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Axios

Jamie Dimon to Trump: “I’d be a little ticked off” at your staff - JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that President Trump's advisers were wrong when they said there would be no retaliation to his tariffs, and that it'...
Mediaite

CNN’s New Day Takes on Trump’s ‘Wag the Dog’ Iran Threat: ‘When He’s Embarrassed’ He ‘Looks For a Distraction’ - As CNN's New Day covered President Donald Trump's explosive late-night tweet threatening Iran, the morning show concluded: this is a means to distract from...
Talking Points Memo

With Governor’s Race, Georgia Auditions As 2020 Swing State - ATLANTA (AP) — Move over, Ohio. Make room, Florida and Pennsylvania. Georgia wants in on the swing-state action. The state’s...
Salon.com

Historian Rick Shenkman on Donald Trump: “All the worst things in American history piled together” - Bestselling history author says that sooner or later, Donald Trump will make his supporters “feel like chumps”
Duffel Blog

Army to add classes on embezzlement, insurance fraud to Captain’s Career Course - [image: captains course] JOINT BASE ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, ALASKA — The U.S. Army’s top brass is planning to add at least two hours of classroom instructio...
Progressive Army

Iron Curtain Champions - For most of human history, the concept of single-combat has existed – one champion vs. one champion to settle a larger dispute. The premise: rather than ...
Grist

Move over, polar bears: Climate change has a new symbol - Americans are finally connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change.
Vox

Nancy Pelosi’s last stand - [image: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi arrives for a weekly press conference on Capitol Hill on October 3, 2013.] If Democrats win in November, their ...
Crooks and Liars

Alcohol's Health Benefits Hard To Prove, But Harms Are Easy To Document - [image: Alcohol's Health Benefits Hard To Prove, But Harms Are Easy To Document] [image: File 20180703 116129 1n8dkyl.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1] Alcohol is part o...
naked capitalism

Links 7/23/18 -
Raw Story

Trump follows up Iran nuclear threat with more bogus complaints about Russia probe - President Donald Trump was up early, watching TV and complaining about the Russia investigation again, just hours after threatening nuclear war against I...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trump threatens Iran in late-night Sunday tweet - Just before midnight on Sunday, President Trump took to Twitter and used all-caps to publicly warn the country's president Hassan Rouhani to 'NEVER EVER TH...
Daily Dot

Is Hulu with No Commercials worth the upgrade? - [image: hulu on television screen] Hulu ads can be annoying, but are they worth paying to get rid of? The post Is Hulu with No Commercials worth the upgrad...
Sputnik News

NATO Ships Enter Odessa Port – Ukrainian Navy - KIEV (Sputnik) – The NATO naval group's ships on Monday entered the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, the Ukrainian Navy’s press service said.
memeorandum

Amazon UK chief warned no-deal Brexit could lead to 'civil unrest': report (Gabriela Galindo/Politico) - Gabriela Galindo / Politico: *Amazon UK chief warned no-deal Brexit could lead to ‘civil unrest’: report* — If Britain fails to secure a trade deal wit...
Dissident Voice

Progressive Democrats Hate Trump More Than War or Nuclear Annihilation - It is rare that we praise Donald Trump, but meeting with both Kim Jung Un and Vladimir Putin was the right thing to do. If our goal is to build peace, then...
Off the Kuff

Fundraising: 2018 vs the rest of the decade - […]
Mother Jones

Safer, Cleaner Nuclear Energy—If We Want It - This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager i...
emptywheel

Get Carter, Redux - Oh great, 412 pages to read, crazy-pants interview to watch, Twitter threads and blog posts to peruse, and now a timeline to check. Damn you, Page -- as if...
The Week

Dashes and hyphens: A comprehensive guide - Many people don't know there are different kinds of dashes. They often call a hyphen a dash — which, to an editor, is like calling a period a colon. In f...
Eschaton

Morning Thread - Shut up Comey edition.
Slate

Universal Basic Income Is Not a Magic Bullet - On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Annie Lowrey, a contributing editor at the Atlantic and the author of the new book *Give ...
Counterpunch

Koch Industries Is Staffing Up with Voter Data Scientists to Tip the November Election to the Extreme Right - For at least forty years, Charles and David Koch, majority owners of a sprawling fossil fuels multi-national company called Koch Industries, have been blur...
NPR's Health Shots

Words Matter When Talking About Pain With Your Doctor - When you go to the doctor in pain, you'll probably be asked to rate your discomfort on a scale of 0 to 10. But doctors say there may be a better way to ass...
Washington Monthly

The Carbon Tax as Publicity Stunt - Sometimes, you have to ask why people even bother. Are they gluttons for punishment? Do they get off on public humiliation? What makes someone pursue an ob...
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday shut down - you can't understand white supremacy without looking at masculinity walmart patents tech that would eavesdrop on cashiers record number of americans belie...
ProPublica

Hand-Picked Mentors and Networking: Apply for ProPublica’s Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA - by Hannah Birch It's our pleasure to announce we'll be continuing the popular Diversity Mentorship Program at the Online News Association conference thi...
Houston Press

