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World Socialist Web Site

Tunisian president launches coup amid protests against mass COVID-19 deaths - On Sunday, President Kaïs Saïed sacked the Islamist Ennahda Movement government, suspended parliament and deployed the army amid mounting anger among workers.
Mediaite

Laura Ingraham Attacks Capitol Police Officers’ Testimony With Mocking ‘Best Performance’ Awards - Fox News' Laura Ingraham mocked the testimony of the Capitol Police officers who testified before the January 6 select committee on Tuesday. The post Laur...
Al Jazeera English

Concerns as India builds rail network in remote state near China - Environmentalists fear the project threatens thousands of lives in an ecologically fragile region prone to landslides.
Green Pages News

Democrats Try to Kneecap Green Party - Clause Sneaks Poison Pill in Voting Rights Bill (HR1/S1) By Mike Feinstein, Green Party of California What happens when a major political party writes an e...
memeorandum

Jake Ellzey wins Texas special election over Trump-backed Susan Wright (Andrew Miller/Fox News) - Andrew Miller / Fox News: *Jake Ellzey wins Texas special election over Trump-backed Susan Wright* — The race was considered by some as a referendum on...
The Week

Within 7 days, Bhutan fully vaccinates 90 percent of eligible adults -
Raw Story

DC cop reveals the FOP cop union has refused to stand up for them in wake of Jan. 6 attacks - CNN's Jake Tapper asked after the Congressional hearings Tuesday where the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) was. At no point has the FOP stepped up to a m...
The Verge

Nintendo is shutting down its Dr. Mario mobile game - Nintendo has announced that *Dr. Mario World*, a mobile take on the puzzle game series, will go out of service on November 1st, with sales of its in-app...
Political Wire

Trump’s Candidate Loses In Texas Special Election - Jake Ellzey (R) defeated Susan Wright (R) in a special runoff in Texas’s 6th Congressional District, dealing a blow to former President Trump, who had back...
Axios

Jake Ellzey defeats Trump-endorsed widow of congressman in Texas Senate seat race - Jake Ellzey won a special a runoff election for the U.S. House Seat in Texas on Tuesday night. *Why it matters: *It's a blow for his opponent Susan Wrigh...
Techdirt.

Splunk Can't Sue Deutsche Telekom In USA Over Magenta Trademark Bullying Occurring In Germany - If you were to simply input the word "magenta" into the search bar at the top of Techdirt, you will note that two company names seem to keep coming up in...
Dissident Voice

Open Letter to George W. Bush - With the recent passing of your close associate Donald Rumsfield, we felt compelled to share with you our many thoughtful remembrances. Many of us are a...
Election Law Blog

Eloquence - On voting rights from Norman Lear.
Mediagazer

In letters to companies, CA AG says data sharing via analytics trackers, like cookies, for ad and analytics purposes fits CCPA's definition of a data "sale" (Kate Kaye/Digiday) - Kate Kaye / Digiday: *In letters to companies, CA AG says data sharing via analytics trackers, like cookies, for ad and analytics purposes fits CCPA's de...
Workers World

Who is Ruchell Magee and why he has been in prison for 58 years - [image: Who is Ruchell Magee and why he has been in prison for 58 years] Ruchell Cinque Magee, a U.S. political prisoner who has served over 58 years in Ca...
Courthouse News

US sells Wu-Tang album to settle ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli’s court debt - "It started a conversation for us to look at what we value and don’t value,” Wu-Tang's RZA said of the forfeited album.
Field Negro

The Jan 6th Hearings were needed, but nothing will change, and the real culprit will not be be held accountable. - Today, after listening to some of the testimony from some of those Capitol police officers during the Jan 6th Commission hearings, I realized that Ameri...
The Hill

Senate passes bill to award congressional gold medal to first Black NHL player - The Senate has passed bipartisan legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Willie O'Ree, who was the first Black player in history to compete in...
Caitlin Johnstone

For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking secret ...
Liberation News

Days of action: The people of the United States demand “Let Cuba live!” - People in cities all across the United States participated in demonstrations July 24-26 to demand an end to the blockade of Cuba and all U.S. intervention.
Brad Blog

'A Cancer on Our Constitutional Republic': 'BradCast' 7/27/2021 - We can only hope that today's BradCast meets our mission of informing the electorate with stuff you need to know...and does not waste your time with stuff ...
Alternet

The 'progressive prosecutor' movement is facing a real test in Iowa - The County Attorney's Office in Polk County (Des Moines), Iowa has gotten little attention from criminal justice reform advocates—at least until March 20...
Eschaton

Late Night - Rock on.
The Contributor

Far-Right Lawmakers Back Bill That Could Ban Teaching Basic Constitutional History - News Image: The House Freedom Caucus backs a bill that would cut off federal funding to anyone teaching about the full contents of America's founding docu...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s $2m Wu-Tang Clan album sold by US government - The album, purchased by Shkreli for $2m, was bought for an undisclosed sum An unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album that “Pharma Bro” entrepreneur Martin Shkreli...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: July Update, Holy Moly - Raging mania house-price inflation.
NPR's Health Shots

Biden Is Considering A Vaccine Or Testing Mandate For Federal Workers - Under the policy, federal employees who are not confirmed as vaccinated would be required to wear masks at all times while at work and be tested regularly ...
Texas Environmental News

