Dear @vanityfair.com: Pls share all of the excellent reporting you've done on RFK Jr. on all platforms w/out paywalls. No single publication has done as much exhaustive and tedious reporting on him as you have, w/a breadcrumb of stories going back decades. Dude's a class A grifter. You proved it.

It’s almost like coastal progressive analysts should talk to actual reporters who live and cover politics in these places before they tell us how to win statewide elections. (Also Laura Kelly (D) is an abortion rights supporter and the CURRENT gov. of Kansas.)

If Ezra would like to talk to a woman who had forgotten more about politics in Missouri in the last five minutes than he’ll know in his lifetime, I know someone. (Also does he think we have some kind of Weird Science room where we can whip up such a person on demand?)

In a news cycle that's been so blinding, I forgive all of us if we missed this story, but if we lived in normal times--and if Meta were a normal company (it's not)--Zuck would face more consequences then just more Congressional testimony. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Just a quick reminder that it was ABC (Kimmel's former employer) that fired Bill Maher in 2002 for what in my view were his anodyne comments about US foreign policy and overzealous military intervention. Absolutely none of this surprises me. American media companies have never been run by liberals.

What if I told you the network who cancelled Kimmell is the same network who also fired and cancelled Bill Maher's show in 2002 when late night shows still mattered? They're as cowardly today as they then. They've always been cowards. I have no kind words for the suits at ABC. Not one.

Media reporting has maybe never been more important than it is now. Consider a subscription to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social and @status.news. (And no…he doesn’t publish on Substack.)

You can't make this shit up, guys. You really can't. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe's new congressional maps have the same KC voters in *two districts*. It's almost like they rushed these maps without looking at them. Waste. What a waste. www.stlmag.com/news/trouble...

This is the shit that’s breaking my brain. It’s not that Vance did it. It’s that the media normalized it in seconds.

Tired logic, but here I go: If (name of lefty influencer) were assassinated while making a speech on a liberal campus (about violence!) and Kamala Harris promptly took over that person's podcast platform to call for an American intifada on conservatives...like...we'd all be like WHAT THE FUCK right?

And there was also the f*cking Boogaloo Murders in 2020 and that goddamned f*cking insurrection (!!!!!!) in between now and 10 years ago. How in the name of all thing that truly matter can the legacy media NOT know how to cover these dangerous people by now? (They can, they just don't want to.)

Great source if you need one: www.wired.com/story/charli...

I can't count the number of people who said this in 2016 on both hands. I can't count the number of people after Charlottesville who said this on both hands. I can't count the number of people who said this in 2024 on both hands.

Worth pointing out that as our allies potential descend further into war, the President of the United States spent last weekend **watching tennis**. Just imagine what the NYT et al would publish if the Bidens were chilling at the US Open days before Israel bombed Qatar.

That’s very specific. Governors actually can call out the National Guard. St. Louis had the Guard stationed here for fuckin years. Here we go again.

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s posts about Kirk are note perfect (incl. reposts). I feel way less crazy after just scanning his feed.

I am wildly hard-pressed to counter this position. Sometimes, and often, the best thing to say is nothing. What is there to say about a person like Kirk? He celebrated political violence as if it were his own brand. Oh, wait. That’s right. It was.

I am going to please remind everyone to follow what is happening in Nepal, Qatar, and of course Poland.

This guy is truly showing up for Missouri Dems right now; I mean hands-on, doing WAY more than (ahem) other dem leaders (I mean here, specifically), taking calls, the whole nine. I just wanted him to know how grateful I am and how much many of us appreciate the visibility and the lift.

My friends and I lived through this bullshit in the 90s. These ideas are not new. These assholes just have bigger platforms now. Bearing children and getting married are not measures of success (duh, but it bears repeating). Full-throated misogyny, however, is an abject moral failing.

Reposting because I don’t know who can see what on here. Missouri: CVS is offering COVID vaccines without a prescription.

Missourians: As of today, I could schedule a COVID vaccine at a local pharmacy. (I couldn't do this last week.) No issues going through the CVS app. Get boosted!!! (Scheduled both flu and COVID.)

Hey friends. How is your "contact Wesley Bell's office to demand he show up in Jefferson City tomorrow to support his colleagues and also stop a hostile power grab, thus turning the U.S. into a mono-party nation" going? I mean, I gave you the most important part. It's right there. DO THE THING!

