Shapiro is the poster boy for the straight line between advocates of bombing city blocks full of Palestinian children and those urging respect for federal agents murdering citizens and terrorizing immigrant families. Who deserves freedom from violence depends on who is doing the violence.

As usual I put a lot of effort into planning remarks and then immediately decide not to speak from them.

Its refreshingly not 5 degrees outside.

Sure, the mayor will fund Gregg Favre and her fire union donors after spending her aldermanic years ignoring the budget requests to improve CEMA.

Well at least we're committed to rebuilding something after the tornado, shame its not the northside

Ill remind everyone that Amazon has also funded almost to the tune of $1 billion dollars, an atrocious tv show based on Tolkien's Silmarillion. Like, they're just in the business of lighting money on fire and making people mad

Always good when you seem to win the endorsement and participation of the group you want to make a documentary around

"The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

There’s currently a bald eagle in Forest Park! 🦅 maps.app.goo.gl/j4mUnfGj34wA...

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Have a lot of thoughts about this that I can’t share here, but I think a big part of ICE’s shittiness is a combination of laziness, incompetence, and misaligned incentives. This is a law enforcement organization whose culture is the Always Be Closing scene from Glengarry Glen Ross.

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

One person I helped relocate had this exact experience. When Grassroots Redeeming Love got him set up with a new rental, he still wanted to clean up the home he left behind. He’d lived in the rental for 40 years and they left him with no power and a damaged roof and walls while collecting rent.

Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...

I'm convinced half of my followers are bots. I mean about 100 or less are from stl. Some journalists or writers. Academics and then bots

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority

Saw a lot of this in Ferguson. You can guess why it hasn't remained in people's minds.

St. Louis mentioned

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

Again: It’s unclear why federal agents are assaulting any of these legal observers. They ARE the violence.

This incident alone would have triggered hearings and probably a senior-level resignation in another administration.

I will go to my grave insisting that it was Biden who really defeated Harris.

RIP Demond Wilson.

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You can’t look at videos like this—snow cascading down, temperatures feeling like they’re in the negative, and people out there anyway, making their voices heard—and not believe in America.

She died Friday at a hospital after suffering a stroke earlier this week.

Winter outreach fridays replacing movie Fridays...

Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.

After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being." https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

Can’t wait.

Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague www.reuters.com/world/early-...

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Today, the BOA perfected BB 87, updating the Prop NS program—which funds the rehabilitation of vacant, City-owned properties. The bill updates the original legislation by directing funds based on building size rather than type and by mandating that spending caps increase with inflation. (1/2)

St. Louis isnt the same without the La Mancha grilled cheese sandwich

Been auditing a lot of deeds for "downtown Chesterfield" this morning. All in the $2-5 millions

There's this idea on Facebook that people who are loud and rowdy at a politician's town hall are paid outsiders. People who are content with the status quo rarely leave the house for such events. Of course the place is gonna be filled with pissed off constituents.

What's the status of Exec. Order 92 on #DataCentersSTL? "the City expects that departments & PARTNERS who are aldermanic, FROM THE COMMUNITY, from the industry, & from other groups engaged on this emergent sector will begin discussing & gathering info, developing questions.." See pg 2 & 🔗 in ALT

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge rules that Luigi Mangione should not face the death penalty if convicted on federal charges in CEO's killing.

In the first episode of "Meet Me," we head to the St. Louis city-county border to explore how it affects residents living on the line and delve into the origin of the split:

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Charter can change their name, but never change their game

I’m worried that if we keep making fun of this guy he’ll end up inventing white people