Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Antiwar.com

Iraq Daily Roundup: 11 Wounded - Eleven people were wounded in several attacks across Iraq. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: 11 Wounded appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
World Socialist Web Site

Chicago police crackdown on protests over police murder of 13-year-old Adam Toledo - In scenes reminiscent of the protests that unfolded across the US in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd last summer, police were caught on video...
The Week

Elephants trample suspected poacher to death in South African national park - Rangers at Kruger National Park in South Africa on Saturday discovered the "badly trampled" body of a suspected poacher who wasn't able to escape a herd ...
Election Law Blog

“Fund-Raising Surged for Republicans Who Sought to Overturn the Election” - NYT: Republicans who were the most vocal in urging their followers to come to Washington on Jan. 6 to try to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s loss, push...
Raw Story

Republicans are still fighting against a panel to investigate Jan. 6 — Dems are crafting contingency plans - Nothing that Republicans do in the Jan. 6 commission will hand them a win, so they're continuing to fight against Democrats trying to hold an investigati...
Mediaite

Miami Nurse Videoed Herself Threatening to Kill Kamala Harris, Busted by Secret Service When She Sent the Evidence to Her Incarcerated Husband - A nurse recorded herself threatening to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris, and then sent the video and photo evidence to her husband in state pris...
Ballot Access News

Communist Party Leadership Recommends that Party Again Run Candidates - The national leadership of the Communist Party has recommended that the party again run candidates. See this story. Thanks to Independent Political Report ...
TXElects

Poll: Voter Fraud, McConaughey Fever Real to Many - Early voting for the May 1 general and special elections begins tomorrow (Monday) and runs through April 27. *UT-Tyler Poll:* Two out of every seven regi...
NPR's Health Shots

More Than Half Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten At Least One COVID-19 Vaccine Dose - The CDC reported a hopeful statistic in the country's fight against the coronavirus on Sunday. On Monday, every adult in the country will be eligible to re...
Axios

In photos: South African students evacuate as wildfire burns historic Cape Town buildings - A massive wildfire spread from the foothills of Table Mountain to the University of Cape Town Sunday, burning historic South African buildings and forcin...
Eschaton

Sunday Night - Rock on.
The Grayzone

Vienna talks reveal Biden team’s attachment to sanctions that would torpedo Iran deal - Biden’s foreign policy team refuses to relieve Iran from sanctions illegally imposed by the Trump administration, setting the stage for the collapse of n...
OpEd News

Teacher? Babysitter? Social Director? Therapist? - For years, those claiming that they want to reform education have savagely attacked the teaching profession. The pandemic proved them wrong.
Texas Environmental News

More migrant minors headed to Midland holding facility - The governor says he has sent in state entities like the TCEQ to ensure there are safe living conditions inside [...] The post More migrant minors headed...
memeorandum

Marjorie Taylor Greene to introduce resolution to expel Maxine Waters (Marina Pitofsky/The Hill) - Marina Pitofsky / The Hill: *Marjorie Taylor Greene to introduce resolution to expel Maxine Waters* — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) announced o...
Salon.com

11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center - Get in, loser, we're going planet-hopping
Mediagazer

Ad revenue in Q1 was up strikingly over the same time in 2020 for some publishers, including Bloomberg Media, Insider, Vice, Bustle Digital Group, and Axios (Ben Smith/New York Times) - Ben Smith / New York Times: *Ad revenue in Q1 was up strikingly over the same time in 2020 for some publishers, including Bloomberg Media, Insider, Vice,...
Slate

Gunman Suspected of Killing 3 in Austin Is Former Sheriff’s Detective - It marked the latest in a recent spate of gun violence across the country, including a shooting in Wisconsin that killed three people over the weekend.
Rio Grande Guardian

Cue Vega: VIA-Monterrey flights provide great opportunities for Harlingen in Mexico - HARLINGEN, Texas – Now Viva Aerobus is starting a direct service from Valley International Airport to Monterrey, Harlingen has a great opportunity to inc...
Political Wire

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Expel Maxine Waters - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced that she plans to introduce a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) from Congress “for her continual i...
Wolf Street

I’m Just the Little Guy Between the Boots of Giants, but I’m Having a Blast. Dear Readers, Please Donate to WOLF STREET - My Site Will Remain Open for All to Read, Even as More Sites Put Up Paywalls.
The Hill

Marjorie Taylor Greene to introduce resolution to expel Maxine Waters - GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) announced on Sunday that she plans to introduce a resolution to expel Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) from Con...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video - Coming Out To Your Aunties - With the junk happening with all of these anti-trans bills, I think we should take a brief moment to laugh just a little. And this video is just the...
Bayou Brief

I Started a PAC to Defend Our Democracy Against Extremists Like Clay Higgins - Lafayette-based entrepreneur Ken Miller launches Blackthorn PAC to challenge the seditious and dystopian vision of America championed by a congressman who ...
Liberation News

Jewish, immigrant organizers hold Passover action in Kenosha, Wisconsin - [image: Jewish activist Sha Harvey performs at the start of a Passover rally. Liberation photo]Activists gathered outside the Kenosha Detention Center Apri...
Courthouse News

Police: Suspect on the Run in Fatal Shooting of 3 in Texas - A 41-year-old man is wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas, and police officials searching the surrounding area Sunday warned resid...
Living Blue in Texas

Republicans Trying To Make It Illegal For Municipalities To Remove Old Jim Crow Relics - You’re needed in Austin on Monday! If you can’t make it, we need you to blow up the phones and emails of the committee members. Republicans are at it aga...
The Verge

