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World Socialist Web Site

New COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 identified at the University of Michigan - Five of six cases of the new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, identified in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have been associated with the University of Michigan Ann A...
The Verge

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3’s EKG feature is coming to 31 new countries - Dan Seifert / The Verge Samsung is expanding its Health Monitor app to 31 new countries, including 28 European countries, and people in those countries w...
Political Wire

Oklahoma Tries to Return Hydroxychloroquine - “The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of a malaria drug once touted by former President ...
Mediaite

GOP Lawmaker, Removed from Ga. House Chamber for Refusing COVID Test, Compares Himself to ‘Original 33’ Black Lawmakers Who Were ‘Thrown Out Because of Their Skin Color’ - Read the rest of this entry » The post GOP Lawmaker, Removed from Ga. House Chamber for Refusing COVID Test, Compares Himself to ‘Original 33’ Black Lawm...
WhatWouldJackDo

The Internet is, and shall forever be, undefeated - pic.twitter.com/wIyt8HXut0 — Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) January 21, 2021
Daily Dot

‘Major RED FLAG’: TikTok video of groom ‘aggressively’ throwing whole cake at bride sparks debate - [image: groom throws cake at bride tiktok] A woman is being urged to divorce her new husband after a video went viral of him “aggressively” throwing thei...
Raw Story

Florida school resource officer caught on video as he knocks Black student unconscious - A Liberty High School resource officer in Osceola, Florida, was captured on video attempting to detail a Black female student and knocking her unconsciou...
memeorandum

Martin Baron, executive editor who oversaw dramatic Washington Post expansion, announces retirement (Paul Farhi/Washington Post) - Paul Farhi / Washington Post: *Martin Baron, executive editor who oversaw dramatic Washington Post expansion, announces retirement* — Martin Baron, one...
Shadowproof

The American Exceptionalism Of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken - Blinken may not be rapture ready like his predecessor, Mike Pompeo. He may be more willing to wave the LGBTQIA+ rainbow flag when arming proxy forces or ...
Portside

Fighting the “Immigrant Threat” Narrative; a Review of Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat - Fighting the “Immigrant Threat” Narrative; a Review of Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat Judy Tue, 01/26/2021 - 19:37
Eschaton

Tuesday Evening - In a few years it'll be the Democratic Party and the Q Party.
Mother Jones

BlackRock Threatens to Shed Some of Its Massive Fossil Fuels Portfolio - This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. BlackRock, the world’s biggest invest...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Biden signs four executive orders aimed at promoting racial equity – video - The US president, Joe Biden, has signed four executive orders aimed at healing the racial divide in America, including one to curb the US government’s us...
The Week

More than 100 million coronavirus cases have been reported globally - The global number of confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed 100 million on Tuesday. The actual number of cases is likely much higher, experts say, but cases ...
The Hill

Dobbs: Republicans lost in 2020 because they 'forgot who was the true leader' - Fox Business host Lou Dobbs said on Tuesday that Republicans lost control of the Senate and the presidency because "they forgot who was the true leader," r...
Dissident Voice

Masking Up under Biden: The Perils of Tribalism, Bureaucracy and Lawsuits - One crackling theme streaking through the US elections of 2020 was the issue of mask wearing. Critics initially felt that face masks were of the too imp...
The Root

Mic Drop: Are We on the Come-Up? - We all know music can be a useful outlet for all of the pent-up shit we deal with, whether we’re simply listening to it or actually making it—and on the ...
Digby's Hullabaloo

Oh Snap… - Doocy is from Fox News, of course. Lol. Here’s the read-out: US President Joe Biden has warned Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about election meddling i...
Salon.com

Virginia "Trump in heels" candidate says Capitol attack was justified — because of COVID rules - Amanda Chase says Capitol rioters were tired of being told "what we can and cannot do in the form of mandates"
Buzzflash

NYT Reporter Says There Are Witness to Trump Enjoying Watching the Invasion of the Capitol - AlterNet
INSIDER - politics news

The White House is adding a sign language interpreter to press briefings in an effort to be more inclusive - [image: White House press secretary Jen Psaki.] Summary List Placement White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Monday that the Biden Administrat...
Al Jazeera English

Biden says US to buy 200 million more COVID vaccine doses - Joe Biden says US will accelerate delivery of vaccines to states and localities, but warns progress will take time.
Getaka

Pennsylvania GOP pledges full allegiance to Trump - Pennsylvania GOP pledges full allegiance to Trump PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania once stocked D.C. with a steady stream of establishment Republicans. Now, i...
Techdirt.

For Basically No Reason, Gamestop's Stock Price Is Rollercoastering In A Tug Of War Being Fought On Reddit - Let's get this straight out of the gate: I am an expert on nothing to do with the stock market beyond my own personal investments. So, absolutely none of...
Courthouse News

Leahy, Set to Preside Over Trump Senate Trial, Taken to Hospital - Patrick Leahy, the Senate’s president pro tempore who is set to president over former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, was hospitalized Tuesday ...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Wait, Was The Green Bay Field Goal The Right Call? - We start with the NFL conference championships. Josh Allen inarguably had a bad day, but there have been a lot of arguments about the Buffalo Bills repeate...
Ring of Fire

Papantonio Shares His Memories Of Larry King - Via In Question: The late Larry King explains it in his own words in a preview of an exclusive interview with RT America Host Rick Sanchez. Then, Host of...
Second Nexus

QAnon Congresswoman Issues Rambling Statement after Resurfaced Facebook Posts Show Her Supporting Pelosi's Execution - Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continues to make waves in political circles despite representing Georgia's 14th district in the House of Rep...
Daily Cartoonist

