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Raw Story

‘I bet she treats you well’: Trump interrupts call with Irish PM to flirt with female reporter - President Donald Trump appeared to flirt with a female reporter during a call with the Irish Prime Minster Leo Varadkar Tuesday. “She has a nice smile on h...
Talking Points Memo

What Comes Next After Senate GOP Delays Obamacare Repeal Vote - *Alice Ollstein contributed reporting.* Senate Republicans coming out of a GOP conference lunch—where it was announced that plans to vote on their Obamac...
The Fifth Column

DR Congo: UN Experts to Investigate Kasai Region Violence - (HRW) – The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution on June 23, 2017, directing the UN high commissioner for human rights to ...
Mediaite

Schumer: McConnell Will Use ‘Backroom Deals’ to ‘Buy Off Republicans’ On Health Care - On Tuesday, Schumer said he expects Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will try to use a "slush fund" and "backroom deals" to "buy off republicans" to support...
Daily Dot

These Nintendo plush toys will make you smash some coin blocks - The most adorable mustachioed plushies we've ever seen. The post These Nintendo plush toys will make you smash some coin blocks appeared first on The Dai...
Salon.com

Poll: Australian top choice of faith is now “no religion” - For the first time in Australian history, Catholicism takes a back seat
Grist

Humans have been exploiting the world for so long that there’s a museum about it. - We're all complicit.
Swamplot

What Went Down This Morning on the Corner of Harold and Mulberry - Courtesy of a smartphone-bearing reader, here’s the scene from this morning on the often-quiet Montrose corner of Harold and Mulberry, directly across the ...
Vox

The shocking cynicism of Saudi Arabia’s Yemen war, in one quote - It is hard to overstate the human costs of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. More than 10,000 people have died in the country since fighting began in late Ma...
Hullabaloo

Lies, lies, lies. It's the only way they can sell this ghastly bill. - *Lies, lies, lies* by digby I wrote about the GOP lies about Trumpcare for Salon this morning: When the House came back for its second bite of the appl...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Few Teams Have Done Less With More Than The Clippers - Although it didn’t exactly come as a shock to NBA observers, both Chris Paul and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers opted out of their contracts las...
VICE

'Dear Peaches,' Today's Comic by Merv Heers - Tahira has a hard time getting past the death of her cat Peaches until she finds hope in the form of a new furry friend.
The Verge

This ring could unlock your car, buy you stuff, and log into your laptop - A company called Token is launching its first product today: the Token Ring. It’s a fingerprint-sensing ring that’s designed to unlock and authenticate ...
Sputnik News

University of Texas at Dallas Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat - Everyone on the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas has been ordered to evacuate.
Krebs on Security

‘Petya’ Ransomware Outbreak Goes Global - A new strain of ransomware dubbed "Petya" is worming its way around the world with alarming speed. The malware appears to be spreading using a vulnerabilit...
National Post

Expert ‘gobsmacked’ by outpouring of support after three teen suicides in Cape Breton - Dr. Stan Kutcher discussions with families focus on bullying and social media and claims suicide is the result of a 'complexity of different factors'
SCOTUSblog

Death-penalty symposium: The court keeps treating a fatally diseased death penalty - [image: Death-penalty symposium: The court keeps treating a fatally diseased death penalty]Brian Stull is a senior staff attorney with the Capital Punish...
CultureMap Houston

How to protect your precious pet during the long hot Houston summer - In good news, the 2017 summer solstice, the longest day of the year, has come and gone; it was June 21. In not as good news, we are looking at least 90 da...
Resistance Report

Trump Just Got Caught Altering TIME Magazine Cover - Donald Trump, who has repeatedly accused the media of creating “fake news” stories, has been discovered to have planted some fake news of his own... The ...
Rivard Report

CPS Energy Grants UTSA $500,000 for Local Climate Research - The $500,000 grant is part of CPS Energy's commitment to fund $50 million worth of research and development projects with UTSA between 2010 and 2020. The...
Daily Kos

Three CNN reporters resigned due to violating 'standards'—a word Trump isn't familiar with - Donald Trump doesn't have much to delight in these days other than the misfortune of others, which is why he was positively gleeful over news that three ...
Eschaton

MSNBC, Hire This Man -
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Pence: 'We're Absolutely Determined to... - Vice President told NBC News' Kasie Hunt that the president and GOP Senators plan to work for as long as it takes to draft a health care bill that can pass.
Mother Jones

More Than 1,000 American Mayors Sent Donald Trump One Helluva Message - This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The nation’s mayors sent a strong messa...
Right Wing Watch

GOP Elizabeth Warren Opponent Tells Infowars She’s ‘Off Her Rocker’ - Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who dubiously claims to have invented email and is now running as a Republican in the hopes of unseating Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Ma...
Buzzflash

‘Amazon Now Has Monopoly Power in Online Commerce’ - ‘Amazon Now Has Monopoly Power in Online Commerce’ 0.0/*5* rating (0 votes)
If You Only News

Bette Midler Hilariously Mocks Trump For His Nonsensical Attacks On Obama And Clinton (TWEETS) - Lately, in an effort to distract from his growing ‘Russia’ problems, Donald Trump has been falling back on the same stuff that helped him...
Think Progress

Three Chicago cops indicted in Laquan McDonald cover-up - Indictment leaves room to add defendants to a case that could reach Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office.Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. CREDIT: AP Photo/M. Spencer Gre...
Morning Consult

Trump Administration to Review Overtime Rule, Labor Secretary Says - The Labor Department on Tuesday took a key step toward altering a major Obama-era regulation that nearly doubled the threshold at which employers are req...
OpEd News

