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Crooks and Liars

Trump Tries Antisemitism And Blasphemy As Campaign Tactics - I can't decide what's worse, having a so-called president who thinks it's good politics to slander American Jews for voting Democratic, as well as quotin...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'LGBTQ books are being censored in middle schools' & other Wed midday news briefs - *LGBTQ books are being censored in middle schools. Authors are speaking out.* - *THIS right here is some mess to keep the books away from our kids. * *R...
Mediaite

Trump Gets Brutally Mocked For Claiming King of Israel Status: ‘Thinks He’s Jesus. That’s Where We Are’ - Twitter users expressed a collective thousand-yard stare after President Donald Trump praised a supporter claiming Israelis viewed him as their king and as...
VICE

What if My Jello-Ass Body is Too Weak for the Gym? - The gym is an intimidating place, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. A Swole Woman helps a jogger figure out where to even start.
Political Wire

Federal Deficits to Rise More Than Expected - The CBO says federal deficits are projected to grow much more than expected over the next decade thanks to the two-year budget agreement lawmakers and the ...
Progrexas

Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longer - The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley is one of two family immigrant detention centers in Texas. Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune The T...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump rule would allow for indefinite detention of immigrant families – live - New rule would effectively replace the Flores agreement, which sets 20-day limit for families held in custody - Sign up to the US briefing and get a n...
Talking Points Memo

Ex-US Ambassador To Denmark Doesn’t Appreciate Trump’s Trip Cancelation - [image: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – JUNE 13, 2016: Rufus Gifford, US Ambassador to Denmark, holds a speech during the memorial ceremony for the victims of the ...
Splinter

Old Joe Biden Goes to a Farm - *URBANDALE, Iowa—*Really, what Joe Biden looks like is a game show host. The tan, the blindingly white dentures, the “Hey folks.” Give him a long, skinny...
Raw Story

‘That was anti-Semitism!’ ADL leader rips Trump apart on CNN over ‘disloyalty’ smear of US Jews - President Donald Trump’s accusation that American Jews who vote for Democrats are somehow “disloyal” earned him a furious denunciation on CNN Wednesday fro...
Think Progress

Agriculture’s role in climate change draws scrutiny from 2020 Democrats - Democratic presidential contenders are increasingly singling out agriculture as the next great frontier for climate action, pushing plans that would empowe...
Daily Howler

TRIBAL DECLINE: The Times undertakes to "re-educate!" - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019But also, the candidates' songs: * Don Lemon tried to get there first. We stumbled upon the segment in question twice last nig...
Election Law Blog

“Social media reconsiders its relationship with the truth” - Axios: For years, Facebook and other social media companies have erred on the side of lenience in policing their sites — allowing most posts with false inf...
The Week

Concerns of lead crisis grow, as multiple cities in the U.S. deal with elevated levels - Newark, New Jersey, stole headlines earlier this month when the city began distributing bottled water to residents due to elevated levels of lead in its ...
The Root

Wednesday's Best Deals: Blink Security Cameras, AirPods, Clarks Private Sale, and More - A Clarks Private Sale, a Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Cam, and $10 off your preorder of Dragon Quest 11 S for Switch lead off Wednesday’s best...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Politics of White Amnesia - Kimberlé Crenshaw has an excellent essay that unites several of our recent themes: Biden’s selective—and at times flatly deceptive—invocation of his histor...
memeorandum

Trump Insults Several Million American Jews (Benjamin Hart/New York Magazine) - Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine: *Trump Insults Several Million American Jews* — After once again accusing Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar...
Rewire

These 2020 Democrats Support Repealing the Helms Amendment’s Ban on Foreign Assistance Funding for Abortion - Discussion of the Helms Amendment hasn’t bubbled up much so far this election cycle, but it was a topic of discussion in the 2016 race. The post These 20...
Right Wing Watch

Francis Myles: ‘The Bible Is the Constitution of the Government’ - During his appearance on “The Jim Bakker Show” yesterday, pastor Francis Myles declared that “the Bible is the constitution of the government” and defended...
Houston Public Media

Robotic Drone Company Wants To Conquer Houston Market - Israel-based Airobotics says its drones could be useful in preventing refinery fires.
Campaign for America's Future

Organizing From The Inside - We all want a new President – but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why...
Eater Houston

Davis St at Hermann Park’s Much-Anticipated Comeback Has Officially Begun - [image: A cast iron skillet filled with pie] Courtesy Davis St at Hermann Park The restaurant opened its doors a little earlier than expected Originally...
Courthouse News

Guns - A federal judge *ordered* the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to release statistics from its Firearms Tracing System database on gun...
Socratic Gadfly

Texas Progressives talk Abbott, ACLU, 1A, Goeb, Beto, Eric Johnson, rivers and dams - Texas Progressives remind you to be careful as a late heat wave continues to hang around and make sure that if you have kids in late-summer sports practic...
INSIDER - politics news

Trump's 'King of Israel' tweet quoted and thanked a notorious conspiracy theorist - [image: Wayne Allyn Root] - President Donald Trump on Wednesday quoted and thanked a well-known conspiracy theorist, who'd said Israeli Jews love ...
Juanita Jean's WMDBS

Holy Crap: Trump Is The Second Coming of God - Wayne Allyn Root is a radio talk show host who decided that Jews should stick with Trump. Wanna know why? “I happen to be Jewish by birth and 75% of all J...
Dissident Voice

Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, But at What Price? - Israeli Jewish settlers are on a rampage in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While settler violence is part of everyday routine in Palestine, the violen...
Daily Dot

Trump quotes conspiracy theorist saying he’s the ‘second coming of God’ - [image: Donald Trump Second Coming Of God] His tweet comes the day after he was criticized for saying Jewish voters who support Democrats had a 'total lack...
Claytoonz

