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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

What is America's COVID endgame? - With cases in retreat and vaccines for children imminent, when can we breathe?
The Verge

Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs - Illustration by Alex Castro Amazon is next on the list of companies getting into the live audio game. The company is building a new app, codenamed “Proje...
Vox

Is ignoring the pandemic a crime against humanity? - Protesters wearing masks depicting President Jair Bolsonaro protest the government’s Covid-19 response in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 20. | Andressa Anho...
Al Jazeera English

Sudan’s PM Hamdok at my home, says military leader al-Burhan - Military leader says Hamdok was safe and kept away "for his own safety".
Alternet

Don Jr. Suggests Trump’s new social media site was created to help Republicans win elections - Donald Trump, Jr. is appearing to suggest his father's new social media platform, Truth Social, was created to help Republicans win elections. Appearing ...
Talking Points Memo

Youngkin Ad Features Mom Whose Son Was Terrorized By Toni Morrison Novel - A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. Mom I’m Scared Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin...
memeorandum

'Woke Racism'--A Review (Jared Marcel Pollen/Quillette) - Jared Marcel Pollen / Quillette: *‘Woke Racism’—A Review* — A review of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter. ...
Raw Story

‘They’re laughing at you’: Dem lawmaker says Republicans are using Trump like a ‘cheap mistress’ - Congressional Democrats are trying to drive a wedge between Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) appeared on MSNBC's "...
VICE

The Patronas: The Secret History of Latin America’s Female Cartel Bosses - VICE World News presents the untold stories of the women narcos who became some of Latin America’s most feared—and respected—crime bosses.
Mediaite

Joe Scarborough Slams ‘Hyper-Individualism Fetish’ Among the Unvaccinated: ‘Would Not Have Won’ World War II - Joe Scarborough condemned the "hyper individualism" of anti-vaxx people by saying that they cannot consider contributing to the country's general welfare...
Axios

Facebook's scandals have been great for shareholders - Data: YCharts; Chart: Axios Facebook has been embroiled in scandal for the past five years, and while the specific allegations change over time, a central ...
The Hill

Alabama governor orders state agencies to fight federal vaccine mandates - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed an executive order on Monday directing state agencies to not comply with federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates.Ivey i...
The AltWorld

Why Not Question “the Holocaust” in Schools? - The standard narrative does not stand up to serious historical scrutiny There has been major pushback against […] The post Why Not Question “the Holocaus...
Election Law Blog

“Wisconsin Senate Republicans want further review of just-completed election audit” - From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Republicans in the state Senate announced Monday they were launching a review of a recently completed audit of the 2020 el...
Political Wire

White House Goes All-In on Virginia - Playbook: “Unlike past White Houses, Biden isn’t trying to play down how much Virginia’s gubernatorial race matters for his political standing and agenda. ...
CultureMap Houston

Astros stars Alex Bregman + Lance McCullers Jr. debut new hard seltzer - Houstonians ready to raise a glass to the Houston Astros and the team's return to the World Series now have a new, grand-slam local option -- one created ...
naked capitalism

Links 10/26/2021 -
Grist

Hertz just made the biggest electric vehicle purchase ever - Tesla will deliver 100,000 EVs to the rental car company by the end of 2022.
The Smirking Chimp

The Path to a Livable Future -
Skeptophilia

The burning fields - It will come as no surprise to regular readers of *Skeptophilia* that I have a peculiar fascination for things that are huge and powerful and can kill yo...
The Daily Poster

Wall Street Goes West - Private equity is mounting a multi-billion-dollar incursion into California’s pension system.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Is Biden’s entire agenda about to shrink into nothingness? | Robert Reich - Every senate Republican and at least two senate Democrats continue to assert that Biden’s agenda is too costly. That’s nonsense This week, Democrats eith...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Americans Don’t Trust Their Congressional Maps To Be Drawn Fairly. Can Anything Change That? - The United States is in the middle of a once-in-a-decade process: redistricting. And although it’s early yet — 19 states aren’t expected to finalize their ...
Off The Kuff

October 2021 campaign finance reports: Congress - […]
Mother Jones

Joe Manchin’s Blatant Conflict of Interest Might Have a Silver Lining - Sen. Joe Manchin’s role in overhauling the spending bill has sparked national interest in reining in congressional conflicts of interest. The question is w...
Houston Public Media

What another World Series run means for Houston (Oct. 26, 2021) - On Tuesday's show: The impact of higher oil prices, previewing another Houston World Series, and a conversation with Harris County's Elections Administrator.
Salon.com

Madison Cawthorn wants American women to raise more "monsters." They already are - GOP wonder boy tells on himself: Cawthorn calls on (white) women to do their duty by raising little fascists
San Antonio Report

Did the Legislature require teaching ‘both sides’ of the Holocaust? Sort of, but they were just kidding. - [image: Following the passing of the 1836 Project in the Texas Legislature Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (pictured here) and Gov. Abbott appointed mainly...
Reveal

Armed and Abusive - Intimate partner homicides are skyrocketing, yet police, prosecutors and judges often trust offenders to disarm themselves. Armed and Abusive is a story...
Slate

