"Some non-fascist X users have acknowledged all of this and argued that, nonetheless, progressives must remain on the platform to fight the propaganda machine from within. I think that represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how the platform operates."

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

New Public Comment on the self-interested case for quitting X publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past...

🧵Missouri volunteers are working to raise awareness of SMART Week (Aug 24-28) sharing the critical importance of secure gun storage to prevent gun violence. In Cape Girardeau, volunteers helped get #BeSMART on tonight's city council meeting agenda to receive a proclamation recognizing SMART Week...

“He golfs and trades stocks,” Ossoff said. “See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”

Back to school means back to school shootings in America. 😢

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

A shooting involving multiple suspects and five people shot at Virginia State University prompted a campus lockdown early Saturday.

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The Kansas City Star@kansascity.com · last wk.

Corey Sooter, an electrician, died following a June workplace accident at Mizzou’s Memorial Stadium renovation. OSHA is investigating.

Let’s get to the polls today and vote, Missouri! The piles of money spent by anti-democracy PACs on advertising are shocking and shameful. Our family voted early to make sure our voices were heard. No on 4, No on 5.

Missouri Independent@missouriindependent.com · 2w ago

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins forecasts 32% turnout — potentially the highest vote for a primary since 2004 — as nearly $40 million floods Amendments 4 and 5 and outside money reshapes congressional races. #moleg #mogov

Columbia, Missouri @momsdemandaction.org supporters held a fabulous monthly meet-up yesterday—celebrating a new volunteer joining our leadership team, and organizing for months of community tabling events, election work, and ways to share our secure storage campaign with the wider community. 1/2

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

Doublethink: the state insists you believe the president is brilliant and commandingly in charge AND had no control of, nor responsibility for, the top public health official in his administration, who operated right under the president’s nose at the president’s discretion, victimizing him and you.

King President Orange Snowflake@ex-prezsnowflake.bsky.social · 3w ago

I just keep leaning into if Fauci made such poor decisions and is so evil, surely the greatest, most smartest President ever would have seen right through it or stopped it.

This week, abortion care returned to Springfield @ppgreatrivers.bsky.social for the first time in 20 years! And next Thursday, August 6, you can help protect that access on the frontlines at our FIRST EVER virtual Springfield Clinic Escort Training! Register: bit.ly/SGF-CET-8-6

This is such good news, we’re sharing it again.

Ghost gun company ordered to pay $100M in the death of a Kentucky teen in historic verdict | WBAL Baltimore News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A ghost gun company has been ordered to pay more than $100 million in the death of a Kentucky teenager who had purchased the company's pistol-building kit online.The verdic

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Da’Jon Hayes-Burr, 15, and Jacob Freytes, 12, were both horrifically shot and killed over the weekend in Kentucky and New York. They both had their whole lives ahead of them; now their parents are planning their funerals.

Packed house tonight at the NAACP candidate forum—a last opportunity to ask questions in advance of the August 4 election. Many questions submitted by voters toward the end of the forum about public safety, about the juvenile justice system, heath care access, and secure elections.

🇺🇸 Last night we took a shift in the @boonedems.bsky.social booth at the big Boone County Fair. We sweated through yet another entire set of outfits (SO gross) but had such a great time talking with neighbors about the August 4 election.

Great day knocking doors in southwest CoMo with Sharon Jones—our next Columbia City Council Ward 4 councilperson! We had many good conversations with neighbors at their doors about their concerns—from public safety, to strong public schools, to accountability from city government—as the city grows.

At Columbia Library this morning for Rainbow Story Time. Since my kids are now in their 20s, it’s been a minute since I attended story time. It’s magical, sweet, and the kids absolutely love it. And the outpouring of support from our community: off the charts. Everyone is welcome at the library!

There’s not enough space here to fully discuss the whataboutism and false equivalence of Elon Musk’s argument that we should focus on non-AC usage deaths in all of Europe instead of the #1 killer of children, preventable gun violence. But let me try. 🧵

An interview with Elon Musk

Podcasts

economist.com

In his second term, Trump has 120 confirmed golf days across 550 days in office (21.8%), about one confirmed round every 4.6 days, plus 36 additional days at Trump properties where golf was unconfirmed. See more at https://trumpgolftrack.com

Sure, and then #moleg leadership can seat him next to that other Rep who ran and won, even though he’d been a convicted of felony theft (in Georgia).

The Kansas City Star@kansascity.com · 4w ago

A Republican running for a seat in the Missouri House spent years on the staff of a Kansas City evangelical organization that has been roiled by sexual abuse allegations.

Who needs horror movies when you can flip through these images of St. Louis history?

Devin Thomas O’Shea@devintoshea.bsky.social · 4w ago

🧵| photos from the Veiled Prophet Parade 1946 - 1960

So happy to see my Columbia neighbors featured here, speaking out on this absolutely crucial August election. 🇺🇸 No on 4. No on 5.

Sue Gibson@suegibson.bsky.social · 4w ago

“The notion of getting rid of the state income tax so that we can have everything based on sales and usage taxes is such an anti-regular people and pro-wealthy maneuver that it’s like just a horrendously horrible policy.” #NoOn5 #NoEverythingTax missouriindependent.com/2026/07/22/m...

Rick Brattin “is defined by his membership in a disruptive faction of Republicans in the Missouri Senate…more interested in garnering headlines than moving the state forward.” Yes, and—how to politely say it?—he is maybe the dumbest of the gun extremists in Jefferson City. #moleg

Missouri Independent@missouriindependent.com · 4w ago

Six candidates are running in a district redrawn to favor Republicans, but its boundaries could still change after the Aug. 4 primary. #moleg #mogov

Don’t forget to cancel your Fox One subscriptions

Movements are not built on debate stages. They're built in union halls, at kitchen tables, on picket lines, and in conversations with neighbors. They're built by people like you. Together, let's win this damn thing.

Calling this a scuffle obfuscates the fact that it’s really just assault by Paredes bsky.app/profile/fort...

For The Win@forthewin.bsky.social · last mo.

Argentina's Leandro Paredes had hand around Spain player's throat in post-World Cup final scuffle bit.ly/4fdbZHy 📸 JUAN MABROMATA, AFP via Getty Images

Telemundo anchor in Spanish: “finally, facing a deafening booing, the president of the United States appears…” 🤣

German broadcast. Nailed it

I stopped thinking seriously about the world when I was 10

Cato Institute@cato.org · last mo.

How did you become a libertarian? We sat down with 10 scholars and staff at the Cato Institute—with different origin stories, areas of expertise, and concerns—to find out how they came to libertarianism, what gives them hope, and what they would fix first if they could. https://ow.ly/ObOn50Zp4W9

Henry 💔 #sayhisname #ghostguns #suicide

Kentucky Jury Orders Gun Kit Seller to Pay More Than $100 Million in Teen’s Death

Lawyers for the family of Henry Coby Willis argued that the online seller failed to verify the buyer’s age or conduct a background check before shipping a pistol-building kit.

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Ah yes, the man who pulled out a gun during a meeting with Moms Demand Action volunteers.

WIS News 10@wistv.com · last mo.

Rep. Ralph Norman launches bid for Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat #scnews