Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Greanville Post

Chris Hedges: “The Ruling Elite Has Lost All Legitimacy” - Jimmy Dore and Chris hedges discuss the events following the police murder of George Floyd, and where these mostly leaderless, spontaneist protests might b...
The Week

2 Buffalo police officers suspended without pay after shoving older protester, now hospitalized - Police out to enforce curfew in Buffalo, New York, shoved an older man Thursday evening, causing him to fall backward, hit his head on the pavement, Buff...
memeorandum

Biden Says About '10 to 15 Percent' of Americans Are 'Not Very Good People' (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times) - Reid J. Epstein / New York Times: *Biden Says About ‘10 to 15 Percent’ of Americans Are ‘Not Very Good People’* — Mr. Biden, speaking to black supporte...
Mediaite

WATCH: Graphic Video of Buffalo Cops Knocking Down Elderly Man Goes Viral After Police Say He ‘Tripped and Fell’ - Graphic video of Buffalo cops knocking down elderly man goes viral after police say he 'tripped and fell
The Hill

Elderly man appears unconscious, bleeding from ear after shoved to ground by Buffalo, NY police - An elderly man was shoved by a police officer in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, resulting in an apparent head injury that caused him to bleed from one of his ear...
Crooks and Liars

A One-Person Black Lives Matter Protest In Minnesota - A woman led her own one-person protest to support Black Lives Matter and her son posted the video on Twitter: My mom did her own march since none of her ...
Getaka

UK and EU clash over British share of Covid fund - EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier. | Francisco Seco/AP Photo LONDON — London and Brussels are embroiled in a new Brexit row over up to €300 million in U...
Raw Story

‘Outrageous and criminal behavior’: Internet blows up at graphic video of Buffalo Police pushing over an elderly man - On Thursday, footage emerged of police in Buffalo, New York pushing an elderly man to the ground, and refusing to help him as he lay bleeding profusely fro...
Informed Comment

No, Racism isn’t in the Past, and isn’t Rare or Aberrant: Stop Romanticizing - This painting by by Winslow Homer (1836 – 1910) is entitled “The Veteran in a New Field.” He painted it in 1865, not long after Confederate General Robert ...
Slate

The Story Behind 50 Cops in Riot Gear Arresting 14 Peaceful Protesters in Alabama - An interview with one of the 14 protesters.
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Appeals Court Rules Against Expanded Absentee Eligibility, Again - A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has permanently stayed an injunction expanding eligibility for voting by mail pending appeal...
Mediagazer

Activists from white nationalist group VDare posed as VICE Canada reporters while asking protesters' names during a livestream in DC; VICE condemns the stunt (Haven Orecchio-Egresitz/Insider) - Haven Orecchio-Egresitz / Insider: *Activists from white nationalist group VDare posed as VICE Canada reporters while asking protesters' names during a l...
Mother Jones

Here’s Graphic Video of Buffalo Cops Shoving a Protester They Say “Tripped and Fell” - A man protesting police violence today in Buffalo, New York, in defiance of curfew was violently pushed to the ground by officers, who walked over his blee...
Courthouse News

Trump Signs Order Waiving Environmental Protections - Citing the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that waives key environmental requi...
Dissident Voice

On Strawmen and Racism - Paul Craig Roberts, a staunch opponent of police brutality in his writings, seeks to deny white racism or argue that we are all racist. In a recent article...
OffGuardian

Medical Martial Law: Liberalism’s Final Capitulation - The cause of death for the liberal class, as Chris Hedges tells us, was gullibility. Liberals were foolish enough to believe that they could moderate capit...
Brad Blog

The 'Antifa' Protester Myth and the Truth About Trump's Voter Fraud Crimes: 'BradCast' 6/4/2020 - The good news for today's BradCast is that, thanks to so much breaking news on yesterday's show, we've got at least one encouraging new piece of news on a ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Dailyish Last Nightly (Not Funny) - Ek’s right. Late night isn’t really funny anymore. Hasn’t been for too long. But the ridicule and social satire is an important part of history. It shines ...
Liberation News

Morocco mourns socialist leader Abderrahmane Youssoufi - [image: Abderrahmane El Youssoufi. Liberation screen grab of Ina Politique video.] [image: Abderrahmane El Youssoufi. Liberation screen grab of Ina Politiq...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

'Listen to the oppressed': protesters stay the course as cities ease curfews - Demonstrations and memorials continue to honor George Floyd as cities from Los Angeles to Washington DC scrap restrictions Protesters took to the streets...
Caitlin Johnstone

Smartphone Cameras Are The Windows Into Society’s Soul - If the eyes are the windows to the soul, as they say, then smartphone cameras are the windows to the soul of our society. In ages past we knew hardly anyth...
Alternet

Monuments to America’s racist history are getting toppled amid mass protests - Monuments celebrating the nation’s racist history are coming down in several states after being targeted by protesters over the past week. On Wednesday, th...
Portside

Tidbits - June 4, 2020 - Reader Comments: George Floyd's final words; Protests for George; against police brutality, against massive militarized police, against systemic racism and white supremacy; against Trump; nature of police unions; more... - Tidbits - June 4, 2020 - Reader Comments: George Floyd's final words; Protests for George; against police brutality, against massive militarized police, ag...
OpEd News

The "Lockdown" Has Turned America Into a Despotic Cash-Strapped Basket-Case - Every sector of the economy is contracting and every economic indicator is pointing down. According to economist Nouriel Roubini, the country is headed tow...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Tennessee State Court Holds that, Given COVID-19, State Constitution Requires Offering Any Voter The Opportunity to Vote by Absentee Ballot in Upcoming Election - You can find the opinion here. We will see if the state appeals. One interesting aspect of the opinion is the discussion of the supposed antifraud benefits...
Digby's Hullabaloo

