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Mediaite

A Republican DOJ Memo Says Actually, No, Trump Can’t Pardon Himself -
Bonddad

Why are mortgage applications so much stronger than home building? - *- by New Deal democrat* It's been a quandary all year. I take a look at the possible reason why over at XE.com.
Daily Howler

Mental horizons of the Times! - *FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017As always, we kid you not:* We'll admit to a sick fascination with the intellectual horizons of the New York Times—more specificall...
Daily Kos

Kushner still selling $500,000 visas to Chinese investors as program meant to help poor is subverted - Jared Kushner may be up to his twig-thin neck in the Russia investigation, but that hasn’t stopped him or the other members of the Kushner Companies from...
The Verge

Shanghai had its hottest day in 145 years - A heat wave may be pummeling the East Coast right now, but we should really be taking pity on Shanghai, which had its hottest day in at least 145 years. ...
First Draft

No, OJ, No… - I remember exactly where I was on Oct. 3, 1995 when the jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her fri...
Think Progress

The Russian lawyer Donald Trump, Jr. met with has worked for the FSB - She represented the agency—the successor to the KGB—for nearly a decade.On Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks to a j...
Vox

President Trump is considering pardoning himself. I asked 15 experts if that's legal. - “The fact that we're even talking about it is a measure of how far we've fallen under Trump." President Trump’s lawyers are exploring the potential uses...
Slate

“They Believe the Government Is Now on Their Side” - On May 13, members of the anti-abortion group Operation Save America walked solemnly to the entrance of the EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the last abortio...
Mother Jones

Here’s Exactly How Many People Will Be Uninsured Under Each Republican Health Care Bill - Over the past few months, Republicans have trotted out a variety of ideas for killing Obamacare. Each of their various bills has shared one key trait: They...
Sputnik News

Lavrov Reveals What Trump Told Putin About Alleged Russia's US Election Meddling - US President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting that he trusts him and that he thinks that Moscow did not interfere in...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Couple suing Kim Davis awarded over $200,000' & other Fri midday news briefs - Kim Davis (before losing $200,000 in a court case.) *Judge awards couples who sued Kim Davis more than $200,000 in fees* - *GOOD! Maybe Mike Huckabee and a...
Right Wing Watch

Kris Kobach: States Refusing Data to ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Must Be Hiding ‘Aliens’ On Voter Rolls - Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and vice chairman of President Trump’s “commission on election integrity” joined Alex Marlow at “Breitbart News ...
Salon.com

“Game of Thrones” producers defend “Confederate” after backlash - News of the upcoming sci-fi slave drama has not been well received
MintPress News

Just 100 Corporations Responsible For 71% Of Global Greenhouse Emissions - Since 1988, 25 fossil fuel producers have caused over half of global emissions. Among these are Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, along with the state-o...
Crooks and Liars

Sean Spicer Quits! - [image: Sean Spicer Quits!] This has a very Nixonian feel to it, don't you think? Apparently, Spicer doesn't want to work for Scaramucci Mr. Trump offer...
Death and Taxes

Sean Spicer resigns from Trump administration over The Mooch appointment - Look who finally grew a spine.
Talking Points Memo

NYT: Spicer Resigns As White House Press Secretary - Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary Friday morning, the New York Times reported. Spicer told President Donald Trump he disagreed with New...
Texas Observer

Dems: Dan Patrick’s Senate Speed-up Is ‘Subverting’ the Democratic Process - The Lieutenant Governor is racing to accomplish the Governor’s special session agenda, but critics say he’s trampling both the minority party and the pub...
Houston Press

Insecure Offers TV’s Sharpest Insights on Race but Refuses to Limit Itself to That Subject - Insecure returns July 23 on HBO No moment captures the elations of HBO’s Insecure better than the opening scene of the sophomore season’s second episode. T...
Hullabaloo

The Resistance is mobilizing - *The Resistance is mobilizing* by digby I'm glad to see it. This is from Move On, but I think it's happening with every Resistance group in the country:...
Pajiba

Why Does Everyone Seem to Hate Netflix's 'Friends from College'? - I had not read any reviews of Netflix's Friends from College going into it, which might be for the best because they have been brutal (it is sporting a 23 ...
Houston Matters

4 Killed During Opposition-Led Strike In Venezuela - At least 97 have been killed in more than three months of political upheaval jolting the South American nation.
Raw Story

Sean Spicer resigns as press secretary over Trump’s pick for communications director - President Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer resigned on Friday. According to the New York Times, the former top spokesman for the president “vehem...
Freak Out Nation

Trump Just Completely Sh*t On Separation Of Church And State - Oh lookie here, our taxpayer dollars at work. The White House released a six-month anniversary press release and video on Thursday, giving Donald Trump a...
Eschaton

Bye Spicey - .@PressSec resigned after vehemently objecting to appointment at 10 a.m. Friday of Anthony Scaramucci as WH Communications director, per SAO — Glenn Thrus...
Reverb Press

Breitbart Editor Admits Their Goal is the ‘full Destruction and Elimination’ of the Free Press - Breitbart Editor Calls For End Of Media Breitbart editor Matt Boyle, known as “Breitbart’s (other) man in the White House” made a blunt admission about w...
VICE

