Videos contradict Trump administration account of ICE shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.

Rarely do the wealthy have a sense of community anymore

St. Louis’ American treasure www.stlamerican.com/news/local-n...

“If the United States were to choose to attack another NATO country, then everything would come to an end. The international community as we know it … would collapse if one NATO country chose to attack another.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

I was in a play in 4th grade and my mother saved the local newspaper story about the performance. Therefore, if I got control of a big newspaper chain, I’d definitely boost coverage of grade school theater! www.stlmag.com/news/hoffman...

The New York Times and The Washington Post learned in advance about the planned U.S. military action in Venezuela but held off reporting on it. apnews.com/article/vene...

The ouster of Nicolás Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer. popular.info/p/venezuela-...

“There is no linear Trump foreign policy, just a catherine wheel of disconnected explosions thrown out across the night sky.” www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

This notorious St. Louis high school grad’s appearance at a journalism conference in 1926 did not go unnoticed. rwklose.com/2025/12/31/e...

Trump shared multiple videos he falsely claimed showed Venezuelans celebrating the U.S. kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. One actually shows UCLA students participating in the “Undie Run,” a quarterly tradition during which students run in their underwear during finals week. apnews.com/article/fact...

“The entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence. He likes to claim immediate economic paybacks.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

“We write for our lives. We write for our loved ones’ lives. We write for our fellow human beings’ lives. We are drowning in a cacophony of words and images, and still somehow we write.” anthonyted.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Twenty-five years after it was published, the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted a sweeping scientific paper ghost-written by Monsanto scientists assessing the safety of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate.

What did political polarization look like before the Civil War? Consider the fate of a Missouri newspaper whose courageous owners condemned the invasion of Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians. pdowns.substack.com

Mr. Trump’s warmongering violates the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

“This Boeing contract sends a clear message that U.S. defense contractors and foreign governments can profit from Israel’s crimes against humanity without consequence. It is a reward for genocide, paid for by American taxpayers.” www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...

“President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.... Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Story: apnews.com/article/trum...

Lowering expectations. #christmas

75 years ago, Collier’s publishes a two-part feature on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, emphasizing the daily newspaper’s independence and integrity. “An editor must have no friends” is the headline of the second installment. #stlouis #journalism

A former close aide to Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach. apnews.com/article/isra...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

JD Vance channels the Klan at Turning Point rally: “In the United States of America you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” bsky.app/profile/atru...

Israel pushes ahead with a construction binge in the West Bank, further threatening the possibility of a Palestinian state. In Gaza City, a baby is baptized. apnews.com/article/isra... #palestine

In 1950, around the time radioactive waste was moved to north St. Louis County, the Post-Dispatch republished a National Security Resources Board booklet on surviving an A-bomb blast. It minimized radiation’s long-term effects. www.orau.org/health-physi... A timeline: rwklose.com/st-louis-ato...

If you’re frustrated by a lack of details about the Reiner murders or the Brown U. shooting, realize that responsible media would rather be right than first. They don’t want to be like the Washington Post, which ID'd a “person of interest” by name in the Brown case shortly before his release. 1/2 🧵

“Good luck finding a news article on this merger that is objective, not mostly propaganda.” Ouch. greatstateofstlouis.com/2025/12/14/h...

German immigrant Otto Brandenburger sold “toys, fancy goods & notions,” as well as cigars and tobacco, from this business and residence at 515 S. Broadway. His sister, Wilhemina, was a “sales lady” there; she could be the woman in the second-story window. They left for Los Angeles around 1902-1903.

Why Israel’s state institutions have become increasingly aligned with — and at times directly complicit in — violent settler actions against Palestinians. theconversation.com/west-bank-vi... by @aperliger.bsky.social via @theconversation.com #palestine

“Hoosiers don’t cheat.” 😀 apnews.com/article/indi...

St. Louis in 1950 was gearing up for a potential A-bomb attack. As a major railroad center, the city was seen as a prime target and Union Station was likely ground zero. A study conservatively estimated 50,000 would die. A link to the full story -> www.newspapers.com/article/st-l... #atomic #stlouis

A politically connected company that runs illegal gambling machines is a top sponsor of a fundraiser for St. Louis police and firefighters. Because Missouri ... www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

75 years ago, President Harry S Truman responded to a music critic’s review of his daughter’s recital by threatening to beat him up: “Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!” #missouri

75 years ago, President Harry S Truman responded to a music critic’s review of his daughter’s recital by threatening to beat him up: “Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!” #missouri

A politically connected company that runs illegal gambling machines is a top sponsor of a fundraiser for St. Louis police and firefighters. Because Missouri ... www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

“If you believe a Palestinian child is equal in dignity and worth to an Israeli or American child, it is no longer possible to support this Israeli government while hiding behind platitudes about peace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o... by @rhodesben.bsky.social

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president? SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad

John Roberts “has shunned the role of neutral umpire and instead spearheaded a rightwing judicial revolution that took a wrecking ball to many precedents, laws and institutions. Some have called him the worst chief justice since Roger Taney.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The military has not said what type of aircraft launched the first strike, and it is not known if the survivors could have identified it. But officials who have watched the video said it is also not clear if the survivors even knew the initial explosion was an attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

A reminder: More than 150,000 Missourians are at risk of losing some amount of food aid because of the new federal work requirement approved this year by the Republican-led Congress and signed into law by President Trump. kffhealthnews.org/news/article... by Samantha Liss of @kffhealthnews.org

More than a year after Missouri voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution, the vast majority of Missourians seeking the procedure are still traveling out of state. @michelemunz.bsky.social explains why. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...

Residents of eastern Congo said fighting has intensified despite a peace agreement that was signed by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents in Washington, D.C., with President Donald Trump in attendance. apnews.com/article/cong...

St Louis Mayor Spencer FR- at a venue paid for by public school children via tax abatement- makes me so angry. And I have called out electeds that I like for using such venues, not just picking on her. Incestuous relationships between electeds & corporate welfare queens is an awful way to run govt.

“The rightful owners will ultimately prevail and will restore the U.S. Institute of Peace and the building to their statutory purposes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Just weeks after a Waymo vehicle killed a Mission District bodega cat, KitKat, another Waymo hit a small unleashed dog elsewhere in San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2025/12/waym...

True then, true now. theweek.com/speedreads/8...

Trump: "I think affordability is the greatest con job."

Many European leaders worry that if Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine, he will have free rein to threaten their countries, which already have faced incursions from Russian drones and fighter jets, and an alleged widespread sabotage campaign. apnews.com/article/russ...

“The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.” apnews.com/article/sett... #palestine