Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Counterpunch

Mixed Sight: New Zealand, the Five Eyes and China - The Five Eyes arrangement between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has always resembled a segregated, clandestine clu...
VICE

Scientists Found a New Jurassic Reptile and It Looks Like a Pokémon - The little creature had a frog-like mouth and bat-like wings.
Salon.com

Marjorie Taylor Greene asks to debate AOC over Green New Deal — but admits she hasn't read it yet - "After I finish reading all 14 pages, like we agreed, I'll schedule time for our debate"
The Week

Late night hosts recap the promise and Zoom flubs of Biden's Earth Day climate summit, mock the Oscars - "Happy Earth Day," Jimmy Fallon said on Thursday's *Tonight Show*. "Everyone's in the spirit. This morning at 7-Eleven I saw a rat drinking a Big Gulp wi...
The Verge

New Siri Remote waves goodbye to Apple TV games that require motion control - Image: Apple Apple’s new Siri Remote doesn’t come equipped with an accelerometer or gyroscope, which means it won’t work as a motion controller in certai...
Mediagazer

FT's digital subscriptions grew 6% YoY in 2020 to 960K; it also has 140K print subscribers and a 150-person team for subscriber acquisition and retention (Mark Stenberg/Adweek) - Mark Stenberg / Adweek: *FT's digital subscriptions grew 6% YoY in 2020 to 960K; it also has 140K print subscribers and a 150-person team for subscriber ...
Al Jazeera English

‘That’s crazy!’: Tesla CEO Musk gives carbon removal $100m boost - Musk's prizes for new carbon capture technologies will be the largest of their kind ever, organisers say.
memeorandum

Russia Is Murdering the Kremlin's Biggest Critic in Plain Sight. Who Will Save Alexei Navalny? (Michael Weiss/TIME) - Michael Weiss / TIME: *Russia Is Murdering the Kremlin's Biggest Critic in Plain Sight. Who Will Save Alexei Navalny?* — Weiss is Editor-at-Large at T...
Countercurrents

The Explosion of Choices - Barack Obama wore only blue and grey suits during his tenure in the White House, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs sport the same clothes day after day. Whe...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Outcry over US Postal Service reportedly tracking social media posts - Report obtained by Yahoo says USPS surveilling via covert program social media activity it describes as ‘inflammatory’ The US Postal Service has reported...
Vox

Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked. - People commuting and shopping on the last day before the Lunar New Year holiday in Hanoi’s Old Quarter on February 10, 2021. | Linh Pham for Vox How the ...
Raw Story

Tonight's mass shooting occurred in downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter - America has suffered another mass shooting, this time in downtown San Diego. "A shooting left one person dead and as many as four others wounded Thursday...
Rallblog

Zoom Nation - There is something Orwellian in the sense that it violates the meaning of language by pandemic-related vocabulary. You don’t “go” to a Zoom meeting. You ...
Bayou Brief

The Stupid Party Rages On - Donald Trump didn't create a "new" Republican Party. He just plastered his brand on a faction of the party already dominate in the Deep South. As history r...
The NM Political Report

Gov. Lujan Grisham: NM can lead the way in cannabis innovation - [image: Gov. Lujan Grisham: NM can lead the way in cannabis innovation] Recreational-use cannabis sales are a year away in New Mexico, but Gov. Michelle Lu...
Courthouse News

Pentagon Panel: End Commanders’ Power to Block Military Sex Cases - WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon panel is recommending that decisions to prosecute service members for sexual assault be made by
Liberation News

Alameda, California police kill 26-year-old father Mario Gonzalez - Friends, family, and hundreds of supporters from the community gathered in a vigil for Mario Gonzalez April 21 in Alameda, California.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Blue Lives Matter no.2 - Mere hours after the Derek Chauvin verdict was handed down, Columbus police shot 15 year-old Ma’Khia Bryant to death after she called the police for help a...
Earth 911

Spring Cocktail Recipes Made With Leftover Produce - Fruit- and veggie-based cocktails are fantastic solutions for soft, overripe produce. And since you only need flavorful juices, not whole chunks of a fru...
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2029: The Polikarpov Fighters - Episode: 2029 The last great biplane fighter — the Polikarpov beyond its prime. Today, an airplane in the shifting skies of war.
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ruidoso Steak-House - Ruidoso Steak-House Glanced at her reflection In the plate-glass window New squash-blossom turquoise Sassy Stetson Patted 50ish blonde curls And wished The...
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: The Other Claire Trevor - Meow.
Crooked Media

