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Vox

Vox Sentences: Ajit Pai doesn’t want to play Monopoly this time - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered straight to your inbox Mo...
Down With Tyranny!

Yes, There Is A Progressive Candidate In Colorado's Reddest District-- Meet Stephany Rose Spaulding - *by Bob Lynch* Having meaningless conversations with boring politicians is something you get used to in my line of work. However, some phone calls are im...
Mediaite

Trump Slammed on Twitter for Going After NFL Again: ‘The Michael Cohen Tape Must Be Bad…’ - *President Trump* dredging up the NFL anthem controversy over the newest developments there was very clearly viewed as a means of moving on from, well, all...
The Verge

Watch the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass - A year ago, M. Night Shyamalan scored a surprise hit with his film *Split*, about a teenager named Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) being kidnapped and held host...
National Post

Japan drops ban on Canadian wheat, but mystery over genetically modified samples lingers - While there had previously been 'escapees' from U.S.-based tests of genetically modified wheat, none of those strains match what was found in Alberta
Hullabaloo

Republicans are not enablers. They are accomplices. - *Republicans are not enablers. They are accomplices.* by digby I'm just going to post this Michelle Goldberg column and add a big +1000: Of all the inte...
Political Dig

Trump Just Went On Crazy Twitter Rant, Calls Media ‘Hypocrites’ For Reporting On Disastrous Putin Summit - Donald Trump is at it again attacking the free press for not liking what they reported on him. Trump took to Twitter on Friday to call the media “hypocrite...
Progrexas

As trial over fetal remains law ends, judge says he still has questions - Protestors of Texas’ fetal remains burial rule gather outside the Governor’s Mansion on Jan. 6, 2017. Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune State and rep...
AlterNet.org

'I Miss Barack Obama': Conservative Writer Max Boot Derided the Previous President — Now He Wants Him Back - They didn't know how good they had it. Max Boot served on two campaigns against President Barack Obama, but in the time of President Donald Trump, he now ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

Oh, what the hell... - I love Roger Waters. And yeah, Trump eres un pendejo. Here. Enjoy. I've friggin' had it with that guy...
In These Times

The Police Will Keep Killing Us Until We Stop Criminalizing Blackness and Poverty - In November 2015, the video of Laquan McDonald’s murder at the hands of Chicago police was released, sparking weeks of protests across the city. In the t...
memeorandum

The Sliming of Ben Shapiro (David French/National Review) - David French / National Review: *The Sliming of Ben Shapiro* — The progressive mob doesn't have a monopoly on truth. — I've got some questions for my...
Daily Dot

This woman made the best mansplaining chart of all time - [image: mansplaining] Well actually, it's more of a diagram. The post This woman made the best mansplaining chart of all time appeared first on The Daily...
Crooks and Liars

Rand Paul, Man Of The People, Lives Large - [image: Rand Paul, Man Of The People, Lives Large] Y’all, just in case you might ever start feeling the least bit sorry for Rand Paul because his neighbor ...
VICE

The Director of 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' has Been Fired Over Old Tweets - Conservative personalities exhumed a series of James Gunn's old tweets and launched a campaign against him.
Salon.com

I’m an editor, not your mistress: When a client’s professional demands cross the line - A client sent me an essay to critique titled “I Want to F**k You.” I should have refused to read it, but I didn’t
The Greanville Post

Do Western Warmongers Want Us All Dead, or What? - PHIL BUTLER—Russia has absolutely no interest in Europe other than tourism and natural gas sales. Of course, a preemptive invasion to create a “kill zone” ...
OpEd News

Democrats - Take Charge! - If the leaders of the Democratic Party would acknowledge the great potential for a progressive movement represented by the common interests of its diversif...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

'No one really knows anything': Sr. Trump officials still in the dark on Trump, Putin - Axios' Jonathan Swan, fmr. CIA operative Evan McMullin, AP’s Jonathan Lemire & MSNBC analyst John Heilemann on the uncertainty among senior Intel officials...
News Junkie

RSS: Fascism and Racism Under India’s Sky - One should not dismiss the odious statements from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its Sangh Parivar, and say that they are spewing venom. One sho...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian Football Coach Celebrates ‘Surprisingly Successful’ World Cup - Hardly anyone expected the Russian team to advance as far as the quarterfinals. So it’s entirely true the results on the field for the FIFA World Cup host ...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Hillary Knew and Tried to Warn Us - This week reminded us of one of the most memorable moments from the 2016 presidential debates. In an attempt to distract from his own complicity, yesterday...
Above the Law

Is Your Email Inbox Taking Over Your Life? - Notes to my (legal) self.
Axios

Trump floats season suspension for NFL players protesting anthem - President Trump took to Twitter Friday to call out the NFL on their national anthem policy. The NFL National Anthem Debate is alive and well again - can...
Somervell County Salon

Timeline of some interesting actions Trump and others took re: Russia Investigation - with sources: This is from an excellent thread by Sarah Sannder Dukic with some additions of my own. *Feb 13, 2016 -* Russian Alexander Torshin writes ...
Greg Palast

New York Times Mentions Danger Of CrosscheckBut Fails To Mention Its Overwhelming Racial Bias - [*Crosscheck comic: Candorville by Darrin Bell.*] In an opinion piece published today, The New York Times finally allows mention of the danger of Kris K...
Daily Kos

