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Mediaite

Andy Biggs and House Freedom Caucus Push to Boot Cheney, Kinzinger From GOP: We’ve Got ‘Two Spies Sitting Right There’ - The most ardent supporters of Donald Trump in the House want the two gone. The post Andy Biggs and House Freedom Caucus Push to Boot Cheney, Kinzinger Fro...
VICE

The King of Underground Punk vs. Europe’s Last Dictator - The lead singer of Mister X refuses to be quiet about the repressive Belarusian government.
memeorandum

FACT SHEET: President Biden to Announce New Actions to Get More Americans Vaccinated and Slow the Spread of the Delta Variant (The White House) - The White House: *FACT SHEET: President Biden to Announce New Actions to Get More Americans Vaccinated and Slow the Spread of the Delta Variant* … Six mo...
Raw Story

Capitol rioter is creating a video game where Trump shoots Democrats and Antifa - Capitol rioter Jack Griffith is telling BuzzFeed that he's working on a new video game that features former President Donald Trump shooting Democrats and...
Eschaton

Thursday Happy Hour - Thirsty Thursday.
Latino Rebels

AOC Slams White House Over Eviction Moratorium - "I think at bare minimum it has to be extended until the end of the year," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters outside the House chamber on Thursday afternoon. "T...
The Hill

House GOP stages mask mandate protest - Nearly 40 maskless House Republican lawmakers walked across the Capitol and onto the Senate floor in protest of the Capitol physician's decision to reinsta...
Al Jazeera English

Blinken says Tunisian president promised ‘democratic path’ - The top US diplomat says Kais Saied promised him he was committed to democracy, as he urged him to restore parliament.
Dissident Voice

Trudeau Speaks to a Lack of Judgment - The Montreal Canadiens hockey team drafted a player fined for a sex-related offence. The 17-year-old player, Logan Mailloux, surreptitiously took photos ...
Slate

The Courts Now Say a Teacher Who Puts a First Grader in a Chokehold Has Qualified Immunity - The 5th Circuit published two opinions that allow public school employees to physically abuse students without fear of liability under civil rights law.
epic.org

Poll: Nearly 8 in 10 Americans Support Creation of U.S. Data Protection Agency - A new poll from Data for Progress found that 7 in 10 Americans think the government should be doing more to keep their personal data safe and nearly 8 in 1...
NPR's Health Shots

Want To Drink Inside? San Francisco Bars Require Proof Of Vaccine Or Negative Test - NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ben Bleiman, president of the SF Bar Owner Alliance, on local bars allowing only vaccinated patrons to drink inside.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Update: China Misleads on Nature of Wuhan Coronavirus Research -
San Antonio Report

City boards and commissions to resume in-person meetings next week - [image: Signage blocks seats in the City Council Chambers during a special meeting in April.]As COVID-19 cases spike locally, the City of San Antonio's boa...
Daily Dot

How to stream the NBA Draft: Follow the NBA Draft picks live - [image: stream nba draft 2021 nba draft order draft picks] Just nine days after the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA title, the league gets a new infusion of ...
Sludge

Committee Asking for More War Ships Is Led by a General Dynamics-Funded Rep -
Courthouse News

Out of lockup and back again: high recidivism is widespread - A federal audit looks at factors like age, race and criminal histories that correlate with an individual returning to prison with five years of release fro...
Political Wire

Jordan Won’t Pin Down When He Talked to Trump - Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) nervously tried to dodge a question about when he talked to President Donald Trump on January 6 — something he has already grudgingl...
Alternet

Report details how Jim Jordan's 'cultish behavior' catapulted him to the 'highest ranks of the House GOP' - During the Obama years, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio was a frequent source of irritation to then-Rep. John Boehner and his successor as House speaker, former ...
Texas Environmental News

Interior Department to review proposal for first wind power project off North Carolina coast - The Interior Department is set to conduct an environmental review of a proposed wind energy project that, if approved, would [...] The post Interior Depa...
Reform Austin

Texas Democrats in Washington, D.C., To Meet With Stacey Abrams and the Clintons - Texas House Democrats will meet virtually Thursday morning with voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and former...
Deadline Politics

Joe Biden To Announce Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement For Federal Workers - President Joe Biden, seeking to curb the spread of the Delta variant, will announce a new mandate for the federal workforce that requires them to attest to...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Is The Dallas Petroleum Club Leaving Chase Tower? - Rumor has it that JPMorgan Chase isn’t the only tenant moving out of Chase Tower in the Dallas Arts District. Sources close to the deal say The Petroleum...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Defrocked cardinal charged with sexually abusing teen boy in 1974 - Theodore McCarrick is the first cardinal in the US to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, ...
Axios