Twitter, Facebook, and Snap are part of White House vaccination campaign - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook, Twitter, and Snap are among the companies that will assist with the Biden administration's promotional ...
Daily Dot

‘I don’t understand how we can mistake a Taser for a gun’: Cop’s TikTok video on police shooting of Daunte Wright goes viral - [image: taser-gun-cop-viral-daunte-wright-tiktok] A police officer demonstrated how a seasoned cop should know the difference between a pistol and a Tase...
VICE

Daily Horoscope: April 19, 2021 - Mercury and the sun enter Taurus today!
Second Nexus

New Report Confirms Capitol Police Were Warned 'Congress Is a Target' Just Days Before January 6th - A searing new report by the Inspector General of the Capitol Police, Michael A. Bolton, raises important new questions about why the force was so ill-pre...
Al Jazeera English

AMLO to propose extending social programme to Central America - Mexican president says he wants to propose to Joe Biden to extend aid programme in effort to curb migration to the US.
Talking Points Memo

Biden Admin Rips Trump Policy While Insisting POTUS Didn’t Break Vow On Refugees - Biden administration officials on Sunday defended the President after he faced swift and strong criticism from refugee advocacy groups and Democratic law...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A really great bill (SB 2061) on Eighth-Grade Algebra by Texas state Senator Jose Menendez - *This is a really great bill (SB 2061) by Texas state Senator Jose Menendez who represents San Antonio. It will ensure** that many more students take Alg...
Common Dreams

Climate Activists Put 'All Eyes on BlackRock' With Protests Demanding Shareholder Action - Jessica Corbett, staff writer "We're giving notice that we'll be watching to see if BlackRock will actually pour any water on the flames it has started. We'...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Course record still intact’: Biden on first underwhelming golf outing as president - In contrast, the golf-loving Trump by this point of his presidency had already recorded 19 separate visits to golf courses During last year’s presidentia...
Buzzflash

New Poll, GOP Lone Star State Celebrity vs. Insidious Governor Match-Up: Matthew McConaughey (Party Currently Undeclared) Would Beat Greg "COVID Enabler" Abbott by 45% to 33% - KTAN Austin
WhatWouldJackDo

For when all is said and done, they’ll probably remember us for our ridiculousness - remembering the greatest campaign ad of all time pic.twitter.com/qoiuOKJ4Zf — Ape’s Delight (@ByYourLogic) January 6, 2021 I’ve always loved campaign ads, ...
Undernews

Political links & data -
Vox

Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products - [image: Big Tech CEO’s Testify Virtually Before House Judiciary Committee] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying remotely at a Congressional hearing in ...
The Mind Unleashed

Cliffhanger: Mountain Biker Saved From “Imminent Death” After Falling Into Canyon - A Southern California mountain biker is likely counting his blessings after he was rescued from what authorities describe as “imminent death”” after fallin...
Democracy Chronicles

Menace Of Hereditary Monarchy Descends Upon Africa - In a growing number of African countries, there are attempts to perpetuate the power of long-dominant families.
The Root

Ted Cruz Says Maxine Waters is 'Encouraging Riots & Violence' by Telling Protesters to 'Stay in the Streets.' Does He Not Remember Trump? - Ted Cruz, the Texas senator with the Dollar Store version of Wolverine’s facial hair, must have left the part of him that even bothers hiding his hypocri...
Church and State

Exoskeletons and New Interfaces: Scientists Teach Computers to Read Minds - The 20th Neuroinformatics International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks brought together major experts in the field.
Skeptical Raptor

COVID-19 vaccine blood clots – the FDA and EMA are doing the right thing - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. If you have been watching the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, you know that blood clots h...
Popular Resistance

Biden Isn’t Ending The Afghanistan War, He’s Privatizing It - Above photo: US troops in Afghanistan. Department of Defense. Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain. Over 18,000 Pent...
The AltWorld

Escalate to Deescalate… Then Biden Takes Escalator Sideways - Washington must surely know that its escalations will be met with equal force from Russia and China. […] The post Escalate to Deescalate… Then Biden Take...
Strategic Culture Foundation

A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies - Alan Macleod uncovers the deep links between the British security state and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, responsible for trainin...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone commenting on the unconstitutional nature of the way Senate republicans have...
Mother Jones

Half of Adults in the US Have Now Gotten at Least One Vaccine Dose - Half of all adults in the United States have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, White House Senior Adviser Andy Slavitt wrote on Twitter...
Robert Reich

Biden’s Industrial Policy - America is about to revive an idea that was left for dead decades ago. It’s called industrial...
Daily Cartoonist

How Many Days into This Did Pat Bagley Think… - The first edition of what is now called The Tribune hit the streets on April 15, 1871. It was called “The Tribune & Utah Mining Gazette.” As part of the Se...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 18, 2021 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 18, 2021 by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy...
Claytoonz

Tulio Carlos Esta Noches - Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist and with every new show, it’s less subtle. Tucker has spoken in the past about the Great Replacement Theory and I cov...
Alternet

Mike Pompeo abused taxpayer-funded resources: State Department IG - A government watchdog has found that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo improperly used taxpayer-funded resources when he and his wife, Susan, asked S...
Deadline Politics

Dr. Drew’s Nomination For L.A. Homeless Services Commission Draws Outrage - Dr. Drew Pinsky has been nominated for a spot on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a commission of city and county elected officials. His nomina...
First Draft

