Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s.
No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable.
The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.
My painting LAKESHORE
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
No, it’s not a painting—these surreal skies are real! This is a rare ‘fire rainbow’ spotted over the Rocky Mountains, created when sunlight hits ice-crystal clouds at just the right angle. Seeing a fire rainbow requires extreme luck.
Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...
Feel good post of the day.
I love how everyone is acting like Zohran Mamdani talking in Mario Kart metaphors is somehow unbelievable. He's 34... you know bro has a ride or die favorite Pokemon type and is up to his eyeballs in debt to Timmy and Tommy.
This has been an album that came out when I was 1 and that my parents played a lot in my childhood. It’s still one of my favorite albums to return to, like a warm blanket of sound.
I’ll have to give it another relisten this weekend.
Tell me if I’m wrong but if people can go to prison for lying to Congress, then shouldn’t members of Congress go to prison for lying to the people?
We should be learning from other countries...
It has been really disturbing to see some people pay tribute to Dr. Cerina Fairfax’s killer without even mentioning her. The victims of domestic violence matter more than their husband’s political careers.
www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
On Tuesday, Virginians will vote on a referendum allowing Democrats to shift four congressional seats their way.
The result could help determine the battle for control of Congress this fall, and it’s one of the 40 elections we’re watching this month.
"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani
My favorite scene from the Bible
(My dad is also a badass - he protected me a lot in other ways, and threatened a friend’s ex with a tire iron when he showed up at our house to “talk” to her out of the blue.)
The social contract isn’t men taking care of women. It is all of us, taking care of each other. Every day. Every time.
Men have also stepped up in weird ways. I had a stranger on the subway help me. I had a commuter grab me and drag me onto the train I needed, and he nicely explained what I had to do at the next station.
But when I was in physical, real, danger? It’s women I remember stepping up, again and again.
I also think about the many times I’ve been out and about, and women have stepped up to protect me.
A man tried to drag me out of a bar once, and it was my friend who grabbed my arm and yanked me back. It was my friend who made sure she stayed between me and that guy the entire time we were there.
She was who came to buy cars with me. Not that my father couldn’t. But my mom reads Consumer Reports and my mom is also one of the scariest people I know so she came with me.
And she would rip into the men who thought they could get one over on her.
I have red hair, and for most of my life it’s been long. And men have always touched it. Run their fingers through it.
I remember my mom pulling me away from those men, glaring and frankly snarling at them while she spat to keep away from me.
A man asked me today if my father didn’t protect me when I said women didn’t need a man’s protection and -
1. I was a literal child, so yes, my father protected me.
But
2. The moments I remember are when my mother actively did.
The ironclad domination of the legal intelligentsia over American constitutional law is probably the single biggest barrier to any kind of long-term reform in this country, especially since basically nobody in power is able to ever conceptualize it as a problem.
A huge amount of this is that there's still an unspoken but heavily enforced social norm that women are obliged to keep men's dirty secrets, whether you consented or not.
The second a man assaults or harasses you, he invokes this unspoken contract.
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“American politics has not yet fully grappled with what Israel has chosen to become… I don’t think this is a time to talk about solutions. What’s needed now is a confrontation with realities.”
@ezraklein.bsky.social with some harsh truth about Israel.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DXLEYyn...
Resharing since Katie Miller keeps creepily posting about teen pregnancy rates
Pope Leo is ... The Man Without Fear
A host of golden daffodils from Chicago.🌱
I keep trying to write something pithy or funny or sardonic and I can’t because I’m full of rage.
The FedSoc-1L-clerkship pipeline story today reminded me of this, my "fav" story about the clerkship application process.
It has a quite-unexpected twist at the end, I promise you.
"I got a call tonight from a constituent whose son is in federal prison He explained that he hasn’t heard from his son in several days (which is unusual for him), that his son suffers from multiple, potentially life-threatening health conditions that are going untreated in prison, and that he needed to know whether his son was still alive He sent me the main switchboard number for the prison in question (which is on the east coast), and I called the number Someone answered almost immediately I explained who I was and why I was calling, and in particular that I needed to know whether this particular inmate was alive and well The guy scolded me three times for calling “too f***ing late” and refused to tell me anything Only when I persisted did he agree to check his records to confirm that the inmate in question was alive and well After checking a list briefly, he came back to the phone and said “he’s here, and he’s alive and receiving the treatment he needs” (His parents assure me that that’s simply not true) I asked politely if someone could leave the inmate a message asking him to call his parents in the morning."
He said, “it’s too late” I responded, “I don’t mean now, I mean in the morning” He scolded me again for calling too late, and then told me I’d have to call tomorrow and track down the inmate’s counselor I asked him if he could relay the note to the counselor for me He scolded me again for calling too late and asked me to call back tomorrow to track down the inmate’s counselor I asked for the guy’s name He refused to answer I asked for his name again He hung up on me That’s not okay Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve had this experience when talking to people from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on behalf of constituents with an incarcerated family member suffering from a severe medical condition
Sen. Mike Lee describes being hung up on after trying to call a federal prison to ask about an incarcerated man's healthcare.
This is how the Bureau of Prisons routinely treats families desperate for information about loved ones. I've talked to so many of them over the years x.com/BasedMikeLee...
We are about to see some phenomenal backpedaling in the coming months. Truly glorious maneuvering.
