Roland Klose
@rwklose.bsky.social
editor/writer | ex-P-D CA IT RFT etc. | St. Louis | https://rwklose.com
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen.”
Things happen. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Things happen. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen.”
Things happen. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Things happen. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Israeli settlers on Monday rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and cars in the latest in a string of settler attacks in recent weeks. apnews.com/article/isra... #palestine
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Israeli settlers on Monday rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and cars in the latest in a string of settler attacks in recent weeks. apnews.com/article/isra... #palestine
The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care contributed to many of those deaths. apnews.com/article/isra...
Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights gro...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care contributed to many of those deaths. apnews.com/article/isra...
Missouri charity closes after a 256-page report finds decades of abuse at its Mexican orphanages. Some of the most revelatory accusations are against Niños de México’s founders. The Post-Dispatch first reported on the problems in 2023. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m... via @jacobbarker27.bsky.social
Missouri charity closes after report finds decades of abuse at Mexican orphanages
The report chronicles accusations against 20 employees of Union-based Niños de México, including its Franklin County founders, that go back decades.
www.stltoday.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Missouri charity closes after a 256-page report finds decades of abuse at its Mexican orphanages. Some of the most revelatory accusations are against Niños de México’s founders. The Post-Dispatch first reported on the problems in 2023. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m... via @jacobbarker27.bsky.social
The Klan and the GOP (and St. Louis) rwklose.com/2025/11/15/t...
The Klan and the GOP
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 15, 1925 In 1925, Post-Dispatch reporter Paul Y. Anderson took note of the Ku Klux Klan’s apparent shift from the Democratic Party to the Republicans. The Klan, he wro…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Klan and the GOP (and St. Louis) rwklose.com/2025/11/15/t...
Why make your children look freakish with cheap imitations
Why, indeed?
Why, indeed?
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Why make your children look freakish with cheap imitations
Why, indeed?
Why, indeed?
Mike Kehoe and the Missouri GOP did this. apnews.com/article/redi... #missouri
Different needs but similar fears arise in communities on both ends of Missouri's redistricting
The rush to redraw America's congressional maps has put a historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and a mostly white farming community 100 miles away in the same district.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Mike Kehoe and the Missouri GOP did this. apnews.com/article/redi... #missouri
“Mangled bodies have begun washing up on the beaches of Trinidad and Tobago after U.S. strikes in the region.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“Mangled bodies have begun washing up on the beaches of Trinidad and Tobago after U.S. strikes in the region.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Since his appointment, FHFA head Bill Pulte has sought to ingratiate himself with Trump. The 37-year-old scion of a homebuilding company fortune, he’s cultivated a reputation as a hyper-online millennial with a thirst for recognition and a desire to please the president. apnews.com/article/fann...
Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data
A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Since his appointment, FHFA head Bill Pulte has sought to ingratiate himself with Trump. The 37-year-old scion of a homebuilding company fortune, he’s cultivated a reputation as a hyper-online millennial with a thirst for recognition and a desire to please the president. apnews.com/article/fann...
With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Jack Dorsey's fintech firm Block Inc. told investors that it may take a financial hit from a multistate probe into its mobile payments platform CashApp.
Block Says Cash App Probe, Bigger SF Tax Bill Could Cost It - Law360
Jack Dorsey's fintech firm Block Inc. told investors that it may take a financial hit from a multistate probe into its mobile payments platform CashApp, and remains locked in a separate multimillion dollar tax dispute with the County of San Francisco over its bitcoin sales.
www.law360.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Jack Dorsey's fintech firm Block Inc. told investors that it may take a financial hit from a multistate probe into its mobile payments platform CashApp.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrest man in Los Angeles raid and drive off with his toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrest man in Los Angeles raid and drive off with his toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
“Critical state infrastructures are being privatized across five domains — data, defense, space, energy, and money — the foundations of democratic power.” www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Critical state infrastructures are being privatized across five domains — data, defense, space, energy, and money — the foundations of democratic power.” www.authoritarian-stack.info
Israel’s military prosecutor admits she leaked video of soldiers sodomizing a Palestinian detainee apnews.com/article/mili... #gaza #palestine
Israel's military prosecutor admits she leaked video of soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee
Israel’s top military prosecutor has resigned after admitting to leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Israel’s military prosecutor admits she leaked video of soldiers sodomizing a Palestinian detainee apnews.com/article/mili... #gaza #palestine
Most nations recognize that individuals are in no position to understand or negotiate health care prices. Not the US. open.substack.com/pub/pdowns/p... #healthcare
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Most nations recognize that individuals are in no position to understand or negotiate health care prices. Not the US. open.substack.com/pub/pdowns/p... #healthcare
Black vultures used to mainly live in the southeastern United States and farther south in Latin and South America, but warmer winters, fueled by climate change, have allowed them to spread north and west. apnews.com/article/blac... #weather
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Black vultures used to mainly live in the southeastern United States and farther south in Latin and South America, but warmer winters, fueled by climate change, have allowed them to spread north and west. apnews.com/article/blac... #weather
“Perhaps the most arresting alt-monument is Kahlil Robert Irving’s ‘New Nation (States) Battle of Manassas—2014,’ a cast-bronze miniature model of Ferguson, Missouri.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #ferguson
A Daring Show Remixes the Monuments of the Confederacy
As the Trump Administration tries to rescue symbols of the Lost Cause, an exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, finds meaning in their desecration.
www.newyorker.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“Perhaps the most arresting alt-monument is Kahlil Robert Irving’s ‘New Nation (States) Battle of Manassas—2014,’ a cast-bronze miniature model of Ferguson, Missouri.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #ferguson
“These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.” apnews.com/article/un-u...
UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop.
apnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.” apnews.com/article/un-u...
Since Israel’s war with Hamas began more than two years ago, Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, further stifling movement for Palestinians and hindering daily lives, a local government body says. apnews.com/article/isra... #palestine #israel
Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the West Bank during the war in Gaza, group says
A Palestinian government body says Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the occupied West Bank since Israel's war with Hamas began over two years ago.
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Since Israel’s war with Hamas began more than two years ago, Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, further stifling movement for Palestinians and hindering daily lives, a local government body says. apnews.com/article/isra... #palestine #israel
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I’m going to upload some John Heartfield art & AIZ journal illustrations soon.
“At 4am on April 14, 1933, the Gestapo burst into John Heartfield's studio in Berlin. The greatest political artist and graphic designer of the twentieth century was high on their most wanted list.”
#dada #antiNazi
“At 4am on April 14, 1933, the Gestapo burst into John Heartfield's studio in Berlin. The greatest political artist and graphic designer of the twentieth century was high on their most wanted list.”
#dada #antiNazi
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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At Menards hardware store in Cicero, IL
It's a major hardware chain throughout the Midwest.
Look at Trump's masked thugs shattering the truck windows and dragging a man off to an unmarked car.
Menards told employees to delete any videos they took of the ICE raid—or they would be fired.
It's a major hardware chain throughout the Midwest.
Look at Trump's masked thugs shattering the truck windows and dragging a man off to an unmarked car.
Menards told employees to delete any videos they took of the ICE raid—or they would be fired.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
At Menards hardware store in Cicero, IL
It's a major hardware chain throughout the Midwest.
Look at Trump's masked thugs shattering the truck windows and dragging a man off to an unmarked car.
Menards told employees to delete any videos they took of the ICE raid—or they would be fired.
It's a major hardware chain throughout the Midwest.
Look at Trump's masked thugs shattering the truck windows and dragging a man off to an unmarked car.
Menards told employees to delete any videos they took of the ICE raid—or they would be fired.