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Vox

Why Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic Gymnastic Women’s Team Finals - [image: Gymnast Simone Biles, wearing a mask.] Simone Biles, the GOAT. | Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Simone Biles stepped back from the Olympic Gymna...
The Hill

Body camera footage shows Colorado officer choking unarmed man: 'You're killing me' - Police in Aurora, Colo., on Tuesday release body camera footage from a violent encounter last week in which a suspect can be heard saying "You're killing m...
Mediaite

Liz Cheney Slams Stefanik Blaming Pelosi for January 6: ‘I’d Be Deeply Ashamed of Myself’ If I Said That - Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R- WY) called out comments from Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R- NY) blaming Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- CA) in part for the Janua...
Al Jazeera English

Bolsonaro turns to centre-right senator amid drop in popularity - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is facing mounting pressure to account for COVID crisis and corruption allegations.
Slate

Why Is It So Hard to Use NBC’s Peacock to Watch the Olympics? - Issues range from confusing Olympics scheduling and minimal original content throughout Peacock's coverage.
Avedon's Sideshow

The world keeps revolving - "Sweet Peas From My Garden", photograph by Hazel Ashworth. "On the Political Marriage of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders: *Progressives cannot and should not...
The Texas Signal

George P. Bush comes up short in Trump endorsement - Yesterday, Trump made his official endorsement in the Republican primary for attorney general by sticking with Ken Paxton. The announcement is one more h...
Talking Points Memo

WH Issues Vaccine And Mask Requirements As Delta Variant Prompts COVID Surge - The White House on Tuesday moved to require vaccinations for all federal employees and contractors, as well as mask mandates for all visitors to the camp...
Mediagazer

[Thread] Staffers at Forbes vote 67-7 for a union with The NewsGuild of New York in a NLRB election after management failed to voluntarily recognize their union (@forbesunion) - @forbesunion: *[Thread] Staffers at Forbes vote 67-7 for a union with The NewsGuild of New York in a NLRB election after management failed to voluntarily ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Biden to announce vaccine requirement for US federal workers – report - Federal employees will be required to get Covid vaccine or submit to regular testing, according to CNN Joe Biden says requiring all federal workers to ge...
Salon.com

Pelosi outmaneuvers McCarthy on Jan. 6 commission: Capitol police undercut GOP stunt with testimony - Turns out that the January 6 committee does not need braying GOP idiots in order to be credible
The Week

Americans who attend church frequently are more likely to view QAnon favorably, poll finds - Americans who attend church frequently are more likely to view QAnon favorably, poll finds
Dissident Voice

ALL News is Fake News - On July 20, 2021, the Milwaukee Bucks won the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship. Their MVP was Giannis Antetokounmpo, a.k.a. “The Greek ...
Courthouse News

International satellites can’t avert US regulatory fees - The move does away with an exemption that international satellite companies with access to the U.S. market have enjoyed for nearly two decades.
VICE

The Best Speakers for Every Part of Your House, According to an Audio Pro - Susan Rogers, a pro sound engineer (who worked with Prince!), explains how to pick the best speakers for your apartment, patio, or personal dungeon.
NPR's Health Shots

Tanzania's Dilemma: It's Not So Easy To Go From Vaccine Denier To Vaccine Embracer - The African country, previously credited for high childhood vaccination rates, was 1 of 4 countries to reject COVID vaccines. Now they've done a 180. It's ...
The Verge

TikTok’s live video push continues with new features for creators and viewers - TikTok has announced a slew of new live video features coming to the popular video app platform for both creators and viewers, including scheduled “even...
CultureMap Houston

Lush, oak-lined new development brings ranch-style living to Houston - With Houston's scorching real estate market showing no signs of cooling off, inventory is at a premium. That means large developments, such as the previou...
The Intercept

In the Race Against Nina Turner, GOP Donors Fund Shontel Brown - With one week left in the Ohio primary, Republican donors have picked their Democrat — and the pro-Israel PAC supporting her. The post In the Race Agains...
Raw Story

GOP lawmaker says Liz Cheney is 'blinded by ambition' — even though she got punished for her stand on Capitol riots - Republican Rep. Matthew Rosendale (R-MT) attacked fellow Republicans Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for what he said was just "blind a...
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - Get happy.
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Continuing Horror of CIA’s Torture and Abuse - Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison at ...
American Prospect

⏩ Private Equity Hijacks Infrastructure Plan - David Dayen on the infrastructure negotiations and how Biden has placated progressive groups.
Political Wire

Nancy Pelosi Outplays Kevin McCarthy Again - This piece is only available to Political Wire members. Your support makes this site possible. Join today for the complete Political Wire experience and ge...
memeorandum

DHS Secretary Mayorkas cancels in-person events over Covid fears (Politico) - Politico: *DHS Secretary Mayorkas cancels in-person events over Covid fears* — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is working remotely becau...
Futurism

Video Shows Massive Meteor Lighting Up Entire Night Sky - A large meteor hurtled over the Norwegian skies, lighting up the night sky over most of southern Scandinavia in a flash of light. It was such a violent...
Alternet

'It is a pathetic excuse': Police officer rebukes Trump's defense of the Capitol rioters - During a recent interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo, former President Donald Trump seriously downplayed the violence that occurred in Washington...
Texas Environmental News

