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Mediaite

Twitter Locks Jason Whitlock Out for Tweeting About BLM Founder’s New $1.4 Million Home - Twitter locked sports columnist Jason Whitlock's account over the weekend for a message in which he scrutinized a new, $1.4 million home purchased by a f...
Daily Dot

Police precinct involved in Daunte Wright shooting flies Thin Blue Line flag - [image: A Thin Blue Line flag at the Brooklyn Center Police Department] A "Thin Blue Line" flag seen outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department in ...
VICE

I Have a Heart Condition That Changes Everything About How I Have Sex - “When I orgasm, it feels like somebody’s sitting on my chest.”
The Hill

New co-chairs named for congressional caucus for millennials - The Millennial Action Project has named Reps. Blake Moore (R-Utah) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) the new co-chairs of the Congressional Future Caucus. ...
Raw Story

There’s a disturbing motive hiding behind the GOP’s attacks on transgender youth - The GOP's latest culture war is focused squarely on the nation's transgender community, specifically transgender youth. It isn't a new war, simply a new ...
The Week

Biden calls for 'peace and calm' in wake of Daunte Wright police shooting - President Biden is calling for "peace and calm" in the aftermath of the officer-involved shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sund...
Slate

Help! My Twin Dyed Her Hair Bright Orange to “Stand Out” at My Wedding. - All I can think about is how she’ll look like Carrot Top in all the photos.
Talking Points Memo

Republicans Think The Best Way To Block Dems’ Bill Is To Argue About The Definition Of ‘Infrastructure’ - Republicans have taken a philosophical turn when talking about President Joe Biden’s $2 million-plus infrastructure plan.
The Verge

Google Photos just let me copy text from a photo into my web browser - [image: Both the Pixel 5 (top) and the Pixel 4A 5G (bottom) have regular and ultrawide camera] Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The desktop Go...
Futurism

The Stuff Beer Cans Are Made From Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease - [image: Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.] Ther...
Political Wire

Gaetz Wouldn’t Help His ‘Wingman’ with Pardon Request - Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) “wingman” Joel Greenberg went so far as to push the congressman to use his influence with Donald Trump for a pardon as a federal i...
Second Nexus

Jen Psaki Throws Hilarious Shade at Trump After GOP Senator Complains Biden's Tweets Are 'Unimaginably Conventional' - A defining aspect of former President Donald Trump's tenure in the White House was his use of social media—especially Twitter. Tweeting or retweeting doz...
slacktivist

White evangelicals and the vaccine - Three recent items -- from Florida, Southern California, and upstate New York -- look at white evangelical "vaccine hesitancy," but not at the underlying sin.
Buzzflash

Today, BuzzFlash Returns After 11 Years to Bestowing Its Wings of Justice Award. Read the Winners From 2005-2010. - BuzzFlash
Techdirt.

Oh Look, Here's Some More Culture Being Canceled, Now Thanks To The Second Circuit - This decision, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, came out only a few weeks ago, yet before the Supreme Court ruled in Google v. Or...
Progressive.org

The End of Trickle-Down Economics - The pandemic has shifted conventional wisdom by showing the limits of “small government” thinking.
Texas Environmental News

House GOP's planned environmental bills drop Democrat priorities - Congressional Republicans are set to unveil environmental legislation in coming weeks that eschews the Biden administration’s focus on energy and [...] ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd’s death ‘absolutely preventable’, doctor testifies - Cardiologist told jury Floyd would have lived had Chauvin not pinned him down and was certain Floyd did not die of a heart attack or drug overdose George...
Eschaton

The Boehner World Tour - This is a triumphant effort at political revisionism. I was there. Boehner midwifed the Tea Party (the predecessor to the Trump cult) into existence. He ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

How to Pitch a Story About a Virtuoso Jazz Violinist to D Magazine - We editors get pitched story ideas from writers and publicists all the time. But you’d be surprised at how ineffective most of the pitches are. They are ...
Earthworks

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

Democrats’ Next Plan to Get Biden’s Agenda Over the Finish Line: Fire the Scorekeeper - President Joe Biden unveiled a $2.25 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan last month and has promised to seek input from Republican lawmakers on its ultim...
Vox