Warren confronts Trump nominee on family separation: 'That’s a moral stain that will follow you' - What does Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have to do with Trump’s family separation policy? We don’t know—and tha...
Dissident Voice

Separating ALL Mothers and Babies Should be a Last Resort - I saw a bumper sticker that said abortion is the worst form of child abuse. I disagree. I think the worst form of child abuse is separating a child from he...
Project Censored

(Pre-Order) Giants: The Global Power Elite - The post (Pre-Order) Giants: The Global Power Elite appeared first on Project Censored.
Sputnik News

Russia's Rusal Provided US Treasury a Plan for Removing Sanctions - Mnuchin - WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that Russia's aluminum giant Rusal has provided the Treasury Department with a p...
Ring of Fire

Law And Vengeance: Female Trial Lawyers Fight Back Against The Gun Of Rejection - “Law and Vengeance” is based on a true story from the standpoint of the whistleblower and how they are treated like second class citizens. Mike Papantoni...
Mahablog

Michael Cohen’s Tapes - I wasn’t going to mention Michael Cohen’s tape of Trump discussing paying off a Playboy model, because, I mean, we know Trump is a dog. And it will make no...
SCOTUSblog

Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment - [image: Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment]Orin S. Kerr is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Sou...
San Antonio Current

Texas Public Radio Screening Classic Stanley Kubrick Film Full Metal Jacket - “I’m going to gouge out your eyeballs and” — well, let’s just say that the late R. Lee Ermey got off many memorably intense and profane one-liners as the ...
Courthouse News

Prosecutors Respond to Manafort Objections to Trial Evidence - Prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller's office pushed a federal judge Friday to ignore ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's objections to ...
Mother Jones

400,000 Scientists All Over the World Have Been Published in Fake Journals - The organization that uncovered the world of offshore tax havens and rogue international finance in the Panama Papers and Luxembourg Leaks has shifted its ...
Slate

What It Was Like to Be Called Out by Putin During the Helsinki Press Conference - On this week’s Trumpcast, Jacob Weisberg talks to Bill Browder, who was mentioned by name by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the press conference wit...
CultureMap Houston

Tony Vallone announces shutter of upscale Memorial City steakhouse - In Washington, D.C., the Friday news dump covers any piece of unpleasant information that a politician would prefer the public ignore: for example, the re...
Raw Story

Why the war on poverty in the US isn’t over, in 4 charts - On July 12, President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that America’s long-running war on poverty “is largely over and a success.” I am a r...
Grit Post

Trump Administration Reaches Peak Comic Book Villain Levels by Bullying Endangered Species - To say it’s time for us to call Captain Planet to stand against Trump isn’t entirely fair. That time was when he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords,...
BEYONDbones

Ancient Human Cultures – Public Perceptions Vs. Fact-Based Reality - On a regular basis we learn that what we thought was true was, in fact, not so. This certainly applies to our understanding of the past. Here are some ex...
Echidne of the Snakes

Trump's Outrages Do Not Matter - Unless they hurt the Republicans in Congress. As long as the Republican base wants Trump, other Republican politicians will give lip service, reluctantly...
Talking Union

Support Striking Oil Workers in Australia - Eric Lee, LabourStart Last year maintenance workers at Exxon Mobil’s onshore and offshore facilities in Australia received a shock when they heard that the...
The Root

io9 James Gunn Will No Longer Direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in the Wake of Appalling Tweets - *io9* James Gunn Will No Longer Direct *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* in the Wake of Appalling Tweets [Updated] | *Offspring* Improve Your Kids’ Readin...
Election Law Blog

“Michael Cohen Taped Conversation With Trump About Buying Rights to Playmate’s Story” - WSJ: MIchael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights to a former Playboy Playmate’s story t...
Talking Points Memo

‘A Lot Of Work Left To Do’: Trump Admin Barrels Toward Deadline To Reunite Families - The Trump administration reported to a California federal judge on Friday afternoon that as of 7 a.m. that morning, 450 of...
Splinter

The 10 Best Deals of July 20, 2018 - We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Read more...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Boston Celtics assistant said to have taken bribes while head coach at Penn - - Jerome Allen ensnared in bribery case, Bloomberg reports - Celtics assistant alleged to have taken bribes while at Penn - Allen, 45, was head...
Texas Observer

Three Things the Judge Says He’ll Consider in Ruling on Texas Fetal Burial Law - As the weeklong trial over Texas’ fetal burial law wrapped up on Friday, Federal District Judge David Ezra gave a good indication of what he’ll be focusi...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Invitation to the presentation of the book by martyred Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá - *Come take part in a historic moment.* Back on July 5th this blog reported that the long awaited book *"The night will not be eternal" *by Oswaldo Payá Sa...
Rewire

Anti-Choice Group Targets Homes and Neighbors of Indiana Abortion Providers - A fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health said the harassment and intimidation tactics used by anti-choice activists are "designed to evoke fear" ...
Houston Matters

New Mural Makes A Statement On Houston’s Evolving East End - The mural, at 111 N. Ennis, features a large tree and different skulls that represent the lives of Mexican-Americans who called the East End home
Rivard Report

