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Hullabaloo

Charlie Pierce is very, very shrill - *Charlie Pierce is very, very shrill* by digby I'm sure he's the one who should be shunned: Right on cue, Fred Hiatt’s Washington Post editorial page,...
Eschaton

WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOUUUUUUUUUU - It's a weird thing Dems say. I don't know why they have to fight? They need to win elections and then pass good laws.
The Week

The opioid crisis has unexpected consequences for children - The opioid crisis has been steadily growing more dire for years, and new evidence has surfaced suggesting there are unexpected consequences even to treat...
Talking Points Memo

GOP Chair Of Panel Probing Greitens: We Found Evidence Of Multiple ‘Crimes’ - Disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens may no longer be in office, but he’s not out of hot water. The...
Sputnik News

Over 45% of EU's Leading Businesses Cut Investment in UK Ahead of Brexit - Poll - LONDON (Sputnik) - More than 45 percent of leading European businesses have curtailed their investment in the United Kingdom ahead of the pending Brexit, a...
memeorandum

Manafort appeals judge's decision to jail him (Josh Gerstein/Politico) - Josh Gerstein / Politico: *Manafort appeals judge's decision to jail him* — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is appealing a judge's decisio...
OpEd News

Designing the mind - Sam and Sally designing the minds of people to sculpt their THOUGHTS into simple shapes, making their thoughts mimic the symmetry and the geometry and the ...
Raw Story

‘Too bad!’ CNN’s Toobin obliterates Trump supporters who want media to say more nice things about him - CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Monday smacked down any notion that liberals were only helping President Donald Trump by saying mean things about him...
The Verge

T-Mobile introduces new FamilyMode app and base station for monitoring kid’s internet use - T-Mobile is launching a new subscription plan today as an add-on for subscribers to its T-Mobile One and Simple Choice cell plans called FamilyMode. It’...
Mediaite

Fox News Contributor Pushes Back on Double Standards For ‘Civility’: ‘Trump Won by Being Like This’ - "Democrats get told to be civil all the time, and Trump won by being like this."
Independent Political Report

PA Greens support Ranked Choice Voting - *The Green Party of Pennsylvania* is celebrating Maine’s landmark win for representative democracy on June 12th when the citizens approved a measure that...
Daily Dot

The internet is destroying the Detroit: Become Human director for his problematic writing - [image: David Cage] Everyone is done with David Cage's social commentary. The post The internet is destroying the Detroit: Become Human director for his p...
Somervell County Salon

Some parents may never see their children again due to Trump's atrocious policy - Trump's decision to separate children from parents is terrible policy. And it continues. Still unclear to me, for the children that have already been shi...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: The obvious point we missed! - *MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2018Why that column appeared:* Earlier today, we puzzled about the puzzling op-ed column in today's New York Times. Why would a newspap...
VICE

Letter to the Editor: Port-a-Potties Are Good, Actually - Apparently not everyone is revolted by the poop prisons.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Man helps woman get home after her electric wheelchair runs out of power - When 67-year-old Belina Whitaker’s motorized wheelchair ran out of power on the side of the road in Georgia, Bilal Quintyne offered a helping hand.
Crooks and Liars

Calling Stephen Miller A White Nationalist Is Not Impolite, It's A Fact - Following a segment where Bolduan condemned a restaurant owner who asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders to leave, the CNN spoke to Leopold abo...
Houston Matters

What Will Harris County’s Flood Bond Projects Entail – And What Else Is Needed? - On Aug. 25, Harris County voters will be asked to approve up to $2.5 billion in flood mitigation projects. Houston Matters learns what that means and gets ...
Eater Houston

Check Out the Cocktail Offerings for Finn Hall’s Two Bars - The Swallow’s Nest and St. Jac’s will serve Houston-themed cocktails alongside craft beer and wine Last week, Eater announced that two new bar concepts,...
Shadowproof

Help Shadowproof Cover Final Phase Of NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner’s Prosecution - NSA whistleblower Reality Winner is expected to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act on June 26 and Kevin Gosztola is headed to Georgia to cover i...
AlterNet.org

In Appalling Call for 'Civility,' Washington Post Compares Huckabee Sanders Restaurant Incident to Far-Right Terrorism - Did the editors of the Washington Post truly wish to compare not being served beyond a complementary cheese plate to fifty years of domestic terrorism? O...
Pajiba

Be Best: An Open Letter to Melania Trump - Dear FLOTUS, I've written and re-written this letter. I'm openly liberal. I'm a Black woman and I'm queer. Fighting in my best interest makes sense. But th...
The Intercept

Interpol Rolls Out International Voice Identification Database Using Samples from 192 Law Enforcement Agencies - The Speaker Identification Integrated Project marks a major development in the international expansion of voice biometrics for law enforcement use. The p...
No More Mister Nice Blog

IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR OUR SIDE TO WIN A CIVILITY WAR - So we're having a civility war. Here's the story from Politico: Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants. A third was denied s...
Ballot Access News

Terry Hayes, Independent Candidate for Maine Governor, Prevails on Ability to Hand Out Campaign Literature at the Polls on Primary Day - Terry Hayes is a strong independent candidate for Governor of Maine. She filed a lawsuit on May 26 in state court, seeking a ruling that her supporters are...
Ring of Fire