Emission Critical - The post Emission Critical appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations on the rise in Alabama after easing of restrictions - On April 7, Alabama’s Republican Governor Kay Ivey lifted the state’s mask mandate, falsely claiming that the “pandemic is almost over.” Within two weeks, ...
naked capitalism

Ilargi: Ukraine Warheads - The US seems to be back in its "Fuck the EU" and frankly the American people mode over Ukraine.
Informed Comment

Syrian Missile strikes Near Israel’s Nuclear Facility at Dimona, Which could have Turned into a Dirty Bomb - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli site i24 reports that on early Thursday morning, a Syrian missile slammed into the desert very near to the Israe...
Wolf Street

Silicon Valley: Supply in Need of Demand - Landlords failed to disclose how much they had to fork over to office tenants to get even these reduced rents. Since we have holdings on the Peninsula, we ...
Dissident Voice

The Imperialist Origins of Saudi Arabia - Why is Saudi Arabia, a Sunni absolute monarchy, enthusiastically supported by the West, considered a global promoter of “democracy”? This question is rar...
Workers World

Lavender and Red solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal! - [image: Lavender and Red solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal! ] From the LGBTQ+ Caucus of Workers World Party We, the LGBTQ+ Caucus of Workers World Party, are...
The Mind Unleashed

Spectacular ‘Super Pink Moon’ Rising Monday Will Be the Biggest and Brightest of 2021 - Stargazers are in for a treat, as the coming week will kick off with skies illuminated by a big and brilliant Pink Supermoon. The first full supermoon of t...
Antiwar.com

Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy - President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few exceptions, he has so far allowed self...
The Rag Blog

Lamar W. Hankins : WAR | My military ambivalence - I thought it was wrong to fight in the Vietnam War, and there has not been one since that I found compelling. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 22...
Latino Rebels

When Latina Journalists Face Discrimination in Newsrooms - Latino Rebels Radio: April 22, 2021
OpEd News

Syrian election amid terrorism and the US occupation - This article talks about the upcoming presidential election in Syria and the war against ISIS in the Syrian desert of Palmyra
Mediaite

WATCH: Laura Ingraham Listens to ‘We Are the World’ While Mocking Climate Conference - Host of the Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham, played the song “We Are the World” while mocking President Joe Biden’s climate conference. The song played wh...
Techdirt.

Thanks Copyright Culture: Web Comic '8-Bit Theater' Releases Book With No Pictures Out Of Fear - We tend to talk about many of the nuanced and intricate problems with our current copyright culture, but the 10,000 foot view of the problem is essential...
Ian Welsh

The Ugly Reality of America’s Powerful - It’s been a while since January 6th, and on economic domestic affairs Biden’s turned out somewhat better than I expected, but nothing’s really changed in t...
The Hill

Montana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds - Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation into law on Thursday that allows individuals to challenge government regulations that infringe on their ...
TXElects

Early Voting and Special Election News for April 22 - Early voting continues for the May 1 general and special elections and runs through April 27. Through yesterday (Wednesday), the third day of early votin...
Living Blue in Texas

Republicans Block One Million Texans From Getting Health Insurance - After Dangling Carrot of Bipartisanship, Republicans Block One Million Texans From Getting Health Insurance AUSTIN, Texas — During today’s Budget Day, a...
Claytoonz

Roughs, Volume 88 - Here are a few roughs from last week. I came up with this idea last Friday and I totally intended to draw it over the weekend, then something else happened...
Alternet

The truth about the 8 glasses of water a day myth - by Tamara Hew-Butler, *Wayne State University* The warmer weather and longer days have inspired reminders to “stay hydrated" and drink eight glasses of w...
Political Wire

Bush Wrote In Condoleeza Rice on His 2020 Ballot - Former President George W. Bush told People magazine that he wrote in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for president in the 2020 election.
Field Negro

Deja vu? - Like the rest of you, I watched the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial on television, as well as all the celebrations and sighs of relief that soon fol...
Buzzflash

Chevron Backs Anti-Democracy Murderous Myanmar Coup Government, Opposes US Sanctions on the Nation to Ensure Profit - Reuters
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
ArcaMax

How to Survive a Global Pandemic - Well before Joe Biden marked the end of his first hundred days as president, his administration doubled the goal of 100 million vaccinations he set at the ...
Portside

