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Sputnik News

Mexico Civil Protection Service Revises Downwards Quake Death Toll to 216 - The head of Mexico’s Civil Protection Service revised downwards the death toll from the earthquake in the country to 216.
The Verge

Microsoft opens standard Xbox One X preorders worldwide - Microsoft today announced worldwide preorder availability for the standard version of its new Xbox One X console. The device, first unveiled back at E3 ...
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day - *-by Noah* Republicans still have their daggers out for Hillary Clinton and they always will. Having their guy win the presidency over her just isn't eno...
Raw Story

#GasTheSynagogue was trending on Twitter — because in Trump’s America, anti-semitism goes viral until we stop it - The World Jewish Congress (WJC) thanked Twitter on Monday for blocking the hashtag #GasTheSynagogue from trending after users urged police to gas St. Louis...
The NM Political Report

Mayoral candidate won’t say if he will award contracts to his current employer - [image: Mayoral candidate won’t say if he will award contracts to his current employer] Almost every election includes questions about donors’ intentions a...
Deep State Nation

‘All Lives Splatter’ Goes Nationwide, Republicans Everywhere Fantasize About Killing Protesters - The latest in a string of conservatives to publicly display their deeply held desire to murder protesters is Republican Lynne DiSanto, the GOP Whip in th...
Informed Comment

How GOP plans to repeal Health Care will blight millions of Lives - Plutocrats scheme to deprive millions of Health Care Insurance
Wolf Street

Answers Emerge from Harvey-Hit Houston - Even before Hurricane Harvey, Houston’s economy was struggling.
Axios

Amazon reportedly working on Alexa-powered smart glasses, security camera - Amazon has been quietly preparing to introduce its first wearable device, a pair of smart glasses with the company's Alexa assistant built-in, according...
jobsanger

Not An Intelligent Species -
Rivard Report

Mapping San Antonio’s Generosity for Hurricane Relief Efforts - San Antonio’s generosity toward hurricane victims and depth of caring, from all sectors and walks of life, can barely be tallied. The post Mapping San An...
First Draft

Album Cover Art Wednesday: A Few Small Repairs - A Few Small Repairs came out twenty years ago and was recently re-issued in a fancy new edition. It was Shawn Colvin’s commercial breakthrough, became a b...
Socialist Worker

Chuck and Nancy's art of the deal - Danny Katch, author of *Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People*, uncovers the secret of the shell game that Democrats have played in the name of defe...
Liberation News

Wild fires devastating West Coast - Poor land management practices and climate change, the two main causes of the increasing severity of wildfires, are only exacerbated by capitalism. The p...
Dissident Voice

Distorted Views of the Enemy and Bush’s “Axis of Evil” - Many years ago, while the war in Vietnam still raged, the psychologist Ralph K. White wrote a book entitled Nobody Wanted War that has resonated deeply wit...
Mediaite

The Russians Are Coming! Hillary Clinton Calls Herself ‘Paula Revere’ on Russia Meddling - Hillary Clinton stopped by The Late Show to talk about her 2016 memoir What Happened.
National Post

McMaster University campus is going 100 per cent smoke-free. Here are five things to know - The university said those who need marijuana for therapeutic purposes will still be included in the ban, but suggested that they try using edible products
Antiwar.com

Suicide Bombers Attack Restaurant; 64 Killed in Iraq - Bombers attacked a restaurant frequented by Shi'ite militias. The post Suicide Bombers Attack Restaurant; 64 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.co...
If You Only News

Witches Of Trumpwick: ‘Oracle’ Casts Monthly Spell On Prez, And We’ll Take All The Help We Can Get - Okay, yeah, it’s funny. I mean, no: It’s totally serious, you guys. If this thing works, we could have a handful of practitioners of Magick...
Election Law Blog

“Fate Is Uncertain for House GOP’s Campaign Finance Riders” - Bloomberg BNA: The House and Senate will negotiate several provisions curbing federal powers on campaign finance that were tacked onto the House’s $1.2 tri...
Houston Press

Thirst Street is an Art-House Dead End to Avoid - Imagine if the whimsical French film Amelie got dirty. And that Amelie’s love interest had pink eye, tended bar at a strip club and only liked her for her ...
VICE

Rich People Feel Really, Really Bad About Being Rich - A new book explores the anxieties that come along with affluence. I asked the author why regular people should care.
Death and Taxes

Jimmy Kimmel on GOP healthcare bill: ‘We can’t let them do this to our children’ - Keep calling your senators if you want to live.
Palmer Report

Donald Trump gives away that he knows yet another major Trump-Russia bombshell is about to land - Trump keeps getting desperate and giving away the game The post Donald Trump gives away that he knows yet another major Trump-Russia bombshell is about t...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Handful of GOP senators hold latest health... - Republicans are trying yet again with a new health care bill from Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy to repeal and replace Obamacare. Do they have the v...
Vox

