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Raw Story

Other gun groups start moving in as the NRA flounders to handle infighting and lawsuits - The National Rifle Association is in complete shambles as major members of the board are being shoved out after questioning chief Wayne LaPierre on his rep...
Hullabaloo

White nationalists are very pleased with Donald Trump's leadership - *White nationalists are very pleased with Donald Trump's leadership* by digby As usual, Trump gives a big boost to the far-right: A former Infowars staf...
Political Dig

‘I’m Not Happy’: Trump Melts Down In Furious Rant Against Fox News Over Recent Polls - A visibly angry President Donald Trump lambasted Fox News on Sunday for airing polls in recent days that show he’s losing ground to Democratic rivals and h...
House of Houston (Astros news)

Houston Texans: Tytus Howard will be able to play through recent injury - Houston Texans offensive lineman Tytus Howard has suffered an injury to his left hand. He will reportedly not miss time and will play through it. How so?...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

12th Annual Wheelwright Lecture: Susanne Soederberg - 2019 12th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy Professor Susanne Soederberg (Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ki...
Slate

The Terrorized Mississippi Towns That ICE Left Behind - Frightened children. Missing parents. Jobless families. “It feels apocalyptic.”
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Daniil Medvedev, Madison Keys win surprise Cincinnati titles as Open looms - - Keys rallies late for 7-5, 7-6 (5) win over Svetlana Kuznetsova - Medvedev wins 7-6 (3), 6-4 over Goffin for first Masters title Two unexpected...
The Greanville Post

Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence (Part One) - MARCIE SMITH—With the rise of the Reagan-era foreign policy of communist “rollback,” Sharp began promoting “strategic nonviolence” internationally through ...
Courthouse News

Iceland Commemorates First Glacier Lost to Climate Change - Iceland on Sunday honored the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic isl...
Daily Kos

Whew! Breathe easy, folks. Larry Kudlow, Trump's chief economic adviser, sees 'no recession at all' - Here’s Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, responding to the spreading talk of a possible recession on August 18, 2019: “I don’t see...
memeorandum

Amid failure to topple Maduro, Trump privately proposes a naval blockade of Venezuela (Jonathan Swan/Axios) - Jonathan Swan / Axios: *Amid failure to topple Maduro, Trump privately proposes a naval blockade of Venezuela* — President Trump has suggested to natio...
Mediaite

Trump Indicates He’ll Keep Mike Pence as Running Mate for 2020: ‘An Outstanding VP’ - President Donald Trump praised Vice President Mike Pence and indicated he will keep him as his running mate for the 2020 election. Trump was asked if he wa...
Pajiba

Time to Get Some Religion - NFL Special: Preseason: Seattle Seahawks at Minnesota Vikings on Fox at 8:00pm ET. Downton Abbey Live! on PBS at 9:00pm ET. 90-minute special presentation....
The latest from MSNBC.com:

NYT's 'The 1619 Project' covers legacy of slavery - Four hundred years ago, this month, twenty enslaved West Africans arrived in what would become the United States.
Political Wire

Trump Obsessed with Naval Blockade on Venezuela - Jonathan Swan: “President Trump has suggested to national security officials that the U.S. should station Navy ships along the Venezuelan coastline to prev...
The Intercept

Amy McGrath’s Senate Campaign Manager Helped Get Her Potential Primary Opponent Fired - WLEX, a Kentucky TV station, fired host Matt Jones, who has been pondering a primary challenge to Amy McGrath, at the urging of her campaign manager. The...
VICE

Daily Horoscopes: August 19, 2019 - The moon is in Aries today.
Axios

David Bossie looks to revive fundraising operation after Axios report infuriates Trump - Data: Presidential Coalition's forms 8872 from the IRS; Note: Chart excludes undated contributions; Chart: Harry Stevens/Axios Former Trump campaign deputy...
Splinter

Bernie Sanders Unveils Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Plan - Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled on Sunday a broad plan to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system that includes the goal of reducing the prison popul...
Mother Jones

A Fox News Contributor Just Took Fawning Over Trump to a Whole New Level of Ridiculous - Donald Trump was the oldest person to ever be sworn in as president. Today he’s 73, a handful of years shy of the average life expectancy for American men....
Daily Dot

Fans just discovered Lizzo’s old YouTube channel–and it’s full of gems - [image: lizzo_old_youtube_channel] Thanks to the platform's algorithm, of course. The post Fans just discovered Lizzo’s old YouTube channel–and it’s full ...
Crooked Timber

Cutting the financial sector down to size - That’s the provisional title I used for my latest piece in Inside Story. Peter Browne, the editor, gave it the longer and clearer title “Want to reduce the...
Vox

Trump advisers are scrambling to sell the idea that a recession isn’t going to happen - [image: Cranes load shipping containers onto large ships amid fog in Los Angeles.] Container ships being loaded in the Port of Los Angeles . | Al Seib/Los ...
Liberal America

8 Things Conservatives Seriously Need To Learn About Free Speech - To too many Americans, Free Speech is largely reduced to a weak argument belted in a strong voice when all other excuses fail to justify airing whatever ...
NPR's Health Shots

