#tdih 1951 Thousands of white people rioted after a young Black couple moved into an apartment in Cicero, Illinois, west of Chicago. They firebombed the building, overturned police cars, and threw stones at firefighters who tried to put out the fire. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ci...

“He is a bigoted bully. He picks on vulnerable people — women, immigrants — but picking on 5-year-olds, it’s so low, even for him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

“No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

The Homeland Security Department told employers on Friday that they must let go in coming weeks the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who have been allowed to live in the US through a humanitarian program the Trump administration has sought to dismantle. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...

At least 21 people have been shot by federal immigration agents since last year. Five people, including three US citizens, were killed as a result of those shootings, nearly all of which involved officers firing at people in vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

A specter is haunting Donald Trump — the specter of communism. “Oh my goodness, we’re so back!” peoplesworld.org/article/the-... via @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social

Nearly a million investors lost a total of $3.8B on Trump’s crypto coin while he walked away with a $636 million payout on the same crypto bet. [gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Independence Day.

How embarrassing. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Former Gov. Mike Parson used the state airplane for personal business, including more than 50 trips to his hometown during his final two years in office, according to a new report by the Missouri auditor’s office. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Frederick Douglass: “I know of no greater misfortunes to individuals than an overconfidence in their own perfections, and I know of fewer misfortunes that can happen to a nation greater than an overconfidence in the perfection of its government.” rwklose.com/2023/06/19/a...

“Palestine has been really front and center. It used to be that politicians on the broader left could be progressive on many issues except for Palestine, but that’s really not the case anymore.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“When Hegseth took charge, he slashed the size of an office called the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, created at the direction of Congress in late 2022. That stopped the office’s work on updating ‘no-strike lists’ ….” apnews.com/article/iran...

Hey look, Wesley Bell’s here … www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

I’m no fan of media consolidation, but it’s kind of funny that some of local radio’s biggest losers may end up in the same “family” as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

What happens when Trump is gone and Republicans are no longer in charge? Will they come to regret their role in expanding the powers of the presidency? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

“An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (DOGE) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites … in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“We’re seeing a very aggressive ideological civil war going on in the far right.” One side is aligned with the Trump administration and includes Christian Zionists. On the other side are anti-interventionist Christian nationalists who feel betrayed by MAGA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"They want to fight as much as possible to avoid transparency." www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

JD Vance redefines “crazy.” bsky.app/profile/atru...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Meanwhile, checking in on the circus in St. Louis County: “You cool down, you cool down, you cool down. I’m already cool. I don’t have to cool down.”

Israel deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children during the ‌Gaza war, including after a ceasefire came into effect ‌in October 2025, a UN commission said in a report on Tuesday. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The American Revolution through the eyes of seven everyday founders. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Pentagon says it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the US war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump. apnews.com/article/iran...

Another newspaper building bites the dust. www.commercialappeal.com/picture-gall...

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed at least 16 people, including two children, hours after reports emerged of a ceasefire agreement. apnews.com/article/iran...

The extent of Trump's destruction of Washington, D.C., is truly stunning. It's the ultimate metaphor. The algae-infested Reflecting Pool. The destroyed grass from the UFC event. The bulldozed East Wing grounds. "86 47" etched into the lawn near the Reflecting Pool. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

“The people are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves ...” #juneteenth

“People are tired of hearing what government can’t do.” apnews.com/article/demo...

“Paxton is perhaps the purest distillation of the modern Republican philosophy that the law is a tool, shame is for losers, and the only thing that matters is using the machinery of your office to hurt your enemies and dominate the news cycle.” www.publicnotice.co/p/ken-paxton...

Among Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America has a higher net favorable rating than Democrats in Congress. Socialism is now viewed more favorably than capitalism. www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/u...

Trump’s war really did end with an unconditional surrender after all!

Trump is quite a dealmaker. 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children? TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.

Israel has leveled entire villages inside the “yellow line,” a 608 sq km area occupied by Israel along the Lebanese-Israeli border. At least 46 south Lebanese villages have suffered heavy damage, most of it caused by demolitions since the April 17 ceasefire. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

“If our lawmakers fail us.” #economy #politics #inflation

The US government has intervened on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI in a legal dispute over a $20 billion data center in Memphis, claiming that efforts to block a related power project threaten national security. aje.news/05vzux

“The US establishment press continues to fail us at every key metric — and at every pivotal moment — that actually matters. We desperately have to untether US media from corporate power … and rebuild it into a public service institution managed by actual journalists.” karlbode.com/the-spacex-i...

“... as empires begin to die of misrule, their rulers build monuments, a hopeful lie to fool future historians. All the swagger stems from a fear of losing power, of becoming yesterday’s news, and being swallowed into the slipstream of history.” tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-rom...

Iran’s top diplomat said Tuesday that the deal ending the war with the US also requires Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. “Without the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories they occupied during this war, the war has not fully come to an end.” apnews.com/article/iran...

“If Trump and Netanyahu had set out to demonstrate the futility of war, they could not have staged it better.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Netanyahu’s grand strategy against Iran has failed. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/w...

On this day 75 years ago, the St. Louis Star-Times published its final edition. “It is unfortunate when any good newspaper retires from the field because the public cannot be too well informed,” the St. Louis Globe-Democrat said in an editorial.

It speaks volumes about the extremism of the Trump administration that Missouri’s Will Scharf would emerge as a voice of reason. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

“The economic conditions necessary for any Palestinian future other than permanent subjugation are being dismantled.” apnews.com/article/isra...

Israel is bombing Beirut suburbs. The strikes threaten ongoing efforts to negotiate an end to the US-Iran war. apnews.com/article/iran...

“America and the world are in for a frightening two years. Trump has too much power for someone with so little connection to reality. Age is making Trump an even more dangerous president.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“The most American thing about the American Revolution was its revolutionary claim that belonging need not be fixed by birth, blood, or station, that citizenship could be chosen, extended, and remade.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Vantor … is a prime contractor to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, holding a follow-on award worth $70 million under the agency’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program, which serves more than 400,000 U.S. government users.” dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...