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Vox

Graham-Cassidy, the GOP’s last health care proposal, explained with a cartoon - There’s some faulty logic here. Senate Republicans have been through four different health care proposals to repeal Obamacare, all of which failed to pa...
Bonddad

The asterisk in real median household income - - *by New Deal democrat* This is a follow-up to the post I wrote last week about the latest data on real median household income. One of the things I no...
Daily Dot

Jimmy Kimmel calls out senator for lying to him over healthcare - Jimmy Kimmel is upset at Graham-Cassidy. The post Jimmy Kimmel calls out senator for lying to him over healthcare appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Raw Story

Oklahoma pair tortured and starved 5-year-old boy — and kicked him in the genitals until he bled - Two Oklahoma women were sentenced in the horrific and systematic abuse of a 5-year-old boy. Rachel Jean Stevens, 29, and Kayla Ann Jones, 26, were each sen...
Daily Kos

Morning Digest: As two polls show a close race in Virginia, another has Democrat Ralph Northam up 10 - The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David...
Think Progress

Former basketball player says university denied her a job for no longer identifying as gay - A former University of Southern California point guard, Camille LeNoir, alleges she was denied an assistant coaching job in the New Mexico State University...
Eschaton

Philly Is Closer To DC Than Dulles Is - That's not true, but close enough. Price’s spokespeople declined to comment on why he considered commercial travel to be unfeasible. On one leg of the trip...
Mediaite

HHS Sec. Tom Price Blowing Tens of Thousands on Private Jet Travel - Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been using private jets to fly across America and conduct government business.
Talking Points Memo

Kimmel Blasts Cassidy's Last-Ditch Push To Repeal O'Care: He 'Lied To My Face' (VIDEO) - Late night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night slammed the latest attempt to repeal Obamacare in the Senate, calling out Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who ear...
Salon.com

Donald Trump is blaming others for his North Korea mess - Actual diplomacy takes a back seat; the urgent task is finding somebody else to blame
FiveThirtyEight.com

Significant Digits For Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 - You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 8.1 percent A storied Boston-area financial institution announced ...
Sputnik News

Indian to Tighten Digital Financial Security in Wake of Cyberattacks from China - Recently, more than 3200 thousand debit cards issued by Indian banks were compromised. Indian security agencies have claimed to have traced most of the bre...
Washington Monthly

Trump Is Isolating the U.S. From the Rest of the World - When it comes to what happens next with North Korea, that is a chilling prospect.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Deadly hurricane bears down on Puerto Rico - Bill Karins and Gabe Gutierrez have the latest updates on Hurricane Maria, which made landfall Wednesday morning in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm.
Crooks and Liars

Mike's Blog Round Up - [image: Mike's Blog Round Up] Earthquake in Mexico, hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea & Atlantic Ocean, & Trump goes off at the United Nations. Where to star...
The Verge

9 cool AR apps you should download to try out iOS 11’s ARKit - Since it was first announced at WWDC, Apple’s ARKit has been open to developers to get a feel for the new platform. Now that iOS 11 is finally here, ARK...
The Greanville Post

Gallup: 71% of Americans are “Dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed” - Americans, who strongly admire their military, like to think that its most senior leaders rise on merit. This is not, however, the way the military promoti...
Space City Weather

Late-summer blahs to persist in Houston for awhile - Tuesday offered a quiet day across the Houston region, and our weather for the rest of the week will probably be more or less the same, with warm days and ...
Common Dreams

We Cannot Go on Like This. It Is Time to Talk to North Korea - Tom Fowdy The ignorance and hubris of the President of the United States knows no boundaries. At his debut speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General ...
San Antonio Current

SA Music Showcase: Dance/Electronica at La Botanica -
NPR's Health Shots

Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It - The federal government has sharply cut funding to groups that help people enroll in health plans. But the groups say federal officials don't understand how...
Axios

Republican Governors Association launches news website - "The Republican Governors Association has quietly launched an online publication that looks like a media outlet and is branded as such on social media,"...
SCOTUSblog

Wednesday round-up - [image: Wednesday round-up]Yesterday the Senate confirmed Noel Francisco as solicitor general by a vote of 50-47. Amy Howe has this blog’s coverage, whic...
Death and Taxes

Mexicans dig through collapsed buildings as quake kills 217 - President Nieto: "The priority at this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped."
The Intercept

Ataques a religiões de matriz africana fazem parte da nova dinâmica do tráfico no Rio - Perseguição é mais uma forma de demonstração de poder, explica socióloga. The post Ataques a religiões de matriz africana fazem parte da nova dinâmica do...
Duffel Blog

Trump orders US military to build giant wall in Afghanistan to keep terrorists out - [image: Trump To Build Wall In Afghanistan] WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s long-awaited South Asia strategy includes plans to build a wall along ...
Houston Matters

Full Show: Political Roundup, And Houston Restaurants Help Out After Harvey (Sept. 20, 2017) - On Wednesday’s edition of Houston Matters: We discuss the latest political stories. We learn how local restaurants have stepped up to help those affected b...
Houston Press

Field Notes From Intrepid Texas Game Wardens: When Nature Strikes Back - Incredibly true field reports from the state agency most likely to bust rabbit hunters in their underwear.
naked capitalism

Links 9/20/17 -
Angry Bear

Hurricane workarounds for industrial production and housing - Hurricane workarounds for industrial production and housing Hurricane Harvey has already affected some of the August data releases. Irma has already start...
Church and State

