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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d

Missouri’s Secretary of State says an act of democracy — gathering signatures to compel a referendum — is a crime punishable by law.

Which undermines democracy and invalidates the law.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/laws...

As the campaign to repeal Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map approaches the 106,000 signatures needed to put the issue on the 2026 ballot, Republicans are pulling out all the stops to block it.

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced Wednesday that roughly 100,000 signatures gathered so far for the referendum won’t count — and that gathering them before his office approved “constitutes a misdemeanor election offense.”

Later in the day, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a lawsuit arguing that holding a referendum on the congressional map is unconstitutional and asking a federal judge to stop it.

“Missouri politicians continue to try to confuse, intimidate and, frankly, silence us,” Richard Von Glahn of People Not Politicians, the committee behind the referendum campaign, told reporters Thursday.

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 2h

Pfft, it can't find a primary source? I grabbed myself like 2 hours ago. Useless. (truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

so I gather this is a lot of people's first middle east cease fire.

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 16h

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 2h

Especially the head of a major news organization who is wearing a giant hot dog costume saying "we're all trying to find who did this'

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

Karoline Leavitt practicing her poop plane response in the mirror, “People made it clear a year ago that they are tired of the same old same old politics.”

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3h

Listen

They had empty plate carriers and were handing out candy to children from ammo boxes

They were READY 💪🏻 to go 🔫

The Oathkeepers had 3 whole car spots for handing candy to children, here's an old white guy talking to Scooby Doo as a younger Asian guy with a back and white mirror image American flag on his shoulder stands by himself sadly not handing any candy to any children at that moment

Another Oathkeepers car, a red sedan with a plastic skeleton that is all black in the trunk. The guy is wearing a Scream mask and like an empty black plate carrier over it, handing out candy to children I cropped out of the photo

More Oathkeepers, they also had a tent and a red jeep and a US flag and an Oathkeepers flag, both at the same height. Old white guys in branded hoodies are glowering at the children they're handing candy out to as a medium aged white guy dressed as Jack Sparrow hands out candy to a child from an ammo box. The children's faces have been scribbled out, as they are innocent here

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 3h

the penis arrest is the funniest thing I've seen this week

hope she wasn't injured so I don't have to pretend it wasn't funny

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

For the “aha, but will those protesters get involved in other organizing??” skeptics…Boston No Kings had a big row of booths providing info + sign-up sheets for a bunch of local activism and political organizations. I have seen similar at other 50501 events.

(Which you’d know if you went to one..)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

I think some of the people on social media sneering at the No Kings protesters are just mad that those normies with signs are way better shitposters than they are

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 3h

intac/tivists get more internet poisoned every day, as does everyone who knows about them

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 3h

We had luck chasing a few into boxes with safe-looking mouseholes cut in 🤷‍♀️

Of course you actually have to get it out in the open

Grinding your fingernails together (bruxing) can make them feel at ease and sometimes even curious, but less so than with rats

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 4h

Lol they knew about it well before Friday

If you know weeks ahead that the mayor is gonna get shot, you don't need to drag everyone in. FPO then fill in skeleton with pic and numbers and color.

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 4h

Building channels for mass mobilization & keeping them in good working order is also not nothing, nor is building networks and demonstrating it's not 1 person against an unstoppable force. Isolation is a weapon.

What numbers & organization does the other side have? A few racist incels in a u-haul?

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 5h

This fucking ad almost got me

Why is Google so useless at administrating their ad platform?

Don't use the OnePlayer - Video Downloader app, they're scammy assholes who are probably gonna install malware on your device, since clearly they don't mind deceiving you into installing something you don't want

Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 5h

jfc, just tried to grab the original diarrhea post link from truth social

how does anyone use truth social?

heard it was built on masto but it was just glitching out, or possibly behaving that way to show more ads

seemed like on-the-fly ad injection

scrolling normally:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Some people have said the media lacks the vocabulary for this political moment but all they need to do is describe what they're seeing with their eyes instead of ignoring it. The absolute minimum and they won't do even that

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 8h

Article sounds like that means "people who might carry a child to term" rather than "anyone who might become pregnant"

(eg I doubt it applies to me as a lesbian who would not continue a pregnancy resulting from SA)

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 19h

one of the possibly contaminated products was a high protein meal replacement shake, not just protein powder, and personally i “ate” it for all 2022 bc medicaid stopped covering my feeding tube formula and it was cheapest gluten/dairy free option. this isn’t all “lolol silly proteinmaxxers” thing 😭