Every single political text I have gotten this election season has been attacking a Democrat candidate and/or supporting a Republican candidate, and none the other way around.

I am registered to vote as a Democrat so this just seems odd. Are Republican campaigns just targeting registered Democrats and Democrat campaigns are targeting registered Republicans? Do the Democrat campaigns just not send out text messages to registered voters? I'm just surprised that I haven't gotten even one message supporting Democrats and/or attacking Republicans and from the other side I get 3-4 texts per day.

Friends coming from out of state. Where should I take them? I have also moved here recently so I do not know many places. I only think of the Arch lol. Please give me some suggestions but no bars please- we do not drink. Thanks!

City peeps: So Gregory FX Daly just sent my annual blue City personal property tax statement. That's fine. But, did anybody else notice that they are automatically assessing a penalty of 10% in the calculation of how much is owed? Take a close look.

So it explains that the MO State statues require a late penalty and interest if be paid after December 31st. Ok. But if you look closely, there is already a 10% "Assessment penalty" automatically calculated into what you owe now, "amount due". (We pay our taxes in early December every year, so it's not a hangover from 2023.)

Can anybody explain this? Did you notice?

Valuation x Assessment penalty x/10 Tax rate per $100 (8.37%) = 8.37% (valuation + penalty)

So if I paid on time, as we do, I'm paying (current tax) 10% more than I should? Help me to see what I can't.

What am I missing? You would think our publicly elected collector of revenue might explain a bit better. I don't work in his office, but I'm not an idiot. And I don't understand it.

Happy to live here, happy to pay fair taxes, but huh?

Does anybody else find it discouraging to see Trump flags on the back of (what has to be) high schooler’s trucks at different high schools around west county areas? FYI didn’t grow up here so apologies if my generic use of “high school” offends you.

Preferably female but I would go to a male if he’s good! I need someone to checkout a weird lump under my arm. But if it doesn’t go away before the appt (I’m thinking possible ingrown hair bump but not sure) I also want to talk about accutane for my acne & yes I’ve tried basically everything else first. But mainly for accutane. My previous dermatologist was going to do accutane but I didn’t feel she was a good fit for other things I had asked about so I stopped going after the first appointment.

My husband is going to find my Reddit through this post so RIP to this account BUT the new manager at the Jefferson McDonald’s has turned things around. He’s always there when I go and for the first time in years, we had fresh fries and nuggets. I noticed better service in the last couple weeks, but the food is significantly better too.

Also, don’t come at me for going to McDonald’s a lot, I have a sick dog who only eats a few things okay

In my defense I had a bike rack with 4 freaking bikes and try to get out of the way by moving the car forward and I took a portion of the next stop.

Also there were at least 20 spots empty around me.

This was in IKEA after a nice ride about Forrest Park.

Well played.

Has anyone else who is trans or not trans but may not look 100% masculine not feminine nor whatever had their picture taken or have been directly confronted by the no on 3 people? I felt intimidated by them while voting early today at the Jamestown bluffs location and considered leaving for my own safety because someone with a garden flag patch took my photo after I told his female companion not move on and that I didn't want to discuss myself being trans. Am I crazy? Is this isolated? Where would I go to complain about this?

My fav local band ❤️

Is there a place that makes large (not a side) baked potatoes? Preferably with brisket or carne asada.

TIA

Anyone else get this text

Are there any angel trees that are out yet (with the tags where you can shop for Christmas presents for a needy child)?

I get yall wanna voice yall voting preferences but 10 times outta 10 it won't change somebody mind y'all just clogging up the reddit with bs

Looking for a great drink later tonight, who knows how to make the best rye manhattan, up of course.

It's time for my weekly "cheat" dinner but honestly I have no idea what to get or cook. Contemplating Katies or Stews but I'm not sold on either. So, what are you having for dinner? What restaurant? What are you cooking?

Coming Monday!

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/st-louis-board-of-aldermen-approved-major-cortex-development-with-affordable-housing-units/amp/

Curious if anyone has a link to any building renderings yet?

