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Sputnik News

US-Led Coalition Refutes Reports of Airstrike Killing Civilians in Deir ez-Zor - The US-led coalition has commented on the recent reports of its airstrikes, which allegedly led to civilian casualties in Syria's Deir Ez-Zor.
NPR's Health Shots

Limited Outreach, Shorter Sign-Up Time May Cause Insurance Headaches In 2018 - The silver (or gold) lining may be that changes in premium pricing may mean some people could sign up for a better health insurance plan that costs them le...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday the riff - 46 attacks in niger area where spec ops were killed trump election official arrested on child porn charges rich people are to blame for the anti-vaccinati...
Houston Press

Vodi Point the Way Toward Debut LP With Shining "Gold" - A stellar lineup of musicians that proves as much with this exclusive debut from upcoming LP *Talk*.
The Verge

Microsoft drops its US government lawsuit following revised gag orders - Microsoft says it will drop its lawsuit against the US government after the Department of Justice agreed to change the way data like email is obtained f...
Socialist Worker

From breaking the silence to building resistance - Simmering discontent with U.S. society is finding new ways to bubble to the surface. The question is whether the eruptions will be connected with an ong...
Salon.com

The American un-society - The Vegas massacre has exposed that the idea of the existence of an American “society” is becoming pure fiction
Dissident Voice

Sex, Scholars and the Syphilitic Superpower - A civilization where women and children are sexually commoditized is one in terminal decline. The next enduring superpower will be one that had successfull...
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day! - *-by Noah* Like all of you, I get a lot of emailed petitions. Most of mine deal with political campaigns or endangered animals. I just got one that had ...
The Fifth Column

Patrick Tomlinson v. Ben Shapiro, men attempt abortion logic - Charlie Rae weighs in on the conversation on abortion between Tomlinson and Shapiro. Read more →
Informed Comment

Fading ISIL in Syria lashes out, kills 128 in reprisals as Gov’t takes back Town - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The so-called Islamic State group of Syria and Iraq, which locals call Daesh (in US, it is ISIS or ISIL), needs a new…
The NM Political Report

Take a job, create another - [image: Take a job, create another] An immigration attorney I know shared a document with me recently: an appeal sent to the U.S. Department of Justice Boa...
Reading the Pictures

Looking at Trump and Kelly at Arlington Cemetery - Why the New York Times published the photo it did of Trump and Kelly visiting the General's son's grave. The post Looking at Trump and Kelly at Arlington...
jobsanger

Fear -
Rivard Report

Craft Beer Movement Connects San Antonio to Brewing History - Brewing Up Texas, a new exhibit at the Institute of Texan Cultures, traces Texas brewing history from the 1800s to today. The post Craft Beer Movement C...
Wolf Street

What Junk-Rated Netflix just Said about the Bond Market - It lives in a fantasy world.
naked capitalism

Shocking the Shock Doctrine: What Recovery in Puerto Rico Could Look Like - How an anti-neoliberal recovery plan is starting to get traction in Puerto Rico.
Palmer Report

Political insider: Donald Trump and several others to be indicted in Trump-Russia probe - It's going to be ugly for all of them The post Political insider: Donald Trump and several others to be indicted in Trump-Russia probe appeared first on ...
Mediaite

Colbert Hits Bill O’Reilly Below The Belt: He’s a ‘Scrotum Who Wished To Be a Real Boy’ - On Monday night, Stephen Colbert ripped Bill O'Reilly, or as he referred to him, a "scrotum who wished to be a real boy."
Antiwar.com

ISIS Stages Small Attacks on Mosul, Hawija; 36 Killed in Iraq - ISIS/Daesh militants continue to stage attacks in captured towns such as Mosul and Hawija. The post ISIS Stages Small Attacks on Mosul, Hawija; 36 Kille...
National Post

Father of missing toddler Sherin Mathews charged after giving police ‘alternate statement of events’ - Wesley Mathews has been charged with Injury to a Child, punishable by life or from five to 99 years in prison. Police said they have 'most likely' found Sh...
OpEd News

UVA's Miller Center Plans Three Days of Russophobia - Even as some Democrats are at long last growing frustrated with the lack of actual evidence for the past several months of stories about Russia stealing a ...
Washington's Blog

UVA’s Miller Center Plans Three Days of Russophobia - Even as some Democrats are at long last growing frustrated with the lack of actual evidence for the past several months of stories about Russia stealing ...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

U.S. soldiers likely set-up for Niger ambush - Courtney Kube, NBC News national security and military reporter, talks with Rachel Maddow about new details being learned about the nature of the deadly at...
Political Dig

‘I’m Sorry’: Don Lemon Chokes Up While Reading Open Letter To Trump - While discussing Donald Trump’s continued feud with the family of a slain U.S. soldier on Monday, CNN anchor Don Lemon became emotional and choked up as ...
Raw Story

Are religious people more moral? - By Dimitris Xygalatas, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, University of Connecticut. Dimitris Xygalatas, CC BY Why do people distrust atheists? A recent ...
Splinter

'No One Can Best the American Worker,' Says Heiress Whose Company Relies Solely on Foreign Factories - Ivanka Trump, who has some sort of ambiguous advising role in her father’s nepotistic administration, has reemerged on the cable news scene to sell tax r...
VICE

This Gay Comic's Hookup Stories Will Make You Delete Grindr - With the release of 'Homonegro Superior,' Solomon Georgio's new stand-up album, the comedian shares hilarious (and terrifying) anecdotes of hookups gone wr...
Eschaton

