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Mediaite

Trump Council Reportedly Agreed to Dissolve Before Trump Tweeted He Was Disbanding Them - According to The Wall Street Journal, it was actually the CEOs who opted to break up the strategy and policy forum, not Trump.
ProPublica

Service Provider Boots Hate Site Off the Internet - by Ken Schwencke In a surprise move, the web services company Cloudflare appears to have ended its relationship with The Daily Stormer, taking the leadi...
Sputnik News

Next Round of Brexit Talks Likely Delayed to December - The next round of Brexit talks to negotiate financial issues, the rights of EU citizens and the Irish border, may be delayed to December.
Think Progress

Alabama senator says he can’t criticize Trump’s press conference because he was too busy to watch it - Appointed Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), who came in second in Tuesday’s GOP primary, went on Fox News Wednesday to explain how he plans to win next month’s p...
Daily Kos

Trump sabotage could cost country billions, says CBO, but not destroy Obamacare - The Congressional Budget Office's review of potential Trump sabotage presented less dire news than Trump has been counting on should he decide to halt co...
Hullabaloo

You know who else was really into aesthetics - *You know who else was really into aesthetics* by digby A movement of good looking clean-cut men Elle Reeve, who made that Vice documentary about the C...
OpEd News

Centrist Pundits Paved Way for Trump's 'Alt-Left' False Equivalence - There's no way to suggest that unruly leftists are as bad as neo-Nazis without suggesting that neo-Nazis are no worse than unruly leftists.
Raw Story

Sessions slams Chicago sanctuary policies - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday strongly criticized the city of Chicago’s political leadership, citing its so-called sanctuary policies as...
Vox

US military chiefs: no room for racists and bigots in the services - Leadership. The chiefs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and National Guard have put out statements condemning racism and other forms of hatre...
VICE

What Cops Should Do When Neo-Nazis Come to Town - Police are taking heat after a woman was killed and many more injured in Charlottesville. We asked experts how to prevent another tragedy next time.
Talking Points Memo

Alabama AG Sues Birmingham, Mayor For Covering Confederate Monument - The attorney general of Alabama sued the city of Birmingham and its mayor on Wednesday over their effort to block a Confederate monument with plywood wal...
Citizen Slant

‘I’m Terrified!’: Neo-Nazi Leader Cries Like a Baby in Video Over Fear of Being Arrested Over Charlottesville - One of the Neo-Nazis who was prominently featured in Vice News’ coverage of the Charlottesville marchers — at one point showing off all of the guns he wa...
Grist

Trump revoked an Obama rule that protected against flooding - But he's also seeking to protect his golf course.
Houston Press

George W. Bush and His Dad Tag-Team in Criticism of Trump Over Charlottesville - For a moment, it looked like things were finally starting to simmer down. Sure, President Donald Trump had initially failed to decry white supremacists and...
Election Law Blog

If Pence-Kobach Voter Fraud Commission is Doing Any Substantive Work, It Would Be News to At Least One Democratic Commissioner - From this Think Progress piece on whether any commission members might leave the Commission given President Trump’s abhorrent comments calling some of the ...
Down With Tyranny!

Dems Need To Learn From The Failures The Bad Policies The Corporate Wing Of The Party Have Saddled Them With-- CA-22 Mea Culpa - *Ricardo Franco (D)* You may recall that a few days ago we looked at the race for the Democratic nomination for the Central Valley district (CA-22) occupie...
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - Get happy.
National Post

Obama’s viral tweet is wrong: Research shows babies are totally racist - Infants have to be carefully taught not to hate things different than them, instead of the other way around
Greg Palast

Charlottesville: Our Photo Reveals The Lie Behind Trump’s Claim That “Both Sides” Are To Blame - By Greg Palast "I think there’s blame on both sides... you also had people that were very fine people on both sides." — Donald Trump, speaking at a press...
Axios

What Steve Bannon thinks about Charlottesville - On Tuesday night, while Gary Cohn was fuming about President Trump's latest comments, Steve Bannon was excitedly telling friends and associates that the...
Duck of Minerva

On Race, Nationalism and “White Pride” in America - This is a guest post (begun as a set of hasty scribbles on Facebook in the wake of Charlottesville) by Sean Parson, Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona...
Dandelion Salad

John Pilger: There Is Such Risk At The Moment - Dandelion Salad with John Pilger goingundergroundRT on Aug 12, 2017 In this season’s finale, we speak to John Pilger about the mainstream media pushing for...
Above the Law

Second Cities For Law Firms - Where should you open an office?
Reverb Press

Trump Has Eliminated Any Middle Ground: You’re Either With Him, or Against Racism - Are You With Racist White Nationalists, Or Against Them? Trump Declared Which Side He’s On Tuesday Afternoon, Donald J. Trump shoved an orange toe into t...
The Verge

Spotify pulls several ‘hate bands’ from its service - Spotify has removed several bands classified as “hate bands” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to a report from *Billboard*. The deci...
Mahablog

