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Tony Messenger

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Tony Messenger

@tonymess

Metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer Prize winner. Author. Order my book: us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…

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Tony Messenger
@tonymess
May 5
There is something about seeing the cover of your book for the first time that makes it real. The Ferguson Decade: How One City’s Uprising Opened America’s Old Wounds, published by @StMartinsPress, comes out Feb. 2, 2027. Please pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
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Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Sep 27, 2022
Missouri was the only state in nation that canceled free grab-and-go food program for poor kids this summer. Pretty lights, though.
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Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Jan 29, 2022
A whole new generation that might have never known who they are/were is going to be introduced to Toni Morrison and Harper Lee and Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and that’s cool.
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Jan 29, 2022
When I grow up, I want to be an Irish fisherman.
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
May 24, 2023
If you play the DeSantis launch backwards, you hear Mickey Mouse drinking a Bud Light while walking through Target looking at PRIDE shirts.
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Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Sep 3, 2022
This is fascism. Not semi-fascism. Just fascism.
Missouri attorney general seeks journalism school records
From stltoday.com
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Oct 27, 2022
The family did the right thing. The teachers and students and security guards did the right thing. Police did the right thing. And still, Alexzandria Bell and Jean Kuczka are dead. Why? Guns, and Missouri Republicans refusal to do anything about them. @MomsDemand #CVPA #moleg
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Nov 5, 2020
Watching all the white Democrats talk on @twitter about how they need to do a better job attracting white Republicans to their party while Black voters in Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia elect @JoeBiden is something.
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Aug 5, 2020
Black women won St. Louis tonight. The candidates. The strategists. The voters. That is the story.
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Jun 29, 2020
Forget the debate over statues. This is St. Louis right here in one tidy little metaphor.
Laurie Skrivan
@LaurieSkrivan
Jun 29, 2020
An armed couple came out of their house and pointed guns toward BLM protesters in the Central West End #KrewsonResign #CloseTheWorkhouse #DefundPolice
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Sep 28, 2023
Dear America, We are sorry. Sincerely, Missouri
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
@NoLieWithBTC
Sep 27, 2023
Oh my God this is incredible.
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Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Jun 12, 2016
The thought of 1 transgender person one day entering a bathroom spurs emergency legislation. Mass shootings day after day? Crickets.
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Jan 6, 2021
In light of today’s events, I have been thinking about the 23 Black pastors in Missouri who were arrested and prosecuted for peacefully singing and praying in the Missouri Capitol. All they wanted was health care for poor people.
Messenger: Mixed verdict in Medicaid 23 trial sends message of division in 2016's America
From stltoday.com
Tony Messenger
@tonymess
Jul 31, 2024
‘St. Louis, we did it!’ Christopher Dunn exclaimed from the steps of the courthouse where a judge set him free after spending 34 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction. He is innocent and free, and he loves his mother.
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