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Mediaite

4 Million Mike Huckabee Robocalls Broke Law, Lawsuit Says - Read the rest of this entry »
ExChristian.Net

Seek and You Shall Find What You are Not Looking For - *By Seeker ~ * My mom was "saved" when I was 7 and I was personally "saved" when I was 13. I considered myself very lucky: I fell in love with Jesus from a...
Liberation News

US/UAE interrogate/torture in secret prisons in Yemen - The United Arab Emirates, an occupying force, is running a secret network of prisons in Yemen, where prisoners are routinely tortured brutally. The post ...
National Post

Police in Istanbul fire plastic bullets, tear gas at defiant marchers in banned pride parade - Turkish police stopped activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights from gathering in large numbers for an LGBT pride event in Istanbul ...
Raw Story

Putin recalls Russian ambassador at center of Trump collusion investigation - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has ordered its ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, to return his mother country. BuzzFeed News ...
Daily Kos

Republicans settle on public strategy to sell their healthcare repeal bill: Lie, lie, and lie. - Both Senate Republicans and the Trump "administration" have quickly settled on how they'll be selling the Senate's gargantuan $800 billion cut to Medicai...
Salon.com

Meet the horsemen of our environmental apocalypse - These Trump appointees are destroying life on Earth for us and for our children
Talking Points Memo

What The Supreme Court Could Decide When It Comes To Trump's Travel Ban - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is expected to decide within days whether the Trump administration can enforce a ban on visitors to the U.S. from six...
Axios

The Kremlin's man in Washington is returning to Moscow - Sergey Kislyak has served as Russia's ambassador to the U.S. for nearly a decade, but it is only in recent months that he became a household name for......
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Finally, the Poor Will Have the Freedom to Die - While officiating Secretary of the Treasury Jay Gould’s third wedding, Vice-President Torquemada found time to tweet a picture of the wedding of a bunch of...
Daily Dot

Drone footage shows the nearly-completed Apple Park campus in all its glory - This looks amazing. The post Drone footage shows the nearly-completed Apple Park campus in all its glory appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Death and Taxes

Lil Kim a person of interest in Los Angeles robbery - Among the items stolen were $20,000 and a single hubcap.
The Greanville Post

A spook comes out of the woodwork to attack Brad Pitt’s War Machine - Kassel presents the 16-year US-led intervention in Afghanistan as “a war effort that, while certainly replete with absurdities and mistakes, was and contin...
Popular Resistance

Venezuela’s Grassroots: “We Need to Lead the Revolution” - By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim for Venezuela Analysis. Venezuelan grassroots activists say the upcoming National Constituent Assembly (ANC) could be a major step...
Angry Bear

Welfare Reform Kills ? - This is an update of this post in which I expressed immense confidence that welfare reform killed people in Florida . The post is based on https://www.ncbi...
Think Progress

White House skips Ramadan celebration, breaking with 20 years of tradition - The move comes amid troubling comments about Islam from President Donald Trump and his advisors.Former President George W. Bush speaks during an iftar dinn...
Eschaton

Lying Is Bold - Modern journalism. HHS Secretary Tom Price making a bold delararion to @DanaBashCNN: "We would not have individuals lose coverage." — Manu Raju (@mkraju) J...
First Draft

Get Out of the Nursing Home, Grandma! - I thought we revered the Greatest Generation: ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She has raised four children and buried two...
Political Dig

An Incredibly Embarrassing Picture Of Trump Just Leaked, And Twitter Response Is Hilarious - A strikingly embarrassing picture of President Trump playing tennis in tiny shorts has emerged online and it has triggered an avalanche of hilarious resp...
St. Petersburg Independents

Uhurus Own the Ground - ST. PETERSBURG, FL, June 22, 2017 — “My name is Jesse Nevel, and I m a candidate for Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida.” So began Jesse Nevel, who will be o...
High Plains Blogger

Trump blames Obama for the ‘Russia thing’ … imagine that - Leave it to Kellyanne “Alternative Facts” Conway to set the record (sort of) straight on the Russian interference controversy. It’s the fault of the Obama ...
Bonddad

My Weekly Columns Are Up at XE.com - International Economic Week in Review US Equity and Economic Review US Bond Market Week in Review
Anti-Media

Oil Leaks and Militarized Police: The Legacy of the Dakota Access Pipeline - As the Dakota Access Pipeline nears operational status the project is marred with new reports of oil leaks and the presence of a private military contracto...
Vox

GOP Sen. Ben Sasse: The Senate health care bill is mostly about Medicaid - And he won’t say if he’ll vote for it COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), whose vote Republican leaders absolutely need if they hope to ...
Dandelion Salad

Lily Pad Roll: The Last Chapter–Persian Paradigm by Gaither Stewart - by Gaither Stewart Writer, Dandelion Salad Rome, Italy June 25, 2017 Lily Pads is a name given to a new and more flexible type of US military base abroad, ...
If You Only News

Eric Trump Unveils New Haircut In The Style Made Famous By Alt-Right Neo-Nazis (PHOTO) - Eric Trump has a new haircut and that haircut looks to be an outrageously offensive political statement. Moving away from the slicked back caricature of...
Consortium News

