Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Crooks and Liars

Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread - I discovered a fun and though-provoking podcast a few weeks ago: Nice Try! where host Avery Trufelman looks at various attempts at creating a utopia. But...
Down With Tyranny!

The Republican Ad Setting AOC On Fire-- Who Financed It? - If you watched the Democratic presidential debate on ABC last week, you probably saw the disgusting 30 second ad above. It was run by Elizabeth Heng, a ...
Houston Press

The Hard Problem at Main Street Theater is Classic Stoppard in All the Right Ways - If the first scene of a play has a couple in bed, undressed or sitting close enough to each other to pique your interest, you might be anywhere in contempo...
Raw Story

Large US banks sweating the move to lower interest rates - President Donald Trump’s attacks on the US Federal Reserve make financial markets cringe, but his demand for zero interest rates makes banks sweat. As the ...
Duffel Blog

Kabul Relieves Traffic Congestion By Creating Car Bomb Lane - [image: Kabul Relieves Traffic Congestion By Creating Car Bomb Lane] KABUL, Afghanistan — Residents of Kabul are enjoying shorter commute times on the Kan...
The Intercept

What’s in a Trump Straw? - The overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s on fire. The post What’s in a Trump S...
Daily Kos

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: "Poorly phrased" is not an apology - Over two years ago, I kicked The New York Times out of the Abbreviated Pundit Round-up. That decision seems doubly justified this morning. At the time, i...
The Week

Video games and violence, explained - *Recent mass shooters gunned for "high scores." Are violent video games to blame? Here's everything you need to know:* *Why the focus on gaming?* As the...
naked capitalism

Links 9/15/19 -
Eschaton

Morning Thread -
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

THE WHISTLEBLOWER - A whistleblower within the intelligence services filed a complaint that the Inspector General determined was "credible and urgent." Now the House Intellige...
Axios

Hong Kong police fire tear gas at protesters they defy ban - Hong Kong police fired tear gas at pro-democracy protesters as violence again engulfed the Chinese-controlled territory after tens of thousands defied a ...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Modern Monetary Theory – A Debate: Gerald Epstein Responds (Pt 4/4) - Gerald Epstein responds to Randall Wray's defense of MMT.
The Disorder Of Things

Rejoinder: For Whom Do We Study International Politics? - The last post in our symposium on Sophie Harman’s Seeing Politics, from the author herself. Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics at Queen M...
Off the Kuff

Voting centers everywhere - […]
Grist

What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem? - The Ocean Cleanup project has an idea where all the plastic is going. Some scientists say it's trash.
Daily Dot

How to stream ‘Power’ season 6, episode 4 - [image: watch power season 6 episode 4 why is tommy still alive] We knew there was a lot of grimness in store for season 6 of Power, and now we're finally ...
Mother Jones

There Is an Important Climate Solution Democrats Never Talk About. But Why? - This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
Angry Bear

Joe Biden: “How Are We to Pay for Single Payer Healthcare Alias Medicare for All?” - Joe knows the answer to this question and he is baiting the other candidates. Joe has a history of supporting big business interests as witnessed by his ag...
OpEd News

Biological Warfare in Korea: A Review of the Literature - In this article we will look at the arguments pro and con in regard to US biological warfare (BW) during the Korean War as they have been made in the subje...
Independent Political Report

Adam Kokesh to Wikinews: ‘I Don’t Really Care if Someone in a Black Dress Calls my Policy Unconstitutional Because it is Unconstitutional’ - Recently I conducted an interview for *Wikinews* with 2020 Libertarian Party presidential candidate *Adam Kokesh*. See an excerpt below: [image: Wikinew...
INSIDER - politics news

The Lib Dems call for Britain's 'disaster ridden' railways to be overhauled in order to save the planet - [image: British railways trains] - *The Liberal Democrats call for UK railways to be overhauled.* - *The anti-Brexit party says not enough Brits u...
DeSmogBlog

Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism - [image: Greta Thunberg mural] Read time: 6 mins *This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to streng...
The NM Political Report

Alt-right groups rally, outnumbered by counterprotesters - [image: Alt-right groups rally, outnumbered by counterprotesters] At a rally organized by a far-right, pro-Trump organization, the ralliers were outnumbere...
Wolf Street

Goods-Based Economy: Light at End of Tunnel? Oncoming Train? - Freight shipments and pricing.
Salon.com

Why is billionaire Tom Steyer running for president — as an enemy of big corporations? - Hedge fund billionaire tells Salon his campaign is driven by two issues: corporate money and the climate crisis
Countercurrents

Will the IMF, FED, Negative Interest and Digital Money Kill the Western Economy? - The IMF, has been instrumental in helping destroying the economy of a myriad of countries, notably, and to start with, the new Russia after the fall of t...
Slate

At 97, Norman Lear Just Became the Oldest Person to Win an Emmy - Lear won for Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’
jobsanger

NOAA Under Trump - Political Cartoon is by Steve Sack in the *Minneapolis Star-Tribune*.
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1745: Maglev Trains - Episode: 1745 Maglev: Riding on air at half the speed of sound. Today, we ride a fast train.
Rivard Report

