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Your Sunday Morning Bottomless Flute of Stupid is Served, Conway-style! - Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!): “[Trump is] a brilliant debater,” Conway said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Newt Gingrich put it best. The former Spe...
National Post

Nahed Hattar, prominent Jordanian writer arrested over a cartoon, gunned down on courthouse steps - Some Muslims and the Jordanian government were offended by the cartoon, titled 'the God of (ISIS)' in part because it depicted God
Buzzflash

Search Results Thousands of Girls Are Locked Up for Talking Back or Staying Out Late - Search Results Thousands of Girls Are Locked Up for Talking Back or Staying Out Late Will Congress do anything to stop it? 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Somervell County Salon

Video- Pam Parsons on Customer Service, Personnel at Glen Rose Medical Center - Parsons is on the Somervell County Hospital District board, video from budget meeting 9/20/2016
Popular Resistance

Texas Defied Court’s Voting Rights Order And The Court Is Angry - By Ian Millhiser for Think Progress. Earlier this month, the Justice Department informed a federal court that Texas is violating a recent court order that ...
Crooks and Liars

Kellyanne Conway: Trump Is Like 'The Babe Ruth Of Debating' - Or another Trump surrogate emulates her boss, making wildly exaggerated claims and/or lying about what other people said. Source: Politico On the eve of...
Mediaite

Van Jones: Trump Has Had ‘Most Inept, Botched’ Black Outreach Efforts - CNN's *Van Jones* thinks that *Donald Trump*'s black outreach has been pretty amazingly horrible.
Dissident Voice

Americanism and not globalism will be our credo - Now I lay me down to sleep Citibank1 for my soul to keep Forgive us our debts as we forgive those we bombed after their accounts we froze.2 The globe on hi...
Mother Jones

Everyone Has Suddenly Discovered That Donald Trump Tells the Occasional Lie - The *New York Times* kicked things off this weekend with "A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump." The *Washington Post* followed suit with its own compil...
The Verge

How to be human: how to be happy and alone in New York City - *Leah Reich** was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "**Ask Leah**" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half ...
Daily Dot

'Bonsai Kittens' Was 2000's Most Controversial Internet Hoax - Hilarious or Horrific?
Awesomely Luvvie

Things That Take Me Longer Than Betty Shelby’s Time in Custody - Betty Shelby is the officer who murdered Terence Crutcher. The “big scary Black man” was having car trouble as police showed up. He was unarmed, and not ...
Sputnik News

Illinois Police Cancel Emergency Alert After Shooting Near Local University - On Sunday, police responded to a shooting incident near the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.
Willy Loman, American Everyman

Russia is Responsible for UN Aid Convoy Bombing Even if They Didn’t Do It Says Warmongers in Senate - by Scott Creighton Talk about your standard issue “basket of deplorables” Lemniscat is posting some good short little clips on Twitter showing the new warm...
Ring of Fire

GENNIFER FLOWERS Is Trump’s New Talking Point: Questioning Why HRC Stuck Around - [image: trump_grin_342354] Coming from a man who is currently on his third marriage and was involved in infidelity at least a time or two, hearing Donald T...
Think Progress

Trump campaign says media should not be ‘fact-checkers’ - On the eve of the first presidential debate, a Trump spokesperson says Trump should not be challenged by the media or moderators.Republican presidential ca...
Vox

What Hillary needs to do at tomorrow night’s debate - In the eyes of his detractors, Donald Trump is so obviously unsuited to the presidency that there is a persistent frustration that Hillary Clinton hasn’...
Irregular Times

Who was more likely to be incarcerated in 2015: An Immigrant or a Person Born in the USA? (Fact Check) - Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released fresh data from its annual American Community Survey that describe the U.S. population in 2015 in considerable d...
Salon.com

My mother and Trump’s border: America has been through this “extreme vetting” before - My mother's 1953 experience with immigration detainment shows how dangerous McCarthy-like thinking can be
Eclectablog

Part 3: Earned Paid Sick Time, Faces of the Fight – Julia Coneo - This is the second of a four part series about workers who are directly impacted by the crucial fight to make earned paid sick time required by law. (Part ...
Raw Story

WATCH: Jake Tapper throws shade at Kellyanne Conway for nixing Gennifer Flowers debate invite - Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway attempted to do damage control over the weekend in response to Donald Trump’s threat to invite alleged Bill Clinton...
Daily Kos

Who will make Big Pharma pay the EpiPenalty? - Washington is experiencing a bipartisan furor over the spiraling price hikes on EpiPen, the life-saving Epinephrine injector tens of thousands of America...
The Intercept

Casos de corrupção envolvendo Michel Temer caem no ostracismo, e eles são muitos - Atolado em inúmeros casos de corrupção relegados ao ostracismo, Michel Temer vai a Nova York cantar ao mundo as maravilhas da democracia brasileira. The...
First Draft

Reporters Who Want to Whine Can Do So in the Time Out Corner - We don’t need to listen to it here: Against Trump, the press is a particularly ineffective prosecutor, for the obvious reason that “mainstream media” enjo...
Pharyngula

Yes, children, we old people struggled with complex technology too - There was a time when we had to have those new-fangled communications devices explained to us. Here’s a silent film with instructions on those new ‘rotary ...
Consortium News

Did the Pentagon Sabotage Syrian Peace Deal? - As the latest attempt at U.S.-Russian cooperation in Syria goes up in flames, the back story includes Pentagon resistance to the plan and the bloody U.S. a...
Common Dreams