Help! I’ve Already Lost 30 Pounds, but My Husband Won’t Stop Telling Me to Lose More. - I've asked him multiple times to lay off.
Eschaton

Tuesday Morning - Almost Wednesday!
Angry Bear

Open thread Oct. 26, 2021 - The post Open thread Oct. 26, 2021 appeared first on Angry Bear.
American Prospect

Introducing the ‘Deus Tax Machina’ - Sen. Ron Wyden’s bid to rescue the Build Back Better Act’s revenue side is an audacious attempt to rein in billionaires and mega-corporations.
Counterpunch

Colin Powell: Willful Victim of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Deceit - For nearly two decades, former secretary of state Colin Powell lived with the deceitful role he played in helping the Bush administration make its dishon...
Countercurrents

Team India - Madhushree is a comics-maker
NPR's Health Shots

Pandemic got your down? Snap back with an improv class - After 18 months of pandemic-imposed isolation, people are venturing out again. They are trying to find their place in this new world, and some hope an impr...
Earth 911

Buying a Disaster-Resilient Home - When you’re buying a house it’s hard to ignore highly visible elements like paint and... The post Buying a Disaster-Resilient Home appeared first on Eart...
ProPublica

Scammers Are Using Fake Job Ads to Steal People’s Identities - by Cezary Podkul ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publ...
High Country News

Alaska Native villages band together to keep the Yukon River’s wild salmon afloat - ‘As a unified voice, we are unstoppable — and we can manage the river better.’
Mediagazer

A look at IMDb TV, as Amazon hopes attracting Judge Judy and other stars, alongside a possible name change, will boost the free, ad-supported service (Brooks Barnes/New York Times) - Brooks Barnes / New York Times: *A look at IMDb TV, as Amazon hopes attracting Judge Judy and other stars, alongside a possible name change, will boost t...
Crooked Media

The NBA Is Back! + Josiah Johnson & Shea Serrano - The post The NBA Is Back! + Josiah Johnson & Shea Serrano appeared first on Crooked Media.
Wolf Street

Tesla’s Market Cap (Gigantic) v. Next 10 Automakers v. Tesla’s Global Market Share (Minuscule) - It’s a ridiculous comparison, but hey, the CEO walks on water.
The NM Political Report

Poaching takes away from New Mexico residents, harms genetics - [image: Poaching takes away from New Mexico residents, harms genetics] When a moose wandered into New Mexico in September, someone shot it near Bloomfield ...
Courthouse News

Firearms violations - LOS ANGELES — Benjamin Jong Ren Hung, who accelerated his truck into a Black Lives Matter protest in Pasadena, California, last year, was sentenced to one ...
Dissident Voice

Significant Changes of Direction by the West in Relation to China - Two recent articles have recently appeared in the Russian journal Strategic Culture that point to significant changes that are occurring among western na...
Informed Comment

Israeli, UN, European Human Rights Experts Condemn Israel for Branding Palestinian Rights Groups “Terrorists” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli, European and United Nations human rights experts condemned last Friday’s decision by Israeli Foreign Min...
jobsanger

Republicans Only Care About The Rich And Corporations -
The Grayzone

‘Cloak and dagger’ military-intelligence outfit at center of US digital vaccine passport push - Described as “the most important organization you’ve never heard of,” MITRE rakes in massive security state contracts to pioneer invasive spy tech. Now i...
World Socialist Web Site

Enthusiastic response from workers in the UK, US and Canada to WSWS webinar on the pandemic - The WSWS spoke with workers who participated in and viewed our webinar this Sunday, “How to end the pandemic,” all of whom stated that it had a powerful im...
Daily Dot

‘I really feel unsafe’: Viral TikTok shows off-duty security guard attempting to detain man in private dog park - [image: dog in park (l) man pointing (c) man with camera (r) all with caption "So I Take Ziggy to the dog park closest to my house today and this happens...
Morning Consult

Ahead of the Holidays, Boomer Financial Well-Being Stands Out - The post Ahead of the Holidays, Boomer Financial Well-Being Stands Out appeared first on Morning Consult.
Antiwar.com

Antagonizing Russia: A Biden Administration Specialty - Joe Biden’s administration seems determined to surpass its predecessors in taking actions that are certain to antagonize Russia. In just the past two wee...
Daily Cartoonist

What’s a Sports Cartoonist To Do - … It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship: Sunday marked their 40th wedding anniversary. They celebrated with dinner at a restaurant attached to t...
Techdirt.

