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Courthouse News

Newsom signs slew of housing bills after recall triumph - Lawmakers hope the new laws will combat California's persistent problems with homelessness and expensive housing.
memeorandum

The Most Important Statistic of the Biden Presidency (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker) - Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker: *The Most Important Statistic of the Biden Presidency* — One in five hundred Americans has died in the pandemic, and Rep...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Antony Blinken chuckles as Republican senator makes Joe Biden mute button claims – video - The Republican senator Jim Risch pressed the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, over rumours someone in the White House has the ability to cut off the p...
Raw Story

'You lost': Mitch McConnell hopes to never speak to Trump again, according to Woodward book - The relationship between Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Donald Trump is so frayed that the Senate GOP Leader hopes he will never again have to talk to t...
The Hill

Michigan state lawmaker stripped of committee assignments after alleged jail escape attempt - Embattled Michigan state Rep. Jewell Jones (D) was stripped of his committee assignments on Thursday following a reported jail escape attempt, ...
Axios

Focus group: All 10 swing voters oppose Texas abortion law - All 10 swing voters in Axios’ latest focus groups — including those who described themselves as "pro-life" — said they oppose Texas' new anti-abortion la...
Mediaite

Trump’s Continued Support of Jan. 6 Rioters Shows He’s a ‘Public Safety Threat to the American People’, Says Rep. Jason Crow - Former President Donald Trump’s continued encouragement and support for those involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol showed that he was ...
The Verge

The iPad Mini doesn’t support mmWave 5G - Image: Apple Apple’s newly redesigned iPad Mini was one of the most exciting announcements at its iPhone 13 event on Tuesday, but in the aftermath a lim...
Talking Points Memo

‘Crisis Standards’ in Idaho - Facing a wave of COVID hospitalizations Idaho today activated its ‘crisis standards of care’ for the entire state. In effect...
Salon.com

Newsmax host screams, cuts off feed during interview with veteran who criticized Trump - "Don't come on this program and take the talking points of the left," he thundered
The Root

The Remake Sweepstakes Continue, but Weeeee...Will Always Love Whitney's Version of The Bodyguard the Most - Can we ever just leave a tender moment alone? Apparently not, as news in the cinematic streets is that yet another of our nostalgic faves is one step clo...
The Week

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers star Jane Powell dies at 92 - *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* star Jane Powell dies at 92
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video - 15 Golden Girls Characters We Love To Hate - If there is one thing I learned during Donald Trump's time in the White Office *(which is officially known as the years we all went to the other side of...
Reform Austin

House Freedom Caucus Member Matt Krause Challenges Ken Paxton for Texas Attorney General - Attorney General Ken Paxton just got another Republican primary challenger, but this time it is someone who has been close to him for years: state Rep. M...
Alternet

Democrats are throwing themselves under the bus - Congressional Democrats are negotiating against themselves as they try to complete a spending plan that started at $3.5 trillion but is likely to shrink ...
Mediagazer

China is cracking down on pessimistic financial blogs and social media accounts, as well as fraudulent ones; analysts worry independent voices will be silenced (Financial Times) - Financial Times: *China is cracking down on pessimistic financial blogs and social media accounts, as well as fraudulent ones; analysts worry independent...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Hurricane Ida, Chemical Plants Flare Louisiana Gulf - We know the levees held and the electric grid didn’t. But the other impact of Hurricane Ida, as the photo telegraphs, came from the chemical plants on “C...
Common Dreams

Judge Blocks Biden From Continuing 'Inhumane' Trump Policy to Deport Families - "This is not the end of the battle against this practice," said one rights group, "but it is a major step to ensure that the U.S. welcomes these asylum-see...
San Antonio Report

Home prices keep rising, but San Antonio market still more economical than Texas overall - [image: The Agave Trace neighborhood on the northwest side of San Antonio is representative of the housing boom discussed by Urban Land Institute. Photos t...
Political Wire

Evangelical Ranks Grew During the Trump Years - Pew Research: “Contrary to what some may have expected, a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data finds that there has been no large-scale departur...
slacktivist

‘The redeeming effects of the Christian worldview’ - "Former student athletes recalled how he would pull up a recliner to watch them while they showered, and Hastert admitted to some allegations of sexual abu...
Wolf Street

What Comes After Mind-Blowing Free-Money Blow-Off Spike in Retail Sales? A Spike Doesn’t Spike Forever - Powered by price increases.
Houston Public Media

How ‘Attention’ Highlights The Struggle Between The Mind And The Brain - The author of 'Attention: A Love Story' shares how she left behind her medication in the search for understanding the true depth of her attention.
The Texas Signal

Congressional Texas Dems draw heat for backing fossil fuel subsidies - Texas climate change activists with the Sunrise Movement are condemning several congressional Texas Democrats for supporting fossil fuel subsidies in a maj...
Techdirt.

