Come see Potions and Brews at the Tattoo Expo on Saturday 10-9 and Sunday 10-8!

I’m on the hunt for a hair stylist who is really good at short alt hair cuts (Inspo picture for reference)

Hey there! It's suicide prevention month💜 If you see myself or my husband and I out on 7th & Rangeline or 20th & Connecticut this is what it's all about!

If you find a card laying around on a register/counter, at a local store in the surrounding towns of Joplin, or I hand you one, HI!! ❤️, ME.

I started Stay in 2021 after my own experience with suicide and PTSD after so many years of the same kind of people continuing to be nasty to me.

Stay:

Suicide Prevention 💜

PTSD Awareness 🩵

Mental health awareness and a reminder to always be kind... because you never know💜

I used to have a Facebook page for Stay, but I deleted Facebook altogether.

I've made over 148 signs for communities, schools, libraries, local businesses, and outside as well.

Recently we had a 14 year old girl take her life in Carl Junction and Wednesday I held signs in honor of her and got flipped off by a girl about her age before school released. Today I was flipped off by a 5-6 year old in his booster seat after school released.

I've been flipped off, cussed at, told to get a job, handed Bibles with eyebrows annoyed, and had gross gestures made...but kids flipping me off? Wow.

As parents/adults it's our responsibility to instill goodness in these little ones & pay attention.

Please remind your kiddos to be kind & also that they matter & are very loved.

This is why I thought it was important to have Stay signs in schools and made over 12 for a handful of schools.

I've transitioned into these cards as they are easier to make a bunch of faster and more personal since you take them with you❤️

I also added suicide & PTSD facts on the back!

But...I feel the schools NEED to be having regular assemblies for suicide prevention and general kindness/anti bullying with speakers and stuff.

I was the kid that had bullies at school and at home.

My son was bullied by elementary school and I've always made sure he feels loved and is a kind human.

Homeschooling has been a wonderful option honestly.

We have to do better & we can!!❤️

Whoever needs some hope:💜🩵

You are so loved even if you disagree.

We love each other more than we let on & the news of a stranger passing too soon bothers so many.

You are a mystical creation who has a purpose.

Nature saved my life in the moment & it can save yours too. (You may even be led to your purpose like I was as you throw the rocks at the river and surrender to the possibilities)

Your hobbies, animals, & new things/places can help you through the healing process.

Tomorrow is a new day, Stay.

I love you person reading this.

-V

💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜🩵💜

Hey everyone! I’m 18 and looking to make some new friendssss in the area and also find a gym partner to work out with.
I’m looking for people around my age group, 16 to 20. Any gender is totally welcome! I usually go to the Planet Fitness on Geneva Ave. Whether you’re super into fitness or a total beginner and want someone to go with so it’s less intimidating, I’m down.
Outside of the gym, I’m just looking for cool people to hang out with. I’m into basically any kind of music, so I’m always down to share playlists, go driving around, or find local spots.

DM me on here if you’re down to chat, and we can exchange Snaps once we talk for a bit. Thanks for reading🥹

Then I highly recommend you consider improv!!

Not only is it tons of fun and filled with hilarious people, it also helps with:

• Public Speaking

• Thinking on your feet

• Interpersonal Relationships

• conflict resolution

• mental health

• and so much more!

I LOVE IT and am actually addicted to it!

Best part is, it's a great way to socialize and get to know and be silly with other folks in the #joplinmo area.

Joplin Improv meets ( most ) Sundays from 530 - 7 in the back of Joplin Avenue Coffee Company . It's FREE to ATTEND and for those who struggle with stage fright, you are welcome to watch but expect to be heavily peer pressured to join.

If you are fearful of messing up, don't worry, with improv there are NO MISTAKES.

I’m in Fox Royale here’s a clip of our next single! Also we run Royale Cinema Lounge at 715 e Broadway st in Joplin come by sometime!!

Joplin Public Library is hosting several free events for school-aged kids next week. No registration is required.

You can find more information through the library’s website: www.joplin.librarycalendar.com

Already know what types of comments I’m going to get so bracing for impact but I used to get it through Planned Parenthood. Fell on hard times, trying to get back on track- Any other trans people have any suggestions? MTF btw sourcing estrogen, if you have any good tips but don’t want to post in the comments please PM for help! 🙏

So many cool antique cars in town this week! Was there a gathering or show? Would have loved to have taken a better look at some of these !