Justice for Trumpies - Greg Sargent observed It’s almost too perfect that President Trump has now hinted at a pardon for Roger Stone far more explicitly than he ever has before —...
Salon.com

Agent testifies alleged shooter used racial slur while Ahmaud Arbery was dying on the ground - Prosecutors told the court they would show Arbery was “chased, hunted down and ultimately executed” by vigilantes
The Ghion Journal

A Reflection in a Time of Turmoil - It’s been more than six months since I last wrote an article, a hiatus that was induced by the continued social stratification of America and the ethnic ...
Progrexas

Austin city leaders and residents criticize police officers’ use of force during demonstrations against brutality - Police look on demonstrators gathered outside Austin Police headquarters for another night of protest against police violence towards people of color on ...
Dallas Observer

Chief Hall Again Defends DPD Actions On Bridge, Declines to Charge Protesters - More than 600 protesters penned in and arrested by Dallas Police Department officers during an otherwise peaceful protest Monday night will not be charged ...
Rivard Report

Top City Health Official: Protesters Should Get Tested for Coronavirus - [image: Protesters in the local demonstrations against police brutality raise their fists in front of the Bexar County Courthouse on Tuesday night.] The r...
Texas Environmental News

Proposed pipe plant met with opposition in Gunter - A proposed pipe plant in Gunter is being met with some oppositon. AmeriTex, a company that makes concrete pipes and [...] The post Proposed pipe plant me...
The Verge

LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism - Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The comments came during a town hall meeting amid the George Floyd protests On Wednesday, LinkedIn hosted a tow...
Daily Dot

No, Twitter isn’t deliberately linking the word ‘racist’ to Trump - Trump supporters are accusing the platform of bias, pointing to the link as proof. The post No, Twitter isn’t deliberately linking the word ‘racist’ to ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Bomb Threat Issued in Birmingham as Neo-Confederates React to Monument Removal - Amid ongoing protests against police brutality spurred by the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, cities from Richmond to Tampa are removing divis...
NPR's Health Shots

Authors Retract Hydroxychloroquine Study, Citing Concern Over Data - A paper suggesting hydroxychloroquine increases the risk of death for patients with COVID-19 has been retracted by three of its authors because they were n...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Coronavirus Camp Classic 5 - 'Death Becomes Her' - We need to keep our sanity during this madness with the coronavirus and other vestiges of the Trump Administration. Even in the midst of one of the bigge...
Political Wire

White House Turns Into a Fortress - “The security perimeter around the White House keeps expanding. Tall black fencing is going up seemingly by the hour. Armed guards and sharpshooters and co...
Down With Tyranny!

Is Biden Turning Over A New Leaf? Have The Blinders Really Been Taken Off? - I've hated Biden since the 1970s when he switched parties, called himself a Democrat and rode his slick pandering to anti-busing racists in the Delaware ...
The Root

Audio Released in the Police Shooting of Dion Johnson - Protests have raged across the country in righteous outrage at the police killing of George Floyd. In Phoenix, protests have been held not only in honor ...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
Axios

Trump says he will campaign against Lisa Murkowski after her support for Mattis - President Trump tweeted on Thursday that he would endorse "any candidate" with a pulse who runs against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). *Driving the new...
Angry Bear

Kamala Harris on Lynching in The Senate - The YouTube is self explanatory. I also believe she would make a great vice president who would rescue Biden from the gaffes he makes time after time. She ...
Ballot Access News

Michigan Natural Law Party Appears to Have Nominated Rocky De La Fuente for President - Rocky De La Fuente is the presidential nominee of the Alliance Party. According to the Alliance Party’s June newsletter, the ballot-qualified Natural Law P...
SCOTUSblog

Sotomayor blocks Ohio prisoner release plan for now - [image: Sotomayor blocks Ohio prisoner release plan for now]Last week the Supreme Court rejected a request by the federal government to temporarily block...
Vox

A Silicon Valley fundraiser for Joe Biden raised $4 million in one Zoom call - [image: Joe Biden appears on a computer screen.] Joe Biden is hosting fundraisers over Zoom these days. | The Washington Post via Getty Images It was a pe...
Wolf Street

HSBC Embraces China’s Crackdown on Hong Kong, Goes All-In on Asia Pivot - Beijing squeezes, and HSBC knows where it makes most of its money. Standard Chartered, another UK bank, did the same.
slacktivist

Redeeming the Nasty 19s - "This fellow came here as an alien, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." That's what the mob says in Genesis 19 an...
The NM Political Report

DOH: 110 more cases at Otero County Prison Facility; 218 in state overall, 8 additional deaths - [image: DOH: 110 more cases at Otero County Prison Facility; 218 in state overall, 8 additional deaths] The state Department of Health announced Thursday a...
INSIDER - politics news

A protester shared her experience on TikTok after being shot in the face with a rubber bullet - [image: Protestor] - Zeelee Segura attended a peaceful protest in San Diego, California, where she marched and chanted along with other protesters...
Reform Austin

Texas Judges Urged to Delay Eviction Cases - The start of another month has many Texans who are struggling during the pandemic wondering if an eviction notice is coming. Harris County Judge Lina Hi...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

More Military Deployment and Terrorism Investigations are an Outrageous Response to Black Pain, Grief, and Anger - Across the country, people are protesting police brutality and systemic racism. They are relentlessly demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,...
VICE

