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Raw Story

Trump’s doctor Ronny Jackson is the subject of ‘improper conduct’ claims — and it may derail his VA nomination - The president’s nominee to lead the department of Veterans Affairs is reportedly the subject of “improper conduct” allegations that may derail his confir...
Daily Kos

Colorado Republican bill would jail teachers for walking out - Campaign Action Colorado teachers are getting ready to join the wave of teacher walkouts to fight for pay raises and increased education funding—and two...
National Post

Christie Blatchford: In Toronto’s most diverse neighbourhood, citizens respond to attack as one - 'We won’t let this divide us,' Arias Reisiardekani said with confidence that was almost serene, in the circumstances, but lovely. 'The community will pull ...
memeorandum

Laser jammer Range Rover driver who gave police the finger is handed an eight-month prison sentence (North Yorkshire Police) - North Yorkshire Police: *Laser jammer Range Rover driver who gave police the finger is handed an eight-month prison sentence* — Timothy Hill, 67, threw...
Mediaite

Fox News’ MacCallum: Avenatti Cancelled Appearance After Saying Fox Doesn’t Want Him On - Fox News' *Martha MacCallum* ended her show tonight by calling out *Stormy Daniels*' lawyer.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Religious right says CA legislation will outlaw the Bible, but didn't they claim the same thing about hate crimes legislation? - Religious right and conservative organizations such as the Family Research Council are quick to cry about persecution and make predictions about future p...
Think Progress

Colorado Supreme Court rules longtime GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn ineligible for primary ballot - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Republican incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn cannot appear on the fifth congressional district’s primary ballot. ...
The Intercept

Russian TV Interview With Syrian Boy Was Secretly Conducted at Army Facility - A Russian war correspondent appears to have lied to conceal that he interviewed a Syrian boy at an army facility frequented by Russian military advisers....
Eschaton

Did He Contribute Money to a Democrat Once? - I have no idea what possible allegations Republicans could be concerned about at this point. Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Com...
Consortium News

Tribute to Robert Parry in Berkeley on May 19 - 25 minutes ago A tribute to Robert Parry, the late founder and editor of Consortium News, will take place in Berkeley, California on Saturday, May 19 at ...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Watch Rep. Joe Kennedy compare Trump dynasty to Kennedy dynasty - Rising Democratic star Rep. Joe Kennedy tells Ari Melber the Trump family’s “unwillingness” to "put up clear walls" between their governance and the Trump ...
AlterNet.org

Trump's Pick to Lead VA is Beset by Misconduct Allegations, Threatening His Nomination - "We’re going to vet him. The Trump administration doesn’t do a particularly good job,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said. President Donald Trump's pick to be the n...
Vox

Vox Sentences: The manhunt for the Waffle House shooting suspect has ended - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered s...
Down With Tyranny!

Mikey Suits Can Win The GOP Primary... But Can He Win The General? Perhaps? - Staten Island is the most Mafia-friendly place in America. And the other portion of NY-11, south Brooklyn-- just happens to be the most *Russian* Mafia-f...
Mother Jones

Need a Job? Just Call Bernie. - Bernie Sanders is finally putting the socialist back in Democratic Socialist: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will announce a plan for the federal government t...
Anti-Media

Comcast-Owned MSNBC Compares Comcast’s Amazingness to Nelson Mandela - (FAIR) After the justified uproar over pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group forcing its scores of affiliates to humiliate themselves by reading an on-air scr...
Sputnik News

Macron to Leverage ‘Strange Friendship’ with Trump to Protect Iran Deal - On Monday, US President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, to the White House, making them the Trump administra...
Talking Points Memo

Not Just Cone of Silence Phone Booths Anymore! - Fun list of assorted bullcrap (sub req.) Scott Pruitt wasted your money on.
OpEd News

Retrospective No. 2: "The Cometization of the 2016 Elections: The Role of the Ruling Class" - This is the second in an occasional series that I will be running of past columns that I published both on OpEdNews and other sites, that bear relevance to...
Grit Post

ICE Has Kept an 18-Month-Old Baby from His Mother for More Than 2 Months - A 29-year-old mother from Honduras is being detained at one of ICE’s immigrant detention centers 120 miles away from her baby boy. A 29-year-old mother f...
Pajiba

The Best Thing About the 'Lethal Weapon' TV Series Is Also the Worst, and He May Get It Cancelled - I watch Fox's Lethal Weapon TV series. I don't watch a lot of what one would call "guilty pleasure television" or "shows that aren't worth writing about on...
Daily Dot

Summer Games Done Quick speedrunning event releases 2018 schedule - [image: Summer Games Done Quick 2018 Schedule] Dozens of games will get their moment in the speedrunning sun. The post Summer Games Done Quick speedrunning...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

George HW Bush hospitalized with blood infection day after wife's funeral - Former US president admitted to Houston hospital a day after funeral for Barbara Bush, but spokesman says he appears to be recovering The former US presi...
Hullabaloo

Hello? Is this Donald? - *Hello? Is this Donald?* by digby Everybody wondered why Trump unilaterally decided not to issue the sanctions against Russia which Nikki Haley had publi...
Splinter

Rand Paul's Excuse for Voting for Mike Pompeo Doesn't Make Any Sense - Rand Paul announced back in March that he was opposing the confirmation of CIA director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State and Gina Haspel, a torturer, to...
Ballot Access News

