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First Draft

Pulp Fiction Thursday: New Orleans Uncensored - This week we go to the movies with New Orleans Uncensored. It’s a tawdry bit of pulp cinema from William Castle who is better known for his horror movies. ...
The Week

Marine Corps says one of the men in famous Iwo Jima flag-raising photo was misidentified - The Marine Corps on Wednesday confirmed the suspicions of three historians who believed that one of the six men in the famed photo of a U.S. flag being r...
Informed Comment

Blaming Victims, Trump attacks Syrian Kurds as “Communists,” “No Angels,” PKK as worse than ISIL - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dispatches from the Great Trump Clown Parade, which would be gut-busting hilarious if it did not involve real-world dark hor...
Antiwar.com

To End the Wars, Attack the Right From the Right - Sadly, the antiwar and anti-national security state inclinations of American liberals and progressives have weakened since the days of President George W...
Down With Tyranny!

Stuff To Enjoy-- From Us To You: Mitt Romney And Max Frost - First a Club for Growth video, an ad that will start running tomorrow on Fox News stations in Utah. The intent isn't so much to get Romney to do someth...
The Verge

Master & Dynamic’s new MW07 Plus earbuds boast improved battery life and active noise cancellation - Plus, there’s a new less expensive option that’s only slightly dialed down in terms of capabilities Master & Dynamic has two new sets of truly wireless e...
memeorandum

Lawmakers, social media users praise photo of Pelosi confronting Trump (Marina Pitofsky/The Hill) - Marina Pitofsky / The Hill: *Lawmakers, social media users praise photo of Pelosi confronting Trump* — Lawmakers and other social media users took to T...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trump lawyer Giuliani reportedly facing a counterintelligence investigation - Rudy Giuliani is reportedly facing a counterintelligence investigation. What does that mean for the president's attorney? We discuss that and more.
Raw Story

‘Smart rats jump a sinking orange ship’: Columnist predicts more Republicans will flee Trump - New York Times contributing columnist Wajahat Ali predicted that more Republicans would likely flee President Donald Trump in the coming weeks. Already, Tr...
Mediaite

Trevor Noah Rips Trump’s Sons for Complaining About Hunter Biden and Nepotism - The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah called out Trump’s adult sons for complaining about Hunter Biden receiving special treatment because he was Joe Biden‘s son. N...
Political Wire

Sondland Made Quid Pro Quo to Ukrainians - NBC News: “Lawmakers plan to grill Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on Thursday about a private discussion he had with top Ukrainian offici...
Portside

Black Confederates: Exploding America's Most Persistent Myth - Black Confederates: Exploding America's Most Persistent Myth Mark Brody Wed, 10/16/2019 - 23:34
Courthouse News

Bank-Backed Terrorism Claims - The Second Circuit *revived* claims that a Saudi bank aided al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. The claims were originally dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The ...
Crooks and Liars

What's Your Favorite Halloween Candy? - Canadian TV (hence the Happy Thanksgiving note) covers the top Halloween candies in the US. Sure, our house stocks up early on peanut butter cups and the...
Krebs on Security

When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win - Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub -- one of the underground's largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards -- had be...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: How the U.S. stole generations of indigenous children to open the West - Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) is assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico and author Our History is the Future Stan...
Pajiba

Screw It: Here's Who Has Been Unmasked So Far on 'The Masked Singer' - A scientific study, that clearly didn't include Charlize Theron or Michelle Pfeiffer, claims that Bella Hadid's face is the most beautiful in the world. - ...
Rivard Report

Luminaria Announces 2019 Featured Artists – and a Chance for All to Participate - The 2019 Luminaria festival takes place Nov. 9-10 at Hemisfair and Mission San José. The post Luminaria Announces 2019 Featured Artists – and a Chance fo...
Axios

Rick Perry tells WSJ Trump directed him to call Giuliani to discuss Ukraine corruption claims - Energy Secretary Rick Perry told the Wall Street Journal Wednesday that President Trump directed him to contact Rudy Giuliani in the spring about alleged...
Eschaton

Late Night - Rock on.
Hullabaloo

Just a Reminder by tristero - *Just a Reminder * by tristero That seriously disturbed man who just had a meltdown? He can, on a whim, order nuclear strikes anywhere. Every moment that...
Caitlin Johnstone

Truth Is A Kremlin Talking Point - In response to a statement during the Democratic primary debates by presidential candidate Andrew Yang that both Russia and the United States have engaged ...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Candidate, Endorsement and Speaker News for October 16 - Early voting begins on Monday for the November 5 constitutional amendment, general and special election. The League of Women Voters has created a *Constitut...
The Contributor

Trump Wants to Erase Protections in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a Storehouse of Carbon - News Image: The old-growth rainforest is a major North American carbon sink. The Trump administration is moving to lift a Clinton-era ban on logging there...
Dissident Voice

The Last Lifeline: The Real Reason Behind Abbas’ Call for Elections - The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic ...
Rude Pundit

The Madman and the Turks - It's definitely new to be living in a country led by someone who is, at the very least, quickly deteriorating mentally. Hell, at least Ronald Reagan had th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