The Alt Right and the Bigger Asshole Rule - The fallout from Charlottesville and yesterday’s unhinged remarks from Trump has certainly been gratifying. For example, I have never seen such a broad co...
Rewire

Texas Special Session Ends, But the Battle Over Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’ Is Just Beginning - JoDee Winterhof, senior vice president for policy and political affairs at the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement that Texans can “breathe a temp...
Death and Taxes

Fox News host cries about being called racist while defending Trump - Melissa Francis felt the need to defend Trump's "both sides" remarks.
News Corpse

Morally Bankrupt: Fox & Friends Host Couldn’t Mute These Moving Repudiations of Trump - There’s an old saying that offers this common sense advice: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Apparently Donald Trump hasn’t heard that saying....
The Fifth Column

@YESYOURERACIST Crowdsources Social Preferencing - (Garrison) – The Twitter account @YesYoureRacist went up in 2012, but jumped from about 65,000 followers to more than 350,000 in the days following Virgini...
BEYONDbones

Make Your own Solar Eclipse Viewer! - As we near the end of summer, we begin to look forward to the new school year! For some of us, the school year begins a bit early, and for others, it start...
Real News

David Suzuki: Wildfires Are a Climate Change Wake-Up Call - By David Suzuki / Ecowatch. Wildfires are sweeping BC. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North Amer...
Crooks and Liars

Shep Smith: Fox News Bookers Failed To Find A Republican Willing To Defend Trump - Fox News' Shepard Smith told Philip Bump of the Washington Post that the network tried to bring on a Republican politician who would defend Trump's despi...
The Intercept

Ao criar editoria de guerra, Jornal Extra endossa política de segurança fracassada do Estado - Há uma relação recíproca entre Estado e imprensa, em favor de uma visão de mundo comum, hegemônica, na qual o discurso de um ecoa na fala do outro The po...
Buzzflash

Banning transgender troops would cost 100 times more than letting them serve - Banning transgender troops would cost 100 times more than letting them serve 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Dissident Voice

Locked and Loaded, War with North Korea Cannot be Contained but Must Be Prevented - After Donald Trump threatened the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” I spoke to K.J. Noh, a ...
Rivard Report

Beaty Palmer Firm Wins City Hall Accessibility Competition - Beaty Palmer Architects won the City Hall for All design competition to provide better accessibility to the 125-year-old building for the mobility impair...
Political Dig

Mueller Served Trump With a Subpoena a Day Prior to His Racist Rant: Report - While the nation was distracted by the drama created by President Trump’s response to the white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, it has been...
Daily Howler

Charlottesville: Superb report by the Washington Post! - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017With pitiful conduct by Us:* The Washington Post has repeatedly done superb reporting in the aftermath of the Charlottesville ...
Eater Houston

Check Out The Hay Merchant’s First Ever Cocktail Menu - The craft beer bar’s selection of boozy drinks launches today Starting today, The Hay Merchant will officially begin serving up its menu of potent, liqu...
PERRspectives

The Confederate Statues Speak for Themselves - Defending the indefensible on Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled back in time to deploy the "both sides do it" talking point to explain the Civil War...
Mother Jones

Heather Heyer’s Mother Just Delivered a Powerfully Dignified Eulogy - Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was killed in a car attack on Saturday while she was protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virgi...
Daily Dot

Charlottesville white supremacist blames counterprotesters for violence in tearful video - He tried to confirm a potential warrant out for his arrest with police. The post Charlottesville white supremacist blames counterprotesters for violence...
CultureMap Houston

3 fresh styles that will make your ponytail swing in the Houston heat - With temperatures on the rise, who doesn't want to throw their hair in a ponytail? Pulling your hair up is key to staying cool and getting your hair off y...
The NM Political Report

New numbers from the state on revenue, reserves - [image: New numbers from the state on revenue, reserves] Earlier today, we reported about New Mexico’s dipping reserves. In Fiscal Year 2016, the reserve f...
If You Only News

Clay Aiken Says He Was A ‘F*****g Dumbass’ For Thinking Trump Wasn’t Racist - Former “American Idol” finalist and “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Clay Aiken has never been a fan of Donald Trump the presidential candidate, but even ...
Pharyngula

“it’s afraid!” - A big-mouthed bully is afraid! Oh, sorry. Wrong video. That’s Christopher Cantwell, an American Nazi, blubbering in fear because there might be a warrant o...
Salon.com

Donald Trump’s CEO advisory councils are done, but who eliminated them? - Trump says he's ending an initiative to collect advice from corporate America, but CEOs might have bailed first
Irregular Times

Extremist Mike Pence Stands With American Nazis - Yesterday, Donald Trump abandoned the script he had been handed, repeated his justifications of marches led by American Nazis and claimed that not all peop...
Shadowproof

Before Trump, Clinton Democrats Engaged In Form Of Both Side-ism And Invoked ‘Alt-Left’ To Demonize Critics - Liberal and centrist Democrats did not necessarily coin the label “alt-left,” however, in recent months, the term was popularized by them. It was deploye...
Ring of Fire

