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Nikki Haley was on SNL… she had several lines, and made fun of Trump directly.
Quick hit: Bipartisan tax bill passage - we had been following, another pleasant surprise and also another instance of the Biden Presidency being precisely what was promised which is an administration where bipartisan work can get done - also Biden won in South Carolina, which is not really news
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/31/house-child-tax-credit-business-tax-break-bill
- True or False
- Missouri GOP’s push to change initiative petition process is spitting into the wind
- https://www.komu.com/news/state/initiative-petition-reform-bill-passes-in-committee-opposing-rallies-form-at-missouri-capitol/article_19c453ba-bfa0-11ee-86e6-af8ece943ef0.html
- Yeah No
- Suppression, Intimidation, an outright attack, however framed Louisiana government going after journalism in just another RW attack on the first amendment
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/louisiana-sues-epa-emails-journalists-cancer-alley-residents
- Yeah yeah!
- Opioid treatments continuing thanks to Biden admin
- https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/opioid-treatment-restrictions
- Here at home in MO - potential for statewide reliable internet by the end of the 2nd Biden administration
- https://missouriindependent.com/briefs/missouri-hopes-to-use-federal-grant-to-make-reliable-internet-available-statewide-by-2028/
- Big One
- Trump’s legal problems are so bad it seems even he is admitting it
- https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/trump-conviction-trial-jan-6-court
- 2024 Election Coverage Era - Senate edition
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4432252-senate-gop-wisconsin-2024-eric-hovde-tammy-baldwin/
- Senate poised to flip to GOP control without serious change, and some upsets
- https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/senate/senate-overview/democrats-need-lightning-strike-again-2024-keep-fragile-senate
- Hawley v. Kunce
- November 2023 polling shows it is a real race - Abortion petition
- https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/column/joe-holleman/new-poll-touts-lucas-kunce-s-chance-of-upsetting-josh-hawley/article_87b5eb34-7e4d-11ee-a379-4bf7e2026f39.html#:~:text=Show%20Me%20Victories%2C%20a%20political,Kunce%20upset%20remains%20a%20possibility.
- https://emersoncollegepolling.com/missouri-2024-poll-sen-hawley-leads-democratic-challengers-kunce-and-bell-by-double-digits/
LAST CALL
Zuck Gets Owned As Legislators Are Finally Upset About A Product That Kills Kids, But Not Guns
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/31/2024/lawmakers-grill-big-tech-ceos-over-online-child-safety
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