Bridgette Dunlap

Where do Missouri, Kansas GOP senators stand on Trump’s Iran war-making? | Opinion Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have been uncharacteristically silent so far, but at least Jerry Moran noted Congress was shut out. | Opinion

My latest, via a GIFT LINK: Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley kind of noticeably silent about a war launched from Missouri soil! Jerry Moran, meanwhile, is asking for a "briefing" which is weak sauce. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

Kansas is unsafe for trans people. Is it time to flee? Experts weigh in | Opinion A political action committee that supports transgender rights is warning that the state is hostile. From Mará Rose Williams:

My colleague: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

I organized a brief in Hellerstadt (abortion trap laws) aimed at J. Kennedy that was all Aquinas on unjust/pretextual laws. It was my favorite.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

I’d call your pcp for a second opinion on that. Tamiflu is a miracle drug (when taken early).

Feel better!

Oh god, you’re right.

Lol’d

The Room Where a Bad Bill Happens I got into an argument with a state senator on Tuesday. I thought something like that might occur since I went to testify against a Christian Nationalist bill in a Missouri legislative committee chair...

Both the Christian Nationalist Ohio bill and the Missouri copycat one include major historical errors listed as “examples” of the “positive impact of religion.”

Andrew Bailey led the Georgia election raid. His Missouri record should be a warning • Missouri Independent When the FBI carried out its controversial raid last month at the election headquarters of Fulton County, Georgia, Andrew Bailey was there.

I somehow missed that Andrew Bailey was at the Georgia ballot raid.

This is the obvious answer, but I remain sad at her

not true, but thank you- we gotta cover all the angles.

Theories on what her deal is? I don't have one.

Missouri attorney general wants to rewrite history and redefine who counts in the Census • Missouri Independent Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has filed a lawsuit seeking to require the Census Bureau to “redo” the $14 billion 2020 Census.

I wrote (without swearing!) about Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway's ugly and ridiculous lawsuit seeking to redo the 2020 census to exclude non-citizens.

There is more effed up about this lawsuit than I had space for: missouriindependent.com/2026/02/10/m...

and yet, I consider it better times when Hun Sen felt like he needed to pretend to uphold human rights and the rule of law to appease the U.S. in the pre-Trump days

Cambodia used to round up homeless people when representatives of the U.S. were coming.

Yes! I saw this and went, “no spoilers!”

The more awesome the choreography got, the more excited I got for the bushes to get down.

(I did see them moving during the show, they just didn’t get their big moment like I’d hoped.)

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

Starbucks wins dismissal of Missouri lawsuit over DEI policies A federal judge in Missouri on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican-led state accusing Starbucks of using its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as a pretext to systematically dis...

Another one bites the dust.

(Unless AG Hanaway appeals, in keeping with the Missouri tradition of burning as many tax dollars as possible on junk harassment lawsuits)

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

You could have just called her a jerk, but you wanted people to fill in cunt, which they immediately did.

Kill a mother in cold blood, kidnap the cutest little kid I have seen all week in a fucking pokemon hat, the cutest possible hat, then arrest a bunch of clergy members?! Of multiple kinds of faith practices? Do they have a comeuppance kink or something? like wtf do they think is going to happen??

He’s right, latter is funnier.

Math not mathin'. Kehoe doesn't care.

“it appears Thao was taken half-naked in 10 degree weather simply because he’s Asian.”

and of course accuse me of saying things I hadn’t said.

I am a nobody and the Steviebaby cited above came into my post (re my i guess unusual theory of how we lost Roe) and brought a bunch of randos to attack me.

I can’t even muster a giggle for The Onion anymore

Pregnancy is being attacked nationwide. Missouri must defend its constitutional protections.
📰: @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social: missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/p...

The Insurrection Act does require an actual insurrection. The violence in Minneapolis is almost exclusively one-sided. People yelling at you, calling you names, and recording you on a cell phone isn’t violence. And if the courts let Trump say it is, we’re in a lot of trouble.

The good girl next to the printer saying, “don’t make me print a test page.”

My dog prints a test page when she wants attention.

Opening day of Missouri abortion-rights trial focuses on decades of state restrictions • Missouri Independent The 10-day trial will determine what abortion regulations are now unconstitutional under Missouri’s voter-approved abortion rights amendment.

Opening day of Missouri abortion-rights trial focuses on decades of state restrictions missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/m...