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Vox

A month after accusations of sexual misconduct, Junot Díaz is more or less unscathed - In May, Junot Díaz was accused of forcibly kissing a woman. Now, he’s winning the publicity battle. Just over a month after he was accused of sexual mis...
Hullabaloo

This immigration horror isn't just Trump. It's a conservative movement strategy. - *This immigration horror isn't just Trump. It's a conservative movement strategy.* by digby My Salon column this morning: On Monday, in a courtroom i...
Talking Points Memo

Report: US To Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are expected to announce that the...
Think Progress

WATCH: Rep. Cummings shames GOP for fixating on Hillary’s emails while Trump separates families - Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) lit into Republicans on Tuesday for obsessing over Hillary Clinton’s emails while doing nothing to stop the Trump administratio...
Popular Resistance

How Gustavo Petro Has Given Life To Colombia’s Left - 8,034,189 million people voted for the former guerrilla member, Gustavo Petro - nearly double the number he gained during the nation’s first round at the p...
Raw Story

Trump Jr bails out of fundraiser for George P. Bush over family’s criticism of his dad - Donald Trump Jr. has withdrawn a fundraiser for Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush in the latest battle in the long-running feud between the two fami...
Somervell County Salon

Trump Now Saying Immigrants *Infest* the country. Utterly disgusting - I suppose he must believe that when his own ancestors came into the country, they were infesting it. Or this only apparently counts if it's brown people ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'World Health Organization no longer classifies being transgender as a mental disorder' & other Tue midday news briefs - *The World Health Organization announces it finally no longer classifies being transgender as a mental disorder *- *HUGE positive step in the right direc...
Mediaite

Rep. Elijah Cummings Rails Against Migrant Detention in Emotional Speech: ‘This is The United States of America!’ - As thousands of migrant children await reunion with their loved ones, unsure as to when they will ever see their parents again, Congress is talking about s...
Crooks and Liars

Fox And Friends: Migrant Kids 'Turn Into MS-13' - "Fox and Friends," did their job this morning by gaslighting the crisis the Trump administration created by implementing a zero-tolerance policy of separ...
Pharyngula

The police do not have citizens’ best interests at heart - How can I say that? Once again, we have evidence of cops acting criminally. Police in Minneapolis asked medical responders to inject people with ketamine, ...
Grits for Breakfast

Meth a bigger problem than opiods in Texas - Responding to misplaced attention by Texas legislators and law-enforcement leaders on opiods, *Grits had pointed out* earlier this year that the problem wi...
The Reality-Based Community

Cannabis News Round-Up - Anchorage, Alaska considers increasing marijuana sales tax as consumers clamor for cannabis. Citing black market competitive advantages, Alaska legal marij...
Eschaton

How To Make Things Better - It was very hard to be a blugger during the Obama era. "George Bush sucks" was pretty easy and it sustained this pop stand for a number of years. No one wa...
Washington Monthly

Trump is Putting White Supremacy on the Ballot This November - Let's not make the same mistake we did in 2016 and confuse what's at stake.
Lewisville Texan Journal

Ferguson wins third full City Council term - Incumbent City Council member Neil Ferguson declared victory late last night in his runoff election against former councilmember Ronni Cade. Neither of the...
The Verge

Mechanical camera sliders are the coolest terrible idea of 2018 - Oppo’s Find X and Vivo’s Nex are the two most recent and exciting Android devices of the year. Why exciting? Well, they bring us closer to the dream of ...
Daily Kos

Some governors reject National Guard deployments to aid in 'inhumane' family separation policy - Campaign Action Two governors—one a Democrat, the other a Republican—announced on Monday that they would refuse to deploy National Guard troops to the b...
Down With Tyranny!

