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VICE

Meet the Man with the World's Largest Collection of Hamburger Memorabilia - By his own estimate, Harry Sperl owns more than 6,000 pieces of hamburger memorabilia. including a hamburger motorcycle, a hamburger water bed, and the del...
Vox

Clinton's debate performance spoke to every woman who has had to humor an incompetent man - Hillary Clinton debated circles around Donald Trump during Monday night’s presidential debate. She had prepared, coherent answers, while Trump had unpre...
Talking Points Memo

Shutdown Fever? Four Days To Go And Still No Plan To Fund The Government - With just four days to go before the government runs out of money to operate, Democrats helped block a short-term spending measure from moving forward Tu...
Mediaite

Madonna Got Her Son a Trump Piñata for His Birthday - Madonna has never been shy about her politics.
National Post

Clinton and Trump, beyond words: What the handshakes, smiles, grimaces, finger-pointing and sniffles revealed - The election may come down to this: Who would Americans would rather have to their homes for dinner? We spoke with four body language experts
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 9/27/2016 - I'm not a member of the Republican party, have never voted for a Republican. I have never respected G W Bush. I do find it interesting to see how much th...
Raw Story

Gender played a bigger role in the presidential debate than you think - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Did he call her “secretary” as a sign of respect or condescension? What about the interruptions? And the matter of her looks or lack of s...
Daily Kos

Crucial battles for state legislatures are underway, and Democrats could pick up several chambers - After taking a beating two years ago, Democrats are feeling pretty good about their chances to make gains in state legislatures nationwide this fall. Ind...
Grist

Climate change got 82 seconds in the presidential debate - How does that compare to debates past? We ran the numbers.
Dandelion Salad

How We Could End the Permanent War State by Gareth Porter (#NoWar2016) - by Gareth Porter Writer, Dandelion Salad worldbeyondwar.org September 26, 2016 Remarks at #NoWar2016 My remarks are related to the problem of media as a fa...
Ring of Fire

WHO Panicking As Air Pollution Endangers Record 92 Percent of World’s Population - [image: rs pollution 2] The World Health Organization is on high alert today as the globe has once again reached a record-breaking, panic-inducing landmark...
The Verge

Elon Musk’s Mars mission: all the news from the big announcement - On September 27, Elon Musk announced a bold new plan to establish a permanent human habitation on Mars with his company SpaceX. It's one of the most amb...
Mother Jones

Comey: No Obstruction of Justice in Clinton Email Case - Speaking of Hillary Clinton's emails, we learned something interesting today. But first, here's an excerpt from the FBI report that was released last mo...
Pajiba

Patton Oswalt and the Place Where Grief and Humor Meet - Grief is a motherfucker. When loss enters your life, the lingering presence of grief is an unshakable companion. It steals moments, it hijacks other emotio...
Sputnik News

Gap, Narrowing: Russia, China to Challenge West's Air Supremacy - Western hawks are beating their war drums over the growing military capabilities of Russia and China, fearing the countries could challenge the West's air ...
Crooks and Liars

Rudy Giuliani: Trump Should Skip Next Debates - [image: Rudy Giuliani: Trump Should Skip Next Debates] The former Mayor of NYC and rabid Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani, blew a gasket after the first presi...
Independent Political Report

Video of Jill Stein Supporters Being Arrested at Hofstra University - http://independentpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14516855_554750841376349_2782453648855138304_n.mp4… Read more ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

NEW YORK POST'S "DEMOCRATIC" BAR IS IN A VERY PRO-REPUBLICAN COUNTY - The *New York Post* claims it has evidence of Donald Trump's deep appeal to Pennsylvania Democratic voters: *How Trump won over a bar full of undecideds an...
Salon.com

Donald Trump’s “Miss Piggy” problem: Why his criticism of Alicia Machado’s weight matters - Donald Trump's sneering condemnation of a former Miss Universe perfectly encapsulates his self-serving intolerance
Anti-Media

Leaked Colin Powell Emails Confirm Israel’s Secret Nuke Stash - [image: colin powell]The latest email proves to be a gift that keeps on giving.
Buzzflash

Stop and Frisk Has Not Been Ruled Unconstitutional - Stop and Frisk Has Not Been Ruled Unconstitutional 3.0/*5* rating 1 vote
OpEd News

Syria: Barbarians with bloody hands turn accusers - The US, the UK and France are using the UN, whose charter they violated by launching their wars of aggression for the last 25 years, as a pulpit to accuse ...
Daily Howler

Why did Trump keep playing birther games? - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2016Holt never quite managed to ask:* All in all, we'll agree with Isaac Chotiner. Lester Holt didn't knock it out of the park, bu...
Rude Pundit

Observations on a Brutal Beatdown at Last Night's Presidential Debate - Autoerotic asphyxiation is tricky. Done right, a man who ties a cord or a necktie around his throat and attaches it to a strong doorknob or closet rod can ...
Think Progress

If you hate job-creating solar energy, Donald Trump wants your vote - Trump hypocritically says his four bankruptcies mean nothing, but one solar power bankruptcy means everything.CREDIT: AP/Evan Vucci What did we learn from ...
CultureMap Houston

Fashion Fusion winners strut their stuff in downtown Houston exhibit - What: Opening of The Refinement of Line in Fashion and Machine exhibition. Where: Two Allen Center. The scoop: Eight Houston Community College students wh...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Fmr. Sanders campaign head reacts to debate - Jeff Weaver, former Bernie Sanders campaign manager, discusses Senator Sanders’ involvement in the Clinton campaign and how young people will impact the el...
Common Dreams

