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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Twitter Erupts Over ‘White Supremacist’ America First Caucus: ‘What Does That Even Look Like ? Can You Use Spices?’ - Politicians and media figures from across the political spectrum mocked and condemned the newly-formed America First Caucus supported by Reps. Marjorie T...
Al Jazeera English

Rwanda arrests woman deported from US on genocide charges - Authorities in Kigali accuse Beatrice Munyenyezi of crimes ranging from murder to complicity in rape.
The Week

Cuba's new leaders won't have 'historical legacy' as a shield in post-Castro world, scholar says - For the first time in 60 years, Cuba will soon be without a Castro in a formal, day-to-day leadership position. Raúl Castro, the younger brother of the l...
Raw Story

Ron DeSantis faces backlash as pandemic rages in Florida - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is adamantly refusing to consider increasing unemployment benefits in his state as many works are still struggling due to the i...
Daily Cartoonist

Tarzan Comic Strip Reaches End of the Vine - After 92 years the Tarzan comic strip will no longer be offered as a syndicated comic strip. Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) has confirmed that it will ha...
memeorandum

It's About Time for Us to Stop Wearing Masks Outside (Shannon Palus/Slate) - Shannon Palus / Slate: *It's About Time for Us to Stop Wearing Masks Outside* — One of the last times I stepped outside my Brooklyn apartment without a...
San Antonio Report

After stalling for years, effort to allow permitless carrying of handguns sees major breakthrough in Texas House - The vote in favor of the bill showed a bipartisan appeal for a cause long championed by conservative activists. Now all eyes are on the Senate.
San Antonio Current

Transgender students in Texas would be barred from school sports teams matching their gender identity under a bill advanced by state Senate - Transgender students would be banned from competing on school sports teams based on their gender identity under a bill that passed the Texas Senate on Thu...
Daily Howler

Teen with toy gun shot and killed by police! - *SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2021* *It's time for (Chris) Cuomo to go:* As we noted yesterday, Dr. King believed in what he called "the love ethic of Jesus." He...
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...
Ballot Access News

Two Democratic Party Candidates for New Jersey Governor Are Challenged Off the Primary Ballot - New Jersey requires primary candidates for statewide office to submit 1,000 signatures of party members. According to this story, two of the three Democrat...
The Verge

Judge in Australia finds Google misled Android users about location data collection - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A judge in Australia found Google misled users about personal location data the company collected via Android dev...
Talking Points Memo

Kinzinger Says GOPers Who Join Nativist Caucus Should Be Stripped Of Committees - [image: UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., left, and Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., attend a news conference on the China Task Force re...
NPR's Health Shots

What Can Wealthy Nations Do To Address Global Vaccine Inequity? - In the U.S., more than 1 out of 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But elsewhere in the world, vaccination rates are much lower. Some poor n...
Slate

Justice Department Lawsuit: Roger Stone Owes Almost $2 Million in Unpaid Taxes - Stone, a longtime ally of former president Donald Trump, claimed the lawsuit was politically motivated and vowed to fight.
Daily Dot

‘What’s up with his hands?’ Biden makes weird hand movements and gaffe about Nazis in resurfaced video, perplexing the internet - [image: biden speaking with hands in front of face] A video of President Joe Biden has resurfaced, from back when he was still just a candidate, making a...
Salon.com

What are my chances of getting COVID-19 after being vaccinated? - A few "breakthrough" COVID-19 cases in vaccinated folks are being widely reported. We asked experts what this means
Texas Monthly

Why Have Texas’s Restrictive Voter Bills Received Less Corporate Pushback Than the Ones in Georgia? - A few of Texas's big businesses have publicly criticized efforts to make voting more difficult. But many more, fearful of Republican retribution, are try...
Eschaton

Happy Blogiversary To Me! - 19 years already? Feels like no time has passed at all! I'm certainly as beautiful as I always was! Also, day one of SPRING FUNDRAISING FUNSTRAVGANZA. You...
ArcaMax

The Case Against Court Packing - This week, liberal Democrats, led by Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts unveiled their proposal t...
Countercurrents

Fight against Covid-19: Incompetence or deliberate negligence - The second wave of Corona-virus has stuck hard in India particularly states such as Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar-Pradesh and Delhi have se...
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 ...
Rewire

