Staci D. Kramer
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It took roughly 11 hours to drive 460 miles to Fremont, Neb. - all of the delays coming in Missouri, including rugged interstates outside KC late afternoon. Many thanks to the emergency workers and the snow plow drivers.
We left St. Louis at 11 am. It took two hours to go 75 miles on WB70 to New Florence, where the nice folks at Love's were warning truckers about two-hour delays. The miles-long series of crashes starting around Williamsburg didn't even show on MoDot's map - they were stunned when I called it in.
Snowfall causes traffic headaches across St. Louis area; MoDOT surprised by storm's timing
Highways and streets were snarled with traffic Monday afternoon as snow fell across the area.
www.stltoday.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It took roughly 11 hours to drive 460 miles to Fremont, Neb. - all of the delays coming in Missouri, including rugged interstates outside KC late afternoon. Many thanks to the emergency workers and the snow plow drivers.
We left St. Louis at 11 am. It took two hours to go 75 miles on WB70 to New Florence, where the nice folks at Love's were warning truckers about two-hour delays. The miles-long series of crashes starting around Williamsburg didn't even show on MoDot's map - they were stunned when I called it in.
Snowfall causes traffic headaches across St. Louis area; MoDOT surprised by storm's timing
Highways and streets were snarled with traffic Monday afternoon as snow fell across the area.
www.stltoday.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We left St. Louis at 11 am. It took two hours to go 75 miles on WB70 to New Florence, where the nice folks at Love's were warning truckers about two-hour delays. The miles-long series of crashes starting around Williamsburg didn't even show on MoDot's map - they were stunned when I called it in.
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People's actions this World AIDS Day are not lessened because President Donald Trump says the government doesn’t commemorate the day any longer.
If anything, communities are further animated because of his administration’s failure to act.
Some thoughts on Dec. 1:
www.lawdork.com/i/180455096/...
If anything, communities are further animated because of his administration’s failure to act.
Some thoughts on Dec. 1:
www.lawdork.com/i/180455096/...
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
People's actions this World AIDS Day are not lessened because President Donald Trump says the government doesn’t commemorate the day any longer.
If anything, communities are further animated because of his administration’s failure to act.
Some thoughts on Dec. 1:
www.lawdork.com/i/180455096/...
If anything, communities are further animated because of his administration’s failure to act.
Some thoughts on Dec. 1:
www.lawdork.com/i/180455096/...
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This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
This morning I had the honor of helping lay out some panels of the #AIDS Memorial Quilt on the South Lawn of the White House. Seeing all these individual lives that were lost and knowing they are just a miniscule part of that great tapestry of loss is haunting.
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
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When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅
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This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"
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Today is World AIDS Day.
“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.
#WAD2025
“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.
#WAD2025
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Today is World AIDS Day.
“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.
#WAD2025
“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.
#WAD2025
“We will not fucking wait until Monday. We will do it right now. Get him on the phone again. I want to talk to him. No mother’s son is going to lay on a cold, hard slab for the weekend when I can do something to stop it.”
“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“We will not fucking wait until Monday. We will do it right now. Get him on the phone again. I want to talk to him. No mother’s son is going to lay on a cold, hard slab for the weekend when I can do something to stop it.”
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This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.
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Wow. One (1) new paid subscriber to go to reach my 2025 year-end goal!
Sign up for a paid subscription before midnight, and get 15% for the first year!
Sign up for a paid subscription before midnight, and get 15% for the first year!
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Wow. One (1) new paid subscriber to go to reach my 2025 year-end goal!
Sign up for a paid subscription before midnight, and get 15% for the first year!
Sign up for a paid subscription before midnight, and get 15% for the first year!
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My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
Multiple multicar accidents on WB70 as we head across MO to NE. If you don't absolutely have to go to Columbia from STL today, don't. Traffic is either stopped or stuttering for many miles.
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Multiple multicar accidents on WB70 as we head across MO to NE. If you don't absolutely have to go to Columbia from STL today, don't. Traffic is either stopped or stuttering for many miles.
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In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Charles Gaba was my ACA lodestar for years, often saving me $ and sanity. Please don't sign up until you read this 🧵 or the full post on ACASignups.net. And, to quote Charles, DO *NOT* UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PASSIVELY AUTO-RENEWED THIS YEAR!!!
