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memeorandum

Homeland Security employees warned of increased threats amid immigration uproar (CBS News) - CBS News: *Homeland Security employees warned of increased threats amid immigration uproar* — The acting deputy secretary of homeland security warned ...
Daily Kos

Trump administration shifting resources from drug-smuggling cases to prosecute asylum-seekers - The Trump administration order requiring immigration officials to pursue a "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting refugees and asylum-seekers is not just...
Down With Tyranny!

What Happens If Trump's Trade Agenda Brings On Another Great Depression? - Something like 9,000 of barrels of bourbon were destroyed in a Kentucky warehouse crash Friday. I wonder if insurance will cover the damages. Maybe the c...
Talking Union

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National Post

Ignore the alarmists, there is no language crisis in Quebec, economists say - Analyzing the supply and demand of English and French in Quebec over the 40 years since Bill 101 was introduced, a new study finds the law and other measur...
Mediaite

Meghan McCain Rips Maxine Waters: Don’t Give Me That ‘When They Go Low, We Go High’ Lip Service Ever Again - The View's Meghan McCain is speaking out after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) called on rally-goers to tell members of Trump's cabinet "they’re not welcome ...
News Corpse

Trump Will Be Met By Massive Protests – And a Giant Inflatable Baby Trump – When He Visits Britain - Last year Donald Trump was expected to make a diplomatic mission to Britain. It was called off after he advised Prime Minister Theresa May that he wouldn’t...
Axios

Erdogan reelected as Turkey's president - Turkey's electoral board said that incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won reelection with 97.7% of the vote counted, avoiding a potenti...
Washington's Blog

Techniques Used to Disrupt 9/11 Questioning - In 2008, Harvard professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule proposed that the government should engage in “cognitive infiltration” of citizen groups that...
Hullabaloo

Bad faith should not be rewarded with the benefit of the doubt - *Bad faith should not be rewarded with the benefit of the doubt* by digby Hey, remember that time Chuck and Nancy and Lindsey and Donald all got toget...
Progrexas

Confusion, tension roil Texas-Mexico border as federal government attempts to reunify immigrant families - BROWNSVILLE — President Trump suggested Sunday the United States should block people fleeing violently volatile countries from seeking asylum here and de...
Raw Story

Bernie Sanders supporter David Lynch thinks Trump could end up being ‘one of the greatest presidents in history’ - In a strange turn, filmmaker and Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch now thinks that President Donald Trump might end up being one of the best presidents i...
Salon.com

How to talk to kids about transgender family members and friends - “It’s important for kids and adults to go out of their way to try to understand [each other]”
Washington Monthly

How Civil Should We Be In The Face of Institutionalized Hatred? - The civility police have been hyperactive this weekend, monitoring and tut-tutting the response to Trump’s deplorable policy of family separation and other...
Sputnik News

Singapore Authorities Reveal Costs for Historic Trump-Kim Summit - The Singaporean government has spent nearly $12 million on hosting the historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trum...
Crooks and Liars

Fox's Ed Henry Pretends He Doesn't Know What David Bossie Meant By 'Cotton-Picking' Remark - [image: Fox's Ed Henry Pretends He Doesn't Know What David Bossie Meant By 'Cotton-Picking' Remark] This is what is supposed to pass for an "apology" on Fo...
Pajiba

It's Not Easy Facing Up When Your Whole World is Black - Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN at 9:00pm ET. 11th season finale. Bhutan, a tiny landlocked country in the Himalayas, is notable for a lot of reason...
ExChristian.Net

Small God Answers Small Prayers - *By Carl S ~ * Bottom line: God is in the business of bestowing good feelings and material prosperity. He's answering small prayers. Take the recent U.S. K...
Slate

Sotomayor, Fourth Amendment Visionary - Can the government access records of your cellphone’s location history over a period of weeks, months, even years, without obtaining a warrant? On Friday...
The Greanville Post

Can the Green Party Be Saved From Liberal Tokenism and Black Opportunism? We’ll See. - BRUCE DIXON—In my May 30 column, Why Our Green Parties Haven’t Taken Off, I noted that the GP does get a few important things absolutely correct, and brief...
Mother Jones

Nobody Wants to Be Near the Homeless, Part 376 - After I posted some pictures of the homeless in Los Angeles yesterday, a reader pointed me closer to home: the latest Grand Jury report about homelessness ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Syria chemical attacks: Smoke and mirrors, truth and lies - A big thanks to Al Jazeera’s Listening Post for allowing Max Blumenthal and I a platform to challenge the mainstream narrative about the war in Syria. Chec...
Political Dig

Rep. Ted Lieu Burns Trump By Pointing At His Ancestors After President Calls For Merit-Base Immigration - Responding to a tweet by President Donald Trump, in which he denigrated amnesty-seeking immigrants as “these people” and said he wanted a merit-based sys...
Pharyngula

The great escape! - Kids in cages are a theme nowadays. He’s going to tear that wall down! But first he’s using it to pull himself upright. And then…Steve McQueen has nothing ...
Talking Points Memo

GOP Congressional Nominee Arrington Having More Surgery After Accident - CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina lawmaker who’s running for Congress is having more surgery for injuries suffered in...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Jelani Cobb: Republicans, what would you do to protect your child? - Writer and historian Jelani Cobb joins Sunday’s rally calling for Donald Trump to reunite migrant families, telling Joy Reid, ‘We have been reluctant to ta...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: Timeless Cancelled; 12 Monkeys; Supergirl Season Finale; More Star Trek Shows Planned; Westworld Finale Tonight; Humans; The Handmaid’s Tale; Luke Cage; Cloak and Dagger; Man In The High Castle Renewed - As often happens with bad news, NBC released the official announcement on Friday that they are not going to renew Timeless. There is talk about a two hour ...
Louis Proyect

