Brains and Eggs: State of the Union toons

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Crooks and Liars

C&L's Sat Nite Chiller Theater: 'A Trip To The Moon,' 1902 - [image: C&L's Sat Nite Chiller Theater: 'A Trip To The Moon,' 1902] Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902) It was filmed 117 years ago. It runs less than 15 minute...
Eschaton

Late Night - Rock on.
Raw Story

Cop says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot following Trump’s racist targeting of The Squad - Following racist attacks on members of The Squad by President Donald Trump and his supporters, a police officer in Louisiana reportedly said that one of th...
The Verge

Marvel is rebooting Blade, with Mahershala Ali set to star - Image: Marvel One of the bombshell announcements during Marvel’s Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con tonight was that the studio would be rebootin...
Vox

Marvel announces 10 Phase 4 projects for 2020 and 2021 - [image: The title of Thor 4 is Thor Love and Thunder.] Marvel Studios Thor 4! Black Widow! Doctor Strange 2! And so, so much more. For the first time in y...
Dissident Voice

Thirty Years Later: Fukuyama Reloaded - Francis Fukuyama’s book is a profound book and as a profound book it is profoundly misleading. A mixture of Platonic and Hegelian psychology/historical tel...
Mediaite

Jeanine Pirro Goes After Democratic ‘Squad’ in Open: ‘Want to Punish Success and Destroy Capitalism’ - Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro returned to the airwaves this week, using her open to go after the progressive Democratic congresswomen President Donald Trump has ...
No More Mister Nice Blog

Hakuna Potato - Warthog and suricate or meerkat from the photorealist *Lion King* that opened this week. Terrible as the cartoon was, this one has to be far worse. My kid...
Axios

Deadly heat wave grips much of the U.S. - The heat wave that's gripping much of the U.S. has resulted in several deaths, caused the cancellation of public events and left tens of thousands of peo...
memeorandum

In 'Send Her Back' Fallout, Trump Amplifies Praise From Right-Wing British Commentator (Michael Crowley/New York Times) - Michael Crowley / New York Times: *In ‘Send Her Back’ Fallout, Trump Amplifies Praise From Right-Wing British Commentator* — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Presid...
Daily Kos

Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic campaign—The rule of threes - It’s another Saturday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic Campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can c...
House of Houston (Astros news)

Houston Astros: Another injury update on Carlos Correa and Aledmys Diaz - Houston Astros infielders Carlos Correa and Aledmys Diaz are on track to return back to the lineup soon so what’s the latest update with them? Let’s look...
Political Dig

Trump Campaign Told Supporters To Chant ‘Send Her Back’ At Rally: Ex-Advisor - Donald Trump tried to claim that he wasn’t in favor of his supporters chanting “send her back” during his rally this week. But according to a former adviso...
Courthouse News

Federal Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Subpoenas of Trump’s Business Records - A federal judge on Friday put a temporary halt on subpoenas from congressional Democrats for President Donald Trump’s tax records after an appeals court ...
INSIDER - politics news

USWNT star Megan Rapinoe rips into 'disgusting' Trump tweets, weighs in on candidates she's interested in for 2020 - [image: Megan Rapinoe USWNT] - FIFA Women's World Cup winner and US Women's National Team star Megan Rapinoe called President Donald Trump's tweet...
Hullabaloo

You will go to the moon: A NASA film festival by Dennis Hartley @denofcinema5 - *Saturday Night at the Movies* *You will go to the moon: A NASA film festival* By Dennis Hartley 50 years today, on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts ...
Bad Attitudes

More Relevance from 1916â€¦ - â€¦when Madison Grant published his runaway bestseller, *The Passing of the Great Race*: As in all wars since Roman times, from a breeding point of view,...
Echidne of the Snakes

Where Trump Fails A Simple Knowledge Or Memory Test - Here's a not-so-reassuring story about our Dear Leader: *When President Trump this week met human rights activist Nadia Murad, an Iraqi who was awarded th...
Down With Tyranny!

Revisiting Democratic Voting Records 6 Months Into The Term - *There are only 5 freshmen with perfect voting records-- here are 3 of them* In March we decided to take a first look at how the new House members were get...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kyoto Animation’s stories celebrated warmth and belonging. The fire is a tragic loss of life and legacy | Patrick Lum - The studio that nurtured creativity and treasured its staff made anime that found magic in the everyday Like many fans, I wasn’t really aware of specific...
Somervell County Salon

Trump Continues to be a dirt-bag racist - 7/20/2019 - It's no wonder that Trump's favorability polls just can't seem to get past 50 percent. Decent people want little or nothing to do with him. Here's what's...
Wolf Street

WOLF STREET Beer Mugs Are Coming. Here’s the Design for the Soon-Infamous “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line” Mug - We're looking for feedback. If you have an internet retail business, let’s talk.
Daily Dot

Philadelphia to fire 13 officers for racist, violent Facebook posts - [image: 13-philadelphia-police-officers-fired] The officers demonstrated 'little or no regard for their positions as police officers.' The post Philadelph...
OpEd News

Democratic Party Dilemmas - For all the horrors our foreign adventures have wrought, the real present danger is that we will turn on ourselves and destroy our precarious democracy. Un...
Slate

The Trailer for HBO’s Watchmen Takes Rorschach Too Seriously - “And I’ll look down and whisper, ‘Fortunately, neither superhero comics nor prestige television have historically had a problem with bad fans.’ ”
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: The Alternative Media Shames the Corporate Media Into Doing Their Job - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Jul 20, 2019 On Contact host, Chris Hedges talks to Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor-in-chief of The Canary. Crea...
The Greanville Post

