Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

VICE

3 Union Leaders Were Shot Dead and Colombia Says an American Company Financed Their Killers - The murders, which happened 20 years ago, were committed by paramilitaries who Colombian investigators say were financed by an Alabama coal company.
Mediaite

Ron DeSantis Derides Chauvin Verdict As Result of ‘Scared’ Jury Despite Previously Calling George Floyd Death a Murder - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis insinuated that Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder because "the jury is scared of what a mob may do" if he wasn't . The p...
Raw Story

Trump's legacy is being humiliatingly defeated by $5 ladders: 'Unlike the wall, these are functional' - Former President Donald Trump's purportedly impenetrable border wall is reportedly getting beaten by the simplest of means. A new report from Texas Month...
Moon of Alabama

Vladimir Putin On Petty Tabaquis And Other International Issues - “Nice sidekick, Shere Khan. A hyena who laughs at his own bad jokes.” ― Bagheera to Shere Khan about Tabaqui Today Russia's President Vladimir Putin made h...
Daily Dot

New bill would ban warrantless data purchases by the government - [image: Sen. Ron Wyden speaking at an event in 2018.] A group of 20 senators and other members of Congress have introduced a bill that would force law en...
The Contributor

Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers - News Image: Politicians get the veneer of grassroots support, while shadowy consultants get rich. Category: Inside Washington origin Blog: ProPublica or...
Futurism

China’s Space Station Will Have a Hubble-Class Telescope Attached - [image: China's upcoming space station will have a telescope with 300 times the field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope attached to it.] China is geari...
Salon.com

The making of a right-wing martyr: Conservatives see Derek Chauvin's conviction as an act of war - Turning a dead-eyed murderer like Derek Chauvin into a martyr shows that the right has no limits on its open racism
The Verge

Android 12’s third developer beta helps apps get more from cameras and haptic hardware - Image: Google Android 12’s third developer preview has arrived, and among its host of updates are new OS-level tools to help app developers get more out ...
Vox

10 things we learned about Earth since the last Earth Day - [image: The Bay Bridge across San Francisco Bay at twilight, with the sky orange with smoke.] On September 9, 2020, smoke from wildfires burning across Ca...
Eschaton

The Mall Is Flat - I stopped paying attention to one of my pet obsessions - The American Dream Mall - as, like many things, it wasn't going to do so well because of Covid and...
The Week

Could Anthony Hopkins win the Oscar for Best Actor in a major upset over Chadwick Boseman? - When it comes to the Best Actor race at this year's Oscars, a posthumous win for Chadwick Boseman has seemed all but guaranteed for months. But could a m...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Can Utah’s Wings Hold Their Own Against The Best Of The West? - For a few hours this past weekend, it seemed like the Utah Jazz’s chances of winning the NBA title (which FiveThirtyEight’s RAPTOR-based predictions model ...
Axios

Tim Scott hopes to reintroduce version of GOP police reform bill with Democratic support - Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) told reporters Wednesday he plans to reintroduce his police reform bill or a similar proposal in the coming weeks, and that he ha...
Buzzflash

Steven C. Day for BuzzFlash: How Can a Currently Right-Wing Packed Supreme Court Be Betrayed by Expansion? - BuzzFlash
The Intercept

CVS Health Quietly Made Massive Donation to Dark-Money Group Fighting Access to Care - The pharmacy and health insurance giant gave $5 million to Partnership for America’s Health Care Future. The post CVS Health Quietly Made Massive Donatio...
Latino Rebels

Dominican Feminists Demand End to Country’s Total Abortion Ban, as Green Wave Continues in Latin America - The group of feminists use the hashtag #Las3CausalesVan and wear green, representing the latest in a green wave of reproductive rights that has spread acro...
Popular Resistance

Systemic Racism Continues To Plague Pandemic Response - On March 29, Eric, the most prominent lay leader at my church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, perished from COVID-19. He was one of 685 people across the Un...
Scheerpost.com

The Director of National Intelligence’s Hypocritical Annual Threat Assessment - DNI Avril Haines' Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intel Community is written in classic DC-establishment-ese but leaves room for plenty of policy inde...
Counterpunch

Black Visions Collective: We Need to Abolish the Police & End Militarized Occupations of Our Cites - The post Black Visions Collective: We Need to Abolish the Police & End Militarized Occupations of Our Cites appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
CultureMap Houston

Familiar downtown graffiti returns to greet and inspire Houstonians - Months after being painted over, Houston's iconic "Be Someone" display has returned to its familiar spot. The famous graffiti was spotted Wednesday, April...
Techdirt.

