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Axios

Tillerson: Trump declined to tell world leaders his Iran deal decision - Having just emerged from what he called an "open and candid exchange" with the parties to the Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said P...
Mediaite

CNN Hires Preet Bharara, Former U.S. Attorney Fired By Trump - Preet Bharara and Walter Shaub will join CNN in on-air roles.
Salon.com

Entire island of Puerto Rico loses power - As Hurricane Maria drenches the island, winds and flooding take down the electric grid
Daily Kos

Sickle cell patients fight for competent care and pain management amid racial bias in hospitals - Although there are persistent stereotypes that label it as such, sickle cell disease (a red blood cell disorder) is actually not a condition that only af...
Down With Tyranny!

Ever Wonder How A Totally Worthless Hack Like Joe Crowley, Steeped In Corruption, Gets Into Position To Take A Role In Running America? - Shane Goldmacher wrote an important piece for the *NY Times* Monday and Trump has been putting out so much crap that I haven't had time to get to it. But...
Hullabaloo

There is absolutely nothing to see here - *There is absolutely nothing to see here* by digby The Daily Beast had a big scoop today that got lost in all the news: Suspected Russia propagandists on ...
Greg Palast

Finally, Busted! - Finally. "Use of Crosscheck risks severe, discriminatory disenfranchisement of registered voters in violation of federal law." Last week, the NAACP and L...
Field Negro

Open Thread Wednesday. - [image: MORE DISCLAIMERS]It's open thread Wednesday, and I need your thoughts on the news of the day. Personally, I am thinking about this trump probe wide...
National Post

Conservatives accuse Trudeau of hypocrisy in avoiding tax changes targeting wealthy Canadians - Reports have pointed out that Trudeau would have had access to certain tax advantages because his father's assets were kept in a testamentary trust startin...
Raw Story

‘Clearly obstruction of justice’: Ex-Ethics chief says Trump’s penchant for lying may ‘put an end to this White House’ - Former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter told Chris Matthews that the “the obstruction of justice and the lying” may be what brings down Dona...
Sputnik News

US Special Ops to Test Air-to-Ground Lasers in 2018 - A senior US special operations commando is “enthusiastic” about the prospect of testing the once-secret High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLA...
Pajiba

'Gerald's Game': Netflix Has Its Own Stephen King Movie, And It Arrives Next Week - For a guy whose career has spanned almost 50 years, and who has racked up plenty of milestones along the way, 2017 is still turning out to be a big year fo...
Political Dig

PoliticusUSA Blasts Trump In Editorial, Calls His Presidency ‘The Worst Of Our Collective History’ - Donald Trump is probably the most controversial president in modern history. He has more critics than he does followers and many would agree that Trump i...
Anti-Media

Experts in Shock as Hurricane Maria Leaves All of Puerto Rico Without Power - Size and strength of Hurricane Maria is being called “horrifying” as relentless and unprecedented hurricane season continues. (COMMONDREAMS) The Caribbean ...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Thompson v. Park 17-294 Issue: Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in hol...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Kaine: GOP Obamacare repeal plan is a 'big... - Senate Republicans are trying once again to repeal Obamacare. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia says their plan is actually 'a big smokescreen' for cutting Medica...
The Rag Blog

Alice Embree : Sex and socialism - Is it time to consider what socialism can mean in the bedrooms as well as in the body politic? By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 20, 2017 Is sex b...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump wants crude anti-LGBTQ activist as pick for federal judge. - From Right Wing Watch: CNN reported today that Jeff Mateer, a former attorney for the Religious Right legal group First Liberty Institute who President ...
Death and Taxes

Scott Pruitt is using EPA investigators as his personal bodyguards - At least one job at the agency isn't getting cut.
Vox

Vox Sentences: The power's out in Puerto Rico - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered s...
Portside

The MST and the Fight to Change the Brazilian Power Structure - Learning from the past, Brazil's landless rural workers continue their struggle for democracy and justice. During the 1960s, legend has it that governo...
Eschaton

Wednesday Evening - Rock on.
Palmer Report

Robert Mueller is zeroing in on Mike Pence - Mike Pence is in deep trouble The post Robert Mueller is zeroing in on Mike Pence appeared first on Palmer Report.
The Conversation

Study: More, and more diverse, US college students voted in 2016 - AP Whether motivated by support for particular policies or enthusiasm – or ire – toward the candidates, the 2016 election captured the attention of U.S. ...
OpEd News

More Holes in Russia-gate Narrative - New tests support the skepticism of U.S. intelligence veterans that Russia "hacked" the DNC's computers, pointing instead to a download of emails by an ins...
Above the Law

It’s Legal For Trump To Pay His Lawyers With Money Donated From Suckers - The law cannot help those who don't help themselves.
FiveThirtyEight.com

The New Health Care Bill Is Not So Great For States That Like Obamacare - Senate Republicans championing a final effort to pass a bill to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act are selling it as a way to offer more f...
VICE

