Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston Happenings and Progressive Blog Roll

Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day! - *by Noah* Memorial Day weekend is here and, just in time for the weekend's picnics and parades, Republicans have some new hats! If you're still shocking...
The Week

Trump's Art of the Deal ghostwriter explains why Trump's big North Korea deal went south - There was a lot of speculation as to why President Trump abruptly pulled out of a June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un that he had agreed to att...
The NM Political Report

Independents look to buck history, win legislative seats - [image: Independents look to buck history, win legislative seats] Outside the New Mexico State Capitol on Thursday morning a small group of men and women g...
The Intercept

Uma silenciosa epidemia mata de fome quase 5 mil idosos por ano no Brasil - Faz mais de 25 anos que a fome mata mais idosos do que crianças. Envelhecimento da população e corte de gastos do governo prenunciam futuro nebuloso. Th...
memeorandum

The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor (Matt Zoller Seitz/Vulture) - Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture: *The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor* — I interviewed Jeffrey Tambor on Tuesday, briefly, in a room with some of his ...
Mother Jones

On the Border, Trump is Both Cruel and Incompetent - The Border Patrol union says that Donald Trump isn’t being tough on the border: The last time the National Guard was deployed to the border — in Texas in 2...
jobsanger

Honesty -
Sputnik News

Facebook May Be Fined Over Violating Russia's User Data Storage Policy - MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor will look into Facebook later this year to determine whether it has complied with local d...
Rivard Report

Just This #14: Pioneering Winners, Low Voter Turnout Mark the Runoffs - In today’s episode of Just This, Rick and I discuss several high-profile runoff election races this week that most impact San Antonio. The post Just T...
Houston Matters

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1516: Saving the Lore - Episode: 1516 In which we must save the lore as well as the plants. Today, we have to save more than the endangered plants.
Courthouse News

Trump Pardons Late Boxer Jack Johnson a Century Later - President Donald Trump has granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson's name more than 100 year...
First Draft

Friday Guest Catblogging: Laser Cat - I like to complain about social media but I enjoy some aspects of it, especially the chance to get to know my readers. Today’s catblogging features a cat w...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million? | Martin Kettle - The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak killed more people than both world wars. Don’t imagine such a thing could never happen again This year marks a century sinc...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump calls off summit with North Korea - Even as it threatens nuclear war, the Trump administration has not given up on trying to draw North Korea into a rapprochement.
The Reality-Based Community

A primer on fentanyl(s) - The synthetic opioids – usually referred to both in the press and by law enforcement as “fentanyl” – have now outstripped both the prescription opioids suc...
Mediaite

Kimmel on Cancelled North Korea Summit: Maybe Those Coins Will Be The ‘Currency of The Apocalypse’ - On Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Trump for canceling the scheduled summit with North Korea.
Raw Story

CNN’s Don Lemon annihilates Trump ‘family of grifters’: They’re abusing the Constitution for personal gain - The American presidency has always come with vast executive powers, but until Donald Trump much of that power has gone unused. Are we seeing a new model ...
naked capitalism

PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits - Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumN...
Antiwar.com

Scattered Attacks Continue in Kirkuk, Diyala; 27 Killed in Iraq - ISIS continued small scale attacks in Kirkuk and Diyala provinces. The post Scattered Attacks Continue in Kirkuk, Diyala; 27 Killed in Iraq appeared fir...
Morning Consult

Most U.S. Adults in Poll Unwilling to Share Personal Data for Ads to Keep a Service Free - The post Most U.S. Adults in Poll Unwilling to Share Personal Data for Ads to Keep a Service Free appeared first on Morning Consult.
VICE

I Followed My Mom to Prison - Even though I was close to my mom growing up, she was very secretive.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Meacham: Trump/McCarthy comparison ‘clearest analogy we have’ - Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham discusses the comparison of President Trump to Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the lack of Republicans denouncing...
Crooks and Liars

Open Thread - 'Amber Says What' Royal Wedding Edition - Open Thread below...
The Greanville Post

The US Outspends Russia 10X On Military, But They Are Equals. Why? - D. ORLOV—In short, Russia is to most Americans a mystery wrapped in an enigma, and there simply isn’t a large enough pool of intelligent Americans with goo...
Liberation News

PSL statement denounces exclusion of TKP from electoral lists in Turkey - "This unlawful measure is clearly designed to suppress the principled opposition of the TKP..." The post PSL statement denounces exclusion of TKP from el...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Vance's Hugo and Nebula Awards - In keeping with this being Jack Vance week, this coming Saturday being the 5th anniversary of Jack's passing, I figured I would comment on some of Jack's a...
OpEd News

This Bishop Is Not Finished With Us Yet - Presiding Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry, preacher and activist, is not done with us yet. Journalist E.J. Dionne, Jr. is not done with us either. Nor is pr...
Anti-Media

Israel Approves Army’s Use of Live Sniper Fire Against Gaza Protesters - [image: Israel Sniper Gaza Protesters](MEE) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously dismissed a petition by two human rights groups that accused I...
Political Dig

GOP Congressman Loses Endorsement After Saying It’s Okay Not To Sell Homes To Gay People - Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is facing backlash after saying that it’s okay to deny gays and lesbians from purchasing a home. The National Ass...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: Peoples Climate Movement plans mass action for climate, jobs and justice - "We have the opportunity to create good jobs in wind, solar, and the renewable energy sector that move us to a healthier future and a more just society."...
AlterNet.org

'Cohen Will Be Toast': Trump's Lawyer Jay Goldberg Explains What It Will Take for Trump's Fixer to Flip - "There are certain people who are of the view that they don't belong in jail," Goldberg said. File this one under "only in the Trump era": One of the pres...
emptywheel

On Credico and Stone and Hillary’s Purported Libya Email - The WSJ story reporting that Roger Stone asked Randy Credico for specific emails may reflect he was fishing for emails he himself planted there.
Ballot Access News

Another Trial Day for Montana Green Party Ballot Access Case - A state trial court in Montana is holding a trial in the lawsuit in which the Democratic Party argues that the Green Party petition this year doesn’t have ...
The Root

