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Mediaite

GOP Rep Laughs at Suggestion Trump Would Veto Russian Sanctions to Get Tougher Ones - "No, I don't," Coffman said with a laugh. "I don't understand. It makes absolutely no sense."
Vox

The Boy Scouts just apologized for the president’s behavior - The Boy Scouts of America are sorry for the way President Trump behaved at their National Jamboree. On Thursday, chief scout executive for the Boy Scou...
The Verge

This slug slime-inspired glue can patch up bloody pig hearts and gooey rat livers - A new class of tissue glues can seal a punctured pig heart, new research says. Called Tough Adhesives, these new glues could one day help close up wound...
Mother Jones

Why Trump’s Revenge on Murkowski Could Be Great for the Planet - President Trump can’t contain his displeasure with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) over her health care vote, accusing her on Twitter of letting down “Re...
Ballot Access News

Libertarian and Constitution Parties File Brief in South Dakota Ballot Access Case - On June 27, the South Dakota Libertarian Party, and the South Dakota Constitution Party, filed this brief against the state’s March petition deadline for n...
SCOTUSblog

Symposium: It’s just a tort case - [image: Symposium: It’s just a tort case]Richard Herz is a senior litigation attorney at EarthRights International. ERI filed an amicus brief in support ...
Raw Story

GOP strategist Rick Wilson wonders if Scaramucci might be ‘hoovering up’ cocaine before ‘manic interviews’ - Republican strategist Rick Wilson wondered if there’s a chemical explanation for Anthony Scaramucci’s unhinged interviews. Scaramucci phoned into CNN for a...
Above the Law

Joint Chiefs To Trump: That’s Not How Any Of This Works - If Trump disrespects the military, we're going to have bigger problems.
Think Progress

D.C. carbon fee would drive down emissions and provide generous rebates, study says - Greenhouse gas emissions would fall 23 percent by 2032, study concludes.Jessica Wynter Martin, a Washington, D.C., activist speaks out on behalf of a carbo...
Houston Press

Z-Ro In Court Over Alleged Felony Aggravated Assault - Z-Ro spent his Thursday morning inside of a Houston courtroom after being arrested on Wednesday on charges of felony aggravated assault. The rapper, born J...
Consortium News

The U.S. Hypocrisy of ‘Human Rights’ - Long before President Trump, the U.S. government had made a mockery of “human rights,” condemning abuses by adversary states but silent when crimes were co...
Sputnik News

UK Police Say There're Grounds for Manslaughter Charges Over Grenfell Tower Fire - The Metropolitan Police said on Thursday there are grounds for manslaughter charges over the Grenfell Tower fire that killed at least 80 people in London.
In These Times

John Mccain’s Constituents Are Revolting Against His Attempt to Take Away Their Healthcare - *John McCain came to Washington, D.C. this week straight from cancer treatment to vote in favor of taking healthcare from his constituents. As the Senate...
Daily Kos

'Congress cannot allow DREAMers to be targeted': Bipartisan DREAM Act introduced in House - Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard of California and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida have introduced the bipartisan DREAM Act of 2017 in the House of Representat...
Talking Points Memo

Scaramucci Reports More Than $50 Million In Assets - NEW YORK (AP) — New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci owns property and businesses worth more than $50 million. That is the tally of...
VICE

We Asked Goths What the Hell They Do in the Summer - "If it's over 80 degrees outside, I'll call in sick at work."
Palmer Report

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski retaliates harshly against Donald Trump after he threatens her - Trump's escalating feud with the GOP isn't going well for him The post Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski retaliates harshly against Donald Trump after he...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 27, 2017 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. Coast Guard planning for six feet of sea level rise by 2100; U.S. House Science Committee chairman pushes myth that climate c...
Anti-Media

Media Proves It Would Rather Support Al-Qaeda Than Allow Peace in Syria - (FAIR) — The US government has finally announced an end to its years-long program to arm and train Syrian rebels. The initiative, one of the CIA’s largest ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2017 - Today's Water Cooler: TiSA, Senate Health care, Clinton book, OR "People’s Platform", economic activity, earnings calls, animal culture, math
Pajiba

That Scene in 'The Big Sick' That Embarrassed a Whole Lot of Dudes - The very first feature I ever wrote for this site was a "Guide to Third-Date Flicks" (which I have since unpublished because, let's just say, I've matured ...
Grist

Tensions rise between Trump administration and Alaska. - Trump's ire fell on Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski after she voted "no" to moving a healthcare repeal bill to debate.
Salon.com

Surprise! “True Detective” is back — can Mahershala Ali save it? - After a dismal second season, the once-beloved HBO show is on track for a return with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali
Slate

Heavy Into Jeff - It will be the final, triumphal irony of this deeply awful, deeply stupid administration if Donald Trump’s attacks on Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III a...
OpEd News