There's Something Weird About Cuomo Asking Protesters to Get COVID Tests - Protesters are risking infection, but the vast majority of them are in a city where anyone can already get tested for any reason (or no reason at all).
Houston Public Media

Special Edition: COVID-19, How To Talk To Kids About Racism, Reflection on George Floyd March (June 4, 2020) - An epidemiologist shares updates on COVID-19; a psychologist discusses how to talk to kids about racism; and a Houstonian recalls a moment of unity between...
Talking Points Memo

Trump Cancels Planned Weekend Stay At New Jersey Golf Club - President Trump will no longer hit the links this weekend. The President has called off to his scheduled weekend stay...
Shadowproof

Attempts By Officials To Blame ‘Outside Agitators’ For George Floyd Protests Failed - Efforts by officials to blame "outside agitators" for looting, vandalism, and arson during the George Floyd protests flopped. The post Attempts By Offici...
Editor & Publisher

Thanks to COVID-19, Local News Will Never be the Same. And It Shouldn’t Be - The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our routines, transformed our social interactions and redefined our relationships. Yet, as odd as it
In These Times

Trump’s Answer to Structural Racism? Police State Fascism. - The confluence of a ferociously deadly pandemic, mass unemployment, the police murder of George Floyd and surging authoritarianism is plunging the United...
The Appeal

Coronavirus In Jails And Prisons - *Weeks before the first reported cases of COVID-19 in prisons and jails, correctional healthcare experts warned that all the worst aspects of the U.S. cr...
The Texas Signal

From slavery to police brutality, chronicling Texas’ history of racial oppression - Over the past week, protests and calls for racial justice have swept the nation. While the proximate cause of this nationwide unrest is the killing of Ge...
The Intercept

Brooklyn Man Was Arrested for Curfew Violation. The FBI Interrogated Him About His Political Beliefs. - After Trump’s assertion that anti-fascists are terrorists, FBI agents are conducting interviews with arrested protesters about their political beliefs. ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Council Votes to Spend Biggest Share of Federal COVID-19 Funds on Workforce Training - In a resounding a win for COPS/Metro Alliance, San Antonio City Council voted Thursday to allocate $75 million in its federal coronavirus recovery funds t...
Crooked Media

“Your President of Lawlessness and Disorder.” - The post “Your President of Lawlessness and Disorder.” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A Threat to the Constitution - Jeffrey Goldberg @ The Atlantic: James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution. Josh Feldman @ Mediaite: Jesse Watt...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Politics Podcast: What History Can And Can’t Teach Us About Today’s Protests - The comparisons of today’s anti-police violence protests to the protests of the 1960s come easy, but they don’t paint a full picture. In this installment o...
Texas Monthly

The Hero Myth of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo - He has become a national celebrity for publicly supporting the George Floyd protests. But Acevedo’s record is decidedly less progressive than his rhetori...
Latino Rebels

Stranded Venezuelans Build Camp in Colombia Amid Pandemic - BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Out of work, broke and left with few good options during the pandemic, a growing number of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia have set...
Ring of Fire

NYPD Caught Hiding Their Badge Numbers To Avoid Accountability - New York police officers have been covering and obscuring their badge numbers during this week’s protest, a direct violation of their own policies. Witho...
Progressive.org

Shut Down the Death Traps - COVID-19 is setting people with disabilities back—more than they already were.
Frontloading HQ

2020 Democratic Delegate Allocation: LOUISIANA - *LOUISIANA* *Election type:* primary *Date: *July 11 [April 4 originally and *then June 20*] *Number of delegates:* 61 [12 at-large, 7 PLEOs, 35 congres...
Daily Cartoonist

JD Crowe Wins 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Award - The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justic...
ProPublica

ProPublica Wins RFK Human Rights Journalism Award for Border Patrol Coverage - by ProPublica The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights announced Thursday that ProPublica’s “Inside the Border Patrol” series won the RFK...
The Mind Unleashed

A Rare ‘Strawberry Full Moon Eclipse’ Is Happening on Friday: What You Need to Know - We are in for a major spectacle this Friday as we’ll be treated to June’s full “Strawberry Moon” in all of its glory.
First Draft

Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Elvis Presley meets Hank Williams, Frank Sinatra, & Bruce Springsteen.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Downtown Dallas Inc. Offers Grants to Help Fund Storefront Repairs - Downtown Dallas businesses battling through the repercussions of COVID-19 are now dealing with another blowing issue: broken windows and chairs, graffiti...
BillMoyers.com

The Pentagon Says No - Trump announced he would call in active-duty troops to “dominate” the streets.But his announcement sparked a widespread and concerted push back by Americ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

U.S. Protests Incite Racist Words, Mockery from Moscow - There are no records of rapes in the Minneapolis protests over the death of George Floyd, and only one person died. The claim is consistent with the negati...
Houston Press

Yes, There are Already COVID-19 Video Games - One of the great things about the massive indie game scene is that it’s possible to get video games based on real-world events as they are happening. Grant...
Living Blue in Texas

Baytown Police Have a Long History With Racism and Police Brutality - Shocking video from Monday. This video has been making the rounds on social media. It... The post Baytown Police Have a Long History With Racism and Poli...
Dandelion Salad

If The Capitalist State Isn’t Overthrown, Its Grip Will Tighten, by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, June 3, 2020 June 4, 2020 The ruling class has more class consciousness th...
Rewire

Pride Online: How Queer Communities Can Celebrate Under Quarantine This Year - Digital communities have long served as safe havens for queer people in isolation. The post Pride Online: How Queer Communities Can Celebrate Under Quara...
Mondoweiss

