Brains and Eggs: Farewell Salute

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Analyst Tells Maria Bartiromo Traders Are Likely to Give Coinbase a Valuation 4 Times Greater than Nasdaq - Joel Shulman said Coinbase's value may be four times higher than that of the Nasdaq Exchange once the dust has settled on its direct public offering. The ...
WhatWouldJackDo

Just your semi-regular reminder that Lindsey Graham is a certifiable moron - If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 3, 2016
Vox

76 percent of the Western US is in a drought. That likely means another bad wildfire season. - A fire truck in front of a home in Snow Creek after a fire started in the mountains west of Palm Springs, California, on September 18, 2020. | Frederic J....
Futurism

Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s Falling Into the Sea - [image: The National Weather Service station in Cape Cod has been abandoned and is scheduled for demolition because it's about to fall into the sea.] Scien...
The Intercept

Rep. Betty McCollum Leads Effort to Block Israel From Using U.S. Aid to Destroy Palestinian Homes - Putting conditions on U.S. aid to Israel has become a controversial topic — but it was the norm in Washington just a few decades ago. The post Rep. Betty...
Buzzflash

Thom Hartmann: "The Former Guy" and GOP Elected-Officials and Right-Wing TV Celebs Are Promoting Vaccine Hesitancy, Which Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of More Deaths & New Resistant Variants - BuzzFlash
Daily Dot

‘Welcome to Chili’s’ Vine creator Adam Perkins dead at 24 - [image: Adam Perkins] Vine creator and musician Adam Perkins passed away on Sunday, according to his twin brother, Patrick. He was 24. Perkins is perha...
Courthouse News

Users Could Soon Hide ‘Like’ Counts on Instagram, Facebook - Instagram, which Facebook owns, will soon allow a small group of random users to decide whether or not they want to see the number of likes their posts and...
Al Jazeera English

Hundreds of US companies voice opposition to new voting laws - From Amazon to Warren Buffet, US firms and CEOs signed a letter opposing Republican efforts to pass new election laws.
SCOTUSblog

The “great chief” and the “super chief”: A final showdown in Supreme Court March Madness - [image: The “great chief” and the “super chief”: A final showdown in Supreme Court March Madness]Forget Ali vs. Frazier, Celtics vs. Lakers, or Evert vs....
memeorandum

European allies: Iran's uranium move 'a serious development' (Adam Bouzi/Politico) - Adam Bouzi / Politico: *European allies: Iran's uranium move ‘a serious development’* — France, Germany and the UK chided Iran for boosting its uranium...
Edinburg Politics

UTRGV could receive $30.4 million and TSTC-Harlingen $15.12 million for new construction through House Bill 1530, set for action on Thursday, April 15, 2021, before House Committee on Higher Education, reports Rep. Muñoz - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Texas State Technical College in Harlingen could receive $30.4 million and $15.12 million, respectively, for ...
San Antonio Current

Spurs will face Carmelo Anthony and the Trail Blazers Friday at the AT&T Center - Earlier this season, Trail Blazer Carmelo Anthony scored the 26,947th point of his NBA career. That allowed him to climb to 11th place on the league’s all...
Alternet

'Constantly rubbing dirt in our face': GOP senators complain Biden keeps passing bills without them - A handful of the Senate's more moderate Republicans thought they would be at the center of legislative negotiations with President Joe Biden, but instead...
Mediagazer

Tucker Carlson used the J&J vaccine pause to suggest the US government knows that COVID-19 vaccines don't work but is purposely "not telling you that" (Justin Baragona/The Daily Beast) - Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast: *Tucker Carlson used the J&J vaccine pause to suggest the US government knows that COVID-19 vaccines don't work but is...
The Appeal

‘Let Me See That Waistband’ - Around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2020, officers with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit (GRU) turned their unmarked Chevy Malibu onto a ...
The Root

Marvin Scott III Died in a Texas Jail. His Family Is Still Waiting for the Officers to Be Charged - In March, Marvin Scott III was arrested in Allen, Texas, for possessing less than two ounces of marijuana—a misdemeanor. Scott, 26, suffered from schizop...
Eschaton

Lunch Thread - Jab time! That sweet feeling of immortality going to be rushing through my veins!!!
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...
VICE

The Cop Who Shot Jacob Blake 7 Times Is Back on the Job - Officer Ruston Sheskey’s boss said he “acted within the law and was consistent with training” when he shot Jacob Blake last August.
San Antonio Report

