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Think Progress

Fans of LGBTQ-positive ‘Take My Wife’ urge platforms to save the show - After the streaming service that hosted the LGBTQ-positive show Take My Wife announced it would shut down, fans have been urging other platforms to take th...
Mediaite

Trump is On the Brink of Rolling Back Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate - Rumors have been circulating for months that President Trump had his sights on dismantling the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, through which m...
Independent Thinker 2016

Michael E Sparks – Nazi Sympathizer - Just some rambling thoughts to whomever might follow my exploits. We are currently in the middle of dealing with a family tragedy. I am not going to get de...
Salon.com

Trump’s big business CEOs are horrified by his Confederate excuses — but his religious advisers have nothing but praise - Is anyone surprised that the Religious Right has been a stronger defender of Trump than his CEO councils?
Above the Law

A Legal Recruiter’s Response To The ‘Don’t Hate The Player Hate The Game’ View On Recruiter Responsiveness - Good recruiters should make an effort to respond to all inquiries, even if they cannot ultimately work with you.
Eschaton

Nothing To Do But Knife Each Other - The "fun" - if ultimately scary, too - part of this administration is just the sheer volume of leaks to hated failing outlets like The New York Times which...
Talking Points Memo

Hundreds March In Durham, North Carolina To Protest White Supremacists - CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Hundreds of anti-racist demonstrators are marching through the streets of a North Carolina city in response to rumors of a wh...
Vox

8 essential pieces of pop culture to catch up on this weekend - From the new DuckTales reboot to Kesha’s first album in five years. The ever-growing glut of great new TV, movies, books, music, comics, and podcasts ca...
Ring of Fire

Big Pharma Distributors Face Mounting Lawsuits For Pushing Addictive Opioid Pills - 10 counties and cities in Alabama and Ohio have announced that they will be filing lawsuits against the distributors of highly addictive opioid painkille...
Somervell County Salon

Trump O Day- 8/18/2017 - Economist Mr Trump is not a Republican, but the solo star of his own drama. By tying their fate to his, they are harming their country and their party. ...
The Verge

The Defenders is a blueprint on how to make Iron Fist suck less - *Iron Fist* is the weakest hero of Marvel’s Netflix run. He’s a cartoonish character with no real depth, one who wields power through nonsensical action...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/18/2017 - Today's Water Cooler: 2016 post mortem, with more to come
VICE

Marijuana Critics Describe What It's Like to Have the World's Best Job - And why the continued normalization of the drug is the key to a job well done.
High Plains Blogger

Bannon shown the White House door - I am being tangled up by competing impulses with the news that Stephen K. Bannon has been kicked out of the White House. The senior political strategist fo...
Daily Dot

Steve Bannon is out—but the good tweets are in - Bannon is gone, but humor is not. The post Steve Bannon is out—but the good tweets are in appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Raw Story

Ranchers in parched US Northern Plains welcome hay lottery - Hundreds of livestock ranchers in the drought-stricken U.S. Northern Plains are embracing what organizers say is the first lottery designed to provide some...
National Post

Steve Bannon, one of Trump’s closest advisers, is leaving the White House - Bannon’s departure was agreed on mutually with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and his last day on the job will be Friday, the White House said
Sputnik News

Suspected Driver of Barcelona Attack Van Among Reportedly Killed in Cambrils - A suspected driver of the van that rammed into a crowd of pedestrians in Barcelona, is one of the attackers killed in the town of Cambrils, local media rep...
Krebs on Security

Carbon Emissions: Oversharing Bug Puts Security Vendor Back in Spotlight - Last week, security firm DirectDefense came under fire for over-hyping claims that Cb Response, a cybersecurity product sold by competitor Carbon Black, wa...
Texas Standard

Dallas And Houston Mayors Support Growing Movement To Remove Confederate Symbols - Our daily roundup of Texas headlines.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Fmr. Brietbart Editor: Bannon Marginalized... - Ben Shapiro, former Brietbart editor and colleague of Steve Bannon, explains how Bannon’s activity this past week foreshadowed the eventual departure.
Free Press Houston

Bannon Ousted From the White House - Stephen Bannon, President Trump’s White House Chief Strategist, has been ousted from his role at the White House, as reported by the New York Times. Thou...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

And The Good News Just Keeps On Comin’ - Okay, so there’s this guy named Felix Sater who is a former business partner of Trump. Sater is preparing himself to go to prison. And Sater says he won’t...
AlterNet.org

Steve Bannon Finally Gets the Heave-Ho After Weeks of Speculation - There has been a bipartisan call for his firing since an alt-right rally left one dead. Steve Bannon is leaving the Trump White House. White House chief o...
Daily Kos

Robert Mueller adds Donald Trump Jr. to those in the focus of his investigation - Buzzfeed reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has turned his attention to Donald Trump’s eldest son. The review seems to be particularly intereste...
Morning Consult

GOP Voters Likely Unmoved by Romney’s Plea to Trump, Polling Shows - Mitt Romney on Friday urged President Donald Trump to apologize for his defense of white nationalists and equivocations over who was to blame for last we...
The Intercept

More Trump Populism: DOJ Shuts Down an Operation That Was Successfully Combatting Consumer Fraud - The Justice Department plans to terminate Operation Choke Point, an Obama-era law enforcement crackdown on scam consumer transactions. The post More Trum...
Dissident Voice

America Asleep - The summer of 1919, called “The Red Summer” by James Weldon Johnson, ushered in the greatest period of interracial violence the nation had ever witnessed. ...
Death and Taxes

Nazi run out of town after being spotted at Charlottesville rally - Jerrod Kuhn of Honeoye Falls, New York says: "I’m 21 years old and now my life is over."
Crooks and Liars

UPDATED: Bannon Out As White House Political Director - Reports are coming fast and furious that Steve Bannon, former head of Brietbart and current White House Chief Strategist, may be out of a job right now. ...
If You Only News

