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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...

If you got this txt, it means you successfully signed the petition opposing anti-democratic MO redistricting. Good job.

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...

HOUSE TO VOTE NEXT WEEK ON RELEASING ALL JEFFREY EPSTEIN FILES, SAYS SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON

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.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

moments like this makes it make sense why tech elites are so eager to have AI write their emails

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...

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...

"But Schumer's a no vote, he opposes the deal"

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...

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.

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.

More to come...

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

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.

BlueSky unexpectedly turned on some disruptively clumsy moderation features that block everything except Ned Flanders on valium. How to disable them ...

The crab army apparently is from a Parks Australia handout. That's how they advertise the island as a vacation retreat.

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?...

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.

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

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

Still respect the dedication

meanwhile

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?...

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.

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

Unlike Dave, I totally CAN believe outlets are running these obviously bogus moral panic headlines...

Oh, the cupidity!

Today we learned that the only thing standing between a developer’s bulldozer and your favorite city park is 10 votes at the Board of Alderman.

Schweiger's Produce and Hotop, both large fruit & veggie vendors at Soulard Farmers Market whom I patronize regularly, are no-show today due to #SNAP cuts

Suddenly this administration is worried how to fully comply with the law? The hypocrisy here is wild. www.axios.com/2025/10/31/s...

Our society fucking demonizing tens of millions of people about to lose access to food very accurately captures EVERYTHING wrong with us

Food drive today 10/29 5:30-830 at City Foundry

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-...

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.

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

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/

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-...

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.

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...

Let’s pretend this isn’t a park and we sell it. Did the city solicit bids for development? Or are we giving a special deal to a known lobbyist’s client?

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...

Please contact your alder asking they oppose #BB82, 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...

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.

Feel strongly there are some GRU guys taping up the White House demolition photos on their cubicles

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.