New York City Stop-and-Frisk Facts: CCR Issues Statement - Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) The Center for Constitutional Rights, which argued and won the landmark case in New York City challenging the NYPD’...
Campaign for America's Future

In the First Debate, Trump Failed to Achieve the Reagan Effect - Trump offered a return to top-end tax cuts and deregulation with a populist trade posture. Clinton called for public investment to rebuild the country. Bot...
The Urban Edge

Applicants Far Outnumber Spots for Houston’s Housing Vouchers - Leah Binkovitz | September 27, 2016 Applicants outnumber available public housing vouchers two-to-one, according to the Houston Housing Authority.
Consortium News

Clinton Toned Down Her Hawkishness - Exclusive: Hillary Clinton’s strongest point in Monday’s debate may have been what she didn’t say, as she avoided a return to her hawkish rhetoric that has...
Willy Loman, American Everyman

American Everyman is the Latest Victim of Neoliberal SSD “program integrity” Tidal Wave - by Scott Creighton The Wave of Integrity Over the years of doing this I have learned that the hardest things to write about are those that are the most per...
ProPublica

Uncommon Contract Holds Promise for California Group Home’s Too Familiar Ills - by Joaquin Sapien Last year, the Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Francisco became the scene of a rare struggle: a bid to unionize worke...
Eschaton

So Fragile - And who will foot the bill for the bulldozers? Developer tells NJ appeals court any delay in approving funding will kill long-stalled project This week co...
Daily Dot

6 U.S. Senators Condemn Yahoo's 2-Year Delay in Disclosing Hack - The Democratic lawmakers say they were 'disturbed' by the breach announcement.
Reverb Press

13 Of The Most Hilarious Tweets To Come Out Of The First Clinton / Trump Debate - Twitter Declared Clinton Debate Winner It is no secret that Donald Trump and his entire, strange, mind-blowing campaign and candidacy have provided a wea...
Angry Bear

No, Mr. Trump, nothing made you smart. To illustrate: You think a VAT tax is a trade tariff. - Nick Confessore Reporter 9:20 PM ET Just to pull back for a second here, you can see a part of Clinton’s strategy. She is not campaigning against him as a ...
Shadowproof

Graham, Carter, and Dunford on Military Plans for Raqqa and Assad - Below is the transcript and video of an exchange between Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sec. Defense Carter and JCS chairman Gen. Dunford at the Senate Armed Servi...
Free Press Houston

Art Fair Fever: The Hidden Agenda - Terrell James, “Territories,” 2016 (detail). Photo: Rick Wells Not only does this week bring in two notable art fairs, including the Texas Contemporary A...
Awesomely Luvvie

I Survived the First Presidential Debates (Barely) with Clinton vs. Trump - Last night was the first presidential debate that put Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump behind podiums and let them hash it out on various issues. As the ...
Pensito Review

Trump Concedes Debate Defeat - Yeah, she did a good job. — Donald Trump, caught on camera in a candid moment with his son after last night’s debate.
The Stranger

Exit Interview: Outgoing Frye Art Museum Director Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker - by Jen Graves [image: jo-anne-birnie-danzker_jengraves-mag.jpg] THE STRANGER "I only really rock with Jo-Anne," Grammy-winning hiphop artist Ishmael But...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Public Lost Censored Debates - Chris Cuomo said the big winners of the debate were the public because they got to see both candidates perform. That is a pathetic lie! The public is...
Dissident Voice

Standing in Solidarity for a Humanity Without Borders - Much has been made of the basic unfairness in how responsibility is shared between nations for ameliorating the refugee crisis. But the real question is th...
Swamplot

Swamplot Sponsor: This 5-Bedroom, 5-Bath Home in West U - Swamplot is brought to you today by the 5-bedroom, 5-bath house for sale or lease at 6337 Mercer St. in West University Place. Thanks for the support! If y...
Houstonia

Strike a Pose: The Essential Guide to Houston's Fall Fashion Shows - New shows are ready to impress and familiar events are adding excitement.
Down With Tyranny!

Law Firm Files Suit on Behalf of Government Against Giant Chemical Firms; Government Declines to Join - *Victims blinded by a methyl isocyanate gas leak from a chemical factory in Bhopal, India, 1984 (source).* *by Gaius Publius* This news brought to you by...
Eclectablog

27-year-old GOP State House candidate Steve Marino wants to raise the minimum age for Social Security to 75 - That fresh-faced 27-year-old in the picture there on the right is Steve Marino, a Macomb County Commissioner who is running for the State House in the 24th...
Political Garbage Chute

PolitiFact Creates New “Utter And Complete Horse S__t” Category After Trump/Clinton Debate - Even PolitiFact has to change with the times. [...] The post PolitiFact Creates New “Utter And Complete Horse S__t” Category After Trump/Clinton Debate a...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Democratic convention committee obliterated fundraising goal - New filing shows Comcast, unions, wealthy liberals among most generous donors
Mahablog

Hillary’s Night? - I just re-read what I wrote last night while the debate was going on, and it seems most of the other commentaries I’ve read agree with me. Trump became mor...
Houston Press

County Commissioners Approve $105 Million Plan To Save the Astrodome (Ta Da!) - After sitting vacant and in disrepair for years, the Astrodome is about to get the makeover, Harris County Commissioners Court announced today. County off...
The Progressive Wing

Terrific article about millenials and Clinton - http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-millennial-voters-502298 Why is Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton underperforming among young voters?...
Affinity

We the People… - The people of Florida murder 72,000 babies every year while the “pro life” politicians we’ve elected to protect them attempt to regulate the practice of ch...
First Draft