To Expand Democrats' Infrastructure Vision, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Push Green New Deal for Public Housing - To Expand Democrats' Infrastructure Vision, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Push Green New Deal for Public Housing jay Thu, 04/22/2021 - 21:08
Brad Blog

Biden's Earth Day Climate Summit; New Questions About Capitol Insurrection: 'BradCast' 4/22/2021 - On today's BradCast: After a disastrous four year mistake by the name of Donald Trump, the United States, under the leadership of Joe Biden, is taking the ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina Bloc Podcast Episode 2: Housekeeping - A thirty-eight minute solo podcast episode explaining my recent hiatus from No Fugazi and why Biden is absolutely not ending the forever war in Afghanist...
Daily Dot

Video shows cop repeatedly punching Black man after stopping him for littering - [image: Cops punch Diabate Hood and arrest his friend] A video shows a Michigan officer repeatedly punching a Black man in his face and chest while two o...
Axios

Biden gets B- from progressive think tank on hiring industry insiders - President Biden is getting mixed marks for his reliance on industry insiders to staff his administration during its first 100 days. *Why it matters: *Pro...
Liberal America

For All of Biden’s Progress, Is Immigration His Achilles’ Heel? (Video) - For all the ways Joe Biden is surprising many by taking more uncharacteristically progressive stances on domestic issues, there is one area in particular...
Texas Environmental News

Intelligence director Haines says climate change 'at the center' of national security - Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines on Thursday said that climate change must be “at the center” of countries’ [...] The post Intelligen...
The Root

White Texas Teacher Suspended After Sending Photo of Her Foot on Black Boy’s Neck to the Boy’s Mother - A teacher in Texas is under fire after she sent a photo of her foot on a Black boy’s neck to the boy’s mother. The two women apparently know each other, ...
NPR's Health Shots

UC And Cal State Systems To Require COVID-19 Vaccinations For In-Person Fall Classes - The CSU Chancellor called the directive "the most comprehensive and consequential university plan for COVID-19 vaccines in the country." It will affect mor...
San Antonio Report

Meet the 21 members of the committee diving deep into CPS Energy rates - [image: CPS Energy’s Calaveras Power Station generates energy in Southeast San Antonio on Saturday. The station features a two-unit coal power plant named ...
Slate

Right-Wing Trend of Buying or Not Buying Things to Own the Libs Reaches Nadir With Accidental Boycott of Semen - Also Ben Shapiro bought a single piece of wood.
Deadline Politics

Disneyland, Other Theme Parks Face California’s Confusing Rules For Out-Of-State Visitors - Southern California’s massive theme parks are in the process of reopening after more than a year of Covid-induced closures. Universal Studios Hollywood, Si...
Caitlin Johnstone

Hardcover And PDF Release Of “Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers” - My 2017 part-poetry, part-graphic novel book Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers is now available in hardcover! And it is such a beautiful thing. The s...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

10 LGBTQ-Oriented Films Which Grabbed Oscar Gold - From wins for *Best Costume Design*, to *Best Screenplay* to *Best Actor* and *Actress *and finally to *Best Picture*, here are 10 LGBTQ- oriented films...
Shadowproof

Dissenter Weekly: Attack Against British Oil Industry Whistleblower Escalates - In this edition of “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola covers a British oil industry whistleblower in Croatia who was taken by...
Election Law Blog

“The Impact of Census Timeline Changes on the Next Round of Redistricting” - New Brennan Center report. … Continue reading →
Common Dreams

LGBTQ Advocates Applaud HUD Reversal of Trump Anti-Trans Shelter Rule - Brett Wilkins, staff writer "This is a decision that will save lives and help transgender people experiencing homelessness receive the assistance they need....
Reform Austin

Texas House Votes Down Budget Amendment Aimed at Giving Health Coverage to More Uninsured Texans - The Texas House on Thursday rejected an attempt to direct the governor and state health officials to use billions in federal dollars to expand health car...
The Intercept

'Filhocracia’: filha de Fujimori no segundo turno no Peru é o bolsonarismo amanhã - A possível eleição da filha do ditador peruano pode nos ensinar sobre o futuro do bolsonarismo no Brasil. The post ‘Filhocracia’: filha de Fujimori no s...
Talking Points Memo

GOP Group That Pushed Pre-Insurrection Rally Hires Operative Behind ‘Stop The Steal’ Robocalls - A political operative who was behind robocalls urging Trump supporters to march to the Capitol on the day of the joint session of Congress ratifying Joe ...
Angry Bear

