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Daily Howler

Elora Mukherjee, back from the border! - *TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019A remarkable act of witness:* Elora Mukherjee is the Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She's als...
Mediaite

Fox’s Shepard Smith Calls Out Trump on Treatment of Kids in Border Detention Facilities: ‘Those Are the Facts’ - Fox News' *Shepard Smith* knocked President *Donald Trump* for comments he made today in response to questions about the treatment of migrant kids at borde...
Daily Dot

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 goodies are here just in time - [image: stranger things season 3] 'Stranger Things' new season premieres July 4th! The post ‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 goodies are here just in time appear...
The Week

Facebook to start giving French courts information on users suspected of hate speech - Facebook will start giving French courts information on users suspected of hate speech, according to France's minister for digital affairs. France's Cedr...
Down With Tyranny!

Once Biden Implodes Where Will All Those Low-Info Voters Go? - *Trump's Dream Come True-- A Ticket To A Second Term* Anecdotally, it appears that significant numbers of Biden supporters are looking for another candidat...
Think Progress

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue dismisses climate change as ‘weather patterns’ - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue dismissed the climate crisis as a mere weather problem on Tuesday. “It rained yesterday, it’s a nice pretty day today,” ...
Grit Post

Bernie Sanders Is Using His Email List to Thwart ICE Raids of Immigrant Families - Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has used his platform, from email lists to Twitter, to help immigrant families know their rights in adv...
Daily Kos

White House says it will defy any House Oversight subpoena of Kellyanne Conway - A few weeks ago, the House Oversight Committee requested that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appear at tomorrow's hearing on the Office of Specia...
Vox

Comedy clubs that book Louis C.K. don’t care about their staff’s safety - [image: Louis C.K. at the FX and Vanity Fair Emmy Celebration at Craft in 2017 in Century City, California.] Louis C.K. continues to book shows. It’s stil...
SCOTUSblog

Government responds in census case; 4th Circuit remands Maryland case for more fact-finding - [image: Government responds in census case; 4th Circuit remands Maryland case for more fact-finding]The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the challeng...
Talking Points Memo

Oregon’s Climate Change Bill Appears To Be Defeated By Fleeing GOP State Senators - Oregon state Senate President Peter Courtney (D) announced on Tuesday that the climate change bill at the heart of GOP...
Houstonia

Meet the Landscape Designers Transforming Houston's Prettiest Gardens - For Lanson B. Jones & Co., it's all in the details.
Eschaton

America's Worst Humans - Meghan McCain.
VICE

'The Sinking City' Uses Lovecraft's Racism as Raw Material for a Messy Game - The new detective game from the team behind the Sherlock Holmes series is full of hard choices and complicated morality.
Juanita Jean's World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Okay, We Have To Talk About It - Swamp creature Duncan Hunter just keep sinking lower and lower. Not only did he and his wife steal money from their campaign contributions, Hunter didn’t h...
Common Dreams

'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Wayfair Employees to Walk Off Job to Protest Company for Working With Child Detention Centers - Eoin Higgins, staff writer "We believe that the current actions of the United States and their contractors at the southern border do not represent an ethica...
Mother Jones

Lunchtime Photo - This is Otter Creek on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Lexington, Virginia. You may recall that this is the creek I fell into, but once again this picture is ...
Hullabaloo

If Democrats pass awesome bills and nobody hears about it, did it really happen? - *If Democrats pass awesome bills and nobody hears about it, did it really happen?* by digby All the polling shows that health care remains the public's ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Wayfair workers plan walkout over company furnishing border camps - Hundreds of employees of online home goods company call on it to end partnership with government contractor Hundreds of employees of the online home good...
Rivard Report

San Antonio Non-Medical Hospice Facility Gives Patients Peace In Final Days - Nestled into a residential neighborhood on the city’s Northeast side, Abode Contemplative Care for the Dying is a three-bedroom home that serves as a saf...
INSIDER - politics news

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez applauds Wayfair workers speaking out against migrant camps as backlash against the company brews online - [image: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voiced support for Wayfair workers speaking out against the company's alleg...
FiveThirtyEight.com

You Can’t Have Home Runs Without Strikeouts - The defining characteristics of baseball in 2019 are the home run and the strikeout. Both are at all-time highs as of Tuesday. Make no mistake, the two sta...
Raw Story

Trump is unhappy in reality — so he’s inviting everyone into his world of make-believe: columnist - Confabulation is an unintentional event where someone’s memory creates “fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.” Para...
The Greanville Post

Cost of potential US war with Iran? $250 oil & another [much much bigger] Afghanistan - MIKHAIL KHODARENOK—Firstly, it should be pointed out that even though the capabilities of US intelligence agencies are almost limitless, quite a few Irania...
The Intercept

How a Fringe Muslim Cleric From Australia Became a Hero to America’s Far Right - Why is Mohamad Tawhidi, the self-anointed “Imam of Peace,” so devoted to amplifying racist and sexist attacks on the first two Muslim women in Congress? ...
Political Wire

Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump Can Proceed - “Rejecting a request from President Trump, a federal judge in Washington on Tuesday cleared the way for nearly 200 Democrats in Congress to continue their ...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trump praises ‘talented’ new press secretary Stephanie Grisham - President Trump talks to reporters about his decision to select Stephanie Grisham as the new White House press secretary.
NPR's Health Shots

San Francisco Poised To Ban Sales Of E-Cigarettes - San Francisco supervisors say they need to protect kids and teens from becoming addicted to nicotine. The dominant vaping company, Juul, is headquartered i...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Pondering the Pundits - Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is t...
Slate

Understanding Mexico in the Migration Crisis - And what’s going on in the Northern Triangle of Central America.
Latino Rebels

