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Houston Happenings and Progressive Blog Roll

Raw Story

Creationist Ken Ham blames atheists and ‘fake news’ for failing Ark Encounter theme park - The organization behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky is blaming atheists for tax-payers getting fleeced by the project. Creat...
Mock Paper Scissors

Your Saturday Bottomless Mug of Stupid is Served, Sen. Paul - Schrödinger’s Senator, the physics paradox known in this dimension as Rand Paul, the senator from the multiverse where anything is possible including being...
Daily Dot

Study suggests e-cigs are just as harmful as tobacco—but there’s a catch - A health information officer from Cancer Research UK says more research needs to be done. The post Study suggests e-cigs are just as harmful as tobacco—b...
Sputnik News

Tajik Forces Prevent Armed Group From Crossing Afghan Border - The Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency's officers prevented an armed group from crossing the Afghan-Tajik border, DCA press service’s head told Sputnik Satur...
Salon.com

“Terrifying brush with success”: Bill Maher mocks Democrats for losing another close election - The left-wing comedian says Democrats have to start winning elections because "the wrong people are in power"
Affinity

Rural Romance. - From rq. The moment I saw this, I wanted to run outside and have a serious flirtation with the sun. Unfortunately, my weather was windy, cold, and gloomy. ...
Crooks and Liars

Stephen Colbert Declares Run For President In 2020 On Russian TV - [image: Stephen Colbert Declares Run For President In 2020 On Russian TV] Source: The Daily Beast As he revealed on Twitter in a trolltastic message to Pre...
Vox

Millennials are the public library system’s biggest customers - Welcome to the weekly Vox book link roundup, a curated selection of the best online writing about books and related topics. Here’s the best the internet...
The Fifth Column

Iran Begins Exporting Natural Gas to Iraq - (Tasnim) – Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs Amir Hossein Zamaninia announced that the Islamic Republic has started exporting natural g...
Death and Taxes

Donald Trump is excited about ‘putting minors back to work’ - Typo or sinister plan to roll back child labor laws? It's impossible to tell.
Daily Kos

Voting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court agrees to take landmark case on partisan gerrymandering - Leading Off ● Gerrymandering: On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal this fall of a lower court ruling that struck down Wisconsin’s Republ...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Tone Policing: It’s A Nice Racket - Republicans are rushing to push a piece of naked class warfare that will result in a lot of unnecessary deaths. Republicans are using an undemocratic proce...
The Verge

An ode to my $7 HTC pack-in headphones - Headphones are an interesting slice of the technology market, where companies build products that are as much gadget as they are art. Design, style, and...
Down With Tyranny!

Is The DCCC A Racket? You Bet Your Sweet Ass It Is! - *Gone-- but the stench was left behind* Last week *Roll Call* reported that the DCCC hit a record-breaking fundraising number-- over $9.3 million in May… a...
Hullabaloo

The art of growing a spine by @BloggersRUs - *The art of growing a spine* by Tom Sullivan The Obama administration received an "eyes only" CIA report last August that the Russian hacking attacks we...
Eschaton

20 Years? - I suppose it's been fun reading all of those articles about how self-driving taxis were about to be on the road, but the new CW is starting to sink in. Th...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

One-On-One with CIA Director Mike Pompeo - Watch this first exclusive interview since CIA Director Pompeo took over the job. Hugh Hewitt sits down with CIA Director Mike Pompeo to discuss Trump, Ter...
OpEd News

Can Dems Fine an OpportunityThe Senate Health Bill - Can the Democrats find an opportunity in the upcoming "Health" Care vote?
NPR's Health Shots

More Than Memory: Coping With The Other Ills Of Alzheimer's - Many people with Alzheimer's suffer medical and mental health issues that have nothing to do with memory loss, including slow healing, incontinence, parano...
Axios

Melania Trump hires family business employee for WH chief usher - Melania Trump selected a Trump International Hotel employee for the White House chief usher position, per NYT. Her decision to hire an employee of the f...
Pharyngula

Special snowflakes on parade - Anita Sarkeesian was at a convention of youtubers this week, which sounds like a kind of hell. It’s not that I don’t think there is worthy content on youtu...
Duck of Minerva

Snipers and Democratic Control of the Military: More Oversight Please - I hinted at some politics when discussing the longest recorded sniper shot in history. That the Canadian government might not love this news because it wo...
Duffel Blog

‘Sorry aboot that, eh’ — Canadian sniper apologizes after record-breaking kill shot - [image: ‘Sorry aboot that, eh’ — Canadian sniper apologizes after record-breaking kill shot] OTTAWA — A Canadian sniper apologized today after he was conf...
naked capitalism

Links 6/24/17 -
Off the Kuff

What about Fort Worth? - Now that Houston has voted to join the litigation against SB4, there remains one big city on the sidelines. Holding signs that said, “No hate in my Texas” ...
Mother Jones

I Attended a College Class About Fake Meat. It Didn’t Disappoint. - Burgers that bleed. Eggless mayo. Chicken strips without the bird. In the last few years, a handful of California companies have transformed fake meat as w...
Grist

California is playing defense under Trump - Xavier Becerra, the state's attorney general, has become the face of its resistance.
Lewisville Texan Journal

Fresh Ideas contest winner honors mass shooting victims in solo exhibit - A Flower Mound painter discusses mass shootings with tears in her eyes, and her passion spills onto the canvases at her solo show “Targets.” Eilene Carver,...
skippy the bush kangaroo

koshite saturday night - facebook's tenacles reach farther than you think don't forget the fbi's warning that white supremacists have infiltrated america's law enforcement will t...
Informed Comment

Trump’s attack on a Fair Internet Threatens Free Speech - By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | – – Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and fr...
Freak Out Nation

LOL Of The Day: Dumb*ss GOP Rep DEMANDS That Special Counsel Stop Investigating Trump - Elect a clown, expect a circus. On Friday, Republican Andy Biggs, a Congressman from Arizona, did his best to climb into the Trump clown car. In a press ...
Political Dig

Trump Accidentally Admitted That Russia Interfered In The Election And Twitter Users Attacked Him For It - Donald Trump did what we never thought he would do, which was admit that Russia did interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Well, on Friday evening,...
Washington Monthly

Why Should We Believe that Trump is Telling the Truth About Tapes This Time? - Donald Trump is a compulsive liar. It’s sad that such a statement is necessary to make about a president of the United States, but there’s no escaping the ...
Anti-Media

Saudi Arabia Issues New Ultimatum of 13 Demands for Qatar to Meet - (ANTIWAR) — Saudi Arabia and its allies have issued a list of 13 demands to be imposed on the Qatar government in return for the lifting of their blockade ...
The Progressive Wing

Paul Ryan’s Challenger Randy Bryce: Ryan Not Listening, Trump Untrustworthy - Randy Bryce for Congress 2018 – Wisconsin’s 1st District … Continue reading →
Reveal

Trial and terror - President Donald Trump has used the threat of foreign-born terrorists to justify his travel ban – but since 9/11, nearly every terrorist attack in the Unit...
Palmer Report

Donald Trump’s “tech week” is even more of a dumpster fire than “infrastructure week” - Did anyone even know that Trump's dumpster fire of a week was supposed to have a tech theme? The post Donald Trump’s “tech week” is even more of a dumpst...
If You Only News

BREAKING: Trump’s Healthcare Bill To Fail, He Sends Out Desperate Plea To Congress - If Republicans are going to pass their landmark health care legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare with their own, they can only afford to lose...
Washington's Blog

NSA Uses Trick to Spy On Americans - The government is spying on most Americans through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners a...
jobsanger

Privatization -
Rivard Report

God’s Law or Man’s? Christians Separate Religious Beliefs from Immigration Views - National research shows that less than one in 10 Christians bases immigration views on the Bible or church teaching. The post God’s Law or Man’s? Christi...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Anything Goes - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends.
Houston Press

Kata Robata Chef Manabu Horiuchi Breaking Down an Eel Is Downright Meditative [Video] - It's that special time again. Time to round up top posts from our recent past, and since we love y'all so much, we thought we'd throw in this super zen-lik...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Businesses fear more fallout may follow California travel ban to Texas - Statesman: Businesses fear more fallout may follow California travel ban to Texas
Stinque

Groundhog Day - We spent a very pleasant Sunday devouring Al Franken’s new book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. In it, Al Franken explains how he took Al Franken hostage...
Irregular Times

Sloppy Pensacola Ritual Killing Trial Limps Toward Starting Line - In 2015, Irregular Times covered the false claims made by Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan that a murder in Pensacola, Florida had been committed with ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | June 23, 2017 - Mueller Team Paints Picture of Trump-Russia Investigation. Jesse Winchester | Step by Step. We May Not Have Heard the End of the Tapes. Trumpcare Protester...
Antiwar.com

Many Casualties in Mosul Attacks; 151 Killed in Iraq - Reports out of Mosul point to heavy casualties on Friday. The post Many Casualties in Mosul Attacks; 151 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Ori...
National Post

Shot six times, controversial CEO doesn’t know of enemies who’d want him dead - By Reid Southwick When millionaire real estate developer Riaz Mamdani was shot six times outside of his Mount Royal mansion in December, he still had the w...
Mediaite

CNN’s Jake Tapper, Actor Will Forte ‘Brawl’ at Charity Softball Game - Tensions were high in Kansas City when CNN anchor Jake Tapper and actor Will Forte broke out in a 'brawl' during a celebrity softball game on Friday.
VICE

'Concert Line Creeps,' Today's Comic by Pedro D'Apremont - All the drug dealers you'll meet lurking outside the downtown shows.
Resistance Report

Everything is literally f*cking melting in Arizona (PHOTOS) - It is the heat rather than the humidity. Buzzfeed is the latest national news site to report on what residents of Arizona cannot avoid — a hellscape... ...
The Greanville Post

Democrats in the Dead Zone - • The first sensible thing Emmanuel Macron has said: “Assad is no enemy of France.” Pr0-Assad observers correctly point out that Macron also said that he b...
High Plains Blogger

Most toxic ever? Well … it’s a different type of toxicity - An acquaintance of mine posed a question to me today. Since he asked it in a public social media venue, I’ll answer it here. He wondered: “Has it always be...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Elonis v. United States 16-1231 Issues: (1) Whether, as a matter of statutory or constitutional l...
Wolf Street

Two Italian Zombie Banks Toppled Friday Night - ECB Shuts Down Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza.
Brad Blog

