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Dissident Voice

The 34% Question - So, maybe it didn’t begin there, but is that where it all came together and became the lip signed treaty between President and Party? Was the infamous 20...
Informed Comment

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US combat m...
The Week

This teen pilot wants to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world -
VICE

Excited Olympic Swimming Coach Loses His Shit, Goes Instantly Viral - When an Australian swimmer won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, her "rock star" coach literally thrust his way into the spotlight.
Axios

Extreme drought pushes 2 major U.S. lakes to historic lows - Two significant U.S. lakes, one of which is a major reservoir, are experiencing historic lows amid a drought that scientists have linked to climate chang...
jobsanger

Why GOP Opposes January 6th Investigation -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2665: When Obvious Isn’t Obvious - Episode: 2665 Intellectual vigilance: when obvious isn’t obvious. Today, the people on the bus.
World Socialist Web Site

A program of struggle for the teachers’ wage strike in Sri Lanka - We urge all teachers to build independent action committees at every school; rally parents, students and workers in other sectors, and fight for a unified ...
The Grayzone

Read drone whistleblower Daniel Hale’s riveting letter to judge describing why he ‘came to violate the espionage act’ - “The truest truism that I’ve come to understand about the nature of war is that war is trauma,” Daniel Hale wrote. This article was originally published ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Alaskan gold: Lydia Jacoby topples King for 100m breast title in Olympic stunner - - Jacoby, 17, defeats compatriot Lilly King in 100m breaststroke - Murphy earns bronze in 100m back behind Rylov, Kolesnikov Alaska’s first Olymp...
Wolf Street

US Home Purchases by Foreigners Plunged for 4th Year in a Row, to Lowest Since at Least 2011. But They Bought More Expensive Homes than Americans - Purchases by buyers from China collapsed by 84% since the peak in 2017.
Courthouse News

Sex Trafficking - ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit upheld the conviction and sentence of Alston Williams, who abused, manipulated and forced young women to work for him as prostit...
Al Jazeera English

First-ever Olympic gold lifts COVID-weary Philippines - Rio silver medallist Hidilyn Diaz sets two Olympic records as she fulfills the Philippines's 97-year quest to win gold.
Countercurrents

Afghanistan, Failure and Second Thoughts - It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone. Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between their legs, Australia is now...
Morning Consult

Regulators Want to Extend Some Pandemic Telehealth Flexibilities. Virtual Care Companies Still Have Questions - The post Regulators Want to Extend Some Pandemic Telehealth Flexibilities. Virtual Care Companies Still Have Questions appeared first on Morning Consult.
Raw Story

Lindsey Graham's defense of guns as a deterrent receives brutal fact-check from former RNC chairman - South Carolina's "castle doctrine" and "stand your ground" laws provide legal protection to shoot people in many situations. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) p...
memeorandum

South, North Korea have restored hotlines as leaders seek to rebuild ties (Hyonhee Shin/Reuters) - Hyonhee Shin / Reuters: *South, North Korea have restored hotlines as leaders seek to rebuild ties* — South and North Korea have restored their once-se...
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy set to resume disconnections in October - [image: Protesters at the CPS Energy Headquarters attach a sign against disconnections, rate hikes, and the use of coal on Monday.]In an effort to balance ...
Mediaite

Chris Cuomo and Unvaccinated GOP Rep. Byron Donalds Spar Over Covid Vaccine: ‘You Don’t Get to Cut Me Off, It’s My Show’ - The CNN host and Rep. Byron Donalds got into on Monday night. The post Chris Cuomo and Unvaccinated GOP Rep. Byron Donalds Spar Over Covid Vaccine: ‘You D...
OpEd News

Limiting the Power of the President - This story promotes the idea that the power to engage in nuclear strikes shouldn't be limited to the president. ------.
Techdirt.