Blue Wave Headed Toward Florida? - The last attempt to fix some of Florida's severe gerrymandering problems created a new district up north, the fifth, that connects most of Tallahassee wi...
The Week

WHO drops transgender from its mental disorders list - The World Health Organization's international list of diseases is getting an update. In its revised International Classification of Diseases released Mon...
The NM Political Report

Moody’s downgrades NM bond ratings - [image: Moody’s downgrades NM bond ratings] A top financial rating firm downgraded the status of New Mexico’s general obligation bonds, citing large pensio...
memeorandum

School honoring Confederate general renamed Barack Obama Elementary (Brendan King/WTVR-TV) - Brendan King / WTVR-TV: *School honoring Confederate general renamed Barack Obama Elementary* — RICHMOND, Va. — In a majority six to one vote, the Rich...
AlterNet.org

Trump's Child-Stealing Policy Is Part of His Sick Plan to Give Republican Base 'Reason to Vote' - The president will hurt anyone, including children, to win. Republicans planned to run on their tax overhaul to win in November’s midterm elections. But i...
National Post

The secret to an ageless body (and how to get fitter after 40) - The emerging new breed of 40- and 50-somethings are NOT resigned to an expanding waistline and shrinking muscles
FiveThirtyEight.com

You’ve Been Arrested. Will You Get Bail? Can You Pay It? It May All Depend On Your Judge. - Graphics by Ella Koeze Quantitative analysis by Mai Nguyen When Dawud Moore heard he’d been assigned bail, he felt relieved. It was January 2015, and Moore...
Above the Law

A Match Made In Hell - If you come across a frustrating opposing counsel, don’t sign them up at dating websites.
Houstonia

Crêpe Paper Meets Carpet at This Piñata-inspired Exhibition - We Make Carpets—the Dutch art collective whose works employ cocktail umbrellas, coffee stirrers, and pasta—brings its love of everyday objects to Rice's Mo...
OpEd News

Descent! - There are monsters in America. They are tearing families apart. Regardless of how much terror and anguish they cause by ripping children away from their pa...
VICE

Hannibal Buress Likes Working Out Stoned, Too - Desus and Mero discuss the finer things in life with the comedian.
Sputnik News

Unlucky Thief: Columbian Fan Arrested for Snipping Expired WC Tickets in Moscow - An elderly Columbian woman has been detained in Moscow after she stole 200 rubles ($3.1) and two tickets for Sunday’s World Cup match between Mexico and Ge...
SCOTUSblog

Symposium: The fight to vindicate our Constitution’s promise of democracy is far from over - [image: Symposium: The fight to vindicate our Constitution’s promise of democracy is far from over]David H. Gans is the director of the Human Rights, Civ...
San Antonio Current

Support Queer Art: 7 LGBTQ-Identifying San Antonio Acts You Should Pay Attention To - Just because an artist is gay, does that make their art gay?…
CPI's Danger in the Air

Center for Public Integrity wins two 2018 Edward R. Murrow Awards - Society of Professional Journalists’ D.C. chapter also honors four Center projects
NPR's Health Shots

Report For Defense Department Ranks Top Threats From 'Synthetic Biology' - A committee of experts examined about a dozen different synthetic biology technologies that could be potentially misused. For each, they considered how lik...
Splinter

The New York Times Silenced a Stephen Miller Interview at the White House's Request - Tuesday’s episode of *The Daily*, the* New York Times’ *mega-popular news podcast, threw listeners a curveball. In opening a show about the Trump adminis...
Texas Observer

A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists - In 1967, more than 40 years after his death, Charles Dellschau’s belongings were finally piled out on the street in front of his former house in Houston....
Campaign for America's Future

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

Marine Le Pen Owes $347K to EU Parliament for Assistant - Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen must reimburse the European Parliament for the cost of an assistant’s six-year employment, the EU General Court...
Progrexas

We asked top Texas leaders — and every Texan in Congress — about separating immigrant families - Two months after the Trump administration enacted a “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement policy, a national debate has erupted over the policy’s ulti...
The Root

Ohio Sheriff Indicted on Federal Charges After Pocketing Nearly $100,000 in Bribes From Drug Dealers - A former Ohio sheriff who allegedly made himself rich after pocketing almost $100,000 in bribes from drug dealers and others while in office has been ind...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trump directs the Pentagon to create a 'Space Force' - Donald Trump's "Space Force" apparently started as an offhand joke, which he's now taking very seriously.
Buzzflash

What if "Trump the Destroyer" Is Just the Beginning? - What if "Trump the Destroyer" Is Just the Beginning? -- Bruce A. Jacobs for BuzzFlash at Truthout 5.0/*5* rating 1 vote
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US stock markets fall sharply amid fears of global trade war - Markets dropped across the world after Trump threatened to impose $200bn more in levies on Chinese goods - Business live: trade war fears escalate US...
Rivard Report