Inside the Inspiring Citizen Response to Mexico's Earthquake - When everything falls silent, it's an incomparable, goosebumps-inducing display of human will. "Is there anyone here who hears me?"
Deep State Nation

Nikki Haley: Trump Calling Kim Jong-Un ‘Rocket Man’ Worked! - In case you missed it, the so-called president went before the United Nations yesterday and said “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for ...
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Cassini’s Impact Site on Saturn - I know I’m late. I got about 30 minutes of sleep last night and I had work at 12pm, so… sorry. But at least I got it in on Wednesday this time! 😛 Anyways…...
Talking Points Memo

Are We Missing a Big Part of the Facebook Story? - Over recent weeks we’ve learned much more about how Russian operatives used Facebook to support Donald Trump, attack Hillary Clinton and spread conspirac...
Mother Jones

Washington Just Sued a Giant Private Prison Company for Paying Immigrant Workers $1 Per Day - Thousands of immigrant detainees were paid $1 per day or, in some cases, with extra food as compensation for keeping one of the country’s largest for-profi...
Rivard Report

Committee Sends Proposed Ethics Reforms to Council - The City Council's Governance Committee on Wednesday sent revisions to the ethics and campaign finance codes on to the full Council. The post Committee S...
Shadowproof

Chicago’s ‘Green Zone’: Community Coalition Opposes City Plans For Massive Police Training Compound - Chicago community organizations contend a new police training center will expand the city police force's "capacity for violence." The post Chicago’s ‘Gre...
Houston Matters

Some City Council Members Are Frustrated Over Post-Harvey Clean-Up Process - An important vote related to increasing the amount of a contract is postponed.
Texas Observer

Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care? - United States Congress/Wikimedia Commons About 4.5 million Texans would get coverage under the single-payer health care legislation that’s gaining tracti...
No More Mister Nice Blog

EITHER BREITBART'S JOHN NOLTE IS STUPID OR HE THINKS YOU ARE - Breitbart pulished this piece by John Nolte yesterday: According to the latest census figures, white people make up 61.3 percent of the American populati...
Crooks and Liars

Tucker Carlson Taunts SoCal Witch Who Cast Spells Against Trump's Evil: 'Is This Legal?' - [image: Tucker Carlson Taunts SoCal Witch Who Cast Spells Against Trump's Evil: 'Is This Legal?'] In the universe and flow of information, it seems weird t...
The Intercept

Why Lisa Murkowski Is So Unlikely To Flip Her Vote On Repealing Obamacare - What Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a group of interns sheds light on why she voted against Obamacare repeal last time — and probably will again. Th...
Lowering the Bar

O.J. Simpson Robbery Memorabilia Now Available - In which the nature of this particular memorabilium, and the word "memorabilium," are both discussed. Related Stories - O.J. Simpson: “I've S...
Wolf Street

This Fed is on a Mission - QE Unwind starts Oct. 1. Next rate hike in Dec. Low inflation, no problem.
High Plains Blogger

Christian nation or a ‘nation of Christians’? - A former colleague and critic of this blog made a fascinating — and legitimate — point while participating in an exchange about a post I wrote about a gues...
Texas Standard

Did Barack Obama Really Use DACA To Grant Citizenship To The Program’s Recipients? - Our weekly check-in with the Texas Truth-O-Meter.
Slate

The Angle: Obergefell Next Edition - *It’s coming:* Slowly but surely, the Trump administration is nominating judges to the federal judiciary who will undermine, and eventually challenge, th...
Swamplot

Tomball Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Carport - 19051 Hufsmith Kohrville Rd. [HAR]… Read More
If You Only News

Jaws Drop As Chrissy Teigen Viciously Goes After Ivanka Over Latest Foolish Tweet (TWEETS) - Model Chrissy Teigen has been one of the most outspoken celebrities when it comes to our undeserving POTUS and his entitled family. Ever since...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Is Trump a Target in the Mueller Investigation? - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
Daily Dot

Suspected Russian Facebook page organized dozens of pro-Trump rallies last year - Did pro-Trump page Being Patriotic come from Russia, with love? The post Suspected Russian Facebook page organized dozens of pro-Trump rallies last year ...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 9 things to do in Houston this weekend - Don't have weekend plans yet? From spectacular concerts and haunted houses to a can't-miss food event, we've got you covered. Here's are our top nine pick...
Grist

Can we still avoid the worst of climate change? Maybe. - We may have more leeway in the fight to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C.
Reverb Press

Right Wing ‘News’ Site Drudge Report a ‘Pipeline’ for Russian Propaganda, Shocking Study Finds - The Drudge Report Loves Russian Propaganda Sites Enough to Link to Them 400 Times In Five Years The Drudgery Drudge Report has always had a certain knack...
Ballot Access News

Michigan Governor Signs Bill, Excusing 2017 Local Candidates in Four Cities Who Filed Late Documents to Run for Office - On September 18, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed HB 4892, which makes it possible for candidates in four particular Michigan cities to run for local o...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Inconvenient Truth - Melanie Schmitz @ Think Progress: Tom Price blasted government use of private jets, now regularly uses them for domestic travel. Matthew Chapman @ Shareblu...
San Antonio Current

