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Republican Senators Denounce Jack Smith Over Jan. 6 Scrutiny of Phone Records

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 1d

“Josh Hawley of Missouri … falsely claimed that the F.B.I. document showed agents had engaged in wiretapping.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u... #missouri

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 1d

Their company gave more than $1.8 million to top Missouri politicians — including $250,000 to the current Republican governor’s PAC — in an effort to prevent the state from tightening oversight of their operations. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c... #missouri

Gas station slot machine company misled public on its games, St. Louis jury finds

A federal judge could rule next on whether the machines constitute illegal gambling after years of inaction from Missouri politicians.

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 1d

Some 6,000 people have been reported by relatives to still be buried under rubble, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The true number is likely thousands higher because in some cases entire families were killed in a single bombing, leaving no one to report the missing. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Thousands in Gaza are missing 2 years into the war. Tormented families search for clues

Two years since the war in Gaza began, thousands of Palestinians there are looking for relatives who have gone missing in one of the most destructive conflicts of the past decades.

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t know that. Interesting.

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 2d

Back in 1950, when St. Louis was still a manufacturing powerhouse, it was described as the No. 4 “critical target” in a potential Russian A-bomb attack on the U.S. Only New York City, Detroit and Washington, D.C. were seen as bigger targets. #stlouis

This A1 story, published on Oct. 6, 1950 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was headlined “St. Louis No. 4 ‘Critical Target’ for A-Bomb if Russia Attacks.”

A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 2d

“People’s relationship with news ... has less to do with what the news actually looks like than it does with people’s assumption that journalism is compromised by the pursuit of profit.” theconversation.com/a-bari-weiss... #journalism

The public’s relationship with news is defined more by its skepticism of the profession than by its impressions of journalists or media outlets.

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Is Jimmy Kimmel a warning of an increasingly poisoned media environment?

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 3d

Even though the Jimmy Kimmel controversy has passed, Trump and his allies remain active in shaping the direction of the media and what people see and hear. pdowns.substack.com/p/is-jimmy-k... by @downsview2.bsky.social

The Jimmy Kimmel dust up is over, or is it?

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Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone further claims that this administration is fighting antisemitism should be taken with pillars of salt.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 7d

This is both shocking and a long time coming. As I reported for @nymag.com, the ADL made few friends in the Trump administration, despite its many, many attempts to please MAGA. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 7d

Israel’s defense minister on Wednesday ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City. Anyone who doesn’t will be considered a militant supporter and face the “full force” of Israel’s latest offensive, he says. apnews.com/article/isra... #gaza #palestine

Israel orders Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying those who stay will be considered militants

Israel’s defense minister has ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying it is their “last opportunity.”

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 7d

“Who we are as a people and as a nation is an important part of how we must interpret the fundamental laws that constrain us. We are not, and we must not become, a nation that imprisons and deports people because we are afraid of what they have to tell us.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In this June 2, 2009 photo, the Statue of Liberty is seen in New York harbor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 10d

“Charlie Craps,” “J. Easy Pull,” “Bogus Raids,” and “Poker Dick” all appreciated the way St. Louis police handled — or didn’t handle — illegal gambling in 1900. Read more here -> rwklose.com/2025/09/28/s...

This front-page cartoon, published by the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 28, 1900, depicts a St. Louis police officer, standing outside the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners office, adorned with bouquets purportedly from gamblers like “Poker Dick” and “Charlie Craps.”

This front-page cartoon, published by the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 25, 1900, depicts a St. Louis police officer as a jumping jack, or Hampelmann, with the “gambler’s hand” pulling the string.

Case dropped against Ferguson protestor accused of damaging police fence

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 12d

Like her?

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d

Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.

There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 12d

Delegations leave as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to address the UN General Assembly webtv.un.org/en?_gl=1*1qr...

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 12d

“Wesley Bell overcharged this case from the beginning and used the felony charge for political reasons. After Wesley left [for Congress], a new prosecutor was assigned to the case who looked at the evidence....” www.stltoday.com/news/local/c... from story by @danarieck.bsky.social

Keith Rose, a local activist, was charged with property damage in August 2024 after a gathering on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death outside the Ferguson Police Department.

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 13d

“The one thing that is a thread between all our families and all the stories we’ve shared is the impunity, the continued impunity that our government grants Israel to continue killing American citizens and to continue committing international war crimes.” www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... #gaza #palestine

Families of Americans killed in West Bank demand accountability and justice

Extremist Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has recently been its highest since the U.N. started recording. Over the last two years, several Americans have allege...

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On eve of NGA opening, neighborhoods still waiting for a boost

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 13d

Too many in his north St. Louis community, Theo Ballinger said, are like “crabs in a bucket. They’re climbing over each other to get to the top just to survive.” www.stltoday.com/news/local/g... from story by @stephkukuljan.bsky.social

The progress officials have long said would come with the new NGA campus has not arrived at everyone’s doorstep in north St. Louis.

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Robert Yellow Cardinal @bluecardinals.bsky.social · 13d

Here is a ham sandwich indicted by a prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, an insurance lawyer , on this job less than a week.
She was confused in court and had to go make changes on the charging documents to clarify for the Judge. This is worse than a clown show.

Families of Americans killed in West Bank demand accountability and justice

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 13d

“The one thing that is a thread between all our families and all the stories we’ve shared is the impunity, the continued impunity that our government grants Israel to continue killing American citizens and to continue committing international war crimes.” www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... #gaza #palestine

Extremist Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has recently been its highest since the U.N. started recording. Over the last two years, several Americans have allege...

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Activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza says drones attacked its boats

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 14d

Activists taking part in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza said Wednesday that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece. apnews.com/article/isra... #gaza #palestine

Activists participating in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza say that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece.

Israel destroys evacuated health center in Gaza City, medics say

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 15d

The Palestinian Medical Relief Society, a charity, said Tuesday an Israeli strike destroyed its six-story building in Gaza City. The center provided blood donation and testing services, trauma care, cancer medicine and chronic disease treatment. apnews.com/article/isra... #gaza #palestine

A Palestinian medical charity says Israel destroyed its main center in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation.

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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 15d

We’re not sending our best.

Trump speaks at the United Nations on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.

Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 15d

#OnThisDay 1925, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat announced plans to launch a new radio station that would be known as “The Voice of St. Louis.” The station, later assigned the call letters KMOX, began broadcasting on Christmas Eve. www.newspapers.com/article/st-l... #stlouis #radio

Copy of part of a story published by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on Sept. 23, 1925, announcing plans by nine St. Louis businesses, including the newspaper, to launch a powerful radio station in time for Christmas. A full version of the story, “Plans Completed for Giant Radio Broadcasting Station to Be Erected in St. Louis,” can be found in the accompanying link.