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Counterpunch

Gina Haspel and Pinocchio From Rome - Being in Rome, Italy and thinking of Gina Haspel, the CIA nominee and admitted torturer who says her “moral conscience” has changed after the fact, seems m...
The Week

John Oliver wants finding quality rehab to be the easy part of the addiction solution, explains why it isn't - "Rehab is a place where people can address an addiction to drugs or alcohol, something that until relatively recently was seen as a moral failing that co...
Salon.com

Billionaires are rushing into biotech. Inequality is following them into science - “Free-market philanthropy” raises yet more questions about the future of American public research
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday night raw - how net neutrality can survive the trump administration milwaukee cop suspended after violent arrest caught on video famed cancer scientist sexually harass...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

FTSE 100 hits record high as US and China call trade war truce - business live - US Treasury secretary Mnuchin says the trade war is ‘on hold’, bringing cheer to nervous markets - Latest: FTSE 100 has jumped through 7,800 points ...
Sputnik News

Peace With a Price: Iran Promises EU to Adhere to Nuke Deal on One Condition - Faced with the prospect of renewed US sanctions, Iran is looking for efforts by Washington’s European allies to keep the 2015 nuclear accord alive.
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day! - *by Noah* Of all the double armpit-scratching monkey goons that Señor Trumpanzee coulda picked to represent him as his newest "TV Lawyer," Rudy Giuliani ...
Liberation News

Struggle forces Seattle to tax big businesses to fund housing crisis relief - [image: "Tax Amazon" march, Seattle, May 12. Marchers outside Amazon's headquarters in South Lake Union. Liberation Photo.] The number of annual deaths due...
Informed Comment

After Trump stab in Back, Will Iran withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty? - Angry Iranians, feeling betrayed, have demonstrated in large numbers against Trump
Dissident Voice

Cold War Mentality Alive and Well in Australia - Writing in The Australian newspaper under the headline “Red Threats to Render White Paper just about Passé” (18 May 2018) ANU emeritus professor Paul Dibb ...
The NM Political Report

Ben Ray Luján: ‘We’re going to fight for every inch’ - [image: Ben Ray Luján: ‘We’re going to fight for every inch’] This weekend, *NM Political Report* sat down with Congressman Ben Ray Luján for an interview....
Angry Bear

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: GUARANTEED! — May 20 update - Class war? What class war? Stephanie Kelton Has The Biggest Idea In Washington “Everybody wants a piece of Kelton these days because a simple, radical ide...
Portside

How Rice Farming May Have Spread Across the Ancient World - How Rice Farming May Have Spread Across the Ancient World Ira Mon, 05/21/2018 - 01:47
VICE

Pregnant, Traumatized, and Trapped in Asylum Limbo - A massive backlog of asylum requests has left thousands of people in miserable situations while they wait to hear if they'll be allowed to stay in the US.
Anti-Media

Russia, Europe and China Discuss New Iran Nuclear Deal, Leaving US Sidelined - [image: Russia Europe China Iran Nuclear Deal](ANTIWAR.COM) — While previous reports have indicated that there was little interest in talking about a new n...
Mother Jones

Quote of the Day: Just Tell Them - I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of something Donald Trump told Billy Bush a few years ago: People will just believe you. You just ...
Ballot Access News

Thirty Candidates for U.S. Senate Will be on Washington State August Top-Two Primary Ballot - Thirty candidates filed to run for U.S. Senate in the Washington state top-two primary in August, according to this story. Filing ended May 18. … Continue ...
jobsanger

An Unfair Economy -
Houston Matters

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistance Movement - Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.
Socialist Worker

Trump wants to inflict misery on Iran...again - Economic sanctions were once considered the softer approach, but the U.S. government has learned how to cause maximum damage, writes Emma Wilde Botta. [...
World Socialist Web Site

Long-time CIA asset named as FBI’s spy on Trump campaign - Stefan Halper has been named as the individual sent by the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election campaign.
CPI's Danger in the Air

From secretive super PACs to Jenny Craig, 2018 primaries awash in cash - New disclosures detail megadonors’ contributions and help solve money mysteries in West Virginia’s Senate race
memeorandum

Stormy Daniels's lawyer is a media star. So why is he threatening journalists? (Margaret Sullivan/Washington Post) - Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: *Stormy Daniels's lawyer is a media star. So why is he threatening journalists?* — Ever since the story broke in ...
naked capitalism

How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public - Why "shareholders come first," an ideology that became widely accepted only in the last 30 years, is a poor guide for managing companies.
Raw Story

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro re-elected amid outcry over vote - Venezuela’s leftist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities i...
Trivial Knot

Authorial intent is magic! - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2015, although I changed the title. The author is magic “Death of the Author” is a famous 1967 essay by Roland Ba...
The Contributor

New Reports Surface of Trump Campaign's Involvement with Foreign Entities - News Image: "Trump campaign officials did not appear bothered by the idea of cooperation with foreigners." origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Jul...
Morning Consult

As Midterms Approach, Bernie Sanders on Safest Ground Among Senate Incumbents - The post As Midterms Approach, Bernie Sanders on Safest Ground Among Senate Incumbents appeared first on Morning Consult.
Campaign for America's Future

NC Teachers Shout ‘Listen to Us!’ to Lawmakers - Why does it take shutting down thousands of schools to get political leaders’ attention? What is this “dialogue people haven’t been wanting to have”? It's ...
Antiwar.com

What Will Iran Do Now? - President Donald Trump announced that the US is pulling out of the Iran nuclear accord – and Iranians are really pissed. Thousands of Iranians demonstrat...
The Verge

OnePlus 6 review: new phone, same compromises - OnePlus’ latest is still a great value, but still has the same old problems For several years now, OnePlus has been releasing phones with a variation on ...
National Post

Decorated by stars and royalty, the wedding reception for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was one for the books - Close friends mingled with global celebrities under a glass marquee for a sit-down meal, emotional speeches and the letting down of hair
Crooks and Liars

Open Thread - Presidential? - [image: Open Thread - Presidential?] Open Thread below...
Independent Political Report

Tom Woods: Why the Race for Libertarian Party Chair Is So Contentious - … Read more ...
Slate

