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The Week

Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Trevor Noah rip apart Trump's 'she's not my type' rape defense - "Over the weekend, columnist E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her 23 years ago," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's *Late Show*,...
The Verge

Vivo announces its first AR glasses - Vivo has announced its first AR glasses at MWC Shanghai. The prototype product is simply called the Vivo AR Glass and is a relatively lightweight headse...
Dissident Voice

Canada enables corrupt Haitian president to remain in power - At the front of a protest against Haiti’s president last week a demonstrator carried a large wooden cross bearing the flags of Canada, France and the US. T...
Countercurrents

An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue - The greatest outlier in terms of possessing nuclear weapons is the U.S. Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University ...
naked capitalism

How Judges Kill: Sealing Corporate Records Showing Destructive Behavior Based on Dubious “Trade Secret” Claims - Judges who are unduly deferential to corporate secrecy demands are literally killing Americans.
INSIDER - politics news

Liam Fox rubbishes Boris Johnson's no-deal Brexit claims - [image: Liam Fox] - Liam Fox rubbishes Boris Johnson's "Gatt 24" no-deal Brexit claim. - The International Trade Secretary on Tuesday published an...
Down With Tyranny!

Midnight Meme Of The Day! - *by Noah* Someone needs to send Godzilla the GPS coordinates for Mar-a-Lago. That would make for the biggliest movie of the summer. Seriously, though, Gu...
The Mind Unleashed

Undercover Video Reveals Google’s Secret Plan to Prevent the “Next Trump Situation” - True to form, mainstream media is staying silent.
Rallblog

Blue No Matter Who - Some Democrats say that they are “blue no matter who.” Trump, they say, is such an existential threat that they will vote for anyone who winds up as the ...
The NM Political Report

Immigrant children returned to West Texas facility despite reports of squalid conditions - [image: Immigrant children returned to West Texas facility despite reports of squalid conditions] *“**Immigrant children returned to West Texas facility de...
Progrexas

“It’s like they’re frightened to talk to me”: Texas campaign workers of color face harassment, discrimination in the field - Arash Farasat has campaigned for candidates in Texas for years. He said he’s had people call the police on him or threaten him with a firearm on multiple...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s war on refugees is tearing down US's life-changing resettlement program - Donald Trump has for two consecutive years overseen the lowest refugee admission rates since the modern resettlement system was created in 1980 Tecle Geb...
memeorandum

Joe Biden Just Can't Get Enough Angel Hair Pasta (Greg Morabito/Eater) - Greg Morabito / Eater: *Joe Biden Just Can't Get Enough Angel Hair Pasta* — The Presidential candidate requested the same pasta dinner at a string of s...
Slate

It’s “The President Is Allegedly a Rapist” Week on Late Night TV - Again!
Mediaite

Stephen Colbert Parodies Trump Administration’s ‘Inhumane’ Border Conditions for Detained Immigrants: ‘Mi Squalor Es Su Squalor’ - Stephen Colbert parodied the Trump administration’s draconian and chaotic immigration policy in a “disorder at the border” segment and likened the “inhuman...
jobsanger

How It Starts -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1709: Cap Wigington - Episode: 1709 Cap Wigington. Today, a remarkable architect.
First Draft

Album Cover Art Wednesday: Best Of Brahms - I have no idea why this 1972 compilation album has bacon and eggs in a skillet on the cover. Did they think it resembles Johannes Brahms or conductor Willi...
Rivard Report

Nationally Ranked St. Mary’s Law Advocacy Program Helps Students Find Their Voices - *Sponsored* Teams from St. Mary's University School of Law secured the national championship at the ABA's National Appellate Advocacy Competition two yea...
World Socialist Web Site

Strike by Taiwanese flight attendants points to growing workers’ discontent in global airline industry - Airline companies around the world are seeking to extract ever-greater profits through slashing wages and increasing working hours.
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Warning to Democrats running for President: Don't drink the anti-embargo kool-aid - *What the Pro-Castro lobby does not want Democratic and Republican candidates to know about Cuban American politics in Florida.* Young Cuban Americans pick...
Axios

2 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan, NATO says - Two U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement, according to Reuters. *Detai...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Presidential Primary Debate History: Lessons for 2020 - Editor’s Note: This is the first of two issues of the Crystal Ball this week. We’ll be back after the conclusion of the second Democratic debate on Thurs...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Mueller hearing could shed light on Trump counterintel probe - Rachel Maddow summarizes the breaking news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller, after receiving a subpoena from the House Intelligence and Judiciary Commit...
Courthouse News

North Korea Says it Won’t Surrender to US-Led Sanctions - North Korea said Wednesday it won't surrender to U.S.-led sanctions and accused Washington of trying to "bring us to our knees." The post North Korea Say...
Ian Welsh

Matching Donations Up To $1,000 Total - A donor has generously offered to match all donations, up to a total of $1,000 or till Friday midnight (the end of the fundraiser.) When we’ve reached the ...
The Intercept

Tiffany Cabán Stuns Queens Machine, Holds Solid Lead in Race for Queens District Attorney - Cabán ran on ending cash bail, decriminalizing poverty and sex work, and faced the full weight of the machine. The post Tiffany Cabán Stuns Queens Machin...
Informed Comment

Why Trump Can’t Win by Ramping up Sanctions on Iran - By Natasha Lindstaedt | – After Iran shot down a US drone that allegedly entered Iran’s airspace, Donald Trump signed new sanctions against Iran on June 24...
Portside

Thousands of Airline Food Workers Vote to Authorize a Strike - Thousands of Airline Food Workers Vote to Authorize a Strike Greg Wed, 06/26/2019 - 00:03
Progressive Army

2020 Democratic Primary Debates Drinking Game - Editor’s Note: The Progressive Army Editorial Board advises caution and urges our readers to please drink responsibly. (We enjoy having a liver, Salamone...
Hullabaloo