Keep open Alamo Plaza, replace myth with history - [image: Attendees of the Veterans Day Parade gather in front of the cenotaph, also known as the "Spirit of Sacrifice," a monument commemorating the Battle ...
Scheerpost.com

Joe Biden Is No “Radical” Progressive Hero - The press is building an image of a "radical" progressive hero, while reality looks like the same corporate Democrat.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

An Interview With a Local Writer About a New Dirk Nowitzki Book - Next month, after a slight delay due to the world getting flipped upside down, La Reunion Publishing (an imprint of Deep Vellum) will publish I See You, ...
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 ...
The Hill

Toomey warns GOP colleagues to stay away from earmarks - Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Wednesday declared he will not seek earmarks if Congress resumes the practice of padding spending bills with pet projects to boo...
Raw Story

Matt Gaetz walks away from CNN reporter asking about nude photos and seized phone - Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday walked away when a reporter asked him if he had shared nude photos with other lawmakers and if the FBI had seized his...
Undernews

Teaching the young: Just a suggestion - *Sam Smith - * The Guardian has an interesting article on how parental opposition to use of anti-racist books in schools is increasing. One reasons for t...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Derek Chauvin trial: more witnesses to testify as defense continues its case – live - - Use-of-force expert says ‘I felt Derek Chauvin was justified’ - Former officer charged with second- and third-degree murder - George Floyd an...
Latino Rebels

OPINION: US Economic Policies Have Turned Central American Countries Into Unsafe Prisons of Poverty - We can’t expect a corporate liberal media to expose the central role played by U.S. corporations, banks, the State and Defense Departments, Congress and su...
Talking Points Memo

CNN: Women Who Partied With Gaetz Detail Drug Scene And Payments Provided For Sex - Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) allegedly took part in Orlando-area house parties where attendees shared drugs like cocaine and ecstasy and where money was someti...
Ring of Fire

Matt Gaetz’s Political Career Is Going Down In Flames & Betsy DeVos Dismantled Sexual Assault Laws - Via America’s Lawyer: Sex trafficking and prostitution allegations have turned Matt Gaetz into a political pariah, as more details of his impropriety eme...
Freethought Now

Scapegoating of LGBTQ people raises alarm - Alarmingly, the introduction or enactment of laws that demonize or discriminate against LGBTQ, especially transgendered people, is reaching a fever pitch i...
Salon.com

Two women come to Matt Gaetz's defense, say sex and drug-fueled parties did not involve minors - CNN spoke with two women who say they attended sex and drug-fueled parties with the Republican congressman
Texas Environmental News

5 things to know this Earth Day about how the environment affects health - Here are five things to know about the connection. Pollution is not a small, faraway health issue “The footprint of [...] The post 5 things to know this ...
Axios

NVIDIA tops highest paying internships list - In the past year as the pandemic raged on, some of the world's most valuable companies continued to grow and compensate their workers well above national...
NORML

Mississippi: Supreme Court Hear Oral Arguments in Challenge to Medical Marijuana Vote - "Whether or not one supports marijuana legalization, Americans should be outraged at these overtly undemocratic tactics, and the Court should reject them...
Political Wire

Republicans Not Eager to Force Matt Gaetz Out - Politico: “While top Republicans acknowledged the serious nature of the allegations surrounding Gaetz, just one sitting GOP lawmaker has so far publicly ca...
Texas Standard

Railroad Commission Renews Permit For South Texas Oil And Gas Waste Facility Despite Locals’ Complaints - The site in Orange Grove can operate for another five years, but neighbors want the commission to address its potentially toxic air pollution.
The Week

Solving COVID: April 14, 2021 - 1. While India, parts of South America, and other areas of the world are experiencing another wave of COVID-19, the U.S. appears to be treading water wit...
El Paso Matters

Sheriff’s Department deploys crisis teams for mental health emergencies - The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department has established three crisis intervention teams to help keep El Pasoans dealing with mental health emergencies aw...
Claytoonz

Absolut Biden - I love that people who identify themselves as Constitutionalists don’t know shit fuck about the Constitution. Usually, when a “Constitutionalist” screams a...
MintPress News

Safely Past Another Election, Israel Turns Attention Back to De-Arabization of The Zionist State - The Zionists openly say that they will allow Palestinians to choose whether they remain in “Israel” as residents without rights, leave, or fight and be k...
ProPublica