Filming Cops Is The Best Accountability Tool: Officer Derek Chauvin Convicted Of Murder For Killing George Floyd - This isn't an endpoint. This is only a beginning. This is one small step forward for accountability. It doesn't change the police culture that not only a...
memeorandum

America's Middle East Allies Are Free Riders No More (Hisham Melhem/Newlines Magazine) - Hisham Melhem / Newlines Magazine: *America's Middle East Allies Are Free Riders No More* — Wary of U.S. intentions and ambivalence, an alliance of lik...
The Root

H.E.R., DaBaby, Dionne Warwick All Set to Appear for Clive Davis’ 2nd 'Pre-Grammy Gala' - Though the Grammys took place back in March, Clive Davis is keeping the celebratory spirit alive by pressing forward with the second part of his annual “...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Ohio county where girl, 16, was killed is state’s deadliest for police shootings - Franklin county, where Ma’Khia Bryant was shot dead by an officer, saw 38 people killed by police between 2015 and 2020 The Ohio county where a Black tee...
Mediagazer

Simon & Schuster refuses to cancel a seven-figure book deal for Mike Pence's memoir, after staff open letter accused the publisher of "legitimising bigotry" (Alison Flood/The Guardian) - Alison Flood / The Guardian: *Simon & Schuster refuses to cancel a seven-figure book deal for Mike Pence's memoir, after staff open letter accused the pu...
Slate

New York’s Ridiculous Elections Are Why We Could Have Mayor Andrew Yang - In a system designed to suppress turnout, he just might be the low-turnout candidate.
Courthouse News

India Covid Surge Hits New Record as Oxygen Runs Short - India's brutal new Covid-19 outbreak set records on Wednesday with more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours, as hospitals in New Delhi ran perilously low on oxygen.
Texas Standard

Fear, Calmness And Hopefulness: One Texas Woman’s ‘In-Between’ Feelings After Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdicts - “It’s not over. This is just the beginning of a very long process.”
Texas Monthly

The Huarache Shines at Tacos La Gloria - This Dallas food trailer is still finding its footing, but it’s mastered the huarache—a sandal-shaped masa dough piled high with a range of delicious top...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Transgender billionaire may move out of Tennessee over anti-LGBTQ bills' & other Wed midday news briefs - Jennifer Pritzker *Trans Billionaire May Move Out of Tennessee Over Anti-LGBTQ Bills* - *May? Heck, move girlfriend! Make them suffer if they don't us rig...
Common Dreams

Reversing Scientific Integrity's Race to the Bottom - Tim Whitehouse From COVID-19 to climate change, and toxic chemicals to endangered species, the health of this nation and our ecosystem depends on scientists...
Political Wire

Netanyahu Tries to Change Election Rules - “With his mandate to form a government due to expire in two weeks, and his rivals’ efforts to form an alternative coalition gaining momentum, Netanyahu has...
Novara Media

What Does the European Super League Furore Tell Us About Modern Capitalism? - [image: Football fans protest the proposed European Super League.]It’s tempting to think the furore surrounding the proposed European Super League – which ...
Dorf on Law

In Politics, Democrats -- and only Democrats -- ask: What’s the Point of Winning? - * by Neil H. Buchanan* We no longer see as much of the "Democrats in disarray" trope in U.S. political discussion, and for good reason. Paul Krugman goe...
Texas Environmental News

DOT appoints chief science officer for first time in 40 years - The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on Wednesday it is appointing a chief science officer, the first time in over [...] The post DOT appoint...
Alternet

'A hit dog will holler': Congresswoman slammed for claiming Biden and Harris 'say we're all racists' - U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) is being criticized after falsely claiming that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris "say we're all racists...
Ballot Access News

Poll Shows Green Party Could Elect Next Chancellor of Germany - Germany has a parliamentary election on September 26. One poll shows that the Green Party is now the party with the most popular support. See this story. …...
Second Nexus

Kayleigh Scolds Biden, Says the President Should Not 'Inflame the Tensions'—Yeah, It Did Not Go Well - Former President Donald Trump's fourth and final White House press secretary—Kayleigh McEnany—accepted a position with the conservative Fox News network ...
epic.org

Department of Education Investigating School’s District’s Disclosure of Personal Data for Predictive Policing Program - Following a report by the Tampa Bay Times about the Pasco County Sherriff’s broad-ranging predictive policing and scoring program, the Department of Educat...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Spurs face the Heat on Wednesday as brutal regular season winds down - After an unlikely run to the Finals in the NBA Bubble, it’s been a challenging stretch for the Miami Heat. Earlier this season, the team endured its firs...
Houston Public Media