Jimmy Dore: Bernie Humiliates Washington Post Journalist - WaPo's Robert Costa tries to trap Bernie Sanders to make him sound like a racist, but ends up with egg on his face. The presstitutes will do anyhting to d...
Mahablog

- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/send-her-back-battle-will-define-us-forever/594307/
Political Wire

Cruz Sees 50-50 Chance of Trump’s Re-Election - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told PBS’s Firing Line that he thinks President Trump could “absolutely” be defeated in the 2020 election and predicted there could be...
VICE

Daily Horoscopes: July 21, 2019 - The moon is in Pisces today.
House of Houston (Rockets news)

Houston Rockets: James Harden has a gift for fans next season - Houston Rockets guard James Harden has something brewing in the lab and it will be interesting to see how it pans out next season. What will it be? The H...
Texas Monthly

The Texanist: Why Do We Share a State Bird With Five Other States? - A pair of Austin birders think it's time to replace the Northern mockingbird with something more . . . Texas-y. The post The Texanist: Why Do We Share a ...
Crooked Timber

The R-word fifteen years on - Back in 2004, I wrote that There is only one real instance of political correctness in Australia today and that is that you are never, ever allowed to call...
OffGuardian

Iran: what next? - Philip Roddis With so many brown skinned men, women and children in the Middle East maimed, bereaved or having their lives terminated by the high tech and ...
Pharyngula

In my heart, I want this to be true - But in my brain, I know it’s not. Molluscs are no more closely related to arachnids than they are to us. Which means…we’re all a big happy wet monkey spide...
Mother Jones

AOC Tells Trump “We’re Not Going Anywhere” - After a week of racist taunts from the president of the United States, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back on Saturday, telling a town hall i...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Apollo 11 moon landing commemorated 50 years later - The Apollo 11 moon landing is commemorated 50 years later by Joy Reid and Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer and planetarium director of The Franklin Institute.
Salon.com

Bike safer at night with this smart bike light - This motion-sensing bike light functions the same way a car brake light does
Talking Points Memo

Black GA Rep. Says Man Screamed At Her To ‘Go Back Where You Came From’ - Erica Thomas, a black Democratic state representative from Georgia, says she was grocery shopping with her nine-year-old daughter when a...
Bay Area Houston

CORRECTION: Not Raising Campaign Cash: Tony Buzbee - I recently posted Raising Campaign Cash: Houston City Elections. Final. Thoughts stating Tony Buzbee has $5.1 Million cash on hand and raised $5.5 Million...
Ian Welsh

UK Seizes Iranian Tanker So Iran Seizes UK Tanker - That’s the news, basically. Well, Iran also seized a Liberian flagged one one, not sure why (may be operating for a British company.) Also not sure why the...
Louis Proyect

Joe Hansen on the Apollo moon landing - With all the hooplah on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, I decided to track down what Joe Hansen wrote about it. This was when The Militant was a ...
Ballot Access News

Thousands of Moscow Residents Demonstate Against Unfair Ballot Access Laws in 2019 Moscow City Elections - This BBC story says Moscow, Russia, is barring 30 candidates from the ballot because they allegedly didn’t submit valid petitions. In response, a very larg...
Truthdig

American History for Truthdiggers: Bill Clinton, the ‘New Democrat’ - His two terms were marked by partisan rancor, scandal and, for many Americans, betrayal by the president.
Think Progress

Miss Michigan dethroned over racist, Islamophobic tweets - Kathy Zhu was stripped of her title as Miss Michigan on Thursday after the organization found Twitter posts that were racist and Islamaphobic. “It has been...
The Mind Unleashed

Natural Chemical in Breast Milk Dissolves Cancer Tumors, Trial Shows - A chemical found in the breast milk of humans can help break tumors up into smaller fragments which the body can then rid itself of via urine.
emptywheel

The Curious Treatment of Michael Cohen’s Trump Organization Email - A footnote in the SDNY warrants investigating campaign finance crimes reveals that that US Attorneys office treated Trump Organization email hosted at Mi...
Pajiba

'Veronica Mars': Logan Echolls is the Worst - Friends, as we all binge Veronica Mars this weekend I'm asking you a favor. I'd like you to remember that whatever happens in season 4, Logan Echolls is th...
Election Law Blog

And because Rick’s back on the blog tomorrow… - Here’s a farewell gift. A swimming Corgi pic.twitter.com/31RnG0A81Q— Good doggos (@DoggoDating) July 20, 2019 … Continue reading →
Latino Rebels

Finding Value and Change in the ‘Puerto Rican Spring’ - Latino Rebels Radio: July 20, 2019
The Intercept

Ele nos distraiu e nos enganou de novo: o que o governo aprontou enquanto Bolsonaro mentia para proteger os filhos - Bolsonaro é um trator em movimento. Cabe prestar menos atenção no ronco do motor e mais nas implacáveis esteiras. The post Ele nos distraiu e nos enganou...
21st Century Wire

US ‘Downs’ Legitimacy After Claims of Downing Iranian Drone - *Tony Cartalucci* | Regardless of what transpires in the Gulf, it almost certain that the US will continue pursuing hegemonic foreign policy until it is ec...
WhoWhatWhy

Israel: Settlers and the Two-State Solution - Reading Time: 3 minutes The struggle over every inch of land in Palestine has led to decades of conflict and could ignite the entire region at any time. ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

We Came In Peace - One of the interesting things about Star Trek is that it’s not an economy based on scarcity. Within the limitations of energy (and there is a whole lot of ...
Splinter

Did Leana Wen, Ousted Planned Parenthood Head, Even Know Anything About Planned Parenthood? - Dr. Leana Wen, who was fired this week from her post as Planned Parenthood’s president, has published an op-ed for the *New York Times *about why she “le...
The Week