It Is All My Fault - Of course it isn't, but generally everybody in 2016 who thought electing Democrats (Clinton) was important should think that, actually, it's all my fault. ...
Crooks and Liars

Open Thread - Worst Boot Ad Ever? - [image: Open Thread - Worst Boot Ad Ever?] late capitalism sure is fun pic.twitter.com/ysbDG59GeZ — Scary Ellen Murrderr (@maryellenmurr) October 23, 2017 ...
CultureMap Houston

It all goes to the (pampered) dogs on Real Housewives of Dallas - It is a well-known fact that the whole dang "Real Housewives" franchise is ... just ... weird. The concept (rich, middle-aged women and their fancy lives)...
Daily Kos

Former Fox News anchor drops a gutsy, must-watch statement against the network and O'Reilly - Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly appeared on The Today Show to address the toxic culture of sexual harassment at her former network, and she specifical...
Common Dreams

Sen. Lindsey Graham 'Didn't Know' About Niger? He Should Read More Nick Turse, TomDispatch, and Common Dreams - What U.S. Senators Don't Know (and Neither Do You) About What the Pentagon Is Doing in Africa
Election Law Blog

Pence-Kobach Fraud Commission Spokesperson Suggests There May Be No More Meetings of Sham Commission - WaPo: The 11-member panel, which is nominally chaired by Vice President Pence and formally known as the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integr...
Houston Communist Party

Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian: Great classical music concert organised by the KKE in Athens - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian: Great classical music concert organised by the KKE in Athens https://communismgr.blogspot....
The Rag Blog

Jonah Raskin : BOOKS | Katya Sabaroff Taylor: ‘Prison Wisdom: Writing with Inmates’ - This jam-packed volume features several hundred poems, stories, sketches, and drawings by prisoners. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 23, 2017 In A...
Angry Bear

When People will not be Judged by the Color of their Skin, But On Where Their Ancestors Were Judged by the Color of their Skin - The Wall Street Journal had a piece that made reference to this story in the Cornell Daily Sun: Martha E. Pollack, nearing the six-month mark of her presid...
Deep State Nation

Trump’s MAGA Hat For Halloween Looks Scarily Familiar, And The Internet Is FREAKING Out - This is terrifying!
Axios

Trump, the FBI and an exiled Chinese businessman - President Trump once raised the idea of turning a wealthy Chinese businessman living in exile in New York over to the Chinese government, the Wall Stree...
Think Progress

Sanders: Trump’s biggest ‘negative’ is people like Rand Paul, not bungled call to Gold Star widow - When given the chance to explain whether a bungled phone call to Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson constituted a negative moment in the Trump administration’...
If You Only News

Melania Just Visited A School To Teach Kids Not To Be Bullies; Their Faces Say It All (IMAGES) - Despite that she barely speaks publicly about it anymore, Melania Trump is apparently still quietly involved in her campaign to stop bullying. No one...
Pajiba

Eric Bolling Asks Bill O'Reilly Not to Invoke His Son's Death To Defend Himself Against Sexual Harassment Claims - Hey, happy Monday! Or happy Tuesday! I don't know your life or what day you're reading this or where you are in the world. Or when you are in the world. St...
Slate

When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining - *This commentary was published in partnership with the **Marshall Project**, a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system.* Two officer...
The Contributor

Study Confirms $7.25 Minimum Wage Is Poverty Trap for Millions of Americans - News Image: "Congress must raise the minimum wage to a living wage." —Sen. Bernie Sanders origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Jake Thompson
The Progressive Wing

So..about that “DailyNos” post that is still pissing a lot of POC off - Perhaps you heard about a post on Daily Kos a few days ago that basically went viral on twitter: Black activists unknowingly organized events for Russia, h...
Irregular Times

Do You Believe it Is Inappropriate for Reporters to Question the Trump White House? - Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was caught making up malicious stories about U.S Representative Frederica Wilson. Ke...
Brad Blog

'Worse by the Day': Puerto Rico's Struggle, U.S. Nuclear War Footing: 'BradCast' 10/23/2017 - The struggle for 3.5 million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico is "getting worse by the day", my guest who recently returned from the island tells me on today's...
Mock Paper Scissors

Bad Design, Cont. - Oh, dear. Wyoming. (Hat tip: Scissorhead Skinny-D)Filed under: Bad design
Hullabaloo

What really happened at the platform meeting? - *What really happened at the platform meeting?* by digby One of the stranger aspects of the whole Russia scandal was that weird platform meeting at the ...
Ballot Access News

Maine Legislature Deals Setback to Ranked Choice Voting - On October 23, the Maine legislature passed LD 1646. It suspends ranked choice voting in both 2018 and 2020, and repeals it effective 2021 if the Maine Sta...
Death and Taxes

193 more women have some shit to say about James Toback - That's in addition to the original 38 who spoke with the LA Times for Sunday's story.
New Progressive Alliance

Moving on from the Green Party - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents. Jeff's first six paragraphs are an eloquent summary of th...
Liberal Values

Jimmy Carter Again Says He Voted For Sanders; Does Not Think Russia Changed Any Votes - We already learned in May that Jimmy Carter voted for Bernie Sanders in the Georgia primary. As I noted then: In 1992, he declined to endorse Bill Clinton,...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: American Triumph, LLC v. Tabingo 17-449 Issue: Whether punitive damages may be awarded to a Jones...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Hate group to host Congresswoman who funneled its false data - Rep. Vicky Hartzler, hate group stooge.Hate group the Family Research Council is in bragging mood about the fact that it has a Congressional leader in its...
The Conversation

