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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Daily Kos

Live coverage: Texas' 28th State House District special election - Polls closed at 8 PM in Texas’ 28th State House District, a GOP-held district in the Houston suburbs that’s hosting a competitive special election betwee...
Down With Tyranny!

Republican Senators Are Running Around Like Chickens Without Heads - *Everybody keep your powder dry* That Bolton book release over the weekend sure did turn the impeachment trial on its head! Susan Collins' campaign sent ou...
Raw Story

CNN panel humiliates Marsha Blackburn for knocking second-hand witnesses — then blocking John Bolton - When asked by reporters this week whether they need to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said that...
Mediaite

Democratic-Turned-Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew Fires Up the Crowd at Trump Rally: ‘Are We Going to Keep America Great?!’ - Congressman *Jeff Van Drew* was a Democrat until just last month when he became a Republican before the House impeachment vote. Weeks later, the former Dem...
The Week

Israeli government to vote on annexing part of West Bank - On Sunday, the Israeli government will vote on annexing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and parts of the Jordan Valley. This could cover up ...
LareDOS

City Council reacts to CBP’s rudimentary drawing and lack of alignment data at CBP’s Jan. 21 - “Status of the Fence” presentation
Vox

The New York Times used to be afraid of BuzzFeed. Now it’s hired its biggest star. - BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith in 2019. | Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile via Getty Images What Ben Smith’s move to the paper of record says about digital med...
Daily Dot

Caroline Calloway says she plans to campaign for Bernie Sanders - The 'scam princess' made the announcement on her Instagram Stories. The post Caroline Calloway says she plans to campaign for Bernie Sanders appeared fi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Research Finds that High School GPAs Are Stronger Predictors of College Graduation than ACT Scores - *So why aren't we using students' GPAs instead of standardized test scores?* *Believe me, if it were the other way around and Latinos and African Americans...
memeorandum

As coronavirus spreads, Tom Cotton calls for 'targeted travel ban' (Louis Casiano/Fox News) - Louis Casiano / Fox News: *As coronavirus spreads, Tom Cotton calls for ‘targeted travel ban’* — Sen. Tom Cotton called on the Trump administration Tue...
The Intercept

Trump and Netanyahu Dictate Terms of Palestinian Surrender to Israel and Call It Peace - Donald Trump unveiled "a vision for peace" which permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank, offering the Palestinians only limited autonomy....
Liberation News

José Cortés for Congress 2020: On health care - Originally posted on the San Diego PSL YouTube channel. The post José Cortés for Congress 2020: On health care appeared first on Liberation News.
Salon.com

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman is here to fight the undead - In an exclusive interview, the economist and NYT pundit explains why conservatives' "zombie" ideas just won't die
The Root

Court Rules That Arizona Republicans Utilized Discriminatory Voting Laws - If there are two things the modern Republican party loves, it’s voter suppression and racism. Yes, yes I know the common refrain is “We’re just trying to...
Rude Pundit

Advice to Elizabeth Warren: Campaign on Burning the Republicans Down - So we're now facing the prospect of the Democratic nominee for president being an old white guy despite the fact that the last white guy to win for the Dem...
The Greanville Post

Chinese Resilience and Silent, Simple and Steady Resistance – a Model for Mankind - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
VICE

McConnell Says He Doesn’t Have the Votes to Stop Impeachment Witnesses - But that doesn't mean the wily GOP leader won't get the 51 votes to block John Bolton's testimony.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

State lawmakers working with anti-LGBTQ groups on bills targeting transgender children - *Media Matters* has just come out with a wonderful article which exposes who is behind the large number of state legislative bills targeting transgender ...
Ballot Access News

Virginia Legislative Committee Kills Top-Four Bill - On January 27, the Virginia House Privileges & Elections Committee postponed HB 360 until 2021, which is equivalent to killing it for this session. The bil...
Axios

McConnell says Republicans do not yet have the votes to block impeachment witnesses - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his caucus Tuesday that Republicans currently lack the votes needed to block witnesses from being called in t...
Bad Attitudes

Normally I'm Against the Death Penalty, Butâ€¦ - SORRENTO, Fla. (AP) â€” A Florida man who repeatedly harassed parents of shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School has been arrested for possessin...
Political Wire

West Virginia Governor Urges Virginia Counties to Secede - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) encouraged Virginia counties unhappy with the Democratic-controlled government in Richmond to secede from the state and ...
Liberal America

Trump Just Went To War With ‘Really Pathetic’ Fox News: ‘Beginning Of The End’ - Sometimes I wish Pres. Donald Trump was psychic or as all-powerful as he’d like us to believe. Why? Times like this. Today, Trump predicted the “beginnin...
Courthouse News

San Francisco Public Works Director Charged in Corruption Scheme - One of San Francisco’s highest-ranking city government officials has been arrested and charged over his suspected role in a bribery scheme, the U.S. Atto...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Trial bombshell: Trump insider sides with Bolton on Ukraine, implying Trump is lying - As Trump’s impeachment defense team wraps up their arguments, Sen. Mitch McConnell huddles with his caucus over witnesses. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent ...
NPR's Health Shots

Public Health Efforts Step Up Around The World As Coronavirus Cases Rise - Globally, health officials are on high alert, implementing airport screenings, evacuations, border controls and other measures to contain the spread of the...
Crooks and Liars

McConnell Doesn't Have The Votes! - Reports are pouring out of the closed-door Republican caucus meeting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not have the votes to block witness...
The Appeal

On Kobe, The Search For Nuance In An All-Or-Nothing System - On Sunday, news that basketball legend Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash along with his daughter and seven others overtook the impeachment tria...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump lawyers urge senators to 'end the age of impeachment' and acquit Trump – video - Donald Trump's defence team has urged senators to acquit the president as they wrapped up their arguments in his impeachment trial. Dismissing objections...
Alternet

