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Mediaite

GOP Rep. Diane Black Proposes Crowdfunding to Help Pay for Border Wall - *President Trump*'s initial pledge to build the wall and have Mexico pay for it remains an unresolved issue, but one member of Congress is proposing a way ...
Vox

8 legal experts on whether Trump’s demand for an investigation into the FBI is legal - [image: President Donald Trump approaches members of the media to speak on former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lying to the FBI prior to his M...
Talking Points Memo

Man Who Yelled ‘Get Out Of My Country’ Before Killing Immigrant Pleads Guilty - OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who yelled “Get out of my country!” before killing one Indian immigrant and...
Daily Dot

‘By age 35’ is Twitter’s favorite new meme - Can we live? The post ‘By age 35’ is Twitter’s favorite new meme appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Cable star bows low to the Times! - *MONDAY, MAY 21, 2018Ludicrous all the way down:* In this morning's Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan discusses the increasingly Trumpian conduct of a c...
The Week

French lawmakers want to fine catcallers nearly $1,000 - Street harassers beware: Whistles and catcalls could be costly. Lawmakers in France's National Assembly passed a measure last week that would fine people...
Crooks and Liars

Hey Cocaine Mitch, Is Don Blankenship Still Running? - [image: Hey Cocaine Mitch, Is Don Blankenship Still Running?] Don Blankenship is just the gift that keeps on giving. Politico: West Virginia coal baron and...
The Verge

Sonos is now offering discounted speaker and turntable bundle sets - Sonos has just announced new speaker sets that offer a bit of a discount if you are looking to deck out your entire house with the company’s products. W...
Ring of Fire

Trump Has Major Breakdown On Twitter, Demands DOJ Investigate Conspiracy Theories - On Sunday, Donald Trump decided to show the world just how crazy he really is with a series of unhinged tweets that culminated in him DEMANDING that the ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Spying - You think I was going to talk about the FBI Informant? It’s not a story. Ok, briefly. This guy, whoever he is, is just like thousands of other FBI informan...
Above the Law

5 Tips For Studying For The Bar Exam While Working Full-Time - With a few tweaks and a lot of focus, you can work full-time and pass the bar exam.
Hullabaloo

Doubling down on the dehumanization - *Doubling down on the dehumanization* by digby This is a headline on the official White House web site: MS-13 is a violent, criminal gang. But they are ...
VICE

I Foolishly Let My Twitter Followers Dictate My Training for a Half-Marathon - Which has its ups, but also very much has its downs.
National Post

Just in: Meghan and Harry release the most informal Royal Wedding photos yet - Finally, they're here! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Monday released three official photos from the Royal Wedding
First Reading

`For God’s sake, she’s just a nice Jewish girl from Texas.’ How Hillary Clinton misunderestimated Amy Chozick - (Earl Wilson, New York Times) Good Monday Austin: I haven’t been here all that long (5.5 years), but for those of you who were here back…
CultureMap Houston

Veteran restaurateurs dream up new taco concept for Greenway Plaza - The owners of a popular mini-chain of Vietnamese restaurants are embarking on a new direction. Jenni's Noodle House owners Jenni Tran-Weaver and Scott Wea...
Houstonia

Bag Check: Rebecca Masson - Fluff Bake Bar's resident "Sugar Fairy" spills her purse for *Houstonia*.
SCOTUSblog

A “view” from the courtroom: Strength in numbers - [image: A “view” from the courtroom: Strength in numbers]After the court put a major dent in its pending caseload last week, with five relatively signifi...
ProPublica

The U.S. Considered Declaring Russia a State Sponsor of Terror, Then Dropped It - by Sebastian Rotella The attempt to kill a former Russian spy in England bore an ominous signature: The assailants used a lethal nerve agent of a type d...
The Reality-Based Community

Cannabis News Round-Up - Heading into critical midterms, Democrats turn over new leaf on marijuana. DEA chief’s congressional testimony about legal marijuana angered some, baffled ...
OpEd News

When Granny Goes to the Airport - None of us should be surprised, really. But what are the possible motivations for this kind of needless intrusiveness, when people (especially young white ...
Think Progress

Buried in SCOTUS’s upcoming assignments is an ominous sign for gerrymandering opponents - Last October, when the Supreme Court heard a landmark challenge to Wisconsin’s gerrymandered state assembly maps, there appeared to be a real danger that t...
In These Times

Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry? - JPMorgan Chase (“Chase”) talks a big game on climate change. The Wall Street bank has committed to becoming entirely reliant on renewable energy by 2020,...
MintPress News

US Refuses to Recognize Venezuela’s Elections Results, New Sanctions Already Planned - Despite strict oversights and the presence of international observers, the US dismissed Venezuela's presidential elections as illegitimate before they ev...
memeorandum

Who's to blame for the hiccup in North Korea talks? South Koreans say Bolton. (Anna Fifield/Washington Post) - Anna Fifield / Washington Post: *Who's to blame for the hiccup in North Korea talks? South Koreans say Bolton.* — SEOUL — President Trump is blaming K...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Police Officer at My Public High School Told Me I’m Going to Hell Because I’m Gay - A student goes public about the headline-making violence and discrimination LGBT youth endure at North Bend High School. My name is Liv Funk, and I’m writ...
Sputnik News

