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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:165-AM

STL: Tuesday, June 14, 2022

STLwx 🌦

  • Splash pads, cooling centers, The Muny: Different ways St. Louisans are handling the heat - KSDK

Events 📆

  • Just wanted to share some of the pictures I took on Saturday in St.Louis - r/StLouis
  • Weekly Events Thread 6/13/21 - 6/19/22 - r/StLouis

BuySTL 👜

  • St. Louis developer to buy some of Bayer's Creve Coeur campus - stltoday.com

Restaurants 🍲

  • Urban Chestnut Brewing Company - Businesses
  • Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. chef Steven Kelly chats kitchen culture, regional pizza styles and his favorite popcorn chicken - feastmagazine.com
  • 15 vegan-friendly restaurants in St. Louis - St. Louis Magazine

STLfood ⚜️

Neighborhoods 🏡

STL99 😱

  • Beyond the List: Staffing issues 'scary' for St. Louis nursing homes - KSDK
  • Man accused of riot plot at Idaho Pride event faces felony charge in St. Louis County - FOX 2

STL100 💯

  • Ellisville martial arts class for Down syndrome athletes makes impact - KSDK
  • Bystanders save 4-year-old girl from drowning in Big River, police say - KSDK

99MO 😱

  • Video: Bear Scouting Location for New Den Causes Stir in Fenton - RFT
  • Bear hit, killed by semi-truck in Jefferson County - FOX 2
  • Owners of movie chimp Tonka could face criminal charges for lying to court about primate’s death - stltoday.com
  • Florida men admit to bringing 104 illegal farm workers to Missouri - FOX 2

WW99 😱

  • Elephant allegedly trampled woman, then showed up at her funeral to attack the corpse - Boing Boing
  • Ukrainians Will Write Your Message on Munitions Aimed at Russians for Donations - VICE US
  • Uyghurs Say the United Nations Is Failing Them - VICE US

Police 🚓

  • Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Dox the Cops Who Arrested Patriot Front Members - VICE US
  • City Paying Cop Who Posted Nazi Symbol in Office $1.5M to Go Away - VICE US
  • Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’ - Daring Fireball
  • Report Shows Kansas Law Enforcement Seized $21 Million From People, Most Of Whom Were Never Charged With Crimes - Techdirt

DotGov 🏛

  • Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail - The Register
  • Ron DeSantis Continues To Waste Taxpayer Funds To Pay For His Unconstitutional Culture Wars - Techdirt

CityGov 🏛

  • With scooters gone, St. Louis police say weekend was relatively calm downtown - stltoday.com
  • Megan Green is first to enter race for St. Louis aldermanic president - stltoday.com
  • Judge puts Holly Hills tax district proposal on Aug. 2 St. Louis ballot - stltoday.com
  • Grant program for north St. Louis and ‘aldermanic courtesy’ raise new questions after indictments - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis woman dealing with sinkhole, sewer backup finally gets results - FOX 2
  • Alderwoman Pihl office hour on 6/14/22, 5:30-7:00 pm - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association

LocalGov 🏛

  • Zero Tolerance Policy on Expired Temp Tags Begins in St. Charles - RFT
  • Page blasts political opponents after he’s asked to make subpoenas public - stltoday.com
  • St. Charles police targeting expired temp tags in new 'zero tolerance' initiative - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

  • Missouri Right to Life backs primary challengers to some incumbent GOP state senators - Missouri Independent
  • Lesser-known candidates struggle for spotlight in Missouri Senate primaries - Missouri Independent
  • Hartmann: Why January 6 Means So Much to Eric Greitens - RFT
  • As he heads for the exit, Missouri’s Roy Blunt backs compromise gun law - stltoday.com

FedGov 🏛

  • Former Employees Say ID.me Grew Too Fast, Got Too Careless With Users And Their Data - Techdirt
  • Trump spread claims of election fraud debunked by his own legal team, Jan. 6 panel says - Missouri Independent
  • U.S. Broadband Maps Remain Unfinished As Billions In COVID Broadband Funding Starts To Flow - Techdirt
  • Retirements of Senate Republicans, including Missouri’s Roy Blunt, could spell trouble for earmarks’ future - stltoday.com
  • Jan. 6 panel: Trump 'betrayed the trust of the American people' - FOX 2
  • Gun regulation is still going nowhere - Kevin Drum
  • Inside The Military-Entertainment Complex - The Lever
  • If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework, FAA tells SpaceX - The Register
  • FAA wants dozens of changes before SpaceX expands Texas launch site - Engadget
  • SpaceX faces more Starship delays as NASA seeks launch safety assurances - Engadget
  • Astra's latest mission to deliver NASA weather satellites ends in failure - Engadget
  • Astra fails, sends NASA's Tropics weather satellites back to Earth - The Register
  • SpaceX Sails Through Federal Environmental Review, Inches Closer to Starship Launch - Gizmodo
  • SEC Expands Its Investigation Into Trump's Shady Social Network Deal - Gizmodo
  • Trump Uses His New Social Media Site to Share QAnon Content - VICE US
  • USS St. Louis hits rough waters, looks set to be decommissioned - stltoday.com

Covid19 Info 🦠

  • Will it be ‘every state for themselves’ as the federal COVID cash dries up? - Missouri Independent

Jobs 📄

  • EMS Training Specialist - Jobs

History 🦕

  • USS St. Louis headed for rough waters, and decommissioning - stltoday.com

DIY 🪓

Sustainability ♻️

  • "Vegan leather" has been cast as more green than natural fibers, when it's just another petroleum-based material. - The Morning News
  • Record-breaking heat wave sprawls across US - Grist
  • Summer has transformed into ‘danger season,’ scientists warn - Grist

Infrastructure 🚽

  • Big Truck-Stop Lobby a Huge Roadblock for Rural Electric-Vehicle Chargers - VICE US

Ecology 🦤

  • Accidental Fire Reignites Land Management Plan for Palisades - RiverBender
  • The Collapse of a Major Atlantic Current Would Cause Worldwide Disasters - Gizmodo
  • Dead Fish Are Nearly All That's Left of a Lake in Drought-Stricken Chile - Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

  • Twitter to allow Musk to speak at an all-hands call - Boing Boing

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

  • If competition would kill Amazon Prime, maybe it’s not that great | Opinion - Missouri Independent
  • Chipmakers to spend record $109b on fab machines this year - The Register
  • Crypto market crashes on Celsius freeze, inflation news - The Register
  • Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever - The Register
  • Wireless kit hit by supply chain woes in Q1, China lockdowns blamed - The Register
  • The 9 best cloud storage services of 2022 | ZDNet - Pinboard (electroponix)
  • MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can't Be Patched - ACM
  • John Oliver points out some problems with tech monopolies - Boing Boing
  • Map comparing four generations of kids how far they were allowed... - Maps on the Web
  • The Crypto Crash Just Got a Lot Worse, And Investors Are Panicking - VICE US
  • Private Space Company Botches Second NASA Mission After Launch Malfunction - VICE US
  • Crypto lending giant Celsius 'pauses' withdrawals after token value plunges - Engadget
  • Analyzing my photography history - Dries Buytaert
  • "Space Bubbles," a geoengineering project at MIT, proposes using frozen spheres to impede some of the sun's rays. - The Morning News
  • Crypto Platforms Are Halting Withdrawals as Bitcoin Tanks Over 13% - Gizmodo
  • Drupal Patches 'High-Risk' Third-Party Library Flaws - SecurityWeek RSS Feed
  • The Evidence Just Doesn’t Support Any Of The Narratives About The Harms Of Social Media - Techdirt