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Raw Story

Republicans too gun-shy to endorse Donald Trump for the 2020 election are more than happy to help him now - Some Republicans have been hesitant to support President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election bid — but they are still helping in other ways. On Capitol Hill...
Crooks and Liars

C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Low - The month of May is less than two weeks away. I look outside and what do I see today? More freakin' snow. Maybe if we play this song from Low's 2002 albu...
Pajiba

Today's Pajiba Love Has Everything: Donald Trump, Russian Hookers, Michael Cohen, and Prison Rape - There's a lot going on in the world of politics tonight, and Dustin will have a rundown of that in the morning. But, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention th...
Sputnik News

'Nobody Ever Wins Trade War' - Austria Plans to Become Bridge Between EU, China - Margarete Schramboeck, Austrian Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, said she would like to see Austria function as a bridge between the Euro...
Mediaite

Comey Suggested Putting Leakers’ Heads on a Pike, Laughed About Jailing Journalists - Former FBI Director James Comey once with talked with President Donald Trump about impaling the heads of leakers and jailing journalists, according to Come...
The Week

Justice Department provides Congress with Comey memos - Redacted, unclassified memos written by former FBI Director James Comey detailing private conversations he had with President Trump were sent to Congress...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Papadopoulos discussed getting Clinton e-mails from Russian govt. - Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Rachel Maddow about the revelation in his book that Donald Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos mentioned tha...
Daily Kos

Jared Kushner holds the knife sticking out of Tillerson’s back in this exposé - When former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was ignominiously fired by Donald Trump in March, it was not so much surprising as it was one of the continu...
memeorandum

Man linked to 9/11 attacks on U.S. captured in Syria: Pentagon (Idrees Ali/Reuters) - Idrees Ali / Reuters: *Man linked to 9/11 attacks on U.S. captured in Syria: Pentagon* — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, att...
OpEd News

Crimes of a Monster: Your Tax Dollars at Work - We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left o...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Death of a Real News Titan - On Sunday, I wrote a piece about the death of a fake news man, so it's appropriate to write about the death of a real newsman- we lost NPR's Carl Kasell la...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Perils of self-publishing, a book lovers’ event! - Bob Reitz is the curator of the Jack Harbin Museum at Camp Wisdom, one of the finest museums of Scout materials in the country, focused on Scouting in the ...
Talking Points Memo

‘Beautiful Hookers’ And Prying Priebus: What’s In The Comey Memos - Former FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell memos on his private conversations with President Trump and top White House staff are...
Washington's Blog

TheRealNews: Debunking the Myth of American Exceptionalism, with David Swanson -
TYT Network

Post Game April 19, 2018 - Cenk and Ana talk about the Cohen investigation, Donald Trump’s phone antics, and Cenks time at MSNBC ... This content is for Member, Producer, Seni...
Consortium News

Of Animals and Monsters and Missiles over Damascus - It seems to be very difficult to be the leader of a state, particularly a strong and/or ideologically driven leader, and not end up a “monster,” muses Lawr...
Houston Communist Party

The Story of Demilitarize! Durham2Palestine -
Political Dig

Comey Memo Reveals Trump And Putin Spoke About Hookers During Conversation: Report - On Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey’s long-awaited memo was released. One of the revelations from the memo was that Donald Trump and Vladimir Pu...
Vox

Read: James Comey’s memos on Trump meetings - The Justice Department turned them over to Congress on Thursday. The Justice Department turned over copies to Congress of former FBI Director James Come...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - I’ve been spending most of my time lately either praying to the porcelain God or wishing I felt other than I do. Nauseau being bad for writing (at least fo...
Dissident Voice

American Anti-Soviet Union morphs into American Anti-Russia - Unpersons One reason it’s so easy to get an American administration, the mainstream media, and the American people to jump on an anti-Russian bandwagon is,...
The Root

3 Kansas Men Convicted Found Guilty of Plot to Bomb Muslims, Kill Obama - After a four week trial, it took a Wichita, Kansas jury one day to convict 3 white dudes who watched too many episodes of “The A-Team” of hatching a conv...
Axios

Extremist with ties to 9/11 captured by U.S.-backed Syrian forces - Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German extremist who is believed to have links to the 9/11 attacks, is being questioned by the Syrian Democratic Fo...
National Post

‘Angel of Dieppe’ who stood up to Nazi soldiers to treat wounded Canadians dies at age 103 - ‘They held a gun up to (Sister Agnès-Marie Valois) to treat the German injured first, but she just looked at everyone as equal’
AlterNet.org

Trump Told Comey that Vladimir Putin Boasted About Having the 'Most Beautiful Hookers in the World': Memo - The new memos reveal Trump may have spoken to the Russian president back in 2013. President Donald Trump told former FBI Director James Comey that Russian...
Brad Blog

Senate Confirms Climate Science Denier as NASA Chief: 'BradCast' 4/19/2018 - Several stories --- pretty much all of them --- on today's BradCast, serve as trenchant reminders of the importance of elections, particularly with majorit...
VICE