The Debates: Questions for the Presidential Candidates on Trade and Agriculture Policy - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy The 2016 election is bizarre, to say the least. While the vast majority of reporting has focused on the horserac...
Brad Blog

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

Distinctions - I don't actually get this one. You're right. I shouldn't have said that & I'm sorry that I did.He did mislead us and was wrong about it, however. https://t...
Heat Street

U.S. Navy Sailors Disciplined for Joining the Anti-Anthem Protest Movement - Colin Kaepernick's protest spreads to the military.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Another lens to understand American identity - Lonnie Bunch III, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, joins Ari Melber to discuss why it's important to contextualize ...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Clinton aide defends inviting Mark Cuban to debate - Hillary Clinton's aide on Sunday defended the campaign's decision to invite billionaire Mark Cuban to Monday's presidential debate."Mark Cuban is a success...
Houston Press

Cougars Play Close to Perfection in Defeating Texas State 64-3 - Tom Herman probably could’ve taken an intramural squad from the UH campus and defeated Texas State last night, so mismatched did the game appear to be. He ...
VICE

Is the Controversy Over This Iranian-Born Canadian Minister a Racial Witch Hunt? - Experts say a white minister born outside Canada likely wouldn't be facing the same scrutiny.
Pages of Victory

TPP Exemplifies Why I No Longer Respect the Democrats - Ten Reasons the TPP is not "Progressive" This link gives some good reasons to stand against our government in the matter of this and other trade agreements....
Down With Tyranny!

Yeah, If You Live In A State Where Trump Has A Chance, Just Hold Your Nose And Vote For Hillary... You'll Live - This week *The Nation* features dueling perspectives on voting for Jill Stein, Kshama Sawant's Don't Waste Your Vote On The Corporate Agenda-- Vote For J...
Affinity

Sunday Facepalm. - Billboard: "JESUS IS LORD! Mayor Cornell Harvey and City Council" is set to come down after the private owner says got push back from city. pic.twitter.com...
DeSmogBlog

Contractor Behind Positive Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Assessment Was Working on Connecting Pipeline For Same Company - A private firm that conducted the environmental review for the highly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline was simultaneously working for Energy Transfer, ...
The Progressive Wing

Privately funded exit poll in 3 CA Counties showed a reported Clinton Win by 3.1% was really a Sanders Win by 7.5% - In case your missed this must read: Privately funded exit poll in 3 CA Counties showed a reported Clinton Win by 3.1% was really a Sanders Win by 7.5% A...
Washington Monthly

Trump Is So Awful Even the Rich are Voting Against Their Own Interests - Hillary Clinton has had a pretty good week, all things considered. Clinton’s appearance on Between Two Ferns was widely watched and well received, humanizi...
Duffel Blog

Hillary Clinton buys Gulfstream G500 at 35% interest to show solidarity with military - [image: Gulfstream jet] FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton purchased a Gulfstream G500 at 35% interest from a used air...
Off the Kuff

Kinder Institute analyzes Mayor Turner’s pension reform plan - From the inbox: Rice University’s Kinder Institute has done the preliminary math on Mayor Sylvester Turner’s historic pension reform plan and determined th...
slacktivist

Sunday favorites - "You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning."
Grist

The haunting song of climate change, in D minor - Scientists turned the data points from a dying forest into music.
Morning Consult

Trump Edges Above Clinton Ahead of First Debate - Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 1 percentage point among likely voters who were polled a few days ahead of the much-anticipated debate between the ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

sunday down south - the history of money - it's not what you think democrats have a shot at taking the house - here's the math how san francisco's hippy explosion shaped the m...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Typewriter of the moment, and cold: Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Even in the Antarctic, scientists and explorers need to write their findings down. A typewriter was the state-of-the-art tool in 1911. Here we see Apsley C...
Independent Political Report

Wikinews Interviews Independent Presidential Candidate Laurence Kotlikoff - [image: larry_4101] For the August edition of my monthly Wikinews series covering the 2016 presidential election, I interviewed Independent presidential ...
The Fifth Column

At Least 13 People Dead in Stampede in Congo Town - At least 13 people died in Beni, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a panicked crowd attempted to run from a drunk soldier firing shots, media ...
Informed Comment

The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Dan Patrick's legislative priority: 'Keeping men out of ladies' rooms' - Statesman: Dan Patrick's legislative priority: 'Keeping men out of ladies' rooms'
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Polk Salad Bastard - Last month, inspired by a post about pokeweed by Thunder, I posted about pokeweed and the country-rock standard *Polk Salad Annie*. We actually have quite ...
Ian Welsh

War Criminals, I See War Criminals - So—Bush Jr., of Iraq and torture, will vote for Clinton. The Clinton team is pleased. Michelle Obama has a publicity photo with her embracing him. 1st Lady...
Antiwar.com

Attack on Security Chiefs near Tikrit; 87 Killed in Iraq - Militants staged an assault on a checkpoint near Tikrit where security chiefs were traveling. The post Attack on Security Chiefs near Tikrit; 87 Killed i...
Houston Communist Party

Slime and Slander: The FWSO email - Slime and Slander: The FWSO email Please read the following article regarding an email sent from the CEO of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra to the Board ...
Wolf Street

The Secrets of Commenters & Comment Readers on WOLF STREET (and the Entire Financial Media) - The surprising numbers!
OpEd News

Movie Review: Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Our Truth Sleuth weaves together into a seamless labyrinth his two major concerns that have absorbed his renowned and versatile genius since the turn of th...
The Stranger

