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Axios

What they're saying: Lawmakers sound off on Trump's child separation order - President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aiming to end his administration's intensely controversial family separation policy. *What they're...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump's incompetence on immigration putting LGBTQ asylym seekers at risk - Let's not forget how Trump's anti-immigration policies endangers those seeking asylum, such as Robel Hailu, Hailu is an Ethiopian who cannot go back to ...
Splinter

White Supremacist Jason Kessler Gets Approval for D.C. Rally on Charlottesville Anniversary - Jason Kessler, a white supremacist and organizer of last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville which resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, ha...
Raw Story

An ex-Jehovah’s Witness says she was raped at 5 — and forced to hug her rapist to ‘keep the peace’ - It should come as no surprise that the Catholic Church is not the only insular religious institution that would allow child sex abuse to go unchecked for...
Vox

The 2,300 migrant kids already separated won’t immediately be reunited with parents - [image: Protest against family separation in San Francisco, California on June 19.] An official with the Department of Health and Human Services said they...
SCOTUSblog

The Return of Relist Watch - [image: The Return of Relist Watch]John Elwood provides useless blather to accompany Monday’s relists. I apologize for slacking off last week, but I was ...
Down With Tyranny!

November: Democrats Are Counting On A Wave, While Republicans Count On Gerrymandered Districts - Monday morning, the right-wing *Washington Examiner* tried painting a picture that the Blue Wave is no sure thing. I guess they hoped no one would dig do...
The Week

Ivanka Trump thanks her father for ending border separation policy he started - Ivanka Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening how thrilled she is that her dad, President Trump, signed an executive order that stops the separation of child...
memeorandum

De Blasio: 239 immigrant children separated at border are in East Harlem (New York Daily News) - New York Daily News: *De Blasio: 239 immigrant children separated at border are in East Harlem* — There are 239 immigrant children separated from their...
Talking Points Memo

Few Answers For Thousands Of Families Already Separated By Admin Policy - President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that he said would prioritize keeping migrant families together while maintaining...
National Post

‘Soul of kindness’: Daughter’s murder turned Suman Virk into tireless anti-bullying advocate - Virk’s death over the weekend sparked an outpouring of condolences. In 1997, her 14-year-old daughter, Reena, was murdered in Victoria, B.C., by a group of...
VICE

Is 'The Incredibles 2' Actually a Sexy Film? An Investigation - You may not like the answer.
The Intercept

The U.S. Has Conducted 550 Drone Strikes in Libya Since 2011 — More Than in Somalia, Yemen, or Pakistan - Libya has served as a laboratory for new drone warfare tactics. The post The U.S. Has Conducted 550 Drone Strikes in Libya Since 2011 — More Than in Soma...
Hullabaloo

Their hero - *Their hero* by digby I guess the dupes who listen to Hannity now think Trump "stepped in" and saved the day. .@SecNielsen kisses up to Trump: "I just...
Sputnik News

Diego Costa Named Man of Match After Scoring Winner Against Iran - KAZAN (Sputnik) - Spain forward Diego Costa was named the man of the match after his goal gave his squad a 1-0 victory over Iran in their World Cup Group B...
Lewisville Texan Journal

From the Desk of Bobbie Mitchell, Denton County Commissioner Pct. 3 – July 2018 - Want to stay connected to Denton County? Watch for my column each month for updates and events happening in Precinct 3 and around the county. Denton County...
OpEd News

Is Anti-War Fever Building in the U.S.? - How different the outcomes are when the public indicates policy preferences with their votes versus polling data. DC politicians of both parties ignore pol...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Cohen resigns from RNC post, citing family separation policy - According to ABC News, Cohen cited his ongoing legal troubles as a reason for his departure. However, in a resignation letter to RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romne...
The Verge

Westworld’s free Alexa game is like a radio drama crossed with a quiz show - *Westworld *is known for slipping elaborate story hints into its viral marketing material, giving fans an early look at upcoming plot developments. *Wes...
Mediaite

WATCH LIVE: Trump Holds Rally in Duluth - President Donald Trump will be holding a roundtable discussion and a rally in Duluth, MN on protecting American workers Wednesday night.
Daily Kos

Wife of delivery man detained by ICE: 'Every day my daughters ask, ‘Why is daddy not with us?’' - Campaign Action It’ll soon be two weeks since a federal judge slammed Pablo Villavicencio’s imminent deportation to a screeching halt, yet the husband a...
Election Law Blog

“Kobach Finally Tells Clerks To Comply With Court Order On Proof-of-Citizenship” - Tierney Sneed for TPM: After two days of confusion — with some but not all county election officials enforcing a Kansas voting restriction struck down by a...
Wolf Street

Why a US-Style Housing Bust & Mortgage Crisis Can Happen in Canada, Australia, and Other Bubble Markets - Despite persistent and false memes to the contrary.
Think Progress

4 things you need to know about Trump’s new immigration order - After mounting pressure from activists and concerned Americans, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday hoping to find an end to the famil...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

TRUMP CAVES - A couple of hours ago, Trump finally caved on his idiotic immigration policy that was separating thousands of innocent kids from their parents who were try...
Space City Weather

Storms hitting Houston at rush hour, but they’re moving - As a low-pressure system that had been southwest of Houston—and produced significant flooding in Valley locations such as Welasco today—has begun to be pul...
Political Orphans

America is a Nation of Immigrant Panics - This is the unspoken American Dream, embraced by centuries of immigrants to this country: If I work hard and experience success, one day my grandchildren c...
Progrexas

Lawmakers focus on flaws in Texas Medicaid program after Dallas Morning News investigation - State lawmakers spent hours Wednesday pressing state officials, along with private companies that manage health care for Medicaid recipients, about a rec...
AlterNet.org

Here Are 5 Major Problems with Trump's Executive Order Supposedly Stopping Family Separations - Trump change his tune under pressure, but will it make any real difference? President Donald Trump presented the executive order he signed Wednesday as a ...
Slate