Prague Joins EU Centre of Excellence for Resisting Hybrid Threats - HELSINKI (Sputnik) - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who is currently visiting Finland, has signed a memorandum regarding the Czech Republic's induction...
Free Press Houston

For the Sake of the Constitution, We Must Amend the Second Amendment - A legal framework that fails to adapt withers in strength.
The Root

We Used to Have Money, Now We Have You! Is the Bedtime Story We All Secretly Tell Our Kids - *Editor’s note: Corey Richardson, the author of *We Used to Have Money, Now We Have You! A Dad’s Bedtime Story, *is a frequent VSB contributor.* Read mo...
Pajiba

The Dystopian Future of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is a Sobering Counterpoint to the Goofy Pop Culture Worship of ‘Ready Player One’ - While watching Ramin Bahrani's updated take on Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451, with its excellent use of Michael Shannon's fury and intensity, its t...
xpostfactoid

Four ways states can leverage ACA sabotage - Sabotage of the ACA by the Trump administration and the Republican Congress will partially reverse the ACA's coverage gains, causing hardship to millions. ...
Dandelion Salad

Gaza Massacre Exposes Western Hypocrisy on Russia’s “Annexation” of Crimea by Finian Cunningham - by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, May 18, 2018 May 21, 2018 This week, Russian Presid...
Buzzflash

Charles P. Pierce | The American Republic Is Fighting for Its Life - Charles P. Pierce | The American Republic Is Fighting for Its Life 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
Salon.com

Mario Batali under criminal investigation, NYPD confirms - The celebrity chef has been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and assault
Washington Monthly

Does the NRA Really Know Oliver North’s History? - If NRA members knew the real story of Ollie North, they wouldn't want him as their president.
Rivard Report

Despite Weekend Rain, Drought Restrictions Return to San Antonio - A Sunday rainstorm that dropped 1 to 3 inches on parts of San Antonio wasn't enough to push the average aquifer level back over 660 feet. The post Despit...
Raw Story

Jewish Americans changed their names, but not at Ellis Island - A well-worn joke in American Jewish culture goes like this. A Jewish immigrant landed at Ellis Island in New York. The procedures were confusing, and he ...
AlterNet.org

Sanders-Backed 'Our Revolution' Head Tried to Install Anti-Immigrant Fox News Analyst As Chief of Staff: Report - The organization is coming under increased scrutiny headed into the midterm elections. A searing *Politico* feature about the mounting struggles faced by ...
Mother Jones

California Has Seven of the Ten Steepest Streets in America - From the LA Times this morning: Baxter Street in Echo Park, one of the steepest roads in Los Angeles, is about to get a makeover….The narrow road has a 33%...
Slate

Why It Makes Sense for Rod Rosenstein to Appease Trump - On Sunday, in an extraordinary series of tweets, President Donald Trump declared that “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Depa...
Grit Post

Nearly Half of Americans Struggle to Pay Rent. Amazon CEO’s Mansion Has 25 Bathrooms. - The gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has never been more pronounced when comparing the reality of most households to that of Amazon...
Political Dig

Manafort To Plea Guilty, Ex- NY Prosecutor Reveals - After seeing his failed “Hail Mary” strategy of challenging Mueller’s authority to prosecute him on money laundering charges collapse in court, former Tr...
Louis Proyect

Old Bardians - Dalt Wonk Jeffrey Marlin (on the right) Richard Allen When I entered Bard College in 1961, I soon heard the term “old Bard”, which was a reference to the h...
Houston Matters

Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow To Workers’ Rights - The high court ruled for the first time that workers may not band together to challenge violations of federal labor laws
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Trump begins to confront a difficult reality on North Korea - The fact that the American president doesn't want to do his homework has made a difficult national security dynamic much worse.
Axios

Barack and Michelle Obama sign multi-year deal with Netflix - Barack and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce exclusive films and series for the streaming service, Netflix annou...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Science Deniers From Around Globe Rally Around Sacked Scientist Peter Ridd - [image: Peter Ridd] Climate science denial groups from the UK, U.S., and Australia have leapt to support a controversial marine scientist who was fired fro...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard For May 21, 2018 - A Texas GOP lawmaker says the governor should call a special session on gun violence. Has Santa Fe become a turning point in Texas? Governor Abbott has lon...
Daily Kos

Border Patrol agent harasses two Latinas, both U.S. citizens, for 'speaking Spanish' while shopping - The U.S. has no official language. In fact, hundreds of languages are spoken in this country every single day. Some are indigenous to this land, and pred...
San Antonio Current

Fundraising Campaign for Main Avenue Rainbow Crosswalk Nears Goal - *This story originally appeared in our sister publication, Out in SA.* A fundraising campaign to help pay for the installation of a rainbow crosswalk on t...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Iran told: comply with US demands or face 'strongest sanctions in history' - Mike Pomepo threatens Tehran with additional measures and warns: ‘The Iranian regime should know this is just the beginning’ Mike Pompeo has threatened I...
Ballot Access News