Pastor who thinks mothers don’t belong in public office leads Bible study for Trump’s cabinet - Ralph Drollinger is a pastor known for inflammatory statements on everything from climate change to women’s right to work.
Off the Kuff

Interview with Gretchen Himsl - Today we wrap up the series of interviews with candidates in HISD District I with Gretchen Himsl. Gretchen is a Policy Analyst for Children at Risk, an edu...
Mother Jones

Trump Is Deluded if He Thinks He Can Negotiate a New and Better Paris Climate Deal - Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that a White House staffer told foreign officials the president is considering remaining in the 2015 lan...
skippy the bush kangaroo

every wednesday night - fema auctioned off disaster trailers just before harvey hit thinking strategically about free speech and violence if you've never lived in poverty don't t...
American Third Party Report

Libertarian Party Files Amicus in U.S. Supreme Court Case on Ohio Voter Purging Practices - Ballot Access News On September 19, the Libertarian Party filed this brief in Husted v Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, the U.S. Supreme Court case over ...
OpEd News

Saturday: The Apocalypse. Sunday: Gays To Celebrate With A Street Fair And Beer Bust! - Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Floods. Armageddon. Blame the gays.
If You Only News

Roy Moore Gets Palin, Gorka Endorsements, Competing With Luther Strange’s Trump Backing - Donald Trump has made no secret of which candidate he’d like to see win the Alabama Senate special election to replace the Most Racist...
Informed Comment

Trump blasts Iran for backing Syria, ignores Russia, Praises Saudis - Accuses Iran of terrorism but lets Saudis skate
Palmer Report

Here comes Donald Trump’s demented meltdown about Paul Manafort - Brace yourselves The post Here comes Donald Trump’s demented meltdown about Paul Manafort appeared first on Palmer Report.
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day - *-by Noah* Republicans still have their daggers out for Hillary Clinton and they always will. Having their guy win the presidency over her just isn't eno...
The NM Political Report

Mayoral candidate won’t say if he will award contracts to his current employer - [image: Mayoral candidate won’t say if he will award contracts to his current employer] Almost every election includes questions about donors’ intentions a...
Deep State Nation

‘All Lives Splatter’ Goes Nationwide, Republicans Everywhere Fantasize About Killing Protesters - The latest in a string of conservatives to publicly display their deeply held desire to murder protesters is Republican Lynne DiSanto, the GOP Whip in th...
Wolf Street

Answers Emerge from Harvey-Hit Houston - Even before Hurricane Harvey, Houston’s economy was struggling.
jobsanger

Not An Intelligent Species -
Rivard Report

For Some Transgender Texans, Bathroom Bill Fight Spurs Bids for Office - Transgender candidates said their bids for office were about more than blocking specific legislation. The post For Some Transgender Texans, Bathroom Bill...
First Draft

Album Cover Art Wednesday: A Few Small Repairs - A Few Small Repairs came out twenty years ago and was recently re-issued in a fancy new edition. It was Shawn Colvin’s commercial breakthrough, became a b...
Socialist Worker

Chuck and Nancy's art of the deal - Danny Katch, author of *Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People*, uncovers the secret of the shell game that Democrats have played in the name of defe...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: With no Democratic governor candidate, questions trail Joaquin Castro - Statesman: With no Democratic governor candidate, questions trail Joaquin Castro
Liberation News

Wild fires devastating West Coast - Poor land management practices and climate change, the two main causes of the increasing severity of wildfires, are only exacerbated by capitalism. The p...
Dissident Voice

Distorted Views of the Enemy and Bush’s “Axis of Evil” - Many years ago, while the war in Vietnam still raged, the psychologist Ralph K. White wrote a book entitled Nobody Wanted War that has resonated deeply wit...
National Post

McMaster University campus is going 100 per cent smoke-free. Here are five things to know - The university said those who need marijuana for therapeutic purposes will still be included in the ban, but suggested that they try using edible products
Antiwar.com

Suicide Bombers Attack Restaurant; 64 Killed in Iraq - Bombers attacked a restaurant frequented by Shi'ite militias. The post Suicide Bombers Attack Restaurant; 64 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.co...
Election Law Blog

“Fate Is Uncertain for House GOP’s Campaign Finance Riders” - Bloomberg BNA: The House and Senate will negotiate several provisions curbing federal powers on campaign finance that were tacked onto the House’s $1.2 tri...
VICE

Rich People Feel Really, Really Bad About Being Rich - A new book explores the anxieties that come along with affluence. I asked the author why regular people should care.
Splinter

Jeff Sessions Attacks California's 'Unconscionable' Sanctuary State Bill - Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ assailed California’s recently passed “sanctuary state” law while speaking to federal immigration officers in Portland, O...
The Conversation

The South Vietnamese who fled the fall of Saigon -- and those who returned - Vietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 319, Box 19, declassification...
High Plains Blogger

Trump makes good on Harvey pledge; thank you, Mr. President - Donald Trump’s pledge of $1 million to help the victims of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey had been met with some skepticism. Critics actually doubted the ...
Pajiba

Jimmy Kimmel Lashes Out Against New GOP Healthcare Plan: Bill Cassidy 'Lied to My Face' - A few months ago, as you might recall, Jimmy Kimmel's son was born with a heart defect. His son underwent surgery and survived the condition, but it prompt...
The Contributor

GOP Senator is For States' Rights... Except When It Comes to Single Payer - News Image: Covering all people with single payer is not money "properly spent," according to Republican. origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Juli...
emptywheel