Questions for San Antonio’s Mayor in a City Growing and Divided - Commentary: "Conversation With the Mayor" will give audience members the chance to pose their own pointed questions to the second-term mayor. The post Qu...
Sayfie Review Texas

Morning News: Dallas' LGBTQ community calls for unity at town hall punctuated by 2020 election - Morning News: Dallas' LGBTQ community calls for unity at town hall punctuated by 2020 election
Informed Comment

Pompeo Manipulatively blames Iran as Saudi Arabia loses 58% of Oil Production to Houthi Attack - Yemen’s Zaydi Shiite Houthi rebels, who control the northwest of Yemen, including the capital of Sana’a, claimed on Saturday to have launched the 10 drones...
Antiwar.com

Iraq Daily Roundup: ISIS Attack on Soldiers; Three Killed in Iraq - Militants continue attacks in Diyala. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: ISIS Attack on Soldiers; Three Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Or...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Meanwhile, in Ohio: inciting political violence in defense of corporate bailouts - On the off-chance that you’re not sufficiently depressed and/or horrified at the direction the Republican party is taking in 2019, here’s a dispatch from L...
The Mind Unleashed

Police: Thousands of Fetal Remains Found in Home of Late Abortion Doctor - [image: Abortion Doctor]According to reports, the Indiana-based doctor had performed 30,000 abortions since 1974.
memeorandum

Young insurgents aren't rushing to Kennedy's side in Markey fight (Scott Wong/The Hill) - Scott Wong / The Hill: *Young insurgents aren't rushing to Kennedy's side in Markey fight* — Young lawmakers who want new blood in the Democratic Party...
The Reality-Based Community

Corruption of the Bureaucracy Watch - The Washington Post had a great story which reported that: Neil Jacobs, the acting head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sent an all...
Mediaite

Fox’s Jeanine Pirro Salivates at Andrew McCabe’s Potential Indictment: ‘The Rats Are Jumping Ship!’ - Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is apparently eagerly anticipating the potential indictment of Andrew McCabe, claiming “the rats are jumping ship.” “Just as I ...
Field Negro

Caption Saturday. - [image: Image result for trump image melania umbrella] I need a caption for this pic.
Political Dig

Brett Kavanaugh Hit With New Sexual Misconduct Allegation: Report - A new allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has emerged, the New York Times reports. The FBI reportedly knew about ...
Political Wire

What If Trump Won’t Step Down If He Loses? - National security expert Josh Geltzer Talks to Slate about why we should be prepared for the worst.
Political Orphans

Link Roundup, 9/14/2019 - A political orphan’s guide to current events.
The Greanville Post

 Will the IMF, FED, Negative Interest and Digital Money Kill the Western Economy?  - PETER KOENIG—The IMF has been instrumental in helping to destroy the economy of myriad countries, notably, and to start with, the new Russia after the fall...
Washington Babylon

Meme of the Day - [image: Meme of the Day] New Brooklyn Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Hullabaloo

The singer not the song: Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (***½) by Dennis Hartley @denofcinema5 - *Saturday Night at the Movies* *The singer not the song: Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (***½)* By Dennis Hartley It always gave me a chuckle th...
Courthouse News

Over 2,000 Fetal Remains Found at Ex-Abortion Doctor’s Home - More than 2,000 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week, aut...
The Root

Black Girl Tragic? Joy Reid Is the Latest Black Woman Trump Goes After on Twitter - Poor POTUS! Read more...
Popular Resistance

“Please Save My Life”: Julian Assange In Prison - For over 150 days this has been Julian Assange’s residence, whether he likes it or not. And a judge has ruled today, he is to remain there even after his j...
OffGuardian

Boycott All U.S.-Corporate Media! - Eric Zuesse Now Twitter is just as corrupt as Google and Facebook and MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the Washington Post and The Atlantic and all the rest. Prop...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: The Tyranny of the Corporate Workplace - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Sep 14, 2019 Host Chris Hedges talks to Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy at University of Michig...
The latest from MSNBC.com:

Joyce Vance on impeachment fight: “It sounds like a last-ditch effort to thwart investigation” - MSNBC’s Morgan Radford discusses the DOJ’s decision not to give the House Judiciary Committee unreleased information from the Mueller Report with Lynn Swee...
Mahablog

The Jesus Scam - I want to put aside talking about the awful Trump administration to instead talk about the awful Christian Right, specifically Jerry Falwell, Jr. A few day...
VICE

Daily Horoscopes: September 15, 2019 - The moon is in Aries today.
Splinter

CNN’s Chris Cuomo Takes on ‘New Faces With a Hole Burning Through ‘Em’ PAC - I’m no Chris Cuomo fan, but he has appropriately embarrassed the creator of the New Faces GOP PAC, Elizabeth Heng, the woman behind that contemptible TV ...
Portside

Willy Street Co-Op Workers Vote to Unionize - Willy Street Co-Op Workers Vote to Unionize Dave Sat, 09/14/2019 - 17:39
EgbertoWillies.com

