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Moon of Alabama

The MoA Week In Review - OT 2021-035 - Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: May 4 - Afghanistan - Taliban Launch Spring Offensive, Ghani Begs For Ceasefire May 6 - Afghanistan - Taliban Capture...
memeorandum

GOP governors slash jobless aid to try to force more Americans to return to work (Tony Romm/Washington Post) - Tony Romm / Washington Post: *GOP governors slash jobless aid to try to force more Americans to return to work* — Arkansas, Montana and South Carolina ...
Al Jazeera English

Afghans hold funeral for victims of Kabul school bomb blasts - Dozens of young girls were buried after a school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year.
Salon.com

Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How Big Tech undermines California’s public health system - Gov. Gavin Newsom has routinely outsourced life-or-death public health duties to his allies in the private sector
The Week

Elon Musk incredulously asks why people thought he'd be a 'chill, normal dude' during SNL monologue - Tesla CEO Elon Musk poked fun at himself during his *Saturday Night Live* monologue, joking about his lack of "intonational variation," his marijuana-the...
Raw Story

Florida experiencing massive surge in COVID-variant cases tied to spring break invasion: report - According to a report from ABC, Florida is reporting a massive surge in COVID-variant cases that appear to be tied to the massive surge of young people w...
Alternet

'This is wrong': Ron Johnson's anti-vaccination lies ripped apart by fact-checker - Following Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's misinformation-ridden vaccine comments on the radio, CNN published a lengthy fact-check taking down all of the fal...
Political Wire

Biden Likely to Stay Out of Democratic Primaries - “The White House, in deference to the sensitivity of the party divisions, is taking a hands-off approach to the primaries for now, even while watching them...
The Intercept

Law Enforcement Groups Drive Anti-Protest Laws, New Analysis Shows - A separate Greenpeace report looked at corporate support for politicians who pushed anti-protest and voter suppression laws. The post Law Enforcement Gro...
Duffel Blog

Marine Corps forgets Mother’s Day gift for Navy AGAIN and it’s fine, forget it, never mind - Is a call too much to ask for?
Slate

Help! My Husband Wants to Move Out for a Year—and Leave His Kids - This is unbelievably selfish, but I kind of understand.
Daily Dot

What is Corruption of Champions, the popular adult adventure game? - [image: Corruption of Champions characters on a leopard background.] If you've never taken a dive into the wide world of adult gaming, you may not realiz...
NPR's Health Shots

Indian Premier League Suspends Cricket Tournament Amid COVID-19 Crisis - Cricket matches continued in India amid the world's biggest COVID-19 wave. Some called it unethical, while fans say it kept them sane. But now some players...
Democracy Chronicles

The Number Of Members In Congress Is Too Low - America is viewed as the world’s premier representative democracy but the low number of members in Congress tells a different story.
Axios

The next political battleground: school boards - The debate over coronavirus precautions and school reopening has fueled a surge of new candidates for school boards across the country. *Why it matters: ...
WhoWhatWhy

Kevin Can’t Wait - Reading Time: < 1 minute House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is rushing to defenestrate his Number 3, Liz Cheney, for denouncing Donald Trump’s big lie and p...
The Hill

McCarthy slams Biden infrastructure plan for misplaced priorities - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal for what he said were misplaced priorities.
naked capitalism

Links 5/9/2021 -
Mother Jones

Montana Tribes Confront an Epidemic of Violence Against Indigenous Women - This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two years ago, on a February eve...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The US restaurant industry is lacking in wages, not workers | Saru Jayaraman and Mark Bittman - The industry bemoans benefits, but workers don’t want jobs where pay is low and risks high, say Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, and author Ma...
San Antonio Report

More students are back in classrooms. Their progress shows how learning loss can be overcome - A Southside ISD teacher is offering his students $1,000 if they make a perfect score on the math STAAR exam.
Eschaton

Morning Thread - The 7th day.
Counterpunch

Bolsonaro’s Administration Attempts to Silence Indigenous Leaders for Criticizing Its Handling of the Pandemic - Under the rightwing presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians are once again witnessing intimidation tactics against anyone who speaks out against his gov...
Countercurrents

Strengthening our Struggles through Zero Tolerance to Patriarchal Violence - Public Statement on the Sexual Assault and Abduction of a Young Woman Activist at Tikri Border We deeply mourn the death of a 26-year old activist from A...
See You In 2020

Eternal War And Austerity: The Hell That Imperialist Propaganda Demands Us To Accept - The narrative managers of U.S. imperialism don’t want us to think about the mounting evidence that an alternative to our current socio-political system e...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Anybody here remember print? - (Some thoughts about newspapers, while I take Mother’s Day off to go visit the Aged P.) Here’s the protagonist of an 1867 novel, “Ned Nevins, the News Bo...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 9 May 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Hysterical Raisins is back, with the casting out of Liz Cheney. Assess th...
Mediagazer

eMarketer: US advertisers will spend $11.36B on streaming TV commercials on services like Hulu, Pluto TV, and Peacock in 2021, up from $8.11B in 2020 (Gerry Smith/Bloomberg) - Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: *eMarketer: US advertisers will spend $11.36B on streaming TV commercials on services like Hulu, Pluto TV, and Peacock in 2021, ...
Debunking Christianity