Vacationer Returns With New Music and a New Live Show - Chillwave doesn't have to be about being chill, which is best proven by Philadelphia's Vacationer. "I have been making music since I was 14, mostly loud ro...
Dallas Observer

Dallas Sen. Don Huffines Thinks Texas Voter ID Law Doesn't Go Far Enough - Texas' recently upheld voter ID law is one of the toughest in the nation. There is little wiggle room for those who, for whatever reason, don't have one of...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Why I’d never do a TED talk (and it’s not just because they’re named after a man) | Julie Bindel - The rehearsed smugness of the presenters puts me off the content – which is all about making the simple sound profound Picture this. A darkened auditorium,...
CPI's Danger in the Air

There are many rich minorities. So why are there no black Koch brothers? - Lack of nonwhite megadonors could hamper Democratic hopes of winning back Congress.
The Verge

Sony announces world’s highest-resolution image sensor for phone cameras - [image: Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge] Sony’s smartphone division continues to turn in unimpressive performance, but the company remains the market lea...
Ian Welsh

How Unpopular Is Trump? - Not very, unfortunately. NBC/WSJ POLL: Donald Trump’s approval rating has risen to 45%, with disapproval at 52%. Among Republicans, 88% approve. That’s the...
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day! - *by Noah* *Putin's Favorite Ride Is Our President* Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. Yeah, I stole that fr...
Rallblog

Only in a Binary Society is it Impossible to Hate Both Trump and the FBI - The two-party duopoly insists that politics is a zero-sum game. So if you don’t believe there’s evidence that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016, you mus...
The NM Political Report

Will 2018 be the ‘Year of the Woman’ in New Mexico? - [image: Will 2018 be the ‘Year of the Woman’ in New Mexico?] Albuquerque’s Melanie Stansbury decided this was the year to run for office. She filed as a ca...
Wolf Street

“Desperate” Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back Retroactively to 2016 - The request is “essential to Tesla’s continued operation.”
Informed Comment

Trump and Iran’s Rouhani Threaten each other with the Mother of all Wars - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In remarks Saturday to the Iranian foreign policy establishment in Tehran, President Hassan Rouhani gave some warnings to Do...
jobsanger

A Rational Doctrine -
Consortium News

Moon-Strzok No More, Lisa Page Spills the Beans - The meaning of a crucial text message between two FBI officials appears to have been finally explained, and it’s not good news for the Russia-gate faithful...
The Intercept

Ex-secretário Beltrame, ex-policiais e ex-militares lucram com consultorias de segurança - Ex-agentes cobram por conhecimento obtido no poder público para ajudar a iniciativa privada a se defender do crime. The post Ex-secretário Beltrame, ex-p...
Houston Matters

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1543: Ceredi’s Pump - Episode: 1543 Archimedes’ pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes’ pump.
Progrexas

State lawmaker to Trump: Don’t overlook Mexican water treaty - The Rio Grande at the New Mexico-Texas border on Monday, December 9, 2013 in El Paso. Ivan Pierre Aguirre A top Texas lawmaker is asking President Donald...
Socialist Worker

Are naturalized citizens Trump’s next target? - Christopher Baum Christopher Baum reports on a horrifying new White House initiative that could revoke people’s citizenship based on supposed errors in th...
World Socialist Web Site

Rates of black lung highest in 25 years among Appalachian coal miners - Decades after the deadly disease was nearly eradicated, more than one in five veteran coal miners now suffer from black lung disease.
Portside

Discovery of 14,000-Year-Old Toast Suggests Bread Can Be Added to Paleo Diet - Discovery of 14,000-Year-Old Toast Suggests Bread Can Be Added to Paleo Diet Ira Mon, 07/23/2018 - 00:57
National Post

Trump unleashes his caps lock against Iran: ‘NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES’ - President Rouhani had earlier said 'America must understand well that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars'
Political Dig

Watch: Trump Chicken In Prison Clothes Appears In San Francisco Bay Sailing To Alcatraz - On Sunday, a giant inflatable chicken featuring a perfectly coiffed, golden hair resembling President Donald Trump was seen sailing in the San Francisco Ba...
Morning Consult

Democrats’ Anger May Retake the House - The post Democrats’ Anger May Retake the House appeared first on Morning Consult.
Antiwar.com

Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange - In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has released the FISA application submitted by the FBI to spy on Carter Page, the rather hapless would-b...
VICE

Inside the 'Nasty' Senate Race Tearing North Dakota Apart - A few thousand votes from this rural state in November could decide the fate of the entire Senate.
OpEd News

The March of Folly - The real policy is to make life in Gaza so miserable, that the Gazans themselves will rise and throw the Hamas authorities out. With this in mind, the wate...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Randy Rainbow destroys Trump's leadership skill 'credentials' in wonderful song parody - We are going to look back at this awful time in American history with Trump in the White House and be thankful for the seemingly little things which helped...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Money Well Spent - On the way from work this morning, I stopped by the local H Mart, a Korean-American supermarket with great prices, good quality, and a head-spinning variet...
Liberation News