A Danish Denial - Donald Trump was invited to Denmark by that nation’s queen. Despite saying that the idea of purchasing Greenland, the world’s largest island near the Arcti...
Vox

TV without borders - Amanda Northrop/Vox How shows like *Los Espookys*, *My Brilliant Friend*, and *Made in Heaven* are finding audiences, despite their subtitles. *Part of ...
naked capitalism

It’s Official: Parts of California Are Too Wildfire-Prone To Insure - California is leading a trend of climate-change-induced insurance redlining.
Pharyngula

What if Robert E. Lee had been hanged? - I’m currently reading the biography of Grant by Chernow, and I’ve just gotten to Appomattox. It was kind of distressing reading. Robert E. Lee shows up all...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trump administration to lift limit on how long migrant families can be detained - The Trump administration will announce on Wednesday that it intends to hold migrant families in detention for the duration of their immigration proceedings...
Mother Jones

A Conspiracy Theorist Said Israelis See Trump as “Second Coming of God.” Trump Tweeted It. - A day after accusing American Jews of “great disloyalty,” Donald Trump defended himself by quoting a prominent supporter as saying that Jewish Israelis lov...
Eschaton

What If We Made A Mistake - One can have different views about how the press should treat Trump, and "the press" isn't and shouldn't be monolithic in any case, but one knows that "the...
Daily Kos

Donald Trump's spat with Denmark is the latest battle in the War with Reason—and reason already lost - Please queue up the sad-sweet violin of “Ashokan Farewell.” Is it playing? Okay then ... Dearest Sarah, Lest I should not be able to write you again, I...
OpEd News

Trump's Jews and Great Disloyalty Remarks Target Evangelical Zionists - most importantly, Trump is talking to the approximately 70 million Evangelical Zionists who are his most reliable base.
Political Dig

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Sinks In New Poll - President Donald Trump’s approval rating took a major hit and dropped for the first time in recent months as public perception of the U.S. economy under hi...
Slate

What Are Queer People Fighting About? - Right now, politics, authenticity, and pop music.
Countercurrents

Second Killing of Bhagat Singh And Subhash Chandra Bose By The Hindutva Gang - In a shocking development the student wing of the RSS put the busts of martyrs Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose with the Savarkar’s on one pedestal ...
Truthdig

Democrats Are Waging a Covert War on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Establishment members of the Democratic Party are using their cosy relationship with corporate media to anonymously attack progressives.
Latino Rebels

Trump Administration Plans to End Limits on Child Detention - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in ...
Ring of Fire

CEOs Claim They Care About The Environment and Income Inequality - CEOs release a statement that suggests they are concerned with income inequality and that, perhaps, they will no longer place shareholder interests above...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (Evil Ways) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out w...
Rivard Report

City to Launch ‘Sidewalk Squad’ Next Year to Fill Gaps - A seven-member sidewalk repair crew dubbed the "sidewalk squad" will repair nearly two miles of deteriorating sidewalk gaps next year. The post City to L...
Lawfare

Hackers Leaked Sensitive Government Data in Argentina—and Nobody Cares - #LaGorraLeaks2.0 Twitter profile Source: Twitter On Monday, Aug. 12, hackers leaked 700 GB of data obtained from the government of Argentina, including c...
The Verge

Waymo is making some of its self-driving car data available for free to researchers - Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The data collected by self-driving cars used to be a closely guarded secret. But recently, many companies developing au...
Hullabaloo

It's over when young people vote by @BloggersRUs - *It's over when young people vote* by Tom Sullivan “*The election is over the minute young people decide to turn out*," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tell...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THE ONLY PEOPLE STUPID ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT TRUMP PRIMARY CHALLENGERS ARE ON TEAM TRUMP - My first reaction to this *Washington Post* story story was that there's no difference between the aging white guys who want to run against President Trump...
First Draft

Album Cover Art Wednesday: Wooden Head - I disappeared down an internet rabbit hole and emerged not only unscathed but with an interesting cover. Wooden Head is best described as the Turtles contr...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Lawsuit seeks court action to prevent deaths and neglect in ICE detention - A lawsuit filed Monday in California includes extensive allegations of preventable deaths, medical neglect and other abusive treatment of immigrant detaine...
San Antonio Current

Celebrate George Clinton, Mastermind Behind Parliament and Funkadelic, with Aztec Theatre Show - This tour celebrating George Clinton’s 50 years on the road is being billed as his last. Yep, the mastermind behind Parliament and Funkadelic — two of the...
Democracy Now!

Over 500 Lawsuits Already Filed Days After Child Victims Act in New York Goes into Effect - This is Part 2 of our conversation with two New York state legislators, Senator Alessandra Biaggi and Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, who helped pass the Chi...
Common Dreams

Just Hours After Anti-Semitic Remarks, Trump Self-Promotes Himself as 'King of Israel... Second Coming of God' - Jon Queally, staff writer "The President is a raving lunatic," responded Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum. "He is not well." [image: U.S. President Donald Tru...
Lowering the Bar

Please Use Caution When Consulting This Map on Kangaroo-Ownership Laws - It is likely not 100% accurate. Related Stories - Update: The Paddlefish Defendants Are Now for Sale - United States v. 1855.6 Pounds of Am...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Economists Are Bad At Predicting Recessions - Every president’s election-year nightmare — a recession — is suddenly looming over the 2020 race. In a survey released earlier this week by the National As...
Bonddad

Not doomed yet v.2.0: beware recession porn - *- by New Deal democrat* Way back when I first started writing online almost 15 years ago, my very first post on Daily Kos was a little note called “Not ...
Angry Bear

“Tougher On Trade Than Trump”? - “Tougher On Trade Than Trump”? This is how the NY Times has presented things day before yesterday, apparently lamenting that the Dem candidates are going t...
The Conversation

Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect – and they want the world to know - Women in Mexico are lashing out against rampant sexual violence, police abuse and policies that hurt working mothers.
Down With Tyranny!