Fox News Spent $50 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suits In The Last Year - According to the latest round of financial filings, Fox News has had to pay out $50 million in the last 12 months to settle sexual harassment claims. The...
SCOTUSblog

Symposium: In sports-betting case, the Supreme Court should bet on federalism - [image: Symposium: In sports-betting case, the Supreme Court should bet on federalism]Jonathan Wood is an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, an adjunc...
Mock Paper Scissors

Midday Palate Cleanser - “Have you tried the new burger place yet?” “Yeah, the ambiance isn’t much, but I flipped over the food.” (Hat tip: Scissorhead Pupienus Maximus)Filed under...
naked capitalism

Please come to our Burlington VERMONT Meetup August 17, and/or our Montreal QUEBEC Meetup August 18 (with Lambert) - The deets, as we say these days: Burlington Date: August 17 Time: 8:00PM Place: Zero Gravity Brewpub at Flatbread. Here is a handy map: How to recognize La...
Pajiba

Mid-Week Self-Care: Here's Some Sh*t To Cheer You Up, Because You're Worth It - Look, we've been through some shit lately. If it's not nuclear threats, it's angry racist dickholes and a President who is more concerned with FAKE NEWS an...
San Antonio Current

10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend - *Thu 8/17 North by Northwest * The thing about the best Alfred Hitchcock films that makes them so enduringly great is their timeless universality. Hitch...
Freak Out Nation

Trump Humiliates Himself After Entire Advisory Council Disbands Over Charlottesville Remarks - Donald Trump announced on Twiter Wednesday that he is ending his manufacturing Council after CEOs made a quick exit following his awful remarks on the Ch...
Common Dreams

Four Arrested for Toppling Confederate Statue, But Zero Neo-Nazis Yet Arrested for This Brutal Beating - Jessica Corbett, staff writer As communities across the United States enact or expedite plans to take down monuments revering those who advocated for white...
Other Words

In OtherWords: August 16, 2017 - Republicans are condemning Trump’s coddling of white supremacists. Can they speak out against racist laws, too?
Palmer Report

Donald Trump’s ghostwriter thinks his resignation is imminent - Tony Schwartz knows Trump better than most people do The post Donald Trump’s ghostwriter thinks his resignation is imminent appeared first on Palmer Repo...
High Plains Blogger

Presidents make powerful statement, but it needs more - There you go. A powerful statement from the two most recent Republican presidents of the United States, father and son, George H.W. and George W. Bush. The...
Ballot Access News

Green Party Has a Write-in Nominee for Utah Special Congressional Election - Although the Green Party is not ballot-qualified in Utah, it has nominated Brendan Phillips for the special U.S. House election in the Third District. His...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Fmr. White Nationalist speaks out against... - Former white supremacist Arno Michaelis explains why he thinks both Trump and white supremacists are using the language of fear to stoke racial tensions.
FiveThirtyEight.com

Is Garry Kasparov Too Old To Dominate Chess Again? - Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion and probably the best player ever to play the game, has come out of retirement and returned to competitive ch...
Morning Consult

Trump Re-Ups Support for Strange Ahead of Alabama Senate Runoff - President Donald Trump re-upped his support for Sen. Luther Strange (R) on Wednesday after he failed to avoid a runoff for the party's nomination in a sp...
Affinity

Oh, That Evil Science! - Do you remember when asshole extraordinaire, Craig Cobb got genetically tested? He’s the nazi who tried to set up NaziTown here in nDakota. Mr. Cobb wasn’t...
Peacock Panache

Trump’s Abhorrent Loyalists: It’s Getting Harder To Ignore - In the wake of the events in Charlottesville– especially in the wake of the White House’s reluctance to name and blame those responsible and yesterday’s ...
Texas Standard

Dan Patrick Goes On The Attack After Special Session Closes Early - Our daily roundup of Texas headlines.
Right Wing Watch

Dinesh D’Souza: Removing Confederate Monuments Shows A ‘Despotic Mindset’ Like ISIS, Fascists - Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza compared left-wing protestors who destroyed a Confederate statue in North Carolina to the terrorist organization ISIS an...
Liberal Values

Establishment Democrats Join Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, And The Far Right In Spreading The Myth Of The Alt-Left - Yesterday I pointed out how Donald Trump has falsely tried to blame “both sides” including the “alt-left” for the violence in Charlottesville, when in real...
Echidne of the Snakes

Back From the So-Called Vacation - I am back in the You Es Of Ay, and things have fallen apart here, the center couldn't hold. The obvious conclusion has to be that it was my absence from ...
Political Garbage Chute

Man Dressed Head-to-Toe in Confederate Flags Worried Removing Statues Erases History - Clem O'Connell is a right-wing podcaster who thinks he sees an attempt to erase history, and his confederate flags aren't helping to ease his worries. [....
Slate

Chain of Confusion - In a stunning bit of news, the chiefs of all four U.S. military services—Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines—have issued statements this week condemning r...
Lewisville Texan Journal

