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Raw Story

Elliott Broidy plotted to force Chinese dissident from US: NYT - Elliott Broidy explored plans to get Chinese dissident Guo Wengui expelled from the US in hopes of receiving payoffs from China and the UAE, documents ob...
Crooks and Liars

Chuck Todd Hosts America's Sad Clown Of Centrism, Ron Fournier - [image: Chuck Todd Hosts America's Sad Clown Of Centrism, Ron Fournier] As I have mentioned once or twice, of all the revered establishment institutions wh...
Eschaton

If I Did It - Every day Trump basically tweets something like, "They don't have the proof, yet!" and has no idea how guilty that makes him seem even though I don't know ...
Think Progress

These 2 journalists used comics to highlight immigration journey in Ohio - The conversation over undocumented immigration is often tied to a frightening vision of drug runners with sinewy, cantaloupe-like leg muscles on the southe...
Sputnik News

Golden Shower: Why Countries Pull Out Their Bullion From the US - With the Turkish Central Bank withdrawing its gold reserves from the US Federal Reserve System and shipping them to Ankara, Sputnik looks into how this mov...
Mediaite

Trump Erupts on Maggie ‘Habberman’ in Wild Tweetstorm: Source is ‘Drunk/Drugged Up Loser’ - President Donald Trump unleashed on New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Saturday morning, over her latest story detailing his longtime mistreatment ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 16 - 20 at XE.com - - *by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at XE.com. The regional Fed indexes, which presaged real strength in the industrial sector over...
Duffel Blog

Colonel who gave reenlistment oath to dinosaur puppet forced to retire at same rank as Jeffrey Sinclair - [image: Colonel who gave reenlistment oath to dinosaur puppet forced to retire at same rank as Jeffrey Sinclair] NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Following outrage over...
Daily Kos

Voting Rights Roundup: New Jersey just passed automatic voter registration. These states could too - Leading Off ● New Jersey: On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed automatic voter registration into law, making New Jersey the 11th state (plus the...
The Verge

This week in tech, 20 years ago - [image: InfoWorld, April 20th, 1998] *As a person who covers day-to-day technology news, I often wonder how my writing might come off to someone in the fu...
Vox

The Comey book isn’t quite performing to Fire and Fury standards - And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects. Welcome to the weekly Vox book link roundup, a curated collection of the internet...
Hullabaloo

Money vs. boots by @BloggersRUs - *Money vs. boots* by Tom Sullivan Let's talk money. Politics is a rich person's pastime. The money involved for the highest-profile races is staggering...
Debunking Christianity

Newspaper write-up of my debate with Jim Spiegel - Here's a newspaper write-up of my debate with Jim Spiegel near Indianapolis. The church seemed fairly full, probably 400 people. A lot of young people wer...
Common Dreams

CIA Operative Gina Haspel Who Tortured, Ordered CIA Torture Tapes Destroyed, and Now Wants To Lead CIA Did Nothing Wrong, Says CIA - Jon Queally, staff writer In what critics are calling a bald attempt to help Trump's controversial pick to lead the CIA get through a very difficult confirm...
memeorandum

Sessions warned White House he could quit if Trump fired Rosenstein: report (Max Greenwood/The Hill) - Max Greenwood / The Hill: *Sessions warned White House he could quit if Trump fired Rosenstein: report* — warned the White House recently that he could...
Texas Monthly

The Texanist: Bob Wills Played a Song About WHAT?!? - A Tulsa woman thinks the king of western swing had a raunchy side. Her husband isn't buying it. The post The Texanist: Bob Wills Played a Song About WHAT...
Buzzflash

Sessions Warned White House He Could Quit If Trump Fired Rosenstein: Report - Sessions Warned White House He Could Quit If Trump Fired Rosenstein: Report 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

LEAK WARS - The GOP wanted their hands on the "classified" Comey memos, and wanted them released. Boy, did that backfire https://politicalwire.com/2018/04/20/about-t...
The Intercept

The FBI’s Race Problems Are Getting Worse. The Prosecution of Terry Albury Is Proof. - It’s no secret that the FBI has a problem with race. Former Director James Comey even called the FBI’s lack of racial diversity a “crisis.” The post The ...
Popular Resistance

Iran Warns Of ‘Unpleasant’ Response If US Drops Nuclear Deal - Iran warned the United States on Thursday of “unpleasant” consequences if Washington pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, Iranian state TV reported. ...
Pharyngula

One does not simply walk into Nazidom - One must be guided there, gently, with a series of increasingly radical leaders. Over at the really racist forum, “The Right Stuff”, the mob of neo-Nazi sc...
The Week

10 things you need to know today: April 21, 2018 - 1. North Korea "no longer needs" to test nuclear weapons and missiles, leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday, and will shut down the site of the past six nucl...
Down With Tyranny!