Colorado Supreme Court Removes Incumbent Republican Congressman from Primary Ballot Because His Circulators Weren’t Residents of Colorado - On April 23, the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously removed Congressman Doug Lamborn from the Republican primary ballot. He has been in Congress since the ...
Above the Law

It’s A World Full Of Bad People — See Also - LOOK AT THIS JUDGE BERATE A WOMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR: It’s gross on its face, but the woman also died three days later, making the whole thing a bizzaro Disne...
TYT Network

Buy Tickets to the TYT D.C. Meet and Greet -
Reverb Press

Trump’s Demands for Loyalty Aren’t Just Selfish – They’re Corrupt, and Dangerous - Why does a president demand loyalty from people who work for him? By Yu Ouyang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Purdue University Northwest For...
Washington's Blog

Connecting the Dots of Big Data, Soaring Corporate Profits and Trade Wars - Let’s connect the dots between these two comments from longtime correspondents: the first is on the model of collecting and selling data (Big Data), and th...
Courthouse News

Massage Therapist Brings #MeToo Claims Against Comics Legend Stan Lee - A massage therapist claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that comic book legend Stan Lee sexually assaulted her at a Hyatt hotel last year. The post Massage ...
Salon.com

We can’t binge-watch “Brockmire,” and that’s a problem - This Hank Azaria dark comedy is best consumed in a single pass. Problem is, we only get one episode a week
The Verge

In a world first, a US veteran now has a new penis and scrotum - After 14 hours of surgery, a veteran of the US Armed Forces has a new, transplanted penis and scrotum. The world’s most comprehensive penis transplant y...
Axios

George H.W. Bush admitted to Houston hospital - Former president George H.W. Bush was admitted to the Houston Methodist Hospital Sunday morning after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, ...
Earthjustice

Una compañía de combustibles fósiles quiso instalar una planta de gas en una hermosa playa. Pero falló. - Una compañía de combustibles fósiles quiso instalar una planta de gas en una hermosa playa. Pero falló. La última decisión de los inspectores de California...
slacktivist

The ‘weird’ fringe is the biggest part of white evangelicalism - The main stream of mainstream evangelicalism was once, as George Marsden put it, people "who like Billy Graham." Today, "mainstream" evangelicalism is mere...
DeSmogBlog

8 Years After BP Oil Spill, Sick Cleanup Workers Still Waiting for Day in Court - [image: BP oil spill cleanup workers and supporters protesting outside federal court in Louisiana] On the eighth anniversary of the BP oil spill, Retired L...
Political Dig

Trump Has Been Using His Personal Cellphone A Lot More Lately To Make Private Calls: Report - A new report revealed that Donald Trump has been using his own personal cellphone more frequently lately to make private calls with his outside advisers....
SCOTUSblog

Petition of the day - [image: Petition of the day]The petition of the day is: Williams v. Louisiana 17-1241 Issues: (1) Whether exculpatory evidence that is inadmissible can b...
Slate

Van Jumps Curb, Speeds Down Busy Toronto Sidewalk Killing At Least Nine People - A van jumped the curb at a busy thoroughfare in Toronto Monday afternoon and sped down the sidewalk, hitting and killing nine pedestrians and injuring 16...
Swamplot

Conroe Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Coda - 32319 Archer Prk. [HAR]… Read More
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

New KHOU 11 graphics 2018 - The countdown is on for KHOU 11's move to its new permanent studio at the end of 2018 thanks to Hurricane Harvey leaving its former building unusable. But ...
The Root

What Does Donald Trump Have Over Sen. Rand Paul? - Donald Trump wants his CIA director buddy Mike Pompeo to be the new secretary of state for the United States. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was all ...
Buzzflash

Trump's bumbling, brutal, bargain-basement mob - Trump's bumbling, brutal, bargain-basement mob 3.6/*5* rating (5 votes)
Washington Monthly

Quick Takes: Is Trump’s National Security Advisor an Islamophobe? - A roundup of news that caught my eye today.
Latino Rebels

SCOOP: LA Mayor Garcetti Tells Donors He ‘Checks Every Box’ For 2020 and a Mark Cuban Surprise? - Two sources close to Garcetti declined to discuss his presidential ambitions or private conversations.
Trivial Knot

The construction of emotions - I recently read How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett. It explains the theory of constructed emotion and its implications. This is the best book o...
Mock Paper Scissors

Drip… Drip… Drip… (Pee Hooker Update) - Little Kremlin-on-the-Potomac It seems that the Russian Pee Hooker story is just gushing with news: Bloomberg: Flight Records Illuminate Mystery of Trump’s...
Houstonia

What Boys Wearing Makeup Means to Us: Progress - "Watching two men enjoy each other’s company, comfortably, in full makeup, made me realize just how far we’ve come as a society."
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A Religious Right Empire Funded By Your Tax Dollars - Jon Swaine @ The Guardian: Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity’s property empire Nico Hines @ The Daily Beast: Alex Jones’ Protegé, Paul Joseph...
VICE

Holy Shit, Netflix Is Actually Making a 'Fast & Furious' Cartoon - Get ready to live life one animated quarter-mile at a time.
Dissident Voice

Chemical Madness! - All of humanity currently risks exposure to toxic chemicals all over creation in a similar vein to the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland fame. And, maybe,...
Krebs on Security

Transcription Service Leaked Medical Records - MEDantex, a Kansas-based company that provides medical transcription services for hospitals, clinics and private physicians, took down its customer Web por...
News Taco

