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The Urban Edge

Harris County Votes to Move Forward With First Phase of Astrodome Renovation - Ryan Holeywell | September 27, 2016 Harris County commissioners voted Tuesday to go forward with plans to raise the floor of the Astrodome and install 1,40...
Mock Paper Scissors

Today in Conspiracy Theories! - Trump tries to explain away his sniffles last night: “I had a problem with a microphone that didn’t work. My microphone was terrible. I wonder, was it set ...
National Post

Skier dies after avalanche sweeps him off cliff on Mount Victoria in Banff National Park - The death is the first one of the upcoming winter season and came a day after an avalanche hazard bulletin for the area was posted
Raw Story

Donald Trump Jr. cuts himself off after blurting out LGBT rights support in pandering NRA video - Donald Trump Jr. sat down for a stern lecture from a gun manufacturer in hopes of reassuring “Second Amendment people” that he and his dad love guns as muc...
Sputnik News

Moscow Makes Full Text of Russia-US Deal on Syria Public - Moscow made the full text of the Russia-US deal on Syria public, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Grist

Trump shows us what happens to a climate denier in denial - All those times I said it was a hoax? JK!
MintPress News

FACT CHECK: The 2016 Presidential Debate - A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts: Continue reading → The post FACT CHECK: The 2016 Presidential Debate app...
Shadowproof

Help Fund Roqayah Chamseddine’s New Project Dismantling Muslim Caricatures - Using video, audio, and written word, Shadowproof columnist Roqayah Chamseddine will profile a Muslim American every week, but we need our readers' help....
Ring of Fire

Clinton or Trump Will Be Your Next President. Who Do You Prefer? – Benjamin Dixon Show - [image: rs clinton trump 232] The post Clinton or Trump Will Be Your Next President. Who Do You Prefer? – Benjamin Dixon Show appeared first on The Ring of...
Independent Political Report

Free Keene: Major Shakeup at Libertarian Party of NH: Darryl W Perry Elected Chairman! - [image: darryl_perry]In 2012, Darryl W. Perry was frustrated with New Hampshire’s embarrassingly ineffective Libertarian Party and its unwillingness to p...
Salon.com

“We had to take the guns away”: NRA’s debate “fact-check” curiously silent on Donald Trump’s gun-grabbing - Trump endorsed "no fly, no buy" gun restrictions and backed the unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, but the NRA is mum
Talking Points Memo

Top Trump Aide Tries To Shift His Position On Global Warming, Again - Kellyanne Conway attempted yet again to change the Trump campaign’s position on global warming — its existence, not what to do about it — Tuesday morning...
Houstonia

Kitchen 713 Is Moving to Washington Avenue - Chefs James Haywood and Ross Coleman are raising the stakes in a new, larger location.
Daily Dot

Trump Chinese Climate Change Hoax Tweet Tops First Debate - The tweets don't lie.
Pensito Review

The Trump Cocaine Tweet, Captured Live - By now you’ve probably heard the theory that Donald Trump was using cocaine during the first debate with Hillary Clinton. That’s because of the odd sniffin...
Free Press Houston

We’re Only Gonna Get Louder: An Interview with a Prison Resistance Movement Insider - The largest U.S. prison strike in history is in its third week and yet we’ve heard very little about it from the mainstream media. Since September 9, priso...
Crooks and Liars

Howard Dean Asks, Is Trump A Coke User? - [image: Howard Dean Asks, Is Trump A Coke User?] Trump's sniffles last night were the source of some amusement, as were a lot of things in what became know...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Following controversy, Trump adviser... - A Trump foreign policy adviser is facing serious allegations involving his Russia ties. Ahead of the debate, the adviser quietly took a leave of absence.
Houston Press

The "Best Of Les Miles" Press Conference Anthology - I have no idea why this is (but someday would love to research it), but college football, of all the major sports out there, is easily the one that arouses...
Election Law Blog

Still Troubling: Donald Trump Says He Will Accept Outcome of Election “If She Wins” - Near the end of last night’s debate. Lester Holt asked each candidate an important question about accepting the results if on the losing end of the electio...
Common Dreams

Standing in Solidarity for a Humanity Without Borders - Adam Parsons Following the first ever United Nations Summit on Refugees and Migrants last week, many civil society organisations and concerned citizens are...
VICE

