After a two-year court battle, Sniper 1 can finally be identified as Keaton Siebenaler. @kcur.org and The @npr.org Midwest Newsroom have confirmed he departed the Joplin Police Department in August and graduated from the MSHP academy last week:

Its beyond clear our department and by extension the rest of stl county employees are facing furloughs because of politics I admittedly am not up on the politics of it all but Dr. Page is the only one who has addressed us & spoken to us in person, the council just have snide comments at meetings

Just saying if I was a reporter on local politics I would make sure to be in attendance for tomorrow's county council meeting.

The forces of obfuscation are strong at the City Counselor's office. A record I requested in January was provided 5 days later.👍 Today I was informed by the Custodian of Records that a similar record requested on 4/8 won't be available prior to 4/27. 👀😠 #NoAccountabilityWithoutTransparency

“At the core of the lawsuit challenging the rezoning of the data center site and the development agreement with CRG are allegations of various secret meetings and a lack of timely public information meant to stifle opposition.”

Walking ten blocks from my parking spot to union loafers. The Friday tradition

Fighting back against Trump starts with opposing his agenda, voting to impeach him, and holding his entire administration accountable. But politicians who share the same MAGA billionaire donors as Trump can’t fight the president because they are bankrolled by the same PACs.

Hey they let us out early. Sweet

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

Absurd. After Pope Leo criticized Trump's war in Iran, Pentagon officials reportedly invoked the Avignon Papacy as a warning—a devastating 14th century military conquest of the Catholic Church. Pope Leo has since cancelled his planned US visit Tl:dr Even the Pope appears unsafe from Trump’s fascism

Very distressing situation with St. Louis apartment residents kicked out on a day's notice, reported and 📷 by Lacretia Wimbley. "Some residents, including 48-year-old Angel Shorter, said they received no prior warning. She was previously unhoused and has lived at the complex for a year."

Rep. David Tyson Smith [said] the bill reverses hard-won criminal justice reforms state lawmakers passed after the 2020 killing of George Floyd by law enforcement officers. “It was not properly vetted...It was rushed through. And it’s a major rollback of the criminal justice reform we’ve seen."

This is why I stick to star wars, Tolkien and table top subreddits

Someone on stl reddit said I was being condescending because I made a joke and was surprised people didn't get it. It's gotta be the same person who said i was gatekeeping Mexican food for not enthusiastically talking about El Maguay

Don’t get your hopes up, St. Louis. Cara Spencer doesn’t have to face the voters for another four years. We’re absolutely gonna get data centers in the city while she’s in office.

More than 60 people have been kicked out of the Concord apartment complex in St. Louis’ Marine Villa neighborhood after police raided the property late last week — and advocacy groups are criticizing the city for not supporting vulnerable residents.

Election results: Voters in St. Louis have retained a 1% tax that makes up more than a third of the city’s general revenue fund.

Theres a guy that works at the courthouse in clayton that wears a full suit and top hat every day. I appreciate his commitment to the bit

1/ NYT out with a huge piece on the decision to go to war. It's much as we thought: Bibi sold Trump a rosy scenario that he heard over the mild to moderate warnings that it was BS but the details are so...appalling/demoralizing. Vance clearly a source: GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

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

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

I know they're likely never gonna sell but I'm halfway through about a dozen new colorizations that are all Gravois focused.

"You hear a lot of liberal and Democratic rhetoric about how dire this moment is. I agree. The only thing I have ever wanted, for the SPLC + for everyone living through this extraordinarily challenging moment, is for us to act like it." Important and moving read from @michaelehayden.bsky.social.

i am hearing that on his deathbed donald trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. even now he…oh he’s still alive? he decided to just praised allah?

Really not discussed enough that a decent amount of people on here and Twitter insisted that the US wasn't using any of their bases on GCC soil to directly attack Iran and this has now been repeatedly disproven

It's been interesting seeing people who ostensibly view themselves as progressive urbanists or at least city dwellers, laugh and poke fun at those outraged by the bump out removal downtown. Same people who cringed and became irate when Umar made fun of bike lanes 10 years ago, mind you

I feel like the city really thought out the installation of these. They provided strong reasoning, they based it on studies, and were very clear that designing for peak traffic would harm St. Louis residents and workers. Surely as the former alderman of Downtown, Mayor Spencer is aware of this.

Kyla on Facebook, does she work for Cara Spencer or does she just think of the dumbest shit to say imaginable as a full time contrarian

Way to go, St. Louis! Vision Zero? lol. It's Zero Vision!

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The recent messenger piece on the Mennonites working in the ville as they once did in JVL has me writing again on a topic I had told myself I'd return to Counter to the narrative that the Mennonites arrived as white saviors, Rev. Schwartzentruber and Macler Shepard felt the church did too little

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

I got mad enough about the removal of St. Louis’s bump outs that I spoke to @stlmag.bsky.social about it. I am deeply concerned that the loss of bump outs could turn into a loss of life. Will Mayor Spencer “own this” then? www.stlmag.com/news/bumpout...

CNN: Sources are telling us that recent U.S. Intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one way attack drones are still in Iran's arsenal tonight. That's despite daily U.S. And Israeli airstrikes.

And then city leaders met with business leaders (aka Hilton’s ownership group reps) and removed it. No public feedback for removal, even though they require us to perform and beg for their install. And this whole time they’ve always had the power to act to make things safer, they just chose not to.

KMOV fanned the flames on this

When your gf invites her cat to your dinner date

Yesterday, in the Court of Torino, my family and I were recognized as Italian citizens by descent! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Just saw a bumper sticker on a truck that said “You Just Been Passed By A Girl!!!” and I guess I feel a little enlightened because I’ve never once thought “you know what women can’t do? Go over the speed limit”

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Our biggest mistake will be going with AI over Precogs for law enforcement.

This is so pure and good

Not an April fools joke, one of my favorite stl twitter moments, 10 years ago when a local satirist wrote that the loop trolley tracks were too narrow and had to be replaced Beth O'Malley of the Post Dispatch had a full on meltdown and the post actually posted a rebuttal to a satire piece

The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.

If you're in Rutherford County, TN send an email to their library board to show your support for Director Luanne James! Contact info here: rclstn.org/libraryboard...

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

Mayor Spencer needs to pull the plug on the #ArmoryDataCenter Just like Lyda pulled the plug on the airport privatization scam in 2019.

Score one for the preservation of art!

A new north St. Louis County arts initiative aims to build up the region's art scene. "Forging Black Joy" will feature artist talks, gallery exhibitions and poetry nights throughout April and May. A closing festival will be held May 31.

In the 1840s/50s proslavery Dems constantly condemned “fanaticism” by which they meant causes like temperence ans abolitionism, because they assumed those people just wanted to infringe on their freedom and police their behavior while quietly being hypocrites who didn’t believe anything