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Strategic Culture Foundation

‘Pacification’ – the Euphemism for Brazil’s Dictatorship Under Bolsonaro - While Bolsonaro may have recently stirred a rift between the government and the military, any divergences or differences of opinion or strategy between bot...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is *Jason* with a response to a specific passage in Charles Harder's article complaining about c...
The Verge

French lawmakers vote to ban some domestic flights to reduce carbon emissions - [image: FRANCE-TRANSPORT-AIR] Air France planes parked at Roissy Airport in Paris | Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images French lawmakers have voted...
Al Jazeera English

Blinken warns China that action against Taiwan would be ‘mistake’ - US Secretary of State says Biden administration concerned by China's 'increasingly aggressive actions' against Taiwan.
Futurism

Man Claimed to Have Car Bomb at Nuclear Power Plant - [image: Authorities arrested a Michigan man after he claimed to have a bomb parked in a trailer outside of a nuclear power plant in Ohio.] False Bomb Threa...
The Grayzone

Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US ‘asset’ in Syria - Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling the militant group “an asset” amid a media-ena...
Mediaite

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Pays Moving Tribute to His Mother After She Passes Away from Covid-Related Complications - CNN's Fareed Zakaria closed his program Sunday with a moving tribute to his mother Fatma Zakaria, who passed away from covid-related complications at 85....
VICE

Editorial Statement Regarding Photographs of Khmer Rouge Victims - From VICE editorial leadership
Rio Grande Guardian

Fallek: McAllen cannot forget about the small business community - MCALLEN, Texas – On the campaign trail and at forums, McAllen mayoral candidate Michael Fallek has spoken a lot about the need to bring major investment ...
The Week

Liz Cheney holds off on calling for Matt Gaetz's resignation, says allegations are 'sickening' - Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) didn't have much to say when CBS News' Margaret Brennan asked her about her colleague and leading critic, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla...
The AltWorld

Blinken’s Winking and Nodding to the Neocons - Biden’s Western Hemisphere foreign policy is not much different from that of Obama’s. Like proverbial bad pennies, […] The post Blinken’s Winking and Nod...
The Hill

Defense secretary boasts 'ironclad' commitment to Israel during trip to Tel Aviv - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared the U.S.'s "enduring and ironclad" commitment to Israel on Sunday.The ...
Popular Resistance

Echoes Of B.C.’s War In The Woods As Fairy Creek Blockade Builds - British Columbia - Hundreds of activists are digging in at logging road blockades across a swath of southern Vancouver Island, vowing to stay as long as ...
memeorandum

'We cannot go back to normal': Boston's Mayor Kim Janey sees a mandate for racial equity in post-Covid era (CNN) - CNN: *‘We cannot go back to normal’: Boston's Mayor Kim Janey sees a mandate for racial equity in post-Covid era* — Boston (CNN)For 200 years, Boston h...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 11, 2021 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 11, 2021 by Tony Wikrent The Biden Transition and the Fight for Real Hope and Change This Time Podcast: Are We Wi...
Courthouse News

The Year That Drove Old Dixie Down - The last year has seen the former capital of the Confederacy make some of its largest changes since Lee surrendered in Appomattox 156 years ago.
Talking Points Memo

Clyburn Plans To School Manchin After Senator Vowed To Keep Filibuster Intact - House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Sunday told CNN that he plans to speak with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) about his vehement opposition to eliminat...
Vox

Trump’s irate, lie-filled RNC speech shows tensions in GOP - [image: Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as seen from across the Intracoastal Waterway. A man stands in the foreground with a camera on a tripod....
Mediagazer

In 2020 Oscar nominations, only 4 of the 23 categories had any form of Latino representation; 2021 is likely to have more Latino nominations (Clayton Davis/Variety) - Clayton Davis / Variety: *In 2020 Oscar nominations, only 4 of the 23 categories had any form of Latino representation; 2021 is likely to have more Latin...
Daily Dot

