Who did it better? Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced CEO of Theranos, with her nanotainer? Or me, no one of particular note, with the bastard nail that embedded and hid itself in my tire? You decide, America.

I'm going to use my diploma to papercut the next person who erroneously accuses me of using ChatGPT to write my silly little academic thoughts. Just papercut 'em to all hell.

Let me tell you, the fact that Josh Hawley is now the last problematic Missouri Republican should be ringing alarms across the nation.

I can’t tell you what happened with the murder of Charlie Kirk, but there’s a larger issue not being discussed. In moments of authoritarian crisis, the environment is ripe for accelerationists to inflame tensions for their own purposes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-opport...

I can hold the dialectic that Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was horrific and dangerous, and I also don’t want to live in a country where speakers at universities get shot in the neck.

I'd like to live in a world where nobody got shot, ever

To each their own, but I cannot celebrate someone being shot in the neck and bleeding out, traumatizing thousands of attendees and students and setting off who-knows-what as backlash. My Humanism allows me to hold two truths—that he was repugnant, and that this isn't the way to combat repugnancy.

We’re not going to be able to just vote ourseives out of this. It’s going to take a massive sea change with our politics, economics, and culture. And the people who committed these crimes are going to have to go to jail.

It really doesn't get discussed enough that the major tech firms are working with the Trump Administration and ICE in carrying out this program of terror. It just gets portrayed as Trump and his goons doing this awful business, but the capitalist structure is firmly intertwined.

If you support a candidate who has been willing to throw trans people under the bus and say it’s because you “want to win elections” you’re sending a pretty signal to trans people what you think of them. Not to mention continuing this “pragmatic” bullshit also isn’t going to win you elections.

My weight loss secret? Instead of eating I mostly skip meals and dine on ashes instead. Plenty to go around if anyone wants some.

This Labor Day we're introducing the cats to feminism and the nuclear arms race with Barbenheimer, as is tradition.

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Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

"Oh hey, sorry, that person is currently working a residential explosion response" is not something I thought I'd ever hear at work, much less be a relatively commonplace response!

I'm convinced that climate anxiety is playing a role, at least in part, in what on the surface may seem like a cycle of civilizations. There was always going to be a point when/where the realization took hold, despite any efforts to ignore or deny it. Another factor in our present social psychosis.

Y'all — my Red Cross regional headquarters has a wall of archival storage and no archivist. My heart sings! I'm here, baby, just wait for me to settle into my new role!

If you do call the police for a mental health situation here in the City of St. Louis, be sure to request a Purple Shirt member! Our Cops with Clinicians program, though reviled by the parasitic assholes on Nextdoor and Facebook who contribute nothing to society, is wildly successful in this regard.

For those outside of higher education, the sciences are especially elitist and have the largest chip on their shoulders. It's not that you won't find that in the humanities — you certainly will! But damn, the quantitative fields can be so damn difficult. As if they don't get all new everything 🙄

Now where else have we heard the insidious rhetoric that a Black female Mayor is "cooking the books" on crime stats? 🧐🧐🧐

Yesterday was my 85th and last day on the Red Cross tornado disaster relief operation. 12 weeks ranging from the morning after, to the midway point of long-term recovery. I need some time to decompress, but I'd like to do a write-up on this experience. We can come back from this stronger—will we?

So what's going on here, eh?

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the extension of the Aug. 11 deadline to Aug. 26 in a brief statement. It offered no explanation for the deviation from the city’s request for an Oct. 10 deadline.

First porn, now YouTube, ID checks to access the internet are creeping in. China & Russia started this way. Now their internet is locked down: no anonymity, no dissent, total surveillance. We are sleepwalking into total fascism. Don’t buy the “protect the kids” excuse. They want total control.

This is exactly how I imagine ancient Greek theater. I'm not kidding, either; I think we unintentionally add a somber severity to history out of reverence, when really, they were probably just having a laugh. Parts of the Iliad are comedic, after all!

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

Such an important point: “Progressive policies…are very popular in this country…but you have a segment of the Democratic Party that keeps trying to convince progressives we’re losing elections because their policies need to be more moderate.” Matt Dowd I wish more understood this. A confession… 🧵

Called it! He'll move to vacate the offices, and in doing so, will lower the threshold for quorum. This is the early stages of a civil war, y'all — or perhaps a reheating of it. It's the last gasp of our constitutional system of government. Republicans destroyed our government, plain and simple.

Rep. Flood is correct — we do not have unlimited money in the United States. No country does. Which is exactly why a nation's allocation of those limited funds is an expression of its priorities, spirit, and ethos. A budget is a declaration of what — and who — matters most to us.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

No seat should be safe for those who neither uphold our rights, our interests, nor our dignity. Sometimes it becomes incumbent upon some individual to pose the electoral question: can this — should this! — not be better? The response may be a firm "no.", as I know. Nevertheless pose the question.

Did we as a society ever pause to reflect on the hippie-to-fascist pipeline? Because it seems that there's a hippie-to-fascist pipeline that we're not talking about.

Tom Lehrer was smart and, thus, fine as hell, and I won't stand any nonsense that says otherwise. Sit tibi terra levis, Mr. Lehrer!

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes in the St. Louis Metro Area.

I actually know who needs to hear this, but: Ending parking minimums ≠ Banning new parking Ending single family only zoning ≠ Banning new and existing single-family homes

I've been listening to Studs Terkel interviews from the 70s (if not earlier) and the looking threat of automation is a frequently mentioned topic. As much as they change, things really do stay the same.

I absolutely adore the work of Vivian Maier, a reclusive photographer whose work was only somewhat recently discovered. Just really stunning photographs.

St. Louis City over here like

Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!

What a Country we could have if folks were repulsed by fascism like they are about rent control and universal healthcare.

Flashback to a different era in St. Louis history

I've been submitting requests on behalf elderly North City neighbors for weeks now, since the day the portal opened. Neighbors that I have no way of contacting, and who have no way of knowing their requests are now defunct. Devastating, to say the least. Here's to hoping a request log exists.

America's greatest export? Entertainment. America's greatest consumed product? Entertainment. The arts and humanities have forever been at the forefront of America's interests. Now imagine if we acted — and funded! — like it!

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Happy Fourth of July? Girl, bye.

I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂

You live in a country that is establishing concentration camps & soon will be stripping citizens of their papers.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"