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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Lincoln Project chiefs break down in tears over cruelty to Capitol cops by GOP and Fox News - Republican strategist and Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer broke down, talking about the cruelty that Washington police are experiencing as they spe...
Mediagazer

Profile of Futuro Media, a nonprofit that runs four Latino-focused outlets with funding from foundation philanthropy, individual donors, and corporate sponsors (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab) - Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: *Profile of Futuro Media, a nonprofit that runs four Latino-focused outlets with funding from foundation philanthropy, indivi...
Courthouse News

Cruise to nowhere - ATLANTA —The 11th Circuit revived a suit brought by would-be cruise ship passengers who say they were forced to travel to Galveston, Texas, and nearby area...
Axios

In photos: Olympic Games highlights from day 6 in Tokyo - There's been plenty of Olympics drama on day six of the Tokyo Games Thursday — notably China's women's swimming team beating the U.S. and Australia in th...
ArcaMax

Masks Again? - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued more guidance, this time to put our masks back on indoors with potentially unvaccinated people be...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Caeleb Dressel fills US swimming’s post-Phelps void with 100m freestyle gold - - Face of US men’s swimming wins first solo Olympic gold - Bobby Finke wins first men’s 800 freestyle with late rally - Olympics day six: Golf,...
Al Jazeera English

Palestinian Authority’s standing slides amid growing frustration - A protest movement against Palestinian Authority corruption and authoritarianism gains momentum in occupied West Bank.
First Draft

On Second Thought, Don’t Meet Me In St. Louis - Gateway To The West Gothic WMDs have come full circle. Wingers embrace biological weapons as a tactic in their never ending culture war The St. Louis Cou...
The NM Political Report

COVID-19 cases grow as officials urge New Mexicans to mask up - [image: COVID-19 cases grow as officials urge New Mexicans to mask up] Top state health officials spoke about the threat of the Delta variant of COVID-19 i...
Informed Comment

It is Time to Call Republican Rejection of Vaccines and Masks what it is: Selfish - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post reports that the rate of coronavirus infections is twice as high in Trump-voting counties as in Biden-vo...
Slate

After Jungle Cruise, Which Theme Park Attractions Should Disney Adapt Next? - Unfortunately, none of them star Figment.
Countercurrents

Pandemic pushes transgender community in rural Bengal to brink of starvation - Kolkata: The 26 transgender people of a Cooch Behar village, West Bengal had their last wholesome meal before the first lockdown. For the past 15 years, th...
jobsanger

Legendary Bass Player of ZZ Top Has Dies -
memeorandum

Mandela's Dream for South Africa Is in Ruins (Robin Wright/New Yorker) - Robin Wright / New Yorker: *Mandela's Dream for South Africa Is in Ruins* — Following the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, and at a time when inequality is ...
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2668: Quilting and the Houston Quilt Show - Episode: 2668 Learning about quilting at the Houston International Quilt Festival. Today, a stitch in time.
Crooked Media

On The Ground At Tokyo 2020 - The post On The Ground At Tokyo 2020 appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

Florida officials stonewall forensic engineers as final victim is named in Surfside condo collapse - Positive identification of the pulverized remains of Estelle Hedaya raised the death count to 98, making it one of the deadliest structural disasters in US...
Workers World

PDF of July 29 issue - [image: PDF of July 29 issue] Download the PDF. Life expectancy drop exposes racism, class bias SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA International support; Haiti/Cuba acti...
Texas Environmental News

Law firm representing those injured after chemical spill at LyondellBasell facility say company knew better - Several groups are investigating what caused a chemical spill inside LyondellBasell Tuesday night including, the EPA, OSHA, the Chemical Safety Board, [....
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Redistricting in America, Part Two: The Dark Red Greater South - Dear Readers: This is the second part of our multi-part series on congressional redistricting. Part One provided a national overview. We will cover additio...
Morning Consult

Social Media Companies Keep Taking Hits Over COVID-19 Misinformation. The Public Thinks There Should Be Consequences - The post Social Media Companies Keep Taking Hits Over COVID-19 Misinformation. The Public Thinks There Should Be Consequences appeared first on Morning C...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: Dog days of summer, but plenty going on in the US-Mexico relationship - We’re well into the dog days of summer and it’s hard to believe that August is just a few days away. Yet, there is enough going on within U.S.-Mexico rel...
Buzzflash

$2 BIllion US Capitol Security Budget Finally Passes Senate - CNN
Liberation News

Breaking: David Wade Prison Guards retaliate against hunger strikers - Families report that retaliation has escalated against hunger strikers.
The Hill

Biden to meet with 11 Democratic lawmakers on DACA: report - President Biden is expected to meet with 11 congressional Democrats on Thursday to discuss plans for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants w...
Techdirt.

