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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....
The Stranger

I, Anonymous - I, Anonymous: Maybe Next Time You Catch a Shoplifter, You Could Pretend You're a Human Being Instead of a Hanging Judge by Anonymous Dear Grocery Store Em...
First Draft

Debate Crack Van - NO VIOLENCE. Be nice. Share the van. Share the crack. Share the love. Click the link: http://chat.parachat.com/bp/login.html?room=Lobby&site=bp640&width=90...
Crooks and Liars

Politics And Reality Radio: Roy Edroso On The Right-bloggers’ Election; Digby Previews The Debates - [image: Politics And Reality Radio: Roy Edroso On The Right-bloggers’ Election; Digby Previews The Debates] This week, we'll speak to OG blogger and Villag...
National Post

Ottawa to build or upgrade 5,000 First Nations’ homes but deal falls far short of needs - Critics say Ottawa can and must do more to meet what the government itself says is an immediate demand for at least 20,000 new housing units on reserves
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Sanders advice to Clinton: Keep to the issues - Former Democratic candidate for president, Senator Bernie Sanders, offers his advice on how Hillary Clinton should approach debating Donald Trump, and addr...
Eschaton

Official Eschaton Debate Drinking Game - 1) Open up bottle of alcohol. 2) Drink it.
Raw Story

Washington shooter had no contacts with militant Islamic groups: authorities - There is no evidence showing that a man charged with five counts of first-degree murder after confessing to a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Washin...
VICE

What the Closure of Lesbian Website AfterEllen Means for Queer Culture - The changing nature of what it means to be queer today is contributing to the decline of LGBT media.
Sputnik News

US Presidential Race on Eve of First Debate 'Really, Really Close' - US presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are running an extremely tight race before their first presidential debate on Monday evening, Cli...
Daily Kos

Election Roundup: Kander Applies Pressure in MO, CA-17 Drama and America's Favorite Sheriff - The following stories are examples of this week's Election Roundup of 35 down ticket stories covering Sunday 9/18 through Saturday 9/24. (MO-Sen) Jason ...
Egberto Willies

WATCH LIVE: Live stream Presidential Debate 2016 Hillary Clinton Donald Trump - [image: Presidential Debate Hillary Clinton Donald Trump] Watch the live stream of the 2016 Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. I...
Talking Points Memo

Who Is Richard Ebers? - One of the side avenues in the Fahrenthold blockbuster, which seems to provide good evidence Trump is evading taxes, is the name: Richard Ebers. In recen...
No More Mister Nice Blog

MATH IS HARD AND TAX LAW IS HARDER, SO THE LATEST FOUNDATION SCANDAL WON'T HURT TRUMP - David Farenthold of *The Washington Post* has unearthed what appear to be more shady doings at the Trump Foundation. Donald Trump’s charitable foundation h...
Shadowproof

Debate Commission Enforces Exclusion By Having Jill Stein Escorted Off Hofstra - Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was escorted off Hofstra University’s campus just hours before the first presidential debate of the general...
Dissident Voice

Punishing the Punished: Chelsea Manning’s Fate - Essentially she is now being tortured as punishment for an act of desperation. — Nancy Hollander, lawyer for Chelsea Manning, September 24, 2016 It was not...
Mediaite

Oops: Hofstra University Misspells ‘Hillary’ on Debate Tickets - They will be reprinted and redistributed.
Election Law Blog

“Pillar of Law Seeks Preliminary Injunction in Michigan ‘Ballot Selfie’ Lawsuit” - Release. … Continue reading →
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...
Swamplot

Spring Home Listing Photo of the Day: When the Dust Settles - 8207 Landau Park [HAR]… Read More
Vox

First presidential debate transcript: live updates from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s face-off - The first general election debate is here: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off Monday night at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Moderate...
Salon.com

The revolution will be live-streamed: Cord-cutting millennials could sway this election, thanks to debate feeds - Free streaming is vital for making sure younger voters can watch the debates and they could make all the difference
FiveThirtyEight.com