The Two Party (One Party) Health Care Shuffle - Ok kiddies. I refer to those of you out there who still believe in A) Santa Claus and B) This Two Party System of Government. Why? Well, for those of us wh...
Common Dreams

The National Iranian American Council: ‘Trump Seeks to Abuse Inspections in the Iran Deal to Fabricate Crisis’ - National Iranian-American Council Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council and author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Trium...
Trivial Knot

Disagreeing with HJ here - HJ Hornbeck has a post titled Watch Your Language, criticizing Laci Green for a series of tweets on Trump’s ban on trans people in the military. I have nu...
Crooks and Liars

Lisa Murkowski Cancels Key Interior Hearings After Ryan Zinke Threatens Her - [image: Lisa Murkowski Cancels Key Interior Hearings After Ryan Zinke Threatens Her] Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke tried to put a horse's head in Se...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Millionaires And Billionaires Control The Truth According To MSM! - Anyone that hasn't had their head in the sand for the past decade or two knows that only six oligarchies control over ninety percent of the media in thi...
CultureMap Houston

Sadie has choice words about late night talk show hosts, Chipolte deal - This week's Pethouse Pet of the Week has a lot to say about late night talk show hosts, Clutch the Bear, Chipotle, and Man vs. Food." Pethouse Pet of the ...
The Intercept

Rodrigo Maia é dono de escritório usado pelos grupos Odebrecht e BTG Pactual - O aluguel de uma sala semelhante, em valores atuais de mercado, é de cerca de R$ 15 mil mensais. Ambas as empresas ganharam destaque nas páginas político...
Gin and Tacos

FAKE NEWS, FAKE ELECTIONS - For the handful of you who have been reading since like 2003 I hope you will join me in the thrill of seeing "Gin and Tacos" in the Washington Post. The op...
National Post

Sean Spicer on ‘Dancing With the Stars’? It could be an even shorter gig than his last one - Spicer wouldn't be the first political type to compete on the show - and his predecessors haven't exactly set a high bar
Hullabaloo

She really can field dress a moose - *She really can field dress a moose* by digby So, this happened. Seems Trumpie really doesn't like it when a woman doesn't do what he tells her to do....
Freak Out Nation

WATCH: Trump Lashes Out At Reporter Who Asks About Transgender Ban From Military - The current occupant of the White House suddenly feigns to be a man of manners. On Wednesday, Donald Trump called a reporter “very rude” after she asked ...
San Antonio Current

A Ghost Story Director David Lowery Talks Life After Death, Ambiguous Movie Endings - In his new paranormal indie drama *A Ghost Story*, Dallas-based filmmaker David Lowery takes audiences into the afterlife with an intricate, reserved and...
Daily Dot

The internet’s worst feature may be coming to Google search - 'I wish Google had autoplay video,' said no one ever. The post The internet’s worst feature may be coming to Google search appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Buzzflash

New onshore wind could be cheaper than gas power - New onshore wind could be cheaper than gas power 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
Political Dig

Journalist Reveals WH Advisers Were Trashing Scaramucci For His ‘Train Wreck’ CNN Interview - White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci already started off with some controversy. His inexperience in government shows, as does Donald Tr...
Axios

Radio silence for Reince from Trumpworld - It's worth noting that nobody important in the Trump administration has come out publicly in Reince Priebus' defense. - * By mid-day Thursday, the o...
Houstonia

The Houston Health Museum is Now a Smithsonian Affiliate - This marks the second Houston institution to gain the accreditation.
Right Wing Watch

Lance Wallnau Says Trump Is The Fulfillment Of Prophecy: ‘The Burning Bush Has Got Golden Hair’ - Right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau streamed a video on Periscope yesterday praising President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Would You Eat Pizza Baked Inside Of A Giant Dallas Cowboys Helmet? - Of course you would. The question is, would you eat more of it? The post Would You Eat Pizza Baked Inside Of A Giant Dallas Cowboys Helmet? appeared firs...
Free Press Houston

Texas LGBTQ Kids and Families Under Attack - Photo: Caitlin Childs Texas is in the national news yet again for attempting discriminatory legislation, this time in the form of a controversial “bathro...
Election Law Blog

“Don’t Let Our Democracy Collapse: A Q&A with Richard Hasen” - Interview over at FairVote. … Continue reading →
Reverb Press

Police Forces Across US Rebuke Trump, Tell Trans Soldiers ‘You Are Welcome’ in Our Ranks - Law Enforcement Shows They Know the Value and Commitment of Transgender Troops, Even if Commander-In-Chief Trump Doesn’t From the floor of the House of R...
Swamplot

Swamplot Sponsor: This Modern Brick Home in Mandell Place - Our sponsor today is the 4-bedroom, 4-bath home at 1530 Hawthorne St. in Montrose, offered for sale by Norhill Realty. Thanks for supporting Swamplot! Firs...
Down With Tyranny!

