Decision Desk HQ projects No wins the Missouri Amendment 4 - Require Congressional District Approval for Constitutional Amendments, Ban Foreign Contributions, and Penalize Petition Fraud #DecisionMade: 8:16 PM EDT
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Decision Desk HQ projects No wins the Missouri Amendment 5 - Income Tax Elimination and Sales Tax Changes #DecisionMade: 8:27 PM EDT
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
New: Missouri Secretary of State Hoskins, who dragged out his certification of a petition challenge to the state's new gerrymander until the very last day, now says the challenge is "insufficient." Not because there aren't enough signatures — there clearly are — but because it's "unconstitutional"
Hoskins choosing to do this today also makes it very likely that his office determined there are enough valid signatures and that can't be the way out.
I guess we’ll find out very soon
@swhikt.bsky.social · yesterdayAny update from Hoskins on the referendum signatures? An underrated outcome for today is that the signatures are determined to meet the threshold, the maps used for the primary were invalid, and someone sues to redo the congressional primaries under the correct maps. www.kmbc.com/article/miss...
Any update from Hoskins on the referendum signatures? An underrated outcome for today is that the signatures are determined to meet the threshold, the maps used for the primary were invalid, and someone sues to redo the congressional primaries under the correct maps. www.kmbc.com/article/miss...
Challenge to redistricted Missouri Congressional map meets election day deadline
Thousands of Missouri voters could end up in different congressional districts for November as a legal challenge to the state's new congressional map awaits a decision from Secretary of State Denny Ho...
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In ‘24 the GOP governor race was Kehoe/Ashcroft/Eigel. There aren’t really any competitive GOP primaries in the county this year. Starting to wonder if we may see a significant number of GOP voters pulling a Democratic ballot to vote in the MO-01 and County Executive races.
Gavin Bena 🗳@gavinbena.bsky.social · 2d agoBallot choice in St. Louis County in 2024 was 62.82% Democratic, 35.85% Republican. Republicans will turn out more tomorrow but as of 1pm today Democrats are leading by a stunning 73% to 21%. Democrats are ahead in every single district-council, senate, state house-even in 88, 89, 95, 110.
Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls https://theonion.com/study-finds-there-arent-enough-occasions-where-you-get-to-eat-rolls/
A dog water fountain is bringing a south St. Louis neighborhood together. 🐶 The Haven Street Bubbler has become a community hub where pups get treats, owners make friends and every walk feels a little more connected.
Furry friends and pawrents beat heat and build bonds at Haven Street Bubbler
A St. Louis man is bringing his community together with his one-of-a-kind watering hole for his furry neighbors known as the Haven Street Bubbler.
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A BIS analysis argues the AI buildout is outpacing prior infrastructure booms and warns, “The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust.” Their model suggests that investment is 50% above the efficient level. www.bis.org/publ/work136...
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The Aug. 4 proposal would require citizen-led amendments to win in every congressional district, turning the ballot fight into a debate over who speaks for voters outside Missouri’s big cities. #moleg #mogov
Amendment 4 puts rural Missouri at center of fight over ballot power • Missouri Independent
The Aug. 4 proposal would require citizen-led amendments to win in every congressional district, turning the ballot fight into a debate over who speaks for voters outside Missouri’s big cities
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These feel very Montreal to me. Duplexes and triplexes in Montreal often have stairs on the front exterior. It’s like that because of local building codes when they were built. Chicago doesn’t have those same codes, so, I wonder why they built them like this. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mon...
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Every Lot Chicago@everylotchicago.bsky.social · 4w ago2453 West Arthington Street
Missourians since 2020 have voted to expand Medicaid, legalized marijuana, raised the minimum wage, repeal the abortion ban, and legalize sports betting. Under a new constitutional amendment that'll be voted on in a month, these would ALL have failed. boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...
Under this August Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed - Bolts
Republicans have dominated Missouri’s legislature for over two decades, but they haven’t entirely controlled state lawmaking, in large part because Missouri empowers citizens to petition for ballot re...
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Newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises will see strikingly similar front pages this weekend, according to an email sent to the company’s properties, telling them all to run a positive three-story package on their new billionaire chairman David Hoffmann. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
Lee Enterprises tells its papers to run front-page profile of chairman and billionaire David Hoffmann this weekend - Poynter
Some at the company say the unusual request raises questions about editorial independence
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Samuel Kennedy’s mother bound planks together to form a raft to cross the Mississippi River after a mob burned their house down and SLMPD shut down Eads Bridge to stop fleeing Blacks from entering STL. Both Samuel and his son, Terry, would go on to serve on the Board of Aldermen.
Peter Norton@norton.bsky.social · last mo.This week in 1917. It was mass murder. An entire district was burned. Six thousand people lost their homes. We will never know how many people were killed. For me, East St. Louis is an ancestral hometown. My grandfather was born there. His father worked for the Swift meatpacking plant there. ...
This week in 1917. It was mass murder. An entire district was burned. Six thousand people lost their homes. We will never know how many people were killed. For me, East St. Louis is an ancestral hometown. My grandfather was born there. His father worked for the Swift meatpacking plant there. ...
TUESDAY NEXT WEEK — come to The Ethical Society at 9001 Clayton Road for a very special @leftbankbooks.bsky.social event. Kella Thornton (@kellathornton.bsky.social) and I will be talking all things The Veiled Prophet (@haymarketbooks.org) left-bank.com/event/2026-0...
The upcoming midterm elections are going to be contested amid a broken Voting Rights Act, "rigorously" invalidated campaign-finance laws, and federal election commissioners who can be fired for no reason. The only people who voted for this absurd legal regime are the unelected justices on the Court
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · last mo.I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.
I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.
Sometimes Google Street view feels like art
every usps@everylot-usps.bsky.social · last mo.COYOTE: 8220 MONTEREY RD, COYOTE CA 95013-9800
"It really does seem to me like the message has been received that it's OK to drive recklessly now that the consequence has been removed," said Jess Spieker of @ffsafestreets.bsky.social 😡😡😡 The data is in following Toronto's speed camera removals ⤵️
Toronto saw "significant" increase in speeders after speed camera removal: city report | CBC News
In a new report Mayor Olivia Chow describes as "horrifying," Toronto transportation staff say there has been a significant increase in speeding where cameras used to be located in the city.
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"They want to fight as much as possible to avoid transparency." www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
St. Louis police appeal judge's order to release records to the Post-Dispatch
A judge last month ordered the city to turn over the records. But in appealing, the police department has opted to continue the fight.
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