El Salvador, MS-13, and the war on immigrants - MS-13 members Bashing the MS-13 is the calling card of the Trump administration in its nativist bid to defeat the Democrats in the midterm elections. Here’...
Popular Resistance

Assange Is A Journalist, Should Not Be Persecuted For Publishing The Truth - Last week, rallies in support of Julian Assange were held around the world. We participated in two #AssangeUnity events seeking to #FreeAssange in Washingt...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, "We Will Always Be Confronted by U.S. Power" - On April 19th, university students in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, exploded onto the streets...
Daily Dot

‘We’re All Gonna Die,’ Ep. 53: Separation Anxiety - [image: We're All Gonna Die (WAGD) podcast discusses family separation policy] God this week has been horrible. The post ‘We’re All Gonna Die,’ Ep. 53: S...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump ally apologises for 'cotton-picking' comment about black strategist - Citizens United president David Bossie posts public apology for using racially charged term on Fox & Friends David Bossie, a close ally and supporter of ...
The Root

The Root Is at the 2018 BET Awards and All You're Getting Is This Liveblog - Today’s the day! Read more...
Eschaton

Civility -
AlterNet.org

Sobbing Roseanne Barr Tries Again to Defend Herself Over Racist Tweet: ‘I Didn’t Know’ Valerie Jarrett Is Black - The comedian cried while discussing the May 2018 controversy that resulted in her show's cancellation. Comedian Roseanne Barr tried to defend herself—agai...
Dandelion Salad

Abby Martin: Capitalism Cannot Be Reformed–Seize All the Banks–Dismantle the Empire! - Dandelion Salad Previously published Oct. 16, 2016 with Abby Martin teleSUR English on Oct 16, 2016 With just weeks until the U.S. presidential election—an...
xpostfactoid

Actuarial Value in the ACA Marketplace: Down a bit - In 2018, CMS has for the first time ever published data making it possible to calculated the average weighted actuarial value of health plans sold in the 3...
The Verge

Volkswagen’s EV racecar just broke records during this year’s Pikes Peak Hill Climb - The Pikes Peak Hill Climb is a racing event that’s been going on since 1916 — a 12.42 mile run that climbs 4,720 feet, and serves as a proving ground fo...
slacktivist

It’s not 2011, and no one’s surprised when evangelicals rally behind a pimp - We've seen white evangelicals rally behind Roy Moore. We see them still rallying behind Donald freaking Trump. We know there is no limit to their absolute ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Rant of the Week: Bill Maher – The Good Sex Economy - Friday night Bill Maher, host of “Real Time with Bill Maher.” hit back at his critics who went nuts over his wish for another recession to get rid of Donal...
OpEd News

Trump's Mean Boy Nation - Trump and his crowd are dedicated to curdling the milk of human kindness. They fill their pockets while destroying America in a misbegotten attempt to take...
Ballot Access News

Rhode Island Senate Passes Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Reveal Tax Returns - On June 19, the Rhode Island Senate passed SB 2612. It says that presidential primary candidates, and presidential candidates in the general election, must...
Off the Kuff

Weekend link dump for June 24 - […]
Think Progress

Jared Kushner, who doesn’t like reading history books, says he has a new Middle East peace plan - President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner says he has a new peace plan for Palestine and Israel. Kushner — who once said that he...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Orders Congress To Make “Fascist Toady” Protected Class Like Race, Religion, Sexual Preference - WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump issued an “Official Presidenting Decree” from the Oval Office this morning, demanding that Congress immediately pass l...
The Week

Jeff Flake says Congress should stand up to Trump like the media and the courts have done - President Trump has faced institutional checks and balances to his power, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) argued on ABC's *This Week* Sunday, but they haven't ...
Vox

The Bold Type is a romantic comedy where the love interest is the job - [image: Just three relatable 20-somethings with perfect hair.] There’s a new kind of love story in the show’s second season, and it’s great. *Every week,...
Buzzflash

Energy Panel Advances Bills to Support New Nuclear Plants - Energy Panel Advances Bills to Support New Nuclear Plants 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
SCOTUSblog

This week at the court - [image: This week at the court]On Monday the Supreme Court will release orders from the June 21 conference (9:30 a.m.) and opinions in argued cases (10 a...
VICE

'Nino's Heroes,' Today's Comic by Urbano Ortega Matta - After losing his hat, a man thinks back on his grandfather's bloody past
No More Mister Nice Blog

For the Record - Because I was afraid he might delete the original tweet: Just to be clear, I am not opposed to the safety and security of US borders. I just think we've ...
The Progressive Wing

Bernie Sanders: Trump not serious about fixing immigration - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says that the Trump administration is not serious about creating comprehensive immigration reform policy and says that the presi...
First Draft

On Hypocrisy and Where You Are - Where were you when OTHER kids were being separated, huh? HUH? They get three meals a day, plus snacks. Allowed to play outside. Have TV. Game rooms. They ...
Reverb Press

America’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Trump: It’s Trumpism – And That Can’t Be Impeached. - America will outlast and survive Donald Trump. But then what? The post America’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Trump: It’s Trumpism – And That Can’t Be Impeache...
Grits for Breakfast