Reddit's Alexis Ohanian On His Push For Paternity Leave - NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about his article in *The New York Times* advocating for increased paternity leave.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Not A Rant - I’m a great believer in purpose driven shopping. Alone. When shopping with others my job is usually “No!” Except when I say, “Oh, that looks pretty, and it...
EgbertoWillies.com

Chuck Todd dismissing journalist’s statement on Trump shows the media complicity - [image: Chuck Todd dismissing journalist's statement on Trump shows the media complicity] Joshua Johnson on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd. Todd's reaction...
INSIDER - politics news

Bill Maher called the anti-Israel boycott movement 'A bulls--- purity test' after Israel barred supporters Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting - [image: bill maher rashida tlaib] - *Bill Maher criticized the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it a "bills---" purity t...
OpEd News

Hong Kong: Don't Provoke the Dragon - This week, Hong Kong airport was besieged and shut down by thousands of young local demonstrators protesting China's attempt to impose a new extradition la...
Election Law Blog

Sen. Wyden Sends Letters to National Party Organizations Asking About Their Cybersecurity Preparations - Find it here. … Continue reading →
Eschaton

Compromise - It's sometimes necessary, but not intrinsically good. Usually bad!. Discuss
Down With Tyranny!

Obama Really, Really Wants To See Trump Defeated Next Year - When Glenn Thrush reported that Obama tried talking an increasingly less alert Biden out of jumping into the race for the Democratic nomination fearing h...
naked capitalism

Phishing Equilibria in E-Commerce: Shopping Sites and Dark Patterns - Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to. Shopping sites use them a lot, and the bigger the site,...
Truthdig

Islamic State Claims Bombing at Kabul Wedding That Killed 63 - The deadliest attack in the capital this year comes as the U.S. and the Taliban appear to be on the brink of ending America's longest war.
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is Donald Trump Big Brother? - I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one -- and I suspect I’ve been living o...
Popular Resistance

Hong Kong In The Crosshairs Of Global Power And Ideological Struggles - Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from ...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Serial Sex Abuser Gets Contract to Write Unreadable Book - I wish I was making this up: Former powerful political pundit and author Mark Halperin has recently signed a deal to publish a book on Trump-era political ...
Crooks and Liars

The Resurrection Of Mark Halperin's Career Shows Once Again Women Don't Matter - [image: The Resurrection Of Mark Halperin's Career Shows Once Again Women Don't Matter] Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised in an industry that routinely pro...
Off the Kuff

Weekend link dump for August 18 - […]
Rivard Report

Finding Medina: Drawing Inspiration from the Trauma of 1813 - Those interested in Texas history can't understand the events of 1836 without first understanding what happened in 1813 at the Battle of Medina. The post...
The Verge

Most states still aren’t set to audit paper ballots in 2020 - [image: Virginia Primary Election] Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images Despite some progress on voting security since 2016, most...
OffGuardian

Jeffrey Epstein and the Spectacle of Secrecy - Edward Curtin When phrases such as “the deep state” and “conspiracy theory” become staples of both the corporate mainstream media and the alternative press...
Mahablog

Jim Cramer Is Not Worried About the Inverted Yield Curve. We’re Doomed. - Jim Cramer explains why he’s not worried about the inverted yield curve. Yeah, that Jim Cramer. See also:
The Mind Unleashed

The ADHD Over-Diagnosis Epidemic Is a Schooling Problem, Not a Child One - (FEE) Opinion – Childhood exuberance is now a liability. Behaviors that were once accepted as normal, even if mildly irritating to adults, are increasingly...
Dandelion Salad

Fascism: A False Revolution by Michael Parenti - by Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published Sept. 27, 2007 August 18, 2019 Fascism is a false revolution. It makes a revolutionary appe...
Political Orphans

Twitter Hygiene - Like weeds in a garden, bots and trolls impact Twitter to a degree not seen on Facebook, or other platforms that attempt to verify a human identity behind ...
Claytoonz

Trolling Trump - Here’s your cartoon for CNN’s weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday for the rest of your life. I thou...
Think Progress

Terrible news for Trump on the economy in new WSJ/NBC poll - A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll has bad news for President Trump on the economy. To start, his net approval rating on the economy is down to a mere thre...
Stinque

The Week Ahead - Time was when a week meant something. You could plan for it, a week. You could go into Monday with some clue where you’d be by Friday. Sure, things happen,...
The Root

Bout Time: Teddy Riley Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame - Now you know if Donald Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (which fabulously continues to be vandalized), that music producer, New Jack Swing-...
Pharyngula

This is what I look like when I’m dancing - Don’t call me mad. I was caught doing my thing at the Skeptiprom.
Ring of Fire

Trump Begs Congress To Give Him Back His Spying Powers - The Trump administration is begging Congress to give them back some of their domestic spying powers that were recently deauthorized. This is a dangerous ...
21st Century Wire

VIDEO: ‘Hands – The True Story of a Mother & Her Son’ - *Benny Wills* | This is the true story - and one which is guaranteed to make you think.
First Draft

He is Bad At His Job - God damn it, do you know how many people are begging online for money to pay for their cancer treatment, all of whom have more to say in America right now ...
Common Dreams

Trump's Ignorance Touches Off a New Crisis in Kashmir - Zubeida Mustafa Pakistani Kashmiris rally on Aug. 15 to observe Black Day, on the occasion of India's Independence Day, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Paki...
Washington Babylon