Why Did Guccifer 2.0 Keep Harping on VAN? - Why did Guccifer 2.0 keep harping on VAN? Was it meant as a warning to Democrats?
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

North Korea Wins Twitter War - Rocket Man retorts …
Irregular Times

Donald Trump Goes Full Nikita Khrushchev at the UN - Today, the President of the United States threatened the complete destruction of another country from the podium of the United Nations.
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Secret Science Club Post-Lecture Recap: Two Lecturers, Two Black Holes - Last night, I headed down to the beautiful Bell House, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, for this month's Secret Science Club lecture featuring Princeton...
Political Dig

REVEALED: Don Jr Also Used RNC Funds To Pay Lawyers - On Tuesday it was revealed that Donald Trump used money from his campaign funds and the Republican National Committee to pay for his legal defense in the...
Gin and Tacos

SHOTGUN STRATEGY - Another week, another urgent exhortation to CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW TO SAVE HEALTH CARE. SERIOUSLY IF YOU DON'T DO IT RIGHT NOW ALL IS LOST. I know we...
Portside

G.M. Workers Strike in Canada as Mexico Jobs Raise Tension - Roughly 2,750 unionized employees are carrying out the first strike at a Canadian auto assembly plant in 21 years in Ingersoll, Ontario. OTTAWA — Workers a...
Field Negro

John Kelly is all of us today. - [image: Image result for kelly face palm images] *"And I think it's gonna be a long long time'Till touch down brings me round again to findI'm not the m...
Houston Communist Party

Former Pentagon Analyst Explains Why Trump Fostering Hysteria Over North Korea - Opinion Former Pentagon Analyst Explains Why Trump Fostering Hysteria Over North Korea Opinion 03:32 20.09.2017Get short URL 3316 0 0 https://sputniknews.c...
Ballot Access News

Final Brief Filed in U.S. Supreme Court in Partisan Gerrymandering Wisconsin Case - On September 19, the state of Wisconsin filed its reply brief in Gill v Whitford, 16-1161, the case over whether extreme partisan gerrymandering violates t...
Brad Blog

Trump Blusters UN; GOP 'Repealing' O'Care Again; Dems 'Looking Forward' With 'Medicare-for-All': 'BradCast' 9/19/2017 - Today on The BradCast, its yet another day with an impossibly huge number of important breaking news stories to cover. But we try. Along with some conversa...
Mock Paper Scissors

Fashion Week Continues! - OK, gents, time to get your Madonna-wanna-be selves in shape! Express yourselves! (More here. Hat tip: Scissorhead Moeman)Filed under: Fashion Week
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Remarks by President Trump on Cuba and Venezuela today at the UN General Assembly - *"From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure."...
Reverb Press

Turkish President: Trump Apologized to me for My Guards Pummeling Peaceful Protesters - Turkish President Erdogan Says Donald Trump Called Him To Apologize For Violence Committed By Turkish Guards Back in May of this year, a dozen bodyguards...
The Progressive Wing

Treasury’s doors are wide open to buy bombs, but we have no money to care for the sick. - The day before President Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, the Senate passed a bill authorizing another $700bn for the Pentagon. In a rare...
Anti-Media

Videos: At Least 149 Dead After Powerful Earthquake Rocks Central Mexico - At least 60 people have been pulled from the rubble alive after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroyed hundreds of buildings. (ZHE) — On the anniversary of a...
slacktivist

White evangelicalism, 1975: Before the change (3.1) - Norman Geisler's use of the term "therapeutic" in this section turned out to be unfortunate. Back in the early 1970s, when he was writing this summary of t...
Progressive Army

Uniting the Left - I have been planning on writing this article for a while but I always felt that this topic was big enough to write an entire book on. It only consists of...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

John Aravosis spills the tea on the religious right leader who likes gay sex art - Long-time progressive activist John Aravosis, along with Cliff Schecter, has a wonderful podcast called *UnPresidented. *Through *UnPresidented*, Aravosis ...
Above the Law

We Don’t File Lawsuits On Principle (Or: Why All Employment Lawsuits Often Have Such Bad Facts On Both Sides) - Lawsuits are all about money: this might sound distasteful, but it's true (at least in employment law).
Slate

The Real Political Correctness - The ideology that put Donald Trump in the White House is one of victimhood as much as it’s one of resentment. As a candidate for president, Donald Trump ...
Hullabaloo

Oh heck. Does this mean Trump's a Republican after all? - *Oh heck. Does this mean Trump's a Republican after all?* by digby After all that nonsense abut Trump being an independent, transactional pragmatist wh...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

The Future of The Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest - Alamo Drafthouse CEO and Fantastic Fest founder Tim League is in the news after re-hiring a staffer accused of sexual assault—and his festival may suffer...
Texas Standard

Donald Trump Uses U.N. Speech To Threaten North Korea - In his first speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Trump praised the international organization, but also took on North Korea, and the Iran nuclear deal.
Texas Observer

Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court - Facebook/Texas Civil Rights Project The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), a 26-year-old nonprofit well-known in social justice circles, announced Monday...
Buzzflash

World leaders' faces react to Trump's U.N. speech - World leaders' faces react to Trump's U.N. speech 4.8/*5* rating (6 votes)
Swamplot

Conroe Home Listing Photo of the Day: Open House - 15252 Saddlewood Dr. [HAR]… Read More
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Jonathan Cahn’s Bogus Biblical Exegesis - Elliot Mincberg @ The American Prospect: Will the Supreme Court Abandon True Government Neutrality Toward Religion? Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: After Tr...
Houstonia

