Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

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...
Raw Story

Capitol police leadership ripped to shreds amid new bombshell revelations surrounding Jan 6 riot - On Thursday, writing for Slate, Aymann Ismail blasted Capitol Police leadership following the new watchdog report that revealed how, ahead of and during ...
Mediaite

CNN Law Enforcement Analyst on Adam Toledo Killing: ‘Tragic As It Was, The Shooting Was Reasonable’ - Charles Ramsey, the former Washington, D.C. Chief of Police and Philadelphia Police Commissioner who serves as CNN’s law enforcement analyst, offered a s...
Alternet

Warren and Smith reintroduce 'critical' bill to block US from starting nuclear war - Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Adam Smith on Thursday reintroduced legislation to establish that "it is the policy of the United States to not use nuclea...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
Claytoonz

Roughs, Volume 87 - All these rough sketches are from the previous week except for the first one. Enjoy, kiddos. This was my first idea after the Daunte Wright shooting but th...
Field Negro

Exhausted. - Let me s...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - UK bus drivers continue strikes in Manchester and London United against fire and rehire, pay and conditions; one-day national stoppage of lorry drivers in ...
VICE

Thailand’s Illegal Sex Toy Market Is Booming - Thailand’s underground red-light economy is thriving but remains an open secret.
Portside

Tidbits - Apr. 15, 2021 - Reader Comments: Daunte Wright Murder; Jim Crow Then and Now; Georgia voter suppression; Prince Philip, Cuba blockade, New York Health Act, "Working-Class New York" Revisited conference; Zoom events;, more... - Tidbits - Apr. 15, 2021 - Reader Comments: Daunte Wright Murder; Jim Crow Then and Now; Georgia voter suppression; Prince Philip, Cuba blockade, New York H...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Video appears to show Chicago police shooting Adam Toledo, 13, as he raised his hands - Chicago mayor urges calm in the city as body-cam footage of fatal shooting of Toledo is released for first time Body camera video footage released for th...
The Verge

Silicon Valley’s Clipper all-in-one transit card finally adds Apple Pay - Silicon Valley might seem like a shining beacon of technological progress to some onlookers, but natives know it can be weirdly hit and miss — like how ...
Courthouse News

Biden Enjoys Strong Job Performance Polling as He Nears 100 Days in Office - On top of outpacing his own numbers from last month, Biden is also outperforming the approval ratings earned by former President Donald Trump when comparin...
The Week

Prince Philip's Saturday funeral limited to just 30 family members - Buckingham Palace on Thursday released details about Saturday's funeral for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 at the age of 99. Born ...
Slate

A Damning New Report Finally Explains the Strangest Thing I Saw Inside the Capitol Riot - The police reacted the way they did for a reason.
Progrexas

Texas energy companies push back against Berkshire Hathaway’s $8 billion plan for backup power - The Texas Capitol during February’s winter storm. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps ...
memeorandum

U.S. Imposes Stiff Sanctions on Russia, Blaming It for Major Hacking Operation (New York Times) - New York Times: *U.S. Imposes Stiff Sanctions on Russia, Blaming It for Major Hacking Operation* — After years of wrist slaps under President Donald J....
Daily Dot

‘Proof of systemic racism’: People point to double standard after white man drags cop with car in video - [image: video footage of the suspect driving away with the cop] A video of a 61-year-old white man dragging a police officer with his car is gaining atte...
Dissident Voice

Killing Yemen - The Yemeni city of Marib is in the thick of fighting between Houthi rebels and loyalists of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government. Marib is the capital of M...
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...
Political Wire

Ted Cruz Won’t Wear a Mask on Senate Floor - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told CNN he is eschewing a face mask on the Senate floor now that he’s been vaccinated. Said Cruz, while flanked by masked aides: “At ...
Daily Cartoonist

Updates: Frank Jacobs, Mark Trail, Matt Bors - Updating some items that were posted here earlier. photo via Doug Gilford The New York Times has printed their obituary for Frank Jacobs. Frank Jacobs, an ...
San Antonio Report

