Health, policy & local gov. Community cat momma. KCMO❤️MPLS. She/her.
Kansas City, MO
Joined February 2015
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Two years after becoming the first state to overturn an abortion ban at the ballot box, Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected an attempt Tuesday to reinstate the ban, preserving the reproductive rights protections they approved in 2024. #moleg #mogov
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BREAKING: DOJ's unfounded lawsuit in Alaska DISMISSED. Like in LA, a federal judge has thrown out the garbage.
Kudos to ELG, ACLU, LWV, Common Cause & everybody else who opposed this stupidity. DOJ lacked any standing to file & the court recognized that.
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👀 The DOJ’s 1,000 election monitors deployed for this year’s midterms will stand aside after arriving at their assigned location, a top Trump administration official says.
But pro-voting groups warn some monitors have already displayed aggressive behavior: demdock.com/4iMvyrD
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🌀 A strengthening area of low pressure sweeping across the Upper Midwest on Monday and Tuesday may lead to increased aches and pains. Winds may also gust up to 40 mph on Monday!
⚡ While strong to potentially severe thunderstorms are possible Monday in the vicinity of Kansas City, the risk is low compared to other portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
🌧️ Widespread and potentially heavy rain will accompany a cold front early next week, with rainfall amounts likely to exceed one inch in many communities on Monday and Tuesday. The timing of the front may change, but for now, plan on the heaviest rain beginning late Monday afternoon and continuing through Tuesday afternoon.
🎃 It delights me to say the chance of rain on Halloween has greatly diminished! There could still be a few brief showers, especially during the morning, but otherwise, plan on a cloudy and unseasonably warm day.
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NEW: The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to pause a ruling blocking its election-related field operations in nine states, including interrogating likely U.S. citizens at their homes about their eligibility to vote.
The administration wants a ruling by tomorrow.
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📬 REMINDER TO MAIL VOTERS 📬
We are 8 days away from the midterms — a critical election that could determine House control and key positions in your community.
To those voting by mail, TOMORROW is the last day USPS recommends mailing your ballot.
Be sure to do so to ensure your vote counts.
I hate to break it to you but some of y’all are paying for ads that play exclusively to my dog while he is enjoying dog tv.
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BREAKING: Less than 30 minutes after the stay is presented to Justice Kavanaugh - SCOTUS issues the emergency stay preventing the TRO from taking effect.
Missouri's 7-1 gerrymander is BLOCKED pending appeal of the EDMO decision.
No noted dissents
(I TOLD YOU)
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The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why his email telling counties to use the HB 1 map is not a violation of its injunction. His answer is due by noon tomorrow.
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BREAKING: Absolutely MASSIVE extremely hard fought win today for Missouri voters: Missouri Supreme Court greenlights redistricting referendum for November ballot
democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court throws out the GOP’s 7-1 map that carved Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City district into three pieces, justices order Secretary of State to use the 6-2 map for the upcoming November election. Federal suits likely to follow.
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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear the MO Redistricting Referendum case and the MO Direct Democracy case tomorrow, Sept. 2 beginning at 9:00am CT.
You can access the video live stream here: courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=19…
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Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates. wired.com/story/flock-safety…
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First known US case: American charged for using a “duress” password
Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, is being prosecuted for allegedly giving border agents a passcode that wiped his phone.
The feature comes from GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android OS. Entering the duress code triggers a full factory reset.
This is believed to be the first time federal prosecutors have brought such charges.
The incident happened in January 2025 at Atlanta airport. Agents demanded access to his phone without a warrant, saying he hadn’t yet officially entered the US. When they entered the code, the phone wiped itself.
Tunick has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers argue the seizure was unlawful and that agents were investigating his activism against “Cop City.”
The case raises big questions about digital rights at the US border.
What do you think?
Article: techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us…
#Privacy #GrapheneOS #DigitalRights
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New: Public records show how a city that ended its Flock contract spent months trying to get the company to remove or turn off the cameras. They were told Flock "objects" to the city removing the camera itself. Eventually city put trash bags over them:
404media.co/flock-objects-to…
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It was a busy day at Downing Street yesterday… for Larry the cat 🐱
The famous feline welcomed his seventh prime minister, Andy Burnham, before appearing to keep a close eye on the waiting press.
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Larry the cat awaited his seventh British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, at 10 Downing Street on Monday morning.
The tabby cat, who bears the official title Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, has lived at 10 Downing Street since 2011. During that time, six British prime ministers have quit — the highest rate of political turnover in almost two centuries.
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To clarify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA’s ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.
Over the weekend, FDA alerted Taylor Farms that a new sample of shredded lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico tested positive for Cyclospora during import examination at the Southern Border. This ended up being a false positive, and Taylor Farms was alerted to the corrective test result Sunday.
FDA’s traceback investigation and outbreak data continue to converge on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico. FDA will continue to work with federal and state partners to investigate this multistate outbreak and ensure products implicated in this outbreak have been removed from the market.
Protecting the American public remains our highest priority. We encourage the public to continue to avoid all products listed in Taylor Farms’ voluntary recall. fda.gov/safety/recalls-marke…
The FDA has walked back an earlier detection of the cyclospora parasite on lettuce from Taylor Farms, adding that the result was a false positive on.wsj.com/4aWGVcw
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
FDA clarifies that the false positive does not change the basis for its ongoing cyclospora outbreak investigation or Taylor Farms' voluntary recall. x.com/us_fda/status/…
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NEW in @Nature: This is now the largest Cyclospora outbreak in US history. But CDC's parasite surveillance team was slashed from 11 people to 3 last year.
Joel Barratt, who ran the team, worries the CDC doesn't have the staffing to stop the outbreak quickly.
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BREAKING NYT:
Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision. nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/po…
