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P-D: Feds charge Guo-Liang Ye and De Jin Ye for ‘harboring’ undocumented immigrants inside two St. Peters houses (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KSDK (St. Louis): St. Charles buffet is shut down after ICE raid on restaurant, nearby home

KMOV (St. Louis): Guo-Liang Ye and De Jin Ye charged with harboring illegal immigrants

Newsmax: Schmitt: Trump has been successful despite judges

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Angry black MSNBC guy vs. Eric Schmitt highlights (link opens at 16:15 mark)

ORDER HERE: Eric Schmitt’s new book: The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

Missourinet: Hawley stands by St. Louis Boeing workers on strike, says management needs to “suck it up”

97.1 FM (St. Louis): The Mark Reardon Show: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith on Trump team’s renaming of the “Big Beautiful Bill”; tax cuts; Medicaid; potential for government shutdown

Missourinet: Rep. Tricia Byrnes (R-Wentzville) recaps Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) town hall

P-D: Clayton-based Caleres CEO reports lower earnings, blames tariffs (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Emanuel Cleaver’s unconvincing answer on upcoming retirement (link opens at 4:45 mark)

St. Louis Public Radio: Trump-approved congressional redistricting gets Missouri House committee approval

Columbia Missourian: Special committee passes redistricting map proposal 10-4

JCNT: Proposed congressional map rolls back minority representation, Democrats say

JCNT: NAACP sues to block Missouri redistricting

Columbia Missourian: NAACP sues Missouri Republicans over ‘unconstitutional’ effort to gerrymander Kansas City

P-D: Republicans defend new congressional maps as Democrats push back (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Legislative push to gerrymander Missouri congressional map advances

Columbia Missourian: House committee approves effort to change initiative petition process

P-D: Missouri poised to make it harder for residents to change constitution (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri House committee votes to make it harder to pass some ballot issues

Missouri Independent: As few as 5% of voters could defeat initiative petitions under Missouri GOP legislation

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Spire gets its rate increase – plus a shout out to the longest-tenured Spire lobbyist (link opens at 9:05 mark)

97.1 FM (St. Louis): The Mark Reardon Show: Eapen Thampy on ibogaine therapy, its effects on PTSD and ability to help opioid and meth addicts, what Texas state government is doing to spur innovation, and what former GOP state Rep. Ron Hicks is doing now

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Friday: Recap of Eapen Thampy on ibogaine; how ibogaine helped former Rep. Ron Hicks; mnemonic device to remember “ibogaine” pronunciation; Elijah Haahr the first influential media figure to bring ibogaine into public policy discussion; naive LinkedIn patsies (link opens at 5:40)

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Friday: Brad praises Eapen Thampy for speaking at a more rapid pace than usual; John on Brad beating dead horses (link opens at 10:00 mark)

Missouri Independent: Missouri cannabis sales remain steady as new products emerge

Missourinet: DESE’s Katie Epema on the 2025 Suicide Prevention & 988 Guide for Missouri schools

P-D: State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick probing misspending allegations in Webster Groves; AG Andrew Bailey’s office investigating DEI and flying of gay flag (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D: 2nd St. Charles official is tied to data center proposal; Councilwoman Mary West is cousins with developer Chris McKee; Chris McKee is son of Paul McKee (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Some Missouri patients will have to work harder to find a COVID-19 shot this year

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Brad considering seeing a therapist; John excoriates Brad’s mom for withholding approval and validation during Brad’s childhood; diagnosing your “busy” friend

P-D editorial: Kehoe, GOP are about to undermine Missouri’s democracy. Don’t call it ‘values.’ (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

The Bulwark’s Jonathan Last: Taking “National Conservatism” seriously; Schmitt’s speech “one of the most extraordinary orations I’ve seen from a high-ranking elected politician in my lifetime”

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Mike Kehoe stages a Theatre of the Absurd show in Missouri (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Brian Kaylor: Missouri Republicans invoke Christian values to gerrymander out a Methodist minister

Amazon.com: John Combest: Stalking, Harassment, Internet Trolling: A Guide to Recovering and Rebuilding After Online Attacks – available in paperback and Amazon Kindle

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