Senator Kennedy Continues To Push My Buttons With His Ridiculously Dumb 'Don't Push My Buttons' Act - Last fall, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana (a supposedly smart Senator who seems to have decided his political future lies in acting dumber than 95% of...
Mediaite

Officer Harry Dunn Responds to Mocking Comments from Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham: ‘It’s More Than Frustrating’ - Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn joined CNN's Don Lemon Wednesday night to talk about his testimony before the January 6th select committee and reaction...
Portside

The Problem of Pain - The Problem of Pain Geoffrey Wed, 07/28/2021 - 22:31
Pages of Victory

Top US scientist on melting glaciers: ‘I’ve gone from being an ecologist to a coroner’ - “Life doesn’t just deal with this. When I went up Glacier with my students a few weeks ago, the flowers were curling up. At some of the lower elevations...
OpEd News

An Unfamiliar Terrorism - The U.S. population is very familiar with "terrorism". Now it must become familiar with the unfamiliar terrorist that is itself. ------.
Political Wire

Mo Brooks Wore Body Armor to Jan. 6 Rally - Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told Slate he had been wearing body armor at the “Save America” rally before the Capitol attack on January 6, where he gave a speech ...
Alternet

The White House and city officials across the country are scrambling to avoid an eviction crisis - by Bryan Keogh, *The Conversation* The White House and city officials across the country are scrambling to avoid an eviction crisis. The federal housin...
TXElects

Wray Eying Comeback and Other Candidate News for July 28 - *HD10 open: *Former Rep. John Wray (R-Waxahachie) is expected to announce his candidacy as soon as tomorrow (Thursday), and former HD10 candidate Ryan Pi...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Wolf Street

My Thoughts on the Fed’s Back-to-the-Future “Standing Repo Facilities” Announced Today - Repos are different from QE; they’re in-and-out transactions that don’t endlessly pile up, unlike QE.
Salon.com

How Cinderella lost its original feminist edge in the hands of men - Cinderella has historically been a story about women and for women. So what happened to poor Cinders?
Brad Blog

GOP's Arizona 2020 Election 'Audit' Coming Apart at the Fraudulent Seams: 'BradCast' 7/28/2021 - On today's BradCast: Just when you think the joke of a post-election "audit" in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona couldn't get more absurd...it does, as t...
Futurism

The Orboot Earth Brings Augmented Reality To Old-School Globes - While we’re still working out the kinks of using augmented reality in our day-to-day lives, in the classroom AR is helping kids learn by bringing new lif...
One People's Project

TANYA M. BRAHIMI - NAME: Tanya M. Brahimi (Esposito) AKA: Tatiania Ibrahim Hard to mention the attacks against CRT without mentioning a name that has emerged from the small t...
San Antonio Report

Former Fort Worth official is San Antonio’s new economic development director - [image: Brenda Hicks-Sorensen replaces Alex Lopez, who was named assistant city manager in March.]Brenda Hicks-Sorenson will lead the Economic Development ...
Daily Cartoonist

New York Giants and Marvel Assemble a Comic - From NorthJersey.com: Assemble New York Giants fans: the G-Men are officially joining the Marvel Universe. The New York Giants are teaming up with Marvel f...
NPR's Health Shots

The FDA Extends The Expiration Date On Johnson & Johnson's COVID Vaccine To 6 Months - The change gives health workers more time to use millions of doses, rather than discarding them. Expiration dates are based on data from drugmakers on how ...
Deadline Politics

Adam Kinzinger Responds To Mocking From Tucker Carlson & Laura Ingraham Over January 6 Hearing: “A Very Cold Hearted Thing” - One of the standout moments from the first meeting of the January 6 Select Committee came when Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) fought back tears as he addressed...
The Root

Texas Republicans Lie on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Name in Critical Race Theory Attack. MLK III Was Having None of It - There’s a reason white conservatives tend to discuss race relations in America, and whatever it is they *think* Critical Race Theory is, in circles that ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

We need more Dorothy Zbornaks (from 'The Golden Girls') in America today - I interrupt my regularly scheduled beatdown of the anti-LGBTQ industry to let y'all know that I am burnt out and exhausted with the evil, corruption, and...
CultureMap Houston

Houston A-listers jet to Aspen for exquisite and 'elevated' affairs - What: "Elevated Connections" Where: Betula Aspen and Ajax Tavern -- Aspen, Colorado The scoop: As crisp and cool Colorado is all the rage for summer-vacat...
Vox

Google and Facebook lead the way with Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Will corporate America follow? - [image: People walk past a Google building in New York.] John Smith/VIEWpress via Getty Images Tech companies continue to be at the forefront of how empl...
Daily Dot

Influencer says jewelry brand scammed her and didn’t pay her for sponsored content - An influencer exposed a brand that allegedly owes her close to $1,000 in a viral TikTok. Darcy McQueeny, who has amassed a following of over 559,000 foll...
Election Law Blog

New details on Trump’s efforts to get Acting AG Rosen to assist his election subversion efforts. - Washington Post reports. We know Trump wanted to overturn the result of the election. What we don’t (yet?) know is the full extent of the lengths he went i...
Angry Bear

Medicare4All Rallies Shows Big Support for Universal Health Care - Dan sent this article to me and I scan-read it as it is done in generalities. This not a criticism of the content as much as my pointing out it is done i...
Texas Monthly

Dusty Hill Was ZZ Top’s Center of Gravity - This is how the Texas band ends. The post Dusty Hill Was ZZ Top’s Center of Gravity appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Intercept

Pesquisadora encontra carta de Bolsonaro publicada em sites neonazistas em 2004 - A antropóloga Adriana Dias é uma das maiores autoridades em neonazismo no Brasil. Carta e banner que levava a site de Bolsonaro reforçam ideia de que a b...
WhoWhatWhy