NO! Warren, Bernie, and Democrats are not YOUR Communists. - [image: Elizabeth Warren] I got irate when I saw a message from a Facebook friend. We should not let fallacies fester especially when calling Sanders & War...
Common Dreams

German Study: Alarming Levels of Dangerous Plastics in Children's Bodies - Common Dreams staff Children from poorer families had more plastic residue in their bodies than those from higher-income homes. [image: In urine samples, re...
Truthdig

Drug Companies Seek to Disqualify Judge in Opioids Suits - Attorneys for distributors including CVS, Rite Aid and Walmart say his effort to obtain a multibillion-dollar global settlement shows bias.
NPR's Health Shots

Health Experts: Trump Ban On Flavored E-Cigarettes Would Have Little Impact - The Trump administration has proposed a ban on flavored vaping products, prompting mixed reactions from young vapers and health policy experts.
Bad Attitudes

A Letter to Elizabeth Warrenâ€¦ - â€¦from Anthony Piel, former General Legal Counsel of the World Health Organization. Dear Senator Elizabeth Warren, You and your campaign are doing a gr...
Socialist Alternative

Japan & South Korea: Trade War Tensions Escalate - The ongoing trade war between Japan and South Korea has heightened with the decision by the South Korean government to sever their military intelligence co...
The Texas Signal

El Paso Senator Announces Retirement - State Senator José Rodríguez (D – El Paso) announced his retirement from the Texas Senate yesterday, effective January 2021. Rodríguez will complete his ...
Election Law Blog

“Federal judge dismisses voting security lawsuit in Tennessee” - AP: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday challenging the security of voting machines in Tennessee’s largest county and calling for a switch to a hand...
Talking Points Memo

Why Is Trump Spending His Weekend Ambushing MSNBC’s Joy Reid? - [image: at Apple Store Soho on February 9, 2015 in New York City.] President Trump found a new target for his Saturday morning ire. Seemingly in response ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Canada’s Two Sides - So there’s this side that has good beer and legal marijuana, and mussels and scallops and lobsters and haddock (pretty nice actually) and snails, and Tidal...
Vox

The makers of OxyContin may have tried to hide $1 billion in assets - [image: Large photos of people who died due to opioids line a ramp leading to the Suffolk County Superior Court. Protesters hold signs behind the photos.] ...
Progrexas

Julián Castro hit Joe Biden over Barack Obama’s immigration legacy. But in 2013, Castro supported Obama’s policies. - Presidential candidate Julian Castro speaks to the crowd during a rally at Warehouse Live on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Houston. The Texas Tribune No 2020...
Pajiba

'Hustlers': Does Jennifer Lopez look like the real Ramona Vega? Compare the Cast with the Real Women - If you haven't seen Hustlers, you need to. It's very good. If you have seen Hustlers, you're probably suspecting it's based on a true story, which you are ...
Lawfare

The Lawfare Podcast: What Should Privacy Legislation Do? - Amid the legislative disfunction from Congress, a consensus of sorts is emerging on the need for privacy legislation. Between European pressure, data bre...
Daily Howler

We thought the Times was bad at this! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2019Today, the Post gives it a try:* We've seen the analysts cry before. We've never seen them crying this hard. This morning, a...
emptywheel

Crowdsource: Build a Timeline on ODNI Whistleblower Complaint [UPDATED-3] - The ODNI is withholding a whistleblower complaint; what could it have been about, assuming there are other related matters in the public eye? A timeline ...
Dissident Voice

How to find a Tiger in Africa - Agostinho Neto declaring independence of Angola 11 November 1975 What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search f...
The Verge

Someone sent us 21 more pictures of the leaked Pixel 4 XL - The Pixel 4 XL hasn’t been able to stop leaking this week, and now we have yet another set of photos showing off the unannounced, unreleased phone. Seve...
Latino Rebels

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Denies Ties to Criminal Gang - CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó rejected allegations Friday that he has ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, as o...
Liberal America

Despite Policy, Trump Refuses Entry To Bahamian Hurricane Refugees (Video) - “Some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.” We probably all remember what Donald Trump said the day his p...
WhoWhatWhy

Nobody Likes a Bully - Reading Time: 1 minute While President Donald Trump likes to pal around with some of the world’s dictators and strongmen, the rest of his foreign policy ...
Moon of Alabama

Attacks On Major Saudi Oil Installations Show Urgent Need For Peace With Yemen - Ten drones controlled by Yemeni Houthi forces hit two major Saudi oil installations last night and caused several large fires. bigger - video The Abqaiq (a...
Anti-Media

Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes - Yemen's Houthi group says it attacked the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry, including the world's biggest petroleum processing facility.
Dos Centavos

The 2019 #StaceSlate - ¡Feliz Fiestas Patrias y Viva La Raza! The 2019 City of Houston elections are upon us and some of you may be thinking about whose name to click when you sh...
The Grayzone

Ex-CIA analyst on why he predicted John Bolton’s firing - Ex-CIA analyst John Kiriakou discusses why he accurately predicted John Bolton’s ouster as National Security Adviser; who might replace him;… The post Ex...
Alas, a Blog