The VICE Morning Bulletin - Snap polls suggest Hillary Clinton won the first debate, Colombia's government and the FARC rebel group sign a peace deal, water plumes may have been spott...
Buzzflash

Trump picks top skeptic to lead EPA transition - Trump picks top skeptic to lead EPA transition 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Daily Kos

That time Donald Trump admitted he hasn't paid any taxes - Donald Trump made a big admission during Monday night's presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, an admission he tried to take back just an hour later o...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Drug trade in misery, Panama Papers and fear of Facebook - Stories on politicians and big pharma and the Panama Papers from the CPI
Vox

The thought of a Donald Trump presidency has given us a Will & Grace reunion - Karen Walker is a Trump voter. When Donald Trump said he wanted to make America great again, we did not realize this would mean a reunion of *Will & Gr...
Mediaite

Trump Doubles Down on Beauty Queen Taunts: ‘She Gained a Massive Amount of Weight’ - After getting called out for it by *Hillary Clinton* last night, *Donald Trump* decided to stand by the taunting comments he infamously made about the weig...
Irregular Times

NewsMax Asks Us To Sell You Out For 30 Cents Per Click - It's possible that the Business Development department at Newsmax didn't even bother to look at Irregular Times before sending out its solicitation for 30 ...
Reverb Press

BUSTED: Trump’s ‘Stop-And-Frisk’ Lies Get Instantly Debunked By NYC Mayor During Debate - GOP Nominee’s Stop-And-Frisk Praise Was Swiftly Fact Checked In Real Time The first of three Presidential debates went very badly for Donald Trump. Donal...
Think Progress

Pence just defended Trump on climate change. He didn’t do well. - Trump has repeatedly claimed that climate change is a hoax.Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Republican presidential cand...
Pajiba

It Didn't Take Long This Morning for Donald Trump to Step In It Again - As is often the case when Donald Trump comes performs weakly, he's predictably lashed out this morning like the temperamental manchild that he is, taking t...
The Intercept

Beyond Sniffles and Sexism, What the Hell Was the Debate About? - In the brief moments in between Donald Trump's free association about himself, a few matters of substance emerged. That's what The Intercept staff mostly...
Political Garbage Chute

Area Republican Ready Will Mansplain To You Why Trump Won The First Debate - Did Trump win the first debate? Let this guy explain why he thinks so. [...] The post Area Republican Ready Will Mansplain To You Why Trump Won The First...
U.S. Uncut

Cops Who Killed Freddie Gray Honored and Praised as Heroes at Conservative Gala - Three of the Baltimore police officers previously charged in the death of Freddie Gray were recently treated like war heroes at a right-wing media gala. ...
SCOTUSblog

Argument preview: Court to consider scope of federal bank-fraud statute - The justices of the Supreme Court normally return to the bench to hear the first oral arguments of the new term on the first Monday in October. But this ye...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Trump And Clinton Sounded As If They Were Talking About Two Different Countries - Sure, the post-debate buzz is more about tone than substance — who looked more presidential, whether Hillary Clinton got “under Donald Trump’s skin.” But i...
The Verge

The Tick and I Love Dick get series orders at Amazon - Amazon has picked up three of its new pilots to series. *The Tick*,* I Love Dick*, and *Jean-Claude Van Johnson* will all get a first season on Amazon P...
Popular Resistance

The Fallacies Of Neoliberal Protest - By Russell Rickford for The Atlantic - I’m delighted that you are mobilizing. Your demonstration reflects your recognition that the escalating crisis of ra...
South Texas Chisme

Glenn Beck is disgusted with Ted Cruz - Join the club.On Cruz's explanation for now supporting Trump: "That was so calculated that it was stunning to me," Beck said. "I think I have to apologize ...
CultureMap Houston

Big Brothers Big Sisters gala strikes a chord with adults, youngsters - What: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) annual black tie gala, "Gen Z: Vision for the Future." Where: The Omni Houston Hotel. The scoop: A number of the "Bi...
Consortium News

The Challenging Politics of Global Warming - Though global warming represents a grave danger, it received only passing notice in the first presidential debate, in part, because the politics of climate...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Pence on debate: 'Donald Trump had a great night’ - Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says Donald Trump had an excellent showing in his first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.“Well, first off, let me say I th...
Somervell County Salon

Our Broken Candidate System -Time to REJECT the 2 party system (2016) - From Atheist Revolution What sort of political system leaves us with
First Reading

