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In These Times

Why I Helped Shut the “Alt-Right” Down - *This piece is part of a debate package written for *In These Times*' September issue. The print version went to press before the recent white-supremacis...
The Verge

HyperX’s new CloudAlpha headphones promise comfort and clarity for pro gamers - After two years in development, HyperX has unveiled the latest in its Cloud headset family, called the Cloud Alpha. Announced at Gamescom in Cologne, th...
Salon.com

Beltway pundits fall for another Trump “pivot” on Afghanistan — as always, they’re wrong - Mainstream press swoons over "a new President Trump" — but it was the same old ugly one who showed up in Phoenix
NPR's Health Shots

Oregon, Texas Lay Down Markers On Abortion Coverage - Highlighting the country's sharp divide over abortion and mixed reactions to requirements in the Affordable Care Act, Texas restricts insurance coverage wh...
skippy the bush kangaroo

big wednesday - the end of cash, the end of freedom why pence is destined to betray trump and why trump should be nervous with mueller on the case 5 steps the gop congres...
Houston Press

Allen Hill Pits Hefty Knowledge of The Who Against New Interview Tome - "The greatest artists never stop trying," says Allen Hill on the UK rock legends.
Sputnik News

Armed Group Suspected of Police Killings Neutralized in Russia's Ingushetia - An armed group suspected of involvement in the killings of police officers and shootings targeting a regional security building have been neutralized in Ru...
naked capitalism

Steve Bannon v. Blinkered Economists on “Free Trade” - Macroeconomists are making Steve Bannon look good.
Washington's Blog

Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns? - It turns out Nero wasn’t fiddling as Rome burned–he was 60 km away at the time. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? The story has become short-hand...
Crooks and Liars

Arizona GOP Uses 90's Sitcom With Margaret Cho To Represent Diversity - [image: Arizona GOP Uses 90's Sitcom With Margaret Cho To Represent Diversity] I suppose since they couldn't find any real Asians they figured some tv Asi...
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day - *-by Noah* 241 years later, America is again being run by a grotesque, greedy, severely mentally ill man. Might there be some great irony in the fact that...
Informed Comment

Trump, the Magical WASP, Deepens Racial Divide again in Phoenix - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – After another Stockholm Syndrome performance, on Afghanistan, where he gave the speech National Security Adviser H....
The NM Political Report

As transportation tech hits new age, New Mexico lags behind - [image: As transportation tech hits new age, New Mexico lags behind] State Sen. James White, R-Albuquerque, recently joined state legislators from around t...
Rallblog

Millennial Splaining - Millennial-splaining is the practice by some young adults of explaining in a pompous way how things used to be when their older listeners were around and...
National Post

Gary Clement is on top of the world: NP cartoonist traversing Northwest Passage - Join National Post cartoonist Gary Clement for the next 17 days as he floats through the Northwest Passage aboard the Ocean Endeavour
OpEd News

Trump's Articles of Impeachment: A Greatest Hits Collection - Several years back, I led a team of authors drafting articles of impeachment against then-President George W. Bush for then-Congressman Dennis Kucinich. We...
If You Only News

Trump Lies About Media Shutting Off Cameras During His Speech – Media Promptly Humiliates Him - At yet another campaign-style rally last night, this time in Phoenix, Trump fell back into his old habits of saying absolutely nothing and pretending...
Mediaite

Trevor Noah on Afghanistan Speech: ‘Trump’s a Problem Solver The Same Way Godzilla is a City Planner’ - On Tuesday night, Trevor Noah addressed President Trump's "good speech" on Afghanistan that he "successfully read."
Palmer Report

Here’s just how embarrassed General John Kelly was of Donald Trump’s Phoenix speech - How much longer can General Kelly put up with this? The post Here’s just how embarrassed General John Kelly was of Donald Trump’s Phoenix speech appeared...
Political Dig

BREAKING: Police Fires Pepper Balls, Gas Against Protestors Outside Trump Rally - The streets of Phoenix turned chaotic on Tuesday night after Police fired pepper balls against protests who raged on after President Trump delivered a fi...
Mother Jones

Oh Yes, American Industries Are Much More Concentrated Than They Used to Be - Tyler Cowen is skeptical that there are very many sectors of the US economy that have become more concentrated: Or ask yourself a simple question — in how ...
jobsanger

What Happened To Republicans ? -
Lewisville Texan Journal

North Texas to get rain, forecasters watching Harvey - Overnight Tuesday, a cold front will move down from across the Red River into North Texas, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms to the area before ...
Angry Bear

Three (No, two, um, make that three again) Commentaries on 2017 - Commentary 1. I was bouncing around twitter and landed on the following tweet. It may be the best commentary on where we are that I have read. Obligatory c...
Rivard Report

Exhibition: ‘Darkness Itself Can be Made to Illuminate’ - Art can seem disconnected from daily occurences, but sometimes, events conspire to illuminate the deeper currents underlying our day-to-day lives. The po...
First Draft

Album Cover Art Wednesday: Total Eclipse - I have a confession: I watched the eclipse on the tube with the other boobs. I ventured out briefly to shadow gaze but it was insanely hot so Oscar and I ...
Socialist Worker