'American Carnage' (Or, the Senate Republican 'Health Care' Plan): 'BradCast' 6/23/2017 - On today's BradCast: Donald Trump repeatedly promised not to cut Medicaid during his Presidential Campaign. During his Inauguration, he vowed to "end the A...
Heat Street

‘Girls’ Actress Allison Williams: Women Politicians Are Better Communicators - 'Female politicians have a way of communicating. The men talk AT people. The women talk TO people.'
Field Negro

Justice for Jethro, but not for Philando, Samuel, and Sylville. - [image: Image result for jethro k-9 images]I swear if someone could come up with a brilliant invention to make black men look like dogs after a traffic st...
Above the Law

Anthem To Pay Record $115 Million To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit - If approved, this will be the biggest data breach settlement in history.
Counter Propa

CIA-Funded Washington Post Tries To Reignite Russia Hysteria - This is getting really boring. Since the Democratic establishment’s “Russia! Russia! Russia!” strategy has continued to fail to win elections or support,...
Slate - Politics and News

Obama Did What He Had to Do - Did President Obama blow the 2016 election? Should he have spoken up sooner and louder about Russia’s interference? That’s what many Democrats are wonder...
Election Law Blog

ELB Podcast Episode 17. Josh Chafetz: Congress’s Power Before, During, and After Trump - In this era of polarization in politics, how much power does Congress have compared to the President and the courts? Is the Republican Congress a meaningfu...
Liberation News

More than 30 immigrant women on hunger strike in NW Detention Center - ICE officers threaten retaliation instead of addressing human rights abuses. The post More than 30 immigrant women on hunger strike in NW Detention Cen...
Dissident Voice

France Has No Evidence of Chemical Weapons’ Usage - The French president Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with El Pais (22 June 2017), said that the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power is ...
Socialist Alternative

China’s Ivanka Trump Sweatshops – Labour Activists Arrested - Is the Chinese regime’s relationship with the US ruling family a factor behind these arrests? Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Three Chinese activists have ...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Rock Bottom - 642 E. 26th St. [HAR]… Read More
Houston Communist Party

Bernie Sanders’ Wife Jane Under DoJ Investigation for Financial Fraud - Bernie Sanders’ Wife Jane Under DoJ Investigation for Financial Fraud © REUTERS/ Shannon Stapleton US 01:17 24.06.2017(updated 02:02 24.06.2017) Get short ...
Rewire

The Logic—or Lack Thereof—Behind the Fifth Circuit’s Decision to Lift an Injunction of an Anti-LGBTQ Law - “This decision is not only deeply upsetting for the rights of LGBT individuals living in Mississippi, but also for the protection of religious liberty in...
The Intercept

Flimsy Evidence and Fringe Sources Land People on Secretive Banking Watchlist - The World-Check database includes a baby and groups like Human Rights Watch, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Greenpeace. The post Flimsy E...
Reverb Press

CNN Defies Trump, Takes Bold Action to Defend Freedom of the Press - The White House is Sketchy So CNN Sent an Artist Under Donald Trump, the White House has become increasingly allergic to the freedom of the press guarant...
Ring of Fire

Republican Healthcare Plan Includes Huge Bonuses For Insurance CEOs - Hidden in the Senate version of the GOP healthcare bill is a small provision that hands hundreds of thousands – potentially millions – of dollars to insu...
Talking Points Memo

Kobach Sanctioned By Court For 'Deceptive Conduct And Lack Of Candor' - The Republican state official tapped by President Trump to lead his sketchy voter fraud commission was sanctioned by a federal judge Friday for his “dece...
San Antonio Current

We Tried the Plant-Based Impossible Burger, Now Available At Hopdoddy Burger Bar - A vegan burger paty, a product of an astutely marketed startup, and it just so happens to bleed... That's the abridged story of The Impossible Burger by...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: It Wasn’t Very Stupid - Joe DePaolo @ Mediaite: NH State Rep. Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be ‘Shot For Treason’ Attends White House Bill Signing. Media Matters: Hannity calls ...
Ballot Access News

Maine Bill that Moderately Improves Ballot Access Becomes Law - Maine LD 1571 makes moderate improvements in ballot access for newly-qualifying parties. It says that the deadline for a group to obtain 5,000 registered m...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Legendary Oilman Oscar Wyatt Finds Himself in the Middle of a Scandal Once Again - The 92-year-old Houston oilman allegedly made $500 million off of a company caught up in an ongoing legal battle. The post Legendary Oilman Oscar Wyatt F...
News Corpse

Delusional Donald: Trump is SHOCKED By Poll That Asks Whether People Believe Trump or Comey?’ - Poor Donald Trump. As president he is now forced to sit in the White House and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fake news, rather than enjoying h...
BEYONDbones

Are You “Down” To Talk About T rex Feathers? Our Very Own Specimen Has Some Input To Give - The controversy about whether famous dinosaurs had feathers has been raging for a while now. We’ve known that some dinosaurs had feathers ever since Arch...
Texas Observer

This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers - Keep up with the Observer’s sharp reporting on the Legislature and throughout Texas with this weekly newsletter. As GOP leaders in Washington, D.C. push ...
Lowering the Bar

Can the Holy Spirit Participate in Jury Deliberations? - Not just any old holy spirit, but *the* Holy Spirit.
Morning Consult

