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Jess Piper at The View from Rural Missouri:

I am not going to make you wonder what this essay is about — the extremism in the Missouri Republican party. This extremism is laser focused on women and girls. To demonstrate how extreme they have become, I only have to take you back a decade. Remember: Missouri is a testing ground for the rest of America. What they have done to us, is meant for you too. Do you remember Todd Akin? He was the Missouri Republican who won the nomination for US Senate, but was beaten soundly by Claire McCaskill in 2012. Do you remember why the race was tilted toward Claire during the last few weeks of the campaign?

During an interview in 2012 at a St. Louis television station, Todd Akin was asked by reporter Charles Jaco whether abortion should be legal for women who have been raped. Akin replied with this: “From what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Akin said, referring to pregnancy resulting from rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin also said he would prefer that punishment for rape be “focused on the rapist and not attacking the child." That did it. Those statements sealed the deal for so many voters in Missouri. Akin tried to walk them back and apologized. He even said he misspoke. It didn’t matter to Missouri voters — he paid for those comments by losing the race and becoming a sort of meme for extremism. That was 2012. Today, those statements likely wouldn’t lose a race or even raise many eyebrows in the GOP, especially not in Missouri. We have become nearly numb to the constant barrage of inaccurate, insensitive, and invasive line of comments and laws against women in this state.

[...] The horrifying reality for Missouri victims of sexual assault? Senate Republicans blocked attempts to add rape and incest exemptions to Missouri’s abortion ban. Amendments to legalize abortion in cases of rape or incest, added by Missouri Senate Democrats, were voted down by Missouri GOP lawmakers in February, 2024. [...]

Missouri has slowly been pushed to the edge of extremism. We are the frog in the pot. We have been looking around and trying to use reason to say, “this can’t be happening.” We wonder if these lawmakers are just making missteps — just a quote taken out of context or an off the cuff remark that they didn’t mean. Surely they don’t mean the things they say? No, they do. They mean the things they say. They prove it by the bills they propose and the bills they vote against. The water is boiling and still some of us sit and ponder. It’s past time to jump, friend. The best thing we can do is speak out about what we see and tell everyone we know what is happening in our state. One of the most courageous things we can do is to point out what the GOP is saying and doing and be loud about it. We warn others. We save ourselves by warning the country.

Jess Piper wrote in her Substack blog earlier this week the history of Missouri Republicans-- mostly men-- downplaying or excusing rape, sexual assault or other predatory behavior, such as the infamous late Rep. Todd Akin.

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A mother and her four children were killed in a house fire that has been deemed “suspicious” by Missouri authorities.

The fire was reported at 4:20 a.m. Monday, Feb. 19, at a home in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, according to the St. Louis County Police Department.

Photos shared by the Ferguson Police Department show smoke fill the home. The smoke was visible for miles, KTVI reported.

Firefighters found the bodies of five people inside the home, police said. There were also three dogs who were found dead.

“The smoke was so bad. I tried to kick the front door,” Jerry McClure, a neighbor, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “We just couldn’t wake them up.”

The victims were identified by KMOV as Bernadine “Birdie” Pruessner and her four children: 2-year-old Millie, 5-year-old Jackson and 9-year-old twin girls Ellie and Ivy.

A cause for the fire is unknown, but authorities told the Post-Dispatch and KTVI “suspicious” circumstances were involved. The investigation is ongoing.

’A tragedy for our community’

Pruessner, a former math teacher at City Academy in St. Louis, was named the Missouri Teacher of the Year in 2013 by the American Board.

More recently, she was an assistant professor at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois, according to Metro East Star. She is also a published author and the founder of a nonprofit, Root Cause Agricultural Education Group.

“Birdie was a dear colleague and friend to all. She cared so deeply about her students and about helping others,” Lewis and Clark President Ken Trzaska said in a statement, Metro East Star reported. “She brought energy and illuminated such a bright light of positivity and kindness to our campus community.”

Pruessner was nearing the completion of her doctorate degree in early childhood education, her father told the Post-Dispatch, referring to her as “brilliant.”

Dara Ashby of the Ferguson Animal Coalition called the deaths of Pruessner and her children “a tragedy for our community,” KSDK reported.

“She was a wonderful person and loved her kids, loved her family, loved her animals,” Ashby told the station. “She was just a treasure to our community. So this is a huge loss.”

’Live each day like it’s your last’

Before her Monday morning death, Pruessner spent Sunday with her children, going to a reptile show, soccer game and camping out in their living room, she said on Facebook.

“Making today one of those live each day like it’s your last kind of days,” she said.

That night, she shared a photo of her family and said she was “blessed” to be their mother. “Us against the world,” she wrote in the post.

Pruessner and her children were referred to as a “beautiful family” by one friend.

“None of this seems real, today has been really really hard. How could Birdie, Elly, Ivy, Jack and Millie be gone?” Allison Nichole Fox said in a Facebook post. “Birdie was an incredible mother and had the brightest light always surrounding her.”

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What John Derbyshire Was Talking About

Remember when John Derbyshire was defenestrated by National Review for politically incorrectly publishing The Talk: Nonblack Version? He committed thoughtcrime by advising nonblack parents to warn their kids about situations where they will be outnumbered:

Via The Blaze:

KTVI reported, “One person is hospitalized with critical injuries after a fight Friday near Hazelwood East High School.”

She has not been named, presumably because she is a child.

The victim had her head violently bashed into the pavement at least four times. The teenage girl is seen on video lying unconscious on the pavement and begins to go into convulsions after the monstrous attack.

Those around her ignored her condition.

This will come as no surprise:

The St. Louis County Police Department is reportedly investigating the chilling beatdown.

Welcome to the world today’s children will grow up in, thanks to Critical Race Theory indoctrination and engineered demographic transformation.

My Gawd....those vicious white supremacists. Can no one stop them??

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