Un estado de apartheid: Israel lo declara oficialmente - [image: Photo: ANSWER Coalition] En su gran arrogancia, los gobernantes de Israel han expuesto el carácter profundamente racista de su estado y sociedad. ...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: After Supreme Court decision, states ramp up 'purges' of voter rolls - A new Brennan Center for Justice report finds that efforts to strip American voters from state voter rolls escalated significantly after a 2013 Supreme C...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THE DE-MAINSTREAMING OF THE DEMOCRATS - A new NBC/*Wall Sreet Journal* poll was just released, and this set of numbers seems significant: Democratic congressional candidates used to be seen as ...
Latino Rebels

‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’ (PODCAST) - Latino Rebels Radio: July 22, 2018
The Contributor

Baltimore Sues 26 Fossil Fuels Companies Over Climate Change - News Image: The city’s waterfront revitalization has become a model for urban development, but sea level rise and extreme weather are putting its future ...
St. Petersburg Independents

Devil Rays Strike Again! - When the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team first moved to St. Petersburg, they were first known as the “Devil Rays.” The name was most appropriate, as the Boys ...
Washington's Blog

The Democratic Party’s Pitch to Billionaires - Eric Zuesse The wing of the Democratic Party that looks for the dollars instead of the votes is called “The Third Way” and it presents itself as representi...
Popular Resistance

Social Movements Have Stages, Plus Urgent Actions - This week, we introduce the third class from the Popular Resistance School course called "How Social Transformation Occurs." You will find all the classes...
The Ghion Journal

When Politics Becomes Fantasy Football - I remember the year I stopped becoming a fan of my favorite team. It happened in 2006 when I signed up to play fantasy football. After spending years dis...
News Corpse

STOP THE PRESSES! Trump Says Russian Election Interference is ‘All a Big Hoax’ (Again?) - This roller coaster ride is really getting ridiculous. After a week of Donald Trump swerving in every direction at once he is now taking another sharp turn...
Field Negro

A standing ovation for a racist tweet, and a threat of fines and suspensions for taking a knee for social justice. - - [image: Image result for josh hader racist tweet images] I will never understand the majority population's psyche when it comes to matters of ...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: News From San Diego Comic Con On Star Trek Discovery, The Orville, & Doctor Who - We learned from the Star Trek: Discovery panel at San Diego Comic Con that Christopher Pike will be taking command of Discovery, but it is not how much of ...
Hullabaloo

QOTW: Trevor Noah - *QOTW: Trevor Noah* by digby Do yourself a favor and watch this: The French ambassador to the U.S. @GerardAraud criticized Trevor for congratulating ...
Pajiba

Hey! You Could (Probably) Own This Faux Dick Cheney Torture Memorabilia! - It has been a ridiculous few weeks since Sacha Baron Cohen and Showtime announced their partnership with Who Is America? I believe I've written about it en...
The Greanville Post

Donetsk’s Zakharchenko’s New Facebook Page Blocked - JAFE ARNOLD—In his message on the occasion of the liberation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from Nazi invasion Zakharchenko said that the Kiev ...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Water pump down in city plant, citizens urged to conserve water - The city has lost a 10 mgd (millions of gallons per day) water pump at its water treatment plant. This will reduce the amount of water the city can pump in...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante: Remembering two Cuban martyrs - *"Six years ago the Castros murdered my father, along with him #HaroldCepero. Today we meet to honor their lives and appreciate the time they were with us ...
Above the Law

Non-Sequiturs: 07.22.18 - * Which lawyers write the best Supreme Court amicus briefs? Adam Feldman uses Ross Guberman's BriefCatch tool to find out. [Empirical SCOTUS] * In advance ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: John Feffer, The Jaws Presidency - As presidencies approach their midpoints, pundits begin the inevitable search for that elusive creature: the doctrine...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Hot Sunday Afternoon Fun Or Maybe Not - .
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Not A Rant - A Closer Look Because Tax Cuts solve everything.
AlterNet.org

FBI Special Agent Turned GOP Congressman ‘Frankly Sickened’ by Helsinki Meeting: Trump ‘Was Manipulated by Vladimir Putin’ - Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is a former FBI supervisory special agent in California. Republican congressman and former FBI agent Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) ...
Election Law Blog

“RNC Spokesperson: Democrats Want ‘a Few Hundred Thousand Russians’ to Vote in U.S. Elections” - Newsweek: A Republican National Committee spokesperson was shut down during a Fox News segment on Saturday after suggesting that Democrats want “hundreds o...
Think Progress

Sen. Marco Rubio: Government has ‘no capacity’ to keep immigrant families together - Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is on record as having said that immigrant children and their parents should be housed under the same roof. But on Sunday, he said ...
Courthouse News

Without Evidence, Trump Claims Documents Confirm Misconduct - President Donald Trump asserted without evidence Sunday that newly released documents relating to the wiretapping of his onetime campaign adviser Carter ...
Mahablog

The Carter Page FISA Application Dump - The FBI released a redacted copy of the initial FISA application to conduct sureillance on Carter Page. What does it show us? For one thing, it shows us th...
Buzzflash

California Hit Its Climate Goal Early, But Its Largest Source of Pollution Keeps Rising - California Hit Its Climate Goal Early, But Its Largest Source of Pollution Keeps Rising 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges, David Swanson, et al Interviews in Support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks (#Unity4J) - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges #Unity4J on Jul 15, 2018 In a world of divide and conquer, unity is the ultimate act of resistance. Friends of publisher ...
Rivard Report