Election Update: Polls Show A Close Race (So Our Model Does Too) - Well, folks, this is getting tight. Donald Trump is in his strongest-ever position in FiveThirtyEight’s polls-plus forecast, which gives him a 46 percent c...
Reverb Press

John Oliver Hysterically Explains Why Trump’s Scandals Are ‘Quantifiably Worse’ Than Clinton’s - Debate night is finally here and America is settling in for the election’s biggest spectacle to date. However, there’s one thing the debate between Hilla...
Texas Observer

Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change - Experts say the federal emissions regulations will cut carbon pollution, accelerate the shift to green energy and reduce asthma attacks in children. The ...
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...
Daily Dot

EnVyUs takes NA title at Overwatch Open, will play on live television Friday - The favorites managed to win the day at ELEAGUE, but it wasn't an easy fight.
Heat Street

MINDBLOWING: Hofstra U Warns Students That Presidential Debate May Contain ‘Sensitive Material’ - Sign warns students may be triggered by discussion of "sexual assault," "sexual violence" or "abuse."
OpEd News

Tonight's debate: watch the staging - The average viewer, having been entrained through years of watching the news, is going to come to tonight's Presidential debate ready for thin context and ...
Anti-Media

NSA Knew of Flaw that Led to Cyber Attack Three Years in Advance - [image: NSA]When the NSA screws up, it exposes its willingness to harm American tech companies to further its own intelligence needs.”
Pharyngula

How not to apologize - This is an amazing response. VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) reviewed a young-adult book and flagged it as “recommended for mature junior and senior high r...
Better Texas Blog

The renovations needed to modernize our school finance system - Maintaining an old house is a lot of hard work. Everyone knows that for a home to retain its value and run efficiently it needs periodic repairs and upda...
The Verge

Google's new Pixel smartphone shows up in leaked image - We're just one week away from the unveiling of Google's newest smartphones and *VentureBeat *has got its hands on a clear image of one of the gadgets. S...
Consortium News

Ex-Speaker Boehner’s Lucrative Return - When House Speaker John Boehner quit, he acted like he was done with Washington’s toxicity, but the big dollars of the lobbying world have lured him back t...
Ring of Fire

The Deadliest Prescription Drugs In The World – Has Your Doctor Prescribed One For You? - [image: Big-Pharma-Injuries] Most of us have heard the old saying about how in some cases, “the cure is worse than the disease.” It was true about the old ...
Houston Press

Massive Audience Expected for First Debate Between Clinton, Trump - Tonight, presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are scheduled to face off in New York for the first of three debates. Millions of people ...
Pajiba

Get Your Largest Beverage Container Ready - Gotham on Fox at 8:00pm ET. Monday Night Football: Atlanta Falcons at New Orleans Saints on ESPN at 8:15pm ET. The First Presidential Debate on ABC, CBS, F...
Mother Jones

Meet the Guy Donald Trump Would Put in Charge of Protecting the Environment - If Donald Trump should win the White House in November, the man who would oversee his administration's leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency...
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...
In These Times

A Progressive Drinking Game To Get You Through Tonight’s Presidential Debate - Being a progressive, socialist or anywhere left of center is tough business right now. The electoral choices left are a hawkish, neoliberal Democrat and ...
Washington's Blog

Forget Blairite Propaganda. Sierra Leone was not Blair’s “Good War”. - By Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector (i.e. president) of the University of Dundee. Craigmurray.org.uk. [embedded content] ...
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 ...
Houstonia

Eat Barbecue For Charity With Some of Houston's Top Chefs - On October 9, Ryan Pera, Seth Siegel-Gardner and Chris Shepherd are all smoking for the common good.
Think Progress

14 things Trump will probably say during the debate that definitely aren’t true - The debate moderator won’t fact check Trump. Use this guide to do it yourself.If they won’t do their job, we will. The Commission on Presidential Debates, ...
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...
Rude Pundit

In Brief: Time to Re-Re-Re-Re-Re-Meet Hillary Clinton - Think about this for a moment: This is one of the only chances since the Democratic convention that most TV news network viewers will get a chance to hear ...
BEYONDbones

Happy National Pancake Day Breakfast For Dinner - In honor of National Pancake Day, A Fare Extraordinaire is celebrating with our favorite party trend – Breakfast for Dinner! Whether it’s a birthday cele...
Down With Tyranny!