TX Dem platform prioritizes #cjreform - Having detailed *#cjreform planks added to the Texas state GOP platform*, let's now turn to the *Democratic platform* approved this week in Fort Worth. Cr...
Houston Press

Truth Is Given Compelling Consideration In Caught - Caught, the Obie Award-winning play from San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, serves up truth on a silver platter, smashes it to bits and rebuilds it...
Debunking Christianity

The Unholy Alliance of Gods and Countries - America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sounds like a song. Oh, wait a minute, it is a song. And, patriots everywhere in this exceptional ...
The Intercept

Sohail Daulatzai on Islam, White Supremacy, and the Myth of the Empire of Liberty - Sohail Daulatzai discusses his new book and explains why the film “The Battle of Algiers” is still relevant more than 50 years after its release. The po...
Ring of Fire

Pentagon Admits Trump Is LYING About His North Korea Summit Success - Donald Trump has made some pretty lofty statements about the alleged deal that he brokered with North Korea, its just too bad that the Pentagon says none...
DeSmogBlog

Energy Efficiency and Technology Squeeze the Carbon Bubble - Read time: 4 mins [image: Homeowner installing programmable thermostat to help weatherize home] The carbon bubble will burst with or without government act...
Duck of Minerva

#MeToo, Feminism, and Anti-Feminism: a reflection from Sweden - This is a guest post from Linda Åhäll, a Lecturer in international relations from Keele University, UK. Follow her on Twitter at @DrLindaAhall This is the ...
Brad Blog

Sunday Toons of the 'Do We Care?' Moment - * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie.
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

PROMISES, PROMISES - Trump, the Great Deal Maker, has broken countless campaign promises. Where is the infrastructure bill? Lower drug prices? His replacement for Obamacare ("b...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

The Annual Pride Day Post - Here's wishing all of my LGBTQ readers a happy Pride Day. The New York parade has a different route this year to accommodate more marchers. This year's par...
Texas Observer

As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids - In my daily life as a pediatrician, I sometimes care for kids who have been removed from their homes — just the day before, or even that same day — by Ch...
Simple Justice

The Public Life of Burritos - Is it hypocritical for Trump administration staffers to eat at a Mexican restaurant? [Stephen Miller] decided on Espita Mezcaleria in the Shaw neighborhood...
Duffel Blog

Union Army observation balloon grounded due to lightning within five miles - [image: balloon] The following is an article by author Malachi Alvord van Kirk from the September 1861 issue of Duffel Blog’s Civil War-era predecessor, T...
naked capitalism

Links 6/24/18 -
Angry Bear

Gimme shelter update: housing purchase affordability - Gimme shelter update: housing purchase affordability Let’s update one measure of housing prices: comparing of the purchasing power of buyers vs. the price ...
NPR's Health Shots

Tweeting Oncologist Draws Ire And Admiration For Calling Out Hype - A young cancer doctor uses social media to skewer what he sees as overblown claims for "precision medicine." That doesn't make him hugely popular at cancer...
Dissident Voice

Evading Medical Care: Australia’s Refugee Arrangements with Taiwan - It is a credit to the venality of Australia’s refugee policy that much time is spent on letting others do what that particular country ought to be doing. ...
Informed Comment

Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants - Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. WaPo reports that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinso...
skippy the bush kangaroo

save your sundays for surfing - suicide rate up 30% since 1999 for big corporations, wage theft penalties are just the cost of doing business everything we thought we knew about the gig...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Florence at the People’s Vote march - [image: Florence at the People's March]
Wolf Street

Bitcoin Drops to $5,860, Lowest since October 2017. True Believers with Fake Hopes Got Cleaned Out by Early Movers - Down 70% from the peak. This is just not fun anymore.
Grit Post

White Woman Who Called Cops on Black Girl for Selling Water Now Losing Her Own Clients - The white woman who became instantly famous on social media this weekend as “permit patty” for calling the police on an eight-year-old black girl selling...
Project Censored

Medea Benjamin - On this week’s program we hear a recent speech by author and peace organizer Medea Benjamin. She discusses her newly-published book “Inside Iran,” and ex...
Consortium News

Failure of the Left Leaves Italy a Victim of the Market - The failure of the Italian Left has left Italy dominated by the ‘free market’, just as a European Union commissioner said it would, according to Attilio Mo...
jobsanger

Antidote -
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: Betomania, the border and Trump-bashing: Five big takeaways from the Texas Democratic convention - Tribune: Betomania, the border and Trump-bashing: Five big takeaways from the Texas Democratic convention
The Reality-Based Community

The Red Hen, the baker, and refusing service - Sara Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia. I think this is a positive good, and I don’t think Masterpiece bakers had the right to r...
Rivard Report

Amid Shouting, Placards, and Texts, Alamo Plaza Public Hearings Accomplish Little - The Alamo hearings certainly included people interested in the thoughtful redevelopment of Alamo Plaza, but voices of reason tended to be lost in the noi...
The Ghion Journal

Nosotros También: Seek Justice and Disavow “Just Us” - Watching the news these past couple of weeks has been down right depressing. As if it’s not bad enough witnessing babies being torn from their parents an...
Field Negro

Caption Saturday. - I need a caption for this pic. *Pic from twitter.com
Splinter

#PermitPatty: White Woman Calls Police on 8-Year-Old Black Girl Selling Water, Says She Was Tired of the Noise [Update] - *Update: June 23, 2018 6:17 p.m EDT: *The woman appropriately dubbed #PermitPatty has been identified as Alison Ettel, who owns a weed for dogs business ...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Free Cuban prisoners of conscience Dr. Eduardo Cardet Concepción and Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola. - *120 identified political prisoners: spotlight on two prisoners of conscience* The Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation reported ...
Disobedient Media

