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Talking Points Memo

Sen. Rand Paul Shrugs At Russian Election Interference: ‘We All Do It’ - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) displayed remarkable indifference to the news that Russians definitely tampered with the 2016 American presidential election,...
Raw Story

Mark Sanford: Trump is ‘clear and president danger to the republic’ — and a Dem takeover could be the ‘remedy’ - Outgoing South Carolina Republican Congressman Mark Sanford warned recently that President Donald Trump is a “clear and present danger to the republic.” ...
Mediaite

Trump Winks At Putin At Beginning of Presser, Freaking Out the Western World - President Donald Trump winked at Russian President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of a presser that was characterized by "awkward body language" and tame,...
Sputnik News

'It Was Terrible How UK Media Painted the Picture of Russia' - DJ Paul Oakenfold - The 2018 World Cup in Russia has come to an end but the festive mood and powerful emotions are likely to remain with millions of fans for a long time. Afte...
memeorandum

The Midwest eases its Trump swoon and flirts again with Democratic candidates (David Weigel/Washington Post) - David Weigel / Washington Post: *The Midwest eases its Trump swoon and flirts again with Democratic candidates* — NEW ALBANY, Ohio — Troy Balderson, th...
Eater Houston

Asiatown Dim Sum Spot Gets a Major Revamp - Ocean Palace’s new interior will soon be revealed One of the largest dim sum restaurants in Bellaire is getting a whole new look. Ocean Palace will unve...
The Week

Migrant parents separated from their kids wrote an open letter to America - "To the people of the United States, please help us," begins an open letter to America handwritten in Spanish and signed Sunday by 54 migrant parents who...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

DNI on election cyber threat: 'The... - When it comes to cyber-attacks on our elections, the DNI believes the "warning lights are blinking red again"? Just how much does the president care?
Vox

Is your cellphone giving you cancer? A comprehensive guide to the messy, frustrating research. - With 5G networks coming, understanding the health effects of radiofrequency radiation is more urgent than ever. “Get that thing off your skull.” That’s...
Daily Howler

TRIBAL SNAPSHOTS: Our sense of smell! - *MONDAY, JULY 16, 2018Part 1—What others saw:* Last Thursday's hearing involving Peter Strzok was frequently unattractive. Frequently, the hearing showe...
naked capitalism

Good News? Percentage of Americans Who Believe Climate Change is Real Reaches New High - Public seems to be getting the memo about climate change-- despite the forces arrayed to fog this issue and Trump’s abysmal policies. Has this shift come t...
The Verge

The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - Looking for connections in 2018 When John Hopstead first descended into the virtual world of *Dark Souls* in 2013, his mission was to save a decaying w...
Think Progress

Finland’s largest newspaper calls out Trump, Putin on press freedom - Finland’s largest newspaper welcomed President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to Helsinki Monday by displaying hundreds of billboards reminding...
Pajiba

Just Lots Of People Dancing To Kate Bush, Because The World Needs Some Joy - It was a weekend of sporting drama: the World Cup finals, the Wimbledon finals, The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever... Yes, that's a thing. The Most Wuther...
Above the Law

How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Legal Research - The research tools of tomorrow are here today, powered by AI and analytics.
No More Mister Nice Blog

Specific Chemical Materials - Is David Sanger of the New York Times playing a Michael Gordon/Judith Miller role in building up a case for hostility to Iran? Massive story in which Sange...
Swamplot

ExxonMobil’s Baytown Presence Grows; Halal Guys Soon To Hit the Med Center - ExxonMobil Picks Up Nearly 100 Acres Near One of Its Baytown Refinery [HBJ ($)] Ibiza Enterprises Files Permits for Greater East End Residential Project Ca...
Ring of Fire

Capitalism Is RUINING Science - In this Majority Report clip, trickle-down science explained. Join Sam Seder as he discusses. The post Capitalism Is RUINING Science appeared first on Th...
AlterNet.org

'Blame America First': Ex-Ambassador to Russia Slams Trump's 'Disappointing' and 'Ridiculous' Anti-US Tweet Ahead of Putin Summit - “The EU is not our foe — that’s ridiculous." The former U.S. ambassador to Russia slammed President Donald Trump’s “ridiculous” rhetorical attacks on the ...
Latino Rebels

Registro Demográfico advirtió a Pesquera sobre incongruencias en número de muertes - La directora ejecutiva, Wanda Llovet, confiesa que no hubo un trabajo en equipo con el Departamento de Seguridad Pública en la elaboración de la lista ofic...
Crooks and Liars

Trump Goes To Helsinki For His Annual Performance Review With Putin - Trump, of course, started the day in Helsinki with a tweet: No matter how bad you thought things could go, they just got worse: Trump tweeting in the mid...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

If the economy is 'roaring', why are so many Americans still struggling? | Bernie Sanders - On Monday night at a town hall with low-wage workers, we will address the disparity between the wealth of executives and the wages and treatment of emplo...
Buzzflash

Fatal police shooting of Harith Augustus leaves Chicago community in anger, anguish, searching for answers - Fatal police shooting of Harith Augustus leaves Chicago community in anger, anguish, searching for answers 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
Pharyngula

I wonder if I can move to Scotland? - It seems to be one English-speaking* place that still has some sense. *More or less, but that’s OK, because Scottish accents are a marvel.
Salon.com

Poland’s judicial purge: Another step toward “authoritarian democracy”? - Since 2015, Poland has been governed by a far-right nationalist group that has completely reshaped the country
Houstonia

Two Tequila Sisters Will Trick Out Your Denim Jacket - J. Landa's summer designer pop-up series continues with customized denim embellishment.
Hullabaloo

A country traumatized by @BloggersRUs - *A country traumatized* by Tom Sullivan A federal judge in Connecticut on Friday issued a preliminary ruling that children separated from their parents ...
Courthouse News

Trump-Putin Summit Opens Without Talk of Election Meddling - President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin opened their summit Monday with serious expression all around and the American president declaring that "the wo...
Houston Matters

Mobility Needs Are A Top Priority In League City’s New Action Plan - The city is expecting huge population growth in the years to come and officials say they want to be prepared for it. Along with street improvements, the pl...
Eschaton

