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Political Dig

Pro-Trump Group Glues MAGA Hats On Pigeons – Causing One To Die – To Protest Tonight’s Democratic Debate - A pro-Trump group that goes by the satirical name of P.U.T.I.N (Pigeons United To Interfere Now) decided to glue a tiny MAGA hat on a vast number of pigeon...
Talking Points Memo

E. Jean Carroll Blames Trump For Elle Magazine Firing Her After Accusation - Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, told the...
The Week

Report: Trump expected to pick Richard Grenell as acting director of national intelligence - President Trump plans on naming U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as acting director of national intelligence, three people with knowledge of th...
Raw Story

‘The guardrails are gone’: Experts horrified as Trump hands top intelligence agency to ‘rude Twitter troll’ - Following President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint German ambassador and far-right political loyalist Richard Grenell as acting Director of National In...
Mediaite

Former GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Pushes Seth Rich Conspiracy in Statement on Alleged Assange Pardon - Former GOP congressman Dana Rohrabacher is denying a bombshell claim from an attorney for Julian Assange — who alleged that Rohrabacher visited the Wikilea...
memeorandum

POLITICO-Harvard Poll: Health care costs are top priority heading into elections (Adam Cancryn/Politico) - Adam Cancryn / Politico: *POLITICO-Harvard Poll: Health care costs are top priority heading into elections* — Both parties agree the focus should be on...
Daily Dot

‘No one has the range’ for this meme - [image: no one has the range memes] People are comparing actors who have 'range'. Obviously, Tatiana Maslany is on the list. The post ‘No one has the rang...
Salon.com

"Star Trek": Watch Picard and Seven of Nine discuss their Borg past in this exclusive sneak peek - In this week's episode, the "Star Trek: Voyager" favorite lends a hand to the former Starfleet admiral
Crooks and Liars

Susan Collins Is Concerned Again — This Time About School Funding Cuts In Maine - Awwww. GOP Senator Susan Collins from Maine is *concerned.* Apparently Betsy DeVos' Dept. of Education is enacting funding cuts that will hurt people in ...
In These Times

Where the Ongoing Mass Protests Against Neoliberalism in Chile Came From - In recent months, common people in Chile have taken to the streets not to pursue an ideological project or concrete cause—but as the result of the fragi...
The Verge

Larry Tesler, the UI pioneer responsible for cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74 - Image: Wikipedia Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who is most well-known for creating the seminal computer concepts cut, copy, and paste, died on Monda...
Vox

5 things to know about Bernie Sanders’s aggressive climate strategy - [image: Sanders speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019, in Washington, DC.] Sen. Bernie Sanders, seen in May 2019, has one of the most amb...
Slate

How Much Can Jeff Bezos’ $10 Billion Do to Fight Climate Change? - The donation highlights the fact that an individual can have a disproportionate say in how we address the climate change crisis.
Mother Jones

Mike Bloomberg Is Way Richer Than People Realize - Michael Bloomberg is rich. Really, really rich. With $62.8 billion to his name, the former New York City mayor and CEO of the eponymous Bloomberg L.P. has ...
OffGuardian

Censorship is the death of Democracy - Eric Zuesse No democracy can survive censorship. If there is censorship, then each individual cannot make his/her own decisions (voting decisions or otherw...
Ring of Fire

Trump Under Investigation For His Farm Bailout Scheme - The Government Accountability Office has launched an investigation into the payouts from Trump’s farm bailout, as it appears that many qualifying small f...
Alternet

‘You lost me’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graciously defuses confrontational question on ‘The View’ - In an appearance on ABC‘s popular daytime talk show “The View” Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke about what she called a “disconnect” between ...
Houston Public Media

Hobby Airport Begins Use Of Facial Recognition Technology - The new technology will allow international travelers to cut down on travel time by making it easier to go through customs and border inspections.
VICE

Can Bloomberg Take the Heat at Tonight’s Debate? - Here are five things to watch for.
Latino Rebels

Puerto Rico Goes to Court Against Debt-Restructuring Deal - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government went to court on Wednesday to fight a deal that a federal control board overseeing the U.S. territory...
Houston Strategies

Protecting residents from dangerous industrial businesses, reducing crime, street parking for mixed-use retail, and rethinking Vision Zero - This week we have a special edition of Houston Strategies focused on... specific strategies for Houston (;-). The specific topics are protecting residents ...
Courthouse News

Warren, Buttigieg Sued for $265M Over Trayvon Martin Tweets - George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of murder after killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, filed a $265 million lawsuit against D...
Mediagazer

Survey: 23% of US adults who don't follow political news closely are very concerned about disinformation, compared to 75% of those who do follow news closely (Pew Research Center) - Pew Research Center: *Survey: 23% of US adults who don't follow political news closely are very concerned about disinformation, compared to 75% of those ...
The Mind Unleashed

Photos of Disabled Chihuahua and Pigeon Cuddling Melts Hearts Worldwide - [image: Pigeon Cuddling]“I think the world needs good stories and when you have two species that basically fall in love, it can only touch hearts."
Daily Kos

Making the case to protect voting rights for those awaiting trial - Voting rights advocates in Alabama achieved a major victory this week, with absentee ballot applications updated for the first time to indicate that peopl...
San Antonio Current

Three Ways to Get Your Mardi Gras On in San Antonio This Month - New Orleans may have Bourbon Street and the French Quarter, but we've got the River Walk and King William District. For anyone who just can't wait for Fie...
WhoWhatWhy

Appeals Court Blocks Florida’s ‘Modern-Day Poll Tax’ - Reading Time: 3 minutes In a major victory for voting rights advocates, a three-judge panel blocked a Florida law that imposes fines and fees on formerly...
Political Wire

No, Bill Barr Is Not Quitting - Rick Wilson: “With Bill Barr’s transparently obvious leaks, we’ve reached the apotheosis of weapons-grade, ratfuck gaslighting.” “In two articles in the la...
Editor & Publisher

