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Monday, October 31, 2005

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  • 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
    Who Would WANT the Christian God Anyway? - *He makes too many big mistakes* If we could pose this question to folks coming out of their weekly worship services: Do they really want the God they wo...
  • Texas Observer
    The Lege This Week: Stimmy for Schools? - Welcome to the 87th Legislative Session. Since the last session came to a close in June 2019, Texas has been hit by an unrestrained pandemic and a crippl...
  • Eater Houston
    One of Houston’s ‘Top Chef’ Contestants Packed Their Knives and Went Home Last Night - David Moir/Bravo Things are heating up on the Bravo cooking competition show On last night’s episode of *Top Chef: Portland*, one of the two chef conten...
  • The Conversation
    Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth – to fuel a more equitable economy, countries need to measure the well-being of people, too - GDP only measures economic growth – not inequality, poverty or unpaid work like elder care. So researchers in the Netherlands developed a new way for gover...
  • Democracy Now!
    Biden Calls U.S. Gun Violence an "International Embarrassment." Will Congress Finally Act? - President Joe Biden has ordered a series of executive actions on gun control in the wake of mass shootings in Georgia, Colorado and elsewhere, calling gun ...
  • CPI's Danger in the Air
    Advocates wary Biden’s infrastructure plan won’t right past wrongs - After President Joe Biden revealed his $2 trillion infrastructure plan last month, advocates and historians began to worry how the money would be distrib...
  • Space City Weather
    First look at the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season - Good morning. The most reputable hurricane season forecasting service, led by Phil Klotzbach at Colorado State University, has released its first outlook f...
  • Houston Legal
    Houston Legal Links 4/9/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush "seriously considering" run for attorney general, lays out case against Ken Paxton; Texans ...
  • Lowering the Bar
    Man Charged With Driving Stolen Car Appears for Zoom Hearing From Inside Another Stolen Car - He has another Zoom hearing next week, so maybe he will keep the streak alive. Related Stories - Zoom Hearing Ends When Defendant Turns Out to...
  • Dorf on Law
    Why Second-Degree Murder is the Maximum Charge for Derek Chauvin--and Some Thoughts on the Broader Issue of Gaps Between the Law and Public Understandings - *by Michael C. Dorf* Someone who is not a lawyer (but is super smart and very well educated) recently asked me why Derek Chauvin wasn't charged with fir...
  • High Country News
    Can a wildlife refuge help a community’s fight for environmental justice? - In Albuquerque’s South Valley, activists are happy for more green space but worry about gentrification.
  • TalkLeft
    Matt Gaetz Keeps Talking as More Chips Fall - Matt Gaetz was a lawyer before he ran for Congress. I have no idea why he believes he can talk his way to innocence in a pending criminal investigation inv...
  • Rallblog
    Economic Greed Migrant - As the Biden Administration claims to be looking into the root causes of mass migration from Central America to the southern U.S. border with Mexico, per...
  • Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons
    Vaccines Are For Cucks - I’m just going to leave this here… “it’s crazy to watch all my California and NYC friends scramble for vaccine appointments meanwhile in Texas I get a text...
  • TXElects
    Bush Floats Paxton Challenge as Senate Ponders Delaying Primaries - The Senate approved legislation that would move this year’s filing period and next year’s primary and primary runoff elections based on when a redistrict...
  • Field Negro
    "Everybody got guns" - *"I gotta a gun, he gotta gun, he gotta gun. Everybody got guns." ~Gyp Rosetti, Boardwalk Empire~* There were two more high profile mass shootings agai...
  • Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas
    'Required': North Dakota passes Native Education Bill, by Kolby KickingWoman - *Excellent news out of North Dakota! The excitement in the story is palpable. Long overdue, to be sure.* *Texas has already passed Native American Studie...
  • Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
    Repost - Sterilization, irreversible surgeries and chemical castrations - How religious right lies corrupts the conversation about trans children - *Editor's note - Probably a first for this blog. I am going to re-run a post I published on Wednesday. The post, Sterilization, irreversible surgeries an...
