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naked capitalism

A New Way to Think About Solving the World’s Biggest Problems - Lambert here: I’m impressed they got 10% of all UK MPs to sign up. Interview between David Sloan Wilson, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthro...
memeorandum

Nine of Her Family Members on a Missouri Duck Boat Died. Somehow, She Survived. (John Eligon/New York Times) - John Eligon / New York Times: *Nine of Her Family Members on a Missouri Duck Boat Died. Somehow, She Survived.* — BRANSON, Mo. — At first, the water s...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Run into a Trump apologist in your local cafe and what exactly should you say? | Catherine Bennett - Instead of hiding behind civility, maybe it’s time for us to shame those flouting decency and norms Should Trump hirelings be confronted in restaurants? De...
jobsanger

Morality And Religion Are Not The Same -
Sputnik News

Latakia Hosts Nearly 1Mln Refugees From Other Syrian Provinces - Governor - LATAKIA (Syria) (Sputnik) - Syria's northwestern region of Latakia has already accepted around one million refugees from other Syrian provinces and foreign...
Informed Comment

White Nationalist Steve Bannon Moves to Europe to boost Far Right - Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s controversial former advisor Steve Bannon plans to set up a foundation in Europe called “The Movement” to sp...
Field Negro

CAPTION SATURDAY - [image: Image result for trump putin images] I need a caption for this pic.
The Verge

Samsung cuts prices on its laptops for summer sale - Need a new computer for back to school or any other reason? Samsung has launched a sale that lasts until July 28th, and it might have what you’re lookin...
Down With Tyranny!

Hearings On Confirming Kavanaugh? Not 'Til After Trump's Treason Trial - I bet Señor Trumpanzee wishes he had given a Russophile and suck-up like Devin Nunes the DNI job instead of ex-Senator Dan Coats (R-IN), who he nominate...
Political Dig

Adam Schiff Just Busted Devin Nunes For ‘Distorting’ DOJ Docs To Protect Trump - Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff (Calif.) revealed on Saturday that the release of documents related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser...
Mediaite

WATCH: Debate Audience Erupts in Laughter After GOP Senate Hopeful Says Trump is ‘Standing up to the Russians’ - Virginia Senate hopeful Corey Stewart tried to claim President Donald Trump was "standing up to the Russians." It did not go over well.
Hullabaloo

Right Wing Media Hits Back at Sleeping Giants Founder @spockosbrain - *Right Wing Media Hits Back at Sleeping Giants Founder* by Spocko Four days ago the The Daily Caller, a site co-founded by Tucker Carlson, revealed the id...
Raw Story

Trump staffers whine to Fox News about being exiled from DC dating scene: ‘We now all date one another — it’s safer that way’ - Young Republicans haver been thoroughly exiled from the mainstream Washington, D.C. dating scene and have taken to hiding their political affiliations on...
Crooks and Liars

Open Thread - Eat It, Sean Hannity - [image: Open Thread - Eat It, Sean Hannity] Carter Page? pic.twitter.com/txZe43OC8A — Frances Langum (@bluegal) July 22, 2018 The FBI had 412 pages to sho...
Angry Bear

Reading the news - Posted by Barbara Hermel Bach on Friday, July 20, 2018 Seagull existentialism Posted by Philosophy Matters on Saturday, July 21, 2018 Same as it ever was…....
Progrexas

Pulitzer-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57 - Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food…...
The Greanville Post

Western meddling opens new Pandora’s Box in Ukraine - S. KARGANOVIC—Needless to say, the Moscow Patriarchy affiliate in the Ukraine, which is followed by a majority of believers in that country, has taken a st...
Daily Kos

Saturday open thread for night owls: West Coast electric highway provides a model for the nation - At Yes! Magazine, Erika Lundahl writes—The West Coast Electric Highway Enables Zero Emission Road Trips: The West Coast Electric Highway—one of the long...
Washington Monthly

Trump Just Obstructed Justice on Twitter Again - One of the more generous explanations of Trump’s behavior throughout the Russia scandal is that he simply does not understand the difference between what i...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

One person killed in Los Angeles Trader Joe’s hostage standoff - Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti briefs the media after a suspect was taken into custody from an hours-long standoff in Los Angeles.
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Rock on.
Dissident Voice

The “Russian Interference” Scandal, In a Nutshell - A few dozen GRU officers spent several thousand dollars to acquire fake U.S. identities and post fake news on U.S. social media, before and after the 2016 ...
The Reality-Based Community

Justice Department releases FISA warrant applications on Carter Page - Here they are. And here’s the resulting New York Times story. My quick analysis: 400-something pages, mostly redactions, and the rest mostly boilerplate th...
Juanita Jean's, The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon

I Love Yew, Texas - Texas is where we take hot seriously. I’m sure you’ve heard that Dallas reached 110 today, but it’s really gonna get hot tomorrow. I told my son we bought...
Liberal Values

Ecuador Might Be Preparing To Turn Julian Assange Over To Authorities–Will This Lead To Prosecution By The US? - Glenn Greenwald reports at The Intercept that Ecuador is preparing to turn Julian Assange over to UK authorities. He writes: A source close to the Ecuadori...
Salon.com

In Florida, midterm elections hold faint hope for Medicaid expansion - Can the deep-red Florida Statehouse follow Virginia and expand Medicaid?
Axios