Lawyer Shifts Legal Fight From George Floyd To Pamela Turner - Turner was fatally shot in 2019 by a police officer in the Houston suburb of Baytown, Texas, after a struggle over his stun gun. Attorney Ben Crump is also...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Law Man Walking: Nature Treks With Bill Holston - Last Saturday was a special hike. It was a celebration of over 40 years of hiking adventures with two great friends. More about that later. I woke up ear...
Talking Points Memo

What We Know About The Police Killing Of A Black Teen In Columbus Tuesday - The city of Columbus, Ohio has been gripped by protests after a police killing of a Black girl was reported within 20 minutes of the Derek Chauvin verdic...
Al Jazeera English

‘A Tigrayan womb should never give birth’: Rape in Tigray - Displaced people from Ethiopia’s western Tigray region report alleged cases of rape, looting and other crimes.
Deadline Politics

Gayle King, Lester Holt And Other Network Figures Cover Aftermath Of Derek Chauvin Verdict With Talk Of Relief And “Deeper Reckoning” - On the day after the guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Depart...
Progrexas

T-Squared: Our report on The Texas Tribune’s staff diversity in 2020 - Of our 24-person management team, 38% were people of color. Of the staffers who report and edit the news, 45% percent were people of color. Credit: Jacob...
Countercurrents

Ramsey Clark Described His Government As Humanity’s Ever More Threatening and Treacherous Enemy - During this time in which many of us are still mourning the recent passing of former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark it seems appropriate to reflect on ...
Ring of Fire

Florida Toxic Leak Knowingly Caused By Corporate Negligence & GOP United Against Biden’s Tax Plan - Via America’s Lawyer: Hundreds of homes are evacuated in south Florida after a breach in the Piney Point phosphate plant reservoir threatened surrounding...
American Prospect

First 100: The Stymied Biden Racial Equity Agenda - Also, more worries on residential real estate than commercial.
ArcaMax

Floyd Trial's Truth: Notes From a Baltimore Jail - The jury is in. They spoke swiftly and clearly: guilty on all counts. At the Capitol, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said, "Justice was served in a modern-d...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Venezuela’s VP Says Rich Countries Are Not Giving Vaccines for Free. They Are. -
The Hill

Arizona governor vetoes strict sex education bill - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has vetoed a restrictive sex education bill that would have mandated that parents give consent before their children learn abou...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Covidian Cult (Part II) - Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological mo...
Lawfare

Water Wars: Chinese Maritime Militia Disperses Amid Political Standoff With the Philippines and the United States - The captain and the executive officer of the USS Mustin (DDG 89) observe Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning (CV 16) in the Philippine Sea on April 4. (Sou...
El Paso Matters

Juárez “craftivists” use embroidery to preserve the names of femicide victims - Mujer aún desconocida alrededor de 13 años localizada el 10-9-95 Lote Bravo. Carla Berges can’t find an explanation for the words she embroidered on a h...
Strategic Culture Foundation

USA: UN Experts Call for President Biden to End Death Penalty - UN human rights experts* have called on President Biden to do everything in his power to end executions in the United States, at both the federal and state...
First Draft

The Chauvin Trial: Evidence Matters, Lawyering Matters - Adrastos puts on his lawyer hat.
BEYONDbones

Why Plant a Pollinator Garden? - It’s that time of year. Insects of all kinds are emerging from their winter slumber to seek food, shelter, and a safe place to have their babies, and se...
Discourse

The Hollow Relief of the Derek Chauvin Verdict - This is an exception—a self-serving, deliberate one—to the rule. The post The Hollow Relief of the Derek Chauvin Verdict appeared first on Discourse Blog.
The Ghion Journal

The Malicious Absurdity of Calling People Who Refuse to Turn Themselves into mRNA Lab Rats “Anti-Vaxxers” - Imagine calling people who refuse to eat at McDonald’s “anti-nutritionists” or libeling people who abstain from buying Monsanto products “anti-food activ...
Progressive.org

Plastic: What We Eat and Breathe - Companies should be responsible for the pollution they generate.
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘It’s Been Burning For A While’ By Chris Pierce - Singer-songwriter Chris Pierce highlights this long history of violence against black people is highlighted by singer-songwriter tune, "It's Been Burning...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Privacy Rights Do Not Come With a Price Tag - Apps you use every day on your phone collect and sell sensitive data, including your location over time. That data could wind up in government hands with...
MintPress News

Ramadan Brings No Relief for Yemen as Saudis Block Chairties and Turks Unleash Foreign Mercanaries - Just as it transferred mercenaries from Syria to the conflict zones in Libya and Azerbaijan, Turkey -- the financial and spiritual capital of the Muslim ...
Grist

Electrify everything: why we need to go big on going electric - With global energy demand expected to increase by as much as 58 percent in the next three decades, the urgency to transition away from fossil fuels is grow...
INSIDER - politics news