Democrats Complicit in Advancing Christopher Wray Confirmation as FBI Director - *Constituents giving Hero of the Resistance Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse a piece of their minds after his vote to confirm pro-torture Mike Pompeo as CIA direct...
No More Mister Nice Blog

SLOUCHING TOWARDS PYONGYANG - Scaramucci: Trump "sinks 3-foot putts." White House transcript revises: "He sinks 30-foot putts." https://t.co/VN6zXFC0K1 pic.twitter.com/gKcyJi3qUq — Mдтт...
Political Garbage Chute

Attorney General Sessions Not Sure He Enjoys The Taste of Trump’s Anus Anymore - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump have an "on again/off again" relationship, but is it permanently off? [...] The post Attorney G...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

TL;DR - Okay, I am about 3/4 of the way through one of the most informative yet chilling articles I have read on the Trump administration. This stuff scares me to ...
Washington's Blog

Why and How to Bring Environmental and Peace Movements Together - If war were moral, legal, defensive, beneficial to the spread of freedom, and inexpensive, we would be obliged to make abolishing it our top priority sol...
Morning Consult

PayPal Dominates Money Transfer Marketplace, But Rivals Could Emerge - PayPal Holdings Inc. is dominating the money transfer ecosystem — but there’s room for competitors. That’s a key takeaway from a new Morning Consult poll...
Houston Matters

Trump’s Transgender Troops Ban Divides Veterans In Congress - Trump’s tweets announcing the ban came as House GOP leaders were trying to work out a problem involving medical costs for service members seeking to transi...
The Fifth Column

Engagement With North Korea Works - (OtherWords) – Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are at an all-time high — and continue to escalate following North Korea’s test of a missile that ...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Senate Republicans plan to write health... - In true post-policy fashion, GOP senators intend to scribble some ideas down over lunch on a Thursday afternoon, and then pass it on a Thursday night or Fr...
Eater Houston

12 Margaritas To Drink Right Now In Houston - Frozen or on the rocks, these margaritas are the city’s best Thanks to Houston’s epic Tex-Mex scene, it’s no surprise that the city is practically litte...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for July 27, 2017 - And on the eighth day the Texas Senate took some time off. After passing 18 bills in one week, what happens next? We’ll explore. And: He took an oath to se...
If You Only News

Trump Gets HUMILIATED By His Own Joint Chiefs, Contradict His Transgender Ban - It appears Donald Trump jumped the gun when he announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military. On Wednesday morning, Trump declared...
The Greanville Post

Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda - BY BEN NORTON FAIR.ORG he US government has finally announced an end to its years-long program to arm and train Syrian rebels. The initiative, one of the C...
The NM Political Report

States have tried versions of ‘skinny repeal.’ It didn’t go well. - [image: States have tried versions of ‘skinny repeal.’ It didn’t go well.] Betting that thin is in — and might be the only way forward — Senate Republicans...
The Rag Blog

Marilyn Katz : Read the small print… - Nearly 200 members of Congress could’ve signed on to a bill criminalizing free speech and legitimizing Israel’s occupation of Palestine. By Marilyn Katz | ...
MintPress News

Department of Defense Dodges Records Request Over Role In Bin Laden Book - WASHINGTON — The Defense Department does not have to produce records related to its handling of classified material allegedly disclosed in a bestseller ...
Washington Monthly

What if Senators Murkowski and Collins Defected? - Could Trump's threats lose the GOP their Senate majority?
Peacock Panache

Department of Justice Launches Attack on LGBTQ Civil Rights - Following the Twitter announcement that the transgender community will no longer be able to serve in the military, the Trump administration (via the Depa...
Rivard Report

Texas Senate Passes Bill to Allow People to Vote on Whether a City Can Annex Them - The measure would allow citizens targeted by annexation to vote on city proposals. A similar bill died in the final moments of regular session debate. T...
Ring of Fire

Donald Trump And Sean Hannity Had A Dinner Date At The White House - On Wednesday evening, Donald Trump and Sean Hannity enjoyed a quiet dinner together at the White House, along with new White House communications directo...
Death and Taxes

The ‘kid’ who ‘wrote’ the ‘letter’ to Trump is lying about his age - The Pickle plot thickens…
Dissident Voice

The Lynching of Ted Smith - If you take a minute and study the turn-of-the-century image of the large, white crowd gathered around the smoldering remains of a young, black teenager na...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

News Brief Special - Transgender troop ban shaping up to be another monumental disaster for Trump - *James Corden Rips Donald Trump’s Trans Military Ban In The Most Musical Way* - *See above* *Joint Chiefs: No change in transgender policy until Trump se...
Progressive Army