Deja voodoo: an undead GOP economic theory is choking us - Stripping funds from health care and the EPA, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, sweeping de-regulation of production and finance, and large tax cu...
Peacock Panache

Supreme Court To Hear Case About LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Laws - Yesterday the Supreme Court announced it would hear the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. At the center of that case lies...
Above the Law

Monkey Mind: Pre-1L Summer Reading - If you’re about to embark on that great journey that is law school, here's a book you ought to read.
Church and State

The Catholic church hierarchy: a cabal of power that moves under the guise of benevolence - Through the Vatican’s constant presentation of the Church’s actions as “virtuous”, recognition of the Church as a tyrant has been thwarted.
Washington Monthly

The Most Honest Thing Trump Said - Why are this president's supporters so loyal to him?
Lawyers, Guns & Money

No Vote on TrumpCare In June - This really is important: Facing a rebellion within their own ranks, Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday postponed a vote to overhaul the 2010 Affordable ...
Eater Houston

Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Is Landing in Cypress - Say hello to Sub Zero treats Ice cream is going to get a heck of a lot colder in Cypress starting on June 30. That’s when *Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream* ...
Crooks and Liars

WATCH: White House Spox Gets Earful From Angry Reporter: 'What You Just Did Is Inflammatory!' - Today's White House press briefing began with Sarah Huckabee Sanders complaining about reporters' focus on the Trump-Russia story to a Breitbart reporter...
Anti-Media

Store Owner Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Shooting Thief - (ANTIMEDIA) Spanaway, WA — In a case that has evoked strong emotions from multiple angles, a Washington state business owner has just been sentenced to eig...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Remembering Miguel Ravago, The Man Who Changed Mexican Fine Dining - The founding chef of Fonda San Miguel has passed away at age 72. The post Remembering Miguel Ravago, The Man Who Changed Mexican Fine Dining appeared fir...
Free Press Houston

Different Times: An Interview with eyeagainst - eyeagainst. Photo courtesy of the band Local crossover legends eyeagainst made a name for themselves in the late ‘90s for being one of the must-see acts ar...
Harper's Magazine

[Art ] | Rollercoaster, by Cheryl Molnar -
Daily Howler

How to say what a "news channel" wants! - *TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017Stoddard conquers death:* If 15 million fewer people are insured next year, will premature deaths occur? To state the obvious, yes...
Pharyngula

That’s some ego the guy has - I was going to point and laugh at Donald Trump for hanging a fake Time magazine cover in his golf clubs, but then I realized — we all fake this stuff to in...
Somervell County Salon

Supreme Court Upholds Same-Sex Parents Birth Certificate Rights (6/26/2017) - Several decisions came out yesterday from the Supreme Court of the US. One of them was about whether a state could treat same sex couples differently tha...
emptywheel

The Willful FBI 702 Violation No One Admitted - Witnesses discussing 702 like to pretend there have been no willful violations of Section 702. I don't think they can make that claim anymore.
Rewire

Remember Tom Price’s Controversial Stock Deal? The Stock Is Plummeting - Price, now HHS secretary, has a track record of attempting to intervene in regulatory processes that could affect companies in which he holds stock. The...
Death and Taxes

Trump has fake TIME magazine covers of himself hanging in his golf clubs - The kind you get mocked up with your parents on a family trip to Six Flags.
Heat Street

80-Year-Old Chinese Passenger Delays Flight by Throwing Coins Into Plane Turbine ‘for Good Luck’ - Superstition in the 21st century
Common Dreams

CREDO Statement on Trumpcare Delay - Credo Action CREDO released the statement below in response to reports that the Senate will not vote on Trumpcare until after the July 4 recess:
News Corpse

Pew Survey: Donald Trump is ‘Arrogant,’ ‘Dangerous,’ and Hated By Most of the World - Everyone already knows that Donald Trump is broadly reviled in the United States. His approval ratings have been at historic lows since the day he was inau...
Ring of Fire

Charter Schools & Establishment Dems: A Love Story - TYT Politics Reporter Nomiki Konst gives us an update on New York politics and what it means for the national political landscape from Tompkins Square Pa...
Mock Paper Scissors

Midday Palate Cleanser - “And you think all we do…” “…is chase our tails?”Filed under: dogs, Palate Cleansers
Pajiba

Is There Even Such A Thing As Good Or Bad TV Anymore? - As I sat through the second season premiere of Preacher Sunday night, something occurred to me. Though I love the show, and even experienced a slight amoun...
naked capitalism

Announcing 2017 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler! - Dear Readers, Last year the June Water Cooler mini-fundraiser was very successful, and we need you to help us make it just as much a success this year as l...
Non Prophet News

The Democrats Are Hoping No One Will Notice Their Silence On Philando Castile - In the days since the Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile was acquitted of manslaughter, the outcry on both social media and in t...
Reverb Press

POLL: Donald Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ ‘Arrogance’ Is Killing America’s Image Around the World - Everyone already knows that Donald Trump is broadly reviled in the United States. His approval ratings have been at historic lows since the day he was in...
Palmer Report

Republican leader: Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is a “dick” - Kushner is as hated by his own side as he is by the Resistance The post Republican leader: Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is a “dick” appeared f...
Affinity

The Wisdom of Rick Joyner, Fucking Idiot. - WISDOM IN THREE PARTS: Part I: A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men. B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women....
The Intercept

Germany Could Have Same-Sex Marriage This Week, as Angela Merkel Reveals Change of Heart - Germany's parliament could legalize same-sex marriage as early as this week, after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her objection to a vote. The post Ger...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Sorry - I wanted to make some snide remarks about Syria and how Trump doesn’t talk to his generals, but I have granny duties today. Y’all chat away!
The NM Political Report