A Little of This, A Little of That - Tain’t Funny McGee McPherson © John McPherson A New Castle News reader finds no humor in a Close to Home comic: I no longer “read” The News but scan for so...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Dr. Fauci ...
NPR's Health Shots

Biden Announces Plans To Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Supply - On Tuesday, President Biden announced a plan to boost the COVID-19 vaccine supply by 20% over the next three weeks and by hundreds of millions of doses by ...
The Mind Unleashed

NASA Astronomers Shocked After Discovering Solar System with Six ‘Suns’ - Researchers have found a "sextuply eclipsing sextuple star system," according to the New York Times.
OpEd News

One Year Later-The Kobe Bryant I Still Remember - "Our Responsibility is more than putting a ball in a basket" Kobe Bryant----It's hard to believe. But yes, it's been one year since the death of Kobe Bryan...
Latino Rebels

The Antagonist: A Latin[ish] Podcast - Host Hector Luis Alamo chats with Arturo Dominguez, an anti-racist activist and journalist based in Texas
Progressive.org

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and (Not) Love My Job - In her new book, Sarah Jaffe reminds us that, no matter how much we want to love our work, companies will never love us back.
Reform Austin

Marijuana Messaging Changes In Response to Budget News - For months, advocates for greater access to cannabis in Texas have been looking at the expected massive budget shortfall and pointing out that the state ...
Axios

Tim Kaine, Susan Collins pitch Senate colleagues on censuring Donald Trump - Sens. Tim Kaine and Susan Collins are privately pitching their colleagues on a bipartisan resolution censuring former President Trump, three sources fami...
Deadline Politics

Global Covid Case Numbers Cross 100 Million As Joe Biden Announces Plans To Increase Vaccine Supply By 50% - On Tuesday, Johns Hopkins University revealed that Covid-19 had infected more than 100 million people globally. That milestone comes a little over one year...
Slate

Senate Republicans Are Ready to Let Trump Off the Hook - A procedural vote previews the party's exit strategy for impeachment.
San Antonio Report

Bexar County puts more than $3M toward mental health, substance abuse services - [image: Bexar County Commissioners Court convenes on January 12, 2021, with its two new members, Trish DeBerry and Rebeca Clay-Flores.]Bexar County funds d...
Vox

A stunt from Rand Paul reveals limited Republican support for impeachment - [image: Senate To Begin Trump Trial Then Pause For Biden Confirmations] Sen. Rand Paul attempted to force a vote on the constitutionality of the impeachme...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Bill to Repeal Presidential Primary - Missouri Representative Adam Schwadron (R-Saint Charles) has introduced HB 680. It would repeal Missouri’s presidential primary.
Mediagazer

After 10 months on Substack, the group behind the Everything Bundle is launching with its own platform, a new brand named Every, and $600K in seed funding (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios) - Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: *After 10 months on Substack, the group behind the Everything Bundle is launching with its own platform, a new brand named Ever...
Alternet

Chief Justice Roberts refused to preside over Trump's second impeachment, Schumer reveals - When it became clear that the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump would take place after he was out of office, it raised a curious constitutional qu...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Foggy Memories - Media Matters: Tucker Carlson defends QAnon. Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski @ CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democr...
Houston Press

2021: The Year Of Metanoia Kicks Off With Release Of "We Won't Stay Here" - Metanoia is a concept dating back to Greek mythology involving changing someone’s mind or heart through a reflective and spiritual journey. Houston band Me...
Texas Environmental News

Dow Chemical To Pay $294M To Clean Up Air Pollution at U.S. Chemical Plants - To resolve claims filed by the U.S. Justice Department, Dow Chemical Company must spend nearly $300 million to upgrade air [...] The post Dow Chemical To...
Houston Public Media

The Biden Administration Is Working To Buy 200 Million More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses - The Biden administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses from both Moderna and Pfizer and pledges greater transparency with state and ...
Futurism

Elon Musk Directs His 43 Million Followers to Wall Street Bets - [image: Elon Musk is joining Reddit's plot to mess with GameStop stock short sellers just as the situation is getting out of control.] Reddit Takeover The ...
Common Dreams

Patriotic Millionaires Praise the Raise the Wage Act as "An Incredible Long-Term Economic Stimulus" - ______________________________
VICE

Daily Horoscope: January 27, 2021 - The moon is in Cancer.
Texas Monthly

As More Novices Head to the Wilderness, Rescues Are Spiking at Some Texas State Parks - Big Bend Ranch State Park and Enchanted Rock State Natural Area both saw a 50 percent surge in backcountry rescues last year. The post As More Novices H...
slacktivist

Half of pastors say their congregations bear false witness against their neighbors - “Study reveals half of pastors say they’re hearing conspiracy theories in their churches.” This is an interesting, but frustrating survey in that it doesn’...
San Antonio Current

Federal judge temporarily blocks Biden's 100-day deportation moratorium after Texas sues administration - A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on deportations of some undocumented immigrants. Federal J...
Bayou Brief

What It Means to Cancel 2021’s Mardi Gras Parades - My ability to stay at home with my kids and help them suffer through this long year of online schooling during the pandemic, has been funded by Mardi Gras....
Duck of Minerva

Duck Podcast: Philip Cunliffe - In the latest edition of the Duck podcast I talk with Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, about his new book The New Twenty Years C...
NORML

Opioid Prescriptions Decline in Canada Following Enactment of Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization - "The findings of this study add to the growing body of evidence that easier access to cannabis for patients with pain may reduce opioid use and partially...
Texas Standard