Shell to buy renewable energy company - The Royal Dutch Shell oil and gas company will buy a renewable energy company as part of its goal of [...] The post Shell to buy renewable energy company...
OpEd News

Calls Grow for Biden to Close Guanta'namo Military Prison as U.S. Sanctions Cuba over Human Rights - As the United States imposes new Cuba sanctions, citing human rights abuses, we look at the U.S. military prison in Guanta'namo Bay, Cuba, a notorious gula...
Salon.com

Republican state senator doubles down on Arizona audit critique after being booed at Trump rally - “Why don’t you listen to what I have to say?”
Deadline Politics

Garcetti Announces Los Angeles Is Requiring Vaccines Or Weekly Testing For All City Workers; Pursuing Full Mandate - With the coronavirus surging again, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council President Nury Martinez announced Tuesday evening that all city employees w...
Texas Monthly

Greg Abbott’s Border Fence Is Rising in Bits and Pieces - Local officials in South Texas are scrambling to figure out what the governor is building in their communities. The post Greg Abbott’s Border Fence Is Ri...
DeSmogBlog

Scientists who Issued ‘Climate Emergency’ Declaration in 2019 Now say Earth’s Vital Signs are Worsening - From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. An urgent global phaseout of ...
San Antonio Report

‘Alarming’ coronavirus case numbers lead hospital to limit visitors, council office to close - [image: University Hospital will begin limiting the amount of visitors allowed inside due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.]The positivity rate in Bex...
Daily Dot

Burberry’s new ad starring centaur Adam Driver has Twitter mystified and horny - [image: Adam Driver horny Burberry centaur] Adam Driver stars in Burberry’s newest cologne ad, in which he appears to transform into a centaur, and Twitt...
The Root

Regé-Jean Page Tapped as Lead for Upcoming Reboot of Adventure-Thriller The Saint - Is this a safe space? I need to confess something to you all. Read more...
Slate

If Simone Is “Nope”-ing Out of the Olympics, Should We Follow? - Athletes like Biles and Naomi Osaka have been increasingly upfront about the cost of their performances.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

VICTORY! Appeals court rules against web designer who challenged Colorado's anti-discrimination law - A Colorado appeals court just ruled that this will not be a legal reality in the state. The religious right's attempt to exploit the concept of 'religiou...
Portside

California Inks Contract with New 40,000-member Child Care Union - California Inks Contract with New 40,000-member Child Care Union Greg Tue, 07/27/2021 - 19:45
San Antonio Current

The Texas election bill contains a new obstacle to voting that almost no one is talking about - *This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. This article is avai...
Capital & Main

As Delta Surges, Los Angeles Isn’t Requiring COVID Vaccinations for Government Workers — for Now - *Some local governments around the country are already mandating shots for public employees.* The post As Delta Surges, Los Angeles Isn’t Requiring COVID...
Houston Public Media

Reactions To U.S. House Committee Investigating Capitol Hill Riot - Political experts unpack today’s hearing, our understanding of what happened on January 6th, and the role of the hearing in history.
Buzzflash

Banning Jim Jordan From the January 6 Hearing Saved It From Devolving Into a Farce - Slate
Daily Cartoonist

Claes Reimerthi – RIP - The Phantom comic book and comic strip writer Claes Reimerthi has passed away. Claes Göran Reimerthi January 12, 1955 – July 23, 2021 The news from the C...
VICE

Ed Buck Found Guilty of Giving Meth to Black Men Who Overdosed During ‘Party and Play’ Sessions - He supplied homeless Black men with drugs, and sometimes injected them with meth, as part of an apparent fetish.
Talking Points Memo

‘Shameful’: Cheney Blasts Stefanik For Shifting Blame For Insurrection To Pelosi - Hours after the Jan. 6 House select committee held its first public hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Tuesday called out Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-WY) for ...
Vox

Why Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic Gymnastic Women’s Team Finals - [image: Gymnast Simone Biles, wearing a mask.] Simone Biles, the GOAT. | Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Simone Biles stepped back from the Olympic Gymna...
Texas Standard

‘Sesame Street’ Takes On A New Challenge: Teaching Military Kids About Racial Justice - As part of a special project targeted at military kids, Sesame Workshop and its Muppets are tackling the subjects of race, diversity, and discrimination.
CultureMap Houston

New outdoor music series celebrates Houston stars and favorite parks - These toasty summer days -- where minutes outside can feel like an eternity -- may have some locals yearning for cooler temps in the great outdoors. With ...
Common Dreams

At Times Square Rally, Activists Demand Congress 'Tax the Rich' - "If billionaires can afford to go to space, they can afford to pay their fair share."
SCOTUSblog

New York landlords ask court to block state eviction moratorium - [image: New York landlords ask court to block state eviction moratorium]Telling the justices that “the courthouse door has been barred to New York’s land...
Avedon's Sideshow

The world keeps revolving - "Sweet Peas From My Garden", photograph by Hazel Ashworth. "On the Political Marriage of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders: *Progressives cannot and should not...
FiveThirtyEight.com

One Conference To Rule Them All - First, in honor/horror of Oklahoma and Texas breaking ties with the Big 12, we talk about what’s to become of college football. The short answer is that mo...
Democracy Chronicles