Mitt Romney Just Gave The Ultimate Denouncement Of Trump And His Love Of Nazis - Mitt Romney is furious with Donald Trump’s deliberate failure to condemn white supremacists and Nazis after the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a ...
Washington's Blog

Are Profit and Healthcare Incompatible? - As I have been noting for a decade, the broken U.S. healthcare system will bankrupt the nation all by itself. We all know the basic facts: the system del...
Mock Paper Scissors

Shitler You’re Fired’s His Goebbels - Politico: Steve Bannon is out as White House chief strategist, according to a senior administration official, amid growing displeasure in the West Wing wit...
Reveal

The Hate Report: Behind the scenes, neo-Nazis plotted a fight - Any "very fine" person could have predicted racism and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. No one was hiding their intentions, it seems.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico’s environment news + getting out for the eclipse - [image: New Mexico’s environment news + getting out for the eclipse] Recently we relaunched our weekly environment wrap-up as an email you can receive once...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

This Week in Texas Energy: Will Next Week’s Solar Eclipse Turn the Lights Out in Texas? - Warren Buffett’s Oncor deal is in trouble, Trump explores replacing Rick Perry in the Energy Department, and an Exxon plant has been pumping toxins into ...
Houstonia

Stretch Yourself at 7 New Houston Yoga Studios This Fall - If you think Houston has already reached Peak Yoga, think again.
Down With Tyranny!

Trumpanzee Lashes Out In All Directions-- Congressional Republicans Are Victims Of Domestic Abuse - Trump is fighting with Republicans again. He's all but endorsed one of the right-wing lunatics primarying Jeff Flake (R-AZ)-- and is expected to explicit...
Hullabaloo

Trump's propaganda Rasputin #buhbye - *Trump's propaganda Rasputin* by digby I wrote about Breitbart for Salon this morning, before Bannon was out. I suspect he will continue to work on the ...
MintPress News

After Attack In Spain, Trump Invokes Myth Celebrating Mass Execution Of Muslims - Suggesting Muslims should be executed with bullets dipped in pig blood called "sick" and "appalling." The post After Attack In Spain, Trump Invokes Myth ...
Consortium News

The Goal of ‘Not Losing’ in Afghanistan - Exclusive: America’s adventures in Afghanistan – dating back to the 1980s – have led to one disaster after another with President Trump and other politicia...
Citizen Slant

Is Trump Watching Fox Again? All Signs Point to Yes - Donald Trump had a busy schedule set for Friday afternoon, flying to Camp David for a meeting with the National Security Council after a working lunch at...
Mother Jones

Report: Steve Bannon Is Getting Fired - The New York Times is reporting that President Trump has decided to fire Steve Bannon: President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove ...
Pajiba

Stephen Bannon Is On His Way Out (Finally) - After weeks (if not months) of rumors, and increasing pressure within the last week following his on-the-record/off-the-record interview with The American ...
Houston Press

Bronze Christopher Columbus in Montrose Park Vandalized With Paint - Apparently no statues are safe. Not even one of original slaver Christopher Columbus. Concerned citizens called the Houston Police Department around 10:30 ...
Common Dreams

Netherlands Kills 300,000 Hens After Eggs Found Contaminated - Mercy for Animals More than 17 countries across Europe and in Asia trashed millions of eggs after news broke that the eggs contained fipronil, an insectic...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Lots Of Americans Aren’t Sure If We Should Take Down Confederate Statues - President Trump’s defense of “very fine people” within the ranks of white supremacists in Charlottesville last weekend has angered many, including Republic...
NPR's Health Shots

Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem - Many images that have been used traditionally to depict the Black Death are, in fact, not images of the plague at all. Now, a group of dedicated historians...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Power hungry white evangelicals will still support Trump' & other Fri midday news briefs - Robert Jeffress is symbolic of white evangelicals willing to trade integrity for power in Trump Administration. *Why Trump’s Charlottesville response won’t...
First Draft

Fuck You Nation: “No, NEVER!” edition - (NO NEVER! Hardly ever? FUCK YOU!) I coined the term “Fuck You Nation” a few years back in looking at how people treat one another in the age of Donald T...
Reverb Press

Watch CNN’s Chris Cuomo Wipe the Floor With Confederate-Loving Republican Over Charlottesvile - Chris Cuomo Destroys Trump Apologist CNN’s Chris Cuomo held GOP candidate Corey Stewart‘s feet to the fire over the false and tired comparisons Conservat...
Axios

GOP megadonor: Trump is gaining support after "being bullied" - Investment manager and GOP megadonor Foster Friess told CNBC's Squawk Box on Friday that President Trump's decision to blame both white nationalist grou...
Right Wing Watch

Michael Snyder Wants To Take Over The GOP And Fill Congress With ‘InfoWars Candidates’ - Michael Snyder, a radical Religious Right prepper pundit who is among the Republicans candidates running for Congress in Idaho for the seat being vacated b...
Debunking Christianity

About Those Gods Who Built the Canals on Mars… - *…and their die-hard apologists—who look SO familiar * On the evening of 30 October 1938, CBS Radio’s The Mercury Theatre, broadcast a dramatization H.G. ...
The Greanville Post

The Karma of Terror - The modern historical causes of our current spreading epidemic of terrorism – the ISIS kind, the Al-Qaeda kind, I am not referring to State Terror at the...
Eater Houston

Beloved Tex-Mex Spot Tila’s Restaurante Forced to Relocate - Owner Tila Hidalgo lost the lease on her building After losing the lease for her building, Tila’s Restaurante owner Tila Hidalgo has announced that the ...
Ballot Access News

Fifth Circuit Agrees with U.S. District Court that Texas Can’t Limit Interpreters to Registered Voters of the Same County - On August 16, the Fifth Circuit issued an 18-page opinion in Organization for Chinese Americans v State of Texas, 16-51126. The decision agrees with the U...
Political Dig

Heavily Armed Pro-Trump Militia Storms Texas Council Meeting To ‘Protect’ Confederate Monument - A heavily armed pro-Trump militia dressed in fatigues stormed a city council meeting in San Antonio on Wednesday to protest the removal of a monument to ...
Pharyngula

