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[LeGoat @stakslk]

Yall gotta watch this shit…….

😭 I think we are days away from a government overthrow. Never in my days I seen blood like this 😭

[Mark Maxwell @MarkMaxwellTV]

I asked Mayor Spencer, a longtime Tyus colleague, whether she buys the "analogy" explanation for "I would put a bullet in your head."

"No matter what was meant by it, it was just absolutely inappropriate. There is no world in which that is appropriate rhetoric."

[Vanguard WWII @Vanguard_WW2]

🇺🇸 An American hero

The Army had pulled him out of the infantry.

Two years later, on a Pacific island, thousands of Japanese soldiers broke through the American line and closed on his aid tent.

Inside were more than 30 wounded men. He ordered them to leave. Then he stayed behind.

What American troops later discovered at his position would take the United States 58 years to recognize.

His name was Ben Salomon.

Before the war, he had been a young dentist in California. Drafted as an infantry private in 1940, he qualified as an expert with both rifle and pistol, rose to sergeant, and took command of a machine-gun section.

His commander called him "the best all-around soldier" in the regiment.

But when the Army learned he was a dentist, it transferred him to the Dental Corps. Salomon tried to remain in the infantry. His request was denied.

On July 7, 1944, between 3,000 and 5,000 Japanese troops struck the American lines on Saipan.

Within minutes, Salomon’s small aid tent was filled with wounded men.

Then he saw a Japanese soldier bayoneting one of his patients. Salomon shot him.

Two more burst through the entrance. Four others crawled beneath the canvas. Salomon fought them with a rifle, a bayonet, and his bare hands.

Then he ordered everyone who could still move to leave. He picked up a rifle and stepped outside. That was the last time anyone saw him alive.

When American troops recovered the position, they found Salomon collapsed over a heavy machine gun whose four-man crew had been killed.

Ninety-eight Japanese soldiers lay dead in front of him.

His body bore 76 bullet wounds. Blood on the ground showed that, even after being hit, he had dragged the gun repeatedly to regain a clear field of fire.

He had stayed behind to buy his patients time.

His Medal of Honor was initially rejected because he was a medical officer wearing a Red Cross armband. It was finally awarded in 2002.

The Army had made him a dentist. Saipan revealed the infantryman he had never stopped being.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Saddam told Arabic magazine Usbu al-Arabi in September 1975 he wanted to build a nuclear bomb. His number one target: Israel.

Two months later, on November 18, 1975, Baghdad signed a deal with the French to build a nuclear reactor at Osirak. One provision in that contract: no one of the “Jewish race or Mosaic religion” would be permitted to work on the reactors in France or in Iraq. Not Israelis. Not French Jews. Not dual nationals. Paris accepted it.

The first fuel France agreed to supply Saddam was weapons-grade. They were on the path to plutonium. Osirak was never a civilian plant that “might later be diverted.” It was a weapons program with a commercial paper that banned Jews from the job site.

But Saddam did not get the bomb. On June 7, 1981, Israel destroyed the reactor before it went critical. The UN condemned the raid. Almost nobody quoted the 1975 interview. Almost nobody read the clause.

The interview was in Arabic.
The contract was in French.
The raid was in Hebrew.

[CityScene STL @CitySceneSTL]

While outsiders, like this user, encourage people to leave, slow and steady progress is being made on rebuilding the City everyday.

I do my best to spotlight it as time allows, but if the options are “run away” or navigate the challenges and rebuild, always choose “rebuild”.

[Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @Mazelit_]

My name is Margarita "Rita" Gusak, and I was a 21-year-old Jew-ish woman killed by Hamas on October 7th.

I was an painter, model, & aspiring medical student.

I came to Israel fleeing Russia. But where I sought safety: Hamas found me and took my life.

Will you remember me?

[Holly Baylor @HollyBaylorMLB]

BREAKING: MLB has suspended umpire Doug Eddings for the remainder of the 2026 season, including the entire postseason, per sources.

The decision comes after Eddings’ controversial performance during Friday’s Cardinals-Rockies game, which included ordering rookie Hancel Rincón to straighten his hat during his MLB debut, issuing a pitch-clock violation during the ensuing dispute, ejecting Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol and later making a heavily criticized safe call at home plate.

MLB officials reportedly reviewed the sequence overnight and determined Eddings’ conduct did not meet league standards.

Eddings will be eligible to return in 2027.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC DISTRESSING FOOTAGE ⚠️

A terrorist from Gaza near Kibbutz Oz sawed off the heads of Israelis he and his fellow jihadists murdered, and took the heads as trophies. CNN were so repulsed by the footage that they couldn’t even air it all.

Just let that sink in.

It is reminiscent of the Predator movies where the alien takes heads as trophies.

Several jihadists beheaded and dismembered Israelis by instructions from Hamas’s leaders.