This is it. This is the hottest take. - “Put the TV on mute, and he clearly dominated.” They’re drinking heavily over at the Cornhole: What did swing or persuadable voters think? If you’re truly ...
The Intercept

Were Paper Losses the Goal All Along? - If your goal is to launder money through a brokerage account, paper losses are worth serious money. Buying imaginary shares of a stock guaranteed to lose...
Pharyngula

Tonight at Cafe Scientifique - Some guy is giving a public lecture here in Morris, Minnesota. I was wondering why I was feeling a little frazzled and over-extended this week. Event Date:...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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AlterNet.org

Charlotte Police Foment Unrest and Attempt to Use Marijuana to Justify Killing Keith Lamont Scott - [image: [Reuse options]] Click here for reuse options! There's no excuse for ending an innocent man's life. Keith Lamont Scott is dead at the age of 43. ...
Mock Paper Scissors

And The Universe Laughed - When you have to cite the name of blessed St. Hannity in your defense: TRUMP: Wait a minute. I was against the war in Iraq. Just so you put it out. HOLT: T...
Heat Street

Donald Trump Called ‘Sexist’ for Treating Hillary Clinton Like All His Male GOP Opponents - Maybe he's just a jerk to everyone?
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Donald Trump's false claim that Clinton's energy plan will cost the economy $5 trillion - The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Donald Trump's false claim that Clinton's energy plan will cost the economy $5 trillion Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clin...
Eater Houston

One Of Houston’s Favorite Bartenders Has Found A New Home - You may not recognize her name, but Leslie Krockenberger is no newcomer. Earlier this month, news that Houston bar whiz Leslie Ross was leaving Canard,...
Election Law Blog

“Judge’s ruling reduces Election Day registration in Illinois” - AP: A federal judge has scaled back Election Day voter registration for highly populated areas in Illinois, a decision that sides Republicans who claimed i...
Rewire

Pennsylvania Audits Anti-Choice Nonprofit Over Use of Taxpayer Money - Pennsylvania shifts money from the state General Fund and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to anti-choice outfits, including Real Alternatives, wh...
MintPress News

Students Protest After Georgia Teacher Called BLM ‘Terrorists’ - Students also say they're harassed for boycotting the pledge of allegiance a la San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Continue reading → The ...
Washington Monthly

Trump is Losing the Post-Debate Debate Badly - Even his harshest surrogates can barely keep a straight face.
Washington's Blog

Report: Syrian Government Says It Has Audio Recording Of U.S. Conversation With ISIS Before Attack On Syrian Military - Brandon Turbeville Activist Post According to a report from Russian news agency, Sputnik, Syrian intelligence possesses an audio recording of a conversat...
SocraticGadfly

#Debate2016 — No. 1 was #DumbAndDumber - Good fricking doorknob. Yes, I Tweeted about "Dumb and Dumber" last night. I said Trump insults intelligence of people in general (Dumber) while Clinton i...
Irregular Times

NewsMax Asks Us To Sell You Out For 30 Cents Per Click - It's possible that the Business Development department at Newsmax didn't even bother to look at Irregular Times before sending out its solicitation for 30 ...
Houston Matters

Candidate Interview With District Attorney Devon Anderson: Tuesday’s show (September 27, 2016) - With the November election fast approaching and early voting around the corner, we’re devoting time to two key races in Harris County for Sheriff and Distr...
U.S. Uncut

Cops Who Killed Freddie Gray Honored and Praised as Heroes at Conservative Gala - Three of the Baltimore police officers previously charged in the death of Freddie Gray were recently treated like war heroes at a right-wing media gala. ...
SCOTUSblog

Argument preview: Court to consider scope of federal bank-fraud statute - The justices of the Supreme Court normally return to the bench to hear the first oral arguments of the new term on the first Monday in October. But this ye...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Trump And Clinton Sounded As If They Were Talking About Two Different Countries - Sure, the post-debate buzz is more about tone than substance — who looked more presidential, whether Hillary Clinton got “under Donald Trump’s skin.” But i...
Popular Resistance

The Fallacies Of Neoliberal Protest - By Russell Rickford for The Atlantic - I’m delighted that you are mobilizing. Your demonstration reflects your recognition that the escalating crisis of ra...
South Texas Chisme

Glenn Beck is disgusted with Ted Cruz - Join the club.On Cruz's explanation for now supporting Trump: "That was so calculated that it was stunning to me," Beck said. "I think I have to apologize ...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Pence on debate: 'Donald Trump had a great night’ - Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says Donald Trump had an excellent showing in his first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.“Well, first off, let me say I th...
First Reading

The 400-pound man in the room: Ten takes on the Great Debate. - Good morning Austin: Here are ten takes on last night’s epic debate, the biggest public spectacle in the history of the planet. The first three are…
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Minor Parties File Brief in Third Circuit, Arguing State Cannot Impose a County Distribution Requirement on Statewide Petitions - On September 26, the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties filed their brief in the Third Circuit, arguing that a county distribution requirement fo...
REDD-Monitor

The aviation industry plans to cheat the climate with offsets - Today, in Montreal, the 39th meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation starts. One of the agenda items is ICAO’s response to climate change....
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits - In this month's award-winning Loon Star State cartoon by Ben Sargent, a post-'Dancing with the Stars' Rick Perry goes looking for a new gig — again. Th...
Wolf Street

“Negative Growth” of Real Wages is Normal for Much of the Workforce, and Getting Worse: New York Fed - And the fate of the consumption-based US economy?
Bracing Views

Post-Debate: Trump the Undisciplined - W.J. Astore Last night’s debate made for grim watching. I’m a fan of neither candidate, but Hillary performed far better than Trump. She kept her poise, ...
Democracy Now!

Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein Spars with Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 2 - On Monday night, the two major-party candidates squared off for the first presidential debate. It was one of the most anticipated debates in U.S. history. ...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - Cultural Feast – Oktoberfest: The History and Science of Beer In 1810, King Ludwig I of Bavaria proclaimed that the last sixteen days of September, ending ...
Bay Area Houston

She called Trump a racist on national TV and he did nothing - She "tells it like it is". Last night in front of up to 100 million viewers Secretary Clinton called Donald Trump a racist and he just stood there. Just li...
Space City Weather

Drier air isn’t to Houston yet—but it will by the weekend - The much-discussed first front of the fall season has pushed off the coast and into the Gulf of Mexico, but drier (and cooler) air has largely lagged beh...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Killing People, Breaking Things, and America's Winless Wars - It’s the timing that should amaze us (were anyone to think about it for 30 seconds)...
Duffel Blog

New survey of US troops reveals horrifying actual opinions of service members - [image: New survey of US troops reveals horrifying actual opinions of service members] The results are in! Duffel Blog’s annual political opinion survey o...
Bonddad

Bonddad's Tuesday Linkfest - *I'm a financial adviser with Thompson Creek Wealth as well as a tax and business attorney with The Law Office of Hale Stewart.* New Home Sales Drop 7.6% M...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Science Denialist Myron Ebell Named As Trump Adviser As Debate Skirts Climate - [image: Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton, right, at first presidential debate.] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s energy policy to di...
Off the Kuff

Voter registration way up statewide - That’s a lot. Nearly 15 million people are now registered to vote in Texas, a state record. Texas currently has more than 14.8 million voters registered — ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday at 10 - americans are just staying at home more self-driving taxis in singapore close the ceo bonus loophole trump's 'rigged elections' rhetoric could spark voter...
In These Times

Meet the Berniecrat On Her Way to the U.S. House After One of This Year’s Biggest Progressive Wins - Pramila Jayapal scored one of the biggest progressive victories of 2016, winning the Democratic primary for Washington’s liberal 7th District House seat ...
The Fifth Column

Swedish Scientist Begins Editing Human DNA in Healthy Embryos - A scientist from Sweden is the first researcher to ever edit human DNA in healthy embryos. Using CRISPR, Fredrik Lanner is modifying genes to figure out wh...
Rallblog

The Thrilla at Hofstra - [image: Pundits and ordinary voters have universally bemoaned the coarsening of our elections, particularly due to Donald Trump's outrageous behavior thr...
Antiwar.com

Where Is That Wasteful Government Spending? - In early September 2016, Donald Trump announced his plan for a vast expansion of the U.S. military, including 90,000 new soldiers for the Army, nearly 75...
Egberto Willies

Clinton cleans Trump’s clock on his taxes in Presidential Debate (VIDEO) - [image: Clinton cleans Trump's clock on his taxes in Presidential Debate (VIDEO)] Hillary Clinton baited Donald Trump on taxes. He all but confessed not pa...
Informed Comment

The Presidential Debate that did not really Happen - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Regular readers will know that in my view the 2016 presidential election did not happen. Likewise, the first debate...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Now We Wait - The first debate is over! At least everyone survived. If you’re confused about who’s up and who’s down in this crazy presidential contest, you’ve got plent...
Socialist Worker

It was like shooting Trump in a barrel - Danny Katch considers what Donald Trump said and what Hillary Clinton tried desperately not to say during the first of--lord help us-three presidential ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Austin state Rep. Dawnna Dukes to step down amid investigation - Statesman: Austin state Rep. Dawnna Dukes to step down amid investigation
The Conversation: Election 2016

Four quotes from the first Clinton-Trump debate, explained - *Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump faced off for their first debate at Hofstra University on Sept. 26. We asked a group of scholars to...
Liberation News

Loyola Univ. in Chicago protests racist police murders - The protest was organized by Black students at Loyola in the wake of yet another slew of brutal police murders of Keith Lamont Scott, Terence Crutcher an...
emptywheel

Wednesday: Time Travel - In this roundup: A short film about a mother’s time travel adventure, the Internet of Stupid Things, and more.. My oldest just finished her degree progra...
Death to Squirrels

Nuh-uh. - No, I did not watching the “debate.” I don’t know about you, but I have exactly zero interest in what politicians say—ever. They’re fucking politicians, fe...
Strangely Blogged

I Think Clinton Won on the Merits - There were a number of things the candidates had to do--explain how they would enact policies that best enacted their vision of how to improve our nation,...
Gin and Tacos

HOT TAKES FOR A DYING PLANET - One of my favorite passages from The Man in the High Castle – in the previous scene, Tagomi has picked up an antique pistol and shot two German intelligenc...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Natural Garden on Buffalo Bayou Mowed Down - Native Landscaping Sadly Cut By Mistake September 26, 2016 We received some upsetting news Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. The lovely garden planted by Buffalo Bay...
If You Only News

Hillary Just Spanked Trump In Front of 100 Million People With One Brutal Zinger (VIDEO) - He came to bully. She came to win.
Houston Communist Party

US Green Party’s Jill Stein Escorted From Presidential Debate Premises by Police - 02:19 27.09.2016 Get short URL229506 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said she was escorted by police from the university campus in New York s...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Debate Night - So... it's the night of the first Clinton/Trump debate. Ugh, I get the feeling that it will be a slog and a slugfest. As a fighter, my opinion is that Clin...
Good Gawd Another Blog