Police Union Gives 'Officer Of The Year' Award To A Cop Who Spent Last Year Suspended - If you'd like some more anecdotal evidence about the useless and general disconnectedness of police unions, have I got something for you. We all know pol...
Mediagazer

NYT has named David Halbfinger, its former Jerusalem bureau chief, as the next politics editor, and LA bureau chief Manny Fernandez as deputy politics editor (The New York Times Company) - The New York Times Company: *NYT has named David Halbfinger, its former Jerusalem bureau chief, as the next politics editor, and LA bureau chief Manny Fe...
Political Wire

Pelosi Will Extend Proxy Voting - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is expected to extend proxy voting through the fall — and potentially until the end of the year, Axios reports. “The spread of ...
Portside

How Oakland Teachers Took Control of Our Return to School - How Oakland Teachers Took Control of Our Return to School Stephanie Mon, 07/26/2021 - 22:23
Election Law Blog

The GOP & the VRA: Frenemies? - A reader of the blog sent along a link to this article: How to Win a “Long Game”: The Voting Rights Act, the Republican Party, and the Politics of Counter‐...
The Verge

Samsung’s Odyssey Neo G9 is a high-end TV disguised as a 49-inch curved gaming monitor - [image: Samsung Odyssey Neo G9] *It’s the same size as last year, but with plenty of changes behind the panel.* Samsung’s follow-up to the excellent Odys...
Glasstire

Marfa: Judd Foundation Resumes Public Guided Tours and Chinati Self-Guided Tours - The Judd Foundation in Marfa reopened on July 22 for public guided visits to La Mansana de Chinati/The Block, and it continues its self-guided tours of t...
TXElects

Trump Endorses Paxton, Rallies for Wright on Election Eve - Former President Trump endorsed Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton (R) for re-election. In a statement, Trump said Paxton “has been bravely on the front line in the f...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: Suarez: McAllen International Airport is doing ‘phenomenally well’ - MCALLEN, Texas – The director of McAllen Aviation Airport says her airport is doing “phenomenally well” following the downturn in flights caused by the c...
Texas Environmental News

‘It smells like sewage’: South Harris County residents plagued by weeks of smelly water - Fire hydrants were flowing freely all over the Brunswick Meadows subdivision on Monday, but it wasn’t an attempt to cool [...] The post ‘It smells like s...
The Hill

Delaware House lawmaker won't seek reelection after using racist, sexist slur - A state House lawmaker in Delaware who made a racist comment in an email announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection, the same day that the state'...
Alternet

Trump humiliates another member of the Bush family - On Monday night, former President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as he fights to keep his current position. George P. Bush, the ...
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on. I saw Mick once in a hotel bar. True story.
Brad Blog

L.A. County's New 'Vote Center' System Makes Recounts All But Impossible: 'BradCast' 7/26/2021 - We've spent many years on The BradCast and at The BRAD BLOG explaining why touchscreen Ballot Marking Device (BMD) voting systems, like those used across t...
Workers World

Defend Cuba, defend socialism! - [image: Defend Cuba, defend socialism!] Anti-communist forces — led by the U.S. government — are mounting a no-holds-barred attack on revolutionary Cuba. T...
Daily Dot

‘Paid so much money for this’: Viral TikTok alleges Rolling Loud festival wasn’t wheelchair accessible - [image: tiktok video rolling loud festival ada accessibility] The Rolling Loud music festival, held this past weekend in Miami, received rave reviews for...
Slate

One of the Leaders of the Arizona Audit Says Cyber Ninjas Might Be Cooking the Books - Bennett’s turnaround is indeed noteworthy given that he was one of the drivers of this clown car of lies.
Duck of Minerva

Recentering the Catholic Church in European State Transformation - Did the study of state formation ever lose its religion? There's a new wave of interest in the Catholic Church as an institutional formation.
Caitlin Johnstone

Joelene Versus The Landlord - I couldn’t stop thinking about what a scam rent is, where you pay your landlord to look after their investment property, so I made a mixed media piece abou...
Salon.com

