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Mediaite

Mike Pence Says ‘No One’s Above the Law,’ But Indicting Trump for Crimes Would ‘Send a Terrible Message’ - CNN's Dana Bash pursued a line of questioning with Mike Pence that prompted the former vice president to offer seemingly contradictory responses during a...
memeorandum

House Is Paralyzed as Far-Right Rebels Continue Mutiny Against McCarthy (Annie Karni/New York Times) - Annie Karni / New York Times: *House Is Paralyzed as Far-Right Rebels Continue Mutiny Against McCarthy* — Members of the ultraconservative House Freedo...
Raw Story

Charges against 2 suspects in grisly California killing dropped amid police racist text scandal - Prosecutors on Wednesday said charges have been dismissed against two men accused in the grisly California killing of a 25-year-old woman because the off...
Brad Blog

A Governor 'Regrets' His Use of the Death Penalty: 'BradCast' 6/7/2023 - On today's BradCast: Amidst all the madness, we take a moment to revisit a continuing stain on the nation and what can be done about it, with a longtime fr...
Political Wire

House Paralyzed as Far-Right Rebels Continue Mutiny - “Hard-right Republicans pressed their mutiny against Speaker Kevin McCarthy into a second day on Wednesday, keeping control of the House floor in a raw dis...
The Hill

Federal prosecutors notify Trump he is target of investigation: reports - The Justice Department has notified former President Trump that he is the target of an investigation, signaling that prosecutors may be nearing a charging ...
Al Jazeera English

Forest recognition for Papua tribe raises hopes for climate - Indigenous peoples are increasingly recognised as the most effective custodians of the world's remaining forests.
World Socialist Web Site

Far-right demagogue Danielle Smith leads United Conservatives to victory in Alberta election - The UCP’s re-election is a damning indictment of the right-wing record of the trade union-sponsored NDP and of the unions’ role in suppressing the class st...
San Antonio Report

The City of San Antonio to expand climate plan with $1M in federal funding - The money will allow the city to refresh its Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, staff told city council members Wednesday. ------------------------------ T...
Popular Resistance

The CIA Suit And New Proof It Spied On Assange - The plaintiffs, all U.S. citizens who visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, claim in their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence...
Alternet

'PGA is gonna get what it deserves': Condemnation of Saudi LIV merger unites some House members - *WASHINGTON —* Members of both sides of the political aisle spoke out against the PGA merger with the Saudi Arabia-owned LIV Golf Tuesday. Just last year...
Deadline Politics

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Program Expanding To All California Counties - Dolly Parton is reversing the sentiment of her hit song “9 to 5.” In California, it’s all giving and no taking. California is kicking off a statewide expan...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

The story of the man who was NOT wearing the pro-trans pedophilia shirt at Pride - One thing LGBTQ people have to deal with these days are wannabe social media influencers trolling us for content. Groups such as Gays Against Groomers an...
Daily Dot

‘This is why people steal from Walmart’: Walmart customer catches security guard jumping rope outside building - [image: Walmart security playing with jump rope outside with caption "SECURITY SECURITY This is why people steal from Walmart because this is what SECURI...
Axios

House GOP tensions erupt as standoff hamstrings agenda - Frustrations from establishment House Republicans spilled out into the open on Wednesday after right-wing lawmakers succeeded in blocking nearly a week’s...
The Week

Actor Jay Johnston arrested on Capitol attack charges - Jay Johnston, an actor known for voicing the character Jimmy Pesto on "Bob's Burgers" and roles on "Mr. Show with Bob and Dave" and "Arrested Development...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

School board president faces backlash for calling Harvey Milk a ‘pedophile’ - Joseph Komrosky of the Temecula, California, board objected to Milk being including in school materials when making claim The president of the Temecula s...
Salon.com

"I feel like politicians are born in fraternities": "The Line" director on Greek life mindset - Ethan Berger speaks to Salon about his morality play film about the power struggles at a Kappa Nu Alpha chapter
Slate

