superiority" as a criticism of others, as a result of being confronted with information that they don't agree with or to? Are such people unable to find out they're wrong? (Because sometimes we're all going to be wrong.) Serious question.

Columbia's Office of Violence Prevention is poised to offer a contract to Powerhouse Community Development for 2 liaisons for public transit--to keep city bus riders safe. They'd be trained in deescalation, with understanding of services individuals can access: abc17news.com/news/columbi...

Guest on my local NPR station shilling for Hobby Lobby this morning in a segment about “tablescapes” is making my head hurt. Literally the last place in Columbia we should be shopping. www.themarysue.com/the-hobby-lo...

This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.

The Republican shutdown—the longest ever—is over, but let's recap how Trump spent the last 40+ days: - Suing to force 42 million kids & families who rely on SNAP to go hungry - Bailing out Argentina - Jetting around the globe having fancy dinners - Demolishing the East Wing to build a ballroom

According to Rep. Bob Onder's online Government Shutdown Resource Guide, air travel is normal. Surely the people in his mid-Missouri office have heard the news?? Seems unlikely that as a pilot he wouldn't know that airports in his district aren't working: www.kbia.org/missouri-new...

Missouri @momsdemand.bsky.social volunteers attended Rep. Kathy Steinhoff's campaign kickoff. When she launched her 1st #moleg campaign gun violence was 1 of 2 issues she ran on. With this issue MUCH discussed in Columbia now I'm glad to know she'll continue the work on commonsense gun safety policy

"While armchair diagnoses of Trump’s mental state have long been something of a fool’s game (an ethically dubious one at that), we’ve nevertheless reached a point where even the most casually tuned-in observer can see a president in obvious decline."

I'd need to know more about whether the minister shot in the face with a chemical agent from point-blank range before weighing in on it. Maybe it was good that it happened.

Educators & parents: • Are public schools in your area losing funding or changing curriculum? • Are low-income, ESL or disabled students losing access to programs? • Are more families in your area sending students to private schools? Help us report ⬇️

lede of the year from angela williams

Great news: Extremists found someone to hold accountable for childhood harm. Bad news: it’s not the gun industry that is killing our kids, it’s Tylenol. While the gun industry celebrates their Congressional handout, PLCAA, gun violence is the #1 cause of death for American children. Priorities…

🎯 @comissourian.bsky.social’s Darko doesn’t miss.

"recent polling found that 53 percent of Indiana voters opposed mid‑cycle redistricting, with only 34 percent in support" [attn: #moleg]

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Illinois State Rep. Hoan Huynh (D), who is also running for Congress, got stopped and harassed by armed Border Control agents while in a car in Chicago's Northwest Side on Tuesday, according to video he shared. Huynh says one of the agents pointed a weapon at him.

Stop saying “renovation.” Better words: Desecration Violation Demolition Destruction Retribution Vanity-wrecking-ball

TUNE IN: I’m STILL on the Senate floor exposing Trump’s attempts to trample on the Constitution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...

The President responded to peaceful protesters across this country with a video of himself wearing a crown, driving a fighter jet, and bombing peaceful protestors with human waste. Are you kidding me? Republicans don't say anything about this? It's a total disgrace.

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Helicopter parenting is out of control. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

An important read this Domestic Violence Awareness Month: “Guns amplify the inherent power and control dynamics characteristic of abusive intimate relationships, whether as lethal weapons to injure and kill or as a tool to inflict emotional abuse without ever firing a bullet.”

I know it's cliche to yell about it at this point, but it remains true that the asymmetries in how the parties are treated by US political & media institutions is at the root of everything. Dems have standards so they are held to standards. Rs don't, so they aren't.

for sure the voting rights act belongs in a distant past because racism has been solved you guys

"The Voting Rights Act was passed back when America was a far more racist country. These days, race only ever comes up in fun, joking ways. Like when the president shares a meme of the Speaker of the House wearing a sombrero."

“The Secretary of State knows better.”

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

Rural Northern Missouri will be well represented on No Kings day.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

SHUTDOWN UPDATE Airport delays hit second day amid government shutdown www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Missouri’s controversial GOP-backed gun law that banned local police from enforcing federal gun laws was rejected by SCOTUS. The law imposed $50K fines for officers who enforced federal gun laws, including possession of firearms by some domestic violence offenders & weapons registration/tracking.

Missouri @momsdemand.bsky.social volunteers are in attendance tonight for Columbia City Council's meeting because gun safety policy is on the agenda. 🧵 Early in the meeting, CPD Chief Jill Schlude was given time to share a public safety report. Agenda: gocolumbiamo.legistar1.com/gocolumbiamo...

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...

The September 28 attack on a Mormon church in Michigan was at least the 20th high-profile shooting at a U.S. house of worship over the past two decades. Many of the shootings were motivated by hate, while others stemmed from domestic disputes or a grudge the attacker had.

The announcement comes as the first-year governor has tried to align himself more closely with the Trump administration in recent months.

Getting the title of The Handmaid’s Tale wrong even though there’s a picture of the cover, really walking the walk on being anti-reading

If you are waiting to see if Trump follows through before acting or becoming alarmed (or worse, condemning people for overreacting until he acts further), you have already surrendered to authoritarianism. The moment to act is now, when our flailing institutions might still have a modicum of power.

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

There's no good news for the current Oklahoma students whose educations and well being have been disrespected and devalued by this Christian nationalist and his enablers. But if there's a silver lining maybe it's that HR departments exist to protect us all from perverts perving out at work?

It's National Day of Remembrance for Homicide Victims and Columbia, Missouri survivors will gather this evening at 6:30PM in Again Street Park. #moleg #mogov This vigil is organized by Boone County Community Against Violence: