Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Workers World

Salute on the Communist Party of China’s 100th Anniversary - [image: Salute on the Communist Party of China’s 100th Anniversary] Workers World Party, founded in 1959, is a Marxist-Leninist party in the U.S. From its ...
Axios

Democrats face do or die moment on voting rights package - The Democrats' massive voting rights package — and in turn, the debate over eliminating the filibuster — will be brought to the forefront Tuesday through...
SCOTUSblog

Justices dismiss challenge to “remain in Mexico” policy - [image: Justices dismiss challenge to “remain in Mexico” policy]On a day on which the court issued major rulings on college sports and securities law, th...
Latino Rebels

Mexico President to Investigate Border Shooting of Innocents - CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s president vowed to investigate the border shootings that left 19 dead over the weekend, even as the latest homicide...
The Hill

Denver-area shooting leaves 3 dead, including officer, gunman - A shooting in a Denver-area suburb on Monday reportedly left three dead including a police officer and the suspected shooter.As ...
Courthouse News

Chinese Banks Promise to Step Up Cryptocurrency Ban - China’s biggest banks promised Monday to refuse to help customers trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies after the central bank said executives were told...
The Verge

The one developer that publicly agreed to try Facebook’s VR ads is already backing away - Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Last Wednesday, Facebook announced that it would begin testing ads inside of Oculus Quest apps and said that ...
memeorandum

Biden administration to endorse bill to end disparity in drug sentencing between crack and powder cocaine (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Biden administration to endorse bill to end disparity in drug sentencing between crack and powder cocaine* — The Biden administration...
Raw Story

'I refuse to be a tool for voter suppression': Georgia GOP official speaks out after censure for opposing election law - On Monday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," outgoing DeKalb County, Georgia Elections Board vice chair Baoky Vu, a longtime Republican, spoke out after his ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters hits a milestone! 7,500,00 hits and counting! But what comes next? - Congratulations to my lovely blog because as of today, it has hit over 7,500,000 hits. Not bad for a part-time gig in which I make very little money off ...
Mediaite

NY Times Editor Dean Baquet Issues Statement Defending Maggie Haberman From Fox News - New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet defended correspondent Maggie Haberman in a statement Monday night over a critical piece from Fox News. The po...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Raiders’ Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay - Defensive end makes announcement in Instagram video: ‘I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest’ Carl Nassib has become the first active N...
Slate

Raiders Defensive End Carl Nassib Comes Out, Becoming the First Openly Gay Active NFL Player - Although several retired NFL players have come out in the past, Nassib is the first to do so while actively playing in the league.
The Root

'Mansion Guy' Mark McCloskey Ordered by Court to Turn in Gun He Used to Threaten Protesters Last Year - Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who felt the need to point their guns at a group of protesters who weren’t even bothering them last sum...
World Socialist Web Site

Republican-led states enact fascistic laws that ban the teaching of “divisive concepts” - While large sections of the media have falsely presented these bills as centered solely on the banning of critical race theory, they, in fact, represent a ...
Reform Austin

Abbott Hates Dogs? A Complete List of Bills Killed by the Governor - Monday morning was veto time for Governor Greg Abbott, who -compared to his usual average of 51 vetoes per legislative session- signed a surprisingly low...
Election Law Blog

“Democrats To Introduce Bill To Combat Election Subversion As Part Of Voting Rights Push” - Paul Blumenthal for HuffPost: Democrats plan to introduce legislation in the House and Senate on Tuesday to combat new laws in Republican-run states that c...
Salon.com

"Rick and Morty," resistance heroes, face a new nemesis channeling our current uncertainties - Despite being a huge jerk, Rick is an embraceable hero because he has an itch for dismantling oppressive systems
Daily Dot

Video: Man hovering around Times Square has the internet breaking out Green Goblin jokes - New York City has seen a lot of interesting characters, but a man hovering around Times Square could be one of the most interesting ones as of late. Folk...
Al Jazeera English

Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay - Nassib made the announcement in an Instagram video and pledged $100,000 to support LGBTQ youth.
The Week

Raiders' Carl Nassib becomes 1st active NFL player to come out as gay -
Political Wire

Trump’s Ex-Bodyguard Under Scrutiny in New York Probe - “New York prosecutors are investigating whether a top Trump Organization executive, Matthew Calamari, received tax-free fringe benefits, as part of their p...
San Antonio Report

Judson ISD phone, email remain down after suspected ransomware attack - [image: The Judson Independent School District board of trustees unanimously approved raises for staff starting next school year.]Judson ISD notified staff...
Texas Environmental News

USVI oil refinery to shutter indefinitely amid violations - A huge oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that contaminated the environment in a series of events that sickened [...] The post USVI oil refinery to ...
Progrexas

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes criminal justice bills, legislation to protect dogs, teach kids about domestic violence - Abbott vetoed 13 bills authored by Democrats and seven by Republicans. Twelve of the vetoes targeted bills that originated in the House, and eight were f...
Deadline Politics

Kamala Harris To Headline Celebrity-Filled Pride Celebration Fundraiser For DNC - Vice President Kamala Harris will headline a Pride Celebration fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee next week, an event that will include a num...
Houston Public Media

The 90+ Study – What Do We Know About Healthy Longevity? - What are we learning from those in their 90s and 100s about longevity?
Techdirt.