Clinic’s Comprehensive Approach to Diabetes Care Aims to Reduce Amputations - Once a month, the clinic brings together a team of physicians to take a comprehensive approach to treating diabetes for patients at-risk of losing a limb...
Newsbud

The U.S.-Russia Spy Swap: Maria Butina for Edward Snowden? - In the eighty-seventh edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses front page articles from four Russian newspapers: Izve...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging – Window: Marsh Street, Bristol - [image: Window: Marsh Street, Bristol]
Ballot Access News

Independent Candidate Files Brief in Illinois Case Against 5% of the Last Vote Cast Petition Requirement for U.S. House - On July 20, the plaintiff filed this brief in U.S. District Court, asking for summary judgement, in Gill v Scholz, c.d., 3:16cv-3221. This is the case that...
The Root

Michael Bae Jordan Attempts to Use Milk Analogy to Explain His Love For Black Women - We love Michael B. Jordan. He’s a dreamy man with a face you wanna squeeze, but also lick. But his dating habits have left a lot to be desired by black w...
xpostfactoid

True Image/pictured lies: The CMS attack on ACA navigators - [image: Navigator and broker enrollments Maryland 2017] Navigator and broker enrollments in Maryland, 2017 The Kaiser Family Foundation has done in-depth sp...
Pharyngula

Batman isn’t supposed to be smiling - Someone needs to explain to Knut how to take cosplaying seriously.
Debunking Christianity

Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, Why Almost Everything We Believe is Untrue. How powerful influences control us and the first necessary step to an objective view of life. - Everyone should seriously entertain the ideas in the documentary linked below. Powerful! Humbling! Doubt producing! Liberating! An educated person is some...
Bonddad

The President of the United States is a Russian asset - * - by New Deal democrat* That the President of the United States is a Russian asset needs to be openly acknowledged. He may be a naive, negligent or unwi...
Ring of Fire

Trump’s Biggest Problem Is That He Thinks Everyone Is As Stupid As He Is - There’s no question that Donald Trump believes that Americans are stupid, the evidence supporting that theory has become overwhelming. This week alone we...
Splinter

The Stand Your Ground Law Protects Shooter Who Killed Black Man Over Parking Space, Sheriff Says - Two men, Markeis McGlockton and Michael Drejka, got into an argument in a convenience Circle A Food store parking lot in Clearwater, Fla., over a parking...
Grits for Breakfast

Want to get rid of ads in daily Grits email? - So, it has come to my attention that the number of ads on the free service I've used for Grits subscribers for more than a decade has become intolerable, o...
First Draft

Racism. It’s Racism. It’s Always Racism. (Sometimes Abortion, But Mostly Racism.) - In which the Washington Post twists itself into a pretzel trying to understand what’s in like the third paragraph of their own goddamn story: At the same...
Rude Pundit

Twitter Timeout for Me - I'm currently in a Twitter timeout for 12 hours. That happens when you say something that violates the Terms of Service for Twitter. Apparently, this means...
Brad Blog

Sunday Communist Manifestoons - Eight minutes of mashed-up favorites going back to the Forties, with narration by a "monotonous, God complex, Bond villain, psychotic". Hat tip to Dandelio...
Angry Bear

The Most Important Issue At Helsinki - The Most Important Issue At Helsinki No, folks, it was not the much ballyhooed issue of Russian election interference in 2016, which got so much attention ...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

OR ELSE - I continue to believe that Michael Cohen doesn't really WANT to flip against Trump -- he wants Trump to pay his legal bills. But little by little he's tryi...
Carl Beijer

The "Russia is backing the US left" conspiracy theory has a major flaw - Harper's columnist Scott Horton has blown the lid off of an international conspiracy: European intelligence analysts I have spoken with over the last month...
Sayfie Review Texas

Caller-Times: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz surveys Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts in Rockport, Victoria - Caller-Times: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz surveys Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts in Rockport, Victoria
The Reality-Based Community

Justice Department releases FISA warrant applications on Carter Page - Here they are. And here’s the resulting New York Times story. My quick analysis: 400-something pages, mostly redactions, and the rest mostly boilerplate th...
Reverb Press

Parkland Survivors Hit the Road to Register Voters - Students who survived the Parkland shooting hit the road... The post Parkland Survivors Hit the Road to Register Voters appeared first on ReverbPress.
Seeing the Forest

Who Are We To Object To What Putin Is Doing? - There are people who say, “The US has been and is doing bad things all over the world. It interfered with Russia’s elections. It bombs people. It overthrow...
See You In 2020

The Establishment Has Taken A Gamble By Continuing To Push The Russia Narrative - [image: article image] First, these facts are important to mention: -Mueller’s indictments this month are based in “evidence” which contradicts facts that...
Texas Monthly

The Texanist: If You Can’t Take the Heat… - A Montanan turned Houstonian’s first summer in Texas isn’t going all that well. The post The Texanist: If You Can’t Take the Heat… appeared first on Texa...
Louis Proyect