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Recap: The Ghost of Miss Vanjie Haunts Us All - So far, the first queen to leave has been the only breakout star of season 10.
The Intercept

James Comey Will Speak at Amazon on Monday - James Comey's decision to take his book tour directly to Amazon only promises to heighten the tensions with President Donald Trump. The post James Comey ...
Mock Paper Scissors

29 minutes later… - …the Republicans leaked the subpoena’ed Comey memos to AP. TPM has the memos.
Mother Jones

The Associated Press Just Published the Memos James Comey Wrote Detailing His Interactions With Donald Trump - The Associated Press obtained the memos James Comey wrote about his interactions with Donald Trump. Read them for yourself:
Field Negro

Et tu, LA Fitness? - - [image: Image result for la fitness images] I am starting to see a trend. One of the good things about living in a world where we can use our ...
Daily Dot

Prince estate releases stunning original version of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ - [image: 'Nothing Compares 2 U' Prince original recording] It came straight from the vault. The post Prince estate releases stunning original version of ‘N...
The Verge

Google is ‘pausing investment’ in Allo - If you’ve been using Google’s messaging app, Allo, it’s probably a good time to start thinking about switching to something else. The app isn’t getting ...
Hullabaloo

Pray for the planet, Trump thinks his "Great Man" moment has arrived - *Pray for the planet, Trump thinks his "Great Man" moment has arrived* by digby If you thought the cretin had hubris when he ran for president knowing ...
Houston Matters

Party Politics, Ep. 53: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Vows To Challenge Lupe Valdez - Brandon and Jay talk about the Governor race
Courthouse News

Facebook Argues for Tax Court Appeal - Facebook found itself in front of a federal judge on Thursday who seemed unimpressed by its argument that it is entitled to appeal an IRS determination t...
Wolf Street

Now Even a Fed Dove Homes in on the “Everything Bubble” - Bonds, junk bonds, spreads, commercial real estate, leveraged loans, over-leveraged companies... all get named as risks to the banks. This is why "gradual"...
Think Progress

Schumer announces new legislation aimed at decriminalizing marijuana - The list of politicians voicing support for decriminalizing marijuana has a new addition: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). In an interview with...
Down With Tyranny!

The View from Japan on Trump and the Korean Crisis - *Kim Jong-il, with whose government the U.S. negotiated the 1994 agreement* *-by Reese Erlich* My recent visit to Japan drove home one main point: Presiden...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

HRC campaign exposes Mike Pence as a homophobic hot mess - The Human Rights Campaign has just launched a campaign to remind folks that while Trump is an incompetent disaster, his vice president Mike Pence is a ho...
Morning Consult

Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts - The post Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts appeared first on Morning Consult.
SCOTUSblog

Petitions to watch | Conference of April 20 - [image: Petitions to watch | Conference of April 20]In its conference of April 20, 2018, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as wheth...
Progressive Army

Editorial | We Stand with Anoa: Lies by Omission Damage Progressive Voices - Anoa Changa is a leader, change agent, and activist, who has shown herself time and again to be an independent thinker. Anoa has been a critical and valu...
Splinter

Wells Fargo Reportedly Will Be Fined $1 Billion For Screwing Its Customers - It’s a tough race to be the most crooked bank in America, but Wells Fargo, God bless ‘em, has been making a strong case for quite some time now. Read mo...
Debunking Christianity

"Is Religious Faith Reasonable?" My Debate Opener Against Dr. Jim Spiegel - This debate is taking place at the Fort Wayne Library tonight. See what you think. Read more »
Election Law Blog

“Seeking Foreign Money, G.O.P. Donor Pushed for Trump to Golf With Malaysian Premier” - NYT reports. … Continue reading →
Popular Resistance

Protest & Political Activity Increases In Trump Era - People have noted that the last year has seen an escalation of protest activity in the United States. Many of these protests are generated by opposition to...
Grit Post

EXCLUSIVE: Millionaire Running for Michigan Governor Accused of Not Paying Staff - Michigan is a troubled state. Free bottled water ended in early April after Flint, Michigan spent years with poisoned tap water, the state’s Republicans ...
Salon.com

Rudy Giuliani joins Trump’s legal team - Rudy Giuliani joins Trump’s legal team, which has been in flux after several attorneys turned the president down
Ballot Access News

For First Time in Michigan History, a Third Party has a Contested Gubernatorial Primary - On August 7, 2018, Michigan holds primaries for the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian Parties. The Libertarian primary ballot will list two candidate...
Above the Law

More Details Emerge In the Case Of The Biglaw Partner Arrested In Deadly Hit-And-Run Crash — See Also - *THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THE BIGLAW PARTNER WAS CHARGED WITH IMPAIRED DRIVING:* Shane Stevenson, the Dentons partner charged in a deadly hit-and run cras...
Echidne of the Snakes

On Babies in the Senate And On Child Care Expertise - It can be enlightening to read two or more random news stories one after the other. Today, for instance, I first read the story about Senator Tammy Duck...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Trump Finally Finds Another Lawyer - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
The Greanville Post

