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Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3005: Did Kasparov Meet a Superior Intelligence? - Episode: 3005 Was Kasparov Outmatched, or Was DeepBlue Lucky? Today, the wrong move.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Senators move to protect NATO from Trump's destructive whims - Senator Tim Kaine talks with Rachel Maddow about a new bipartisan bill from the Senator Foreign Relations Committee that would require a president to seek ...
The AltWorld

Why I Don’t Write More About 9/11 - For some reason 9/11 keeps coming up in my online interactions with people lately, both with establishment […] The post Why I Don’t Write More About 9/11...
Courthouse News

LA County District Attorney Candidates Promise Reforms, Chide Incumbent - Candidates vying to be Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor promised Friday to cease death penalty convictions, bolster police accountability and rollback...
memeorandum

Online posts tied to suspected New Jersey deli shooter pushed anti-Semitic conspiracies (NBC News) - NBC News: *Online posts tied to suspected New Jersey deli shooter pushed anti-Semitic conspiracies* — Multiple years of social media posts connected to...
Ian Welsh

Britain’s Election Today - So, it’s Britain’s general election. This is probably the most important British election since Thatcher was first elected. Both Johnson and Corbyn, if the...
The Week

White House budget office defends withholding Ukraine aid - In a new legal memo, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) says it often puts temporary holds on money already signed into law, and did n...
Mediaite

Giuliani Pal Lev Parnas Remanded Back to Jail After Prosecutors Discover Secret $1 Million Payment From Russia - Federal prosecutors in New York City revoked the bail of indicted businessman Lev Parnas after reportedly discovering a secret $1 million payment from an a...
Informed Comment

War Crime: Israel’s Forceful Removal of Thousands of Negev Bedouin - By Megan Giovannetti | – Israeli rights group Adalah, which seeks legal justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel, issued an in-depth report on 10 Decembe...
The Verge

AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach - Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence is a daunting task, even for those enmeshed in the AI ...
Antiwar.com

What’s Wrong With FISA? - Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978 in response to the unlawful surveillance of Americans by the FBI and the CIA during th...
Down With Tyranny!

Can Ohio Trumpist Mike Turner Be Defeated Next Year? - *Turner and his guy* Mike Turner, the former mayor of Dayton, was elected to Congress in 2002. Most of his district (OH-10) is very purple, swingy Montgome...
World Socialist Web Site

US renews insults and threats against North Korea - The Trump administration has made clear that it has no intention of meeting North Korea’s end-of-year deadline for meaningful talks, thus setting the stage...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Dissidents under house arrest on Human Rights Day, unqualified Cuban doctors performed surgery in Uruguay, and Bible readings threatened in Cuba - *The system in Cuba continues to be a totalitarian dictatorship that trashes human rights.* Police and secret police block human rights defenders leaving ...
Political Wire

Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security - Garrett Graff: “The idea that Fox News represents a literal threat to our national security, on par with Russia’s Internet Research Agency or China’s Minis...
Raw Story

CNN conservative zaps every Trump supporters’ argument against impeachment - Republican-turned-Independent David Gergen served in four presidential administrations, two of which were impeached. When he heard one of President Donald ...
Countercurrents

‘Elected by Donors’: The University of Cape Town Fails Palestine, Embraces Israel - It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On November 23, the Senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied to rever...
Rivard Report

Community Applauds Design for Park Next to Hays Street Bridge - The final public meeting this year for a park next to the Hays Street Bridge ended with applause Wednesday night. The post Community Applauds Design for ...
Talking Points Memo

A Million Here, a Million There - Today federal prosecutors asked a judge to revoke the bail of Giuliani associate Lev Parnas. A main reason was that...
Crooks and Liars

C&L's Late Nite Music Club With McCoy Tyner - Pianist McCoy Tyner joined John Coltrane's band in 1960 and, along with Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums, formed what is known as 'Trane's...
Caitlin Johnstone

Why I Don’t Talk More About 9/11 - For some reason 9/11 keeps coming up in my online interactions with people lately, both with establishment loyalists who call me a “9/11 truther” and with ...
emptywheel

While Republicans Continue to Claim Collusion Didn’t Happen, George Papadopoulos Labeled Roger Stone’s Actions as Treason - As part of its claim that the FBI withheld exculpatory information in Carter Page’s FISA application, the DOJ IG Report described George Papadopoulos’ in...
Reform Austin

As Rural Hospitals Close, Texas Communities Lose Healthcare Access - Adequate medical aid is growing dangerously distant for many of Texas’ rural communities. Of the many challenges facing Texas’ rural residents, access to...
Axios

Top Trump officials leave White House peace meeting with their jobs - Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma both still have their jobs after Wednes...
Daily Dot

Ninja mocked for not knowing how to make a sandwich - He couldn't even slice the bread. The post Ninja mocked for not knowing how to make a sandwich appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Eschaton

Late Night - Rock on.
Daily Kos

Pawn shop worker saves falling infant while distracted mom shops for shotguns - Video from a security camera inside of the Family Pawn Shop in Hurricane, Utah, has been making the rounds for cringe-inducing reasons. The video shows t...
Slate

Discredited Nincompoop Nunes Is (Slightly) Vindicated - The right says he’s right, but are they right?
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Filings at Near Record Pace and Other News for December 11 - For the second consecutive election cycle, more Texas statewide offices, legislative seats and congressional seats are being contested by Democrats than Re...
The Reality-Based Community