Shake Shack Manager Sues NYPD Officers, Union Reps For Falsely Claiming His Business Sold Cops Poisoned Shakes - Last June, as anti-police brutality protests were sweeping across the nation following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Ch...
Houston Press

Yep, Sitting on Senator Ted Cruz's Lawn Will Get You Arrested As Climate Change Protesters Discover - Members of a group of activists who walked all the way from New Orleans to Houston to bring awareness to climate change, experienced an up close and person...
Eschaton

The Results Of Bipartisanship - Quite often bad, and not, actually, good!
Socialist Alternative

HSBC: The Bank That Supports the Chinese Dictatorship - Solidarity protests in support of democracy struggle in China and Hong Kong Solidarity Against Repression in China and Hong Kong HSBC is the focus of prote...
Buzzflash

Jen Psaki Basically Scolds Jim Jordan to Stand in the Corner and Acknowledge the Truth About Gas Prices - AlterNet
Talking Points Memo

Schumer Hammers That Republicans Are Gearing Up To Block All Debate On Major Voting Bill - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is preparing to bring the For the People Act to the floor Tuesday, the first push of the legislation that wil...
VICE

PAINKILLER: America’s Fentanyl Crisis - A new podcast series from VICE News and Spotify is a deep dive into the powerful opioid fueling America’s overdose crisis.
slacktivist

School-boards, mission boards, and the SBC - The new Southern Baptist president, Ed Litton, is a "moderate" only in the sense that people like David French or John Kasich are now sometimes described a...
Futurism

This Contact Free Solar Power Company Will Reduce Your Electric Bill - 2020 was a very big year for solar power. Thanks to a combination of rebates and incentives for installing a solar-powered system, prices for going solar...
naked capitalism

Mindat: The Wikipedia for Minerologists, Miners, and “Rock Hounds” (Except Not) - Citizen science goes unreward by giant monopolists Wikipedia and Google.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Is Dallas Ready for Summer Blackouts? - A recent study shows how power outages coupled with extreme heat pose a major risk to unprepared cities across the country. The research, published in Ma...
Crooked Media

“That new Biden smell.” (with Sen. Bernie Sanders!) - The post “That new Biden smell.” (with Sen. Bernie Sanders!) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Vox

Your power company can turn up your thermostat remotely — if you let it - [image: A person operating a Google Nest smart thermostat.] Is your Google Nest smart thermostat being controlled by you or by your power company? | Gina ...
The Ghion Journal

Meet the Underbosses, Capos and Soldiers of the Bill and Melinda Gates “Vaccine” Mafia—Big Pharma White Coats Part III - When it comes to the ability to coerce society, eradicate competitors and bribing government officials, Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti combined h...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A Spectacular Failure - Roger Sollenberger @ The Daily Beast: The Spectacular Failure of the MyPillow Guy’s Mask Operation. Tom Boggioni @ Raw Story: Mike Lindell claims a ‘prop...
Scheerpost.com

Doctors Without Borders Calls on BioNTech to Share Vaccine Tech With World - The aid group underscored in its demand the fact that the vaccine was developed with significant public funding.
San Antonio Current

Take a ride into downtown San Antonio for a Tuesday screening of The Motorcycle Diaries - Slab Cinema will keep the movie action rolling at Legacy Park on Tuesday with a showing of the 2004 Spanish-language road film *The Motorcycle Diaries*. ...
DeSmogBlog

Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A Massive Mississippi River Diversion Plan? - The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast...
Democracy Chronicles

In The New Hong Kong, Booksellers Walk Fine Line - Some independent booksellers defy Hong Kong's new rules on freedom of expression. Others try to make sense of these new laws.
Morning Consult

After ACA’s Third Supreme Court Challenge, Voters Remain Divided on 2010 Law - The post After ACA’s Third Supreme Court Challenge, Voters Remain Divided on 2010 Law appeared first on Morning Consult.
Church and State

Is Deep Learning the Way Towards Human-Like Intelligent Machines? - Whatever the future holds for AI, we’ll need to convince governments, institutions, and venture capitalists or we may see yet another AI winter.
Freethought Now

Let’s support reproductive justice and racial equity - Saturday, June 19, marked the 156th commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.
The Texas Signal

An exclusive one-on-one with Beto O’Rourke - Beto O’Rourke’s no stranger to traversing Texas and turning out crowds around the state. But over the past month, the former Congressman, U.S. Senate can...
Skeptical Raptor

FDA approval of Alzheimer’s disease drug aducanumab is disturbing - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new drug, Ad...
CultureMap Houston

Legendary Houston DJ gets national spotlight in Spotify podcast series - With June 27th -- aka DJ Screw Day -- just around the corner, Spotify/Gimlet Media's hip-hop podcast Mogul will be celebrating the life and legacy of the ...
NPR's Health Shots

How To Stay Safe In The West Coast's Sweltering Heat Waves - As a sweltering heat wave hits much of the West Coast, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Kristina Dahl from the Union of Concerned Scientists about the heal...
Texas Standard