Review: ‘Them’ chooses aesthetic and dread over a clear narrative - [image: scene from amazon's them] Who is *Them* for? The new Amazon horror series, executive produced by Lena Waithe and created by Little Marvin, doesn’...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Clyburn offers Manchin history lesson to clear Senate path for Biden reforms - - Majority whip faces up to West Virginia senator on filibuster - Georgia voting law is ‘new Jim Crow’, congressman insists - ‘Dumb son of a bi...
Robert Reich

The Basic Deal Between Corporate America and the GOP is Alive and Well - For four decades, the basic deal between big American corporations and politicians has been simple....
Raw Story

'It was horrible': Top GOP donors were disgusted with Trump's RNC speech while others ducked out - According to a report from Politico, multiple donors attending a closed-door speech given by Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort Saturday night were di...
Mondoweiss

‘NYT’ coverage of happy boars of Haifa is just another way to ignore settlers’ crimes - The New York Times runs "hasbara" or Israeli propaganda about coexistence in Haifa, including humans with wild boars. But Alice Rothchild writes that boars...
OpEd News

Hunting in Yemen - The U.S. is complying with a coalition using starvation and disease to wage war. With 400,000 children's lives in the balance, with a Yemeni child dying on...
Deadline Politics

China Winter Olympics Boycott Calls Are “Premature” Says Sec’y Of State - Secretary of State Antony Blinken danced around the notion of a 2022 China Winter Olympic boycott Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, calling such talk “premat...
Ballot Access News

New York Submits Brief in Ballot Access Case - On April 9, the state of New York submitted this brief in the three ballot access cases filed by various minor parties. The state’s brief asks the U.S. Dis...
Mother Jones

GOP Donors Flock to Mar-a-Lago to Hear Trump Lie About the 2020 Election - Over the weekend, some of the Republican party’s biggest financial supporters gathered at a Florida Four Seasons resort for a donor retreat, hobnobbing wit...
Alternet

Insurrectionist experiences 'shock' over being held with people accused of 'inner city crimes' - I've never seen so many snowflakes in my life, and I grew up in Wisconsin. It's still mind-boggling that so many Trumpaloompas thought they could storm t...
Stinque

Dangerous Democracy - It’s kind of amazing, more than two centuries into our Highly Imperfect Union, what a dangerous idea democracy remains. You’d think we’d be settled with ...
Shadowproof

Two Years After Assange’s Arrest, Biden Can End Trump’s Assault On Press Freedom - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been detained at the high-security Belmarsh prison in London for two years. During that time, Assange became the fir...
Eschaton

And On And On - Sure, uh, women's rights, we haven't used that one in a few months. (CNN)Concerns are mounting from bipartisan US lawmakers and Afghan women's rights activ...
Dandelion Salad

How America’s Descent Into A Failed State Will Happen, by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, April 6, 2021 April 11, 2021 This essay comes with a caveat: that the proc...
Salon.com

Sanders says Democrats can't waste time catering to obstructionist GOP: "I'm not going to slow down" - "They live in their world, and their world will be trying to obstruct as much as possible" the Vermont Senator said
Democracy Chronicles

Online Art Project Highlights Hong Kong Democracy Protests - Two Hong Kong-born artists in Canada are leading a pro-democracy online art project: "be water: collected memories of our hong kong."
WhatWouldJackDo

Thank you! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m late for the Pensacola High School prom…. - “It is me, Matt Gaetz, the brave martyr fighting for the little guy by Venmoing cash to anyone who will fuck me for money.” https://t.co/iFGJB0mx9k — The H...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - The Real “Border Crisis” – SOME MORE NEWS Hi. In today’s episode, we take a look at the border and explore how maybe the real crisis is that there is one. ...
Buzzflash

Florida Billboard Ratchets up Gaetz-Gate: "Matt Gaetz Wants to 'Date' Your Child" - NWF Daily News
Angry Bear

On Gerrymandering - Every citizen of the United States has the right to be represented in both their state and federal governments by a representative chosen in a free and f...
Undernews