Why to undermines the judiciary Moff Gideon offers public scrutiny! - The ending of this week’s episode seems to understand that, teasing what can only be a villainous presence stomping up to collect Fennec Shand’s body out o...
slacktivist

North Dakota conservatives seek to deny refuge to those in need - The Republican Party wants us to know that being anti-refugee is what "conservative" means. And even they know this makes them look horrible.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘It was like a war’: survivors describe horror of attack at Jewish supermarket - Jersey City is in shock after the deadly attack, as community leaders say hate must be stamped out Yossi Steinmetz was still in shock when he returned t...
Common Dreams

Now Trump Is A Genocidal Despot Thanos Wannabe and America Is, Like, Ummm - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
The Greanville Post

Some Truth About The War On Afghanistan - MoA—Since 2001 the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion on Afghanistan. Most of the money has flown back to 'contractors' in the United States. A significa...
Election Law Blog

“House asks Supreme Court not to delay access to Trump’s financial records, citing threat to 2020 elections” - WaPo: Lawyers for Congress urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday not to delay House committees’ access to President Trump’s financial records, saying the in...
Socialist Alternative

Ethiopia: Common Struggle Against Ethnic Violence - Statement by Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) The new wave of ethnic violence in Ethiopia has to stop. In one week in October, more than 80 peopl...
Moon of Alabama

How Moon of Alabama Is Made - (Re-up) - A reader recently reminded me of the piece below. It was first published on June 6 2019. It is likely of interest to those who are new to this site. The pr...
Truthdig

Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow - The former Fed chairman’s obituaries leave out how his policies devastated lives in the 1980s and underwrote the 2008 financial crisis.
OpEd News

Operationally defining and explaining deification for Americans today (REVIEW ESSAY) - M. David Litwa in religious studies at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne has massively researched the ancient imagery and verbal expressions ...
The Root

Because Dreams Really Do Come True, BET Announces Miniseries Based on Andre Harrell’s Legendary Uptown Records - On Jan. 24, 2017, our lives were forever changed with the auspicious debut of BET’s *The New Edition Story*. Looking to perhaps recapture that magic—or a...
INSIDER - politics news

Republicans are homing in on 3 main defenses of Trump amid the Ukraine scandal. Here's why none of them hold up. - [image: Jim Jordan] - The Republican strategy throughout the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump until now was simple: throw everythin...
Political Dig

Graham Goes On Incoherent Rant Attacking The FBI For Not Telling Trump They Were Probing His Campaign - Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, who has been a prominent defender of Donald Trump, came to Trump’s defense again on Wednesday while questioning I...
Field Negro

"Dangerous in the extreme". - [image: Image result for trump image] The following article was written by* Jay Bookman *for The Virginia Mercury. It was written right before the Thanksgi...
Hullabaloo

Character assassination from the bully pulpit - *Character assassination from the bully pulpit* by digby This is disgusting. He made it up to entertain the ecstatic cult followers: This is a lie. Noth...
Liberation News

Teaching assistants in Decatur, Il. struggle for better healthcare - [image: Rally in Chicago in support of the Chicago Teacher's Union on October 14. Photo by Liberation News.] "DFTA all the way!" The post Teaching assista...
Portside

The Working Class Battles The Man in Harvard Strike - The Working Class Battles The Man in Harvard Strike Ray Wed, 12/11/2019 - 20:04
SCOTUSblog

Justices allow Texas’ execution of Travis Runnels to go forward - [image: Justices allow Texas’ execution of Travis Runnels to go forward]The Supreme Court this evening refused to block the execution of Travis Runnels, ...
Vox

Vox Sentences: A deadly shooting, an apparent hate crime - Rick Loomis/Getty Images A violent day in Jersey City; Muslim immigrants are blocked from Indian citizenship. *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for wh...
Brad Blog

USMCA, UK Elections and More Breaking News: 'BradCast' 12/11/2019 - It's NICOLE SANDLER again, your trusty guest host for another edition of the BradCast. With so much happening each day we begin with a look at the latest n...
Ballot Access News

New York Voters Sue Governor over Delay in Calling a Special Election in the U.S. House 27th District - On December 11, several voters sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over his failure so far to call a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 2...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Once Upon A Time When Homophobia Was Less Subtle - There doesn't seem to be much going today when it comes to the LGBTQ community and the anti-LGBTQ industry, so I thought I would take a jaunt through the h...
OffGuardian

Did Laura Kuenssberg Commit Massive Breach of Electoral Ethics? - The BBC may have just unwittingly revealed – or even committed – a huge breach of electoral rules. Giving a report via her phone this afternoon, the BBC’s ...
Latino Rebels

Biden Campaign Acknowledges ‘Pain’ of Obama-Era Deportations - LAS VEGAS (AP) — Joe Biden has joined his top Democratic presidential rivals in pledging to end for-profit migrant detention centers that existed while he ...
The Mind Unleashed

Harvey Weinstein Reaches $47 Million Settlement, Refuses to Admit Wrongdoing - [image: Harvey Weinstein]If this settlement is approved by judges, Weinstein won't pay anything out of his own pocket. Insurance will pay.
Political Garbage Chute

Sen. Lindsey Graham Told Judiciary Committee Exact Length He’ll Go To Defending President Trump - WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today to discuss the findings of FBI Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ expansive repor...
VICE

Doctors Are Still Putting Us at Risk of Superbugs with Too Many Antibiotics - Doctors are prescribing antiobiotics in situations where they aren’t needed or for unclear reasons, when there is a very clear downside to doing so.
The Progressive Wing

