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Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

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Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Educator. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Jun 22

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5h

Yes! I loved it

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5h

I’m reading “We Crapped in our Nest” by Art Cullen and you should too.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h

Spoke in Carroll, Iowa today. I met up with Catelyn Drey who recently flipped a red senate seat blue.

Rural Democrats are here...we’ve always been here.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

No shit…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I do! He’s security too 🙂

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, friends. I have back-to-back events this weekend!

I’d love to see you in Caroll, IA on Saturday or Marshall, MO on Sunday.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I guess it’s pay back for the big fancy airplane?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025...

Qatar to share US air base in Idaho | The National

Mountain Home Air Base will host a contingent of F-15s and pilots from the Gulf state

www.thenationalnews.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Is there any precedence in the history of the United States for having a foreign airbase on American soil?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. And until Dr. Jones told me, I had no idea that after World War II, Iowa was the biggest apple producing state. If we could just go back to apples…

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know American farmers made more money with fewer subsidies under the Biden administration?

My interview with Dr. Chris Jones -- catch up on farm policies and what we should be doing to preserve our food and farm markets. One word: diversification. jesspiper.substack.com/p/soybeans-a...

Soybeans and Sisyphus

A conversation with Dr. Chris Jones

jesspiper.substack.com

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

Pennsylvania Republicans are mounting an unusual effort to oust three Democratic state supreme court justices and deprive Democrats of the court majority they’ve enjoyed for the last decade.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just another bank bailout. Taxpayers seem to always be on the hook for the banks.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I truly hope this will create diversity among planting. We are literally poisoning the water with fertilizers for corn.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

If I wanted to watch Nazi propaganda during a sporting event, I would watch the 1936 Olympics…
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Sets ‘All American Halftime Show’ in Protest of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA announced the 'All American Halftime Show,' a Super Bowl alternative in protest of headliner Bad Bunny.

variety.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I reckon she’s getting us close to the word sharecropper…

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