How the Guardian newspaper fulfills George Orwell’s prediction of ‘Newspeak’ - What will it take to bring America to live according to its own self image?
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Rudy Giuliani joins Trump's legal team to help end Russia investigation - The former mayor of New York says he sees his new job as negotiating an end to Robert Mueller’s special investigation Rudy Giuliani, the pugnacious form...
Rivard Report

Straus Endorses Candidate to Replace Him in House District 121 - House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, endorsed Steve Allison on Thursday to replace Straus in House District 121. Straus is not seeking re-election af...
San Antonio Current

Threat of Trump's Border Wall Lands Lower Rio Grande on Endangered Rivers List - The Trump Administration's unrelenting push for a border wall has landed the already troubled Lower Rio Grande on an environmental advocacy group's 2018 l...
emptywheel

The Andrew McCabe Referral Is Unsurprising — and Probably Justified - I think the evidence against Andy McCabe is damning. And the criminal referral is probably necessary.
Slate

Don’t Ignore the Chaos and Animus - Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the travel ban, and the public will gain insight into whether the justices appear inclined to def...
Texas Monthly

Behind the Lines: Executive Editor Skip Hollandsworth on ‘The Sting’ - Listen to the first episode of our new series, which takes you into the minds of some of Texas Monthly's great writers and editors. The post Behind the ...
NPR's Health Shots

E.Coli Outbreak Linked To Romaine Lettuce Spreads To 16 States - A report by the CDC said the bacteria has infected at least 53 people, including 31 who have been hospitalized. The agency's advice: Throw out pre-cut roma...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Juice Box - 8617 Lupton Ln. [HAR]… Read More
Rude Pundit

What Did That Dumb Orange Motherfucker Say Now? (Rising Sun Edition) - Whenever President Donald Trump, an anthropomorphic shart in a suit-shaped sack, gives remarks that are even a little off the cuff, it's a gut-turning emba...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Beside The Points For Thursday, April 19, 2018 - Things That Caught My Eye Eli deserves way better than this Eli Manning is the quarterback of the New York Giants, has two Super Bowl victories under his b...
CultureMap Houston

HPD releases road closures, safety details on Barbara Bush funeral - As Houston prepares to welcome former president and international dignitaries for the visitation and funeral for Barbara Bush, the Houston Police Departme...
PoliTex (FWST)

What is your state lawmaker posting on Facebook? - Want to know what your state lawmaker thinks about certain legislative issues? Might want to check Facebook. A new study shows most Texas lawmakers post on...
slacktivist

The blurry line between ‘fixer’ and ‘blackmailer’ - My advice for hiring a fixer is not to. It ain't easy finding someone you can trust absolutely to be absolutely untrustworthy to everyone else. If you're h...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Comey Gets Loomered - Bob Brigham @ Raw Story: Right-wing conspiracy theorist kicked out of Comey book signing after screaming he’ll ‘get locked up’. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Bl...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

The Circus Just Got Another Ring and a New Clown - Rudy Giuliani just announced that he’s joining the Trump legal team. How’s he gonna do that? Hire a hit man? Does Giuliani not know that he’s … you know...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

A Car, But With Black People In It - Police: Trust us, the black man we gunned down outside a Walmart deserved it by Alan Pyke, Think Progress Apr 19, 2018 Barstow Police Department officers s...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Court’s Ruling Holding Kobach in Contempt Is Well-Deserved - The time is up for Kobach to follow the law. In a scathing decision issued on Wednesday evening, a federal judge held Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobac...
Reverb Press

‘High School Kids Shut You down’ – Watch Guest Humiliate Ingraham on Her Own Show - Ingraham got served Fresh off from her temporary hiatus, Fox News host Laura Ingraham decided to tackle the subject of illegal immigration by bringing on...
Anti-Media

Trump Hands the Military-Industrial Complex Another Massive Win - [image: Trump Military Parade military-industrial complex](ANTIMEDIA) — In yet another example that the swamp is thriving under President Donald Trump, his...
Houstonia

Back At It Again: Houston Food News this Week - Leibman's returns, how to get free pasta, and more in this week's news roundup.
Common Dreams

From 'Deeply Disappointing' to 'Disgusting,' Heitkamp Draws Ire as First Democrat to Back Pompeo - Jake Johnson, staff writer Flouting urgent demands by anti-war groups, environmentalists, and LGBTQ rights organizations to reject Mike Pompeo over his len...
DBC Green blog

Egberto: So Right, and Yet So Wrong - Egberto Willies, host of Politics Done Right on KPFT, says an awful lot of things with which I agree. Unfortunately, in my not-so-humble opinion, he either...
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - It's, what, 1993?
The Ghion Journal

In Our Vital Self Interest: We Must Choose Community over Corporatism - Defined by Webster’s as the “Organization of a society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and ex...
Texas Standard

Congressmen Push A Rare Strategy To Debate A Replacement For DACA - A seldom used rule would put pressure on Speaker Ryan to bring the DREAM Act and other immigration bills to the floor.
Grist

Scott Pruitt’s got 99 problems but Trump ain’t one. - 170 congressional Democrats want to boot the EPA chief, but prominent Republicans stand behind him.
Latino Rebels