Bourdain - He hated all the right people. Yeah… I’m so glad we got to that point, cause that’s what I’m trying to do, I’m trying to make there be love in the world fo...
Daily Kos

Trump attacks U.S. heading into Putin meeting. Russian foreign ministry approves. - Days after special counsel Robert Mueller charged Russian government agents with interfering in the 2016 election, and leading into his big one-on-one me...
Mother Jones

In Opening Remarks, Trump Makes No Mention of Election Interference - In opening remarks ahead of his one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, President Donald Trump named trade, nuclear weapons, an...
Houston Press

Boy George and Friends Help Us See No Shame in Our Game, ‘80s Fans - If you lived in the 1980s, as practically everyone at last night’s Smart Financial Centre show featuring Boy George and Culture Club did, you might look ba...
Election Law Blog

“Donald Trump continues to build 2020 re-election war chest” - CPI: “Trump’s campaign ended June with more than $33 million cash on hand — almost three times the size of its reserve from June 2017, according to a new f...
The Intercept

Live: Trump and Putin Meet in Helsinki’s Hall of Mirrors - The Intercept will be providing updates on the summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. The post Live: Trum...
Axios

Germany can "no longer completely rely on the White House" - Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday — after a contentious NATO summit last week — that Germany can "no longer completely rely on the Whi...
Down With Tyranny!

When Will There Be Real GOP Opposition To Trump And The "Permanent Damage" He's Doing To America? - *Two very different visions for Wisconsin by Nancy Ohanian* Want to get into the time machine for a moment? Not ancient Egypt or a chance to hear Socrates ...
Church and State

Doing Good Tech Versus Doing Good with Tech - To have a shot at solving some of our most vexing challenges, we need a diverse ecosystem of approaches.
Space City Weather

Welcome to your next 10 days, Houston: Heat and no rain - Houston has had a moderate first half of July, with an average high temperature below 93 degrees, and overall temperatures slightly below normal for this t...
Daily Dot

Netflix pounces on the cult of ‘Captain Underpants’ with winning kids’ series - [image: Netflix TV review] Get ready to watch this over and over. The post Netflix pounces on the cult of ‘Captain Underpants’ with winning kids’ series a...
National Post

‘I been watching you’: A child killer taunted little girls with terrifying notes, police say. After 30 years, DNA led to an arrest - Horrific messages provided Indiana investigators with the tools to zero in on the killer — once the right technology came along
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

APPROACHING THE SUMMIT - A lot of people in the U.S. and around the world want the Trump-Putin summit to fail https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/helsinki-sum...
The Root

Amazon's Prime Day Device Deals Started Early, and They're Unprecedented - Prime Day officially kicks off at 3PM ET today, but Amazon went ahead and put their own devices on sale early to kick off the festivities. Read more...
The Progressive Wing

7/16 News Roundup – Sanders Stumps For Fetterman, Barnstorms w/ Baldwin, Builds Enthusiasm For Ellison, Speaks To The AFT & More - Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the third day of the American Federation of Teachers Convention in Pittsburgh on Sunday: Coverage of the speech and the res...
Grist

So how’d those avocados handle the searing heatwave? - If SoCal keeps getting scorched, expect to see less of your favorite fruit.
Rivard Report

The Denominator: San Antonio’s Hunger for Public Art, Old Buildings, and High-Speed Internet - In this week's The Denominator, we look at SA's public art, super-fast internet, campaign finance, the family separation crisis, and more. The post Th...
Duffel Blog

General unsure why every workplace he visits is suspiciously tidy - [image: scaparotti] PATCH BARRACKS, Germany — Having recently toured several major military installations, the Supreme Allied Commander and head of US Eur...
Dorf on Law

The Difference Between Presuming Innocence and Presuming Victim Perjury in Acquaintance Rape Trials - by Sherry F. Colb The New York Times recently published a letter that I wrote about rape and statutes of limitations. I suggested that one reason to abolis...
First Draft

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Mods gone wild!”edition - Good morning, all! You know, being a mod in Freeperville has to be a thankless gig. You work for free while Jim Rob and his son rake in all the sweet Freep...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Past Mueller Indictments Haven’t Changed American Minds For Long - Friday’s news that the Justice Department had indicted 12 Russian agents in connection with interference in the 2016 U.S. elections was a major development...
The Conversation

Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected to 'transform' Mexico. Can he do it? - Mexico's leftist president-elect made many strange bedfellows to win the 2018 race, including business moguls, evangelicals and Marxists. How this motley n...
SCOTUSblog

In Recess #5: “The Ghost of LBJ” - [image: In Recess #5: “The Ghost of LBJ”]October Term 2017 has been officially gaveled out, and the justices are all doing exciting things like “teaching...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

At What Point Does This Become a Crime? - Over the weekend the NY Times published a piece entitled “Tracing Guccifer 2.0’s Many Tentacles in the 2016 Election” it is a sordid tale of how Roger Ston...
NPR's Health Shots

Despite The End Of China's One-Child Policy, Births Are Still Lagging - Beijing hoped that by ending its infamous policy restricting women to one child would see a quick turnaround in the number of births. But the old policy ha...
Off the Kuff

Monday “day before reports start showing up” campaign finance roundup - […]
CPI's Danger in the Air

Plutonium is missing, but the government says nothing - Losses of civilian nuclear material are usually disclosed, but when the government loses nuclear bomb ingredients it stays mum
Two Party Opera

From Russia With Love - James Buchanan was the Minister to Russia for about 18 months between 1832-1833, where he quickly learned that privacy was non-existent when he found out...
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday school - far right voices are frothing about a looming civil war maybe democrats should stop being afraid of the left gop incumbents voted out in oklahoma after vot...
Counterpunch

Trump Turns to Gaza as Middle East Deal of the Century Collapses - The Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” for the Palestine-Israel has, predictably, gone over like a lead balloon. So it’s shifting gears. The Wash...
Slate

The Real Value of Cambridge Analytica - *This story was published by the **Center for Public Integrity**, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington.* John Bolton ne...
ProPublica