Can Putin Benefit From Biden’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan? - Russia’s top diplomat tries to stir fear of regional instability following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Texas Signal

Man who spent $30 million on border wall now trying to sell it - It didn’t take long for “Mexico will pay for the wall” to become “we will personally pay for the wall.” While Trump was diverting money from the military...
Latino Rebels

Mexico Says Officials Spent $61 Million on Pegasus Spyware - MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top security official said Wednesday that two previous administrations spent $61 million to buy Pegasus spyware that has been i...
Talking Points Memo

DOJ Fires Fresh Warning Shot At States Curtailing Voting Rights Or Considering MAGA Audits - As new voter restrictions and bogus post-election “audits” sweep across the country, the Department of Justice sent a shot across the bow Wednesday, issu...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman - An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”
Common Dreams

As Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Reached, Sinema Comes Out Against $3.5 Trillion Package - While advocacy groups emphasize the bipartisan plan is far from sufficient, progressive lawmakers are threatening to block it without a robust reconciliati...
San Antonio Current

As hospitalizations rise, San Antonio officials urge everyone to wear masks in indoor public spaces - With local COVID-19 hospitalizations rising sharply, San Antonio and Bexar County officials issued guidelines urging everyone over the age of 2, even thos...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: All That and a Bag of Chips - Aaron Rupar @ Vox: The first January 6 hearing was a harrowing indictment of the GOP. Justin Baragona @ The Daily Beast: Tucker Scoffs at D.C. Cop Scarre...
FiveThirtyEight.com

NBA Teams Love Young Lottery Picks. These 3 ‘Old’ Players Might Change Their Minds. - A typical NBA draft prospect’s scouting report is likely to include a few common attributes listed as strengths: “athletic,” “long wingspan,” “playmaker.” ...
Dissident Voice

Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale - In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charg...
VICE

5 Teens Are Accused of Raping an 11-Year-Old and a 16-Year-Old Girl - “It's the biggest case that anyone can remember,” the district ttorney said.
Reform Austin

Abbott Has Tough Decision Over More Special Sessions - With only one week left in the first special legislative session called by Greg Abbott and exactly zero bills passed, Greg Abbott is about to have a toug...
Texas Standard

Teachers Group Asks Governor For More Flexibility on Mask Requirements - As coronavirus cases rise, educators are asking Greg Abbott to reconsider executive order on mask mandates
Progressive.org

Shining a Light on the Tales of Whistleblowers - Filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck completes a trilogy of documentaries that grapple with the complexities of exposing the truth.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Yemen’s Houthis Block Access to Time-Bomb Tanker, Falsely Blame U.N. - It’s the Houthis, not the United Nations, that have kept inspectors off an ailing, abandoned tanker with enough oil for four Exxon Valdez-size spills.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

R.I.P. Dusty Hill, ZZ Top Bassist and East Dallas Legend - Dusty Hill, bassist for ZZ Top, one of the all-time great rock and roll bands and about as Texas as a band could ever dream of being, has died at the age...
Mondoweiss

HRW: Israel committed ‘apparent war crimes’ during May offensive on Gaza - In the report published on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said that it investigated three Israeli strikes that killed 62 Palestinian civilians “where there we...
Glasstire

This and That: Dennis Blagg and a Big Bend Snapshot - “This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed. Today: Peaks **** No matter how original, in...
Freethought Now

Human progress has been due to progressives - Human society has been enormously improved since The Enlightenment, chiefly because crusading liberals have overcome conservative resistance — time after t...
Democracy Chronicles

The NY Working Families Party’s Disappearing Ballot Line - When New Yorkers go to the polls in November, the WFP will not be on the ballot thanks to the city's notoriously inept Board of Elections.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Review of Anne Applebaum, ‘Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism’ - I suppose that many people throughout the world were, whether they realized it at the time or not, Fukuyamaists in roughly the first decade following the...
Second Nexus

Trump Rails Against New CDC Mask Guidelines in Deranged Statement—Because of Course He Did - Throughout 2020, even as his own health officials emphasized the importance of mask-wearing as a way to slow the virus that's killed over 600 thousand Am...
Discourse

Hating Simone Biles Is a You Problem - Osaka and Biles' citing of mental health, the fact that they are both black women, and their prominence in their respective sports has created a perfect ...
ProPublica

Michigan Supreme Court Limits Use of Restraints on Juveniles - by Jodi S. Cohen ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoin...
High Country News

Film: Living water - The Apsáalooke community works to protect and revitalize the Little Bighorn River in Montana.
Strategic Culture Foundation

Why Ukraine Should Be Grateful to Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union - The pro-Western government of Ukraine is trying to wipe out the Soviet period of its history by pursuing a policy of “decommunization”. However, Ukraine as...
Washington Babylon

The Chalupa Supreme: Meet Alexandra Chalupa, Yet Another Democratic Party Grifter and Fabulist - [image: The Chalupa Supreme: Meet Alexandra Chalupa, Yet Another Democratic Party Grifter and Fabulist] I’ve posted two stories over the past week focusing...
INSIDER - politics news