‘Our Service Is Valued And Seen’: Biden Repeals Transgender Service Ban - Now, trans advocates and service members are preparing for a new era — with new challenges.
Liberation News

Florida teachers unions at odds with governor on vaccine distribution - Originally posted on Reds in Ed. As schools in Florida start their second semester, questions still abound regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC has incl...
Discourse

Office Hours: Looking Forewarned - The future's starting to seem bearable again. But there's still that one thing... The post Office Hours: Looking Forewarned appeared first on Discourse B...
The Appeal

New Jersey Could Force Cuomo’s Hand on Pot Legalization - New Jersey was one of four states to legalize recreational marijuana in November, and advocates say the move is likely putting pressure on surrounding st...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

A Specially Called Council Meeting Didn’t Make for a Fun Monday Night - The Dallas City Council seems confused. A special meeting called to clarify the city’s role in the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine ate up the last fiv...
In These Times

Columbia Students Wage the Largest Tuition Strike in Nearly 50 Years - Students are demanding the university lower the cost of attendance and boost financial aid. - On January 22, students at Columbia University in New York began the largest tuition strike in nearly 50 years. With the tuition deadline behind them, st...
Democracy Chronicles

Targeted Killings of Afghan Journalists Threaten Free Media - A recent string of targeted killings in Afghanistan has created an atmosphere of fear among Afghan journalists.
First Draft

The Dog Ate The Constitution - Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Louis Proyect

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints -
Freethought Now

Madison priest provokes a question: What would possess anyone to believe in demons? - In the 21st century, what would possess a grown man to believe in demons?
Progress Pond

The Security Lapse at the Capitol Had Many Authors - A lot can be blamed on the hangover from Trump's use of the military in June to assist his bible-prop stunt. The post The Security Lapse at the Capitol ...
Mondoweiss

B’Tselem casts Israel as a racist endeavor, correcting the ethical grammar of Israel/Palestine - What happens when B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO, has effectively described the State of Israel as a racist endeavor? Thanks to B’Tselem's apartheid report, Brit...
Dandelion Salad

US Christianity VS Jesus, by Eric Schechter - by Eric Schechter aka LeftyMathProf Writer, Dandelion Salad Eric’s Rants and Videos blog January 26, 2021 The USA is a very religious nation, in this sense...
American Prospect

Bringing It All (Well, Some of It) Back Home - Today on TAP: Onshoring federal purchasing
The Conversation

Death threats and intimidation of public officials signal Trump's autocratic legacy - Death threats against Republicans who oppose Trump are not just the result of angry people. They are, instead, an attempt to intimidate people into stickin...
Eater Houston

Beloved Beef Purveyor Cherry Block Plots Two New Houston-Area Locations - [image: a person holding two raw cuts of steak in the shape of a heart] Cherry Block Butcher is closing up shop in Bravery Chef Hall to open two new stand...
DeSmogBlog

Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns — After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail - [image: Bomb trail] Read time: 12 mins New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in July 2020 al...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ZOMG Democracy! - We’re hitting a record for COVID-19 deaths, unemployment is sky-high, another wave of evictions is hitting, the fascists are still running wild, the police...
MintPress News

In the Wake of the Riots: The Blowback from Defeating Trump was Criminalizing Dissent - As the neoliberal state’s crisis of legitimacy matures, anti-terrorism laws and the institutional apparatus of fascist repression are being perfected to ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 26, 2021 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: President Biden moves to undo even more of Trump's attacks on the environment; Biden will use the power of the government purse to...
Daily Howler

Slate on the logic of impeachment! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021* *Best attempt we've seen: *In its modern incarnation, Slate is perhaps best known for its examination of nagging life-style i...
Mahablog

Mitch McConnell’s Big Red Wall of No - The big news today is that it appears Mitch McConnell has backed down on blocking Democrats from assuming the majority in the Senate and will allow the p...
The NM Political Report

WATCH: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s 2021 State of the State address - [image: WATCH: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s 2021 State of the State address] This year’s legislative session is like no other before it because of the CO...
Wolf Street

California’s Ballooning Unemployment Fraud: 95% is under Federal PUA Program. PUA Fraud is a “National Problem” - Fraudulent payments by California could exceed $20 billion. New security measures to prevent fraud cause delays in payments that triggered a new hullabaloo.
The AltWorld

L’Irak se «libanise»: Penchera-t-il du côté des USA ou de l’Iran? - Les conflits politiques et économiques en cours en Irak ne sont pas sans rappeler le Liban. Cependant, […] The post L’Irak se «libanise»: Penchera-t-il d...
Rallblog

Read This and Tell Me Biden Isn’t Losing It - I have been criticized for saying that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia. Many Democrats point to his scripted appearances where he is reading prepare...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/26/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
Morning Consult

Consumers Support Paying Workers to Get COVID-19 Vaccine, as Long as Shots Are Voluntary - The post Consumers Support Paying Workers to Get COVID-19 Vaccine, as Long as Shots Are Voluntary appeared first on Morning Consult.
Scheerpost.com

Corporate Media Become Deficit Hawks When It Comes to Progressive Legislation - The point of deficit hawkery is to scold and scare readers into accepting cuts to welfare and public services that are of no use to the wealthy, while they...
Counterpunch

Jimmy Dore and The Boogaloo Boys Will SHUT DOWN The Black Vote | Tim Black - The post Jimmy Dore and The Boogaloo Boys Will SHUT DOWN The Black Vote | Tim Black appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Frontloading HQ

A Presidential Primary in Lieu of Caucuses in Nevada? - Circling back to this from *Michael Scherer at the Washington Post* nearly two weeks ago. The prospect of a presidential primary in Nevada is nothing new....
SCOTUSblog