City eyes federal funds for infrastructure wish list - [image: Vehicles maneuver through the intersection at Zazamora Street, Frio City Road and Kirl Place in South San Antonio on Wednesday. In addition to the ...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Why Serious Changes To Policing Are So Unlikely To Happen - In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how public opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement has changed since las...
Salon.com

"Made For Love" and the twist ending that asks what we'll compromise for technology - What began as star-driven comedy ends with a stunning inquiry of what we're willing to cede for privacy & freedom
Liberation News

A “national emergency” because of Russia? Seeing through U.S. double standards - In response to the supposed “unusual and extraordinary threat to the National security, foriegn policy, and economy of the United States”, Joe Biden today ...
ArcaMax

Calls for Justice After Another Teen Killed by Police - With the eyes of the nation on Minnesota with the twin dramas of the ongoing criminal trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin and the fatal police sho...
The Hill

Illinois House passes bill that would mandate Asian-American history lessons in schools - The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would mandate Asian-American history lessons in schools.
Election Law Blog

Gabriel Sterling, Top Georgia, Election Official Who Stood Up to Trump, Whitewashes Problematic Aspects of Georgia’s New Voting Law in WaPo Oped - He’s right that President Biden and other Democrats have overstated the suppressive effects of the law, but he understates many other aspects of the law, w...
Texas Environmental News

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Trump official delayed releasing information on cancer-linked chemical in Illinois: watchdog | Advocacy groups say tech giants need to 'step it up' on sustainability | GOP senator: Raising corporate taxes is a 'non-starter' - THE WEEKEND IS NEAR! Welcome to Overnight Energy, your source for the day’s energy and environment news.Please send tips and [...] The post OVERNIGHT ENE...
Houston Public Media

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccines And Variants - A top vaccine expert and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine joins us to help clarify the latest headlines and d...
Undernews

Play it again, Sam - *Sam Smith plays and sings Small Fry with the Phoenix Jazz Band some years ago*
Popular Resistance

Union Members Expel National Guard From St Paul Minnesota Labor Center - Following several union meetings on Wednesday night, I was made aware that a National Guard unit was occupying the St. Paul Labor Center in downtown St. ...
Axios

Globetrotting climate envoy Kerry makes Biden team’s first visit to China - John Kerry became the first senior Biden administration official to touch down in China this week. He's also been the first to sit down with a string of ...
Texas Monthly

On The Road Again! - Call it a collective case of cabin fever. Over a year into the coronavirus pandemic, with more and more of us vaccinated, we Texans are ready to get out—...
Deadline Politics

Bill Clinton, In Podcast Conversation With Shonda Rhimes, Says Joe Biden Has Been “Almost Pitch Perfect” As President - In a conversation for Bill Clinton’s iHeart podcast Why Am I Telling You This?, the former president and Shonda Rhimes talked about Regé-Jean Page’s recent...
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.
The Root

KKK Continues to Harass Confederate Monument Protesters in North Carolina - A woman who advocated for the removal of a Confederate monument from a North Carolina courthouse has been continually harassed by the KKK for doing so. ...
Talking Points Memo

Kemp Will Run Against Dem-Turned-GOPer Who Peddled Trump’s Falsehoods - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who refused to go along with then-President Trump's demand to overturn the election results, will face off against Democrat-...
Rio Grande Guardian

Vela: Major infrastructure investment is both necessary and past due - Thank you for the opportunity to provide remarks. As you prepare legislation on infrastructure investments, I would like to highlight several important f...
Mother Jones

Video Shows a Chicago 13-Year-Old Had His Hands Up. An Officer Shot and Killed Him. - Chicago police on Thursday released body-cam video from the police officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo late last month. The video contains a c...
Al Jazeera English

Canada-US asylum seeker agreement upheld by court - Appeals court sides with the Canadian government, which is defending the agreement to turn back asylum seekers.
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...
Techdirt.