Attorneys: The DNC’s Lawsuit Against Russia Undermines Their Own Defense In The DNC Fraud Lawsuit - Disobedient Media has consistently reported on the DNC Fraud Lawsuit and the disturbing, sometimes bizarre events surrounding the case. Though […]
Portside

Democrats are Losing Their Fear of AIPAC and Haim Saban - Democrats are Losing Their Fear of AIPAC and Haim Saban Dave Sat, 06/23/2018 - 19:33
Anti-Media

The Phenomenon Known as “Qanon” - [image: Qanon](CJ Opinion) — I have been saying all year that the 8chan phenomenon known as “QAnon” is bogus, and as time has gone on the evidence has beco...
emptywheel

Roger Stone and ConFraudUs - If the evidence that Roger Stone might be indicted on a ConFraudUs charge is any indication, Mueller's probe may be coming to a head.
Socialist Alternative

End Trump’s Criminalization of Immigrants – Stop the Detention of Refugees and End the Deportations - After an outpouring of outrage Trump has been forced to back off one element of his “zero tolerance” policy which criminalizes anyone seeking to cross the ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Huckabee Sanders gets the 'Masterpiece' treatment in accordance to religious liberty - Sarah Huckabee SandersThe argument about "religious liberty," or as the evangelical right defines it, the right to refuse service to the LGBTQ community o...
Counterpunch

Bears Ears, The Land of the Navajo -
Mahablog

Pardon the Appearance - The site looks a bit freaky today because I was getting a malware warning, and the bleeping anti-malware company I had already just paid a bleeping $99 a c...
CultureMap Houston

New Heights Mexican spot, hot pizzeria lead this week's top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Stylish new Mexican restaurant serves up excitement in The Height...
Election Law Blog

Five Years After Shelby County, A Look Back - Almost exactly five years ago I wrote a NY Times oped about the Supreme Court’s unfortunate decision striking down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act i...
Downwinders at Risk

Historic: Texas’ First Citizens’ Smog Monitor Begins Operation in Wise County - After a few technological hiccups, the state’s first permanent smog monitor built and operated by a citizens’ group is up and running in rural Southeast Wi...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: King assails "false" statements and "lies!" - *SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018An anthropological primer:* In recent days, we've been approached by anthropological experts from all around the world—admittedly...
MintPress News

The US Ruined Their Countries, Now Trump Calls Them “Animals” and Sends Them Back - Unmentioned in America’s immigration debate is the role that both Democratic and Republican administrations have played in creating the volatile situatio...
Houston Matters

Faced With Failure, State To Propose New Plan To Protect West Texas Lizard - The state comptroller's office went back to the drawing board after the failure of a 6-year-old plan to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard that relied on v...
Courthouse News

Arizona Fined $1.4M Over Failed Prison Health Care - A federal judge Friday fined Arizona $1.4 million for failing to meet standards laid out in a settlement over prison health care, and found the state's D...
Dorf on Law

Homey Don’t Play That - *By William Hausdorff* *Tuning Out the Media after the Diplotainment in Singapore* It’s really easy to become discouraged about global politics and the sta...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The ACLU’s Longstanding Commitment to Defending Speech We Hate - As we continue to defend those expressing offensive, harmful views, we also insist on our right to condemn those views. The ACLU, the nation’s oldest and ...
Frontloading HQ

Nebraska Democratic Party Platform Committee Passes Caucus-to-Primary Resolution - From the *Omaha World-Herald*: *Nebraska Democrats are weighing whether to scrap their decade-old practice of holding presidential caucuses. * *The Nebra...
Grist

‘He’s a political prisoner’: Standing Rock activists face years in jail - The extraordinary Native American resistance effort may have faded from the headlines but the U.S. government continues to prosecute activists, who say it ...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Another One Bites the Dust - Yesterday, there was another defection of a major conservative from the Republican Party. In a speech before the Federalist Society on Friday, George Will ...
ProPublica

Jared Kushner’s Grandmother Bemoaned the “Closed Doors” That Faced Refugees to America - by Allan Sloan Way before Jared Kushner became internationally famous by moving into the White House to work for his father-in-law Donald Trump, those o...
Stinque

The Full Scorsese - Summer is here, and we’re now some four months out from our last, best hope of salvaging what remains of our country. Okay, more like six months. If Dems t...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump threatens to escalate trade war with Europe - Central bankers at a meeting in Sintra, Portugal, voiced their concerns about the developing global trade war.
San Antonio Current

Drummer Vinnie Paul of Pantera Has Died - Vinnie Paul, co-founder one of the most legendary metal acts of all time, Pantera, has died according to Billboard. It was also confirmed on Pantera's Fa...
Antiwar.com

Kurdish Town Strikes Against Deteriorating Security; 24 Killed in Iraq - Khanaqin went on a general strike to protest security conditions. The post Kurdish Town Strikes Against Deteriorating Security; 24 Killed in Iraq appeare...
Rewire

Guttmacher Institute Fires Vice President Over Allegations of ‘Inappropriate Sexual Behavior’ - Dr. Lawrence B. Finer, a widely known researcher and policy analyst, was fired from the Guttmacher Institute after an internal investigation found he had...
WAWG Blog

News Media “Bad Barrels” And the Parable of the Frog in Boiling Water - Professor Phillip Zimbardo, who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment in his younger days and has since written about what he’s learned, The Lucifer Eff...
Popehat