President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities to Trump: Resign - It’s another mass resignation: the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities has just dumped Trump in an excellent “Dear Donald John” letter. We must ...
CultureMap Houston

Sneak peek: Power couple set opening date for downtown restaurant - One of this summer's most-eagerly anticipated restaurants has an opening date. Oxbow 7, Reef chef-owner Bryan Caswell's restaurant in downtown's new Le Me...
Freak Out Nation

Nazi Identified After Attending Hate Rally In Charlottesville Says His ‘Life Is Over’ - Once again, we find ourselves having to point out that if you claim you’re ‘not a Nazi’ then stop doing Nazi sh*t because people don’t like Nazis, OK? A ...
Washington Monthly

The Line That Trump Crossed - Here is the reason why, after years of Trump's racism, things exploded following his Charlottesville remarks.
Dorf on Law

The Company Trump and His Supporters Keep - *by Neil H. Buchanan* We have long since passed the point where it makes sense to try to compare Donald Trump's outrages. "A new low." "Most depressing."...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Obituary: Jack Loveday - Jack Loveday passed away at the age of 82 on Aug. 16, 2017 in Mesquite. He was born Nov. 9, 1934 in McKinney. He spent the earlier part of his life working...
Slate

Grand White Party vs. Grand Middle Party - In an interview with left-wing labor journalist Robert Kuttner, Steve Bannon insists he is a class warrior who wants nothing more than to forge a pan-eth...
OpEd News

The walls close in on Trump; impeachment, the 25th Amendment or - Resignation - By now most observant Americans can see that Donald Trump simply can't carry out the functions of the office of the president; and that he has a very diffi...
Buzzflash

Florida prisons — all of them — on lockdown - Florida prisons — all of them — on lockdown Amid social media planning for a human rights protest in Washington, the Florida Department of Corrections has ...
South Texas Chisme

John Cornyn is a Trump mini-me - The Austin American Statesman gives Cornyn way to much credit. reasonable? level headed? No way. Look at how he has handled Trump. By nods and smirks and s...
ProPublica

Track News Stories About Hate With the Documenting Hate News Index - by Rachel Glickhouse When news of violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville spread across the U.S., many responded with disbelief, insist...
Affinity

The Intertwining of Trees and Crime. - There’s been some very interesting research happening in Chicago, and it turns out that trees reduce crime. I don’t find this surprising at all, but I’m a ...
Real News

Steve Bannon, Unrepentant - By Robert Kuttner / The American Prospect. Trump’s embattled strategist phones me, unbidden, to opine on China, Korea, and his enemies in the administra...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Supporter Visits Germany and Wonders Aloud, “Where Are All The Hitler Statues?” - Tired of all the efforts to pull down Confederate statues, a Trump supporter goes to Germany for inspiration and is confused by what he doesn't see. [......
Election Law Blog

“Speech in America is fast, cheap and out of control” - I have written this oped for Sunday’s Los Angeles Times Opinion section. It begins: The Internet and social media did not create white supremacist movement...
Texas Observer

With Trump’s Infrastructure Plan, Rural Texas Could be Left in Disrepair - Arnie Amaro, the city administrator of La Villa, knows Hidalgo County’s sprawl will eventually reach his town. In the last decade, the border county’s po...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Against All Decency, the Government Is Indefinitely Detaining a Man It Cannot Deport - What the government is trying to do to Mamadu Balde is clearly unconstitutional and heartless. In its zeal to deport anyone, the Trump administration has ...
Mahablog

Donald Trump, Patron of Art - Trump this week, on Confederate monuments: Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful sta...
Rewire

Boy Detained 707 Days ‘Did A Little Dance’ When Ordered Released From ICE Custody - The judges who released Antonio and three other boys with their mothers on their own recognizance chastised Immigration and Customs Enforcement for flout...
The Progressive Wing

Could the world’s largest democracies descend into sectarian violence? - Over a year ago, I wrote about how Trump reminds me of a politician I know from my youth, Bal Thackeray: Bal Thackeray adopted a hodge-podge of ideological...
The Fifth Column

Authorities in Southern Russia Scared of Feminism - (HRW) – Add another category to the long list of people deemed a security threat to the Russian state: feminists. Early this morning, a group of men broke ...
Peacock Panache

Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board: What Bible Are They Studying? - In the wake of Trump’s response to the Charlottesville riots–and especially as we look to see and judge the reactions of White House staff and Congressio...
In These Times

Trump Is Using Old Jim Crow Tactics to Usher in a New Era of Racist Violence - *If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. *—Sun Tzu The Trump administration is having a hard time gov...
SocraticGadfly

Grocery wars, part 2 - A week and a half ago, per the graphic above, I blogged about what appears to be a new showdown in grocery wars, starting with Kroger's end to a 13-year ...
Swamplot

Texas’s Homebuilding Prowess; Schools of the 2012 HISD Bond; Famous Locals Who Went Real Estate - Trulia: Dallas, Houston, and Austin On Track To Build More Than 10% of All New Homes in the U.S. This Year [Bloomberg] Houston Has Second-Highest Office Va...
Popular Resistance

Millions For Prisoners’ Human Rights March In DC - By Kyle Fraser for Black Agenda Report. Prisoner rights advocates will converge for what aims to be the largest abolitionist demonstration in U.S. history...
Duffel Blog

Army gets approval to change names of bases that honor Confederates to Fort Trump - [image: fort trump] WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has received approval from the president to rename nearly a dozen bases after many petitioned the service t...
Democracy Now!