China's Game Controllers Ignore Emergent Order - Last week, China restricted children under 18 to three weekend hours of video games per week. If you’re a parent of a Minecraft- or Fortnite-obsessed chi...
World Socialist Web Site

Brazil’s PT and PSOL ally with right in face of Bolsonaro’s coup threats - In response to the disintegration of Brazil’s bourgeois regime, the pseudo-left is promoting extreme right movements as their “democratic” allies.
Texas Environmental News

Overnight Energy & Environment — Presented by Climate Power — Emissions heading toward pre-pandemic levels - Welcome to Thursday’s Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. [...] The post Overn...
Daily Dot

‘That was a scary moment’: TikToker films Lyft driver refusing to roll up the windows on highway, trying to grab their phone - [image: In a TikTok, a Lyft driver throws a suitcase at her passenger after she demands he get out of the car.] In a TikTok posted on Tuesday, a Lyft dri...
VICE

Deep-Fried Camembert Recipe - Thought camembert couldn't be any creamier? Try deep-frying it for the ultimate in cheese heaven.
Ballot Access News

New York State Appellate Division Upholds New York’s May Petition Deadline for Independent Candidates - On May 16, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the trial court and ruled that New York’s new May petition deadline...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Ballet takes to the streets for innovative new digital show - As CultureMap has reported, in-person stage shows and live performances in Houston are back in a big way. But for those still reticent about attending eve...
Slate

Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True - Only after his death is it clear what he was really writing about.
Al Jazeera English

US Federal Reserve reviews ethics rules after trading revelations - The Federal Reserve said that Chair Jerome Powell has requested a 'fresh and comprehensive look at the ethics rules'.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

‘These are the facts’: Black educators silenced from teaching America’s racist past - *This is a poignant piece on how the current anti-CRT moment is being felt and experience on the ground by African American teachers. It maps on well to ...
Living Blue in Texas

Living Blue in Texas Endorses Joe Jaworski for Texas Attorney General - Joe Jaworski will bring integrity back to the office of Attorney General. When we think about our State Attorney General The post Living Blue in Texas En...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Thou Shall Not Criticize Trump - Josh Feldman @ Mediaite: Trump Expresses Support for Those Charged in Capitol Riot, Says They’re Being ‘Persecuted,’ Days Before ‘Justice for J6’ Rally. ...
Futurism

Startup’s Mushroom Leather Ready for Commercial Production - Mushroom Leather A new biotech materials startup called Bolt Threads has created a leather-like material called Mylo that could revolutionize the fake le...
Tribune of the People

24th of September 2021: International Day of Action for Chairman Gonzalo - Editor’s Note: The following is call by the Communist Party of Peru and the Communist Party of Brazil (Red Fraction) to hold an international day of action...
Capital & Main

L.A. County Will Shut Down Miles of Urban Oil Fields - *The move will impact over a thousand active wells.* The post L.A. County Will Shut Down Miles of Urban Oil Fields appeared first on .
Eschaton

Happy Hour Thread - Get happy.
Sludge

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Once Again Boot Lobbyist Gift Ban From Agenda - In late January of last year, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic arrived in force, the head of the Pennsylvania state Senate, Jake Corman, took a trip...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

For the First Time, Jim Schutze and John Wiley Price Talk The Accommodation and the Work that Remains - Jim Schutze hadn’t re-read his book, 1987’s The Accommodation, in many years. When he finally did, he found the voice of an angry young man in its pages,...
NPR's Health Shots

Infrastructure Bill Aims To Address Lead Pipes: Lessons Learned From Flint - The infrastructure bill moving through Congress includes billions to replace lead pipes. In Flint, Mich., NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with residents on how gov...
Crooked Media

“You win some, you Newsom.” - The post “You win some, you Newsom.” appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Intercept

At Rikers Island, Inmates Locked in Showers Without Food and Defecating in Bags - Two years of fearmongering over criminal justice reform led to a humanitarian crisis at the notorious New York City jails. The post At Rikers Island, Inm...
BEYONDbones

Remembering the Past: 13 August 1521 - Every year, from September 15 through October 15, people celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. Let us remember that this year, 2021, ma...
Malady

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

State agency awards $11 million contract to oversee construction of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas-Mexico border wall - State officials awarded a contract on Thursday to oversee construction of a barrier along the Texas-Mexico border to a joint venture between a design firm...
OpEd News

Plenty of Intelligence To Prevent 9/11 - Lying by senior officials is bad enough, and there is now plenty of evidence that former CIA Director George Tenet and his closest agency associates are se...
Dissident Voice

Big Tech Cartels Versus Freedom of Speech, Culture and Conscience - I released a song called Rome is Burning to most streaming platforms on March 1, 2021. The next day the video of the song was posted on YouTube. The song...
Dos Centavos

A Little Political History for Heritage Month - Here’s a video in 3 parts featuring Dr. Jose Angel Gutierrez (Professor Emeritus of History, UT Arlington) on Los Nuevos Americans–The New Americans. Given...
Latino Rebels