Google's Stadia Pivots To Being Some White Label Game Streaming Platform For Others To Use - The saga of Google's Stadia product has been long, winding, and mostly disappointing. The initial launch of Google's platform, billed as a Netflix-style ...
Popular Resistance

The US Will Break Any Laws To Protect The Elites: The Saab And Assange Cases - The United States government demonstrates repeatedly that it will do whatever it takes to protect the economic and political interests of the elites, eve...
Duck of Minerva

The Preliminary Style Guide is Available - You can read it here or via the menu. …Someday we’ll be a real weblog.
Portside

The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk - The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk jay Mon, 10/25/2021 - 22:00
TXElects

Just 6% of Districts are Competitive in Our Initial Rate Ratings - Texas is a whole lot less competitive state than a year ago. After the Legislature drew new maps for itself and the Congress, only 13 districts (6%) are ...
Brad Blog

'They Took on the Wrong Guy': CA Mayor Who Sued Big Oil Pushes Back After Exxon Attacks: 'BradCast' 10/25/2021 - ExxonMobil picked the wrong guy to try and intimidate. That much was clear as day during our interview with him on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full sh...
OpEd News

Corruption Adjacent or Fully Immersed? - The indictment of Mark Ridley-Thomas is just the latest scandal to plague the LA City Council and supporters of the charter-school industry. ------.
Workers World

Compassionate release for Maroon - [image: Compassionate release for Maroon] Oct. 25 — Pennsylvania political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz’s petition for compassionate release was finally ...
Texas Environmental News

Overnight Energy & Environment — Presented by American Clean Power — Methane fee faces negotiations - Welcome to Monday’s Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. [...] The post Overnig...
Caitlin Johnstone

Capitalism Is Violence: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I always get people telling me, “Capitalism just means free trade.” No it doesn’t, that’s just some stupid nonsense ...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges and John Pilger on the ‘Show Trial’ of Julian Assange - Investigative journalism is also on trial with WikiLeaks' founder.
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: Four Visions: Carrington, Limas, Salcido, West at Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits and artist-run ...
The Root

Black Panther Party Celebrates Its 55th Anniversary With Unveiling of Huey Newton Bust - For the last five decades, the Black Panther Party has been synonymous with Black freedom and resistance—a legacy that endured even after co-founder Dr. ...
Greg Palast

Hate goes on trial in CharlottesvilleJury selection begins in civil suit against instigators of far-right violence, which resulted in serious injury and a death - Jury selection began today for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of H...
Texas Monthly

Yet Another Buc-ee’s Trademark Lawsuit Is Upon Us - A Sugar Land store called Buky’s might be the most egregious case to catch the attention of the litigious beaver, but it’s hardly the first. The post Ye...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Dave Chappelle tries to work defiance but comes across as tone deaf and clueless - Dave Chappelle comes across as a bigger idiot in his phony defiant statement about his recent controversial special, *Guess who wants to be back in the n...
Bracing Views

Are All Wars Local? - W.J. Astore Tip O’Neill, Speaker of the House when Ronald Reagan was president in the 1980s, liked the saying, “All politics is local.” Carl von Clausewitz...
Common Dreams

Corporate Dems of US Senate Blamed as GOP Texas Governor Approves 'Rigged' Voting Maps - "We must protect our democracy with federal legislation immediately and defeat these cynical politicians at the ballot box."
Deadline Politics

NYC Firefighters And Police Officers Join Thousands In Brooklyn Bridge March Against City Vaccine Mandate - Thousands of protesters, including firefighters and police officers, tied up traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge this afternoon with a march against New York Ci...
Reform Austin

S.O.S. - The post S.O.S. appeared first on Reform Austin.
Latino Rebels

Sen. Luján: Democrats Need to Invest More in Latino Vote - In July, Latino Rebels began asking members of Congress to explain the rightward shift in Latino voters during last year’s presidential election. Sen. Ben ...
San Antonio Current

Delta-8 in Texas remains classified as 'illegal' after judge denies request from hemp firm - A state district judge in Austin has denied a CBD retailer's request to block Texas health officials from listing the popular cannabis extract Delta-8 as ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: The Liberty Way - Hunter Walker @ Rolling Stone: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House ...
Equality Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EQUALITY TEXAS RELEASES STATEMENT ON GOV. ABBOTT SIGNING OF ANTI-TRANSGENDER HB 25 - Contact: Debi Jackson | debi.jackson@equalitytexas.org, Angela Hale | angela.hale@equalitytexas.org October 25, 2021 – AUSTIN, TEXAS – Equality Tex...
The Intercept

Josh Gottheimer’s Obstructionist Crew Raised Millions During Showdown With Nancy Pelosi - Wealthy donors rushed funds to conservative Democrats after they threatened to torpedo the Build Back Better plan. The post Josh Gottheimer’s Obstruction...
El Paso Matters

Abbott signs bill restricting trans kids’ participation in school sports - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quietly signed legislation on Monday that bans transgender children from participating in school sports on teams that align with t...
Futurism

iPhones Can Apparently Now Be Hacked Just By Texting Them - Zero-Click Exploit In a chilling cautionary tale, a New York Times journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text messag...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Let the micro-lenders fail - It was almost inevitable that microfinance would be proposed as a solution to COVID-19 related financial problems of the poor. But COVID-19 has plunged t...
Strategic Culture Foundation

NATO Working on Ways to Weaponize Our Brains - NATO is developing new forms of warfare to wage a “battle for the brain,” The Grayzone reported on October 8.
Second Nexus