Why the US egg industry is still killing 300 million chicks a year - Recently hatched yellow chicks fall off the end of a conveyor belt at an egg hatchery in Russia. | Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images Hatcheries p...
Texas Standard

To Succeed In Organizing Workers, Unions Should Prepare For A ‘Long, Hard Fight’ - Current labor laws allow companies to use heavy-handed persuasion in an attempt to discourage workers from voting to form a union.
Houston Public Media

Flooding From Hurricane Harvey Polluted Coral Reefs More Than 100 Miles Offshore - The research shows just how far Houston’s flooding problems go.
Popular Resistance

The Judicial Persecution Of Steven Donziger - For some, call them criminal justice ingenues, it may be hard to believe this is happening in the United States, that our famed judiciary has sunk this l...
memeorandum

Trump Given Award By NRSC On Same Weekend He Hurled Insults At McConnell (Summer Concepcion/Talking Points Memo) - Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo: *Trump Given Award By NRSC On Same Weekend He Hurled Insults At McConnell* — Just hours after former President...
Courthouse News

Prosecutors Wind Down Case Against Chauvin in Shadow of More Protests - A cardiologist testified Monday that George Floyd's death was caused by asphyxia, but local attention was fixed on a suburban police shooting that sparked ...
Democracy Chronicles

6 Major Ai Weiwei Artworks On Social Issues in China - Ai Weiwei is without a doubt the most well-known living Chinese artist today, but he isn't given the credit he deserves in China.
OpEd News

A Vaccine Summit: Taking the Pandemic Seriously - You might think that, after a year in which have seen millions of deaths and tens of millions of infections, and trillions of dollars in economic losses, o...
Mediagazer

Sources: a record ~110K viewers complained about BBC coverage of Prince Philip's death; 116 complained that BBC is making it too easy to complain about coverage (Jim Waterson/The Guardian) - Jim Waterson / The Guardian: *Sources: a record ~110K viewers complained about BBC coverage of Prince Philip's death; 116 complained that BBC is making i...
CultureMap Houston

Texans among the most stressed-out people in America, says new study - No wonder nearly 40 percent of Texans have packed on the pounds during the coronavirus pandemic. It turns out Texas ranks as the 10th most stressed-out st...
Alternet

Why Republicans are betting the farm on attacking transgender people - The GOP's latest culture war is focused squarely on the nation's transgender community, specifically transgender youth. It isn't a new war, simply a new ...
Daily Howler

The ruling no one can quote or explain! - *MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2021* *Our elite "journalism" at work: *Today, we celebrate the first anniversary of the parliamentary ruling no one can quote or expl...
Dandelion Salad

Abby Martin: Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism’s Pearl of Africa - Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin Empire Files on Apr 11, 2021 Short documentary on Uganda’s US-backed dictatorship, the country’s freedom struggle from col...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
El Paso Matters

El Paso Matters adds reporter to cover climate change, environment - Danielle Prokop is the newest member of the El Paso Matters team, focusing on the environment and the impacts of climate change on the Paso del Norte re...
Common Dreams

Ramsey Clark, Human Rights Lawyer and Critic of US Empire, Dies at Age 93 - Democracy Now! "The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back." [...
Axios

U.S. and Israel to hold Iran talks 2 days after apparent Israeli attack on nuclear site - Top national security officials from the U.S. and Israel will convene virtually on Tuesday for a second round of strategic talks on Iran, three Israeli o...
Mondoweiss

Canada’s New Democratic Party passes motion to sanction Israel - Canada's New Democratic Party passes resolution to boycott settlement goods from Israel and embargo arms, but a vote on the controversial IHRA definition o...
Eater Houston

11 Luxe Truffle Dishes Worth the Splurge in Houston - [image: spaghetti with shaved black truffles and dusted with shredded parmesean] Spaghetti al tartufo nero from Potente | Potente/Facebook Where to find ...
Al Jazeera English

How will Iran respond to the Natanz nuclear site incident? - Iran is blaming Israel for a power blackout at its main nuclear facility, calling it 'an act of nuclear terrorism'.
Election Law Blog

Can Climate Change Affect Redistricting? - Just ran across this story on the 12 most gerrymandered House districts, according to some experts The Fulcrum surveyed in 2019. Here is the comment on thi...
ROAR Magazine

The Laura Flanders Show: Armed with Art - Weekly in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics with Laura Flanders.
Houston Press

Houston Chronicle Fires Texans Reporter Who Likened Deshaun Watson Accusers To Terrorists - The Houston Chronicle is down one Texans beat writer after the paper fired reporter Aaron Wilson on Friday once it came to light that he made some ill-cons...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Records That May (Or May Not) Fall In A 17-Game NFL Season - The NFL’s long-awaited move to a 17-game regular season means a lot of obvious changes: a later Super Bowl, more exposure to injury risks and more games to...
San Antonio Current

John Cornyn asks whether Biden is ‘really in charge’ because he isn't tweeting or going on TV enough - Sen. John Cornyn loves to tweet, does so frequently, and unlike a lot of people in his station, writes his own. Here's the problem: he tweets a lot of exc...
Idavox

Proud Boys Dealt Yet Another Legal Blow Courtesy of Default Judgement - These idiots decided they would ignore the lawsuit from one of the churches they targeted on Dec. 12, and a judge said, “Fine…” After they decided not to...
Grits for Breakfast

A dirty, uncomfortable feeling: TCOLE Sunset bill lame, inadequate, and kicks can down the road on the biggest police accountability issues - After staff at the Texas Sunset Commission issued a *scathing assessment* of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the legislation enacting their vision...
WhoWhatWhy

The Emerging Frontiers of Climate Activism - Reading Time: 2 minutes Trump Officials Celebrated Efforts to Change CDC Reports ; Details From 533 Million Facebook Users Found on Hacker Website ; and ...
Salon.com

Derek Chauvin's trial is a test of whether facts matter - Will the truth prevail or will we face an ugly reminder of how often facts don't matter in the face of bigotry?
Moon of Alabama

CNN - Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are 'Russian Aggression' - Today CNN continued its long stint of publishing anti-Russian propaganda. But this video 'report' falls on several levels. Unprecedented footage shows fron...
NPR's Health Shots

Would You Use An App To Verify Your Vaccine Status? The Idea Is Here To Stay - From sporting arenas to colleges and cruise ships, many businesses are planning to ask customers to prove they've had their shot. Smart phone apps may be c...
WhatWouldJackDo

Jesus doesn’t go in for toys that require batteries or electricity…and He’s missing all the fun -
Texas Monthly

Hey, Astros: Get Ready for 162 Games of Raining Trash Cans and “Houston Asterisks” Signs - From tossing trash cans to renaming the Astros the “Houston Asterisks,” baseball fans won’t let Houston forget the 2017 cheating scandal. The post Hey, A...
Discourse

Talking to Comedian and Tax Justice Activist Maura Quint - Chatting about trivia, the Tax March and why the right sucks at comedy. The post Talking to Comedian and Tax Justice Activist Maura Quint appeared first ...
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Approves FCC Rule Allowing Further Consolidation of Local Media Outlets - While I was researching a piece last September about Sinclair Broadcasting's illegal TV ownership shell game, I stumbled into a Supreme Court case. Donald ...
Ring of Fire

Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Turned Sexual Assault Laws Into Weapon Against Survivors - Via America’s Lawyer: Former education secretary Betsy DeVos left behind a controversial legacy: the overhaul of student sexual misconduct guidelines und...
The AltWorld

White America Is Succumbing to Fierce Racial Attack on White Americans - Do White Americans Have No Will to Resist Their Demonization and Dehumanization? America’s Catastrophic Disintegration Death Camps […] The post White Ame...
Living Blue in Texas

The Tragic Murder Of Henry Lee Johnson - Henry Lee Johnson was a 15-year-old murdered in the parking lot of an all-white club in 1980. Despite a confession and eye-witness accounts, his family n...
Edinburg Politics

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

Iran Fabricates Claim that U.S. Blocked Vaccines from India - India halted coronavirus vaccine exports under the United Nations-backed COVAX program due to a domestic vaccine shortage and a surge of COVID-19 cases. Th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Conservatives are out to stop cancel culture. They should look in the mirror' & other Mon midday news briefs - *Conservatives are out to stop cancel culture. They should look in the mirror.* - *Preach it!* *How The Prom's Breakout Star Jo Ellen Pellman Is Helpi...
Reform Austin