Debate Night: Undecided is Everything, Advantage Trump - Likely the best data driven write-up of the state of the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump heading into the first debate tonight is Nate Cohn’s...
Field Negro

Debate night. - [image: Image result for debate image]I guess I will be joining the 100 million or so other Americans who will be watching the presidential debate tonight....
Brad Blog

'The Most Audacious Political Heist of Our Time': 'BradCast' 9/26/2016 - Today on The BradCast: Where the Presidential race stands as we head into the debates and how an ingenious GOP scheme in 2010 may have served to undermine ...
Ian Welsh

Trump/Clinton Debate Open Thread - I used to get paid to watch these things. I don’t any more. So… I’m going to go read a nice novel in a coffee shop. Please feel free to talk about the de...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

History in cartoons: Joseph Keppler on the need for the 17th Amendment - This is a lithograph after a cartoon by Joseph Keppler in Puck Magazine, November 15, 1905. Keppler’s cartoons kept on the heat for some legislative soluti...
Better Texas Blog

Let’s renovate our school finance system - Maintaining an old house is hard work. Everyone knows that for a home to retain its value and run efficiently it needs periodic repairs and updates. Our ...
Louis Proyect

The Unknown Girl - This year’s New York Film Festival has a bumper crop of political films that are undoubtedly connected to the stormy period we are living through. In years...
News Junkie

Clinton vs Trump: Lesser of Two Evils or the Devil You Know - In United States politics, what worked like a charm for decades, especially with the fake left, was of course the lesser-of-two-evils argument. Not a vote ...
Thom Hartmann

We Have All Won An Oligarchy and Lost A Democracy - Here's a thought experiment for you. Ask yourself, "When was the last time I heard any conversation at all about the role of corporations in America in t...
Frontloading HQ

The Electoral College Map (9/26/16) - *New State Polls (9/26/16)* State Poll Date Margin of Error Sample Clinton Trump Undecided Poll Margin FHQ Margin *Arizona* *Data Orbital* 9/20-9/22 +/- 4...
Echidne of the Snakes

More on the False Equivalence in The 2016 Presidential Elections - Paul Krugman writes about the false equivalence phenomenon in how the media has handled the two presidential candidates: *If Donald Trump becomes preside...
Socialist Alternative

Rise Up Against Law Enforcement Terror – A United Mass Movement Urgently Needed Now - Tulsa and Charlotte Uprisings At least 193 black people have been killed by police in 2016 (The Guardian). On top of police violence, the black community f...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Relive Western Days with our photo coverage - Whether your favorite part of Western Days 2016 was eating jumbo corndogs, dancing to Eli Young Band or hanging with livestock, The Lewisville Texan Journa...
Morning Consult

Voters Split on Trump’s Call for Nationwide Stop-and-Frisk - Voters are split over whether stop-and-frisk tactics should be used by police departments nationwide, according to a new Morning Consult poll. The post V...
Pressing Issues

Leonard Cohen: Still the Man, at 82 - Leonard Cohen, my perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, turned 82 last week, and he has a new album coming out in a couple of weeks. I...
Asian American Action

2016 DNC Interview with Tejpaul Bainiwal, Delegate from California 9th Congressional District - As part of our coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the Asian American Action Fund blog team sat down with many prominent e...
Church and State

Christianity and Women – Roots of Oppression - In the Bible as a whole, things women say only represent around 1% of the total text. Only around half of those women are even named.
PERRspectives

Who Will Make Big Pharma Pay the EpiPenalty? - Washington is experiencing a bipartisan furor over the spiraling price hikes of EpiPen, the life-saving Epinephrine injector tens of thousands of American ...
Equality Texas

Take Action: Support Dripping Springs ISD Students - Today, September 26th at 6:00 p.m., the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees will be confronted with the issue of basic rights and protections for transg...
Stinque

Don’t Look - We’re hearing that tonight’s debate might reach Super Bowl/MASH/alien invasion territory, tempting your attention even if you’d prefer to ignore it. How ca...
Nathan Hevenstone

Great Guitar Solos – Porcupine Tree’s Shesmovedon - Here’s a band that was popular in the 90s, often considered the logical progression of what Pink Floyd started. Sadly, they seem to be relative unknowns to...
slacktivist

Taste the rainbow - Tonight we'll see if Donald Trump is able to pretend to be something other than Donald Trump for 90 whole minutes. Let Trump be Trump. Also: A sad day for ...
Grits for Breakfast

Okie voters will set tone for red-state drug-war legislation - For mostly historical, family reasons (both sides of my family are from the Texas Panhandle, with ties to Oklahoma), Grits has always enjoyed ribbing our f...
Reading the Pictures

Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm - Where is the passion for Hillary, you ask? It’s there in the photo, plain as day. The post Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Sw...
Harper's Magazine

[Art Monday Gallery ] | Discarded #50, by Anthony Hernandez - “Discarded #50,” a photograph by Anthony Hernandez, whose work is currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Artwork courtesy the artist
Heteronormative Patriarchy for Men

How the Labour party just kicked domestic violence survivors in the teeth - Only two people know what happened on the night Sarah Champion and her then-husband Graham Hoyland were arrested and cautioned for domestic violence. It is...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Venezuela: “The recall referendum belongs to the people, as does the freedom to demand it”, says OAS Secretary General - September 23, 2016 *The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro*, today said the National Electoral Council (CNE, fo...
Trivial Knot

30 atheist discussion topics - I’ve long been involved in the local atheist student group. I really mean “long”–through both undergrad and grad school. I perpetually complain about the g...
Pressthink

Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press - And five other ideas I use to interpret campaign coverage this year. On the eve of the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I thought I w...
Robert Reich

Time for Congress to Stop Hollering at CEOs and Take Action - Last week, Congress engaged in a bipartisan barrage of CEO bashing.The Senate Banking Committee...
I Take Liberty With My Coffee

Judge Scolds Obama, Congress for Allowing Children to Face Deportation Without Lawyers - In an unusual call to action directed at members of Congress and the White House, a federal appeals judge in California on Tuesday urged the other two br...
Freedom Rider

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Statement on Syria - UNAC released the following statement on the continuing horror inflicted by the United States in its regime change effort in Syria. U.S. Bombs Syria Army E...
Above None of the Above

Clinton vs Trump. 25 September 2016, 44 days from the election - Another good week for Trump, but important states are moving both towards his column and away from them. More on that after the numbers. *RED *indicates a ...
American Third Party Report

Dear Unhappy Libertarians : Give the CP a Shot! - BY : CLINT BISHOP Hey you! Yes you, the libertarian or conservative with libertarian leanings that doesn’t feel quite at home in the Libertarian Facebook g...
Pages of Victory

TPP Exemplifies Why I No Longer Respect the Democrats - Ten Reasons the TPP is not "Progressive" This link gives some good reasons to stand against our government in the matter of this and other trade agreements....
Neil Aquino's All People Have Value

TEXAS PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE ROUND UP---THE WORK OF FREEDOM IS UP TO EACH OF US - Here is the current weekly blog round-up of the Texas Progressive Alliance.I'm glad to report that I'm a member of this fine group.TPA citizen-bloggers ar...
Greg Palast

Bring The Best Democracy Money Can Buy to a Cinema near you… - We're so proud that The Best Democracy Money Can Buy opened in theatres yesterday starting in New York at the Cinepolis Chelsea and hitting Los Angeles n...
Independent Thinker 2016

How Bernie Sanders Could Become President With Only 130,000 Votes - After reading Dawn Papple’s excellent article in The Inquisitr a few days ago, about how theoretically it was possible for Bernie Sanders to still become P...
PoliTex (FWST)

Wendy Davis vs. Ted Cruz in ’18? It’s all talk for Texas Dems - Wendy Davis’ political career has spanned 20 years now, bookended by defeats. In 1996, she lost an embattled campaign to represent her home Mistletoe Heigh...
UP@NIGHT

Sanders’ “America” Ad Was Prophetic—We Just Didn’t Know Why - Sanders’ “America” campaign ad was hailed as one of the great political ads …
Political Carnival

The Book Booth: Happy Fall Edition - Image: ElectricLit The Book Booth is a weekly feature at The Political Carnival, relating news, notes, and reflections from the world of books and publis...
Socialist Times

Behind the Desire to Control LGBT Sexuality (Indonesian Edition) - Behind the Desire to Control LGBT Sexuality (Indonesian Edition) Indonesia’s LGBT community has been weathering “unprecedented attacks” through hateful p...
Seeing the Forest

How Clinton Can Use The Debate To Change The National Discussion - This election season so far has been about Donald Trump, and not about the real problems facing the country and We the People. The national discussion cert...
Real News

The Left Underestimates the Danger of Trump - By Arun Gupta. This article was first published on Portside. This election is a choice between two movements. Movements like Black Lives Matter, Climate Ju...
South Lawn

Escapism as Politics: American Liberals and Cultural Consumerism - (This is a joint post by Douglas and Cato) If there is one thing that you can say about the Bush Administration with absolute certainty, it was absolutely ...
Avedon's Sideshow

If there's anything that you want - Some people complain that I'm always ragging on Democrats instead of on Republicans. Leaving aside my opinion that some Democrats *are* Republicans, I jus...
Great American Satan

By the Way, Scumbags - This post is for the scumbags. Hello scumbags. I got a list from someone to pre-emptively block a lot of you, which is pretty cool. When I invited y’all to...
Raised on the Rail

Southern Importers – Hidden Gems Near Houston’s Rail - Southern Importers should be called “the store where you can find everything you didn’t know you needed”. It’s easy to miss this hidden gem in the museum d...
Dos Centavos

2 DC Reviewed Albums Earn Latin Grammy Noms - As my friends at Tejano Nation posted this week, the Latin Grammy noms are out, and in the Tejano Album category, two DosCentavos reviewed albums are nomin...
OffCite

The Building and the Bayou: Views of The Dunlavy - [image: The Dunlavy above Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park. Photo: Geoffrey Lyon.] The Dunlavy above Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park. Photo: Geoffrey Lyon. ...
Texas Freedom Network

Column: SBOE again takes aim at evolution - One of the constants in Texas politics is a State Board of Education that generates controversy at virtually every turn. Now one of the board’s long-runn...
Digital Heretic

Refined Right: Twitter Suspends, Reinstates Account of @Instapundit - Twitter on Thursday morning briefly suspended, then reinstated conservative writer Glenn Reynolds’ Twitter account for a single post related to the Charlot...
Source Planet

Correct The Record’s manipulative strategies LEAKED - This leaked email instruction for Hillary Clintons Troll army has gone viral.
The Disorder Of Things

So much to say, so much to say… A Reply - I want to begin by thanking Karen, Anthony, Kirsten and Elke for their comments on the book–and a special thanks to Elke for organising. It is a rare treat...
Texas Leftist