Problematic Liaisons 2: Faux Allies - Our alliances become an issue because of misguided allies and faux allies. No one here at Progressive Army denies the need for allies but everyone who ca...
NPR's Health Shots

Terminally Ill Baby Charlie Gard Will Move To Hospice Care To Die - A British judge has approved a plan to transfer Charlie, who has a rare genetic disorder with no known cure, to a hospice facility. His life support will b...
Mock Paper Scissors

This Is Not Normal, Part Infinity - Sweet Jeebus: Trump administration threatens retribution against Alaska over Murkowski health votes This story reads like a really bad first draft of the G...
Nathan Hevenstone

(YouTube Video) Doctor Who – Just See Me - This… this is seriously incredible. I’ve watched it probably 10 times, now, and every single time, I cry. It’s so moving and so well put together. And that...
Eschaton

How About A Bus But It's Like A Taxi And Somehow We Make Money And Replace The Subway - Of course not. CAN FORD FIX NEW YORK CITY’S TRANSPORTATION CRISIS WITH A CROWDSOURCED SHUTTLE BUS? No. This has been...
The Contributor

Trump team: Federal law does not protect gay rights in workplace - News Image: By implication, the position also suggests that the government will not support equal rights under a 1972 law on equality in education program...
AlterNet.org

Jason Chaffetz Mocks Homeless Person on Instagram Because He Wants 'To Make People Think' - Jason Chaffetz has left Congress but he is still whining about poor people with smartphones. Jason Chaffetz *really* can’t stand that some poor people hav...
Dorf on Law

Senatorial Incapacity Or, Why John McCain Should Not Be Casting Votes - *by Diane Klein* On May 30, 2017, my 77-year-old father died, of an aggressive adenocarcinoma that began in the pancreas and metastasized to, among other ...
Affinity

Ritchelly Oliveira. - Ritchelly Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist, predominantly working in the realm of portraiture. His images depict emotive studies of usually male figur...
First Draft

Don’t Play Trump’s Game - The Insult Comedian was a busy boy yesterday. His tweetstorm “banning” transgender people from serving in the military led to a collective freak-out among ...
Popular Resistance

100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down 5th Ave To Declare: Black Lives Matter - By Chad Williams for The Conversation - The only sounds were those of muffled drums, the shuffling of feet and the gentle sobs of some of the estimated 20...
Rewire

Advocates: ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Group Pushes Dangerous Narratives - The way in which Blue Lives Matter's rhetoric is being used to further criminalize communities of color is what concerns advocates. The post Advocates: ‘...
Pharyngula

The world is ending - Coke Zero is being discontinued. Hot on the heels of this pronouncement that Like it or not, life is all about successful reproduction and nothing else rea...
Real News

Russia sanctions fuel new Cold War - By Norman Solomon / USA Today. *Whatever you think of Putin or Trump, they're presidents of nuclear superpowers: Opposing view* The drive to put more s...
Texas Observer

Compassionate (Ab)use: Family Battles Texas over Medical Marijuana - Mark Zartler measures how well his 17-year-old daughter, Kara, is doing by what he calls a “hit test” — counting the number of times she hits herself on ...
Bracing Views

Collateral Damage: A Terrifying Euphemism - W.J. Astore The term “collateral damage” is a terrifying euphemism. The U.S. military didn’t invent it, but it sure has embraced it. The dictionary defin...
Socialist Alternative

Hong Kong: Judge’s Disqualification of Legislators Threatens Democracy Struggle - The decision by Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung on July 14 to expel four legislators from the Legislative Council (Legco), including veteran democracy campai...
Bonddad

LOOK AT THE BIG DIVERGENCE BETWEEN "SOFT" AND "HARD" DATA ... Ummm ..never mind.... - *- by New Deal democrat* Since this year the Doomers haven't even been able to rouse themselves up enough to call for OMG recession imminent!!!, they have...
Death to Squirrels

And the hits keep coming. - You all know I’m terrible already. But in my defense, I cannot be held responsible if my news feed is funnier than any late night comedy show. #sorrynotsor...
Daily Howler

USING OUR WORDS: Wisely declining to "call lies 'lies!'" - *THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2017Part 4—Tales of tribal prejudgment:* We noticed an intriguing contretemps of a type in today's New York Times. Atop hard-copy pa...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

July 27, 2017: National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, go ahead, fly your flag - President Donald Trump issued a proclamation for National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, though the law Congress passed specified it should run only un...
Heat Street

Professor Suspended for Making Un-PC Joke, Accused of Creating ‘Hostile Learning Environment’ - The joke wasn't even that un-PC.
Irregular Times

Why Haven’t The Republicans In Government Banned Abortion? - For decades, the Republican Party has promised voters that, if only the Republicans were allowed to take control of the federal government, the GOP would b...
South Texas Chisme

Zika in Hidalgo County - What are republicans doing? Under funding agencies to help. Voting to take away everyone's healthcare. Turning America into a third world dictatorship. Hel...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Worst Internet In America - Photographs by Morgan Levy Graphics by Ella Koeze Saguache County, Colorado The Worst Internet In AmericaBy Clare Malone To drive the length and breadth of...
ProPublica

McCain’s Brain Cancer Draws Renewed Attention to Possible Agent Orange Connection - by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, the Houston Chronicle, This story was co-published with the Houston Chronicle. When Amy Jones’ da...
Democracy Now!

