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Please help fund Respect MO Voters! If you’ve ever been mad at the MO legislature for trying to undo stuff we voted for (see: Amendment 3, Prop A, etc) this is a way to fight back! #moleg #missouri secure.qgiv.com/event/respec...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Please help fund Respect MO Voters! If you’ve ever been mad at the MO legislature for trying to undo stuff we voted for (see: Amendment 3, Prop A, etc) this is a way to fight back! #moleg #missouri secure.qgiv.com/event/respec...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Take a moment to really let the whole photo wash over you. 🥰

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

THIS PARADE COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL 💀💀💀💀💀💀

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Provel is good!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This made me cackle!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Once again confronting the existential strangeness that the country is descending into outright fascism but I still gotta sit at my lil desk and do my lil discovery and answer my lil phone while inside my head there's nothing happening but incoherent screaming

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I have to say that I feel both personally very called out and also this confirms my long-held suspicion that taking too many paint swatches is how I would meet my demise.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Ok I have a sincere journalistic idea for dealing with the flood the zone/firehose situation. And it’s news sites where you can go easily see “ok what’s the status with ___” as opposed to poring over the latest articles and figuring out wtf is the current state of affairs. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Or write a letter praising them to the local paper.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Weather people took a min to mention flash flooding in St. Charles so turn around don't drown, you didn't dodge a tornado to drown your car in a puddle, etc. #stlwx

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Getting to sit in the front seat and hold the triptik while the parent who wasn’t driving took a nap was like the highest honor in the world as a kid. I loved that highlighted line!

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

btw if you want to share your message so others can build off it that would be awesome. here's mine (although it's to the friends of the library, vs the library specifically):

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

“The data indicates that the government knew that only six of the immigrants were convicted of violent crimes: four for assault, one for kidnapping and one for a weapons offense. “ JFC that is 2.5%

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Cutting research at the National Science Foundation by more than half(!) is intentionally sabotaging the future. These are contracts the federal government competitively awards to universities to develop breakthroughs and train graduate students to become future leaders & experts. Future is at risk.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

@respectmovoters.org

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

#STL Sat May 24 at 12noon tornado relief meal delivery. Volunteers needed to do 2-3 hours of meal deliveries to seniors & disabled adults +some emergency clients. It's a well-organized regular program. C’mon, it’s going to rain tomorrow anyway! Do some good before your BBQ. #stlwx #tornado

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This should be bigger news, no? www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 32 days ago • 65 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 33 days ago • 162 comments

⚜️ STL mutual aid thread — i'll be adding links here to keep them all in one place; please feel free to to share info here too! #STL

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

Re-upping this in light of yesterday’s news out of Jeff City

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The entire pharmaceutical industry in the US is premised on the idea of NIH funded research until the large pharma companies (which are better thought of as private equity rather than scientific enterprises) can add an agent to their risk portfolio.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.

submitted 37 days ago • 100 comments

Made me snort 😂

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 43 days ago • 114 comments

I have WCK set for monthly donations because I love that they are fast, nimble, and can seemingly feed people anywhere and under any circumstances. The fact that they are like ‘hey we are stuck here’ should set off all the alarm bells (in case you didn’t hear the million that were going off…

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment