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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

NYT reporter sounds alarm after key Deutsche Bank source goes missing - New revelations about the Donald Trump era continue to be revealed, it was only on Thursday that the federal government revealed new details on the 2016 ...
Alternet

Are mass shootings an American epidemic? - by Lacey Wallace, *Penn State* The U.S. has suffered yet another mass shooting, with a deadly attack in a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. This was the fi...
Vox

Andrew Cuomo and Google’s former CEO push to cap Internet prices for poor New Yorkers - [image: Eric Schmidt speaks next to Andrew Cuomo] Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a longtime ally of Andrew Cuomo. | Photo by Alejandra Villa-Pool/Getty...
ArcaMax

He's Coming Off the Top Rope! Oh, I've Never Seen Anything Like It! - In the days when I used to drink in bars, there was always the consolation of my reflection in the mirror behind the bar. I enjoyed watching myself get bet...
The Verge

Camera footage from wolf’s collar reveals a very good boy - Have you ever wanted to watch a wolf hunt freshwater fish? Thanks to the Voyageurs Wolf Project from the University of Minnesota, you can see it on YouT...
The Hill

Kinzinger: Republicans who join 'America First Caucus' should be stripped of committees - Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) blasted fellow GOP lawmakers who plan to join the "America First Caucus," saying anyone who becomes a member should lose their...
Mediaite

Justice Department Sues Roger Stone Over Alleged Unpaid Taxes Totaling Almost $2 Million - A new lawsuit from the Justice Department alleges Roger Stone has nearly $2 million dollars in unpaid taxes. The suit alleges that from 2007-2011 Stone a...
Courthouse News

Ghislaine Maxwell Wins Severance of Perjury Counts From Sex Crimes Trial - The severed counts arise from allegations that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell lied to conceal alleged sex trafficking crimes in two 2016 depositions t...
World Socialist Web Site

Once more on bus workers and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union: About that frying pan… - Mick Cash’s letter exposes the absurd tributes to the RMT and the laughable claims by RMT leadership contender Steve Hedley that his union is “socialist, a...
Political Wire

Kinzinger Has a Plan If He’s Gerrymandered - Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), the most prominent Republican in Illinois, told the Chicago Sun Times that if Democrats carve up his congressional district in ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Far-right Oath Keepers member is first suspect to plead guilty in US Capitol riot - Jon Ryan Schaffer gave a guilty plea in hopes of getting a lighter sentence and will be considered for a witness security program A member of the far-rig...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

US mass shootings ‘a national embarrassment’: Biden - After another mass shooting in the US, the president calls on Congress to ban military-style 'assault' weapons.
Reform Austin

Good Bill Hunting: Tracking Data for Maternal Mortality in Texas - Good Bill Hunting is a weekly series during the legislative session where RA News will look at a bill or piece of legislation that will have a huge impac...
Slate

What the Hell Is [Redacted] Doing in a Marvel Show? - This week’s surprise The Falcon and the Winter Soldier cameo, explained.
Salon.com

Let's have a cringey talk about multiracial identity, from "Ginny & Georgia" to Harry and Meghan - Much of America doesn't fall within one category, and one TV show dared to address it in the most uncomfortable way
The Root

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

That Was Quick - Though details forthcoming, of course. This comes after backlash from refugee resettlement agencies, Democrats on the Hill and immigration advocates. http...
Earthworks

Affirmative defense… of who? - Each state implements environmental policy differently. Obviously, each state has different regulations that change the way oil and gas operators behave....
Houston Public Media

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

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

Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain - Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while ...
San Antonio Report

Medical examiner: Airport gunman’s fatal wound was self-inflicted - Police say evidence at the scene indicates the man shot himself after being wounded. The suspect has not been identified.
The NM Political Report

Court throws out challenge of Libertarian congressional candidate - [image: Court throws out challenge of Libertarian congressional candidate] A New Mexico state district judge ruled on Thursday that a Libertarian candidate...
Techdirt.