House Ethics Committee probing complaint against Luján - [image: House Ethics Committee probing complaint against Luján] The U.S House Ethics Committee will take a deeper look at an ethics complaint against Rep. ...
Election Law Blog

“California’s Low Voter Turnout Driven by Demographics” - Release: California’s low voter turnout has two elements: a decline in the voter registration rate relative to other states and a decline in turnout in mid...
Popular Resistance

Pipeline Fights are a Fight for Our Lives - By Julie Dermansky for DeSmog Blog. astor Harry Joseph of the Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, Louisiana, is taking legal action to prevent the ...
Louis Proyect

Commentary on Bhaskar Sunkara’s New York Times op-ed - Bhaskar Sunkara Since its launch in 2010, Jacobin Magazine has shown up in one way or another in the NY Times 25 times. The references fall into different ...
San Antonio Current

Your Guide to San Antonio Pride Week Events - *Fiesta Youth Teen Meeting* Every Tuesday, nonprofit organization Fiesta Youth invites local LGBT youth and allies between the ages of 12 and 18 into a we...
Houston Matters

Property Brothers Jonathan & Drew Scott Discuss Their Careers and DIY Home Improvements Gone Wrong - (Above: Jonathan and Drew Scott, otherwise known on the HGTV network as “Property Brothers.” Photo: Michael Hagerty, Houston Public Media) Twins Jonathan a...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Beavis Goes to Bitburg - This weekend saw dueling fascist snoozefests in DC- the emo-boy Nazis and the insufficiently Aryan fascist contingent that they hate. At any rate, less tha...
Axios

Senate delays health care vote until after recess - Senate Republican leaders have done an abrupt about-face on the health care bill: They're now planning to delay the vote to take up the bill until after...
Ballot Access News

California Bill Making Recall Petitioning More Difficult is Sent to Governor - On June 22, California bill SB 96 was sent to Governor Jerry Brown. It makes recall petitioning more difficult, by letting signers remove their names after...
Quartz

In Nairobi, questions about data visualization and animation in Atlas for Africa’s first training… - In Nairobi, questions about data visualization and animation in Atlas for Africa’s first training sessions Atlas for Africa’s first training sessions took ...
Lowering the Bar

In New Hampshire, Pregnant Women No Longer Allowed to Kill With Impunity - Or are they? Related Stories - Two More Rivers Declared Persons - Idaho May Legalize Dachshund Racing - Bill Urges Texans to Use Correct...
Dissident Voice

Lies that Capitalists Tell Us - While supporters of our two-party system wring their hands over the sensationalist nonsense reported by the mainstream media, we thought it might be worth ...
Socialist Alternative

June 1917: The Bolsheviks “Become a Power” - 100 years since the Russian Revolution 1917-2017 Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A century ago this week, 500,000 workers and soldiers marched through the R...
slacktivist

Christian nationalism and white nationalism - Kelly J. Baker studied one of the darker corners of American history, writing Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-19...
High Plains Blogger

CNN does that rare deed: retracts a story - CNN officials don’t need me to take up the cudgel for them, but I’ll do so anyway. The news outlet has just done something quite rare in journalism. It has...
Freak Out Nation

Trump’s Good ‘Christian’ Lawyer Funnelled $60 Million In Charity To His Own Bank Accounts - Christian Advocates Serving Evangelicals (CASE), the charity run by Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow, has been sending out donation requests for years...
Houstonia

Summer Pop Up Shop Vendor Spotlight -
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - June 27, 2017 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Nearly 160 killed in fuel truck explosion in Pakistan; Wildfire evacuations in Spain; Sea level rise accelerating faster than pred...
Political Dig

Watch Stephen Colbert Take Down Trump’s Berserk New Attack on Obama - Following his heavily surveilled trip to Russia, “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert has returned to the United States with a barrage of new Kremlin collusi...
Down With Tyranny!

Is TrumpCare Toxic Enough To Help Tom Guild Win The Oklahoma City Congressional Seat? - One of the states the DCCC isn’t looking at at all for 2018 is red, red Oklahoma. Trump won there, overwhelmingly 949,136 (65.3%) to 420,375 (28.9%). It ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THE PRESIDENT JUST VIOLATED AN ETHICS LAW IN FRONT OF 33 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS - *The Hill* reports: *Trump promotes Fox News host’s book on Twitter* President Trump on Tuesday promoted Fox News host Eric Bolling's new book, "The Swamp...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Deadly Monopolies and Medical Slavery? - Harriet Washington previously wrote Medical Apartheid where she reviewed the history of using African Americans for medical research going back to when ...
Debunking Christianity

Christians Don't Believe Their Own Bible, The Key Question Revealed. - Christians don't believe their own Bible. If they did they would agree with these Flat Earth Society idiots who claim they have "members all around the gl...
MintPress News

The Death Of America’s Common Man - Modern America’s obsession with self and success has killed off what once was an honorable American archetype, the Common Man, who was the nation’s backb...
The Conversation

4 ways the Supreme Court could rule on Trump's travel ban - The Supreme Court has decided to hear two legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s revised “travel ban.” Among other things, the executive order Trum...
Politifact Texas

Bernie Sanders - Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported - The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported During an interview ...
Wolf Street

China Suffers “Delusion” like 1980s Japan, Faces Long Stagnation - Sudden Financial Meltdown is "less likely."
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Anti-LGBTQ right gets partial victory from Guidestar' & other Tue midday news briefs - *Charity website cites threats in removing hate group labels* - *After controversy, charity web page Guidestar will back away from its labeling some orga...
Texas Observer