One documented incident was that of 19-year-old IDF Sgt. Adir Tahar, killed near the Erez crossing. His body was recovered without the head. His father, David Tahar, publicly described months of searching. Shin Bet interrogations of captured militants produced information that one had tried to sell an IDF soldier’s head for $10,000. An elite IDF unit then recovered the head from a bag inside a refrigerator in an ice-cream shop in Palestine Square, Gaza City. DNA and dental records confirmed it was Tahar’s.

Never ever forget what they did.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

HAMAS BURNED THIS CHILD ALIVE AND THEN SHOT HIM

On October 7, 2023, 14-year-old Ido Even was in his home on Kibbutz Be’eri with his parents and three brothers. Hamas terrorists from Gaza came and set the family’s home on fire, forcing them outside. Ido and his family hid nearby in the bushes, but the Gaza terrorists eventually found them and executed them with their AK 47s.

Ido was murdered, along with his parents, Rinat and Chen, and his 16-year-old brother Alon.

His two younger brothers, Tomer and Nir, survived. Their family members had shielded them with their very own bodies.

Ido was a soccer fan, a Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter, and played for the Eshkol regional team. Only months earlier, he had celebrated his Bar Mitzvah.

His gravestone reads:

“Charming. Witty. Brilliant.”

He was 14 years old.

May his memory be a blessing.

[henri @Henrizakaria]

50 years have passed since this photo was taken.

Palestinian terrorists stormed the Christian town of Damour in Lebanon and killed 582 Christian civilians.

A priest who survived described it as “the end of the world.”

He said: “They came by the thousands, shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar! Kill them for the Arabs. Let us offer a sacrifice to Muhammad!’ They slaughtered everyone in their path: men, women and children.”

Men were lined up against their homes and shot. Women were tortured and repeatedly raped. Infants were shot in the back of the head. Fetuses were torn from pregnant women’s wombs.

This was one of many massacres by Palestinian terrorists against Christians.

Share so the world knows. #FuckPalestine

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

100%

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“When they came to tell us that Hersh had been executed, then I realized that those 330 days had been the good part, because he was alive. And now I'm in this place... How do I walk through this place without a piece of me here?” says Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son was executed by Hamas in 2024. https://t.co/dTTbxMj0RH

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

Got this death threat Monday.

Note. I've already relocated — at police advice — due to a state-sponsored death threat from an Islamic group. Who had my address.

I've tried contacting police for 2 days. No response.

Does that make you wonder if authorities don't want me alive?

[SnowflakeSlayer @SnowflakeSlayr1]

From True Stories on Facebook:

Jeremy Glick was 31 when hijackers seized Flight 93 and threatened to blow it up. He called his wife, told her he loved her, learned the plane was part of a larger attack, and then helped organize the passengers to storm the cockpit.

Glick had no weapon.

He was not a soldier.

He was a sales manager, a husband and the father of a three-month-old daughter.

He was also a former national collegiate judo champion and black belt.

On September 11, 2001, Glick was flying from Newark to San Francisco for business.

Then the hijacking began.

The passengers were forced toward the back of the Boeing 757.

A hijacker claimed there was a bomb.

Another had a knife.

Glick called his mother-in-law's home and asked for his wife, Lyzbeth.

When she came on the line, he told her what was happening.

Then he told her something even worse.

He had learned about the attacks on the World Trade Center.

The plane wasn't simply being hijacked.

The passengers realized the aircraft could be turned into a weapon.

Glick told Lyzbeth that he and several other men were considering rushing the hijackers.

He asked what she thought.

She told him to do what he had to do.

Then the passengers began voting.

Fight back.

Or wait.

The decision was made.

They were going to take the cockpit.

Glick remained on the phone with his wife as the plan developed.

He told her he loved her.

Then the passengers moved.

Glick, Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham and others rushed toward the hijackers.

The cockpit voice recorder captured the struggle.

The plane began pitching violently.

At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Everyone aboard died.

But the plane never reached its intended target.

The 9/11 Commission concluded that the passengers' actions prevented the hijackers from completing their mission.

Glick's wife was left with their three-month-old daughter, Emmy.

He had called her knowing he might not come home.

He had told her he loved her.

Then he went forward.

Jeremy Glick boarded Flight 93 expecting a business trip.

Less than an hour later, he was deciding whether to fight four armed hijackers at 30,000 feet.

He knew the odds.

He knew there was a bomb.

He knew the plane was probably going to be used to kill more people.

And he still went.

He was 31.

He never came home.

But Flight 93 never reached its target.

[Sarah Adv @Sarahsa09309757]

Elle s’appelait Yulia. Regardez son visage.

Le 7 octobre, elle campait sur la plage de Zikim avec son compagnon lorsque les terroristes du Hamas ont attaqué. Elle a couru se réfugier dans un abri avec d’autres civils.

