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The Urban Edge

Glissette Rides Public Transit: Part 5 – Family Matters - How long does it take to get from the Medical Center to northwest Houston? The fifth and final installment of our week-long public transit series. Continue ...
Houston Press

The 10 Best Country Musicians From Houston - It’s no secret that Texas is home (or at least the birthplace of) to some of the world’s best and most talented country musicians, but Houston seems to be ...
The Verge

Google begins removing personal medical records from search results - Google has removed private medical records from its search results, *Bloomberg* reports, after quietly changing its policy on content removal. On Thursd...
Raw Story

Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets - Western technology companies, including Cisco , IBM and SAP , are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at ...
Heat Street

Venice Gets Its First Ever Transgender Gondolier - Changing times in the Italian floating city.
NPR's Health Shots

The AMA's Take On GOP Health Care Plan - Rachel Martin talks with David Barbe, a family doctor in rural Missouri and president of the American Medical Association, about the Senate health care pro...
Salon.com

Who is Felix Sater? Meet the shady Russian investor who may be a centerpiece of the investigation - Trump now claims he doesn't know this Russian-born money man linked to organized crime. Evidence suggests otherwise
Daily Dot

Tesla is reportedly building its own Pandora-like music streaming service - Elon Musk previously said it was difficult to find a good playlist. The post Tesla is reportedly building its own Pandora-like music streaming service ap...
skippy the bush kangaroo

all friday - dc cops used rape as punishment after inaugural protests, alleges lawsuit men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women in the country can the we...
Sputnik News

Qatar Simplifies Visa Rules for Nationals From 37 Countries Including Russia - According to the statement, Qatar's authorities have introduced a visa-on-arrival system for nationals of 37 countries.
If You Only News

President Obama Schools Republicans On Their Disgusting Healthcare Bill: ‘Fundamental Meanness’ - Donald Trump has set the bar so low for being even something resembling a decent president that Barack Obama retroactively deserves at least 7 more...
OpEd News

The Real Reason for Slashing Health Care - The government, Republicans and Democrats all have a stake in how much money we spend on defense. Even Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a stake in how much mo...
Axios

The winners and losers of the Senate health bill - The health care bill Senate Republicans unveiled yesterday would not replace the Affordable Care Act. It would replace Medicaid. With the notable excep...
National Post

Rolling sequoia: Idaho tree tied to John Muir set for move - BOISE, Idaho — Not very often does a 10-story-tall, 800,000-pound (362,877-kilogram) landmark change locations. Especially one that’s alive. But workers in...
Informed Comment

4 Nations twist Qatar’s arm, to close down Aljazeera - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a bid completely to return the Middle East to the old system of strict government media censorship, four countri...
Angry Bear

Saudi Succession Shuffle - Saudi Succession Shuffle A not unexpected event has just been announced: 31-year old Prince Muhammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Sa’ud has been elevated fr...
Freak Out Nation

Another Trump Betrayal: Iraqi Christians Must Rely On Judge To Stop Deportation - Where is Trump’s support for Christians now? In January, Donald Trump tweeted about a campaign promise he made to Christians — a group he relied heavily ...
Anti-Media

Turkey: US Will Take Back Kurds’ Arms After ISIS Is Defeated in Syria - (ANTIWAR) — Turkey’s Defense Ministry is claiming that they have assurances from the United States that ongoing arms deliveries to the Kurdish YPG to fight...
Palmer Report

Top FBI official refuses to deny that Donald Trump is a Russian agent - The evidence is so damning, the FBI won't even rule out the worst case scenario The post Top FBI official refuses to deny that Donald Trump is a Russian ...
The NM Political Report

Effort to curb panhandling in ABQ targets activity in street medians, sidewalks - [image: Effort to curb panhandling in ABQ targets activity in street medians, sidewalks] An Albuquerque city councilor wants to take a crack at enforcing t...
naked capitalism

Matt Bruenig: How Many People Will Obamacare and AHCA Kill? - Subjecting Obamacare to the same measuring stick that the Center for American Progress applied to the ACHA.
Washington's Blog

Smoking Gun Proof that Russia Hacked the Entire World - As shown below, the allegations that Russia has been hacking the entire world have been thoroughly vetted and verified. Germany Germany’s intelligence ag...
jobsanger

There Is Just No proof -
Rivard Report

Missions Owner to San Antonio: Play Ball or Else - Mayor Ron Nirenberg, in one of his very first pronouncements since taking office, was right to contain his enthusiasm. The post Missions Owner to San Ant...
Wolf Street

Credit-Card Debt Slaves Move to Top of Fed’s Bank Worries - Projected losses at the top 34 banks in a "severely adverse scenario."
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Less Than (Coke) Zero - Della Street is NOT a coke head.
Socialist Worker

Immigration police grab two more activists - Owen La Farge and Steve Ramey report from Vermont on more detentions of immigrant farmworker activists who have been courageously standing up for their ...
Mediaite

‘Don’t Talk Over Me!’ Gloria Allred Doesn’t Realize Don Lemon Is Trying To Help Her Out - "Let me finish," she exclaimed. "No, don't talk over me! I want to address your point!"
Election Law Blog

“Little movement on White House probe into voter fraud; No meetings yet; commissioners still being vetted” - CNN; On Super Bowl Sunday this year, President Donald Trump told Fox News that Vice President Mike Pence would head a commission into voter fraud allegatio...
Antiwar.com

Our President’s Word Wars - These days I find myself thinking often about a cartoon by the late Theodore Geissel. In it, a woman with a sweater that reads “America First” reads alou...
Down With Tyranny!