Canada’s record on Israel should disqualify it from a Security Council seat - The Trudeau government has been campaigning aggressively for a seat on the Security Council, but its bid to win a place on the United Nations’ most powerfu...
Field Negro

It's here. - - [image: Image result for dystopian lincoln memorial images] The fascism we all feared.
Southeast Texas Record

Bexar County snubs proposed opioid settlement - SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County, which hopes to reap $1 billion in damages from its opioid lawsuit, would rather take its chances in court than receive around...
Sludge

Verizon and AT&T Partner With Pro-Police Militarization Lobbying Group - As protesters outraged over police killings of black people were met with police violence, AT&T took to Twitter on Sunday to say that the company’s “advoca...
Mahablog

Mattis to Military: Don’t Obey Trump’s Illegal Orders - Gen. James Mattis’s public rebuke of Trump, published yesterday at The Atlantic, was extraordinary and possibly unprecedented. It also has huge implication...
WhoWhatWhy

Images From the Great Depression - Reading Time: 5 minutes A collection of paintings and prints from the Great Depression. Images from the gorgeous to the grim, all fascinating. Will we se...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/4/2020 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
Political Garbage Chute

Nation’s Guns Afraid They’re Getting a Bad Reputation from Trigger-Happy Cops - A recent poll has shown that 87% of the guns surveyed in the United States are afraid that their association ... The post Nation’s Guns Afraid They’re Ge...
Popular Resistance

Millions Of Tenants Are Ready For A Rent Strike Revolution - Calls to “cancel rent” are catching fire. First came a couple of tweets on Twitter. Then progressive firebrands like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cort...
EgbertoWillies.com

Germany’s Angela Merkel saving her country from depression and Trump & his GOP take us there. - [image: Angela Merkel] While Donald Trump is doing absolutely nothing to mitigate unemployment, people losing insurance, people starving, and much more, An...
Church and State

Bishop: Women should skip college so they are not smarter than their husbands - Bishop Edir Macedo claims that women should not be allowed to go to college because if they do they will be smarter than their husbands.
emptywheel

If the Steele Dossier Is Disinformation, Republicans Have Become Willful Participants in the Operation - There's a high likelihood that one reason Russia planted disinformation in the Steele dossier was to get the Republicans to act exactly the way they have...
Daily Howler

Ingraham tattles on The Lancet! - *THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2020The things they hear while we don't:* What is the nature of tribalized news? Consider the Lancet study. Also, consider the study i...
Pages of Victory

Seeking Real Solutions - Bernie Sanders is the most realistic politician I have read concerning the protests. He wrote: Amend federal civil rights laws to allow more effective pro...
Common Dreams

A Fearsome Walk In the Park - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Dorf on Law

Are Churches Like Restaurants? Like Political Rallies? If So, Why Isn't Peyote Like Wine?: The Comparator Problem In Religious Discrimination Cases - *by Michael C. Dorf* In my essay on Tuesday, I criticized the dissenting Justices in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom for seeming to misunders...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

God is the Author of Peace, Not Confusion: Trump’s Bible photo op splits white evangelical loyalists into two camps - *Was Trump's holding of the Bible this week a "blow against evil," or a ghastly expression of state power in front of St. John's Episcopal Church—after ha...
Lawfare

Trump Revokes Hong Kong’s Special Status; China Pushes to Win Global Tech Race - President Trump, joined by senior Cabinet members, announces he will revoke Hong Kong’s special status and terminate U.S. relations with the World Health...
Novara Media

Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse - Dwayne Francis was racially profiled and detained by police in London last month, while on his way to work in a secondary school. “The rhetoric is always t...
ROAR Magazine

Solidarity means dismantling the system everywhere - International solidarity is an important and necessary step in dismantling the institutions of racist state violence, not only in the US, but across the wo...
Strategic Culture Foundation

How the Cold War, Which Never Actually Stopped, Actually Started - Finally, there’s history replacing all the myths about recent ‘history’
Morning Consult

Why We Buy When the Going Gets Tough - The post Why We Buy When the Going Gets Tough appeared first on Morning Consult.
Dissent Magazine

Hot & Bothered: Why Defunding the Police is Key to a Just Transition, with J. Mijin Cha - What will it take for the climate movement to move beyond statements of solidarity and advance a strategy of targeted divestment from racist institutions...
MintPress News

Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: Israeli Attempts to Play Both the US and China are Backfiring - Between Washington’s precise demands to Israel to keep Beijing at bay, and the latter’s aggressive ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy, Israel is facing a stark cho...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: Bishop Flores gives his view on ‘Trump with bible’ event - BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Bishop Daniel E. Flores has given his view on President Trump’s decision to pose for photos in front of a boarded up church near the...
Moon of Alabama

Open Thread 2020-44 - News & views ...
Eater Houston

New Indian Restaurant Musaafer Forced to Close Temporarily After Worker Contracts COVID-19 - Musaafer at the Galleria | Musaafer [Official Photo] The Galleria eatery was only open for two weeks About two weeks following its long-awaited debut at...
Claytoonz

Who Dat Say What? - Since New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees seems to be having a little trouble understanding things at the moment, let me put this in a way he can und...
Ian Welsh

Who Gets to Be Violent and Why? - The people who need to a good shit-kicking are most politicians, CEOs, and senior civilians. Well, and cops, obviously. And they need to know the cops can’...
Bonddad

Jobless claims: “less awful” trend mainly continues - for now - * - by New Deal democrat* First of all, I have a new post up at Seeking Alpha. The monthly May data has started to come in, giving us our first comparable...
Democracy Now!

Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor Was Killed by Police in March. Why Haven't the Officers Faced Charges? - We go to Louisville, where protesters are calling for charges against the officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old African America...
The Progressive Wing

6/4 News Roundup and Open Thread - Let’s start with Holly Otterbein’s article in Politico about the explosion of tensions among Bernie’s former staffers. It’s sad and I’m glad that Nina is s...
The Conversation

Where are the African American leaders? - Sweeping changes were possible in the past because black leaders were willing to risk their lives and call out problems before they became crises.
Dos Centavos

Where Is Houston on Police Reform? - There is a campaign for police reform called 8CantWait. They list eight reforms to police policy that could reduce police violence if fully put into place....
Space City Weather

With Cristobal likely headed east, Houston to feel the heat - Good morning. We’re approaching the longest day of the year—June 20—but we’ve already reached the earliest sunrise of the calendar year for Houston. From J...
21st Century Wire

‘Protest’ Looters Ransack Pharmacy, Leaving Vulnerable Without Medications - *21WIRE* | In the name of 'social justice', violent street mobs continue to rob, loot and burn local businesses across the country.
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, You Only Get What You're Organized to Take - In the summer of 1995, when I was 18, I started visiting Tent City, a temporary encampment in an abandoned lot in northeast Philadelphia.
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 6/4/2020 - Top legal news includes: Protesters allege unfair treatment as HPD says 200 arrested at march (Chron subsc); Almost all Texas businesses are allowed to ope...
Two Party Opera

Kennedy Addresses the Class of 2020 -
Duffel Blog

Warrant Officer confuses unit by showing up for PT - [image: Warrant Officer confuses unit by showing up for PT] SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Members of the 470th Military Intelligence Brigade at Fort Sam Houston ha...
Web of Debt

When Profits and Politics Drive Science: Rushing a Vaccine to Market for a Vanishing Virus - More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death rate is ...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

BACKING DOWN - Another ill-considered threat that Trump has to withdrawhttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/500858-trump-shifting-on-threat-to-deploy-troops-reportT...
The AltWorld

The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts An Ugly Face On The Empire - Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and […] The post The Establishment Onl...
Progressives Chat

‘The Treason of the Ruling Class’ - On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, *The Jimmy Dore Show* welcomed guest *Chris Hedges*. Jimmy Dore mentioned Hedges’s new piece, in *Common Dreams*, and here i...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Looters! - Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps. I usually post my cartoons on Patreon a week or two (or more!) before ...
Texas Observer

Why Is APD Responding to Mental Health Crises like Violent Crimes? - Why Is APD Responding to Mental Health Crises like Violent Crimes? The police officer who shot Mike Ramos was involved in the death of neuroscientist Mau...
Counterpunch

I Remember the Lynchings of the 60s. They’re Still Happening - I was naive until I wasn’t. At just 18, the day after I graduated from high school, I drove from Boston to Atlanta to work with the Student Nonviolent Co...
Grist

US states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest - Recent years have seen unprecedented racial and environmental justice protests — and an unprecedented state response.
jobsanger

A Bogus Concept -
World Socialist Web Site

Nearly half a million health care workers worldwide infected with coronavirus - The International Council of Nurses reports that 600 nurses have died in the COVID-19 pandemic and estimates that 450,000 health care workers of all kinds ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Veepstakes: Handicapping Biden’s Choices - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Joe Biden should not be in a rush to name his vice presidential pick. Circumstances may change his list of contenders — and ...
Antiwar.com

A Perfect Storm - "These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, bu...
Workers World

PDF of June 4 issue - [image: PDF of June 4 issue] Download 12-page PDF here. Not a riot — REBELLION. Editorial: Defend resisters! Defend the uprising! Photos across U.S.; worke...
Land Destroyer

The COVID-19 Chronicles: Western Europe - *June 4, 2020* (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - Western Europe (we'll define as France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and Austria) shows how regions of the worl...
The Contributor

Why Police Reform Is Not Enough - News Image: The focus on reforms like improved training doesn’t solve racially biased policing. That’s because of the nature of policing itself. Category:...
Duck of Minerva

Dear Civ-Mil Community: The (Retired) Generals Are Speaking & We Should Listen - This is a guest post by Carrie A. Lee, an Assistant Professor at the US Air War College. The opinions and recommendations offered in this piece are those o...
Liberal America

Amid Pandemic, NY Gov. Cuomo Grants Immunity to the Healthcare Lobby - A month ago, as New York became the national coronavirus/COVID-19 epicenter, many were hailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero. Looking and sounding far more...
The Grayzone

Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective wins legal victory in face of hostile Obama-appointed judge & govt prosecution - The sentencing of the final four from the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective marked another defeat for Juan Guaidó and his… The post Venezuelan Emb...
Socialist Alternative

Horrific Conditions as COVID Spreads Through Meatpacking - The Food and Environment Reporting Network reports that as of June 2, “at least 261 meatpacking and food processing plants and 36 farms and production faci...
epic.org

EPIC Supports the Fight Against Systemic Oppression - The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor remind us that the needle has not moved on systemic issues of racism and police brutal...
DeSmogBlog

As Protests Rage Over George Floyd’s Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice - [image: Black Lives Matter Rally in Eugene, Oregon, May 31, 2020] Read time: 11 mins *By Ilana Cohen, Evelyn Nieves, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, and James...
Krebs on Security

Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2 Billion - An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian...
Texas Freedom Network

