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Sputnik News

Suspect’s ‘Cryptic’ Message on Facebook Part of Toronto Attack Probe - Detective - WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A cryptic message posted on a social media page by the suspect in the deadly van attack in Toronto will be part of the ongoing inves...
Hullabaloo

The NRA's win-win strategy - *The NRA's win-win strategy* by digby The gun control movement is making some strides. There might even be some minor changes coming down the pike as ...
Daily Kos

Trump's VA nominee improperly dispensed drugs, drank on the job, and horribly mismanaged his unit - This is the type of thing the White House would have discovered if they had vetted Donald Trump’s Veterans Affairs nominee before he hit a road block in ...
Vox

New York’s special election has already been decided by one rogue Democrat - [image: Sen. Simcha Felder.] Democrats’ dreams of taking control of state government are dead, for now. Democrats hoped Tuesday’s special election could f...
The Verge

Anker announced an affordable AirPods rival and a bunch of new speakers - Anker’s audio brand, Soundcore, is releasing more than a dozen new speakers and headphones to welcome actual good spring and summer weather. Soundcore, ...
Raw Story

White House doctor Ronny Jackson to fight for VA job: White House official - U.S. President Donald Trump’s physician Ronny Jackson will not withdraw as the nominee to head the Veterans Affairs department and will fight allegations...
Socialist Alternative

#RedForEd – Arizona Teachers Walk-Out Against Cuts! - On Thursday, April 19, with crowds of teachers, newscasters, and a peak of over 13,000 watching online, the Arizona Educators Association announced that Ar...
xpostfactoid

A free silver plan with a $0 deductible...What's not to like? - I have been fond of noting that notwithstanding the complexity of health insurance, most enrollees in the ACA marketplace seem to get the most consequentia...
Mediaite

S.E. Cupp Goes Off on Ronny Jackson: He Needs to Do the ‘Honorable Thing’ and Withdraw Nomination - HLN's *S.E. Cupp* said Dr. *Ronny Jackson* needs to withdraw from consideration to be VA Secretary amid some stunning new allegations about his past behavior.
Mother Jones

Jeff Sessions Won’t Recuse Himself From Michael Cohen’s Case - Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided not to steer clear of the Justice Department’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, acco...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans to Daniel Ortega: Time for you to resign murderer - *"Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them." - Elliott Abrams* ...
Grit Post

Joe Manchin Only Democrat to Confirm Right-Wing Extremist to Lifetime Judicial Appointment - Stuart Kyle Duncan is a militant right-wing extremist. And thanks to Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), he will spend the rest of his life as a feder...
Crooks and Liars

Jaws - *The Daily Show* has a bit of fun with one of the many awkward moments between Trump and his wife Melania, in what's become a pattern of public displays ...
SCOTUSblog

Petitions of the day - [image: Petitions of the day]The petitions of the day are: Findlay v. Federal Housing Finance Agency 17-1300 Issues: (1) Whether the Seventh Amendment re...
The Root

What’s Coming and Going on Netflix in May? - I love Netflix; I’m not gonna lie. It is the perfect companion when you live alone. I usually turn on something good to play as background noise while I’...
Mock Paper Scissors

To Russia, With Love - In case anyone other than Comrade Trump is interested in what it looks like when a Russian consulate is closed (and we know he is not interested), here’s t...
AlterNet.org

Watch Trump Hilariously Try to Catch Unimpressed Melania's Evasive Hand with His Pinky - Witness the latest of the first lady's shade towards the president. President Donald Trump tried to hold wife Melania Trump’s hand during a White House ce...
San Antonio Current

Siesta Fest Brings Coolio, Eddie Money to Alamo City Music Hall - Ok, so we’re literally blasting Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the office right now, and that shit still goes hard af.…
Dissident Voice

Winnie Mandela and Apartheid’s Hidden History - A new documentary on Winne Mandela – called simply Winnie – is fascinating both for what it reveals about the hidden history of South Africa’s transition a...
National Post

Defence officials wonder whether it still makes sense to move counterterrorism unit out of Ottawa - 'I think there has been enough changes around the issue to warrant a sober second look'
memeorandum

"He Wants to Fight This": Michael Cohen, Amid Bewildering Stormy Chaos, Is Still Holding Out Hope for Survival (Emily Jane Fox/Vanity Fair) - Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair: *“He Wants to Fight This”: Michael Cohen, Amid Bewildering Stormy Chaos, Is Still Holding Out Hope for Survival* — Accord...
Reverb Press

Mon Dieu: Trump Made the Lamest ‘Power Move’ Ever at Macron and Twitter Absolutely Lost It - Trump brushed dandruff off Macron to make him ‘perfect’ And we saved the best for last… “When the aging gorilla is confronted with the much more virile, ...
Buzzflash

Pruitt scales back EPA’s use of science - Pruitt scales back EPA’s use of science 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Anti-Media

Watch: Trump Just Brushed Dandruff Off the President of France - [image: Dandruff President of France]“We have to make him perfect,” Trump said of the President of France after doing so. “He is perfect.” (CD) — On Tuesda...
Talking Points Memo

Resigned Port Authority Commissioner Flashed Badge, Cursed Out Police - Democratic lobbyist and former Port Authority commissioner Caren Z. Turner cursed out police officers who’d pulled over a car with...
VICE

That Creepy, Abandoned 'Wizard of Oz' Theme Park Is Reopening This Summer - The Land of Oz has sat decaying since 1980, nestled at the top of a mountain in North Carolina.
Houston Matters

Houston Is One Of The Cities Where Amazon Is Offering Deliveries To Cars - The company’s new service works with vehicles equipped with OnStar or Volvo On Call
The Week