Photos show body bags that read 'disinfo kills' outside of Facebook's DC office to protest vaccine misinformation on the platform - [image: a blue body bag in the foreground with a tag including the facebook logo and the words] Summary List Placement Activists placed body bags that r...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #146 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: how not to make a great impression on the jury, more sovereign-citizen nonsense, a ruling involving the outer continental...
Robert Reich

The GOP’s Continuing Descent into Opportunistic Treachery - I don’t know about you, but I was elated earlier this spring when it seemed as if Trump and COVID...
DeSmogBlog

Irish Broadcaster RTÉ Apologises for Poor Climate Coverage - Ireland’s national broadcaster has publicly apologised for failing to link recent extreme weather events to climate change, pledging to set up a dedicate...
American Prospect

Replace Fed Chair Powell - Today on TAP: This reappointment is not a done deal
Mother Jones

The Obscene Hypocrisy of Republicans Blaming Everyone But Themselves: The COVID Edition - After nearly a year and a half of telling their constituents that it’s their constitutional right to ignore coronavirus guidelines and public health restri...
Daily Howler

A SIMPLE CONCEPT: There's "no better description of relativity!" - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021* *What Galileo said: * As we noted last week, several parts of Einstein's universe are easy to describe. In that sense, and to ...
Undernews

Virus status update - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the weekly average of new cases per capita is 41% above that in April 2020. The US ...
DBC Green

Bye Georgia! GP Disaffiliation Trend Continues - Congratulations are due to Georgia's Green Party, which has become the second state GP organization to get itself disaffiliated from the Green Party of the...
The Grayzone

La contrarrevolución cultural cubana: raperos y artistas apoyados por el gobierno de EE.UU. ganan fama como “catalizadores de las protestas” - El Movimiento de San Isidro, que se presenta como un colectivo popular de artistas que luchan por la libertad de expresión, se ha convertido en un arma c...
In These Times

Congress Tried To Force Trump to End the Yemen War. Now They’ll Have To Do the Same With Biden. - Activists say it's not enough to trust Biden's promises to end U.S. support for the war: Congress must compel him. - “Yemen is in a catastrophic state,” says Kawthar Abdullah, an organizer with the Yemeni Alliance Committee. “I have family there. Every day when I call a...
NORML

Revised for 2021 — NORML Report Highlights Over 450 Studies Assessing the Therapeutic Efficacy of Cannabis and Cannabinoids - This updated edition reviews over 450 peer-reviewed studies assessing the safety and efficacy of either whole-plant cannabis or cannabinoids for 23 diffe...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/28/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
The AltWorld

Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel - The inexorable imperial rot will go on, a tawdry affair carrying no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of […] The post Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel ap...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: We Know the Truth about Drones Because of the Courage of Daniel Hale - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Jul 27, 2021 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and host of RT’s On Contact, Chris Hedges, discusses the cas...
El Paso Matters

Veteran weather forecaster retires after decades in El Paso - Whatever the weather, John Fausett sings. The longtime meteorologist has composed songs about heat waves, blizzards, storm spotters and “one team workin...
Grits for Breakfast

What if any changes to police deployment patterns might reduce violent crime? Hotspot policing vs. ↑ resources for detectives - A friend who works in local government in Houston emailed to ask my opinion of "hotspot" policing tactics being promoted by Houston PD. Here's how I respon...
Eater Houston

Night Shift Is Now Slinging Classic Cocktails in Houston’s East End - [image: a bartender pouring gin from a green bottle of tanqueray into a small martini glass] The “freezer martini” at Night Shift | Night Shift The kitch...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Photo of an Exhausted California Firefighter - We focus on mood and body language as this viral photo bluntly reflects on another early and overwhelming California fire season. The post Chatting the P...
Claytoonz

Jerko’s Yurchenko - I had to look up a few things yesterday to find out what they are. Things like beach handball. I’m still not sure what handball really is, but whatever it ...
Sludge

Manchin Donates to Burr’s Legal Defense - Senators and representatives typically use their leadership PACs to raise and spend money in support of their own party’s candidates. It’s a way to establi...
Ring of Fire

The Dangers of Being Average: LIVE from the EVOLVE Summit - Via The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill: For over 30 years, attorney Mike Papantonio has created a well-earned reputation as someone w...
Debunking Christianity

The Incompatibility of God and Horrendous Suffering - This is a helpful post for readers deciding whether to get my anthology on god and horrendous suffering. It should be available by Halloween, Boo! Be kind....
The Progressive Wing

Eugene Beginning to Change Policing and OT 07/28/21 - Happy to see at least a written plan that is meeting with approval. Other cities are looking to our Cahoots program, as well—-mental health first responder...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

‘Erased From The History Books’: Why Asian American History Is Missing In Texas Schools, by Elizabeth Myong - *Yes, Asian Americans are omitted from U.S. History books, not unlike most other groups, including women. Read this post, to learn of the recent struggle...
Popular Resistance

Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence - Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Es...
Lawfare

Lawfare Live: What’s Going on With Jan. 6 Congressional Investigations and Civil Litigation? - Rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6. (Blink O'Fanaye, https://flic.kr/p/2kq3Moc; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) This Friday...
Ecosophia

July 2021 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standa...
Capital & Main