QAnon Leader Calls Himself 'the New Rosa Parks' in Cringey Speech on 'Digital Civil Rights Movement' - Far-right conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins was the administrator of 8chan, also known as 8kun—the visual message board boasting its complete lack of moder...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Hope Comes to Floral Farms: Visions of a Park Where Shingle Mountain Once Stood - Marsha Jackson was happy to see her neighborhood last week. About 50 people sat on folding chairs in a building on her neighbor’s property to see their v...
Discourse

‘Succession’ Sick Fuck of the Week: ‘Mass In Time of War’ - So many candidates, but only one can win! The post ‘Succession’ Sick Fuck of the Week: ‘Mass In Time of War’ appeared first on Discourse Blog.
Democracy Chronicles

Is populism really a problem for democracy? - A key expert argues that a "very cutthroat and competitive version of neoliberalism" is to blame for much of today's populist backlash.
Krebs on Security

Conti Ransom Gang Starts Selling Access to Victims - The Conti ransomware affiliate program appears to have altered its business plan recently. Organizations infected with Conti's malware who refuse to negoti...
The Progressive Wing

Wall St ERs & OT 10/25-26 - Welcome to the Emergency Room. A Wall Street Honcho Will Decide Your Treatment The emergency room. You go there for help when you’re really in trouble or h...
Progressive.org

The Case for Regulating Facebook - It was always unrealistic to expect the social media behemoth to police itself or place progress over profit.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Cambodia: After 30 Years, a Promise of Democracy Still Broken - War may have ended under the 1991 peace agreement, but Hun Sen has abandoned commitments to a pluralistic Cambodia.
Dandelion Salad

How To End The Pandemic - Dandelion Salad World Socialist Web Site on Oct 24, 2021 The World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (I...
Capital & Main

Amplify Energy Cashed Out Cleanup Fund While Racking Up Violations - *The company's owners have a history of maximizing profit at the public's expense.* The post Amplify Energy Cashed Out Cleanup Fund While Racking Up Viol...
MintPress News

Cruel Britannia: Britain’s Real Role in the World, with Mark Curtis - Britons themselves remember their empire extremely fondly, far more positively than those in countries subjugated by the crown. The post Cruel Britannia:...
Project Censored

Jeff Mackler and Kevin Gosztola Discuss Julian Assange - With British courts nearing a possible decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., Jeff Mackler speaks to Mickey about the campaign to f...
Mondoweiss

Small business owners in Gaza grapple with debts and losses following Israeli attacks - Small business owners in Gaza grapple with mounting debts and no means of income, after their enterprises were destroyed in the escalation with Israel last...
The Contributor

A Second Amendment Sequel Premieres Next Week in U.S. Supreme Court - News Image: On November 3, justices will take up their first substantive Second Amendment case in 11 years. Category: Guns in America origin Blog: Const...
First Draft

Squid Game Ain’t Playin’ Around - You may have heard people talk in passing about the South Korean Netflix show “Squid Game.” The first thing you need to know about it is this: The show is ...
The Texas Signal

Paxton pledges to sue on behalf of any state agency refusing COVID-19 vaccine mandates - After the Biden administration announced COVID-19 vaccine mandates for large businesses and federal contractors, Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to take ...
DeSmogBlog

Ahead of COP26, Top Biden Appointees Pushing Natural Gas Are Undermining His Climate Credibility - In roughly two weeks, leaders from around the world will converge on Glasgow for COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change summit and U.S. President ...
Claytoonz

Less Learn-Learn for more Boom-Boom - Fun fact you may take some enjoyment in: Today’s cartoon was drawn one block from K Street. In case you don’t know, K Street is home to most of the nation’...
Rewire

Boom! Lawyered: The Supreme Court Could Annihilate ‘Roe v. Wade’ Next Week - The Supreme Court has ensured it's going to be one hell of a term for abortion rights. The post Boom! Lawyered: The Supreme Court Could Annihilate ‘Roe ...
Daily Howler

MONDAY MORNING: Do individuals belong to a race? - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2021* *The Times toys with the question:* Do individual people belong to a "race?" Individuals will be *treated* as if they belong...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme speed: The court puts abortion on the rocket docket - [image: Supreme speed: The court puts abortion on the rocket docket]Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortio...
Lawfare

Belarus’s Lawfare Against Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - Soldiers patrol along the wire fence on the Belarus border with Poland. (Egor Eryomov, https://tinyurl.com/y9ej2c4w; CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommon...
Buzzflash

Far-Right Congressman Gosar (R-AZ) Tricked Jan. 6 Planners With "Blanket Pardon" Promise, Says Report - The Daily Beast
Novara Media

The Government’s Net Zero Strategy Is Beyond Disappointing - [image: Boris Johnson climate change panel children kids]The British government’s long-awaited Net Zero Strategy has finally been published alongside a raf...
Political Garbage Chute

DeSantis Offers $5,000 to Any Cop With COVID That Makes Out With Him - TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDUH — The Governor of Florida is bound and determined to get police officers unvaccinated against COVID-19 to consider moving to his st...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Someone In Colorado Is Putting The Funniest Signs, And The Puns Are Priceless TMC for ek hornbeck
ROAR Magazine

