Scott
@thiellaos.bsky.social
The golden age of irreality burns ever brighter on the pale blue dot.
doesn't matter the nature of it, it was a public, not closed, meeting. this isn't a good sign for CEMA under Favre.
this meeting passed, yesterday, and there is still no agenda and no way ever was posted for public (or any other stakeholder) participation.
this meeting passed, yesterday, and there is still no agenda and no way ever was posted for public (or any other stakeholder) participation.
Today at noon:
City of St. Louis "Local Emergency Planning Commission" meeting.Fire Dept. HQ at N. Jefferson.
No virtual option for the public to observe the meeting. Web calendar notice updated with new start time, less than 24 hrs in advance. No bona fide agenda.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
City of St. Louis "Local Emergency Planning Commission" meeting.Fire Dept. HQ at N. Jefferson.
No virtual option for the public to observe the meeting. Web calendar notice updated with new start time, less than 24 hrs in advance. No bona fide agenda.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
doesn't matter the nature of it, it was a public, not closed, meeting. this isn't a good sign for CEMA under Favre.
this meeting passed, yesterday, and there is still no agenda and no way ever was posted for public (or any other stakeholder) participation.
this meeting passed, yesterday, and there is still no agenda and no way ever was posted for public (or any other stakeholder) participation.
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1) St. Louisans deserve an update from Mayor @caraspencer.bsky.social on the status of the #datacenterSTL at #500Prospect
2) St. Louis Development Corp. should nullify the #ArmoryTIF development agreement with Greenstreet.
GS owe over $2.1 M in back taxes on the Goodwill warehouse at #3728Market
2) St. Louis Development Corp. should nullify the #ArmoryTIF development agreement with Greenstreet.
GS owe over $2.1 M in back taxes on the Goodwill warehouse at #3728Market
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1) St. Louisans deserve an update from Mayor @caraspencer.bsky.social on the status of the #datacenterSTL at #500Prospect
2) St. Louis Development Corp. should nullify the #ArmoryTIF development agreement with Greenstreet.
GS owe over $2.1 M in back taxes on the Goodwill warehouse at #3728Market
2) St. Louis Development Corp. should nullify the #ArmoryTIF development agreement with Greenstreet.
GS owe over $2.1 M in back taxes on the Goodwill warehouse at #3728Market
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Today marks 7 weeks since the second “town hall” meeting hosted by developer THO’s consultant on the data center proposed for #500Prospect next to the Armory.
I haven’t received an email from Steadfast City with answers to questions posed at the Oct. 9 & 13 #datacenterSTL meetings.
Why the delay?
I haven’t received an email from Steadfast City with answers to questions posed at the Oct. 9 & 13 #datacenterSTL meetings.
Why the delay?
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today marks 7 weeks since the second “town hall” meeting hosted by developer THO’s consultant on the data center proposed for #500Prospect next to the Armory.
I haven’t received an email from Steadfast City with answers to questions posed at the Oct. 9 & 13 #datacenterSTL meetings.
Why the delay?
I haven’t received an email from Steadfast City with answers to questions posed at the Oct. 9 & 13 #datacenterSTL meetings.
Why the delay?
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE
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We’re partnering with @rcfp.org, @brechnerfoi.bsky.social and state-level transparency organizations around the country to invest in resources that help better equip requesters to get access to government information.
Now, we want to hear from you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Now, we want to hear from you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Transparency Alliance Project - Journalist Open Records Access Survey
Please help MuckRock, the National Freedom of Information Coalition, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Brechner Freedom of Information Project create tools, training and knowled...
docs.google.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We’re partnering with @rcfp.org, @brechnerfoi.bsky.social and state-level transparency organizations around the country to invest in resources that help better equip requesters to get access to government information.