Yitzy the Pupa photographer - On Wednesday and Thursday, I was up in Sullivan County—once the home of the now mostly defunct resort hotel industry—to work with a drone pilot I had hired...
Anti-Media

France Sends Medical Aid to Assad’s Syria After Making Deal With Russia - [image: France Syria Russia](MEMO) — France sent 50 tonnes of medical aid to government-controlled eastern Ghouta in Syria on Friday after Russia agreed to...
Houstonia

Review: Jump on into the Ring of Fire at Stages - The Johnny Cash musical illuminates the man—and woman— behind some of America's finest music of the last century.
Daily Howler

BROKEN: What did Vladimir Putin propose? - *SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018Your lizard brain gets a good workout:* According to the future elders—they come to us quite late at night—the "Embellishment Ind...
Robert Reich

A Time for Integrity - To: Senators Jeff Flake, John McCain, Bob Corker, and Susan CollinsFrom: Robert ReichSenators, I...
MintPress News

May’s Syria Policy Gets Thumbs Down from Bipartisan Group of UK Pols - Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, the U.K. has been an instrumental part of the U.S.-led coalition active in Syria and has also been a major sourc...
Avedon's Sideshow

The only time I feel all right is by your side - Bernie Sanders held a CEOs vs Workers Town Hall. Donut Twitter* went insane with tweets to the effect of, "How dare he talk about unimportant stuff like ...
Dorf on Law

Seventh in a Series: Adult Coloring Book, "The Lawyers of Trump-Russia" (feat. Michael Avenatti) - by Diane Klein On Friday, July 20, 2018, we learned what few of us could have been surprised to hear: that former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen tap...
Pressing Issues

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DeSmogBlog

Who Needs Science Advice Anyway? Governments, for One - Read time: 6 mins [image: Molly Shoichet, former chief scientist of Ontario] *By Jim Woodgett, University of Toronto* There has been much consternation with...
The Progressive Wing

7/21 News Roundup – Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders Woo Kansas Progressives & More - ‘Just what the party needs’: Ocasio Cortez and Sanders woo Kansas progressives For her national political debut, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez traded the concre...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

“The President Sang Amazing Grace” - Joan Baez says she’s made her last album, maybe will stop touring soon. But she’s still speaking out for good, for equality, for civil rights, against viol...
Stinque

The T-Word - For a brief moment Monday, we thought something happened. The President of the United States, on live television, demonstrated fealty to a foreign dictator...
Right Wing Watch

Right-Wing Bonus Tracks: Leave Alex Jones Alone! - Theodore Kupfer, writing at National Review, makes a case against banning Alex Jones’s Infowars from Facebook. At Hot Air, Ed Morrisey is incensed that the...
In These Times

The Police Will Keep Killing Us Until We Stop Criminalizing Blackness and Poverty - In November 2015, the video of Laquan McDonald’s murder at the hands of Chicago police was released, sparking weeks of protests across the city. In the t...
News Junkie

RSS: Fascism and Racism Under India’s Sky - One should not dismiss the odious statements from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its Sangh Parivar, and say that they are spewing venom. One sho...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian Football Coach Celebrates ‘Surprisingly Successful’ World Cup - Hardly anyone expected the Russian team to advance as far as the quarterfinals. So it’s entirely true the results on the field for the FIFA World Cup host ...
Somervell County Salon

Timeline of some interesting actions Trump and others took re: Russia Investigation - with sources: This is from an excellent thread by Sarah Sannder Dukic with some additions of my own. *Feb 13, 2016 -* Russian Alexander Torshin writes ...
Greg Palast

New York Times Mentions Danger Of CrosscheckBut Fails To Mention Its Overwhelming Racial Bias - [*Crosscheck comic: Candorville by Darrin Bell.*] In an opinion piece published today, The New York Times finally allows mention of the dangers of Kris ...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Two-Seater - 3914 Antibes Ln. [HAR]… Read More
Project Censored

(Pre-Order) Giants: The Global Power Elite - The post (Pre-Order) Giants: The Global Power Elite appeared first on Project Censored.
SCOTUSblog

Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment - [image: Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment]Orin S. Kerr is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Sou...
San Antonio Current

Texas Public Radio Screening Classic Stanley Kubrick Film Full Metal Jacket - “I’m going to gouge out your eyeballs and” — well, let’s just say that the late R. Lee Ermey got off many memorably intense and profane one-liners as the ...
Washington Babylon

Et Tu, Michael Avenatti? - When I read the news today that “Manhattan Madame” Kristin Davis had been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller I knew there would be some ignorant,...
CultureMap Houston

Tony Vallone announces shutter of upscale Memorial City steakhouse - In Washington, D.C., the Friday news dump covers any piece of unpleasant information that a politician would prefer the public ignore: for example, the re...
Grit Post

Trump Administration Reaches Peak Comic Book Villain Levels by Bullying Endangered Species - To say it’s time for us to call Captain Planet to stand against Trump isn’t entirely fair. That time was when he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords,...
BEYONDbones

Public Perceptions Vs. Fact-Based Reality – A Few Examples Of How What We Think We Know Is Often Wrong - On a regular basis we learn that what we thought was true was, in fact, not so. This certainly applies to our understanding of the past. Here are some ex...
Echidne of the Snakes