Trump Hired Illegal Immigrants For $4 An Hour For Demolition Project - According to court documents, Donald Trump actually loves undocumented immigrants and used them quite frequently before he ever stepped into politics. In...
Courthouse News

High Court to Take Up Class Certification in Sex Pill Fight - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the Ninth Circuit correctly ordered certification of a class in a consumer challenge of Nutrace...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/25/2018 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I got a later start than I had hoped, because I had to put on my yellow waders and look at Nigel Farage. ...
Salon.com

The West Coast soda wars threaten to engulf the nation - Big soft drink companies turn to ballot measures to lock out local soda taxes in California, Oregon, and Washington
Think Progress

Trump issues thinly-veiled threat against congresswoman Maxine Waters - On Monday afternoon, President Trump issued a thinly-veiled threat against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). “Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low ...
Texas Standard

Supreme Court Rules Texas Legislature Didn’t Draw Discriminatory Maps - Before this, a district court had found that sticking with the redrawn maps perpetuated the discriminatory intent baked into the underlying 2011 plan.
Election Law Blog

“A Counterattack on Voting Rights” - David Leonardt for NYT Opinion. … Continue reading →
SCOTUSblog

Opinion analysis: Texas scores near-complete victory on redistricting - [image: Opinion analysis: Texas scores near-complete victory on redistricting]This morning the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas in a dispute allegin...
Right Wing Watch

Rick Wiles: Leftists ‘Will Carry Out Targeted Killings Of Republicans’ In Preparation For Civil War - End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles used his “TruNews” program on Friday to warn his viewers that liberals may begin to assassinate Republican candidates befo...
Political Dig

Maxine Waters Urged Companies To Follow Red Hen’s Example And Resist WH Officials, Trump Responded With Ominous Threat - After Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called on companies across the United States to stand up to Donald Trump and his cabinet members, just like the Red Hen d...
slacktivist

Postcards from the class & culture wars (6.25.18) - "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of m...
Rewire

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case Against North Carolina GOP’s Gerrymandering - North Carolina Republicans had their racially discriminatory electoral map struck down, so they gerrymandered the map along partisan lines. The Roberts C...
Rivard Report

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Texas Lawmakers Did Not Intentionally Discriminate in Drawing Political Maps - The court also upheld 10 of 11 districts that had been flagged as problematic. The post U.S. Supreme Court Rules Texas Lawmakers Did Not Intentionally ...
Anti-Media

Detained Children Forced to Recite Pledge of Allegiance ‘Out of Respect’ - [image: Detained Children](CD) — While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Tr...
National Post

Thousands of Swedes are inserting microchips into themselves – here’s why - They've been inserting NFC chips somewhere between the thumb and the index finger. These are the same microchips that have been used to track animals and p...
Axios

Go deeper: Kanye at the center of Trump's culture wars - Kanye West's decision to tweet his support for President Trump in April was equal parts freeing and anxiety-inducing for the rap star, according to a wor...
In These Times

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why She Wants to Abolish ICE and Upend the Democratic Party - In many ways, the race to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District, encompassing parts of Queens and the Bronx, is a microcosm for the fight bein...
Latino Rebels

Letter from Refugee Parents with Separated Families in Response to the New Executive Order from the U.S. President - This new order is a strategy of the president to silence and intimidate immigrants who know and demand their rights.
Buzzflash

Eat the Rich: This Is Just the Beginning - Eat the Rich: This Is Just the Beginning 4.3/*5* rating (3 votes)
Daily Kos

Teenager walks away from former Walmart turned migrant child center - A 15-year-old boy has walked away from a migrant child center in Texas. The boy arrived unaccompanied at the border and was sent to the former Walmart no...
Vox

Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility” - [image: Sarah Huckabee Sanders.] A little impoliteness could be what America really needs. After White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that ...
Political Garbage Chute

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Invited To Dine At Reserved Trough In Virginia Restaurant - BOVINE VALLEY, VIRGINIA — Friday night, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked by the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia to... The pos...
MintPress News

It’s the Beginning of the End of the Bilderberg Era - Like him or hate him, President Trump has played a major part, if only by saying the unsayable. The post It’s the Beginning of the End of the Bilderberg ...
Dallas Observer

Majority of Texas Legislative Districts Are Just Fine, Supreme Court Rules - Just like that, Texas years-long fight over its congressional and state legislative districts is over, thanks to a Monday morning decision from the U.S. Su...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Science Wants Your Data - Eric Dishman wants your data. As the director of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, he’s trying to convince 1 million American...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Roseanne calls herself a ‘hate magnet’, but her thinking is depressingly mainstream | Suzanne Moore - The comedian’s views were always troubling: what’s changed is that ‘un-PC iconoclasts’ are now ten a penny Can “hate-magnets” be rehabilitated? This is h...
Splinter

Former Obama Staffer Compares Sarah Huckabee Sanders Incident to Civil Rights Movement - Former Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan this weekend posted what is by far the worst entry yet in the Civility Take Olympics, which sprung up in the...
Above the Law