New York Reform Party Will Hold First Statewide Primary in Which New York Independent Voters May Vote - The ballot-qualified Reform Party of New York held its state convention on Sunday, May 20. For statewide office in New York, candidates who show some suppo...
The Intercept

How a Stunning Upset at a Congressional Convention Led to Calls for a Vote-Tampering Investigation - Jahana Hayes stunned Connecticut's political establishment at this month's congressional convention. But the fight is far from over. The post How a Stun...
Common Dreams

'Terrible News for Workers' as Supreme Court Makes It Harder for Them to Fight Back When 'Screwed' by Employer - Andrea Germanos, staff writer The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to worker rights, saying that employers can bar their employees from banding tog...
TYT Network

TYT Interviews – Briahna Gray - Katie Halper, for her first TYT Interview sit’s down with political writer and editor Briahna Gray. The post TYT Interviews – Briahna Gray appeared first...
Progressive Army

William Perry’s Post About Abrams is Creative Writing At Best - Editor’s Note: This article is a preview of an article published on The Peach Perspective. Self-appointed Georgia Ethics WatchDog, William Perry penned a...
Election Law Blog

What Does the Handwriting on the Wall in Gill v. Whitford Say? - Now that Justice Gorsuch has issued a majority opinion from the Court’s October sitting, it is most likely that Chief Justice Roberts is writing the opinio...
Peacock Panache

How Much Progress Have We Really Made on Gender Discrimination in the Workplace? - [image: How Much Progress Have We Really Made on Gender Discrimination in the Workplace?] With the #MeToo movement and the demands for equality that have b...
Popular Resistance

Our Healthcare System Is So Broken, Even Non-Profits Are Failing Us - Since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, there has been an unprecedented consolidation in the healthcare industry. Giant medical corporations are inve...
Eschaton

A Possibility We Never Considered - Problems, fam. For those holding out hope that the infamous pee tape will eventually surface and expose President Trump for the depraved monster he truly i...
SocraticGadfly

Robinson Cano, the HOF and roiding - Robinson Cano Three years ago, I wrote a piece about how Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano might have been overpaid in his big free-agent contr...
Swamplot

The Final Chapters of an Ayrshire Single Story on Falkirk Ln. - If you look carefully at the photo above, you’ll see books are still on the shelf at 4103 Falkirk Ln., shown in the middle of its demolition last week. Wor...
Texas Monthly

We Tasted Chipotle Queso So You Don’t Have To - As the chain continues to work on its recipe after last fall’s backlash, we thought we’d offer some constructive criticism. The post We Tasted Chipotle Q...
Courthouse News

Indian Power Plant Dispute Taken Up by Supremes - Blocked at every turn from suing over a coal-fired power plant built in Gujarat, India, a group of fisherman persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to take up ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Connecticut wants more LGBTQ families to adopt and foster children' & other Mon midday news briefs - *Connecticut Wants More LGBT Families to Adopt and Foster Children *- *In response to laws allowing adoption agencies to take tax dollars while discrimin...
Right Wing Watch

Infowars Is Hiring Up To Launch 24-Hour Broadcasting - Infowars creator Alex Jones said that he was looking to hire “around 15 people, maybe even more” in order to transform Infowars into a 24-hour live televis...
Down With Tyranny!

Progressive Democrats Help Enshrine "Blue Lives Matter" Into Law - *"Hands up, don't shoot" — this is one form of defiance against police at the Ferguson protests. It's only in the context of state-sanctioned murder that ...
The Greanville Post

Letter from Iran: Mr. Trump, you have been served - PEPE ESCOBAR—Trump has been served legal notice – pursuant to 18 US Code 4, and 28 US Code 1361 – of “national and international legal violations.” The let...
First Draft

Stupid Watergate Goes Postal - I try not to write about the same things as Athenae BUT a bloggers gotta do what a bloggers gotta do. Besides, I’m coming at the fake billionaire president...
emptywheel

The Flynn Conspiracy Call Is Coming from Inside the [White] House - NYT's report of a White House letter to DOJ about Flynn makes it clear that the conspiracy theories floating around the far right come from the White House.
Anti-Media

Call for Coup in Saudi Arabia: Dissident Prince Urges Uncles to Seize Power - [image: Saudi Arabia]Prince Khaled: “I have received a large number of emails from within the police and army in support of my call.” (MEE) — A dissident S...
Latino Rebels

La mayoría de los puertorriqueños refugiados a Chicago no se beneficiaron del programa de hoteles de FEMA - De los damnificados por el huracán María que llegaron a Chicago, solo 67 familias entraron al programa de hoteles de la agencia federal.
Splinter

One Mountain Biker Dead, Another Injured After Scariest Possible Cougar Attack - On Saturday, two men were mountain biking about 30 miles east of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains when they encountered a cougar. Authori...
Dissident Voice