SpaceX to exclusively fly reusable rocket - SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket on Sunday, which is the only model the company will be using for rocket launches moving forward, reports L...
OpEd News

No Liberal Rallies Yet for the Children of Yemen - We have yet to learn of any large and widespread U.S. demonstrations on behalf of the children and families of Yemen, where the U.S. is deeply complicit in...
Antiwar.com

Peshmerga Forces Beaten at Checkpoint; Seven Killed in Iraq - Two Peshmerga fighters were reportedly beaten by Iraqi forces at a checkpoint. The post Peshmerga Forces Beaten at Checkpoint; Seven Killed in Iraq appe...
AlterNet.org

US Ambassador to Russia Explains Why He Won’t Resign — But Offers No Defense of Donald Trump - Jon Huntsman defended his role as U.S. ambassador to Russia, but said nary a word about Donald Trump's actions. Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, o...
Slate

Steve Bannon Will Set Up Foundation to Boost the Far-Right in Europe - Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, is gearing up for a very Europe-centric future. Bannon told the Daily Beast that his plan is to of...
Pajiba

'Glass' And 'Aquaman' Seriously Brought The Hype To This Year's Comic-Con - Most thought that this year's Comic-Con would be uneventful given the absence of Star Wars and Marvel on the grand stage. But those people are quite wrong....
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges and Adam Frank: The Earth Is Just One Of Ten Billion Trillion Planets In The Universe - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Jul 21, 2018 Adam Frank, astrophysicist, describes the shifting state of planet earth and alien planets wit...
Grist

Meet the young refugee behind Zero Hour’s climate platform - The youth climate march has made its demands. The person who wrote them is 20-year-old Kibiriti Majuto.
Reverb Press

Parkland Survivors Hit the Road to Register Voters - Students who survived the Parkland shooting hit the road... The post Parkland Survivors Hit the Road to Register Voters appeared first on ReverbPress.
Seeing the Forest

Who Are We To Object To What Putin Is Doing? - There are people who say, “The US has been and is doing bad things all over the world. It interfered with Russia’s elections. It bombs people. It overthrow...
Splinter

Pastor Robert Jeffress Defends Trump’s Evangelical Support By Citing ‘Womanizer’ Reagan - Southern Baptist megachurch pastor and Donald Trump “adviser” Robert Jeffress— the guy who delivered a prayer at the recent opening of the U.S. Embassy i...
Talking Points Memo

Russia FM Stresses To Pompeo ‘Unacceptability’ Of Butina Arrest - MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Minister has held a telephone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which...
Mother Jones

Pence Stumps for Candidate Who Said He Would Personally Round Up and Deport Immigrants - Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp on Saturday in the final days of the GOP’s primary run-off. Pence arriv...
Popular Resistance

Violent Coup Fails In Nicaragua, US Continues Regime Change Efforts - The violent coup in Nicaragua has failed. This does not mean the United States and oligarchs are giving up, but this phase of their effort to remove the go...
See You In 2020

The Establishment Has Taken A Gamble By Continuing To Push The Russia Narrative - [image: article image] First, these facts are important to mention: -Mueller’s indictments this month are based in “evidence” which contradicts facts that...
Election Law Blog

“The Scalia Factor: Rick Hasen on his book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.” - I sat down with Dahlia Lithwick for Slate’s Amicus Podcast. Listen: In the first of a series of deep dives into great legal reads this summer, Dahlia Lithw...
Ballot Access News

North Dakota Supreme Court Asks for a Response from Secretary of State in Libertarian Recount Case - The North Dakota Supreme Court recently asked the Secretary of State to respond to the Libertarian Party appeal concerning a recount of the June 12 Liberta...
emptywheel

Democracy Against Capitalism: Base, Superstructure and More Definitions - Definitions matter even when the terms are dismissed.
News Corpse

Fox News Ignored the Michael Cohen Tape Until Trump Freaked Out About it on Twitter - The presidency of Donald Trump has been a constant challenge for the press to keep up with his outrages, crimes, and embarrassments. The news cycle has bee...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Traveling Through Times Zones Once Again - For the next couple of weeks business and family will once again take me through several time zones. It affords me a different perspective on events here i...
Daily Dot

‘Fantastic Beasts’ Comic-Con panel mixes awesome trailer with awkward Johnny Depp appearance - [image: johnny depp comic con] This was ... unexpected. The post ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Comic-Con panel mixes awesome trailer with awkward Johnny Depp appeara...
Vox

Trump’s easing penalties on a Chinese company that sold to North Korea and Iran. Republicans are letting him do it. - [image: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) listens to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a news conference in 2013.] Congressional Republicans are going to let Trump e...
Think Progress

Waitress body-slams male patron who groped her, to the delight of women everywhere - Who among us has not fantasized of being that woman? The badass avenger who brutally — even savagely, if necessary — takes down that gnarly, obnoxious guy ...
Texas Monthly

The Texanist: If You Can’t Take the Heat… - A Montanan turned Houstonian’s first summer in Texas isn’t going all that well. The post The Texanist: If You Can’t Take the Heat… appeared first on Texa...
No More Mister Nice Blog

For the Record: Pushback - Image by PhotoAtelier (I think). There's a set of talking points floating around the rightosphere about how Emperor Trump can't possibly be Putin's puppe...
Louis Proyect