Biden to mandate federal workers declare vaccination status as part of aggressive plan - President Biden detailed several new initiatives on Thursday to get more Americans vaccinated and slow the spread of the Delta variant. *Why it matters:...
Salon.com

Nadiya Hussain's bread pudding will have you baking with ice cream - A brilliant riff on a cozy classic
OpEd News

No, Alberta, Don't Be Sad. We Love You. Really. - Lay aside for the moment the devastation caused by mining the sludgy tar sands for oil. There's no way that a country with less than one percent of the wor...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio birria and ceviche joint El Remedio will be featured on Food Network show in August - Looks like the Food Network isn’t done with the Alamo City just yet. Uber-popular birria taco-and-mariscos food truck El Remedio will be the latest SA eat...
The Rag Blog

Lamar W. Hankins : TEXAS HISTORY | Forgetting almost all I ever learned about the Alamo - The men who fought there may have been brave, but I no longer count them as heroes. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2021 As a child in the 19...
Mediagazer

Dish and WarnerMedia end a two-and-a-half-year TV carriage dispute, bringing HBO and Cinemax back to Dish TV; Dish customers can also get a discount for HBO Max (Michael King/The Streamable) - Michael King / The Streamable: *Dish and WarnerMedia end a two-and-a-half-year TV carriage dispute, bringing HBO and Cinemax back to Dish TV; Dish custom...
Morning Consult

GOP Voters Continue to Disassociate Their Party From Jan. 6 in Wake of Select Panel’s First Hearing - The post GOP Voters Continue to Disassociate Their Party From Jan. 6 in Wake of Select Panel’s First Hearing appeared first on Morning Consult.
Futurism

Space Station Astronauts Threw Their Own Zero-G Olympic Games - Space Olympics The Olympic spirit has become so infectious, even astronauts stationed on board the International Space Station were inspired to put on th...
Mondoweiss

Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else. - On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father's car, as the family were on their way home from grocery...
CultureMap Houston

Johnson and Blunt steer Disney's Jungle Cruise through rough waters - The last time Disney decided to make a movie out of one of its rides, it yielded the Pirates of the Caribbean series, whose five films have collectively m...
Texas Monthly

Chronic Illness Cost This Former Dallas Museum Director Her Career. Embracing Novelty Gave Her New Life. - Working with UT-Dallas's Center for BrainHealth, Bonnie Pitman uses her art expertise to help physicians and people living with debilitating conditions. ...
Discourse

Guess That Whole ‘Actually Helping Poor People’ Thing Is Over Now - Giving people money has been a huge success so naturally we are stopping! The post Guess That Whole ‘Actually Helping Poor People’ Thing Is Over Now appe...
Ballot Access News

Sixth Circuit Says Initiative Lawsuit Over Ballot Access Relief Due to Pandemic is Moot - On July 28, the Sixth Circuit ruled that the lawsuit Thompson v DeWine, 21-3514, is moot. This is the case over whether Ohio should have granted ballot acc...
ArcaMax

Words the MAGA Cult Don’t Want You to Hear - I’m literally old enough to remember when Republicans proudly branded themselves as the cop-loving guardians of “law and order.” Richard Nixon won the pres...
INSIDER - politics news

WATCH: Capitol police officers deliver emotional testimonies from Jan. 6 insurrection - Summary List Placement Join the conversation about this story »
The Root

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher Apparently Don't Know the Meaning of Water Nor Soap. They Are Not Alone. I Haz Questions - A few days ago, between news of GOAT-level USA gymnast Simone Biles pulling out of some events at the 2020-in-2021 Tokyo Olympics for mental health reaso...
American Prospect

Unions and Vaccines: When Rights and Rights Collide - Today on TAP: Union leaders try to balance COVID mandates with members’ concerns
The NM Political Report

State to require vaccinations for state employees - [image: State to require vaccinations for state employees] Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order on Thursday that will require all state em...
The Daily Poster

MIDDAY POSTER: Democrats To Surrender Democracy - A source in the House says the party is about to blow the decade’s most important political deadline.
Talking Points Memo

McCarthy Invokes… Kavanaugh Hearings To Blame Dems For Capitol Attack Security Lapses - While speaking Thursday about the mob of Trump supporters who sacked the Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) drew a comparison between t...
alicublog

YOUR-LYING-EYES WATCH. - I see the *Wall Street Journal *is submitting their version of the Dumbassery Defense of Tubby and his attempted January 6 coup, under the bothsidery hea...
Rio Grande Guardian

Pimentel: There’ll be catastrophic outcomes if we can’t continue to isolate and care for migrants - The recent actions and statements of state and local leaders restricting the ability to assist and care for recently-arrived immigrant families fills me ...
Election Law Blog