‘It is a war plan’: Trump-Netanyahu deal decried as shameful attack on Palestinian rights - Human rights advocates condemned U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “annexation plan” for large swaths of Palestin...
The Verge

Apple is limiting China travel and has closed one retail store due to coronavirus outbreak - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday that the company began limiting employee travel to China last week amid the co...
Eschaton

Unpossible - I am surprised. BREAKING: McConnell tells GOP senators he does not have the votes to block witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial https://t.co/EC85ytDAe2 —...
Houston Public Media

Report: Houston Had Over 100 Days of Poor Air Quality In 2018 - The report looked at fine particulate pollution and ground-level ozone, which is the main ingredient in smog.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Odd Thing About Conspiracy - So let’s say you and I come up with an elaborate (or not so because we’re morons) plan to rob a Bank. That’s a crime. We’re conspirators in a crime. Now, i...
Mother Jones

The Washington Post Leadership Devalued Jamal Khashoggi’s Legacy - The Washington Post’s decision to suspend reporter Felicia Sonmez for her factually true tweets about the credible rape allegation against Kobe Bryant in t...
Slate

Why We Can Probably Believe John Bolton - Book sales aside, there are several reasons for senators and the public to trust his account of his time with Trump.
INSIDER - politics news

US military's Special Operations Command says its newest recruits may have an 'unhealthy sense of entitlement' - [image: navy seal training] - An internal review by US Special Operations Command says that an "unhealthy sense of entitlement" was fostered among...
DeSmogBlog

'Like Handing Out Blankets Affected With Smallpox': US Called to End Oil Exports to Thwart Climate Crisis - [image: Oil tanker at the Kinder Morgan pipeline terminal on the Houston Ship Channel] Read time: 3 mins *By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams.** Originally publ...
Truthdig

Lobbies’ Greatest Ally in the Effort to Sabotage Health Care Reform - The insurance industry’s efforts to block changes to our medical system would not be so successful without working in tandem with media.
Common Dreams

New Poll Shows Bernie Sanders With More Than Double the Support of Joe Biden in New Hampshire - Jon Queally, staff writer Running away from the pack, Sanders leads former vice president by 15 points and holds double-digit lead over all his Democratic r...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Drink Your Bleach - Aidan McLaughlin @ Mediaite: Pompeo Retaliates By Kicking NPR Reporter Off Plane for Foreign Trip. Brad Reed @ Raw Story: Ex-Trump chief of staff John Kell...
Claytoonz

A Credible Fox - The new argument on Fox News is that Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton can’t be trusted because he’s trying to sell a book. A le...
The Texas Signal

Trump’s approval rating has dropped 20 points in Texas since taking office - Texans are steadily losing their appetite for Donald Trump. Since taking office, the president’s net approval rating in the Lone Star State has dropped ...
Talking Points Memo

Falwell Rallies Rural Virginia Counties To Secede And Join West Virginia - The governor of West Virginia and the president of the Liberty University came together on Tuesday and urged conservative counties...
Election Law Blog

Michigan: “Benson, Detroit clerk press for early processing of absentee ballots” - Detroit News: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is advocating for legislative changes that will allow local clerks to process an anticipated uptic...
Ring of Fire

Democrats Go On The Attack Against A Weakened Trump Administration - The impeachment may not have ended Trump’s presidency, but it has certainly weakened him and given the Democrats in Congress a new sense of purpose. Nanc...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Hot Takedown’s Super Bowl Breakdown - The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will face off Sunday in Super Bowl LIV in Miami. Our model has the 49ers as 3.5-point underdogs, with a 37 p...
San Antonio Current

Reunited LA Punk Icons the Circle Jerks Will Play San Antonio as Part of Anniversary Tour - Seminal hardcore punk band the Circle Jerks is headed to San Antonio for a Wednesday, June 22, show at Paper Tiger. The fast-and-furious outfit was a main...
Rivard Report

County OKs Former Jail Sale as UTSA Adds Piece for Downtown Campus Overhaul - Bexar County Commissioners approved moving forward on a deal that would transfer the land occupied by a former federal detention facility to UTSA. The po...
Progrexas

Bernie Sanders campaign homes in on Texas as primary nears - Bernie Sanders speaks at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie on April 19, 2017. Cooper Neill for The Texas Tribune Democratic presidential candidate Ber...
ProPublica

A Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines. After Our Story, Congress Has Questions for Military Leaders. - by Robert Faturechi ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publ...
emptywheel

John Lewis Was Not Always Old - John Lewis has been a fighter his whole life long. He is the last living member of the Big Six, the speakers at the 1963 March on Washington for civil ri...
Louis Proyect

Beanpole - Opening at the Film Forum in N.Y. tomorrow, “Beanpole” is a Russian film set in Leningrad just after the war has ended. In addition to the shattered buildi...
The Mind Unleashed

The US Dropped a Record-Breaking Number of Bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 - [image: US Bombs Afghanistan]"Isn't this an admission of colossal failure? Who are we bombing? Why? What will it yield but more war?"
Dissident Voice

The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq To Target Iran - Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destr...
Lawfare

Facebook's Oversight Board Bylaws: For Once, Moving Slowly - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents a keynote address (Anthony Quintano, https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Zuckerberg_F8_2018_Keynote.jpg; ...
Texas Monthly

Taco of the Week: Tacos Potosinos at the Plaza Mexican Restaurant - This eatery, in the Texas Panhandle town of Childress, does fried tacos right. The post Taco of the Week: Tacos Potosinos at the Plaza Mexican Restaurant...
21st Century Wire