The Enduring Illusion of Powerful Men - Under massive public pressure—from his opponents, from his party, from the world—Trump has signed an executive order ending his own administration’s new ...
Houston Matters

How The Toxic Stress Of Family Separation Can Harm A Child - “Taking children away from their mothers is harmful to them. There’s nothing complicated about that.”
Dissident Voice

Protect Immigrants’ Rights: End The Crises That Drive Migration - Immigrant rights are human rights (Susan Melkisethian from flickr) The ugliness of US immigration policy is once again evident. There is national outrage t...
The Greanville Post

DECADENT HOLLYWOOD STRIKES AGAIN: Ocean’s 8: A “gender-swapped” caper - CARLOS DELGADO—The creatively bankrupt Hollywood studio machinery, which seems increasingly incapable of doing anything but churning out sequels, remakes, ...
Mother Jones

These Republican Candidates Think Family Separation Is a Winning Issue - On Monday, retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker (R) took a stand against the Trump administration policy that separates children from parents who are prosec...
Washington's Blog

How the New York Times Lies About Lies: Obama v. Trump as Example - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Although the New York Times says that President Donald Trump lies vastly more than did President Ba...
Field Negro

trump makes a calculated political decision. - [image: TWEET ME]*"Trump signed the order and made the announcement to reporters while flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Homeland Security Secretary...
Somervell County Salon

Finally Trump Issues an Executive Order to Fix the Mess HE Created -How Will He Fix it for the Missing Children? - I guess Trump didn't like looking like a complete monster, although he was sure willing to hold those kids hostage in order to get a wall bill through th...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Most Promising Players In The NBA Draft According To My Computer - We usually don’t release our CARMELO NBA projections until after the NBA draft. But this year, in an effort to procrastinate from other modelling-related t...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Plastics, Pipelines, Fracking & Our Planet June 20, 2018 (5CT/ 6MT/ 7CT/ 8ET) - Fracking doesn’t just fuel power plants, it also provides raw materials to the petrochemical industry. Producing plastics and other petrochemical products ...
San Antonio Current

Sexology Institute Screening Gay Teen Romance Love, Simon In Honor of Pride Month - With Pride month in full swing, it should come as no surprise that folks are already revisiting *Love, Simon*, a PG-13 film we dubbed “the most accessible...
Political Dig

Michael Cohen Turns On Trump, Sends Scorching Letter Condemning His Policies: Report - Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has been in the eye of special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his Russia investigation, so the latest r...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 8 things to do in Houston this weekend - Sure, it's been raining for more than a minute in Houston. But since the summer season officially starts this weekend -- and the weather forecast predicts...
Above the Law

Proctologist v. Legal Technologist: Who Would You Rather Expose Your Briefs? - Your briefs are out there, what do they say about you?
Salon.com

Promising cruelty-free travel in an increasingly cruel world, vegan tourism makes a strong play - As the specialty tourism industry leans in, the pleasures and perils of traveling while vegan become clearer
Speak Freely (ACLU)

In Georgia, Imprisoned Deaf and Disabled People Don’t Stand a Chance - The Georgia Department of Corrections is failing its obligations to deaf prisoners at every stage. In Georgia, deaf people ensnared in the criminal legal ...
Pajiba

TV Jobs: Where You've Had Three Full Careers by 35 - My 600-lbs Life on TLC at 8:00pm ET. I haven't been mentioning TLC lately because it was just depressing for a while, but now everything is depressing so w...
ProPublica

Federal Judge to Consider Independent Monitor for Illinois Child Welfare Agency - by Duaa Eldeib The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois asked a federal judge on Wednesday to take the rare step of appointing a “special master” ...
Grit Post

Federal Officials Forcefully Drugging Migrant Children Separated from Their Parents - The policy of “zero tolerance” that caused immigrant children to be separated from their families sparked such backlash that Trump abruptly reversed cour...
NPR's Health Shots

Separating Kids From Their Parents Can Lead To Long-Term Health Problems - Though the federal government is changing its policy of separating immigrant children and parents, some children who were detained may suffer ongoing healt...
Courthouse News

Nightly Brief - Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump signing an executive order ending his administration’s controversial policy of separating fami...
Buzzflash

Trump’s Immigration Ploy - Trump’s Immigration Ploy 4.5/*5* rating (4 votes)
Rewire

Experts Warn Trump’s New Health Rule Will Raise Premiums for Quality Care - The New York and Massachusetts attorneys general have already announced a lawsuit challenging the new rule. The post Experts Warn Trump’s New Health Rule...
Texas Freedom Network

The Party Platform Confirms It: Culture Warriors Still Control the Texas GOP - In case you didn’t know, the religious right still has the Texas Republican Party firmly in its grip. Just check out the platform adopted at the party co...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: The Religious Right’s 50 State Strategy - Dara Lind @ Vox: The executive order Trump claims will end family separation, explained. Caroline Orr @ Shareblue: Corey Lewandowski mocks child with Down ...
Texas Monthly

Southwest Key Hired Child Case Manager Previously Arrested for Child Pornography - The man, a former Border Patrol agent, worked directly with children. The post Southwest Key Hired Child Case Manager Previously Arrested for Child Porno...
Swamplot

Comment of the Day: The Sleepy Streets Harris County Flood Buyouts Left Behind - There is a community close to 290 and Windfern, on Cole Creek Dr. and another near Fairbanks and Hollister on Woodland West. Deep in the flood neighborhood...
Common Dreams

House Democrats Propose Bill to Counter Trump's 'Dangerous' Executive Order to Lock Up Families Indefinitely - Julia Conley, staff writer Calling President Donald Trump's executive order to end family separation "dangerous" and "disgusting," House Democrats on Wednes...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump's cruel border policies created a needless crisis. It's far from over | Richard Wolffe - The US president has reversed his position on family separations. But we are not about to see a humane policy replacing an inhumane one Was it the “tende...
Daily Dot

