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Bridgette Dunlap

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Mother, lawyer, columnist for the Missouri Independent. Other words at KC Star, Pitch KC, Rolling Stone, Rewire, Atlantic, Slate, Ms & Bridgette has a memo. Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/wRH1Qp6qqRzSpWwL5OkqUDLOQrJxnXi6aru2HOnLEkupJ8fkqEpHE6hwl00EwA9D

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · Feb 17

Me on our representatives’ refusal to represent us as Trump and Musk burn everything down:

missouriindependent.com/2025/02/17/w...

We need our senators to choose Missouri over MAGA in Trump’s war on the Constitution • Missouri Independent

Trump won big in our state, but that does not relieve Hawley and Schmitt of their obligation to defend what is owed to Missourians.

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote about how I'm mad that I have to collect signatures to reverse the unconstitutional gerrymander of Kansas City!

Gov Kehoe will ‘let the courts decide’ on Missouri gerrymander rather than do his job • Missouri Independent

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called lawmakers back into session to gerrymandering the state's congressional map.

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 2d

My editor won’t let me use an Oxford comma, and she gets two semi colons?

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 3d

Missouri public schools, Medicaid need $1 billion more to continue current programs missouriindependent.com/2025/10/09/m...

Missouri public schools, Medicaid need $1 billion more to continue current programs • Missouri Independent

Missouri’s bank balance looked healthy at the end of September but spending demands and earmarked projects will take the most of any surplus.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 5d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 11d

Damn.

Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 14d

It’s also baffling because his wife wrote about her postpartum psychosis.

Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 16d

I would like these people to be asked if they want sex-blind admissions and the disproportionately female campuses that would result.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18d

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded

These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18d

I realized I didn't share a gift link. Please read and share! I know you already know about the refrigerator mother myth,* but most people don't, and I really think it's important context for what's happening here.

*actually you might not! Now you do!

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21d

ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One

Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 23d

"how memes become law" post-it note found on my desk and I can't remember if that is something I meant to read or to write

Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 24d

Got it, thanks for explaining.

Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 24d

Why not just have citizen volunteers drive the vans?

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 26d

I mean, there have to many lovely Schmitts in the world, but dude…

Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 26d

I am grateful to write for a publication that won’t fire me for calling it as I see it. WP firing Karen Attiah for stating the obvious scares me in a new way.

She was fired for less than what I wrote (which makes me think it was pretextual).

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt openly promoted white supremacism in a public speech • Missouri Independent

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”

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Jeff Basinger @wolfraiseshuman.bsky.social · 27d

Bad news, guys!!
The Rep of my gerrymandered district says we can’t be against the new gerrymander anymore- because someone donated $.
Gosh darn it!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 27d

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The Onion:

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 27d

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 27d

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk. The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 27d

what took so long?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28d

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 28d

No, only the government can violate your 1A rights.

However, they have a claim if they can prove this is a pretext to fire non-white people, which I’m starting to suspect might be happening.

Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 28d

Me on Sen. Eric Schmitt’s racist speech:

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt openly promoted white supremacism in a public speech • Missouri Independent

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”

missouriindependent.com

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