More Details on the NYT’s Latest Don Jr. Meeting Scoop, From One of the Guys Who Reported It - On Sunday, the New York Times reported that a second Donald Trump Jr. Trump Tower meeting has caught the attention of Robert Mueller’s investigators. Thi...
Rivard Report

San Antonio Suits Up with Custom Clothier Limatus Bespoke - San Antonio’s Roosevelt Library is the most fitting space for the unique custom clothing showroom of Limatus Bespoke. The post San Antonio Suits Up with ...
Splinter

Border Patrol Agent Questions Two Women For Speaking Spanish at a Convenience Store - A Customs and Border Patrol agent questioned two women in Montana this week after hearing them speak Spanish while in line at a convenience store. Read m...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: Facial recognition software to be installed in Lockport schools - The Buffalo News reports that come next fall, facial recognition software will be installed in all Lockport public schools. Lockport will spend $1.4 milli...
Political Dig

Adam Schiff Just Caught Trump In New Impeachable Offense - It appears Donald Trump is digging a corruption hole so deep that he will end up being buried in it. On Sunday, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA)...
Eschaton

Why Does The Times Always Do This - Interesting scoop! WASHINGTON — The special counsel hopes to finish by Sept. 1 the investigation into whether President Trump obstructed the Russia inquiry...
Pajiba

And Then There Was The One 'Deadpool 2' Cameo You Really DID Miss - Although I am happy the Royal Wedding is finally over and done with, I begrudge no one of their joy. My 10-year-old son woke up at 5 a.m. to watch the wedd...
Consortium News

Polls Show Being Anti-Trump Isn’t Enough to Beat GOP - Instead of addressing demands for social progress, such as single-payer insurance, Democratic leaders find it much easier and more comfortable to denounce ...
Vox

Westworld pauses its other action for a mostly thrilling trip to Shogun World - [image: Rinko Kikuchi joins the cast as Akane.] “Akane No Mai” foregrounds Thandie Newton’s Maeve in a clever, highly enjoyable episode. Which still has s...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Former Education Secretary: boycott school until gun laws change - In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Kasie Hunt, Arne Duncan, former Education Secretary under President Obama, calls for parents to pull their children fr...
Mediaite

Parkland Survivor David Hogg Calls on Media to Stop Naming School Shooters - Parkland survivor and gun control activist David Hogg called on the media on Sunday to stop calling school shooters by name.
Hullabaloo

Collusion for dummies - *Collusion for dummies* by digby Huh: Released in a tranche of documents by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning, the release of this ...
Latino Rebels

Life After Deportation in Guatemala (PODCAST) - Latino Rebels Radio: May 20, 2018
OpEd News

Letter from Iran: Mr. Trump, you have been served - The letter signatories make a direct connection about Israeli actions that may trigger "and escalate American military actions against Turkey, Syria, Leban...
Socialist Alternative

Agitación en los Estados Unidos. Crisis en el Gobierno Trump, elecciones de “medio mandato”, movilizaciones y huelgas - El caos en la administración de Trump dio un nuevo salto, al tiempo que las huelgas de profesores se extendían por todo el país y que las elecciones de mit...
Field Negro

Living in the new America. - [image: Image result for police stop kansas facebook images]Tonight my racism chase takes me to Kansas.* (No wonder Dorothy left for Oz.)* Folks, I can't s...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: Season Finales For Agents of SHIELD, Timeless, Arrow, The Blacklist, and Gotham; More Renewal News; The Orville & Star Trek News; Nebula Awards - Shortly after I listed Agents of SHIELD as one of the shows in which the fate was unknown when I listed renewals last week, word came out that SHIELD was r...
Buzzflash

Tucson Draws the Line on Privatization - Tucson Draws the Line on Privatization 3.0/*5* rating (2 votes)
Reverb Press

IBM Started Laying off Older Workers Without Disclosure, so a Federal Watchdog Took a Closer Look - Something shady is going on at IBM... The post IBM Started Laying off Older Workers Without Disclosure, so a Federal Watchdog Took a Closer Look appeared...
Echidne of the Snakes

Spurned Advances Provoked Texas School Shooting? My Take. - *Spurned advances provoked Texas school shooting, victim's mother says* That's the recent Reuter's headline on the Santa Fe butchery. The story itself ...
Houston Press

Chef Chat: Otto Sanchez On How to Make the Perfect Bread - "It's a Breton. It's my favorite cookie, comes from Brittany. I thought I'd make strawberry basil tarts today." He looked down at my plate. Only crumbs and...
Axios

Trump's prison reform turn - As improbable as it sounds, it looks like Trump is genuinely embracing an issue — prison reform — that seemed unthinkable when he was yelling "law and or...
News Corpse

Fox News Fingers ‘The Single Most Dangerous Person to the Agenda of President Trump’ - You can count on Fox News to be on top of any threats to the supremacy of Donald Trump and his totalitarian regime. Since Fox News is the designated media ...
Shadowproof

Unauthorized Disclosure—Episode 17: Israel’s Slaughter Of Protesters, Senate Confirms Gina Haspel - Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss the most recent massacre of dozens of protesters in Gaza by Israeli military forces. Khalek talks about the...
Popular Resistance

On The Technical Aspects Of Voting, Venezuela Does It Right - Caracas, Venezuela - The voting system in Venezuela cannot be technically challenged in any serious way. It is open, transparent, leaves a voter-verified p...
Pharyngula

Why is Jordan Peterson so unreasonably popular? - I think this article by Robyn Pennacchia comes closest to explaining Peterson’s appeal. There are a lot of meaty quotes in there if you want to see the evi...
Space City Weather

Storms rolling through northern half of Houston - Rising moisture levels have combined with rising air to form some moderate-to-strong showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, primarily to the north and w...
Pressthink

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...
Texas Monthly

Dan Patrick’s School Shooting Idea is Not Crazy, Just Unworkable - After the Santa Fe shooting, the lieutenant governor suggested hardening security at our schools. The post Dan Patrick’s School Shooting Idea is Not Craz...
Talking Points Memo