California Sues Trump Administration Over Border Wall -
The Verge

This 'AI' standing desk really just has a touchscreen tablet built-in - I have a standing desk. I like it. I'm standing right now, actually, and blogging at the same time. My standing desk is automated, so I push buttons on ...
Rude Pundit

Graham-Cassidy Dicks Over So Many People (and Its Sponsors Are Liars) - There's a ton of insidious shit going down in the massive clusterfuck that is the effort to bring the Graham-Cassidy-and-the-rest's "Lynch Obamacare" bill ...
Mahablog

Republicans Are Still Trying to Take Away Your Health Care - The continents are getting slammed. Hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes. I don’t really want to talk about politics. But duty calls. The Senate is tryin...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Stay in Chip and Joanna Gaines’s Fixer Upper Houses - I recently spent an action-packed 24 hours in Waco, where I explored hip coffee shops and galleries, well-designed (and delicious) restaurants, and styli...
Louis Proyect

Elizabeth Blue; Thy Father’s Chair - The two films under review are about people living at society’s margins and not the flashy superheroes you are used to seeing in summer blockbusters about ...
Consortium News

More Holes in Russia-gate Narrative - Exclusive: New tests support the skepticism of U.S. intelligence veterans that Russia “hacked” the DNC’s computers, pointing instead to a download of email...
Washington's Blog

Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism - By Robert Parry, the investigative reporter who many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. Originally published ...
First Draft

Nambia Pamby? - Donald Trump: Explorer or Schnorrer?
The Fifth Column

Irish student acquitted in Egypt after four years of mass trial - (Reprieve) – An Irish student who was a juvenile when he was arrested has been acquitted at an Egyptian mass trial, four years after his arrest at a protes...
Splinter

As Hurricane Maria Passes Through Puerto Rico, Images Stream in Showing Storm’s Devastation - Hurricane Maria’s eye passed over Puerto Rico hours ago, but early reports and footage from the island indicate that the worst may be yet to come. The da...
Politifact Texas

Bill Cassidy - Bill Cassidy offers misleading defense in face-off with Jimmy Kimmel - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Bill Cassidy offers misleading defense in face-off with Jimmy Kimmel Following a sharp rebuke by late-night talk sh...
NPR's Health Shots

A Neglected Family Of Killer Viruses - The five hepatitis viruses claim over 1 million lives each year. Yet the attention — and funding — can't compete with HIV, TB and malaria.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Keith Tharpe’s Scheduled Execution Tests Our Nation's Tolerance for the Death Penalty's Racial Bias - There are two types of Black people, the juror said, and Tharpe wasn’t a “good” one. *This piece originally appeared at In Justice Today. * In 1991, a ju...
Think Progress

Two major cities demand fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages - San Francisco and Oakland are the two latest cities looking to take major fossil fuel companies to court over their role in fueling climate change. City at...
Bracing Views

The Vietnam War: A Tragic Mistake? - W.J. Astore I’ve watched the first three episodes of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series on the Vietnam War, which take us from the French colonial period beg...
Election Law Blog

“Snyder approves unlimited super PAC cash” - Ugh via Detroit News: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday signed legislation letting political candidates raise unlimited money for super political acti...
Ring of Fire

Flashback: Yale Psychiatrist Says Donald Trump’s Mental Illnesses Can’t Be Ignored Anymore - Dr. Brandy Lee, a prominent psychiatry professor at Yale University, told Salon.com that Donald Trump has glaring mental illnesses that must be addressed...
Liberal Values

The Anti-Russia Hysteria Continues To Defy All Logic - Clinton apologists and other pro-war Democrats are excited today by the report from the Daily Beast that Russians used Facebook to promote pro-Trump rallie...
Dandelion Salad

The Censorious Vortex of the “Flash News” Barons by Ralph Nader - Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page September 20, 2017 For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way int...
Affinity

Bath House. - Bath House from Niki Lindroth von Bahr on Vimeo. If you need English, click the captions on.
Independent Thinker 2016

How to Remove Donald Trump from Office In One Easy Step - Want to stop impending nuclear war? There's actually something you can do.
emptywheel

Facebook Troll Account Events Happen in Wake of Guccifer 2.0 Released Targeting Data - The first events Facebook troll promoted events that might legitimately have had an effect on the election -- a set of rallies in Florida on August 20 -- c...
Buzzflash

Mueller casts broad net in requesting extensive records from Trump White House - Mueller casts broad net in requesting extensive records from Trump White House 3.5/*5* rating (2 votes)
Mock Paper Scissors

He Seems Nice, Part Infinity - Our favorite theocratic man crush, the dreamy shark-eyed Xristian-Sharia loving Theodore Shoebat wants to kill and kill again: And in case you are wonderin...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Assessing Latin America’s Leftism - The left’s strategic setbacks in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina since 2015 have rekindled the debate about how leftist Latin America’s governme...
Houstonia