More than half of older millennials with student debt say their loans weren’t worth it -
Nina Illingworth

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier - An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called "migrant crisis at the border....
The Root

Wypipo Are Big Mad Over 'Dear, God Help Me Hate White People' Entry in Bestselling Prayer Book and, Well...LOL! - I’m not sure how I feel about the idea that Black people can’t be racist in general, but there is one hill I have no problem dying on: Black people can’t...
Slate

Official Admits Chinese Vaccines Have Low Effectiveness as Country Explores Mixing Shots - The words by the director of the China’s CDC, Gao Fu, spread quickly on social media before they were censored.
El Paso Matters

COVID-19 to El Pasoans: I’m not gone yet - This past week proved that El Paso has not escaped the COVID-19 crisis. The number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths increased over the past week, even as...
Grits for Breakfast

Two decades after Tulia, corroboration requirement for police in drug cases may finally have its day - Debates around the Texas George Floyd Act have revived discussions of accountability in drug enforcement that first arose two decades ago following the Tul...
Axios

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stresses U.S. commitment to Israel's security amid growing Iran tensions - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived for his first visit in Jerusalem amid nuclear talks in Vienna and growing tensions between Israel and Iran. *W...
Common Dreams

As Rich Countries Shield Pharma Monopolies, Just 0.2% of Covid Vaccine Doses Have Gone to Poor Nations - Jake Johnson, staff writer "We need the cooperation of the whole world and the elimination of all the barriers to the production and distribution of vaccine...
INSIDER - politics news

Sylvester Stallone has reportedly become a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club - [image: sylvester stallone maralago florida] Summary List Placement Sylvester Stallone has joined former President Donald Trump's private members' club,...
Political Wire

Blinken Says China Let Virus Get ‘Out of Hand’ - Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in a Meet the Press interview, arguing that the country’s “failure” ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Avoid the Politicks' Toons - Wayne LaPierre hid on luxury yacht after Sandy Hook shootings And now for something completely different ... Oglaf. "Who Knew?" Last: All the best to Matt ...
Countercurrents

COVID-19: South Asia passes the grisly milestone of 15 million cases - Coronavirus infections in the South Asia has surpassed the grim milestone of 15 million on Saturday, a Reuters tally shows. The surge is led by India’s r...
First Draft

Guest Post: Pmac’s Big Adventure, Part 1 - On the road to Seville.
Scheerpost.com

We Should All Be Afraid of the New Cold War - 2021 looks a lot like 1981—and that should scare us.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 11 April 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Cats are such graceful animals. Once wasn't enough for this hunter. Mock...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Should Museums Deaccession Their Collections? - Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the ongoing debate about museums deaccessioning objects from their permanent collections. “If MoMA could build a new b...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Overthinking the Funnies - Today’s Zits (KFS) stopped me in my tracks, not because it’s funny, which it is, but because my first response after that dissolved into uncertainty: What ...
The Smirking Chimp

“I’m Built for the Battle”: Gaetz Makes It Clear He Has No Plans to Go Anywhere Despite Allegations -
Moon of Alabama

The MoA Week In Review - OT 2021-027 - Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: April 5 - How Russia 'Weaponized' 111 Times Related: - Jimmy Dore and Aaron Maté filled a show with 'Russia weaponize...
The Intercept

The Long Shadow of Virginia’s Death Penalty - Virginia made history when it abolished capital punishment. But for those who were proximate to the state’s 113 executions, closure remains complicated. ...
Caitlin Johnstone

Media Concern Trolling About Afghanistan Withdrawal Again - “Concerns mount that US withdrawal from Afghanistan could risk progress on women’s rights,” blares a new headline from CNN. “Concerns are mounting from bip...
NPR's Health Shots

Advocates Worry Latinx Communities Aren't Taking Full Advantage Of Pandemic Relief - NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with a Houston-based entrepreneur and advocate, Tom Castro, who worries that some Latinos aren't tapping the pandemic-reli...
WhoWhatWhy