After Trump Announces Demand, DOJ Asks IG To Review Counterintelligence Work - Tierney Sneed contributed reporting. The Justice Department on Sunday confirmed that its inspector general would investigate whether “there was any...
Ian Welsh

Loving-Kindness Isn’t About Morality - It is said that once upon a time, Siddhartha Gautama, before he was the Buddha, was sitting on the ground and was overwhelmed by a great feeling of sweetne...
Daily Dot

Soon you’ll get to pick your Coca-Cola Freestyle flavors via Bluetooth - Coke machines are about to go high-tech. The post Soon you’ll get to pick your Coca-Cola Freestyle flavors via Bluetooth appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Above the Law

Non-Sequiturs: 05.20.18 - * After issuing a TRO to a block a political ad attacking his own allies and campaign donors -- "almost certainly an unconstitutional prior restraint," in ...
NPR's Health Shots

Ebola Outbreak: DRC To Start Vaccination Campaign - Democratic Republic of the Congo will begin an Ebola vaccination campaign Monday. Tarik Jasarevic of the World Health Organization tells NPR's Don Gonyea a...
The Root

Al Sharpton Claims ‘White Male Supremacy’ Is ‘On Its Last Breath’ Because Harry Married Meghan, and I Need Him To Stop Talking - During a National Action Network rally Saturday in Harlem, Rev. Al Sharpton said that the marriage between His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert...
Election Law Blog

“Ryan-linked group raised $24.6M from anonymous donor” - Politico: American Action Network, the nonprofit group closely aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, raised a record $41.9 million amid the GOP push to rep...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: John Feffer, Korea's Two "Impossibles" - When, in early March, Donald Trump agreed to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the Washington foreign policy elite nearly suffered a collective heart...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Why, Thank You, Dan For Govsplaining This To Me - You’d think that Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick would be limping from the beating he took on national media for suggesting that fewer doors in a school wou...
Washington's Blog

How can America’s evangelical Christians who favor Trump justify themselves? - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at the Greanville Post One of the perhaps half-dozen honest news-sites, the Greanville Post, ran this news-commentary from J...
Pensito Review

Trump Can’t Do Irony and This Tweet Proves It - So as president he’s going to demand that the Department of Justice investigate whether the last president demanded that the Department of Justice investig...
Newsbud

The Merkel Dilemma: Trump or Putin? - In the eighty-second edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Kommersant, ...
Washington Monthly

Full-Blown Insanity: Trump’s Paranoia Gets Worse - The nonsense starts to defy description after a while: President Trump said Sunday that he would demand that the Justice Department explore whether it or t...
Common Dreams

Young Voters Likely to Continue Post-Parkland Mobilization in Voting Booth, Registration Records Show - Julia Conley, staff writer According to voter registration records in states that will be closely watched in the November midterm elections, young Americans...
Dandelion Salad

Possible New War Opponents by David Swanson - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy May 20, 2018 For those of us who fully expected most U.S. peace activists to vanish once Barac...
The Greanville Post

The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping Off - CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—It really couldn’t be more fitting that the US now has an actual, literal torturer as the head of the CIA. It also couldn’t be more fitti...
Off the Kuff

Weekend link dump for May 20 - […]
TYT Network

The Young Turks Announce 24-Hour TV Channel - Watch TYT on YouTube TV at: http://tyt.com/youtubeTV Check out the YouTube TV home page: http://tv.youtube.com It’s time to take over TV. Cenk Uygur, h...
No More Mister Nice Blog

JORNDAN PETERSON OFFERS THE RIGHT SOME NEW TUNES, BUT THE RIGHT WOULD RATHER PLAY THE HITS - The *L.A. Times* reports that Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who's confessed to Friday's school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, targeted a fellow student who'd rejecte...
Courthouse News

Trump to Demand DOJ Review Claims of FBI Spy on Campaign - President Donald Trump says he'll demand that the Justice Department review whether it or the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign for political pur...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Season Finale - That’s it for Saturday Night Live this year. I suppose they’ll be back again in early September, maybe late August. It’s always sucked ever since the origi...
Think Progress

Mother of murdered teen, now a gun reform advocate, runs for US Congress - Lucy McBath, an activist for gun reform, is running in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat in Georgia’s 6th District. She is the mother of J...
Robert Reich

Trump’s Curious Coalition - Trump’s strategy for keeping power is to build up his coalition of America’s white working class and...
The Rag Blog

Jim Simons : The three state solution - We are complicit in the apartheid and occupation imposed on the Palestinian people. By Jim Simons | The Rag Blog | May 20, 2018 The thing Trump loves best ...
SCOTUSblog

This week at the court - [image: This week at the court]On Monday the Supreme Court will release orders from the May 17 conference. There is a possibility of opinions. The justic...
Avedon's Sideshow

Some say it's a sign of weakness - *The Hill*, "Court orders Iran to pay billions to 9/11 victims and families: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Iran to pay billions of dollars in damage...
Political Garbage Chute

President Trump Outraged ‘Wrong’ National Anthem Was Played At Royal Wedding - WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Donald Trump watched the royal wedding of Prince Henry Charles Albert David and Princess Meghan Markle, sources within th...
Wolf Street

Graphic Details of the Crazy Housing Bubble in San Francisco, According to Zillow - Plenty of homes for sale, at ludicrous prices for what you get. But asking prices are now getting “reduced.”
Speak Freely (ACLU)

LGBT Students Face Heartbreaking Treatment at an Oregon High School - North Bend School District has tried to sweep years of discrimination under the rug. They must be held accountable. Last month, a professor at Willamette ...
First Draft

Why I Shouldn’t Be President - If I became president I would TOTALLY INSTALL A DIET COKE BUTTON ON THE RESOLUTE DESK. Guys, this is like the only part of Trump — besides his clowning on ...
The Reality-Based Community

Royal bus wedding - Buses at the royal wedding, and the e-bus revolution.
Dorf on Law

Divisiveness as Business Model and Political Strategy - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Last Friday, I argued that Democrats should not preemptively talk themselves out of the idea of impeaching Donald Trump, should the o...
emptywheel

