Dave P. Heller
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The NYC mayoral election is not an indictment on Trump, but the Democratic Party. Stale, bland, uninspired leadership isn’t what the people want. Zohran Mamdani is young and will make mistakes but proud of New Yorkers for at least being willing to try disruption.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The NYC mayoral election is not an indictment on Trump, but the Democratic Party. Stale, bland, uninspired leadership isn’t what the people want. Zohran Mamdani is young and will make mistakes but proud of New Yorkers for at least being willing to try disruption.
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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
Love my governor!
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is suing state Attorney General Kris Kobach for his “failure to defend Kansans against the Trump administration’s unlawful federal overreach.” (@thebeacon.bsky.social)
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is suing Kris Kobach for not suing the Trump administration
Kelly, a Democrat, said that she has repeatedly asked the Republican attorney general to sue on behalf of Kansas but he has refused. Meanwhile, Kris Kobach argues that he is in charge of the state's prosecution or defense.
www.kcur.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Love my governor!
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Troost Avenue was a racial dividing line for decades. Missouri’s recent redistricting efforts now use the street to split Kansas City into separate congressional districts.
Redistricting splits Kansas City along a historic racial divide
Troost Avenue was a racial dividing line for decades. Now, Missouri’s recent redistricting efforts are using the street to split Kansas City into separate congressional districts. Plus: The Trump administration is promising billions in bailout money for farmers affected by tariffs and facing a tough economy this year.
www.kcur.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Troost Avenue was a racial dividing line for decades. Missouri’s recent redistricting efforts now use the street to split Kansas City into separate congressional districts.
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Through Kansas City’s land bank program, Jameson Hubbard bought 16 small lots along Highland Avenue and turned them into farmland. He sells produce at the Overland Park Farmers' Market and through a CSA program. (@startlandnews.com)
Kansas City's 'Dirt Beast' bought vacant lots and turned them into a thriving urban farm
Through Kansas City’s land bank program, Jameson Hubbard bought 16 small lots along Highland Avenue and turned them into farmland. He sells produce at the Overland Park Farmers' Market and through a CSA program.
www.kcur.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Through Kansas City’s land bank program, Jameson Hubbard bought 16 small lots along Highland Avenue and turned them into farmland. He sells produce at the Overland Park Farmers' Market and through a CSA program. (@startlandnews.com)
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Shelby Wiltz, DNC national political director, said the party will devote staff to help gather the necessary signatures and provide direct monetary support to the Missouri Democratic Party. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
Democratic National Committee mobilizes to Missouri to help fight new congressional map
The Democratic National Committee announced it will send people and money to Missouri, to help a referendum effort aimed at blocking a new congressional map from going into effect.
www.kcur.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Shelby Wiltz, DNC national political director, said the party will devote staff to help gather the necessary signatures and provide direct monetary support to the Missouri Democratic Party. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
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If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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But Americans need to understand that white supremacy is a global movement. The subject no one wants to touch is legions of white men, across all age groups, are radicalized. Their thirst for vengeance and violence is reshaping our discourse into something I’m not sure we can ever recover from.
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
But Americans need to understand that white supremacy is a global movement. The subject no one wants to touch is legions of white men, across all age groups, are radicalized. Their thirst for vengeance and violence is reshaping our discourse into something I’m not sure we can ever recover from.
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A self-taught artist has a new series of paintings now showing at the Mulvane Art Museum on the campus of Washburn University. Entitled “Around the Way Folk, Saints in Uncommon Places,” the exhibit lets artist Harold Smith put a personal spin on well-known works from art history.
A Kansas City, Kansas, artist recreates iconic paintings with people from his neighborhood
Harold Smith’s newest paintings take familiar works of art like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” and Leonardo DaVinci’s “The Last Supper” and reimagines them with people he grew up with.
www.kcur.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A self-taught artist has a new series of paintings now showing at the Mulvane Art Museum on the campus of Washburn University. Entitled “Around the Way Folk, Saints in Uncommon Places,” the exhibit lets artist Harold Smith put a personal spin on well-known works from art history.
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For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached.
The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say
Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.
www.inquirer.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached.