Washington Man Illegally Detained by Border Patrol at Spokane’s Greyhound Bus Station Sues the Agency for Damages - “I didn’t understand what was happening, why they were keeping me, where they were taking me, or when I’d be able to see my family,” Andrés Sosa Segura said.
News Taco

Advocates wonder: Where’s the outreach from Democratic presidential candidates to Latino voters? - MIAMI — There is outrage over Trump administration policies that have torn migrant families apart and left some children locked up. There is pervasive fe...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

If the beatings aren’t improving morale, why are they continuing? - Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Totabuser) delivers the latest Republican response to anyone who has the temerity to suggest that the U.S. is mistreating the child...
memeorandum

BREAKING: New Google Document Leaked Describing Shapiro, Prager, as 'nazis using the dogwhistles' (Project Veritas) - Project Veritas: *BREAKING: New Google Document Leaked Describing Shapiro, Prager, as ‘nazis using the dogwhistles’* — (New York) - Project Veritas has...
Consortium News

Bob Dylan & the Culture Industry’s Destruction of Dissent - Edward Curtin reviews the movie, “The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.” By Edward Curtin Edwardcurtin.com “He wears a mask and his face grows to ...
Splinter

Meghan McCain Makes the Child Detention Scandal All About Herself - Meghan McCain’s superhuman ability to make everything about Meghan McCain reached new heights on Tuesday’s edition of *The View*, in which she managed to...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - June 25, 2019 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Vice President Mike Pence refuses to acknowledge his own administration scientists say climate change is a threat to national secu...
Political Dig

Iran Called Trump ‘Retarded,’ Now He Wants To ‘Obliterate’ Them - Donald Trump seems to have a very short temperament. On Tuesday, the president fired off a tweet threatening to “obliterate” Iran after the country accused...
The Root

Breakfast of Champions: Serena Williams Scores Her 1st Wheaties Box! - It’s the most important meal of the day, and she’s known as the greatest female tennis player to play the game, so how is it possible we’re just now cele...
San Antonio Current

Man Who Threatened to Jump Off San Antonio Highway Killed in Officer-Involved Shooting - A man in his 30s was killed in an officer-involved shooting this morning after threatening to jump off of a ledge on I-37 near Carolina Road. San Antonio ...
Crooked Timber

Sanders’ debt relief plan: what could you do with $1.6 trillion? - Apparently cancelling all student debt under Sanders’s plan would cost $1.6 trillion, and would be funded by a wealth tax. $1.6 trillion is a lot of money....
Echidne of the Snakes

Children In Cages At The Border: A Feature, Not A Bug. - I rarely write about certain topics*, even when they are of great importance, even when I worry about them every single day. That's because often I have ...
ProPublica

Su padre habla español. Los padres de crianza temporal los criaron hablando eslovaco. - por Melissa Sanchez y Duaa Eldeib
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Bill to Move Presidential Primary - Several Pennsylvania Senators have introduced SB 779, which would move the primary for all office, but only in presidential years, from late April to late ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE A WHITE GUY WITH A GUN - Eric Boehlert writes about Republican members of the Oregon senate, who fled the state last week to prevent majority Democrats from having the quorum they ...
Morning Consult

Rep. Veasey to Reintroduce R&D Legislation for Carbon Capture, Removal - The post Rep. Veasey to Reintroduce R&D Legislation for Carbon Capture, Removal appeared first on Morning Consult.
Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Says He’s the Only One in Sudan Allowed to Use the Internet - He said he was going back to court today on behalf of everybody else. Related Stories - Good Reason to Kill #74: Guy Pissed You Off in Antarct...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard For June 25, 2019 - The president’s deal with Mexico was inflated, critics said. But the New York Times is among those now crediting Mr.Trump with a change at the border. Did ...
Texas Monthly

From the Archives: Can a New Generation of Texans Revive the Dream of Space Exploration? - With NASA’s ambitions trimmed, private space companies come to Texas, dreaming of Mars. The post From the Archives: Can a New Generation of Texans Revive...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: 4th Circuit Remands Census Citizenship Case Raising Equal Protection Issues Not Before SCOTUS to Look at Hofeller Evidence to Show Government Discriminatory Intent; Concurring Judge Suggests New Injunction Against Including Question - This order (via Lawrence Hurley) means that the district court can consider the new Hofeller evidence to determine whether it shows the government acted wi...
21st Century Wire

Extra Time: Death of Morsi & the Arab Spring – What’s Next for Middle East & Africa - *21WIRE.TV* | A special bonus segment for 21WIRE Members...
Ring of Fire

Amazon’s Takeover Of Our Lives & Catholic Church Lobbying To Save Abusive Priests - Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Trial Magazines Editor Farron Cousins break down the virtual monopoly Amazon now enjoys, given that nearly HALF...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/25/2019 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, as Yves approaches escape velocity from New York this week, I will be taking on more posting duties, and ...
Progrexas

Top U.S. border official John Sanders to step down, deepening DHS turmoil - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner John Sanders speaks in a panel discussion at International Summit on Borders in Washington, D.C. o...
Pajiba

Review: The Women of the Horror-Comedy ‘Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club’ Treat Men as Disposable, and Can You Blame Them? - What is the proper ending for a fuckboi? The women in Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club (a huge hit in its native Israel, which is now receiving a lim...
Truthdig

Robert Reich: Big Tech Must Be Broken Up - A handful of monopolies have a stranglehold on the U.S. economy. The solution today is the same as it was during the last Gilded Age.
Anti-Media

Trump Rejected Attacking Iran: “We Don’t Need Any More Wars” - (ANTIWAR.COM) — The Wall Street Journal is reporting in increasing detail on President Trump’s Thursday decision to not attack Iran, providing reports from...
Liberation News