This Should Get All the Genius Awards - by Dan Savage A video posted by StreetArtGlobe (@streetartglobe) on Sep 24, 2016 at 7:20am PDT [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on...
Field Negro

CAPTION SATURDAY. - [image: Image result for picture of woman staring down military] I need a caption for this pic. **Pic from buzzfeed.com *
Socialist Alternative

Corbyn victory another step to transforming Labour - Three months ago 172 MPs – three quarters of the Parliamentary Labour Party – launched a coup against Jeremy Corbyn. They have been backed by all the force...
U.S. Uncut

Here’s the Keith Scott Video Police Don’t Want You to See - New footage of the police killing of Keith Scott went viral on the internet today, showing a different angle that clearly showed Scott walking backwards ...
Frontloading HQ

The Electoral College Map (9/24/16) - *New State Polls (9/24/16)* State Poll Date Margin of Error Sample Clinton Trump Undecided Poll Margin FHQ Margin *Georgia* *Landmark/WSBTV* 9/21-9/22 +/-...
Egberto Willies

Dashcam video released in Keith Scott’s killing (VIDE0) - [image: Keith Scott Killed by police cop murdered] Dashcam video of the killing of Keith Scott shows him backing away. He never showed any belligerence tow...
Freedom Rider

CPR News Interviews: Hillary's Emails, Standing with Syria, Russophobe Propaganda - I have fallen behind in posting my Community Public Radio news interviews with Don DeBar so this post is an effort to catch up. We usually discuss my Black...
Greg Palast

Bring The Best Democracy Money Can Buy to a Cinema near you… - We're so proud that The Best Democracy Money Can Buy opened in theatres yesterday starting in New York at the Cinepolis Chelsea and hitting Los Angeles n...
Liberation News

La Riva: Solidarity with Charlotte, rise up against police violence - "Justice can only be served when communities are no longer under occupation and human lives are considered to be more valuable than the property of the w...
Echidne of the Snakes

Mirrors -
No More Mister Nice Blog

DO THESE AUDIENCE PSYCH-OUT STUNTS EVER WORK? (updated) - Because he's completely overmatched in the areas of policy knowledge, experience, temperament, intelligence, and judgment, Donald Trump, naturally, is Goin...
Talking Points Memo

Charlotte Police Release Video Of Fatal Shooting Of Keith Lamont Scott - Police released body camera footage on Saturday of the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read More →
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges and Miko Peled: Boycott Israel - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Sep 24, 2016 On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the Boycott, Divestment and Sanct...
Anti-Media

America Officially Not Greatest Country on Earth… It’s 28th, Say Researchers - [image: america]Not even close to being the greatest.
Reverb Press

NYT: Only One Candidate Has The ‘Intellect, Experience, Toughness And Courage’ To Lead America - With the election rapidly approaching (just six more weeks?!), the traditional spate of endorsements is heating up. There has already been one surprise a...
If You Only News

Classless: Trump Invites Woman Who Once Had Affair With Bill Clinton To Be His Debate Guest - Gennifer Flowers, who has cashed in on her claims of an affair with Bill Clinton for years, responds to Trump's pathetic invite.
Independent Thinker 2016

How Bernie Sanders Could Become President With Only 130,000 Votes - After reading Dawn Papple’s excellent article in The Inquisitr a few days ago, about how theoretically it was possible for Bernie Sanders to still become P...
PoliTex (FWST)

Wendy Davis vs. Ted Cruz in ’18? It’s all talk for Texas Dems - Wendy Davis’ political career has spanned 20 years now, bookended by defeats. In 1996, she lost an embattled campaign to represent her home Mistletoe Heigh...
American Third Party Report

It’s Official : Austin Petersen is a Globalist Sellout - Austin Petersen loves to preach about civil liberties, the constitution, American Exceptionalism, and American’s right to privacy. However, he has re...
I Take Liberty With My Coffee

Another Day, Another Hashtag. White People, You Gotta Get to Work NOW – Awesomely Luvvie - It’s another day and another hashtag that shouldn’t be. It’s another day for us to know someone’s name, not for how they lived, but how they died. It is ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Campaign mega-donors spill on why they open their wallets - Big-time givers offer insight to why they poor millions into super PACs at Texas Tribune Festival.
Ballot Access News

Politico Web Page for November 8 Presidential Election Returns Seems Already Set Up, and Apparently Plans to List Only Four Candidates - Politico is a very good source for election night vote returns. It appears that Politico has already set up its presidential election night vote returns we...
Stinque

Living in Terror - A friend of ours erupted in a fusillade of angry, frightened tweets Tuesday night. While everyone else we follow was tweeting the usual — sports and politi...
Louis Proyect

Michael Ansara’s special pleading for Hillary Clinton - Michael Ansara It makes perfect sense for Michael Ansara to be urging a vote for Hillary Clinton in Vox.com, the website launched by Ezra Klein in 2014. Kl...
UP@NIGHT

Sanders’ “America” Ad Was Prophetic—We Just Didn’t Know Why - Sanders’ “America” campaign ad was hailed as one of the great political ads …
Washington's Blog

Turn the Pentagon into a Hospital - The United States government recently gave more than a million dollars to the family of one victim it had killed in one of its wars. The victim happened ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Ballet presents two extraordinarily different works - "Two things I could do," Cio-Cio-san sings in "Madame Butterfly" when she imagines being abandoned by her American lover Pinkerton. It's an impossible cho...
Angry Bear