How The Democrats' Worst Enemy Is... The DCCC - *Lottery winner Gilbert Cisneros* Yesterday’s Democratic operative quote of the day was "We no longer have a party caucus capable of riding this wave. We h...
VICE

The Strange Sensation of Using a Tablet for the First Time in Prison - Touchscreens are tricky when you've been locked up for over 20 years.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Is Pres. Trump trying to be his own... - A new report in POLITICO makes the case that Pres. Trump would rather be his own communications director. Our panel discusses with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace ...
Eschaton

Later Evening Arguing - Resist!
Crooks and Liars

Open Thread - Ron Howard To Direct Han Solo Movie - [image: Open Thread - Ron Howard To Direct Han Solo Movie] Photoshop challenge accepted! MT @FrankConniff Disney pleads to Ron Howard. "Help us, Opie Wan K...
Ballot Access News

Oregon National Popular Vote Bill Has Provision for Vote of Oregon Voters in May 2018 - Oregon SB 825, which had a hearing on June 21 in the Senate Rules Committee, provides that Oregon join the National Popular Vote Compact if the voters of O...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: 'Pizzagate' gunman gets 4-year prison sentence - The gunman who entered a Washington pizza restaurant to investigate false allegations peddled by Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists that the buildin...
Slate - Politics and News

He Moved Fast and Broke Uber - On Wednesday, Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, resigned. To call Kalanick embattled, as so many have, is understating the case: He had been ...
BEYONDbones

Huehueteotl: The Old Fire God Of The Aztec - A perfect example of a fascinating object that most visitors to HMNS don’t see, this ceramic figure of Huehueteotl is of Classic Veracruz origin. The Class...
Death and Taxes

Watch Senator Grassley walk as fast as he can away from AHCA questions - He grabbed his bags and dipped at the first mention of the word "healthcare."
High Plains Blogger

Why take aim at grizzlies, Mr. President? - Donald J. Trump’s latest executive order has me scratching my head in utter disbelief. The president has removed the Yellowstone grizzly from the Endangere...
Mother Jones

Republicans Are Mean - Here’s a story for you. My mother grew up in a Republican family.1 When Herbert Hoover was on the radio, everyone listened. But later she became a Democrat...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Town of East Hampton, New York v. Friends of the East Hampton Airport, Inc. 16-1070 Issues: (1) W...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

“The poor, the disabled, women, children, the elderly — these are the demons you must slay to be a Republican senator.” - Dylan Matthews has an excellent rundown of the major victims of TrumpCare. So many lucky duckies! In fairness, the suffering of the richest households suff...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Dem senator: Trump 'doesn't respect' the presidency - Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) responded on Thursday to President Trump's announcement that he has no tapes of past meetings with former FBI Director James Comey...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Going to Have to Think of Ginger as a Solo Act - I've been a bit behind the news this week, being preoccupied with the final days of my beloved Fred. For the record, I spent a half hour with Fred in the p...
Houston Communist Party

Sanders: Senate ObamaCare bill ‘worse than expected’ - http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/338955-sanders-gop-obamacare-bill-worse-than-expected Sanders: Senate ObamaCare bill ‘worse than expected’ By Mallory S...
Field Negro

Night off. - [image: MORE DISCLAIMERS]No post tonight, field hands.
Debunking Christianity

Quote of the Day By Mattapult, On Gaps to Gods Arguments - I've been thinking a lot about god-of-the-gaps and method. Science has a lot of tools as part if its method: modeling, hypothesis, falsifiability, null h...
The Fifth Column

US Interrogates Detainees in Secret Yemen Prisons - (Tasnim) – Hundreds of Yemeni people have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme – inclu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Jack Abramoff is back — as a registered lobbyist - Documents show how the disgraced king of political influence was helping the Congolese government score a meeting with Donald Trump.
The Conversation

Employment helps white men’s health more than women and blacks - White men gain more health benefits from employment than do black men and women. Angela Waye/from www.shutterstock.com Employment can be a big boost to hea...
Louis Proyect

Cinema: Past and Present - A speech given by Andrzej Wajda at a conference on his work at the University of Lodz in 2001 As I thought about my speech for today, I chose not to give a...
Brad Blog

Secrets Revealed: DoD Damage Assessment of Manning Leaks, GOP Senate Healthcare Bill: 'BradCast' 6/22/2017 - On today's BradCast, Republicans in the U.S. Senate finally released a draft of their secret plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or 'ObamaC...
Portside

75 Years for Protesting in Black? - Inauguration Day demonstrators potentially face decades in prison on charges they say are all ‘Trumped’ up. The arrests and subsequent indictments appear t...
Campaign for America's Future

GOP “Health” Bill: Death, Disaster and Gilded Age Greed - People will die if this bill becomes law. But that doesn’t seem to trouble the Republican conscience; the only thing lawmakers seem to fear is losing their...
Mock Paper Scissors

This Exists - Jeepers, even I iron faster than that: Maybe it could read these care instructions: I so want to believe this tag is real.Filed under: Bad design
Hullabaloo

