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Crooks and Liars

Larry Kudlow Pushes 'Optimism' Fairy To Defend Trump's Chaotic Economy - Trump's economic advisor went on multiple Sunday talk shows two days ago and deflected the fears of a recession by evoking a fairytale instead of actual ...
Vox

How China used Facebook and Twitter to spread disinformation about the Hong Kong protests - [image: Protesters, some wearing masks, point lasers at a demonstration in Hong Kong in August 2019.] Protests in Hong Kong have been underway for two mont...
Mother Jones

The Fed Wants to Loosen Bank Rules. It Shouldn’t. Not Yet, Anyway. - More and more, it looks like ten years is the official period for financial regulators to exhale and declare that what happened in 2008 can never happen ag...
Latino Rebels

‘The Color of Wealth in Miami’ Is Black and White - More studies are necessary to supplement our understanding of the racial identification of newer Americans and immigrant communities.
Dissident Voice

Unifor Aligns with Liberal Foreign Policy instead of International Solidarity - Inviting Chrystia Freeland to address this week’s Unifor convention undermines the union’s claims of international solidarity. As Foreign Affairs Minister,...
Washington's Blog

The Russiagate hoax is now fully exposed. - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker The last leg of the Russiagate hoax to become exposed was on August 16th, when Gareth Porter bannered at The Am...
Eschaton

The War On Cars - There's aren't that many cities in the US where significant banning of cars would be an easy endeavor, but there are plenty of places where reclaiming *som...
VICE

Here Are the Best New TV Shows to Watch This Fall - Everything from HBO's 'Watchmen' to 'The Morning Show' on Apple TV+ and beyond.
memeorandum

Dick's Sporting Goods is testing if it should stop selling guns (Chris Isidore/CNN) - Chris Isidore / CNN: *Dick's Sporting Goods is testing if it should stop selling guns* — New York (CNN Business)Dick's Sporting Goods considered stoppi...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Church sends lesbian couple ugly letter a year after kicking them out' & other Tue midday news briefs - *She met her wife at church so the pastor kicked them out. Then he sent them a letter.*- *Kicking them out was bad enough. Sending an ugly letter a year...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Sen. Murphy on the NRA: They aren’t as powerful as people think - President Trump appears to be backing down on stronger background checks, soon after his promise to support legislation. But his aides insist he's just hit...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin should freeze police hiring until pension problem resolved - Since the local press has ignored the topic, let's delve a bit deeper into the pension crisis at the Austin Police Department. As *Grits reported yesterday...
The Week

The New York Times surrenders to the left on race - There's no denying that the much-lauded "1619 Project" at *The New York **Times *is a remarkable achievement. Whether it's an achievement that the paper ...
Talking Points Memo

Russian Social Media Troll Case Heading Towards April 2020 Trial Date - The case special counsel Robert Mueller brought against a company accused of funding Russia’s election meddling on social media looks...
Mediaite

5 Craziest Revelations From NBC’s Expose of the Pro-Trump Paper Funded By Falun Gong - How did a publication founded on a spiritual movement the Chinese government has labeled a “cult” gain enough traction to be scoring interviews with influe...
Jordan Chariton

Elizabeth Warren’s Apology to Native Americans Left Out Standing Rock - via IFTTT The post Elizabeth Warren’s Apology to Native Americans Left Out Standing Rock appeared first on Jordan Chariton Reports.
Pajiba

Good News For Fans Of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' - RuPaul's Drag Race has been bringing queer culture to the mainstream for 10 years and 11 seasons. And it's showing no signs of slowing down as VH1 has anno...
Juanita Jean's WMDBS

Deep State is About to Fall - Okay, so here’s the deal. Trump is convinced that he’s going to get revenge on all his enemies. He and his vestiges of remaining friends are convinced tha...
Countercurrents

Coporate Loot And People’s Resistance In Niyamgiri - By CDRO AND GASS On August 18, a report titled “Corporate Loot and People’s Resistance in Niyamgiri” was released at the CDRO Convention on UAPA and othe...
Think Progress

Creator of New York Times slavery project not surprised by conservative meltdown - Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times correspondent and the visionary behind its ambitious examination of racial issues stemming from the 1619 arrival of...
Daily Howler

TRIBAL DECLINE: What should kids be taught in school? - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019Our tribe gets out over its skis: * What should American public school kids learn about American history? There is no perfect an...
FiveThirtyEight.com

GOP Leaders Really Want Steve King Gone. Could He Lose In 2020? - Rep. Steve King is no stranger to controversy. The Republican congressman’s recent comments about rape and incest have Republican leaders calling for his o...
Common Dreams

The Significance of the 1619 Project - Jesse Jackson The Statue of Liberty. (Photo: USA Pyron/Dreamstime.com.) [image: The Statue of Liberty. (Photo: USA Pyron/Dreamstime.com.)]
INSIDER - politics news

Here's how much 30 staffers earn annually in the White House - [image: white house staff] - The White House has over 400 employees and their salaries range from $30,000 to $400,000. - President Donald Trum...
Eater Houston

11 Essential Cajun and Creole Restaurants in Houston - [image: boiled crawfish, shrimp, corn, and sausage in a silver tray] Find perfect crawfish at BB’s Cafe | BB’s Cafe/Facebook Where to find the city’s fine...
Rewire

Fired for Being Transgender or for Violating Company Dress Code? The Supreme Court Will Decide. - In a brief filed Friday with the Supreme Court, the Trump administration says an employer can fire you for being transgender if they are really enforcing...
Right Wing Watch