Systematic Mythology 101 - “Welcome, students, to Systematic Mythology 101!” With little imagination, we humanists may readily describe a more honest human species, one better disc...
Informed Comment

90K Palestinians force Israeli Security to back down, allow them to Pray in Jerusalem, as nearly 100 are injured Protesting Ethnic Cleansing - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that despite the Israeli security forces’ attack on worshipers at al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday evening, some ...
Dissident Voice

Crashing Out in Hartlepool: Labour Ills and Teflon Boris - By-election results make poor predictors. The government of the day can often count on a swing against it by irritated voters keen to remind it they exi...
jobsanger

Every Other Democracy Does This - Why Not The U.S.? -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2041: James B. Emerson - Episode: 2041 James B. Emerson: iconoclastic 19th-C turbine developer. Today, an iconoclast tests turbines.
First Draft

Sunday Morning Video: An Evening With Nat King Cole - Here’s Nat King Cole wearing a skinny tie on the BBC in 1961. Nat even sat down at the piano for a few numbers. Enjoy.
The Verge

Dogecoin is crashing while Elon Musk is on Saturday Night Live - While Elon Musk hosted *Saturday Night Live*, Dogecoin investors sold. When *SNL *first went live, the cryptocurrency hovered around 69 cents (nice). But...
Futurism

Dogecoin Price Fell the Instant Elon Musk Went on “SNL” - [image: Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to post a meme about the alternative cryptocurrency Dogecoin, sending it soaring by 25 ...
ArcaMax

We Keep Hitting New Lows - We keep hitting new lows. So perhaps we ought not be surprised that the GOP, the party that brought us the insurrection of Jan. 6, now presents the public,...
Mediaite

SNL’s Weekend Update Explains Why Elon Musk Is Hosting: ‘He Needed An Alibi’ With A Rocket Crashing to Earth - Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update offered an explanation for the controversial choice of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to host the show: with a rocket expected...
Deadline Politics

‘SNL’ Cold Open On Fire With Lots Of Moms, Miley Cyrus Singing Dolly Parton & No Elon Musk - Back for the first time in almost a month, Saturday Night Live tonight kicked off with a cold open celebrating Mother’s Day courtesy of Miley Cyrus and som...
Liberation News

Big gains for workers in 2021 Washington state legislative session - Bills passed include police, labor and housing reform initiatives, as well a new capital gains tax and increased funding for human needs.
VICE

Daily Horoscope: May 9, 2021 - The moon enters Taurus.
Common Dreams

Corporate America Has Been Shoving Fascism Down Our Throats for Decades - Thom Hartmann If America is to survive as a democratic republic, we not only must repudiate strongman authoritarianism; we also must change federal rules r...
OpEd News

Your questions make me nervous - I am sorry that I all I have to offer / Is this thermos of warm tea,/ But at least I brought two mugs.
INSIDER - politics news

Photos show how the Obamas' family dog Bo was an integral part of their life at the White House - [image: obama white house pets] Summary List PlacementBo, a Portuguese water dog, joined the Obamas at the White House in April 2009. *Source: Insider*...
Talking Points Memo

Democrats Should Worry about British Labour’s Collapse - [image: FILE - In this Sunday March 22, 2020 file photo British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during his daily COVID 19 coronavirus press briefin...
Wolf Street

How California’s Cities Strangle the Permit Process - The city’s building inspector confided, “I don’t know why anyone would ever pull a permit for an apartment remodel; the cities make it so difficult.”
Glasstire

Glasstire Staff Show & Tell: What We Made For Mom - A few weeks ago during a regular staff meeting, someone suggested that all six of us share a photo of something we’ve made for our moms for Mother’s Day ...
Land Destroyer

US Encirclement of China: A Progress Report - *May 9, 2021* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely the recent results of former US President Donald Trump's ti...
Courthouse News

Scottish Government Sets Stage for Another Independence Vote - The Scottish National Party won its fourth straight parliamentary election on Saturday and insisted it will push on with another referendum on Scotland's i...
Buzzflash

The Arc of Injustice Does Not Bend and Often Ends in Black Voter Suppresion - CNN
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

GOP demands removal of "1619 Project" from grant programs - *As is evident in Texas' House Bill 3979—about which I have been blogging of late—the current attack on the teaching about racism in our state's Social St...
Portside

Save the Post Office - Save the Post Office Dave Sat, 05/08/2021 - 19:22
Texas Environmental News

Three questions about Biden's conservation goals - The Biden administration’s report on its goal of conserving 30 percent of lands and waters leaves several unanswered questions, including [...] The post ...
Bud Kennedy

50 years later, Fort Worth native with front-row seat remembered JFK visit - In a book and a new TV documentary, author Julian Read has stories to tell. … Click to Continue »
Second Nexus

