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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Judges could overturn Mississippi pot law — because it didn't get signatures from a congressional district that doesn't exist - On Wednesday, the *Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal* reported that the Mississippi Supreme Court might be poised to strike down a medical marijuana ba...
Robert Reich

Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work?To the extent the... - *Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work?* To the extent the Republican Party has any economic platform at all, it’s trickle-down economics. Unfortunat...
memeorandum

'Frankly, I Think Everyone Is Baffled': Searching For Clues In SCOTUS' Abortion Silence (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo) - Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo: *‘Frankly, I Think Everyone Is Baffled’: Searching For Clues In SCOTUS' Abortion Silence* — When Justice Amy Coney Bar...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Mediaite

Tucker Carlson Responds to Fauci Slamming Him for ‘Crazy Conspiracy Theory’ - Fox News' Tucker Carlson responded Wednesday night to being called out by Dr. Anthony Fauci for pushing a "crazy conspiracy theory." The post Tucker Carls...
OpEd News

Humor: Have You Ever Tried to Run With a Dog? It Can't Be Done! - Dog owners and runners will know this is true from their own experience
Vox

A new bill would add 4 seats to the Supreme Court - [image: Merrick Garland stands at a lectern. Vice President Joe Biden stands with his hand on Garland’s shoulder. President Barack Obama stands on Garland...
The Week

Scalise says GOP will 'take action' if DOJ moves ahead with a case against Gaetz - Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Wednesday said if "something really formal" happens with the Justice Department's investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla...
Texas Environmental News

Counties, Residents Sue To Block Dallas-Houston Bullet Train - Six Texas counties, local residents and an anti-rail group sued the U.S. Department of Transportation Wednesday to block development on [...] The post Co...
World Socialist Web Site

Protests erupt in Spanish migrant camps at PSOE-Podemos repression - Migrants are protesting appalling living conditions, poor food and the lack of medical treatment amid the escalating global COVID-19 pandemic.
The Hill

US Olympic team's closing ceremony outfits mocked after debut - Team USA's Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony outfits were unveiled Wednesday to criticism from many social media users.The ensembles, designed by longtime of...
Slate

Coinbase Went Public. What—and Why—Is Coinbase? - A cryptocurrency company is now worth $85.8 billion. Yes, there are some things you should know.
Courthouse News

Red States on US Electoral Map Lagging on Vaccinations - The parts of the U.S. that are excelling and those that are struggling with vaccinations are starting to look like the nation’s political map: deeply divid...
The Verge

You can finally ‘inquire to buy’ LG’s rollable TV in the United States - Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We may never see LG’s incredible rollable phone come to market, now its smartphone days are done, but at least the rolla...
Daily Dot

Incel YouTuber makes racist bomb threat at restaurant during live stream, gets arrested - [image: youtuber smooth sanchez or malik sanchez] A 19-year-old self-proclaimed incel was charged by federal agents for making a bomb threat toward two w...
Ballot Access News

Arizona Supreme Court Rules that State Can’t Tell Tucson to Hold City Elections in Even Years - On April 14, the Arizona Supreme Court issued an opinion in State of Arizona v City of Tucson, cv-20-0244. The issue is a state law that tells cities they ...
The NM Political Report

Medical cannabis producers call for increased plant limits - [image: Medical cannabis producers call for increased plant limits] Just days after New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a recreational-use cannab...
The Root

74-Year-Old Black Woman Sues Oklahoma City Cops Who She Said Broke Her Arm During Arrest Last Summer - When we talk about systemic racism in policing, we’re not just talking about shootings, lethal chokeholds and beatings; we’re also talking about harassme...
Axios

Swing voter focus group says they’ll back infrastructure plan if corporations foot bill - Some swing voters say President Biden needs to better explain who'll pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure plan — and they'll only back bipartisan legis...
Salon.com

In Netflix's "Why Did You Kill Me?" a California mom uses MySpace to hunt her daughter's murderer - A wild premise and moments of humanity make this true crime doc worth watching despite some unanswered questions
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