Dear Rachel Dolezal: Being a ‘Welfare Queen’ Actually Makes You White - Rachel Dolezal just can’t seem to keep her name out of the headlines. She probably doesn’t want to. She gained notoriety for pretending to be a black wom...
Eschaton

Kinda Both But Not Quite Either - The #resistance is here to empower William Fucking Kristol. The network — composed of overlapping groups led by Democrats such as the donor Rachel Pritzker...
Wolf Street

Riskiest Junk Bonds Still Blissful in La-La Land, High-Grade Bonds Bleed. Apple’s Fault? - The Fed will keep tightening until these junk bonds buckle.
Dissident Voice

Naomi Wolf and Anti-semitism’s Mystification - My previous post was about the firing of a cartoonist, Dieter Hanitzsch, by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung after its editor became concerned – th...
Pajiba

You've Got To Be F--king Kidding With This, NRA - OK. Fine, whatever else you want to say about John Mayer, his new music video is terrific. (Lainey) Are you FUCKING kidding me with this latest attempt by ...
Reverb Press

Rape, Death Threats, Beatings – New Report Alleges ‘Systemic’ Abuse by CBP of Immigrant Children - It's like Abu Graib 2.0, but to kids. In America. The post Rape, Death Threats, Beatings – New Report Alleges ‘Systemic’ Abuse by CBP of Immigrant Childr...
TYT Network

Post Game May 24, 2018 - Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian talk growing pains, the widest man in America, and beds. The post Post Game May 24, 2018 appeared first on TYT Network.
Brad Blog

Trump (and AL Sec. of State) Violating Free Speech Rights on Twitter: 'BradCast' 5/24/2018 - On today's BradCast: Our last show before a long holiday weekend packs a wallop and finds not just the President of the United States in violation of the C...
Consortium News

European Earthquake as Populist Government Forms in Italy - After having fought off popular rejection of its neoliberal economic policies that serve its own interests, the European establishment has lost its first m...
The Verge

Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’ - Valve’s game streaming service Steam Link won’t be coming to iOS today, despite a successful Android beta launch earlier this month. According to the of...
Salon.com

How China’s winemakers succeeded (without stealing) - More Chinese wines are finding their way into the liquor aisle
DeSmogBlog

Opponents Ask Court to Stop Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction in Louisiana Community During Ongoing Legal Battle - [image: Protesters with banners stop construction at a Bayou Bridge pipeline site in Maurice, Louisiana] Today, residents of St. James, Louisiana, and grou...
ProPublica

What Facebook’s New Political Ad System Misses - by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step ...
The Ghion Journal

Our Projection: Society’s Numbing to the Mindless Menace of Violence - Can we talk about killing? As citizens of the United States, we live in a culture that sends people and weapons around the world to other cultures to kil...
Hullabaloo

- *Totally not colludingTotally not colluding* by digby Roger Stone to his pal Randy Credico: “Please ask Assange for any State or HRC e-mail from Augus...
The Contributor

Jeff Bryant: Will Teacher Uprisings Change Democrats? - News Image: In Kentucky, a first-time candidate, math teacher R. Travis Brenda, knocked off the state’s House Republican Majority Leader Jonathan Shell. C...
Election Law Blog

Democrats File Lawsuit Claiming Florida Ballot Ordering Law, Listing Republican Candidates First on Ballot, Violates the U.S. Constitution - Read the complaint in Jacobson v. Detzner. … Continue reading →
Louis Proyect

Diana Johnstone versus CounterPunch - Diana Johnstone Following her Consortium News attack on Tony McKenna, Diana Johnstone’s now directs her polemical pea-shooter at CounterPunch (CP) and once...
Pharyngula

Open video chat — tonight, 9pm Central - All the cool kids on YouTube do these conversations with their followers, so I thought I’d try it. Except I’m not one of the cool kids. I don’t even have t...
National Post

Rachel Dolezal, former NAACP leader who posed as black, charged with welfare fraud - Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, was charged this week with theft by welfare fraud, perjury and false verification for publi...
Above the Law

Listen To A New ATL Podcast On Your Commute — See Also - *The Eric Schneiderman Case Is Progressing:* The women that have accused the former New York Attorney General of assault are being interviewed by the speci...
SCOTUSblog

Petitions of the day - [image: Petitions of the day]The petitions of the day are: Clearstream Banking S.A. v. Peterson 17-1529 Issue: Whether foreign sovereign property held by...
Vox

Vox Sentences: The North Korea summit that wasn’t - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered straight to your inbox Mo...
Grit Post

NBA Commissioner: Athletes Should Use Their Platform to Speak Out on Social Justice Issues - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver distanced his organization from the NFL this week, saying players should use their celebrity to address societal injustice. ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

No, Family Research Council. You don't get to to talk about patriotism after attacking transgender soldiers - As long as the Family Research Council attacks trans soldiers, its words about patriotism don't mean a thing. I've never believed that you should force peo...
Portside

NFL Owners Seek to Outlaw Protest - Shortsighted Anthem Policy Spits in the Face of American Ideals - NFL Owners Seek to Outlaw Protest - Shortsighted Anthem Policy Spits in the Face of American Ideals jay Thu, 05/24/2018 - 19:38
CultureMap Houston

Houstonians celebrate survivors and honor those who fight cancer - What: CanCare's National Cancer Survivors Day Luncheon Where: The Westin Houston The scoop: CanCare, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the q...
Axios

Clapper's advice for Trump on North Korea: "The less said, the better" - I asked James Clapper, whose new book "Facts and Fears" is out this week, how President Trump should proceed after the pre-summit breakdown with North Ko...
Think Progress

USA Today investigation reveals the truth about mysterious LLC that made Trump $107,000 - In a recent report for USA Today, investigative reporter Steve Reilly uncovered the purpose of a newly-formed corporation that netted President Donald Trum...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Telemundo Houston ranked #1 in May 2018 sweeps during prime and late news - One of Every Four Local Late News Viewers Choose Telemundo Houston at 10PM HOUSTON, TX – (May 24, 2018) – Upon the completion of the May 2018 survey period...
Daily Dot