The Rolling Resistance: Meet Three Disability Rights Activists Fighting to Save Healthcare - Disability activists across the nation are staging historic protests in Washington, D.C., and other cities to fight the Republican effort to strip healthca...
Progressive.org

Natural Gas Pipeline Threatens the Appalachian Trail - The proposed line would replace beautiful mountain vistas with a large, industrial eyesore along one of our nation's most iconic trails.
SocraticGadfly

Insurers get self-righteous on #Trumpcare vs #Obamacare - The likes of Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Delta, Cigna, etc., are making me vomit in their mouths over Mitch McConnell's ongoing attempt to repeal Obamacare,...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Laura Gottesdiener, The Wrath of the U.S. Along the Euphrates River - It was midday on Sunday, May 7th, when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes again began bombing the neighborhood of Wassim Abdo’s family...
Space City Weather

Very hot to end the week in Houston, surprisingly temperate next week - Houston has yet to have a 100-degree day this year. Some summers we get lucky, such as in 2014, when the mercury never got that high. Sometimes we get more...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - In Youngstown, Trump incorrectly says he has achieved historic increase in defense spending - The Truth-o-Meter says: False | In Youngstown, Trump incorrectly says he has achieved historic increase in defense spending President Donald Trump ticked ...
The Progressive Wing

7/27 News Roundup – Wab Kinew: “Healthcare Is An Act Of Love”, Sanders & Wyden’s Senate Floor Trumpcare Q&A & More - Happy Thursday friends! Starting the day off with one of my favorite politicians outside of the US, Wab Kinew. Kinew is a Canadian indigenous hip-hop artis...
Krebs on Security

Gas Pump Skimmer Sends Card Data Via Text - Skimming devices that crooks install inside fuel station gas pumps frequently rely on an embedded Bluetooth component allowing thieves to collect stolen cr...
Duffel Blog

Terrorist leaders surrender after Trump bans transgender troops from serving in the military - [image: donald trump] WASHINGTON — Terrorist leaders around the world began offering their unconditional surrender after President Donald Trump declared W...
Grits for Breakfast

James White on 'small tyrannies' and Texas' 'criminal-justice dividend' - In the latest "Reasonably Suspicious" podcast from Just Liberty, we broadcast a brief excerpt from a conversation between me and Texas House Corrections Co...
Angry Bear

FIX THE DEBT WANTS TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY BUT WHY? - by Dale Coberly FIX THE DEBT WANTS TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY BUT WHY? I received an email a few days ago from Chris Dreibelbis,Fix the Debt, purporting to ...
Off the Kuff

Abbott versus the cities - The continuing story. If Gov. Greg Abbott has disdain for how local Texas officials govern their cities, it didn’t show in a Wednesday sit-down with three ...
The Urban Edge

Glissette Rides a Bike: Multimodal - Sometimes, a bike can't get you everywhere. Continue Reading →
Church and State

Are You Gay Or Lesbian? Pat Robertson Says You Might Cause God To ‘Vomit’ Out America - According to televangelist Pat Robertson, the United States is setting itself on a course towards being “vomited out” by God.
Independent Political Report

John McAfee Physically Attacked - … Read more ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

gray thursday - making america scared again won't make us safer republicans are mean how privatization could spell the end of democracy cashing in on the rise of the alt-...
Informed Comment

Mideast’s ‘Only Democracy’ joins push to Silence Al Jazeera: Netanyahu - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump has his Twitter. Apparently far right wing Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has his Facebook. In a F...
Ian Welsh

A World Without Poor People (Sort of) - Because the last time it was done, it was not forbidden, because good jobs cluster in only a few regions now and because of vast influxes of foreign money...
Portside

Unions Rip Senate’s Obamacare-Repeal Move - "Several American labor unions reacted angrily to the Senate’s vote July 25 to take yet another crack at dismantling Obamacare. AFSCME President Lee Saund...
Echidne of the Snakes

A Horse Is A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course. On The Uffington Chalk Horse. - A fun story about this giant chalk horse carved into the side of a hill in Oxfordshire, England can be read here. What's new to me in that story is t...
jobsanger