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Education of an Educator - A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.
Environment Texas

Legislature funds program to get underserved communities outdoors - Seth Billingsley Conservation Associate, Environment Texas Contact person by email - Read more about Seth Billingsley Monday, October 25, 2021 $40 ...
Undernews

DeSantis wants to pay unvaccinated Chicago police to go and work in Florida -
Ring of Fire

Surgical Mesh Products Found To Be Defective & Study Finds PFAS Toxins In Top Makeup Brands - Via America’s Lawyer: Attorney Robert Price joins Mike Papantonio to explain how doctors are being swindled by producers of surgical supplies, specifical...
Dissent Magazine

Is This a Strike Wave? - We sorely need one, but that first requires the unionization of millions of new workers.
Edinburg Politics

Texas Press Association names Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, as a Champion of Transparency, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - The Texas Press Association has named Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, as a Champion of Transparency for her leadership in promoting open gove...
Texas Observer

Texas Is Watering Down Federal Infrastructure Funds - A ticking time bomb lies at the bottom of the Llano River, near a small town called Junction. In 2018, major flooding across the watershed overwhelmed th...
Bonddad

Q3 GDP will show economic contraction? 150+ years of short term interest rate history says no - - *by New Deal democrat* No economic news today, but let me show you one important reason I am not concerned about the supply chain or inflation issu...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Famed Congo Gorilla Dies in Her Caretaker’s Arms - We discuss the surprising power and depth of this viral image as Ndakasi, the famed Congo mountain gorilla, takes her last breath. The post Chatting the ...
Due Dissidence

Joey Holz Interview: Meet the Man Whose ‘Labor Shortage’ Experiment Went Viral - Joey Holz went viral shortly after posting the following to his Facebook page on September 29: At this writing, the post has been shared 18,000 times, and ...
The Conversation

Girls learn early that they don't have much of a place in politics - As young children learn about politics and political figures, they internalize the idea that politics is a man’s world, which ultimately means political re...
Democracy Now!

Free Julian Assange: Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing - As jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces an extradition hearing Wednesday in London, supporters gathered Friday for the Belmarsh Tribunal, named fo...
Duffel Blog

Hundreds dead after Air Force dining facility runs out of truffles, wagyu beef - Please God, let there still be Pâté.
Dispatches from the Underclass

US Kidnapping of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab: Illegal & Dangerous Act of Piracy - Venezuela’s special diplomatic envoy, Alex Saab, was extradited to the U.S. on Oct. 16 after 491 days of detention and imprisonment in Cape Verde. His alle...
Texas Standard

Many object to restrictive laws, but few businesses are likely to abandon Texas because of its politics - “Obviously, everyone who moves to Texas might not align with Gov. Abbott’s recent legislation, but they kind of do see [it] as a lot of political noise.”
Space City Weather

Quite warm before a cold front Wednesday blows the humidity away - Houston will face some fog this morning as surface temperatures and dewpoints are essentially the same, in the low- to mid-70s. This sticky weather will ab...
Infidel753

The spooky season - The big day is less than a week away now..... .....party time! On every street..... .....especially if there's a good light show. If you've still got war...
Ian Welsh

Periods of Popular Political Change Happen When… - [image: Story 496667405] …people recognize that their problems aren’t personal, but social. Oh this isn’t the only requirement for change, but it is a req...
Progressives Chat

‘No!’ - The next two weeks, November 1 and 8, 2021, will address electoral matters. The first week will be timed with the 2021 gubernatorial elections in New Je...
Alas, a Blog

Link Farm and Open Thread, Pumpkin Seasoned Edition - Breaking Rocks, then Breaking Out: On “Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt” “When we remove violence as a legitimate response to oppress...
Rallblog

Cherchez Joe Manchin - Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is one of two right-wing Democrats who hold liberal priorities hostage. The Democratic Party likes to blame him for ...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

The US Presidency – The Oath of Hypocrisy: Part 1 - Jack wrote this in September, 2005: Some of you blog-readers have expressed a severe disinterest in history. For me, that serves as a red flag. If American...
Liberation News

Northeast Ohio immigrant rights action demands ‘papers for all’ - [image: Demonstrators call for immigrant rights as part of the Papeles Para Todos! campaign in Ohio City, Ohio. Liberation photo]The rallying cry of the ¡P...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Havana Syndrome - Well, at long last revealed: the source of that noise that’s driving the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Havana — and the U.S. State Department — outta their ...
Ballot Access News

SAM Party Organizes in Connecticut - The Day, a large daily newspaper in eastern Connecticut, has this story about the SAM Party’s organizing activity in Connecticut. … Continue reading →
Pages of Victory

Theory of Stupidity -
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance is glad for a little fall in the air as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff was on top of the Greg Abbott max an...
Socialist Alternative

Seattle’s Progressive Democrats Attempt to Silence Workers Fighting for Fully-Paid Parking at Construction Sites - Colin Moen, electrician apprentice and rank-and-file member of IBEW Local 46 Coming on the heels of the courageous strike by Western Washington Carpenters ...
See You In 2020