Photos of Freaky Orange Sky Enveloping Entire Northeast Suggests End of World Will at Least Look Kind of Cool - Orange you glad you don’t live here? Ha, ha.
Courthouse News

Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee to act as defense in Paxton impeachment trial - Buzbee said suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton will not be removed from office by the Texas Senate, calling the process a "sham from the get-go."
Mediagazer

Twitch walks back new branded content guidelines it released on June 6 and calls them "bad" for streamers and the company, after swift backlash from creators (Ash Parrish/The Verge) - Ash Parrish / The Verge: *Twitch walks back new branded content guidelines it released on June 6 and calls them “bad” for streamers and the company, afte...
High Country News

Hey New York, we’ve survived decades of smoke. Here’s how - Tips on staying healthy, keeping sane and getting through being socked in by smoke.
NPR's Health Shots

Few are tackling stigma in addiction care. Some in Seattle want to change that - A program in Seattle is helping people in drug and alcohol recovery overcome barriers to medical care in an effort to keep them off the street. A key piece...
Dissident Voice

How Empire Fabricates Atrocities - Another atrocity. Yesterday, the dam holding back the waters for the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed releasing a massive flood surge,...
Houston Public Media

Lidia Bastianich on Her New PBS Special “Lidia Celebrates America: Flavors That Define Us” - The chef and TV host discusses her life, career, and how food brings cultures together across the U.S.
The Verge

Apple wants to turn your iPhone into a pet-tracking camera - [image: An image showing a diagram of an iPhone on a motorized phone stand] Image: Apple Apple has a new development framework that can be used to turn y...
Techdirt.

Safety Last: AI Weapons Scanners Sold To US Schools Routinely Fail To Detect Knives - We’ve done all we can we’re willing to do to make schools safer. We’ve added more cops, something that sounds like safety but just means we’ve offloaded sc...
The Daily Poster

“Forever Chemicals” Makers Hid Dangers for Decades - A new study finds that PFAS manufacturers took a page from Big Tobacco to suppress research and delay regulation.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio sports radio show Halftime cancelled as parent company continues reorganization - Award-winning sports talk show Halftime on 94.1FM San Antonio Sports Star got the ax as the station's parent company reorganizes under Chapter 11 of the U...
Portside

Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks - Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks Ray Wed, 06/07/2023 - 18:23
Vox

Why is eastern Canada on fire — and when will the smoke clear? - [image: A smoky haze casts an orange glow on uplit fountains in the foreground and a bridge in the distance.] A view of the Williamsburg Bridge from Domin...
Daily Cartoonist

Batman Logo Remains Trademarked in EU - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — An Italian company did not get away with contesting the copyright of the Caped Crusader on Wednesday, as the EU’s second-high...
Grist

New York reports the worst air quality in the world as smoke creeps along the coast - Canadian wildfires send smoke and air pollution to more than 55 million Americans.
OpEd News

Why is Open AI asking to be regulated? - Discusses Open AI's eagerness to be regulated by the United States government
CultureMap Houston

'Wicked' games, wild Italian comedy, and little lies headline June theater in Houston - It’s getting hot out there, Houston. Perfect timing for cool new theater and dance to chill out to this June.
Texas Environmental News

Annual report shows Tyler water meets, exceeds drinking quality standards - Tyler is also fully compliant with the EPA’s Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Program. This is a program the EPA uses to [...] The post Annual report s...
Common Dreams

ITEP STATEMENT: American Family Act Prioritizes Tax Credits for Low- and Middle-Income Familiesnews release - *STATEMENT FROM AMY HANAUER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY:* “We’re thrilled to see lawmakers prioritizing tax cred...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: God’s Moral Law - SPLC: The Year in Hate & Extremism 2022. Payton Armstrong @ Media Matters: Right-wing pastor Tom Ascol criticizes Ted Cruz for condemning Uganda’s anti-L...
Second Nexus

Joe Exotic Hilariously Trolls Trump From Prison After Reports Of Chief Of Staff Testimony - Disgraced zookeeper and *Tiger King* subject Joe Exotic expressed delight on Tuesday at the prospect of one of former President Donald Trump's White Hous...
Church and State

