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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

Former Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93 - Walter Mondale, the former vice president who served under Jimmy Carter and was the Democratic nominee for president in 1984, died Monday at his home in ...
memeorandum

State Department to list 80% of countries as 'Do Not Travel' as it updates advisory system to align with CDC (Jennifer Hansler/CNN) - Jennifer Hansler / CNN: *State Department to list 80% of countries as ‘Do Not Travel’ as it updates advisory system to align with CDC* — Washington (CN...
Alternet

Marjorie Taylor Greene crossed a line for the GOP — but that's all part of the strategy - If you had any doubts that the Republican Party had a full-blown white nationalist faction ready and willing to let their freak flags fly, the last few w...
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on.
Mediaite

Naomi Wolf Appears on Fox News to Talk Pandemic After Sharing Vaccine Conspiracy - Naomi Wolf appeared on Fox News Monday night talking about the pandemic a day after tweeting out a bizarre, conspiratorial claim about side effects of th...
Latino Rebels

Sonia Gutierrez: I Faced Discrimination at 9News Denver - The station's owner is now facing a discrimination complaint before the Federal Trade Commission.
Raw Story

US ambassador defiantly refuses to leave Russia: report - On Monday, Axios reported that John Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, is refusing to leave the country — despite being "advised" by Kremlin offici...
The Hill

House votes to condemn Chinese government over Hong Kong - The House passed a resolution on Monday to formally condemn the Chinese government and the Hong Kong regional government for actions that "violate the righ...
Brad Blog

Good Shots and Still More Very Bad Ones: 'BradCast' 4/19/2021 - We open up the phones on today's BradCast for a bunch of very good calls, including from a teacher who was back for in-person instruction today for the fir...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: The Americas - Chilean union federation calls for nationwide strike; Quebec teachers push contract demands
Salon.com

"Game of Thrones" writer defends showrunners from online haranguing - It's the Iron Anniversary (10 years, for those of us not in Westeros) of the series, and nostalgia also brings hate
Field Negro

Questions of the day. - What do you think will be the final outcome of the Derek Chuavin trial? And how will the result *(whatever it is)* impact the psyche of the country?
Axios

Read: Former Vice President Walter Mondale's last message to staff - Former Vice President Walter Mondale wrote a farewell letter to his staff, sent upon his death on Monday, thanking them for years working together. *Dea...
Daily Dot

‘Why do kids have to fight adult battles?’: Students from more than 100 schools walk out as Derek Chauvin verdict looms - [image: minnesota teen student walkout police brutality derek chauvin trial daunte wright] Students at more than 100 schools across Minnesota walked out ...
Mediagazer

YouTube says it has temporarily demonetized James Charles' channel, which has 25.5M+ subscribers, after 15+ sexual misconduct accusations from men and boys (Kat Tenbarge/Insider) - Kat Tenbarge / Insider: *YouTube says it has temporarily demonetized James Charles' channel, which has 25.5M+ subscribers, after 15+ sexual misconduct ac...
Ian Welsh

Why Do We Do That? - So today I stopped by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) and picked up a small bottle of sake. The teller seemed unhappy, so we chatted for a bit. ...
Environment Texas

Yes on HB 1143 to keep Texas Safe for Swimming - 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...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Ingenuity flies - It doesn't look like much -- just lifting three meters into the air, rotating, and then landing again -- but this is the first achievement of powered flig...
Courthouse News

Feds Weighing How to Respond After Verdict in Chauvin Trial - The Biden administration is privately weighing how to handle the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
The Root

‘I Knew I Had More to Give:’ Simone Biles on Returning to the Mat and Representing Abuse Survivors at 2021 Olympic Games - Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is speaking out about her return to the mat for the 2021 Games. Read more...
Grits for Breakfast

Deeply rooted problems at Austin's police academy justified one-year recruitment delay - So much misinformation has been cast about so frequently regarding the City of Austin's budget and supposedly "defunding the police" that many political ac...
Political Wire

Arizona Attorney General Eyes Senate Race - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) is leaning toward challenging Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in 2022 after initially moving toward a run for governor, the ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Capitol police officer injured in attack died of natural causes, examiner says - Medical examiner’s determination means it will be difficult for prosecutors to bring homicide charges in Brian Sicknick’s death Brian Sicknick, a Capitol...
Vox

Mark Zuckerberg says he’s standing up for you. Yes, you. - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at a press event hosted by News Corp in October 2019. | Getty The CEO of Facebook makes the case for Facebook. What...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