China and Cuba’s market reforms aren’t “revisionist” - In his work Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx took his objection to the analysis of some other communists as an opportunity to put forth an anal...
Stinque

The Gravity of the Situation - The story coming out of the New Mexico filming location didn’t make sense to us until we read about the assistant director. The AD, if you’re not familia...
Debunking Christianity

The Atlantic: "The Evangelical Church is Breaking Up!" - If this continues they will lose their political influence in America! I welcome this even as I hate what Trump has done to our country. LINK. Thanks to Ro...
Land Destroyer

Land Destroyer is now "The New Atlas" - New Name, New Website - *October 24, 2021* (Brian Berletic - LD) - After many years of running "LandDestroyer" on Blogspot, I have finally created a new independent website: *Ne...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Symonds Yat - We took a day to drive up the Wye Valled, which is close to Bristol, inspired by the scenery in the (highly recommended) Netflix drama Sex Education. This ...
ArcaMax

Condoleezza Rice Wants to Move On - Condoleezza Rice wants to move on. She concedes that what happened on Jan. 6 was “wrong.” It was, she told the hosts of “The View” last week, an “assault o...
Church and State

How Trump’s 30 Percent Of Core Supporters Could Expand By 2024! - Pockets of poverty also determine poorer health and resentment which was a key basis for Trump support in 2016.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

HSIs Receive Little Funding Compared to HBCUs by Tiffany Cross on MSNBC - *Worth watching. **Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), **HSIs are sorely in need of greater funding. Tiffany Cross does a great job in covering this hi...
Idavox

Documents show FBI, Michigan State Univ. Police Spied on White-Nationalist Student Group - While the former student hate group may be a thing of the past, uncovered documents... The post Documents show FBI, Michigan State Univ. Police Spied on ...
The Militant

Build solidarity for John Deere, Kellogg strikers! John Deere workers fight against divisive two-tier - EAST MOLINE, Ill. — Members of the United Auto Workers at John Deere have joined the ranks of workers taking strike action to fight against boss attacks on...
Unlimited Hangout

The Delingpod - Episode page for The Delingpod.
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS and Prominence Health Plan host seminar educating seniors on risks, warning signs of cancer - With the majority of cancer diagnoses occurring in those 65 and older, seniors must be proactive to remain in good health More than 600,000 people in the...
Liberal America

Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Deliver for the American People - This week we witnessed another example of how much the republican party hates democracy. On Wednesday, Senate republicans blocked debate on S.2747, “The ...
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Alleges “Heart of the Himalayas” Is in India, Not Pakistan (It’s in Nepal) - Or, it's somewhere else, if there is any such thing. Related Stories - “Hint of Lime” Case: It's Not Crunch Berries, But It's Close - “Never...
Tribune of the People

Pittsburgh: Officer Keith Edmonds and His Brother Karl Misled Woman to Collect Bounty in 2015 - By David Martinez Keith Edmonds, the Pittsburgh police officer identified as the killer of Jim Rogers, has not only used his power as a law enforcement off...
Bayou Brief

A-Haunting We Will Go - Every region has legends of haunted locations; from the Winchester Mansion in San Jose, California, to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, to the Re...
slacktivist

Soap, soup, and salvation - • Good piece from Matthew Avery Sutton, “[White] Evangelicals are one step closer to the ultimate prize: ending abortion in America.” Sutton gives a good l...
Chicken Fried Politics

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is lone Southern Republican to support Steve Bannon contempt vote - South Carolina lawmaker was one of just nine Republicans to support criminal referral for former Donald Trump aide ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.c...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *If I’m honest, I think this is the greatest American song, and this is its best version. * *• *OK cowboys and cowgirls, I’m giving you not one but TWO...
NORML

New York: Officials Moving to Clear Over 400,000 Past Marijuana Convictions - State officials announced: “Approximately 203,000 marijuana related charges are presently being suppressed from background searches and in process to be ...
Seeing the Forest

Is There Anybody Alive Out There? -
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

WEDNESDAY: The Hidden JFK Files: What Secrets Remain, and Did Biden Comply with the Law? - The UVA Center for Politics will host a discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. eastern following the scheduled release of remaining John F. Kennedy ass...
Robert Reich

Don’t believe corporate America’s “labor... - *Don’t believe corporate America’s “labor shortage” bullshit. This is an unofficial general strike.* For the first time in years, American workers have en...
Living Blue in Texas

Interview With Tannya Benavides – Candidate For Texas Congressional District 28 - The post Interview With Tannya Benavides – Candidate For Texas Congressional District 28 appeared first on Living Blue In Texas.
CT's short stories and novelettes

Transferring my work to Vocal - But this blog will stay in operation. This one is totally free. Vocal is free also unless a reader offers a tip. The attraction for me is every time a s...
Border/Lines

No BORDER/LINES today - Dear readers, We won’t be publishing BORDER/LINES today, because one of our editors is sick. We’ll be back next Friday. Thank you for understanding! - Feli...
Bud Kennedy