Rebooting the mathematics behind gerrymandering - Gerrymandering is being hotly debated around the US. Can math help us figure out how to divide the country up fairly?
Field Negro

The coward vs. The widow. - - Well it's about time. I am glad John McCain is stating the obvious and calling out the elephant in the room: Mr. trump took the cowards way out...
Above the Law

What Happens When? — See Also - *CAN AMAL CLOONEY MAKE BIGLAW LOOK AT ITSELF?* Amal Clooney had a #metoo moment, will it make Biglaw take sexual harassment seriously? I'm not holding my b...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Al Gore Addressed the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Alliance Conference - The former vice president spoke in Georgetown about climate change and renewables. The post Al Gore Addressed the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Allia...
Vox

Vox Sentences: Wanted: blue sky in China - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered s...
Portside

The Podcast Taking on Racism in the Food Industry - In the biweekly podcast, The Racist Sandwich, chef Soleil Ho and journalist Zahir Janmohamed discuss racism, classism, and gender in the food industry and ...
News Corpse

Serial sexual predator Bill O’Reilly goes Full Psycho in taped rant to the New York Times - If there is anything positive resulting from the disgusting Harvey Weinstein affair, it’s that perhaps the impunity of deviants like him will no longer be ...
Mother Jones

Russia Issued an Arrest Warrant for a Prominent Kremlin Critic. Then His US Visa Got Suspended. - The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it has restored the visa of Bill Browder, a prominent critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, who ...
Daily Dot

Susan Fowler’s story about sexual harassment at Uber will be made into a film - The movie will be directed by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. The post Susan Fowler’s story about sexual harassment at Uber will be made into a...
In These Times

It’s Still Their Party: What the DNC Purge Means for the Democrats’ Left Flank - Ever since the 2016 presidential primary, “unity” has been the watchword of Democratic Party politics. As soon as it became apparent that Hillary Clinton...
Talking Points Memo

I'll Call That Interesting - Robert Mueller is now looking into Democratic uber-lobbyist Tony Podesta as part of his probe into lobbying work tied to Paul Manafort. This is not part ...
Houston Matters

Senate Advances $36.5B Disaster Relief Package - The bill rejects requests from the powerful Texas and Florida congressional delegations for additional money to rebuild after hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Can Normalcy Return Post-Trump? - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
The Greanville Post

New Republic editor fires a broadside at liberal stupidity. Glenn Greenwald applauds, and so do we. - CONTINUE READING HERE OR CLICK ON THE BAR BELOW “Liberals, Stop Applauding George W. Bush” JEET HEER—Bush’s denunciation of Trump’s “isolationism” also...
Rewire

Georgia Lawmaker’s Comments About Quarantine and HIV Show the Plague of Ignorance - In a lackluster apology, Rep. Betty Price says her comment, which suggested isolating people with HIV as a possible option, was just "provocative and rhe...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio's Newest Brewery Opens Friday - Künstler Brewing, which we highlighted in our Beer Issue last week, is opening its doors after 17 months work. Owned by headbrewer Vera Deckard and husb...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Buckyball Screen - 1816 Bolsover St. [HAR; previously on Swamplot]… Read More
Grist

Downgraded - Trump wants to cripple storm forecasting just when it's getting good — and we need it most.
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - BTS – Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State Featuring maps dating from 1513 to 1920, the special exhibition traces more than 400 years of Tex...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Politics Podcast: Could A Democrat Actually Win In Alabama? - The highest-profile 2017 elections are not far off. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team takes stock of the candidates, polling and strategies in the ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

2017 Capital as Power Essay Prize - 2017 Capital as Power Essay Prize First Prize $2000 Second Prize $500 Third Prize $300 http://www.recasp.com/essay-prize The Review of Capital as Po...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

My Guantánamo Diary, Uncensored - A year after his Guantánamo memoir was published with heavy redactions, Mohamedou Ould Slahi fills in the blanks. If I wanted to, I could put my pen down ...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Saving Savings - Today is a pretty quiet one, I merely had to show up to work for a few hours to lock up one of the sites after some students in an enrichment program left....
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Just Being Provocative - Peter Montgomery @ Religion Dispatches: ‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap. Dylan Matthews @ Vox: Gold Star widow: Trum...
Ring of Fire

The Empire Strikes Back: Monsanto Sues Arkansas Over Dicamba Restrictions; Meanwhile, the EPA Gives Farmers the Green Light to Use New Dicamba Formulation - Less than a month after the Arkansas Plant board approved a proposal to institute an annual five-month ban on the use of dicamba effective next April, Mo...
Echidne of the Snakes

The State of The Media Address, 2017. By Echidne - 1. Most news web pages now won't let me read an article without white-listing the page or pausing my Ad Blocker. This means that I cannot read those sit...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Trump says insurers made fortune off Obamacare. They didn't. - The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Trump says insurers made fortune off Obamacare. They didn't. As two dozen senators attempt to carve out a short-term compr...
Rude Pundit

The Bible Teaches That Rape Is Just Fine (Guest Post) - (My pal, folk singer Addie Brownlee, wrote this on Facebook this weekend, and she has kindly allowed me to post it here. Addie has long been wrestling with...
Pharyngula

