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Axios

In photos: St Vincent water supply running low as volcano eruptions continue - Water is in short supply in St. Vincent and the Grenadines as La Soufrière volcano continues to explode, government spokesman Sehon Marshall told a local ...
Al Jazeera English

US protesters rally for third night over killing of Black man - Third consecutive night of protests in Minneapolis after a 20-year-old Black man was fatally shot by police.
Counterpunch

Time, Not Cheap Political Theater, is of the Essence - Thankfully, the disastrous and benighted Montana legislative session is limping towards its ignominious conclusion, which cannot come soon enough for man...
memeorandum

FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks (Joseph Cox/VICE) - Joseph Cox / VICE: *FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks* — The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable co...
Countercurrents

Ambedkar on Castes In India And Among Muslims - This is part-1 of an article, being published to mark the Birth Anniversary on April 14, of Dr. BR Ambedkar (1891-1956). Referring to “a great deal of ...
The Week

IRS chief estimates $1 trillion in federal taxes go uncollected each year - IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday that the gap between federal taxes owed and paid "could approach and possibl...
Rallblog

A Sneak Peek at Upcoming GOP Voter Suppression Tactics - Republican state legislatures have been going hogwild with voter suppression tactics intended to reduce turn out among Democrats, especially blacks. Sure...
The NM Political Report

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

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

US climate research outpost abandoned over fears it will be devoured by sea - National Weather Service station in Massachusetts evacuated on 31 March due to fears it could fall into the Atlantic Ocean Twice a day for the past half ...
Courthouse News

Employment Law - A federal court in California preliminarily certified a class of former HP employees who accuse the company of “targeting older employees and replacing the...
The Verge

Canon announces EOS R3 pro mirrorless camera in development - Last month Nikon announced the development of its highest-end mirrorless camera to date, and now Canon has responded with the announcement of the EOS R3...
Informed Comment

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

Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One - Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
Portside

Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to Move Film Production from Georgia over Voter Suppression Law - Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to Move Film Production from Georgia over Voter Suppression Law Marti Wed, 04/14/2021 - 01:12
Earth 911

Maven Moment: Donating Usable Eyeglasses - I got my first pair of eyeglasses when I was about 13 years old. That... The post Maven Moment: Donating Usable Eyeglasses appeared first on Earth911 .
jobsanger

While Most Struggled During Pandemic, CEO's Got Big Raise -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2798: Transistor - Episode: 2798 Behold the Mighty Transistor. Today, a small item creates a large impact.
Crooked Media

Johnson & Pausin - The post Johnson & Pausin appeared first on Crooked Media.
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

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

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

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

Giada De Laurentiis' cinnamon rolls are cozy and inviting, especially fresh out of the oven - Having a go-to recipe for this nostalgic treat in your back pocket means you're always one step closer to comfort
Raw Story

Kimmel ridicules Mike Lindell's new social media site as a gathering place for 'paranoia and mustache wax' - My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell announced that his four-year project to create his own social media site that combines YouTube and Twitter, the two places he'...
Antiwar.com

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

Hablando del status - Latino Rebels Radio: 13 de abril de 2021
Election Law Blog

“DeSantis wants voters’ signatures to match. Would his pass the test?” - Tampa Bay Times: DeSantis’ own John Hancock has undergone a transformation during his time in government, as demonstrated by 16 of his signatures compiled ...
The Hill

Demonstrators gather for third night after shooting death of Daunte Wright - Protests continued for a third night outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on Tuesday following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright....
Mediagazer

Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who joined with Stewart Bainum in the top Tribune bid, has ties to a group pushing progressive political policies and Democrats (New York Times) - New York Times: *Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who joined with Stewart Bainum in the top Tribune bid, has ties to a group pushing progressive politica...
San Antonio Report

Mayoral forums: Nirenberg supports City’s dogged pursuit of police reform at negotiating table - [image: Mayor Ron Nirenberg participates remotely in a mayoral forum from his campaign headquarters on Tuesday.]Mayor Ron Nirenberg was the first to partic...
Glasstire

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

Flip-Flop: Nike Now On The Receiving End Of Trademark Threat Over USPS Inspired Sneakers - Nike finds itself on our pages again. We're fresh off of the settlement Nike reached with MSCHF over the Lil Nas X "Satan shoes". That settlement sees MS...
Mediaite