Latinos And Others Find Trump Tweets Not Unusual - NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Pilar Marrero, a writer at the Spanish language daily La Opinion in Los Angeles, about President Trump tweets attackin...
NPR's Health Shots

Veteran Receives Penis Transplant To Repair War Wound - Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital say 11 surgeons were involved in the 14-hour surgery in March. The patient, who requested anonymity, is expected to be re...
Rewire

The Greitens Investigation Should Ignite a Conversation About the Politicization of Women’s Trauma - Gov. Eric Greitens' anti-woman legislation aligns perfectly with his alleged anti-woman actions. The post The Greitens Investigation Should Ignite a Co...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Politics Podcast: Should Ted Cruz Actually Be Worried? - The first major public poll of the U.S. Senate race in Texas showed Republican incumbent Ted Cruz leading Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke by only thre...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Will Immigration Authorities Use Our Taxes to Go After Immigrants? - The law requires tax information be kept confidential, but we can't just assume this administration is following that law. People across the country filed...
Angry Bear

Higher wage growth for job switchers: more evidence of a taboo against raising wages? - Higher wage growth for job switchers: more evidence of a taboo against raising wages? Yesterday the Atlanta Fed published a note touting the wage growth fo...
Grist

Say hello to more solar panels, Sunshine State homeowners! - Up until Friday, Floridians couldn't lease solar equipment.
Houston Matters

9 Killed And 16 Others Injured In Toronto Van Attack, Police Say - A white van struck a crowd of pedestrians on busy street in Toronto on Monday afternoon, killing 9 people and injuring 16
San Antonio Current

Southtown Restaurant Now Closed to the Public, Focusing on Catering - Kung Fu Kitchen, which opened this past June, has closed its doors to the public. The restaurant and bar at 1010 S. Flores St. focused on American-Chine...
ProPublica

Redesigning Maternal Care: OB-GYNs Are Urged to See New Mothers Sooner and More Often - by Nina Martin Doctors would see new mothers sooner and more frequently, and insurers would cover the increased visits, under sweeping new recommendatio...
The Week

10 killed, 15 injured in Toronto van crash - Ten people were killed and 15 injured Monday afternoon when a man drove a van down a Toronto sidewalk, authorities said. The driver of the vehicle is in ...
CultureMap Houston

Chris Young to headline Freedom Over Texas Fourth of July celebration - Country star Chris Young is set to headline the 2018 edition of Freedom Over Texas, the official City of Houston Fourth of July celebration to take place ...
Socialist Alternative

Defamation Lawsuit Brought by Two Cops – Defend Kshama Sawant - Two Seattle police officers who shot a black man in 2016 have filed a defamation lawsuit aimed at silencing socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and ...
Crooks and Liars

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Stumbles On Her Lie About Trump's 'Breeding' Reference - You may have noticed that Trump is using his usual nativist and racist tropes to declare war on California. Californians simply aren't interested in his ...
Rivard Report

Texas Redistricting Fight Returns to the U.S. Supreme Court - The high court will consider Texas' appeal of a lower court ruling that found that state lawmakers drew discriminatory election maps. The post Texas Redi...
News Corpse

Fox News in a Coma: ‘Nobody Was Asking Hillary Clinton About the Guy that She’s Married To’ - If you thought that Fox News had run out of ways to shock people with examples of acute obliviousness, you might wanna sit down. The network that relentles...
Election Law Blog

“Election Emergencies: Voting in the Wake of Natural Disasters and Terrorist Attacks” - Michael Morley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Emory Law Journal). Here is the abstract: Our electoral system is vulnerable to terrorist attack...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - Lecture – Medieval Arms Race Throughout the Middle Ages competition between offensive and defensive arms resulted in a constant stream of innovation an...
Political Garbage Chute

Rudy Giuliani Mentions 9/11 More Than 5000 Times In Three Minutes While Discussing Mueller Investigation - NEW YORK, NEW YORK — It was recently announced that former New York City Mayor Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani is joining the legal team representing President D...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Authoritarian Populism in India - In a recent article in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, I analyse the emergence of authoritarian populism in India under the Modi regime. The article i...
Louis Proyect

Petrified Assadism - Petrified wood (wood that has turned into stone) If you’ve been following Assadist propaganda as closely as me, you’re probably aware that it divides into ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

U.S. senator, four congressional candidates say they’ll reject embattled veterans PAC’s cash - Put Vets First! PAC and sister charities spend most of their money on telemarketing and their leader’s salary — not veterans.
Texas Monthly

Texas Gerrymandering Case Goes Before U.S. Supreme Court: What You Need to Know - The nation’s high court will consider whether Texas legislative and congressional districts discriminate against minorities. The post Texas Gerrymanderin...
Free Press Houston

Black Labyrinth: An Interview With Korn’s Jonathan Davis - Jonathan Davis will play Warehouse Live on Wednesday, April 25.
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Hard Work and Ambition Are Not the Secrets of Success, Privilege and Capitalism Are - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Apr 23, 2018 Khalil Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, d...
Wolf Street

An Orderly Unwind of Stock Market Leverage? - That would be a first, but it might be happening. Everything in slow motion, even market declines?
Big Bad Bald Bastard

The Fibbin' Nazi Sequence - Poking around the t00bz, I found this hilarious picture of Donald Trump's head conforming to a Fibonacci spiral: It's similar to a golden spiral, which ...
Reading the Pictures