Da Camera Enters its Third Decade with Concerts from the Harlem Quartet - Jazz and Cuban rhythms are the focus Saturday, with an all-Beethoven concert Sunday.
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Has it really been ten years? - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017Those memoirs continue to beckon:* Has it really been ten years? Apparently, yes it has! Yesterday morning, Morning Joe cel...
News Corpse

Lyin’ Sean Spicer’s ‘Lack of Credibility’ Gets Him Rejected By All 5 Major News Networks - In August Donald Trump’s Press Secretary, Sean Spicer (Fibby Spice), was advised that his services would no longer be required. He was fired after only six...
The Greanville Post

We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village - JOHN WHITEHEAD—As Thill noted when McGoohan died in 2009, “The Prisoner was an allegory of the individual, aiming to find peace and freedom in a dystopia m...
Popular Resistance

More Than 40 Nations Sign Nuclear Ban Treaty in First Hour - By The Institute for Public Accuracy. Reuters reports today: "Dozens of countries signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons on Wednesdayamid tensions over No...
ProPublica

California Regulators Require Auto Insurers to Adjust Rates - by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson California regulators said they have required Nationwide and USAA to adjust their auto insurance rates as a result of a ...
Morning Consult

Poll: U.S. Consumers Back New Laws, Class-Action Suits After Equifax Hack - After Equifax Inc. disclosed on Sept. 7 that it had suffered a massive data breach that exposed up to 143 million U.S. consumers' data, a majority of adu...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

If the Shoe Fits… - We’ve been getting some interesting responses to our post earlier this week about flood ravaged Little Cambodia and how two “citizen organizations” took ov...
jobsanger

Public Is Still Convinced Trump Will Get Us Into A War - The chart above reflects the results from the Economist / YouGov Poll. It is a weekly poll, and I went back to show how the country feels about Trump and...
Free Press Houston

Bulls and Roosters: An Interview with together PANGEA - Santa Clarita group Together PANGEA really mixed up the pot of what you thought the band could do.
Progressive Army

Trump’s UN Speech: Rhetoric of a Dictator - I have a degree is in Political Science w/ emphasis in International Relations and a minor in Psychology. Yesterday’s UN rant by Trump is inexplicable to...
Common Dreams

Latest GOP Plan 'Is Even Worse for Women's Health Than Previous Repeal Bills' - Jessica Corbett, staff writer Surprise! Bill written by two male Republicans would strip basic reproductive care from millions of women.
Rewire

Maine Abortion Providers Could Increase Six-Fold if This Lawsuit Succeeds - Maine is one of 41 states that restrict abortion access by allowing only doctors to perform abortions. The post Maine Abortion Providers Could Increase S...
Socialist Alternative

Catalonia: One Million Demonstrate in Barcelona for Self-Determination Referendum - Statement by Esquerra Revolucionària (CWI in Catalonia) On the 11th September one million people spilled onto the streets of Barcelona shouting loud and cl...
Church and State

Europe – A Thirst For Punishment - Poor Europe: today as before, a stench of carrion rises from it, its past adheres to its present like a leprous mold.
The NM Political Report

Santa Fe County voters reject tax increase - [image: Santa Fe County voters reject tax increase] Santa Fe voters rejected another tax increase, this time in a low-turnout special election. The increa...
In These Times

The New GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare Is Pure Destruction, or Trumpism In a Nutshell - The first plan the House of Representatives put forward to repeal the Affordable Cart Act (ACA) was the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The Congressiona...
Houston Press

New PETA Billboard Takes Aim at Texas A&M Dog Experiments - If you've been driving along I-45 just north of West Mount Houston Road and spotted a billboard with a sad, drooling dog in a cage, and wondered, "Gee, why...
Ecosophia

The Terror of Deep Time - Back in the 1950s, sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote cogently about what he called “crackpot realism”—the use of rational, scientific, utilitarian means ...
Duck of Minerva

The Book Nook: The CIA and the Politics of US Intelligence Reform - Today we begin the Bridging the Gap “Book Nook,” a series of short videos describing new books by scholars in the BTG network. For the first entry, our ver...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Looming North Korea Nuclear Apocalypse Result of Incompetence? Or Staged? - Are we supposed to take the insane behavior of our political leaders, including Donald Trump and John McCain, as well as Kim Jong Un, the clown they're ...
Dissident Voice

The Demise of Civic Journalism: The Xenophon-Turnbull Deal - It was never spectacular, but the Australian media scape is set to become duller, more contained, and more controlled with changes to the Broadcasting Serv...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2017 - Today's Water Cooler: Midwest trade, #MedicareforAll, centrists, chemical activity, Amazon, Toys R Us, influencers, global wages, Pokemon
Houston Streetwise

Harvey Aftermath: Underground Harris County Jury Room Being Disemboweled - No jury duty - Heavy duty trash removal Harris County Jury Plaza (the facility is underground, and connection to the courthouses with tunnels) Crimi...
Reveal

Documents show first government payments to Trump’s business - Also in this week's roundup: What happens when other people make money off of Trump and his aides need to pay their legal bills.
Debunking Christianity