NYC Mayor Announces City Will Pay for Temporary Housing of Displaced Puerto Ricans - This announcement comes almost a week FEM said that it would not extend its TSA program for 83 families living in hotels in the city.
Harper's Magazine

[Postcard ] | The Bad and the Ugly, by Kyle Paoletta - Acquiring works for the Museum of Bad Art
Buzzflash

Court upholds ruling, blocks Trump administration in sanctuary cities case - Court upholds ruling, blocks Trump administration in sanctuary cities case 4.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Free Press Houston

Station Museum Examines Asian American Identity in Latest Exhibition - In(di)visible closes April 22.
No More Mister Nice Blog

TED CRUZ HUMILIATED HIMSELF ON TRUMP'S BEHALF BECAUSE HE FEARS BETO O'ROURKE - Ted Cruz has been widely mocked for lavishing praise on Donald Trump as part of *Time* magazine's annual Time 100 list: President Trump is a flash-bang gre...
News Corpse

Here’s Why Trump’s ‘Fixer’ Michael Cohen Ran Away From the BuzzFeed/Steele Dossier Lawsuit - The news emanating from Donald Trump’s Circque Du Collusion continues to break with rapid fire reliability. Much of it this week has been centered on Trump...
Newsbud

The Russian Deep State: Putin & the Assassination of Journalists - In this special report Newsbud’s founder and editor Sibel Edmonds and Spiro discuss the recent and suspicious death of a Russian journalist who was best kn...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Arne Duncan on "learning standards!" - *THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018What's the matter with standards:* Doggone it! The Naep Data Explorer is down. That means we can't gather data for the report we...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Branch Davidian standoff remembered by Texas TV journalists who were there - How the Houston and Waco TV-radio journalists who covered the Branch Davidian standoff remember the tragedy from 25 years ago KHOU 11 reporter Norm Uhl and...
Ring of Fire

DHS Takes The Attack On Free Press To The Next Level – America’s Lawyer - To learn more about this topic, visit AL.Law Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Brigida Santos talk about the DHS’s new plan to track Journalists,...
Rewire

A Recent Court Decision Will Help Ensure Women Are Actually Making as Much as Men - In *Rizo v. Yovino*, the Ninth Circuit ruled, for the first time, that employers may not consider previous salary history when deciding whether a gender ...
In These Times

Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change - About 252 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic extinction event killed “90 percent of the planet’s species,” according to *National Geographic*, and e...
Liberal Values

Edward Snowden Joins Civil Liberties Groups In Protesting Restrictions On Free Speech In Russia - Edward Snowden has joined civil liberties organizations including Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Freedom of the Press F...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich, Udall cosponsor Medicare buy-in bill - [image: Heinrich, Udall cosponsor Medicare buy-in bill] Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall support a Medicare buy-in bill that would allow individuals ...
Political Garbage Chute

Local Mom and Pop Coffee Shop Only Calls Cops On Black Hipsters - BISCUIT HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA — When Susan Carolsen heard the news about a Starbucks in nearby Philadelphia being the scene of an arrest of two young, unar...
Green News Network

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

LA stands up twice against U.S. attacks on Syria - [image: Liberation photo] The demonstrators occupying Pershing Square were emboldened by the dignity and spirit of resistance displayed by Syrians. The po...
Louis Proyect

The Confessional - This Saturday evening at 6pm and showing at the Rich Mix theater, Londoners will be able to see the premiere of Lucas Jedrzejak’s “The Confessional”. The f...
Dandelion Salad

Another of the Many Charming Examples of Cold War Anti-Communism by William Blum - by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad Killing Hope April 19, 2018 Unpersons One reason it’s so easy to get an American administration, the mainstream med...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/19/2018 - Today's Water Cooler: NAFTA and IP, "the wave," "Medicare for Anyone," leading indicators, business outlook, driver shortages, Permian basin, Facebook GDPR...
Peacock Panache

Philadelphia Starbucks Arrests Highlight Systemic Racism Issues - [image: Philadelphia Starbucks Arrests Highlight Systemic Racism Issues] When police told Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson to leave the Philadelphia Starbu...
Texas Observer

Blake Farenthold and the Consequences of Extreme Gerrymandering - Blake Farenthold’s frat bro image started with a photo from an adult pajama party that surfaced a month before his unlikely rise to Congress in 2010. Tha...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Springtime on Buffalo Bayou - Through the Woods on a Brilliant Sunday Morning April 19, 2018 At last spring had sprung. The trees were bursting with joyous green, celebrating by tossi...
Pharyngula

Trav & I seem to have had a Vulcan mind-meld - Trav Mamone is asking the same question I did yesterday: they ask, Why Are Secular Skeptic Communities Failing To Address Sexual Crime?. Hang out on FtB lo...
Counterpunch

David Lynch: The Treachery of Language -
First Draft

The Americans Thread: Nothing Is Everything - Adrastos recaps Season 6, Episode 4: Mr. and Mrs. Teacup.
Mahablog