Why Not Fraud? - First to step out of the right hand corner was John Cornyn of Texas. Floated something he had read in Politico; it didn’t. None of Cornyn’s stings, stung...
Mother Jones

“Somebody’s Baby Is Still Not Coming Home”: MoJo Readers Process the Chauvin Verdict - Of the many ways readers responded to Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict—with cautious relief, strength, pain, and recognition of the vast work still ahead—one...
CultureMap Houston

Motown legend Smokey Robinson headlines Memorial Hermann gala - The trend of Houston fetes featuring big-time celebs shows no sign of slowing (witness recent local events with headlines Judd Apatow or Yo-Yo Ma). Now, a...
Skeptical Raptor

COVID-19 vaccines herd immunity – ignore anti-vaxxer disinformation - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. The only way to herd immunity to this pandemic is with COVID-19 vaccines, but still,...
Progrexas

Texas House votes down budget amendment aimed at giving health coverage to more uninsured Texans - Dr. Spencer R. Berthelsen and a patient at the Kelsey-Seybold clinic in Sugar Land. On Thursday the Texas House rejected a budget amendment that would ha...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Bambi Retur...
Louis Proyect

Canadian trade unionists pay tribute to Ernie Tate’s leadership - Click to access ernie-tate-article.pdf
San Antonio Current

Ted Nugent tested positive for COVID-19 days after performing at 'anti-mask' Florida grocery store - On Monday, COVID-denier and NRA-mouthpiece Ted Nugent admitted that he tested positive for coronavirus, telling followers: “I have had flu symptoms for th...
Undernews

VIRUS STATUS UPDATE - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is better in every other month since ...
The Conversation

For Vladimir Putin and other autocrats, ruthlessly repressing the opposition is often a winning way to stay in power - There's not much the world can do to stop authoritarian rulers from persecuting their political opponents, as shown by the standoff over Russian dissident ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: From Pizzagate to Insurrection - Zachary Petrizzo @ Salon: Mike Pompeo and Trump rub shoulders with anti-Muslim zealot Laura Loomer at Mar-a-Lago event. Joe Jervis: Staver: Vaccines Make...
Second Nexus

Ted Cruz Slammed for Absurdly Claiming GOP Didn't Try to 'Rig the Game' on SCOTUS During Senate Majority - Parallel with news that President Joe Biden's administration was forming a commission to explore the legality of expanding the Supreme Court, House Judic...
slacktivist

Backwards and forwards - White evangelical theology is not why white evangelicals support racial injustice and inequality. Support for racial injustice and inequality is why white ...
Earthworks

US Climate Commitments have been made, what’s next? - Today President Joe Biden laid out his long awaited climate target, known as Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), for the United States reentry into...
The AltWorld

West’s Cold War Prolongs Pandemic - US President Joe Biden this week hailed his target of administering 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine […] The post West’s Cold War Prolongs Pandemic ...
Futurism

Huh, Turns Out Space Food Has Gone From Gross to “Pretty Fantastic” - [image: When French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will jet off to the International Space Station tomorrow morning, he can look forward to some pretty fantastic...
Glasstire

Artists On Nature: Earth Day 2021 - Since it was first celebrated on April 22, 1970 as a U.S. holiday, and in the 1990s onward embraced as a global movement, Earth Day has focused on both c...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Derek Chauvin Verdict Means Accountability, Not Justice - Last year, the world watched Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kill George Floyd in plain sight after arresting him for an alleged counterfeit bil...
Political Garbage Chute

Entire Population of The Dakotas Shuts Down Single Starbucks to Protest D.C. Statehood - Today, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to advance House Resolution 51, which would make Washington, D.C. the official 51st state in ...
Democracy Chronicles

Biden-Linked Lobbyist Quintuples Revenue Since Election - A Biden-linked political lobbyist has quintupled revenue since the 2020 election. Corporations believe such lobbyists can provide access.
Discourse

Sure Looks Like It’s Union Busting Season - Both the New York Times and Insider are refusing to recognize their employees' clear demands to organize. The post Sure Looks Like It’s Union Busting Sea...
Texas Standard

A Texas Family Thought The Feds Wouldn’t Want Their Land For A Border Wall Under Biden. They Were Wrong. - “This caught us totally by surprise.”
MintPress News

Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China - Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks s...
Church and State

‘All In for the EACH Act’: Rights Advocates Applaud Bill to End Hyde Amendment - The Hyde Amendment has been used by anti-choice politicians to keep abortion care out of the reach for people already marginalized.
DeSmogBlog