Now, we want to hear from you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Now, we want to hear from you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This is one of those cases that you can view from different perspectives. One perspective is the First Amendment and the importance of journalistic freedom. But the other perspective is that someone in the FBI leaked investigation documents to harm the target of an investigation…
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BREAKING: A unanimous appeals court panel rules that reporter Catherine Herridge must testify about her source for a story that has become the subject of a leak investigation. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is one of those cases that you can view from different perspectives. One perspective is the First Amendment and the importance of journalistic freedom. But the other perspective is that someone in the FBI leaked investigation documents to harm the target of an investigation…
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Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Am I reading this correctly?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Am I reading this correctly?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
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Disturbing abuse of power, both to arrest and then insist on prosecuting, journalists for recording police activity. And the prosecutor offered to drop charges if reporters would agree there was probable cause for the arrest. Reporters bravely declined.
Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week.
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
On trial for journalism in Kentucky.
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
www.cjr.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Disturbing abuse of power, both to arrest and then insist on prosecuting, journalists for recording police activity. And the prosecutor offered to drop charges if reporters would agree there was probable cause for the arrest. Reporters bravely declined.
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Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago.
If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
Americans rallied for Jimmy Kimmel. Do the same for Mario Guevara
Atlanta journalist faces imminent deportation for reporting the news
freedom.press
September 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago.
If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
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Though it has been lost in the Comey news, this is one of the most ignominious actions by a court that no longer functions as a court.
Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers
The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.
slate.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Though it has been lost in the Comey news, this is one of the most ignominious actions by a court that no longer functions as a court.
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President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover?
Late-summer days and nights amid troops on the streets of the nation’s capital.
www.newyorker.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
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BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
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This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
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The now dead data center in St. Charles lied to Missouri Conservation Dept
Surprise!
Says no one
Surprise!
Says no one
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The now dead data center in St. Charles lied to Missouri Conservation Dept
Surprise!
Says no one
Surprise!
Says no one
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At tomorrow's #EandA meeting, an amendment to an existing contract between the City of St. Louis and Carmody MacDonald will be taken up. E & A details in quoted post.
bsky.app/profile/gcon...
FWIW: Carmody handled legal work for SLDC associated with site assembly for NGA site.
bsky.app/profile/gcon...
FWIW: Carmody handled legal work for SLDC associated with site assembly for NGA site.
Wed., 8/20 at 2 p.m. Board of #EandA meeting.
tinyurl.com/3hfwnxyt
Inc. agenda & exhibits
👉Exh. A, Pg 2. Item 006:
Amendment 1 to contract with Carmody MacDonald for "outside counsel-equity matters."
Does the amendment* pertain to Carmody's report on the tornado?
*Dollar amount isn't specified.
tinyurl.com/3hfwnxyt
Inc. agenda & exhibits
👉Exh. A, Pg 2. Item 006:
Amendment 1 to contract with Carmody MacDonald for "outside counsel-equity matters."
Does the amendment* pertain to Carmody's report on the tornado?
*Dollar amount isn't specified.
August 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
At tomorrow's #EandA meeting, an amendment to an existing contract between the City of St. Louis and Carmody MacDonald will be taken up. E & A details in quoted post.
bsky.app/profile/gcon...
FWIW: Carmody handled legal work for SLDC associated with site assembly for NGA site.
bsky.app/profile/gcon...
FWIW: Carmody handled legal work for SLDC associated with site assembly for NGA site.
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After I discovered a state website was exposing the Social Security numbers of hundreds of thousands Missouri teachers, Andrew Bailey played a key role in Gov. Parson's decision to falsely accuse me of a crime, and demand that I be prosecuted.
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to become co-deputy director of FBI
Attorney Catherine Hanaway, a former Missouri House Speaker, could step in to his position
www.stltoday.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
After I discovered a state website was exposing the Social Security numbers of hundreds of thousands Missouri teachers, Andrew Bailey played a key role in Gov. Parson's decision to falsely accuse me of a crime, and demand that I be prosecuted.
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
(Published May)
(Published May)
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power…
www.propublica.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
(Published May)
(Published May)
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Re-upping my latest on MO Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is going to be “co-deputy director” of the FBI, i.e. co-Dan Bongino.
bad for the country, potentially good for Missouri
Bailey has been engaged in a legally atrocious, expensive & very harmful to Missourians audition for Trump.
bad for the country, potentially good for Missouri
Bailey has been engaged in a legally atrocious, expensive & very harmful to Missourians audition for Trump.
