The gloves are off. Kamala Harris rips Biden and his team in her new book. Blames everyone but herself for her issues.

Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech.

I'm 63. Old. There have been many times in my life when it seemed America was on the brink of collapse in some profound way. But every single time, we got back on our feet. I'm going to put my trust in past behavior and in the goodness of the most.

I feel I’ve been totally consistent on free speech and cancel culture this past decade, whether the people losing their jobs were on the Left or the Right. And I’m telling you now that what cons are doing with Kirk blasphemers is 100% garden variety everyday cancel culture.

Not even remotely allowed by the First Amendment, and not something a president should even be talking about attempting.

Great news for cyclists and pedestrians using the Chouteau/Manchester corridor in STL City. stlpr.org/government-pol…

FIRE is what the ACLU once was: a group steadfastly devoted to free speech and opposing state censorship, regardless of where it comes from or who it targets. They made their name defending conservative students from campus censorship, but apply the principles universally:

The Trump admin defunded major universities to coerce speech on Israel, arrested students for free speech, now uses its power to censor TV networks, hand TikTok to loyal GOP donors, and openly demands political correctness snitching campaigns for Americans to report one another.

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

St. Louis lands direct flight to London on British Airways stltoday.com/news/local/gov…

Pew Research showing Democratic approval of their Congressional leadership now resembles Republican approval of their Congressional leadership in 2014, which historians might remember as the year before Donald Trump took over that party pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

WaPo: Some rank-and-file DC officers and detectives have complained for months — in some cases, years — that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer or avoid the ire of top department brass. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

42% of Republicans say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people who say things he doesn't like 40% say he's improperly encouraged federal investigations of his political opponents 31% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Preach, Melissa S. Kearney

My god. This is from a piece meant to *critique* the theory that libs significantly outnumber cons in the academy.

Dutchtown, you were lookin’ good yesterday just before sunset. St. Anthony of Padua spires, seen from Marquette Park. #StLouis

St. Louis Public Schools fires Superintendent Millicent Borishade | STLPR stlpr.org/education/2025…

Almost seems like the teachers’ union prez is acting as a spokesperson for Saint Louis Public Schools. An ineffective school board, incompetent administrators, and a toxic teachers’ union. Behold the slow-motion train wreck that is STL Public Schools.

Aggregate measures say the economy is doing pretty well right now. But that obscures a growing divide: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by stock market gains, are spending. Low-and middle-income Americans are struggling amid inflation and a weakening labor market.

When this story broke last week it raised a lot of questions. Just as we've come to expect, Sarah Fenske⁩ & ⁦Ryan Krull⁩ are delivering the answers. stlmag.com/news/rene-knot…