Weeks Post-Harvey, Downtown Arts Venues Remain Unusable - The Wortham Center will be closed through May 15, 2018 "in a best case scenario."
The Fifth Column

Who Are the Rohingya and Why Are They Fleeing Myanmar? - Myanmar (NM) – In the last 3 weeks, escalating violence in Myanmar (Burma) has forced around 380,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh....
Speak Freely (ACLU)

At U.N., Trump Hides Behind ‘Sovereignty’ to Shield His Administration From Scrutiny - Trump mentioned “sovereignty” 21 times at the UN today. Here’s what he was getting at. This morning, in his first speech to the United Nations General Ass...
Rewire

Pennsylvania Officials Still Won’t Cut Off Anti-Choice Group Misusing Taxpayer Money - Pennsylvania has for years funneled tax dollars earmarked for low-income families to Real Alternatives, an anti-choice organization. The post Pennsylvan...
Washington's Blog

Gallup: 71% of Americans are “Dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed” - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org A Gallup poll headlined on September 17th, “Seven in 10 Dissatisfied With Way U.S. Is Being Gover...
Morning Consult

Senate Committee Deal on CHIP Would End Obamacare Funding Bump - A bipartisan Senate bill to renew the Children's Health Insurance Program is a mixed bag for states, which would secure much-needed federal funds for fiv...
Shadowproof

Appeals Court Rejects Absurd Claim Use Of Force Policy Violates Seattle Officers’ Second Amendment Rights - A federal appeals court rejected Seattle police claims that a "use of force" policy violates their Second Amendment rights to use firearms. The post Appe...
Consortium News

Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism - Exclusive: President Trump’s U.N. speech showed that despite his America First rhetoric, his policies are virtually the same as the neocon strategies of Ge...
BEYONDbones

Pirate Treasure At HMNS…? - So today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and a lot of people have been asking me if we have any pirate-related (piratical?) objects in our collection a...
AlterNet.org

Black and White Americans Have Astonishingly Different Views of Police - Police abuses in communities of color have led to colder feelings among black Americans toward law enforcement. In a Twitter post earlier this month, NFL...
Grist

Trump’s policies put the most vulnerable Americans in danger. - The administration has torn down some hard-won protections.
Campaign for America's Future

How You Can Help Small Businesses Thrive - Banks are trying to score another victory over hardworking Americans by refusing to lend to minorities, women, and rural residents who own and run small bu...
Liberal Values

Peter Daou Shows A Strange Form Of Integrity In His Promotion Of Russia Conspiracy Theories - Peter Daou has often shown that no statement, regardless of how demonstrably false, is beyond him in his efforts to white wash Hillary Clinton. This one wa...
Echidne of the Snakes

Trump Speaks To The Nations of The World - At the United Nations. The message that was put into his mouth (perhaps by Stephen Miller) is one of patriotic ethno-nationalism, of strong nation state...
Rude Pundit

The Short Bus to Armageddon: Trump at the U.N. - When do we get to stop being embarrassed, huh? Every time that President Donald Trump opens his lamprey mouth and shakes his semen-colored mane, it's like ...
News Taco

How to Learn From the World’s Best Blogger - I was recently asked for the name the world’s best blogger, which I took to mean, in a roundabout way, my favorite blogger. The questioner was looking to...
Dorf on Law

NeverTrump Conservatives In a Futile Search For Relevance - *by Neil H. Buchanan* One of the depressing parlor games of the post-November 8 era has been trying to explain how the presidential election was even close...
Ring of Fire

Trump Buries Report Showing Immigrants And Refugees Create Massive Economic Gains - Donald Trump has made the hatred of immigrants and refugees a cornerstone of his administration, so it should come as no surprise that a new report by th...
Louis Proyect

This is what American fascism looks like: the Lyndon LaRouche story (part four) - Lyndon LaRouche’s ties to Ronald Reagan, the Donald Trump of the 1980s (part one, part two, part three) In 2017, large segments of the left—especially anar...
CultureMap Houston

Beloved Texas sandwich shop with Philly flavor plots Houston return - A beloved Houston favorite will make its return next month. Texadelphia, the sandwich shop that brings Texan flavors to the Philly classic, will open its ...
News Corpse

Trump’s Insane Threat to ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’ Affirms His Mental Infirmity - The United Nations is holding its 72nd Session of the U.N. General Assembly. But it is also the first one that is being addressed by Donald Trump. If the d...
Affinity

Paper! - Even doing the draft of I Have Seen The Moon has been irritating, because thanks to having no paper, I couldn’t fit everything on my scratch paper. After d...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THE WORLD IS RUN BY OVERARMED ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOYS - I see that Vladimir Putin is performing masculinity again: A statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, has been unveiled in...
Free Press Houston

Against A Tide: An Interview with Gouge Away - The ebb and flow of modern hardcore music always finds a reason to stir up something new and exciting: the popularity of other genres that can comfortably ...
In These Times

We Can’t Fight Trump-Style Hate with the Surveillance State - How do we effectively challenge organized white supremacists? Post-Charlottesville, the spotlight focused on the work of an organization of former white ...
Better Texas Blog

Texas loses under Graham-Cassidy - At first glance it may look like Texas comes out ahead in the Graham-Cassidy bill, the Senate’s last-ditch effort to cut Medicaid and repeal the Affordab...
Pharyngula

Nature did not intend that you put those colors there! - Oh, my. Some researchers have discovered that pigments in tattoo inks can, over the years, wander out of the tattoo into places like lymph nodes. They have...
Mahablog