Randazza: Vermin Supreme's Pony Horde Rides on Kansas (Popehat Signal Activated) - By Marc J. Randazza My client, Vermin Love Supreme (yes, that is his real name), recently filed to run for Attorney General of Kansas. Supreme is performan...
Rallblog

SYNDICATED COLUMN: Who Will Do Something About the Looming Retirement Crisis? - In Douglas Coupland’s 1991 age-warfare classic novel “Generation X” a young man trashes a car because it bears a bumpersticker with the obnoxious slogan “I...
Above the Law

The Friday Night Associate Raise Party Is In Full Swing - Great way to start the weekend!
Lowering the Bar

You Know Trial Went Poorly If the Judge Orders You Back to Law School - Turns out the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are not optional. Related Stories - Kansas Bill Would Require Governor to Be an Adult Human ...
News Taco

Border congressman among highest funded by group running immigrant detention centers - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, has received $32,400 in political contributions from a company that operates immigrant detention centers — the second ...
Ramona's Voices

The Children are Lost and Someone Must Pay - The stories coming out of Texas this week are horrific and heartbreaking. They're so far past maddening they've now entered territory where heads explode. ...
Swamplot

Cypress Home Listing Photo of the Day: Rock Out - 12314 W Elizabeth Shore Lp. [HAR]… Read More
In These Times

These Private Prison Companies Are Already Profiting Off of Trump’s Order on Family Separation - The southern border has been a site of mass confusion since June 20, when President Trump released his executive order ostensibly ending the practice of ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: ‘These Aren’t Our Kids’ - Media Matters: Fox & Friends host: “These aren’t our kids. … It’s not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas”. Justin Baragona @ Contem...
The Conversation

Nationalism and piety dominate Turkey's election - Turkey's snap election is on Sunday. One fact is clear: The candidates and electorate are both nationalist and pious. That's in contrast to the strict secu...
Houstonia

I Lived Like Drake with a Hotel Derek Staycation - "I'm posted at the Derek up on Westheimer, hit me when you're done your shift." –Drake, "Company"
Freethought Now

Winning, challenging, debunking and warning: a typical week - Winning and challenging in the courts, debunking biblical and pseudo-constitutional arguments, and warning towns, states and universities to toe the consti...
Krebs on Security

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data - The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision...
Trivial Knot

Emotions on the internet - Cultural differences Recently, I’ve talked about the book How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett, and I explained the basics of the theory of const...
Eater Houston

East Hampton Sandwich Company Makes Its Montrose Debut Next Week - The chic chain’s second outpost is ready to open East Hampton Sandwich Company, the upscale Dallas chain known for offerings like lobster grilled cheese...
Texas Monthly

Behind the Lines: Christian Wallace on Our July 2018 Cover Story - Wallace wrote about the life and times of Myrtis Dightman, a rodeo star who should've been champ. The post Behind the Lines: Christian Wallace on Our Jul...
Independent Political Report

Why do pollsters ignore NY Gov candidates Larry Sharpe and Howie Hawkins? - *A News Growl Special Report uncovers evidence of bias against third party candidates among some of America’s most respected polling organizations.* *New...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Russia Is Not This Good — Right? - Before the 2018 World Cup kicked off last week at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, much had been written about why Russia was so bad at soccer. A convincing 5-0...
Free Press Houston

Austin’s Brother Sports Shows Some Clutch City Love on New Single - Brother Sports will be making a stop at Satellite Bar on Aug. 16.
Texas Standard

News Roundup: Texas Lawmakers Will Meet To Discuss School Mental Health Resources - Our daily look at Texas headlines.
Progressive Army

Interview: Alex Jones’s Ex-Wife on Him, Their Children, and Bernie - Earlier this month, Alex Jones harassed Bernie Sanders at LAX Airport. He repeated a litany of conspiracy theories about the Senator and at one point cal...
Dallas Observer

Mavs Get Luka Doncic, the Guy They've Wanted All Along - In the end, it made too much sense not to happen. Thanks to a trade with the Atlanta Hawks, the Dallas Mavericks came away from the NBA draft Thursday nigh...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Eric Smith Songwriting Challenge to be held July 13 in Wayne Ferguson Plaza - The Eric Smith Songwriter Challenge will be 8 p.m. July 13 at Wayne Ferguson Plaza, 150 W. Church Street. The Eric Smith Songwriter Challenge takes place o...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Michigan official says migrant kids sent across country without sure way to find parents - Babies, toddlers arrived by plane with bare-bones information
Avedon's Sideshow

He'd make a plan and follow through - "Telecom-Backed Democrat in California Just "Mutilated" Nation's Strongest State Net Neutrality Bill: 'These California Democrats will go down in history...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Sean Salisbury joining SportsTalk 790 KBME - iHeartMedia Houston announced today its new weekday lineup for SportsTalk 790, Houston’s Home for Your Home Teams, effective July 9 Lots of stuff happening...
OffCite

Touring the Gamble House: A Postcard from Pasadena, California by Minal Saldivar - Front Door. The Gamble House. Photo copyright: Alex Vertikoff.Minal Saldivar moved from Houston to Pasadena, California in 2016. She won the National Schol...
BEYONDbones

Forgotten Dinosaur Movies From The 90’s That Need A Reboot - The 90’s were the decade of dinosaurs. Sure, the prehistoric creatures had already been capturing the imagination of the public for more than a century by ...
Church and State