Music streaming is finally the industry's biggest revenue source - Video may have killed the radio star, but Spotify and Apple Music are poised to resurrect him. Streaming services are bringing in more revenue than CD sa...
Pajiba

'Killing Eve' Review: The Pace of 'Justified,' the Wit of 'Sherlock,' and the Perversity of 'Fleabag' - There's a lot going on Sunday nights right now with Westworld, Fear the Walking Dead, Homeland, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Silicon Valley and Barry (among others)...
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - get happy
Think Progress

Facebook may have finally found a way to deal with fake news - It’s tough to exaggerate just how difficult the past six months — or the past two years, really — have been for Facebook. Accusations of privacy violations...
Political Dig

Trump Gets Rejected Again, Melania Awkwardly Pulls Away To Avoid Holding His Hand: Watch - Donald Trump tried holding his wife Melania Trump’s hand, again, during a televised event and it went just like it has before, she ended up awkwardly pul...
Daily Dot

It looks like Allison Mack tried to recruit Emma Watson for alleged sex cult - [image: Allison Mack, Emma Watson] Watson didn't respond. The post It looks like Allison Mack tried to recruit Emma Watson for alleged sex cult appeared f...
Grist

Activists head to court after shutting down pipelines. Their defense? Climate change. - The "value turners" will argue their illegal actions were necessary because of climate change's daunting threat.
Courthouse News

Yahoo Fined $35 Million - Altaba, formerly known as Yahoo!, will pay $35 million to settle charges it misled investors by failing to disclose one of the world’s largest data breac...
Salon.com

Royal baby number three and Kate Middleton is still not your typical postpartum mom - What, you didn’t have a blowout and high heels after you gave birth?
Latino Rebels

Assassination in Brazil Unmasks the Deadly Racism of a Country That Would Rather Ignore It - Race is still a taboo subject. Nonetheless, as Marielle Franco exposed in her work, skin color dramatically impacts safety in Brazil.
Ballot Access News

California Bill to Outlaw Paying Circulators on a Per-Signature Basis Advances - On April 18, the California Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 1394, which makes it illegal for anyone to pay initiative petition circulators, except on ...
Grits for Breakfast

TXDoT waived $1.3 billion in defaulted toll late fees; shouldn't old DRP surcharges also be waived? - The Texas Department of Transportation has announced it will waive $1.3 billion dollars in late fees on toll fines, The agency had sent 2.2 million accoun...
Axios

Report suggested removal of Ronny Jackson from White House role - An inspector general report from 2012 suggested "removing VA nominee Ronny Jackson and rival from White House roles after finding 'severe and pervasive l...
Above the Law

Crypto Assets Are Up 75% In April, In Case You Were Wondering Whether People Are Still Morons - You live and you don’t learn.
TYT Network

TYT Interviews – Nomi Prins - Ana interviews Author Nomi Prins to talk about her book Collusion: How Central Banks Rigged The World. ... This content is for Member, Producer, Senior ...
Slate

Macron’s Plan to Save the Iran Deal Might Involve a Lot More Conflict With Iran - Did French President Emmanuel Macron successfully convince President Trump to preserve the Iran nuclear deal? It’s impossible to say—but judging by their...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

One More Thing: Tonight’s State Dinner - As a candidate, Donald Trump had a lot to say about state dinners. On the day of President Trump’s first state dinner with the President of France, Katy Tu...
Rewire

The Guy Who Suggested Aspirin as Birth Control Wants to Be Wyoming’s Governor - One of the largest beneficiaries of Foster Friess' family foundation is the National Christian Foundation, which directs donations to anti-choice organiz...
Echidne of the Snakes

On the Online Incel Movement - Rumors, as yet unverified by the Toronto police, suggest that the Toronto van killer may have acted out of misogyny. This is based on a now-removed Fac...
CultureMap Houston

Inside 4 luxe restaurants at Tilman Fertitta's brand-new Houston hotel - The Post Oak, Houston's newest luxury hotel, is an impressive facility. It's clear that its owner, Landry's, Inc CEO Tilman Fertitta, has spared no expens...
Free Press Houston

Mwenso & the Shakes Take Over Discovery Green This Thursday - This show sounds like something that is worth checking out.
The Greanville Post

British Propaganda and Disinformation: An Imperial and Colonial Tradition - WAYNE MADSEN—In 2013, April 2017, and April 2018, the Western media echo chamber blared out all the same talking points: “Assad killing his own people,” “S...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

No. Just No. - No. Don’t do that. Ya think Macron would wipe hamburger grease Trump’s tie? No, he would not. Because he was not raised in a barn.
The Intercept

Comey Says FBI’s Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. Was “Shameful” — But Comey’s FBI Surveilled Black Activists - Under Comey's leadership, the FBI carried out surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists, American Muslims, and others. The post Comey Says FBI’s Surv...
OpEd News

As the Haspel Nomination Looms, the World Is Watching - What the Greeks (and the Germans, the Italians, the Belgians, and others) just cannot get past is that Trump has named Gina Haspel as CIA director. Haspel,...
Splinter

Everything Melania Trump Has Done for the Past 24 Hours Has Been Nuts - We’re well into the inelegant shitshow that is the first state visit of Donald Trump’s presidency. And despite the near-death, out-of-body awkwardness of...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Allison Mack: Smallville actor granted bail in alleged sex cult case - The actor who is fighting charges that she helped recruit women into Nxivm, a cult-like group, was released on $5m bond An actor best known for playing...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Slow Play - Folks, I golf so I know just how it is. You want to do a deal so you call your Greens Keeper with whom you’re on a first name basis and set up a Tee Time, ...
Down With Tyranny!