With Elliot Page, increased visibility of transmasculine identity can be “both great & awful” - The actor's popularity helps spotlight underrepresented issues, but his celebrity can also be a shortcoming
Angry Bear

Private Equity invests in “Primary Care” Medicine - I am adding a brief comment here (it fits and is on topic) rather than going back to the earlier post which I believe to be titled correctly; “Little Goo...
Buzzflash

Vice President Harris Needed to Vote to Break Tie and Confirm a New General Counsel to National Labor Relations Board - Daily Kos
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Two educators under fire for using district resources, revealing personal conversation with student during anti-transgender campaign - If there's one thing the religious right thrives upon, it's incidents which they can exploit and manipulate against the LGBTQ community. Religious right ...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Politics Podcast: Does Running For President Always Help Your Career? - Almost a year after the 2020 Democratic National Convention, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew looks back at the record number of Democrats who ran...
INSIDER - politics news

Former California Sen. Barbara Boxer was assaulted and robbed in Oakland, according to reports - [image: AP256137098581] Summary List Placement Former US Sen. Barbara Boxer, 80, was assaulted and robbed near Jack London Square in Oakland on Monday, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Unsupported: Denials that Pegasus Software Targeted Khashoggi’s Wife, Fiance - The Pegasus Project consortium reported evidence of spy software targeting their phones and those of journalists, human rights advocates and politicians.
Daily Cartoonist

Checking Out a New Week of Comic Strips - Starting off with something I’m finding hilarious. © John Hambrock This story line of Edison and Orville and The Rooskies has been going on for a couple of...
The Root

Mic Drop: Yearning for a Nostalgic Future... Does Such a Thing Even Exist? - Ah, yes, summer. A time we all once raced to get to—only to become a hot, sticky, annoying yet joyous blur of day-drinking and outdoor brunches. Read mor...
Talking Points Memo

Chair Of Jan. 6 Committee Offers Insight Into The Panel’s Subpoena Plans - Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chairs the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, signaled that the panel is willing to subpoena mem...
Popular Resistance

‘The Afghanistan War Was A Disaster;’ Veteran Danny Sjursen On US ‘Pullout’ - The Pentagon has started closing military bases and pulling troops out of Afghanistan but confusion over what this means for the United States' longest w...
Crooked Media

“Panic! At The Delta.” - The post “Panic! At The Delta.” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Deadline Politics

Gavin Newsom And Marjorie Taylor Greene Trade Barbs On Twitter Over Vaccines: “Disgraceful…Murderous” – Updated - UPDATED, with Greene comment and Newsom response: California Governor Gavin Newsom called out Tucker Carlson and other figures on the right specifically fo...
CultureMap Houston

City of Houston boosts area with 21 sites for free COVID vaccinations - COVID-19 cases are on the rise, variant infections are spreading, and the death count is surging -- with 99 percent of those lost are reportedly unvaccina...
Latino Rebels

Where Are the Missing Protesters in Colombia? - One of them was Duván Felipe Barros.
NPR's Health Shots

Coronavirus FAQ: I'm Vaccinated. I Thought I Could Give Up Masks! But Should I? - Yes, that was the plan. Then along came the delta variant. And now people who are vaccinated are wondering: Are there circumstances in which a mask would b...
The Texas Signal

Op-Ed: The Path Forward on Our Tattered Road to Democracy - On this day 97 years ago, Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon walked to El Paso’s Fire Station No. 5 to cast a ballot in the Democratic primary. Dr. Nixon never missed...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Don’t Take Your Guns to Town - David Edwards @ Raw Story: ‘I’m serious!’ Mike Lindell claims Joe Biden will ‘resign’ on Aug. 13. Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: Armed Standoffs With...
The Intercept

She Blew the Whistle on Military Sexual Assault, Then Came Under Investigation - Amy Braley-Franck, who has a hearing this week on her two-year suspension, says more needs to be done for victims. The post She Blew the Whistle on Milit...
Reform Austin