A Tiny Number of People Will Be Hospitalized Despite Being Vaccinated. We Have to Learn Why. - by Caroline Chen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Ballot Access News

Ballotpedia Summarizes Hostile Changes to Initiative Process Passed So Far This Year - On April 13, Ballotpedia published this summary of bills that have already passed state legislatures this year that make it more difficult for initiatives ...
Texas Observer

ERCOT Asked Texans to Conserve Power as Electric Grid Again Struggled to Keep Up with Demand - “ERCOT asked Texans to conserve power as electric grid again struggled to keep up with demand” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, non...
Daily Howler

MADDOW AND TOWN: Jonathan Kozol spoke about Stephen... - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021* *...but Maddow discusses herself:* How does Rachel Maddow's stardom dumbnify us in Our Town? We're going to take you back a ...
Mondoweiss

The fight continues after Israel lobby staves off IHRA debate at NDP convention - The NDP's new pro-Palestine resolution is a victory and we must also continue to fight back against the Israel lobby's efforts to delegitimize the Palestin...
Progrexas

Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady will retire from Congress at the end of his term - U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, spoke to a reporter in his office in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21, 2016. Credit: Allison Sh...
CultureMap Houston

Houston rap legend Bun B launches 'Trill' new show on SiriusXM - As anyone who has attended the CultureMap Tastemaker Awards can attest, few can host a party like Texas rap legend Bun B. The charismatic, larger-than-lif...
Texas Monthly

Philip Morley’s Work Truly Rocks - The Wimberley-based furniture maker has built an audience for his record consoles, rocking chairs, and other one-of-a-kind pieces. The post Philip Morley...
Discourse

Here’s a Delightful Video of Andrew Yang Being Shamed Out of a Daunte Wright Protest - 'We don't want you here!' The post Here’s a Delightful Video of Andrew Yang Being Shamed Out of a Daunte Wright Protest appeared first on Discourse Blog.
First Draft

Roll Over Josh Greenberg, Tell Matt Gaetz The News - Gaetzgate Update.
Democracy Chronicles

Montana Moves To Improve Ballot Access for New Parties - April 12, the Montana House passed SB 350 by 67-33. It improves the process for an unqualified party to petition onto the ballot.
Election Law Blog

Speaking Apr. 21 with Larry Diamond and Pam Fessler: “Can American Elections Be Fixed? What It Will Take to Strengthen U.S. Democracy” - Looking forward to participating in another “America at a Crossroads” event. Registration required. … Continue reading →
Second Nexus

Madison Cawthorn Pays Awkward Tribute to Trump With Cringy Name for New Border Wall Bill - Former President Donald Trump may have lost the 2020 election, but a slate of candidates sharing the far-right views of his fringe supporters were electe...
The Verge

Fantasian isn’t just charming; it’s the most approachable JRPG I’ve ever played - Before *Fantasian* launched on Apple Arcade, most of the discussion centered on how it looked. There was a good reason for that. Mistwalker, the studio ...
Deadline Politics

Netflix, UTA, CAA And ViacomCBS Among Companies Signing “We Stand For Democracy” Voting Rights Ad - Major corporations, celebrities and other prominent figures signed on to a two-page ad opposing “any discriminatory legislation or measures” that restrict ...
ArcaMax

Washington's Most Wanted Man - WASHINGTON -- Everybody wants to know where Sen. Joe Manchin's hideaway is in the Capitol. The West Virginia Democrat has all eyes on his tall frame as he ...
naked capitalism

Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing - Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
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...
epic.org

EPIC Urges Florida Lawmakers to Pass Strong Privacy Law - As the Florida Legislature considers pending privacy bills, HB 969 and SB 1734, EPIC urged lawmakers to enact strong privacy protections for all Floridians...
Houston Public Media

Bill To Create Commission On Reparations Nears Historic House Vote - The bill would create a commission that would study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination, hold hearings and recommend "appropriate remedies" to...
Common Dreams

What We Can Learn From the First New Deal to Make the New One Better - William Janeway Whether it is called "Build Back Better" or a "Green Industrial Policy" or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false d...
Novara Media

Tory Sleaze Row Gathers Pace - #TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Slate

Why Seniors Are Getting So Many More College Rejections This Year - A college consultant talks about a chaotic year in university admissions.
Caitlin Johnstone

Intelligence Sources Say Biggest Threat To U.S. Is Actually U.S. Policy - A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran, and Nor...
NPR's Health Shots