The Predatory Presidency - *Forbes* made sure to include a caveat under contributor Harry Binswanger's name in their latest issue. Here's how Binswange describes himself-- no joke:...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

This Week in God, 4.21.18 - The relationship between Donald Trump and evangelical Christians is changing: the more the president faces questions about his character, the more they lik...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Melania Trump, Obamas and Clintons to attend funeral of Barbara Bush - - Donald Trump will not attend service in Houston - Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, to deliver eulogy Some 1,500 guests are expected to attend...
Daily Dot

‘Last Shot’ is fun and a little political—just as ‘Star Wars’ should be - [image: last shot star wars] Han grapples with fatherhood and reunites with Lando in the latest 'Star Wars' novel. The post ‘Last Shot’ is fun and a littl...
NPR's Health Shots

When Teens Cyberbully Themselves - In this latest form of self-harming behavior, adolescents anonymously post mean or derogatory comments about themselves on social media, as a way of managi...
Splinter

This Rare Sitewide Casper Sale Ever Lets You Save On Mattresses and Accessories - Beyond the standard $50 discounts you hear about in the middle of every podcast, Casper mattresses don’t go on sale often, and Casper accessory deals are...
The Root

This Rare Sitewide Casper Sale Ever Lets You Save On Mattresses and Accessories - Beyond the standard $50 discounts you hear about in the middle of every podcast, Casper mattresses don’t go on sale often, and Casper accessory deals are...
Washington Monthly

Trumptown: The President as Cult Leader - In the entertainment world, there is shock over the arrest of actress Allison Mack, best known for her role on the popular 2000s TV show Smallville, stemmi...
Houston Press

These Improbable Beasts (and the Rock) Deserve a Wilder Film Than Rampage - ... This is a movie where everyone in Johnson's radius accuses his character of hating humanity, when the actor himself can't help ingratiating himself to ...
naked capitalism

Links 4/21/18 -
Off the Kuff

Abbott does want a special election in CD27 - […]
Informed Comment

Top Six Reasons Pompeo should not be Secretary of State - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks the votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have his nomination ...
Mother Jones

More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might. - This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round o...
Talking Points Memo

New Jersey Pols Get Progressive, And Other News: Your Prime Week In Review - Hello, Prime subscribers. Here’s a recap of what happened in Prime this week. You likely heard that Michael Cohen was...
Axios

Generation Z's next battleground: lowering the voting age - Washington, D.C. is on the verge of becoming the first major U.S. city to allow people as young as 16 to vote in local and federal elections, including f...
skippy the bush kangaroo

did you hide from saturday night? - conditioned to cheer for the rich stoneman douglas students could be punished for participating in national walkout suspicion of muslims deeply rooted in...
Dissident Voice

Global Weirding - Oh, what fun it truly was to experience the “bomb cyclone” in January in New England: the snowfall gave a sense of peace and calm, the winds were less stro...
Liberation News

Cuba’s new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, takes office - [image: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and utgoing president Raúl Castro. Photo: Adalberto Roque] President Díaz-Canel emphasized in his acceptance speech, “We...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | April 20, 2018 - Friday Nite Videos | April 20, 2018 barry Sat, 04/21/2018 - 01:31
Stinque

Selected Excerpts - CLASSIFIED BY: DIRECTOR DECLASSIFY ON: 20271231 January 6, 2017 What follows are notes I typed in the vehicle immediately upon exiting Trump Tower. I said ...
jobsanger

They Are Coming (But Not For Your Guns) -
Rivard Report

After Walkout, Advanced Learning Academy Students Ask, ‘What’s Next?’ - Instead of organizing a walkout, students at the Advanced Learning Academy organized activities to initiate a discussion on gun violence. The post After ...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Up Above My Head - This week Adrastos discusses nutria, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Danbury Trashers, a Cornell cold case, and Harry Anderson.
World Socialist Web Site

Social inequality and oligarchy in the US and Europe - A report by Thomas Piketty shows that the Democratic Party in the US, the Labour Party in Britain and the Socialist Party in France have become the preferr...
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: "I adore her": In Houston, mourners celebrate former first lady Barbara Bush's life - Tribune: "I adore her": In Houston, mourners celebrate former first lady Barbara Bush's life
Anti-Media

Blaming WikiLeaks for 2016 Loss, DNC Lawsuit Riddled With Conspiracy Theories - [image: WikiLeaks DNC Lawsuit]Press freedom advocates denounced the claims advanced in the suit, arguing they would implicate journalists and newspapers th...
Houston Communist Party

From Reichstag Fire to Colin Powell’s Anthrax Vial: Top 8 False Flags in History - https://sputniknews.com/military/201804201063765684-false-flag-attacks-in-history/ From Reichstag Fire to Colin Powell’s Anthrax Vial: Top 8 False Flags in ...
Antiwar.com

Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel Is a Matter of Policy - The term “media bias” does not do justice to the western corporate media’s relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, indeed, far more ...
Courthouse News

Official: Shotgun in Guitar Case was Used in School Shooting - A gunman carried a shotgun in a guitar case and opened fire Friday in a Florida high school, wounding one student before he was arrested on a day planned...
National Post

Kim Jong Un announces surprise suspension of nuclear, missile tests ahead of historic South Korea, Trump meetings - Both South Korea's Moon and Trump have been saying North Korea is now willing to 'denuclearize,' but the term means different things to the different sides
AlterNet.org