ERCOT to Argue it is Immune From Winter Storm Lawsuits - “ERCOT to argue it is immune from winter storm lawsuits” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that infor...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Long-Term Care: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver John Oliver explains the industry behind nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and why long-term...
Morning Consult

Podcasting Plots to Retain New Listeners Post-Pandemic by Embracing Niche Topics, New Promotional Strategies - The post Podcasting Plots to Retain New Listeners Post-Pandemic by Embracing Niche Topics, New Promotional Strategies appeared first on Morning Consult.
ProPublica

When Are Taxes Due? - by Kristen Doerer for ProPublica and Karim Doumar ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest s...
The Appeal

The Pandemic Prompted Marilyn Mosby to Stop Prosecuting Low-Level Crimes. Will Other D.A.s Follow? - About a year ago, the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s office stopped prosecuting several low-level offenses—minor drug possession, prostitution, and minor t...
Church and State

Brain-controlled computers are becoming a reality, but major hurdles remain - Imagine controlling your computer just by thinking. It sounds far-out, but real advances are happening.
First Draft

The Trumpcine? - Oy, just oy.
Louis Proyect

Human Solidarity and Nature Conservation - “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” Carl Gustav Jung [1] Life is the actual...
Crooked Media

The American Rescue Plan and the Consequences of Elections - The post The American Rescue Plan and the Consequences of Elections appeared first on Crooked Media.
Undernews

Maryland first state to repeal police bill of rights -
ExChristian.Net

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

Daunte Wright Death in Minnesota Traffic Stop Sparks Unrest - BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A Black man died after being shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb during a traffic stop and crashing his car several blocks...
American Prospect

First 100: Where’s the Michigan Vaccine Surge? - Plus, more executive action options to lower drug prices.
Right Wing Watch

‘Just Kill ‘Em’: ‘Prophet’ Jeff Jansen Brags That the Ushers at His Church Will Not Hesitate to Shoot Anyone Who Tries to ‘Pull Something’ - Self-proclaimed “prophet” Jeff Jansen spoke at a “Reign” conference at Ignite Faith Church in Redmond, Oregon, over the weekend, where he bragged that th...
Wolf Street

I Now Track the Most Important Measure of the Fed’s Economy: the “Wealth Effect” and How it Impacts Americans Individually - The Fed provides the data quarterly, I dissect it at the stunning per-capita level.
Novara Media

Prince Philip Knew One Important Thing: For Monarchies to Survive, They Must Learn to Adapt - [image: A billboard at Piccadilly Circus pays tribute to the late Prince Philip. Garry Knight/Flickr]Prince Philip was born in 1921 to a monarchy in the gr...
Daily Cartoonist

KFS Comics Editor Tea on Syndication/Submissions - Content syndicates are businesses that syndicate content to businesses that need content for their platforms— newspapers, magazines, tv and radio stations,...
Claytoonz

Fuhgeddaboudit, Giuliani - To be honest, it wasn’t very important that I draw this cartoon. On a normal day, I try to pick the most talked about issue, or maybe the most important…or...
Lawfare

Recent Supreme Court Rulings on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act - The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Ron Coleman, https://tinyurl.com/8p4wkd8b; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/...
Bracing Views

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

Studio SWEAT onDemand Lets You Keep It Tight Right in Your Own Home - Studio SWEAT onDemand: 1 YR Subscription | $99 | StackSocial Read more...
Scheerpost.com

Book Review: Driving the Samburu Bride - Driving the Samburu BrideBy Diane C. Perlov Reviewed by H Patricia Hynes / Original to ScheerPost Diane Perlov’s memoir of the two years she lived among se...
San Antonio Report

Manufacturer PSI embraces automation, a growing trend in San Antonio - [image: Dolores Guerra-Macias and John Torres oversee a robot on the factory floor at Pressure Systems International (PSI). Because they are not fully auto...
Bonddad

Coronavirus dashboard for April 12: more good news, more bad news - *- by New Deal democrat* The good news is, vaccinations work. Vaccine effect in the UK: By age group: Vaccine effect in France (in the face of an...
The Progressive Wing

🪐🌏 4.12 Open Thread 🪐🌍 - Today is the 40th Anniversary of the launch of STS-1, the first Space Shuttle. 🚀 😊 I was there. It was awesome, just simply awesome. Reagan had gotten el...
Texas Observer

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

Why Women get obliterated in Kerala renaissance history? - There has been a proliferation of literature on women, including women’s history across the world. Yet, women remain mostly invisible or misrepresented...
Democracy Now!

Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder Helped Lead 2016 Anti-DAPL Uprising - LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian, has died of cancer at the age of 64, and we look back on her work, through interviews on h...
The Conversation

How many states and provinces are in the world? - The U.S. is broken up into 50 states, plus territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, and a federal district, Washington, D.C. Most other countries have smalle...
The Smirking Chimp

Just $1,446 to go. We can put an end to our fund drive TODAY. Let's do it. -
Caitlin Johnstone

“CHINA BAD”, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - The planet is ruled by a tyrannical oligarchy which uses governments as weapons to destroy disobedient nations while churning out news stories about how th...
Rewire

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Let’s Talk About Abortion Access. - When abortion care is inaccessible, Black maternal health as a whole suffers. The post It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Let’s Talk About Abortion Access....
Duffel Blog

FDA authorizes Crayola vaccine for Marines - "The results were just off-the-charts."
Space City Weather

Finally, some decent rainfall returns to Houston’s forecast - After an absolutely spectacular Sunday, in which dewpoints dropped into the 40s and skies turned azure, we’ve got more reasonably good news about Houston’s...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/12/2021 - Top legal news includes: ERCOT to argue it is immune from winter storm lawsuits; Texas Republicans say their proposed voting restrictions are color blind. ...
Southeast Texas Record

Justices gut lawsuit alleging Houston fire truck ran red light and caused collision - HOUSTON – After cutting out a good portion of claims, the 14th Court of Appeals is allowing a lawsuit against the city of Houston, brought after a fire t...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Monday, April 12 - [image: The morning read for Monday, April 12]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to th...
Dorf on Law

The Roberts Court, First Amendment Fanaticism, and the Myth of Originalism - By Eric Segall *I’m probably the most aggressive defender of the First Amendment. Most people might think that doesn’t quite fit with my jurisprudence i...
Grist

7 million Californians live near oil and gas wells. This bill could change that. - One of the most ambitious state oil and gas bills ever would eliminate fracking and institute buffer zones to protect frontline communities.
Progressives Chat

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

“I’ve never done any of this”: A Texas parent reluctantly dives into a school district’s battle over masks - Olivia Weisinger found herself thrust into a new, unofficial public role after the Comal Independent School District decided to lift its mask requirement...
Earth 911

Recycling Mystery: Plastic Shower Curtains - If your shower has a plastic curtain or liner, has it seen better days? If... The post Recycling Mystery: Plastic Shower Curtains appeared first on Eart...
Dallas Observer

Will Texas Further Expand its Medical Weed Program? - The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws doesn’t even recognize Texas as a medical marijuana state because there are so many limitations.
Counterpunch

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Ecocide in the Pacific - In late 2020 by David Valentine, a curious professor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, discovered something like 500,000 barrels of DDT li...
Angry Bear

Weekly Indicators for April 5 – 9 at Seeking Alpha - by New Deal democrat Weekly Indicators for April 5 – 9 at Seeking Alpha My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big news continues to be a...
High Country News

The Colorado town that became a transgender haven - In ‘Going to Trinidad,’ histories illuminate — and obscure — the outcomes of gender transition.
See You In 2020

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

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

The Mad Warhorse of Neoliberalism is Galloping Towards Perdition - We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. — Gore Vidal, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Am...
Rallblog

In Which the CEO Takes a Meeting with His Pet Senator - The Biden Administration would like to increase corporate taxes. Big companies complain that the US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the wor...
ArcaMax

The basic deal between corporate America and the GOP is still alive - For four decades, the basic deal between big American corporations and politicians has been simple. Corporations provide campaign funds. Politicians recipr...
Portside

Why You Should Doubt ‘New Physics’ From The Latest Muon g-2 Results - Why You Should Doubt ‘New Physics’ From The Latest Muon g-2 Results Ira Mon, 04/12/2021 - 01:58
Informed Comment

With Cyber-Attack on Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility, is Israel’s Netanyahu trying to derail Biden talks and Escape Jail? - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The BBC reports that a power outage and consequent explosion at the Natanz nuclear enrichment site in Iran on Sunday is bein...
Rio Grande Guardian

