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@ellen-zerr.bsky.social
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Public school board member in a red state. Not a content creator. I follow scientists (especially medical), journalists, politicians, historians, and resisters. You don’t need to follow me back

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sam @samthielman.com · 8h
sound on. full screen. oscar for best short subject
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 17h
Missouri Republicans are scrambling to organize late campaigns on ballot measures they spent most of the year trying to block from the Nov. 3 election. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri Republicans scramble to launch late campaigns on two ballot measures • Missouri Independent
Missouri Republicans are scrambling to organize late campaigns on measures they spent most of the year trying to block from the ballot.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lake America
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Overland, MO, couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 18/06/2026
The 2016 amendment won statewide with 57% of the vote, a margin of more than 375,000 votes. Under Amendment 4, its 31,500-vote loss in one district would have killed it. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri voters passed a sales tax cap. Under Amendment 4, it would have failed • Missouri Independent
Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 barring state and local governments from imposing new sales taxes on most services — a measure its backers pitched as protection against fut...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The courts blocked Trump's tariffs. Then they blocked the replacement.⁣ ⁣ Now we're on version three.⁣ ⁣ The lawyers got better. The economics didn't.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NYC COMPTROLLER: “Next level. Beyond anything we’ve seen. We’re very worried about the precedent this sets.” Institutional investors (and regular Americans) are being forced to own billions worth of SpaceX after it was fast-tracked into indexes to make Elon a trillionaire 🤔
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
St. Charles County election leader warns redistricting delay could threaten August primary   missouriindependent.com/2026/05/16/s...
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St. Charles County election leader warns redistricting delay could threaten August primary  • Missouri Independent
Disagreements between local election officials and Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins continued over the status of a redistricting referendum.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I wrote a post based on this report and my thread from earlier in the week:
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What Does a “Learning Recession” Mean?
For one thing, that we need to beware of failed reforms cycling back
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What Meetings with Thomas Albus, the federal prosecutor from Missouri overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, Reveals About FBI’s dangerous Seizure of Election Records in Georgia www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
The federal prosecutor from Missouri, who is overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, had several meetings set up with top administration lawyers last fall to discuss election integr...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Really have to hand it to the @WeRateDogs guy, who's consistently using his massive platform for good. In this case discussing how Ring is trying to manufacture consent for using its products for immigration—AND ABORTION—monitoring.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
By The Numbers - Over $400,000 raised - More than 11,000 grassroots contributors - An average contribution of $28.20 - 330+ volunteers recruited and organizing - 13 local media interviews across 9 Missouri outlets - Endorsed by 8 national organizations, Members of Congress, and local leaders.
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Ending 2025 with a bang
Thank you again for an incredible first quarter as a candidate
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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This is fucking amazing
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“There are no kings in America. Only gilded men we can topple Again and again” #NoKingsinAmerica
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
My opponent Ann Wagner is busily posting away on her social media about the "far left radical agenda"...of wanting affordable healthcare. At least 21,500 citizens of MO-2 are going to lose their healthcare and probably more from lack of affordable options. She doesn't care. #TeamWellman
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We can change Missouri in MO-2. We run a professional campaign with a vision to make people’s lives better and represent them in Congress. We can change the entire state by also breaking the supermajority. We’re not done yet! #TeamWellman
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 14/09/2025
The Missouri Independent’s staff won 28 awards Saturday — including 10 first place honors — in the annual Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. #moleg #mogov
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The Independent wins 28 journalism awards in annual Missouri Press contest • Missouri Independent
The Missouri Independent's staff won 28 awards Saturday — including nine first place honors — in the annual Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ rallies draw thousands to peaceful protests across Missouri missouriindependent.com/2025/06/14/a...
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Anti-Trump 'No Kings' rallies draw thousands to peaceful protests across Missouri • Missouri Independent
Thousands turned out across Missouri to join a nationwide mobilization against the expansion of executive power by the president.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 13/06/2025
Rallies are planned in Kansas City and St. Louis, along with/Boonville, Columbia, Fayette, Marshall, Jefferson City, Warrensburg, Cape Girardeau, Springfield, Joplin, Rolla, St. Joseph, Poplar Bluff, West Plains, Kirksville, Maryville, Clinton and several other locations. #moleg #mogov
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At least 30 'No Kings' rallies planned Saturday in Missouri, thousands nationwide • Missouri Independent
A “No Kings” demonstration is scheduled Saturday in downtown Columbia, one of nearly 30 planned in Missouri.