Not Settling for Crumbs - I want to add just a few more thoughts to yesterday’s post on the Republican tax cuts and why they are unpopular. Paul Krugman points out that the Bush tax...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Growing Evidence Of Mega-Church Fraud Violence & Support For War? - Religion teaches morality. Or so we've been told by religions for thousands of years. One of the most important morals might be, "Thou shalt not kill,"...
ProPublica

ProPublica Reporter Talia Buford Co-Hosts “Hot Mess,” New PBS Digital Series on Climate Change - by ProPublica PBS Digital Studios launched today its new original YouTube program, “Hot Mess,” dedicated to explaining both the scientific impacts of cl...
Great American Satan

Trump Ups his “Kill the Poor” Game - Via The Root, cheeto hitler signed a fucking executive order mandating that people on welfare must work or lose benefits. This kind of policy has been demo...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Succession Watch: Fact checking Raul Castro's cheerleaders - *Fake news on Cuba * *Big factual error* It has been a painful month reading the "news" on Cuba, and basic factual errors that could be corrected on a maj...
Pensito Review

GOP Lagging Behind Democratic Fundraising Efforts - 43 “A whopping 43 House Republicans raised less money than Democratic challengers in the first three months of 2018 — nearly the same number of stragglers ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

The Supreme Court voided part of a law requiring deportation for certain crimes. Here's what that means - The decision contributes to growing debate over allegations of due-process violations.
Shadowproof

FBI Whistleblower Faces Up To Five Years In Prison After Accepting Plea Deal - FBI whistleblower Terry Albury pled guilty to disclosing documents to a reporter and unauthorized retention of a document in violation of the Espionage A...
MintPress News

With MSM AWOL on Yemen, MintPress News Series To Give Yemenis Back Their Voice - What’s really happening in the poorest country in the Middle East is a test of our humanity -- a catastrophic, perfect storm of suffering and death, and ...
Independent Political Report

LP.org: Michigan Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Gelineau featured on NPR - *From LP.org*: Bill Gelineau, the Libertarian candidate for governor of Michigan, was featured on the “Stateside” program on NPR Michigan affiliate WUOM-...
Bracing Views

My Dad’s Silver Dollars - W.J. Astore My dad left me two silver dollars. They’re worth much in sentimental value (I’ll explain in a moment), but they also teach us something about ...
Angry Bear

Candidate Specific Response Bias in Polls - Low response rates are a problem for pollsters. The worst problem is candidate specific response bias in which supporters of one candidate are more likely ...
Popehat

Today in WaPo: The Fault Lies Not In Our Lawyers But Ourselves - I have a post up at The Washington Post today.
Dorf on Law

Was I Wrong About the 'Sweeping-ness' of the Tax Bill? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Last Fall, as the tax debacle was playing out, I frequently mocked the media for adopting the Republicans' spin that the tax system w...
Grits for Breakfast

Appointed counsel in Austin radically increases chance of conviction on drug charges; police pursuing victimless drug cases as crime declines - Defendants in Travis County were far more likely to be convicted of state-jail felony drug charges if they were indigent with an appointed attorney compare...
Robert Reich

A THIRD PARTY? HOW NOT TO SETTLE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILSAre... - *A THIRD PARTY? HOW NOT TO SETTLE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS* Are you happy with the electoral choices provided you by the two major parties? If not, sh...
Our Finite World

Why oil prices can’t rise very high, for very long - Oil prices are now as high as they have been for three years. At this writing, Brent is $74.14 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate is at $68.76. These p...
Eater Houston

Sphynx Teahouse Will Bring A Cat Cafe and Vegan Fare to the Third Ward - [image: Vegan pozole awaits at Sphynx Teahouse] Right now, it’s a roving pop-up Next year, Houston will welcome Sphynx Teahouse, a new cat cafe that will...
Progressive.org

Trump, Foxconn Deal to Heat up Self-Defeating War Between States - Competition to woo businesses through incentive packages drain billions from public budgets and into corporate coffers each year.
Portside

What Does the Commonwealth Mean to its 30 Million Workers? - What Does the Commonwealth Mean to its 30 Million Workers? Kurt Stand Thu, 04/19/2018 - 09:30
Bonddad

Higher wage growth for job switchers: more evidence of a "taboo"against rasing wages? - -* by New Deal democrat* Yesterday the Atlanta Fed published a note touting the wage growth for those who quit their jobs and transfer to a different lin...
Democracy Now!