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with Random Ruminations – “A modest proposal” edition - Nuclear fearmongering, and a modest proposal I’ve seen a lot of hysterical gobspatter over the Iran Nuclear Treaty. ZOMGtheIraniansAreGoingToBeIncludedInMo...
The Progressive Wing

4/18 News Roundup and Open Thread - Starting with something about Nina and Jamaal.
Stinque

Save the Date - There’s a date we’ve been looking forward to for awhile, a date we might not live to see, but one that holds great significance for America: One fine day...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio neighborhoods transform into a Fiesta paradise for debut House Float Parade -
Countercurrents

Increasing Need for Early Availability of More Reliable Mortality Data - Mortality data is very important for understanding trends relating to health problems and diseases and hence for overall health policy and planning. Unfo...
naked capitalism

Take the Train: France Moves to Ban Short-Haul Domestic Flights - In a bid to lower carbon consumption, France takes first step tpwards banning short-haul flights where rail alternatives exist.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Dark Money In The Courts, Freak In The Sheets – SOME MORE NEWS Cody Johnston: “Hi. In today’s episode, we do a deep dive on Brett Kavanaugh, The Federalist...
Futurism

If You’re Looking for Non Alcoholic Drinks That Don’t Suck, Here’s Some Good News - [image: non alcoholic drinks] Drinking is fun, but it also carries plenty of negative side-effects in the bargain. If you’ve decided to wake up with your l...
Nina Illingworth

Book Blog: The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin - Book Blog featuring a review & analysis of Greg Grandin's "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" on Can't You...
Dissident Voice

US President Joe Biden’s Shameful Push for War with China and Russia - One of the most delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai In the autumn of 1862, the governments ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso hits vaccination milestones, but infections remain stubbornly high - More than half of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and a third are fully vaccinated. Still, the number of new...
INSIDER - politics news

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has a double-digit lead over Gov. Greg Abbott in latest Texas gubernatorial election poll - [image: Matthew McConaughey Greg Abbott] Summary List Placement Texans would rather vote for actor Matthew McConaughey than Gov. Greg Abbott, according ...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Is It Too Late to Build Alliances? - Friends, In recent weeks there has been lots of debate on the pros and cons of crypto and blockchain technology. There have been people trying to draw li...
Lawfare

Belfast Tinderbox: Why Loyalists Are in the Streets This Spring - Graffiti in the town of Bangor, Northern Ireland, protests the new customs border. Photo credit: Russographer via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0 Editor’s Note: *...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Anti-Faxxers' Toons - Last: All the best to Matt Bors, who has drawn his final political toon. I will continue to run The Nib in an almost full time capacity, publishing and edi...
Scheerpost.com

The Extraordinary Rendition of Japanese Latin Americans During World War II - During the war, the U.S. government orchestrated the mass abduction of more than 6,000 Japanese, Germans, Italians, and Jews with the collaboration of 18 L...
Glasstire

The Paper Pushes Back: An Interview with Ben Durham - “Amanda is nearly a total blank to me now,” writes artist Ben Durham. “Just a distant memory of a snarling lip.” Words take on a cellular quality in his ...
San Antonio Report

El mural de Manuel Felguérez de 1965 es develado en el Instituto Cultural de México - Se descubrió un mural de 1965 de Manuel Felguérez en el Instituto Cultural Mexicano. El mural estaba escondido detrás de una pared.
Caitlin Johnstone

Stop Siding With The Powerful: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - The US government’s armed goon squad executed a 13 year-old special ed student whose hands were empty and in the air and they’re telling Americans to worry...
Moon of Alabama

The MoA Week In Review - OT 2021-029 - Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: April 12 - CNN - Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are 'Russian Aggression' Related: - Russia-Ukraine Wa...
The Conversation

Being skeptical of sources is a journalist's job – but it doesn't always happen when those sources are the police - In the aftermath of Adam Toledo's death, police and a prosecutor framed the incident as a confrontation with an armed male holding a gun. Should reporters ...
Bracing Views

Cancel the F-35, Fund Infrastructure Instead - W.J. Astore Imagine you’re President Joe Biden. You’re looking for nearly $2 trillion to fund vital repairs and improvements to America’s infrastructure. Y...
The Smirking Chimp

Will Trump End Up In Prison? -
The Intercept

CPI da Covid: quando as instituições funcionam, Bolsonaro perde - Nomes da comissão indicam que responsáveis pelo genocídio em curso vão suar para explicar o boicote sistemático a todas medidas de combate à pandemia. Th...
WhoWhatWhy

Tucker Carlson: Grand Wizard of Fox News - Reading Time: < 1 minute “Heil Tucker,” one fan saluted on social media after the Fox News host spewed neo-Nazi venom on his show, invoking the “great re...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims break on through – 1M+ jobs report for April looks likely - Jobless claims break on through – 1M+ jobs report for April looks likely As I have said for the past few weeks, new jobless claims are likely to the most...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 18 April 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Sign up today for cat life coaching. Poor ostrich! Even one job was too ...
Counterpunch

The “Innocence” of Early Capitalism is Another Fantastical Myth - It is not unusual for critics of United States foreign policy, whether or not they feel free to use the term “imperialism,” to express regret that a prev...
See You In 2020

Dictatorship Of The Proletariat Is The Only Way To Stop Imperialism’s Brutal Fist - Imperialism is ferocious. For as long as imperialism exists, and its supporting bourgeois and fascist tendencies haven’t been eliminated from history, it...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: car reflections - Another in a series
The NM Political Report