Biden Administration Moves To Undo Trump Abortion Rules For Title X - The Trump administration tried to "defund" Planned Parenthood and other groups through changes to the Title X family planning program. The Biden administra...
Rewire

Abortion Patients Get Big Win From the FDA - The Biden administration is allowing patients to receive medication abortion pills by mail for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Abortion P...
Dorf on Law

Manchin Channels Chamberlain: Will We Have Peace in Our Time in the Senate? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Last week, I laid out a plan to give Senator Joe Manchin some wiggle room regarding the filibuster, which he had defended up to that...
Angry Bear

Real wages decline, but real aggregate wages increase - Monthly consumer inflation rate increases by most in 10 years; real wages decline, but real aggregate wages increase – by New Deal democratSeasonally ad...
The AltWorld

Iran-China $400 Billion Deal, Israel vs Iran, Failed Regime Change in Syria - On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former MI6 agent Alastair Crooke. He discusses the […] The post Iran-China $400 Billion Deal, Israel vs...
Rio Grande Guardian

Nicol: It is Time for Politicians to Stop Playacting on the Border - It feels like a poorly written play that never ends. The actors, mostly members of Congress, perform the same roles again and again and again. Groups f...
Countercurrents

Wright shooting: 3rd day of riot: Curfew: Protesters across U.S. call for justice - Communities across the U.S. marched and mourned for the third consecutive night Tuesday in memory of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatal...
Democracy Now!

American Insurrection: Deadly Far-Right Extremism from Charlottesville to Capitol Attack. What Next? - A scathing new report by the Capitol Police's internal watchdog reveals officials knew Congress was the target of the deadly January 6 insurrection, yet of...
The Conversation

Trump, defying custom, hasn't given the National Archives records of his speeches at political rallies - All presidents must deposit transcriptions of their public statements with the National Archives. But in the case of Donald Trump, there's something missing.
Lowering the Bar

Is It Legal to Shoot Fish With a Gun? - At long last, we have a comprehensive answer to this important question. Related Stories - Oklahoma Legislator Proposes Big Foot Hunting Season...
The Smirking Chimp

The Republican Party Must Be Purged Like the Nazis and Fascists -
Techdirt.

Cable Giant Charter Fined $19 Million For Lying About Competitors Going Out Of Business - When last we checked in on cable giant Charter Communications (Spectrum), the company was busy using the Boys and Girl's Club of America as a prop to try...
Rallblog

Destroy the Police in Order to Rebuild It - The killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop is the latest in a long line of high-profile sho...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Break in the Doom - This K Chronicles brought me back to my (second) senior year in college, when my wife and I canceled our Chicago paper because it was such a downer. We sti...
Space City Weather

More rainy days ahead before a significantly cooler weekend - Good morning. Houston received its first round of mostly light to moderate rainfall on Tuesday evening and during the overnight hours, and we’ll have anoth...
Duffel Blog

Army says generals can substitute two-minute plank in lieu of victory in Afghanistan - None have done it so far.
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Inks 4/14/2021 - Top legal news includes: Turner warns against panic as health agencies pause J&J vaccines (Chron subsc); Waller County DA's investigator indicted on drug a...
Church and State

How a group of California nuns challenged the Catholic Church - By the start of 1970, many of the Immaculate Heart sisters had decided to renounce their vows and reorganize as a lay community.
WhoWhatWhy

Chevron’s Ads Make Green Groups See Red - Reading Time: 6 minutes Chevron’s warm and fuzzy ads tout “the passion to be awed by nature” and the company’s pledge to meet people’s needs in “ever cle...
Grist

‘It’s a historic moment’ — Pete Buttigieg on EV chargers, lead pipes, and the promise of infrastructure - The transportation secretary says an opportunity like this is unlikely to come again.
Mother Jones

Why Puerto Rico Statehood Is So Much More Complicated Than It Is for DC - As the partisan bias of the Senate, which favors sparsely populated states with overwhelmingly white populations, has been more broadly recognized, stateho...
Morning Consult

Democrats Start 2022 Cycle With an Edge in Voter Enthusiasm - The post Democrats Start 2022 Cycle With an Edge in Voter Enthusiasm appeared first on Morning Consult.
FiveThirtyEight.com

Are Ambitious Parts Of Democrats’ Agenda Good For Democracy … Or Just The Democratic Party? - Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): With unified control o...
Houston Press