Content Moderation Case Study: Friendster Battles Fakesters (2003) - *Summary: *While the social media/social networking space today is dominated by Facebook, it’s interesting to look at how Facebook’s predecessors dealt w...
Talking Points Memo

ICYMI: Your TPM Weekend News Roundup - *The Pause* - The CDC and FDA recommended a pause on distributing Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday while the agencies review the s...
Texas Environmental News

MEET THE CANDIDATES: Mineral Wells city council Ward 2 - The Weatherford Democrat recently reached out to candidates running in contested races in the May 1 election. Featured below are [...] The post MEET THE ...
San Antonio Current

The San Antonio home of 'Maximum John,' who was killed by Woody Harrelson's dad, is now for sale -
Project Censored

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

TikTok mom says Kmart T-shirts telling girls to ‘be happy’ are sexist - [image: Shirts at Kmart.] A video showing an Australian mom calling out what she says are sexist shirts in the girls’ section of Kmart has gone viral on ...
Buzzflash

In Course Reversal Due to Progressive Pushback, President Biden Will Raise Refugee Cap in May - The Hill
NPR's Health Shots

Here's What You Should Know About Biden's New Rules For Fetal Tissue Research - Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is reversing restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in medical research implemented under former Presid...
Mahablog

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

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

New Republican FEC Commissioners Vote Against Disclosure of Funding Backing Fundraising Letters Containing Express Advocacy - The Democratic commissioners issued a statement on the 3-3 deadlock. … Continue reading →
Progressive.org

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

Memorandum for the Secretary of State on the Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021 (The White House) - The White House: *Memorandum for the Secretary of State on the Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021* — By th...
Deadline Politics

NBC News To Focus Week Of Earth Day On “Climate Challenge” - Lester Holt will anchor NBC Nightly News on Monday from Houston as the network covers the climate crisis with a series of reports throughout the week, dubb...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Lightning in George Floyd Square - Lightning strikes near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street, also known as George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. The post Chatting the Pictur...
VICE

Our Fave Black-Owned Cannabis Brands That You Can Shop From This 4/20 - These BIPOC-owned brands are making some of the best edible infusers, merch, CBD skincare, and stash kits out there.
Progrexas

Feds rescind health care funding agreement that would have covered care for uninsured, poor Texans after 2022 - The Biden Administration rescinded what’s called a 1115 waiver that would have extended for 10 years Texas’ health care safety net for uninsured resident...
Axios

Abandoned malls are getting second lives - Malls are becoming ghosts of retail past. But the left-behind real estate is being reimagined for a post-pandemic world. *Why it matters:* As many as 17...
The Week

Biden administration will increase refugee cap after Democratic criticism - The Biden administration said Friday afternoon it would set numbers for an increased refugee cap, lifting the cap from a historic low set by the Trump ad...
OpEd News

13 Years Old, Hands Up, Dead Forever - A white Chicago police officer identified as 34-year-old Eric Stillman pursued Adam Toledo. Stillman, an armed forces veteran, believed he was chasing an a...
Mediagazer

AP will soon begin auctioning off NFT-backed digital art files based on iconic photos and event coverage; Time magazine is exploring more blockchain integration (Charlotte Klein/Vanity Fair) - Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: *AP will soon begin auctioning off NFT-backed digital art files based on iconic photos and event coverage; Time magazine i...
Right Wing Watch

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

Let’s Fall In Love - Cheers to Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler.
Ballot Access News

San Francisco Chronicle Story about Shrinking Number of Registered Independent Voters - The San Francisco Chronicle has this story about California voter registration statistics. It points out that the share of voters who are registered Republ...
SCOTUSblog

Medicaid, Medicare and House representation for the District of Columbia - [image: Medicaid, Medicare and House representation for the District of Columbia]This week we highlight cases that ask the Supreme Court to consider, amo...
NORML

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

Sec. Haaland Secretarial Orders Help Restore Integrity to Interior, U.S. Leadership on Climate - ______________________________
Freethought Now

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

From the Desk of Ralph Nader: Tort Law Explained with Cartoons - *Author and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the 1996 and 2000 Green Party presidential nominee, 2004 Reform Party presidential nominee, and 2008 Peace and...
Latino Rebels

