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Famous St. Louis Man Jack Dorsey Thumbs Nose at Elon Musk

2 years ago
Just over a year ago, the news broke that Elon Musk — then primarily known as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, the richest man alive, and a giant tool — had made the initial acquisition deal to purchase Twitter for approximately $44 billion.  Right away, social media was not happy and plenty threatened to leave Twitter. “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter,” Musk tweeted at the time, “because that is what free speech means.” 
Jessica Rogen

Missouri lawsuit isn’t the only defamation case against far-right site Gateway Pundit

2 years ago

Soon after the 2020 election, Eric Coomer’s name started trending on Twitter, often accompanied with the hashtag #ArrestEricCoomer. At the time, he was living in Colorado and working as director of product security for Dominion Voting Systems, the company ensnared in unfounded election fraud conspiracies following former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden.  Coomer […]

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Jason Hancock

Washington State Requires That Broadband Infrastructure Subsidies Be Used For Competitive, Open Access Fiber Networks

2 years ago
Between COVID relief and the recently passed infrastructure bill, there’s an historic influx of more than $60 billion being thrown at this country’s substandard broadband networks. And, as you might expect, there’s a lot of heavy lobbying and maneuvering by various parties to obtain that money, and/or ensure that it’s actually utilized for the greater […]
Karl Bode

Missouri governor threatens to call special session to ban gender-affirming care

2 years ago
With only two weeks left before lawmakers adjourn for the year, Gov. Mike Parson is threatening to keep Missouri’s general assembly in Jefferson City if they don’t pass bills banning gender-affirming care for minors and placing restrictions on transgender athletes. Parson told KCMO Talk Radio’s Pete Mundo on Tuesday, and reiterated to reporters Thursday, that he will call a special session if the legislation doesn’t reach his desk before the May 12 adjournment. “We’re going to address…
Annelise Hanshaw

Mizzou names new business school dean

2 years ago
Balaji Rajagopalan has been named dean of the Robert J. Trulaske Sr. College of Business at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Rajagopalan currently is dean of the College of Business at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb County, a role he's held since 2016. He succeeds Chris Robert, an associate professor in Trulaske's management department who has served as the college's interim dean since December 2021 when Ajay Vinze exited after being named to the post in 2016. Mizzou's Provost and Executive…
Diana Barr

We know where the Missouri AG’s inflammatory anti-trans rhetoric could lead

2 years ago

In 2015, Robert Dear shot three people to death and injured nine others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood. When he was arrested after a five hour stand-off he told police: “no more baby parts.”  The gunman was repeating a lie that presidential candidates and politicians had taken mainstream after an anti-abortion group released doctored videos […]

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Bridgette Dunlap