A headline for the ages - *A headline for the ages* by digby Oh Politico, you never disappoint:
Resistance Report

Another Trump jobs deal goes up in smoke for the second time this week - Another few hundred jobs supposedly “saved” by President Trump are on the chopping block. “Boeing Co. on Thursday announced layoffs affecting fewer than ...
Reverb Press

These 5 Shocking Scenes of Disabled Protesters Being Attacked In DC May Doom Trumpcare - Imagery Matters, And The Republicans Look Bad Remember when the rights of the disabled were a bipartisan matter? When taking care of those who needed our...
Affinity

If You’re Black, Being A Cop Won’t Stop Cops Shooting You. - Y’know, if this doesn’t drive home the endemic bigotry in this fuckin’ country, and the problem of bigoted cops shooting and murdering people on the basis ...
Political Dig

POLL: Most Of Americans Want Dems To Take Control Of Congress In 2018 - A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday revealed that more Americans wants Democrats to take control of Congress after 2018 than they d...
Pajiba

Johnny Depp Asks If It's Time for An Actor to Kill the President Again, Is Not Helping - Lainey has a well-deserved night off, so I'll be running the links tonight, and you guys, I am just so wrung out today. I want to be brave and tireless lik...
Dissident Voice

Investigation Reveals Torture in UAE-run Prisons - A new investigation reveals the presence of clandestine prisons in the south of Yemen, run by the United Arab Emirates with the help of American interrogat...
Vox

Vox Sentences: FOUND: 1 Senate health care bill, 700 grizzly bears - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen . Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered ...
Grist

We broke down Trump’s baffling speech on the “solar wall.” - "The higher it goes the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination, right? Good? My idea!"
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Family Research Council upset over being labeled a hate group, but won't address reason why - Poor Family Research Council. The organization is angry because Guidestar, a website which features information on charities, will now identify it as a hat...
slacktivist

If we confess our sins - At this point in the sermon, pastors often balk and attempt to do the impossible -- to provide an example of their personal "sin" that is not actually sham...
Echidne of the Snakes

The "Hectoring" Nancy Pelosi - Did you know that Jon Ossoff didn't lose the special election in Georgia because district six there is a deep, deep, deep red conservative place where hi...
Talking Points Memo

Trump Tweets Support For Repeal: 'Look Forward To Making It Really Special!' - President Donald Trump on Thursday night tweeted his support for Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. “I am very supportive,” Trump ...
Rewire

The Questions Senators Should Ask Christopher Wray, Trump’s Pick for FBI Director - Many in the government and in media have described prospective nominee Christopher Wray as a safe, mainstream choice. But Wray’s background is not entire...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Reactions to the Senate Health Care Bill - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
Texas Observer

Who Really Gets Government Benefits In Texas? - JOANNA WOJTKOWIAK Texas already has some of the strictest eligibility requirements of any state for poverty relief programs. More than 4 million Texans l...
Above the Law

Want To Get Sued? A Self-Help Primer - Run your firm the way that *you* want to – it’s your business, after all!
Think Progress

Rick Perry loses his cool when confronted by Sen. Franken on climate science - When told “humans are entirely the cause” of recent warming, Perry said angrily, “I don’t buy it.”Energy Sec. Rick Perry. CREDIT: AP/Andy Wong, File After ...
Common Dreams

Killing People For Tax Cuts: What The F*ck World Are We Living In? - Abby Zimet, staff writer Now we're down to dueling monstrosities: The GOP Senate's "health care" bill aka tax cuts for the rich vs. the ungodly sight of Ca...
AlterNet.org

Is Trump Under Federal Investigation - or Not? - Either way, the evidence is mounting that the president obstructed justice. The news out of Washington can be so confusing. President Trump IS under inves...
Swamplot

Hedwig Village Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Green Room - 802 Monte Cello St. [HAR]… Read More
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

As Bad as It Gets - “To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.” –P.G. Wodehouse, English writer This saying is more true than almost any other. A guy who cheats a...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Alex Jones’ Greatest Achievement - Spencer Ackerman @ The Daily Beast: FBI Fired Sebastian Gorka for Anti-Muslim Diatribes. Olivia Nuzzi @ New York Magazine: Sarah Palin’s Latest Business Ve...
Ring of Fire

Elizabeth Warren: Latest Trumpcare Draft is “Blood Money” - Responding to the late release of the latest draft of the American Health Care Act, Senator Elizabeth Warren referred to the deals the GOP has cut with t...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THE DIVIDE IN AMERICA COMES DOWN TO WHICH OF THESE IMAGES UPSETS YOU MORE - Here's an image: Caption for this image: Stephanie Woodward, of Rochester, NY, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, is removed from a sit-in at S...
Buzzflash

Israel Electric Chief on Cutting Power to Gaza Hospitals: 'It's Our Job' - Israel Electric Chief on Cutting Power to Gaza Hospitals: 'It's Our Job' 5.0/*5* rating (2 votes)
Equality Texas

2017 Legislative Report & Scorecard - During what is now being called the “session of oppression”, the Equality Texas team and its members have been on the ground fighting for the very heart of...
DeSmogBlog