LGBTQ community outlives another homophobe. Judith Reisman supported blaming gays for the Holocaust - Judith Reisman is the latest homophobe which the LGBTQ community has outlived. So many have come against the LGBTQ community attempting to take away our ...
Mahablog

Ten GOP Senators, Sitting in a Tree … - It is alleged there are ten “moderate” (a relative term) Republican senators who call themselves the “G-10” (nobody will say what the G stands for) and w...
Slate

Who Is Kyrsten Sinema Telling to F— Off? - Her style has overtaken her substance.
Al Jazeera English

US officer died of natural causes after Capitol riot: Coroner - Officer Brian Sicknick died from strokes caused by a blood clot in artery to his brain, medical examiner's report finds.
Workers World

Brick by brick and wall by wall, we will free Mumia Abu-Jamal - [image: Brick by brick and wall by wall, we will free Mumia Abu-Jamal] By Erica Caines This lightly edited presentation was given by Erica Caines, with Bla...
Buzzflash

Staged Instagram Photo of Sangria-Sipping Kyrsten Sinema Wearing a Quirky Hat and a "F*ck Off" Ring Goes Viral, Draws Blowback From Progressives. Per Melania,"I Really Don't Care, Do You?" - MediaITE
NORML

US House Passes Bill To Normalize Adult-Use Cannabis Commerce - Members of the House of Representatives voted today in favor of a stand-alone piece of legislation, The SAFE Banking Act, to remedy the ongoing inconsist...
Portside

A Brief Anatomy of Outdoor Dining - A Brief Anatomy of Outdoor Dining jeannette Mon, 04/19/2021 - 19:10
OpEd News

Happiness Tips from the Green Witch of NY - The Happiness Recipe Show is offering authentic stories from twenty or so experts in different fields, dedicated to revealing ways to move and grow through...
Houston Public Media

Texas Congressional Democrats Seek To Block Governor’s Grab Of COVID-19 Education Funds - Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking a waiver that would let him reroute nearly $18 billion in federal COVID aid from public schools to other areas of the budget.
Election Law Blog

“Justin Levitt Named White House Senior Policy Advisor” - Great news for our country about co-blogger Justin Levitt: LMU Loyola Law School Professor Justin Levitt, a nationally recognized scholar of constitutional...
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism - Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump's parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America. Th...
Talking Points Memo

McCarthy Announces Move To Censure Waters Amid GOPers’ Faux Outrage - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News on Monday that he plans to introduce a resolution to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA,) followin...
San Antonio Report

Visit San Antonio taps Chicago tourism executive as its new CEO - Marc Anderson, who currently leads Chicago's tourism office, will take over as Visit San Antonio's president and CEO June 1.
Greg Palast

Deepwater Horizon – The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic - Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-...
Texas Environmental News

Under Armour downsizes plans for Port Covington headquarters in Baltimore in wake of pandemic - Under Armour plans to redevelop its waterfront land in South Baltimore’s Port Covington as a global headquarters by 2025, consolidating [...] The post Un...
Dissident Voice

Caught in a Propaganda Mad House - The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. The...
Techdirt.

From Jurassic Park To Telepathic Monkeys, Elon Musk Press Hype Is Getting A Bit Thick - Last week the press was jam packed with headlines discussing how Elon Musk and his Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak would soon "have the technology to buil...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Politics Podcast: Celebrity Candidates Are Here To Stay - The idea of the celebrity politician isn’t going away just because former President Trump is out of office. Caitlyn Jenner says she’s in the process of dec...
The Verge

Parler will relaunch on Apple’s App Store next week - [image: In this photo illustration a Parler logo is seen behind a...] Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Th...
Mother Jones

Jury Deliberation Begins in Derek Chauvin’s Trial - After hearing three weeks of testimony, the jury in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial has begun deliberating. The prosecution and the defense concluded their cl...
Houston Press

Hidalgo Announces No Appointments Needed For COVID-19 Vaccines at NRG Park - Earlier this year, Houston area residents watched COVID-19 vaccine appointment websites and phone lines crash under the pressure of massive public demand f...
naked capitalism

Opioids Crisis: Trial of Four Drugmakers Begins in California - ennessee judge enters default judgment against opioids manufacturere Endo Pharmaceuticals for discovery misconduct.
Right Wing Watch

That Time I Interviewed Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes (and He Threatened to Sue Me) - Before investigators and journalists even began to reconstruct the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the presence of Oath Keepers loomed large. A belligerent org...
Second Nexus

