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Here is how it started: “Missouri’s utilities give more than $400,000 to Kehoe campaign” Story here: www.columbiamissourian.com/news/electio... Here is how it is paying off for them ⬇️

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One part of the bill approved by the Senate Thursday requires the state to establish residential care programs for foster children who are currently staying in places like hospitals and offices because they have nowhere else to go. #moleg #mogov via @clarabates.bsky.social

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Proponents argue Missouri must repeal a 1976 ban on charging customers for new power plants as they are built to meets its future energy needs, while critics say it’s a cash grab by utilities who will undoubtedly raise rates. #moleg #mogov via @rudikellermi.bsky.social

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Corporate Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Are Cashing In and Flooding Republican Campaigns With Contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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Trump has signed an executive order to clear-cut 280 million acres of trees (even endangered species) in National Forests and other projected lands. Everything this administration does is to troll Americans who didn't vote for Trump. Like, say, environmentalists.

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Hard to overstate the idiocy of such a decision. This will worsen taxpayer customer service. And it will INCREASE deficits.

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My God: they are selling off federal buildings and no longer planning on collecting revenues. Again, none of this is about efficiency. I know the IRS is not popular, but for every dollar invested it generates about $7 in returns. The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it.

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"medical freedom" = criminalizing vaccines, in the same way that "free speech" = banning words and books

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Supreme Court just approved dumping raw sewage (SHIT) into the waterways of the United States. Think about that the next time you go swimming in the ocean or eat fish that was caught in the river or stream near you. Amy Coney Barrett join the three liberal justices in dissent.

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Abortion returns to Columbia, opening access for mid-Missouri for first time since 2018 missouriindependent.com/2025/03/04/a...

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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

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Nataša Pirc Musar President of Slovenia 👏

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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Openly threatening a member of Congress with prosecution

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A poem on the Trump administration's work dismantling democracy and those that are resisting. The screenshot is taken from a comment on @pappas.bsky.social's piece, "Seuss’s Satirical War on Fascism". forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/seusss-sat...

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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

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Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

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Farmers vote their values rather than in their economic interests. They are still suffering from a loss of market access.Tax payers funded $28B because of retaliation to Trump's tariffs. missouriindependent.com/2025/02/17/r...

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I just learned that my former Missouri state senator, Wayne Wallingford, who was term limited and has been the Director of the Missouri Revenue since January, 2022 has at least one side gig. My city council agreed to hire him to "monitor legislation and committee hearings, and to report to the City

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Southeast Missouri farmer's comments on the cost to his industry of USAID being shut down and steel tariffs. Making America poorer again! www.semissourian.com/news/future-...

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Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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Commercial real estate for older office buildings is barely hanging on, trading at massive discounts, with growing defaults on mortgages & related bonds. Great time for the government to terminate thousands of leases! The economics of the DOGE fire sale, from me: prospect.org/economy/2025...

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Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

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BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

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Trump DOJ confirms they will ask SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey’s Executor rather than defend independent agencies / multi member commissions like the FTC, etc. (So they’re arguing Trump can fire the boards and commissioners that lead these agencies)

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FYI, coming up next week: a #SaveOurServices day of action led by unionized federal workers to reject the Musk coup, complete with rallies and social media action. More details at bit.ly/SOSaction, h/t @ericblanc.bsky.social

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2/11/2025- Change of Plans www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...

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The Wood Chipper #trump

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History belongs to all of us

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1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

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Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

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Horrifying.

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FY 2023 NIH funding for Missouri

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"She said that can't just stand by and treat the symptoms.She had to be part of the cure" Diana Savita Wagner,from Germany,became a combat medic in the Ukrainian Army&served in the Carpathian Sich Battalion since the summer of 2022.In February 2024,Diana was killed while evacuating injured soldiers

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🚨 This is sign that DOJ will not abide by the Attorney General Guidelines. Those exist precisely to determine the criteria that need to be met to open investigations, which involve information, allegations, or facts that indicate a VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW. Not “vibes” about ethics

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You snooze. You win. While you were sleeping, a federal judge issued an emergency TRO: ➖ blocks DOGE from accessing Treasury systems ➖ requires DOGE to "immediately destroy" any material already downloaded Case brought by attorneys general of 19 states Added to the Litigation Tracker⬇️

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Toretsk. The city is dead, robbed of life by Russians in the largest war on the European continent since WWII. #StandWithUkraine 📹: libkos

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If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...

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NEWS --> Dems fear a Defense Department IG review of Elon Musk's flouting of security protocol as a big recipient of Pentagon contracts is now dead under Trump. DOD launched the probe in 2024, but then Trump fired DOD's IG, so what happened to that probe? New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

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