Federal lawmakers seek funds to plug orphaned oil and gas wells - [image: Federal lawmakers seek funds to plug orphaned oil and gas wells] Even though they aren’t actively producing oil or gas, orphaned wells can still sp...
Informed Comment

Biden to reverse Trump’s White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – About one quarter of one percent (0.25 percent) of the US population consists of refugees — some 838,000. This minuscule num...
ArcaMax

'A Riot is the Language of the Unheard' - “The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.” So said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey last week in the wake of yet another police killing of ...
jobsanger

President Biden Pleads For A Reduction In Gun Violence -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2026: Ritual Origins - Episode: 2026 Ritual origins of technology: balance and metaphor. Today, we meet the mother of invention, and she’s not the lady we expected.
The Ghion Journal

Progressive Delusions: Pro-Choice but Anti-Liberty; Against GMO Foods but for Genetically Modified “Vaccines” - Not too long ago, I believed that Fox News followers belonged in the biggest cult in the world. I was certain that conservatives were so The post Progres...
Portside

Bessemer: No Organizing Effort Is Ever Wasted - Bessemer: No Organizing Effort Is Ever Wasted Marti Sun, 04/18/2021 - 00:12
Grits for Breakfast

#txlege bill eliminating Class-C arrests for traffic offenses moving forward with bipartisan support - The death of Daunte Wright traffic enforcement by police back in the spotlight, raising the profile of the issue just as *HB 830* (Thompson) passed out of ...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Brazil Politics: Crypto-fascism, Corruption, Democracy - Dandelion Salad Note to DS readers and writers: having computer problems at the moment; nothing serious, need to have a fan replaced and waiting for the de...
Daily Howler

The things we can't be told in Our Town! - *SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2021* *Today, it's the Washington Post: *Why was Daunte Wright being arrested last Sunday? The answer to that is one of the things ...
Mahablog

The Truth About Anglo-Saxons - So this happened: Hard-right House Republicans on Friday were discussing forming an America First Caucus, which one document described as championing “An...
Ring of Fire

Johnson & Johnson Sets Aside BILLIONS As Cancer Lawsuits Continue To Escalate - Via America’s Lawyer: Johnson & Johnson reserves almost 4 billion dollars to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits over its cancer-causing baby powder. At...
Latino Rebels

Chicago Police Critics Call for Charges in Shooting of Adam Toledo - CHICAGO (AP) — Newly released video that shows a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old will be key evidence when prosecutors consider a cas...
Louis Proyect

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts - Yesterday, “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts” opened at the Film Forum in New York, the Laemmle in Los Angeles, and through Kino-Lorber’s Virtual Cinema networ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston super couple's home rockets onto market, plus more top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Houston super couple's Piney Point home rockets onto market for $...
Eclectablog

How government SHOULD(N’T) work – with special guest Don Moynihan - Don Moynihan on Twitter: @donmoyn Don Moynihan's Georgetown University profile is HERE. Buy Don Moynihan's book Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Othe...
Texas Monthly

Why Have Texas’s Restrictive Voter Bills Received Less Corporate Pushback Than the Ones in Georgia? - A few of Texas's big businesses have publicly criticized efforts to make voting more difficult. But many more, fearful of Republican retribution, are try...
The Militant

Solidarity with miners, steelworkers on strike! - ATLANTA — Some 1,100 union coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, voted overwhelmingly April 9 to reject a tentative contract proposal and ...
Rewire

How Politicians Exploit Fears About Death to Attack Abortion Care - If we’re so afraid of death—and we are—then equating fetal burial legislation with abortion will only impede access. The post How Politicians Exploit Fea...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 12 - 16 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big call I made last year is that conditions were setting up for a Boo...
Mondoweiss

Justice is embedded in our struggle - Mondoweiss is on the front lines for justice in Palestine and Israel. It is a rare U.S.-based platform for the voices of this movement – voices that mainst...
Progrexas

Family fights anti-trans bills at Texas Capitol: “I will walk through fire to see my child be happy” - Lisa Stanton, with her daughter Maya, spoke at an Equality Texas event at the Capitol this week. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune (Audio unava...
Grist

First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys - The EPA approved Oxitec’s mosquitoes for release this spring. Some scientists and locals want to halt the deployment.
ProPublica

Natural Gas Is Getting Cheaper. Thousands Are Paying More To Heat Their Homes Anyway. - by Lucas Manfield and Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive ou...
Dallas Observer

Texas Officials Signed Last-Second Agreement to ‘Hamstring’ Biden Immigration Policies - Hoping to thwart Biden's immigration reforms, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona entered agreements with DHS during the last days of the Trump administration.
Crooked Media

Gay for Netflix - The post Gay for Netflix appeared first on Crooked Media.
Workers World

Abortion rights workers beat back anti-choice bigots - [image: Abortion rights workers beat back anti-choice bigots] Pensacola, Fla. (Occupied Creek Muscogee land) For four and a half months, abortion rights ad...
Reform Austin

Two Men Killed After Being Boxed in at Houston Apartment Complex Owned by Rep. Gary Gates - According to ABC 13, two men were shot to death after being boxed in by four other cars outside an apartment complex in Southeast Houston. According to t...
SCOTUSblog

Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question - [image: Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question]Are Alaska Native corporations — special corporations that Congress ...
Unlimited Hangout