Yitzy the Pupa photographer - On Wednesday and Thursday, I was up in Sullivan County—once the home of the now mostly defunct resort hotel industry—to work with a drone pilot I had hired...
Anti-Media

France Sends Medical Aid to Assad’s Syria After Making Deal With Russia - [image: France Syria Russia](MEMO) — France sent 50 tonnes of medical aid to government-controlled eastern Ghouta in Syria on Friday after Russia agreed to...
The Ghion Journal

Et Tu Bernie? - Let me preface this open letter of sorts that I’m writing to Senator Bernie Sanders. I’m not penning this missive as though I’m a crestfallen supporter, ...
Debunking Christianity

Stealing from God: Turek’s Case for Christianity - Having established the truth of theism to his satisfaction, Turek next attempts to demonstrate the truth of the Christian religion. He thinks this can be ...
Counterpunch

Migrant Children Detained in Shelters Being Drugged -
Buzzflash

Protests Continue to Rock Iraq as Rights Groups Report Beatings and Killings - Protests Continue to Rock Iraq as Rights Groups Report Beatings and Killings 1.0/*5* rating 1 vote
Houstonia

Review: Jump on into the Ring of Fire at Stages - The Johnny Cash musical illuminates the man—and woman— behind some of America's finest music of the last century.
Daily Howler

BROKEN: What did Vladimir Putin propose? - *SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018Your lizard brain gets a good workout:* According to the future elders—they come to us quite late at night—the "Embellishment Ind...
The Week

Hamas agrees to ceasefire deal in Gaza - Hamas on Saturday announced it has accepted a ceasefire deal in the contested Gaza Strip after fighting on Friday left four Palestinians and one Israeli ...
Rivard Report

Seale #10: The First Republic of Texas - Brandon Seale released the series earlier this year, and for the next 13 weeks, the Rivard Report will host one episode every Saturday. The post Seale #1...
Robert Reich

A Time for Integrity - To: Senators Jeff Flake, John McCain, Bob Corker, and Susan CollinsFrom: Robert ReichSenators, I...
The Intercept

Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next? - Will journalists, due to hatred of Assange, unite behind the Trump DOJ in support of one of the gravest threats to press freedom in years? The post Ecuad...
VICE

'Vines Mania,' Today's Comic by Line Hoj Hostrup - After getting addicted to vines, some friends need to figure out how to detach themselves from the internet.
The Root

The Whoopi Goldberg Vs. Judge Jeanine Pirro Beef is So Deliciously Messy - Fox News host and author, Judge Jeanine Pirro appeared on *The View* to talk about her new book, *Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-...
Wolf Street

Backlash Against “War on Cash” Reaches Washington & China - The electronic-payments industry, which gets a cut from every electronic transaction, wants to kill cash. But wait...
MintPress News

May’s Syria Policy Gets Thumbs Down from Bipartisan Group of UK Pols - Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, the U.K. has been an instrumental part of the U.S.-led coalition active in Syria and has also been a major sourc...
Avedon's Sideshow

The only time I feel all right is by your side - Bernie Sanders held a CEOs vs Workers Town Hall. Donut Twitter* went insane with tweets to the effect of, "How dare he talk about unimportant stuff like ...
Dorf on Law

Seventh in a Series: Adult Coloring Book, "The Lawyers of Trump-Russia" (feat. Michael Avenatti) - by Diane Klein On Friday, July 20, 2018, we learned what few of us could have been surprised to hear: that former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen tap...
Pharyngula

Even harmless quackery kills - A recent study with almost 2 million subjects evaluated the effectiveness of Complementary Medicine in fighting cancer. CM is that supposedly harmless stuf...
Pressing Issues

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Grits for Breakfast

Austin police oversight ineffective, says audit; local media silent on narrative-busting analysis - The Austin Civilian Review Panel, as it worked under the now-expired police contract, was a failed oversight mechanism, the *city auditor found*. A report...
National Post

Cohen’s recording of president discussing payment to Playboy model ‘totally unheard and perhaps illegal’, says Trump - Most states, including New York, allow for recordings of conversations with only the consent of one party; other states require all parties to agree to a r...
DeSmogBlog

Who Needs Science Advice Anyway? Governments, for One - Read time: 6 mins [image: Molly Shoichet, former chief scientist of Ontario] *By Jim Woodgett, University of Toronto* There has been much consternation with...
The Progressive Wing

7/21 News Roundup – Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders Woo Kansas Progressives & More - ‘Just what the party needs’: Ocasio Cortez and Sanders woo Kansas progressives For her national political debut, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez traded the concre...
Portside

NFL Anthem Policy, Union Grievance on Hold - NFL Anthem Policy, Union Grievance on Hold Marti Sat, 07/21/2018 - 07:39
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

LET ME EXPLAIN - Trump is still trying to undo the damage of his ill-considered comments and commitments to Putin http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/amateur-hour-trum...
Duffel Blog

Opinion: ‘The Greatest Generation’ — What have they done for us lately? - [image: guadalcanal] The following is an op-ed by Chaz Daniels. It was cross-posted at Total Frat Move. The Greatest Generation? Fuck those guys. Winning ...
Washington's Blog

The Saudi and American Way - (photo above: 15 August 2016, Yemen, U.S. weapons, Saudi pilots) Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org The U.S.-Saudi-UAE “Operation Rest...
Off the Kuff