Intel Behind Trump’s Syria Attack Questioned - Exclusive: The mainstream media is so hostile to challenges to its groupthinks that famed journalist Seymour Hersh had to take his take-down of President T...
Off the Kuff

Weekend link dump for June 25 - “The AHCA would raise employment and economic activity at first, but lower them in the long run. It initially raises the federal deficit when taxes are rep...
Hullabaloo

There are no right wing terrorists, only patriots - *There are no right wing terrorists, only patriots* by digby I posted the other day about the new study on terrorist violence in the United States. It sh...
OpEd News

The Russian Nexus - Trump's entanglements from this world of international business are now on display, but it is not this world that will be indicted. It is a much smaller pr...
Freak Out Nation

Trump’s Son: My Daddy Has ‘Accomplished More Than Any President In History’ (VIDEO) - Trump’s son on Sunday said that his Daddy is the best president ever. Only a member of the Trump family or the alleged president’s most ardent supporters...
Sputnik News

Saudi Arabia's New Heir Entered Political Stage Like a 'Meteor' - Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman who was recently chosen as the heir of the Saudi throne made an impressing and rapid career, orientalist Yuri Zinin said i...
Crooks and Liars

No Phil Donahue, We Don't Need The Media To Interview More Trump Voters - [image: No Phil Donahue, We Don't Need The Media To Interview More Trump Voters] Sorry, Phil Donahue, but I don't need the media to interview more people ...
Houston Streetwise

It's Unreal at Total - Art Installation by Adela Andea - It's Unreal Art Installation by Adela Andea May 15 - September 8, 2017 in the lobby of the Total Plaza Office Building 1201 Louisiana St. Houston, TX 77...
Ballot Access News

Minnesota Waives Right to Respond in U.S. Supreme Court Over Law Banning “Political Clothes” at Polls - Minnesota has a law banning voters at the polls from wearing any clothing, or anything on their person, with a political message. The ban doesn’t just cove...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Keeping Count - The New York Times is keeping count of Trump’s lies. Somebody remind me – in counting, is a gazillion or a trizillion bigger? This keeping count thing is ...
Reveal

Trump’s business conflicts cast a shadow over Middle East policy - The president's new financial disclosure mentions at least two-dozen entities: LLCs, corporations and trusts where Trump was until recently an official whi...
Houston Press

Bwoy's Elliptical Study of Sex, Race and Grief Online - “Sexy, aggressive daddy looking for sub bottom boy who knows how to fuck,” types pale, meek-looking Brad (Anthony Rapp) into his online hookup profile in t...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Richardson: "More urgency" needed with... - Former UN ambassador Bill Richardson, who worked for months to try and secure Otto Warmbier's release, discusses the issues that bedevil any attempt to neg...
Buzzflash

Senior Israeli Rabbi Calls for the Mass Execution of Palestinians - Senior Israeli Rabbi Calls for the Mass Execution of Palestinians 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 6/25/2017 - Really? Cops got warrant for Facebook to try to dig up dirt on dead man's girlfriend
Reverb Press

WATCH GOP Senator Drop Racist Code, Liken People with Pre-Existing Conditions to Bad Drivers - Earlier this week, Senate Republicans unveiled their new Obamacare replacement plan, an update to the “American Health Care Act” called the “Better Care ...
News Corpse

HUH? Kellyanne Conway Says Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Are Not Medicaid Cuts - Sunday morning the inventor of “alternative facts” was at it again. Donald Trump staffer Kellyanne Conway made an appearance on This Week with George Steph...
Ring of Fire

Republicans Will Not Defect On Healthcare Bill – They Want Those Tax Cuts - Since the Republican healthcare bill in the Senate was unveiled, news stories were buzzing about the idea that some Senate Republicans may not go along w...
Mother Jones

Over 50? Trumpcare Will Raise Your Premiums $4,500. - The Kaiser Family Foundation has figured out what the net premiums would be under the Senate health care bill for all 3,143 counties in the United States. ...
naked capitalism

America and China: A Quick Critique of “The Thucydides Trap” - Is the concept of a "rising" China inevitably in conflict with a "ruling" United States correct?
Heat Street

Billionaire Sheryl Sandberg Says Men Are Still Ruling the World and Are Doing Crappy Job of It - She sees anti-women bias everywhere she looks.
Down With Tyranny!

Is A Deranged, Vengeful Trumpanzee Ready To Destroy GOP Hopes Of Holding Onto The Nevada Senate Seat? - Friday evening, we warned that by handing the Nevada Senate nomination over to worthless conservaDem Jackie Rosen-- who has already managed to stake out ...
DeSmogBlog

America Rising Squared Report Bashes EVs for Using Same Rare Earth Metals as Gas-Powered Cars - A GOP-tied group devoted to promoting alleged hypocrisy among climate action advocates just released a new report that “exposes the horrible human and en...
Common Dreams

A Very Scary Week in the Middle East - Eric Margolis What a scary week in the Mideast. The epicenter of the world’s energy resources and the land-bridge between Asia and Africa is spinning out o...
The Fifth Column

Grizzly Bears may be in serious trouble - (SC) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone region from the Endangered Species List. The decision come...
The Progressive Wing