How Unions and Their Allies Are Trying to Hold Amazon Accountable - *Pressure and potential legislation in California could change Amazon's approach to workforce protection and burnout across the US.* The post How Unions ...
MintPress News

Exclusive: Haitians Reject Calls For US Military Intervention - U.S. media has called for a U.S. military intervention in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. MintPress News spoke to Haitians ...
Ballot Access News

First Circuit Posts Oral Argument Recording in Maine Out-of-State Circulator Ban - Anyone can hear the oral argument of July 27 in We the People PAC v Bellows, 21-1149, at this link. It lasts 46 minutes. This is the case over Maine’s ban ...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Novara Media

UK Begins Reopening the Borders - The government have announced double vaccinated people from the EU and USA won’t need to self-isolate on entry to England. We ask Gabriel Scally whether th...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Bonddad

Coronavirus dashboard for July 28: you’re reading the right blog, ghoulish edition - * - by New Deal democrat* In writing about the economy, I make use of long and short leading indicators to forecast coincident indicators. In writing a...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Reckoning With A Coup - January 6th was a violent coup attempt that has left Americans in shock and denial while a new class of political grifters attempt to cash in on the attack
SCOTUSblog

The court after COVID: A recipe for oral argument reform - [image: The court after COVID: A recipe for oral argument reform]The Supreme Court has not yet announced whether it will return to normal operations when...
Texas Observer

Small Birds in Big Bend - Small Birds in Big Bend A stretch of arid desert in West Texas is the crown jewel of the state’s birding hotspots. By Christopher Collins July 28, 2021 A...
Rewire

Biden Says the US Will No Longer Detain Pregnant Migrants. Don’t Be Fooled. - Without a plan to transform the immigration system, the Biden administration's policy change mostly serves as a cover for ongoing family separation. The...
Democracy Now!

Workers Beg Joe Manchin to Save West Virginia Pharma Plant as His Daughter Walks Away with $31M - More than 1,400 workers in West Virginia are set to lose their jobs this week when the Viatris pharmaceuticals plant in Morgantown shuts down and moves ope...
The Smirking Chimp

The First Hearing of the Jan. 6 Committee Completely Demolished Key Myths about the Capitol Attack -
Southeast Texas Record

Valentine’s Day trial slated for suit accusing H-E-B employee of assaulting customer after being asked to put on a mask - HOUSTON – A Valentine’s Day trial has been slated for a man claiming that asking an H-E-B employee to put on a face mask led to a “violent physical assau...
Duffel Blog

Coast Guardsman enlists to protect and defend Cheddar Bay - Some things are worth protecting at all costs.
Space City Weather

Summertime weather continues for Houston with daily storm chances - Good morning. Houston’s summertime pattern will continue for the rest of this week, with hot days and a decent chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorm...
Grist

As wildfires worsen, more California farms are deemed too risky to insure - The skyrocketing cost of fire insurance foreshadows a larger confrontation over so-called managed retreat.
Skeptophilia

Bad news from the future - My current work-in-progress (well, work-in-extremely-slow-progress) is a fall-of-civilization novel called *In the Midst of Lions *that I swear wasn't in...
The Daily Poster

Corruption Scandal Roils Final Days of Cleveland Race - Nina Turner’s primary opponent Shontel Brown is under scrutiny for helping to award millions in contracts to her partner and donors.
Off The Kuff

July 2021 campaign finance reports: Harris County - […]
Crooked Timber

Repubs retreat from antivaxerism - A funny thing happened in the culture wars the other day. After taking steadily more extreme anti-vaccination positions over many months, leading rightwing...
Earth 911

Try These Useful Repurposing Projects for 5-Gallon Buckets - Do you have some 5-gallon buckets that you’re not using? These heavy-duty buckets are ripe... The post Try These Useful Repurposing Projects for 5-Gallon...
Counterpunch

Academentia: the Organization Insanity of the Modern University - Academentia is the outcome of a severe loss of touch with the scholarly reality of universities due to an environment shaped by the ideology of Manageria...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - The Fermi Paradox With Neil deGrasse Tyson – Where Are All The Aliens? Since the birth of philosophy, we’ve never stopped wondering about the answer to the...
Infidel753

Moods -
Church and State

Wall Street Journal Page One Article Pushes Global Disaster - These pro-growth WSJ authors must not read the news about the worldwide human turmoil appearing daily in their own paper and in all responsible media.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Was There a Coup in Tunisia? Expert Fadil Aliriza Breaks it Down - Tunisia is where the Arab uprisings erupted in December 2010, spreading east and ushering in 10 years of change, chaos, and wars. It’s also the only “Arab ...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Why We March’ By AWKWORD & Jesse Jett - This hard-hitting collaboration between two politically minded hip-hop artists was released on July 24 to coincide with the Medicare For All marches that...
Rallblog

From the Same People Who Brought You WMDs - The White House has been pressuring Fox News in public and through back channel communications to stop spreading misinformation about the effectiveness o...
Green Pages News

Lesser-evil dynamic tramples Green presidential campaign - Hawkins and Walker reflect on the 2020 election Editorial by Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker – Green Party President and Vice President Candidates 2020 was...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Tangled webs and Gypsy goodtimes - Jack posted this in August, 2005: Late 1964, Rex Labor and I were part of a group of Peace Corps trainees on the island of Hilo, Hawaii, whom the Peace Cor...
Chicken Fried Politics