Witnesses to the violence in Charlottesville - The neo-Nazi car terror attack on anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured several dozen other ...
Daily Kos

Don Lemon unloads on Trump's rally—'What we have witnessed here is a total eclipse of the facts' - You don’t have to be a fan of Don Lemon or CNN to approve of the television host’s assesment of tonight’s white supremacy Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona...
Raw Story

Trump defends response to Charlottesville violence at Arizona rally - By Jeff Mason and Keith Coffman PHOENIX (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, surrounded by thousands of supporters on Tuesday, defended his response to the ...
Common Dreams

Trump To Arizona Sheeple: You Know Where My Heart (Sic) Is. Yup, Alas We Do. - Abby Zimet, staff writer Another hallucinatory hiccup in the tawdry downfall of the Republic. The narcissistic dumpster went to Arizona. The crowds of prot...
Antiwar.com

The Mini-Skirt Deception: How McMaster Got His Afghan ‘Surge’ - According to reports, Gen. H. R. McMaster convinced President Trump to give up his longstanding opposition to the Afghan war by showing him this photogra...
VICE

An Expert Told Us What Trump's Afghan Endgame Might Look Like - We teased out the strategy that might be behind the latest troop surge.
Axios

Trump details his agenda during Phoenix rally - President Trump opened his Phoenix rally tonight with a nod to the upcoming GOP agenda: "We are fully and totally committed to fighting for our agenda a...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

A Spectacle Hard to Watch - Cheeto Jesus didn’t disappoint tonight in his appearance for devotees in Phoenix. He shoveled manure in copious quantities. A few of his gems: He reread ...
Talking Points Memo

Thoughts on Trump's Speech - Let me try to take some stock of President Trump’s speech. There were a lot of random weird asides through the speech, some of which I flagged in real ti...
Think Progress

Trump tells Phoenix crowd Joe Arpaio will be ‘just fine’ - President Donald Trump suggested to the crowd gathered for a campaign-style rally in Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday night that he may pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio, ...
Death and Taxes

Trump on pardoning racist Sheriff Arpaio: ‘I think he’s gonna be just fine’ - "I won't do it tonight because I don't want to cause any controversy."
Election Law Blog

“Watchdogs File FCC Complaints Regarding Lack of Disclosure in Most Expensive House Race in History” - Release: Today, Issue One and Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed six complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against two Atlanta-based t...
American Third Party Report

LNC 2017: Summary of last weekend’s meeting in Kansas City - Independent Political Report A summary for those who did not have the time to attend the meeting, watch/listen to it at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/liber...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - I was out. Sounds like I've been missing some fun.
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trump defends Charlottesville remarks in... - Trump re-litigated his response to the tragedy in Charlottesville in front of thousands of supporters, saying at one point, “they are trying to take away o...
Dissident Voice

Should Monuments to Canadians who helped conquer Africa be removed - Some good might come in Canada from neo-fascists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia. Taking advantage of media interest in protests over monuments to hi...
Pajiba

Billy Joel Wears Star of David at Madison Square Garden Sold Out Concert - The Piano Man himself had some thoughts about the current administration. Patti Smythe and Joel played Goodbye to You while projecting pictures of former W...
High Plains Blogger

‘Socialistic fear mongers’? C’mon, Commissioner Miller - Sid Miller thinks badly of Six Flag of Texas’s decision to remove the Confederate flag from its entrance in Arlington. The state agriculture commissioner i...
Portside

Fran Works Six Days a Week in Fast Food, and yet She's Homeless: 'It's Economic Slavery' - It’s been almost a decade since the Great Recession, and America has witnessed a record 82 months of month-on-month jobs growth. The national unemployment...
The Fifth Column

It’s Not About ‘White Culture’ - (OtherWords) – “I came to this march for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture,” a white nationalist...
Field Negro

Night off. - [image: MORE DISCLAIMERS] Off tonight field hands, and no I am not in Arizona at the trump rally. ...
Progressive Army

Trump Takes Ownership of the Afghan Boondoggle - Trump’s speech last night was full of errors, lies, contradictions, propaganda and logical fallacies. The mainstream media was predictable in its reactio...
Liberal Values

DNC Paying A Price For Its Actions In 2016 As Contributions Fall - With all the hysteria about Russia, whose alleged meddling in the last election appears to be of little consequence, the media is ignoring the more serious...
Wolf Street

Banks Earn Record Profits in Q2, Savers Sacrificed: FDIC - $9 trillion in deposits go a long way.
Brad Blog

'It's Complicated': Bush's War Became Obama's War Becomes Trump's War in Afghanistan: 'BradCast' 8/22/2017 - On today's BradCast: Now that he's President, after years of decrying "our very stupid leaders" for "wasting" blood and treasure to stay in Afghanistan, Do...
emptywheel

Angry Mom: Oh, Honey — If Anybody’s ‘Out of Touch’, It’s You - A walking collection of cliched wealth expressions — including her sugar daddy spouse — Mrs. Mnuchin isn't kind and certainly not smart.
Mock Paper Scissors

Bad Ads, Cont. - As our Sekrit Scissorhead @NamelessCynic said, “Grandma’s muffin brought all the boys to the yard.”Filed under: snark
Hullabaloo