Science Sunday #53 - Paris Air Show This year’s International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport finishes today, after one week of spectacular surprises. Perhaps the standout...
SCOTUSblog

This week at the court - [image: This week at the court]The court will release its order list from the June 22 conference on Monday. The court will also release its final opinion...
AlterNet.org

College Defends Firing Professor after Fox News Appearance - On the show, she defended the Black Lives Matter movement's decision to host a Memorial Day celebration to which only black people were invited. Relat...
Pharyngula

A bad Xian movie that I missed? - Mike Huckabee has been sued for illegally robocalling to plug his movie. It doesn’t surprise me that he’s a venal little spammer, but I guess he was also a...
Lewisville Texan Journal

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Mock Paper Scissors

Missouri: At Your Cervix, ladies! - War on Women Ugh: Pitched as an expansion of religious freedom for employers and landlords, the bill would overturn a St. Louis city ordinance that prevent...
No More Mister Nice Blog

HOW MANY FACTS CAN MAUREEN DOWD GET WRONG IN ONE COLUMN? - Maureen Dowd attacks a cartoon version of the Democrats: The Democrats just got skunked four to nothing in races they excitedly thought they could win beca...
Krebs on Security

Got Robocalled? Don’t Get Mad; Get Busy. - Several times a week my cell phone receives the telephonic equivalent of spam: A robocall. On each occasion the call seems to come from a local number, but...
The Intercept

Ralph Nader: The Democrats Are Unable to Defend the U.S. from the “Most Vicious” Republican Party in History - The legendary consumer advocate describes his decades-long perspective on what brought the Democratic Party to its current state of collapse. The post Ra...
Affinity

Sunday Facepalm. - Robert Oscar Lopez truly hates Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar. It’s symptomatic of every wrong thing in the world! Mr. Lopez has a rather stunningly long sc...
Dissident Voice

Everything’s Important - That little kind gesture, which was almost without effort and you were barely even conscious of… was in fact a ‘Sign’ the little ‘Miracle’ she had prayed f...
The Verge

All Systems Red chronicles the life of a robot that calls itself Murderbot - “But as I said before, these were intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible sit...
Houston Communist Party

Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal C.I.A. Interrogations – The New York Times - Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal C.I.A. Interrogations – The New York Times Two men who proposed interrogation techniques widely viewed as torture are...
Real News

Qatar diplomatic crisis: what are Trump's financial links to the region? - By Stephanie Kirchgaessner. This article was first published on The Guardian . US president has long history of lucrative investment deals with Saudi Ara...
Trivial Knot

Hangout with PZ - I will be in a live hangout with PZ in a few hours, at noon CDT. I’m just going to leave these links here: Pharyngula post YouTube page
Shadowproof

‘Unauthorized Disclosure’ – Episode 22: Democrats And Their Ossoff Fail - Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola highlight some pretty awful and horrible stories on this week’s show but not before talking about the Democratic Pa...
slacktivist

Sunday favorites - You have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name t...
Slate - Politics and News

Supreme Court Breakfast Table - Friends: Walter’s last post about the travel-ban litigation focuses on one of the few blockbuster issues before the court this term. But however extraor...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (June 18 – 24) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Dennis Nixon, the chief executive of International Bancshares Corp. and International Bank of Commerce i...
Brad Blog

Sunday Toons of the 'Trumpcare Revealed' Moment - * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie.
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 23: Populism vs. Pragmatism - Bill Scher, Traci Olsen and special guest Bob Williams debate why Democrats struck out in the special elections. Check out this episode!
VICE

So hat West-Berlins Schwulenszene ausgesehen - Jochen Hicks Dokumentarfilm gewährt uns einen Einblick in das schwule Leben in West-Berlin vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Mauerfall. Wir haben den Regisseur...
Death to Squirrels

Happy Pride 2017. - It’s a beautiful day in NYC. Sunny skies all day, with a predicted high of 85F. If you’re celebrating Pride here today, I hope you find joy, connection and...
Duffel Blog

VA operator still waiting on hold with Comcast - [image: woman on phone] WASHINGTON — Department of Veterans Affairs Phone Outreach Assistance Specialist Janice Edlers has been on hold with Comcast since...
Grist

The Southwest is burning - Fifty-five fires have burned in Arizona and New Mexico alone.
Washington Monthly

Yes, Thousands Will Die. Tell It Like It Is. - Republican Senators have needed some smelling salts and fainting couches in the last few days as Democrats have told the honest truth about their tax cut a...
skippy the bush kangaroo

that sunday that summer - republicans are only opposed to redistribution that goes downward how the theory of broken windows was born, and went terribly wrong how conservatives brok...
Irregular Times

States Where Your Boss Can Stop You From Voting In Federal Elections - There are 20 states where, if you are an employee of a company that requires you to be at work during the time when voting takes place on Election Day, you...
Palmer Report

Bipartisan Senate inquiry goes after Jared Kushner’s security clearance - Even the Republicans are targeting Jared Kushner over his Russia secrets The post Bipartisan Senate inquiry goes after Jared Kushner’s security clearance...
Informed Comment

Civilians Fleeing as Battle for Mosul enters last days - by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Iraqi army has created pathways for civilians trapped in Mosul to escape and at least 100 have managed to flee ...
Antiwar.com