Texas State Rep. Jake Ellzey wins U.S. House runoff, defeats Trump-backed Susan Wright - Ellzey will replace the late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who died from COVID-19 in February ARLINGTON, Texas (CFP) — State Rep. Jake Ellzey claimed Texas’s 6th U...
Field Negro

The Jan 6th Hearings were needed, but nothing will change, and the real culprit will not be be held accountable. - Today, after listening to some of the testimony from some of those Capitol police officers during the Jan 6th Commission hearings, I realized that Ameri...
Caitlin Johnstone

For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking secret ...
The Contributor

Far-Right Lawmakers Back Bill That Could Ban Teaching Basic Constitutional History - News Image: The House Freedom Caucus backs a bill that would cut off federal funding to anyone teaching about the full contents of America's founding docu...
Avedon's Sideshow

The world keeps revolving - "Sweet Peas From My Garden", photograph by Hazel Ashworth. "On the Political Marriage of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders: *Progressives cannot and should not...
Political Garbage Chute

GOP Election Audits Prove Biden’s Presidency Can Only Last Three and a Half More Years - The results of two major pretend-audits in Arizona and Georgia are starting to come in, and Cyber Ninjas, the company that performed them, says that they...
slacktivist

What if life wasn’t just a zero-sum game? - Politico exacerbates the problem of misplaced hyperpartisanship even while doing an otherwise excellent job of describing its harmful effects.
Duck of Minerva

6+1 QUESTIONS ABOUT Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric Since 1945 - What if how presidents talk about ending wars contributes to the cycle of U.S. military intervention? Stephen J. Heidt answers 6+1 questions about his new ...
Scheerpost.com

Hedges: The Price of Conscience - Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Maine’s Facial Recognition Law Shows Bipartisan Support for Protecting Privacy - *This piece was first published in TechCrunch.* Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased su...
The Conversation

Peru has a new president, its fifth in five years – who is Pedro Castillo? - Castillo is a farmer and teacher who has never held national office. Peru is a nation in political turmoil, with the world’s worst COVID-19 death rate. Can...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson faces prison in Arizona - Just spoke with Barbara Arnwine who was arrested along with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, and more than 30 others attempting a peacefu...
Ian Welsh

A Great Idea About Capitalism That Was Wrong - [image: Story 458890750] So, back in the 80s, when I was young, green and wet behind the years, one of the great thinkers about how to help poor people wa...
Bracing Views

Why Can’t American Troops Just Leave Iraq? - W.J. Astore The Biden administration says it wants to remove U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Hooray! Mission finally accomplished, right? It may be 18 years ...
Dos Centavos

Get Your Shots! Mask Up! - Since the media and government are on top of trying to get shots into the unvaccinated, there’s no sense in me joining that part of the chorus. I’ve seen t...
ROAR Magazine

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation - Anti-Roma racism remains pervasive across Europe. It is time to develop a common political agenda for the unification and collective liberation of the Roma.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Kansas City lessons on supporting Black businesses that can work anywhere - Long before they were threatened by the economic shutdown associated with COVID-19, Dr. Karen Curls says that Black-owned small businesses were held back...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Update - *The Constitution Party today sent the following update to its email subscribers.* National Committee meeting in Michigan The Semi-Annual National Commi...
Project Censored

Deep Fake Politics- Historiography of the Cold War, the Clandestine State, and Political Economy of US Hegemony with Aaron Good - Mickey’s guest for the hour is political scientist Aaron Good. Good recently completed a critique of the latest BBC documentary from Adam Curtis (“Can’t ...
Krebs on Security

PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk - One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have bee...
Idavox

Foley Square Follies: Proud Boy-Affiliated Pro-Insurrectionist Rally is Met by Antifa - The usual neo-fascist suspects are doing their typical “an-TEE-fa BAD!” thing on social media, but... The post Foley Square Follies: Proud Boy-Affiliated...
Campaign for America's Future

First We Celebrate, Then We Fight - July 15th is a day every American should celebrate. That’s when families began to receive direct payments of as much as $300 per child, payments they’ll no...
epic.org

New Experts Join the EPIC Advisory Board - EPIC is pleased to announce the newest members of the EPIC Advisory Board. EPIC's new members are leading experts in privacy, technology, and civil liberti...
Liberal America

Scared Republicans Cancel References to Race in Libraries and Schools - It’s bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist “America First” caucus in the hallowed H...
alicublog

A SHOT AND A BOOR. - I’m releasing today’s *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down*, about how the polio vaccine rollout may have gone down if anti-vaxxers back then were like anti-vaxxe...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Overwhelmed - If you like these cartoons, please support my Patreon! Lots of people making small pledges adds up to me making a living, which is rather cool. This cartoo...
Socialist Alternative

ESwatini: Will Removing a King Bring Freedom? - Ndumiso Ncube & Alex Sivitilli, First published by https://socialist.org.za/ (ISA in South Africa) The end of June brought with it reports that Africa’s la...
Progressives Chat

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dore! … An Important Choice - Monday, July 26, 2021 marks the 56th birthday of *Jimmy Dore*. 🎈 🎂 *Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dore!* 🎂 🎈 An Important Choice It is very interesting to...
See You In 2020