Lucasfilm reportedly shelves ‘Star Wars’ spinoff movies - [image: obi-wan kenobi] The move arrives after 'Solo's disappointing box office performance. The post Lucasfilm reportedly shelves ‘Star Wars’ spinoff movi...
BEYONDbones

A Surprisingly Simple Recipe For Science-Minded Runners! - HMNS’ Dino Dash virtual 5k is under way! We talked about the rules for the event, and the benefits of running a vitual 5 k, in a previous blog that you can...
Bracing Views

America’s Unwinnable Wars - W.J. Astore Back in January of 2010, I wrote the following article as a thought experiment on whether Obama’s “surge” in Afghanistan would succeed or fail....
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - Enjoy
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Trump Solution: Lock Them Up Together, Indefinitely - In face of the backlash from the media, the public and even Republicans, Donald Trump backed away from forcibly separating children from their families. Hi...
Crooks and Liars

Chris Hayes Masterfully Likens Trump To Nazis Without Using The Word - [image: Chris Hayes Masterfully Likens Trump To Nazis Without Using The Word] If you're a cable news host, there are certain niceties and norms which must...
Rivard Report

HDRC Approves Landscaping Plan for Downtown Park Near Frost Tower - HDRC on Wednesday gave final approval for plans to landscape the downtown park located next to the ascending Frost Bank Tower. The post HDRC Approves Lan...
Morning Consult

Most Americans Now Believe Russia Will Likely Meddle in Midterms - The post Most Americans Now Believe Russia Will Likely Meddle in Midterms appeared first on Morning Consult.
SocraticGadfly

Family separations in ICE cages end; what next? - Here's the Trump executive order ending the family separations. So now, to the "what next"? First, beyond any current "tent cities" that will be used for ...
Texas Observer

It’s Time to Decriminalize Immigration - This week, the news has been dominated by horrifying scenes from the border of children being ripped apart from their parents who the federal government ...
Independent Political Report

Families Belong Together Rally - On June 28th, families, advocates, and allies will rally in the park across the street from the *Brownsville Federal Court*, where immigrants are being p...
Portside

The Right Poetry Collection For Right Now - The Right Poetry Collection For Right Now Geoffrey Wed, 06/20/2018 - 16:24
Shadowproof

Seattle Activists Regroup After Amazon, Other Corporations Defeat Tax To Fund Affordable Housing - Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant and activist organizations regroup after head tax on Amazon and other large corporations was repealed. The post...
In These Times

Trump’s Order Says Immigrant Families Can Be Jailed Together, But What They Deserve Is Freedom - Following nationwide outrage and large-scale protests, including a blockade of an immigrant prison in Portland, Ore., on June 20 President Donald Trump s...
News Corpse

Trump: ‘I’d Rather Be Strong’ and Heartless than Be ‘Overrun With Millions’ of Criminal Immigrants - The president who called immigrants “animals” and described them as “infesting” America has backed down on his abhorrent policy that ripped children from t...
Angry Bear

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - A piece of work is Professor Walter E. Williams of George Mason University. Back in February, I flagged a column by Williams in which the nimble prof perfo...
Independent Thinker 2016

“But Obama Did It First” – The Truth About Trump’s Immigration Policy vs Obama’s Immigration Policy - Clearing up a common misconception about The Deporter in Chief.
DeSmogBlog

Scott Pruitt Is An Ethics Nightmare, But So Is Ryan Zinke - Read time: 10 mins *By David Halperin, crossposted from Republic Report* A Westerner appointed to President Trump’s cabinet, he’s drawn attention for his ...
Reverb Press

Trump’s Sec. of State Ripped for ‘Tone Deaf’ World Refugee Day Statement – Twitter Furious - As the world watches with horror as Trump rips families apart, Secretary of State Pompeo brags about treatment of refugees. Twitter is not being kind. Th...
Dandelion Salad

Why Are the Poor Patriotic? by David Swanson - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, June 15, 2018 June 20, 2018 We should be very grateful to Francesco Duina for his new book, B...
The Conversation

Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel - There are strong parallels between the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families and the 19th century's 'New' Poor Laws of England, whose cruelty...
Houstonia

The Rockets/Warriors Rivalry Has a New Battleground: Yelp - Rockets fans are turning to the International Smoke Yelp page to unleash their frustration with the NBA playoffs.
Earthjustice

Stopping the Big Florida Swindle - Stopping the Big Florida Swindle Florida legislators stole funds earmarked for conservation to pay for salaries and agency-operating expenses. On behalf of...
Disobedient Media

Hungary Restricts Immigration Amid Feud With Soros - On Wednesday, the Hungarian parliament approved a number of bills which would criminalize some kinds of assistance given to illegal […]
Newsbud

North Korea – Sabotage & the US-China Conspiracy to Rule the World - The race is on between Donald Trump and the Democrats. Who can screw up Asia quicker? Can the Democrats sabotage Trump’s North Korea deal first? Or will ...
Anti-Media

New EU Rules Could Ban Memes and Destroy the Internet as We Know It - [image: Ban Memes](CD) — The European Union (EU) on Wednesday took a step toward enacting new internet copyright rules that experts warn pose “an imminent ...
Washington Monthly

Trump’s Biggest Lie of All - The president paints a picture of American in which we are all as ignorant, weak and cowardly as his is.
Free Press Houston

Texas GOP Endorses Decriminalizing Marijuana - Hopefully the GOP leadership will listen to rank and file Republicans and consider marijuana reform a priority next year.
Grist

The Koch brothers hate public transit. But they can’t always stop projects in their tracks. - The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity has been fighting public transit across the country for years. Here's where they've succeeded and failed.
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Things you never hear about! - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018Dumbest culture ever:* Basically, it's against the law for upper-end journalists to report basic information. Especially on "cab...
Ring of Fire

Michael Cohen Is Apparently Ready To Flip On Trump And Give Mueller Everything - According to a close friend of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer is fed up with the fact that President won’t defend him or pay his legal bills, so Co...
No More Mister Nice Blog