McConnell to Corporate Donors: Keep Your Politics out of My Money - Reading Time: < 1 minute Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has done more than anyone to marry money and politics, helping free companies to spend as much as th...
naked capitalism

Links 4/11/2021 -
San Antonio Report

‘Nothing short of a miracle’: Mother overcomes COVID-19 to be reunited with baby - [image: Cathi Aguilera holds her newborn daughter, Raya Aguilera.]After five weeks, critically-ill Methodist Hospital patient met her baby for the first ti...
Greg Palast

Wisconsin court win stops purge of 129,000 votersBlack Voters Matter, Palast found list "wrong and racist" - On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to block the removal of 129,000 voters from the rolls. The Justices rejected a lawsuit brought by a right-...
Counterpunch

Ending Fracking by 2035 - Fracking was an issue in the last election, with Republicans accusing Biden of planning to end it and Biden defending himself by asserting he had no such...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: sparrow - [image: Sparrow]
Informed Comment

Greening Earth and creating Jobs, Biden to slash Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Extend Wind, Solar Credits - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Reuters reports that President Biden intends to slash tax subsidies for fossil fuels like coal and petroleum and to use taxe...
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2022: Alexander W. Brandon - Episode: 2022 Alexander W. Brandon’s, and my father’s, old surveying book. Today, another ghost in an old book.
ArcaMax

Another Word for Anxiety is Fear - Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised. Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political scienc...
Independent Political Report

From Earth Day to May Day: Greens, the GND and climate action - As the 51st Earth Day approaches, and as President Joe Biden prepares for an upcoming International Earth Day summit, the Green Party of the United Stat...
Pages of Victory

Beatles music - And I Love Her In My Life She's Leaving Home Norwegian Wood I am the Walrus
Liberation News

Ramsey Clark dies: An Attorney General who turned against imperialism - [image: Ramsey Clark is pictured with Fidel Castro, Alice Walker and Dennis Banks]Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international hum...
Wolf Street

What I See as Retail Landlord, One Year After (and we’re STILL Forgiving and Deferring Rent for Our Hardest-Hit Tenants) - Some Green Shoots, but Finding them Is Tricky.
Ring of Fire

Corporate Politicians Are Pushing Back On Biden’s Much Needed Infrastructure Plan - Via America’s Lawyer: Republicans are uniting against President Biden’s proposed “American Jobs Plan.” Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Tra...
Dissident Voice

The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day: we only notice when a royal dies - A few lessons to be learned from the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death in the British media: 1. There is absolutely no commercial reason for...
Reading the Pictures

Insult to Injury: The Fortressing of the Derek Chauvin Murder Trial - Photographers frame the barriers and fencing in downtown Minneapolis where Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd. The post Insult to I...
Second Nexus

The Senate Parliamentarian Just Delivered Schumer a Huge Unexpected Win—Here's What that Means for Biden's Agenda - Senate Democrats were accustomed to Republican Leader Mitch McConnell using the power of his majority to press forward his agenda while stymying their ow...
Daily Howler

You say "subdual," he says "subdural!" - * SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021* *Let's call this gong-show off:* In Saturday morning's New York Times, Tim Arango did a decent job reporting the Derek Chauvi...
Mahablog

Michael Reinoehl: More Justice Denied - Last summer in Portland, by several accounts, a self-identified antifa activist named Michael Forest Reinoehl shot and killed Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a me...
Latino Rebels

During His Bill Maher Interview Friday Night, Here’s What Sen. Alex Padilla Said About the Use of LATINX - Yes, it's complicated. It always has been.
Texas Monthly

Dining Guide: Highlights From Our May 2021 Issue - What to order for takeout at restaurants around the state, plus some pro tips. The post Dining Guide: Highlights From Our May 2021 Issue appeared first o...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: April 2021 - How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation | MIT Technology Review – Since Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has made efforts to make their algorith...
Workers World