You (Yes, You!) Can Help Texas Legislators Draw New District Maps - When Texas lawmakers head back to the capitol this summer to draw the state’s new electoral maps, they will be using the latest census numbers to create ne...
Mahablog

The Missouri Senate Primary From Hell, Update - Here’s the latest on the Missouri Senate Primary From Hell. To briefly recap, right now the three top contenders for Roy Blunt’s Senate seat are former g...
Lawfare

What's the Justice Department Doing in the E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit? - The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. (Ken Lund, https://flic.kr/p/5jSuKy; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/l...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

President Biden Can Prevent Over 4,000 People From Being Sent Back to Prison - *This piece first appeared in The Hill.* Imagine being released from prison to serve the rest of your sentence at home. You begin your reintegration back...
Mediagazer

Twitch banned two top female streamers over the weekend, as it struggles with how to handle sexually suggestive streams from popular women streamers (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge) - Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: *Twitch banned two top female streamers over the weekend, as it struggles with how to handle sexually suggestive streams f...
Alternet

Trump's Republican allies wanted to sabotage government. They largely succeeded - A *New York Times* story on the ongoing effects of Team Trump's spectacular mismanagement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is not...
Second Nexus

Turns Out Trump Wanted to Imprison Infected Americans in Guantanamo to Slow the Virus - From injecting bleach as a cure for the virus that's killed over 600 thousand Americans to filling a moat with alligators to curb unauthorized immigratio...
Portside

The 20th Century Rise of the Confederate Soybean - The 20th Century Rise of the Confederate Soybean jeannette Mon, 06/21/2021 - 15:47
Dissent Magazine

Apply to Be Dissent’s First College Columnist - If you’re an undergraduate who loves democratic socialism and serious journalism, please consider applying to be *Dissent*’s college columnist.
Popular Resistance

CIA Stories: The CIA Is Born - Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Humanity Is Sloppily, Awkwardly Lumbering Toward Consciousness - Because of the internet, humanity has probably changed more in the last 25 years than it did in the previous 2500. Practically overnight, we transformed in...
Eater Houston

Layne’s Chicken Fingers Will Open in Katy This Weekend - [image: A basket of chicken tenders served with Texas toast and a milkshake. A salad sits in the background.] Layne’s Chicken Fingers will open in Katy th...
American Prospect

The Heights and the Depths - Today on TAP: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s stumble over race shows how far we have to go
Ballot Access News

New Jersey Gubernatorial Poll - On June 21, Fairleigh Dickinson University Polls released a poll for the November 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial race. The results: Democratic 48%, Republic...
Mother Jones

“I Gave Him a Big Hug”: Let Us Know How You Marked Father’s Day - Other than former blogger and twice-impeached former president Donald Trump wishing Happy Father’s Day to “the Radical Left” and “other Losers of the world...
The Mind Unleashed

Get Ready for This Week’s Full “Strawberry Moon” – The Last Supermoon of 2021 - The strawberry moon marks the final full moon of spring or the first of the summer season.
OpEd News

Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas - Pity the poor libertarians. Their audience fades because the same intrusive government they blame for all economic ills demands loyalty in its fight with C...
The NM Political Report

BLM releases draft environmental assessment for potash mine clay settlement facility - The federal Bureau of Land Management has released a draft environmental assessment regarding Mosaic Potash Carlsbad’s plans to use a nearly 1,000 acre n...
Moon of Alabama

The War On Afghanistan Is Lost But The U.S. Still Tries To Keep A Foot In Its Door - The Afghan government forces the U.S. had trained are quickly losing the fight against the Taliban. The U.S. has promised a complete retreat from Afghanist...
Krebs on Security

How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply? - Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering fi...
Discourse

How the Mainstream Media Lags Behind on Asian American Stories - Today in our What Now newsletter. The post How the Mainstream Media Lags Behind on Asian American Stories appeared first on Discourse Blog.
Texas Observer

TxO NextGen Program 2021 - TxO NextGen Program 2021 These articles were produced through the NPR NextGen/Texas Observer Print Scholars program, a new collaboration designed to offe...
Mondoweiss

Manchin, Rubio reintroduce bill allowing states to crack down on BDS movement - Progressive adversary Joe Manchin teams up with Rubio in another attempt to attack BDS
Undernews

Virus status update - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the weekly average of new cases per capita is 69% below April 2020. The US has 19% o...
epic.org

In EPIC Suit, DOJ Identifies 182 Location Data Requests in District of Rhode Island from 2016-2019 - As part of EPIC's ongoing lawsuit for cell phone surveillance orders issued by federal prosecutors, the Department of Justice identified 182 orders and war...
Glasstire

A Stroll Through Gao Hang’s Uncanny Valley - One of Gao Hang’s painterly contemporaries, Oli Epp, coined the term Post Digital Pop for work that “acknowledges the context of working within a culture...
Daily Howler

We're sorry we spoke about "dumbnification!" - *MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2021* *But do you believe these claims?:* We're sorry that we referred to the (additional) essays in question as examples of "dumbnific...
In These Times

Robert Reich: Blame Chipotle, Not Workers, for the Price of Your Burrito - Republicans claim stimulus payments have forced employers to overcompensate for a labor shortage. But the only shortage is of jobs that pay a living wage. - House Republicans are blaming Democrats for the rise in Chipotle burrito prices. You heard me right. The National Republican Congressional Committee issu...
Rio Grande Guardian