How Politicians Exploit Fears About Death to Attack Abortion Care - If we’re so afraid of death—and we are—then equating fetal burial legislation with abortion will only impede access. The post How Politicians Exploit Fea...
Alternet

'White Supremacy Caucus': GOP lawmaker torches 'America First Caucus' as he offers his take on lawmakers joining it - Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) did not mince words when he shared his opinion of the right-wing America First Caucus. The Republican lawmaker also criticiz...
Common Dreams

Covid-19 May Fade, But Will the Tracking Tools Built to Fight It? - Adeline Lee We must ensure that temporary Covid-19 data surveillance infrastructures do not needlessly outlast this once-in-a-century pandemic. [image: In t...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Protests erupt in US cities over police violence as riot declared in Portland - Thousands marched in Chicago where 13-year-old Adam Toledo was killed while about 100 arrested in Brooklyn Center After a heated week of police violence...
Angry Bear

Tax Evasion by the High Income - Washington Equitable: Tax evasion at the top of the U.S. income distribution and How To Fight it. There is another version of the issue starting off with...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 12 - 16 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big call I made last year is that conditions were setting up for a Boo...
Buzzflash

Sonali Kolhatkar: Daunte Wright’s Killing Makes, Yet Again, the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets and Eliminating Their Racism. Incremental "Reforms" Don't Work. - BuzzFlash
The Hill

Sharon Osbourne tells Maher she's 'angry' and 'hurt' after departure from 'The Talk' - TV personality Sharon Osbourne on Friday said she was "angry and "hurt" following her depa...
Futurism

These Groundbreaking Weed Delivery Services Bring Legal Cannabis Right to Your Door - [image: Weed Delivery Services] Let’s face it, the future world of 2021 is a disappointment in a lot of ways. But if you live in a state with legal weed, y...
Vox

Climate change is making your allergies worse - [image: A man with hay fever and a handkerchief in front of his nose stands next to a corkscrew hazel bush.] 2021 is poised to be yet another brutal year ...
Mondoweiss

Justice is embedded in our struggle - Mondoweiss is on the front lines for justice in Palestine and Israel. It is a rare U.S.-based platform for the voices of this movement – voices that mainst...
VICE

Black Minnesotans Say They’re Terrified After Police Killed Daunte Wright - Wright’s death and the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial have created huge anxiety within the Black community.
Axios

Army officer lawsuit shines light on police treatment of Afro-Latinos - Caron Nazario, a Black and Latino lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was threatened and pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop that is now under investigation by...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: RGV in national spotlight but no public radio or TV to cover it - WESLACO, Texas – While the Rio Grande Valley is in the national spotlight due to the surge of unaccompanied children arriving at the southern border, the...
The Smirking Chimp

America Does Not Have to Wait for the next Insurgency. We're Living in One. -
Mediagazer

As Spotify turns 15, a look at the ways in which it changed how people listen to music, like breaking down boundaries between genres through "mood playlists" (Kristin Robinson/Variety) - Kristin Robinson / Variety: *As Spotify turns 15, a look at the ways in which it changed how people listen to music, like breaking down boundaries betwee...
OpEd News

Putin is and always will be an old chekist occupier with a grenade in his hand - You may have already noticed that on 16 March the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea was celebrated in Russia, and possibly some apartments in Purvcie...
Political Wire

Cash Floods Into Battle for Control of Congress - Politico: “The four swing-state Senate Democrats likeliest to face the toughest reelection fights — Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Magg...
Progrexas

Family fights anti-trans bills at Texas Capitol: “I will walk through fire to see my child be happy” - Lisa Stanton, with her daughter Maya, spoke at an Equality Texas event at the Capitol this week. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune (Audio unava...
The Intercept

Local Cops Said Pipeline Company Had Influence Over Government Appointment - Sheriffs in Minnesota worried about who would oversee an escrow account, funded by pipeline giant Enbridge, to reimburse the costs of policing protests. ...
WhoWhatWhy

Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan - Reading Time: < 1 minute After two decades, some 2,300 American soldiers dead, and 20,000 wounded, Joe Biden is promising to do what the three previous p...
naked capitalism

Links 4/17/2021 -
Grist

First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys - The EPA approved Oxitec’s mosquitoes for release this spring. Some scientists and locals want to halt the deployment.
Church and State

Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins contract to build spacecraft to return humans to the moon - SpaceX has won NASA’s $2.89 billion contract to build a spacecraft to send astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024.
Mother Jones

Leaked Calls Reveal ALEC’s Secret Plan to Thwart Biden on Climate - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican efforts to stall President Joe Bi...
ProPublica

Natural Gas Is Getting Cheaper. Thousands Are Paying More To Heat Their Homes Anyway. - by Lucas Manfield and Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive ou...
Dallas Observer

Texas Officials Signed Last-Second Agreement to ‘Hamstring’ Biden Immigration Policies - Hoping to thwart Biden's immigration reforms, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona entered agreements with DHS during the last days of the Trump administration.
Crooked Media

Gay for Netflix - The post Gay for Netflix appeared first on Crooked Media.
The NM Political Report

Reversal of Trump gag rule on Title X funding proposed by the Biden administration - [image: Reversal of Trump gag rule on Title X funding proposed by the Biden administration] This week, the Joe Biden administration proposed to reverse a D...
Second Nexus

MyPillow Guy Explains All the Things You Can't Say on His New 'Free Speech' Social Media App - MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell may have made his fortune marketing pillow, but his brand relies on former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Even aft...
Informed Comment

New Wind and Solar up 50% globally in 2020, as China beats US by over 4 to 1 - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new report on 2020 by the International Renewable Energy Agency reveals that the world’s renewable energy generation cap...
jobsanger

U.S. Is Averaging More Than 1 Mass Shooting A Day -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Pictures Of Matchstick Men - It’s that day again.
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | April 16, 2021 - Friday Nite Videos | April 16, 2021 barry Sat, 04/17/2021 - 00:48
Dissident Voice

Labour disclosure “shows antisemitism was weaponised against Corbyn”, activists say - A group of Labour activists fighting through the courts to discover why they and others were investigated or expelled from the UK’s Labour Party for anti...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use comments to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Antiwar.com

Bombast From Washington: Joe Biden’s Russia Sanctions - Thursday, shortly after the White House issued its four-page Fact Sheet on the sanctions about to be imposed on Russia (“Imposing Costs for Harmful Forei...
Brad Blog

Taking the 'DUH' Out of Floriduh: 'BradCast' 4/16/2021 - NICOLE SANDLER here, once again guest hosting The BradCast. I'm numb today, as there was yet another mass shooting overnight. This one was at a Fed Ex faci...
Courthouse News

First Nations Communities in Canada to Receive $7 Million for Clean Energy Production - Indigenous groups in British Columbia will receive funding from the Canadian government to pursue clean energy projects – particularly to retrofit or repla...
Texas Environmental News

Texas Justices Let Gas Co. Challenge Houston Propane Regs - A split Texas Supreme Court on Friday decided that a trial court does have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit brought [...] The post Texas Justices Let Gas C...
Techdirt.

PlayStation Y2K-Like Battery Bug About To Become A Problem As Sony Shuts Down Check In Servers - We've had a couple of discussions now about video game preservation with the impetus being Sony's shutdown of support for the PlayStation Store for PSP, ...
The Grayzone

US escalates in Ukraine battleground - Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Moscow-based international affairs analyst Mark Sleboda about recent developments in Ukraine. Sleboda provides a...
Workers World

Abortion rights workers beat back anti-choice bigots - [image: Abortion rights workers beat back anti-choice bigots] Pensacola, Fla. (Occupied Creek Muscogee land) For four and a half months, abortion rights ad...
INSIDER - politics news

There were only 18 days in 2020 that the police didn't kill somebody, according to police accountability data - [image: AP21105031624831] Summary List Placement The police killings of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago and 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minneapolis,...
Deadline Politics

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Bids Farewell With An Emotional Speech On Final Show - Brooke Baldwin was only supposed to keep the CNN anchor seat warm for a week. Instead, she lasted 13 years, until today’s final farewell to the audience on...
Reform Austin

Two Men Killed After Being Boxed in at Houston Apartment Complex Owned by Rep. Gary Gates - According to ABC 13, two men were shot to death after being boxed in by four other cars outside an apartment complex in Southeast Houston. According to t...
Crooked Timber