Lindsey Graham Accuses Biden of ‘Paving the Way for Another 9/11’ With Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan - South Carolina Senator *Lindsey Graham* told *Sean Hannity* that President *Biden* is "paving the way for another 9/11" by removing forces from Afghanist...
Ballot Access News

New Hampshire Special Legislative Election Results - On April 13, New Hampshire held a special election to fill a vacancy in the State House, Hillsborough 21 district. The results: Republican Bill Boyd 52.96%...
Claytoonz

Herd Mentality - Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday. If you’re in the Fredericksburg area a...
Progrexas

Rick Perry returns to the Texas Capitol to pitch study of psychedelic drugs for PTSD in veterans - Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s, R-Texas, campaign bus tour stop in College Station on Oct. 28, 2020. Credit: Amna Ijaz/Th...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DNC Ramen - From the party that brought you DNC Dog Food, New Blue Money Detergent, Blue Box Chardonnay, and their Premier Donut Assortment now comes — DNC Ramen! Just...
OpEd News

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

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

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

Podcast: Robin Spielberg reimagines timeless masterpieces - HARLINGEN, Texas – Composer and pianist Robin Spielberg believes in “old school” technology. Yes, she is in the top one percent of artists featured on P...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Alternet

Federal agents investigating Matt Gaetz obtained a search warrant and seized his phone: report - Federal agents investigating Florida Republican Congressman *Matt Gaetz* for possibly underaged sex trafficking and for a possible sexual relationship wi...
Liberation News

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

Chris Yambar – RIP - Pop artist and cartoonist Chris Yambar has passed away. Rev. Christopher David (Chris) YambarJuly 4, 1961 – March 27, 2021 From the obituary: Chris was c...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

(UPDATED) Dallas City Council Candidate Lied About Arrest for Public Intoxication - Note: This has has been updated below with a response from the candidate, who claims he was not arrested. Let’s not make this too much about me, but the ...
Texas Environmental News

Arizona AG sues feds, claiming environmental laws block ending border wall construction - Clean Air Act, Antiquities Act and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Wall construction under Trump cut off wildlife [...] The post ...
Political Wire

Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response - “The Capitol Police had clearer advance warnings about the Jan. 6 attack than were previously known, including the potential for violence in which ‘Congres...
Socialist Alternative

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

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

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

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

A New Bill Wants the EPA to Shield Drinking Water From “Forever Chemicals” - A new bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency to do much more to regulate PFAs, a class of artificial chemicals that never fully break down ...
Idavox

The Idavox Report 13 Apr 2021 - This week, we will discuss Rudolph W. Giuliani, his racist tenure as Mayor and how it fueled the flames for killer cops and the so-called alt-right. The ...
Daily Dot

‘I would die on the spot’: TikToker finds out she and her boyfriend are cousins after taking DNA test he bought her - [image: @mattilathehun tells story about how she found out she and her boyfriend are related] A TikToker discovered a breakup-worthy detail about her boy...
Buzzflash

Donald Whitehead and Joel Segal for BuzzFlash: Time to End Homelessness in America - BuzzFlash
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

US postpones Afghanistan troop withdrawal in hopes of sustaining peace process: 5 essential reads - The Afghanistan War now has an end date: 9/11/21. Experts explain the history of US involvement in Afghanistan, the peace process to end that conflict and ...
The Root

‘Police Officers Don’t Have to Fight Fair’: Defense Attempts to Frame Derek Chauvin’s Actions as ‘Reasonable’ During Day 12 of Trial - The twelfth day of the trial of Derek Chauvin saw the defense begin to argue its case that the former Minneapolis Police officer was not responsible for ...
Krebs on Security

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

FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks - The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States.
Talking Points Memo

WH Held Distressing Call With Governors As It Scrambled To Explain J&J News - White House officials reportedly spent Tuesday morning on the phone with governors trying to explain federal health agencies’ sudden recommendation to pa...
Slate

What Has Happened Since the Daunte Wright Shooting - Protesters were met with violent force.
Louis Proyect