#LatinoRebelsDC - Latino Rebels Radio: September 16, 2021
Election Law Blog

The Independent State Legislature Doctrine - Hayward Smith has posted this detailed article on the independent state legislature doctrine, which also responds to arguments defending certain versions o...
Dandelion Salad

Coups, Censorship and Propaganda: The U.S. New Cold War Playbook, by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Sept. 14, 2021 September 16, 2021 “Uncountable are the editorials in every...
American Prospect

Of Recalls and Elephants - Today on TAP: The GOP vs. reality
Vox

It’s getting harder for people to believe that Facebook is a net good for society - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Germany in 2020. | Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images Why the latest Facebook scandal might sti...
Earthworks

It’s Time for the Feds to Update Mining Regs - Today Earthworks, along with Indigenous allies and other environmental organizations, submitted a petition to the Department of the Interior asking the B...
Daily Cartoonist

741.5 Comic Chronicles - Once upon a time there was a lonely rich boy whose mother insisted on dragging him away from home to strange lands. Deprived of friends his own age and mis...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge DHS to End Broad, Unwarranted Surveillance Programs - In a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, EPIC and a Coalition of privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties organizations demanded the Department...
Angry Bear

Letters From An American – September 14, 2021 - The events are akin to the film Seven Days In May with a role reversal detailing a rogue General instead of President. Seven Days in May begins with a ri...
Counterpunch

Harriet Washington, “Medical Apartheid” - The post Harriet Washington, “Medical Apartheid” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Popular Resistance

UN Human Rights Chief Calls For Venezuela Sanctions Relief - Mexico City, Mexico - Michelle Bachelet, United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Monday for sectoral sanctions against Venezuel...
Deadline Politics

Checkmate! Netflix Hit With $5M Suit Over “Sexism” Of ‘Queen’s Gambit’ Line About Soviet Chess Legend - Poised to win big at this weekend’s 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, The Queen’s Gambit is now a pawn in a legal game. Barrier breaking Soviet chess icon Nona G...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Tunisia’s President Misleads On a Power Grab - Tunisia’s president shut down the country’s parliament on disputed grounds and has aggressively moved to suppress dissent.
Mother Jones

A Last Laugh: Norm Macdonald Eulogizes Norm Macdonald - Here’s one. A humourist¹ walks into a bar. He pulls up a stool, orders a banana for the table², tips the bartender, and, 61 years later, checks out, leavin...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 16, 2021 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Tropical Depression Nicholas adds insult to injury in storm-battered Louisiana; Biden continues to pitch clean energy solutions an...
Mondoweiss

A Palestinian kitchen full of memories - Maqlouba, musafan, and somaqiya. Ziad Ali shares three recipes from friends, collecting oral histories behind the carefully curated spices and mixtures of ...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Winner in Afghanistan: China - As China’s geopolitical squeeze play on Afghanistan shows all too vividly, there is still much wisdom in the words that Sir Halford Mackinder wrote over a ...
naked capitalism

Sports Desk: Top College Athletes Strike Endorsement Deals; Meanwhile, the NCAA Seeks to Influence Pending Federal Legislation - The NCAA has changed its rules so that student-athletes can profit from commercial endorsement deals that use their names, images, and likenesses.
El Paso Matters

Opinion: This school year, let’s re-humanize English class - By Jonna Perrillo and Andrew Newman Holden Caulfield. Cassie Logan. Scout Finch.Many of us can trace our love of reading back to a character who first ch...
ProPublica

The Director of Florida’s Program for Brain Damaged Infants Has Resigned - by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald ] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Miam...
CPI's Danger in the Air

ACLU renews push for school policing law after our investigation - The numbers are troubling, the images and stories indelible. Despite years of pressure on schools to stop policing students, we found that students conti...
Texas Standard

As Congressional Democrats Work To Pass New Voting Laws, They’ve Been Keeping One Eye On Texas - The Freedom to Vote Act includes provisions that are at odds with Texas’ recently adopted voting law.
Undernews

The War on Terror Was Corrupt From the Start -
Discourse

We Don’t Talk Enough About: Lox Spread - Lox spread is doing a vital public service for people who want to commune with lox without spending a ton of money. The post We Don’t Talk Enough About:...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The First Week Of The NFL Season Was Pure Chaos. What Does That Mean For The Rest Of It? - Week 1 of the 2021 NFL season was deeply strange. Whether it was the Saints thrashing the Packers to start the post-Drew Brees era, the Steelers upending t...
Buzzflash

Peter F. Crowley for BuzzFlash: Time to Drop the "Never Forget" 9/11 Mantra - BuzzFlash
WhoWhatWhy

General Promises US ‘Surge’ to Fight Foreign Cyberattacks - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Progressive.org