Why the 'steady stream' of Ebola infections among health care workers is 'puzzling' - The 138th health care worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo was infected during the country's current Ebola outbreak, which was recently declared a ...
Rivard Report

Poet Amalia Ortiz Challenges Establishment with Canción Cannibal Cabaret - Actor, poet, playwright, and activist Amalia Ortiz will perform her work of poem songs, "Canción Cannibal Cabaret," on July 27 at the Guadalupe Theater. ...
Moon of Alabama

Putin Confirms: Sergei Skripal Wanted To Go Back To Russia - Filmmaker Oliver Stone recently interviewed the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. The transcript was published yesterday evening. Most o...
MintPress News

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Trump’s Middle East Policy Could Push Yemen’s Houthis into Iran’s Hands - As both the United States and Saudi Arabia continue to wage war and impose economic blockades on both Yemen and Iran, it is likely that the Houthis’ poli...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Waxing Racist - As recently noted in this space, Professor Amy Wax has recently made more racisms. Various wingers — including fellow at the Ed Whelan Institute For Ethics...
Daily Howler

Trump says he's going to win Minnesota! - *SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019We can't guarantee that he's wrong:* Thursday night, the analysts cheered when Barbara McQuade got it right. Rachel had been feed...
Popular Resistance

Nicaragua Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of Revolution Against Samoza - Nicaragua celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Day of Happiness when the US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza fled Nicaragua in the early morning hours. T...
The Militant

‘Fight for amnesty for immigrants in the US!’ - The following statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, was released July 17. The New York Times July 1...
Portside

The End of Humanitarian Intervention? A Debate at the Oxford Union With Historian David Gibbs and Michael Chertoff - The End of Humanitarian Intervention? A Debate at the Oxford Union With Historian David Gibbs and Michael Chertoff Kurt Stand Sat, 07/20/2019 - 12:00
Angry Bear

Weekly Indicators for July 15 – 19 at Seeking Alpha - by New Deal Democrat Weekly Indicators for July 15 – 19 at Seeking Alpha My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were a number a changes am...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the art...
Bracing Views

U.S. Folly in Afghanistan and Media Complicity - W.J. Astore On NBC News today, I came across the following, revealing, headline: The U.S. is eager to end its longest war. In interview, Taliban gives litt...
Liberation News

Boston action supports Puerto Rico protests - [image: Puerto Rican community members and supporters rally outside the City Hall Plaza in Boston.] The leaked messages have galvanized a wide range of sup...
Political Orphans

The Devil in a Barcode - Shortly after the 2016 Election I was approached by an editor who encouraged me to submit a book proposal. He didn’t like it, but the process helped crysta...
Claytoonz

Just Peachy - Donald Trump has spent his entire life disrespecting women, but over the past week, he’s made racism and misogyny a campaign tactic by attacking four women...
DeSmogBlog

Trump's Drilling Leases on Public Lands Could Release 4.7B Metric Tons of Carbon - [image: Pumpjacks on Lost Hills Oil Field in California. (Photo: Arne Hückelheim, Wikimedia Commons)] Read time: 3 mins *By Julie Conley, originally publis...
Ring of Fire

Elizabeth Warren Taunts Billionaire Who Said She Scares Him - Billionaire Trump supporter Peter Thiel told Tucker Carlson on Fox News recently that Elizabeth Warren is the Democratic candidate who scares him the mos...
Houston Press

Maxo Kream and Reading With A Rapper Deliver a Session at Worthing High - The lights in the auditorium at Worthing High School in the historic Sunnyside area of south Houston dimmed and the room was quiet. A teacher excitedly spo...
The Reality-Based Community

RBC smartphone review - Really cheap and full-featured smartphones arrive in Africa.
Washington's Blog

The U.S. Police-State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case - Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any ...
Space City Weather

What was Houston’s weather like on July 20, 1969? - I thought it might be interesting to look back at Houston’s weather during the Moon landing, in 1969. This was a Sunday, so a lot of people would have been...
Countercurrents

Karnataka Artist S Raghunandana declines the Sangeet Natak Akademi award - Eminent theatre director from Karnataka S Raghunandana on July 17 declined the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2018, a day after it was announced, in pro...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were a number a changes among the short leading indicators this week at...
The Root

Combine Your Phone and Wallet With This $9 Card Holder - You have to carry your phone, and you have to carry a wallet (for now), but there’s no rule saying that they can’t be one thing. Read more...
NPR's Health Shots

Beyond 'Good' Vs. 'Bad' Touch: 4 Lessons To Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse - Twenty states now require sexual abuse prevention education as early as preschool. Educators say it's up to adults to know the signs and symptoms of abuse ...
Grist

Colombian coffee farmers are paying the price for climate change - The smallest farms are being hit the hardest
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Untold Story of Christian Zionism’s Rise to Power in the United States - Many of influential members in the Trump administration — especially top Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel D...
Duffel Blog

OPINION: I mushroom stamped the moon - [image: OPINION: I mushroom stamped the moon] By Buzz Aldrin 50 years ago today, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and I took part in one of the greatest a...
naked capitalism

Links 7/20/19 -
Two Party Opera

Over the Moon -
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

IS HE GETTING WORRIED? - Is Trump's race-baiting strategy a good move for 2020? Here's an argument that it is not https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/trump-base-20...
Off the Kuff

An update on the races in HISD and HCC - […]
Land Destroyer

US "Downs" Legitimacy After Claims of Downing Iranian Drone - *July 20, 2019* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The US boasted of downing an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz, admittedly in international waters, just mi...
The Progressive Wing

7/20 News Roundup & Open Thread - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders sat down 1-on-1 with WMUR political reporter John DiStaso to discuss a wide range of issues, including the...
Reveal