Missouri’s attorney general is on a mission to make the workforce more white and male • Missouri Independent
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is on a crusade to make the workforce and higher education less diverse.
missouriindependent.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Re-upping my latest on MO Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is going to be “co-deputy director” of the FBI, i.e. co-Dan Bongino.
bad for the country, potentially good for Missouri
Bailey has been engaged in a legally atrocious, expensive & very harmful to Missourians audition for Trump.
bad for the country, potentially good for Missouri
Bailey has been engaged in a legally atrocious, expensive & very harmful to Missourians audition for Trump.
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We don’t talk enough about how American fascism is a blend of authoritarian capitalism, Christian Nationalism, millenarianism, a Freudian death cult, and adoration of the dumbest, cheapest shit you would find stuffed in the closet of a pack rat next to Jeff Gordon commemorative Pepsi cans.
August 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
We don’t talk enough about how American fascism is a blend of authoritarian capitalism, Christian Nationalism, millenarianism, a Freudian death cult, and adoration of the dumbest, cheapest shit you would find stuffed in the closet of a pack rat next to Jeff Gordon commemorative Pepsi cans.
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation who brought to it Project 2025, to Steve Bannon in July 2024:
“we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
in the same interview Roberts praised SCOTUS’ judicial enabling act.
“we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
in the same interview Roberts praised SCOTUS’ judicial enabling act.
Not until there's an armed opposition willing to contest control of the federal government. Right now, many Democrats are still confirming Trump nominees, while most Democrats will vote to fund the government instead of using their leverage to extract concessions, all in the name of bipartisanship.
It's been a show of farce, so far. But Trump's descent on DC gets more serious as red state National Guards get involved. Is this moving to a slow-motion Civil War? www.thenation.com/article/poli...
August 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation who brought to it Project 2025, to Steve Bannon in July 2024:
“we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
in the same interview Roberts praised SCOTUS’ judicial enabling act.
“we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
in the same interview Roberts praised SCOTUS’ judicial enabling act.
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Covering immigration is hard — and a federal court rule that limits remote access to records in immigration lawsuits doesn’t help. @rcfp.org is urging courts to address the problem.
RCFP urges federal courts to lift restrictions on accessing immigration records
A rule blocks remote public access to records filed in immigration cases, complicating journalists’ efforts to cover enforcement actions.
www.rcfp.org
August 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Covering immigration is hard — and a federal court rule that limits remote access to records in immigration lawsuits doesn’t help. @rcfp.org is urging courts to address the problem.
Crucial info about major program with significant implications. There may be agreement between BoA and mayor that's being laundered as if the board has no choice, as the mayor's office acts in contravention of the law. STL faces problems but to effectively address them requires accurate information.
Public record requests answer some questions surrounding the mayor's decision to suspend the city's MWBE contractor diversity program.
Sunshine Requests Reveal MWBE Suspension Decision Details
Public record requests answer some questions surrounding the mayor's decision to suspend the city's MWBE contractor diversity program.
moundcitymessenger.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Crucial info about major program with significant implications. There may be agreement between BoA and mayor that's being laundered as if the board has no choice, as the mayor's office acts in contravention of the law. STL faces problems but to effectively address them requires accurate information.
It's ludicrous, in fact insidious. Someone either was so devoted to tendentious attack she didn't bother to know anything about what was actually happening on the ground or did know but chose to engage in false representation. I'm happy there are some good journos on the news side.
Action St. Louis was on the ground in force. The broad stroke insinuation that Black people were not helping their neighbors is ludicrous. Read about their efforts here. indd.adobe.com/view/dcf80db...
August 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's ludicrous, in fact insidious. Someone either was so devoted to tendentious attack she didn't bother to know anything about what was actually happening on the ground or did know but chose to engage in false representation. I'm happy there are some good journos on the news side.
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How convenient. Offer absolutely no time for review or due process, but deny that the fix is in.
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How convenient. Offer absolutely no time for review or due process, but deny that the fix is in.