Our Take on that Viral “3 Presidents and Melania” Barbara Bush Funeral Pic - 9 reasons why the photo from the Barbara Bush funeral won the internet. The post Our Take on that Viral “3 Presidents and Melania” Barbara Bush Funeral P...
DBC Green blog

Buzzkill Bloggage - Raise your hand if you survived Earth Day weekend with your mental health intact, or at least undiminished. In the Lone Star State, we just endured a three...
Ring of Fire

Kellyanne Conway Refuses To Say Why Trump’s Afraid Of Cohen Flipping On Him - During a recent appearance on CNN, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was asked, repeatedly, why Donald Trump was afraid of his attorney Michael Cohe...
Disobedient Media

A Conversation With Chris Blackburn On The Contradictions Surrounding Mifsud - Reports casting Mifsud as a Russian intelligence asset do not object to the concept that Mifsud worked as a spy. Their claim simply depicts him as working ...
Better Texas Blog

How to Boost Funding to Public Education - The Texas public school finance system is due for some renovations. And we need raw material to get the job done. As the Texas Public School Finance Comm...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

I Told You So - Remember back in January when the Dallas Republican Party filed suit to have all 128 Democrats removed from the November ticket because the county chair di...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Is there something we're missing here? - *MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018The mind of the New York Times:* The New York Times and the Washington Post tend to dance a peculiar pas de deux. From Monday thro...
Peacock Panache

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Privilege - [image: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Privilege] *Caveat: This post won’t address recent debates over the nature of White privilege or Male priv...
No More Mister Nice Blog

KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THAT REPUBLICANS WILL REJECT TRUMPIAN EXTREMISM IN 2020 - Today Greg Sargent notes that appeals to authoritarianism are showing up in quite a few GOP campaigns this year. ... in West Virginia, GOP Senate primary c...
Eater Houston

A New Cajun Restaurant Brings Crawfish and Jambalaya to Montrose - Padna’s Cajun Eatery will take over the space formerly occupied by Biskit Junkie Padna’s Cajun Eatery, a new spot focused on the fruits of the Gulf, wil...
Texas Standard

Amarillo Mayor Says City Council’s ‘No Clapping’ Policy Doesn’t Violate Free Speech - “We just want to operate and do the business of the city. And so we just want to be able to do it in a way that makes every citizen...
Liberation News

Barnard student vote to divest boosts fight against Israeli apartheid - After long struggle, this is a major victory for the BDS movement nationally. The post Barnard student vote to divest boosts fight against Israeli apart...
Progressive Army

The Red-Handed Media - A friend of mine used to work at the local sports talk-radio station. He did the morning show. He occasionally worked with a person, the guy who did the ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2018 - Today's Water Cooler: Macro and trade, Cosco Shipping, Sanders video empire, mid-terms, superdelegates, Jobs Guarantee, national activity, Toys 'R' Us, Sea...
In These Times

Electronic Monitors: How Companies Dream of Locking Us in Our Homes - Despite the law-and-order offensive of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the momentum for decarceration and ending cash bail con...
Texas Observer

‘Heart-Wrenching, Gut-Wrenching’: How Child Therapy Providers Deal with State Budget Cuts - There was a moment Charlcie Flinn considered giving up. It was July 2016, and the child therapy services program in Wichita Falls that Flinn had run for ...
MintPress News

Trump Should Ask Israel to Fund America’s Occupation of Syria - Israel will play a role in the invasion and occupation of Syria, the Saudis will lead it — with US weapons. And taxpayers everywhere will lose from it. T...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Pathetic Earthlings - Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the uni...
Pensito Review

Mike Cohen’s Motivation - *That Michael Cohen will flip is foregone and a given, Because he keeps having a recurring, horrifying vision: What Mike Cohen doesn't want to be Is the "S...
Shadowproof

Community Investment, Safety Without Cops: Good Kids Mad City Organizes Against Gun Violence - Good Kids Mad City, formed in the aftermath of Parkland, advocates for the needs of youth of color by organizing against violence and for community inves...
Dallas Observer

UT-Dallas Students Compiling National Database of School Shootings - News reports after the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and similar school killings often tell inconsistent stories abou...
Counterpunch

Tuli Kupferberg State of the Union -
Popehat

Dear DNC: We Need To Talk About RICO - Dear Democratic National Committee: I'm sure you are all very excited about the big boisterous federal complaint you've filed against Russia, the GRU, Wiki...
Popular Resistance

The Catalan “Robin Hood”: In Conversation With Activist Enric Duran Giralt - Known as the "Catalan Robin Hood," Enric Duran Giralt has for nearly two decades been at the center of promoting greater autonomy and self-organization in ...
The Ghion Journal

How Corporate Media Declares War on Independent Thinkers - Make no mistake my friends; the mainstream media has declared war upon us all. Like cornered animals, they are lashing out wildly at anyone who dares que...
Dorf on Law

What Is Tax Simplification, and Do We Even Want It? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* When is a tax system simple? That is an ultimately arbitrary and meaningless question, so a variation might (or might not) be more h...
Rallblog

Support Your Local Cartoonist - I recently learned that I am about to lose one of my major cartooning clients. I am looking for work and scrambling to replace it. I represent a unique voi...
First Draft

Holy Unforced Error, Batman - An instant analysis of an instant apology.
Debunking Christianity

