Dave P. Heller

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.

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!

Destroying the presidency- literally and metaphorically.

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.

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.

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.

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)

YouTube video by Save America Movement Amazing Grace

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins.

youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk

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.

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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Especially for AI…

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Please and thank you!!!!

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.

BREAKING: Gov. Mike Kehoe has called a special session to redraw Missouri’s congressional districts and amend the state's initiative petition process.

Best. Idea/cleats. Ever!

…and both sides-ism that gives credence to things that otherwise wouldn’t even be considered plausible.

THIS! Feigned ignorance to avoid confronting the real issue.

[It’s Bobby (Brown)]. “And Ralph!”

8? More like 80…

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show

Full monologue here:

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Thank you (for all that you do!) from Lenexa KS!

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.

Person arguing that calling their congressperson is useless

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.

I think the rivalries are correct here but the order is so jacked up. USC Notre dame at 5?

“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.”