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Wars historically last exactly as long as people plan for, right?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

submitted 2 days ago • 135 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

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)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Seems bad.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 737 comments

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

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

“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...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

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...

submitted 22 days ago • 72 comments

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.

submitted 24 days ago • 829 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s Zone for People #zoneforpeoplestl

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 35 days ago • 238 comments

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.

submitted 39 days ago • 133 comments

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...

submitted 42 days ago • 398 comments

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

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

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...

submitted 43 days ago • 33 comments

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...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

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...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Join us this evening!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

"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"

submitted 51 days ago • 119 comments

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.

submitted 52 days ago • 136 comments

"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."

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 55 days ago • 460 comments

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...

submitted 57 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate

submitted 60 days ago • 68 comments

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"

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

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.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 71 days ago • 22 comments

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...

submitted 81 days ago • 40 comments

“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.”

submitted 83 days ago • 1551 comments

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?

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 96 days ago • 267 comments