4 Signs You Should Postpone Taking The Bar Exam - If you’ve accumulated a backlog of work, now is the time to determine whether you can catch up or if it is too late.
Swamplot

Le Meridien Hotel’s Next-Door Garage Neighbor Now Nearly Moved-In Along Walker St. - Construction is almost a wrap on the 13-story parking garage bounded by Fannin, Rusk, and Walker streets — and neighbored by the Le Meridien hotel shown ab...
Mother Jones

Dana Rohrabacher Finally Has an Official Democratic Challenger - Democratic congressional candidate Harley Rouda will challenge incumbent Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher this November in an attempt to flip Califo...
SocraticGadfly

Here's a blockbuster trade idea:LeBron for Kawhi, straight up + tidbits as needed - The San Antonio Spurs are not one of the teams favored to land LeBron James, should the King opt out of his current contract with the Cavs, according to V...
The Root

Prep For Your Summer Getaways With This eBags Suitcase Sale - Have any summer vacations on the horizon? Throw out the ratty old suitcase you bought in college and upgrade to a new spinner from eBags during this limi...
Washington's Blog

Dear High School Graduates: You deserve a realistic account of the economy - Dear high school graduates: please glance at these charts before buying into the conventional life-course being promoted by the status quo. Here’s the summ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'There is nothing wrong with Drag Queen Story Hour so get over your conservative selves' & other Mon midday news briefs - *Josh Bernstein: Drag Queen Story Hour Is ‘Borderline Pedophilia’* - *Yes, let's get this mess way out in the open because it has been simmering for a lo...
CultureMap Houston

Buzzworthy Houston burger bus rolls into the 'burbs with new location - Houston's burger boom is spreading to the suburbs. Bernie's Burger Bus will open its fourth location in Missouri City, owner Justin Turner tells CultureMa...
First Draft

Space Trumpy - Grand Nagus Trumpy meets Gul Dukat.
Down With Tyranny!

How Cynical Is the Democratic Party's Support for Identity Politics? (Plus a Note on the Ocasio-Crowley Contest) - *Albright: "Younger women, Hillary Clinton will always be there for you" ... plus that other thing she said.* *by Gaius Publius* How cynical is the Demo...
ProPublica

Behind the Headline: Demetrius Smith - by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Demetrius Smith was wrongly accused of shooting someone — not once, but twice. In 2008, a jury found Smith guilty of murder and s...
Slate

Neil Gorsuch Declares War on the Voting Rights Act - On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a bitterly divided 5–4 decision upholding all but one of Texas’ gerrymandered districts, ruling they were not drawn w...
Washington Monthly

The Real Crisis Is Not Happening on Our Southern Border - What it means to be white in America is taking center stage.
Dorf on Law

At SCOTUS, It's All About Taint - *by Michael C. Dorf* The Supreme Court decided two merits cases today and took one extremely puzzling action via a summary order. I'll have a tiny bit to s...
Peacock Panache

Arlene’s Flowers LGBTQ Service Denial Case Sent Back to Lower Court - [image: Arlene’s Flowers LGBTQ Service Denial Case Sent Back to Lower Court] In a brief note vacating the previous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court referred ...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Let Me See If I Have This Straight - Here ya go — 1. You’re driving a 25 year old rusted out truck and your biggest problem is the NFL? 2. Uh, so maybe your anger about taking a knee isn’t...
Reverb Press

Medicare Revoked from Non-Profit Hospital that Provides Heart Transplants - This sick administration keeps creating new moral lows. The post Medicare Revoked from Non-Profit Hospital that Provides Heart Transplants appeared first...
Seeing the Forest

90s-Type Dems Afraid Rush Limbaugh Will Say Something Bad About Them - From 2007: Senate Dems Afraid Rush Limbaugh Will Say Something Bad About Them. That was when Dems voted to condemn MoveOn. Remember when Dems were stampede...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

My, What Teeth You Have! - In the apartment directly upstairs from me, there lives a lovely family. Mom is an immigrant from Ireland, and she has two wonderful children, a boy and a ...
Mahablog

Dear Right-Wing Snowflakes: Bite Me - Nondiscrimination in public accommodations, housing and jobs is an important principle to liberals. It’s not an important principle to the Right, which has...
Progrexas

U.S. Supreme Court rules Texas lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate in drawing political maps - Extinguishing the possibility that Texas could be placed back under federal electoral supervision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday pushed aside claims t...
Popular Resistance

Outraged By Kids In Cages? Look At Our Entire Juvenile Justice System. - Last week, the nation witnessed an abrupt reversal from the White House. After claiming for days that he did not have the authority to address the family s...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Enforcing Nondiscrimination Laws Is Not a Sign of Anti-Religious Bias - A remand in Arlene’s Flowers will clarify what the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means. On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up anoth...
Pharyngula

Radiolab lets me down - I’m at the gym this morning, and I put on a podcast, as one does, and chose to start Radiolab’s series on reproduction and human development. Just my sort ...
Dissident Voice

The Death of Radicality - For the majority of young Americans, progressivism has taken on a uniquely bourgeois focus that detracts from any radical thought. Historical movements for...
Pensito Review