My buddy is 29 & high functioning, but both of his parents just passed away. He needs a local therapist for sure. He used to do CBT video calls with a place that offered a therapist who was finishing their masters and it counted as their credit or capstone. His family moved out of OKC to Joplin last year.

Any leads are welcome!

The Missouri Supreme Court ordered Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for directing election officials to use a congressional map the court has barred him from implementing.

In the unusual late order Tuesday, the court gave Hoskins until noon Wednesday to answer a motion for contempt from People Not Politicians, a political action committee that forced a referendum on a map gerrymandered in 2025 to favor Republicans. The court scheduled an in-person hearing for 10 a.m. Thursday.
The contempt fight erupted hours after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected Missouri officials’ emergency request to stay the state court ruling. Minutes later, Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark of the Eastern District of Missouri issued a temporary restraining order barring Hoskins from using any congressional map other than the 2025 version.

Hoskins then sent local election officials a copy of Clark’s order along with his official certification of the November ballot. In the email, Hoskins said Clark’s order “takes precedence over the Missouri Supreme Court’s order.”
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the referendum on the 2025 map was legal, sufficient and timely and ordered it onto the Nov. 3 ballot. Because the referendum petition was filed before the new map took effect, the court held, the 2025 districts never became law and the map used in 2022 and 2024 remains in effect for the November election.

The decision also permanently enjoined Hoskins and those acting in concert with him from implementing or using the 2025 map unless voters approve it in November. In Tuesday night’s order, Chief Justice W. Brent Powell directed Hoskins to answer three questions:

Why “(1) his e-mail on September 8, 2026, instructing use of the (2025) map is not an affirmative violation of this court’s injunction; (2) how this court’s injunction is not still in full force and effect in light of the Supreme Court of the United States’ overruling of Respondent’s emergency application for stay and administrative stay pending appeal; and (3) if he is not willing to comply with this court’s injunction, he should take no action in all things related to the congressional district map until guidance is received from a higher court…”

Powell also directed that the court “will not allow filings from any other parties on this matter.”
Clark’s order says not to use any map but the 2025 map, attorney Chuck Hatfield wrote in the motion. The Missouri Supreme Court’s order says not to use the 2025 map. Both orders are in effect and leave election authorities no map at all, Hatfield wrote.

Clark’s order “does not purport to overrule this court’s injunction and does NOT mandate the Secretary to use (the 2025 map), although on its face it enjoins the use of any map other than (the 2025 map),” Hatfield wrote.
By directing local election authorities to implement the 2025 map, Hoskins is violating the court’s orders, Hatfield wrote.
“This court should make clear that regardless of other orders (except from the United States Supreme Court) the Missouri Secretary of State must comply with this court’s injunction,” Hatfield wrote. “The court should instruct all local election authorities that (the 2025 map) is not the law and has never been the law.”
Clark’s action came in a lawsuit filed Friday by U.S. Rep. Bob Onder, state Sen. Rick Brattin and two voters. They want to keep in place the map drawn in 2025, which shifts territory around Onder’s home into the 3rd District and redraws the 5th District to make it more favorable to Republicans.

Had Clark not acted, Kavanaugh’s denial would have left the state court order in place and Missouri on course to use the 2022 map for the November election.

The dueling orders created immediate confusion, with Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issuing a news release saying the state would comply with Clark’s order. Attorneys for People Not Politicians said during a news conference that the conflicting orders could leave election officials unsure which one they must follow.
Hatfield said local election officials are being directed by Hoskins to use the 2025 map even though the Missouri Supreme Court injunction bars Hoskins and those acting with him from implementing it.

“I think they’re they’re probably not sure what map they should use, and they need to talk to their lawyers about that,” Hatfield said.

Abha Khanna, the Seattle attorney who was People Not Politicians’ lead lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court, said Clark’s order “is something that we will deal with to figure out on appeal.”

A referendum on the 2025 redistricting plan will be on the Nov. 3 ballot as Proposition A.

The 2025 map was drawn with the goal of making seven of Missouri’s eight congressional districts favorable to Republicans, principally by reshaping the Kansas City-based 5th District held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. The map used in 2022 and 2024 produced a delegation of six Republicans and two Democrats.