Does Saving Lives Advance Tyranny? Republican Leaders in Texas Think So - With more than 100,000 Americans already dead in the COVID-19 pandemic, new polling confirms that a substantial majority of Americans say controlling the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Racists Ain’t Safe in the Dirty South T-Shirts Now Available. - These T-Shirts are now available for online pre-purchase at our shop website here http://screwstonafc.org/product/racists-aint-safe-in-the-dirty-south-shir...
Rude Pundit

George Floyd Protests and Trump's Walk of Shame - Like many of you, I watched it happen on Monday when cops, military police, and other law enforcement advanced on a group of about 1000 peaceful protesters...
Project Censored

Robin Andersen and Eleanor Goldfield - Mickey’s first guest this week is media scholar Robin Andersen, who explains the misleading consequences of portraying the coronavirus crisis as a “war;...
Lowering the Bar

Saudi Divorce Rate Spikes During Lockdown; Wives Reportedly Learning of “Secret Marriages” - Another casualty of the coronavirus. Related Stories - Wearing Masks: Legally Required, but Also Illegal
Independent Political Report

Jim Rex: Statement from the Alliance Party ‘Together, We Can Do This’ - *Alliance Party national chairman Jim Rex sent out the following statement today on George Floyd, an African American who died as a Minneapolis police of...
The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia

Democratic Party Chairwoman Holguin's Silence is Shameful - A friend of mine that is supporting Iliana Holguin posted on his page recently that she “will put respect and integrity back into that District and El Paso...
Freethought Now

James Baldwin was brilliant on religion, too - James Baldwin is frequently quoted during the racial unrest. Here’s something few people know: Baldwin was a preacher before he renounced religion.
Bracing Views

Whose Law, Whose Order? - W.J. Astore Along with being a self-styled wartime president (in a totally incompetent attempt to contain COVID-19 that has cost tens of thousands of Ameri...
Ecosophia

In the Company of Angels - So far in our exploration of the hidden history of American magic, we’ve talked mostly about people whose place in this nation’s history has been forgott...
Bayou Brief

Rambling On My Mind - Peter Athas rambles on about protests, the pandemic, and Picvocate columnist Dan Fagan. The post Rambling On My Mind appeared first on Bayou Brief.
Reading the Pictures

Documenting a Protest Has Never Been More Challenging - This week has been unusually difficult for photographers who are trying to cover the George Floyd protests. Essay and images by photographer Alan Chin. T...
BEYONDbones

June Star Blog - Mercury continues an excellent apparition for the first half of June. Look for it low in the sky at dusk, over the point of sunset. Mercury is highest Ju...
Innocence Project

What You Should Know About Fred Freeman, Wrongfully Convicted in Michigan - Fredrick Freeman was convicted of murder in 1987 and given a life sentence without possibility of parole — but at the time of the crime, Freeman was more...
Crooked Timber

The Politics of Disorder - The wave of protest and unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by the police shows little sign of abating just yet. Unrest nationwide is, if anything...
Equality Texas

Equality is Good for Business - A first-of-its-kind study by renowned Texas economist Dr. Ray Perryman, commissioned by the business coalition Texas Competes (a project of Equality Texas)...
Our Finite World

Increased Violence Reflects an Energy Problem - Why are we seeing so much violence recently? One explanation is that people are sympathizing with those in the Minneapolis area who are upset at the death ...
Texas Standard

VA Officials Start Process Of Removing Swastika Gravestones In San Antonio Cemetery - The graves are those of German prisoners of war who dies in the United States.
Rallblog

Life During COVID-19 - The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian term for 40 days because that was the longest time that people were believed to be able to withstand lockdow...
See You In 2020

If The Capitalist State Isn’t Overthrown, Its Grip Will Keep Tightening - The ruling class has more class consciousness than the lower classes do. They’re the ones who have to manage the relationship between the classes, and to ...
Robert Reich

Trump’s Presidency is Over - You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J....
Progressives Everywhere

America Has Always Been At War With Itself. Now, Even the Privileged Are Aware Of It. - It’s hard to believe, but last week began with a major civil rights victory. Late last Sunday, a judge in Florida ruled again that the Jim Crow poll tax ...
Louis Proyect

Tommaso - Opening as virtual cinema on June 5th, “Tommaso” is the greatest film by an American director I have seen since “First Reformed” in 2017. Like Paul Schrade...
Debunking Christianity

I Unequivocally Without Qualification Condemn Systematic Institutional Racism! - My wife and I protested peacefully in Fort Wayne, Indiana, over the murder of George Floyd. I unequivocally without qualification condemn systematic insti...
Democracy Chronicles

Shock as Trump becomes ‘President of Law and Order’, threatening martial law in response to protests over Police Murder of George Floyd - Shock as Trump instead of calming rising tensions triggered by police murder of George Floyd said he is "president of law and order" and would declare mart...
Grits for Breakfast

Did a Houston cop set up George Floyd years before Minnesota cops killed him? How militarized policing escalated protests; 50 years of ignoring 'accumulated grievances,' and other stories - It's been a crazy few days for those of us who work on criminal-justice reform. The news right now is filled with analysis and accounts of all the protests...
Media Lens

Sexual Alchemy – Part 1: Love, Lust And The Head-Trapped Left - An Englishman never quite gets over the embarrassment of having a body. There he is, a perfectly respectable, civilised head, required to hug and be kissed...
Downwinders at Risk