Nunes Outraged that [American] Spies Paid to Brush Up against Trump Aides - After months of disinterest in the many documented times spooked up foreigners dangled money and other goods to get close to Trump and his aides, Devin Nun...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (May 13 – 19) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Televangelist Jim Bakker, pitching the Missouri town in which he is building a Christian community equip...
Ring of Fire

Braindead Republican Congressman Says Falling Rocks Are Causing Sea Level Rise - Representative Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama, has finally figured out what is causing sea levels across the planet to rise – According to Brooks, ...
The Intercept

Moro convive com tucanos — e ignora código de ética dos juízes - Moro não se constrange em fazer autopromoção e aparecer em encontros de políticos do PSDB. No dia 18, posou ao lado do candidato João Doria num evento em...
Brad Blog

Sunday Toons of the Peace Process Moment - It's true: Trump and Hannity like to talk before bedtime * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange ...
Bracing Views

The Best Don’t Have to Boast: The Dangerous Myth of American Military Omnipotence - W.J. Astore [Note: I originally wrote this article for Truthout, where it appeared in August 2011. Little has changed since then; indeed, the current pres...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

A DEBATE - This is the Jonathan Turley article Trump's defenders are going wild about. I've always thought of Turley as a pretty reasonable analyst -- but this column...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Now, THIS Is Royalty I Can Get Behind - In yesterday's post, I wrote about how unseemly I find it when the media fawns over royalty. I will make exceptions for certain royal figures, such as the ...
Simple Justice

The Valenti Mystique - One of the shrillest and least rational of voices for feminism emits from Jessica Valenti’s fingertips. Yet, even Valenti has the occasional point. On Thur...
slacktivist

Sunday favorites - "Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."
Duffel Blog

Local man claims he could be US Navy SEAL after Fortnite victories - [image: gamer] BOSTON — A 32-year-old Boston man claims his success on the popular video game “Fortnite” could lead to a successful career as a United Sta...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: yellow - [image: Dean Lane, BS3]
AlterNet.org

'Bullsh*t Jobs' is the One Book Every Millennial and Generation Z New Graduate Should Read - Chances are, at some point in your life, you might end up in what’s known in anthropology as a 'Bullsh*t Job' When I graduated college in the late ’90s, I...
Sayfie Review Texas

AP: Texas school shooting suspect's family offers condolences to victims, say attack "incompatible with the boy we love" - AP: Texas school shooting suspect's family offers condolences to victims, say attack "incompatible with the boy we love"
Truthout

Trump's Abortion Gag Order Is Already Hurting Health Care in Developing Nations - Support from readers keeps Truthout 100 percent independent. If you like what you're reading, make a donation! Imagine this: You're a health care provider...
Nathan Hevenstone

E-Cigarettes, Wet Lung, and the US vs the UK - Yet again, the US news media over-hypes a story and uses it to peddle a narrative about e-cigarettes being “just as bad” as analog cigarettes. They are evi...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

A brief history of Armed Forces Day, and why we fly the flag in 2018 - Armed Forces Day is the third Saturday in May. This year it falls on May 19. The U.S. Flag Code designates Armed Forces Day as one day for all Americans to...
Talking Union

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DeSmogBlog

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Proceeds in Louisiana Community Despite Invalid Permit Ruling - [image: Bayou Bridge pipeline workers in St. James, Louisiana] Construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline has continued in and around the Louisiana town of ...
MintPress News

VICE Gives Netanyahu Center-Stage as Gaza Coverage Is Relegated to the Margins - The decision to grant center-stage, and toss softball questions, to the perpetrator of Monday’s massacre in Gaza – perhaps the most visibly egregious inc...
Grits for Breakfast

You're getting sleepy, so you won't notice Texas is still using junk science like 'forensic hypnosis' in death penalty cases - Before reading the rest of this post, relax, breathe, and follow the swinging pocket watch. Feeling suggestible? Great, now we can begin! *Junkiest of ju...
Mahablog

A Tale of Two Media Obsessions - While most of us are wallowing in the latest twists and turns of the investigations of Trump, the Right is holding its breath waiting for an Inspector Gene...
Governmentality

Sunday Talk Shows (5/20/18): Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Bernie Sanders, Roger Stone, Oliver North - The Sunday morning talk shows will focus on Trump's FBI claims and the Texas school shooting. The post Sunday Talk Shows (5/20/18): Meet The Press, Face...
Greg Palast

Paul “The Vulture” Singer Targets Hyundai - By Greg Palast While Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are playing double-or-nothing with the survival of Koreans, Trump’s billionaire sugar-daddy is taking a...
Daily Howler

EXPLOSIVE: Was Carter Page a Russkie agent? - *SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018The Times pushes the story along:* Was Carter Page some sort of Russkie agent? We have no way of knowing. By the time the Mueller ...
Lewisville Texan Journal

SWAT take suspect into custody after chase ends at bait outlet - By Leopold Knopp and Steve Southwell A suspect is in custody after speeding away from police and barricading himself into the bathroom of the Live Bait Out...
Carl Beijer

Jordan Peterson doesn't understand Jung's ideas about gender - I was re-reading some Jung this morning when I came across a passage that Jordan Peterson would probably prefer that you ignore: No man is so entirely masc...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for May 14 - 18 at XE.com - *- by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at XE.com. The very last thing I do, only after I tabulate all the data, is to decide on the ti...
SocraticGadfly

#ThoughtsAndPrayers and #hypocrisy from Greg Abbott after latest, Santa Fe, school shooting - Greg Abbott thinks unlucky accidents of nature are the same as deliberate killing of one human being by another. The thoughts-and-prayers deluded crowd aft...
Progressive.org

Going Native: My Longing to Migrate Home - I grew up with deep roots of racial self-hate. I wished I could fit in better with the dominant society. I wished to God I was not an American Indian.
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Venezuela: Cuba's colonial possession in South America implodes - *Dark days ahead in Venezuela.* Dictator Raul Castro with his Venezuelan and Cuban puppetsIn Venezuela the electoral system is rigged, the regime of Nicolas...
Stinque

Teenage Wasteland - We were fifteen in 1974. It was, in retrospect, maybe not the beat time to be growing up in America. Our political memory began with a pair of assassinatio...
The Progressive Wing