Claiming The Politics of My Survival: A Male Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse Tells His Story - In March of 2018, as part of Nassau Community College’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Awareness program, I was invited to give a talk about my experience as a ...
Ballot Access News

California Bill to Let Voters Change Their Party Immediately Before a Primary Passes - On September 13, the California legislature passed AB 681. It lets voters change their party affiliation as late as primary day, without filling out a new ...
21st Century Wire

The Turkish Rap Attack: Fighting the Status Quo with Loaded Words - *Dr. Can Erimtan* | It's been said that art has the power to change the world, but does i have the power to reverse Turkey's current Islamist trajectory?
No More Mister Nice Blog

IS THERE A SUPERCUT OF TRUMP SAYING "GODDAMN"? - *The Washington Post*'s Julie Zauzmer notes that for an evangelical hero, Donald Trump sure says "goddamn" a lot. ... on Thursday night ... he joked about ...
Church and State

When does life begin? - The solution to the political and intellectual log jam is best solved by individuals, not by the Supreme Court.
Ring of Fire

Trump Is Terrified Of Socialism And Doesn’t Think He Can Beat It - Donald Trump has been warning his advisors and aides for quite some time now that running against “socialism” in 2020 is not going to be easy, according ...
The Militant

Bosses’ profit drive leads to deaths of two more rail workers - BY A RAIL WORKER IN MONTREAL The rail bosses’ drive for profit claimed the lives of two more union brothers and rail workers in North America in August. On...
Bracing Views

Joe Biden: Clueless and Incoherent - W.J. Astore There was another Democratic debate this week, and I have to admit I missed it. I’ve been checking the highlights (or lowlights, if you prefer...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Your period-tracking app could be sharing intimate details with all of Facebook - Women’s health apps are again raising concerns of privacy as a new study finds some are sharing information without consent *Sign up for the Week in Patr...
Space City Weather

Tropical system may bring heavy rain to Texas next week - Some readers may note that the National Hurricane Center has begun tracking an upper-level low pressure system over the eastern Gulf of Mexico (note, this ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - As usual, feel free to use the comments to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Claytoonz

Oompa Loompa Deep State - For God’s sake, what is it now? Trump is orange. He’s been orange for a very long time. There have been multiple articles about his orangeness with various...
The Progressive Wing

9/14 Open Thread & News Roundup – Sanders Campaigns In Northern Nevada, Bernie Talks About His Debate Performance & More - Senator Bernie Sanders sits down for an interview with Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks: More news/videos/tweets/etc. in the comments. Site/sign-up issues can...
Novara Media

How the Long, Slow Death of Neoliberalism Sent the Conservative Party Into Crisis - In a matter of weeks the Conservative party has lost its formerly flimsy grip on parliament, a historic six votes, any remaining confidence of EU negotiato...
Crooked Timber

This is your phone on feminism - A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk in Austria on smartphones and cybersecurity. “Put up your hand if you like or maybe even love your smartphone,” I aske...
Reveal

Scuttling Science - Advisory panels slashed -- environmental regulations rolled back. How the Trump Administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
San Antonio Current

The 25 Best Mexican Restaurants in San Antonio, According to Yelp -
See You In 2020

The Victims Of Imperialist Violence Can’t Afford To Be Pacifists - [image: A depiction of American atrocities from the Korean War] A depiction of American atrocities from the Korean War The ruling class has lied to us abou...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Dark Star - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

UAW demands GM employees work past contract expiration - The move by the UAW is a flagrant betrayal of the 96 percent strike vote carried out by GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler workers.
Washington's Blog

Smedley Butler’s Speech Against War in Charlottesville in 1937 - I didn’t know until recently that Smedley Butler had ever been to my town. Then I heard that he’d spoken at the University of Virginia here in Charlottesvi...
Caitlin Johnstone

American Privilege - American liberals and progressives talk a bit about white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege etc, but one thing I never hear them talk about is ...
Carl Beijer

Everyone agrees: rich countries have to help poor countries with climate change - Ask any demographic group, and most people will agree - rich countries need to help poor countries with climate change. That's what YouGov / Economist foun...
Project Censored

Episode 45: United States of Distraction: Book Talk with Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff - On this episode of Along the Line, Nolan Higdon and the director of Project Censored Mickey Huff discuss their new book United States of Distraction on T...
Moron Majority

Real Reason Trump Booted Bolton - If you believe what is being reported, Donald Trump fired his national security advisor, John Bolton, because the two men disagreed over foreign policy iss...
Brad Blog

Progressive OG Bloggers Recap the Third Debate: 'BradCast' 9/13/2019 - It's NICOLE SANDLER, back to guest host another episode of the BradCast. Brad and Desi are in Arizona dealing with a family medical emergency. Angie Coiro ...
ProPublica

Justice Department Will Fund More Prosecutors, Jails and Cops in Rural Alaska - by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News The U.S. Department of Justice is adding federal prosecutors to pursue cases in remote Alaska towns and villages w...
Louis Proyect