The Family Research Council whines that the NCAA's support of trans athletes is 'intimidation' - And in the category of *Best Hypocritical Whine of Persecution*, the winner is hate group the Family Research Council for claiming that the NCAA's sup...
Al Jazeera English

Is China really about to invade Taiwan? - Analysts say US military's warnings of rising threat reflect deterioration in US-China ties rather than any real change.
ArcaMax

Some Evangelical Christians Have Forgotten Their Moral Duty - I don’t want to malign anyone’s religious faith. I really don’t. But it’s a tad disturbing that 45 percent of the nation’s 41 million white evangelical Chr...
Progrexas

Texas Senate approves bail bill that would keep more people in jail if they can’t post cash bonds - The Texas Senate approved the chamber’s priority bail legislation on a 23-8 vote. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune The Texas Senate on Wedn...
slacktivist

The true fix is not education - Education and critical thinking are Good Things, but they're insufficient for dealing with conspiracy theories. It's always in the choosing.
Political Wire

Matt Gaetz’s Wingman Paid Dozens of Young Women - Daily Beast: “As new details emerge about Rep. Matt Gaetz’s role in an alleged sex ring, The Daily Beast has obtained several documents showing that the su...
Wolf Street

More Signs of Cooling Demand amid Higher Mortgage Rates: Mortgage Applications to Purchase a Home Drop Below 2019 for First Time in Pandemic Housing Craziness - And refinance mortgage applications plunged by over half from 2020 spike.
Project Censored

Fracking Continues in California - A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Desert Sun shows that California state regulators have allowed over two dozen inland oil spills—“surface expr...
Crooked Timber

Zarathustra – Columnar Emersonian or Divine Hanswurst? - So, I promised reflections on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Seuss, to complement my ongoing brilliant double-parody, with special reference to Seuss’ late ‘c...
Socialist Alternative

How to Organize at Amazon: An Intro Guide for Workers - The union drive at BHM1, Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, is inspiring Amazon workers nationwide. Maybe you work at Amazon and are thinkin...
El Paso Matters

Your guide to the May 1 El Paso and Socorro school board elections - Four seats are up for grabs on both the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Socorro Independent School District Board of Truste...
Reform Austin

America’s Top Businesses Release Statement Supporting Voting Rights - [image: America's businesses] Following a zoom call this weekend where CEOs and senior executives at companies across the country discussed a coordinated...
The Intercept

House and Senate Democrats Plan Bill to Add Four Justices to Supreme Court - The Constitution allows Congress to set the number of Supreme Court justices The post House and Senate Democrats Plan Bill to Add Four Justices to Suprem...
Liberation News

Activists outside Justice Department demand Julian Assange be freed on second anniversary of his arrest - Activists rallied outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to demand that WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assan...
Portside

A History of Unemployment and the Search for Solutions - A History of Unemployment and the Search for Solutions Geoffrey Wed, 04/14/2021 - 19:10
San Antonio Report

San Antonio to start seeking contract for next 15 years of recycling - Solid Waste officials expect recycling costs to rise from $13 to to $25 per ton, the same rate it costs to dispose of in a landfill.
Talking Points Memo

WH Set To Appoint Erika Moritsugu As AAPI Liaison After Dem Sens’ Ultimatum - [image: UNITED STATES - JANUARY 12: Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, attend a news conference in the Capitol to oppose the ...
Alternet

Trump launches bizarre attack over vaccine pause — as the right wing moves to weaponize doubt - News that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can cause blood clots in about one in 1 million women under 50 has exploded across the social media world. Republ...
Houston Public Media

The Future Of The Workforce - The pandemic created a sudden shift from in-office work requirements to scatter across millions of private homes. Now that vaccines are turning the tide, m...
Techdirt.