McAllen leaders invited to visit region’s ‘phenomenal’ manufacturing plants - MCALLEN, Texas – The new mayor of McAllen, Javier Villalobos, and his city commission colleagues are to be invited to visit state-of-the-art manufacturin...
El Paso Matters

El Paso County personal fireworks in doubt due to drought - Fireworks and festivities of Fourth of July are around the corner, but dry and hot conditions make the El Paso area a potential tinderbox. Personal firew...
Dallas Observer

Dallas Juneteenth Organizers Say Parade Here 'For a Very Long Time' - Thousands attended a Juneteenth march over the weekend. Organizers say the parade will be around for 'a very long time.'
The AltWorld

EU Ready To Help US Counter China - In April 2021, the EU adopted its Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, which has been signed by […] The post EU Ready To Help US Counter China a...
Wolf Street

Where Shortages Show up: The WTF Plunge in Retail Inventories - How messed up the economy has become, fueled by government moolah and Fed manna, when nothing and no one was ready for it.
Progressive.org

The Hidden History of Paul Robeson - Ballad of An American: A Graphic Biography tells the story of one of the nation’s greatest cultural figures.
WhoWhatWhy

War Against Climate Change: Managed Retreat - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Novara Media

Leftists Are Panicking About Unite’s General Secretary Election. Should They Be? - [image: A picture of flags bearing Unite's red and white logo against a background of trees.]Turnout at the upcoming election for Unite’s next general secr...
Living Blue in Texas

What Are Public Schools In Texas Teaching Your Children? - Christopher Columbus discovered America, the Civil War was about states’ rights, and colonization was good. History in Texas has already The post What Ar...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Iran Touts ‘Sound’ Elections, But Rigged Is More Like It - Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, effectively controls who can be a presidential candidate. Women were rejected, and turnout in the June 18 vote hit a recor...
The Intercept

A U.S.-Mexico Pledge to End Disappearances Fails to Grapple With the Complicity of the State - The promise was a little-noticed outcome of Vice President Kamala Harris's recent meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The post A ...
First Draft

She Goes On - Louise Allen Cobb Couvillion, 1921-2021.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - PACE: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver John Oliver explains how PACE, a program meant to pay for environmentally-friendly home renovations, is fundamenta...
Reveal

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

Bullies, Great and Small - There are people that think being an asshole makes them a winner/hero. They select a target and rough the chosen target either directly or indirectly, p...
Bonddad

Coronavirus dashboard for June 21: watching the States with flat or increasing rates of new cases - *- by New Deal democrat* For the past week I have been sounding the alarm about the economic impact of the “delta” variant of COVID. We are probably ...
Ring of Fire

Average Americans Are Getting Priced Out Of The Housing Market - Via America’s Lawyer: Private pension funds are gobbling up homes across the country, outbidding home buyers, and then raising prices for consumers. Mike...
Common Dreams

It's About Time (To Throw Out the Crooks and Liars and Rednecks)) -
Texas Monthly

Three Words That Can Doom a Texas HS Student’s Varsity Dreams - Inside the state appeals process for UIL students who've been suspended from varsity sports because they transferred "for athletic purposes." The post Th...
Countercurrents

The UAPA Noose - It is now out in the open.There seems to be quite a lot of dissatisfaction in the higher judiciary about the burden placed on their shoulders by the risi...
Political Garbage Chute

O’Reilly and Trump to Tour KFCs and Women’s Locker Rooms Later This Year - Last week, it was announced that former, one-term, twice-permanently impeached President Donald Trump, who has yet to win more votes on aggregate than hi...
Dissident Voice

Manufacturing (New Normal) “Reality” - The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideologic...
Claytoonz

Italian Satellites Vs. Jewish Space Lasers - I imagine space has to be really tight just outside our planet’s atmosphere. In addition to the International Space Station and the still-under-constructio...
ArcaMax

America’s Greatest Danger Isn’t China; It’s Much Closer to Home - China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical and economic stance in the world is unleashing a fierce bipartisan backlash in America. That’s fine if it lead...
Innocence Project

Ver: Innocence Project presenta el trailer “Los momentos más felices” - Cuando miras hacia atrás en tu vida, ¿cuáles son algunos de tus recuerdos más felices? Para las más de 200 personas liberadas con la ayuda del Innocence ...
Rewire

Michigan Bans Use of Public Funds for ‘Conversion Therapy’ on Minors - "Hate has no home in Michigan," Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said. The post Michigan Bans Use of Public Funds for ‘Conversion Therapy’ on Minors appeared first ...
The Contributor

ACLU Alarm as Amazon Activates Sidewalk Surveillance System - News Image: This is a nightmare for civil rights and civil liberties. Category: Opinion origin Blog: American Civil Liberties Union origin Author: Emili...
Bracing Views

America, Land of Death - W.J. Astore Checking today’s headlines at CNN was a grim affair. First, gun violence: Ten mass shootings happened across the nation this weekend, leaving a...
Democracy Now!