The Case For Optimism About American Democracy - Despite confidence in American democracy being at an all-time low, a new view makes the case for optimism about American democracy
The Texas Signal

George P. Bush comes up short in Trump endorsement - Yesterday, Trump made his official endorsement in the Republican primary for attorney general by sticking with Ken Paxton. The announcement is one more h...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Strikes Down Wyoming’s 300-Foot “No Politics” Zone Around Polling Places - On July 22, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal, an Obama appointee, struck down Wyoming’s 300-foot “no politics” zone around polling places on ...
Second Nexus

Gavin Newsom Slams QAnon Congresswoman as 'Murderous' in Fiery Twitter Clapback - Far-right Congresswoman and prominent conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene's district in Northeast Georgia is nearly 2500 miles from California, bu...
The Intercept

In the Race Against Nina Turner, GOP Donors Fund Shontel Brown - With one week left in the Ohio primary, Republican donors have picked their Democrat — and the pro-Israel PAC supporting her. The post In the Race Agains...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Continuing Horror of CIA’s Torture and Abuse - Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison at ...
American Prospect

⏩ Private Equity Hijacks Infrastructure Plan - David Dayen on the infrastructure negotiations and how Biden has placated progressive groups.
Futurism

Video Shows Massive Meteor Lighting Up Entire Night Sky - A large meteor hurtled over the Norwegian skies, lighting up the night sky over most of southern Scandinavia in a flash of light. It was such a violent...
Houston Press

Georgia James Tavern Opens Tonight - It's always big news when one of Houston's best chefs opens a new restaurant and the news can't get much bigger than James Beard Award Winning chef Chris S...
Latino Rebels

Tension Rises in Rincón Due to Police Force and Construction on Beach - Complaints from protesters and activists range from excessive police force to unjustified arrests. Several videos on social media have recorded how police ...
Political Garbage Chute

GOP Election Audits Prove Biden’s Presidency Can Only Last Three and a Half More Years - The results of two major pretend-audits in Arizona and Georgia are starting to come in, and Cyber Ninjas, the company that performed them, says that they...
Dorf on Law

How Is It Possible That the Debt Ceiling Is a Thing Again? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* "Just when I thought I was out ... they pull me back in!" OK, I am certainly no Michael Corleone (as far as anyone knows), but thi...
slacktivist

What if life wasn’t just a zero-sum game? - Politico exacerbates the problem of misplaced hyperpartisanship even while doing an otherwise excellent job of describing its harmful effects.
Mother Jones

Today Is the 100th Anniversary of Insulin. Let Us Know How It’s Affected Your Life. - Until the discovery of insulin a century ago today by two Canadian researchers who injected a pancreatic extract into a diabetic dog and watched its blood ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Unholy Spin: Xi Endorses ‘Religious Rights’ In Tibet - Under Xi’s tenure, screws tightened further on Tibetan Buddhists’ religious freedoms.
The Grayzone

How Washington’s top Taiwan specialist embraced separatist party leader and opened new cross-Strait crisis - Known as “America’s leading Taiwan hand,” Richard C. Bush has helped preserve peace between Beijing and Taipei. But as Washington moved toward conflict, ...
Robert Reich

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Reform Austin

Phelan Issues Bizarre Warrant for Cortez’s Arrest, What Does it Mean? - The Texas legislative stalemate continues basically unchanged, but a new and somewhat bizarre wrinkle has been introduced. Speaker of the House Dad Phela...
Mondoweiss

The Christian call for ‘just peace’ must be rooted in justice for Palestine - Christians have a role in the struggle for justice and human rights in Palestine and Israel. This includes combating the destructive effects of the Zionist...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Justice Now: Fact or Fiction? - A letter mailed to Park Cities homes is causing a bit of a stir. It asks White Democrats to pledge not to send their children to Ivy League schools or an...
Popular Resistance

The Collective Suicide Machine - The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban to power, is ...
Discourse

Please Don’t Make Me Choose Between J.D. Vance and the ADL - What is there to say about Hillbilly Elegy writer-cum-shitty Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance? Is he bankrolled by a guy who pals around with dedic...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience - Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. The post Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience a...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 QUESTIONS ABOUT Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric Since 1945 - What if how presidents talk about ending wars contributes to the cycle of U.S. military intervention? Stephen J. Heidt answers 6+1 questions about his new ...
Scheerpost.com

Hedges: The Price of Conscience - Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Maine’s Facial Recognition Law Shows Bipartisan Support for Protecting Privacy - *This piece was first published in TechCrunch.* Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased su...
In These Times

Biden's Climate Pledges Are Incompatible with His Belligerence Toward China - Bipartisan saber rattling and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most. - The Biden administration came into office promising a return to both climate action and diplomacy after years of confrontation and denialism under Trump....
INSIDER - politics news

Capitol riot suspect who bragged about macing cops, posed for pictures with Trump allies has been charged with assault - [image: Samuel Lazar, Capitol riot] Summary List Placement A 35-year-old Capitol rioter who bragged about macing cops and had posed with politicians pro...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2021 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day “New Study Finds That Crows Are So Intelligent They Understand the Concept of Zero” [My Modern Met]. ...
The Conversation