  • Living Blue in Texas
    Briscoe Cain And Other Republicans Just Passed Jim Crow Bill, HB6 - HB 6 is a racist voter suppression bill that will put up barriers between Texans and their right to vote. After listening to 22 hours of testimony from h...
  • The Ghion Journal
    BREAKING! MSNBC and CNN Legal Analyst Midwin Charles Shot Dead with Covid-19 “Vaccine”, Her Employers Bury the Lead - Two days ago, Midwin Charles, a renowned defense attorney and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN and a host of other cable news stations, passed away The post ...
  • Sludge
    Military Equipment Transfers to Police Have Picked Back Up - After dipping in the back three quarters of 2020 amid a nationwide focus on policing, the transfer of military weapons and equipment to civilian police has...
  • Texas Freedom Network
    Texas House Committee Advances Sweeping Voter Suppression Bill Targeting Texans of Color - It’s becoming clearer that too many legislators are determined to see Jim Crow ride again in Texas. Today the House Elections Committee advanced a sweepi...
  • Bracing Views
    The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded - In my latest for TomDispatch.com, I tackle the Pentagon’s latest proclivity for “near-peer” conflicts, the near-peers being China and Russia, which conveni...
  • The Contributor
    'Why the US Senate Is So Broken': Manchin Vow to Preserve Filibuster Imperils Voting Rights and Much More - News Image: "Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California and 92% white, yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-...
  • Morning Consult
    Voting Law Strengthens Brian Kemp’s Standing With Georgia Republicans. Is It Enough to Stop a Divisive Primary? - The post Voting Law Strengthens Brian Kemp’s Standing With Georgia Republicans. Is It Enough to Stop a Divisive Primary? appeared first on Morning Consult.
  • Earth 911
    Restore Our Earth With Reforestation - Americans don’t pay much attention to trees. Sometimes we are reminded that tropical rainforests are... The post Restore Our Earth With Reforestation app...
  • So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)
    Morning gratitude affirmations - Jack wrote this in April, 2005: Hokay. I try to think of five particularly communistic things going on in my life every morning, every evening, during the...
  • Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball
    Did Scandal Cost North Carolina Democrats a Senate Seat? - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — In North Carolina’s hotly contested Senate race last year, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) narrowly won reelection against a scandal...
  • Project Censored
    Shahid Buttar and Dan Kovalik - Mickey’s first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospec...
  • slacktivist
    White evangelical ‘vaccine skepticism’ doesn’t not come from the pulpit - Drive an hour west, get the shot. That’s how it worked for my family. The Slacktivixen and I scored our first Moderna shots last week out past Reading, whi...
  • Earthworks
    Reflections from the Permian - Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Permian Basin with Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto for the first time. Unfortunately, being out in the field...
  • Innocence Project
    New Mexico Is the Second State to Ban Qualified Immunity - New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act — also known as House Bill 4 — advancing fair and equal treatment under...
  • Speak Freely (ACLU)
    The Promise of Systemic Equality Starts at Home - For more than a century, the ACLU has been on the frontlines advancing civil liberties and civil rights. This has meant not only defending rights for all ...
  • Ecosophia
    A Sense of Déjà Vu - Déjà vu—the sudden insistent feeling that you’ve encountered the present moment before—can be one of the oddest of human experiences. Sometimes, though, ...
  • Duck of Minerva
    Life in the Time of COVID: Planning for Non-Adherence - This is a guest post from Tana Johnson, an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publica...
  • DBC Green
    Moxie: Flawed But Worthy - Dang, I meant to re-post this sorta review here about a month ago.In a nutshell, I don't particularly care for the what the Amy Poehler and the Hollywood M...
  • BillMoyers.com
    March 30, 2021 - It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode. Continue reading The post March 30, 2021 appeared first o...
  • Texas Moratorium Network
    Rep Jeff Leach Speaks on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - Texas State Rep Jeff Leach, a Republican, in this video makes a persuasive argument for his bill to end the death penalty in law of parties cases at the ...