To the moon and beyond: What space exploration will look like in 2069 - It's all about travelling to the places where life might be. This could be Mars, Jupiter's moon, Europa, or Saturn's moon.
Futurism

Mark Cuban Says Yes, You Should Be Worried About AI Doomsday - Shark Thoughts Stressed about an AI-wrought apocalypse? Look no further than one Mark Cuban, extremely rich investor of "Shark Tank" fame, to validate yo...
Texas Monthly

May 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? - You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this q...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
The Root

Keke Palmer Joked That Claire Huxtable From The Cosby Show Was 'Uppity.' So Why Is Everybody Mad? - Keke Palmer is known for making us all smile and cackle often on our big and small screens, but she may have just caused a fun controversy thanks to her ...
Rallblog

Still Trumped by Trump - The problem is not that the electorate is polarized, siloed into self-reinforcing media echo chambers and mutually contemptuous — that’s the ...
Undernews

The sun in New York today - [image: May be an image of eclipse] Dave Boyer via *13 WHAM ABC*
Reform Austin

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement On The Passage Of Border Security Bills - The post Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement On The Passage Of Border Security Bills appeared first on Reform Austin.
Texas Standard

‘A Life in Technicolor,’ screening at Cine Las Americas, explores feeling trapped during lockdown - The film festival, taking place in Austin through the weekend, is celebrating 25 years of telling Latino stories through film.
SCOTUSblog

Justices file annual financial disclosures – Thomas and Alito delay - [image: Justices file annual financial disclosures – Thomas and Alito delay]It has been just over two months since ProPublica revealed that Justice Clare...
Discourse

We're All California Now - The apocalyptic smoke over New York City will get real familiar pretty soon.
Progressive.org

Dangerous Conditions Are Driving Dollar General Workers to Rise Up - Workers at the discount chain just won a victory for workplace safety after rallying at a shareholders meeting.
Glasstire

Houston’s Cultural Districts to Host Mayoral Candidates Forum on Arts & Culture - As Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s second term comes to a close, the city’s seven cultural districts, with support from the Houston Endowment, will host...
The Texas Signal

Jesse Tafalla Jr. Mourned In Dallas - Progressives in North Texas are mourning the loss of one of the brightest activists that the area has ever known. Jesse Tafalla Jr., who was an omnipresent...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian State Media Amplifies Fake Reports of Ukraine Spy Chef’s Death - A Russian propaganda telegram channel fabricated the Ukrainian news report about the death of Ukraine Defense Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, and state-...
Ballot Access News

Idaho Attorney General Says Top-Four Initiative Violates the Single-Subject Rule - On June 6, Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador issued an opinion, saying the initiative to set up a top-four system, which is about to start circulating, ...
WhoWhatWhy

Sand Hazard - Wait, the PGA merged with the Saudi LIV?? Over money?! Why, this is shocking.
American Prospect

A Visit to Hallowed Ground - Today on TAP: Despite efforts by British Conservative governments to strangle it, the National Health Service remains a jewel of fair and efficient sociali...
The Intercept

The Feds Have Thousands of Stadium Lights on the Border. Switching Them On Would Devastate Desert Ecosystems. - The powerful lights mounted on the border wall threaten the dark skies that make southern Arizona a biodiversity hotspot. The post The Feds Have Thousand...
NORML

State Policy Weekly Update 6/7/2023 - [image: Take Action Legalize America][image: Take Action Legalize America]Highlights include: CA, LA, NV, NY, OH, & PA. The post State Policy Weekly Upda...
Novara Media

Sunak’s Desperate Bid to Hide Johnson’s Messages, the USA Alien Whistleblower - Rishi Sunak is still trying to keep whatsapp messages from the Covid Inquiry. What is he hiding? Plus: Starmerite MPs struggled to defend the farce around ...
Innocence Project