Ecuador’s presidential election: What’s at stake? - [image: Ecuador’s presidential election: What’s at stake?] Ibarra, Ecuador April 9 — The latest polls before the April 11 runoff presidential election here...
Portside

The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing - The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing Dave Sat, 04/10/2021 - 15:19
Election Law Blog

Honored to be Appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States - President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court includes several academic figures with ties to the election-law field, including Guy-Uriel Charles, Micha...
San Antonio Current

Study: passage of Texas' voter-restriction bills would bring billions in damage to state's economy - How much are Texas' GOP lawmakers willing to sacrifice to ensure their unpopular and widely decried voter-restriction bills become law?…
CultureMap Houston

Buzzy NOLA seafood house cracks open in Houston, plus more top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Legendary New Orleans seafood restaurant opens this weekend in Mo...
Claytoonz

Giggity Island - Congressman Matt Gaetz spoke at an event Friday night in Florida where he attacked the “lying media,” and “decried” the smears against him, the “wild consp...
The Progressive Wing

4/10-11 Weekend News Roundup & OT - Let’s sget started with an interview with Stephanie Kelton on MSNBC last Night: Speaking of, Prof Kelton is on Barron’s Top 100 Women in US Finance list. “...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Pyramid of Power Is ALMOST HERE! - Friends, I hope everyone is doing well. I am working hard to complete the first season of the Pyramid of Power documentary series. The first 4 episodes w...
Eclectablog

The New New New Deal – with special guest Mike Grunwald - Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald Mike Grunwald at Politico: Say it ain’t so, Amtrak Joe Buy Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal in paperback HE...
The Militant

Small fishermen in UK face gov’t, EU attack on livelihoods - HASTINGS, England — “The first thing you need to know is that the commercial fishing industry is divided between those fishing from boats shorter or longer...
Texas Environmental News

Iran launches advanced centrifuges at nuclear plant - Iran doubled down on its uranium enrichment program while unveiling a slate of advanced centrifuges at an underground nuclear plant [...] The post Iran l...
Louis Proyect

Exterminate All The Brutes Q&A - Film at Lincoln Center The past has a future we never expect. Exterminate All the Brutes is a four-part HBO documentary series from filmmaker Raoul Peck th...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 5 - 9 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big news continues to be bifurcation between the currently unfolding ...
Duffel Blog

Radio Shack manager refuses to give National Guard general time off for drill - Gen. Williams couldn't find anyone to cover him.
Progrexas

Technical difficulties hampered the STAAR test. One Austin teacher called it a sign. - Patty Young teaches seventh grade language arts at Murchison Middle School in Austin. Credit: Courtesy Patty Young (Audio unavailable. Click here to list...
Church and State

Elon Musk Showcases Monkey Playing Pong With its Mind Using Neuralink Brain Implants – Video - The footage shows a nine-year-old macaque with a Neuralink chip inserted in each side of his brain interacting with a computer.
Grist

Clean energy bonanza: Biden’s budget tries to undo Trump’s damage - The 'skinny budget' asks Congress for $14 billion to address the climate crisis.
ProPublica

“We Are Not Here or Funded to ‘Promote the Best Interest’ of the Children,” Wrote the Head of a Program for Brain-Damaged Infants - by Daniel Chang and Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our bigge...
Dallas Observer

Ex-Cop Bryan Riser Says Dallas Police Took His Livelihood - He didn’t discuss the case in any detail, but Bryan Riser has maintained his innocence from the beginning and insists he spent 34 days behind bars for some...
Novara Media

A Filipino Nurse Is Being Evicted for Having a Less “Durable Connection With the Area” Than Her Landlord’s Daughter - [image: A man and woman hold hands aloft as they hold signs with slogan 'We belong here']A housing tribunal has ruled that a 45-year-old Filipino woman and...
See You In 2020

Anti-Chinese Propaganda Is About Fortifying A U.S. Empire In Crisis & Preparing For War - In his *work* Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union, Mario Sousa wrote: The conquest of the Ukraine and other areas of the Soviet Union would ...
Crooked Media