Yulia se trouvait juste devant l’entrée. Elle a été la première à recevoir les grenades et les rafales des terroristes.

Elle fut l’une des premières victimes du massacre du 7 octobre.

N’oubliez jamais Yulia. N’oubliez jamais ce qu’ils ont fait.

[Miklasz @b_miklasz]

EMERGENCY BERNIE COLUMN

Re: Joshua Baez.

The Cardinals are promoting top slugging prospect Joshua Baez to the big club. He will be in the starting lineup Saturday at Wrigley Field.

Here’s a little primer to update anyone who wants to catch up on recent developments, and how Baez, age 23, navigated his way to the majors in 2026 after impressing everyone at spring training with a massive display of power.

En Fuego: After a troubling slump – more on that later – here’s what Baez has done for Triple A Memphis in his last 15 games and 65 plate appearances since July 24.

It’s impressive: .345 batting average, .415 onbase percentage, and .707 slugging percentage for a 1.122 OPS. Chaim Bloom was impressed.

Bash, Smash, and Swipe: Baez leads all minor-league hitters (every level) with 34 home runs this season. He’s stacked up 90 RBIs, a combined 25 doubles-triples, and 21 stolen bases in 24 attempts. His slugging percentage for the season is .573, and that’s backed up with a .901 OPS.

Improved Plate Discipline: In his last 15 games Baez had a strikeout rate of 24.6 percent, a major decrease from his usual range of 30 to 33 percent. His walk rate, too low for most of the season, was a healthy 11 percent over his last 65 plate appearances.

The Baez chase rate, which had been as high as 37 percent, was 28 percent over the last 15 games. And his contact rate on strikes just under 80 percent over this time – represents strong improvement. Baez has cut down on chasing pitches out of the strike zone, and that’s an important step.

Proving He Can Handle Adversity: Baez had clobbered Triple A pitching all season as the schedule entered July. That’s when it all turned, and Baez suddenly staggered into an extreme slump.

In 60 plate appearances beginning July 3, Baez hit .096, slugged .173, had a .373 OPS, and lapsed into a 33.3 percent strikeout rate. He was lost. Could he find his way back? Yes.

After this bleak 13-game stretch that tested his confidence, Baez rebounded with aplomb – going directly into the blazing hot streak that began July 24. This was an incredibly positive sign that undoubtedly convinced Bloom and his group that Baez had the composure to put himself back together after cracking.

Slowing His Swing? Before seriously considering a promotion, the Cardinals wanted Baez to post a higher contact rate on pitches in the strike zone and reduce his terrible habit of swinging at too many non-strikes.

From what I was told, the Cards also wanted to recalibrate his bat movement by slowing his swing. Baez has very good bat speed, but he needed to adjust to offspeed and breaking pitches and still get a good swing on them.

When a bat moves fast, a hitter is vulnerable to those breaking balls and offspeed stuff. His fast bat was already through the zone, and that made it virtually impossible for him to get to slower pitches – and looping, curving pitches.

The answer: slow the swing a little to have time to react and put a swing on the ball. A bat that’s slower through the zone can also lead to better pitch recognition. And that will lead to less chase, more walks, and fewer strikeouts. It wasn’t an easy process. But the objective was to turn Baez into a more capable all-around hitter.

Baez To the Rescue In Left Field? In terms of offensive production and value, the left-field position is one of the weakest areas of the Cardinals’ lineup. Before Friday’s 3-0 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field, here’s where STL’s group of left fielders collectively ranked among the 30 teams in some key offensive categories:

– wRC+: 89, or 11% below league average offensively.

– .237 batting average, 22nd.

– .298 onbase%, 26th.

– .380 slugging%, tied for 20th.

– .143 Isolated Power, 18th

– 13 home runs.

Here’s the cast the Cardinals have used in left field, listed in order of most plate appearances: Lars Nootbaar (133), Nathan Church (109), Jose Fermin (78), Bryan Torres (68), Nelson Velazquez (43), Thomas Saggese (41), Everson Pereira (6).

Yes, Baez will be the 8th left fielder used by the Cardinals in 2026. It helps that he bats right-handed.

The Cardinals’ right-handed hitting left fielders had combined for only 4 homers, a .225 average, .293 OBP, .371 slug and a .664 OPS in 168 plate appearances.

If he performs solidly -- or reasonably well -- Baez will bring some muscle and boom-boom to the collection of mediocre talent in left field.

The Plusses: the Baez swing generates high-quality contact. This season he ranks in the top two percent of minor-league hitters in exit velocity and hard-hit rate, and the top one percent of barrel rate, and the top five percent for pull-air contact. He has the lethal ability to pull pitches into the air for extensive wreckage to a pitcher’s ERA.