Content Moderation Case Study: Lyft Blocks Users From Using Their Real Names To Sign Up (2019) - *Summary: *Users attempting to sign up for a new ride-sharing program ran into a problem from the earliest days of content moderation. The "Scunthorpe pr...
Popular Resistance

The BAmazon Loss And The Road Ahead - Hopes were high. The drive had garnered enormous favorable press coverage and even support from the White House. Nevertheless, the loss was no surprise t...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Broadway Is...
Workers World

Capitalism, racism and the Michigan COVID surge - [image: Capitalism, racism and the Michigan COVID surge] After a year of masking, social distancing and with significant sectors of the U.S. population vac...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

'Unfathomable' that Daunte Wright was killed so close to Chauvin trial, says family's lawyer – video - Ben Crump, attorney for the family of Daunte Wright, said he could not believe that a white police officer could shoot and kill Wright just miles from wh...
NPR's Health Shots

U.S. Health Officials Continue Pause Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine - An expert advisory committee to the CDC decided it needed more time to consider whether to recommend the restart administration of the COVID-19 vaccine mad...
Houston Press

#HoustonSports: Astros Star Players Land on Injured List - It wasn't bad enough that the Astros had lost four straight and their starting pitching was behaving like it needed to be home early given the lack of inni...
Angry Bear

What the Future Holds - It was a warm October evening, back in 1957, when we heard the news and began looking anew toward the night skies. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Fox5 DC: Daunte Wright’s shooter - Mustafa Tameez joins Fox 5 DC to discuss how an officer can mistake a gun for a taser and what training officers go through to make sure this does not happen.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A National Donument - Justin Baragona @ The Daily Beast: Tucker Goes Full Tinfoil Hat: Maybe the Vaccine ‘Doesn’t Work’ and ‘They’re Not Telling You That.’ Justin Horowitz: Fr...
Texas Monthly

Outdoor Voices Is Not F***ing Around With Austin Bar Little Brother - The athletic wear giant threatened legal action over the bar’s parody of its famous blue hat. The post Outdoor Voices Is Not F***ing Around With Austin B...
Common Dreams

After Nearly 20-Year Assault on Afghanistan, Biden Says 'It Is Time to End America's Longest War' - Brett Wilkins, staff writer White House announcement for complete withdrawal comes nearly two decades after the U.S. president, then a senator, backed the 2...
Latino Rebels

Mexico President Focusing Efforts to Stop Child Migrants - MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he plans to visit his country’s southern border to discuss with governors an...
Mediagazer

In TikTok's first-ever funding of an episodic series by a publisher, the company is backing VIRAL from NowThis, featuring health experts and a live pandemic Q&A (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: *In TikTok's first-ever funding of an episodic series by a publisher, the company is backing VIRAL from NowThis, featuring heal...
Buzzflash

The GOP Acts as a White Insurrectionist Confederacy Insurgency in the United States - AlterNet
Second Nexus

Jen Psaki Expertly Shuts Down Blatantly False Abortion Question from Conservative Reporter - In a daily White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki answered a question from White House correspondent Owen Jensen of the Etern...
VICE

Daily Horoscope: April 15, 2021 - The moon enters Gemini.
Skeptical Raptor

JNJ COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots – still safe and effective - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Like the earlier story about the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots, the J...
INSIDER - politics news

The DOJ arrested and charged an accused Capitol rioter after he spoke to Insider about his 'fun time' there - [image: Capitol riot] Summary List Placement An Illinois man who breached the US Capitol on January 6 is facing a slew of charges after he gave an inter...
Futurism

This Type of Ant Can Shrink and Regrow Its Brain - [image: Female Indian jumping ants vying for a seat on a vacant throne actually shrink their own brains to become queenlike mating "gamergate" ants.] When...
Election Law Blog

Very Sad News: Voting Rights Scholar Chandler Davidson Has Passed Away - Chandler Davidson, a leading scholar of American voting rights, has passed away. Here is a notice from Rice University. Gerry Hebert will be offering a rem...
Texas Standard

Southwest Airlines Returns To Bush Intercontinental Airport - The Dallas-based airline returns after a 16-year hiatus.
CultureMap Houston

Intimate new steakhouse sizzles in Montrose with retro-chic ambience - Montrose is in the midst of a mini-boom of new restaurant openings -- just ask the crowds flocking to the newly opened Acme Oyster Co. or sipping cocktail...
Ring of Fire