Meme of the Day - [image: Meme of the Day] Hi Max Read more @ Washington Babylon...
The Week

Bernie Sanders seeks to end cash bail in new criminal justice policy proposal - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is ready to implement criminal justice reform. The 2020 Democratic candidate unveiled a major policy proposal on Sunday, whic...
Pages of Victory

Bernie's new digital newsletter - Bernie's Bern Notice
News Taco

Ethnic Cleansing in El Paso, Texas is a Warning for the Nation - President Trump owes our border community and all Latinos in America an apology for encouraging ethnic cleansing. He must take back his hate-filled words...
Salon.com

Pat Buchanan back on PBS, really? Why we don't need a "McLaughlin Group" revival now - "The McLaughlin Group" set a standard for shouty, "newsy" debate shows. We don't need it or Buchanan back on PBS
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 18, 2019 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 18, 2019 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Strategic Po...
Countercurrents

The Threat To Life From Ocean Microplastics - Co-Written by Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad Khan When Chelsea Rochman at the University of Toronto and colleagues began their study on medakas (small Japa...
The Reality-Based Community

One clean beach - Why is my local beach now free of plastic litter?
Moon of Alabama

The MoA Week In Review - OT 2019-48 - Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: August 13 - The Man Who Weaponizes And Loses Everything August 14 - Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last St...
Lawfare

Lessons From the UAE War in Yemen - Photo Credit: via Khaleej Times *Editor’s Note: Yemen's civil war has dragged on for years, and the destruction and suffering there intensified after the...
Angry Bear

Amazon, FedEx and the Post Office - Both Amazon and Fed ex have embarked on plans to deliver their own “last mile” package delivery previously contracted with the US Post Office. Here is a li...
Brad Blog

Sunday Big Baby Toons - * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie.
No More Mister Nice Blog

LIZ CHENEY: SHE'S RUNNING - Hi, I'm back. Thank you, Yastreblyansky, Crank, and Tom -- great work while I was away. I return to find out that the crypt has been opened: Former vice p...
Houston Press

Last Night: Vampire Weekend at White Oak Music Hall - Vampire Weekend White Oak Music Hall August 17, 2019 A lot has changed for Vampire Weekend in the past six years. In 2013, the band was riding high on a wa...
The Progressive Wing

8/18 News Roundup & Open Thread – Working Families Party Live Q&A with Bernie Sanders & More - The Working Families Party endorsement process is giving candidates the opportunity to make their case directly to WFP supporters during an online Live Q&A...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

MANUFACTURED CRISIS - Trump has worked hard to make this election a referendum on the economy -- but if things turn bad, he can't get out of it by blaming other people (though h...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Welcome to Ayn Rand’s America - There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through ...
Duffel Blog

VA now only second most ineffective suicide prevention program - [image: Department of Veterans Affairs] NEW YORK — The Department of Veterans Affairs breathed a collective sigh of relief after the Metropolitan Correcti...
WhoWhatWhy

Abrams Takes the Fight to Election Manipulators - Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2018, Stacey Abrams was robbed of becoming the country’s first female African-American governor. Next year, she hopes to get t...
Liberation News

Connecticut activists protest judicial cooperation with ICE - [image: Two activists hold signs. one reads "judicial marshals guilty of separating families"] “The bad behavior and hatred of these marshals and the misco...
Grist

In Detroit, ‘revolutionary’ mapping could help residents with asthma - As the forest moves back in, pollen is on the rise in Detroit.
jobsanger

From The Infancy Of Intelligence -
Sayfie Review Texas

AP: Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick receives stent after heart blockage -
Informed Comment

America as a Company Town: Royal Dutch Shell Workers in Penna. Coerced to Show up for Trump - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anya Litvak at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a contractor handling the Trump appearance at the Royal Dutch Shell ...
Dissident Voice

God, Guns and Video Games - The din struck by videos of the gaming variety; its forced causal link (always alleged, never proved) to altering conduct, continues its relentless march a...
Antiwar.com

Iraq Daily Roundup: New Anti-ISIS Operation in Nineveh; 14 Killed or Found Dead in Iraq - Iraqi forces launched a new operation south of Mosul. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: New Anti-ISIS Operation in Nineveh; 14 Killed or Found Dead in...
Portside

The Persistence of School Segregation - The Persistence of School Segregation Kurt Stand Sat, 08/17/2019 - 22:58
Duck of Minerva

A Call for New Guest Ducks - We are looking for you! The fall 2019 semester is upon us, and we’d like to bring on a new cohort of guest Ducks. The Duck remains a unique blog in terms o...
Wolf Street

US National Debt Spiked $363 billion in Two Weeks, $1 Trillion in 12 months. But Who Bought This Pile of Treasury Securities? - Nope, the Fed dumped. But there was huge demand elsewhere.
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Independent computer network in Cuba has been taken over by the Castro regime - *The Castro regime is totalitarian.* Preemptive arrests and state security presence block protest for SNETToday the space outside of the Ministry of Commun...
Juanita Jean's WMDBS