Kamala Isn't The Only Phony Opportunist Pretending To Back Medicare-For-All Without Even Knowing What It Is - Ben Ray Luján is running sacred. This week he "broke" with Pelosi, his puppet-master, and suddenly called for impeaching Trump. Over the course of the la...
Krebs on Security

Forced Password Reset? Check Your Assumptions - Almost weekly now I hear from an indignant reader who suspects a data breach at a Web site they frequent that has just asked the reader to reset their pass...
Space City Weather

A few areas have missed out on Houston’s rain this week - The first two weeks of August were incredibly hot and dry, but since then Houston has moved into a more typical summertime pattern where most days have pro...
21st Century Wire

Proud Boys vs Antifa: Portland’s Pantomime Street Theater - *Michael Tracy* | Understanding the supposed "confrontation" in Portland between "fascists" and "anti-fascists."
Dos Centavos

TODAY, 8/21/19: Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia Hosts Immigration Forum - From the Inbox: HOUSTON — Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia will host an Immigration Forum TODAY, August 21st, 2019, where she will discuss immigration related l...
Axios

March for Our Lives launches a sweeping gun control "Peace Plan" to spur 2020 youth vote - March for Our Lives, started by student activists who survived the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., launched a massive gun control plan Wednesday ai...
NPR's Health Shots

Ride-Hailing Revolution Leaves Some People With Disabilities Behind - Disability rights advocates say transportation giants Lyft and Uber are not doing enough to ensure equal transportation access as required under federal law.
Strategic Culture Foundation

2084: Orwell Revisited in the Age of Trump - With the American president lending a significant hand, we may make it to 2084 far sooner than anyone expected.
Houston Press

Six Interesting Notes from the Astros Win Over the Tigers - On Monday night, the Astros picked up win number 81 at home over the Detroit Tigers 6-3. It was their second straight win against the Tigers of the four-ga...
WhoWhatWhy

FL Dems Call for Gun Control Session Following El Paso Shooting - Reading Time: 5 minutes In Florida, Democrats hope that — in response to the El Paso massacre — people will be fed up with mass shootings and demand gun ...
Houstonia

Beer Reviews: Copperhead Has a Superior Belgian on Tap - And what do we think of the great Ghost in the Machine?
Duffel Blog

New Army Chief of Staff Introduces #TryWinning Campaign - [image: New Army Chief of Staff Introduces #TryWinning Campaign] WASHINGTON — In his first week as Army Chief of Staff, General James C. McConville emaile...
Dorf on Law

The Truth Hurts: Why All the Angst About the Senators' Amicus Brief? - By Eric Segall Social media pundits, constitutional law professors, mainstream journalists, and conservative politicians are all agog about a brutally hon...
SCOTUSblog

Wednesday round-up - [image: Wednesday round-up]Briefly: Ariane de Vogue reports at CNN that “[t]he Justice Department told the Supreme Court late Monday night that the Trump...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

REALITY BITES - The Trump gang keeps insisting there's no recession coming. A survey of economists says there is https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/20/majority-of-economist...
Off the Kuff

The 2019 lineups are set - […]
The Intercept

Taliban Peace Talks Must Not Ignore CIA-Funded Afghan Militias, Report Says - “If cut loose by the CIA,” the report notes, militias “may be reborn as private armies or ‘security guards’ in the service of powerful individuals.” The ...
The Progressive Wing

8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread – Bernie Sanders Speaks @ The Frank LaMere Native American Forum & More - The Native American people have been cheated and lied to by the federal government for far too long. As president I will stand with Native Americans in the...
Salon.com

Trump cancels his trip to Denmark after prime minister says Greenland is not for sale - Trump's cancellation was a shock, since he said the planned trip was unrelated to his interest in buying Greenland
Counterpunch

Endangered Species Act: A Failure Worth Fighting For? - Everyone who gives a damn about the planet is denouncing Trump’s latest attack on the Endangered Species Act. But little is being said about this law’s a...
Morning Consult

Study Suggests Medicaid Expansion Helps Boost Access to Opioid Addiction Drug - The post Study Suggests Medicaid Expansion Helps Boost Access to Opioid Addiction Drug appeared first on Morning Consult.
ProPublica

Parents Gave Up Custody of Their Children to Help Them Get Financial Aid. Now, Some Are Abandoning That Idea. - by Melissa Sanchez and Jodi S. Cohen Amid state and federal scrutiny as well as a public backlash, more than a half-dozen suburban Chicago families who ...
Dallas Observer

Flash Drought Scorches Texas, Sparks Wildfires - A flash drought is creating perfect wildfire conditions in Texas
ROAR Magazine

Laura Flanders Show: Storming the Federal Reserve - This week on the LF Show, Laura and her guests discuss how central banks steer global development, and how it could be very different.
OffGuardian

Manufacturing Mass Fascism Hysteria - CJ Hopkins If the neoliberal ruling classes expect to keep the American masses worked up into a white-eyed hysteria over “fascism” until November 2020, the...
Grist

Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem - How changing the contents of your fridge could fight the climate crisis.
Echidne of the Snakes

Poetry in Translation. An Ancient Re-Posting - (The post is from 2006! It's so old that I can't get to it via the Blogger archives.) Poetry translates very poorly, which is sad, because I have a gr...
See You In 2020

The Communist Movement, Not The Democratic Party, Is What Can Defeat Fascism - The dangers of a fascistic shift are now so palpable that the only people who can’t see them are the ones who directly align themselves with the Trump adm...
Consortium News