In Harm’s Way - The federal government is quietly expanding its use of “tender age” shelters for migrant kids. We’ll tell you what we know.
Carl Beijer

Socialism isn't the opposite of liberalism - and it isn't liberalism 2.0, either. - Ideologically, capitalism relies on one simple proposition: that property can be held privately. As Marx put it, all criticism of capitalism "is ultimately...
The NM Political Report

Children and pregnant women no longer allowed in solitary confinement in NM - [image: Children and pregnant women no longer allowed in solitary confinement in NM] A long-sought set of reforms to the way New Mexico jailers and prison ...
LareDOS

Texas LULAC leaders tour Frontera Shelter; donate relief goods - Shelter assists 250 asylum seekers daily
Socratic Gadfly

Apollo at 50: No, we DO NOT need to return - Manned missions to the moon did make science discoveries that robotic landers couldn't have, 50 years ago, tis true. And the tech for manned missions, whil...
jobsanger

The 50th Anniversary Of Humans Walking On The Moon -
San Antonio Current

These Before and After Photos Show How Much Downtown San Antonio Has Changed -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Moon Rocks - Welcome back my friend to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Protests demanding resignation of governor continue in Puerto Rico - Friday marked the seventh consecutive day of protests in Puerto Rico demanding the resignation of Governor Ricardo Roselló.
Sayfie Review Texas

Statesman: Paxton case: Prosecutors make bid for pay; defense seeks to move trial - Statesman: Paxton case: Prosecutors make bid for pay; defense seeks to move trial
The Conscious Resistance Network

Free Thinker Radio (7/19/19): Mandatory Vaccinations Are Mandatory - Derrick, Johnny and Micah are back for another episode of Free Thinker Radio on 90.1 KPFT Houston. Support our work AND get a free ounce of Kratom to hel...
Anti-Media

Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Urges Direct Talks With Trump - Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the surprise move to endorse direct talks with President Trump on Friday.
Informed Comment

The United Arab Emirates is getting out of Yemen: Will it Target Libya Next? - By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – Last week, the United Arab Emirates confirmed its troop drawdown from Yemen, which has raised questions about what Abu...
Antiwar.com

In Defense of Ilhan Omar - President Trump held a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday after a week of criticizing certain freshman members of Congress, drawing much media attentio...
Progrexas

What would happen if the TV show ‘Dallas’ reappeared as a play with J.R. as a black man? It already has. - Continue reading… The post What would happen if the TV show ‘Dallas’ reappeared as a play with J.R. as a black man? It already has. appeared first on Pro...
See You In 2020

We Must Defend Venezuela’s Socialist Revolution From Future U.S. Attacks - In only a few months, the illegal U.S.-backed coup that Juan Guaido started to try to carry out in January has went from a serious threat to a complete de...
Field Negro

Narcissist or racist? You decide. - [image: Image result for trump images] The following article was written by *William Saletan* for *slate.com * "Lindsey Graham, the Republican senat...
Liberal America

‘Patriots’ Rand Paul And Mike Lee Block 9/11 Victim Compensation Bill (Video) - The Republican party loves to refer to itself as the party of “patriots.” In promoting this label, it relies on exploiting traditional symbols of America...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

West Poised for U.S. Senate Race and Other News for July 19 - Ahead of a previously scheduled Monday announcement, Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) established a campaign committee to challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R). We...
epic.org

EPIC Files Closing Arguments for Release of Complete Mueller Report - EPIC has filed its closing brief in EPIC v. Department of Justice, EPIC's case for the release of the complete and unredacted Mueller Report. EPIC warned t...
Consortium News

As Costs of Climate Crisis Grow, Protest Movement Escalates - Long term campaigns to decarbonize the economy and demand emergency climate policies are getting stronger, write Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. By Kevi...
Brad Blog

Philly Citizen Election Advocates Petition State for Review of Wildly Vulnerable New E-Vote Systems: 'BradCast' 7/19/2019 - On today's BradCast, some potentially good news for Philadelphia voters (and, thus, voters across the entire country), after a citizen led effort has resul...
EgbertoWillies.com

Trump Effect: Store manager accuses black customer of theft & call cops for ball he paid for - [image: Trump Effect: Store manager accuses black customer of theft & call cops for ball he paid for] The Trump Effect is so prevalent that one hopes showi...
Caitlin Johnstone

‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump’s Persecution Of Assange - In the endless brain fart cyclone that is the Trump era, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has made a name for himself posing as a martyr of the fre...
The Conversation

What is at stake in the Strait of Hormuz? - A fifth of the world's oil travels through the narrow waterway.
Democracy Chronicles

Microsoft Giving Free Electionguard Software To Election Machine Suppliers - We are demonstrating the first voting system running Microsoft Election Guard as an example of how Election Guard can enable a new era of secure.
ProPublica

Federal Election Agency, Hungry for Funds, Now Pays for Officials to Get to Office - by Jessica Huseman For years, it was how things worked at the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency charged with helping America’s thousand...
Jordan Chariton

How Corporate Media is Trying to Swing the 2020 Election - via IFTTT The post How Corporate Media is Trying to Swing the 2020 Election appeared first on Jordan Chariton Reports.
Lowering the Bar

Court Rules Income Tax Is Not Against the Will of God - I would appeal this one all the way to the top. Related Stories - Court Finds Man Not Liable for Strapping Pork Chops to His Feet - Attempt...
Texas Observer

The High Cost of Hays County’s Decision to Keep Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases - Last month, Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1325 into law, legalizing the production and sale of hemp with less than .3 percent tetrahydrocannabin...
Houston Public Media

