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davidmastio.bsky.social
National Columnist for McClatchy/The Kansas City Star
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Just got passed by a Ferrari station wagon.

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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California’s One-Gun-A-Month Law thereload.com/ninth-circui...

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Of course, voters for the grandma-killing, #metoo scofflaw Cuomo have little standing to criticize Trump, too.

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The transgender activist agenda went too far, but that shouldn’t be the end www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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The transgender activist agenda went too far, but that shouldn’t be the end www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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Short and sweet is what Trump hopes U.S. military involvement will be in Iran. | Opinion

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Trump, our abnormal president, made the normal and only reasonable choice on Iran www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

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What an idiot.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. “I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

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By @jodikantor.bsky.social, what amounts to a mini-biography of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. A fascinating woman, ACB, a woman of parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

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The dynamic on this site @mcmegan.bsky.social writes about magnifies academia's silo problems

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Raise wages. Increase benefits. Invest in automation to improve work conditions and productivity.

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Osirak wasn't preemption either, and it was condemned internationally (wink wink) at the time.

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Hey. This is the official account for The Reload, a gun policy publication owned and operated by @stephengutowski.bsky.social. We are dedicated to sober, serious reporting and analysis of firearms policy and politics. You can sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter here: thereload.com/free-newslet...

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Trump’s oversteps are going to make quite a few places blue.

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My latest is on Kristi Noem's big mistake arresting Alex Padilla www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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ICYMI: How a bunch of gun researchers hid from me for a week and then sent security to stop me from asking them a simple question about what is really killing children. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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BREAKING!!! Missouri’s plan to keep Chiefs & Royals stadiums passes the legislature. What now? here's the latest from @kacen.bsky.social Read more at: www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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When both sides wave an upside down American flag, it signals that a lot of us believe democracy is in peril. They may be right, but have we lost sight of what the flag is meant to represent?

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Here's why the Bloomberg School of Public Health sent security to throw me out after I asked some uncomfortable questions about their gun research. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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Here's why the Bloomberg School of Public Health sent security to throw me out after I asked some uncomfortable questions about their gun research. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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"It would be too exhausting to create souvenir flip-flops for every Trump flip-flop—and you’d need an entire museum to house them all." Remember the good old days when one flip-flop sunk John Kerry? New from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-endl...

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Here's my post on today's six 9-0 Supreme Court decisions, in which each of the three liberal Justices wrote for the "conservative" position (Kagan dismissed Mexico's gun suit; Sotomayor defended churches' freedom; Jackson struck down an extra hurdle facing "reverse-discrimination" suits). @cato.org

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This week's Double Take with @davidmastio.bsky.social and @melindakcmo.bsky.social. They joust over DEI. www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

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My latest is on the fact that left-wing antisemitism has eclipsed the right-wing kind we used to fear. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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BREAKING: Missouri's plan to keep the Chiefs, Royals inside state lines is close to becoming law after narrowly passing the state Senate. Inside the vote, which came just before 2:30 a.m. after hours of chaotic dealmaking, and what's next for the proposal. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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My latest is on the fact that left-wing antisemitism has eclipsed the right-wing kind we used to fear. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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I was one of the plaintiffs in the Mayhew v Westside SCOTUS case over bible clubs. We won 8-1. LGBTQ students should be able to have all the clubs they want and they'll win in court too.

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My latest conversation with my colleague Melinda Henneberger this time about art and DEI www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

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I am reading hate mail to my family and my 10 yo son thinks they are hilarious.

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I wonder what the intersection of masked men claiming without proof to be federal agents and a Stand Your Ground law looks like.

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Nice @joelmathis.bsky.social piece using our pod with Ming Li Hui, who faces removal after 20 years in MAGA country. "Hui still loves her neighbors, even though their votes are the reason she is being torn away from the life and family she loved for two decades." www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

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This is a bald-faced lie -- take it down: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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This is a bald-faced lie sir -- take it down. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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Next week is Gun Violence Awareness Week. Gun control groups are already using the fake occasion to scare parents with the claim that guns are the number one killer of children and politicians are parroting the idea.

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When I was writing my book on the Cold War, I sat with boxes of papers and other materials in places like the Library of Congress and the Central European University in Budapest. I discovered lots of cool things while looking for other stuff.

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