Mark Taylor: ‘Patriots’ Will Murder High-Profile Democrats in the Streets if Trump Doesn’t Carry Out Mass Arrests by January - During his recent appearance on Sheila Zilinsky’s podcast, Mark Taylor, a radical right-wing conspiracy theorist and so-called “firefighter prophet,” claim...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Joe Biden tops 2020 rivals by double digits in new poll – live news - - Former vice-president’s uneven performances in the debates and scrutiny over his gaffes had little tangible impact on his political standin...
Houston Public Media

How Will The Next Recession Affect Houston? - The Bayou City has suffered less than the rest of the country in previous economic downturns.
The Verge

YouTube shows have become a secret weapon for rising politicians - The video platform reaches more young voters in an average week than every cable network combined On August 6th, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) showed up so...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm All Is Not Lost Reeling from reports on our climate catastrophe, I took a break to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s ...
Political Wire

Italy’s Leader Resigns - “Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has told senators he is handing in his resignation because his right-wing coalition partner, the League party led by Interi...
Texas Standard

Greg Abbott Creates Safety Commission To Recommend Mass Shooting Solutions - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to address the mass shooting in El Paso that occurred earlier this month. Last week he announced the creation of a Domes...
House of Houston (Astros news)

Houston Astros: Making the case for Yuli Gurriel to win the AL MVP award - While the Houston Astros have plenty of talent to be considered for American League MVP, one dark horse candidate should be Yuli Gurriel. The race for th...
The Root

Suicides in Jails Are Preventable: How a Unique Approach May Help Curb Self-Harm in Confinement - Conspiracy theories aside, Jeffrey Epstein is one of the latest and most prominent of the hundreds that die by suicide yearly in America’s jails. His unt...
Rivard Report

San Antonio Researcher Part of Team Studying Stem Cells to Repair Damaged, Decaying Teeth - Using mouse models provided by UT Health San Antonio, researchers have discovered a new population of stem cells that they hope could repair damaged teet...
Raw Story

Parents fight for custody of 4-year-old son after trying to treat his cancer with tea and ‘a positive state of mind’ - Two Florida parents are fighting this week to regain custody of their 4-year-old son who was taken away from them after they tried to treat his leukemia wi...
Slate

This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages - On the Austronesian language family.
naked capitalism

‘The Next Flint,’ and America’s Problem with Lead in Its Water - What city will be next to admit it has a lead problem? Why yours might be closer than you think.
Daily Dot

Marianne Williams announces plan for a Department of Peace - [image: Marianne Williamson Department of Peace] The proposed agency has a wide mandate. The post Marianne Williams announces plan for a Department of Pea...
ExChristian.Net

Jesus wasn't who I thought he was - *From a Catholic Questioner ~ * I'm not very good at writing and to be honest I'm nervous to write this as I'm not an ex-christian. I guess I just need to ...
Splinter

Don't Worry, Nothing to See Here, Biden's Brain Is A-OK - After Joe Biden seemed to lose the thread at various points during last month’s debate and then misstepped his way through Iowa, questions were raised ab...
Axios

Exclusive: The results from Facebook's conservative bias audit - Facebook will release the findings of a roughly year-long conservative bias audit Tuesday, along with changes to its advertising policies as a result, ex...
The Conversation

Trump administration revives public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US - During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. But the immigration law’s “likely to become a public ch...
Daily Kos

Castro becomes tenth candidate to qualify for September Democratic presidential debate - Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro has qualified for the September presidential debate. Castro got his fourth qualifying pol...
Political Dig

Scaramucci Put Republicans On The Spot: ‘Say In Public What You Say In Private’ About Trump - In a scorching new opinion article in The Washington Post, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is calling on Republicans to speak...
Pharyngula

Synergy: Norovirus will allow you to poop and puke on ecological communities more effectively! - Have you ever taken a vacation on a cruise ship? Why? I’m just curious because these things have negative appeal to me. Going out on a floating hotel to ci...
The Intercept

The NYPD Finally Fired the Cop Who Killed Eric Garner — but the Police Reaction Shows How Little Will Change - The decision will not alter the entrenched police ideology that allows for deaths like Garner’s — showing why reform will be slow and tough. The post The...
The Texas Signal

Castro qualifies for Houston presidential debate - And then there were ten. Thanks to a new CNN poll showing him attaining the 2% support required in four approved polls, Julian Castro became the 10th can...
Ring of Fire

Apple Intentionally Slowing Down Older Phones, Lawsuit Claims - Several iPhone users recently filed a class action lawsuit against Apple claiming that the tech giant purposely impaired performance on older iPhone mode...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (Wings On A Pig) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out w...
Bonddad

What would need to happen next for a producer-led recession - *-by New Deal democrat* If you clicked over and read my last post at Seeking Alpha, I mentioned that I wanted to follow up with examinations of the state...
Hullabaloo

A dirty bomb with wings by @BloggersRUs - *A dirty bomb with wings* by Tom Sullivan Radiation plume after Russian explosion tracked by monitors. (CTBTO via Twitter) *Strangelove:* *Yes, but th...
No More Mister Nice Blog

IVANKA FAILS AGAIN - Well, so much for that: President Trump appears to be backing away from potential support for gun background check legislation, according to White House ai...
Crooked Timber

Advice for new college students - A couple of years ago the Midwest conference of the Junior State of America asked me to be their keynote speaker. I still have no idea at all why they invi...
Lawfare

Proposed Bills Would Help Combat Domestic Terrorism - Charlottesville candlelight vigil at U.S. Capitol, Aug. 2017 (Source: Flickr/Ted Eytan) Following recent attacks in Gilroy, Calif.; El Paso, Texas; and D...
The Greanville Post

The Oligarchy’s Plans For Our Future Keep Getting Dumber - CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—I really think the mainstream idea that we can always make a mad dash for the black emptiness in the sky if things go to shit here keeps ...
Democracy Now!