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

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

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

Professor Glaude has a better idea! - *FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2021* *"Daunte Wright's murder," he says: *In his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, Dr. King repeatedly discussed his deep belief in ...
Ring of Fire

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

‘It is a Nakba’: Campaign to save Sheikh Jarrah builds momentum as forced displacement looms - In a matter of just two weeks, six Palestinian families, numbering 27 people, from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah will be thrown...
Futurism

New Tech Makes Objects Invisible by Shining Light Straight Through Them - [image: Scientists found a particular kind of light wave that they can exploit to look straight through an object as if it was never there.] A team of scie...
Dissident Voice

Recognition of Palestine is ‘Symbolic’ but also Critical: The Australian Case - Australia’s Labor Party’s recognition of Palestine as a State on March 30 is a welcomed position, though it comes with many caveats. Pro-Palestinian acti...
Mother Jones

Biden Walks Back His Promise of Raising the Refugee Cap - President Joe Biden is walking back his promise to increase the number of refugees resettled in the United States this year and sticking with the Trump-era...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

GOP Lawmakers Start 'America First Caucus' Favoring 'Uniquely Anglo-Saxon Political Traditions' - After former President Donald Trump embraced white nationalism under the guise of an "America First" policy, his Republican supporters in Congress have g...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

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

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

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

VIRUS STATUS UPDATE - Blue - Getting better. Red - Getting worse Black - Unchanged In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is better in every other mon...
The AltWorld

American Cities Are In Decline - Recent decades have not been kind to American cities. Manufacturing cities were adversely impacted by the offshoring of […] The post American Cities Are...
Texas Monthly

The Next Waltz Is an Analog Record Label for the Digital Age - From Bruce Robison’s studio in Lockhart, the company has worked with some of the biggest stars in Texas country music. The post The Next Waltz Is an Anal...
Strategic Culture Foundation

From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to Apocalypse - Corruption and supposed efforts to reduce it have become a neoconservative weapon of choice with which to operate the controls on the funding sluice gates ...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

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

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

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

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

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

Chile’s COVID Police State & Smart Cities with Johnny Vedmore - The post Chile’s COVID Police State & Smart Cities with Johnny Vedmore appeared first on unlimitedhangout.com.
Louis Proyect

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

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

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/16/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
alicublog

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

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

Will the SEC Finally Make Companies Disclose Climate Risk? - Reading Time: 7 minutes Investor interest in the environment, social issues, and corporate management is increasing. Is the SEC finally ready to make sur...
Popular Resistance

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

A heavy metal guitarist who stormed the Capitol as part of the Oath Keepers militia has agreed to flip for prosecutors - [image: Jon Schaffer Oath Keepers capitol riot] Summary List Placement A member of the extremist Oath Keepers militia who stormed the US Capitol on Janu...
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

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

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

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

Testing the Tebbit Test - You can still listen to Testing the Tebbit Test on BBC Radio 4 Extra in which Rajan Datar documents how many English people with ancestors who migrated fro...
Angry Bear

4-Day Work Week - From Treehuggers; “Spain To Try Nationwide 4-Day Workweek” A shorter workweek has been suggested s a means of improving work-life balance and reducing gr...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez and Hovercast CEO Eli Stonberg Talk Digital Event Strategies - I sat down with Eli Stonberg, the CEO and co-founder of Hovercast, an interactive live streaming and event platform, to discuss the platform’s success and ...
Countercurrents

Indian monsoons becoming more chaotic - Study warns of grave consequences for agriculture and economy, affecting over one billion people. If global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon r...
Dissent Magazine

Restorative Justice in Indian Country - Wellness courts provide an example of how some tribal governments are using indigenous sovereignty to build a community-based justice system, rooted in s...
Glasstire

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

Chemical Industry Lobbyist in Trump EPA Suppressed Evidence of Cancer Risk - The EPA inspector general found that Bill Wehrum, who ran the agency’s office of Air and Radiation, buried data about cancer risks from ethylene oxide po...
Daily Cartoonist