The Fifth Season of 'Arrested Development' Will Be a Murder Mystery - Jason Bateman says the show's upcoming fifth season will be a whodunit investigation about the death of Lucille Austero.
Politifact Texas

Mike Pence - Did Donald Trump cut $18 billion worth of red tape, as Mike Pence said? - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Did Donald Trump cut $18 billion worth of red tape, as Mike Pence said? Vice President Mike Pence says that when it co...
Daily Dot

Meet Ashley Smith, the trans activist who went viral for her selfie with the Texas governor - When it comes to trans visibility, she says she's only getting started. The post Meet Ashley Smith, the trans activist who went viral for her selfie wit...
AlterNet.org

Trump Supporters Are Desperately Trying to Convince Themselves Hillary Would Have Been Worse - “People do not want to admit that somebody actually fooled them that well.” Wayne Bisher, a lifelong Democrat, says he looks forward to voting for a Democ...
Ring of Fire

Trump Administration to Usher In Era of Coal Ash Pollution - While the average American knows about the detrimental effects of oil pipeline spills and offshore drilling disasters, it is time that another pressing e...
Affinity

Tour The International Space Station. - Float in space w/ new @Google Street View of @Space_Station! See where crew exercise, conduct @ISS_Research + more: https://t.co/gJycxkdHcX pic.twitter.com...
SCOTUSblog

Petitions of the day - [image: Petitions of the day]The petitions of the day are: Lagos v. United States 16-1519 Issue: Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A(b)(4) covers costs for reimbur...
Ballot Access News

Public Radio Station Story on North Carolina Ballot Access Bill - WUNC 91.5, one of the Public Radio stations in North Carolina, has this story about SB 656, the bill to improve ballot access for newly-qualifying parties ...
Axios

Trump offers White House job to Anthony Scaramucci - President Trump is bringing Anthony Scaramucci into the White House for a leadership role in his communications team, two sources familiar with the decisi...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

CIA Director Pompeo's views on Wikileaks have - In 2016, CIA Director Mike Pompeo saw Wikileaks as a valuable tool to advance his partisan agenda. In 2017, he's apparently changed his mind.
Pharyngula

Those are some headlines - It’s the 92nd anniversary of the Scopes trial, and we missed out on some spectacular headlines. Bryan, under merciless goad of Darrow, holds fast to Holy W...
Anti-Media

Cholera Epidemic in Yemen is Now Worst Ever Recorded in History - (MEE) — Yemen is suffering from the world’s largest cholera epidemic on record, Oxfam said on Friday morning. The organization documented more than 360,000...
Common Dreams

The First Amendment Protects the Right to Boycott Israel - Brian Hauss Earlier this week, the ACLU sent a letter to members of Congress opposing the Israel Anti-Boycott Act.
CultureMap Houston

Christopher Nolan brings World War II to vivid life in Dunkirk - It's now been 72 years since the end of World War II, and it's fair to wonder how much longer movies about that particular war will continue to hold their...
The Progressive Wing

7/21 TPW News Round-up: Bernie Goes On the Offensive on New Energy Bill & TGIF Open Thread - Good Morning Birdies! I’ll start with a bit of Bernie news, then all of us can pitch in with other progressive news or excerpts to interesting things we’v...
Rivard Report

Dignowity Hill Neighbors, Faith Groups Examine Homelessness - Dignowity Hill residents and ministries believe communication, outreach, and dignity are the start to addressing homelessness in the area. The post Digno...
NPR's Health Shots

Is Inflammation Bad For You Or Good For You? - It depends what's causing the inflammation and how long it lasts. But the habits that keep you healthy overall also help prevent the bad inflammation that ...
Washington Monthly

Obama’s Response to Russian Interference in the Election - Trump and Republicans are lying when they say that he did nothing.
If You Only News

JUST IN: New Letter Reveals Congress Preparing To Hold Trump Accountable; About Time! (IMAGE) - It has been reported that Donald Trump and his legal counsel are looking at ways to skirt any charges of wrongdoing. According to The...
The Fifth Column

Micro y Nano Contaminacíon en Vacunas – Nuevo estudio italiano publicado- - (TFC) – Los científicos, la Dra. Antonietta M. Gatti y Stefano Montanari , han estudiado las lesiones por vacunación con un nuevo enfoque. Su informe fu...
Washington's Blog

Trillions of Dollars in U.S. Military Spending Is Unaccounted-For - Eric Zuesse First, a tip of the hat to Carl Herman for his having linked on July 19th to Catherine Austin Fitts’ recent placing on her site key records f...
Buzzflash

Trump officially nominates climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist - Trump officially nominates climate-denying conservative talk radio host as USDA’s top scientist 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
Rallblog

How the Press Leads “The Resistance” - The Trump Administration is guilty of countless wrongdoing, including monstrous acts that no one cares about, at least not in the press. In the meantime,...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Pre-Pardons Himself for Pardoning Himself for Things He Said He Didn’t Do - If Trump pardons himself, he may put himself in even deeper legal waters. So he needs to pre-pardon himself for pardoning himself. Get it? [...] The post...
Louis Proyect

Taxi Searchers - COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 21, 2017 Paraphrasing Norman Mailer, after reading Andrew Stewart’s “Advertisement for Himself” in last weekend’s CounterPunch, I immedi...
Dorf on Law