Is Pepsi OK? - The post Is Pepsi OK? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The NM Political Report

Youth activists plan protest as oil and gas industry group presents award to Lujan Grisham - [image: Youth activists plan protest as oil and gas industry group presents award to Lujan Grisham] A group of activists is planning a protest for Saturday...
SCOTUSblog

Divided court blocks California’s COVID-related restrictions on in-home religious gatherings - [image: Divided court blocks California’s COVID-related restrictions on in-home religious gatherings]A divided Supreme Court on Friday night granted a re...
jobsanger

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World Socialist Web Site

Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama defeat UMWA sellout, continue strike - Coal miners in central Alabama delivered a massive blow to the United Mine Workers, rejecting its pro-company deal by a vote of 1,006 to 45.
Bud Kennedy

Remember the Alamo — but forget secession. Texas can’t leave the U.S., and won’t - The Texas secession scam is back, so hang onto your vote and your wallet. In the first place, Texas can’t secede. We tried that. Second, if Texas ever some...
Antiwar.com

Hunting in Yemen: The War Must End - Since March 29th, in Washington, D.C., Iman Saleh, age 26, has been on a hunger strike to demand an end to the war in Yemen. She is joined by five others...
Land Destroyer

West’s Propaganda War vs. China Continues - *April 10, 2021 *(Brian Berletic - LD) - The West continues a malicious propaganda war against China, but China is pushing back. In the latest row, th...
The Mind Unleashed

Video Showing UFOs Swarming Navy Warship is Real, Pentagon Confirms - Late last month, reports emerged that a number of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers sailing off the coast near Los Angeles encountered a swarm of strange...
Liberal America

Biden Takes Aim at Gun Violence With Executive Orders (Video) - Nine days into the month of April, the United States has experienced another 14 mass shootings. On Thursday, hours after former NFL player Phillip Adams ...
Reform Austin

Good Bill Hunting: New Texas Legislation To Provide Job Training for Veterans - Good Bill Hunting is a weekly series during the legislative session where RA News will look at a bill or piece of legislation that will have a huge impac...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 13 Wrap-up: Healthcare under attack - It’s time for our community to act. This coming Monday and Wednesday, the Texas legislature will hear 4 anti-LGBTQ+ bills; bills that restrict healthcare f...
LareDOS

Writer Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises, headlines Casa de Misericordia’s April 22 virtual fundraiser - Domestic abuse shelter marks 23 years of offering hope through holistic services; silent auction bids begin online April 12
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: How Not to Cover One’s Tracks - Jose Pagliery and Roger Sollenberger @ The Daily Beast: Gaetz Paid Accused Sex Trafficker, Who Then Venmo’d Teen. Ryan Grenoble @ HuffPost: Florida GOP W...
Socialist Alternative

Amazon Cheats in Bessemer – Key Lessons for the Fight to #UnionizeAmazon - Socialist Alternative has been on the ground in Bessemer for a number of weeks helping build the BAmazon struggle. The below article is based on our observ...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/9/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Rooundup, on the blog every Friday! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/9/21 appeared first...
Progressive.org

The Union Campaign at Amazon Was Just the Beginning - Though the organizing effort at the Alabama facility lost, the company’s workers have shown that workplace representation is essential and attainable.
Dissent Magazine

Belabored: Black Against Amazon, with Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley - Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
Discourse

Bessemer Was Not the Beginning or the End - Amazon successfully crushed the union drive in Bessemer, AL, but this is neither the beginning or the end of the fight for worker justice. The post Besse...
Freethought Now

Our success in getting the freethought word out - We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation believe in using every medium (plural media) to make the freethought message heard, and this week we had tremend...
Houston Press

Rusty Hardin On Going to Trial With Watson Plaintiffs: "Oh, Absolutely!" - Since the Deshaun Watson civil lawsuit parade began back in the middle of March, Friday has been a tentpole day each week. Tony Buzbee has used Friday afte...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China Sidesteps WHO Chief on Coronavirus Origins with Anti-US Disinfo -
Skeptical Raptor

