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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Deadline Politics

FCC Votes To Require Stations To Label Broadcasts Sponsored By Foreign Governments - The FCC voted to require that stations disclose when foreign governments lease time on their airwaves, amid concerns that viewers are unaware when other co...
Raw Story

The View's Sunny Hostin unleashes on police who shoot Black children while taking white murderers to Burger King - Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin unleashed on the unfairness of the way 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant was killed while white criminals who had shot an...
Talking Points Memo

Sen. Scott Tries To Revive Debt Ceiling Threat - Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has a plan for how the GOP can put an end to the raft of items on President Biden's legislative agenda. Refuse to raise the nation...
VICE

How to Provide for Your Neighbors and Yourself in a Racist Food System - Leah Penniman, the founder of Afro-Indigenous community–centered Soul Fire Farm, on food apartheid, reparations, and community-building.
The Week

Kevin Spacey apparently 'performed a song-and-dance number' during a bizarre deposition - Thought nothing could be weirder than Kevin Spacey's bizarre Christmas Eve videos? Think again. A new report in *The Hollywood Reporter* runs through the...
memeorandum

Not My Party: First Steps Toward Justice (Tim Miller/The Bulwark) - Tim Miller / The Bulwark: *Not My Party: First Steps Toward Justice* — Police violence, the culture, and opportunities for progress. — Last summer, m...
Mediaite

Fox Sports’ Shannon Sharpe Torches Brett Favre For Saying Chauvin Didn’t ‘Intentionally’ Kill George Floyd: He Must Have ‘Bumped His Head or Something’ - Fox Sports host Shannon Sharpe thinks “something’s wrong” with Brett Favre. Just one week after declaring he doesn’t want politics mixed with sports, Bre...
The Verge

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 taskbar widget starts rolling out today - *The new Windows 10 taskbar feature.* | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is starting to roll out its biggest change to the Windows taskbar in years. A new weat...
Eschaton

Lunch Thread - Busy with annoying life stuff.
Countercurrents

Fifty years After Naxalbari by Bernard De Mello - Unfinished History-A truly great Masterpiece highlighting how even after fifty years of Naxalbari and Seven decades after Independence Neo-fascism has pe...
San Antonio Current

Environmental groups demand that San Antonio rethink utility policies after February outages - In an open letter to Mayor Ron Nirenberg and city council, 27 environmental and social justice groups urged the city to shield vulnerable residents from u...
Courthouse News

Missile From Syria Lands in Israel, Triggers Israel Strike - A Syrian anti-aircraft missile landed in southern Israel early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country's top-secret nuclear reactor, the Isr...
Daily Dot

Gamers criticize transphobic joke about intersex character in ‘Nier Replicant’ - [image: nier replicant] The video game *Nier Replicant* is under fire this week after the new remake was revealed to include a transphobic joke. It's an ...
Undernews

Virtue and power - *Sam Smith – *I’ve just finished reading some books and watching documentaries on a bunch of public figures I have long admired including Franklin Roosev...
Houston Public Media

The Bigger Picture: The Forgotten History Of Black Cowboys - With the release of the Netflix film Concrete Cowboy, the Houston Matters film segment takes a look at the real history of Black cowboys in Texas.
Strategic Culture Foundation

Britain on the Road to Kleptocracy - In reality, individuals and companies only employ politicians and civil servants, paying them a lot of money, because they expect to make very much larger ...
The Root

How You Can Honor George Floyd's Life With Real Police Reform, Explained - A jury found Derek Chauvin guilty. He is going to jail. Read more...
Futurism

Missing Submarine Running Out of Oxygen, Experts Fear - [image: The Indonesian navy is running out of time to track down a lost submarine with a crew of 53 on board off the north coast of Bali.] Running Out of A...
Moon of Alabama

Open Thread 2021-030 - News & views ...
Innocence Project

Why This Exoneree Loves Gardening — And His Best Secrets for a Blooming Garden - At the age of 18, Marvin Anderson was sentenced to more than two centuries in prison for crimes he didn’t commit. For 15 years, he was locked behind bars...
OpEd News