Desperate Trump Tries Again To Block Congress From Getting His Financial Records - Donald Trump is still desperate to prevent Congress from getting their hands on his financial documents, including his tax returns, and he has sent his l...
BEYONDbones

HMNS Celebrates Deaf History Month - You may or may not know that National Deaf History Month is celebrated from March 13 to April 15. This time is used to highlight and celebrate all the ac...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: We Must Build A New Party - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges The People’s Party on Apr 8, 2021 The People’s Podcast host Nick Brana speaks with Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning j...
Discourse

Let Me Help CNN Out Here: We Lost the War in Afghanistan - CNN's Jim Sciutto wondered aloud whether we'd won or lost the war in Afghanistan. This is not a tough one: we lost. The post Let Me Help CNN Out Here: We...
Living Blue in Texas

It’s Time To Talk About Susan Wright - Susan Wright is a grieving widow and a victim full of empty rhetoric. She’s wrong for Texas and wrong for District Six. Living Blue in Texas has never co...
epic.org

Draft EU AI Regulation Would Ban Social Scoring, Limit ‘High-Risk’ Uses - A leaked draft of the European Commission's proposed AI regulation includes a ban on social scoring and strict limits on mass surveillance and other "high-...
The Conversation

How to get COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries – and still keep patent benefits for drugmakers - India and South Africa are pressing the World Trade Organization to waive patent rights to help ramp up vaccine production. There's a better solution.
Undernews

VIRUS STATUS UPDATE - Blue - Getting better. Red - Getting worse Black - Unchanged In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is 1% higher than in March but...
Deadline Politics

Kimberly Godwin Named Next President Of ABC News, Network Says In Official Announcement - Kimberly Godwin, a longtime CBS executive, has been named the next president of ABC News. News surfaced last week that Godwin was being tapped for the role...
Progressive.org

Vox Populist: The GOP’s Shameful War on Voters - In state after state, Republican governors and legislators are on a rampage to rig the system so you can’t vote.
Mother Jones

Far-Right Extremism Has Become One of the Intelligence Community’s Rising Threats - When the US intelligence community last released its public assessment of global threats at the beginning of 2019, white supremacism was barely mentioned. ...
Mondoweiss

Videos showing Palestinian experience of violent apartheid deserve an American audience - Recent videos show routine racism and violence directed against Palestinians with Israeli government support. Jewish settlers threaten to unleash dogs on P...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Fighting Big Tech Deletions with Matthew Raymer - Derrick Broze talks with Matthew Raymer, an activist and creative who is fighting back against Big Tech censorship by saving the work of activists and jo...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Intelligence Sources Say Biggest Threat to U.S. Is Actually U.S. Policy - According to my source, the real threat to America today is the standing policy of overextending US military commitments in a futile effort to maintain unr...
American Prospect

The Paradox of Corporate Power - Today on TAP: Big business should get serious about democracy
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Problem With Running Collin College Like a Business - A few weeks ago, I wrote about a continuing dustup at Collin College. Three professors at the community college say they’re losing their jobs in retaliat...
Moon of Alabama

Neoconservatives Demand More Meddling In Afghanistan - The wickedness of the imperial U.S. vanguard is well expressed in an Atlantic piece by Eliot A. Cohen, the dean of the School of Advanced International Stu...
The AltWorld

One Question Before Us Is: Will We Be Destroyed in War Before We Lose Our Civil Liberty to the Establishment’s Orchestrated “Covid Pandemic”? - Americans have few sources of reliable information except for a handful of websites that few know anything […] The post One Question Before Us Is: Will W...
In These Times

Pennsylvania Nurses Near Their Breaking Point - Brandee Brown and Chrissy Newton of Schuylkill Hospital Nurses United explore the challenges of collective bargaining during a global pandemic. - On top of the typical stresses, intense work, and long hours common to the profession, nurses working at smaller hospitals in more remote parts of the co...
Daily Howler