Trump's DOJ Demands Personal Info on 1.3M Visitors to "DisruptJ20" Inauguration Protest Website - The Justice Department is demanding web hosting provider DreamHost turn over 1.3 million IP addresses of people who visited the website DisruptJ20.org, whi...
Angry Bear

Open thread Aug. 18, 2017 -
emptywheel

Why Did WikiLeaks Publish the Turkish Emails? - The FP shows that WikiLeaks refused to publish some Russian-related emails last summer. But a more interesting question than that gotcha may be why Wikilea...
Louis Proyect

The Fetishization of Violence: Reflections on Charlottesville, WWII and Activism - COUNTERPUNCH, AUGUST 18, 2017 The Fetishization of Violence: Reflections on Charlottesville, WWII and Activism by VINCENT EMANUELE “The experience that we ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

CONFEDERATE STATUES HAVE MORE BACKING THAN YOU'D EXPECT - Hi, I'm back. Thank you again, Yastreblyansky, Crank, and Tom. *The Washington Post*'s Robert Costa and David Nakamura are describing President Trump's def...
Lowering the Bar

Snake-Mailing Rules Revisited - No matter how many stamps you use, snakes aren't mailable. Related Stories - Bill Would Protect Climate-Change Deniers From Discrimination ...
The Contributor

Trump's Race Rhetoric Also Sends a Message to Some in the 1% - News Image: Trump's Race Rhetoric Also Sends a Message to Some in the 1% a message to the thugs in the streets and to some in executive suites origin Blog...
Daily Howler

Mika and Joe provide comic relief! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2017As we summer again:* We're off on a mission of national import, summering for the next few days at an impossibly chic, undisclose...
Church and State

Letter to ISIS - Preparations for you conquest and arrival are well advanced, and we have to say that the whole place is looking very 8th Century already.
Progressive.org

No Two Sides about It, Confederate Statues Must Come Down - Trump is acting as chief enabler, sculpting in careless words and actions his own monument to intolerance.
Space City Weather

Houston’s hot, but all eyes on Monday’s eclipse forecast - Lots to get to today, including Monday’s eclipse and the tropics. But first, we have some breaking news: August in Houston is brutal. It continues in 2017 ...
San Antonio Current

Rap Band ¡Mayday! To Play Jack's Patio Bar -
SCOTUSblog

Friday round-up - [image: Friday round-up]In The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that the decision of Justice Neil Gorsuch “to address a conservative group at the Trum...
Off the Kuff

Bond issue set for November - Should be pretty straightforward, though I suppose you never know. November’s ballot will feature $495 million in public improvement bonds after City Counc...
skippy the bush kangaroo

all friday - a witness to terrorism in charlottesville when fascism comes to america, it will be wrapped in the flag and set to a hip disco beat republicans never rea...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Military bases' contamination will affect water for generations - Toxic chemicals at military installations have contaminated or may have contaminated water at bases and nearby communities.
Informed Comment

Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A vehicular terror attack in Barcelona that left over a dozen people dead and 100 injured has been claimed by ISIL....
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

In Solidarity with Barcelona #YoSoyEspañol #JoSócCatalá - #WithBarcelona #BarcelonaContigo Pray for Barcelona. No more terrorism. My heart is with you.At least 13 killed and a hundred wounded in Barcelona yesterda...
Palmer Report

Today could be Donald Trump’s worst day yet - Here comes the truly brutal part for Trump The post Today could be Donald Trump’s worst day yet appeared first on Palmer Report.
jobsanger

A Bad Guy -
Rivard Report

Guns Add Tension To Confederate Monument Controversy - For the second time in one week downtown residents and visitors saw people donning kevlar vests and assault weapons in the city's streets. The post Guns ...
Socialist Worker

Calls ring out for action against the far right - Elizabeth Schulte reports on organizing for the August 27 Bay Area Rally Against Hate--and a new call for solidarity actions to take place around the U....
Sayfie Review Texas

AP: Texas police chiefs start adapting to sanctuary cities law -
Antiwar.com

Donkey Bomb Kills Militants; 50 Killed in Iraq - An explosives-laden donkey exploded prematurely. The post Donkey Bomb Kills Militants; 50 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Independent Political Report

Zoltan Istvan: “The Growing World of Libertarian Transhumanism” - (*Note:Zoltan Istvan is founder of The Transhumanist Party, and ran for President in 2016. He is currently running as a Libertarian candidate for Governo...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Neo-Nazis Need Not Apply - In the wake of the Charlottesville Emo-Boy Nazi riot, and the murder of Heather Heyer, there has been a movement to name and shame the Nazis who attended. ...
Wolf Street

What Ford’s New Guy Said about the Future of Self-Driving Cars - You get to own and steer a car for a while longer, if you insist.
Houston Communist Party

Trump Yet to Demonstrate ‘Stability, Competence’ US Needs – Senator Corker - Trump Yet to Demonstrate ‘Stability, Competence’ US Needs – Senator Corker © AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais US 23:35 17.08.2017Get short URL 110002 ht...
Field Negro

Thursday news. - [image: TWEET ME]America, I would like to remind you of a few things: First, your president has still not visited *Charlottesville, Virginia.* Second, he ...
Gin and Tacos

BALBO'S THEME - I was waiting to see which one they would pick. With Confederate monuments being taken down all around the South, northern cities are on the sidelines watc...
DeSmogBlog

Trump's Rejection of National Climate Report Would Do More Damage Than Exiting the Paris Agreement - [image: People in and around a boat in floodwaters] *By Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University* A scientific report done every four years has been thrust into t...
Brad Blog

Fighting for Free Speech For and Against Nazis, Trump, and Israel: 'BradCast' 8/17/2017 - On today's BradCast: Constitutional free political speech matters, especially speech we may disagree with. There's seems to be a lot of confusion about tha...
American Third Party Report

‘Libertarian Party is the independent voice for NH’ - -From Brian Shields, LP candidate for NH State Representative District 13- August 16 – To the Editor: The recent events in Charlottesville have left me dis...
Portside

Dismantling Public Education - Like it or Not, Betsy DeVos Has Made a Mark in Six Months as Education Secretary - After six months, Betsy DeVos has taken some major steps to change education policy, and her very presence at the head of the U.S. Education Department sig...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Rod O’Donnell, ‘Keynes and Marx: Towards constructive Dialogue’ - 2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Rod O’Donnell (University of Technology Sydney), ‘Keynes and Marx: Towards constructive Dialogue’ Date: Thursday 2...
Grist