Smart Ass Cripple: My First Taste of Social Security - Smart Ass Cripple: My First Taste of Social Security After waiting sixty-five years for this money, it feels satisfying to finally start receiving it.
Trivial Knot

Too many topics, not enough time - Like many writers, I have a long list of ideas that I never got around to writing about. I’m not very consistent about writing them down, but still the lis...
Second Nexus

Pro-Trump TV Anchor Cuts Off Vet’s Feed and Has Total Meltdown Over His Trump Critique - Fed up with the supposed liberal bias of mainstream media and even the conservative Fox News network, recent years have seen conservatives leap to create...
Eater Houston

It Looks Like Massive Downtown Houston Food Hall Post HTX Will Arrive This November - [image: the interior of a building with in interesting, X-shaped stairwell] According to numerous reports, Post HTX will open on Saturday, November 13. | ...
Texas Monthly

‘The Nowhere Inn’ Delves Into St. Vincent but Leaves Plenty of Vacancies - Dallas’s mercurial pop phenom writes and stars in this loosely autobiographical satire that raises questions it doesn’t deign to answer. The post ‘The No...
ArcaMax

Biden Applies His Bragging Rights to the Stock Market - "Biden's Stock Market Returns Continue to Trounce Trump's" reads a recent Forbes headline. Sophisticated investors know this, but most of the public may no...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Quilting is the term given to the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually by hand using a needle ...
Liberal America

The Greatest Threat to Public Health is Not COVID–It’s Climate Change - What is the greatest threat to global public health? Many will argue it’s COVID-19. That’s a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645...
In These Times

Talking to Bourbon Workers on the Picket Line - A conversation with Matt Aubrey, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D. - Around 400 union distillery workers in Bardstown, Kentucky, hit the picket line September 13 after rejecting a contract offer from Heaven Hill Distilleri...
Glasstire

Revolution to Counter-Revolutions: Monet to Matisse at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - In his 1960 essay, Modernist Painting, Clement Greenberg writes, “With Manet and the Impressionists the question ceased to be defined as one of color ver...
Countercurrents

The Logic of Hegemony - On September 8, 2021, at least five media houses and six offices of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) were vandalized in three of Tripura’s ...
Claytoonz

No Nukes For You - Next time you hear some MAGA lunatic claim President Biden has dementia or lost his mind, can’t tell his sister and wife apart, occasionally thinks Vice-Pr...
Daily Howler

BLUE SKILL LEVELS VERY LOW: Is Holmes County the typical rural school district? - *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2021* *Charles Blow, in love with the poor: *We were sorry to read this photo caption in today's New York Times: Amanda Gorman,...
Rio Grande Guardian

Mills: Hopefully, Sen. Cornyn can help us get infrastructure dollars for Port Mansfield - RAYMONDVILLE, Texas – Willacy County Judge Aurelio ‘Kete’ Guerra has asked Port Mansfield Port Director Ron Mills to deputize for him at today’s big regi...
Ring of Fire

Biden’s Declassified 9/11 Report Reveals FBI & CIA Incompetence - Via America’s Lawyer: After 20 years, President Biden declassifies “Operation Encore,” a 16-page FBI report on the 9/11 attacks. Although much of the doc...
DeSmogBlog

GMB Union ‘Misleadingly’ Claims Gas Boilers Will be ‘Ripped Out’ of Homes Under Net Zero Plans - One of the UK’s biggest trade unions has been accused of being “deeply misleading” after suggesting government climate plans involve “ripping out” gas bo...
First Draft

TFC: Teedy’s Trash Trouble - Takeout Trash In This Fucking City.
Political Garbage Chute

Tucker Carlson Will Interview Nicki Minaj’s Cousin’s Balls on Tonight’s Show - “I really think it makes sense for a dick like me to interview a couple of nuts.” – Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News host and white supremacist Tucker Ca...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman - National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
The Contributor

Factcheck: No One Pushed ‘Button’ to Prevent Biden from Speaking - News Image: Conservatives have falsely claimed a video shows someone cut off Biden’s microphone, for fear he was veering off-script. Category: Fact Check...
Greg Palast

Background Briefing: Freedom to Vote ActIt has improvements, it has detriments, and there's an awful lot that's missing. An awful lot. - The Freedom to Vote Act has been put together by a group of Democratic Senators and Joe Manchin, who is now trying to sell it to his Republican colleagues ...
The Progressive Wing

9/16-17 News Roundup & Open Thread - Good morning Birdies! We’ll start with a Common Dreams piece about Sanders and others reaction to three center-right House Dems voting against Medicare hav...
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue in normal mid-cycle range - -* by New Deal democrat* Last week I encouraged readers to take the very low jobless claims number with a grain of salt due to Labor Day artifacts, a...
Rewire

Mexico’s Landmark Abortion Decisions Were Like ‘Feminist Christmas’ - Just days after Texas effectively outlawed abortion within its borders, Mexican feminists celebrated a historic abortion win. The post Mexico’s Landmark ...
Democracy Now!