Civilians Flee Mosul War Zone; 59 Killed in Iraq - Security forces helped scores of civilians escape Mosul on Saturday. The post Civilians Flee Mosul War Zone; 59 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar....
jobsanger

Progress Is Made By Asking "Why" -
Rivard Report

With Changes Ahead, Alamo Plaza’s Wax Museum Marks Milestone - The company is celebrating the milestone with reduced admission to all the Ripley’s Entertainment attractions. The post With Changes Ahead, Alamo Plaza’...
Wolf Street

Contagion from the 2 Friday-Night Bank Collapses in Italy? - This is how desperate the Italian Banking Crisis has become.
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Dallas Republican Pete Sessions says GOP plan doesn't resolve health care problem - Morning News: Dallas Republican Pete Sessions says GOP plan doesn't resolve health care problem
Election Law Blog

News Analysis Cannot Replicate PILF “Alien Invasion” Study Finding “Massive” Noncitizen Voting in VA - Capital News Service: Last fall, a pair of groups supported by conservatives released a report with the sensational title “Alien Invasion in Virginia: The ...
Field Negro

CAPTION SATURDAY. - [image: Image result for republicans health care]* I need a caption for this pic. Example: "*Wait until they see the senate version." * **Pic from trofir...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Current Fuzzy Earworm - If you were to ask me what the best album released in the 1990s was, I would unhesitatingly say Hedningarna's *Trä*... I just didn't really care for the 'g...
Washington's Blog

How and Why U.S. Honors and Aids Al Qaeda - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker This will present a typical example in which the U.S. promotes Al Qaeda and other jihadists, and then honors ...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Donald Trump is owned by Russian pimps and gangsters. Republicans have Declared War on the American People. - Donald Trump is a Traitor. Donald Trump owes allegiance to Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump is en hock up to his orange hair-plugs to the Russian Mafia. The ...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Maduro regime still murdering Venezuelan youth but it is failing to silence protests and generating outrage - * Venezuela, June 24, 2017* Protesters shout "murderers" in Carlota, Francisco Fajardo highway 22-year-old David Vallenilla was shot and killed by the mili...
Portside

“Would You Like a Drink of Water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child - This week representatives from more than 100 countries began work on an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons. By boycotting this process the U.S. an...
Ian Welsh

That tax cut talking point - (MANDOS POST – YOU KNOW THE DRILL) The Republicans are working hard to pass an amendment to the ACA called the AHCA. Assuming it succeeds, which I wouldn’...
Independent Thinker 2016

Bernie Sanders and Electoral Fraud - The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book My Bernie Journey – A Behind the Scenes Look at the 2016 Democratic Primary The book will be released on ...
NPR's Health Shots

What Medicaid Cuts Could Mean For The Opioid Epidemic - NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lynn Cooper, director of the Drug and Alcohol Division at Pennsylvania's Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association...
Counter Propa

The Real Reason The Elites Keep Killing Single-Payer - A bill to establish single-payer healthcare in the state of California, SB 562, has been killed. The man who officially stuck the knife in it, Democratic...
Mahablog

Give ’em Hell, Dems! - Let’s start on a positive note, which is a campaign advertisement for Randy Bryce, who is running as a Democrat for Paul Ryan’s House seat: I like this ad,...
Louis Proyect

Stone and Putin discuss the problem of gays in the shower room - Over the past week or so as I watched Oliver Stone’s interviews with Vladimir Putin, I took copious notes. I originally wanted to answer Putin’s propaganda...
San Antonio Current

Texas' "Sanctuary Cities" Crackdown Goes to Court on Monday - By now, at least four counties, five cities, and a handful of city officials in Texas have signed on to a lawsuit against the state’s new immigration law...
Church and State

Deadly Heatwaves Could Threaten Nearly Three-Quarters of World’s Inhabitants - According to a new global analysis, deadly heatwaves could be faced by nearly three-quarters of humanity by 2100.
CultureMap Houston

Ronnie Killen's rant, ex-TV anchor's smooth move lead top stories - It's time to recap the most popular stories on CultureMap from this past week: 1) Ronnie Killen responds to surprising omission from Texas Monthly's top 1...
Digital Heretic

March Against Sharia – Houston - The recent series of terrorist attacks throughout Europe again calls into question the relationship between Islam, Muslims, and the Western world The Unite...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Comparative Capitalisms - Now that the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (VoC) hype has passed, students of capitalist diversity are searching for new directions. My co-edited book (with ...
MintPress News

US-Coalition Airstrikes Killed 472 Civilians In Syria Last Month - At least 137 children are among the dead. Continue reading → The post US-Coalition Airstrikes Killed 472 Civilians In Syria Last Month appeared first on ...
Reading the Pictures

Judgement Daze: Our Social Media Weekly Roundup - The major stories this week seemed to all involve critical votes or verdicts. Most came out badly for the most vulnerable. The post Judgement Daze: Our S...
Daily Howler

We don't know if the health bill will pass! - *SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2017But Kevin Drum may well be right:* We don't know if the GOP health bill will pass the Senate next week. It may not pass the Senat...
Bracing Views

Technology as Diversion from Social Inequality - W.J. Astore Today, access to technology and its services is often associated with equality of opportunity in society. In education, for example, getting c...
Dorf on Law