News Media Alliance Calls on Supreme Court to Protect Copyrighted Content Against Google’s Unauthorized Copying - The News Media Alliance today filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of Oracle in the Google v. Oracle (docket no. 18-956) case concerning
Progrexas

Republican Congressional candidate Jamie Berryhill compares borderless nation to a woman “raped and defiled” - Republican candidate Jamie Berryhill is running for Texas Congressional District 11. Berryhill for Congress Facebook page In a since-deleted Facebook pos...
Texas Environmental News

EPA’s 2019 Power Plant Emissions Data Demonstrate Significant Progress - WASHINGTON (Feb.19, 2020) — Today, the U.S. …Read Full Article Source: EPA Air Feed The post EPA’s 2019 Power Plant Emissions Data Demonstrate Significan...
epic.org

In FOIA Case, EPIC Obtains Details on State Department's Facial Recognition Program - In response to EPIC's Freedom on Information Act lawsuit, EPIC v. State, the State Department has provided EPIC with several agency agreements concerning S...
INSIDER - politics news

'We don't have a history of murdering our citizens': A Saudi official says reports that the Saudi Crown Prince is connected to the death of Jamal Khashoggi are 'ridiculous' - [image: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir] - Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir told Deutsche Welle, a German...
Mahablog

Dem Debate Tonight - Tonight’s will be the third-to-last debate the Dems have scheduled. There’s another one this month, on the 25th, and the last one will be March 15. I know ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - Get happy.
Texas Observer

Gabriel García Márquez and the (Comforting) Case for Embracing Failure - If you’re a writer on Twitter, there’s a fair chance this letter has popped up on your timeline in the past few days. It’s a rejection from the New Yorke...
NPR's Health Shots

What's A 'Super-Spreading Event'? And Has It Happened With COVID-19? - At least 11 cases of the viral disease are linked to a British man's ski trip to the Alps after attending a conference in Singapore.
Common Dreams

New Poll Shows Green New Deal’s Momentum Among Nevada Democrats Ahead of Tonight’s Debate - ______________________________
Axios

Situational awareness - Catch up on today's biggest news: 1. Nikki Haley poaches top conservative from Heritage Action 2. Pennsylvania diocese files for bankruptcy amid sex...
Truthdig

America’s Barbaric Health Care System in One Grisly Statistic - New polling data finds that as many as eight million people in the U.S. have used crowdfunding campaigns to pay for a medical procedures.
CPI's Danger in the Air

With Michael Bloomberg, Democrats smash against their own anti-big money firewall - The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. Having bought himsel...
The Root

Mississippi Police Investigating Hate Crime After 12-Year-Old Is Given Racist Doll With Noose Around Its Neck - Parenthood is all about preparation. Read more...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Election Update: We Got A Flurry Of New National Polls. Sanders Led Them All. - According to the FiveThirtyEight primary forecast, the single most likely outcome of the Democratic presidential primary is that no one wins a majority of ...
OpEd News

Mike Bloomberg Takes The Debate - So far Bloomberg has spent more than $300 million on campaign advertising. That's more than Hillary Clinton spent on advertising during her entire presiden...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Amy Klobuchar's Spanish name: latest on the list of 2020 attempts at 'relatability' - ‘My name is Amy, but when I was in fourth-grade Spanish they gave me the name Elena,’ Klobuchar said at an event in Nevada On Tuesday, Amy Klobuchar open...
Daily Howler

The only stain on Clinton's shirt! - *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020Our own tribe's criminal cluelessness:* We're going to postpone our review of Dana Goldstein's account of "the reading wars....
The Texas Signal

Amanda Edwards snags multiple newspaper endorsements - On Sunday, former Houston City Council member and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amanda Edwards received an endorsement from the Beaumont Enterprise. D...
The Intercept

The Law Says Chelsea Manning Must Be Freed From Prison - Chelsea Manning was imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. She refused — and now she must be set free. The post ...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

By the Numbers: Campaign Cash and Primary Success - *76%* Percent of the time an open-seat candidate with the highest contribution total has either won a multi-way primary race outright or advanced to a runo...
Rivard Report

City Officials Propose Keeping Aquifer Protection Program In-House - City officials have come up with a way to continue the popular program to protect the Edwards Aquifer while shifting the sales tax that currently funds a...
MintPress News

Michael Bloomberg Is Trying To take Down Bernie Sanders, Not Trump - Michael Bloomberg’s campaign has called on the other “moderate” candidates, such as Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, to step down and unite b...
Digby's Hullabaloo

The Invisible Woman - Sure, Elizabeth Warren may be third in the delegate count at the moment, ahead of Bloomberg, Klobuchar and Biden. And yes, she may have come in a close sec...
Southeast Texas Record

Hey, Californians, don’t come to Texas – unless you plan to stay! - California is banning travel to Texas? Seriously? Are they banning relocation, too? That could be a problem. For them, not us, because the flood of exile...
Down With Tyranny!

Status Quo Did So Much More Than Just VOTE For The War Against Iraq-- But Now He Lies About His Role - If you're considering voting for Status Quo Joe in a primary in your state, it's very important for you to watch this video above about why the Senate ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Mayor, Governor: Stop Sharing The News’ Fear Mongering Bail Reform Editorial - The Dallas Morning News’ wrongheaded editorial about bail reform is being amplified by two of our city and state’s most prominent public officials. Mayor...
Popular Resistance

New Round Of Trump Budget Cuts Could Force More Californians Into Homelessness, Advocates Say - The Trump administration is proposing a cut in homeless assistance funding next year, frustrating advocates who say the crisis in Sacramento and other citi...
The Greanville Post

Bloomberg’s Rising Polls Show The Power Of Billionaire Narrative Control (Expanded) - CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Humans are not difficult to manipulate. I am not difficult to manipulate. You are not difficult to manipulate. If you don’t appreciate th...
Texas Monthly

Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que Named an American Classic by James Beard Foundation - The 65-year-old Brownsville restaurant specializes in traditional underground pit-smoked cows’ heads. The post Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que Named an America...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Federal Appeals Courts Agree: Trans People Belong in Schools - On Wednesday, yet another federal appeals court ruled that allowing a transgender boy to use the boys’ restrooms and locker rooms does not violate the ri...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Pondering the Pundits - Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media and the internet blogs. The intent is to ...
Reform Austin

A Bill Could Have Protected Domestic Violence Survivors, but Texas Didn’t Pass It - By Reform Austin Staff Days after being released from jail on domestic violence charges, Jacques Dshawn Smith is now facing charges for capital murder in...
The AltWorld

India 2020: ‘Superpower’ Or Still ‘Super Poor’? - The hopes of India’s over 1.3 billion people were shattered after their country objectively failed to become […] The post India 2020: ‘Superpower’ Or Sti...
Eater Houston

Sugar Land Scores a Spicy New Hot Pot Spot - [image: A hot pot on a burner with yellow curry broth, fish cakes, mushrooms, and chicken] Malaysian laksa hot pot at Dipped | Dipped Hot Pot/Facebook Di...
Socialist Alternative

The Auto Industry, Jobs and a Green Future - Christian Bunke, Martina Gergits, Philipp Chmel, Stefan Brandl, Brettros, SLP (ISA in Austria) The automobile industry, along with the oil industry, remain...
The NM Political Report

NRCC names two CD2 candidates to ‘contender’ status - [image: NRCC names two CD2 candidates to ‘contender’ status] Two Republicans seeking the 2nd Congressional District seat remain in the good graces of the n...
naked capitalism

Bad Bets and the Corona Virus Epidemic - Bad bets by individuals, the state, and globalizing elites
Rewire

‘If I Don’t Lie, It’s Illegal’: How Forced Counseling Affects Abortion Patients - When I provide patient-centered counseling to people seeking abortion care, I have to undo the damage from biased counseling mandated by the state. The p...
emptywheel

DOJ Is Withholding the Mike Flynn 302 Describing How the Campaign Considered Reaching Out to Julian Assange after the Podesta Leaks - Among the really damning information that DOJ is withhold in the BuzzFeed CNN FOIA are Mike Flynn's 302s where he describes a discussion about reaching o...
Dallas Observer

Where Were You When Amari Cooper Totally Didn’t Get Shot Wednesday? - A little before noon Wednesday, a Twitter account with fewer than 50 followers caught a viral wave and sent Cowboys fans into a panic. Amari Cooper, the te...
Dandelion Salad

Neoliberalism Survives By Destroying Social Cohesion by Rainer Shea + The Neoliberal “New” Deal: The Rich Drink for Free While the Poor Pay More - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Feb. 12, 2019 February 19, 2020 When you compare socialist countries like ...
Crooked Media

House Democrats Stand Down - The post House Democrats Stand Down appeared first on Crooked Media.
Washington Babylon

Why Won’t Corporate America Support Single Payer Medicare-for-All? - [image: Why Won’t Corporate America Support Single Payer Medicare-for-All?] The only thing that will move most large corporations is a powerful grassroots ...
The Appeal

Florida Can’t Bar People From Voting Because of Inability to Pay, Appeals Court Says - Florida cannot bar people with felony convictions from voting if they can’t pay court-issued fines and fees, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. ...
Lawfare

The 2020 Presidential Candidates Stay (Mostly) Quiet on Law Enforcement Independence - "Presidential Preference Card" from the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses. (Flickr/Phil Roeder, https://flic.kr/p/2ioY1g4; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons...
Political Garbage Chute

Court Docs: “Gun Girl” is Ann Coulter in Tomi Lahren Suit Wearing Kaitlin Bennett Mask and Sh_ _ _ing Herself - NEW HAVEN, OHIO — The American alt-right is reeling this morning after newly released court documents revealed that the InfoWars reporter known to many.....
SCOTUSblog

Argument preview: Calling (PLRA) strikes - [image: Argument preview: Calling (PLRA) strikes]In 1996, Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which tightened up prisoners’ access to feder...
Church and State

Homo Sapiens 2.0? We need a species-wide conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement - We have all the tools we need to alter the genetic makeup of our species. The realization is inevitable. Timing is the only variable.
Right Wing Watch

Infowars Correspondent Uses Fox News Appearance to Send Trump a Message - Kaitlin Bennett, a correspondent for the conspiracy theory outlet Infowars and employee of the far-right outlet Liberty Hangout, appeared on Fox News’ “Fox...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Disputing Turkey, Russian Ambassador Dodges Blame Over Deadly Airstrikes in Northwest Syria - The United Nations has said airstrikes and shelling by Syrian forces and their allies have killed at least 1,700 civilians in northwest Syria, mostly women...
Ecosophia

Toward the Next America - When I mentioned in a post two weeks ago that America was heading into a new phase of its history, and that I would be offering some suggestions about wh...
Ballot Access News

Eleventh Circuit Agrees with U.S. District Court that Ex-Felons Who Can’t Afford to Pay Restitution and Fines Must be Allowed to Register to Vote - On February 19, the Eleventh Circuit issued a 78-page ruling in Jones v Governor of Florida, 19-14551. By a vote of 3-0, is upholds the injunction issued e...
Novara Media

Points Mean Prizes - On the day the government releases plans for a points based immigration system, Michael Walker is joined by Ash Sarkar and James Meadway to assess what it ...
21st Century Wire

Sanders Surges Into Double-Digit Lead Nationally in New Poll - *21WIRE* | Panic is already beginning to set in with Democratic Party elites, as DNC strategy of 'pushing Bernie out' is failing badly.
Duck of Minerva

China and the Coronavirus: Getting It Right or Very Wrong? - In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, the stories on China’s quarantine and population control measures seem downright crazy, with people needing hall pas...
Dissent Magazine

El primer año del México de AMLO - La llegada de AMLO a la presidencia generó sentimientos de esperanza, entusiasmo y renovación en México. Hoy, hay una creciente inquietud de que su gobie...
Moon of Alabama