'A very serious meltdown': top Democrats react to Trump meeting – video - Nancy Pelosi said senior lawmakers witnessed Trump having a 'meltdown' after nearly two-thirds of the House GOP caucus voted to condemn his decision to w...
The Root

Dems Say Trump Has a ‘Meltdown’ After House Rebuke of His Syria Policy; Pelosi Says He Needs Prayer - Maybe it was seeing House Republicans give him the thumbs-down on his pullout game in Syria that pushed him over the edge, but Donald Trump reportedly ha...
Political Dig

Trump’s Tweet Attacking Nancy Pelosi Backfires Spectacularly After Sharing Photo Of The Speaker Scolding Him - The internet is praising House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after President Trump attacked Pelosi by Twitting a photo of her standing up at a contentiou...
Field Negro

The n-word conundrum. - [image: TWEET ME]It never fails, there is always someone in the majority population who has to write and pontificate about the use of the n- word, and why ...
Slate

Director Nicole Kassell Unmasks the New Watchmen - And she shares the ins and outs of this universe.
Socialist Alternative

The Squad Endorses Bernie - October 16 was an important night for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. His performance at the fourth Democratic Party primary debate showed the conti...
Daily Dot

Hong Kong protesters wear LeBron James masks - [image: hong-kong-protesters-lebron-james] They are protesting the NBA star. The post Hong Kong protesters wear LeBron James masks appeared first on The ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THIS IS WHY IT'S NOT WORTH SHUTTING DOWN TRUMP'S TWITTER - This was a moment I wasn't expecting in last night's debate: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) unsuccessfully tried at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate to ...
Truthdig

Pete Buttigieg Is the Past - He may be the youngest candidate in the race, but as Tuesday’s debate made clear, the mayor's politics are as cynical as they are stale.
OpEd News

Steps To Remove Billionaires - There are more and more people saying that billionaires should not exist. I've been saying it since 2012. One question that I get is HOW? How do we make it...
Vox

Vox Sentences: Turkey to US: “No power can stop us” - [image: Trump and Erdoğan together for a photo.] President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) poses for a photo with US President Donald Trump (R) during a...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Family Research Council paints trans children as dangerous by ignoring their existence - Trans children need to be protected from school bullying and especially groups which will falsely call them predators. Like so many other schools in Americ...
Brad Blog

Special Coverage: 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate in Ohio: 'BradCast' 10/16/2019 - The top TWELVE 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates --- yes, TWELVE --- gathered for 3 hours --- yes THREE --- on Tuesday night at Otterbein University,...
Shadowproof

Why Rikers Island Must Be Closed Without Building New Jails - On October 16, all eyes are on the New York City Council as it votes on a proposal to build four new skyscraper jails and up to eight jailing satellites ...
Ballot Access News

California Supreme Court Will Hear Presidential Tax Returns-Ballot Case on Wednesday, November 6 - The California Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Patterson v Padilla on November 6, at 9 a.m., in Sacramento. This is the case on whether the Califo...
Election Law Blog

CA Supreme Court Will Hear Case About Requiring Presidential Candidates to Release Tax Returns on Nov. 6, With Opinion Likely by Thanksgiving - At the Lectern reports. … Continue reading →
LareDOS

They’re here! Army Corps of Engineers, USBP asking riverfront landowners to sign Right of Entry for border wall land - New target area: Laredo College to Colombia Bridge RGISC: Signing Right of Entry irrevocably forfeits certain rights to your land
INSIDER - politics news

'It's utterly pathetic': Democratic lawmakers are flabbergasted by Trump's 'tough guy' letter to Turkey - [image: Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office] - President Donald Trump's letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caug...
Talking Points Memo

Romney Bashed As A ‘Democrat Secret Asset’ In Attack Ad From Conservative Group - Conservative group Club for Growth is putting out an attack ad against Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) that accuses the senator...
VICE

Tulsi Gabbard’s Stance on Abortion Is Stuck in the ‘90s - The phrase "safe, legal, and rare” only further stigmatizes abortion, experts say.
Dallas Observer

Video: Street Racers Shut Down Woodall Rodgers to Do Doughnuts - It'd been too long, we guess, since anyone had done anything truly stupid on the freeways that surround and knife through downtown Dallas. About 6 p.m. Sat...
Salon.com

This $34 bundle will help you get the most out of LinkedIn - Start using the world's leading career social network like a pro.
Grist

2020 candidates have answers to the climate questions debate moderators didn’t ask - Don’t believe us? We have proof.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Trump Cabinet Officials Double Down on Religious Favoritism - In recent speeches, the Secretary of State sermonized while the Attorney General denigrated non-theists. Last Friday was a banner day for religious favori...
The Greanville Post

Capitalism Must Die: must read for this and every other generation - STEPHANIE McMILLAN—It dominates society economically, ideologically, and politically. It shapes what we think, the ways we spend our time, our moods, our h...
Texas Monthly

The Best Thing in Texas: Trae tha Truth, Houston Hero - The rapper continues to lift up those in need in his hometown. The post The Best Thing in Texas: Trae tha Truth, Houston Hero appeared first on Texas Mon...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Call Ya Later - Josh Feldman @ Mediaite: Trump’s ‘Don’t Be a Fool!’ Letter to Erdogan Comes Out, Completely Baffling Twitter: ‘This Can’t Be Real.’ Carol Kuruvilla @ HuffP...
Latino Rebels