Hillary Clinton was right to separate Trump from the GOP on racism, xenophobia, and sheer meanness. - She was wrong to separate him from the GOP on fiscal and regulatory policy and on court and administrative-agency appointees. It wasn’t a package deal, or ...
Political Carnival

The Book Booth: Happy Fall Edition - Image: ElectricLit The Book Booth is a weekly feature at The Political Carnival, relating news, notes, and reflections from the world of books and publis...
Socialist Times

Behind the Desire to Control LGBT Sexuality (Indonesian Edition) - Behind the Desire to Control LGBT Sexuality (Indonesian Edition) Indonesia’s LGBT community has been weathering “unprecedented attacks” through hateful p...
Bay Area Houston

A media's guide. How Donald Trump can win the debate. - Is there hope for the media? Probably not. It's pretty clear the media has set the bar below sea level for Donald Trump's performance on Monday at the firs...
Asian American Action

Luncheon Reception to Support Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth for Senate - Irene Bueno, Bel Leon Hong, Irene Natividad, & the Asian American Action Fund invite you to a Reception in Support of Tammy Duckworth Candidate for U.S. S...
Seeing the Forest

How Clinton Can Use The Debate To Change The National Discussion - This election season so far has been about Donald Trump, and not about the real problems facing the country and We the People. The national discussion cert...
emptywheel

Gone Fishing Cycling - Just to let you know that in 20 minutes I’m headed off for a 10 day almost-entirely device free vacation cycling through the south of France. To be hones...
MintPress News

UN: Police Killings Of Black Men Are Modern-Day Lynchings - There are over four times as many police killings a year as the worst years in lynchings and executions. Continue reading → The post UN: Police Killings ...
Pajiba

When Keeping It Real On Twitter Goes Wrong - The wait is finally over and the Fall television season started once again earlier this week. (The NFL season also started recently, but no one cares about...
Daily Howler

Speculation about expectations! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016Atop the Post's front page, Tumulty proves Krugman's point: * Yesterday, in his New York Times column, Paul Krugman discusse...
Real News

The Left Underestimates the Danger of Trump - By Arun Gupta. This article was first published on Portside. This election is a choice between two movements. Movements like Black Lives Matter, Climate Ju...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Trinity Trojans prevail over Fighting Farmers 41-7 - Members of the Lewisville High School football team looking for more playing time should be polishing their deep snapping skills this weekend. Bad snaps on...
Bracing Views

The MYOB Foreign Policy - W.J. Astore My parents taught me a lot of common sense sayings. You’ve probably heard this one: mind your own business, or MYOB. Most people have enough ...
Above None of the Above

The Senate Races 24 September 2016 - This week's polling has been very good for the Democrats in the Senate. Last week, the Republicans looked to be favorites to keep their majority, but good...
Houston Matters

Houston Matters Weekend for September 24, 2016 - Last December (2015), a rape victim was housed for nearly a month at the Harris County Jail in order to ensure she would testify against a serial rapist wh...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 19 - 23 at XE.com - * - by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at XE.com. Commodities undid their recent wobble, but the trend in several interest rate indica...
SocraticGadfly

Is there a Trump Effect in polling — a reverse Bradley Effect? - For those who aren't sure about what I'm getting at, first, I was inspired by this blog post by friend Brains. Let's start with what the Bradley Effect i...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Election Update: The Case For And Against Democratic Panic - Want these election updates emailed to you right when they’re published? Sign up here. Last Friday, I wrote an article entitled “Democrats Should Panic … I...
Space City Weather

Some sort of front now appears likely for Houston next week - We can now say with increasing confidence that some sort of cool front is coming to Houston, but it does not appear to be a classic, blow-in-from-the-nor...
Grits for Breakfast

Don't gloat that Texas is ahead on forensic-science reform - Meagan Flynn at the Houston Press is right that Texas is ahead of the feds and the rest of the country right now on forensic science reform, but that fact ...
Church and State

For America to Do Well, Americans Must Do Well - America’s immigration laws were enacted to achieve two primary goals: protect the jobs of American workers and protect innocent lives.
Strangely Blogged

Senator Ted Cruz Went With His Conscience - There was a beautiful jerk moment when TX Senator Ted Cruz went up on stage at the RNC and said that conservatives should vote their conscience. I though...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Schell v. OXY USA Inc. 16-244 Disclosure: Vinson & Elkins LLP, whose attorneys contribute to this b...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Bayou Update Update: The Memory of a River and The Importance of Beavers - Beavers Still Active New Channel is Old Channel Sept. 23, 2016 An anonymous reader who lives on Buffalo Bayou wrote in to give us a report on beavers and s...
Rude Pundit

If I Could Talk to Ted Cruz Right Now, Here Are a Few Things I'd Tell Him - Upon hearing that Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump for president, a few thoughts went through my head. They were things I'd say directly to the sad senator, ...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Defensive Line - 926 Robbie St. [HAR]… Read More
Rewire

Are North Carolina Officials Stalling to Release Videos of Keith Scott Shooting Because of HB 972? - At a news conference Friday morning, Mayor Roberts said that she believes the video of Scott’s shooting should be released publicly, but that it’s a matt...
South Lawn

Escapism as Politics: American Liberals and Cultural Consumerism - (This is a joint post by Douglas and Cato) If there is one thing that you can say about the Bush Administration with absolute certainty, it was absolutely ...
Thom Hartmann