California went all-in on natural gas. Can it do the same with renewables? - The battle over a proposed So Cal power plant could signal if the state is ready to put its money where its mouth is on clean energy.
Death to Squirrels

Dances with trolls. - [CONTENT NOTE: casual ableism] Our troll story today begins as they almost always do: with an unprompted comment on an oooooold post. Behold my Facebook st...
News Corpse

In the Wake of Terror in Barcelona, Trump Repeats 6 Month Old Pants on Fire Lie - Thursday afternoon the world was stunned by another terrorist attack on innocent civilians. This one took place on a popular street in the heart of Barcelo...
The Conversation

Charlottesville and the politics of fear - Did Trump's rhetoric played a part in radicalizing the far-right protesters in Charlottesville? AP Photo/Steve Helber I have spent nearly 16 years studying...
Texas Leftist

ICYMI: President Trump Also Tossed Out His Infrastructure Council This Week - For someone so “new” to politics, our nation’s 45th President sure seems to know what he’s doing when it comes to creating distractions and burying scandal...
slacktivist

Left Behind and Trumpism - The Left Behind series sold more than 65 million copies. I can't offer a precise Venn diagram comparing those 65 million readers with the just-under 63 mil...
Save Buffalo Bayou

$12 Million Bayou Project Based on a Mistake - A Fundamental Error August 17, 2017 The instability of riverbanks is generally divided into two types: banks that collapse vertically and banks that are wo...
Rude Pundit

Fuck You, Guy Who Regrets Voting for Trump - In the *New York Times*, one of Donald Trump's most loyal taint-lickers, Julius Krein, has scribbled a *mea culpa* titled "I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely ...
BEYONDbones

Tales From Tanzania Revisited! - It’s Throwback Thursday again! Want to learn about making beer, wedding skirts and attaching to chameleons with the Irqw people of Tanzania? Then read TH...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Donald Trump wrong that Charlottesville counter-protesters didn't have a permit - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Donald Trump wrong that Charlottesville counter-protesters didn't have a permit During the contentious Trump Towe...
Socialist Alternative

Vote Ginger Campaign Gains Momentum - With months remaining until election day on November, the Socialist Alternative-backed campaign to elect Ginger Jentzen has already inspired over 1,000 gra...
Dandelion Salad

Creative Anti-Nazism by David Swanson + Confederate Statues Come Down in Baltimore and Durham - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy August 17, 2017 The people of Durham, N.C., have the right idea. Not only have they taken down...
ExChristian.Net

Christian Math Just Doesn't Add Up - *By Astreja* One thing I've noticed about Christians proselytizing online is that rather a lot of them try to come across as Scientists, with a capital S. ...
The Urban Edge

In San Antonio, Armed Groups Oppose Confederate Statue’s Removal - As Houston weighs what to do next, tension escalates in San Antonio. Continue Reading →
Campaign for America's Future

As Trump Hits a New Low, Here’s How We Go High - Donald Trump has unapologetically poured fuel on the fires of racial hate. What this moment calls for is a resistance that is as morally principled and pol...
The Hill: Ballot Box

OKCupid bans white supremacist featured in Vice video - Dating site OKCupid has revoked the membership of Chris Cantwell, a prominent white supremacist who participated in the "Unite the Right" rally this past w...
Liberal Values

Trump Support Falls With Increased Speculation That Trump Will Be Impeached Or Resign To Avoid Prison - Donald Trump’s unwillingness to consistently take a stand against white supremacists might have been the last straw placed upon an administration which is ...
Grits for Breakfast

End-of-summer reading list additions - Grits saw several academic offerings recently to which I hope to return soon as I close out my summer reading, so let's record those links here; maybe othe...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Science lessons applied for safety, in your car. Do you drink water? - Idaho Power sends along this video, teaching how to avoid starting your car on fire on a sunny day. Can you use this video in your classroom? It demonstrat...
Shadowproof

Survivors Win Confidential Settlement In Lawsuit Against CIA Torture Psychologists - Two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who were contracted by the CIA to develop torture techniques, agreed to a confidential settlement wit...
First Reading

Make America white nationalist again. On Charlottesville and Donald Trump. - Good day Austin: For the better part of two years around the turn of the century I traveled on Martin Luther King streets across America with…
Pensito Review

Most Republicans Approve of Trump’s Response to Charlottesville - 67% A new CBS News poll finds that while 55% of Americans disapprove of the way President Trump reacted to the violence by white supremacists in Charlottes...
Rallblog

Some Violence is Actually Very OK - President Trump fended off criticism of his tepid reaction to the violence in Charlottesville that left a women dead and others injured. What no one seem...
Progressive Army

Time To Get A Little Uncomfortable… - How is it with the Democratic and Republican Parties that we have the plethora of issues that exist and yet the same two parties that messed things up st...
Houston Matters

Dallas, Houston And Austin On Track To Build A Total Of Nearly 130,000 Homes In 2017 - Five stories that have North Texas talking: Texas is building thousands of new homes; an SMU grad is interim White House communications director; three...
Bonddad

Industrial production: once again, the hard data fails to confirm the sof ... ofertheluvofgaud - *- by New Deal democrat* This morning's report on industrial production confirms that the economy remains on autopilot, and that's a good thing. Overall...
Ian Welsh

Oppressive Precedents Used Against Nazis Will Be Used Against the Left - All right, so the Daily Stormer got kicked off go-Daddy, went to a new hosting company, and then got kicked off that one. Victory? Even the guy who did it ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to the Post-American World - Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and mainstream pundit in Am...
Irregular Times

Donald Trump Defends Statues Of Racist Confederate Traitors, Confronts Bicycle Stands - This week, Donald Trump defended statues of Confederates. Confederates were racist traitors who enslaved human beings and caused the deaths of hundreds of ...
Liberation News