Trump at the UN: He Kept His Shoes On - Trump addressed the UN this morning, and I’m pleased to say that he did not at any point pull off a shoe and pound it on the podium. Credit where credit is...
Save Buffalo Bayou

On Mud, Dust, and Rain - And Letting the Bayou Heal Sept. 19, 2017 Rain at last! Monday morning the sky is grumbling with thunder, even as the sun shines. A sprinkle of rain will w...
Political Garbage Chute

In Speech to North Korea, Kim Jong-Un Calls Trump “Pocket Rocket Man” - Tensions between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump are rising, with no sign of abating on the horizon. [...] The post In ...
Equality Texas

#TransTuesday: National Suicide Prevention Month - September is National Suicide Prevention Month. For today’s #TransTuesday, Equality Texas would like for our supporters to help us promote awareness around...
Lewisville Texan Journal

City of Lewisville recognizes officers for saving a life - An altercation between two people behind a Jack in the Box led to a stabbing the evening of June 19, 2016. Officers John Austin Slye and Timothy O’Hare r...
Eater Houston

15 Year Old Houston Bar Closes After Hurricane Harvey - Drink Houston didn’t weather the storm After fifteen years of serving up cocktails Drink Houston has officially closed its doors, saying that Hurricane...
MintPress News

Anti-Brutality Protests Hit St. Louis Streets For Fourth Night - The ACLU accuses police of “unacceptable, unlawful” behavior as protests continue unabated against the acquittal of an ex-cop charged with murder. The po...
Popular Resistance

Waterborne Demonstration Puts Pentagon’s Environmental Impact Front And Center - By John Zangas and Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Arlington, Va. — On Sunday afternoon, the Backbone Campaign, World Without War, the Raging Grannies, a...
Progressive.org

Creating a Sanctuary Union, with George Miranda - Eber Garcia Vasquez had been and NYC Teamster for 26 years when he was deported in September. His union fought to keep him here, but when their campaign wa...
DeSmogBlog

Exclusive: Here are the Energy Companies Represented by Trump’s Nominee to Head FERC - President Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC) has, as a corporate attorney, personally represented a host of energy a...
Peacock Panache

A Disquieting Possibility: Climate Change & Plants’ Nutritional Value - Could climate change be making us fat? Politico has published an article from a series on the future of health that suggests the answer may be yes. The a...
OffCite

Kashmere Gardens After Harvey: Grassroots Action as Wait for Government Drags On - Keith Downey, Kenneth Williams, and Huey German-Wilson. Photo courtesy Keith Downey.“The City Houston is open for business,” Mayor Sylvester Turner announc...
Daily Howler

WHERE THE DEPLORABLES ARE: Over There! - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017Part 2—The problem with inkblot questions:* Last year, respondents were asked an unfortunate question as part of the General ...
Debunking Christianity

Empirical Proof that Christianity Is False? - Split-brain patients are individuals who have had the corpus callosum (which connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain) severed. This causes th...
Duck of Minerva

The Case Against “The Case For Colonialism” - This is a guest post by Sahar Khan, a visiting research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department. Sahar holds a PhD in politica...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Are long gas lines forming in North Korea, as Donald Trump says? - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Are long gas lines forming in North Korea, as Donald Trump says? As North Korea continues to try the West’s patience w...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives look at #Harvey cleanup, more - The Texas Progressive Alliance encourages you to keep supporting Harvey and Irma relief efforts as it brings you this week's roundup. Off the Kuff reminds...
Democracy Now!

Trump's Childhood Home is Now an Airbnb Where Refugees Slept Over to Protest Immigration Crackdown - This past weekend, a surprising gathering took place at President Trump's childhood home in Queens, New York. The home is now an Airbnb. On Saturday, the i...
ProPublica

Failing Charter Schools Have a Reincarnation Plan - by Annie Waldman This past June, Florida’s top education agency delivered a failing grade to the Orange Park Performing Arts Academy in suburban Jackson...
CPI's Danger in the Air

These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to it? - A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.
Dos Centavos

Save The Date: 10/16/17 – Rev. Barry Lynn in Houston - Join the Houston Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State As We Honor the 25 Years of Leadership of The Reverend Barry W. Lyn...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The panhandler - *(based on a true interaction, with apologies to Thomas Bernhard)* I am not Hispanic, said the panhandler, to me, as I passed him, and he wasn’t. I know t...
Lowering the Bar

Lawsuit Claims “Farley”-Brand “Fat Bikes” Infringe on Chris Farley - The bikes also allegedly have a "wider-than-average chassis."
Greg Palast

Indivisible Chicago and ACLU of Illinois Team Up to End State’s Participation in Racist Crosscheck Voter Purging Program - @IndivisibleChi press conference to end #Crosscheck in IL with @ACLUofIL and Rep Greg Harris and @IndivisibleIL ! @Greg_Palast pic.twitter.com/nhjOOsQEzj...
Reveal

Trump civil rights nominee called allowing women in combat ‘laughable’ - An Iraq War veteran nominated by Trump to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says he has since changed his mind about women in combat.
Rallblog

SYNDICATED COLUMN: No Man is Above the Law — Except on College Campuses - Freshman orientation, Columbia University, New York City, Fall 1981: Now as then, there were speeches. A blur of upperclassmen, professors and deans welcom...
Ian Welsh

Obama’s Just the Enemy And Always Was - One of the most amusing things about the 07/8 primary season was how often Obama praised Reagan and how few people took him seriously. Obama thought Reagan...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Review - Geoff Mann’s stimulating book In the Long Run We are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution identifies a current of critical thought w...
Frontloading HQ