MyPillow Guy Falls for Trump Impersonator's Prank Call Live on Air and People Can't Stop Laughing - MyPillow CEO and prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump—Mike Lindell—continues to peddle the lie that Democrats "stole" the 2020 election f...
Crooked Media

“The Tucker Carlson Caucus.” - The post “The Tucker Carlson Caucus.” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Project Censored

Seed Monopolies are Controlling the World’s Food Supply and Future Food Security - For thousands of years of human agriculture, farmers freely exchanged and shared seeds. Today, four corporations control the majority of the world’s seed...
The Conversation

What's next for Cuba and the United States after Raul Castro's retirement - Just as Fidel Castro's 2016 death did not transform US-Cuba ties, his brother Raul’s exit from politics is unlikely to do so. But Cuba itself is changing. ...
Living Blue in Texas

Allen West Embarrasses Himself, With Southern Strategy Denial Rhetoric - Allen West blames Democrats for racism prior to the Southern Strategy, paints the modern-day Democrats as Conservative oppressors. Allen West took to Fac...
Texas Monthly

The Dallas Cowboys NFL Draft Mantra: ‘Jerry Is Going to Get it Right This Year …’ - It's a tradition unlike any other: rookies, free-agent signings, and convincing football fans their team is on the upswing. The post The Dallas Cowboys N...
ArcaMax

Biden’s industrial policy is the key to his economic restructuring - America is about to revive an idea that was left for dead decades ago. It’s called industrial policy, and it’s at the heart of Joe Biden’s plans to restruc...
CultureMap Houston

8 heady Houston restaurants and bars to party on 4/20 in style - April 20 has gone mainstream. Once primarily observed by jam band fans, the holiday devoted to recreational marijuana now draws fans from all elements of ...
Liberation News

Either a conviction or a rebellion: Jury begins deliberations in Chauvin trial - The world is now anxiously awaiting a verdict as the jury begins its deliberations.
Skeptical Raptor

Vaccine effectiveness – correcting misunderstandings about COVID-19 vaccines - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I keep reading how people think that when a COVID-19 vaccine is reported to have 95%...
NPR's Health Shots

Eco-Activist Greta Thunberg Has A New Issue: The Moral Threat of Vaccine Inequality - The 18-year-old gave her point of view at a World Health Organization press conference, saying it's "unethical" to vaccinate young people in wealthy countr...
Common Dreams

Progressives Strongly Oppose John E. Morton As Climate Czar - ______________________________
Ballot Access News

Ohio Files Reply Brief in its Lawsuit Against U.S. Census Bureau - On April 15, the state of Ohio filed this brief in State of Ohio v Raimondo, 21-3294, in the Sixth Circuit. Ohio filed this case to force the Census Bureau...
Morning Consult

Republicans Drive Decline in Share of Americans Who See Police Violence as a Serious Problem - The post Republicans Drive Decline in Share of Americans Who See Police Violence as a Serious Problem appeared first on Morning Consult.
VICE

The Best 4/20 Deals and Sales We Could Find, From CBD to Legal Joints to Lube - We're puff, puff, passing you the best deals on Delta 8 gummies, CBD tinctures, joints, pipes, and more. Put these discount codes in your pipe and smoke 'em.
Reform Austin

Vaccine Passport, What Is It And Can It Be a Reality Soon For You? - [image: vaccine passport] Last month CNN reported that New York became the first state in the U.S. to roll out a digital vaccine passport or verification...
Futurism

Tesla Keeps “Slamming on the Brakes” When It Sees Stop Sign on Billboard - [image: A Tesla owner shared footage of a bizarre glitch. His Model 3's Autopilot kept slamming the brakes when it spotted a fake stop sign on a billboard....
First Draft

Closing Arguments - The day began with jury instructions from Judge Peter Cahill, which were, of course drafted with input from both sides. I listened carefully and they sound...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Cops Will Finally Stop Charging People for Small Amounts of Pot - Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia is ordering his officers to stop charging people who are caught with small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Garcia...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio dancer Tone Padron cast in second season of HBO Max's Legendary - San Antonio has long known that dancer Antonio Padron — better known as Tone — is something special. Soon, the House of Kenzo and Cornyation alum will be ...
Progrexas

Texas House targets power grid flaw that cut electricity to natural gas facilities and worsened February blackouts - A mobile home park is covered with snow as a massive winter storm engulfed Texas, causing widespread power and water outages across the state in February...
INSIDER - politics news

Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes, the Washington Post reports. A medical examiner said the Capitol riot 'played a role.' - [image: brian sicknick] Summary List Placement Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes one day after confronting rioters at the Jan...
Lawfare

No Server Left Behind: The Justice Department’s Novel Law Enforcement Operation to Protect Victims - The Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C. (Coolcaesar, https://tinyurl.com/42px57jb; CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-s...
Angry Bear

Coronavirus dashboard for April 19: Much great progress, and some problem children - Coronavirus dashboard for April 19: Much great progress, and some problem children As an initial note, there is no significant economic data until Thur...
Progressive.org

Biden Must Address the Public School Mental Health Crisis Right Now - The pandemic has been especially traumatic for students and, to make matters worse, school counselors that could help are in short supply.
Strategic Culture Foundation

VIDEO: The Great Reset Morality: Euthanization of the Inessentials - How can there be a "Great Reset" with the globe slowly dividing as new powers rise?
Ring of Fire

Matt Gaetz’s Ex Girlfriend Is TERRIFIED That The Feds Recorded Her Calls - An ex-girlfriend of Matt Gaetz is now terrified that her phone calls with the women involved in the scandal may have been taped, and that she could end u...
Sludge

Troy Carter Removed From ‘No Fossil Fuel Money’ Pledge Following Sludge Report - A candidate in the two-Democrat special election runoff to replace Cedric Richmond as the U.S. representative for Louisiana’s Second Congressional District...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Police Killings, Ecuador and Afghanistan on the Freedom Side - Watch the Freedom Side livestream every Thursday at 8pm EST hosted by me and Eugene Puryear on Breakthrough News.
The Intercept

Elizabeth Warren Suggests U.S. Explore Conditional Aid to Israel - In a speech, the Massachusetts senator proposed the restriction of military aid from use in occupied Palestine. The post Elizabeth Warren Suggests U.S. E...
Political Garbage Chute

Greene: “I Will Never Back Down From Supporting Traditional Anglo-Moron Beliefs” - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Within hours of a draft proposal for a new “America First Caucus,” fronted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA), the plan had been ef...
The Progressive Wing

4.19 Open Thread - I wandered over to the c99% thread and they were slow, too. The Nest is Open. You all go for it! 😊☮️👍
Church and State

Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Get Rid of Helms Amendment – ‘A Racist, Colonial Relic’ - Led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), the group of lawmakers have reintroduced the Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act.
Eater Houston

Someone Tried to Smuggle a Meth-Stuffed Breakfast Taco Through Houston’s Hobby Airport - [image: homestate for the 2020 101 best restaurants] This was not the meth-stuffed breakfast taco in question | Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times via Gett...
The AltWorld

A Middle East in Motion - U.S. sanctions are easily done, but not easily undone – even temporarily. Lifting them completely is institutionally […] The post A Middle East in Motion...
TalkLeft

Closing Arguments in George Floyd Murder Trial - Both sides gave their closing arguments in the case of Derek Chauvin, who is charged with the murder of George Floyd. Was it murder? The prosecutor reminde...
American Prospect

Retirement Income for the Poor - Today on TAP: Expanding the Thrift Savings Plan
Idavox

Hamilton, Ontario: F–k the Covid Cops! - Some folks in Ontario are noticing how police there are using the covid crisis as... The post Hamilton, Ontario: F–k the Covid Cops! appeared first on Id...
Socialist Alternative

Big Pharma Puts the World In Danger - Seattle Socialist City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant is introducing a resolution for a vote by the Seattle City Council dema...
Discourse

Andrew Sullivan Is Doing Jew Shit Again - You can practically feel the calipers. The post Andrew Sullivan Is Doing Jew Shit Again appeared first on Discourse Blog.
Texas Standard

Nearly 9,000 Texas Nursing Home Patients Died Of COVID-19 - Vaccinating nursing home patients turning tide on death toll.
Countercurrents

Biden’s Drone Wars - On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case a...
El Paso Matters

Food insecurity becomes a growing concern for college students - For the first time in her life, Giselle Paredes needs help feeding her family. “Many times I don’t have something to cook so I’m like, ‘what am I going ...
Deadline Politics

Apple To Allow Updated Version Of Parler Back Onto IPhone App Store - Apple will allow social media app Parler back onto the iPhone App Store, according to members of Congress who had protested the removal of the controversia...
Counterpunch