Bay Area stands against war on Korea - People from all walks of life gathered at Powell and Market St. in San Francisco on Aug. 15 to demand an end to the U.S. threats against the Democratic P...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Governors 2017-2018: The Democrats’ Complicated Path to Big Gains - Dear Readers: Before we start this week, we wanted to pay tribute to the three people who died over the weekend because of the abhorrent neo-Nazi rally i...
St. Petersburg Independents

Reparations are alive! - “A crime has been committed. Reparations is the admission of that crime, one which shocks the conscience of the world.” Such is the foundation of the ca...
Nathan Hevenstone

Some Stream-of-Consciousness About Nazis - I haven’t posted about Nazi invasion and terrorist attack in Charlottesville because I’m feeling… well… You can easily see my thoughts and things on Facebo...
Pages of Victory

From Rosanne Cash - Rosanne Cash A message from the children of Johnny Cash: We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing...
Robert Reich

Trump’s Civil War - Trump’s unwillingness to denounce the white supremacists who came to Charlottesville last weekend...
Greg Palast

Charlottesville: Our Photo Reveals The Lie Behind Trump’s Claim That “Both Sides” Are To Blame - By Greg Palast "I think there’s blame on both sides... you also had people that were very fine people on both sides." — Donald Trump, speaking at a press...
Duck of Minerva

On Race, Nationalism and “White Pride” in America - This is a guest post (begun as a set of hasty scribbles on Facebook in the wake of Charlottesville) by Sean Parson, Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona...
PERRspectives

The Confederate Statues Speak for Themselves - Defending the indefensible on Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled back in time to deploy the "both sides do it" talking point to explain the Civil War...
Other Words

In OtherWords: August 16, 2017 - Republicans are condemning Trump’s coddling of white supremacists. Can they speak out against racist laws, too?
Echidne of the Snakes

Back From the So-Called Vacation - I am back in the You Es Of Ay, and things have fallen apart here, the center couldn't hold. The obvious conclusion has to be that it was my absence from ...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Everyone at Charlottesville was a Leftist - "The fucking jew-lovers are gassing us," - Faux News interviewed a white guy who must have been a liberal. It's important to note that according to recei...
Trivial Knot

Anjuli’s dismissal - FTB has dismissed Anjuli Pandavar for being out of alignment with our mission. Since I recently wrote a scathing critique of Anjuli, you might be wondering...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Successfully Stops All Discriminatory Legislation Targeting Transgender Texans and Families - We did it—we defeated anti-transgender “bathroom bill” legislation! Last night, in a surprising turn of events, the House and the Senate gaveled out, endin...
OffCite

“Remaking the process of gentrification”: Emancipation Economic Development Council - Emancipation Economic Development Council charrette, February 18, 2017. Photo: Raj Mankad.This article is the second of a two-part series by artist Carrie ...
Ecosophia

The Worlds That Never Were - In order to finish sorting out the foundations for the project this blog will pursue, I want to talk a little more about science fiction. That’s not the ...
DBC Green blog

"You Say 'Alt-Right,' I Say 'Neo-Nazi'" Bloggage - The Texas Progressive Alliance has no room for hate in its heart, no matter what it calls itself.Here's the roundup of blog posts and news from last week....
Counter Propa

Why Are Syrian Refugees Returning To This Evil Dictator Who Likes To Kill Them? - Al Jazeera, not often known to rock the establishment boat when it comes to the official narrative about Syria, has published an interesting new report o...
Bay Area Houston

Remember when "Not all republicans are racists but all racists are republicans" - That all changed last Saturday. There is no excuse, none, zero, zip, for any republican to remain silent about Trump's response to the white supremacists...
Resistance Report

Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump Over His Charlottesville Speech - Senator Bernie Sanders slammed President Trump on Tuesday after the Donald cast blame on the “alt-left” and counter protesters for the violence in Charlo...
Harper's Magazine

[Diary ] | Black Rebel Hug, by Amdé Mengistu - Three days in Charlottesville
Better Texas Blog

Legislature Pits Education against Health Care - CPPP Senior Policy Analyst, Chandra Villanueva, co-wrote this post. The Texas Senate version of HB 21 is a step in the wrong direction, worsening fundin...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Wars Based On Lies Has Long History Of Political Support! - The threat of war in North Korea are part of a long tradition of basing foreign policy decisions on lies including a recent interview of Joe Lieberman w...
Carl Beijer

Ben Shapiro has changed his mind about antifa - Ben Shapiro, writing for The National Review, gives us the inevitable "both sides are to blame for Charlottesville" take: There’s still no certain knowledg...
Political Orphans

Gradually, then suddenly - Our window for containing the rage stirred up by this administration is closing and it is impossible to predict who will end up in its crosshairs.
Bracing Views

That Google Diversity Memo - W.J. Astore What does “diversity” mean in the workplace as well as American society? Are women at a disadvantage in technical fields and, if so, is this d...
Houston Justice

BREAKING: HISD SELECTS NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER - His name is Jose Leal and he's Houston Independent School District's newest School Board Trustee for District III replacing Manuel Rodriguez who passed ...
Digital Heretic

James Damore: Fired For Truth | MNRW #5 - Today on Make Robots Not War, a meltdown at Google over someone who dared to step outside an ideological echo chamber. The post James Damore: Fired For...
Popehat

Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site - I used to have DreamHost as a webhost. We parted ways, but I always admired and appreciated that they reliably stood up for their customers — including me ...
Our Finite World

World GDP in current US dollars seems to have peaked; this is a problem - World GDP in current US dollars is in some sense the simplest world GDP calculation that a person might make. It is calculated by taking the GDP for each y...
Anti-Media

Two US Soldiers Killed, Five Wounded in Iraq - (ANTIWAR.COM) — The Pentagon has confirmed two US soldiers were killed and five others wounded yesterday in “combat operations” in Iraq. Details of exactly...
The Disorder Of Things

Historicizing Liberalism and Empire: On Duncan Bell’s Reordering the World - This the fifth and final guest post in the forum on Duncan Bell’s book: Liberalism and Empire. Richard Devetak is Associate Professor and Head of School of...
Seeing the Forest

Thanks, Capitalism - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
LawFlog