Was this fuzzy giant the legendary ‘Lake Worth Monster?’ The truth is — well, blurry - More than 50 years after a furry, scaly creature emerged from a boggy lake, scared us all and then vanished forever into urban legend, the readers of one C...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Election officials scramble to find poll workers - A few weeks ago, election officials in Camden County, New Jersey were starting to worry. Already halfway through poll worker recruitment and training, th...
Media Lens

Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping The Public Away From Power - In their classic book on the news media, ‘Manufacturing Consent’, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky presented a ‘propaganda model’ of how the major broadcaste...
LareDOS

Bi-national proclamation sets Día del Río workday in motion at Las Palmas Nature Trail - 300 volunteers expected Saturday for Make A Difference Day
Sludge

The Secretive Group Steering the Dems - How did Democrats in the House of Representatives decide that the top House recipient of corporate PAC money should run the tax code-writing committee, or ...
Eater Houston

Taiwanese Boba Chain Alleges U.S. Franchise Operator Is Misleading Customers - [image: A plastic cup with a domed lid full of boba, milk and dark syrup, with a couple of boba pearls sitting next to it.] Xing Fu Tang’s Brown Sugar Bob...
Earthworks

Papua New Guinea Communities Say it’s Time to Ditch Ocean Dumping - Last October, Indigenous representatives from coastal communities along the Huon Gulf in Papua New Guinea held a three-day forum to reject proposed deep-...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

My Life Was Derailed By a Traffic Ticket - The morning started out like any other. I was on my way to work at a food safety lab, in a new car with tinted windows and a temporary plate displayed be...
In These Times

Wisconsin schools called police on students at twice the national rate — for Native students, it was the highest - School officials refer thousands of children to the police each year. In Wisconsin, children with disabilities or who are Black, Latino or Native bear the brunt of it. - *Editor’s Note: This story was **originally published** by Wisconsin Watch*. The 2017-18 school year was difficult at Lakeland Union High School. Discipl...
BEYONDbones

Not Any Old Jack-O-Lantern | Planting with Pumpkins - Are you looking for a different way to decorate with pumpkins this year? I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of cutting the same old triangle ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

ODDS & ENDS: MANCHIN, SUPPLY ISSUES, FACEBOOK'S ALTERNATE REALITY, UPDATE ON THE NEW BOOK - We’ve got too much to talk about today, so we’re doing a triple-stuffed Odds & Ends edition of Dispatches From A Collapsing State, talking about Joe Manchi...
epic.org

Senate Dials Back Plan to Force SSN Collection by Payment Services, As EPIC Urged - The Senate Finance Committee has significantly scaled back a proposal in the pending budget reconciliation bill to expand the mandatory reporting regime fo...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Leaked Emails Name Shadow Lawyer in Charlottesville Case - A Baltimore attorney provided shadow legal representation to an extremist named in a lawsuit that implicates the white supremacists who descended on Charlo...
TalkLeft

Joe Biden's Makes His Mark on the Judiciary - Some good news to report about Joe Biden. He has rapidly been filling the open slots for federal District and Appeals Court judges. So far, 8 of those appo...
Ecosophia

The End of the Dream - There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a...
Nina Illingworth

Evolving Together: Why You Should Read Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid by Chris Walker - Today we welcome back Chris Walker, whose book review encourages us to explore reading leftist theory as an evolution; with an assist from Petr Kropotkin...
Field Negro

A culture of "casual bigotry" comes back to bite "Chucky". - I guess you all heard about *John Gruden* by now. Or Chucky as he has been affectionately known as throughout the years. He was exposed as a fraud whe...
Shadowproof

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Imprisoned In Communications Management Unit Designed For Terrorists - Daniel Hale is the first person accused of an unauthorized disclosure of information to be imprisoned in a Communications Management Unit by the United S...
Washington Babylon

Colin Powell: Diversifying the Staff of Empire - [image: Colin Powell: Diversifying the Staff of Empire] The eulogies for former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, who died October 18, 2021 at 84, are ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well, I was born to have adventure - "Two and Autumn" is from the Colors Fall collection. I can't keep up with Manchin and Sinema's current reasons for what to do with reconciliation. Atrios:...
One People's Project

BOB GRANT (DECEASED) - NAME Robert Ciro Gigante A/K/A Bob Grant DOB 3/14/1929 DOD 12/21/2013 HOME BASE New Jersey AUDIO FILES Bob Grant and Angel Action Gear Bob Grant and Wolfpa...
Trivial Knot

Logic puzzles, overexplained - By “logic puzzle”, I don’t just mean puzzles involving logic, but rather a specific genre of puzzles, whose most famous types are Sudoku and Picross. There...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Honoring a Longtime Conservationist - Sierra Club Recognizes Save Buffalo Bayou Founding President Awards Dinner Saturday, Oct. 16, in Austin Oct. 13, 2021 The Lone Star Chapter of The Sierra C...
Black Agenda Report

U.S. Imperialism in Africa with Abayomi Azikiwe - U.S. Imperialism in Africa with Abayomi Azikiwe bareditors Wed, 10/13/2021 - 09:50 Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
Texans For Public Justice