TRUMP APPEARS TO CAPITULATE, AND GATEWAY PUNDIT'S READERS BLAME THE REAL ENEMIES (DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA) - What the White House has announced today will result in much longer incarceration of children, albeit with their parents, but it's a concession of sorts: ...
The NM Political Report

Poll: Lujan Grisham leads Pearce in governor’s race - [image: Poll: Lujan Grisham leads Pearce in governor’s race] A new poll shows that Democrats lead in statewide races, while Republicans are currently in th...
Washington Babylon

Kamala Harris’s Appalling Hypocrisy on ICE - One of my very least favorite politicians at the moment is Kamala Harris. I dislike her for a wide variety of reasons: she’s been incredibly damaging to th...
Dallas Observer

As Trump Ends Family Separation, Dallas County Still Prepared to Help - President Donald Trump announced early Wednesday afternoon that he will end the policy of separating immigrant children from their families, initiated by t...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/20/2018 - Patient readers, Again, I ended up writing a few mini-essays and not getting to everything else I wanted to do, so expect a bit more shortly, especially on...
Liberal Values

New Book Claims To Reveal “What Really Happened” - This looks like something to check out. An anonymous author has written a book debunking Hillary Clinton’s lies in What Happened. We know Clinton lied thro...
The Contributor

Trump Says He Will Sign Order to Save Children From Horror He Created - News Image: "Trump can sign all the executive orders he wants. It won't change the fact that his administration chose to rip infants out of their parents ...
Texas Standard

Congress Considers Proposals To Halt Family Separation - “It’s a compromise within the party, with very extreme right-wing Republicans and some that are more moderate.”
Latino Rebels

Why on Earth a Country of Laws and Borders? - When Sessions and Trump impose their immigration policies and practices on the rest of us, they seek to dominate us.
Eater Houston

Finn Hall Will Be Home to Two Exciting Cocktail Bars - Newly-announced watering hole St. Jac’s will join Swallow’s Nest at the Downtown development As forthcoming food destination *Finn Hall *inches closer t...
emptywheel

Angry Mom: I See Dead Children - The Trump administration has been planning these 'death camps' for a year. Don't tell me it's hyperbole when they can't show us the girls and babies.
Popular Resistance

Demonstrators Want Trump To Pardon Assange - Mr. Zeese, co-director of the social justice group Popular Resistance, and about 15 fellow demonstrators braved the blazing sun and sticky humidity outside...
Consortium News

The Pentagon Expands Its Provocative Encirclement of China - It failed to make headlines, but the recent change in name of the U.S. Pacific Command is an ominous sign of a coming U.S. confrontation with China, argues...
Mahablog

Today’s Family Separation Headlines - I didn’t watch MSNBC last night, but I was told that everyone on it was having a breakdown. The headlines alone tell quite a story — APNewsBreak: Youngest ...
The Root

Amazon Opens Up Their Fashion Subscription Box To All Prime Members - Amazon announced their fashion subscription box, Prime Wardrobe, last year. But today, it’s officially being rolled out to all their Prime Members as par...
Ecosophia

An Astrological Interlude: Cancer Ingress 2018 - Three months ago, we marked the beginning of the astrological year by discussing the Aries ingress chart for the United States. Those of you who weren’t ...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Get-Tough Policies Are Making the Border Crisis Worse - Nothing about Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach is addressing the root cause of migration.
Crooked Timber

Not in our name - For as long as I can remember, the philosopher’s stock example of a proposition that is morally controversial has been “torturing babies is wrong”. Yet it ...
Ballot Access News

Tenth Circuit Won’t Rehear Utah Republican Party Appeal - On June 8, the Tenth Circuit refused to reconsider its earlier decision in Utah Republican Party v Cox, 16-4091. The earlier decision said that the Utah pr...
Bonddad

Further comments about the state of the housing market - *- by New Deal democrat* Here are some additional salient comments about the housing market right now. 1. Existing home sales are completely stagnant N...
MintPress News

The Insanity of the American Anti-Trump, Pro-War Left - What’s becoming ever clearer is that Democratic Party establishment and its media surrogates are no longer part of ‘the Left’ as it was once traditionall...
Political Garbage Chute

5 Year Old Guatemalan Girl Pretty Adorable In Her Wee Cage Inside Her Sweet Little Concentration Camp - RIO DE VERGONZOSO, TEXAS — She’s frightened, terrified, even. She’s lonely most of the time, and she’s convinced at this point she may never... The post ...
First Reading

`I did win, right?’ George P. Bush on being booed at the Republican Convention - ‘ Good day Austin: I headed to the Republican State Convention a week ago Monday, and was there all week. But somehow, I very nearly missed…
First Draft

Kirstjen’s Katrina Connection - It had to happen. Some pundits are calling the caged children scandal “Trump’s Katrina.” First, former Failing NYT editor Jill Abramson in the former Manch...
Peacock Panache

Poverty and Social Capital - [image: Poverty and Social Capital] One of the least-recognized consequences of the gap between rich and poor and the growth and perpetuation of the ALICE ...
Church and State

How will religious institutions cope with technological immortality? - If uploading one’s mind becomes an option, I foresee a period of denial and rejection. But eventually, religious institutions will have to come around.
Duck of Minerva

Pressing politics: #metoo and UK Universities - This is a guest post from Katharine A. M. Wright, a Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on gender and internat...
Pharyngula

Visceral horror - For years, I was involved in these uncomfortable debates within the atheist community where one side would argue “Reason and Science!” and the other would ...
The Progressive Wing

5 Key Issues with Alexandria - Election Day is right around the corner (June 26th!), so we’re making sure the constituents of NY-14 know what specific legislation the political revolutio...
Duffel Blog

Lost Space Force lieutenant wanders into wormhole - [image: Lost Space Force Lieutenant Wanders Into Wormhole] SPACE — While training with the inaugural class of the recently announced U.S. Space Force, sou...
Grits for Breakfast

Going soft on crustacean crime?, or, Counting crimes: Texans can commit either 3, 7, 11, 13, or 16 different felonies with an oyster - A scene from the greatest oyster- related crime in history.How many felony offenses are there in Texas? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Ul...
Houston Press

Celebrating the Summer Solstice Around Houston - Pagans or not, humans throughout the Northern Hemisphere mark this Thursday as the Summer Solstice, the day marking the longest day and the shortest night ...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

THE UGLY AMERICAN - Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric is as hateful as ever https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/racist-demagogue [Trump] "Democrats are the problem. They don’...
Democracy Now!