Exclusive: PA Lawmaker Working to Curb Pipeline Protestors Tied to Shadow Lobbyists for Company Behind Project - A recent intensification in protests against Williams Partners’ planned Atlantic Sunrise pipeline in Pennsylvania prompted a state senator to propose leg...
CultureMap Houston

How a homebrew mindset created this celebrated (and delicious) beer - Beer drinkers usually fall into two camps: a member of the IPA appreciation club or firmly against India Pale Ales. Unless the IPA in question is Ballast ...
Politifact Texas

Rick Perry - Rick Perry wrongly downplays human role in climate change - The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Rick Perry wrongly downplays human role in climate change Energy Secretary Rick Perry downplayed the role of human activit...
Lewisville Texan Journal

‘Transformers 5’ the most spectacularly Michael Bay train wreck yet - 1/10 Bayhem! Baydlem! PandeBayneum! “Transformers: The Last Knight” is the crowning achievement of one of history’s worst filmmakers. It’s filled with the ...
San Antonio Current

Cruz and Cornyn Clash on Senate Health Care Bill - Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have quickly come out on opposite sides of the Senate's proposed Obamacare replacement bill. Both Republican lawma...
Morning Consult

Majority of Americans Say Congress Shouldn’t Raise the Debt Ceiling - While Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has been telling lawmakers about the impending need to raise the debt ceiling, a new poll suggests voters may nee...
Popular Resistance

Governor Values Gas More Than Constituents’ Lives - By Margaret Flowers for We Are Cove Point. Lusby, Maryland - For the past year, residents of Cove Point and their allies have petitioned Governor Larry Ho...
News Corpse

Lyin’ Trump Now Says He Has ‘No Idea’ If There Are Any Recordings of Him and Comey - Six weeks ago Donald Trump created a controversy that crossed several ethical and legal lines. Of course, that’s something he does with such frequency it’s...
Daily Howler

Bloomberg's anonymous source nailed it first! - *THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2017Or then again, maybe s/he didn't:* Bloomberg had it first. Whatever those Russkie hackers were trying to do with our voting syst...
Better Texas Blog

Help Stop Health Care Repeal: Call Your Senators Now - We finally know what’s in the secret bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s still bad. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on their d...
Dandelion Salad

When The Revolution Comes by Gaither Stewart - by Gaither Stewart Writer, Dandelion Salad Rome, Italy Previously published August 8, 2011 June 22, 2017 The Historical Gastonia Textile Mill Strikes Are N...
Rude Pundit

The Comey "Tapes" Lie: Chaos Is Trump's Greatest Weapon - The first time Trump tweeted about it, it was fucked up enough: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts le...
ProPublica

Many ‘Rent-Stabilized’ NYC Apartments Are Not Really Stabilized. See Where They Are. - by Cezary Podkul If you’ve ridden the New York City subway lately, chances are you’ve seen posters promising relief from the city’s soaring housing cost...
Consortium News

The Criminal ‘Laws’ of Counterinsurgency - A new book traces how the CIA and U.S. counterinsurgency warfare operatives adopted lessons from the Nazis’ fight against the partisans and evolved into a ...
In These Times

Reality TV’s Culture of Rape and Exploitation Extends Far Beyond The Bachelor - When I was living in London, I was invited to audition for “Big Brother,” that show about the slow and steady breakdown of your mental health charmingly ...
The Greanville Post

“Realpolitik”: Merkel Fawns Over Kissinger in Berlin - Although Merkel was always maddeningly conservative on all issues related to the American alliance – refusing to criticize the war in Iraq, for example, wh...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What The Senate GOP Plan Would Mean For Health Insurance - Senate Republicans released the text of their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act today, and like the House bill before it, the measure woul...
Texans For Public Justice

Lobby Watch: Gold Deposits Contractor Paid Tribute to the King. - Heads of the Austin company that won a state contract to build a gold depository did not contribute to state candidates before Gov. Abbott signed the bill ...
Houston Matters

Live on the Roof: Justin Townes Earle - Acclaimed singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle followed his famous father Steve Earle into the music business, playing first in his father’s band, The Duk...
Peacock Panache

Mississippi Religious Liberty Bill HB1523 To Become Law - Despite at two lawsuits filed to stop it, Mississippi HB 1523 (also known as the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act”) m...
Death to Squirrels

They’re hot on my trail! - [CONTENT NOTE: graphic image of child’s arm showing injuries after a squirrel attack.] I read with alarm a terrifying story out of Jacksonville, Florida: Y...
Free Press Houston

Being Honest: An Interview with Jessie Reyez - Live your truth. It’s enticing to live according to adages and calendar slogans, but very rarely do we think of what that truly means; truth is subjective,...
MintPress News

The Power of Hate – In Loving Memory Of Nabra Hassanen - Thousands have signed a petition calling on state and federal officials to investigate the 17-year-old's death as a hate crime. But the case, like others...
Rallblog

A Bad Day in Court - I got a taste yesterday of how Gary Webb, another victim of the LA Times’ corrupt relationships with sleazy government entities, may have felt. Here’s an u...
News Junkie

Saudi Arabia vs Qatar: Middle East Controlled-Demolition Plan? - There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred. The palace...
Eater Houston

85C Bakery Brings Wildly Popular Pastries and Coffee Drinks to Bellaire Next Week - Get ready to stand in line for sweets Described as the “Starbucks of Taiwan,” pastry chain *85C Bakery Cafe* is finally ready to open its first location...
emptywheel