Houston's Largest Mural Brings Attention To Food Insecurity - A mural, curated by Street Art for Mankind, is now on full display at Hampton Inn by Hilton’s 5-story, 250-foot wall, located on the back of the property s...
American Prospect

Despite Pandemic Carnage, Predatory Nursing Home Financiers Keep Thriving - Joel Landau, who has a history of stripping nursing homes for real estate gains, now owns the largest chain in the country.
Earth 911

Children’s Books for Earth Day - Children face the reality of life-long experience of a planet in crisis. They need to... The post Children’s Books for Earth Day appeared first on Earth9...
Dallas Observer

How Collin College Became the Center of a Months-Long Free Speech Debacle - A handful of teachers spoke out against Collin College over COVID-19 and free speech disputes. In response, the school fired several female professors.
Counterpunch

The UK’s Northern Irish Brexit Blues - Northern Ireland has now become the focal point of the UK’s post-Brexit crisis. While the connection between the more than a week of rioting by Protestan...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Capital One Bank USA N.A. vs Mohammad Paizi on April 13 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Capital One Bank USA N.A. against Mohammad Paizi on April 13. Read ...
High Country News

Tribal nations adapt to being at ‘ground zero’ of the climate crisis - ‘Tribes are on the front line of fixing things, using our resources, setting good public policy [and using] good science.’
See You In 2020

Water Wars Loom Amid Climate Collapse & Unprecedented Plans For Imperialist Destruction - First they sold us generations worth of wars for oil. Next, after these wars and the unsustainable energy system they’ve prolonged creates an ecological ...
Crooked Media

Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another? - The post Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The NM Political Report

Environmental group reaches settlement with Wildlife Services suit over animal killing policies - [image: Environmental group reaches settlement with Wildlife Services suit over animal killing policies] A federal agency kills thousands of wild animals a...
Dissident Voice

Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios? - The Israeli government’s position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Pa...
Informed Comment

No, Biden ending the Afghanistan War isn’t a Disaster: The disaster was Dropping 7,400 Bombs on the Country Annually - President Biden announced Tuesday that he will completely withdraw US troops from Afghanistan around September 1. This move will bring to an end America’s ...
Portside

Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to Move Film Production from Georgia over Voter Suppression Law - Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to Move Film Production from Georgia over Voter Suppression Law Marti Wed, 04/14/2021 - 01:12
jobsanger

While Most Struggled During Pandemic, CEO's Got Big Raise -
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

The Last Gold Rush - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: Probably some of you younger blog readers aren’t aware that pre-lottery Americans had their own dreams of finding a way ou...
World Socialist Web Site

Exxon Mobil plans closure of another Australian oil refinery - US petroleum giant Exxon Mobil earlier this year announced plans to close its oil refinery in Australia, claiming it is no longer “economically viable.” Th...
Independent Political Report

Special Election: American Solidarity Party Candidate Captures 2% as GOP Holds NH State House Seat - New Hampshire voters opted for Town Councilor Bill Boyd over Democratic former state representative Wendy Thomas in a special election to fill a vacant s...
Living Blue in Texas

Podcast – Episode 6: A Q&A With Texas State Representative Chris Turner - Democrats in Austin are fighting against gerrymandering and voter restriction bills. This week Michelle and Jeff talk about police violence, gerrymanderi...
Antiwar.com

Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios? - The Israeli government’s position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Pa...
Glasstire

Rockport Center For The Arts Launches 2021 Spring Art Fair April 16 - Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA) is hosting its first major tourism event of 2021, the Spring Art Fair. This event will kick off with a VIP Preview Par...
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...
OpEd News

Why do the Rivers Sob? - Rivers once harbored our civilization. They yearned for human unity. What have we done with them, with the entire ecosystem. Now rivers sob on our attitude...
Brad Blog

'Both Sides'? Really, Liz?: 'BradCast' 4/13/2021 - Hopefully today's BradCast, if nothing else, serves as a friendly reminder that Liz Cheney --- whether or not she met the incredibly low Republican bar by ...
Workers World

‘Make this a new period of working class challenge’ - [image: ‘Make this a new period of working class challenge’] The following edited remarks were made at an April 9 webinar, “The Struggle Continues: Next St...
Liberation News

Ahead of Chauvin verdict, Minnesota police shock world with murder of Daunte Wright - Despite intense police and National Guard repression, protests have continued demanding justice for 20-year-old Black Minnesota resident Daunte Wright.
Socialist Alternative