Near-war on Iran: US war machine ‘cocked & loaded’ - A new U.S. war of aggression in the Middle East was narrowly averted. If President Trump’s account is to be believed, the operation to launch military st...
The Verge

Steam’s 2019 summer sale discounts popular games like Devil May Cry 5, Soulcalibur VI, and more - Steam’s annual summer sale has begun, and it’s a great time to save on several popular (or not-so-new) PC games — if you can get the store to load. As f...
Axios

The project dedicated to finding extraterrestrial life has only scratched the surface - The most comprehensive search for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has come up short so far, despite generating more than 1 petabyte o...
Houston Public Media

Acting Head Of Border Agency Steps Down - John Sanders said in a message to CBP employees that he would resign on July 5.
Courthouse News

Judge Orders Holding Newspaper Shooting Trial in 2 Phases - A judge on Tuesday ordered that the trial for a man charged with killing five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland to be held in two parts...
MintPress News

Divine Missions of Destruction: Why a US War with Iran is Virtually Inevitable - All the chips are in place, the box of matches lies open awaiting a single errant spark to set it ablaze. Whether that spark is introduced intentionally ...
Moon of Alabama

Majority Of U.S. Citizens Would Approve Preventive Nuclear Strike On North Korea - Today is the 69th anniversary of the Korea War. The war has not ended. It is the U.S. that rejects to sign a peace treaty. The continued state of war is th...
Counterpunch

Where Do the Politics of Reparations Go From Here? -
Crooks and Liars

John Oliver Is Right: If Only Trump Was As Vicious To Russia As He Is To Iran - Trump, who pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, has now caused a volatile situation in the Middle East. I'm not condoning anything that Iran does as a na...
Right Wing Watch

Disavowed By Team Trump, Ann Vandersteel Continues to Fake It - Ann Vandersteel, a YourVoice America host and a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist, was disavowed by Team Trump earlier this year after she repeatedly claimed s...
The Texas Signal

Cartoon politics - Tom Toles, Copyright 2019 Universal Press Syndicate The post Cartoon politics appeared first on The Texas Signal.
The Conversation

Can parks help cities fight crime? - Some parks reduce violence in the local vicinity. Other parks attract crime. The difference has to do with how these urban green spaces are designed, progr...
Washington Babylon

Meme of the Day - [image: Meme of the Day] Interesting that the hotdog and the phallus both represent obedience to traditional order Read more @ Washington Babylon...
WhoWhatWhy

Mexico ‘Spied on Journalists, Lawyers, and Activists’ - Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early ; The First Gay First Lady ; and More Picks 6/25 The post Mexico ‘Spied on Journalists, ...
The NM Political Report

It’s all hands on deck for hte 2020 Census - [image: It’s all hands on deck for hte 2020 Census] New Mexicans know exactly what they need to ensure each and every one of our families can succeed: full...
Houston Press

Rockets, Harden Take Shots on Twitter After Antetokounmpo Wins MVP - Predictably, James Harden came in second to Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo in the MVP balloting as announced during the NBA Awards on Monday...
The Mind Unleashed

Anderson Cooper Cuts CNN Interview After Trump Accuser Calls Rape “Sexy” - [image: CNN]"I think most people think of rape as being sexy," she interjected while nodding. "Think of the fantasies."
The Progressive Wing

6/25 OT Let’s Fill the Halls - Just a quick post. Those who need challenging and some challengers. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/25/meet-bad-blues-house-democrats-who-deserve...
Popular Resistance

How To Move Away From The Brink Of War With Iran - The United States has been waging an economic war against Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution overthrew the US-backed brutal shah in 1979, but that war ...
Eater Houston

Indika Won’t Be Closing in Montrose After All - Owner Mickey Kapoor ran into some issues with his transformation plan Take heart, fans of Montrose Indian mainstay Indika. News broke earlier this month...
Lawfare

The Confused U.S. Messaging Campaign on Huawei - Huawei office building (Source: Flickr) For the past several months, American policymakers have sought to convince allies, partners and potential partner...
Washington's Blog

Talk Nation Radio: Thom Hartmann on Guns and the Second Amendment - Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host and the author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Moscow Claims Georgia not Targeted with Sanctions -
Texas Observer

‘A Mockery of Public Trust’: Bexar Sheriff Cleans House, Angers Deputies’ Union - Javier Salazar has bounced between scandals since he took over the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in 2017. During his first year, the department drew nati...
Krebs on Security

Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android - Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'114 times Trump threw the LGBTQ community under the bus' & other Tue midday news briefs - *114 times Trump threw the LGBTQ community under the bus* - *Trump loves to screw us over. * *Activists: State Department ‘has abandoned full support of ...
The Conscious Resistance Network

There’s Something Wrong With The Hong Kong Protests - Derrick Broze breaks down the recent protests in Hong Kong and asks whether or not there is more to the story. Sources: Pro-Beijing Media Accuses Hong Ko...
Church and State

America’s Functional Atheism - Fundamentalists are shriveling to an unappetizing fringe, while the rest of America increasingly lives by functional atheism.
Bonddad

New home sales: is housing developing a price “choke collar”? - * - by New Deal democrat* So, new single family home sales for May were reported light this morning: Because this series is very volatile and heavily rev...
Rewire

Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism - The past two popes insist, against mounting evidence, that the gender binary, male and female, is given in nature and blessed by God. God, a male after a...
Democracy Chronicles

What Has The Bigger Impact – Elections Or Protests? - Recent events, from Sudan and Algeria to Hong Kong, are the latest indication that political protests have increased in both frequency and size.
Countercurrents

On 44th Anniversary of the Emergency in India, How RSS Betrayed the Anti-emergency Struggle - National Emergency was imposed on the country by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25-26, 1975, and it lasted for 19 months. This period is consi...
Angry Bear