Here's How To Bring Science Down To Philosophy - Here's yet another attempt to bring science down to the level of controversial philosophical opinions. I call bullshit! The money quote: I think it is help...
Pharyngula

We need to improve the quality of modern language texts - At least, that’s the lesson I take away from this. Love this! pic.twitter.com/OhEyrZ6mws — David Skelton (@DavidASkelton) September 20, 2017
AlterNet.org

Is Trump About to Repeat George W. Bush's Most Catastrophic Mistake? - The U.S. could be stumbling into an utterly senseless war with Iran. In 2003, the United States initiated perhaps the greatest strategic disaster in US hi...
Pensito Review

GOP Governors Launch ‘Fake News’ Site - “The Republican Governors Association has quietly launched an online publication that looks like a media outlet and is branded as such on social media. The...
The Progressive Wing

Bernie Sanders BLASTS New Graham-Cassidy Trumpcare Bill - Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in opposition to Senate Republicans’ new Graham-Cassidy proposal that would leave more than 30 million Americans w...
Eater Houston

Elderly Woman Sues Red Lobster, Claiming She Was Served Too Much Booze - The 82-year-old broke her hip and arm after falling, intoxicated, in the parking lot A lawsuit filed this week in Harris County alleges that a location ...
MintPress News

Excessive Force Case Upheld Against DC Police Who Pointed Gun At 11-Year-Old Girl - The case centers around the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, who are accused of illegally searching a private home and pointing a gun at an 11-y...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Trump judicial pick called transgender children part of 'Satan's plan' - President Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas once described transgender children as part of “Satan’s plan,” compared homosexuality to bestial...
Real News

First Nations and Ontario's Ring of Fire - By the Socialist Project *The Ring of Fire continues to divide First Nations and suck up money that should go to healing communities.* Ontarians for a ...
Political Orphans

I hope Republicans pass Graham-Cassidy - By passing this bill, Republicans would face the consequences at the ballot box before anyone gets killed by their stupidity. If you want to see universal ...
Peacock Panache

Texas School Falsely Tells Students Pledge is Legally Mandatory - Midland High School in Midland, Texas is under fire for a presentation to students that instructed them standing for the Pledge of Allegiance is legally ...
Other Words

In OtherWords: September 20, 2017 - Bernie Sanders recently introduced a bill that would extend Medicare to all Americans.
Political Garbage Chute

Mexico’s President: “When America Sends Its Condolences, It Doesn’t Send Them From Their Best” - After an earthquake devastated Mexico yesterday, Trump sent his condolences. Which Mexico was happy-ish to accept...kinda. [...] The post Mexico’s Presid...
Antiwar.com

Breaking: Forced Takeover of Catalan Government Institutions by Spanish Police Ahead of Oct. 1 Vote - I just got of the phone with Josep Maria Sole Sabaté, my friend and a leading Catalan historian and public intellectual. He was nothing short of breathle...
Angry Bear

Carbon Gridlock Redux in Washington State - byPeter Dorman (originally published at Econospeak) Carbon Gridlock Redux in Washington State A year ago—it already seems like another era—an initiative to...
Death to Squirrels

Petition to St. Louis Mayor: Protect protesters, investigate cops. - [CONTENT NOTE: white supremacy, racist police violence (no images).] Please sign and signal boost if you are willing and able. Thank you. via Color of Chan...
SocraticGadfly

Will Greens continue to struggle in chasing black members? - I referred to this issue in passing in a blog post in July, in talking about the Green Party's public pants-crappings leading up to, and during, the 2017 ...
Liberation News

Community shuts down racist politician in Chicago suburbs - The board meeting ended as the crowd began chanting “Racists Go Home” at the few supporters of Brannigan The post Community shuts down racist politician ...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas yet to 'turn the page' on police reform, and other stories - Lets's clear out Grits' browser tabs with a quick roundup of stories about policing which deserve Grits readers' attention: *Texas hasn't 'turned the page'...
Democracy Now!

Trump Slammed as "Enemy to Most of the World" as He Vows Not to Lift Sanctions on Cuba - On Tuesday, speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump railed against the Cuban government and said the U.S. would not lift its sanct...
Bonddad

The asterisk in real median household income - - *by New Deal democrat* This is a follow-up to the post I wrote last week about the latest data on real median household income. One of the things I no...
Dorf on Law

Unconscientious Objection - *by Michael Dorf* My latest *Verdict *column discusses the recent decision of the Israel Supreme Court giving the government a year to develop a plan to s...
Space City Weather

Late-summer blahs to persist in Houston for awhile - Tuesday offered a quiet day across the Houston region, and our weather for the rest of the week will probably be more or less the same, with warm days and ...
Duffel Blog

Trump orders US military to build giant wall in Afghanistan to keep terrorists out - [image: Trump To Build Wall In Afghanistan] WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s long-awaited South Asia strategy includes plans to build a wall along ...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Gretchen Himsl - Today we wrap up the series of interviews with candidates in HISD District I with Gretchen Himsl. Gretchen is a Policy Analyst for Children at Risk, an edu...
skippy the bush kangaroo

every wednesday night - fema auctioned off disaster trailers just before harvey hit thinking strategically about free speech and violence if you've never lived in poverty don't t...
American Third Party Report