How to Defeat Authoritarianism -
Newsbud

Why Neocons Hate Russia - On December 26 1991 the Soviet Union imploded and deprived the US its most formidable adversary. Nearly 20 years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a gro...
Angry Bear

News on Purdue Pharma… - (Dan here…From Esquire comes this note from the Boston Globe): We begin with good news up here in the Commonwealth (God save it!), where Attorney General M...
Bracing Views

Trump and Noxious Notions of Masculinity - W.J. Astore A friend recently sent me a passage from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) that resonated with me. It comes when the main character journeys...
Grist

A ferry that runs on hydrogen fuel cells is coming to San Francisco - California announced Monday that it is joining the push for zero-emissions passenger ships.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (Political Issues) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out w...
Houstonia

Your Summer Adventures Might Be Harming Nature More Than You Think - How are campers impacting the environment?
Duck of Minerva

The Trump-Kim Nuclear Summit By: Dr. Seuss - The following is a guest post by Mason Richey, an associate professor of international studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. I am Trump; I am ...
Democracy Now!

"The King" Director Eugene Jarecki: Elvis Presley's Rise and Fall Is a Metaphor for America Today - To understand America in the age of Trump, prize-winning documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki says to look no further than the checkered history of Elvis P...
First Reading

`That’s how the light gets in.’ Kirk Watson brings Leonard Cohen to the Texas Democratic Convention - Good Monday Austin: It is not unusual for a politician to take the stage at a Texas political convention to some kind of popular anthem, like…
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

THE DARK SIDE - Trump has more than 25 tweets the past few days hammering the same theme over and over: the Democrats are weak on immigration -- they want "open borders," ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for June 18 - 22 - May data was focused on housing. Housing starts rose to a new expansion high, but the less volatile and more leading permits made an 8 month low, as did si...
The Progressive Wing

6/25 News Roundup – Ocasio-Cortez Discusses The Campaign For NY14, Rep. Hammoud Endorses El-Sayed & More - More news/video/tweets/etc. in the comments. … Continue reading →
Space City Weather

A few showers possible today, mostly just hot this week in Houston - Summer roared back to Houston this weekend, with highs in the mid-90s across much of the region with mostly sunny skies. We’ll have more of the same this w...
Simple Justice

Prickett: The Price Of Leon Valley’s First Amendment Retaliation - Ed. Note: Greg Prickett is former police officer and supervisor who went to law school, hung out a shingle, and now practices criminal defense and family l...
Houston Press

Predicting the Order of Tonight's Top 10 Players In the NFL's Top 100? - In the football world, we are all thankful for the NFL Network's Top 100 Players poll each summer. The players are thankful for it because it gives them a ...
Texas Observer

The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History - While all eyes are on Beto O’Rourke’s bid to unseat Senator Ted Cruz, the race to take over O’Rourke’s El Paso congressional seat has gotten much less at...
Duffel Blog

Space Force doctors daunted to learn rocket surgery - [image: spaceforcedr] WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new Space Force service branch, military doctors are preparing themselv...
The Conversation

For many immigrant families, the fight for reunification is just beginning - History shows that the US court system isn't sympathetic to illegal migrants when it comes to parental rights.
Off the Kuff

CBS/YouGov: Cruz 44, O’Rourke 36 (RVs) - […]
Counterpunch

A Reporter’s Reporter: a Conversation With Seymour Hersh - Seymour Hersh states that the “deadliest words” in US media today are, “I think.” With media cycles constantly fluctuating and changing format and delivery...
NPR's Health Shots

Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise - If you are bitten by a Lone Star tick, you could develop an unusual allergy to red meat. And as this tick's territory spreads beyond the Southeast, the all...
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday rain - spain's third largest city votes to boycott israel a record number of kids died this flu season in silicon valley, google cats are killing the owls fire b...
The Disorder Of Things

On Situatedness, Knowledges and Absences: A Response to the Symposium on Decolonising Intervention - The final post in our symposium on Decolonising Intervention. A massive thanks to Lee for organising and editing; errors in this final part are mine. If t...
The NM Political Report

State law encourages secret payouts - [image: State law encourages secret payouts] Before Cynthia Herald left the Bernalillo County courthouse last November she told reporters that she was reli...
Portside

The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology - The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology Ira Mon, 06/25/2018 - 01:27
jobsanger

The Modern Conservative -
Socialist Worker

The American way of tearing families apart - Don Lash Don Lash, author of *When the Welfare People Came: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System*, looks at the many U.S. policies — past and ...
World Socialist Web Site

Concentration camps in America - The social force that can and must halt the drive toward dictatorship is the working class, the central target of the assault on democratic rights.
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: After passionate convention, Democrats look to sway average Texas voters - Morning News: After passionate convention, Democrats look to sway average Texas voters
Consortium News

At War With Ourselves: The Domestic Consequences of Foreign Policies - There is a direct connection between gun violence and suicide rates in the United States and America’s aggressive foreign policy, argues Will Porter. How A...
Campaign for America's Future

Supreme Court’s Janus Ruling Will Hurt Children - If the Supreme Court rules against workers in Janus vs. AFSCME, it will hurt children at a time when it’s become shamefully commonplace for our government ...
Informed Comment