In New York, Intolerance Has Become Routine - by Rahima Nasa It is just a snapshot, but it makes for a plenty ugly picture all the same: The New York City Commission on Human Rights surveyed more th...
Dallas Observer

Real Monument to Santos Rodriguez Is a City Rec Center that Looks Like a Prison - Dallas Park Board member Jesse Moreno believes the way for the city to achieve a better tomorrow is by facing up bravely to some very bad yesterdays. In pa...
Progressive.org

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gets Some Marijuana: A True Story - Local D.C. law says marijuana cannot be sold legally, but enterprising entrepreneurs have found another way.
Progrexas

Analysis: How to turn a weak Texas governor’s office into a strong one - Gov. Greg Abbott gives the keynote speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention in San Antonio on June 15, 2018. Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribun...
Dissident Voice

The Rocky Road to Helsinki - This is written July 14, two days before the Helsinki summit between Presidents Trump and Putin, and everything is on schedule in very predictable fashion ...
Rallblog

Abortion Rights Are Doomed Now and It’s Largely the Democrats’ Fault - Donald Trump has picked Brett Kavanaugh, a reliable right-wing conservative jurist, to replace swing justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. T...
The NM Political Report

Beleaguered BLM office faces decisions on oil leases near national park - [image: Beleaguered BLM office faces decisions on oil leases near national park] In September, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will hold a sale on almos...
Portside

Neutrinos Linked With Cosmic Source for the First Time - Neutrinos Linked With Cosmic Source for the First Time Ira Mon, 07/16/2018 - 01:31
The Reality-Based Community

Does the Constitution authorize immigration restriction? - Matt Yglesias, who would win if there were Pulitzer for trolling and subtweeting, decided to have some fun at the expense of right-wingers who (1) claim to...
Anti-Media

Trump Declares European Union a ‘Foe’ Ahead of Putin Meeting - [image: Trump European Union Foe](ANTIWAR.COM) — In comments made during the Sunday Meet the Press show, President Trump declared that the US has “a lot of...
jobsanger

Your Life Depends On It -
Socialist Worker

We are nurses and we won’t back down - Tristin Adie Some 1,800 nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) in Burlington took to the picket lines for two days last week to fight ...
World Socialist Web Site

British and Ecuadorian authorities in talks to evict Julian Assange from London embassy - Media reports point to the ongoing conspiracy, involving the British, US and Ecuadorian governments, to terminate Assange’s political asylum in violation o...
Sayfie Review Texas

Express-News: Early voting begins Monday for special election to fill Uresti seat - Express-News: Early voting begins Monday for special election to fill Uresti seat
Wolf Street

San Francisco’s Housing Market, Incomes & Disconnects, According to the Planning Commission - It’s called “Housing Crisis” for a reason.
Informed Comment

Trump calls EU “Foe,” on Eve of Putin Summit, on basis of his Zero-Sum Mercantilism - In an Interview with CBS Evening News, Trump categorized the European Union as a “foe” of the US, appearing to put it on the same footing as Russia and Chi...
MintPress News

Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s Trump-Putin Summit - Ray McGovern and Bill Binney have written an open letter to President Trump ahead of Monday’s summit. The post Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s T...
Campaign for America's Future

A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged - The United States ended the 20th century on a roll — for the rich. Between 1973 and 2000, the nation’s most prosperous 1 percent tripled their incomes, aft...
Antiwar.com

Protests Enter Second Week; 14 Killed, 366 Wounded in Iraq - Hundreds were wounded on Sunday or late Saturday across southern Iraq. The post Protests Enter Second Week; 14 Killed, 366 Wounded in Iraq appeared first...
Crooked Timber

On Lying and Politics: Michiko Kakutani, Martin Jay, and Hannah Arendt - A long piece by Michiko Kakutani on “The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump” is making the rounds. In it, Kakutani quotes Aren...
Splinter

Kushner Cos. Allegedly Did Some Horrific Shit to Force Out Rent Stabilized Tenants - Jared Kushner’s former real estate company may have exposed children to toxic dust as part of a campaign to push out rent-controlled tenants, according t...
OpEd News

The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom - It is up to us to mobilize to protect Assange. His life is in jeopardy. The Ecuadorean government, violating his fundamental rights, has transformed his as...
Washington's Blog

Assad Rejects Trump’s ‘Peace’ Terms - Eric Zuesse Elijah Magnier, one of the world’s most respected reporters in and about the Middle East, reported on Sunday, July 15th, that Syria’s President...
Washington Monthly

One Landlord, One Vote - How a form of private governance is quietly remaking America’s cities.
Field Negro

Benedict trump? - [image: A head and shoulders profile engraving of Benedict Arnold. He is facing left, wearing a uniform with two stars on the shoulder epaulet. His hair i...
See You In 2020

The Mainstream Media’s War On Reality - [image: article image] As the U.S./NATO empire quickly declines in its influence, the empire’s propaganda machine needs to promote multiple war runups, a n...
Political Dig

Adam Schiff Just Dropped a Major Truth Bomb Ahead Of Trump’s Meeting With ‘Unindicted Co-conspirator’ Putin - Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday over the controversial “pri...
Popular Resistance

Where Power Holders Get Power And How Movements Take It Away - This week, we present the second class in the Popular Resistance School course, "How Social Transformation Occurs." The second class takes a more in-depth ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Online attempts to connect LGBT equality with pedophilia are vicious hoaxes - This flyer is part of a vicious lieLies created to denigrate groups of people never really go away. They become phrased differently and continuously repea...
Angry Bear

Is Trump Bailing Out Soybean Farmers Or Not? - Is Trump Bailing Out Soybean Farmers Or Not? Chinese tariffs on US soybean exports have now kicked in, with China half the US soybean market, and exports m...
The Contributor

Robert Reich: 7 Truths About Immigration Trump and Sessions Have Lied About - News Image: Amid President Donald Trump's escalating lies, here are a few realities... Category: Immigration origin Blog: Robert Reich origin Author: Ro...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: The Handmaid’s Tale Controversial Second Season Finale; Discovery Shows The Enterprise Bridge; Emmy Nominations For Genre Shows; Doctor Who Teaser; HBO Picks Up New Show From Joss Whedon; Sweetbitter Renewed; Downton Abbey Movie Announced - The second season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale was quite controversial. I had mixed feelings when I saw June/Offred decide not to flee to Canada. It was f...
Greg Palast