Talk of Moving UK’s Embassy in Israel - As things stand, the EU prohibition on relocating embassies to Jerusalem will fall on Nov. 1, writes Craig Murray. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk Follo...
The Mind Unleashed

Pornhub Launches New “BeeSexual” Channel to Raise Money for Bee Preservation - [image: PornHub BeeSexual]Pornhub has invented an entirely new genre of porn, which features footage of bees in the act of mating.
Rallblog

Even Elizabeth Warren Supports the Bizarre Myth That Vietnam Still Has Our POWs - You see them flying over the doors at hotels, in front of post office is and other government offices, as stickers on cars. The POW/MIA flag is everywher...
The NM Political Report

A chill in the air: The problem of teen suicide - [image: A chill in the air: The problem of teen suicide] Just before dawn, as the Albuquerque sky filled the house with thin, pale blue light, 16-year-old ...
Wolf Street

How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy - Now they're clamoring for this NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end?
jobsanger

The NRA Wasn't Always A Terrorist Organization -
World Socialist Web Site

Autoworkers determined to fight as UAW contract deadline approaches - The September 14 contract deadline is fast approaching for more than 150,000 hourly workers at Ford, GM and Chrysler operations in the US.
Sayfie Review Texas

AP: O'Rourke on historical racist attacks: US as divided as ever -
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Molotov Ribbentrop Pact at 80: Exploring the long history of Communist-Nazi collaboration - *There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years. George Orwell, About the "current Russian regime" (11 Apri...
The Texas Signal

From president to dogcatcher, the GOP is all about socialism - One word sums up the Republican communications strategy du jour: socialism. “[B]y God, in the state of Texas, we will never adopt socialist policies,” G...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Does Epstein’s Former Cell Mate Know Something? - Derrick Broze breaks down a report on Epstein’s recent cell mate. Sources: Jail guards threatening former Epstein cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione: lawyer B...
Informed Comment

How Forms of Political Islam failed in Egypt and Turkey - By Ahmet T. Kuru | – Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever democratically elected president, died unexpectedly during a trial in June 2019. He was a member of...
Antiwar.com

NPR Mocks Cancer Survivor in Drumbeat of Syria Propaganda - It may be a new low in propaganda. National Public Radio (NPR) used the news that Syrian First Lady Asma Assad had overcome breast cancer to mock her and...
The Contributor

Red States Cut Worker Pay by $1.5 Billion - News Image: State legislatures skew strongly white and male, and have a track record of preempting policies designed to remove structural barriers for mar...
The Greanville Post

Brexit or Not? Masters of Manipulating Public Opinion - PETER KOENIG—BREXIT, stay or leave, is a delicate matter. Labor, hence Jeremy Corbyn, has a tendency to favor “stay” – oddly, along with the conservative T...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Election Headlines for August 20 - We’ve had a long travel day, so we’re only posting some headlines today: - Garnet Coleman (D-Houston) and James Talarico (D-Round Rock) announce ...
EgbertoWillies.com

California, Texas, & Electoral College makes democracy in the U.S. impossible - [image: Texas California Electoral College] As wins in Texas become closer and California becomes a bigger shaper of the popular vote, every Republican Pre...
Pajiba

Kristen Wiig Is Now Engaged To a Hot Piece - It's really heartening to read that Robin Williams's children are doing well. - (Celebitchy) The Coors Light "Bra" ad is groundbreaking. - (The Takeout) Th...
Washington Babylon

Meme of the Day - [image: Meme of the Day] The City of Lights (gas lighting) Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Brad Blog

The Domestic Terrorist Mass Shootings by White American Men That DIDN'T Happen Last Week: 'BradCast' 8/20/2019 - On today's BradCast: Our cowardly President couldn't even make it to the end of his summer vacation before flip-flopping on promised (if tepid) gun safety ...
Jordan Chariton

MSNBC Should Declare Itself a Super Pac for Joe Biden & Elizabeth Warren - via IFTTT The post MSNBC Should Declare Itself a Super Pac for Joe Biden & Elizabeth Warren appeared first on Jordan Chariton Reports.
Portside

Boeing Hit With Labor Charges in High-Stakes Union Fight - Boeing Hit With Labor Charges in High-Stakes Union Fight Greg Tue, 08/20/2019 - 20:32
Ballot Access News

Mississippi Voter-Plaintiffs File Brief in Case Challenging How Governor is Elected - Mississippi’s Constitution says that no one can be elected Governor without both receiving the greatest number of votes, and carrying a majority of state h...
The Ghion Journal

Ice-Cold Power Moves: Reading Part 3 of Whitney Webb’s Series on Jeffrey Epstein - In Agatha Christie’s famous mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express, a surprising but supremely unsatisfying conclusion arrives when genteel Belgian ...
slacktivist

Maybe we’re not throwing the dog high enough - The Lutherans have kind of been on a roll lately. That ought to be bigger news. Plus: Righteous gemstones, irreplaceable mud, and toxic orange muck.
The Rag Blog

Bruce Melton : Tree planting: A diminishing part of the climate solution - This article looks at what is called nature-based carbon dioxide removal. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | August 20, 2019 While tree planting has long bee...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Encouraging Green Stormwater Infrastructure for New Private Development - City of Houston report recommends permeable pavement, green roofs, vegetated strips, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting, and urban forest Aug. 20, 2019 ...
Downwinders at Risk

Texas Misusing 17-Year Old Rural Air Pollution Model to Permit Inner-City Joppa Asphalt Plant - What if you found out an industrial polluter was coming to your densely-populated neighborhood and the state told you not to worry because an obsolete comp...
Field Negro