Honk for Impeachment. Scream for Impeachment. #Impeachment Now! @spockosbrain - *Honk for Impeachment! Scream for Impeachment. #Impeachment Now!* *by Spocko* I made this 10 days ago, before Trump almost started a war with Iran. Now th...
Antiwar.com

The Donald’s Latest Iranian Caper – Sh*t-Faced Stupidity - This is just wanton shit-faced stupidity. We are referring to the Trump Administration’s escalation of sanctions on Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and its for...
Anti-Media

Egyptian Officials Threatened Morsi Days Before Death in Court - (MEE) — Mohamed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders in prison in Egypt were given an ultimatum by top officials to disband the organisation or face the co...
Raw Story

Progressive reformer claims victory in fiercely-contested Queens DA race - Progressive reformer Tiffany Cabán has declared victory in her campaign versus Melinda Katz in the Queens District Attorney race. With 99% of precincts rep...
The Root

Summer Heat: Robert Mueller Agrees to Testify Before Congress About His Findings in the Trump Russia Probe - Special counsel Robert Mueller, who conducted a years-long investigation into whether Donald Trump and/or his team colluded with the Russians to interfer...
Crooks and Liars

Arturo Castro Presents The Six Guys You'll See On Tinder - "Alternatino" is on Comedy Central live and on demand. Open thread below...
The Greanville Post

Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting,” “Troll Report,” & Political Targeting in Video Interview - Yamamoto, who is responsible for “News Feed Reduction Strategy,” also authored a post where he said Facebook should address “…quite a bit of content near ...
Political Wire

NRA Shuts Down NRATV - The National Rifle Association has shut down production at NRATV, the New York Times reports. “The N.R.A. on Tuesday also severed all business with its est...
Consortium News

Britain and Oman’s Special Relationship - Amid a looming succession question concerning the current sultan, Mark Curtis reviews how the Gulf state became, in effect, a giant British military and in...
Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: 'She's not my type' has long been a mainstay of rape culture - Megan Garber at The Atlantic writes—The Real Meaning of Trump’s ‘She’s Not My Type’ Defense: There is, as always, a certain clarity to Trump’s cruelty. T...
Pajiba

People Freaking Out Because a Series They Can Buy for $25 Is Leaving $10 Per Mo. Netflix - OMG, lookit Reese Witherspoon's new bulldog puppy! (and some other celebrity stuff) - (Lainey) Gillian Anderson is definitely giving me some kind of vibes ...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Cason First to Declare for HD92 and Other News for June 25 - *HD68: *Rep. Drew Springer (R-Muenster) announced he would seek re-election. Rotan resident Andrew Nelson has announced his intention to be the first Democ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why Dictatorships Are Always Step Away From Legitimacy Crisis - Third wave” of autocratization which first gained momentum in mid 1990’s has developed across the world, annual report of the V-Dem Project.
Caitlin Johnstone

Survey: Americans Have Remarkably Ignorant Attitude Toward Nukes And North Korea - Half of the responders to an innovative new survey of 3,000 Americans conducted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the British research firm YouG...
Vox

Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify in front of Congress - [image: Special counsel Robert Mueller testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee July 26, 2007, when he was FBI director.] Mueller w...
Daily PUMA

Moveon Dot Org June 2019 Pre-First Debate Poll shows Biden in Fifth Place, Waren in First Place. - Each Move On Voter was given two votes, each Candidate's 1st or 2nd vote totals combined show Elizabeth Warren leading, Bernie Sanders second, Pete Buttig...
Brad Blog

Is DNC Rethinking Mandate for Remote 2020 Caucus Voting Schemes?: 'BradCast' 6/25/2019 - On today's BradCast: Are Democrats finally beginning to reconsider their incredibly ill-considered mandate to require remote voting for their 2020 Presiden...
Eschaton

Your Moment Of Zen - ...I had no idea David Gregory is only 49. wtf
Talking Points Memo

Mueller Agrees To Testify In Public - Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify in a public hearing on July 17, the chairmen of the House...
Political Dig

Mueller To Testify Publicly About Russia Probe After House Dems Issue Subpoena - Special counsel Robert Mueller will testify publicly before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, CNN reported Tuesday evening. “Pursuant to sub...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Trump Concentration Camps, Explained - Very useful piece by Dara Lind: At any given time, for the past several weeks, more than 2,000 children have been held in the custody of US Border Patrol w...
Mother Jones

A Third of Republicans Think It’s OK to Refuse Service to Muslims - I’m never quite sure how seriously to take survey results, and today Paul Waldman points to a new PRRI survey that I really, really don’t want to take seri...
Chris Weigant

We Really Need A Right-To-Vote Constitutional Amendment - Today, Elizabeth Warren announced her prescription for fixing American elections. Like other Democratic presidential candidates' plans, it would usher in...
Daily Dot

Tom Holland rescues fan getting squashed by autograph hounds - [image: tom-holland-rescues-fan] He's like a real-life Spider-Man. The post Tom Holland rescues fan getting squashed by autograph hounds appeared first on...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Travel Guide: The Buffalo Soldiers in Texas - Today on Beyond Bones I’m going to offer up a few potential travel destinations for those of you who like to visit little-known and seldom explored places ...
Houston Strategies

Houston dining capital of TX, Top 5 city of the future, new luxury housing increases affordability, protecting against rising seas - This week's items: Houston is home to 12 of the top 31 restaurants in the state, according to Texas Monthly. Take that Dallas! ;-) "Friday, the Austin-base...
Angry Bear

New article in Shelterforce highlights EU state aid rules - New article in Shelterforce highlights EU state aid rules Greg LeRoy and I have written an article at Shelterforce explaining the basics of the European Un...
VICE