West Memphis Three: What You Should Know About Their Wrongful Conviction - The post West Memphis Three: What You Should Know About Their Wrongful Conviction appeared first on Innocence Project.
Claytoonz

Merging with Murderers - The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is a Saudi Arabian entity controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and is worth over $620 billion. It invests in man...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/7/2023 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
DeSmogBlog

Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan. - By Katie Myers, Grist. This story was originally published in Grist, and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collabo...
El Paso Matters

After a week’s delay, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick signs bill to increase transparency in public records law - Patrick said he had always intended to sign the measure but pulled it aside in response to the House playing “games” at the end of the regular session. ...
Scheerpost.com

Letter From Ron Kovic to Daniel Ellsberg - By Ron Kovic / Original to ScheerPost There are few individuals who leave such an indelible mark on American history through their unwavering commitment ...
The Grayzone

Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info - The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, new leaks show. Twitter declined to censor journalists targete...
Wolf Street

The Bank of Canada Un-Pauses, Hikes 25 Basis Points, Second Central Bank to Un-Pause on Resurging Inflation Fears - More rate hikes are on the table. “Overall, excess demand in the economy looks to be more persistent than anticipated.”
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Rangers Bet Big on an Outlier. Now Jacob deGrom Must Become One Again. - There has never been anyone like Jacob deGrom, which begins to explain why the idea of signing a 34-year-old inveterate visitor to the injury list was so...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Who Is Doug Burgum, The North Dakota Governor Running For President? - Transcript Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum just announced he is running for president. And if your first reaction to that is, “Wait …...
Mother Jones

News Never Pays - Maybe you’ve noticed it: There’s been a Groundhog Day vibe in the news about media. Every day, it seems, Punxsutawney Phil pokes his head aboveground to fi...
First Draft

CNN Follies: Licht Licked - It's over for Chris Licht.
MintPress News

Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business is Booming in Morocco-Occupied Western Sahara - “Before the normalization happened, the Israelis would collaborate with the Moroccans, but also wouldn’t feel comfortable going beyond this covert intell...
Rio Grande Guardian

Torres: Developers building industrial warehouses in upper RGV deserve property tax cuts - MCALLEN, Texas – A well-known customs broker in the Rio Grande Valley says local cities should lower property taxes to help developers and investors look...
In These Times

Biden Is Turning Out to Be More Like Obama Than FDR - After passing stimulus programs and promising a Roosevelt-like administration, President Biden and national Democrats are back to embracing austerity. We d...
Ecosophia

The Myth of Modernity - A few weeks ago I took the time to reread the book that launched my current sequence of posts about enchantment, Jason Josephson-Storm’s intriguing study T...
Crooked Media

Chapter 2: Going Green - The post Chapter 2: Going Green appeared first on Crooked Media.
ProPublica

Texas Public Records Transparency Bill That Got Lost Amid GOP Infighting Finally Headed to Governor’s Desk - by Vianna Davila ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: June 7, 2023 - Dear Readers: This is the latest edition of Notes on the State of Politics, which features short updates on elections and politics. — The Editors New Hamps...
Capital & Main

Banks Continue to Put Billions Into Oil and Gas — Is It a Smart Investment? - *Some experts say banks should be financing renewables at a much higher rate, for climate and ROI reasons.* The post Banks Continue to Put Billions Into ...
Ring of Fire

DeSantis’ Immigration Show Crumbles FL Economy - Well, Ron DeSantis has done it, hasn’t he? He’s used political scare tactics to try to get a few votes. Now, what we see, Trump is even moving further ah...
Eater Houston

Bun B’s Trill Burgers Finally Opens in Houston’s Montrose - [image: Houston hip hop legend Bun B holds two smash burgers in front of the new TrillBurgers location.] Bun B’s smash burgers finally have a place to cal...
Robert Reich

Busting the “Paid What You’re Worth” Myth You’ve probably heard... - *Busting the “Paid What You’re Worth” Myth * You’ve probably heard that everyone is “paid what they’re worth.” Don’t buy it. According to this mythology...
ArcaMax