Special Elections: AZ-08 Today, TX-27... Sometime - After he was caught in a sex-and-payoff scandal, Blake Farenthold intended to serve out his term and not run for reelection. Instead he was forced to res...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Trump’s Actions Undermine His Rhetoric About Second Chances - Trump talks the talk on reentry, but neither he nor his administration walks the walk. A couple of weeks ago, Trump designated April as Second Chance Mont...
Texas Standard

Millennials Embracing Socialism Don’t Want To Remake The Economy. They Just Want A Better Life, - In conservative Texas, the Democratic Socialists of America is pushing the Democratic party to the left.
Rivard Report

High School Film Festival Awards Presented At Tobin Center - Thomas Jefferson High School took top honors at the Bexar County High School Film Festival for a short film on a nonprofit that feeds kids. The post High...
Ring of Fire

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Admits She Has No Idea What The Hell Trump Is Talking About - White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a tough time attempting to explain Donald Trump’s tweet talking about a “breeding concept” among i...
Texas Observer

Lawyers Seek to Reform ‘Ethical Minefield’ of Public Defender’s Office Controlled by Texas Prison System - Last week, David O’Neil stood before the Texas Board of Criminal Justice with an awkward request: He asked nine governor-appointed board members to relin...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Worshiping Glorified Dead Warmongers To Suppress Truth - We're not supposed to speak ill of the dead! This seems like a reasonable social norm, until the establishment media starts glorifying one corrupt poli...
Swamplot

Two Second Ward Rowhouse Transplants Now Ready for Their Latest Change-Up - After hauling all 6 of their endangered Victorian cottages 8 blocks and arranging them neatly off Sampson St. 4 years ago, Michael Skelly and Anne Whitlock...
Rude Pundit

Confederate Memorial Day Is for Losers - Look, there ought to be no reason to talk about "Confederate Memorial Day" because such a day shouldn't exist. And it fucking well ought not be recognized ...
Moron Majority

Is Dr. Ronny Jackson Really an MD? - Now that Dr. Ronny Jackson’s bid to become the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs has suffered a major setback amid allegations of both personal and profes...
Houstonia

We're All in on Mike Raymond's Cottonmouth Club - The man behind Reserve 101 may have just opened your new favorite bar.
Right Wing Watch

Lance Wallnau: Trump’s Critics Are Being Controlled By Satan - Right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau posted a video on his Facebook page last week in which he explained how those who are critical of President Trump are all...
Washington Monthly

Trump and His Enablers Equate the Steele Dossier With the Pee Tape - The most serious charges in the dossier go way beyond the allegation that the president engaged in bizarre sexual rituals.
NPR's Health Shots

Sheer Number Of Attacks On Health Facilities In Syria Shocks Researcher - A new study compiled nearly 200 incidents in 2016 in northern Syria — double the amount from a previous attempt to come up with data. And everyone agrees t...
Ian Welsh

Centrist Elites: Please Save Democracy From Democracy - Yeah, I’m going to generalize from this, but it fits a long time pattern. https://twitter.com/jonathanalter/status/988622521716092929 In other words, to pr...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/24/2018 - Today's Water Cooler: Open Thread
FiveThirtyEight.com

What To Watch As The Bucks-Celtics Matchup Goes Down To The Wire - The Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks have faced off in plenty of playoff showdowns over the years, including four clashes in the 1980s alone, during the ...
The Progressive Wing

Lee Camp AMA Tonight – 7pm Eastern - At WayoftheBern we’ve been hosting more AMAs recently, and for tonight we scored a big one: Lee Camp! So I wanted to stop by, say Hi, and invite everyone (...
No More Mister Nice Blog

KEVIN WILLIAMSON, STOP DIGGING - In his recent *Wall Street Journal* piece about his dismissal by *The Atlantic,* Kevin Williamson complained that no journalist ever asked him to explain h...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 23, 2018 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Contrary to denials, lobbyist tied to EPA chief Scott Pruitt condo deal did lobby the agency; Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg d...
Dandelion Salad

The Occupation of the American Mind - Dandelion Salad [Film made in 2016] The Real News Network on April 6, 2018 A documentary film narrated by legendary musician and activist Roger Waters of P...
Popehat

About The Bogus Defamation Claim Against Lee Stranahan - Earlier today, in my angry mood at Tewksbury, I had Twitter words with one Lee Stranahan, self-styled journalist currently seen on Sputnik and InfoWars. Th...
Progressive Army

Biased Reporting by WABE and AJC Seek to Undermine My Voice and Demands for Accountability in Political Coverage - Editor’s Note: This article is a preview of an article published on The Peach Perspective. My voice and demands for accountability in Georgia political c...
Popular Resistance

Poor People’s Campaign Training Attacked By Pepper Spray - Several members of a left-leaning political group meeting in Spenard say they were sickened and temporarily blinded Saturday afternoon, after police say a ...
ProPublica

What Is Congress Talking About? - by Jeremy B. Merrill When something happens in Congress, legislators love to brag about it — or condemn it — for their audience of journalists and profe...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Hayes pretends to interview Chozick! - *TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018But first, what Lozada did:* Last night—actually, early this morning—we watched Chris Hayes as he pretended to interview Amy Choz...
Texas Freedom Network

About that Appalling “Positive Aspects” of Slavery Assignment - Last week, a picture of an assignment given at a San Antonio charter school was posted online. The appalling task assigned to students was to offer a “ba...
Counterpunch

Willy Vlautin – Don’t Skip Out on Me -
emptywheel

What Happened To The Cultural Elites: I Just Work Here - No one is responsible for the results of their actions on society. They just work here.
OffCite

Architects Grapple with the Design of a More Resilient Houston: A Report by Julie Hendricks - House on South Braeswood Boulevard designed by StudioMET. Photo: Ben Hill.Julie Hendricks is Vice President and Director of EcoServices at Kirksey Architec...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Sexual assault prevention: before action comes awareness - By Senator Jane Nelson Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, recognized every April, fosters public discourse about sexual assault — an issue that...
Wolf Street