Tweets of the insane. - [image: Image result for Trump] In case you all have not been paying attention, your president is insane. If you have been reading Mr. trump's twitter rant...
Shadowproof

With Record Number Of Immigrants In ICE Detention, Class Action Lawsuit Outlines ‘Atrocious Conditions’ - A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 55,000 immigrants alleges ICE is responsible for "atrocious conditions" that amount to torture. The post With R...
emptywheel

Freedom And Equality: More on Equality - Relational Equality is the cornerstone of democracy. The post Freedom And Equality: More on Equality appeared first on emptywheel .
The Grayzone

40 rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there - A former diplomat who worked in the Ecuadorian embassy while Julian Assange lived there in asylum debunks 40 of CNN’s… The post 40 rebuttals to the media...
Sludge

As it Cultivates a Socially Responsible Image, Juul Sends Lobbyist to ALEC’s Annual Meeting - Juul, the Silicon Valley vape start-up that is popular among millennials, is participating in a secretive right-wing group that helps corporations and inte...
In These Times

I’m Palestinian. Like Rashida Tlaib, I Am Barred From Seeing My Family. - Israel’s treatment of U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has made Israel’s complete control over Palestinian lives clear. Rep. Tlaib, a Palestini...
Dandelion Salad

The War On Terror Is A Typo - The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published Nov. 17, 2013 August 20, 2019 In the political arena of dou...
Grit Post

5 NRA Board Members Have Resigned in Just the Last 3 Weeks Alone - August has been a devastating month for the National Rifle Association, as several board members have resigned. It’s also been a devastating month becaus...
Innocence Project

Innocence Project Staff Achieve “Most Downloaded Article in Forensic Science International” Status - Innocence Project staff members Glinda Cooper, director of science and research, and Vanessa Meterko, research analyst, jointly authored the article, “Co...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development - Over the last year, the Past & Present Reading Group has taken a spatial turn, with a triad of three books of spatial theory from different disciplinary ...
Texas Monthly

Family of Migrant Father Who Died By Suicide Sues Federal, Local Authorities - The lawsuit is believed to be the first of its kind involving family separation and suicide. The post Family of Migrant Father Who Died By Suicide Sues F...
Texas Observer

Texas (Kinda, Sorta) Accidentally Decriminalized Weed. Now What? - Texas lawmakers like to declare themselves leaders on criminal justice reform, but this session they mostly did nothing about it. During the 86th Texas L...
Louis Proyect

Quentin Tarantino, Eileen Jones, and the perils of film school theorizing - Eileen Jones The first inkling I got that Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was grist for the university film department mill was a comme...
Anti-Media

Joe Biden’s Wife Says Vote for Husband Even If You Like Other Candidates More - "Jill Biden may have settled for her husband, but I'm not sure why anyone else should."
Texas Standard

Dallas Task Force To Use Data And Lived Experiences To Reduce Homicides - “We know that there’s a deep intersection between crime and poverty. … There’s a whole host of issues that we can get to before a crime or an offense ever...
Rude Pundit

If You're Not Anti-Fascist, You're Pro-Fascist - This weekend, I called the Proud Boys and other marching fascist fucknuts "Nazis." When this was posted by a pal on Facebook, one of his FB friends was qui...
Novara Media

Party Leaders, READY! - This summer Johnson, Corbyn and Swinson have been preparing for battle. But who has best positioned themselves to come out on top? Michael Walker is back a...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian Foreign Minister Pushes ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Anti-Doping Conspiracy - Russia’s foreign minister has claimed an “Anglo-Saxon” group of states is dictating anti-doping policies to the world. Current anti-doping rules follow the...
Liberal America

17 Million Voters Purged From Voting Rolls In The Past Two Years (Video) - The Republican party has not legitimately won the White House since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. Even though November’s mid-term election results w...
Church and State

The Next Human: Brain and Body as Connected Devices - What if we fixed our genetic flaws, fortified our bodies with replacement organs and robotic limbs, and enhanced our minds with technology and drugs?
epic.org

Facebook Faces More Civil Rights Lawsuits - A new lawsuit alleges that Facebook violated the Fair Housing Act by allowing advertisers to use factors such as race, sex, and disability to prevent home ...
Popular Resistance

Outrage As Colorado Police Returned To Duty After Shooting 19-Year-Old In The Back - On Thursday, the Colorado Springs Police Department released bodycam video footage of the police murder of 19-year-old De’Von Bailey. By Friday, a police d...
Ian Welsh

Our Leaders Kill For Their Own Benefit - Most people are terribly confused when it comes to understanding our leaders, whether corporate or political. They think that the sort of ethical or moral ...
The Concourse

The Football Team In Euphoria Is Complete Trash - It has been two weeks since the finale of HBO’s R-rated *Riverdale *knock-off, *Euphoria, *aired to glowing reviews. Everyone wants to talk about how the ...
Washington's Blog

The Russiagate hoax is now fully exposed. - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker The last leg of the Russiagate hoax to become exposed was on August 16th, when Gareth Porter bannered at The Am...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin should freeze police hiring until pension problem resolved - Since the local press has ignored the topic, let's delve a bit deeper into the pension crisis at the Austin Police Department. As *Grits reported yesterday...
Progressive Army

Israel and South Africa: The Racial Travel Bans of Apartheid - Recently, Israel issued travel bans for Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. This is, yet again, another example of the country trying to silenc...
House of Houston (Astros news)

Houston Astros: Making the case for Yuli Gurriel to win the AL MVP award - While the Houston Astros have plenty of talent to be considered for American League MVP, one dark horse candidate should be Yuli Gurriel. The race for th...
ExChristian.Net