Struggling to Make a Profit, Fracking Investors are Searching for the Exit - The outlook is increasingly bleak for oil and gas companies. The beginning of this year has seen the highest number of companies announce bankruptcy duri...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Nonreligious Americans Are A Growing Political Force - In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Perry Bacon Jr. speak with political scientist and pastor Ryan Burge about Ame...
Progressive.org

The Case for Banning School Suspensions - We need to try to understand, not penalize, students when they act out.
Morning Consult

Most Americans Approve of Derek Chauvin’s Conviction, but Fewer See Justice for George Floyd - The post Most Americans Approve of Derek Chauvin’s Conviction, but Fewer See Justice for George Floyd appeared first on Morning Consult.
American Prospect

GOP vs. the Right to Assemble (GOP Assemblings Exempted) - Today on TAP: The current push to criminalize demonstrations
Texas Monthly

How My Grandmother’s 1940s Wedding Dress Found a Second Life on TikTok - Reagan Wells, aka @ReaganRetro, turned my family’s history into an actual history lesson for thousands of TikTok followers—and helped me process my grief...
Downwinders at Risk

Earth Day 2021: Our New Archive of Local Frontline Environmental Justice Fights - It’s Earth Day 2021. Board members Cindy Hua and Evelyn Mayo built this great archival tool to explore the history of EJ frontline fights in Dallas County...
Project Censored

Zoom Classrooms Raise Concerns about Law Enforcement Surveillance and 4th Amendment Rights - Zoom’s popularity skyrocketed as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified in Spring 2020, and the company’s revenues rose more than 169 percent. Online conferen...
Scheerpost.com

Glenn Greenwald: What Americans Must Urgently Learn from Brazil - Chris Hedges talks to the journalist Glenn Greenwald on this week’s “On Contact” about his reporting exposing the corruption among Brazil’s political, judi...
Sludge

Biden Interior Nominee Worked for MBS’s Murderous NEOM Company - Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy secretary of the Interior Department Tommy Beaudreau, who was selected after fossil fuel industry allies in Congress objecte...
Mondoweiss

Why did Ro Khanna sign an AIPAC letter? - California Rep. Ro Khanna advocates for a progressive foreign policy, but does that extend to Palestine?
Daily Cartoonist

Walt Kelly’s 1971 Earth Day Essay - In 1971, for the second year in a row, Walt Kelly helped publicize Earth Day with special art: Most seem to think that the two-panel comic strip was the re...
Daily Howler

"Segregation forever," professor says! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021* *Lawrence obeys the code:* Lawrence O'Donnell had just finished his opening lament. Now that Chauvin was in the slammer, he w...
BEYONDbones

The Houston Urban Wildlife Project - While Earth Day undoubtedly evokes various emotions in people who are passionate about the environment, I don’t consider myself a very emotional person. ...
El Paso Matters

What’s safe to do once you’re vaccinated for COVID-19? El Paso experts offer advice - As more El Pasoans receive their COVID-19 vaccines, questions remain about what activities are safe to participate in following the two-week waiting peri...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Time to Cure America’s ‘Clientitis’ Over Ukraine - An especially dangerous disease for leaders of any major nation is “clientitis”—the willingness to place the interests of a foreign ally or client on a par...
Dorf on Law

The Habits of Bothsidesism: A Bizarre Defense of Georgia's Voting Law from Someone Who Should Have Known Better - *by Neil H. Buchanan* After a cataclysm, there is an understandable urge to return to whatever felt like normal in the before-times. Unfortunately, some...
SCOTUSblog

Skepticism and the shadow of Chevron in Sanchez v. Mayorkas argument - [image: Skepticism and the shadow of Chevron in Sanchez v. Mayorkas argument]The humanitarian stakes were indiscernible in Monday morni...
Eater Houston

Nostalgia-Tinged Heights Restaurant BCK to Close at the End of the Month - [image: a brick building with a red marquee] BCK will close on April 30 | Kirsten Gilliam Owners say the restaurant was unable to negotiate new lease ter...
Dandelion Salad

Ditch The Draft, Once and For All, by Rivera Sun - by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad April 22, 2021 It’s outdated. It’s dysfunctional. It’s hated by most of the populace. No, we’re not talking about the...
Moon of Alabama