The Greatest Threat -
Socialist Worker

United against police murder in Minnesota - Nicole Colson reports on the outpouring of anger after the police murder of an unarmed white woman in Minneapolis--and political questions raised in the...
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Senate boosts Gov. Greg Abbott's mission to overrule local governments - Morning News: Senate boosts Gov. Greg Abbott's mission to overrule local governments
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House 2018: How Big Is the Playing Field? - If Democrats do have a chance to win the House next year, it might be because they translated a currently big field of announced candidates into credible o...
Campaign for America's Future

Repeal John McCain’s Government-Sponsored Health Care - In an act of startling hypocrisy, Sen. John McCain returned from his sickbed to cast the deciding vote to proceed with debate to repeal health care, even a...
Antiwar.com

Home Alone – Trump Is the Kevin McCallister of American Politics - It’s as if on election night the shocked and exasperated rulers of the Imperial City ordered Donald Trump to sleep in the White House attic. Unlike Kevin...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Bacardi, Rosa María Payá and CubaDecide - * The Bacardi family continues its 150 year tradition of defending Cuban independence and freedom* Today was a day of worry with news that Rosa María Payá h...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

An Unconvincing Fundamentalist Turn - The big story in today's news was Trump's tweet about barring transgender folks from serving in the military. Besides trampling on the right to self-expres...
Wolf Street

“Junk Equity” Comes to Haunt $30-billion Startup - Snap Inc. tried to turn Big Investors into zombies. It didn’t work.
High Plains Blogger

Here is how you address a Scout Jamboree - Donald John Trump delivered a hideously inappropriate message to the Boy Scout Jamboree. In it, the president chastised former President Obama for non-atte...
The Conversation

George Romero's zombies will make Americans reflect on racial violence long after his death - Annual 2010 zombie march in Madrid, an homage to George A. Romero. AP Photo/Paul White “What’s your zombie apocalypse survival plan?” The question invite...
Houston Communist Party

Kenya: Pre-election Commentaries, 2 - Kenya: Pre-election Commentaries, 2 AfricaFocus Bulletin July 24, 2017 (170724) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor’s Note “As the election draws cl...
Field Negro

OPEN THREAD WEDNESDAY. - [image: TWEET ME] It's open thread Wednesday field hands, and I need your thoughts on a few things: Does Donald trump belong on Mt Rushmore? Was that so c...
emptywheel

The Wingnut and the Comedian - Thank heaven for dopamine, the naturally occuring Soma.
slacktivist

I can’t remember all the lines that you said - "Rediscovering an Evangelical Heritage" of opposing Indian Removal (and then of opposing those who opposed it). Plus: The rules of the pop-culture ranking ...
Lowering the Bar

It Is Not Illegal to Drive With an Axe Embedded in the Roof of Your Car - They probably could have thought something up to cover that, but had plenty to charge him with already. Related Stories - Suspect Steals Mort...
BEYONDbones

Hawaii—a geology nerd’s wonderland - The band of Patels from two years ago in the Canadian Rockies is back, and this time, 16 of us visited Hawaii for some rest, relaxation and rocks! While th...
News Taco

Feds Will Skip Border Wall Impact Study Before Building Through Wildlife Refuge - By Anya Byrd, Colorlines (2.5 minute read) Though funding for the estimated $21.6 billion U.S.-Mexico wall has not yet been secured, the federal govern...
Mahablog

Sessions Hangs On - Donald Trump is transparent in one way — he doesn’t know how to hide his motivations. It’s plain as day he wants Jeff Sessions out at Justice because Sessi...
Rude Pundit

How Much Degradation Can We Stand?: The Most Embarrassing Things Trump Said in Three Speeches - President Donald Trump, a man who wouldn't know honor if it bit his ass and screamed, "I'm honor," gave a speech to the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. During i...
Dandelion Salad

Dr. Guido G. Preparata: They Want to Turn Us All into A Global Society of Termites by Mohsen Abdelmoumen - Dandelion Salad by Mohsen Abdelmoumen American Herald Tribune, July 23, 2017 July 26, 2017 Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your book Conjuring Hitler received a laudat...
Liberal Values

Clinton Plans On Doubling Down On Blaming Others For Her Loss In Upcoming Book - Republicans who hope to keep control of the House have received great news. They will still have Hillary Clinton to kick around. The Hill reports that Clin...
Duck of Minerva

Two legs or One. It has nothing to do with planets- just pants. - Sometimes when we look for a rallying call to join us as humans around a common cause or to show us our equal vulnerability, we say start to claim these tr...
Black Agenda Report

Trump Faces Down the CIA and Co-Opts the Pentagon on Syria (for the time being) - - War on Syria *by BAR executive editor Glen Ford* The crazed, racist, stupid, boorish man in the White House “this summer defied the War Party and ...
News Corpse