Generational replacement and the leftward shift of the Democrats - I’m trying to get the MS of Economic Consequences of the Pandemic finished by May, while chasing a moving target. Over the fold, I return to a favorite top...
SCOTUSblog

Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question - [image: Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question]Are Alaska Native corporations — special corporations that Congress ...
Election Law Blog

“Draft Ohio election bill would ax day of voting, require more ID; Lawmaker says it won’t be introduced” - Cincinnati Enquirer: A progressive group published a draft of an Ohio election overhaul that would eliminate a day of early voting, require more forms of i...
World Socialist Web Site

Biden denounces Russia for “interfering” in US elections, remains silent on Trump coup revelations - Even as Biden spoke of the “threat” to American democracy allegedly posed by Russia, he has remained entirely silent about Trump’s attempt to overthrow the...
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...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Support Senate Bill 1709: Faculty Equity and Diversity Bill - * We, Dr. Emilio Zamora, Dr. Altheria Caldera, and Ms. Stacy Hernández, Legislative Assistant to Senator César Blanco, appreciate your support for S...
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 ...
The Root

Colorado Republican Makes Lynching Joke Before Declaring That the Three-Fifths Compromise Wasn't Racist - Republicans are so desperate to whitewash America’s racist history that they are willing to reach far and wide for white-splanations that rewrite history...
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....
Houston Public Media

CNN Anchor Don Lemon Discusses His Latest Book On Racial Justice - We take a closer look at who are the people around us, and who we truly are with the help of CNN Anchor Don Lemon and an in-depth study from the University...
Political Garbage Chute

Man Wants to Make Some Friends Because He’s Sure They’ll Love His “Two Genders” Memes - As soon as he makes a few friends, 43-year-old writer Will Palumbo knows they’ll all love his memes. In particular, Will is completely confident his new ...
Project Censored

“Collision of Crises” Impact Black and Brown Survivors during COVID-19 - In November 2020, ColorLines reported the results of a study that found that women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportion...
Mahablog

Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable - At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half...
CultureMap Houston

Bun B, Owen Daniels, and former Houston Rockets headline golf tourney - As golf god Arnold Palmer once observed, "concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." Indeed, it was hard to concentrate at Lucill...
Progressive.org

Alisha Oyler, George Floyd, and ‘The Other America’ - As the trial of Derek Chauvin draws to a close, in a welter of expert testimony and talk of the crumbling blue wall of police silence, the most important w...
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...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Anglo-Saxon Traditions - Alex Isenstadt @ Politico: ‘A nicer version of Trump’: GOP donors flock to DeSantis. Joe Jervis: Cultist “Big Lie” Spreader To Challenge Georgia Gov. Dan...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/16/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Roundup! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/16/21 appeared first on NORML.
Freethought Now

The Supreme Court, the White House, Capitol Hill and state legislatures - The judiciary, the legislature and the executive — at the national and the state levels — kept us engaged at the Freedom From Religion Foundation this week.
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...
Latino Rebels

Raúl Castro Confirms He’s Resigning, Ending Long Era in Cuba - HAVANA (AP) — Raúl Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by him and his brother Fidel Ca...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Truth-Squadding Russia’s Response to New U.S. Sanctions - The new sanctions hit Russia’s ability to borrow from U.S. investors and could get even more painful if other countries go along.
MintPress News

A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies - Alan Macleod uncovers the deep links between the British security state and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, responsible for train...
Ring of Fire

Biden Won’t Punish Landlords Who Defy Eviction Restrictions - Even though the terms of the eviction moratorium put in place by the government lay out strict penalties for landlords who evict tenants, the Biden Admin...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Council Candidates Discuss Food Insecurity at Town Hall with Food Justice Orgs - Volunteers at the Dallas Farmers Market on Tuesday night arranged water bottles and snacks on spaced-out picnic tables in front of a stage. Salsa music b...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Daunte Wright Should Never Have Been Stopped - The story of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, shot and killed by Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police after being pulled over for minor traffic violations on Sund...
Houston Press

Breakfast Taco Full Of Crystal Meth Found By Hobby Airport TSA Agents - In one of the more absurd news alerts the Houston Press has received in recent history, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced Friday th...
Wolf Street

