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•Former Alderman, St. Louis City. •Former Chair, MO Dem LGBTQ Caucus. •Former Secretary, St. Louis Young Dems. •Constitutional Law/American Studies/Classical Studies. •Humanist Atheist. You being here means a great deal to me. 🏳️‍🌈🐝

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Feb 14

One of my favorite videos about St. Louis. Fitting that it be formally (re?)released on her 261st birthday!

To all of the non-St. Louisans out there, give this video a watch. We are St. Louis — and I don't believe we've met!

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We Are St. Louis | A Campaign for the Missouri Historical Society

YouTube video by Missouri Historical Society

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · 8d

I thought of you when I read this morning's St. Louis Daily, with the news about the MO Dem Party once again making the most tone-deaf decisions.

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · 20d

I'm going to use my diploma to papercut the next person who erroneously accuses me of using ChatGPT to write my silly little academic thoughts. Just papercut 'em to all hell.

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · 27d

Let me tell you, the fact that Josh Hawley is now the last problematic Missouri Republican should be ringing alarms across the nation.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28d

I can’t tell you what happened with the murder of Charlie Kirk, but there’s a larger issue not being discussed.

In moments of authoritarian crisis, the environment is ripe for accelerationists to inflame tensions for their own purposes.

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The Opportunity in Crisis: Charlie Kirk's Assassination and Accelerationism

We're standing at a crossroads and we must recognize that means the moment is rife for anything

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 28d

I can hold the dialectic that Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was horrific and dangerous, and I also don’t want to live in a country where speakers at universities get shot in the neck.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 29d

I'd like to live in a world where nobody got shot, ever

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · 28d

To each their own, but I cannot celebrate someone being shot in the neck and bleeding out, traumatizing thousands of attendees and students and setting off who-knows-what as backlash. My Humanism allows me to hold two truths—that he was repugnant, and that this isn't the way to combat repugnancy.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Sep 9

We’re not going to be able to just vote ourseives out of this. It’s going to take a massive sea change with our politics, economics, and culture. And the people who committed these crimes are going to have to go to jail.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Sep 9

It really doesn't get discussed enough that the major tech firms are working with the Trump Administration and ICE in carrying out this program of terror. It just gets portrayed as Trump and his goons doing this awful business, but the capitalist structure is firmly intertwined.

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Sep 4

Back?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you support a candidate who has been willing to throw trans people under the bus and say it’s because you “want to win elections” you’re sending a pretty signal to trans people what you think of them.

Not to mention continuing this “pragmatic” bullshit also isn’t going to win you elections.

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Sep 2

My weight loss secret? Instead of eating I mostly skip meals and dine on ashes instead. Plenty to go around if anyone wants some.

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Sep 1

This Labor Day we're introducing the cats to feminism and the nuclear arms race with Barbenheimer, as is tradition.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · Aug 29

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Oh hey, sorry, that person is currently working a residential explosion response" is not something I thought I'd ever hear at work, much less be a relatively commonplace response!

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm convinced that climate anxiety is playing a role, at least in part, in what on the surface may seem like a cycle of civilizations. There was always going to be a point when/where the realization took hold, despite any efforts to ignore or deny it. Another factor in our present social psychosis.

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 20

Y'all — my Red Cross regional headquarters has a wall of archival storage and no archivist. My heart sings! I'm here, baby, just wait for me to settle into my new role!

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 16

If you do call the police for a mental health situation here in the City of St. Louis, be sure to request a Purple Shirt member! Our Cops with Clinicians program, though reviled by the parasitic assholes on Nextdoor and Facebook who contribute nothing to society, is wildly successful in this regard.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 16

DO NOT CALL THE COPS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CHECKS IN DC. Now more than ever. Unless you want it to be the last call you make or the last time you see a person.

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 14

For those outside of higher education, the sciences are especially elitist and have the largest chip on their shoulders. It's not that you won't find that in the humanities — you certainly will! But damn, the quantitative fields can be so damn difficult. As if they don't get all new everything 🙄

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · Aug 13

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.

“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities

Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 12

Now where else have we heard the insidious rhetoric that a Black female Mayor is "cooking the books" on crime stats? 🧐🧐🧐

A. Torch @torcho.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fascist enabler Leland Vittert now says he doesn’t feel safe living in DC. He can’t go out on Fridays and Saturdays without fear of roving gangs kidnapping him (ICE??), he claims the DC mayor has cooked all the numbers. He seems like a paranoid racist. Don’t normalize NewNation or this fascist. ☠️

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Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 10

Almost-welcome to St. Louis!

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yesterday was my 85th and last day on the Red Cross tornado disaster relief operation. 12 weeks ranging from the morning after, to the midway point of long-term recovery.

I need some time to decompress, but I'd like to do a write-up on this experience. We can come back from this stronger—will we?

Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · Aug 9

So what's going on here, eh?

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 7

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

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