Trump supporters paid for Arizona’s pseudo-audit - CNN reports: “The majority of the money has come from organizations tied to people aligned with former President Donald Trump and his false claims of a sto...
Second Nexus

People Are Pretty Sure House GOP Leader Sent QAnon a Message of Support in Latest Anti-Mask Diatribe - The QAnon conspiracy web hinges on the belief that former President Donald Trump was sent to expose a secret network of satanic cannibal pedophiles secre...
In These Times

Work Doesn't Have to Destroy Your Soul - How worker cooperatives are creating direct democracy on the job. - From workers dying from lack of adequate safety measures and PPE to states viciously cutting off extended unemployment benefits to force people back to u...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 29, 2021 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill inches forward in divided Senate; Florida Gulf Coast hit with massive, toxic red tide; ...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Academentia: the Organization Insanity of the Modern University - Overseen by top-dollar-receiving University bosses, below them a huge apparatus opens up that creates Academentia. This is an entire new condition that is ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/29/2021 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
Undernews

Virus status update - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the weekly average of new cases per capita is 27% above that in April 2020. The US ...
The Texas Signal

With COVID cases rising, Abbott digs in against safety measures - This week, for the first time since February, Texas logged 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day. That’s nearly a 150 percent increase from just a few weeks...
Texas Standard

Dr. Peter Hotez : We Can Still ‘Vaccinate Our Way Out Of This’ - With the delta variant of the coronavirus taking hold in Texas, and making younger people sicker than before, a top virus expert says there’s no substitute...
Vox

What’s in the new infrastructure bill — and why it’s a big deal - President Joe Biden stands with the bipartisan group of senators working on the infrastructure deal on June 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Get...
The AltWorld

Another Israeli Spy Story: When Will It End? - One wonders when the penny will drop and the American people will rise up and say “enough […] The post Another Israeli Spy Story: When Will It End? appea...
Daily Cartoonist

So, Here’s Some Things We Noticed - While we were joining Mike in reading The Funny Pages, behind the scenes… Moved from front window display to the back shelves. © Copley News Service After ...
DeSmogBlog

‘Gathering Storm’: How ‘Rogue’ Companies are Buying up North Sea Oil and Gas - Companies with histories of environmental abuses and alleged labour violations, backed by private equity and with ties to foreign governments, stand to p...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

In Plain Sight: Uncovering Border Patrol's Relationship with Far-Right Militias at the Southern Border - Antigovernment militia groups in Arizona appear to be working in tandem with some Border Patrol agents in Pima County, based on a Hatewatch review of socia...
WhoWhatWhy

Joking Towards Bethlehem: What If Climate Change Were Actually Funny? - Finding the humor in a constant crisis.
BEYONDbones

Women of the George | Passion for the Stars - Written by Jacquelyn DiStefano, HMNS Membership Manager Passion. It has a funny way of shaping your life, and for three women, a passion for astronomy br...
Scheerpost.com

Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us From the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure - Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but it’s often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech ...
Popular Resistance

Haitians Reject Calls For US Military Intervention - Two weeks after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the specter of U.S. military intervention looms large over the island nation. While...
Dandelion Salad

Why the Ruins of a Little Village Called Lifta Still Matter, by Kenn Orphan - by Kenn Orphan Writer, Dandelion Salad Halifax, Nova Scotia July 29, 2021 In the Middle East stand the ruins of an ancient settlement known as Lifta. Arche...
Houston Public Media

Appellate Court Reverses Prop B Ruling That Blocked Pay Parity For Houston Firefighters - The decision comes as the fire union fights to have signatures verified in time for a crucial August deadline to have a new charter amendment placed on the...
Techdirt.

House Republicans Introduce Ridiculous, Contradictory, Unconstitutional Package Of 32 Bills About Section 230 And Content Moderation - If you read Techdirt, you already know that there have been literally *dozens* of ridiculous Section 230 reform bills introduced over the last few years....
Capital & Main

Patient Stories: The High Cost of Kaiser Permanente’s Mental Health Care - *For Kaiser member Victor Gomez, getting help meant going out of network.* The post Patient Stories: The High Cost of Kaiser Permanente’s Mental Health C...
Krebs on Security

The Life Cycle of a Breached Database - Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. But the reality is that in most cases by the time the ...
Eater Houston

Recently Shuttered Seafood Staple Tony Mandola’s Has Already Found a New Home - [image: the front of a restaurant at night, with a neon sign reading Tony Mandola’s Gulf Coast Kitchen] Tony Mandola’s has already found a new location ne...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Rapper DaBaby facing universal condemnation for homophobic comments' & other Thur midday news briefs - DaBaby *Celebrities, activists condemn rapper DaBaby’s homophobic comments* - *First of all, who the hell is this? * *Rep. Katherine Clark leads bill to ...
First Draft