Gerrymandering Creates Corrine Browns, Debbie Wasserman Schultzes and Robert Pittengers - *Corrine Brown-- a two-and-half decade win-win for the Florida Republicans* Just a tad over two years ago, we looked at 24 year congressional veteran Corrin...
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...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Trump Gets Zero Support From Fortune 100 CEO’s - * I doubt if it matters much to his supporters, but this is exactly the kind of thing that could get under Donald Trump’s thin skin. No chief executive at ...
The Intercept

Comentário no Facebook criticando a polícia rende prisão no Rio Grande do Norte - João Figueiredo recebeu pode ser preso por 15 dias depois de escrever que "esse estado policialesco não serve ao povo e muito menos aos policiais". The p...
Somervell County Salon

Karen Shepard Case- Trial Today (9/26/2016) Judgement to Come Nov 9 2016 - I went to hear at least part of the Karen Shepard case this morning. Karen Shepard background. Apparently before I got there, Ramona Peters testified as...
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...
Common Dreams

Urgent Calls for Justice in Charlotte as Window for Police Transparency Closes - Lauren McCauley, staff writer Not satisfied with the portions of body and dashcam footage showing the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott released over th...
U.S. Uncut

The Houston shooter was dressed up as a WWII-era Nazi during this morning’s rampage - The shooter responsible for injuring nine people during a mass shooting in Houston on Monday was wearing Nazi paraphernalia, according to the Houston Pol...
Campaign for America's Future

Native Youth Demand A Senate Hearing On Dakota Pipeline Impact - Native American youth are making their voices heard in the movement to stop the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, and demanding a hearing in the ...
Daily Howler

Krugman speaks up, many years too late! - *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016Just look at the very first comment:* In this new post, Paul Krugman speaks up, much too late, about the "abnormalization" of ...
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...
Liberation News

Selection 2016: Tonight’s corporate-controlled debate is a sham - The "Commission" that hosts the debates is really a corporation controlled by Democratic and Republican parties to exclude third parties. The post Select...
Buzzflash

Anti-gay Alabama Chief Justice Moore heads to court this week - Anti-gay Alabama Chief Justice Moore heads to court this week 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
The Hill: Ballot Box

FOIA deal could speed release of Clinton emails - Vice News journalist Jason Leopold is pushing for more of Hillary Clinton’s unreleased emails to be made public prior to the Nov. 8 election, in one of man...
Mock Paper Scissors

Your Midday Palate Cleanser - Dog Roomba pic.twitter.com/pvOmyJ2pHu — BarkBox (@barkbox) September 24, 2016 If I were a dog, this would be the only way I’d play fetch.Filed under: dogs,...
Ballot Access News

Knoxville News-Sentinel Story on Mike Smith, One of the 18 Presidential Candidates Who is on Ballots in at Least Two States - This year, there are eighteen presidential candidates who are on the ballot in at least two states. One of them is independent Mike Smith, who lives in Col...
Affinity

The Illusion of Racism and The Intellect of God. - Ginni Thomas, tea partier and wife of Clarence Thomas, recently hosted noted conservative bigot Jesse Lee Peterson, where they had a lovely chat about how ...
Popular Resistance

Cities Begin Marching In Solidarity With Charlotte - By Jack Jenkins for Nation of Change - Charlotte, North Carolina entered a fourth day of peaceful protests Friday night, sparking solidarity demonstrations...
Bonddad