Military Bases Housing Migrant Children Plagued by Serial Sexual Abuse Claims - The Biden administration is now housing unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in Texas and California. Some of these bases have been plagued f...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 14 Wrap-up: This moment calls for action - This week’s legislative update will be a little more personal as the last few days have been incredibly hard on our community. The State Legislature is in ...
Earthworks

Affirmative defense… of who? - Each state implements environmental policy differently. Obviously, each state has different regulations that change the way oil and gas operators behave....
Political Garbage Chute

Man Wants to Make Some Friends Because He’s Sure They’ll Love His “Two Genders” Memes - As soon as he makes a few friends, 43-year-old writer Will Palumbo knows they’ll all love his memes. In particular, Will is completely confident his new ...
Project Censored

“Collision of Crises” Impact Black and Brown Survivors during COVID-19 - In November 2020, ColorLines reported the results of a study that found that women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportion...
Progressive.org

Alisha Oyler, George Floyd, and ‘The Other America’ - As the trial of Derek Chauvin draws to a close, in a welter of expert testimony and talk of the crumbling blue wall of police silence, the most important w...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Lightning in George Floyd Square - Lightning strikes near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street, also known as George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. The post Chatting the Pictur...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Anglo-Saxon Traditions - Alex Isenstadt @ Politico: ‘A nicer version of Trump’: GOP donors flock to DeSantis. Joe Jervis: Cultist “Big Lie” Spreader To Challenge Georgia Gov. Dan...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/16/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Roundup! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/16/21 appeared first on NORML.
Freethought Now

The Supreme Court, the White House, Capitol Hill and state legislatures - The judiciary, the legislature and the executive — at the national and the state levels — kept us engaged at the Freedom From Religion Foundation this week.
Independent Political Report

From the Desk of Ralph Nader: Tort Law Explained with Cartoons - *Author and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the 1996 and 2000 Green Party presidential nominee, 2004 Reform Party presidential nominee, and 2008 Peace and...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Truth-Squadding Russia’s Response to New U.S. Sanctions - The new sanctions hit Russia’s ability to borrow from U.S. investors and could get even more painful if other countries go along.
MintPress News

A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies - Alan Macleod uncovers the deep links between the British security state and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, responsible for train...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Council Candidates Discuss Food Insecurity at Town Hall with Food Justice Orgs - Volunteers at the Dallas Farmers Market on Tuesday night arranged water bottles and snacks on spaced-out picnic tables in front of a stage. Salsa music b...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Daunte Wright Should Never Have Been Stopped - The story of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, shot and killed by Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police after being pulled over for minor traffic violations on Sund...
Houston Press

Breakfast Taco Full Of Crystal Meth Found By Hobby Airport TSA Agents - In one of the more absurd news alerts the Houston Press has received in recent history, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced Friday th...
American Prospect

Biden’s Unforced Error: Naming Sarah Bianchi to a Top China Job - Today on TAP: A baffling choice for USTR
Discourse

Cool, We’re Getting a Fascist Freak Caucus - God, these weirdo idiots. The post Cool, We’re Getting a Fascist Freak Caucus appeared first on Discourse Blog.
FiveThirtyEight.com

Did The Bruins Win The Trade Deadline? And Will The Canucks Ever Play Again? - neil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): One of hockey’s annual big events came and went earlier this week, with Monday’s trade deadline. Though the deadlin...
Texas Standard

The Pandemic Could Give New Life To An Immunization Tracking Bill That’s Been Kicking Around The Legislature For Years - “It allows the state of Texas to modernize its registry system, and be in comportment with the standards of registries throughout the nation.”
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *Someone reminded me of the Voidoids recently.The big hits like "Love Comes In Spurts" are cool,but how often do you hear this?* *• *So many wonderf...
The Appeal

Maryland Could Be the First State to Provide Lawyers for Tenants Facing Eviction - This week, on the last day of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that would provide access to counsel for low-income tenants facing ...
DeSmogBlog

Fossil Fuel Companies’ Tough Sell: Oil and Gas Sites With Costly Environmental Clean-up - Last year was rough for major oil companies. BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total suffered a combined $77 billion in losses for 2020. And now, as Re...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez and Hovercast CEO Eli Stonberg Talk Digital Event Strategies - I sat down with Eli Stonberg, the CEO and co-founder of Hovercast, an interactive live streaming and event platform, to discuss the platform’s success and ...
Dissent Magazine

Restorative Justice in Indian Country - Wellness courts provide an example of how some tribal governments are using indigenous sovereignty to build a community-based justice system, rooted in s...
Edinburg Politics

Rio Grande Valley School of Law proposal by Rep. Martínez, which could be established in Fall 2027, is approved by Texas House of Representatives, and now goes to the Senate for their action - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Ronnie Larralde, Executive Director, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; former Hidalgo County 464th District Court Judge Ysmael Fonseca; a...
Duffel Blog

Pentagon to weed out extremists by banning Marine Corps - Don't say “Oorah” or “yut”
Debunking Christianity

Bible Blunders & Bad Theology, Part 11 - *The Lazarus story goes off the rails* Let’s begin with a brief scene from the 1987 film* Moonstruck*: Elderly woman at airline departure gate: “You h...
In These Times

Joe Biden's Afghanistan Announcement Is Not What It Appears - The United States may be withdrawing its troops in September, but that doesn't mean it's ending its decades-long military engagement. - When I met a seven-year-old girl named Guljumma at a refugee camp in Kabul a dozen years ago, she told me that bombs fell early one morning while she sle...
Novara Media