Utah Delegation Condemns Pat Bagley Cartoon - The Utah congressional delegation (Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee and Reps. Blake Moore, Chris Stewart and John Curtis) made it plain they are not happy wi...
Edinburg Politics

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

Pentagon to weed out extremists by banning Marine Corps - Don't say “Oorah” or “yut”
Rio Grande Guardian

Whitlock: A glut of vaccines? Give them to Mexican visa holders - BROWNSVILLE, Texas – When a surplus of COVID-19 vaccines exist in Brownsville, they should be given to Mexican visa holders living in Matamoros. This is...
Debunking Christianity

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

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

Biden Announces Withdrawal From Afghanistan - #TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Church and State

Scientists create the first embryo with human and non-human primate cells - In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully created the first human-monkey chimera.
Portside

Is Biden Ditching His Promise to Protect Workers From Covid-19? - Is Biden Ditching His Promise to Protect Workers From Covid-19? Maureen Fri, 04/16/2021 - 09:37
Bonddad

Why March’s big jump in real retail sales augurs well for big employment gains through summer - -* by New Deal democrat* Yesterday I wrote that the steep decline in new jobless claims in the past 4 weeks likely presages another big monthly emplo...
The Progressive Wing

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

Brazil: Peasants from the North of Minas and the South of Bahia Declare Support for Camp Manoel Ribeiro - Editor’s Note: The following is an unofficial translation of a statement published by the Brazilian democratic revolutionary newspaper, A Nova Democracia, ...
Scheerpost.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lobbying groups trying to block a path to citizenship - Prepare for a new era of debate over immigration. Should the Democratic-controlled Congress legalize undocumented workers and revamp the visa system? Ho...
Infidel753

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

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

Q Is Exposed. Will He Face Consequences? -
Houston Legal

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

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

Goodbye, old freeways? How subtraction could address climate change - New research suggests we might be ignoring the easiest way to problem-solve.
Crooked Media

Bessemer And the Bigger Picture - The post Bessemer And the Bigger Picture appeared first on Crooked Media.
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

Does U.S. Sen. John Cornyn Know What 'Satire' Means? - Some are questioning whether U.S. Sen. John Cornyn understands what satire is after Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Counterpunch

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

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

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

We Give Joe Biden More Credit Than He Gives Himself - On issues like the drive to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, many Democratic defenders of President Biden indulge in magical ...
Informed Comment

Science also Wants Jim Jordan to Shut his Mouth– it isn’t Just Rep. Maxine Waters - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ohio Republican congressman Jim Jordan chomped on to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday like a rabid dog and spewed foam and spit...
jobsanger

There Are No GOP "Moderates" In The U.S. Senate -
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

The Secret Wars of Africa’s Sahel: What Is Behind Mali’s Ongoing Strife - In a recent report, the United Nations Mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, concluded that, on January 3, French warplanes had struck a crowd attending a w...
Workers World

On the Picket Line - [image: On the Picket Line] 7 Up Strike Settlement The 90 workers at the 7 Up distribution center in the Detroit suburb of Redford ended their 22-day strik...
Brad Blog

Corporations Pretend to Stand Up for Democracy: 'BradCast' 4/15/2021 - On today's BradCast: It's nice to see hundreds of companies and corporate executives coming out in favor of democracy and voting rights. If only they actua...
TXElects

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

What Can Taiwan Do To Protect Itself From China? - Article by Mark Pontin Lyle Goldstein, research professor and founding director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College, in a...
Field Negro

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

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

Pot Legalization is Not About Getting High–It’s About Ending the Drug War - Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana. A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state. Mo...
Equality Texas

Statement on the Texas Legislature’s Unprecedented Attack on Transgender Children - Joint Statement from Equality Texas and TENT on the Texas Legislature’s Unprecedented Attack on Transgender Children
Morning Consult

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey, Texas! It’s Not Child Abuse to Respect Your Trans Kid’s Gender Identity - SB 1646, part of four anti-trans bills Texas Republicans considered this week, is a disaster of a bill even by Texas standards. The post Hey, Texas! It’s...
Bracing Views