Applications for New Businesses Have a Double-WTF Moment - People massively chased their dream and started new businesses, and that is wonderful. Then there’s the issue of large-scale PPP loan fraud.
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 better in every other mon...
Strategic Culture Foundation

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 gates ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Pondering the Pundits - Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media and the internet blogs. The intent is to ...
American Prospect

Biden’s Unforced Error: Naming Sarah Bianchi to a Top China Job - Today on TAP: A baffling choice for USTR
Discourse

Cool, We’re Getting a Fascist Freak Caucus - God, these weirdo idiots. The post Cool, We’re Getting a Fascist Freak Caucus appeared first on Discourse Blog.
Lawfare

Call for Papers: The University of Texas at Austin Announces the 2021 'Bobby R. Inman Award' for Student Scholarship on Intelligence - The* Intelligence Studies Project *of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 7th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Did The Bruins Win The Trade Deadline? And Will The Canucks Ever Play Again? - neil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): One of hockey’s annual big events came and went earlier this week, with Monday’s trade deadline. Though the deadlin...
Louis Proyect

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn - COUNTERPUNCH, APRIL 16, 2021 In the late 70s, I worked for a consulting company in New York called Automated Concepts Inc., mostly known in the industry as...
Texas Standard

The Pandemic Could Give New Life To An Immunization Tracking Bill That’s Been Kicking Around The Legislature For Years - “It allows the state of Texas to modernize its registry system, and be in comportment with the standards of registries throughout the nation.”
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *Someone reminded me of the Voidoids recently.The big hits like "Love Comes In Spurts" are cool,but how often do you hear this?* *• *So many wonderf...
The Appeal

Maryland Could Be the First State to Provide Lawyers for Tenants Facing Eviction - This week, on the last day of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that would provide access to counsel for low-income tenants facing ...
Popular Resistance

Murder Of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial - The fix was in. The U.S. state was determined to demonstrate to the world that its system was able to render “justice” to its captive African/Black popul...
Democracy Chronicles

92% Of Incumbents In Congress Have Leadership Pacs - Julia Letlow's swearing in may showcase widows replacing husbands but also reveals leadership PAC for almost all members of Congress.
The Conscious Resistance Network

Ni Un Paso Atras: The Story of Cherán, Mexico - The Conscious Resistance Network presents Ni Un Paso Atras: The Story of Cherán, Mexico On April 15, 2011 residents of Cherán, Michoachan organized an ...
WhatWouldJackDo

For those of you who had a habit of calling Donald Trump a “dickhead”….you’re welcome - For the sake of accuracy… pic.twitter.com/jgxfzncrQv — Timpositive ⚽ (@Timpositive) April 13, 2021 pic.twitter.com/zq67j5vQrD — Antifa VP of Dark Shadows O...
DeSmogBlog

Fossil Fuel Companies’ Tough Sell: Oil and Gas Sites With Costly Environmental Clean-up - Last year was rough for major oil companies. BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total suffered a combined $77 billion in losses for 2020. And now, as Re...
Liberation News

Saludo del PSL al VIII Congreso del PCC - Nuestro Partido se ha mantenido durante mucho tiempo en solidaridad con la Revolución Cubana, su Partido y su pueblo.
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...
Glasstire

Blanton Bakeoff Returns! Submission Deadline is May 16 - UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is reviving a pandemic hit with its second annual Online Bake-Off. The edible art contest was launched last year as par...
Edinburg Politics

Rio Grande Valley School of Law proposal by Rep. Martínez, which could be established in Fall 2027, is approved by Texas House of Representatives, and now goes to the Senate for their action - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Ronnie Larralde, Executive Director, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; former Hidalgo County 464th District Court Judge Ysmael Fonseca; a...
Duffel Blog

Pentagon to weed out extremists by banning Marine Corps - Don't say “Oorah” or “yut”
Debunking Christianity

Bible Blunders & Bad Theology, Part 11 - *The Lazarus story goes off the rails* Let’s begin with a brief scene from the 1987 film* Moonstruck*: Elderly woman at airline departure gate: “You h...
In These Times

Joe Biden's Afghanistan Announcement Is Not What It Appears - The United States may be withdrawing its troops in September, but that doesn't mean it's ending its decades-long military engagement. - When I met a seven-year-old girl named Guljumma at a refugee camp in Kabul a dozen years ago, she told me that bombs fell early one morning while she sle...
Novara Media