Syria - Turkey's Bluff Is Called - Media Opposition Sources Run By British Intelligence - Russia has called Turkey's bluff of a wide ranging attack on Syrian government forces. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will now have to find a w...
Krebs on Security

Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months - Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal an...
The Contributor

It's Time for Millionaires to Contribute Their Fair Share to Social Security - News Image: Some of America’s wealthiest recognize the inherent unfairness in the system. Category: Opinion origin Blog: Common Dreams origin Author: M...
First Draft

Disbar Barr/The Pardon Bender - Pardon me boy, is that the Impeached Insult Comedian.
Wolf Street

Who Bought the $1.3 Trillion in Debt the US Government Added to its $23-Trillion Pile in 12 Months? - Treasury securities are hot. The Fed backed up the truck. US banks & others bought too. But China dumped.
Election Law Blog

11th Circuit Unanimously Affirms District Court Preliminary Injunction Blocking Enforcement of Florida Legislature Law Requiring Ex-Felons to Pay Fees and Fines Before Reenfranchisement - You can find the 78-page opinion at this link. It begins: On November 6, 2018, Florida voters approved Amendment 4, a state constitutional amendment that a...
Mondoweiss

‘Bogie was quite a murderer’ — Israeli rivals to Netanyahu joke about leader’s army record - In a humorous video intended to dispel the rumors about intense tensions within the "cockpit" of four leaders of the Blue and White party – Benjamin Gantz,...
Trivial Knot

Fractal maze - This is a repost of a puzzle I created in 2014. I used to post puzzles on my blog, a long time ago! Rules: Go from start to finish without crossing any ...
Bracing Views

All-Domain Operations: Hubris Unleashed! - W.J. Astore You can always count on the Pentagon to come up with jargon that unleashes hubris. When I was in the Air Force, it was all about “global reach...
Angry Bear

Bloomberg’s Plan for Reskilling America: The Quid without the Pro Quo - Bloomberg’s Plan for Reskilling America: The Quid without the Pro Quo The Intercept usefully preports Michael Bloomberg’s proposals for higher education, f...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Sham of Arab Revolutions - The U.S. has turned what started as genuine popular uprisings against despots into opportunities for political exploitation in favor of the regional regime...
The Conversation

Something Democrats and Republicans have in common: Exaggerated stereotypes about both parties - Americans tend to think that self-identified liberals and conservatives hold more extreme views than they actually do.
Democracy Now!

Latinx Group Mijente Backs Bernie Sanders in First-Ever Presidential Endorsement - In its first-ever presidential endorsement, the Latinx and Chicanx organization Mijente endorsed Bernie Sanders on Tuesday ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Th...
Bonddad

Housing continues to surge - -* by New Deal democrat* Low interest rates continue to fuel a strong upsurge in new housing construction. I’ll put up a more detailed post later, but f...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Can Nevada Avoid A Vote-Count Meltdown? As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days...
Progressive.org

The Weird Plot to Privatize Education in Minnesota - How an unlikely coalition wants to fix the state’s public schools, but could end up dooming them.
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: TEA awards Vanguard Academy T-STEM designation - PHARR, Texas – Vanguard Academy has been awarded T-STEM designation by the Texas Education Agency. This will intrigue many because the open-enrollment ch...
Houston Press

Rockets Add Jeff Green, to Sign DeMarre Carroll - The Rockets did what they have done almost every year for a while now: sign veteran talent during the season. Names as varied as Austin Rivers, Gerald Gree...
ROAR Magazine

From Below Podcast: The Los Angeles Tenants Union - The LATU is an autonomous housing movement organized through assembly-based neighborhood chapters spearheading the grassroots struggle for housing justice ...
Caitlin Johnstone

Bloomberg’s Rising Polls Show The Power Of Billionaire Narrative Control - Back in November Mike Bloomberg was polling at four percent nationally and had the highest disapproval rating of any potential Democratic presidential cand...
Claytoonz

Pardo For Blago - The Trump cult likes to believe Donald Trump is a great negotiator. So how do they deal with the fact that he’s been publicly out-negotiated by people like...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Link 2/19/2020 - Top legal news includes: Judge deals fatal blow to downstream Harvey victims suing Army Corps (Chron subsc); First day of early voting in Houston yields sp...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

MUSIC MAN - Trump loves military bands -- but doesn't love music https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-business-session-na...
Space City Weather

Spring fling ends as Houston descends back into something more like winter - As expected, we ran for 80 degrees yesterday but came up just short, hitting 79° at Bush and Hobby. Today, many of us will probably not even get to 60°. To...
Duffel Blog

Islamic State leader disappointed by his lame target name - [image: isis] MOSUL, Iraq — Islamic State leader Abu Abdul Bari always suspected infidel intelligence services were on to him. For years, he lived in fear...
Dorf on Law

Transparency Without Accountability is Worse than Opacity (Stone/Barr/Trump edition) - *by Michael C. Dorf* The call by over two thousand Justice Department alumni for Attorney General William Barr to resign over his handling of the Roger Sto...
Countercurrents

Mumbai Bagh In Times of Islamophobia - The blatantly communal remarks of a taxi driver at Byculla was an acrid reminder of just how far the politics of hate have gone, with the nation’s top le...
Crooked Timber

An important new book about refugeehood - A brief plug for an important new (and affordable) book: every home should have one! David Owen has long been know for his thoughtful contribution to philo...
Ian Welsh

The Oligarch Stage of the American Disease: Bloomberg Edition - So, Michael Bloomberg has spent 300 million, and by some polling, is now tied for second place in the Democratic primaries with Joe Biden, whose numbers ar...
slacktivist

I don’t like you, but I love you - Here is your open thread for February 19, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves.
The Progressive Wing

2/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news/videos/tweets/etc. in the comments.
Media Lens

‘And Then – Nothing. Silence’: The Deadly Facade Of ‘Democracy’ - If you were mad enough to judge the state of the world by the daily outpourings of ‘mainstream’ media, you would have no real understanding of the perilous...
Two Party Opera

