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Scattered minutiae about tech, plants, St. Louis, occasionally all together
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Parker Molloy
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Massive Jack Lemmon vibes here: "Strong vibrations were also felt on the plant's main turbine after the plant shutdown"
www.ksdk.com/article/news...
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Missouri's only nuclear plant triggers temporary shutdown after water issue
The site produces around 26% of Ameren's total energy, according to the utility.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/missouri-only-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-water-issue-callaway-energy-center/63-b20feb14-9240-46b2-82b6-f594c0bdccd5?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KSDK_News&fbclid=IwY2xjawOEsA5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR563fLvfV1INzhelbuEIR9jCYkQ9uhiQAu_XXKjXK-fp37Jh5wVUtnRrApNzA_aem_riZtb64VZRlv_uJJSpaadg
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If you got this txt, it means you successfully signed the petition opposing anti-democratic MO redistricting. Good job.
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about 5 hours ago
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Notable details: 1. developer Chris McKee is one-time R Lt Gov candidate AND son of Paul McKee, 2. these folks desperately want to sell you a Monorail, 3. Festus passed *actual regulations* re: data centers, meanwhile St. Louis city just distracts us with gestures
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
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Data center developer eyes Festus after St. Charles debacle
Data center developers eye Festus in Jefferson County as a site for future data center development as the city annexes properties for the projects.
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-11-13/developer-eyes-festus-site-new-data-center-development
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FinTwitter
2 days ago
HOUSE TO VOTE NEXT WEEK ON RELEASING ALL JEFFREY EPSTEIN FILES, SAYS SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON
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State of St. Louis
2 days ago
Friend, author, historian, and fellow nature lover Sarah Kendzior sets the record straight on her BlueSky suspension, which they did a month after so-called offense. This is a seriously fucked up place.
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Tim Dickinson
2 days ago
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Lex
2 days ago
moments like this makes it make sense why tech elites are so eager to have AI write their emails
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Irony here is the present DOJ almost certainly did and will not notify any D members of Congress it's surveiling.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gov...
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Shutdown deal lets senators sue for $500,000 over data seizures like those in Jan. 6 probe
A provision of shutdown deal authorizes senators to bring lawsuits if federal law enforcement seizes or subpoenas their data without notifying them, with potential damages of $500,000.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/government-shutdown-senate-lawsuits-500k-january-6/
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If you wondered whether the awful things present SNAP-withholding ghoul, former US attorney & WashU law professor, D. John Sauer has done during his career included defending pedo-priests - you'd be correct!
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/trum...
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Trump administration again asks Supreme Court to block order requiring it to make full SNAP payments
The Trump administration on Monday afternoon once again asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Rhode Island that would require the government to fully fund the [âŠ]
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/trump-administration-again-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-requiring-it-to-make-full-snap-payments/
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Sean T. Collins
5 days ago
"But Schumer's a no vote, he opposes the deal"
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Schumer is caving on the ACA - all they're demanding rn is a vote in December to extend subsidies requiring 60 votes to pass, no guarantees.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/s...
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Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/09/senate-deal-to-end-government-shutdown-sunday-vote
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Trump's remarkable and awful achievement is to have himself and Justice Roberts *right now* holding most of the power in the US - Congress barely matters. Either of them leaving office tomorrow would immediately impact hundreds of millions of Americans, for better or worse. This is not a republic.
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gojirama #CovidIsAirborne
6 days ago
One of my kids used to work at a Major Grocery Store deli, and they all rang up hot foods as cold for SNAP recipients. If you work in a deli and can do this without losing your job, please do so.
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Chevron
6 days ago
More to come...
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Steve Vladeck
7 days ago
If youâre trying to catch up on what went down with
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late last night at
#SCOTUS
, hereâs my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the âadministrative stayâ issued by Justice Jacksonâand why a justice so critical of the Courtâs grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
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190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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DOJ already filed with SCOTUS demanding to pay abso-fucking-lutely nothing to SNAP recipients, *MOSTLY KIDS*, before the appeals court even responded. They're all vicious liars intent on maximum harm.
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7 days ago
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BlueSky unexpectedly turned on some disruptively clumsy moderation features that block everything except Ned Flanders on valium. How to disable them ...
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8 days ago
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The crab army apparently is from a Parks Australia handout. That's how they advertise the island as a vacation retreat.
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8 days ago
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Sanders is uncharacteristically detailed here about why the proposed Senate bill to extend ACA subsidies is an empty gesture unlikely to make to (or past) Trump's desk
youtu.be/rqYFZHAYTQ8?...
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Trump is Right. Republicans Are In Trouble | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
https://youtu.be/rqYFZHAYTQ8?si=b2kjCGkY7_k86H96
9 days ago
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
9 days ago
Aside from absolutely everything else having to do with them, I am ecstatic to see the end of Giuliani, whose name I mistyped every freaking time, and the arrival of Mamdani, whose name is crazy easy to type.
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Andrew Lawrence
9 days ago
i think what ive learned between '24 and last night is that people dont really give a shit about socialist or fascist labels, if you promise to do things that will help them they will vote for you and if you dont deliver they will vote for the other side
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Catbus and stuffing đđđ
9 days ago
I'm excited and happy about yesterday's blanket repudiation of GOP governance but also let's keep in mind that the entire Democratic power structure got behind Andrew Cuomo and pushed to try and stop Zohran- let's celebrate the Ws but also don't get it twisted
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Still respect the dedication
10 days ago
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Dave Itzkoff
10 days ago
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The next step beyond armed ICE goons dragging away unsuspecting, non-protesting citizens, while ultimately filing no charges - is to just never release *any* of the people they kidnap. That's literally disappearing citizens.
youtu.be/eF46dNi7fkU?...