Dean Heller Joins Republican Opposition to Senate Health Care Plan - Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) on Friday said he could not support a health care plan backed by Senate Republican leaders as written, noting the proposed elim...
Pajiba

One Nevada Senator Stands in the Way of 25,000 Deaths - Dustin was kind enough to fill in for me last night (Thank you, Mr. Rowles!) because I was celebrating my 7th wedding monthaversary! And what does one do f...
FiveThirtyEight.com

We’re Hiring A Copy Editor - FiveThirtyEight is hiring a copy editor. We’re looking for someone to edit articles for clarity, style and, especially, accuracy. A significant portion of ...
Free Press Houston

“Chasing Trane” & “The Bad Batch” - Chasing Trane follows a linear path from the beginnings of John Coltrane’s career to its spectacular end. All the while, Coltrane’s music, heard constantly...
Daily Howler

Fox & Friends, the dumbest show ever! - *FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017Look who's catching up:* Long ago and far away, we first discussed the massive dumbness of the morning show, Fox & Friends. At the ...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

So Proud of My Country - I've only kept a nominal watch on the news this week, so it was with some dismay that I saw the footage of the Capitol Police, so soon after they covered t...
Think Progress

Second mistrial in Cincinnati leaves officer who killed Sam DuBose free - One week, three non-convictions in police killing trials.Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor Joseph Deters announces murder and manslaughter charges against ...
Mahablog

America: Less Exceptional Than It Used to Be - The Social Progress Imperative is a U.S.-based nonprofit that produces an annual index of countries, ranked by their social and environmental standing. Wel...
Houstonia

7 Personality-Matched Houston Book Clubs to Keep You Reading this Summer - You might not even need to leave your house to tipsily dish about your lust for Heathcliff.
Louis Proyect

Hitler and the Lone Wolf Assassin - COUNTERPUNCH, JUNE 23, 2017 Before the opening titles roll for “13 Minutes”, we see a kneeling man in a suit and tie holding a flashlight in his mouth crou...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Judge declares second mistrial in Cincinnati cop's murder trial - A mistrial was declared for the second time in the trial of a white Ohio police officer charged in the 2015 shooting of unarmed black man, after a jury sai...
In These Times

The Senate GOP Healthcare Bill Is Lethal for the Poor and Elderly. The Answer Is Medicare-for-All. - President Donald Trump’s long-promised repeal of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, edges closer to reality, as the Senate releases its secretly writ...
Buzzflash

Town declares state of emergency after third 'suicide pact death' - Town declares state of emergency after third 'suicide pact death' 1.0/*5* rating 1 vote
CultureMap Houston

Texas declared one of the 10 best states for summer road trips - You want to hit the open road? You're in the right place. According to a new report from WalletHub, Texas is one of the 10 best states for a roaming vacat...
Houston Matters

How to Help College-Bound Students Avoid the ‘Summer Melt’ - (Above: Students listen to an instructor at one of the campuses of Houston’s Lone Star College. Photo: Laura Isensee | Houston Public Media) Audio from thi...
Robert Reich

The Secret Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid - Bad enough that the Republican Senate bill would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act. Even worse,...
Eater Houston

10 Frozen Cocktails to Drink Right Now In Houston - Cool yourself with a boozy, icy drink Pretty much any time of the year, a frozen cocktail will totally hit the spot in Houston, but that’s especially tr...
Equality Texas

Strengthening Business Relationships Across Texas - By Robert Salcido, Statewide Field Coordinator robert.salcido@equalitytexas.org, @rob_salcido In the first six months of 2017, Texas Diversity Council conv...
Dandelion Salad

Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen by Graham Peebles - by Graham Peebles Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England June 23, 2017 Charred, lifeless and brutal, the hollowed out remains of Grenfell Tower in west Lo...
No More Mister Nice Blog

IF ONLY WE HAD AN INSTITUTION THAT WOULD INFORM US ABOUT SUCH ALARMING DEVELOPMENTS - Whatever McConnell/Ryan/Trumpcare looks like in its final form, it will eviscerate Medicaid to give huge tax cuts to the rich. Greg Sargent notes that many...
Texas Freedom Network

Steve Hotze’s Conservative Republicans of Texas: A Cesspool of Extremism and Hate - How extreme are Steve Hotze and his Conservative Republicans of Texas hate group? Just take few minutes to scan through the group’s website. It’s a cessp...
The NM Political Report

NM settles $2.8M Medicaid overpayment claim for $485 - [image: NM settles $2.8M Medicaid overpayment claim for $485] As Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella might have said, “Nevermind!” More than four years after accu...
Somervell County Salon

Trump in the News - 6/23/2017 - Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship-Trump admin loses. The justices ruled unanimously in favor of an ethnic Serb from Bosnia who lied about ...
AlterNet.org

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Another old tradition that belongs in the dustbin of history. When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisia...
Pensito Review

Obama Speaks Out on GOP Wealthcare Bill - “The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill. It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in...
PoliTex (FWST)

Tarrant lawmakers tapped to lead charge against mail-in voter fraud in Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott called on two Tarrant lawmakers to lead the way in cracking down on mail-in ballot fraud in Texas. Abbott recently pointed to state Rep. C...
Shadowproof