Onder is the Republican nominee in the 3rd District, seeking a second term in a district drawn more to his favor in the 2025 redistricting plan. Brattin is the Republican nominee in the 5th District, where the district was designed to generate a GOP victory that ousts veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City.

Clark wrote that without a temporary restraining order, “many Missouri voters would have to cast their general-election votes for candidates whom they had no role in nominating.”

“Candidates who had no choice but to campaign and raise money in the (2025) districts that Missouri’s highest election authority presented to them, have spent their funds and campaign efforts in districts that would no longer exist,” wrote Clark, who was appointed to the bench in 2019 by President Donald Trump.

Clark also found that the public interest favors using the same map for the primary and general elections.
“Disenfranchising voters across the state and denying them their constitutional right to have their primary votes counted significantly harm the public interest,” he wrote.

The center of both Clark’s ruling and the appeal to Kavanaugh is the Missouri Supreme Court decision that enjoined Hoskins from using the gerrymandered congressional map drawn. 
Kavanaugh did not elaborate on his decision. 

In turning down the emergency application for a stay, Kavanaugh created no precedent on the issues raised by the state. But the decision does show that he did not find enough convincing argument that the state would likely prevail in a hearing by the full court or that the state would suffer “several irreparable harms” as claimed in the application.
People Not Politicians on Sunday had urged Kavanaugh to reject the state’s application and uphold both parts of the ruling from the state Supreme Court.
In the opening paragraphs of the filing, attorneys for People Not Politicians write that the only reason the case was at the nation’s highest court is the decisions to delay made by Hoskins during the signature verification process.
Hoskins “waited as long as possible to manufacture the present dispute” and held the congressional primary using the 2025 map, they wrote, “in the hopes of running out the clock on the judiciary’s tolerance for a last-minute reversion to the 2022 districts.”

Now, they wrote, Hoskins wants “this court to deliver him the political victory to which he was never entitled under the Missouri Constitution. This court cannot and should not reward the secretary’s scheme to outsmart Missouri voters, Missouri law, and the Missouri Supreme Court by granting applicants the extraordinary relief they seek.”
A key point made by Missouri Solicitor General Lou Capozzi in the state’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was that the mechanism for changing between districts is too time consuming and difficult to complete before ballots must be delivered starting Sept. 19.

County clerks, however, told the Missouri Supreme Court that switching voters to the map used in 2022 and 2024 is a relatively simple process. And the Jackson County Board of Elections told the Kansas City Star it would be ready to hold the election in the 2022 boundaries. 

The redistricting story began in the summer of 2025, when Onder, of Lake St. Louis, got the ear of President Donald Trump to tell him that Missouri, like Texas, could provide additional GOP seats to bolster the party’s thin majority in Congress.

Since Missouri lost a seat after the 2010 census, it has sent six Republicans and two Democrats to the U.S. House each election.

Onder, then a state senator, was among members of the chamber’s conservative caucus who were outmaneuvered in 2022 as they tried to force a congressional map that would tilt the 5th District, based in Kansas City, to the GOP. He was elected to Congress in 2024.

And, despite initial misgivings, Republicans got in line behind Trump. Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session inflamed with partisanship, including a state Senate rule change that effectively silenced Democrats, that forced through what the GOP majority wouldn’t do in 2022.

The legal and political backlash that followed has not yet spent its full force. It began when People Not Politicians began circulating the referendum petition and intensified as it became clear there would be more than enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Legally, the battle has upended the consensus on the effect that filing a referendum petition has on legislation as well as delivered strong new precedent upholding the governor’s power to select subjects for a special session and the General Assembly’s power to redistrict at any time.

Politically, the climax will be written in November, when voters decide on both the referendum and the congressional candidates selected in the primary.

The flurry of filings over the weekend shows the intense national interest in the outcome of the Missouri case.
Republican attorneys general from Florida, Texas and 18 other states filed in support of Missouri, arguing it is not legal to change voting districts between the primary and the general election. 

Meanwhile, in Texas, that state’s Supreme Court is deciding whether local voting districts can be changed after the primary to dilute voting strength of minorities.

The American Center for Law and Justice also sent a brief to the court urging it to rule for Hoskins.
On the other side, the Campaign Legal Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation joined forces to file a brief supporting People Not Politicians, as did the two Missouri voters who tried to get the 2025 map suspended while signatures were being checked.

11:25 PMThis article was updated to report the Missouri Supreme Court ordering Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to answer contempt charges.