No quorum for very special Council meeting - […]
skippy the bush kangaroo

full moon saturday night - american jekyll, american hyde hospital treats baby w/nap, bottle. total cost: $18,000 why don't we have free public transportation? most americans suppor...
NPR's Health Shots

Masses Of Seaweed Threaten Fisheries And Foul Beaches - A floating, smelly mass of seaweed called sargassum is covering beaches in the Caribbean and along the Gulf of Mexico.
Consortium News

Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth - FROM THE ARCHIVES: In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don’t hear the other side o...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

“The President Sang Amazing Grace” - Joan Baez says she’s made her last album, maybe will stop touring soon. But she’s still speaking out for good, for equality, for civil rights, against viol...
Ring of Fire

Billionaires Create False Reality To Manipulate Nation - Billionaires are after Unions. Lee Camp discusses. The post Billionaires Create False Reality To Manipulate Nation appeared first on The Ring of Fire Net...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: The Best Is Yet To Come - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Media, #MeToo silent on widespread sexual assault of detained immigrants - A July 17 report revealed 1,310 reports of rape and sexual assault by immigrants at detention centers from 2013 to 2017.
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Ted Cruz on attack over ICE and impeachment, hoping to overcome Beto O'Rourke's fundraising prowess - Morning News: Ted Cruz on attack over ICE and impeachment, hoping to overcome Beto O'Rourke's fundraising prowess
Stinque

The T-Word - For a brief moment Monday, we thought something happened. The President of the United States, on live television, demonstrated fealty to a foreign dictator...
Big Bad Bald Bastard

When Looking Around Is Getting You Down - It's been a crap week, as far as the news cycle goes. On the workfront, things have been busy- this is a six day week, which is wearing me down, but good f...
Courthouse News

Liberal Icon, New Democratic Star Wade Into GOP-Heavy Kansas - The new face of an emerging democratic socialist movement joined its patriarch in the most unlikely place Friday, calling on Kansans unhappy with the dir...
Brad Blog

Federal Courts 'Pound' Administration Over Family Separation Policy Before Reunification Deadline: 'BradCast' 7/20/2018 - First up on today's BradCast, a follow-up to yesterday's important show on the wildly vulnerable remote access software installed with computerized electio...
Liberation News

Hoosiers rally for prisoners on Mandela Day - On Mandela Day, July 18, people in Indianapolis honored the revolutionary memory of Nelson Mandela. The post Hoosiers rally for prisoners on Mandela Day ...
Right Wing Watch

Right-Wing Bonus Tracks: Leave Alex Jones Alone! - Theodore Kupfer, writing at National Review, makes a case against banning Alex Jones’s Infowars from Facebook. At Hot Air, Ed Morrisey is incensed that the...
Houston Matters

Houston’s Lawson Craddock Keeps Racing With Injury In Tour De France, Donations Keep Coming In For Velodrome - After breaking his shoulder blade in the opening stage, the 26-year-old Houston native has become a hero to many Tour de France fans
Above the Law

I Was Sitting In My Cubicle Today — See Also - *AND I REALIZED, EVER SINCE I STARTED WORKING*: 5 On-Campus Interview Fails And 5 OCI Tips For Law Students This Summer *EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE HAS BE...
In These Times

The Police Will Keep Killing Us Until We Stop Criminalizing Blackness and Poverty - In November 2015, the video of Laquan McDonald’s murder at the hands of Chicago police was released, sparking weeks of protests across the city. In the t...
News Junkie

RSS: Fascism and Racism Under India’s Sky - One should not dismiss the odious statements from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its Sangh Parivar, and say that they are spewing venom. One sho...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian Football Coach Celebrates ‘Surprisingly Successful’ World Cup - Hardly anyone expected the Russian team to advance as far as the quarterfinals. So it’s entirely true the results on the field for the FIFA World Cup host ...
Somervell County Salon

Timeline of some interesting actions Trump and others took re: Russia Investigation - with sources: This is from an excellent thread by Sarah Sannder Dukic with some additions of my own. *Feb 13, 2016 -* Russian Alexander Torshin writes ...
Greg Palast

New York Times Mentions Danger Of CrosscheckBut Fails To Mention Its Overwhelming Racial Bias - [*Crosscheck comic: Candorville by Darrin Bell.*] In an opinion piece published today, The New York Times finally allows mention of the danger of Kris K...
Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Two-Seater - 3914 Antibes Ln. [HAR]… Read More
Project Censored

(Pre-Order) Giants: The Global Power Elite - The post (Pre-Order) Giants: The Global Power Elite appeared first on Project Censored.
Mahablog

Michael Cohen’s Tapes - I wasn’t going to mention Michael Cohen’s tape of Trump discussing paying off a Playboy model, because, I mean, we know Trump is a dog. And it will make no...
SCOTUSblog

Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment - [image: Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment]Orin S. Kerr is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Sou...
San Antonio Current

Texas Public Radio Screening Classic Stanley Kubrick Film Full Metal Jacket - “I’m going to gouge out your eyeballs and” — well, let’s just say that the late R. Lee Ermey got off many memorably intense and profane one-liners as the ...
Washington Babylon

Et Tu, Michael Avenatti? - When I read the news today that “Manhattan Madame” Kristin Davis had been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller I knew there would be some ignorant,...
CultureMap Houston

Tony Vallone announces shutter of upscale Memorial City steakhouse - In Washington, D.C., the Friday news dump covers any piece of unpleasant information that a politician would prefer the public ignore: for example, the re...
Grit Post