Bobby Gillespie, Jehnny Beth – Remember We Were Lovers - The post Bobby Gillespie, Jehnny Beth – Remember We Were Lovers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China Falsely Attacks Aussie Think Tank Documenting Uyghur Persecution - Numerous sources, not just the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy, have provided evidence of widespread Uyghur detention.
WhoWhatWhy

Despite Tensions, US and China Agree to Work Together on Climate Change - Reading Time: 2 minutes The Fast Lane for COVID Testing Has Opened Up ; Police and Public Officials Donated to Kyle Rittenhouse ; and More Picks 4/19 Th...
Moon of Alabama

Why Washington's Anti-Russian Policies Are Likely To Intensify - Thanks to a monoculture of anti-Russia hawks in U.S. policy institutions relations between the U.S. and Russia are likely to further decline. But some hope...
MintPress News

Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests” - Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and native of Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-Ch...
SCOTUSblog

Justices add confrontation-clause case to next term’s docket - [image: Justices add confrontation-clause case to next term’s docket]The Sixth Amendment gives a defendant in a criminal prosecution the right “to be con...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Keweenaw Crossing: Michigan’s Elevator Bridge The Portage Lake Lift Bridge (officially the Houghton–Hancock Bridge) connects the cities of Hancock and Houg...
WhatWouldJackDo

“[Y]ou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”…hopefully, I did it well for 20 years - (credit to Stephen King for the quote) I have always had the illusion it was more important or as important to be a good man as to be a great... Read more »
Crooked Timber

Danielle Allen – a personal endorsement - I imagine that many Crooked Timber readers are familiar with Danielle Allen – her book, Our Declaration, was the subject of a Crooked Timber seminar a few ...
Bonddad

Coronavirus dashboard for April 19: Much great progress, and some problem children - -* by New Deal democrat* As an initial note, there is no significant economic data until Thursday this week, so don’t be surprised if I play hooky fo...
Democracy Chronicles

NJ Small Candidates Being Crushed By Filing Challenges - “Candidate intimidation” is is seldom discussed. This is a good time, as New Jersey's party primary nomination deadline around the corner.
slacktivist

‘Biblical families,’ an index - Here, for your convenience, is an easier-to-navigate index of our Chick-fil-A Biblical Family of the Day series, from Abijah to Zimri.
Media Lens

Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond - Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolst...
Claytoonz

Hater Caucus - Can Republicans take one day off from being racist? Just one? Maybe go outside, take a walk, sniff some flowers, binge Netflix (not “World War II in Color....
The Contributor

Robert Reich: America Reviving an Idea Left for Dead Decades Ago - News Image: It’s called industrial policy, and it’s at the heart of Joe Biden’s plans to restructure the U.S. economy. Category: Opinion origin Blog: Ro...
Undernews

Doing laundry ‘highlight of week’ for third of Americans beyond bored from pandemic isolation -
Daily Howler

Starting tomorrow: BREAKDOWNS AND TOWN! - *MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021* *Snapshots of cascading failures:* The headline on a front page in today's New York Times says this: *Minneapolis Braces for Ve...
Washington Babylon

Sputnik Left’s Apologias for Chinese Oppression of Uighurs Rival Old Left Sycophancy Towards Stalin - [image: Sputnik Left’s Apologias for Chinese Oppression of Uighurs Rival Old Left Sycophancy Towards Stalin] There are pretty much only two positions in th...
Mondoweiss

Facebook shuts down page of academic program sponsoring Palestinian event - On April 12 Facebook removed the event page for a panel on Palestine. The next day the tech company shut down the page for the academic program, the Arab a...
Novara Media

The End of Football As We Know It - Proposals for a European Super League have provoked a backlash among fans, players and politicians. Can the plans to cartelise the game be reversed? With M...
Rewire

To Prepare for Motherhood, I Looked to the Past - I was rushing against time to locate and pick up all my missing parts before I had the responsibility of young Black life under my hands. The post To Pre...
Texas Observer

“Election Integrity” or Voter Intimidation? - During a March webinar, Bill Ely pulled up a map of Harris County while presenting the local Republican Party’s ambitious plan for the 2022 midterms: bui...
Scheerpost.com

Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire - US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
Democracy Now!