I get cut off by atleast 3 every single day

Stop driving like dicks i promise your spaghetti factory can wait

We have been on the hunt to adopt a male Siamese or seal point kitten for ages. Hoping that maybe someone who knows if one or has one for adoption sees this.

We have been trying to adopt one for a long time, but it’s like you have to know someone at a shelter because they’re adopted SO FAST. Even when we have one ‘held’ at a shelter so we can start driving to get it, it’ll be gone by the time we get there.

We have been checking all the shelter websites (yes, all 🫠), pet finder, findapet, and Facebook groups multiple times a day.

We really want to adopt but have even checked Craigslist every single day.

If anyone has or knows of a seal point male kitten, please let me know! Really hoping this gets to the right person, we’ve been trying for such a long time 😭

I know what gooey butter cake is, but saw this at one of the libraries in the area that holds early voting. Is this supposed to turn people off or appeal to people?

I have been looking all over the place trying to find someone that does Intuitive tattooing. Does anyone have any recommendations because Google has completely failed me. I've added the picture as an example of someone else's intuitive work just to draw more attention to my post. I have no rights to that tattoo or picture.

It will be interesting to see what voter turnout is like once the polls close on Tuesday after a week of early voting. It seems that the lines have been consistently long so hopefully this will show a good uptick in the number of people participating.

I'm old enough to remember when Schalfly was an upstart in this town.

Your turn!

TLDR= VOTE NO, he is unhinged, erratic and dangerous. Greiten’s appointed Judge Hilton repeatedly makes decisions and rulings that are so sick and crazy letting perpetrators and people who murder innocent teens and toddlers out on bond. I’m only including in this post what can be substantiated, there are plenty more stories that back this sick behavior up. I know this is long- but this much craziness has been reported in the news in the last 5 years.

HERE IS BASICALLY A SCRIPT OF A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JUDGE HILTON’S SICK COURTROOM. HORRIBLE TO VICTIMS, THEIR FAMILIES AND THE DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMUNITY.

• MISSOURI FAMILY AND DISABILITY ADVOCATES OUTRAGED AFTER MAN WHO ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING A STUDENT WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IS ALLOWED TO POST BOND AFTER JUDGE HILTON IN THE PRIOR HEARING SAID HE WOULD NOT LET HIM OUT ON BOND, MULTIPLE ADULTS WERE FIRST HAND WITNESSES TO THE MOLESTATION. Judge Bruce Hilton originally ordered Smith be held without bond when he was first charged, but then reversed course and allowed him to post his family’s property as a $250,000 bond. At the first hearing he said “I believe the bond amount is high enough that I don’t believe that he will be able to secure a $250,000 cash-only bond,” Hilton said.

Eight days later, JUDGE HILTON allowed Smith to post his family’s property as bond. The family’s attorney noted the form Hilton signed allowing Smith to post his family’s property as bond contained typed information about the property and said she didn’t know how it got there. Hilton said he wrote it, and offered no explanation as to why his order did not reflect what he said he would do in court.

The victim's mother claimed at Smith's sentencing hearing that Smith tried to harass and intimidate her family into silence, according to the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. The mother said Smith pleaded guilty not out of remorse, but "because all these cruel tactics and tricks did not work as he had hoped - and they did not silence or intimidate us."

Prosecutors asked the judge to reprimand Carlson for serving the subpoenas, calling it “nothing more than harassment,” and noting all of the witnesses had to miss work, arrange for childcare and should be reimbursed for mileage and attorney’s fee costs. The judge asked prosecutors to put the complaints in writing.

The alleged victim’s father spoke in court, calling Smith, “every parent’s worst nightmare come true.” “This was premeditated over months,” he said. “He infiltrated the classroom, the lunch table intentionally and targeted children with disabilities.”

