I drove 80 miles round-trip today with a friend to visit a plant nursery many people rave about.
I found only one native plant in the entire place (my friend said she also saw swamp milkweed), and I was horrified to find them selling Winter Creeper and Burning Bush, both of which are on the list of Top Invasive Plants in Missouri. Not to mention the fact that the Burning Bush look pretty pathetic for the price they are charging.
@gladsdotter That's really a shame. Modern nurseries should mostly stock natives and be all about killing lawns and planting vegetables, fruits, or natives.
BFD in #Missouri: GOP tried to rush a constitutional change to crack down on future ballot initiatives. Anticipated an #abortion rights measure this fall.
@990000 I guess I figured out the code today. They don't mean strong as individuals. Clearly they don't know how strong gay (and so many other denigrated) people are.
It’s hard work to get ballot measures going and especially hard in a state controlled by Republicans. The organizers doing this are trying as hard as they can to protect the right to an abortion.
History professor Steve Tamari is out of the hospital after #police seriously injured him at the Washington University student #protest. According to his wife, he will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. #Missouri#freepalestine
"I live in a red state [Missouri], and I hope you will listen to my warning. Those who want to demolish democracy won’t stop with my state, or any of the other GOP-dominated states. They are rolling over our rights to get to yours.
I know you’ve heard of it, and may be sick of reading posts about it, but Project 2025 will introduce the entire nation to red-state rule if Trump is elected."
"Some will say an easy fix is to move. But, that’s my entire point. There is nowhere to move. There is not one state that won’t be impacted if we don’t stop the billionaire-inspired plans that have already been implemented in Missouri.
The answer is to stand up in every state with the backing of those of you in less regressive states. Please, stand with us."
#Christian, #Greene, #Missouri: #Tornado Warning issued April 28 at 8:41PM CDT until April 28 at 9:15PM CDT by NWS Springfield MO Source: NWS Springfield MO
#Cooper, #Missouri: #Tornado Warning issued April 27 at 10:51PM CDT until April 27 at 11:30PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO Source: NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
#Henry, #Johnson, #Pettis, #Missouri: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 9:45 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
#Cass, #Henry, #Johnson, #Missouri: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 9:15 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
Left by the wayside is a request by the Missouri Department of Transportation to add Amtrak service from Kansas City to St. Joseph and Kansas City to southwest Missouri.
So shortsighted. Expanding/widening highways, but not funding new #Amtrak service.
Jess Piper on how right-wing trolls taunt her when she speaks out about the shortcomings of her home state of Missouri by telling her just to move to New York or California.
But it's not just right-wing trolls: as she reports, she also routinely gets the very same advice from leftist allies who appear to think they're entitled to judge her for living where her family lives, a state that's her state, too.
Her response to these privileged and supercilious folks who seem to imagine they're protected, by living in protected places different from Missouri:
"None of us is safe so long as there are folks living in states that are unsafe. They will roll over us first, and you next."
Stop telling those of us living in deep-red states because we have family ties and obligations and roots there to move. Start building solidarity with us and helping us fight.
Occasionally, people have gotten angry at me for saying it’s important to step up and run for office if you can. Sometimes we have to be our own heroes.
I just donated to these candidates: Ashley Cossins, Leslie Jones, and Stephanie Hein. They’re running to end the GOP supermajority in the #Missouri state legislature. 2 are running where the Republican had no opponent in 2022.
There are links to donate to each, as well as to Blue Missouri.
@TonyStark absolutely we need to be encouraging all Dems to run for local office (and all politics is local, as Tip famously said). And not just in the abstract but saying it to friends & family & considering it for ourselves. Can’t believe anyone would get angry w/you for saying something as simple as that…oh wait, this is social media, so of course🤷🏻♀️
judge ruled Missouri A.G. Andrew Bailey entitled to Planned Parenthood’s transgender care records
orders nonprofit to turn over some most sensitive files to man who built his unelected political career on restricting health care access for trans people
@persagen
The penalty for destruction of evidence is "adverse inference", which isn't really a problem here, since they'd have to assume that literally everyone treated by PP was trans.
Highly recommend strong civil disobedience here. @quixoticgeek
Prepping for the eclipse—going to head out tomorrow and I want to make sure all my equipment's ready to go, batteries charged, etc. Focus isn't perfect yet, that's always the hardest thing to nail, even with external monitor! #eclipse#sun#sunspot#missouri#mowx
@yetzt I've considered adding a lux meter, thermometer, and other stuff too but wrangling the four kids means I'm keeping it down to what I can mount up on one tripod!
@RealJournalism "They are eliminating the corporate income tax rate in the belief that businesses will turn around and pay workers more wages and improve facilities and services." 🤣🤣🤣
As if they EVER did.
If you're from #Missouri and curious what's going on in the Missouri Legislature, follow @MissouriLegislationTracker to see what bills are filed and what their status is.
@archliberal Can't take credit for this one -- /u/LKrew005 made it. He made it for twitter first, but then I asked if he'd make a Mastodon bot as well. And he graciously did!