MAKE THE WORLD GLOW: A comic book retelling of the extremist conspiracy to kidnap the governor of Michigan - [image: Make The World Glow] Summary List Placement In Fall 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation busted what they describe as an organized conspira...
Living Blue in Texas

The TX House Voted To Give School Resource Officer Qualified Immunity - They voted on this on April 20th. The same April 20th when the murderer of George Floyd was found guilty on all counts. In only the latest attempt by Tex...
Texas Observer

Eye on Texas: On the Road - Growing up in the Swiss Alps, America was a distant concept on the television screen. I remember watching the movie Bonnie and Clyde and enjoyed their hi...
San Antonio Report

SAISD teacher satisfaction at or above national average, survey says - [image: CAST Tech Digital Art and Animation teacher Belinda Medellin presents to her new class in 2017.]San Antonio ISD has surveyed teachers every spring ...
Land Destroyer

US Seeks South China Sea Conflict - *April 21, 2021* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Despite hopes by some that with a new incoming US president, new US foreign policy will follow - US Secretary ...
naked capitalism

Softer Monetary Policy Increases Inequality - Quelle suprise! Asset-goosing loose monetary policy helps the rich more than the poor even in egalitarian Denmark.
Daily Howler

MOB AND TOWN: We don't believe the poses they strike! - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021* *That doesn't make them bad people:* Mary McCarthy may have been Lawrence's inspiration. McCarthy once made a colorful comme...
Claytoonz

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty yesterday on all three counts he was charged with. He will be going to jail for a very lon...
Election Law Blog

“Corporate America boosts Biden’s inaugural committee” - Politico: Joe Biden campaigned on raising taxes on companies and the wealthy. It didn’t dissuade some of America’s biggest companies and richest donors fro...
Church and State

Elon Musk wants to merge man and machine – here’s what he’ll need to work out - Major investments in brain research from the US and the EU have further advanced research on brain-computer interfaces.
Right Wing Watch

Trump Lawyer Cleta Mitchell Claims Democrats Oppose Restrictive Voting Laws Because They Want to Continue ‘Massive 2020 Cheating’ - Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who joined former President Donald Trump in trying to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia in January, unironically ...
Bonddad

The US may have crossed an important vaccination threshold - *- by New Deal democrat* On Monday I noted that in Chile, where there had been a severe renewed outbreak of coronavirus despite an aggressive vaccina...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"La Mujer 2021" happening this week, beginning today (April 21-24) - *Friends, * *Featuring our own Martha P. Cotera and many others, c* *heck out "La Mujer, 2021," consisting of free live streamed events (film, music, da...
alicublog

CHAUVINISM. - I have some observations on the Derek Chauvin/George Floyd verdict reaction at *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down*, opened to non-subscribers today as a public s...
The Appeal

Report Sheds Light On The Pattern Of Over-Policing That Led Cops To Pull Over Daunte Wright - When Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, his name joined a growing list of Black drive...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, April 21 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, April 21]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to...
The Progressive Wing

4/21 News Roundup and Open Thread - I would not call today’s verdict justice because justice implies restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step toward justice. Now, the ca...
The Smirking Chimp

Wingnuts Lose It after Derek Chauvin Guilty Verdict for the Murder of George Floyd -
Democracy Now!

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Policing in U.S. Was Built on Racism & Should Be Put on Trial - A Minnesota jury's conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling polic...
Bracing Views

Why Is the War Budget Increasing? - W.J. Astore President Biden has announced that all U.S. combat troops will be out of Afghanistan by 9/11 of this year. So why is the Pentagon budget increa...
Caitlin Johnstone

The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War Is The Most Urgent Matter In The World - US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: “The spectrum of conflict ...
The Conversation

Misinformation, disinformation and hoaxes: What’s the difference? - Though many people are just paying attention to these problems now, they are not new – and they even date back to ancient Rome.
Glasstire

Robert L. Hodge: DNA, in Pictures - Houston-based artist Robert Hodge opened an exhibition of paintings and installation last weekend at David Shelton Gallery in Houston. The show, Robert L...
Space City Weather

A chilly start today, with the prospect of widespread rainfall on Friday - The low temperature this morning at Houston’s official weather station, Bush Intercontinental Airport, has dropped to 46 degrees. This is within 4 degrees ...
Duffel Blog

Sergeant major says no one is leaving Afghanistan until all the brass is picked up - Not one swinging dick is boarding a plane until this place is spotless
Washington Babylon