12/11 SuperPAC Ads by Koch Bros Attack GND With Sanders as Target in Iowa; Evening OT - Koch is going after Bernie Sanders in Iowa for elevating climate change as a top issue across the state. The fossil fuel industry is going to lose and we a...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Free-Agent Aces Like Gerrit Cole Often Deliver The Championship Goods - SAN DIEGO — Gerrit Cole was a fan of the New York Yankees as a kid. The Yankees have also long been admirers of Cole, drafting him in the first round in 20...
The Conversation

Myanmar charged with genocide of Rohingya Muslims: 5 essential reads - Dozens of Muslim-majority countries are asking the UN's International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute a 2017 massacre in Myanmar that killed an...
Greg Palast

Boris to sell NHS to Trump? Bollocks! - As my my chief investigator, Leni Badpenny, a British subject, notes, Jeremy Corbyn's line that Boris Johnson was entertaining the sale of the NHS, "is c...
Progrexas

TribCast: Big new names enter Texas congressional races - From left: Republican candidates for U.S. Congress Pierce Bush and Ronny Jackson. Campaign website/public domain (Audio unavailable. Click here to listen...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A Presidency Off The Rails - David Corn @ Mother Jones: William Barr’s War on Reality, Truth, and the Law. Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: DOJ IG Horowitz Stands by Report’s Conclusions After...
Krebs on Security

The Great $50M African IP Address Heist - A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigne...
The Texas Signal

Signal Q&A with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez: ‘It makes me angry when I see things that are unjust.’ - The Signal’s editor Kevin Nix spoke to Democratic Senate candidate Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez today by phone about health care, impeachment, capitalism, a...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Here Is Photo of a Man Standing in the Middle of the Road to Take a Selfie With the X That Marks the Spot Where JFK Was Shot - As you can see, this is what the headline says: a photo of a man standing the middle of the road to take a selfie with the X that marks the spot where JF...
Better Texas Blog

CPPP Names New Board President, Welcomes New Member - James Aldrete has assumed the role of board president of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, following a successful two-year term by Veletta Forsyth...
Grist

The results are in from the Arctic’s annual checkup - "The world from our childhood is no longer here.”
Echidne of the Snakes

Nearly $2 Million In Corporate Consultation Earnings. Or The Hillarization Of Elizabeth Warren. - The *Washington Post* article on Elizabeth Warren's earnings from consulting for corporations has a great headline: *Sen. Elizabeth Warren earned nearly $...
San Antonio Current

Fundraiser to Benefit San Antonio Artist Katie Pell Raises Nearly $20,000 in One Day - After battling cancer for a year, San Antonio artist Katie Pell recently transitioned to hospice care. Knowing that her family faces mounting medical bill...
epic.org

Documents Obtained by EPIC show Idaho's Use of Subjective Categories in Calculating Risk - In response to EPIC's Public Record Request, the Idaho Department of Correction released several documents about its risk assessment instrument, the "Level...
Ring of Fire

Lawsuits Reveal Monsanto’s Worst Behavior & Sexual Abuse Running Rampant In US Military - Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Trial Lawyer Magazine editor Farron Cousins shine a spotlight on internal emails recently uncovered between Mon...
Texas Monthly

Weird Candidates and Fifteen-Way Races: The Texas Primary Ballot Is Madness - Now that races for the March primary are (mostly) set, here are a few things worth keeping an eye on. The post Weird Candidates and Fifteen-Way Races: Th...
NPR's Health Shots

Clarifying The Vocabulary That's Surrounding The Medicare For All Debate - Democratic presidential candidates are debating Medicare For All, but that term isn't a good descriptor of the plans being put forth. Clarifying this healt...
Rewire

An Oregon Couple Can Get Their Kids Back From Foster Care. But Many Disabled Parents Don’t Get That Chance. - At least 40 percent to 80 percent of parents in the United States with intellectual disabilities will lose custody of their children to the state. The po...
The Intercept

The Donald Trump Campaign Is Deploying Phone Location-Tracking Technology - Phunware obtains location and user data to infer “gender, age, lifestyle preferences” of potential voters. The post The Donald Trump Campaign Is Deployin...
Novara Media

The Centrist Delusion: ‘Middle Ground’ Politics Aren’t Moderate, They’re Dangerous - In a world of competing narratives serving competing interests, there’s always a temptation to gravitate to the political centre ground, the would-be midpo...
Morning Consult

NCAA’s Emmert Counting on Congress Amid State Bills on Name, Image and Likeness - The post NCAA’s Emmert Counting on Congress Amid State Bills on Name, Image and Likeness appeared first on Morning Consult.
Salon.com

Greta Thunberg is Time's 2019 "Person of the Year" - The Swedish climate change activist is the youngest person to ever earn the coveted distinction at 16 years old
Texas Freedom Network

Faith Leaders Speak Out Against Abortion Bans - Progressive faith leaders are speaking out in support of women’s access to all reproductive health care services, including abortion care. Today Just T...
Mother Jones

DOJ Watchdog Says He’s Still Investigating How FBI Agents Helped Trump in 2016 - The Justice Department’s internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, confirmed Wednesday that he is continuing to investigate FBI leaks that too...
Lawfare

Marking Up the Articles of Impeachment - U.S. Capitol at Sunset [Source: Flickr/Victoria Pickering/ (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)] On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the House of Representatives released two articles of ...
Wolf Street

Brick & Mortar Meltdown Manhattan Style: Lenders Foreclose on Times Square Tower whose Six Retail Floors are 90% Vacant - Wow, that was fast: In default is a $650 million portion of a $2 billion loan package, signed in 2018.
Daily Howler