Gamers are incensed that women will appear in ‘Battlefield V’ - [image: Battlefield V] They're saying it's 'historically inaccurate.' The post Gamers are incensed that women will appear in ‘Battlefield V’ appeared fir...
Grist

Let Michael Pollan be your psychedelic guide to loving our planet - Michael Pollan's RX for saving the planet? Shrooms.
Talking Points Memo

NYT: Sessions And Kushner ‘Turf War’ Led To Federal Prison Director’s Resignation - The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons resigned last week over what the New York Times said was his...
Splinter

Why Volvo’s Auto-Braking System Might Have Kept The Self-Driving Uber Crash From Being Fatal - The reason an Uber self-driving car fatally struck a pedestrian in March is coming into sharper focus, thanks to the release of a preliminary report on T...
No More Mister Nice Blog

- Michael Gerson asks whether Donald Trump is an "instinctual demagogue" or an "instinctual authoritarian." On most days, the evidence favors the former inte...
Houstonia

When It Comes to Group Fitness, There's Strength In Numbers - Life Time group fitness instructor Illiana Romero talks benefits of working out together.
Swamplot

Crosby Home Listing Photo of the Day: Truncated - 527 N. Gum Gully Rd. [HAR]… Read More
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Who Is Surprised That Trump Cancelled the Summit With Kim Jong-Un? - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
Grits for Breakfast

On recidivism, abolitionism, diversion, zoning, and other criminal-justice stories - Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: *Pam Colloff kicks ass* Pam Colloff's journalism pretty m...
Shadowproof

Activists Sue To Stop Chicago City Council Vote On Funding For Police Compound - The No Cop Academy Coalition filed a complaint in a circuit court in Cook County to prevent a City Council vote on a funding measure for a $95 million po...
Rude Pundit

You Now Have a Patriotic Duty to Kneel During the National Anthem - You see that up there? That's Major General Benedict Arnold's Oath of Allegiance to the United States, signed, in the middle of the Revolutionary War, on...
DBC Green blog

Fletcher's Surprising Margin and False Extrapolation - Wednesday I did promise a piece on the Fletcher-Moser primary runoff in TX-7, but I don't really have a lot to say about the race itself. The result was un...
SocraticGadfly

Loopy Lupe Valdez craps the bed again - Lupe Valdez, fmr Dallas Co. SheriffSorry, can't put a politer title on the post than that, after learning that she owes $12K in back due property taxes . ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Why Low-Level Offenders Can Get Longer Sentences Than Airplane Hijackers - Prosecutors shouldn’t have, or exercise, the power to dole out overly harsh sentences that fuel mass incarceration. Marion Hungerford has a severe form of...
The Progressive Wing

Amy Vilela – Candidate for the People - Learn more about Amy Vilela and how to help her campaign @ Amy4ThePeople.com. … Continue reading →
Slate

The Angle: Creature of Our Times Edition - *He found his niche*: Justin Peters profiles Richard Liebowitz, the young lawyer who’s been making life hell for digital media companies, and giving thei...
Texas Monthly

Can The Rockets Repeat Game Four? - Yes, the game was miraculous. But that defensive burst might have depleted the Rockets' tank. The post Can The Rockets Repeat Game Four? appeared first ...
San Antonio Current

Organizers Exceed the Number of Signatures Needed for Paid Sick Time Referendum - Labor and community groups this morning delivered 144,000 signatures to San Antonio's city clerk demanding that voters get to decide whether businesses sh...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: No Evidence - Matthew Yglesias @ Vox: Why did anyone ever take Trump’s North Korea diplomacy seriously? Dean Obeidallah @ The Daily Beast: Watch the GOP Freak Out Over T...
slacktivist

Intra ecclesiam nulla salus - For white Americans, the more you go to church, the less you respect Jesus Christ. The less you follow Christ. The less you know Christ. The less you recog...
Rewire

‘Completely Intentional’: Fake Clinics Outnumber Abortion Providers 10 to 1 in Texas - Among the Texas fake clinics identified by *Rewire.News*, more than 50 receive state funding through a program created by the Republican-controlled legis...
Talking Union

Stop Republican Immigration Bill - Farm workers need your help to stop Goodlatte’s nightmare immigration bill The House of Representatives last week voted down a bad Farm Bill. That seems l...
Free Press Houston

The Eternal: An Interview With Peter Hook - Peter Hook & the Light perform Thursday, May 31, at Warehouse Live.
Crooked Timber

The South China Sea: Reposts - That’s partly because I’m trying really hard to focus on finishing my Two Lessons book, but also because so many of the debates that come up have been had ...
Newsbud

Newsbud Exclusive- Whistle-blowers, Bell Ringers, Leakers & Informants. - Good governance and accountability are two elements essential to democratic governments like that of the United States of America. Accountability is extrem...
NPR's Health Shots

Don't Panic! What We Can Learn From Chaos - Chaos is a part of all of our lives. Sometimes we try to control it. And other times, we just have to live with it.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Duma Deputy Declares MH17 Investigation ‘Fake,’ Russian State Newspaper Takes it Back - RIA Novosti admitted the Joint Investigation Team’s reference marks on the Buk surface-to-air missile system that could be used to identify it, comparing t...
Echidne of the Snakes

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin: Two Republican US Senate Candidates Would Ban All Abortions. - Wisconsin's Republican US Senate candidates Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir are fighting for the votes of the forced-birthers*. They have both told a pro...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Organization To Turn North Korean Summit Coins Into New Cryptocurrency “BitKKKoin” - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite being scrubbed, for now, the highly-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong ...
Texas Observer

Activists Take Paid Sick Leave Fight to San Antonio with 144,000 Signatures - San Antonio activists on Thursday submitted about twice the number of signatures necessary to get a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance on the ballot in ...
FiveThirtyEight.com

LeBron Is Tired. The Rockets May Soon Be Too. - Welcome to The Lab, FiveThirtyEight’s basketball podcast. On Thursday’s show (May 24, 2018), Neil, Kyle and Chris discuss the conference finals yet again. ...
Frontloading HQ

DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee to Fix "Mistake" in Pre-Window Calendar - *John DiStaso from WMUR in New Hampshire*: *Democratic National Committeewoman Kathy Sullivan said she expects a correction will soon be made to the DNC Ru...
Church and State

Death is Bad - Only if we can choose whether to live or die are we really free. Our lives are not our own if they can be taken from us without our consent.
Ring of Fire

How Big Pharma Thugs Created the Opioid Express - Via Thom Hartmann Program: America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio joins Thom Hartmann to talk about the corrupt practices of opioid distributors. Transcript: ...
Buzzflash

Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York - Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York 4.0/*5* rating (2 votes)
The Stars Hollow Gazette

“Centrism”- Danger To Democracy - Call it what you will, the D.C. Consensus, Both Siderism, Neo Liberalism, “Centrism” has at it’s core a belief that the right and proper political order is...
MintPress News

The Left Needs More Critical Debate and Less Name Calling and Mic Drops - The American left simply doesn’t have a tradition of honest and robust critical debate and interaction. DSAers and Berniecrats only speak to each other. ...
Popehat

Analysis: Clifford and Avenatti Seek Reconsideration of Stay of Michael Cohen Case In Los Angeles. Is This Just More Theater? - Today brought a new development in the saga of the $130,000 hush money payment from President Donald Trump and his bumptious fixer Michael Cohen to Stephan...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Widespread refusal to speak continues! - *THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018A fascinating event:* On this, the fifth full day of the episode, we continue to be fascinated by the pundit corps' refusal to eng...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Trump blamed Democrats for ‘horrible’ bipartisan child migrant law. Here’s its purpose - The comments came ahead of an ACLU report disclosing thousands of pages of documents related to alleged abuses of unaccompanied minors.
News Corpse

Crybaby Trump Throws Tantrum, Cancels Summit with North Korea Because His Feelings Got Hurt - It’s official: The President of the United States has the emotional maturity of a four year old. Donald Trump’s infantile, punitive and reckless behavior h...
Dandelion Salad

Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti + Crumbling US Empire - by Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published Sept. 23, 2010 May 24, 2018 Chapter 1 of Against Empire, 1995 Imperialism has been the most...
In These Times

Progressives Have Won the Battle to Redefine What an “Establishment Candidate” Is - On Tuesday night, four states held primary elections: Arkansas, Georgia and Kentucky hosted their first rounds of voting and Texas completed its run-off....
Peacock Panache

Conditional Citizenship: Trump Comments on Forcing NFL Patriotism - [image: Conditional Citizenship: Trump Comments on Forcing NFL Patriotism] In remarks aired on *Fox and Friends* today, Donald Trump argued NFL players’ ci...
Duffel Blog

Trump replaces Kim with Trump on redesigned peace talks challenge coin - [image: new coin] WASHINGTON — The White House Communications Agency says it will melt down the hundreds of commemorative coins it had minted earlier this...
Freethought Now

The coming decline of religious pandering in politics - By Andrew L. Seidel Director of Strategic Response Freedom From Religion Foundation A bill to put “In God We Trust” in public schools. A resolution declari...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Update On North Korea Summit -
News Taco

5 Women Who Are Mobilizing The Latino Community For The Midterm Elections - The midterm elections this year are a pivotal time for activation, regardless of what side of the aisle you stand on. The Latino vote particularly is bei...
Texas Standard

What It’s Like Inside Gov. Greg Abbott’s School Safety Roundtables - “Everyone is just making sure we’re not desensitized to school shootings. I mean they’re happening so frequently it’s like one a week now.”
Krebs on Security

3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack - Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as "swatting," in which perpetrators call or message a target's local 911 ...
Progressive.org

Will the State Takeover of Jackson Schools be ‘Better Together’ or the Same Old Education Politics? - A familiar story of public school 'failure' and state seizure is playing out in Jackson, Mississippi. Can the city overcome its racist past to find a bette...
Counterpunch

Art of the Dealbreaker: Trump’s Cancellation of the Summit with Kim - Donald Trump writes Kim Jong Un that "based on the tremendous anger and open hostility expressed in your recent statement" he must cancel the planned Singa...
Dallas Observer

NFL's New Anthem Rules Don't Change Anything for the Cowboys - The Cowboys' tumultuous 2017 season had a little of everything. It had two three-game winning streaks and one season-killing, three game losing streak. It ...
Dorf on Law

Generic Washington Post/New York Times Political News Article - *by Neil H. Buchanan* For years, the pundit Thomas L. Friedman has been the butt of jokes, rightly mocked for his pompously trivial writing. From his op-e...
Latino Rebels

A Long (and Overdue) FU Letter to the Education System - It isn’t fair for a student of color to have to wait until they are in their 20’s to experience an educational environment that reflects them and their cul...
Angry Bear

Dear Professor Krugman, Say Its Name!!! “Taboo” - Dear Professor Krugman, Say Its Name!!! “Taboo” Paul Krugman is coming closer to embracing my “taboo” argument. A month ago I wrote that raising wages was ...
Washington's Blog

Prop Or Not – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits - By George Eliason, an American reporter living in Ukraine. Preface by Washington’s Blog: Prop Or Not has defamed this website and many other respected Amer...
Mahablog

Trump Chickens Out on the Singapore Summit - This morning, The Creature officially canceled the meeting with North Korea: President Donald Trump will not meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next mont...
Bonddad

Housing market shows no sign of stalling out yet - *- by New Deal democrat* Now that all of the major reports are in, I take an extended look at the state of the housing sector. This post is up over at X...
Popular Resistance

Judge Finds J20 Prosecutors Failed To Disclose Exculpatory Evidence, Mulls Sanctions - The prosecution in the J20 case was dealt another major setback today as Chief Judge Robert Morin found that they failed to disclose to the defense parts o...
Independent Political Report

The Register endorses Jake Porter in the Libertarian primary for governor of Iowa - https://media.gannett-cdn.com/28911775001/28911775001_5784638546001_5784626623001.mp4 *From Des Moines Register*: The Libertarian Party of Iowa gained...
Eater Houston

East Hampton Sandwich Company’s Lobster Rolls Arrive in Houston Next Week - The Dallas-based sandwich shop promises upscale eats After months in the works, Dallas-based chain East Hampton Sandwich Company is just about ready to ...
Equality Texas

I grieve for the trans family, and for my family – Rachel Gonzales - When people ask me about our family’s transition, I always share that I never mourned the loss of a son, because I never had a son. But I did grieve—and c...
Democracy Now!