A Reprieve - *A reprieve* by digby Via The Daily Beast Missouri’s governor stayed the execution of a death-row inmate on Tuesday, just hours before he was scheduled ...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Fracking The Planet’ By Buck Gooter - The duo, Buck Gooter, from Harrisonburg, Virginia, play raw, throbbing experimental rock that is alternatively brutal and bluesy. Drawing from aggressive...
The Greanville Post

Trump gives military green light to escalate Afghanistan war - Trump’s speechwriter combined the disavowal of racial hatred with a paean to the armed services as the model for American society as a whole, using languag...
Houston Communist Party

The NFL and Heroes - The NFL and Heroes – from Greg Godels (Zoltan Zigedy) is available at: http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/ The cheapest currency in the US is the award of ‘hero’....
The Progressive Wing

8/22 After the Gold Rush: My Solar Eclipse Experience Chasing the Shadow - Yesterday, the Benny family traveled south to get as close as we could to the center of the totality path of the 2017 Solar Eclipse. We live within 5 hrs ...
Daily Dot

Uber is teaming up with Walmart for grocery deliveries - Tampa, Phoenix, Dallas, and Orlando residents can check it out. The post Uber is teaming up with Walmart for grocery deliveries appeared first on The Da...
Freak Out Nation

Prankster Exposes Credulous Hacks, Smear Merchants At Breitbart ‘News’ (VIDEO) - Posing as former White House strategist Steven K. Bannon, an anonymous email prankster has tricked Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlowe into making a p...
Socialist Alternative

Massacre in Barcelona - Solidarity with the victims! Down with terrorism and imperialist war! Their wars; our dead! On August 17, a brutal terrorist attack on Las Ramblas in Barce...
slacktivist

A good statement from the Wheaton faculty lounge - Alas, the evangelicals of the faculty lounge cannot speak for most white evangelicals. Even worse, the faculty lounge cannot speak to most white evangelica...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Arguments against marriage equality in Australia as inane as those used in America - Right now, even as I write this, the continent of Australia is embroiled in a huge fight over marriage equality. While monitoring this debate, I am noticin...
Vox

Vox Sentences: Instant divorce is no longer a thing in India - *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...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

Texas Castles in the Twentieth Century - Dream of building your own medieval fortress? You aren’t alone. The post Texas Castles in the Twentieth Century appeared first on Texas Monthly.
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Lindsey v. Virginia 17-132 Issue: Whether the jury instruction—that the defendant’s actions were ...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Republican Cold War Heats Up as Trump Travels to Arizona - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
Rewire

Donald Trump Is Using the Founding Fathers’ Racism to Cloak Present-Day White Nationalism - Hopscotching across disparate time periods and ideologies, Trump's comments conflate the politics of limited progress with those of no progress. The post...
Above the Law

Law Firm Boots Partner Who Owned Neo-Nazi Record Label - Firing Nazis really shouldn't make any decent person feel bad.
Citizen Slant

GOP Rep Defends Claim that Charlottesville Was False Flag Operation Conducted with Obama’s Help - A Republican state lawmaker in Idaho refused to back away Monday from claims that the deadly violence following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesvi...
Robert Reich

DEAR TRUMP VOTERIf you voted for Donald Trump, I get it. Maybe... - *DEAR TRUMP VOTER* If you voted for Donald Trump, I get it. Maybe you feel you’ve been so badly shafted by the system that you didn’t want to go back to ...
Swamplot

Katy Home Listing Photo of the Day: Choosing Sides - 7606 San Clemente Point Ct. [HAR]… Read More
Slate

The Angle: Useless Effort Edition - *Same as before: *If you put his crazy Twitter proclamations aside, Donald Trump's foreign policy is pretty much a continuation of Obama's, Josh Keating ...
News Corpse

A New Trump? Social Media Punishes WaPo Reporter for Buying Another Fake Trump Pivot - Monday night Donald Trump interrupted America’s TV viewing with a speech that was supposed to address the war in Afghanistan. That war is presently the lon...
Rude Pundit

On Vacation, Boss (But Some Thoughts on Trump's Afghanistan Speech) - Yeah, I know, this is shitty timing, what with Trump giving one bullshit but relatively sane speech and about to give another bullshit and totally batshit ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million Racketeering Case - [image: Protesters in San Francisco march in support of indigenous efforts against the Dakota Access pipeline] AttachmentSize [image: PDF icon] Energy Tran...
AlterNet.org

The Spread of White Nationalism Is Taking Our Nation into Uncharted and Dangerous Territory - Charlottesville and its aftermath are proof we're in for a resurgence of America's oldest culture war. America’s culture wars are back. Only this time it’...
Mahablog

Trump Recycles Nixon’s “Peace With Honor” - I couldn’t bring myself to watch Trump’s speech last night. I probably wasn’t the only one. But I read some reviews and a transcript. Most people are dismi...
Popular Resistance

Black Alliance for Peace: End War In Afghanistan - By Ajamu Baraka for Black Alliance for Peace. With the announcement that the Trump administration concluded its analysis of the war in Afghanistan, the ad...
Grist

The eclipse was a test, and the solar industry aced it. - Solar companies essentially said, “bring it on.”
Reverb Press

