sam zeff

@samzeff

“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”― George Orwell @KCUR & host of @Archiverpodcast.

Kansas City (where else?)

Joined February 2012

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sam zeff@samzeff · Oct 28, 2015

I remember Escobar's inside the park homer like it was yesterday. Wait, it was. #Royals #worldseries #midnightbaseball @kcur

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Pilar Pedraza TV @ KAKE@PilarPedrazaTV · 22 h

Hmm. Smells like an endorsement to me. Only time will tell. With Kelly's official support would must likely come access to her fundraising structure, making a Kelly endorsement highly valuable for any Democrat. #KAKENews #ksleg #ksgov #kspolitics

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sam zeff@samzeff · 19 h

Well, now. ozarksfirst.com/news/whites-on…

samzeff's tweet card. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The outspoken co-founder of Return to the Land, a relatively new whites-only group based in northern Arkansas, said the group could be expanding to the Springfield, Missouri, are…

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 19

Hearings ⁦@SenEricSchmitt⁩? mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…

samzeff's tweet card. Family of Allentown grandfather Luis Leon, 82, said they were headed to a Guatemala hospital to reunite with him after he was taken into custody at a Philadelphia immigration office and disappeared…

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 19

No connection? Okay… axios.com/2025/07/18/ste…

samzeff's tweet card. The meeting came two days before CBS abruptly announced that it is canceling "The Late Show."

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 19

First-ever Marine general named as top leader at Naval Academy. Does the Pentagon dislike women ⁦@JerryMoran⁩ ? taskandpurpose.com/news/first-mar…

samzeff's tweet card. Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte played football at the academy and flew helicopters under the callsign "meat."

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 18

Independence mother and baby killed by police suffered 'great physical pain,' lawsuit says #police #policeshooting ##missouri #moleg ⁦@JacksonCountyMO⁩ ⁦@IndepMoPolice⁩ kcur.org/news/2025-07-1…

samzeff's tweet card. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court says two Independence police officers acted with malice and were reckless when they killed Maria Pike, 34 and her two-month-old baby Destinii...

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 17

Independence mother and baby killed by police suffered 'great physical pain,' lawsuit says kcur.org/news/2025-07-1… #police #PoliceAction @JacksonCountyMO @JACOProsecutor

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 17

BREAKING: Independence mother and baby killed by police suffered 'great physical pain,' lawsuit says kcur.org/news/2025-07-1… #Police #policeshootings #Missouri

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 17

NEW: Higher bills likely for Wyandotte County residents after commission unfreezes property taxes kcur.org/politics-elect… #tax #kck #ksleg @WycoSheriff #wyco

samzeff's tweet card. The Board of Commissioners of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas voted to allow property taxes to increase next year. But the county's financial issues remain and...

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 17

West Plaza storm #kcmo ⁦@NWSKansasCity⁩ #weather #wx

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 16

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court. Judiciary Committee hearings on this ⁦@HawleyMO⁩ theintercept.com/2025/07/15/ice…

samzeff's tweet card. ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 12

Trump threatens to strip Rosie O’Donnell of U.S. citizenship. nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/… I’m not sure he could take away someone’s driver license.

samzeff's tweet card. President Trump said the actress, a longtime nemesis, “is not in the best interests of our Great Country.” Ms. O’Donnell called him a “criminal con man” who puts his interests ahead of the nation’s.

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Sherman Smith@sherman_news · Jul 11

Court record points to systemic failure by DCF to protect a 5-year-old girl, despite repeated warnings that she wasn't safe. #ksleg via @TimVCarpenter kansasreflector.com/2025/07/11/kan…

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 11

I was in TV news for 25 years and can tell you if we could control the weather, we would have. kosu.org/local-news/202…

samzeff's tweet card. Oklahoma City television station News 9 is reporting an anti-government militia group targeted its weather radar system.

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 10

Well, now share.google/cnPoCZjvkS0ULb…

samzeff's tweet card. As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and...

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 9

Jackson County board says August date for Frank White recall election is 'almost impossible' #kcmo #moleg ⁦@JacksonCountyMO⁩ #election kcur.org/politics-elect…

samzeff's tweet card. The election board says it is in limbo waiting for County Executive Frank White to sign or veto an ordinance unanimously approved Monday. There is not enough time to “build the election.”

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 8

BREAKING: The election board says it is in limbo waiting for County Executive Frank White to sign or veto an ordinance unanimously approved Monday. #kcmo #election ⁦@JacksonCountyMO⁩ share.google/MknhSQwPvoZAsA…

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 8

Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say. Flooded already? Oh, my. washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07…

samzeff's tweet card. Florida’s hastily constructed detention camp in the Everglades, which began processing immigrants late this week, has been praised by President Trump.

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sam zeff@samzeff · Jul 7

Kristi Noem Secretly Took Personal Cut of Political Donations — ProPublica A cut of the take? Well, now propublica.org/article/kristi…

samzeff's tweet card. A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics...

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