Syrian Army Liberates Maarat Al-Numan, Key Militant Stronghold in Idlib - *21WIRE + South Front* | The Battle for Idlib saw another key militant stronghold fall yesterday.
The Contributor

Trump Lawyer: He Can't Be Guilty Since He's Working on 'Peace in the Middle East' - News Image: Trump's defense attorney Jay Sekulow argued that Trump isn't driven by self-interest. Category: Impeachment origin Blog: The American Indepe...
Democracy Chronicles

Why did Egypt’s democratic transition fail? - Liberal, leftist and Islamist forces unified during the 18-day uprising around the demand for Mubarak to leave but with no plan of what to do next.
Reform Austin

Is Texas Prepared for a Virus Outbreak? - By Isobella Harkrider Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported ongoing investigations for the coronavirus, an infectio...
OpEd News

House Dems Now Considering Whether to Call Bolton to Testify in House - The Bolton revelation could turn the Trump impeachment trial upside down. His manuscript contains many relevant disclosures about the Ukraine scandal.
Socialist Alternative

Iran: A New Period Opening Up - 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. Despite the brutal suppression of the latest wave of protests, the dictatorial regime that came...
The Progressive Wing

1/28 Not Me. Us. Why It Resonates & Open Thread - Last night I mentioned there would be some new videos coming out. Sanders Campaign announced there would be some new ad buys too. Here’s the newest one, re...
MintPress News

How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election - Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were c...
Krebs on Security

Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards - In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the ...
Daily Howler

One of the great political jokes! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2020Morning Joe puts the "wit" back in Wittes:* We're willing to agree with Kenneth Starr on one point. As our political norms melt...
Rewire

Documents Show Government Funding of Anti-Choice Clinics a ‘Futile Project’ - The federally funded Obria Group is spending up to 48 times more per patient compared to other clinics receiving Title X grants. The post Documents Show...
Texas Standard

McAllen Library Opts Out Of Promoting ‘American Dirt’ - Oprah’s Book Club selected the South Texas library to receive copies of the controversial book, and asked that the library help promote it.
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: This Isn’t A Trial By Any Stretch Of The Imagination–It’s A Political Farce + Hedges: It’s Very Dangerous Because First It’s Julian Assange And Then It’s The Rest Of Us - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges Chris Hedges calls out Dems lack of moral authority on impeachment The Hill on Jan 23, 2020 Journalist Chris Hedges descr...
Latino Rebels

AMERICAN DIRT Latino Backlash Part of Long Publishing War - The novel has become a flashpoint in debates over who gets published, how reputations are formed, and who can tell which stories in an industry —from publi...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/28/2020 - Today's Water Cooler: 2019-nCoV and China trade, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Iowa no longer relevant?, Big 4 accounting firms, pharmacy counters...
Mike McGuff (Houston media)

Day in the Life of a Breaking News Anchor - Clancy Burke is a morning reporter for Sinclair's Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati and is also a YouTuber approaching half a million subscribers. Here she tells us...
Socratic Gadfly

Kobe Bryant and a dark day at the Bezos Post - This is an update to my previous post about Kobe Bryant after his death in the chopper crash. The Bezos Post has suspended a reporter for tweeting about t...
Texas Observer

How George Foreman Went From Champion Boxer to Evangelical Grillmaster - In the moments after he lost to Jimmy Young in 1977, George Foreman vomited. His sweating body shook uncontrollably. In the dressing room, Foreman climbe...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 28, 2020 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Doomsday Clock inches closer to midnight, thanks to climate change; Trump further weakens pollution standards for streams and wetl...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Are We Fighting a Losing Battle With Scooter Companies? - An interesting read popped out of CityLab yesterday predicting the future of the electric scooter industry. In mid-February, the city’s Department of Tra...
SCOTUSblog

Symposium: June Medical Services – An opportunity to reject invasive appellate review - [image: Symposium: June Medical Services – An opportunity to reject invasive appellate review]Fadwa Hammoud is the solicitor general of the stat...
Novara Media

Interview With Dawn Butler - Labour Party Deputy Leadership Candidate Dawn Butler joins Michael Walker to discuss her vision for Labour, and why she thinks she deserves members’ votes.
WhoWhatWhy

Google Cashes In on Law Enforcement Data Requests - Reading Time: 2 minutes How ‘Murdochracy’ Controls the Climate Debate in Australia ; Of Pears and Kings ; and More Picks 1/28 The post Google Cashes In o...
Land Destroyer

US Propaganda Reorganises in Cambodia - *January 29, 2020* (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - US State Department-funded and directed Voice of America recently noted that its networks in the Southeast Asian...
Political Orphans

Florida Man Defended by Pedophile Lawyers, Entertainers and Crooks - This gallery of legal talent is Trump’s idea of serious people.
Houston Press

Dusty Baker the Right Choice for the Astros...Right Now - On Tuesday, it was widely reported that veteran manager Dusty Baker would take over for the Astros after the firing of A.J. Hinch in the wake of the sign s...
Eater Houston

Southern Favorite Treebeards Will Put Down Roots In Memorial - Plus, more Space City dining intel *Welcome to AM Intel, a (mostly) daily round-up of Houston’s hottest bits of dining intel.* *Trying to stay on top o...
Bonddad

More on house prices - *- by New Deal democrat* The Case Shiller housing indexes for the three month period ending in November were reported this morning. The YoY% change in th...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster” - In late November, U.S. immigration authorities began deporting some Central American asylum-seekers to Guatemala under a new policy that makes it nearly ...
Ian Welsh

First Elect Someone Who Wants To Do The Right Thing (Sanders Edition) - So, I wrote the simple argument for Sanders. He plans to help the most people and it isn’t close. To me that’s the role of government: to help the most peo...
Church and State

Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right - Since the 1980s, the movement has become increasingly sophisticated. Christian Right organizations push for laws that reflect their fundamentalist views.
Dorf on Law

Wealth Taxes Will Not Make the Political System Perfect, But So What? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Setting aside the fact that the U.S. political system is melting down as we speak, there remains an interesting set of policy proposa...
Wolf Street

Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers to Surveil its Own Customers - Internet of Things at Home: Ring sends the surveillance data of its own customers to third parties, including Facebook.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone - GRAND ISLE, La. — The Ace of Trade trawler motored toward Dean Blanchard’s dock early last summer in southern Louisiana, its skipper slowly winching its ...
Moon of Alabama

Syria: Army Liberates Maarat al-Numan - U.S. Plans New Mischief - Today the Syrian Arab Army liberated the city Maarat al-Numan in south-east Idleb. Before the war on Syria the city had some 60,000 inhabitants. This follo...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: Duncan Wood discusses López Obrador presidency - MCALLEN, Texas – Duncan Wood, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, recently spoke in McAllen, Brownsville, Laredo and San Antonio. T...
Innocence Project

New York State Supreme Court Exonerates Rafael Ruiz After 35 Years - Rafael Ruiz used to love breakdancing as a teen in New York City. He and his friends would often put on shows in the park, dancing to Grandmaster Flash’s...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Court Rules that Century-Old Oaks Can Be Razed for Water Pipeline in Katy - Water Pipeline is Part of 39-Mile, Billion-Dollar Project to Bring Water from Lake Houston to West Side of Town By Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, Janua...
BEYONDbones

How We Made | The Great Museum Race - 14 stations. 2 players. 1 museum. These are the key components to an event designed to challenge the body, mind and fears that lurk within. In a journey th...
ROAR Magazine

The gendered violence of everyday life - Addressing violence against women means expanding our definition of violence to encompass all of the sources of harm, from the global economy to climate ch...
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE Michael McKinley We Don’t Need Another Liar-In-Chief: Biden Must Tell The Truth About Medicare For All I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter....
The AltWorld

#Resistance Hero John Bolton: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Liberals should definitely get their hopes up very, very high that John Bolton is going to provide […] The post #Resistance Hero John Bolton: Notes From ...
Grist

Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone - “When the dead zone comes, it just kills everything.”
Caitlin Johnstone

#Resistance Hero John Bolton: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Liberals should definitely get their hopes up very, very high that John Bolton is going to provide the information needed to bring down the Trump administr...
Strategic Culture Foundation

A Pax Americana or a Republic If You Can Keep It? - It seems quite evident to many that the United States has been consumed by the same ambition and thus fate with that of the Roman Empire.
The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia

"Progressive" Tamayo Allies with Extremist Republicans - The very day that District 76 candidate Elisa Tamayo, the hand-picked choice of the local delegation, was designated a "certified progressive" by Progress ...
Democracy Now!

Chinese Artist & Filmmaker Ai Weiwei on State Violence from Mexico to Hong Kong to Xinjiang - In 2014, 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after they were abducted in Iguala, Mexico. More than five years after their disap...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, "We Get to Live in the Mayor's House!" - “YES!” he yelled, thrusting his fist in the air. “We get to live in the mayor’s house!” ...
The Conversation

Americans on the right and left change their minds after hearing where Trump stands - In recent years, voters have shifted their views on issues based upon the positions of politicians -- even when that shift clashes with their ideology.
Angry Bear

Does the United States Have a Progressive Future? - Spoiler alert: maybe. The surprising success of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid, widespread protests against Trump, and the election of a number of ...
Washington Babylon

How to Organize Voters to Defeat Trump in 2020 with Third Party Candidates and #VotePact - [image: How to Organize Voters to Defeat Trump in 2020 with Third Party Candidates and #VotePact] This week, the progressive-left blogs and social media ac...
Space City Weather

With Houston’s low clouds, Ship Channel shows up on radar - On Monday the state climatologist, John Nielsen-Gammon, called my attention to the visible satellite image page for the upper Texas coast. I’ve attached a ...
First Draft

Pointless Triangulation - I know, I know, it’s Jacobin, but it’s not all that different from something really poisonous in our political landscape right now which is the tendency to...
Duffel Blog

Kobe Bryant’s death best possible time to bring up 22 a day, local veteran reasons - [image: Kobe Bryant’s death best possible time to bring up 22 a day, local veteran reasons] GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Worldwide mourning over the tragic death...
Countercurrents

Wuhan seafood market may not be source of coronavirus spreading globally - New research suggests that the Wuhan coronavirus, which has killed at least 100 people, may not have originated in the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in...
Popular Resistance

French “Yellow Vests” Protest For Assange Outside Belmarsh Prison In London - Today, hundreds of “yellow vests” from France and protesters from other countries across Europe, including Belgium and Britain, are protesting outside Belm...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

HE KEPT RECEIPTS - Trump denies telling John Bolton that the aid for Ukraine was conditioned on help to get the Bidens. But remember that Bolton is an obsessive note-taker h...
Off the Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Megan Daic - […]
Morning Consult

Sanders’ Popularity With Oldest Primary Voters on the Decline - The post Sanders’ Popularity With Oldest Primary Voters on the Decline appeared first on Morning Consult.
slacktivist

She found the truth but lost her nerve - Here is your open thread for January 28, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves.
Two Party Opera

Presidential Town Hall of Ronald Reagan -
Crooked Media

Iowa Episode 5: Voting is not enough - The post Iowa Episode 5: Voting is not enough appeared first on Crooked Media.
Dallas Observer

Dallas Police Staffing Study Was a Long Time Coming. Putting It in Place Isn’t Happening Any Faster. - It took Dallas almost two years to get the results of the police staffing study it commissioned from KPMG, one of the world's biggest auditing firms. Judgi...
Counterpunch

China’s Coronavirus Outbreak Reminds Me of the Irish Polio Epidemic I Survived - China is responding to the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan much as countries have always reacted to life-threatening epidemics. At every level of soci...
The NM Political Report

Early ed endowment moves forward (Updated) - [image: Early ed endowment moves forward (Updated)] A bill calling for a new endowment to create a revenue stream for early childhood programs was approved...
Progressive.org

Remembering Brandon Weber, A Storyteller for Working Folks - He had a passion for history, writing important pieces about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, union hero Joe Hill, and labor union activism supporting the Nat...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Reflection on José Martí, Racism, and the Castro Regime - *"Slavery does not imply inferiority in the enslaved race, since Gauls with blue eyes and blond hair were sold as serfs with shackles around their necks in...
jobsanger

Corruption Vs. Rule Of Law -
OffGuardian

Ignoring the Elephant at Gitmo: Yet Another 9/11 Crime - Kevin Ryan The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunate...
Informed Comment

A Pence Presidency and an Iran War? Why does John Bolton really want Trump Out? - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former National Security Adviser John Bolton may have singlehandedly stopped Senate majority Mitch McConnell from simply acq...
EgbertoWillies.com

Is climate change affecting how Wall Street invests? - [image: Al Gore Climate Change] Are climate change and other environmental issues affecting or informing Wall Street investment strategies, or is it just a...
Antiwar.com

A Million Iraqis Asked Us To Leave – We Should Listen - You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US milita...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Samir Amin: A Pioneering Marxist and Third World Activist - Samir Amin’s legacy encompasses both his activism and scholarship. As I argue in a recent Legacy piece in Development & Change, Samir Amin achieved more ...
World Socialist Web Site

Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial - The carefully timed leak of Bolton’s White House revelations has overshadowed the defense mounted by Trump’s attorneys in the Senate impeachment trial.
See You In 2020

When Civil Unrest Breaks Out In America, Communists Must Steer It Towards Proletarian Revolution - The class struggle in the United States is in limbo. So many Americans are struggling amid declining living standards and are angry at the system, yet the...
Workers World

Embassy Protectors face court: A trial of our times - [image: Embassy Protectors face court: A trial of our times] By Lauren Smith Smith is an independent journalist. On Feb. 11, four American peace activists,...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Targets, Endorsements, Rulings and Retirements for January 27 - *Special Runoff Elections:* Tomorrow (Tuesday) is Election Night for voters in HD28, HD100 and HD148. We will have live coverage beginning at 7 p.m. CST at...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Denton's Gypsy Cats, "All Blues" - All Blues from Steve Horn on Vimeo. One of the guys from our monthly jazz jam at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Oak Cliff called — needed a bass for ...
Field Negro

No words! - - [image: Slide 1 of 33: Dec 2, 2014; Auburn Hills, MI, USA; Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) warms up prior to the game against the ...
Political Garbage Chute

Pam Bondi’s Mouth Leaks $25,000 In Trump’s Cash During Impeachment Defense - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cash totalling $25,000 fell out of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s mouth as she made her case for impeaching Hunter... Th...
Political Dig

House Intel Committee Fact-Checks 12 Blatant Lies Told By Trump’s Defense Team in Real Time - Less than 24 hours after a New York Times report sent shockwaves of fear across Trumpland by revealing excerpts from John Bolton’s book that put Donald Tru...
Sludge

Dems Cash in From Private Equity Firms They Defended at House Hearing - On Nov. 19, 2019, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the dangers of private equity in which Democrats including Rep. Alexandria Ocasi...
The Reality-Based Community

Maryland Tax Update - This is an update to my previous comments here. Today, I filed written comments in opposition to Maryland H.B. 61 that would exempt large amounts of retire...
Shadowproof

Democratic Party Elites Rig 2020 Convention Committees Against Sanders - An array of lobbyists, corporate consultants, think tank board members, party operatives, and pro-Israel Democrats were nominated to the 2020 Democratic ...
Mahablog

The Pathetic Sham That Is Trump’s Defense - Have the John Bolton revelations changed the trajectory of the impeachment trial? Could be. Dahlia Lithwick has a great summation of the Republicans’ defen...
Portside

How to Organize Your Workplace Without Getting Caught - How to Organize Your Workplace Without Getting Caught Stephanie Mon, 01/27/2020 - 13:21
Anti-Media

Global Protests Reassert Opposition to US Military in Middle East - Thousands of people came out in 117 US cities and across 19 countries in an act of solidarity with the global anti-war movement.
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Guerra, Rep. Lucio, III, DHR Health President Turley among state leaders to headline The Texas Tribune’s “Future of Health Care” forum on Wednesday, January 29, at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance - The Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance, owned and operated by DHR Health, will once again be the center of important statewide attention when it ser...
Max Powers (El Paso and stuff)

Claudia Ordaz Perez's Spokesperson - A couple of days ago, wannabe State Representative Claudia O. Perez's hired spokesperson, Jaime Abeytia, took to the internet to defend her honor. What's t...
Bayou Brief

In for a Shock - In response to reports that Alexandria is contemplating privatizing its 126-year-old, nonprofit municipal utility system, some have claimed they’re payin...
In These Times

Young People Don’t Support Biden. Why Does the Establishment Still Think He’s the Most “Electable”? - And so, we begin the Roaring 2020s with war, assassination and firestorms on a burning Earth. We know it will be a decisive decade. What remains to be se...
LawFlog

We now have unequivocal proof that the FBI is hiding records about Seth Rich - The FBI is hiding documents about murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich, according to emails released last week, so this morning I requ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dead President Walking - I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I’m a little worried about Donald Trump. I’m worried he may be on the verge of a sudden, major heart attack, ...
Eclectablog

The president is mobbed up – with special guest Marcy Wheeler - Marcy Wheeler on Twitter: @EmptyWheel Marcy Wheeler's website: EmptyWheel.net Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: Propaganda and flattery: Jack Posobiec parro...
Grits for Breakfast

New TDCJ visitation/mail policies punitive and arbitrary - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is *changing its visitation, mail and commissary policies* for Texas prison inmates in ways which seem arbitrary a...
Progressives Chat

‘This Is Neoliberalism…’ [Part II] - *(Note to readers of **Progressives Chat**: There will be *three* blog topics this week. Along with this blog topic’s publishing date, they will appear Wed...
Rallblog

Why Centrist Democrats Can’t Get to Bernie Sanders - Centrist Democrats find themselves in a quandry: the more they attack Bernie Sanders, the more that voters support him. If only there was a solution.
Moron Majority

After Bombshell Bolton Book Leak, Publisher Wants Full Return Of Advance - According to an unpublished manuscript of John Bolton’s upcoming book obtained by the New York Times, the former National Security Advisor claims Donald Tr...
Crooked Timber

Libertarians Can’t Save the Planet - As promised, my article on climate change and the death of libertarianism/propertarianism, in Jacobin. Conclusion Global warming is the ultimate refutation...
Debunking Christianity

Tonight's Debate Opener vs William Albrecht On "Was Jesus Born of a Virgin?" - My debate opponent believes a virgin named Mary gave birth to a divine child named Jesus over two-thousand years ago. The most significant problem is that ...
Houston Strategies

Nobody wants to leave Houston! plus fareless Metro update, more on NYC vs. HTX affordability, our low-carbon future, and more - This week's feature is a followup on my proposal that Metro considering going fareless. The NY Times even did an article on more transit agencies consider...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Lucid Truth #8: Psychedelic Philosophy - Introducing Shain Learner, the new co-host of The Lucid Truth who has a passion for drug education and reducing the stigma surrounding psychedelics aroun...
Bracing Views

Riding the Trump Bull: What Democrats Get Wrong - W.J. Astore Wisdom can be found in many places. I was watching Professional Bull Riding today, and the announcer (didn’t catch his name) dropped this pear...
Stinque

One Last Shot - World War II — the American part of it — lasted less than four years. It must have seemed like forever. Time does that. We can measure time — by day, by ye...
The Grayzone

Debating Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran w/ Michael Doran - A former Bush administration official defends Trump’s “maximum pressure” on Iran. Michael Doran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute… The post Debati...
Trivial Knot

People sure are judgmental about food - Some years ago, I read an article about how millennials are killing breakfast cereal or something, and I made the mistake of reading the comments. Surprisi...
Independent Political Report

Roque De La Fuente considering Libertarian Nod - Roque De La Fuente, a buisnessman previously known for running for President in 2016 as a Democrat then later under his own political party, the American...
Big Jolly Times

Did The Most Unfairly Attacked President In History Commit An Impeachable Offense? - President Trump has been impeached for “Abuse of Power” and Obstruction of Congress.” The abuse charge resulted from an unidentified whistleblower claimi...
ExChristian.Net

How Shallow They Are - *By James Wilhelm ~ * Superficial Christianity works best. The deeper you go - the more damaging and destructive it becomes - and the more mentally unstabl...
Project Censored

Episode 64: “Afghanistan Papers:” Bi-Partisan Deceit, Lies, And War Profiteering - Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Drea...
The Militant

Walmart bosses hire plumber, fix up toxic Tire and Lube center - CHICAGO — An area plumber’s red van has been a common sight for the last few weeks outside of the Walmart Tire and Lube center at a Chicago area store. Wal...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: "McConnellism"... Power, Party, and the Death of Good Faith -
Bud Kennedy

Who’s right on guns, Jack Wilson or Mike Bloomberg? Hero of church shooting speaks out - Church shooting hero Jack Wilson is still a grieving survivor, and now he’s also in the middle of the gun-rights debate. On “Fox and Friends” last week, th...
Reveal

Fancy galleries, fake art - How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art. The post Fancy galleries, fake art appeared first on Reveal.
Lowering the Bar

Gritty Investigated - Let's not rush to judgment, please. Related Stories - Anti-Mask Law Saddens Austrian Shark Mascot
Duck of Minerva

It’s Duckies time! - This is a guest post from Kindred Winecoff, current Chair of the Online Media Caucus for ISA. The Online Achievement in International Studies Reception and...
Dissent Magazine

Belabored Podcast #192: Unions for All, with SEIU Local 26 - Why is the labor movement in Minnesota thriving? SEIU Local 26 joins us to talk about the Twin Cities’ robust network of grassroots worker centers and un...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

The Bezos Phone Hack and the Saudis’ Misleading Rebuttal - Saudi officials dismissed allegations that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s WhatsApp account was used to Jeff Bezos’ phone, but a forensic exam found “me...
Freethought Now

Gloria Steinem and Margaret Atwood are at our convention — and we’re at the Supreme Court - Big names and big cases — this week was incredibly big for us at the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Impeachment Procession; Virginia Gun Rally; Philippine Volcano - This week, we look at a Trump impeachment photo, a picture from the pro-gun rally in Richmond, and a painterly photograph of the Philippine Taal volcano....
Carl Beijer

Sanders currently the best bet in battleground states - It's still too early to make predictions about the general election by relying on state-level head-to-heads, but if you look at the polling right now, you'...
Echidne of the Snakes

The Pottery Barn Solution To Rape: You Break It, You Bought It. - Or put in politer language, an age-old solution to rape in many cultures has been to make the rapist marry his victim. That way the cracks the rape cause...
Avedon's Sideshow