Houston Breaks Ground On Innovation District - “The Ion” is a major step towards growing Houston’s innovation culture.
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Asks for New Question Added On 2020 Census: “Are You Brown?” - WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is not done fighting to have his way with the 2020 census. “I view the census like I view,... The post Trump Asks for ...
Alas, a Blog

Silly Interview with Aliette de Bodard, Expert on Lovecraftian House Plants - Rachel Swirsky: What is the best part of living in Paris? Aliette de Bodard: The bread. Or possibly the éclairs. I have a weakness for coffee éclairs, and ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Q&A: Jim DeRogatis on the R. Kelly investigation - This week, we talked to Jim DeRogatis, who first reported on a Chicago Police investigation into R&B singer R. Kelly while at the Chicago Sun-Times worki...
Socialist Alternative

Obituary: Larry Hanley President of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union - Socialist Alternative deeply regrets the passing of Larry Hanley, President of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union (ATU), on May 7, 2019. As readers may ...
SCOTUSblog

Challengers respond in dispute over funding for border wall - [image: Challengers respond in dispute over funding for border wall]The battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to build a wall along the U.S. bor...
Texas Freedom Network

Join the Team: Outreach and Advocacy Manager - Outreach and Advocacy Manager The Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a statewide non-partisan, grassroots organization that is building an informed and effec...
Better Texas Blog

Don’t Tie Future Texans’ Hands with Short-Sighted Ballot Proposal - Texans are about to start hearing more about a state income tax. Here’s why. During the most recent state legislative session in Austin, lawmakers passed...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

RT Loses Plot on Italian Neo-Nazi Missile Bust - After a missile was seized in raids on Italian neo-Nazis, RT accused Western media of anti-Russian bias for reporting the extremists had fought with Russia...
Houstonia

The Doyle and Debbie Show Shakes it Up at Stages - Put on your cowboy boots and two-step your way to the theater, where you will never think of country music in quite the same way again.
Grit Post

Barr Gave Senate GOP Committee $51,000 in the Months Leading Up to His Confirmation - Attorney General William Barr gave the Republican Party’s chief Senatorial campaign committee $51,000 in the months leading up to his confirmation, accor...
Lawfare

What I Would Ask Robert Mueller - Longworth House Office Building (Architect of the U.S. Capitol) If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask ...
Rewire

Why I Joined Abortion Activists in Milwaukee to Counter-Protest Operation Save America - As a clinic escort in Louisville, I know what it's like for my local provider to be targeted by the anti-abortion extremists. The post Why I Joined Abort...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (7.19.19) - Read the smart things Andrea Pitzer, David Dayen, Carlos Maza, Lili Loofbourow, and Adam Serwer have to say and you'll be smarter too.
Right Wing Watch

Proud Boys Member Arrested for Portland Assault Takes Plea Deal - Proud Boys member Donovon Flippo has accepted a plea deal after participating in a violent attack in Portland that left its victim with a split lip and a b...
Rude Pundit

...So We Have to Save Ourselves (Part 2) - Last week, I wrote that the opposition to Donald Trump and his supporters, apostles, and enablers needs to get its head around the idea that no one person ...
Trivial Knot

The physics of Dominion - For this month’s repost, I’m publishing up an article I wrote in explanation of a programming project in 2018. In theory you could find it on Github, but ...
Project Censored

Episode 37: Presidential Debates Then and Now - On this episode of Along the Line, Dr. Dreadlocks Nicholas Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon, and Janice Domingo discuss the June DNC debates and the history o...
Morning Consult

YouTube Sees Over 200,000 Peak Concurrent Viewers for First Exclusive MLB Broadcast - The post YouTube Sees Over 200,000 Peak Concurrent Viewers for First Exclusive MLB Broadcast appeared first on Morning Consult.
Eater Houston

Late Night Pancakes and Goat Curry Will Soon Arrive at Bravery Chef Hall - The Blind Goat’s lemongrass & five-spice beef short rib & oxtail stew with potatoes, carrots & tomato. | The Blind Goat/Facebook Check out menu details f...
Sludge

Big Tech Has an App for Fighting Political Scrutiny: $$$$ - Congress finally knows that Facebook runs ads. That was the takeaway from a brutal week on the Hill for Mark Zuckerberg’s tech behemoth, and to a lesser ex...
The Texas Signal

Video: Texas is in a “really good position” for Dems in 2020, says D.C. pollster - The Signal spoke via livestream to pollster Jay Campbell, a partner at Hart Research, in Washington, D.C. Some highlights from our conversation: Texas is...
Frontloading HQ

Earlier June Presidential Primary Move Inches Forward in DC - The District Council in Washington, DC returned to work on *B23-0212* this week for the first time since a committee hearing at the end of April. But just...
Krebs on Security

QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack - Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access thei...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump lawyer in charge of enforcing law he used to break' & other Fri midday news briefs - *Trump administration civil rights lawyer arrested multiple times for harassing women & gays* - *Ain't this some shyte? * *Ellen Helped This Mom Accept ...
The Contributor

Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children - News Image: "The EPA is endangering the lives of children to protect pesticide industry profits." Category: Environment origin Blog: Common Dreams origi...
The Ghion Journal

Race Profits: Fixating on One Racist, Neglecting the Root Causes of Racism - Watching beltway politicians, news pundit and media personality gnash their teeth in disgust, it is easy to overlook that Donald Trump is the best their ...
Dissent Magazine

Give Political Power to Ordinary People - To fight elite capture of the state, it’s time to consider sortition, or the assignment of political power through lotteries.
Texas Standard

Why Apollo 11 Wouldn’t Have Happened Without Lyndon Johnson - “We will not abandon our dream. We will never evacuate the frontiers of space to any other nation.”
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Washington, D.C. Residents Deserve the Full Benefits of Citizenship - Those against statehood for D.C. support denying civil liberties to their fellow Americans Five years ago, I left the state of Idaho to become a resident ...
ROAR Magazine