📣 REPOST: Grouching Towards Enrollment: My 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide:
acasignups.net/25/11/28/gro...
acasignups.net/25/11/28/gro...
Grouching towards Enrollment: My 2026 ACA OEP Guide (Updated w/2 more tips!)
Almost exactly a year ago I began my 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period guide with the following words: This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies ...
acasignups.net
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Charles Gaba was my ACA lodestar for years, often saving me $ and sanity. Please don't sign up until you read this 🧵 or the full post on ACASignups.net. And, to quote Charles, DO *NOT* UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PASSIVELY AUTO-RENEWED THIS YEAR!!!
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is there a good alternative to canva to make simple little easy graphics for like, promo posts? it is supposed to be for people like me, who can't do graphic design or who don't have photoshop type programs. but canva is slow as hell now. I assume it's the AI bars they've stuck everywhere
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
is there a good alternative to canva to make simple little easy graphics for like, promo posts? it is supposed to be for people like me, who can't do graphic design or who don't have photoshop type programs. but canva is slow as hell now. I assume it's the AI bars they've stuck everywhere
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The relatively small area we know today as Forest Park Southeast or The Grove has had a lot of church buildings. Some have been demolished. Many more turned into other uses. And a few are open. A 🧵below.
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The relatively small area we know today as Forest Park Southeast or The Grove has had a lot of church buildings. Some have been demolished. Many more turned into other uses. And a few are open. A 🧵below.
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For the journalist who finally asks him “how does that 700% reduction work?” I will make a contribution to the charity of that reporter’s choice. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
I aced the cognitive test. Also, drug prices are coming down 700 percent.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
For the journalist who finally asks him “how does that 700% reduction work?” I will make a contribution to the charity of that reporter’s choice. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Filing away for next year ... (fingers 🤞 for the current batch of transplants)
Good evening. We might be losing the 🌱 Snapdragons over next week of temperature in teens and snow, ice, or both.
My trick to growing them is sowing the seeds late Fall, early Winter, tossing them on soil just as it starts to snow/rain. If you broadcast w/o precipitation, the birds will get them.
My trick to growing them is sowing the seeds late Fall, early Winter, tossing them on soil just as it starts to snow/rain. If you broadcast w/o precipitation, the birds will get them.
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Filing away for next year ... (fingers 🤞 for the current batch of transplants)
Charles Gaba was my ACA lodestar for years, often saving me $ and sanity. Please don't sign up until you read this 🧵 or the full post on ACASignups.net. And, to quote Charles, DO *NOT* UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PASSIVELY AUTO-RENEWED THIS YEAR!!!
📣 REPOST: Grouching Towards Enrollment: My 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide:
acasignups.net/25/11/28/gro...
acasignups.net/25/11/28/gro...
Grouching towards Enrollment: My 2026 ACA OEP Guide (Updated w/2 more tips!)
Almost exactly a year ago I began my 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period guide with the following words: This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies ...
acasignups.net
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Charles Gaba was my ACA lodestar for years, often saving me $ and sanity. Please don't sign up until you read this 🧵 or the full post on ACASignups.net. And, to quote Charles, DO *NOT* UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PASSIVELY AUTO-RENEWED THIS YEAR!!!
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Christmas at the BBC
![Title panel:
CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.
The Traitors Christmas Special:
Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?
[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]
Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:
A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies
[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness].
Donald's Big Distraction:
Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else
[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them].
The King's Speech:
We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact
[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].
A Ghost Story for Christmas:
A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees
[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]
Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:
Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks
[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]
Rightward Drift Christmas Special:
A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage
[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]
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November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christmas at the BBC
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Through midnight tomorrow, you can stream a bunch of great docs from NYC DOC online for $15 each. Currently watching: a star-studded doc on the Sunset Marquis. www.docnyc.net
DOC NYC - America's Largest Documentary Festival
Save the date! DOC NYC Returns Nov 12 - 30, 2025.
www.docnyc.net
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Through midnight tomorrow, you can stream a bunch of great docs from NYC DOC online for $15 each. Currently watching: a star-studded doc on the Sunset Marquis. www.docnyc.net
The Arch was a welcome sight as we crossed the Mississippi headed for home but wasn't in the mood for clear enough pictures to share.
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Arch was a welcome sight as we crossed the Mississippi headed for home but wasn't in the mood for clear enough pictures to share.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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