Cuba to Let Citizens Buy Imports With Foreign Currencies - HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government says it will allow citizens to use 10 foreign currencies to buy products like televisions and air conditioners at state ...
Daily Howler

Tinier snapshots of a culture! - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2019Things that make readers go oooohh:* It isn't like Slate never posts any articles which are substantive. But every so often, ...
See You In 2020

Trump’s Syria Retreat Is Another Step In The U.S. Empire’s Collapse - We should recognize the political and media class’ condemnations of Trump’s recent Syria retreat for what they are: angry cries from U.S. imperialists who...
Mother Jones

Donald Trump Sends a Letter to Turkey - Apparently the White House has confirmed that this is real: EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained a copy of ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩’s letter to #Erdogan. ⁦@POTUS⁩ warns hi...
Ring of Fire

Trump’s Approval Rating Is Tanking As Ukraine Scandal Gets Worse - Donald Trump’s overall approval rating is slipping even further as the Ukraine scandal continues to unfold, but what he should really be concerned about ...
Washington Babylon

A Very Brief Listicle About The Democratic Debate - [image: A Very Brief Listicle About The Democratic Debate] I watched the first hour of the Democratic debate last night, but turned it off because the whol...
epic.org

EPIC Backs Moratorium on TSA Facial Recognition Program - In a statement to the Senate Commerce Committee, EPIC has called for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition by the Transportation Security Administr...
NPR's Health Shots

Hospital Giant Sutter Health Agrees To Settlement In Big Antitrust Fight - Health care costs in Northern California, where Sutter Health dominates, are 20% to 30% higher than in Southern California, even after adjusting for cost o...
Houston Public Media

Houston’s Role In A Low-Carbon Energy Future, Slowing Growth Of Local Economy Impacts Rent Prices, And Fort Worth Police Chief Says He’s ‘Deeply Sorry’ About Fatal Shooting - These are some of the stories Houston Public Media is covering.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Got Its Payment From the Trump Campaign Up Front, Unlike Other Cities - Despite its record fundraising, President Donald Trump's reelection campaign hasn't exactly been in a hurry to pay its bills. Trump got in public pissing...
The Progressive Wing

10/16 Afternoon/PM OT - (photo courtesy of The Nation) Don’t be surprised if Sanders becomes the kingmaker of the convention Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rejoined the campaign trai...
Lawfare

National Security Highlights from the Fourth Democratic Primary Debate - On Tuesday, CNN and the New York Times hosted the fourth debate of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, moderated by Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and M...
FiveThirtyEight.com

NBA Stat Battle: Antetokounmpo vs. Jokić - ROOOAAARRRRR! (Do raptors roar?) In case you missed it, we recently launched our new metric for evaluating NBA players, which we’re calling RAPTOR: Robust ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian State News Agency Claims Two UN Committees Strike in Support of Russia - The United Nations First and Sixth committees both had procedural delays in their October 14 sessions: one due to the issues with the Iranian delegations, ...
The Texas Signal

State Senator Lucio isn’t a ‘real Democrat,’ says primary challenger - State Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., the most conservative Democrat in the Texas Senate, is facing off against two progressives in 2020. This cycle’s challenge...
SCOTUSblog

Argument analysis: “D.C. sniper” case could hinge on Kavanaugh - [image: Argument analysis: “D.C. sniper” case could hinge on Kavanaugh]It has been 17 years since John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, known as the “D...
Houstonia

Salsa Meets the Symphony - Expect to dance when Olga Tañon joins the Houston Latin Philharmonic Orchestra this weekend.
The Intercept

Joe Biden’s Mysterious Claim That He Whipped Votes for the CFPB - Joe Biden told Elizabeth Warren that he “got votes” for her consumer agency creation. Few in Congress can remember him doing that. The post Joe Biden’s M...
Louis Proyect

The Cave - This Friday, “The Cave” opens at the Metrograph in NYC at 9pm. Directed by Feras Fayyad, who will be on hand for the Q&A, it tells the story of the main ho...
Rewire

After Trying to Make Abortion a Felony Homicide in Oklahoma, Joseph Silk Is Running for Congress - State Sen. Joseph Silk said his frustration with what he deemed Oklahoma’s “very liberal” leadership led him to run for Congress—even though the state’s ...
Mahablog

Thoughts on Last Night’s Debate - My biggest gripe is that we’re past the point at which so many candidates should be allowed to crowd the stage. While last night’s debate wasn’t nearly the...
Wolf Street

Braindead or Willfully Manipulative? How the Media Reported Retail Sales - Like a centrally directed disinformation campaign. Here’s what happened.
ProPublica

ProPublica Kicks Off “Investigating Justice” Event Series With the Sacramento Bee and Stanford Law School - by ProPublica On Nov. 6, ProPublica, The Sacramento Bee and Stanford Law School’s Criminal Justice Center will present “Overcorrection: The Unintended ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

What third-quarter fundraising can tell us about 2020 - Loading… When a presidential candidate raises a lot of money, they’re probably going to tell you about it, which leads to a lot of headlines like this: T...
Texas Observer