Peru has a new president, its fifth in five years – who is Pedro Castillo? - Castillo is a farmer and teacher who has never held national office. Peru is a nation in political turmoil, with the world’s worst COVID-19 death rate. Can...
El Paso Matters

‘Devastating’ court ruling leaves El Paso DACA recipients anxious about the future - El Paso filmmaker Juan Paul Flores Vazquez was brought to the United States from Mexicali, Mexico, when he was 3. At age 16, he became a recipient of the...
Progressive.org

Dems Are Failing to Engage Young People - Young Americans like me shouldn’t feel like kids in the grocery store putting candy in the cart and having our elected officials tell us, “Put that back.”
Sludge

Congress Won’t Stop Trading Stocks - Congress’ stock trading was in the news last year after former senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler disclosed dumping stocks shortly after receiving pr...
The AltWorld

The Fauci Protection Team - Someone, almost certainly Dr. Fauci’s business partner, Big Pharma, has organized an active Internet support system to […] The post The Fauci Protection ...
The NM Political Report

State orders Las Cruces store to stop ‘gifting’ cannabis - [image: State orders Las Cruces store to stop ‘gifting’ cannabis] In what could end up being the first test case of illicit cannabis operations in a post-l...
Dandelion Salad

David Swanson: It’s Absolute Hypocrisy - with David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, July 26, 2021 July 27, 2021 “There’s no growing threat or shrinking threat or threat of any...
First Draft

The Truman Myth - Meet Miller-McCullough Man.
WhoWhatWhy

Voting Curbs Enacted in 18 States in 2021 Despite None Finding Widespread Fraud - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Undernews

Virus status update - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the weekly average of new cases per capita is 43% above that in April 2020. The US ...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson faces prison in Arizona - Just spoke with Barbara Arnwine who was arrested along with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, and more than 30 others attempting a peacefu...
Shadowproof

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence For Releasing Drone Documents - Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Es...
Angry Bear

Natural Gas Prices at a 31 month High - Commenter and Blogger R.J.S. brings the latest on Natural Gas and the impact on it from the heat wave. Focus on Fracking blogspot Natural gas prices rose...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - TMC for ek hornbeck
ProPublica

Immigration Prosecutors Were Told Not to Push for Deportation in Cases Like His. He Was Ordered Deported the Next Day. - by Dara Lind ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin PD's "early warning system" is a failed PR stunt, like pretty much all of them - "Early warning systems" for police are one of those ideas that's touted by institutional players in the wake of bad police misconduct episodes - doubling d...
Ian Welsh

A Great Idea About Capitalism That Was Wrong - [image: Story 458890750] So, back in the 80s, when I was young, green and wet behind the years, one of the great thinkers about how to help poor people wa...
Countercurrents

Deconstructing Assam – Mizoram Border Clash - Most people in India do not know that the majority of the states in Northeast India were once part of the undivided province of Assam during Brtish colonia...
Bracing Views

Why Can’t American Troops Just Leave Iraq? - W.J. Astore The Biden administration says it wants to remove U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Hooray! Mission finally accomplished, right? It may be 18 years ...
Ring of Fire

Right Wing Protestors Get Free Pass After Breaking New Law & Juul Caught Paying For Pro-Vape Studies - Via America’s Lawyer: Anti-Cuba protestors swarmed the streets in Florida, despite the state’s recent passage of the country’s most stringent anti-protes...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: Pharr EDC recognizes Vanguard students who participated in summer internship program - PHARR, Texas – Directors with the Pharr Economic Development Corporation have recognized Vanguard Academy students for successfully completing a summer i...
Space City Weather

Eye on the Tropics: July will finish on a quiet note in the Atlantic - The last time we had a tropics post was back on July 13th, and since then zero storms have formed. By July 30, 2020 Isaias had formed. We’re still stuck on...
Right Wing Watch

Dave Daubenmire Says ‘Dr. Fauci Is an Emissary of the Devil’ Sent to Destroy Christians - Radical right-wing activist Dave Daubenmire spoke at a conference in his home state of Ohio last weekend, where he shared the stage with notorious anti-v...
Claytoonz

Vive Le Loser - Fact: Mike Pence did nothing…NOTHING…to prevent the United States men’s basketball team from losing to France. Oh, sure. He might give you some weak excuse...
Rallblog

How to Start the Next Stupid War before It Starts - Americans are politically fractured but they agree that our longest war was a mistake. 77% of Americans, including many Republicans, told a r...
Daily Howler

A SIMPLE CONCEPT: It's "a simple concept," he said! - *TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021* *Then came his next six grafs: * As we noted last week, several parts of Einstein's universe are easy to report or describe. In ...
ArcaMax

Small-Town Hero: Remembering John Glenn's Right Stuff - On July 4, 1997, Sen. John Glenn hosted a lunch for his staff in his hideaway office underneath the Capitol dome. Born in New Concord, Ohio, population 1,8...
Bonddad

Housing sales decline, while price surges continue - -* by New Deal democrat* So I take a little one day road trip on my vacation, and come back to find much weeping and gnashing of teeth and generalize...
Texas Observer

For Greg Abbott, All the Border’s a Stage - It’s a Texas tradition as old as, well, at least the Perry administration. Don some camouflage, maybe add a bulletproof vest, and scurry south. Find some...
Eater Houston