Judge Rules in Favor of Edwards Aquifer Authority in Voting Rights Case - A federal judge in San Antonio has ruled in favor of the EAA in a water case that could have led to changes in the authority’s governing board. The post ...
Common Dreams

Trump's Immigration Debacle Repeats History's Mistakes - Jeff Biggers George Washington; Thomas Paine; Donald Trump (Getty/Shutterstock/Photo Montage by Salon) [image: George Washington; Thomas Paine; Donald Trump...
Texas Standard

Are Stricter Gun Storage Laws Part Of The Solution To School Shootings? - Audio will be available shortly.
Election Law Blog

“Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge: The 5 D’s of the Gill v. Whitford Decision” - Mike Parsons blogs. … Continue reading →
MintPress News

America’s Record High Suicide Rate Reflects Declining Economy, Culture - The nation’s rising rate of suicide, the highest since 1986, corresponds to a shape-shifting economy that is in the final stage of its mutation from an i...
Political Dig

More Than 70 Bipartisan Ex-US Attorneys Turn On Trump, Demand Ending Family Separation - More than 70 former US attorneys who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations are calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to immedia...
Daily Dot

The internet is not happy with Microsoft’s contract with ICE - [image: U.S. immigration] Employees and customers alike are criticizing the tech company for working with the anti-immigration agency. The post The intern...
SocraticGadfly

Monopsony: The secret word as to why the jobs aren't there - Know how we are allegedly at something like full employment? How we're allegedly at more jobs than available workers? Well, other than declining labor forc...
Latino Rebels

A Critical Thread About Why Separation of Families in Border Is Not Just a Trump Admin Issue - TRUTH
Harper's Magazine

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

GOP Candidate for Nevada Governor Walks Back Anti-Choice Comments - Attorney General Adam Laxalt suggested that, if elected governor, he'd take aim at a voter referendum that protects the right to abortion. Now his campai...
First Reading

Did Jimmy Kimmel set the shot clock for Ted Cruz to act on family separations at the border? - Good day Austin: Until just about five-to-five yesterday, Ted Cruz was the ultimate, tougher-than Trump, immigration hardliner. From Sahil Kapur at Bloom...
Bonddad

Preponderance of evidence from poor housing permits points to slowdown in GDP - - *by New Deal democrat* The preponderance of evidence, based on this morning's report on housing permits and starts, is that increased interest rates a...
Pajiba

With A 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating, John Travolta's 'Gotti' Spins A Critical Conspiracy Theory - Over its opening weekend, John Travolta's Gotti earned a dubious distinction of 0% Rotten Tomatoes score, putting it alongside movies like The Layover, The...
Eater Houston

Crab Station’s Spicy Shellfish Heads to Houston - The DFW-based chain is expanding to Space City Crab Station, a North Texas destination for all things seafood, is headed to Houston. The crab-centric ...
Newsbud

America’s Dirty Little Secret - Sex trafficking has become the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns. I...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: 80% of the Yemen Population Needs Humanitarian Aid + Catastrophic US-Saudi-UAE Attack on Yemen Port City Could Trigger Mass Famine - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on June 18, 2018 The UN envoy for Yemen held emergency talks in the rebel-controlled capital Sanaa on Saturday...
Mother Jones

Jeff Sessions Defends Immigrant Separation Policy Against Nazi Germany Comparisons - Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday rejected growing criticism comparing the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their...
Swamplot

Flood Control Proposal Rundown; Slowpokes Expanding to Levy Park; Debriefing Texas Fast Food Chains’ Minor Bread Crisis - What’s on Harris County’s Flood Mitigation Wish List So Far, 2 Months Before the Bond Vote That Could Make It All Come True [Houston Chronicle ($); previou...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Wants His New Space Force’s Guns To Go “PEW PEW!” - WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump reportedly surprised even his own administration officials when he directed the Department of Defense to begin ...
Simple Justice

Short Take: A Pitch and a Whiff - A flack sent me a pitch yesterday that caught my eye. Very few do. Most are complete nonsense, often trying to pawn off someone to quote for a subject whos...
Ring of Fire

EXCERPT – NY Public Bank Putting Communities Over Commodities - Resist. Protect. Build. Public Bank NYC‘s recent launch action with New York City organizations, including New York Public Interest Research Group; NY Co...
Daily Howler