The 400-pound man in the room: Ten takes on the Great Debate. - Good morning Austin: Here are ten takes on last night’s epic debate, the biggest public spectacle in the history of the planet. The first three are…
Rewire

GOP Wants to Stop New Overtime Protections Rule - The Department of Labor estimates that the new rules will directly impact 4.2 million people who work in the United States. The post GOP Wants to Stop Ne...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Minor Parties File Brief in Third Circuit, Arguing State Cannot Impose a County Distribution Requirement on Statewide Petitions - On September 26, the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties filed their brief in the Third Circuit, arguing that a county distribution requirement fo...
REDD-Monitor

The aviation industry plans to cheat the climate with offsets - Today, in Montreal, the 39th meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation starts. One of the agenda items is ICAO’s response to climate change....
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits - In this month's award-winning Loon Star State cartoon by Ben Sargent, a post-'Dancing with the Stars' Rick Perry goes looking for a new gig — again. Th...
Eschaton

That Guy - Unlike most pundits, I don't think I'm capable of knowing what most of the rest of humanity responds positively to. I do think it's important to remember t...
Swamplot

Inside the Astrodome; The Effects of the Oil Downturn Beyond Houston - A Breakdown of What $105M Would Buy in the Proposed Astrodome Parking Garage Redo [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Slideshow: What the Inside of...
Wolf Street

“Negative Growth” of Real Wages is Normal for Much of the Workforce, and Getting Worse: New York Fed - And the fate of the consumption-based US economy?
Bracing Views

Post-Debate: Trump the Undisciplined - W.J. Astore Last night’s debate made for grim watching. I’m a fan of neither candidate, but Hillary performed far better than Trump. She kept her poise, ...
Democracy Now!

Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein Spars with Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 2 - On Monday night, the two major-party candidates squared off for the first presidential debate. It was one of the most anticipated debates in U.S. history. ...
Washington's Blog

Trump, Trade and Taxes - Donald Trump has made trade agreements a central issue in this presidential election, declaring trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agre...
Mother Jones

Donald Trump Fires Back at Former Miss Universe Winner He Once Called "Miss Piggy" - The morning after Hillary Clinton confronted Donald Trump with his own words describing former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado as "Miss Piggy," the ...
Affinity

Plastic Bottle Village. - This is one of the coolest, best things I have ever seen. Visit the site, settle in, do some reading, it’s…it’s awesome. Great. Amazing. Plastic Bottle Vil...
Down With Tyranny!

Herr Professor Trumpf Probably Never Heard Of Hayek, But I'm Sure Paul Ryan Will Try Explaining His Neoliberal Doctrine To Him - Ryan and his horde of congressional zombies have discovered hash tags and can't get enough of #BetterWay which is nothing more than a package of failed r...
No More Mister Nice Blog

FORTUNATELY, THE REAL TOXIC-MALE TRUMP SHOWED UP - I expected the worst last night -- a Donald Trump with just enough polish to be given credit for gravitas, up against a Hillary Clinton whose carefully cra...
AlterNet.org

The 10 Most Bizarro Moments of the Debate—and Just After - [image: [Reuse options]] Click here for reuse options! Trump even managed to advance a new paranoid conspiracy theory. The much anticipated first presiden...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - Cultural Feast – Oktoberfest: The History and Science of Beer In 1810, King Ludwig I of Bavaria proclaimed that the last sixteen days of September, ending ...
Bay Area Houston

She called Trump a racist on national TV and he did nothing - She "tells it like it is". Last night in front of up to 100 million viewers Secretary Clinton called Donald Trump a racist and he just stood there. Just li...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'When Hillary slaughtered Donald' - last night's presidential debate - Whoever wins the upcoming election will have a huge voice in deciding the direction in which lgbt equality will go in this country for the next four years....
Space City Weather

Drier air isn’t to Houston yet—but it will by the weekend - The much-discussed first front of the fall season has pushed off the coast and into the Gulf of Mexico, but drier (and cooler) air has largely lagged beh...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Killing People, Breaking Things, and America's Winless Wars - It’s the timing that should amaze us (were anyone to think about it for 30 seconds)...
Heat Street

LISTEN: Malia Bouattia Fails to Defend Safe Spaces in Car-Crash Interview - The NUS president offered a shambolic response to challenges from the a BBC presenter over her policies.
Campaign for America's Future