Rojava celebrates 7th anniversary of the revolution - The Rojava Revolution began on 19 July, 2012. Here’s a selection of ROAR’s coverage over the years of this historical struggle for autonomy in northern Syria.
FiveThirtyEight.com

Politics Podcast: Who’s Going To Win Pennsylvania In 2020? - Pennsylvania arguably tied Wisconsin as the tipping point state in 2016, according to FiveThirtyEight’s tipping-point calculation. And in the run-up to the...
Debunking Christianity

A Bible Book Of Blunders - Introduction to a new series of articles It doesn’t take much for the religious impulse to kick in. The thousands of gods that humans have imagined is proof...
Washington Babylon

Lazy Crazy Playlist - [image: Lazy Crazy Playlist] A dozen — from the French douze Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Duck of Minerva

A War On … Something? - This is a guest post by Linda Monsees who works as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and is the author of Crypto-Politics. After wa...
Juanita Jean's WMDBS

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Democracy Now!

In 2003, This U.K. Whistleblower Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion. A New Film Tells Her Story - In 2003, Katharine Gun, a young specialist working for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed t...
Dos Centavos

Houston CM Amanda Edwards Enters US Senate Race - And with this announcement, I can honestly say I don’t know where I stand on this race. But I will say Edwards’ video announcement is one of the best I’ve ...
Dorf on Law

Remembering Justice Stevens - *by Anne M. Voigts* The difficulty in writing about the life of someone like Justice John Paul Stevens is in knowing where to start. He led an exceptional...
Rallblog

I Have a Piece in Today’s Wall Street Journal about AOC v Pelosi. - It is here. You can usually get past the paywall if you get there via a Twitter link.
Progressive.org

The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar - While others on the left waffle on questions of imperial power and foreign relations, the freshman Democrat takes on American hegemony.
Dallas Observer

Bridge-Builder Latasha Morrison: Christians Should Lead Racial Reconciliation Conversation - Latasha Morrison is one of the most prominent Christian advocates of racial reconciliation. The organization she founded, Be the Bridge, provides training ...
Counterpunch

Chevron’s Oil Spill Endangers Kern County - MCKITTRICK, CA A massive oil spill even bigger than the Plains All American Pipeline disaster off Refugio Beach in Santa Barbara County in 2015 has occur...
Campaign for America's Future

Let’s Celebrate Man On the Moon Day - We’ve been celebrating Columbus Day as a national holiday for over 80 years now. But if we truly want to celebrate the discovery of a “new world,” we’d ree...
Progressives Chat

‘Why “Incremental Change” Is Worse Than No Change At All’ - This *Medium* piece, *“Why ‘Incremental Change’ Is Worse Than No Change At All*,*”* by *Caitlin Johnstone* was published last weekend. It came to my atte...
Save Buffalo Bayou

As Flood Risks Rise Across the US, It’s Time to Recognize the Limits of Levees - By Amahia Mallea, Associate Professor of History, Drake University Posted on Naked Capitalism, July 17, 2019 Originally published at The Conversation Ne...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Psst, Elections Were Rigged By Oligarchy not Russia & Evidence Was Reported Before It Happened! - Elections have been rigged in this country long before the alleged Russia conspiracy exposed DNC and Podesta showing some of the methods that they used ...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinders Welcomes New Board Member Cindy Hua - At our June board meeting, we welcomed Cindy Hua to membership on the Downwwinders Board. Cindy came to us via our monthly portable monitoring training, w...
The Concourse

Worst People To Overhear Having Sex, Ranked - 1. Parent (adultery) Read more...
Texas Watch

Auto Insurance Open Records Request - We filed this open records request with the Texas Department of Insurance to see the language auto insurers are using to limit the amount they pay for r...
DBC Green

Ambassador DBC and Questions for Council Candidates - A few years ago, in the wake of my run for the US Senate, beloved friends and HAUSmates started calling me "Senator." The nickname stuck, and it has become...
Common Dreams

100,000+ People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis - ______________________________
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Living on a Demobilized Planet - As I turn 75, there’s no simpler way to put it than this: I’m an old man on a new planet -- and, in case it isn’t instantly obvious, that’s not good news...
Novara Media

The Labour Right Would Prefer a Johnson Government to a Corbyn One. It’s Time to Replace Them - This was the week when the British establishment, from right to centre, effectively conceded they would prefer a Boris Johnson premiership to a Jeremy Corb...
Reading the Pictures

The Pence Migrant Detention Center Pictures: A Closer Look - A close look at the imagery reveals Pence’s political agenda, the tour following a wave of damaging pictures surrounding the migrant crisis. The post The...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2020 Redistricting: An Early Look - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Supreme Court’s recent decision to stay out of adjudicating gerrymandering doesn’t necessarily change anything because t...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Thanksgiving Masses for the lives of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante. - *Remembering and giving thanks for the lives of Oswaldo and Harold.* In Miami, FL and Madrid, Spain there will be Masses given to give thanks for the li...
Pages of Victory

Charles Shrugged - When I was still in the Navy, I began reading Ayn Rand and even received the Objectivist Newsletter from her. For about two months, I was enamored of her. ...
Independent Political Report

Green Party of New York demands justice for Eric Garner - *NEW YORK – The Green Party of New York *(GPNY) renewed its call for justice for *Eric Garner* in response to the Justice Department’s announcement that ...
Innocence Project