The alleged victim’s father also told the judge he had gathered affidavits from all of the supporters who attended the hearing in April and heard the judge say Smith would get a $250,000 cash-only bond. Judge Hilton told the boy’s father: “The next time you think you can send things to the court, you should talk with legal counsel,” Hilton said. “This court will not be swayed.” Hilton then denied the motion to reconsider the bond, allowing Smith to remain free on bond.

Hilton admonished the victim’s supporters who packed the courtroom after his decision to allow Smith out on bond. Those supporters included members of the Down Syndrome Association of St. Louis. “This court will not be intimidated or influenced by outside sources,” Hilton said then (“outside sources”???!!! The disability community supported a non- verbal child who there were adult eye- witnesses who reported it- this is the type of insanity that is Judge Hilton).

Smith sat in the gallery during the hearing and walked out of the courthouse with an ankle monitor when it was over.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s Office was disappointed in the judge’s decision, said Sam Alton, Bell’s Chief of Staff. “We're unhappy,” he said. “We strongly disagree with the court's ruling. We respect the court. We always do. But we strongly disagree with the ruling today. “It seemed to us it was very clear that the court held that the defendant had to post $250,000 cash only, and that was the only way that the defendant was going to be released pending his trial.”

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s Office then asked for a change of judge, which was granted.

In the end, with a new judge: A former Eureka High School custodian was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty earlier this month to molesting a child with Down Syndrome. Robert Smith pleaded guilty on April 9 to fourth-degree child molestation. He was originally charged in February 2022 with one count of first-degree sexual abuse after police said he molested the student over their clothing in a special needs classroom on Feb. 11. The hearing was attended by dozens of people in support of the victim, including members of the Down Syndrome Association.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/investigations/st-louis-county-judge-allowed-alleged-abuser-post-bond-robert-smith/63-8aabbf2e-90a5-419d-9c32-5ff919ae4127

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/former-eureka-high-school-custodian-pleads-guilty-molesting-child-with-special-needs/63-42bf35e8-a2e0-41ac-a281-28fd279cb227

*ROCKY HALE’S MURDER: Rocky Hale’s murder should not have happened. Azavian Royal was out on $100 bond for a handful of charges—among them, felony escape from confinement, first-degree property damage, and armed robbery, at the time he shot and killed Rocky Hale.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Royal was arrested in December 2022 after he and two other inmates reportedly lured an employee of the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center into a restroom, attacked him, shattered a window, crawled out, jumped “30 feet” to the ground, and made their escape. A few days later, Royal and an accomplice reportedly robbed a discount general store at gunpoint, leaving the scene—in ski masks, in the Midwest summer heat—about $167 “richer.”

That’s when Judge Hilton—over the objections of prosecutors in both the escape and robbery cases—granted his release on $100 cash bond. That’s not a misprint or a misplaced decimal. That’s one “Benjamin”—barely even enough for a one-month supply of “venti skinny vanilla lattes” at the local coffee shop a block from Hilton’s third-floor courtroom.

As part of his conditions, Judge Bruce F. Hilton ordered Royal to stay with his mother, a St. Louis County jail guard who is charged with helping her son after the escape. He was also ordered to stay out of St. Louis city.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said his office opposed both bond reductions “because we believed and believe this defendant poses an immediate threat to our community.”

FULL ARTICLE: https://nationalpolice.org/main/missouri-judges-baffling-bond-decision-turns-deadly/

*WOMAN LINKED TO DEATHS OF 4 CHILDREN IN STL RELEASED ON BOND. Judge Hilton approved the release of a woman linked to four child drug-related deaths since 2020, including one while she was out on bond in another case. Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton agreed to reduce the bond for Mary Anne Curtis, 30, of Jennings, who is charged in the death of a friend’s 17-month-old child who overdosed while in Curtis’ care. That death came while Curtis was out on bond for charges stemming from the death of one of her three infant children who have died in the past three years because of drug exposure, according to prosecutors’ statements in court.

Hilton agreed to reduce Curtis’ bond from $1 million to personal recognizance, meaning she will not have to put up a cash deposit for her release. She will be under house arrest and will be required to wear a GPS monitor and undergo drug tests. Bond conditions also include a 9 p.m. curfew and a requirement that she stay away from children younger than 3.