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

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

Lessons From Bessemer: What Amazon’s Union Defeat Means for the American Labor Movement - by Alec MacGillis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publis...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Small Sample Sizes Be Damned, Let’s Talk About Baseball - First, since we’re nearly two weeks into the MLB season, we look at which teams are doing well and which teams are struggling. With the caveat that we’re w...
WhoWhatWhy

WhoWhatWhy Partners with Covering Climate Now - Reading Time: < 1 minute The climate emergency is already here. WhoWhatWhy environmental fellow Max Steiner breaks down the urgency that now comes with e...
CultureMap Houston

Houston water park hosts free weekends for pass holders before summer - Spring break may be over, but that hasn't stopped thousands of locals from hitting water parks on the weekend now that the state is reopened and more immu...
TalkLeft

Johnson and Johnson Vaccine "Paused" in U.S. - Six women between the ages of 18 and 48 have been afflicted with a blood clotting disorder within three weeks of taking the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. On...
Vox

Why Johnson & Johnson shots were paused — and why that’s so confusing - The CDC and FDA on Tuesday called for a pause in distribution of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. It has already been administered to nearly 7 mill...
Right Wing Watch

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

MyPillow CEO Keeps Getting More Delusional By The Day - Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow, is clearly getting more and more separated from reality by the day. In addition to his bizarre claims about Donald Tr...
INSIDER - politics news

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

San Antonio Museum of Art hosts poetry reading in connection with 'No Ocean Between Us' exhibition - As it celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the San Antonio Museum of Art is also getting in on National Poetry Month.…
Morning Consult

After Moving All-Star Game, MLB Becomes Latest League to Fall Out of Favor With Republicans - The post After Moving All-Star Game, MLB Becomes Latest League to Fall Out of Favor With Republicans appeared first on Morning Consult.
Futurism

Watch This Breathtaking Time-Lapse Taken From Inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon - [image: Japanese space agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi took a gorgeous time lapse of space from a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule currently docked to the ISS.] ...
NORML

NORML Remembers Steve Fox - “Steve’s vision helped to transform the mainstream narrative surrounding cannabis,” said NORML’s Paul Armentano. “That transformation played a major role...
Wolf Street

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

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Battle With Roy Moore’s $95M Defamation Suit Now Centers On Who Looked Where & When, Seriously - EXCLUSIVE: Unsurprisingly, there is little on which Sacha Baron Cohen and failed GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore see eye to eye. However, it still might rai...
Texas Standard

Without Full Participation, Can STAAR Be An Accurate Measure For Success? - With around 44% of Texas students still learning from home, some may decide not to show up in person to take the statewide standardized exams.
Political Garbage Chute

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

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

VIRUS STATUS UPDATE - Blue - Getting better. Red - Getting worse Black - Unchanged In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is better in every month sin...
Discourse

Soul Music - What have you been listening to lately? The post Soul Music appeared first on Discourse Blog.
Mondoweiss

NDP boycott resolution marks loss for Israel lobby, win for democracy - The New Democratic Party endorsement of a partial boycott of Israel is not just a win for Palestinian rights and a blow to the Israel lobby, but is also a ...
Grits for Breakfast

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

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

Why 2019 Was The Worst Year On Record For Syphilis - 2019 was the worst year on record for syphilis. Reasons range from drug use to dating apps to underinvestment in contact tracing, as well as the surprising...
Progressive.org

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

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

Podcast: Public Schools, Not Government Schools - Our guest this week argues that, much like democracy itself, public education is an ideal that we’ve never quite lived up to.
Texas Monthly

No, Chilaquiles and Migas Are Not the Same Thing - These breakfast cousins are often mistaken for each other. But they have some fundamental (and delectable) differences. The post No, Chilaquiles and Mig...
Second Nexus

Trump Just Had to Make a Mortifying Admission in Latest Effort to Hide Tax Returns from Congress - Since his 2016 campaign, former President Donald Trump has fought to keep his tax returns and other financial documents from the public eye, but that fig...
Sludge

Both Dems Running to Represent ‘Cancer Alley’ Take Fossil Fuel Donations After Promising Not To - In Louisiana’s Second Congressional District, which includes an area of extreme petrochemical pollution called Cancer Alley, two Democrats are heading towa...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Pondering the Pundits - Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media and the internet blogs. The intent is to ...
American Prospect