Michael Heinrich’s “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society”, V. 1: a review - COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 The first installment of Michael Heinrich’s three-volume biography of Karl Marx titled “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern ...
Freethought Now

Mt. Rushmore billboards, wayward governors, baptizing coaches & persuasive books - In response to an indefensible new South Dakota law mandating public-school display of “In God We Trust,” we’ve put up billboard messages in the state’s mo...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Why It’s Easy to Work for Trump - Alex Paterson @ Media Matters: Why is the anti-LGBTQ American Family Radio network bleeding programming? Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian Apologi...
Texas Observer

How Earl Campbell Changed Football in Texas - In 1977, the University of Texas’ crushing running back, Earl Campbell, racked up 1,744 yards on the football field, 1,054 of those coming after initial ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Q&A: Sarah Kleiner on how millions were given to charity — only to end up in one man’s coffers - This week, we’re talking to our own Sarah Kleiner on her story on how millions donated to worthy causes end up funding … telemarketers and the like. How ...
Popehat

Over At Crime Story, A Post About the College Bribery Scandal - Why do some big cases get investigated, and others don't? What makes the difference? Find out in my new column over at Crime Story. By the way, Crime Story...
Echidne of the Snakes

The Obliteration of Alpha Males. Or What Tucker Carlson Fears Might Happen In American Politics? - Tucker Carlson believes that a patriarchal system is required for any society to exist. I know this, because he invited the anti-feminist Heather Mac Dona...
DBC Green

dbc Interviewed for Chronicle Article - Too bad the headline couldn't be "dbc Interviewed for Job at Chronicle." But I can fantasize that my editorial skills are worthy of a position at the Chron...
epic.org

EPIC Urges Rules Committee to Clarify Position on Closed Door Hearings - EPIC has again written to the Senate Rules Committee regarding the meetings of a Senate "Tech Task Force," following a news item which suggested that the R...
SCOTUSblog

Court issues December calendar - [image: Court issues December calendar]The Supreme Court issued its calendar for the December sitting today. The justices are scheduled to kick off the s...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Lavrov Urges Western Leaders to Observe International Law, Ignoring Russia’s Record - Russia has been responsible for some of the most flagrant violations of international law in recent history, including the invasion and annexation of part ...
Jordan Chariton

Sorry #YangGang—You’re Being Taken for a Ride - via IFTTT The post Sorry #YangGang—You’re Being Taken for a Ride appeared first on Jordan Chariton Reports.
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Third Democratic Debate In 7 Charts - For the first time this cycle, there was just one debate night, and only 10 candidates made the cut — so now we’re trying to make sense of what happened wh...
Socratic Gadfly

We as a nation and the Democratic Party have gone BACKWARDS on gun control - The AR-15, 25 years ago, was specifically listed as among weapons banned under the Bill Clinton era Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Last night, at the third D...
Democracy Chronicles

NormShield Election Security Report: from attention to rebuke - NormShield's election security report called “Rapid Cyber Risk Scorecards” first gained a lot of attention then rebuke followed over errors.
ExChristian.Net

Losing my religion - *By Free Unicorn ~* I've been rummaging through the internet trying to look for answers to my questions and I'm so glad my quest brought me to this platfor...
Texas Standard

Typewriter Rodeo: Outdoor Summer Weddings - Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
Texas Monthly

The Best Thing in Texas: The Eleven-Year-Old Designer Showcasing at New York Fashion Week - Alief’s Jayden Allyn Washer will unveil original gowns inspired by his hometown. The post The Best Thing in Texas: The Eleven-Year-Old Designer Showcasin...
The Conversation

The Senate filibuster explained – and why it should be allowed to die - Sen. Warren said the filibuster stands in the way of gun reform. It does, and so much more.
MintPress News

Human Trafficking is Booming in Yemen as the War Enters its Fifth Year - A complete absence of law and order in Yemen has given rise to a black Suq (market) of human trafficking on a scale never before seen in the war-torn and...
Pages of Victory

Big Brother getting Bigger - By *Mike Adams* | 2 July 2019 NATURAL NEWS — By late 2020, Google’s Chrome browser will automatically block all so-called anti-cancer, “anti-vax” and anti-...
Houstonia

5 (All Local) Game Day Essentials for the Football Fashionista - The Texans' first home game is this Sunday. Prepare yourself accordingly.
The Bloggess

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. But seriously. - I have been trying really hard lately to step out of my comfort zone and do “adventurous” things. My anxiety disorder is still ever-present but it’s been ...
Rude Pundit

Random Observations on the Democratic Candidates After Their Third of 850 Debates - Last night's debate of the current top ten Democratic candidates for president was both uninspiring and inspiring. Inspiring because how awesome is it that...
LareDOS

Sept. 24 town hall meeting, a forum for impact of proposed wall on the environment, land taking, wildlife habitat, and water for millions of Texans and Mexicans - Public invited to attend
Rewire

The Student Debt Crisis Is So Bad Even Clergy Are Packing Their Bags - Millions of taxpayers, particularly those fortunate enough to not accrue education debt and those who diligently paid off their debts, reject the idea of...
Grits for Breakfast