GAPS AND TRACKS: The New York Times doesn't like "screening!" - *TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2018Part 1—"Cherry picking" practiced, decried:* The New York Times doesn't like screening, a practice it also describes as "tracking"...
Salon.com

Colbert condemns Trump: Migrant family separation “another scoop from your chum bucket of cruelty” - And Stephen Colbert’s Lucifer alter ego shows up to defend the policy of separating kids from parents at the border
Angry Bear

THE DAMNATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL REPUBLICAN POLICY INTELLECTUALS - by Bradford DeLong (originally published at Grasping Reality with Both Hands) THE DAMNATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL REPUBLICAN POLICY INTELLECTUALS I have lo...
Right Wing Watch

Jesse Lee Peterson ‘Can’t Think Of One Thing’ That ‘Black People Have Gone Into And Made Better’ - Right-wing radio host Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who is African American himself, told listeners last week that he couldn’t think of one thing in the United ...
Slate

Laura Ingraham Says Migrant Children Separated From Parents Are Being Kept in What Are Basically “Summer Camps” - On the Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s show Monday night, the conservative pundit made a bizarre defense of Trump administration policy that separates fam...
Grist

Despite Trump, Wall Street is breaking up with fossil fuels - A new report suggests there are multiple threats to future investment in Big Oil -- and the climate movement is one of them.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (Bedrock Of Democracy) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out w...
naked capitalism

US, Japan Reject G-7 Ocean Plastics Charter - Japan and the United States decline to endorse G-7 Ocean Plastics Charter-- a voluntary effort inadequate to the scale of the problem but better than outri...
No More Mister Nice Blog

DAVID BROOKS'S FAKE CONSERVATIVES SURE LOOK LIKE REAL CONSERVATIVES TO ME - In today's column, David Brooks makes a "no true Scotsman" argument about conservatives and immigration. ... this administration ... is not populated by co...
Democracy Now!

As Demonstrators Demand Nicaraguan President’s Resignation, Government Accuses Opposition of Coup - The political crisis in Nicaragua is intensifying. More than 178 people have been killed since widespread demonstrations to oust Nicaraguan President Danie...
TomDispatch

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

THE OUTER LIMITS - Trump wants to go back to his comic book days, and create a new military branch, a "Space Force." Problem is, the military doesn't see the need https://www...
Lowering the Bar

Australian Cyborg’s Conviction Overturned on Appeal - In which an Australian semi-cyborg beats the rap. Related Stories - First Amendment Exceptions That Might Allow Banning the Utah Legislatu...
Space City Weather

Flash flood watch for Tuesday as storms encircle Houston - The Houston region missed out on most of the rainfall associated with a tropical disturbance Monday, as the Beaumont area got the worst of it with 5 to 7 i...
Dorf on Law

Rainbow Flags in Vienna But Dark Clouds Everywhere - *by Neil H. Buchanan* One of the mixed pleasures of being an academic is the opportunity to teach and conduct research at other universities, often in fore...
In These Times

Disaster Capitalism Strikes Puerto Rico’s Schools - SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO—It’s Valentine’s Day at Eleanor Roosevelt elementary, and chocolate goodies and Krispy Kreme donuts sit in the back of Axamara Pére...
Houston Press

Weather Panic Appears to Be Houston's New Normal - On Friday, June 8, reports began floating around the internet, particularly on social media. A weather forecast model used to predict hurricane track and i...
First Draft

Cages - They’re trying to make us fight about the place we keep the children we steal from their parents, the children we lock up: This just in from @davidbegnaud:...
Duffel Blog

Tricare to extend benefits to that girl you hooked up with two years ago - [image: tricare] FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Tricare will extend benefits to that one girl named Kyle, Kelly, or maybe it was Carly from Tinder that you hooked up...
The Intercept

Can #MeToo Change the Toxic Culture of Sexism and Harassment at Cybersecurity Conferences? - Gatherings like Def Con and RSA are notorious for sexist behavior and alienating women — problems that plague the tech industry as a whole. The post Can ...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Homeland Security Head Needs to Go - Yesterday, Kirstjen Nielson, White House aide who was elevated to Secretary of Homeland Security last year after John Kelly was moved to chief of staff, ga...
The Conversation