The Dispossession of Canada’s First Nations and the Kinder Morgan Pipeline - Imagine that a group of bandits entered your house without permission and booted you and your family members out. Afterwards the bandits continue to occupy...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Beside The Points For Monday, May 21, 2018 - It’s my last day at FiveThirtyEight! I’m next starting a daily newsletter, Numlock News. If you’ve been a fan of Beside The Points, please subscribe! Thing...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Another Vance Mystery - Yesterday's post concerned a mystery novel written by Jack Vance, perhaps my favorite author, under the aegis of the Ellery Queen Industrial Complex. Jack ...
Dallas Observer

North Texas Charter Schools Fare Poorly in Statewide Rankings for Black and Latino Students - Charter schools in North Texas ranked lower overall in quality than traditional public schools in the state, according to a recent report by Children At Ri...
DBC Green blog

Blaming Everything Except Guns Texobloggage - Dear Politicians:Please, for the love of all that's good in this world:Shut up about the good ol' days when we still had prayer in public schools.Shut up a...
Wolf Street

Hilarity in NIRP Zone: Italian 2-Year Yield Still Near 0%, as New Government Proposes Haircut for Creditors and Alternate Currency, Markets on “Knife Edge” - ECB's Negative Interest Rate Policy has been the funniest monetary joke ever.
Eater Houston

Houston Rockets Owner and Restaurateur Tilman Fertitta Buys Food Delivery Startup - The mogul purchased Waitr for $308 billion Houston Rockets owner and mega-restaurateur Tilman Fertitta is staking his place in the food world even furth...
Pensito Review

Floridas Loses $385 Million a Year by Not Restoring Voting Rights to Felons - $385 million Seven years after Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet voted to end the state policy that automatically restored the civil rights of nonvio...
Political Garbage Chute

President David Dennison Orders Investigation Into ‘Dishonesty, Chicanery, And Subterfuge’ At FBI/DOJ - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President David Dennison officially ordered an investigation into what he called the “obvious culture of dishonesty, chicanery,...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Governor Tonedeaf - The weapon of choice at the Santa Fe High School shooting was a shotgun. As of Sunday morning, Gov.Greg Abbott still had his newest contribution contest on...
naked capitalism

CalPERS CIO Ted Eliopoulos Tells 5 Big Lies in Presenting Super Indirect Private Equity Scheme - CalPERS' Chief Investment Officer Ted Eliopoulos seemed unable to offer a truthful, coherent rationale for two new private equity schemes he unveiled last ...
Political Orphans

The Tyranny of False Civility - Tell the truth as a white person among white people, and American racism loses a little more of its sanctuary, its shelter, its food. Truth is power.
Harper's Magazine

[Art Monday Gallery ] | Montegut, Algae Blooms near Montegut, Louisiana, by Ben Depp -
No More Mister Nice Blog

TEXANS LOVE GUNS WITHOUT QUALIFICATION (EXCEPT FOR THE MAJORITY WHO DON'T) - Here are the lead paragraphs of a *New York Times* story about opinions on guns in Texas after the Santa Fe shooting: One mile from the scene of the shooti...
Houston Press

Wanda, Daisy And The Great Rapture Suffers From an Overstuffed Plot - In the program for Alexis Schaetzle’s new play, Wanda, Daisy and the Great Rapture, Director David Rainey explains that it was the universality of the stor...
slacktivist

‘That’s why we are here’ - Some criticized Curry's sermon as "political," which of course it was. How could it not be? That description of a world transformed by love is going to sou...
Democracy Now!

Soraya Chemaly on Mass Shootings: "Focus Should Be on Boys & Men Who Can't Take No for an Answer" - As details surface about the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, Friday that left 10 dead, a familiar pattern has emerged: The shooter was a white male who...
The Progressive Wing

Open Thread - My first post—fingers crossed. National Dems meddle again in primary on behalf of the more moderate candidate. Texas primary runoffs are tomorrow. Add w...
Bonddad

Real retail sales update for April 2018 - - *by New Deal democrat* It's a slow start of the week, so let's catch up on one of my favorite indicators, real retail sales, which were reported last w...
Space City Weather

Sunday’s heavy rains signal a pattern change for Houston - After a prolonged dry spell, rains returned to Houston on Sunday. For some areas such as northwest Houston, rain totals runneth over with 4 to 6 inches. Fo...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Gay man: Pope Francis told me ‘God loves you like this’ - A gay man and victim of sexual abuse by a Chilean priest has said that Pope Francis told him that his sexuality “does not matter" and that "God loves you l...
Simple Justice

Where Did All The Dads Go? - How did “make your bed” become a philosophical tenet? Why do young men need a guru to tell them this? Jordan Peterson has become a father figure to what I ...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

A MATTER OF PRIORITIES - Well, this isn't surprising -- because we know how highly Trump values the lives of our men and women in the armed services https://crooksandliars.com/2018...
Duffel Blog

Pentagon warns Taliban to surrender 80% of Afghanistan it controls or ‘face consequences’ - [image: pentagon spox] WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders say the Taliban needs to surrender the vast majority of Afghanistan it controls or it will “face seri...
Dorf on Law