Stunning Investigation Confirms Black Mothers and Babies in the U.S. Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis - Tuesday marked the end of the inaugural Black Maternal Health Week, a campaign founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. The effort was launched ...
The Progressive Wing

4/19 News Roundup – Sanders Has A Plan To Save The Postal Service; Beto Closes In On Cruz & More - Bernie Sanders has a plan to save the postal service President Trump has made the mail big news. After a Twitter rant about the Washington Post, Trump laun...
Houston Press

Chromeo Impress Small, Energetic Crowd at House of Blues - Chromeo House of Blues April 18, 2018 Stage presence is a difficult thing to master. Most acts spend years working on it, and they're only able to make it ...
DeSmogBlog

Despite Disappointing Returns, Oil Driller Pushes Ahead with Fracking Near Rare Texas Wildlands - [image: Balmorhea State Park with views of oil and gas well flares] If you ask the CEO of Apache Corp., his company made in 2016 the kind of once-in-a-life...
Space City Weather

Amazing weather ahead for Houston—except for Saturday - A weak cool front passed through Houston this morning, and it will bring a very pleasant end to the work week. We’re still looking at mixed conditions on S...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Belle Chesler, A Teacher Listens to Her Students - During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

JANUS - Trump versus Trump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986576502358671361 "Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director in history, was not fired b...
Church and State

Personal Longevity: What can we do? - Longevity is the concept of living a vital life for a longer than normal period. Why Longevity? That’s another story… How, then?
Duffel Blog

Congressional leaders baffled by Mattis asking their permission to strike Syria - [image: mattis dunford] WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders from both parties told reporters they were baffled recently after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Pat Frazier - […]
skippy the bush kangaroo

sloppy thursday blues - drugs, lies and bribery in the virginia dept of transportation should tech companies be more tightly regulated? how insurance companies drive up prescripti...
Dallas Observer

Glenn Beck's Media Company Continues to Crumble as His Company Jet Goes Up for Sale - Conservative TV and radio show host Glenn Beck once had the ear or the ire of almost every political wonk and zealot in America, depending on which side of...
Informed Comment

Exposing Canary Mission’s campaign against Palestinian human Rights: A Resource for College and University Leaders - N.B. Yes, I have been smeared by this odious hate group, but there’s not much they can do to me. But they are trying to ruin the careers of our young Ameri...
Crooked Timber

Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 9 - Thanks to everyone who the first eight chapters of my book-in-progress, Economics in Two Lessons. I’ve found the comments on Chapter 8 valuable, but haven’...
jobsanger

Sad Excuse For A President -
Socialist Worker

The myth of the "#MeToo panic" - Elizabeth Schulte responds to the criticism that #MeToo represents a "sex panic." [image: Protesters take to the streets for the 2018 Women's March in S...
World Socialist Web Site

After Syria strikes, drumbeat grows for wider US war - A campaign is underway in the American political and military-intelligence establishment for a major escalation in Syria and confrontation with Iran and Ru...
Sayfie Review Texas

Express-News: New poll shows Gov. Abbott leads either Democrat by only single digits, as White touts casino-funded education plan - Express-News: New poll shows Gov. Abbott leads either Democrat by only single digits, as White touts casino-funded education plan
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

History Suggests Double Trouble for Incumbent Trump - This is part one of a back-and-forth between Crystal Ball Managing Editor Kyle Kondik and veteran reporter and presidential historian Paul Brandus assessin...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too - Surprising results from a new survey of teachers reveals the depth of “financial strain” classroom professionals face. These include high levels of college...
Antiwar.com

An Alternative Explanation to the Skripal Mystery - For weeks, British Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have insisted that there is “no alternative explanation” to Russian gov...
Truthout

Stunning Investigation Confirms Black Mothers and Babies in the US Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis - Tuesday marked the end of the inaugural Black Maternal Health Week, a campaign founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. The effort was launche...
The Contributor

Impeachment: Week in Review - News Image: As always, there's a lot that happened last week to consider. Category: Impeachment origin Blog: Meet to Impeach origin Author: Bob Carney Jr.
If You Only News

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

“I take it the answer is: ‘No comment’?” - “Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan, what’s your plan if President Trump fires Robert Mueller?”
Lewisville Texan Journal

Print Edition – April 18, 2018 - Here is the April 18, 2018 print edition of The Lewisville Texan Journal: The Lewisville Texan Journal’s stories are available free online at LewisvilleTex...
Earthjustice

Arctic Drilling Will Only Worsen Air Pollution for a Village That’s Fighting to Breathe - Arctic Drilling Will Only Worsen Air Pollution for a Village That’s Fighting to Breathe Earthjustice is challenging the federal agencies that want to fling...
BEYONDbones

Salt: The mineral we take for granted and why it is so important to the Houston area - By Randy J. Bruner, HMNS Sugar Land Docent Halite (NaCl) is the mineral commonly referred to as salt. This simple mineral has had a varied and important...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Uber and the Future of Work - Platform work has been widely heralded as a liberating, progressive development that provides workers with the opportunity to become micro-entrepreneurs ...
xpostfactoid

Two NJ healthcare bills awaiting Gov. Murphy's signature should reduce premiums by 20-30% in the individual market - On April 12, both houses of the New Jersey legislature passed bills to establish a state individual mandate (A3380) and a reinsurance program ( S1878). The ...
Other Words

In OtherWords: April 18, 2018 - This weekend, the U.S. once again struck out at Syrian regime targets over the alleged use of chemicals weapons.
Ecosophia

Returning to the Commonplace - There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or ...
Rallblog

Times Are Tough, Please Help! - Got some bad financial news. Now more than ever, I need you to support my cartooning career. If I can double my level of Patreon support, I’ll be able to w...
SocraticGadfly