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

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

A Farewell to Madoff - He was the best in the world at something, but unfortunately, it was fraud. Related Stories - Alleged Arsonists Say They Set Fires to Get Rid o...
Land Destroyer

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

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

Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work?To the extent the... - *Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work?* To the extent the Republican Party has any economic platform at all, it’s trickle-down economics. Unfortunat...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: We Must Build A New Party - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges The People’s Party on Apr 8, 2021 The People’s Podcast host Nick Brana speaks with Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning j...
epic.org

Draft EU AI Regulation Would Ban Social Scoring, Limit ‘High-Risk’ Uses - A leaked draft of the European Commission's proposed AI regulation includes a ban on social scoring and strict limits on mass surveillance and other "high-...
Due Dissidence

Podcast: Inside the Democrats’ War on Bernie Sanders – w/Branko Marcetic - Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of the book Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, joined the podcast to discuss his thorough and...
Pages of Victory

No one has said it better. - I need to drive my two-year-old to daycare tomorrow morning. To ensure we arrive alive, we won't take public transit (Oscar Grant). I removed all air fr...
Ecosophia

The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries - Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the twentieth century’s most important work ...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN President Warns Against New Wave of Discriminatory Religious Exemptions Bills - Republican lawmakers in the Texas Capitol are once again pushing bills that seek to turn religious freedom into a license to discriminate. These bills ar...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DNC Ramen - From the party that brought you DNC Dog Food, New Blue Money Detergent, Blue Box Chardonnay, and their Premier Donut Assortment now comes — DNC Ramen! Just...
Idavox

The Idavox Report 13 Apr 2021 - This week, we will discuss Rudolph W. Giuliani, his racist tenure as Mayor and how it fueled the flames for killer cops and the so-called alt-right. The ...
TalkLeft

Johnson and Johnson Vaccine "Paused" in U.S. - Six women between the ages of 18 and 48 have been afflicted with a blood clotting disorder within three weeks of taking the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. On...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin PD won't disavow 'paramilitary' culture in its academy; Dallas cops caught using unauthorized facial recognition tech; police reform in Houston hits a dead end; and other stories - Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere. *Consultant: Austin PD still embraces 'paramilitary' cult...
Environment Texas

HB 2350 for Natural Cities and Healthy Waters - Anna Farrell-Sherman Clean Water Associate Contact person by email Anna works hard to protect the clean water of Texas, advocating for nature-based infra...
The Ghion Journal

The Cult of Covid-19 and the Dishonest Logic of “Vaccine” Jihadists - As an independent journalist who frequently writes about Covid-19 and the snake oil that is being peddled by the likes of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, Astr...
Shadowproof

Graduate Workers Unions At New York’s Two Largest Universities Vote For Strike - Graduate workers at New York University and Columbia University, the two largest universities in New York City, are in the midst of a contentious labor b...
CT's short stories and novelettes

MARLEY AMES: THE FEAST - Marley Ames searched the ground before him, taking carefully calculated steps to avoid ripping away the loosely hanging sole of his right shoe....
ExChristian.Net

Freedom and Peace - *By Blackfreethought ~ * It is such a relief to know my actions do not have eternal consequences. My mistakes will not condemn me to damnation and my good...
Progressives Chat

‘Georgia and the GOP’ … ‘AOC and the Dems’ - Recent news items call for me to respond in this blog topic. *Georgia and the GOP* The Republicans in Georgia—with its governor Brian Kemp—want to stop ...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance bids “bon voyage” to the Ever Given as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff comments on the Senate’s omnibus vote...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Triheads vs Squareheads - This cartoon is a collaboration between myself (script and lettering), Becky Hawkins (classroom scenes), and Naomi Rubin (Triheads vs Squareheads scenes). ...
Our Finite World

We can’t expect COVID-19 to go away; we should plan accordingly - To a significant extent, what we can and should do in the future is an energy issue. If we plan to transition to a green energy future, or if we simply pla...
Stinque

Dangerous Democracy - It’s kind of amazing, more than two centuries into our Highly Imperfect Union, what a dangerous idea democracy remains. You’d think we’d be settled with ...
Nina Illingworth