Why is the FBI still protecting Hillary Clinton? - Last week the FBI informed me that it had not released records pertaining to my Freedom of Information Act request about the Hillary Clinton email investig...
Moron Majority

Hateful White Men Apparently Also Detest Mosquitoes - After a run on Tiki torches at the local Home Depot, a large group of white nationalists marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Va. to demonstrate...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The incoming hordes - They enter my country via a routinized system of smuggling – *inside* of people – and once freed from their host bodies, are entirely unconversant in our ...
Stinque

The Fountainhead - We’ve always been drawn to satire. From Mad to SNL to Spy and beyond, satire has been the refreshment for our soul. We drink it in, savor it, remember it f...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (Aug. 6 – 12) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Neil Cazares-Thomas, senior pastor at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, on the so-called “bathroom bill.”...
Houston Streetwise

Changing Montrose: Lucky Burger corner now and other signs of transformation on Richmond Ave - Where the Lucky Burger's luck ran out Commercial-lot-to-park conversion: Mandell Park From vintage Shell to Big Tex Storage Oily future: Ramshackle quad...
Reading the Pictures

Posturing, Nuclear and Otherwise: Our Social Media Roundup - Sometime posturing is phony, other times it's blunt. How disheartening that the war bluster falls between the two. The post Posturing, Nuclear and Otherw...
News Taco

How Anti-Latino Rhetoric Hurts All Americans - By Belinda Campos and Leo R. Chavez, Greater Good Magazine (10.5-minute read) We all want to be valued members of the groups to which we belong. For Lat...
PoliTex (FWST)

How to keep thieves from siphoning your credit card data at gas pumps - Texans: Watch out the next time you fill your car up with gas. State officials say devices known as credit card skimmers have been found across the state i...
Texas Watch

Press Statement on Request for TDI Investigation into Insurance Industry’s Auto Repair Practices - *For Immediate Release* Texas Watch requested Thursday that the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigate the insurance industry’s corner cutting ...
Texas Moratorium Network

Major Film Planned on Todd Willingham – Innocent Person Wrongfully Executed by Texas - From Deadline.com Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern have been set to star in Trial by Fire, a fact-based drama that Ed Zwick will direct. Oscar-winning Preciou...
Texans For Public Justice

Ethics Commission Fines 2nd Toll Road Director in TPJ Complaint. James Mills to Pay $1,000 Fine for Non-disclosure. - The Texas Ethics Commission has levied a $1,000 fine against former Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) Director James Mills to resolve an et...
News Junkie

Climate Change: SOS for Humanity’s Survival - Unless one lives in the alternate reality of religious beliefs , it has become impossible to deny and ignore a simple fact: very soon, perhaps within only ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Too late, my brothers, too late - I'd never seen this photo before last week when Colin Hinz posted it. Chuch Harris, Rob Hansen, me, and Sue Harris, at Toad Hall in Minneapolis before the...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Public Citizen v. Donald J. Trump: We need your help! - One week to go. Then we appear before a judge to argue Public Citizen v. Donald J. Trump. In the case, we’re challenging Trump’s deregulatory executive o...
John Laurits

Socialism: Economic Democracy to End the Suicidal Profit of Capitalism - Socialism: Economic Democracy to End the Suicidal Profit of Capitalism It is the Age of Malfunction — an age in which the social structures, governing me...
Heat Street

RIP ‘Sin Stocks’? The Woke of Wall Street Takeover - The rise of ethical investing threatens investment in sex, drugs and alcohol
Black Agenda Report

It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us. - *by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon* Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost c...
nonsite.org

The Reality Contract - Perhaps not surprisingly, the history of Hollywood production mirrors the history of venture capital in the United States, as each new film presents an idi...
Dos Centavos

Sheriff Gonzalez Ends Use of Private Jails - Now, this is the kind of news I like to hear coming out of Sheriff Gonzalez’s office. For years, Harris County has spent millions transporting and warehous...
Down Goes Trump

Report: New York State investigating entire Donald Trump family in Russian money laundering plot - It's not a good day to be related to Donald Trump The post Report: New York State investigating entire Donald Trump family in Russian money laundering pl...
Quartz

In Johannesburg, finding stories in unsuspecting places - Quartz Africa reporter Lynsey Chutel trains journalism students at the University of Witwatersrand as part of the Atlas for Africa initiative. Training in ...
Free Speech.org

What's at Stake?: Net Neutrality - Just two years after the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), under the Obama administration, affirmed the concept of net neutrality, some of the larg...
Pressing Issues

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 6 Days - Each summer I count down the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945), marking events from the same day in 1945. I've written ...
34justice

We Don’t Need No “Moderates” - Don't fall for the false notion that candidates committed to economic and social justice are unelectable in "red" and "purple" areas. Help those candidates...
WAWG Blog

Democracy In Chains – Adding Corporate Veto Power to America’s Checks and Balances - From the last chapter of Democracy In Chains, by Nancy MacLean, here is how the Koch Brothers and their elite Libertarian cadre are increasing their, white...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with the late left-wing journalist Jack A. Smith, photojournalist David Bacon, and gay movement leaders Ray Hill & Suzy Shelor - Smith edited the influential Guardian (U.S.) in the ’60s-’80s; Bacon authored ‘In the Fields of the North’; Hill is a pioneer of the gay movement and Shelo...
Progrexas

Ensuring Food Security and Sovereignty in Texas: A Southern Tradition – A Political Protest. - “We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 24: Special Edition with Carl Cannon, Author of “On This Date” - A conversation about how history gives us perspective on the Trump presidency, with Real Clear Politics Washington Bureau Chief Carl Cannon and author of t...
The Nil Admirari

Man-Baby Trump Convinced he Can Pardon Himself - He Can't - Mr. Trump was ranting on Twitter again this Saturday morning and one of his tweets desperately claimed the president had the "complete power to pardon,"...
UP@NIGHT

Worried about GOP Health Care: Consider Suicide - We are all going to die. That’s life. But I think we can …
ROAR Magazine