The Shifting Class Composition of Unions - Today on TAP: Why we need the PRO Act
Scheerpost.com

‘Scheer Intelligence’ Interview With Janet Yang Wins NAEJ Award - "The Power and Pain of Being Asian American During the Coronavirus Crisis," a prescient episode of veteran journalist Robert Scheer's podcast which feature...
Environment Texas

HB 2350 for Natural Cities and Healthy Waters - Anna Farrell-Sherman Clean Water Associate Contact person by email Anna works hard to protect the clean water of Texas, advocating for nature-based infra...
Common Dreams

Some Humans Ain't Human - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

Erdogan’s Gain, Russia’s Pain - Russia is right to be alarmed. Just as violence flares in Eastern Ukraine – on Russia’s border […] The post Erdogan’s Gain, Russia’s Pain appeared first ...
The Contributor

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

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

The Prosecution Rests - The prosecution in the Derek Chauvin case rested after 11 days. The streets in nearby Brooklyn Center, Minnesota are restless after another senseless shoot...
Eater Houston

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

What the heck—let's start today! - *TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021* *Should you be apprised of this fact?:* On Sunday afternoon, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed, apparently by mista...
Moon of Alabama

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

Militares ficarão abraçados a Bolsonaro até o fim do governo - Mesmo que surjam novos atritos, generais estão de cabeça na missão. Conheça 4 cenários para o futuro – nenhum é bom para a democracia. The post Militares...
Angry Bear

The USPS 10-year plan may have future rate increases - What the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases, Steve Hutkins at “Save The Post Office“ The mailers were probably disappointed th...
Dandelion Salad

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

Back to the Future…. -
The Ghion Journal

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

‘Dodgy Dave’? the Facts on the Greensill Saga | Interview with Gabriel Pogrund - As the Greensill scandal rolls on tonight’s Downstream sees Aaron Bastani joined by Gabriel Pogrund of The Sunday Times. With an investigation now confirme...
Shadowproof

Graduate Workers Unions At New York’s Two Largest Universities Vote For Strike - Graduate workers at New York University and Columbia University, the two largest universities in New York City, are in the midst of a contentious labor b...
El Paso Matters

How suspension of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will impact El Paso - Tuesday’s recommendation to suspend the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines will have a slight impact on El Paso’s vaccination eff...
The Appeal

What New York City’s Next Mayor Can Do to Solve the Homelessness Crisis - When New York City lawmakers talk about homelessness, it is clear that few of them know this city as I do. But how can they? They’ve never slept on its ...
ROAR Magazine

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

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

Why Managing Endometriosis Is Harder for Young People - Young people with endometriosis need our belief in their realities, our understanding, and our support. The post Why Managing Endometriosis Is Harder for...
Tribune of the People

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

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

Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert “Just To Say We’re Here” - I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America’s endless wars, and it’s been been rattling around in my head ever since: “In Syria, McKenzie vis...
Bonddad

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

Q&A: What’s the future of genetic engineering? - Genetic engineering has been used for years in medicine, agriculture and industry, but is entering a new phase.
ArcaMax

Revenge of the Nerd: Across the Divide, Bernie Sanders Breaks Through - Bernie Sanders was never the most all-American of presidential candidates. The Brooklyn-born socialist senator from Vermont has a New York accent less thic...
The Progressive Wing

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

Motions to dismiss filed in suit alleging Judge Andrea Plumlee violated man’s constitutional rights - DALLAS – For nearly a decade now, Bradley Miller has been entangled in litigation stemming from a divorce case that originated in Judge Andrea Plumlee’s ...
Democracy Now!