Over the Wall: How Texas Border Communities Are Gearing Up to Fight Trump - Over the Wall After a decade of living in the shadow of the border wall, people in the Rio Grande Valley are ready to move on. But Donald Trump has other...
Gin and Tacos

THE JEFFERSONS, BUT SUPER WHITE - Movin' on up (Moooovin' on Up!) To the East Side For the first time I received money in exchange for writing a thing and I put my real name on it. Check ou...
Washington's Blog

Talk Nation Radio: Ajamu Baraka on the Black Alliance for Peace - Ajamu Baraka is National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. He is a human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and in...
The Progressive Wing

Warren says Democrats should campaign on Single-Payer healthcare. - Elizabeth Warren has been on a campaign footing to push back against Republican efforts to bestow enormous tax breaks on millionaires and billionaires by d...
The Contributor

'The Next Step Is Single Payer': Warren Urges Democrats to Go Bold - News Image: “The progressive agenda is America’s agenda." origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Julia Conley
AlterNet.org

WATCH: Pastor Confronts Republican Senator with Heart-Wrenching Story About How Obamacare Saved Her Daughter - "Amy is one of thousands and millions of people that this horrible immoral bill is going to affect." According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Of...
Equality Texas

#TransTuesday: Kimberly Shappley - Kimberly Shappley is cisgender and an evangelical christian Republican. When Kimberly was confronted with the possibility of a transgender child she turne...
First Draft

Emojis, Journalism, and Why Being Cute Isn’t Work - We’re all clowning on this dumbass today, but I want to point out a few things: So, Chris Cilliza has a new feature where the sad face emoji means “people ...
Grits for Breakfast

When does SCOTUS say it's okay for Texas lawyers to be ineffective? - *Question*: When is it okay for Texas lawyers to overtly provide their clients with ineffective assistance without it jeopardizing their conviction? *Answ...
NPR's Health Shots

Have We Missed The Point On Health Care? - It's the final countdown for Republican plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. But what if neither plan gets to the heart of how to make America healthy ag...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT 90.1's Queer Voices - The Texas Legislature returns to the pink dome on July 18th to tackle 20 issues selected by Gov. Abbot for the special sessions, including legislation to r...
Houston Press

La Grande Évasion: The Return of the Methodical Jailbreak Drama Le Trou - "Our cell is a bit special. ... We've got a lot to lose." That's what inmate Claude Gaspard (Marc Michel) hears when he arrives in crowded Cell 6, Block 11...
Bonddad

Five graphs for 2017: mid year update - * - by New Deal democrat* At the beginning of the year, I identified 5 trends that bore particular watching, primarily as potentially setting the stage fo...
Progressive.org

Standing Up to Paul Ryan. A Conversation with Randy Bryce - Bryce talks about his decision to get into the race against Ryan, the resistance movement in Wisconsin, and why more working people ought to run for office.
Slate - Politics and News

The Donald Trump Election Brag Tracker - When Donald Trump chatted with three Reuters reporters in April, he handed each of them a map memorializing his win over Hillary Clinton. “It’s pretty go...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives await next #TrumpTrain wreck, call out #greenwashing, more - The Texas Progressive Alliance thinks lack of compassion should be treated as a pre-existing condition as it brings you this week's roundup. Off the Kuff ...
ProPublica

The Last Shot - by Alec MacGillis ProPublica - Share on Facebook - Share on Twitter - Comment - Donate The Last Shot Amid a surging opiate crisis...
Democracy Now!

Dahlia Lithwick: Justice Neil Gorsuch Proving to Be "Far to the Right" of Antonin Scalia - Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick examines the new make-up of the court and the rumors that Justice Anthony Kennedy might resign. Neil Gorsuch joined ...
Space City Weather

Enjoy the cooler weather—high pressure is coming to Houston - Houston’s bout with tropical moisture continues, and on Monday afternoon and evening it was the southern side of the region’s chance to contend with heav...
Dorf on Law

Supreme Court Border-Shooting Non-Decision Confirms My Fears Regarding Bivens Actions - *by Michael Dorf* Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling in *Hernandez v. Mesa *decided one question and punted on two. After explaining what the case decided and what ...
Angry Bear

Open thread June 27, 2017 -
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, All War All the Time, or War American-Style - The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, U.N. panel says...
Duffel Blog

New staff officer chow hall serves nothingburgers, self-licking ice cream cones - [image: us army chow hall dfac] FORT LEE, Va. – In a new trial program being tested at the Logistics Warrior Center of Excellence, staff officers will fin...
Off the Kuff

SB4’s day in court - Sparks were flying. Opponents of Texas’ state-based immigration law told a federal judge Monday that allowing the controversial measure to stand would pave...
The Urban Edge

Rent for $800 or Less? Share of Cheap Units Available Shrinking in Most Metros, According to Latest State of the Nation’s Housing Report - Austin lost the largest percentage of cheapest rental units in the country from 2005 to 2015, and other findings. Continue Reading →
In These Times

The Fairy Tales Capitalists Tell Themselves - Four years ago, a leading French intellectual produced a wide-ranging study of wealth inequality that cleared away much of the confusion surrounding the ...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday night's squad - why it's getting harder (and more dangerous) to hold companies accountable principal of black charter school fired for being a nazi baltimore may follow ne...
CPI's Danger in the Air

More than 30 nuclear experts inhale uranium after radiation alarms at a weapons site are switched off - Most were not told about it until months later, and other mishaps at the Nevada nuclear test site followed
Consortium News

