The absurdity is matched only by the meanness.

Jason Hancock@jasonhancock.bsky.social · last wk.

The event featured two picture books: “Rainbowsaurus,” which follows a family in search of a rainbow dinosaur, and “Big Wig,” which tells the story of a young child who dresses up in drag and wins a costume contest. #moleg #mogov

Finally collected all 4. Signgarden complete.

Early voting starts today! Vote no on Amendment 4 and Amendment 5 to protect our voice and protect our wallets!

Republicans across the country are trying to make it harder for citizen-led ballot initiatives to succeed. The Missouri legislature put Amendment 4 on the ballot to make it impossible. Gift link to me on Amendment 4 - Vote No in August!

No on Missouri Amendment 4: Don’t let politicians take your petition rights | Opinion

The Republican supermajority in Jefferson City keeps overturning the will of the voters. Keep the power of citizen-led initiative. | Opinion

kansascity.com

Missourians - vote No on Amendments 4 & 5 next month and tell your friends! Here’s the KC Star on the mess that is Amendment 5. I’ll have a piece up tomorrow about Amendment 4

Endorsement: The Star Editorial Board recommendation on Missouri Amendment 5 | Opinion

If passed, it would end the state income tax and would raise sales taxes on services such as doctor visits, rent and prescriptions. | Opinion

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"They are changing the rules of the game and hoping we don't notice." Amy Jones, SEIU Healthcare We notice and we are going to show them who has the power by voting NO on Amendment 4 and 5 💪

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

Missouri and Kansas have only a few more months to lower their SNAP payment error rates or face millions in new costs for food assistance benefits.

Missouri and Kansas error rates still too high to avoid paying more for SNAP

As states scramble to reduce payment error rates, enrollment in the food assistance program continues to decline.

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*all the jackhole moderates who lined up behind sexual predator cuomo to try to stop mamdani, rn*

Suspicious Side Eye Monkey

ALT: Suspicious Side Eye Monkey

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Anti-abortion government officials are coming for online speech, targeting websites that do nothing more than tell people what their options are, how to find a doctor, and where abortion remains legal. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming for

This week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for people seeking abortion care. Anniversaries are a moment to take

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Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture

Fine. This one made me laugh out loud.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo ago

News: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, celebrated Mass for 500 participants (some pictured here) at the Outreach conference for LGBTQ Catholics at Georgetown today. We will post his homily, which moved many in the congregation to tears, later. We are so grateful to His Eminence.

The correct analogy is in Alice: "Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to—"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Reuters has a livestream of working trying to remove algae from the reflecting pool 😆

NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

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I wrote about Republicans' red tape strategy: missouriindependent.com/2026/06/15/m...

Missouri’s red-tape Republicans are governing badly on purpose • Missouri Independent

I have some minor medical issues. So do my kids. Tracking all our medical appointments, getting to the appointments, getting prescriptions, getting insurance to pay for the appointments and prescripti...

missouriindependent.com

TSA selected me for extra screening again in December and exposed to my husband and kids that I was carrying 12 writing utensils in my purse. Happy to report, I'm down to 9 pens, 3 pencils, and 2 crayons.

How am I supposed to declutter my house when it is full of art?

Call me a troglodyte, but I miss plug in head phones a little bit

Republicans knew this would be a huge problem and did it anyway:

States balk at the high price of Medicaid work requirements amid budget crunch

States dealing with budget shortfalls are facing tens of millions of dollars in new costs ahead of the federal Jan. 1 deadline.

politico.com

Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It

Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It

nytimes.com

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

High school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s death • Idaho Capital Sun

A lawsuit challenging Idaho’s transgender bathroom ban in K-12 public schools could end soon, after a school group suing dropped the case.

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Lawsuit asks judge to force decision on Missouri gerrymandering referendum missouriindependent.com/2026/05/18/l...

Lawsuit asks judge to force decision on Missouri gerrymandering referendum • Missouri Independent

A lawsuit asks a Cole County judge to force Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to say whether a referendum on new congressional maps qualifies for the ballot.

missouriindependent.com

Google sucks so bad now. I googled “stl airport” and all it will give me are results about Miranda Lambert. (I have been delayed at Lambert for 8 hours)

I wrote about the cruel so-called “born alive” bill the Missouri legislature passed. Don’t know how these people look themselves in the mirror making life worse for grieving parents in service of a propaganda campaign

Missouri’s new anti-abortion law will hurt families in medical crisis • Missouri Independent

It takes a special kind of cruelty to meddle in end of life care for political reasons.  The so-called “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” passed last week does just that. It is part of a l...

missouriindependent.com

8-yr-old *sang* the whole wiki page of JJ Wetherholt for bedtime reading.

No, I am not doing dishes to get out of Mario Party!

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.