A tale of two timeframes - A tale of two timeframes No data today Monday, so while we are waiting for new home sales tomorrow, let me step back a little and give you an updated overv...
Salon.com

Get this NASA notebook and mug combo for under $60 - This notebook & mug bundle uses the power of augmented reality to help you explore the stars
epic.org

EPIC Files Court Papers for Release of Complete Mueller Report - EPIC has moved for summary judgment in EPIC v. Department of Justice, EPIC's case for the release of the complete and unredacted Mueller Report. EPIC told ...
emptywheel

The FBI Maintained Paul Manafort’s Email Account - Among the things revealed in the release of the Mueller docket yesterday is that the FBI controlled Paul Manafort's dmpint email account. The post The F...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Pelosi’s Anti-Impeachment Stance Makes Less and Less Sense Speaker Pelosi’s continued refusal to allow the House to open im...
First Draft

You Set the Agenda - Something I think our August Media Betters, those who protect us against Democracy Dying in Darkness every day, have utterly forgotten: Put this on a massi...
Pharyngula

Morris, Minnesota is Number One! - In shortest commutes, that is. Add it all up and the best place for commuters in Minnesota is Morris, where the overwhelming majority of those going to wor...
Socratic Gadfly

TX Progressives kick Gohmert Pyle, Kenny Boy Paxton and Former Fetus Forever Fuckwad Stickland, the Hispanic wave is coming and more in the Roundup - The Texas Progressive Alliance does not want to be lied into any more wars as it brings you this week's roundup, chock full of news about liars of various...
Rallblog

It’s Like the US Isn’t Even Trying to Lie Convincingly About War - Trump Administration officials like National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are urging war against Iran on the grounds t...
Caitlin Johnstone

True Romance - True romance is what happens when two people turn and face each other and decide at the same time to pour everything they’ve got into growing more and more...
Novara Media

The Gig Economy Is Killing People - Platform workers are literally dying on the job. As ever, the working class have to risk their lives for the profits of the ruling class. This is capitalis...
Democracy Now!

Oregon Republicans Backed by Right-Wing Militias Flee State to Stall Vote on Historic Climate Bill - The Oregon state Legislature has been in a standoff for nearly one week, after 11 Republican lawmakers fled the Capitol Thursday to avoid voting on a landm...
Bay Area Houston

Movie Review: Ma and The Dead Don't Die - Do yourself a favor. If you intend to go see either one of these movies do yourself a favor. Buy a bucket of popcorn. Watch the movie. Put the bucket on y...
OffGuardian

The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East - The full force of the U.S. military was about to be brought to bear upon a package of top-level Iranian targets with no strategic value whatsoever. Apparen...
The Contributor

The Numbing of America: Trump Rape Allegations Treated As Old News - News Image: In a normal universe, a vivid allegation of rape, leveled at a serially misogynist president, would be a news story worthy of 24/7 coverage. C...
Space City Weather

Another day of scattered to widespread storms for Houston - Storms are firing again this morning, primarily to the south and east of Interstate 69, where a few areas have already picked up 1.5 inch of rainfall. We’r...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, How the Worst Values of Sports Are Taking Over America - A half-century ago, the sporting Cassandras predicted that the worst values and sensibilities of our increasingly corrupted civic society would eventuall...
Two Party Opera

Chance For Peace -
Strategic Culture Foundation

US Military Is a Bigger Polluter Than as Many as 140 Countries – Shrinking This War Machine Is a Must - Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the US militar...
Duffel Blog

General Dunford picks this week to start sniffing glue again - [image: General Dunford picks this week to start sniffing glue again] THE PENTAGON—A shot down drone, a murderous Navy SEAL, and a near war with Iran all ...
Dorf on Law

When Does a Taking Occur? - *by Michael C. Dorf* For me, yesterday's most painful decision came in *Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media*, in which the Court adopted an expa...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

BIG MOUTH - Kellyanne Conway is using her government position to serve as an active member of Trump's re-election team. This is simply and clearly against the law. She...
Grist

Clean energy requires rare metals. Should we mine the ocean floor to get them? - And if we do, what does that mean for the sea creatures that live there?
Off the Kuff

If it weren’t for Latino population growth… - […]
Dissident Voice

As Conflict With Iran Escalates, Path To Peace Can Be Found - The recent escalation of conflict between the United States and Iran threatens another US military quagmire that would create crisis and chaos in Iran, the...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East - So, according to the corporate media, and to President Literally Hitler, himself, while America was sleeping last Friday morning, the U.S. Air Force was ju...
Dallas Observer

Probation System Traps Some for Decades - Nathan Hawkins lives in an apartment in a nice neighborhood in the the Mid-Cities — exactly where, he doesn't like to say. During the week, he works 12-hou...
Progressive.org

On Mexico’s Southern Border with its New National Guard - In June, the country began implementing a plan to contain migrants, many making their way from Central American countries north to the United States.
The Grayzone

How Sen. Rick Scott became Big Oil’s point man on Venezuelan regime change - The US oil cartel has given Florida’s Rick Scott 500 million reasons to be one of the Senate’s most fanatical… The post How Sen. Rick Scott became Big Oi...
See You In 2020

The U.S. Spreads Lies About China Because China Threatens Global Capitalism & Imperialism - It’s remarkable how much of the propaganda that America creates about China feels like projection. The United States, which frequently censors dissentin...
jobsanger

Just A Fact -
World Socialist Web Site

Trump imposes new sanctions amid continuing war threat against Iran - The latest sanctions, largely symbolic, do little except escalate tensions as the threat of armed conflict remains on a hair trigger.
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They're being turned away. - Tribune: People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They're being turned away.
Informed Comment