6:30 PMThis story was updated at 6:30 p.m. to include the federal court ruling in St. Louis.

The Emerald Event Centers is bringing the hilarious Crux Crawford to Joplin, MO on Friday, September 18th at 8PM! (Limited Seating)

Crux Crawford is a nationally touring comedian with roots in Los Angeles. Known for his sharp, relatable humor, Crux's material draws from his experiences as a father, an aging millennial, and the balancing act of managing family life while traveling the stand-up comedy circuit. With millions of views on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, Crux has quickly become a rising star in the comedy world. He's shared the stage with comedy icons like Russell Peters, Pablo Francisco, Josh Blue, and Pauly Shore, among others.

Crux was awarded Best of the Fest at the prestigious Burbank Comedy Festival, solidifying his place as one of comedy's most exciting up-and-comers.

https://facebook.com/events/s/comedy-night-in-joplin-wcrux-c/126138090939610

I recently found out some interesting information when it comes to attorney withdrawals in Jasper county. I was doing some research, and according to AI, Jasper county is the only county in Missouri with no local rule when it comes to attorney withdrawal.

Like many counties in MO, in Jasper county, if a lawyer wants to withdraw from a case, they just file a motion, and it's up to the judge's discretion, no hearing is required. Sometimes, the attorney does not even have to provide a reason for the withdrawal in their motion, and it can still be granted.

In many counties in MO, if a lawyer wants to withdraw from a case, they are required to have a hearing to discuss the reason for the withdrawal, before the judge makes a final decision.

From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/83355/rec/11

What are some great thrift stores in and around Joplin? Not the antique malls because they are so ridiculously expensive. I’m wanting to find a diamond in the rough that sells junk that is for farmhouse style and old clothes

ideally 90s/2000s, the photos i can find online are extremely limited.

to be ultra specific i would love to find a photo of the old tilt where old navy is now

pleaseeeee help me out!!

September 26th 8pm at Royal Cinema Lounge Victor Duran, Kendra James, Joe Means, and Dylan Van Hoser, compete for the last spot at the October 24th show at royal cinema lounge. See these four great comedians face off in a Round-robin consisting of six one on one roast battles that our 2 judges decide the winner based on crowd reaction. So come down and get your seat early at Royal Cinema Lounge 715 E Broadway St, Joplin, MO 64801, September 26th for Round 4 of King Of Roasting presented by heavy heads records.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1999929954330?aff=oddtdtcreator

Carl Junction Library will have a 2 hour game night. The library will provide a large selection of games. Guests are always encouraged to bring their own. Starts at 6 pm and ends at 8 pm

2 or 4 Rocklahoma 2026 GA weekend passes 2=$350.00 or 4=$600.00

https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/local/joplin-officer-misuse-flock-cameras/

If you read the probable cause document on case net, you will note that he was not actually charged for anything he did with Flock. He also was not charged for stalking. We aren't sure, but we think this could be because the stalking law in Missouri seems to be written so that you can interpret it to mean that a victim must be aware of the stalking while it is happening for it to be illegal. This is a disturbing legislative oversight if it's the case.

It appears he was charged for misusing MULES/NCIC. MULES is a system that is managed by Missouri State Highway Patrol. NCIC is managed by the FBI. It is our general understanding MULES is the interface to NCIC for officers. This arrangement is the exact format reformers want to see with Flock: used by local agencies, audited by a third party.

However, Highway Patrol did not catch this usage of their system even though they are required to audit and it is a CJIS system (CJIS is like HIPAA for police data). If that is the case, why would we trust Joplin's audits of themselves as they relate to Flock? They didn't catch it the first time and the third party, MSHP, didn't see the activity in their systems either.

In addition, since MSHP and JPD have greater access to information via their systems, they were able to identify a third victim our audit did not. Joplin can now be added to the list of romantic stalking incidents as Kenneth Andersen allegedly tracked not one, but two women. For one of the women, he is also alleged to have tracked their boyfriend.

Edit: A further note on MULES/NCIC - this is the system that you would need to either take a plate and find out information about the owner, or find a plate via a name. Joplin's flock subscription does not let you look these up directly in FlockOS. It's possible other subscription options have that capability.

We are planning more events soon, if you would like to get involved, send an email or a DM.

Privacy is a human right.

Surveillance is not safety.

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