Wayfair Is Profiting from Immigration Detention, So I'm Walking Out - Honestly, we did not think this would go all across the internet.
Political Garbage Chute

Americans React to Iran’s Leader Saying The White House is ‘Afflicted by Mental Retardation’ - Tensions are undeniably flaring between Iran and the Trump administration. Last week, President Trump says he called off a retaliatory strike against Ira...
Pharyngula

Trolling the trolls - It’s just too easy. An Instagram model/influencer/whatever named Belle Delphine, who posts lots of self-portraits of herself in cat ears and is apparently ...
The Texas Signal

Signal Q&A: a conversation with Houston attorney Manpreet Kaur Singh - We recently spoke to Manpreet Kaur Singh, a Houston lawyer and member of the Texas Progressive Executive Council, about the GOP proposal to appoint judge...
OffGuardian

Grenfell – Two Years On - The Cynic The tragedy of the Grenfell Tower blaze affects every person in the country, not just those living in tower blocks. Many of the safety issues pot...
Election Law Blog

“The Census Case Is Shaping Up to Be the Biggest Travesty Since Bush v. Gore” - I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: The government’s conduct in the pending Supreme Court case about adding a citizenship question to the censu...
News Taco

Running while brown: How Julián Castro is navigating white presidential politics - EAST LOS ANGELES — By the time his plane touched down in California at the end of a whirlwind week, Julián Castro had set an early political benchmark in...
Splinter

House Robocall Bill Now Favors Criminal Charges for Offenders, May Target Debt Collectors Soon - On Tuesday, members of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee unanimously approved several amendments to a popular House anti-robocall bill aimed...
Truthdig

Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street - The threat of a U.S. technology company taking up the model set by China's WeChat Pay and Alipay may now be materializing.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

The Family Research Council wants the government to be hypocritical with your tax dollars because of Jesus - The gay wedding in the PBS animated series 'Arthur' continues to give the anti-LGBTQ industry fits. The Family Research Council is now saying that PBS shou...
Bracing Views

Citizen-Soldiers and Defending the Constitution: The Ideal versus the Reality - W.J. Astore Ten years ago, I gave a talk on the ideal of citizen-soldiers and how and why America had drifted from that ideal. As war looms on the horizon...
Morning Consult

Missouri Democrats Said to Expect Gun Control Activist to Challenge Ann Wagner - The post Missouri Democrats Said to Expect Gun Control Activist to Challenge Ann Wagner appeared first on Morning Consult.
Grist

Trump officials are on a tear with silly climate comments - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue unfortunately just stepped up to the plate.
San Antonio Current

Don't Cry For Me San Antonio: Nina Diaz Plays Hometown Show This Thursday - In 2016, Nina Diaz — frontwoman of San Antonio alt-rock act Girl in a Coma — took a hiatus from the band to focus on a solo project. The resulting album, ...
Salon.com

Become a master of SAP with the help of this training - Education in SAP Analytics will prepare you for business analyst roles at major companies
CPI's Danger in the Air

Number of ICE detainees with no criminal record rises sharply, defying Trump rhetoric - President Donald Trump tweeted in May that his administration was detaining “bad hombres,” a racially charged phrase he’d used also used during his campa...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The U.S. Women’s National Team Cannot Play Like That Again - The most anticipated match of the 2019 World Cup will take place Friday with the U.S. facing off against the home team, France, in the quarterfinals. Our m...
Texas Monthly

What the Hell Is Happening at the Border? (An Occasional Series, June 25 Edition) - The acting Border Patrol chief steps down as migrant children go without soap or toothpaste and bodies are found along the Rio Grande. The post What the ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Not Trump’s Type - Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump’s third response to assault allegation is arguably his worst. Rhodes Murphy @ Slate: If Only We Were Joking: Roseanne ...
SCOTUSblog

Third Interim Stat Pack for October Term 2018 - [image: Third Interim Stat Pack for October Term 2018]This is a busy time for the Supreme Court, which is slated to provide decisions in 24 cases over th...
Eater Houston

Beard Papa’s Is Serving Up Cream Puffs at Bellaire Food Street - An outpost devoted to Xinjiang-style skewered meats opened too Dining development Bellaire Food Street celebrated two grand openings over the weekend: ...
Think Progress

Asked about war with Iran, Trump says ‘I don’t do exit strategies’ - When asked by the White House press pool on Tuesday if he had an exit strategy for tensions with Iran — especially if war breaks out — President Donald Tru...
Rewire

What’s Next in the Continuing Mess of the Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Fight - Once again, the fate of low-income people's access to comprehensive reproductive health care will be determined by the federal courts. The post What’s N...
Ring of Fire

Elizabeth Warren Says Private Prisons Have To Go - Senator Elizabeth Warren says that private prisons have no place in America, and she has a plan to abolish them if she becomes our next president. Her pl...
Houstonia

Downtown Food Hall Understory Is Now Open - Flip 'n Patties is the first vendor to put the lights on.
The Progressive Wing

An Open Letter To The Democratic Party - You guys don’t get it, do you? In the last election you were faced with the most unpopular presidential candidate in living memory (disclaimer: I’m old eno...
Louis Proyect

James Steele’s fine biomess - In Max Blumenthal’s new book, there’s a brief reference to a Colonel James Steele who was a righthand man to David Petraeus in Baghdad in organizing death ...
Latino Rebels

Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló Is Being Accused of Corruption: A Breakdown - The son of ousted Secretary of Treasury, Raúl Maldonado Gautier, has accused Governor Ricardo Rosselló of corruption for allegedly altering reports from Un...
Grit Post

Wayfair Workers to Strike in Protest of Company Selling to Border Camps - Employees of the home decor company Wayfair will walk out Wednesday afternoon to protest the company’s dealings supplying the Trump administration’s bord...
slacktivist