Everyone Hates Facebook, and With Good Reason: A Brief Guide to Taking Action Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Advertising Racket - [image: Everyone Hates Facebook, and With Good Reason: A Brief Guide to Taking Action Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Advertising Racket] (*Caption: Yes, you are...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Guilty, and the reactions - There’s a lot to be said for simplicity, and Bruce Plante scores with a cartoon that tells the story and thereby sets the scene for today. The verdict came...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/21/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas officials and activists say murder conviction for George Floyd’s death “is only one step” in reforming policing; 'We can't s...
WhoWhatWhy

A Bit of Justice for George Floyd - Reading Time: 3 minutes Will the verdict against Derek Chauvin make a difference? The post A Bit of Justice for George Floyd appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.
NPR's Health Shots

NYC's Latest Vaccination Site: American Museum Of Natural History - On Friday, New York's American Museum of Natural History will turn into a mass vaccination site. You could get your shot standing under the famous 94-foot-...
Angry Bear

Why March’s big jump in real retail sales augurs well for big employment gains through summer - Why March’s big jump in real retail sales augurs well for big employment gains through summer Yesterday I wrote that the steep decline in new jobless cla...
Southeast Texas Record

Suit alleges warehouse worker struck, pinned underneath forklift suffered severe injuries - HOUSTON — A worker who was struck and pinned underneath a forklift being operated by a fellow employee is claiming his former employer's negligence. Rea...
Mother Jones

Police Reforms Don’t Work When Cops Ignore Them - Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is a prime example of how little can change in a year. As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin stood trial for the m...
Morning Consult

Across Political Spectrum, Voters Broadly Support Biden’s Sept. 11 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal - The post Across Political Spectrum, Voters Broadly Support Biden’s Sept. 11 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal appeared first on Morning Consult.
Houston Press

Ted Cruz Meets With the Marine Who Has Been Camping Outside His House - Senator Ted Cruz finally met with Diana Sims, the Marine corporal who has been sitting on the sidewalk outside his house for weeks trying to get him to add...
Dissident Voice

Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed - We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including A...
Earth 911

10 Sustainable Underwear Brands - Not many things are as personal as what we wear under our everyday wardrobe. Underwear... The post 10 Sustainable Underwear Brands appeared first on Eart...
ProPublica

How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers - by Isaac Arnsdorf and Derek Willis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon ...
Dallas Observer

'Sir, This is a Wendy's': The Odd Story of a City Council Candidate with a Kitchen Knife - After about 30 minutes of talking to the parties involved, the police said no criminal mischief had occurred and asked everyone to leave.
High Country News

There are no clear winners in the West’s water wars - As climate stressors raise the stakes, states put energy into litigation before conservation.
Crooked Media

Putin’s Power Plays - The post Putin’s Power Plays appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Finally, a Less Than Idiotic Decision on Afghanistan - President Joe Biden has ordered complete withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, without conditions, on or before September 11, 2021. Better 20 y...
The NM Political Report

NM congressional candidates take part in the New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative forum - [image: NM congressional candidates take part in the New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative forum] Three candidates running in the race to fill the 1st Cong...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Communication With the Deaf - Jack wrote this in August, 2005. I have searched all through these photo files and can’t locate the picture of the bumper sticker (photos didn’t save from ...
Informed Comment

Systemic Racism won’t End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans face aggressive policing in part because, on average, they lack resources. Household wealth allows a famil...
jobsanger

Justice Is Served - Much More Needs To Be Done -
Wolf Street

The WTF Charts of the EV SPAC Hype Boom Are Imploding Spectacularly - Getting massacred on the edge of the stock market.
Antiwar.com

Biden’s Drone Wars - On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, "How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan," just in case a...
Portside

Our Mixed Feelings About The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Aaron Sorkin, Explained - Our Mixed Feelings About The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Aaron Sorkin, Explained Marti Tue, 04/20/2021 - 23:29
Crooked Timber

“Ye have made your way from worm to man, and much within you is still worm.” - “Ye higher men, free the sepulchres, awaken the corpses! Ah, why doth the worm still burrow? There approacheth, there approacheth, the hour, — — There boom...
Brad Blog

Ending Traffic Enforcement by Police Makes Sense, Would Saves Lives: 'BradCast' 4/20/2021 - On today's BradCast: A day in which a cop was finally found guilty of the murder of a hand-cuffed black man is probably a good day to discuss an important ...
Workers World

Spirit of May Day: Fight Back! Smash police violence & white supremacy - [image: Spirit of May Day: Fight Back! Smash police violence & white supremacy] BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the polic...
The Mind Unleashed

With Chauvin Guilty of Murder, Other 3 Officers in George Floyd Arrest May Face Serious Jail Time - Now that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all counts of the murder of George Floyd on Tuesday, prosecutors will set...
TXElects