J.P. Morgan Will Get it Done -
Debunking Christianity

My Interview with Seth Andrews, Host of The Thinking Atheist, On "The Case against Miracles" - I just realized I hadn't posted this before. Enjoy.
Morning Consult

Ahead of Nevada, Front-Running Sanders Grows Support Among Hispanic Voters - The post Ahead of Nevada, Front-Running Sanders Grows Support Among Hispanic Voters appeared first on Morning Consult.
Land Destroyer

US Middle East "Peace Deal" Designed to Perpetuate Conflict - *February 19, 2020 *(Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - A deal that is entirely unacceptable to one of its principal parties isn't a deal at all. In the case of the ...
Counterpunch

Social Media: The New Grapevine Telegraph - During the weekend of February 9th, MSNBC regular Tiffany Cross blurted out the conditions under which MSNBC black pundits work. She said, "If I said a l...
ProPublica

How Much Has the Government Spent at Trump’s Properties? It Won’t Say. - by Ilya Marritz, WNYC Stay up to date with email updates about WNYC and ProPublica’s investigations into the president’s business practices. This month...
Grist

Why being green comes naturally to US Latinos - Environmental organizations would be wise to tap our community as a natural constituency.
Rallblog

Wanted by the DNC: Someone, Anyone to Stop Bernie Sanders - Bernie Sanders is now the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. But the DNC is still trying to recruit someone to stop him. First it was Kamala Harr...
Portside

Thank You Portside readers - Thank You Portside readers jay Wed, 02/19/2020 - 02:37
The Grayzone

While Nicaragua returns to peace, media and international NGOs conjure epidemic of violence with dubious reporting - Media bias against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is unremitting, and international NGOs are feeding it by misreporting a violent land dispute… The po...
jobsanger

Trump Must Go! -
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Taking Equity-Minded Action to Close Equity Gaps by Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux | 2017 - *Equity is a big word in K-12 and higher education today. Here is a good piece that drills down on the concept. -Angela* Association of American Colleges ...
Informed Comment

94% of Palestinians reject Trump’s Kushner Plan, with Massive Rallies, and 2/3s say Two-State Solution is Dead - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 94% of Palestinians reject the Kushner Plan for Palestine, and two thirds of Palestinians ,according to a recent opinio...
Antiwar.com

Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Killed; ISIS Attacks in North - ISIS staged attacks in northern Iraq. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Killed; ISIS Attacks in North appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
World Socialist Web Site

UC Santa Cruz graduate students call for expansion of wildcat strike - Striking University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students are bravely defying administration’s threats and intimidation as support grows across the U...
Robert Reich

How Democrats Clean Up the Messes Left By RepublicansFor... - *How Democrats Clean Up the Messes Left By Republicans* For decades, Democratic administrations have been cleaning up economic messes left to them by Re...
Workers World

#AllEyesonWetsuweten: Indigenous solidarity shuts down Canadian Rail - [image: #AllEyesonWetsuweten: Indigenous solidarity shuts down Canadian Rail] The Wet’suwet’en First Nation faces colonial violence and invasion, as it co...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Virginia moves closer to banning 'ex-gay therapy' for minors' & other Wed midday news briefs - *Virginia moves towards banning LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’ in minors* - *Good for Virginia!! * *Mike Bloomberg Once Again Called Transgender People “It”...
Brad Blog

Trump Empties Gotham Prison: 'BradCast' 2/18/2020 - We've got a lot to catch up on on today's BradCast after a long holiday weekend, as the crisis of rot and corruption inside the once-revered U.S. Dept. of ...
Dissident Voice

Could the Latest Outburst of Ankara’s Temper lead to Escalation in Syria? - So far Turkey, militarily the second mightiest NATO country, has been able to get away with virtually anything it has chosen to brew in the Middle East. Th...
Liberal America

Trump Administration Now Weaponizing Migrant Psychotherapy Notes - The atrocities the Trump administration is guilty of committing at our Southern border are legion. Sadly, with impeachment and the daily water torture to...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Twain’s novel Huck Finn, published in the U.S., February 18, 1885; “Every fool in town” - Today is the 135th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, another installment in the novelization with great e...
Rude Pundit

Bloomberg Plays Turd in the Democratic Punch Bowl - Former New York City mayor and billionaire prick Michael Bloomberg barely won his last election. In 2009, after he rammed through an exception to the city'...
Free & Equal

21 Presidential Candidates Will Tee Off March 4 In Nationally Streamed Open Presidential Debate - 21 Presidential Candidates Will Tee Off March 4 In Nationally Streamed Open Presidential Debate More Voices and Choices to Join Presidential Conversation W...
Our Finite World

Easily overlooked issues regarding COVID-19 - We read a lot in the news about the new Wuhan coronavirus and the illness it causes (COVID-19), but some important points often get left out. [1] COVID-19 ...
Latino Decisions

Latest Univision Polling Results Published in Lead-Up to Democratic Debate - Univision Publishes Complete Results of its Latest Electoral Surveys in the Lead-Up to the Next Democratic Debate Two new Univision News surveys –a Natio...
Texas Standard

Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer Says The Threat Of Climate Change Requires An Economic Overhaul - “If we’re going to actually move to clean energy, we’re going to also have to rebuild affordable housing around this country. We’re going to have to create...
Sludge

Richard Neal Is #1 in Corporate PAC Donations - The congressman who collected the most corporate campaign money last year is the chairman of the committee that writes the tax code, Rep. Richard Neal (D-M...
Democracy Chronicles

Former U.S. Prosecutors Call for Attorney General’s Resignation - Attorney General William Barr intervened to shorten the political corruption sentence of a Trump confidant. Former U.S. prosecutors want his resignation.
EgbertoWillies.com

Angelina Lawson, a progressive on a conservative board ensuring transparency to her constituents - [image: Angeliina Lawson Progressive JCCC Board 2] Angeliina Lawson is the sole progressive on the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees tryin...
Carl Beijer

No, Warren's campaign is not being "erased" - Elizabeth Warren has dropped to fourth place nationally, now polling behind Michael Bloomberg, and her fifth-place challenger Pete Buttigieg is quickly clo...
Louis Proyect