Jimmy Kimmel: new Obamacare repeal bill flunks the Jimmy Kimmel Test - “This guy, Bill Cassidy, just lied right to my face.” Jimmy Kimmel became an unlikely figure in the Republican health care debate a few months ago when ...
Crooks and Liars

Open Thread - Effects Of Obamacare - [image: Open Thread - Effects Of Obamacare] The hard truth about the United States is that the money other countries spend on health and infrastructure, we...
Splinter

Jeff Sessions Attacks California's 'Unconscionable' Sanctuary State Bill - Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ assailed California’s recently passed “sanctuary state” law while speaking to federal immigration officers in Portland, O...
The Conversation

The South Vietnamese who fled the fall of Saigon -- and those who returned - Vietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 319, Box 19, declassification...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: Social programs suffer as $80 billion more is added to Pentagon budget - At CommonDreams, Jake Johnson writes—U.S. Says No Money for Social Programs, But '$700 Billion to Kill People? Yeah That We Have': Where were the pundits...
High Plains Blogger

Trump makes good on Harvey pledge; thank you, Mr. President - Donald Trump’s pledge of $1 million to help the victims of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey had been met with some skepticism. Critics actually doubted the ...
Pajiba

Jimmy Kimmel Lashes Out Against New GOP Healthcare Plan: Bill Cassidy 'Lied to My Face' - A few months ago, as you might recall, Jimmy Kimmel's son was born with a heart defect. His son underwent surgery and survived the condition, but it prompt...
The Contributor

GOP Senator is For States' Rights... Except When It Comes to Single Payer - News Image: Covering all people with single payer is not money "properly spent," according to Republican. origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: Juli...
emptywheel

Why Did Guccifer 2.0 Keep Harping on VAN? - Why did Guccifer 2.0 keep harping on VAN? Was it meant as a warning to Democrats?
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

North Korea Wins Twitter War - Rocket Man retorts …
Irregular Times

Donald Trump Goes Full Nikita Khrushchev at the UN - Today, the President of the United States threatened the complete destruction of another country from the podium of the United Nations.
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Secret Science Club Post-Lecture Recap: Two Lecturers, Two Black Holes - Last night, I headed down to the beautiful Bell House, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, for this month's Secret Science Club lecture featuring Princeton...
Political Dig

REVEALED: Don Jr Also Used RNC Funds To Pay Lawyers - On Tuesday it was revealed that Donald Trump used money from his campaign funds and the Republican National Committee to pay for his legal defense in the...
OpEd News

W3C Turns the Clock Back on an Open Web - On September 18, Ars Technica reports, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a new specification recommendation, Encrypted Media Extensions. The re...
Gin and Tacos

SHOTGUN STRATEGY - Another week, another urgent exhortation to CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW TO SAVE HEALTH CARE. SERIOUSLY IF YOU DON'T DO IT RIGHT NOW ALL IS LOST. I know we...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Tomorrow is...not Tuesday!
Common Dreams

John Kelly Is All Of Us - Abby Zimet, staff writer That terrifying, bombastic, moronic, incoherent rant that was our Buffoon-In-Chief's speech to the U.N. elicited the horror and fl...
Portside

G.M. Workers Strike in Canada as Mexico Jobs Raise Tension - Roughly 2,750 unionized employees are carrying out the first strike at a Canadian auto assembly plant in 21 years in Ingersoll, Ontario. OTTAWA — Workers a...
Field Negro

John Kelly is all of us today. - [image: Image result for kelly face palm images] *"And I think it's gonna be a long long time'Till touch down brings me round again to findI'm not the m...
Think Progress

Small donors are not paying Trump’s legal bills. It’s worse. - Donald Trump is using funds from both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and his re-election campaign to cover his legal fees connected to the Russia ...
Houston Communist Party

Former Pentagon Analyst Explains Why Trump Fostering Hysteria Over North Korea - Opinion Former Pentagon Analyst Explains Why Trump Fostering Hysteria Over North Korea Opinion 03:32 20.09.2017Get short URL 3316 0 0 https://sputniknews.c...
Daily Dot

University president greets Black students with collard greens and cotton stalks - President apologizes as students post concerns to social media. The post University president greets Black students with collard greens and cotton stalks...
Ballot Access News

Final Brief Filed in U.S. Supreme Court in Partisan Gerrymandering Wisconsin Case - On September 19, the state of Wisconsin filed its reply brief in Gill v Whitford, 16-1161, the case over whether extreme partisan gerrymandering violates t...
Brad Blog