El Salvador Becomes First Nation to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender Amid Growing Authoritarianism - Thousands in El Salvador took to the streets Wednesday to protest President Nayib Bukele's growing consolidation of power and a new law making El Salvador ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, Sept. 16 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, Sept. 16]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to ...
The Smirking Chimp

A Brief History of the 2nd American Civil War -
The Conversation

4 strategies for a UN breakthrough on energy and climate change - For the first time in 40 years, the UN General Assembly is convening a global summit of world leaders to talk solely about energy.
Space City Weather

One of the year’s last summer-like weekends lies ahead - Good morning. Houston will see one more partly to mostly cloudy day before a string of mostly sunny days. Temperatures will likely reach the low 90s during...
ROAR Magazine

Introducing the ROAR – Resistance Studies Initiative collaboration - ROAR and the Resistance Studies Initiative are collaborating on an ongoing series focused on usable social research for a broad range of liberation struggles.
Lawfare

Why African Governments are Accepting Afghan Refugees - A photo of the Rwandan flag. (Hjalmar Gislason, https://flic.kr/p/4yDCJv; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) In the final days of ...
Novara Media

Finally, a Green Party Leadership Race Worth Following - [image: Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer, two Green party co-leadership candidates, standing in front of the Houses of Parliament]Leadership elections in the...
Grist

California wants to ban misleading recycling labels. Plastic companies don’t. - A new bill will stop the plastic industry from putting the “chasing arrows” symbol on plastic that can’t be recycled.
Skeptophilia

Bias amplification - Last week I had a frustrating exchange with an acquaintance over the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine. He'd posted on social media a meme with the gist tha...
Off The Kuff

Justice Department files its motion for an injunction against SB8 - […]
Morning Consult

National Scrutiny Over New Abortion, Voting Laws Hasn’t Changed Texans’ Perceptions of Greg Abbott - The post National Scrutiny Over New Abortion, Voting Laws Hasn’t Changed Texans’ Perceptions of Greg Abbott appeared first on Morning Consult.
Infidel753

Video of the day -- sic semper tyrannis - A light-hearted item from The Lone Animator, creator of The Ghooric Zone.
Earth 911

Join International Coastal Cleanup — Work With Others or on Your Own - More than 8 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year, polluting... The post Join International Coastal Cleanup — Work With Others or on Yo...
See You In 2020

The “United States” isn’t a nation, it’s a terrorist organization - The idea that the United States represents an actual nation is a myth designed to comfort us in the face of the horrifying reality we on this continent a...
The NM Political Report

Officials urge DHS to end program that puts asylum seekers at greater risk - [image: Officials urge DHS to end program that puts asylum seekers at greater risk] Several elected New Mexico officials signed onto a letter sent by the ...
Lowering the Bar

Realtor Claims Home Not Sold Due to Compromising Paraphernalia of Sundry Sorts - If you're using the word "sundry" today, you might as well use that weird S, too. Related Stories - Third Planet v. Crowne Plaza: Infinity War...
Portside

Teaching Without Mask and Vaccine Mandates - Teaching Without Mask and Vaccine Mandates Mark Brody Thu, 09/16/2021 - 01:41
Ian Welsh

The Lack of Belief In Good - [image: Story 479149178] Are humans good, bad or neutral? It’s an old philosophical debate, and not just in the West. Confucius thought they were born ne...
jobsanger

Beyond Reprehensible -
Duck of Minerva

Vulgar Balancing is Bad Statecraft - Every self-respecting foreign policy expert who fancies themselves part of a realpolitik tradition talks as if the balance of power were everything. Now, I...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Children of the Ward - I watch the children playing, See them dancing in the yard. Preserve the words they`re saying, Like a fancy Christmas card. The moments that betray them ...
Workers World

PDF of September 16 issue - [image: PDF of September 16 issue] Download the PDF. Mandates alone can’t stop COVID ALSO: Strike stops snacks; Abortion laws: Mexico & Texas; Evictions on...
Informed Comment

China slams US Sanctions on Taliban, Eyes investments in Afghan Minerals - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laura Zhou at the South China Morning Post reports that Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on Wednesda...
Liberation News

Pro-choice activist arrested at Manatee County Commission meeting - On Sept. 14, activists gathered outside of the Manatee County Commission chambers to protest a county commission meeting where they would be discussing pot...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How the Electorate Changes from Presidential to Midterm Years - Dear Readers: Join us tonight from 6-7 p.m. eastern for a conversation with Matthew Barzun, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom as well as Swe...
Antiwar.com

Top US Generals Blatantly Lied About Afghanistan and Iraq Wars To Advance Their Careers - According to the Pentagon’s annual reports on military justice, there have been more than 1.3 million cases of discipline in the US military since 2001, ...
Debunking Christianity