How to Raise Trillions Without Hiking Taxes on Working Americans - If Congress has the guts to take on large corporations and the billionaire class whose greed is destroying the social fabric of America we can both reduce ...
Salon.com

Olympics athletes will now be banned from protest in Tokyo - Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will be barred from "demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda"
SCOTUSblog

Unanimous court curtails FTC’s ability to obtain restitution for deceptive practices - [image: Unanimous court curtails FTC’s ability to obtain restitution for deceptive practices]The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled against the ...
Popular Resistance

Gun Violence Starts At The Top - Mass shootings happen with appalling regularity in the United States. It is bad enough that recent shootings took place in Atlanta, Boulder, and Indianap...
First Draft

Why Is Miss Universe Always From Earth? - A lot of us are feeling a lot of anticipation right now—for those who have not yet been jabbed it’s the anticipation of that jab and how your body will rea...
El Paso Matters

Plant docs: Give palms, area plants time to recover from February freeze - A few reminders of February’s cold snap stand sentry around El Paso — palm trees with brittle, brown fronds rattling in the springtime winds, some with n...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

CVS Health quietly donated a staggering amount to a dark money group advocating against health care access - Last year, as the United States was ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, CVS Health donated a staggering amount of money to a dark money group that advoc...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

Two Key Issues, Buried in Red Meat, to Watch for in the House’s Budget Debate - Medicaid expansion and accessing COVID-19 relief funds for schools are set to be among the most consequential issues discussed as Texas lawmakers begin t...
CultureMap Houston

Smithsonian expands Selena collection with images from TX photographer - In commemoration of would have been the iconic Texas artist's 50th birthday, the Smithsonian is expanding its Selena collection with photos of the late si...
Texas Environmental News

Activists dump cow poop to protest Biden climate plan - Climate activists gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to dump wheelbarrows full of cow poop near the White House in [...] The post Activists dump c...
Edinburg Politics

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

The Dr. Fauci of Lebanon Leads a Shattered State’s COVID Response - Some glimmers of hope after a year of catastrophe.
Mother Jones

Biden Calls to Cut US Emissions in Half by 2030 - President Biden today addressed 40 world leaders at a virtual climate summit, emphasizing the urgency of the climate crisis and announcing plans to reduce ...
The Intercept

New Hampshire’s Democratic Senators Are Quietly Resisting a Minimum Wage Hike - Maggie Hassan’s campaign recently cashed a check from the lobbyist leading opposition to the minimum wage. His spouse raises money for her. The post New ...
Daily Howler

MOB AND TOWN: The wages of segregation is death! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021* *The Post (and the Times) in Columbus:* "The wages of sin is death," we've been reliably told. So too with the wages of segre...
Progressive.org

The Debate over Puerto Rico’s Future: Statehood, Independence, or Something Else? - A Congressional divide leaves the island territory in colonial limbo.
Election Law Blog

“Black Democrats urge party to shift its voting rights push” - Politico: Democrats have spent months touting an expansive proposal that would reshape U.S. elections. But with the bill’s Senate prospects growing more di...
The Hill

Publisher stops promotion of Roth bio over author sexual allegations: report - W.W. Norton has stopped shipping and promoting a biography of Phillip Roth biography over sexual allegations made against its author Blake Bailey, ...
Al Jazeera English

Ethiopian county, home to 25,000 people, seized by fighters: EHRC - Rights body says it received reports an armed group took control of Sedal Woreda, in Benishangul-Gumuz region.
Vox

The Supreme Court’s “cursing cheerleader” case could reshape students’ First Amendment rights - iStock/Getty Images A case about a high school student acting like a high school student raises difficult First Amendment questions. The facts of *Mahan...
Mondoweiss

Now is a great time to donate to Mondoweiss - Mondoweiss is one of the few news organizations that covers the struggle for Palestinian rights in a U.S. context, and this has been a challenging year fin...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip Rarities – The American Way - After the war that some called The Big One a lesser, more nuanced war began – a Cold War. While hot spots flared around the globe with the forces of Good a...
ArcaMax