Dallas City Hall Shows Concern Over Joppa Air Quality – By Putting New Air Monitor 3 Miles From Joppa - Last Wednesday Dallas City Hall rejected pleas from Southern Dallas residents and supporters to establish an Environmental Health Commission as part of its...
LareDOS

Utilities Director Riazul Mia, City Attorney Kristina Hale named Assistant City managers - Eads: “We’ve assembled a great team”
Environment Texas

Greener Together Writing Contest Winners - Monday, June 1, 2020 Thank you to everyone who participated in the Greener Together writing contest! We are pleased to announce the winners.
The Rag Blog

Jonah Raskin : ANALYSIS | Rioting reflections, again - ‘A riot is the language of the unheard.’ — Martin Luther King By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | June 1, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif — I have not actually been...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Sovereign Lovestream Ep.10 Interracial Relationships - Wow, this episode was wild. Some folks with racial prejudices tried to hijack the stream, but in the end it turned into a productive dialog! We discussed...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

I Voted - Bringing up the coffee and morning paper last Sunday morning, I caught about 15 seconds of MSNBC on the bedroom TV. Some “contributing analyst” on the morn...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2020 - The pandemic has made everyplace crazy; but Walmart was crazy long before it, and the shootings happening every month are hardly slowing down, with at l...
Edinburg Politics

Former Rep. Verónica Gonzáles, D-McAllen, among 24 renowned area residents who have applied for one of seven vacant powerful positions on the Board of Directors for the Edinburg EDC - Former Rep. Verónica Gonzáles, D-McAllen, is among24 renowned area residents who have applied for one of seven vacant powerful positions on the Board of Di...
Seeing the Forest

Flag of Treason -
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Minneapolis Putsch - Well, it looks like the Resistance’s long-anticipated “Second Civil War” has finally begun … more or less exactly on cue. Rioting has broken out across the...
LawFlog

New FOIA lawsuit seeks FBI records about Seth Rich - This morning I filed a federal lawsuit in Sherman, Texas to force the FBI to release records about murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Ric...
Eclectablog

A future worth making – with special guest communications specialist Anat Shenker-Osorio - Anat Shenker-Osorio on Twitter: @anatosaurus Listen to the essential Words to Win By podcast HERE. https://twitter.com/anatosaurus/status/12591972292957921...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Sarah Eckhardt - I have one more interview to present for the July 14 special election in SD14. As noted, there are six candidates running to succeed Kirk Watson, but reall...
Campaign for America's Future

How Immunity for Cops and Facebook Kills Americans - When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social m...
Greg Palast

LAPD: “You will be fired upon” & Floyd Eyewitness - The cop raised his weapon shouting, "Forty millimeter up! Curfew! YOU WILL BE FIRED UPON." A .40 is the standard caliber bullet used by the Los Angeles p...
Trivial Knot

I read popular physics: Quantum Steampunk - This is an entry in my series where I read physics articles in Scientific American, and provide my weary perspective as a former physicist. Today I’ll be d...
News Junkie

Climate Crisis, Pandemics and Bad Governance: Humanity’s Existential Threats - On the menu: tornado with COVID-19 on the side Since I started News Junkie Post, eleven years ago, I have, as a rule, avoided the first person narrative. I...
Stinque

Summer is Coming - “Ok,” the post began, “I need to say that this is the most ASININE thing I’ve seen yet.” The caps were not ironic. More were to follow, and quickly. “Went ...
The Militant

FBI’s politically partisan frame-up of Michael Flynn dangerous for workers - Long-suppressed evidence showing the FBI framed up President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was revealed April 29. The expos...
Bud Kennedy

Texas Democrats meet this week, but it’s all online: ‘At least the drinks are cheaper’ - Texas Democrats really need a strong state convention this week. As usual, they probably won’t get one. Just when they need to show how they would lead Tex...
Reveal

Home school - Online learning works only if you can get online. We explore why tens of thousands of families are caught on the wrong side of the digital divide. The po...
The Texas CBD Blog

TEXAS HEMP RULES – VIDEO AND TEXT: HOW TO COMMENT (DUE JUNE 8, 2020) - This is a quick video on how to comment on the Texas Hemp Rules. The state of Texas is trying to ban the manufacture, processing, distribution, or retail s...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Q&A: Matt DeRienzo on his vision for Public Integrity - For our Q&A this week, we’ve got something special: we’re talking to our brand-new Editor-in-Chief Matt DeRienzo, who has been leading and transforming n...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

Harry's Top Ten albums 2000-2018 - I have written before about Harry's lists like his Top Ten albums lists that he would send out to us all at the end of each year. From the days of listenin...
Washington Babylon

Lazy Friday Playlist: In Memory of George Floyd-#BlackLivesMatter - [image: Lazy Friday Playlist: In Memory of George Floyd-#BlackLivesMatter] *Someday hopefully we will get to a point where I can stop impulsively desiring ...
Earthworks

Pearl Award for Environmental Health, Justice and Sustainability - I first met with Ann Cornell and the Cornell Douglas Foundation when I was still a relatively new Executive Director. I was excited to share Earthworks’ ...
WAWG Blog

What The Greatest Generation Can Teach Us About Defeating Today’s Totalitarianism - Since WWII, the enemy of the United States has grown from within from a seed left over from that time. We must all unite as The Greatest Generation did t...
DBC Green

Just As Every Cop Is a Criminal... - I'm feeling positively ill—and at a loss for words because words aren't sufficient to express the feelings—about the recent extra-judicial killings of blac...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Police brutality explained - Why do police keep killing black people? pic.twitter.com/QyusocnKoC — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) May 26, 2020
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Contact Tracing Coronavirus with the Bubble System - As we move into a new phase of this pandemic, we must be thoughtful, creative, and effective with contact tracing. Contact tracing allows us to quickly ide...
Latino Decisions