Jesus wasn't who I thought he was - *From a Catholic Questioner ~ * I'm not very good at writing and to be honest I'm nervous to write this as I'm not an ex-christian. I guess I just need to ...
Democracy Chronicles

Laetitia Bader: the plight of teachers forced into national service conscription in Eritrea is one reason why East African Leaders Should Call for Rights Reforms in Eritrea - Laetitia Bader looks at Eritrea's forceful national conscription focusing on teachers. Bader says African leaders should call for rights reforms in Eritrea.
Crooked Timber

Advice for new college students - A couple of years ago the Midwest conference of the Junior State of America asked me to be their keynote speaker. I still have no idea at all why they invi...
Bay Area Houston

When Trump calls you Pocahontas, or Fredo... - Trump, like an 8 year old, enjoys referring to others with cute, sometimes racist names. Calling Senator Warren Pocahontas, or VP Biden "Sleepy Joe" are j...
Eclectablog

How unions got beaten down and how they can get worked up again – with special guest Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times - Steven Greenhouse on Twitter: @GreenhouseNYT Purchase Steven Greenhouse's new book Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Manufacturing Mass Fascism Hysteria - If the neoliberal ruling classes expect to keep the American masses worked up into a white-eyed hysteria over “fascism” until November 2020, they’re going ...
Progressive.org

Workplace Raids Are Not the Answer - Criminalizing undocumented labor will not curb the practice of their hiring. It only makes workers more exploitable.
Trivial Knot

Retrospective on Hobby Lobby - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2014, on the (then recent) Burwell v Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision, which ruled that owners of for-profit co...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN 2020 Vision: Are We Headed Toward a Biden-Warren Showdown? - Tom with our BTRTN monthly feature on the 2020 Elections, with all the latest numbers and commentary. THE LEAD The main headlines from the 2020 presidentia...
Caitlin Johnstone

The Oligarchy’s Plans For Our Future Keep Getting Dumber - It’s rare to get a billionaire to share their grand plans for the future, which is weird because billionaires pretty much rule the world. Whenever they do,...
Mahablog

Trump: Where Dementia, Ignorance and Paranoia Collide - So this happened: “I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters on Sunday in an attempt to quell fears over a potential market crash. “We’...
DeSmogBlog

Documents Show Koch Network's 'Structure of Social Change' in Action - [image: Koch Student Commons, on the ground floor of Kansas University's business school.] Read time: 10 mins Back in 1996, the president of the Charles Ko...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Existence of Trains Debate - Help me keep drawing these cartoons by supporting my Patreon! Each $1 pledge helps. This one was a bit challenging to draw – I normally like having my char...
Houston Strategies

Flooding plan, faster cheaper Ike Dike, new MetroNext video, bad fad road diets, good gentrification, and more - A lot of items in the backlog this week, and I'm on vacation next week so probably won't have time to post, so here's your two-weeks worth! ;-) Today Bill ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Trump is Taking More Money for Raids and Detention. Congress Should Stop Him. - Without congressional checks, ICE and CBP will continue to overspend and overstep. The budget for Trump’s turbo-charged immigration enforcement and border...
MintPress News

With Trump’s Help, Israel Chooses Short-Term Land Grabs Over Long-Term Legitimacy - As Israel prepares for another round of elections, the Trump administration seems poised to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an invaluable campaign...
Moon of Alabama

Syria - Army Cuts Off Khan Shaykhun - Russia Bombs Turkish Reinforcement - This is an update to last weeks post Syria - Frontline Breach Opens Door To A Deep Battle For Idlib. Today the Syrian army gained fire control over the M5 ...
Political Garbage Chute

God Says He’s Getting a Lot of Prayers About Mitch McConnell Having a Stroke - KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, ETERNITY — The CEO of Holy Trinity Inc., one of the afterlife’s premier eternal timeshare resorts, told heavenly reporters today that....
Reveal

Leaked immigration court official’s directive could violate rules that protect families from deportation - Legal experts say placing hard limits on family immigration cases could be illegal.
Project Censored

Will Carruthers and Whitney Webb - This week the Project Censored Show highlights two impeccable investigative reporters, both of whom illustrate the power a free press can wield in inform...
DBC Green

The Learning Experience of Not Going to Laredo - Melissa's pickup-load of donated supplies, bound for Nuevo Laredo. This past weekend was supposed to include a trip to Laredo, and possibly continuing on t...
Bracing Views

A Revealing Moment at the Democratic National Convention - Originally posted on Bracing Views: Honest passion at the DNC W.J. Astore Yes, there was a revealing moment at last night’s Democratic National Convention....
Progressives Chat

Election 2020: Democrats’ Target Margin +4 - For at least a couple of months, there have been plenty of polls for both the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries and the general election. When rep...
Land Destroyer

Protecting Information Space from Facebook's Tyranny - *August 19, 2019* (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - The recent attack aimed at New Eastern Outlook (NEO) and several of its authors once again exposes the infinite hy...
The Reality-Based Community

Cannabis news round-up - Recreational marijuana legalization reduces opioid deaths by 20%…at least. Mexico government is taking public input on how best to legalize marijuana. Bern...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is Donald Trump Big Brother? - I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one -- and I suspect I’ve been living o...
Political Orphans

Twitter Hygiene - Like weeds in a garden, bots and trolls impact Twitter to a degree not seen on Facebook, or other platforms that attempt to verify a human identity behind ...
Stinque

The Week Ahead - Time was when a week meant something. You could plan for it, a week. You could go into Monday with some clue where you’d be by Friday. Sure, things happen,...
Pages of Victory

Bernie's new digital newsletter - Bernie's Bern Notice
News Taco

Ethnic Cleansing in El Paso, Texas is a Warning for the Nation - President Trump owes our border community and all Latinos in America an apology for encouraging ethnic cleansing. He must take back his hate-filled words...
Liberation News

