Rachel Parker

Since the nation is waking up this morning to be reminded about what an absolute shill of an idiot Missouri's junior Sen. Eric Schmitt is, I went searching for one of his more egregious campaign ads. Found his current YouTube page instead. The total views warmed my bitter, cold heart.

JFC. youtube.com/shorts/zGqqu...

Facts. Don't believe the MO Chamber of Commerce which is 100% asking voters to vote AGAINST our own interests. The Missouri Legislature often passes bills that are either near unanimous or highly bipartisan. In any case, anyone telling you to vote against 6 is cynical and (probably) lying.

A reminder this verbal altercation happened after those police crashed an SUV into the building. The header might be a good place to include this information.

There are accounts on Threads reporting that voting machines are defaulting to GOP candidates in "many" states. A lot of those claims are from (apparently) 2018. In any case, if you're that concerned? Request a paper ballot.

Happy Early Voting Starts Today Day, Missouri!!!!!

Go see You Can See Everything before the internet spoils it for you. It's the most "on-time" movie of 2026. It brings the audience to the intersection of big tech and filmmaking like nothing I've ever seen. It's complex, funny, disturbing, and deeply entertaining. GO.

The amount of serious people on LinkedIn who are reinforcing the hype about Elon's flying cars is making me question every decision I've ever made in my life. Maybe I should have become a renunciate monk and opted for one of those caves and a life of quiet contemplation.

From me to Zuck: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T13...

A reminder that ignoring and delegitimizing the ICC has been the GOP brand for over a half a century. I wish it were new and I wish it would stop after Trump. It won't.

Anyone else have tickets for You Can See Everything this weekend? I can't remember the last time I ran out to see a movie (a doc no less) opening weekend. I feel like this is the Boyhood of 2026 (in that, it's so indescribable, I want to see it before someone describes--and ruins it--for me).

With the inflation numbers out, today would be a very, very good day to make a donation to a Democrat in a tight statewide, Congressional, or State Rep/Senate race. That money will go directly to ads pummeling the GOP for making the thing they said they would fix worse.

Tony Dokoupil brought zero insight, charm, or purpose to a stale interview in St. Louis. I'm okay-ish with his coming here to do any positive coverage; I'll take it where I can get it. But where is the actual journalism here??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SMu...

There is a difference between someone who doesn't know what he's saying vs. someone who thinks he can get away with saying anything.

So this is how you know they know they're fucked. www.stlmag.com/news/liberta...

Progressive Missourians: IDC where you live in the state, if you refuse to vote for any democrat (Bell included, it is what it is, we'll get him soon) or refuse to vote out of "protest" this November, please do me a favor and fuck off forever. Thanks.

If you live in a state with 2 GOP senators, a reminder that yours are just as cynical (and maybe as stupid) as Eric Schmitt. Seeing a lot of "Missouri voters are stupid," and (A) not all of us voted for that fucking asshole and (B) you have **the same** dumb voters. Schmitt didn't win in a vacuum.

It says a lot that Wagner didn't bother showing up. What's fucking annoying is that the 2nd district (no matter where lines have been drawn) don't seem to care that she never, ever shows up. Fred did a great job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iu1...

Since she's in the news today for being a general badass, I'd like to submit the moment the Academy Awards literally peaked. 1991. Singing Sondheim, wearing Bob Mackie. It never, ever got better than this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Yh...

Re: Warner Bros/Paramount: Be more mad at the failures to regulate at the Federal level than you are at Rob Bonta. There's only so much you can do as the only adult in the room when we have no fucking federal law enforcement in place. This isn't like AGs suing to protect the ACA.

Get the actual fuck out. Get. The. Fuck. Out. (Not The Onion, etc.) www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-...

Susan Collins isn't a moderate Republican. She's standard-issue neocon. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

This WHOOOOOLLLLLE thread. I second all of it, esp. the Dore analogy and the Chorus bullshit which I'm still questioning why Wired published). She's an online personality who suffers the same pathological fame addiction as anyone. She shouldn't be trusted, quoted, or shared. Bye, girl.

I am *genuinely* saddened that more people aren't helping this story trend online. The amount of work that goes into sourcing stories like this is astonishing. Please care as much about this as you do the guy who got kicked off the tour. Yes, they're related. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

No shade but do we really have to care what Bill Maher says or does anymore? His biggest enemy is his failing relevance and he knows it. He's always been a problematic, third rail, contrarian asshole. It just used to be less obvious.

From the not-that-long ago era of 2017, aka his first term when he did this, too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

Never, ever underestimate the impact of discovery. Lawsuits are deeply important in that they can uncover documents during the discovery phase that are damning and can be referenced and used in future claims. We owe the NYT a lot for sticking its neck out for this.

Rent free in my head forever: www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

At a time when Hollywood is under threat of extinction, they are behaving in ways that make the entire industry less and less defensible. This is also just bad, bad business. They've already paid for the movie. Dumb, amoral cowards. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

And I would still like those alarms to be taken seriously and for the people ringing them to testify in front of Congress, treated as whistleblowers replete with documentation, patterns of fact, and credible evidence.

No matter what side of what perspective you happen to share here's what we need to do: Congressional testimony with documentation. You say you're a whistleblower? Do a Frances Haugen. Bring those receipts to DC and share them with the public.

Does anyone in St. Louis want to seriously tell me again that the progressive movement doesn't exist here anymore? This is what happens when you HAVE progressives running your city.

I genuinely would like to travel to a parallel universe where I could see the media's response if Joseph Robinette Biden or Barack Hussein Obama made up a fucking easily verifiable lie of being "rescued" on 9/11.

Girl.

I'm so deeply disappointed that with so much on the line in Missouri that national news outlets still haven't developed relationships with local sources here yet. I know there have been a lot of cuts, but this is national politics and MO kicked off this process. Do better. Honestly.

Even Missouri is like "Fuck you, fuck your bullshit, and fuck your chaos." www.stlmag.com/news/trump-k...

Simon FTW.

Each and every AI denialist on this app needs to read this. This isn't marketing. This is a cover up. Yes, these models are powerful and yes, they need to be regulated. Badly. We can't do a Big Tech 2.0. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Sometimes (okay most times) I want to tell every single voter who sent Denny Hoskins to Jeff City as Missouri's Secretary of State to go fuck themselves. Today is one of those days.

A rare STL/LA crossover moment for me (I lived in LA for 20 years; I'm originally from St. Louis and live here now) from the STL Daily Newsletter. This genuinely made me snort laugh (the Angels are in Anaheim, which is something like 70-ish miles south of Los Angeles).

Just a reminder that if you walk up to a normal (ish) person and say the words "Taylor Lorenz is a crazy person and says some really batshit stuff to bully and ruin people's lives," the response 99.9% of the time will be: "Who the fuck is that?" Normies don't care, Fam.

I don't take issue w/what Piker says. Good 4 u, bro (srsly!). In reality, he's just another celebrity who's very good at dominating the news cycle because, yeah, that's what celebrities do. For him, attention=money. The moment the attention stops (not that it should!) the $ stops along with it.

No notes, @status.news.

Pump this shit into my veins: www.cbsnews.com/news/milo-yi...

There are way, way, waaayyyy to many too-online lefties who genuinely have no fucking idea what the role of the House Minority leader does, the difference between that role and the whips AND the job of speaker. Honestly, it's embarrassing. Do your homework.