Do you agree with the press corps' values? - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021* *We'll go with two out of five:* It's a fascinating headline. It sits atop Margaret Sullivan's column in today's Washington P...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Mavericks Bet Big On Kristaps Porziņģis. It’s Paying Off On Offense, But What About Defense? - Midway through Luka Dončić’s rookie season, the Dallas Mavericks seized on an opportunity that doesn’t come around all that often. Then-New York Knicks sta...
The Mind Unleashed

Lil Nas X Song Is #1 In Saudi Arabia, Where Homosexuality Is Illegal Under Sharia Law - Lil Nas X has been on top of the world for weeks now, whether it’s living rent-free in the heads of homophobes or topping the Billboard charts after his sm...
San Antonio Current

City of San Antonio launches COVID-19 vaccine waitlist for people 65 and older - After weeks of requests from residents, the city of San Antonio on Wednesday launched a waitlist targeted to people 65 and older who want to schedule thei...
Democracy Chronicles

States Are Moving To End Public Referendum Voting - At least 123 legislative proposals concerning ballot initiatives, veto referendums, referrals, local ballot measures, and recall were introduced.
Washington Babylon

Biden’s Afghanistan Blunder: The War is Over. The U.S. Lost. The Taliban Won. Admit it and Get Out on 5/1, not 9/11. - [image: Biden’s Afghanistan Blunder: The War is Over. The U.S. Lost. The Taliban Won. Admit it and Get Out on 5/1, not 9/11.] President Joe Biden announced...
Due Dissidence

Podcast: Inside the Democrats’ War on Bernie Sanders – w/Branko Marcetic - Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of the book Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, joined the podcast to discuss his thorough and...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/14/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
MintPress News

From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to Apocalypse - Corruption and supposed efforts to reduce it have become a neoconservative weapon of choice with which to operate the controls on the funding sluice gate...
Glasstire

Glasstire 3×3: Ciara Elle Bryant — Who or what has influenced your work? - Dallas-based artist Ciara Elle Bryant answers the question Who or what has influenced your work? as part of an 18-part video series on artists in the DFW...
Bonddad

Wealth distribution in the US continues to be a first order economic issue - -* by New Deal democrat* Tomorrow is one of those days when just about Every Economic Statistic in the World will be released. In the meantime, no ne...
First Draft

Small Town Cops - Story time with Adrastos.
Eater Houston

Thousands of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Will Be Available to Houston Restaurant Workers Next Week - [image: Taiwan: Covid Vaccinations Begin] Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images More than 12,000 doses will be administered at the Smart Financ...
Novara Media

The Pandemic Has Given Sex Workers a Grim Taste of Criminalisation - [image: A protest against the criminalisation of sex work.]On Wednesday, the parliamentary Labour party met to discuss the Tories’ controversial new police...
WhoWhatWhy

Tech Billionaires Are Staying ‘Very, Very Quiet’ About Proposals to Tax Their Wealth - Reading Time: 3 minutes How Could a COVID Vaccine Cause Blood Clots? ; More Lightning in the Arctic is Bad News for the Planet ; and More Picks 4/14 The ...
WhatWouldJackDo

Just your semi-regular reminder that Lindsey Graham is a certifiable moron - If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 3, 2016
DeSmogBlog

Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use - The overlap between racial inequalities and environmental issues is all too often ignored. A recent government report may claim that “we no longer see a ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Denouncing ‘Foreign Fighters,’ Libyan Warlord Ignores his Own Russian Mercenaries - Haftar and his forces, which are fighting the U.N.-recognized Libyan government in Tripoli, are accused of war crimes and backed by Russian mercenaries.
Freethought Now

Our efforts to educate a Christian nationalist preacher - The Freedom From Religion Foundation is attempting to educate a Christian nationalist preacher.
Innocence Project

Innocence Project Responds to Recent Factual Misstatements in Anthony Wright Case - The following statement may be attributed to the Innocence Project (New York, NY) which is affiliated with the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva Universit...
SCOTUSblog

The “great chief” and the “super chief”: A final showdown in Supreme Court March Madness - [image: The “great chief” and the “super chief”: A final showdown in Supreme Court March Madness]Forget Ali vs. Frazier, Celtics vs. Lakers, or Evert vs....
Edinburg Politics