Rosario Dawson, Tim Robbins and Greg Palast in Los Angeles - Actor and activist Rosario Dawson joined Greg Palast at UCLA The post Rosario Dawson, Tim Robbins and Greg Palast in Los Angeles appeared first on Greg P...
Liberation News

Nashua, NH holds first official citywide Pride celebration - Hundreds of members of the area’s LGBTQ community, joined by their loved ones and comrades in struggle, met downtown on Main Street from 2 PM to 5 PM for...
Common Dreams

Finnish Newspaper Greets Trump and Putin With Billboards Defending 'Free Press' - Jon Queally, staff writer Like every other place the U.S. president has traveled in Europe over the last week, large protests also took place in the Finnish...
The Greanville Post

In Mexico AMLO’s Approach To Ending The Cartel Wars Could Inadvertently Backfire - ANDREW KORYBKO— Mexico is therefore in a conundrum because it must urgently deal with the cartels yet there’s no perfect solution for doing so, as the exis...
Louis Proyect

Richard Seymour on how “Project Fear” failed against Jeremy Corbyn - (This is the latest installment of excerpts from Richard Seymour’s book on Corbyn. I plan to review the book for CounterPunch next week since it is such an...
Dandelion Salad

Abby Martin: The Rise of History’s Biggest Empire - Dandelion Salad Originally posted Sept. 6, 2015 with Abby Martin Empire Files on Sep 5, 2015 Abby Martin debuts teleSUR’s The Empire Files exploring the U....
Project Censored

Jenna Orkin and Jon Gold on 9/11 Activism - 9/11 activists Jenna Orkin and Jon Gold are Mickey’s guests for the hour. Rather than considering who the perpetrators might’ve been,the guests discuss t...
Political Orphans

Joseph Campbell on Netflix - Forty years ago, PBS released a series of Bill Moyers' conversations with professor Joseph Campbell, who is famous research on mythology. Netflix has comme...
News Corpse

The Sunday Morning Trump (Not So) Funnies: Donald Trump’s Senile Dementia Kicked in Bigly - This weekend Donald Trump massively accelerated the level of nonsense that has been the hallmark of his presidency. Among the cognitive lapses he displayed...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Thanksgiving Masses for the lives of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante. - *Remembering and giving thanks for the lives of Oswaldo and Harold. * In Miami, FL and Madrid, Spain there will be Masses given to give thanks for the liv...
emptywheel

Dragons Caught in the Crossfire: On the Genealogy of the Current and Future Mueller Investigation - To understand where the Mueller investigation is going, you need to know where it came from. And most reporting gets that wrong.
Consortium News

Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s Summit - Ray McGovern and Bill Binney have written an open letter to President Trump ahead of Monday’s summit. With Friday’s indictments of Russian intelligence of...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (Ascutney! Gott segne dich!) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out w...
VICE

'The Sleep Olympics,' Today's Comic by Valentine Gallardo - Valentine Gallardo imagines a world with competitive sleeping. It's a beautiful thing.
Ballot Access News

Oklahoma Ballot Order Lottery puts Libertarian Party on Top Line in November 2018 Election - On July 12, the Oklahoma State Board of Elections conducted its customary drawing to determine the order of parties on the November ballot. The Libertarian...
Reading the Pictures

From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week - The Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week. The post From SCOTUS to NATO, the P...
Grits for Breakfast

FIRST-STEP opposition shows why partisanship is the bane of criminal-justice reform - Just Liberty this week will launch a new action alert *asking Texas Sen. Ted Cruz* to support the *federal FIRST-STEP Act*, which regrettably puts us at od...
The Ghion Journal

Our Connective Existence: If Only We Could be Governed by Our Hearts - It seems as though the entire planet has been conditioned to accept the ideology of self and trained to seek individuality above the collective whole. Th...
Reverb Press

Blue Sunday: An Open Letter To Reasonable Trump Voters - You know who you are. The post Blue Sunday: An Open Letter To Reasonable Trump Voters appeared first on ReverbPress.
Newsbud

The Shift & A Secret Deal on Syria: Trump vs Clinton - In this edition of Probable Cause, for the first time Newsbud’s Founder & Editor Sibel Edmonds uncovers secret backroom deals that were made on Syria. Find...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The Wages of Poverty in America - For millions of Americans, however, the greatest threat to their day-to-day security isn’t terrorism or North Korea, Iran, Russia, or China. It’s intern...
Brad Blog

Sunday SuperCallousFragileRacistSexistNaziPotus Toons - Dairy Industry Trumps Infant Health with U.S. Rejection of Breastfeeding Resolution During the hearing, immigration judge John Richardson said he was “emba...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

There Are Twelve of Them and Asshole Lyin' - In the realm of international relations and domestic politics, things are, to use a technical term, fucked up... twelve Russians have been charged with med...
Disobedient Media

Mueller’s Latest Indictment Contradicts Evidence In The Public Domain - NOTE: There will likely be various amendments made to this article over the next 24 hours. On July 13th, 2018, […]
DeSmogBlog

Mexico's New Populist President Considers Foreign Pipeline Plans Despite Indigenous Protests - Read time: 12 mins [image: Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a rally in Mexico in 2012] *By Martha Pskowski and Steve Horn* Andrés Manuel López Obrador looked...
SocraticGadfly

Cardinals can Mike Matheny while flailing at midseason - I've been wanting the Birds to say sayonara to Mike Matheny as manager for years. Hell, I wanted John Mozeliak to hire Terry Francona instead of Matheny t...
Green News Network

Paint It Green (Eps 7 ) The Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Sheep Dog Saga Encor... -
Ian Welsh

The Mueller Indictment - So, we have the latest indictments from Mueller. Twelve GRU agents are named and indicted for hacking into a variety of servers, including the DNC, Clinto...
Mahablog

About the New Indictments - Just saw this on my Facebook feed: The Lawfare blog: The timing of the indictment given the upcoming Helsinki summit is a powerful show of strength by fede...
CultureMap Houston