Yet More Tribal Land Under Threat - The battle lines for the next fight to protect sacred tribal lands are being drawn in Bears Ears in Southeastern Utah. read more
Election Law Blog

“Federal court says Ohio’s system for purging voters violates federal law” - Cleveland.com: The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Fridaythat Ohio’s reliance on lack of voting activity as a trigger for purging people from the v...
Houstonia

New Sarah Kelly Music School Hits All the Right Notes - The popular recording artist is setting up shop in The Woodlands.
Pressing Issues

Bruce Hits 'Moron" Trump, Endorses Hillary - It's his birthday, and his new memoir is out any second, and now amid all the new attention, Bruce Springsteen (who some though might sit out this electio...
Avedon's Sideshow

If there's anything that you want - Some people complain that I'm always ragging on Democrats instead of on Republicans. Leaving aside my opinion that some Democrats *are* Republicans, I jus...
Free Press Houston

Are We Becoming Addicted to Our Cell Phones? - Unlimited data on the Internet is both good and bad. Pedestrian Pete admits that I’m no computer wizard, but I wonder: What is the outcome of the huge bloc...
Political Garbage Chute

Porn Site Reveals “Daddy/Daughter” As Most Searched Term In Trump States - If you're a Trump supporter, chances are you like a familiar brand of porn...literally. [...] The post Porn Site Reveals “Daddy/Daughter” As Most Searche...
Great American Satan

By the Way, Scumbags - This post is for the scumbags. Hello scumbags. I got a list from someone to pre-emptively block a lot of you, which is pretty cool. When I invited y’all to...
Harper's Magazine

[Context ] | Beyond the Broken Window, by Petra Bartosiewicz - William Bratton and the new police state
ProPublica

Amazon Defends Its Pricing Algorithm, But Leaves Out Billions in Sales - by Eric Umansky Earlier this week, we reported how Amazon often makes its products look like better deals than they actually are. When the website ranks...
Pensito Review

National Debt Would Rise with Trump Proposals - $5.3 trillion Amount that Donald Trump’s latest tax proposals would increase the federal debt over the next decade, compared with $200 billion if Hillary C...
Shadowproof

Jill Stein Is Like Your Cool Hippie Grandma—And That’s Not A Good Thing - Millennials may see their hippie grandmother in Stein, but no amount of sun worshipping or tchotchke-crafting prepares you for being Leader of the Free W...
Campaign for America's Future

Nothing Left But The Dog Whistle - The provincial anger, stoked for so long by the Republican Party, has finally boiled over. Donald Trump is telling those folks what they’ve been wanting to...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Donald Trump claim on Israeli profiling misses broader security context - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Donald Trump claim on Israeli profiling misses broader security context In the wake of two bombings in New York, Donal...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Out magazine backlash continues over editorial choices' & other Fri. midday news briefs - The Out magazine puff piece of alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos created a backlash. *Journalists Reprimand Out Magazine for Its Journalism* - *And the controve...
In These Times

You Must Be Kidding: The Exasperating, Never-Ending Sprawl of American Empire - *This post first appeared at *TomDispatch. Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, *That Makes Me Mad!, *which ...
Eater Houston

Anthony Bourdain Thinks Houston’s Culinary Scene Is ‘Really Going To Surprise People’ - Everyone except Houstonians You already know that Anthony Bourdain spent part of the summer roving across Houston for its finest culinary and cultural o...
South Texas Chisme

Texas republicans escalate war on women, their freedom and their health care - Nothing says misogyny more than "I'm a republican!" Texas won’t budge on a proposed rule that requires the cremation or burial of fetal remains — even in i...
First Reading

Trump or no Trump. Ted Cruz’s time to choose. - Good morning Austin: Sen. Ted Cruz’s one-on-one interview Saturday with Texas Tribune editor-in-chief and CEO Evan Smith ought to be one of the highlight...
Rallblog

At Home With the Whites - [image: Another police shooting of a civilian with shifting narratives, another popular uprising, this time in Charlotte, North Carolina. Once again, whi...
Texas Observer

Editorial: Pressing On in a Media Landscape Under Threat - Even in these tumultuous times, the Observer hasn’t strayed from its mission to produce truth-speaking journalism that inspires change from the top. The...
Democracy Now!

Sen. Warren Calls for Wells Fargo CEO to Resign & Face Investigation Amid Growing Scandal - We get reaction to this week's Senate Banking Committee hearing where Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf over a growing scandal a...
BEYONDbones

Dino-chores at HMNS - The last three evenings have been spent doing a dinosaur cleaning. Three times a year staff and volunteers give up a few of their evenings to dust the moun...
Socialist Worker

Charlotte erupts in protest after another killing - Brian Bean reports on the bitter protests against racist police violence that swept North Carolina after another case of racial profiling and mistaken i...
The Conversation: Election 2016

Five key debate moments that altered the course of a presidential race - Every presidential election year in my American Political Campaigns and Elections course, I get an opportunity to spend a full lecture discussing with st...
Dos Centavos

2 DC Reviewed Albums Earn Latin Grammy Noms - As my friends at Tejano Nation posted this week, the Latin Grammy noms are out, and in the Tejano Album category, two DosCentavos reviewed albums are nomin...
Trivial Knot

What is a safe space? - Last month, a lot of discussion was prompted by a statement by the dean of University of Chicago opposing censorship, trigger warnings, and safe spaces. I’...
PERRspectives

Trump's Self-Dealing Scam to Raid the U.S. Treasury - David Farenthold of the Washington Post on Tuesday broke a huge story about the rampant wrong-doing at the Trump Foundation. Donald Trump, Farenthold revea...
OffCite