Update on the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in the US - Everything spikes.
First Reading

I went to the Chip Roy-Matt McCall debate, and then the debate came to me. - Good day Austin: Sunday night I went to a Hill Country Democratic CD 21 forum/debate at a winery in Johnson City. Last night, I went…
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump's anti-gay pick Pompeo set to be Secretary of State' & other Tue midday news briefs - Mike Pompeo *The Senate is set to approve an anti-LGBTQ Secretary of State. People could die if they do*. - *Barring any fortunate change, Mr. "homosexuali...
Debunking Christianity

Stealing from God: Causality, Part 2 - The second main point Turek makes in his chapter on causality is that without God, there would be no laws of nature — and therefore no cause and effect: ...
Mahablog

We Need to Update the Peter Principle - Most of y’all will remember the Peter Principle, which says that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence. In my experience this u...
In These Times

This Sheriff Was Booted by DHS for Racism. Now Trump Wants To Enlist Him in Deportations. - ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C.—Yazmin Garcia Rico was on her way to Guilford College in Greensboro in 2011, her car packed with belongings to start her final seme...
Independent Political Report

LPNY Holds 46th Annual Convention; Larry Sharpe Nominated For Governor - *From LPNewYork.org*: [image: New York Libertarian Party April 2018 Convention] The Libertarian Party of New York held their 46th annual convention over ...
Angry Bear

The consumer edges closer to the precipice - The consumer edges closer to the precipice In addition to my “long leading/short leading” model adapted from the work of Profs. Geoffrey Moore and Edward L...
Election Law Blog

Texas: “Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit that sought to remove dozens of Democrats from November ballot” - The Dallas Morning News reports. … Continue reading →
Bonddad

Housing: it's Godzilla vs. Mothra! - -* by New Deal democrat* LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! In this corner, I give you Godzilla -- the large generational tailwind of Millennials entering the market...
Consortium News

Scarier than Bolton? Think Nikki for President - Nikki Haley is America’s face to the international community. She is the Ugly American personified, thinking that American Exceptionalism gives her license...
Political Garbage Chute

Sean Hannity Asks HUD For Another Set Of Multi-million Dollar Boot Straps - NEW YORK, NEW YORK — According to sources close-ish to the situation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has received a request for a new se...
Peacock Panache

Public Affairs Month: Why Civic Literacy Matters - [image: Public Affairs Month: Why Civic Literacy Matters] *IU Northwest sponsored several lectures during its recent Public Affairs Month. I was asked to p...
Other Words

What ‘Toys R Us’ Teaches Us About Taxes - The toy retailer flourished when taxes were high. Greedy investors, not taxes, brought down the iconic store.
The Ghion Journal

Like Water for Capitalism - Before we begin, please go fill a cup with the water you drink and sit with it a moment. Here is truth: If you do not have what is in that cup, you will ...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives say ixnay to Southwest,talk elections, Earth Day, Alex Jones - With this week's lefty blog post roundup, the Texas Progressive Alliance won't be flying Southwest Airlines for awhile. Not even for five grand in cash a...
Newsbud

Enough Is Enough: Will Stronger Gun Control Measures Prevent Gun Violence? - Enough is enough. That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America. Enough is e...
Eater Houston

It Looks Like the Minds Behind Greenway Coffee Are Plotting an All-Day Cafe - [image: Xochi is one of GQ’s best new restaurants] Plus, more food news — It looks like Greenway Coffee owner David Buehrer has teamed up with real estat...
Progressive.org

How Universities Are Dealing With Histories of Racism - Activists say schools can do more to promote racial equality.
Democracy Now!

Activists Demand Release of Manuel Duran, Prominent Latino Journalist in Memphis Jailed by ICE - Immigrants rights activists are demanding the release of Manuel Duran, a prominent Latino journalist in Memphis who has been in ICE custody since early Apr...
Lowering the Bar

Ninth Circuit: Monkeys Have Standing to Sue in Federal Court - [image: monkey selfie]Not that it'll do them any good. Related Stories - Courthouse Deputy: “I Need to See Your Monkey” - Michigan Set to L...
Dorf on Law

How Denial Can Be Step One in Facilitating Harm - by Sherry F. Colb My column for this week discusses a suggestion by Kevin Williamson, almost-columnist for the Atlantic, that women who have abortions shou...
First Draft

Yup. Vote Them Out. - It’s the only way: Trumpism isn’t receding in the GOP — it’s increasing. This year’s Senate and House candidates are more like Trump than the ones in 2016....
MintPress News

Eyewitness: Israel Still Firing On Unarmed Gaza Protesters - Dennis J. Bernstein speaks with Gaza-based Palestinian Journalist, Wafa Al-Udaini. The post Eyewitness: Israel Still Firing On Unarmed Gaza Protesters a...
DeSmogBlog

Low Octane: The Surprising Reason Shale Oil Makes a Poor Fuel for High-Tech Cars and Trucks - [image: Gas pump] Shale oil, which the Energy Information Administration projects will represent a rising proportion of American oil supplies in the coming...
Space City Weather

JJ Watt is right, Houston’s weather has been “phenomenal” lately - On Monday, I noted on Twitter that his is the nicest April in Houston I think I’ve ever experienced. Later, no less an authority than JJ Watt concurred. We...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Todd Miller, An Unsustainable World Managed With an Iron Fist - At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! - Our teenager-in-chief https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-using-cell-phone-more-to-avoid-john-kelly Trump Increasingly Using Cell Phone To Bypass...
Campaign for America's Future

Tell Congress: Curb the President’s War Powers - This week, the Senate will decide whether to confirm CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Pompeo is a key figure in Trump’s new war cabinet, alo...
Duffel Blog