Trump Blusters UN; GOP 'Repealing' O'Care Again; Dems 'Looking Forward' With 'Medicare-for-All': 'BradCast' 9/19/2017 - Today on The BradCast, its yet another day with an impossibly huge number of important breaking news stories to cover. But we try. Along with some conversa...
Mock Paper Scissors

Fashion Week Continues! - OK, gents, time to get your Madonna-wanna-be selves in shape! Express yourselves! (More here. Hat tip: Scissorhead Moeman)Filed under: Fashion Week
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Remarks by President Trump on Cuba and Venezuela today at the UN General Assembly - *"From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure."...
Reverb Press

Turkish President: Trump Apologized to me for My Guards Pummeling Peaceful Protesters - Turkish President Erdogan Says Donald Trump Called Him To Apologize For Violence Committed By Turkish Guards Back in May of this year, a dozen bodyguards...
The Progressive Wing

Treasury’s doors are wide open to buy bombs, but we have no money to care for the sick. - The day before President Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, the Senate passed a bill authorizing another $700bn for the Pentagon. In a rare...
Anti-Media

Videos: At Least 149 Dead After Powerful Earthquake Rocks Central Mexico - At least 60 people have been pulled from the rubble alive after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroyed hundreds of buildings. (ZHE) — On the anniversary of a...
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Ho v. ReconTrust Co. 17-278 Issue: Whether entities conducting foreclosure-related activities, in...
slacktivist

White evangelicalism, 1975: Before the change (3.1) - Norman Geisler's use of the term "therapeutic" in this section turned out to be unfortunate. Back in the early 1970s, when he was writing this summary of t...
Progressive Army

Uniting the Left - I have been planning on writing this article for a while but I always felt that this topic was big enough to write an entire book on. It only consists of...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

John Aravosis spills the tea on the religious right leader who likes gay sex art - Long-time progressive activist John Aravosis, along with Cliff Schecter, has a wonderful podcast called *UnPresidented. *Through *UnPresidented*, Aravosis ...
Talking Points Memo

The Personal is the Geopolitical - When the weak or the marginalized are defiant or even threatening, there is a self-regulating dynamic which limits the danger or renders it minimal. We c...
Angry Bear

Social justice activism in your own backyards? - by Peter Dorman (originally published at Econospeak) Another Year of Equity at Evergreen The following email was forwarded to me and many other Evergreen f...
Mother Jones

Did Donald Trump Really Apologize to the President of Turkey? - Last May, a loud but peaceful group of Kurdish demonstrators gathered outside the home of the Turkish ambassador to protest the visit of Turkish president ...
Above the Law

We Don’t File Lawsuits On Principle (Or: Why All Employment Lawsuits Often Have Such Bad Facts On Both Sides) - Lawsuits are all about money: this might sound distasteful, but it's true (at least in employment law).
Slate

The Real Political Correctness - The ideology that put Donald Trump in the White House is one of victimhood as much as it’s one of resentment. As a candidate for president, Donald Trump ...
Houston Matters

Wortham Center Closes This Season For Post-Harvey Repairs - Due to extensive water damage from Harvey, the downtown performance venue will be closed through mid-May 2018.
Salon.com

Jordan Klepper’s “The Opposition”: A “Colbert Report” for the Infowars era - Salon talks to the Comedy Central host about stepping into the slot once held by Stephen Colbert and Larry Wilmore
Hullabaloo

Oh heck. Does this mean Trump's a Republican after all? - *Oh heck. Does this mean Trump's a Republican after all?* by digby After all that nonsense abut Trump being an independent, transactional pragmatist wh...
Burkablog (and more from Texas Monthly)

The Future of The Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest - Alamo Drafthouse CEO and Fantastic Fest founder Tim League is in the news after re-hiring a staffer accused of sexual assault—and his festival may suffer...
Texas Standard

Donald Trump Uses U.N. Speech To Threaten North Korea - In his first speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Trump praised the international organization, but also took on North Korea, and the Iran nuclear deal.
Texas Observer

Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court - Facebook/Texas Civil Rights Project The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), a 26-year-old nonprofit well-known in social justice circles, announced Monday...
Dandelion Salad

Korea Solution Needs US to Sign a Peace Treaty by Finian Cunningham + Wilkerson: Trump a ‘Diplomatic Fiasco’ at the UN - by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation September 19, 2017 Germany and France have backed th...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Why Hurricane Maria Surprised Forecasters By Getting So Strong So Fast - Hurricane Maria, currently headed for Puerto Rico, stunned forecasters by rapidly intensifying from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 within a 15-hour per...
The Greanville Post

Cuba Recovered and Open for Business - MANUEL E. YEPE —By denying Cubans aid, and discouraging its citizens’ travel to Cuba, Washington is once again using the occurrence of a humanitarian disas...
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Trump’s Gift to Rocket Man - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
San Antonio Current

