Trying to keep up with dueling courts ruling on Missouri’s GOP gerrymandered map. Currently, back to the OLD non-Trump map, thanks to Justice Kavanaugh!
Vintage Tennis Spectators
ALT: Vintage Tennis Spectators
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Debbiemonterrey
@debbiemonterrey.bsky.social
Storyteller, journalist, city dweller, Gemini, KMOX St. Louis
Victory in Missouri for People Not Politicians and voters. Trump-ordered gerrymandered map is OUT this election AND voters statewide will get a vote on it. A total fail for MO GOP apnews.com/article/redi...
Supreme Court rebuffs Missouri's push to use new US House map backed by Trump in November
The Supreme Court is rebuffing Missouri’s push to use a new congressional map backed by President Donald Trump in the November election.
apnews.com
There’s now a Rockwell Beer garden at Tower Grove Park, along with concessions and new bathrooms! Ribbon cutting was Thursday. Yet another great improvement for this national historic landmark.
The line to see Mill Creek: Black Metropolis at Missouri History Museum, last day! I’m in an even longer line downstairs for sold-out play “Mourning Mill Creek.” #MHSRocks
So glad to hear @macfarlanenews.bsky.social with @meidastouch.com His reporting/knowledge is always impeccable & free of @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy he can show his personality! Good get for Meidas!
The “Marco Rubio, we salute you” piece that ended the CBS Evening “News” was jaw-dropping. I can’t stop thinking about it. Tony Dokoupil, are you okay? You said you wanted to earn our trust, but ummmm…
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
npr.org
I’ve never been more angry & disgusted to write checks to IRS & Missouri Dept of Revenue. Forced to fund two governments actively making life worse for so many while enriching the few.
Trump is talking about shuttering publications and networks he disagrees with. He's talking about deporting and imprisoning Americans who dissent. This is unprecedented and undemocratic. Wake up America.
Some of the largest rallies were in the reddest of places. Salt Lake City was enormous. There were at least 3 in St. Louis area, incl a very red suburb. All 50 states. Many older, white who probably never protested before. Start of unity/movement?
Despite dubbing himself the “Father of IVF,” Donald Trump actually WILL NOT be funding federal infertility research. Trump has fired an entire infertility research team at the CDC.
“Fertilization President” Trump Just Gutted Fertility Research
An entire research team at the CDC has been dismissed, thanks to Donald Trump’s cuts.
newrepublic.com
Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries “Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...
Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.
"The public needs to wake up before our libraries are gone," one "livid" librarian said.
huffpost.com
Missouri House passes bill to require schools to develop a "traumatic blood loss plan" including bleeding control kits, require bullet resistant windows. Also Missouri Legislature: reviving the Second Amendment Protection Act.
“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
theatlantic.com
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
Driving thru bright red Missouri yesterday and two separate men in pick up trucks with Trump/1776 etc stickers were aggressively gesticulating at me, clearly yelling while I minded my own biz in right lane. You’d think they’d be so happy now, right? So much winning in their side. Why so angry?
Friday night in Overland Park, Kansas. Everyone already wearing their Chiefs gear. I’m here for the ⚽️ soccer though.
The effort to erase the history, accomplishments, humanity and celebration of all non-white Americans is an abomination. The erasure is to keep us from learning what white men have done to minority communities, and prevent them from having to admit it, also to show us they have the power to do it.
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department." www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...
Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories | CNN Business
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.
cnn.com
CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.
No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage | CNN
Widespread destruction from the L.A. fires was inevitable, given the drought and winds. Still, the region could have been better prepared.
cnn.com
If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.
Me: Alexa, play Middle Eastern music. Alexa: playing Middle Eastern music… Gangnam Style by Psy 😳
a man in a suit is dancing in front of a group of women
ALT: a man in a suit is dancing in front of a group of women
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“Liz Cheney and I are not brave. We are just surrounded by cowards” -Adam Kinzinger @MSNBC
Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure. www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss
Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs
voanews.com
When an elderly woman in the dairy section randomly told me I looked tired, my first reaction was to smile. But then immediately felt like shoving her or yelling YOU LOOK OLD. How rude. No reason to say that to any stranger. #christmasvibes
Is there a dentist shortage? Finding one has been like a part-time job. My dentist retired and I have spent weeks calling places to get appointments only to get no call back at all or be told they don’t prefer my insurance. Finally found a place that said they have an appointment in May 2025.