Deadly Bombings Devastate Afghanistan as U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks Continue Without Afghan Government - In Afghanistan, a series of bomb attacks devastated restaurants and other public spaces Monday in the eastern city of Jalalabad, injuring at least 66 peopl...
emptywheel

Roger Stone Once Again Limits His Denials - Two years after he first started, Roger Stone continues to issue partial denials about his role in the hack-and-leak. The post Roger Stone Once Again Li...
Courthouse News

Epstein Signed Will 2 Days Before Killing Himself - Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battl...
Claytoonz

Meanwhile, On Obama Avenue - A petition that started off as a joke has now gained momentum and over 400,000 people have signed to rename a section of Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tow...
First Draft

‘knowing that some of my friends would dislike it’ - Let’s unpack Donna Brazile, who like most of Clinton’s staffers has been using her ex-boss’s victory as her entire resumé for years, agreeing to be in a bo...
Progrexas

Julián Castro qualifies for third Democratic debate in September - Presidential candidate Julian Castro speaks at the National Education Association presidential forum in Houston on Friday, July 5, 2019. (Michael Stravat...
Houston Press

Don't Believe Everything You've Been Told About Us, HISD Trustees Say to TEA - The Texas Education Agency tries to replace school boards in districts where the majority of voters are people of color, according to Houston ISD's present...
ROAR Magazine

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Ep.21 - Prof. Harvey talks about the rate and mass of surplus value and explores why it is the mass that gives capitalists wealth and power.
Bay Area Houston

When Trump calls you Pocahontas, or Fredo... - Trump, like an 8 year old, enjoys referring to others with cute, sometimes racist names. Calling Senator Warren Pocahontas, or VP Biden "Sleepy Joe" are j...
Eclectablog

How unions got beaten down and how they can get worked up again – with special guest Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times - Steven Greenhouse on Twitter: @GreenhouseNYT Purchase Steven Greenhouse's new book Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor ...
Popular Resistance

Lula: The US is Behind “Operation Car Wash” - For former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, events in Brazil since the 2016 coup that deposed President Dilma Rousseff were orchestrated by the US gove...
Washington Babylon

The Society for the Study of Social Problems Narrowly Rejects Endorsing a Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academic Freedom - [image: The Society for the Study of Social Problems Narrowly Rejects Endorsing a Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academic Freedom] *Contact: * Meliss...
Down With Tyranny!

Seth Moulton: Way Below Zero-- Nationally, In Iowa And In New Hampshire - Seth Moulton represents Massachusetts' comfortably blue 6th district in the northeast corner of the state. Even as weak a candidate as Hillary was able t...
Space City Weather

Somewhat wetter pattern likely for this weekend in Houston - Houston will remain in a more or less static weather pattern for most of the remainder of this week. Each day will see a healthy chance of showers, with a ...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING - "Tuesday/Thursday" Trump backs off his support for background checks -- and a gun control deal is looking less and less likely https://politicalwire.com/20...
21st Century Wire

Regime Change Propaganda: National Geographic’s ‘Documentary’ on Syria - *Mideast Discourse* | Another prime example of a big-budget, western propaganda production designed to bolster the US Coalition 'regime change' narrative.
Strategic Culture Foundation

Are Recessions Inevitable? - The trade dispute with China may be the event that pushes the US economy into a major recession or even a depression.
The Progressive Wing

8/20 News Roundup & Open Thread – From the Field of Dreams, Bernie Sanders Dares Crowd To Think Big & More - From the Field of Dreams, Bernie Sanders dares crowd to think big With the sun setting behind left field, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont stood on the ...
Duffel Blog

Upgraded Harpoon missiles will scream ‘DJ Khaled’ just before impact - [image: Upgraded Harpoon missiles will scream ‘DJ Khaled’ just before impact] WASHINGTON — The Pentagon approved $157 million in modernization costs to m...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 531 - This is the grave of John McLoughlin. Born in Quebec in 1784, Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin grew up Catholic, despite a Scots-Irish father. His father married a...
WhoWhatWhy

Georgians Demand Secretary of State Re-Examine Voting System - Reading Time: 4 minutes Using a little-known law, Georgia voters, activists, and even candidates teamed up to demand that Secretary of State Brad Raffens...
Houstonia

How to Eat 101 Bites in One Night - This ambitious event showcased 101 courses from 10 countries.
SCOTUSblog

Tuesday round-up - [image: Tuesday round-up]Briefly: At Bloomberg Law, Jordan Rubin reports that “[a] Maryland murder case that garnered nationwide attention after a hit po...
OffGuardian

Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture - Colin Todhunter Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have acce...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Manufacturing Mass Fascism Hysteria - If the neoliberal ruling classes expect to keep the American masses worked up into a white-eyed hysteria over “fascism” until November 2020, they’re going ...
Salon.com

Bret Baier pushes back at Trump's criticisms of Fox News: "We have a news side and an opinion side" - Trump earlier claimed that Fox had "changed" after it released a poll showing him trailing behind four Democrats
Counterpunch

America’s Forgotten Bullshit Bombing of Serbia - Forgotten lies almost guarantee new political treachery. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, j...
Off the Kuff

Special election set for HD148 - […]
NPR's Health Shots

Cigarettes Can't Be Advertised On TV. Should Juul Ads Be Permitted? - Though tobacco ads have been banned from TV for about 50 years, the marketing of electronic cigarettes isn't constrained by the law. Public health advocate...
Dallas Observer