NEW POLL: Latinos are tired of Trump and ready for a real leader - By Priorities USA, Latino Victory Fund & Latino Decisions Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to woo Latino voters to support his reelection in...
Political Dig

Biden Opens Up 5-Point Lead Over Trump In Minnesota: Poll - Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a five-point lead over President Donald Trump in Minnesota, according to a new Star Tribune-MPR News-KARE 11 ...
nonsite.org

Nineteen Gnomic Stanzas - A bison will savor a dust wallow. His motto is “Anything goes.” Have a look at the ants in the closet eating your clothes.
Avedon's Sideshow

Staring down this broken land - "FBI 'mistakenly reveals Saudi official linked' to 9/11 attackers: *Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by famili...
Countercurrents

Education in the time of Pandemic - The coronavirus pandemic is seen as a ‘useful crisis’ in which to transform the economy. Yet the university system has not received any such ‘stimulus’ o...
Echidne of the Snakes

More Covid-19 Era Thoughts: On Gender Roles, The Role Of The Media And Trump's Masks - 1. I am not a fan of rigid gender/sex roles, because they are one of the main channels which have historically been used to keep women second-class citiz...
Better Texas Blog

It’s Time to Rebuild Child Care in Texas - As a working mother in Austin, I navigated child care waitlists (sometimes years long), paid 20% of my net salary towards daycare tuition (for 7 years), ...
The Reality-Based Community

Benediction - Yesterday would have been Mark’s 69th birthday. I don’t have any eulogistic sound-bites to offer; he was too important to me for that. And somehow, every t...
News Taco

Understanding why Latinos are so hard hit by Covid-19 - (CNN) — Two months into the coronavirus crisis, with many Americans clamoring for a return to business as usual, Latinos are still mourning the terrible ...
PERRspectives

You Can't Put a Mask on My Liberty - Today I took a short break from my home Coronavirus lockdown to restock at a nearby grocery store. Heeding the advice of friends, I first made sure I was p...
Bad Attitudes

Today's Eruptionâ€¦ - â€¦from the stable's genius: Q: What about Obamaâ€™s comment? Obamaâ€™s comment at the graduation ceremony (inaudible). THE PRESIDENT: I didnâ€™t hear i...
Chicken Fried Politics

4 Southern U.S. House Democrats in Trump seats break with party on coronavirus vote - Georgia’s Lucy McBath is only Southern Democrat in a seat Trump carried to vote for $3 trillion spending bill ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com ed...
ExChristian.Net

Joy Unspeakable, Toxic Faith and Rose Colored Glasses - Joy Hopper, a well respected contributor here, submitted 24 articles under the pseudonym "Undercover Agnostic." After making peace with her new atheist rea...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

“It’s mourning in America” - Republican campaign consultants and others who want to save the Republican Party, and America, from Donald Trump, put a fine twist on the old Ronald Reagan...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Bayou Greenway Not So Green - Parks Board Bulldozing Buffalo Bayou, Cutting Trees, Installing Sheet Pile and Concrete May 14, 2020 The Houston Parks Board has begun scraping vegetation,...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

We have a world to win! Capitalism, coronavirus and the struggle for the new normal - As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival t...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
The Disorder Of Things

An Essay on Pandemic Borders: From ‘Immunitary Dispositif’ to Affirmative Ethics - An eighth entry in our coronacrisis series, from Umut Ozguc. Umut is postdoctoral research fellow in International Ethics at the School of Humanities and S...
Moron Majority

Afghan Women Seemingly Immune From Coronavirus - Like almost every other country, Afghanistan has not been spared the ravages of the coronavirus. But it appears the virus is disproportionately striking me...
t.e.j.a.s.

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
Texas Watch

City and County Resources - Amarillo Arlington Austin Beaumont Brownsville College Station Corpus Christi Dallas El Paso Fort Worth Frisco Garland Grand Praire Houston ...
TDMS Research

MISSOURI 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY - Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares As in 11 of the 17 state primaries elections prior to March 17, the discrepancies between...
Truthdig

Imagining A New World on the Other Side of the Pandemic - At the Nation, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian has a provocative piece that imagines how future historians may come to write the story of the Covid-19. The specul...
Free & Equal

Earth Day Celebration – United We Stand Tour - Earth Day Celebration 2020 – United We Stand Tour Event Description⬇⬇⬇ On April 25th The Stewards of Heartland and co-host The Free and Equal Elections Fou...
Think Progress

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Texas Rural Voices

Jeff Veazey’s Blue Pledge - —a thoughtful list to remind us of what is at stake in 2020. I have had a heck of a time deciding on a candidate to support but the idea of MY candidate ...
Anti-Media

Turkey Kills Over 50 Syrian Troops, Russian Warplanes Intervene to Halt Offensive - Russia called the situation a “worst case scenario."
Green Papers

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

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

Trump says “War!” The World says “Peace!” - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida.
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

Paul Harper offered to settle State of Texas ex rel. Best v Harper lawsuit for $68k back in 2016 - On May 23, 2016 I made an offer to settle this frivolous lawsuit that was filed by George Darrell Best and the County Attorney Andrew Lucas acting on beh...
Think 3 Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regional plan on track to connect Dallas to Fort Worth by trail - *Bicycling enthusiast Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price on the Trinity Trails in Fort Worth. Courtesy of SquareMeals.org.* Dec. 15, 2015 North Texas cities h...

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