St. Louis County assistant prosecutor John Schlesinger argued against the release.

“She has demonstrated time and time again she will not follow bond conditions,” Schlesinger told the judge. “She broke all her bond orders last time, and another child died.”

Schlesinger said prosecutors fear she will put her unborn child at risk.

In court Judge Hilton said, “if she trips up, she will be back,” telling her aunt that Curtis must stay off drugs while she’s out of jail. “She needs to be clean, or she will kill this child.”

Two of four deaths tied to Curtis over less than four years have led to charges.

January 2020: Curtis gave birth to twins who died within two days at a St. Louis hospital, according to arguments from St. Louis County prosecutors. At the time, Curtis told St. Louis police she had used drugs during the pregnancy and told them: “I had God take them. I’m not going to lie,” Schlesinger told Judge Hilton in an earlier hearing. She was never charged in those deaths.

Court documents allege the baby had enough methadone in his system to kill an adult. A toxicologist determined the baby “was purposely given methadone as there was too much methadone in his system to come from breastfeeding,” police wrote in court records.

Three weeks after Curtis was granted release for the charges connected to the death of her infant son, she was accused in yet another death, this time of a friend’s toddler.

Charges allege Curtis was tasked on March 20 with babysitting 17-month-old Brailey Stevenson for a few hours when the child overdosed in the 5600 block of Janet Avenue in Jennings. Brailey was pronounced dead at a hospital and tested positive for fentanyl and xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer that’s not approved for human use but is increasingly mixed with fentanyl in the U.S.

Prosecutors said in court earlier this month that Curtis has given birth to a total of eight children. In addition to her three children who died drug-related deaths, another of her young children is in state care and will have lifelong developmental delays that state workers attribute to drug exposure, Schlesinger told the judge in a July hearing.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/woman-linked-to-deaths-of-4-children-in-st-louis-area-released-on-bond/article_2be0aa40-3d22-11ee-8670-2733e0124ae9.html

• CLAYTON HOMICIDE SUSPECT WAS OUT ON BOND BY HILTON. Less than two months before Trenell Johnson allegedly fatally shot a Clayton man earlier this week, a GPS company told Judge Hilton he had violated his GPS monitoring and it appears nothing was done about it.

According to a memo obtained by the I-Team, Community Services of Missouri, Inc. wrote: “Dear Judge Hilton: please be advised that Mr. Johnson is no longer being monitored on GPS by this agency. His bracelet has not been charged and he will not return messages left by this agency…” Johnson was out on bail after police say in March, he fled from police in a stolen Kia, weaving in and out of traffic and into oncoming traffic. A police helicopter monitored the stolen car until it collided with a Metro Bus near Ferguson Avenue and St. Charles Rock Road. It then continued and struck a truck, which left the Kia inoperable, according to court documents. Johnson then ran away from the stolen car, and "displayed a firearm in a threatening manner" toward a detective who was chasing him. The detective was able to disarm Johnson and arrest him, according to court documents.

Bell's office asked the judge for a $30,000 bail, "because we are cracking down on these car theft cases because they have become a scourge in this community."

Hilton reduced it, allowing Johnson to post $3,000 or 10%.

FULL ARTICLE: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/i-team-memo-warned-judge-alleged-bail-violation-clayton-homicide-suspect/63-05de8527-17f1-4638-9295-a42fe23fcbd3

GAL, LAWYER, AND JUDGE HILTON COLLUSION REVEALED. This story is a little mangled, a lot of back story to all of this, but here’s the jist: Judge Hilton’s time as a family court judge is just as disgusting. Multiple women have reported a targeted, sadistic behavior during their divorce process.