TGIW Video Blog Post - Birdies… Too much madness going on today. Shootings in Santa Fe, TX at yet another HS, in Springfield, IL, and a plane crash in Cuba with few survivors! Bu...
Grit Post

In 2018, Public School Students Are More Likely to Be Fatally Shot Than Police Officers - It’s not even June yet, and 32 people — most of them students — have been killed in school shootings. So far, there have been 28 firearm-related deaths o...
Grist

Satirical ad reveals how to live luxuriously like Scott Pruitt - As long as you're cool with a little dirty business.
The Conversation

5 things to know about mass shootings in America - A criminologist reviews recent research to dispel common misconceptions about mass shootings.
Swamplot

Tomball Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Front Row - 15607 Ten Oaks Dr. [HAR]… Read More
Houstonia

Want/Need/Love: Royal Wedding Edition - If your Royal Wedding invite mysteriously got lost in the mail, Houston's got the goods for an at-home celebration.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Christian Nationalism And Gun Control - Sarah Kiff @ Vox: The new Trump plan to defund Planned Parenthood, explained. Casey Michel @ Think Progress: The Virginia GOP wants to get this creationist...
Rewire

Disability Activists Fight for the Right to Live in Their Communities - As support for the Disability Integration Act grows across party lines, activists are hopeful about its future. The post Disability Activists Fight for t...
Freethought Now

We’re tackling the big ’uns - What bigger entity to take on than Congress?
CultureMap Houston

Here is how you can help the Santa Fe High School victims - In the wake of the deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School, many are asking how to help the victims who will be in need of blood. UTMB will be accepting b...
Dallas Observer

Rawlings, on Santa Fe Shooting: 'Spare Us Your Thoughts and Prayers' - ? 01:08 Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings was in Houston Friday morning when, about 40 miles away in Santa Fe, another person with a gun opened fire on another sc...
San Antonio Current

Ban Doors, Not Guns, to Stop School Shootings, Dan Patrick Says - In addition to the "thoughts and prayers" pro-gun politicians dependably trot out after a mass shooting, there's usually a wealth of ass-backward logic to...
Free Press Houston

Film Facts: Burn Edition - Perhaps not oddly the most intriguing movie this week premieres on cable, followed by superhero subversion of the form and a few indie screenings. Fahrenhe...
Somervell County Salon

Santa Fe Texas School Shooting - Stop with the Empty Faux-Religious Gestures - VOTE out the people who are in the pocket of the NRA. Otherwise, those who vote for these bloodthirsty politicians prove that they have no family values ...
Krebs on Security

T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account - T-Mobile is investigating a retail store employee who allegedly made unauthorized changes to a subscriber's account in an elaborate scheme to steal the cus...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard For May 18, 2018 - A shooter situation at a school in Galveston County. Santa Fe High School goes on lockdown, we'll have the latest from our reporting partners. And: What co...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Why The NBA Abandoned Roy Hibbert - INDIANAPOLIS — Five years ago tonight, the Pacers needed a hero. It was Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Knicks — a game Indiana nee...
Rude Pundit

Time to Do the School-Shooting Roundelay Again - Hey, everyone, there's been another school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School, right near I-45, southeast of Houston, on the way to Galveston. You...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Power and Will: Eminent Domain for Preserving Land and Surviving Floods - The Moral Hazard in a Golf Course May 18, 2018 Mention “eminent domain” and ugly associations come to mind. The brutal power of the state. Taking homes a...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Parkland student on Texas shooting: Prepare for the NRA to boast about donations - Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky responded to the latest Texas high school shooting in a tweet on Friday, telling his followers to prepare fo...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'GOP candidate films herself harassing trans woman using the restroom, trying to fundraise from it' & other Fri midday news briefs - Jazmina Saavedra, who shall be known as 'a waste of space,' is trying to get to Congress by harassing trans women. *GOP House candidate live streams hersel...
In These Times

The Never-Ending Nakba - Two weeks ago in Old Hebron, a once-bustling Palestinian city in the West Bank, I saw a ghost town. The streets were empty except for dozens of Israeli s...
BEYONDbones

Discovering Texas With Monsters And Teens - In the modern age of planes, trains and automobiles the world can seem like it’s getting smaller every minute. But what I think is actually happening is ...
The Ghion Journal

The Blue Wave is a Yellow Tide of Cowardice - You would think condemning a massacre is something Senators and Congresspeople could rally behind. Evidently not. The silence is deafening and a person c...
Louis Proyect

First Reformed - For most film buffs, the movie “Taxi Driver” and the name Martin Scorsese are inextricably linked. But for me, the essence of a film is the screenplay. It ...
Texas Observer

The Resistance has a Runoff in the Houston Suburbs - The weekend before early voting in Tuesday’s runoff started, Jay Taylor found himself in an awkward situation. The two Democratic candidates in the 7th C...
Reading the Pictures

Between Jerusalem, Gaza and the Media: The Tear Gas Spectacular - What stokes the media as effectively as it fuels insurgency and state power--especially in the Trump era? Simply put, it's the fireworks. The post Betwee...
Progressive Army

Special Economic Zones: Maquiladoras on Steroids - In May of 2016, the Mexican government introduced a law to create a series of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which were intended to be fully operational ...
Democracy Now!