Biden Announces Withdrawal From Afghanistan - #TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Tribune of the People

Brazil: Peasants from the North of Minas and the South of Bahia Declare Support for Camp Manoel Ribeiro - Editor’s Note: The following is an unofficial translation of a statement published by the Brazilian democratic revolutionary newspaper, A Nova Democracia, ...
Texas Observer

The Lege This Week: Instead of Addressing Mass Shootings, Lawmakers Expand Gun Rights - Welcome to the 87th Legislative Session. Since the last session came to a close in June 2019, Texas has been hit by an unrestrained pandemic and a crippl...
Eater Houston

Houston’s Remaining ‘Top Chef’ Contestant Continues to Shine - [image: Chef Dawn Burrell, a Black woman in a white chef’s coat and black apron, massages ingredients on a metal sheet pan] Dawn Burrell is showing that s...
Krebs on Security

Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020? - On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus an...
Democracy Now!

Biden Sanctions Russia for Cyber Espionage While Remaining Silent over Israeli Cyberattack on Iran - The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia and expelled 10 Russian diplomats after the Biden administration accused Moscow of being involved in ...
Space City Weather

Cooling late spring in Houston this weekend before outstanding April weather next week - Some storms sped through northern parts of the metro area yesterday evening, delivering a few quarter-size hail reports and some locally heavy rain in nort...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Lobbying groups trying to block a path to citizenship - Prepare for a new era of debate over immigration. Should the Democratic-controlled Congress legalize undocumented workers and revamp the visa system? Ho...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/16/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas House gives initial approval to "constitutional carry," which would allow people to carry a gun without a license; Texas Pla...
Dorf on Law

Knowingly Performing Down Syndrome Abortions Is Not "Eugenics" - *By Sherry F. Colb* Earlier this week, in *Preterm Cleveland v. McCloud*, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in an *en banc *opinion by Jud...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on April 14: Unifund CCR Partners vs Jackson Thelma M. - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Unifund CCR Partners against Jackson Thelma M. on April 14: 'Order G...
ROAR Magazine

Palestine is not a quagmire; it is a collective responsibility - The metaphors that attempt to render Palestine complicated obscure the simple brutality of Zionist colonization.
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Foundation for Climate Restoration Youth Ambassador Ashley Meeky - Young people are stepping into leadership roles in the climate restoration movement. Earth911 talks with... The post Earth911 Podcast: Foundation for Cli...
High Country News

Americans go on a gun-buying frenzy - Gun-related violence soars along with sales.
Rallblog

We Give Joe Biden More Credit Than He Gives Himself - On issues like the drive to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, many Democratic defenders of President Biden indulge in magical ...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ask Old Jules: A full life, second-hand knowledge, meaning of life, destiny/serendipity, feelings/knowledge, MacArthur quote - Old Jules, do you feel you just exist or live a full life? What is the difference? Can we kick the ‘just existing’ into a full life? What can be the barrie...
Bud Kennedy

Is this Texas election about potholes or Commies? Congress election blurs campaigns - The fire-and-brimstone ads in the mailbox say it’s election time. Democrats are campaigning for city and school offices. But Republicans seem to be campaig...
Field Negro

Exhausted. - Let me s...
Liberal America

Pot Legalization is Not About Getting High–It’s About Ending the Drug War - Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana. A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state. Mo...
Morning Consult

Chinese Consumers Emerge From the Pandemic More Confident - The post Chinese Consumers Emerge From the Pandemic More Confident appeared first on Morning Consult.
slacktivist

Sapphira is a model of ‘complementarian biblical womanhood’ - Ananias and Sapphira are one of the very, very few biblical examples of "marriage between one man and one woman." And they're the best example of "compleme...
Sludge

Tax Chairman Neal Takes Checks From the Worst Corporate Tax Dodgers - As he prepares to oversee the tax portions of President Biden’s infrastructure plan, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) ha...
LareDOS

9-1-1 Regional Office proclaims National Telecommunicators Week to recognize efforts of team of 80 - Winter storm call volume: 16,000 over three days
Rude Pundit

Shut the Fuck Up and Get Your Fucking Vaccine - A bunch of fanatics are fucking up the vaccination program for everyone. Polls are showing that a significant percentage of people won't get the vaccine....
BEYONDbones

SPARKing Change with Autism Research at HMNS - Written by Dr. Robin Kochel, SPARK I will never forget the day that I learned that birds are dinosaurs. My family and I were visiting HMNS to finalize pl...
Socialist Alternative

Attacks on Trans Rights Escalate: Arkansas Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth - By March 31, International Trans Day of Visibility, the state of Arkansas had introduced four major bills targeting the rights of transgender people, and t...
Innocence Project

Maryland’s Recent Reforms Are a Win for Police Accountability and Exonerees Seeking Compensation - Earlier this week, Maryland passed several laws that will strengthen police transparency and accountability and advance justice for the wrongfully convic...
The Contributor

719 Billionaires Now Own Four Times More Wealth Than Poorest 165 Million Americans Combined - News Image: "Congress should act to restore taxes on the wealthy and limit further democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power." Category: Ec...
Washington Babylon

Six Questions for Corene Kendrick on the Little-Known Clinton Era Legislation That Leads to Torture at U.S. Prisons - [image: Six Questions for Corene Kendrick on the Little-Known Clinton Era Legislation That Leads to Torture at U.S. Prisons] Corene Kendrick is the deputy ...
Lowering the Bar