Seymour Hersh on Torture at Abu Ghraib & Secret U.S. Assassination Programs - In 2004, investigative reporter Sy Hersh exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq that shocked the world. Shocking photos of U.S. military per...
Simple Justice

Jesse’s Girl - At The Atlantic, Jesse Singal wrote about the unspoken side of the transgender issue. There has been significant “growth” in the issue, but there are some ...
Dorf on Law

Fourth Amendment and Article III Standing - by Sherry F. Colb My column for this week considers the recent case of Byrd v. United States. The US Supreme Court held there that if police unreasonably s...
Off the Kuff

Mayor Turner says “No!” to the child detention warehouse - […]
Counterpunch

Trump’s War on Children is an act of State Terrorism - State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. Separating children from their pa...
skippy the bush kangaroo

wednesday morning coffee - the government has no plan for reunited immigrant families the dire consequences of giving private companies responsibility for public water systems has...
Rallblog

Rudy Guiliani Just Triggers a Major Backlash Against Slut-Shaming - Former New York mayor and now Donald Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani says that we shouldn’t believe porn star Stormy Daniels because she works in pornogr...
Echidne of the Snakes

Womp, Womp - The title of this post consists of two words uttered by Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski: *Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10...
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of June 18th - The Texas Progressive Alliance strongly condemns the inhumane practice of separating families from their children as it brings you its weekly roundup. Off ...
Popehat

Randazza: Trump, Twitter, The NFL, and Everything - By Marc J. Randazza The NFL says that players must stand (or remain in the locker room) during the National Anthem. No more "taking a knee." In the same we...
jobsanger

Challenge The Wrongs -
Socialist Worker

Will a racist get back his power to deport? - Mara García Viloria and Joel Sronce Angry protests greeted the news that a North Carolina county sheriff may be allowed back into the deportation business...
World Socialist Web Site

Assets of world’s “high net wealth” millionaires surged to $70 trillion in 2017 - The stock market boom and the entire process of social plunder have depended on the suppression of working class opposition and a savage attack on workers’...
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Texas Republicans defend, criticize Trump over family separations -
Informed Comment

Climate Terror Stalks us, and We Yawn– 3 Decades Later - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American (and world) public was informed about the dangers of global heating 30 years ago this week, on June 23, 1988, b...
Antiwar.com

ISIS Kidnappings Increase Significantly; 37 Killed in Iraq - Reports of kidnappings by Islamic State militants increased significantly in the last few days. The post ISIS Kidnappings Increase Significantly; 37 Kil...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

See the world – love this Subaru Outback ad - If you know people who seek outdoor adventure, each one of them probably has a great story sorta like this one. Excellence in advertising. Advertisements
Liberation News

Ca. undemocratic election process: Capitalist candidates win again – socialists gain - [image: Peace and Freedom Party campaign launch at State Capitol. Liberation Photo.] Ultimately, it is the struggle in the streets, that really effects cha...
The Reality-Based Community

The monuments at Pere Lachaise cemetery - I wept Sunday, placing stones at various Holocaust memorials at Paris’s Pere Lachaise. I cried remembering various survivors I have known, many now deceas...
Brad Blog

Judge Strikes Down Kansas 'Proof of Citizenship' Voting Law, Slaps Humiliating Sanction on Kobach: 'BradCast' 6/19/2018 - On today's BradCast: GOPers in D.C. try to overcome Trump's wildly unpopular new border policy and Kansas' Secretary of State loses again in court and face...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

On human rights and wrongs in Switzerland and Nicaragua - *Reflections on the US leaving the UN Human Rights Council and the continuing bloodshed in Nicaragua today.* The decision of the United States to leave t...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

Secret Science Club Post-Lecture Recap: Astrobiology and the Anthropocene - 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 astrophys...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Are Costly Flood Basins Proposed Where Natural Basins Already Exist on Buffalo Bayou? - Swales Holding Overflow May Be Natural Remnants of Bayou’s Original Meanders Tree Stumps, Mustang Grapes, and Mental Health June 19, 2018 Went for a stroll...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Zero-tolerance policy separating families is new, and 'horrific,' ex-Customs and Border chief says - Despite countering claims, the policy is new, and ‘horrific,’ says former Customs and Border chief
slacktivist

Romans 13 and the Gettysburg Address - We're not first-century subjects of an emperor. We shouldn't be reading Romans 13 as about our accountability TO government, but as about our accountabilit...
Freethought Now

‘Suffer the children’ indeed, a biblical precept - As the unbelievable continues to happen in the United States of America — our federal government separating refugees at our south border from their childre...
News Taco

Trump’s family separation at the border: a visual explainer - Each day, dozens of immigrant families come to the US-Mexico border seeking asylum — and now the parents are being told that they’ve broken the law, are ...
Better Texas Blog

Take Action: Harsh “Public Charge” Policy Threatens Texas Families - Image via Kaiser Family Foundation Nearly 2 Million Texans Could Lose Health Care, Food, and More under this Harsh Federal Proposal Texas parents should ...
Krebs on Security

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties - In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile ph...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

Coal-Fired Power Plant with Carbon Capture – Cutting Emissions or Increasing Them? - Petra Nova, the world’s largest post-combustion carbon capture project, has been in commercial operation at the W. A. Parish Plant in Thompsons, Texas, s...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Oligarchy is inciting suicide increase then creating propaganda to distract from truth! - I don't want to be cynical every time the media goes into obsession mode after a famous celebrity dies, while ignoring the lives of the vast majority of...
Trivial Knot