Speaker Dade Phelan Signs Civil Arrest Warrant for Texas House Democrat Who Returned to Washington - Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, signed a civil warrant for the arrest of state Rep. Philip Cortez, a San Antonio Democrat who rejoined his c...
Futurism

The US Is Getting Smashed by Another Brutal Heat Wave - Another week, another massive heat wave that’s expected to bombard most of the continental United States with sweltering, unrelenting heat. A new “heat d...
Second Nexus

MyPillow Guy Mocked After Predicting Biden and Harris Will Resign on August 13th - Even some of the most radical conservatives have abandoned the belief that former President Donald Trump—who continues to lie about the validity of the 2...
Texas Standard

Renewables Come On Strong, But Aren’t Yet Growing Fast Enough To Eclipse Fossil Fuels - Texas leads the nation in wind production and is second only to California in solar.
Texas Monthly

How Food Halls Are Changing the Way Texans Dine - From small towns to big cities, these community-focused culinary concepts are serving up food for thought for chefs, developers, and customers alike. Th...
Liberation News

Cubans mark July 26 holiday with support for revolution, opposition to U.S. meddling - Moncada reminds us that in every period of setback the seeds of victory are sown.
Discourse

What Are We Really Doing Here? - The Biden Administration’s flagship infrastructure bill is stalled again in the Senate as negotiations reportedly broke down on Monday afternoon. What an...
Common Dreams

300+ Civil Society Groups Counter-Mobilize Against UN Food Systems Summit - "Repeating the agri-business-as-usual model to solve the food and climate crisis cannot deliver on the holistic and systemic transformation of our food sys...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Delta Variant Is ‘Changing the Game’ - Dallas County’s new COVID-19 cases are the highest they have been since March, and the number of people in the hospital due to coronavirus has tripled in...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Political Economy of Development in Palestine: A Critical Perspective - Political economy is concerned with institutions, relations of power, and social conflict and struggle. A key task of political economy is to historicize...
ArcaMax

Why Isn’t Biden Going All Out for Democracy? - You’d think President Biden and the Democratic Party leadership would do everything in their power to stop Republicans from undermining democracy. So far t...
Lawfare

The Trump Lawsuits, the Biden Administration’s Misinformation Advisory and the Thorny First Amendment Problem of Jawboning - Former President Donald Trump speaking at a Turning Point Action rally in Arizona on July 24, 2021. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/2mdg8GQ; CC BY-SA 2...
San Antonio Current

AARC Health Equity Clinic turns 5 - ADVERTISEMENT.…
Speak Freely (ACLU)

“It’s Real, and People Are Dying”: Arkansas’ Fight for Reproductive Rights - This legislative session, Arkansas lawmakers passed 20 abortion-related restrictions — tying Louisiana’s 1978 record for the most restrictions passed in ...
Undernews

Virus status update - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the weekly average of new cases per capita is improving again, and is now the lowest ...
Mondoweiss

BDS is getting traction– says Israeli spyware-master - Shalev Hulio, the Israeli spyware-maker who is at the center of an international controversy, says the BDS campaign pushed the investigation of his company...
Mother Jones

A Dose of Radical History - Recharge is back after a week offline. Did we miss much? Anything? Oh. Devastating news: “The Stuff of Nightmares. “US Is Headed in ‘Wrong Direction’ on CO...
In These Times

An Old Idea for a Guaranteed Income Is Back in Style - A new proposal for a negative income tax could eliminate poverty in the United States. - In these heady days of progressive proposals for massive increases in the federal budget, such as the Democrats’ recently announced $3.5 trillion human i...
Vox

Why the 400m hurdles is one of the hardest Olympic races - Running the 400-meter hurdles requires strategic rhythm, but it’s over so quick you just might miss it. There are few single events that demand as much ...
American Prospect

Cuba Quandary - Today on TAP: Biden’s unkept promises on Cuba policy
Project Censored