In Opinion Mostly Rejecting Jeffrey Sterling Appeal, Fourth Circuit Criminalizes Unclassified Tips - It's bad enough that the Fourth Circuit just upheld most of Jeffrey Sterling's convictions. But they did so in really troubling fashion.
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Northern Summer on Titan - Another one from Cassini’s Grand Finale. And yeah, I’m a day late. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Sat...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Plant-based Burgers That Taste Like Meat? That’s Impossible - California’s impossible foods is rolling out its revolutionary veggie burger at Hopdoddy on Friday. The post Plant-based Burgers That Taste Like Meat? Th...
Political Garbage Chute

A Quick Reference Guide to the Senate Republicans’ Formerly Secret Healthcare Plan - A view of the proposed changes within the secretive Republican healthcare plan from a 50,000 foot level. [...] The post A Quick Reference Guide to the Se...
The Progressive Wing

Democrats fail to pick up any seats in special elections for Congress - We’ve had four House special elections this year. Democrats have lost all four. All four were tough races to replace Republicans from very safe districts w...
The Contributor

Your Health May Be in Susan Collins’ Hands. And That’s Not Good News - News Image: Sen. Collins is often portrayed in the media as Exhibit A in Republican "moderation," but will she stand against her party when it really coun...
The Intercept

The Pentagon Says One Civilian Died in Drone Strike on Syrian Mosque. Witnesses Say It Killed Dozens. - Testimonies gathered by The Intercept add to a mounting pile of evidence countering the U.S. narrative about a deadly attack in March. The post The Penta...
Krebs on Security

Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia - Conventional wisdom says one reason so many hackers seem to hail from Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union is that these countries have traditionall...
Bonddad

The post-hike flattening yield curve - -* by New Deal democrat* An inversion of the yield curve has always signaled at very least a steep slowdown, and usually an oncoming recession. With the ...
Trivial Knot

But is it really capitalism? - A few years ago at a conference about queer video games, I said to an acquaintance, “It seems like there are some financial barriers to creating good queer...
Pharyngula

The destructive narrowing of internet atheism - Hussein Kesvani writes about how internet atheism sucks. As an internet atheist, I have to agree. To understand where online atheism is at the moment, you ...
Houstonia

4 New—and Newly Renovated—Parks We Love - Houston’s newest urban parks will make you want to get out and get moving—yes, even in the heat of the summer.
Democracy Now!

Austerity & Neglect Blamed as 79 Die in U.K. Apartment Fire Housing Immigrants & Low-Income Workers - Protests are continuing in London over last week's devastating apartment fire that killed 79 people. On Wednesday, around 200 protesters, including survivo...
Space City Weather

After Cindy, Houston to see a rainy pattern through the weekend - As Tropical Storm Cindy turned to the north on Wednesday evening, the system’s rain bands went with it. The storm clearly demonstrated how miles matter w...
SocraticGadfly

The Sanders Money Mafia Machine, part 1 - It's no wonder Bernie Sanders won't talk to Vermont media, especially independent media or NPR/PBS. To extensively update a previous post, not only did VTD...
Liberation News

Wilton Manors Stonewall parade celebrates the LGBTQ movement’s roots in rebellion - What we call Stonewall today remembers the multi-day action that proved the LGBTQ community would no longer take abuse and oppression. The post Wilton Ma...
Reveal

Home is where the hate is - An analysis of nine years of domestic terrorism incidents by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and Reveal has found a very different picture o...
Dorf on Law

The Slants, Government Speech, and Elane Photography - *by Michael Dorf* The most important immediate impact of Monday's SCOTUS ruling in *Matal v. Tam *is that the Washington Redskins will be able to enjoy reg...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, "There Will Be Hell to Pay" - Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps...
Duffel Blog

Army unveils 700-part op-order process for fighting new wars Americans won’t care about - [image: Army unveils 700-part op-order process for fighting new wars Americans won’t care about] WASHINGTON — The Army has unveiled a new 700-part operati...
Irregular Times

Finally, The First Islamic Terrorist Attack In The USA Of 2017, Maybe! - It’s been a long, dry spell of over one year since the last radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. Yesterday, however, Americans finally ha...
Off the Kuff

Houston officially gets in the SB4 litigation business - Well done. Houston City Council voted Wednesday to sue the state over its new “sanctuary cities” law, joining Texas’ three other largest cities in challeng...
Bullshit-ist

Austin - Thou scurvy tickle-brained hell-hated lunatic. Thou lascivious weather-bitten flap-ear’d mumpet. Thou churlish fen-sucked maggot pie. Thou dizzy-eyed he...
Church and State

If “Nothing Fails Like Prayer,” Why Do People Keep at It? - Ask and ye shall receive? Not unless the implacable laws of physics and biology are already trending in your favour.
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Special elections show Texas Democrats need more than anti-Trump message to win in 2018 - Morning News: Special elections show Texas Democrats need more than anti-Trump message to win in 2018
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2006 Shows Why Democratic Loss in Ga-6 Stings - Editor’s Note: As we telegraphed last week, we are moving GA-6 from Toss-up to Leans Republican and installing Rep.-elect Karen Handel (R) as a favorite fo...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Young Cuban religious freedom defender blocked from leaving Cuba - *Cuban religious freedom activist Félix Yuniel Llerena has been banned from travel after he returned from his first trip outside of Cuba.* * Félix Yuniel Ll...
LawFlog