DNA Testing Identifies Actual Perpetrator in 1996 Idaho Falls Rape and Murder, Confirming Christopher Tapp’s Innocence - (Idaho Falls, ID – July 17, 2019) Today, the District Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit in Idaho Falls, Idaho, granted the Bonneville County District...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Between Brussels and the Gilets Jaunes - Elected in May 2017 on an ardently pro-European platform, French President Emmanuel Macron promised to undertake radical reforms to revitalise the French...
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...
Daily PUMA

The Trump is a Racist Chattel Obfuscates what's really going on. - Floods were destroying homes, cities, and lives in many parts of the U.S. Premature Mortality in the U.S. serves the purpose of accelerating the death of S...
Ecosophia

Progress and Amnesia - I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extract a limitless supply of highly conc...
In These Times

The DNC Debate Rules Are Turning Small Donors Into a Racket - The decision of who gets to participate falls to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which was battered from all sides (including *In These Times*) ...
Robert Reich

How Corporate Welfare Hurts YouYou often hear Trump and... - *How Corporate Welfare Hurts You* You often hear Trump and Republicans in Congress railing against so-called “welfare programs” – by which they mean prog...
ExChristian.Net

Naked in the Garden - *By Ronna Russell ~ * *This is a satirical piece I wrote just for fun:* I *am the Serpent, I am I am.* Now everyone knows that the serpent is more subtle ...
Shadowproof

Chelsea Manning’s Daily Fines For Grand Jury Resistance Increase To $1000 - Daily fines against Chelsea Manning for resisting a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks increased to $1000 on July 16. On May 16, Judge Anthony Trenga hel...
Eclectablog

Will Mueller EVER show up? – With special guest Sarah Kendzior - Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: @SarahKendzior Sarah Kendzior's website: SarahKendzior.com Sarah Kendzior's podcast Gaslit Nation: GaslitNationPod.com Gaslit Na...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid*

Something atavistic rumbles through - This is the room, I could describe it at length, even *ad nauseum* if I cared to which I do not, where I stay when I stay here at the hospital. The windo...
The Grayzone

A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media’s regime-change deceptions are still unraveling - Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua’s government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises… The post A year...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Signs of life: Traffic trouble with squirrels - Why are they even allowed to drive at all? Tip of the old scrub brush to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff (Texas).
Greg Palast

Palast & Badpenny: An Announcement - High in the thin, cold air where the ridge of the Alps marks the border with Italy, by local tradition, weddings are announced by leaving a small purse o...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Concentration camps at the border - WHAT IS A 'CONCENTRATION CAMP'? Remember when AOC called border detention centers “concentration camps” and it freaked everyone out? Here's why it shouldn'...
LawFlog

Lawsuit outs Ellen Ratner as source for Seth Rich information - Fox News news analyst Ellen Ratner relayed information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Texas businessman Ed Butowsky regarding Seth Rich’s role in...
Harper's

[Article] War Endures, by Olive Ayhens -
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: Swalwell Ends Well. Others Should Follow. -
Houston Strategies

45N not a boondoggle, beating gentrification, HTX vs global warming, mixed rankings, and more - A whole lot of items came up this week: Very cool animated bar chart race of the top 30 metro populations in America from 1790 to today. Pretty neat to wat...
Aggiornamento

TAKING A BREAK FOR AN OLD FRIEND. - Roberto has accepted our invitation to spend this time with us, enjoying good food and speaking bad Italian. Gianni is en route to bring him back. Hopefu...
The Socialist

North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence - Disclaimer: The SPUSA is a multi-tendency organization, the following article may or may not reflect the views of individual party
Freethought Now

Winning in court, striving on Capitol Hill, and reaching out to youth - Another week, another court victory for the Freedom From Religion Foundation!
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
BEYONDbones

The Deadly Dress Test! - Today on Beyond Bones we’re sharing the results of a rather unusual test that was recently performed by the curators of our blockbuster special exhibition ...
Our Finite World

Why stimulus can’t fix our energy problems - Economists tell us that within the economy there is a lot of substitutability, and they are correct. However, there are a couple of not-so-minor details th...
Web of Debt

How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed - The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after...
The Disorder Of Things

Toward a New Concept of Genocide: A Reply - Our symposium on Benjamin Meiches’s The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) concludes with the author’s...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The United States of Fascism Hysteria - So it’s been an exciting few weeks for Antifa and the rest of the neoliberal Resistance. OK, they haven’t yet managed to overthrow the Putin-Nazi occupatio...
Earthworks

Civic Leadership Institute’s visit to Earthworks - On July 3rd, Earthworks hosted 16 high schoolers from the Civic Leadership Institute. The Civic Leadership Institute is a collaboration between the Civi...
Environment Texas

House moves to phase out toxic PFAS chemicals on military bases - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Toxic foams that threaten the health of armed service members and their neighbors would no longer be used on military bases under Env...
Church and State

Population growth remains a big problem but male patrimony is a major factor often ignored - The version of democracy, capitalism and religion that we experience are all male-dominated, and have resisted equality for women over the millennia.
PERRspectives

Republicans Routinely Ignore GOP Hatch Act Violations - Writers, bloggers, commenters, and pundits nearly exhausted the dictionary in the runup to the president's July 4th Trumpapalooza™. With his tanks, parades...
The Rag Blog

Anne Lewis : STORY & VIDEO PODCAST | Asilo, terror y el futuro #4: ‘Hieleras’ - Basado en casos documentados por Jennifer Harbury… Asilo, Terror y el Futuro # 4 Hieleras from Anne Lewis on Vimeo. Por Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | 8 de Ju...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Grits for Breakfast

Reasonably Suspicious podcast, July 2019 episode: Featuring an interview with TPPF's Marc Levin about parole, allegations of judicial misconduct in San Antonio, and a proposed mascot for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - Here's the July 2019 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, covering Texas criminal justice politics and policy. Co-hosted by me and Aman...
Avedon's Sideshow

