“I don’t have to worry. Trump’s coming back to office.”
- A 1/6 defendant who allegedly fired a gun outside the Capitol.

An amazing Scott MacFarlane report on how Capitol rioters are openly thumbing noses at judges, prosecutors. Fully expecting a Trump pardon.

Again. Really weird, culty stuff happening outside of this courthouse.

What an inspirational campaign message for the guy who has plainly said he’s running on revenge and retribution.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released confidential witness info weeks before accusing KC of doxxing Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker

News from Jonathan Shorman #mogov #moleg kansascity.com/news/politics-…

A Quiet New Deal is going on, and Biden is doing all the things Trump pretended he would do and will immediately steal credit for.

It’s just weird. Seriously.

Today, my administration took a major step to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug.

It’s an important move toward reversing longstanding inequities.

Viktor Orban has undermined Hungarian democracy. Those who celebrate him either haven’t studied the tragic rollback of democratic institutions there or don’t value democracy.

Republican senators are out here in the open endorsing the tactics of a far right authoritarian regime. Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

In Missouri the tried to scare people by saying that signing the petition would result in identity theft. At some point they may want to consider that if their cause requires them to lie so much to get their way that maybe they’re not on the right side of the issue.

I hope every single voter in St. Louis & STL county remembers how hard Republicans in the Missouri legislature worked to try to dilute our votes.

But for the tireless efforts of a small & mighty group of Democrats, they would have been successful.

But they failed.

Happy Friday

The House has adjourned, having accomplished…not much. This year will set a record for the least productive session in our state history. Republicans have proven that, even with supermajorities, they cannot govern. Want a govt that actually functions? Elect more Dems. #moleg

Overpromising and underdelivering comes as no surprise when the majority party can’t even come to a consensus on banning child marriage. #moleg

It’s crazy that House OR Senate Republicans could have put their preferred IP “reform” policy on the ballot at basically any moment, but they know their own policy is SO unpopular that they declined a straight up vote on it b/c they couldn’t camflouge it with ballot candy #MoLeg

Looks like IP reform is Sine Dead.

Learn more about the Missouri Senate Democrats' record-breaking 50 hour filibuster to stop the Republicans’ attempt to eliminate 'one person, one vote' on the The Downballot Podcast from Daily Kos Elections #moleg

In a private Mar-a-Lago meeting, Donald Trump offered oil companies a massive rollback of American clean energy regulations if they gave him $1 billion. Here’s why a single story on this, run last week, will be plenty.

I am once again begging you to log off and do your actual job

Fox: The Dow crossed 40,000 for the first time ever. To put this in perspective, the Dow has now essentially doubled from where it was around this time under Trump

I really can't emphasize enough how much stock market performance framed media coverage of Trump's presidency and how little stock market performance has framed media coverage of Biden's presidency.