Private Prison Company On The Hook For Legal Fees After Suing Investment Group For Saying It Was Doing Stuff It Was Actually Doing - Private prison company CoreCivic has just learned a civics lesson. [I'll show myself out.] Possibly a very expensive one. Last March, it sued [PDF] Cand...
Reform Austin

UT Study Finds That Harsh Punishment Leads To Antisocial Behavior - [image: kid alone] A new study conducted by a professor at the University of Texas is based on harsh punishment and its effects on kids’ antisocial behav...
Democracy Chronicles

California Bill To End Secrecy For Recall Petitions - California's law was that election-related petitions are not public record once submitted. A new bill makes exceptions for recall petitions.
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 ...
CultureMap Houston

Comedy is no superpower for Melissa McCarthy's new Thunder Force - There have been some great comedy teams in the history of show business, but the number of married couples who created comedy magic together is vanishingl...
Mediagazer

Twitter permanently suspends James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam (Aidan McLaughlin/Mediaite) - Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: *Twitter permanently suspends James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, for violating rules on platform manipulation and sp...
NORML

Indiana: Governor Signs Legislation Amending State’s Zero-Tolerance Per Se Driving Law - The legislation provides an affirmative defense for motorists who test positive for the presence of either THC or its metabolite, but who are not respons...
Latino Rebels

A Milestone of Misery: More Than 100K US Latinos Have Died From COVID-19 - More than 100,000 U.S. Latinos have now lost their lives to COVID-19. This past week we went over this lamentable threshold.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The Xuperma...
Futurism

This Coffee Concentrate Lets You Transform Any Liquid Into a Delicious Caffeinated Beverage - [image: jot ultra coffee concentrate] Are you in a coffee rut? Are you bored with your daily caffeine routine and looking for something new? Well, as you p...
NPR's Health Shots

Brazil COVID-19: 'Humanitarian Crisis' With More Than 3,000 Deaths A Day - The Supreme Court has approved an inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro's pandemic response. Doctors Without Borders says the country's approach has led to...
SCOTUSblog

Bill to enlarge the Supreme Court faces dim prospects in Congress - [image: Bill to enlarge the Supreme Court faces dim prospects in Congress]Four congressional Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to expand the numb...
Mahablog

What to Do About the Supreme Court? - Democrats in Congress plan to introduce a bill to expand the SCOTUS from nine to thirteen justices. At the moment this bill has very little chance of goi...
Common Dreams

Afghanistan Withdrawal Good, Say Sanders and Khanna, But Biden Must Do More to End 'Forever Wars' - Andrea Germanos, staff writer "It's about time we bring home our troops and end this trillion-dollar war in Afghanistan," said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). [i...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: It Was a Set Up - Brad Reed @ Raw Story: Trump-loving Virginia candidate attacks her own party and tells followers not to trust its vote counts. Brandon Ambrosino and Mich...
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...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Hockaday Kiboshes Boarding Program - The Hockaday School has announced that it will discontinue its boarding program after the class of 2025 graduates. You can read about their decision here...
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
The Intercept

Haiti: único país sem vacinas contra a covid-19 na América Latina - A falta de vacina contra a covid-19 é só mais um dos elementos que compõem a crise no Haiti hoje. O país caminha sem Congresso, com violência em alta e u...
Crooked Media

“Daunte Wright should be alive today.” - The post “Daunte Wright should be alive today.” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Buzzflash

Thom Hartmann: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Commission to Turn January 6 Into "Bipartisan" Mush. Prosecute the Insurrectionists, Including Trump. - BuzzFlash
Vox

The economy is improving — but the pandemic isn’t over yet - [image: In a vacant lot, behind which is a red-painted building, there is a sign reading “Now hiring usps.com/employment.”] US jobless claims totaled 576,...
The Conversation

80% of fatal e-scooter crashes involve cars – new study reveals where and why most collisions occur - Electric scooter rides soared from zero to 88 million a year between 2017 and 2019. But launching e-scooters in cities without safe infrastructure or clear...
OpEd News

What will be the Mideast Crises facing Biden in the Coming Year? US Intelligence Threat Assessment - The Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community is out. It has a Middle East section and a report on Afghanistan in the South Asia section.
Progressive.org