Help Us Expose The FBI’s Dirty Files - Shadowproof is teaming up with journalist and FOIA pro Ken Klippenstein to publish an important series on the FBI's dirty files. The post Help Us Expose ...
Common Dreams

Too Many Getting Shooted, Still - Abby Zimet, staff writer Sorry, more bad news. Friday, another white cop - Ray Tensing - got away with the murder of another black man, Samuel DuBose. The ...
emptywheel

The Compartments in WaPo’s Russian Hack Magnum Opus - I'm as fascinated by the compartments described and silences in WaPo's grand opus on the Russian hack as I am by the abundant new details provided.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pence to pay tribute to anti-lgbtq group' & other Friday midday news briefs - *Vice President Mike Pence Celebrates Pride by Speaking to an Anti-LGBT Group* - *The group in question is Focus on the Family, which has been very caref...
Popular Resistance

Resist This: The United States Is At War With Syria - By Jim Kavanagh for Counter Punch - The United States is at war with Syria. Though few Americans wanted to face it, this has been the case implicitly sinc...
MintPress News

Inauguration Day Protesters Sue D.C. Police Over Rectal Probes - “As Defendant Officer John Doe 150 pushed his finger into Mr. Horse’s rectum, he ordered Mr. Horse not to flinch. Defendant Officer John Doe 150 pushed h...
Greg Palast

Grand Theft Election:Palast in San Diego - Grand Theft Election: How Trump stole 2016, the Georgia 6th ...and 2018! From "the most important investigative reporter of our time” - The Guardian You’...
Peacock Panache

Pensacola Man Harasses AHA Attorney Over Church-State Cross Case - Following a decision earlier this week that deemed a cross in Pensacola was an unconstitutional establishment of religion on taxpayer-funded public space...
Church and State

Meaning of “Establishment of Religion” in the First Amendment - Leaders of the Religious Right claim that government has authority to promote religion. The historical record refutes their view.
Dorf on Law

Redistricting and Blue Cities - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Can anything be done to make congressional and state legislative races more competitive? The Supreme Court has taken on a case from ...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Trump Don't Care, Republicans finally get their Deathpanels - Laura Nazigraham is being touted as the next Trump Press Secretary The Rich Plutocrat is looking forward to defending the Trump Don't Care Death Panel Bill....
Consortium News

Deep History of America’s Deep State - Exclusive: The idea of an elitist Deep State – erasing a “mistake” by the people – pervades current efforts to remove buffoonish President Trump, but the ...
Real News

Why the Trump Administration Could Be America's Last - We are between climate catastrophe and wars of extinction. By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet Photo Credit: Vijay Prashad In the center of Barcelona, sits the ma...
Bonddad

New Home Sales stall, but no downturn - * - by New Deal democrat* Well, the May new home sales report is out. The good news is, it did not confirm last week's negative reports in housing permit...
SocraticGadfly

Alternative voting systems and cultism - The title is deliberately chosen, and deliberately chosen because it's provocative. If you don't like it, especially because you're one of those devotees o...
The Conversation

People keep voting in support of the death penalty. So how can we end it? - Signatures were collected to put the death penalty on the 2016 Nebraska ballot. AP Photo/Nati Harnik Ending the death penalty in the United States won’t be...
Krebs on Security

FBI: Extortion, CEO Fraud Among Top Online Fraud Complaints in 2016 - Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss were among the most costly cyber scams reported by consumers and businesses l...
The Contributor

Trumpcare - Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune, Cagle Cartoons
Campaign for America's Future

Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can - Local news reports from all across the country drip, drip a constant stream of stories of charter schools doing bad stuff that our tax dollars fund. Why do...
Rallblog

Newsweek on Wednesday’s Court Decision - Sometimes what journalists don’t publish is as interesting as what they do. Yesterday I was asked to comment for a piece about my partial loss on anti-SLAP...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

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ProPublica

Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat - by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Des Moines Register. In the last year alone, employees of at least 18 nursing homes and assiste...
Democracy Now!

Is South Sudan Government Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing, Triggering Africa's Biggest Refugee Crisis? - An ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the South Sudanese government has triggered one of the biggest refugee crises in Africa. The United Nations has...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 140: ‘Bucky’s in love’ - Those of us who have served time in conservative Christian youth groups recognize this theme from the many, many Why Wait lectures we heard. Your purity an...
Avedon's Sideshow

Woke up today in a strange, strange land - Matt Taibbi in *Rolling Stone*: Goodbye, and Good Riddance, to Centrism The idea that people who want expanded health care, reduced income inequality, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law - There are few components of a capitalist society that penetrate as deeply and pro-foundly into the lives of the people as law. Whole swathes of social li...
Space City Weather

Unsettled summer weather settling back in - With Cindy in the rear-view mirror, we’re tracking back to a more standard but unsettled summer weather pattern. No serious trouble is expected the next ...
The Urban Edge

Glissette Rides Public Transit: Part 5 – Family Matters - How long does it take to get from the Medical Center to northwest Houston? The fifth and final installment of our week-long public transit series. Continue ...
Angry Bear

Saudi Succession Shuffle - Saudi Succession Shuffle A not unexpected event has just been announced: 31-year old Prince Muhammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Sa’ud has been elevated fr...
DeSmogBlog