"The Tale": Astonishing New Movie Tackles Filmmaker Jennifer Fox's Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse - As the #MeToo movement has inspired women around the world to come forward with their stories of sexual harassment, abuse and assault, we turn to a remarka...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Recognizing the Camel's Nose - They are like the camel’s nose, lifting a corner of the tent...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

A MASS HALLUCINATION - Trump has a new name, "SPYGATE!" and a made-up quote he then uses to attack James Clapper https://thinkprogress.org/trump-falsifies-james-clapper-quote-54d...
Space City Weather

A few more days of rain chances, then Houston bakes - After a mostly dry month of May, which had led to mounting drought concerns, most of the region has turned considerably wetter this this week. The followin...
Houston Press

JT's Man of the Woods is a Man of the People - Say all you want about Justin Timberlake’s new record, and God knows many have. Overstuffed. Empty. The hits go on. Timberlake’s latest record – Man of the...
Simple Justice

Short Take: Neither Mugshots Nor Schadenfruede Is A Crime - There is an eerily reminiscent aspect to the scheme perpetrated by the guys who ran Mugshots.com. Shades of David Blade, the revenge porn “takedown” lawyer...
skippy the bush kangaroo

the tale of the magic thursday - why do christian schools get a pass when talking about academic freedom? for people of color, banks are shutting the door to home ownership ice loss due t...
The Conversation

Venezuela is now a dictatorship - Maduro's landslide May 20 re-election marks the official death of democracy in Venezuela. Dozens of other nations have declared the vote illegitimate, and ...
Off the Kuff

Post-runoff thoughts - […]
Informed Comment

Khamenei, in reply to Trump, gives Europe 6-point Ultimatum on Nuclear Deal - Leader reserves right to begin enriching uranium to 19.75% again
Great American Satan

Hot Take from Sean McElwee - I don’t know who he is, but this tweet was hella righteous: Sean McElwee on Twitter: “every republican who wins an election meaningfully increases the chan...
Trivial Knot

FTA part 2: Prediction distributions and inflation - This is the second part of a series discussing the Fine Tuning argument (FTA). The outline is here. Comparing Hypotheses Previously, I explained how the Fi...
Socialist Worker

A torturer at the top - The Senate’s confirmation of Gina Haspel to run the CIA — with decisive support from Democrats — is a new chapter in the agency’s deadly history, writes...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Gov. Greg Abbott says he can support modest gun safety regulations - Statesman: Gov. Greg Abbott says he can support modest gun safety regulations
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Clues From the Upcoming California Primary - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The California primary on June 5 is the most important election in the battle for the House prior to November. — Democrats a...
Campaign for America's Future

Will Teacher Uprisings Change Democrats? - Anyone wondering whether teacher uprisings this spring will influence party politics and elections in November should look at what’s happened in this year...
Truthout

The Surprising List of Democrats Who Just -- Gratuitously -- Bowed to Big Finance - In a win for amnesia, Congress advanced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday deregulating the banking industry, just a decade after Wall Street triggered a finan...
Field Negro

How truth died in America. - [image: Image result for The american press image] - Remember when Hillary's e-mail was a thing? "Late on Monday we learned that President Trump h...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Print edition – May 23, 2018 - Here is the May 23, 2018 print edition of The Lewisville Texan Journal: The Lewisville Texan Journal’s stories are available free online at LewisvilleTexan...
Somervell County Salon

Scorecard on the Trump Interference from Russia Investigation-5/23/2018 - Here's what's happened so far with the Mueller investigation - Michael Flynn, former national security adviser and a key Trump campaign surrogate, ...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Dirty Thirds: Cops, the Mexican Mafia & LA’s disappearing gangs - Los Angeles has seen gang violence plummet in the last decade. Some of the reasons why were on display in two federal criminal conspiracy cases announced...
xpostfactoid

In New Jersey, ACA reinsurance or....? - Here in Jersey, progressives are urging Governor Murphy to sign two bills designed to fend off Republican sabotage of the ACA. The first would establish a ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Quantitative Easing and Corporate Surplus Hoarding in Contemporary Japan - In 2012, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), launched one of the largest monetary policy experiments in the history of the 21st century. Whilst in the years since t...
Liberal Values

Federal Judge Rules That Trump Blocking Users On Twitter Is A Violation Of First Amendment Rights - Our ideas about freedom of speech and First Amendment rights need to evolve in this social media age. Almost a year ago I wrote about a lawsuit against Don...
OffCite

Advocates Speak Up as Ghost Bikes Run Out: A Report by Cat Modlin-Jackson - Courtesy Houston Ghost Bike. Houston Ghost Bike organizer Steve Sims was scrambling to find a bike for Sudipta Roy. Two days after a dump truck driver kill...
Disobedient Media

The Day That Guccifer 2.0 Quit Hacking The DNC - Disobedient Media recently reported on discoveries made by the Forensicator in their report, Media Mishaps: Early Guccifer 2 Coverage. In […]
BEYONDbones

Why Not Both: The Story Of A Gynandromorph - In 2013 a unique aberration made its appearance at the Cockrell Butterfly Center. A Great Southern White (Ascia monuste) butterfly emerged from its chrysa...
The Rag Blog

Martha Mercado / Roger Baker : METRO | Poor People’s Campaign comes to Austin - Demonstrators in 30 states call for a moral revival. By Martha Mercado | Photos by Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | May 23, 2018 AUSTIN — On Monday, May 14, 20...
Political Orphans

Boredom, a Eulogy - Boredom has disappeared from our lives and with it, the ingenuity it spawned.
Pensito Review

Trump Campaign Starting from Behind - 36% A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds just 36% of voters say they would vote for President Trump over a generic Democratic candidate in 2020, compa...
Ecosophia