Abilene City Council hears water resiliency plans, costs in wake of winter storm - The cheapest option is more than $10 million, the most expensive $25 million. How to pay for those improvements is [...] The post Abilene City Council he...
OpEd News

Joe Biden's Relapse into Hallucinations About GOP Leaders - For a while, President Biden seemed to be recovering from chronic fantasies about Republicans in Congress. But last week he had a relapse -- harming prospe...
Daily Dot

‘Let me tell your dusty, dirty, mannequin-built a** something’: TikToker films husband shutting down Karen - A Karen was put in her place by a Black man while his wife recorded the entire thing from their car and later uploaded it to TikTok. While the two people...
Houston Press

Georgia James Tavern Opens Tonight - It's always big news when one of Houston's best chefs opens a new restaurant and the news can't get much bigger than James Beard Award Winning chef Chris S...
Latino Rebels

Tension Rises in Rincón Due to Police Force and Construction on Beach - Complaints from protesters and activists range from excessive police force to unjustified arrests. Several videos on social media have recorded how police ...
Techdirt.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 291: Free Speech, Elections, Vaccines, And Social Media - Freedom of speech sits at the intersection of so many of the topics we write about here on Techdirt, and some of our favorite podcast guests are true ex...
Political Garbage Chute

GOP Election Audits Prove Biden’s Presidency Can Only Last Three and a Half More Years - The results of two major pretend-audits in Arizona and Georgia are starting to come in, and Cyber Ninjas, the company that performed them, says that they...
Dorf on Law

How Is It Possible That the Debt Ceiling Is a Thing Again? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* "Just when I thought I was out ... they pull me back in!" OK, I am certainly no Michael Corleone (as far as anyone knows), but thi...
Axios

The Olympics medal count - Data: International Olympic Committee; Chart: Connor Rothschild/Axios
The Root

Here's Your Reminder That Halle Bailey Will Go Over and Under the Sea for Her Big Sis Chloe—So Don't Try Her - Ariel—also known as *The Little Mermaid*—once asked, “What’s a fire and why does it—what’s the word—burn?” I don’t know the answer to that question but w...
Texas Standard

Federal Agency Tasked With Investing Chemical Incidents Is Struggling To Keep Up - Investigations by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, including at Houston-area facilities, “slowed to a crawl” in recent years becaus...
slacktivist

What if life wasn’t just a zero-sum game? - Politico exacerbates the problem of misplaced hyperpartisanship even while doing an otherwise excellent job of describing its harmful effects.
Mother Jones

Today Is the 100th Anniversary of Insulin. Let Us Know How It’s Affected Your Life. - Until the discovery of insulin a century ago today by two Canadian researchers who injected a pancreatic extract into a diabetic dog and watched its blood ...
San Antonio Current

Isis Romero, 10 p.m. anchor for San Antonio's KSAT 12, announces her firing on Facebook - KSAT 12 anchor Isis Romero, one of the most visible faces in San Antonio TV news for more than a decade, announced in a Tuesday Facebook post that she's b...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Unholy Spin: Xi Endorses ‘Religious Rights’ In Tibet - Under Xi’s tenure, screws tightened further on Tibetan Buddhists’ religious freedoms.
Houston Public Media

From Fencing To Archery, Houston Is A Hotbed For Many Of The Summer Olympic Sports - In a five-part series, Houston Matters takes a closer look at how some of the sports at the Tokyo Olympics are enjoyed in Greater Houston.
Texas Monthly

When Simone Biles Comes Home to Houston, Throw Her a Darn Parade - The gymnastics GOAT withdrew from team competition at the Olympics, but she’s already accomplished enough to deserve a lifetime of gratitude. The post Wh...
The Grayzone

How Washington’s top Taiwan specialist embraced separatist party leader and opened a new cross-Strait crisis - Known as “America’s leading Taiwan hand,” Richard C. Bush has helped preserve peace between Beijing and Taipei. But as Washington moved toward conflict, ...
Robert Reich

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Reform Austin

Phelan Issues Bizarre Warrant for Cortez’s Arrest, What Does it Mean? - The Texas legislative stalemate continues basically unchanged, but a new and somewhat bizarre wrinkle has been introduced. Speaker of the House Dad Phela...
Election Law Blog

1/6/21 versus 1/6/25? - As reports of today’s select committee hearing are starting to roll in (from The NY Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, and elsewhere), I’m str...
Mondoweiss

The Christian call for ‘just peace’ must be rooted in justice for Palestine - Christians have a role in the struggle for justice and human rights in Palestine and Israel. This includes combating the destructive effects of the Zionist...
Wolf Street

No, Rents Are Not Suddenly Spiking in San Francisco: They Fell Again in July and Are Down 27% since June 2019 - The rental market is in turmoil after jobs and people left, and price discovery has set in. Falling rents are a market-based solution to the “Housing Crisis.”
Second Nexus

Protesters Chase Off QAnon Caucus's Anti-1/6 Committee Press Conference and It's a Thing of Beauty - On Tuesday, the House Select Committee investigating the deadly failed insurrection of January 6 held its first hearing, where Capitol and D.C. Metro pol...
Deadline Politics