It’s Time to Build a Third Party - We need an organization with a fresh perspective that could break the stranglehold that our two dominant parties have on our country’s politics.
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...
Lawfare

Lawfare Live: DHS And CISA Talk Cybersecurity - This Monday, April 19, at 3:50 p.m. ET, Jennifer Daskal, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) deputy general counsel; Eric Goldstein, the Cybersec...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s Hotel Havana to hold spring floral design workshop and happy hour on picturesque terrace - Spring has sprung, and downtown boutique accommodations Hotel Havana will celebrate the season's return with a Saturday, May 1 floral arrangement workshop...
Church and State

Forget AI. The real revolution could be IA - AI refers to efforts to replace people with machines. But AI has a counterpart, known as intelligence augmentation, or IA.
Ring of Fire

Wealthy Elite Starving America Of $1 Trillion Per Year Through Tax Avoidance - The latest round of polling shows that a majority of Americans from across the political spectrum agree that corporations should be paying more in taxes....
Discourse

A Supremely Fucked Up Policy From Joe Biden - Come on man. The post A Supremely Fucked Up Policy From Joe Biden appeared first on Discourse Blog.
DeSmogBlog

Oil Industry ‘Net-Zero’ Pledges are an Attempt to Delay Climate Action, New Paper Warns - Fossil fuel companies “cannot be relied upon to decarbonize at the speed and scale needed” to tackle rising global emissions. The post Oil Industry ‘Net-...
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....
ProPublica

ProPublica Reporting Projects Recognized by Education Writers Association - by ProPublica The Education Writers Association announced this week that the “Invisible Walls” series, by the Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica, won fir...
Second Nexus

Ted Cruz Tried to Come for Dan Rather as a 'Professional Liar' and He Instantly Regretted It - Veteran journalist Dan Rather reported on American politics for decades and, even after his retirement, continues to enjoy a substantial social media fol...
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...
Mondoweiss

US celebrations of Israeli independence that leave out Palestinian story are bigoted (this means you, Pelosi) - Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer's statements celebrating Israel's creation as a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish "homeland" are appalling in their anti-Pale...
Wolf Street

The Retail WTF Charts of the Year, Powered by $1,400-Stimmies and Massive Price Increases - The government better not ever stop dousing consumers with free money.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Special Report: Chase Strangio on the Legislative Assault on Trans Youth - Last week, the Arkansas legislature passed HB 1570, a bill that will ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth in the state. This came just one da...
The AltWorld

Australia Buries Afghan War Crimes, Toes U.S. Hostile Line on China - The issue of war crimes in Afghanistan renders the Australian government morally compromised in serving as America’s […] The post Australia Buries Afghan...
BEYONDbones

DNA Adds SPARK to HMNS Autism Awareness - 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...
Dorf on Law

Republicans and Democrats Are Wrong About Taxes and the Infrastructure Bill, But I'm (Mostly) OK With That - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Having overseen the surprisingly smooth passage of the COVID relief act earlier this year, the Biden Administration quickly unveile...
MintPress News

Just Like in the US, Policing in Israel is Rooted in Racist Violence - In the US, policing can be traced back to nineteenth-century slave patrols. In Israel, security forces have roots in Haganah, a Zionist militia group inv...
Grist

Rising from the ashes, Alaska’s forests come back stronger - A new study brings a rare glint of hope from climate science.
The Appeal

Denver City Council Members Propose a Way to Keep Tenants in Their Homes - For months, two Denver City Council members—Amanda Sawyer and Candi CdeBaca—have been working on a plan to stem the coming glut of eviction filings. When...
Strategic Culture Foundation

The Canadian Government’s Regime Change Obsession – An Existential Challenge for the Citizens of Canada - In its foreign policy, the Justin Trudeau/Chrystia Freeland government has run roughshod over the sovereignty of citizens-first, freestanding governments i...
American Prospect

The Corporate Good Guys Who Are Really Bad Guys (Just About All of Them) - Today on TAP: Corporate hypocrisy on unions
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...
Texas Standard

Texas Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Make It Harder To Sue Trucking Companies Over Accidents - The push comes as Texas leads the nation in fatal crashes involving large trucks.
Eater Houston