Iraq bombs meeting of Daesh leaders in Syria; kills high-value targets - Iraq has launched an air attack on a gathering of Daesh leaders inside neighbouring Syria, killing 45 members of the hardline militant group, its military ...
Antiwar.com

Washington, D.C. – The Epicenter of Crazy - A study shows that the greatest concentration of psychopaths is in Washington, DC. This is a contest in which it isn’t even close, as Politico informs us...
San Antonio Current

Vigil for Humanity Draws Hundreds Opposed to Family Separations - Over 200 people gathered Sunday at Main Plaza downtown to reflect on families who were separated while seeking asylum as a part of the zero-tolerance pol...
The Contributor

Robert Reich: The Trump Takeover of the Courts - News Image: Trump’s most lasting legacy might be his impact on the federal court system. It must be stopped. origin Blog: Robert Reich origin Author: Ro...
Liberation News

MOVE 9’s Debbie Africa freed from prison! Keep up the fight for all political prisoners - [image: Debbie Africa] This decision is a major victory for the movement to free political prisoners, as Debbie Africa is the very first member of the MOVE...
Field Negro

Sarah gets the boot. - [image: Image result for sarah sanders images] I guess everyone has heard by now what happened to *Sarah Sanders *in Virginia recently. Girlfriend went t...
Ramona's Voices

Trouble at the Red Hen - I've been thinking a lot about the Red Hen controversy--about whether Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the restaurant, should have told Sarah Huckabee San...
Wolf Street

Risks Pile Up Quietly in the US Corporate Bond Market - The fear of becoming a “fallen angel.”
Talking Union

Union Members and Janus - Advertisements
Lewisville Texan Journal

Murder suspect in custody - Lewisville police have confirmed that the man they think shot and killed Will Booker on June 12 is in custody. LPD Captain Mike Lane said Dallas County ass...
News Corpse

Trump Will Be Met By Massive Protests – And a Giant Inflatable Baby Trump – When He Visits Britain - Last year Donald Trump was expected to make a diplomatic mission to Britain. It was called off after he advised Prime Minister Theresa May that he wouldn’t...
ExChristian.Net

Small God Answers Small Prayers - *By Carl S ~ * Bottom line: God is in the business of bestowing good feelings and material prosperity. He's answering small prayers. Take the recent U.S. K...
The Greanville Post

Can the Green Party Be Saved From Liberal Tokenism and Black Opportunism? We’ll See. - BRUCE DIXON—In my May 30 column, Why Our Green Parties Haven’t Taken Off, I noted that the GP does get a few important things absolutely correct, and brief...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Syria chemical attacks: Smoke and mirrors, truth and lies - A big thanks to Al Jazeera’s Listening Post for allowing Max Blumenthal and I a platform to challenge the mainstream narrative about the war in Syria. Chec...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: Timeless Cancelled; 12 Monkeys; Supergirl Season Finale; More Star Trek Shows Planned; Westworld Finale Tonight; Humans; The Handmaid’s Tale; Luke Cage; Cloak and Dagger; Man In The High Castle Renewed - As often happens with bad news, NBC released the official announcement on Friday that they are not going to renew Timeless. There is talk about a two hour ...
Louis Proyect

El Salvador, MS-13, and the war on immigrants - MS-13 members Bashing the MS-13 is the calling card of the Trump administration in its nativist bid to defeat the Democrats in the midterm elections. Here’...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, "We Will Always Be Confronted by U.S. Power" - On April 19th, university students in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, exploded onto the streets...
Dandelion Salad

Abby Martin: Capitalism Cannot Be Reformed–Seize All the Banks–Dismantle the Empire! - Dandelion Salad Previously published Oct. 16, 2016 with Abby Martin teleSUR English on Oct 16, 2016 With just weeks until the U.S. presidential election—an...
xpostfactoid

Actuarial Value in the ACA Marketplace: Down a bit - In 2018, CMS has for the first time ever published data making it possible to calculated the average weighted actuarial value of health plans sold in the 3...
Grits for Breakfast

TX Dem platform prioritizes #cjreform - Having detailed *#cjreform planks added to the Texas state GOP platform*, let's now turn to the *Democratic platform* approved this week in Fort Worth. Cr...
Debunking Christianity

The Unholy Alliance of Gods and Countries - America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sounds like a song. Oh, wait a minute, it is a song. And, patriots everywhere in this exceptional ...
DeSmogBlog

Energy Efficiency and Technology Squeeze the Carbon Bubble - Read time: 4 mins [image: Homeowner installing programmable thermostat to help weatherize home] The carbon bubble will burst with or without government act...
Brad Blog

Sunday Toons of the 'Do We Care?' 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.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Florence at the People’s Vote march - [image: Florence at the People's March]
Grit Post

White Woman Who Called Cops on Black Girl for Selling Water Now Losing Her Own Clients - The white woman who became instantly famous on social media this weekend as “permit patty” for calling the police on an eight-year-old black girl selling...
Project Censored

Medea Benjamin - On this week’s program we hear a recent speech by author and peace organizer Medea Benjamin. She discusses her newly-published book “Inside Iran,” and ex...
The Reality-Based Community