"Is Religious Faith Reasonable?" The Spiegel vs Loftus Debate, 4/19/18 - The following three videos (two for now) are of my recent debate with Dr. Jim Spiegel on the question, "Is Religious Faith Reasonable?" As you watch us de...
Common Dreams

Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again - Hannah Finnie "They experience suffocating levels of student debt alongside declining wages and income equality while watching companies monopolize entire ...
SocraticGadfly

Ty Clevenger — Joey Dauben with a law degree? - Ty Clevenger, handout picture via WND.comIn my opinion, that could be one good way to describe the caped-crusading lawyer from central Texas now removed to...
OffCite

Does this Far-Sighted Vision Go Far Enough? A Review of Plan Downtown by José Solís - With Amazon’s recent rejection of Houston’s bid for the much vaulted HQ2, people across the region are fiercely debating where the Bayou City fell short. O...
Newsbud

Slow Burn: Trump’s Syrian Attack and Endless War - On Friday the 13th, as the first bombs went off in Damascus and blow by blow accounts jammed social media, some of us thought it was the first step in the ...
Pharyngula

Way to annoy the Mormons, Orrin - Senator Tammy Duckworth had a baby, and Orrin Hatch stuck his foot (his own foot, not the baby’s) into his mouth. I’m not surprised that the Salt Lake Trib...
Bonddad

The consumer edges closer to the precipice - - *by New Deal democrat* In addition to my "long leading/short leading" model adapted from the work of Profs. Geoffrey Moore and Edward Leamer, and the "...
Progressive.org

Fear of Windfalls - Many residents in West Virginia are about to receive $525 because their water supply has been poisoned. How could this be a bad thing?
Bracing Views

Jacinda for President! - W.J. Astore My wife perceptively notes how the USA is sliding backwards. Racism has new vigor even as science is rejected, e.g. climate change denial. A ...
Grits for Breakfast

Lessons for Texas legislators from an unconstitutional revenge-porn statute - As soon as it passed, Houston criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett *opined* that Texas' "revenge porn" law passed in 2015 was an unconstitutional restric...
Democracy Now!

How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago - Fifty years ago today, on April 23, 1968, hundreds of students at Columbia University in New York started a revolt on campus. They occupied five buildings,...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap: Georgia - [image: peanut monument]The tenth state alphabetically, Georgia is second to none in the number of stupid official state things it has. Related Stor...
Space City Weather

Amazing spring weather this week, with a great weekend outlook - After an absolutely superb Sunday, Houston’s weather will remain more or less gorgeous for most of this week—giving us another healthy dose of spring with ...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

THE SHERIFF IS IN TOWN - Trump sure likes calling for other people to be tried and thrown in jail. He seems to think he can give the Attorney General orders to go after people -- o...
Duffel Blog

CIA receives authorization to spy on MySpace, AOL - [image: Central Intelligence Agency] LANGLEY, Va. — The Central Intelligence Agency has received authorization to spy on terrorists and other threats to n...
Houston Press

Rockets Drop Game 3 in Minnesota: 4 Winners, 4 Losers - It's never easy. Any coach will tell you that winning is hard, which is why it is so prized. For the Rockets, they got a lesson on Saturday night when the ...
The Conversation

Why does a president demand loyalty from people who work for him? - There's a trade-off when presidents appoint loyalists. A loyalist may not be as competent as the position demands, but he or she may satisfy the president ...
emptywheel

Counterintelligence versus Criminal: George Papadopoulos - Sources very close to George Papadopoulos attempted to claim no collusion in an interview with the Daily Beast. The effort does nothing to disclaim it.
Off the Kuff

April 2018 campaign finance reports: Congress - […]
The Progressive Wing

4/23 News Roundup – Sanders: “It Is Time To Decriminalize Marijuana”, Bernie Is Building A Digital Media Empire & More - The Vermont senator discusses his bill to change federal marijuana law and why Trump “deserves credit” for addressing U.S. trade policy: More news/video/tw...
Informed Comment

Could Saudi plans for $100/ barrel oil hugely expand electric car market and save Tesla? - By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Nick Cunningham at Oilprice.com points to the dilemmas implicit in the rumored Saudi plan to engineer a return to $...
skippy the bush kangaroo

monday night in new orleans - sin taxes are designed to punish the poor more companies have monopoly power over workers' wages and it's killing the economy is it a coincidence that tru...
Carl Beijer

That prom picture with the armed dad - it's actually about capitalism - A few days ago, former NFL kicker Jay Feely tweeted out a picture of his daughter and her date preparing to attend their high school prom. Remarkably, Feel...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Crackdown in Nicaragua: Ortega's regime shuts down independent media and violently crushes non-violent protests - * Nicaragua's Ortega has returned to his dictatorial roots.* "Curse the soldier who turns the guns on his people! We do not want more dead. Long live the st...
The NM Political Report

Pope prompts talk about abortion, women’s roles in the church - [image: Pope prompts talk about abortion, women’s roles in the church] The Feast of the Annunciation marked by the Catholic Church falls not long after the...
Crooked Timber

GMI + JG = paid work as a choice for all - I’ve been arguing for a while that a Guarantee Minimum Income (or Universal Basic Income) ought to be combined with a Jobs Guarantee to would make paid wor...
Portside

Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic’s Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years - Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic’s Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years Ira Mon, 04/23/2018 - 01:31
jobsanger