Ellzey Targeted by Cruz as Early Voting Continues - Early voting continues for the May 1 general and special elections and runs through April 27. *CD6 special:* U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) has not endorsed a ca...
Trivial Knot

Game Diary: April 2021 - I’m doing one last game diary, and I’ve already decided that next month I’ll move it back to my other blog. Or maybe I’ll stop entirely, and invest more t...
Rude Pundit

The Chauvin Verdict: Random Observations at the Beginning of a Long, Difficult Road - 1. Sometimes I think about all the times that police murdered or beat a Black or brown person and no one was there to record it. It makes me sick to my s...
Socialist Alternative

“European Super League”: Stop the People’s Game becoming the Princes’ Game - By Matt Waine, Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) The news that 12 top European football clubs are on course to establish a new “European Super League” has b...
World Socialist Web Site

The Washington Post’s phony campaign on Uyghur “genocide” - With astonishing speed, the US media has swung into action churning out a growing deluge of propaganda with lurid horror stories of life in the detention c...
OpEd News

Derek Chauvin found guilty on all three counts: Connecting Health and Healthcare Justice - history in the making - the 2021 murder and manslaughter convictions of Derek Chauvin are, perhaps, the 'Justice for All' turning point that will connect al
Louis Proyect

Looking past the plant-gate to understand white supremacy - In a recent Jacobin article titled “Jim Clyburn Is Wrong About FDR and the New Deal,” Paul Heideman made the case that despite his failure to use his presi...
Mahablog

Why It’s Not 2009 Any More - Or, at least I hope it’s not 2009 any more. But the difference between 2009 and 2021 seems to be that Democrats really have changed. Not all of them, but...
Sludge

Blue Dog Rep Jim Cooper Gets Progressive Primary Challenger - Each month, Sludge gives special recognition to a public official who has recently received an award from a lobbying group. Jim Cooper, the ten-term Democr...
TalkLeft

Derek Chauvin Convicted On All Counts - Justice for George Floyd! Derek Chauv has been convicted on all three charges. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other c...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Guilty on All Counts - Former Police Officer Derrick Chauvin has been found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Deliberating just nine hours the jury voted unanimously to convict C...
Krebs on Security

Note to Self: Create Non-Exhaustive List of Competitors - What was the best news you heard so far this month? Mine was learning that KrebsOnSecurity is listed as a restricted competitor by Gartner Inc. [NYSE:IT] -...
Innocence Project

George Floyd Should Be Alive Today - Today’s verdict — convicting former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on all three charges against him for the murder of George Floyd — should not...
Idavox

BREAKING: DEREK CHAUVIN FOUND GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES FOR THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD - In other words, #BlackLivesMatter. MINNEAPOLIS, MN–In less than 24 hours, White former Minneapolis Police Officer... The post BREAKING: DEREK CHAUVIN FOU...
Environment Texas

Student Climate Action Lobby Day - Tuesday, April 20, 2021 On April 6th, over one hundred students from across Texas participated in a virtual lobby day of the Texas Legislature. In partners...
Reform Austin

It’s 4/20, Time for A Texas Marijuana Bill Update - [image: marijuana and handcuffs] Marijuana reform continues to gain ground in the Texas legislature. With only five weeks left in the session, how are th...
Mondoweiss

J Street’s magical thinking - At its conference, J Street sought to triangulate support for the "Jewish state" and the progressive left as political bedfellows. But there is an inherent...
Bayou Brief

“Little” Joe Catalanotto: A Daughter Reflects on Hollywood South’s Independent Pioneer - When you type “1301 Kentucky St.” in Google Maps, a pretty nondescript white-painted warehouse pops up in a pretty average looking neighborhood – average f...
The AltWorld

Fake Story of the Year: Mossad owned news outlet ties White Helmets, Fake chem attack whistleblowers to Russia - Jett Goldsmith, who writes for Daily Beast, part of the Jane Harman Israeli propaganda operation that includes […] The post Fake Story of the Year: Mossa...
Texas Freedom Network

Activists Move to Stop Anti-Transgender Bills in Texas Legislature - More legislation targeting transgender Texans is moving at the Capitol this week. Today TFN, Just Texas and the Transgender Education Network of Texas re...
NORML

White House Marijuana Comments Are Out of Step with Public Opinion - “It is impractical at best and disingenuous at worst for the Biden campaign to claim that rescheduling cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule II – the same...
Political Garbage Chute

Ted Nugent Reportedly Tried Shitting His Pants to Avoid Getting Covid - "Some folks just stick with what they know." The post Ted Nugent Reportedly Tried Shitting His Pants to Avoid Getting Covid appeared first on The Politic...
slacktivist