TPJ & Commission Shift Release 2nd 'Captive Agency' Report - The second in a series of reports called Captive Agency exposes deep conflicts among Texas Railroad Commissioners. The latest report reveals that two th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Great New Normal Purge - So, the Great New Normal Purge has begun … right on cue, right by the numbers. As we “paranoid conspiracy theorists” have been warning would happen for the...
Truthdig

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
Media Myth Alert

‘Such was Cronkite’s influence’ - The Boston Herald published an odd commentary the other day, one that scoffed at core elements of the media myth of the “Cronkite Moment” of 1968 while rep...
Independent Political Report

Henry Wallace: The Original #DemExit-er - [image: Black-and-white image of the head and shoulders of man about fifty with upswept hair, wearing a gray suit and a dark tie] On this day 133 years a...
Free & Equal

Christina Tobin Discusses Overcoming the Two Party Duopoly on Ground Zero W/ Clyde Lewis - The post Christina Tobin Discusses Overcoming the Two Party Duopoly on Ground Zero W/ Clyde Lewis appeared first on Free & Equal.
ExChristian.Net

The Great Grab Bag: Religious Diversity and Its Implications - *By Barrett Evans ~ * There’s no subject on which there is more difference of opinion among both the learned and the ignorant. But in this medley of conf...
The Mind Unleashed

3 Ways Consumerism and Social Media Are Killing the Value of Friendship - Most of us are aware of the adverse effects that consumerism and social media have on our lives. Distorted self-image, an unhealthy need for social accepta...
Innocence Project

20 Recent Justice Reform Measures to Celebrate - Last weekend marked the eighth International Wrongful Conviction Day. This year, the occasion, organized by the Innocence Network, was centered on the th...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2021 - Walmart had another eight shootings in the month of September 2021, which is tied for the lowest they've had all year; however, this is still higher tha...
The Socialist

Democracy And Nation Building - Rajiv Gandhi : "We have cherished our democracy. Democracy is our strength. We have no illusions that all problems have been resolved. But the democratic w...
Web of Debt

A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past - Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage. Lack of fresh water is now a global cr...
GreenSource DFW

Afghan immigrant family in Plano gets help going solar - *Abdullah Abed, center, and his family in Plano received a free solar installation with help from Plano Solar Co-Op and Habitat for Humanity. Photo court...
The Rag Blog

Alice Embree : IN MEMORIAM | Recent passages: JoAnn Mulert, Pat Cramer, Gregg Barrios, and Steve Russell - Sometimes they happen in quick succession. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 30, 2021 Sometimes the passages happen in such quick succession. This...
The Reality-Based Community

How Jason presumably approach protagonist creature - It was no easy feat for 2018’s Halloween to fix the series, with the movie undoing the lore established by a string of sequels and retconning everything th...
New Progressive Alliance

Fair Winds and Following Seas… - Jeff Roby recently passed away. He wrote and maintained the Green Party of Florida website and wrote many insightful articles over the years giving the b...
Moron Majority

Cyber Ninjas Hires Bill Barr To Summarize Arizona Audit Report - In an effort to stem the confusion surrounding the release of its Arizona audit report, Cyber Ninjas has hired former Trump Attorney General, William Barr,...
Grits for Breakfast

More police won't help with Austin's biggest public-safety threats - Let's talk for a moment about public safety in Austin. The argument for Prop A - the GOP-backed initiative to force the city of Austin to hire 500+ more po...
WhoWhatWhy

Is Canada Becoming More Like Its Neighbor to the South? - Canadian Conservatives showed US conservatives how to accept defeat, but there was something familiar about this week's election.
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinder Marsha Jackson - Marsha 2.0
Eclectablog

It rivals the New Deal – with special guest David Dayen - David Dayen on Twitter: @DDayen The American Prospect on Twitter: @TheProspect David Dayen at The American Prospect: Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s S...
DBC Green

Right of Way: a Non-Review - Cover photo of Angie Schmitt's "Right of Way" from IslandPress This October 2019 article from Houston Public Media distills the message of Angie Schmitt's ...
Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Southeast Texas Record

Judge Gallagher shocked the defendant, literally - A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a tri...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Just to let readers of Lou’s Blog know: Lou made arrangements for WordPress to host this site as a Premium blog up till May 2022. After that time, Unrepent...
WAWG Blog

The Darkness of Plagues – Dawn of Better Societies - Now we are in a forth plague that could “bend the arch of history” and “upend core economy structures." We can do better than capitalism. Continue readin...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
nonsite.org

The Whole Country is the Reichstag - A crucial characteristic of the current situation is that the antagonism between the pragmatic and the visionary that liberals have often used as a cudgel ...
News Junkie

Forget Wars on Covid and Terror: War on Climate Collapse Is the Only War of Necessity for Human Survival - Mythology of humans’ natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, fina...
Green Pages News

Lisa Savage Campaign Shows How Ranked-Choice Voting Changes the Landscape for Greens - By Dave Schwab, Communications Director for Lisa Savage for US Senate 2020 Overall, 2020 was perhaps the toughest year for US Greens yet. After four years ...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
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...
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 "...
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 ...
Progressives Everywhere

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