The Prime Directive Is to Protect the Rule of Law - by Neil H. Buchanan The transcript of Donald Trump's recent interview with the editors of *The New York Times* could simply be titled: "The Case for Dictat...
Dissident Voice

Europe’s Shameful Refugee Policy - This time of year Mediterranean beaches are the destinations of choice for many European holidaymakers; it’s also the beginning of the busiest time of year...
National Post

Coffee that gets you up in the morning: Viagra-like ingredient causes Malaysian brew to be recalled after FDA discovery - The FDA is concerned over its potential to lower blood pressure to "dangerous levels" and interaction with the substance and nitrates found in some prescri...
Texas Standard

This Crude Oil Pipeline Runs Right Under South Austin - When crude oil prices were down, the Longhorn pipeline carried gasoline, increasing the risk to its neighbors. Audio will be available shortly.
Bay Area Houston

Texas Congressional District 7. It's a race! - Well this IS exciting! According to the Federal Elections Committee there are 7 (yes 7) Democratic candidates seeking the nomination in the primary in orde...
Above the Law

The Dan Markel Case: Wendi Adelson Finds A New Job - Any negative views people might have about Wendi Adelson haven't stopped her from landing a prominent post.
Better Texas Blog

Texas Needs Real School Finance Remodel, Not Vouchers - Economic Opportunity Intern, Anna Crockett, co-wrote this post. Senate Bill 2 has emerged as the latest voucher bill of the 85th legislative session. Thi...
Election Law Blog

Ronald Klain on Where Trump is Making His Mark: The Judiciary - Klain in WaPo: What about Trump? He not only put Neil M. Gorsuch in the Supreme Court vacancy created by Merrick Garland’s blocked confirmation, but he als...
The Intercept

Now It’s Time for Tax Cuts — and Republicans Are More Divided Than Ever - Trump thinks tax reform will be easier than health care. He ain't seen nothin' yet. The post Now It’s Time for Tax Cuts — and Republicans Are More Divid...
Popehat

The Proud Boy And The Sockpuppet - Last week I wrote about Jason Van Dyke, a lawyer, violence-threatener, bigot, and perhaps-ironically self-styled Proud Boy. This was a post of little conse...
Real News

California Votes to Extend Landmark Cap-and-Trade Program—While Allowing Big Polluters to Get Away With Murder - By Reynard Loki / AlterNet. The new legislation makes huge concessions to the fossil fuel industry. Photo Credit: Tatiana Grozetskaya/Shutterstock There...
Mock Paper Scissors

The Summary - This Ain’t Normal, Folks Comrade Preznint Stupid is trying to build his own dossier on Robert Mueller and the other FBI investigators: “President Trump’s l...
Eater Houston

5 Restaurants to Try This Weekend In Houston - New brunch, weekend happy hour + more await Welcome to *Something for the Weekend*, a new weekly guide that intends to help Houstonians answer one ever-...
naked capitalism

Telling the Climate Truth - What must be done to alleviate the coming climate change catastrophe.
The Greanville Post

Is This the Beginning of the End for John McCain? - Select original comments Vtran TravelAbout • 2 days ago No … But led to believe that some like the “father” figure as may portray “wisdom” ! TravelAbout ...
Swamplot

Houston Apartment Demand Picks Up; The Heights Design Guidelines Delay - Median Houston Home Value Up 3.9% Year-Over-Year in June to $178,400, Finds Zillow [Houston Chronicle] Houston Apartment Demand Outstripped Supply of New U...
OpEd News

As Trump Decompensates, GOP Disintegrates - We're sailing in uncharted presidential waters. Donald Trump has moved beyond incompetency to the designation: "a danger to himself and others." One small ...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Texas Senate to Debate Bathroom Bill Today: Your Texas Roundup - Plus: A San Antonio man threatens to kill Ted Cruz, Dez Bryant throws a huge party in Lufkin, and abortion rights groups sue Texas over a procedure ban. ...
South Texas Chisme

republicans encourage teen pregnancy - The Trump administration cut more than $200 million from teen pregnancy prevention programs and research across the country last week. It was a surprise ...
In These Times

Language of the Unheard: 50 Years On, the Flames of the Detroit Uprising Still Burn - *Early on the morning of July 23, 1967, police in Detroit raided an illegal after-hours bar and began to arrest all 85 people there. A crowd gathered, an...
ProPublica

Kaboom Town - by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Bombs in Our Backyard - Share on Facebook - Share on Twitter - Comment - Donate Kaboom Town The U...
Houstonia

Our Houston Restaurant Summer Menu Round-Up - Here's what's new at some of your favorite restaurants.
Down With Tyranny!

Randy Bryce-- On The Environmental Challenges That Face Us All - Let me put the bullshit smear about Randy Bryce favoring tar sands to bed right here and now. A political operative being paid to smear Bryce in progress...
No More Mister Nice Blog

WHY HASN'T TRUMP FIRED MUELLER ALREADY? - So we know this from a *Washington Post* story: Some of President Trump’s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller...
Democracy Now!