How to heal African-Americans' traumatic history - The National Memorial for Peace and Justice helps demonstrate that the lynching of black people was not the fault of victims. But telling this history risk...
Axios

The regulatory mistakes that let Facebook and Google buy ad dominance - Several major acquisitions have helped Google and Facebook on their way to unprecedented dominance over the advertising supply chain, antitrust analysts ...
Off the Kuff

SCOTUS punts on non-Texas redistricting cases - […]
The Progressive Wing

6/19 News Roundup – Bernie Sanders rallies w/ Ben Jealous; New Video Captures ‘Horrifying’ Reality of Children Taken From Parents & More - Bernie Sanders joins candidate Ben Jealous to help fire up Maryland voters Sen. Bernie Sanders may not be endorsing his own son’s congressional bid, but he...
Counterpunch

We Can Thank Top Union Officials for Trump - As Trump keeps depressing us with his erratic politics swinging wildly around his fragile ego, even to the point of threatening nuclear war, one might ask:...
skippy the bush kangaroo

tuesday night part 2 - the taking of millennial wealth by rich white boomers 115 confederate monuments removed since 2015 the first climate refugees in the us palo alto pastor c...
ProPublica

When Do Reporters Collaborate, and When Do They Compete? - by David Eads At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challeng...
Dallas Observer

First Baptist's Robert Jeffress Blames Rawlings, DMN for Billboard Removal - Late last week, Outfront Media took down a couple of billboards it owns in Dallas. Normally that wouldn't be news, but the ads on these billboards belonged...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

Making America great will make us free? - The great Lalo Alcatraz put truth in his cartooning pen. Damn, that hurts. twitter.com/laloalcaraz/status/1008942845225361408 Advertisements
Reading the Pictures

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

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

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

It’s all about the Midterms: Trump took those Children Hostage to Stoke his Base - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Journalists have almost certainly misunderstood the Trump White House when they pen this morning’s flurry of articles and te...
Wolf Street

Shanghai Plunges 3.2%, below 3,000 for 1st Time in 2 Years, After Trump Threatens to Massively Escalate Trade War and China Threatens to Massively Retaliate - Apparently, the trade talks have collapsed.
Consortium News

Julian Assange and the Mindszenty Case - Courageous publishers like Julian Assange and principled churchmen like Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty are a rarity: Neither would be silenced; and both had to...
jobsanger

A Plurality Of GOP Supports Taking Children From Parents - Donald Trump has instituted a new policy that mandates separating children from their parents at the border, and locks the children up in detention facil...
Houston Matters

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2769: Math Wars - Episode: 2769 Math Wars: The progressive math movement in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Today, math wars.
Socialist Worker

What can stop the Kidnapper-in-Chief? - Editorial The mainstream political system has no answer to confronting Trump’s outrages, but the protests against the administration’s cruel border polic...
World Socialist Web Site

Nine million truck drivers across India strike over increasing fuel prices - Although fuel price hikes are affecting working people as a whole, the union bureaucrats are blocking any united struggle against this and other government...
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Carlos Uresti resigns from Texas Senate months after felony fraud conviction - Morning News: Carlos Uresti resigns from Texas Senate months after felony fraud conviction
Antiwar.com

Shepherds Kidnapped and Executed; 16 Killed in Iraq - Airstrikes on al-Hari, Syria, left at least 22 Shi’ite militiamen dead and 12 wounded. Although the militiamen were based within a mile of the border, th...
Grit Post

GOP Governor Withdraws Offer to Send National Guard to Border in Protest of Child Separation - Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) is no longer sending national guardsmen to the U.S./Mexico border, citing the Trump administration’s “zero toler...
The Contributor

'Mami!' 'Papa!' Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border - News Image: ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent j...
Field Negro

There will be no profiles in courage from this bunch. - [image: TWEET ME]*"The administration’s current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles an...
Reverb Press

Facebook Can’t Seem to Figure Out the Difference Between American News, and Russian Propaganda - Facebook is playing right into Putin's hands... The post Facebook Can’t Seem to Figure Out the Difference Between American News, and Russian Propaganda a...
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Punts Partisan Gerrymanders; Outrage Grows Over Trump Separation of Kids/Parents: 'BradCast' 6/18/2018 - On today's BradCast: More disappointing (if not deadly) rulings on voting rights were released on Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court, and callers ring in o...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Strikes Down Kansas Law Requiring Applicants for Voter Registration to Produce Documents Proving Citizenship - On June 18, a U.S. District Court in Kansas struck down a law that was passed in 2011, requiring individuals who register to vote to produce documents, pro...
DeSmogBlog