Southwest Airlines legacy catches up to it in Philly? - The National Transportation Safety Board's first preliminary report on the Southwest jet that had to do an emergency landing in Philadelphia after an engin...
Socialist Alternative

Thomas Sankara: The Revolutionary Way in West Africa - Alex Rouillard, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) On October 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated. Two...
Duck of Minerva

Foreign Policy and Mixed Signals - Earlier this week, a particularly volatile fissure within the Trump Administration opened up. Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, announc...
Krebs on Security

A Sobering Look at Fake Online Reviews - In 2016, KrebsOnSecurity exposed a network of phony Web sites and fake online reviews that funneled those seeking help for drug and alcohol addiction towar...
Real News

The Victims in Gaza and Douma - By David William Pear. April 17, 2018 [First Published by The Greanville Post] In their book Manufacturing Consent Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky distin...
Greg Palast

KPFA Presents The Bay Area Premiere of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election - Join us on Wednesday, April 18 in Oakland for the Bay Area Premiere of... The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:The Case Of The Stolen Election Featuring a po...
Downwinders at Risk

Alternative Earth Day Event -
Lowering the Bar

Shortening the Massachusetts Oath of Office Probably Saved Lives - Or at least reduced the number of people who died of old age while saying it. Related Stories - Court No Longer Recognizes Justice - Nebra...
Better Texas Blog

The Critical Role of Texas Medicaid in Treating Substance Use Disorder - All Texans living with substance use disorders should be able to access the treatment and supports they need, regardless of their income. As Texas tries ...
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
Political Orphans

How Do You Fight a Man Like Donald Trump? - Have you wondered why so many Trump appointees who have been ridiculed, shamed, then fired by tweet have not spoken out about their experience? Confiden...
Disobedient Media

The Southwestern Hemisphere Is Sliding Towards Its Own “Arab Spring” - America's southern neighbors are increasingly at risk of being engulfed in widespread chaos and destabilization
The Conversation

Will US-Japan friendship survive uncertainty in Asia? - US-Japan relations are under pressure. As leaders of the two countries meet this week, a scholar tells the story of the exchange program that made such a d...
John Laurits

How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack - How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack Last Saturday, as most are surely aware, the prime ministers of France and ...
Trivial Knot

The Second Law and its misuses - An OrbitCon session brought to my attention to the fact that Steven Pinker spouts a lot of bullshit about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. (The Second Law...
Frontloading HQ

#InvisiblePrimary 2020: Uh oh Biden? - Over at Politico, Charlie Mahtesian has this to say *about a prospective Biden candidacy for 2020*: *"Joe Biden, who leads the Democratic 2020 presidential...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Lamar W. Hankins & Alan Pogue; Christopher Brown & Roddey Reid; Thorne Dreyer & Glenn Smith; Carl Davidson; Alice Embree, Kim Varela-Broxson & Lindsay Rodriguez; Roaul Hernandez; Steve Russell; and Philip Russell - Our guests include authors & activists, political analysts, a music critic and a leftist icon; we talk about guns and feminism; and we bid Mexico’s preside...
Texas Rural Voices

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

How McClatchy Took Michael Cohen in Prague Story From Speculation To Fact - Over the weekend I ran a story here about McClatchy’s bombshell alleging that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s lawyer and bagman, went to Prague in 2016 despi...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Your information is secure. - This is an interruption. I am sorry. This is not the usual thing for here. I apologize. I spend much of my life apologizing, really, if you must know, and...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Zuckerberg Troll Army, Syria Gas Attack, Michael Cohen “and Friends.” - Welcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week we discussed Mark Zuckerberg’s DC appearance, the Syria gas attack, and Michael Cohen "...
ExChristian.Net

Hello, my name is Don and I am a religious addict. - *By Don Shafer - ex Christian, ex pastor, ex idiot ~ * It's true, I am addicted to Christianity, to Jesus, to God, to the church, to the methods and relati...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (April 8 – 14) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Ralph Drollinger, talking about the notes Donald Trump makes on Drollinger’s eight-page print-outs most ...
South Lawn

On The Crest Of A Strike Wave - We have a guest post today, talking about the strikes spreading across the country that started in West Virginia. C. intermittently tweets as @thehousered ...
The Metaphor Project

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

#TimesUp: David Silverman’s Firing is a Wake-Up Call to Secular Movement - This is a personal statement about the disturbing allegations in yesterday’s BuzzFeed article concerning David Silverman, until yesterday president of Amer...
Stinque

A Few Civil Remarks for Our Friends on the Other Side of the Great Divide - You know, we tried to help. We tried to provide access to healthcare. We tried to preserve inexpensive access to higher education. We tried to keep unions ...
Avedon's Sideshow

The boundaries in between - This is just a neat old picture of Arthur Thomson drawing direct to stencil that Rob Hansen found in someone's old photo collection. Arthur once asked me ...
Project Censored

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

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

From the Cite Archives: When Good Buildings Go Bad by Barry Moore - Main Street Sears in 2006. Photo: Mitchell Shields. This article by Barry Moore originally appeared in Cite 67, Summer 2006. Rice University recently annou...
WAWG Blog