All fives (ready or not, here I come) - Your job is simply to give all 5s. To everyone, everywhere, every time. Because otherwise you're saying that four equals zero. And it doesn't.
Mahablog

The Yapping Dogs of War - Today the “president” announced sanctions on the Ayatollah Khomeini, who died thirty years ago. In response, Iran’s current president, Hassan Rouhani. desc...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Angola Anthem’ By Dr. John - Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., known in the world of music as Dr. John, died on June 6. His hometown of New Orleans bid farewell to the musician last Saturd...
NPR's Health Shots

No Drips, No Drops: A City Of 10 Million Is Running Out Of Water - In Chennai, India's sixth largest city, the reservoirs are literally drying up. How are the citizens — and the government — responding?
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: First Year-Over-Year Drops Since Housing Bust 1 - New York, San Francisco condo prices fall year-over-year. Seattle flat year-over-year. After earlier declines, Denver, Boston hit new highs. Miami, Phoenix...
DeSmogBlog

UCSF Adds Fossil Fuels To Industry Documents Library - Read time: 5 mins Today, UCSF Library launched a new Fossil Fuel Industry Documents Archive featuring over 1,000 internal documents from the fossil fuel in...
Daily Howler

Elora Mukherjee, back from the border! - *TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019A remarkable act of witness:* Elora Mukherjee is the Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She's als...
Lawfare

Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees: The D.C. Circuit Rules in Qassim - D.C. Federal Courthouse Source: Wikimedia Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit returned to the question of the constitutional rights...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Russian Connections: The Mueller Report In Ten Acts - In order to make the public more aware of the facts that where revealed in The Mueller Report, the report was read by 18 well known actors from the adapted...
Washington Babylon

News From The Immigration-Industrial Complex: President Trump Has Put More Venezuelans In Jail Than President Maduro - [image: News From The Immigration-Industrial Complex: President Trump Has Put More Venezuelans In Jail Than President Maduro] Everyone knows how much the T...
Juanita Jean's World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

Okay, We Have To Talk About It - Swamp creature Duncan Hunter just keep sinking lower and lower. Not only did he and his wife steal money from their campaign contributions, Hunter didn’t h...
Common Dreams

'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Wayfair Employees to Walk Off Job to Protest Company for Working With Child Detention Centers - Eoin Higgins, staff writer "We believe that the current actions of the United States and their contractors at the southern border do not represent an ethica...
Ballot Access News

New Nebraska Voter Registration Tally - The Nebraska Secretary of State has a new voter registration tally. The percentages are: Republican 47.94%; Democratic 29.51%; Libertarian 1.25%; indepen...
The Rag Blog

Lamar W. Hankins : Reflections on patriotism, July 4, 1776 to July 4, 2019 - Only by helping create the change that makes liberty and equality possible can I feel patriotic. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 26, 2019 “A man’...
Dandelion Salad

Are You Complicit? by The Anti-Social Socialist - “The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, ...
Liberation News

Boston police officers shoot, kill 19-year-old - [image: Boston Police officers walk through residential neighborhood in Dorchester carrying large guns] Reporters for Liberation News went to the scene of ...
Crooked Timber

Sanders’ debt relief plan: what could you do with $1.6 trillion? - Apparently cancelling all student debt under Sanders’s plan would cost $1.6 trillion, and would be funded by a wealth tax. $1.6 trillion is a lot of money....
Echidne of the Snakes

Children In Cages At The Border: A Feature, Not A Bug. - I rarely write about certain topics*, even when they are of great importance, even when I worry about them every single day. That's because often I have ...
ProPublica

Su padre habla español. Los padres de crianza temporal los criaron hablando eslovaco. - por Melissa Sanchez y Duaa Eldeib
No More Mister Nice Blog

IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE A WHITE GUY WITH A GUN - Eric Boehlert writes about Republican members of the Oregon senate, who fled the state last week to prevent majority Democrats from having the quorum they ...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Says He’s the Only One in Sudan Allowed to Use the Internet - He said he was going back to court today on behalf of everybody else. Related Stories - Good Reason to Kill #74: Guy Pissed You Off in Antarct...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard For June 25, 2019 - The president’s deal with Mexico was inflated, critics said. But the New York Times is among those now crediting Mr.Trump with a change at the border. Did ...
21st Century Wire

Extra Time: Death of Morsi & the Arab Spring – What’s Next for Middle East & Africa - *21WIRE.TV* | A special bonus segment for 21WIRE Members...
MintPress News

Divine Missions of Destruction: Why a US War with Iran is Virtually Inevitable - All the chips are in place, the box of matches lies open awaiting a single errant spark to set it ablaze. Whether that spark is introduced intentionally ...
Moon of Alabama

Majority Of U.S. Citizens Would Approve Preventive Nuclear Strike On North Korea - Today is the 69th anniversary of the Korea War. The war has not ended. It is the U.S. that rejects to sign a peace treaty. The continued state of war is th...
Counterpunch

Where Do the Politics of Reparations Go From Here? -
The Conversation

Can parks help cities fight crime? - Some parks reduce violence in the local vicinity. Other parks attract crime. The difference has to do with how these urban green spaces are designed, progr...
WhoWhatWhy

Mexico ‘Spied on Journalists, Lawyers, and Activists’ - Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early ; The First Gay First Lady ; and More Picks 6/25 The post Mexico ‘Spied on Journalists, ...
Houston Press

Rockets, Harden Take Shots on Twitter After Antetokounmpo Wins MVP - Predictably, James Harden came in second to Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo in the MVP balloting as announced during the NBA Awards on Monday...
Popular Resistance

How To Move Away From The Brink Of War With Iran - The United States has been waging an economic war against Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution overthrew the US-backed brutal shah in 1979, but that war ...
Washington's Blog