Can His Hispanophobic Diatribe Get New York Attorney Aaron Schlossberg Disciplined or Disbarred? Probablemente No - by Diane Klein New York attorney and Trump 2016 donor Aaron Schlossberg is currently enjoying (which is to say, suffering) his 15 minutes of fame for his ...
The Conversation

U.S. Forces in South Korea: A seven-decade commitment - Since the Korean War, U.S. troops have helped South Korea with military training and planning. Our Speed Read describes the regular joint exercises designe...
Off the Kuff

The Trib on CD22 and Fort Bend - […]
Informed Comment

Trump Collusion: How afraid should we be of Mohammed Bin Zayed of the UAE? - Another meeting between the Trump campaign and a representative of the leader of the United Arab Emirates has been uncovered by the New York Times’s Mark M...
Counterpunch

Gina Haspell: She’s Certainly Qualified for the Job - I’m not surprised Gina Haspell got the appointment to head the CIA. The idea that that agency should have someone with morals that found fault with torture...
NPR's Health Shots

VA Says It's Trying To Improve Caregiver Program's Appeals Process - The VA's caregiver program provides a stipend to family members of disabled vets to provide home health care. NPR revealed numerous VA centers were ejectin...
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday night raw - how net neutrality can survive the trump administration milwaukee cop suspended after violent arrest caught on video famed cancer scientist sexually harass...
Liberation News

Struggle forces Seattle to tax big businesses to fund housing crisis relief - [image: "Tax Amazon" march, Seattle, May 12. Marchers outside Amazon's headquarters in South Lake Union. Liberation Photo.] The number of annual deaths due...
The NM Political Report

Ben Ray Luján: ‘We’re going to fight for every inch’ - [image: Ben Ray Luján: ‘We’re going to fight for every inch’] This weekend, *NM Political Report* sat down with Congressman Ben Ray Luján for an interview....
Angry Bear

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: GUARANTEED! — May 20 update - Class war? What class war? Stephanie Kelton Has The Biggest Idea In Washington “Everybody wants a piece of Kelton these days because a simple, radical ide...
Portside

How Rice Farming May Have Spread Across the Ancient World - How Rice Farming May Have Spread Across the Ancient World Ira Mon, 05/21/2018 - 01:47
jobsanger

An Unfair Economy -
Socialist Worker

Trump wants to inflict misery on Iran...again - Economic sanctions were once considered the softer approach, but the U.S. government has learned how to cause maximum damage, writes Emma Wilde Botta. [...
World Socialist Web Site

Long-time CIA asset named as FBI’s spy on Trump campaign - Stefan Halper has been named as the individual sent by the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election campaign.
Sayfie Review Texas

Chronicle: As parents fret about school safety, districts beef up security in wake of Santa Fe shootings - Chronicle: As parents fret about school safety, districts beef up security in wake of Santa Fe shootings
CPI's Danger in the Air

From secretive super PACs to Jenny Craig, 2018 primaries awash in cash - New disclosures detail megadonors’ contributions and help solve money mysteries in West Virginia’s Senate race
Trivial Knot

Authorial intent is magic! - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2015, although I changed the title. The author is magic “Death of the Author” is a famous 1967 essay by Roland Ba...
The Contributor

New Reports Surface of Trump Campaign's Involvement with Foreign Entities - News Image: "Trump campaign officials did not appear bothered by the idea of cooperation with foreigners." origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Jul...
Morning Consult

As Midterms Approach, Bernie Sanders on Safest Ground Among Senate Incumbents - The post As Midterms Approach, Bernie Sanders on Safest Ground Among Senate Incumbents appeared first on Morning Consult.
Campaign for America's Future

NC Teachers Shout ‘Listen to Us!’ to Lawmakers - Why does it take shutting down thousands of schools to get political leaders’ attention? What is this “dialogue people haven’t been wanting to have”? It's ...
Antiwar.com

What Will Iran Do Now? - President Donald Trump announced that the US is pulling out of the Iran nuclear accord – and Iranians are really pissed. Thousands of Iranians demonstrat...
Truthout

Malala, and Now Sabika: Pakistani Girl's Death in Texas Should Prompt Reflection on Gun Violence - One of the 10 victims in the Santa Fe High School shooting was Sabika Sheikh, an exchange student from Pakistan. She was due to return to her home countr...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Venezuela: Fake elections in a dictatorship - *Venezuela's night grows darker* Voting booth in VenezuelaSunday's fake election in Venezuela brings the South American nation another step closer to Cuban...
Independent Political Report

Tom Woods: Why the Race for Libertarian Party Chair Is So Contentious - … Read more ...
Consortium News

Polls Show Being Anti-Trump Isn’t Enough to Beat GOP - Instead of addressing demands for social progress, such as single-payer insurance, Democratic leaders find it much easier and more comfortable to denounce ...
Socialist Alternative