Florida Republicans' New Voter Suppression Law Just May Blow Up in Their Own Face - In their eagerness to suppress minority votes, in particular the surge of Democratic voters who used mail-in ballots for the first time in 2020 due to th...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges and Paul Street: Joe Biden is Not FDR - with Chris Hedges and with Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad May 8, 2021 RT America on May 8, 2021 On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Paul Stre...
Mahablog

Are the Serfs Rethinking Feudalism? - You’ve probably heard the grumbling about businesses not being able to find enough workers. Where I am, this seems mostly to involve fast-food restaurant...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 1 – Big Education - The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 1 – Big Education The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power, a ...
Field Negro

Caption Saturday. - Please give me a caption for this picture.
Strategic Culture Foundation

Why Moscow Doesn’t Just Knock Him Over - Moscow knows what Washington has not yet learnt: it's not just one guy, it's a whole country and sugar hits don't last.
Church and State

Germline Modification May Be Acceptable to Correct Disease - A recent decision by the National Academies for Science and Medicine says that maybe germline editing should be permitted after it is proven safe.
Socialist Alternative

Biden and Xi escalate U.S.-China conflict - Positions harden over Taiwan, Xinjiang and “democratic values” in new Cold War Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Joe Biden’s presidency, not yet 100 days old,...
The Root

Mitch McConnell's Own Alma Mater Knows He Doesn't Know WTF He's Talking About When it Comes to The 1619 Project - By now, you must be aware of what I call the Republican war on blackness in education. GOPropagandists with GOPoor critical thinking skills have been GO P...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: May 2nd - 8th - *Five Years Ago* This week in 2016, we were pleasantly surprised when an Australian government commission spoke out about the harms of bad copyright law...
Mondoweiss

Several progressive U.S. congresspeople condemn Jerusalem evictions– as State Dep’t blames both sides for violence - As U.S. State Department calls on Palestine and Israel to "deescalate" tensions in Jerusalem, the US progressive movement and several politicians blame Isr...
Undernews

VIRUS STATUS UPDATE - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is better than in every other month s...
Claytoonz

Tucker Abuse - Covid deniers, the anti-maskers, and the anti-vaxxers are playing the whining game over faux abuse for being flat Earthers. They claim they’re being scorne...
The AltWorld

The Butterfly Effect Re-Setting the Global Paradigm - The shift of paradigm centred on the U.S. pivot away from West Asia naturally impacts on Iran’s […] The post The Butterfly Effect Re-Setting the Global P...
Rude Pundit

How a Story From a Middle Tennessee College Is Really About Our American Apocalypse (Part 1) - This isn't a hard story, but the hardest part about telling this story is where to begin. There are so many pieces, so much history, so many still-moving...
The Appeal

Brooklyn Center Mayor Unveils Plan To Decrease Police Traffic Enforcement Powers - Less than a month after a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mayor Mike Elliott is proposing a measure to remove...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's cool new ice cream scoop shop sweetens week's top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Brooklyn-based ice cream shop opens first Houston location this w...
Popular Resistance

How Biden Funded Colombia’s Deadly Police Regime - In the last week, Colombia has exploded in nationwide protests and work stoppages against the government of President Ivan Duque. With over 19 people kil...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Clay Jones at GoComics.com TMC for ek hornbeck
Novara Media

Election 2021: Scotland, Wales and London - A #TyskySour election special looking at the latest results in Wales, Scotland, London and the metro mayor races. With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani, Micha...
Ring of Fire

The EPA Has Allowed TCE Cancer Causing Chemicals To Poison People Nationwide - Via America’s Lawyer: As if our country’s waterways weren’t already contaminated enough by PFAS, another toxin called Trichloroethylene (TCE) has seeped ...
Angry Bear

The Death of Dick Day - The Death of Dick Day I learned a few days ago that Richard (Dick) Hollis Day died about a month ago. There is no obit yet, so I do not have exact dates...
Ballot Access News

Sixth Circuit Sets Oral Argument in Ohio’s Case to Force Census Bureau to Furnish Data Sooner - Ohio is currently suing the U.S. Census Bureau, demanding that population data needed for redistricting be furnished earlier than September 2021. The Sixth...
Daily Howler

Where does mistaken belief come from? - *SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021* *Our Town can't catch a break: *Simply put, Our Town—our pitiful, failing town—can't seem to catch a break. Let's be more specif...
Election Law Blog

Why Puerto Rican House Members Are Divided Over Puerto Rican Statehood - Given the intense politics within Puerto Rico over statehood v. commonwealth status, it is rare to find journalistic stories that capture well the position...
The Ghion Journal

A Total Propaganda War: Mainstream Media are Inflating Covid-19 Death Rates, Suppressing “Vaccine” Injuries and Deaths and Discrediting VAERS - It is astounding to observe and shocking to those whose cognitive awareness has not been compromise by the never ending fearmongering and coercion that i...
The Progressive Wing