The Red Hen, the baker, and refusing service - Sara Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia. I think this is a positive good, and I don’t think Masterpiece bakers had the right to r...
The Ghion Journal

Nosotros También: Seek Justice and Disavow “Just Us” - Watching the news these past couple of weeks has been down right depressing. As if it’s not bad enough witnessing babies being torn from their parents an...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Free Cuban prisoners of conscience Dr. Eduardo Cardet Concepción and Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola. - *120 identified political prisoners: spotlight on two prisoners of conscience* The Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation reported ...
Disobedient Media

Attorneys: The DNC’s Lawsuit Against Russia Undermines Their Own Defense In The DNC Fraud Lawsuit - Disobedient Media has consistently reported on the DNC Fraud Lawsuit and the disturbing, sometimes bizarre events surrounding the case. Though […]
emptywheel

Roger Stone and ConFraudUs - If the evidence that Roger Stone might be indicted on a ConFraudUs charge is any indication, Mueller's probe may be coming to a head.
Socialist Alternative

End Trump’s Criminalization of Immigrants – Stop the Detention of Refugees and End the Deportations - After an outpouring of outrage Trump has been forced to back off one element of his “zero tolerance” policy which criminalizes anyone seeking to cross the ...
Downwinders at Risk

Historic: Texas’ First Citizens’ Smog Monitor Begins Operation in Wise County - After a few technological hiccups, the state’s first permanent smog monitor built and operated by a citizens’ group is up and running in rural Southeast Wi...
Frontloading HQ

Nebraska Democratic Party Platform Committee Passes Caucus-to-Primary Resolution - From the *Omaha World-Herald*: *Nebraska Democrats are weighing whether to scrap their decade-old practice of holding presidential caucuses. * *The Nebra...
Stinque

The Full Scorsese - Summer is here, and we’re now some four months out from our last, best hope of salvaging what remains of our country. Okay, more like six months. If Dems t...
WAWG Blog

News Media “Bad Barrels” And the Parable of the Frog in Boiling Water - Professor Phillip Zimbardo, who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment in his younger days and has since written about what he’s learned, The Lucifer Eff...
Popehat

Randazza: Vermin Supreme's Pony Horde Rides on Kansas (Popehat Signal Activated) - By Marc J. Randazza My client, Vermin Love Supreme (yes, that is his real name), recently filed to run for Attorney General of Kansas. Supreme is performan...
Rallblog

SYNDICATED COLUMN: Who Will Do Something About the Looming Retirement Crisis? - In Douglas Coupland’s 1991 age-warfare classic novel “Generation X” a young man trashes a car because it bears a bumpersticker with the obnoxious slogan “I...
Lowering the Bar

You Know Trial Went Poorly If the Judge Orders You Back to Law School - Turns out the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are not optional. Related Stories - Kansas Bill Would Require Governor to Be an Adult Human ...
News Taco

Border congressman among highest funded by group running immigrant detention centers - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, has received $32,400 in political contributions from a company that operates immigrant detention centers — the second ...
Freethought Now

Winning, challenging, debunking and warning: a typical week - Winning and challenging in the courts, debunking biblical and pseudo-constitutional arguments, and warning towns, states and universities to toe the consti...
Krebs on Security

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data - The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision...
Trivial Knot

Emotions on the internet - Cultural differences Recently, I’ve talked about the book How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett, and I explained the basics of the theory of const...
Texas Monthly

Behind the Lines: Christian Wallace on Our July 2018 Cover Story - Wallace wrote about the life and times of Myrtis Dightman, a rodeo star who should've been champ. The post Behind the Lines: Christian Wallace on Our Jul...
Free Press Houston

Austin’s Brother Sports Shows Some Clutch City Love on New Single - Brother Sports will be making a stop at Satellite Bar on Aug. 16.
Progressive Army

Interview: Alex Jones’s Ex-Wife on Him, Their Children, and Bernie - Earlier this month, Alex Jones harassed Bernie Sanders at LAX Airport. He repeated a litany of conspiracy theories about the Senator and at one point cal...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Michigan official says migrant kids sent across country without sure way to find parents - Babies, toddlers arrived by plane with bare-bones information
Avedon's Sideshow

He'd make a plan and follow through - "Telecom-Backed Democrat in California Just "Mutilated" Nation's Strongest State Net Neutrality Bill: 'These California Democrats will go down in history...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Sean Salisbury joining SportsTalk 790 KBME - iHeartMedia Houston announced today its new weekday lineup for SportsTalk 790, Houston’s Home for Your Home Teams, effective July 9 Lots of stuff happening...
OffCite

Touring the Gamble House: A Postcard from Pasadena, California by Minal Saldivar - Front Door. The Gamble House. Photo copyright: Alex Vertikoff.Minal Saldivar moved from Houston to Pasadena, California in 2016. She won the National Schol...
BEYONDbones

Forgotten Dinosaur Movies From The 90’s That Need A Reboot - The 90’s were the decade of dinosaurs. Sure, the prehistoric creatures had already been capturing the imagination of the public for more than a century by ...
Church and State

It’s a control thing: Religion and human reproduction - Christianity is, like many other religions, a reproduction control system. Its various sects take great pains to enforce a sexual code of conduct.
Our Finite World