GOP Smears DOJ Civil Rights Pick Kristen Clarke in Latest Attack on Voting Rights & Racial Justice - We look at President Biden's nomination of Kristen Clarke to become the first Black woman to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the co...
Washington Babylon

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

Republicans Got the Supreme Court They Wanted. It Will Change America Forever. -
Space City Weather

Houston still set to get some much needed rainfall this week - Houston’s weather will remain unsettled for much of this week, and the overall forecast has turned somewhat wetter. We now expect most of the region to see...
Infidel753

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

The morning read for Tuesday, April 13 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, April 13]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to t...
Dorf on Law

Biden's SCOTUS Commission Apparently Lacks Authority To Make Recommendations And Is (Way) Too Large - *by Michael C. Dorf* Last week, President Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to create a commission to investigate possible reforms of the Supreme Court...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/13/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas governor says state is 'very close' to herd immunity. The data tells a different story.; Harris County vaccination data show...
Grist

As COVID restrictions lift, green spaces are front lines in a fight for housing justice - L.A.’s Echo Park was an oasis for the unhoused during the pandemic — until the city forcibly removed them.
Houston Press

Buzbee to Refile All 22 Lawsuits Against Watson With Plaintiff Names - For the first time in a long time, we had gone a few days in a row with no movement and no noise from the Deshaun Watson legal proceedings. The last we had...
Dallas Observer

Civil Liberties Advocates Warn COVID-19 Vaccine Passports Could Worsen Inequities - Some experts warn that requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports could have a "chilling effect" on immigrant communities and communities of color.
High Country News

The health hazards of California’s neighborhood drilling - Much of the state’s oil extraction takes place in residential areas, often in Spanish-speaking communities, but there’s a lack of research detailing its im...
DeSmogBlog

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

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

MARLEY AMES: THE FEAST - Marley Ames searched the ground before him, taking carefully calculated steps to avoid ripping away the loosely hanging sole of his right shoe....
Field Negro

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

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

The Next Amazon Union Drive - Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
Texas Freedom Network

TFN, Clergy Call Out Cruel Texas Legislative Assault on Transgender Youth and Their Families - TFN and clergy with Just Texas are calling out the growing legislative assault on transgender youth and their families at the Texas Capitol. One of the a...
Earthworks

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

Family violence victims would be freed from having their cell phone numbers controlled by violent abusers under bill by Rep. Guerra that is approved by Texas House of Representatives - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Sergio Sánchez, Program Director and Show Host at NEWS TALK 710 KURV and kurv.com; Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen; Rep. R.D. “Bo...
ExChristian.Net

Freedom and Peace - *By Blackfreethought ~ * It is such a relief to know my actions do not have eternal consequences. My mistakes will not condemn me to damnation and my good...
Bracing Views

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

Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents - When Will Evans met the Korean novelist Jung Young Moon in Seoul in 2014 on a trip sponsored by the Literary Translation Institute of Korea, he fell in l...
Duffel Blog

FDA authorizes Crayola vaccine for Marines - "The results were just off-the-charts."
Progressives Chat

‘Georgia and the GOP’ … ‘AOC and the Dems’ - Recent news items call for me to respond in this blog topic. *Georgia and the GOP* The Republicans in Georgia—with its governor Brian Kemp—want to stop ...
See You In 2020

Violence, Late-Stage Capitalist Nihilism, And Our Society’s Decline - As America’s paradigm of mass shootings has re-entered the public eye in recent weeks, with over 130 mass shootings having *happened* so far in 2021 in a...
Unlimited Hangout

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

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance bids “bon voyage” to the Ever Given as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff comments on the Senate’s omnibus vote...
Crooked Timber

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

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

Cartoon: Triheads vs Squareheads - This cartoon is a collaboration between myself (script and lettering), Becky Hawkins (classroom scenes), and Naomi Rubin (Triheads vs Squareheads scenes). ...
Our Finite World

We can’t expect COVID-19 to go away; we should plan accordingly - To a significant extent, what we can and should do in the future is an energy issue. If we plan to transition to a green energy future, or if we simply pla...
The Grayzone

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

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

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

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

Wisconsin court win stops purge of 129,000 votersBlack Voters Matter, Palast found list "wrong and racist" - On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to block the removal of 129,000 voters from the rolls. The Justices rejected a lawsuit brought by a right-...
Pages of Victory

Beatles music - And I Love Her In My Life She's Leaving Home Norwegian Wood I am the Walrus
Reading the Pictures

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

Link Roundup: April 2021 - How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation | MIT Technology Review – Since Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has made efforts to make their algorith...
Eclectablog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our success in getting the freethought word out - We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation believe in using every medium (plural media) to make the freethought message heard, and this week we had tremend...
MintPress News