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Update on US citizen in Chicago, rammed by ICE and dragged off in unmarked vehicle
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
https://youtu.be/eF46dNi7fkU?si=NwJPSuJ2Vc_e3Bd4
11 days ago
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Matt Pogue
11 days ago
3/I don't know about NOLA, but in STL, many of those original families fought the out-in-the-open racism of the 40s and 50s to buy in those neighborhoods. When they couldn't be forced out, the city abandoned them, refusing to fix streetlights, potholes, etc., leading to the decay we have now.
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Catherine Rampell
12 days ago
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Jake Williams
13 days ago
Unlike Dave, I totally CAN believe outlets are running these obviously bogus moral panic headlines...
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Oh, the cupidity!
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Conner Kerrigan
14 days ago
Today we learned that the only thing standing between a developerâs bulldozer and your favorite city park is 10 votes at the Board of Alderman.
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Schweiger's Produce and Hotop, both large fruit & veggie vendors at Soulard Farmers Market whom I patronize regularly, are no-show today due to
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Suddenly this administration is worried how to fully comply with the law? The hypocrisy here is wild.
www.axios.com/2025/10/31/s...
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Trump asking court how to "legally fund SNAP" after judge's order
Food banks already experienced a surge in people as millions of families prepared for benefits to freeze.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump
13 days ago
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Our society fucking demonizing tens of millions of people about to lose access to food very accurately captures EVERYTHING wrong with us
15 days ago
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Food drive today 10/29 5:30-830 at City Foundry
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16 days ago
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This $100 BILLION (!!) Borg swarm of data centers outside KC aka Project Kestrel sounds terrifying, but specifically curious how the $1.5 billion 500 Prospect Ave scheme promises $213M of tax revenue while the KC proposal only $110M, despite being magnitudes smaller.
fox4kc.com/news/platte-...
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Platte County Commissioner âcanât supportâ $100 billion Northland data center
Just two months after Port KC announced a new $100 billion data center campus will be coming to the Northland, a public official is speaking out against the project, claiming the new venture will &âŠ
https://fox4kc.com/news/platte-county-commissioner-cant-support-100-billion-northland-data-center/amp/
17 days ago
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Dave Levitan
17 days ago
For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
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Michael Hobbes
17 days ago
This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on âkitchen table issuesâ but they donât have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! âExpanding drug price negotiationâ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.
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STL Area Foodbank events. Verification of personal information is not required to participate. All are welcome to receive food while supplies last.
stlfoodbank.org/events/
18 days ago
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Kinda surprised to not see this more widely discussed. ICE "enforcement" actions with brutal assaults and kidnappings against citizens and legal residents alike open up the agency leadership to state (not Federal) RICO charges. Which Trump can't pardon.
lawreview.vermontlaw.edu/melting-ice-...
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MELTING ICE WITH RICO: HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE TERRORISM ON IMMIGRANTS - Vermont Law Review
The Vermont Law Review is a quarterly student-edited legal journal, presenting readers with topical scholarship on a diverse range of issues.
https://lawreview.vermontlaw.edu/melting-ice-with-rico-how-we-can-fight-back-against-the-terrorism-on-immigrants/
20 days ago
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Median income in Irving Park Chicago at $93k is more than 2x that of St. Louis County. We have to expect ICE will give proportionately fewer fucks about gassing neighborhoods when they come here to round people up.
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20 days ago
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There are, in this instance, 130 million reasons why paying the military from a private donor who refuses to be named is a serious serious problem. End the shutdown if you're concerned about people not getting paid.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay
White House and military officials will not say who the donor is or whether the gift has been properly vetted.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/dod-accepts-anonymous-130-million-donation-to-partially-cover-troop-pay-00622219
21 days ago
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Julie in STL
21 days ago
Letâs pretend this isnât a park and we sell it. Did the city solicit bids for development? Or are we giving a special deal to a known lobbyistâs client?
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Andy Ostroy
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It's still vital alums, students, faculty, donors, etc contact Martin, provost, and trustees to express opposition to Wash U offering ANY concessions to Trump. Wash U must accept there will be huge short term cuts, that rolling over to fascists causes long term damage.
fox2now.com/news/missour...
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https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/washington-university-to-meet-with-trump-administration-on-higher-education-compact/
22 days ago
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Please contact your alder asking they oppose
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, proposing illegal sale of city park near St. Patrick Center to build a parking lot, also directly adjacent to *3 other parking lots*. They're voting on it Friday 10/24.
moenvironment.org/blog/our-par...
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Our Park Is Not for Sale! - Missouri Coalition for the Environment
by Margaret Hermes, longtime MCE Member Our Park Is Not for Sale has to be one of the best campaign slogans ever. And, boy, did it work! In 2007, 69.74% of the voters in the April 3 municipal election...
https://moenvironment.org/blog/our-park-is-not-for-sale/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNnJZBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqMaAzPuDni9h4m8A1GWSd3Ze9xqyYkmiLHOKfsgMWeLDSNsP4gE1lLrfb0X_aem_OPPtCLqPfLYoJ_ue_p_e0A
22 days ago
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Montgomery is doing himself no favors demonstrating any competency for office, but that audit finding $800k over budget (of $14 million btw) covers June 2024 - June.2025. Half of this was under Betts.
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southpaw
24 days ago
Feel strongly there are some GRU guys taping up the White House demolition photos on their cubicles
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unraveled
23 days ago
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
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