End Vaccine Apartheid: Summit on Vaccine Internationalism Demands Urgent Action to Help Global South - We look at the push to end what the World Health Organization is calling "vaccine apartheid," as many countries have yet to see a single COVID-19 vaccine s...
Southeast Texas Record

Tort reform group backs Eva Guzman for Texas AG - AUSTIN — Today, Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorsed Eva Guzman, who resigned from the Texas Supreme Court earlier this month, in her campaign for Texa...
Angry Bear

The Iranian Presidential Election - The Iranian Presidential Election The outcome is as expected, a solid victory with 18 out of 28 million votes or so for the hardline winner, Ebrahim Rai...
The Conversation

How to consume news while maintaining your sanity - The daily deluge of information produced by the news media can drown consumers in confusion and anxiety, but there are steps you can take to filter out the...
Caitlin Johnstone

Humanity Is Sloppily, Awkwardly Lumbering Toward Consciousness - Listen to a reading of this article: Humanity is becoming more conscious. It is. This is not a popular thing to say in the more cynical and pessimistic cor...
The Smirking Chimp

How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election? -
Duffel Blog

Congressman avoids eye contact with Generals panhandling outside his office - “Just give him a few million dollars so he’ll go away."
Space City Weather

After the summer solstice days get shorter, but alas, not less hot - The summer solstice arrived late on Sunday night, at 10:32 pm CT. The solstice, of course, is the longest day and the shortest night in the Northern Hemisp...
Liberation News

“Freedom Riders” demand release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier - This year marks 45 years since the illegal and cruel incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a political prisoner and world-renowned fighter for Native liberatio...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Willful Ignorance - Paresh Nath (Cartoon Arts Int’l) posted this cartoon before the elections in Iran, but that’s an irrelevant detail, since everyone already knew the results...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 6/21/2021 - Top legal news includes: Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes funding for Texas Legislature and its staff as punishment for Democrats’ walkout on elections bill; UH use...
Dorf on Law

John Roberts: Hubris-in-Chief - By Eric Segall The prevailing wisdom both inside and outside legal academia is that Chief Justice John Roberts is first and foremost an institutionalist...
Grist

The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change - A growing number of physicians are trying to transform the medical profession to meet the health challenges posed by climate change.
Progressives Chat

Masks Off for ‘TYT,’ Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian - Last week was dominated by reaction to *The Young Turks*’s smears against *The Grayzone* journalist *Aaron Maté*. No one gave a better video response to...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The 5 Political Boroughs Of New York City - If you’re one of the approximately 320 million Americans who don’t live in New York City, it might seem like its Democratic mayoral primary has gotten an o...
Unlimited Hangout

Who Is A “Terrorist” In Biden’s America? - Far from being a war against “white supremacy,” the Biden administration’s new “domestic terror” strategy clearly targets primarily those who oppose US g...
Earth 911

Soil Your Undies … To Find Out How Healthy Your Soil Is - “Soil Your Undies” sounds like the latest, grossest internet challenge to make the social media... The post Soil Your Undies … To Find Out How Healthy Yo...
Counterpunch

Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas - Today’s declining U.S. capitalism can no longer repeat its previous bland celebrations of private enterprises and free markets. Too much is going wrong, ...
High Country News

How will humans live through ecological collapse? - In ‘Believers,’ Lisa Wells profiles ordinary people who want to lead less destructive lives.
Informed Comment

Far Right Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran Nuclear Talks for Tehran’s Poor Rights Record (Israel has 200 Nukes and has Killed Thousands of Occupied Palestinians) - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – New extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett came out on Sunday to argue that the election of an extreme-right I...
Rallblog

Joe Biden Cares about His Dog, Not His Torture Victims - Adolf Hitler famously loved his dog, a German Shepherd named Blondi. Joe Biden, another political leader who doesn’t seem to care much about human rights...
jobsanger

Marijuana Should Be Legal In Every State! -
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

A letter to Julia, age 6, from the Great Divide (pre-Y2K) - Jack wrote this long letter to my daughter. My family had already met Jack a couple of times in New Mexico. It’s long for a blog post, but an enjoyable rea...
See You In 2020

North Korea Isn’t “Totalitarian,” It Shows How We In The U.S. Can Develop Towards Socialism - This week, Ellis Garvey of the Marxist-Leninist magazine *Challenge* *wrote something* about the DPRK that made me realize how many parallels there are b...
Antiwar.com

Please! Someone Set Biden Straight on China ‘Squeezing’ Russia - President Joe Biden’s words about China at the Geneva summit shows him to be woefully misinformed about the "world correlation of forces" (to borrow from...
Anti-Media

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

Local Runoff Results and a Primary Challenger for Cruz - *Beaumont: *Robin Mouton won the mayoral runoff over Roy West, 52%-48%, to become the city’s first Black female mayor. It was the first mayoral runoff in...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

For All Pigkind - In the space of about two weeks, I’m hit with the news that trillionaire serial worker abuser Jeff Bezos has found someone willing to throw down $28 mil fo...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Western Sahara: The last African territory awaiting decolonization. Plus Algeria’s civil war & Libya - In December outgoing president Donald trump pulled one more shocking foreign policy decision when he recognized Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara in exchan...
Louis Proyect