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier - An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called "migrant crisis at the border....
Greg Palast

Wisconsin court win stops purge of 129,000 votersBlack Voters Matter, Palast found list "wrong and racist" - On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to block the removal of 129,000 voters from the rolls. The Justices rejected a lawsuit brought by a right-...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: April 2021 - How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation | MIT Technology Review – Since Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has made efforts to make their algorith...
Eclectablog

The New New New Deal – with special guest Mike Grunwald - Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald Mike Grunwald at Politico: Say it ain’t so, Amtrak Joe Buy Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal in paperback HE...
The Militant

Small fishermen in UK face gov’t, EU attack on livelihoods - HASTINGS, England — “The first thing you need to know is that the commercial fishing industry is divided between those fishing from boats shorter or longer...
Bud Kennedy

Remember the Alamo — but forget secession. Texas can’t leave the U.S., and won’t - The Texas secession scam is back, so hang onto your vote and your wallet. In the first place, Texas can’t secede. We tried that. Second, if Texas ever some...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
Duck of Minerva

Life in the Time of COVID: Planning for Non-Adherence - This is a guest post from Tana Johnson, an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publica...
DBC Green

Moxie: Flawed But Worthy - Dang, I meant to re-post this sorta review here about a month ago.In a nutshell, I don't particularly care for the what the Amy Poehler and the Hollywood M...
BillMoyers.com

March 30, 2021 - It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode. Continue reading The post March 30, 2021 appeared first o...
Texas Moratorium Network

Rep Jeff Leach Speaks on Bill to End Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - Texas State Rep Jeff Leach, a Republican, in this video makes a persuasive argument for his bill to end the death penalty in law of parties cases at the ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Killing the Bayou: Shocking Plan to Bulldoze, Reroute Buffalo Bayou - Historic Banks of Memorial Park to Be Radically Altered April 6, 2021 The private organization running Houston’s great public Memorial Park on the forested...
Chicken Fried Politics

Florida U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings dies at 84 - Democrat’s death narrows party’s House majority, sets off scramble for his South Florida seat ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor FORT LAUDER...
Reveal

We wanted to know how the 2020 census was going. So we asked workers to guide our coverage. - [image: A sign mounted in the bed of a pickup truck reads: “Do your part, stop the spread and do 2020 census.”] More than 150 Census Bureau employees reac...
Avedon's Sideshow

Teach us to be true - Victor Molev's "City of Wandering Towers" is way outside of my price range but nice to look at, and is part of the Amazing Fantasy Cities collection. "Rec...
New Progressive Alliance

Stupid Dems Are Here Again... - ...They're refusing needed funds again Yes, they're holier than thou again Stupid Dems are here again! You can't make this stuff up. Candidates of the *...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2021 - Walmart had at least eight shootings last month, fortunately none of them were fatal, although there were at least three or four injuries, including at ...
nonsite.org

Responses to Rita Felski’s Hooked: Art and Attachment - Complexity enchants ANT, new materialism, posthumanism, media studies, affect theory, and the literary undertakings of postcritique, new descriptivism, and...
The Rag Blog

Ivan Koop Kuper : LITERATURE | Larry McMurtry: The Houston years and beyond - ‘I had two novel manuscripts in my drawer, which meant that I had options my fellow graduate students just didn’t have.’ By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog ...
The Socialist

Deal Seems Close to End Fast of Anna Hazare - The campaign by 74-year-old Anna Hazare has sparked the biggest protests in decades, uniting millions of Indians, including its growing middle class, again...
Downwinders at Risk

Current Dallas City Council Members Failed History in 2020. They Don’t Deserve Your Support in 2021 - For almost two continuous decades Dallas residents had a string of thoughtful, sincere, and righteously-angry advocates who served on their City Council. A...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Popular Among Antigovernment Extremists, 'Second Amendment Sanctuary’ Resolutions Pose Risks - Since the election of President Joe Biden, a number of state legislators have proposed so-called “Second Amendment sanctuary” legislation to declare their ...
Bayou Brief

