Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️🌈
@bstingstl.bsky.social
•Former Alderman, St. Louis City.
•Former Chair, MO Dem LGBTQ Caucus.
•Former Secretary, St. Louis Young Dems.
•Constitutional Law/American Studies/Classical Studies.
•Humanist Atheist.
You being here means a great deal to me. 🏳️🌈🐝
•Former Chair, MO Dem LGBTQ Caucus.
•Former Secretary, St. Louis Young Dems.
•Constitutional Law/American Studies/Classical Studies.
•Humanist Atheist.
You being here means a great deal to me. 🏳️🌈🐝
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We Are St. Louis | A Campaign for the Missouri Historical Society
YouTube video by Missouri Historical Society
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One of my favorite videos about St. Louis. Fitting that it be formally (re?)released on her 261st birthday!
To all of the non-St. Louisans out there, give this video a watch. We are St. Louis — and I don't believe we've met!
youtu.be/p6pScnN9jmo?...
To all of the non-St. Louisans out there, give this video a watch. We are St. Louis — and I don't believe we've met!
youtu.be/p6pScnN9jmo?...
Good Lord, is tonight a full moon? I've felt off all day, the food processor decided not to work right as I added melted chocolate to wet ingredients(!), and then I sliced the absolute hell out of my finger getting saran wrap, flinging just as much blood as expletives at the walls. Mercy me!
a man with the words up to now everything has gone wrong below him
ALT: a man with the words up to now everything has gone wrong below him
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Good Lord, is tonight a full moon? I've felt off all day, the food processor decided not to work right as I added melted chocolate to wet ingredients(!), and then I sliced the absolute hell out of my finger getting saran wrap, flinging just as much blood as expletives at the walls. Mercy me!
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I wrote one-and-a-half pages, as per my writing schedule. Can I have that doctorate now? Or at the very least a cookie or something?
a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I wrote one-and-a-half pages, as per my writing schedule. Can I have that doctorate now? Or at the very least a cookie or something?
Some Americans don't know HRM Becky, Queen of Carpets, and thus cannot have yet lived full lives.
youtu.be/ucN0Gu_7NZ8?...
youtu.be/ucN0Gu_7NZ8?...
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Some Americans don't know HRM Becky, Queen of Carpets, and thus cannot have yet lived full lives.
youtu.be/ucN0Gu_7NZ8?...
youtu.be/ucN0Gu_7NZ8?...
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
Unfortunately, the audiobook I was delighted to dive into uses two different voice actors. Terrible news.
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Unfortunately, the audiobook I was delighted to dive into uses two different voice actors. Terrible news.
I've seen some scholars postulate that SCOTUS could move to build upon State Department v. Muñoz (2024) by taking away the legal privileges of marriage in lieu of overturning or dissolving it. At the very least a reminder to remain vigilant in the defense of our rights.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
www.inquirer.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I've seen some scholars postulate that SCOTUS could move to build upon State Department v. Muñoz (2024) by taking away the legal privileges of marriage in lieu of overturning or dissolving it. At the very least a reminder to remain vigilant in the defense of our rights.
I'm not sure this was so much a "yay Gays!" decision as it was "this will be a logistical and legal nightmare, which we hate more than the gays!" decision, but I'm nevertheless pleased for the rejection.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm not sure this was so much a "yay Gays!" decision as it was "this will be a logistical and legal nightmare, which we hate more than the gays!" decision, but I'm nevertheless pleased for the rejection.
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St. Louis Lambert International is not among the 10 hardest-hit hubs this weekend, but it is on the FAA’s list of 40 high-volume airports ordered to trim flights by as much as 10% during this government shutdown. https://tinyurl.com/42mpbvux
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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The current state of our country makes me want to hop back in, I'll tell you that. Might have to join a campaign once I get past this application cycle!
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The current state of our country makes me want to hop back in, I'll tell you that. Might have to join a campaign once I get past this application cycle!