As Trump Touts "Made in America" Week, Indonesian Workers Toil Away Making Ivanka Trump Apparel - While President Trump is promoting "Made in America" week, we turn now to look at a recent investigation by The Guardian that revealed workplace abuse, gru...
SocraticGadfly

Who is Alan Smithee, aka Actual Flatticus? - There are many Alan Smithee characters on Twitter, all riffing on the origin of the name, but only one who is Actual Flatticus by sign-in. He was a Twitter...
Reveal

Hate Report: A rich and powerful backer of white supremacy - In this week’s Hate Report: a look at a Richard Spencer's reclusive backer, a report shows hate crimes against Muslims spiked, and a city pushes back again...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

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FiveThirtyEight.com

Three Things Trump Could Do To Hurt Obamacare - Welcome to TrumpBeat, FiveThirtyEight’s weekly feature on the latest policy developments in Washington and beyond. Want to get TrumpBeat in your inbox each...
Angry Bear

Another Personal Observation On Privatized Highways - Another Personal Observation On Privatized Highways Last month I posted a personal observation on Trump’s plan to privatize infrastructure, noting especial...
Popular Resistance

Trumpcare Is Dead. ‘Single Payer Is The Only Real Answer’ - By Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - THANKS TO A PAIR of defections from more GOP senators late yesterday, the Republican plan to repeal and replace or simp...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 144: ‘Two Swell Guys’ - “The scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his reward” (I Timothy 5:18). So tip 20 percen...
Space City Weather

Heat continues, plus SCW featured in Houstonia Mag! - Before we dive into the forecast, just a quick note. Eric and I were interviewed by Houstonia Magazine for their August issue. In it, we give answers to so...
Duffel Blog

DUFFEL BLOG PRESENTS: Jane Austen gives your weekend safety brief - [image: jane austen] It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single company in possession of a good four day pass, must be in want of a safety brie...
San Antonio Current

Idina Menzel on Touring, Motherhood and Transitioning from Broadway to Pop - *This story originally appeared in our sister paper, Out in SA. * Idina Menzel rose to prominence in 1996 when she originated the role of Maureen in Jonat...
Off the Kuff

Tom Wakely - As noted in the update and comments to Wednesday’s post about our first Democratic candidate for Governor, we now have a second such candidate, Tom Wakely....
The Urban Edge

Architecture Firm Proposes ‘Urban Trellis’ to Reinvigorate Pierce Elevated - From freeway to park, it could be the perfect embodiment of a bold new Houston. Continue Reading →
Heat Street

California College Boss Wants Algebra Graduation Requirement Gone, Says it’s ‘Civil Rights Issue’ - Math is oppressive.
Progressive.org

The First Female Dr. Who. Woo Hoo! - Remembering that with each rebirth the Doctor obtains knowledge from his previous form, why not be reborn as a woman?
Political Dig

Top Trump Officials Defy Trump And Admit Russia Meddled In The Election - The Trump administration’s top homeland security and intelligence officials are defying Donald Trump and backing the intelligence community’s findings th...
skippy the bush kangaroo

apt 2, 4 am friday - even 5-year-old girls can't escape racism 5 faulty beliefs that drive gop dysfunction on healthcare trump's economy is losing steam politicians are tryin...
Consortium News

The Dream to Destroy Iran-Nuke Accord - With Israel and Saudi Arabia still lusting for war with Iran, President Trump and his disdain for reality about the Iranian nuclear accord have become the ...
Informed Comment

Top 4 Lessons Trump can Learn from Napoleon in Russia - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s New York Times interview can only be understood, to the extent that it can be understood, as the ramblings ...
The NM Political Report

ABQ mayoral money coming from beyond NM - [image: ABQ mayoral money coming from beyond NM] Out-of-state money in local elections is nothing new. Statewide and legislative races in New Mexico are of...
Echidne of the Snakes

Should Single Men Pay For Pregnancy And Delivery in Their Insurance Policies? - The argument that they* should not have to do so will not die. I have addressed it in great detail in a post from last March. It gives you some artill...
jobsanger

How Far Will They Go ? -
Socialist Worker

The way out of the health care hunger games - The proposal for a national Medicare-for-all demonstration could be a first step toward turning growing sentiment for a single-payer system into action ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Texas transgender bathroom fight takes center stage -
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...
High Plains Blogger

Not just a ‘mall’ - MINNEAPOLIS — Many of you have seen something like this already. If so, then just bear with me for a moment as I share this brief note about something I’d ...
Antiwar.com

Civilians Still Trapped by Mosul Fighting; 56 Killed in Iraq - Despite the liberation of Mosul, fighting continues and hundreds of civilians remain trapped. The post Civilians Still Trapped by Mosul Fighting; 56 Kil...
Palmer Report

Donald Trump’s weird new denial of the Pee Pee Tape may be the dumbest thing he’s said yet - What is wrong with this idiot? The post Donald Trump’s weird new denial of the Pee Pee Tape may be the dumbest thing he’s said yet appeared first on Palm...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

A Continual Source of Disappointment - The big political story today is John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis. I wish that Senator McCain successfully fights the glioblastoma with which he is inf...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Mayor’s Corner: Legislature threatens local control - The Lewisville Mayor’s Corner By Mayor Rudy Durham Gov. Greg Abbott has called the Texas Legislature into special session that started this week. The agend...
The Contributor