Needless shooting shows why cops shouldn't be first response to mental health calls - In the wake of the City of Austin *funding an alternative approach* to mental-health first response featuring mental-health clinicians taking the lead inst...
In These Times

Joe Biden Lied His Face Off About the Iraq War Last Night - Thursday night’s Democratic debate featured another attempt by Joe Biden to rewrite his record on the Iraq War. Biden rolled out a familiar rationalizati...
Earthworks

Red Tide Redefined - Forget algae. If you really want to trash a marine ecosystem, this Chinese and Canadian-owned mining operation is proving there’s nothing like untreated ...
Bay Area Houston

The loser of the #DemocraticDebate: Medicare for All - Stick with me for a second. Back in 1989 VP Dan Quayle called for a trip to Mars. Everyone was excited by the bold, courageous announcement....until they ...
Duck of Minerva

If you mention the evangelical delegation to Saudi Arabia, I’d have to ask which one - The other day, Emily McFarlan Miller–a journalist with Religion News Service–noted a sense of deja vu. The AP had an article on a delegation of US evangeli...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

Jose Rodriguez Retiring and Other News for September 13 - *SD29: *Sen. Jose Rodriguez (D-El Paso) announced he would not seek re-election. He won a three-way Democratic primary for the open seat in 2010 and was re...
Dorf on Law

Why Are Big Businesses' Executives So Awful Except When They're Not? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* When I linked to *The Washington Post*'s website moments ago, a bright red CNN-like banner above the name of the newspaper announced:...
Dissent Magazine

Can Elephants Be Persons? - Personhood for Happy would create a legal precedent and framework for granting fundamental rights to nonhumans in the future.
Bonddad

August retail sales confirm healthy consumer sector - -* by New Deal democrat* Retail sales are one of my favorite indicators, because in real terms they can tell us so much about the present, near term fore...
The Concourse

Joe Biden Is A Doddering Old Mummy With A Skull Full Of Dumpster Juice - Joe Biden’s politics are bad and he is a bad candidate. Ordinarily that might be the most important measure of a guy running for national office: That hi...
Sludge

Mike Pence Set to Mingle With Wall Street Billionaires at Major Financial Conference - This article was first published at Eyes on the Ties, a news site by LittleSis.org. As people across the world denounce the Trump administration’s destruct...
Progressive.org

Democratic Debate #3: Mr. Rogers, Re-runs, and Real Talk - A side-stepped apology from Biden, two gimmick-meisters, and seven remaining candidates who gave solid performances.
Eater Houston

Preslee’s Brings Southern Cuisine and Lots of Bourbon to Shady Acres - Preslee’s is scheduled to open at the end of the month near The Heights. | Preslee’s/Facebook The new restaurant is expected to open in the coming weeks ...
Born To Run The Numbers

BTRTN: Dem Debate #3... The Elusive God of Momentum Takes the Night Off -
Campaign for America's Future

Progressive Breakfast - MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Wealth That Concentrates Kills The weight of the wealth that sits at the top of America’s economic order isn’t just squeezing...
Debunking Christianity

The Gospels Writers Didn’t Care What Jesus Would Do - So, just what were they up to? Christians turn to the gospels to read the story of Jesus, and they assume that the stories are God’s honest truth—so to spea...
The Contributor

FactChecking Last Night's Democratic Debate - News Image: A narrowed field of 10 Democratic candidates debated health care, immigration and gun control, but not all of their claims squared with the f...
Juanita Jean's WMDBS

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Democracy Now!

Medicare for All: Sanders & Warren Defend Plan to Expand Healthcare Coverage to Everyone - At Thursday's debate, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended their Medicare for All plan. They faced criticism from several rivals, includin...
ROAR Magazine

Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, with Michelle Alexander - Two-for-one on this week’s Laura Flanders Show! A riveting panel discussion with Michelle Alexander on mass incarceration and a podcast on cities and clima...
Progressives Chat

‘Why Elizabeth Warren Would Lose To Trump’ - *The Jimmy Dore Show* published on Thursday, September 12, 2019 a discussion welcoming guest Katie Halper on why a nominee U.S. Sen. *Elizabeth Warren* ...
Dallas Observer

Texas Gov. Abbott Moves to Lt. Gov. Patrick’s Right on Gun Control - A week ago, Texas, and the rest of the country, got their first look at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's evolving priorities on guns, gun violence and domestic ter...
Counterpunch

Break Up the Democratic Party? - Thursday’s debate on Walt Disney’s ABC channel shaped up as yet another shameless charade. The pretense was that we are to select who the Democratic pres...
Rallblog

It Isn’t Easy Being a Democrat - Many Democrats fantasize that a recession or other economic downturn will hurt Donald Trump’s chances of reelected. But of course they would be affected ...
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Martin Luther King Jr.,Ernesto "Che" Guevara and their contrasting visions of struggle - *“Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective...
Land Destroyer