With Democrats in control, Supreme Court reform proposals reclaim center stage - In the immediate aftermath of the nomination of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court last October, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden promis...
Lawfare

Is the SolarWinds Cyberattack an Act of War? It Is, If the United States Says It Is. - A bundle of wires. (Simeon Berg, https://tinyurl.com/yxokdsvg; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Members of Congress on both sides...
DBC Green

For the People Act Rears Its Head Again - graphic included in email from the Progressive Reform Network This isn't the first time the warning bells have been sounded about this matter. Democrats in...
Project Censored

Capitol Coup d’Trump - On January 6, 2021, right-wing protestors invaded the U.S. Capitol building to try to disrupt the certifying of votes for the presidential election, some...
Grist

In a trash-filled pandemic, low-waste businesses are taking off - Despite early fears that reusable containers could be a vector for disease, public concern over the environmental impacts of our trash hasn’t gone away.
WhoWhatWhy

Twitter Launches Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Project - Reading Time: 2 minutes Biden Administration Must Go Into Overdrive to Reclaim Our Courts ; Family, Co-Workers, Old FB Friends Helped Catch Capitol Intru...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Pendulum of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again - There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated acco...
Land Destroyer

Biden is US President... What difference Will it Make? - *January 26, 2021* (Brian Berletic - LD) - With US President Joe Biden now in the White House, many are wondering what difference - if any - will it make...
Novara Media

The Influencer Industrial Complex | Interview With Moya Lothian-McLean - The last few years have heralded the rise of the influencer: social media users who have, in essence, found a way to get paid for being themselves on the i...
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg City Manager to recommend priorities for 87th Texas Legislature during City Council workshop at noon Thursday at Edinburg City Hall - City Manager Ron Garza will lay out what he believes should be the city’s priorities before the 87th Texas Legislature when the Edinburg City Council meets...
alicublog

MUZZLE ME THIS, BATMAN. - Plenty has been written about the absurdity of U.S. Senator Josh Hawley declaring that he -- and America! -- have been "muzzled" on the cover of the *New ...
BillMoyers.com

The GOP at the Crossroads - What is taking oxygen today is the war between the two factions of the Republican Party: the Trump faction and the business faction. Continue reading Th...
OffGuardian

WATCH: Corbett Report: The 4th Annual Fake News Awards! - Released on 16 January, 2021, James Corbett’s 4th Annual Fake News Awards! is both hilarious and informative, providing a unique and morale-nourishing wind...
El Paso Matters

The strange business of Alaska Native corporations and ICE immigrant detention - The Inupiaq Eskimo people of Wales, Alaska, have more than 120 words to describe ice. Located just below the Arctic Circle, tribal communities in the Be...
Dorf on Law

The Upside of Senate Republicans’ All-but-Certain Acquittal of Donald Trump, or, What Cruz and Hawley Truly Want - *by Neil H. Buchanan* I hereby state clearly and unequivocally up front that Donald Trump should be convicted in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial. ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Black HIV leaders on what they want from Biden in 2021' & other Tue midday news briefs - *Black HIV Leaders on What They Want From Biden in 2021* - *Good article.* *Honduran lawmakers vote to lock in bans on abortion, same-sex marriage* - *Co...
The Intercept

How Biden's FCC Could Bring Fast Relief to Students Struggling With Remote Learning - Biden’s pick for FCC chair, Jessica Rosenworcel, has long pushed to make it easier for schools to spend federal funds on home Wi-Fi and tech devices. The...
Moon of Alabama

Sorry, No Post Today. - Sorry, no post today. The heating installation for the block I am living in failed yesterday. It is supposed to be up again only late this evening. It is f...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

President Biden: The Time To Restore Net Neutrality Is Now - Just over four years ago, Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission eliminated net neutrality rules that ensured a free and open internet. Without...
ProPublica

How the CARES Act Forgot America’s Most Vulnerable Hospitals - by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as ...
Dallas Observer

'Heil Hitler:' Embattled Frisco Realtor Jenna Ryan Dropped from PayPal - Frisco real estate broker Jenna Ryan has been removed from PayPal and other fundraising websites, where she was attempting to raise money for her legal def...
Popular Resistance

Opening The Door To A More Democratic UAW - In December the leadership of the United Auto Workers reached a settlement with the Justice Department that opens the door to election of top union offic...
Claytoonz

Convict Hate - During his inauguration speech, President Joe Biden said, “White supremacists say ‘what.'” Then, Kentucky senator Rand Paul said, “What?”. A lot of people ...
The Contributor

Why the Senate Must Abolish the Filibuster - News Image: All that Stands between What People Want and What Congress Delivers Is an Absurd Rule that Assures Minority Rule Category: Opinion origin Blo...
ArcaMax

Family Tradition: Jewish agency's Bougie Herzog takes on the protection of world Jewry - Israelis do not "do" royalty, to put it mildly. They are famously irreverent, deeply skeptical and distinctively if not scathingly critical of their leader...
Rewire

Joe Biden Might Not Be the Worst—and That Feels Weird to Say - I resigned myself to voting for Joe Biden. About a week into his administration, I have to say I've been pleasantly surprised—"Sleepy Joe" means business...
Undernews

Questions raised about Biden's Ag Dept. appointment -
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Coronavirus: The Infodemic - January 26 - Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.
Texas Observer

Will the Texas Legislature Stop Police from Arresting People for Fine-Only Offenses? - On a broiling August day last year, Dillon Puente drove through the Fort Worth suburb of Keller to take his car to a mechanic. The high temperature that ...
Crooked Timber

Freedom from the Market - Mike Konczal has a new book, Freedom from the Market (Bookshop.org locator, Amazon). I’ve been wanting to write about this book for a while, but first had ...
Democracy Now!