Hillary Clinton is not out of the woods yet (and neither am I) - After almost ten months in limbo, the Arkansas Bar is finally nearing a decision on my bar grievance against Hillary Clinton. According to an email that I ...
Shadowproof

What If Jon Ossoff Campaigned On Message For Medicare For All? - Democrats prioritized flipping a Republican seat in Georgia, but they lost. They need to take responsibility for Jon Ossoff's failure to win. The post Wh...
DBC Green blog

Jill's Itchy Twitter Finger - I'm glad to know that Dr. Jill Stein has time not only to reply to the barrage of establshment-Democrat hatred she faces in social media, but to generate h...
Popehat

Free Speech Triumphant Or Free Speech In Retreat? - The First Amendment had a pretty good week. In Matal v. Tam the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a federal law prohibiting "disparaging" t...
Counter Propa

For The Record, Jill Stein Would Have Made A Great President - My dear friend Zach Haller has retweeted a series of screen grabs from Jill Stein’s recent verbal curb stomping of deep state surrogate Neera Tanden with...
Somervell County Salon

Turk v SCHD and Ray Reynolds Case Set for December 18 2017 - Hadn't looked at the Turk case for awhile, saw this today- Scheduling order downloaded from Pacer. Among other items like dates when discovery should be ...
Black Agenda Report

If You Embrace Assata, You Must Fight the Black Misleadership Class - - political prisoners *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford* Donald Trump’s lynch party seeking the extradition of Assata Sh...
Pensito Review

Democrats Have a Brand and Strategy Problem - “Our brand is worse than Trump. We can’t just run against Trump.” — Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), quoted by the New York Times, explaining Democratic losses in fou...
Quartz

Not all data are equal — especially in Africa - Reporting with data is supposed to be less messy than dealing with humans. Each spreadsheet column is an set of facts. We don’t have to trust someone’s o...
Political Orphans

From Gloucester to London: Misery Loves Company - In countryside towns like Gloucester, voters see the growing prosperity and power of London with dismay. London, as a dynamic, multi-cultural model is more...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 21, 2017 - "America First" apparently means making us the first to get mixed up in yet another endless, costly war — or three.
Ecosophia

The Twilight of Anthropolatry - During the last three months, while on hiatus from blogging, I’ve looked back over the eleven-year run of The Archdruid Report. As my regular readers kno...
Gin and Tacos

THE BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL OF POLITICS - Every sport has an off-season and dead periods in which a fan will lower his or her standards considerably to be entertained. College football, for instanc...
Ian Welsh

You Can’t Stay in the EU or Single Market And Be For Labour’s Manifesto - So, 30 Labour MPs have signed a letter calling for Corbyn to stay in the EU’s single market as a member. This is not possible IF Labour’s manifesto is mean...
Lowering the Bar

Officer Claimed He Shot Philando Castile Because of Secondhand Smoke - Yep. That is a thing that actually happened. Related Stories - Judge Denies Alleged Clown's Motion to Juggle - Court: Lawyer Who Gave Himse...
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 ...
Robert Reich

THE CASE FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICEObstruction of justice was... - *THE CASE FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE* Obstruction of justice was among the articles of impeachment drafted against both Presidents Nixon and Clinton. The...
PERRspectives

Commander in Chief Trump Goes AWOL - "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." With that phrase, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the U...
Reading the Pictures

The Mind of Skinheads: What the Racist is Expected to Look Like - The photos suggest that racism can be depicted by signs of gender, sexuality, and class, and if people don’t live or look like that, they must not be. T...
New Progressive Alliance

Julia Williams on Healthcare and Economics - Julia Williams has run for Congress on the Green Party ticket and written for the NPA before. (See references at the end of this article.) Many people ha...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Erick Erickson calls for dissolution of U.S. Conservatives declare war on the U.S. - "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily..." - Donal T...
Mahablog

What Makes Fake News Fake: Another Example From Palmer Report - There continues to be confusion about what makes fake news fake. So I’d like to demonstrate with a new story from Palmer Report. I’ve been using Palmer Rep...
Carl Beijer

Trump is not going to abandon NATO - Abandoning NATO "would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership and send a dangerous signal to friend and foe alike" - and this is exactly what wi...
Socialist Alternative

‘No Justice No Pride’ in Washington D.C. - Beginning in 1975 with a defiant block party at which Washington D.C.’s queer community courageously broke out of the closet, the city has since hosted an ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Intersections of finance and society 2017 - Intersections of finance and society 2017 2-3 November 2017 City, University of London, UK Organised in association with the Finance and Society Network...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Using Tragedies to Glorify War Create More Tragedies - I don't want to speak badly about someone that was almost killed; and if I do many people may be more outraged with me than the causes of a lot of viole...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Mozambique uses 4 million mosquito nets in turn from pesticide, in war on malaria - Mozambique is one of only ten nations still using DDT for Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) to fight malaria. But DDT’s effectiveness diminishes rapidly, as d...
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note ] | Inside the July Issue, by James Marcus - Zadie Smith, Masha Gessen, Rebecca Solnit, Joseph O’Neill, and more…
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | We talk politics, community, and resistance; discuss some important new books; enjoy some great live music… and much more! - Our guests are Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn; Rev. Jim Rigby & Glenn Smith; Corey Dolgon; Julia Mickenberg; Scott Braddock; Jonathan Tilove; Roy Casagranda...
ExChristian.Net