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson Convenes Violent Crime Task Force - Taking a page from former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings' preferred form of leadership, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson took his first swing at addressing the spate ...
Consortium News

The Pseudo Debate Over Jeffrey Epstein’s Suicide - Death, sex, power, intrigue, murder, suicide — these are the staples of the 19th century penny press, mass media and the CIA, writes Edward Curtin. By Edwa...
Grist

Why FEMA isn’t prepared for the next major U.S. disaster - As a result of inappropriately assigning staff to minor emergencies, the agency is facing staff shortages heading into wildfire and hurricane season.
The NM Political Report

State agency says political parties can’t hold raffles - [image: State agency says political parties can’t hold raffles] A northern New Mexico county political party last week learned they could not raffle off a ...
Progressive.org

Workplace Raids Are Not the Answer - Criminalizing undocumented labor will not curb the practice of their hiring. It only makes workers more exploitable.
The Mind Unleashed

Dogs Are Dying All Over the US After Swimming in Lakes - [image: Dogs Dying After Swimming]Be on the lookout for blue-green algae when you are around any body of water.
jobsanger

It's The Right Decision -
World Socialist Web Site

UAW corruption scandal: Former union VP Joe Ashton reportedly took $550,000 in illegal kickbacks - Ashton would be the highest-ranking UAW officer implicated in the corruption scandal that has already led to the conviction of UAW Vice President Norwood J...
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Secret meeting: former Texas House speaker attacked; conservative activist accused of 'gaslighting' - Morning News: Secret meeting: former Texas House speaker attacked; conservative activist accused of 'gaslighting'
Trivial Knot

Retrospective on Hobby Lobby - This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2014, on the (then recent) Burwell v Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision, which ruled that owners of for-profit co...
Informed Comment

What’s behind the protests in Kashmir? - By Sumit Ganguly | – India recently enacted a law which will end a special autonomous status given to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, known in the West as ...
Morning Consult

Most Adults Back Universal’s Decision to Cancel U.S. Release of ‘The Hunt’ - The post Most Adults Back Universal’s Decision to Cancel U.S. Release of ‘The Hunt’ appeared first on Morning Consult.
Antiwar.com

When, If Ever, Can We Lay This Burden Down? - Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to b...
Election Law Blog

Texas: “Gov. Greg Abbott names new secretary of state months after botched voter roll review” - Texas Tribune: After losing his last chief election officer over a botched review of the state’s voter rolls, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday appointed a new se...
The Contributor

Trump is Taking More Money for Raids and Detention. Congress Should Stop Him. - News Image: The budget for Trump’s turbo-charged immigration enforcement and border militarization is now larger than ever. Category: Immigration origin ...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas Libertarian Party Files Opening Brief in Eighth Circuit in Ballot Access Case - On August 19, the Arkansas Libertarian Party filed this 20-page brief with the Eighth Circuit, asking that court not to disturb the July 2019 ruling that e...
OpEd News

The Metaphysics of Revolution - History has made us revolutionary subjects. What's our next step? Could a return to Kant help to provide an answer?
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN 2020 Vision: Are We Headed Toward a Biden-Warren Showdown? - Tom with our BTRTN monthly feature on the 2020 Elections, with all the latest numbers and commentary. THE LEAD The main headlines from the 2020 presidentia...
EgbertoWillies.com

Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib has an important message for those wanting them to bow down - [image: Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib has a message for those wanting them to bow down] Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib will stand their ground until they can go t...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

HD148 Special Election Ordered and Other Filing Deadline News - Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered a November 5 special election to fill the unexpired term of Rep. Jessica Farrar (D-Houston), who announced last week that she ...
Caitlin Johnstone

The Oligarchy’s Plans For Our Future Keep Getting Dumber - It’s rare to get a billionaire to share their grand plans for the future, which is weird because billionaires pretty much rule the world. Whenever they do,...
Brad Blog

Multipartisan Petition Effort to Recall Alaska's New GOP Governor Catches Fire: 'BradCast' 8/19/2019 - On today's BradCast: A new petition effort to rename the block of Fifth Avenue in New York City where the Trump Tower is located after President Barack Oba...
Mahablog

Trump: Where Dementia, Ignorance and Paranoia Collide - So this happened: “I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters on Sunday in an attempt to quell fears over a potential market crash. “We’...
Shadowproof

I’m Still Sorry I Listened To Susan Sarandon During The 2016 Election - There aren’t any matters that are currently more pressing than grappling with the fact that I listened to what actress Susan Sarandon had to say during t...
Wolf Street

How the Ecommerce Boom Crushes “Mall Retailers” One by One - The segments at the core of the Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown.
Save Buffalo Bayou

Vote for the Bird of Houston: Yellow-crowned Night Heron! - Aug. 19, 2019 Houston Audubon is in the final round of selecting the Bird of Houston. Deadline to vote is Friday, August 23. Cast your ballot. The final ...
DeSmogBlog

Documents Show Koch Network's 'Structure of Social Change' in Action - [image: Koch Student Commons, on the ground floor of Kansas University's business school.] Read time: 10 mins Back in 1996, the president of the Charles Ko...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Existence of Trains Debate - Help me keep drawing these cartoons by supporting my Patreon! Each $1 pledge helps. This one was a bit challenging to draw – I normally like having my char...
Truthdig

What Fareed Zakaria Gets Wrong About Afghanistan: Everything - The CNN pundit appears to be taking his taking points from prominent military sources.
Dandelion Salad