‘One of the first examples of cancel culture’ - Jim Bakker isn't entirely wrong because "cancel culture" refers to nothing other than this: facing the consequences of reaping what you sow.
BillMoyers.com

Juneteenth: America’s Other Independence Day - (Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019) Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. Abraham Lincoln had issued the...
Democracy Chronicles

Can Pranksters Save Democracy? - Our guests this week offer a framework for effective nonviolent organizing by trapping authority figures between a rock and a hard place.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Lucio, III, recalls Mexican drug cartels’ plot in 2009 as an example of the need to protect home addresses, other sensitive information, of all elected officials, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - All elected public leaders in Texas would be able to keep their home address, home telephone number, emergency contact information, or Social Security numb...
Liberation News

Vaccine apartheid: U.S. puts world at risk for big pharma profits - As COVID vaccine production increases, much of the world faces severe shortages. The governments of the United States, Europe and other rich countries have...
Freethought Now

Religion is an impediment to gender equality - Economic opportunities, maternal health, participation in society and government, and public health and safety are all intertwined with bodily autonomy. Re...
In These Times

Rashida Tlaib on Defunding the Police: “Property Should Not Have More Value than Human Life” - The democratic socialist congresswoman explains why the U.S. needs to tackle systemic racism by investing in social programs, arguing that "police can't be the answer to all these ills in our country.” - On April 11, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed by officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Minn...
Eater Houston

How a Houston-Made Hemp Vodka Went From Garage Hobby to Hot Commodity - Highway Vodka won’t get you stoned, but its smooth taste is attracting the attention of drinkers well beyond Texas Eight years ago, Ben Williams was ju...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: April 20, 2021 - Dear Readers: Over the years, the Crystal Ball has published periodic articles with the headline “Notes on the State of Politics.” These articles feature s...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Do You Recognize Propaganda When You See It? - Micah and Derrick discuss several reports uncovering bias and propaganda from the corporate media in this clip of Free Thinker Radio (4/15/21): Is The In...
ROAR Magazine

Why we fight: combating the fascist insurgency - With Trump out of the White House, the far right have a lost a powerful ally — but the threat of fascist violence and white racialism is far from over.
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcasts: Focus on Harlingen - HARLINGEN, Texas – The two attached podcasts focus on Harlingen, Texas. The first is a podcast on Harlingen Mayor Chris Boswell’s recent State of the Cit...
Rewire

What the Sterilization of a Wealthy White Woman Reveals About Eugenics - The story of Ann Cooper, who's the subject of *The Unfit Heiress*, "helped to modernize eugenics by shifting focus from hereditary to environmental defec...
DeSmogBlog

Oxford University Has Pledged to Divest from Fossil Fuels – Now it Needs to Sever All Ties to the Industry - There are signs Oxford University is slowly “getting it” when it comes to climate change. Last year, it committed to selling its multimillion-pound inves...
See You In 2020

The Capitalist State Is Deathly Afraid Of Losing The Information War - Information is an underestimated weapon in war, especially class war. Which messages each side is absorbing decides their morale, and therefore their cap...
LareDOS

“What kind of parent would send their unaccompanied child to the US?” ask those who flew the now-tattered Trump flags — the signage of conspiracy theorists, wall fetishists, white supremacists - The implied answer is an unforgiving judgment
Texas Moratorium Network

Law of Parties Bills Pass House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence - Both Rep Jeff Leach’s and Rep Harold Dutton’s separate bills to prohibit the death penalty in law of parties cases have passed the House Committee on Cri...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just like everyone else - Tynemouth Abbey ruins by barnyz, who has a lot of wonderful camera work on Flickr. "Maryland enacts landmark police overhaul, first state to repeal police...
Field Negro

Questions of the day. - What do you think will be the final outcome of the Derek Chuavin trial? And how will the result *(whatever it is)* impact the psyche of the country?
Ian Welsh

Why Do We Do That? - So today I stopped by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) and picked up a small bottle of sake. The teller seemed unhappy, so we chatted for a bit. ...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Ingenuity flies - It doesn't look like much -- just lifting three meters into the air, rotating, and then landing again -- but this is the first achievement of powered flig...
Grits for Breakfast

Deeply rooted problems at Austin's police academy justified one-year recruitment delay - So much misinformation has been cast about so frequently regarding the City of Austin's budget and supposedly "defunding the police" that many political ac...
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism - Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump's parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America. Th...
Greg Palast

Deepwater Horizon: The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic - Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-...
Project Censored

Seed Monopolies are Controlling the World’s Food Supply and Future Food Security - For thousands of years of human agriculture, farmers freely exchanged and shared seeds. Today, four corporations control the majority of the world’s seed...
Skeptical Raptor