HBO's Bill Maher Explains Why Donald Trump Is Uniquely Dangerous - Maher said that Trump makes him think differently about previous presidents. On the Friday's episode of HBO's "Real Time," Bill Maher succinctly explaine...
The Greanville Post

Ruling Class Operatives Say the Darndest Things: On Devils Known and Not - PAUL STREET—So here’s an interesting question: which is worse – (a) quietly equipping the most reactionary government on Earth and much of the rest of the ...
Political Dig

Michael Cohen’s Legal Nightmare Just Got A Lot Worse: Report - Keith Davidson, an attorney who formerly represented two women who were paid hush money to keep quiet about their affairs with Donald Trump, has announce...
Ballot Access News

Darcy Richardson Submits Evidence in Georgia Ballot Access Case About Why the 5% Petition was Created in 1943 - The Libertarian Party of Georgia has a lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court against the petition requirement for minor party and independent candidates f...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

The Shock that Still Resonates - It's been nineteen years since the Columbine school mass-shooting, and the pain is still palpable. For nineteen years, there's been a lot of talk, but no a...
Echidne of the Snakes

Weekend Reading, 4/20/18: Black Maternal And Infant Deaths, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults And Richard Cohen on Reverse Discrimination - 1. This is an excellent and upsetting article on the high black maternal and infant death rates in the United States. The problem is not a new one, but...
Brad Blog

Senate GOP Twists Obscure Law to Gut Decades-Old Regulations (Forever): 'BradCast' 4/20/2018 - On today's BradCast: As usual, the big headlines obscure the most disturbing ones. [Audio link to full show follows below.] On Friday, the Democratic Natio...
TYT Network

TYT Hour 2 April 20, 2018 - Cenk, Brett Erlich, and Sue-Ann Robinson. National walkout in remembrance of Columbine; another shooting in FL. Arizona PTA declines governor meeting. Tru...
Mock Paper Scissors

Bad Signs, Cont. -
Crooked Timber

What’s in a name? - Daniel once quipped that political views among the Crooked Timber team span the gamut: from social democrat to democratic socialist. Having spent the past ...
Reverb Press

Unbelievably, Donald ‘Grab ‘Em by the P***y’ Trump Is Now The Poster Boy For Abstinence - The irony is real with trump taking up abstinence In a move to both roll back an Obama Era program and pander to the religious right, the Trump Administr...
Grit Post

2020 Presidential Candidate Giving Out Free Money in New Hampshire for Basic Income Experiment - Since GritPost explored the importance of discussing basic income last fall, the concept has increasingly been featured in public discourse. From examini...
Slate

My Theory About the Number of Memos Comey Gave His Friend Was Wrong - On Thursday, the Justice Department sent Congress James Comey’s contemporaneous memos documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump, and thos...
Washington's Blog

Which ‘News’ Is Fake? - Eric Zuesse Regarding the war in Syria: Is this fake?: https://www.sott.net/article/383252-A-Look-Inside-The-White-Helmets-Headquarters-in-Aleppo The video...
Socialist Alternative

We Can’t Afford to Live in the City We Build - Originally posted on The Stranger. My workday starts on an unfinished floor with no windows, 40 stories up. I scan Seattle’s skyline, watching the endless ...
Above the Law

If It’s This Cold Next Week I’m Gonna Start Agreeing With Scott Pruitt — See Also - *WHO WAS THE WORST LAWYER AT THE MICHAEL COHEN HEARING?* I'm warning you, McDermott Will & Emery, Trump ruins everything he touches. *DNC DROPS THE RICO HA...
OpEd News

The Great Day - Zionism from the beginning wanted to dispossess the Arabs from their land in order to create there a new Jewish nation. This was never admitted, but was cl...
Consortium News

Embattled Palestinian Knesset Member Fights for Her People’s Rights - In this interview with Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Dennis J. Bernstein discusses Zoabi’s feminism, the struggle in Gaza an...
Houston Matters

Texas Teachers’ Pay Is Average, But Their Pensions Are Among The Lowest In The Country - Benefits for Texas teachers have been a point of contention between educators and lawmakers for years — and often a hot topic at the Legislature. But where...
ProPublica

Nonprofit Watchdog Group Shutting Down - by Dan Mihalopoulos, Chicago Sun-Times, and Mick Dumke, ProPublica Project Six — the nonprofit watchdog group led by Faisal Khan, the former inspector g...
Grist

Lyft pledges to cancel out the carbon from your next ride - Driving still isn’t great for the environment, but Lyft is taking a step in the right direction.
News Corpse

The Way Life in America is Supposed to Work: By Russian Colluder, Sexual Assaulter Donald Trump - Nothing is more brazenly sanctimonious than a notorious reprobate like Donald Trump telling other people how to live. This is someone who has had five kids...
Dallas Observer

UNT Student Calls for Chicken Restaurant to Close After Chef Used Racial Slur - University of North Texas communications student Chelsea Shaw wants a campus restaurant to close after a student employee typed a racial slur on her receip...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Vazquez v. Sessions 17-1304 Issue: Whether a conviction under a state criminal statute whose plai...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Stacks - 1207 Sterrett St. [HAR]… Read More
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Hits Twitter Hard to Celebrate #420Day - On today's unofficial marijuana holiday, there's no shortage of folks taking to Twitter to share their smoke-out plans, show off zeppelin-sized joints or ...
VICE