Chef's weekend in Houston and where J.J. should dine lead top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern films at 6 Houston restaurants for ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 9 - 13 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The biggest story continues to be what is happening with the long leading ind...
Stinque

The Coldest War - There’s really nothing new to say. Our country has been attacked, it continues to be attacked, and a frighteningly substantial number of people are fine wi...
Grit Post

Taxpayers Forced to Pay $22M+ to Clean Up Pollution Caused by Pence Family Gas Stations - Taxpayers in three different states — Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois — are on the hook to the tune of $20 million in environmental cleanup costs thanks ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Removing Fallen Trees More Damaging Long Term - Post-Harvey debris removal along Buffalo Bayou almost complete By Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, Memorial Examiner, July 12, 2018 Since last fall, HCFCD ...
Somervell County Salon

The Mueller- Russia Investigation is quite quick by historical standards - and, although still ongoing, has already shown results.
San Antonio Current

Blues Traveler is Headed to San Antonio for Some Serious Harmonica Shreddage - John Popper, Blues Traveler’s frontman, doesn’t need a whole lot of introduction. The dude can rip a harmonica better than most guitar players can shred ...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Council expected to approve more than $300,000 worth of professional agreements at Monday meeting - City Council may approve a new sublease on the Lake Park marina with Malibu Mimi’s Shaved Ice, as well as $332,550 worth of professional services agreement...
Echidne of the Snakes

Weekend Reading: Other News About Women And Religion Etc. - The news snippets in the post are collected over time. Some are very recent, others are a little older, but they are all of some interest, even though ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court’s Disingenuous Funeral Ceremony for Korematsu - Instead of truly putting Korematsu to rest, the Muslim ban decision revived that shameful decision under another name. Over Independence Day weekend, I jo...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian Foreign Ministry Tweets NATO Criticism - NATO has grown from 12 founding states to 29 nations. And when the U.S. was attacked on September 11, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5, which states that an at...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Thank You, Russia - Jen Kirby @ Vox: Rod Rosenstein announces Russian indictments: “Blame for election interference belongs to the criminals”. Media Matters: Infowars reacts t...
BEYONDbones

A Few Daytrips From Houston That Offer Surprisingly Rewarding Experiences - Everyone knows that traveling is a rewarding experience, but there seems to be a misconception as to how far you have to go to attain this elusive “reward”...
Debunking Christianity

Most All Christians Do Not Believe! - In a post on Facebook I wrote: Most all Christians believe the Bible is the word of their god. But they don't read it, and can't quote anything more than a...
In These Times

The NATO Summit Wasn’t a Victory for Trump—It Was a Victory for Militarism - For most major media outlets, the events of the past week have yielded a straightforward narrative: Donald Trump, at the behest of his puppet-master in t...
Freethought Now

Feeling supreme and sassy - We were kept in a hectic state by President Trump’s announcement of his Supreme Court pick, even more so because he chose to do it in the evening, primetim...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (July 8 – 14) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Religious-right leader Franklin Graham repeatedly reminded voters in 2016. In 2018, with the retirement ...
Free Press Houston

The New Charis Ammon Show Is Full of Painterly Grit and Grime - The exhibition at Inman Gallery will be Charis Ammon's first solo show.
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Nicholas Sarwark at FreedomFest - FreedomFest is “an annual festival where free minds meet to celebrate “great books, great ideas, and great thinkers” in an open-minded society. It is in...
Shadowproof

Members-Only Newsletter Preview: Roger Waters And Boundaries Of Permissible Thought - Artists should challenge the boundaries of permissible thought. They should transcend orthodoxy or the conventional wisdom of the establishment, and few ...
Rude Pundit

Republicans: Shit-Talking Your Boss Is Wrong, But Shit-Talking Your Employees Is Awesome - Believe it or not, I have been entrusted with a position that puts me into a supervisory position over dozens of employees. I am their boss, and I can fire...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 193: ‘Inaction heroes’ - LaHaye and Jenkins' version of life, mission and ministry is neither difficult nor adventurous. It's pretty dull, actually, consisting mainly of sitting ar...
Texas Standard

Houston’s ‘The Suffers’ Has Its Own Brand Of Gulf Coast Soul - “I feel like the reason we’ve done so well and we continue to do well is because we kind of just have chosen to embrace our city and embrace our...
Morning Consult

Security and Access Concerns Lead Efforts to Modernize Federal Websites - The post Security and Access Concerns Lead Efforts to Modernize Federal Websites appeared first on Morning Consult.
Pensito Review

If You Know Your Own Family’s Immigration Story, You Should Watch This - If you find yourself growing immune to the trauma we are inflicting on our southern border, watch this video for a little reminder of how shameful our curr...
Lowering the Bar

Majority Rejects “Mullet Doctrine” in Fourth Amendment Case - Not to be confused with the Rule in Cyrus's Case. Related Stories - Supreme Court: Get a Warrant Before You Invade Somebody's Curtilage - S...
Rewire

This Week in Sex: Ohio Lawmakers Want to Out Kids for (What They Think Are) Hints of Being Trans - So are teachers going to be reporting transgender children, girls with short haircuts, students who want gender-neutral anything, or your average nonconf...
nonsite.org

Two Poems - In the office park he spoke of *the land.* To the loan officer, of *the land.* At the temp agency, *the land.*
Talking Union

Support Fired Tobacco Farmworkers - Two farmworkers were harassed, abused and later fired unjustly after speaking out about violations on Randy Blalock’s tobacco farm in North Carolina. The F...
Peacock Panache

Tariff Time: The Nation’s Looming Trade War - [image: Tariff Time: The Nation’s Looming Trade War] Trump’s Tariffs went into effect last week, and the response from America’s trading partners has been...
Robert Reich

7 TRUTHS ABOUT IMMIGRATION 1. A record high of 75 percent of... - * 7 TRUTHS ABOUT IMMIGRATION* 1. A record high of 75 percent of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing” for the country. 2. America needs more...
Harper's Magazine