It’s a control thing: Religion and human reproduction - Christianity is, like many other religions, a reproduction control system. Its various sects take great pains to enforce a sexual code of conduct.
Latino Rebels

Inside Dominican Magazine’s Launch Event Celebrating Writers and Creators (PHOTO ESSAY) - The magazine is a collection of writing, photos and essay from Dominican writers.
Seeing the Forest

This Political Ad … WOW - “My whole life has been about opening, pushing, and sometimes kicking through every door in my way. Ready for a Congress that opens doors for Americans ins...
Peacock Panache

It Can Happen Here: Nazism & “Good Germans” - [image: It Can Happen Here: Nazism & “Good Germans”] Legal scholar Cass Sunstein recently reviewed two books on Nazi Germany for the *New York Review of Bo...
Our Finite World

Eight insights based on December 2017 energy data - BP recently published energy data through December 31, 2017, in its Statistical Review of World Energy 2018. The following are a few points we observe, loo...
Equality Texas

TransFORWARD Launches Transgender Health e-Learning Module - Competent Care for Transgender Texans When I came out as a transgender man in Houston almost ten years ago, I could find only three doctors who would provi...
Bracing Views

Education is Labor, Right? - W.J. Astore So, the Trump Administration wants to merge the Department of Education with Labor. What a surprise. According to Mick Mulvaney, the Director...
Democracy Now!

ICE Detention is “Soul-Destroying”: Eritrean Immigrant Dies by Suicide During Deportation - An Eritrean man took his own life after being deported from the United States earlier this month. Zeresenay Ermias Testfatsion died by suicide at the Cairo...
Bonddad

Gimme shelter update: housing purchase affordability - *- by New Deal democrat* Let's update one measure of housing prices: comparing of the purchasing power of buyers vs. the price a typical house. There ar...
Space City Weather

And, just like that, summer’s back in Houston - One upside to this week’s rains has been temperatures, as Houston recorded five consecutive days with highs in the 80s in June for the first time since 200...
SocraticGadfly

DNC emails — what if Seth Rich didn't do it? - Seth Rich's parents — if wingnuts won't let them rest in peace then I hope they sue like hell.I am talking about the first round of Democratic National Com...
Campaign for America's Future

New Report Reveals Which States Are Abandoning Public Schools - Having a democratically governed local school, accessible to all students and fully accountable to the public for how its spends taxpayer money, has been a...
The Contributor

FactCheck: More Bogus Border Claims - News Image: During the ongoing family-separation controversy, President Donald Trump and others have made false or misleading statements on several immigr...
Echidne of the Snakes

Meanwhile, Behind the Curtain - The Melania Trump jacket controversy is probably an intended distraction so that the media will incessantly natter about something which ultimately has no...
Ian Welsh

The Class War the Rich Won And the End Of NeoLiberal Capitalism - Many years ago now, I wrote a post called “There Was a Class War And %he Rich Won.” Ironically, post the financial meltdown of 07/8, and thanks to Bush, Ob...
The NM Political Report

What NM officials did, said in a whirlwind week of immigration news - [image: What NM officials did, said in a whirlwind week of immigration news] The debate over enforcement of immigration law was front and center this week,...
Socialist Worker

Let them know: ¡Niños, no están solos! - Juan Miranda Juan Miranda reports on a powerful demonstration of solidarity in Texas that is serving as a model for mobilizing the mass outrage at the Tru...
Morning Consult

Trump Approval Virtually Unchanged Amid Child Separation Policy - The post Trump Approval Virtually Unchanged Amid Child Separation Policy appeared first on Morning Consult.
Liberation News

Conference in Chicago brings together socialists from across the Midwest - [image: Attendees at the Midwest Socialism Conference on June 9. Liberation photo.] From South Dakota to Ohio, from Minnesota to Tennessee, over 150 travel...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

“Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon)” with Arlo Guthrie and Hoyt Axton - Deportations plague much of recent U.S. history. It never works out well for the U.S., on the whole, especially mass deportations. Hoyt Axton and Arlo Guth...
Robert Reich

The Trump Takeover of the CourtsTrump’s most lasting... - *The Trump Takeover of the Courts* Trump’s most lasting legacy might be his impact on the federal court system. It must be stopped. Quite apart from the...
Earthjustice

Company Ignores Judge, Rushes to Build Pipeline Through Bayou - Company Ignores Judge, Rushes to Build Pipeline Through Bayou The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline is digging on a new project in Louisiana, even ...
Shadowproof

NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Will Accept Plea Agreement - National Security Agency whistleblower Reality Winner, who was charged with violating the Espionage Act when she released an NSA report on alleged Russia...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Pension Reform in Russia in 2018 and Putin in 2005. What changed? - While Putin’s said in 2005 that the retirement age would not be raised as long as he was president, the Russian government has decided to raise the retirem...
Rude Pundit

Regarding Civility in Uncivil Times - Last night, the *New York Times* posted an article titled "In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top." In it, the writ...
LawFlog

Maryland high court whitewashes criminal misconduct of Hillary Clinton lawyers - Yeah, I know. I shouldn’t be surprised. Following the lead of the D.C. Court of Appeals, Maryland’s highest court whitewashed the criminal misconduct of th...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

EPA Proposed Rollbacks to Chemical Disaster Rule will Harm Communities - Last week, I, Stephanie Thomas, Houston Organizer for Public Citizen, joined members of community and environmental groups testifying in opposition to Po...
Common Dreams

Not Only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it Is Illegal in US and Int’l Law - Juan Cole "From Oct. 15 to present, 2017-2018, only 15,383 refugees were legally admitted to the US."(Photo: Masha George / Washington, DC) [image: "From Oc...
Dos Centavos