Sergio Troncoso’s New Book Is a Beautiful Meditation on the Borderlands - In the opening lines of Sergio Troncoso’s new collection of linked short stories, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son, our narrator, David, stands in fron...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Boris Blinks - As it turns out Johnson is going to follow the Benn Act and ask for an extension. The EU may moan and groan about it (I would, the Brits are being total ar...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/16/2019 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, a bit more on the election after I finish a laundry. –lambert Trade “After years of Western investment, there are...
emptywheel

The Frothy Right Gets More Excited about an Eight Year Old Phone than Contemporaneous Metadata - Sidney Powell and Bill Barr have gotten the frothy right more worked up about an 8 year old phone than they have ever been about metadata contemporaneous...
Popular Resistance

I’ll Tell You Why The 99% Is Not In Revolt - Well-known political commentator and activist Ralph Nader was recently featured in a Truthdig article titled, “Why Aren’t the 99% Revolting?”. The points m...
Moon of Alabama

How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria's Northeast Succeeds - The Syrian and Russian operations in the northeast of Syria are going well. bigger Russian troops prevented attempts by Turkish supported Jihadis to attack...
Frontloading HQ

Appropriations Bill Sets Up Early Voting in 2020 Massachusetts Presidential Primary - The Massachusetts House on Tuesday, October 15 moved quickly on an appropriations bill -- *H 4127* -- that funds and establishes early voting in the common...
Liberation News

Newark protesters: Democratic Party machine an accomplice in Trump’s war on immigrants - Protesters gathered in Newark, New Jersey for a rally and 3-mile march up to the detention center organized by the Resist the Deportation Machine Network...
EgbertoWillies.com

The Donald Trump Act Of Betrayal And Infamy - [image: The Donald Trump Act Of Betrayal And Infamy] The Trump decision to withdraw American forces from Syria may well be remembered as one of the most eg...
OffGuardian

WATCH: Kentucky is in Syria - "Did you know that Kentucky is in Syria? Or that Tripoli is in India? Or that Caracas is in Singapore? No? Then you must not be paying enough attention in ...
DeSmogBlog

Fact-checking the American Petroleum Institute's New Ads Selling Natural Gas as a Climate Solution - [image: API ad 'We're on it'] Read time: 8 mins In 1998, the U.S.'s largest oil and gas industry lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute (API), wa...
Eater Houston

Feast on Unlimited Meats at Midtown Houston’s New Korean Barbecue Restaurant - A meaty feast at Gen Korean Barbecue | Gen Korean Barbecue Gen Korean Barbecue’s all-you-can-eat feast debuts today Gen Korean Barbecue, a chain with a l...
Ecosophia

Heating Up The Political Climate - Yes, we need to talk about climate change again, and it’s probably necessary to start with a point I’ve made on this blog several times already: anthropo...
WhoWhatWhy

Scientists Aim to Make 3D Map of World Before Climate Change Ruins It - Reading Time: 2 minutes Lululemon Workers Claim They Are Beaten ; Water Tables Are Sinking Worldwide ; and More Picks 10/16 The post Scientists Aim to Ma...
Bracing Views

The Democratic Debate That Wasn’t - W.J. Astore Last night witnessed another scrum among the top twelve Democratic challengers. It wasn’t really a debate since each candidate only had a minu...
Progressive.org

A Debate Without a Winner - Voters are still kicking tires and are far from deciding what they want to drive off the lot.
Sludge

The Business of Homelessness: NYC’s Biggest Shelter Contractor Makes Millions, Offers Shoddy Facilities - Annie was already retired when she lost her apartment. With no source of income save for her Social Security work benefits, it wasn’t long before she ended...
MintPress News

The Last Lifeline: The Real Reason Mahmoud Abbas Called for Palestinian Elections - The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democrati...
21st Century Wire

UKC: Brexit on Edge, Trump, Turkey & Trouble with ‘The Kurds’ - *UKC News* | Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen breakdown the midweek headlines.
Dandelion Salad

Counting Down to Civilization’s Collapse + Inequality, Climate Change, and America’s Destabilization by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Oct. 4, 2019 October 16, 2019 As I’ve watched young people around the worl...
Space City Weather

Here’s our new, revised Space City Weather Flood Scale - In the wake of Tropical Storm Imelda, Eric and I wanted to reintroduce the Space City Weather Flood Scale, as well as place that memorable storm in its pro...
Countercurrents

Kashmir, Patel : Some Bitter Facts vs Concocted Stories-2 - Pseudo-nationalism : Venom against neighbours Modi-led NDA-1 regime Government was inaugurated in 2014 with a Neighbors First Policy, with neighbouring ...
Socratic Gadfly

Texas Progressives update sports cheating and sports sellouts - You say Boomer, I say Sooner, as we observe Oklahoma beating Texas in the Red River Shootout. This corner of Texas Progressives accepts that it's "wait un...
Debunking Christianity

Take the Secular Survey! - I just took the #SecularSurvey! If you're an atheist, agnostic, humanist, or non-religious American, you can tell your story and help our community be hea...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm Shutting Things Down To Open Things Up Have you heard about the life-affirming, healing power of direct action? You might need i...
Houston Press

Former Principal Bertie Simmons Writes a Memoir About Racism, Resiliency and 58 Years With HISD - According to Bertie Simmons, the legendary principal who was sent home from Furr High School in October 2017 by Houston ISD officials, when it came time to...
Bonddad

Real retail sales decline slightly in September, but the consumer is still alright - *- by New Deal democrat* Retail sales are one of my favorite indicators, because in real terms they can tell us so much about the present, near term fore...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: Warren Buffeted as Pete Punches and Klobuchar Clobbers -
Democracy Now!

