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Dad, husband. I am a liber-ish pragmatist and optimist (they fight sometimes). Coach, environmentalist, planner. And a massive StL Cardinals fan. Plus, I love California, warts and all.
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 6 hours ago • 819 comments

No 40. Walkoff. #StayYoungry #StlCards

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Youngry!! #StlCards

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

He’s got private golf resorts, personal jets, and towers with his name on them and yet he’s still begging oil despots for a luxury plane instead of helping people working two jobs who can’t make rent.

submitted 20 days ago • 555 comments

Bruce Springsteen sings and speaks about the imperfect America we should love. Trump and his administration and supporters are trying to tear America apart and destroy its very core. Bruce is the best of what we can offer the world. Trump is the opposite

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

As of May 3, 2025, the CDC reported 10,062 cases of pertussis, double from 2024. This LTE affirms just how devastating whooping cough is, especially in babies. Please protect our littlest citizens. Get vaccinated! This includes a Tdap for adults who haven't gotten a booster in the past 10 years.

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

For no particular reason, I thought I’d remind folks about the time Trump reposted a full-size, full-color image of a truck that was “decorated” with an unconscious Joe Biden, arms and legs bound as though he’d been kidnapped, during the campaign. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 20 days ago • 151 comments

Wait until ICE finds out an American citizen with an immigrant wife accepted a $400 million dollar gift from a Middle Eastern supporter of Hamas!

submitted 22 days ago • 61 comments

Jeanine Pirro for DC Attorney? Hannibal Lecter must have been indisposed.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms—the only way Republican plans to cut Medicaid would “save money” is by throwing millions off health insurance, slashing benefits, or cutting access to doctors, nurses, & dentists. So much for only focusing on “waste, fraud, & abuse.”

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

Alcatraz is just a distraction from Trump and his blatant corruption. He is selling the presidency. “Nothing to see here.” This is the tip of the iceberg. This presidency? The Titanic. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-fam...

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đź’Ż

submitted 36 days ago • 109 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w... On January 20, 2025, the US changed its name to Belarus.

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www.mlb.com/news/dylan-c... I have a new baseball hero, Dylan Crews

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