UTRGV could receive $30.4 million and TSTC-Harlingen $15.12 million for new construction through House Bill 1530, set for action on Thursday, April 15, 2021, before House Committee on Higher Education, reports Rep. Muñoz - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Texas State Technical College in Harlingen could receive $30.4 million and $15.12 million, respectively, for ...
The Appeal

‘Let Me See That Waistband’ - Around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2020, officers with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit (GRU) turned their unmarked Chevy Malibu onto a ...
Pages of Victory

No one has said it better. - I need to drive my two-year-old to daycare tomorrow morning. To ensure we arrive alive, we won't take public transit (Oscar Grant). I removed all air fr...
Scheerpost.com

Joe Biden Is No “Radical” Progressive Hero - The press is building an image of a "radical" progressive hero, while reality looks like the same corporate Democrat.
Ecosophia

The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries - Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the twentieth century’s most important work ...
Lawfare

The Importance of ‘Biological Destruction’ in Responsible Coverage of Xinjiang - Chinese flag flying over Tiananmen Square. (radiowood, https://tinyurl.com/jusk9v4s; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) Rece...
Sludge

Companies Signing Voting Rights Statement Are Members of Anti-HR 1 Lobbying Group -
NORML

Mississippi: Supreme Court Hear Oral Arguments in Challenge to Medical Marijuana Vote - "Whether or not one supports marijuana legalization, Americans should be outraged at these overtly undemocratic tactics, and the Court should reject them...
Claytoonz

Absolut Biden - I love that people who identify themselves as Constitutionalists don’t know shit fuck about the Constitution. Usually, when a “Constitutionalist” screams a...
ProPublica

A Tiny Number of People Will Be Hospitalized Despite Being Vaccinated. We Have to Learn Why. - by Caroline Chen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Texas Observer

ERCOT Asked Texans to Conserve Power as Electric Grid Again Struggled to Keep Up with Demand - “ERCOT asked Texans to conserve power as electric grid again struggled to keep up with demand” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, non...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN President Warns Against New Wave of Discriminatory Religious Exemptions Bills - Republican lawmakers in the Texas Capitol are once again pushing bills that seek to turn religious freedom into a license to discriminate. These bills ar...
Caitlin Johnstone

Intelligence Sources Say Biggest Threat To U.S. Is Actually U.S. Policy - A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran, and Nor...
Rewire

Abortion Patients Get Big Win From the FDA - The Biden administration is allowing patients to receive medication abortion pills by mail for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Abortion P...
Dorf on Law

Manchin Channels Chamberlain: Will We Have Peace in Our Time in the Senate? - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Last week, I laid out a plan to give Senator Joe Manchin some wiggle room regarding the filibuster, which he had defended up to that...
Rio Grande Guardian

Nicol: It is Time for Politicians to Stop Playacting on the Border - It feels like a poorly written play that never ends. The actors, mostly members of Congress, perform the same roles again and again and again. Groups f...
Countercurrents

Wright shooting: 3rd day of riot: Curfew: Protesters across U.S. call for justice - Communities across the U.S. marched and mourned for the third consecutive night Tuesday in memory of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatal...
Democracy Now!

American Insurrection: Deadly Far-Right Extremism from Charlottesville to Capitol Attack. What Next? - A scathing new report by the Capitol Police's internal watchdog reveals officials knew Congress was the target of the deadly January 6 insurrection, yet of...
Lowering the Bar

Is It Legal to Shoot Fish With a Gun? - At long last, we have a comprehensive answer to this important question. Related Stories - Oklahoma Legislator Proposes Big Foot Hunting Season...
The Smirking Chimp

The Republican Party Must Be Purged Like the Nazis and Fascists -
Rallblog

Destroy the Police in Order to Rebuild It - The killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop is the latest in a long line of high-profile sho...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Break in the Doom - This K Chronicles brought me back to my (second) senior year in college, when my wife and I canceled our Chicago paper because it was such a downer. We sti...
Space City Weather