Development underway on Killam’s huge south Mission project - MISSION, Texas – Killam Development announced that construction will begin on their 3,400-acre master planned community, El Milagro, within the next two ...
jobsanger

It's Over -
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

CAVU - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: Ceiling and visibility unlimited. The Federal Aviation Administration weather guessers invented this one, methinks. You c...
Ian Welsh

Making the Rich and Powerful Work for Everyone - The philosopher John Rawls suggested that the only ethical society is one which we design before we know what position we will hold in it. If you don’t kno...
Antiwar.com

Secretary of State Blinken Throws Down the Gauntlet to China and Russia… Again - America began a new week with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. One might forgive a traveler from ano...
Liberation News

Mold, roaches, leaks: snapshot of South Carolina’s housing crisis - With the highest eviction rates in the nation, South Carolina has been in a housing crisis long before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline Politics

‘Shameless’ Series Finale: Showrunner John Wells On The Gallaghers’ Goodbye, Why (Spoiler) Never Showed Up & Spinoffs - SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the series finale of Shameless tonight. After 11 seasons, it was truly last call for Frank Gallagher tonight o...
Dos Centavos

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

Ukrainian President Zelensky meets Turkey’s Erdogan as US threatens Russia - The Ukrainian government is campaigning to win support in NATO as it threatens Russia with military action targeting Crimea and separatist-controlled regio...
Crooked Timber

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

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

Huffman Pulls CoA Consolidation Bill and Other News for April 11 - Early voting for the May 1 general and special elections begins on April 19. *Appellate Districts:* Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) has pulled down a bill ...
Strategic Culture Foundation

COVID Runs the 9/11 Playbook (Against You) (Again) - After fanning COVID panic for a year, Democratic newsletter Salon admits it was all for partisan purposes: “Americans have been sucked into an all-or-nothi...
Alas, a Blog

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

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

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

A Minnesota Republican running for governor was banned from TikTok for spreading COVID-19 misinformation - [image: Scott Jensen TikTok] Summary List Placement Scott Jensen, a Republican running for governor of Minnesota, was banned by TikTok for spreading COV...
Robert Reich

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

New York Submits Brief in Ballot Access Case - On April 9, the state of New York submitted this brief in the three ballot access cases filed by various minor parties. The state’s brief asks the U.S. Dis...
Stinque

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

Two Years After Assange’s Arrest, Biden Can End Trump’s Assault On Press Freedom - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been detained at the high-security Belmarsh prison in London for two years. During that time, Assange became the fir...
Nina Illingworth

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier - An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called "migrant crisis at the border....
Infidel753

Link round-up for 11 April 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Cats are such graceful animals. Once wasn't enough for this hunter. Mock...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Should Museums Deaccession Their Collections? - Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the ongoing debate about museums deaccessioning objects from their permanent collections. “If MoMA could build a new b...
The Intercept

The Long Shadow of Virginia’s Death Penalty - Virginia made history when it abolished capital punishment. But for those who were proximate to the state’s 113 executions, closure remains complicated. ...
Greg Palast

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

From Earth Day to May Day: Greens, the GND and climate action - As the 51st Earth Day approaches, and as President Joe Biden prepares for an upcoming International Earth Day summit, the Green Party of the United Stat...
Pages of Victory

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

Long Die Prince Philip! A Proper Obituary for the Nazi Besotted Racist Royal and a Tribute to the Cambridge Five - [image: Long Die Prince Philip! A Proper Obituary for the Nazi Besotted Racist Royal and a Tribute to the Cambridge Five] His Royal Ghoul Prince Philip, hu...
Reading the Pictures

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

Michael Reinoehl: More Justice Denied - Last summer in Portland, by several accounts, a self-identified antifa activist named Michael Forest Reinoehl shot and killed Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a me...
Trivial Knot

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

Ecuador’s presidential election: What’s at stake? - [image: Ecuador’s presidential election: What’s at stake?] Ibarra, Ecuador April 9 — The latest polls before the April 11 runoff presidential election here...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Pyramid of Power Is ALMOST HERE! - Friends, I hope everyone is doing well. I am working hard to complete the first season of the Pyramid of Power documentary series. The first 4 episodes w...
Eclectablog