Some Countries Are Happier Than Others. Right? - Finland is the world's happiest country -- fourth year in a row! So says the World Happiness Report, produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development...
Novara Media

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

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

The doctor who stood up to the racist rioters on Mississippi’s Bloody Sunday - The historic wade-ins that desecrated Mississippi's beaches.
NPR's Health Shots

Surprise: The Charge For His Spine Surgery After A Car Crash Topped $700,000 - Generous personal injury coverage on your auto insurance policy may not be enough to cover your medical bills. Patients can get financially blindsided when...
Political Wire

Russia’s Brain Drain Soars as Scientists Flee - “The number of scientists who emigrate from Russia every year has increased five-fold since President Putin returned to the presidency in 2012,” the Times ...
San Antonio Report

With an open City Council seat at stake, District 5 race draws political newcomers - [image: A District 5 outdoor "meet and greet" hosted council candidates at the family-owned business Brainfreeze last week.]With no incumbent running for r...
naked capitalism

The Coronavirus Crisis Within the Economy Is Far From Over – Because Reopening Creates a Whole New Type of Risk - Whither the post-Covid economy, assuming a "post-Covid"? The answer depends at least in part on where you sit.
The Progressive Wing

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

Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies - Rich countries can work their way out of food calorie shortages by importing food. But poorer countries may need help.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Greta Thunberg to testify before Congress as Biden kicks off climate summit – live - - Hearing will discuss health and economic impacts of fossil fuel subsidies - Biden at climate summit: ‘No nation can solve this crisis on our...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Kevin Felder Needs to Spend Campaign Funds on an Apostrophe - An alert FrontBurnervian out for a walk this morning sent along the picture you see here of a campaign sign for Kevin Felder, who is running against seve...
Earthworks

Earth Day Impact: Support Frontline Communities - As vaccines started to roll out this spring, several of our field advocates have been able to safely travel within their states and use our optical gas i...
The Conversation

The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer's trial - The history and weight of US press freedom played a powerful, but unacknowledged, role in the conviction of Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd.
Latino Rebels

Mexico Plans 17 Shelters for Children on Southern Border - MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday it is planning to set up 17 shelters for underage migrants along the country’s southern border, as well as some al...
Mediagazer

Facebook says there are 2B+ users each month watching videos eligible for in-stream ads and is starting a test of targeting by topic for in-stream video ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) - Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: *Facebook says there are 2B+ users each month watching videos eligible for in-stream ads and is starting a test of targeting by ...
Bonddad

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

University of Houston’s 2021 Photo Digital Media Student Exhibition “Emergence,” Part II - From incorporating family life and traditional Latin recipes, to documenting Houston’s severe and unpredictable weather and its aftermath (and everything...
Axios

Biden's big emissions promise is a political tool both domestically and abroad - President Biden's new U.S. emissions-cutting target is a sign of White House ambition and a number that distills the tough political and policy maneuvers...
Texas Observer

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

WATCH LIVE: Biden White House Hosts Earth Day Summit on Climate Emergency - Common Dreams staff "Our clean energy plan will create millions of good-paying union jobs, ensure our economic competitiveness, and improve the health and s...
Democracy Now!

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

Today On Texas Standard - With six weeks left in the session, a look at how the Legislature is progressing through a long list or priorities. Families who’ve lost loved ones to COVI...
The Smirking Chimp

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

Wyden-Backed Bill Would Make It Illegal For Government To Obtain Location Data Without A Warrant - We've covered for a while how consumer location data is consistently abused by telecom providers, app makers, stalkers, debt collectors, people pretending...
Washington Babylon

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

Shut Your Pie Hole - Congressman Jim Jordan does not get along with black women. To be fair to Jordan, he is an asshole. Assholes have trouble getting along with a lot of peopl...
Infidel753

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

We’re All Weird Naked Murder Monkeys - We’re in the thick of it. Nobody gets to hold themselves as separate from the madness of our species. Not if they are being truthful. Our minds are touchin...
Lawfare