Another runaway post - You can see more pretty oils by Zingitis here. Digby has a new address. Michael Moore's podcast, *Rumble*, has an interview with Anand Giridharadas ab...
Robert Reich

Here’s a recent interview I did with PBS’s “Frontline” on what’s... - Here’s a recent interview I did with PBS’s “Frontline” on what’s at stake this election year, and how we got to this terrifying point in American history...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Studies On Conspiracy Theories Often As Flawed as Conspiracy Theories - If you want to shop around for studies on conspiracy theories it's virtually guaranteed that you'll find some that suits you beliefs, and others that do...
News Taco

Latino-Owned Businesses May Be the U.S. Economy’s Best Bet - They’re called LOBs for short, but they’re working on a fastball. Latino-owned businesses are starting faster than the rest of the startup population and...
Equality Texas

For immediate release: Equality Texas Announces New Dallas Steering Committee Members and the Kick-off of Our First Major Event – Love Equality 2020 on February 15 in Dallas - Love Equality, an annual fundraising event and party benefitting Equality Texas, is a fun night of celebration, and dancing, with drinks and light food.
Dos Centavos

The Race for County Commish Pct 3 – A Forum - I attended a candidate forum featuring four candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Harris County Pct 3 Commissioner. The candidates were Diana Ma...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal to Host Open Presidential Debate March 4 - Free & Equal to Host Open Presidential Debate March 4 Open Debate Includes Candidates from Various Political Parties CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, January 23, 2020 ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Trump Not Immune to the Usual Down-Ballot Presidential Penalty - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — After just three years in the White House, Donald Trump is seeing a significant erosion of down-ballot seats held by his par...
Seeing the Forest

Fascists Eat Donuts - From 2003, Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police. Does anyone remember a tune from the early 80’s that was a lot of gu...
epic.org

Supreme Court Declines to Review Facebook Face Scan Case - The U.S. Supreme Court will leave in place a decision that allows lawsuits against Facebook for the unlawful collection of facial images. In Patel v. Faceb...
Green Papers

MLK and the Black Misleadership Class - Black Agenda Report By Glen Ford January 16, 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is the greatest sheer spectacle of hypocrisy and historical duplicity o...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Today, we honor a man whose courage must now be ours; and then we can make America truly great again. The post Kings or Slaves? appeared first on Greg Pa...
Alas, a Blog

Open Thread and Link Farm, Riding The Junk Fish Edition - Two recent Democratic party primary series that I’ve found interesting to read (or at least skim). The New York Times did moderate-depth interviews with al...
Web of Debt

Two power points: “A Deep Dive into Money and Banking” and “Funding the Green Transition with Public Banks” - _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pages of Victory

Ship Ahoy - "Ship Ahoy" Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy, yeah Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy. As far as your eye can see...
Latino Decisions

To win Texas, mobilize Texas Latinos - Happy New Year. It’s 2020 and a new decade dawns with what may be the most important presidential election in generations. During the holidays, my mind w...
New Progressive Alliance

Trump says “War!” The World says “Peace!” - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida.
Texas Freedom Network

Texas AG Ken Paxton Wants to Block Public Employees from Making Personal Paycheck Decisions He Doesn’t Like - While Texans were celebrating a new year, state Attorney General Ken Paxton decided to ring in 2020 with an ugly dose of anti-abortion politics. On Jan. ...
Chicken Fried Politics

2 Southern Democrats named as House impeachment managers for Trump Senate trial - U.S. Reps. Val Demings of Florida and Sylvia Garcia of Texas among group of 7 managers ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor WASHINGTON (CFP) —...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars - *July 4, 1970, until August 6, 1988, Casey Kasem hosted the American Top 40 on the radio. Through many of those years, Harry would listen to the four ...
Houstonia

Handies Douzo Is Bringing Hand Roll Competition to Hando in the Heights - How should you order at the new spot in the Heights?
Smart Dissent

Giant Companies Demanded and Received New Tax Breaks From Trump Administration - Date: 01/20/2020 THIS IS THE SWAMP. The Treasury is using obscure regulations to FURTHER cut taxes for some of the biggest corporations on the planet. T...
Earthworks

Taking on the Climate Bomb - Building community, building power at the Permian Gulf Coast Convening I arrived at the Holiday Inn in Corpus Christi Sunday afternoon ready for three in...
Hullabaloo

- *Change your bookmarks!* We are moving to a new Wordpress site. The url is easy remember: digbysblog.net We are already posting over there so click the li...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

How Trump sparked war with Iran - Trump's surprise assassination of Qassem Soleimani shocked world. But rather than being a deterrent, it united the region against the US like never befo...
Our Finite World

Expect low oil prices in 2020; tendency toward recession - Energy Forecast for 2020 Overall, I expect that oil and other commodity prices will remain low in 2020. These low oil prices will adversely affect oil prod...
Environment Texas

Testimony before Harris County Commissioners Court on 100% renewable energy - Jen Schmerling Deputy Director, Environment Texas Contact person by email - Read more about Jen Schmerling Tuesday, January 7, 2020 Here is the tes...
Disobedient Media

Where Do Korean Negotiations Go In 2020? - Can the process still be salvaged?
PERRspectives

The Republican Party Brings You Holiday Miracles - The holiday season is a special time of year for Americans of all faith traditions. The arrival of Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's brings good cheer an...
WAWG Blog

Political Democracy v Economic Authoritarianism: Checks and Balances - In our Constitution, our democratic political system includes a division of responsibilities to enable a means of checks and balances. Each of the three ...
Somervell County Salon

Paul Harper offered to settle State of Texas ex rel. Best v Harper lawsuit for $68k back in 2016 - On May 23, 2016 I made an offer to settle this frivolous lawsuit that was filed by George Darrell Best and the County Attorney Andrew Lucas acting on beh...
nonsite.org