Trump Administration Reaches Peak Comic Book Villain Levels by Bullying Endangered Species - To say it’s time for us to call Captain Planet to stand against Trump isn’t entirely fair. That time was when he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords,...
BEYONDbones

Public Perceptions Vs. Fact-Based Reality – A Few Examples Of How What We Think We Know Is Often Wrong - On a regular basis we learn that what we thought was true was, in fact, not so. This certainly applies to our understanding of the past. Here are some ex...
Echidne of the Snakes

Trump's Outrages Do Not Matter - Unless they hurt the Republicans in Congress. As long as the Republican base wants Trump, other Republican politicians will give lip service, reluctantly...
Talking Union

Support Striking Oil Workers in Australia - Eric Lee, LabourStart Last year maintenance workers at Exxon Mobil’s onshore and offshore facilities in Australia received a shock when they heard that the...
Texas Observer

Three Things the Judge Says He’ll Consider in Ruling on Texas Fetal Burial Law - As the weeklong trial over Texas’ fetal burial law wrapped up on Friday, Federal District Judge David Ezra gave a good indication of what he’ll be focusi...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Invitation to the presentation of the book by martyred Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá - *Come take part in a historic moment.* Back on July 5th this blog reported that the long awaited book *"The night will not be eternal" *by Oswaldo Payá Sa...
Rewire

Anti-Choice Group Targets Homes and Neighbors of Indiana Abortion Providers - A fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health said the harassment and intimidation tactics used by anti-choice activists are "designed to evoke fear" ...
Freethought Now

Fighting constitutionally in the dog days of summer - That’s why in the Atlanta area, we put up a large billboard urging folks in the South’s most bustling metropolis to discover our nation’s foundational wall...
Independent Political Report

Judd Weiss Deconstructs Influence of Burning Man on 2016 McAfee Campaign - Former candidate for the 2016 Libertarian vice-presidential nomination Judd Weiss appeared on a 2018 FreedomFest panel titled, ”Burning Man and Libertari...
The NM Political Report

Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent - [image: Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent] Fleeing an abusive stepfather in El Salvador, Gabriela headed for Oakland, Californi...
Trivial Knot

An altruistic Prisoner’s Dilemma - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2015, with a short postscript added. Jeff Kaufman talks about an ethics trade that he sometimes does with a frien...
Eater Houston

Vallone’s Will Serve Its Final Hand-Cut Steaks Tonight - The popular steakhouse will shutter after dinner service tonight Vallone’s, the eponymous steakhouse by veteran restaurateur Tony Vallone and partner Sc...
Free Press Houston

Smashing Pumpkins Played All of the Fan Favorites During Extra-Long H-Town Set - Much to the delight of their fans, the iconic band played a three-hour-long set.
Houston Press

Here's Your Chance to Win Florence and the Machine Tickets From Live Nation Houston - To celebrate the Florence and the Machine show at the Woodlands Pavilion on September 30, Live Nation Houston is giving fans a chance to win two tickets to...
Latino Rebels

In ‘Y Va Caer’ Featuring Ana Tijoux, Rap Duo Rebel Diaz Sends Message of Hope to Communities of Color - Latino Rebels caught up with Rebel Diaz in a phone interview, where they talked about the inspiration behind the single. Read it here:
Texas Standard

Archaeologists Say Humans May Have Come To Texas Earlier Than Previously Thought - New evidence pushes back previous estimates of arrival by 3,000 years
OffCite

Bay Area to Bayou City: Lessons on Resilience by José Solís - South San Francisco masterplan proposal. Image courtesy of Hassell+.José Solís is Founder of Big and Bright Strategies and Project Manager with the Buffalo...
Shadowproof

Beyond Prisons — Episode 26: John Gillespie Jr. (aka swim.) - Poet, musician, and PhD student John Gillespie Jr. (aka swim.) joins Beyond Prisons to discuss his art and scholarship around suicide in the Black commun...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Shouldn't Take the Bait on 'Catch and Release' - Dehumanizing metaphors subconsciously affect the way you think about immigrants. On April 6, 2018, President Trump issued an official memorandum with the ...
MikeMcGuff.com (covering Houston media)

Best #TVnews bloopers June 2018 - RELATED - Texas #TVnews and radio job moves June 2018 - Hottest Houston social media stars June 2018
Peacock Panache

High Crimes and Misdemeanors – McConnell Version - [image: High Crimes and Misdemeanors – McConnell Version] In criminal law classes, lawyers-to-be learn about something called *mens rea*–a term that means ...
Political Garbage Chute

Putin Assures Trump Andrew Jackson Had Nothing to Do With Trail of Tears - WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Trump took office, one of the first controversial decisions he made was to bring back a portrait of President... The po...
ExChristian.Net

God refuses to heal amputees - *By Michael Runyan ~ * No one argues the fact that Christian prayers have consistently failed to result in the grow-back of amputated limbs. There is no re...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Most Consistent Hitter In Baseball History - The skeptics have been proven right so far this season in refusing to believe that Khris Davis’s batting average was permanently fixed at .247 by some supe...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 194: ‘Sign o’ the times’ - Pestering your co-workers until every interaction is fraught with an awkward tension is presented here as a badge of honor. If everyone you work with doesn...
Texas Freedom Network