The Concerns: Baez has made progress, but he still has a lot to prove in the difficult challenge of making contact. He’ll face the kind of pitching he hasn’t seen before. And speciality pitches – like those frisbee sweepers and split-finger snake balls – and it won’t be easy.

Baez has crushed fastballs this season: 22 homers, .618 slug, just a 21.7% strikeout rate and a 51.5% hard-hit rate. He’s done reasonably well against offspeed offerings and breaking pitches – banging 12 home runs and slugging .508. But with that power comes a lot of strikeouts on the offspeed-breaking stuff – we’re talking a 39% strikeout rate and a whiff-swing rate of 42%.

And if Baez shows he can hit big-league fastballs, pitchers will try to confound him with the slower stuff, and the pitches that move horizontally.

The Immediate Takeaway: This is the first player-development triumph for the Chaim Bloom Regime. His group fixed a drowning Baez early in his Double A season in 2025, and transformed him into the kind of power hitter that marched his way into the majors after only 103 Triple A games.

This is exciting. Good luck to Joshua Baez. Cardinals fans are fired up to have him here. This will add entertainment – and intrigue – to the final weeks of the 2026 season.

One request for Baez?

Go ahead. Hit that first major-league home run at Wrigley Field. As the late, great Mike Shannon might say: Go pay a visit to Waveland Avenue, big boy!

Thanks for reading, and pardon my typos!

–Bernie

[Mark Maxwell @MarkMaxwellTV]

Groups Cori Bush blamed for her loss: 8
Times she accepted responsibility: 0

Bush targets include:
A "smear campaign"
Republicans
Billionaires
Respectability politics
Local journalists
"Bamboozled" voters
AIPAC
Corporations

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — August 5, 1973

Two Palestinian Black September terrorists walked into the transit lounge of Athens’ Hellinikon Airport & opened fire with submachine guns and grenades.

They came to murder civilian passengers bound for Israel.

They hit the wrong line.

Instead of the Tel Aviv flight, they attacked travelers waiting for a TWA plane to New York. In less than two minutes, the lounge was filled with blood, shattered glass, and screaming. Three people were killed on the spot, and another two died later of their wounds. 55 others were injured.

They seized 35 hostages, held them for more than two hours, and then surrendered.

Both terrorists were in their early 20s and were members of same organization that had massacred 11 Israeli athletes in Munich the year before. Their orders were to attack anyone heading to Israel.

They got the wrong passengers.
They still celebrated the attack as a success.

Just another bloody entry in the long ledger of Palestinian terrorism aimed at random travelers whose only “crime” was standing near a flight connected, even incorrectly, to the Jewish state.

[Israel Heart 🇮🇱 @heart_ISR]

Justice Served.
The Monsters Eliminated.

Hamas terrorists Ali Shamlakh and Maser Louh, who abducted an Israeli mother and her two minor daughters (see the video) and subsequently raped and murdered them on October 7.

He have been eliminated by the IDF in an intelligence based operation in the northern Gaza strip.

[Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis @Citizens4STL]

You’re right that things accelerated sharply after the pandemic and under Kim Gardner’s policies. Criminals grew bolder once they realized enforcement had largely collapsed, and the same disorder that hollowed out parts of North City began spreading more freely downtown.
But the decline didn’t start with COVID. Chronic under-enforcement of existing laws across multiple mayoral administrations left downtown vulnerable long before. The Great Recession hit hard—homeownership never fully recovered, residential and retail vacancies lingered, and e-commerce further undercut the small businesses that had driven the earlier loft-era vibrancy. Desperate for cash flow, many landlords filled spaces with C-credit (or worse) tenants. That mix included seedy retail, problematic bars/clubs, and some residential units tied to drug activity.
Ferguson (2014) and the subsequent wave of anti-police rhetoric made proactive policing even harder. SLMPD’s 4th District is enormous (extending west to SLU and north to Grand/Mississippi), so downtown is frequently left uncovered when priority calls come in. Bike patrols were reduced to zero for a time, and secondary officers in cars rarely deliver the same street-level presence. The pandemic then layered on persistent office vacancy, while many Recession-era condo projects converted to apartments that still carry high vacancy rates.
Layered on top of all this is a deeper structural problem: downtown’s two main stakeholder groups—residents and property owners in the historic core (Old Post Office / Washington Ave area) versus stadium and hospitality interests south of Market—have no effective convener. When the residential side needs solidarity against legislation that enables late-night disorder, the response is often “carve us out and we’re fine.” That fragmentation lets weak aldermanic leadership and agency finger-pointing (Excise vs. SLMPD) continue unchecked.
The result is the environment we see today: long-term vacancy + non-enforcement + fragmented interests. Fixing it will take sustained political will, consistent law enforcement, and real collaboration among everyone who actually wants a thriving downtown.