[Podcast ] | Living in the Vanguard of Climate Change, by Harper’s Magazine - How mega-fires—and the blinkered perspectives demanding flawed management of them—are raising the stakes for everyone
Texas Observer

Legislation to Abolish ICE Indicates Movement is Gaining Mainstream Traction - Three Democratic lawmakers gave a boost to the “Abolish ICE” movement Thursday, seizing on an effort by the agency’s criminal investigative division to s...
Political Garbage Chute

Doctors Unsure How Peter Strzok Got His Foot So Far Up Trey Gowdy’s Sphincter - WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a marathon, all-day hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and embattled FBI Agent Pet...
Earthjustice

Montanans Fight to Keep a Mining Executive from Polluting Again - Montanans Fight to Keep a Mining Executive from Polluting Again Tired of dealing with mining messes, state regulators are heeding citizen calls to crack do...
Progressive Army

But Our Chains - Read Part One here. When it comes to real transformation, it has become apparent that today’s progressives are just like yesterday’s liberals, and they w...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

VIDEO: Ivory Hecker gives us a behind the scenes look - [A blogging break is in effect, but I'm auto posting anyway. Who loves you?] FOX 26 KRIV anchor/reporter Ivory Hecker gives us a behind the scenes look at ...
Duck of Minerva

Dark Days Ahead: Does Trump Have a Point About Europe? - For the first year of the Trump Administration, the Washington D.C.- based denizens of the U.S. foreign policy establishment assured themselves that althou...
Texas Monthly

Kay Bailey Hutchison and Donald Trump at the NATO Summit - Hutchison shows discomfort at President Trump’s style, but her record shows she’s in agreement with the substance of his remarks. The post Kay Bailey Hut...
Bracing Views

The Races of Man - W.J. Astore In the 19th century, many people believed in polygenism, and others used the concept of “the races of man,” where by “race” they often meant sp...
Democracy Now!

Will Parents Separated from Their Children at the Border Be Forced to Separate Again to Win Asylum? - Two days after a court-imposed deadline, the Trump administration said Thursday that just 57 of more than 100 children under the age of 5 have been reunite...
Better Texas Blog

Targeting Health Care Navigators: A Terrible Idea that Threatens Texans - This week the Trump Administration announced additional cuts to the federal Navigator program, a core support system that helps Texans make their way thr...
Socialist Alternative

One Year After $15 an Hour Passes in Minneapolis – Lessons for Saint Paul - One year ago today, Minneapolis passed the first $15 minimum wage in the Midwest. On New Year’s Day, a majority of minimum wage workers in Minneapolis got ...
xpostfactoid

No, CMS, ACA marketplace enrollment isn't up this year, and doesn't justify navigator funding cuts - To justify gutting funding for the navigators who help low income people enroll in health insurance subsidized by the ACA (Medicaid as well as marketplace)...
OffCite

Houston Ship Channel Tour: Fenceline Communities - Valero, Manchester, and the Sidney Sherman Bridge over the Ship Channel. Photo: Alex MacLean.In March 2018, Houston hosted the Funders’ Network Annual Conf...
Krebs on Security

Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords - Here's a clever new twist on an old email scam that could serve to make the con far more believable. The message purports to have been sent from a hacker w...
DBC Green blog

An Assortment of Musings on the 2018 Men's World Cup - This is one of those bullet-point posts, I'm afraid, because these thoughts don't add up to a single coherent theme.Croatia's first appearance in the final...
Dos Centavos

Calling Out Our Own: Following The Money - Now, let’s see what liberal freak-out happens next… For years, the Democratic attack against Republicans has had a mantra to convince the voters that one s...
Texas Moratorium Network

Chair of Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Joe Moody Endorses Abolishing the Death Penalty - The chair of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has endorsed ending the death penalty. He sent out an email today copied below that link...
WAWG Blog

Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice - RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean … Since – Brown v Board of Education in 1954 that caused Virgini...
Texans For Public Justice

Report Tracks Austin Campaign Money - FAULT LINES Campaign Contributions Expose Austin's Divide Austin's city elections were dominated by residents of the three most affluent and least racially...
Our Finite World

The world’s weird self-organizing economy - Why is it so difficult to make accurate long-term economic forecasts for the world economy? There are many separate countries involved, each with a self-or...
The Rag Blog

Philip L. Russell : The election of AMLO: Optimism and skepticism in Mexico - The election leaves in its wake a radically different political landscape. By Philip L. Russell | The Rag Blog | July 11, 2018 Philip Russell will join Tho...
The Disorder Of Things

Race and the Undeserving Poor: Response - This is my response to the commentaries graciously provided by Sara Salem, Naeem Inayatullah, Luke De Noronha, Rick Saull, and Lisa Tilley, who also organi...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

But Did Labour Really Make Neoliberalism? - Drawing on my article ‘The Labour governments 1974–1979: social democracy abandoned?’, recently published in the journal British Politics, this post ques...
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Forces of (Negative) Evil - This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philos...
Great American Satan

Penny Arcade & Love Lost - Many of you have never heard of Penny Arcade. As far as webcomics go, it was the original success story, the ur-two-guys-on-a-couch video game afición stri...
Popehat

You'll Hate This Post On Brett Kavanaugh And Free Speech - You're going to hate this post. You're going to hate it because it's about what I decided to write about, not what you want me to write about. It's about S...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2018 - The Lifespan of a Lie – Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous experiments in psychology. I knew it was questionable in methodolo...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

On July 10, 1850, Millard Fillmore ascended to the presidency - The popular hero of the Mexican-American War, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9. For the second time, a vice president was sworn in to replace the elected pre...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 227 - The Purge Has Officially Begun - This week’s show is all over the map. Literally, we hit 50 things, it’s a mess… just listen. In the end, we briefly hit on the SCOTUS selection, since ...
Equality Texas

Statement by Chuck Smith, CEO of Equality Texas in response to President Trump’s Supreme Court Nomination - In response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, the following can b...
PERRspectives

A Higher Patriotism - Just in time for the Fourth of July, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of patriotism. Its primary finding? For the first time in Gallup's 18...
Pressing Issues

