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If you had a normal day yesterday and didn't notice that the entire internet was in immediate peril that's because a PHP developer somewhere saved your ass. Make sure to leave a can of Mountain Dew and a plate of cookies out for your local web architecture repair gnome.

I remain baffled as to how anyone who works for the Trump admin thinks they are immune to underbussing. They all seem to think they, personally will be that one special winner of The Apprentice: American Government Edition.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...

This is some real holiday greeting card stuff going on right here.

Trump's tariffs are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government. They're also costing consumers, frustrating businesses and hurting the factories they're supposed to help.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Missouri Capitol Protest earlier today.

I’m going to keep saying it. RFK must resign or be fired. People will not only be sicker because of him; they will die.

Rushing out to try to get to a political meeting in the midst of helping my kid pack up to move back to college, and kid shouted, "Love you, hope you don't get caned on the floor!" so anyway that's how my week is going.

Today is the 11-year anniversary of this image showing what St Louis County folks thought of how cable news covered Ferguson

An interesting subtext here. We do indeed spend vast sums on our military. So the idea here appears to be that without "forever wars" we need to occupy our own cities.

IF ONLY anyone could possibly have predicted that widespread tariffs would raise wholesale prices!

I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

US wholesale inflation rose much more than expected in July, with prices rising at the fastest monthly pace in three years

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

Some moments really clarify who in a group is willing to put ethics first even when it's inconvenient, and who will always choose convenience.

This is Cuzco. He wanted to remind you to breathe. Thought he'd provide a demonstration just in case. 13/10 thank you Cuzco (TT: cuzco.the.golden)

"If we just share enough Fox News articles, white male working class Republicans will finally love us" is not a winning left-wing political communications strategy fam.

Trump’s going to fire Jay Powell but also he isn’t going to fire Jay Powell… The same way the Epstein files were real, but now they’re not, even though they were on Pam Bondi’s desk…

Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell." Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him." Every news story will include both clips, right?

trump getting ratio’d on truth social over his recent epstein posts is insane

LISTEN: Don't even try to talk to me like you think you've been appointed Ruler of the Universe when I KNOW that title is already held by my cat.

Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

Okay, so here’s a test. Let’s ask him how tariffs work.

Speaker Jeffries is holding the floor so YOU can call your rep and convince them to vote no. PLEASE call your representatives. Hold their feet to the fire.

CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS! THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE here's the number: (202) 224-3121

Remember how the Declaration of Independence cataloged all the harms King George III had visited upon the American colonists? Trump has committed many of those same violations in just a few months. @davidcorn.bsky.social & @timothypmurphy.bsky.social lay it out: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Heads up neighbors: NWS has issued a tornado watch in St. Louis until 4 pm

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the majority "does irrevocable damage" to the equal protection clause and "invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight." She fears the damage in Skrmetti will go well beyond gender-affirming care, and she's right.

Dirt rain came along with the thunderstorms in STL last night and made a mess of my windows, greatly displeasing my cat by disrupting her dawn bird watching routine. "And you shall continue cleaning the windows that look upon my realm until they squeak like a cornered mouse," decreed Her Majesty.

This is extremely disturbing. @padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents. Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.

Senator Alex Padilla of California was removed by force from Kristi Noem’s presser and handcuffed for his free speech. This is what a fascist regime does that rejects the laws of the US. It should horrify every American. Let’s stop pretending we are approaching authoritarian rule. We are there.

When converting a democracy to a dictatorship, one must of course find ways to remove annoying obstacles like duly elected officials from opposing parties.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Landlords get away with illegal practices when renters don’t understand their rights. That's a big problem in the wake of the May 16 tornado. Tenants Transforming Greater #STL works to empower renters re: what landlords can and can't do when their unit has storm damage. @stlpublicradio.bsky.social

Reminder that there is going to be a huge day of nonviolent protest against Trump this Saturday, June 14 -- "No Kings". New statement from the organizers in response to Trump federalizing National Guard (and threatening to use active duty troops) against civilians: www.nokings.org/news/nationa...

There needs to be five-alarm level public health messaging about this. This was published in JAMA -- the Journal of the American Medical Association -- last month. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New: Moderna’s combined Covid and flu mRNA shot outperformed the existing standalone vaccines in a phase 3 trial, per JAMA. But will the FDA — under Kennedy and Makary — allow it to move forward? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...