The Week in Quotes (July 15 – 21) - Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes. Austin Mayor Steve Adler, in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has threatened the city’...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration erasing LGBTQ people from government websites again' & other Fri midday news briefs - The Trump Administration is messing with us again. *The Trump administration is erasing LGBTQ people from government websites again* - *I swear, you just c...
Morning Consult

Who Should Regulate Marijuana? Most Say States Over the Federal Government. - The post Who Should Regulate Marijuana? Most Say States Over the Federal Government. appeared first on Morning Consult.
Bracing Views

Collusion Takes Many Forms - W.J. Astore Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: The supposed big news here is that Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, didn’t know...
Lewisville Texan Journal

City breaks ground on Thrive multi-gen center - Lewisville city officials, alongside Barker Rinker Seacat and Byrne Construction officials, broke ground today on the Thrive multigenerational center in Me...
ProPublica

Henri Cauvin to Join ProPublica as Senior Editor - by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Henri Cauvin will join its staff as a senior editor. Cauvin comes to ProPublica from The New York Times, ...
Bonddad

The US is not in an economic Boom: midyear udpate - - *by New Deal democrat* At the beginning of this year I asked: Is the US economy going to enter a Boom in 2018? To recap, there is no standard definiti...
First Reading

Hey, RNC. Forget holding the convention in Charlotte. Why not Moscow 2020? - Good Friday Austin: The Republican National Committee, meeting in Austin this morning, is expected to choose Charlotte, N.C., as the place where the part...
Democracy Now!

Psychologists: Migrant Parents Reunited with Detained Children Must Brace for Trauma & Long Recovery - We discuss the psychological impacts family separation has on young children with Nancy Burke, psychoanalyst and a co-chair of the Psychotherapy Action Net...
SocraticGadfly

My take on the Green Party's "decentralization" key value - Note: I had submitted a version of this for the Green Party's Green Pages. Unfortunately, I have been told that it is short-staffed on its editorial commi...
Equality Texas

Take Action Now to Oppose Discriminatory Aderholt Amendment - Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt has introduced an amendment that would allow discrimination in foster care and adoption services. Texas has already mad...
Lowering the Bar

Woman Accidentally Steals Car She Thought Was Her Rental - Drove it around for two weeks with nary a clue. Related Stories - Lawyer Dispute Escalates From Picture of Cat Playing Violin to Gunfire - ...
Space City Weather

Hottest yet to come for Houston, as Texas roasts - Thursday was the hottest day yet in this heat wave that is scorching much of Texas. It was also Houston’s hottest day since June 5th. We hit 98° officially...
Progressive.org

A Charter School’s Explanation for Banning Durags Is Worse Than the Ban - To say that a durag sets up a black man for failure is ignorant, at best.
The Conversation

Support for the Endangered Species Act remains high as Trump administration and Congress try to gut it - As attempts to water down the Endangered Species Act have accelerated, public support for the act has stayed high. Then why do politicians keep trying to w...
Two Party Opera

Dark Money -
Dallas Observer

Ofo Bikes (the Yellow Ones) Are on Their Way Out of Dallas - Less than a day after laying off 70 percent of its U.S.-based employees, dockless bike rental company ofo confirmed to the Dallas Observer on Thursday that...
Rallblog

Relationship Counseling for Donald Trump and Donald Tusk of the EU - Donald Trump is heading back to a pissed-off European Union.
Disobedient Media

Breaking: Possible Hand-Over Of Julian Assange To The UK May Be Imminent - If Julian Assange's asylum were to be revoked in any way, dangerously inept intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, would continue to operate outside th...
Socialist Worker

Without struggle, there is no Roe - Michelle Farber and Elizabeth Schulte Can the anti-abortion fanatics be stopped from overturning legal abortion? Michelle Farber and Elizabeth Schulte loo...
Campaign for America's Future

It’s Time for a Mass Movement to Impeach Trump - A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is know...
The Contributor

Trump Takes 'Wrecking Ball' to Endangered Species Act - News Image: If Interior Department's proposals are approved, "Zinke will go down in history as the extinction secretary" Category: Environment origin Blo...
Krebs on Security

Human Resources Firm ComplyRight Breached - Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of its Web site may have jeopardized sensitive consumer information -...
Socialist Alternative

Getting Ahead In The Working Life: So Your Boss Offers You A Manager Position? - Samantha (she prefers Sam) greets the drivers with a big smile and their perfect coffee drink. Sam claims that the secret to a thriving latte stand is well...
Ian Welsh

The current world peace paradox - (MANDOS POST MANDOS POST MANDOS POST MANDOS POST) In a weird twist of fate, American liberals and (some) leftists are finding themselves in the non-traditi...
Newsbud

A Wake-Up Call for Iran: The Real Cost of America’s ‘Liberation Wars’ - In this edition of Probable Cause, Newsbud’s Founder & Editor Sibel Edmonds delivers a powerful message to the Iranian people, based on the bloody track re...
Frontloading HQ

Unity Reform Commission Seeing Its Recommendations 'Substantially Adopted' Sends Rules Package on to DNC - Following a brief (by rules meetings standards) conference call on Tuesday, July 17, Unity Reform Commission Chair Jennifer O'Malley-Dillon and Vice Chair ...
Popehat

Illinois Attorney General Stomps Notorious Censorious Jerkass Dennis Toeppen and His Infamous Suburban Express - Long-time Popehat readers may remember the persistently loathsome Dennis Toeppen and his what-if-you-had-a-racist-vexatious-litigant-bus-company Suburban E...
The Rag Blog