After Haggling, New Air Force One Jetliners Will Be Built in SA - Boeing, which builds Air Force One planes in West San Antonio was awarded a $3.9 billion contract Thursday to design, build, test, and deliver two new Pr...
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - I am sure a news dump will ruin your weekend, but until then... get happy!
Freethought Now

Fighting constitutionally in the dog days of summer - That’s why in the Atlanta area, we put up a large billboard urging folks in the South’s most bustling metropolis to discover our nation’s foundational wall...
The Week

Disney fires Guardians of the Galaxy's James Gunn over offensive tweets - Disney on Friday cut ties with James Gunn, who was set to direct *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, *after prominent conservative Twitter users unearthed G...
Independent Political Report

Judd Weiss Deconstructs Influence of Burning Man on 2016 McAfee Campaign - Former candidate for the 2016 Libertarian vice-presidential nomination Judd Weiss appeared on a 2018 FreedomFest panel titled, ”Burning Man and Libertari...
Liberation News

Seattle Metro fare enforcement: hurts the poor, wastes funds - [image: King County Metro RapidRide bus. Photo: SounderBruce. CC BY-SA 2.0] We demand that King County Council prioritize access to transportation for thos...
The NM Political Report

Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent - [image: Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent] Fleeing an abusive stepfather in El Salvador, Gabriela headed for Oakland, Californi...
Trivial Knot

An altruistic Prisoner’s Dilemma - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2015, with a short postscript added. Jeff Kaufman talks about an ethics trade that he sometimes does with a frien...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: What we didn't do on our summer vacation! - *FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018Sullivan gets it right:* We took five books on our summer vacation, which lasted all of four days. We didn't get around to rereadin...
Texas Monthly

Behind the Lines: Skip Hollandsworth and Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide - Texas Monthly's executive editor talks about his August feature tracing Schlitterbahn’s decades-long rise to its current perilous position. The post Behi...
Think Progress

Home Depot fires black staffer for retort to racist customer - The sentence that got Maurice Rucker fired from an Albany, New York Home Depot was mild and coherent compared to the bizarre and vulgar rant he says a cust...
Eater Houston

Vallone’s Will Serve Its Final Hand-Cut Steaks Tonight - The popular steakhouse will shutter after dinner service tonight Vallone’s, the eponymous steakhouse by veteran restaurateur Tony Vallone and partner Sc...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Wait, wasn’t she being punished for calling Ivanka “feckless”? - You think I’m kidding? Try to find May 30th, I dare you. Not even the Wikipedia entry survived un-vandalized (last time I looked, time wounds some heels). ...
Ballot Access News

Leonard Peltier Wins Procedural Point in his Lawsuit Against Prison for Discriminatory Treatment of his Art - On July 16, Leonard Peltier won a procedural ruling in his lawsuit against prison authorities, who sponsored an art exhibit and initially included his work...
Free Press Houston

Smashing Pumpkins Played All of the Fan Favorites During Extra-Long H-Town Set - Much to the delight of their fans, the iconic band played a three-hour-long set.
Houstonia

Source Vitál Looks to Get Bigger and Better with Expanded Showroom - As brick-and-mortar retail faces an uncertain future, the Houston skincare company hopes its custom products will bring people through the door.
Houston Press

Here's Your Chance to Win Florence and the Machine Tickets From Live Nation Houston - To celebrate the Florence and the Machine show at the Woodlands Pavilion on September 30, Live Nation Houston is giving fans a chance to win two tickets to...
Latino Rebels

In ‘Y Va Caer’ Featuring Ana Tijoux, Rap Duo Rebel Diaz Sends Message of Hope to Communities of Color - Latino Rebels caught up with Rebel Diaz in a phone interview, where they talked about the inspiration behind the single. Read it here:
Texas Standard

Archaeologists Say Humans May Have Come To Texas Earlier Than Previously Thought - New evidence pushes back previous estimates of arrival by 3,000 years
Right Wing Watch

Anti-Choice Group Launches $500,000 ‘Women for Kavanaugh’ Campaign - Concerned Women for America, an anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ-equality group committed to promoting its “biblical worldview” in public policy, has launched a ...
Pajiba

James Gunn Fired From the 'Guardians' Franchise Over Old Tweets - Alt-right asshole Mike Cernovich dug up a lot of offensive tweets (now deleted) from early in James Gunn's career with jokes about rape and pedophilia (rec...
DeSmogBlog

The Big Apple Loses to Big Oil as Judge Dismisses Climate Liability Suit - Read time: 4 mins [image: Flooded MTA train in New York after Hurricane Sandy] A federal judge ruled on Thursday in favor of a motion by five big oil compan...
OffCite

Bay Area to Bayou City: Lessons on Resilience by José Solís - South San Francisco masterplan proposal. Image courtesy of Hassell+.José Solís is Founder of Big and Bright Strategies and Project Manager with the Buffalo...
Shadowproof

Beyond Prisons — Episode 26: John Gillespie Jr. (aka swim.) - Poet, musician, and PhD student John Gillespie Jr. (aka swim.) joins Beyond Prisons to discuss his art and scholarship around suicide in the Black commun...
Anti-Media

Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Secretly Taped Him Discussing Playboy Model Payoff - [image: FBI Michael Cohen](ZHE) President Trump’s former longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, secretly recorded Trump two months before the 2016 US election d...
MintPress News

Saudi Airstrike on Residential Neighborhood in Sadaa Kills 9 Civilians, Injures 5 - Over 577 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed or wounded in the first half of 2018 by U.S. backed Saudi airstrikes and artillery attack...
Swamplot

Latest Plans for Former Houston Post Complex: New Entrance Block on St. Charles, Rest of Double Block Mostly for Parking - Lovett Commercial won’t be building that new northwest corner structure on the former Houston Post site previously slated to house a Sprouts Farmers Market...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Shouldn't Take the Bait on 'Catch and Release' - Dehumanizing metaphors subconsciously affect the way you think about immigrants. On April 6, 2018, President Trump issued an official memorandum with the ...
Washington's Blog

Solutions without Historical Templates: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains - We’re accustomed to three basic templates for system-wide solutions or improvements: 1. an individual “builds a better mousetrap” and starts a company to e...
Consortium News

Meanwhile, About Those Other Issues at the Summit - They actually held a Russian-American summit in Helsinki on Monday to talk about life and death issues, though you wouldn’t know it from the corporate medi...
News Corpse

WTF? Fox News Host Suggests Trump Traded Election Tampering in Secret Deal with Putin - When Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki he prohibited any media coverage of their discussion. Consequently, the American people have been lef...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Best #TVnews bloopers June 2018 - RELATED - Texas #TVnews and radio job moves June 2018 - Hottest Houston social media stars June 2018
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2018 - Today's Water Cooler: China trade, Republican governors, lunatic politics, treason, William Gibson, scooters, Fed DSGE model, Uber, DARPA robots, Oscar Wilde
Wolf Street

Which Yield Curve “Inverts” First? US, Japan, Germany, or China? - How the “Yield Curves” Stack Up in central-bank manipulated bond markets.
Pharyngula

Friday Cephalopod: A kinder, gentler threat to our undersea friends - Those cunning hu-mans have now developed a new way to nab innocent squid. It’s nice that it’s less likely to injure the creatures, but should we really be ...
Dandelion Salad

The Anti-War Speech That Jailed Eugene Debs For 10 Years + Transcript - Dandelion Salad The Peace Report on Jun 28, 2018 “Canton, Ohio” speech made on June 16, 1918 by Eugene Debs. Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech in...
NPR's Health Shots

Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State' - "Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," says sleep scientist Matthew Walker, author of *Why ...
Buzzflash

From Crib to Court: Trump Administration Summons Immigrant Infants - From Crib to Court: Trump Administration Summons Immigrant Infants 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Peacock Panache

High Crimes and Misdemeanors – McConnell Version - [image: High Crimes and Misdemeanors – McConnell Version] In criminal law classes, lawyers-to-be learn about something called *mens rea*–a term that means ...
Political Garbage Chute

Putin Assures Trump Andrew Jackson Had Nothing to Do With Trail of Tears - WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Trump took office, one of the first controversial decisions he made was to bring back a portrait of President... The po...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Oh, Watch What Else Floats to the Surface - I kinda think this is only the first in a whole lot of waste coming that’ll leak out. So there’s recordings of Trump talking to Cohen about paying off the ...
The Intercept

A New Corporate Lobbying Firm Is Taking Identity Politics Seriously - Bipartisan lobbyists at United by Interest are targeting members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Freedom Caucus...
Washington Babylon

“Great Piles Of Dead”: Has Anyone Knocked On Michael Scheuer’s Bunker Lately? - Donald Trump’s presidency has quite clearly driven much of the American population insane. Yesterday we ran a story about the rapidly growing Treason Indus...
ExChristian.Net

God refuses to heal amputees - *By Michael Runyan ~ * No one argues the fact that Christian prayers have consistently failed to result in the grow-back of amputated limbs. There is no re...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Most Consistent Hitter In Baseball History - The skeptics have been proven right so far this season in refusing to believe that Khris Davis’s batting average was permanently fixed at .247 by some supe...
Grist

Ozone levels in many U.S. national parks are similar to those in large cities - Even in Big Sky Country, you can’t escape from air pollution.
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 194: ‘Sign o’ the times’ - Pestering your co-workers until every interaction is fraught with an awkward tension is presented here as a badge of honor. If everyone you work with doesn...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (July 15 – 21) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Austin Mayor Steve Adler, in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has threatened the city’...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration erasing LGBTQ people from government websites again' & other Fri midday news briefs - The Trump Administration is messing with us again. *The Trump administration is erasing LGBTQ people from government websites again* - *I swear, you just c...
The Ghion Journal

Remember When Russians… - Those damn Russians! How much longer are we going to abide their continued malicious actions. I mean at what point are we going to say enough and stand u...
Morning Consult

Who Should Regulate Marijuana? Most Say States Over the Federal Government. - The post Who Should Regulate Marijuana? Most Say States Over the Federal Government. appeared first on Morning Consult.
Bracing Views

Collusion Takes Many Forms - W.J. Astore Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: The supposed big news here is that Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, didn’t know...
Lewisville Texan Journal

City breaks ground on Thrive multi-gen center - Lewisville city officials, alongside Barker Rinker Seacat and Byrne Construction officials, broke ground today on the Thrive multigenerational center in Me...
ProPublica