Congress, the Cuba Resolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis - President Kennedy signs the authorization of the naval quarantine of Cuba on Oct. 23, 1962. (Abbie Rowe, https://tinyurl.com/mfjr6w6d; Public Domain, htt...
Space City Weather

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

Why This Class OF WNBA Second-Rounders Could Be The Best Ever - In a WNBA draft full of surprises, one particularly shocking development was a trio of players projected as top picks falling into the second round. Arella...
Houston Legal

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

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

How We Turned the Amazon Into a Net Greenhouse Gas Emitter - Reading Time: 5 minutes The Amazon Basin has always slowed climate change. Now, the area affectionately named “The Lungs of the Earth” is a net greenhous...
DeSmogBlog

Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go? - On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmen...
Angry Bear

Where’s The Beef? - Where’s The Beef? Well, as we increasingly understand how environmentally damaging producing beef is, quite aside from lots of other issues, the proper ...
Grist

4 in 10 Americans breathe polluted air, with people of color hit hardest - A new report shows how air pollution is shaped by climate change and racism.
Progrexas

Medicaid expansion, federal coronavirus aid could spur legislative fights as Texas House debates $246 billion state budget - Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan addressed the chamber on opening day of the Legislative Session in January. The House is expected to debate its proposed ...
The AltWorld

We’re All Weird Naked Murder Monkeys - We’re in the thick of it. Nobody gets to hold themselves as separate from the madness of […] The post We’re All Weird Naked Murder Monkeys appeared first...
Houston Press

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

Embracing and Resisting: The Variable Relationships Between Worker Centers and Unions - In some cities, the two kinds of worker organizations frequently collaborate. In other cities, not so much.
Earth 911

Join the Battle To Invent a Sustainable, Circular Economy - Earth Day has grown into Earth Week and Earth Month. But the battle to reinvent... The post Join the Battle To Invent a Sustainable, Circular Economy app...
Southeast Texas Record

An independent redistricting commission is essential to the preservation of our democracy - After signing the United States Constitution in 1787, as Benjamin Franklin was leaving the building, he was asked, “What have we got, a republic or a mon...
Morning Consult

Exclusive: Leading Crypto Group Boosts Its Membership Ranks as Lobbying Efforts Grow - The post Exclusive: Leading Crypto Group Boosts Its Membership Ranks as Lobbying Efforts Grow appeared first on Morning Consult.
ProPublica

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

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

Why is AFL-CIO So Worried About Its Vermont Affiliate? - Two years ago, a group of local union activists launched a reform campaign, called “Vermont AFL-CIO United!.” They were frustrated with their own labor c...
High Country News

So you want to acknowledge the land? - Some notes on a trend, and what real justice could look like.
Crooked Media

“We Really Care, Do U?” (with Shannon Watts) - The post “We Really Care, Do U?” (with Shannon Watts) appeared first on Crooked Media.
See You In 2020

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

State unveils new red-to-green map, fewer counties in turquoise - [image: State unveils new red-to-green map, fewer counties in turquoise] A top state health official said he believed all counties in New Mexico could be a...
Informed Comment

A big Effing Deal: On Eve of Climate Summit, news that Biden will cut US C02 Emissions 50% by 2030 - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – ( Matthew Daly at the Associated Press reports that President Biden will announce at Thursday’s virtual international Climat...
Dissident Voice

A Palestinian Prayer for Ramadan: May the Voices of the Oppressed Be Heard - COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which ...
jobsanger

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

Watch: Australian students and youth oppose war drive against China - The IYSSE in Australia and New Zealand is holding an online meeting this Saturday to review the mounting threat of a catastrophic war and to outline the so...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

PDF of April 22 issue - [image: PDF of April 22 issue] Download the PDF. Spirit of May Day: Fight Back! After Amazon vote: Unionize ALL workers Smash police violence and white sup...
Wolf Street

What Companies & Office Workers Said About Work from Home: Landlords Are Out of Luck - A “distributed operational workforce” with a net reduction in demand for office space facing a business premised on endless growth.
Antiwar.com