The People’s Issues Came Second in the First Debate - The debate was largely a clash of personalities, rather than a clash of visions for the nation’s future. In her zeal to defeat her opponent, which she clea...
Duffel Blog

New survey of US troops reveals horrifying actual opinions of service members - [image: New survey of US troops reveals horrifying actual opinions of service members] The results are in! Duffel Blog’s annual political opinion survey o...
Bonddad

Bonddad's Tuesday Linkfest - *I'm a financial adviser with Thompson Creek Wealth as well as a tax and business attorney with The Law Office of Hale Stewart.* New Home Sales Drop 7.6% M...
First Draft

Bone-us Obsession – the “I can’t take it anymore” Freeper debate thread - I got permission from Ms. A to do a special, because – holy shit. (my thanks to all that crammed into the Crack Van last night, BTW) I’m as partisan as the...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Science Denialist Myron Ebell Named As Trump Adviser As Debate Skirts Climate - [image: Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton, right, at first presidential debate.] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s energy policy to di...
Off the Kuff

Voter registration way up statewide - That’s a lot. Nearly 15 million people are now registered to vote in Texas, a state record. Texas currently has more than 14.8 million voters registered — ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday at 10 - americans are just staying at home more self-driving taxis in singapore close the ceo bonus loophole trump's 'rigged elections' rhetoric could spark voter...
The Fifth Column

Swedish Scientist Begins Editing Human DNA in Healthy Embryos - A scientist from Sweden is the first researcher to ever edit human DNA in healthy embryos. Using CRISPR, Fredrik Lanner is modifying genes to figure out wh...
Rallblog

The Thrilla at Hofstra - [image: Pundits and ordinary voters have universally bemoaned the coarsening of our elections, particularly due to Donald Trump's outrageous behavior thr...
Antiwar.com

Where Is That Wasteful Government Spending? - In early September 2016, Donald Trump announced his plan for a vast expansion of the U.S. military, including 90,000 new soldiers for the Army, nearly 75...
Egberto Willies

Clinton cleans Trump’s clock on his taxes in Presidential Debate (VIDEO) - [image: Clinton cleans Trump's clock on his taxes in Presidential Debate (VIDEO)] Hillary Clinton baited Donald Trump on taxes. He all but confessed not pa...
In These Times

If Hillary Clinton Won the Debate, Social Movements Are To Thank - Being more progressive than Donald Trump does not a progressive hero make. Hillary Clinton will likely never be a champion of the Left, but she showed du...
Informed Comment

The Presidential Debate that did not really Happen - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Regular readers will know that in my view the 2016 presidential election did not happen. Likewise, the first debate...
Politifact Texas

Hillary Clinton - True: Hillary Clinton says federal government sued Donald Trump for housing discrimination - The Truth-o-Meter says: True | True: Hillary Clinton says federal government sued Donald Trump for housing discrimination After years of repeating conspir...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Now We Wait - The first debate is over! At least everyone survived. If you’re confused about who’s up and who’s down in this crazy presidential contest, you’ve got plent...
Socialist Worker

It was like shooting Trump in a barrel - Danny Katch considers what Donald Trump said and what Hillary Clinton tried desperately not to say during the first of--lord help us-three presidential ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Austin state Rep. Dawnna Dukes to step down amid investigation - Statesman: Austin state Rep. Dawnna Dukes to step down amid investigation
The Conversation: Election 2016

Four quotes from the first Clinton-Trump debate, explained - *Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump faced off for their first debate at Hofstra University on Sept. 26. We asked a group of scholars to...
Liberation News

Loyola Univ. in Chicago protests racist police murders - The protest was organized by Black students at Loyola in the wake of yet another slew of brutal police murders of Keith Lamont Scott, Terence Crutcher an...
OpEd News

CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Honored for Integrity - The U.S. government gives free passes to officials who commit war crimes but imprisons whistleblowers who tell the truth, a fate that befell CIA's John Kir...
Death to Squirrels

Nuh-uh. - No, I did not watching the “debate.” I don’t know about you, but I have exactly zero interest in what politicians say—ever. They’re fucking politicians, fe...
Strangely Blogged

I Think Clinton Won on the Merits - There were a number of things the candidates had to do--explain how they would enact policies that best enacted their vision of how to improve our nation,...
Gin and Tacos