DCTA to provide complimentary shuttle service for the Highland Village Balloon Festival - The Denton County Transportation Authority, or DCTA, will provide free shuttle service for the 30th Annual Highland Village Lions Club Balloon Festival tha...
Popular Resistance

White House Warned About White Supremacist Violence 3 Months Ago - By Patrick Martin for World Socialist Web Site. The rampage through Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend by hundreds of neo-Nazis did not come as a surp...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Hey, Jeff Sessions! Over Here! - I want to say something. As someone who is eligible for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution … … please tell the Daughters of the Co...
Liberation News

Thousands in NYC: ‘No Trump! No KKK! No Racist USA!’ - Liberation News eyewitness report from NYC anti-Trump protest. The post Thousands in NYC: ‘No Trump! No KKK! No Racist USA!’ appeared first on Liberatio...
MintPress News

The World Reacts To President Trump’s Defense Of Neo-Nazis - President Donald Trump's defense of last weekend's violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was met with shock across the country and around t...
Independent Political Report

Proposed California Constitutional Initiative to Stop Top Two Filed - Ballot Access News: On August 11, Thomas E. Palzer and his organization Foundation to Stop Top Two filed a proposed constitutional initiative with the Ca...
Wolf Street

Grocery Store Turmoil in Chicago - Bankruptcies don’t help. Even the big chains are closing stores.
Socialist Alternative

Socialists Unify in Barcelona – International Summer School A Massive Success! - Adapted from report on SocialistWorld.net In July, over 400 revolutionary socialists from 31 countries attended a week-long Committee for a Workers Interna...
Consortium News

The Agony of ‘Regime Change’ Refugees - Exclusive: There are positive signs of Syrians returning to Aleppo after the ouster of Al Qaeda’s militants. But the legacy of Western “regime change” wars...
Brad Blog

Federal Lawsuits Challenge Indiana's Wildly Disparate Precinct, Early Voting Site Laws - In two separate federal lawsuits, Common Cause v Marion County Board of Elections (May 2, 2017) and Indiana NAACP v. Lawson (Aug. 9, 2017), both challengin...
NPR's Health Shots

Often Missing From The Current Health Care Debate: Women's Voices - When leaders in Washington discuss the future of American health care, women are not always in the room. Here, eight women from around the country share th...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Everyone at Charlottesville was a Leftist - It's important to note that according to received conservative wisdom all parties involved in the Charlottesville incident are Democrats, the DNC, or the a...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

The Battle Against Affirmative Action Continues After Fisher v. UT Austin - Unsurprisingly, Texas still plays a major role in the fight. The post The Battle Against Affirmative Action Continues After Fisher v. UT Austin appeared ...
Swamplot

Stonefaced AT&T Building on Weslayan Gets a Haircut - The multi-level steel antenna-support tower that’s long stood on top of the window-deficient AT&T building at 3303 Weslayan St. just north of Greenway Plaz...
Pensito Review

Live, from Bigotville - *It was on live, national TV news Where Trump revealed his bigoted views. The doddy old racist Coddled the supremacists, While his base just nodded and sai...
Debunking Christianity

Quote of the Day On Using Bayes' Theroem, By Richard Miller - On Facebook Dr. Miller wrote this: Unlike what has been foisted by Carrier, Ferguson et al in these threads, prior probability in evidentialist statistics...
AlterNet.org

The Neo-Nazi Rally in Charlottesville Was Even More Terrifying on the Ground - A harrowing new documentary gets up close and personal with white supremacists. Amid the riots in Charlottesville, Vice News got a behind-the-scenes look ...
Houston Matters

Presidents Bush Say America Must Reject Hatred - President Donald Trump is blaming "both sides" for the violence between white supremacists and counter demonstrators in Charlottesville.
Trivial Knot

Anjuli’s dismissal - FTB has dismissed Anjuli Pandavar for being out of alignment with our mission. Since I recently wrote a scathing critique of Anjuli, you might be wondering...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Successfully Stops All Discriminatory Legislation Targeting Transgender Texans and Families - We did it—we defeated anti-transgender “bathroom bill” legislation! Last night, in a surprising turn of events, the House and the Senate gaveled out, endin...
Washington Monthly

Robert Mueller Should Zero in On Obstruction of Justice and Issue a Report - Doing so could prompt Congress into starting impeachment proceedings.
The Progressive Wing

As you consider 2018/2020 strategy & candidates, don’t miss the forest for the trees. - This is a diary about the big picture. About things we should not forget as we fend off the daily outrages of the Trump administration. First, let’s hear...
OffCite

“Remaking the process of gentrification”: Emancipation Economic Development Council - Emancipation Economic Development Council charrette, February 18, 2017. Photo: Raj Mankad.This article is the second of a two-part series by artist Carrie ...
Houstonia

Mayor Turner Announces Plan to Review Houston's Confederate Monuments - After a violent weekend in Charlottesville, Va., Houston reckons with its own history.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Texas Victory! Anti-transgender bills defeated' & other Wed midday news briefs - TX Gov. Greg Abbott's attempt to pass anti-trans bills went down in defeat *Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bill’ Dies In Texas* - *Activists, big business, the clerg...
The Greanville Post