Biden Announces Withdrawal From Afghanistan - #TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
The Progressive Wing

4/16/2021 Open Thread - Starting with the NYC Yang report: The 2021 mayors race in miniature: a day in which Andrew Yang is mired in one controversy and Twitter outrage after anot...
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, ...
Scheerpost.com

Jonathan Taplin: Capitalism Killed the Rock-and-Roll Star - The music industry veteran joins Robert Scheer to discuss his new memoir about the time he spent among rock-and-roll royalty like Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin.
Texas Observer

The Lege This Week: Instead of Addressing Mass Shootings, Lawmakers Expand Gun Rights - Welcome to the 87th Legislative Session. Since the last session came to a close in June 2019, Texas has been hit by an unrestrained pandemic and a crippl...
Eater Houston

Houston’s Remaining ‘Top Chef’ Contestant Continues to Shine - [image: Chef Dawn Burrell, a Black woman in a white chef’s coat and black apron, massages ingredients on a metal sheet pan] Dawn Burrell is showing that s...
Krebs on Security

Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020? - On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus an...
Claytoonz

Fresh Terrorists - We don’t just need police reform in this nation. We need justice reform. Last weekend, Saturday Night Live did a skit of a morning news show where the whit...
Democracy Now!

Biden Sanctions Russia for Cyber Espionage While Remaining Silent over Israeli Cyberattack on Iran - The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia and expelled 10 Russian diplomats after the Biden administration accused Moscow of being involved in ...
The Conversation

You're not imagining it – 3 ways COVID-19 has been extra hard on American parents - Since the pandemic began, parents have had to negotiate their own workplace demands and other responsibilities with around-the-clock child care responsibil...
Space City Weather

Cooling late spring in Houston this weekend before outstanding April weather next week - Some storms sped through northern parts of the metro area yesterday evening, delivering a few quarter-size hail reports and some locally heavy rain in nort...
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...
Infidel753

Saturday mornings at the clinic - In September 2003 I began volunteering as what is known as a "pro-choice escort" at a Portland abortion clinic. For about the next year I went every other...
Caitlin Johnstone

The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media. - Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news medi...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/16/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas House gives initial approval to "constitutional carry," which would allow people to carry a gun without a license; Texas Pla...
Dorf on Law

Knowingly Performing Down Syndrome Abortions Is Not "Eugenics" - *By Sherry F. Colb* Earlier this week, in *Preterm Cleveland v. McCloud*, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in an *en banc *opinion by Jud...
The AltWorld

The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media. - Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence […] The post The CIA Used To Infiltrate The M...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on April 14: Unifund CCR Partners vs Jackson Thelma M. - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Unifund CCR Partners against Jackson Thelma M. on April 14: 'Order G...
ROAR Magazine

Palestine is not a quagmire; it is a collective responsibility - The metaphors that attempt to render Palestine complicated obscure the simple brutality of Zionist colonization.
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Foundation for Climate Restoration Youth Ambassador Ashley Meeky - Young people are stepping into leadership roles in the climate restoration movement. Earth911 talks with... The post Earth911 Podcast: Foundation for Cli...
Counterpunch

The Case of the Cato Street Conspirators: a Sad Tale of Suffering, Insurrection, and Ruling Class Criminality - May Day’s a-coming and folks will be thinking of the eight hour day, a workers commonwealth, the martyrs of Haymarket, and how to kick the ass of the rul...
See You In 2020

Fascism & Genocidal War Are The Byproducts Of Our Late-Stage Capitalist Dystopia - [image: One variation of the “Wojak” character that originated on 4Chan] In response to the gloomy employment prospects, societal fragmentation, and loom...
High Country News

Americans go on a gun-buying frenzy - Gun-related violence soars along with sales.
Rallblog

We Give Joe Biden More Credit Than He Gives Himself - On issues like the drive to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, many Democratic defenders of President Biden indulge in magical ...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ask Old Jules: A full life, second-hand knowledge, meaning of life, destiny/serendipity, feelings/knowledge, MacArthur quote - Old Jules, do you feel you just exist or live a full life? What is the difference? Can we kick the ‘just existing’ into a full life? What can be the barrie...
TXElects