The New Cold War and the Redoubling of U.S. Propaganda Power by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Jul. 27, 2019 August 19, 2019 The American ruling class decided that it wo...
Texas Monthly

How Explosions In The Sky Became the Sound of Film and Television - Twenty years on, the band is Texas’s most subliminally recognizable export. The post How Explosions In The Sky Became the Sound of Film and Television ap...
San Antonio Current

Tickets for Hot Wells Harvest Feast Now on Sale - After a major facelift, the historic Hot Wells site will host its seventh annual Harvest Feast – a fundraising celebration filled with local, chef-driven ...
Houston Strategies

Flooding plan, faster cheaper Ike Dike, new MetroNext video, bad fad road diets, good gentrification, and more - A lot of items in the backlog this week, and I'm on vacation next week so probably won't have time to post, so here's your two-weeks worth! ;-) Today Bill ...
Grit Post

80% of Students Plan to Vote in 2020, and Their #1 Issue Is the Student Debt Crisis - Across the country, students are returning to colleges and universities and gaining two things that will follow them forever — wisdom and debt. In truth,...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Trump is Taking More Money for Raids and Detention. Congress Should Stop Him. - Without congressional checks, ICE and CBP will continue to overspend and overstep. The budget for Trump’s turbo-charged immigration enforcement and border...
Portside

Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat - Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat Stephanie Mon, 08/19/2019 - 16:07
Rallblog

As Long as Enemies of the State Keep Dying Before Trial, No One Should Trust the State - There is no other way to say it: it was a political assassination. Osama bin Laden was unarmed. SEALs captured him alive. Following brazenly il...
Texas Observer

Binational Community Struggles to Help Migrants Under ‘Remain in Mexico’ - On a mid-August evening in Matamoros, Pastor Abraham Barberi can’t wipe the sweat from his forehead fast enough. As the Tamaulipan sun beats down, Barber...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Pelosi Accused of Applauding Hong Kong Violence Over Tiananmen Candle Vigil Praise -
Echidne of the Snakes

Hilma af Klint - ( *Svanen* (*The Swan*), No. 17, Group 9, Series SUW, October 1914 – March 1915.)* Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish painter whose place in art ...
The Grayzone

La Conferencia ‘Socialismo’ presenta a activistas golpistas financiados por el gobierno de EEUU - La Conferencia de Socialismo 2019, patrocinada por los gigantes de la izquierda estadounidense, la DSA, la revista Jacobin y Haymarket… The post La Confe...
MintPress News

With Trump’s Help, Israel Chooses Short-Term Land Grabs Over Long-Term Legitimacy - As Israel prepares for another round of elections, the Trump administration seems poised to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an invaluable campaign...
Moon of Alabama

Syria - Army Cuts Off Khan Shaykhun - Russia Bombs Turkish Reinforcement - This is an update to last weeks post Syria - Frontline Breach Opens Door To A Deep Battle For Idlib. Today the Syrian army gained fire control over the M5 ...
Political Garbage Chute

God Says He’s Getting a Lot of Prayers About Mitch McConnell Having a Stroke - KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, ETERNITY — The CEO of Holy Trinity Inc., one of the afterlife’s premier eternal timeshare resorts, told heavenly reporters today that....
Louis Proyect

A jazz fan’s memories - CounterPunch music critic David Yearsley is equally adept writing about Miles Davis as he is about Johann Sebastian Bach, two musical figures that arguably...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Jeffrey Epstein Suicide: Ain’t Nobody Buying That! - Derrick Broze breaks down a new poll showing Americans do not trust the autopsy ruling that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. Source: Americans Say Murder ...
Reveal

Leaked immigration court official’s directive could violate rules that protect families from deportation - Legal experts say placing hard limits on family immigration cases could be illegal.
ProPublica

“No Comment”: Emails Show the VA Took No Action to Spare Veterans From a Harsh Trump Immigration Policy - by Yeganeh Torbati, Isaac Arnsdorf and Dara Lind Top officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs declined to step in to try to exempt veterans and t...
Angry Bear

What is Antifa ? - Sorry to bring garbage from twitter over here, but this will take more than 280 characters. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion including the neol...
Project Censored

Will Carruthers and Whitney Webb - This week the Project Censored Show highlights two impeccable investigative reporters, both of whom illustrate the power a free press can wield in inform...
Church and State

Ray Kurzweil: Enhanced Longevity by 2030 (VIDEO) - People say that we are going to stop being human if we emerge with machines. No, that is what it means to be human.
Anti-Media

Sudan’s Bashir “Took Millions in Cash From Saudi Crown Prince,” Trial Hears - Detective tells court the deposed president was handed the money by Mohammed bin Salman's envoys.
DBC Green

The Learning Experience of Not Going to Laredo - Melissa's pickup-load of donated supplies, bound for Nuevo Laredo. This past weekend was supposed to include a trip to Laredo, and possibly continuing on t...
Socratic Gadfly

Thoughts on the proposed Gannett-Gatehouse merger - Just "wow," especially as they seem to have diametrically opposite core cultures. Craphouse taking over Dead Fucking Media or vice versa? Yes. Ditto on, ...
Progressive Army

Trump Angry With Less Than Perfect Fox News Coverage - [image: Trump Press Gaggle] It’s safe to say that the overwhelming majority of coverage Fox News gives of President Trump is flattering. However, this does...
Krebs on Security

The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks - Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, tho...
Bracing Views

A Revealing Moment at the Democratic National Convention - Originally posted on Bracing Views: Honest passion at the DNC W.J. Astore Yes, there was a revealing moment at last night’s Democratic National Convention....
Novara Media