Death of America’s Common Man - Modern America’s obsession with self and success has killed off what once was an honorable American archetype, the Common Man, who was the nation’s backbon...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Remember Helen Keller on her birthday, June 27 - If it’s June 27, it’s National Helen Keller Day. Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880. Jimmy Carter designated her birthday National Helen Keller Day, in 1...
Independent Political Report

Utah Green Party Hosts Dr. Stein; Elects New Officers - *Newly elected Utah Green Party officers and Dr. Stein. From left to right: Jessica Bronson (co-secretary), Kimberly Bain (co-secretary), Dr. Stein, Bre...
Houston Streetwise

Urban Redundancy After the Name Change: Directions to Dowling Street - ONE OF MANY REMINDERS OF DOWLING - UN-RECHRISTENED Left, Right, Straight, or None of the foregoing - Which way to Dowling Street?
jobsanger

Put The Blame Where It Belongs -
Socialist Worker

Was George Washington a French agent? - As part of a series on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the *New York Times* recently published an article recycling the old claim that t...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Austin, other cities spar with state, DOJ in sanctuary cities hearing - Statesman: Austin, other cities spar with state, DOJ in sanctuary cities hearing
Informed Comment

Trump’s Escalations of War in Syria—Sleepwalking into a Global Confrontation - By Reese Erlich | (The Progressive) | – – Syrian President Bashar al Assad claims to have won the war and that he is merely mopping up remaining rebel grou...
Antiwar.com

Heavy Fighting and Counterattacks in Mosul; 61 Killed in Iraq - Heavy Fighting and counterattacks were reported in Mosul. The post Heavy Fighting and Counterattacks in Mosul; 61 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiw...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - Film Screening – Penguins 3D with Diane Olsen Join Diane Olsen who cares for the penguins at Moody Gardens for a special evening viewing of “Penguins 3D” i...
WAWG Blog

Voter Suppression: Legalized, Rationalized, and Self-inflicted - Voter Suppression: Legalized, Rationalized, and Self-inflicted Right-wing extremists have been promoting voter suppression since the founding of America. S...
Houston Communist Party

Russians name Stalin ‘most outstanding’ world figure, Putin ties for second - https://www.rt.com/politics/394158-russians-name-stalin-most-outstanding/ Published time: 26 Jun, 2017 16:57 Edited time: 26 Jun, 2017 17:44 Get short URL ...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

The Republican American Dream is to turn the Nation into a Death Camp - "If he dies, he dies..." Ivan Drago, Trump's Asst Secretary of Health and Human Services "These people don't understand how capitalism works..." Republi...
DeSmogBlog

Pastor Leads Lawsuit Opposing Bayou Bridge Pipeline to Protect Louisiana Cancer Alley Community - [image: Pastor Harry Joseph in front of oil storage tanks in St. James, Louisiana] Pastor Harry Joseph of the Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, L...
Liberation News

Interview: Socialism, organized labor and working class Ohio - Liberation interviews a radicalized labor leader in Akron, Oh. The post Interview: Socialism, organized labor and working class Ohio appeared first on L...
The Greanville Post

Fava Beans, Chianti, and Gordon Gekko - The U.S. Empire is drunk on consumption, addicted to international theft and bullying through war, regime change, bribery, assassination, false flag events...
Field Negro

What should really embarrass us. - [image: Image result for healthy care cbo scores images]* So the* CBO score* of the right-wingnut *healthcare bill* came out today, and as was to be expect...
Portside

Dear President Trump: Breaking Up (Banks) Isn’t So Hard to Do - Glass-Steagall or Another Economic Meltdown? Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that wo...
Counter Propa

5 Things That Democrats Do Constantly, Yet Accuse Others Of Doing - If there’s anything more hypocritical than the lying warmongers at the New York Times running a full-page list of the lies Trump has told since taking of...
Rude Pundit

Random Observations on the CBO Score of the Senate's "Health Care" Bill - The Congressional Budget Office is out with its analysis of the Senate's bullshit version of the House's bullshit so-called "health care" bill (which is ac...
Campaign for America's Future

Would a Berniecrat Have Won Ossoff’s Georgia Race? - Do you have to run like a Republican to win in a district like the Georgia 6th? The answers lie in the Census Bureau's free database, which very few seem t...
Dandelion Salad

Sanctions Are Crimes, Not Law Enforcement by David Swanson - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, June 25, 2017 American Herald Tribune, June 22, 2017 June 26, 2017 The U.S. Senate has increa...
Echidne of the Snakes

The Weird Free Market Religion of the Conservatives: Three Recent Examples. - The free market religion of many conservative politicians bears little resemblance to what markets mean in economics. I wasn't aware of that until I bec...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Mosquito spraying to start after first West Nile positive mosquito test - Vector Disease Control International, a private company contracted by the City of Lewisville, has confirmed the city’s first positive West Nile Virus mosqu...
Mahablog

SCOTUS Drops Two Mini-Bombs - I’m calling them mini-bombs, because I suspect they will turn out to be less significant than they seem right now. First, SCOTUS agreed to review Trump’s “...
Irregular Times

Homeland Security Plans To Make You Show What Books You’re Reading On The Airplane - The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to force American travelers to show government agents what books they're reading. Here's how to protest th...
OffCite

Building Nomadic - Club Nomadic. All photos by Kevin Suarez.The Super Bowl is over and the partygoers have left … and one building left with them. In February 2017, Houston t...
Political Orphans

The dawn of Social Capitalism - A crisis in representative government could be an opening for something new and (maybe) better.
Reading the Pictures