The Rag Blog : METRO EVENT | Threadgill’s World HQ invites you to Thorne Dreyer’s Birthday Party on August 1st - Historic Austin bands the Uranium Savages, Bill Kirchen, Shiva’s Headband, and Leeann Atherton will perform. Event: Thorne Dreyer’s Birthday Party What: Co...
Political Orphans

The Fall of the Roman Republic, Reconsidered - The Caesars of the world only arrive when the ground has been prepared for them.
Duck of Minerva

Tackling Climate Change: A Conversation with Josh Busby - Readers of the Duck will be very familiar with Duck editor Josh Busby’s commentary on climate change and security, U.S. foreign policy, and a host of other...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Sense of U.S. Moves in the Middle East - My father and I always had a tacit agreement: “We will never speak of That Part of the World”...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Purdue in Tennessee II: High-Volume Prescribers - From 2006 to 2015, Dr. Michael Rhodes was one of the top prescribers of OxyContin in the state of Tennessee. His practice had many of the signs of what h...
Progressive Army

A “Pragmatic Progressive” Would Stop Funding Non-Union Charter Schools. Will Cuomo? - Andrew Cuomo has been clear in opposing the Supreme Court’s anti-union Janus v. AFSCME decision, which will diminish the coffers of New York’s public sec...
Church and State

The ‘stolen babies’ trial in Spain finally shines a light on a scandal that cannot be forgotten - Until into the 1990s, doctors, nuns and priests in Spain allegedly stole newborn babies and sold them to couples hoping to adopt.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Three Republican Governors Face Increasingly Tough Election Contests - KEY POINT FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Crystal Ball has three ratings changes in gubernatorial contests, all shifts in the Democrats’ direction: Arizona moves f...
Common Dreams

Patriots, Prepare For War With the Very Aggressive People of Montenegro, Also Maybe Freedonia - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

President Trump is missing!!! - There are many people, so many they can almost not be avoided and sometimes not at all and a few of these people I cannot avoid mentioning when I write. H...
Rude Pundit

Republicans Won't Save Us Because Their Voters Don't Want to Be Saved: A Farce in Six Acts - 1. In another of its ongoing series "Do the Editors of the *New York Times* Really Think the Yokels Will Ever Love Them?" reporters interviewed an assortme...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR #8: “Beyond the Border” coming soon! - Our eighth issue, on the revolutionary internationalism of the twenty-first century, is coming soon! This will be our last issue to appear in print, so d...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American A...
Crooked Timber

Would be/Wouldn’t be - The Death of Stalin and the Trump administration have plenty in common.
News Taco

Today’s Latino News Headlines – July, 18, 2018 - U.S. Latino news headlines, curated daily by NewsTaco. ‘It’s hypocritical’: Chicago Latino Caucus to return donation from private immigrant detention com...
The Hill: Ballot Box

Supreme Court has highest approval in almost 10 years: Gallup - A majority of Americans currently approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing as the court has its highest level of public support in nearly a decade, ac...
Ecosophia

The Kek Wars, Part One: Aristocracy and its Discontents - Every month or so since the 2016 presidential election campaign hit high tide, somebody has asked me to say something about the weirdest and most interes...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Trump’s Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism - So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit … or Trump’s meeting with his Russian handler, as the neolibe...
CPI's Danger in the Air

How drugmakers sway states to profit off of Medicaid - Medicaid drug costs rise, leading to tough state budget choices
Save Buffalo Bayou

Recent Photos of Buffalo Bayou: Slowing the Flow - Summer Down on the Bayou July 17, 2018 In case you missed Jim Olive‘s summer shot of that Bend in the River, here is the latest addition to our series of p...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Helena Blavatsky Ancient Aliens Connection? - Is there a connection between Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society with Ancient Aliens, assuming aliens might have visited us thousands of year...
Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review ] | Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puzzle out cybersecurity in Helsinki, John Kelly didn’t like his breakfast in Brussels, and a family of woodchucks ate th...
Earthjustice

The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning ‘The Lungs of South Asia’ - The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning ‘The Lungs of South Asia’ Sultana Kamal leads a coalition of environmental groups fighting to keep the...
DBC Green blog

Don't Water the Tree of Liberty with Hyperbole - Well, I figured this Facebook post from last night, copied and pasted verbatim below, would ruffle a few feathers. So far it has ruffled only a few. It ref...
Carl Beijer

A glossary of co-option - I have been asked whether there are myths 'on the Left'. Of course, inasmuch, precisely, as the Left is not revolution. Left-wing myth supervenes precise...
The Intellectual Saviors

Episode 228 - Trump Culturally Appropriates Hitler - As our fearless leader goes full blown traitor on a world stage, we step back and discuss cultural appropriation and the whiny left. Let’s join up to fi...
Pensito Review

NY Daily News Cover: ‘Open Treason’ -
Great American Satan

Cinema Day Shout-outs - Got to see Antman & the Wasp and also Sorry to Bother You today, very nice. No time for big reviews, just wanna give a couple of shout outs. Shout out to A...
LawFlog

Is Judge Kyle Hawthorne trying to cover up real estate fraud by his former law firm? - In my July 9, 2018 blog post, I tried to give 85th District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne the benefit of the doubt. It turns out he didn’t deserve it. I learn...
Better Texas Blog