The June Rise (And Fall) Of Joe Biden - WASHINGTON -- The president just had a rise over congressional Republicans in the debt ceiling crisis and a fall at the Air Force Academy -- one big deal a...
Mondoweiss

Black and Palestinian liberation – forward ever, backward never - [image: Graphic with the logo of the Black Panther Party that says, “Black power and Palestine” in Arabic.]The indivisibility of justice requires that the ...
The AltWorld

Blinken’s normalisation delusion - Iran-Gulf rapprochement is shattering US and Israeli dreams Anyone hearing the statements being made these days by […] The post Blinken’s normalisation d...
Bonddad

Scenes from the employment report: an important trend in self-employment; and real aggregate payrolls - *- by New Deal democrat* We’re still in the week of drought following the payrolls release last Friday. Today let’s take a look at a few more items ...
Texas Observer

Unionized Texas Journalists Face Biggest Opponent Yet: Gannett - When you see journalists on picket lines, they’re typically snapping photos, scribbling in notepads, or pulling a protester or striking worker aside for ...
Independent Political Report

Stewart Flood: Robert’s, the Political Weapon of Mass Destruction - Let me take you back to the day I was first introduced to the weapon of political destruction, Robert’s Rules of Order. Some 30 years ago, back when I w...
The Smirking Chimp

Should We Be Worried About RFK Jr.? -
Election Law Blog

“Connecticut Legislature Sends State Voting Rights Act to Governor” - The Connecticut Legislature has passed a state-level voting rights act. Connecticut now joins California, New York, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington in o...
Caitlin Johnstone

Taking A Week Off - This is just a notice to let everyone on my mailing list know I’ll be taking a week off for some family events. Thank you so much to my patrons and to ever...
Democracy Now!

Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on "Corporate Duopoly" of Dems & GOP - Cornel West, the iconic academic and social critic, has declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the 2024 election. He is running with ...
The Conversation

Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – receding waters narrow options for cooling - The International Atomic Energy Agency says the plant has enough water to last for several months. What happens afterward or if the remaining water is lost...
Lawfare

A Path Forward for Israel Following the NSO Scandal - An Israel National Police officer outside Lahav 433, the investigative arm of the department, in Tel Aviv (Federal Bureau of Investigation, https://flic....
Space City Weather

Houston drinking in the last chance saloon for rain today and Thursday before summertime heat takes over - Good morning. The overall pattern for Houston’s forecast remains the same. We’re going to have a couple of more days of fairly modest rain chances as high ...
Angry Bear

Have We Whipped Inflation Now? - One of my favorite topics, Inflation, Labor, and how Labor impacts Inflation. Or does it? Have We Whipped Inflation Now? cepr.net, Dean Baker The inflati...
Earth 911

Finding a More Sustainable Tipple - When we think about our environmental foodprint, we’re usually only thinking about meals. But the... The post Finding a More Sustainable Tipple appeared ...
Daily Howler

We'll be away for the next few days! - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2023* *In search of the raucous board meeting: *We may not post for the rest of the week. It will be Friday at the earliest before we...
Skeptophilia

The long rain - Imagine going back 240 million years. This would land you in the early Triassic Period. By this time, the Earth would have had twelve million years to r...
Off The Kuff

A Paxton threefer - […]
Infidel753

Image round-up for 7 June 2023 - More pictures, some slightly NSFW -- click for full size. (If you're looking for the previous post, click here. For the link round-up, click here.) ...
Counterpunch

The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, But Their Leaders Don’t - The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the U.S. plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, ...
The NM Political Report

New website seeks to combat anti-abortion misinformation - [image: New website seeks to combat anti-abortion misinformation] A new website that offers information on abortion clinics and abortion fund providers and...
Informed Comment

Carbon Dioxide in our Atmosphere hits High not seen for Millions of Years, threatening Accelerated Global Heating - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Monday that parts per million of carbon dioxide in our ...
jobsanger