Ready for a Rebound? Despite Growth Projections, World Economy Deeply Unstable - Tom Crean The devastation caused by the pandemic-triggered global downturn in 2020 is hard to overstate. It was the biggest economic contraction since the ...
Liberal America

Covid Variants Threaten to Prolong the Pandemic If We Don’t All Vaccinate - Have you gotten your Covid-19 vaccine yet? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of Thursday, one third of the United Sta...
TXElects

Endorsement and Other Election News for April 13 - Early voting for the May 1 general and special elections begins on April 19. The nonpartisan League of Women Voters has released Voters Guides for munici...
Ian Welsh

If Biden Actually Withdraws Troops From Afghanistan By 9/11 He’ll Have Done Something Good - Sort of self-explanatory. We’ll see if he actually does, Trump had planned to withdraw by May 1st, after all, and spent most of his Presidency talking abou...
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 ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

1992 episode of Donahue talk show highlights the fury of past gay rights debates - This video is dedicated to those who don't remember how it was for LGBTQ people back in the day before we became more "popular" than we were before, ...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security...
Louis Proyect

Literature and Revolution - On March 21, the NY Times profiled John R. “Rick” MacArthur, a trust fund magnate who is the publisher of Harper’s, a magazine that dates back to June 1850...
Reform Austin

ERCOT Warns of Emergency Conditions, Asks Texans to Conserve Energy - This is a developing story ERCOT sent out a tweet Tuesday afternoon requesting “energy conservation” and may declare an emergency allowing them to “acces...
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...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Rewarding Bad Behavior - Nikki McCann Ramirez @ Media Matters: White nationalists praise Tucker Carlson’s full embrace of their “replacement” conspiracy theory. Bob Brigham @ Raw...
INSIDER - politics news

'More hopeful than ever:' Biden's lead on racial equity is a promising signal for reparations, experts say - [image: reparations protest sign] Summary List Placement Last month, Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city to pay reparations to its Black resid...
Wolf Street

Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops Sharply to Record Low, But It’s a Lot Worse than CPI Shows - If the homeownership component in CPI mirrors the Case-Shiller Home Price Index, CPI would jump 5.1%! Not to speak of new & used vehicle prices, which I ne...
Political Garbage Chute

Thoughts and Prayers Stop Next Mass Shooter Just Before He Pulls the Trigger - COUSINLOVER, ALABAMA — Some are calling it a “miracle.” Others are calling it a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. However one chooses to describe it, howeve...
Project Censored

Alison Trope and Nolan Higdon Discuss Critical Media Literacy - Today’s program focuses on the value of Critical Media Literacy, both for students and youth, and in wider public discourse. Mickey’s first guest is Alis...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin PD won't disavow 'paramilitary' culture in its academy; Dallas cops caught using unauthorized facial recognition tech; police reform in Houston hits a dead end; and other stories - Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere. *Consultant: Austin PD still embraces 'paramilitary' cult...
Mahablog

Law Enforcement: This Is Not Working - Videos of the police encounters with Lt. Caron Nazario in Virginia and Daunte Wright in Minnesota have been viral for the past several hours. After watch...
Progressive.org

Caring About Black Lives Can Get You Busted - The Florida city sees new anti-protest bill as a threat to anti-racist protests.
slacktivist

No use wishing now for any other sin - "Complementarianism" is a traditional Christian teaching -- if by "traditional" you mean it dates all the way back to 1987 and is only slightly younger tha...
Sludge

Troy Carter Violates ‘No Fossil Fuel Money’ Pledge by Taking Nine Large Fossil Fuel Donations - UPDATE: Shortly after this article was published, Karen Carter Peterson said that she would refund the donations she received that violate the No Fossil Fu...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Pondering the Pundits - Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media and the internet blogs. The intent is to ...
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...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

From Russia’s Proxies, Unsupported Claims of Mass Ukraine Army Desertions - There is no evidence to support the desertion assertion, and the Russian-led separatist sources are infamous for spreading disinformation.
Lawfare

Lawfare Live: China’s Recent Aggression Against Taiwan - This Friday, April 16, at 1 p.m. ET, Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Dea...
The Contributor

Greenpeace Says Japan's Plan to Contaminate Pacific Ocean With Fukushima Water Would Violate International Law - News Image: "The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive wastes." Category: E...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Global Taxes – Global Stagnation - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has proposed that governments around the world require payment of at least a uniform “global minimum corporate tax.
Eater Houston