Social Media Punishes Washington Post Reporter for Buying Another Bulls**t Trump Pivot - Monday night Donald Trump interrupted America’s TV viewing with a speech that was supposed to address the war in Afghanistan. That war is presently the l...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: 1,000 Lies - Peter Montgomery @ Religion Dispatches: Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Glob...
BEYONDbones

Head Back To School with Museum Worthy Style - Nothing eases the first day of school blues like the smell of new school supplies. Whether it’s pre-school, elementary, secondary, high school, or colleg...
DBC Green blog

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Bloggage - I'll be representing the Harris County Green Party at a League of Women Voters forum this Saturday, but that's the extent of my recent GP activity. Next Mo...
The Intercept

Trump Threatens Funding for California Cops Over “Sanctuary State” Bill. Maybe That’s a Good Thing. - Donald Trump is threatening to withhold grants for local police if California becomes a “sanctuary state” — but some immigration advocates oppose the gra...
Houstonia

Secret Supper 2017 - Our 2nd Annual Secret Supper at 2017 Best Restaurant Killen's STQ
Texas Standard

Trump’s Afghanistan Push Could Lead To ‘More Bombs, More Bullets, More Bodies’ - The president did not specify troop numbers or objectives, but his talk of a renewed push in Afghanistan will likely lead to a more intense military conflict.
CultureMap Houston

Where to Shop Now: 'It' handbags, edgy designers, fab new products - Summer is ending, school is starting, routines are getting back into their rhythm, and, more importantly, fall shopping has commenced. The time to scour f...
Buzzflash

Illinois Gov. Rauner to sign immigration bill - Illinois Gov. Rauner to sign immigration bill 4.0/*5* rating (2 votes)
San Antonio Current

Don't Whitewash Confederate History: A Case for Renaming Robert E. Lee High School - *Kevin Sanchez is a disc jockey, singer, lifelong socialist, and former Robert E. Lee High School student who sometimes writes political columns for the C...
Independent Political Report

LNC 2017: Summary of last weekend’s meeting in Kansas City - A summary for those who did not have the time to attend the meeting, watch/listen to it at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/libertarian-party1 (archived vide...
Daily Howler

What we read on our summer vacation! - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2017Mika Brzezinski's three books:* We've now read, and reread, Mika Brzezinski's first three memoirs: All Things At Once (2009) Kn...
Ring of Fire

Abilify: The Drug That Seriously Harms Your Impulse Control Center - To learn more about this topic, visit AL.Law Abilify is an anti-psychotic medication manufactured and marketed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Bristol Meyer...
Anti-Media

Syrian Army Closing in on Oil-Rich Region the US Wants for Itself - (ANTIMEDIA) — As Anti-Media predicted in June of this year, ISIS’ last stand in Syria will take place in a strategic oil-rich region known as Deir ez-Zor, ...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Says He Was Depressed Not Being The One Blocking All The Light During Eclipse - President Donald J. Trump admitted to aides this morning that he took his eclipse viewer glasses off because he was distracted by his depression. [...] ...
Gin and Tacos

LUKEWARM TAKES - I have a new thing up at The Week about Charlottesville and the myth of America "fixing" racism in the 1960s. This is not simply a theoretical exercise, be...
Equality Texas

#TransVisible: A Resource for Parents and Guardians - Protecting Transgender Students: A Resource for Parents and Guardians Parents and guardians play a critical role in ensuring that all students have access ...
News Taco

Hacking Hockney: the Mexican American painter bringing Latino culture into art - By Janelle Zara, The Guardian (6.5-minute read) In the 1960s, a young David Hockney, infatuated with the sun and sensuality of the west coast, introduced...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Real Madrid, Arsenal, LA Galaxy, Boca Juniors — In One Giant Power Ranking - When comparing club soccer teams, it’s fairly easy to figure out who is the best of the best. The most talented players in the world play in a handful of E...
The Rag Blog

David McReynolds : Afghanistan: Trump was right the first time - During the campaign he pledged to get out. Now the killing will continue. By David McReynolds | The Rag Blog | August 21, 2017 I’ve just finished listening...
Debunking Christianity

Science Brought Us the 2017 Solar Eclipse Experience, and so much more! -
Space City Weather

Yeah, this weekend is looking wet for Texas - Until the remnants of Tropical Storm Harvey are no longer a threat to Texas, we’ll be posting multiple times a day on this site to provide the best availab...
Free Press Houston

Greenhouse: The Hidden Agenda - This week brings in an array of arts events, including a screening of Coffee and Cigarettes at Brasil Houston and the opening of three exhibitions by Hous...
Morning Consult

Ryan Touts House Productivity, but Are Voters Getting the Message? - House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday turned to a familiar script as some of his constituents expressed disappointment with the Republican-controlled Congres...
Louis Proyect

Did a Kremlin Pilgrimage cause Alternet blogger’s Damascene conversion? - Originally posted on P U L S E: by Sam Charles Hamad and Oz Katerji Last March, a live performance in support of Syrian first responders by a flashmob orch...
Dorf on Law

Northerners, Heritage, and Confederate Sympathies - *by Neil H. Buchanan* The day after a Klan sympathizer drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, killing one person and injuring ...
Dandelion Salad