A New Steakhouse With Roaring ‘20s Vibes Arrives in Montrose - [image: a ribeye steak on a plate, surrounded by a bottle and glass of red wine] Ribeye steak at new Montrose restaurant Gatsby’s | Gatsby’s Prime Steahou...
Glasstire

This and That: Wings - “This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed. Today: Wings ************* No matter how origi...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 15, 2021 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. global threat assessment warns climate change is a clear and present danger; Japan to dump Fukushima's radioactive wastewater...
Edinburg Politics

Mario Lizcano, Administrator of Corporate Affairs, DHR Health, and DHR Health staff honored with separate resolutions by House of Representatives, announces Rep. Canales - Mario Lizcano, Administrator of Corporate Affairs, DHR Health, and DHR Health staff have been honored with separate resolutions by the Texas House of Repre...
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...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/15/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
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...
Daily Howler

Air fresheners shouldn't have caused that arrest! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2021* *The Dumbness we're sold in Our Town:* Will we in Our Town ever understand how dumb we've turned out to be? On Fox, they're ...
Countercurrents

Making Sense of a Viral Military - A Military Spouse’s Perspective on the Pentagon’s Flawed Response to the Pandemic Herd immunity? Don’t count on it. Not if that “herd” is the U.S. milita...
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...
WhoWhatWhy

How to Stop Discarded Face Masks From Polluting the Planet - Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines ; Colombia’s Cartels Target Europe ; and More Picks 4/15 The post How ...
Freethought Now

Evolution has produced all life - Honest, intelligent people must accept scientific evidence that evolution produced all living things, because no other trustworthy explanation exists.
alicublog

ALSO, SWIFT DIDN'T REALLY ENDORSE EATING CHILDREN - Back in 1994 Kristen Clarke, now up for assistant U.S. Attorney General for civil rights, co-wrote a letter to the *Harvard Crimson* calling out defender...
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,...
Scheerpost.com

The Fine Print on Biden’s Afghanistan Announcement - Contrary to what Joe Biden has said and corporate media has parroted, U.S. warfare in Afghanistan is set to continue well beyond September 11, 2021.
WhatWouldJackDo

Who’s a good boy??? - Good boy’s nose is a heart… https://t.co/CtYqok89nk — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 14, 2021
Ballot Access News

U.S. House Committee Passes Bill to Make Most of District of Columbia a State - On April 14, the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee passed HR 51, which makes most of D.C. a state. The part of D.C. that would not be inside the ne...
Political Garbage Chute

Breaking: Tucker Carlson Still a Racist Twuntsicle - This is a breaking story, and will be updated as more information is reported and confirmed. NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The International Institute of Finding ...
Texas Observer

Texans With Disabilities Were Left to Fend for Themselves During Winter Storm Uri - When the power went out at Ann Foxworth’s home in Austin on February 15, the 71-year old’s phone rang nonstop as friends checked in on her and her husban...
First Draft

Finally - Finally some finality.
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...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Hector Avalos Has Died. He was a one man demolition machine when it came to debunking Christianity! - My heart just broke at the news that Dr. Hector Avalos just died. I wept at the news. My heartfelt sympathies go out to his wife Cynthia and other loved on...
Caitlin Johnstone

It’s The Media’s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Exactly zero percent of the world’s worst criminals are in prison. Imperialists. War profiteers. Ecocide profiteers. The very worst of thieves are financia...
Bonddad

Industrial production for March disappoints - but only on the surface - *- by New Deal democrat* As an initial note, retail sales for March blew out to the upside, but as expected due to cosnumers’ spending their latest pa...
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 ...
Angry Bear

Keeping Fingers Crossed As US Commits To Removing Military From Afghanistan - Keeping Fingers Crossed As US Commits To Removing Military From Afghanistan Yes, President Biden has bitten the bullet to remove US troops from Afghanis...
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...
The Progressive Wing

4/15 News Roundup and OT - Good Mornin’ birdies! Let’s get started with an interview of Charles Booker on Medhi Hassan’s show. More news, videos, tweets, etc in the comments. Sure ha...
Democracy Now!