On the Failed Rubio – Ivanka Bot Hug - Given her meticulously-constructed public image and the way she is constantly composed, Ivanka just doesn't have awkward moments. The post On the Failed ...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Koch-backed group calls health fight in Congress 'humbling' - The head of Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-funded organization, told donors that the healthcare fight in Congress has been “humbling,” Politico reported ...
Bracing Views

What’s So Special About Special Ops? - W.J. Astore What’s so special about Special Ops? It used to be that special operations troops were few in number. You had Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs, ...
Pensito Review

Cataloging the March to Authoritarianism - After Donald Trump’s election millions of Americans figuratively, if not literally, hid under their beds, hoping it was all a bad dream. Amy Siskind did no...
Real News

The Neoliberal Writing on the Wall: - *Ontario’s Basic Income Experiment* By John Clarke / Socialist Project. Since 2010, the UK has endured a political regime that can be considered a cutt...
Pages of Victory

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So you want to be an investigative reporter? - With the rise of the internet and social media, the journalism industry has shifted—and investigative reporting is no exception. But the skills required to...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Reading Capital The Complete Edition - In the first semester of this year, the Past & Present Reading Group chose to tackle the newly published Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, a collect...
Rallblog

The Best-Case Scenario for Republicans Stripping Americans of Healthcare - Fearful of the political repercussions of stripping 23 million Americans of healthcare, Congressional Republicans are debating Trumpcare reform with a mi...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

My High School Reunion: Claremont - My 40th high school reunion is this Saturday. I’m going. I’ve been to all my high school reunions. They’re fun. Kind of weird, awkward at times, but fun....
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Cuban dissident sent to the madhouse of death for defying regime - *The price of dissent in totalitarian Cuba today* Daniel Llorente running with an American flag chased by secret police on May DayOn May Day 2017 Daniel Ll...
Ian Welsh

The Fall of the USSR - The best book on both successes and failures of the Soviet Union is Mancur Olson’s “Power and Prosperity.” If you haven’t read it, you should. The second...
Robert Reich

The Secret Healthcare Bill - The Senate’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a healthcare bill. It’s a tax cut for...
Death to Squirrels

Pride Fest! - I went out for a drink stroll before the crushing crowds completely take over the neighborhood. It was pretty fucking amazing. The sound of NYPD helicopter...
ExChristian.Net

Seek and You Shall Find What You are Not Looking For - *By Seeker ~ * My mom was "saved" when I was 7 and I was personally "saved" when I was 13. I considered myself very lucky: I fell in love with Jesus from a...
St. Petersburg Independents

Uhurus Own the Ground - ST. PETERSBURG, FL, June 22, 2017 — “My name is Jesse Nevel, and I m a candidate for Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida.” So began Jesse Nevel, who will be o...
Trivial Knot

Hangout with PZ - I will be in a live hangout with PZ in a few hours, at noon CDT. I’m just going to leave these links here: Pharyngula post YouTube page
Shadowproof

‘Unauthorized Disclosure’ – Episode 22: Democrats And Their Ossoff Fail - Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola highlight some pretty awful and horrible stories on this week’s show but not before talking about the Democratic Pa...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (June 18 – 24) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Dennis Nixon, the chief executive of International Bancshares Corp. and International Bank of Commerce i...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 23: Populism vs. Pragmatism - Bill Scher, Traci Olsen and special guest Bob Williams debate why Democrats struck out in the special elections. Check out this episode!
Independent Thinker 2016

Bernie Sanders and Electoral Fraud - The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book My Bernie Journey – A Behind the Scenes Look at the 2016 Democratic Primary The book will be released on ...
Digital Heretic

March Against Sharia – Houston - The recent series of terrorist attacks throughout Europe again calls into question the relationship between Islam, Muslims, and the Western world The Unite...
Duck of Minerva

Snipers and Democratic Control of the Military: More Oversight Please - I hinted at some politics when discussing the longest recorded sniper shot in history. That the Canadian government might not love this news because it wo...
Stinque

Groundhog Day - We spent a very pleasant Sunday devouring Al Franken’s new book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. In it, Al Franken explains how he took Al Franken hostage...
PoliTex (FWST)

Tarrant lawmakers tapped to lead charge against mail-in voter fraud in Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott called on two Tarrant lawmakers to lead the way in cracking down on mail-in ballot fraud in Texas. Abbott recently pointed to state Rep. C...
Greg Palast

Grand Theft Election:Palast In San Diego This Friday - Grand Theft Election: How Trump stole 2016, the Georgia 6th ...and 2018! From "the most important investigative reporter of our time” - The Guardian You’...
Avedon's Sideshow

Woke up today in a strange, strange land - Matt Taibbi in *Rolling Stone*: Goodbye, and Good Riddance, to Centrism The idea that people who want expanded health care, reduced income inequality, ...
Better Texas Blog

Help Stop Health Care Repeal: Call Your Senators Now - We finally know what’s in the secret bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s still bad. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on their d...
Texans For Public Justice

Lobby Watch: Gold Deposits Contractor Paid Tribute to the King. - Heads of the Austin company that won a state contract to build a gold depository did not contribute to state candidates before Gov. Abbott signed the bill ...
News Junkie

Saudi Arabia vs Qatar: Middle East Controlled-Demolition Plan? - There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred. The palace...
Nathan Hevenstone

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Northern Summer on Titan - Another one from Cassini’s Grand Finale. And yeah, I’m a day late. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Sat...
Political Garbage Chute

A Quick Reference Guide to the Senate Republicans’ Formerly Secret Healthcare Plan - A view of the proposed changes within the secretive Republican healthcare plan from a 50,000 foot level. [...] The post A Quick Reference Guide to the Se...
Bullshit-ist