Libertarian Party Files Amicus in U.S. Supreme Court Case on Ohio Voter Purging Practices - Ballot Access News On September 19, the Libertarian Party filed this brief in Husted v Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, the U.S. Supreme Court case over ...
Informed Comment

Trump blasts Iran for backing Syria, ignores Russia, Praises Saudis - Accuses Iran of terrorism but lets Saudis skate
Socialist Worker

Chuck and Nancy's art of the deal - Danny Katch, author of *Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People*, uncovers the secret of the shell game that Democrats have played in the name of defe...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: With no Democratic governor candidate, questions trail Joaquin Castro - Statesman: With no Democratic governor candidate, questions trail Joaquin Castro
The Contributor

GOP Senator is For States' Rights... Except When It Comes to Single Payer - News Image: Covering all people with single payer is not money "properly spent," according to Republican. origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Juli...
Irregular Times

Donald Trump Goes Full Nikita Khrushchev at the UN - Today, the President of the United States threatened the complete destruction of another country from the podium of the United Nations.
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Secret Science Club Post-Lecture Recap: Two Lecturers, Two Black Holes - Last night, I headed down to the beautiful Bell House, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, for this month's Secret Science Club lecture featuring Princeton...
Gin and Tacos

SHOTGUN STRATEGY - Another week, another urgent exhortation to CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW TO SAVE HEALTH CARE. SERIOUSLY IF YOU DON'T DO IT RIGHT NOW ALL IS LOST. I know we...
Houston Communist Party

Former Pentagon Analyst Explains Why Trump Fostering Hysteria Over North Korea - Opinion Former Pentagon Analyst Explains Why Trump Fostering Hysteria Over North Korea Opinion 03:32 20.09.2017Get short URL 3316 0 0 https://sputniknews.c...
Brad Blog

Trump Blusters UN; GOP 'Repealing' O'Care Again; Dems 'Looking Forward' With 'Medicare-for-All': 'BradCast' 9/19/2017 - Today on The BradCast, its yet another day with an impossibly huge number of important breaking news stories to cover. But we try. Along with some conversa...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Remarks by President Trump on Cuba and Venezuela today at the UN General Assembly - *"From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure."...
slacktivist

White evangelicalism, 1975: Before the change (3.1) - Norman Geisler's use of the term "therapeutic" in this section turned out to be unfortunate. Back in the early 1970s, when he was writing this summary of t...
BEYONDbones

Pirate Treasure At HMNS…? - So today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and a lot of people have been asking me if we have any pirate-related (piratical?) objects in our collection a...
Campaign for America's Future

How You Can Help Small Businesses Thrive - Banks are trying to score another victory over hardworking Americans by refusing to lend to minorities, women, and rural residents who own and run small bu...
Echidne of the Snakes

Trump Speaks To The Nations of The World - At the United Nations. The message that was put into his mouth (perhaps by Stephen Miller) is one of patriotic ethno-nationalism, of strong nation state...
News Taco

How to Learn From the World’s Best Blogger - I was recently asked for the name the world’s best blogger, which I took to mean, in a roundabout way, my favorite blogger. The questioner was looking to...
Better Texas Blog

Texas loses under Graham-Cassidy - At first glance it may look like Texas comes out ahead in the Graham-Cassidy bill, the Senate’s last-ditch effort to cut Medicaid and repeal the Affordab...
Save Buffalo Bayou

On Mud, Dust, and Rain - And Letting the Bayou Heal Sept. 19, 2017 Rain at last! Monday morning the sky is grumbling with thunder, even as the sun shines. A sprinkle of rain will w...
Equality Texas

#TransTuesday: National Suicide Prevention Month - September is National Suicide Prevention Month. For today’s #TransTuesday, Equality Texas would like for our supporters to help us promote awareness around...
Lewisville Texan Journal

City of Lewisville recognizes officers for saving a life - An altercation between two people behind a Jack in the Box led to a stabbing the evening of June 19, 2016. Officers John Austin Slye and Timothy O’Hare r...
DeSmogBlog

Exclusive: Here are the Energy Companies Represented by Trump’s Nominee to Head FERC - President Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC) has, as a corporate attorney, personally represented a host of energy a...
OffCite

Kashmere Gardens After Harvey: Grassroots Action as Wait for Government Drags On - Keith Downey, Kenneth Williams, and Huey German-Wilson. Photo courtesy Keith Downey.“The City Houston is open for business,” Mayor Sylvester Turner announc...
CPI's Danger in the Air

These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to it? - A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.
Dos Centavos

Save The Date: 10/16/17 – Rev. Barry Lynn in Houston - Join the Houston Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State As We Honor the 25 Years of Leadership of The Reverend Barry W. Lyn...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The panhandler - *(based on a true interaction, with apologies to Thomas Bernhard)* I am not Hispanic, said the panhandler, to me, as I passed him, and he wasn’t. I know t...
Rallblog