A History of Humanity’s Future - A History of Humanity’s Future Our variety of the human species, homo sapiens sapiens, emerged from out of bands of more primitive yet contemporaneous olde...
Dos Centavos

EARLY VOTING BEGINS FOR THE 2020 DEM PRIMARY - Don’t ask me about the republican primary, but I’m sure the latest KKK meeting has an event page on Facebook. Today, Tuesday, February 18, 2020 is the firs...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Torture's Legacy of Impunity - On February 5th, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald J. Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress...
Off the Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Colleen Gaido - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
Reveal

The Disappeared - For six years, a North Carolina family has tried to find out what the U.S. government did with its children after they were separated at the border. The ...
Progressives Chat

‘What Democrats Still Don’t Get About George McGovern’ - I have had come across comparisons of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate *Bernie Sanders* to the 1972 losing Democratic presidential nominee *George...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Shadow Human Rights Summit: A Voice for the Voiceless - *The 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – February 18, 2020 * 2020 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and DemocracyHuman rights heroes to...
Bayou Brief

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Supports Gender Discrimination in Auto Insurance Rates - “I do think there should be a rate difference. I am for gender as a rate-setting factor.” So says Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, who addre...
Chicken Fried Politics

March Madness: Presidential primary season turns South with a vengeance - 10 Southern states hold primaries during March, with nearly 1,000 Democratic delegates at stake ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor The 2020 ...
Shadowproof

NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Asks Trump To Commute Her Prison Sentence - NSA whistleblower Reality Winner submitted a petition for a commutation of her prison sentence. “The continued imprisonment of Reality Leigh Winner serve...
See You In 2020

Categorically Debunking The Claim That China Is Imperialist - The idea that China is an imperialist power is a very useful ideological tool for the propagandists of the U.S. empire. It morally justifies Washington’s ...
Edinburg Politics

Valley lawmakers, led by Sen. Lucio, helped pass Senate Bill 750 to increase preventive health and family planning services for low-income women - Rio Grande Valley state legislators, led by Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr., D-Brownsville, helped pass a new state law in 2019 to increase preventive health and fam...
Political Orphans

Collias is Democrats’ Best Shot to Flip NC11 - Redistricting in North Carolina has given several currently Republican Congressional seats new Democratic majorities. The new 11th District, currently repr...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Temporary migrant workers in Australian agriculture - The agricultural industry throughout the world has great trouble recruiting and retaining workers drawn from the local population and have become reliant...
Texas Freedom Network

Happy Birthday: TFN Marks 25 years as a Progressive Champion in Texas - Cecile Richards wanted to see for herself how much the religious right was expanding its influence in the halls of Texas government. So in January 1995, ...
Greg Palast

California: Screwing Bernie Sanders Again? - In the California Democratic Primary in 2016, 750,000 votes were DISQUALIFIED, mostly No Party Preference (NPP) voters — three out of four of whom were B...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Cheerleaders & pretzels in the Roger Stone case - On President’s Day, I appeared on NewsMax TV’s American Agenda program to debate President Trump’s intervention in the Roger Stone Case and watched in amaz...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - There’s always something to learn at the museum. The saints are marching in to Mardi Gras this week with the first Mixers & Elixirs of 2020, but wait… ther...
Field Negro

Their law, and their order. - [image: TWEET ME]The following is the last article you will see by* David Frum* on this site. We are not exactly ideological soulmates, but when it comes t...
Anti-Media

DOJ Investigating Former CIA Director’s Role in Russiagate - The Justice Department is investigating the role of John Brennan in the assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Echidne of the Snakes

My sensitivity To Tap Water - Last weekend I traveled to New York City and for various reasons, largely laziness, ended up drinking a lot of tap water and coffee and tea made out of t...
Eclectablog

We CAN have nice things – with communications specialist Anat Shenker-Osorio - The winter 2020 Eclectablog/The GOTMFV Show podcast fundraiser is in progress. To support our important work, please click HERE. Anat Shenker-Osorio on Twi...
Project Censored

Episode 67 – The History of Iran-US Relations - Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Drea...
Stinque

Savior Season - Uncle Joe isn’t gonna save us, is he? We wanted Uncle Joe to save us. That’s who everybody said we wanted, anyway. Everybody’s worried that we don’t want G...
Liberation News

Students, teachers speak at Boston School Committee in support of Black Lives Matter at School - The Boston Teachers Union has participated in BLMatSchool for the past four years, but this year their involvement was met with a letter of disapproval f...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The 5G Trojan Horse (Documentary) - The Conscious Resistance Network Presents: The 5G Trojan Horse Researched, Written, and Narrated by Derrick Broze Produced and Edited by Jeremy Martin Th...
The Reality-Based Community

Nicotine, Tobacco, and Illicit Markets - China police solve counterfeit cigarette case. Nearly two in three cigarettes sold in Malaysia are now smuggled. Dark side of Canada contraband tobacco is ...
The Militant

East Bay transit workers fight bosses’ takebacks, seek support - OAKLAND, Calif. — Bus drivers, mechanics and clerical workers employed by the AC Transit system in the East Bay held a midday rally outside the agency’s he...
Innocence Project

He Didn’t Want a Relationship During His 75-Year Sentence, But She Was His ‘Key’ - In honor of Valentine’s Day, we asked people how love helped them through the toughest of times and gave them the support they needed to rebuild their li...
Earthworks

Why We’re Challenging Formosa Plastics’ Massive Proposed Petrochemical Plants in Court - Formosa’s proposal is a textbook example of environmental racism and poses grave dangers to waterways, public health, and climate. Today, Earthworks join...
Freethought Now

A Valentine’s Day missive for Darwin, Ed Asner — and the Trump administration - On Valentine’s Day, we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are remembering the people who have put us in a love-ly (and not so love-ly) mood this week.
Pages of Victory