A Bite-Sized History of Jefferson, Hemings, and French Cuisine in USA - I've written the following in honor of publication tomorrow of my Ph.D daughter's first book, for The New Press, co-authored by her cheesemonger husband...
New Progressive Alliance

Defining the New Progressive by Sondra Miller - Sondra Miller is one of the pillars of the New Progressive Alliance. Here she questions what a real progressive is. It is crucial to answer this question...
News Taco

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED on massive scale to help reunite immigrant children with their families - This is an opportunity for experts on Latin America to get involved and lend their expertise. Please also share widely: URGENT HELP NEEDED ASAP!! Center ...
Frontloading HQ

Idaho Democrats Announce Shift from "Unwieldy" Caucuses to State-Funded Presidential Primary for 2020 - *Betsy Z. Russell writing for the Idaho Press:* *Idaho Democrats will switch to a presidential primary, rather than a caucus, for the next presidential el...
Red Wedge

Bad Dreams - Ring around the rosies, Pocket full o’ posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! Most everyone knows this nursery rhyme. Urban legend places its origin in th...
LawFlog

A case study in good-old-boy judicial corruption - Buckle up, kids. It’s time to air some dirty laundry. First, a little background: As a practicing lawyer, I’ve had to keep my mouth shut about a lot of thi...
The Metaphor Project

How to frame it “American” Now: Summer 2018 - These days the political framing challenge we face is greater than any we’ve faced in a long time. While it is absolutely vital to avoid repeating the fram...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Media Glorify Themselves While Still Refusing to Cover Causes of Violence! - The reason some people think the mainstream media is doing a great job is because they tell us this, over and over again; and after the shooting at the ...
Downwinders at Risk

THE CLEAN AIR FUND THAT TIME FORGOT - Over a decade ago $500,000 was collected from North Texas local governments to protect Texas air. It’s been sitting in a bank account ever since. Until rec...
First Reading

Run Hard: Blue Action Democrats rally against `naysayers’ and `conventional wisdom’ - Good Monday Austin: While other people yesterday were doing whatever people do on a summer Sunday afternoon in Austin, I spent several hours with a couple…
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

I kind of know how it feels - Obviously, it all brings back many memories for me. All of the people phone me, or a lot of people phone me, anyway, and they ask me what I think of the b...
ROAR Magazine

The Birdcage - A filmic experiment investigating the relationship between politics and economics, against a backdrop of democratic deficits, capital controls and soft E...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

The Orchestra of Baja California & Celso Piña - One of the fascinating things about Tijuana is its way of absorbing almost anything and anyone from anywhere. It has a long history of doing so, most rec...
Ramona's Voices

Hanging On To Our Independence on the Fourth Of July - This year, 2018, has been a trying one, but I don't have to tell you. This Independence Day feels like the last of the best for the country I love and have...
Washington Babylon

Inside Scoop On How Rhode Island Democratic Party Made National News (For Worst Reasons) - I have lived in Rhode Island for over three decades now and am well acquainted with its demented Democratic Party. So when Slate magazine ran a column titl...
GreenSource DFW

Dallas-based company has high hopes for vertical farming - *Eden Green's non-GMO and pesticide, herbicide and chemical-free produce can be found in Walmart stores in Texas starting this month.* July 3, 2018 A D...
Carl Beijer

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John Laurits

Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report - Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report Today is July 2nd 2018 and Googling “North Korea news” is likely to brin...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not working just to survive - See, here's what happens: I start thinking I'd better hurry up and upload this latest post I'm working on, and if I can just get that last link on the p...
Pages of Victory

Canvasser - The young man who just left my house was clean, well groomed, wearing nice slacks and a Greg Abbot tee shirt. Barely had he identified himself when I launc...
Nathan Hevenstone

Turns Out Pixar’s Toxic - Note: Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual harassment and assault, especially for Cassandra Smolcic’s article linked below, which I am going to quote ...
St. Petersburg Independents

for a United Front against Gentrification - One small injustice. One of our friends — a working class white woman — was in trouble and called my wife Rose. Her landlord was trying to force her out o...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Extensive Mid-20th Century Presidential Collection Donated to University of Virginia Center for Politics - The University of Virginia Center for Politics has received an extensive collection of mid-20th century U.S. presidential memorabilia and artifacts from th...
Modern Democracy

The Ideological Balance of the Supreme Court Hangs On The Midterm Elections— But Not Because Of Kennedy - Now that Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, everyone’s attention has turned to the question of who will fill his seat. Given Kennedy’s status a...
Pressthink

It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - That is my recommendation. The post It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency appeared first on PressThink.
Seeing the Forest

90s-Type Dems Afraid Rush Limbaugh Will Say Something Bad About Them - From 2007: Senate Dems Afraid Rush Limbaugh Will Say Something Bad About Them. That was when Dems voted to condemn MoveOn. Remember when Dems were stampede...
ExChristian.Net

Small God Answers Small Prayers - *By Carl S ~ * Bottom line: God is in the business of bestowing good feelings and material prosperity. He's answering small prayers. Take the recent U.S. K...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Syria chemical attacks: Smoke and mirrors, truth and lies - A big thanks to Al Jazeera’s Listening Post for allowing Max Blumenthal and I a platform to challenge the mainstream narrative about the war in Syria. Chec...
Houston DSA

#AbolishICE & #AbolishDHS - Houston DSA is firmly committed to organizing to #AbolishICE and #AbolishDHS. We encourage our members and allies to participate in the following actions...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

EPA Proposed Rollbacks to Chemical Disaster Rule will Harm Communities - Last week, I, Stephanie Thomas, Houston Organizer for Public Citizen, joined members of community and environmental groups testifying in opposition to Po...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Plastics, Pipelines, Fracking & Our Planet June 20, 2018 (5CT/ 6MT/ 7CT/ 8ET) - Fracking doesn’t just fuel power plants, it also provides raw materials to the petrochemical industry. Producing plastics and other petrochemical products ...
Independent Thinker 2016

“But Obama Did It First” – The Truth About Trump’s Immigration Policy vs Obama’s Immigration Policy - Clearing up a common misconception about The Deporter in Chief.
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of June 18th - The Texas Progressive Alliance strongly condemns the inhumane practice of separating families from their children as it brings you its weekly roundup. Off ...
Moron Majority