Chris Shepherd’s Casual Counterpart to Steakhouse Georgia James Opens Today - [image: White plates filled with food sit against a dark table] A spread of Georgia James Tavern dishes | Claudia Casbarian for Georgia James Tavern Get ...
Southeast Texas Record

Court records show Duc Dinh sued woman accusing him or rape for defamation before she filed her lawsuit - HOUSTON – Court records show that Duc Dinh, a well-known member of the Houston-area Vietnamese community, had sued Gina Nguyen for defamation prior to be...
Lawfare

House Select Committee Investigating Jan. 6 Holds Its First Hearing - On Tuesday, July 27, at 9:30 a.m., the House Select Committee will hold its first hearing to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Members will h...
Washington Babylon

More on Democratic Party Hack Adam Parkhomenko and the Resistance Grift - [image: More on Democratic Party Hack Adam Parkhomenko and the Resistance Grift] Last Friday, I wrote a story here, “Bilking the #Resistance: Michael Aven...
Rewire

Abortion Is Legal—but Texas Cities Keep Trying to Outlaw It - Edinburg, Texas, was the latest city that tried to become a "sanctuary city for the unborn" and outlaw abortion within city limits. The post Abortion Is ...
Dos Centavos

Get Your Shots! Mask Up! - Since the media and government are on top of trying to get shots into the unvaccinated, there’s no sense in me joining that part of the chorus. I’ve seen t...
Glasstire

The Bartlett Project, Part 8: A Building and its Dust - For earlier installments in this series, please start here. The most recent installment (before this one) is here. It was only a few weeks ago I spent a...
The Smirking Chimp

GOP's Race to the Bottom: Who Can Be the Most Obnoxious Troll? -
Democracy Now!

Calls Grow for Biden to Close Guantánamo Military Prison as U.S. Sanctions Cuba over Human Rights - [image: Seg2 gitmo 2]
ROAR Magazine

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation - Anti-Roma racism remains pervasive across Europe. It is time to develop a common political agenda for the unification and collective liberation of the Roma.
Grist

What’s the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean? - Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships.
Skeptophilia

Untruth and consequences - In Dorothy Sayers' novel *Gaudy Night*, set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of an increasingly vicious se...
The Daily Poster

Pros And Cons Of Taking Money From Your Constituents - Internal documents show the crass political calculus behind a Republican governor’s decision to cut off COVID jobless aid.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Kansas City lessons on supporting Black businesses that can work anywhere - Long before they were threatened by the economic shutdown associated with COVID-19, Dr. Karen Curls says that Black-owned small businesses were held back...
Novara Media

Here’s What Really Happened When Labour Suspended Corbyn - During the 2020 Labour leadership election, Keir Starmer pitched himself as the ‘unity candidate’. But throughout the first year of his tenure there was al...
Off The Kuff

Day 13 quorum busting post: Just a reminder, the voter suppression bill still sucks - […]
Morning Consult

Republicans, Independents Drive Decline in Support for Jan. 6 Panel - The post Republicans, Independents Drive Decline in Support for Jan. 6 Panel appeared first on Morning Consult.
Counterpunch

The Continuing Horror of CIA’s Torture and Abuse - Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison a...
Crooked Media

50 First Mandates - The post 50 First Mandates appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

Climate change wreaks havoc on the electricity grid - Heat and drought combined are especially harmful to the power system.
Church and State

The GOP Apparently Only Can Act In Its Political Self Interest - What kind of governance does the GOP represent? Not much of anything for their voters whose numbers are shrinking daily.
Informed Comment

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US combat m...
Earth 911

5 Best Products to Pick Up at Your Local Swap Shop - Attention, Freecyclers. You may be missing out on one of the best options to pick... The post 5 Best Products to Pick Up at Your Local Swap Shop appeared...
jobsanger

Why GOP Opposes January 6th Investigation -
TXElects

Trump Endorses Paxton, Rallies for Wright on Election Eve - Former President Trump endorsed Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton (R) for re-election. In a statement, Trump said Paxton “has been bravely on the front line in the f...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Update - *The Constitution Party today sent the following update to its email subscribers.* National Committee meeting in Michigan The Semi-Annual National Commi...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Political Economy of Development in Palestine: A Critical Perspective - Political economy is concerned with institutions, relations of power, and social conflict and struggle. A key task of political economy is to historicize...
Project Censored

Deep Fake Politics- Historiography of the Cold War, the Clandestine State, and Political Economy of US Hegemony with Aaron Good - Mickey’s guest for the hour is political scientist Aaron Good. Good recently completed a critique of the latest BBC documentary from Adam Curtis (“Can’t ...
Krebs on Security

PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk - One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have bee...
Idavox

Foley Square Follies: Proud Boy-Affiliated Pro-Insurrectionist Rally is Met by Antifa - The usual neo-fascist suspects are doing their typical “an-TEE-fa BAD!” thing on social media, but... The post Foley Square Follies: Proud Boy-Affiliated...
Campaign for America's Future

First We Celebrate, Then We Fight - July 15th is a day every American should celebrate. That’s when families began to receive direct payments of as much as $300 per child, payments they’ll no...
epic.org

New Experts Join the EPIC Advisory Board - EPIC is pleased to announce the newest members of the EPIC Advisory Board. EPIC's new members are leading experts in privacy, technology, and civil liberti...
Liberal America