It Was the Longest Debate So Far, But CNN & NYT Asked No Questions on Climate Crisis & Immigration - Despite ongoing climate chaos and a sustained humanitarian disaster at the southern border, The New York Times and CNN failed to ask candidates directly ab...
Dorf on Law

The Costs and Benefits of Economic Sanctions - *by Michael C. Dorf* It is better to be shocked with a taser than shot with a gun, but a shock from a taser is nonetheless extremely unpleasant. So too wit...
Claytoonz

A Nationals Impeachment - Washington, D.C. has not sent a baseball team to the World Series since 1933 (which they lost). In fact, the city was without a baseball team from 1971 to ...
Novara Media

Ash Sarkar Meets Jeremy Corbyn - Ash Sarkar met up with Jeremy Corbyn to talk about his political journey, the movement in power, and whether or not he really killed a rabbit with a pogo s...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Russia and the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood - Both President Lincoln and Czar Alexander II recognised that the sovereignty of the individual and of a nation were intertwined and that Russia and the Uni...
The Conversation

Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning - Many recent executions in the US by lethal injections have resulted in prolonged suffering before death. A historian asks: Could the guillotine be a prefer...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

FRANTIC - I think it is hilarious that having dodged the Mueller bullet, Trump immediately put himself into an even worse impeachment bind https://www.axios.com/ukra...
Duffel Blog

Awesome! This law allows vets with no family to pick someone to be buried with them - [image: Awesome! This law allows vets with no family to pick someone to be buried with them] WASHINGTON — It is humbling to see total strangers attend the...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Sallie Alcorn - […]
The Disorder Of Things

Imagining Africa as the Market for Profiting from Whiteness - A second commentary in our series on Clive Gabay’s Imagining Africa, this time from Lisa Ann Richey. Lisa is Professor of Globalization in the Department o...
Counterpunch

How Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Backfired on Erdogan - Turkey’s Syrian venture is rapidly turning sour from President Erdogan’s point of view. The Turkish advance into northeast Syria is moving slowly, but Tu...
ROAR Magazine

International declaration of solidarity with Rojava - A group of international scholars, students, activists and organizers express their solidarity with the struggle of the Kurds and the people of northern Sy...
Ian Welsh

The Bullshit Of Bias Evaluation And Left/Right Equivalency - So, I stumbled across this chart recently. Apparently a librarian was using it to teach students about bias. Where to start? Well, first, who reading this ...
Rallblog

The Logic of Impeaching Trump as Applied to Watergate - The most recent impeachment hearings had a clear narrative. One person did something wrong, the president. The other party did not. In Watergate, the Rep...
The NM Political Report

A wildlife emergency is brewing at the border - [image: A wildlife emergency is brewing at the border] On a sunny, brisk Saturday morning in October, a group of 10 people gathered along the newest portio...
World Socialist Web Site

UAW announces tentative agreement with GM, keeping strikers in the dark on contract terms - A major factor in the UAW’s move to shut down the month-long walkout is the growing strike wave nationally, which threatens to break the union’s isolation ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen offered media access to Empower Texans, suggested it target certain Republicans, recording shows - Tribune: Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen offered media access to Empower Texans, suggested it target certain Republicans, recording shows
PERRspectives

Why Mitt Romney Must Demand Trump's Impeachment - Mitt Romney has never missed an opportunity to be an opportunist. Romney the leveraged buyout pioneer took advantage of the U.S. tax code to pocket tens of...
LawFlog

Bank on it: the FBI is hiding records about Seth Rich - For two years, I’ve blogged about allegations that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich — not the Russians — was responsible for providing embar...
Dissent Magazine

Trump’s Betrayal of Rojava - Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria is a terrible blow for the international left.
In These Times

The U.S. Betrayal of the Kurds Is Five Years in the Making - On October 9, Turkish forces opened a new front in the Syrian civil war with a cross-border offensive into northern Syria. The UN is reporting that more ...
Grits for Breakfast

Scaredy Cops: Fear-based training of police officers makes them more likely to shoot - Amber Guyger and Aaron Dean, the cops who shot and killed Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson, respectively, had something in common: Both shot an innocent ...
Democracy Chronicles

Breaking: Trump officials publicly defy his orders and more whistleblowers come out of the shadows - In contravention to orders, people around Trump are done taking orders and the dam is bursting as a flurry of officials step up to testify.
Robert Reich

Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed?In recent years the... - *Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed?* In recent years the legitimacy of the Supreme Court has come under question as Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and...
slacktivist