Suspension of disbelief caught fire and exploded - I didn’t like the premiere episode of the new Star Trek at all. I was so repelled that I felt no desire at all to see the second — but I know, other people...
emptywheel

The Senate Intelligence Committee 702 Bill Is a Domestic Spying Bill - The Senate Intelligence Committee bill affirmatively authorizes the use of Section 702 to collect and prosecute certain crimes.
slacktivist

Biblical archaeology review - "Every archaeology find ... has only proved the authenticity of the Bible" makes no sense to anyone who knows anything about archaeology. And it also makes...
Buzzflash

Trump Swings and Misses at Softest Softballs - Trump Swings and Misses at Softest Softballs 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Consortium News

Russia-China Tandem Changes the World - The West’s persistent demonization of Russia over the past decade has pushed Moscow into a de facto alliance with China, changing the geopolitical landscap...
Free Press Houston

Planetary Clockwork: The Just Before Halloween Edition - This week, the Sun moves into tropical Scorpio. It marks the passage of the Sun past the 210th degree of the solar ecliptic, a week before Halloween. The s...
Shadowproof

Week 7: Guide To NFL Players Who Protested During National Anthem - President Donald Trump threw another Twitter tantrum after several National Football League players protested during the national anthem on Sunday. He ac...
Mahablog

The Russian Uranium Clinton Thing: A Primer - The Russian Uranium Clinton Thing is an old story being given new life in right-wing media to deflect attention from Trump’s Russian connection scandals. R...
The Intercept

Acusado de explorar trabalhadores, presidente da Riachuelo denuncia “plano comunista” no Brasil - Para Flávio Rocha, a contestação desse caminho único entre o subemprego ou a miséria, a obediência ou o presídio, ganhou outro nome: estratégia de extrem...
Krebs on Security

Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm? - It's been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world's top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by "Mirai," a zombie mal...
Socialist Alternative

Podcast: Socialism Today Interviews Ginger Jentzen and Kshama Sawant - We argue that the key to defeating Trump’s agenda is building independent politics on the local and national level. Ginger Jentzen stands a fighting chance...
Dandelion Salad

The Strange World of Russian Trolls by William Blum - by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad Killing Hope October 23, 2017 Capturing the wisdom and the beauty of Donald J. Trump in just one statement escaping...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Paranoia, Maybe? - Okay, something ain’t right with Scott Pruitt over at the EPA. The latest ain’t right thing is that he has gone crazy over getting more security for himse...
Texas Observer

Fox and Friend: Sean Hannity and Robert Jeffress Share the Self-Love at Church - Great changes are afoot in the Kingdom of Man, but how now arrangethèd is the furniture in the House of the Lord? On Sunday morning, attendees of the Fir...
Harper's Magazine

[Art Monday Gallery ] | Woven No. 464, by Tanya Marcuse -
AlterNet.org

Republicans in Congress are Hugely Unpopular, National Survey Finds - But Democratic brand has yet to coalesce into wave needed for 2018. The Republicans in Congress are the "most hated politicians” in America, with Senate M...
Church and State

Freedom of Expression: A normative justification of the legal protection of freedom of expression - In a time of global crises, it is imperative to promote a universal normative justification of the legal protection of freedom of expression.
Houstonia

The Astros Are in L.A., and So Are We - Everybody else is going to World Series Media Day. Why not us?
Daily Howler

“Everybody that I know is appalled by this.” - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2017Something good from Slate and The Huffington Post:* Believe it or not, something good just happened with the left-leaning press ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THOSE NICE HEARTLANDERS IN DINERS ARE TOTALLY COOL WITH TRUMP ATTACKING MIYESHIA JOHNSON - Myeshia Johnson spoke to George Stephanopoulos on *Good Morning America* today and didn't seem angry. She just seemed to be in pain: Nineteen days after he...
Eater Houston

Score $1 Pizza Tonight at Cane Rosso’s Montrose Location - The party will also have $5 cocktails “all-freaking-night-long” What makes Monday better? $1 pizza night, clearly. From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight, Octo...
DBC Green blog

Good Progressive News from NC and NZ - North Carolina Did What?For those of us who worked to get Ralph Nader on state ballots in 2000, one persistent story was that North Carolina had some of th...
Pensito Review

Of Questionable Veracity - *Although his prevarications may be serial, His majestic pronouncements are empyreal. And so what if he spouts stinking lies, He's not just one of the guys...
Popular Resistance

An Independent Thinker’s Guide To The Tax Debate - By Chuck Collins for Other Words - For 40 years, tax cutters in Congress have told us, “we have a tax cut for you.” And each time, they count on us to sus...
MintPress News

Pentagon Uses Niger Ambush To Bolster AFRICOM Military Budget - Few questions have been asked about why the US is in Niger in the first place, instead, officials are focusing on a “solution” that will end in more mili...
Political Garbage Chute

Mark Cuban May Form “Billionaires Nobody Fucking Wants as Presidents Party” for 2020 Run - "They'll be choosing between the lesser of two douches." The post Mark Cuban May Form “Billionaires Nobody Fucking Wants as Presidents Party” for 2020 Ru...
News Taco

MLB Is More Latin American Than Ever, So Why Is There Only One Latino Manager? - With the MLB playoffs nearing the climax of the World Series, here are some disheartening facts: these playoffs mark the 4th year since a Latino manager ...
Better Texas Blog