The Indispensable Movement Can Cure Fake News: By Becoming the News by Patrick Walker - by Patrick Walker Writer, Dandelion Salad August 22, 2017 It’s Party Time on the Titanic–and Screw the Slobs in Steerage “So let us not talk falsely now, t...
Progressive.org

Kentucky Day Trip to Sell Trump’s Tax Plan: Wardrobe Malfunction - Louis Linton #daytrips to Kentucky to sell a tax plan that will mostly benefit people that wear $1,000 pants.
Houston Matters

New Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Failures Under New Rape Policies - A woman who reported that she'd been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit Monday against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university ...
Independent Thinker 2016

Heroes Don’t Wear Masks - (WRITER’S NOTE: After writing this I thought more about the title and decided that it was important to remind everyone to be careful taking things at face ...
Church and State

Why Climate Change Isn’t Our Biggest Environmental Problem, and Why Technology Won’t Save Us - Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot is a systemic issue.
Eater Houston

Agricole Hospitality’s Morgan Weber Finally Announces Indianola Distilling - The long-awaited venture involves former Maker’s Mark master distiller Dave Pickerell After actual years of rumors, Agricole Hospitality partner Morgan...
Ian Welsh

Trump Commits To Afghanistan - Well, this directly violates a core promise and is stupid besides. But I see various pundits going on about how Presidential he is to “admit” he was wrong ...
Somervell County Salon

Video- Texas Bathroom Bill Saga in 5 minutes - Texas Tribune I'm on the side of government minding their own business. No one has ever bothered me in a bathroom, I don't pay attention to what people d...
Affinity

White Supremacy: Just Background Noise. - It’s a forlorn hope, that republicans might stumble over a conscience, discover their humanity and embrace that of others. It really does not seem to matte...
Pharyngula

Creationism at the movies - Eric Hovind has been working on (and raising money for) a movie called Genesis: Part 1: Paradise Lost: 3D or something like that. It’s supposedly a 3D anim...
South Texas Chisme

Starr County constable flunks peace officer's exam - A Starr County constable failed to pass an exam required to obtain his peace officer’s license, making him ineligible to hold office. Jaime Martinez, con...
Duck of Minerva

Basic Rules of US Civil-Military Relations and Trump’s Afghanistan Policy - Trump’s speech has something for everyone … to criticize. I will not focus here on how icky the first part on loyalty was. Instead, I focus on the rules ...
Pages of Victory

Why the US Will Never Win the War in Afghanistan - (ANTIMEDIA) *—* Defense Secretary Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis told Congress on Tuesday that the United States is not winning the war in Afghanistan, *Reuters* rep...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Joe Kloc - Nighttime befalls the United States
The Conversation

Afghanistan is now officially James Mattis’ war - How will U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis handle America's "Forever War'? Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP Donald Trump’s speech on his administration’s...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Five Reasons Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio Should Not Receive a Presidential Pardon - Donald Trump may pardon Arpaio, but he can’t clear his record of brutality and bigotry. Last week, President Trump told Fox News that he is “seriously con...
MintPress News

Barcelona attack: Thousands of Muslims march against Isis chanting ‘Not in my name’ - Meanwhile mosques across Spain are reportedly being targeted by racist graffiti. One mosque in Seville in the south of the country was dabbed with graffi...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Two Picnics - Today is the day of our company picnic, which is a wonderful opportunity for me, a person who works alone at night about seventy percent of the time, to ha...
Texas Observer

Remember the Alamo (Differently) - In Texas, the effort to stop white supremacy should include dismantling the racist mythology of the Alamo. The post Remember the Alamo (Differently) appe...
The Contributor

Stop Using Mental Illness to Explain White Supremacy - News Image: Because racism is ubiquitous, it could not constitute a mental illness. origin Blog: Black Perspectives origin Author: Christopher Petrella a...
Ballot Access News

Moderate Party Receives Rhode Island Money Even Though It Is Defunct - Rhode Island allows state income taxpayers to choose which qualified party to help with a small contribution. The Moderate Party is listed as a choice bec...
Krebs on Security

Dumping Data from Deep-Insert Skimmers - I recently heard from a police detective who was seeking help identifying some strange devices found on two Romanian men caught maxing out stolen credit ca...
Peacock Panache

Row, Row, Row Your Boat – And Raise That Airport - I try to read pretty broadly–both to inform myself and to come up with fodder for this blog. But I’ll admit that my reading materials of choice ordinaril...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Black Ribbon Day 2017: Remembering the victims of Soviet Communism and Nazi Tyranny - *"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana* Seventy eight years ago on August 23, 1939 Josef Stalin, the leader ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

Timing is everything, isn't it? - Image via IN. Leon Wolf just used the word “pivot” in the context of Trump. (Managing editor of The Blaze) — Karoli (@Karoli) August 22, 2017 That was o...
Bracing Views

Trump’s Afghan War Speech: More of the Same, With More Killing - W.J. Astore As a private citizen and presidential candidate, Donald Trump railed against the Afghan war. A waste, he said. Americans should withdraw, he ...
Bonddad

Free Trade, the Primrose Path, and the Blinkered Blindness of macroeconomists - * - by New Deal democrat* Here's what I learned today: the origin of the phrase "being led down the primrose path." It turns out that in medieval times,...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Military accidents, Dead US Servicemembers, and Trump Don't Care; conservatives love lies and hate America - Traitor Trump has declared the intention of American colonization in Afghanistan. While dishonest media outlets like the *FTF New York Times* and *Zero He...
ProPublica

Is Anybody Home at HUD? - by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with New York magazine. In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of housing and urban devel...
Democracy Now!