La Panaderia's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Episode Airs This Week - Remember that one time Guy Fieri was lurking eating and filming his way through Downtown San Antonio this June and made a stop at newly opened La Panader...
Buzzflash

World leaders' faces react to Trump's U.N. speech - World leaders' faces react to Trump's U.N. speech 4.8/*5* rating (6 votes)
Swamplot

Conroe Home Listing Photo of the Day: Open House - 15252 Saddlewood Dr. [HAR]… Read More
American Third Party Report

Seventh Circuit Hears Green Party Case Against Illinois Ballot Access in State Representative Districts - Ballot Access News On September 18, the Seventh Circuit heard arguments in Tripp v Scholz, 16-3469. This is the Green Party case that challenged the petiti...
The Intercept

Autora da ação da “cura gay” tem cargo em gabinete de deputado evangélico - Psicóloga Rozangela Justino trabalha com Sóstenes Cavalcante (DEM-RJ), parlamentar apadrinhado pelo pastor Silas Malafaia. The post Autora da ação da “cu...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Jonathan Cahn’s Bogus Biblical Exegesis - Elliot Mincberg @ The American Prospect: Will the Supreme Court Abandon True Government Neutrality Toward Religion? Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: After Tr...
Houstonia

Weeks Post-Harvey, Downtown Arts Venues Remain Unusable - The Wortham Center will be closed through May 15, 2018 "in a best case scenario."
The Fifth Column

Who Are the Rohingya and Why Are They Fleeing Myanmar? - Myanmar (NM) – In the last 3 weeks, escalating violence in Myanmar (Burma) has forced around 380,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh....
Speak Freely (ACLU)

At U.N., Trump Hides Behind ‘Sovereignty’ to Shield His Administration From Scrutiny - Trump mentioned “sovereignty” 21 times at the UN today. Here’s what he was getting at. This morning, in his first speech to the United Nations General Ass...
Rewire

Pennsylvania Officials Still Won’t Cut Off Anti-Choice Group Misusing Taxpayer Money - Pennsylvania has for years funneled tax dollars earmarked for low-income families to Real Alternatives, an anti-choice organization. The post Pennsylvan...
Washington's Blog

Gallup: 71% of Americans are “Dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed” - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org A Gallup poll headlined on September 17th, “Seven in 10 Dissatisfied With Way U.S. Is Being Gover...
Church and State

The Perceptual Trick That Manufactures Devils - The Christian right have made full use of the psychological ploy with which we project our own worst tendencies onto some distant figure.
Morning Consult

Senate Committee Deal on CHIP Would End Obamacare Funding Bump - A bipartisan Senate bill to renew the Children's Health Insurance Program is a mixed bag for states, which would secure much-needed federal funds for fiv...
Shadowproof

Appeals Court Rejects Absurd Claim Use Of Force Policy Violates Seattle Officers’ Second Amendment Rights - A federal appeals court rejected Seattle police claims that a "use of force" policy violates their Second Amendment rights to use firearms. The post Appe...
Consortium News

Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism - Exclusive: President Trump’s U.N. speech showed that despite his America First rhetoric, his policies are virtually the same as the neocon strategies of Ge...
BEYONDbones

Pirate Treasure At HMNS…? - So today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and a lot of people have been asking me if we have any pirate-related (piratical?) objects in our collection a...
AlterNet.org

Black and White Americans Have Astonishingly Different Views of Police - Police abuses in communities of color have led to colder feelings among black Americans toward law enforcement. In a Twitter post earlier this month, NFL...
Grist

Trump’s policies put the most vulnerable Americans in danger. - The administration has torn down some hard-won protections.
Campaign for America's Future

How You Can Help Small Businesses Thrive - Banks are trying to score another victory over hardworking Americans by refusing to lend to minorities, women, and rural residents who own and run small bu...
Liberal Values

Peter Daou Shows A Strange Form Of Integrity In His Promotion Of Russia Conspiracy Theories - Peter Daou has often shown that no statement, regardless of how demonstrably false, is beyond him in his efforts to white wash Hillary Clinton. This one wa...
NPR's Health Shots

41 States To Investigate Pharmaceutical Companies Over Opioids - The states' attorneys general are banding together to investigate the makers and distributors of powerful opioid painkillers that have led to a spike in op...
Echidne of the Snakes

Trump Speaks To The Nations of The World - At the United Nations. The message that was put into his mouth (perhaps by Stephen Miller) is one of patriotic ethno-nationalism, of strong nation state...
Rude Pundit

The Short Bus to Armageddon: Trump at the U.N. - When do we get to stop being embarrassed, huh? Every time that President Donald Trump opens his lamprey mouth and shakes his semen-colored mane, it's like ...
News Taco