Connecticut activists protest judicial cooperation with ICE - [image: Two activists hold signs. one reads "judicial marshals guilty of separating families"] “The bad behavior and hatred of these marshals and the misco...
Duck of Minerva

A Call for New Guest Ducks - We are looking for you! The fall 2019 semester is upon us, and we’d like to bring on a new cohort of guest Ducks. The Duck remains a unique blog in terms o...
LareDOS

Emboldened by the hate-filled rhetoric from the highest office in the land, the shooter decided El Paso was a good start - The American flag should remained lowered until Congress comes to its senses with gun legislation
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Trumps with El Paso Baby; Hong Kong Airport Sit In; Elizabeth Warren in Iowa - Chatting the Pictures looks at the Trump portrait with the infant of El Paso massacre victims, the Hong Kong airport sit-in, and Elizabeth Warren in Iowa...
House of Houston (Rockets news)

Houston Rockets: P.J. Tucker disappointed FIBA World Cup hopes dashed - Houston Rockets forward P.J. Tucker has withdrawn from USA Basketball to compete in the World Cup next month. He’s disappointed about it, what’s going on...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just nod if you can hear me - "Sanders Says If Israel Wants to Ban Members of Congress, It Should Not Receive Billions in US Military Aid: 'The idea that a member of the United States...
Somervell County Salon

What's up in Trump's Swamp for August 17 2019? - Trump did a campaign ralliy in Pittsburgh, PA that we paid for. The crowd at Shell that showed up was told that they wouldn't get paid if th.......
Seeing the Forest

Unfuck The World (video) - Prophets of Rage – Unfuck The World (Official Video) – YouTube No hatred Fuck racists Blank faces Time’s changin One nation Unification The vibration Unfuc...
The Militant

Stop the raids! Amnesty for immigrants in the US! - The arrest of 680 immigrant workers at seven poultry processing plants in six Mississippi cities Aug. 7 and the threat of their deportation is aimed at ins...
Carl Beijer

The quiet death of the "white Bernie Bro" attack - Bernie Sanders faced ferocious criticism in the media throughout the 2016 primaries - and central to that critique was what The Washington Post called Bern...
Moron Majority

To Understand Why Trump Wants To Buy Greenland, Just Follow The Bouncing Ball - Golf ball, that is! It is no secret Greenland’s glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change. And underneath all that ice? Future lush gr...
Earthworks

Public Comments: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Montanore Evaluation Project - Montanore SDEIS – Comments Final The post Public Comments: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Montanore Evaluation Project appeared ...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity Gets Slam-Dunked - A review of Tim Sledge’s *Four Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer* The Richard Dawkins 7-point scale, for rating the strength of belief or non-beli...
Two Party Opera

Snake in the Grassroots -
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Burying Solutions to Prevent Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso Shootings - Few if any good academics would try to argue that there's only one contributing cause of violence, including the mass shootings that have bee increasing...
BEYONDbones

The Nature of an Assassin: Harnessing Deadly Killers to Fight Pests - Walking into the Cockrell Butterfly Center (CBC), one of the first things you’re likely to notice is the sound of a 50-foot waterfall. The conservatory’s h...
Socialist Alternative

Karl Marx’s Ecological Socialism is a Guide for Today’s Struggle - By Arne Johansson. First published July 18 in Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). Reposted from socialistparty.ie. Too ma...
Popehat

All The President's Lawyers: Obsesses Loser Edition - From this week's episode: link.
Harper's

[Article] Regarding the Pen of Others, by Benjamin Moser -
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A New Podcast about the Right - A leftist’s guide to the conservative movement, one episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The End of the Filibuster May Loom - Dear Readers: We’re pleased to offer a piece this week from Hunter Brown, an outstanding Center for Politics intern, on a topic of great importance: the ...
Daily PUMA

You say Racism, I say Ageism. - For every accusation of racism that is presently being made towards the Trump Administration, I see a counter point, the use of the Racism card to blunt wh...
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Evolution of a Planetary Spirit - This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philos...
Bad Attitudes

Private Sector vs. Medicare? - It's basically the same thing, as my son Ted explains in this article from *The Hill* Hereâ€™s a yes or no question that most Americans, including those ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Houston Nazis Doxx Each Other Following Anti-Fascist Actions - On Saturday, June 8th, anti-fascists exposed a realtor named Paul Preston as being the leader of a local Neo-Nazi Group called the Houston Goylers. On the ...
Freethought Now

El Paso, Netflix, Kashmir, and a wrong ruling - This week at FFRF, we showed how quick-thinking we can be in response to fast-moving events in a nation buffeted by religion.
Web of Debt

Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China - When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31st for the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data...
Frontloading HQ

Kentucky Republicans Change Presidential Caucus Process - It is not clear yet whether Kentucky Republicans will hold caucuses again in 2020 or revert to the May presidential primary the party has traditionally us...
Robert Reich

The Myth of the Rugged IndividualThe American dream promises... - *The Myth of the Rugged Individual*The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make it...
Environment Texas

House passes sweeping measures to clean up PFAS contamination - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Millions of Americans are worried about toxic PFAS chemicals that have contaminated their drinking water. The federal government is...
Greg Palast

Tee Jay McNichols, our Producer’s Cousin, Murdered in Dayton Massacre - Thomas “Tee Jay” James McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our assistant producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, by...
t.e.j.a.s.