Members of Congress Have Standing in the Emoluments Suit - By Eric Segall The President of the United States owns a posh hotel in the shadow of the White House from which he derives foreign-government revenue. Alon...
Space City Weather

Strong thunderstorms moving through Houston this weekend - As expected, some moderate-to-strong thunderstorms have developed across the Houston area this morning as a weak cold front sags closer to the region. Th...
Socialist Alternative

Québec Solidaire Rejects Coalition with Parti Québecois - A Québec Solidaire representative explains the party’s recent refusal to make an electoral pact with the Parti Québécois. The decision by the Quebec leftis...
Duck of Minerva

Snipers and Democratic Control of the Military: More Oversight Please - I hinted at some politics when discussing the longest recorded sniper shot in history. That the Canadian government might not love this news because it wo...
Pajiba

Before 'Wonder Woman,' When Robin Wright Played Diana (But Not That Diana) - All-consuming, obsessive love captured with great skill in 'Nine Lives' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Stinque

Groundhog Day - We spent a very pleasant Sunday devouring Al Franken’s new book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. In it, Al Franken explains how he took Al Franken hostage...
Resistance Report

Everything is literally f*cking melting in Arizona (PHOTOS) - It is the heat rather than the humidity. Buzzfeed is the latest national news site to report on what residents of Arizona cannot avoid — a hellscape... ...
Above the Law

Anthem To Pay Record $115 Million To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit - If approved, this will be the biggest data breach settlement in history.
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Rock Bottom - 642 E. 26th St. [HAR]… Read More
Rewire

The Logic—or Lack Thereof—Behind the Fifth Circuit’s Decision to Lift an Injunction of an Anti-LGBTQ Law - “This decision is not only deeply upsetting for the rights of LGBT individuals living in Mississippi, but also for the protection of religious liberty in...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: It Wasn’t Very Stupid - Joe DePaolo @ Mediaite: NH State Rep. Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be ‘Shot For Treason’ Attends White House Bill Signing. Media Matters: Hannity calls ...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Legendary Oilman Oscar Wyatt Finds Himself in the Middle of a Scandal Once Again - The 92-year-old Houston oilman allegedly made $500 million off of a company caught up in an ongoing legal battle. The post Legendary Oilman Oscar Wyatt F...
BEYONDbones

Are You “Down” To Talk About T rex Feathers? Our Very Own Specimen Has Some Input To Give - The controversy about whether famous dinosaurs had feathers has been raging for a while now. We’ve known that some dinosaurs had feathers ever since Arch...
Texas Observer

This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers - Keep up with the Observer’s sharp reporting on the Legislature and throughout Texas with this weekly newsletter. As GOP leaders in Washington, D.C. push ...
Lowering the Bar

Can the Holy Spirit Participate in Jury Deliberations? - Not just any old holy spirit, but *the* Holy Spirit.
Morning Consult

Dean Heller Joins Republican Opposition to Senate Health Care Plan - Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) on Friday said he could not support a health care plan backed by Senate Republican leaders as written, noting the proposed elim...
FiveThirtyEight.com

We’re Hiring A Copy Editor - FiveThirtyEight is hiring a copy editor. We’re looking for someone to edit articles for clarity, style and, especially, accuracy. A significant portion of ...
Free Press Houston

“Chasing Trane” & “The Bad Batch” - Chasing Trane follows a linear path from the beginnings of John Coltrane’s career to its spectacular end. All the while, Coltrane’s music, heard constantly...
Houstonia

7 Personality-Matched Houston Book Clubs to Keep You Reading this Summer - You might not even need to leave your house to tipsily dish about your lust for Heathcliff.
The Hill: Ballot Box

Judge declares second mistrial in Cincinnati cop's murder trial - A mistrial was declared for the second time in the trial of a white Ohio police officer charged in the 2015 shooting of unarmed black man, after a jury sai...
In These Times

The Senate GOP Healthcare Bill Is Lethal for the Poor and Elderly. The Answer Is Medicare-for-All. - President Donald Trump’s long-promised repeal of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, edges closer to reality, as the Senate releases its secretly writ...
Houston Matters

How to Help College-Bound Students Avoid the ‘Summer Melt’ - (Above: Students listen to an instructor at one of the campuses of Houston’s Lone Star College. Photo: Laura Isensee | Houston Public Media) Audio from thi...
Robert Reich

The Secret Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid - Bad enough that the Republican Senate bill would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act. Even worse,...
Eater Houston

10 Frozen Cocktails to Drink Right Now In Houston - Cool yourself with a boozy, icy drink Pretty much any time of the year, a frozen cocktail will totally hit the spot in Houston, but that’s especially tr...
Equality Texas

Strengthening Business Relationships Across Texas - By Robert Salcido, Statewide Field Coordinator robert.salcido@equalitytexas.org, @rob_salcido In the first six months of 2017, Texas Diversity Council conv...
The NM Political Report

NM settles $2.8M Medicaid overpayment claim for $485 - [image: NM settles $2.8M Medicaid overpayment claim for $485] As Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella might have said, “Nevermind!” More than four years after accu...
Pensito Review