Evidence Abounds against the Importance of the Philosophy of Religion - The evidence against the importance of the Philosophy of Religion is found exactly where we would expect it to be found. Just consider what it would take t...
Caitlin Johnstone

Australia Continues Its Plunge Into Authoritarianism And Military Brinkmanship - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Australia has joined the US and UK in an “enhanced trilateral security partnership” called AUKUS with the unspoken-y...
TXElects

Endorsement and Other Election News for September 15 - *SD12 open: *The campaign of Rep. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) released a new list of endorsements including the entire Denton Co. Commissioners Court, De...
Scheerpost.com

A Boy Went to a COVID-Swamped ER. He Waited for Hours. Then His Appendix Burst. - Non-COVID patients are paying a price as the delta variant and low-vaccination rates overwhelm hospitals across the country. “Wait times can now be measure...
The AltWorld

Covid Cases Explode In Heavily Pfizer Vaccinated Israel - Israel has 84% of its population aged 12 and up vaccinated. Two days ago on Tuesday September […] The post Covid Cases Explode In Heavily Pfizer Vaccinat...
MintPress News

How US Media Misrepresent the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Laboratories and Safety Protocols - Even if we were to accept all the accusations against the WIV regarding their alleged subpar safety standards, none of it has any relevance to the Covid-...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Space, Place and Capitalism: A Roundtable - The year 2021 represents an important milestone in Australian literary history – the fiftieth anniversary of David Ireland’s Miles Franklin Prize-winning...
Chicken Fried Politics

Georgia businesswoman launches GOP primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - Jennifer Strahan comes out swinging in 14th District race with broadside against “unserious” politicians ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor ...
Krebs on Security

Customer Care Giant TTEC Hit By Ransomware - TTEC, [NASDAQ: TTEC], a company used by some of the world's largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing ...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Another Life Goes By’ By Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram - On Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram's latest album, “662,” he recorded a track written about young Black Americans killed as a result of hatred and policing t...
NORML

Virginia: Botanical Medical Cannabis Sales Begin - Long awaited sales of cannabis flower in Virginia began this month when medical dispensaries received the final product approvals from the state's regula...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Founding Father Wisdom, Featuring Thomas Jefferson - If you like these cartoons, please support them on Patreon This cartoon is drawn by the awesome Leah S. Metters! Leah describes herself as “an illustrator ...
Texas Observer

Wastewater Threatens Texas Streams - Diane Causey is a 75-year-old antique shop manager in Utopia, a tiny town of 277 people located an hour-and-a-half northwest of San Antonio. Her favorite...
The Daily Poster

Big Pharma’s Democrats - Three House Dems threatening to kill drug price legislation raked in $1.8 million from pharma donors — and the top aide for one of them is now a pharma lob...
Socialist Alternative

The Implications of Ida – How We Got Here and Where We Go Next - Imagine it’s 90 degrees outside, your wall-to-wall carpet is fully soaked in flood water and it’s starting to mold. Your power is out so you have no air co...
Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford Memorial Gathering - Glen Ford Memorial Gathering bareditors Wed, 09/15/2021 - 22:02 Black Agenda Report
Rallblog

Episode 11 | September 15, 2021: How to Convince the Unvaxxed, AOC and About Cussing - Cartoonists and best friends Ted Rall and Scott Stantis react to Biden’s vaccine mandate and suggest ways to talk to the resistant. AOC’s controversial d...
alicublog

SO HOW COULD I EVER REFUSE/ I FEEL LIKE I WIN WHEN I LOSE. - Republicans are addicted to feeling like winners even when they lose -- witness their never-ending claims that the 2020 presidential election, which Tubb...
Ecosophia

The Negative-Sum Economy - There are tides and seasons in the comments I field for posts here on my blog, certain questions that get asked at regular intervals, certain saliva-flecke...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Sick and Beleaguered Institution: The American Presidency - The Trump Presidency only highlighted long-simmering and tragic problems within our most respected institutions
Edinburg Politics

Gov. Abbott signs into law two new Texas government transparency measures – led by Sen. Zaffirini, Rep. Canales, respectively – which addressed public records problems that arose as a result of COVID-19, reports Omar Ochoa - Two new Texas transparency laws – one by Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County and another one by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg – which addressed p...
Democracy Chronicles

Teaching the 26th Amendment With The New York Times - Learners can now study the history and meaning of the expansion of voting rights to citizens 18 to 20 through a new teaching resource.
Duffel Blog

Local man struggles to remember name of country he cared deeply about last week - He will never, uh, forget.
Due Dissidence

AOC Was Elected To Call Out Elites in Their Own House – So What’s The Problem? - by Keaton Weiss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stole the show at Monday night’s Met Gala when she appeared in a white dress with bright red lettering that read “...
Southeast Texas Record