Forums Down - *As many have already realized, the forums section of the site is unavailable. The short story is that some glitch with the hosting company resulted in u...
Bracing Views

Turning Temporary Problems Into Permanent Ones: America’s Real Military “Strategy” - Tom Engelhardt. Introduction by W.J. Astore. Readers of Bracing Views are familiar with Michael Murry’s frequent contributions to our site. One of Mike’s...
South Lawn

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

Free Lecture: Houston’s Self-Inflicted Flooding - We’re Number One! Who: Sam Brody, PhD, Texas A&M Galveston When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 20 Where: Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, H...
Houston Streetwise

Emancipation Park Reinaugurated - [image: EMANCIPATION PARK CULTURAL CENTER - Houston, TX 77004] EMANCIPATION PARK CULTURAL CENTER - Houston, TX 77004 B-CYCLE RENTAL STATION AT EMANCIP...
OffCite

Emancipation Park, Emancipatory Art: Flipping the Gentrification Playbook - Freedom Rally signs at Emancipation Park, June 21, 1965. Courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center.This article is the first of a two-part series by ar...
Independent Thinker 2016

The Never-ending Temper Tantrum of the Disenfranchised White Male - Yesterday being Father’s Day, I made a post on social media that simply said “For all you single mothers out there, doing the work of two parents, I wish y...
Texas Watch

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

Megyn Kelly: ‘Reckless accusation, followed by equivocation and excuses is classic Alex Jones’ - Good Monday Austin: Alex Jones and his comrades on Infowars popped the cork on some champagne last night to celebrate his victory over Megyn Kelly…
Greg Palast

Will new Jim Crow scam tip Georgia’s Ossoff-Handel Congressional Race? - GOP goons grab reporter when he asks how 40,000 minority voter registrations vanished by Greg Palast Catch Palast’s reports for Joy Reid, Thom Hartmann a...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The last of me - I did not know her but she knew me. I passed her going the other way. On three consecutive mornings I passed her, during that trek from parking garage to o...
Stinque

Confidence in the System - We were introduced to both Monty Python and Firesign Theatre in college, in the late Seventies, and it’s pretty safe to say they both left deep, enduring i...
Pressing Issues

Trailer for "The Tunnels"--on Escapes Under the Berlin Wall -
Texas Freedom Network

David Barton Says Women Having Abortions Causes Really Bad Weather - David Barton, the phony historian who heads the right-wing, North Texas-based organization WallBuilders, is pitching his theory for why we see floods, st...
PoliTex (FWST)

Texas DPS won’t review Memorial Day House scuffle that included gun threats - Texas law enforcers will not investigate the scuffle among House members that included threats of gun violence on the last day of the legislative session. ...
Real News

Review of Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor - By Bruce Parry June 13, 2017 The New Poor People’s Campaign, of which Dr. Liz Theoharis and Dr. William Barber are National Co-Chairs, will not just com...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Javier Valdez – A Month Ago - The rule of law is something to be treasured. It is precious beyond value. It has been achieved in relatively few countries and times through history. Ye...
Independent Political Report

LP’s Joe Buchman first on the ballot in Utah’s Special Election - Libertarian Joe Buchman is the first party affiliated candidate on the November ballot for the Special Election for the US House, Third District in Utah....
Modern Democracy

The Right to Withhold Consent: Legislator Standing and the Emoluments Clause - When CREW launched its emoluments lawsuit back in January, I—like many—had doubts about whether the plaintiffs’ standing theory would hold up in court. At...
Grits for Breakfast

Blessed are the Poor: Examining opposition to debtors-prison legislation - Texas State Sen. Paul Bettencourt was quoted by the Associated Press (June 11) criticizing debtors-prison legislation (SB 1913) which he and five others vo...
American Third Party Report

Jeff4Justice Exposes TYT Hypocrisy -
Our Finite World

Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil” - Falling interest rates have huge power. My background is as an actuary, so I am very much aware of the great power of interest rates. But a lot of people a...
Moron Majority

Thanks To Trump, Kellyanne Now Most Popular Baby Girl Name - The election of Donald J. Trump as our nation’s 45th president has not only had a profound effect on both our national and international politics, but it h...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 22: Just A Regular Thursday In The White House - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss the Comey testimony, the Paris pullout fallout and the Qatar cutoff. Check out this episode!
St. Petersburg Independents

This is not a campaign. This is a movement! - ST. PETERSBURG, FL, June 6, 2017 — We are young! We are Black! We are Green! We are Red! We are a movement! That was the message from the diverse crowd ...
Ramona's Voices

How the G-Man Worked To Bring Down POTUS - After former FBI director James Comey's testimony on Thursday, there were questions about why he waited so long to go public with all he knew. He'd had tw...
Progrexas

Learning Civics and Understanding Government and Politics in Texas – From Free Posters for Kids to In Depth Education for Adults - “Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where...
Great American Satan