Meet Cariol Horne, Black Police Officer Fired After Stopping Fellow Cop's Assault on Handcuffed Man - Amid nationwide protests over police abuse, we speak with Cariol Horne, the Buffalo police officer whom a New York court has just vindicated for stopping a...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Celebrating Stupidity - We start the day, and the week, with a Barney and Clyde (WPWG) in which Weingarten et cie use “beg the question” properly, which is probably too smart for ...
Duffel Blog

Taliban wonders who will inadvertently fund operations after US leaves - Oof.
Debunking Christianity

"Doubting Thomas" Tells Us All We Need To Know About Christianity - The lessons of the "doubting Thomas" story are not what you think. It does not offer any objective evidence that Jesus arose from the dead. It only offer...
Space City Weather

Houston to enjoy a spectacular spring week - As Matt suggested in Friday’s post, Houston had a chance this week to see some fantastic spring time weather. And I’m here to tell you, it’s happening. Nor...
The Grayzone

In moving UN speech, veteran diplomat confronts OPCW ‘stonewalling and smear tactics’ on Syria - Speaking to the UN Security Council, veteran diplomat Hans von Sponeck calls out the OPCW’s “stonewalling and unacceptable smear tactics” amid growing ou...
The Smirking Chimp

Roger Stone Has Something to Say about the Lawsuit Alleging He Owes IRS Nearly $2M -
Dorf on Law

Serious Court Reform: Partisan Balance is the Only Way Out - By Eric Segall The Supreme Court of the United States plays much too large a role in our nation's politics. The validity of varying state and federal law...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/19/2021 - Top legal news includes: Feds rescind health care funding agreement that would have paid for care for uninsured, poor Texans after 2022; After stalling for...
Grist

Deb Haaland is making room for marginalized communities in the Interior Department - The first Native American cabinet secretary told Grist she’s going to give environmental justice communities a seat at the table.
Southeast Texas Record

Woman injured on broken chair at Harris County Courthouse, suit alleges - HOUSTON — A woman is suing Harris County after she was injured on a broken chair at the Harris County Courthouse in Houston. Read more..
Progressives Chat

Regarding Oscar and Chloé Zhao - Next Sunday, April 25, 2021, will be the 93rd Academy Awards for film achievements for the year 2020. I have mentioned, in previous years, that I don’t ...
Earth 911

9 Ways To Celebrate Earth Day Virtually - Earth Day is a celebration of our planet and all it provides. Everyone is encouraged... The post 9 Ways To Celebrate Earth Day Virtually appeared first o...
ProPublica

The Federal Government Will Now Give PPP Loans to Borrowers in Bankruptcy - by Lydia DePillis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publis...
Dallas Observer

What's the Dallas City Council's Record on Environmental Work? - Some say the current City Council is the greenest Dallas has ever seen.
High Country News

Species conservation is a human problem - Writer Michelle Nijhuis synthesizes the story of modern-day conservation in her new book ‘Beloved Beasts.’
Rallblog

Why Do You Want to Be When You Grow up? - The shooting of 20 year old Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer sparked yet another round of protests by people outraged at cops shooting unarmed...
DeSmogBlog

The Greenwashing Files: Fossil Fuel Giants Accused of ‘Deceptive’ Advertising - Fossil fuel companies could face legal challenges over their misleading advertising, after a DeSmog investigation uncovered the extent of their “greenwas...
The NM Political Report

State land commissioner says the office is nearing her goal for renewable energy development - [image: State land commissioner says the office is nearing her goal for renewable energy development] When Stephanie Garcia Richard took the office of Stat...
jobsanger

Modern Republicans Take Glee In Inflicting Suffering -
Informed Comment

US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Costs of War Project at Brown University has just brought out a new report on Afghanistan. The September 11, 2001 attack...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

The legal-money raffle consortia - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: I used to know a guy named, Mike, down in Socorro. A man with a lot of ideas. During the mid-‘90s, about the time the Int...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Corporate Diversity Training - If you enjoy these cartoons, please support them on Patreon. This cartoon is, I think, pretty self-explanatory. I don’t have much to say about this issue,...
Antiwar.com

Oh, No! Al-Qaeda Out of Cave on 9/12! - The current discussion on the planned withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan centers on a benighted belief that my former CIA analyst-collea...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Robert Reich

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

Caught in the Drain: How a Plan to Reuse Wastewater Could Strangle the Santa Fe River - As climate change tightens its grip on the arid West, water managers are focusing on wastewater as a source of “new” water for cities. - *Editor’s Note: This column was provided by Writers on the Range, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West.* Sa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

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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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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 ...

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, October 05, 2008

More toons (Bailin' and Palin)

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