Trump's Outrages Do Not Matter - Unless they hurt the Republicans in Congress. As long as the Republican base wants Trump, other Republican politicians will give lip service, reluctantly...
Talking Union

Support Striking Oil Workers in Australia - Eric Lee, LabourStart Last year maintenance workers at Exxon Mobil’s onshore and offshore facilities in Australia received a shock when they heard that the...
Texas Observer

Three Things the Judge Says He’ll Consider in Ruling on Texas Fetal Burial Law - As the weeklong trial over Texas’ fetal burial law wrapped up on Friday, Federal District Judge David Ezra gave a good indication of what he’ll be focusi...
Rewire

Anti-Choice Group Targets Homes and Neighbors of Indiana Abortion Providers - A fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health said the harassment and intimidation tactics used by anti-choice activists are "designed to evoke fear" ...
Freethought Now

Fighting constitutionally in the dog days of summer - That’s why in the Atlanta area, we put up a large billboard urging folks in the South’s most bustling metropolis to discover our nation’s foundational wall...
Independent Political Report

Judd Weiss Deconstructs Influence of Burning Man on 2016 McAfee Campaign - Former candidate for the 2016 Libertarian vice-presidential nomination Judd Weiss appeared on a 2018 FreedomFest panel titled, ”Burning Man and Libertari...
Trivial Knot

An altruistic Prisoner’s Dilemma - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2015, with a short postscript added. Jeff Kaufman talks about an ethics trade that he sometimes does with a frien...
Eater Houston

Vallone’s Will Serve Its Final Hand-Cut Steaks Tonight - The popular steakhouse will shutter after dinner service tonight Vallone’s, the eponymous steakhouse by veteran restaurateur Tony Vallone and partner Sc...
Free Press Houston

Smashing Pumpkins Played All of the Fan Favorites During Extra-Long H-Town Set - Much to the delight of their fans, the iconic band played a three-hour-long set.
Texas Standard

Archaeologists Say Humans May Have Come To Texas Earlier Than Previously Thought - New evidence pushes back previous estimates of arrival by 3,000 years
OffCite

Bay Area to Bayou City: Lessons on Resilience by José Solís - South San Francisco masterplan proposal. Image courtesy of Hassell+.José Solís is Founder of Big and Bright Strategies and Project Manager with the Buffalo...
Shadowproof

Beyond Prisons — Episode 26: John Gillespie Jr. (aka swim.) - Poet, musician, and PhD student John Gillespie Jr. (aka swim.) joins Beyond Prisons to discuss his art and scholarship around suicide in the Black commun...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Shouldn't Take the Bait on 'Catch and Release' - Dehumanizing metaphors subconsciously affect the way you think about immigrants. On April 6, 2018, President Trump issued an official memorandum with the ...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Best #TVnews bloopers June 2018 - RELATED - Texas #TVnews and radio job moves June 2018 - Hottest Houston social media stars June 2018
Peacock Panache

High Crimes and Misdemeanors – McConnell Version - [image: High Crimes and Misdemeanors – McConnell Version] In criminal law classes, lawyers-to-be learn about something called *mens rea*–a term that means ...
Political Garbage Chute

Putin Assures Trump Andrew Jackson Had Nothing to Do With Trail of Tears - WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Trump took office, one of the first controversial decisions he made was to bring back a portrait of President... The po...
ExChristian.Net

God refuses to heal amputees - *By Michael Runyan ~ * No one argues the fact that Christian prayers have consistently failed to result in the grow-back of amputated limbs. There is no re...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Most Consistent Hitter In Baseball History - The skeptics have been proven right so far this season in refusing to believe that Khris Davis’s batting average was permanently fixed at .247 by some supe...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 194: ‘Sign o’ the times’ - Pestering your co-workers until every interaction is fraught with an awkward tension is presented here as a badge of honor. If everyone you work with doesn...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (July 15 – 21) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Austin Mayor Steve Adler, in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has threatened the city’...
Bracing Views

Collusion Takes Many Forms - W.J. Astore Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: The supposed big news here is that Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, didn’t know...
First Reading

Hey, RNC. Forget holding the convention in Charlotte. Why not Moscow 2020? - Good Friday Austin: The Republican National Committee, meeting in Austin this morning, is expected to choose Charlotte, N.C., as the place where the part...
Democracy Now!