5/8 Labor News and Open Thread - Lite on the Labor News.
The Militant

Locked-out Marathon workers mark 100 days on picket line - ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Some 200 members of Teamsters Local 120 locked-out by Marathon Petroleum here marked their 100th day on the picket line April 30. Th...
Progressive.org

The Other Americans: U.S. Policies Put Migrants at Risk - Biden’s militarized response to migrants seeking refuge in the United States is putting their lives in danger.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for May 3 - 7 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. YoY comparisons remain ridiculous, so seasonally adjusted data, plus comp...
Rewire

The Latest Texas Abortion Ban Is Bad. Really, Really Bad. - SB 8 would let any random anti-choicer sue abortion providers for damages—as if anti-choice advocates needed any more license to harass health-care worke...
Vox

The Supreme Court made the GOP’s new voting restrictions possible - Justice Neil Gorsuch, left, talks with Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Supreme Court following Gorsuch’s official investiture at the Suprem...
Due Dissidence

Weak Jobs Numbers and a Crying Capitalist Class: Is This a De Facto General Strike? - by Keaton Weiss In the days and weeks after the coronavirus lockdowns began, many on the Left called for a general strike. What better time than now, we th...
Progrexas

“You need that help”: Mom wishes she had better care after giving birth on Medicaid - Nurse Practitioner Barber Anika with a patient at the Legacy Community Health Center in Houston on Aug. 2, 2013. Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas T...
The Smirking Chimp

A MAGA Insurrectionist Appears in Zoom Court. Hilarity Ensues. -
Caitlin Johnstone

Palestinian Infant Sustains Punching-Related Injury In Violent Clash With Israeli Police - Today’s Caitlin Johnstone article has been replaced with a breaking news report from the National News Conglomerate. NNC: Obey. Listen to this article: JER...
Reform Austin

State Rep. John Raney Tests Positive for Coronavirus After Being Inside Capitol This Week - [image: State Rep. John Raney] State Rep. John Raney, R-College Station, has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office confirmed Thursday night. Th...
Grist

A Big Oil project in Africa threatens fragile Okavango region - A Canadian company is drilling exploratory wells in Namibia for what could be a major oil and gas find. Local residents and conservationists fear the proje...
ROAR Magazine

Columbia student workers are taking back their union - In a historic vote, student workers at Columbia University reclaim their union from the bureaucrats, reversing a trend of top-down union organizing.
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Waste Management of Texas Inc. vs Ginther Guerra LLC on May 6 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Waste Management of Texas Inc. against Carlos E. Ginther and Ginth...
Dallas Observer

Rights Groups and Activists To Rally Outside Texas Capitol over 'Voter Suppression' Bills - The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas has organized a protest against a slate of so-called 'election integrity' bills, which rights groups say would ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use comments to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Crooked Media

Liz Cheney, Perfect Hero! - The post Liz Cheney, Perfect Hero! appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

Australian union chief warns of workers’ pent-up discontent - There is nervousness throughout the union hierarchies that their role in policing unprecedented job and pay cuts has produced such unrest that they will no...
Antiwar.com

Palestine’s Moment of Reckoning: On Abbas’ Dangerous Decision to ‘Postpone’ Elections - The decision on April 30 by Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to ‘postpone’ Palestinian elections, which would have been the first in 15 ye...
The Grayzone

White Helmets corruption scandal deepens: Dutch gov’t investigated parent org for fraud, but covered it up - The Netherlands investigated fraud by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, which funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120 million in Western government co...
TXElects

House Approves Amended Election Bill and Other News for May 7 - The Texas House of Representatives gave final approval to its version of a divisive, comprehensive election reform bill about giving preliminary approval...
Brad Blog

Next 'Big Lie' Audit to be in NH (Will be NOTHING Like the AZ Clown Show): 'BradCast' 5/7/2021 - Will we ever escape the 2020 "Big Lie"? Maybe. But it's gonna take a while. That said, we've got some very good news on today's BradCast about the next "Bi...
Bayou Brief

Mayor LaToya Cantrell: New Orleans is the right place, and this is the right time, for infrastructure investment. - On May 3, 1978, New Orleans experienced one of its worst flood events, with nearly nine inches of rain falling before noon, inundating the city with two to...
San Antonio Current

A home once owned by former San Antonio mayor Ivy Taylor is now for sale in Dignowity Hill -
SCOTUSblog

Justices voice skepticism about retroactive sentencing reductions for low-level crack-cocaine offenders - [image: Justices voice skepticism about retroactive sentencing reductions for low-level crack-cocaine offenders]On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard its l...
slacktivist

Refugees, limits and capacity - Our target for how many refugees to welcome should be ambitious. Our legal limit is that there shouldn't be one.
Texas Monthly

Historic 6666 Ranch Almost Twice the Size of Chicago Gets the Perfect Steward - Imagine all the westerns filmmaker Taylor Sheridan could shoot on 266,000 acres of property. The post Historic 6666 Ranch Almost Twice the Size of Chicag...
Seeing the Forest