Rule No. 1 - While “Family Values” politicians were recently gathering in Washington, DC, for their annual “Values Voter Summit” in celebration of “traditional morality...
New Progressive Alliance

The Madness of King Donald - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida. Jeff here looks at d...
The Ghion Journal

To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough - As I’ve watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I’ve gotten the sense that I’m watching a spectacle whi...
BEYONDbones

Renaissance Ramblin’ Man: An Interview with Musician and HMNS Employee Chuck Leah - Spooky season is upon us and in celebration of all things creepy and terrifying, the Houston Museum of Natural Science is hosting a film screening of the 1...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Democrats Descend on Ohio - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — As the Democrats debate in Ohio, questions loom about how important the state will be in next year’s presidential election. ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History - Class Structure in Australian History has been ignored for most of its life as an academic publication. Historians argued the text was not empirically ri...
Reveal

The Fourth Trimester: Postpartum takes on a new meaning for new moms with history of opioid abuse - A Reveal investigative fellow documents the lives of single mothers and recovering heroin users as they navigate their postpartum period in Missouri.
Texas Moratorium Network

Speakers at 20th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty - The rally starts at 2 PM October 19, 2019 on the South Steps of the Texas Capitol. There will also be a press conference inside the Capitol in the Speake...
Washington's Blog

Talk Nation Radio: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower, on What He Now Thinks Was the Purpose of Operation Merlin - Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA case officer who was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and was in federal prison in Colorado. Prior to this program...
Moron Majority

Trump Turns To Religion To Get Through Troubled Times - The man who was been described as the least religious person ever to occupy the White House is turning to God for solace during the most difficult stretch ...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Texas Equity PAC Endorses Eliz Markowitz - Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas angela@equalitytexas.org Texas Equity PAC Endorses Eliz Markowitz Markowitz would be the sixth openly queer woman ele...
Duck of Minerva

Duck podcast episode 1: Jelena Subotić - The promised reanimation of the Duck of Minerva podcast is now a reality. The incomparable Jelena Subotić stars in our first episode, discussing her forthc...
Church and State

Attorney General Bill Barr Doesn’t Get Religion - Attorney General Bill Barr sees religion’s role in making the world a better place, but he obviously hasn’t done his homework.
Carl Beijer

Some thoughts on the changing primary coalitions - I Media coverage of the 2016 primaries almost always ignored the influence that name recognition had on the Clinton and Sanders coalitions. This time arou...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, True Crimes and Misdemeanors - Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought George W. Bush was bad, but it seems like Donald Trump is even w...
Land Destroyer

Turkish Incursion into Syria: US Abandons Kurds - Turkey is at a pivotal moment where it can chose to help end the war or take on the torch of Washington's failure. *October 15, 2019 * (Tony Cartalucci -...
Angry Bear

A Nobel for the Randomistas - A Nobel for the Randomistas I don’t think anyone was surprised by this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, which went to three American-based specialists in...
Eclectablog

The evolution of inequality – with special guest Prof. Gabriel Zucman, the most viral economist of 2019 - Gabriel Zucman on Twitter: @Gabriel_Zucman Buy The Triumph of Injustice - How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay HERE. Christopher Ingraham at T...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Western skies, rain clouds and a lone tree - Wesley Aston is a Utah-based photographer whose work I’ve admired for some time. He photographs the rocks and skies of Utah, so much of which I trekked as ...
Morning Consult

Amid NBA-China Clash, U.S. Consumers Indifferent Toward Global Business Dealings - The post Amid NBA-China Clash, U.S. Consumers Indifferent Toward Global Business Dealings appeared first on Morning Consult.
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Remembering Laura Pollán, Cuba's Lady in White eight years after her untimely death - They can either kill us, put us in jail or release them. We will never stop marching no matter what happens." - Laura Inés Pollán Toledo (2010) Laura Inés...
The Grayzone

Pushback: Aaron Maté and Ben Norton discuss Syria war, US withdrawal, Turkish invasion - The Grayzone hosted its first YouTube livestream of Pushback with Aaron Maté, featuring Ben Norton. We discussed the Syria war,… The post Pushback: Aaron...
Alas, a Blog

Should we ban the phrases “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant” from comments? - A rule of this blog is that undocumented immigrants are not to be referred to as “illegals” or “illegal.” But I do allow “illegal alien,” even though it’s ...
The Mind Unleashed

The Kurds-Syria Deal: What No One Dares to Say - [image: Kurds-Syria Deal]What if—despite the headlines—Trump’s Syria pullout is not a win for Putin, and especially not for Assad?
Independent Political Report

Gloria La Riva to run for President a third time - Gloria La Riva, perennial candidate and socialist activist announced she would run for President as the party of Socialism and Liberation’s Nominee a th...
Echidne of the Snakes

What Separation of The Church And The State? - This is the home page of the US Department of State today: That "Christian Leader" is the Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo. He has a nice Chri...
Texas Standard

Drop By Drop - Water’s role in our interconnected world
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #127 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: defendant's five-day filibuster fails, Rotondo returns, a cost estimate for that moat the president wanted, and a questio...
ExChristian.Net

Grow Up - *By Lilith Lite ~ * Ex-Christians, you're so sensitive! Guests come on site, push the right buttons, and you grab the bait! (Are they also ex-Christians? I...
Two Party Opera