CDC Says Vaccinated Americans Should Wear Masks Indoors In High-Transmission Areas - The CDC on Tuesday recommended that even Americans who are vaccinated against Covid-19 wear masks indoors in many circumstances. The agency said that vacci...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Justice Now: Fact or Fiction? - A letter mailed to Park Cities homes is causing a bit of a stir. It asks White Democrats to pledge not to send their children to Ivy League schools or an...
Popular Resistance

The Collective Suicide Machine - The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban to power, is ...
Buzzflash

Thom Hartmann: Senator Josh Hawley's (R-MO) "Love America Act" Is All About Hate - BuzzFlash
Discourse

Please Don’t Make Me Choose Between J.D. Vance and the ADL - What is there to say about Hillbilly Elegy writer-cum-shitty Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance? Is he bankrolled by a guy who pals around with dedic...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience - Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. The post Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience a...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 QUESTIONS ABOUT Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric Since 1945 - What if how presidents talk about ending wars contributes to the cycle of U.S. military intervention? Stephen J. Heidt answers 6+1 questions about his new ...
Scheerpost.com

Hedges: The Price of Conscience - Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 27, 2021 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: London the latest metropolitan center to be slammed by torrential storms and floods; Volatile Middle East grapples with extreme he...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Maine’s Facial Recognition Law Shows Bipartisan Support for Protecting Privacy - *This piece was first published in TechCrunch.* Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased su...
In These Times

Biden's Climate Pledges Are Incompatible with His Belligerence Toward China - Bipartisan saber rattling and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most. - The Biden administration came into office promising a return to both climate action and diplomacy after years of confrontation and denialism under Trump....
INSIDER - politics news

Capitol riot suspect who bragged about macing cops, posed for pictures with Trump allies has been charged with assault - [image: Samuel Lazar, Capitol riot] Summary List Placement A 35-year-old Capitol rioter who bragged about macing cops and had posed with politicians pro...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2021 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day “New Study Finds That Crows Are So Intelligent They Understand the Concept of Zero” [My Modern Met]. ...
The Conversation

Peru has a new president, its fifth in five years – who is Pedro Castillo? - Castillo is a farmer and teacher who has never held national office. Peru is a nation in political turmoil, with the world’s worst COVID-19 death rate. Can...
El Paso Matters

‘Devastating’ court ruling leaves El Paso DACA recipients anxious about the future - El Paso filmmaker Juan Paul Flores Vazquez was brought to the United States from Mexicali, Mexico, when he was 3. At age 16, he became a recipient of the...
Progressive.org

Dems Are Failing to Engage Young People - Young Americans like me shouldn’t feel like kids in the grocery store putting candy in the cart and having our elected officials tell us, “Put that back.”
Sludge

Congress Won’t Stop Trading Stocks - Congress’ stock trading was in the news last year after former senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler disclosed dumping stocks shortly after receiving pr...
Ballot Access News

Institute for Governmental Studies Berkeley Poll on California Gubernatorial Recall - On July 27, the Institute for Governmental Studies at Berkeley released this poll of the September 14, 2021 California gubernatorial recall election. The b...
Common Dreams

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison 'For Exposing US War Crimes' - "His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by U.S. drones are bystanders, not the intended targets," said Edward Snowden. "He should have been ...
The AltWorld

The Fauci Protection Team - Someone, almost certainly Dr. Fauci’s business partner, Big Pharma, has organized an active Internet support system to […] The post The Fauci Protection ...
The NM Political Report

State orders Las Cruces store to stop ‘gifting’ cannabis - [image: State orders Las Cruces store to stop ‘gifting’ cannabis] In what could end up being the first test case of illicit cannabis operations in a post-l...
Daily Cartoonist

Bozo by FoXo - above: from March 24, 1935 Earlier this year GoComics began running the classic comic strip Bozo by FoXo Reardon. Recently the GoComics crew interviewed ...
Dandelion Salad

David Swanson: It’s Absolute Hypocrisy - with David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, July 26, 2021 July 27, 2021 “There’s no growing threat or shrinking threat or threat of any...
First Draft

The Truman Myth - Meet Miller-McCullough Man.
WhoWhatWhy

Voting Curbs Enacted in 18 States in 2021 Despite None Finding Widespread Fraud - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Undernews

Virus status update - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the weekly average of new cases per capita is 43% above that in April 2020. The US ...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson faces prison in Arizona - Just spoke with Barbara Arnwine who was arrested along with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, and more than 30 others attempting a peacefu...
Shadowproof

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence For Releasing Drone Documents - Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Es...
Liberation News

Milwaukee janitors fight for $15 - [image: Janitors rally outside the SEIU Local 1 offices in Milwaukee to demand a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Liberation photo]"It is important that janitors ...
Angry Bear

Natural Gas Prices at a 31 month High - Commenter and Blogger R.J.S. brings the latest on Natural Gas and the impact on it from the heat wave. Focus on Fracking blogspot Natural gas prices rose...
ProPublica