"We're in a Transition Phase": Dr. Monica Gandhi on Vaccine Safety & Why You Still Need a Mask - U.S. health officials have delayed a decision on whether to resume the use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine after reports of blood clots in six wome...
The Smirking Chimp

The GOP Acts as an Insurgency Within the United States -
Space City Weather

Two more days of unsettled weather before a robust front blows in - Houston’s weather will remain unsettled for a couple of more days, with the potential for briefly heavy rainfall, before a stronger cold front arrives on S...
Duffel Blog

Ghislaine Maxwell moved to VA Hospital parking lot to await trial - "We expect her to be well-taken care of.”
In These Times

A Worldwide Workers' Revolt Against Amazon Has Begun - Bessemer was just the beginning. Amazon workers from Italy to India are uniting to form a global movement that may have found Jeff Bezos’s Achilles heel. - The union drive at Amazon’s 885,000-square-foot warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, failed. But the historic campaign nabbed global headlines and added fuel ...
Novara Media

The Northern Independence Party Is a Triple Threat to Labour - [image: Labour leader Keir Starmer QC]The conventional wisdom on the Northern Independence Party (NIP) is that it’s a fad; a meme party born on Twitter wit...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/15/2021 - Top legal news includes: The Texas Senate has approved a new statewide appeals court. Critics contend it's another attempt to limit Democrats' power.; Texa...
Earth 911

Regenerative Agriculture To Restore Our Earth - In 35 years, there will be 10 billion people on earth. Our planet is getting... The post Regenerative Agriculture To Restore Our Earth appeared first on ...
Houston Press

The Power Of We: Possessed By Paul James Returns To Houston - To be possessed by something is to be completely overtaken and the term usually comes with a negative or occult connotation. In the case of singer songwrit...
Dallas Observer

Uproar After Aledo Students Held 'Slave Auction' and Traded Black Classmates - Aledo ISD is in hot water after a screenshot surfaced of a racist message exchange between students.
Counterpunch

Amazon Workers’ Defeat: The Trusts Are Back - On Friday, April 9th, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union was defeated in its effort to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, AL. T...
High Country News

Will COVID-19 vaccinations mean more prison overcrowding deaths? - California’s decades-old ‘tough on crime’ laws still fill prisons, creating disease danger zones.
The NM Political Report

NM’s congressional race is on a tight deadline - [image: NM’s congressional race is on a tight deadline] In about three weeks, registered voters in the 1st Congressional District can start casting ballots...
Informed Comment

What will be the Mideast Crises facing Biden in the Coming Year? US Intelligence Threat Assessment - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Annual Threat Assessment of the US Community is out. It has a Middle East section and a report on Afghanistan in the Sou...
jobsanger

It Would Be Cost-Effective To Fully Fund The IRS -
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...
Workers World

PDF of April 15 issue - [image: PDF of April 15 issue] Download the PDF. Amazon workers: The struggle has just begun Daunte Wright’s life matters! Tribute to Ramsey Clark. COVID c...
Antiwar.com

The Hawks Who Want War With Iran Are Working Overtime - Just as talks between the United States and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. ...
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...
TXElects

Brady Announces Retirement and Other News for April 14 - U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands) announced he would not seek re-election. Brady, who is serving his 13th term, said that his inability to chair th...
Project Censored

Fracking Continues in California - A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Desert Sun shows that California state regulators have allowed over two dozen inland oil spills—“surface expr...
Crooked Timber

Zarathustra – Columnar Emersonian or Divine Hanswurst? - So, I promised reflections on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Seuss, to complement my ongoing brilliant double-parody, with special reference to Seuss’ late ‘c...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Fox5 DC: Daunte Wright’s shooter - Mustafa Tameez joins Fox 5 DC to discuss how an officer can mistake a gun for a taser and what training officers go through to make sure this does not happen.
INSIDER - politics news