Little Stevie Hayward of Powerline: Still an Economic Jackass - Today, Little Stevie Hayward of Powerline has a post up titled, "Don't Look Now, But." It's his usual cut and paste job masquerading as economic analysis....
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...
CultureMap Houston

Shake Shack offers first taste of burgers at Houston pop-up venue - In order to give Houstonians a sneak peek at its signature ShackBurgers and crinkle cut fries before its location in The Galleria opens this fall, global ...
Political Garbage Chute

Hillary Clinton’s Debate Sparring Partner Was Orange Bag Of Vomit That Spews Racist Propaganda - How Hillary Clinton prepared for her first debate with Trump may or may not shock you. [...] The post Hillary Clinton’s Debate Sparring Partner Was Orang...
Mahablog

Startling New Revelation About Al Gore - So a guy on my Facebook friend’s list posted that Hillary Clinton’s problems in the polls have “everything to do with gender. One only need to look at the ...
Willy Loman, American Everyman

Lavrov full speech to UN: Important not to let US-Russia agreements on Syria collapse -
Wolf Street

Deutsche Bank in Free Fall. Shares, CoCo Bonds Plunge. Merkel Gives Cold Shoulder on Bailout. Bank Denies Everything - When will she buckle?
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...
Eater Houston

Open Carry Activists Are Pissed At Pi Pizza - The restaurant does not allow open carry of weapons Thanks to the power of social media, Yelp and Facebook reviews have become ridiculously complicated...
Dandelion Salad

How to Counter Military Recruitment by Pat Elder - Dandelion Salad by Pat Elder worldbeyondwar.org September 26, 2016 Remarks at #NoWar2016 Countering military recruitment in the nation’s high schools confr...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives gear up for first debate - The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes Tom "Smitty" Smith a happy and healthy retirement as it brings you this week's roundup and gets its popcorn for the f...
Eclectablog

Part 4: Earned Paid Sick Time, Faces of the Fight – Robbi Sellers - This is the fourth and final installment of a four part series about workers who are directly impacted by the crucial fight to make earned paid sick time r...
Awesomely Luvvie

I’m Officially a New York Times Best-Selling Author and I Thank You! - On September 13, 2016 (2 weeks ago), my debut book was officially released to the world. I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual was outchea, and I kicked ...
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.
Free Press Houston

Houstonian Tales: Wonky Power Records - Three years ago outside of Alley Kat, Mario from Wonky Power Records told me he planned to get everyone together and make them come to Houston rather than ...
Independent Political Report

Sarwark in New York; CPD “Afraid” - [image: Test] Libertarian National Party Chair Nicholas Sarwark is in New York planning to attend “in some capacity” tonight’s two Old-Party, so-called, ...
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 ...
Pensito Review

Times’ Clinton Endorsement Savages Trump - Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Letting our transgender kids tell their own stories' & other Mon. midday news briefs - *For transgender students, acceptance goes beyond a bathroom stall* - *This is how we win the "bathroom bill" issue. Let our transgender children tell th...
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...
Rewire

Study: Black-White Wage Gap Worse Today Than It Was in 1979 - The study revealed that even with the same education, work experience, metro status, and region of residence, Black men in 2015 made 22 percent less than...
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 ...
MintPress News

More Than 15,000 Protest Death Of Man Attacked By Neo-Nazis Finland - The organizers hope to fight against "a culture of silence" in the face of racist violence, according to their press release. Continue reading → The post...
Houston Matters

Shooting in Southwest Houston: Monday’s Show (September 26, 2016) - At least nine people were injured this morning in southwest Houston, when a shooter opened fire along Law Street near the corner of Weslayan and Bissonnet....
Bracing Views

Quick Thoughts on Hillary and Trump before the Debate - W.J. Astore Sorry, I have no special insight into tonight’s debate. I’m guessing Hillary will win based on points, but that Trump will also win by being p...
SCOTUSblog

Event announcement - [image: Event announcement]On October 3 at 4 p.m., the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University’s Supreme Court Clinic and Federalist Society c...
AlterNet.org