Acme Oyster House Temporarily Closes After Being Overwhelmed by Big Crowds - [image: a person eating raw oysters from the halfshell with a fork] Acme Oyster House’s first weekend was so busy, the restaurant had to shut down to rest...
Moon of Alabama

U.S., NATO Give Up - Will Leave Afghanistan By September 11 - This from the Washington Post is surprisingly good news: Biden will withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021 President Biden will withdr...
Dandelion Salad

Visionary Inspiration and Practical Strategies for Direct Democracy: Winds of Change Book Review, by Marissa Mommaerts - Sent to Dandelion Salad by Rivera Sun by Marissa Mommaerts Transition US National Network Organizer Transition US, March 19, 2021 April 13, 2021 Winds of C...
The Ghion Journal

The Cult of Covid-19 and the Dishonest Logic of “Vaccine” Jihadists - As an independent journalist who frequently writes about Covid-19 and the snake oil that is being peddled by the likes of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, Astr...
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...
ROAR Magazine

The Zapatistas are coming to Europe - A delegation of the EZLN has started preparations for their upcoming trip to Europe. Traveling by boat, the Zapatistas are expected to arrive in mid-June.
The Conscious Resistance Network

Does the Media ONLY Report Negative COVID News? - This is a clip from Free Thinker Radio on April 8, 2021. Johnny, Micah, and Derrick discuss a study examining the way the media has reported on COVID19. ...
Tribune of the People

All Support to the Peasants of Camp Manoel Ribeiro—Defend the Brazilian People from the Attacks of Reaction! - By the Editorial Board If we die in this fightOur blood will be a seed.We will conquer justice,History does not fail, we will win. -From the Hymn of the Le...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Computer Got it Wrong: Why We’re Taking the Detroit Police to Court Over a Faulty Face Recognition ‘Match’ - Last year, Detroit police arrested a Black man, Robert Williams, based on a false face recognition match. They held him in a dirty, overcrowded cell for ...
Bonddad

Monthly consumer inflation rate increases by most in 10 years; real wages decline, but real aggregate wages increase - -* by New Deal democrat* Seasonally adjusted consumer prices rose 0.6% in March. This was the biggest single month gain since June 2009, coming out of...
The Progressive Wing

4/13 News Roundup & OT - Biden Wants to Spend More Than Trump to Maintain a Bloated Defense Budget Robert Reich knows a thing or two about federal budgets, and the economist who ha...
Washington Babylon

Six Questions for David Fathi of the ACLU’s National Prison Project on Criminal Justice in the Age of Coronavirus - [image: Six Questions for David Fathi of the ACLU’s National Prison Project on Criminal Justice in the Age of Coronavirus] David Fathi is the director of t...
Infidel753

Book review -- it's not 1965 any more - *Factfulness* by Hans Rosling (2018) This book (buy it here), by a Swedish doctor and medical researcher who has worked in some of the world's poorest cou...
DeSmogBlog

European Court Opens Itself up to Climate-Related Human Rights Challenges - The European Court of Human Rights has begun considering whether states have violated their citizens’ human rights by failing to do enough to cut emissio...
Popular Resistance

The Myth Of Black Buying Power Is Robbing Black People Of Their Power - The myth of black buying power - that black people collectively hold trillions of dollars in wealth and that they could improve their economic status if ...
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....
Field Negro

Caption Monday. - What's the title of this movie? *Image from weeklystandard.com*
In These Times

Robert Reich: Don't Buy the GOP's Phony Anti-Corporate Turn - Republicans may lash out at Coca-Cola for being too "woke," but they have no interest in challenging big business' grip on our politics. - For four decades, the basic deal between big American corporations and politicians has been simple. Corporations provide campaign funds. Politicians reci...
Dissent Magazine

The Next Amazon Union Drive - Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
Earthworks

What we don’t know can still hurt us — and derail climate plans - Authors: Raphael Briet & Nadia Steinzor In the last few years, some states have tried to get serious about climate change by setting pollution reduction ...
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...
Bracing Views

Monday Military Musings - W.J. Astore Recently I came across a reference to the U.S. military complaining that it never fights with a “home field” advantage. That the fight is alway...
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 ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Military Origins of Facebook - Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s...
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...
Crooked Timber

Twigs and branches - (Overdue again!) Another open thread, where you can comment on any topic. Moderation and standard rules still apply. Lengthy side discussions on other post...
Skeptical Raptor