  • Save Buffalo Bayou
    Killing the Bayou: Shocking Plan to Bulldoze, Reroute Buffalo Bayou - Historic Banks of Memorial Park to Be Radically Altered April 6, 2021 The private organization running Houston’s great public Memorial Park on the forested...
  • Idavox
    The Idavox Report: 6 April 2021 - We are back, and with our return we give you Serbian antifascist Tanja Vasic. We talked to her on Monday and provides a lot of information for us, includ...
  • Chicken Fried Politics
    Florida U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings dies at 84 - Democrat’s death narrows party’s House majority, sets off scramble for his South Florida seat ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor FORT LAUDER...
  • Krebs on Security
    Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked? - Ne'er-do-wells leaked personal data -- including phone numbers -- for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected befor...
  • Reveal
    We wanted to know how the 2020 census was going. So we asked workers to guide our coverage. - [image: A sign mounted in the bed of a pickup truck reads: “Do your part, stop the spread and do 2020 census.”] More than 150 Census Bureau employees reac...
  • Dos Centavos
    Contribute To The Ride to End Alzheimer’s - Some of you may not know that I’ve recently taken up trike riding. That’s right, 3 wheels a-rollin’! Late last year, I broke down and decided to invest in ...
  • ExChristian.Net
    What is our Anger About? - *By Yak ~ * I want to talk about anger. Just a short spin through these forums reveals a constant undercurrent of strong anger. I don't believe that our an...
  • Progressives Chat
    Graham Elwood On the China–Iran Deal and Smedley Butler - The above videos were published March 31 and April 3, 2021 to YouTube by *Graham Elwood*. The first is titled “China Makes Iran Deal While US Pushes ...
  • Avedon's Sideshow
    Teach us to be true - Victor Molev's "City of Wandering Towers" is way outside of my price range but nice to look at, and is part of the Amazing Fantasy Cities collection. "Rec...
  • New Progressive Alliance
    Stupid Dems Are Here Again... - ...They're refusing needed funds again Yes, they're holier than thou again Stupid Dems are here again! You can't make this stuff up. Candidates of the *...
  • Due Dissidence
    For Anti-Fascists, Liberals Seem Awfully Eager to Throw the Book at Their Opponents - by Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular We on the Left had always assumed that the defense of free speech and freedom of expression were core principles of Lef...
  • Alas, a Blog
    Cartoon: Teaching Cops To Be Healers - This cartoon is a collaboration with Kevin Moore. Help me make more of these cartoons (and to pay collaborators like Kevin and Becky!) by supporting my Pat...
  • Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy
    Walmart Crime Report March 2021 - Walmart had at least eight shootings last month, fortunately none of them were fatal, although there were at least three or four injuries, including at ...
  • nonsite.org
    Responses to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment - Complexity enchants ANT, new materialism, posthumanism, media studies, affect theory, and the literary undertakings of postcritique, new descriptivism, and...
  • Edinburg Politics
    Rio Grande Valley School of Law plan unanimously approved by House Committee on Higher Education, awaiting date for vote by full House of Representatives - A proposed Rio Grande Valley School of Law, authored by Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, on Thursday, April 1, 2021, was unanimously approved by t...
  • In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)
    Mustafa Tameez on Wake Up America: Biden’s plan with China and COVID-19 - Mustafa Tameez joins a panel on Wake Up America to discuss President Biden’s successes with the COVID-19 response and how he is handling China.
  • The Rag Blog
    Ivan Koop Kuper : LITERATURE | Larry McMurtry: The Houston years and beyond - ‘I had two novel manuscripts in my drawer, which meant that I had options my fellow graduate students just didn’t have.’ By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog ...
  • BEYONDbones
    Celebration: Earth | April is all about our Earth at HMNS - Although Earth Day is officially set worldwide for Thursday, April 22, 2021, the Houston Museum of Natural Science is celebrating our planetary home thro...