A Crime on the Bayou - I came a bit late to the documentary “A Crime on the Bayou” that opened on Friday at the Quad Cinema in NY and the Laemmle in Los Angeles. Since I am so us...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Republicans rush to ban 'critical race theory,' but they keep dropping hints about the real goal - *Teachers aren't actually teaching Critical Race Theory in our schools. They overwhelming don't even know what it is. Nor do most college students or fac...
Washington Babylon

Solidarity of Fools: The Phony, Ignorant Advocates Who Insist Palestinians Embrace a Syrian Regime That Has Repeatedly Brutalized Them - [image: Solidarity of Fools: The Phony, Ignorant Advocates Who Insist Palestinians Embrace a Syrian Regime That Has Repeatedly Brutalized Them] The most re...
Robert Reich

America’s Greatest Danger isn’t China. It’s Much Closer to Home. - China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical and economic stance in the world is unleashing a fierce...
Grits for Breakfast

Abbott vetoes demonstrate continued antipathy toward #cjreform, bootlicking toward police unions - My better half, Kathy Mitchell, posted this on Facebook about Gov. Abbott's criminal-justice vetoes, and since I hadn't written anything on the subject yet...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 20, 2021 - [image: Story 444262311] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 20, 2021 by Tony Wikrent *Strategic Political Economy* The Lords Of Hell (And Their Sl...
Stinque

We Can’t Be Heroes - “Very frankly,” said Ronald Reagan about Roots after its 1977 broadcast, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad peopl...
INSIDER - politics news

Nina Simone's granddaughter blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for singer's estate that was 'taken away' from family - [image: Vice President Kamala Harris and Nina Simone preview] Summary List Placement The family of late singer Nina Simon claimed Vice President Kamala H...
Trivial Knot

Challenging puzzle game tiers - I play a lot of challenging puzzle games. For others who are interested in the same niche, I’ve made a bit of a tier list. Rather than using the classic S...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Now Do Election Day' Toons - The Pulitzer Board really did choose not to award a Prize for the Editorial Cartooning category in 2021. Please support the work of political cartoonists h...
Debunking Christianity

Five One Chapter Summaries of My Case Against Christianity - Over the years I have written several summaries of my case against Christianity. The first one was based on my magnum opus, Why I Became an Atheist. It was...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Manufacturing (New Normal) “Reality” - The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideological...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 20 June 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Never interrupt Brits at a drag show. OK, you guys can just watch footbal...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Parks, Flooding: Update on Past and Upcoming Meetings - Corps of Engineers Releases Long-Awaited Regional Watershed Assessment June 19, 2021 The wonderful thing about this virtual world is that you can go to mee...
Bud Kennedy

How what Opal Lee saw in 1939 sparked her drive for a Juneteenth holiday - We’ve relived the 1930s lately in Fort Worth, and now we realize how much Black and white Texans led separate lives. On the big screen, we see the Masonic ...
Eclectablog

The 4% veto on democracy – with special guest Michigan Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson - Jocelyn Benson on Twitter: @JocelynBenson Purchase Jocelyn Benson's book State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process HERE. Samuel Robin...
Seeing the Forest

We Are In Pre-WWII Germany - I was thinking about the emotional desire for normal times we see in so many of our elites. It’s dangerous right now. It leads to a blindness about what is...
The Progressive Wing

6/19 Juneteenth and Open Thread Weekend - 1st annual Juneteenth holiday in the US. Of c More tweets, videos, songs, news, etc in the comments. See you there.
Field Negro

Caption Saturday. - I need a caption for this picture.
Crooked Timber

Janet Malcolm and Joshua Cohen - Janet Malcolm has died. I, along with three other writers, wrote something about her for The New Republic. Like Orwell, who thought Homage to Catalonia wou...
ROAR Magazine

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Dumping Surplus Capital - A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.
The Militant

Volvo Truck workers strike over wages, divisive two-tier - DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members entered their second week back on strike at Volvo Truck, fighting for higher wages and agai...
Land Destroyer

China’s Space Program Makes its Mark - June 19, 2021 (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - China’s growing technological prowess is on clear demonstration not only across telecommunication markets around the...
Liberal America

To Prevent Another Merrick Garland Scenario, Justice Breyer Should Retire - In 2018, republicans took advantage of their inevitably fleeting majority by approving 66 judicial nominees, in addition to Supreme Court Justice Brett K...
Independent Political Report

Joe Bishop-Henchman to Resign as LNC Chairman - *In a letter to members of the Libertarian National Committee, Chairman Joe Bishop-Henchman announced today he plans to resign as chair after a vote to d...
MintPress News

With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board - In the Soviet Union, everybody was aware that the media was controlled by the state. But in a corporate state like the U.S., a veneer of independence is ...
Chicken Fried Politics

Murder plot? Secret recording roils Florida U.S. House race - District 13 candidate William Braddock reportedly brags about having access to a “hit squad” to make rival Anna Paulina Luna “disappear” ♦By Rich Shumate, ...
Moron Majority

Ronny Jackson Backs Off Demand For Biden To Take Cognitive Test - After accusing Joe Biden of suffering from “mental impairment,” Donald Trump’s former personal doctor and current Texas congressman, Rep. Ronny Jackson, is...
Our Finite World

How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong - I have written many posts relating to the fact that we live in a finite world. At some point, our ability to extract resources becomes constrained. At t...
Rude Pundit