The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
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BREAKING: Gov. Mike Kehoe has called a special session to redraw Missouri’s congressional districts and amend the state's initiative petition process.
Missouri governor begins redistricting process after Trump pressure. Kansas City is the target
President Trump has been pressuring Gov. Mike Kehoe to call a special session for mid-decade redistricting. Republican lawmakers hope to gerrymander congressional lines around Kansas City, diluting Democratic voting power and making it harder for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver to win in the 2026 midterms.
www.kcur.org
August 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: Gov. Mike Kehoe has called a special session to redraw Missouri’s congressional districts and amend the state's initiative petition process.
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THIS! Feigned ignorance to avoid confronting the real issue.
August 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
THIS! Feigned ignorance to avoid confronting the real issue.
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Full monologue here:
Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show
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July 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Full monologue here:
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President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians to revert to their previous team names.
Trump later posted that if the Commanders did not change its name back, he won't make a deal for them to build a stadium.
Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...
Trump later posted that if the Commanders did not change its name back, he won't make a deal for them to build a stadium.
Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...
Trump calls for Washington Commanders, Cleveland Guardians to revert to previous names
Guardians team president Chris Antonetti said the club is focused on its future rather than talk of its past nickname.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I write a lot. It’s never *decisive.* It’s never the argument that changes the minds of the powerful. Nothing I write changes any outcome.
I do it anyway. Because it adds pebbles. If enough people add enough pebbles, then you’ve helped build a mountain. And that’s enough. It has to be.
I do it anyway. Because it adds pebbles. If enough people add enough pebbles, then you’ve helped build a mountain. And that’s enough. It has to be.
July 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I write a lot. It’s never *decisive.* It’s never the argument that changes the minds of the powerful. Nothing I write changes any outcome.
I do it anyway. Because it adds pebbles. If enough people add enough pebbles, then you’ve helped build a mountain. And that’s enough. It has to be.
I do it anyway. Because it adds pebbles. If enough people add enough pebbles, then you’ve helped build a mountain. And that’s enough. It has to be.
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The key mistake here, and this happens a lot across all parts of our culture, is the idea that unless your action is the sole deciding factor in the outcome, the action is useless.
Even people who get that we’re all just pebbles need to believe they could be *the one* that starts the avalanche.
Even people who get that we’re all just pebbles need to believe they could be *the one* that starts the avalanche.
July 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The key mistake here, and this happens a lot across all parts of our culture, is the idea that unless your action is the sole deciding factor in the outcome, the action is useless.
Even people who get that we’re all just pebbles need to believe they could be *the one* that starts the avalanche.
Even people who get that we’re all just pebbles need to believe they could be *the one* that starts the avalanche.
“I didn’t see an inmate. I saw a young man … and I saw my son,” he said. “I don’t care that he was an inmate … he was a human soul.”
“CoreCivic has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of running a humane facility. Now, the company flouts city approval to move forward with an ICE center based on false promises.”
In filings, the city argued the company previously ran an “absolute hell hole”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In filings, the city argued the company previously ran an “absolute hell hole”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back
Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic’s efforts to reopen a problematic prison
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July 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I didn’t see an inmate. I saw a young man … and I saw my son,” he said. “I don’t care that he was an inmate … he was a human soul.”
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We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
July 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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July 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
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In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government.
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
www.al.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government.
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
I have a ProX intern this summer for help with research and she is amazing!
The ProX program is open to anyone aged 14-19 living in the Kansas City metro and has become one of the largest teen intern programs in the city.
Interns are with employers for five weeks, working a total of 125 hours. They get a $1,250 stipend, and an elective credit. https://loom.ly/omxktFE
Interns are with employers for five weeks, working a total of 125 hours. They get a $1,250 stipend, and an elective credit. https://loom.ly/omxktFE
This Kansas City teen thought he wanted a nursing career. So an internship gave him a shot
ProX, a nonprofit funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, empowers youth with a less-than-stellar academic or behavioral record to intern with companies and institutions around the metro. The goal is to increase access to connections, teach students how to interview and operate in work settings, and, ideally, provide an education-to-employment pipeline.
www.kcur.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I have a ProX intern this summer for help with research and she is amazing!