A Palestinian Prayer for Ramadan: May the Voices of the Oppressed Be Heard - COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which ...
LareDOS

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

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

'If They're Doing This to Reporters, What They're Doing to Regular Citizens is Going to be Worse': 'BradCast' 4/21/2021 - It's turning out to be Policing Week on The BradCast for some odd reason...even as a police helicopter circled above our studio here in L.A. for most of to...
The Conscious Resistance Network

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

Compliance Will Not Save Me - Compliance Will Not Save Me Mark Brody Wed, 04/21/2021 - 20:48
Ballot Access News

Ohio Senate Passes Bill for Party Labels for State Supreme Court and Appellate Court Races - Ohio has partisan primaries for judicial offices, but in the general election there is no party label for judicial nominees. On April 21, the Ohio Senate p...
Reading the Pictures

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

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

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

A more nauseating than titillating gay scandal has possibly engulfed Tucker Carlson - It is a possibility that Tucker Carlson is about to 'go through some things.' Usually, when a noted conservative looks to be involved in a gay scandal, ...
Buzzflash

The Disturbing Whiff of Fascism Link Between Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene Evident in Their Despicable Reactions to Chauvin's Conviction (Subscription Needed) - The Washington Post
The Mind Unleashed

Louisiana Man, 67, Walks Free After 20 Years in Prison for Stealing Two Shirts - An elderly Black man from New Orleans is hoping to begin a new chapter of his life after he walked free from prison after serving a 20-year sentence for st...
In These Times

Hunter Biden Is the Unwitting Poster Boy for Our Sham Meritocracy - "Beautiful Things," a new memoir by the president's son, offers a revealing glimpse into the lives of America's ruling class. - Hunter Biden wanted to be an artist, perhaps a writer or a musician. His older brother, Beau, encouraged him to become a singer-songwriter. And yet, impe...
Mahablog

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

Report Documents Governments’ Use of COVID-19 to Impose Authoritarian Policies - A January 2021 report by the American Friends Service Committee documents how local and state governments arounds the world have implemented “extreme eme...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Injustice, ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Barron 2052 - Tierney Sneed @Talking Points Memo: Senate Confirms Civil Rights Advocate Vanita Gupta To No. 3 DOJ Role. Josephine Harvey @ HuffPost: Tucker Carlson Goe...
Second Nexus

Tucker Tried to Drag Biden for 'Weighing in on a Jury Decision' and People Made Him Instantly Regret It - Millions across the nation rejoiced on Tuesday at the news that Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts for the murder of George Floyd, whose d...
Democracy Chronicles

Parties Benefit By Running Nominees in Unwinnable Races - Despite a Republican foothold, when Southern Democrats ran a candidate for state legislature, it increased the party's district vote share.
Discourse

The GOP Wants to Make Sure No Cop Is Ever Held Accountable Again - Republicans have correctly realized that large-scale protests work. Now they want to stop them happening again. The post The GOP Wants to Make Sure No Co...
Reform Austin

Medicaid Expansion Bill Has Enough Votes to Pass the Texas House - After federal Medicaid officials rescinded the 1115 waiver forcing Texas to find new options for drawing down billions in federal funding for healthcare,...
Skeptical Raptor

COVID vaccine updates – large clinical trials will be unnecessary - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. The questions I keep getting are will we need COVID-19 vaccine updates and how fast ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Belarus Distorts U.S. Message, Ignores Repression Record - The U.S. eased the sanctions against Belarus when its government eased its totalitarian grip on civil liberties. But last year Belarus resumed repression t...
NORML

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

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

The Point People Miss About Navalny’s Imprisonment - So, the “opposition” leader Alexei Navalny is in prison, and is apparently very sick and perhaps near death. Navalny is not popular in Russia, he is popula...
Freethought Now

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

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

Rapper Slim Thug Teams Up With Houston Restaurant to Raise Money for Education Charity - [image: fried chicken fingers in a waffle cone topped with ranch dressing and mac and cheese] Slim Thug’s Still Tippin’ Cone, topped with spicy ranch and ...
Political Garbage Chute