Daniel Ellsberg: Whistleblowing is Needed to Avert Catastrophic U.S. War with Iran & North Korea - Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg is best known for leaking information about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1971, but he also drafted plans for nuclea...
Debunking Christianity

God’s Defenders Can’t Get Their Act Together - More Evasion, Bluffing, and Pretending Here we go again…trying to get believers to level with us. In my article published here on 4 May 2018,* When God Is N...
ProPublica

You’re Entitled to Government Transparency - by Vignesh Ramachandran Editors and reporters from learning newsroom Real Chi focus on covering Chicago’s West Side. (Vignesh Ramachandran/ProPublica Ill...
Rallblog

There Are So Many Worse Words Than Mofo - Director Spike Lee, speaking at Cannes, denounced Donald Trump as a “motherfucker” because he failed to denounce the Nazis in Charlottesville who murdere...
Great American Satan

John Woo on Netflix - Manhunt! New John Woo joint on Nutflex. Extremely poorly reviewed. I watched it. Don’t feel up for a full review, but here’s the short version: The plot’s ...
News Taco

There’s A Wave Of Latina Candidates In The Midterms — And Their Reason For Running Might Inspire You To Do The Same - A record number of Latina candidates are running for office this year — many of them fueled by rhetoric and policies coming out of the Trump administrati...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Texas public radio's storyteller from Brownsville, TX - A Texas Country Reporter feature piece on Dr. W. F. Strong of Brownsville, TX. The professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is also a storyte...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

RT: OPCW Got its Chemical Weapons Samples from ‘Jihadists’ - The “jihadists” referred to in the RT story are actually members of Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets. The claim that they are jihadist...
Better Texas Blog

A Lose-Lose Situation if you Buy Your Own Health Insurance - For people who aren’t offered insurance at work and don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, their option for health coverage is called the “individual he...
Equality Texas

Pride Started as a Protest - Pride season is officially underway in Texas, as LGBTQ people across the Lone Star State join with their neighbors in big cities and small towns in joyous,...
Eater Houston

Beloved Tex-Mex Restaurant Fiesta Loma Linda Shutters - The East End eatery was open for 62 years Tex-Mex restaurant Fiesta Loma Linda, a 62-year-old stalwart of Houston’s dining scene, has officially closed ...
Lowering the Bar

Huang v. Hollywood - [image: LTB logo]Alleging a conspiracy that apparently involved most of Hollywood, plus Monica Lewinsky, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Dalai Lama. Relate...
DBC Green blog

Net Neutrality Victory in Senate—House Vote Still Looms - BREAKING: With a historic 52-47 vote—the U.S. Senate just passed the CRA resolution saving #NetNeutrality! Most thought we'd never make it this far, but YO...
Frontloading HQ

[2017-18 State Legislative Review: Proposed Primary Movement] Utah Will Have a Presidential Primary Option in 2020 - *This post is part of a series examining efforts -- both attempted and successful -- to move presidential primary election dates for 2020 during the now-ad...
First Reading

Will Matt McCall be cast from the house of Trump for not wanting Trump to watch his daughters? - Good day Austin: Is the Republican Party under President Trump becoming a cult? I ask, because of late, some of the behavior seems cult-like. Last…
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Frank Stilwell, The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing… - Frank Stilwell, 'The Political Economy of Inequality: Taking Stock and Flowing...' During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Democrats’ Drive for 25 in the House: An Update - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — This piece revisits a proposed path to a Democratic House majority we sketched out in early February. — Overall, the Democ...
Peacock Panache

Maryland Student Punished For Pledge of Allegiance Protest - [image: Maryland Student Punished For Pledge of Allegiance Protest] After choosing to ‘take a knee’ in the style of Colin Kaepernick, 11-year-old Mariana T...
Ecosophia

The Taste of Another’s Thoughts - We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industri...
Disobedient Media

Activist, Independent Journalist Niko House Faces Eviction After Being Repeatedly Wrongly Arrested, Beaten By Police - When Niko House was recently pulled over for a traffic stop in Georgia, it was the beginning of a police […]
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is Feudalistic Media Only Covering Crooks and Thugs? - There are so many politicians involved in so much corruption or outright crime, including sexual assault, prostitution, epidemic levels of fraud, and ev...
Harper's Magazine

[Publisher's Note ] | Why I’ll Miss My Friend Tom Wolfe, by John R. MacArthur - “Wolfe was always the arch opponent of orthodoxy in all its forms.”
Other Words

In OtherWords: May 16, 2018 - We're looking at ways to bridge the divides between country and city people, and between progressives and conservatives.
Popehat

Make No Law Episode Six: Street - Make No Law Episode Six: Street has dropped. It's about Street v. New York, a case about flag burning. Here are some of the resources mentioned in the epis...
Earthjustice

We’re Suing to Make Industry Clean Up Its Own Messes - We’re Suing to Make Industry Clean Up Its Own Messes It’s time the dirtiest polluters in the country pay for their own toxic messes, instead of skipping to...
OffCite

An Initial Response to the New Glassell School of Art by Raj Mankad - Day view of the Glassell School of Art, west elevation; Photograph courtesy MFAH, © Richard Barnes.The new Glassell School of Art building is not subtle. A...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

A Visit to Houston and the Healthy Port Communities Coalition - Six years ago, Public Citizen and our partners founded the Healthy Port Communities Coalition (HPCC), which advocates for the health and well-being of re...
Political Orphans

Bribery Is An American Tradition - Our government is for sale, but don’t blame Donald Trump. His clumsy cast of cartoon Mafiosi have merely taken the finesse out of the game, placing the oil...
Duck of Minerva

Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) - This is a guest post from Paul Musgrave, Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Sebastian Karcher, Assoc...
xpostfactoid

In Health Affairs: If CMS ends silver loading - I've co-authored with David Anderson, Charles Gaba and Louise Norris a blog post in *Health Affairs* that surveys the fallout from Trump's cutoff of federa...
Washington Babylon

Michael Cohen, Tony Podesta and Washington Corruption - I’ve been out of the loop for awhile, for a bunch of personal and work reasons, but hope to be reporting regularly from The Swamp again soon. I confess I’m...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT's Queer Voices on History of Texas Sodomy Law - The 15th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, finding Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional, is coming up in June. I had the oppo...
Dos Centavos

2018.2: Stace Slate – Dem Run-Off - Early voting for the 2018 Democratic Primary Run-Off begins on May 14 and continues through May 18, 7AM to 7PM. You may vote at any early voting location. ...
ROAR Magazine

The revenge against the commons of the ZAD - Why French police, in its biggest operation since May 68, is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare — and how the ZAD fought back. Read more
Downwinders at Risk

THIS COMING TUESDAY, MAY 22 YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SUPPORT LOT OF GOOD CAUSES…ALL AT ONCE - The Top Five Reasons You Should Attend the May 22nd Benefit for Joppa 1) This benefit will fund a citizen-run air quality monitoring network in Joppa that ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Anticlines - This is the part where I tell you about why I haven’t been writing. I haven’t been writing. I have noticed this. You might have noticed this. After two we...
ExChristian.Net

