Danielle Spradley
@daniellespradley.bsky.social
Rosemary enthusiast | Team @CoriBush l Former @aclu_mo , ex #Moleg staffer, Educator, Artist
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A $3.2 million plan to help farmers produce fresh food in north St. Louis County drew questions about connections, a lack of bids and misleading details.
How a St. Louis County plan to produce fresh food crumbled. ‘Something wasn’t right.’
A $3.2 million plan to help farmers produce fresh food in north St. Louis County drew questions about connections, a lack of bids and misleading details.
www.stltoday.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A $3.2 million plan to help farmers produce fresh food in north St. Louis County drew questions about connections, a lack of bids and misleading details.
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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All the young men, they've been rounded up
And sent to camps back in the jungle
And people whisper, people double-talk
And once proud fathers act so humble
And sent to camps back in the jungle
And people whisper, people double-talk
And once proud fathers act so humble
Until last night, the ICE detainee locator stated Khalil was at Elizabeth, NJ—even though his wife had been unable to find him there yesterday. This morning, his location has been updated to Jena — a very remote, GEO group-run facility in the middle of rural Louisiana.
March 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
All the young men, they've been rounded up
And sent to camps back in the jungle
And people whisper, people double-talk
And once proud fathers act so humble
And sent to camps back in the jungle
And people whisper, people double-talk
And once proud fathers act so humble
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st. louis has been ruled by business interests for like, its entire existence, which has created the fucked up city we have now, but yeah, we need a pro-business mayor
March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
st. louis has been ruled by business interests for like, its entire existence, which has created the fucked up city we have now, but yeah, we need a pro-business mayor
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I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
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This is very bad.
US President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data reut.rs/4bzhkVZ
Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data.
reut.rs
March 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is very bad.
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I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.
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The warnings were clear:
* 1 million kids untreated for severe acute malnutrition;
* Up to 166,000 malaria deaths;
* TB cases up 30%
* 200,000 more polio-induced paralysis cases in 10 years.
The Trump team killed USAID anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
* 1 million kids untreated for severe acute malnutrition;
* Up to 166,000 malaria deaths;
* TB cases up 30%
* 200,000 more polio-induced paralysis cases in 10 years.
The Trump team killed USAID anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...
www.propublica.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The warnings were clear:
* 1 million kids untreated for severe acute malnutrition;
* Up to 166,000 malaria deaths;
* TB cases up 30%
* 200,000 more polio-induced paralysis cases in 10 years.
The Trump team killed USAID anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
* 1 million kids untreated for severe acute malnutrition;
* Up to 166,000 malaria deaths;
* TB cases up 30%
* 200,000 more polio-induced paralysis cases in 10 years.
The Trump team killed USAID anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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If anyone hasn't seen the video, this is what played out. Senator Marshall gave a full demonstration of the weak, pitiful, coward he is slinking out to a chorus of boos and rage not even having the decency to honor questions from vets who served our country.
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Republican Senator Bolts From His Own Town Hall When People Press Him On DOGE Cuts
YouTube video by Politicus Media
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March 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If anyone hasn't seen the video, this is what played out. Senator Marshall gave a full demonstration of the weak, pitiful, coward he is slinking out to a chorus of boos and rage not even having the decency to honor questions from vets who served our country.
youtu.be/7sj8pl3m_S4?...
youtu.be/7sj8pl3m_S4?...
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This is an astonishing story. Trump's personal lawyers, now in government, are trying to find any prosecutor take on a case to stop payment of $20 billion in funds by claiming there is fraud. The fact that career prosecutors are resigning rather than do so tells you how weak the case is.
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is an astonishing story. Trump's personal lawyers, now in government, are trying to find any prosecutor take on a case to stop payment of $20 billion in funds by claiming there is fraud. The fact that career prosecutors are resigning rather than do so tells you how weak the case is.
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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
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I spoke with an NPS worker at the Arch, who described trauma & confusion amid ongoing cuts and changing directives.
Separately, Ryan McClure of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation: “These are real people, they're not just lines on a balance sheet. And without them, we have a real problem.”
Separately, Ryan McClure of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation: “These are real people, they're not just lines on a balance sheet. And without them, we have a real problem.”
Gateway Arch National Park worker says employees are being 'terrorized' by job cuts
The employee confirms several staffers were terminated, and the park could be down dozens of workers for peak visitor season.
www.stlpr.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I spoke with an NPS worker at the Arch, who described trauma & confusion amid ongoing cuts and changing directives.
Separately, Ryan McClure of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation: “These are real people, they're not just lines on a balance sheet. And without them, we have a real problem.”
Separately, Ryan McClure of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation: “These are real people, they're not just lines on a balance sheet. And without them, we have a real problem.”
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This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.
Elon Musk is now presiding over the cabinet meeting. They're not beating the co-president allegations. (And co-president might be putting it charitably for Trump.)
February 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.
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Or -- hear me out, this is a pretty wild idea -- instead of cutting anything, they could just raise taxes on corporations and billionaires a little bit and then we'd have plenty of money for everything.
The math of GOP planning points to Medicaid as the big target of spending cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
What Can House Republicans Cut Instead of Medicaid? Not Much.
The math of the G.O.P.’s goals makes the move almost unavoidable.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Or -- hear me out, this is a pretty wild idea -- instead of cutting anything, they could just raise taxes on corporations and billionaires a little bit and then we'd have plenty of money for everything.
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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...
Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns | CNN Business
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...
www.cnn.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...
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How can you tell that Trump and Musk don’t actually care about going after waste and fraud? They just fired someone at the Minnesota VA whose job was to find waste/inefficiencies to save taxpayer money.
It’s all a façade to shell out more money for billionaires and big corporations.
It’s all a façade to shell out more money for billionaires and big corporations.
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How can you tell that Trump and Musk don’t actually care about going after waste and fraud? They just fired someone at the Minnesota VA whose job was to find waste/inefficiencies to save taxpayer money.
It’s all a façade to shell out more money for billionaires and big corporations.
It’s all a façade to shell out more money for billionaires and big corporations.
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Thinking you should decide who to promote based on an answer to an email explains a lot about the problems with his business model & products
February 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thinking you should decide who to promote based on an answer to an email explains a lot about the problems with his business model & products
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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”
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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.
TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
February 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.
Soooo…….how are all the cybertruck dorks going to charge their cars?
February 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Soooo…….how are all the cybertruck dorks going to charge their cars?
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Glad someone wrote this (and glad it's Oliver, who's the best). One of my ways to see what non-news junkies are seeing is watching the 7 pm news shows, seeing what made it onto which block. And CBS took itself out of the game.
The revamped "CBS Evening News" is a Trump dream—sidestepping his most disturbing actions and instead, giving viewers… weather updates!
“It’s mind-boggling,” a former CBS News producer told me. “They took the news out of the Evening News!”
More in Status: www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...
“It’s mind-boggling,” a former CBS News producer told me. “They took the news out of the Evening News!”
More in Status: www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...
February 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Glad someone wrote this (and glad it's Oliver, who's the best). One of my ways to see what non-news junkies are seeing is watching the 7 pm news shows, seeing what made it onto which block. And CBS took itself out of the game.
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only
February 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only
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February 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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When they fire the Chair of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of the Navy next week, they’ll use words like DEI.
The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism.
But that’s only part of it.
Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.
The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism.
But that’s only part of it.
Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.
February 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
When they fire the Chair of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of the Navy next week, they’ll use words like DEI.
The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism.
But that’s only part of it.
Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.
The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism.
But that’s only part of it.
Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.