If You Fire a Fascist, You’re a Fascist - For many others, though, the answer is “no, I can’t afford free speech.” The upsides of free expression are intangible while the downside risks are terrify...
Church and State

Should Religions be Held Accountable for Their Promises? - Because religions have a lot of power over people, it's imperative that they be held accountable in regards to the fulfillment of their promises.
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Prometheus and the Ghostly F Ring - Cassini’s Grand Finale… The thin sliver of Saturn’s moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn’s narrow F ring in this view from NASA’s Cassin...
Gin and Tacos

PRESIDENT TARTUFFE - Satire, sarcasm, and (at least attempts at) social commentary in art is so familiar to us today that it is difficult to remember that there is a time at wh...
Ecosophia

The Worlds That Never Were - In order to finish sorting out the foundations for the project this blog will pursue, I want to talk a little more about science fiction. That’s not the ...
Angry Bear

Why Is The Fed Raising Interest Rates As Fast As It Is? - Why Is The Fed Raising Interest Rates As Fast As It Is? I have a theory that at least some people at the Fed are supporting interest rate increases not bec...
Texas Observer

Will Hurd’s Guide to Running as a Republican in 2018 - It’s the best of times and the worst of times to be Will Hurd, the Republican who represents the 23rd Congressional District of Texas, a giant swath of T...
Progressive.org

Going Hungry on Campus: Students and States Turn to Food Stamps - Soaring college costs force many to go without food or seek government assistance.
The Hill: Ballot Box

Georgia judge suspended for comparing anti-Confederate protesters to ISIS: report - A judge in Georgia has been suspended for Facebook posts in which he compared protesters of Confederate statues to members of the Islamic State in Iraq and...
Free Press Houston

Deja Vu: The Best of The Week - Well, we survived another week of heat, rain, and everything in between. This week we have a ton of entertainment options that will have our city being vis...
South Texas Chisme

Texas allows citizens to drink dirty water - Bad faith. Texas, Oklahoma and California were the top states for EPA drinking water quality violations during the past decade
DBC Green blog

"You Say 'Alt-Right,' I Say 'Neo-Nazi'" Bloggage - The Texas Progressive Alliance has no room for hate in its heart, no matter what it calls itself.Here's the roundup of blog posts and news from last week....
The Contributor

Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore Lead NYC Protest Against 'Absolutely Racist' Trump - News Image: "He's allowed fascism, he's allowed the KKK, he's allowed Nazis to show their ugly face, and we're here to remind him there's a cost for that....
Bonddad

On the erection of Confederate memorials: in which I have to get this off my chest - * - by New Deal democrat* Below is a photograph of the World War Two Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Keep it in the back of your mind....
First Draft

Your President* Speaks: Lost Causer In Chief - Heil to the Chief.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Overcrowding in Nebraska’s Prisons Is Causing a Medical and Mental Health Care Crisis - We’re suing to end the inhumane conditions in Nebraska’s prison system. Nebraska’s prison conditions are inhumane and unconstitutional, and ultimately, th...
Democracy Now!

Antifa: A Look at the Anti-Fascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets - President Trump is facing widespread criticism for his latest comments on the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. Speaking at Tr...
Dorf on Law

What's the Difference Between Confederate Leaders and Slave-owning Founding Fathers? - *by Michael Dorf* Baltimore's overnight removal of Confederate statues and similar actions elsewhere raise the question also raised by President Trump in h...
SocraticGadfly

The Nation and its DSA bromance vis-a-vis the Green Party - I have longly, loudly and repeatedly, for many years, bitched about The Nation's refusal to give any real coverage to the Green Party. Said oversight is n...
Counter Propa

Why Are Syrian Refugees Returning To This Evil Dictator Who Likes To Kill Them? - Al Jazeera, not often known to rock the establishment boat when it comes to the official narrative about Syria, has published an interesting new report o...
Space City Weather

Houston is hot, eclipse coming, and tropics active - Houston remains in a typical August-like pattern, with high pressure largely in control of our weather, but not dominating. Were a strong high overhead we’...
Campaign for America's Future

Movements Are Driving Democratic Party Debate - Movements, not politicians, are driving debate within the Democratic Party. The outcome is far from clear, but bemoaning this battle is like decrying the r...
Duffel Blog

Coast Guard Commandant supplements service budget as Lyft driver - [image: zukunft lyft] WASHINGTON — When Adm. Paul F. Zukunft isn’t working as the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, he’s driving a Kia Soul, picking up ...
The Urban Edge

Remaking Houston Schools’ Food System - "I'm not running a damn Luby's," said the new nutrition officer. Continue Reading →
Off the Kuff

Court invalidates CDs 27 and 35 - We are one step closer to having a new Congressional map. Federal judges have invalidated two Texas congressional districts, ruling that they must be fixed...
In These Times

Campouts, Not Shootouts: Chicago Youth Take Back Their Streets - Nicknamed the “Mexico of the Midwest,” Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, is home pouts on Chicago intersections notorious for g...
Portside