Sylvester Turner - How much money has Bloomberg given this guy to become such an ardent supporter? I already had him pegged as a sellout, but how can a Democrat of color supp...
DeSmogBlog

California Lagged in Capping Century-old Oil Wells Leaking Under Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors - [image: Roger Majano and Rosalinda Morales in front of an oil storage tank in LA] Read time: 15 mins On November 28, 2015, Roger Majano, plagued by a noxio...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Open letter to Police - I've known a few police officers in private life over the years and none of them were oppressive extremists, and I have no doubt that most police office...
The Rag Blog

Steve Rossignol : A way station for the Underground Railroad in Blanco County? - Some may be surprised that there was an Underground Railroad network in Texas. By Steve Rossignol | The Rag Blog | February 13, 2020 We are all familiar wi...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN New Hampshire Primary Postmortem: Another 1-1A Showing for Bernie and Pete, But the Only Clear Winner Was Amy - Tom on the New Hampshire primary and the paths…or many paths….forward. Praise be to New Hampshire! Their primary was run in an exemplary fashion, the vote...
Avedon's Sideshow

Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea - Bernie won New Hampshire, but it doesn't seem he gets more delegates out of it than second-placer Buttigieg. Klobuchar obviously got some mileage from al...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

For Sanders, New Hampshire was a Glass Both Half-Full and Half-Empty - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — There are mixed signals from Bernie Sanders’ narrow victory in New Hampshire, but for now he’s supplanted Joe Biden as a wea...
Green Papers

Dammed good question about the Green New Deal - By Don Fitz November 5, 2019 Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with...
Lowering the Bar

TIP: Choose an Alias That Doesn’t Already Appear on a Warrant - There are better alternatives in this situation, though. Related Stories - Assorted Criminal Stupidity - Fourth-Level Subcontractor Ruins M...
Grits for Breakfast

What the jury didn't hear, against SWAT raids for routine search warrants, bail explainers, courthouse architecture, and other stories - Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: *Margaret Moore, Rosa Jimenez, and what the jury didn't hear* Weird comments from Travis C...
The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia

Tejano Treasurer Troubles - The Tejano Democrats apparently have some major financial concerns and are even citing a section in the Texas Criminal Code in a letter sent to Tejano Trea...
LareDOS

Dist. 80 State Rep. Tracy O. King continues to uphold mission of leadership and service - Agenda for next Legislative session: create more jobs, improve health care and public education, additional benefits for veterans
Frontloading HQ

2020 Democratic Delegate Allocation: NEW HAMPSHIRE - *NEW HAMPSHIRE* *Election type:* primary *Date: *February 11 *Number of delegates:* 33 [5 at-large, 3 PLEOs, 16 congressional district, 9 automatic/superde...
Better Texas Blog

Misguided Priorities: Texas’ Inequitable Investment in Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Postsecondary education is critical for driving prosperity for Texas families. For more Texans to become skilled members of the workforce and sustainable...
Reading the Pictures

Under MAGA, the Convergence of Militia and State - Those armed men prowling the Kentucky statehouse made one thing clear. Second amendment activism has fused with the militia movement and white supremacy....
Equality Texas

Statement from Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality Texas, on AG Ken Paxton and Travel Bans - when Mr. Paxton invokes religious liberty, we know that he has no intention of applying this standard equally across people of all faiths.
Bad Attitudes

Lock Him Up! - â€¦and hereâ€™s how, as urged by my neighbor Tony Piel, former director and general legal counsel of the World Health Organization: We Democrats may hav...
Progressive Army

It’s Over, Folks! Sanders Will Be No. 46 - When Bernie Sanders announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination last February, I was skeptical of his chances to win. He was running again...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Bernie Sanders' Commie Kill Swarm - America just can’t catch a break. After three long years of brutal oppression under Donald Trump’s Russia-backed Nazi Reich, it turns out the only Democrat...
Bud Kennedy

Who’s wrong in ‘right to life’ split? Texas group’s political scoring doesn’t add up - Every pro-life group opposes abortion. But not every pro-life group is as extreme as Texas Right to Life. The West-Texas-funded activist group has been vis...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Tracking a Legal Mystery in the Park - Not-a-Trail Signs Cite Not-a-Law “Reference is a Mistake” February 9, 2020 We have some progress on the thorny issue of the signs posted on recently clos...
Downwinders at Risk

College of Constructive Hell-Raising Begins 4th Year With Another Full Class - Civil Rights legend Peter Johnson talking community organizing with this year’s class. There might be no better symbol of Downwinders’ transformation fro...
Web of Debt

Mexico’s President AMLO Shows How It’s Done - While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branc...
PERRspectives

Two Cheers for Mitt Romney's Lincolnesque Moment - One day after he cast his historic vote to remove President Donald Trump office, Utah Senator and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has continued...
News Junkie

Desiring Machines in the Age of Biocapitalism - The sophistication of our technological tools, with causality levels proper of the current interplanetary biocapitalism, have shot out the formation of new...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Election Irregularities in Iowa - 1 of 2 things happened in Iowa: Either the Democratic Party is such a mess, it can’t figure out how to properly run an election OR the party is such a m...
WAWG Blog

Oligarchs – The Abusers Behind Our Authoritarian Economic Systems. - It’s going to take a vibrant democratic political system with massive citizen participation to enable this new democratic economic system called socialis...
Environment Texas

Experts gather in San Antonio for nature based infrastructure workshop - Anna Farrell-Sherman Clean Water Associate Contact person by email - Read more about Anna Farrell-Sherman Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Brooke Paup, ...
Texas Rural Voices

A TRV FOLLOWER EXPLAINS WHY SHE SUPPORTS TOM STEYER - It’s about our environment and democracy. Reporting in the news seems to grant that Medicare and free college are the main issues facing the country in 2...
News Taco

At 100, Odon Cardenas, ex-POW still hears the ‘Screaming Mimis’ - Excited at the chance to mark the milestone of his birth to the minute, Odon Cardenas stayed up until midnight, even as the whole family fell asleep. He ...
ExChristian.Net