Muddling the Dunning-Kruger Effect - The Dunning-Kruger Effect states that people with the lowest competence tend to overrate their competence, but people with the highest competence tend to u...
Moron Majority

U.S. Offers Free Summer Camp To Migrant Children - Leave it to Fox News host Laura Ingraham to set the record straight. While some have called the federal detention centers, set up for brown children seekin...
Rude Pundit

The Cold Political Calculus of Taking Away the Children of Migrants - We are at a moment in our history that demands action. It demands that people fuck shit up. We hope they do it by protesting, by voting, or with legislatio...
Louis Proyect

Commentary on Sovietologist Stephen Kotkin - Two days ago, I was invited by an old Bardian (literally and figuratively) to comment on the lecture above given by Stephen Kotkin to the National History ...
The Ghion Journal

Note to the Broken - It is easy to share stories of resiliency once we have gone through the fires and emerged on the other side feeling like we have been made better through...
Campaign for America's Future

Children Say NO! to Family Separations by ICE - Every child understands the pain losing one’s loved ones – even for a moment – can cause. So children have plenty to say about the U.S. government’s separa...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Jacob Rosenberg - Donald Trump admires North Korean state TV, the Supreme Court upholds Ohio’s ability to purge voters from its rolls, a woman sues NASA to keep her moondust
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is a War With China on the Horizon? - On May 30th, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy...
Lowering the Bar

Australian Cyborg’s Conviction Overturned on Appeal - In which an Australian "biohacker" beats the rap. Related Stories - First Amendment Exceptions That Might Allow Banning the Utah Legislatu...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

J.K. Gibson-Graham, Take Back the Economy - I first became aware of the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham a few years ago, when a friend recommended that I read their seminal work The End of Capitalism (A...
Ian Welsh

The Roots of Trump’s Policy of Separating Children from Parents - So, you’ve all heard about this by now. It is, obviously, a terrible crime. And yeah, evil. It is an extension of Obama’s policy of holding families (witho...
Reading the Pictures

On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now - I know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now. The post On the...
Nathan Hevenstone

Let’s Talk About Ableism and Intelligence – Part 3 – A Challenge - Content Note: This series discusses ableist slurs. Many of them will be used in full. You are also allowed to use them in the comments only if it’s for the...
Modern Democracy

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge: The 5 D’s of the Gill v. Whitford Decision - In 2004, Justice Scalia led a plurality in Vieth v. Jubelirer that attempted to affirmatively hold partisan gerrymandering claims to be “non-ju...
Seeing the Forest

The Saddest Song Right Now - Ry Cooder / Across The Borderline There’s a place where I’ve been told Every street is paved with gold And it’s just across the borderline And when it’s ti...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Ralph Lewis, "Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If the Universe Doesn't" - This definitive book by Dr. Lewis is a must have one! I wrote a blurb for it: The question of life’s purpose is probably the main reason believers cannot...
OffCite

Planning and Zoning in Houston: A Cite Literature Review by Falon Mihalic - View from Hartman Park, Manchester, Houston. Photo: Paul Hester.This literature review of discussions in Cite since 1982 around Houston’s modern planning h...
Socialist Alternative

Iran: Escalation of Economic Crisis and Surge of Public Discontent - P. Daryaban, CWI Three months after the December-January protests that shook the country, Iran is still a smouldering fire. Despite killing dozens of prote...
Frontloading HQ

Revived March Presidential Primary Bill Passes North Carolina Senate - After over a year on the back burner, legislation to solidify the date of the North Carolina presidential was resurrected by the state Senate on June 12. ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Putin: Olympic Venues in Sochi Are “Very Busy" - Not every sports venue in Sochi built for the 22nd Winter Olympic Games 2014 remains busy throughout the year, contrary to Vladimir Putin’s claim. Most ven...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Kasich: There’s a disease in American politics - Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Monday said there’s a “serious disease” affecting U.S. politics.“There’s a disease now in American politics. It’s a serious di...
Greg Palast

Why we are suing Ohio and Kansas We CAN Reverse Purges - by Greg Palast for The Palast Investigative Fund The Supreme Court decision blessing the purge of half a million voters in Ohio is NOT the last word. On ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

I hope this helps you understand - *“Report: Netflix Bans Employees from Looking at Each Other for More Than Five Seconds.” *By now you have seen this news headline, or else not, it’s all t...
Talking Union

Reject the Republican Repressive Immigration Bills - Republicans in Congress have rejected a way to fix DACA and protect Dreamers. Now they are forcing a vote on two cruel bills that hold dreamers hostage to ...
Carl Beijer

What kind of Trump voters can the opposition win? - As the 2018 elections approach, a familiar question has resurfaced: should Democrats - or for that matter, the American left - even *try *to win over Trump...
Pages of Victory

On Father's Day - I last saw my father at the age of three. Fifty years later, I learned he was murdered for his car, in 1948. After ten years spent with an abusive step fat...
Progressive Army

Why I Can’t Celebrate Father’s Day - [image: fathers day] The irony almost slipped right by me even though my hypocrisy-radar is usually fine-tuned. Yet, it nearly missed me: America will be j...
Equality Texas

Equality Texas wants to honor all dads this Father’s Day. - Equality Texas wants to honor all dads this Father’s Day. Frank Gonzales is the father of three precious children. His oldest daughter is transgender and h...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

KLOL would get ratted out by the Houston Chronicle in the 1970s - I told you about Runaway Radio Rewind the other day. runawayradiorewind.com/ It's a video podcast that looks back at the crazy world of rocker 101 KLOL by ...
WAWG Blog

Fighting the PRIVATIZATION of Publicly Owned Documents Can Be Deadly - While corporate bankers get bailed out with public funds for their greedy mistakes and with Net Neutrality changed to enhance corporate greed, citizens are...
Dos Centavos

Trump Planning Baby Jail for Houston - The rumors began with a “job opening” post from Southwest Key, the same “nonprofit” that runs the child jail at the former Wal-Mart in the Valley, that was...
xpostfactoid