Scared Republicans Cancel References to Race in Libraries and Schools - It’s bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist “America First” caucus in the hallowed H...
alicublog

A SHOT AND A BOOR. - I’m releasing today’s *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down*, about how the polio vaccine rollout may have gone down if anti-vaxxers back then were like anti-vaxxe...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Overwhelmed - If you like these cartoons, please support my Patreon! Lots of people making small pledges adds up to me making a living, which is rather cool. This cartoo...
Socialist Alternative

ESwatini: Will Removing a King Bring Freedom? - Ndumiso Ncube & Alex Sivitilli, First published by https://socialist.org.za/ (ISA in South Africa) The end of June brought with it reports that Africa’s la...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The American Future, Vacations, Empire in Decline - Here we go again. Just wanted to once more sound an appreciation for your support. I didn’t know what to expect when I started this project. It was in the ...
Pages of Victory

THE SUBMISSIVES - I am bearing down on Democrats because they and their followers hold the keys to the success or failure of our country in the immediate future. Republic...
Tribune of the People

Future Spies: The NSA Finances Summer Camp for Portuguese-Speaking Youth - Editor’s note: The following is an unofficial translation of “Futuros espiões: NSA financia acampamento de férias para jovens que falam português” from rev...
Debunking Christianity

My Talk at the GCRR e-Conference on the Historical Jesus - The conference was fantastic! You should attend other virtual eConferences put on by the GCRR! You should also help support what it does by becoming a memb...
Duffel Blog

99% of you won't share this picture of the US Flag, study finds - One like equals one prayer.
The Progressive Wing

7.26-27 Open Thread - Figured I would do the honor of opening our Nest for today and tomorrow. 🙂 The People’s Party is dropping off a M4A petition, and holding a M4A Rally in A...
Progressives Chat

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dore! … An Important Choice - Monday, July 26, 2021 marks the 56th birthday of *Jimmy Dore*. 🎈 🎂 *Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dore!* 🎂 🎈 An Important Choice It is very interesting to...
See You In 2020

Mercenaries Terrorize Minneapolis As Colonialism Intensifies Repression & Counterinsurgency - [image: Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer] Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer In the c...
Infidel753

Self-genocide - Over the last few days, some right-wing leaders in the US have abruptly pivoted to a more pro-vaccine message. Moscow Mitch, Sean Hannity, and Alabama go...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

47 Different ways to say, “I’m friendly!” - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: It’s true, we’re an animal friendly village. We tend to get along reasonably well with the neighbor dogs running loose, wi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Push for Lesson-Burning in Texas Classrooms Comes as No Shock to Those in the Long Fight for Mexican American Studies - *This post is a really good followup to my earlier post today titled, "Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature. The...
Stinque

In the Long Run, We’re All Dead - In the thirty years we’ve been familiar with global warming — never mind the more than sixty years since it was first brought to public attention — a com...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Edward Weston tribute capsicum - Bought at the market in Pézenas, France. I could hardly not take a photo of it, could I?
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Zombie Republic - California… prophet on the burnin’ shore… where Gavin Newsom is whipping the kids back to school so he can whip their parents back to work, where new cases...
TalkLeft

Dangerous Delta Roars: Booster Shots, Masks, Lockdown Protests - Could there be any more dangerous time than now, when Delta makes up 83% of all new cases and we're being told not to worry if you get Delta after being va...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Government Can't Keep Their Lies Straight, & JFK Was Shot From Grassy Knoll! - There's little or no doubt that the governments explanation for the assassination of JFK isn't close to the truth, assuming you read the facts behind it...
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of - The mainstream media’s myopic focus on Israel’s Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated, even w...
NORML

Upcoming Congressional House Vote on Marijuana Policy - As soon as next week, there will be a crucial vote in the US House of Representatives on an amendment to protect legal marijuana states from federal inte...
News Junkie

France Neoliberal Macron: Vanguard of a Covid Global Corporate Dictatorship? - Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite: under Macron’s pass sanitaire’s guillotine? For the few of us who are students of history, and its aficionado travelers, meanin...
Trivial Knot

Why have choices that matter? - Last month I played and discussed Tell Me Why, but today I want to discuss the genre that Tell Me Why is part of. The Steam storefront calls it “choices ma...
Eclectablog

The massive legislation you’ve not heard about – with special guest Rebecca Vallas - Rebecca Vallas on Twitter: @RebeccaVallas Tell your members of Congress: "We can't afford to leave SSI for disabled & older Americans behind in #BuildBackB...
Bud Kennedy

From a Jack to a King: Payouts, hint of cronyism forced change on Tarrant water board - Now you see why we needed new leaders at the Tarrant Regional Water District. Panther Island had become Crony Corner. The leaders known for their grand pla...
Innocence Project

Remembering Dick Lewontin, Brilliant Biologist, Mathematician, Geneticist, and Mentor - Richard (Dick) Lewontin died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2021, at the age of 92. He was a biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and, for ...
Equality Texas

Special Session Lege Week 3 Wrap-up: Hope is on the horizon - We are halfway through the July Special Session, and preparing for all possibilities to come. As a reminder, last week two anti-transgender sports bans —...
LareDOS