My understanding is that Wesley Bell has **no plans** to attend Wednesday's protest in Jeff City against the GOP's dangerous redistricing. Pls. call him and insist he show up. Rep. Cleaver will be there as will (from what I understand) will DNC Chair Martin. Bell's DC Office: (202) 225-2406

Great to see the Find Out crew doing everything they can to stop the GOP's attempts at minority rule. You guys? We can't snooze on this. Illegal redistricting will take away every scrap of right we have left to stop people like JD Vance from grinding us into sand.

If anyone every does punch Bessent in the "f*cking face" and it's not captured on video, you're all fired because if any dude has a punchable face...

@rayreedmo.bsky.social, Reps Fuchs and Dean are STILL holding the Missouri House floor. It's been ongoing for over around 80 hours. They're doing this single-handedly. You know what they need? Encouragement. Gratitude. Support. Share. Moments like this only matter if they spread. THANK THEM!

For those of you shitting on the USTA for asking broadcasters to cut away from crowd reactions to Trump, ask yourself whether or not it’s typically an issue (it’s not) and when the last time it happened (Clinton in the last SIX months of his second term).

Missouri House Reps @rayreedmo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Fuchs, and Jeremy Dean single-handedly organized a sit-in on the Missouri House floor after the House speaker refused to recognize their concerns about redistricting. It's been going on for nearly 70 hours. PLS...SHARE AND THANK THEM!

Even by Trump and Miller’s co-brand of incoherent, shambolic chaos, this is inexplicably fucking stupid. S. Korea is our ally…they’re supposed to be the party of business. What is this cruel bullshit?

We had one Black president and he was from…right. That part. If Obama were from fuckin Omaha, Trump would hate it.

Millions of us--quite literally millions of Americans and experts on historic autocracies--said this very thing would happen. I would say I'm disgusted but I'm too afraid of the death and disappearances to come close to that. I'm terrified.

There's going to be more and more and more and more of this. If I were investing billions in a nascent technology, I'd reconsider whether or not I'd ever recoup that investment. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Trump is such a narcissistic, sociopathic, myopic, incompetent idiot that he will be the first President in the modern era to celebrate a Fed rate cut if and when it happens. Food-flation is back. Job growth is slowing. Rate cuts mean one thing, and it isn't a strong economy. He did this to himself.

The public trust in this institution may not be restored during my lifetime. There are a lot of public figures who deserve some of the blame. One of them is a bald, middle-aged comedian/podcaster.

I am 55 and would be at risk of severe infection if I contracted COVID. That I can’t schedule a booster is the most fucking stupid public health decisions we’ve ever suffered as a nation. RFK Jr. can’t even be a quack. He’d have to have ever been a doctor to qualify for that slur.

If there’s a source you can trust on this? It’s the Find Out crew.

Wow Osaka!!! What a game!!!

If you're more infuriated about the overhyped story from Lorenz than you are the far-right power grab that's happening in states like mine (Missouri) then you're part of the goddamned problem. Also? You're wrong.

For reasons that are utterly obvious to anyone in St. Louis with any level of emotional intelligence, this (from 2024) **still** infuriates me. We had an *excellent* Democratic candidate for governor. And yet... greaterstlinc.com/news/press-r...

Mike Kehoe is trash. He. Is. Trash. The people from the St. Louis business community who tried to convince voters (and themselves) that Kehoe would somehow govern from the center are both delusional and partly to blame for his victory. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

I really wish I’d gotten a Master’s degree in history so I could stack rank the most dangerous oligarchical pissing matches of all time. The Silicon Valley AI dick measuring fest certainly ranks up there. Grok isn’t even a good LLM.

The word for this is "ghettoizing." If it happened to anyone else on earth, the AIPAC-funded right would have the courage to say just that.

I want to see this energy from all of you this week (or what remains of it). Thanks!

In an era when it's hard to be optimistic about anything, my city is about to become far, far more bike friendly. I'll take the win. Shout out to STLUrbanist newsletter for the link! (They're a fantastic org; website link in thread.) www.modot.org/projects/mis...

Wesley Bell has hosted one public/in person town hall since taking office. Just the one. St. Louis this is embarrassing. And pathetic. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Legit forgot she existed after she launched her weird "Alo for Gun Owners" weird-as-fuck clothing line way back during Trump 1.0 when Milo still had a day job.

I am begging people who freely comment on why Democrats lose elections to spend more time talking to people who live (and work on campaigns) in Republican-controlled states. Because--and I say this lovingly--you're not talking to or about the right people.