European Court of Human Rights upholds compulsory vaccination laws - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. This article the European Court of Human Rights upholding compulsory vaccination law...
Unlimited Hangout

WEF Warns of Cyberattack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System - A report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence ag...
MintPress News

How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press - For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, includin...
Texas Standard

‘A Lot Like Singing:’ Billy Henry Likens Hosting ‘StarDate’ To The Way He Makes Music - The sounds of Texas.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *Whattaya think? Kinda Young Marble Giants meet Pylon, right?* I know, Rod Dreher's an easy layup, but I'm feeling lazy. Here's a post availing Dreher's...
American Prospect

RIP OMB? - Today on TAP: how the absence of a confirmed OMB director affects policy
DeSmogBlog

Indigenous Communities March For Justice A Year On From Devastating Amazon Oil Spill - Hundreds of Indigenous activists took to the streets in Ecuador this week to demand justice on the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst oil spill ...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Latino Voters Aren’t A Monolith, But The GOP Made Gains With Them Just About Everywhere In 2020 - In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with Stephanie Valencia and Carlos Odio, founders of the political research...
Tribune of the People

Texas: Prysmian Group Workers in Scottsville Go On Strike - By Brian Martel A year after contract negotiations began, workers at the Prysmian Group plant in Scottsville, Texas have gone on strike. The demands of the...
Rude Pundit

Conservatives Finally Just Say, "Fuck Your Right to Vote" - As a slew of new voter laws slime their way through the legislatures of mostly Republican states where Democrats have a chance of winning, almost all bas...
Rewire

Ohio’s Abortion Ban Never Took Effect. People Think Abortion Is Illegal Anyway. - This is not by accident. Ohio lawmakers want you to think abortion is illegal and, at a minimum, want to make it virtually impossible for you to get one....
Washington Babylon

Exclusive: Why Would Congressman Matt Gaetz, Under Investigation for Having Sex With a Teen, Have Collaborated With Florida Dark Money Pros Who Specialize in Hiding Campaign Cash? - [image: Exclusive: Why Would Congressman Matt Gaetz, Under Investigation for Having Sex With a Teen, Have Collaborated With Florida Dark Money Pros Who Spe...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Riding Bikes and Thinking Deep Thoughts - Harry Jones is my kind of guy. About a year ago, he emailed out of the blue. I didn’t know him, though his email signature identified him as a lawyer wor...
ROAR Magazine

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Golden Age of Post-War Capital - A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.
In These Times

The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing - The union’s loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale. - On April 9, the National Labor Relations Board announced the results of a mail ballot certification election that concluded on March 29 for workers at th...
Lawfare

The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How. - President Biden and Vice President Harris in the Oval Office of the White House. (White House Photo by Adam Schultz). After the 2015 hack of the U.S. Of...
epic.org

Virginia to Ban Local Police from Using Facial Recognition - A bill passed in Virginia will ban local law-enforcement agencies from using facial recognition technology without prior legislative approval starting July...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
The Appeal

San Antonio’s Response to Homelessness Is Broken. It’s Time to Put Housing First - When I drive up to my field office each morning at 8:00 a.m., I often see over a dozen people who have taken refuge in the back parking lot to safely sle...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz: “Every Fetus Deserves a Fighting Chance to Become My Sex Object In 17 Years” - While the scandal surrounding him may not be showing any signs of subsiding just yet, Congressman Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) has shown no signs of pulling back fr...
Southeast Texas Record

George Foreman alleges Nationwide not on his side, sues insurer for failing to cover classic car collection - HOUSTON – For decades, George Foreman and his wife paid “exorbitant insurance premiums” only to find out their classic car collection wasn’t covered afte...
Debunking Christianity

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Democracy Now!

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Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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Brains and Eggs

Monday, October 31, 2005

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