The Building and the Bayou: Views of The Dunlavy - [image: The Dunlavy above Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park. Photo: Geoffrey Lyon.] The Dunlavy above Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park. Photo: Geoffrey Lyon. ...
Mahablog

Red and Redder - I’m getting ready to resurrect the old slogan “Better dead than Red.” Of course, back in the day, “red” meant “Communist.” I’m struggling to come up with a...
Black Agenda Report

Obama Attempts to Transfer Blackness to Hillary - [image: Forward logo] Forward [image: Print HTML logo] Print HTML [image: Reddit logo] Reddit [image: Viadeo logo] Viadeo Google Plus One Linkedin Share Bu...
Better Texas Blog

Cost of Diapers is a Challenge to Low-Income Families - The week of September 26 – October 2 will be Diaper Need Awareness Week. In short, diapers are expensive and low-income families are struggling to pay fo...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Meet The Real Jigsaw Horror Psychologists - First of all there is no chance that there could be a fanatic as extreme as the character "John Kramer" known as "The Jigsaw Killer" in the Horror serie...
Digital Heretic

Refined Right: Twitter Suspends, Reinstates Account of @Instapundit - Twitter on Thursday morning briefly suspended, then reinstated conservative writer Glenn Reynolds’ Twitter account for a single post related to the Charlot...
Reading the Pictures

On That Riot Cop/Bus Photo After Police Kill Black Man in Charlotte - Beyond its literal meaning, the text on the bus is also a blunt commentary about where we stand in this endless cycle of violence. The post On That Riot ...
REDD-Monitor

Norway’s support for the aviation sector’s plans to burn the planet - In September 2015, a meeting took place in New York between Per Pharo and Marte Sendstad of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and Nigel ...
The Urban Edge

Can Public Transit and Ride-Share Companies Get Along? - Kyle Shelton | September 22, 2016 Across the country, transit agencies and ride-sharing services are partnering up. Will public transit agencies come to re...
Death to Squirrels

Perhaps a hint at why right-wingers hate academia. - Yesterday I read about a new study—I cannot read the actual paper itself of course because it is behind a fucking paywall—that examined non-academic charac...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, War, Peace, and Absurdity - Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, *That Makes Me Mad!, *which brought back memories...
Source Planet

Correct The Record’s manipulative strategies LEAKED - This leaked email instruction for Hillary Clintons Troll army has gone viral.
The Disorder Of Things

So much to say, so much to say… A Reply - I want to begin by thanking Karen, Anthony, Kirsten and Elke for their comments on the book–and a special thanks to Elke for organising. It is a rare treat...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Do Debates Matter? - Editor’s Note: This article is partially an update of a piece we published in 2012 discussing the impact of presidential debates. To slightly modify Ronald...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Obama Cuba Policy Legacy: Resurrecting systemic legal segregation - *"If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac* President met Castro in Panama as Cuban activists attacke...
Neil Aquino's All People Have Value

KNOCKED DOWN, ALL IT WANTED WAS A HAND UP---HOUSTON TRAFFIC SIGNAL - Knocked down, all it wanted was a hand up.Please follow me on Instagram. My user name is Neil_Aquino. Please read all of NeilAquino.com. Please like my...
Texas Leftist

Wait… How Many Teachers Would Lose Their Jobs If Trump Is Elected?? - Is it November the 9th yet?? No seriously… many Americans have had it up to HERE with the 2016 election. For various reasons, they don’t like either choi...
ROAR Magazine

Issue #3: “The Rule of Finance” now released! - Our third issue on the class power of the 1 percent — featuring original contributions by Richard Wolff, David Graeber and many more — is out now! Read more
Texas Freedom Network

Texas GOP Ed Board Member’s Wish on Textbook Controversy: ‘Deny the Hispanics a Record Vote’ - Emails show that a Republican member of the State Board of Education wants to “deny the Hispanics a record vote” when the board decides in November wheth...
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – The Beating Heart of the Crab Nebula - Hubble caught the beating heart of the Crab Nebula, and it’s amazing. Enjoy!
Gin and Tacos

AN ACTUAL SLIPPERY SLOPE - Not all consequentialist arguments – slippery slopes, where one event is predicted to lead to a chain of subsequent and presumably worse events – are logic...
Texans For Public Justice

A Texas Treasure, 'Smitty' to Mosey Down Happy Trails. - *Lobbyist for the Small Fry Hangs It Up.* By Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune. Tom “Smitty” Smith, a colorful lobbyist and liberal activist who turned Public C...
Other Words

In OtherWords: September 21, 2016 - Earth to climate deniers: The climate change debate is over.
The Rag Blog

Alice Embree : METRO | Remembering Frank Erwin and the Waller Creek trees - This feature is in the book ‘Celebrating The Rag’ to be released during festivities, set for Oct. 13-16, honoring Austin’s iconic underground newspaper. By...
CenLamar (Louisiana politics)

CenLamar Podcast: Episode Two: Matt Bailey - Filed under: Louisiana
New Progressive Alliance

Beware the Clintons - The New Progressive Alliance keeps references that allies and friends may use in support of the Unified Platform. One of our resources that we maintain...
Equality Texas

Watch: Transgender 8-Year-Old Marilyn Morrison Joins Dallas Pride Parade - The media reported this weekend that up to 45,000 people turned out for Dallas’ annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade in Oak Lawn. One of this year’s proud...
Our Finite World