These Auto Industry Companies Are Demanding Strong Clean Car Standards, Despite Trump - Read time: 4 mins [image: Average MPG on a dashboard] There’s a major sector of the automobile industry that is unwavering in its support of strong clean c...
Dissident Voice

The West Really Hates China - It appears that the Western public, both relatively ‘educated’ and thoroughly ignorant, could, after some persuasion, agree on certain very basic facts – f...
Texas Monthly

Carlos Uresti Resigns from Texas Senate - The San Antonio lawmaker’s resignation comes four months after his conviction on multiple counts of fraud and money laundering. The post Carlos Uresti Re...
Seeing the Forest

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

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

Name the Social Media Author: Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Or Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz? - Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz had very grave things to say about the bias of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in today's hearing on the investigation into Hillary ...
Earthjustice

Tragic Orca Deaths Underscore Urgent Need to Restore Salmon Runs - Tragic Orca Deaths Underscore Urgent Need to Restore Salmon Runs Deaths among Puget Sound orcas, which just hit their lowest population count in 34 years, ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's hot pizzeria makes Food Network list of best in the U.S. - Ranking pizza is one of the seminal foodie endeavors of our time, and Food Network bravely wades in by undertaking the herculean task of compiling the 52 ...
Shadowproof

Group Of U.S. Elected Officials Renews Efforts To Challenge Pentagon As War Intensifies In Yemen - While a U.S.-backed Saudi coalition bombs a critical port in Yemen, senators demand the Pentagon end secrecy around the scope of involvement by U.S. forc...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Police Can Stop Being Weaponized by Bias-Motivated 911 Calls - Police departments should instruct dispatchers and officers to exercise independent judgment when responding to biased calls. Too often, law enforcement l...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Weekly Happenings - Behind The Scenes Tour Of Our Smith Gem Vault The dazzling facts about the gemstones and the jewelry will be shared by Museum geologists and lapidary ...
Free Press Houston

419 Hope Partners LLC Will Profit off Houston’s Child Immigration Detention Center - Over the weekend, Houstonians learned a child immigration detention center will be placed in their city.
Liberation News

Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign shuts down heart of financial district - “When people are willing to put their bodies on the line for justice, it shows unity and a willingness to organize for freedom as long as it takes." The ...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

After Yesterday's Rant, Something Lovely - In the wee hours of the morning, while listening to my favorite college radio station, I heard a lovely song by Melody's Echo Chamber, fronted by French si...
Mahablog

Maybe There Was an FBI Conspiracy … - If just about anyone but Paul Waldman had written this, I wouldn’t give it a second look. He argues that the real conspiraccy within the FBI was to stop Cl...
OffCite

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

Polygraph Fact Check How Busy Are Sochi Olympic Venues - Polygraph has fact-checked Vladimir Putin's claim that all Sochi Olympic venues remain busy throughout the year. Facts point to a different picture. Sochi ...
Anti-Media

Israeli Warplanes Bomb Gaza in Response to Protesters Flying Burning Kites - [image: kites](MEE) Israeli warplanes on Monday conducted air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip in response to incendiary kites being sent into Israeli te...
Socialist Alternative

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

Becoming Transhuman: The Complicated Future of Robot and Advanced Sapient Rights - For the masses to survive and thrive, there’s really only one thing to do: merge with this radical tech and science.
Frontloading HQ

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

Be Aware: After Trump is Forced to Reverse His Child Abuse Policy, He’ll Take All the Credit - There is uncommon agreement across the political spectrum that Donald Trump’s arbitrary and abhorrent policy of ripping children from the arms of their mot...
slacktivist

Unspoken testimony - This is the story Matt Giuffrida told me about how he came to work resettling refugees for the American Baptist Churches. Or, really, it's the story Matt d...
Texas Freedom Network

Warning Signs in the Texas Curriculum Standards Revision - Two big problems got the most attention at last week’s State Board of Education discussion of proposed revisions to social studies curriculum standards f...
The Greanville Post