California Primary Bill Passes Legislature. What It Means and What It Doesn't - On the final day the California legislature was in session for 2017, both chambers did what state legislatures often do at the close of a year: in short, l...
DBC Green blog

No-Relief-from-Harvey-Stories Texoblogosphere - This week's blog-a-thon contains quite a few intriguing-looking links, IMHO. That's not to say that I'll click through all of them, and I seldom do, but th...
Houston Streetwise

Allens' Landing after the flood ... with newly formed sandbank -
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note ] | Inside the October Issue, by James Marcus - Marilynne Robinson, Andrew Cockburn, Ben Mauk, Elisabeth Zerofsky, Eileen Myles, and more…
Nathan Hevenstone

Great Guitar Solos – Pink Floyd Plays Sorrow Live on P*U*L*S*E* - More David Gilmour because… well… it’s David Gilmour… This is from the P*U*L*S*E* DVD (that entire show is a treasure trove of amazing solos, to be honest)...
Bracing Views

The Climate Change War - W.J. Astore It seems Americans can’t rally support for something without declaring a “war” on it. The war on poverty. On drugs. On gangs and crime. On terr...
First Reading

L’affaire Fetonte: How an Austin union organizer’s work with CLEAT created a schism in America’s burgeoning socialist movement - Good morning Austin: I did not realize when I moved from D.C. to Austin in December 2012 that I was moving closer to the center…
The Disorder Of Things

Academics Against the Arms Fair: An Open Letter - Last week, about 1500 weapons manufacturers and representatives of more than 100 states descended on London for Defence and Security Equipment Internationa...
Real News

Signs of hope in the Middle East? Don’t hold your breath - By James M. Dorsey / Middle East Soccer. Optimists see hopeful signs that the Middle East may be exiting from a dark tunnel of violence, civil war, secta...
South Texas Chisme

Texas republicans want drivers to pay for rape kits. - republicans don't care if a rapist is caught. Rape enables their male dominant cultural ideals. Driver's license applications will soon ask Texans whether ...
The Urban Edge

After Harvey, An Opportunity to Learn from the Past in the Classroom - Just as the Reconstruction Era of the 1800s attempted to generate more racial justice, the current reconstruction of Houston's schools must do the same. Co...
Independent Political Report

US Senate Candidate Austin Petersen on Infowars - … Read more ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Face of "War" at Home - Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hu...
Pages of Victory

Clinton's Book Sucks -
Death to Squirrels

Squirrel rescuers: the worst of the worst. - [CONTENT NOTE: disgusting images of baby squirrels, descriptions of wildly inappropriate human-squirrel interactions.] Goddammit. Twenty years working wild...
Grits for Breakfast

Reasonably Suspicious: Listen to the podcast, join us for our Launch Party! - After several months of working out the kinks in a soft launch, Just Liberty's *Reasonably Suspicious* podcast now is up and running on numerous platforms ...
Pressthink

Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer - A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job. The post Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer appear...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Michael Grimm to announce bid for old House seat: report - Former Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) plans to launch a bid for his old House seat just over a year after he was released from prison, according to a report S...
Robert Reich

The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth - White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs,...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 25: Single Payer Buzzkill - Bill Scher recounts for Traci Olsen the calm, measured reaction to his recent Politico article about Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill. Check out this ...
Stinque

The Antisocial Network - Back when we were learning our trade as a reporter, in the late Seventies, conversation would sometimes turn to the concentration of media, and the power r...
PoliTex (FWST)

Buckle up, Texas students: New school buses must have seat belts - Some Texas students will soon be getting a safer ride to and from school. A new law requires that any new school buses bought in Texas must include three-p...
Independent Thinker 2016

She’s Only Got Herself to Blame - A detailed behind the scenes exclusive that exposes WHAT actually HAPPENED to Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes.
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (Sept. 10 – 16) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. John Fea, professor of American history at Messiah College in Pennsylvania “When someone like Robert Jef...
Reading the Pictures

Anticipating a Conversation with Pete Souza at Photoville - I am looking forward to Saturday's special edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon at the fabulous Photoville festival. I'll be having a conversation w...
Socialist Alternative

Capitalism’s Grave New World - The financial crisis of 2007/08 delivered a shock to the capitalist system from which it is yet to recover. It cut across globalisation – and the triumphal...
Krebs on Security

Equifax Hackers Stole 200k Credit Card Accounts in One Fell Swoop - Visa and MasterCard are sending confidential alerts to financial institutions across the United States this week, warning them about more than 200,000 cred...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory - It's increasingly difficult to deny that there is Climate Change going on and that it is virtually guaranteed that it is partly a result of carbon dioxi...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists - A new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics finds that while there is relatively little national ...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

September 14, 1901: McKinley died, Teddy Roosevelt ascended to presidency - Lincoln, Garfield, then McKinley. September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, eight days after having been shot at Buffalo’s ...
The Rag Blog

Jonah Raskin : BOOKS | Blowing themselves up: Revisiting the Weather Underground - ‘Swords in the Hands of Children’ is Jonathan Lerner’s passionate tale of his adventures as a young, gay insurgent. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | Septem...
Houston Justice

RACISM IN THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT - [image: PIMPING THE BLACK VOTE.png] Can we talk about it? You ever notice those organizations that come to Black and Brown neighborhoods with clip boards...
Trivial Knot