Putting the 2018-2019 State Budget on More Solid Ground - This week Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that the revenue side of the 2018-2019 state budget – how much money Texas could spend on things – is much st...
Moron Majority

Trump Discusses “Abdication” With Putin - In their historic and unprecedented one-on-one meeting today in Helsinki, Donald Trump discussed his exit strategy with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. N...
Reading the Pictures

From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week - The Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week. The post From SCOTUS to NATO, the P...
Green News Network

Paint It Green (Eps 7 ) The Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Sheep Dog Saga Encor... -
xpostfactoid

No, CMS, ACA marketplace enrollment isn't up this year, and doesn't justify navigator funding cuts - To justify gutting funding for the navigators who help low income people enroll in health insurance subsidized by the ACA (Medicaid as well as marketplace)...
Dos Centavos

Calling Out Our Own: Following The Money - Now, let’s see what liberal freak-out happens next… For years, the Democratic attack against Republicans has had a mantra to convince the voters that one s...
Texas Moratorium Network

Chair of Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Joe Moody Endorses Abolishing the Death Penalty - The chair of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has endorsed ending the death penalty. He sent out an email today copied below that link...
WAWG Blog

Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice - RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean … Since – Brown v Board of Education in 1954 that caused Virgini...
Texans For Public Justice

Report Tracks Austin Campaign Money - FAULT LINES Campaign Contributions Expose Austin's Divide Austin's city elections were dominated by residents of the three most affluent and least racially...
Our Finite World

The world’s weird self-organizing economy - Why is it so difficult to make accurate long-term economic forecasts for the world economy? There are many separate countries involved, each with a self-or...
The Disorder Of Things

Race and the Undeserving Poor: Response - This is my response to the commentaries graciously provided by Sara Salem, Naeem Inayatullah, Luke De Noronha, Rick Saull, and Lisa Tilley, who also organi...
GreenSource DFW

Arlington activists put light pollution in spotlight - *The Arlington Conservation Council's 4th of July float drew attention to the Dark Sky movement.* *Photos by Paul Knudsen/ArlingtoNow.com.* July 11, 201...
PERRspectives

A Higher Patriotism - Just in time for the Fourth of July, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of patriotism. Its primary finding? For the first time in Gallup's 18...
New Progressive Alliance

Defining the New Progressive by Sondra Miller - Sondra Miller is one of the pillars of the New Progressive Alliance. Here she questions what a real progressive is. It is crucial to answer this question...
Red Wedge

Bad Dreams - Ring around the rosies, Pocket full o’ posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! Most everyone knows this nursery rhyme. Urban legend places its origin in th...
The Metaphor Project

How to frame it “American” Now: Summer 2018 - These days the political framing challenge we face is greater than any we’ve faced in a long time. While it is absolutely vital to avoid repeating the fram...
nonsite.org

Two Poems - In the office park he spoke of *the land.* To the loan officer, of *the land.* At the temp agency, *the land.*
Downwinders at Risk

THE CLEAN AIR FUND THAT TIME FORGOT - Over a decade ago $500,000 was collected from North Texas local governments to protect Texas air. It’s been sitting in a bank account ever since. Until rec...
Ramona's Voices

Hanging On To Our Independence on the Fourth Of July - This year, 2018, has been a trying one, but I don't have to tell you. This Independence Day feels like the last of the best for the country I love and have...
John Laurits

Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report - Media Hits North Korea w/ Flurry of Pro-War Articles All Citing Shady NBC Report Today is July 2nd 2018 and Googling “North Korea news” is likely to brin...
Pages of Victory

Canvasser - The young man who just left my house was clean, well groomed, wearing nice slacks and a Greg Abbot tee shirt. Barely had he identified himself when I launc...
Nathan Hevenstone

Turns Out Pixar’s Toxic - Note: Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual harassment and assault, especially for Cassandra Smolcic’s article linked below, which I am going to quote ...
St. Petersburg Independents

for a United Front against Gentrification - One small injustice. One of our friends — a working class white woman — was in trouble and called my wife Rose. Her landlord was trying to force her out o...
Modern Democracy

The Ideological Balance of the Supreme Court Hangs On The Midterm Elections— But Not Because Of Kennedy - Now that Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, everyone’s attention has turned to the question of who will fill his seat. Given Kennedy’s status a...
Pressthink

It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - That is my recommendation. The post It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency appeared first on PressThink.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Syria chemical attacks: Smoke and mirrors, truth and lies - A big thanks to Al Jazeera’s Listening Post for allowing Max Blumenthal and I a platform to challenge the mainstream narrative about the war in Syria. Chec...
Houston DSA

#AbolishICE & #AbolishDHS - Houston DSA is firmly committed to organizing to #AbolishICE and #AbolishDHS. We encourage our members and allies to participate in the following actions...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

EPA Proposed Rollbacks to Chemical Disaster Rule will Harm Communities - Last week, I, Stephanie Thomas, Houston Organizer for Public Citizen, joined members of community and environmental groups testifying in opposition to Po...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services

Plastics, Pipelines, Fracking & Our Planet June 20, 2018 (5CT/ 6MT/ 7CT/ 8ET) - Fracking doesn’t just fuel power plants, it also provides raw materials to the petrochemical industry. Producing plastics and other petrochemical products ...
Independent Thinker 2016

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

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

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

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