Pragmatic, Inclusive Leadership - As I listened to civil rights giant Vernon Jordan deliver keynote remarks at our Texas Legacy luncheon this month, I reflected on the recent challenges T...
Peacock Panache

Montana Republican “Would Have Shot” Reporter Gianforte Assaulted - A Montana Republican party member commented on a radio show last week she “would have shot” Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs had she been in Congressman Greg...
Progressive.org

Betsy DeVos Just Gave $12.6 million to Rocketship Charter Schools. Bad Idea. - Beyond the Rocketship hype is a galaxy of problems, including plummeting test scores, litigation and allegations of student mistreatment.
Affinity

oooOOOoo Lesbian Nazi Regime ooOOOooo. - A whole 8 days ago, Rick Wiles was ranting about oooOOOoo Shadow Government ooOOOooo. I would venture a guess it didn’t go over well enough, because it has...
First Draft

Bottom Of The Barrel - I decided to let the John Kelly-Frederica Wilson flap marinate over the weekend before chiming in. I thought that something that started as a diversion fro...
First Reading

For Ted Cruz, Bernie debate previews `socialist’ strategy against Beto, and one peril lying in wait - Good Monday Austin: Beto O’Rourke filled Burdine Hall, with a seating capacity of 521, at the University of Texas Sunday afternoon for a high-energy town…
Ian Welsh

Matching Funds Finished - The $1,000 matching funds for donations of $100 or more, up to $1,000 is now finished, and we are $9,245. The final stretch goal was $10k, for an essay on...
Progressive Army

The Ten Commandments - I was thinking this week about the movie “The Ten Commandments,” particularly the scene in which Ramses, played by Yul Brynner, exclaims of Moses, a bear...
SocraticGadfly

MLB realignment? Manfred is half right - Supposedly, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred wants to expand from 30 to 32 teams, with Montreal and Portland being the targets. So far, so go...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Criticized for Reading 138-Page Opinion From the Bench - [image: Wagga Wagga Courthouse]"I have reached a decision that I shall now explain ... for the next 17 hours." Related Stories - King of Aust...
Democracy Now!

Trump's Proposed Tax Overhaul Would Give Billions to Trump & Cabinet While Sparking Global "Tax War" - As the Senate narrowly passes a budget bill that clears the path for a historic tax reform, we'll look at how President Trump's proposed tax overhaul would...
Dorf on Law

Above The Law is Not Above Uninformed Invective: What's Their Issue With Vegans? - by Sherry F. Colb Here is an open letter to the author of a recent essay on *Above The Law*: Dear Mr. Mystal: I had occasion last week to read your Above ...
Liberation News

East Harlem community leader: ‘We need affordable housing now!’ - For 75 years, East Harlem, has been the political and cultural heart of the millions of Puerto Rican who no longer live on the island. The post East Harl...
Texas Standard

Houston Astros Are Headed To The World Series - The team defeated the New York Yankees – now they’re facing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Space City Weather

Houston to experience amazing fall weather for awhile - Two of my very favorite words in Houston weather are “reinforcing front.” Often, during fall, we will see a cold front move into the region, push into the ...
Duffel Blog

Man starts viral video campaign to raise awareness that veterans exist - [image: man thinking] RALEIGH, N.C. — A local man is doing his part to do nothing for veterans except raise the public’s awareness that they exist through...
Bonddad

Kimberly Clark (KMB) Is Worth a Look at These Levels - Dividends are central to my investment philosophy. They not only lower portfolio volatility but also provide a continued source of funds for r...
Campaign for America's Future

Indian Country Knows: Your Voting Rights Are At Risk - As a member of a Tribal Sovereign Nation, I know how phony allegations, even when proven to be false, are used to suppress the vote. We've faced this time ...
Off the Kuff

Early voting for November 2017 begins today - From the inbox: “The best option to vote in the upcoming Nov. 7 election is during the early voting period,” advised Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart. Earl...
The Urban Edge

Harvey Reflections: Forming Relationships - One young organizer with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association shares his experience after Harvey. Continue Reading →
Rallblog

The Revolution Will Be Jerseyized - Colin Kaepernick’s jersey is the bestselling one in the NFL, even though the league has blacklisted him for protesting police brutality, and wearing his ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Express-News: Trump tax plan could raise taxes on many Texans, groups warn -
Disobedient Media

Suzie Dawson Calls For Active Support Of Assange, Wikileaks - Suzie Dawson, leader of New Zealand’s Internet Party, spoke with the German Internet Party this weekend as part of their annual conference. […]
Daniel Williams

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

Tomgram: Erik Edstrom, Teaching Revisionist History 101 at West Point - In George W. Bush’s home state of Texas, if you are an ordinary citizen found guilty of capital murder, the mandatory sentence is either life in prison o...
Robert Reich

How to End Crony Capitalism - The largest corporations and richest people in America – who donated billions of dollars to...
Louis Proyect

Russian Revolution: a Contested Legacy - One of the ironies of post-Communism is that two of the artists making the most radical statements in N.Y. right now are émigrés from China and Russia resp...
Ramona's Voices

Me too: Every woman has her story. - With the not-so-shocking sexual revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner, James Toback, and, yes, our current presiden...
Gin and Tacos

GET LOW (EXPECTATIONS) - I wrote the following back in January: (One) of the most worrying aspects of this new Age of Nationalism, with far right movements and their leaders flouri...
St. Petersburg Independents