What is a symmetry group? - This is the first part of a series about symmetry in origami. Here I will explain what a symmetry group is through a series of examples. This heart illustr...
South Lawn

Democracy Is More Than A Ballot Every Two Years - There is a common sense about democracy in the United States. We elect people to government. By and large, we allow them to do their work. If we like their...
Ecosophia

September 2017 Book Club - This week’s post is the third of a monthly series of open-discussion posts focusing on books I’ve written. Our theme for the present is my book Mystery T...
Other Words

In OtherWords: September 13, 2017 - As our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it's also becoming poorer.
Political Orphans

Special election results since Trump - How about something hopeful for a change?
Great American Satan

Great Moments in TV Badassery - I’m rewatching Daredevil in bits and pieces. Came across a great scene, wanted to mention it and talk just a little about it, but this conversation will ge...
ExChristian.Net

Why the Old Testament is so silly - *By John Draper ~ * Back when I was a Christian, it was important to me to always have the Word of God close at hand. So I would keep a “pocket Bible” on m...
Ramona's Voices

Reporting In: Getting My Life Back - Yesterday, 9/11/17, was a bittersweet day for me. I couldn't forget it marked the 16th anniversary of the day the Twin Towers went down in NYC, but the da...
Quartz

In Tanzania, making Atlas work for traditional media outfits like newspapers and radio - The Atlas for Africa training in Tanzania took place at two of the country’s most prestigious newsrooms. The first training was held at the BBC Swahili o...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

September is the start of the State Employee Charitable Campaign - Texas State employees have the option to give to charities of their choice through a workplace giving campaign and September is the start of their campai...
UP@NIGHT

The Communist SAT and College Rankings Conspiracy - It should not be news to conspiracy theorists that there has been an …
Avedon's Sideshow

You might think I'm crazy - Dept. of Google Doing Evil: *Note: Barry C. Lynn mentioned herein is a different fellow from Barry W. Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church a...
ROAR Magazine

Municipalist syndicalism: organizing the new working class - By adopting a municipalist agenda, the labor movements of the new working class have the power to democratize not just the union, but also the city itsel...
Progrexas

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

Debunking Kobach’s latest voter fraud lie - Kris Kobach is at it again, claiming he’s found “proof” of large scale voter fraud. He hasn’t. And he’s doing something particularly sneaky that’s worth ex...
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 ...
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 9/7/2017 - It's been a terrific spring and summer, busy with a lot of projects, and now about midway done with all of them. I have some plans for this site in the n...
PERRspectives

Trump, GOP Demand Blue State Payback - In recent years, "red state socialism" has become the hallmark of American federalism. That is, even as supposed GOP budget hawks loudly (and wrongly) decr...
Pensito Review

The Looming Republican Rebellion - “I think there’s going to be a rebellion against everybody, not just leadership. If we get to December and we’ve not repealed Obamacare, don’t build the wa...
Texans For Public Justice

In Harvey's wake, critics see big money behind lax reporting - From the Texas Tribune: In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, an exploding chemical plant and spikes in cancer-causing emissions are highlighting how little th...
Resistance Report

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

Antifa Is Good, Nazis Are Bad: Confusing Free Speech w/ the Right to a Platform - Antifa Is Good, Nazis Are Bad: Confusing Free Speech w/ the Right to a Platform Is antifa shutting down free speech by punching neo-nazis & fascists? A ...
Moron Majority

Trump To Return Statue Of Liberty To France - Donald Trump is deporting Lady Liberty. By way of a controversial executive order signed yesterday, Trump is packing up the iconic symbol of American freed...
LawFlog

White House petition to release FBI records surpasses 50,000 signatures - A petition asking the Trump Administration to order the FBI to release records related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation surpassed 50,000 signatur...
Our Finite World

Why Oil Prices Can’t Bounce Very High; Expect Deflation Instead - Economists have given us a model of how prices and quantities of goods are supposed to interact. Unfortunately, this model is woefully inadequate. It sort ...
Popehat

Hate Speech Debate on More Perfect Live - I'm a huge fan of Radiolab's Supreme Court podcast "More Perfect," so I'm thrilled to be participating in a live debate this Wednesday September 6, 2017. I...
Digital Heretic

Hurricane Harvey Victims Find Relief From Houston’s Rice Military, Heights Neighborhoods - In the wake of historic floods thousands of Houston area residents Piece together the remnants of what Hurricane Harvey destroyed. Others spared Harvey’s...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Right-Wing Propaganda Never Sleeps - *It's better to burn America, 'cause Propaganda never sleeps...* Lost amongst the hillarity felt by smug liberals to the conservative *WHATABOUT *President...
Texas Moratorium Network

Journey of Hope Coming to 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty October 28, 2017 - Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing, an organization led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses a...
Texas Watch

Valid Concerns on Valid Claims - The threat to property owners filing insurance claims in the wake of Hurricane Harvey is real. Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature passed HB 1774, ...
New Progressive Alliance

Beware the Trump Administration - The New Progressive Alliance keeps references that allies and friends may use in support of the Unified Platform such as Make Your Case! One of our reso...
Counter Propa

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

From the Party of Lincoln to the Party for racists - I've said it before but I am now convinced it is true. Remember when we used to say "Not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans"? Th...
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...
Texas Leftist

ICYMI: President Trump Also Tossed Out His Infrastructure Council This Week - For someone so “new” to politics, our nation’s 45th President sure seems to know what he’s doing when it comes to creating distractions and burying scandal...
St. Petersburg Independents