Lieutenant tells inbound air support he just needs one more minute to figure out where he is - [image: young officer] TAL BAYDAR, Syria — A lieutenant in the middle of calling in an air strike on ISIS fighters has told the pilots he needs just anoth...
Houston Press

Christopher Titus Wants to Unite Us All - Christopher Titus is painfully honest, and this is simultaneously refreshing, uncomfortable and cathartic. Titus rails on his ex-wife and the current state...
Harper's Magazine

[Art Monday Gallery ] | Weather #6, by Rosemary Laing -
The Conversation

Argentinos empiezan a contemplar los derechos de la mujer, comenzando con el aborto - La posible legalización del aborto en Argentina abre debate sobre temas sociales importantes hasta ahora relegados, como la inequidad salarial, las licenci...
Pharyngula

Sam Seder vs. Jordan Peterson - Jordan Peterson was on Bill Maher’s show, and I didn’t watch it — those are two names I find utterly repellent. Bill Maher is a terrible host, because he l...
Church and State

Rejoice! Secularism Won! Why We Can Never Celebrate - Secular folk rule. Our medicine is not Wiccan. Our neuroscience is not Voodoo. Our artists and writers rarely follow Christian tenets.
Off the Kuff

Today is Texas redistricting day at SCOTUS - […]
Informed Comment

Is Mike Pompeo soft on White Terrorism against Muslim Immigrants? - The Senate Foreign Relations committee narrowly voted in favor of former CIA director Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State on Monday, after President Trump c...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday night fever - america has a neo-nazi problem trumpers don't think 'drain the swamp' means 'end corruption' can we be saved from facebook? we've never seen the nra as r...
Dallas Observer

Dallas County Judge Dismisses GOP's Lawsuit to Kick Local Democrats off November Ballot - Dallas County Democrats avoided a crisis Monday afternoon when Dallas County District Judge Eric Moyé dismissed a lawsuit that would've kicked dozens of De...
The NM Political Report

In this home, Navajo language unlocks tradition, identity - [image: In this home, Navajo language unlocks tradition, identity] Tyler Bennallie, 11, sprawls on the floor of his family’s mobile home on the Navajo Nati...
Texas Moratorium Network

Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler - Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler. Sabrina was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. She is listed as number 59 on the T...
jobsanger

The Voice For Fox -
Socialist Worker

Will the Trump tower of corruption topple? - The stench of corruption coming from the Oval Office is growing worse, but no one who wants to stop Donald Trump should count on scandal alone to bring ...
World Socialist Web Site

US federal, state governments wage war on workers and the poor - While Trump and corporate boardrooms celebrate the “booming” economy and the rising stockpiles of cash for the super-rich, they are seeking ways to gut wha...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Paxton: Abbott can use disaster powers to hasten special election -
Antiwar.com

What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria… and Does it Matter? - Inspectors from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have finally arrived in Douma, Syria, to assess whether a gas attack took ...
Truthout

As Cuba Gains a New President, Raúl Castro Steps Back, Not Down, From Power - For the first time since the Cuban revolution toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista, a president who does not have the last name Castro has taken power. Mig...
The Contributor

Trump is 'Illegally' Turning His Back on Refugees - News Image: "The biggest flaw in Trump's thinking is that there is nothing illegal or improper about people in fear for their lives asking for protection....
Houston Communist Party

Stop the US-led war and aggression on Syria - April 14, 2018 Stop the US-led war and aggression on Syria The Communist Party of Canada condemns the illegal and murderous airstrikes on Syria conducted b...
Field Negro

The masks keep coming off. - [image: TWEET ME]Dear Racists, I know that now that Donald trump is in power you all feel emboldened to carry out your racists acts, and you have thrown al...
Texas Monthly

The South Texas Fajita Bandit Has Been Sentenced to Fifty Years in Prison - The nine-year meat hustle has caught up with the former Cameron County Juvenile Detention Center worker. The post The South Texas Fajita Bandit Has Been ...
Liberal Values

A Look At Bernie TV - While we don’t have Bernie Sanders in the White House, but we can see much more of him on line. New York Magazine has a feature on Bernie Sanders’s digital...
Portside

Grab and Gojek Drivers in Indonesia Push to Unionize - Grab and Gojek Drivers in Indonesia Push to Unionize Stephanie Mon, 04/23/2018 - 19:08
Washington's Blog

Connecting the Dots of Big Data, Soaring Corporate Profits and Trade Wars - Let’s connect the dots between these two comments from longtime correspondents: the first is on the model of collecting and selling data (Big Data), and th...
Earthjustice

Una compañía de combustibles fósiles quiso instalar una planta de gas en una hermosa playa. Pero falló. - Una compañía de combustibles fósiles quiso instalar una planta de gas en una hermosa playa. Pero falló. La última decisión de los inspectores de California...
slacktivist

The ‘Weird’ Fringe is the Biggest Part of White Evangelicalism - The main stream of mainstream evangelicalism was once, as George Marsden put it, people "who like Billy Graham." Today, "mainstream" evangelicalism is mere...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

New KHOU 11 graphics 2018 - The countdown is on for KHOU 11's move to its new permanent studio at the end of 2018 thanks to Hurricane Harvey leaving its former building unusable. But ...
Trivial Knot

The construction of emotions - I recently read How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett. It explains the theory of constructed emotion and its implications. This is the best book o...
Krebs on Security

Transcription Service Leaked Medical Records - MEDantex, a Kansas-based company that provides medical transcription services for hospitals, clinics and private physicians, took down its customer Web por...
News Taco

Latinos And Others Find Trump Tweets Not Unusual - NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Pilar Marrero, a writer at the Spanish language daily La Opinion in Los Angeles, about President Trump tweets attackin...
News Corpse

