Brendan Pastor

Also, less than 1% of French speakers in the city

My favorite feature of St Louis Lambert airport is the inexplicable translation of loudspeaker announcements into French, with exactly 0 flights arriving from France.

Reason #3695 why America and America’s cooks are the greatest creations on earth.

Account hacked, somehow. Apologies for the shitty spam messages.

Almost no other policy issue matters anymore since the Supreme Court will knock any democratic administration down, so yea, my only vote is for whomever chooses a fucking pitbull AG to prosecute everyone

Deficit explosion for new tax cuts but gutting healthcare and environmental programs, and even the cynical capitalist in me is failing to see any long term upside here

A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.

I shouldn’t be surprised but here I am, another GOP administration, with my jaw on the floor as I read the details of the proposed bill www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

OPINION GUEST ESSAY How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way Listen to this article • 25:03 min Learn more By Andrew Sullivan Mr. Sullivan, an early advocate for gay marriage, writes The Weekly Dish on Substack. June 26, 2025

This is what the Paper of Record™ chose to publish for the 10th anniversary of Obergefell

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I’m aware of the concept but there is ZERO empirical evidence of it ever working and never will be. History shows us the opposite, in fact. Degrowth is a privilege theory for people who already have everything they need.

It is not global, it is not inevitable, and it is not even desirable. It’s literally impossible to “maintain quality of life” while reducing investments. I’m sorry but this Malthusian take is bad for everyone.

Anyway, are there other factors driving pop decline? Obviously. Just interesting that anytime I try to get people to come live in STL, I always hear "but isn't it a dangerous place to live?" That clearly means something!

Coming from New York State, we were petrified to even leave our driveway if our car registration was a day late. But St Louis City drivers can go entirely without license plates on their cars for years and never get stopped until they leave the city borders.

My opinion? STL reputation is ruined by association with crime. Altho violent crime is down, the everyday quality-of-life crime is awful. You can't cross a street without nearly being hit by a sociopath in a car. Deterrence of this type of crime doesn't exist the same way it does in Nashville.

‘We are in trouble.’ St. Louis region’s slowing population growth spurs call for action The East-West Gateway Council of Governments, the St. Louis region’s top planning group, is being urged to take the lead on addressing population growth.

It's actually really easy to compare STL to a growing city like Nashville. Both have vibrant bar and music culture, arts, universities, lower cost of living, four seasons, public infrastructure & transit, and regional job centers. Why does one grow while the other shrinks?

Exclusive | New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear-power production.

Good. Now let's get 10 more by the end of the decade. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

A lot of my friends, family, colleagues don’t understand why I’m so optimistic about this situation.

When the hammer falls, those prepared to fight for this country will outnumber these assholes a few thousand to one, minimum. We’re going to crush them like bugs.

Unfortunately don’t have the photographers name to tag them but goddamn what a cool pic. #STL #NoKings

St Louis showing UP

#STL

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

It’s actually relatively easy & fast to become a journeyman in the electrical union. Problem is availability of work: if there are no jobs, you sit on unemployment for months until the list clears.

Know what solves this problem? Abundance 😎

Cars Kill Pedestrians at an Alarming Rate. We Must Fix It With 7,500 pedestrian fatalities in America every year, we must consider the safety of people outside our cars with the same attention we give to occupants.

the amount of hate mail I got for this piece shocked me. drivers just fucking love killing pedestrians and they do not ever want to feel bad about it for even a second www.motor1.com/features/713...

YouTube video by PotatoMcWhiskey Channel Update - Why I haven't Played Civilization 7 in 44 days

One of my favorite content creators @potatomcwhiskey.bsky.social opens up about depression, the truly unhinged cruelty and negativity in the gaming community, and surprisingly, housing reform. Thank you for sharing your heart, stay strong! youtu.be/Ro3yVfE-oxQ?...

This… is literally not anything close to true and you’re trying to delegitimize a perfectly reasonable and YIMBY-aligned policy platform because one of its proponents has different views of unrelated social issues.

But… that’s the point. That’s why he did it. He’s a eugenicist at heart and he does not care about sustaining lives of those he sees as inferior.

The knee jerk reaction is to say these companies will immediately start fucking the environment again but the reality is they’ve already sunk enormous capex into reducing emissions and pollutants, and are subject to activist shareholder pressures that will keep them focused on long term decarb plans

This is a great thread and perfectly summarizes why voters continue to reward republicans despite seeing their material conditions deteriorate under their leadership!

Screwing over the gays and people of color for the confederate flag crowd, only to realize that crowd never shops at Target anyway. Brilliant corporate strategy guys.

Only two years expired? In St Louis, that’s considered normal.

In the context of human history, there is no better time to be alive. In the context of popular American music, I really came of age during troubling times...