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines “hack the software of life” – anti-vaxxers new myth - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. In case you weren’t watching, anti-vaxxers are now proclaiming that COVID-19 mRNA va...
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...
The Grayzone

Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US ‘asset’ in Syria - Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling the militant group “an asset” amid a media-ena...
Robert Reich

The Basic Deal Between Corporate America and the GOP is Alive and Well - For four decades, the basic deal between big American corporations and politicians has been simple....
Stinque

Dangerous Democracy - It’s kind of amazing, more than two centuries into our Highly Imperfect Union, what a dangerous idea democracy remains. You’d think we’d be settled with ...
Nina Illingworth

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier - An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called "migrant crisis at the border....
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-...
Reading the Pictures

Insult to Injury: The Fortressing of the Derek Chauvin Murder Trial - Photographers frame the barriers and fencing in downtown Minneapolis where Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd. The post Insult to I...
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...
Eclectablog

The New New New Deal – with special guest Mike Grunwald - Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald Mike Grunwald at Politico: Say it ain’t so, Amtrak Joe Buy Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal in paperback HE...
The Militant

Small fishermen in UK face gov’t, EU attack on livelihoods - HASTINGS, England — “The first thing you need to know is that the commercial fishing industry is divided between those fishing from boats shorter or longer...
Bud Kennedy

Remember the Alamo — but forget secession. Texas can’t leave the U.S., and won’t - The Texas secession scam is back, so hang onto your vote and your wallet. In the first place, Texas can’t secede. We tried that. Second, if Texas ever some...
Land Destroyer

West’s Propaganda War vs. China Continues - *April 10, 2021 *(Brian Berletic - LD) - The West continues a malicious propaganda war against China, but China is pushing back. In the latest row, th...
The Mind Unleashed

Video Showing UFOs Swarming Navy Warship is Real, Pentagon Confirms - Late last month, reports emerged that a number of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers sailing off the coast near Los Angeles encountered a swarm of strange...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 13 Wrap-up: Healthcare under attack - It’s time for our community to act. This coming Monday and Wednesday, the Texas legislature will hear 4 anti-LGBTQ+ bills; bills that restrict healthcare f...
LareDOS

Writer Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises, headlines Casa de Misericordia’s April 22 virtual fundraiser - Domestic abuse shelter marks 23 years of offering hope through holistic services; silent auction bids begin online April 12
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *Whattaya think? Kinda Young Marble Giants meet Pylon, right?* I know, Rod Dreher's an easy layup, but I'm feeling lazy. Here's a post availing Dreher's...
Rude Pundit

Conservatives Finally Just Say, "Fuck Your Right to Vote" - As a slew of new voter laws slime their way through the legislatures of mostly Republican states where Democrats have a chance of winning, almost all bas...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Wake Up America: Kamala Harris - Mustafa Tameez joins a panel on Wake Up America to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris’ new role to address the migrant boarder issue.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
Debunking Christianity

Who Would WANT the Christian God Anyway? - *He makes too many big mistakes* If we could pose this question to folks coming out of their weekly worship services: Do they really want the God they wo...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Advocates wary Biden’s infrastructure plan won’t right past wrongs - After President Joe Biden revealed his $2 trillion infrastructure plan last month, advocates and historians began to worry how the money would be distrib...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

'Required': North Dakota passes Native Education Bill, by Kolby KickingWoman - *Excellent news out of North Dakota! The excitement in the story is palpable. Long overdue, to be sure.* *Texas has already passed Native American Studie...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Did Scandal Cost North Carolina Democrats a Senate Seat? - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — In North Carolina’s hotly contested Senate race last year, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) narrowly won reelection against a scandal...
Innocence Project

New Mexico Is the Second State to Ban Qualified Immunity - New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act — also known as House Bill 4 — advancing fair and equal treatment under...
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 *...
Due Dissidence

For Anti-Fascists, Liberals Seem Awfully Eager to Throw the Book at Their Opponents - by Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular We on the Left had always assumed that the defense of free speech and freedom of expression were core principles of Lef...
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 ...
BEYONDbones

Celebration: Earth | April is all about our Earth at HMNS - Although Earth Day is officially set worldwide for Thursday, April 22, 2021, the Houston Museum of Natural Science is celebrating our planetary home thro...
The Socialist

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

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

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

A Tale of Two Carters - As two veteran New Orleans politicos battle for the state's only solidly blue seat in Congress, how much will endorsements really matter?
The Metaphor Project

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

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

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

Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
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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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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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Farewell Salute

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