Blazing Trails in Frisco, Colorado - 'Blunt Reviews' host Simone Sullivan books a curated mountain weed retreat in Frisco, Colorado.
Rewire

Michigan’s Republican Governor Cuts Off Free Water Supplies in Flint - “Basically what the governor did was he thumbed his nose up at the citizens showing us that fiscal concerns are more important to him than humanity itsel...
Lewisville Texan Journal

GO Productions presents ‘Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth’ - Go Productions presents “Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth” 4:30 p.m. May 5 at the Medical City Lewisville Grand Theater, 100 N. Charles Street. “Can ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How an Irish Court Ruling Could Affect U.S. Spying - The decision sets the stage for a showdown between tech firms and the government on NSA surveillance. Amidst all of the coverage of Mark Zuckerberg’s cong...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Nobody Likes Trump - Ed Kilgore @ New York Magazine: Nobody Likes Trump Except White Evangelicals Justin Ward @ Hatewatch: Day of the trope: White nationalist memes thrive on R...
Lowering the Bar

About That Religious Test - Massachusetts got rid of its religious test in 1821—but not because it was unconstitutional. Related Stories - Shortening the Massachusetts O...
Freethought Now

Victorious legal eagles! - A part of the work we do here at FFRF is to keep an eagle eye on the constitutional wall of separation. This week, our vigilance bore fruit.
Houstonia

A Missing Host Casts a Somber Tone Over Annual Barbara Bush Literacy Event - An annual celebration turned into a moving tribute to one of the cause's most adamant supporters.
Pajiba

The Fool Who Asked Michelle Pfeiffer About Her Weight Says The REAL Issue Is Political Correctness Run Amok - Earlier today, we gave you the blow-by-blow of disastrously sexist question that marred Tribeca Film Festival's Scarface Q&A last night. Now, we've got upd...
Free Press Houston

Film Facts: Never Really Here Edition - How do you describe a film that defies description? You Were Never Really Here works on several levels. Writer/director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About...
Liberal Values

James Comey On The Investigation Of Hillary Clinton - After getting a copy of James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, I couldn’t resist skipping past the material from earlier in his career and get to the sectio...
The Progressive Wing

BREAKING: DNC sues Russia, Wikileaks, Assange, Donald Trump Jr. & many more - Today the Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against The Russian Federation, along with a long list of other defendants. Yes, you heard that right. The DNC j...
Rude Pundit

The Comey Memos: Man, Trump's a Sad Worm - The memos of former FBI director James Comey were leaked to the press literally minutes after they were given to a congressional committee led by craven tw...
Texas Observer

‘I’m Really Scared Now to Go to School’: Texas Students Lead Walkout to Protest Gun Laws - More than 1,000 students from at least 16 Austin schools marched to the Texas Capitol on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, to deman...
Peacock Panache

The Immigration Debate - [image: The Immigration Debate] *Last night, I spoke to the Lafayette chapter of Indiana’s ACLU. They asked that I address immigration. This is the talk I ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Comey Is No Hero - One of the most frustrating things this past week has been watching James Comey make the rounds of Stephanopoulos, Maddow, The View, along with other outle...
BEYONDbones

Tinder and the Plague Doctor: A Case for Swiping Right - Imagine you’re on Tinder, maybe wasting time or maybe looking for love, when the plague doctor pops up on your feed! You’d probably be tempted to swipe lef...
Ring of Fire

Judge Tells Exxon They Can’t Stop Climate Change Lawsuits - A federal judge has dismissed Exxon’s efforts to block a climate change investigation into the company that is trying to determine the extent of Exxon’s ...
Church and State

Why Machine Learning won’t cut it - Current machine learning approaches will not get us to real AI. The kind that can truly understand you, and learn new knowledge by itself.
CultureMap Houston

Houstonians pay tribute to Barbara Bush at celebration of her life - At a ceremony that was at once upbeat and poignant, Houstonians gathered on April 19 at the steps of City Hall to pay their respects to former first lady ...
Earthjustice

Hawaiʻi Scores Another Big Win in Stopping Harmful Aquarium Fishing, Protecting Reefs and Native Hawaiians - Hawaiʻi Scores Another Big Win in Stopping Harmful Aquarium Fishing, Protecting Reefs and Native Hawaiians Citizens and conservation groups recently achiev...
Latino Rebels

Los Tigres Del Norte Playing at Folsom Prison 50 Years After Johnny Cash Was Pretty Boss - Amazing.
Wolf Street

“Financial Stress” in the Credit Markets v. the 2-Year Yield - The two-year yield, now surging, is a leading indicator.
DBC Green blog

Three Quick Things - For those of you on the front lines of the battle to legalize cannabis, and for those of you who just want to spark one (or more) up today, Happy 4/20!On t...
The Conversation