How a Story From a Middle Tennessee College Is Really About Our American Apocalypse (Part 2): The Mascot and the Damage Done - *(Note: It's been a while since Part 1 of this story about how two professors protesting Turning Point USA starting a student group at their school, Tenn...
ProPublica

How Our Investigation Into Untested DNA Evidence Helped Solve a 1983 Murder - by Catherine Rentz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story was originally published in the Cold Justice newslet...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 6/18/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Roundup! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 6/18/21 appeared first on NORML.
LareDOS

Border residents respond to Gov. Abbot’s false narrative - FBI crime data: border communities some of the safest in the nation
Tribune of the People

Minneapolis: Reactionary Driver Kills Woman, Injures 2 Others, During Winston Smith Protest - Photo: Nicholas David Kraus (Source: Hennepin County Booking Photo) by Serran Soledad and Sarah Ahmed On Sunday night in Minneapolis, Nicholas David Kraus,...
Sludge

With Endless Muck to Rake, Sludge Turns Three - Congress is at odds over rebuilding infrastructure and investing in family care, but a big spending bill recently sailed through the Senate by a vote of 68...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Beyond Cute - Xiao (Chiao) Qi Ji a nine-month panda cub climbs a tree at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington in May 2021, a post-pandmic mood. The post Chatti...
CPI's Danger in the Air

States move to ban ‘vaccine passports’ - As Americans figure out what post-pandemic life will look like, some states are taking steps to ensure that proof of vaccination ― or so-called “vaccine ...
Media Lens

‘That Is Actually Bollocks’: 20 Propaganda Horrors From 20 Years of Media Lens – Part 2 - 11. The BBC On The Saintly Motives For Waging War On Iraq And Libya In focusing on the grim future in April, US vice president, Kamala Harris, surely revea...
LawFlog

National Security Agency to release records about Americans illegally spied on by FBI - Buckle up, kids. The National Security Agency has agreed to produce records about the FBI’s illegal snooping on 16,000 Americans, according to a letter tha...
Equality Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Equality Texas’ Response to SCOTUS Ruling in Fulton v Philadelphia - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EQUALITY TEXAS RESPONDS TO THE SUPREME COURT RULING IN FULTON v PHILADELPHIA AND ITS I...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Neo-Nazi ‘Fixer’ of the Alt-Right Identified - Forty-year-old James Kreider allegedly provided security assistance to the white nationalist movement for years, helping extremists mask their identities a...
alicublog

IT'S ASTROTURRIFIC! - Here's a HufPost story from the Obamacare Town Halls of 2009: Congressman Steve Kagen, (D-Wisc.) found himself interrupted during a town hall meeting on ...
Earthworks

Just Minerals for a Just Transition - Today, Earthworks published Just Minerals: Safeguarding protections for community rights, sacred places, and public lands from the unfounded push for min...
Duck of Minerva

Putin-Biden summit, but make it an 18th century gossip column - Gentle reader*, People that have an itch at scribbling generally entertain their visitors with their happy projects, high flights, and wonderful publicatio...
DBC Green

The Temptation to Give Up - For several weeks now, I've been intending to post something along these lines. The wording may come out all wrong, and it may be subject to some gross mis...
Lowering the Bar

“Hint of Lime” Case: It’s Not Crunch Berries, But It’s Close - Very close. Related Stories - Plaintiff's “Wide-Ranging” Demands: $32 Trillion, Audience With Queen, Swamp Cleaning - Suit on Behalf of ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The New York City Mayoral Primary - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — New York City’s mayors have struggled in their recent efforts to win higher office, but they often become national figures a...
BEYONDbones

Summer Stargazing at the George Observatory - It’s time to enjoy the lazy days of summer and the wonders of stargazing nights. Now that the George Observatory has reopened to the public, the summer m...
Shadowproof

The US Government’s Jailing Of A Drone Whistleblower - The following was published as part of The Dissenter Newsletter, a project of Shadowproof. Become a subscriber here. When the United States government ha...
Idavox

Two NJ American Legion Halls Shut Down Islamophobic Activist’s Juneteenth Event - Scott Presler and his NJ associate Darius Mayfield might find a new venue to peddle... The post Two NJ American Legion Halls Shut Down Islamophobic Activ...
Ecosophia

In Search of Immortality - The explosive growth of interest in occultism that followed the rise of the Theosophical Society in the late nineteenth century set many currents of though...
Delilah for Texas

Environmental Crisis: Colonial Capitalism vs The Planet - Environmental Crisis: Colonial Capitalism vs The Planet DelilahForTexas Tue, 06/15/2021 - 22:29
TalkLeft

U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Reach 600K - 600,000 people with COVID-19 have died in this this country. That is such an appalling number. The World Health Organization says even people who have had ...
The Appeal

How a Troubled Police Department Is Shaping Buffalo’s Mayoral Race - Last summer, the U.S. erupted in protests against police brutality in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The ferment was especially a...
The Conscious Resistance Network