Charlottesville: Race and Terror – VICE News Tonight on HBO - August 16, 2017 VICE News Tonight correspondent Elle Reeve goes behind the scenes with white nationalist leaders, including Christopher Cantwell, Robert Ra...
skippy the bush kangaroo

awake on wednesday - trump blames both sides for charlotteville violence black drivers targeted for racist abuse in white philly neighborhood how dams deprive rivers of sedi...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Farming activity contaminates water despite best practices - Drinking water of millions of Americans living in or near farming communities is contaminated.
Informed Comment

Fascism in Charlottesville: Why it had a monopoly on violence & Intimidation - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In his unhinged news conference on Tuesday, Trump equated what he called the “alt-Left” (which is not a thing) with...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts - Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and peo...
Rallblog

There Goes The Sun, Here Comes Trump’s Latest Freakout - On August 21, 2017 the United States will be plunged into the darkness of a solar eclipse. How will this affect the science denialist-in-chief?
jobsanger

The Group That's Destroying America -
Washington's Blog

Break from the Madness: A Week In Hawaii - Also check out our travel pictures from Bali, Costa Rica, and France. Charlottesville, North Korea … things are crazy. These pics from a week in Maui wit...
Socialist Worker

The right-wing rats and their ringleader - Nicole Colson reports on the bigots, new and old, who brought an orgy of violence and hate to Charlottesville last weekend--and on their sympathizer-in-...
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Gov. Greg Abbott's top priority, property tax limits, fails as legislators end special session early - Morning News: Gov. Greg Abbott's top priority, property tax limits, fails as legislators end special session early
Antiwar.com

Airstrikes Push Refugees out of Tal Afar; 66 Killed in Iraq - An airstrike campaign is chasing civilians out of Tal Afar ahead of a ground assault. The post Airstrikes Push Refugees out of Tal Afar; 66 Killed in Ir...
Grits for Breakfast

Reasonably Suspicious: Bethke leaves TIDC, cap-and-trade to limit incarceration?, DNA-mixture SNAFUs, and more - Just Liberty's latest "Reasonably Suspicious" podcast for August features discussions of important issues and fresh ideas confronting Texas' criminal justi...
Houston Communist Party

Ukrainian PM Says Transfers of Missile Technology to North Korea ‘Impossible’ - Ukrainian PM Says Transfers of Missile Technology to North Korea ‘Impossible’ © REUTERS/ Valentyn Ogirenko Europe 16:14 15.08.2017Get short URL 0 24333 ht...
Ian Welsh

Lies, Damned Monopolies, and Sex Difference Statistics (UPDATED) - (POST BY MANDOS – was posted early quite by accident, postscripts below basically with how I planned to conclude) L’affaire Damore The whole kerfuffle ab...
Field Negro

He is exactly who we thought he was. - [image: Image result for trump imges crazy] I watched that presidential press conference today and I realize now why Mr. trump's people do not allow him ...
The Conversation

How a British royal's monumental errors made India's partition more painful - Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, met with Indian leaders to discuss partition. Max Desfors/AP The midnight between August 14 and 15, 1947, was one...
No More Mister Nice Blog

What part of anti-fascist didn't you understand? - Image via New York Times. Not long after retweeting (and then untweetting) an image of the Trump train evidently emulating the automobile of that murderin...
emptywheel

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans Have No Excuse for Not Doing Something about White Supremacist Violence - All told, 8 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have issued statements condemning Nazis, violence, or Trump's appeasement of the former. T...
Bay Area Houston

Remember when "Not all republicans are racists but all racists are republicans" - That all changed last Saturday. There is no excuse, none, zero, zip, for any republican to remain silent about Trump's response to the white supremacists...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Secret Science Club Post-Lecture Recap: Fabulous Fins - Last night, I headed down to the beautiful Bell House, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, for this month's Secret Science Club lecture, featuring Dr Brook...
Progressive Army

The Racism at Charlottesville Is the Symptom of a Nation Built on White Supremacy - The racism and white supremacy that were on full display at the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally is symptomatic of a United States culture that ha...
Resistance Report

Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump Over His Charlottesville Speech - Senator Bernie Sanders slammed President Trump on Tuesday after the Donald cast blame on the “alt-left” and counter protesters for the violence in Charlo...
Death to Squirrels

WTF, people. - I go off the grid for a little R&R, and I return to this? White supremacist terrorism and imminent nuclear war? I mean, I can barely even walk on land yet ...
Rude Pundit

Seven (or So) Calm Takeaways from Trump's Mad Tantrum in Trump Tower - 1. If you are fighting to prevent a statue of Robert E. Lee from being taken down, you are, in fact, a white supremacist. Trump said today of Charlottesvil...
Harper's Magazine

[Diary ] | Black Rebel Hug, by Amdé Mengistu - Three days in Charlottesville
Better Texas Blog

Legislature Pits Education against Health Care - CPPP Senior Policy Analyst, Chandra Villanueva, co-wrote this post. The Texas Senate version of HB 21 is a step in the wrong direction, worsening fundin...
DeSmogBlog