How to Learn From the World’s Best Blogger - I was recently asked for the name the world’s best blogger, which I took to mean, in a roundabout way, my favorite blogger. The questioner was looking to...
Dorf on Law

NeverTrump Conservatives In a Futile Search For Relevance - *by Neil H. Buchanan* One of the depressing parlor games of the post-November 8 era has been trying to explain how the presidential election was even close...
Ring of Fire

Trump Buries Report Showing Immigrants And Refugees Create Massive Economic Gains - Donald Trump has made the hatred of immigrants and refugees a cornerstone of his administration, so it should come as no surprise that a new report by th...
Louis Proyect

This is what American fascism looks like: the Lyndon LaRouche story (part four) - Lyndon LaRouche’s ties to Ronald Reagan, the Donald Trump of the 1980s (part one, part two, part three) In 2017, large segments of the left—especially anar...
CultureMap Houston

Beloved Texas sandwich shop with Philly flavor plots Houston return - A beloved Houston favorite will make its return next month. Texadelphia, the sandwich shop that brings Texan flavors to the Philly classic, will open its ...
News Corpse

Trump’s Insane Threat to ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’ Affirms His Mental Infirmity - The United Nations is holding its 72nd Session of the U.N. General Assembly. But it is also the first one that is being addressed by Donald Trump. If the d...
Affinity

Paper! - Even doing the draft of I Have Seen The Moon has been irritating, because thanks to having no paper, I couldn’t fit everything on my scratch paper. After d...
No More Mister Nice Blog

THE WORLD IS RUN BY OVERARMED ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOYS - I see that Vladimir Putin is performing masculinity again: A statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, has been unveiled in...
Free Press Houston

Against A Tide: An Interview with Gouge Away - The ebb and flow of modern hardcore music always finds a reason to stir up something new and exciting: the popularity of other genres that can comfortably ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/19/2017 - Trip report from NC Bangor meetup, and open thread.
In These Times

We Can’t Fight Trump-Style Hate with the Surveillance State - How do we effectively challenge organized white supremacists? Post-Charlottesville, the spotlight focused on the work of an organization of former white ...
Better Texas Blog

Texas loses under Graham-Cassidy - At first glance it may look like Texas comes out ahead in the Graham-Cassidy bill, the Senate’s last-ditch effort to cut Medicaid and repeal the Affordab...
Pharyngula

Nature did not intend that you put those colors there! - Oh, my. Some researchers have discovered that pigments in tattoo inks can, over the years, wander out of the tattoo into places like lymph nodes. They have...
Mahablog

Trump at the UN: He Kept His Shoes On - Trump addressed the UN this morning, and I’m pleased to say that he did not at any point pull off a shoe and pound it on the podium. Credit where credit is...
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...
Political Garbage Chute

In Speech to North Korea, Kim Jong-Un Calls Trump “Pocket Rocket Man” - Tensions between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump are rising, with no sign of abating on the horizon. [...] The post In ...
Equality Texas

#TransTuesday: National Suicide Prevention Month - September is National Suicide Prevention Month. For today’s #TransTuesday, Equality Texas would like for our supporters to help us promote awareness around...
Lewisville Texan Journal

City of Lewisville recognizes officers for saving a life - An altercation between two people behind a Jack in the Box led to a stabbing the evening of June 19, 2016. Officers John Austin Slye and Timothy O’Hare r...
Eater Houston

15 Year Old Houston Bar Closes After Hurricane Harvey - Drink Houston didn’t weather the storm After fifteen years of serving up cocktails Drink Houston has officially closed its doors, saying that Hurricane...
MintPress News

Anti-Brutality Protests Hit St. Louis Streets For Fourth Night - The ACLU accuses police of “unacceptable, unlawful” behavior as protests continue unabated against the acquittal of an ex-cop charged with murder. The po...
Popular Resistance

Waterborne Demonstration Puts Pentagon’s Environmental Impact Front And Center - By John Zangas and Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Arlington, Va. — On Sunday afternoon, the Backbone Campaign, World Without War, the Raging Grannies, a...
Progressive.org

Creating a Sanctuary Union, with George Miranda - Eber Garcia Vasquez had been and NYC Teamster for 26 years when he was deported in September. His union fought to keep him here, but when their campaign wa...
DeSmogBlog

Exclusive: Here are the Energy Companies Represented by Trump’s Nominee to Head FERC - President Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC) has, as a corporate attorney, personally represented a host of energy a...
Peacock Panache

A Disquieting Possibility: Climate Change & Plants’ Nutritional Value - Could climate change be making us fat? Politico has published an article from a series on the future of health that suggests the answer may be yes. The a...
OffCite

Kashmere Gardens After Harvey: Grassroots Action as Wait for Government Drags On - Keith Downey, Kenneth Williams, and Huey German-Wilson. Photo courtesy Keith Downey.“The City Houston is open for business,” Mayor Sylvester Turner announc...
Daily Howler