Inequality Virus: Pandemic Widens Wealth Gap for Women, People of Color as Billionaire Profits Soar - As the wealth of U.S. billionaires soars by over a trillion dollars during the pandemic, Oxfam is warning COVID-19 could lead to the biggest increase in gl...
Countercurrents

Earth’s ice melting at record rate, finds study - The world’s ice is melting so fast that sea level rise predictions cannot keep up. The ice melting is faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research su...
The Ghion Journal

Drawing the Fire of Sarah Jones and Blue Checkmarked Marks - You know that you are making inroads as an independent journalist and a non-aligned observer when corporate swine who pretend to be reporters walk away ...
The Smirking Chimp

It's Time to Treat Republican Officials like Children -
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: U.S. and Mexico: Real engagement, or simply cordial? - Last Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is certainly still on all of our minds. The past few months have b...
Space City Weather

After days and days of gray, sunnier skies are on the way - Good morning. For the last seven days, temperatures in Houston have averaged 10 to 15 degrees above normal for January, with mostly cloudy skies. Now, foll...
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: A Cheater’s Week on Media Madness - Our weekly Film Sessions feature is back with two great videos by Richard Wolff; includes economic advice for Biden & why capitalism is theft. The post Fi...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 1/26/2021 - Top legal news includes: Harris County judge dismisses vaccine theft charge against doctor, blasts DA for bringing the case (Chron subsc); More Houston pol...
Southeast Texas Record

Randy Sorrels apparently out at Abraham Watkins - HOUSTON – For three decades, attorney Randy Sorrels practiced law at Abraham Watkins. Read more..
Progrexas

Despite insurrection, there may be more guns in the Texas Capitol this session - With the proper license, visitors to the Texas Capitol are allowed to carry open or concealed guns. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Sign u...
Angry Bear

Is Biden Going To Blow Reentering The Iran Nuclear Deal? - Is Biden Going To Blow Reentering The Iran Nuclear Deal? I certainly hope not, but it is not out of the question. There is a serious split within the ne...
ROAR Magazine

The Laura Flanders Show: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy - Weekly in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics with Laura Flanders.
Earth 911

Our Plastic Crisis Has Made NIMBYism Global - For decades, the U.S. has been exporting its plastic for ... The post Our Plastic Crisis Has Made NIMBYism Global appeared first on Earth 911.
High Country News

Reclaiming the National Bison Range - After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd.
Crooked Media

We Need to Talk about Medicare for All with Dr. Micah Johnson - The post We Need to Talk about Medicare for All with Dr. Micah Johnson appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Progressive Wing

1/26 Open thread - I am a night owl so I thought I would get a head start on todays open thread. I comment plenty late at night but often it is bypassed. More in the comment ...
Ian Welsh

Will Bill Gates And mRNA Vaccine Monopolies Be Responsible For Millions of Covid Deaths? - Good question. Oxford University surprised and pleased advocates of overhauling the vaccine business in April by promising to donate the rights to its prom...
Informed Comment

President Biden, We can do this too: Europe generates more electricity with Renewables than Fossil Fuels for First Time - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new report from Ember and Agora Energiewende finds that in 2020, the 27 countries of the European Union generated more ele...
jobsanger

Trump Fans Are Threatening Members Of Congress -
See You In 2020

The U.S. Will Lose The Cold War With China. Then Collapse Will Come For It. - I’m fascinated by the ideological battle that’s emerged in American political discourse over whether or not China should be viewed favorably, because thi...
Antiwar.com

The First 100 Minutes: Tiptoeing Through Trump’s Landmines - As Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo withdrew in the dying days of their administration, they sowed the foreign policy ground with landmines. The landm...
The Grayzone

Biden admin’s coercive Iran policy threatens serious new regional crisis - Team Biden is planning to hold on to what it apparently sees as its “Trump card”— the Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran oil exports that have...
Pages of Victory

Can we impeach Trump a third time? - Asking for a friend. I would like to forget the SOB but I fear he is to be a permanent fixture in the time I have left. I prefer to concentrate on as...
Caitlin Johnstone

Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets - Twitter has announced that it will be employing “a new community-driven approach to help address misleading information” called Birdwatch which news media ...
Workers World

Elliott Abrams, fire your own president; you couldn’t fire mine in Venezuela. - [image: Elliott Abrams, fire your own president; you couldn’t fire mine in Venezuela.] By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein The writer was the director of inte...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

TCEP Brown Bag: 87th Texas Legislature--Lawmaking in a Non-traditional Redistricting Session, featuring Ramiro Canales, Jan. 29, 2021 at Noon - *Dear Students, Friends and Colleagues:* *On behalf of the Texas Center for Education Policy, I am happy to invite you to a presentation by the legendary...
Election Law Blog

“Post-Election Litigation and the Paradox of Voting” - Peter Salib & Guha Krishnamurthi have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, U Chicago L Rev. Online). Here is the abstract: Economists will tell you that...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaez Blames Cancel Culture for His Inability to Bring a Woman to Climax Even Once - WASHINGTON, D.C. — If there is one thing Congressman Matt Gaetz loathes, it’s sobriety. Another thing he despises is “cancel culture.” Though many conser...
Due Dissidence

Centrist Liberals Are More Hostile To Class Politics Than Right Wing Populists - by Keaton Weiss Last summer, Nathan Robinson reviewed Krystal Ball’s and Saagar Enjeti’s book, A Populist Guide to 2020. He criticized the authors for over...
Earthworks