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 28/04/2025
From the moment her baby entered the world, Hailey feared the state would take her. The state did temporarily separate the young mother and child, moving them to different cities in different corners of the state. By eight weeks postpartum, Hailey had slept in two hospitals and four homes. #moleg
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A Missouri teen spent her life in foster care. Now she’s fighting the state to keep her baby • Missouri Independent
Hailey, a Missouri teen in foster care, was denied an abortion, then said the state worked to keep her from parenting her child.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The deportation of Heidy Sánchez has been "sudden and traumatic for their infant daughter, still breastfeeding and with ongoing health issues... 'The baby does not want to eat. They ripped the child from her mother’s arms at the immigration office.'" www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Tampa woman deported to Cuba gets separated from one-year-old and U.S. citizen husband
“The girl is distressed and doesn´t want to eat,” her father said.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: 

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell 
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
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Jason Hancock @jasonhancock.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
ICYMI: Billy Long’s bid to lead IRS under scrutiny over donations that paid off personal debt #moleg #mogov
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Billy Long’s bid to lead IRS under scrutiny over donations that paid off personal debt • Missouri Independent
Former Missouri Congressman Billy Long received $137,000 soon after he was tapped to lead the Internal Revenue Service.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Missouri abortion ban clears House, heads to Senate despite concerns from top Republican • Missouri Independent missouriindependent.com/2025/04/17/m...
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Missouri abortion ban clears House, heads to Senate despite concerns from top Republican • Missouri Independent
House Speaker Jon Patterson was the lone Republican to vote against sending the proposed abortion ban amendment to the Senate.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As someone who’s been fighting billionaires pushing voucher schemes that defund public schools: I see the GOP House following the same damn marching orders to cut health care, retirement security, education and more. All to fund tax cuts for those very same billionaires.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 10/04/2025
The harshest critics of legislation aiming to regulate intoxicating hemp products like Delta-8 seltzers and hemp-THC gummies argued during Wednesday's filibuster that it was nothing more than an attempt by the marijuana industry to stomp out its competition. #moleg #mogov
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Intoxicating hemp regulations stall in Missouri Senate after 7-hour filibuster • Missouri Independent
Legislation aimed to regulate products like hemp-THC seltzers, but ban others from being sold outside of marijuana dispensaries.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My #warcoffee Today, I will miss my History class. It is not due to the attack or my lack of sleep. Speaking of the attack, the muscovites launched 23 missiles and 109 drones on Ukraine overnight. Peace? What peace?
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The Trump Administration wants to sweep this under the rug. We’re not going to let them.
Congressman Ted Lieu speaking at a podium with an article headline by Barry Levitt from 3/30/25 overlayed him that reads: “Congressman Makes Fiery Call for Pete Hegseth to Resign Over Signalgate.” Smaller text reads “Ted Lieu didn’t hold back his opinions when discussing Pete Hegseth’s “Signalgate.””
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔥 “Without a level playing field — without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Meritocracy fails spectacularly… it’s ok to at any point stop and admit you didn’t think this all the way through.” cc: Rep. Aron Maberry (who is carrying yet another an anti-DEI bill)
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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This initiative petition would shut down Tesla’s MO showrooms. Something to try in every state with an IP process. “They’ve given us plans for the Death Star,” Ketcher said. “And when when somebody gives you the plans for Death Star, you know what to do.” PS: Red state Dems are a creative bunch.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE role draws effort to force Tesla to close Missouri dealerships • Missouri Independent
An initiative effort by a well-known Missouri Democrat would, if passed by voters, force Tesla to close its showrooms in the state.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Pete Hegseth's ability to lead is irreparably harmed. He needs to resign. Or Military members and this nation deserve better. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth and the Bullsh*t Patriotism of MAGA America
So, he accidentally texted war plans to a journalist on a social media app.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/03/2025
Take the time to follow the link and read for yourself the list of cancelled grants. The combination of cruelty, shortsightedness, and absolute ignorance is astounding.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 28/03/2025
Elon Musk doubling down on calling Senator Kelly a "traitor" is beyond the pale. Senator Kelly is a decorated Navy vet who’s devoted his life to serving our country. Musk, on the other hand, has only ever served himself.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Do NOT take the bait Trump is tossing out right now. Stay on Signalgate.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Very Well Said and Accurate….
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Yes, Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz violated all sorts of national security protocols by sharing military secrets with a journalist. But at least they were White when they did this. by Charlie Kirk
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Elbows up, Canada.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 17/03/2025
During Kim Evans’ tenure, the department faced criticism from state lawmakers, the federal government and advocacy organizations over its administration of public benefits. #moleg #mogov
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Director of Missouri's long-troubled public assistance agency announces retirement • Missouri Independent
The head of the Missouri agency that for years has struggled to administer public benefit programs announced her retirement on Friday.
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
White people made this happen. White people need to fix it. Not your congressperson, not the courts, not a superhero. You. White person. Make other white people stop with this bullshit. Boycott, harass, never capitulate. And stop voting for Satan.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Anyone telling you to keep calm and carry on in U.S. academic research is gaslighting you. Have a plan, infact have multiple plans for survival.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I don't think it's a coincidence the person with the most courage to take ownership for a failure is also the person I probably blame the least
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