Innocence - Arkansas really wanted someone dead, their supply of death drugs was running out. I was hiking in Muir Woods this week, ran into a guy with an Innocence Pr...
The Texas Signal

Are genetically engineered mosquitoes coming to Texas? - Right now, the release of millions of genetically-engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is sparking controversy. The trial, which seeks to curb the p...
Workers World

Unite to free Mumia Abu-Jamal! - [image: Unite to free Mumia Abu-Jamal!] Oakland, Calif. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 67th birthday was commemorated with three well-attended actions in San Francisco ...
Texas Standard

Sid Miller’s Political Aide Arrested In Pay-For-Play Hemp License Scheme - Texas Rangers mum on whether more arrests are expected.
Eclectablog

No more F-35s – with special guest Dan Grazier from the Project on Government Oversight - Dan Grazier on Twitter: @Dan_Grazier Project on Government Oversight on Twitter: @POGOwatchdog Project on Government Oversight's website: POGO.org Will Bun...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Unbiblical Behavior - Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian Ministry Fires MAGA-Loving “Prophet” for “Unbiblical Behavior.” David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: ...
Latino Rebels

#LatinoRebels10: From 2015, About the Use of LATINX - Or the debate that never ends.
Equality Texas

Lege Week 17 Wrap-up: Pettiness and retribution bring harm to trans youth - In the #txlege, nothing is truly “dead” until Sine Die. We saw that clearly this week. This past Tuesday SB 29 (Perry), the bill that would ban transgende...
Discourse

How Cori Bush Exposed the Endless Cruelty of Transphobes - "I am committed to doing the absolute most to ... protect Black birthing people, and to save lives." The post How Cori Bush Exposed the Endless Cruelty o...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Texas Courts Are Proceeding With Evictions. The Impact Could Be Disastrous. - Vickie Clark starts every day with a prayer. “I am not my situation,” she reminds herself. She has many blessings in her life: her seven children and her...
Sludge

Biden’s Likely Ambassador to China Is Entangled In Tech and Defense - The American Prospect is a nonprofit, independent magazine covering public policy and politics. Sludge is re-publishing this article. China will affect eve...
Freethought Now

A Lone Star victory, a Day of Reason, Robin Morgan & Sasha Sagan - There are some court victories we really love to savor. This week had one — in which we triumphed over the Texas governor, no less.
Chicken Fried Politics

Virginia Republicans pick nominees for statewide races at convention Saturday - Voting will take place at 39 different locations across the commonwealth, using weighted and ranked-choice voting ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.co...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Your Friendly Neighborhood Bank: The Post Office - One in four Americans are unbanked or underbanked. This is in part because because banks across the country are closing branches, or penalizing those who...
Houston Press

A Truck Tumps Over at 59 South at 288 and Friday Traffic Backs Up For Miles - Happy Friday Houston. A semi turned over while traveling on US.-59 South this morning, and because of how it landed, there was no way to get around it till...
MintPress News

In Wake of HRW Apartheid Report, Israeli Propagandists Launch Global PR Offensive - Much of the online anger at the Human Rights Watch report was actually manufactured by an Israeli government-sponsored app, Act.IL, which organized suppo...
American Prospect

The Vaccine Waiver Invites Reform of Intellectual-Property Abuses - Today on TAP: The patent system no longer works to promote and reward invention
FiveThirtyEight.com

The WNBA Drafted The Most International Players In 20 Years. But Its Rosters Aren’t Big Enough For Everyone. - It’s long been known that the WNBA has too few roster spots for the vast universe of women’s basketball talent it draws from. The league has maintained a s...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *James Chance plays James Brown.* * • *There are a few unlocked *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* stories on the site, but I warn you, I'll be scaling way bac...
Dissent Magazine

Belabored: The Value of Care, with Alyssa Battistoni - The author of *A Planet to Win* talks about Biden’s infrastructure proposals and why care work is a green job.
Edinburg Politics

Trade Agricultural Inspection Grant by Rep. Guerra, Rep. Guillén, and Rep. Muñoz – which helps speed up safe, efficient entry of majority of Mexican farming products into U.S. through the Pharr International Bridge – approved for continuation by the House of Representatives - The Trade Agricultural Inspection Grant Program, authored by Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, which helps speed up the safe and efficient entry of Mexi...
Environment Texas

25 days to go for Texas Legislature - Luke Metzger Executive Director (512) 479-0388 Contact person by email - Read more about Luke Metzger Friday, May 7, 2021 Which environmental bills...
epic.org

EPIC Urges HHS to Prioritize Patient Privacy in Modifications to HIPAA Privacy Rule - In comments to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), EPIC opposed proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule reducing restrictions on disclosing ...
Political Garbage Chute

Substack Debuts Adult Content Section Featuring Greenwald Sucking His Own Dick - “Of course, he’ll have to probably have to go on Tucker’s show and suck him off less, but he’s free to play footsie with white supremacists as much as hi...
In These Times