How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press - For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, includin...
alicublog

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

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

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

Virginia to Ban Local Police from Using Facial Recognition - A bill passed in Virginia will ban local law-enforcement agencies from using facial recognition technology without prior legislative approval starting July...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

Man Charged With Driving Stolen Car Appears for Zoom Hearing From Inside Another Stolen Car - He has another Zoom hearing next week, so maybe he will keep the streak alive. Related Stories - Zoom Hearing Ends When Defendant Turns Out to...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

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

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

A Sense of Déjà Vu - Déjà vu—the sudden insistent feeling that you’ve encountered the present moment before—can be one of the oddest of human experiences. Sometimes, though, ...
Duck of Minerva

Life in the Time of COVID: Planning for Non-Adherence - This is a guest post from Tana Johnson, an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publica...
DBC Green

Moxie: Flawed But Worthy - Dang, I meant to re-post this sorta review here about a month ago.In a nutshell, I don't particularly care for the what the Amy Poehler and the Hollywood M...
BillMoyers.com

March 30, 2021 - It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode. Continue reading The post March 30, 2021 appeared first o...
Texas Moratorium Network

Rep Jeff Leach Speaks on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - Texas State Rep Jeff Leach, a Republican, in this video makes a persuasive argument for his bill to end the death penalty in law of parties cases at the ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Killing the Bayou: Shocking Plan to Bulldoze, Reroute Buffalo Bayou - Historic Banks of Memorial Park to Be Radically Altered April 6, 2021 The private organization running Houston’s great public Memorial Park on the forested...
Chicken Fried Politics

Florida U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings dies at 84 - Democrat’s death narrows party’s House majority, sets off scramble for his South Florida seat ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor FORT LAUDER...
Reveal

We wanted to know how the 2020 census was going. So we asked workers to guide our coverage. - [image: A sign mounted in the bed of a pickup truck reads: “Do your part, stop the spread and do 2020 census.”] More than 150 Census Bureau employees reac...
Avedon's Sideshow

Teach us to be true - Victor Molev's "City of Wandering Towers" is way outside of my price range but nice to look at, and is part of the Amazing Fantasy Cities collection. "Rec...
New Progressive Alliance

Stupid Dems Are Here Again... - ...They're refusing needed funds again Yes, they're holier than thou again Stupid Dems are here again! You can't make this stuff up. Candidates of the *...
Due Dissidence

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

Walmart Crime Report March 2021 - Walmart had at least eight shootings last month, fortunately none of them were fatal, although there were at least three or four injuries, including at ...
nonsite.org

Responses to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment - Complexity enchants ANT, new materialism, posthumanism, media studies, affect theory, and the literary undertakings of postcritique, new descriptivism, and...
The Rag Blog

Ivan Koop Kuper : LITERATURE | Larry McMurtry: The Houston years and beyond - ‘I had two novel manuscripts in my drawer, which meant that I had options my fellow graduate students just didn’t have.’ By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog ...
BEYONDbones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FHQ Turns 14 - Today marks the beginning of FHQ's 15th year. Like any other period of time, it has been a span that has seen both ups and downs, none more challenging tha...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Zine Release – Making Sense of Fascism - We are pleased to announce the release of this new zine “Making Sense of Fascism.” It can be purchased through our online shop here: Making Sense of Fascis...
WAWG Blog

What Socialism Is, Has Changed - Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue ...
Texas Watch

Supplemental Comments on HB 19: Safety Recommendations - Executive Director Ware Wendell testifies against HB 19 Video of Executive Director Ware Wendell testifies against HB 19 On Tuesday, March 9th, our team ...
Moron Majority

Where’s Jared? - Since leaving his position, in January, as White House senior advisor, Jared Kushner seems to be missing in action. During Donald Trump’s appearance at las...
GreenSource DFW

Recycle your old phone into security cam - *The cat, we once monitored in our shed on a web cam, watches the Alfred Camera app's live feed. Photo by Julie Thibodeaux.* March 11, 2021 A few months...
Campaign for America's Future

It's Time for an Organizing Revival - The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form an...
Web of Debt

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment? - Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facili...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show - The post Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show appeared first on Free & Equal.
News Taco