HOT TAKES FOR A DYING PLANET - One of my favorite passages from The Man in the High Castle – in the previous scene, Tagomi has picked up an antique pistol and shot two German intelligenc...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Natural Garden on Buffalo Bayou Mowed Down - Native Landscaping Sadly Cut By Mistake September 26, 2016 We received some upsetting news Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. The lovely garden planted by Buffalo Bay...
Angry Bear

Whew. - I actually really liked Clinton tonight. I mean, her. I liked her. I didn’t think that could happen. And it wasn’t just because Trump was so awful. It f...
If You Only News

Hillary Just Spanked Trump In Front of 100 Million People With One Brutal Zinger (VIDEO) - He came to bully. She came to win.
Houston Communist Party

US Green Party’s Jill Stein Escorted From Presidential Debate Premises by Police - 02:19 27.09.2016 Get short URL229506 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said she was escorted by police from the university campus in New York s...
Mahablog

Debate Live Blog - It’s almost time. I’ve got Bloomberg TV fired up; they promise to do fact checking while the debate goes on. Lester Holt is on. OK, here’s the candidates. ...
The Progressive Wing

2016 POTUS Candidates First Debate Thread - Well, the evening is here for the first of 3 presidential debates. Even in my central IL town, in which the state electorally is almost a given for the Sec...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Debate Night - So... it's the night of the first Clinton/Trump debate. Ugh, I get the feeling that it will be a slog and a slugfest. As a fighter, my opinion is that Clin...
Anti-Media

Syria Says It Has Recorded Audio Proof US Coordinating Militarily with ISIS - [image: Sam ISIS Flag]They claim the audio will soon be made public.
Dissident Voice

Let the Public Know The Truth About Social Security - During the past three decades, the American people have been kept in the dark about the true status of the Social Security program. Politicians from both p...
The Stranger

Mackerel Jordan Is as Fishy as Trump and Half as Ridiculous - by Megan Murnane In Saturday’s Derby County v. Blackburn Rovers Sky Bet Championship playoff game (which I'm sure means something to UK soccer fans), the ...
Good Gawd Another Blog

Debate Night: Undecided is Everything, Advantage Trump - Likely the best data driven write-up of the state of the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump heading into the first debate tonight is Nate Cohn’s...
Field Negro

Debate night. - [image: Image result for debate image]I guess I will be joining the 100 million or so other Americans who will be watching the presidential debate tonight....
Brad Blog

'The Most Audacious Political Heist of Our Time': 'BradCast' 9/26/2016 - Today on The BradCast: Where the Presidential race stands as we head into the debates and how an ingenious GOP scheme in 2010 may have served to undermine ...
Ian Welsh

Trump/Clinton Debate Open Thread - I used to get paid to watch these things. I don’t any more. So… I’m going to go read a nice novel in a coffee shop. Please feel free to talk about the de...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

History in cartoons: Joseph Keppler on the need for the 17th Amendment - This is a lithograph after a cartoon by Joseph Keppler in Puck Magazine, November 15, 1905. Keppler’s cartoons kept on the heat for some legislative soluti...
Pharyngula

How not to apologize - This is an amazing response. VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) reviewed a young-adult book and flagged it as “recommended for mature junior and senior high r...
Better Texas Blog

Let’s renovate our school finance system - Maintaining an old house is hard work. Everyone knows that for a home to retain its value and run efficiently it needs periodic repairs and updates. Our ...
Louis Proyect

The Unknown Girl - This year’s New York Film Festival has a bumper crop of political films that are undoubtedly connected to the stormy period we are living through. In years...
News Junkie

Clinton vs Trump: Lesser of Two Evils or the Devil You Know - In United States politics, what worked like a charm for decades, especially with the fake left, was of course the lesser-of-two-evils argument. Not a vote ...
Thom Hartmann

We Have All Won An Oligarchy and Lost A Democracy - Here's a thought experiment for you. Ask yourself, "When was the last time I heard any conversation at all about the role of corporations in America in t...
Rude Pundit

In Brief: Time to Re-Re-Re-Re-Re-Meet Hillary Clinton - Think about this for a moment: This is one of the only chances since the Democratic convention that most TV news network viewers will get a chance to hear ...
Frontloading HQ

The Electoral College Map (9/26/16) - *New State Polls (9/26/16)* State Poll Date Margin of Error Sample Clinton Trump Undecided Poll Margin FHQ Margin *Arizona* *Data Orbital* 9/20-9/22 +/- 4...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Trump Gets Zero Support From Fortune 100 CEO’s - * I doubt if it matters much to his supporters, but this is exactly the kind of thing that could get under Donald Trump’s thin skin. No chief executive at ...
Echidne of the Snakes