For the Nez Perce, a Proposed Gold Mine Is a Symbol of Broken Promises - The U.S. government stole Nez Perce treaty land to make way for gold miners in the 1860s. A century and a half later, gold mining again threatens the tribe’s homeland. - As a citizen of the Nez Perce, or Nimíipuu, which means the People, I look at gold mining as a symbol of broken promises. In 1855, when my ancestors ente...
Grits for Breakfast

Five Observations and a Prediction: Why police budget hikes could become a thing of the past in Texas if HB 1900 becomes law - In no particular order, here are five observations and a prediction about a week filled with losses for the Texas criminal-justice reform movement at the T...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 5/7/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Roundup! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 5/7/21 appeared first on NORML.
LareDOS

Chasing the waning moon — the tidal pull of the pale gibbous moon drew me westward - Now headed home, the moon was like me on its way east; I expected we’d find each other in the morning
Morning Consult

The Jobs Numbers Were Disappointing. Here’s Why - The post The Jobs Numbers Were Disappointing. Here’s Why appeared first on Morning Consult.
Washington Babylon

School of Rock: Jesus and Mary Chain - [image: School of Rock: Jesus and Mary Chain] It’s been a very busy week here at *Washington Babylon*, so I’m taking it easy today and am just going to pos...
Texas Observer

The Lege This Week: Lurching Rightward - 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...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Vaccines key to preventing another Michigan-like coronavirus surge - Hospitals full. Metrics for cases blaring in bright red. Urgent calls from public officials for residents to comply with pandemic precautions. But this w...
Tribune of the People

Worcester: Nurses Hold May Day Rally to Mark Two Months of Strike - By Vincent Cross This International Workers’ Day nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester held a rally to commemorate both May Day and their nearly tw...
Lawfare

Israel’s Version of Moving Fast and Breaking Things: The New Cybersecurity Bill - Cybersecurity visualization. (Source: CyberVisuals.org, Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative) The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of Israel published a new ...
Dorf on Law

SCOTUS, Guns, and Police-Civilian Interactions - *by Michael C. Dorf* My professional interest in the Second Amendment case the Supreme Court recently added to its docket concerns the question whether ...
Krebs on Security

Investment Scammer John Davies Reinvents Himself? - John Bernard, a pseudonym used by a convicted thief and con artist named John Clifton Davies who’s fleeced dozens of technology startups out of an estimate...
The Contributor

There He Goes Again: Why DeSantis' Fox News Stunt May Be Unconstitutional - News Image: There he goes again: Why DeSantis’ Fox News stunt may be unconstitutional Category: Media origin Blog: Media Nation origin Author: Dan Kennedy
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges on the Ruling Class’ Revenge Against Julian Assange - Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges joins Robert Scheer to discuss the WikiLeaks founder’s plight as he languishes in a British prison.
Duck of Minerva

What If Academia Had a ‘Scout Mindset’? - Imagine you are reading a theoretical social science article that is dedicated to making an argument (let’s call it Argument X). You get to a section of th...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 5/7/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas GOP’s voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors after key House vote; Attorney General Ken Paxton unbl...
The Conversation

Police academies dedicate 3.21% of training hours to ethics and other public service topics – new research - Police are sworn to protect the public, but cadets are still trained for battle – not public service – according to a new study examining all 50 US state p...
Democracy Now!

Richard Wright's Novel About Racist Police Violence Was Rejected in 1941; It Has Just Been Published - Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of "Native Son," a novel whose se...
Crooked Timber

Ministry for Your Future Soul - “The Ministry for the Future” should be required reading for anyone that writes white papers for a living. A few reflections and (potential) spoilers. Like...
Space City Weather

Humidity returns to Houston this weekend ahead of unsettled weather next week - We’ve had some stellar May weather to close out this week, and today will be no exception. But look for changes this weekend, leading to some unsettled wea...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: When We Look at Nature - Today’s quote is from TEDx speaker, podcast host, wildlife filmmaker, and animal rescuer Elliot Connor:... The post Earth911 Inspiration: When We Look at...
High Country News

The battle over Point Reyes’ tule elk - The needs of the ungulate and cattle supported by California’s Point Reyes National Seashore have different needs and created a years-long conflict.
Rallblog

Paranoid but Fully Vaccinated - Many people are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 yet continue to act as though they need to stay inside and socially distance. This behavior is every bi...
The NM Political Report

NMED releases ozone precursor rules - [image: NMED releases ozone precursor rules] Following concerns from members of the environmental community, the New Mexico Environment Department removed ...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Dragon Morning - Dragon Morning Soft rain of star noise Patters on the dawn Tin roof He listens Half awake Mind Slowly redefining Grasping This reality From the mist Of dre...
Idavox

Fraizer Glenn Miller, ROT IN HELL! - This scumbag dying of natural causes while on Death Row for killing three people in... The post Fraizer Glenn Miller, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Idav...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

South Carolina trans community & allies speak out against bill during legislative committee meeting - On Thursday morning, South Carolina state Senators held a committee meeting to discuss a bill which would ban trans girls from playing in high school and...
Pages of Victory