Agitación en los Estados Unidos. Crisis en el Gobierno Trump, elecciones de “medio mandato”, movilizaciones y huelgas - El caos en la administración de Trump dio un nuevo salto, al tiempo que las huelgas de profesores se extendían por todo el país y que las elecciones de mit...
Field Negro

Living in the new America. - [image: Image result for police stop kansas facebook images]Tonight my racism chase takes me to Kansas.* (No wonder Dorothy left for Oz.)* Folks, I can't s...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: Season Finales For Agents of SHIELD, Timeless, Arrow, The Blacklist, and Gotham; More Renewal News; The Orville & Star Trek News; Nebula Awards - Shortly after I listed Agents of SHIELD as one of the shows in which the fate was unknown when I listed renewals last week, word came out that SHIELD was r...
Reverb Press

IBM Started Laying off Older Workers Without Disclosure, so a Federal Watchdog Took a Closer Look - Something shady is going on at IBM... The post IBM Started Laying off Older Workers Without Disclosure, so a Federal Watchdog Took a Closer Look appeared...
Echidne of the Snakes

Spurned Advances Provoked Texas School Shooting? My Take. - *Spurned advances provoked Texas school shooting, victim's mother says* That's the recent Reuter's headline on the Santa Fe butchery. The story itself ...
News Corpse

Fox News Fingers ‘The Single Most Dangerous Person to the Agenda of President Trump’ - You can count on Fox News to be on top of any threats to the supremacy of Donald Trump and his totalitarian regime. Since Fox News is the designated media ...
Shadowproof

Unauthorized Disclosure—Episode 17: Israel’s Slaughter Of Protesters, Senate Confirms Gina Haspel - Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss the most recent massacre of dozens of protesters in Gaza by Israeli military forces. Khalek talks about the...
Pharyngula

Why is Jordan Peterson so unreasonably popular? - I think this article by Robyn Pennacchia comes closest to explaining Peterson’s appeal. There are a lot of meaty quotes in there if you want to see the evi...
Pressthink

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...
Ian Welsh

Loving-Kindness Isn’t About Morality - It is said that once upon a time, Siddhartha Gautama, before he was the Buddha, was sitting on the ground and was overwhelmed by a great feeling of sweetne...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: John Feffer, Korea's Two "Impossibles" - When, in early March, Donald Trump agreed to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the Washington foreign policy elite nearly suffered a collective heart...
Washington's Blog

How can America’s evangelical Christians who favor Trump justify themselves? - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at the Greanville Post One of the perhaps half-dozen honest news-sites, the Greanville Post, ran this news-commentary from J...
Newsbud

The Merkel Dilemma: Trump or Putin? - In the eighty-second edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Kommersant, ...
Robert Reich

Trump’s Curious Coalition - Trump’s strategy for keeping power is to build up his coalition of America’s white working class and...
The Rag Blog

Jim Simons : The three state solution - We are complicit in the apartheid and occupation imposed on the Palestinian people. By Jim Simons | The Rag Blog | May 20, 2018 The thing Trump loves best ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Some say it's a sign of weakness - *The Hill*, "Court orders Iran to pay billions to 9/11 victims and families: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Iran to pay billions of dollars in damage...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (May 13 – 19) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Televangelist Jim Bakker, pitching the Missouri town in which he is building a Christian community equip...
Brad Blog

Sunday Toons of the Peace Process Moment - It's true: Trump and Hannity like to talk before bedtime * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange ...
Bracing Views

The Best Don’t Have to Boast: The Dangerous Myth of American Military Omnipotence - W.J. Astore [Note: I originally wrote this article for Truthout, where it appeared in August 2011. Little has changed since then; indeed, the current pres...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: yellow - [image: Dean Lane, BS3]
Nathan Hevenstone

E-Cigarettes, Wet Lung, and the US vs the UK - Yet again, the US news media over-hypes a story and uses it to peddle a narrative about e-cigarettes being “just as bad” as analog cigarettes. They are evi...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

A brief history of Armed Forces Day, and why we fly the flag in 2018 - Armed Forces Day is the third Saturday in May. This year it falls on May 19. The U.S. Flag Code designates Armed Forces Day as one day for all Americans to...
Talking Union

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Grits for Breakfast

You're getting sleepy, so you won't notice Texas is still using junk science like 'forensic hypnosis' in death penalty cases - Before reading the rest of this post, relax, breathe, and follow the swinging pocket watch. Feeling suggestible? Great, now we can begin! *Junkiest of ju...
Mahablog

A Tale of Two Media Obsessions - While most of us are wallowing in the latest twists and turns of the investigations of Trump, the Right is holding its breath waiting for an Inspector Gene...
Governmentality

Sunday Talk Shows (5/20/18): Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Bernie Sanders, Roger Stone, Oliver North - The Sunday morning talk shows will focus on Trump's FBI claims and the Texas school shooting. The post Sunday Talk Shows (5/20/18): Meet The Press, Face...
Lewisville Texan Journal

SWAT take suspect into custody after chase ends at bait outlet - By Leopold Knopp and Steve Southwell A suspect is in custody after speeding away from police and barricading himself into the bathroom of the Live Bait Out...
Carl Beijer