Invasion of the mental capability snatchers! - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019Science fiction, and the Inka, again:* It's been quite a while since observations of cable news made us think of the science...
Dissident Voice

Operation Condor 2.0 Expanded - According to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the US will help “legitimate governments” in Latin America, in order to prevent protests from “morphing in...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner of the 2019 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The Prize Committee is delighted to announce that the article by Linda Weiss and Elizabeth Thurbon, “Power Paradox: How the Extension of US Infrastructur...
Lowering the Bar

Employee Says She Robbed Store to Teach Other Employees a Lesson - They might have learned a lesson, but probably not the intended one. Related Stories - UPDATE: Shrout's on the Run - Expert on Money Launde...
Texas Standard

Little-Known Surveillance Centers Keep Close Eye On Texans - The centers can use facial recognition to identify individuals, and lawmakers have done little to address privacy concerns.
Dandelion Salad

House Compromises Away Peace, Senate Stands By War by David Swanson + Take Action! - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy December 11, 2019 The House and Senate have agreed upon a catastrophic military spending bill....
ProPublica

Balancing the Public Interest and a Family’s Grief - by Stephen Engelberg ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re pub...
MintPress News

How Trump’s New Anti-Semitism Order Effectively Criminalizes Dissent - Trump's anti-Semitism bill is unlikely to dampen the flames of hatred towards Jewish Americans or make them feel safer; indeed, outlawing criticism of Is...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/11/2019 - Today's Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment, voting machines, "economic anxiety, Michelle Obama, root networks, ecocide, the deep sea, st...
Anti-Media

‘Gift to Trump’: Democrats and Republicans Unite on $738 Billion Blank Check for War - The bipartisan, $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act is a "blank check" to the military-industrial complex.
First Draft

Bayou Brief: Last Month Of The Year - I bring the snark in my latest 13th Ward Rambler column at Bayou Brief. I write about the holidays, the LSU Tigers, Senator John Neely Kennedy, my Bayou Br...
Reveal

University of Phoenix settles for record $191 million on charges of deceptive advertising - The for-profit school must cancel $141 million in student debt. The post University of Phoenix settles for record $191 million on charges of deceptive ad...
Innocence Project

Valerie Jarrett Joins Board of Directors for the Innocence Project - (New York – December 11, 2019) – The Innocence Project today announced that Valerie B. Jarrett, a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the University of Chicag...
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: Influences Acting on Human Evolution - 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...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

December 11: Hoosiers fly the flag for Indiana Statehood - Indiana won admission to the union on December 11, 1816. U.S. Flag Code urges residents of each state to fly the U.S. flag on the anniversary of statehood,...
Democracy Chronicles

White House Says Trump Warned Russia not to Interfere in US Elections - President Donald Trump warned Russia not to interfere in U.S. elections in talks with Russia’s top diplomat on Tuesday, the White House said.
Houstonia

Behind the Curtain at Elf—The Musical - Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital spreads Christmas cheer.
WhoWhatWhy

Why Liberal Satire and Conservative Outrage Are Both Responses to Mainstream Media — But With Very Different Powers - Reading Time: < 1 minute The New Behemoths of the Healthcare Industry ; Can Crops' Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture? ; and More Picks 12/11 The p...
Popular Resistance

Shifting Our Comfort Zones To Face The Realities Of Colonization, American Genocide And Slavery - Clearing the FOG co-hosts, Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, interviewed Jean-Luc Pierite, a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe from New Orleans. Pierite is...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays. We’re Suing. - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are using incredibly invasive surveillance technology as part of their ...
Dissent Magazine

Can Extinction Rebellion Survive? - XR promised to transcend politics as we know it. Yet politics has a stubborn way of catching up with those who disavow it.
Eater Houston

Vegan Food Truck Korny Vibes Locks Down Its First Restaurant Space - [image: Offerings at Korny Vibes] A gravy-topped chickn’ sandwich and mac and cheese at Korny Vibes. | Korny Vibes/Facebook Permanently parked onion ring ...
EgbertoWillies.com

Stock Market booming. Unemployment low. Yet there’s another sad reality for most. - [image: Stock Market booming. Unemployment low. Yet there's another sad reality for most. Lupita & Egberto] Watch Politics Done Right on KPFT address the s...
Somervell County Salon

Video re: Danny Chambers Drag Racing Around the Square In Youth (Glen Rose) - I thought this was cute. From the Dec 9 2019 Somervell County Commissioners Court meeting .......
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Perseverance Porn - Hey, Google has monetized Cody. Not to be an influencer mind you, that would be so CB/Beta Basic. Good deeds never go unpunished. Not to be mistaken for a ...
Texas Observer

Everyone Wants to End Surprise Medical Billing in Texas, but No One Wants to Pay for It - Patient advocates in Texas celebrated this spring, when they finally hit a major milestone in the decade-long fight against surprise medical bills. Amid ...
Edinburg Politics

Powerful House Committee on Redistricting, which will help determine if Valley gets additional seats in the Texas Legislature and in Congress, to meet on Friday at Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance and Saturday at TSTC in Harlingen - The powerful House Committee on Redistricting, which will help determine if the Rio Grande Valley has additional seats in the Texas Legislature and in Cong...
Houston Press

Cole Lands with Yankees for a Record $324 Million - That didn't take long. For a couple weeks now speculation has been that free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole was being pursued feverishly by the New York Yankees...
Louis Proyect

The Party, the Just City, and the Sacred Fire - via The Party, the Just City, and the Sacred Fire
DeSmogBlog