What Happened to Netflix? The Film Buff's Dream Library Is Adam Sandler's House Now - [image: [Reuse options]] Click here for reuse options! The streaming giant is banking on originals like "The Ridiculous 6" while cutting down on licensed ...
First Reading

The Passion of the Cruz. Or how Ted overcame his martyr complex. - Good morning Austin: Ever since Ted Cruz was booed off the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, I have thought that Cruz…
South Texas Chisme

Texas should stop teaching creationism in schools - Religion is religion and science is science. Don't force religion onto science. A state committee has drafted preliminary recommendations that would no lo...
ProPublica

Uncovering Texas’ Strategy to Slash Much-Needed Special Education Services - by Charles Ornstein Federal law mandates that school districts provide special education services to students with disabilities--physical, emotional or ...
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...
Democracy Now!

Lawyer for Gitmo Prisoners Released to Uruguay: They Haven't Seen Their Families in 15 Years - We speak with a lawyer who helped to represent the six Guantánamo prisoners who the U.S. government released to Uruguay, including Jihad Abu Wa’el Dhiab. C...
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
Space City Weather

Front to slowly edge into Houston, second half of week looks stellar - Very heavy rains have fallen over night along the I-35 corridor of Texas, with a focus on Bexar County. Up to 7 inches have fallen in the metro area ther...
Death to Squirrels

Horrifying squirrel footage. - I especially love the part where the enemy rodent tries to gnaw the eyes out of the fucking head. And terrorizes a cat that is easily ten times its size—tw...
Irregular Times

Qualcomm Asks: Why Wait For A Cold Humanless Future? - Why wait? A more relevant question would be: Why allow devices to learn our habits? Who would benefit from having machines in a global network gathering in...
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...
REDD-Monitor

REDD in the news: 19-25 September 2016 - REDD-Monitor’s round-up of the week’s news on forests, climate change, and REDD. For regular updates, follow @reddmonitor on Twitter. 19 September 2016 New...
Duffel Blog

ISIS claims responsibility for herpes, First Sergeants, and 2pac - [image: isis fighter] SAN DIEGO, Calif. — ISIS released a series of media statements over the weekend claiming responsibility for Pfc. Jason Nix’s shitty ...
Bay Area Houston

Houston Chronicle sours on the Harris County Tea Party - The Harris County Tea Party lost three major endorsements from the Houston Chronicle. From The Isiah FactorFollowing in the footsteps of Donald Trump, the ...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Ben Rose - There are basically two interesting legislative races in the Houston area this November. The first is HD144, where former Rep. Mary Ann Perez should reclai...
The Urban Edge

Houston Study Reveals Fault Lines of Immigration Debate - Leah Binkovitz | September 26, 2016 City-dwellers and suburbanites alike were growing more accepting of immigration, but when asked about resources, clear ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday space - confronting the myth that "black culture" is responsible for violence in america why north carolina is the biggest battleground state in this election red...
The Progressive Wing

9/26 Open Discussion - Sen. Warren Calls for Wells Fargo CEO to Resign & Face Investigation Amid Growing Scandal We get reaction to this week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing w...
The Fifth Column

It’s Official: We’re Going to Mars - A bipartisan bill was passed by the U.S. Senate committee that oversees NASA space projects. The bill would allocate $19.5 billion in funds to NASA in 2017...
Rallblog

Bend Over - [image: Democrats are telling voters that Donald Trump is an existential threat to the republic and must be defeated at any cost. So why isn't she willin...
Antiwar.com

The New Cold Warriors Sic the FBI on Donald Trump - While we have gotten used to the neo-McCarthyite tactics employed by the Clinton campaign linking Donald Trump to the Kremlin, the whole disgraceful oper...
Informed Comment

Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200 - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Only a week after seeming to agree to a ceasefire, Russia and the Syrian regime in Damascus appear to have decided ...
Strangely Blogged