Uhuru Takes the Stage — out of the blue. - The left implodes. Great hopes were stirred by the Bernie Sanders campaign. It was alleged to be a movement that would continue beyond the primaries, bey...
Death to Squirrels

Rape and domestic violence for fun and profit. - [CONTENT NOTE: rape, domestic violence, inhumane treatment of vulnerable people.] I AM SIDE-EYING THE FUCK OUT OF YOU AUSTRALIA. And yeah, I know that is r...
Real News

Brazilian Presidential Hopeful’s US Trip Ends in Failure - By Mark Weisbrot / CEPR. *His Candidacy Results from the Collapse of Brazilian Democracy* Brazilian politician Jair Bolsonaro, who has been compared to ...
ExChristian.Net

The De-conversion of a Calvinist - *By John ~ * My parents and grandparents were Primitive Baptists. My great-great grandfather, and his father, were pastors of a small Primitive Baptist ch...
DeSmogBlog

GOP Senators, Fueled by Industry Cash, Propose Bill to Expedite Small Scale LNG Exports - [image: LNG tanker] U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced a bill to fast-track the regulatory process for th...
Pages of Victory

Astros Rule - When I was a boy, broadcast companies did not have a national network and there were no local TV stations until I was twelve. I never read the sports pages...
Duck of Minerva

The Politics of Grief and the Forever War: Who Speaks for the Fallen? - Dead American soldiers became the objects of highly visible contest this week. This is an ongoing contest over the ways and means of grieving America’s fal...
ROAR Magazine

The perils and promise of self-determination - Could Öcalan’s democratic confederalism offer a revolutionary alternative to the stalemated outcomes of the Catalan and Kurdish independence referendums?...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Dispelling the mystery of the attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba - * There is an outlaw regime in Cuba that is capable of anything.* US Embassy in Havana, Cuba Questions arise about the current attacks against U.S. diploma...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Rep. Tan Parker announces intent to file for re-election - Texas State Rep. Tan Parker (R, Flower Mound) has announced that he will run for a seventh term as the District 63 representative. A Dallas businessman wit...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (Oct. 15 – 21) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. President Donald Trump “When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joke...
South Lawn

Kia Ora! A critical assessment of Jacindamania - (This is a guest post by Olivier Jutel, lecturer of journalism at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. You can find him on Twitter at @OJutel...
Somervell County Salon

Video-Impeach Trump - Donald Trump has taken money from foreign governments, obstructed justice at the FBI, and even brought us to the brink of nuclear war. We need to impeach...
Carl Beijer

Who is the modern bourgeoisie? Pt. II: Imperialism - *This is the second in a three-part series on the modern bourgeoisie.* The laws of capital are binding all over the word, and they guarantee, Marx writes, ...
Grits for Breakfast

An awkward death row moment, judges with PTSD, 'incompetent scientists using bad science,' and other stories - Your correspondent has been away from the blog for most of the week, but here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers attention while mine is focu...
Debunking Christianity

Who in Hell Makes Science a God? - Realist1234: Scientific theories are only good till the next fact that throws doubt onto the theory comes along--and that is precisely why I find it surpr...
Reveal

Too many pills - We tell the story of of how a DEA insider tried to stop drug distribution companies from flooding America with truckloads of pain pills.
Stinque

Faint on Your Own Damn Couch - We came across a plea for “civil discourse” this week. We don’t remember the source, honestly, because it made us fucking pissed. People who plead for civi...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Poll: 61 percent say US should have stricter gun laws - About six in 10 Americans polled say U.S. gun laws are inadequate and should be strengthened in the wake of a shooting in Las Vegas that killed more than 5...
Digital Heretic

Totally Not Trying To Be A Sports Podcast | MRNW #9 - Originally published at makerobotsnotwar.com, and also available on iTunes. Today on Make Robots Not War, Colin Kaepernick takes his feud with the NFL to...
PoliTex (FWST)

A Texas-size fight is brewing over barbecue - Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is tired of all the talk about barbecue. He knows a new law this year exempts restaurants — primarily BBQ joints ...
Daily Democracy

Russian meddling spurs bid to tighten disclosure rules for online ads - A trio of senators is looking to tighten campaign finance laws governing online ads in response to Russian interference in last year’s election. Tech compa...
Trivial Knot

Ignoring the dystopia - This is a repost of an article from 2015. I selected this one because it mentions Never Let Me Go, a book by Kazuo Ishiguro, who is now a Nobel Laureate. ...
Morning Consult

Senators Disagree on Need for Changes to Section 702 Foreign Surveillance Tool - The post Senators Disagree on Need for Changes to Section 702 Foreign Surveillance Tool appeared first on Morning Consult.
Reverb Press

Ana Navarro to Trump: As Commander in Chief “you do not fight with the family of a dead soldier!” - Trump Takes the Low Road Yet Again When it Comes to a Gold Star Military Family Trump just loves going to war with people, and he doesn’t care who they a...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

What President Trump blurted out; what Little Donald really meant - Do you ever get the feeling that President Donald Trump is speaking a foreign language? Or that he’s speaking what he thinks might sound like a foreign lan...
American Third Party Report

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

One More Chart For Reagan Charts Post - 2010’s post Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts was very popular. But I’d like to add one more chart. From Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart,...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is CIA studying support for censorship on the internet? - There should be little or no doubt that large corporations, media companies, advertisers, political operatives and the CIA are studying how to manipulat...
Political Orphans

