The looming threat of nuclear armageddon is no excuse not to vote, St. Louis. Vote 'Yes!' on Prop E and retain that 1% earnings tax! Cause ain't nobody in the City of St. Louis out here saying "oh, but we already have so much money!"

“I feel liberated,” one top banker told the Financial Times in January 2025. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled.… It’s a new dawn.” Wonder where that guy is today and what he thinks about this all.

We're in the era of the 'Ugly American', and it's dealt a serious blow to my belief that, generally speaking, people are good. That may have been true before social media, Newt Gingrich, and modern conservatism, but it isn't true anymore. And it breaks my heart, over and over again.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

English, in all its vast majesty, nevertheless fails to provide the words necessary to express my absolute loathing of LLMs at drive-thrus. Why are they always coded as young white women? What's being recorded during the interaction? Why must LLMs pervade every aspect of society?

A small anecdote from history (and mostly because I'm on an Enron kick at the moment), but the same was said about Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron, upon the announcement of his nineteen convictions. "You've committed massive fraud and harm — just like Jesus!" 🙄

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author being "Interpreter of Maladies" and "The Namesake" will talk about her work, writing in Italian and more when she accepts the award on April 8.

The city of St. Louis had 20 homicides in the first quarter of 2026 – the lowest total in 20 years. The total continues a decline in killings that has also been seen nationwide since 2021.

It's actually very literally written exactly that way. Not to mention that it has been interpreted that way for 161 years. I know most Americans haven't read the US Constitution, much less taken ConLaw. But for the love of God, please don't believe this statement or organization. Please refute it.

I believe that, ultimately, the goal is to nullify each of the Reconstruction amendments — the 13th, 14th, and 15th. The 14th is the linchpin for an overwhelming amount of 20th/21st Century equality cases, but they'll come for 13 and 15 as well by trying to lock them into a specific era.

Failing to anticipate a question from Gorsuch about the implications to Native Americans is so staggeringly naive. It would be like having a copyright or trademark case and being surprised when Sotomayor cracked her knuckles and did a few air punches.

With regards to acronyms and initialisms, is the current convention to capitalize only the first letter? I've seen it popping up on social media, but the BBC just put out a headline about 'Nasa', as opposed to NASA. Is this the thing now? Because I don't care for it, personally.

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Fun Fact: "Salve, Regina!" is Latin for "Hey, Queen!"

Not only was this article fantastic, but it turns out that Dr. Esparza is a professor at WashU!

This was my experience with Republicans in MO's Jeff City, too. "I don't actually support [proposed anti-LGBT legislation], but I can't vote against my caucus." And for good reason, too; Tony Lovasco did vote against his caucus, and lost a reelection primary because he had a spine and conviction.

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

What goes better with coffee than 'The Sexual Love of Blight: Queer Domesticity and the Policing of Intimacy in the Postwar City'? (René Esparza, American Quarterly vol. 78 no. 1)

Prewitt entered prison in 1986, at age 36 and a mother of 5. It wasn't until 2024, a few days before Christmas, that Gov. Mike Parson finally acted, commuting her sentence. She was 75. At the time of her release, her 38 years in prison made her Missouri's longest serving prisoner.

I'm just waiting for Trump to tweet about speed humps, or how motorcyclists use the neighborhood, or how he doesn't like the neighbor's paint, or how...

I'm casually holding a book that was first published 92 years ago and presumably reprinted 50 years ago, which is when the library acquired this particular copy. All so that some silly little doctoral student can nerd out over coffee. And yet we want to defund libraries. 🙄

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Today my optometrist and I learned that I have a freckle on the back of my left eye. Everything else looks great — optic nerve living its best life, retina at risk of detachment but holding strong. All in all pretty good, just now featuring a freckle on Ol' Lefty. Hide me from the sun entirely.

Shout out to St. Louis's own Steve Templeton (@firstalert4.com) for recognizing and assuaging the anxiety around potentially tornadic weather, following the worst tornado in seventy years last May. Steve's the real MVP of local weather watches!

A tornado story in three parts. You can’t walk in many parts of north St. Louis without seeing these blue strands and realizing what they are. When I first saw tarps go up, I was naive enough to think they were a sign of hope. Now as they shred, I know no help is coming.

It's official! I'm joining Boston College as a doctoral student of 20th Century American History with a focus on Postwar Public Housing, this coming fall. Extremely excited for this opportunity, AND I saw an ocean for the first time! (Casey wouldn't let me taste the saltwater, however 😞)

Airport gate waiting areas are where the last few tattered shreds of civility go to die.

Honestly, the versatility of long hair is highly underrated.

Me, ears ringing and disoriented, trying to figure out how I slept in 'til 10AM before remembering

In response to NPR updating its logo from "NPR" to "WHY", commenters are saying that NPR is too biased and that FOX News is where we should all be getting our information from. So, anyway, the internet was a tremendous mistake and I'm logging off now to go listen to NPR.

I have accepted a doctoral offer and received my university email, as well as access to the graduate student portal. It's real! I'm not sure when I'm considered a PhD student, but today was the first day that I felt like one. I was never meant to make it this far, yet I have. I made it after all.

Pretty crazy to see my undergrad thesis "American Classicism: The Use and Abuse of Classical Antiquity by the US Far Right" (2024) be quite literally demonstrated and backed up by the US Department of State. Just crazy. Maybe I should finally get around to revising and submit or release it?

Republicans have had a supermajority for 22 years and some folks have the gall to call me “partisan.” Lol. I just look around and report the truth.

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Turns out that my husband is a football afficionado — even though this is the first game in our ~10 years together that we've watched! — and he's graciously explaining it all to me. As a former rugby player, therein lies my heart, but I'm grateful for the intel 🙏

No Kings includes Draft Kings

While I do like the Seahawks's colors better, I suppose I should cheer for the Patriots given that we're about to be New England residents for six years. I just hope everyone has fun and that domestic violence cases don't skyrocket on account of the recent legalization of gambling in Missouri.

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Of course it's racist, the whole thing is racist

So some random staffer is able to impersonate the President of the United States with zero approval to post? However will he — the Cheerleader of the Birther Movement (BM) — spin it next? 🙄

Many universities eager to cut PhD cohorts and programs will follow Harvard’s example and cut. But they will not be able to rally donors and raise $50-$100 million to re-fund those PhD programs “in perpetuity” as Harvard is now doing

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Headlines are breaking (as always, it seems) with news that SCOTUS is allowing California's maps to proceed. They are for now, first and foremost. They're also signalling to every Red legislature to go ahead and do this. SCOTUS just told every Red-Leg to gerrymander their states to all hell.

Amtrak has released a 'Trak Suit' and I cannot tell you how quickly I would rock one. www.amtrak.com/trak-suit

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?