What To Do When Your Favorite Comedian Is Accused Of 'Going Too Far' - News Image: Bill Maher took his medicine. Kathy Griffin is lying low. And more online petitions are ready in case Stephen Colbert tries anything else. ori...
Trivial Knot

Cis diversity - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2015. Actually, it used to be two articles, but I concatenated them here. So, let’s talk about cisgender people,...
Wolf Street

As Sales Plunge, GM Might Cancel Six Car Models - Carmageddon: Discussions with the UAW have started. Entire plants at risk.
Houston Communist Party

Most Russians support Stalin monuments, poll shows - Interesting website: https://www.rt.com/politics/396935-most-russians-support-idea-of/
Liberal Values

Investigations Of Trump Expand Along With Speculation That He Will Repeat Saturday Night Massacre - News reports discussed two avenues of investigation being pursued regarding Donald Trump. One of them, his business ties, appears to be of value. The other...
Brad Blog

Constitutional Crisis Nears, Democracy Crisis Already Here: 'BradCast' 7/20/2017 - On today's BradCast: We may be quickly heading towards a very troubling Constitutional crisis and what will it take for voters (and corporate media!) to ap...
Liberation News

Free Khalida Jarrar, Khitam Saafin and all Palestinian political prisoners! - Khalida Jarrar is now the thirteenth member of the Palestinian Legislative Council imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. She and Khitam Saafin are among ...
The Conversation

The Supreme Court made it harder for states to ban sex offenders from social media. Here’s why - Kostasgr/Shutterstock.com Until recently, North Carolina law prohibited registered sex offenders from using various social media sites, such as Snapchat, ...
Field Negro

The Juice is loose. (Again) - [image: Image result for oj images]*"I'm not black, I'm O.J.* I hear ya Juice, and now that you are loose again, it might be a good time to remind you tha...
Portside

The Hammer Blow of the Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg's Critique of Bourgeois Democracy - A review of the martyred German/ Polish Marxist's revolutionary's writings, with special emphasis on her seminal work, Reform and Revolution (1900, revised...
News Corpse

Trump Admin is Misusing Funds for ObamaCare on Efforts to Sabotage It - For much his still nascent administration, Donald Trump has sought to portray the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) as dead. It is more of a negative bra...
Grist

Every coal waste dump site is a disaster waiting to happen - The sites contain toxic metals that can contaminate drinking water.
Grits for Breakfast

TX DPS ends freebie crime-lab services for law enforcement - Local governments complain near incessantly in Texas of "unfunded mandates" imposed on them by state government, but almost never acknowledge the unfunded ...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Trump set to institute Wage Slavery via the NLRB and his Department of Forced Labor - *More people getting paid for overtime work sounds great, but...* Speaker Paul Ryan illustrates how more money for American Workers is bad because when Ame...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Boycott Israel, Go to Jail? - Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jul 19, 2017 A bipartisan Senate bill would make boycotting Israel punishable by up to 20 years in prison. But a new pushbac...
Frontloading HQ

Open Primaries, the Democrats and 2020 - Early last month the Democratic National Committee-sanctioned Unity Reform Commission *convened for their second meeting* in San Antonio. While the agenda ...
emptywheel

The Cillizza Bag - Is there a bigger douche in America, much less its media, than Chris? Everybody hates Chris
BEYONDbones

Body of Evidence: Advanced CSI at HMNS - Crime scene investigation can be exciting, and a great way to create a love of science in young people. HMNS has a brand new camp experience this year th...
Rewire

House Committee Throws Out Family Planning Funding in Spending Bill - "When members of Congress vote to attack Title X, they are voting against the ability for people to stay healthy, care for their families and support the...
Duck of Minerva

In Memorium: Peter Berger (1929-2017) - In a 2014 interview, Nick Onuf argued that IR has lost coherence as a field and should instead be considered “as a species of social relations and [to] aba...
DeSmogBlog

Emails Show Iraq War PR Alums Led Attempt to Discredit Dakota Access Protesters - *By Steve Horn and Curtis Waltman, MuckRock* Behind the scenes, as law enforcement officials tried to stem protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, a...
Morning Consult

New Grid Study Sees United States Vulnerable to Cyberattacks - A new national study on electric grid security released Thursday called on the United States to do more to protect its grid against high-impact attacks, ...
Shadowproof

U.S. Attorney’s Office Harasses Barrett Brown’s Literary Agent - The United States Attorney's office in the northern district of Texas issued another subpoena against journalist Barrett Brown. The post U.S. Attorney’s...
Debunking Christianity

Is Jesus Really the Answer? - How many relevant questions can we ask where Jesus is not the answer? #1 How do you spell MY name?
News Taco

National Latino group pulls convention from Texas over SB4 - By Paul Cobler, Houston Chronicle (2.5 minute read) The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators is moving its annual convention from Houston to C...
Free Press Houston

In Review: Bedouine, Ohmme, Shabazz Palaces and more - James Elkington. Photo courtesy of Timothy Harris JAMES ELKINGTON: Wintres Woma A resumé is a document of qualification, and James Elkington has quite a ...
Equality Texas

Phone Bank for Equality! - We need your help to defend equality and fairness in Texas! It may be summer time, but the LGBTQ community is still under attack. The Special Session will ...
Campaign for America's Future

Budget Austerity Treats Public-School Parents Like Criminals - In the current environment of forced scarcity, public-school parents are not only treated like criminals in education budget battles, they end up picking u...
Krebs on Security

