Battus Philenor
@benstl.bsky.social
He/him. St. Louis. CITY Cards Blues. Librarian. Stay Woke.
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Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
Flagging sales should mean you double down on the local coverage. Local readers are your base of subscribers.
I’m not a fancy big city businessman but it’s called The Washington Post and to nuke local dc coverage, coverage of official Washington’s actions at home and abroad, roll back coverage of insignificant things that nobody cares about like *checks notes* sports(?!?!?)seems like a bad business decision
February 4, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Flagging sales should mean you double down on the local coverage. Local readers are your base of subscribers.
We should have clapped. It was our last chance to avoid all of this.
February 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
We should have clapped. It was our last chance to avoid all of this.
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asking for an edit button is disgraceful behavior. have some self respect. ooh i need my posts to be perfect and i can't delete because i already got a like!!! i need that like! grow up. figure out if the fav is more important to you than the typo. sometimes we gotta make choices in this life
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
asking for an edit button is disgraceful behavior. have some self respect. ooh i need my posts to be perfect and i can't delete because i already got a like!!! i need that like! grow up. figure out if the fav is more important to you than the typo. sometimes we gotta make choices in this life
Been a while since I was in North county so you know I had to do it to them. Seriously underrated St. Louis style pizza.
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Been a while since I was in North county so you know I had to do it to them. Seriously underrated St. Louis style pizza.
The watering schedule for the Tree of Liberty.
1776+84=1860
1860+84=1944
1944+84=2028
not tryna do numerology here but it does seem like there’s a rough periodicity component to our big crises
1860+84=1944
1944+84=2028
not tryna do numerology here but it does seem like there’s a rough periodicity component to our big crises
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The watering schedule for the Tree of Liberty.
The elite keep eliting.
Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1.
Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 PM
The elite keep eliting.
These guys are all early twenties. Being "Tech Bros" is their hobby. They think they are being cool.
And once again, I find myself thinking: people need hobbies.
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 PM
These guys are all early twenties. Being "Tech Bros" is their hobby. They think they are being cool.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Suck it Kroenke. Thank you Seattle.
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Suck it Kroenke. Thank you Seattle.
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Once more, eat shit Stan Kroenke. Forever and always. 😊
Seattle, please save us.
Sincerely, the St. Louis Metropolitan Area
Sincerely, the St. Louis Metropolitan Area
January 26, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Once more, eat shit Stan Kroenke. Forever and always. 😊
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The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
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History is made by people who do things, not people who deliberate interminably over the risks of doing things, and that’s why Trump is making terrible history while every prominent Dem of our era will soon be forgotten as irrelevant trivia.
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 PM
History is made by people who do things, not people who deliberate interminably over the risks of doing things, and that’s why Trump is making terrible history while every prominent Dem of our era will soon be forgotten as irrelevant trivia.
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MLS announces offseason GAM count for all 30 clubs
GAM is a valuable tool for MLS roster building. Can acquire players/assets, but most used to buy down non-DP salary cap hits to fit under roster rules
GAM is a valuable tool for MLS roster building. Can acquire players/assets, but most used to buy down non-DP salary cap hits to fit under roster rules
January 21, 2026 at 4:09 PM
MLS announces offseason GAM count for all 30 clubs
GAM is a valuable tool for MLS roster building. Can acquire players/assets, but most used to buy down non-DP salary cap hits to fit under roster rules
GAM is a valuable tool for MLS roster building. Can acquire players/assets, but most used to buy down non-DP salary cap hits to fit under roster rules
Epstein files will be released just after his tax returns and healthcare plan.
Deadline mandated by Epstein Files Transparency Act long past, but millions of documents have still not been released
Epstein victims’ advocates express outrage over slow release of files
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Epstein files will be released just after his tax returns and healthcare plan.
Love a media that will call true predictions by a democrat a lie in the headline but will then never ever ever call anything Trump says a lie.
January 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Love a media that will call true predictions by a democrat a lie in the headline but will then never ever ever call anything Trump says a lie.
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🇸🇳🔴 BREAKING: St. Louis City is finalizing a deal to sign Mamadou Mbacke Fall from Barcelona, per sources.
A number of MLS teams wanted him but STL get it done.
Mbacke, 23, made 60 apps for Barcelona’s second team.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...
A number of MLS teams wanted him but STL get it done.
Mbacke, 23, made 60 apps for Barcelona’s second team.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...
St. Louis City finalizing deal to sign Barcelona's defender Mbacke
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:42 PM
🇸🇳🔴 BREAKING: St. Louis City is finalizing a deal to sign Mamadou Mbacke Fall from Barcelona, per sources.
A number of MLS teams wanted him but STL get it done.
Mbacke, 23, made 60 apps for Barcelona’s second team.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...
A number of MLS teams wanted him but STL get it done.
Mbacke, 23, made 60 apps for Barcelona’s second team.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...
Who is going to be the first Marine to die for Greenland?
January 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Who is going to be the first Marine to die for Greenland?
Weiss trying to make Dokoupil, a replacement level news caster, into a paragon of masculine newscasting is one of the funnier subplots of this whole thing.
New: CBS News seems to be preparing a new segment called "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil," per sources.
Some staff were only first made aware of it as they encountered CBS testing out set designs of a faux-stocked bar in the newsroom, featuring a large sponsor banner for Jack Daniels.
Some staff were only first made aware of it as they encountered CBS testing out set designs of a faux-stocked bar in the newsroom, featuring a large sponsor banner for Jack Daniels.
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Weiss trying to make Dokoupil, a replacement level news caster, into a paragon of masculine newscasting is one of the funnier subplots of this whole thing.
Being from St. Louis its, well should I pick the Missouri or the Mississippi then being well maybe it's the Meramec then finally going it's the River Des Peres.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Being from St. Louis its, well should I pick the Missouri or the Mississippi then being well maybe it's the Meramec then finally going it's the River Des Peres.
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American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
What was the Mamdani quote last week about civility masking cruelty that they all go so upset about.
January 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
What was the Mamdani quote last week about civility masking cruelty that they all go so upset about.
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