Talk Nation Radio: Thom Hartmann on Guns and the Second Amendment - Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host and the author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Moscow Claims Georgia not Targeted with Sanctions -
Texas Observer

‘A Mockery of Public Trust’: Bexar Sheriff Cleans House, Angers Deputies’ Union - Javier Salazar has bounced between scandals since he took over the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in 2017. During his first year, the department drew nati...
Krebs on Security

Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android - Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new...
The Conscious Resistance Network

There’s Something Wrong With The Hong Kong Protests - Derrick Broze breaks down the recent protests in Hong Kong and asks whether or not there is more to the story. Sources: Pro-Beijing Media Accuses Hong Ko...
Church and State

America’s Functional Atheism - Fundamentalists are shriveling to an unappetizing fringe, while the rest of America increasingly lives by functional atheism.
Bonddad

New home sales: is housing developing a price “choke collar”? - * - by New Deal democrat* So, new single family home sales for May were reported light this morning: Because this series is very volatile and heavily rev...
Progressive.org

United States Is in No Position to Lecture Iran - The greatest outlier in terms of possessing nuclear weapons is the United States.
epic.org

EPIC Files Court Papers for Release of Complete Mueller Report - EPIC has moved for summary judgment in EPIC v. Department of Justice, EPIC's case for the release of the complete and unredacted Mueller Report. EPIC told ...
emptywheel

The FBI Maintained Paul Manafort’s Email Account - Among the things revealed in the release of the Mueller docket yesterday is that the FBI controlled Paul Manafort's dmpint email account. The post The F...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Pelosi’s Anti-Impeachment Stance Makes Less and Less Sense Speaker Pelosi’s continued refusal to allow the House to open im...
Socratic Gadfly

TX Progressives kick Gohmert Pyle, Kenny Boy Paxton and Former Fetus Forever Fuckwad Stickland, the Hispanic wave is coming and more in the Roundup - The Texas Progressive Alliance does not want to be lied into any more wars as it brings you this week's roundup, chock full of news about liars of various...
Novara Media

The Gig Economy Is Killing People - Platform workers are literally dying on the job. As ever, the working class have to risk their lives for the profits of the ruling class. This is capitalis...
Democracy Now!

Oregon Republicans Backed by Right-Wing Militias Flee State to Stall Vote on Historic Climate Bill - The Oregon state Legislature has been in a standoff for nearly one week, after 11 Republican lawmakers fled the Capitol Thursday to avoid voting on a landm...
Bay Area Houston

Movie Review: Ma and The Dead Don't Die - Do yourself a favor. If you intend to go see either one of these movies do yourself a favor. Buy a bucket of popcorn. Watch the movie. Put the bucket on y...
The Contributor

The Numbing of America: Trump Rape Allegations Treated As Old News - News Image: In a normal universe, a vivid allegation of rape, leveled at a serially misogynist president, would be a news story worthy of 24/7 coverage. C...
Space City Weather

Another day of scattered to widespread storms for Houston - Storms are firing again this morning, primarily to the south and east of Interstate 69, where a few areas have already picked up 1.5 inch of rainfall. We’r...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, How the Worst Values of Sports Are Taking Over America - A half-century ago, the sporting Cassandras predicted that the worst values and sensibilities of our increasingly corrupted civic society would eventuall...
Two Party Opera

Chance For Peace -
Strategic Culture Foundation

US Military Is a Bigger Polluter Than as Many as 140 Countries – Shrinking This War Machine Is a Must - Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the US militar...
Duffel Blog

General Dunford picks this week to start sniffing glue again - [image: General Dunford picks this week to start sniffing glue again] THE PENTAGON—A shot down drone, a murderous Navy SEAL, and a near war with Iran all ...
Dorf on Law

When Does a Taking Occur? - *by Michael C. Dorf* For me, yesterday's most painful decision came in *Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media*, in which the Court adopted an expa...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

BIG MOUTH - Kellyanne Conway is using her government position to serve as an active member of Trump's re-election team. This is simply and clearly against the law. She...
Off the Kuff

If it weren’t for Latino population growth… - […]
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East - So, according to the corporate media, and to President Literally Hitler, himself, while America was sleeping last Friday morning, the U.S. Air Force was ju...
Dallas Observer

Probation System Traps Some for Decades - Nathan Hawkins lives in an apartment in a nice neighborhood in the the Mid-Cities — exactly where, he doesn't like to say. During the week, he works 12-hou...
The Grayzone

How Sen. Rick Scott became Big Oil’s point man on Venezuelan regime change - The US oil cartel has given Florida’s Rick Scott 500 million reasons to be one of the Senate’s most fanatical… The post How Sen. Rick Scott became Big Oi...
See You In 2020

The U.S. Spreads Lies About China Because China Threatens Global Capitalism & Imperialism - It’s remarkable how much of the propaganda that America creates about China feels like projection. The United States, which frequently censors dissentin...
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They're being turned away. - Tribune: People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They're being turned away.
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Hong Kong Democracy Protests - This week, our webcast looks at key photos from the massive democracy protests in Hong Kong. The post Chatting the Pictures: Hong Kong Democracy Protests...
Rude Pundit

The President of the United States Is Likely a Rapist and Nothing Is Being Done About That - I believe, as I have believed for a long time, that Donald Trump is a rapist. The allegations by E. Jean Carroll of Trump raping her in the dressing room a...
Somervell County Salon

Mueller Report live -About Trump's TEN Acts of Obstruction -
Field Negro

He moved on another one like a b***h. - [image: TWEET ME]Can you imagine the president of your country being* credibly *accused of rape and it is not even worth being put on the front page of any...
The Socialist

How Social Democrats Like Sanders Are Pacifying The Left With False Socialist Rhetoric - The story of my alienation from the “democratic socialist” movement is similar to how the typical left-leaning person has become
Robert Reich

Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech The combined wealth of... - *Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech * The combined wealth of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google’s Sergey Brin, and Larry Page is l...
The Reality-Based Community

Cannabis News Round-Up - Is France about to legalize cannabis? French economists make the case for legal marijuana. Public cannabis consumption now allowed in Colombia: Is full leg...
Sludge

GEO Group Donated to the Trump-Tied Turning Point USA, Then Got Rave Review - Right-wing student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) accepted $50,000 from the foundation of the nation’s largest private prison company in 2017, a Sl...
The Ghion Journal

Before the American Empire Collapses, It Could End Up Starting World War III - In his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins frames the story of the American empire as a kind of grand tragedy, one where human fol...
Grits for Breakfast

Why revocations from probation and parole make up nearly half of Texas prison admissions and what to do about it - Two recent reports on supervising people in the community post-conviction deserve Grits readers' attention: From the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Marc L...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Neoliberalism and the Strange Non-Death of Planning - In this joint blog post with Sahil Jai Dutta, Richard Lane, Ian Lovering and Steffan Wyn-Jones we argue that quantification and control share a long hist...
Alas, a Blog

Silly Interview with Monica Valentinelli, Who Aspires to Terrify You with Marshmallows - (Editor’s Note: This interview has been in the vault. For Monica’s most updated work, visit her at www.booksofm.com.) Rachel Swirsky: You can write any ti...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Immigrant Kids Keep Dying in CBP Detention Centers, and DHS Won’t Take Accountability - The death toll continues to climb as the government argues against following legal guidelines. In recent months, at least seven children have either died ...
EgbertoWillies.com

This white man with a black son & daughter wants to be heard on racism. - [image: This white man with a black son & daughter wants to be heard on racism.] A white man, called me out in the prose below for not holding other Democ...
ExChristian.Net

The Demise of my Faith - *By Luke ~ * It's been 11 years since I deconverted. I figured I'd share my story, as I find it therapeutic to do so. Still somewhat haunted by my Christia...
Reveal

The American militia movement, a breeding ground for hate, is pulling in cops on Facebook - Our analysis includes some of the most extensive evidence yet that militias are drawing support – and membership – from within U.S. law enforcement.
Dissent Magazine

The Reparations Debate - How should the struggle for reparations for slavery fit into a broader political strategy for the left?
Socialist Alternative

What do Trump’s Trade and Tech Wars Mean for Global Capitalism? - Rising U.S.-China Tensions: A New Era of Conflict The following article is written by Vincent Kolo of ChinaWorker.info, the website of the Chinese section ...
ROAR Magazine

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Ep. 18 - Prof. Harvey answers the question of production and realization as it relates to today’s economy and job market and the contemporary composition of the wor...
In These Times

Life, Liberty and a Stable Climate: These Kids Are Arguing for a New Constitutional Right - PORTLAND, ORE.—Judge Andrew Hurwitz arched an eyebrow. “You’re asking us to do a lot of new stuff, aren’t you?” He was grilling Julia Olson, executive di...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: Miami Vise: Who's Gonna Get Squeezed in the Dem Debates? - The first Presidential debates of the 2020 campaign season will be held in Miami on Wednesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 27. Steve provides
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Nate White’s stunning answer to the question: Why do many British people not like Donald Trump? - It was a question asked on Quora last February 12: Why do many British people not like Donald Trump? Nate White is a London-based copy writer — that is, ad...
Land Destroyer

The West's Losing Battle for Hong Kong - *June 24, 2019* (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Another pivotal battle is being fought over Hong Kong between Beijing and political forces backed by the special ad...
House of Houston (Rockets news)

Houston Rockets: Chris Paul publicly admits that he’s not going anywhere - Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul went on the record to publicly admit that he’s not going anywhere. What all did he say? Let’s take a look. Houston Rocke...
House of Houston (Astros news)

Houston Astros: Yordan Alvarez is making history with the long ball - Houston Astros outfielder Yordan Alvarez, a rookie, has been sensational since being called up two weeks ago. He’s making history too. What’s going on? T...
Pages of Victory

Political Cartoonists - I find political cartoons these days too depressing to give a cursory glance. Not their fault, I guess. They don't have much to draw upon but the collapse ...
OpEd News

Data Analysis Shows a Dem Centrist Candidate Loses - Massive income growth by the wealthiest citizens and changing patterns of wealth accumulation at the top of the scale created a new, high education/high we...
Political Orphans

American Concentration Camps: A Review of Nazi History - Part of the problem is our ignorance. Almost everything Americans know about the Nazis is based on events in 1945, not 1933. We don't understand where Hitl...
Stinque

Springtime for Hitlers - We thought we understood fascism. The American kind, anyway. The kind that almost consumed the country in the 1930s, as it had consumed others. The kind ro...
Project Censored

Jon Gold – The Continuing Lies and Unanswered Questions of the 9/11 Attacks - Sept 11 scholar Jon Gold returns to the show to explain some of the continuing lies, and lingering unanswered questions, nearly 18 years after the 9/11 a...
Dos Centavos

Si Llega ICE A Tu Puerta * If ICE Is At Your Door - Gracias a United We Dream por esta lista de derechos y recomendaciones si acaso llega ICE a tu Puerta. 1) NO ABRAS LA PUERTA La migra solo puede entrar a t...
Liberal Values

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Independent Political Report

Virginia Constitution Party Disaffiliates From National CP - Yesterday, in a 3-2 vote, the Virginia Constitution Party formally disaffiliated from the National Constitution Party. The following statement was issued...
Liberal America

We Are Already Three (Goose) Steps On The Road To Fascism (Video) - Milton Mayer (1928–29) was a journalist, reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago American, and The Progressive. In 1955,...
Bad Attitudes