The Choice of a Canon - Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading—the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking—sparked a...
Other Words

In OtherWords: May 23, 2018 - A suite of veterans-themed pieces in time for Memorial Day weekend.
Harper's Magazine

[Memento Mori ] | Philip Roth (1933–2018), by Harper's Magazine - Remembering Philip Roth
First Reading

The Abbott campaign may show Lupe Valdez `no mercy,’ but will Latino voters say, `No más.’ - Good morning Austin: Lupe Valdez looked very, very happy last night. And why not. As they say, what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. Who says…
Socialist Alternative

North Carolina Continues Teachers’ Rebellion - The wave of teachers’ rebellions continued on May 16 in North Carolina, where tens of thousands of teachers, support staff, students, and allies marched on...
Debunking Christianity

Stealing from God: Intentions and the Laws of Nature - So far, we’ve covered causality, reason, and information in Turek’s C.R.I.M.E.S. acronym. But there is another “i” he mentions: intentionality (by which h...
Dos Centavos

On To November 2018! - I am quite pleased with the outcome of the 2018 Democratic Run-Off and I am proud to say that Texas and Harris County Democrats will have a strong, diverse...
Rallblog

The Mueller Investigation Begins Its Second Glorious Year - Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia began a year ago. However, there’s still no evidence that such collusio...
John Laurits

In Defense of Political Extremism: ‘Us Versus Them’ Versus Neoliberal Ideology - In Defense of Political Extremism: ‘Us Versus Them’ Versus Neoliberal Ideology The term ‘black and white’ is often used to label ways of thinking that ar...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

We've got to get in to get out - It’s better to best is all I’m saying, and not that he’s wrong at all. He’s one door away. Better to best. These things take time, the greatest changes al...
Earthjustice

New Jersey: The Solar Garden State - New Jersey: The Solar Garden State For some, a lack of rooftop space or funds for solar panel installation can make clean energy unattainable. New Jersey G...
Lowering the Bar

Thirty-Year-Old Man Evicted From Parents’ Home - Several written eviction notices from the parents had no effect. Related Stories - Powerball Problems
Progressive Army

Epic vs Lewis and the Future of Labor - In 2008, Sheila Hobson began working at an Alabama gas station owned by Murphy Oil, a chain that operates in several states. There, she was regularly den...
Ian Welsh

Amazon Rolls Out Face Recognition To Police - Our panopticon is on track: Powered by artificial intelligence, Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 pe...
Nathan Hevenstone

And… - I’m officially 31 as of 1:28 pm. Today. It’s my birthday, I guess… Yay me? Tomorrow (Wednesday), I embark on a drive down to Georgia (from New York), where...
Common Dreams

Trump Says Historic Meeting With North Korea May Be Postponed - Jon Queally, staff writer President Donald Trump on Tuesday signaled the highly anticipated summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, scheduled to take p...
Robert Reich

THINKING BEYOND TRUMP: WHY WE NEED A FEDERAL JOBS GUARANTEEWe... - *THINKING BEYOND TRUMP: WHY WE NEED A FEDERAL JOBS GUARANTEE* We must not forget the economic frustrations that helped fuel Trump’s election. For too lo...
Greg Palast

Free Speech TV & MNN Presents… Elections 2018: Voting Rights Under Attack - By Greg Palast "The American voting system is busted. It’s shattered. They’re trying to take away your vote by saying you’re not a citizen, by saying you...
Downwinders at Risk

Tonight: Show Up for Change - Like Life, Social Change is 90% Showing-Up …Tonight You Have a Chance to Show-Up for Change in a Big Way for Just a Little Money It’s showtime. Tonight is ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

We Must Become The Media And The Scientists! - There has been a movement at the grassroots for years, if not decades to develop a new alternative source for media, since the traditional media is cons...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Gay man: Pope Francis told me ‘God loves you like this’ - A gay man and victim of sexual abuse by a Chilean priest has said that Pope Francis told him that his sexuality “does not matter" and that "God loves you l...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Venezuela: Fake elections in a dictatorship - *Venezuela's night grows darker* Voting booth in VenezuelaSunday's fake election in Venezuela brings the South American nation another step closer to Cuban...
Pressthink

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...
Avedon's Sideshow

Some say it's a sign of weakness - *The Hill*, "Court orders Iran to pay billions to 9/11 victims and families: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Iran to pay billions of dollars in damage...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (May 13 – 19) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Televangelist Jim Bakker, pitching the Missouri town in which he is building a Christian community equip...
Bracing Views

The Best Don’t Have to Boast: The Dangerous Myth of American Military Omnipotence - W.J. Astore [Note: I originally wrote this article for Truthout, where it appeared in August 2011. Little has changed since then; indeed, the current pres...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

A brief history of Armed Forces Day, and why we fly the flag in 2018 - Armed Forces Day is the third Saturday in May. This year it falls on May 19. The U.S. Flag Code designates Armed Forces Day as one day for all Americans to...
Governmentality

Sunday Talk Shows (5/20/18): Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Bernie Sanders, Roger Stone, Oliver North - The Sunday morning talk shows will focus on Trump's FBI claims and the Texas school shooting. The post Sunday Talk Shows (5/20/18): Meet The Press, Face...
Carl Beijer

Jordan Peterson doesn't understand Jung's ideas about gender - I was re-reading some Jung this morning when I came across a passage that Jordan Peterson would probably prefer that you ignore: No man is so entirely masc...
Stinque

Teenage Wasteland - We were fifteen in 1974. It was, in retrospect, maybe not the beat time to be growing up in America. Our political memory began with a pair of assassinatio...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Power and Will: Eminent Domain for Preserving Land and Surviving Floods - The Moral Hazard in a Golf Course May 18, 2018 Mention “eminent domain” and ugly associations come to mind. The brutal power of the state. Taking homes a...
Reading the Pictures

Between Jerusalem, Gaza and the Media: The Tear Gas Spectacular - What stokes the media as effectively as it fuels insurgency and state power--especially in the Trump era? Simply put, it's the fireworks. The post Betwee...
Better Texas Blog