Trump’s New FERC Commissioner Rob Powelson Accepted Gifts from Energy Industry as State Regulator - [image: Robert Powelson during FERC commissioner nomination hearing in Senate] Robert Powelson, President Donald Trump’s newly appointed commissioner to t...
American Third Party Report

Goat-blood drinking Orlando man had key billing for Charlottesville rally - by Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel Augustus Invictus, a former Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Orlando most famous for saying he sacr...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Wars Based On Lies Has Long History Of Political Support! - The threat of war in North Korea are part of a long tradition of basing foreign policy decisions on lies including a recent interview of Joe Lieberman w...
Louis Proyect

Antifa and the perils of adventurism - Antifascist demonstrators (one apparently wearing a “Fly Emirates” shirt) waiting outside Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on Saturday. GETTY IMAGES Ev...
Somervell County Salon

If you care about freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, you should care about THIS - Dreamhost For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process, including a
Carl Beijer

Ben Shapiro has changed his mind about antifa - Ben Shapiro, writing for The National Review, gives us the inevitable "both sides are to blame for Charlottesville" take: There’s still no certain knowledg...
Political Orphans

Gradually, then suddenly - Our window for containing the rage stirred up by this administration is closing and it is impossible to predict who will end up in its crosshairs.
Reveal

CEOs bail from president’s business council amid Charlottesville fallout - The CEOs of Merck, Intel and Under Armour have quit the president's American Manufacturing Council over his initial refusal to criticize white supremacists...
Bracing Views

That Google Diversity Memo - W.J. Astore What does “diversity” mean in the workplace as well as American society? Are women at a disadvantage in technical fields and, if so, is this d...
Houston Justice

BREAKING: HISD SELECTS NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER - His name is Jose Leal and he's Houston Independent School District's newest School Board Trustee for District III replacing Manuel Rodriguez who passed ...
Digital Heretic

James Damore: Fired For Truth | MNRW #5 - Today on Make Robots Not War, a meltdown at Google over someone who dared to step outside an ideological echo chamber. The post James Damore: Fired For...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Is Anything the Moral Equivalent of War? - Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been fighting a “war on terror...”
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami is worth saving - *"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." - William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)* Farewell Casa Bacardi?...
slacktivist

Paula Deen and Charlottesville - Drew G.I. Hart’s discussion of Paula Deen seems timely. This is from his fine book, Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism. Hart revie...
Popehat

Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site - I used to have DreamHost as a webhost. We parted ways, but I always admired and appreciated that they reliably stood up for their customers — including me ...
Robert Reich

Making America Hate Again - Two days late, Donald Trump has finally condemned violent white supremacists.But his initial...
Our Finite World

World GDP in current US dollars seems to have peaked; this is a problem - World GDP in current US dollars is in some sense the simplest world GDP calculation that a person might make. It is calculated by taking the GDP for each y...
Anti-Media

Two US Soldiers Killed, Five Wounded in Iraq - (ANTIWAR.COM) — The Pentagon has confirmed two US soldiers were killed and five others wounded yesterday in “combat operations” in Iraq. Details of exactly...
First Reading

No sweat if Gov. Abbott falls shy of special session Shangri-La. The base is chill with Shangri-Lite. - Good morning Austin: Late last week, in an update on the progress of Gov. Greg Abbott’s 20-item agenda as the special session entered its final days,…
Lowering the Bar

Juggalos Will March on Washington in September - It'll be a loosely organized, non-traditional hybrid demonstration in support of Juggalo rights. Related Stories - O.J. Simpson: “I've Spent ...
The Disorder Of Things

Historicizing Liberalism and Empire: On Duncan Bell’s Reordering the World - This the fifth and final guest post in the forum on Duncan Bell’s book: Liberalism and Empire. Richard Devetak is Associate Professor and Head of School of...
Seeing the Forest

Thanks, Capitalism - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
ExChristian.Net

Atheists tend to be seen as immoral – even by other atheists: study - *Article from The Guardian, submitted * *by Jennifer ~ * *Religious belief widely viewed as safeguard against ‘grossly immoral conduct’, according to new r...
Independent Thinker 2016

That’s How We Win (Talking With My Son About Nazis in Virginia) - This morning my teenage son came into the kitchen fuming. As I was pouring my first cup of coffee he was talking about throwing Molotov cocktails at White ...
LawFlog

Why is the FBI still protecting Hillary Clinton? - Last week the FBI informed me that it had not released records pertaining to my Freedom of Information Act request about the Hillary Clinton email investig...
Moron Majority

Hateful White Men Apparently Also Detest Mosquitoes - After a run on Tiki torches at the local Home Depot, a large group of white nationalists marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Va. to demonstrate...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The incoming hordes - They enter my country via a routinized system of smuggling – *inside* of people – and once freed from their host bodies, are entirely unconversant in our ...
Stinque

The Fountainhead - We’ve always been drawn to satire. From Mad to SNL to Spy and beyond, satire has been the refreshment for our soul. We drink it in, savor it, remember it f...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