Trends impacting the world in our lifetimes - Cultures and individuals who leverage these big trends are likely to prosper while those who swim against this tide are swept into irrelevance. It pays to ...
Bracing Views

Bread and Circuses in Rome and America - W.J. Astore Back in June 2013, I wrote the following article on “Bread and Circuses in Rome and America.” It flashed through my mind this morning because ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

GOP chair of nuclear safety agency secretly urges Trump to abolish it - The chair of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board tells the White House the idea complies with Trump’s policies
Great American Satan

Thinking on a Mage Game - Self care is retreating into worlds of imagination and letting the world burn. OK, no, we have to try to fight the good fight forever, I’ll be back to it, ...
Texas Watch

The Rundown: 10/20/17 - 1) Insurance - New Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan - The Blue Tarp Bill: How They Voted - Harvey FAQs 2) Na...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Underneath It All: Elections for the Virginia House of Delegates - While November’s political spotlight will shine brightest on the gubernatorial contest at the top of the Virginia ticket between former Republican National...
Avedon's Sideshow

With every mistake, we must surely be learning - *We Can Have Nice Things*: "We CAN have nice things. We can provide a well-paying job for anyone who wants one. Medicare-for-All. Child care. Tuition-fre...
Our Finite World

The Approaching US Energy-Economic Crisis - I was recently asked to give a talk called, “The Approaching US Energy-Economic Crisis.” In other words, how might the United States encounter problems tha...
Bay Area Houston

Texas Congressional District 7 fundraising update - As I said before "We have a race!" Congressional District 7 should be a competitive race to unseat the incumbent John Culberson. I find this race interesti...
John Laurits

To My Readers, RE: Taking a Short Break - To My Readers, RE: Taking a Short Break Readers, patrons, & friends — I’m writing to let you know I intend to take a quick break from publishing articles...
OffCite

A More “Resilient” Houston: What Does That Mean and How Do We Get There? - As people in the Houston have transitioned from rescue and recovery to damage assessment and rebuilding, as people put their lives back together, a word ha...
LawFlog

A bar grievance for former FBI Director James Comey - This morning I filed a bar grievance against former FBI Director James Comey based on evidence that he lied to Congress. I also asked the New York attorney...
Ecosophia

A Field Guide to Thoughtstoppers - It occurred to me a while back that one very simple issue is responsible for much of the crisis of our age. No question, that crisis has plenty of causes...
The Disorder Of Things

Reply - In this final post in our symposium on Laust Schouenborg’s International Institutions in World History: Divorcing International Relations Theory from the ...
Nathan Hevenstone

From #TheEmptyChair to #MeToo… How Many More Will it Take? - Content Warning: discussion of rape culture, reporting, sexual harassment/assault, and rape. I will never forget back in 2015 when the NY Times covered the...
Independent Political Report

NC Alternative Parties Hail Passage of Major Ballot Access Reform Bill - *LPNC Press Release* RALEIGH (Oct. 17) – North Carolina’s Libertarian, Green, and Constitution parties issued this statement in response to the override ...
All Ablog Austin

Soccer twitter reacts to news Columbus Crew could be moving to Austin - Late Monday evening, the Statesman confirmed Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew is considering relocating to Austin. SI.com’s Grant Wahl was first to re...
Texans For Public Justice

The 185 Mega-donors That Run Texas! - TPJ has compiled a list of the largest contributors of campaign money in the most recent Texas elections. ▶ The *top 185* contributors spent *$131 millio...
The Nil Admirari

President McConnell of Kentucky Has Lunch with Trump - *LAST UPDATED @ 3:56PM (10.16.2017)* *"We had some very good discussions about how to bigly improve the future relationship between the United States and t...
PERRspectives

Trump Administration Unveils the "Fetal 14th Amendment" - While most eyes this week were on the carnage in Las Vegas, the catastrophe in Puerto Rico, or the dangerous provocations towards Pyongyang and Tehran, the...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Mutatis mutandis - The path to the top of the hill could have been better. True, there were no impediments to him, per se, not any people to disturb him in his thoughts, not...
Anti-Media

Police Change Vegas Shooting Story Again - (ANTIMEDIA) Las Vegas, NV — Earlier this week, police investigating the Las Vegas shooting made headlines when they changed the official timeline of events...
Greg Palast

I went to school with the Vegas shooter - I went to school with the Las Vegas shooter, second grade through high school. When we were at Francis Polytechnic High in Sun Valley, Steve Paddock and ...
Moron Majority

Trump Fails U.S. Citizenship Test - According to recent news reports, Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, referred to Trump as a moron. While Tillerson sought to refute the claim at an impromp...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Support a documentary on the Transpecos pipeline - Public Citizen’s Rita Beving has worked with ranchers and farmers against unjust eminent domain practices in regards to pipelines such as Keystone XL, th...
Equality Texas

Equality Texas Welcomes Three New Staff Members to Their Statewide Team - Equality Texas is pleased to announce the appointments of Rachel Adams Gonzales, Javier Osorio, and Kimberly Shappley. All three new staff members are indi...
Other Words

Mourning in Vegas - Sometimes we forget who the real victims are.
ProPublica

How Chicago Gets Its Guns - by Mick Dumke John Thomas set up the deal the way he had arranged nearly two dozen others. A friend said he wanted to buy as many guns as he could, so T...
Dos Centavos