A Lose-Lose Situation if you Buy Your Own Health Insurance - For people who aren’t offered insurance at work and don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, their option for health coverage is called the “individual he...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

A Visit to Houston and the Healthy Port Communities Coalition - Six years ago, Public Citizen and our partners founded the Healthy Port Communities Coalition (HPCC), which advocates for the health and well-being of re...
Duck of Minerva

Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) - This is a guest post from Paul Musgrave, Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Sebastian Karcher, Assoc...
Washington Babylon

Michael Cohen, Tony Podesta and Washington Corruption - I’ve been out of the loop for awhile, for a bunch of personal and work reasons, but hope to be reporting regularly from The Swamp again soon. I confess I’m...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT's Queer Voices on History of Texas Sodomy Law - The 15th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, finding Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional, is coming up in June. I had the oppo...
ROAR Magazine

The revenge against the commons of the ZAD - Why French police, in its biggest operation since May 68, is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare — and how the ZAD fought back. Read more
ExChristian.Net

Working For The Church - *By WP ~ * I have been a Christian my whole life but the past two years have completely broken the mind fuck spell I was placed under. Growing up my mom ...
Our Finite World

How the Economy Works as It Reaches Energy Limits — An Introduction for Actuaries and Others - Why have long-term interest rates generally fallen since 1981? Why have asset prices risen? Can these trends be expected to continue? The standard evaluati...
Bad Attitudes

Snowflakes - There is still good in our world, if you look hard enough. Alan Tucker has: There is a new term for those handwringing liberals who whine about poor peop...
Houston Communist Party

New-Orleans-swears-in-its-first-female-mayor-continuing-the-trend-in-black-women-s-leadership - New Orleans swears in its first female mayor, continuing a new trend in black women’s leadership Kelly Macias Daily Kos Staff Monday May 07, 2018 · 1:39 PM...
WAWG Blog

Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People - Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public ...
LawFlog

DOJ refuses to release records about Seth Rich murder - The U.S. Department of Justice will not release any records related to the murder of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to a...
The Economic Populist

Construction contribution to Q1 GDP under-reported by 47 basis points, despite 1.7% drop in March - Construction spending fell 1.7% in March, after construction spending for both January and February were revised much higher. The Census Bureau's report...
PERRspectives

Next Year in Tehran? - As President Obama faced the looming re-election campaign in the spring of 2012, he issued a stern challenge to those critics of his approach to the Irania...
Ramona's Voices

Let's be Honest. Anti-Abortion Doesn't Make You Pro-Life. - I'll get right to it: I'm on the side of every woman who chooses abortion as a solution to what she considers a problem in her life. I don't need to know h...
34justice

We Miss the Old Kanye… - Kanye West is oft considered one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. He also supports Trump and recently gave an interview stating his belie...
Real News

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign - By Gareth Porter* / Consortium News * Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but ...
Seeing the Forest

WWDD — What Would a Democracy Do? - Crossposted from Imagine Democracy Here is a question to ask yourself when you are looking at something the government is doing: “Would a democracy do this...
Progressive Memetics

S H O T S -
South Lawn

Dead Workers Don’t Use Elevators, Cherie - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate North Carolina’s Elevator Queen. I do not mean that I hate Cherie Berry as a person. I hate and despise the...
The Texas Politics Project

Governor Abbott (Still) Tops Texans' Evaluations of Elected Officials* - By: Jim Henson Joshua Blank In addition to its focus on Texans’ views of the issues facing the state, the University of Texas / Texas Politics Project Pol...
Houston Justice

BREAKING: HISD Board will not Charter Black/Brown Schools - [image: hisd pic.jpg] Just confirmed the authenticity of this press release from HISD Press office via phone who confirmed the Board will not move forward...
Moron Majority

Is Dr. Ronny Jackson Really an MD? - Now that Dr. Ronny Jackson’s bid to become the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs has suffered a major setback amid allegations of both personal and profes...
Texas Moratorium Network

Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler - Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler. Sabrina was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. She is listed as number 59 on the T...
New Progressive Alliance

Gentrification and Orange County - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
PoliTex (FWST)

Who's a hero or villain in Texas politics? It's in this book - Fort Worth is the home of Texas' best museums. Arlington, though, is at risk of damage from Tea Party Republicans and wild hogs. Texas is a wondrous place,...
St. Petersburg Independents

Robin Harris, Green leader - Orange County, FL commissioner Dist. 6! The pattern of Gentrification in Orange County is classic. First they drive out the affluent through deliberate ne...
Green News Network

The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance - The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance Written By: Tony Smith Throughout the history of the United States, there have been two main p...
If You Only News

Pregnant Mother Shot By Her 3-Year-Old Daughter With Father’s Gun (VIDEO) - Police said a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her pregnant mother from the backseat of the car on Tuesday in Indiana. Authorities said the woman’s...
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
Texas Rural Voices

San Saba to Brady: A Day in the Heart of Texas with Beto O’Rourke - By JoAnn Randall “Everyone was in upbeat spirits on a beautiful spring day and all were looking forward, enormously, to hearing from and meeting Beto O’R...
The Metaphor Project

How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now - With President Trump’s choice of Bolton as National Security Adviser and Pompeo for State, our country has reached a more dangerous place than ever, especi...
Project Censored

Washington Post Bans Employees from Using Social Media to Criticize Sponsors - In June, 2017, the Washingtonian reported on a new policy at the Washington Post that prohibits its employees from conduct on social media that “adversel...
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of April 9th - The Texas Progressive Alliance is neither the subject nor the target of an investigation, but it is bringing you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff noted th...
Jim Hightower

Guacamole, shakshuka, mussels and… garbage dogs? Recipes from Hightower and friends - After Hightower’s longtime partner, DeMarco, took her leave of us from this crazy planet, our staff and the board of the Lowdown decided to have a little...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Call To Action – URGENT SUBMIT COMMENT BY 04/10/18 – 5pm Central - Hydrogen cyanide is a systemic chemical asphyxiant. It interferes with the normal use of oxygen by nearly every organ of the body and can be rapidly fatal....
The Disorder Of Things