Is Trump a Useful Idiot? - It certainly is fascinating that, some time after the ousting of Paul Manafort, it's just now that US intelligence agencies might be considering looking i...
Socialist Worker

Still caught in the can't-catch-up economy - Sharon Smith, author of *Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States*, takes a closer look at the income statistics ev...
Sayfie Review Texas

AP: New law boosts Texas' graduation rates to record highs -
Gin and Tacos

HAIR TRIGGER - Thirty-three years ago today, just about everyone in the United States came closer to dying than they would realize for many years. During the Cold War the...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

The Long Slog - It's the time of year when the organization I work for holds its major Fall fundraisers, which means that it's 'all hands on deck' time at work. The long h...
If You Only News

Conservatives Brag That Trump’s Podium Is Taller Than Clinton’s, Hit New Level Of Stupidity - They will do ANYTHING to avoid talking about the actual issues.
Angry Bear

“Immigration and Job Creation at the State Level” - In this post, I was planning to look at how the percentage of a state’s population that is made up of immigrants affects job creation. After all, we hear ...
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...
Houston Communist Party

4 injured in gun attack in Swedish city of Malmo, suspect at large - https://www.rt.com/news/360586-sweden-shooting-malmo-injured/ Published time: 25 Sep, 2016 20:05Edited time: 25 Sep, 2016 21:06 Get short URL FILE PHOTO © ...
The Conversation: Election 2016

Trump, Clinton and the future of global democracy - Donald Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladamir Putin puts the U.S. perilously close to abandoning its longstanding role as democracy’s greatest...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Donald Trump wrong to say Hillary Clinton wants to shut down natural gas, fracking - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Donald Trump wrong to say Hillary Clinton wants to shut down natural gas, fracking The weekend before the first presid...
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...
emptywheel

The Questions That Should Be Being Asked About Trump’s Tax Returns - [Editor’s Note – this is a guest post by a friend of ours here at the Emptywheel Blog, Bob Lord. Bob is a longtime tax attorney with some very salient th...
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...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Interpreting Nature - Stunning Art Show Focuses on Bayou, Water, Bees, and Plants Sept. 25, 2016 Artists and the natural world is the theme of an inspiring show of photography, ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Arresting Our Way to "Justice" - You’ve heard of distracted driving? It causes quite a few auto accidents and it’s illegal in a majority of states...
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...
Brad Blog

Sunday Toons of the First Debate Moment - * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie.
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....
DeSmogBlog

Contractor Behind Positive Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Assessment Was Working on Connecting Pipeline For Same Company - A private firm that conducted the environmental review for the highly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline was simultaneously working for Energy Transfer, ...
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...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Campaign mega-donors spill on why they open their wallets - Big-time givers offer insight to why they poor millions into super PACs at Texas Tribune Festival.
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. ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Meet The Real Jigsaw Horror Psychologists - First of all there is no chance that there could be a fanatic as extreme as the character "John Kramer" known as "The Jigsaw Killer" in the Horror serie...
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...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Do Debates Matter? - Editor’s Note: This article is partially an update of a piece we published in 2012 discussing the impact of presidential debates. To slightly modify Ronald...
Neil Aquino's All People Have Value

KNOCKED DOWN, ALL IT WANTED WAS A HAND UP---HOUSTON TRAFFIC SIGNAL - Knocked down, all it wanted was a hand up.Please follow me on Instagram. My user name is Neil_Aquino. Please read all of NeilAquino.com. Please like my...
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
Texas Freedom Network

Texas GOP Ed Board Member’s Wish on Textbook Controversy: ‘Deny the Hispanics a Record Vote’ - Emails show that a Republican member of the State Board of Education wants to “deny the Hispanics a record vote” when the board decides in November wheth...
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.
Grist

Urban farms won’t feed us, but they just might teach us - It's clear that the craze for the urban farm is no answer to feeding our teeming cities. Its value lies instead in how it can change us.

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, June 12, 2016

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