A Tale of Two Carters - As two veteran New Orleans politicos battle for the state's only solidly blue seat in Congress, how much will endorsements really matter?
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 3/29/21 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The “Unvaccinated” Question - So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven’t been “vaccinated” yet. Us. The “Covidio...
Media Lens

Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK - We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate m...
Seeing the Forest

Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
Frontloading HQ

FHQ Turns 14 - Today marks the beginning of FHQ's 15th year. Like any other period of time, it has been a span that has seen both ups and downs, none more challenging tha...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Zine Release – Making Sense of Fascism - We are pleased to announce the release of this new zine “Making Sense of Fascism.” It can be purchased through our online shop here: Making Sense of Fascis...
WAWG Blog

What Socialism Is, Has Changed - Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue ...
Texas Watch

Supplemental Comments on HB 19: Safety Recommendations - Executive Director Ware Wendell testifies against HB 19 Video of Executive Director Ware Wendell testifies against HB 19 On Tuesday, March 9th, our team ...
Moron Majority

Where’s Jared? - Since leaving his position, in January, as White House senior advisor, Jared Kushner seems to be missing in action. During Donald Trump’s appearance at las...
GreenSource DFW

Recycle your old phone into security cam - *The cat, we once monitored in our shed on a web cam, watches the Alfred Camera app's live feed. Photo by Julie Thibodeaux.* March 11, 2021 A few months...
Campaign for America's Future

It's Time for an Organizing Revival - The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form an...
Web of Debt

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment? - Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facili...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show - The post Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show appeared first on Free & Equal.
News Taco

Legal Machinations of SAWS Trustees and CEO Raise Serious Ethical Concerns - In late January, SAWS and the City of San Antonio dropped their legal action against the SAWS Act PAC citizens’ coalition that is seeking changes at the ...
Anti-Media

As Predicted: Immunity Passports Are No Longer A Fantasy - "Immunity Passports" or "Digital Certificates" will allow people who have been vaccinated to travel, work, and play.
The Disorder Of Things

Judith Butler Goes to Norway - A guest post from Ida Roland Birkvad. Ida is a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her t...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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Malady

Surrendering to Hopelessness: Catharsis for the Modern Communist - *“How does it help...to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" – Seneca* There is a propensity amongst those on the left to discuss revolution in the co...
Progressives Everywhere

Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court to Save Democracy - The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be...
Modern Democracy

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

Two principles of racial equity that outrage liberals - The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police ov...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
LawFlog

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

Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy When Populism Became Fascism - Trumpism has defined, in the past four years, the quintessence of populism. On January 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob, instigated by their cult leader himse...
One People's Project

CHESTER DOLES - NAME: Chester Doles HOME BASE: Winters Mtn. Rd. Dahlonega, GA 30533 706-867-6696 (As of 2004) Drives black van, license plate number Georgia 838GMF RELATED...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Update: Chris Faulkner > IT Guy > Frack Master > Felon - ORDER SETTING REARRAIGNMENT HEARING VIA VIDEO TELECONFERENCE as to Christopher Aundre Faulkner: The court finds in this case that the felony plea cannot ...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Down With Tyranny!

WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
Green Pages News

S. Michael DeRosa 1945 – 2020 - S. Michael DeRosa, 75 years of age (January 4, 1945 – October 16, 2020) of Wethersfield, CT died October 16, 2020 at Hartford Hospital due to exacerbation ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

New post at my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flights of Fancy" - For those that have any interest, curiosity or just have a good need for self punishment, I have made a new post on my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flig...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - I knew I wanted to talk to freshman Rep. Lizzie Fletcher this cycle, because there’s just so much to talk about. You know her story from 2018 – the crowded...
The Texas CBD Blog

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Echidne of the Snakes

The Debate. And Other Equally Weird Incidents. - 1. I tried to watch the Biden-Trump debate last night but instead my television gave me a show where two kindergarten children were having temper tantru...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
Bad Attitudes

Nothing New Under the Sun - From the *New York Times* of October 30, 2002: Remember all that fuss a couple of years back over Floridaâ€™s Banana-republic voting procedures? And then...
Popehat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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