Eight insights based on December 2017 energy data - BP recently published energy data through December 31, 2017, in its Statistical Review of World Energy 2018. The following are a few points we observe, loo...
Equality Texas

TransFORWARD Launches Transgender Health e-Learning Module - Competent Care for Transgender Texans When I came out as a transgender man in Houston almost ten years ago, I could find only three doctors who would provi...
Echidne of the Snakes

Meanwhile, Behind the Curtain - The Melania Trump jacket controversy is probably an intended distraction so that the media will incessantly natter about something which ultimately has no...
Ian Welsh

The Class War the Rich Won And the End Of NeoLiberal Capitalism - Many years ago now, I wrote a post called “There Was a Class War And %he Rich Won.” Ironically, post the financial meltdown of 07/8, and thanks to Bush, Ob...
Morning Consult

Trump Approval Virtually Unchanged Amid Child Separation Policy - The post Trump Approval Virtually Unchanged Amid Child Separation Policy appeared first on Morning Consult.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

“Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon)” with Arlo Guthrie and Hoyt Axton - Deportations plague much of recent U.S. history. It never works out well for the U.S., on the whole, especially mass deportations. Hoyt Axton and Arlo Guth...
Robert Reich

The Trump Takeover of the CourtsTrump’s most lasting... - *The Trump Takeover of the Courts* Trump’s most lasting legacy might be his impact on the federal court system. It must be stopped. Quite apart from the...
Earthjustice

Company Ignores Judge, Rushes to Build Pipeline Through Bayou - Company Ignores Judge, Rushes to Build Pipeline Through Bayou The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline is digging on a new project in Louisiana, even ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Pension Reform in Russia in 2018 and Putin in 2005. What changed? - While Putin’s said in 2005 that the retirement age would not be raised as long as he was president, the Russian government has decided to raise the retirem...
Rude Pundit

Regarding Civility in Uncivil Times - Last night, the *New York Times* posted an article titled "In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top." In it, the writ...
LawFlog

Maryland high court whitewashes criminal misconduct of Hillary Clinton lawyers - Yeah, I know. I shouldn’t be surprised. Following the lead of the D.C. Court of Appeals, Maryland’s highest court whitewashed the criminal misconduct of th...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

EPA Proposed Rollbacks to Chemical Disaster Rule will Harm Communities - Last week, I, Stephanie Thomas, Houston Organizer for Public Citizen, joined members of community and environmental groups testifying in opposition to Po...
Common Dreams

Not Only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it Is Illegal in US and Int’l Law - Juan Cole "From Oct. 15 to present, 2017-2018, only 15,383 refugees were legally admitted to the US."(Photo: Masha George / Washington, DC) [image: "From Oc...
Dos Centavos

Kids and Families Are Still Locked Up, Stop Celebrating - Nothing is more annoying than seeing liberal and/or Democratic activists and politicians portraying Trump’s madman of a signature on a document that reall...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Political Power of Global Corporations - We have long been told that corporations “rule the world”, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet while states, ...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 225 - Trump’s Fun-time Camp For Kids - I hope you enjoy movie and music reviews because that’s half the show. We discuss sex cults, Space Force, and then finish with a little immigration bant...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Never Say Die Senate Candidates: Don Blankenship Lost His Primary but Plans to Run in November Anyway - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Although he lost in West Virginia’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Don Blankenship (R) is actively seeking to run in th...
Political Orphans

America is a Nation of Immigrant Panics - This is the unspoken American Dream, embraced by centuries of immigrants to this country: If I work hard and experience success, one day my grandchildren c...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Plastics, Pipelines, Fracking & Our Planet June 20, 2018 (5CT/ 6MT/ 7CT/ 8ET) - Fracking doesn’t just fuel power plants, it also provides raw materials to the petrochemical industry. Producing plastics and other petrochemical products ...
Texas Freedom Network

The Party Platform Confirms It: Culture Warriors Still Control the Texas GOP - In case you didn’t know, the religious right still has the Texas Republican Party firmly in its grip. Just check out the platform adopted at the party co...
Independent Thinker 2016

“But Obama Did It First” – The Truth About Trump’s Immigration Policy vs Obama’s Immigration Policy - Clearing up a common misconception about The Deporter in Chief.
Washington Babylon

Kamala Harris’s Appalling Hypocrisy on ICE - One of my very least favorite politicians at the moment is Kamala Harris. I dislike her for a wide variety of reasons: she’s been incredibly damaging to th...
Ecosophia

An Astrological Interlude: Cancer Ingress 2018 - Three months ago, we marked the beginning of the astrological year by discussing the Aries ingress chart for the United States. Those of you who weren’t ...
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of June 18th - The Texas Progressive Alliance strongly condemns the inhumane practice of separating families from their children as it brings you its weekly roundup. Off ...
PERRspectives

Could Trump Face Magnitsky Sanctions? - Already branded by a survey of historians as America's worst ever, the presidency of Donald Trump may also live in infamy as the most ironic. After all, th...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Are Costly Flood Basins Proposed Where Natural Basins Already Exist on Buffalo Bayou? - Swales Holding Overflow May Be Natural Remnants of Bayou’s Original Meanders Tree Stumps, Mustang Grapes, and Mental Health June 19, 2018 Went for a stroll...
Better Texas Blog