More on the False Equivalence in The 2016 Presidential Elections - Paul Krugman writes about the false equivalence phenomenon in how the media has handled the two presidential candidates: *If Donald Trump becomes preside...
Socialist Alternative

Rise Up Against Law Enforcement Terror – A United Mass Movement Urgently Needed Now - Tulsa and Charlotte Uprisings At least 193 black people have been killed by police in 2016 (The Guardian). On top of police violence, the black community f...
Daily Howler

Krugman speaks up, many years too late! - *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016Just look at the very first comment:* In this new post, Paul Krugman speaks up, much too late, about the "abnormalization" of ...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Relive Western Days with our photo coverage - Whether your favorite part of Western Days 2016 was eating jumbo corndogs, dancing to Eli Young Band or hanging with livestock, The Lewisville Texan Journa...
Morning Consult

Voters Split on Trump’s Call for Nationwide Stop-and-Frisk - Voters are split over whether stop-and-frisk tactics should be used by police departments nationwide, according to a new Morning Consult poll. The post V...
Willy Loman, American Everyman

Lavrov full speech to UN: Important not to let US-Russia agreements on Syria collapse -
Pressing Issues

Leonard Cohen: Still the Man, at 82 - Leonard Cohen, my perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, turned 82 last week, and he has a new album coming out in a couple of weeks. I...
Eater Houston

Open Carry Activists Are Pissed At Pi Pizza - The restaurant does not allow open carry of weapons Thanks to the power of social media, Yelp and Facebook reviews have become ridiculously complicated...
Dandelion Salad

How to Counter Military Recruitment by Pat Elder - Dandelion Salad by Pat Elder worldbeyondwar.org September 26, 2016 Remarks at #NoWar2016 Countering military recruitment in the nation’s high schools confr...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives gear up for first debate - The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes Tom "Smitty" Smith a happy and healthy retirement as it brings you this week's roundup and gets its popcorn for the f...
Eclectablog

Part 4: Earned Paid Sick Time, Faces of the Fight – Robbi Sellers - This is the fourth and final installment of a four part series about workers who are directly impacted by the crucial fight to make earned paid sick time r...
Awesomely Luvvie

I’m Officially a New York Times Best-Selling Author and I Thank You! - On September 13, 2016 (2 weeks ago), my debut book was officially released to the world. I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual was outchea, and I kicked ...
Asian American Action

2016 DNC Interview with Tejpaul Bainiwal, Delegate from California 9th Congressional District - As part of our coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the Asian American Action Fund blog team sat down with many prominent e...
Church and State

Christianity and Women – Roots of Oppression - In the Bible as a whole, things women say only represent around 1% of the total text. Only around half of those women are even named.
PERRspectives

Who Will Make Big Pharma Pay the EpiPenalty? - Washington is experiencing a bipartisan furor over the spiraling price hikes of EpiPen, the life-saving Epinephrine injector tens of thousands of American ...
Equality Texas

Take Action: Support Dripping Springs ISD Students - Today, September 26th at 6:00 p.m., the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees will be confronted with the issue of basic rights and protections for transg...
Stinque

Don’t Look - We’re hearing that tonight’s debate might reach Super Bowl/MASH/alien invasion territory, tempting your attention even if you’d prefer to ignore it. How ca...
Nathan Hevenstone

Great Guitar Solos – Porcupine Tree’s Shesmovedon - Here’s a band that was popular in the 90s, often considered the logical progression of what Pink Floyd started. Sadly, they seem to be relative unknowns to...
slacktivist

Taste the rainbow - Tonight we'll see if Donald Trump is able to pretend to be something other than Donald Trump for 90 whole minutes. Let Trump be Trump. Also: A sad day for ...
Houston Matters

Shooting in Southwest Houston: Monday’s Show (September 26, 2016) - At least nine people were injured this morning in southwest Houston, when a shooter opened fire along Law Street near the corner of Weslayan and Bissonnet....
ProPublica

Uncovering Texas’ Strategy to Slash Much-Needed Special Education Services - by Charles Ornstein Federal law mandates that school districts provide special education services to students with disabilities--physical, emotional or ...
Grits for Breakfast