Official TEJAS STATEMENT – Baytown Exxonmobil Olefins Plant – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION - Due to an attack on our server provider, our statement was postponed. Thank you all for your patience.
Aggiornamento

Roberto closed his eyes last evening. - I give thanks for the time he shared with me, listening to my voice for the first time, enjoying good wine and food, laughing all the way... The post Rob...
Texas Watch

Comments On Informal TWIA Claim Rules - We filed these comments with the Texas Department of Insurance to make sure coastal policyholders are paid every cent they are owed after a storm. Learn...
Our Finite World

Rethinking Renewable Mandates - Powering the world’s economy with wind, water and solar, and perhaps a little wood sounds like a good idea until a person looks at the details. The economy...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Colorado statehood day, August 1, 2018 - Colorado officially joined the Union on August 1, 1876. Coloradans should fly U.S. flags today in honor of statehood. Colorado was the 38th state admitted ...
Smart Dissent

Twenty Republican Senators Urging Treasury To Give Wealthy Another Tax Cut Via Executive Order - Date: 08/05/2019 Truth is stranger than fiction. It's hard to believe this is real. In a letter sent to *Steve Mnuchin* on Monday, Senator Ted Cruz urged...
The Metaphor Project

Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday - During this Democratic primary season and even before, a great many longstanding injustices in American life have become high profile: #MeToo, police viole...
Dispatches from the Underclass

The US-China trade war explained - US-CHINA TRADE WAR EXPLAINED It's kinda like the Cold War. Only 2019. And China. Posted by Soapbox on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
LawFlog

Correction: Ellen Ratner only relayed information about Seth Rich, according to Butowsky - Several readers identified a contradiction between a lawsuit that I drafted on behalf of Ed Butowsky versus what he said in an interview. The mistake is mi...
Better Texas Blog

Proposal to Gut Food Assistance Program Could Threaten Millions of Texans - This week, the Trump Administration proposed changing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly “food stamps”) in a way that could ta...
Media Lens

The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship - The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to ...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the art...
Texas Freedom Network

Join the Team: Outreach and Advocacy Manager - Outreach and Advocacy Manager The Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a statewide non-partisan, grassroots organization that is building an informed and effec...
Independent Political Report

Green Party of New York demands justice for Eric Garner - *NEW YORK – The Green Party of New York *(GPNY) renewed its call for justice for *Eric Garner* in response to the Justice Department’s announcement that ...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
PERRspectives

The Most Important Issue for Democrats in 2020? The Courts - As the 2020 election season heats up, voters' priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ra...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Something atavistic rumbles through - This is the room, I could describe it at length, even *ad nauseum* if I cared to which I do not, where I stay when I stay here at the hospital. The windo...
The Socialist

North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence - Disclaimer: The SPUSA is a multi-tendency organization, the following article may or may not reflect the views of individual party
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Disorder Of Things

Toward a New Concept of Genocide: A Reply - Our symposium on Benjamin Meiches’s The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) concludes with the author’s...
nonsite.org

Open Letter on the Proposed Destruction of a Mural Cycle - A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washing...
Texas Rural Voices

To Combat Drunk Driving Deaths, Texas Officials Consider Lowering Legal Blood Alcohol Content Limit - In the state of Texas, driving while impaired is still an issue, resulting in about 950 fatal alcohol-related crashes each year. Recent statistics indica...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hale as Acting CEO of Equality Texas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Angela Hale, Equality Texas, 512.289.2995 angela@redmediagroup.com Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hal...
Liberal Values

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Truthout

Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic - One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
GreenSource DFW

Austin hotel makes top green lodgings list - *The courtyard of Habitat Suites in Austin includes a salt water pool. Photo courtesy of Habitat Suites.* June 13, 2019 We stayed at one of the top ten ...
New Progressive Alliance

Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights - Those who reveal a crime are not worse criminals than those who commit a crime. Imprisoning and torturing Manning as a whistleblower while ignoring those...
WAWG Blog

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election - What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greate...
Disobedient Media

Is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory? - Here's who was involved with pushing it.
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Guadalupe Paz & the TJ Opera Scene - For more than 15 years now, I’ve followed the way Tijuana has developed an opera scene that is one of the artistic jewels of Mexico. One of the scene’s g...
CultureMap Houston

New tropically themed spot cooks up Latin flavor in Boulevard Oaks - David Buehrer wants Houstonians to feel like they can get away from it all without leaving town. That's the driving force behind Tropicales Cafe Y Comida,...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...
DoucheLeaks

4-21 Democratic Presidential Preference Poll - Last week’s poll results truly blew me away. The resurgence of Elizabeth Warren with a commanding 0.89% of the vote was quite an unexpected delight – sure ...
Socialist Worker

Taking our final steps - From the ISO Members of the leadership team responsible for carrying out the decisions made by current and recently resigned ISO members in voting to diss...
Texas Moratorium Network

Hearing on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - We testified at the hearing of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 15, 2019 in favor of Rep. Dutton’s bill to prohibit the death penal...
Wayne Dolcefino (Houston muckraker)

MESSAGE TO THE FBI…BRING IT ON - Newly released documents in the Brazil kidnapping case show the spin-doctor/lawyer for Houston doctor Chris Brann waged an ongoing campaign to keep Ben T...
News Junkie

The Surrealism of the Information War - The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which...
Houston Justice

HISD's GREATEST HITS - A lot continues to be up in the air about our local school board, so let’s take a look back at some of the board’s “Greatest Hits.” Let’s start with this r...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.
John Laurits

[video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany - [video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany For readers who missed the Facebook live-stream, here is a video wherein I a...
Pressing Issues

Midterm Results - In past years, I have closely monitored TV and web coverage of the returns and posted here in real time, which some people really appreciate--I presume fol...
Talking Union

The Postal Strike of 1970: Relevance to Today - by Lawrence Swaim Ed. note: We are always eager to post first-person accounts from worker activists writing from their own direct experiences. This arti...

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