Gina Kopp
@ginagogo.bsky.social
St. Louis mom, COTA, lover of the outdoors and travel, Cardinals, City SC & Blues fan.
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A president who governs by “Executive Orders” is weak, not strong.
May 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A president who governs by “Executive Orders” is weak, not strong.
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I'm in this NPR article this morning! "Should you toss your plastic kitchen tools for health reasons? Here's the scoop"
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Should you toss your plastic kitchen tools for health reasons? Here's the scoop
Some of the microplastics we ingest may come from the kitchen tools we use to prepare what we eat. If you want to reduce your reliance on plastic, here are some ideas.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm in this NPR article this morning! "Should you toss your plastic kitchen tools for health reasons? Here's the scoop"
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...
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Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the leading platform through which Democrats raise money for their campaigns. Less that 100 days in, Trump is weaponizing DOJ to prevent his political opponents from funding opposition campaigns.
Where is the outrage?
Where is the outrage?
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the leading platform through which Democrats raise money for their campaigns. Less that 100 days in, Trump is weaponizing DOJ to prevent his political opponents from funding opposition campaigns.
Where is the outrage?
Where is the outrage?
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Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?
April 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?
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Good luck to the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup Playoffs!
April 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Good luck to the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup Playoffs!
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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Congratulations to @propublica.org, winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “Life of the Mother,” a landmark series that showed how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths and has spurred important reforms.
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ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” wins the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism - Nieman Foundation
ProPublica’s skillfully reported series “Life of the Mother,” which reveals how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths, is the winner of the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Invest...
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April 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Congratulations to @propublica.org, winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “Life of the Mother,” a landmark series that showed how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths and has spurred important reforms.
nieman.harvard.edu/propublicas-...
nieman.harvard.edu/propublicas-...
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If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
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A clandestine meeting that could have preserved KDHX's broadcast license took place the evening before attorneys for the radio station made their first appearance in bankruptcy court. Now at @stlmag.bsky.social, the attendees are sharing what went wrong -- and why www.stlmag.com/news/secret-...
How A Secret Plan To Save KDHX’s Broadcast License Collapsed | St. Louis Magazine
Up until the day that lawyers for KDHX made their first appearance in bankruptcy court, Steven Fitzpatrick Smith and Jon Parker thought they might be able to
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April 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A clandestine meeting that could have preserved KDHX's broadcast license took place the evening before attorneys for the radio station made their first appearance in bankruptcy court. Now at @stlmag.bsky.social, the attendees are sharing what went wrong -- and why www.stlmag.com/news/secret-...
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Give this photo a Pulitzer
April 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Give this photo a Pulitzer
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That's about as horrifying a sentence as has ever been written
So as Justice Sotomayor says, “The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also US citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
April 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
That's about as horrifying a sentence as has ever been written
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This is well worth reading:
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
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"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
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A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos
The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.
slate.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is well worth reading:
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌
April 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌
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Proud of my friends at Sandy Hook Promise. Countless lives have been saved thanks to their Say Something tip line. This is what school safety can and should be. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Their kids died at Sandy Hook. Their tip line prevents school shootings.
The anonymous reporting system “Say Something” has stopped 18 people who planned to attack schools.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Proud of my friends at Sandy Hook Promise. Countless lives have been saved thanks to their Say Something tip line. This is what school safety can and should be. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..."
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How to Save a Democracy
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.
www.foreignaffairs.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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What I did in my banking career was to project manage new technology implementations, which had to interface with legacy symptoms. You need to understand the legacy system… older coding languages that these “kids” do not know. This spells disaster.
You can't recode what you don't understand. This will be an historic disaster. They need to preserve the existing system at all costs, because they will surely need it. Please stop this!
DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just ‘a Few Months’
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DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just ‘a Few Months’
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DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just 'a Few Months': Report
Details are scarce, but this has the potential to be a disaster.
gizmodo.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
What I did in my banking career was to project manage new technology implementations, which had to interface with legacy symptoms. You need to understand the legacy system… older coding languages that these “kids” do not know. This spells disaster.
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Half of the United States has been slowly and carefully inculcated by Fox News to believe that the other half of the country is their enemy and out to ruin their lives. Once this was established, it didn't take long for those viewers to value hurting these other Americans over helping themselves.
March 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Half of the United States has been slowly and carefully inculcated by Fox News to believe that the other half of the country is their enemy and out to ruin their lives. Once this was established, it didn't take long for those viewers to value hurting these other Americans over helping themselves.
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How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging?
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging?
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Many of my elderly neighbors don’t have access to hot or fresh food. Meals on Wheels can’t be delivered this far out and we have no restaurants. Some elderly folks in my community count on the food bank who comes to our town to deliver fresh food.
Those food banks are now losing their funding.
Those food banks are now losing their funding.
March 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Many of my elderly neighbors don’t have access to hot or fresh food. Meals on Wheels can’t be delivered this far out and we have no restaurants. Some elderly folks in my community count on the food bank who comes to our town to deliver fresh food.
Those food banks are now losing their funding.
Those food banks are now losing their funding.
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People respond to “call your Senator” with “but mine are both Republicans.”
Precisely.
The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE.
Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels.
Call them! 202-224-3121
www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...
Precisely.
The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE.
Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels.
Call them! 202-224-3121
www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...
Committee Membership | United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
www.armed-services.senate.gov
March 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
People respond to “call your Senator” with “but mine are both Republicans.”
Precisely.
The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE.
Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels.
Call them! 202-224-3121
www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...
Precisely.
The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE.
Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels.
Call them! 202-224-3121
www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...