Motivated Only By Profit -
Socialist Worker

NYPD answer to a mental health crisis: Shoot - Saheed Vassell's family and community want answers after yet another unarmed Black man was killed by police, explain Nikki Blazek, Lider Restrepo and Yo...
World Socialist Web Site

US issues ultimatums to IMF on trade - Adopting the tone of an overlord, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin demanded that the IMF back Washington in its drive against what it claims are “unfai...
Sayfie Review Texas

AP: Domestic Violence Court in South Texas helps offenders -
Campaign for America's Future

The Fake Frugality of the Fabulously Rich - As a society, we simply do not want to believe that our rich may have gained their riches through exploiting others or rigging our economy or just finding ...
New Progressive Alliance

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

Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan’s WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US - Unit 731, the notorious germ warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prison...
Truthout

How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia Strike Against Militarism and Racism 50 Years Ago - Fifty years ago today, on April 23, 1968, hundreds of students at Columbia University in New York started a revolt on campus. They occupied five building...
The Reality-Based Community

Television Was Not Always a Vast Wasteland - I just stumbled across this 1990 debate between John O’Sullivan, William F. Buckley, and Christopher Hitchens (pre-alcoholic decline), and am agog that any...
Houston Communist Party

MALCOLM X – KARL EVANZZ: THE JUDAS FACTOR with TONY BROWN -
The Contributor

The Religious Right’s Dishonest Attack On Senator Cory Booker - News Image: The National Organization for Marriage send a email with subject line "Booker Bans Believers" origin Blog: Right Wing Watch origin Author: P...
Field Negro

A tale of two Waffle Houses. - [image: Image result for waffle house images]I spend a lot of time in the South *(Mrs. is from Louisiana)*, and whenever I get a chance I like to pop into ...
Liberal Values

SciFi Weekend: Star Trek Discovery Season 2; Rebooting Gotham; Steven Moffat on Dracula And Other Doctor Who Related News; Mark Hamill On The Big Bang Theory; The Spy - Production on Star Trek: Discovery season 2 started in Toronto on April 16. TrekMovie.com has an excellent rundown of what is known about the season so far...
The Greanville Post

The British Are Driving the West’s War Agenda—But Why? - RICHARD C. COOK—Nevertheless, the Anglican clergy are beholden to the British state for their salaries. Perhaps that’s one reason they are always so nice t...
Lewisville Texan Journal

Lewisville city and ISD candidate voting histories - As we do most years, we have obtained the voter file and compiled the voting histories of candidates for Lewisville City Council and Mayor, as well as for ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Best just to imagine - I nearly said *“wall,”* I swear. I wanted to say *“wall”* and truth be told, I still do, in a way. *“Fence” *is maybe the right word here and I know this,...
Robert Reich

The Shameful Silence of the CEOs - Congressional Republicans would be more willing to stand up to Trump if their major financial...
Ramona's Voices

Earth Day: A revisit - Today is Earth Day in America. The first, 48 years ago, was a big deal. It was 1970. We were in the mood to celebrate the earth and to warn against the ...
South Lawn

Environmental Justice As Liberation: No Consent, No Pipeline, No Kinder Morgan. - We have the pleasure of hosting a guest post by Sarah Beuhler, who is a writer and campaigner who lives in Unceded Coast Salish Territories. A confrontatio...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Consensual Collusion' Toons - Rest in Peace, Quaker Oats * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's a...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (April 15 – 21) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Marisa Perez-Diaz of the Texas State Board of Education, in a statement describing the board’s decision ...
Mahablog

Christianity Is a Fast-Food Restaurant Chain, and Other Nonsense - Some pathetic, whiny dweeb named Douglas MacKinnon asks, “How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?” With each passing month, that shocking questio...
Church and State

Understanding ‘Understanding’ - 'Understanding' is a 'suitcase word', and just like 'intelligence', has many quite distinct meanings that are 'thrown into a suitcase'.
Bad Attitudes

Unfortunately Not Our Government - From the late, great Philip Larkin: *HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT* Next year we are to bring the soldiers home For lack of money, and it is all right. Places ...
PoliTex (FWST)

Who's a hero or villain in Texas politics? It's in this book - Fort Worth is the home of Texas' best museums. Arlington, though, is at risk of damage from Tea Party Republicans and wild hogs. Texas is a wondrous place,...
Political Orphans

‘Free Speech’ Won’t Rescue Dumb Ideas - Neither the 1st Amendment, nor any moral or intellectual notion of free speech grants me a right to be taken seriously. No one has a 1st Amendment right to...
Ian Welsh

Assange, Wikileaks and Shooting the Messenger - So, as you have probably heard, Ecuador, which has Julian Assange in its London embassy, has restricted all communication by him to outsiders save his lawy...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

David Arkush on EarthX Panel – Stop and Smell the Carbon - Live from EarthX in Dallas! Our very own David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen’s climate program discussing the role of the mainstream media ...
Independent Political Report

LNC meeting coverage, Denver, April 21-22, 2018 - *photo by Joe Buchman* A meeting of the Libertarian National Committee will take place on Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22 in Denver, Colorado. T...
Real News

Saudi engagement in Iraq: The exception that confirms the rule? - By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer. Stepped up Saudi efforts to forge close diplomatic, economic and cultural ties to Shia-majority Iraq in a bid to co...
Stinque