GOP Response to Mass Shootings: Blame the Left - The Tampa Bay Times got their hands on a House GOP caucus memo that gave members talking points to respond to constituent questions about mass shootings an...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Explaining why the Family Research Council is an anti-LGBTQ hate group in less than two minutes - *The Family Research Council (FRC) is listed as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the SPLC for its demonizing rhetoric about the LGBTQ community. FRC portrays ...
emptywheel

Judicial Watch Sues DOJ and Obtains Proof that Mark Meadows and His Propagandists Are Conspiracist Idiots - Congratulations to Judicial Watch, which just paid a ton of money to sue DOJ to prove that Mark Meadows is full of shit. The post Judicial Watch Sues DOJ...
Washington's Blog

“Today Saudi Arabia finally lost the war on Yemen.” 17 August 2019 - Eric Zuesse On August 17th, an anonymous German intelligence analyst who has perhaps the world’s best track-record of publicly identifying and announcing h...
Talking Points Memo

Shell Workers Who Skipped Trump Speech Took Financial Hit - “NO SCAN, NO PAY.” That’s what workers for a Shell contractor were told ahead of speech by President Donald Trump...
See You In 2020

If The Anti-China Protests Succeed, The U.S. Will Turn Hong Kong Into A Corporatized Western Outpost - I’m very grateful for the fact that my ideological development as a socialist has lead me towards the principled anti-imperialist worldview which informs ...
The Grayzone

Behind a made-for-TV Hong Kong protest narrative, Washington is backing nativism and mob violence - Hong Kong’s increasingly xenophobic protests are devolving into chaos with help from US government regime-change outfits and a right-wing local… The post...
Latino Rebels

Hundreds Come to Honor El Paso Victim After Public Invited - EL PASO, Texas (AP) — When Jordan Ballard read that one of the victims of the El Paso massacre had few relatives and the public was invited to her funeral,...
Trivial Knot

Intrinsic value of choice - I know that this question has practical and political implications, but for now, I’m treating it as a “just for fun” philosophical question. Just wanted t...
LareDOS

Emboldened by the hate-filled rhetoric from the highest office in the land, the shooter decided El Paso was a good start - The American flag should remained lowered until Congress comes to its senses with gun legislation
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Trumps with El Paso Baby; Hong Kong Airport Sit In; Elizabeth Warren in Iowa - Chatting the Pictures looks at the Trump portrait with the infant of El Paso massacre victims, the Hong Kong airport sit-in, and Elizabeth Warren in Iowa...
Daily Howler

Beto O'Rourke joins the Widow Steavens! - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2019Those People are all just alike: * In our view, the current field of Democratic candidates is extremely weak. Consider the curr...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 12 - 16 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The data continues to be dominated by a steep decline in long term interest r...
House of Houston (Rockets news)

Houston Rockets: P.J. Tucker disappointed FIBA World Cup hopes dashed - Houston Rockets forward P.J. Tucker has withdrawn from USA Basketball to compete in the World Cup next month. He’s disappointed about it, what’s going on...
Bracing Views

The Persistence of War - Originally posted on Bracing Views: A young Tom Cruise loving his machine gun in “Taps” W.J. Astore “[W]ar is a distressing, ghastly, harrowing, horrific, ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just nod if you can hear me - "Sanders Says If Israel Wants to Ban Members of Congress, It Should Not Receive Billions in US Military Aid: 'The idea that a member of the United States...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Everything Is Problematic! - Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really helps. Sometimes I like doing cartoons making fun of my “own side.” Part of being a...
Somervell County Salon

What's up in Trump's Swamp for August 17 2019? - Trump did a campaign ralliy in Pittsburgh, PA that we paid for. The crowd at Shell that showed up was told that they wouldn't get paid if th.......
Jordan Chariton

Newark Lead Water Crisis Targets People of Color - via IFTTT The post Newark Lead Water Crisis Targets People of Color appeared first on Jordan Chariton Reports.
Seeing the Forest

Unfuck The World (video) - Prophets of Rage – Unfuck The World (Official Video) – YouTube No hatred Fuck racists Blank faces Time’s changin One nation Unification The vibration Unfuc...
Democracy Chronicles

16 August 2019 Zimbabwe Protests, State Repression and the Urgency of Political Reforms - Repression of 16 August 2019 Zimbabwe protests places the Southern African nation more on the path of instability. Zimbabwe needs urgent political reforms.
The Militant

Stop the raids! Amnesty for immigrants in the US! - The arrest of 680 immigrant workers at seven poultry processing plants in six Mississippi cities Aug. 7 and the threat of their deportation is aimed at ins...
The Ghion Journal

A Matter of Life or Death: We Cannot Afford to Ignore Mental Illnesses Any Longer - It happened again last month; a young Ethiopian man took his life and left a devastated community in his wake. Two months before that, another Ethiopian ...
Caitlin Johnstone

Mass Media’s Phony Freakout Over Bernie’s WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring - After days of ridiculous, hysterical garment rending by mass media talking heads in response to Senator Bernie Sanders’ utterly undeniable assertion that T...
ROAR Magazine

The revolution in Sudan is far from over - Today, the Sudanese military and civil opposition are singing a political agreement — meanwhile the revolution is carried forth by grassroots organizers.
Church and State

“Baby Boxes” Now Take Unwanted Babies In Many US States - Shall we add more and more $10.000 baby boxes or simply offer more accessible birth control including abortions?
Reveal