Obama Speaks Out on GOP Wealthcare Bill - “The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill. It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in...
PoliTex (FWST)

Tarrant lawmakers tapped to lead charge against mail-in voter fraud in Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott called on two Tarrant lawmakers to lead the way in cracking down on mail-in ballot fraud in Texas. Abbott recently pointed to state Rep. C...
emptywheel

The Compartments in WaPo’s Russian Hack Magnum Opus - I'm as fascinated by the compartments described and silences in WaPo's grand opus on the Russian hack as I am by the abundant new details provided.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pence to pay tribute to anti-lgbtq group' & other Friday midday news briefs - *Vice President Mike Pence Celebrates Pride by Speaking to an Anti-LGBT Group* - *The group in question is Focus on the Family, which has been very caref...
Greg Palast

Grand Theft Election:Palast in San Diego - Grand Theft Election: How Trump stole 2016, the Georgia 6th ...and 2018! From "the most important investigative reporter of our time” - The Guardian You’...
Peacock Panache

Pensacola Man Harasses AHA Attorney Over Church-State Cross Case - Following a decision earlier this week that deemed a cross in Pensacola was an unconstitutional establishment of religion on taxpayer-funded public space...
SocraticGadfly

Alternative voting systems and cultism - The title is deliberately chosen, and deliberately chosen because it's provocative. If you don't like it, especially because you're one of those devotees o...
The Conversation

People keep voting in support of the death penalty. So how can we end it? - Signatures were collected to put the death penalty on the 2016 Nebraska ballot. AP Photo/Nati Harnik Ending the death penalty in the United States won’t be...
The Contributor

Trumpcare - Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune, Cagle Cartoons
Campaign for America's Future

Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can - Local news reports from all across the country drip, drip a constant stream of stories of charter schools doing bad stuff that our tax dollars fund. Why do...
Rallblog

Newsweek on Wednesday’s Court Decision - Sometimes what journalists don’t publish is as interesting as what they do. Yesterday I was asked to comment for a piece about my partial loss on anti-SLAP...
ProPublica

Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat - by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Des Moines Register. In the last year alone, employees of at least 18 nursing homes and assiste...
Democracy Now!

Is South Sudan Government Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing, Triggering Africa's Biggest Refugee Crisis? - An ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the South Sudanese government has triggered one of the biggest refugee crises in Africa. The United Nations has...
Avedon's Sideshow

Woke up today in a strange, strange land - Matt Taibbi in *Rolling Stone*: Goodbye, and Good Riddance, to Centrism The idea that people who want expanded health care, reduced income inequality, ...
The Urban Edge

Glissette Rides Public Transit: Part 5 – Family Matters - How long does it take to get from the Medical Center to northwest Houston? The fifth and final installment of our week-long public transit series. Continue ...
Socialist Worker

Immigration police grab two more activists - Owen La Farge and Steve Ramey report from Vermont on more detentions of immigrant farmworker activists who have been courageously standing up for their ...
Debunking Christianity

Quote of the Day By Mattapult, On Gaps to Gods Arguments - I've been thinking a lot about god-of-the-gaps and method. Science has a lot of tools as part if its method: modeling, hypothesis, falsifiability, null h...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Jack Abramoff is back — as a registered lobbyist - Documents show how the disgraced king of political influence was helping the Congolese government score a meeting with Donald Trump.
Echidne of the Snakes

The "Hectoring" Nancy Pelosi - Did you know that Jon Ossoff didn't lose the special election in Georgia because district six there is a deep, deep, deep red conservative place where hi...
Politifact Texas

Rick Perry - Rick Perry wrongly downplays human role in climate change - The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Rick Perry wrongly downplays human role in climate change Energy Secretary Rick Perry downplayed the role of human activit...
Better Texas Blog

Help Stop Health Care Repeal: Call Your Senators Now - We finally know what’s in the secret bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s still bad. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on their d...
Rude Pundit

The Comey "Tapes" Lie: Chaos Is Trump's Greatest Weapon - The first time Trump tweeted about it, it was fucked up enough: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts le...
Texans For Public Justice

Lobby Watch: Gold Deposits Contractor Paid Tribute to the King. - Heads of the Austin company that won a state contract to build a gold depository did not contribute to state candidates before Gov. Abbott signed the bill ...
News Junkie

Saudi Arabia vs Qatar: Middle East Controlled-Demolition Plan? - There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred. The palace...
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Northern Summer on Titan - Another one from Cassini’s Grand Finale. And yeah, I’m a day late. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Sat...
Political Garbage Chute

A Quick Reference Guide to the Senate Republicans’ Formerly Secret Healthcare Plan - A view of the proposed changes within the secretive Republican healthcare plan from a 50,000 foot level. [...] The post A Quick Reference Guide to the Se...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, "There Will Be Hell to Pay" - Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps...
Bullshit-ist

Austin - Thou scurvy tickle-brained hell-hated lunatic. Thou lascivious weather-bitten flap-ear’d mumpet. Thou churlish fen-sucked maggot pie. Thou dizzy-eyed he...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2006 Shows Why Democratic Loss in Ga-6 Stings - Editor’s Note: As we telegraphed last week, we are moving GA-6 from Toss-up to Leans Republican and installing Rep.-elect Karen Handel (R) as a favorite fo...
LawFlog