The Ukraine Crisis Recedes - But A False Narrative Of It Leads To Bad Conclusions - Some two month ago we discussed how the U.S. focus on narratives will let it collide with reality. It is certainly not only the U.S. government that create...
Innocence Project

Instagram Live Q&A: Ask a Forensic Science Expert - Join us on Monday, April 26, at 12 p.m. ET on Instagram Live. In celebration of World DNA Day, our forensic policy analyst, Kareem Belt, will answer quest...
Grist

Carbon offsets aren’t enough. We need to remove carbon from the atmosphere. - To reverse climate change and reach target emissions objectives, we need a drastic reduction in CO2.
Lawfare

Current International Law Is Not an Adequate Regime for Cyberspace - The United Nations building in Vienna, Austria. (R Boed, https://tinyurl.com/prksbmrc; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) States i...
WhoWhatWhy

Apple Targeted in $50M Ransomware Attack Resulting in Unprecedented Schematic Leaks - Reading Time: 2 minutes The Invention of Whiteness ; The Blue States That Make It Hardest to Vote ; and More Picks 4/22 The post Apple Targeted in $50M R...
Ballot Access News

U.S. House Passes Bill for Statehood for Most of Washington, D.C. - On April 22, the U.S. House passed HR 51, the bill to make almost all of the District of Columbia a state. The vote was completely part-line. … Continue re...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

What Is Behind Mayor Eric Johnson’s City Council Endorsements? - Although he isn’t on the ballot, there is a lot at stake for Mayor Eric L. Johnson in the upcoming Dallas city election. During his first two years in of...
Popular Resistance

Gun Violence Starts At The Top - Mass shootings happen with appalling regularity in the United States. It is bad enough that recent shootings took place in Atlanta, Boulder, and Indianap...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose by Mariame Kaba in Truthout - *I learned so much from the 2021 AERA Division G - Vice Presidential Session where I served as discussant titled, "Children, Policies of Containment and...
In These Times

The Urgent Health Crisis Facing Black and Indigenous Communities - Filmmaker Dominique Rémy discusses her new documentary examining the rising maternal morbidity and mortality rates among certain peoples of color. - In this pre-pandemic *Working People* recording that we thought was lost to history, we talk to filmmaker Dominique Rémy about her important full-length ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Rashid: McAllen is in a state of stagnation and inertia - I am Dr. Shahid Rashid, a physician and public health expert. As I often state, I am not a politician but a physician who cares deeply about my patients,...
Edinburg Politics

Gov. Abbott signs resolution by Rep. Canales, Sen. Hinojosa, and Sen. Lucio, Jr., honoring former Hidalgo County Judge Ramón García - They are political rivals: Gov. Greg Abbott, who is the highest-ranking Republican Party leader in Texas, and former Hidalgo County Judge Ramón García, who...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Beijing Denies Expansionism Despite South China Sea Militarization, Sweeping Claims - China is bolstering its military presence in South China Sea, while ignoring international rulings that protect neighbors’ maritime rights.
Novara Media

Derek Chauvin’s Conviction Won’t Make Black Lives Matter - [image: A crowd carries a white coffin covered with red roses. A placard nearby reads 'Black Lives Matter']Last year, the murder of George Floyd sparked a ...
Rewire

It’s Time to Stop Talking About Whether Margaret Sanger Was Racist - Even as the reproductive rights movement makes great strides when it comes to racial justice, it is failing when it comes to disability justice. The post...
The Progressive Wing

4/22 Earth Day and Open Thread - Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World premieres in USA in a three-hour event on Earth Day, Thursday April 22nd at 8/7c on PBS. pic.twitter.com/0HhDNLP...
Southeast Texas Record

Ninth Court axes Judge Kent Walston’s award of $1.3M to Aattaboy Pest Control - BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals has reversed Judge Kent Walston’s award of $1.34 million to Aattaboy Termite and Pest Control – a judgment Walston ...
Bonddad

More new pandemic lows in jobless claims: April jobs report likely to show over 1,000,000 new jobs added - *- by New Deal democrat* Repeating my recent top-line mantra, new jobless claims are likely to the most important weekly economic data for the next 3...
Texas Observer

Liz Lambert’s New Film Offers a Shallow Portrayal of a Changing Austin - Liz Lambert’s new movie is a case study in why property developers shouldn’t make documentaries about gentrification. The Austin-based hotelier’s debut f...
Democracy Now!

Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth - On Earth Day, we speak with two of the more than two dozen Indigenous authors of a new book that looks at the history of resistance against colonialism and...
The Smirking Chimp

The Making of a Right-wing Martyr: Conservatives Treat Derek Chauvin's Conviction as an Act of War -
Washington Babylon

Six Questions for Alec Karakatsanis of the Civil Rights Corps on George Floyd, Debtors’ Prisons and the Criminalization of Poverty - [image: Six Questions for Alec Karakatsanis of the Civil Rights Corps on George Floyd, Debtors’ Prisons and the Criminalization of Poverty] Alec Karakatsan...
Infidel753

A reason for blogging - The reasons for writing a blog are, I imagine, as varied as bloggers themselves are. Some have strong views on political or social issues and hope to per...
Space City Weather

Friday storms will lead to a stellar weekend for Houston - After another resplendent springtime day on Wednesday, clouds and humidity will return on Thursday. This will set the stage for widespread rainfall on Frid...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/22/2021 - Top legal news includes: One year after Nicolas Chavez's death, family awaits indictments (Chron subsc); Houston council delays vote to hire outside defens...
INSIDER - politics news

North Dakota's governor vetoed a bill to bar transgender children from joining sports leagues, saying the state already has enough rules curbing them - [image: doug burgum north dakota trans school sports bill] Summary List Placement North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has vetoed a bill that effectively barred...
Houston Press

Listen To The Radio: KTRU Celebrates 29th Annual Outdoor Show - College radio has a long tradition of being a platform for music lovers and artists who wouldn’t necessarily get radio play on mainstream stations. For yea...
ProPublica

Are Unemployment Benefits Taxed? - by Karim Doumar ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Dallas Observer

Ethics Complaint Against Dallas City Plan Commissioner Wayne Garcia Dismissed - The complaint alleged several violations of the city’s code of ethics in regards to a business deal he signed onto with two opponents of a zoning case in h...
High Country News

So you want to acknowledge the land? - Some notes on a trend, and what real justice could look like.
See You In 2020

Ukraine’s Fascist Nightmare And The Growing Danger Of A Repeat Of World War II - I warn about World War II repeating itself not because I expect Washington’s currently escalating anti-Russian proxy war in Ukraine to turn into a nuclea...
jobsanger

No Posting For A Few Days - I will not be posting on this blog for a few days. That's because I will be busy packing, moving (from Austin to Houston), and unpacking. I hope to star...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Checking in on Biden’s Approval Rating as Hundred Days’ Mark Nears - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Joe Biden’s approval rating has been steady and positive, though many other presidents had better early numbers. — The “hone...
LareDOS

“Dining Under Seven Flags” Restaurant Week commemorates City’s founding; promises varied and delicious dining options - Tickets, menus at www.heritage.org
Texas Moratorium Network

Law of Parties Bill Made Speaker Priority - The speaker of the Texas House included Rep Leach’s law of parties bill on his list of priority criminal justice bills. The bill would prohibit the death...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Activation #4: Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence with Joe Martino - The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Activation Episode 4: Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence with Joe Martino – In the 4th episode...
Environment Texas

Electric heat pumps: An unsung hero in the fight against climate change - Josh Chetwynd Communications Manager Contact person by email - Read more about Josh Chetwynd Wednesday, April 21, 2021 These energy-efficient devic...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Riot Cops Outside Minnesota Home Raise Questions of Power and Place - People watch as police in riot gear walk down a residential street, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in St. Paul, Minnesota. The post Chatting the Pictures: Riot ...
epic.org

Florida House of Representatives Passes Florida Privacy Protection Act - The Florida House of Representatives today passed the Florida Privacy Protection Act, HB 969, on a 118-1 vote. The bill gives Floridians the right to know ...
Idavox

Next on the White Power Chopping Block: Burt Colucci - Seems like the Commander of the National Socialist Movement stayed in Phoenix too long after... The post Next on the White Power Chopping Block: Burt Col...
Mahablog

A Time of Revelations - It’s the day after the Chauvin verdict. Even as we heard that Derek Chauvin is guilty, guilty, guilty, we also were hearing about a black teenage girl in...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Northam Signs Adult-use Marijuana Legalization Legislation - “Today, together, we celebrate an extraordinary victory for cannabis justice in the Commonwealth.” The post Virginia: Governor Northam Signs Adult-use Ma...
Ring of Fire

Historic Liar George W Bush Thinks Republicans Lie Too Much - George W. Bush, the former President that lied us into a war of aggression in the Middle East, suddenly thinks that the modern Republican tells too many ...
Freethought Now