Crenshaw Laps Colleagues in Fundraising and Other News for April 15 - April quarterly campaign finance reports were due today for federal officeholders and candidates, except those in the CD6 special election. These reports...
Field Negro

Exhausted. - Let me s...
The Mind Unleashed

Adam Toledo: Chicago Police Video Shows 13-Year-Old’s Hands Were Up When Cops Shot Him - The Chicago Police Department has released gruesome footage depicting the moment that police officers fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo while his hands ...
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...
Morning Consult

Chinese Consumers Emerge From the Pandemic More Confident - The post Chinese Consumers Emerge From the Pandemic More Confident appeared first on Morning Consult.
slacktivist

Sapphira is a model of ‘complementarian biblical womanhood’ - Ananias and Sapphira are one of the very, very few biblical examples of "marriage between one man and one woman." And they're the best example of "compleme...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Putting Parents in Jail and Conducting Genital Checks - Anti-Transgender Legislation Just Got More Deranged - Over the past few days, this spate of bills throughout the country targeting transgender kids has sunken to a level of surreal vulgarity. The narrative ...
Sludge

Tax Chairman Neal Takes Checks From the Worst Corporate Tax Dodgers - As he prepares to oversee the tax portions of President Biden’s infrastructure plan, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) ha...
LareDOS

9-1-1 Regional Office proclaims National Telecommunicators Week to recognize efforts of team of 80 - Winter storm call volume: 16,000 over three days
Living Blue in Texas

What in the KKK is Going On in New Braunfels? - Many local activists remember the protest in June of 2020 in downtown New Braunfels after George Floyd’s death. If you missed it, an armed faction of co...
Rude Pundit

Shut the Fuck Up and Get Your Fucking Vaccine - A bunch of fanatics are fucking up the vaccination program for everyone. Polls are showing that a significant percentage of people won't get the vaccine....
Skeptical Raptor

Reduced COVID-19 risk in healthcare workers after vaccines – real-world evidence - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Three new articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine provided powerfu...
BEYONDbones

SPARKing Change with Autism Research at HMNS - Written by Dr. Robin Kochel, SPARK I will never forget the day that I learned that birds are dinosaurs. My family and I were visiting HMNS to finalize pl...
Socialist Alternative

Attacks on Trans Rights Escalate: Arkansas Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth - By March 31, International Trans Day of Visibility, the state of Arkansas had introduced four major bills targeting the rights of transgender people, and t...
Innocence Project

Maryland’s Recent Reforms Are a Win for Police Accountability and Exonerees Seeking Compensation - Earlier this week, Maryland passed several laws that will strengthen police transparency and accountability and advance justice for the wrongfully convic...
Moon of Alabama

Three Recent Failures In Foreign Policy Coordination - Why Is Jake Sullivan Creating Such A Mess? - This was fun to watch. U.S. Navy ships were supposed to sail into the Black Sea "in a show of support for Ukraine" and to "send a specific message to Mosco...
The Contributor

719 Billionaires Now Own Four Times More Wealth Than Poorest 165 Million Americans Combined - News Image: "Congress should act to restore taxes on the wealthy and limit further democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power." Category: Ec...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: How 21st century blockbusters miss the mark - At home this past weekend, I had the pleasure of streaming “Godzilla vs. Kong,” but the experience was far from pleasurable. There are no spoilers here,...
Bracing Views

More Afghan War Lies - W.J. Astore President Biden has announced that all U.S. military combat troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 9/11/2021. That date was chosen delibe...
Washington Babylon

Six Questions for Corene Kendrick on the Little-Known Clinton Era Legislation That Leads to Torture at U.S. Prisons - [image: Six Questions for Corene Kendrick on the Little-Known Clinton Era Legislation That Leads to Torture at U.S. Prisons] Corene Kendrick is the deputy ...
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...
Land Destroyer

Australia's Self-Inflicted Economic Woes Continue - *April 15, 2021* (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Australia had until recently been enjoying economic growth alongside the rise of China. This all changed when Ca...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Mini-Midterms: Five Takeaways from Six Decades of House Special Elections - Dear Readers: Join us tonight (Thursday, April 15) at 6:30 p.m. eastern for a free, virtual panel: “The Changing Face of America: Voters of Color in the 20...
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...
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...
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-...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
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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