What We Talked About at ISA: Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy - In recent years, we’ve seen a number of depressing political shifts in the Euro-Atlantic area — but the rise of feminist foreign policies is not among them...
Irregular Times

Catholic Priest Prays For Wanton Destruction In Congress - It’s outrageous that a priest was given specific federal government authorization to conduct a religious ritual on the floor of the U.S. House of Represent...
UP@NIGHT

The New Philosophical Gourmet Report Indicts Itself - A preliminary. I did not expect, nor did I desire to write, (yet) …
Source Planet

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
The Urban Edge

Sustainable Cities Need More Than Parks, Cafes and a Riverwalk - The Conversation | The difference between green cities and green gentrification. Continue Reading →
Deep State Nation

GOP Lawmaker’s 56-Year-Old Aide Fired Over Sexual Encounter With Teenage Boy - BUSTED!
Thom Hartmann

Friday 9 March '18 show notes - - Anything Goes Friday! What's on Your Mind? - Karl Frisch, Allied Progress: Why are Florida Legislators Cowtowing to the Payday Loan Crowd? ...
News Junkie

Human Trafficking from Haiti to Chile - In Chile, as in every other country that has historically embraced slavery, there are numerous racists. It is equally fair to say that, like all countries ...
Texas Watch

Texas Watch Speaks on Auto Safety at HABA Conference - (Photo (left to right): John Kopriva, HABA President; Burl Richards, ABAT President; Ware Wendell, Executive Director of Texas Watch; Robert McDorman, F...
Independent Thinker 2016

Donald Trump – President for Life - A few days ago Donald Trump made a comment about wanting to be “president for life” and a chill went through me. I had recently said to a friend that Berni...
Texans For Public Justice

A Blue wave with not much green - A 'Blue Wave' Without Much Green The Texas Observer This year, a group of lesser-known candidates has raised $1.1 million over the same period, a 90 perc...
Pressing Issues

My Best Films of the Year 2017 - Every year for many I have posted my list here starting about this time in December--then update it into January and February as I see most of the top Ch...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

Self Care: An Open Letter About Healing - Self Care: An Open Letter About HealingAshton P. Woods **It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pres...
nonsite.org

Tain’t So - To lay out, as clearly and as programmatically as we could, the reasons why despite protestations to the contrary, antiracism, understood as insisting on t...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 223 - Trump Gives America The Clap - We decided to get off our asses and do a show about Trump’s first State of the Union speech. We break it down in a mature and thoughtful way, of course....
Bullshit-ist

A Trump Public Service Announcement — Demanded By Our Therapy Dogs - Therapy dog applicants, seeking high paying jobs, at the offices of Herbie McDoolittle & Sons Usually we write satire, at Herbie McDoolittle & Sons. But ou...
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

SCOTUS dismisses Texas Democrats’ partisan-gerrymandering claim - The Supreme Court issued an *order *Tuesday morning dismissing the Texas Democratic Party’s partisan gerrymandering claim for want of jurisdiction. The S...
Reveal

Nation’s largest janitorial company faces new allegations of rape - ABM Industries Inc. has a history of being sued for failing to stop sexual abuse on the job.
Death to Squirrels

I don’t understand their objection to “shithole countries.” - Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries in Oval Office meeting President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Ov...
Quartz

We’ve chosen the winner for the Atlas for Africa competition - We’re pleased to announce the winner of Quartz’s Atlas for Africa competition is Blaise Aboh from Nigeria. Over the last year, Quartz Africa has trained ...
Daily Democracy

Judge: Voting panel must give Dem more access - A federal judge has upheld a lawsuit filed by a Democratic member of the White House voting commission who claimed he’s being shut out of commission activi...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 30: All Too Normal - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss the wave of sexual misconduct revelations and the GOP tax bill. Check out this episode!
The Nil Admirari

Trump Declares Victory Over Opioid Epidemic - *LAST UPDATED @ 10:48AM (10.27.2017)* *Trump credits "big brain," "hugely big hands" for solving America's opioid epidemic.* Donald Trump declares victor...
American Third Party Report

Another Maine Legislator Switches to Independent - Ballot Access News On October 17, Maine Representative Norman Higgins announced that he has changed his registration from Republican to independent. He was...
Modern Democracy

The Value of Gerrymandering - On Tuesday, Justice Sotomayor asked a “simple but devastatingly effective” question of Erin Murphy, one of the attorneys arguing in favor of Wisconsin’s ge...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

In Las Vegas, Second Amendment Hero makes largest blood donation to the NRA - "One thing I love about these tragedies that happen, the reaction from the American people coming together," - NRA Spokesmodel Antonia Okafor told Blond ...
Free Speech.org

John Fugelsang Explains Why With Free Speech TV, The Viewers are the Sponsors - John Fugelsang expresses the importance of Free Speech TV. He says it's "where you'll get the information that you might not hear elsewhere," because oth...
Progrexas

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

Trump’s Catchphrase for Any Circumstance: ‘We’ll See’ - WASHINGTON (AP) — When in doubt, President Donald Trump has a ready-made response to any questions: “We’ll see.” On Wednesday, Trump delivered his go-to ...
Resistance Report

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

Trump Attacking Our Vulnerable Seniors…Again! - By Tim Canova Putting a loved one in a nursing home is life-changing and often a heart-breaking experience. It saddens me to say that President Donald Trum...
Counter Propa

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

What if Trump is trying to get impeached? - Those in The Resistance have been calling for Donald Trump's impeachment since before his inauguration, but what if impeachment is exactly what he wants? T...
Heat Street

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

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

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

Fired Justice Department employee Sally Yates to testify about Michael Flynn today. - Sally Yates is going to testify today at 2pm about her warnings regarding Michael Flynn, after being rudely fired by the Trump administration for not follo...
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...
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...
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...
OpenSecrets

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...
Not of it.

Texas Big Six: 2016 Edition - "Make No Small Plans" - Texas is channeling its inner Daniel Burnham. The Chicago architect responsible for 1909's The Plan of Chicago never uttered the exact words that are th...

Brains and Eggs

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