WHERE THE DEPLORABLES ARE: Over There! - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017Part 2—The problem with inkblot questions:* Last year, respondents were asked an unfortunate question as part of the General ...
Debunking Christianity

Empirical Proof that Christianity Is False? - Split-brain patients are individuals who have had the corpus callosum (which connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain) severed. This causes th...
Duck of Minerva

The Case Against “The Case For Colonialism” - This is a guest post by Sahar Khan, a visiting research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department. Sahar holds a PhD in politica...
Politifact Texas

Donald Trump - Are long gas lines forming in North Korea, as Donald Trump says? - The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Are long gas lines forming in North Korea, as Donald Trump says? As North Korea continues to try the West’s patience w...
Bonddad

Hurricane workarounds for industrial production and housing - - *by New Deal democrat* Hurricane Harvey has already affected some of the August data releases. Irma has already started to affect some weekly releases...
SocraticGadfly

TX Progressives look at #Harvey cleanup, more - The Texas Progressive Alliance encourages you to keep supporting Harvey and Irma relief efforts as it brings you this week's roundup. Off the Kuff reminds...
Democracy Now!

Trump's Childhood Home is Now an Airbnb Where Refugees Slept Over to Protest Immigration Crackdown - This past weekend, a surprising gathering took place at President Trump's childhood home in Queens, New York. The home is now an Airbnb. On Saturday, the i...
Space City Weather

The return of heavy rains, and some despair, to Houston - Heavy rains returned to Houston on Monday evening for the first time since Hurricane Harvey. And these weren’t just light rains (as we’d forecast), but a r...
Duffel Blog

Air Force announces 100% promotion rate to major, except for you, asshole - [image: air force captain] RANDOLPH AFB — The U.S. Air Force announced last week that, in order to restore its readiness, 100% of captains would be promot...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Elizabeth Santos - There’s about a two week gap between my interview with Monica Flores Richart and my interview with today’s candidate, Elizabeth Santos. In between, of cour...
ProPublica

Failing Charter Schools Have a Reincarnation Plan - by Annie Waldman This past June, Florida’s top education agency delivered a failing grade to the Orange Park Performing Arts Academy in suburban Jackson...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday sigh - nazis start #gasthejews in response to synagogue providing refuge to protesters from police bar forced to closed after owner donates to david duke 4 out ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to it? - A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.
Sayfie Review Texas

Chronicle: Abbott shakes up top staff, looks beyond re-election campaign -
Dos Centavos

Save The Date: 10/16/17 – Rev. Barry Lynn in Houston - Join the Houston Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State As We Honor the 25 Years of Leadership of The Reverend Barry W. Lyn...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

The panhandler - *(based on a true interaction, with apologies to Thomas Bernhard)* I am not Hispanic, said the panhandler, to me, as I passed him, and he wasn’t. I know t...
Lowering the Bar

Lawsuit Claims “Farley”-Brand “Fat Bikes” Infringe on Chris Farley - The bikes also allegedly have a "wider-than-average chassis."
Greg Palast

Indivisible Chicago and ACLU of Illinois Team Up to End State’s Participation in Racist Crosscheck Voter Purging Program - @IndivisibleChi press conference to end #Crosscheck in IL with @ACLUofIL and Rep Greg Harris and @IndivisibleIL ! @Greg_Palast pic.twitter.com/nhjOOsQEzj...
Reveal

Trump civil rights nominee called allowing women in combat ‘laughable’ - An Iraq War veteran nominated by Trump to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says he has since changed his mind about women in combat.
Rallblog

SYNDICATED COLUMN: No Man is Above the Law — Except on College Campuses - Freshman orientation, Columbia University, New York City, Fall 1981: Now as then, there were speeches. A blur of upperclassmen, professors and deans welcom...
Ian Welsh

Obama’s Just the Enemy And Always Was - One of the most amusing things about the 07/8 primary season was how often Obama praised Reagan and how few people took him seriously. Obama thought Reagan...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Review - Geoff Mann’s stimulating book In the Long Run We are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution identifies a current of critical thought w...
Frontloading HQ

California Primary Bill Passes Legislature. What It Means and What It Doesn't - On the final day the California legislature was in session for 2017, both chambers did what state legislatures often do at the close of a year: in short, l...
DBC Green blog

No-Relief-from-Harvey-Stories Texoblogosphere - This week's blog-a-thon contains quite a few intriguing-looking links, IMHO. That's not to say that I'll click through all of them, and I seldom do, but th...
Houston Streetwise