The Cost of School Choice - Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school ch...
San Antonio Current

Where to Find the Absolute Best Barbecue in San Antonio -
Progrexas

After losing his wife in a mass shooting, he invited El Pasoans to her funeral. Hundreds showed up. - Scene from the Walmart where a gunman opened fire on back-to-school shoppers, Saturday, August 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre I...
Rallblog

My Mother Was Absolutely Certain She Would Not Succumb to Alzheimer’s - No one would have been more surprised to plunge into Alzheimer’s than my mother. She was vigorous, a big planner and absolutely determined not to succumb...
World Socialist Web Site

Tlaib agrees to Israeli terms, then reverses herself on West Bank visit - The events of the past two days have provided a fresh demonstration of the cowardice of the Democratic Party and the absence within it of any principled op...
Field Negro

Not all protests are created equal. - [image: Image result for Philly shootout] I'm sorry people, but I have to attack black tonight. We all know by now about the mass shooting in Philly this pa...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Farrar Resigning, Burrows Exits Caucus Chair and Other News for August 16 - Rep. Jessica Farrar (D-Houston) announced she would resign effective September 30 and not seek re-election. Farrar, who is serving her 13th term, is the 7t...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hong Kong’s Inevitable Showdown - This reckoning with Beijing’s authority was baked into the cake 22 years ago when the Union Jack came down over Government House. By Patrick Lawrence Speci...
Ballot Access News

Michigan Independent Candidate Files Brief in Ballot Access Case - On August 15, Christopher Graveline, an independent candidate for Michigan Attorney General, filed this brief in his ballot access case, Graveline v Johnso...
Carl Beijer

The quiet death of the "white Bernie Bro" attack - Bernie Sanders faced ferocious criticism in the media throughout the 2016 primaries - and central to that critique was what The Washington Post called Bern...
Texas Monthly

ICE Doctor Defends Force-Feeding Detainees on Hunger Strike as ‘Uncomfortable’ But Necessary - At a hearing on Friday, the El Paso doctor said force-feeding was considered medically unethical, but that ICE's rules required her to do it. The post IC...
Houston Public Media

Monthly Report Shows Strong Job Growth For Houston But The Numbers May Be Too Good To Be True - A regional economist says economic indicators point to less job growth than Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers suggest.
Grit Post

Black Men More Likely to Be Killed by Police Than Win Scratch-Off Lotto Ticket - The odds of winning $5,555 on a $1 Take Five ticket in the New York State Lottery are 1 in 529,200. The odds of black men being killed by police are 1 in...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A Movement Built On Love - Carla Herreria @ Huff Post: Trump Fat-Shames Man At Rally, Then Says His Movement Is ‘Built On Love.’ Cassandra Pollock @ The Texas Tribune: Allen West lau...
The Concourse

Look At This Weird Thing Donald Trump Just Belched Up - In March, a young whale beached itself in Davao City, in the Philippines. When scientists from the local museum—it is, delightfully, called D’Bone Collec...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Corrections Officer Who Struck Rhode Island Protesters with Pickup Truck Resigns - Activists say the private prison where the officer worked should be closed and immigrants detained there released A senior corrections officer at the Wyat...
DeSmogBlog

Christopher Leonard's New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding 'Kochland' on the Map - [image: Kochland book cover over Pine Bend refinery] Read time: 8 mins Christopher Leonard’s new book, *Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and...
Rude Pundit

We're Not Gonna Do a Damn Thing About Guns - A memo of talking points for House Republicans makes plain that the GOP has no intention of doing a goddamn thing about guns. The document, obtained by the...
Political Garbage Chute

A Complete List of Billionaire Pedophile Illegal Immigrant Mass Shooters in the News This Week - In the last two weeks, there have been at least three high-profile mass shootings, one of which, in El Paso, was directly inspired by... The post A Compl...
Dallas Observer

Bonnengate Latest: House GOP Caucus Chair Steps Down - The first shoe in the case of Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, the Tea Party activists and the secret meeting has officially dropped. State Rep. Dustin B...
Rewire

These States Are Protecting Family Planning Clinics Under Trump’s Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ - Illinois, Maryland, and Washington state are replacing the millions clinics will lose when they exit Title X after the Trump administration imposes its d...
The Texas Signal

‘Republican scandal has claimed its first political victim’ - On Friday, Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock resigned his position as chair of the House GOP Caucus amid an intensifying Republican scandal in the Texas leg...
Echidne of the Snakes

On Femininity and Masculinity - Masculinity and femininity are tricky concepts to define: They include both the way we interpret biological sex differences *and* the impact of societal r...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard For August 16, 2019 - Gov. Greg Abbott faces questions about his response to the mass shooting in El Paso. But is he going far enough? He’s facing calls to bring lawmakers back ...
In These Times

The Impossible Decisions Palestinians Are Forced to Make - In a defiant statement released the morning of August 16, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) declared that she would not travel to Israel under “oppressive con...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Q&A: Ken Ward Jr. on the impacts of natural gas in West Virginia - We’re publishing a series of Q&As with reporters who have uncovered powerful investigative stories. This week we chatted with Ken Ward Jr., a journalist at...
DBC Green

Testing the New Calendar Page - To make this site more useful to current and would-be activists, I'm in the process of adding an activist calendar. The free trial version of the calendar ...
Project Censored