Immigration Prosecutors Were Told Not to Push for Deportation in Cases Like His. He Was Ordered Deported the Next Day. - by Dara Lind ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin PD's "early warning system" is a failed PR stunt, like pretty much all of them - "Early warning systems" for police are one of those ideas that's touted by institutional players in the wake of bad police misconduct episodes - doubling d...
Ian Welsh

A Great Idea About Capitalism That Was Wrong - [image: Story 458890750] So, back in the 80s, when I was young, green and wet behind the years, one of the great thinkers about how to help poor people wa...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Woman doesn't know if she should invited her grandmother to her gay wedding. Her grandmother is Anita Bryant' & other Tue midday news briefs - Anti-LGBTQ activist Anita Bryant's gay granddaughter doesn't know if she wants to invite her to her wedding. *The granddaughter of a notorious anti-gay ri...
Countercurrents

Deconstructing Assam – Mizoram Border Clash - Most people in India do not know that the majority of the states in Northeast India were once part of the undivided province of Assam during Brtish colonia...
Bracing Views

Why Can’t American Troops Just Leave Iraq? - W.J. Astore The Biden administration says it wants to remove U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Hooray! Mission finally accomplished, right? It may be 18 years ...
Ring of Fire

Right Wing Protestors Get Free Pass After Breaking New Law & Juul Caught Paying For Pro-Vape Studies - Via America’s Lawyer: Anti-Cuba protestors swarmed the streets in Florida, despite the state’s recent passage of the country’s most stringent anti-protes...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: Pharr EDC recognizes Vanguard students who participated in summer internship program - PHARR, Texas – Directors with the Pharr Economic Development Corporation have recognized Vanguard Academy students for successfully completing a summer i...
Space City Weather

Eye on the Tropics: July will finish on a quiet note in the Atlantic - The last time we had a tropics post was back on July 13th, and since then zero storms have formed. By July 30, 2020 Isaias had formed. We’re still stuck on...
Right Wing Watch

Dave Daubenmire Says ‘Dr. Fauci Is an Emissary of the Devil’ Sent to Destroy Christians - Radical right-wing activist Dave Daubenmire spoke at a conference in his home state of Ohio last weekend, where he shared the stage with notorious anti-v...
Claytoonz

Vive Le Loser - Fact: Mike Pence did nothing…NOTHING…to prevent the United States men’s basketball team from losing to France. Oh, sure. He might give you some weak excuse...
Rallblog

How to Start the Next Stupid War before It Starts - Americans are politically fractured but they agree that our longest war was a mistake. 77% of Americans, including many Republicans, told a r...
Daily Howler

A SIMPLE CONCEPT: It's "a simple concept," he said! - *TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021* *Then came his next six grafs: * As we noted last week, several parts of Einstein's universe are easy to report or describe. In ...
ArcaMax

Small-Town Hero: Remembering John Glenn's Right Stuff - On July 4, 1997, Sen. John Glenn hosted a lunch for his staff in his hideaway office underneath the Capitol dome. Born in New Concord, Ohio, population 1,8...
Bonddad

Housing sales decline, while price surges continue - -* by New Deal democrat* So I take a little one day road trip on my vacation, and come back to find much weeping and gnashing of teeth and generalize...
Texas Observer

For Greg Abbott, All the Border’s a Stage - It’s a Texas tradition as old as, well, at least the Perry administration. Don some camouflage, maybe add a bulletproof vest, and scurry south. Find some...
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy offers rebates that could save you money and energy. Here’s what to know. - [image: Workers install solar panels on a residential home in 2016. CPS Energy offers rebates to encourage residents to invest in energy-saving home improv...
Eater Houston

Chris Shepherd’s Casual Counterpart to Steakhouse Georgia James Opens Today - [image: White plates filled with food sit against a dark table] A spread of Georgia James Tavern dishes | Claudia Casbarian for Georgia James Tavern Get ...
Southeast Texas Record

Court records show Duc Dinh sued woman accusing him or rape for defamation before she filed her lawsuit - HOUSTON – Court records show that Duc Dinh, a well-known member of the Houston-area Vietnamese community, had sued Gina Nguyen for defamation prior to be...
Lawfare

House Select Committee Investigating Jan. 6 Holds Its First Hearing - On Tuesday, July 27, at 9:30 a.m., the House Select Committee will hold its first hearing to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Members will h...
Washington Babylon

More on Democratic Party Hack Adam Parkhomenko and the Resistance Grift - [image: More on Democratic Party Hack Adam Parkhomenko and the Resistance Grift] Last Friday, I wrote a story here, “Bilking the #Resistance: Michael Aven...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, July 27 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, July 27]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to th...
Rewire

Abortion Is Legal—but Texas Cities Keep Trying to Outlaw It - Edinburg, Texas, was the latest city that tried to become a "sanctuary city for the unborn" and outlaw abortion within city limits. The post Abortion Is ...
Dos Centavos

Get Your Shots! Mask Up! - Since the media and government are on top of trying to get shots into the unvaccinated, there’s no sense in me joining that part of the chorus. I’ve seen t...
Glasstire

The Bartlett Project, Part 8: A Building and its Dust - For earlier installments in this series, please start here. The most recent installment (before this one) is here. It was only a few weeks ago I spent a...
The Smirking Chimp

GOP's Race to the Bottom: Who Can Be the Most Obnoxious Troll? -
Democracy Now!