Kids and Families Are Still Locked Up, Stop Celebrating - Nothing is more annoying than seeing liberal and/or Democratic activists and politicians portraying Trump’s madman of a signature on a document that reall...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Political Power of Global Corporations - We have long been told that corporations “rule the world”, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet while states, ...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 225 - Trump’s Fun-time Camp For Kids - I hope you enjoy movie and music reviews because that’s half the show. We discuss sex cults, Space Force, and then finish with a little immigration bant...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Never Say Die Senate Candidates: Don Blankenship Lost His Primary but Plans to Run in November Anyway - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Although he lost in West Virginia’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Don Blankenship (R) is actively seeking to run in th...
Political Orphans

America is a Nation of Immigrant Panics - This is the unspoken American Dream, embraced by centuries of immigrants to this country: If I work hard and experience success, one day my grandchildren c...
Somervell County Salon

Finally Trump Issues an Executive Order to Fix the Mess HE Created -How Will He Fix it for the Missing Children? - I guess Trump didn't like looking like a complete monster, although he was sure willing to hold those kids hostage in order to get a wall bill through th...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Plastics, Pipelines, Fracking & Our Planet June 20, 2018 (5CT/ 6MT/ 7CT/ 8ET) - Fracking doesn’t just fuel power plants, it also provides raw materials to the petrochemical industry. Producing plastics and other petrochemical products ...
Texas Freedom Network

The Party Platform Confirms It: Culture Warriors Still Control the Texas GOP - In case you didn’t know, the religious right still has the Texas Republican Party firmly in its grip. Just check out the platform adopted at the party co...
Independent Thinker 2016

“But Obama Did It First” – The Truth About Trump’s Immigration Policy vs Obama’s Immigration Policy - Clearing up a common misconception about The Deporter in Chief.
Newsbud

North Korea – Sabotage & the US-China Conspiracy to Rule the World - The race is on between Donald Trump and the Democrats. Who can screw up Asia quicker? Can the Democrats sabotage Trump’s North Korea deal first? Or will ...
Washington Babylon

Kamala Harris’s Appalling Hypocrisy on ICE - One of my very least favorite politicians at the moment is Kamala Harris. I dislike her for a wide variety of reasons: she’s been incredibly damaging to th...
Ecosophia

An Astrological Interlude: Cancer Ingress 2018 - Three months ago, we marked the beginning of the astrological year by discussing the Aries ingress chart for the United States. Those of you who weren’t ...
First Reading

`I did win, right?’ George P. Bush on being booed at the Republican Convention - ‘ Good day Austin: I headed to the Republican State Convention a week ago Monday, and was there all week. But somehow, I very nearly missed…
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of June 18th - The Texas Progressive Alliance strongly condemns the inhumane practice of separating families from their children as it brings you its weekly roundup. Off ...
PERRspectives

Could Trump Face Magnitsky Sanctions? - Already branded by a survey of historians as America's worst ever, the presidency of Donald Trump may also live in infamy as the most ironic. After all, th...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Are Costly Flood Basins Proposed Where Natural Basins Already Exist on Buffalo Bayou? - Swales Holding Overflow May Be Natural Remnants of Bayou’s Original Meanders Tree Stumps, Mustang Grapes, and Mental Health June 19, 2018 Went for a stroll...
Better Texas Blog

Take Action: Harsh “Public Charge” Policy Threatens Texas Families - Image via Kaiser Family Foundation Nearly 2 Million Texans Could Lose Health Care, Food, and More under this Harsh Federal Proposal Texas parents should ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Oligarchy is inciting suicide increase then creating propaganda to distract from truth! - I don't want to be cynical every time the media goes into obsession mode after a famous celebrity dies, while ignoring the lives of the vast majority of...
Moron Majority

U.S. Offers Free Summer Camp To Migrant Children - Leave it to Fox News host Laura Ingraham to set the record straight. While some have called the federal detention centers, set up for brown children seekin...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Jacob Rosenberg - Donald Trump admires North Korean state TV, the Supreme Court upholds Ohio’s ability to purge voters from its rolls, a woman sues NASA to keep her moondust
Progressive.org

Redistricting Ruling Puts Onus On States - Partisan gerrymandering has long exasperated the Supreme Court.
Reading the Pictures

On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now - I know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now. The post On the...
Nathan Hevenstone

Let’s Talk About Ableism and Intelligence – Part 3 – A Challenge - Content Note: This series discusses ableist slurs. Many of them will be used in full. You are also allowed to use them in the comments only if it’s for the...
Modern Democracy

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge: The 5 D’s of the Gill v. Whitford Decision - In 2004, Justice Scalia led a plurality in Vieth v. Jubelirer that attempted to affirmatively hold partisan gerrymandering claims to be “non-ju...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Kasich: There’s a disease in American politics - Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Monday said there’s a “serious disease” affecting U.S. politics.“There’s a disease now in American politics. It’s a serious di...
Greg Palast

Why we are suing Ohio and Kansas We CAN Reverse Purges - by Greg Palast for The Palast Investigative Fund The Supreme Court decision blessing the purge of half a million voters in Ohio is NOT the last word. On ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

I hope this helps you understand - *“Report: Netflix Bans Employees from Looking at Each Other for More Than Five Seconds.” *By now you have seen this news headline, or else not, it’s all t...
Carl Beijer