The Racial Disparity Politics of Biomedical Research: Disaggregating Categories into New Essentialisms - A recent article in Nature Human Behavior joins a chorus of those calling for public policy and biomedical research to disaggregate reigning forms of racia...
News Junkie

Global Warming, Overpopulation and Social Inequality: Three Legs of Climate Crisis Monster - Gilbert Mercier: “In our initial off air conversation, you asked me if I felt that we were ‘preaching to the choir’ as far as what could be an imminent col...
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...
Ecosophia

To the Shores of a Surging Ocean - I hope all of my readers who, like me, celebrated the solstice on Saturday had a grand time; that those who celebrated Hanukkah on Sunday did likewise; t...
The Ghion Journal

Current State of U.S.-Centralized Empire Confounds Easy Answers: Reading Andre Vltchek & Dmitry Orlov - Okay, we’re going to fit one quick post in before the holidays hit. As we near year’s end and are pushed into the now typical “how was the year/what happ...
Sayfie Review Texas

Tribune: Analyzing 2019: The fall of a Texas House speaker -
DBC Green

Updated List of Green Candidates for 2020 - We have an update to last week's entry on candidates for nomination by the Green Party of Texas in 2020. (Actually, we had it several days ago, but I'm jus...
Media Lens

The Christmas Card – A Tale Of Mystical Mischief - Dan and Daisy were dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones their parents used to know. And so it came to pass, courtesy of a new-fangled loop in ...
The Disorder Of Things

Brexit Futures: Between a Model and a Martyr - Paul David Beaumont is currently finalising his PhD dissertation, The Grammar of International Status Competition, at the Department of International Envir...
The Rag Blog

Jonah Raskin : Hail! Hail! John Sinclair - And Rock ‘n’ Roll… By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | December 17, 2019 Forty-eight years ago, John Lennon, with Yoko at his side, sang the words, “They gave...
Popehat

Murum Aries Attigit, Y'all - This here case is a pretty good story. It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. Folks there, well, everywhere, say the wheels of justice turn slowly...
Better Texas Blog

CPPP Names New Board President, Welcomes New Member - James Aldrete has assumed the role of board president of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, following a successful two-year term by Veletta Forsyth...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinders Welcomes New Board Members - November brought a round of new board members joining our ranks. It also brought an historic milestone. For the first time in our 25 year history, we’re no...
Green Pages News

Joanna Herlihy – 1934 – 2019 - Joanna Herlihy of Cambridge, Massachusetts, died in her home on November 29, 2019. She was born on March 9, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to Frank and Betty ...
The Metaphor Project

New Metaphor Project Strategy - For a while now, our new Metaphor Project strategy has prioritized being active on social media over writing blogs. To see our latest suggestions for frame...
Splinter

Don't Dream, It's Over - There is no real origin story for Splinter.
Texas Moratorium Network

Rodrick Reed, Brother of Rodney Reed Nov 9, 2019 -
The Concourse

A Bear Friday For The Road - I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the se...
GreenSource DFW

Tiny house village opens in Lake Dallas - *The tiny home community in Lake Dallas is the first of its kind built within city limits in North Texas. Photo courtesy of Terry Lantrip.* Oct. 30, 2019...
Washington's Blog

Has California Lost The Mandate of Heaven? - In Chinese history, natural disasters were viewed as portents that the The Mandate of Heaven (tianming or “Heaven’s will”) had been withdrawn from the ru...
Frontloading HQ

About that South Carolina Republican Party Defense of Canceling Its 2020 Presidential Primary - On Friday, October 18, the challenge to the cancelation of the 2020 presidential primary by the South Carolina Republican Party *had its day in court*. Wh...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling - Most people are shocked by the intense hydrocarbon odors during oil and gas drilling. How can a well that is not complete have emissions? Neighborhoods u...
Texas Rural Voices

A Rural Texan Explains the Mueller Report–Yes, It Is Still Important, Part 7 - Making it Easy for You in a Seven Part Series: Part 7 By Suzann Thompson Trump Tampered with Witnesses. Tampering with witnesses brings to mind intimid...
Texans For Public Justice

Who Does John Cornyn Work For? - The Texas Observer's Justin Miller takes a deep dive into Senator John Cornyn. Read Miller's article at the Texas Observer.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Dustin Ray Hamby Exposed as Nazi Leader Chef Goyardee - The following is being posted on behalf of Central Texas ARA: Dustin Ray Hamby, aka “Chef Goyardee”, is an Austin-based Neo-Nazi and cook who now serves as...
Think Progress

Transitioning ThinkProgress - Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and edit...
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...
Grit Post

Colorado’s 4th Largest City Offers Public WiFi 4x Faster Than Comcast for Same Price - Municipal broadband in Fort Collins, Colorado went live Friday offering gigabit internet connections for the same price as comparatively sluggish Comcast...
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...
Progressive Army

Israel and South Africa: The Racial Travel Bans of Apartheid - Recently, Israel issued travel bans for Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. This is, yet again, another example of the country trying to silence ...
t.e.j.a.s.

Official TEJAS STATEMENT – Baytown Exxonmobil Olefins Plant – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION - Due to an attack on our server provider, our statement was postponed. Thank you all for your patience.
Texas State Teachers Association

NEA Member Benefits offering assistance to victims of South Texas flooding - n response to the severe storms and flooding in Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties, NEA Member Benefits has activated its Disaster Relief Program. NEA M...
Texas Watch

Comments On Informal TWIA Claim Rules - We filed these comments with the Texas Department of Insurance to make sure coastal policyholders are paid every cent they are owed after a storm. Learn...
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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...

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