“Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.”

A St. Louis real estate broker says an organization denied her the opportunity to purchase land in an Arkansas development because of her Jewish ancestry, and because she has a Black husband and biracial children, according to a federal lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

This critical look, published in 1976, may help explain what went wrong: “It seems in St. Louis that new development doesn’t have to be suitable for the city environment. The environment must be changed to suit the developer. And this seems to be open spaces and the suburbanization of the city.”

Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two police officers who clashed with rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have sued Donald Trump over plans to create a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Income tax returns, for a time, were public information. If they still were, the public would have already known how little Trump was paying. No leak, no lawsuit and no Trump-controlled slush fund. (Here’s a free story about the leaker, an ex-St. Louisan.) www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...

Income tax returns, for a time, were public information. If they still were, the public would have already known how little Trump was paying. No leak, no lawsuit and no Trump-controlled slush fund. (Here’s a free story about the leaker, an ex-St. Louisan.) www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...

“Weiss, the founder of the pro-Israel blog The Free Press …” 😳 newrepublic.com/post/210621/...

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

The agreement the Justice Department made with the president to settle his lawsuit against the IRS includes a provision barring the agency from pursuing tax claims against President Trump, his family or his businesses. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

The United Nations is considering how to respond to Israel’s announcement that it will build a military complex on the former UNWRA headquarters in east Jerusalem. apnews.com/article/isra...

“Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments.... They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre.” (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

The Trump administration announced on Monday the establishment of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department, creating a potential pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

“The police board…was appointed by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe. It was one of the most disappointing acts of his tenure. He didn’t appoint a single member with any background in criminology. Instead, it’s more or less a group of businessmen who are friends with cops” www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news...

The woman credited with launching the “Better Baby Movement” in the early 20th century was for a time a leading St. Louis social activist and proponent of eugenics. rwklose.com/2026/02/08/s...

Old photographs from my first visit to St. Louis, 50 years ago, captured riverfront attractions such as the American Freedom Train, which came for the nation’s bicentennial. Other photos include the Buder, International and Title Guaranty buildings, which no longer exist. rwklose.com/2026/05/16/s...

“Most Americans are not simply turning against the president but are increasingly desperate to move past the Trump era altogether.” (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

In the eight months since the airstrikes began, the US has not provided any evidence that any of the 194 victims were involved in drug trafficking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Palestinians in Gaza mark the 78th anniversary of the Nabka. Today’s catastrophe is much worse, they say. “There is no country left.” apnews.com/article/nakb... #gaza #palestine

The twangy jingle produced by Kars4Kids will no longer be broadcast in California, at least in its current form, after a state judge determined last week the charity’s ads amounted to false advertising. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Residents report feeling disregarded, discarded & forgotten. David Jackson said on one block, almost everyone is gone. He said Spencer should quit talking about recovery. “North St. Louis doesn’t want to hear it. There’s a question about her credibility.” www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Through twilight-hour shifts, President Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. trib.al/PhHqu5y

House Minority Leader Ashley Aune called Rep. Brian Seitz “a sad little man cosplaying as Superman when he’s not busy controlling women’s bodies.” Seitz, who regularly wears ties with the Superman logo, responded by accusing Aune of “satanic mockery.” 👹 missouriindependent.com/2026/05/13/m...

Why would any Roman Catholic prelate participate in this? apnews.com/article/trum...

The “majority-minority” House districts struck down by the US Supreme Court last month sent a surge of Black and Hispanic lawmakers to Congress in the early 1990s. But they also allowed Republicans to grab control of the House. (Gift article from The New York Times.) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/u...

“When there are no consequences, we humans are capable of immense depravity.” (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Letting a source -- especially one as powerful as Netanyahu -- choose his interviewer is one of the worst things an editor can do. And for a list of Other Worst Things an Editor Can Do, just google "Bari" and "CBS" nypost.com/2026/05/12/m...

Israeli drones struck three vehicles on the main highway south of Beirut Wednesday, killing eight people, including a woman and her two children. Since a “ceasefire” went into effect, 380 people have been killed and 1,122 have been wounded. apnews.com/article/leba...

Rural support for Trump and the GOP slides as tariffs, immigration policies, and high fuel prices take a toll. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-farm... by @nberlat.bsky.social

A disturbing look into how Cara Spencer’s administration fumbled the city’s response to the May 16 tornado. Good job, @stlpublicradio.bsky.social www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Rex Sinquefield and Americans for Prosperity are behind Kehoe’s push to eliminate the Missouri state income tax. All you need to know. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

The Justice Department folded like a cheap tent, but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is still on the case. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

The Guardian: The claims Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made about voter turnout in Louisiana were based on a misleading data analysis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WALTER BAILEY: “Dr. King took a bullet in the neck. They were shot. Killed. Murdered. Advancing voting rights… it’s an insult to their legacy. To their deaths.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn SenJohnson BrentTaylorTN #Memphis

This is insane. The GOP's newly proposed TN Congressional maps would have people in Shelby County all the way to Williamson County—200+ miles apart—being "represented" by the same Congressman. It's a blatant, corrupt power grab that would destroy the Black community's and our entire city's voice.

The thing nobody wants to say out loud is getting harder to ignore: Kansas City’s World Cup is shaping up to be a bust. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Poster boys for men’s health unite to promote physical fitness.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered. It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“The problem is not that we lack infrastructure. The problem is not that we lack skill. The problem is that people don’t believe the state anymore. And that’s a much, much deeper problem that no amount of money is going to repair.” forward.com/fast-forward... #israel

Despite the “ceasefire,” the killing continues in Lebanon ... apnews.com/article/leba...

“Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit. But what we should all be afraid of is silence.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

The US Justice Department has rolled back several significant restrictions on guns, including reinstating the so-called “gun show loophole,” which allowed people at such events to buy firearms without a background check. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What could go wrong? www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

“When he isn’t killing, he’s collecting.”

Our view of the world is now shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don’t see. apnews.com/article/germ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington correspondent Wallace R. Deuel warned 75 years ago that a “Red flood” was threatening to overtake Iran and its vast oil reserves unless the US acted. Deuel went to work for the CIA in 1953, the same year as the US-backed Iranian coup d’état. #iran #cia #stlouis

“Trump’s corruption … is so vast as to be a new phenomenon in American politics. The president and his family have leveraged his office to the tune of nearly $4 billion.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Opposition to arms sales to Israel builds in the US Senate, a sign of growing unease with Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership. Illinois’ Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin back resolutions to block sales of bulldozers and bombs; Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt oppose. apnews.com/article/isra...