And behold a mighty city broken in the dust again - "Representative Gottheimer Asks Regulators to Deregulate Banks He's Invested In: *At the behest of a big-bank trade group, Gottheimer rallied 16 of his f...
Media Lens

Suspending Chris Williamson - The Fury And The Fakery - On June 26, the Labour Party lifted the suspension of pro-Corbyn MP Chris Williamson, triggering a maximum effort propaganda blitz designed to reverse th...
Stinque

35 Cents Cheap - When we think of Mad magazine, we think of Jack Davis. We could think of Dave Berg, or Antonio Prohias, or Al Jaffee, or Sergio Aragones, or Norman Mingo, ...
nonsite.org

Open Letter on the Proposed Destruction of a Mural Cycle - A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washing...
Progressive Army

Biden Needs to Own Up to the ’94 Crime Bill - At the second night of the Democratic presidential debate, on a stage where Joe Biden stood next to Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, the topic of crimin...
Texas Rural Voices

To Combat Drunk Driving Deaths, Texas Officials Consider Lowering Legal Blood Alcohol Content Limit - In the state of Texas, driving while impaired is still an issue, resulting in about 950 fatal alcohol-related crashes each year. Recent statistics indica...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hale as Acting CEO of Equality Texas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Angela Hale, Equality Texas, 512.289.2995 angela@redmediagroup.com Equality Texas Names Longtime Equality Texas Consultant Angela Hal...
News Taco

Running while brown: How Julián Castro is navigating white presidential politics - EAST LOS ANGELES — By the time his plane touched down in California at the end of a whirlwind week, Julián Castro had set an early political benchmark in...
Liberal Values

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Truthout

Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic - One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
Moron Majority

Trump Warns Of Dire Consequences If He’s Not Re-Elected … Here’s The Complete List - As he gears up for his re-election campaign, Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. would experience an epic stock market crash if he were not returned to t...
GreenSource DFW

Austin hotel makes top green lodgings list - *The courtyard of Habitat Suites in Austin includes a salt water pool. Photo courtesy of Habitat Suites.* June 13, 2019 We stayed at one of the top ten ...
Smart Dissent

Highly Regarded, Independent Congressional Research Service Report: GOP Tax Bill is a Scam - Date: 06/18/2019 Congressional Research Service—which is nonpartisan, independent, and highly-respected—just published a report that dismantles claims tha...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Anti-Fascists Confront Neo-Nazi Outside His Home in Houston - If the video fails to load, try this mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rox3moMx_Y On Saturday, June 8th, a large group Anti-Fascists rallied on Hous...
New Progressive Alliance

Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights - Those who reveal a crime are not worse criminals than those who commit a crime. Imprisoning and torturing Manning as a whistleblower while ignoring those...
WAWG Blog

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election - What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greate...
Seeing the Forest

Voting Systems - How did we move from a voting system where you could be sure who won to voting systems where you have to trust what private companies tell you the results ...
t.e.j.a.s.

First Toxic Tour in Spanish – El Primer Toxic Tour En Español - Authored by: Marcelys Perez TOXIC TOUR, EXPERIENCIA INFORMATIVA Y DE CONCIENTIZACIÓN QUE NOS HACE CONOCER EL MUNDO DE INJUSTICIA QUE LLEVAMOS CON NUESTRO M...
Disobedient Media

Is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory? - Here's who was involved with pushing it.
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Guadalupe Paz & the TJ Opera Scene - For more than 15 years now, I’ve followed the way Tijuana has developed an opera scene that is one of the artistic jewels of Mexico. One of the scene’s g...
CultureMap Houston

New tropically themed spot cooks up Latin flavor in Boulevard Oaks - David Buehrer wants Houstonians to feel like they can get away from it all without leaving town. That's the driving force behind Tropicales Cafe Y Comida,...
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 ...
DoucheLeaks

4-21 Democratic Presidential Preference Poll - Last week’s poll results truly blew me away. The resurgence of Elizabeth Warren with a commanding 0.89% of the vote was quite an unexpected delight – sure ...
Socialist Worker

Taking our final steps - From the ISO Members of the leadership team responsible for carrying out the decisions made by current and recently resigned ISO members in voting to diss...
Texas Moratorium Network

Hearing on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - We testified at the hearing of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on April 15, 2019 in favor of Rep. Dutton’s bill to prohibit the death penal...
Wayne Dolcefino (Houston muckraker)

MESSAGE TO THE FBI…BRING IT ON - Newly released documents in the Brazil kidnapping case show the spin-doctor/lawyer for Houston doctor Chris Brann waged an ongoing campaign to keep Ben T...
Popehat

The State of the Hat - One of the most justifiably ridiculed type of blog posts is the "hey guys I haven't posted in a long time" non-substantive blog posts, but nonetheless, her...
News Junkie

The Surrealism of the Information War - The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which...
Houston Justice

HISD's GREATEST HITS - A lot continues to be up in the air about our local school board, so let’s take a look back at some of the board’s “Greatest Hits.” Let’s start with this r...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.
John Laurits

[video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany - [video] John Laurits Interview w/ Revolt Against Plutocracy’s Victor Tiffany For readers who missed the Facebook live-stream, here is a video wherein I a...
Pressing Issues

Midterm Results - In past years, I have closely monitored TV and web coverage of the returns and posted here in real time, which some people really appreciate--I presume fol...
Talking Union

The Postal Strike of 1970: Relevance to Today - by Lawrence Swaim Ed. note: We are always eager to post first-person accounts from worker activists writing from their own direct experiences. This arti...

Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

State of the Union toons

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