So, What Really is Jihad? - By Mohammad Hassan Khalil | – Often, many people conflate the terms jihad and terrorism. This is in part because many writers use the term “jihadist” when ...
Antiwar.com

No War With Iran, for Now – but Mike Pompeo and John Bolton Still Really, Really Want One - After a week of high drama in which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated the Trump administration was preparing for war with Iran, President Trump so...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Hong Kong Democracy Protests - This week, our webcast looks at key photos from the massive democracy protests in Hong Kong. The post Chatting the Pictures: Hong Kong Democracy Protests...
Rude Pundit

The President of the United States Is Likely a Rapist and Nothing Is Being Done About That - I believe, as I have believed for a long time, that Donald Trump is a rapist. The allegations by E. Jean Carroll of Trump raping her in the dressing room a...
Somervell County Salon

Mueller Report live -About Trump's TEN Acts of Obstruction -
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Brief Election News for June 24 - *Early voting *concludes tomorrow (Tuesday) in the handful of jurisdictions holding runoff elections on Saturday. Voters in South Padre Island will elect a...
Field Negro

He moved on another one like a b***h. - [image: TWEET ME]Can you imagine the president of your country being* credibly *accused of rape and it is not even worth being put on the front page of any...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - A lot of commenters have off-topic stuff, so here’s an open thread. Enjoy.
The Socialist

How Social Democrats Like Sanders Are Pacifying The Left With False Socialist Rhetoric - The story of my alienation from the “democratic socialist” movement is similar to how the typical left-leaning person has become
Portside

Reparations Economics 101 - Reparations Economics 101 Stephanie Mon, 06/24/2019 - 21:09
DeSmogBlog

CEO of Major Shale Oil Company “Has Second Thoughts” on Fracking Rush, Wall Street Journal Reports - Read time: 6 mins On Monday, the Wall Street Journal featured a profile of Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, whose company is known among ...
Wolf Street

California Panics about Losing Businesses and People (to Texas): What the Housing Market Fears Most is Cropping Up in the Data - But Texans Say, "We're Full." And Californians, Buckling Under Housing Costs & Congestion, Tell Wannabe Leavers, “Just Do It”
Robert Reich

Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech The combined wealth of... - *Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech * The combined wealth of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google’s Sergey Brin, and Larry Page is l...
Chris Weigant

Heading Into The First Debates - It looks like I spoke too soon when I declared the Democratic field for was complete, as we now have yet another entrant -- Joe Sestak -- whose chances o...
The Reality-Based Community

Cannabis News Round-Up - Is France about to legalize cannabis? French economists make the case for legal marijuana. Public cannabis consumption now allowed in Colombia: Is full leg...
Sludge

GEO Group Donated to the Trump-Tied Turning Point USA, Then Got Rave Review - Right-wing student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) accepted $50,000 from the foundation of the nation’s largest private prison company in 2017, a Sl...
The Ghion Journal

Before the American Empire Collapses, It Could End Up Starting World War III - In his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins frames the story of the American empire as a kind of grand tragedy, one where human fol...
slacktivist

Let’s put our heads together and start a new country up - When the rivers are on fire, it's time to start imagining a better way of life. We've got a whole bunch of burning rivers -- from right-wing "militias" thr...
Grits for Breakfast

Why revocations from probation and parole make up nearly half of Texas prison admissions and what to do about it - Two recent reports on supervising people in the community post-conviction deserve Grits readers' attention: From the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Marc L...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Neoliberalism and the Strange Non-Death of Planning - In this joint blog post with Sahil Jai Dutta, Richard Lane, Ian Lovering and Steffan Wyn-Jones we argue that quantification and control share a long hist...
CPI's Danger in the Air

9 things to know about Joe Sestak - Just when seemed as if the ballooning Democratic presidential field had slowed its growth to a stop, a former two-term Democratic congressman had other i...
Alas, a Blog

Silly Interview with Monica Valentinelli, Who Aspires to Terrify You with Marshmallows - (Editor’s Note: This interview has been in the vault. For Monica’s most updated work, visit her at www.booksofm.com.) Rachel Swirsky: You can write any ti...
Dandelion Salad

Aviva Chomsky: Are Immigration Detention Centers Concentration Camps? - Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jun 23, 2019 Aviva Chomsky discusses the reality of refugees coming to the U.S in light of the controversial statement of Re...
Louis Proyect

A Douma chemical attack false flag scenario does not make sense at all. Here is why. - via A Douma chemical attack false flag scenario does not make sense at all. Here is why.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Center for Politics Wins Emmy Award for CHARLOTTESVILLE Documentary - The University of Virginia Center for Politics’ latest documentary, CHARLOTTESVILLE, has received the Emmy Award for best Cultural/Topical Documentary from...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump’s Concentration Camps File for Chapter 11 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a largely unsurprising and non-shocking turn of events, the concentration camps currently under management of the Trump administrat...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Immigrant Kids Keep Dying in CBP Detention Centers, and DHS Won’t Take Accountability - The death toll continues to climb as the government argues against following legal guidelines. In recent months, at least seven children have either died ...
EgbertoWillies.com

This white man with a black son & daughter wants to be heard on racism. - [image: This white man with a black son & daughter wants to be heard on racism.] A white man, called me out in the prose below for not holding other Democ...
ExChristian.Net

The Demise of my Faith - *By Luke ~ * It's been 11 years since I deconverted. I figured I'd share my story, as I find it therapeutic to do so. Still somewhat haunted by my Christia...
Reveal

The American militia movement, a breeding ground for hate, is pulling in cops on Facebook - Our analysis includes some of the most extensive evidence yet that militias are drawing support – and membership – from within U.S. law enforcement.
Dissent Magazine

The Reparations Debate - How should the struggle for reparations for slavery fit into a broader political strategy for the left?
Socialist Alternative