Calls Grow for Biden to Close Guantánamo Military Prison as U.S. Sanctions Cuba over Human Rights - [image: Seg2 gitmo 2]
Caitlin Johnstone

A Race Between Revolution And Robotics: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Basically we’re looking at a race to see if the deterioration of material conditions inherent in capitalism leads to...
ROAR Magazine

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation - Anti-Roma racism remains pervasive across Europe. It is time to develop a common political agenda for the unification and collective liberation of the Roma.
Grist

What’s the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean? - Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships.
Skeptophilia

Untruth and consequences - In Dorothy Sayers' novel *Gaudy Night*, set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of an increasingly vicious se...
The Daily Poster

Pros And Cons Of Taking Money From Your Constituents - Internal documents show the crass political calculus behind a Republican governor’s decision to cut off COVID jobless aid.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Kansas City lessons on supporting Black businesses that can work anywhere - Long before they were threatened by the economic shutdown associated with COVID-19, Dr. Karen Curls says that Black-owned small businesses were held back...
Novara Media

Here’s What Really Happened When Labour Suspended Corbyn - During the 2020 Labour leadership election, Keir Starmer pitched himself as the ‘unity candidate’. But throughout the first year of his tenure there was al...
Off The Kuff

Day 13 quorum busting post: Just a reminder, the voter suppression bill still sucks - […]
Morning Consult

Republicans, Independents Drive Decline in Support for Jan. 6 Panel - The post Republicans, Independents Drive Decline in Support for Jan. 6 Panel appeared first on Morning Consult.
FiveThirtyEight.com

How A Special Election In Texas’s 6th District Will Test Trump’s Influence On The GOP - Ideologically, Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey have a lot in common. For starters, the first three priorities on their respective campaign websites are identi...
Counterpunch

The Continuing Horror of CIA’s Torture and Abuse - Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison a...
Crooked Media

50 First Mandates - The post 50 First Mandates appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

Climate change wreaks havoc on the electricity grid - Heat and drought combined are especially harmful to the power system.
Church and State

The GOP Apparently Only Can Act In Its Political Self Interest - What kind of governance does the GOP represent? Not much of anything for their voters whose numbers are shrinking daily.
Informed Comment

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US combat m...
Earth 911

5 Best Products to Pick Up at Your Local Swap Shop - Attention, Freecyclers. You may be missing out on one of the best options to pick... The post 5 Best Products to Pick Up at Your Local Swap Shop appeared...
jobsanger

Why GOP Opposes January 6th Investigation -
World Socialist Web Site

Letter from a New York City teacher opposing the union-backed reopening of schools - A New York City teacher wrote to the WSWS to speak out against the dangerous school reopening plans of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio this September, whic...
Portside

How Oakland Teachers Took Control of Our Return to School - How Oakland Teachers Took Control of Our Return to School Stephanie Mon, 07/26/2021 - 22:23
TXElects

Trump Endorses Paxton, Rallies for Wright on Election Eve - Former President Trump endorsed Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton (R) for re-election. In a statement, Trump said Paxton “has been bravely on the front line in the f...
Workers World

Defend Cuba, defend socialism! - [image: Defend Cuba, defend socialism!] Anti-communist forces — led by the U.S. government — are mounting a no-holds-barred attack on revolutionary Cuba. T...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Update - *The Constitution Party today sent the following update to its email subscribers.* National Committee meeting in Michigan The Semi-Annual National Commi...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Political Economy of Development in Palestine: A Critical Perspective - Political economy is concerned with institutions, relations of power, and social conflict and struggle. A key task of political economy is to historicize...
Project Censored

Deep Fake Politics- Historiography of the Cold War, the Clandestine State, and Political Economy of US Hegemony with Aaron Good - Mickey’s guest for the hour is political scientist Aaron Good. Good recently completed a critique of the latest BBC documentary from Adam Curtis (“Can’t ...
DeSmogBlog

First Scottish ‘Climate Camp’ in Decade Planned at Mossmorran Chemical Plant - Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in ...
Krebs on Security

PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk - One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have bee...
Idavox

Foley Square Follies: Proud Boy-Affiliated Pro-Insurrectionist Rally is Met by Antifa - The usual neo-fascist suspects are doing their typical “an-TEE-fa BAD!” thing on social media, but... The post Foley Square Follies: Proud Boy-Affiliated...
Campaign for America's Future

First We Celebrate, Then We Fight - July 15th is a day every American should celebrate. That’s when families began to receive direct payments of as much as $300 per child, payments they’ll no...
epic.org

New Experts Join the EPIC Advisory Board - EPIC is pleased to announce the newest members of the EPIC Advisory Board. EPIC's new members are leading experts in privacy, technology, and civil liberti...
Liberal America

Scared Republicans Cancel References to Race in Libraries and Schools - It’s bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist “America First” caucus in the hallowed H...
Capital & Main

Los Angeles Street Food Vendors Hopeful About New Cart Design Approval - *The bureaucratic battles over cart permitting have high stakes for Los Angeles’ 10,000 vendors.* The post Los Angeles Street Food Vendors Hopeful About ...
Democracy Chronicles