Virginia's CSR load should be cut more than in half in 2019 - David Anderson makes a valuable point about an after-effect of latter day Medicaid expansions like Virginia's -- that is, expansion following Trump's cutof...
Stinque

This Is Who We Are - We were born in a 49-state America, which is kinda cool, although we didn’t really think about it until recently. You’d think there’d be some notice of 49-...
Robert Reich

To the Press, after 18 Months of Trump - 1. Stop treating Trump’s tweets as news. 2. Don’t believe a single word that comes out of his...
John Laurits

Brand Marketing a Political Party: Inside the Democrats’ Fake Opposition - Brand Marketing a Political Party: Inside the Democrats’ Fake Opposition For the past 17 months or so, much of the US has been steeped in a continuous eb...
Pensito Review

Parents of Korean War Veterans Have Notably Longer Life Spans - 101 to 110 Average age of the parents of Korean War veterans, who Trump claimed repeatedly came up to him on the 2016 campaign trail, begging him to bring ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two Ways of Thinking About Election Predictions and What They Tell Us About 2018 - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Two approaches to forecasting — one formally statistical, one rigorous yet flexible handicapping — produce different tools t...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 224 - We’re The Intellectual Saviors, Bitch! - It’s been a while but we’re back… for how long? Who the hell knows! This is not the usual show at all, as we play a little catch up on the last few mon...
Texans For Public Justice

Houston Chronicle:Campaign Contributions and the Big Dogs - Editorial on the need for Texas to take action on campaign finance reform. "In our vast state of 30 million, there are only around 30 people who truly con...
Other Words

In OtherWords: June 13, 2018 - Both Trump and his critics should take diplomacy more seriously.
Red Wedge

Realism, Modernism, and the Spectre of Trotsky: Part 2, Greenberg - In the first part of this article I discussed Lukács and his theory of Realism. I now want to turn to Clement Greenberg, “the major theoretical figure of t...
Ramona's Voices

Why it Means Something When De Niro Says it - You could spend many wasteful hours going back through at least 30 years of my public utterances--blogs, essays, articles, comments--but you'll never find ...
DBC Green blog

Horrible & Wonderful & Figuring It Out - Before dbcgreentx.net and I go on a two-week vacation, I feel compelled to copy and paste my latest Goodreads review. Here's my take on Stephanie Wittels W...
LawFlog

Why won’t Seth Rich’s brother authorize Wikileaks to tell what it knows? - It’s time to call somebody’s bluff. On May 30, 2018, I asked lawyers representing Aaron Rich to authorize Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Kim Dotcom to reve...
The Disorder Of Things

Is it Time to Abandon International Interventions and International Relations? A Response to Sabaratnam - This guest post, from Megan Mackenzie, is part of our symposium on Meera Sabaratnam’s Decolonising Intervention. Meera’s opening post, with links to the ot...
The Rag Blog

James Retherford : BOOKS | Little big meshuganah - Jim Retherford does Pat Thomas does Jerry Rubin. By James Retherford | The Rag Blog | June 6, 2018 Pat Thomas, author of DiD iT! and The Rag Blog‘s James R...
Houston Justice

Worthing and Woodson Face Closure or State Takeover - [image: worthing band.jpg] First off, remember months ago when I and others rang the alarm saying these schools were in danger of closure? Remember how s...
Avedon's Sideshow

It could make a million for you overnight - Cristian Farias in *New York Magazine*, "The Supreme Court Has Decided to Shut Workers Out of the Courthouse for Good [...] So high were the stakes in Ep...
Green News Network

Alex Jones Happens to see Bernie Sanders at Airport and Confronts Him - Info-Wars Founder Alex Jones was on vacation, and happened to see who he called "The King of Communism" Bernie Sanders at LA International Airport. Alex...
Downwinders at Risk

It’s Only June But DFW Is Already in Violation of the National Smog Standard - The early start to 100° + days in DFW this spring has meant an early start to high smog levels as well. Although it’s not even summer yet, five official EP...
ExChristian.Net

You've probably heard this before... - *By Josh ~ * Obviously, I am preaching to the choir here, but… Like many here, I grew up in the Christian faith (my mother was yet another who grew up Cat...
Great American Satan

It’s a Simple Choice, Deferring it is Deadly - Abe at Oceanoxia has a post up about oil industry lying for money – looting while the world burns. Mano has a post about about heartless CEOs and the lack ...
Truthout

Cities and States Sue Big Pharma Firms That Profited From Peddling Addictive Opioids - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this year that the city would sue manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids to account for t...
UP@NIGHT

The Productivity Syndrome (or why I stopped writing philosophy) - You are at a conference, wandering around the book exhibit. A former colleague …
Dispatches from the Underclass

Slavery in Libya: Thanks NATO! -
Our Finite World

Our Energy Problem Is a Quantity Problem - (This post consists of a short overview article I recently wrote for Transform, a magazine for Environment and Sustainability Professionals, plus six relat...
ROAR Magazine

The Long Shadow of May ’68 - Fifty years on, contemporary social struggles continue to be shaped in profound ways by the ambivalent legacy of “The Long 1968.” Read more
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Dirty Thirds: Cops, the Mexican Mafia & LA’s disappearing gangs - Los Angeles has seen gang violence plummet in the last decade. Some of the reasons why were on display in two federal criminal conspiracy cases announced...
Pressthink

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...
PERRspectives

Pay-to-Play in the Press: A Case Study - If Donald Trump was a Marvel character, his name might be something like "DeceptiCon." That is, the never-before-seen frequency and magnitude of Trump's li...
Daniel Williams

Interview with KPFT's Queer Voices on History of Texas Sodomy Law - The 15th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, finding Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional, is coming up in June. I had the oppo...
Bad Attitudes

Snowflakes - There is still good in our world, if you look hard enough. Alan Tucker has: There is a new term for those handwringing liberals who whine about poor peop...
Houston Communist Party