What really causes falling productivity growth — an energy-based explanation - What really causes falling productivity growth? The answer seems to be very much energy-related. Human labor by itself does not cause productivity growth. ...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Longtime Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office to Retire - Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas office, will retire early next year after 31 years of championing consumer rights and clean energy...
Robert Reich

My Coffee with a Trump Supporter - I finally found a Trump supporter – this morning when I went to buy coffee. (I noticed a Trump...
Strength in Numbers (Ashton Woods)

Intersectionality Through The Lens Of A Queer Black Woman - Karisha Shaw Speaks - Intersectionality Through The Lens Of A Queer Black Woman Karisha Shaw Speaks I am lying here again, unable to sleep because my mind is reeling over the co...
AlterNet.org

The Corporate Media Has Let Trump Get Away With Murder; We Need Them to Play Hardball in the First Debate - [image: [Reuse options]] Click here for reuse options! The media just won't call out Trump for what he is. Apparently pretty much everyone I know is a bed...
Non Prophet News

What's The Biggest Threat to Climate Change? Nationalism - It’s going to take global solidarity to avoid a climate-change doomsday.
In the Know Houston

Hawaiian Hotspot AGU Ramen Lands on Washington Avenue - The Hawaiian-based ramen chain scoops up a familiar spot. The post Hawaiian Hotspot AGU Ramen Lands on Washington Avenue appeared first on In the Know Ho...
News Junkie

I, Hillary Rodham Clinton: Haiti’s Pay-to-Play IHRC - From its inception, and well before it made $10 billion of earthquake aid money disappear, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IH...
Ramona's Voices

A Deplorable Thought: Trump Could Win - I was standing in line at the grocery store yesterday looking at this National Enquirer cover, trying to convince myself I'm too old to be horrified by the...
Houston Strategies

New COU video, the land-use trilemma, national Cistern coverage, Houston's millennials, and more - Several items this week, but first, our Center For Opportunity Urbanism has released its first short promotional video! I tweeted with John Arnold about Ma...
ExChristian.Net

Adventures With the Cap - *By Carl S ~ * A bit of background: First of all, the experiences I report take place for the most part in my own state. My wife and I are retired, but we ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

The New Drone Order, Part V: Sci-Fi Rhetoric & Militainment - How the U.S. Air Force and Arms Corporations Portray Themselves Through Advertisements “Advertising is essentially an American achievement, successful to t...
Good Reason

Circular reasoning and prayer - [image: prayer-circular-reasoning]
Project Vote

Legislative Threats and Opportunities Update - While legislative activity has slowed over the summer, the legal battles over election laws are heating up. Project Vote Legislative Director Marissa Lie...
34justice

The Lazy Liberal Scapegoating of Millennials and Bernie Sanders - Millennials have good reason to oppose a Clinton presidency, and we've long known they might. Continue reading →
LawFlog

In re Hillary Clinton: The squirming begins - To no one’s surprise, the U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas is trying to make my bar grievance against Hillary Clinton go away. I don’t intend t...
BARC Houston

Congrats Alex Howe! - A HUGE congratulations to Alex Howe, long time BARC volunteer, for receiving a City of Houston proclamation from Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston and Cou...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Speaking of which … - These next several weeks I’ll be traveling to many parts of the country for speaking engagements about Dreamland: Dallas/Fort Worth, Huntington WV, India...
The Nil Admirari

Over 16 Million Kids Go Hungry as Media Focuses on Hated Sociopaths - *LAST UPDATED @ 10:36AM (9.11.2016)* *Corporate media says ratings clearly show American hatred of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton far more relevant to A...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform

I’m in the fracking crosshairs - The oil and gas mafia has me in their fracking crosshairs. Goodie! I feel like throwing my hat over the windmill. You see Internet people, the oil and ga...
Heteronormative Patriarchy for Men

Cynical skulduggery or lazy indifference? How the Director of Public Prosecutions continues to betray male victims - Autumn is drip dripping down my window pane and in true back-to-school spirit, I fully intend to drag myself out of my near-total blogging hiatus, with a ...
Enabon

Live Apple launches iPhone 7 and 7 Plus - im Cook is live on stage now – read on for live updates of the latest iPhone 7 and watch announcements as they happen. Apple iPhone 7: Full specs, key feat...
Democratic Blog News

DMN Endorses Democratic Presidential Nominee, For The First Time Since WWII - In an editorial published today, the DMN Editorial Board said: "We recommend Hillary Clinton for president -- There is only one serious candidate on the pr...
The Schulenburg Forty-Eighter

Robert Kennedys’ statement on the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot an...
Waterman Blog

Standing Rock - The continuing release of e-mails and FBI reports on the current Clinton scandal has the potential to either again unite, or further divide, those who part...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

The Right-Wing Media's Silence about Fox News Criminal Sexual Harassment Empire - Fox (Faux) News came along at a precipitous moment in American History. Ronnie Raygun's elimination of the fairness doctrine and the rise of toxic right-wi...
Truth In Media

Reality Check: If You’re Outraged Only by Colin Kaepernick, Isn’t That Part of the Problem? - It is an image that has enraged people across the nation. And tonight, for the second pre-season NFL game, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaeperni...
Daily Currant

Mexico Arrests Donald Trump For Hate Speech - Donald Trump's trip to Mexico has not gone exactly as planned. The Republican nominee was invited by Mexico's president for a meeting in Mexico City toda...
Texas Election Law Blog