Austin - Thou scurvy tickle-brained hell-hated lunatic. Thou lascivious weather-bitten flap-ear’d mumpet. Thou churlish fen-sucked maggot pie. Thou dizzy-eyed he...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2006 Shows Why Democratic Loss in Ga-6 Stings - Editor’s Note: As we telegraphed last week, we are moving GA-6 from Toss-up to Leans Republican and installing Rep.-elect Karen Handel (R) as a favorite fo...
LawFlog

Hillary Clinton is not out of the woods yet (and neither am I) - After almost ten months in limbo, the Arkansas Bar is finally nearing a decision on my bar grievance against Hillary Clinton. According to an email that I ...
DBC Green blog

Jill's Itchy Twitter Finger - I'm glad to know that Dr. Jill Stein has time not only to reply to the barrage of establshment-Democrat hatred she faces in social media, but to generate h...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Department of Justice Wins Stop To $367M Merger Of Radioactive Waste Firms - A Delaware federal judge on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, blocked the $367 million merger of EnergySolutions Inc. and Waste Control Specialists LLC, (WCS) si...
Popehat

Free Speech Triumphant Or Free Speech In Retreat? - The First Amendment had a pretty good week. In Matal v. Tam the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a federal law prohibiting "disparaging" t...
Black Agenda Report

If You Embrace Assata, You Must Fight the Black Misleadership Class - - political prisoners *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford* Donald Trump’s lynch party seeking the extradition of Assata Sh...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 21, 2017 - "America First" apparently means making us the first to get mixed up in yet another endless, costly war — or three.
Ecosophia

The Twilight of Anthropolatry - During the last three months, while on hiatus from blogging, I’ve looked back over the eleven-year run of The Archdruid Report. As my regular readers kno...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Unauthorized Disclosure — Episode 21: People’s Movement Must Be More Outspoken On Wars - If you would like to support the show and help keep us going strong, please become a subscriber on our Patreon page. Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola ...
PERRspectives

Commander in Chief Trump Goes AWOL - "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." With that phrase, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the U...
New Progressive Alliance

Julia Williams on Healthcare and Economics - Julia Williams has run for Congress on the Green Party ticket and written for the NPA before. (See references at the end of this article.) Many people ha...
Carl Beijer

Trump is not going to abandon NATO - Abandoning NATO "would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership and send a dangerous signal to friend and foe alike" - and this is exactly what wi...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | We talk politics, community, and resistance; discuss some important new books; enjoy some great live music… and much more! - Our guests are Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn; Rev. Jim Rigby & Glenn Smith; Corey Dolgon; Julia Mickenberg; Scott Braddock; Jonathan Tilove; Roy Casagranda...
South Lawn

Another Harvest In An Orchard Of Strange Fruit - It was a cold night in the fall of 2002 when me and my then-girlfriend pulled up to the public parking lot at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to relax and snug...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Free Lecture: Houston’s Self-Inflicted Flooding - We’re Number One! Who: Sam Brody, PhD, Texas A&M Galveston When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 20 Where: Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, H...
Texas Watch

Odessa Residents Could Soon Face Second Storm of Insurance Abuse - Insurance companies already have too much power, and they’re getting even more in September when a dangerous new law goes into effect. House Bill 1774 s...
First Reading

Megyn Kelly: ‘Reckless accusation, followed by equivocation and excuses is classic Alex Jones’ - Good Monday Austin: Alex Jones and his comrades on Infowars popped the cork on some champagne last night to celebrate his victory over Megyn Kelly…
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The last of me - I did not know her but she knew me. I passed her going the other way. On three consecutive mornings I passed her, during that trek from parking garage to o...
Pressing Issues

Trailer for "The Tunnels"--on Escapes Under the Berlin Wall -
Modern Democracy

The Right to Withhold Consent: Legislator Standing and the Emoluments Clause - When CREW launched its emoluments lawsuit back in January, I—like many—had doubts about whether the plaintiffs’ standing theory would hold up in court. At...
American Third Party Report

Jeff4Justice Exposes TYT Hypocrisy -
Our Finite World

Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil” - Falling interest rates have huge power. My background is as an actuary, so I am very much aware of the great power of interest rates. But a lot of people a...
Moron Majority

Thanks To Trump, Kellyanne Now Most Popular Baby Girl Name - The election of Donald J. Trump as our nation’s 45th president has not only had a profound effect on both our national and international politics, but it h...
Ramona's Voices

How the G-Man Worked To Bring Down POTUS - After former FBI director James Comey's testimony on Thursday, there were questions about why he waited so long to go public with all he knew. He'd had tw...
Progrexas

Learning Civics and Understanding Government and Politics in Texas – From Free Posters for Kids to In Depth Education for Adults - “Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where...
Great American Satan

RPGs: The Truest Test of Character? - Why is it that role-playing games seem to bring out the worst traits in people? Even people you would never have guessed had it in them, people you may hav...
All Ablog Austin

Ready for the Republic of Texas biker rally? We’ve got the best motorcycle routes in Central Texas - The Republic of Texas Biker Rally is this weekend at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin. If you want to take a ride near the city, here are some of ...
Houston Justice

#JusticeForJohnny - Chants of "Justicia para Johnny," and "Si se puede" could be heard by the crowd of an estimated 200 marchers. Starting at 2nd Ward's TBH center, they m...
The Disorder Of Things

White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean - A guest post from Ida Danewid. Ida is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses ...
Seeing the Forest