The G7's Growing Irrelevance - *September 13, 2019* (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - The Group of Seven (G7), comprised of the "most advanced economies in the world," includes Canada, France, Germ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Gay conservative owes happiness to making LGBTQ community miserable - A prominent gay conservative got married recently and as you can tell by my retweet, I'm not necessarily ready to throw the rice: Mr. Benson helps to edit...
Lowering the Bar

Questions to Ask Before Trying to Get a Ton of Drugs Into Australia by Sea - There are probably others you could add to the list, but here are 12 important ones. Related Stories - Attempt to Flee Australia on a Jet Ski...
The Ghion Journal

Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align with the U.S. Empire? - Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journ...
Better Texas Blog

10 Things Texans Need to Know on New Federal “Public Charge” Regulation - 1) What is the new Public Charge rule? It’s a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security rule that will make it harder for people to go through the lawful ...
Somervell County Salon

Some Rough Notes from Hearing Aug 20 2019 on the State of Texas Ex Rel Best V Harper Case - I attended the hearing on August 20, 2019 for State of Texas ex rel Darrell Best v Paul Harper. (Note that I am the wife of Paul Harper, as well as the o...
Morning Consult

More Democrats Say the Democratic Party Is Liberal. And They’re OK With It - The post More Democrats Say the Democratic Party Is Liberal. And They’re OK With It appeared first on Morning Consult.
Harper's

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Shadowproof

The Prosecution Against Julian Assange: Where Presidential Candidates Stand - The New York Times asks each 2020 presidential candidate whether they support the charges against Julian Assange and if they believed they were constitut...
Our Finite World

Our Energy and Debt Predicament in 2019 - Many people are concerned that we have an oil problem. Or they are concerned about recession and the need to lower interest rates. As I see the situation, ...
Greg Palast

Jim Crow Steals N Carolina 9th CD - Stolen again. Democrat Dan McCready supposedly lost the special election in North Carolina’s ninth Congressional District to Republican Dan Bishop by les...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

“NOAA chief scientist just really going for it” - NOAA’s chief scientist reminds everyone that accuracy with honor is necessary for science to be good. twitter.com/katenocera/status/1171540097797251074
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Biden’s challenge: Iowa and New Hampshire - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Perhaps the biggest threat to Joe Biden is the nominating calendar. — Biden is reliant on support from African Americans, bu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Amazon Fire Already Headed Down Memory Hole Like Kuwait Fires & China Smog! - For decades mainstream media has been completely ignoring the vast majority of environmental destruction around the world, including the Amazon Rain-for...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Being Black is Not a Crime: Yunek's Story of Police Brutality - A personal story of police brutality at the hands of the police in Preoria, Illinois. My name is Yunek Moore. I am a Black woman, a college graduate, and ...
Krebs on Security

NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - MyPayrollHR, a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employee...
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: Evolution of the Lords of Flame, Form, and Mind - This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philos...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: September 2019 - Announcement: I’m taking a blogging break. I’m doing a thing for the next two months, and I’ll be around but I don’t know how busy I’ll be. When I return...
BEYONDbones

Meet the New Manager of Beyond Bones - I would like to formally introduce myself as the new manager of Beyond Bones. After a full year of working front line, as we like to call it, in the Visito...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Globalisation and Resistance: Explorations in Global Contestation - During the Spring semester 2019, students on the module Globalisation and Resistance in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Univers...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Klare, A Formula for Catastrophe in the Arctic - Donald Trump got the headlines as usual -- but don’t be fooled. It wasn't Trumpism in action this August, but what we should all now start referring to a...
Eclectablog

Unions help EVERYBODY – with special guest former UAW president Bob King - Bob King's Wikipedia entry is HERE. David Madland at the Center for American Progress Action Fund: How to Promote Sectoral Bargaining in the United States ...
Environment Texas

Trump administration ends key bee research - Monday, September 9, 2019 Scientists have lost a valuable tool for measuring and understanding the decline in bee populations.
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...
Downwinders at Risk

DFW Smog Gets Worse for First Time Since 2015. Government: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - 2019’s “ozone season” came in like a lamb but is headed out as big, wheezy lion. A three-day stretch from Thursday September 5th to Saturday the 7th that c...
Political Garbage Chute

Taliban Spokesman Says They Weren’t Sure They Wanted to Hang Out With a ‘Religious Kook’ Like Mike Pence Anyway - AFGHANISTAN — A spokesterrorist for the Taliban announced today that his employers are “just fine and dandy” with President Trump calling off planned tal...
nonsite.org

The Wages of Roediger: Why Three Decades of Whiteness Studies Has Not Produced the Left We Need - The popular claim that Trump’s election signified resurgent white supremacy is not only wrong—it’s dangerous. It grants more power to the fascist right tha...
Houston Strategies

Response to Jeff Speck's anti-45N expansion op-ed - I had a whole host of smaller items for this week, but all of that has to be put on the back burner to respond to a lot of flawed arguments in Jeff Speck's...
Stinque

The Trump Show - “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion,” said Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “but not his own facts.” No, wait. It was James Schlesinger. In 1973. We looked it...
slacktivist