BORDER WALL IN LAREDO IS DEAD: Epic David vs. Goliath battle. The people of Laredo won. - Coalition stopped a “done deal;” there is no “disaster” in Laredo.
Freethought Now

Vaccine disinformation, godly Little League, an intellectual treat & a great life philosophy - During these dog days of summer, we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have spent a lot of time addressing urgent national and international issues.
Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Apologizes for Putting Judge Under Surveillance - Well, he's a lawyer for now, anyway. Related Stories - Lawyer Who Said Disbarment Would Be “an Honor” Has Finally Been Honored - Lawyer Whos...
nonsite.org

Why Black Lives Matter Can’t be Co-opted - We absolutely do not need to figure out how to make anti-racism anti-capitalist. We need to figure out how to start trying to build a mass movement around ...
Louis Proyect

The Milk System - COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 23, 2021 Thanks to my good friend Manuel Garcia Jr., I got a head’s up about a documentary titled “The Milk System” that arrived with ze...
Border/Lines

Texas now arresting migrants found near the border for “trespassing”—07-23-21 - Immigration news, in context
Edinburg Politics

Telemedicine bill to improve access to health care – authored by Rep. Guillén, coauthored by Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra, and Rep. Martínez, cosponsored by Sen. Hinojosa and supported by DHR Health – signed into law by Gov. Abbott - ouse Bill 4, authored by Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo – whose leadership team on the legislation included Rio Grande Valley state lawmakers – will improve a...
Living Blue in Texas

The Insidious Ideology of White Supremacy - Recently, Denton Bible Church held a conference to decry “wokeness” ideology. They described “wokeness ideology” as rooted in social justice. The post T...
Land Destroyer

US Fingerprints on Terrorism Aimed At China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - July 23, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – In April of this year and then again in July, two attacks in Pakistan, west of the Indus River, appear to have tar...
The Rag Blog

Joshua Brown : POLITICAL CARTOON | Trump Library -
Black Agenda Report

DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969 - DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969 Authors Editors, The Black Agenda Review glen Fri, 07/23/2021 - 03:32 Rodney suc...
Due Dissidence

Michael Brooks Was the Leader the Left Needed. Without Him, We’re a Mess. - by Keaton Weiss July 20 marked the one year anniversary of the passing of Michael Brooks, co-host and producer of The Majority Report and host of The Micha...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Redistricting in America, Part One: Gerrymandering Potency Raises the Stakes for the 2020s - Dear Readers: This is the first of a multi-part Crystal Ball series that we’ll be publishing periodically between now and Labor Day analyzing congressional...
Downwinders at Risk

One of Dallas’ Biggest Polluters Appears to Be Breaking the Law in West Dallas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : 8 am Wednesday July 21 Contact: Raul Reyes Jr.: President, West Dallas 1 – 469-880-3811 Evelyn Mayo, Neighborhood Self-Defense Proj...
Environment Texas

What’s it like to install a heat pump? - Johanna Neumann Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy (413) 256-6434 Contact person by email - Read more about Johanna Neumann Wednesd...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Crisis In Ethiopia: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the War In Tigray - Ethiopia has been in the headlines in recent months as the TPLF, a Tigrayan rebel group that ruled the country for three decades, violently seized the nort...
Earthworks

Norway Risks Tarnishing its Clean Rep - Norway is seen as a leader on the environment, especially ocean sustainability. But the country’s ocean dumping problem is undermining efforts to stop th...
Dissent Magazine

Arguments on the Left: Elections and Coalitions - Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
Ecosophia

The Wars of the Roses - At this point in our survey of the magical history of America, we’ve reached the period that can fairly be called the golden age of American occultism. It...
Nina Illingworth

Mental Health Isn’t Profitable by Chris Walker - It's one thing to know for profit healthcare doesn't work; it's another to live the experience. Walker is back with a new piece: Mental Health Isn't Prof...
The Mind Unleashed

Jeff Bezos Thanks Amazon Workers And Customers For Paying For His Flight To Space - “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for this,” the billionaire joked after returning from his flight.
Bayou Brief

Joe Badon’s Cinema of the Weird - On the Northshore of New Orleans, where things can get fairly unremarkable from time to time, lives a filmmaker and artist whose work I’ve found to be conf...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Propaganda War (And How to Fight It) - Every totalitarian system in history has used the power of visual propaganda to generate a new “reality,” one that reifies its official ideology, remaking ...
Antiwar.com

The War Lobby Believes Washington Should Represent Everyone Except Americans - David Brooks, a onetime conservative editor at Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, long ago joined the Pretorian Guard for American progressive internati...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: A Covid Kiss That Is Harder to Read - Two people kiss through plastic bags marking love in the time of Covid. We discuss how the image parallels earlier pandemic hugs and kisses. The post Cha...
The Militant

Freedom Rides built fight to topple Jim Crow segregation - This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, one of the high points of the Black-led proletarian civil rights struggle that overturned Jim Cr...
CT's short stories and novelettes

XI-321 - INVADERS FROM THE SHADOW PLANETS OF TWARR 1 “Negats, kid. Zephyr doesn’t do that. We might make a little jaunt across the Milky Way to delive...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremistas en la frontera: cómo la extrema derecha explota la crisis migratoria, apunta a las organizaciones humanitarias y esparce los temores nativistas - A medida que la crisis migratoria continúa creciendo en la frontera del sur, los grupos humanitarios enfrentan un acoso continuo de la extrema derecha que ...
DBC Green