Reparations are alive! - “A crime has been committed. Reparations is the admission of that crime, one which shocks the conscience of the world.” Such is the foundation of the ca...
Carl Beijer

Ben Shapiro has changed his mind about antifa - Ben Shapiro, writing for The National Review, gives us the inevitable "both sides are to blame for Charlottesville" take: There’s still no certain knowledg...
Seeing the Forest

Thanks, Capitalism - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
News Junkie

Climate Change: SOS for Humanity’s Survival - Unless one lives in the alternate reality of religious beliefs , it has become impossible to deny and ignore a simple fact: very soon, perhaps within only ...
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...
nonsite.org

The Reality Contract - Perhaps not surprisingly, the history of Hollywood production mirrors the history of venture capital in the United States, as each new film presents an idi...
Down Goes Trump

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

What's at Stake?: Net Neutrality - Just two years after the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), under the Obama administration, affirmed the concept of net neutrality, some of the larg...
Pressing Issues

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 6 Days - Each summer I count down the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945), marking events from the same day in 1945. I've written ...
34justice

We Don’t Need No “Moderates” - Don't fall for the false notion that candidates committed to economic and social justice are unelectable in "red" and "purple" areas. Help those candidates...
WAWG Blog

Democracy In Chains – Adding Corporate Veto Power to America’s Checks and Balances - From the last chapter of Democracy In Chains, by Nancy MacLean, here is how the Koch Brothers and their elite Libertarian cadre are increasing their, white...
The Nil Admirari

Man-Baby Trump Convinced he Can Pardon Himself - He Can't - Mr. Trump was ranting on Twitter again this Saturday morning and one of his tweets desperately claimed the president had the "complete power to pardon,"...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Opiates & the Senate Health Care Bill - When the Senate’s health-care bill died this week, it was worth noting the few who led the revolt. Most were senators from states hardest hit by our epid...
Bullshit-ist

Learning Things The Hard Way - I’ve used the Notes app on my phone as a kind of second brain for as long as I can remember. Most of the stuff in there makes absolutely zero sense (“eye...
Texas Election Law Blog

Democracy in Crisis: Rick Hasen’s Editorial Is A Must-Read - “Don’t Let Our Democracy Collapse” I’m reposting Professor Hasen’s editorial in today’s New York Times (linked through his election law blog) here for thre...
STRENGTH !N NUMBERS

Is Loving a Black Man a Revolutionary Act? - Is Loving a Black Man a Revolutionary Act?Ashton P. Woods *It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pr...
Modern Democracy

Raines Check: Legislator Standing and the Separation of Powers - Excited to have a post up today on Take Care Blog discussing Raines v. Byrd and the impact of separation-of-powers principles on legislator standing in the...
The Liberal Yell

Department of Education’s Candice E. Jackson is a Fraud - First published on: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/dept-education-s-candice-e-jackson-fraud The New York Times just reported that the Department of We D...
GOP Watchdog

Meet the Ex-Congressman who wrote the appendix of a book about Russians Lobbying the US - Curt Weldon has been a very busy man throughout his life. In the late 70’s, he fought the Pagans motorcycle gang as mayor of Marcus Hook, and then he chair...
Raised on the Rail

We’re Back! - You may have noticed that we took a brief hiatus from blogging this past spring. I thought that even though I was pregnant I would be able to continue our ...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT 90.1's Queer Voices - The Texas Legislature returns to the pink dome on July 18th to tackle 20 issues selected by Gov. Abbot for the special sessions, including legislation to r...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Unauthorized Disclosure — Episode 21: People’s Movement Must Be More Outspoken On Wars - If you would like to support the show and help keep us going strong, please become a subscriber on our Patreon page. Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola ...
All Ablog Austin

Ready for the Republic of Texas biker rally? We’ve got the best motorcycle routes in Central Texas - The Republic of Texas Biker Rally is this weekend at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin. If you want to take a ride near the city, here are some of ...
twissblog

Melania Trump fired after asking who ate all the Little Debbies - WASHINGTON–Melania Trump, who recently was hired as First Lady, was terminated today in a one-page letter. The letter said that she was fired as a result o...
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...
MOMocrats.com

100 Days of Trump, Part 2: The End of Obama Nation - More on Trump's first 100 Days: Nobody has promised more and delivered less. He’s lowered the bar for the role of the president from being the highest, m...
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...
Political Carnival

We're Taking a Vacation! - Hi, everyone! We will be on vacation - the first in a long while! - for the next few weeks. See you on the other side! The post We're Taking a Vacation! ...
Above None of the Above

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

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

Trump Supporter Promises Legislation to Label Protest as “Economic Terrorism” - The proposed "Preventing Economic Terrorism Act" marks a radical expansion of legislation that was once used to criminalize environmentalists as "eco-terro...
Jim Hightower

Takeaways from the election - Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that). He will need to be up-and-at-’e...
Source Planet

Trump Trolls Are Running A Bernie Write-In Campaign - Over the past months I have managed to infiltrate most of the Trump, Facebook Groups, Subreddits, IRC channels, etc. Most of the chatter has moved into mak...
Velvet Revolution

On Colbert, Anderson Cooper has no good answers as to why CNN employs Corey Lewandowski - Good on Stephen Colbert. The “Late Show” host last night welcomed CNN host Anderson Cooper for a little chat, and the name of former Donald Trump campaign ...
Dandelion Salad

So what is The Freeconomy Community about? - Dandelion Salad http://justfortheloveofit.org/philosofree -It’s about making the transition from a money-based communityless society to a community-based m...

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