LBCF, No. 247: ‘Another award-winner’ - Once again, what these books portray as "prophecy come to life" is a mass of implausibilities and impossibilities that require a world filled with humans w...
News Taco

Anti-Latino hate is not new - The 21-year-old who murdered 22 people in El Paso added another chapter to the long history of anti-Latino violence in the United States. He pulled the t...
Two Party Opera

Whataboutism - Three years of Two Party Opera! Thank you all for reading the comic and continuing to follow along this trip through history and politics. Through my tim...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Will the Courts Redact the Epstein Files? - Derrick Broze breaks down a new court development in the attempt to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Source: Sealed Je...
Frontloading HQ

California Republicans Face Decision on 2020 Delegate Selection - Heading into their *state convention* this weekend, California Republicans are staring down an October 1 deadline under *RNC rules* to finalize delegate se...
The Rag Blog

Maxine Phillips : BOOKS | Love in the twilight of capitalism - The story may be set in Finland, but the plot is universal. By Maxine Phillips | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2019 [Me, Mikko, and Annikki, A Community Love...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Future of the Spectacle … or How the West Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reality Police - If you want a vision of the future, don’t imagine “a boot stamping on a human face — for ever,” as Orwell suggested in 1984. Instead, imagine that human fa...
Robert Reich

The 5 Biggest Corporate Lies about UnionsWealthy corporations... - *The 5 Biggest Corporate Lies about Unions* Wealthy corporations and their enablers have spread 5 big lies about unions in order to stop workers from org...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Amazon as World’s Lungs; Hong Kong Lasers; Bulletproof Backpacks - This week, Chatting the Pictures looks at a viral image of burning lungs protesting the Amazon fires, Hong Kong protesters using lasers, and bulletproof ...
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...
Liberation News

La huelga de maestros de Kennewick muestra el poder del sindicato en el estado de Washington - El acuerdo representa una gran victoria para los educadores en Kennewick, y además muestra el poder de los trabajadores que se organizan para mejorar sus...
Avedon's Sideshow

A revolution is the solution - "FDIC approves Volcker revamp, in latest move to roll back bank rules: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board voted 3-1 Tuesday to give big banks more...
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...
Web of Debt

The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old - We are again reaching the point in the business cycle known as “peak debt,” when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be p...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

RIP Jerry C Larson Jr (Harry Hamid) - Jerry (Harry Hamid) passed away August 27, 2019 My heart will never heal from this, but I guess I will have to live with it. I wish there was a way that ...
PERRspectives

After GOP sabotaged Obama, Trump looks to scapegoat Democrats for slowing economy - As Donald Trump's bragging about the economy reached a crescendo last fall, former Obama White House communications director Jen Psaki provided a helpful r...
DoucheLeaks

8-27 Democratic Primary Poll - We’re going to try something different this week and give ranked choice voting a shot. Pick your favorite three candidates and let’s see how well they stac...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine Economic Democracy - This post first appeared at the Imagine Democracy blog. We don’t have to “bring back jobs from China.” Economists explain that exporting low-level jobs and...
Daily PUMA

Did Donald Trump cause the Amazon Rain Forest Fires, possibly yes. - On March 19, 2019 Donald Trump Granted Brazil *MNNA* status. *MNNA means Major Non Nato Ally* Status. Granting *MNNA* means economic priority with a count...
Innocence Project

Innocence Project remembers Larry Swearingen’s sense of humor, artistry, and optimism - With a heavy heart we share the heartbreaking loss of our client, Larry Swearingen, who was executed by Texas on August 21, 2019 after being denied a sta...
GreenSource DFW

Plant 'museum' thriving in Fort Worth Cultural District - *Joe Lippert captures digital images of plant specimens at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas with state-of-the-art Canon cameras. Photos courtesy...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Encouraging Green Stormwater Infrastructure for New Private Development - City of Houston report recommends permeable pavement, green roofs, vegetated strips, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting, and urban forest Aug. 20, 2019 ...
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 silenc...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Houston Nazis Doxx Each Other Following Anti-Fascist Actions - On Saturday, June 8th, anti-fascists exposed a realtor named Paul Preston as being the leader of a local Neo-Nazi Group called the Houston Goylers. On the ...
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 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...
Smart Dissent

Twenty Republican Senators Urging Treasury To Give Wealthy Another Tax Cut Via Executive Order - Date: 08/05/2019 Truth is stranger than fiction. It's hard to believe this is real. In a letter sent to *Steve Mnuchin* on Monday, Senator Ted Cruz urged...
The Metaphor Project

Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday - During this Democratic primary season and even before, a great many longstanding injustices in American life have become high profile: #MeToo, police viole...
Dispatches from the Underclass

The US-China trade war explained - US-CHINA TRADE WAR EXPLAINED It's kinda like the Cold War. Only 2019. And China. Posted by Soapbox on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
LawFlog

Correction: Ellen Ratner only relayed information about Seth Rich, according to Butowsky - Several readers identified a contradiction between a lawsuit that I drafted on behalf of Ed Butowsky versus what he said in an interview. The mistake is mi...
Media Lens

The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship - The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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Truthout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, August 14, 2011

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