Legal Machinations of SAWS Trustees and CEO Raise Serious Ethical Concerns - In late January, SAWS and the City of San Antonio dropped their legal action against the SAWS Act PAC citizens’ coalition that is seeking changes at the ...
Anti-Media

As Predicted: Immunity Passports Are No Longer A Fantasy - "Immunity Passports" or "Digital Certificates" will allow people who have been vaccinated to travel, work, and play.
The Disorder Of Things

Judith Butler Goes to Norway - A guest post from Ida Roland Birkvad. Ida is a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her t...
Texans For Public Justice

ERCOT's Board Gave Heavily to House Members - As the Texas House investigates the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), *Lobby Watch* finds that powerful energy interests seated on ERCOT’s b...
Two Party Opera

When Texas Freezes Over -
Malady

Surrendering to Hopelessness: Catharsis for the Modern Communist - *“How does it help...to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" – Seneca* There is a propensity amongst those on the left to discuss revolution in the co...
Progressives Everywhere

Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court to Save Democracy - The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be...
Modern Democracy

“The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1” - Very excited to have a piece up on the Harvard Law Review Blog diving into H.R. 1’s redistricting reforms. The post examines some surprising shortcomings i...
Green Papers

Two principles of racial equity that outrage liberals - The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police ov...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
LawFlog

CIA refuses to say whether it framed Russia for leaked DNC emails; FBI apparently ignored Seth Rich’s laptop - The Central Intelligence Agency will neither confirm nor deny that it fabricated the Russian “fingerprints” in Democratic National Committee emails publish...
News Junkie

Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy When Populism Became Fascism - Trumpism has defined, in the past four years, the quintessence of populism. On January 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob, instigated by their cult leader himse...
One People's Project

CHESTER DOLES - NAME: Chester Doles HOME BASE: Winters Mtn. Rd. Dahlonega, GA 30533 706-867-6696 (As of 2004) Drives black van, license plate number Georgia 838GMF RELATED...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Update: Chris Faulkner > IT Guy > Frack Master > Felon - ORDER SETTING REARRAIGNMENT HEARING VIA VIDEO TELECONFERENCE as to Christopher Aundre Faulkner: The court finds in this case that the felony plea cannot ...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Down With Tyranny!

WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
Green Pages News

S. Michael DeRosa 1945 – 2020 - S. Michael DeRosa, 75 years of age (January 4, 1945 – October 16, 2020) of Wethersfield, CT died October 16, 2020 at Hartford Hospital due to exacerbation ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

New post at my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flights of Fancy" - For those that have any interest, curiosity or just have a good need for self punishment, I have made a new post on my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flig...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - I knew I wanted to talk to freshman Rep. Lizzie Fletcher this cycle, because there’s just so much to talk about. You know her story from 2018 – the crowded...
The Texas CBD Blog

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

The Debate. And Other Equally Weird Incidents. - 1. I tried to watch the Biden-Trump debate last night but instead my television gave me a show where two kindergarten children were having temper tantru...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
Bad Attitudes

Nothing New Under the Sun - From the *New York Times* of October 30, 2002: Remember all that fuss a couple of years back over Floridaâ€™s Banana-republic voting procedures? And then...
Popehat

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
The Reality-Based Community

[J!nx-Movie] UNHINGED (2020) HD Watch online Full Or Free - Watch UNHINGED Online, free, trial, access!! WATCH HERE > https://comicbook.com/film/unhinged DOWNLOAD HERE > UNHINGED is a movie starring Tom Hanks, Elisa...
Splinter

Google's Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming - Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some ...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Editor & Publisher

Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed - The country’s most prominent media owner-editor is detained and incarcerated. The image-conscious prime minister ignores a letter from United Nations
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

We have a world to win! Capitalism, coronavirus and the struggle for the new normal - As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival t...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
t.e.j.a.s.

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
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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...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Las Vegas’ Downtown Project & Tony Hsieh - I admire rich people who do something creative with their money instead of just buying more stuff. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappo, lives in Las Vegas and broug...
Think 3 Institute

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
Truthout

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - [image: The darkened sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil is picture on August 19, 2019. Residents reported black rain, while studies by two universities confirmed tha...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...

Brains and Eggs

Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009's Final Funnies

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