True&False – Christopher Columbus -
Save Buffalo Bayou

Public Meeting: Bridges and Meander Bypasses on Buffalo Bayou - Date is Oct. 17 to Find Out Study Results And More Oct. 13, 2019 In the wake of disastrous flooding along Buffalo Bayou during and after Harvey in 2017, ...
Liberal America

Trump’s Simple Re-Election Gambit–War With Iran (Video) - In 2011, Donald Trump tweeted the following: Nearly a year later, he followed with: Two weeks later, Trump tweeted: This indicates a lot about how Donald...
Project Censored

Mickey Huff at Southern Oregon University - This week, we present a speech delivered by Mickey Huff at Southern Oregon University (Ashland, Oregon) in April 2019, titled “Resist the Media.” Mickey ...
Anti-Media

As Turkey Advances, Syrian Army Moves to Confront Invasion - The Syrian Army has begun deploying further north to potentially confront the Turkish invasion.
Stinque

Things Fall Apart - Time was when we thought it would be enough to keep a list. Keep track of every policy he enacted, every policy he reversed, and come 12:01 pm January 20, ...
Progressives Chat

Ellen DeGeneres Is…‘Offensive’ - Emmy-winning comedienne and talk-show host *Ellen DeGeneres* recently came under fire for hanging out at a NFL game with 43rd U.S. president George W. B...
Crooked Timber

No true war is bad? - On Facebook, my frined Timothy Scriven pointed to an opinion piece by classics professor Ian Morris headlined In the long run, wars make us safer and riche...
The Reality-Based Community

A Suggestion of Mootness - On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the enforcement of the subpoena for Trump’s tax returns issues by the House Committee of O...
Political Orphans

Ordinary Nazis - If we can’t recognize the complexity of ordinary people, the capacity of indifference to spawn horror, then we won’t be prepared to halt its rise.
The Militant

UAW strike against GM is battle for all workers - FLINT, Mich. — So many drivers were honking their horns in solidarity that at times it was hard to carry on a discussion on the United Auto Workers picket ...
Innocence Project

Watch Dr. Phil Interview Rodney Reed on Texas Death Row - October 11, 2019 — Today and yesterday, Dr. Phil aired a two-part segment about our client Rodney Reed, who is scheduled for execution on November 20. Re...
Freethought Now

Supreme Court, Amber Guyger, billboards, prayer & cohabitation - We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation had a successful week. It began with the U.S. Supreme Court taking our side on Monday morning
The Concourse

Crumbs At The Bottom Of The Cereal Bag, Ranked - (NOTE: Only ranked by how these perform in a bowl with milk. If you wanna use them as an ingredient in some nouveau dessert brittle, that’s a different l...
Pages of Victory

Killing Kurds for Profit -
Downwinders at Risk

The Only Public Hearing in the Nation on the Trump EPA Rollback of Methane Emission Rules for Oil and Gas is in Dallas: 8am to 6pm Thursday October 17th - October 17th is also the date of the only public hearing being offered on one of the most far-reaching rule-rollbacks of the Trump administration – allowin...
Greg Palast

PG&E is a Crime Wave, Not a Power CompanyBlackout is Blackmail - Leaving hospitals, schools and 1 million homes without power — and that means without water — in California is the endgame of deregulation mania. The PG&...
Bad Attitudes

Just Asking - Does this apply to us? You could argue that Fat Donnyâ€™s America suggests the opposite. What think? The upper and middle classes in Germany during the 1...
Somervell County Salon

Why are Paul Manafort's defense attorneys helping Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman today? - ie, Kevin Downing and Tom Zahnle. And who is paying for this?
Splinter

Buy 50 Looping Cable Ties For $5 Now, And Thank Us Later - AmazonBasics Reusable Cable Zip Ties - 8-Inch, 50-Pack | $5 | Amazon Read more...
Environment Texas

A straw and a sea turtle: Why we should stop using single-use plastic - Michaela Morris Associate, Oceans, Environment America Contact person by email - Read more about Michaela Morris Wednesday, October 9, 2019 The vid...
Earthworks

Earthworks Stands with Bristol Bay Alaska to Sue EPA for Abandoning Clean Water Protections for World’s Largest Wild Salmon Fishery - Earthworks is proud to stand today with Bristol Bay communities in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to abandon protections for ...
DBC Green

Blog, Calendar on Hiatus - Due to some recent changes in life circumstances, DBC won't be able to post to this blog very much, if at all, for the next few weeks. The Activist Calenda...
Common Dreams

Forgiveness Isn’t the Problem. One-way Forgiveness Is. Who Forgives Black People? - Leonard Pitts Jr. Allison Jean, mother of Botham Shem Jean, stands with family and church members of Greenville Avenue Church of Christ after the funeral se...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Rachel Maddow Gives Sheeple Permission To Think, For Now! - I decided to review Rachel Maddow's new book "Blowout," and while I'm at it I'll review her first one "Drift," even though I haven't completely read eit...
Reading the Pictures