Political Strikes in Hong Kong: Not the First, and Probably Not the Last - For almost three months now, Hong Kong has seen mass protests against the extradition law amendment bill (ELAB) – a bill that would allow the Hong Kong gov...
Dorf on Law

Brexit, Boris, Trump, and the Relative Virtues and Vices of Constitutional Entrenchment - *by Michael C. Dorf* In both the US and the UK, serious people now worry that the leaders of government could attempt to retain power after being voted out...
Progressives Chat

Election 2020: Democrats’ Target Margin +4 - For at least a couple of months, there have been plenty of polls for both the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries and the general election. When rep...
Democracy Chronicles

Podcast: How Conspiracies Are Damaging Democracy - From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse.
Land Destroyer

Protecting Information Space from Facebook's Tyranny - *August 19, 2019* (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - The recent attack aimed at New Eastern Outlook (NEO) and several of its authors once again exposes the infinite hy...
The Reality-Based Community

Cannabis news round-up - Recreational marijuana legalization reduces opioid deaths by 20%…at least. Mexico government is taking public input on how best to legalize marijuana. Bern...
Field Negro

Caption Sunday. - [image: Image result for fat trump images] I need a caption for this pic.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

12th Annual Wheelwright Lecture: Susanne Soederberg - 2019 12th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy Professor Susanne Soederberg (Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ki...
Liberal America

8 Things Conservatives Seriously Need To Learn About Free Speech - To too many Americans, Free Speech is largely reduced to a weak argument belted in a strong voice when all other excuses fail to justify airing whatever ...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is Donald Trump Big Brother? - I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one -- and I suspect I’ve been living o...
Political Orphans

Twitter Hygiene - Like weeds in a garden, bots and trolls impact Twitter to a degree not seen on Facebook, or other platforms that attempt to verify a human identity behind ...
Stinque

The Week Ahead - Time was when a week meant something. You could plan for it, a week. You could go into Monday with some clue where you’d be by Friday. Sure, things happen,...
Pages of Victory

Bernie's new digital newsletter - Bernie's Bern Notice
News Taco

Ethnic Cleansing in El Paso, Texas is a Warning for the Nation - President Trump owes our border community and all Latinos in America an apology for encouraging ethnic cleansing. He must take back his hate-filled words...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 18, 2019 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 18, 2019 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Strategic Po...
Liberation News

Connecticut activists protest judicial cooperation with ICE - [image: Two activists hold signs. one reads "judicial marshals guilty of separating families"] “The bad behavior and hatred of these marshals and the misco...
Duck of Minerva

A Call for New Guest Ducks - We are looking for you! The fall 2019 semester is upon us, and we’d like to bring on a new cohort of guest Ducks. The Duck remains a unique blog in terms o...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Independent computer network in Cuba has been taken over by the Castro regime - *The Castro regime is totalitarian.* Preemptive arrests and state security presence block protest for SNETToday the space outside of the Ministry of Commun...
See You In 2020

If The Anti-China Protests Succeed, The U.S. Will Turn Hong Kong Into A Corporatized Western Outpost - I’m very grateful for the fact that my ideological development as a socialist has lead me towards the principled anti-imperialist worldview which informs ...
LareDOS

Emboldened by the hate-filled rhetoric from the highest office in the land, the shooter decided El Paso was a good start - The American flag should remained lowered until Congress comes to its senses with gun legislation
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Trumps with El Paso Baby; Hong Kong Airport Sit In; Elizabeth Warren in Iowa - Chatting the Pictures looks at the Trump portrait with the infant of El Paso massacre victims, the Hong Kong airport sit-in, and Elizabeth Warren in Iowa...
House of Houston (Rockets news)

Houston Rockets: P.J. Tucker disappointed FIBA World Cup hopes dashed - Houston Rockets forward P.J. Tucker has withdrawn from USA Basketball to compete in the World Cup next month. He’s disappointed about it, what’s going on...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just nod if you can hear me - "Sanders Says If Israel Wants to Ban Members of Congress, It Should Not Receive Billions in US Military Aid: 'The idea that a member of the United States...
Somervell County Salon

What's up in Trump's Swamp for August 17 2019? - Trump did a campaign ralliy in Pittsburgh, PA that we paid for. The crowd at Shell that showed up was told that they wouldn't get paid if th.......
Seeing the Forest

Unfuck The World (video) - Prophets of Rage – Unfuck The World (Official Video) – YouTube No hatred Fuck racists Blank faces Time’s changin One nation Unification The vibration Unfuc...
The Militant

Stop the raids! Amnesty for immigrants in the US! - The arrest of 680 immigrant workers at seven poultry processing plants in six Mississippi cities Aug. 7 and the threat of their deportation is aimed at ins...
The Ghion Journal

A Matter of Life or Death: We Cannot Afford to Ignore Mental Illnesses Any Longer - It happened again last month; a young Ethiopian man took his life and left a devastated community in his wake. Two months before that, another Ethiopian ...
Carl Beijer

The quiet death of the "white Bernie Bro" attack - Bernie Sanders faced ferocious criticism in the media throughout the 2016 primaries - and central to that critique was what The Washington Post called Bern...
The Concourse

Look At This Weird Thing Donald Trump Just Belched Up - In March, a young whale beached itself in Davao City, in the Philippines. When scientists from the local museum—it is, delightfully, called D’Bone Collec...
Rude Pundit