COP25: Climate Science Deniers Attend on Behalf of Trump-Affiliated Lobby Group - [image: COP25] Read time: 4 mins A US thinktank with close ties to Donald Trump has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to t...
Grits for Breakfast

The iceberg's tip: CA man walks free bc of DNA-mixture SNAFU - It's perhaps a testament to the reduction in size of and competition among MSM outlets that nobody has yet covered the problems with DNA-mixture forensics ...
The Grayzone

Jeremy Corbyn faces Russiagate smear campaign before UK vote - Just before British elections, the UK’s military-intelligence apparatus is smearing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with evidence-free Russiagate allegations...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Voting Is Good for Your Health, Study Finds - *Great news, my friends—especially those of you that are health nuts. Here's something I've intuitively known. Scientific research shows that voting and ...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Goat Head’ By Brittany Howard - The following post originally appeared at Ongoing History Of Protest Songs. Best known as the powerhouse lead vocalist of Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE Payday Lenders Use Installment Loans To Evade Regulations Paige Marta Skiba, Caroline Malone Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler ...
ROAR Magazine

The popular assemblies at the heart of the Chilean uprising - Chile has a long history of radical neighborhood organizing — a tradition that is now put at the service of drafting a new constitution for a country in tu...
Claytoonz

Impeachment Light? - President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 after the House voted on eleven articles of impeachment. While the main charge was “high crimes and misdemea...
Socratic Gadfly

Texas Progressives talk politics, sports, more - The Texas Progressives say Boomer, and you say Sooner, while on the pro football side, we wait to see if Jerry Jones is finally going to fire/non-renew Ja...
Bonddad

November average real wage growth stable, but aggregate growth now puts expansion in second place behind 1990s - - *by New Deal democrat* November consumer inflation came in at +0.3%. Since in last Friday’s jobs report average hourly earnings also increased +0.3%, r...
Democracy Now!

"Shame!" Indigenous Leaders & Delegates from Global South Stage Dramatic Protest at COP25 in Madrid - Democracy Now! was broadcasting live from the United Nations climate summit in Madrid, Spain, when hundreds of climate advocates and people's movements at ...
Crooked Timber

40 years on - Here’s a moving, brief, piece by Paul Cotterill about his dad, who flew over Germany in WWII, loved Eurovision, voted to stay in 1975, and died 40 years ag...
Dos Centavos

KHOU Poll Has Mayor Turner Leading. Vote Anyway! - KHOU, et al, released the results of what is probably the final public poll of the Houston Mayoral race and Mayor Sylvester Turner leads with 56%, with 6% ...
Angry Bear

Scenes from the November jobs report - Scenes from the November jobs report Let’s take a more detailed look at last Friday’s November jobs report, in particular a discussion of the more leading ...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil - The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more cover...
Space City Weather

Clearing and cool for most of the week, with another stunning weekend - Tuesday’s front moved through as advertised, dropping between 0.25 and 0.5 inch of rain across the area and pushing our temperatures down dramatically. Aft...
Duffel Blog

Leaked ‘Afghanistan Papers’ reveal officials may have told truth about the war - [image: Leaked ‘Afghanistan Papers’ reveal officials may have told truth about the war] WASHINGTON — A confidential trove of documents obtained by Duffel ...
Dorf on Law

The Articles of Impeachment, the Burden of Proof, and Propensity Evidence - *by Michael C. Dorf* In the run-up to yesterday's release of proposed articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, commentators speculated about whether t...
Eclectablog

Get ready for Impeachment Eve – wsg Leah Greenberg, co-founder of the Indivisible movement - Leah Greenberg on Twitter: @LeahGreenb Ezra Levin on Twitter: @EzraLevin The Indivisible Team on Twitter: @IndivisibleTeam For information on joining the I...
Progressive.org

Economic Inequality Has Gone Bananas - The same week the now-infamous banana gallery piece sold for over $100,000, the Trump administration announced its plans to slash the nation’s nutrition as...
Off the Kuff

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

INDEPENDENCE DAY - A Trump official shows a smidgen of independence and pride in defending his department. Clearly he must be punished https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tru...
Dallas Observer

Trump and Texas: 2019 - There's a condition, one you've probably heard of if you've happened on any right-wing media over the last three years or have any acolytes of the presiden...
Counterpunch

Why the Afghanistan Papers Are an Eerie Reminder of Vietnam - Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973). Th...
See You In 2020

The DPRK Is A Refuge From The Hell Of Neoliberal Imperialism - [image: The Township of the DPRK’s Samjiyon County] The Township of the DPRK’s Samjiyon County Since the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea started on it...
Rallblog

We Need a Hollywood President - Climate climate change could cause human extinction by 2050. What would the president do if he or she were in a Hollywood action thriller?
The NM Political Report

Long-time incumbent and political newcomer emerge as winners in two ABQ council races - [image: Long-time incumbent and political newcomer emerge as winners in two ABQ council races] Two divisive Albuquerque city council district races were de...
Sayfie Review Texas

Chronicle: O'Rourke's not running, but former staffers are all in -
The Contributor

Arctic Report Card 2019: Extreme Ice Loss, Dying Species as Global Warming Worsens - News Image: For indigenous communities on the Bering Sea, a way of life is at risk as climate change hits fish populations and ricochets through ecosystem...
Rio Grande Guardian

Border leaders thrilled with USMCA breakthrough - LAREDO, Texas – Border leaders have welcomed the breakthrough in negotiations to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, the successor trade de...
Rude Pundit