Working For The Church - *By WP ~ * I have been a Christian my whole life but the past two years have completely broken the mind fuck spell I was placed under. Growing up my mom ...
Our Finite World

How the Economy Works as It Reaches Energy Limits — An Introduction for Actuaries and Others - Why have long-term interest rates generally fallen since 1981? Why have asset prices risen? Can these trends be expected to continue? The standard evaluati...
Bad Attitudes

Snowflakes - There is still good in our world, if you look hard enough. Alan Tucker has: There is a new term for those handwringing liberals who whine about poor peop...
Houston Communist Party

New-Orleans-swears-in-its-first-female-mayor-continuing-the-trend-in-black-women-s-leadership - New Orleans swears in its first female mayor, continuing a new trend in black women’s leadership Kelly Macias Daily Kos Staff Monday May 07, 2018 · 1:39 PM...
WAWG Blog

Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People - Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public ...
John Laurits

Voter Registration Is Voter Suppression: Low Turnout by Design in the USA - Voter Registration Is Voter Suppression: Low Turnout by Design in the USA A look at the voter registration system in the United States; why the US has su...
Church and State

11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore - Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God.
LawFlog

DOJ refuses to release records about Seth Rich murder - The U.S. Department of Justice will not release any records related to the murder of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to a...
The Economic Populist

Construction contribution to Q1 GDP under-reported by 47 basis points, despite 1.7% drop in March - Construction spending fell 1.7% in March, after construction spending for both January and February were revised much higher. The Census Bureau's report...
PERRspectives

Next Year in Tehran? - As President Obama faced the looming re-election campaign in the spring of 2012, he issued a stern challenge to those critics of his approach to the Irania...
Ramona's Voices

Let's be Honest. Anti-Abortion Doesn't Make You Pro-Life. - I'll get right to it: I'm on the side of every woman who chooses abortion as a solution to what she considers a problem in her life. I don't need to know h...
34justice

We Miss the Old Kanye… - Kanye West is oft considered one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. He also supports Trump and recently gave an interview stating his belie...
Real News

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign - By Gareth Porter* / Consortium News * Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but ...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Tony Kinman – An American Original - I read on FB that Tony Kinman is very ill. I don’t know many details. But it’s a sad thing. Amid a culture where people on either side of politics are pu...
Seeing the Forest

WWDD — What Would a Democracy Do? - Crossposted from Imagine Democracy Here is a question to ask yourself when you are looking at something the government is doing: “Would a democracy do this...
Progressive Memetics

S H O T S -
South Lawn

Dead Workers Don’t Use Elevators, Cherie - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate North Carolina’s Elevator Queen. I do not mean that I hate Cherie Berry as a person. I hate and despise the...
The Texas Politics Project

Governor Abbott (Still) Tops Texans' Evaluations of Elected Officials* - By: Jim Henson Joshua Blank In addition to its focus on Texans’ views of the issues facing the state, the University of Texas / Texas Politics Project Pol...
Houston Justice

BREAKING: HISD Board will not Charter Black/Brown Schools - [image: hisd pic.jpg] Just confirmed the authenticity of this press release from HISD Press office via phone who confirmed the Board will not move forward...
Moron Majority

Is Dr. Ronny Jackson Really an MD? - Now that Dr. Ronny Jackson’s bid to become the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs has suffered a major setback amid allegations of both personal and profes...
Texas Moratorium Network

Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler - Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler. Sabrina was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. She is listed as number 59 on the T...
New Progressive Alliance

Gentrification and Orange County - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
PoliTex (FWST)

Who's a hero or villain in Texas politics? It's in this book - Fort Worth is the home of Texas' best museums. Arlington, though, is at risk of damage from Tea Party Republicans and wild hogs. Texas is a wondrous place,...
St. Petersburg Independents

Robin Harris, Green leader - Orange County, FL commissioner Dist. 6! The pattern of Gentrification in Orange County is classic. First they drive out the affluent through deliberate ne...
Green News Network

The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance - The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance Written By: Tony Smith Throughout the history of the United States, there have been two main p...
If You Only News

Pregnant Mother Shot By Her 3-Year-Old Daughter With Father’s Gun (VIDEO) - Police said a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her pregnant mother from the backseat of the car on Tuesday in Indiana. Authorities said the woman’s...
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
Texas Rural Voices

San Saba to Brady: A Day in the Heart of Texas with Beto O’Rourke - By JoAnn Randall “Everyone was in upbeat spirits on a beautiful spring day and all were looking forward, enormously, to hearing from and meeting Beto O’R...
The Metaphor Project

How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now - With President Trump’s choice of Bolton as National Security Adviser and Pompeo for State, our country has reached a more dangerous place than ever, especi...
Project Censored

Washington Post Bans Employees from Using Social Media to Criticize Sponsors - In June, 2017, the Washingtonian reported on a new policy at the Washington Post that prohibits its employees from conduct on social media that “adversel...
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of April 9th - The Texas Progressive Alliance is neither the subject nor the target of an investigation, but it is bringing you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff noted th...
Jim Hightower

Guacamole, shakshuka, mussels and… garbage dogs? Recipes from Hightower and friends - After Hightower’s longtime partner, DeMarco, took her leave of us from this crazy planet, our staff and the board of the Lowdown decided to have a little...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Call To Action – URGENT SUBMIT COMMENT BY 04/10/18 – 5pm Central - Hydrogen cyanide is a systemic chemical asphyxiant. It interferes with the normal use of oxygen by nearly every organ of the body and can be rapidly fatal....
The Disorder Of Things

What We Talked About at ISA: Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy - In recent years, we’ve seen a number of depressing political shifts in the Euro-Atlantic area — but the rise of feminist foreign policies is not among them...
Irregular Times

Catholic Priest Prays For Wanton Destruction In Congress - It’s outrageous that a priest was given specific federal government authorization to conduct a religious ritual on the floor of the U.S. House of Represent...
UP@NIGHT