Thoughts On Russia Election Systems Hacking Report - Here are some thoughts on the report that Russia was trying to — or did — hack into our election systems before the election. 1) Why was this a secret? Who...
Frontloading HQ

Amended Primary Legislation Passes North Carolina House - After *clearing a committee hurdle* late last week, *SB 655*, made it onto the calendar of the North Carolina House. When considered on the floor of the ch...
South Texas Chisme

Gone fishing - See you at the end of June. Or, beginning of July.
34justice

Ramming Morality Into Our Economic System the John Ruskin Way - A slim pamphlet from the mid-19th century provides both a diagnosis of today's economic problems and a potential cure. Continue reading →
Pressthink

Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. The post Getting granular with the...
Project Vote

Project Vote to Close Its Doors on May 31st - It is with great sadness—but also tremendous pride in our accomplishments—that Project Vote announces we will be suspending operations indefinitely. Th...
The Nil Admirari

Trump Says Russia Should be Invited to Join NATO - *LAST UPDATED @ 12:38PM (5.25.2017)* *Trump says Putin "hugely excited" about Russian Federation joining NATO in recent conversation.* Donald Trump speaki...
Texas Leftist

Houston’s Diversity: America Discovering What Locals Already Know - If you live in or frequently visit the city of Houston, then the term “diversity” is surely nothing new. A stop in virtually any of the city’s major store...
ROAR Magazine

Why we are not eating: the Yale graduate student hunger strike - Precarious and underpaid graduate student-workers at Yale have gone on a fast to demand that university administrators recognize and negotiate with their...
Free Speech.org

Move to Amend's Kaitliin Sopoci-Belknap Hosts FSTV Facebook Live Discussion - On May 10th, 2017, on the 131st anniversary of *Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad* (1886), Free Speech TV aired *Legalize Democracy, *a fil...
twissblog

Melania Trump fired after asking who ate all the Little Debbies - WASHINGTON–Melania Trump, who recently was hired as First Lady, was terminated today in a one-page letter. The letter said that she was fired as a result o...
Texas Election Law Blog

Implementing Photo I.D. Requirements In Texas Elections — An Oral History - Reporter Jessica Huseman of ProPublica spent the last six months working on a huge, complicated feature story, and the fruit of her efforts was posted Tues...
Politics of Courage

Digital Editor of Ms. Magazine Calls for Death of Jewish Trailblazer and for Vandalism of His Grave - Three times in the past month, digital editor Carmen Rios of feminist magazine *Ms. *has openly wished for the death of Senator Bernie Sanders, who in 2016...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform

True fracking story - Beautiful farm, #fracking harmed. Bright lights, Starless nights. Air brown. Barren ground. Water black. Can’t go back. The post True fracking story ap...
MOMocrats.com

100 Days of Trump, Part 2: The End of Obama Nation - More on Trump's first 100 Days: Nobody has promised more and delivered less. He’s lowered the bar for the role of the president from being the highest, m...
Texas Moratorium Network

Terri Been Testifying in Support of Law of Parties Reform Bills - Terri Been, sister of Jeff Wood, testifying before Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 17, 2017 in support of law of parties reform bi...
The Liberal Yell

Rep. Steve King (R-KKK) Introduces Bill to Ban ALL Immigrants - As published on Crooks&Liars on 4/3/2017: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/04/rep-steve-kings-bill-ban-all-immigrants If you are even remotely aware of who R...
nonsite.org

Ritual Protest and the Theater of Dissent - The politics that inform these actions, where not entirely opaque, are based on a semi-spiritual belief that the right recipe of symbolism, passion, and po...
Good Reason

Shitgibbon frequencies - Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary llmpounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zi...
Political Carnival

We're Taking a Vacation! - Hi, everyone! We will be on vacation - the first in a long while! - for the next few weeks. See you on the other side! The post We're Taking a Vacation! ...
Raised on the Rail

Top 5 Things to Do in January 2017 in Houston Near the Rail - Super Saturdays at the Aquarium – buy one get one free admission When: Saturdays in January Where: Downtown Aquarium How to get there: Take the green or pu...
Above None of the Above

My apology - I've talked in person to multiple people who followed my blog. They tell me that my numbers helped them stay calm. I wasn't trying to keep people calm. I ...
Memory Hole

Trump Dresses Down Media Moguls, Anchors - “I’m in a room full of liars.” Noland D. McCaskill Politico (November 21, 2016) The media figures arrived at Trump Tower on Monday afternoon for off-the-re...
Green Is The New Red

Trump Supporter Promises Legislation to Label Protest as “Economic Terrorism” - The proposed "Preventing Economic Terrorism Act" marks a radical expansion of legislation that was once used to criminalize environmentalists as "eco-terro...
Jim Hightower

Takeaways from the election - Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that). He will need to be up-and-at-’e...
Source Planet

Trump Trolls Are Running A Bernie Write-In Campaign - Over the past months I have managed to infiltrate most of the Trump, Facebook Groups, Subreddits, IRC channels, etc. Most of the chatter has moved into mak...
UP@NIGHT

Endangered Species Warning: Democrats Who Care About The Working-Class - Salon, a liberal internet magazine, published a piece recently by Cody Cain, “It …
Velvet Revolution

On Colbert, Anderson Cooper has no good answers as to why CNN employs Corey Lewandowski - Good on Stephen Colbert. The “Late Show” host last night welcomed CNN host Anderson Cooper for a little chat, and the name of former Donald Trump campaign ...
STRENGTH !N NUMBERS

Black Queer History: Charles Law - We talk about Rustin, Baldwin, Hemphill and a host of other Black Queers who have been instrumental throughout our history. These figures had/have the cour...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, June 12, 2016

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