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

Has Trump’s GOP Committed Midterm Suicide Yet? - The 2022 midterms could be a sign of progress if the ineptitude of the Trump years sees his influence dismissed by thinking Americans.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Met Gala - It’s a story as old as time — or at least as old as the Democratic Party: discover a groundswell of pro-worker, progressive sentiment; find yourselves a fr...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

The still before the storm - Jack wrote this in September, 2005, a few days after a post which he repeats in this post: This morning a close friend of mine attended services at the San...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Why the U.S. Should Keep its Promise to Diversity Visa Winners - *Update 9/14/2021: This week, the House Judiciary Committee will begin markup of immigration provisions in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. As ...
Project Censored

Ray McGinnis and Ken Jenkins - As the nation marks 20 years since the September 11 attacks, Mickey interviews Ray McGinnis, the author of a new book that looks at numerous questions th...
ExChristian.Net

Before and After - *By Carl S ~ * One man made a very astute observation. He said before the ten commandments came to be, there were tribes. Mankind, therefore, already had...
LareDOS

El Grito kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month at TAMIU on Sept. 16 - On tap: TAMIU's first-ever "Diverse Cultures, Diverse Humanities" Lecture Series
Bracing Views

Never Forget — What? - W.J. Astore The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has come and gone. The theme I often heard was “never forget.” Never forget what, exactly? That we wer...
Crooked Timber

Space - I used to think novels were these telos-fuelled trams you hop onto, not like the trams of a normal European city with lines forming meshes that tent-pole a...
Land Destroyer

North Korea’s New Cruise Missile: Built to Threaten or Because of Threats? - *September 14, 2021* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - North Korea’s recent demonstration of an indigenously developed cruise missile has provided another opportu...
Robert Reich

The $3.5 Trillion Bill Corporate America is Terrified OfRight... - *The $3.5 Trillion Bill Corporate America is Terrified Of*Right now, Democrats are working to pass a $3.5 trillion package that will provide long overdue...
Freethought Now

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

The US is turning oil-rich Nigeria into a proxy for its Africa wars - Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a prox...
Field Negro

Caption Monday. - This took place on 9/11, when the president and other former presidents were doing more dignified things to acknowledge that solemn day. Give me a...
Progressives Chat

‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Turns 25 - September 13, 1996 marked the debut of one of the best comedy series in television history. *Everybody Loves Raymond*, from David Letterman’s World Wide P...
Stinque

Befores & Afters - We found ourself watching the news coverage again last week, from the moment the story broke to the events that followed throughout the day. No, not that...
Louis Proyect

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

Expand Medicare NOW! with special guest Jon “Bowzer” Bauman - Jon Bauman on Twitter: @JonBowzerBauman Social Security Works' website: SocialSecurityWorks.org https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1428091298666455042 Jorda...
The Reality-Based Community

Why Alfred Molina argued with peter for quantum showdown? - Any property that is based around a Spider-Man-related character is bound to have rumors of Peter Parker himself showing up at some point in the narrative....
The Rag Blog

MARIANN G. WIZARD : BOOKS | ‘Life Is a Butt Dial: Tales from a Life Among the Tragically Hip’ - It’s A greezy, slippery slope to fun! By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | September 11, 2021 When it’s the Dog Days and the second summer of Covid and th...
Bud Kennedy

Get vaccinated and get $50? Texans like that idea. Tarrant leaders will consider it - What’s the best way to get you and your family vaccinated today? A federal order? Or $50 each? In Texas, money talks. So Tarrant County leaders will discus...
The Militant

Massive rally demands India gov’t repeal anti-farmer laws - More than half a million Indian farmers rallied Sept. 5 in Muzaffarnagar in the state of Uttar Pradesh, above, calling for Indian Prime Minister Narendra M...
Reveal

The Writing Was on the Wall in Afghanistan Years Ago - [image: An illustration in shades of blue shows a woman in a hijab looking sadly over a city from a rooftop as fighter jets fly over. In the corner, a yell...
Unlimited Hangout

9/11 and the Politics of Fear and Self-Preservation - We will either be remembered as a country that took freedom and liberty for all seriously or we will be remembered as a nation of cowards who, driven by fe...
Equality Texas

Special Session 3, Week 0 Update - Before the 3rd Special Session of the Lege gavels in, you can help. Earlier this week we shared that Governor Abbott added anti-transgender youth legislati...
Media Myth Alert

Challenging the media-driven mantra that 9/11 ‘changed everything’ - From the hours immediately after the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, news outlets have promoted a mantra that the assault on commercial and...
Border/Lines

Relief on the horizon for diversity visa lottery winners in limbo—09-10-21 - Immigration news, in context
Innocence Project

From Memphis to Martha’s Vineyard, Powerful Photos of This Week’s Pervis Payne Rallies - More than 750,000 million people have used their voices to support Pervis Payne’s fight for justice over the past year, but on the evening of Sept. 8, Mr...
Environment Texas