We're Not Gonna Do a Damn Thing About Guns - A memo of talking points for House Republicans makes plain that the GOP has no intention of doing a goddamn thing about guns. The document, obtained by the...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Q&A: Ken Ward Jr. on the impacts of natural gas in West Virginia - We’re publishing a series of Q&As with reporters who have uncovered powerful investigative stories. This week we chatted with Ken Ward Jr., a journalist at...
Moron Majority

To Understand Why Trump Wants To Buy Greenland, Just Follow The Bouncing Ball - Golf ball, that is! It is no secret Greenland’s glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change. And underneath all that ice? Future lush gr...
Earthworks

Public Comments: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Montanore Evaluation Project - Montanore SDEIS – Comments Final The post Public Comments: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Montanore Evaluation Project appeared ...
epic.org

Administration Seeks Reauthorization of NSA Phone Record Program - The Administration is seeking reauthorization of the NSA phone record collection program, according to a letter from Director of National Intelligence Dan ...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity Gets Slam-Dunked - A review of Tim Sledge’s *Four Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer* The Richard Dawkins 7-point scale, for rating the strength of belief or non-beli...
Two Party Opera

Snake in the Grassroots -
slacktivist

Culotte fundamentalism - Culottes! They're not just the spork of the sartorial world, they're also a very telling signifier for a particular brand of white American fundamentalist ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Burying Solutions to Prevent Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso Shootings - Few if any good academics would try to argue that there's only one contributing cause of violence, including the mass shootings that have bee increasing...
BEYONDbones

The Nature of an Assassin: Harnessing Deadly Killers to Fight Pests - Walking into the Cockrell Butterfly Center (CBC), one of the first things you’re likely to notice is the sound of a 50-foot waterfall. The conservatory’s h...
Socialist Alternative

Karl Marx’s Ecological Socialism is a Guide for Today’s Struggle - By Arne Johansson. First published July 18 in Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). Reposted from socialistparty.ie. Too ma...
Popehat

All The President's Lawyers: Obsesses Loser Edition - From this week's episode: link.
Harper's

[Article] Regarding the Pen of Others, by Benjamin Moser -
Sludge

Congressional Black Caucus Institute Takes CoreCivic Cash, Boosts Policies That Help Private Prisons - The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) says it wants to ban private prison companies that profit from mass incarceration, as do many criminal justice reforme...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A New Podcast about the Right - A leftist’s guide to the conservative movement, one episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff: I Was Attacked by Wayne Newton’s Monkey - "Without any provocation," allegedly, which seems unlikely but must be taken as true for now. Related Stories - Court Finds Man Not Liable fo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The End of the Filibuster May Loom - Dear Readers: We’re pleased to offer a piece this week from Hunter Brown, an outstanding Center for Politics intern, on a topic of great importance: the ...
Daily PUMA

You say Racism, I say Ageism. - For every accusation of racism that is presently being made towards the Trump Administration, I see a counter point, the use of the Racism card to blunt wh...
The Rag Blog

Michael Simmons : Paul Krassner: Nun smooching in America - Krassner chronicled his satirical pranks in his self-published magazine, The Realist. By Michael Simmons | The Rag Blog | August 14, 2019 REMEMBERING PAUL ...
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Evolution of a Planetary Spirit - This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philos...
Bad Attitudes

Private Sector vs. Medicare? - It's basically the same thing, as my son Ted explains in this article from *The Hill* Hereâ€™s a yes or no question that most Americans, including those ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Houston Nazis Doxx Each Other Following Anti-Fascist Actions - On Saturday, June 8th, anti-fascists exposed a realtor named Paul Preston as being the leader of a local Neo-Nazi Group called the Houston Goylers. On the ...
Dos Centavos

Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez Enters Senate Race - Have you ever had a bunch of candidates to choose from and still can’t make a decision? Yeah, me too. But Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez has entered the race fo...
Freethought Now

El Paso, Netflix, Kashmir, and a wrong ruling - This week at FFRF, we showed how quick-thinking we can be in response to fast-moving events in a nation buffeted by religion.
Innocence Project

Innocence Project Files Federal Civil Rights Suit in Rodney Reed Death Row Case after Denied Requests for DNA Testing of Murder Weapon - The filing cites denied DNA testing as a violation of Reed’s constitutional rights (August 8, 2019 – Bastrop, TX) Today, lawyers for Rodney Reed, who rema...
Web of Debt

Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China - When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31st for the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data...
Frontloading HQ

Kentucky Republicans Change Presidential Caucus Process - It is not clear yet whether Kentucky Republicans will hold caucuses again in 2020 or revert to the May presidential primary the party has traditionally us...
Robert Reich

The Myth of the Rugged IndividualThe American dream promises... - *The Myth of the Rugged Individual*The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make it...
Environment Texas

House passes sweeping measures to clean up PFAS contamination - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Millions of Americans are worried about toxic PFAS chemicals that have contaminated their drinking water. The federal government is...
Greg Palast

Tee Jay McNichols, our Producer’s Cousin, Murdered in Dayton Massacre - Thomas “Tee Jay” James McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our assistant producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, by...
t.e.j.a.s.