What Is It About Iran? - â€¦my neighbor Alan Tucker wonders. Hereâ€™s his answer, long but worth it: What is it about Iran with us? A national schizophrenia? A disinterest in loo...
Freethought Now

A cross, an honor, an ad and a Chicago Tribune column - It was an up-and-down week for us here at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, but, with your help, we prevailed.
Debunking Christianity

We Can Do Better than Religious Holidays - Why not celebrate things that *actually happened*? Even devout Bible scholars—aside from hard-core evangelical denialists—concede that the Jesus birth stori...
Frontloading HQ

Raffensperger Sets Georgia Presidential Primary Date for March 24 - On Wednesday, June 19, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) *set the date of the 2020 presidential primary in the Peach state* for March 24. ...
Earthworks

New laws put our right to protest at risk - Recently, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced a new proposal that protesters who block the construction of crude or natural gas pipelines coul...
Truthout

Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic - One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
Media Lens

The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt - Last week, UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed the US extradition request to hand over Julian Assange, who is charged with 18 counts of violating the US...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Books From The Underground - The best non-fiction books are almost never the best selling books, primarily because they never get any promotion from the mainstream media. Perhaps th...
IVN

Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting Bill… Then Takes It Back? - Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting Bill… Then Takes It Back? Update: Despite passing with strong majorities in both chambers of the legislatur...
Ecosophia

The Flight To The Fringes, And What Waits There - Several of my readers alerted me over the last week to an online essay by Christian writer Rod Dreher on the rising popularity of malevolent magic and de...
Carl Beijer

Global Green New Deal Media Roundup - Some coverage of my new paper for People's Policy Project, The Global Green New Deal: - The Katie Halper Show - The Discourse with @PrettyBadLefty ...
LareDOS

Texas Archive of the Moving Image travels to Laredo with its Award-Winning Film Preservation Program - Free digitization for home movies, videos, industrial and educational films
Avedon's Sideshow

Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years - David Dayen at *The American Prospect*, "Tom Perez Traded a Puerto Rico Statehood Endorsement for DNC Chair Votes [...] The anecdote reveals a mildly sea...
Duck of Minerva

A Case for Nationalism - Sorry, clickbait! But admit, it, after an apology of race science in Quillette or “The Case for Colonialism” in TWQ you probably rage-clicked on the thumbn...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Not a dancing slave of King Cicada - King Cicada pulled at the chains, drawing his slaves out towards him. It was disgusting, that much is safe to say, it was disgusting objectively, you’ll s...
Trivial Knot

The incoherence of race and ethnicity - As I’ve mentioned many times, I hold a lead position on The Ace Community Survey. One of the things we track, is ethnicity/race. Many years of dealing with...
Better Texas Blog

New report projects 2020 Census as next big test for Texas children - Texas continues to be one of the 10 worst states for kids based on the 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The rep...
The Concourse

Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: The Garfield Show - *A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight ho...
Greg Palast

Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned - It’s Christmas and I’m waiting for that call, “Dad’s dead. You should get on a plane.” I’ll leave the kids under the palm tree And the piña colada which ...
Moron Majority

Trump Warns Of Dire Consequences If He’s Not Re-Elected … Here’s The Complete List - As he gears up for his re-election campaign, Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. would experience an epic stock market crash if he were not returned to t...
Innocence Project

Nevada Governor Signs the Strongest Compensation Law in the Country - Nevada is 35th state to enact compensation Las Vegas, NV – Today Governor Steve Sisolak signed a law to compensate innocent Nevadans who were wrongfully ...
Web of Debt

The American Dream Is Alive and Well—in China - Home ownership has been called “the quintessential American dream.” Yet today less than 65% of American homes are owner occupied, and more than 50% of the ...
DBC Green blog

Sketch Comes Through and Other GPTX News - At a lunch meeting Wednesday, Laura Palmer informed me that her husband Don "Sketch" Palmer was the angel who got harriscountygreenparty.org back online fo...
GreenSource DFW

Austin hotel makes top green lodgings list - *The courtyard of Habitat Suites in Austin includes a salt water pool. Photo courtesy of Habitat Suites.* June 13, 2019 We stayed at one of the top ten ...
Harper's Magazine

[Editor's Note] Inside the July Issue, by Ellen Rosenbush - At the border with William T. Vollmann; new fiction by David Szalay and Nell Zink; and more
Smart Dissent

Highly Regarded, Independent Congressional Research Service Report: GOP Tax Bill is a Scam - Date: 06/18/2019 Congressional Research Service—which is nonpartisan, independent, and highly-respected—just published a report that dismantles claims tha...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: New Poll Shows Increasing Support for Transgender Rights - Contact: Susan Risdon, Equality Texas 214-226-6741, susan@redmediagroup.com New Poll Shows Increasing Support for Transgender Rights Austin, TX (J...
Our Finite World

Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Depend on Imported Goods from China - It seems to me that the situation in China is far different from what most people think it is. Even if we would like to depend on China, we really cannot. ...
PERRspectives

Republicans Peddle Grotesque Abortion-Slavery Comparison - In the great and proud history of the United States, no failing, no appalling ideology, no perverse institution--no national tragedy--compares to the Ameri...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Anti-Fascists Confront Neo-Nazi Outside His Home in Houston - If the video fails to load, try this mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rox3moMx_Y On Saturday, June 8th, a large group Anti-Fascists rallied on Hous...
Save Buffalo Bayou

New Photos of Destruction of Buffalo Bayou - Unnecessarily Damaging Bank Project Continues Opposite Memorial Park Call and complain! June 11, 2019 They had other options. They should have been require...
New Progressive Alliance

Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights - Those who reveal a crime are not worse criminals than those who commit a crime. Imprisoning and torturing Manning as a whistleblower while ignoring those...
WAWG Blog

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election - What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greate...
nonsite.org

Of All the Things to Say about Mayor Pete - these positionings continue to have appeal for academics, who are often relatively well-off at elite universities, who have the leisure to pose and play at...
Seeing the Forest

Voting Systems - How did we move from a voting system where you could be sure who won to voting systems where you have to trust what private companies tell you the results ...
Newsbud

Know Your Enemy! Not China…Xi Jinping! - America’s confrontation with the People’s Republic of China is heating up. Not just the trade war and the 25% tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods ann...
Environment Texas

Three decades later, renewable is doable - Rob Sargent Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy 617-747-4317 Contact person by email - Read more about Rob Sargent Wednesday, June 5...
t.e.j.a.s.