Hillary Clinton is not out of the woods yet (and neither am I) - After almost ten months in limbo, the Arkansas Bar is finally nearing a decision on my bar grievance against Hillary Clinton. According to an email that I ...
DBC Green blog

Jill's Itchy Twitter Finger - I'm glad to know that Dr. Jill Stein has time not only to reply to the barrage of establshment-Democrat hatred she faces in social media, but to generate h...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Department of Justice Wins Stop To $367M Merger Of Radioactive Waste Firms - A Delaware federal judge on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, blocked the $367 million merger of EnergySolutions Inc. and Waste Control Specialists LLC, (WCS) si...
Popehat

Free Speech Triumphant Or Free Speech In Retreat? - The First Amendment had a pretty good week. In Matal v. Tam the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a federal law prohibiting "disparaging" t...
Black Agenda Report

If You Embrace Assata, You Must Fight the Black Misleadership Class - - political prisoners *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford* Donald Trump’s lynch party seeking the extradition of Assata Sh...
Quartz

Not all data are equal — especially in Africa - Reporting with data is supposed to be less messy than dealing with humans. Each spreadsheet column is an set of facts. We don’t have to trust someone’s o...
Political Orphans

From Gloucester to London: Misery Loves Company - In countryside towns like Gloucester, voters see the growing prosperity and power of London with dismay. London, as a dynamic, multi-cultural model is more...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 21, 2017 - "America First" apparently means making us the first to get mixed up in yet another endless, costly war — or three.
Ecosophia

The Twilight of Anthropolatry - During the last three months, while on hiatus from blogging, I’ve looked back over the eleven-year run of The Archdruid Report. As my regular readers kno...
Gin and Tacos

THE BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL OF POLITICS - Every sport has an off-season and dead periods in which a fan will lower his or her standards considerably to be entertained. College football, for instanc...
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 ...
PERRspectives

Commander in Chief Trump Goes AWOL - "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." With that phrase, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the U...
New Progressive Alliance

Julia Williams on Healthcare and Economics - Julia Williams has run for Congress on the Green Party ticket and written for the NPA before. (See references at the end of this article.) Many people ha...
Carl Beijer

Trump is not going to abandon NATO - Abandoning NATO "would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership and send a dangerous signal to friend and foe alike" - and this is exactly what wi...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Using Tragedies to Glorify War Create More Tragedies - I don't want to speak badly about someone that was almost killed; and if I do many people may be more outraged with me than the causes of a lot of viole...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Mozambique uses 4 million mosquito nets in turn from pesticide, in war on malaria - Mozambique is one of only ten nations still using DDT for Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) to fight malaria. But DDT’s effectiveness diminishes rapidly, as d...
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note ] | Inside the July Issue, by James Marcus - Zadie Smith, Masha Gessen, Rebecca Solnit, Joseph O’Neill, and more…
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | We talk politics, community, and resistance; discuss some important new books; enjoy some great live music… and much more! - Our guests are Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn; Rev. Jim Rigby & Glenn Smith; Corey Dolgon; Julia Mickenberg; Scott Braddock; Jonathan Tilove; Roy Casagranda...
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...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Free Lecture: Houston’s Self-Inflicted Flooding - We’re Number One! Who: Sam Brody, PhD, Texas A&M Galveston When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 20 Where: Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, H...
OffCite

Emancipation Park, Emancipatory Art: Flipping the Gentrification Playbook - Freedom Rally signs at Emancipation Park, June 21, 1965. Courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center.This article is the first of a two-part series by ar...
Texas Watch

Odessa Residents Could Soon Face Second Storm of Insurance Abuse - Insurance companies already have too much power, and they’re getting even more in September when a dangerous new law goes into effect. House Bill 1774 s...
First Reading

Megyn Kelly: ‘Reckless accusation, followed by equivocation and excuses is classic Alex Jones’ - Good Monday Austin: Alex Jones and his comrades on Infowars popped the cork on some champagne last night to celebrate his victory over Megyn Kelly…
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The last of me - I did not know her but she knew me. I passed her going the other way. On three consecutive mornings I passed her, during that trek from parking garage to o...
Pressing Issues

Trailer for "The Tunnels"--on Escapes Under the Berlin Wall -
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Javier Valdez – A Month Ago - The rule of law is something to be treasured. It is precious beyond value. It has been achieved in relatively few countries and times through history. Ye...
Independent Political Report

LP’s Joe Buchman first on the ballot in Utah’s Special Election - Libertarian Joe Buchman is the first party affiliated candidate on the November ballot for the Special Election for the US House, Third District in Utah....
Modern Democracy

The Right to Withhold Consent: Legislator Standing and the Emoluments Clause - When CREW launched its emoluments lawsuit back in January, I—like many—had doubts about whether the plaintiffs’ standing theory would hold up in court. At...
Grits for Breakfast

Blessed are the Poor: Examining opposition to debtors-prison legislation - Texas State Sen. Paul Bettencourt was quoted by the Associated Press (June 11) criticizing debtors-prison legislation (SB 1913) which he and five others vo...
American Third Party Report