Life is randomly cruel - If God is all-loving and almighty, why does he permit earthquakes — and tsunamis and hurricanes and twisters and floods and wildfires and mudslides — with ...
Grits for Breakfast

With chances for TCOLE Sunset legislation withering, bill heard to expand agency's authority to kick bad cops out of the profession - Your correspondent is beginning to despair that the 87th Texas Legislature may come and go without meaningful reform a the Texas Commission on Law Enforcem...
The Contributor

Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers - News Image: Politicians get the veneer of grassroots support, while shadowy consultants get rich. Category: Inside Washington origin Blog: ProPublica or...
Seeing the Forest

Have you been to jail for justice? - “A song by Anne Feeney dedicated to all activists who have been arrested while they were fighting for justice, and especially to: the Haymarket Martyrs, Dr...
Ecosophia

The Flight From Thinking - For more than a year now I’ve been devoting a post or two each month to the magical history of the United States, and I’d meant to proceed this week to ano...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Covidian Cult (Part II) - Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological mo...
The Ghion Journal

The Malicious Absurdity of Calling People Who Refuse to Turn Themselves into mRNA Lab Rats “Anti-Vaxxers” - Imagine calling people who refuse to eat at McDonald’s “anti-nutritionists” or libeling people who abstain from buying Monsanto products “anti-food activ...
Land Destroyer

US Seeks South China Sea Conflict - *April 21, 2021* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Despite hopes by some that with a new incoming US president, new US foreign policy will follow - US Secretary ...
alicublog

CHAUVINISM. - I have some observations on the Derek Chauvin/George Floyd verdict reaction at *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down*, opened to non-subscribers today as a public s...
The Appeal

Report Sheds Light On The Pattern Of Over-Policing That Led Cops To Pull Over Daunte Wright - When Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, his name joined a growing list of Black drive...
Bracing Views

Why Is the War Budget Increasing? - W.J. Astore President Biden has announced that all U.S. combat troops will be out of Afghanistan by 9/11 of this year. So why is the Pentagon budget increa...
Duffel Blog

Sergeant major says no one is leaving Afghanistan until all the brass is picked up - Not one swinging dick is boarding a plane until this place is spotless
Crooked Timber

“Ye have made your way from worm to man, and much within you is still worm.” - “Ye higher men, free the sepulchres, awaken the corpses! Ah, why doth the worm still burrow? There approacheth, there approacheth, the hour, — — There boom...
Trivial Knot

Game Diary: April 2021 - I’m doing one last game diary, and I’ve already decided that next month I’ll move it back to my other blog. Or maybe I’ll stop entirely, and invest more t...
Rude Pundit

The Chauvin Verdict: Random Observations at the Beginning of a Long, Difficult Road - 1. Sometimes I think about all the times that police murdered or beat a Black or brown person and no one was there to record it. It makes me sick to my s...
Socialist Alternative

“European Super League”: Stop the People’s Game becoming the Princes’ Game - By Matt Waine, Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) The news that 12 top European football clubs are on course to establish a new “European Super League” has b...
TalkLeft

Derek Chauvin Convicted On All Counts - Justice for George Floyd! Derek Chauv has been convicted on all three charges. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other c...
Krebs on Security

Note to Self: Create Non-Exhaustive List of Competitors - What was the best news you heard so far this month? Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. [NYSE:IT] -...
Texas Freedom Network

Activists Move to Stop Anti-Transgender Bills in Texas Legislature - More legislation targeting transgender Texans is moving at the Capitol this week. Today TFN, Just Texas and the Transgender Education Network of Texas re...
BillMoyers.com

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

Why we fight: combating the fascist insurgency - With Trump out of the White House, the far right have a lost a powerful ally — but the threat of fascist violence and white racialism is far from over.
Lowering the Bar

Couple Married Four Times in a Month to Get Four Paid Honeymoons - And it worked. Related Stories - Saudi Divorce Rate Spikes During Lockdown; Wives Reportedly Learning of “Secret Marriages”
Avedon's Sideshow

Just like everyone else - Tynemouth Abbey ruins by barnyz, who has a lot of wonderful camera work on Flickr. "Maryland enacts landmark police overhaul, first state to repeal police...
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-...
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.
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 »
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 *...
Unlimited Hangout

Tim Dillon #246- I love the CIA with Whitney Webb - The post Tim Dillon #246- I love the CIA with Whitney Webb appeared first on unlimitedhangout.com.
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 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...
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...
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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