Flaring is (Still) Flamingly Stupid, but Unlit Flaring is Worse - In May, Earthworks’ Senior Field Advocate, Sharon Wilson, wrote a blog post about the increasing prevalence of unlit flare stacks at oil and gas operatio...
Field Negro

? Of The Day. - Should Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley be expelled from the Unites States senate?
Dos Centavos

Harris County Judge Announces Vax Registration Portal - Finally! I’d been wondering why there wasn’t some registration portal available that would allow folks to pre-register for the COVID-19 vaccine, instead of...
Chicken Fried Politics

Sarah Huckabee Sanders running for governor of Arkansas - Former White House press secretary will face battle in competitive Republican primary ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor LITTLE ROCK (CFP) —...
Living Blue in Texas

Texas Republican Party Steers Online Followers to Gab, an Alternative Social Media Platform Used by White Nationalist Militias and Neo-Nazis - Despite Overwhelming Condemnation, the Texas GOP Continues To Market Itself As the Party of Conspiracy-led Extremists AUSTIN, Texas — Since this summer,...
Seeing the Forest

Don’t Nuke The Filibuster – Reform It - Dems should reform the filibuster to make it into what the public thinks it already is. Currently there is a Senate rule that effectively means legislation...
Two Party Opera

Curse of Tippecanoe -
Bonddad

Coronavirus dashboard for January 25: a vaccination race against time vs. the new mutations - *- by New Deal democrat* All of the significant economic data is backloaded this week, onto Thursday and Friday. So don’t be surprised if I take a day...
Independent Political Report

Movement For A Peoples Party is the new Union Party - There has been a lot of talk about Movement For A Peoples Party in regards to recent actions they have taken that have been seen as undermining the Left ...
Duffel Blog

Former ‘Ranger’ Tom Cotton refuses to call Jill Biden ‘Doctor' - “It’s just misleading,” said the former 101st Airborne Officer who campaigned on his experience as an Army Ranger.
Progressives Chat

‘Trump as Othello in a Corporate Theater’ - *Black Agenda Report*’s Glen Ford remembers, as we have not forgotten, the corrupt, corporate Democratic Party Establishment—and Hillary Clinton—delive...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Left Bitches w/ Glenn Greenwald teaser: Welcome Home, War On Terror! - Patriot Act 2.0, anyone? The Left Bitches and journalist Glenn Greenwald talk propaganda and Silicon Valley censorship, Biden’s plan to fight the white sup...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Old Jules, what was all that Y2K stuff about? - Old Jules, what was all that Y2K stuff about? I don’t claim to know why Y2K happened to society in the sense it was obviously a trumped-up affair that sent...
LareDOS

Ignorance can be remedied through education; however, one has to have the will to know truth - Ted Cruz is Texas’ claim to shame
TalkLeft

Site-Wide Comments Problem [Fixed Now] - Update [2021-1-26 0:29:44 by hillct]: Service was restored early Tuesday evening. Please feel free to use this thread to confirm proper comment operations,...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Healthy Masculinity & Radical Vulnerability w Sacred Sons Co-Founder Adam Jackson - Vanessa and Danny are excited to welcome Sacred Sons co-founder Adam Jackson to the podcast to discuss men’s work, radical vulnerability and how men can ...
Robert Reich

CEO’s Newfound Concern for Democracy is Bunk - The sudden lurch from Trump to Biden is generating vertigo all over Washington, including the...
Socialist Alternative

Defeat Lightfoot’s Reckless School Reopening! Educators, Parents, & Students Should Decide - Melissa Vozar – CTU Member writing in personal capacity Chicago Public Schools have been thrown into chaos by an inflexible insistence on the part of Mayo...
Church and State

Henry Aaron’s life story offers a huge example to the GOP to embrace racial equity - Evolution has taken time but the election of two Democratic senators from Georgia was proof of Trump’s diminishment.
Liberal America

Biden Admin Considers Continuing Trump’s Venezuelan Imperialism (Video) - Joe Biden is wasting no time distinguishing himself from Donald Trump. While he has the potential to become “the most progressive president since FDR,” a...
Trivial Knot

The speed of light in different directions - As a reminder, I’m open to requests to discuss any popular physics articles or videos, to append to my “I read popular physics” series. This video was not ...
Stinque

A Flock of Bernies - Then came a quiet morning when Mr. Biden opened a door on the north side. A warm draft of rising air blew softly through the Capitol cellar. The baby Ber...
Consent Factory, Inc.

That’s All Folks! - As they used to say at the end of all those wacky Looney Tunes cartoons, that’s all folks! The show is over. Literal Russian-Asset Hitler, the Latest Great...
Sludge

Companies Are Pausing Their PACs, But Their Trade Groups Aren’t - After the siege on the Capitol Building on January 6, a wave of brand-name companies said they had finally had enough of congressional Republicans’ anti-de...
Tribune of the People

Camp Manoel Ribeiro is Attacked Again and Peasants Resist; See Video - The following is an unofficial translation of A Nova Democracia’s article Camp Manoel Ribeiro is Attacked Again and Peasants Resist. There follows the esca...
TXElects

Spiller, Carter Advance to Runoff in HD68 - Jacksboro attorney and Jacksboro ISD trustee David Spiller will face Nocona boot manufacturer Craig Carter in a runoff election to fill the unexpired Hou...
Bud Kennedy

Fort Worth-area law officers’ emails show past ties to paranoid Oath Keepers militia - Emails show at least three current or past county constables in the Fort Worth area have ties to the Oath Keepers, the revolution-minded, conspiracy-bent m...
The Militant

