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  • Bud Kennedy
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  • Echidne of the Snakes
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  • Texas Freedom Network
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  • Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
    Winner of the 2019 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The Prize Committee is delighted to announce that the article by Linda Weiss and Elizabeth Thurbon, “Power Paradox: How the Extension of US Infrastructur...
  • Lowering the Bar
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  • Reveal
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  • Innocence Project
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  • Ecosophia
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  • Edinburg Politics
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  • Grits for Breakfast
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  • Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas
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  • ROAR Magazine
    The popular assemblies at the heart of the Chilean uprising - Chile has a long history of radical neighborhood organizing — a tradition that is now put at the service of drafting a new constitution for a country in tu...
  • Crooked Timber
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  • Dos Centavos
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  • Eclectablog
    Get ready for Impeachment Eve – wsg Leah Greenberg, co-founder of the Indivisible movement - Leah Greenberg on Twitter: @LeahGreenb Ezra Levin on Twitter: @EzraLevin The Indivisible Team on Twitter: @IndivisibleTeam For information on joining the I...
  • Rude Pundit
    A Few Questions for Enraged Republicans - In the wake of Democrats finally loading the cannon on actual articles of impeachment, Republicans are somewhere between frantic denial and explosive apopl...
  • Moron Majority
    Marianne Williamson Proves Why We All Need To Do Our Due Diligence - About one month ago, I wrote a satirical piece, “Trump Pardons Charles Manson.” I also reposted the article on Dailykos.com. What was intended as a lighthe...
  • BEYONDbones
    Creating an Illustrated Guide to HMNS - When we started working on this Family Guide more than a year ago, we knew we wanted to create a massive, imaginative illustration of our Museum and its ma...
  • Trivial Knot
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  • Downwinders at Risk
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  • Land Destroyer
    The American Empire Will Fall, Not America Itself - *December 12, 2019* (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - The collapse of an entire nation is as spectacular as it is rare. For a nation to simply cease to exist it must ...
  • Political Orphans
    Link Roundup, 12/9/2019 - A political orphan’s guide to current events.
  • Earthworks
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  • Our Finite World
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  • Stinque
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  • Reading the Pictures
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  • The Rag Blog
    The Rag Blog : METRO EVENT | TeXchromosome benefit features live performance by women artists - Event: Fundraiser for TeXchromosome What: Live music, Funky Fleamarket, Silent Auction When: Saturday, December 14,1-7 p.m. Where: Peace House Farm Address...
  • ExChristian.Net
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  • Born To Run The Numbers
    BTRTN: A House Impossibly Divided. Now What Are We Going To Do About It? -
  • Carl Beijer
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  • The Militant
    Copper strikers fight Asarco union busting - As the bitter strike by some 1,700 workers against Asarco copper bosses’ union-busting drive entered its eighth week, the company claimed there is an “impa...
  • Independent Political Report
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  • Dispatches from the Underclass
    Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanon’s anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah - This is part one of a two-part report. Lebanon erupted in massive protests this October. The demonstrations transcended sect and class, and quickly spread ...
  • The Disorder Of Things
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  • Houston Strategies
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  • Media Lens
    Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn - Thoreau got it right: ‘Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.’ (Thoreau, ‘Walden’, Penguin, 1983, p.68) The same is ...
  • Environment Texas
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  • Robert Reich
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  • Avedon's Sideshow
    Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity - Happy Advent, have some traditional music. At the darkest and coldest time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, we need warmth and light, fellowship a...
  • Save Buffalo Bayou
    Yes, We Accept Donations. Thank you! - Nov. 30, 2019 So this is the thanks and the giving season, and everyone is asking for money. We almost never ask for money. But now we are. Save Buffalo ...
  • PERRspectives
    Is Trump Trying to Block the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline So His Ukraine Cronies Can Cash In? - After this week's testimony in the impeachment hearings, the contours of President Donald Trump's abuse of power for personal advantage have become crystal...
  • Liberation News
    Nueva coalición anti imperialista en San José, California, protesta contra el golpe de estado en Bolivia - El 18 de noviembre, la Coalición Anti Imperialista de San José, California, realizó un mitin frente al ayuntamiento para protestar por el derrocamiento d...
  • Equality Texas
    For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary by Honoring Our Strongest Advocates and Legislative Champions and Celebrating 30 Years of Protecting LGBTQ Texans - Angela Hale, Equality Texas, 512.289.2995 angela.hale@equalitytexas.org EQUALITY TEXAS CELEBRATES OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY BY HONORING OUR STRONGEST ADVOCATES ...
  • The Metaphor Project
    New Metaphor Project Strategy - For a while now, our new Metaphor Project strategy has prioritized being active on social media over writing blogs. To see our latest suggestions for frame...
  • Consent Factory, Inc.
    Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist - OK, we need to talk about fascism. Not just any kind of fascism. A particularly insidious kind of fascism. No, not the fascism of the early 20th Century. N...
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    Don't Dream, It's Over - There is no real origin story for Splinter.
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  • Seeing the Forest
    Wut? - For no particular reason, a bagpipe version of Eight Miles High by Rufus Harley. Inspired by John Coltrane and the Scottish pipers of JFK’s funeral march,R...
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  • Smart Dissent
    Federal Deficit Hit $984,000,000,000 Last Year, a 50% Increase Since Trump Took Office - Date: 11/05/2019 Republicans are liars and unfortunately they're good at it. That and millions of people are stupid enough to buy their BS. During the 2...
  • Washington's Blog
    Has California Lost The Mandate of Heaven? - In Chinese history, natural disasters were viewed as portents that the The Mandate of Heaven (tianming or “Heaven’s will”) had been withdrawn from the ru...
  • Community Impact Newspapers
    Leander Public Library Director Priscilla Donovan is leaving - Priscilla Donovan’s last day as Leander Public Library’s director will be Nov. 1, according to an Oct. 24 statement from [...] The post Leander Public Li...
  • nonsite.org
    N+1 and the PMC: A Debate about Moving On - What has led so many of us relatively independently of one another to start thinking about the PMC as a class formation in the first place? My sense is tha...
  • Frontloading HQ
    About that South Carolina Republican Party Defense of Canceling Its 2020 Presidential Primary - On Friday, October 18, the challenge to the cancelation of the 2020 presidential primary by the South Carolina Republican Party *had its day in court*. Wh...
  • New Progressive Alliance
    The Madness of King Donald - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida. Jeff here looks at d...
  • LawFlog
    Bank on it: the FBI is hiding records about Seth Rich - For two years, I’ve blogged about allegations that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich — not the Russians — was responsible for providing embar...
  • Texas Sharon's Bluedaze
    Hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling - Most people are shocked by the intense hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling. How can a well that is not complete have emissions? Neighborhoods u...
  • Texas Rural Voices
    A Rural Texan Explains the Mueller Report–Yes, It Is Still Important, Part 7 - Making it Easy for You in a Seven Part Series: Part 7 By Suzann Thompson Trump Tampered with Witnesses. Tampering with witnesses brings to mind intimid...
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    Who Does John Cornyn Work For? - The Texas Observer's Justin Miller takes a deep dive into Senator John Cornyn. Read Miller's article at the Texas Observer.
  • Screwston Antifascist Committee
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  • Think Progress
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  • Truthout
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  • Progressive Army
    Israel and South Africa: The Racial Travel Bans of Apartheid - Recently, Israel issued travel bans for Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. This is, yet again, another example of the country trying to silence ...
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  • IVN
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