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Editorial: If Twitter gets (more) toxic, big-name tweeters can threaten to take millions of users

Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday, barely a week after he acquired the company, should serve as an all-but-literal announcement: Whatever assurances he offers to the contrary, he may in fact plan to open the content floodgates to the worst in hate speech and toxic disinformation. Why else…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 8, 2022

Editorial: Holding corporations and abusive countries accountable for slave-labor practices

Various prominent U.S. corporations, including Walmart and Intel, might be shying away from principled stances condemning foreign uses of slavery and child labor for the production of cheap consumer goods. An importation rule change proposes to eliminate declarations on imported goods that offer insights into where goods come from and…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 8, 2022

Blues hang around, but lose 3-1 to Boston to equal team futility mark

BOSTON — The Blues made history Monday night, but not the kind you want to make. In losing 3-1 to the Boston Bruins at TD Garden, they tied the franchise record for consecutive losses in regulation time — seven.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 8, 2022

Editorial: Progressives' Ukraine letter makes life difficult for their Democratic colleagues

The Congressional Progressive Caucus last week issued, then quickly withdrew, a poorly timed letter to President Joe Biden urging stepped-up efforts to negotiate a settlement to the war in Ukraine, putting their fellow Democrats in the awkward position of appearing hand-wringing and indecisive ahead of midterm elections. The letter’s wording…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 1, 2022

Editorial: Missouri lawmakers made sure teen gunman faced minimal obstacles to arm himself

The more detail that emerges about the assailant in last week’s St. Louis school shooting, the more clear it becomes that his deadly violence was, in real ways, abetted by Missouri’s Legislature. Conservative lawmakers have spent more than a decade preventing or assertively tearing down every legal safeguard that might…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 1, 2022

Quick hits: Struggling Blues drop fifth game in a row, this time 5-1 to Kings

ST. LOUIS — Monday night was not a step in the right direction for the Blues.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 1, 2022

‘Excited for future’: Nolan Arenado’s choice to stay with Cardinals reflects shared commitment

A trade so complex and yet so mutually desirable that both Nolan Arenado and the Cardinals had to bend a little to get a lot has become a commitment to each other for years to come.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 31, 2022

Best Bites: Purecane sugar-substitute

I'm always on the lookout for a good sugar substitute. My family and I need to cut down on sugar, and this is a great way to do it. Purecane offers a variety of sweeteners, and my favorites are its brown sugar variety and this, a spoonable canister perfect for…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 31, 2022

Near-epic collapse turns 3-1 lead into 7-4 Blues loss

ST. LOUIS — Fashion model Karlie Kloss, who once dated St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford, was in the stands — wearing a Blues jersey.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 30, 2022

Mizzou football starts fast, finishes strong in win at No. 25 South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As Cody Schrader bounded into the end zone Saturday, the only sound coming from an otherwise silenced and stunned Williams-Brice Stadium was a faint M-I-Z-Z-O-U chant billowing from the southeast corner.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 29, 2022