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This six month "pause" on data centers in Franklin Co follows an overflow crowd of hundreds in Montgomery County last month moundcitymessenger.com/2025/12/11/m... and international attention following a one year moratorium in St. Charles, again with hundreds speaking out in opposition.

Kash Patel is now free to drag Renne Good thru the mud and cover up her murder.

The institutional memory of NOAA has suffered: “All these leaders of things who’ve been around for a long time and know how it operates, we’re kind of moving on.” NOAA lost 2,000 of its 11,800 employees through layoffs and retirements since Trump took office”. Now at its lowest staffing level ever.

US Army.

Revitalization efforts emerge to breathe life into St. Louis’ historic Riverfront District New development ideas aim to transform Laclede's Landing from a dwindling shadow of its former self back into a vibrant, high-traffic community.

renewed vitality in area could advance culture/economic development but vibrant areas usually develop organically. consultant driven big developer plans rarely work.

capping the highway with greenspace, like plans near the Arch, could greatly boost the vibe & usability
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there was also no contact person or info given for the Dec 3 meeting or for other LEPC events in recent years, unlike is provided in official meeting notices by other entities.

meetings of other entities that involve CEMA do include officials to contact. www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/past-...

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.

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

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?

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE

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...

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...

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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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.

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

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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?

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.

Americans rallied for Jimmy Kimmel. Do the same for Mario Guevara Atlanta journalist faces imminent deportation for reporting the news

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.

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.

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.

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 happening now is part of plan to shortcircuit democracy and is part of elections being undermined, potentially to oblivion. They're connected.

Re Ian's take, he's an extreme malignant narcissist who's aggrieved. More sophisticated strategic people around him are manipulating his personality.

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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The now dead data center in St. Charles lied to Missouri Conservation Dept

Surprise!

Says no one

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.
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FWIW: Carmody handled legal work for SLDC associated with site assembly for NGA site.

Or @moundcitymessenger.bsky.social as the others are curiously quiet on the minority contracting story while P-D and TV stations going hard on what could be simple payroll procedure or error re Green (will see if there's as digging at Baringer)

If business lawyers are doing the interviews they lack expertise to make it meaningful. It's poorly written in various ways, as you said.

I looked into what kind of law they practice and cursory search if they do any other kinds of investigations when it was first announced. Did they consult any experts? SLDC connection is curious, they’re perennially scandalous with someone like @gconnolly314.bsky.social doing more than news media.

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

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...

It was very curious a law firm was tasked with this. What connections do they have to city officials? What expertise? It’s difficult to believe genuine answers to what happened and solutions on what to do were the objective.

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…

“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)

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.

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.