Exclusive: Dutch Cops on AlphaBay ‘Refugees’ - Following today's breaking news about U.S. and international authorities taking down the competing Dark Web drug bazaars AlphaBay and Hansa Market, KrebsOn...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Do you remember when government gave humanity hope for the future? A giant leap for mankind on July 20, 1969 - It’s a day to remember history. Do you remember that day, the first time humans set foot on the Moon? God knows we could use more Americans to have faith ...
Church and State

Catholic Bishops Push For Federal Private School Voucher Program With No Accountability - They want to be given federal dollars, but don’t want to have to adhere to any federal rules. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Cuba and China - *Both Cuba and China have produced monsters that dwarfed their own lands.* Leaders of communist China and Cuba meet By Dimon Liu I remember the year Cuba...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : The life and times of leftist journalist Jack A. Smith (1934-2017) - Including a personal memoir from the former Guardian editor, plus the Rag Radio interview. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 20, 2017 Below, see “Jack...
Pensito Review

GOP Congressman Doesn’t Care What Trump Administration Does - “I don’t even pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don’t care. They’re a distraction. The family is a distraction, the p...
Mahablog

Highlights of Trump’s Interview in the New York Times - These are direct quotes from Trump. So pre-existing conditions are a tough deal. Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 ...
First Reading

Case closed? Judge Naranjo issues final orders in Alex/Kelly Jones child custody case - Good day Austin: I am not quite prepared to credit state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo with the wisdom of Solomon. But she did manage yesterday…
Political Orphans

Why Republicans cannot govern - Tilting at windmills is much easier than constructing them.
Peacock Panache

Education Achievement Gaps: Race & Socioeconomic Status - The Brookings Institution recently published a very interesting study about the persistence of an achievement gap between white and minority students in ...
Rude Pundit

Bonfire of the Inanities: Observations on Trump's Interview With the New York Times - At this point, any new batshit thing that President Donald Trump says comes across less as a shock and more like another punch to the face in a boxing matc...
Socialist Alternative

La comunidad LGTBI resiste a Trump - Los derechos de las comunidades oprimidas, como los de la clase trabajadora en general, están bajo ataque con la presidencia Trump y la comunidad LGTBQ no ...
Lowering the Bar

They’re Brawling Again in Taiwan’s Parliament - Over infrastructure, of all things. Related Stories - In New Hampshire, Pregnant Women No Longer Allowed to Kill With Impunity - Idaho ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Bombing the Rubble - You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a caref...
Independent Political Report

Larry Sharpe Announces Run for Governor of New York - … Read more ...
Gin and Tacos

MOMENT OF CLARITY - Guys. I'm trying my best to be serious and not take the easy path to making fun of how stupid the person in charge of the country is at the moment. But. Yo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

For House Republicans, Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results - As they dig their trenches to try to withstand what may (or may not be) a Democratic wave, Republicans may take heart in the performance of their current i...
Somervell County Salon

Think Mean Old Trumpcare Won't Affect You? Only for Poor People or Welfare Cheats? (7/19/2017 - Hill One of the reasons the repeal effort has stalled is that people are beginning to u.......
The Hill: Ballot Box

Award-winning playwright writing production about Trump - Tony Kushner, the playwright who won a Tony and Pulitzer for his 1993 play "Angels in America" is working on a play about President Trump.Kushner told the ...
PoliTex (FWST)

Transgender wrestling champ has a message for Texas lawmakers mulling ‘bathroom bill’ - Mack Beggs said in February that he doesn’t wrestle to carry the transgender torch. But the 18-year-old transgender student who won a Texas state champions...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Fraud and billing mistakes cost Medicare — and taxpayers — tens of billions last year - Auditor says federal health officials made more than $16 billion in improper payments to private Medicare Advantage health plans last year.
Death to Squirrels

This is funny, right? - I just received a “news” alert from our good friends at The Washington Post, and LOL’d. Trump changes course and tells senators to stay in Washington to fi...
Carl Beijer

Liberalism and the politics of passive-aggression - The Dirtbag Left's origin myth typically credits the term to columnist Amber A'Lee Frost - but like most origin myths, this simplifies a far more complicat...
Ecosophia

Men Unlike Gods - The crisis of our age has many facets. All of them have their roots in the basic fact of our time, the head-on collision between the limitless economic g...
Other Words

In OtherWords: July 19, 2017 - There's no "free-market" solution to health care.
Harper's Magazine

[Postcard ] | Spirits at Death’s Door, by Maggy Donaldson - A visit to Wisconsin’s oldest continually operated tavern.
Robert Reich

6-Month Update for Trump Voters - So after six months, has he delivered what he promised you?1. He told you he’d repeal Obamacare and...
Ian Welsh

The End of Cash; The End of Freedom - Recently the Indian government took high value bills out of circulation, in order to fight corruption. This has been bad for the economy, not just because ...
Irregular Times

Republican Congress Votes To Kill 80,000 Americans - Four Democrats crossed the aisle to join the Republicans in approving the Deadly Gas Proliferation Act. These pro-pollution Democrats were: Collin Peterson...
Dos Centavos