More rainy days ahead before a significantly cooler weekend - Good morning. Houston received its first round of mostly light to moderate rainfall on Tuesday evening and during the overnight hours, and we’ll have anoth...
Duffel Blog

Army says generals can substitute two-minute plank in lieu of victory in Afghanistan - None have done it so far.
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Inks 4/14/2021 - Top legal news includes: Turner warns against panic as health agencies pause J&J vaccines (Chron subsc); Waller County DA's investigator indicted on drug a...
Grist

‘It’s a historic moment’ — Pete Buttigieg on EV chargers, lead pipes, and the promise of infrastructure - The transportation secretary says an opportunity like this is unlikely to come again.
Morning Consult

Democrats Start 2022 Cycle With an Edge in Voter Enthusiasm - The post Democrats Start 2022 Cycle With an Edge in Voter Enthusiasm appeared first on Morning Consult.
Earth 911

Children’s Books for Earth Day - Children face the reality of life-long experience of a planet in crisis. They need to... The post Children’s Books for Earth Day appeared first on Earth9...
Dallas Observer

How Collin College Became the Center of a Months-Long Free Speech Debacle - A handful of teachers spoke out against Collin College over COVID-19 and free speech disputes. In response, the school fired several female professors.
Counterpunch

The UK’s Northern Irish Brexit Blues - Northern Ireland has now become the focal point of the UK’s post-Brexit crisis. While the connection between the more than a week of rioting by Protestan...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Capital One Bank USA N.A. vs Mohammad Paizi on April 13 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Capital One Bank USA N.A. against Mohammad Paizi on April 13. Read ...
High Country News

Tribal nations adapt to being at ‘ground zero’ of the climate crisis - ‘Tribes are on the front line of fixing things, using our resources, setting good public policy [and using] good science.’
See You In 2020

Water Wars Loom Amid Climate Collapse & Unprecedented Plans For Imperialist Destruction - First they sold us generations worth of wars for oil. Next, after these wars and the unsustainable energy system they’ve prolonged creates an ecological ...
Crooked Media

Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another? - The post Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Informed Comment

No, Biden ending the Afghanistan War isn’t a Disaster: The disaster was Dropping 7,400 Bombs on the Country Annually - President Biden announced Tuesday that he will completely withdraw US troops from Afghanistan around September 1. This move will bring to an end America’s ...
jobsanger

While Most Struggled During Pandemic, CEO's Got Big Raise -
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

The Last Gold Rush - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: Probably some of you younger blog readers aren’t aware that pre-lottery Americans had their own dreams of finding a way ou...
Independent Political Report

Special Election: American Solidarity Party Candidate Captures 2% as GOP Holds NH State House Seat - New Hampshire voters opted for Town Councilor Bill Boyd over Democratic former state representative Wendy Thomas in a special election to fill a vacant s...
Antiwar.com

Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios? - The Israeli government’s position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Pa...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DNC Ramen - From the party that brought you DNC Dog Food, New Blue Money Detergent, Blue Box Chardonnay, and their Premier Donut Assortment now comes — DNC Ramen! Just...
Brad Blog

'Both Sides'? Really, Liz?: 'BradCast' 4/13/2021 - Hopefully today's BradCast, if nothing else, serves as a friendly reminder that Liz Cheney --- whether or not she met the incredibly low Republican bar by ...
Liberal America

Covid Variants Threaten to Prolong the Pandemic If We Don’t All Vaccinate - Have you gotten your Covid-19 vaccine yet? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of Thursday, one third of the United Sta...
TXElects

Endorsement and Other Election News for April 13 - Early voting for the May 1 general and special elections begins on April 19. The nonpartisan League of Women Voters has released Voters Guides for munici...
Ian Welsh

If Biden Actually Withdraws Troops From Afghanistan By 9/11 He’ll Have Done Something Good - Sort of self-explanatory. We’ll see if he actually does, Trump had planned to withdraw by May 1st, after all, and spent most of his Presidency talking abou...
Idavox

The Idavox Report 13 Apr 2021 - This week, we will discuss Rudolph W. Giuliani, his racist tenure as Mayor and how it fueled the flames for killer cops and the so-called alt-right. The ...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security...
Louis Proyect