Episode 41: What is Busing and Why Are We Talking About It? - On this episode of Along the Line, Dr. Dreadlocks Nicholas Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon, and Janice Domingo discuss the history of debates and policy rega...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Indian Press Claims Russia Supports Revocation of Special Status for Kashmir - No reference to this subject is found in the Russian Foreign Ministry’s briefing of August 9, the date cited in the article. No such quote can be found on ...
The Conversation

Who is responsible when an inmate commits suicide? - People in jail kill themselves at a rate 3.5 times higher than that of the general population.
SCOTUSblog

Empirical SCOTUS: The “right” stuff - [image: Empirical SCOTUS: The “right” stuff]The Constitution as originally drafted did not include certain specific rights and restrictions on the power ...
Moron Majority

To Understand Why Trump Wants To Buy Greenland, Just Follow The Bouncing Ball - Golf ball, that is! It is no secret Greenland’s glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change. And underneath all that ice? Future lush gr...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Are Tight Ends As Valuable As They Used To Be? - Five years ago, I surveyed the many changes brought to the tight end position during the era of Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates, whose parallel ascents to ...
Eater Houston

Yet Another Purveyor of Spicy, Buttery Crawfish Hits Houston Next Year - Juicy Crawfish will open another Houston location next year. | Juicy Crawfish/Facebook Juicy Crawfish serves up lobster, mussels, oysters, and more, all ...
Grits for Breakfast

Additional Harris-DA staffing mustn't contribute to the 'low-rent arms race between prosecution and indigent defense' ... or, why Keri Blakinger is a journalism goddess - Now that Keri Blakinger exists, along with the Marshall Project, The Appeal, Google News feeds, and a variety of advocacy newsletters that weren't around b...
Dorf on Law

America's Health Care Dysfunction Gets Real - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Yesterday was my first official day as an employee of the University of Florida. The day included the usual experiences for a profe...
Louis Proyect

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - COUNTERPUNCH, AUGUST 16, 2019 After being sorely disappointed by Quentin Tarantino’s last two films— “The Hateful Eight” and “Django Unchained” —I decided ...
MintPress News

US Trained Honduran Police Get Medieval as Political Prisoner Edwin Espinal Released - The Honduran corruption canard keeps the focus on police resources and individuals rather than on the pangs of privatization, and so it is often the line...
Socratic Gadfly

Greenland tells Trump: We're not for sale, no way, no how - Where's the back nine? So, Trump allegedly wanted to buy Greenland, which has produced much hilarity on Twitter, including mock (and maybe real) Nigerian 4...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE The AMA Gets Out Of The Way Of #MedicareForAll In a major step forward in the fight for universal health care, the American Medical Associa...
Houstonia

Early-Morning Fire Reported at Backstreet Cafe - The restaurant from Tracy Vaught and Hugo Ortega was closed for just one day.
Earthworks

Public Comments: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Montanore Evaluation Project - Montanore SDEIS – Comments Final The post Public Comments: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Montanore Evaluation Project appeared ...
Novara Media

ACFM: Trip 5: Consciousness Raising - Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising. Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull. PRS LICENCE...
epic.org

Administration Seeks Reauthorization of NSA Phone Record Program - The Administration is seeking reauthorization of the NSA phone record collection program, according to a letter from Director of National Intelligence Dan ...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity Gets Slam-Dunked - A review of Tim Sledge’s *Four Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer* The Richard Dawkins 7-point scale, for rating the strength of belief or non-beli...
The Contributor

New Study Shows CEO Pay Has Grown More Than 1,000% Since 1978 - News Image: "Corporate greed is eviscerating the working class." Category: Economy origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Julia Conley
Democracy Now!

The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres - Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two...
Space City Weather

Houston’s late summer malaise continues - Thursday broke the streak. We fell one degree short of 100° officially, after 7 straight days of 101°+ in Houston. We don’t think we will hit 100° again fo...
Texas Observer

Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know What You Think About The Wall - In late June, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed the location of 95 miles of Trump’s new border wall in the Rio Grande Valley. Some stretches o...
Progressives Chat

Happy Birthday! - Friday, August 16, 2019 is my birthday. I am 48 years old. On this day, singer Madonna was born in 1958. So, too, were actors Timothy Hutton (born in...
Counterpunch

Uncle Sam was Born Lethal - One of the occupational and intellectual hazards of being a historian is that current events often seem far less new to oneself than they do to others. R...
ProPublica

How a Video Gambling Company Helped Bankroll Local Politicians - by Logan Jaffe If you don’t know by now, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a massive gambling expansion bill in June that paves the way for six new cas...
Two Party Opera

Snake in the Grassroots -
The NM Political Report

Going down fighting: Dying activist champions ‘Medicare For All’ - [image: Going down fighting: Dying activist champions ‘Medicare For All’] When Santa Barbara lawyer-turned-activist Ady Barkan settled in to watch the seco...
Progressive.org

Ironies Abound in the Obama Documentary, ‘American Factory’ - A Chinese billionaire reopens a shuttered Ohio GM plant, hiring some 2,000 Americans to work side-by-side with imported Chinese workers. Culture clash or c...
slacktivist