Brexit, One Year On: Green Tape, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Science Deniers - [image: Brexit artwork] On June 23 2016, 46 million voters merrily skipped to the polls to have their say about whether the UK should remain in the Europea...
Socialist Worker

Immigration police grab two more activists - Owen La Farge and Steve Ramey report from Vermont on more detentions of immigrant farmworker activists who have been courageously standing up for their ...
Debunking Christianity

Quote of the Day By Mattapult, On Gaps to Gods Arguments - I've been thinking a lot about god-of-the-gaps and method. Science has a lot of tools as part if its method: modeling, hypothesis, falsifiability, null h...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Jack Abramoff is back — as a registered lobbyist - Documents show how the disgraced king of political influence was helping the Congolese government score a meeting with Donald Trump.
Echidne of the Snakes

The "Hectoring" Nancy Pelosi - Did you know that Jon Ossoff didn't lose the special election in Georgia because district six there is a deep, deep, deep red conservative place where hi...
Politifact Texas

Rick Perry - Rick Perry wrongly downplays human role in climate change - The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Rick Perry wrongly downplays human role in climate change Energy Secretary Rick Perry downplayed the role of human activit...
Better Texas Blog

Help Stop Health Care Repeal: Call Your Senators Now - We finally know what’s in the secret bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s still bad. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on their d...
Rude Pundit

The Comey "Tapes" Lie: Chaos Is Trump's Greatest Weapon - The first time Trump tweeted about it, it was fucked up enough: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts le...
Texans For Public Justice

Lobby Watch: Gold Deposits Contractor Paid Tribute to the King. - Heads of the Austin company that won a state contract to build a gold depository did not contribute to state candidates before Gov. Abbott signed the bill ...
Death to Squirrels

They’re hot on my trail! - [CONTENT NOTE: graphic image of child’s arm showing injuries after a squirrel attack.] I read with alarm a terrifying story out of Jacksonville, Florida: Y...
News Junkie

Saudi Arabia vs Qatar: Middle East Controlled-Demolition Plan? - There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred. The palace...
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Northern Summer on Titan - Another one from Cassini’s Grand Finale. And yeah, I’m a day late. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Sat...
Political Garbage Chute

A Quick Reference Guide to the Senate Republicans’ Formerly Secret Healthcare Plan - A view of the proposed changes within the secretive Republican healthcare plan from a 50,000 foot level. [...] The post A Quick Reference Guide to the Se...
Trivial Knot

But is it really capitalism? - A few years ago at a conference about queer video games, I said to an acquaintance, “It seems like there are some financial barriers to creating good queer...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, "There Will Be Hell to Pay" - Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps...
Bullshit-ist

Austin - Thou scurvy tickle-brained hell-hated lunatic. Thou lascivious weather-bitten flap-ear’d mumpet. Thou churlish fen-sucked maggot pie. Thou dizzy-eyed he...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2006 Shows Why Democratic Loss in Ga-6 Stings - Editor’s Note: As we telegraphed last week, we are moving GA-6 from Toss-up to Leans Republican and installing Rep.-elect Karen Handel (R) as a favorite fo...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Young Cuban religious freedom defender blocked from leaving Cuba - *Cuban religious freedom activist Félix Yuniel Llerena has been banned from travel after he returned from his first trip outside of Cuba.* * Félix Yuniel Ll...
LawFlog

Hillary Clinton is not out of the woods yet (and neither am I) - After almost ten months in limbo, the Arkansas Bar is finally nearing a decision on my bar grievance against Hillary Clinton. According to an email that I ...
DBC Green blog

Jill's Itchy Twitter Finger - I'm glad to know that Dr. Jill Stein has time not only to reply to the barrage of establshment-Democrat hatred she faces in social media, but to generate h...
Popehat

Free Speech Triumphant Or Free Speech In Retreat? - The First Amendment had a pretty good week. In Matal v. Tam the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a federal law prohibiting "disparaging" t...
Black Agenda Report

If You Embrace Assata, You Must Fight the Black Misleadership Class - - political prisoners *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford* Donald Trump’s lynch party seeking the extradition of Assata Sh...
Quartz

Not all data are equal — especially in Africa - Reporting with data is supposed to be less messy than dealing with humans. Each spreadsheet column is an set of facts. We don’t have to trust someone’s o...
Political Orphans

From Gloucester to London: Misery Loves Company - In countryside towns like Gloucester, voters see the growing prosperity and power of London with dismay. London, as a dynamic, multi-cultural model is more...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 21, 2017 - "America First" apparently means making us the first to get mixed up in yet another endless, costly war — or three.
Ecosophia

The Twilight of Anthropolatry - During the last three months, while on hiatus from blogging, I’ve looked back over the eleven-year run of The Archdruid Report. As my regular readers kno...
Gin and Tacos

THE BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL OF POLITICS - Every sport has an off-season and dead periods in which a fan will lower his or her standards considerably to be entertained. College football, for instanc...
Ian Welsh

You Can’t Stay in the EU or Single Market And Be For Labour’s Manifesto - So, 30 Labour MPs have signed a letter calling for Corbyn to stay in the EU’s single market as a member. This is not possible IF Labour’s manifesto is mean...
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 ...
PERRspectives

Commander in Chief Trump Goes AWOL - "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." With that phrase, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the U...
Reading the Pictures