‘Stimulus’ fund for ‘Militant’ at $49,267, and growing! - The Militant’s special “stimulus” fund appeal continues to increase! Contributions jumped this week by $20,000, hitting $49,267 with a total of 105 donatio...
Bracing Views

The Bernie Meme - W.J. Astore The Bernie Sanders meme has been good fun over the last few days. At an inauguration ceremony where everyone was dressed to the nines, like the...
Reveal

A transfer of power - As the nation swears in President Joe Biden, we look at the long shadow cast by the forces that brought Donald Trump to power. The post A transfer of po...
Equality Texas

Lege 2021: A coordinated attack against trans kids - In the newest attempt to erode support for equal rights in Texas, Representative Steve Toth and Senator Charles Perry are directly targeting transgender yo...
Eclectablog

We don’t know sh!t about the Capitol Coup… yet – with very special guest Marcy Wheeler - Marcy Wheeler on Twitter: @emptywheel Marcy Wheeler's website: EmptyWheel.net Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: In November, Emmet Sullivan suggested he mig...
Environment Texas

Hope for the Tongass National Forest - Friday, January 22, 2021 President Biden’s first day actions signal a welcome change in direction for wild forest policy.
Unlimited Hangout

Another Mega Group Spy Scandal? Samanage, Sabotage, And The SolarWinds Hack - The devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on Russia by US intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage, a company whose software was integra...
epic.org

European Parliament Guidelines Call for Moratorium on Facial Recognition - In a report released January 20, 2021 the European Parliament outlines the need for new legal frameworks for artificial intelligence and biometric surveill...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Capitol Insurrection Shows How Trends On The Far-Right’s Fringe Have Become Mainstream - Researchers studying the far right have sounded the alarm over the threat posed by the rapid proliferation of conspiracy theories, disinformation and misin...
Dissent Magazine

Belabored: Stopping the Spread of Prop 22 - California’s Proposition 22 locked in a second-tier status for gig economy workers. In the state and around the country, they’re still organizing for som...
Debunking Christianity

How NOT to Convince Us About God - *A favorite theological scam* I never, ever visit Christian websites or blogs to advocate atheism; I don’t invade the online space of *any* religion. I’...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Climate change contributed to more than 70 natural disasters since 2015 - One of President Joe Biden’s first actions after his inauguration Wednesday was signing an executive order to rejoin the Paris climate agreement. There’s...
Lowering the Bar

Oklahoma Legislator Proposes Big Foot Hunting Season - Look, that’s what it says: Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey (R-Lane) filed HB 1648 on Wednesday. Humphrey represents District 19 in southeastern Oklahom...
Idavox

The Insurrection That Wasn’t: An Account of Sunday’s Abandoned NJ State House Rally - The fash said they were going to be out at Statehouses all over the country, but after Jan. 6, many of them ended up looking like ghost towns. Longtime N...
Rude Pundit

"Unity" Is Another Word for "Clean Up the Fucking Mess Republicans Made" - Republicans are returning to dickish form with the speed of a rabid chipmunk that got into the meth stash. It was to be expected. They should feel chastene...
Greg Palast

Why were Capitol rioters allowed to leave a murder crime scene?Palast and Zach D. Roberts on Brian Ross Investigates - On January 6, during the riots and the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. a police officer was murdered when he had his head crushed by a fire extinguish...
Krebs on Security

DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler - Parler, the beleaguered social network advertised as a "free speech" alternative to Facebook and Twitter, has had a tough month. Apple and Google removed t...
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-...
Innocence Project

Remembering Dion Harrell, Exoneree, Dear Friend, and Gentle Soul - We are saddened to share that our client Dion Harrell, 53, passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 15, in Long Branch, New Jersey. Mr. Harrell was a proud fathe...
Grits for Breakfast

Review of Austin police training videos finds bias and selective deescalation tactics - Videos used to train Austin police officers in the cadet academy contribute to bias, stereotypes, and model disproportionate application of force and deesc...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

As Biden Takes Office, Trump’s Shadow is Inescapable – at Least for Now - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Even as a new president is inaugurated today, the outgoing president looms large. — As Senate Republicans ponder how to vote...
Media Lens

‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction - Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth: ‘The overwhelming m...
BEYONDbones

From the Curator | Old Beads Get New Lease of Life - Most of the museum’s Egyptian collections are on display in the Hall of Ancient Egypt, supplemented by loans from other institutions. What is kept in ou...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Fox & Friends: Biden Inherits an Immigration Mess from Trump Upon Inauguration -
Avedon's Sideshow

There was a stone-cold pack of lies - I'm not going to try to comment on the recent incursion into the Capitol, I can't even guess where this goes. A couple of links will be all you get. "B...
Malady

A Brief Question of Syndicalism - *“For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.” – Rudolf Rocker* Ever since Karl ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Zooming on Buffalo Bayou and Addicks Dam - Public Online Meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 19, to Discuss Issues and Alternatives to the Corps of Engineers’ Answers to Dam and Flood Problems Jan. 17, 2021 Neig...
Alas, a Blog

Open Thread and Link Farm, Canned Milk Edition - Debt and Deficits, Yet Again – Center for Economic and Policy Research “The deficit hawks will be screaming that the Biden package will over-stimulate the ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Media Extortion From Charities, Insurance & other scams? - Do you think media oligarchs should get a cut every time you donate to charity, buy insurance or make many other purchases? With our current economic sy...
Reading the Pictures

Where the Mockery Falls - America has largely confused Trump's mockery of democracy with the mocking of Trump himself. The Europeans haven't had such a problem. The post Where the...
LawFlog