More on How We Got Into The DJT Political Swamp – It Has Little to Do With Russia - In 1970, income and wealth inequality were at historical lows. The income tax tables had over 25 brackets with the top marginal rate of 74%. Campaign fundi...
Nathan Hevenstone

A New Blog?!? What the Heck is Nathan Doing?!?!? - Relax, relax. It’s nothing too big. Yes, I created a new blog. No, it’s not a replacement for this one. I know I’ve been inactive here, and there are a lot...
News Taco

Texas OKs Mexican-American studies curriculum under new name - The Texas Board of Education on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to creating statewide academic standards for a Mexican-American studies high school c...
Equality Texas

New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Texans - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas 512-289-2995, angela@redmediagroup.com New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Te...
Jim Hightower

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

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

Queen Elizabeth likens Trump to noisy helicopter - Queen Elizabeth II is comparing President Trump to a noisy helicopter, quipping that the commander in chief goes “round and round when you want to talk.”Th...
Dos Centavos

Sunday 4/15 – Los TexManiacs at Discovery Green - Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs are headlining the Discovery Green Birthday Bash this coming Sunday, April 15. The Bash starts at noon with Los Texmaniacs hi...
The Disorder Of Things

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

Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (TxETRA) Kicked Off Electric Vehicle Coalition With Energy and Momentum - 15 Companies and Groups, 60 People Are Backing a new organization, Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (TxETRA) Kicks Off Electric Vehicle C...
Moron Majority

Mexico Agrees To Pay For Wall If Trump Releases Tax Returns - Mexico has agreed to pay for Trump’s much-promised “big, beautiful” border wall. But there is a catch … Trump must first release his tax returns. The idea ...
Houston Justice

Project Orange Profile by April Henshaw - When I saw the call to help register voters who were currently incarcerated, I knew I had to do it. I was raised by a single father, in part, because bot...
ROAR Magazine

Dissecting the madness of economic reason - David Harvey’s latest book provides a riveting reading of Marx’s *Capital* and a trenchant critique of a political and economic system spiralling out of ...
First Reading

Cruz kicks off campaign at the Redneck Country Club, but is Ted really a redneck? - Good day Austin: Here was Ted Cruz last night, after being introduced by radio talk host Michael Berry, a former member of the Houston City Council,…
34justice

The Nation of Islam Problem - The Nation of Islam is officially recognized as a national hate group due to its black supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ views. And yet, Tamika Mall...
Ramona's Voices

In the Year of the Woman We're Going to Need Each Other - Women's Liberation protest, 1971 Enlightened women of America, if I say we're at our most vulnerable right now, right this minute, and our gains are becomi...
Irregular Times

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

Crushing Dissent -
Seeing the Forest

Why Not Just Give A Job To Anyone Who Wants One? - Doing work that needs to be done?
Carl Beijer

A brief take on primitivism - A couple of readers have asked for my take on primitivism, so here it is: The earth has faced all kinds of horrific environmental catastrophes in its histo...
UP@NIGHT

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

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

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

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

Art Lover - From *Politico*: â€œAlso the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replace...
LawFlog

Federal lawsuit seeks records about Seth Rich murder - This morning I filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that asks a federal judge in Brooklyn to order the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice to release ...
PERRspectives

Democrats Proven Right--Again--on Tax Cut Windfall for the Rich - During the run-up to the passage of the "Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department's Office of Tax...
Thom Hartmann

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

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

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

Membership as a force multiplier for beat reporting - Just published a "concept paper" for an idea I have been trying to introduce for 11 years. It may take 11 more but I don't care. I think it's a good idea...
Independent Thinker 2016

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

Black Community Control of the Police divides the Green Party - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
Texans For Public Justice

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

My Best Films of the Year 2017 - Every year for many I have posted my list here starting about this time in December--then update it into January and February as I see most of the top Ch...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Librarians and the Beauty of Surprise - On National Read Across America Day, I’d like to give thanks for local public librarians. I find one of the great things to do is walk into a library and...
St. Petersburg Independents

Black Community Control of the Police divides the Green Party - ST. PETERSBURG, FL, February 27 — A proposal for Black Community Control of the Police from the Pinellas local of the Green Party of Florida (GPFL) to amen...
The Economic Populist

OPEC's February Oil Market Report showed that the global oil glut is growing again - Since the media largely missed what the data from OPEC's February Oil Market Report (covering January OPEC & global oil data) actually showed, and since ...
The Texas Politics Project

Joe Straus Approval (February 2018) - - Table | - Share - | More Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Straus is doing as Speaker of the Texas H...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 1/12/2018-Trump is a Racist - Trump is a racist. We all knew that, right? It isn't like yesterday's comments about "shithole nations* was the first time anyone had some kind of warnin...
Death to Squirrels

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

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

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

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

Videos from 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty -
The Nil Admirari

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

Understanding the Seven 2017 State Constitutional Amendments - It's that time of the biennium again! Time for voters to consider constitutional amendments on small minutia of public policy. Texas has the longest state ...
American Third Party Report

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...
Not of it.

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

Brains and Eggs

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