Mark Funkhouser
mayorfunk.bsky.social
Mark Funkhouser
@mayorfunk.bsky.social
Local government policy, governance, strategic planning, and finance. President at Funkhouser & Associates, KCMO Mayor, 5/07 to 5/11. GOVERNING Publisher, 3/14 to 8/19.
DEI is in the DNA of the United States of America. E Pluribus Unum – out of many, one – was adopted as the motto of the United States in 1782 and is on the Great Seal of the United States, which is on every American dollar.
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
One of my favorite moments at yesterday’s No Kings in DC. I found myself dancing to it!
October 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Shirley Chisholm sign caught my eye. This little family at the DC No Kings gives me hope.
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This strikes me as exactly correct. And they are extremely dangerous because they have so much power.
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Saw lots of veterans at today’s No Kings in DC. I appreciate their service then and now. They clearly love America and have had the courage to serve. Unlike cadet bone spurs.
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I’m posting some of my favorite signs from No Kings today in DC. As a Lincoln fan, I love this one.
October 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
At the DC No Kings. One of my favorite signs. Yes, immigrants are America. We are a nation of immigrants. Some of us are just in denial.
October 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The billionaires who own the media have done this, devaluing their product.
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Outside the French Cultural Center in DC. Love to see it.
September 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In which I respond to a question about the occupation of DC.
August 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hanging in our living room we have this copy of Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving, the cartoon by Thomas Nast that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1869. Every time I look at it, I think of the last line of Peace, so That, Greg Kuzma's great anti-war poem.
"And we be a long time at this."
August 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My dad fought in and survived the Battle of the Bulge when he was only 19. This photo, over the desk in my office, reminds me daily that he sacrificed to defeat the Nazis. They were evil then and are evil today.
May 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Spotted yesterday in Kansas.
April 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres."

Gouverneur Morris, he put "we the people" in the Constitution.
April 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here it is. All the usual suspects, I suppose.
November 24, 2024 at 3:09 PM