Municipalism and the Feminization of Politics - Beside turning local institutions into mechanisms of self-governance, municipalism also has the potential to feminize politics in a way that action at th...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Opiates & the Senate Health Care Bill - When the Senate’s health-care bill died this week, it was worth noting the few who led the revolt. Most were senators from states hardest hit by our epid...
Bullshit-ist

Learning Things The Hard Way - I’ve used the Notes app on my phone as a kind of second brain for as long as I can remember. Most of the stuff in there makes absolutely zero sense (“eye...
Frontloading HQ

Open Primaries, the Democrats and 2020 - Early last month the Democratic National Committee-sanctioned Unity Reform Commission *convened for their second meeting* in San Antonio. While the agenda ...
Ramona's Voices

Why Your Religion Shouldn't Be My Problem - My cousin Arlene was a devout Catholic, so deeply involved with her church the priest at her funeral service told us he was nervous that he wouldn't do rig...
Texas Election Law Blog

Democracy in Crisis: Rick Hasen’s Editorial Is A Must-Read - “Don’t Let Our Democracy Collapse” I’m reposting Professor Hasen’s editorial in today’s New York Times (linked through his election law blog) here for thre...
Pressthink

His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political style - It’s all they know. They aren’t prepared for anything else. The post His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political styl...
Great American Satan

The American Bastille - The current system of AmeriKKKan slavery is conducted through the prison industrial complex. That’s a system of Bastilles long overdue for a smashing. This...
New Progressive Alliance

Climate Change and the Green Party by Gary Swing - Gary Parks is a leader in the Green Party and has formed the Boiling Frog Party to convey information in a humorous way. He recently got the highest per...
STRENGTH !N NUMBERS

Is Loving a Black Man a Revolutionary Act? - Is Loving a Black Man a Revolutionary Act?Ashton P. Woods *It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pr...
Modern Democracy

Raines Check: Legislator Standing and the Separation of Powers - Excited to have a post up today on Take Care Blog discussing Raines v. Byrd and the impact of separation-of-powers principles on legislator standing in the...
The Liberal Yell

Department of Education’s Candice E. Jackson is a Fraud - First published on: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/dept-education-s-candice-e-jackson-fraud The New York Times just reported that the Department of We D...
GOP Watchdog

Meet the Ex-Congressman who wrote the appendix of a book about Russians Lobbying the US - Curt Weldon has been a very busy man throughout his life. In the late 70’s, he fought the Pagans motorcycle gang as mayor of Marcus Hook, and then he chair...
Raised on the Rail

We’re Back! - You may have noticed that we took a brief hiatus from blogging this past spring. I thought that even though I was pregnant I would be able to continue our ...
Non Prophet News

The Democrats Are Hoping No One Will Notice Their Silence On Philando Castile - In the days since the Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile was acquitted of manslaughter, the outcry on both social media and in t...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT 90.1's Queer Voices - The Texas Legislature returns to the pink dome on July 18th to tackle 20 issues selected by Gov. Abbot for the special sessions, including legislation to r...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Unauthorized Disclosure — Episode 21: People’s Movement Must Be More Outspoken On Wars - If you would like to support the show and help keep us going strong, please become a subscriber on our Patreon page. Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola ...
South Lawn

Another Harvest In An Orchard Of Strange Fruit - It was a cold night in the fall of 2002 when me and my then-girlfriend pulled up to the public parking lot at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to relax and snug...
All Ablog Austin

Ready for the Republic of Texas biker rally? We’ve got the best motorcycle routes in Central Texas - The Republic of Texas Biker Rally is this weekend at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin. If you want to take a ride near the city, here are some of ...
twissblog

Melania Trump fired after asking who ate all the Little Debbies - WASHINGTON–Melania Trump, who recently was hired as First Lady, was terminated today in a one-page letter. The letter said that she was fired as a result o...
Politics of Courage

Digital Editor of Ms. Magazine Calls for Death of Jewish Trailblazer and for Vandalism of His Grave - Three times in the past month, digital editor Carmen Rios of feminist magazine *Ms. *has openly wished for the death of Senator Bernie Sanders, who in 2016...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform

True fracking story - Beautiful farm, #fracking harmed. Bright lights, Starless nights. Air brown. Barren ground. Water black. Can’t go back. The post True fracking story ap...
MOMocrats.com

100 Days of Trump, Part 2: The End of Obama Nation - More on Trump's first 100 Days: Nobody has promised more and delivered less. He’s lowered the bar for the role of the president from being the highest, m...
Good Reason

Shitgibbon frequencies - Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary llmpounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zi...
Political Carnival

We're Taking a Vacation! - Hi, everyone! We will be on vacation - the first in a long while! - for the next few weeks. See you on the other side! The post We're Taking a Vacation! ...
Above None of the Above

My apology - I've talked in person to multiple people who followed my blog. They tell me that my numbers helped them stay calm. I wasn't trying to keep people calm. I ...
Memory Hole

Trump Dresses Down Media Moguls, Anchors - “I’m in a room full of liars.” Noland D. McCaskill Politico (November 21, 2016) The media figures arrived at Trump Tower on Monday afternoon for off-the-re...
Green Is The New Red

Trump Supporter Promises Legislation to Label Protest as “Economic Terrorism” - The proposed "Preventing Economic Terrorism Act" marks a radical expansion of legislation that was once used to criminalize environmentalists as "eco-terro...
Jim Hightower

Takeaways from the election - Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that). He will need to be up-and-at-’e...
Source Planet

Trump Trolls Are Running A Bernie Write-In Campaign - Over the past months I have managed to infiltrate most of the Trump, Facebook Groups, Subreddits, IRC channels, etc. Most of the chatter has moved into mak...
Velvet Revolution

On Colbert, Anderson Cooper has no good answers as to why CNN employs Corey Lewandowski - Good on Stephen Colbert. The “Late Show” host last night welcomed CNN host Anderson Cooper for a little chat, and the name of former Donald Trump campaign ...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, April 03, 2011

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