U.S. Offers Free Summer Camp To Migrant Children - Leave it to Fox News host Laura Ingraham to set the record straight. While some have called the federal detention centers, set up for brown children seekin...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Kasich: There’s a disease in American politics - Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Monday said there’s a “serious disease” affecting U.S. politics.“There’s a disease now in American politics. It’s a serious di...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 13, 2018 - Both Trump and his critics should take diplomacy more seriously.
Houston Justice

Worthing and Woodson Face Closure or State Takeover - [image: worthing band.jpg] First off, remember months ago when I and others rang the alarm saying these schools were in danger of closure? Remember how s...
Truthout

Cities and States Sue Big Pharma Firms That Profited From Peddling Addictive Opioids - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this year that the city would sue manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids to account for t...
UP@NIGHT

The Productivity Syndrome (or why I stopped writing philosophy) - You are at a conference, wandering around the book exhibit. A former colleague …
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT's Queer Voices on History of Texas Sodomy Law - The 15th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, finding Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional, is coming up in June. I had the oppo...
Bad Attitudes

Snowflakes - There is still good in our world, if you look hard enough. Alan Tucker has: There is a new term for those handwringing liberals who whine about poor peop...
The Economic Populist

Construction contribution to Q1 GDP under-reported by 47 basis points, despite 1.7% drop in March - Construction spending fell 1.7% in March, after construction spending for both January and February were revised much higher. The Census Bureau's report...
34justice

We Miss the Old Kanye… - Kanye West is oft considered one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. He also supports Trump and recently gave an interview stating his belie...
Real News

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign - By Gareth Porter* / Consortium News * Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but ...
South Lawn

Dead Workers Don’t Use Elevators, Cherie - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate North Carolina’s Elevator Queen. I do not mean that I hate Cherie Berry as a person. I hate and despise the...
The Texas Politics Project

Governor Abbott (Still) Tops Texans' Evaluations of Elected Officials* - By: Jim Henson Joshua Blank In addition to its focus on Texans’ views of the issues facing the state, the University of Texas / Texas Politics Project Pol...
If You Only News

Pregnant Mother Shot By Her 3-Year-Old Daughter With Father’s Gun (VIDEO) - Police said a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her pregnant mother from the backseat of the car on Tuesday in Indiana. Authorities said the woman’s...
Texas Rural Voices

San Saba to Brady: A Day in the Heart of Texas with Beto O’Rourke - By JoAnn Randall “Everyone was in upbeat spirits on a beautiful spring day and all were looking forward, enormously, to hearing from and meeting Beto O’R...
Jim Hightower

Guacamole, shakshuka, mussels and… garbage dogs? Recipes from Hightower and friends - After Hightower’s longtime partner, DeMarco, took her leave of us from this crazy planet, our staff and the board of the Lowdown decided to have a little...
Irregular Times

Catholic Priest Prays For Wanton Destruction In Congress - It’s outrageous that a priest was given specific federal government authorization to conduct a religious ritual on the floor of the U.S. House of Represent...
The Urban Edge

Sustainable Cities Need More Than Parks, Cafes and a Riverwalk - The Conversation | The difference between green cities and green gentrification. Continue Reading →
Deep State Nation

GOP Lawmaker’s 56-Year-Old Aide Fired Over Sexual Encounter With Teenage Boy - BUSTED!
News Junkie

Human Trafficking from Haiti to Chile - In Chile, as in every other country that has historically embraced slavery, there are numerous racists. It is equally fair to say that, like all countries ...
Texas Watch

Texas Watch Speaks on Auto Safety at HABA Conference - (Photo (left to right): John Kopriva, HABA President; Burl Richards, ABAT President; Ware Wendell, Executive Director of Texas Watch; Robert McDorman, F...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

Self Care: An Open Letter About Healing - Self Care: An Open Letter About HealingAshton P. Woods **It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pres...
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

SCOTUS dismisses Texas Democrats’ partisan-gerrymandering claim - The Supreme Court issued an *order *Tuesday morning dismissing the Texas Democratic Party’s partisan gerrymandering claim for want of jurisdiction. The S...
Reveal

Nation’s largest janitorial company faces new allegations of rape - ABM Industries Inc. has a history of being sued for failing to stop sexual abuse on the job.
Death to Squirrels

I don’t understand their objection to “shithole countries.” - Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries in Oval Office meeting President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Ov...
Daily Democracy

Judge: Voting panel must give Dem more access - A federal judge has upheld a lawsuit filed by a Democratic member of the White House voting commission who claimed he’s being shut out of commission activi...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 30: All Too Normal - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss the wave of sexual misconduct revelations and the GOP tax bill. Check out this episode!
The Nil Admirari

Trump Declares Victory Over Opioid Epidemic - *LAST UPDATED @ 10:48AM (10.27.2017)* *Trump credits "big brain," "hugely big hands" for solving America's opioid epidemic.* Donald Trump declares victor...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

In Las Vegas, Second Amendment Hero makes largest blood donation to the NRA - "One thing I love about these tragedies that happen, the reaction from the American people coming together," - NRA Spokesmodel Antonia Okafor told Blond ...
Free Speech.org

John Fugelsang Explains Why With Free Speech TV, The Viewers are the Sponsors - John Fugelsang expresses the importance of Free Speech TV. He says it's "where you'll get the information that you might not hear elsewhere," because oth...
Citizen Slant

Trump’s Catchphrase for Any Circumstance: ‘We’ll See’ - WASHINGTON (AP) — When in doubt, President Donald Trump has a ready-made response to any questions: “We’ll see.” On Wednesday, Trump delivered his go-to ...
Progress For All

Trump Attacking Our Vulnerable Seniors…Again! - By Tim Canova Putting a loved one in a nursing home is life-changing and often a heart-breaking experience. It saddens me to say that President Donald Trum...
Non Prophet News

What if Trump is trying to get impeached? - Those in The Resistance have been calling for Donald Trump's impeachment since before his inauguration, but what if impeachment is exactly what he wants? T...
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...
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...
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...
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...
OpenSecrets

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Sunday Funnies

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