Comey memos follow tradition of J. Edgar Hoover keeping notes on presidents - Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Lisa Vaughn exits FOX 26 KRIV - Meteorologist Lisa Vaughn is no longer with FOX 26 KRIV Meteorologist Lisa Vaughn has left FOX 26 KRIV a station representative has confirmed to mikemcguff...
Popehat

Michael Cohen's Motion to Stay The Stormy Daniels Case Deferred, Cohen's Situation Pronounced Ominous - Today, in a mood for some history, I walked half a mile to the new federal courthouse to watch United States District Court Judge James Otero hear argument...
Election Law Blog

“D.N.C. Lawsuit Alleges Trump-Russia Conspiracy” - NYT: The Democratic National Committee opened a new legal assault on President Trump on Friday by filing a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the organ...
Grits for Breakfast

On increasing prosecutor caseloads in an era of crime decline - On Twitter, TDCAA *complained *about Grits' *observation in this post* that, as the number of crimes with victims declined over recent years, police and pr...
No More Mister Nice Blog

WHO ARE YOU GONNA BELIEVE, ME OR MY LYING WORDS? - Kevin Williamson has written an op-ed for *The Wall Street Journal* titled "When the Twitter Mob Came for Me." Fellow conservative pundit Noah Rothman is g...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Way Everybody Measures NFL Schedule Strength? It’s Wrong. - After Thursday night’s two-hour special on the NFL Network, we now know exactly what every NFL team’s schedule looks like for the upcoming season. But what...
MintPress News

A Professor Weighs in on Venezuela’s Emigration of Youth - Venezuelan university professor Jessica Dos Santos reflects on increasing youth emigration in Venezuela, contextualizing the phenomenon in a refreshing c...
Mahablog

Republicans Step on a Rake - Apparently Republicans were eager to release the Comey memos because they believed it would reveal that Comey had leaked classified information. The Creatu...
Trivial Knot

What is an apology? - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2014. There are countless cases in the news where a public figure does something wrong, and we all collectively a...
Pensito Review

Trump Tax Law Gave $3.6 Billion to Big Banks Last Quarter - $3.6 billion An analysis by the Associated Press shows the nation’s six big Wall Street banks saved at least $3.59 billion in taxes last quarter, thanks to...
DeSmogBlog

With Oil by Rail Poised for Comeback, Will Lack of Safety Regulations Mean 'Bomb Trains' Return too? - [image: Gogama oil derailment and fire] Investors love a good comeback story and right now oil by rail seems to be a story they're pushing to justify inves...
Louis Proyect

Syria and neo-McCarthyism - Tim Hayward A group of academics in England dedicated to the Herculean task of clearing Bashar al-Assad’s name has been stung by a couple of articles in Ru...
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...
Daily Howler

READING COMEY: Roads not taken, questions not asked! - *FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018Part 5—Once again, god gets a pass:* We haven't read James B. Comey's book, the lofty and deeply thoughtful "A Higher Loyalty." I...
Shadowproof

Alice Bag’s Punk Rock Connects Protest History To Trump Era - “I couldn’t slow down,” remembers singer, author, educator, and activist Alice Bag, reflecting on the days following her 2016 tour. “So I just started wo...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Alex Jones Puts His Foot to the Floor – In Reverse - Now served with the Sandy Hook parents’ lawsuit, ol’ Alex Jones is backing up in a hurry. He now admits the shooting did happen and actually had the gall ...
Dandelion Salad

David Swanson: Debunking the Myth of American Exceptionalism + The Day DC Was Bombed - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy April 20, 2018 TheRealNews on Apr 19, 2018 Anti-war writer and activist David Swanson discusse...
The NM Political Report

Competition fosters computer skills in New Mexico schools - [image: Competition fosters computer skills in New Mexico schools] *This story is part of the State of Change project, produced in partnership with the Sol...
Rallblog

In an Alternative Universe, There Is a Trump Who Cares About Us, and We Care About Things That Matter - In an alternative universe, there is a United States of America led by a president Donald Trump where people are actually focused on real issues that aff...
First Reading

Flash-bang grenades: On Ted Cruz’s incendiary political rhetoric. - Good Friday Austin: The TIME 100 is supposed to be a list of the 100 most influential people of 2018. Each of the hundred gets…
The Ghion Journal

Bomb Them Over There So We Can’t Build Our Communities Here - “We are pursuing a comprehensive strategy to win the war on terror. We’re taking the fight to the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here a...
The Contributor

A Short History of Threats Received by Donald Trump’s Opponents - News Image: When Stormy Daniels spoke to “60 Minutes” last month, the porn actress described a threat she received years ago after speaking to a journalis...
OffCite

Third Ward Walking Tour: Emancipatory Art and Equitable Development - Project Row Houses, Third Ward, 2015. Photo: Peter Molick.This weekend, Emancipation Avenue between McGowen and Blodgett streets will be closed to cars fro...
Angry Bear

Can Nudging Become A New Road To Serfdom? - Can Nudging Become A New Road To Serfdom? Last weekend I attended a conference at NYU Law School on “Behavioral Economics and the New Paternalism, organize...
emptywheel