Psychologists: Migrant Parents Reunited with Detained Children Must Brace for Trauma & Long Recovery - We discuss the psychological impacts family separation has on young children with Nancy Burke, psychoanalyst and a co-chair of the Psychotherapy Action Net...
SocraticGadfly

My take on the Green Party's "decentralization" key value - Note: I had submitted a version of this for the Green Party's Green Pages. Unfortunately, I have been told that it is short-staffed on its editorial commi...
Equality Texas

Take Action Now to Oppose Discriminatory Aderholt Amendment - Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt has introduced an amendment that would allow discrimination in foster care and adoption services. Texas has already mad...
Lowering the Bar

Woman Accidentally Steals Car She Thought Was Her Rental - Drove it around for two weeks with nary a clue. Related Stories - Lawyer Dispute Escalates From Picture of Cat Playing Violin to Gunfire - ...
Space City Weather

Hottest yet to come for Houston, as Texas roasts - Thursday was the hottest day yet in this heat wave that is scorching much of Texas. It was also Houston’s hottest day since June 5th. We hit 98° officially...
Progressive.org

A Charter School’s Explanation for Banning Durags Is Worse Than the Ban - To say that a durag sets up a black man for failure is ignorant, at best.
The Conversation

Support for the Endangered Species Act remains high as Trump administration and Congress try to gut it - As attempts to water down the Endangered Species Act have accelerated, public support for the act has stayed high. Then why do politicians keep trying to w...
Two Party Opera

Dark Money -
Disobedient Media

Breaking: Possible Hand-Over Of Julian Assange To The UK May Be Imminent - If Julian Assange's asylum were to be revoked in any way, dangerously inept intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, would continue to operate outside th...
Campaign for America's Future

It’s Time for a Mass Movement to Impeach Trump - A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is know...
Krebs on Security

Human Resources Firm ComplyRight Breached - Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of its Web site may have jeopardized sensitive consumer information -...
Socialist Alternative

Getting Ahead In The Working Life: So Your Boss Offers You A Manager Position? - Samantha (she prefers Sam) greets the drivers with a big smile and their perfect coffee drink. Sam claims that the secret to a thriving latte stand is well...
Frontloading HQ

Unity Reform Commission Seeing Its Recommendations 'Substantially Adopted' Sends Rules Package on to DNC - Following a brief (by rules meetings standards) conference call on Tuesday, July 17, Unity Reform Commission Chair Jennifer O'Malley-Dillon and Vice Chair ...
Popehat

Illinois Attorney General Stomps Notorious Censorious Jerkass Dennis Toeppen and His Infamous Suburban Express - Long-time Popehat readers may remember the persistently loathsome Dennis Toeppen and his what-if-you-had-a-racist-vexatious-litigant-bus-company Suburban E...
The Rag Blog

The Rag Blog : METRO EVENT | Threadgill’s World HQ invites you to Thorne Dreyer’s Birthday Party on August 1st - Historic Austin bands the Uranium Savages, Bill Kirchen, Shiva’s Headband, and Leeann Atherton will perform. Event: Thorne Dreyer’s Birthday Party What: Co...
Political Orphans

The Fall of the Roman Republic, Reconsidered - The Caesars of the world only arrive when the ground has been prepared for them.
Duck of Minerva

Tackling Climate Change: A Conversation with Josh Busby - Readers of the Duck will be very familiar with Duck editor Josh Busby’s commentary on climate change and security, U.S. foreign policy, and a host of other...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Purdue in Tennessee II: High-Volume Prescribers - From 2006 to 2015, Dr. Michael Rhodes was one of the top prescribers of OxyContin in the state of Tennessee. His practice had many of the signs of what h...
Church and State

The ‘stolen babies’ trial in Spain finally shines a light on a scandal that cannot be forgotten - Until into the 1990s, doctors, nuns and priests in Spain allegedly stole newborn babies and sold them to couples hoping to adopt.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Three Republican Governors Face Increasingly Tough Election Contests - KEY POINT FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Crystal Ball has three ratings changes in gubernatorial contests, all shifts in the Democrats’ direction: Arizona moves f...
Common Dreams

Patriots, Prepare For War With the Very Aggressive People of Montenegro, Also Maybe Freedonia - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

President Trump is missing!!! - There are many people, so many they can almost not be avoided and sometimes not at all and a few of these people I cannot avoid mentioning when I write. H...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR #8: “Beyond the Border” coming soon! - Our eighth issue, on the revolutionary internationalism of the twenty-first century, is coming soon! This will be our last issue to appear in print, so d...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American A...
News Taco

Today’s Latino News Headlines – July, 18, 2018 - U.S. Latino news headlines, curated daily by NewsTaco. ‘It’s hypocritical’: Chicago Latino Caucus to return donation from private immigrant detention com...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Supreme Court has highest approval in almost 10 years: Gallup - A majority of Americans currently approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing as the court has its highest level of public support in nearly a decade, ac...
Ecosophia

The Kek Wars, Part One: Aristocracy and its Discontents - Every month or so since the 2016 presidential election campaign hit high tide, somebody has asked me to say something about the weirdest and most interes...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Trump’s Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism - So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit … or Trump’s meeting with his Russian handler, as the neolibe...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Recent Photos of Buffalo Bayou: Slowing the Flow - Summer Down on the Bayou July 17, 2018 In case you missed Jim Olive‘s summer shot of that Bend in the River, here is the latest addition to our series of p...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Helena Blavatsky Ancient Aliens Connection? - Is there a connection between Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society with Ancient Aliens, assuming aliens might have visited us thousands of year...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puzzle out cybersecurity in Helsinki, John Kelly didn’t like his breakfast in Brussels, and a family of woodchucks ate th...
Earthjustice

The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning ‘The Lungs of South Asia’ - The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning ‘The Lungs of South Asia’ Sultana Kamal leads a coalition of environmental groups fighting to keep the...
DBC Green blog