First Toxic Tour in Spanish – El Primer Toxic Tour En Español - Authored by: Marcelys Perez TOXIC TOUR, EXPERIENCIA INFORMATIVA Y DE CONCIENTIZACIÓN QUE NOS HACE CONOCER EL MUNDO DE INJUSTICIA QUE LLEVAMOS CON NUESTRO M...
Downwinders at Risk

Scenes from Shingle Mountain Fundraiser 5/30/19 -
The Militant

Every ‘Militant’ issue from 1928 to today is online! - Every issue of the Militant — from its founding in 1928 to today — is now available online, nearly 4,400 issues of the paper. Workers anywhere in the world...
Texas Freedom Network

It’s Over: A Look Back at the 86th Legislative Session - The 86th session of the Texas Legislature is history. Lawmakers left town on Monday following a session that, generally speaking, had fewer of the cultur...
The Disorder Of Things

The case against Woodrow Wilson, after 100 years - This guest post is a collective statement, written by Philip Conway in consultation with several other current and former PhD candidates at the Aberystwyth...
Disobedient Media

Is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory? - Here's who was involved with pushing it.
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...
skippy the bush kangaroo

For the record, for whatever it's worth... - Fourteen years ago, skippy invited me to be a guest blogger. At that time, I thought the big roo had the best left-leaning political blog around. I couldn'...
Modern Democracy

In Michigan & Ohio, Justice Delayed Could Mean Justice Denied; Is There A Better Way? - In the past two weeks, federal district courts have struck down partisan gerrymanders in both Michigan and Ohio. As a matter of legal doctrine, these deci...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Guadalupe Paz & the TJ Opera Scene - For more than 15 years now, I’ve followed the way Tijuana has developed an opera scene that is one of the artistic jewels of Mexico. One of the scene’s g...
CultureMap Houston

New tropically themed spot cooks up Latin flavor in Boulevard Oaks - David Buehrer wants Houstonians to feel like they can get away from it all without leaving town. That's the driving force behind Tropicales Cafe Y Comida,...
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 ...
DoucheLeaks

4-21 Democratic Presidential Preference Poll - Last week’s poll results truly blew me away. The resurgence of Elizabeth Warren with a commanding 0.89% of the vote was quite an unexpected delight – sure ...
Socialist Worker

Taking our final steps - From the ISO Members of the leadership team responsible for carrying out the decisions made by current and recently resigned ISO members in voting to diss...
Texas Moratorium Network

Hearing on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - We testified at the hearing of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 15, 2019 in favor of Rep. Dutton’s bill to prohibit the death penal...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Where do all your tax dollars go? To war! - HOW TO PAY FOR WAR It’s tax season, but where does all your money actually go? Posted by Soapbox on Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Wayne Dolcefino (Houston muckraker)

MESSAGE TO THE FBI…BRING IT ON - Newly released documents in the Brazil kidnapping case show the spin-doctor/lawyer for Houston doctor Chris Brann waged an ongoing campaign to keep Ben T...
The Metaphor Project

Being Clear About What #TrueAmericanFreedom Means! - Ever since Rep.Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D- NY) and her colleagues launched the Green New Deal resolution, the GOP has been betting they can scare the Amer...
LawFlog

Facebook colluded with Media Matters to shadow ban conservatives, confidential document suggests - A secret fundraising brochure for Media Matters suggests the far-left organization successfully convinced social media giants like Facebook and Twitter, as...
Popehat

The State of the Hat - One of the most justifiably ridiculed type of blog posts is the "hey guys I haven't posted in a long time" non-substantive blog posts, but nonetheless, her...
Texans For Public Justice

Influence Texas app updatedfor 86th Legislative Session - Free wep app tracks money and bills...Influence Texas OS Version 2 is now available. The open source app uses TPJ data to track who gave how much to Texas...
Texas Watch

In Depth: Auto Legislation - In Depth with Ware Wendell Video of In Depth with Ware Wendell We pay over $20 billion in premiums to auto insurance companies each year. Many insurance...
News Junkie

The Surrealism of the Information War - The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which...
Houston Justice

HISD's GREATEST HITS - A lot continues to be up in the air about our local school board, so let’s take a look back at some of the board’s “Greatest Hits.” Let’s start with this r...
The Electronic Intifada

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

TEXAS FIGHTS OPIOID USE - Launched by the Texas Office of the Attorney General, the Dose of Reality website will serve as a repository of addiction information and resources in th...
Spin Bin

They Spy With Their Little Eye - The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New ...
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...
Pressing Issues

Midterm Results - In past years, I have closely monitored TV and web coverage of the returns and posted here in real time, which some people really appreciate--I presume fol...
Talking Union

The Postal Strike of 1970: Relevance to Today - by Lawrence Swaim Ed. note: We are always eager to post first-person accounts from worker activists writing from their own direct experiences. This arti...
Reverb Press

What do Julius Caesar and Trump Have in Common? Both Embraced Immunity From Prosecution - As the Mueller investigation winds down, the question on everyone's minds is will the Special Counsel prosecute Trump? The post What do Julius Caesar and...

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