Billionaire Carl Icahn Resigns as Trump Adviser After Reaping Millions From His Time in White House - On Friday billionaire investor Carl Icahn left his role as regulatory adviser to Donald Trump, just before the _New Yorker_ published an article entitled "...
Irregular Times

Trump Pushes War In Afghanistan Into Full Absurdity - Yesterday, Donald Trump promised that he is going to achieve complete victory in the 16 year-long American war in Afghanistan. He said, “Our troops will fi...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives: Remove the monuments and read our roundup! - This Lee statue in Dallas needs to be moved, and the park renamed.The Texas Progressive Alliance supports the efforts to get rid of Confederate monuments,...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: John Feffer, Avoiding War with Pyongyang - The United States has beaten its head against the wall of North Korea for more than 70 years, and that wall has changed little indeed as a result...
Consortium News

Israel’s Alarm over Syrian Debacle - Exclusive: Meddling by the U.S. and its allies was supposed to topple the Assad regime in Syria and give Israel a freer hand, but instead has brought Iran ...
Duffel Blog

Thousands of Majors sign petition demanding gold rank for Brigadier Generals - [image: Thousands of Majors sign petition demanding gold rank for Brigadier Generals] “Listen. If we made it gold, we would have to change the WO-1 rank t...
Off the Kuff

No charter amendments on the fall ballot - Just bonds, school board and HCC races, and the mostly boring constitutional amendments. Oh, and Heights Alcohol 2.0, if you live there. Houston voters wil...
The Disorder Of Things

The Limits of Semantic Ambiguity: A response to Steve Fuller - ‘Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become yo...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Colonias on the border struggle with decades-old water issues - As of 2015, an estimated 30 percent of colonia residents didn’t have access to safe, clean drinking water.
Sayfie Review Texas

Chronicle: A behind-the-scenes look at what went wrong in the special session - Chronicle: A behind-the-scenes look at what went wrong in the special session
Great American Satan

Character Creation Idea - I was thinking on the way players in some of my games have fallen into tropes during character creation that were a bit embarrassing. For example, in one g...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

My folly was a poisonous tree - A large assemblage of the people, a mob, one might say – it is not too much to use that word here – and angry, too, so an angry mob, then, has gathered ju...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Anthropocene or Capitalocene? - Wallace-Wells’ confronting and daunting climate piece ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ begins by saying “it is much worse than you think”. Following this evocat...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Denies Motion for Continuance Based on Eclipse - [image: eclipse]Hey, it was worth a shot. Related Stories - Why the “Six Ways Buzzfeed” Brief Is Less Than Amazing - Good News: The “Motion...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Needs a History Lesson about the Confederacy - Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is — predictably — criticizing a decision by the University of Texas to remove statues of Confederate Civil War leaders from h...
Echidne of the Snakes

Terror in Turku, Finland - An eighteen-year-old Moroccan man, Abderrahman Mechkah, who had entered Finland as an asylum-seeker in 2016 went on a rampage (armed with at least one la...
Greg Palast

Alev Ha-Shalom, Brother Greg - Photo of Dick Gregory by Zach D Roberts. Dick Gregory was a HUGE influence on my work and writings — that ability to take the darkest side of America and...
Digital Heretic

Kyle Broussard: Living at Risk of Political Violence Because of a Medical Condition | MRNW #6 - Today on Make Robots Not War, we speak to a man who might be at risk of political violence because of a medical condition, and what he’s doing to address...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Media Uses Charlottesville Tragedy to Create Cult Atmosphere - Using tragedies to unite the public behind a great and glorious causes has been standard operating procedure for thousands of years; and it is much more...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Dem House campaign arm breaks record with $30 million in online donations - House Democrats' campaign arm raised $30 million in online donations so far this year, breaking their previous online fundraising haul of $20 million. The ...
Politifact Texas

Matthew Rosendale - Republican Senate hopeful's absurd claim Montana Sen. Jon Tester supports a national gun registry - The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Republican Senate hopeful's absurd claim Montana Sen. Jon Tester supports a national gun registry While declaring...
Pensito Review

The Old Kabul Bobble - *Following his egregious Charlottesville sham, Trump said, "Come on guys, gimme a success plan." So said the generals — The guys with the arsenal: "Yes sir...
Reveal

Workers at African aid program linked to alleged cult sue for back pay - Workers for DAPP Malawi say a cult-like organization called the Teachers Group demanded that staff members attend indoctrination sessions.
Nathan Hevenstone

Great Guitar Solos – Funkadelic Plays Maggot Brain - This one comes courtesy of sonofrojblake, in a comment on last week’s GGS post. Like last week’s, it’s another instrumental that stands as a true guitar so...
LawFlog