Texas wildlife corridors - Luke Metzger Executive Director (512) 479-0388 Contact person by email - Read more about Luke Metzger Friday, September 10, 2021 Infrastructure bil...
Washington Babylon

The Empire Falls Back: When China Supported bin Laden - [image: The Empire Falls Back: When China Supported bin Laden] Since the Taliban retook Kabul last month, geopolitical analysts have speculated about the r...
Independent Political Report

POLITICO: Andrew Yang Plans to Launch New Third Party - Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is plotting the launch of a new third party next month, POLITICO reports today. Yang, who lost a bid...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Mystery Donor Backing Pro-Trump Disinfo Troll With Bitcoin - Days after far-right figures issued a call to support a white nationalist charged with orchestrating a voter misinformation campaign, someone donated nearl...
Seeing the Forest

Is Our Economy Fair? - Little known fact: Seeing the Forest’s slogan is “Who is our economy FOR, anyway?” Take on Wall Street has a new microsite: Is Our Economy Fair? Check it out.
Dispatches from the Underclass

How China Lifted 850 Million People Out of Extreme Poverty, w/ Tings Chak - In February, the Chinese government celebrated the eradication of extreme poverty within its borders. This would be a massive achievement for any country, ...
TalkLeft

Mexico Supreme Court Ruling: Abortion is Not a Crime - The Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that laws criminalizing abortion violate its Consitution. The unanimous ruling from the nation’s top court follows a gro...
High Country News

Idaho denies proposed land exchange - The state found that the timber tracts offered in a proposed trade are worth much less than the land around Payette Lake.
Nina Illingworth

Podcast: Galea International Episode 1 – Graveyard of Empires - Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan and the War Machine howled "but what about the girls?" Should you take them seriously? Find out on Galea Internati...
The Socialist

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Aims For Achieving Systematic Social Change Through Several Initiatives - The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation will now focus its energies towards achieving systemic and social change through Education. Other programs will continue as Dev...
Avedon's Sideshow

We've both been sound asleep - Cornish apple orchard by Adrian Paul Allinson (British, 1890-1959) "Supreme Court Allows Extreme Texas Abortion Ban To Go Into Effect: *S.B. 8 offers priv...
Grits for Breakfast

Politics explains oddities and strange bedfellows in Harris County bail debate - Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg issued a *56-page report* disputing the findings of federal bail monitors overseeing the settlement agreement betwe...
DBC Green

Big-Picture Thoughts on the Life Intolerable - Ye gods, I abhor violence!—including the various forms of violence perpetrated against the People by the Elites through their minions in government and gov...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2021 - Walmart had at least a dozen more shootings in August of 2021 with at least four of them fatal, and at least eleven more injuries. One of the fatal shoo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Covidian Cult (Part III) - In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” Since I published ...
The Mind Unleashed

Dolphin Swims Through Louisiana Neighborhood in Aftermath of Hurricane Ida - In video footage filmed by a shocked local, the marine mammal’s dorsal fin can be seen popping in and out of the water.
Idavox

Anti-Muslim Activist Loses Another NJ Venue - Scott Presler will still come to New Jersey to spread his filth, but not in... The post Anti-Muslim Activist Loses Another NJ Venue appeared first on Id...
Pages of Victory

I am suspending - political posting here. I can be located on Twitter as @MitchelCCharles I am about to turn 79 and I have no power, no base, no opinions not better expre...
Free & Equal

A Good American Livestream Symposium; Moderated by Christina Tobin and Sean Stone (Feat. William Binney) - The post A Good American Livestream Symposium; Moderated by Christina Tobin and Sean Stone (Feat. William Binney) appeared first on Free & Equal.
Downwinders at Risk

“Forward Dallas” Goes Backwards on Environmental Justice - In many ways the inaugural Forward Dallas “neighborhood summit” on Saturday was a microcosm of the current state of affairs at Dallas City Hall when it com...
Bayou Brief

Book Review: Backrooms and Bayous by Robert Mann - Is Bob Mann the Zelig or Forrest Gump of Louisiana politics? Find out in Peter Athas' review of Mann's memoirs.
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting and Scraping, Pounding Sheet Pile: Update on Bank Work at Bayou Bend - And a Word About the Bank “Stabilization” Plans in Memorial Park Aug. 26, 2021 We’ve been meaning to update you on the “restoration” work on the south bank...
WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

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

Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us From the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure - Hemp fuel and other biofuels could reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech clima...
One People's Project

TANYA M. BRAHIMI - NAME: Tanya M. Brahimi (Esposito) AKA: Tatiania Ibrahim Hard to mention the attacks against CRT without mentioning a name that has emerged from the small t...
Dorf on Law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Urban storm water poses threat to creeks, rivers - *The Tarrant Regional Water District’s Fort Worth campus demonstrates eight major green stormwater mitigation methods, including a bioswale, a raingarden...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Modern Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, December 03, 2009

War. What's it good for?

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