Trolling Trump Pays Off HUGE for Stephen Colbert: Ratings Leader and 5 Emmy Nominations - When Stephen Colbert took over for David Letterman on CBS’ “The Late Show” he got off to a surprisingly slow start. Audiences may have had trouble distingu...
Reveal

Journalists explore Mississippi’s civil rights legacy through theater - “Beautiful Agitators,” an original StoryWorks play about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Vera Mae Pigee, premieres in Clarksdale, Mississippi,...
Liberation News

John McCain and the People’s Congress of Resistance - The bipartisan reaction to war criminal John McCain shows the need for the People's Congress of Resistance. The post John McCain and the People’s Congres...
Equality Texas

Right now, my son’s life is on the line and I need your help. - My son Landon is transgender. In his words that means his mind hasn’t always matched his body. So, even though he was born a girl, he’s always known he was...
LawFlog

Arkansas Bar gives Hillary Clinton a pass, but this ain’t over yet - Arkansas Bar prosecutors dismissed a misconduct complaint against Hillary Clinton this week, claiming “there does not appear to be a sufficient basis for a...
Other Words

In OtherWords: July 26, 2017 - Urban billionaires are trotting out the tractors and overalls in a bizarre effort to roll back their taxes.
Pensito Review

Most Republicans Favor Shutting Down Media Outlets - 45% to 20% A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that Republicans favor having courts “shut down media outlets” for “biased or inaccurate” stories by a 45% to ...
Louis Proyect

The Forest Brothers and the holocaust - For many on the left, the Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—are the epitomes of Cold War villainy. Belonging to NATO, they are poised like dagger...
Ecosophia

July 2017 Open Post - As announced earlier, this blog will host an open space once a month to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers, and this is the week. ...
Somervell County Salon

Can't Help but laugh at Trump at the Boy Scouts - Stephen Colbert Can't help but laugh at what a disgusting person Trump is.
Texas Moratorium Network

Rep. Terry Canales Files Updated Law of Parties Bill in Special Session - State Rep Terry Canales has filed a new law of parties bill in the special session. HB 252 is different from the bills in the regular session. It adds a se...
DeSmogBlog

Pacific NorthWest LNG is Dead: 5 Things You Need to Know - [image: LNG Tanker] Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled plans to build the Pacific NorthWest LNG plant on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., in a move see...
Better Texas Blog

Cornyn and Cruz Let down Texans with Health Repeal Vote - The US Senate narrowly voted to proceed with the legislative process toward gutting Medicaid and ripping health care away from millions of Americans. We ...
Rallblog

Roger Lowenstein Will Represent Me Against the Los Angeles Times - I am happy to announce that storied litigator Roger Lowenstein will represent me in my lawsuit against The Los Angeles Times. Assuming that my case survive...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Parker files bill to limit state spending growth - State Rep. Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, filed H.B. 208 Tuesday, July 18, proposing to limit the biennial growth in state spending to no more than the growth...
American Third Party Report

Libertarians are wary, but sense opportunity under Trump - by Chris Moody, St. Louis Post Dispatch If there’s one person relishing in Washington’s Trump-era dysfunction, it’s Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sar...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Brave As A Pigeon’ By Country For Syria - Throughout 2017, the Istanbul-based country music collective Country For Syria has released tracks from its forthcoming full-length, one-by-one, via Band...
Debunking Christianity

I'll Be At Gateway to Reason This Weekend in St. Louis - This weekend should be an amazing one at Gateway to Reason. Thomas True, the organizer, has put together a fine line-up of speakers and topics. Come out if...
Texas Freedom Network

The Texas Hate Group Behind Dan Patrick’s ‘Bathroom Bill’ Keeps Up Its Attacks on LGBT People - Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick fellow lawmakers continue to claim that the Texas “bathroom bill” isn’t about attacking and discriminating against trans...
WAWG Blog

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

Summer session: On bathrooms, Boy Scouts, Trump, Abbott, Patrick, Straus and McRaven - Good day Austin: Since he launched his candidacy for re-election on July 14, and the start of the special session four days later, Gov. Greg Abbott…
Counter Propa

Bana Alabed Is Proof Of Blatant Media War Propaganda - If I could have everyone in the English-speaking world watch only one video on Youtube, it would without a doubt be a comedy bit performed by a funny-loo...
Bay Area Houston

No Place but Texas: Blake Farenthold - As I have said in the past: We have a saying here in Texas "We do things bigger in Texas". It isn't really true, but its a cheap simple minded saying to m...
Reading the Pictures

