Kellie
@foximoxie.bsky.social
Creative urban gardener, entrepreneur, house chef, and mama of 3.
Proud resident of the City of St. Louis.
#stl #st.louis
Proud resident of the City of St. Louis.
#stl #st.louis
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FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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JUST IN: Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming will NOT run for reelection in 2026
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
JUST IN: Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming will NOT run for reelection in 2026
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IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right:
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right:
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
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Missouri students experience the school-to-prison pipeline on a daily basis. Students of color and students with disabilities are punished more frequently and more severely than their peers. endseclusion.info/4ap1Mpp #EndSeclusion
Mapping the school to prison pipeline. - ACLU of Missouri
Missouri students experience the school to prison pipeline on a daily basis. Students of color and students with disabilities are punished more frequently and more severely than their peers. The ACLU of Missouri is determined to disrupt the school to
endseclusion.info
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Missouri students experience the school-to-prison pipeline on a daily basis. Students of color and students with disabilities are punished more frequently and more severely than their peers. endseclusion.info/4ap1Mpp #EndSeclusion
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Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.”
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.”
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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FOR THE MILLIONTH FUCKING TIME, KIDS ARE NOT RECEIVING THESE SURGERIES JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE TRANS!!!!!! IF bottom surgeries are done on kids, it’s not for gender affirming care, it’s due to disease or injury that requires it. And FYI 80% of pediatric top surgery was breast reductions on cis boys. 🤬🤬
a young girl in a striped shirt is covering her face with her hand
Alt: a young girl in a striped shirt is covering her face with her hand and screaming so hard she turns red
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
FOR THE MILLIONTH FUCKING TIME, KIDS ARE NOT RECEIVING THESE SURGERIES JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE TRANS!!!!!! IF bottom surgeries are done on kids, it’s not for gender affirming care, it’s due to disease or injury that requires it. And FYI 80% of pediatric top surgery was breast reductions on cis boys. 🤬🤬
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NEW: Oversight Dems are releasing additional photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate to the public.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW: Oversight Dems are releasing additional photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate to the public.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)
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median asking rent in the US per the Census Bureau (data is through 9/30)
JD Vance lies as he breathes
JD Vance lies as he breathes
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
median asking rent in the US per the Census Bureau (data is through 9/30)
JD Vance lies as he breathes
JD Vance lies as he breathes
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"...over an area roughly the size of the continental United States" would be one way to convey this in coverage. It's certainly not all just off the coast of Venezuela.
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"...over an area roughly the size of the continental United States" would be one way to convey this in coverage. It's certainly not all just off the coast of Venezuela.
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The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
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Decades after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., newly released FBI files are shedding light on a theory tied to St. Louis.
Filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey says federal authorities may have had advance warning of the plot.
Filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey says federal authorities may have had advance warning of the plot.
Russell Byers claimed the plot to kill MLK started in St. Louis. Was he telling the truth?
The FBI investigated claims of a St. Louis conspiracy behind the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Decades later, a key source changed his story.
www.stlpr.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Decades after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., newly released FBI files are shedding light on a theory tied to St. Louis.
Filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey says federal authorities may have had advance warning of the plot.
Filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey says federal authorities may have had advance warning of the plot.
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In 1985, Trump explicitly said we should end US aid to the rest of the world and starve those countries until they riot and their governments submit to us—in the name of peace!—and/or bomb them, while allying with Moscow, in an interview republished in early 2016:
www.slate.com/articles/new...
www.slate.com/articles/new...
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In 1985, Trump explicitly said we should end US aid to the rest of the world and starve those countries until they riot and their governments submit to us—in the name of peace!—and/or bomb them, while allying with Moscow, in an interview republished in early 2016:
www.slate.com/articles/new...
www.slate.com/articles/new...
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Do St. Louis Alders not care what happens to their public schools?
Or is the campaign money just too irresistible?
Odds are your Alder benefited from the big money direct expenditures or at least the max checks by Greater St. Louis.
greatstateofstlouis.com/2025/12/14/h...
Or is the campaign money just too irresistible?
Odds are your Alder benefited from the big money direct expenditures or at least the max checks by Greater St. Louis.
greatstateofstlouis.com/2025/12/14/h...
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Do St. Louis Alders not care what happens to their public schools?
Or is the campaign money just too irresistible?
Odds are your Alder benefited from the big money direct expenditures or at least the max checks by Greater St. Louis.
greatstateofstlouis.com/2025/12/14/h...
Or is the campaign money just too irresistible?
Odds are your Alder benefited from the big money direct expenditures or at least the max checks by Greater St. Louis.
greatstateofstlouis.com/2025/12/14/h...
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@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas.
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas.
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
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I'm starting to believe that we will never reverse population decline in the city of St. Louis.
www.stlpr.org/education/20...
www.stlpr.org/education/20...
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I'm starting to believe that we will never reverse population decline in the city of St. Louis.
www.stlpr.org/education/20...
www.stlpr.org/education/20...
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.