Allens' Landing after the flood ... with newly formed sandbank -
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note ] | Inside the October Issue, by James Marcus - Marilynne Robinson, Andrew Cockburn, Ben Mauk, Elisabeth Zerofsky, Eileen Myles, and more…
Nathan Hevenstone

Great Guitar Solos – Pink Floyd Plays Sorrow Live on P*U*L*S*E* - More David Gilmour because… well… it’s David Gilmour… This is from the P*U*L*S*E* DVD (that entire show is a treasure trove of amazing solos, to be honest)...
Bracing Views

The Climate Change War - W.J. Astore It seems Americans can’t rally support for something without declaring a “war” on it. The war on poverty. On drugs. On gangs and crime. On terr...
First Reading

L’affaire Fetonte: How an Austin union organizer’s work with CLEAT created a schism in America’s burgeoning socialist movement - Good morning Austin: I did not realize when I moved from D.C. to Austin in December 2012 that I was moving closer to the center…
The Disorder Of Things

Academics Against the Arms Fair: An Open Letter - Last week, about 1500 weapons manufacturers and representatives of more than 100 states descended on London for Defence and Security Equipment Internationa...
Real News

Signs of hope in the Middle East? Don’t hold your breath - By James M. Dorsey / Middle East Soccer. Optimists see hopeful signs that the Middle East may be exiting from a dark tunnel of violence, civil war, secta...
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 ...
The Urban Edge

After Harvey, An Opportunity to Learn from the Past in the Classroom - Just as the Reconstruction Era of the 1800s attempted to generate more racial justice, the current reconstruction of Houston's schools must do the same. Co...
Independent Political Report

US Senate Candidate Austin Petersen on Infowars - … Read more ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Face of "War" at Home - Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hu...
Pages of Victory

Clinton's Book Sucks -
Death to Squirrels

Squirrel rescuers: the worst of the worst. - [CONTENT NOTE: disgusting images of baby squirrels, descriptions of wildly inappropriate human-squirrel interactions.] Goddammit. Twenty years working wild...
Grits for Breakfast

Reasonably Suspicious: Listen to the podcast, join us for our Launch Party! - After several months of working out the kinks in a soft launch, Just Liberty's *Reasonably Suspicious* podcast now is up and running on numerous platforms ...
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...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Michael Grimm to announce bid for old House seat: report - Former Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) plans to launch a bid for his old House seat just over a year after he was released from prison, according to a report S...
Robert Reich

The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth - White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs,...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 25: Single Payer Buzzkill - Bill Scher recounts for Traci Olsen the calm, measured reaction to his recent Politico article about Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill. Check out this ...
Stinque

The Antisocial Network - Back when we were learning our trade as a reporter, in the late Seventies, conversation would sometimes turn to the concentration of media, and the power r...
PoliTex (FWST)

Buckle up, Texas students: New school buses must have seat belts - Some Texas students will soon be getting a safer ride to and from school. A new law requires that any new school buses bought in Texas must include three-p...
Independent Thinker 2016

She’s Only Got Herself to Blame - A detailed behind the scenes exclusive that exposes WHAT actually HAPPENED to Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes.
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (Sept. 10 – 16) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. John Fea, professor of American history at Messiah College in Pennsylvania “When someone like Robert Jef...
Reading the Pictures

Anticipating a Conversation with Pete Souza at Photoville - I am looking forward to Saturday's special edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon at the fabulous Photoville festival. I'll be having a conversation w...
Socialist Alternative

Capitalism’s Grave New World - The financial crisis of 2007/08 delivered a shock to the capitalist system from which it is yet to recover. It cut across globalisation – and the triumphal...
Krebs on Security

Equifax Hackers Stole 200k Credit Card Accounts in One Fell Swoop - Visa and MasterCard are sending confidential alerts to financial institutions across the United States this week, warning them about more than 200,000 cred...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory - It's increasingly difficult to deny that there is Climate Change going on and that it is virtually guaranteed that it is partly a result of carbon dioxi...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists - A new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics finds that while there is relatively little national ...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

September 14, 1901: McKinley died, Teddy Roosevelt ascended to presidency - Lincoln, Garfield, then McKinley. September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, eight days after having been shot at Buffalo’s ...
The Rag Blog

Jonah Raskin : BOOKS | Blowing themselves up: Revisiting the Weather Underground - ‘Swords in the Hands of Children’ is Jonathan Lerner’s passionate tale of his adventures as a young, gay insurgent. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | Septem...
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...
Trivial Knot

What is a symmetry group? - This is the first part of a series about symmetry in origami. Here I will explain what a symmetry group is through a series of examples. This heart illustr...
South Lawn

Democracy Is More Than A Ballot Every Two Years - There is a common sense about democracy in the United States. We elect people to government. By and large, we allow them to do their work. If we like their...
Ecosophia