Henri Cauvin to Join ProPublica as Senior Editor - by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Henri Cauvin will join its staff as a senior editor. Cauvin comes to ProPublica from The New York Times, ...
Bonddad

The US is not in an economic Boom: midyear udpate - - *by New Deal democrat* At the beginning of this year I asked: Is the US economy going to enter a Boom in 2018? To recap, there is no standard definiti...
Debunking Christianity

Escaping the Spooky Christian Spy God - A Review of Drew Bekius’ book, The Rise and Fall of Faith I was a lucky teenage Christian, way back in the 1950s, in rural northern Indiana. I was one of th...
First Draft

Deep Montenegro Thought - Perhaps Trump’s hostility to the tiny Balkan nation, like his immigration policy, is rooted in ignorance and bigotry. It’s not impossible (a Trumpian doubl...
No More Mister Nice Blog

Mr. Sandman - Photo by Walker Evans for *Let Us Now Praise Famous Men*, 1941, of folks being taken care of by the intimate, affectionate local authorities, free from th...
Angry Bear

Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA - Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA In the history of antitrust law, one of the most important rulings by the US Supreme Court came in 194...
First Reading

Hey, RNC. Forget holding the convention in Charlotte. Why not Moscow 2020? - Good Friday Austin: The Republican National Committee, meeting in Austin this morning, is expected to choose Charlotte, N.C., as the place where the part...
Louis Proyect

Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics - COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 20, 2018 The left internationally has been stuck on the horns of a dilemma for quite some time now. When radicals take state power but f...
Popular Resistance

Displacement Battles On Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape The Politics Of Housing - Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Demo...
Democracy Now!

Psychologists: Migrant Parents Reunited with Detained Children Must Brace for Trauma & Long Recovery - We discuss the psychological impacts family separation has on young children with Nancy Burke, psychoanalyst and a co-chair of the Psychotherapy Action Net...
SocraticGadfly

My take on the Green Party's "decentralization" key value - Note: I had submitted a version of this for the Green Party's Green Pages. Unfortunately, I have been told that it is short-staffed on its editorial commi...
Equality Texas

Take Action Now to Oppose Discriminatory Aderholt Amendment - Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt has introduced an amendment that would allow discrimination in foster care and adoption services. Texas has already mad...
Lowering the Bar

Woman Accidentally Steals Car She Thought Was Her Rental - Drove it around for two weeks with nary a clue. Related Stories - Lawyer Dispute Escalates From Picture of Cat Playing Violin to Gunfire - ...
The Progressive Wing

7/20 News Roundup – El-Sayed Channels Sanders In Bid For Gubernatorial Surprise, Bernie Introduces Resolution to Protect American Democracy & More - El-Sayed channels Bernie Sanders in bid for far-left gubernatorial surprise Abdul El-Sayed has heard the doubters, some within his own party: He is too you...
Dorf on Law

Reinvigorating “Defensive Crouch Liberal Constitutionalism” Part 2: Will Clarence Thomas Save Abortion Rights? - *by Michael Dorf* (cross-posted on *Take Care Blog*) If the Senate confirms Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court wil...
Space City Weather

Hottest yet to come for Houston, as Texas roasts - Thursday was the hottest day yet in this heat wave that is scorching much of Texas. It was also Houston’s hottest day since June 5th. We hit 98° officially...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

NO TRUMP - A hell of a way of doing business https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/russia-brags-verbal-agreements-trump-us-unsure Russia’s ambassador to the United S...
Progressive.org

A Charter School’s Explanation for Banning Durags Is Worse Than the Ban - To say that a durag sets up a black man for failure is ignorant, at best.
Duffel Blog

SpaceiLeaks releases correspondence standards for US Space Force - [image: A Space Clerk prepares correspondence and removes a servicemenber's fingerprints according to regulation.] CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Duffel Blog ...
The Conversation

Support for the Endangered Species Act remains high as Trump administration and Congress try to gut it - As attempts to water down the Endangered Species Act have accelerated, public support for the act has stayed high. Then why do politicians keep trying to w...
Off the Kuff

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Dallas Observer

Ofo Bikes (the Yellow Ones) Are on Their Way Out of Dallas - Less than a day after laying off 70 percent of its U.S.-based employees, dockless bike rental company ofo confirmed to the Dallas Observer on Thursday that...
Counterpunch

Going Home Again to Trump’s America - This is the first of four essays that describe the writer’s Northeast travels between New York, Washington, and New England during spring 2018. For the mos...
Rallblog

Relationship Counseling for Donald Trump and Donald Tusk of the EU - Donald Trump is heading back to a pissed-off European Union.
Disobedient Media

Breaking: Possible Hand-Over Of Julian Assange To The UK May Be Imminent - If Julian Assange's asylum were to be revoked in any way, dangerously inept intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, would continue to operate outside th...
emptywheel

Radical Socialism or Clear-Eyed Realism? - Is it really all that radical to want to form a more perfect union by establishing economic and social justice? This is an open thread.
jobsanger

Symbols Of Hate -
Socialist Worker

Without struggle, there is no Roe - Michelle Farber and Elizabeth Schulte Can the anti-abortion fanatics be stopped from overturning legal abortion? Michelle Farber and Elizabeth Schulte loo...
World Socialist Web Site