Did Hearne police chief destroy evidence? - Last week I filed a public information request with the City of Hearne after receiving a pseudonymous email alleging that the police chief had destroyed ev...
Political Orphans

Link roundup, 8/21/2017 - A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Liberation News

Lenin fought for the rights of the oppressed - Fascists demand removal of Lenin statue in Seattle; liberal mayor agrees, drawing equal sign between USSR and Confederacy. The post Lenin fought for the...
First Reading

Was the Battle of Charlottesville the white nationalists’ Gettysburg? - Good morning Austin: Sunday evening I spoke by phone with Jared Taylor, the influential white nationalist who presides over American Renaissance Taylor sa...
The Urban Edge

Trust and Segregation in a Diverse City - How do segregation and diversity affect what sociologists call generalized trust? Continue Reading →
Avedon's Sideshow

Ain't it the truth babe? - A lefty woman was murdered, and others injured, in a terrorist attack on counter-protesters of a Nazi action. Naturally, the fascists claim the "alt-left...
Campaign for America's Future

After Bannon, Do Hawks Rule the Roost? - For all the harm Steve Bannon has done, he was right to point out that there’s no military solution to North Korea. After Bannon, one has to wonder who wil...
Grits for Breakfast

Judges fumbling forensics decisions, meet-and-confer challenged, prisons and rural economies, and other stories - Here are a few odds and ends that may interest Grits readers while I'm focused elsewhere: *3,500 and counting support Just Liberty petition to limit troope...
Trivial Knot

From the archives: Dawkins’ way with words - For this month’s repost, I selected an article I wrote in 2008. Considering how old this is, I don’t necessarily stand by what I said, nor do I vouch for ...
Reading the Pictures

Charlottesville and Trump: Our Social Media Roundup - This week's round up is dedicated to the brazen white supremacist march in Charlottesville, and Trump's fanning of those flames. The post Charlottesvill...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

August 20 is President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday - Benjamin Harrison was born August 20, 1833. Happy birthday to the ghost of Benjamin Harrison. More: Cluster of presidents’ birthdays, Millard Fillmore’s Ba...
Popehat

Popehat Goes To The Opera: Un ballo in maschera - It's time once again for Popehat Goes To The Opera, the feature in which I demonstrate that opera is more bizarre, ridiculous, and wonderful than you had r...
Counter Propa

Without Peeking, Can You Tell Me This Man’s Name? - Without cheating, can you name the man in the picture above? It’s okay if you can’t; most people won’t be able to, and there are no Bonus Progressive Poi...
Real News

The Human Carnage From Billionaires Trying to Carve Up the Planet to Build Their Empires Is Astounding - By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet. From Yemen to Haiti and everywhere in between, the poorest citizens are punished for unknown crimes. Humanitarian food for p...
Stinque

Has America No Sense of Decency? - Last Saturday, in broad daylight, a man drove his car at full speed into a crowd of people. After crashing into another car, he then hit reverse and drove ...
PoliTex (FWST)

What does Tarrant County’s district attorney want for the next four years? - Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson is seeking another term in office. Wilson, a former state district judge, became Tarrant County’s first fema...
Better Texas Blog

Reflections on the special session - After 29 extra days at the Texas Capitol, lawmakers head back to their districts without having accomplished much. That’s good news, because Governor Gre...
Death to Squirrels

Dances with trolls. - [CONTENT NOTE: casual ableism] Our troll story today begins as they almost always do: with an unprompted comment on an oooooold post. Behold my Facebook st...
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...
Save Buffalo Bayou

$12 Million Bayou Project Based on a Mistake - A Fundamental Error August 17, 2017 The instability of riverbanks is generally divided into two types: banks that collapse vertically and banks that are wo...
ExChristian.Net

Christian Math Just Doesn't Add Up - *By Astreja* One thing I've noticed about Christians proselytizing online is that rather a lot of them try to come across as Scientists, with a capital S. ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Governors 2017-2018: The Democrats’ Complicated Path to Big Gains - Dear Readers: Before we start this week, we wanted to pay tribute to the three people who died over the weekend because of the abhorrent neo-Nazi rally i...
St. Petersburg Independents

Reparations are alive! - “A crime has been committed. Reparations is the admission of that crime, one which shocks the conscience of the world.” Such is the foundation of the ca...
PERRspectives

The Confederate Statues Speak for Themselves - Defending the indefensible on Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled back in time to deploy the "both sides do it" talking point to explain the Civil War...
Other Words

In OtherWords: August 16, 2017 - Republicans are condemning Trump’s coddling of white supremacists. Can they speak out against racist laws, too?
OffCite

“Remaking the process of gentrification”: Emancipation Economic Development Council - Emancipation Economic Development Council charrette, February 18, 2017. Photo: Raj Mankad.This article is the second of a two-part series by artist Carrie ...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Out with a bang, but perhaps soon to come crawling back - Tuesday evening, the Texas special legislative session abruptly when the House gaveled out sine die signalling they were finished with the special sessio...
Ecosophia

The Worlds That Never Were - In order to finish sorting out the foundations for the project this blog will pursue, I want to talk a little more about science fiction. That’s not the ...
Bay Area Houston