A Few Questions for Enraged Republicans - In the wake of Democrats finally loading the cannon on actual articles of impeachment, Republicans are somewhere between frantic denial and explosive apopl...
Liberal America

Trump Demands Review Of Toilets: Americans Are Flushing ’10 Times, 15 Times’ - I never thought I’d be writing satire. I don’t like satire. It confuses me. But wait…this isn’t satire. It’s true. Our idiotic president is really freaki...
In These Times

BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren Joins Bernie Sanders in Opposing Trump’s Massive War Budget - *Update:* Following publication of this piece, a Senate spokesperson for Elizabeth Warren contacted *In These Times* with the following comment: "I just ...
Sludge

Lawyers Defending ExxonMobil Are Big Biden Donors - This article was produced in partnership with LittleSis. ExxonMobil prevailed on Tuesday in its legal battle against the state of New York, being found “no...
21st Century Wire

NDAA 2020: New $738 Billion Pentagon Giveaway Stripped of Antiwar Measures - *21WIRE + Antiwar.com* | The final NDAA 2020 bill passed the U.S. House 377-48, allowing The Pentagon to continue its endless wars.
Chicken Fried Politics

New Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear takes office with call to promote “common good” - Beshear inaugurated in Frankfort after ousting Republican Matt Bevin in November vote ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com FRANKFORT, Kentucky (CFP) ...
Moron Majority

Marianne Williamson Proves Why We All Need To Do Our Due Diligence - About one month ago, I wrote a satirical piece, “Trump Pardons Charles Manson.” I also reposted the article on Dailykos.com. What was intended as a lighthe...
BEYONDbones

Creating an Illustrated Guide to HMNS - When we started working on this Family Guide more than a year ago, we knew we wanted to create a massive, imaginative illustration of our Museum and its ma...
Bad Attitudes

What if Trump Got Re-elected in 2020 ? - Lord forbid that President Trump gets re-elected in 2020. As it is, Trump and the Trump-dominated GOP have tried to undo everything the Democratic Party ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: December 2019 - Plugs Freethoughtblogs has re-opened applications for new bloggers! Join us! Applications have technically been open all along, but we had a huge backlog...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Newsweek Journalist Resigns After Censorship on Syria Whistleblower - Derrick Broze breaks down an update on the ongoing information war around alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria. A journalist from Newsweek has resig...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia's Response to Olympic Ban: 'Chronic Anti-Russian Hysteria'.Polygraph.info video by Nik Yarst. -
Mahablog

Too Much Restraint - I apologize for not posting more. I have been plagued by a bad tooth, and today I have to face up to root canal. I will be more communicative once that’s o...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinders Welcomes New Board Members - November brought a round of new board members joining our ranks. It also brought an historic milestone. For the first time in our 25 year history, we’re no...
Bracing Views

America’s Afghan War: Lies and More Lies - W.J. Astore Ten years ago, President Barack Obama decided to “surge” in the Afghan War. The previous year he had run for the presidency on the idea of Ira...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Acclimatizing the U.S. Military - It was Monday, March 1, 2032, and the top uniformed officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps were poised, as they are every year around th...
Two Party Opera

Too Big To Fail -
Land Destroyer

The American Empire Will Fall, Not America Itself - *December 12, 2019* (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - The collapse of an entire nation is as spectacular as it is rare. For a nation to simply cease to exist it must ...
LareDOS

Texans on southern border promise to fight Trump’s efforts to take their homes for border wall - (Reprinted with permission from the December 6, 2019 The Washingon Post.)
Project Censored

Kenn Burrows and Amber Yang - As the world faces unprecedented challenges like global warming, what role are media and journalism playing? Kenn Burrows and Amber Yang say that social ...
Debunking Christianity

"Send a copy of 'The Case Against Miracles' to your favorite Christian apologist!!!" - "Send a copy of 'The Case Against Miracles' to your favorite Christian apologist!!!" So challenges Gary M, a former conservative Lutheran, who is now a cou...
Political Orphans

Link Roundup, 12/9/2019 - A political orphan’s guide to current events.
DBC Green

Cognitive Dissonance Sunday - This past Sunday, Rev. Dr. Collin Bossen, interim senior minister at First UU Houston, delivered one of a series of sermons on the topic of hope. He began ...
Alas, a Blog

A Haiku for Monday, December 5th - Soon, the cold solstice will spin us back toward the sun. Until then, I nest. Continue reading →
Earthworks

Norwegian Government Sets Up Showdown with Activists Over Controversial Copper Mine - On November 29th, the Norwegian government denied an attempt to block the construction of a new copper mine that will dump 30 million tonnes of mine wast...
CPI's Danger in the Air

From Ukraine to the U.S. government, Public Integrity journalists fight for open records - The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. On Thursday, the Cen...
Latino Decisions

Stephen Nuño-Perez Joins Latino Decisions as Director of Communications and Senior Analyst - Nuño-Perez brings a rare combination of over 10 years of analytical expertise in Latino political behavior as a scholar, as well as 8 years of experience...
Our Finite World

Recession Ahead: An Overview of Our Predicament - Many people have the impression that recessions come from financial missteps, such as the US subprime loan fiasco. If energy is involved at all, the proble...
Washington Babylon

Meme of the Day - [image: Meme of the Day] Res ipsa loquitur Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Stinque