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

First Scottish ‘Climate Camp’ in Decade Planned at Mossmorran Chemical Plant - Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in ...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The ‘Harm Reduction’ President Keeps Killing People - If Kamala takes over for Joe, all that will change is the US will go from having a fake puppet president with dementia to having a fake puppet president wh...
Krebs on Security

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

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

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
El Paso Matters

Escobar, Cabinet agencies to meet on Castner Range monument effort - Decades-long efforts to protect Castner Range, a portion of the Franklin Mountains, have been hampered by danger from the old Army unexploded ordnance in...
Ring of Fire

Obama’s EPA Allowed Fracking Companies To FLOOD Environment With Forever Toxins - Via America’s Lawyer: For more than a decade the EPA has turned a blind eye to dangerous PFAS chemicals being pumped into the ground by the fracking indu...
Eater Houston

Trash Panda, Lindale Park’s Cheeky New Drinking Destination, Opens Friday - [image: a pink cocktails served in a dark bar] The bubblegum martini at Trash Panda Drinking Club | Trash Panda Drinking Club Get ready for cocktails mad...
WhoWhatWhy

Why You Should Stop Using This ‘Dangerous’ Wi-Fi Setting On Your iPhone - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Campaign for America's Future

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

The Tories Are on a Mission to Destroy Black Lives Matter - [image: Demonstrators take part in a Black Lives Matter protest in London on 12 July 2020.]In the current culture wars, the Tories have made delegitimising...
epic.org

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

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

Los Angeles Street Food Vendors Hopeful About New Cart Design Approval - *The bureaucratic battles over cart permitting have high stakes for Los Angeles’ 10,000 vendors.* The post Los Angeles Street Food Vendors Hopeful About ...
Dandelion Salad

Kristinn Hrafnsson: Pegasus Spyware Leaks Show Nobody is Safe From Surveillance! - Dandelion Salad goingundergroundRT on Jul 21, 2021 We speak to Wikileaks Editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson. He discusses the leaks showing up to 50,000 pe...
Democracy Chronicles

Trump Clings To Election Lies At Arizona Rally - In what is dubbed an election lie rally, Trump repeatedly hyped an ongoing partisan audit of poll results in Maricopa County, Arizona.
alicublog

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

DeSantis Under Fire as Florida Now Accounts for 1 in 5 New U.S. Covid Cases - News Image: "While hospitals in our state were filling up, DeSantis was shouting about 'Freedom over Faucism,'" said one Florida physician. Category: Cor...
First Draft

Quote Of The Day: Boris Johnson’s Hair - Hair raising tales from Downing Street.
Ballot Access News

Colorado Republican Party May Opt Out of Primaries and Make All Nominations by Caucus and Convention - A group of Colorado Republican activists are working to persuade the state party to end primaries for the party for 2022, and instead nominate by caucus an...
Claytoonz

Happy Dance - A lot of Republicans’ logic for believing Donald Trump won the election is because he had rallies with thousands of people and Joe Biden did not. They are ...
Scheerpost.com

Our Exploitative Food System Is Killing Farm Workers - Our food system is built on exploited labor — a problem that’s getting worse as the climate changes. What’s the solution?
Alas, a Blog

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

Microchip Mania - New York continues to subsidize the semiconductor industry, despite years of offshoring and meager job creation.
Socialist Alternative

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

Solidarity with Haiti Will Strengthen the Struggle for Racial Justice Everywhere - While reports on the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are silent on the history of the United States’ harmful relations with the island nat...
Texas Observer

A New Normal for Live Music - A New Normal for Live Music Black musicians were already struggling for resources and recognition before the pandemic. Now, they’re back onstage, champio...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The American Future, Vacations, Empire in Decline - Here we go again. Just wanted to once more sound an appreciation for your support. I didn’t know what to expect when I started this project. It was in the ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Monday, July 26 - [image: The morning read for Monday, July 26]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the...
Ian Welsh

Rationality Is Not A Way Out Of Group Action Problems like Climate Change and Covid - [image: Story 458485909] *One:* “The system is interdependent and what I do is damaging it, but it doesn’t matter because I will die before it breaks in a...
Daily Howler