The Mind of Skinheads: What the Racist is Expected to Look Like - The photos suggest that racism can be depicted by signs of gender, sexuality, and class, and if people don’t live or look like that, they must not be. T...
New Progressive Alliance

Julia Williams on Healthcare and Economics - Julia Williams has run for Congress on the Green Party ticket and written for the NPA before. (See references at the end of this article.) Many people ha...
Carl Beijer

Trump is not going to abandon NATO - Abandoning NATO "would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership and send a dangerous signal to friend and foe alike" - and this is exactly what wi...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Using Tragedies to Glorify War Create More Tragedies - I don't want to speak badly about someone that was almost killed; and if I do many people may be more outraged with me than the causes of a lot of viole...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Mozambique uses 4 million mosquito nets in turn from pesticide, in war on malaria - Mozambique is one of only ten nations still using DDT for Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) to fight malaria. But DDT’s effectiveness diminishes rapidly, as d...
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note ] | Inside the July Issue, by James Marcus - Zadie Smith, Masha Gessen, Rebecca Solnit, Joseph O’Neill, and more…
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | We talk politics, community, and resistance; discuss some important new books; enjoy some great live music… and much more! - Our guests are Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn; Rev. Jim Rigby & Glenn Smith; Corey Dolgon; Julia Mickenberg; Scott Braddock; Jonathan Tilove; Roy Casagranda...
ExChristian.Net

Forums Down - *As many have already realized, the forums section of the site is unavailable. The short story is that some glitch with the hosting company resulted in u...
Bracing Views

Turning Temporary Problems Into Permanent Ones: America’s Real Military “Strategy” - Tom Engelhardt. Introduction by W.J. Astore. Readers of Bracing Views are familiar with Michael Murry’s frequent contributions to our site. One of Mike’s...
South Lawn

Another Harvest In An Orchard Of Strange Fruit - It was a cold night in the fall of 2002 when me and my then-girlfriend pulled up to the public parking lot at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to relax and snug...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Free Lecture: Houston’s Self-Inflicted Flooding - We’re Number One! Who: Sam Brody, PhD, Texas A&M Galveston When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 20 Where: Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, H...
Houston Streetwise

Emancipation Park Reinaugurated - [image: EMANCIPATION PARK CULTURAL CENTER - Houston, TX 77004] EMANCIPATION PARK CULTURAL CENTER - Houston, TX 77004 B-CYCLE RENTAL STATION AT EMANCIP...
OffCite

Emancipation Park, Emancipatory Art: Flipping the Gentrification Playbook - Freedom Rally signs at Emancipation Park, June 21, 1965. Courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center.This article is the first of a two-part series by ar...
Independent Thinker 2016

The Never-ending Temper Tantrum of the Disenfranchised White Male - Yesterday being Father’s Day, I made a post on social media that simply said “For all you single mothers out there, doing the work of two parents, I wish y...
Texas Watch

Odessa Residents Could Soon Face Second Storm of Insurance Abuse - Insurance companies already have too much power, and they’re getting even more in September when a dangerous new law goes into effect. House Bill 1774 s...
First Reading

Megyn Kelly: ‘Reckless accusation, followed by equivocation and excuses is classic Alex Jones’ - Good Monday Austin: Alex Jones and his comrades on Infowars popped the cork on some champagne last night to celebrate his victory over Megyn Kelly…
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The last of me - I did not know her but she knew me. I passed her going the other way. On three consecutive mornings I passed her, during that trek from parking garage to o...
Pressing Issues

Trailer for "The Tunnels"--on Escapes Under the Berlin Wall -
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Javier Valdez – A Month Ago - The rule of law is something to be treasured. It is precious beyond value. It has been achieved in relatively few countries and times through history. Ye...
Independent Political Report

LP’s Joe Buchman first on the ballot in Utah’s Special Election - Libertarian Joe Buchman is the first party affiliated candidate on the November ballot for the Special Election for the US House, Third District in Utah....
Modern Democracy

The Right to Withhold Consent: Legislator Standing and the Emoluments Clause - When CREW launched its emoluments lawsuit back in January, I—like many—had doubts about whether the plaintiffs’ standing theory would hold up in court. At...
Grits for Breakfast

Blessed are the Poor: Examining opposition to debtors-prison legislation - Texas State Sen. Paul Bettencourt was quoted by the Associated Press (June 11) criticizing debtors-prison legislation (SB 1913) which he and five others vo...
American Third Party Report

Jeff4Justice Exposes TYT Hypocrisy -
Our Finite World

Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil” - Falling interest rates have huge power. My background is as an actuary, so I am very much aware of the great power of interest rates. But a lot of people a...
Moron Majority

Thanks To Trump, Kellyanne Now Most Popular Baby Girl Name - The election of Donald J. Trump as our nation’s 45th president has not only had a profound effect on both our national and international politics, but it h...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 22: Just A Regular Thursday In The White House - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss the Comey testimony, the Paris pullout fallout and the Qatar cutoff. Check out this episode!
St. Petersburg Independents

This is not a campaign. This is a movement! - ST. PETERSBURG, FL, June 6, 2017 — We are young! We are Black! We are Green! We are Red! We are a movement! That was the message from the diverse crowd ...
Ramona's Voices