This Supreme Court Is NOT A Friend To Workers -
LareDOS

SY Children’s Heritage Camp – neuroscience and creative writing to explore identity and heritage preservation - Faculty includes Macarthur grantee Valera Luiselli and neuroscience researcher Gladys Maestre
Antiwar.com

The Ukrainian Army Is Run Not by the Generals but by the PR Department - What can you expect from a government headed by a comic actor named Zelensky? We see the answer to that question day by day in the way the Ukrainian arme...
Field Negro

Tim Scott does not want to be defined by his blackness. His party will do it for him. - I recently ran across an article about *Tim Scott*, Senator from South Carolina, and declared republican candidate for president, which I found quite ...
Workers World

Atlantans vow to ‘Stop Cop City’ - [image: Atlantans vow to ‘Stop Cop City’] June 4 — In the days leading up to the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where a final vote on the taxpayer s...
slacktivist

Postcards from the class & culture wars (6.6.23) - "Cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow."
Ian Welsh

Quick Takes: American Can’t Build Ships; Plants Feel Pain & More - [image: Quick Takes: American Can’t Build Ships; Plants Feel Pain & More] As long as I’ve been blogging, I’ve made notes of articles I wanted to write abo...
Bracing Views

Clinging Bitterly to Guns and Religion - W.J. Astore The End Stage of American Empire Also at TomDispatch.com. All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing nati...
Krebs on Security

Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups - One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. N...
Southeast Texas Record

Suit: Austin-based company failed to repay more than $9 million in capital improvement loans - HOUSTON — A Florida couple allege the Austin-based pharmaceutical company they advanced more than $9 million for capital improvements refuses to repay th...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Thanks For Covering Our Debt — Suckers! - And so, yet another Debt Ceiling Wrestlemania comes to a close — and as predicted, the ruling class gets the payoff, Zelensky gets new toys, and we get aus...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With Men? - Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Man...
CPI's Danger in the Air

‘Young people are being harmed’: the effect of anti-trans legislation - [image: A student writes on a chalkboard "I will not be myself. I will play sports. I will not receive medical care."] Hundreds of anti-transgender bills ...
Debunking Christianity

Suspicious Interpolations, by Greg G. - Bible scholars often have suspicions of interpolations but do not go as far as taking them out of the Bible unless they have old, reliable manuscripts t...
Liberation News

Texas ‘Death Star’ bill threatens to destroy hard-won protections across the state - The bill would block cities and counties in Texas from passing any new regulations that are not already outlined within Texas state law.
See You In 2020

The New Left believes the people are fundamentally reactionary. Marxists who want to win reject this idea. - In our task of defeating the state, we must ask: what’s the issue that’s most relevant to the majority of the population within our society? What’s the...
Trivial Knot

Slogans, and “Born this way” - Back when I was in college, California passed Proposition 8, which notoriously banned same-sex marriage, after it had been briefly legal. Many queer folks ...
Crooked Timber

Pew quits the generation game - Since the beginning of this millennium, I’ve been writing critiques of the “generation game”, the idea that people can be divided into well-defined groups ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Bitcoin Dollar & Crypto-Colonialism with Mark Goodwin - The Bitcoin Dollar & Crypto-Colonialism with Mark Goodwin.
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2023 - May Is Book Writing Month at Project Censored November may be National Novel Writing Month, but as the school year ends and summer beckons, we’ve been wo...
Lowering the Bar

“I Really Regret the Matter,” Says Driver Fined $129K for Speeding - Not his first offense, but it was his first six-figure fine. Related Stories - Author of “How to Murder Your Husband” Convicted of Murdering Hu...
The Progressive Wing

Special Post: Rebuttal to Dmitri Mehlhorn, Dem Operative - Hi Birdies, I’m posting a separate thread because this is a Deconstructed podcast transcription, and it is very long. I’ll be posting it in several parts, ...
Rewire

Previewing the Big Supreme Court Decisions Coming This Month - The gang's together again—just in time for the sweats to begin. The post Previewing the Big Supreme Court Decisions Coming This Month appeared first on R...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The history and future of the tax state II: Financialisation of the state and fiscal hybridity - COVID-19 temporarily re-made fiscal politics. States responded to the health threat by enacting a sudden and far-reaching contraction of the private sect...
Environment Texas