Chris Hedges Says - *D*on’t be fooled by Joe Biden. He knows his infrastructure and education bills have as much chance at becoming law as the $15-dollar minimum wage or th...
Skeptical Raptor

Cervical cancer rates down 88% in decade since HPV vaccine launched - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I know that COVID-19 vaccines are our focus these days, but there is great news abou...
El Paso Matters

Here are El Paso’s higher education graduations happening this month - After more than a year of remote learning and virtual or long-distance celebrations, most El Paso higher education graduates and their families are prepa...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon – Irreproachable Taste - If you like these cartoons, please support them on Patreon! Every $2 or $1 pledge really helps. Patreon supporters saw this cartoon more than two months ea...
Rio Grande Guardian

Cuellar: Dr. Fauci cannot understand why the border bridges are still closed - MISSION, Texas – U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says Dr. Anthony Fauci supports the full re-opening of land ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border. The bridge...
Living Blue in Texas

A Call To Action From Jessica Luther-Rummel - CALL TO ACTION – Defund Racist Killer KKKop’s GoFundMe My name is Jessica. I’m a community organizer, anti-racist activist, and scholar working to disman...
Eater Houston

CultureMap’s Parent Company Is Suing PaperCity Over Allegations of Food Column Plagiarism and Trade Secret Theft - Walt Seng/Getty Images CultureMap is seeking more than $17 million in damages related to lost advertising revenue A lawsuit filed by Houston publication...
BEYONDbones

Evenings with Mercury | May 2021 Sky Happenings - Mars continues to fade a little bit each night now that Earth has overtaken it and is pulling away. However, it fades out gradually; Mars remains almost ...
DeSmogBlog

New Government Report Highlights Federal Failures to Oversee Offshore Drilling - A new investigation into federal oversight of the offshore oil and gas industry finds that the agency in charge is not enforcing existing regulations on ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Palestinian Envoy Touts Number of Xinjiang Mosques, Ignores Demolition Evidence -
Reveal

The Ferguson movement is on the cusp of revolutionizing political power in St. Louis - [image: Portrait of Kayla Reed] After a group of young Black activists saw police reform efforts fail, they came up with a new plan. The Ferguson movemen...
Bracing Views

The Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party - Originally posted on Bracing Views: Tepidness and Timidity W.J. Astore Why did Donald Trump win the presidency? A big reason is that he was willing to tak...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How the Senate’s Long-Term Equilibrium Could Shape Democratic Decisions on the Filibuster - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — A majority of states are now either solidly Republican or solidly Democratic on the presidential level, and the party a stat...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Colombian state violence and its imperialist role destabilizing the region - What are Colombians protesting? Why are police gunning them down? And why is it being ignored? I was joined by Camila Escalante and Ollie Vargas, Bolivian-...
Robert Reich

The Republican Rebrand, ExposedThe Republican Party is trying to... - *The Republican Rebrand, Exposed*The Republican Party is trying to rebrand itself as the party of the working class. Rubbish. Republicans can spout off al...
Shadowproof

Ohio Prisoner In Solitary Confinement Ends Hunger Strike, Despite No End To Retaliation - A man incarcerated at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Ohio has ended a 48-day hunger strike, his family said. The post Ohio Prisoner In Solitary C...
Dos Centavos

May 22: SAs Tejano Conjunto Fest Goes Virtual - We’ll I don’t expect to go to live concerts any time soon, so, mil thank yous to The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s Tejano Conjunto Festival for going vi...
Ecosophia

Conversation as Commons - A little while back I fielded yet another attempt to bully me into censoring my comments pages. It was the same schtick as always. One of my commenters ha...
Trivial Knot

Reblogging, the root of evil - A straw on the camel’s back “Cancel culture” is a bad and incoherent concept, run into the ground by conservatives who use it to attack any sort of cultura...
Unlimited Hangout

This Biden Proposal Could Make the US a “Digital Dictatorship” - A “new” proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a wa...
Lowering the Bar

Barge Captains Caught After What You Might Call “Chases” - I wouldn't call them that, but you might. Related Stories - Houston Water Escape: Another Exception That Proves the Rule? - Woman Charged Wi...
Texas Moratorium Network

Rep Jeff Leach Speaks to Texas House in Favor of His Bill Addressing the Imposition of the Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - The bill by Representative Jeff Leach would prohibit the imposition of the death penalty in law of parties cases in which the person charged under the la...
Avedon's Sideshow

You're playing with fire - This acrylic by Claire Morand is one of the pretty pictures in this year's collection for spring. Proposed: All members of Congress should be required to ...
Our Finite World

How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden - We now live in a strange world filled with half-truths, not too different from the world of the 1930s. US newspapers leave out the many stories that could ...
Louis Proyect

What Richard Armitage and Vijay Prashad have in common - Do you remember Richard Armitage? He is best known for telling Robert Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. This was part of his overall effort to hobb...
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.
TalkLeft

Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce - Bill and Melinda Gates have announced they are getting a divorce. Both their twitter feeds have the same message. They say they will continue their work to...
Liberal America

America Will Never Confront Its Racism If It Keeps Denying It’s Racist (Video) - Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott proclaimed in his rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday that “Am...
Anti-Media

Algorithm Manipulation is the Only Thing Keeping Mainstream Media Alive - If not for algorithm manipulation, the mainstream media would have been replaced by independent media years ago.
Project Censored

The Cold War Truth Commission Part 2 - On March 21st, 2021, an alliance of peace organizations presented the “Cold War Truth Commission,” a day of online lectures and discussion about the orig...
Earthworks

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Epidemic - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Indigenous Cabinet Secretary, announced the creation of the Missing and Murdered Unit in the Bureau of Indian A...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-AAPI Hate: A Conversation With Dr. Jennifer Lee - The rise in anti-AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) hate incidents and hate crimes has finally started a national conversation on the history of an...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Criminalization of Dissent - One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but ...
Progressives Chat

How the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau’s Report Affects the Map - Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on population changes. Such changes affect some states for how many congressional seats and electoral votes th...
The Mind Unleashed

WATCH: Video Shows Bullets Fly as Armored Car Crew Narrowly Escapes Brutal Heist - Dramatic dash cam footage from Pretoria, South Africa, shows the moment that the crew of an armored car narrowly escaped an attempt by armed robes to stage...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2021 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in April of 2021, including at least two that were fatal, one from road rage, another from a small child who fou...
Stinque

All the Fables That Fit - Claims Disputed in River-Crossing Incident “Why did you sting me?” asked the Frog “It’s just my nature,” replied the Scorpion. Survivors of the Frog argu...
The Socialist

How to Make The Political Arrangements For Reviewing in Kaoyan - The application phase should be scheduled fromNovember to early December. Its goal is to consolidate the contents through the practice. The summary stage s...
CT's short stories and novelettes

MEXICAN RED AND THE BANKER - 1 A lone rider from the west slowly trotted his pony in anticipation of finding water at Weber’s spring. The spring sometimes went dry, but he...
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: Who Weeps for the Hate Nerd? - In this offsite essay we're looking at a video by Thought Slime that helps explain why you shouldn't defend Nick Fuentes from the consequences of his act...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: World Press Photo of The Year, A COVID-19 Hug - World Press Photo of the Year depicts a patron embraced by a nurse at a care home, Sao Paulo, Brazil, through a curtain of clear plastic. The post Chatti...
ProPublica

Counties at Highest Risk for COVID Harm Often Have Lowest Vaccination Rates - by Ryan Gabrielson ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publi...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Action Releases Statement on New Census Data Allocating Two Additional Congressional Districts to Texas - Texas gained two new seats given new Census information. Find Texas Rising Action’s statement below: Austin, TX — In response to the announcement this af...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

God Damn You All To Hell - Saturday Night Live died with John Belushi. That’s it. That’s the blog post. pic.twitter.com/ziirugIcaf — Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) April 24, 2021 11×1...
Independent Political Report

Alliance Party April 2021 Newsletter - *The Alliance Party sent out the following newsletter earlier this week updating email subscribers on the latest party news for this month:* *“Own Your Fu...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Spring on the Bayou Bend - Temporary Photo While We Wait for the Pro April 23, 2021 Well, spring has sprung, and we were getting impatient looking at a bare, wintry photo of that Ben...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

The antidote to QAnon is proving that truly “all men are created equal.” - It was another one of those online videos, the kind the world has come to expect with weary repugnance. The video starts with ominous looking centaurs flas...
LawFlog

FBI releases records about murdered DNC employee Seth Rich - This afternoon the FBI finally released records about murdered DNC employee Seth Rich and the 2016 theft of Democratic National Committee emails that were ...
The Rag Blog

Lamar W. Hankins : WAR | My military ambivalence - I thought it was wrong to fight in the Vietnam War, and there has not been one since that I found compelling. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 22...
Downwinders at Risk

Earth Day 2021: Our New Archive of Local Frontline Environmental Justice Fights - It’s Earth Day 2021. Board members Cindy Hua and Evelyn Mayo built this great archival tool to explore the history of EJ frontline fights in Dallas County...
Innocence Project

Instagram Live Q&A: Ask a Forensic Science Expert - Join us on Monday, April 26, at 12 p.m. ET on Instagram Live. In celebration of World DNA Day, our forensic policy analyst, Kareem Belt, will answer quest...
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...
Greg Palast

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

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

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

Downtown Fort Worth to dim lights to help migrating birds - *Lights Out Texas encourages businesses and residents to turn off lights from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. through June 15. Photo courtesy of Storyblocks.* March 1...
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...
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 ...
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-...
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...
The Blofaiz

hair loss| hair fall | hair fall treatment - hair loss treatment Why do hair loss ? Hair fall has increasingly become a very common problem in men and women. There are many factors that lead to ha...
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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