Wait… How Many Teachers Would Lose Their Jobs If Trump Is Elected?? - Is it November the 9th yet?? No seriously… many Americans have had it up to HERE with the 2016 election. For various reasons, they don’t like either choi...
ROAR Magazine

Issue #3: “The Rule of Finance” now released! - Our third issue on the class power of the 1 percent — featuring original contributions by Richard Wolff, David Graeber and many more — is out now! Read more
Texans For Public Justice

A Texas Treasure, 'Smitty' to Mosey Down Happy Trails. - *Lobbyist for the Small Fry Hangs It Up.* By Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune. Tom “Smitty” Smith, a colorful lobbyist and liberal activist who turned Public C...
Other Words

In OtherWords: September 21, 2016 - Earth to climate deniers: The climate change debate is over.
The Rag Blog

Alice Embree : METRO | Remembering Frank Erwin and the Waller Creek trees - This feature is in the book ‘Celebrating The Rag’ to be released during festivities, set for Oct. 13-16, honoring Austin’s iconic underground newspaper. By...
CenLamar (Louisiana politics)

CenLamar Podcast: Episode Two: Matt Bailey - Filed under: Louisiana
New Progressive Alliance

Beware the Clintons - The New Progressive Alliance keeps references that allies and friends may use in support of the Unified Platform. One of our resources that we maintain...
Black Agenda Report

Obama Attempts to Transfer Blackness to Hillary - [image: Forward logo] Forward [image: Print HTML logo] Print HTML [image: Reddit logo] Reddit [image: Viadeo logo] Viadeo Google Plus One Linkedin Share Bu...
Our Finite World

What really causes falling productivity growth — an energy-based explanation - What really causes falling productivity growth? The answer seems to be very much energy-related. Human labor by itself does not cause productivity growth. ...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Longtime Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office to Retire - Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas office, will retire early next year after 31 years of championing consumer rights and clean energy...
Strength in Numbers (Ashton Woods)

Intersectionality Through The Lens Of A Queer Black Woman - Karisha Shaw Speaks - Intersectionality Through The Lens Of A Queer Black Woman Karisha Shaw Speaks I am lying here again, unable to sleep because my mind is reeling over the co...
Non Prophet News

What's The Biggest Threat to Climate Change? Nationalism - It’s going to take global solidarity to avoid a climate-change doomsday.
In the Know Houston

Hawaiian Hotspot AGU Ramen Lands on Washington Avenue - The Hawaiian-based ramen chain scoops up a familiar spot. The post Hawaiian Hotspot AGU Ramen Lands on Washington Avenue appeared first on In the Know Ho...
Ramona's Voices

A Deplorable Thought: Trump Could Win - I was standing in line at the grocery store yesterday looking at this National Enquirer cover, trying to convince myself I'm too old to be horrified by the...
Houston Strategies

New COU video, the land-use trilemma, national Cistern coverage, Houston's millennials, and more - Several items this week, but first, our Center For Opportunity Urbanism has released its first short promotional video! I tweeted with John Arnold about Ma...
ExChristian.Net

Adventures With the Cap - *By Carl S ~ * A bit of background: First of all, the experiences I report take place for the most part in my own state. My wife and I are retired, but we ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

The New Drone Order, Part V: Sci-Fi Rhetoric & Militainment - How the U.S. Air Force and Arms Corporations Portray Themselves Through Advertisements “Advertising is essentially an American achievement, successful to t...
Good Reason

Circular reasoning and prayer - [image: prayer-circular-reasoning]
Project Vote

Legislative Threats and Opportunities Update - While legislative activity has slowed over the summer, the legal battles over election laws are heating up. Project Vote Legislative Director Marissa Lie...
34justice

The Lazy Liberal Scapegoating of Millennials and Bernie Sanders - Millennials have good reason to oppose a Clinton presidency, and we've long known they might. Continue reading →
LawFlog

In re Hillary Clinton: The squirming begins - To no one’s surprise, the U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas is trying to make my bar grievance against Hillary Clinton go away. I don’t intend t...
BARC Houston

Congrats Alex Howe! - A HUGE congratulations to Alex Howe, long time BARC volunteer, for receiving a City of Houston proclamation from Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston and Cou...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Speaking of which … - These next several weeks I’ll be traveling to many parts of the country for speaking engagements about Dreamland: Dallas/Fort Worth, Huntington WV, India...
The Nil Admirari

Over 16 Million Kids Go Hungry as Media Focuses on Hated Sociopaths - *LAST UPDATED @ 10:36AM (9.11.2016)* *Corporate media says ratings clearly show American hatred of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton far more relevant to A...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform

I’m in the fracking crosshairs - The oil and gas mafia has me in their fracking crosshairs. Goodie! I feel like throwing my hat over the windmill. You see Internet people, the oil and ga...
Enabon

Live Apple launches iPhone 7 and 7 Plus - im Cook is live on stage now – read on for live updates of the latest iPhone 7 and watch announcements as they happen. Apple iPhone 7: Full specs, key feat...
Democratic Blog News

DMN Endorses Democratic Presidential Nominee, For The First Time Since WWII - In an editorial published today, the DMN Editorial Board said: "We recommend Hillary Clinton for president -- There is only one serious candidate on the pr...
The Schulenburg Forty-Eighter

Robert Kennedys’ statement on the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot an...
Waterman Blog

Standing Rock - The continuing release of e-mails and FBI reports on the current Clinton scandal has the potential to either again unite, or further divide, those who part...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

The Right-Wing Media's Silence about Fox News Criminal Sexual Harassment Empire - Fox (Faux) News came along at a precipitous moment in American History. Ronnie Raygun's elimination of the fairness doctrine and the rise of toxic right-wi...
Truth In Media