Israeli parliament passes apartheid-style “Nation-State” law - The measure enshrines the de facto discrimination and segregation practiced against Palestinians in a quasi-constitutional basic law.
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: No matter the outcome of the midterms, Texas delegation in Congress poised to lose clout - Tribune: No matter the outcome of the midterms, Texas delegation in Congress poised to lose clout
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Your tax dollars at work, NASA incredible Moon division: Full rotation - NASA posted this back in 2013 — but a lot of people missed it. It’s an animation of the Moon’s full rotation, showing all sides of the Moon lighted by the ...
Informed Comment

With Nationality Law, Israel openly Declares Apartheid and Racial Supremacy - Israel has for decades been running the occupied territories of Palestine–Gaza and the West Bank– with Apartheid tactics. As with black South Africans unde...
Campaign for America's Future

It’s Time for a Mass Movement to Impeach Trump - A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is know...
Antiwar.com

The New Handmaids of the Warfare State – Dems and the Liberal Media - If you want to know why America is going to hell in a fiscal hand basket, it’s because the last vestige of opposition to the Warfare State and the fiscal...
The Contributor

Trump Takes 'Wrecking Ball' to Endangered Species Act - News Image: If Interior Department's proposals are approved, "Zinke will go down in history as the extinction secretary" Category: Environment origin Blo...
Brad Blog

'Blinking Red': Top U.S. Election System Vendor, ES&S, Lied About Remote Access Software: 'BradCast' 7/19/2018 - As noted at the top of today's BradCast, it's worth buckling up before listening. [Audio link to show follows below.] We begin, gently enough, with the new...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

I've Seen This Movie - In the midst of all the crazy stories deriving from the Helsinki Treason Summit, there's one story which really needs more attention: a small amount of plu...
Portside

Israel Adopts Controversial Jewish 'Nation State' Law - Israel Adopts Controversial Jewish 'Nation State' Law jay Thu, 07/19/2018 - 21:26
Robert Reich

IS TRUMP A TRAITOR?Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in... - *IS TRUMP A TRAITOR?* Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki was a betrayal of the nation he has a sworn duty to protect. Under Article III Sec...
Krebs on Security

Human Resources Firm ComplyRight Breached - Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of its Web site may have jeopardized sensitive consumer information -...
Socialist Alternative

Getting Ahead In The Working Life: So Your Boss Offers You A Manager Position? - Samantha (she prefers Sam) greets the drivers with a big smile and their perfect coffee drink. Sam claims that the secret to a thriving latte stand is well...
Ian Welsh

The current world peace paradox - (MANDOS POST MANDOS POST MANDOS POST MANDOS POST) In a weird twist of fate, American liberals and (some) leftists are finding themselves in the non-traditi...
Newsbud

A Wake-Up Call for Iran: The Real Cost of America’s ‘Liberation Wars’ - In this edition of Probable Cause, Newsbud’s Founder & Editor Sibel Edmonds delivers a powerful message to the Iranian people, based on the bloody track re...
Frontloading HQ

Unity Reform Commission Seeing Its Recommendations 'Substantially Adopted' Sends Rules Package on to DNC - Following a brief (by rules meetings standards) conference call on Tuesday, July 17, Unity Reform Commission Chair Jennifer O'Malley-Dillon and Vice Chair ...
Grits for Breakfast

Do ankle monitors on parolees make anyone safer? - In response to episodes where two different parolees being supervised by ankle monitors reportedly committed murder, one of them allegedly killing three pe...
Popehat

Illinois Attorney General Stomps Notorious Censorious Jerkass Dennis Toeppen and His Infamous Suburban Express - Long-time Popehat readers may remember the persistently loathsome Dennis Toeppen and his what-if-you-had-a-racist-vexatious-litigant-bus-company Suburban E...
The Rag Blog

The Rag Blog : METRO EVENT | Threadgill’s World HQ invites you to Thorne Dreyer’s Birthday Party on August 1st - Historic Austin bands the Uranium Savages, Bill Kirchen, Shiva’s Headband, and Leeann Atherton will perform. Event: Thorne Dreyer’s Birthday Party What: Co...
Political Orphans

The Fall of the Roman Republic, Reconsidered - The Caesars of the world only arrive when the ground has been prepared for them.
Duck of Minerva

Tackling Climate Change: A Conversation with Josh Busby - Readers of the Duck will be very familiar with Duck editor Josh Busby’s commentary on climate change and security, U.S. foreign policy, and a host of other...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Sense of U.S. Moves in the Middle East - My father and I always had a tacit agreement: “We will never speak of That Part of the World”...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Purdue in Tennessee II: High-Volume Prescribers - From 2006 to 2015, Dr. Michael Rhodes was one of the top prescribers of OxyContin in the state of Tennessee. His practice had many of the signs of what h...
Progressive Army

A “Pragmatic Progressive” Would Stop Funding Non-Union Charter Schools. Will Cuomo? - Andrew Cuomo has been clear in opposing the Supreme Court’s anti-union Janus v. AFSCME decision, which will diminish the coffers of New York’s public sec...
Church and State