New-Orleans-swears-in-its-first-female-mayor-continuing-the-trend-in-black-women-s-leadership - New Orleans swears in its first female mayor, continuing a new trend in black women’s leadership Kelly Macias Daily Kos Staff Monday May 07, 2018 · 1:39 PM...
The Economic Populist

Construction contribution to Q1 GDP under-reported by 47 basis points, despite 1.7% drop in March - Construction spending fell 1.7% in March, after construction spending for both January and February were revised much higher. The Census Bureau's report...
34justice

We Miss the Old Kanye… - Kanye West is oft considered one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. He also supports Trump and recently gave an interview stating his belie...
Real News

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign - By Gareth Porter* / Consortium News * Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but ...
Progressive Memetics

S H O T S -
South Lawn

Dead Workers Don’t Use Elevators, Cherie - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate North Carolina’s Elevator Queen. I do not mean that I hate Cherie Berry as a person. I hate and despise the...
The Texas Politics Project

Governor Abbott (Still) Tops Texans' Evaluations of Elected Officials* - By: Jim Henson Joshua Blank In addition to its focus on Texans’ views of the issues facing the state, the University of Texas / Texas Politics Project Pol...
Texas Moratorium Network

Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler - Watch the episode of Death Row Stories about Sabrina Butler. Sabrina was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. She is listed as number 59 on the T...
New Progressive Alliance

Gentrification and Orange County - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists. They also publish the Saint Petersburg Independents.
St. Petersburg Independents

Robin Harris, Green leader - Orange County, FL commissioner Dist. 6! The pattern of Gentrification in Orange County is classic. First they drive out the affluent through deliberate ne...
If You Only News

Pregnant Mother Shot By Her 3-Year-Old Daughter With Father’s Gun (VIDEO) - Police said a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her pregnant mother from the backseat of the car on Tuesday in Indiana. Authorities said the woman’s...
Texas Rural Voices

San Saba to Brady: A Day in the Heart of Texas with Beto O’Rourke - By JoAnn Randall “Everyone was in upbeat spirits on a beautiful spring day and all were looking forward, enormously, to hearing from and meeting Beto O’R...
The Metaphor Project

How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now - With President Trump’s choice of Bolton as National Security Adviser and Pompeo for State, our country has reached a more dangerous place than ever, especi...
Project Censored

Washington Post Bans Employees from Using Social Media to Criticize Sponsors - In June, 2017, the Washingtonian reported on a new policy at the Washington Post that prohibits its employees from conduct on social media that “adversel...
Jim Hightower

Guacamole, shakshuka, mussels and… garbage dogs? Recipes from Hightower and friends - After Hightower’s longtime partner, DeMarco, took her leave of us from this crazy planet, our staff and the board of the Lowdown decided to have a little...
Irregular Times

Catholic Priest Prays For Wanton Destruction In Congress - It’s outrageous that a priest was given specific federal government authorization to conduct a religious ritual on the floor of the U.S. House of Represent...
The Urban Edge

Sustainable Cities Need More Than Parks, Cafes and a Riverwalk - The Conversation | The difference between green cities and green gentrification. Continue Reading →
Deep State Nation

GOP Lawmaker’s 56-Year-Old Aide Fired Over Sexual Encounter With Teenage Boy - BUSTED!
News Junkie

Human Trafficking from Haiti to Chile - In Chile, as in every other country that has historically embraced slavery, there are numerous racists. It is equally fair to say that, like all countries ...
Texas Watch

Texas Watch Speaks on Auto Safety at HABA Conference - (Photo (left to right): John Kopriva, HABA President; Burl Richards, ABAT President; Ware Wendell, Executive Director of Texas Watch; Robert McDorman, F...
Pressing Issues

My Best Films of the Year 2017 - Every year for many I have posted my list here starting about this time in December--then update it into January and February as I see most of the top Ch...
[S!N] Strength in Numbers

Self Care: An Open Letter About Healing - Self Care: An Open Letter About HealingAshton P. Woods **It should be noted that I am writing from my perspective, which is that of a Black, masculine pres...
nonsite.org

Tain’t So - To lay out, as clearly and as programmatically as we could, the reasons why despite protestations to the contrary, antiracism, understood as insisting on t...
Bullshit-ist

A Trump Public Service Announcement — Demanded By Our Therapy Dogs - Therapy dog applicants, seeking high paying jobs, at the offices of Herbie McDoolittle & Sons Usually we write satire, at Herbie McDoolittle & Sons. But ou...
Texas Redistricting (Michael Li)

SCOTUS dismisses Texas Democrats’ partisan-gerrymandering claim - The Supreme Court issued an *order *Tuesday morning dismissing the Texas Democratic Party’s partisan gerrymandering claim for want of jurisdiction. The S...
Reveal

Nation’s largest janitorial company faces new allegations of rape - ABM Industries Inc. has a history of being sued for failing to stop sexual abuse on the job.
Death to Squirrels

I don’t understand their objection to “shithole countries.” - Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries in Oval Office meeting President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Ov...
Daily Democracy

Judge: Voting panel must give Dem more access - A federal judge has upheld a lawsuit filed by a Democratic member of the White House voting commission who claimed he’s being shut out of commission activi...
Bill Scher's LiberalOasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 30: All Too Normal - Bill Scher and Traci Olsen discuss the wave of sexual misconduct revelations and the GOP tax bill. Check out this episode!
The Nil Admirari

Trump Declares Victory Over Opioid Epidemic - *LAST UPDATED @ 10:48AM (10.27.2017)* *Trump credits "big brain," "hugely big hands" for solving America's opioid epidemic.* Donald Trump declares victor...
Disaffected and it Feels So Good

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

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

Trump Attacking Our Vulnerable Seniors…Again! - By Tim Canova Putting a loved one in a nursing home is life-changing and often a heart-breaking experience. It saddens me to say that President Donald Trum...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
OpenSecrets

Outside groups — mostly party establishment — playing big in GOP’s vulnerable districts - With scorching news about Donald Trump dominating the media, along with his equally blistering pushback, GOP members of Congress have had to make some toug...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, June 12, 2016

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