Trump Clings To Election Lies At Arizona Rally - In what is dubbed an election lie rally, Trump repeatedly hyped an ongoing partisan audit of poll results in Maricopa County, Arizona.
alicublog

A SHOT AND A BOOR. - I’m releasing today’s *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down*, about how the polio vaccine rollout may have gone down if anti-vaxxers back then were like anti-vaxxe...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s ...
The Contributor

DeSantis Under Fire as Florida Now Accounts for 1 in 5 New U.S. Covid Cases - News Image: "While hospitals in our state were filling up, DeSantis was shouting about 'Freedom over Faucism,'" said one Florida physician. Category: Cor...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Overwhelmed - If you like these cartoons, please support my Patreon! Lots of people making small pledges adds up to me making a living, which is rather cool. This cartoo...
Socialist Alternative

ESwatini: Will Removing a King Bring Freedom? - Ndumiso Ncube & Alex Sivitilli, First published by https://socialist.org.za/ (ISA in South Africa) The end of June brought with it reports that Africa’s la...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The American Future, Vacations, Empire in Decline - Here we go again. Just wanted to once more sound an appreciation for your support. I didn’t know what to expect when I started this project. It was in the ...
Pages of Victory

THE SUBMISSIVES - I am bearing down on Democrats because they and their followers hold the keys to the success or failure of our country in the immediate future. Republic...
Tribune of the People

Future Spies: The NSA Finances Summer Camp for Portuguese-Speaking Youth - Editor’s note: The following is an unofficial translation of “Futuros espiões: NSA financia acampamento de férias para jovens que falam português” from rev...
Debunking Christianity

My Talk at the GCRR e-Conference on the Historical Jesus - The conference was fantastic! You should attend other virtual eConferences put on by the GCRR! You should also help support what it does by becoming a memb...
Duffel Blog

99% of you won't share this picture of the US Flag, study finds - One like equals one prayer.
The Progressive Wing

7.26-27 Open Thread - Figured I would do the honor of opening our Nest for today and tomorrow. 🙂 The People’s Party is dropping off a M4A petition, and holding a M4A Rally in A...
Progressives Chat

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dore! … An Important Choice - Monday, July 26, 2021 marks the 56th birthday of *Jimmy Dore*. 🎈 🎂 *Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dore!* 🎂 🎈 An Important Choice It is very interesting to...
See You In 2020

Mercenaries Terrorize Minneapolis As Colonialism Intensifies Repression & Counterinsurgency - [image: Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer] Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer In the c...
Infidel753

Self-genocide - Over the last few days, some right-wing leaders in the US have abruptly pivoted to a more pro-vaccine message. Moscow Mitch, Sean Hannity, and Alabama go...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

47 Different ways to say, “I’m friendly!” - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: It’s true, we’re an animal friendly village. We tend to get along reasonably well with the neighbor dogs running loose, wi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Push for Lesson-Burning in Texas Classrooms Comes as No Shock to Those in the Long Fight for Mexican American Studies - *This post is a really good followup to my earlier post today titled, "Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature. The...
Stinque

In the Long Run, We’re All Dead - In the thirty years we’ve been familiar with global warming — never mind the more than sixty years since it was first brought to public attention — a com...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Edward Weston tribute capsicum - Bought at the market in Pézenas, France. I could hardly not take a photo of it, could I?
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Zombie Republic - California… prophet on the burnin’ shore… where Gavin Newsom is whipping the kids back to school so he can whip their parents back to work, where new cases...
TalkLeft

Dangerous Delta Roars: Booster Shots, Masks, Lockdown Protests - Could there be any more dangerous time than now, when Delta makes up 83% of all new cases and we're being told not to worry if you get Delta after being va...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Government Can't Keep Their Lies Straight, & JFK Was Shot From Grassy Knoll! - There's little or no doubt that the governments explanation for the assassination of JFK isn't close to the truth, assuming you read the facts behind it...
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of - The mainstream media’s myopic focus on Israel’s Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated, even w...
NORML

Upcoming Congressional House Vote on Marijuana Policy - As soon as next week, there will be a crucial vote in the US House of Representatives on an amendment to protect legal marijuana states from federal inte...
News Junkie

France Neoliberal Macron: Vanguard of a Covid Global Corporate Dictatorship? - Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite: under Macron’s pass sanitaire’s guillotine? For the few of us who are students of history, and its aficionado travelers, meanin...
Trivial Knot

Why have choices that matter? - Last month I played and discussed Tell Me Why, but today I want to discuss the genre that Tell Me Why is part of. The Steam storefront calls it “choices ma...
Eclectablog

The massive legislation you’ve not heard about – with special guest Rebecca Vallas - Rebecca Vallas on Twitter: @RebeccaVallas Tell your members of Congress: "We can't afford to leave SSI for disabled & older Americans behind in #BuildBackB...
Bud Kennedy

From a Jack to a King: Payouts, hint of cronyism forced change on Tarrant water board - Now you see why we needed new leaders at the Tarrant Regional Water District. Panther Island had become Crony Corner. The leaders known for their grand pla...
Innocence Project

Remembering Dick Lewontin, Brilliant Biologist, Mathematician, Geneticist, and Mentor - Richard (Dick) Lewontin died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2021, at the age of 92. He was a biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and, for ...
Equality Texas