The ‘stolen babies’ trial in Spain finally shines a light on a scandal that cannot be forgotten - Until into the 1990s, doctors, nuns and priests in Spain allegedly stole newborn babies and sold them to couples hoping to adopt.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Three Republican Governors Face Increasingly Tough Election Contests - KEY POINT FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Crystal Ball has three ratings changes in gubernatorial contests, all shifts in the Democrats’ direction: Arizona moves f...
Common Dreams

Patriots, Prepare For War With the Very Aggressive People of Montenegro, Also Maybe Freedonia - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Field Negro

Open thread. - [image: MORE DISCLAIMERS]It's open thread night, field hands, and there is so much news to digest of late. Especially as it relates to your president. trum...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

President Trump is missing!!! - There are many people, so many they can almost not be avoided and sometimes not at all and a few of these people I cannot avoid mentioning when I write. H...
Reverb Press

2 Ways The Russian Spy Scandal Might Bring Down the NRA – And 1 Reason it Might Not - Is the NRA going down? Maybe. Maybe not. The post 2 Ways The Russian Spy Scandal Might Bring Down the NRA – And 1 Reason it Might Not appeared first on R...
See You In 2020

America Is Being Slowly Turned Into A Giant Military Base - [image: article image] From the video “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity” We know we’re moving in a very dark direction when the Western po...
Rude Pundit

Republicans Won't Save Us Because Their Voters Don't Want to Be Saved: A Farce in Six Acts - 1. In another of its ongoing series "Do the Editors of the *New York Times* Really Think the Yokels Will Ever Love Them?" reporters interviewed an assortme...
The Reality-Based Community

Butterfly on the Midway - A simple walking-around camera is especially fun during butterfly season here at @UChicago. This one spotted 20 minutes ago on 60th & Ellis. As a bonus, a ...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR #8: “Beyond the Border” coming soon! - Our eighth issue, on the revolutionary internationalism of the twenty-first century, is coming soon! This will be our last issue to appear in print, so d...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American A...
Crooked Timber

Would be/Wouldn’t be - The Death of Stalin and the Trump administration have plenty in common.
News Taco

Today’s Latino News Headlines – July, 18, 2018 - U.S. Latino news headlines, curated daily by NewsTaco. ‘It’s hypocritical’: Chicago Latino Caucus to return donation from private immigrant detention com...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Supreme Court has highest approval in almost 10 years: Gallup - A majority of Americans currently approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing as the court has its highest level of public support in nearly a decade, ac...
Ecosophia

The Kek Wars, Part One: Aristocracy and its Discontents - Every month or so since the 2016 presidential election campaign hit high tide, somebody has asked me to say something about the weirdest and most interes...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Trump’s Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism - So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit … or Trump’s meeting with his Russian handler, as the neolibe...
CPI's Danger in the Air

How drugmakers sway states to profit off of Medicaid - Medicaid drug costs rise, leading to tough state budget choices
Save Buffalo Bayou

Recent Photos of Buffalo Bayou: Slowing the Flow - Summer Down on the Bayou July 17, 2018 In case you missed Jim Olive‘s summer shot of that Bend in the River, here is the latest addition to our series of p...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Helena Blavatsky Ancient Aliens Connection? - Is there a connection between Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society with Ancient Aliens, assuming aliens might have visited us thousands of year...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puzzle out cybersecurity in Helsinki, John Kelly didn’t like his breakfast in Brussels, and a family of woodchucks ate th...
Earthjustice

The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning ‘The Lungs of South Asia’ - The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning ‘The Lungs of South Asia’ Sultana Kamal leads a coalition of environmental groups fighting to keep the...
DBC Green blog

Don't Water the Tree of Liberty with Hyperbole - Well, I figured this Facebook post from last night, copied and pasted verbatim below, would ruffle a few feathers. So far it has ruffled only a few. It ref...
Carl Beijer

A glossary of co-option - I have been asked whether there are myths 'on the Left'. Of course, inasmuch, precisely, as the Left is not revolution. Left-wing myth supervenes precise...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 228 - Trump Culturally Appropriates Hitler - As our fearless leader goes full blown traitor on a world stage, we step back and discuss cultural appropriation and the whiny left. Let’s join up to fi...
Pensito Review

NY Daily News Cover: ‘Open Treason’ -
Great American Satan

Cinema Day Shout-outs - Got to see Antman & the Wasp and also Sorry to Bother You today, very nice. No time for big reviews, just wanna give a couple of shout outs. Shout out to A...
LawFlog

Is Judge Kyle Hawthorne trying to cover up real estate fraud by his former law firm? - In my July 9, 2018 blog post, I tried to give 85th District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne the benefit of the doubt. It turns out he didn’t deserve it. I learn...
Better Texas Blog

Putting the 2018-2019 State Budget on More Solid Ground - This week Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that the revenue side of the 2018-2019 state budget – how much money Texas could spend on things – is much st...
Moron Majority

Trump Discusses “Abdication” With Putin - In their historic and unprecedented one-on-one meeting today in Helsinki, Donald Trump discussed his exit strategy with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. N...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: The Handmaid’s Tale Controversial Second Season Finale; Discovery Shows The Enterprise Bridge; Emmy Nominations For Genre Shows; Doctor Who Teaser; HBO Picks Up New Show From Joss Whedon; Sweetbitter Renewed; Downton Abbey Movie Announced - The second season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale was quite controversial. I had mixed feelings when I saw June/Offred decide not to flee to Canada. It was f...
Reading the Pictures