Jordan Peterson doesn't understand Jung's ideas about gender - I was re-reading some Jung this morning when I came across a passage that Jordan Peterson would probably prefer that you ignore: No man is so entirely masc...
Progressive.org

Going Native: My Longing to Migrate Home - I grew up with deep roots of racial self-hate. I wished I could fit in better with the dominant society. I wished to God I was not an American Indian.
Stinque

Teenage Wasteland - We were fifteen in 1974. It was, in retrospect, maybe not the beat time to be growing up in America. Our political memory began with a pair of assassinatio...
Grist

Satirical ad reveals how to live luxuriously like Scott Pruitt - As long as you're cool with a little dirty business.
Rewire

Disability Activists Fight for the Right to Live in Their Communities - As support for the Disability Integration Act grows across party lines, activists are hopeful about its future. The post Disability Activists Fight for t...
Freethought Now

We’re tackling the big ’uns - What bigger entity to take on than Congress?
Somervell County Salon

Santa Fe Texas School Shooting - Stop with the Empty Faux-Religious Gestures - VOTE out the people who are in the pocket of the NRA. Otherwise, those who vote for these bloodthirsty politicians prove that they have no family values ...
Krebs on Security

T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account - T-Mobile is investigating a retail store employee who allegedly made unauthorized changes to a subscriber's account in an elaborate scheme to steal the cus...
Rude Pundit

Time to Do the School-Shooting Roundelay Again - Hey, everyone, there's been another school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School, right near I-45, southeast of Houston, on the way to Galveston. You...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Power and Will: Eminent Domain for Preserving Land and Surviving Floods - The Moral Hazard in a Golf Course May 18, 2018 Mention “eminent domain” and ugly associations come to mind. The brutal power of the state. Taking homes a...
BEYONDbones

Discovering Texas With Monsters And Teens - In the modern age of planes, trains and automobiles the world can seem like it’s getting smaller every minute. But what I think is actually happening is ...
The Ghion Journal

The Blue Wave is a Yellow Tide of Cowardice - You would think condemning a massacre is something Senators and Congresspeople could rally behind. Evidently not. The silence is deafening and a person c...
Texas Observer

The Resistance has a Runoff in the Houston Suburbs - The weekend before early voting in Tuesday’s runoff started, Jay Taylor found himself in an awkward situation. The two Democratic candidates in the 7th C...
Reading the Pictures

Between Jerusalem, Gaza and the Media: The Tear Gas Spectacular - What stokes the media as effectively as it fuels insurgency and state power--especially in the Trump era? Simply put, it's the fireworks. The post Betwee...
Greg Palast

Free Speech TV & MNN Presents… Elections 2018: Voting Rights Under Attack - By Greg Palast "The American voting system is busted. It’s shattered. They’re trying to take away your vote by saying you’re not a citizen, by saying you...
Debunking Christianity

God’s Defenders Can’t Get Their Act Together - More Evasion, Bluffing, and Pretending Here we go again…trying to get believers to level with us. In my article published here on 4 May 2018,* When God Is N...
Rallblog

There Are So Many Worse Words Than Mofo - Director Spike Lee, speaking at Cannes, denounced Donald Trump as a “motherfucker” because he failed to denounce the Nazis in Charlottesville who murdere...
Great American Satan

John Woo on Netflix - Manhunt! New John Woo joint on Nutflex. Extremely poorly reviewed. I watched it. Don’t feel up for a full review, but here’s the short version: The plot’s ...
News Taco

There’s A Wave Of Latina Candidates In The Midterms — And Their Reason For Running Might Inspire You To Do The Same - A record number of Latina candidates are running for office this year — many of them fueled by rhetoric and policies coming out of the Trump administrati...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Texas public radio's storyteller from Brownsville, TX - A Texas Country Reporter feature piece on Dr. W. F. Strong of Brownsville, TX. The professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is also a storyte...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

RT: OPCW Got its Chemical Weapons Samples from ‘Jihadists’ - The “jihadists” referred to in the RT story are actually members of Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets. The claim that they are jihadist...
Better Texas Blog

A Lose-Lose Situation if you Buy Your Own Health Insurance - For people who aren’t offered insurance at work and don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, their option for health coverage is called the “individual he...
Equality Texas

Pride Started as a Protest - Pride season is officially underway in Texas, as LGBTQ people across the Lone Star State join with their neighbors in big cities and small towns in joyous,...
Lowering the Bar

Huang v. Hollywood - [image: LTB logo]Alleging a conspiracy that apparently involved most of Hollywood, plus Monica Lewinsky, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Dalai Lama. Relate...
Frontloading HQ

[2017-18 State Legislative Review: Proposed Primary Movement] Utah Will Have a Presidential Primary Option in 2020 - *This post is part of a series examining efforts -- both attempted and successful -- to move presidential primary election dates for 2020 during the now-ad...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Frank Stilwell, The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing… - Frank Stilwell, 'The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing...' During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Democrats’ Drive for 25 in the House: An Update - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — This piece revisits a proposed path to a Democratic House majority we sketched out in early February. — Overall, the Democ...
Ecosophia