Special Session Lege Week 3 Wrap-up: Hope is on the horizon - We are halfway through the July Special Session, and preparing for all possibilities to come. As a reminder, last week two anti-transgender sports bans —...
LareDOS

BORDER WALL IN LAREDO IS DEAD: Epic David vs. Goliath battle. The people of Laredo won. - Coalition stopped a “done deal;” there is no “disaster” in Laredo.
Freethought Now

Vaccine disinformation, godly Little League, an intellectual treat & a great life philosophy - During these dog days of summer, we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have spent a lot of time addressing urgent national and international issues.
Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Apologizes for Putting Judge Under Surveillance - Well, he's a lawyer for now, anyway. Related Stories - Lawyer Who Said Disbarment Would Be “an Honor” Has Finally Been Honored - Lawyer Whos...
nonsite.org

Why Black Lives Matter Can’t be Co-opted - We absolutely do not need to figure out how to make anti-racism anti-capitalist. We need to figure out how to start trying to build a mass movement around ...
Louis Proyect

The Milk System - COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 23, 2021 Thanks to my good friend Manuel Garcia Jr., I got a head’s up about a documentary titled “The Milk System” that arrived with ze...
Border/Lines

Texas now arresting migrants found near the border for “trespassing”—07-23-21 - Immigration news, in context
Edinburg Politics

Telemedicine bill to improve access to health care – authored by Rep. Guillén, coauthored by Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra, and Rep. Martínez, cosponsored by Sen. Hinojosa and supported by DHR Health – signed into law by Gov. Abbott - ouse Bill 4, authored by Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo – whose leadership team on the legislation included Rio Grande Valley state lawmakers – will improve a...
Living Blue in Texas

The Insidious Ideology of White Supremacy - Recently, Denton Bible Church held a conference to decry “wokeness” ideology. They described “wokeness ideology” as rooted in social justice. The post T...
Land Destroyer

US Fingerprints on Terrorism Aimed At China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - July 23, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – In April of this year and then again in July, two attacks in Pakistan, west of the Indus River, appear to have tar...
The Rag Blog

Joshua Brown : POLITICAL CARTOON | Trump Library -
Black Agenda Report

DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969 - DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969 Authors Editors, The Black Agenda Review glen Fri, 07/23/2021 - 03:32 Rodney suc...
Due Dissidence

Michael Brooks Was the Leader the Left Needed. Without Him, We’re a Mess. - by Keaton Weiss July 20 marked the one year anniversary of the passing of Michael Brooks, co-host and producer of The Majority Report and host of The Micha...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Redistricting in America, Part One: Gerrymandering Potency Raises the Stakes for the 2020s - Dear Readers: This is the first of a multi-part Crystal Ball series that we’ll be publishing periodically between now and Labor Day analyzing congressional...
Downwinders at Risk

One of Dallas’ Biggest Polluters Appears to Be Breaking the Law in West Dallas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : 8 am Wednesday July 21 Contact: Raul Reyes Jr.: President, West Dallas 1 – 469-880-3811 Evelyn Mayo, Neighborhood Self-Defense Proj...
Environment Texas

What’s it like to install a heat pump? - Johanna Neumann Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy (413) 256-6434 Contact person by email - Read more about Johanna Neumann Wednesd...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Crisis In Ethiopia: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the War In Tigray - Ethiopia has been in the headlines in recent months as the TPLF, a Tigrayan rebel group that ruled the country for three decades, violently seized the nort...
Earthworks

Norway Risks Tarnishing its Clean Rep - Norway is seen as a leader on the environment, especially ocean sustainability. But the country’s ocean dumping problem is undermining efforts to stop th...
Dissent Magazine

Arguments on the Left: Elections and Coalitions - Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
Ecosophia

The Wars of the Roses - At this point in our survey of the magical history of America, we’ve reached the period that can fairly be called the golden age of American occultism. It...
Nina Illingworth

Mental Health Isn’t Profitable by Chris Walker - It's one thing to know for profit healthcare doesn't work; it's another to live the experience. Walker is back with a new piece: Mental Health Isn't Prof...
The Mind Unleashed

Jeff Bezos Thanks Amazon Workers And Customers For Paying For His Flight To Space - “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for this,” the billionaire joked after returning from his flight.
Field Negro

Movie Tuesday. - I need a name for this movie. And what's up with Marjorie Taylor Greene's feet? Bad Field Negro being petty again. :(
Bayou Brief

Joe Badon’s Cinema of the Weird - On the Northshore of New Orleans, where things can get fairly unremarkable from time to time, lives a filmmaker and artist whose work I’ve found to be conf...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Propaganda War (And How to Fight It) - Every totalitarian system in history has used the power of visual propaganda to generate a new “reality,” one that reifies its official ideology, remaking ...
Antiwar.com

The War Lobby Believes Washington Should Represent Everyone Except Americans - David Brooks, a onetime conservative editor at Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, long ago joined the Pretorian Guard for American progressive internati...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: A Covid Kiss That Is Harder to Read - Two people kiss through plastic bags marking love in the time of Covid. We discuss how the image parallels earlier pandemic hugs and kisses. The post Cha...
The Militant