A Farewell to Madoff - He was the best in the world at something, but unfortunately, it was fraud. Related Stories - Alleged Arsonists Say They Set Fires to Get Rid o...
Land Destroyer

Australia's Self-Inflicted Economic Woes Continue - *April 15, 2021* (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Australia had until recently been enjoying economic growth alongside the rise of China. This all changed when Ca...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Mini-Midterms: Five Takeaways from Six Decades of House Special Elections - Dear Readers: Join us tonight (Thursday, April 15) at 6:30 p.m. eastern for a free, virtual panel: “The Changing Face of America: Voters of Color in the 20...
epic.org

Draft EU AI Regulation Would Ban Social Scoring, Limit ‘High-Risk’ Uses - A leaked draft of the European Commission's proposed AI regulation includes a ban on social scoring and strict limits on mass surveillance and other "high-...
Due Dissidence

Podcast: Inside the Democrats’ War on Bernie Sanders – w/Branko Marcetic - Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of the book Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, joined the podcast to discuss his thorough and...
Pages of Victory

No one has said it better. - I need to drive my two-year-old to daycare tomorrow morning. To ensure we arrive alive, we won't take public transit (Oscar Grant). I removed all air fr...
Ecosophia

The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries - Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the twentieth century’s most important work ...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN President Warns Against New Wave of Discriminatory Religious Exemptions Bills - Republican lawmakers in the Texas Capitol are once again pushing bills that seek to turn religious freedom into a license to discriminate. These bills ar...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DNC Ramen - From the party that brought you DNC Dog Food, New Blue Money Detergent, Blue Box Chardonnay, and their Premier Donut Assortment now comes — DNC Ramen! Just...
Idavox

The Idavox Report 13 Apr 2021 - This week, we will discuss Rudolph W. Giuliani, his racist tenure as Mayor and how it fueled the flames for killer cops and the so-called alt-right. The ...
TalkLeft

Johnson and Johnson Vaccine "Paused" in U.S. - Six women between the ages of 18 and 48 have been afflicted with a blood clotting disorder within three weeks of taking the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. On...
Environment Texas

HB 2350 for Natural Cities and Healthy Waters - Anna Farrell-Sherman Clean Water Associate Contact person by email Anna works hard to protect the clean water of Texas, advocating for nature-based infra...
Shadowproof

Graduate Workers Unions At New York’s Two Largest Universities Vote For Strike - Graduate workers at New York University and Columbia University, the two largest universities in New York City, are in the midst of a contentious labor b...
CT's short stories and novelettes

MARLEY AMES: THE FEAST - Marley Ames searched the ground before him, taking carefully calculated steps to avoid ripping away the loosely hanging sole of his right shoe....
ExChristian.Net

Freedom and Peace - *By Blackfreethought ~ * It is such a relief to know my actions do not have eternal consequences. My mistakes will not condemn me to damnation and my good...
Progressives Chat

‘Georgia and the GOP’ … ‘AOC and the Dems’ - Recent news items call for me to respond in this blog topic. *Georgia and the GOP* The Republicans in Georgia—with its governor Brian Kemp—want to stop ...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance bids “bon voyage” to the Ever Given as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff comments on the Senate’s omnibus vote...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Triheads vs Squareheads - This cartoon is a collaboration between myself (script and lettering), Becky Hawkins (classroom scenes), and Naomi Rubin (Triheads vs Squareheads scenes). ...
Our Finite World

We can’t expect COVID-19 to go away; we should plan accordingly - To a significant extent, what we can and should do in the future is an energy issue. If we plan to transition to a green energy future, or if we simply pla...
Greg Palast

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

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

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
Duck of Minerva

Life in the Time of COVID: Planning for Non-Adherence - This is a guest post from Tana Johnson, an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publica...
DBC Green

Moxie: Flawed But Worthy - Dang, I meant to re-post this sorta review here about a month ago.In a nutshell, I don't particularly care for the what the Amy Poehler and the Hollywood M...
BillMoyers.com

March 30, 2021 - It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode. Continue reading The post March 30, 2021 appeared first o...
Texas Moratorium Network

Rep Jeff Leach Speaks on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - Texas State Rep Jeff Leach, a Republican, in this video makes a persuasive argument for his bill to end the death penalty in law of parties cases at the ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Killing the Bayou: Shocking Plan to Bulldoze, Reroute Buffalo Bayou - Historic Banks of Memorial Park to Be Radically Altered April 6, 2021 The private organization running Houston’s great public Memorial Park on the forested...
Chicken Fried Politics

Florida U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings dies at 84 - Democrat’s death narrows party’s House majority, sets off scramble for his South Florida seat ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor FORT LAUDER...
Reveal

We wanted to know how the 2020 census was going. So we asked workers to guide our coverage. - [image: A sign mounted in the bed of a pickup truck reads: “Do your part, stop the spread and do 2020 census.”] More than 150 Census Bureau employees reac...
Avedon's Sideshow

Teach us to be true - Victor Molev's "City of Wandering Towers" is way outside of my price range but nice to look at, and is part of the Amazing Fantasy Cities collection. "Rec...
New Progressive Alliance

Stupid Dems Are Here Again... - ...They're refusing needed funds again Yes, they're holier than thou again Stupid Dems are here again! You can't make this stuff up. Candidates of the *...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2021 - Walmart had at least eight shootings last month, fortunately none of them were fatal, although there were at least three or four injuries, including at ...
nonsite.org