A SIMPLE CONCEPT: "A simple concept," Isaacson says! - *MONDAY, JULY 26, 2021* *After that, conceptual chaos: * Has anyone ever been able to make Einstein's universe understandable for the general reader—for ...
Pages of Victory

THE SUBMISSIVES - I am bearing down on Democrats because they and their followers hold the keys to the success or failure of our country in the immediate future. Republic...
Tribune of the People

Future Spies: The NSA Finances Summer Camp for Portuguese-Speaking Youth - Editor’s note: The following is an unofficial translation of “Futuros espiões: NSA financia acampamento de férias para jovens que falam português” from rev...
Democracy Now!

Remembering Civil Rights Icon Bob Moses: Organized SNCC, Miss. Freedom Summer & Algebra Project - We remember the life of Bob Moses, the civil rights leader who left his job as a New York City high school teacher to register Black voters in Mississippi ...
Debunking Christianity

My Talk at the GCRR e-Conference on the Historical Jesus - The conference was fantastic! You should attend other virtual eConferences put on by the GCRR! You should also help support what it does by becoming a memb...
Washington Babylon

Check Out Our New Movie Commentary Track on “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” Co-starring the Great Eileen Jones - [image: Check Out Our New Movie Commentary Track on “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” Co-starring the Great Eileen Jones] In a team-up for the ages, the mig...
Space City Weather

Tomorrow begins the warmest time of year in Houston - The dead of summer is nigh. If you look at the climate “normals” for Houston, the span from July 27 to August 20 is the historically warmest time of year w...
The Conversation

Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet - The US is wrestling with the rest of the world for control of the internet. The ‘net as we know it could be a victim of the struggle.
Duffel Blog

99% of you won't share this picture of the US Flag, study finds - One like equals one prayer.
The Smirking Chimp

Red California and Other Nightmares -
Grist

A different kind of solar technology is poised to go big - Silicon is facing bottlenecks and trade sanctions. Is this cadmium telluride's moment?
The Progressive Wing

7.26-27 Open Thread - Figured I would do the honor of opening our Nest for today and tomorrow. 🙂 The People’s Party is dropping off a M4A petition, and holding a M4A Rally in A...
Dorf on Law

Partisan Politics, Legal Realism, and the Myth of the Unitary Executive - By Eric Segall *"Only in an Authoritarian Regime is the President Above the Law"* ...
Southeast Texas Record

Plastic surgeon who allegedly botched woman’s breast lift fails to remove med mal against him - HOUSTON – A plastic surgeon who was sued for allegedly botching a woman’s breast lift procedure failed to have the claims against him dismissed on appeal...
Skeptophilia

The odds of creation - In today's contribution from the Department of Specious Statistics, the owner of a biblical timeline business and self-proclaimed mathematician has stated ...
Off The Kuff

July 2021 campaign finance reports: Congress - […]
Progressives Chat

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

The Dollyrots Return to Houston, Where It (Sorta) All Started - Like lots of bands, The Dollyrots are anxious to return to touring. When the L.A.-based band kicks off its Like an Animal Tour this week in Texas, they’ll ...
Earth 911

Is Biodynamic Better Than Organic? - The USDA organic certification process and standards have room for improvement, but in the United... The post Is Biodynamic Better Than Organic? appeared...
ProPublica

How Unemployment Insurance Fraud Exploded During the Pandemic - by Cezary Podkul ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publ...
Counterpunch

Pegasus Rides Again: the NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights - They keep insisting they don’t do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for surveill...
High Country News

Is there really freedom in the outdoors? - After a year indoors, a writer remembers the joy — and pressures — of a childhood spent in Utah.
See You In 2020

Mercenaries Terrorize Minneapolis As Colonialism Intensifies Repression & Counterinsurgency - [image: Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer] Photos of the mercenaries who showed up in Minneapolis this summer In the c...
Infidel753