The Larger Reason China Wants to Strip Hong Kong Protesters of their Masks - By banning Hong Kong protesters from wearing face masks, China is also hoping to undermine the visual and the moral power of these disguises. The post Th...
Political Garbage Chute

Quiz: Which of These Big, Dumb, Obnoxious, Lying Idiots Thinks He’s Above the Law? - Things are getting really complicated, heady, and for some, perhaps even downright scary out there these days. It seems the country is lurching toward......
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling - Most people are shocked by the intense hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling. How can a well that is not complete have emissions? Neighborhoods u...
Houston Strategies

Ten worst things about Houston, best state rankings, economic diversification, and SF vs. TX homes - Just a few quick items this week. October is a big work travel month for me (South Africa, Morocco, Barcelona, Connecticut), so posts may be sparse. Shou...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Spies take over cable news -
Texas Rural Voices

A Rural Texan Explains the Mueller Report–Yes, It Is Still Important, Part 7 - Making it Easy for You in a Seven Part Series: Part 7 By Suzann Thompson Trump Tampered with Witnesses. Tampering with witnesses brings to mind intimid...
Dos Centavos

Night 2 of Festival Chicano One For The History Books - Miller Outdoor Theater and the hill were filled to capacity for Night 2 of Festival Chicano. The crowd was energized for what was going to be a night fille...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Trumpenstein Must Be Destroyed! - So here we go. Like a 1960s straight-to-drive-in Hammer Film Production, the 2020 campaign season has begun. Dig into your bucket of popcorn, pop the flap ...
Our Finite World

Understanding Why the Green New Deal Won’t Really Work - The reasons why the Green New Deal won’t really work are fairly subtle. A person really has to look into the details to see what goes wrong. In this post, ...
Better Texas Blog

Don’t Be Fooled by New Income Numbers in Texas - The Bureau of Economic Analysis released data this week on personal income levels for Texans for the second quarter of 2019. The data show Texas as havin...
Texans For Public Justice

Who Does John Cornyn Work For? - The Texas Observer's Justin Miller takes a deep dive into Senator John Cornyn. Read Miller's article at the Texas Observer.
Avedon's Sideshow

Everybody's desperate, trying to make ends meet - David Dayen, "Great News: Wall Street Democrats Might Leave the Party: *My fervent hope for many years could be coming true.* [...] This is fantastic new...
Media Lens

‘How Dare You!’ The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action - Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of *HardTalk* last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellio...
Web of Debt

The Disaster of Negative of Interest Rates - President Trump wants negative interest rates, but they would be disastrous for the U.S. economy, and his objectives can be better achieved by other means....
Smart Dissent

Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Not Surprisingly is a Bonanza for the Rich - Date: 10/07/2019 The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it's been in the past 50 years. This is caused by polici...
Seeing the Forest

I Told You So - I hate being a dirty hippie blogger with nothing left to say except, “I told you so,” I started “telling you so” in 2004, Jeeze. These stupid, incompetent,...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Derrick Broze at Houston West Chamber Forum - Find out more about Derrick’s campaign for Mayor of Houston. www.DerrickBroze.com Support the Future of The Conscious Resistance: https://fundrazr.com/co...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Dustin Ray Hamby Exposed as Nazi Leader Chef Goyardee - The following is being posted on behalf of Central Texas ARA: Dustin Ray Hamby, aka “Chef Goyardee”, is an Austin-based Neo-Nazi and cook who now serves as...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

Random Interests of Harry and I - Harry and I had a lot in common when it came to different things in life. He and I would send each other things that were kind of odd or we would think are...
Popehat

All The President's Lawyers: No Bill Thrill? - This week: did a grand jury no-bill DoJ? Link here.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: September 2019 - Announcement: I’m taking a blogging break. I’m doing a thing for the next two months, and I’ll be around but I don’t know how busy I’ll be. When I return...
Think Progress

Transitioning ThinkProgress - Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and edit...
nonsite.org

The Wages of Roediger: Why Three Decades of Whiteness Studies Has Not Produced the Left We Need - The popular claim that Trump’s election signified resurgent white supremacy is not only wrong—it’s dangerous. It grants more power to the fascist right tha...
The Rag Blog

Maxine Phillips : BOOKS | Love in the twilight of capitalism - The story may be set in Finland, but the plot is universal. By Maxine Phillips | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2019 [Me, Mikko, and Annikki, A Community Love...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
Grit Post

Colorado’s 4th Largest City Offers Public WiFi 4x Faster Than Comcast for Same Price - Municipal broadband in Fort Collins, Colorado went live Friday offering gigabit internet connections for the same price as comparatively sluggish Comcast...
GreenSource DFW

Conservatory quietly reopens at Fort Worth Botanic Garden - *The 10,000-square-foot rainforest exhibit has been closed since 2016 for repairs. Photo by John Kent.* Aug. 28, 2019 While the Amazon rainforest burns ...
DoucheLeaks

8-27 Democratic Primary Poll - We’re going to try something different this week and give ranked choice voting a shot. Pick your favorite three candidates and let’s see how well they stac...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.”
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
News Taco

Why term ‘la raza’ has complicated roots in US - *Maybe NCLR changed its name becasue it was too hard to explain outside the Mexican-American community. They could have used this article years ago. VL B...

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