Culotte fundamentalism - Culottes! They're not just the spork of the sartorial world, they're also a very telling signifier for a particular brand of white American fundamentalist ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Burying Solutions to Prevent Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso Shootings - Few if any good academics would try to argue that there's only one contributing cause of violence, including the mass shootings that have bee increasing...
Morning Consult

Colorado Democrats Sour Slightly on Hickenlooper Amid Presidential Run - The post Colorado Democrats Sour Slightly on Hickenlooper Amid Presidential Run appeared first on Morning Consult.
BEYONDbones

The Nature of an Assassin: Harnessing Deadly Killers to Fight Pests - Walking into the Cockrell Butterfly Center (CBC), one of the first things you’re likely to notice is the sound of a 50-foot waterfall. The conservatory’s h...
Socialist Alternative

Karl Marx’s Ecological Socialism is a Guide for Today’s Struggle - By Arne Johansson. First published July 18 in Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). Reposted from socialistparty.ie. Too ma...
Popehat

All The President's Lawyers: Obsesses Loser Edition - From this week's episode: link.
Harper's

[Article] Regarding the Pen of Others, by Benjamin Moser -
Sludge

Congressional Black Caucus Institute Takes CoreCivic Cash, Boosts Policies That Help Private Prisons - The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) says it wants to ban private prison companies that profit from mass incarceration, as do many criminal justice reforme...
ExChristian.Net

Is Hate, like Love, Built Into Religion? - *By Chris Highland * ~ People in many faith communities assure us that “hate has no place” in their circles, their faith or their religion. I’m with them,...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A New Podcast about the Right - A leftist’s guide to the conservative movement, one episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
Progressive Army

New Report: Donald Trump’s Name and Rhetoric Used in 36 Cases of Violence, Threats, and Assault - Donald Trump rejects the idea that his rhetoric has contributed to the occurrences of violence. However, according to a new report by ABC News, the Presi...
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff: I Was Attacked by Wayne Newton’s Monkey - "Without any provocation," allegedly, which seems unlikely but must be taken as true for now. Related Stories - Court Finds Man Not Liable fo...
Land Destroyer

US Meddling Continues in Cambodia, But With Setbacks - *August 15, 2019 *(Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Two Cambodian employees of US government-funded "Radio Free Asia" (RFA) face espionage charges for continuing to ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The End of the Filibuster May Loom - Dear Readers: We’re pleased to offer a piece this week from Hunter Brown, an outstanding Center for Politics intern, on a topic of great importance: the ...
Daily PUMA

You say Racism, I say Ageism. - For every accusation of racism that is presently being made towards the Trump Administration, I see a counter point, the use of the Racism card to blunt wh...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Two New Studies Highlight The Dangers of Smart Vehicles - Derrick Broze breaks down recent studies highlighting the problems with driverless/autonomous internet-connected vehicles. Sources: Hacked Highways? Conn...
The Rag Blog

Michael Simmons : Paul Krassner: Nun smooching in America - Krassner chronicled his satirical pranks in his self-published magazine, The Realist. By Michael Simmons | The Rag Blog | August 14, 2019 REMEMBERING PAUL ...
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Evolution of a Planetary Spirit - This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philos...
Shadowproof

Media Elites Melt Down Over Bernie Sanders’ Critique Of Washington Post - Senator Bernie Sanders clarified his critique of the Washington Post’s coverage of his presidential campaign. “We are taking on corporate America. Large ...
Krebs on Security

Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers - "Bluetana," a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapid...
Bad Attitudes

Private Sector vs. Medicare? - It's basically the same thing, as my son Ted explains in this article from *The Hill* Hereâ€™s a yes or no question that most Americans, including those ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Houston Nazis Doxx Each Other Following Anti-Fascist Actions - On Saturday, June 8th, anti-fascists exposed a realtor named Paul Preston as being the leader of a local Neo-Nazi Group called the Houston Goylers. On the ...
Eclectablog

From the tweets to the streets — with very special guest Feminista Jones - Feminista Jones on Twitter: @FeministaJones Feminista Jones' website: FeministaJones.com Buy Feminista Jones' new book Reclaiming Our Space HERE. Feminista...
Dos Centavos

Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez Enters Senate Race - Have you ever had a bunch of candidates to choose from and still can’t make a decision? Yeah, me too. But Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez has entered the race fo...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: The Rise and Fall of American Demagogues...Understanding Donald Trump, His Appeal and His Future - Donald Trump is not the first demagogue to rise in American politics, but, in achieving the Oval Office, he is the most powerful of the species. What can ...
Houston Strategies

Benefits of the I-45 Expansion and the High Cost of Electric Buses - This week's post is a guest post by Oscar Slotboom North Houston Highway Improvement Project (IH 45 expansion) Recent Chronicle reporting on the North Hous...
Freethought Now

El Paso, Netflix, Kashmir, and a wrong ruling - This week at FFRF, we showed how quick-thinking we can be in response to fast-moving events in a nation buffeted by religion.
Innocence Project

Innocence Project Files Federal Civil Rights Suit in Rodney Reed Death Row Case after Denied Requests for DNA Testing of Murder Weapon - The filing cites denied DNA testing as a violation of Reed’s constitutional rights (August 8, 2019 – Bastrop, TX) Today, lawyers for Rodney Reed, who rema...
Web of Debt

Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China - When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31st for the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data...
Frontloading HQ

Kentucky Republicans Change Presidential Caucus Process - It is not clear yet whether Kentucky Republicans will hold caucuses again in 2020 or revert to the May presidential primary the party has traditionally us...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on White Supremacist Terror - If you enjoyed the global corporatocracy’s original War on Islamicist Terror, you’re going to love their latest spinoff, The War on White Supremacist Terro...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Wide range of strategies address Houston flooding risk - By Matt Dulin, Editor Community Impact Newspaper, Heights-River Oaks-Montrose Edition, Volume 1, Issue 5 Aug. 7-Sept. 3, 2019 Part of a series exploring ...
Robert Reich

The Myth of the Rugged IndividualThe American dream promises... - *The Myth of the Rugged Individual*The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make it...
Anti-Media

Pentagon: Any Operation by Turkey into Northern Syria ‘Unacceptable’ - (TM) – US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable” and that the United States would p...
Environment Texas

House passes sweeping measures to clean up PFAS contamination - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Millions of Americans are worried about toxic PFAS chemicals that have contaminated their drinking water. The federal government is...
Greg Palast

Tee Jay McNichols, our Producer’s Cousin, Murdered in Dayton Massacre - Thomas “Tee Jay” James McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our assistant producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, by...
t.e.j.a.s.

Official TEJAS STATEMENT – Baytown Exxonmobil Olefins Plant – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION - Due to an attack on our server provider, our statement was postponed. Thank you all for your patience.
Aggiornamento

Roberto closed his eyes last evening. - I give thanks for the time he shared with me, listening to my voice for the first time, enjoying good wine and food, laughing all the way... The post Rob...
Bay Area Houston

Trump and Republicans are not racist - When you have to say "I'm not a racist".... From The Associated Press. Photo by Reuters
Texas Watch

Comments On Informal TWIA Claim Rules - We filed these comments with the Texas Department of Insurance to make sure coastal policyholders are paid every cent they are owed after a storm. Learn...
Our Finite World

Rethinking Renewable Mandates - Powering the world’s economy with wind, water and solar, and perhaps a little wood sounds like a good idea until a person looks at the details. The economy...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Colorado statehood day, August 1, 2018 - Colorado officially joined the Union on August 1, 1876. Coloradans should fly U.S. flags today in honor of statehood. Colorado was the 38th state admitted ...
Smart Dissent

Twenty Republican Senators Urging Treasury To Give Wealthy Another Tax Cut Via Executive Order - Date: 08/05/2019 Truth is stranger than fiction. It's hard to believe this is real. In a letter sent to *Steve Mnuchin* on Monday, Senator Ted Cruz urged...
The Metaphor Project

Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday - During this Democratic primary season and even before, a great many longstanding injustices in American life have become high profile: #MeToo, police viole...
Dispatches from the Underclass

The US-China trade war explained - US-CHINA TRADE WAR EXPLAINED It's kinda like the Cold War. Only 2019. And China. Posted by Soapbox on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
LawFlog

Correction: Ellen Ratner only relayed information about Seth Rich, according to Butowsky - Several readers identified a contradiction between a lawsuit that I drafted on behalf of Ed Butowsky versus what he said in an interview. The mistake is mi...
Better Texas Blog

Proposal to Gut Food Assistance Program Could Threaten Millions of Texans - This week, the Trump Administration proposed changing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly “food stamps”) in a way that could ta...
Media Lens

The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship - The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to ...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the art...
Texas Freedom Network

Join the Team: Outreach and Advocacy Manager - Outreach and Advocacy Manager The Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a statewide non-partisan, grassroots organization that is building an informed and effec...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinders Welcomes New Board Member Cindy Hua - At our June board meeting, we welcomed Cindy Hua to membership on the Downwwinders Board. Cindy came to us via our monthly portable monitoring training, w...
Independent Political Report

Green Party of New York demands justice for Eric Garner - *NEW YORK – The Green Party of New York *(GPNY) renewed its call for justice for *Eric Garner* in response to the Justice Department’s announcement that ...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
PERRspectives

The Most Important Issue for Democrats in 2020? The Courts - As the 2020 election season heats up, voters' priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ra...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Something atavistic rumbles through - This is the room, I could describe it at length, even *ad nauseum* if I cared to which I do not, where I stay when I stay here at the hospital. The windo...
The Socialist

North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence - Disclaimer: The SPUSA is a multi-tendency organization, the following article may or may not reflect the views of individual party
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Disorder Of Things

Toward a New Concept of Genocide: A Reply - Our symposium on Benjamin Meiches’s The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) concludes with the author’s...
nonsite.org

Open Letter on the Proposed Destruction of a Mural Cycle - A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washing...
Texas Rural Voices

To Combat Drunk Driving Deaths, Texas Officials Consider Lowering Legal Blood Alcohol Content Limit - In the state of Texas, driving while impaired is still an issue, resulting in about 950 fatal alcohol-related crashes each year. Recent statistics indica...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hale as Acting CEO of Equality Texas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Angela Hale, Equality Texas, 512.289.2995 angela@redmediagroup.com Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hal...
Liberal Values

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Truthout

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

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

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

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

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

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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