Trump Gives Bibi Whatever He Wants - GARY LEUPP—The president in his insight appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner Senior as Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, it being understood...
Morning Consult

Why GOP Leaders Fear a Discharge Petition on Dreamers - The post Why GOP Leaders Fear a Discharge Petition on Dreamers appeared first on Morning Consult.
Popehat

The Southern Poverty Law Center Surrenders Unconditionally To Maajid Nawaz. We Should Be Concerned. - The Southern Poverty Law Center has surrendered, completely and unconditionally, in the face of a threatened defamation lawsuit by British activist and pol...
Peacock Panache

Did They Really Have Souls To Sell? - [image: Did They Really Have Souls To Sell?] A few days ago, I was on the treadmill watching “Morning Joe,” and heard Presidential historian Jon Meacham, f...
The Hill: Ballot Box

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

Storming the Opposition - ‘I’m excited to be clogging the door, for whatever reason.’
Washington's Blog

Onward to Stock Market Nirvana… Or Not - At long last, we have reached the Nirvana of consensus: the stock market is heading to new all-time highs. Even the perma-Bear camp seems to have accepted ...
Texas Leftist

Eid Mubarak! Texans Mark The Close of Ramadan - (Originally posted on June 15th, hackers apparently deleted this post over the weekend. So it is being reposted, with a very slight title change) The stat...
Krebs on Security

Google to Fix Location Data Leak in Google Home, Chromecast - Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products. New research shows that Web sites can r...
Rallblog

Soon Ohio’s “Use It or Lose It” Voter-Purge Law Will Change All Our Lives - A narrow majority of the United States Supreme Court has approved Ohio’s controversial Republican-backed “use it or lose it” voter-purging law. If you mi...
Disobedient Media

Supporters Prepare To Speak Out On Sixth Anniversary Of Assange’s Entrance Into Embassy - On June 19th, Julian Assange will mark the sixth year since he entered the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, seeking refuge […]
Greg Palast

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

Former Prisoner of Conscience Condemns Amnesty International - Former Prisoner of Conscience Condemns Amnesty International Leanna Sun, 06/17/2018 - 19:35
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

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

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

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

SciFi Weekend: Legion Season Finale; 12 Monkeys Returns; Lucifer Saved; Fate of Timeless Remains Unknown; Star Trek Discovery; Spock In The Mirror Universe; Casting News On The CW Superhero Shows - I found Legion’s second season to be a disappointment compared to the first. Extending from eight to eleven episodes was probably a mistake. I wasn’t even ...
Louis Proyect

Harvard University, bias against Asian-Americans, affirmative action and “life itself” - Edward Blum, using Asian-American student grievances to destroy affirmative action Towards the end of the very fine documentary “The Chinese Exclusion Act”...
Pages of Victory

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

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

Equality Texas wants to honor all dads this Father’s Day. - Equality Texas wants to honor all dads this Father’s Day. Frank Gonzales is the father of three precious children. His oldest daughter is transgender and h...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: footbridge, Madison WI - [image: Madison, Wisconsin (footbridge)]
Trivial Knot

FTA part 4: Anthropic reasoning - This is the fourth and final part of a series discussing the Fine Tuning argument (FTA). The outline is here. Mundane multiverses A “multiverse” is a set o...
Bracing Views

Thoughts on a Saturday Afternoon - W.J. Astore Weekends are a good time to sit back, reflect, and think. Here are a few ideas I’ve been thinking about: 1. Remember 9/11/2001? Of course you...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

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

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

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

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

Destroying the Family Unit – A Policy as American as Apple Pie - [image: By Clarice Barbato-Dunn] Our human frailties are like soft spots which oppressive systems manipulate to gain our compliance “consent”. They use pro...
Echidne of the Snakes

My Trump Rant, Saturday 6/16/18 - While we are mesmerized by the circus our Dear Leader is giving us (the *panem et circenses* principle of governing), the busy little Republican termites ...
Stinque

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

We’re well prepared (and in a good mood) - We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have been faced with a barrage recently, but we’re been well prepared to fight back.
Robert Reich

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

Senate Farm Bill Good for Texans, Stops Privatization - Congress still has not passed a federal Farm Bill, a major piece of legislation that gets renewed every five years or so. The Farm Bill includes critical...
Rude Pundit

