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🎉 We passed PROP A!  🎉 We just raised wages and brought up to 7 #PaidSickDays to over 500,000 (!!!) Missouri families, making sure all workers can care for themselves or a loved one when sick.

RT @mohealthyfam: This is what democracy looks!!! THANK YOU to the countless volunteers and 600+ Missouri businesses and coalition partners…

Incredible news. Missouri officially passes Amendment 3, codifying abortion rights into law. This is despite anti-trans attacks against the amendment, stating it would allow "sex change surgeries on young kids," a common Republican line against abortion rights amendments.

Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri according to the Associated Press.

@Chateausherrill @Catrambo Not yet 🥲

@quartzen @Catrambo Did you ever read it?

You Should Read This: P.C. Hodgell's Godstalk buff.ly/2NgGQmU

The Twitter alternative Bluesky has added Direct Message capability if that's something you've been waiting on to use it bsky.social/about/blog/05-…

@sqiouyilu Oh yes, it's very cool! Here's a picture from near totality during the eclipse from here in Missouri, there was a warm glow all around the horizon ^^

@quartzen I’m so amazed by this photo I took bc no those aren’t mountains on the horizon it’s like AT LEAST THREE STRATA OF CLOUDS!!!!! the way we drove 500 miles and I could watch the storm front move!!!!!!!!

man… wonder what it’s like to transplant from the midwest to los angeles, is it cosmic horror to look at the horizon and see an unyielding cutout of darkness towering from the horizon?

@hammard_1987 Agreed, I am not really a fan of the scatological humor either although I felt at least it hit some nice emotional beats

@TheSFReader @stephanieburgis @lia_404 @dofain @dptalia Happy new year!! Best wishes to you also!

98 reviews by me of #SFinTranslation on sfintranslation.com- can't wait to reach 100! sfintranslation.com/?page_id=8684

@KariDru @CatKimbriel I hope you enjoy! ^^

@CatKimbriel @quartzen I took one rec from each of you.

Each episode is the longest 22 minutes of your life. Something very sad will happen as a result of glowy air plankton and humans interacting but somehow you feel much better now.

“For an unlikely community of people who had nowhere else to be their honest selves, it was a refuge.” One year later, those who lived through the Club Q shooting are still healing. These are their stories. them.us/story/club-q-s…

A Year of Springs is about finding yourself in a world still learning to be kind gamedeveloper.com/design/-i-a-ye…

Bookmarking this to show people who think that Nikki Haley is the answer for returning the GOP to the party they once knew.

“There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” - Octavia E. Butler NEW SUNS 2 ed. by @NisiShawl brings you breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. 👉bit.ly/3QhkaEx

MO is one of just 4 states where the infant mortality rate > 2021-22. This is largely result of policy decisions by our pro-forced birth legislature— rural hospital closures, cuts to safety net services, and limiting access to repro healthcare. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Incredible news. Andy Beshear wins reelection in Kentucky. Just last month, Terry Schilling from the American Principles Project announced a plan to "create a wedge issue" out of trans kids in the state. They then spent $2,000,000 on anti-trans ads. Which failed. Again.

Missouri state rep(R) Keathley is a LIAR & terrible at math! @rockwoodschools was capped at 5%! Rockwood did NOT take advantage of the loophole in the Hancock Amendment. Prop 3 is a levy transfer which by definition nets to zero. That means ZERO new taxes. Vote YES on Prop 3🗳️