If There's No Democrat Nominee for Governor...? - This entry is adapted (unrolled, if you will, and edited slightly) from a thread that I tweeted out yesterday. The tweets might not appear in their correct...
Texas Freedom Network

The 2021 Legislature and Winning the Future - A special session of the Texas Legislature got underway on July 8. Why Gov. Abbott felt the need to call for a special session has a lot to do with what ...
Media Myth Alert

Insidious: Off-hand references signal deep embedding of prominent media myths - The insidious nature of prominent media myths is evident in how casually they are invoked, as if their veracity is beyond question. These blithe, passing r...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Down on the Bayou in Summertime - Documenting the Changes on that Bend in the River July 5, 2021 The silver threads suspended across our path glistened in the early morning sun. We apologiz...
Chicken Fried Politics

Second time’s a charm? Charles Booker makes new run for Kentucky U.S. Senate seat - Former Democratic legislator from Louisville will face uphill climb to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Rand in 2022 ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.c...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
The Socialist

The First Chinese Sheriff in San Francisco - David Wong immigrated to San Francisco in 1976 with his family from Hong Kong. While David attended grade school, his parents struggled to make ends meet. ...
Free & Equal

Free and Equal Elections Foundation Announces Indigenous Speakers for United We Stand Festival Cambria - The post Free and Equal Elections Foundation Announces Indigenous Speakers for United We Stand Festival Cambria appeared first on Free & Equal.
Seeing the Forest

Fascists Eat Donuts - In 2003 I asked if anyone knew a certain song… I did get an answer but never posted it. So here it is: Pop O Pies – Facists eat donuts
BEYONDbones

Saturn Rises | July 2021 Sky Happenings - Mars is still low in the west—visible right as night falls. Venus remains in the evening sky this month. It overtakes Mars on July 12; the two planets a...
Malady

Trotsky's 'Stalinism and Bolshevism': A Brief Analysis - *"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws." – Leon Trotsky* Even 80 years after Leon Trotsky’s unfortunate demise, he still represents ...
Media Lens

A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying - As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning e...
ExChristian.Net

Ten Thought Patterns that Trip Up Former Bible Believers - *By Valerie Tarico ~* Perhaps it’s been years or even decades since you left biblical Christianity behind. You may have noticed long ago that there are h...
One People's Project

NIKO HOUSE - NAME: Niko House HOME BASE: Miami, FL DOB: 12/27/1988 Our subject here in this profile once said something very important: “When you start seeing patterns,...
Moron Majority

Giuliani Prepares For New Role As MyPillow Pitchman - Now that his New York law license has been suspended, and facing likely disbarment, Rudy Giuliani can rest easy at night … the “My Pillow Guy,” Mike Lindel...
Reveal

Planning to buy tickets to a live event? Read this first. - [image: An illustration shows a pair of paper event tickets sitting inside a claw-style trap.] As the live events industry reopens, a perfect storm for de...
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Points of Unity - 1) Police and the State Police forces uphold white supremacy and class hierarchy accross the globe. From their historical beginnings as slave patrols and u...
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
The Disorder Of Things

GCRF’d - Twenty-four hours before universities closed for the Easter break, the heads of twelve international research projects received a letter from the funding s...
GreenSource DFW

Dirt Doctor, Healthy Hippie dish on Green Source Zoomcast - *Watch our second episode of Green Source On the Air featuring organic gardening pioneer Howard Garrett. Photo courtesy of Howard Garrett.* May 24, 2021 ...
Web of Debt

How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism - The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and wha...
Texas Moratorium Network

Law of Parties Bill Sent to Senate Jurisprudence Committee - The Law of Parties death penalty reform bill HB 1340 by Rep Jeff Leach, Rep Harold Dutton and 8 other co-authors and that passed the House on an overwhel...
New Progressive Alliance

Enter the Debt Jubilee - This is not a troubling long term trend that will not end well. Jeff Roby is a Florida activist who also publishes in the The Green Party of Florida.
Texas Watch

Texas Needs Safe Roads, Not Dangerous Trucking Legislation - *By: Ware Wendell* We have a *safety crisis* on Texas roads. Texas has *led the nation* in the number of large truck crashes for years. Commercial truck...
BillMoyers.com

Juneteenth: America’s Other Independence Day - (Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019) Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. Abraham Lincoln had issued the...
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...
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 ...
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...
Two Party Opera

When Texas Freezes Over -
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...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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-...
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...
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: ...
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...
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

The Debate. And Other Equally Weird Incidents. - 1. I tried to watch the Biden-Trump debate last night but instead my television gave me a show where two kindergarten children were having temper tantru...
Better Texas Blog

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 ...
Texas Rural Voices

“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...
Popehat

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
The Reality-Based Community

[J!nx-Movie] UNHINGED (2020) HD Watch online Full Or Free - Watch UNHINGED Online, free, trial, access!! WATCH HERE > https://comicbook.com/film/unhinged DOWNLOAD HERE > UNHINGED is a movie starring Tom Hanks, Elisa...
Splinter

Google's Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming - Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some ...
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...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
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...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
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...
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...

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Friday, July 14, 2006

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