What do Trump’s Trade and Tech Wars Mean for Global Capitalism? - Rising U.S.-China Tensions: A New Era of Conflict The following article is written by Vincent Kolo of ChinaWorker.info, the website of the Chinese section ...
Shadowproof

Elizabeth Warren’s Flawed But Well-Intentioned Proposal For Banning Private Prisons - Elizabeth Warren's strategy appears to prioritize issues of privatization in prisons instead of seeing where issue fits into larger issue of incarceratio...
ROAR Magazine

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Ep. 18 - Prof. Harvey answers the question of production and realization as it relates to today’s economy and job market and the contemporary composition of the wor...
In These Times

Life, Liberty and a Stable Climate: These Kids Are Arguing for a New Constitutional Right - PORTLAND, ORE.—Judge Andrew Hurwitz arched an eyebrow. “You’re asking us to do a lot of new stuff, aren’t you?” He was grilling Julia Olson, executive di...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: Miami Vise: Who's Gonna Get Squeezed in the Dem Debates? - The first Presidential debates of the 2020 campaign season will be held in Miami on Wednesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 27. Steve provides
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Nate White’s stunning answer to the question: Why do many British people not like Donald Trump? - It was a question asked on Quora last February 12: Why do many British people not like Donald Trump? Nate White is a London-based copy writer — that is, ad...
Land Destroyer

The West's Losing Battle for Hong Kong - *June 24, 2019* (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Another pivotal battle is being fought over Hong Kong between Beijing and political forces backed by the special ad...
House of Houston (Rockets news)

Houston Rockets: Chris Paul publicly admits that he’s not going anywhere - Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul went on the record to publicly admit that he’s not going anywhere. What all did he say? Let’s take a look. Houston Rocke...
House of Houston (Astros news)

Houston Astros: Yordan Alvarez is making history with the long ball - Houston Astros outfielder Yordan Alvarez, a rookie, has been sensational since being called up two weeks ago. He’s making history too. What’s going on? T...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Responding to Carlos Gutierrez and Alan Gross on Cuba policy - *Question asked and answered* Some of the Cubans killed by the Castro regime during Obama detente Secretary Carlos Gutierrez's observation would be more ac...
Bracing Views

Can we be a superpower morally and ethically? - W.J. Astore I recently did an interview with Scott Carrier that I greatly enjoyed. Scott’s site is “Home of the Brave” at http://www.homebrave.com. My int...
Pages of Victory

Political Cartoonists - I find political cartoons these days too depressing to give a cursory glance. Not their fault, I guess. They don't have much to draw upon but the collapse ...
Mahablog

Sights on the Road to Ruin - I swear, I can’t keep up. But I’m trying. So today ICE was supposed to do a massive nationwide sweep through migrant communities to deport a gazillion undo...
OpEd News

Data Analysis Shows a Dem Centrist Candidate Loses - Massive income growth by the wealthiest citizens and changing patterns of wealth accumulation at the top of the scale created a new, high education/high we...
Political Orphans

American Concentration Camps: A Review of Nazi History - Part of the problem is our ignorance. Almost everything Americans know about the Nazis is based on events in 1945, not 1933. We don't understand where Hitl...
Progressive Army

Moon Martians - There have been some strange ones during the Trump administration, occurrences which in a simpler time we might have been able to laugh about. There was ...
Stinque

Springtime for Hitlers - We thought we understood fascism. The American kind, anyway. The kind that almost consumed the country in the 1930s, as it had consumed others. The kind ro...
Project Censored

Jon Gold – The Continuing Lies and Unanswered Questions of the 9/11 Attacks - Sept 11 scholar Jon Gold returns to the show to explain some of the continuing lies, and lingering unanswered questions, nearly 18 years after the 9/11 a...
Dos Centavos

Si Llega ICE A Tu Puerta * If ICE Is At Your Door - Gracias a United We Dream por esta lista de derechos y recomendaciones si acaso llega ICE a tu Puerta. 1) NO ABRAS LA PUERTA La migra solo puede entrar a t...
Liberal Values

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Independent Political Report

Virginia Constitution Party Disaffiliates From National CP - Yesterday, in a 3-2 vote, the Virginia Constitution Party formally disaffiliated from the National Constitution Party. The following statement was issued...
BEYONDbones

Why the Far Side of the Moon is so Different from the Near Side? - When you come see our giant scale model Moon and walk around it, you’ll notice how different the near side (which always faces us) is from the far side (wh...
Liberal America

We Are Already Three (Goose) Steps On The Road To Fascism (Video) - Milton Mayer (1928–29) was a journalist, reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago American, and The Progressive. In 1955,...
Bad Attitudes

What Is It About Iran? - â€¦my neighbor Alan Tucker wonders. Hereâ€™s his answer, long but worth it: What is it about Iran with us? A national schizophrenia? A disinterest in loo...
Freethought Now

A cross, an honor, an ad and a Chicago Tribune column - It was an up-and-down week for us here at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, but, with your help, we prevailed.
Debunking Christianity

We Can Do Better than Religious Holidays - Why not celebrate things that *actually happened*? Even devout Bible scholars—aside from hard-core evangelical denialists—concede that the Jesus birth stori...
Frontloading HQ

Raffensperger Sets Georgia Presidential Primary Date for March 24 - On Wednesday, June 19, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) *set the date of the 2020 presidential primary in the Peach state* for March 24. ...
The Rag Blog

Anne Lewis : STORY & VIDEO PODCAST | Asilo, terror y el futuro #3: ‘Niños llorando’ - Basado en casos documentados por Jennifer Harbury… ASILO, TERROR Y EL FUTURO #3 Niños Llorando from Anne Lewis on Vimeo. Por Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | 20...
Earthworks