Harris County Attorney Files Brief Against SB4 - As was reported last week, the Republicans on the Harris County Commissioner’s Court may have chickened out of joining the SB4 lawsuit, in what may have be...
Greg Palast

Sanders and Jackson join hands to take on Trump’s Vote Thief-in-Chief - [Dateline: Chicago] “Why would somebody say a crazy statement like that?” Bernie had his arms spread like gull wings, fingers scribbling facts in the ai...
Reading the Pictures

On that Creepy Don Jr. Elevator Photo - The photo can be seen as a premonition. It mirrors the surreptitiousness of the Russia meeting and the fact Don Jr. is not feeling nearly as brash anymor...
Nathan Hevenstone

Does Famous Feminist Anita Sarkeesian HATE The New Doctor?!? - As is usually the case with titles that pose such questions, the answer is… no. But some people seem to think so. For those who don’t know, the Feminist Fr...
Black Agenda Report

Low Regard - by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Yesterday's news was that Donald Trump wishes he hadn't hired Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be Attorney Ge...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Latin America in the Twilight of the Pink Tide - In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin American politics was defined by the re-emergence of the left. In stark contrast to the immediate ...
Down Goes Trump

Report: Special Counsel Robert Mueller zeroing in on Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting - Look out Trump, here comes Mueller The post Report: Special Counsel Robert Mueller zeroing in on Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting appeared first on Down...
Houston Justice

Help Eligible County Jail Inmates Vote - [image: JUSTICE (1).png] #OINTBHOU Yes, Orange is the New Black in Houston. Well, technically Black is the new Black, too. Of the roughly 10,000 inmates ...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Abbott’s Attempt to Thwart Local Control Over Tree Ordinances “Stumps” Voters - Contributed by Citizen Rita This week marks the start of the Special Session at the Texas Legislature. Governor Abbott has put forward a wish list of tw...
American Third Party Report

Indiana Independent Candidate Sues Indiana over Ballot Access Petition for Statewide Office - Ballot Access News On May 31, 2017, Andrew Straw filed a federal lawsuit against Indiana’s 2% petition requirement for independent candidates and the nomin...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Does Training Cause Police Domestic Violence And Infighting - And does this training also teach police to obey orders without question even when their orders come from an incredibly corrupt political establishment ...
The Disorder Of Things

All Things to All People?: Thoughts on Liberalism and Imperialism - This is the second post in our book forum on Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire. The first post by Duncan can be read here. Dan Gorman i...
Seeing the Forest

Denmark Socialism vs American System (Video) - People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here’s Why.
DBC Green blog

More Blogrolling with PDiddie, Pacifica Edition - This piece was intended to be brief, but...uhm...sorry, it ain't.Hanging out on the left wing has never been easy. You see the world differently from your...
Bracing Views

Silencing War Criticism - Silencing War Criticism: The Iraq Invasion of 2003 W.J. Astore Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota (1999-2003), was a hot media commodity as the Bu...
Digital Heretic

A Brief Aside on the Epistemology of Progressive Activism - In a brief aside, Annika and myself riff on a Twitter thread that helps explain how progressive-left activists hijack discussions regarding the issues of...
nonsite.org

The Temporal Fried - From 1967 to the present, no other writer has so systematically thought through the history and effects of artistic temporality. This accomplishment necess...
Ramona's Voices

Why Your Religion Shouldn't Be My Problem - My cousin Arlene was a devout Catholic, so deeply involved with her church the priest at her funeral service told us he was nervous that he wouldn't do rig...
Texans For Public Justice

Lobby Watch: A Special Session Built for Special Interests - Six of Gov. Abbott's 20 stated reasons for convening this special session would override local governments to benefit construction and development interes...
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...
Pressthink

His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political style - It’s all they know. They aren’t prepared for anything else. The post His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political styl...
Stinque

George Romero (1940-2017) - Little kid me was scared … a lot:
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Gabble, Rabble, & Ross - *“It’s story time,”*said Gabble, who was ten years old. *“There will be dragons tonight, probably,”* said Rabble, who was eight. *“Horses!”* said Ross, wh...
Great American Satan

The American Bastille - The current system of AmeriKKKan slavery is conducted through the prison industrial complex. That’s a system of Bastilles long overdue for a smashing. This...
Counter Propa

Twitter Is Using Account Verification To Stifle Leaks And Promote War Propaganda - I stumbled across an article in my newsfeed a few minutes ago titled “Julian Assange Says Clinton Campaign Manager Podesta Had 7,300 Child Porn Images”, ...
Texas Freedom Network

Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick Are Working with Hate Groups to Pass Discrimination Bills in Texas - Today TFN President Kathy Miller spoke along with representatives of our partner organizations on a national press call about Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Go...
New Progressive Alliance

Climate Change and the Green Party by Gary Swing - Gary Parks is a leader in the Green Party and has formed the Boiling Frog Party to convey information in a humorous way. He recently got the highest per...
OffCite

Flood Management Done Right at Willow Waterhole - Westbury Cross Country Classic race and fun run. Courtesy Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy. This article by Eric Leshinksy is an updated excerpt fro...
Houston Streetwise

Old city bricks - Looking down at the Market Square Tower Calpine Center topsy turvy
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...
St. Petersburg Independents