Take Action: Harsh “Public Charge” Policy Threatens Texas Families - Image via Kaiser Family Foundation Nearly 2 Million Texans Could Lose Health Care, Food, and More under this Harsh Federal Proposal Texas parents should ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Oligarchy is inciting suicide increase then creating propaganda to distract from truth! - I don't want to be cynical every time the media goes into obsession mode after a famous celebrity dies, while ignoring the lives of the vast majority of...
Moron Majority

U.S. Offers Free Summer Camp To Migrant Children - Leave it to Fox News host Laura Ingraham to set the record straight. While some have called the federal detention centers, set up for brown children seekin...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Jacob Rosenberg - Donald Trump admires North Korean state TV, the Supreme Court upholds Ohio’s ability to purge voters from its rolls, a woman sues NASA to keep her moondust
Progressive.org

Redistricting Ruling Puts Onus On States - Partisan gerrymandering has long exasperated the Supreme Court.
Reading the Pictures

On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now - I know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now. The post On the...
Nathan Hevenstone

Let’s Talk About Ableism and Intelligence – Part 3 – A Challenge - Content Note: This series discusses ableist slurs. Many of them will be used in full. You are also allowed to use them in the comments only if it’s for the...
Modern Democracy

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge: The 5 D’s of the Gill v. Whitford Decision - In 2004, Justice Scalia led a plurality in Vieth v. Jubelirer that attempted to affirmatively hold partisan gerrymandering claims to be “non-ju...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Kasich: There’s a disease in American politics - Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Monday said there’s a “serious disease” affecting U.S. politics.“There’s a disease now in American politics. It’s a serious di...
Greg Palast

Why we are suing Ohio and Kansas We CAN Reverse Purges - by Greg Palast for The Palast Investigative Fund The Supreme Court decision blessing the purge of half a million voters in Ohio is NOT the last word. On ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

I hope this helps you understand - *“Report: Netflix Bans Employees from Looking at Each Other for More Than Five Seconds.” *By now you have seen this news headline, or else not, it’s all t...
Carl Beijer

What kind of Trump voters can the opposition win? - As the 2018 elections approach, a familiar question has resurfaced: should Democrats - or for that matter, the American left - even *try *to win over Trump...
Pages of Victory

On Father's Day - I last saw my father at the age of three. Fifty years later, I learned he was murdered for his car, in 1948. After ten years spent with an abusive step fat...
John Laurits

Brand Marketing a Political Party: Inside the Democrats’ Fake Opposition - Brand Marketing a Political Party: Inside the Democrats’ Fake Opposition For the past 17 months or so, much of the US has been steeped in a continuous eb...
Texans For Public Justice

Houston Chronicle:Campaign Contributions and the Big Dogs - Editorial on the need for Texas to take action on campaign finance reform. "In our vast state of 30 million, there are only around 30 people who truly con...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 13, 2018 - Both Trump and his critics should take diplomacy more seriously.
Red Wedge

Realism, Modernism, and the Spectre of Trotsky: Part 2, Greenberg - In the first part of this article I discussed Lukács and his theory of Realism. I now want to turn to Clement Greenberg, “the major theoretical figure of t...
DBC Green blog

Horrible & Wonderful & Figuring It Out - Before dbcgreentx.net and I go on a two-week vacation, I feel compelled to copy and paste my latest Goodreads review. Here's my take on Stephanie Wittels W...
The Rag Blog

James Retherford : BOOKS | Little big meshuganah - Jim Retherford does Pat Thomas does Jerry Rubin. By James Retherford | The Rag Blog | June 6, 2018 Pat Thomas, author of DiD iT! and The Rag Blog‘s James R...
Houston Justice

Worthing and Woodson Face Closure or State Takeover - [image: worthing band.jpg] First off, remember months ago when I and others rang the alarm saying these schools were in danger of closure? Remember how s...
Green News Network

Alex Jones Happens to see Bernie Sanders at Airport and Confronts Him - Info-Wars Founder Alex Jones was on vacation, and happened to see who he called "The King of Communism" Bernie Sanders at LA International Airport. Alex...
Great American Satan

It’s a Simple Choice, Deferring it is Deadly - Abe at Oceanoxia has a post up about oil industry lying for money – looting while the world burns. Mano has a post about about heartless CEOs and the lack ...
Truthout

Cities and States Sue Big Pharma Firms That Profited From Peddling Addictive Opioids - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this year that the city would sue manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids to account for t...
UP@NIGHT

The Productivity Syndrome (or why I stopped writing philosophy) - You are at a conference, wandering around the book exhibit. A former colleague …
ROAR Magazine

The Long Shadow of May ’68 - Fifty years on, contemporary social struggles continue to be shaped in profound ways by the ambivalent legacy of “The Long 1968.” Read more
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Dirty Thirds: Cops, the Mexican Mafia & LA’s disappearing gangs - Los Angeles has seen gang violence plummet in the last decade. Some of the reasons why were on display in two federal criminal conspiracy cases announced...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bullshit-ist

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