  • Environment Texas
    Falling Short - Thursday, April 1, 2021 Procter & Gamble’s new forest policies demonstrate a disappointing lack of commitment
  • The Socialist
    Deal Seems Close to End Fast of Anna Hazare - The campaign by 74-year-old Anna Hazare has sparked the biggest protests in decades, uniting millions of Indians, including its growing middle class, again...
  • Downwinders at Risk
    Current Dallas City Council Members Failed History in 2020. They Don’t Deserve Your Support in 2021 - For almost two continuous decades Dallas residents had a string of thoughtful, sincere, and righteously-angry advocates who served on their City Council. A...
  • Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
    Popular Among Antigovernment Extremists, 'Second Amendment Sanctuary’ Resolutions Pose Risks - Since the election of President Joe Biden, a number of state legislators have proposed so-called “Second Amendment sanctuary” legislation to declare their ...
  • Bayou Brief
    A Tale of Two Carters - As two veteran New Orleans politicos battle for the state's only solidly blue seat in Congress, how much will endorsements really matter?
  • The Metaphor Project
    Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 3/29/21 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
  • Consent Factory, Inc.
    The “Unvaccinated” Question - So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven’t been “vaccinated” yet. Us. The “Covidio...
  • Media Lens
    Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK - We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate m...
  • Seeing the Forest
    Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
  • CT's short stories and novelettes
    The Cask of Merlot - “Think if Poe had written “The Cask of Merlot,” cracked this girl with a puckish smile. Already I was in love. I watched her tiny fi...
  • Frontloading HQ
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  • Screwston Antifascist Committee
    Zine Release – Making Sense of Fascism - We are pleased to announce the release of this new zine “Making Sense of Fascism.” It can be purchased through our online shop here: Making Sense of Fascis...
  • Our Finite World
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  • WAWG Blog
    What Socialism Is, Has Changed - Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue ...
  • Texas Watch
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  • Moron Majority
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  • GreenSource DFW
    Recycle your old phone into security cam - *The cat, we once monitored in our shed on a web cam, watches the Alfred Camera app's live feed. Photo by Julie Thibodeaux.* March 11, 2021 A few months...
  • Campaign for America's Future
    It's Time for an Organizing Revival - The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form an...
  • Web of Debt
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    Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show - The post Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show appeared first on Free & Equal.
  • News Taco
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  • Anti-Media
    As Predicted: Immunity Passports Are No Longer A Fantasy - "Immunity Passports" or "Digital Certificates" will allow people who have been vaccinated to travel, work, and play.
  • The Disorder Of Things
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  • Texans For Public Justice
    ERCOT's Board Gave Heavily to House Members - As the Texas House investigates the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), *Lobby Watch* finds that powerful energy interests seated on ERCOT’s b...
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    Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court to Save Democracy - The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be...
  • Modern Democracy
    “The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1” - Very excited to have a piece up on the Harvard Law Review Blog diving into H.R. 1’s redistricting reforms. The post examines some surprising shortcomings i...
  • Green Papers
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    46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
  • LawFlog
    CIA refuses to say whether it framed Russia for leaked DNC emails; FBI apparently ignored Seth Rich’s laptop - The Central Intelligence Agency will neither confirm nor deny that it fabricated the Russian “fingerprints” in Democratic National Committee emails publish...
  • News Junkie
    Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy When Populism Became Fascism - Trumpism has defined, in the past four years, the quintessence of populism. On January 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob, instigated by their cult leader himse...
  • One People's Project
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  • Latino Decisions
    Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
  • TomDispatch
    Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
  • Texas Sharon's Bluedaze
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  • Art Killing Apathy
    Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
  • Down With Tyranny!
    WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
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  • The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)
    New post at my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flights of Fancy" - For those that have any interest, curiosity or just have a good need for self punishment, I have made a new post on my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flig...
  • Defend our Movements
    Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
  • Off the Kuff
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    New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
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    “IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
  • Bad Attitudes
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  • Popehat
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  • The Greanville Post
    Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
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    Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed - The country’s most prominent media owner-editor is detained and incarcerated. The image-conscious prime minister ignores a letter from United Nations
  • 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
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  • Consortium News
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  • IVN
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