Sumter Enchanted Evening - Back when all this began, when the aliens invaded and the timeline shifted and the world spun off its axis, we started wondering what life was like in Weim...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures Year End: Kamala Harris; Firestorm Tree; Greta Thunberg at Standing Rock - Welcome to a special, year end edition of “Chatting the Pictures” focusing on pictures of the year and the theme of exposure. The post Chatting the Pictu...
The Rag Blog

The Rag Blog : METRO EVENT | TeXchromosome benefit features live performance by women artists - Event: Fundraiser for TeXchromosome What: Live music, Funky Fleamarket, Silent Auction When: Saturday, December 14,1-7 p.m. Where: Peace House Farm Address...
ExChristian.Net

Coping With Religious Family Over the Holidays - *By Marlene Winell ~ * At this time of year it’s hard to avoid dealing with the differences you have with your family. If you are a “reclaimer” (reclaiming...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: A House Impossibly Divided. Now What Are We Going To Do About It? -
Bud Kennedy

A hero nobody knew: Fort Worth man led U.S. Navy cybersecurity, but it was top secret - A U.S. Navy war hero came home Friday, but he wasn’t fighting the way you think. From 2006 to 2009, now-retired Capt. Roy Petty, of Fort Worth, led the Nav...
Progressives Chat

Howard Stern Interviews Hillary Clinton - Last week was, perhaps, a surprise as *Howard Stern* welcomed as his guest former First Lady, ex-U.S. senator from New York, and 2016 Democratic presidenti...
Carl Beijer

Why are we calling Warrencare "Medicare for All"? - If you asked me to create a schematic for the health care plans proposed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg, it would probably look s...
The Militant

Copper strikers fight Asarco union busting - As the bitter strike by some 1,700 workers against Asarco copper bosses’ union-busting drive entered its eighth week, the company claimed there is an “impa...
The Ghion Journal

The President’s Greatest Power Lies in Foreign Policy…and the Media Makes Sure Not to Talk About It - In November, during the inane corporate product known as the 5th Democratic Debate, hardly a mention was made of foreign policy. In fact, the subject has...
Freethought Now

Correcting politicians, surfing in the Times, displaying secularism & rewarding students - Theocratic rebuttals, secular displays, a full-page New York Times ad, an essay contest, and member mobilization — a regular week for us here at FFRF.
Independent Political Report

Green Party and Libertarian Party Ballot Access Press Conference - *ALBANY. NY* – The *Green Party of New York* and *Libertarian Party of New York* will hold a joint press conference to discuss their next steps in challe...
Web of Debt

A run of presentations on public banking - Interest in public banking is high! I just finished a run of 11 presentations and in-person interviews in 7 cities in 10 weeks. Here’s a video from one, a ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanon’s anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah - This is part one of a two-part report. Lebanon erupted in massive protests this October. The demonstrations transcended sect and class, and quickly spread ...
The Disorder Of Things

Mendacious Fictions - Buried in Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s dismissal as a ‘mendacious fiction’ of the Labour Party’s claim that it is ‘doing everything’ it can to tackle anti-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Democratic Race: Biden 2020 as Romney 2012 - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Biden’s endurance at the top of the Democratic race is reminiscent of Mitt Romney’s endurance in the 2012 Republican race. —...
Houston Strategies

Why METRO should eliminate transit fares - Apologies for the infrequency of posts - it's been a busy holiday season. The big item this week is my mention in this Chronicle article for getting Metro...
Duck of Minerva

Lessons from Radicalization Narratives on Social Media - This is a guest post from Dr. Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, who is a Researcher and Project Manager of “VIDEOSTAR – Video-based Strategies Against Radicaliza...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2019 - Walmart had at least nineteen shootings this month, only one shy of the record for a month, and bringing the total up to one-hundred-thirty-five for the...
Media Lens

Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn - Thoreau got it right: ‘Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.’ (Thoreau, ‘Walden’, Penguin, 1983, p.68) The same is ...
Environment Texas

Climate Solutions Now - Andrea McGimsey Senior Director, Global Warming Solutions Campaign (202) 461-2455 Contact person by email - Read more about Andrea McGimsey Monday, ...
Robert Reich

Who is Worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell?He’s maybe the... - *Who is Worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell?* He’s maybe the most dangerous politician of my lifetime. He’s helped transform the Republican Party into...
Avedon's Sideshow

Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity - Happy Advent, have some traditional music. At the darkest and coldest time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, we need warmth and light, fellowship a...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Yes, We Accept Donations. Thank you! - Nov. 30, 2019 So this is the thanks and the giving season, and everyone is asking for money. We almost never ask for money. But now we are. Save Buffalo ...
Church and State

How Should Humanity Steer the Future? The Leverage and Centrality of Mind - By Preston Estep, PhD, and Alexander Hoekstra | 24 April 2014 FQXi Background Humanity faces many great challenges. Some already appear imposing, yet grow ...
PERRspectives

Is Trump Trying to Block the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline So His Ukraine Cronies Can Cash In? - After this week's testimony in the impeachment hearings, the contours of President Donald Trump's abuse of power for personal advantage have become crystal...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary by Honoring Our Strongest Advocates and Legislative Champions and Celebrating 30 Years of Protecting LGBTQ Texans - Angela Hale, Equality Texas, 512.289.2995 angela.hale@equalitytexas.org EQUALITY TEXAS CELEBRATES OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY BY HONORING OUR STRONGEST ADVOCATES ...
The Metaphor Project

New Metaphor Project Strategy - For a while now, our new Metaphor Project strategy has prioritized being active on social media over writing blogs. To see our latest suggestions for frame...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist - OK, we need to talk about fascism. Not just any kind of fascism. A particularly insidious kind of fascism. No, not the fascism of the early 20th Century. N...
Pages of Victory