In a divorce case, a Petitioner’s minor child disclosed to a therapist that she was molested by the Respondent, the girl in this custody made repeated disclosures of sexual abuse and Pudlowski demanded that the dad see her unsupervised over the objections of several therapists. A motion filed by the Petitioner’s attorney suggests widespread abuse in the case, particularly by the judge Bruce Hilton. Judge Bruce F. Hilton, who was the presiding Judge in this case, and had been allegedly accused of Bias, Prejudice, Harassment, Discrimination, Threats, Intimidation, Denigration and Hostile Acts, to name a few, toward Petitioner.

GAL-selected and Court-ordered therapist Evangeline Bauer witnessed Judge Hilton threatening Mom on March 12, 2018: “keep it up and I will take her from you. Get out of my courtroom.”…

Judge Bruce F. Hilton has in fact recused himself on January 12, 2021, with no explanation for his outrageous behavior, in a family court.

His best buddie Elaine Pudlowski, corrupt as hell, and well- documented he defends in regards to further legal trouble she got into in this case (maybe he could have displayed this level of kindness and consideration towards all of the families that are twice victimized by his behavior, no he says this about a deplorable, corrupt GAL who so many have reported is a disgusting bottom- feeder in family courts and gets her kicks just like Judge Hilton off abusing their power and effing with peoples lives and stability.) Judge Hilton states in his recusal, “This Court finds that Ms. Pudlowski has tirelessly served the Family Court of St. Louis County as a Court Appointed Guardian Ad Litem for over two decades with the utmost integrity, professionalism and in numerous instances without compensation.”

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2021/03/gal-lawyer-and-judge-collusion-in-st.html?m=1

https://michaelvolpe.substack.com/p/new-motion-alleges-widespread-malfeasance

MARCELLUS WILLIAMS

Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton declined to throw out the conviction of Marcellus Williams, who was sentenced to death for the killing of Felicia Gayle.

“There is overwhelming evidence that Marcellus Williams’ trial was constitutionally unfair,” said Tricia Rojo Bushnell, the organization’s executive director. “There is still time for the courts or Governor Parson to ensure that Missouri does not commit the irreparable injustice of executing an innocent person.”

Bell gave arguments that Black people were stricken from the jury pool for racial reasons have been argued in past appeals. During one of the hearings the Prosecutor asked the judges to find that testimony from the trial prosecutor, Keith Larner, proved that race played a role in removing potential jurors.

With its decision, the court rejected the effort by Williams’ attorneys to obtain a stay of execution. Gov. Mike Parson issued a statement that he would not intervene in the case.

“There is no basis for a court to find that Williams is innocent, and no court has made such a finding,” Hilton wrote in his opinion. “Williams is guilty of first-degree murder and has been sentenced to death.”

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, whose office filed the motion to vacate the conviction in January, said in a statement he was “immensely disappointed” in the ruling.

“I believe that those who are convicted of committing crimes should be brought to justice. And, for something as consequential as the death penalty, the evidence must prove the defendant to be guilty without a shadow of a doubt,” Bell said. “There are detailed and well-documented concerns regarding the integrity of Mr. Williams’ conviction.”

Hilton agreed with Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey, writing that Williams did not present “any evidence from which this court could find that the State destroyed potentially useful evidence in bad-faith, let alone clear and convincing evidence of the same.”

With its decision, the court rejected the effort by Williams’ attorneys to obtain a stay of execution. Gov. Mike Parson issued a statement that he would not intervene in the case.

Side notes:

Knowing Judge Hilton and his immense toxic ego, he may have had it out for Wesley Bell for removing him from the molestation case and other statements Bell Publicly made. —///////—-

The much-anticipated trial of a discrimination lawsuit aimed at St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell has been delayed until next year — well after Bell makes a run for Congress. he jury trial, originally set to begin Monday, has been rescheduled for Jan. 27, after a hearing Friday before St. Louis County Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton.

The case took on a harder edge in late March, when Hilton ordered a new deposition at which Bell would have to answer questions he had avoided in a previous deposition.

I don’t know much about this case, but I do know it sucks like hell to be held hostage in Judge Hilton’s court room and have your life be held in the hands of a monster.