The Taste of Another’s Thoughts - We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industri...
Disobedient Media

Activist, Independent Journalist Niko House Faces Eviction After Being Repeatedly Wrongly Arrested, Beaten By Police - When Niko House was recently pulled over for a traffic stop in Georgia, it was the beginning of a police […]
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is Feudalistic Media Only Covering Crooks and Thugs? - There are so many politicians involved in so much corruption or outright crime, including sexual assault, prostitution, epidemic levels of fraud, and ev...
Other Words

In OtherWords: May 16, 2018 - We're looking at ways to bridge the divides between country and city people, and between progressives and conservatives.
Popehat

Make No Law Episode Six: Street - Make No Law Episode Six: Street has dropped. It's about Street v. New York, a case about flag burning. Here are some of the resources mentioned in the epis...
Earthjustice

We’re Suing to Make Industry Clean Up Its Own Messes - We’re Suing to Make Industry Clean Up Its Own Messes It’s time the dirtiest polluters in the country pay for their own toxic messes, instead of skipping to...
OffCite

An Initial Response to the New Glassell School of Art by Raj Mankad - Day view of the Glassell School of Art, west elevation; Photograph courtesy MFAH, © Richard Barnes.The new Glassell School of Art building is not subtle. A...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

A Visit to Houston and the Healthy Port Communities Coalition - Six years ago, Public Citizen and our partners founded the Healthy Port Communities Coalition (HPCC), which advocates for the health and well-being of re...
Duck of Minerva

Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) - This is a guest post from Paul Musgrave, Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Sebastian Karcher, Assoc...
Washington Babylon

Michael Cohen, Tony Podesta and Washington Corruption - I’ve been out of the loop for awhile, for a bunch of personal and work reasons, but hope to be reporting regularly from The Swamp again soon. I confess I’m...
Daniel Williams

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

2018.2: Stace Slate – Dem Run-Off - Early voting for the 2018 Democratic Primary Run-Off begins on May 14 and continues through May 18, 7AM to 7PM. You may vote at any early voting location. ...
ROAR Magazine

The revenge against the commons of the ZAD - Why French police, in its biggest operation since May 68, is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare — and how the ZAD fought back. Read more
Downwinders at Risk

THIS COMING TUESDAY, MAY 22 YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SUPPORT LOT OF GOOD CAUSES…ALL AT ONCE - The Top Five Reasons You Should Attend the May 22nd Benefit for Joppa 1) This benefit will fund a citizen-run air quality monitoring network in Joppa that ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Anticlines - This is the part where I tell you about why I haven’t been writing. I haven’t been writing. I have noticed this. You might have noticed this. After two we...
ExChristian.Net

Working For The Church - *By WP ~ * I have been a Christian my whole life but the past two years have completely broken the mind fuck spell I was placed under. Growing up my mom ...
Our Finite World

How the Economy Works as It Reaches Energy Limits — An Introduction for Actuaries and Others - Why have long-term interest rates generally fallen since 1981? Why have asset prices risen? Can these trends be expected to continue? The standard evaluati...
Bad Attitudes

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

New-Orleans-swears-in-its-first-female-mayor-continuing-the-trend-in-black-women-s-leadership - New Orleans swears in its first female mayor, continuing a new trend in black women’s leadership Kelly Macias Daily Kos Staff Monday May 07, 2018 · 1:39 PM...
WAWG Blog

Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People - Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public ...
John Laurits

Voter Registration Is Voter Suppression: Low Turnout by Design in the USA - Voter Registration Is Voter Suppression: Low Turnout by Design in the USA A look at the voter registration system in the United States; why the US has su...
Church and State

11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore - Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God.
LawFlog

DOJ refuses to release records about Seth Rich murder - The U.S. Department of Justice will not release any records related to the murder of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to a...
The Economic Populist

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

Next Year in Tehran? - As President Obama faced the looming re-election campaign in the spring of 2012, he issued a stern challenge to those critics of his approach to the Irania...
Ramona's Voices

Let's be Honest. Anti-Abortion Doesn't Make You Pro-Life. - I'll get right to it: I'm on the side of every woman who chooses abortion as a solution to what she considers a problem in her life. I don't need to know h...
34justice

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

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

Tony Kinman – An American Original - I read on FB that Tony Kinman is very ill. I don’t know many details. But it’s a sad thing. Amid a culture where people on either side of politics are pu...
Seeing the Forest

WWDD — What Would a Democracy Do? - Crossposted from Imagine Democracy Here is a question to ask yourself when you are looking at something the government is doing: “Would a democracy do this...
Progressive Memetics

S H O T S -
South Lawn

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

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

BREAKING: HISD Board will not Charter Black/Brown Schools - [image: hisd pic.jpg] Just confirmed the authenticity of this press release from HISD Press office via phone who confirmed the Board will not move forward...
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...
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...
New Progressive Alliance

Gentrification and Orange County - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
[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.
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...
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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