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
It isn't Republicans v. Dems so much as it's Rich-As-Hell Republicans & Dems v. The Average American Civilian.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It isn't Republicans v. Dems so much as it's Rich-As-Hell Republicans & Dems v. The Average American Civilian.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Tell me you're a Millennial with a degree in Post-War America (1950-Present), without telling me that you're a Millennial with a degree in Post-War America (1950-Present).
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Tell me you're a Millennial with a degree in Post-War America (1950-Present), without telling me that you're a Millennial with a degree in Post-War America (1950-Present).
Just plain evil.
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Just plain evil.
Me: "Oh no! My deadlines are rapidly approaching and I haven't written a word! I'm going to buckle down and get to work!"
Also me:
Also me:
a chihuahua is wrapped in a blanket and laying on a bed .
ALT: a chihuahua is wrapped in a blanket and laying on a bed .
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November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Me: "Oh no! My deadlines are rapidly approaching and I haven't written a word! I'm going to buckle down and get to work!"
Also me:
Also me:
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Not to brag or anything, but I didn’t vote for this.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Not to brag or anything, but I didn’t vote for this.
St. Louis cat owners — can you recommend a vet? Our elderly feline has a ✨sideways lower fang✨ and the absolute earliest the Humane Society can see her is next week Thursday.
She isn't displaying any behavior changes or pain (even secret cat pain), but still...! Recommendations, please!
She isn't displaying any behavior changes or pain (even secret cat pain), but still...! Recommendations, please!
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
St. Louis cat owners — can you recommend a vet? Our elderly feline has a ✨sideways lower fang✨ and the absolute earliest the Humane Society can see her is next week Thursday.
She isn't displaying any behavior changes or pain (even secret cat pain), but still...! Recommendations, please!
She isn't displaying any behavior changes or pain (even secret cat pain), but still...! Recommendations, please!
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Five years of Council on Human Relations meeting minutes, six resulting notecards. Such are the ebbs and flows of archival research.
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Five years of Council on Human Relations meeting minutes, six resulting notecards. Such are the ebbs and flows of archival research.
Extremely skeptical of this, which immediately reminds me of the tenement housing that led to Pruitt-Igoe. The Board of Aldermen should've read the Mayor Dickmann files at WashU and read the pleas of that era.
SROs can quickly exploit the individual, which came up often on the tornado relief op. :/
SROs can quickly exploit the individual, which came up often on the tornado relief op. :/
St. Louis city revisits a once-scorned housing model: SROs
Marquitta Kirwan recently had a “huge epiphany.” Her company, Home Sweet Home Rentals, owns nearly 60 properties in the metro area. One is a spacious brick three-story that was built in 1912 just a bl...
www.stlmag.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Extremely skeptical of this, which immediately reminds me of the tenement housing that led to Pruitt-Igoe. The Board of Aldermen should've read the Mayor Dickmann files at WashU and read the pleas of that era.
SROs can quickly exploit the individual, which came up often on the tornado relief op. :/
SROs can quickly exploit the individual, which came up often on the tornado relief op. :/
Truly, you never know what you'll come across in an archival collection. Today, that meant holding a letter from a Japanese woman who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a child. Not what I was expecting in foreign correspondences to Mayor Raymond Tucker, but welcome nevertheless.
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Truly, you never know what you'll come across in an archival collection. Today, that meant holding a letter from a Japanese woman who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a child. Not what I was expecting in foreign correspondences to Mayor Raymond Tucker, but welcome nevertheless.
Men will literally join a 50+ year campaign to destroy America instead of going to therapy. SMH.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Men will literally join a 50+ year campaign to destroy America instead of going to therapy. SMH.
I watched 'Weapons' (2025) last night on a whim and, boy howdy, did I not need something else to obsess over while I work on doctoral applications.
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I watched 'Weapons' (2025) last night on a whim and, boy howdy, did I not need something else to obsess over while I work on doctoral applications.