September 2017 Book Club - This week’s post is the third of a monthly series of open-discussion posts focusing on books I’ve written. Our theme for the present is my book Mystery T...
Other Words

In OtherWords: September 13, 2017 - As our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it's also becoming poorer.
Political Orphans

Special election results since Trump - How about something hopeful for a change?
Great American Satan

Great Moments in TV Badassery - I’m rewatching Daredevil in bits and pieces. Came across a great scene, wanted to mention it and talk just a little about it, but this conversation will ge...
ExChristian.Net

Why the Old Testament is so silly - *By John Draper ~ * Back when I was a Christian, it was important to me to always have the Word of God close at hand. So I would keep a “pocket Bible” on m...
Ramona's Voices

Reporting In: Getting My Life Back - Yesterday, 9/11/17, was a bittersweet day for me. I couldn't forget it marked the 16th anniversary of the day the Twin Towers went down in NYC, but the da...
Quartz

In Tanzania, making Atlas work for traditional media outfits like newspapers and radio - The Atlas for Africa training in Tanzania took place at two of the country’s most prestigious newsrooms. The first training was held at the BBC Swahili o...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

September is the start of the State Employee Charitable Campaign - Texas State employees have the option to give to charities of their choice through a workplace giving campaign and September is the start of their campai...
UP@NIGHT

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

You might think I'm crazy - Dept. of Google Doing Evil: *Note: Barry C. Lynn mentioned herein is a different fellow from Barry W. Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church a...
ROAR Magazine

Municipalist syndicalism: organizing the new working class - By adopting a municipalist agenda, the labor movements of the new working class have the power to democratize not just the union, but also the city itsel...
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...
Daily Democracy

Debunking Kobach’s latest voter fraud lie - Kris Kobach is at it again, claiming he’s found “proof” of large scale voter fraud. He hasn’t. And he’s doing something particularly sneaky that’s worth ex...
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 ...
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 9/7/2017 - It's been a terrific spring and summer, busy with a lot of projects, and now about midway done with all of them. I have some plans for this site in the n...
PERRspectives

Trump, GOP Demand Blue State Payback - In recent years, "red state socialism" has become the hallmark of American federalism. That is, even as supposed GOP budget hawks loudly (and wrongly) decr...
Pensito Review

The Looming Republican Rebellion - “I think there’s going to be a rebellion against everybody, not just leadership. If we get to December and we’ve not repealed Obamacare, don’t build the wa...
Texans For Public Justice

In Harvey's wake, critics see big money behind lax reporting - From the Texas Tribune: In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, an exploding chemical plant and spikes in cancer-causing emissions are highlighting how little th...
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...
John Laurits

Antifa Is Good, Nazis Are Bad: Confusing Free Speech w/ the Right to a Platform - Antifa Is Good, Nazis Are Bad: Confusing Free Speech w/ the Right to a Platform Is antifa shutting down free speech by punching neo-nazis & fascists? A ...
Moron Majority

Trump To Return Statue Of Liberty To France - Donald Trump is deporting Lady Liberty. By way of a controversial executive order signed yesterday, Trump is packing up the iconic symbol of American freed...
LawFlog

White House petition to release FBI records surpasses 50,000 signatures - A petition asking the Trump Administration to order the FBI to release records related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation surpassed 50,000 signatur...
Our Finite World

Why Oil Prices Can’t Bounce Very High; Expect Deflation Instead - Economists have given us a model of how prices and quantities of goods are supposed to interact. Unfortunately, this model is woefully inadequate. It sort ...
Popehat

Hate Speech Debate on More Perfect Live - I'm a huge fan of Radiolab's Supreme Court podcast "More Perfect," so I'm thrilled to be participating in a live debate this Wednesday September 6, 2017. I...
Digital Heretic

Hurricane Harvey Victims Find Relief From Houston’s Rice Military, Heights Neighborhoods - In the wake of historic floods thousands of Houston area residents Piece together the remnants of what Hurricane Harvey destroyed. Others spared Harvey’s...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

Right-Wing Propaganda Never Sleeps - *It's better to burn America, 'cause Propaganda never sleeps...* Lost amongst the hillarity felt by smug liberals to the conservative *WHATABOUT *President...
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...
Texas Watch

Valid Concerns on Valid Claims - The threat to property owners filing insurance claims in the wake of Hurricane Harvey is real. Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature passed HB 1774, ...
New Progressive Alliance

Beware the Trump Administration - The New Progressive Alliance keeps references that allies and friends may use in support of the Unified Platform such as Make Your Case! One of our reso...
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...
Bay Area Houston

From the Party of Lincoln to the Party for racists - I've said it before but I am now convinced it is true. Remember when we used to say "Not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans"? Th...
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...
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...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Thanks, Capitalism - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
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...
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...
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,"...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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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