Feeling Alt-Right: Hate and Shame In Online Right-Wing Imagery - How meme-makers use *humor* to exploit the grey-zone in social media guidelines meant to distinguish hate speech from legitimate political expression. T...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (4): Continuities and Changes - Can we still discern the process of uneven and combined development in contemporary capitalism? A common theme on the left since the late 1980s in partic...
The Disorder Of Things

Liberalism and Empire, at the Intersection of Theory and History - This is the third post in our book forum on Duncan Bell’s Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire. Inder S. Marwah is Assistant Professor at ...
Independent Thinker 2016

The Time When Republicans Threatened to Shoot Us - The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, My Bernie Journey – A Behind the Scenes Look at the 2016 “Democratic” Primary The book will be released ...
DBC Green blog

Moon Day Prog Bloggage - The chicanery that Kevin Zeese reported at the Green Party's Annual National Meeting weekend before last: Can we really call that "racial strife," as noted...
Political Orphans

Link Roundup, 7/24/2017 - political orphan’s guide to current events.
Harper's Magazine

[Art Monday Gallery ] | Time Margins, by Ed Templeton -
Quartz

In Uganda, Atlas for Africa participants aim to track refugees, government budgets, and civic data - In Kampala, we had the opportunity to work with more than 20 journalists from a range of publications across the country. Our first training session was ...
PoliTex (FWST)

‘Duck Dynasty’ Uncle Si’s daughter not planning to run for House or Senate seat — for now - Uncle Si’s daughter doesn’t have political aspirations beyond Hurst — at least for now. Trasa Robertson Cobern, daughter of Si Robertson on the popular A&E...
Down Goes Trump

Report: Donald Trump being investigated for human trafficking of immigrant models in New York - Trump can't pardon himself from state level charges The post Report: Donald Trump being investigated for human trafficking of immigrant models in New Yor...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Intermission - I need a break. From writing. Everyone needs a break from time to time, I believe, even when it’s from something they love doing, and I do love writing,...
Progrexas

Ensuring Food Security and Sovereignty in Texas: A Southern Tradition – A Political Protest. - “We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe...
ExChristian.Net

Christianity is a joke - *By Don Meck ~ * I am 61 years old, and many at my age are starting to face the fact that they haven’t much more time left and start reaching out to god an...
Our Finite World

Researchers have been underestimating the cost of wind and solar - How should electricity from wind turbines and solar panels be evaluated? Should it be evaluated as if these devices are stand-alone devices? Or do these de...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 24: Special Edition with Carl Cannon, Author of “On This Date” - A conversation about how history gives us perspective on the Trump presidency, with Real Clear Politics Washington Bureau Chief Carl Cannon and author of t...
Stinque

Why Donald Trump Will Not Pardon Himself and If He Tries He Will Fail. - Today is a day ending in “y” which means that Donald Trump has once again done something outrageous that shows his utter contempt for the idea that the Uni...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Video surfaces of Michelle Obama at Beyonce’s birthday party - Private footage of former first lady Michelle Obama that was apparently taken at R&B superstar Beyonce's private birthday party was leaked online Friday.A ...
Avedon's Sideshow

You still mystify - Video: Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn Discuss How to Get the World We Want Bad Dems: Democratic Councilman Fernando Cabrera says life is harder for the r...
The Nil Admirari

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

New brands coming to Richmond Ave in Montrose - As more and more aged "charming" residences and less-than-luxury-grade apartment complexes get torn down, the neighborhood loses its essential character. I...
Save Buffalo Bayou

On the Radio - Talking About Buffalo Bayou on KPFT July 21, 2017 Susan Chadwick, executive director of Save Buffalo Bayou, was on KPFT’s Open Journal Thursday, July 20, t...
UP@NIGHT

Worried about GOP Health Care: Consider Suicide - We are all going to die. That’s life. But I think we can …
ROAR Magazine

Municipalism and the Feminization of Politics - Beside turning local institutions into mechanisms of self-governance, municipalism also has the potential to feminize politics in a way that action at th...
Texas Leftist

Ashley Smith Makes THE Point About “Bathroom Bill” Debate - So there’s politics, and then there’s policy, both of which can be easily become lightning rods if infused with the right social issues. For many in the Re...
Popehat

The Proud Boy And The Sockpuppet - Last week I wrote about Jason Van Dyke, a lawyer, violence-threatener, bigot, and perhaps-ironically self-styled Proud Boy. This was a post of little conse...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

Trump set to institute Wage Slavery via the NLRB and his Department of Forced Labor - *The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable - *A...
Bullshit-ist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dem elites -
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

Ready for the Republic of Texas biker rally? We’ve got the best motorcycle routes in Central Texas - The Republic of Texas Biker Rally is this weekend at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin. If you want to take a ride near the city, here are some of ...
34justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shitgibbon frequencies - Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary llmpounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zi...
Political Carnival

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 02, 2014

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