Biden Ends Trump Administration’s Research Into Electrolytes and Plant Life - WASHINGTON, D.C. — While he’s only been in office just around a hundred days, President Joe Biden has shown no lack of desire or commitment to change thi...
The Contributor

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

The Director of National Intelligence’s Hypocritical Annual Threat Assessment - DNI Avril Haines' Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intel Community is written in classic DC-establishment-ese but leaves room for plenty of policy inde...
Seeing the Forest

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

In Politics, Democrats -- and only Democrats -- ask: What’s the Point of Winning? - * by Neil H. Buchanan* We no longer see as much of the "Democrats in disarray" trope in U.S. political discussion, and for good reason. Paul Krugman goe...
Ecosophia

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

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

Why Plant a Pollinator Garden? - It’s that time of year. Insects of all kinds are emerging from their winter slumber to seek food, shelter, and a safe place to have their babies, and se...
The Ghion Journal

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

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘It’s Been Burning For A While’ By Chris Pierce - Singer-songwriter Chris Pierce highlights this long history of violence against black people is highlighted by singer-songwriter tune, "It's Been Burning...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Privacy Rights Do Not Come With a Price Tag - Apps you use every day on your phone collect and sell sensitive data, including your location over time. That data could wind up in government hands with...
MintPress News

Ramadan Brings No Relief for Yemen as Saudis Block Chairties and Turks Unleash Foreign Mercanaries - Just as it transferred mercenaries from Syria to the conflict zones in Libya and Azerbaijan, Turkey -- the financial and spiritual capital of the Muslim ...
Living Blue in Texas

The TX House Voted To Give School Resource Officer Qualified Immunity - They voted on this on April 20th. The same April 20th when the murderer of George Floyd was found guilty on all counts. In only the latest attempt by Tex...
Land Destroyer

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

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

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

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

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

Finally, a Less Than Idiotic Decision on Afghanistan - President Joe Biden has ordered complete withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, without conditions, on or before September 11, 2021. Better 20 y...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Communication With the Deaf - Jack wrote this in August, 2005. I have searched all through these photo files and can’t locate the picture of the bumper sticker (photos didn’t save from ...
Crooked Timber

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

Ellzey Targeted by Cruz as Early Voting Continues - Early voting continues for the May 1 general and special elections and runs through April 27. *CD6 special:* U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) has not endorsed a ca...
Trivial Knot

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

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

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

Looking past the plant-gate to understand white supremacy - In a recent Jacobin article titled “Jim Clyburn Is Wrong About FDR and the New Deal,” Paul Heideman made the case that despite his failure to use his presi...
Sludge

Blue Dog Rep Jim Cooper Gets Progressive Primary Challenger - Each month, Sludge gives special recognition to a public official who has recently received an award from a lobbying group. Jim Cooper, the ten-term Democr...
TalkLeft

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

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

Student Climate Action Lobby Day - Tuesday, April 20, 2021 On April 6th, over one hundred students from across Texas participated in a virtual lobby day of the Texas Legislature. In partners...
Bayou Brief

“Little” Joe Catalanotto: A Daughter Reflects on Hollywood South’s Independent Pioneer - When you type “1301 Kentucky St.” in Google Maps, a pretty nondescript white-painted warehouse pops up in a pretty average looking neighborhood – average f...
Texas Freedom Network

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

‘One of the first examples of cancel culture’ - Jim Bakker isn't entirely wrong because "cancel culture" refers to nothing other than this: facing the consequences of reaping what you sow.
BillMoyers.com

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

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

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

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

Questions of the day. - What do you think will be the final outcome of the Derek Chuavin trial? And how will the result *(whatever it is)* impact the psyche of the country?
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism - Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump's parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America. Th...
Greg Palast

Deepwater Horizon: The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic - Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Police Killings, Ecuador and Afghanistan on the Freedom Side - Watch the Freedom Side livestream every Thursday at 8pm EST hosted by me and Eugene Puryear on Breakthrough News.
WhatWouldJackDo