The top 5 threats to the Gulf of Mexico - On World Ocean Day, a look at the Texas ocean The post The top 5 threats to the Gulf of Mexico appeared first on Environment Texas.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Documents Reveal ADF Requested Anti-Trans Research From American College of Pediatricians - Documents left public on a Google Drive by anti-LGBTQ+ hate group American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), first reported by WIRED, reveal nearly a deca...
Latino Rebels

Miles Morales as Spider-Man Is the Latino Superhero We Need (REVIEW) - Now with its second installment in the visually stunning sequel 'Across the Spider-Verse,' the Miles Morales franchise is glorious, a whole step above th...
Progressives Chat

‘The American Assassins’ - This week marks the 55th anniversary of the assassination of former New York U.S. senator and 1968 presidential candidate Robert Kennedy (11.20.1925–06....
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2023 - Walmart had at least eighteen more shootings on or near their property that impacted their business, or was caused by their business. At least six of th...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Return of the Bourbon Talk Political Q&A Livestream - This Sunday (June 4th) we're back at 8pm Eastern
Duck of Minerva

Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy: Lessons from Co-Creation in the Aid Sector - There is an increasing focus in academic and policy circles on research-policy partnerships. These partnerships are often achieved through co-creation, or ...
The Militant

‘Workers need a labor party based on the unions’ - LOS ANGELES — At a May 26 labor rally here, Laura Garza, a rail worker and member of the SMART-Transportation Division union, and her campaign supporters d...
Web of Debt

Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others - A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in our economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to...
Equality Texas

Queer Joy is Resistance - As the 2023 Texas Legislative session draws to a close, it leaves behind a record-breaking number of attacks on LGBTQ+ people and anti-trans legislation....
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Musktown Massacre - Well, it was touch and go there for a while, but it appears “free speech” has been saved again! All hell broke loose at Musk Cult HQ (also known by Musk Cu...
Texas Freedom Network

What Is a Special Session? - The 88th Texas Legislative Session adjourned, or ended, on Monday, May 29. So… we’re done here, right? Everyone gets to go home until 2025? Nope. The sa...
BEYONDbones

Seeking Summer Solstice | June 2023 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: We are looking up as HMNS Astronomer James Wooten explains the sky happenings for the month of June and the upcoming Summer Solstice. Venu...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"The Rise of Latino White Supremacy," At a time of increased racial violence, Latinos are potential perpetrators and potential victims," by Geraldo Cadava - *Here goes again. Another piece on Latino White Supremacy that maps on well to my earlier post titled,The allure of fascism: why do minorities join the f...
The Rag Blog

ALLEN YOUNG | TELEVISION | In defense of drag queens - A review of ‘AJ and the Queen’ and a lot more. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | June 1, 2023 Drag queens have recently become the target of right-wing polit...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: How Sanctions Usually Work - This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. Kevin writes: Any time I can draw over-the-top, absurd violence with satiric intent is fun for me. I don’t like guns...
Idavox

Neo-Fascist Facing 30 Years Max For Child Porn Only Gets One - It really boggles the mind how the concern for protecting children from pedophiles often seems... The post Neo-Fascist Facing 30 Years Max For Child Porn...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 2, 2023 - Black Agenda Radio June 2, 2023 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/02/2023 - 06:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
Save Buffalo Bayou

In Praise of Open Ditches (Opinion) - By Susan Chadwick, Houston Chronicle Outlook, May 27, 2023 For several years in Houston, an unfortunate controversy has swirled around open drainage ditche...
Sludge

Tax Prep Industry Hires More Lobbyists as IRS Announces Free E-File Pilot - As the tax preparation industry fights against the Internal Revenue Service offering a free e-filing system, one of its lobbying groups has hired three new...
Media Lens

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Brains and Eggs

Thursday, December 03, 2009

War. What's it good for?

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