Selected Excerpts - CLASSIFIED BY: DIRECTOR DECLASSIFY ON: 20271231 January 6, 2017 What follows are notes I typed in the vehicle immediately upon exiting Trump Tower. I said ...
Echidne of the Snakes

Weekend Reading, 4/20/18: Black Maternal And Infant Deaths, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults And Richard Cohen on Reverse Discrimination - 1. This is an excellent and upsetting article on the high black maternal and infant death rates in the United States. The problem is not a new one, but...
Freethought Now

Victorious legal eagles! - A part of the work we do here at FFRF is to keep an eagle eye on the constitutional wall of separation. This week, our vigilance bore fruit.
Rude Pundit

The Comey Memos: Man, Trump's a Sad Worm - The memos of former FBI director James Comey were leaked to the press literally minutes after they were given to a congressional committee led by craven tw...
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...
First Reading

Flash-bang grenades: On Ted Cruz’s incendiary political rhetoric. - Good Friday Austin: The TIME 100 is supposed to be a list of the 100 most influential people of 2018. Each of the hundred gets…
Great American Satan

Chunk of Novel - Roughly the first 26,000 words of my novel are available to read on my new writing tumblr, The Voice of Hell. It’s a rough draft so feel free to hit me up ...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Perils of self-publishing, a book lovers’ event! - Bob Reitz is the curator of the Jack Harbin Museum at Camp Wisdom, one of the finest museums of Scout materials in the country, focused on Scouting in the ...
Morning Consult

Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts - The post Proponents of Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Split on SEC’s Efforts appeared first on Morning Consult.
Harper's Magazine

[Postcard ] | The Bad and the Ugly, by Kyle Paoletta - Acquiring works for the Museum of Bad Art
Green News Network

The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance - The Necessity of Political Parties for Political Balance Written By: Tony Smith Throughout the history of the United States, there have been two main p...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Springtime on Buffalo Bayou - Through the Woods on a Brilliant Sunday Morning April 19, 2018 At last spring had sprung. The trees were bursting with joyous green, celebrating by tossi...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Growing Evidence Of Mega-Church Fraud Violence & Support For War? - Religion teaches morality. Or so we've been told by religions for thousands of years. One of the most important morals might be, "Thou shalt not kill,"...
Our Finite World

Why oil prices can’t rise very high, for very long - Oil prices are now as high as they have been for three years. At this writing, Brent is $74.14 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate is at $68.76. These p...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Belle Chesler, A Teacher Listens to Her Students - During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

History Suggests Double Trouble for Incumbent Trump - This is part one of a back-and-forth between Crystal Ball Managing Editor Kyle Kondik and veteran reporter and presidential historian Paul Brandus assessin...
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...
xpostfactoid

Two NJ healthcare bills awaiting Gov. Murphy's signature should reduce premiums by 20-30% in the individual market - On April 12, both houses of the New Jersey legislature passed bills to establish a state individual mandate (A3380) and a reinsurance program ( S1878). The ...
Other Words

In OtherWords: April 18, 2018 - This weekend, the U.S. once again struck out at Syrian regime targets over the alleged use of chemicals weapons.
Ecosophia

Returning to the Commonplace - There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or ...
Duck of Minerva

Foreign Policy and Mixed Signals - Earlier this week, a particularly volatile fissure within the Trump Administration opened up. Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, announc...
Greg Palast

KPFA Presents The Bay Area Premiere of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election - Join us on Wednesday, April 18 in Oakland for the Bay Area Premiere of... The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:The Case Of The Stolen Election Featuring a po...
Downwinders at Risk

Alternative Earth Day Event -
Pages of Victory

war profiteers -
John Laurits

How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack - How Much Do Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Cost? A Receipt for Trump’s Syria Attack Last Saturday, as most are surely aware, the prime ministers of France and ...
Frontloading HQ

#InvisiblePrimary 2020: Uh oh Biden? - Over at Politico, Charlie Mahtesian has this to say *about a prospective Biden candidacy for 2020*: *"Joe Biden, who leads the Democratic 2020 presidential...
The Rag Blog

Thorne Dreyer : RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Lamar W. Hankins & Alan Pogue; Christopher Brown & Roddey Reid; Thorne Dreyer & Glenn Smith; Carl Davidson; Alice Embree, Kim Varela-Broxson & Lindsay Rodriguez; Roaul Hernandez; Steve Russell; and Philip Russell - Our guests include authors & activists, political analysts, a music critic and a leftist icon; we talk about guns and feminism; and we bid Mexico’s preside...
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...
Washington Babylon

How McClatchy Took Michael Cohen in Prague Story From Speculation To Fact - Over the weekend I ran a story here about McClatchy’s bombshell alleging that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s lawyer and bagman, went to Prague in 2016 despi...
ExChristian.Net

Hello, my name is Don and I am a religious addict. - *By Don Shafer - ex Christian, ex pastor, ex idiot ~ * It's true, I am addicted to Christianity, to Jesus, to God, to the church, to the methods and relati...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

The boundaries in between - This is just a neat old picture of Arthur Thomson drawing direct to stencil that Rob Hansen found in someone's old photo collection. Arthur once asked me ...
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...
Texas Leftist

Texoblogosphere: Week of April 9th - The Texas Progressive Alliance is neither the subject nor the target of an investigation, but it is bringing you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff noted th...
WAWG Blog