This Journalist Predicted COVID1984 As Far Back as 2006 - https://pinecast.com/listen/2d624eb3-99f3-4a28-bd33-bf9712304c10.mp3 Derrick Broze recently sat down with journalist Janet Phelan to discuss her work on ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa announces his bid to file for the Democratic Party primary nomination, to be decided on March 1, 2022, for 11th term in Texas Senate - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Nolan Pérez, MD, Member, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System; John H. Krouse, then-Dean, University of Texas Rio Grande V...
Avedon's Sideshow

Any time will do - "Belle Soirée Sur Andernos" by Christine De Segonzac Juan Cole, "Israeli Opposition Unite to Oust Netanyahu: *Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right N...
The Rag Blog

ALLEN YOUNG : BOOKS | Ethel Rosenberg’s life story told in new book - I found the book to be painfully sad due to the injustice and the cruelty of the execution. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | June 13, 2021 COLD SPRING, N.Y....
The Grayzone

Will right-wing Peruvian demagogue Keiko Fujimori burn the country down before accepting defeat? - Despite a wave of anti-communist propaganda and mysterious “terrorist” massacre, leftist teacher Pedro Castillo has triumphed in Peru’s presidential elec...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Podcast: Kamala Goes to Guatemala, TYT Goes Full Russiagate, Lab Leak Theory Goes Mainstream - We discuss the news of the week, including Kamala Harris’ message to Guatemalan refugees, TYT jumping the shark, and the increasingly probable “lab leak” c...
Environment Texas

A Texas bill would have punished wind and solar for the blackout they didn't cause. We helped fix it. - Jake Taber Content Creator Contact person by email - Read more about Jake Taber Friday, June 11, 2021
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

The Mustang of many - The story of this 1965 Mustang pretty much started around March 20, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska for $2715.00. My mom still has the original invoice from whe...
Progressives Everywhere

Wealth Taxes on the March... But to Where? - And the unknowable man living in my head
Project Censored

Aviva Chomsky - Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture on April 29, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio. The occasion was the release of ...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: White People (But With Subtitles) - Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! (Patrons got to see this cartoon over two months ago!) I started work on this cartoon on November 28, ...
Bad Attitudes

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

Is it time we made Manchin a verb? - Who would have ever thought that it would be one lone Democratic Senator that would finally put an end our democratic voting system? The one person, one vo...
nonsite.org

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity - Undoubtedly, economic inequality is an enormous problem in a democratic society where citizens claim to value egalitarian norms. But this puzzling juxtapos...
The Socialist

Get Acquainted With Political News - A common man has been excluded from the sphere of politics. The main emphasis in general and on the public. This entity of the system has been addressed by...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2021 - Walmart had at least nineteen shootings in May of 2021, including one nearby where the victim headed to Walmart, which is one shy of the record. The onl...
Downwinders at Risk

City Hall’s New Exploding Cigar is Why These Former Plan Commissioners Must Win On Saturday - Dallas City Hall Staff has once again lit an exploding cigar. You know the ones you see in cartoons? An unsuspecting fellow strikes a match to what looks l...
Nina Illingworth

A Heritage, of Hate by Chris Walker - IWW organizer Chris Walker returns to talk about how the fight to change school names in Florida is a continuation of our larger battle against white sup...
Free & Equal

FREE & EQUAL PRESENTS: UNITED WE STAND – CAMBRIA -
Bayou Brief

The Valarie Hodges Show - Not long after Louisiana state Rep. Valarie Hodges joined the legislature in 2012, she began tweeting from a new account, presumably in an effort to distin...
Malady

Reform, Revolution, and the Inevitable Collapse (A Response to Franklin V.H.’s ‘An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Question’) - *“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.” – Ted Kaczynski* The relentless and impressive dialectician Franklin V...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

We Must Act Now To End Vaccine Apartheid - Even as COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the United States, there is no end in sight to the pandemic for the vast majority of people in the world. Many in Cen...
Web of Debt

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

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

Remembering Nikeeta Slade - By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker Nikeeta Slade was one of our favorite people. She died suddenly on May 7 from a heart attack. She was only 32. The Green...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 »
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Texans For Public Justice

ERCOT's Board Gave Heavily to House Members - As the Texas House investigates the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), *Lobby Watch* finds that powerful energy interests seated on ERCOT’s b...
Two Party Opera

When Texas Freezes Over -
Modern Democracy

“The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1” - Very excited to have a piece up on the Harvard Law Review Blog diving into H.R. 1’s redistricting reforms. The post examines some surprising shortcomings i...
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.
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...
Popehat

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
The Reality-Based Community

[J!nx-Movie] UNHINGED (2020) HD Watch online Full Or Free - Watch UNHINGED Online, free, trial, access!! WATCH HERE > https://comicbook.com/film/unhinged DOWNLOAD HERE > UNHINGED is a movie starring Tom Hanks, Elisa...
Splinter

Google's Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming - Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some ...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Editor & Publisher

Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed - The country’s most prominent media owner-editor is detained and incarcerated. The image-conscious prime minister ignores a letter from United Nations
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

We have a world to win! Capitalism, coronavirus and the struggle for the new normal - As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival t...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
t.e.j.a.s.

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
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Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

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

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

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

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

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...
Dandelion Salad

Iraq: Toppling a country: From Statue to Legality Part II by Felicity Arbuthnot - Warning This article and links to other websites may contain words/graphics depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be read/viewed...

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