Okie voters will set tone for red-state drug-war legislation - For mostly historical, family reasons (both sides of my family are from the Texas Panhandle, with ties to Oklahoma), Grits has always enjoyed ribbing our f...
Reading the Pictures

Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm - Where is the passion for Hillary, you ask? It’s there in the photo, plain as day. The post Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Sw...
Harper's Magazine

[Art Monday Gallery ] | Discarded #50, by Anthony Hernandez - “Discarded #50,” a photograph by Anthony Hernandez, whose work is currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Artwork courtesy the artist
Heteronormative Patriarchy for Men

How the Labour party just kicked domestic violence survivors in the teeth - Only two people know what happened on the night Sarah Champion and her then-husband Graham Hoyland were arrested and cautioned for domestic violence. It is...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Venezuela: “The recall referendum belongs to the people, as does the freedom to demand it”, says OAS Secretary General - September 23, 2016 *The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro*, today said the National Electoral Council (CNE, fo...
Trivial Knot

30 atheist discussion topics - I’ve long been involved in the local atheist student group. I really mean “long”–through both undergrad and grad school. I perpetually complain about the g...
Pressthink

Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press - And five other ideas I use to interpret campaign coverage this year. On the eve of the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I thought I w...
emptywheel

The Questions That Should Be Being Asked About Trump’s Tax Returns - [Editor’s Note – this is a guest post by a friend of ours here at the Emptywheel Blog, Bob Lord. Bob is a longtime tax attorney with some very salient th...
Robert Reich

Time for Congress to Stop Hollering at CEOs and Take Action - Last week, Congress engaged in a bipartisan barrage of CEO bashing.The Senate Banking Committee...
I Take Liberty With My Coffee

Judge Scolds Obama, Congress for Allowing Children to Face Deportation Without Lawyers - In an unusual call to action directed at members of Congress and the White House, a federal appeals judge in California on Tuesday urged the other two br...
Freedom Rider

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Statement on Syria - UNAC released the following statement on the continuing horror inflicted by the United States in its regime change effort in Syria. U.S. Bombs Syria Army E...
Above None of the Above

Clinton vs Trump. 25 September 2016, 44 days from the election - Another good week for Trump, but important states are moving both towards his column and away from them. More on that after the numbers. *RED *indicates a ...
American Third Party Report

Dear Unhappy Libertarians : Give the CP a Shot! - BY : CLINT BISHOP Hey you! Yes you, the libertarian or conservative with libertarian leanings that doesn’t feel quite at home in the Libertarian Facebook g...
Pages of Victory

TPP Exemplifies Why I No Longer Respect the Democrats - Ten Reasons the TPP is not "Progressive" This link gives some good reasons to stand against our government in the matter of this and other trade agreements....
Neil Aquino's All People Have Value

TEXAS PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE ROUND UP---THE WORK OF FREEDOM IS UP TO EACH OF US - Here is the current weekly blog round-up of the Texas Progressive Alliance.I'm glad to report that I'm a member of this fine group.TPA citizen-bloggers ar...
Greg Palast

Bring The Best Democracy Money Can Buy to a Cinema near you… - We're so proud that The Best Democracy Money Can Buy opened in theatres yesterday starting in New York at the Cinepolis Chelsea and hitting Los Angeles n...
Independent Thinker 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Southern Importers – Hidden Gems Near Houston’s Rail - Southern Importers should be called “the store where you can find everything you didn’t know you needed”. It’s easy to miss this hidden gem in the museum d...
Dos Centavos

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

The Building and the Bayou: Views of The Dunlavy - [image: The Dunlavy above Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park. Photo: Geoffrey Lyon.] The Dunlavy above Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park. Photo: Geoffrey Lyon. ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Longtime Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office to Retire - Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas office, will retire early next year after 31 years of championing consumer rights and clean energy...
Strength in Numbers (Ashton Woods)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rendezvous on the Tarmac: When Bill met Loretta - Would anyone have thought it odd if Pat Nixon met with Elliot Richardson on a runaway in Arizona in 1973 to talk about golf and grandchildren with the Wa...
LBO News from Doug Henwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims - By Julie Dermansky • Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Reposted from DeSmogBlog.com *** TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the...
Not of it.

Texas Big Six: 2016 Edition - "Make No Small Plans" - Texas is channeling its inner Daniel Burnham. The Chicago architect responsible for 1909's The Plan of Chicago never uttered the exact words that are th...
Fascist Dyke Motors

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

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

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

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, March 02, 2014

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