Fox News in a Coma: ‘Nobody Was Asking Hillary Clinton About the Guy that She’s Married To’ - If you thought that Fox News had run out of ways to shock people with examples of acute obliviousness, you might wanna sit down. The network that relentles...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - Lecture – Medieval Arms Race Throughout the Middle Ages competition between offensive and defensive arms resulted in a constant stream of innovation an...
Louis Proyect

Petrified Assadism - Petrified wood (wood that has turned into stone) If you’ve been following Assadist propaganda as closely as me, you’re probably aware that it divides into ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

U.S. senator, four congressional candidates say they’ll reject embattled veterans PAC’s cash - Put Vets First! PAC and sister charities spend most of their money on telemarketing and their leader’s salary — not veterans.
Big Bad Bald Bastard

The Fibbin' Nazi Sequence - Poking around the t00bz, I found this hilarious picture of Donald Trump's head conforming to a Fibonacci spiral: It's similar to a golden spiral, which ...
Reading the Pictures

Our Take on that Viral “3 Presidents and Melania” Barbara Bush Funeral Pic - 9 reasons why the photo from the Barbara Bush funeral won the internet. The post Our Take on that Viral “3 Presidents and Melania” Barbara Bush Funeral P...
DBC Green blog

Buzzkill Bloggage - Raise your hand if you survived Earth Day weekend with your mental health intact, or at least undiminished. In the Lone Star State, we just endured a three...
Disobedient Media

A Conversation With Chris Blackburn On The Contradictions Surrounding Mifsud - Reports casting Mifsud as a Russian intelligence asset do not object to the concept that Mifsud worked as a spy. Their claim simply depicts him as working ...
Better Texas Blog

How to Boost Funding to Public Education - The Texas public school finance system is due for some renovations. And we need raw material to get the job done. As the Texas Public School Finance Comm...
Liberation News

Barnard student vote to divest boosts fight against Israeli apartheid - After long struggle, this is a major victory for the BDS movement nationally. The post Barnard student vote to divest boosts fight against Israeli apart...
Pensito Review

Mike Cohen’s Motivation - *That Michael Cohen will flip is foregone and a given, Because he keeps having a recurring, horrifying vision: What Mike Cohen doesn't want to be Is the "S...
Shadowproof

Community Investment, Safety Without Cops: Good Kids Mad City Organizes Against Gun Violence - Good Kids Mad City, formed in the aftermath of Parkland, advocates for the needs of youth of color by organizing against violence and for community inves...
Rallblog

Support Your Local Cartoonist - I recently learned that I am about to lose one of my major cartooning clients. I am looking for work and scrambling to replace it. I represent a unique voi...
Common Dreams

Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again - Hannah Finnie "They experience suffocating levels of student debt alongside declining wages and income equality while watching companies monopolize entire ...
Bracing Views

Jacinda for President! - W.J. Astore My wife perceptively notes how the USA is sliding backwards. Racism has new vigor even as science is rejected, e.g. climate change denial. A ...
Carl Beijer

That prom picture with the armed dad - it's actually about capitalism - A few days ago, former NFL kicker Jay Feely tweeted out a picture of his daughter and her date preparing to attend their high school prom. Remarkably, Feel...
Crooked Timber

GMI + JG = paid work as a choice for all - I’ve been arguing for a while that a Guarantee Minimum Income (or Universal Basic Income) ought to be combined with a Jobs Guarantee to would make paid wor...
New Progressive Alliance

Gentrification and Orange County - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
The Reality-Based Community

Television Was Not Always a Vast Wasteland - I just stumbled across this 1990 debate between John O’Sullivan, William F. Buckley, and Christopher Hitchens (pre-alcoholic decline), and am agog that any...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Best just to imagine - I nearly said *“wall,”* I swear. I wanted to say *“wall”* and truth be told, I still do, in a way. *“Fence” *is maybe the right word here and I know this,...
Robert Reich

The Shameful Silence of the CEOs - Congressional Republicans would be more willing to stand up to Trump if their major financial...
Ramona's Voices

Earth Day: A revisit - Today is Earth Day in America. The first, 48 years ago, was a big deal. It was 1970. We were in the mood to celebrate the earth and to warn against the ...
South Lawn

Environmental Justice As Liberation: No Consent, No Pipeline, No Kinder Morgan. - We have the pleasure of hosting a guest post by Sarah Beuhler, who is a writer and campaigner who lives in Unceded Coast Salish Territories. A confrontatio...
Bad Attitudes

Unfortunately Not Our Government - From the late, great Philip Larkin: *HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT* Next year we are to bring the soldiers home For lack of money, and it is all right. Places ...
PoliTex (FWST)

Who's a hero or villain in Texas politics? It's in this book - Fort Worth is the home of Texas' best museums. Arlington, though, is at risk of damage from Tea Party Republicans and wild hogs. Texas is a wondrous place,...
Political Orphans

‘Free Speech’ Won’t Rescue Dumb Ideas - Neither the 1st Amendment, nor any moral or intellectual notion of free speech grants me a right to be taken seriously. No one has a 1st Amendment right to...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

David Arkush on EarthX Panel – Stop and Smell the Carbon - Live from EarthX in Dallas! Our very own David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen’s climate program discussing the role of the mainstream media ...
Real News

Saudi engagement in Iraq: The exception that confirms the rule? - By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer. Stepped up Saudi efforts to forge close diplomatic, economic and cultural ties to Shia-majority Iraq in a bid to co...
Stinque

Selected Excerpts - CLASSIFIED BY: DIRECTOR DECLASSIFY ON: 20271231 January 6, 2017 What follows are notes I typed in the vehicle immediately upon exiting Trump Tower. I said ...
Freethought Now