“[Y]ou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”…hopefully, I did it well for 20 years - (credit to Stephen King for the quote) I have always had the illusion it was more important or as important to be a good man as to be a great... Read more »
Media Lens

Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond - Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolst...
Debunking Christianity

"Doubting Thomas" Tells Us All We Need To Know About Christianity - The lessons of the "doubting Thomas" story are not what you think. It does not offer any objective evidence that Jesus arose from the dead. It only offer...
The Grayzone

In moving UN speech, veteran diplomat confronts OPCW ‘stonewalling and smear tactics’ on Syria - Speaking to the UN Security Council, veteran diplomat Hans von Sponeck calls out the OPCW’s “stonewalling and unacceptable smear tactics” amid growing ou...
Progressives Chat

Regarding Oscar and Chloé Zhao - Next Sunday, April 25, 2021, will be the 93rd Academy Awards for film achievements for the year 2020. I have mentioned, in previous years, that I don’t ...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Corporate Diversity Training - If you enjoy these cartoons, please support them on Patreon. This cartoon is, I think, pretty self-explanatory. I don’t have much to say about this issue,...
Robert Reich

Biden’s Industrial Policy - America is about to revive an idea that was left for dead decades ago. It’s called industrial...
Stinque

Save the Date - There’s a date we’ve been looking forward to for awhile, a date we might not live to see, but one that holds great significance for America: One fine day...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Brazil Politics: Crypto-fascism, Corruption, Democracy - Dandelion Salad Note to DS readers and writers: having computer problems at the moment; nothing serious, need to have a fan replaced and waiting for the de...
Eclectablog

How government SHOULD(N’T) work – with special guest Don Moynihan - Don Moynihan on Twitter: @donmoyn Don Moynihan's Georgetown University profile is HERE. Buy Don Moynihan's book Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Othe...
The Militant

Solidarity with miners, steelworkers on strike! - ATLANTA — Some 1,100 union coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, voted overwhelmingly April 9 to reject a tentative contract proposal and ...
Unlimited Hangout

Military Bases Housing Migrant Children Plagued by Serial Sexual Abuse Claims - The Biden administration is now housing unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in Texas and California. Some of these bases have been plagued f...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 14 Wrap-up: This moment calls for action - This week’s legislative update will be a little more personal as the last few days have been incredibly hard on our community. The State Legislature is in ...
Independent Political Report

From the Desk of Ralph Nader: Tort Law Explained with Cartoons - *Author and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the 1996 and 2000 Green Party presidential nominee, 2004 Reform Party presidential nominee, and 2008 Peace and...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez and Hovercast CEO Eli Stonberg Talk Digital Event Strategies - I sat down with Eli Stonberg, the CEO and co-founder of Hovercast, an interactive live streaming and event platform, to discuss the platform’s success and ...
Dissent Magazine

Restorative Justice in Indian Country - Wellness courts provide an example of how some tribal governments are using indigenous sovereignty to build a community-based justice system, rooted in s...
Tribune of the People

Brazil: Peasants from the North of Minas and the South of Bahia Declare Support for Camp Manoel Ribeiro - Editor’s Note: The following is an unofficial translation of a statement published by the Brazilian democratic revolutionary newspaper, A Nova Democracia, ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Lobbying groups trying to block a path to citizenship - Prepare for a new era of debate over immigration. Should the Democratic-controlled Congress legalize undocumented workers and revamp the visa system? Ho...
Bud Kennedy

Is this Texas election about potholes or Commies? Congress election blurs campaigns - The fire-and-brimstone ads in the mailbox say it’s election time. Democrats are campaigning for city and school offices. But Republicans seem to be campaig...
Liberal America

Pot Legalization is Not About Getting High–It’s About Ending the Drug War - Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana. A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state. Mo...
Due Dissidence

Podcast: Inside the Democrats’ War on Bernie Sanders – w/Branko Marcetic - Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of the book Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, joined the podcast to discuss his thorough and...
Pages of Victory

No one has said it better. - I need to drive my two-year-old to daycare tomorrow morning. To ensure we arrive alive, we won't take public transit (Oscar Grant). I removed all air fr...
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...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
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Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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