Freedom Rides built fight to topple Jim Crow segregation - This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, one of the high points of the Black-led proletarian civil rights struggle that overturned Jim Cr...
CT's short stories and novelettes

XI-321 - INVADERS FROM THE SHADOW PLANETS OF TWARR 1 “Negats, kid. Zephyr doesn’t do that. We might make a little jaunt across the Milky Way to delive...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremistas en la frontera: cómo la extrema derecha explota la crisis migratoria, apunta a las organizaciones humanitarias y esparce los temores nativistas - A medida que la crisis migratoria continúa creciendo en la frontera del sur, los grupos humanitarios enfrentan un acoso continuo de la extrema derecha que ...
DBC Green

If There's No Democrat Nominee for Governor...? - This entry is adapted (unrolled, if you will, and edited slightly) from a thread that I tweeted out yesterday. The tweets might not appear in their correct...
Texas Freedom Network

The 2021 Legislature and Winning the Future - A special session of the Texas Legislature got underway on July 8. Why Gov. Abbott felt the need to call for a special session has a lot to do with what ...
Media Myth Alert

Insidious: Off-hand references signal deep embedding of prominent media myths - The insidious nature of prominent media myths is evident in how casually they are invoked, as if their veracity is beyond question. These blithe, passing r...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Down on the Bayou in Summertime - Documenting the Changes on that Bend in the River July 5, 2021 The silver threads suspended across our path glistened in the early morning sun. We apologiz...
Chicken Fried Politics

Second time’s a charm? Charles Booker makes new run for Kentucky U.S. Senate seat - Former Democratic legislator from Louisville will face uphill climb to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Rand in 2022 ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.c...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
The Socialist

The First Chinese Sheriff in San Francisco - David Wong immigrated to San Francisco in 1976 with his family from Hong Kong. While David attended grade school, his parents struggled to make ends meet. ...
Free & Equal

Free and Equal Elections Foundation Announces Indigenous Speakers for United We Stand Festival Cambria - The post Free and Equal Elections Foundation Announces Indigenous Speakers for United We Stand Festival Cambria appeared first on Free & Equal.
Seeing the Forest

Fascists Eat Donuts - In 2003 I asked if anyone knew a certain song… I did get an answer but never posted it. So here it is: Pop O Pies – Facists eat donuts
BEYONDbones

Saturn Rises | July 2021 Sky Happenings - Mars is still low in the west—visible right as night falls. Venus remains in the evening sky this month. It overtakes Mars on July 12; the two planets a...
Green Pages News

“Dismantling Oppression, Building Solidarity” Is The Theme For The 2021 Annual National Meeting - By Garret Wassermann / Green Party of Pennsylvania (photo from ANM website: https://www.gp.org/anm) Members of the Green Party will once again assemble at ...
Malady

Trotsky's 'Stalinism and Bolshevism': A Brief Analysis - *"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws." – Leon Trotsky* Even 80 years after Leon Trotsky’s unfortunate demise, he still represents ...
Media Lens

A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying - As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning e...
ExChristian.Net

Ten Thought Patterns that Trip Up Former Bible Believers - *By Valerie Tarico ~* Perhaps it’s been years or even decades since you left biblical Christianity behind. You may have noticed long ago that there are h...
One People's Project

NIKO HOUSE - NAME: Niko House HOME BASE: Miami, FL DOB: 12/27/1988 Our subject here in this profile once said something very important: “When you start seeing patterns,...
Moron Majority

Giuliani Prepares For New Role As MyPillow Pitchman - Now that his New York law license has been suspended, and facing likely disbarment, Rudy Giuliani can rest easy at night … the “My Pillow Guy,” Mike Lindel...
Reveal

Planning to buy tickets to a live event? Read this first. - [image: An illustration shows a pair of paper event tickets sitting inside a claw-style trap.] As the live events industry reopens, a perfect storm for de...
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Points of Unity - 1) Police and the State Police forces uphold white supremacy and class hierarchy accross the globe. From their historical beginnings as slave patrols and u...
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
The Disorder Of Things

GCRF’d - Twenty-four hours before universities closed for the Easter break, the heads of twelve international research projects received a letter from the funding s...
GreenSource DFW

Dirt Doctor, Healthy Hippie dish on Green Source Zoomcast - *Watch our second episode of Green Source On the Air featuring organic gardening pioneer Howard Garrett. Photo courtesy of Howard Garrett.* May 24, 2021 ...
Web of Debt

How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism - The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and wha...
Texas Moratorium Network

Law of Parties Bill Sent to Senate Jurisprudence Committee - The Law of Parties death penalty reform bill HB 1340 by Rep Jeff Leach, Rep Harold Dutton and 8 other co-authors and that passed the House on an overwhel...
New Progressive Alliance

Enter the Debt Jubilee - This is not a troubling long term trend that will not end well. Jeff Roby is a Florida activist who also publishes in the The Green Party of Florida.
Texas Watch

Texas Needs Safe Roads, Not Dangerous Trucking Legislation - *By: Ware Wendell* We have a *safety crisis* on Texas roads. Texas has *led the nation* in the number of large truck crashes for years. Commercial truck...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 -
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...
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-...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
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...

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