Reality Check: If You’re Outraged Only by Colin Kaepernick, Isn’t That Part of the Problem? - It is an image that has enraged people across the nation. And tonight, for the second pre-season NFL game, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaeperni...
Daily Currant

Mexico Arrests Donald Trump For Hate Speech - Donald Trump's trip to Mexico has not gone exactly as planned. The Republican nominee was invited by Mexico's president for a meeting in Mexico City toda...
Texas Election Law Blog

State Law That Limited Interpreters at Polls Struck Down - As I’ve noted before, the Texas Election Code is a mess. Our state election laws are a cruel jumble, much of it born of mean-spirited political expediency,...
Texas Moratorium Network

Jeff Wood’s family trying to stop his execution - Today, Jeff Wood’s family and friends delivered about 10,500 petition signatures to the offices of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and separately to the offic...
Politics of Courage

Commendation to DE for Its Abolition of the Death Penalty - Delaware is the 20th state to prohibit execution. In Nebraska, application of the ban on capital punishment is postponed because an initiative to restore i...
Idiotprogrammer

REVIEW: Netflix Documentary “Making a Murder” - (A few months ago I wrote this response to the Netflix documentary, Making a Murderer and forgot to post it). Some random thoughts: Family members were the...
twissblog

Chris Christie denies he even wanted that job at the car wash - TRENTON–Gov. Chris Christie (R) today denied that he had even wanted the cashier’s job at Hassan’s 24-Hour Car Wash, just down the street from the statehou...
MOMocrats.com

The Election Becomes a Referendum on Gun Violence - In stark contrast to recent Presidential elections, the issue of gun violence has taken center stage in this year’s race. In May 2011, The Washington Pos...
Make West Texas Great Again

Houston Brain Trust Lawmakers: Let’s Tie School Funding to Dumpster Fire Testing Standards - Texas Tribune: The timing is particularly right given a recent state Supreme Court ruling that found the state’s school funding system to be byzantine but ...
WAWG Blog

Updates on America’s GOP Authoritarianism – Trump Leading The Way, GOP Split, GOP Dictator - Here are links to three articles on American Authoritarianism and selected quotes from each: The Rise of American Authoritarianism Trump embodies the class...
Prairie Weather

Yes, he is a fascist. - Very interesting article by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker on what Donald Trump brings to our politics. Wouldn't surprise me if, as in so many moments durin...
Texas Watch

WATCH: Deputy Director Ware Wendell Testifies at TDI Arbitration Hearing - Since uncovering the insurance industry ploy to force consumers with disputes into the biased, secret process of arbitration, Texas Watch has fought har...
Moron Majority

Open Letter By Wharton Students Leads to Trump “Diploma-gate” - Trump loves to brag about how smart he is. His proof? He graduated from an Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania. He transferred there after tw...
Green Is The New Red

Violence against environmentalists is now at an all-time high - Three people are killed every week in disputes over mining, logging, agriculture development, and hydropower projects. And it's getting worse. Violence a...
Jim Hightower

On police violence and #BlackLivesMatter - When people hear me talk about populism, some folks think I’m talking about the racist, xenophobic, angry things that get branded as populism. True popul...
Carol Morgan

Rendezvous on the Tarmac: When Bill met Loretta - Would anyone have thought it odd if Pat Nixon met with Elliot Richardson on a runaway in Arizona in 1973 to talk about golf and grandchildren with the Wa...
LBO News from Doug Henwood

Fresh audio product - Just added to my radio archive: June 16, 2016 Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, on Brexit • Virginia Heffernan, a...
Ten Miles Square

A Movie That Will Help You Understand the Meltdown of Theranos - In a dispatch that will live in the annals of estimation errors, Forbes has concluded that rather than being worth $4.5 billion, Theranos founder Elizabeth...
Quintessential Curmudgeon

Love one another as Christ loved us - On Saturday, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Amarillo celebrated the marriage of two women, long-time domestic partners. The ceremony was the traditional ...
Pivot America

America Was Never and Will Never Be Great Until We End Inequality - If you’re a Donald Trump supporter you want to “Make America Great Again”… presumably that means taking us back to segregated schools and where whites an...
Anthony Bourdain

BROWN DOG - You may be the most cynical, born and bred, citified lefty like me — instinctively skeptical of big concepts like “patriotism”, relatively foreign to hun...
Opposition News

Jill Stein all but assured 2016 Green Nomination - April 30, 2016. Lexington, MA (ONN). Dr. Jill Stein, the 2012 Green Party nominee for President, has all but won the Party’s 2016 Presidential nomination. ...
Bayou City History

The ‘Star Trek’ Milestone That Will Happen On This Day - On ‘This Forgotten Day in Movies,’ Star Trek: The Motion Picture confirmed that James T. Kirk was born in Iowa on March 22, 2233. Yes–on this forgotten day...
Tar Sands Blockade

Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims - By Julie Dermansky • Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Reposted from DeSmogBlog.com *** TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the...
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...
Fascist Dyke Motors

Culling - Grandma buys me socks for Christmas. Just a package of socks, nothing fancy. Not dress socks, not those rainbow toe socks I love so much. She gets me plai...
State Impact Texas

Watch Out Almonds! Pecans Aim to Displace America’s Nut - This is a story of two nuts: the almond and the pecan. In the 1960s the pecan industry loomed large over the almond. But, then, something changed. Since th...
Texas on the Potomac

Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture - Here's the executive summary for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on torture and "enhanced interrogation" techniques by the CIA.

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, March 16, 2014

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