The New Philosophical Gourmet Report Indicts Itself - A preliminary. I did not expect, nor did I desire to write, (yet) …
Source Planet

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
The Urban Edge

Sustainable Cities Need More Than Parks, Cafes and a Riverwalk - The Conversation | The difference between green cities and green gentrification. Continue Reading →
Deep State Nation

GOP Lawmaker’s 56-Year-Old Aide Fired Over Sexual Encounter With Teenage Boy - BUSTED!
Thom Hartmann

Friday 9 March '18 show notes - - Anything Goes Friday! What's on Your Mind? - Karl Frisch, Allied Progress: Why are Florida Legislators Cowtowing to the Payday Loan Crowd? ...
News Junkie

Human Trafficking from Haiti to Chile - In Chile, as in every other country that has historically embraced slavery, there are numerous racists. It is equally fair to say that, like all countries ...
Texas Watch

Texas Watch Speaks on Auto Safety at HABA Conference - (Photo (left to right): John Kopriva, HABA President; Burl Richards, ABAT President; Ware Wendell, Executive Director of Texas Watch; Robert McDorman, F...
Independent Thinker 2016

Donald Trump – President for Life - A few days ago Donald Trump made a comment about wanting to be “president for life” and a chill went through me. I had recently said to a friend that Berni...
Texans For Public Justice

A Blue wave with not much green - A 'Blue Wave' Without Much Green The Texas Observer This year, a group of lesser-known candidates has raised $1.1 million over the same period, a 90 perc...
Pressing Issues

My Best Films of the Year 2017 - Every year for many I have posted my list here starting about this time in December--then update it into January and February as I see most of the top Ch...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

Self Care: An Open Letter About Healing - Self Care: An Open Letter About HealingAshton P. Woods **It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pres...
nonsite.org

Tain’t So - To lay out, as clearly and as programmatically as we could, the reasons why despite protestations to the contrary, antiracism, understood as insisting on t...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 223 - Trump Gives America The Clap - We decided to get off our asses and do a show about Trump’s first State of the Union speech. We break it down in a mature and thoughtful way, of course....
Bullshit-ist

A Trump Public Service Announcement — Demanded By Our Therapy Dogs - Therapy dog applicants, seeking high paying jobs, at the offices of Herbie McDoolittle & Sons Usually we write satire, at Herbie McDoolittle & Sons. But ou...
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

SCOTUS dismisses Texas Democrats’ partisan-gerrymandering claim - The Supreme Court issued an *order *Tuesday morning dismissing the Texas Democratic Party’s partisan gerrymandering claim for want of jurisdiction. The S...
Reveal

Nation’s largest janitorial company faces new allegations of rape - ABM Industries Inc. has a history of being sued for failing to stop sexual abuse on the job.
Death to Squirrels

I don’t understand their objection to “shithole countries.” - Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries in Oval Office meeting President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Ov...
Quartz

We’ve chosen the winner for the Atlas for Africa competition - We’re pleased to announce the winner of Quartz’s Atlas for Africa competition is Blaise Aboh from Nigeria. Over the last year, Quartz Africa has trained ...
Daily Democracy

Judge: Voting panel must give Dem more access - A federal judge has upheld a lawsuit filed by a Democratic member of the White House voting commission who claimed he’s being shut out of commission activi...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 30: All Too Normal - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss the wave of sexual misconduct revelations and the GOP tax bill. Check out this episode!
The Nil Admirari

Trump Declares Victory Over Opioid Epidemic - *LAST UPDATED @ 10:48AM (10.27.2017)* *Trump credits "big brain," "hugely big hands" for solving America's opioid epidemic.* Donald Trump declares victor...
American Third Party Report

Another Maine Legislator Switches to Independent - Ballot Access News On October 17, Maine Representative Norman Higgins announced that he has changed his registration from Republican to independent. He was...
Modern Democracy

The Value of Gerrymandering - On Tuesday, Justice Sotomayor asked a “simple but devastatingly effective” question of Erin Murphy, one of the attorneys arguing in favor of Wisconsin’s ge...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

In Las Vegas, Second Amendment Hero makes largest blood donation to the NRA - "One thing I love about these tragedies that happen, the reaction from the American people coming together," - NRA Spokesmodel Antonia Okafor told Blond ...
Free Speech.org

John Fugelsang Explains Why With Free Speech TV, The Viewers are the Sponsors - John Fugelsang expresses the importance of Free Speech TV. He says it's "where you'll get the information that you might not hear elsewhere," because oth...
Progrexas

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

Trump’s Catchphrase for Any Circumstance: ‘We’ll See’ - WASHINGTON (AP) — When in doubt, President Donald Trump has a ready-made response to any questions: “We’ll see.” On Wednesday, Trump delivered his go-to ...
Resistance Report

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

Trump Attacking Our Vulnerable Seniors…Again! - By Tim Canova Putting a loved one in a nursing home is life-changing and often a heart-breaking experience. It saddens me to say that President Donald Trum...
Counter Propa

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

What if Trump is trying to get impeached? - Those in The Resistance have been calling for Donald Trump's impeachment since before his inauguration, but what if impeachment is exactly what he wants? T...
Heat Street

RIP ‘Sin Stocks’? The Woke of Wall Street Takeover - The rise of ethical investing threatens investment in sex, drugs and alcohol
Black Agenda Report

It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us. - *by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon* Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost c...
Down Goes Trump

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

Fired Justice Department employee Sally Yates to testify about Michael Flynn today. - Sally Yates is going to testify today at 2pm about her warnings regarding Michael Flynn, after being rudely fired by the Trump administration for not follo...
Politics of Courage

Digital Editor of Ms. Magazine Calls for Death of Jewish Trailblazer and for Vandalism of His Grave - Three times in the past month, digital editor Carmen Rios of feminist magazine *Ms. *has openly wished for the death of Senator Bernie Sanders, who in 2016...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform

True fracking story - Beautiful farm, #fracking harmed. Bright lights, Starless nights. Air brown. Barren ground. Water black. Can’t go back. The post True fracking story ap...
Good Reason

Shitgibbon frequencies - Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary llmpounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zi...
Above None of the Above

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

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

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...
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...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, March 02, 2014

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