Self-genocide - Over the last few days, some right-wing leaders in the US have abruptly pivoted to a more pro-vaccine message. Moscow Mitch, Sean Hannity, and Alabama go...
Rallblog

It’s a Millennial Generation Life off! - Trillions of dollars have been spent. Thousands of American soldiers have been killed. Yet the United States is right back where it started in Afghanista...
The NM Political Report

For families of color, climate change in New Mexico is already here, say experts - [image: For families of color, climate change in New Mexico is already here, say experts] Climate change isn’t in the future for New Mexico—it’s already he...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

47 Different ways to say, “I’m friendly!” - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: It’s true, we’re an animal friendly village. We tend to get along reasonably well with the neighbor dogs running loose, wi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Push for Lesson-Burning in Texas Classrooms Comes as No Shock to Those in the Long Fight for Mexican American Studies - *This post is a really good followup to my earlier post today titled, "Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature. The...
slacktivist

A two-year-old post that aged uncannily well - An analogy that lands a bit differently than it did before the pandemic and before the organized whitelash that turned "critical race theory" into the boge...
Stinque

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

Sunday photoblogging: Edward Weston tribute capsicum - Bought at the market in Pézenas, France. I could hardly not take a photo of it, could I?
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

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

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

We Live In A Fraud Of Unprecedented Dimensions - The illegitimate Occupant of the Oval Office Continues to Spread Disinformation Designed to Cause People to Damage their […] The post We Live In A Fraud...
Unlimited Hangout

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

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Is America’s War Policy - W.J. Astore For a time, don’t ask, don’t tell, was the U.S. military’s policy about homosexuality within the ranks. In short, if you weren’t a heterosexual...
NORML

Upcoming Congressional House Vote on Marijuana Policy - As soon as next week, there will be a crucial vote in the US House of Representatives on an amendment to protect legal marijuana states from federal inte...
News Junkie

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

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

The Newest in Tejano Music - Obviously, if you need the best day-to-day news about Tejano music and culture, you should visit Tejano Nation. But I have my favorites, too, and some of t...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 19 - 23 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. No visible impact on the economy yet due to the Delta wave. In March 2020,...
Eclectablog

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

Can East African workers overcome cooptation and suppression? - Are radical worker struggles, which waned as a result of protracted government efforts to infiltrate and co-opt organized labor, making a comeback in East ...
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

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

Vaccine disinformation, godly Little League, an intellectual treat & a great life philosophy - During these dog days of summer, we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have spent a lot of time addressing urgent national and international issues.
Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Apologizes for Putting Judge Under Surveillance - Well, he's a lawyer for now, anyway. Related Stories - Lawyer Who Said Disbarment Would Be “an Honor” Has Finally Been Honored - Lawyer Whos...
nonsite.org

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

The Moron League of America Expels Marjorie Greene Over Anti-Vaxxer Comments - The longest-running association of morons has officially expelled a sitting member of Congress, a first for the organization. In a press release given to...
Louis Proyect

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

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

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

Facing Possibility Of Harshest Sentence Ever For Leak, Daniel Hale Pens Letter To Judge - the President Joe Biden winds down United States military involvement in Afghanistan, a conflict spanning nearly 20 years, the U.S. Justice Department se...
MintPress News

Pegasus is Just the Tip of the Israeli Cyber Spying Iceberg, with Whitney Webb - Investigative journalist Whitney Webb joins MIntCast to discuss Pegasus, Toka, and the global Israeli cyberspying network. The post Pegasus is Just the T...
Rewire

If Mississippi Were Truly Pro-Life It Would Stop Banning Abortion - Mississippi has a health-care crisis. By asking the Supreme Court to ban abortion, attorneys for the state are deepening it. The post If Mississippi Were...
Living Blue in Texas