RPGs: The Truest Test of Character? - Why is it that role-playing games seem to bring out the worst traits in people? Even people you would never have guessed had it in them, people you may hav...
All Ablog Austin

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

#JusticeForJohnny - Chants of "Justicia para Johnny," and "Si se puede" could be heard by the crowd of an estimated 200 marchers. Starting at 2nd Ward's TBH center, they m...
Avedon's Sideshow

On a knife's edge - I'm trying not to hold my breath for the results of the election tomorrow. I want Corbyn to win so much, but I know that even though he's looking better ...
Pages of Victory

Nobel Lecture Bob Dylan -
The Disorder Of Things

White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean - A guest post from Ida Danewid. Ida is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses ...
Duck of Minerva

Gauging Public Opinion in the Age of Trump - This a guest post from Robert M. Eisinger, a political science professor at Roger Williams University. He is the author of The Evolution of Presidential Po...
Seeing the Forest

Thoughts On Russia Election Systems Hacking Report - Here are some thoughts on the report that Russia was trying to — or did — hack into our election systems before the election. 1) Why was this a secret? Who...
Frontloading HQ

Amended Primary Legislation Passes North Carolina House - After *clearing a committee hurdle* late last week, *SB 655*, made it onto the calendar of the North Carolina House. When considered on the floor of the ch...
South Texas Chisme

Gone fishing - See you at the end of June. Or, beginning of July.
34justice

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

Texas Lawmakers Authorize Legislation To Keep Emissions Reduction Plan Alive - AUSTIN, Texas — The 85th Legislature gave all Texans a surprising bit of good news when they extended the programs for the Texas Emissions Reduction Prog...
Pressthink

Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. The post Getting granular with the...
Project Vote

Project Vote to Close Its Doors on May 31st - It is with great sadness—but also tremendous pride in our accomplishments—that Project Vote announces we will be suspending operations indefinitely. Th...
The Nil Admirari

Trump Says Russia Should be Invited to Join NATO - *LAST UPDATED @ 12:38PM (5.25.2017)* *Trump says Putin "hugely excited" about Russian Federation joining NATO in recent conversation.* Donald Trump speaki...
Texas Leftist

Houston’s Diversity: America Discovering What Locals Already Know - If you live in or frequently visit the city of Houston, then the term “diversity” is surely nothing new. A stop in virtually any of the city’s major store...
Non Prophet News

5 Times Republicans Threatened to Impeach Obama Over Nothing - Donald Trump seems to be running in the GOP's "hypocrite lane"— honking his horn as loudly as he can since he took office in January. Everything from leaki...
ROAR Magazine

Why we are not eating: the Yale graduate student hunger strike - Precarious and underpaid graduate student-workers at Yale have gone on a fast to demand that university administrators recognize and negotiate with their...
Digital Heretic

A Red Pill for Laci Green - A lot of people are making a big deal about the possible redpilling of Laci Green, of MTV infamy. I try to be as comprehensive as possible in my writing an...
Free Speech.org

Move to Amend's Kaitliin Sopoci-Belknap Hosts FSTV Facebook Live Discussion - On May 10th, 2017, on the 131st anniversary of *Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad* (1886), Free Speech TV aired *Legalize Democracy, *a fil...
twissblog

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

Implementing Photo I.D. Requirements In Texas Elections — An Oral History - Reporter Jessica Huseman of ProPublica spent the last six months working on a huge, complicated feature story, and the fruit of her efforts was posted Tues...
Politics of Courage

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

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

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

Terri Been Testifying in Support of Law of Parties Reform Bills - Terri Been, sister of Jeff Wood, testifying before Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 17, 2017 in support of law of parties reform bi...
WAWG Blog

Bashing Loses – Speaking Values Wins - Complaining about the idiocy of the opposition is such a distraction – a waste of time – and provides little incentive for Democratic voter turnout. Democr...
The Liberal Yell

Rep. Steve King (R-KKK) Introduces Bill to Ban ALL Immigrants - As published on Crooks&Liars on 4/3/2017: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/04/rep-steve-kings-bill-ban-all-immigrants If you are even remotely aware of who R...
nonsite.org

Ritual Protest and the Theater of Dissent - The politics that inform these actions, where not entirely opaque, are based on a semi-spiritual belief that the right recipe of symbolism, passion, and po...
Good Reason

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

We're Taking a Vacation! - Hi, everyone! We will be on vacation - the first in a long while! - for the next few weeks. See you on the other side! The post We're Taking a Vacation! ...
Raised on the Rail

Top 5 Things to Do in January 2017 in Houston Near the Rail - Super Saturdays at the Aquarium – buy one get one free admission When: Saturdays in January Where: Downtown Aquarium How to get there: Take the green or pu...
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...
Daniel Williams

Konni Burton's SB 242 Will Kill Children - For the last year and a half people have been asking me if I think someone in Texas will file a bill like North Carolina's notorious HB 2 to override nond...
Jim Hightower

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

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

Endangered Species Warning: Democrats Who Care About The Working-Class - Salon, a liberal internet magazine, published a piece recently by Cody Cain, “It …
Velvet Revolution

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

Black Queer History: Charles Law - We talk about Rustin, Baldwin, Hemphill and a host of other Black Queers who have been instrumental throughout our history. These figures had/have the cour...

Brains and Eggs

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