Missouri Bootheel prosecutor coerced a confession by warning the accused that he might be lynched rwklose.com/2025/07/29/i...
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“The process to engage in force-feeding is quick and secretive.... In six of the cases reviewed by the Guardian, detained immigrants did not have any legal representation during the court proceedings.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed
Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation
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Missouri lawmakers enacted gun control and abolished the death penalty — in 1917 rwklose.com/2023/03/31/t...
Missouri voters suspended and overturned a redistricting law in 1922, but Republicans now argue the people no longer have that power.
Hoskins rejects signatures, calls Missouri gerrymandering referendum illegal
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United Democracy Project, a committee affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has spent more than $30 million since June in support of Haley Stevens and against Abdul El-Sayed, according to Federal Election Commission records. apnews.com/article/mich...
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Michigan’s state primary
Michigan voters will decide a competitive Democratic U.S. Senate primary Tuesday in a contest that will have major implications for control of the chamber next year.
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Across the US, progressives are upending Democratic primary races. Will it happen in Missouri? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Across the US, progressives are upending Democratic primary races. Will it happen in Missouri?
On Tuesday, voters will choose between ex-congresswoman Cori Bush, or pro-Israel incumbent Wesley Bell
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Statehouse corruption is the reason Missourians fought for the right to amend their constitution rwklose.com/2024/01/20/t...
Statehouse corruption is the reason Missourians fought for the right to amend their constitution
“It is useless to simply change the men in office. It is the system itself, the real source of corruption, that must be changed.” — Dr. William Preston Hill.
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Granite City voters elected a Socialist as mayor in 1911; he immediately put a stop to police brutality rwklose.com/2023/03/14/k...
As progressive candidates take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factor. Abdul-El-Sayed: “We’re in an era of historical inequality. Most faith traditions — certainly the Abrahamic faith traditions — put a lot more burden on the wealthy.” apnews.com/article/prog...
As progressives seek to take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factor
Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says his Muslim faith shapes his progressive views.
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As Trump asked, “What kind of animals would do such a thing?” bsky.app/profile/cnn....
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
“A growing body of evidence … suggests the audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms (Gift Article)
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Trump: “There has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history” as the January 6 insurrectionists.
Fringe Israeli settler group is sneaking into Syria to try to claim land for a Jewish outpost apnews.com/article/isra...
Fringe Israeli settler group is sneaking into Syria to try to claim land for a Jewish outpost
Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border.
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As Trump’s popularity tanks, worried Republicans latch onto the DSA’s new platform to scare voters. Will it work? apnews.com/article/demo...
Republicans decry a new Democratic Socialists of America platform as Dem primaries split the party
A new platform from the progressive Democratic Socialists of America is sparking Republican attacks.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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“We are all held hostage by a regime in the US that has pressed its military and economic prowess in service of ego and ignorance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Bush-Bell rematch serves as “one of the clearest referendums on Democrats’ shifting political landscape, including anger at the party establishment, rising skepticism of the US alliance with Israel and the growing clout of democratic socialists.” apnews.com/article/miss...
Cori Bush and Wesley Bell's rematch sets up key test for Democrats in Missouri
Former Rep. Cori Bush, outside the courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued, promises to reverse her ouster from Congress.
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Who’s funding the campaign to scrap Missouri’s income tax? Supporters aren’t saying www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Who's funding the campaign to scrap Missouri's income tax? Supporters aren't saying
The campaign pushing for the income tax phaseout in Amendment 5 has accepted over $15 million in secretive contributions.
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New: Missouri is suing Kansas City over a women & minority contracting program using a plaintiff who was sentenced for paying bribes for contracts. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office defended that decision this week. #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri AG defends plaintiff in KC lawsuit who was previously sentenced for bribery
Hanaway brought the suit alongside Charles Cacioppo Jr., who was previously at the center of a federal criminal probe related to contracts.
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How two socialist brothers helped automate America’s hardest job asteriskmag.substack.com/p/how-two-so... via asteriskmag.com
How two socialist brothers helped automate America’s hardest job
Revisiting the forgotten inventors of the cotton picker.
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JUST IN: The 30-year US Treasury yield just surged to 5.18%, its highest level in 19 years. The last time it was this high was 2007, right before the financial crisis. Back then, the national debt was $8.4 trillion. Today it’s $39.4 trillion. Same interest rate. Almost 5 times the debt.
“When a government describes citizens as a cancer, it has written the first line of a treatment plan.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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Unhinged. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBenny Johnson tells an agreeing Sen. Eric Schmitt that "the left is setting themselves up, they're training, they're ready to try and stage a mass slaughter event" "Yeah," Schmitt replies. "They're drawing federal officers out and then they have snipers."
“What we have seen unfold in Gaza ... appears to portend a new future for the crime. It is a future in which other nations or leaders may have an incentive to pursue genocidal policies knowing they will not only get away with murder but may even benefit from it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza (Gift Article)
Israel has not been held accountable for its actions in Gaza. The nation and the individuals and countries enabling it to escape punishment may only benefit.
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US national debt just hit an all-time high of $39.5 trillion. $11 trillion of America’s debt was added while President Trump was in office. That’s 28% of the entire national debt, more dollars added than under any other U.S. president in history.