National School Walkout and LEO on Alert: Coincidence? - Memorial walkouts for Columbine mass shooting victims will take place today, part of a national school walkout. Is it coincidence LEO were on alert this we...
Eater Houston

5 New Houston Restaurants to Try This Weekend - [image: Spicy cucumber salad at Les Noo’dle] Get out of the house for barbecue, wine, coffee, and more Dying for dining inspiration? The weekend is just a...
SocraticGadfly

Does "networking" really work? - You see networking for jobs touted as the best way to get them. That said, some people who tout the idea, after telling you that 3 percent of jobs come fro...
Progressive.org

Cohen & Cohn, Fixers-At-Law - Here's your Roy Cohn, Mr. Trump.
Krebs on Security

Is Facebook’s Anti-Abuse System Broken? - Facebook has built some of the most advanced algorithms for tracking users, but when it comes to acting on user abuse reports about Facebook groups and con...
Democracy Now!

Earth Day 2018: Ending Plastic Pollution in the Oceans, Land & Our Bodies - This Sunday more than a billion people will celebrate Earth Day. This year's theme: ending plastic pollution by Earth Day 2020. Of the nearly 300 million t...
Texas Standard

Taking On Prescription Drug Costs, The Trump Administration Is Unlikely To Use Price Controls - The White House is looking at changes to Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Space City Weather

Showery Saturday, but sun by Sunday in Houston - We weren’t lying about this week having some stunning weather. Yesterday was about as close to perfect as you can script here in Houston. It’s certainly wo...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 181: ‘Meet the Steeles’ - Brad Johnson is a far better actor than Jerry Jenkins is a writer. Casting a capable actor here means that the Rayford Steele in the movie is a different c...
Dorf on Law

How to Live Greatly in the Law - *by Michael Dorf* Last night I had the honor of delivering some brief remarks to the soon-to-be-graduated JD class of 2018 at Cornell Law School's 3L Dinne...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Eight years after Deepwater Horizon, is another disaster waiting to happen? - A safety watchdog formed after BP oil spill could be the next Trump administration casualty
Counterpunch

Tehran’s Syria: Lebanon Colonization Project is Collapsing - “Leave Syria, think about us!” and “No to Yemen! No to Lebanon and Hezbollah! Our lives for Iran!” are among graffiti sentiments scrawled across Tehran. Th...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Victory for the education sector strike - It might be too early, to speak of the year 2018 as the year of global education struggles. However, in this blog post co-written with Joeferson Almeida*...
Carl Beijer

Russiagate can't be reconciled with identitarian politics - Atlanta-based NPR station WABE has run a hit piece on left activist Anoa Changa, suggesting that her appearance on Sputnik radio has "put her credibility a...
Socialist Worker

A feminist outpouring shakes the Spanish state - On International Women's Day this past March, an estimated 5.2 million women took part in what was popularly described as a two-hour "feminist strike" t...
Great American Satan

Chunk of Novel - Roughly the first 26,000 words of my novel are available to read on my new writing tumblr, The Voice of Hell. It’s a rough draft so feel free to hit me up ...
Campaign for America's Future

Why We Must Save the VA for Veterans - As a ten-year U.S. Army combat veteran, I’ve felt my share of aches and pains following my service to my country. And I know firsthand how the Veterans Adm...
Truthout

Dilma Rousseff: Lula's Imprisonment Is Part of a Coup Corroding Brazil's Democratic Institutions - Protests are continuing in Brazil over the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Two weeks ago, Lula began serving a 12-year prison...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Perils of self-publishing, a book lovers’ event! - Bob Reitz is the curator of the Jack Harbin Museum at Camp Wisdom, one of the finest museums of Scout materials in the country, focused on Scouting in the ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - I’ve been spending most of my time lately either praying to the porcelain God or wishing I felt other than I do. Nauseau being bad for writing (at least fo...
Field Negro

Et tu, LA Fitness? - - [image: Image result for la fitness images] I am starting to see a trend. One of the good things about living in a world where we can use our ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

HRC campaign exposes Mike Pence as a homophobic hot mess - The Human Rights Campaign has just launched a campaign to remind folks that while Trump is an incompetent disaster, his vice president Mike Pence is a ho...
Morning Consult

Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts - The post Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts appeared first on Morning Consult.
Progressive Army

Editorial | We Stand with Anoa: Lies by Omission Damage Progressive Voices - Anoa Changa is a leader, change agent, and activist, who has shown herself time and again to be an independent thinker. Anoa has been a critical and valu...
Salon.com

Rudy Giuliani joins Trump’s legal team - Rudy Giuliani joins Trump’s legal team, which has been in flux after several attorneys turned the president down
PoliTex (FWST)

What is your state lawmaker posting on Facebook? - Want to know what your state lawmaker thinks about certain legislative issues? Might want to check Facebook. A new study shows most Texas lawmakers post on...
Harper's Magazine

[Postcard ] | The Bad and the Ugly, by Kyle Paoletta - Acquiring works for the Museum of Bad Art
Newsbud

The Russian Deep State: Putin & the Assassination of Journalists - In this special report Newsbud’s founder and editor Sibel Edmonds and Spiro discuss the recent and suspicious death of a Russian journalist who was best kn...
In These Times

Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change - About 252 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic extinction event killed “90 percent of the planet’s species,” according to *National Geographic*, and e...
Political Garbage Chute

Local Mom and Pop Coffee Shop Only Calls Cops On Black Hipsters - BISCUIT HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA — When Susan Carolsen heard the news about a Starbucks in nearby Philadelphia being the scene of an arrest of two young, unar...
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...
Real News

“How Come?” Questions - by Andrew Levine / Counterpunch. Photo by Elvert Barnes | CC BY 2.0 There are many reasons why American politics often seems more baffling than the poli...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Springtime on Buffalo Bayou - Through the Woods on a Brilliant Sunday Morning April 19, 2018 At last spring had sprung. The trees were bursting with joyous green, celebrating by tossi...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Growing Evidence Of Mega-Church Fraud Violence & Support For War? - Religion teaches morality. Or so we've been told by religions for thousands of years. One of the most important morals might be, "Thou shalt not kill,"...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Succession Watch: Fact checking Raul Castro's cheerleaders - *Fake news on Cuba * *Big factual error* It has been a painful month reading the "news" on Cuba, and basic factual errors that could be corrected on a maj...
Independent Political Report

LP.org: Michigan Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Gelineau featured on NPR - *From LP.org*: Bill Gelineau, the Libertarian candidate for governor of Michigan, was featured on the “Stateside” program on NPR Michigan affiliate WUOM-...
Bracing Views

My Dad’s Silver Dollars - W.J. Astore My dad left me two silver dollars. They’re worth much in sentimental value (I’ll explain in a moment), but they also teach us something about ...
Robert Reich

A THIRD PARTY? HOW NOT TO SETTLE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILSAre... - *A THIRD PARTY? HOW NOT TO SETTLE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS* Are you happy with the electoral choices provided you by the two major parties? If not, sh...
Our Finite World

Why oil prices can’t rise very high, for very long - Oil prices are now as high as they have been for three years. At this writing, Brent is $74.14 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate is at $68.76. These p...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Belle Chesler, A Teacher Listens to Her Students - During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

History Suggests Double Trouble for Incumbent Trump - This is part one of a back-and-forth between Crystal Ball Managing Editor Kyle Kondik and veteran reporter and presidential historian Paul Brandus assessin...
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...
The Reality-Based Community

“I take it the answer is: ‘No comment’?” - “Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan, what’s your plan if President Trump fires Robert Mueller?”
xpostfactoid

Two NJ healthcare bills awaiting Gov. Murphy's signature should reduce premiums by 20-30% in the individual market - On April 12, both houses of the New Jersey legislature passed bills to establish a state individual mandate (A3380) and a reinsurance program ( S1878). The ...
Other Words

In OtherWords: April 18, 2018 - This weekend, the U.S. once again struck out at Syrian regime targets over the alleged use of chemicals weapons.
Ecosophia

Returning to the Commonplace - There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or ...
Duck of Minerva

Foreign Policy and Mixed Signals - Earlier this week, a particularly volatile fissure within the Trump Administration opened up. Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, announc...
Greg Palast

KPFA Presents The Bay Area Premiere of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election - Join us on Wednesday, April 18 in Oakland for the Bay Area Premiere of... The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:The Case Of The Stolen Election Featuring a po...
Downwinders at Risk

Alternative Earth Day Event -
Better Texas Blog

The Critical Role of Texas Medicaid in Treating Substance Use Disorder - All Texans living with substance use disorders should be able to access the treatment and supports they need, regardless of their income. As Texas tries ...
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
Political Orphans

How Do You Fight a Man Like Donald Trump? - Have you wondered why so many Trump appointees who have been ridiculed, shamed, then fired by tweet have not spoken out about their experience? Confiden...
Disobedient Media

The Southwestern Hemisphere Is Sliding Towards Its Own “Arab Spring” - America's southern neighbors are increasingly at risk of being engulfed in widespread chaos and destabilization
John Laurits

How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack - How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack Last Saturday, as most are surely aware, the prime ministers of France and ...
Frontloading HQ

#InvisiblePrimary 2020: Uh oh Biden? - Over at Politico, Charlie Mahtesian has this to say *about a prospective Biden candidacy for 2020*: *"Joe Biden, who leads the Democratic 2020 presidential...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Lamar W. Hankins & Alan Pogue; Christopher Brown & Roddey Reid; Thorne Dreyer & Glenn Smith; Carl Davidson; Alice Embree, Kim Varela-Broxson & Lindsay Rodriguez; Roaul Hernandez; Steve Russell; and Philip Russell - Our guests include authors & activists, political analysts, a music critic and a leftist icon; we talk about guns and feminism; and we bid Mexico’s preside...
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...
Washington Babylon

How McClatchy Took Michael Cohen in Prague Story From Speculation To Fact - Over the weekend I ran a story here about McClatchy’s bombshell alleging that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s lawyer and bagman, went to Prague in 2016 despi...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Your information is secure. - This is an interruption. I am sorry. This is not the usual thing for here. I apologize. I spend much of my life apologizing, really, if you must know, and...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Zuckerberg Troll Army, Syria Gas Attack, Michael Cohen “and Friends.” - Welcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week we discussed Mark Zuckerberg’s DC appearance, the Syria gas attack, and Michael Cohen "...
ExChristian.Net