The DOJ arrested and charged an accused Capitol rioter after he spoke to Insider about his 'fun time' there - [image: Capitol riot] Summary List Placement An Illinois man who breached the US Capitol on January 6 is facing a slew of charges after he gave an inter...
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-...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Fighting Big Tech Deletions with Matthew Raymer - Derrick Broze talks with Matthew Raymer, an activist and creative who is fighting back against Big Tech censorship by saving the work of activists and jo...
The Mind Unleashed

Lil Nas X Song Is #1 In Saudi Arabia, Where Homosexuality Is Illegal Under Sharia Law - Lil Nas X has been on top of the world for weeks now, whether it’s living rent-free in the heads of homophobes or topping the Billboard charts after his sm...
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...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Denouncing ‘Foreign Fighters,’ Libyan Warlord Ignores his Own Russian Mercenaries - Haftar and his forces, which are fighting the U.N.-recognized Libyan government in Tripoli, are accused of war crimes and backed by Russian mercenaries.
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...
Rallblog

Destroy the Police in Order to Rebuild It - The killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop is the latest in a long line of high-profile sho...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Capital One Bank USA N.A. vs Mohammad Paizi on April 13 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Capital One Bank USA N.A. against Mohammad Paizi on April 13. Read ...
See You In 2020

Water Wars Loom Amid Climate Collapse & Unprecedented Plans For Imperialist Destruction - First they sold us generations worth of wars for oil. Next, after these wars and the unsustainable energy system they’ve prolonged creates an ecological ...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

The Last Gold Rush - Jack wrote this in August, 2005: Probably some of you younger blog readers aren’t aware that pre-lottery Americans had their own dreams of finding a way ou...
Independent Political Report

Special Election: American Solidarity Party Candidate Captures 2% as GOP Holds NH State House Seat - New Hampshire voters opted for Town Councilor Bill Boyd over Democratic former state representative Wendy Thomas in a special election to fill a vacant s...
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 ...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security...
Louis Proyect

Literature and Revolution - On March 21, the NY Times profiled John R. “Rick” MacArthur, a trust fund magnate who is the publisher of Harper’s, a magazine that dates back to June 1850...
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...
ROAR Magazine

The Zapatistas are coming to Europe - A delegation of the EZLN has started preparations for their upcoming trip to Europe. Traveling by boat, the Zapatistas are expected to arrive in mid-June.
Tribune of the People

All Support to the Peasants of Camp Manoel Ribeiro—Defend the Brazilian People from the Attacks of Reaction! (Updated) - By the Editorial Board If we die in this fightOur blood will be a seed.We will conquer justice,History does not fail, we will win. -From the Hymn of the Le...
Infidel753

Book review -- it's not 1965 any more - *Factfulness* by Hans Rosling (2018) This book (buy it here), by a Swedish doctor and medical researcher who has worked in some of the world's poorest cou...
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....
Dissent Magazine

The Next Amazon Union Drive - Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
Earthworks

What we don’t know can still hurt us — and derail climate plans - Authors: Raphael Briet & Nadia Steinzor In the last few years, some states have tried to get serious about climate change by setting pollution reduction ...
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 ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Military Origins of Facebook - Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s...
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...
The Grayzone

Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US ‘asset’ in Syria - Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling the militant group “an asset” amid a media-ena...
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-...
Reading the Pictures

Insult to Injury: The Fortressing of the Derek Chauvin Murder Trial - Photographers frame the barriers and fencing in downtown Minneapolis where Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd. The post Insult to I...
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...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 13 Wrap-up: Healthcare under attack - It’s time for our community to act. This coming Monday and Wednesday, the Texas legislature will hear 4 anti-LGBTQ+ bills; bills that restrict healthcare f...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
CPI's Danger in the Air

Advocates wary Biden’s infrastructure plan won’t right past wrongs - After President Joe Biden revealed his $2 trillion infrastructure plan last month, advocates and historians began to worry how the money would be distrib...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

'Required': North Dakota passes Native Education Bill, by Kolby KickingWoman - *Excellent news out of North Dakota! The excitement in the story is palpable. Long overdue, to be sure.* *Texas has already passed Native American Studie...
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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Malady

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

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

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

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

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

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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