From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week - The Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week. The post From SCOTUS to NATO, the P...
Green News Network

Paint It Green (Eps 7 ) The Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Sheep Dog Saga Encor... -
Stinque

The Coldest War - There’s really nothing new to say. Our country has been attacked, it continues to be attacked, and a frighteningly substantial number of people are fine wi...
xpostfactoid

No, CMS, ACA marketplace enrollment isn't up this year, and doesn't justify navigator funding cuts - To justify gutting funding for the navigators who help low income people enroll in health insurance subsidized by the ACA (Medicaid as well as marketplace)...
Dos Centavos

Calling Out Our Own: Following The Money - Now, let’s see what liberal freak-out happens next… For years, the Democratic attack against Republicans has had a mantra to convince the voters that one s...
Texas Moratorium Network

Chair of Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Joe Moody Endorses Abolishing the Death Penalty - The chair of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has endorsed ending the death penalty. He sent out an email today copied below that link...
WAWG Blog

Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice - RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean … Since – Brown v Board of Education in 1954 that caused Virgini...
Texans For Public Justice

Report Tracks Austin Campaign Money - FAULT LINES Campaign Contributions Expose Austin's Divide Austin's city elections were dominated by residents of the three most affluent and least racially...
Our Finite World

The world’s weird self-organizing economy - Why is it so difficult to make accurate long-term economic forecasts for the world economy? There are many separate countries involved, each with a self-or...
The Disorder Of Things

Race and the Undeserving Poor: Response - This is my response to the commentaries graciously provided by Sara Salem, Naeem Inayatullah, Luke De Noronha, Rick Saull, and Lisa Tilley, who also organi...
GreenSource DFW

Arlington activists put light pollution in spotlight - *The Arlington Conservation Council's 4th of July float drew attention to the Dark Sky movement.* *Photos by Paul Knudsen/ArlingtoNow.com.* July 11, 201...
PERRspectives

A Higher Patriotism - Just in time for the Fourth of July, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of patriotism. Its primary finding? For the first time in Gallup's 18...
Pressing Issues

A Bite-Sized History of Jefferson, Hemings, and French Cuisine in USA - I've written the following in honor of publication tomorrow of my Ph.D daughter's first book, for The New Press, co-authored by her cheesemonger husband. ...
New Progressive Alliance

Defining the New Progressive by Sondra Miller - Sondra Miller is one of the pillars of the New Progressive Alliance. Here she questions what a real progressive is. It is crucial to answer this question...
Red Wedge

Bad Dreams - Ring around the rosies, Pocket full o’ posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! Most everyone knows this nursery rhyme. Urban legend places its origin in th...
The Metaphor Project

How to frame it “American” Now: Summer 2018 - These days the political framing challenge we face is greater than any we’ve faced in a long time. While it is absolutely vital to avoid repeating the fram...
nonsite.org

Two Poems - In the office park he spoke of *the land.* To the loan officer, of *the land.* At the temp agency, *the land.*
Downwinders at Risk

THE CLEAN AIR FUND THAT TIME FORGOT - Over a decade ago $500,000 was collected from North Texas local governments to protect Texas air. It’s been sitting in a bank account ever since. Until rec...
Ramona's Voices

Hanging On To Our Independence on the Fourth Of July - This year, 2018, has been a trying one, but I don't have to tell you. This Independence Day feels like the last of the best for the country I love and have...
John Laurits

Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report - Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report Today is July 2nd 2018 and Googling “North Korea news” is likely to brin...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not working just to survive - See, here's what happens: I start thinking I'd better hurry up and upload this latest post I'm working on, and if I can just get that last link on the p...
Pages of Victory

Canvasser - The young man who just left my house was clean, well groomed, wearing nice slacks and a Greg Abbot tee shirt. Barely had he identified himself when I launc...
Nathan Hevenstone

Turns Out Pixar’s Toxic - Note: Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual harassment and assault, especially for Cassandra Smolcic’s article linked below, which I am going to quote ...
St. Petersburg Independents

for a United Front against Gentrification - One small injustice. One of our friends — a working class white woman — was in trouble and called my wife Rose. Her landlord was trying to force her out o...
Modern Democracy

The Ideological Balance of the Supreme Court Hangs On The Midterm Elections— But Not Because Of Kennedy - Now that Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, everyone’s attention has turned to the question of who will fill his seat. Given Kennedy’s status a...
Pressthink

It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - That is my recommendation. The post It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency appeared first on PressThink.
Seeing the Forest

90s-Type Dems Afraid Rush Limbaugh Will Say Something Bad About Them - From 2007: Senate Dems Afraid Rush Limbaugh Will Say Something Bad About Them. That was when Dems voted to condemn MoveOn. Remember when Dems were stampede...
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...
Houston DSA

#AbolishICE & #AbolishDHS - Houston DSA is firmly committed to organizing to #AbolishICE and #AbolishDHS. We encourage our members and allies to participate in the following actions...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 13, 2018 - Both Trump and his critics should take diplomacy more seriously.
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...
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 …
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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!
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...
[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...
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...

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