How the G-Man Worked To Bring Down POTUS - After former FBI director James Comey's testimony on Thursday, there were questions about why he waited so long to go public with all he knew. He'd had tw...
Progrexas

Learning Civics and Understanding Government and Politics in Texas – From Free Posters for Kids to In Depth Education for Adults - “Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where...
Great American Satan

RPGs: The Truest Test of Character? - Why is it that role-playing games seem to bring out the worst traits in people? Even people you would never have guessed had it in them, people you may hav...
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 ...
Houston Justice

#JusticeForJohnny - Chants of "Justicia para Johnny," and "Si se puede" could be heard by the crowd of an estimated 200 marchers. Starting at 2nd Ward's TBH center, they m...
Pages of Victory

Nobel Lecture Bob Dylan -
The Disorder Of Things

White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean - A guest post from Ida Danewid. Ida is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses ...
Seeing the Forest

Thoughts On Russia Election Systems Hacking Report - Here are some thoughts on the report that Russia was trying to — or did — hack into our election systems before the election. 1) Why was this a secret? Who...
Frontloading HQ

Amended Primary Legislation Passes North Carolina House - After *clearing a committee hurdle* late last week, *SB 655*, made it onto the calendar of the North Carolina House. When considered on the floor of the ch...
South Texas Chisme

Gone fishing - See you at the end of June. Or, beginning of July.
34justice

Ramming Morality Into Our Economic System the John Ruskin Way - A slim pamphlet from the mid-19th century provides both a diagnosis of today's economic problems and a potential cure. Continue reading →
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Texas Lawmakers Authorize Legislation To Keep Emissions Reduction Plan Alive - AUSTIN, Texas — The 85th Legislature gave all Texans a surprising bit of good news when they extended the programs for the Texas Emissions Reduction Prog...
Pressthink

Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. The post Getting granular with the...
Project Vote

Project Vote to Close Its Doors on May 31st - It is with great sadness—but also tremendous pride in our accomplishments—that Project Vote announces we will be suspending operations indefinitely. Th...
The Nil Admirari

Trump Says Russia Should be Invited to Join NATO - *LAST UPDATED @ 12:38PM (5.25.2017)* *Trump says Putin "hugely excited" about Russian Federation joining NATO in recent conversation.* Donald Trump speaki...
Texas Leftist

Houston’s Diversity: America Discovering What Locals Already Know - If you live in or frequently visit the city of Houston, then the term “diversity” is surely nothing new. A stop in virtually any of the city’s major store...
Non Prophet News

5 Times Republicans Threatened to Impeach Obama Over Nothing - Donald Trump seems to be running in the GOP's "hypocrite lane"— honking his horn as loudly as he can since he took office in January. Everything from leaki...
ROAR Magazine

Why we are not eating: the Yale graduate student hunger strike - Precarious and underpaid graduate student-workers at Yale have gone on a fast to demand that university administrators recognize and negotiate with their...
Digital Heretic

A Red Pill for Laci Green - A lot of people are making a big deal about the possible redpilling of Laci Green, of MTV infamy. I try to be as comprehensive as possible in my writing an...
Free Speech.org

Move to Amend's Kaitliin Sopoci-Belknap Hosts FSTV Facebook Live Discussion - On May 10th, 2017, on the 131st anniversary of *Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad* (1886), Free Speech TV aired *Legalize Democracy, *a fil...
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...
Texas Election Law Blog

Implementing Photo I.D. Requirements In Texas Elections — An Oral History - Reporter Jessica Huseman of ProPublica spent the last six months working on a huge, complicated feature story, and the fruit of her efforts was posted Tues...
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...
Texas Moratorium Network

Terri Been Testifying in Support of Law of Parties Reform Bills - Terri Been, sister of Jeff Wood, testifying before Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 17, 2017 in support of law of parties reform bi...
WAWG Blog

Bashing Loses – Speaking Values Wins - Complaining about the idiocy of the opposition is such a distraction – a waste of time – and provides little incentive for Democratic voter turnout. Democr...
The Liberal Yell

Rep. Steve King (R-KKK) Introduces Bill to Ban ALL Immigrants - As published on Crooks&Liars on 4/3/2017: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/04/rep-steve-kings-bill-ban-all-immigrants If you are even remotely aware of who R...
nonsite.org

Ritual Protest and the Theater of Dissent - The politics that inform these actions, where not entirely opaque, are based on a semi-spiritual belief that the right recipe of symbolism, passion, and po...
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! ...
Raised on the Rail

Top 5 Things to Do in January 2017 in Houston Near the Rail - Super Saturdays at the Aquarium – buy one get one free admission When: Saturdays in January Where: Downtown Aquarium How to get there: Take the green or pu...
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...
Daniel Williams

Konni Burton's SB 242 Will Kill Children - For the last year and a half people have been asking me if I think someone in Texas will file a bill like North Carolina's notorious HB 2 to override nond...
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...
UP@NIGHT

Endangered Species Warning: Democrats Who Care About The Working-Class - Salon, a liberal internet magazine, published a piece recently by Cody Cain, “It …
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 ...
STRENGTH !N NUMBERS

Black Queer History: Charles Law - We talk about Rustin, Baldwin, Hemphill and a host of other Black Queers who have been instrumental throughout our history. These figures had/have the cour...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, March 16, 2014

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