Official TEJAS STATEMENT – Baytown Exxonmobil Olefins Plant – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION - Due to an attack on our server provider, our statement was postponed. Thank you all for your patience.
Aggiornamento

Roberto closed his eyes last evening. - I give thanks for the time he shared with me, listening to my voice for the first time, enjoying good wine and food, laughing all the way... The post Rob...
Texas Watch

Comments On Informal TWIA Claim Rules - We filed these comments with the Texas Department of Insurance to make sure coastal policyholders are paid every cent they are owed after a storm. Learn...
Our Finite World

Rethinking Renewable Mandates - Powering the world’s economy with wind, water and solar, and perhaps a little wood sounds like a good idea until a person looks at the details. The economy...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Colorado statehood day, August 1, 2018 - Colorado officially joined the Union on August 1, 1876. Coloradans should fly U.S. flags today in honor of statehood. Colorado was the 38th state admitted ...
Smart Dissent

Twenty Republican Senators Urging Treasury To Give Wealthy Another Tax Cut Via Executive Order - Date: 08/05/2019 Truth is stranger than fiction. It's hard to believe this is real. In a letter sent to *Steve Mnuchin* on Monday, Senator Ted Cruz urged...
The Metaphor Project

Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday - During this Democratic primary season and even before, a great many longstanding injustices in American life have become high profile: #MeToo, police viole...
Dispatches from the Underclass

The US-China trade war explained - US-CHINA TRADE WAR EXPLAINED It's kinda like the Cold War. Only 2019. And China. Posted by Soapbox on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
LawFlog

Correction: Ellen Ratner only relayed information about Seth Rich, according to Butowsky - Several readers identified a contradiction between a lawsuit that I drafted on behalf of Ed Butowsky versus what he said in an interview. The mistake is mi...
Better Texas Blog

Proposal to Gut Food Assistance Program Could Threaten Millions of Texans - This week, the Trump Administration proposed changing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly “food stamps”) in a way that could ta...
Media Lens

The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship - The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to ...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the art...
Texas Freedom Network

Join the Team: Outreach and Advocacy Manager - Outreach and Advocacy Manager The Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a statewide non-partisan, grassroots organization that is building an informed and effec...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinders Welcomes New Board Member Cindy Hua - At our June board meeting, we welcomed Cindy Hua to membership on the Downwwinders Board. Cindy came to us via our monthly portable monitoring training, w...
Independent Political Report

Green Party of New York demands justice for Eric Garner - *NEW YORK – The Green Party of New York *(GPNY) renewed its call for justice for *Eric Garner* in response to the Justice Department’s announcement that ...
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...
PERRspectives

The Most Important Issue for Democrats in 2020? The Courts - As the 2020 election season heats up, voters' priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ra...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Something atavistic rumbles through - This is the room, I could describe it at length, even *ad nauseum* if I cared to which I do not, where I stay when I stay here at the hospital. The windo...
The Socialist

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

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

Toward a New Concept of Genocide: A Reply - Our symposium on Benjamin Meiches’s The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) concludes with the author’s...
nonsite.org

Open Letter on the Proposed Destruction of a Mural Cycle - A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washing...
Texas Rural Voices

To Combat Drunk Driving Deaths, Texas Officials Consider Lowering Legal Blood Alcohol Content Limit - In the state of Texas, driving while impaired is still an issue, resulting in about 950 fatal alcohol-related crashes each year. Recent statistics indica...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hale as Acting CEO of Equality Texas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Angela Hale, Equality Texas, 512.289.2995 angela@redmediagroup.com Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hal...
Liberal Values

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Truthout

Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic - One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
GreenSource DFW

Austin hotel makes top green lodgings list - *The courtyard of Habitat Suites in Austin includes a salt water pool. Photo courtesy of Habitat Suites.* June 13, 2019 We stayed at one of the top ten ...
New Progressive Alliance

Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights - Those who reveal a crime are not worse criminals than those who commit a crime. Imprisoning and torturing Manning as a whistleblower while ignoring those...
WAWG Blog

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election - What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greate...
Disobedient Media

Is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory? - Here's who was involved with pushing it.
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Guadalupe Paz & the TJ Opera Scene - For more than 15 years now, I’ve followed the way Tijuana has developed an opera scene that is one of the artistic jewels of Mexico. One of the scene’s g...
CultureMap Houston

New tropically themed spot cooks up Latin flavor in Boulevard Oaks - David Buehrer wants Houstonians to feel like they can get away from it all without leaving town. That's the driving force behind Tropicales Cafe Y Comida,...
OffCite

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

4-21 Democratic Presidential Preference Poll - Last week’s poll results truly blew me away. The resurgence of Elizabeth Warren with a commanding 0.89% of the vote was quite an unexpected delight – sure ...
Socialist Worker

Taking our final steps - From the ISO Members of the leadership team responsible for carrying out the decisions made by current and recently resigned ISO members in voting to diss...
Texas Moratorium Network

Hearing on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - We testified at the hearing of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 15, 2019 in favor of Rep. Dutton’s bill to prohibit the death penal...
Wayne Dolcefino (Houston muckraker)

MESSAGE TO THE FBI…BRING IT ON - Newly released documents in the Brazil kidnapping case show the spin-doctor/lawyer for Houston doctor Chris Brann waged an ongoing campaign to keep Ben T...
News Junkie

The Surrealism of the Information War - The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which...
Houston Justice

HISD's GREATEST HITS - A lot continues to be up in the air about our local school board, so let’s take a look back at some of the board’s “Greatest Hits.” Let’s start with this r...
The Electronic Intifada

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

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

Midterm Results - In past years, I have closely monitored TV and web coverage of the returns and posted here in real time, which some people really appreciate--I presume fol...
Talking Union

The Postal Strike of 1970: Relevance to Today - by Lawrence Swaim Ed. note: We are always eager to post first-person accounts from worker activists writing from their own direct experiences. This arti...
In These Times

Why Eric Garner Couldn’t Breathe - *Update: On Aug. 19, 2019, the NYPD announced it had fired Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer who put Eric Garner in a chokehold.* When New York City p...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Sunday Funnies for brunch

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