Don't Water the Tree of Liberty with Hyperbole - Well, I figured this Facebook post from last night, copied and pasted verbatim below, would ruffle a few feathers. So far it has ruffled only a few. It ref...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 228 - Trump Culturally Appropriates Hitler - As our fearless leader goes full blown traitor on a world stage, we step back and discuss cultural appropriation and the whiny left. Let’s join up to fi...
Pensito Review

NY Daily News Cover: ‘Open Treason’ -
Great American Satan

Cinema Day Shout-outs - Got to see Antman & the Wasp and also Sorry to Bother You today, very nice. No time for big reviews, just wanna give a couple of shout outs. Shout out to A...
LawFlog

Is Judge Kyle Hawthorne trying to cover up real estate fraud by his former law firm? - In my July 9, 2018 blog post, I tried to give 85th District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne the benefit of the doubt. It turns out he didn’t deserve it. I learn...
Better Texas Blog

Putting the 2018-2019 State Budget on More Solid Ground - This week Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that the revenue side of the 2018-2019 state budget – how much money Texas could spend on things – is much st...
Moron Majority

Trump Discusses “Abdication” With Putin - In their historic and unprecedented one-on-one meeting today in Helsinki, Donald Trump discussed his exit strategy with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. N...
Reading the Pictures

From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week - The Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week. The post From SCOTUS to NATO, the P...
Green News Network

Paint It Green (Eps 7 ) The Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Sheep Dog Saga Encor... -
Dos Centavos

Calling Out Our Own: Following The Money - Now, let’s see what liberal freak-out happens next… For years, the Democratic attack against Republicans has had a mantra to convince the voters that one s...
Texas Moratorium Network

Chair of Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Joe Moody Endorses Abolishing the Death Penalty - The chair of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has endorsed ending the death penalty. He sent out an email today copied below that link...
WAWG Blog

Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice - RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean … Since – Brown v Board of Education in 1954 that caused Virgini...
Texans For Public Justice

Report Tracks Austin Campaign Money - FAULT LINES Campaign Contributions Expose Austin's Divide Austin's city elections were dominated by residents of the three most affluent and least racially...
Our Finite World

The world’s weird self-organizing economy - Why is it so difficult to make accurate long-term economic forecasts for the world economy? There are many separate countries involved, each with a self-or...
The Disorder Of Things

Race and the Undeserving Poor: Response - This is my response to the commentaries graciously provided by Sara Salem, Naeem Inayatullah, Luke De Noronha, Rick Saull, and Lisa Tilley, who also organi...
GreenSource DFW

Arlington activists put light pollution in spotlight - *The Arlington Conservation Council's 4th of July float drew attention to the Dark Sky movement.* *Photos by Paul Knudsen/ArlingtoNow.com.* July 11, 201...
PERRspectives

A Higher Patriotism - Just in time for the Fourth of July, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of patriotism. Its primary finding? For the first time in Gallup's 18...
New Progressive Alliance

Defining the New Progressive by Sondra Miller - Sondra Miller is one of the pillars of the New Progressive Alliance. Here she questions what a real progressive is. It is crucial to answer this question...
Red Wedge

Bad Dreams - Ring around the rosies, Pocket full o’ posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! Most everyone knows this nursery rhyme. Urban legend places its origin in th...
The Metaphor Project

How to frame it “American” Now: Summer 2018 - These days the political framing challenge we face is greater than any we’ve faced in a long time. While it is absolutely vital to avoid repeating the fram...
nonsite.org

Two Poems - In the office park he spoke of *the land.* To the loan officer, of *the land.* At the temp agency, *the land.*
Downwinders at Risk

THE CLEAN AIR FUND THAT TIME FORGOT - Over a decade ago $500,000 was collected from North Texas local governments to protect Texas air. It’s been sitting in a bank account ever since. Until rec...
Ramona's Voices

Hanging On To Our Independence on the Fourth Of July - This year, 2018, has been a trying one, but I don't have to tell you. This Independence Day feels like the last of the best for the country I love and have...
John Laurits

Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report - Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report Today is July 2nd 2018 and Googling “North Korea news” is likely to brin...
Pages of Victory

Canvasser - The young man who just left my house was clean, well groomed, wearing nice slacks and a Greg Abbot tee shirt. Barely had he identified himself when I launc...
Nathan Hevenstone

Turns Out Pixar’s Toxic - Note: Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual harassment and assault, especially for Cassandra Smolcic’s article linked below, which I am going to quote ...
Modern Democracy

The Ideological Balance of the Supreme Court Hangs On The Midterm Elections— But Not Because Of Kennedy - Now that Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, everyone’s attention has turned to the question of who will fill his seat. Given Kennedy’s status a...
Pressthink

It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - That is my recommendation. The post It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency appeared first on PressThink.
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...
Houston DSA

#AbolishICE & #AbolishDHS - Houston DSA is firmly committed to organizing to #AbolishICE and #AbolishDHS. We encourage our members and allies to participate in the following actions...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 13, 2018 - Both Trump and his critics should take diplomacy more seriously.
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...
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 …
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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!
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...
[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...
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...

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

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