August 2017: When should you fly your U.S. flag? - August in the U.S. is a lazy, often hot, summer month. It’s a month for vacation, picnicking, local baseball games, camping, cookouts and beach vacations....
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (Aug. 6 – 12) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Neil Cazares-Thomas, senior pastor at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, on the so-called “bathroom bill.”...
Houston Streetwise

Changing Montrose: Lucky Burger corner now and other signs of transformation on Richmond Ave - Where the Lucky Burger's luck ran out Commercial-lot-to-park conversion: Mandell Park From vintage Shell to Big Tex Storage Oily future: Ramshackle quad...
Reading the Pictures

Posturing, Nuclear and Otherwise: Our Social Media Roundup - Sometime posturing is phony, other times it's blunt. How disheartening that the war bluster falls between the two. The post Posturing, Nuclear and Otherw...
News Taco

How Anti-Latino Rhetoric Hurts All Americans - By Belinda Campos and Leo R. Chavez, Greater Good Magazine (10.5-minute read) We all want to be valued members of the groups to which we belong. For Lat...
PoliTex (FWST)

How to keep thieves from siphoning your credit card data at gas pumps - Texans: Watch out the next time you fill your car up with gas. State officials say devices known as credit card skimmers have been found across the state i...
Politifact Texas

Sebastian Gorka - No, the Obama administration didn't invent the term 'lone wolf' for terrorists - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | No, the Obama administration didn't invent the term 'lone wolf' for terrorists Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistan...
Krebs on Security

Beware of Security by Press Release - On Wednesday, the security industry once again witnessed an all-too-familiar cycle: I call it "Security by press release." It goes a bit like this: A secur...
Texas Watch

Press Statement on Request for TDI Investigation into Insurance Industry’s Auto Repair Practices - *For Immediate Release* Texas Watch requested Thursday that the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigate the insurance industry’s corner cutting ...
Texas Moratorium Network

Major Film Planned on Todd Willingham – Innocent Person Wrongfully Executed by Texas - From Deadline.com Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern have been set to star in Trial by Fire, a fact-based drama that Ed Zwick will direct. Oscar-winning Preciou...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Alabama’s Long History With Senate Special Elections - The 2017 Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate kicks off with party primaries this coming Tuesday (Aug. 15). Should one or both parties have no cand...
Pages of Victory

part two Why I Left the Democratic Party - https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/16/democrats-lost-in-a-corporate-wilderness/ Over the past quarter century, the national Democratic Party merged with th...
Texans For Public Justice

Ethics Commission Fines 2nd Toll Road Director in TPJ Complaint. James Mills to Pay $1,000 Fine for Non-disclosure. - The Texas Ethics Commission has levied a $1,000 fine against former Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) Director James Mills to resolve an et...
News Junkie

Climate Change: SOS for Humanity’s Survival - Unless one lives in the alternate reality of religious beliefs , it has become impossible to deny and ignore a simple fact: very soon, perhaps within only ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Too late, my brothers, too late - I'd never seen this photo before last week when Colin Hinz posted it. Chuch Harris, Rob Hansen, me, and Sue Harris, at Toad Hall in Minneapolis before the...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Public Citizen v. Donald J. Trump: We need your help! - One week to go. Then we appear before a judge to argue Public Citizen v. Donald J. Trump. In the case, we’re challenging Trump’s deregulatory executive o...
John Laurits

Socialism: Economic Democracy to End the Suicidal Profit of Capitalism - Socialism: Economic Democracy to End the Suicidal Profit of Capitalism It is the Age of Malfunction — an age in which the social structures, governing me...
Heat Street

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

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

The Reality Contract - Perhaps not surprisingly, the history of Hollywood production mirrors the history of venture capital in the United States, as each new film presents an idi...
Dos Centavos

Sheriff Gonzalez Ends Use of Private Jails - Now, this is the kind of news I like to hear coming out of Sheriff Gonzalez’s office. For years, Harris County has spent millions transporting and warehous...
Down Goes Trump

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

In Johannesburg, finding stories in unsuspecting places - Quartz Africa reporter Lynsey Chutel trains journalism students at the University of Witwatersrand as part of the Atlas for Africa initiative. Training in ...
Free Speech.org

What's at Stake?: Net Neutrality - Just two years after the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), under the Obama administration, affirmed the concept of net neutrality, some of the larg...
Pressing Issues

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 6 Days - Each summer I count down the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945), marking events from the same day in 1945. I've written ...
34justice

We Don’t Need No “Moderates” - Don't fall for the false notion that candidates committed to economic and social justice are unelectable in "red" and "purple" areas. Help those candidates...
WAWG Blog

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

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with the late left-wing journalist Jack A. Smith, photojournalist David Bacon, and gay movement leaders Ray Hill & Suzy Shelor - Smith edited the influential Guardian (U.S.) in the ’60s-’80s; Bacon authored ‘In the Fields of the North’; Hill is a pioneer of the gay movement and Shelo...
Progrexas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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