Victorious legal eagles! - A part of the work we do here at FFRF is to keep an eagle eye on the constitutional wall of separation. This week, our vigilance bore fruit.
St. Petersburg Independents

Robin Harris, Green leader - Orange County, FL commissioner Dist. 6! The pattern of Gentrification in Orange County is classic. First they drive out the affluent through deliberate ne...
Great American Satan

Chunk of Novel - Roughly the first 26,000 words of my novel are available to read on my new writing tumblr, The Voice of Hell. It’s a rough draft so feel free to hit me up ...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Perils of self-publishing, a book lovers’ event! - Bob Reitz is the curator of the Jack Harbin Museum at Camp Wisdom, one of the finest museums of Scout materials in the country, focused on Scouting in the ...
Morning Consult

Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts - The post Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts appeared first on Morning Consult.
Green News Network

The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance - The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance Written By: Tony Smith Throughout the history of the United States, there have been two main p...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Springtime on Buffalo Bayou - Through the Woods on a Brilliant Sunday Morning April 19, 2018 At last spring had sprung. The trees were bursting with joyous green, celebrating by tossi...
Our Finite World

Why oil prices can’t rise very high, for very long - Oil prices are now as high as they have been for three years. At this writing, Brent is $74.14 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate is at $68.76. These p...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

History Suggests Double Trouble for Incumbent Trump - This is part one of a back-and-forth between Crystal Ball Managing Editor Kyle Kondik and veteran reporter and presidential historian Paul Brandus assessin...
If You Only News

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

Returning to the Commonplace - There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or ...
Duck of Minerva

Foreign Policy and Mixed Signals - Earlier this week, a particularly volatile fissure within the Trump Administration opened up. Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, announc...
Greg Palast

KPFA Presents The Bay Area Premiere of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election - Join us on Wednesday, April 18 in Oakland for the Bay Area Premiere of... The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:The Case Of The Stolen Election Featuring a po...
Downwinders at Risk

Alternative Earth Day Event -
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
John Laurits

How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack - How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack Last Saturday, as most are surely aware, the prime ministers of France and ...
Frontloading HQ

#InvisiblePrimary 2020: Uh oh Biden? - Over at Politico, Charlie Mahtesian has this to say *about a prospective Biden candidacy for 2020*: *"Joe Biden, who leads the Democratic 2020 presidential...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Lamar W. Hankins & Alan Pogue; Christopher Brown & Roddey Reid; Thorne Dreyer & Glenn Smith; Carl Davidson; Alice Embree, Kim Varela-Broxson & Lindsay Rodriguez; Roaul Hernandez; Steve Russell; and Philip Russell - Our guests include authors & activists, political analysts, a music critic and a leftist icon; we talk about guns and feminism; and we bid Mexico’s preside...
Texas Rural Voices

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

How McClatchy Took Michael Cohen in Prague Story From Speculation To Fact - Over the weekend I ran a story here about McClatchy’s bombshell alleging that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s lawyer and bagman, went to Prague in 2016 despi...
ExChristian.Net

Hello, my name is Don and I am a religious addict. - *By Don Shafer - ex Christian, ex pastor, ex idiot ~ * It's true, I am addicted to Christianity, to Jesus, to God, to the church, to the methods and relati...
The Metaphor Project

How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now - With President Trump’s choice of Bolton as National Security Adviser and Pompeo for State, our country has reached a more dangerous place than ever, especi...
Avedon's Sideshow

The boundaries in between - This is just a neat old picture of Arthur Thomson drawing direct to stencil that Rob Hansen found in someone's old photo collection. Arthur once asked me ...
Project Censored

Washington Post Bans Employees from Using Social Media to Criticize Sponsors - In June, 2017, the Washingtonian reported on a new policy at the Washington Post that prohibits its employees from conduct on social media that “adversel...
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of April 9th - The Texas Progressive Alliance is neither the subject nor the target of an investigation, but it is bringing you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff noted th...
WAWG Blog

More on How We Got Into The DJT Political Swamp – It Has Little to Do With Russia - In 1970, income and wealth inequality were at historical lows. The income tax tables had over 25 brackets with the top marginal rate of 74%. Campaign fundi...
Nathan Hevenstone

A New Blog?!? What the Heck is Nathan Doing?!?!? - Relax, relax. It’s nothing too big. Yes, I created a new blog. No, it’s not a replacement for this one. I know I’ve been inactive here, and there are a lot...
Equality Texas

New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Texans - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas 512-289-2995, angela@redmediagroup.com New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Te...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Rick Kuhn, The Reception of Henryk Grossman’s Crisis Theory - Rick Kuhn, 'At the length the truth will out' (hopefully): The reception of Henryk Grossman's crisis theory Henryk Grossman recovered Marx’s theory of e...
Jim Hightower

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

Call To Action – URGENT SUBMIT COMMENT BY 04/10/18 – 5pm Central - Hydrogen cyanide is a systemic chemical asphyxiant. It interferes with the normal use of oxygen by nearly every organ of the body and can be rapidly fatal....
The Hill: Ballot Box

Queen Elizabeth likens Trump to noisy helicopter - Queen Elizabeth II is comparing President Trump to a noisy helicopter, quipping that the commander in chief goes “round and round when you want to talk.”Th...
Dos Centavos

Sunday 4/15 – Los TexManiacs at Discovery Green - Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs are headlining the Discovery Green Birthday Bash this coming Sunday, April 15. The Bash starts at noon with Los Texmaniacs hi...
The Disorder Of Things

What We Talked About at ISA: Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy - In recent years, we’ve seen a number of depressing political shifts in the Euro-Atlantic area — but the rise of feminist foreign policies is not among them...
Houston Justice

Project Orange Profile by April Henshaw - When I saw the call to help register voters who were currently incarcerated, I knew I had to do it. I was raised by a single father, in part, because bot...
ROAR Magazine