More on How We Got Into The DJT Political Swamp – It Has Little to Do With Russia - In 1970, income and wealth inequality were at historical lows. The income tax tables had over 25 brackets with the top marginal rate of 74%. Campaign fundi...
Nathan Hevenstone

A New Blog?!? What the Heck is Nathan Doing?!?!? - Relax, relax. It’s nothing too big. Yes, I created a new blog. No, it’s not a replacement for this one. I know I’ve been inactive here, and there are a lot...
Equality Texas

New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Texans - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas 512-289-2995, angela@redmediagroup.com New Report Shows Epidemic of Violence Against LGBTQ Te...
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...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Call To Action – URGENT SUBMIT COMMENT BY 04/10/18 – 5pm Central - Hydrogen cyanide is a systemic chemical asphyxiant. It interferes with the normal use of oxygen by nearly every organ of the body and can be rapidly fatal....
The Hill: Ballot Box

Queen Elizabeth likens Trump to noisy helicopter - Queen Elizabeth II is comparing President Trump to a noisy helicopter, quipping that the commander in chief goes “round and round when you want to talk.”Th...
Dos Centavos

Sunday 4/15 – Los TexManiacs at Discovery Green - Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs are headlining the Discovery Green Birthday Bash this coming Sunday, April 15. The Bash starts at noon with Los Texmaniacs hi...
The Disorder Of Things

What We Talked About at ISA: Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy - In recent years, we’ve seen a number of depressing political shifts in the Euro-Atlantic area — but the rise of feminist foreign policies is not among them...
Moron Majority

Mexico Agrees To Pay For Wall If Trump Releases Tax Returns - Mexico has agreed to pay for Trump’s much-promised “big, beautiful” border wall. But there is a catch … Trump must first release his tax returns. The idea ...
Houston Justice

Project Orange Profile by April Henshaw - When I saw the call to help register voters who were currently incarcerated, I knew I had to do it. I was raised by a single father, in part, because bot...
ROAR Magazine

Dissecting the madness of economic reason - David Harvey’s latest book provides a riveting reading of Marx’s *Capital* and a trenchant critique of a political and economic system spiralling out of ...
34justice

The Nation of Islam Problem - The Nation of Islam is officially recognized as a national hate group due to its black supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ views. And yet, Tamika Mall...
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...
Progressive Memetics

Crushing Dissent -
Seeing the Forest

Why Not Just Give A Job To Anyone Who Wants One? - Doing work that needs to be done?
UP@NIGHT

The New Philosophical Gourmet Report Indicts Itself - A preliminary. I did not expect, nor did I desire to write, (yet) …
Source Planet

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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!
LawFlog

Federal lawsuit seeks records about Seth Rich murder - This morning I filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that asks a federal judge in Brooklyn to order the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice to release ...
PERRspectives

Democrats Proven Right--Again--on Tax Cut Windfall for the Rich - During the run-up to the passage of the "Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department's Office of Tax...
Thom Hartmann

Friday 9 March '18 show notes - - Anything Goes Friday! What's on Your Mind? - Karl Frisch, Allied Progress: Why are Florida Legislators Cowtowing to the Payday Loan Crowd? ...
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...
Pressthink

Membership as a force multiplier for beat reporting - Just published a "concept paper" for an idea I have been trying to introduce for 11 years. It may take 11 more but I don't care. I think it's a good idea...
Independent Thinker 2016

Donald Trump – President for Life - A few days ago Donald Trump made a comment about wanting to be “president for life” and a chill went through me. I had recently said to a friend that Berni...
Texans For Public Justice

A Blue wave with not much green - A 'Blue Wave' Without Much Green The Texas Observer This year, a group of lesser-known candidates has raised $1.1 million over the same period, a 90 perc...
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...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Librarians and the Beauty of Surprise - On National Read Across America Day, I’d like to give thanks for local public librarians. I find one of the great things to do is walk into a library and...
The Economic Populist

OPEC's February Oil Market Report showed that the global oil glut is growing again - Since the media largely missed what the data from OPEC's February Oil Market Report (covering January OPEC & global oil data) actually showed, and since ...
The Texas Politics Project

Joe Straus Approval (February 2018) - - Table | - Share - | More Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Straus is doing as Speaker of the Texas H...
[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...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 223 - Trump Gives America The Clap - We decided to get off our asses and do a show about Trump’s first State of the Union speech. We break it down in a mature and thoughtful way, of course....
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.
Somervell County Salon

Ruminations of the Easily Amused for 1/12/2018-Trump is a Racist - Trump is a racist. We all knew that, right? It isn't like yesterday's comments about "shithole nations* was the first time anyone had some kind of warnin...
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...
Quartz

We’ve chosen the winner for the Atlas for Africa competition - We’re pleased to announce the winner of Quartz’s Atlas for Africa competition is Blaise Aboh from Nigeria. Over the last year, Quartz Africa has trained ...
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!
Texas Moratorium Network

Videos from 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty -
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...
Daniel Williams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fired Justice Department employee Sally Yates to testify about Michael Flynn today. - Sally Yates is going to testify today at 2pm about her warnings regarding Michael Flynn, after being rudely fired by the Trump administration for not follo...
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...
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...
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...
Not of it.

Texas Big Six: 2016 Edition - "Make No Small Plans" - Texas is channeling its inner Daniel Burnham. The Chicago architect responsible for 1909's The Plan of Chicago never uttered the exact words that are th...

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