SYNDICATED COLUMN: No Man is Above the Law — Except on College Campuses - Freshman orientation, Columbia University, New York City, Fall 1981: Now as then, there were speeches. A blur of upperclassmen, professors and deans welcom...
Ian Welsh

Obama’s Just the Enemy And Always Was - One of the most amusing things about the 07/8 primary season was how often Obama praised Reagan and how few people took him seriously. Obama thought Reagan...
Frontloading HQ

California Primary Bill Passes Legislature. What It Means and What It Doesn't - On the final day the California legislature was in session for 2017, both chambers did what state legislatures often do at the close of a year: in short, l...
DBC Green blog

No-Relief-from-Harvey-Stories Texoblogosphere - This week's blog-a-thon contains quite a few intriguing-looking links, IMHO. That's not to say that I'll click through all of them, and I seldom do, but th...
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note ] | Inside the October Issue, by James Marcus - Marilynne Robinson, Andrew Cockburn, Ben Mauk, Elisabeth Zerofsky, Eileen Myles, and more…
Progressive.org

Sanders Health Bill Is Not Just A Matter of Rights - The senator may have trouble convincing skeptics about his new Medicare for All plan, because his language falls right into well-established trenches in co...
First Reading

L’affaire Fetonte: How an Austin union organizer’s work with CLEAT created a schism in America’s burgeoning socialist movement - Good morning Austin: I did not realize when I moved from D.C. to Austin in December 2012 that I was moving closer to the center…
The Disorder Of Things

Academics Against the Arms Fair: An Open Letter - Last week, about 1500 weapons manufacturers and representatives of more than 100 states descended on London for Defence and Security Equipment Internationa...
South Texas Chisme

Texas republicans want drivers to pay for rape kits. - republicans don't care if a rapist is caught. Rape enables their male dominant cultural ideals. Driver's license applications will soon ask Texans whether ...
The Urban Edge

After Harvey, An Opportunity to Learn from the Past in the Classroom - Just as the Reconstruction Era of the 1800s attempted to generate more racial justice, the current reconstruction of Houston's schools must do the same. Co...
Independent Political Report

US Senate Candidate Austin Petersen on Infowars - … Read more ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Face of "War" at Home - Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hu...
Pages of Victory

Clinton's Book Sucks -
Pressthink

Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer - A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job. The post Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer appear...
Robert Reich

The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth - White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs,...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 25: Single Payer Buzzkill - Bill Scher recounts for Traci Olsen the calm, measured reaction to his recent Politico article about Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill. Check out this ...
Stinque

The Antisocial Network - Back when we were learning our trade as a reporter, in the late Seventies, conversation would sometimes turn to the concentration of media, and the power r...
PoliTex (FWST)

Buckle up, Texas students: New school buses must have seat belts - Some Texas students will soon be getting a safer ride to and from school. A new law requires that any new school buses bought in Texas must include three-p...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (Sept. 10 – 16) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. John Fea, professor of American history at Messiah College in Pennsylvania “When someone like Robert Jef...
Reading the Pictures

Anticipating a Conversation with Pete Souza at Photoville - I am looking forward to Saturday's special edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon at the fabulous Photoville festival. I'll be having a conversation w...
Krebs on Security

Equifax Hackers Stole 200k Credit Card Accounts in One Fell Swoop - Visa and MasterCard are sending confidential alerts to financial institutions across the United States this week, warning them about more than 200,000 cred...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists - A new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics finds that while there is relatively little national ...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

September 14, 1901: McKinley died, Teddy Roosevelt ascended to presidency - Lincoln, Garfield, then McKinley. September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, eight days after having been shot at Buffalo’s ...
Houston Justice

RACISM IN THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT - [image: PIMPING THE BLACK VOTE.png] Can we talk about it? You ever notice those organizations that come to Black and Brown neighborhoods with clip boards...
Trivial Knot

What is a symmetry group? - This is the first part of a series about symmetry in origami. Here I will explain what a symmetry group is through a series of examples. This heart illustr...
South Lawn

Democracy Is More Than A Ballot Every Two Years - There is a common sense about democracy in the United States. We elect people to government. By and large, we allow them to do their work. If we like their...
Great American Satan

Great Moments in TV Badassery - I’m rewatching Daredevil in bits and pieces. Came across a great scene, wanted to mention it and talk just a little about it, but this conversation will ge...
ExChristian.Net

Why the Old Testament is so silly - *By John Draper ~ * Back when I was a Christian, it was important to me to always have the Word of God close at hand. So I would keep a “pocket Bible” on m...
Ramona's Voices

Reporting In: Getting My Life Back - Yesterday, 9/11/17, was a bittersweet day for me. I couldn't forget it marked the 16th anniversary of the day the Twin Towers went down in NYC, but the da...
Quartz

In Tanzania, making Atlas work for traditional media outfits like newspapers and radio - The Atlas for Africa training in Tanzania took place at two of the country’s most prestigious newsrooms. The first training was held at the BBC Swahili o...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