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

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

New Mexico is experiencing climate change in the form of drought - [image: New Mexico is experiencing climate change in the form of drought] Hydrologist Katrina Bennett describes extreme weather events like droughts and fl...
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

Biden Takes Aim at Gun Violence With Executive Orders (Video) - Nine days into the month of April, the United States has experienced another 14 mass shootings. On Thursday, hours after former NFL player Phillip Adams ...
Equality Texas

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

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

Amazon Cheats in Bessemer – Key Lessons for the Fight to #UnionizeAmazon - Socialist Alternative has been on the ground in Bessemer for a number of weeks helping build the BAmazon struggle. The below article is based on our observ...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/9/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Rooundup, on the blog every Friday! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/9/21 appeared first...
Dissent Magazine

Belabored: Black Against Amazon, with Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley - Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
Freethought Now

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

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

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

Indigenous Communities March For Justice A Year On From Devastating Amazon Oil Spill - Hundreds of Indigenous activists took to the streets in Ecuador this week to demand justice on the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst oil spill ...
Tribune of the People

Texas: Prysmian Group Workers in Scottsville Go On Strike - By Brian Martel A year after contract negotiations began, workers at the Prysmian Group plant in Scottsville, Texas have gone on strike. The demands of the...
Rude Pundit

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

The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing - The union’s loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale. - On April 9, the National Labor Relations Board announced the results of a mail ballot certification election that concluded on March 29 for workers at th...
epic.org

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

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz: “Every Fetus Deserves a Fighting Chance to Become My Sex Object In 17 Years” - While the scandal surrounding him may not be showing any signs of subsiding just yet, Congressman Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) has shown no signs of pulling back fr...
Debunking Christianity

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

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

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

Matt Gaetz Keeps Talking as More Chips Fall - Matt Gaetz was a lawyer before he ran for Congress. I have no idea why he believes he can talk his way to innocence in a pending criminal investigation inv...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Vaccines Are For Cucks - I’m just going to leave this here… “it’s crazy to watch all my California and NYC friends scramble for vaccine appointments meanwhile in Texas I get a text...
Field Negro

"Everybody got guns" - *"I gotta a gun, he gotta gun, he gotta gun. Everybody got guns." ~Gyp Rosetti, Boardwalk Empire~* There were two more high profile mass shootings agai...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

BREAKING! MSNBC and CNN Legal Analyst Midwin Charles Shot Dead with Covid-19 “Vaccine”, Her Employers Bury the Lead - Two days ago, Midwin Charles, a renowned defense attorney and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN and a host of other cable news stations, passed away The post ...
Sludge

Military Equipment Transfers to Police Have Picked Back Up - After dipping in the back three quarters of 2020 amid a nationwide focus on policing, the transfer of military weapons and equipment to civilian police has...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas House Committee Advances Sweeping Voter Suppression Bill Targeting Texans of Color - It’s becoming clearer that too many legislators are determined to see Jim Crow ride again in Texas. Today the House Elections Committee advanced a sweepi...
The Contributor

'Why the US Senate Is So Broken': Manchin Vow to Preserve Filibuster Imperils Voting Rights and Much More - News Image: "Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California and 92% white, yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

Shahid Buttar and Dan Kovalik - Mickey’s first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospec...
Innocence Project

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

The Promise of Systemic Equality Starts at Home - For more than a century, the ACLU has been on the frontlines advancing civil liberties and civil rights. This has meant not only defending rights for all ...
Ecosophia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked? - Ne'er-do-wells leaked personal data -- including phone numbers -- for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected befor...
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

Responses to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment - Complexity enchants ANT, new materialism, posthumanism, media studies, affect theory, and the literary undertakings of postcritique, new descriptivism, and...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Wake Up America: Biden’s plan with China and COVID-19 - Mustafa Tameez joins a panel on Wake Up America to discuss President Biden’s successes with the COVID-19 response and how he is handling China.
The Rag Blog

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

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

Falling Short - Thursday, April 1, 2021 Procter & Gamble’s new forest policies demonstrate a disappointing lack of commitment
The Socialist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
CT's short stories and novelettes

The Cask of Merlot - “Think if Poe had written “The Cask of Merlot,” cracked this girl with a puckish smile. Already I was in love. I watched her tiny fi...
Frontloading HQ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
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Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brains and Eggs

Monday, May 30, 2011

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