Hello, my name is Don and I am a religious addict. - *By Don Shafer - ex Christian, ex pastor, ex idiot ~ * It's true, I am addicted to Christianity, to Jesus, to God, to the church, to the methods and relati...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (April 8 – 14) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Ralph Drollinger, talking about the notes Donald Trump makes on Drollinger’s eight-page print-outs most ...
South Lawn

On The Crest Of A Strike Wave - We have a guest post today, talking about the strikes spreading across the country that started in West Virginia. C. intermittently tweets as @thehousered ...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

The boundaries in between - This is just a neat old picture of Arthur Thomson drawing direct to stencil that Rob Hansen found in someone's old photo collection. Arthur once asked me ...
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...
WAWG Blog

More on How We Got Into The DJT Political Swamp – It Has Little to Do With Russia - In 1970, income and wealth inequality were at historical lows. The income tax tables had over 25 brackets with the top marginal rate of 74%. Campaign fundi...
Nathan Hevenstone

A New Blog?!? What the Heck is Nathan Doing?!?!? - Relax, relax. It’s nothing too big. Yes, I created a new blog. No, it’s not a replacement for this one. I know I’ve been inactive here, and there are a lot...
News Taco

Texas OKs Mexican-American studies curriculum under new name - The Texas Board of Education on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to creating statewide academic standards for a Mexican-American studies high school c...
Equality Texas

New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Texans - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas 512-289-2995, angela@redmediagroup.com New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Te...
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 Hill: Ballot Box

Queen Elizabeth likens Trump to noisy helicopter - Queen Elizabeth II is comparing President Trump to a noisy helicopter, quipping that the commander in chief goes “round and round when you want to talk.”Th...
Dos Centavos

Sunday 4/15 – Los TexManiacs at Discovery Green - Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs are headlining the Discovery Green Birthday Bash this coming Sunday, April 15. The Bash starts at noon with Los Texmaniacs hi...
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...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (TxETRA) Kicked Off Electric Vehicle Coalition With Energy and Momentum - 15 Companies and Groups, 60 People Are Backing a new organization, Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (TxETRA) Kicks Off Electric Vehicle C...
Moron Majority

Mexico Agrees To Pay For Wall If Trump Releases Tax Returns - Mexico has agreed to pay for Trump’s much-promised “big, beautiful” border wall. But there is a catch … Trump must first release his tax returns. The idea ...
Houston Justice

Project Orange Profile by April Henshaw - When I saw the call to help register voters who were currently incarcerated, I knew I had to do it. I was raised by a single father, in part, because bot...
ROAR Magazine

Dissecting the madness of economic reason - David Harvey’s latest book provides a riveting reading of Marx’s *Capital* and a trenchant critique of a political and economic system spiralling out of ...
34justice

The Nation of Islam Problem - The Nation of Islam is officially recognized as a national hate group due to its black supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ views. And yet, Tamika Mall...
Ramona's Voices

In the Year of the Woman We're Going to Need Each Other - Women's Liberation protest, 1971 Enlightened women of America, if I say we're at our most vulnerable right now, right this minute, and our gains are becomi...
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...
Progressive Memetics

Crushing Dissent -
Seeing the Forest

Why Not Just Give A Job To Anyone Who Wants One? - Doing work that needs to be done?
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!
Bad Attitudes

Art Lover - From *Politico*: â€œAlso the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replace...
LawFlog

Federal lawsuit seeks records about Seth Rich murder - This morning I filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that asks a federal judge in Brooklyn to order the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice to release ...
PERRspectives

Democrats Proven Right--Again--on Tax Cut Windfall for the Rich - During the run-up to the passage of the "Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department's Office of Tax...
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...
Pressthink

Membership as a force multiplier for beat reporting - Just published a "concept paper" for an idea I have been trying to introduce for 11 years. It may take 11 more but I don't care. I think it's a good idea...
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...
New Progressive Alliance

Black Community Control of the Police divides the Green Party - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
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...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Librarians and the Beauty of Surprise - On National Read Across America Day, I’d like to give thanks for local public librarians. I find one of the great things to do is walk into a library and...
The Economic Populist

OPEC's February Oil Market Report showed that the global oil glut is growing again - Since the media largely missed what the data from OPEC's February Oil Market Report (covering January OPEC & global oil data) actually showed, and since ...
The Texas Politics Project

Joe Straus Approval (February 2018) - - Table | - Share - | More Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Straus is doing as Speaker of the Texas H...
[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.
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 1/12/2018-Trump is a Racist - Trump is a racist. We all knew that, right? It isn't like yesterday's comments about "shithole nations* was the first time anyone had some kind of warnin...
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!
Texas Moratorium Network

Videos from 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty -
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...
Daniel Williams

Understanding the Seven 2017 State Constitutional Amendments - It's that time of the biennium again! Time for voters to consider constitutional amendments on small minutia of public policy. Texas has the longest state ...
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...

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