League of Women Voters Debate - ST. PETERSBURG, July 10, 2017 — It all comes together. Last year, the night of March 31, three Black girls — Laniya Miller (15), Ashaunti Butler (15), and ...
Resistance Report

Hackers Accessed Credit Card Data from Trump Hotel Guests for Months - The Trump organization revealed on Tuesday that hackers gained access to guests’ credit card data at 14 Trump Hotel properties in 2016. According to the....
Save Buffalo Bayou

Summer on Buffalo Bayou - That Bend in the River July 11, 2017 We waited several days for just the right opportunity, checking the water flow at dawn. Even though there were loud, t...
Moron Majority

Knowledge Is Good, But Ignorance Is …. - How far we have come! In only a few short years, we have reached a point where a majority of Republicans think higher education is bad for the country. In ...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

This happened once before.... - Everyone will tell you radiotherapy is fatiguing. Oh, gods, it bloody is! I still have idiots in my feeds making up nonsense about how "the left" and Ber...
Texas Leftist

Turner Tables Planned Revenue Cap Repeal Vote - After years of discussion and, failed attempts, and being a central focus of the last Mayoral election, Mayor Turner has likely decided that now is not the...
Independent Thinker 2016

You Bernie People Are Being Ridiculous - The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, My Bernie Journey – A Behind the Scenes Look at the 2016 Democratic Primary The book will be released on...
News Junkie

Welcome to Hell for Capitalists Who Wreck and Exploit - Anti-capitalist and anti-globalist protesters, in the thousands, have greeted world leaders and their entourage in Hamburg, Germany, for the G20 summit. Ab...
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...
LawFlog

Hearne forced to release documents about Sgt. Tallywacker - The City of Hearne released records this evening that include complaints, X-rated texts and sexual misconduct allegations against former police Sgt. Stephe...
Pressing Issues

Countdown to Hiroshima, X-Minus-31 Days--Why This Matters Today - Seventy-two years after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb is still very much with us--witness this week's crisis over the North Kore...
WAWG Blog

Leasons Learned Early by Key Libertarian Messenger Contribute to America’s Dystopia - I’ve been reading Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean. Yesterday, I read about some of ...
PERRspectives

Unprecedented Spite: The American Carnage of the GOP Health Care Bill - In December 2003, Democrats in Congress overwhelmingly opposed President Bush's Medicare Part D prescription drug program. With good reason. The new benefi...
ExChristian.Net

Died For My Boring Trivial Sins? - *By Carl S ~ * Maybe you've had my experience. I attended elementary school, and one day the teacher found a note calling him some kind of a pig. Since nob...
Quartz

Atlas for Africa’s first training in Lagos focuses on budgets, sports, and government transparency - More than 20 journalists attended Atlas for Africa training sessions in Lagos, Nigeria, last week. The first training was held in Lagos’ famous tech clus...
Our Finite World

The Next Financial Crisis Is Not Far Away - Recently, a Spanish group called “Ecologist in Action” asked me to give them a presentation on what kind of financial crisis we should expect. They wanted ...
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...
The Nil Admirari

Trump Drops Phone into Toilet Delaying War with North Korea - *LAST UPDATED @ 3:51PM (6.30.2017)* *Trump was going to declare war on North Korea via Twitter when he dropped his phone in the toilet.* Mr Trump's phone ...
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 ...
Non Prophet News

The Democrats Are Hoping No One Will Notice Their Silence On Philando Castile - In the days since the Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile was acquitted of manslaughter, the outcry on both social media and in t...
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...
Progrexas

When Elections Are Not Enough : Ten Ways To Political Revolution In The Lone Star State - 1.Start a Garden While gardening or growing your own food is certainly a hobby or art that can be done for health reasons, to save on produce costs, or j...
Pages of Victory

Dem elites -
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 23: Populism vs. Pragmatism - Bill Scher, Traci Olsen and special guest Bob Williams debate why Democrats struck out in the special elections. Check out this episode!
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 ...
South Lawn

Another Harvest In An Orchard Of Strange Fruit - It was a cold night in the fall of 2002 when me and my then-girlfriend pulled up to the public parking lot at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to relax and snug...
Texas Watch

Odessa Residents Could Soon Face Second Storm of Insurance Abuse - Insurance companies already have too much power, and they’re getting even more in September when a dangerous new law goes into effect. House Bill 1774 s...
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 ...
34justice

Ramming Morality Into Our Economic System the John Ruskin Way - A slim pamphlet from the mid-19th century provides both a diagnosis of today's economic problems and a potential cure. Continue reading →
ROAR Magazine

Why we are not eating: the Yale graduate student hunger strike - Precarious and underpaid graduate student-workers at Yale have gone on a fast to demand that university administrators recognize and negotiate with their...
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...
Free Speech.org

FSTV/MNN Immigration Town Hall - What’s at Stake? Immigration Francesca Maxime hosts this Town Hall on immigration featuring experts discussing the implications of the new administrati...
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...
Texas Moratorium Network

Terri Been Testifying in Support of Law of Parties Reform Bills - Terri Been, sister of Jeff Wood, testifying before Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 17, 2017 in support of law of parties reform bi...
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...
UP@NIGHT

Endangered Species Warning: Democrats Who Care About The Working-Class - Salon, a liberal internet magazine, published a piece recently by Cody Cain, “It …
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 ...

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

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