New laws put our right to protest at risk - Recently, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced a new proposal that protesters who block the construction of crude or natural gas pipelines coul...
Truthout

Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic - One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
Media Lens

The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt - Last week, UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed the US extradition request to hand over Julian Assange, who is charged with 18 counts of violating the US...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Books From The Underground - The best non-fiction books are almost never the best selling books, primarily because they never get any promotion from the mainstream media. Perhaps th...
IVN

Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting Bill… Then Takes It Back? - Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting Bill… Then Takes It Back? Update: Despite passing with strong majorities in both chambers of the legislatur...
Ecosophia

The Flight To The Fringes, And What Waits There - Several of my readers alerted me over the last week to an online essay by Christian writer Rod Dreher on the rising popularity of malevolent magic and de...
Carl Beijer

Global Green New Deal Media Roundup - Some coverage of my new paper for People's Policy Project, The Global Green New Deal: - The Katie Halper Show - The Discourse with @PrettyBadLefty ...
LareDOS

Texas Archive of the Moving Image travels to Laredo with its Award-Winning Film Preservation Program - Free digitization for home movies, videos, industrial and educational films
Avedon's Sideshow

Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years - David Dayen at *The American Prospect*, "Tom Perez Traded a Puerto Rico Statehood Endorsement for DNC Chair Votes [...] The anecdote reveals a mildly sea...
Houston Strategies

MetroNext kudos and tensions, HTX traffic is better than you'd expect, road diets kill businesses, the aging affordable housing pipeline, and more - Before getting to this week's items, some thoughts on last week's MetroNext board workshop I attended (presentation slides here). First off, kudos to Metr...
Duck of Minerva

A Case for Nationalism - Sorry, clickbait! But admit, it, after an apology of race science in Quillette or “The Case for Colonialism” in TWQ you probably rage-clicked on the thumbn...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Not a dancing slave of King Cicada - King Cicada pulled at the chains, drawing his slaves out towards him. It was disgusting, that much is safe to say, it was disgusting objectively, you’ll s...
Trivial Knot

The incoherence of race and ethnicity - As I’ve mentioned many times, I hold a lead position on The Ace Community Survey. One of the things we track, is ethnicity/race. Many years of dealing with...
Daily PUMA

How WASPS, Wealthy Aging Successful Political Speakers, have thrown Baby Boomers and Seniors under the Bus. - *As our Political Leaders age,* they remain relevant by glomming on to youth oriented issues even as they throw their own similarly aged lifetime supporter...
Better Texas Blog

New report projects 2020 Census as next big test for Texas children - Texas continues to be one of the 10 worst states for kids based on the 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The rep...
The Concourse

Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: The Garfield Show - *A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight ho...
Greg Palast

Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned - It’s Christmas and I’m waiting for that call, “Dad’s dead. You should get on a plane.” I’ll leave the kids under the palm tree And the piña colada which ...
Moron Majority

Trump Warns Of Dire Consequences If He’s Not Re-Elected … Here’s The Complete List - As he gears up for his re-election campaign, Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. would experience an epic stock market crash if he were not returned to t...
Innocence Project

Nevada Governor Signs the Strongest Compensation Law in the Country - Nevada is 35th state to enact compensation Las Vegas, NV – Today Governor Steve Sisolak signed a law to compensate innocent Nevadans who were wrongfully ...
Web of Debt

The American Dream Is Alive and Well—in China - Home ownership has been called “the quintessential American dream.” Yet today less than 65% of American homes are owner occupied, and more than 50% of the ...
DBC Green blog

Sketch Comes Through and Other GPTX News - At a lunch meeting Wednesday, Laura Palmer informed me that her husband Don "Sketch" Palmer was the angel who got harriscountygreenparty.org back online fo...
GreenSource DFW

Austin hotel makes top green lodgings list - *The courtyard of Habitat Suites in Austin includes a salt water pool. Photo courtesy of Habitat Suites.* June 13, 2019 We stayed at one of the top ten ...
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note] Inside the July Issue, by Ellen Rosenbush - At the border with William T. Vollmann; new fiction by David Szalay and Nell Zink; and more
Smart Dissent

Highly Regarded, Independent Congressional Research Service Report: GOP Tax Bill is a Scam - Date: 06/18/2019 Congressional Research Service—which is nonpartisan, independent, and highly-respected—just published a report that dismantles claims tha...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: New Poll Shows Increasing Support for Transgender Rights - Contact: Susan Risdon, Equality Texas 214-226-6741, susan@redmediagroup.com New Poll Shows Increasing Support for Transgender Rights Austin, TX (J...
Our Finite World

Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Depend on Imported Goods from China - It seems to me that the situation in China is far different from what most people think it is. Even if we would like to depend on China, we really cannot. ...
PERRspectives

Republicans Peddle Grotesque Abortion-Slavery Comparison - In the great and proud history of the United States, no failing, no appalling ideology, no perverse institution--no national tragedy--compares to the Ameri...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Anti-Fascists Confront Neo-Nazi Outside His Home in Houston - On Saturday, June 8th, a large group Anti-Fascists rallied on Houston’s Near Northside Neighborhood. They marched to the home of white nationalists Ariel G...
Save Buffalo Bayou

New Photos of Destruction of Buffalo Bayou - Unnecessarily Damaging Bank Project Continues Opposite Memorial Park Call and complain! June 11, 2019 They had other options. They should have been require...
New Progressive Alliance

Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights - Those who reveal a crime are not worse criminals than those who commit a crime. Imprisoning and torturing Manning as a whistleblower while ignoring those...
WAWG Blog

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election - What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greate...
nonsite.org

Of All the Things to Say about Mayor Pete - these positionings continue to have appeal for academics, who are often relatively well-off at elite universities, who have the leisure to pose and play at...
Seeing the Forest

Voting Systems - How did we move from a voting system where you could be sure who won to voting systems where you have to trust what private companies tell you the results ...
Newsbud

Know Your Enemy! Not China…Xi Jinping! - America’s confrontation with the People’s Republic of China is heating up. Not just the trade war and the 25% tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods ann...
Environment Texas

Three decades later, renewable is doable - Rob Sargent Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy 617-747-4317 Contact person by email - Read more about Rob Sargent Wednesday, June 5...
t.e.j.a.s.