Remember when "Not all republicans are racists but all racists are republicans" - That all changed last Saturday. There is no excuse, none, zero, zip, for any republican to remain silent about Trump's response to the white supremacists...
Resistance Report

Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump Over His Charlottesville Speech - Senator Bernie Sanders slammed President Trump on Tuesday after the Donald cast blame on the “alt-left” and counter protesters for the violence in Charlo...
Carl Beijer

Ben Shapiro has changed his mind about antifa - Ben Shapiro, writing for The National Review, gives us the inevitable "both sides are to blame for Charlottesville" take: There’s still no certain knowledg...
Houston Justice

BREAKING: HISD SELECTS NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER - His name is Jose Leal and he's Houston Independent School District's newest School Board Trustee for District III replacing Manuel Rodriguez who passed ...
Our Finite World

World GDP in current US dollars seems to have peaked; this is a problem - World GDP in current US dollars is in some sense the simplest world GDP calculation that a person might make. It is calculated by taking the GDP for each y...
Seeing the Forest

Thanks, Capitalism - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Moron Majority

Hateful White Men Apparently Also Detest Mosquitoes - After a run on Tiki torches at the local Home Depot, a large group of white nationalists marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Va. to demonstrate...
Houston Streetwise

Changing Montrose: Lucky Burger corner now and other signs of transformation on Richmond Ave - Where the Lucky Burger's luck ran out Commercial-lot-to-park conversion: Mandell Park From vintage Shell to Big Tex Storage Oily future: Ramshackle quad...
Texas Watch

Press Statement on Request for TDI Investigation into Insurance Industry’s Auto Repair Practices - *For Immediate Release* Texas Watch requested Thursday that the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigate the insurance industry’s corner cutting ...
Texas Moratorium Network

Major Film Planned on Todd Willingham – Innocent Person Wrongfully Executed by Texas - From Deadline.com Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern have been set to star in Trial by Fire, a fact-based drama that Ed Zwick will direct. Oscar-winning Preciou...
Texans For Public Justice

Ethics Commission Fines 2nd Toll Road Director in TPJ Complaint. James Mills to Pay $1,000 Fine for Non-disclosure. - The Texas Ethics Commission has levied a $1,000 fine against former Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) Director James Mills to resolve an et...
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 ...
John Laurits

Socialism: Economic Democracy to End the Suicidal Profit of Capitalism - Socialism: Economic Democracy to End the Suicidal Profit of Capitalism It is the Age of Malfunction — an age in which the social structures, governing me...
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...
Dos Centavos

Sheriff Gonzalez Ends Use of Private Jails - Now, this is the kind of news I like to hear coming out of Sheriff Gonzalez’s office. For years, Harris County has spent millions transporting and warehous...
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...
Quartz

In Johannesburg, finding stories in unsuspecting places - Quartz Africa reporter Lynsey Chutel trains journalism students at the University of Witwatersrand as part of the Atlas for Africa initiative. Training in ...
Free Speech.org

What's at Stake?: Net Neutrality - Just two years after the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), under the Obama administration, affirmed the concept of net neutrality, some of the larg...
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 ...
34justice

We Don’t Need No “Moderates” - Don't fall for the false notion that candidates committed to economic and social justice are unelectable in "red" and "purple" areas. Help those candidates...
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...
Progrexas

Ensuring Food Security and Sovereignty in Texas: A Southern Tradition – A Political Protest. - “We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 24: Special Edition with Carl Cannon, Author of “On This Date” - A conversation about how history gives us perspective on the Trump presidency, with Real Clear Politics Washington Bureau Chief Carl Cannon and author of t...
The Nil Admirari

Man-Baby Trump Convinced he Can Pardon Himself - He Can't - Mr. Trump was ranting on Twitter again this Saturday morning and one of his tweets desperately claimed the president had the "complete power to pardon,"...
UP@NIGHT

Worried about GOP Health Care: Consider Suicide - We are all going to die. That’s life. But I think we can …
ROAR Magazine

Municipalism and the Feminization of Politics - Beside turning local institutions into mechanisms of self-governance, municipalism also has the potential to feminize politics in a way that action at th...
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...
Bullshit-ist

Learning Things The Hard Way - I’ve used the Notes app on my phone as a kind of second brain for as long as I can remember. Most of the stuff in there makes absolutely zero sense (“eye...
Frontloading HQ

Open Primaries, the Democrats and 2020 - Early last month the Democratic National Committee-sanctioned Unity Reform Commission *convened for their second meeting* in San Antonio. While the agenda ...
Ramona's Voices

Why Your Religion Shouldn't Be My Problem - My cousin Arlene was a devout Catholic, so deeply involved with her church the priest at her funeral service told us he was nervous that he wouldn't do rig...
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...
Pressthink

His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political style - It’s all they know. They aren’t prepared for anything else. The post His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political styl...
New Progressive Alliance

Climate Change and the Green Party by Gary Swing - Gary Parks is a leader in the Green Party and has formed the Boiling Frog Party to convey information in a humorous way. He recently got the highest per...
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...
Modern Democracy

Raines Check: Legislator Standing and the Separation of Powers - Excited to have a post up today on Take Care Blog discussing Raines v. Byrd and the impact of separation-of-powers principles on legislator standing in the...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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! - 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! ...
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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