It’s Election 2017 Season! [Alief ISD Edition] - Well, it’s that time again–2017’s election season. Believe it or not, you have lots to vote on, whether it is amendments to the Texas Constitution, local s...
Frontloading HQ

Bill Would Push Massachusetts Primary to May - No, not the presidential primary. That will stay in March, unaffected by this proposed legislation. -- Massachusetts has tended to have a later than typica...
34justice

Improving the Structure of Math Departments - How can we assign teachers to the classes in which they're needed most while reducing burnout? Continue reading →
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 27: Yet Another Massacre - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss what can be done to end the gun violence epidemic. Check out this episode!
Modern Democracy

The Value of Gerrymandering - On Tuesday, Justice Sotomayor asked a “simple but devastatingly effective” question of Erin Murphy, one of the attorneys arguing in favor of Wisconsin’s ge...
Independent Thinker 2016

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments (and How to Refute Them) - A quick and easy reference that attempts to make talking about guns easier and more productive.
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

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

“Apple Reveals iPhone XI Will Only Unlock When You Reveal the Real You” - *“Apple Reveals iPhone XI Will Only Unlock When You Reveal the Real You”* https://medium.com/media/0d76a67b5180795b56691bff268cbd4f/href *After the succe...
Quartz

Atlas for Africa’s training in Ghana: open data and the quest for pie charts - Between the 17th and 19th of June, around 50 journalists in Accra, Ghana were part of Atlas for Africa’s data journalism training. On the July 17th, jour...
Free Speech.org

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

Beware of Dog ... and Great Men - Adickes Sculpturworx "Studio" 2401 Nance St - David Adickes sculpture warehouse and yard
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

SCOTUS rejects request to speed up Texas redistricting appeals - In one-line orders today (*here* and *here*), the Supreme Court rejected a *request* by plaintiffs in the Texas redistricting case that the Supreme Court...
Popehat

Guest Post By Colin Cortbus: Angela Merkel‘s Empire of Censorship and Deception - Colin Cortbus, who has written here twice before about free speech issues in Germany, returns to discuss recent German censorship measures. Angela Merkel‘s...
Save Buffalo Bayou

On Mud, Dust, and Rain - And Letting the Bayou Heal Sept. 19, 2017 Rain at last! Monday morning the sky is grumbling with thunder, even as the sun shines. A sprinkle of rain will w...
South Texas Chisme

Texas republicans want drivers to pay for rape kits. - republicans don't care if a rapist is caught. Rape enables their male dominant cultural ideals. Driver's license applications will soon ask Texans whether ...
Pressthink

Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer - A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job. The post Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer appear...
Houston Justice

RACISM IN THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT - [image: PIMPING THE BLACK VOTE.png] Can we talk about it? You ever notice those organizations that come to Black and Brown neighborhoods with clip boards...
UP@NIGHT

The Communist SAT and College Rankings Conspiracy - It should not be news to conspiracy theorists that there has been an …
Progrexas

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

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

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

Journey of Hope Coming to 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty October 28, 2017 - Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing, an organization led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses a...
Counter Propa

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

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

ICYMI: President Trump Also Tossed Out His Infrastructure Council This Week - For someone so “new” to politics, our nation’s 45th President sure seems to know what he’s doing when it comes to creating distractions and burying scandal...
News Junkie

Climate Change: SOS for Humanity’s Survival - Unless one lives in the alternate reality of religious beliefs , it has become impossible to deny and ignore a simple fact: very soon, perhaps within only ...
Heat Street

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

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

The Reality Contract - Perhaps not surprisingly, the history of Hollywood production mirrors the history of venture capital in the United States, as each new film presents an idi...
Down Goes Trump

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

Countdown to Hiroshima: X-Minus 6 Days - Each summer I count down the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945), marking events from the same day in 1945. I've written ...
WAWG Blog

Democracy In Chains – Adding Corporate Veto Power to America’s Checks and Balances - From the last chapter of Democracy In Chains, by Nancy MacLean, here is how the Koch Brothers and their elite Libertarian cadre are increasing their, white...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Opiates & the Senate Health Care Bill - When the Senate’s health-care bill died this week, it was worth noting the few who led the revolt. Most were senators from states hardest hit by our epid...
Texas Election Law Blog

Democracy in Crisis: Rick Hasen’s Editorial Is A Must-Read - “Don’t Let Our Democracy Collapse” I’m reposting Professor Hasen’s editorial in today’s New York Times (linked through his election law blog) here for thre...
STRENGTH !N NUMBERS

Is Loving a Black Man a Revolutionary Act? - Is Loving a Black Man a Revolutionary Act?Ashton P. Woods *It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pr...
The Liberal Yell

Department of Education’s Candice E. Jackson is a Fraud - First published on: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/dept-education-s-candice-e-jackson-fraud The New York Times just reported that the Department of We D...
GOP Watchdog

Meet the Ex-Congressman who wrote the appendix of a book about Russians Lobbying the US - Curt Weldon has been a very busy man throughout his life. In the late 70’s, he fought the Pagans motorcycle gang as mayor of Marcus Hook, and then he chair...
Raised on the Rail

We’re Back! - You may have noticed that we took a brief hiatus from blogging this past spring. I thought that even though I was pregnant I would be able to continue our ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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! (see below) - Hi, everyone! We will be on vacation - the first in a long while! - for the next few weeks. See you on the other side! Good news, everyone! I may be able...
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...
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 ...

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