Elites and Impeachment and Progressives - Youtube -
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

My Visit to the LeBaron Clan Outpost - In 1998, while I was living in Mexico, I had an encounter with the LeBaron clan, which has been in the news lately due to the massacre of family members ...
Splinter

Don't Dream, It's Over - There is no real origin story for Splinter.
Texas Moratorium Network

Rodrick Reed, Brother of Rodney Reed Nov 9, 2019 -
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

I am still here to tell the tales of Harry - *I am still here.* *I am still here to tell you about Harry.* *Though I am still here, I am not sure how to adjust to life without Harry.Death is ...
Seeing the Forest

Wut? - For no particular reason, a bagpipe version of Eight Miles High by Rufus Harley. Inspired by John Coltrane and the Scottish pipers of JFK’s funeral march,R...
The Concourse

A Bear Friday For The Road - I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the se...
GreenSource DFW

Tiny house village opens in Lake Dallas - *The tiny home community in Lake Dallas is the first of its kind built within city limits in North Texas. Photo courtesy of Terry Lantrip.* Oct. 30, 2019...
News Taco

Pineros – Immigrant forestry workers fight wildfires - As millions are impacted by wildfires burning in California, forestry crews are on the front lines. Largely immigrant crews known as pineros face unsafe ...
Smart Dissent

Federal Deficit Hit $984,000,000,000 Last Year, a 50% Increase Since Trump Took Office - Date: 11/05/2019 Republicans are liars and unfortunately they're good at it. That and millions of people are stupid enough to buy their BS. During the 2...
Washington's Blog

Has California Lost The Mandate of Heaven? - In Chinese history, natural disasters were viewed as portents that the The Mandate of Heaven (tianming or “Heaven’s will”) had been withdrawn from the ru...
Community Impact Newspapers

Leander Public Library Director Priscilla Donovan is leaving - Priscilla Donovan’s last day as Leander Public Library’s director will be Nov. 1, according to an Oct. 24 statement from [...] The post Leander Public Li...
nonsite.org

N+1 and the PMC: A Debate about Moving On - What has led so many of us relatively independently of one another to start thinking about the PMC as a class formation in the first place? My sense is tha...
Frontloading HQ

About that South Carolina Republican Party Defense of Canceling Its 2020 Presidential Primary - On Friday, October 18, the challenge to the cancelation of the 2020 presidential primary by the South Carolina Republican Party *had its day in court*. Wh...
New Progressive Alliance

The Madness of King Donald - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida. Jeff here looks at d...
LawFlog

Bank on it: the FBI is hiding records about Seth Rich - For two years, I’ve blogged about allegations that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich — not the Russians — was responsible for providing embar...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling - Most people are shocked by the intense hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling. How can a well that is not complete have emissions? Neighborhoods u...
Texas Rural Voices

A Rural Texan Explains the Mueller Report–Yes, It Is Still Important, Part 7 - Making it Easy for You in a Seven Part Series: Part 7 By Suzann Thompson Trump Tampered with Witnesses. Tampering with witnesses brings to mind intimid...
Texans For Public Justice

Who Does John Cornyn Work For? - The Texas Observer's Justin Miller takes a deep dive into Senator John Cornyn. Read Miller's article at the Texas Observer.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Dustin Ray Hamby Exposed as Nazi Leader Chef Goyardee - The following is being posted on behalf of Central Texas ARA: Dustin Ray Hamby, aka “Chef Goyardee”, is an Austin-based Neo-Nazi and cook who now serves as...
Popehat

All The President's Lawyers: No Bill Thrill? - This week: did a grand jury no-bill DoJ? Link here.
Think Progress

Transitioning ThinkProgress - Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and edit...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
Grit Post

Colorado’s 4th Largest City Offers Public WiFi 4x Faster Than Comcast for Same Price - Municipal broadband in Fort Collins, Colorado went live Friday offering gigabit internet connections for the same price as comparatively sluggish Comcast...
DoucheLeaks

8-27 Democratic Primary Poll - We’re going to try something different this week and give ranked choice voting a shot. Pick your favorite three candidates and let’s see how well they stac...
Truthout

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - [image: The darkened sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil is picture on August 19, 2019. Residents reported black rain, while studies by two universities confirmed tha...
Progressive Army

Israel and South Africa: The Racial Travel Bans of Apartheid - Recently, Israel issued travel bans for Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. This is, yet again, another example of the country trying to silence ...
t.e.j.a.s.

Official TEJAS STATEMENT – Baytown Exxonmobil Olefins Plant – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION - Due to an attack on our server provider, our statement was postponed. Thank you all for your patience.
Texas State Teachers Association

NEA Member Benefits offering assistance to victims of South Texas flooding - n response to the severe storms and flooding in Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties, NEA Member Benefits has activated its Disaster Relief Program. NEA M...
Texas Watch

Comments On Informal TWIA Claim Rules - We filed these comments with the Texas Department of Insurance to make sure coastal policyholders are paid every cent they are owed after a storm. Learn...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
The Socialist

North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence - Disclaimer: The SPUSA is a multi-tendency organization, the following article may or may not reflect the views of individual party
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
WAWG Blog

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election - What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greate...
Disobedient Media

Is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory? - Here's who was involved with pushing it.
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...
News Junkie

The Surrealism of the Information War - The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.
John Laurits

[video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany - [video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany For readers who missed the Facebook live-stream, here is a video wherein I a...

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