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

Roger Baker : TRANSPORTATION | Is widening I-35 Austin’s biggest boondoggle ever? - It costs too much and does too little. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | January 14, 2021 AUSTIN — I think I can make the case that widening I-35 through Cen...
Anti-Media

Americans Are Being Divided as the War on Domestic Terror Expands - This is a crucial time for the American experiment.
CT's short stories and novelettes

(SHE'S A CHILD OF) COAL BLACK RAINBOWS - She`s a child of coal black rainbows Staring at a fogged up window She`s the girl with a crack in her soul In her life no dreams, no heaven In her tim...
News Taco

A united Hispanic Caucus supports articles of impeachment against Donald Trump - All 34 members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have unanimously agreed to support impeachment, calling for the immediate removal of President Donald...
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...
Our Finite World

2021: More troubles likely - Most people expect that the economy of 2021 will be an improvement from 2020. I don't think so. Perhaps COVID-19 will be somewhat better, but other aspects...
Texas Freedom Network

The Legislature Meets Tomorrow. Here’s What to Expect. - State lawmakers will gather tomorrow at the Capitol in Austin for the official start of the 87th session of the Texas Legislature. We might not be there ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Friendswood Highschool Coach Attended D.C. ‘Storm the Capital’ Trump Protest - **UPDATE** It appears this man is also listed as the High School Principal for Chireno ISD High School. https://www.chirenoisd.org/o/chireno-isd/staff If y...
WAWG Blog

Survival of Our Democratic Republic – Expanding Human Rights … - Contriving to limit rights is about control and power over others. It’s about arrogance and imaginary supremacy over others. It’s about maximizing inequa...
Texans For Public Justice

- TPJ & Sierra Club Investigate Oil and Gas Industry Clout TPJ is engaged in a joint research project with the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter to explore o...
Progressives Everywhere

The Right-Wing Attack on the Capitol Was Inevitable. It Has to Be a Wakeup Call. - The chaos that’s still happening in the Capitol is stomach-churning to watch, but it’s not at all surprising. For all of American history, white men have...
The Socialist

Students And Politics a Global Scenario - The student community, being young and energetic, has a fire, which at the touch of a spark ignites into a very sensuous and passionate matter. They, being...
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...
New Progressive Alliance

Beware the Biden Administration - Given the problems with climate change, the economy, and civil rights we can no longer afford the choice of the lesser evil. Just as we did with Obama an...
Ecosophia

Into the Unknown Region - For most of the fourteen years I’ve been blogging, it’s been a habit of mine on the last post of the old year (or, now and then, the first post of the ne...
Moron Majority

White House Sets Up “Pardon Hotline” - With less than one month remaining in office, Donald Trump’s White House has established a “pardon hotline” to expedite the granting of presidential pardon...
Campaign for America's Future

Our Next Attorney General Must Boldly Set a Course Toward Justice - Black People Showed Up for Biden; Now We Need an Attorney General Who Will Show Up for Us President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris ...
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...
Web of Debt

Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution - A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help s...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Featured on IVN Podcast “Deconstructed” - Independent Voter Podcast · Presidential Debates: Ineffective or Informative? Free & Equal founder Christina Tobin joined Open the Debates founder Eli Beck...
GreenSource DFW

Arlington vote brings dream of biking between Dallas and Fort Worth closer - *Biking enthusiast Tom Frye of Fort Worth rides the Trinity Trail along the Clear Fork in Fort Worth. Photos by John Kent.* Dec. 15, 2020 For longtime F...
Downwinders at Risk

We Did This: A Shingle Mountain Clean-Up is Coming - Despite the flurry of cynical and self-serving photo ops and press releases that Dallas City Hall churned out on Monday celebrating the beginning of a clea...
Texas Watch

Episode 31: Tort "Reform" in Texas: A Brutal History - Learn Category: Accountability Insurance Safety Your browser does not support the audio element. In today's episode, Executive Director Ware Wendell t...
nonsite.org

The Moment of Impressionism - From the first the landscape Impressionists were seen as pursuing an “advanced” pictorial agenda with roots mainly in Manet’s painting (rather than in Coro...
The Disorder Of Things

Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts - This post is a little introduction to my recently published (open access) article in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, in which I use the schol...
ExChristian.Net

Religious Recovery Bootcamp - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coming this January 2021, Journey Free is excited to offer *Religious Recovery Bootcamp. * A 5-month immersive online course t...
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...
Texas Moratorium Network

State Rep. Harold Dutton at 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty - State Rep. Harold Dutton, Jr. spoke at the 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 10, 2020 (online only this year because of the pande...
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! -
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Talking Points Memo

Hydroxychloroquine Advocates Are Pissed Trump’s Not Taking It For COVID - President Donald Trump spent months earlier this year playing up the promise of the old anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in the...
Washington Babylon

Judge Barrett’s Religion is Off Limits, Opus Dei’s Agenda Is Not - [image: Judge Barrett’s Religion is Off Limits, Opus Dei’s Agenda Is Not] Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo, board member of O...
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
Political Dig

Biden Opens Up 5-Point Lead Over Trump In Minnesota: Poll - Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a five-point lead over President Donald Trump in Minnesota, according to a new Star Tribune-MPR News-KARE 11 ...
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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Green Papers

Dammed good question about the Green New Deal - By Don Fitz November 5, 2019 Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with...
The Metaphor Project

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts - For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Gre...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

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

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

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

in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH... - in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH this past weekend, right-wing media are looking to blame anything but easy acce...
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...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
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 ...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.

Brains and Eggs

Friday, February 14, 2014

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