Good News or Fake News - *By Carl S ~* *Article originally published on 12.19.2019 in the author's local newspaper.* Every December, clergy take center-stage. Every time they prea...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Billionaires Discuss Economics - If you enjoy these cartoons, help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really helps. However the Democratic primary turns out, I’m grateful t...
Texas Watch

Investigating Insurers on the Coast - Investigating Insurers on the Coast Video of Investigating Insurers on the Coast The Texas House recently investigated how policyholders are being treate...
The Metaphor Project

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts - For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Gre...
LawFlog

FBI doubles down on Seth Rich cover-up - When you get caught with your pants down, just deny the obvious. That appears to be the strategy of the FBI, according to a letter I received from this aft...
Moron Majority

After Bombshell Bolton Book Leak, Publisher Wants Full Return Of Advance - According to an unpublished manuscript of John Bolton’s upcoming book obtained by the New York Times, the former National Security Advisor claims Donald Tr...
Independent Political Report

Roque De La Fuente considering Libertarian Nod - Roque De La Fuente, a buisnessman previously known for running for President in 2016 as a Democrat then later under his own political party, the American...
Seeing the Forest

Fascists Eat Donuts - From 2003, Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police. Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80’s that was a lot of gu...
The Texas CBD Blog

4 Ways to Find CBD Rich Strains - As its popularity increases, more consumers are looking to learn how to find CBD rich strains to grow and/or consume. Therefore, when shopping around for...
New Progressive Alliance

Trump says “War!” The World says “Peace!” - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida.
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars - *July 4, 1970, until August 6, 1988, Casey Kasem hosted the American Top 40 on the radio. Through many of those years, Harry would listen to the four ...
Houstonia

Handies Douzo Is Bringing Hand Roll Competition to Hando in the Heights - How should you order at the new spot in the Heights?
Smart Dissent

Giant Companies Demanded and Received New Tax Breaks From Trump Administration - Date: 01/20/2020 THIS IS THE SWAMP. The Treasury is using obscure regulations to FURTHER cut taxes for some of the biggest corporations on the planet. T...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Las Vegas’ Downtown Project & Tony Hsieh - I admire rich people who do something creative with their money instead of just buying more stuff. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappo, lives in Las Vegas and broug...
Disobedient Media

Where Do Korean Negotiations Go In 2020? - Can the process still be salvaged?
Somervell County Salon

Paul Harper offered to settle State of Texas ex rel. Best v Harper lawsuit for $68k back in 2016 - On May 23, 2016 I made an offer to settle this frivolous lawsuit that was filed by George Darrell Best and the County Attorney Andrew Lucas acting on beh...
nonsite.org

The Racial Disparity Politics of Biomedical Research: Disaggregating Categories into New Essentialisms - A recent article in Nature Human Behavior joins a chorus of those calling for public policy and biomedical research to disaggregate reigning forms of racia...
Think 3 Institute

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
The Ghion Journal

Current State of U.S.-Centralized Empire Confounds Easy Answers: Reading Andre Vltchek & Dmitry Orlov - Okay, we’re going to fit one quick post in before the holidays hit. As we near year’s end and are pushed into the now typical “how was the year/what happ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: Analyzing 2019: The fall of a Texas House speaker -
DBC Green

Updated List of Green Candidates for 2020 - We have an update to last week's entry on candidates for nomination by the Green Party of Texas in 2020. (Actually, we had it several days ago, but I'm jus...
The Disorder Of Things

Brexit Futures: Between a Model and a Martyr - Paul David Beaumont is currently finalising his PhD dissertation, The Grammar of International Status Competition, at the Department of International Envir...
Popehat

Murum Aries Attigit, Y'all - This here case is a pretty good story. It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. Folks there, well, everywhere, say the wheels of justice turn slowly...
Green Pages News

Joanna Herlihy – 1934 – 2019 - Joanna Herlihy of Cambridge, Massachusetts, died in her home on November 29, 2019. She was born on March 9, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to Frank and Betty ...
Splinter

Don't Dream, It's Over - There is no real origin story for Splinter.
Texas Moratorium Network

Rodrick Reed, Brother of Rodney Reed Nov 9, 2019 -
The Concourse

A Bear Friday For The Road - I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the se...
GreenSource DFW

Tiny house village opens in Lake Dallas - *The tiny home community in Lake Dallas is the first of its kind built within city limits in North Texas. Photo courtesy of Terry Lantrip.* Oct. 30, 2019...
Washington's Blog

Has California Lost The Mandate of Heaven? - In Chinese history, natural disasters were viewed as portents that the The Mandate of Heaven (tianming or “Heaven’s will”) had been withdrawn from the ru...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling - Most people are shocked by the intense hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling. How can a well that is not complete have emissions? Neighborhoods u...
Texans For Public Justice

Who Does John Cornyn Work For? - The Texas Observer's Justin Miller takes a deep dive into Senator John Cornyn. Read Miller's article at the Texas Observer.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Dustin Ray Hamby Exposed as Nazi Leader Chef Goyardee - The following is being posted on behalf of Central Texas ARA: Dustin Ray Hamby, aka “Chef Goyardee”, is an Austin-based Neo-Nazi and cook who now serves as...
Think Progress

Transitioning ThinkProgress - Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and edit...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
Truthout

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - [image: The darkened sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil is picture on August 19, 2019. Residents reported black rain, while studies by two universities confirmed tha...
t.e.j.a.s.

Official TEJAS STATEMENT – Baytown Exxonmobil Olefins Plant – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION - Due to an attack on our server provider, our statement was postponed. Thank you all for your patience.
Texas State Teachers Association

NEA Member Benefits offering assistance to victims of South Texas flooding - n response to the severe storms and flooding in Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties, NEA Member Benefits has activated its Disaster Relief Program. NEA M...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
The Socialist

North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence - Disclaimer: The SPUSA is a multi-tendency organization, the following article may or may not reflect the views of individual party
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.
John Laurits

[video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany - [video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany For readers who missed the Facebook live-stream, here is a video wherein I a...

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