State Law That Limited Interpreters at Polls Struck Down - As I’ve noted before, the Texas Election Code is a mess. Our state election laws are a cruel jumble, much of it born of mean-spirited political expediency,...
Texas Moratorium Network

Jeff Wood’s family trying to stop his execution - Today, Jeff Wood’s family and friends delivered about 10,500 petition signatures to the offices of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and separately to the offic...
Politics of Courage

Commendation to DE for Its Abolition of the Death Penalty - Delaware is the 20th state to prohibit execution. In Nebraska, application of the ban on capital punishment is postponed because an initiative to restore i...
Idiotprogrammer

REVIEW: Netflix Documentary “Making a Murder” - (A few months ago I wrote this response to the Netflix documentary, Making a Murderer and forgot to post it). Some random thoughts: Family members were the...
twissblog

Chris Christie denies he even wanted that job at the car wash - TRENTON–Gov. Chris Christie (R) today denied that he had even wanted the cashier’s job at Hassan’s 24-Hour Car Wash, just down the street from the statehou...
MOMocrats.com

The Election Becomes a Referendum on Gun Violence - In stark contrast to recent Presidential elections, the issue of gun violence has taken center stage in this year’s race. In May 2011, The Washington Pos...
Make West Texas Great Again

Houston Brain Trust Lawmakers: Let’s Tie School Funding to Dumpster Fire Testing Standards - Texas Tribune: The timing is particularly right given a recent state Supreme Court ruling that found the state’s school funding system to be byzantine but ...
Pressthink

Getting granular with NPR’s culture of timidity - NPR would not call it plagiarism when Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican convention took passages from Michelle Obama. But there was a revealing mome...
WAWG Blog

Updates on America’s GOP Authoritarianism – Trump Leading The Way, GOP Split, GOP Dictator - Here are links to three articles on American Authoritarianism and selected quotes from each: The Rise of American Authoritarianism Trump embodies the class...
Prairie Weather

Yes, he is a fascist. - Very interesting article by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker on what Donald Trump brings to our politics. Wouldn't surprise me if, as in so many moments durin...
Texas Watch

WATCH: Deputy Director Ware Wendell Testifies at TDI Arbitration Hearing - Since uncovering the insurance industry ploy to force consumers with disputes into the biased, secret process of arbitration, Texas Watch has fought har...
Moron Majority

Open Letter By Wharton Students Leads to Trump “Diploma-gate” - Trump loves to brag about how smart he is. His proof? He graduated from an Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania. He transferred there after tw...
Green Is The New Red

Violence against environmentalists is now at an all-time high - Three people are killed every week in disputes over mining, logging, agriculture development, and hydropower projects. And it's getting worse. Violence a...
Jim Hightower

On police violence and #BlackLivesMatter - When people hear me talk about populism, some folks think I’m talking about the racist, xenophobic, angry things that get branded as populism. True popul...
Carol Morgan

Rendezvous on the Tarmac: When Bill met Loretta - Would anyone have thought it odd if Pat Nixon met with Elliot Richardson on a runaway in Arizona in 1973 to talk about golf and grandchildren with the Wa...
Good Gawd Another Blog

Alabama Democratic Primary Proves New York Times’ Nate Cohn Wrong about Exit Polling - When I wrote the piece about exit polling in my series on Election Fraud Allegations, I specifically addressed the arguments Nate Cohn expanded yesterday i...
LBO News from Doug Henwood

Fresh audio product - Just added to my radio archive: June 16, 2016 Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, on Brexit • Virginia Heffernan, a...
Ten Miles Square

A Movie That Will Help You Understand the Meltdown of Theranos - In a dispatch that will live in the annals of estimation errors, Forbes has concluded that rather than being worth $4.5 billion, Theranos founder Elizabeth...
Quintessential Curmudgeon

Love one another as Christ loved us - On Saturday, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Amarillo celebrated the marriage of two women, long-time domestic partners. The ceremony was the traditional ...
Pivot America

America Was Never and Will Never Be Great Until We End Inequality - If you’re a Donald Trump supporter you want to “Make America Great Again”… presumably that means taking us back to segregated schools and where whites an...
Anthony Bourdain

BROWN DOG - You may be the most cynical, born and bred, citified lefty like me — instinctively skeptical of big concepts like “patriotism”, relatively foreign to hun...
Opposition News

Jill Stein all but assured 2016 Green Nomination - April 30, 2016. Lexington, MA (ONN). Dr. Jill Stein, the 2012 Green Party nominee for President, has all but won the Party’s 2016 Presidential nomination. ...
Bayou City History

The ‘Star Trek’ Milestone That Will Happen On This Day - On ‘This Forgotten Day in Movies,’ Star Trek: The Motion Picture confirmed that James T. Kirk was born in Iowa on March 22, 2233. Yes–on this forgotten day...
Tar Sands Blockade

Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims - By Julie Dermansky • Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Reposted from DeSmogBlog.com *** TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the...
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...
Fascist Dyke Motors

Culling - Grandma buys me socks for Christmas. Just a package of socks, nothing fancy. Not dress socks, not those rainbow toe socks I love so much. She gets me plai...
State Impact Texas

Watch Out Almonds! Pecans Aim to Displace America’s Nut - This is a story of two nuts: the almond and the pecan. In the 1960s the pecan industry loomed large over the almond. But, then, something changed. Since th...
Texas on the Potomac

Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture - Here's the executive summary for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on torture and "enhanced interrogation" techniques by the CIA.

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, July 21, 2013

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