Literature and Revolution - On March 21, the NY Times profiled John R. “Rick” MacArthur, a trust fund magnate who is the publisher of Harper’s, a magazine that dates back to June 1850...
TalkLeft

Johnson and Johnson Vaccine "Paused" in U.S. - Six women between the ages of 18 and 48 have been afflicted with a blood clotting disorder within three weeks of taking the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. On...
Political Garbage Chute

Thoughts and Prayers Stop Next Mass Shooter Just Before He Pulls the Trigger - COUSINLOVER, ALABAMA — Some are calling it a “miracle.” Others are calling it a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. However one chooses to describe it, howeve...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin PD won't disavow 'paramilitary' culture in its academy; Dallas cops caught using unauthorized facial recognition tech; police reform in Houston hits a dead end; and other stories - Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere. *Consultant: Austin PD still embraces 'paramilitary' cult...
Mahablog

Law Enforcement: This Is Not Working - Videos of the police encounters with Lt. Caron Nazario in Virginia and Daunte Wright in Minnesota have been viral for the past several hours. After watch...
Church and State

Global farming feels the impacts of global heating - Global heating has already set back farming around the world, and wiped out seven years of steady advance.
Environment Texas

HB 2350 for Natural Cities and Healthy Waters - Anna Farrell-Sherman Clean Water Associate Contact person by email Anna works hard to protect the clean water of Texas, advocating for nature-based infra...
The Contributor

Greenpeace Says Japan's Plan to Contaminate Pacific Ocean With Fukushima Water Would Violate International Law - News Image: "The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive wastes." Category: E...
The Ghion Journal

The Cult of Covid-19 and the Dishonest Logic of “Vaccine” Jihadists - As an independent journalist who frequently writes about Covid-19 and the snake oil that is being peddled by the likes of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, Astr...
Shadowproof

Graduate Workers Unions At New York’s Two Largest Universities Vote For Strike - Graduate workers at New York University and Columbia University, the two largest universities in New York City, are in the midst of a contentious labor b...
ROAR Magazine

The Zapatistas are coming to Europe - A delegation of the EZLN has started preparations for their upcoming trip to Europe. Traveling by boat, the Zapatistas are expected to arrive in mid-June.
Tribune of the People

All Support to the Peasants of Camp Manoel Ribeiro—Defend the Brazilian People from the Attacks of Reaction! - By the Editorial Board If we die in this fightOur blood will be a seed.We will conquer justice,History does not fail, we will win. -From the Hymn of the Le...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Computer Got it Wrong: Why We’re Taking the Detroit Police to Court Over a Faulty Face Recognition ‘Match’ - Last year, Detroit police arrested a Black man, Robert Williams, based on a false face recognition match. They held him in a dirty, overcrowded cell for ...
The Progressive Wing

4/13 News Roundup & OT - Biden Wants to Spend More Than Trump to Maintain a Bloated Defense Budget Robert Reich knows a thing or two about federal budgets, and the economist who ha...
Infidel753

Book review -- it's not 1965 any more - *Factfulness* by Hans Rosling (2018) This book (buy it here), by a Swedish doctor and medical researcher who has worked in some of the world's poorest cou...
CT's short stories and novelettes

MARLEY AMES: THE FEAST - Marley Ames searched the ground before him, taking carefully calculated steps to avoid ripping away the loosely hanging sole of his right shoe....
Field Negro

Caption Monday. - What's the title of this movie? *Image from weeklystandard.com*
Dissent Magazine

The Next Amazon Union Drive - Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
Earthworks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jacques Ellul: Controversies in the Rise of Propaganda - Orientation Controversies within propaganda theory When I was preparing for a course I had created, “Brainwashing, Propaganda and Rhetoric: Dark Psycholo...
Alas, a Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
Debunking Christianity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Responses to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment - Complexity enchants ANT, new materialism, posthumanism, media studies, affect theory, and the literary undertakings of postcritique, new descriptivism, and...
The Rag Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
Frontloading HQ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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