Mercenaries Terrorize Minneapolis As Colonialism Intensifies Repression & Counterinsurgency - [image: Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer] Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer In the c...
Stinque

In the Long Run, We’re All Dead - In the thirty years we’ve been familiar with global warming — never mind the more than sixty years since it was first brought to public attention — a com...
Tribune of the People

Corresponsales obreros: Condiciones inseguras en una vieja fábrica de negro de carbón - Por Michael Nolan y un obrero de negro de carbón Los trabajadores de la central eléctrica de carbón llamada Tokai en Borger, Texas, laboran por largas hora...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Zombie Republic - California… prophet on the burnin’ shore… where Gavin Newsom is whipping the kids back to school so he can whip their parents back to work, where new cases...
TalkLeft

Dangerous Delta Roars: Booster Shots, Masks, Lockdown Protests - Could there be any more dangerous time than now, when Delta makes up 83% of all new cases and we're being told not to worry if you get Delta after being va...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Government Can't Keep Their Lies Straight, & JFK Was Shot From Grassy Knoll! - There's little or no doubt that the governments explanation for the assassination of JFK isn't close to the truth, assuming you read the facts behind it...
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of - The mainstream media’s myopic focus on Israel’s Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated, even w...
News Junkie

France Neoliberal Macron: Vanguard of a Covid Global Corporate Dictatorship? - Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite: under Macron’s pass sanitaire’s guillotine? For the few of us who are students of history, and its aficionado travelers, meanin...
Trivial Knot

Why have choices that matter? - Last month I played and discussed Tell Me Why, but today I want to discuss the genre that Tell Me Why is part of. The Steam storefront calls it “choices ma...
Eclectablog

The massive legislation you’ve not heard about – with special guest Rebecca Vallas - Rebecca Vallas on Twitter: @RebeccaVallas Tell your members of Congress: "We can't afford to leave SSI for disabled & older Americans behind in #BuildBackB...
Bud Kennedy

From a Jack to a King: Payouts, hint of cronyism forced change on Tarrant water board - Now you see why we needed new leaders at the Tarrant Regional Water District. Panther Island had become Crony Corner. The leaders known for their grand pla...
Innocence Project

Remembering Dick Lewontin, Brilliant Biologist, Mathematician, Geneticist, and Mentor - Richard (Dick) Lewontin died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2021, at the age of 92. He was a biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and, for ...
Equality Texas

Special Session Lege Week 3 Wrap-up: Hope is on the horizon - We are halfway through the July Special Session, and preparing for all possibilities to come. As a reminder, last week two anti-transgender sports bans —...
LareDOS

BORDER WALL IN LAREDO IS DEAD: Epic David vs. Goliath battle. The people of Laredo won. - Coalition stopped a “done deal;” there is no “disaster” in Laredo.
nonsite.org

Why Black Lives Matter Can’t be Co-opted - We absolutely do not need to figure out how to make anti-racism anti-capitalist. We need to figure out how to start trying to build a mass movement around ...
Louis Proyect

The Milk System - COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 23, 2021 Thanks to my good friend Manuel Garcia Jr., I got a head’s up about a documentary titled “The Milk System” that arrived with ze...
Border/Lines

Texas now arresting migrants found near the border for “trespassing”—07-23-21 - Immigration news, in context
Edinburg Politics

Telemedicine bill to improve access to health care – authored by Rep. Guillén, coauthored by Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra, and Rep. Martínez, cosponsored by Sen. Hinojosa and supported by DHR Health – signed into law by Gov. Abbott - ouse Bill 4, authored by Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo – whose leadership team on the legislation included Rio Grande Valley state lawmakers – will improve a...
Living Blue in Texas

The Insidious Ideology of White Supremacy - Recently, Denton Bible Church held a conference to decry “wokeness” ideology. They described “wokeness ideology” as rooted in social justice. The post T...
Land Destroyer

US Fingerprints on Terrorism Aimed At China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - July 23, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – In April of this year and then again in July, two attacks in Pakistan, west of the Indus River, appear to have tar...
The Rag Blog

Joshua Brown : POLITICAL CARTOON | Trump Library -
Black Agenda Report

DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969 - DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969 Authors Editors, The Black Agenda Review glen Fri, 07/23/2021 - 03:32 Rodney suc...
Due Dissidence

Michael Brooks Was the Leader the Left Needed. Without Him, We’re a Mess. - by Keaton Weiss July 20 marked the one year anniversary of the passing of Michael Brooks, co-host and producer of The Majority Report and host of The Micha...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Downwinders at Risk

One of Dallas’ Biggest Polluters Appears to Be Breaking the Law in West Dallas - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : 8 am Wednesday July 21 Contact: Raul Reyes Jr.: President, West Dallas 1 – 469-880-3811 Evelyn Mayo, Neighborhood Self-Defense Proj...
Environment Texas

What’s it like to install a heat pump? - Johanna Neumann Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy (413) 256-6434 Contact person by email - Read more about Johanna Neumann Wednesd...
Earthworks

Norway Risks Tarnishing its Clean Rep - Norway is seen as a leader on the environment, especially ocean sustainability. But the country’s ocean dumping problem is undermining efforts to stop th...
Nina Illingworth