Jeff4Justice Exposes TYT Hypocrisy -
Our Finite World

Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil” - Falling interest rates have huge power. My background is as an actuary, so I am very much aware of the great power of interest rates. But a lot of people a...
Moron Majority

Thanks To Trump, Kellyanne Now Most Popular Baby Girl Name - The election of Donald J. Trump as our nation’s 45th president has not only had a profound effect on both our national and international politics, but it h...
Ramona's Voices

How the G-Man Worked To Bring Down POTUS - After former FBI director James Comey's testimony on Thursday, there were questions about why he waited so long to go public with all he knew. He'd had tw...
Progrexas

Learning Civics and Understanding Government and Politics in Texas – From Free Posters for Kids to In Depth Education for Adults - “Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where...
Great American Satan

RPGs: The Truest Test of Character? - Why is it that role-playing games seem to bring out the worst traits in people? Even people you would never have guessed had it in them, people you may hav...
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 ...
Houston Justice

#JusticeForJohnny - Chants of "Justicia para Johnny," and "Si se puede" could be heard by the crowd of an estimated 200 marchers. Starting at 2nd Ward's TBH center, they m...
Pages of Victory

Nobel Lecture Bob Dylan -
The Disorder Of Things

White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean - A guest post from Ida Danewid. Ida is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses ...
Seeing the Forest

Thoughts On Russia Election Systems Hacking Report - Here are some thoughts on the report that Russia was trying to — or did — hack into our election systems before the election. 1) Why was this a secret? Who...
Frontloading HQ

Amended Primary Legislation Passes North Carolina House - After *clearing a committee hurdle* late last week, *SB 655*, made it onto the calendar of the North Carolina House. When considered on the floor of the ch...
South Texas Chisme

Gone fishing - See you at the end of June. Or, beginning of July.
34justice

Ramming Morality Into Our Economic System the John Ruskin Way - A slim pamphlet from the mid-19th century provides both a diagnosis of today's economic problems and a potential cure. Continue reading →
Pressthink

Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. The post Getting granular with the...
Project Vote

Project Vote to Close Its Doors on May 31st - It is with great sadness—but also tremendous pride in our accomplishments—that Project Vote announces we will be suspending operations indefinitely. Th...
The Nil Admirari

Trump Says Russia Should be Invited to Join NATO - *LAST UPDATED @ 12:38PM (5.25.2017)* *Trump says Putin "hugely excited" about Russian Federation joining NATO in recent conversation.* Donald Trump speaki...
Texas Leftist

Houston’s Diversity: America Discovering What Locals Already Know - If you live in or frequently visit the city of Houston, then the term “diversity” is surely nothing new. A stop in virtually any of the city’s major store...
Non Prophet News

5 Times Republicans Threatened to Impeach Obama Over Nothing - Donald Trump seems to be running in the GOP's "hypocrite lane"— honking his horn as loudly as he can since he took office in January. Everything from leaki...
ROAR Magazine

Why we are not eating: the Yale graduate student hunger strike - Precarious and underpaid graduate student-workers at Yale have gone on a fast to demand that university administrators recognize and negotiate with their...
Free Speech.org

Move to Amend's Kaitliin Sopoci-Belknap Hosts FSTV Facebook Live Discussion - On May 10th, 2017, on the 131st anniversary of *Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad* (1886), Free Speech TV aired *Legalize Democracy, *a fil...
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...
Texas Election Law Blog

Implementing Photo I.D. Requirements In Texas Elections — An Oral History - Reporter Jessica Huseman of ProPublica spent the last six months working on a huge, complicated feature story, and the fruit of her efforts was posted Tues...
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...
Texas Moratorium Network

Terri Been Testifying in Support of Law of Parties Reform Bills - Terri Been, sister of Jeff Wood, testifying before Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 17, 2017 in support of law of parties reform bi...
WAWG Blog

Bashing Loses – Speaking Values Wins - Complaining about the idiocy of the opposition is such a distraction – a waste of time – and provides little incentive for Democratic voter turnout. Democr...
The Liberal Yell

Rep. Steve King (R-KKK) Introduces Bill to Ban ALL Immigrants - As published on Crooks&Liars on 4/3/2017: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/04/rep-steve-kings-bill-ban-all-immigrants If you are even remotely aware of who R...
nonsite.org

Ritual Protest and the Theater of Dissent - The politics that inform these actions, where not entirely opaque, are based on a semi-spiritual belief that the right recipe of symbolism, passion, and po...
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! ...
Raised on the Rail

Top 5 Things to Do in January 2017 in Houston Near the Rail - Super Saturdays at the Aquarium – buy one get one free admission When: Saturdays in January Where: Downtown Aquarium How to get there: Take the green or pu...
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...
Daniel Williams

Konni Burton's SB 242 Will Kill Children - For the last year and a half people have been asking me if I think someone in Texas will file a bill like North Carolina's notorious HB 2 to override nond...
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...
UP@NIGHT

Endangered Species Warning: Democrats Who Care About The Working-Class - Salon, a liberal internet magazine, published a piece recently by Cody Cain, “It …
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 ...
STRENGTH !N NUMBERS

Black Queer History: Charles Law - We talk about Rustin, Baldwin, Hemphill and a host of other Black Queers who have been instrumental throughout our history. These figures had/have the cour...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, April 03, 2011

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