What kind of Trump voters can the opposition win? - As the 2018 elections approach, a familiar question has resurfaced: should Democrats - or for that matter, the American left - even *try *to win over Trump...
Pages of Victory

On Father's Day - I last saw my father at the age of three. Fifty years later, I learned he was murdered for his car, in 1948. After ten years spent with an abusive step fat...
John Laurits

Brand Marketing a Political Party: Inside the Democrats’ Fake Opposition - Brand Marketing a Political Party: Inside the Democrats’ Fake Opposition For the past 17 months or so, much of the US has been steeped in a continuous eb...
Pensito Review

Parents of Korean War Veterans Have Notably Longer Life Spans - 101 to 110 Average age of the parents of Korean War veterans, who Trump claimed repeatedly came up to him on the 2016 campaign trail, begging him to bring ...
Texans For Public Justice

Houston Chronicle:Campaign Contributions and the Big Dogs - Editorial on the need for Texas to take action on campaign finance reform. "In our vast state of 30 million, there are only around 30 people who truly con...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 13, 2018 - Both Trump and his critics should take diplomacy more seriously.
Red Wedge

Realism, Modernism, and the Spectre of Trotsky: Part 2, Greenberg - In the first part of this article I discussed Lukács and his theory of Realism. I now want to turn to Clement Greenberg, “the major theoretical figure of t...
DBC Green blog

Horrible & Wonderful & Figuring It Out - Before dbcgreentx.net and I go on a two-week vacation, I feel compelled to copy and paste my latest Goodreads review. Here's my take on Stephanie Wittels W...
The Disorder Of Things

Is it Time to Abandon International Interventions and International Relations? A Response to Sabaratnam - This post is part of a symposium on Meera Sabaratnam’s Decolonising Intervention. Meera’s original post, with links to the other contributions, is here. If...
The Rag Blog

James Retherford : BOOKS | Little big meshuganah - Jim Retherford does Pat Thomas does Jerry Rubin. By James Retherford | The Rag Blog | June 6, 2018 Pat Thomas, author of DiD iT! and The Rag Blog‘s James R...
Houston Justice

Worthing and Woodson Face Closure or State Takeover - [image: worthing band.jpg] First off, remember months ago when I and others rang the alarm saying these schools were in danger of closure? Remember how s...
Green News Network

Alex Jones Happens to see Bernie Sanders at Airport and Confronts Him - Info-Wars Founder Alex Jones was on vacation, and happened to see who he called "The King of Communism" Bernie Sanders at LA International Airport. Alex...
Great American Satan

It’s a Simple Choice, Deferring it is Deadly - Abe at Oceanoxia has a post up about oil industry lying for money – looting while the world burns. Mano has a post about about heartless CEOs and the lack ...
Truthout

Cities and States Sue Big Pharma Firms That Profited From Peddling Addictive Opioids - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this year that the city would sue manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids to account for t...
UP@NIGHT

The Productivity Syndrome (or why I stopped writing philosophy) - You are at a conference, wandering around the book exhibit. A former colleague …
ROAR Magazine

The Long Shadow of May ’68 - Fifty years on, contemporary social struggles continue to be shaped in profound ways by the ambivalent legacy of “The Long 1968.” Read more
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Dirty Thirds: Cops, the Mexican Mafia & LA’s disappearing gangs - Los Angeles has seen gang violence plummet in the last decade. Some of the reasons why were on display in two federal criminal conspiracy cases announced...
Pressthink

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT's Queer Voices on History of Texas Sodomy Law - The 15th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, finding Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional, is coming up in June. I had the oppo...
Bad Attitudes

Snowflakes - There is still good in our world, if you look hard enough. Alan Tucker has: There is a new term for those handwringing liberals who whine about poor peop...
Houston Communist Party

New-Orleans-swears-in-its-first-female-mayor-continuing-the-trend-in-black-women-s-leadership - New Orleans swears in its first female mayor, continuing a new trend in black women’s leadership Kelly Macias Daily Kos Staff Monday May 07, 2018 · 1:39 PM...
The Economic Populist

Construction contribution to Q1 GDP under-reported by 47 basis points, despite 1.7% drop in March - Construction spending fell 1.7% in March, after construction spending for both January and February were revised much higher. The Census Bureau's report...
34justice

We Miss the Old Kanye… - Kanye West is oft considered one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. He also supports Trump and recently gave an interview stating his belie...
Real News

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign - By Gareth Porter* / Consortium News * Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but ...
Progressive Memetics

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South Lawn

Dead Workers Don’t Use Elevators, Cherie - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate North Carolina’s Elevator Queen. I do not mean that I hate Cherie Berry as a person. I hate and despise the...
The Texas Politics Project

Governor Abbott (Still) Tops Texans' Evaluations of Elected Officials* - By: Jim Henson Joshua Blank In addition to its focus on Texans’ views of the issues facing the state, the University of Texas / Texas Politics Project Pol...
Texas Moratorium Network

Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler - Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler. Sabrina was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. She is listed as number 59 on the T...
New Progressive Alliance

Gentrification and Orange County - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
St. Petersburg Independents

Robin Harris, Green leader - Orange County, FL commissioner Dist. 6! The pattern of Gentrification in Orange County is classic. First they drive out the affluent through deliberate ne...
If You Only News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Best Films of the Year 2017 - Every year for many I have posted my list here starting about this time in December--then update it into January and February as I see most of the top Ch...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

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

Tain’t So - To lay out, as clearly and as programmatically as we could, the reasons why despite protestations to the contrary, antiracism, understood as insisting on t...
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...
Bullshit-ist

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