September is the start of the State Employee Charitable Campaign - Texas State employees have the option to give to charities of their choice through a workplace giving campaign and September is the start of their campai...
UP@NIGHT

The Communist SAT and College Rankings Conspiracy - It should not be news to conspiracy theorists that there has been an …
Avedon's Sideshow

You might think I'm crazy - Dept. of Google Doing Evil: *Note: Barry C. Lynn mentioned herein is a different fellow from Barry W. Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church a...
ROAR Magazine

Municipalist syndicalism: organizing the new working class - By adopting a municipalist agenda, the labor movements of the new working class have the power to democratize not just the union, but also the city itsel...
Progrexas

As The Nation Bands Together To Help Those Affected by Hurricane Harvey : Four Texas Congressmen Remind The State That 2018 Is Just Around the Corner - The U.S. House approved $15 billion in aid to support those affected by Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in southeast Texas on Friday, sending the legislat...
Daily Democracy

Debunking Kobach’s latest voter fraud lie - Kris Kobach is at it again, claiming he’s found “proof” of large scale voter fraud. He hasn’t. And he’s doing something particularly sneaky that’s worth ex...
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 ...
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 9/7/2017 - It's been a terrific spring and summer, busy with a lot of projects, and now about midway done with all of them. I have some plans for this site in the n...
PERRspectives

Trump, GOP Demand Blue State Payback - In recent years, "red state socialism" has become the hallmark of American federalism. That is, even as supposed GOP budget hawks loudly (and wrongly) decr...
Texans For Public Justice

In Harvey's wake, critics see big money behind lax reporting - From the Texas Tribune: In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, an exploding chemical plant and spikes in cancer-causing emissions are highlighting how little th...
Resistance Report

As Irma Approaches, Congress Moves to Cancel Federal Flood Insurance For Homeowners - The federal government just threatened to suspend the flood insurance of homeowners right in the path of Hurricane Irma, according to DCReport. The Feder...
John Laurits

Antifa Is Good, Nazis Are Bad: Confusing Free Speech w/ the Right to a Platform - Antifa Is Good, Nazis Are Bad: Confusing Free Speech w/ the Right to a Platform Is antifa shutting down free speech by punching neo-nazis & fascists? A ...
Moron Majority

Trump To Return Statue Of Liberty To France - Donald Trump is deporting Lady Liberty. By way of a controversial executive order signed yesterday, Trump is packing up the iconic symbol of American freed...
LawFlog

White House petition to release FBI records surpasses 50,000 signatures - A petition asking the Trump Administration to order the FBI to release records related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation surpassed 50,000 signatur...
Our Finite World

Why Oil Prices Can’t Bounce Very High; Expect Deflation Instead - Economists have given us a model of how prices and quantities of goods are supposed to interact. Unfortunately, this model is woefully inadequate. It sort ...
Popehat

Hate Speech Debate on More Perfect Live - I'm a huge fan of Radiolab's Supreme Court podcast "More Perfect," so I'm thrilled to be participating in a live debate this Wednesday September 6, 2017. I...
Digital Heretic

Hurricane Harvey Victims Find Relief From Houston’s Rice Military, Heights Neighborhoods - In the wake of historic floods thousands of Houston area residents Piece together the remnants of what Hurricane Harvey destroyed. Others spared Harvey’s...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Right-Wing Propaganda Never Sleeps - *It's better to burn America, 'cause Propaganda never sleeps...* Lost amongst the hillarity felt by smug liberals to the conservative *WHATABOUT *President...
Texas Moratorium Network

Journey of Hope Coming to 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty October 28, 2017 - Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing, an organization led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses a...
Texas Watch

Valid Concerns on Valid Claims - The threat to property owners filing insurance claims in the wake of Hurricane Harvey is real. Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature passed HB 1774, ...
New Progressive Alliance

Beware the Trump Administration - The New Progressive Alliance keeps references that allies and friends may use in support of the Unified Platform such as Make Your Case! One of our reso...
Counter Propa

The DNC Fraud Lawsuit Has Been Dismissed. Dismiss The Democratic Party. - The oldest political party in the world has died. It doesn’t know it yet, it isn’t acting like it yet, but it is dead. By successfully getting the DNC fr...
Bay Area Houston

From the Party of Lincoln to the Party for racists - I've said it before but I am now convinced it is true. Remember when we used to say "Not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans"? Th...
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...
Texas Leftist

ICYMI: President Trump Also Tossed Out His Infrastructure Council This Week - For someone so “new” to politics, our nation’s 45th President sure seems to know what he’s doing when it comes to creating distractions and burying scandal...
St. Petersburg Independents

Reparations are alive! - “A crime has been committed. Reparations is the admission of that crime, one which shocks the conscience of the world.” Such is the foundation of the ca...
Carl Beijer

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

Thanks, Capitalism - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
News Junkie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man-Baby Trump Convinced he Can Pardon Himself - He Can't - Mr. Trump was ranting on Twitter again this Saturday morning and one of his tweets desperately claimed the president had the "complete power to pardon,"...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

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