Quickie: One Reason That Evangelicals and Other Churches Are Turning Against Trump on Immigration - I'm on the road in the deep South (and there are shockingly few Trump signs so far), but here's a quick hit it and quit it for you: You might have seen rep...
John Laurits

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

Parents of Korean War Veterans Have Notably Longer Life Spans - 101 to 110 Average age of the parents of Korean War veterans, who Trump claimed repeatedly came up to him on the 2016 campaign trail, begging him to bring ...
Independent Political Report

Lavender Green Caucus Statement on 2018 Pride Month - *The Lavender Green Caucus of the Green Party of the United States released the following statement today.* This month we celebrate what our community ha...
Moron Majority

Donald Trump Turns 72 Today - Today Donald Trump celebrates his 72nd birthday. Messages are pouring in from around the world … Russia, China, Philippines and North Korea!
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Insurance Executives Profit By Inciting Murder Occasionally Paying Killers - Over the decades or centuries for profit insurance companies have paid millions of dollars to people that committed murder for insurance money; and ther...
Political Orphans

Preparing for Political Violence - Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Washington Babylon

Was Ivanka Trump’s Twitter Like A Giant Boner Or Does She Have A Favorite Porn Star? - I never thought I would say this, but it appears I have something in common with Ivanka Trump: our favorite male porn star is Tommy Pistol Last night Ivank...
Duck of Minerva

Babies R Us - While in the US children are being separated from their parents seeking political asylum and taken to a Walmart prison, some Russian lawmakers are concerne...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

The Dictatorships of North Korea and Cuba: A Reflection - *There is a need for moral clarity when confronting totalitarians* The spectacle in North Korea was distasteful. When the President of the United States ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

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

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

The Bat Trip - Happy Hour with Bats June 13, 2018 Float with geologist, river guide, and Save Buffalo Bayou board member Tom Helm on a relaxing sunset trip to watch the h...
Other Words

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

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Dawn of Manifestation - With this post we begin a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult phil...
Red Wedge

Realism, Modernism, and the Spectre of Trotsky: Part 2, Greenberg - In the first part of this article I discussed Lukács and his theory of Realism. I now want to turn to Clement Greenberg, “the major theoretical figure of t...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

A Tale of Two Possible Cities: Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy In San Antonio - CPS Energy’s Flexible Path plans to use fossil fuels until 2040 and beyond. The Wednesday, June 13th Public Hearing Session allows us an opportunity to s...
Ramona's Voices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Valero Seeks Permit to Increase Hydrogen Cyanide Emission in Vulnerable Communities – TCEQ documents included - CALL TO ACTION Attend the Valero Refinery Public Meeting 6/4/18 at 7pm Hartman Park Community Center We are providing a direct link to the page to submit...
Green News Network

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slavery in Libya: Thanks NATO! -
Our Finite World

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

Will The Latino Vote Tip Elections THIS Year? - In more than 20 years of Hispanic marketing, I’ve heard this line over and over: The Latino vote could tip the elections this year. It’s true the Latino ...
ROAR Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

S H O T S -
South Lawn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RIP ‘Sin Stocks’? The Woke of Wall Street Takeover - The rise of ethical investing threatens investment in sex, drugs and alcohol
Black Agenda Report

It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us. - *by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon* Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost c...
Politics of Courage

Digital Editor of Ms. Magazine Calls for Death of Jewish Trailblazer and for Vandalism of His Grave - Three times in the past month, digital editor Carmen Rios of feminist magazine *Ms. *has openly wished for the death of Senator Bernie Sanders, who in 2016...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform

True fracking story - Beautiful farm, #fracking harmed. Bright lights, Starless nights. Air brown. Barren ground. Water black. Can’t go back. The post True fracking story ap...
Good Reason

Shitgibbon frequencies - Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary llmpounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zi...
Above None of the Above

My apology - I've talked in person to multiple people who followed my blog. They tell me that my numbers helped them stay calm. I wasn't trying to keep people calm. I ...
Memory Hole

Trump Dresses Down Media Moguls, Anchors - “I’m in a room full of liars.” Noland D. McCaskill Politico (November 21, 2016) The media figures arrived at Trump Tower on Monday afternoon for off-the-re...
OpenSecrets

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

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, July 16, 2017

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