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YIMBY, E-Biker, Transit-Taker, & Pro Giving Ukraine Everything It Needs Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology Let’s Build Stuff Faster Opinions are my own
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FEMA applications are open for individual aid! “FEMA may be able to help you with home repairs, temporary housing, or property damage (appliances, furniture, vehicle, etc). You may also qualify for help with child care, medical, lodging, moving, and funeral expenses.” www.disasterassistance.gov

A terrible strategic mistake that will only embolden Putin as he continues to seek a full conquest (albeit one he will regardless be unable to achieve)

Please stop calling them “retaliation strikes.” This isn’t retaliation. russia is killing Ukrainians for the crime of being Ukrainian.

Seems bad.

CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.

2026 White House budget released. It's a massive slashing of HUD: —Eliminates new funds for public housing, housing vouchers, project-based S.8, Choice Neighborhoods, CDBG, HOME —Replaces them with much smaller state block grant program —Overall cut of 44%—$33.6 b—to fed affordable housing spending

“international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $43.8 billion and supported 378,175 jobs to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 academic year.” Look up impact by state and congressional district here: www.nafsa.org/policy-and-a...

I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...

The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.

Unbelievable video on the Hudson building at Pershing and DeBaliviere. #stlwx

Debaliviere place took huge damage in today’s STL tornado. Just tragic scenes. #stlwx

Let’s Zone for People #zoneforpeoplestl

The new MetroLink fare system that will automatically open gates when customers present their tickets won’t be online until early next year.

Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer and now the interim U.S. attorney for NJ, announces that the Trump administration has arrested the mayor of Newark at an private prison that ICE had decently contracted as a detention center. His arrest is seemingly for trespass.

El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

RFK Jr. is seeking to change how vaccines are approved, calling into question whether Covid boosters will be out in the fall. In '23-'24, they were credited w preventing 68,000 hospitalizations, mostly in older/immunocompromised --> w/ @sherylnyt.bsky.social GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

2024 was the deadliest year on record for pedestrians in both St. Louis city and county, says a new report out today by @trailnetstl.bsky.social. CEO Cindy Mense tells @stlmag.bsky.social that it should be a call to action www.stlmag.com/news/pedestr...

Hiring in April was 50% lower than expected, per new ADP data out this morning. Thats really bad. GDP for Q1 out later this morning too

GDP shrank by 0.3% annualized in Q1 of 2025, according to the BEA’s advanced estimate www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr...

No, Ukraine is not helpless and its survival strategy should not consist of accepting all of Trump's distinctly unreasonable demands. My latest for @americanpurpose.bsky.social. www.persuasion.community/p/ukraine-ho...

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"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

Breaking News: The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said that he would resign from the long-running program because he had lost his journalistic independence.

"Imagine what the Civil Rights Movement would have looked like, if MLK had looked at opinion polling and said, nevermind, let’s pack it up, people love anticommunism, let’s pivot to that."

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

A Florida county is detaining and refusing to release a U.S. citizen born in the U.S., after ICE asked the county to detain him: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

Really interesting piece about some of the institutional decision making taking place right now

The Saint Louis MSA has moved up to 3rd place in the rate of negative natural change, surpassing its previous position of 6th among the top 50 MSA regions last year. While Tampa ranks 2nd due to an influx of senior citizens. Watch out, Saint Louis could become 2nd next year.

Dozens of St. Louis-area international students have been affected by the federal government’s widespread crackdown on student visas.

Happy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate

The death toll has risen to 32, including two kids aged seven and 11. Another 99 injured. A grim day and a sign that Russia has no intention of stopping its bloody war, or engaging in a "peace process"

Today's the day, STL! Make sure you get out and vote if you haven't already! I believe just under 14,000 have voted absentee, so we'll need about 44,000 more good citizens to vote today to match the last mayoral election total. I hope we can come at least close, even with fewer registered voters.

Canadian, French, and Lithuanian embassies in Kyiv lowering their flags to join Ukraine in mourning victims of the russian ballistic missile strike on the playground

I agree with @kajakallas that the EU should become a beacon of freedom. So when do we start? Here I offer six ways to actually light the beacon and step into the role history has chosen for us. Our response to the current uncertainty can be firm and long term. A thread.🧵1/17

Wow. "The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

So are they going to ransack the place like USIP and USAID? Are we going down to 0% indirect costs or 0 grants at all?

Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.