Responses to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment - Complexity enchants ANT, new materialism, posthumanism, media studies, affect theory, and the literary undertakings of postcritique, new descriptivism, and...
The Rag Blog

Ivan Koop Kuper : LITERATURE | Larry McMurtry: The Houston years and beyond - ‘I had two novel manuscripts in my drawer, which meant that I had options my fellow graduate students just didn’t have.’ By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog ...
The Socialist

Deal Seems Close to End Fast of Anna Hazare - The campaign by 74-year-old Anna Hazare has sparked the biggest protests in decades, uniting millions of Indians, including its growing middle class, again...
Downwinders at Risk

Current Dallas City Council Members Failed History in 2020. They Don’t Deserve Your Support in 2021 - For almost two continuous decades Dallas residents had a string of thoughtful, sincere, and righteously-angry advocates who served on their City Council. A...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Popular Among Antigovernment Extremists, 'Second Amendment Sanctuary’ Resolutions Pose Risks - Since the election of President Joe Biden, a number of state legislators have proposed so-called “Second Amendment sanctuary” legislation to declare their ...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 3/29/21 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The “Unvaccinated” Question - So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven’t been “vaccinated” yet. Us. The “Covidio...
Media Lens

Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK - We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate m...
Seeing the Forest

Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
Frontloading HQ

FHQ Turns 14 - Today marks the beginning of FHQ's 15th year. Like any other period of time, it has been a span that has seen both ups and downs, none more challenging tha...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Zine Release – Making Sense of Fascism - We are pleased to announce the release of this new zine “Making Sense of Fascism.” It can be purchased through our online shop here: Making Sense of Fascis...
WAWG Blog

What Socialism Is, Has Changed - Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue ...
Texas Watch

Supplemental Comments on HB 19: Safety Recommendations - Executive Director Ware Wendell testifies against HB 19 Video of Executive Director Ware Wendell testifies against HB 19 On Tuesday, March 9th, our team ...
Moron Majority

Where’s Jared? - Since leaving his position, in January, as White House senior advisor, Jared Kushner seems to be missing in action. During Donald Trump’s appearance at las...
GreenSource DFW

Recycle your old phone into security cam - *The cat, we once monitored in our shed on a web cam, watches the Alfred Camera app's live feed. Photo by Julie Thibodeaux.* March 11, 2021 A few months...
Campaign for America's Future

It's Time for an Organizing Revival - The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form an...
Web of Debt

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment? - Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facili...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show - The post Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show appeared first on Free & Equal.
News Taco

Legal Machinations of SAWS Trustees and CEO Raise Serious Ethical Concerns - In late January, SAWS and the City of San Antonio dropped their legal action against the SAWS Act PAC citizens’ coalition that is seeking changes at the ...
Anti-Media

As Predicted: Immunity Passports Are No Longer A Fantasy - "Immunity Passports" or "Digital Certificates" will allow people who have been vaccinated to travel, work, and play.
The Disorder Of Things

Judith Butler Goes to Norway - A guest post from Ida Roland Birkvad. Ida is a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her t...
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 -
Malady

Surrendering to Hopelessness: Catharsis for the Modern Communist - *“How does it help...to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" – Seneca* There is a propensity amongst those on the left to discuss revolution in the co...
Progressives Everywhere

Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court to Save Democracy - The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be...
Modern Democracy

“The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1” - Very excited to have a piece up on the Harvard Law Review Blog diving into H.R. 1’s redistricting reforms. The post examines some surprising shortcomings i...
Green Papers

Two principles of racial equity that outrage liberals - The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police ov...
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-...
LawFlog

CIA refuses to say whether it framed Russia for leaked DNC emails; FBI apparently ignored Seth Rich’s laptop - The Central Intelligence Agency will neither confirm nor deny that it fabricated the Russian “fingerprints” in Democratic National Committee emails publish...
News Junkie

Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy When Populism Became Fascism - Trumpism has defined, in the past four years, the quintessence of populism. On January 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob, instigated by their cult leader himse...
One People's Project

CHESTER DOLES - NAME: Chester Doles HOME BASE: Winters Mtn. Rd. Dahlonega, GA 30533 706-867-6696 (As of 2004) Drives black van, license plate number Georgia 838GMF RELATED...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Update: Chris Faulkner > IT Guy > Frack Master > Felon - ORDER SETTING REARRAIGNMENT HEARING VIA VIDEO TELECONFERENCE as to Christopher Aundre Faulkner: The court finds in this case that the felony plea cannot ...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Down With Tyranny!

WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
Green Pages News

S. Michael DeRosa 1945 – 2020 - S. Michael DeRosa, 75 years of age (January 4, 1945 – October 16, 2020) of Wethersfield, CT died October 16, 2020 at Hartford Hospital due to exacerbation ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

New post at my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flights of Fancy" - For those that have any interest, curiosity or just have a good need for self punishment, I have made a new post on my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flig...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - I knew I wanted to talk to freshman Rep. Lizzie Fletcher this cycle, because there’s just so much to talk about. You know her story from 2018 – the crowded...
The Texas CBD Blog

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
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...
Bad Attitudes

Nothing New Under the Sun - From the *New York Times* of October 30, 2002: Remember all that fuss a couple of years back over Floridaâ€™s Banana-republic voting procedures? And then...
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...
Editor & Publisher

Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed - The country’s most prominent media owner-editor is detained and incarcerated. The image-conscious prime minister ignores a letter from United Nations
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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...
t.e.j.a.s.

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

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

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