The Insidious Ideology of White Supremacy - Recently, Denton Bible Church held a conference to decry “wokeness” ideology. They described “wokeness ideology” as rooted in social justice. The post T...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Resistance to Medicaid expansion creates different health care access along state borders - An old bridge winds across the river between Minnesota and Wisconsin, where Lake Superior Community Health Center maintains sites less than six miles apa...
Church and State

Did Bezos In Seeing Earth From Afar Really Understand Its Fragility? - Our greatest problem is not that science has failed to tell us how to fix the planet, but getting this Earth fixing process really going.
Land Destroyer

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

Here’s Who’s Funding the PAC Attacking Nina Turner - A pro-Israel PAC with ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is spending big to defeat progressive candidate Nina Turner in an Ohio s...
The Rag Blog

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

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

Cartnoon - TMC for ek hornbeck
Due Dissidence

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

Murders in Texas increased 37% statewide in 2020, with Republican-led communities suffering the biggest spikes. But overdose deaths doubled murders. Are we focused on the wrong problems? - Much attention has been given to the nationwide murder spike, but Texans were more than twice as likely to die from a drug overdose in 2020 than to be murd...
Dallas Observer

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

Redistricting in America, Part One: Gerrymandering Potency Raises the Stakes for the 2020s - Dear Readers: This is the first of a multi-part Crystal Ball series that we’ll be publishing periodically between now and Labor Day analyzing congressional...
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

Worker Power - Imagine a world where workers have real power. In this world, workers are paid a living wage, are...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Crisis In Ethiopia: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the War In Tigray - Ethiopia has been in the headlines in recent months as the TPLF, a Tigrayan rebel group that ruled the country for three decades, violently seized the nort...
Earthworks

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

Arguments on the Left: Elections and Coalitions - Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
Ecosophia

The Wars of the Roses - At this point in our survey of the magical history of America, we’ve reached the period that can fairly be called the golden age of American occultism. It...
Nina Illingworth

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

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

Movie Tuesday. - I need a name for this movie. And what's up with Marjorie Taylor Greene's feet? Bad Field Negro being petty again. :(
Bayou Brief

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

US Cannibals in Haiti... and other tales of Voodoo Economics in the Triste Tropiques - In 2004, a group of murderous gangsters who called themselves The Cannibals led an insurrection against Haiti’s first democratically elected President, Jea...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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

Chatting the Pictures: A Covid Kiss That Is Harder to Read - Two people kiss through plastic bags marking love in the time of Covid. We discuss how the image parallels earlier pandemic hugs and kisses. The post Cha...
The Militant

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

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

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

LNC Taps Whitney Bilyeu of Texas as New Chair - The Libertarian National Committee has announced that Whitney Bilyeu of Texas will serve as the new Chair of the LNC. “Her natural ability to lead and h...
Avedon's Sideshow

We are amazed but not amused - Mominet Sadia Roland's "Kremlin" from a collection on public squares. "The Roberts Court's Nullification of the Voting Rights Act: I've seen some people ...
DBC Green

If There's No Democrat Nominee for Governor...? - This entry is adapted (unrolled, if you will, and edited slightly) from a thread that I tweeted out yesterday. The tweets might not appear in their correct...
Texas Freedom Network

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

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

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

Second time’s a charm? Charles Booker makes new run for Kentucky U.S. Senate seat - Former Democratic legislator from Louisville will face uphill climb to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Rand in 2022 ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.c...
Progressives Everywhere

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

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

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

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

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

“Dismantling Oppression, Building Solidarity” Is The Theme For The 2021 Annual National Meeting - By Garret Wassermann / Green Party of Pennsylvania (photo from ANM website: https://www.gp.org/anm) Members of the Green Party will once again assemble at ...
Malady

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

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

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

NIKO HOUSE - NAME: Niko House HOME BASE: Miami, FL DOB: 12/27/1988 Our subject here in this profile once said something very important: “When you start seeing patterns,...
Moron Majority

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Juneteenth: America’s Other Independence Day - (Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019) Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. Abraham Lincoln had issued the...
The Metaphor Project

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Modern Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

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

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

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

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

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