Mental Health Isn’t Profitable by Chris Walker - It's one thing to know for profit healthcare doesn't work; it's another to live the experience. Walker is back with a new piece: Mental Health Isn't Prof...
The Mind Unleashed

Jeff Bezos Thanks Amazon Workers And Customers For Paying For His Flight To Space - “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for this,” the billionaire joked after returning from his flight.
Bayou Brief

Joe Badon’s Cinema of the Weird - On the Northshore of New Orleans, where things can get fairly unremarkable from time to time, lives a filmmaker and artist whose work I’ve found to be conf...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Propaganda War (And How to Fight It) - Every totalitarian system in history has used the power of visual propaganda to generate a new “reality,” one that reifies its official ideology, remaking ...
Antiwar.com

The War Lobby Believes Washington Should Represent Everyone Except Americans - David Brooks, a onetime conservative editor at Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, long ago joined the Pretorian Guard for American progressive internati...
The Militant

Freedom Rides built fight to topple Jim Crow segregation - This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, one of the high points of the Black-led proletarian civil rights struggle that overturned Jim Cr...
CT's short stories and novelettes

XI-321 - INVADERS FROM THE SHADOW PLANETS OF TWARR 1 “Negats, kid. Zephyr doesn’t do that. We might make a little jaunt across the Milky Way to delive...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremistas en la frontera: cómo la extrema derecha explota la crisis migratoria, apunta a las organizaciones humanitarias y esparce los temores nativistas - A medida que la crisis migratoria continúa creciendo en la frontera del sur, los grupos humanitarios enfrentan un acoso continuo de la extrema derecha que ...
Texas Freedom Network

The 2021 Legislature and Winning the Future - A special session of the Texas Legislature got underway on July 8. Why Gov. Abbott felt the need to call for a special session has a lot to do with what ...
Media Myth Alert

Insidious: Off-hand references signal deep embedding of prominent media myths - The insidious nature of prominent media myths is evident in how casually they are invoked, as if their veracity is beyond question. These blithe, passing r...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Down on the Bayou in Summertime - Documenting the Changes on that Bend in the River July 5, 2021 The silver threads suspended across our path glistened in the early morning sun. We apologiz...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
The Socialist

The First Chinese Sheriff in San Francisco - David Wong immigrated to San Francisco in 1976 with his family from Hong Kong. While David attended grade school, his parents struggled to make ends meet. ...
Free & Equal

Free and Equal Elections Foundation Announces Indigenous Speakers for United We Stand Festival Cambria - The post Free and Equal Elections Foundation Announces Indigenous Speakers for United We Stand Festival Cambria appeared first on Free & Equal.
Seeing the Forest

Fascists Eat Donuts - In 2003 I asked if anyone knew a certain song… I did get an answer but never posted it. So here it is: Pop O Pies – Facists eat donuts
BEYONDbones

Saturn Rises | July 2021 Sky Happenings - Mars is still low in the west—visible right as night falls. Venus remains in the evening sky this month. It overtakes Mars on July 12; the two planets a...
Malady

Trotsky's 'Stalinism and Bolshevism': A Brief Analysis - *"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws." – Leon Trotsky* Even 80 years after Leon Trotsky’s unfortunate demise, he still represents ...
Media Lens

A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying - As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning e...
ExChristian.Net

Ten Thought Patterns that Trip Up Former Bible Believers - *By Valerie Tarico ~* Perhaps it’s been years or even decades since you left biblical Christianity behind. You may have noticed long ago that there are h...
Moron Majority

Giuliani Prepares For New Role As MyPillow Pitchman - Now that his New York law license has been suspended, and facing likely disbarment, Rudy Giuliani can rest easy at night … the “My Pillow Guy,” Mike Lindel...
Reveal

Planning to buy tickets to a live event? Read this first. - [image: An illustration shows a pair of paper event tickets sitting inside a claw-style trap.] As the live events industry reopens, a perfect storm for de...
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Points of Unity - 1) Police and the State Police forces uphold white supremacy and class hierarchy accross the globe. From their historical beginnings as slave patrols and u...
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
The Disorder Of Things

GCRF’d - Twenty-four hours before universities closed for the Easter break, the heads of twelve international research projects received a letter from the funding s...
GreenSource DFW

Dirt Doctor, Healthy Hippie dish on Green Source Zoomcast - *Watch our second episode of Green Source On the Air featuring organic gardening pioneer Howard Garrett. Photo courtesy of Howard Garrett.* May 24, 2021 ...
Web of Debt

How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism - The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and wha...
Texas Moratorium Network

Law of Parties Bill Sent to Senate Jurisprudence Committee - The Law of Parties death penalty reform bill HB 1340 by Rep Jeff Leach, Rep Harold Dutton and 8 other co-authors and that passed the House on an overwhel...
New Progressive Alliance

Enter the Debt Jubilee - This is not a troubling long term trend that will not end well. Jeff Roby is a Florida activist who also publishes in the The Green Party of Florida.
Texas Watch

Texas Needs Safe Roads, Not Dangerous Trucking Legislation - *By: Ware Wendell* We have a *safety crisis* on Texas roads. Texas has *led the nation* in the number of large truck crashes for years. Commercial truck...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 -
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...
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-...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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