First Toxic Tour in Spanish – El Primer Toxic Tour En Español - Authored by: Marcelys Perez TOXIC TOUR, EXPERIENCIA INFORMATIVA Y DE CONCIENTIZACIÓN QUE NOS HACE CONOCER EL MUNDO DE INJUSTICIA QUE LLEVAMOS CON NUESTRO M...
Downwinders at Risk

Scenes from Shingle Mountain Fundraiser 5/30/19 -
The Militant

Every ‘Militant’ issue from 1928 to today is online! - Every issue of the Militant — from its founding in 1928 to today — is now available online, nearly 4,400 issues of the paper. Workers anywhere in the world...
Texas Freedom Network

It’s Over: A Look Back at the 86th Legislative Session - The 86th session of the Texas Legislature is history. Lawmakers left town on Monday following a session that, generally speaking, had fewer of the cultur...
The Disorder Of Things

The case against Woodrow Wilson, after 100 years - This guest post is a collective statement, written by Philip Conway in consultation with several other current and former PhD candidates at the Aberystwyth...
Disobedient Media

Is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory? - Here's who was involved with pushing it.
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
skippy the bush kangaroo

For the record, for whatever it's worth... - Fourteen years ago, skippy invited me to be a guest blogger. At that time, I thought the big roo had the best left-leaning political blog around. I couldn'...
Modern Democracy

In Michigan & Ohio, Justice Delayed Could Mean Justice Denied; Is There A Better Way? - In the past two weeks, federal district courts have struck down partisan gerrymanders in both Michigan and Ohio. As a matter of legal doctrine, these deci...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Guadalupe Paz & the TJ Opera Scene - For more than 15 years now, I’ve followed the way Tijuana has developed an opera scene that is one of the artistic jewels of Mexico. One of the scene’s g...
CultureMap Houston

New tropically themed spot cooks up Latin flavor in Boulevard Oaks - David Buehrer wants Houstonians to feel like they can get away from it all without leaving town. That's the driving force behind Tropicales Cafe Y Comida,...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...
DoucheLeaks

4-21 Democratic Presidential Preference Poll - Last week’s poll results truly blew me away. The resurgence of Elizabeth Warren with a commanding 0.89% of the vote was quite an unexpected delight – sure ...
Socialist Worker

Taking our final steps - From the ISO Members of the leadership team responsible for carrying out the decisions made by current and recently resigned ISO members in voting to diss...
Texas Moratorium Network

Hearing on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - We testified at the hearing of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 15, 2019 in favor of Rep. Dutton’s bill to prohibit the death penal...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Where do all your tax dollars go? To war! - HOW TO PAY FOR WAR It’s tax season, but where does all your money actually go? Posted by Soapbox on Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Wayne Dolcefino (Houston muckraker)

MESSAGE TO THE FBI…BRING IT ON - Newly released documents in the Brazil kidnapping case show the spin-doctor/lawyer for Houston doctor Chris Brann waged an ongoing campaign to keep Ben T...
The Metaphor Project

Being Clear About What #TrueAmericanFreedom Means! - Ever since Rep.Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D- NY) and her colleagues launched the Green New Deal resolution, the GOP has been betting they can scare the Amer...
LawFlog

Facebook colluded with Media Matters to shadow ban conservatives, confidential document suggests - A secret fundraising brochure for Media Matters suggests the far-left organization successfully convinced social media giants like Facebook and Twitter, as...
Popehat

The State of the Hat - One of the most justifiably ridiculed type of blog posts is the "hey guys I haven't posted in a long time" non-substantive blog posts, but nonetheless, her...
Texans For Public Justice

Influence Texas app updatedfor 86th Legislative Session - Free wep app tracks money and bills...Influence Texas OS Version 2 is now available. The open source app uses TPJ data to track who gave how much to Texas...
Texas Watch

In Depth: Auto Legislation - In Depth with Ware Wendell Video of In Depth with Ware Wendell We pay over $20 billion in premiums to auto insurance companies each year. Many insurance...
News Junkie

The Surrealism of the Information War - The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which...
Houston Justice

HISD's GREATEST HITS - A lot continues to be up in the air about our local school board, so let’s take a look back at some of the board’s “Greatest Hits.” Let’s start with this r...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.
Texas Rural Voices

TEXAS FIGHTS OPIOID USE - Launched by the Texas Office of the Attorney General, the Dose of Reality website will serve as a repository of addiction information and resources in th...
Spin Bin

They Spy With Their Little Eye - The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New ...
John Laurits

[video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany - [video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany For readers who missed the Facebook live-stream, here is a video wherein I a...
Pressing Issues

Midterm Results - In past years, I have closely monitored TV and web coverage of the returns and posted here in real time, which some people really appreciate--I presume fol...
Talking Union

The Postal Strike of 1970: Relevance to Today - by Lawrence Swaim Ed. note: We are always eager to post first-person accounts from worker activists writing from their own direct experiences. This arti...
Reverb Press

What do Julius Caesar and Trump Have in Common? Both Embraced Immunity From Prosecution - As the Mueller investigation winds down, the question on everyone's minds is will the Special Counsel prosecute Trump? The post What do Julius Caesar and...

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