The U.S. is not a Functional Democracy open.substack.com/pub/contrari... tRump keeps getting 'credit' for where we are now. He is not in charge, he is following orders. Project 2025 is in charge and planning the final stages of the takeover.

Acts of kındness www.stltoday.com/article_cfaf...

Perfect!

“Doomscroll,” a small but influential YouTube interview show created by the artist and researcher Joshua Citarella, hosts guests who typically come from the further reaches of leftist political theory and punditry.

apnews.com/video/scarle...  Scarlett Johansson says her Jewish heritage made directing 'Eleanor The Great' personal Went to see the movie this afternoon and just loved it. Moving, funny, sad, meaningful; ten out of ten!

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What the USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings): Life Expectancy: 46th FreePress: 42nd Healthcare: 30th Education: 26th Happiness: 23rd Freedom: 17th What the USA is #1 in: Military Spending Number of Billionaires Incarceration Bankruptcy filings Medical debt Gun deaths

While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

Latest language for Missouri ballot measure fails to mention amendment would ban abortion missouriindependent.com/briefs/misso...

katiecouric.com/health/menta... This is why research needs to be funded. This is very hopeful!

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apnews.com/article/bill...  Wisconsin Republican Bill Berrien quits governor's race amid fallout over sexually explicit links and another one....

www.counton2.com/news/south-c... his screen name was joebidennn69 wtf?

This is SO important, but gets lost in the chaos of the day… she was FIRED for following the LAW 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

NAACP demands change after racist graffiti found at Francis Howell school www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...

Noah catalogued every living animal in pairs and was hyperfocused on boats. Don’t tell me autism started with Tylenol.

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

Well now that parts of the Epstein Files are finally being released we know why friends of Donald Trump have been fighting non stop to suppress them. Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and Peter Thiel were all taking pedophile island vacations

Famed former Salomon Brothers bond trader Howard Rubin and his former personal assistant were arrested Friday morning on charges of sex trafficking and transporting women across state lines for commercial sex acts over the course of a decade.

She came into her job widely accused of being a foreign asset. She now responds to those credible allegations by doing the first thing any foreign asset would do in her role: bury all intelligence on pending foreign threats to the United States. It's almost like America doesn't *want* to survive.

www.reuters.com/investigatio... cheating on elections with bribery of religious leaders? That the leaders would go along with this shows you their actual dedication to their beliefs, their lack of moral standards, and their lack of ethical standards. Disgusting.

katiecouric.com/health/cance... Bahahahaha! Brilliant!

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Here's my latest on Senator Murkowski, the deciding vote not to release the files, and how survivors are striking back. open.substack.com/pub/tarapalm...

"This is completely orchestrated by President Trump… In previous administrations, any hint of contact on a criminal case would be a scandal on its own"

Laura Loomer vs. Jasmine Crockett: Who's Really the "Ghetto Bitch?" open.substack.com/pub/drstacey... First off, thank you. Second off, Jasmine is from St. Louis? I already loved her, now I love her even more!!

apnews.com/article/chin... and activists call for action after AP reveals US tech role in China's surveillance state

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... This is awesome!

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Not good

apnews.com/article/jimm...  In Jimmy Kimmel's words: What the late-night host said upon his return from suspension Great job Jimmy! Welcome back!

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Messenger: Crime fighters in cities need data. What happens when Trump erases it? www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Big Banks Behaving Badly - The American Prospect prospect.org/economy/2025... What the actual fuck??

September 23, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Unbelievable. Mortifying. Embarrassing.

“The immediacy of the horror unfolding in Gaza City, and the cataclysmic conditions facing civilians there, should not foreclose the possibility of thinking about a better future,” Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib writes:

I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders. Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?