Dissecting the madness of economic reason - David Harvey’s latest book provides a riveting reading of Marx’s *Capital* and a trenchant critique of a political and economic system spiralling out of ...
34justice

The Nation of Islam Problem - The Nation of Islam is officially recognized as a national hate group due to its black supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ views. And yet, Tamika Mall...
Irregular Times

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

Crushing Dissent -
Seeing the Forest

Why Not Just Give A Job To Anyone Who Wants One? - Doing work that needs to be done?
UP@NIGHT

The New Philosophical Gourmet Report Indicts Itself - A preliminary. I did not expect, nor did I desire to write, (yet) …
Source Planet

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
The Urban Edge

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

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

Federal lawsuit seeks records about Seth Rich murder - This morning I filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that asks a federal judge in Brooklyn to order the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice to release ...
PERRspectives

Democrats Proven Right--Again--on Tax Cut Windfall for the Rich - During the run-up to the passage of the "Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department's Office of Tax...
Thom Hartmann

Friday 9 March '18 show notes - - Anything Goes Friday! What's on Your Mind? - Karl Frisch, Allied Progress: Why are Florida Legislators Cowtowing to the Payday Loan Crowd? ...
News Junkie

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

Texas Watch Speaks on Auto Safety at HABA Conference - (Photo (left to right): John Kopriva, HABA President; Burl Richards, ABAT President; Ware Wendell, Executive Director of Texas Watch; Robert McDorman, F...
Pressthink

Membership as a force multiplier for beat reporting - Just published a "concept paper" for an idea I have been trying to introduce for 11 years. It may take 11 more but I don't care. I think it's a good idea...
Independent Thinker 2016

Donald Trump – President for Life - A few days ago Donald Trump made a comment about wanting to be “president for life” and a chill went through me. I had recently said to a friend that Berni...
Texans For Public Justice

A Blue wave with not much green - A 'Blue Wave' Without Much Green The Texas Observer This year, a group of lesser-known candidates has raised $1.1 million over the same period, a 90 perc...
Pressing Issues

My Best Films of the Year 2017 - Every year for many I have posted my list here starting about this time in December--then update it into January and February as I see most of the top Ch...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Librarians and the Beauty of Surprise - On National Read Across America Day, I’d like to give thanks for local public librarians. I find one of the great things to do is walk into a library and...
The Economic Populist

OPEC's February Oil Market Report showed that the global oil glut is growing again - Since the media largely missed what the data from OPEC's February Oil Market Report (covering January OPEC & global oil data) actually showed, and since ...
The Texas Politics Project

Joe Straus Approval (February 2018) - - Table | - Share - | More Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Straus is doing as Speaker of the Texas H...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

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

Tain’t So - to lay out, as clearly and as programmatically as we could, the reasons why despite protestations to the contrary, antiracism, understood as insisting on t...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 223 - Trump Gives America The Clap - We decided to get off our asses and do a show about Trump’s first State of the Union speech. We break it down in a mature and thoughtful way, of course....
Bullshit-ist

A Trump Public Service Announcement — Demanded By Our Therapy Dogs - Therapy dog applicants, seeking high paying jobs, at the offices of Herbie McDoolittle & Sons Usually we write satire, at Herbie McDoolittle & Sons. But ou...
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

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

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

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 1/12/2018-Trump is a Racist - Trump is a racist. We all knew that, right? It isn't like yesterday's comments about "shithole nations* was the first time anyone had some kind of warnin...
Death to Squirrels

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

We’ve chosen the winner for the Atlas for Africa competition - We’re pleased to announce the winner of Quartz’s Atlas for Africa competition is Blaise Aboh from Nigeria. Over the last year, Quartz Africa has trained ...
Daily Democracy

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

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

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

Understanding the Seven 2017 State Constitutional Amendments - It's that time of the biennium again! Time for voters to consider constitutional amendments on small minutia of public policy. Texas has the longest state ...
American Third Party Report

Another Maine Legislator Switches to Independent - Ballot Access News On October 17, Maine Representative Norman Higgins announced that he has changed his registration from Republican to independent. He was...
Modern Democracy

The Value of Gerrymandering - On Tuesday, Justice Sotomayor asked a “simple but devastatingly effective” question of Erin Murphy, one of the attorneys arguing in favor of Wisconsin’s ge...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

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

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

As The Nation Bands Together To Help Those Affected by Hurricane Harvey : Four Texas Congressmen Remind The State That 2018 Is Just Around the Corner - The U.S. House approved $15 billion in aid to support those affected by Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in southeast Texas on Friday, sending the legislat...
Citizen Slant

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

As Irma Approaches, Congress Moves to Cancel Federal Flood Insurance For Homeowners - The federal government just threatened to suspend the flood insurance of homeowners right in the path of Hurricane Irma, according to DCReport. The Feder...
Progress For All

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

The DNC Fraud Lawsuit Has Been Dismissed. Dismiss The Democratic Party. - The oldest political party in the world has died. It doesn’t know it yet, it isn’t acting like it yet, but it is dead. By successfully getting the DNC fr...
Non Prophet News

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

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

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

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

Fired Justice Department employee Sally Yates to testify about Michael Flynn today. - Sally Yates is going to testify today at 2pm about her warnings regarding Michael Flynn, after being rudely fired by the Trump administration for not follo...
Politics of Courage

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

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

Shitgibbon frequencies - Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary llmpounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zi...
Above None of the Above

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

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

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...
Not of it.

Texas Big Six: 2016 Edition - "Make No Small Plans" - Texas is channeling its inner Daniel Burnham. The Chicago architect responsible for 1909's The Plan of Chicago never uttered the exact words that are th...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, July 21, 2013

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