Vaccine effectiveness – correcting misunderstandings about COVID-19 vaccines - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I keep reading how people think that when a COVID-19 vaccine is reported to have 95%...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Police Killings, Ecuador and Afghanistan on the Freedom Side - Watch the Freedom Side livestream every Thursday at 8pm EST hosted by me and Eugene Puryear on Breakthrough News.
WhatWouldJackDo

“[Y]ou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”…hopefully, I did it well for 20 years - (credit to Stephen King for the quote) I have always had the illusion it was more important or as important to be a good man as to be a great... Read more »
Media Lens

Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond - Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolst...
Undernews

Doing laundry ‘highlight of week’ for third of Americans beyond bored from pandemic isolation -
Debunking Christianity

"Doubting Thomas" Tells Us All We Need To Know About Christianity - The lessons of the "doubting Thomas" story are not what you think. It does not offer any objective evidence that Jesus arose from the dead. It only offer...
The Grayzone

In moving UN speech, veteran diplomat confronts OPCW ‘stonewalling and smear tactics’ on Syria - Speaking to the UN Security Council, veteran diplomat Hans von Sponeck calls out the OPCW’s “stonewalling and unacceptable smear tactics” amid growing ou...
Progressives Chat

Regarding Oscar and Chloé Zhao - Next Sunday, April 25, 2021, will be the 93rd Academy Awards for film achievements for the year 2020. I have mentioned, in previous years, that I don’t ...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Corporate Diversity Training - If you enjoy these cartoons, please support them on Patreon. This cartoon is, I think, pretty self-explanatory. I don’t have much to say about this issue,...
Robert Reich

Biden’s Industrial Policy - America is about to revive an idea that was left for dead decades ago. It’s called industrial...
Stinque

Save the Date - There’s a date we’ve been looking forward to for awhile, a date we might not live to see, but one that holds great significance for America: One fine day...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Brazil Politics: Crypto-fascism, Corruption, Democracy - Dandelion Salad Note to DS readers and writers: having computer problems at the moment; nothing serious, need to have a fan replaced and waiting for the de...
Eclectablog

How government SHOULD(N’T) work – with special guest Don Moynihan - Don Moynihan on Twitter: @donmoyn Don Moynihan's Georgetown University profile is HERE. Buy Don Moynihan's book Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Othe...
The Militant

Solidarity with miners, steelworkers on strike! - ATLANTA — Some 1,100 union coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, voted overwhelmingly April 9 to reject a tentative contract proposal and ...
Unlimited Hangout

Military Bases Housing Migrant Children Plagued by Serial Sexual Abuse Claims - The Biden administration is now housing unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in Texas and California. Some of these bases have been plagued f...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 14 Wrap-up: This moment calls for action - This week’s legislative update will be a little more personal as the last few days have been incredibly hard on our community. The State Legislature is in ...
Earthworks

Affirmative defense… of who? - Each state implements environmental policy differently. Obviously, each state has different regulations that change the way oil and gas operators behave....
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Lightning in George Floyd Square - Lightning strikes near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street, also known as George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. The post Chatting the Pictur...
Independent Political Report

From the Desk of Ralph Nader: Tort Law Explained with Cartoons - *Author and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the 1996 and 2000 Green Party presidential nominee, 2004 Reform Party presidential nominee, and 2008 Peace and...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez and Hovercast CEO Eli Stonberg Talk Digital Event Strategies - I sat down with Eli Stonberg, the CEO and co-founder of Hovercast, an interactive live streaming and event platform, to discuss the platform’s success and ...
Dissent Magazine

Restorative Justice in Indian Country - Wellness courts provide an example of how some tribal governments are using indigenous sovereignty to build a community-based justice system, rooted in s...
Tribune of the People

Brazil: Peasants from the North of Minas and the South of Bahia Declare Support for Camp Manoel Ribeiro - Editor’s Note: The following is an unofficial translation of a statement published by the Brazilian democratic revolutionary newspaper, A Nova Democracia, ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Lobbying groups trying to block a path to citizenship - Prepare for a new era of debate over immigration. Should the Democratic-controlled Congress legalize undocumented workers and revamp the visa system? Ho...
Bud Kennedy

Is this Texas election about potholes or Commies? Congress election blurs campaigns - The fire-and-brimstone ads in the mailbox say it’s election time. Democrats are campaigning for city and school offices. But Republicans seem to be campaig...
Liberal America

Pot Legalization is Not About Getting High–It’s About Ending the Drug War - Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana. A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state. Mo...
Lowering the Bar

A Farewell to Madoff - He was the best in the world at something, but unfortunately, it was fraud. Related Stories - Alleged Arsonists Say They Set Fires to Get Rid o...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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Sunday, August 11, 2013

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