Not Everything Sucks: Progress In Washington - Things are looking up in the District of Columbia.
El Paso Matters

El Paso Matters receives $1 million grant from American Journalism Project - El Paso Matters has received a $1 million grant from the American Journalism Project, the first news organization in Texas to win support from the nation...
Shadowproof

Documents From ‘Argo’ Production Reveal What It’s Like To Film At CIA Headquarters - Newly released CIA documents shed light on this process, as well as on the close relationship between the Agency and the makers of the Oscar-winning spy ...
Bonddad

Q2 2021 GDP: goodbye recession, hasta la vista recovery, hello expansion - - *by New Deal democrat* Nominal GDP before inflation increased 3.1%, while real GDP for the 2nd Quarter increased 1.6%. The real annual rate of grow...
Buzzflash

David Frum Slams Unvaxed People Who Claim Discrimination: "Being an Antisocial Jerk Is Not a Protected Category" - MediaITE
Ring of Fire

Tax Dodging Billionaire’s Are Fueling The New Space Race - Via America’s Lawyer: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thanked employees for making his voyage to space possible. But the billionaire space cowboy made no mention o...
Washington Babylon

Are You Being Suckered by Clique Bait? - [image: Are You Being Suckered by Clique Bait?] The latest uproar in liberal-progressive media circles concerns *mule-faced Jimmy Dore’s vile sexual harass...
Novara Media

A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop? - In the days between discovering the Home Office deportation charter flight to Vietnam and its scheduled departure time, activists mobilised rapidly. SOAS D...
Claytoonz

Racist Putz With Putter - One of my proofreaders asked if someone actually said the F-word with the N-word about one of the Capitol Police officers victimized in the insurrection by...
Debunking Christianity

Where Was God When This Happened? Part 14 - *The scandal of divine negligence* In the face of massive human and animal suffering, Christian apologists offer tired clichés: · God works in myst...
Earth 911

Today is the Earliest-Ever Earth Overshoot Day - Each year, humans use more natural resources and pour more CO2 into the atmosphere. Today,... The post Today is the Earliest-Ever Earth Overshoot Day app...
Lawfare

U.S. Leads Coalition Accusing China of Hacking - Microsoft logo. (Esparta Palma, https://flic.kr/p/zWKto; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) On July 19, the United States, jo...
Countercurrents

Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship revoked - Ecuador has stripped Julian Assange of his citizenship. The move is another outrageous assault on the WikiLeaks founder’s democratic rights, made in prepar...
Living Blue in Texas

Guess Who Threw Another Temper Tantrum On The House Floor? - If you said “Chip Roy,” you’re right. How many times do we have to watch Chip Roy act out like The post Guess Who Threw Another Temper Tantrum On The Hou...
Texas Observer

Texas Veterans Homes Overseen by George P. Bush Were Often the Deadliest Places to Be During COVID-19 Pandemic - “Texas veterans homes overseen by George P. Bush were often the deadliest places to be during COVID-19 pandemic” was first published by The Texas Tribune...
Caitlin Johnstone

Falling - Listen to a reading of “Falling”: ❖ Crowdfund Israeli spyware surveillance on your own government to keep them from selling the nation to BlackRock while t...
Progressive.org

Vox Populist: Odd Virus Attacks GOP Governors! - Having such a delusional governor is embarrassing, but the disease turns downright scary when infected governors try acting on their paranoia.
Political Garbage Chute

Charlie Kirk Wins Gold Medal for Having a Terrifyingly Small Face on a Hilariously Giant Head - Right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk made waves today when he lashed out and criticized multiple-gold medal winning American gymnast Simone Biles, who too...
Common Dreams

Eliminating Carbon Emissions by 2050 Would Save 74 Million Lives This Century: Study - There is "a significant number of lives that can be saved if you pursue climate policies that are more aggressive than the business-as-usual scenario."
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, July 29 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, July 29]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to t...
Glasstire

Top Five: July 29, 2021 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas this week. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Round 52: Gulf Coast Anthropocene July 31-Dec...
Democracy Now!

"This Is Not a Climate Bill": Leah Stokes on Why Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Doesn't Go Far Enough - Senate Democrats have announced that they have joined with 17 Republicans to vote in favor of taking up a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal. The plan inclu...
Space City Weather

Hot and mostly sunny through the weekend before a change next week - Good morning. Overall the forecast story remains the same, with scattered afternoon rain chances this week, a hot and sunny weekend, and then better rain c...
The Conversation

Why Ben & Jerry's decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank rattled Israel - Ben & Jerry’s decision to no longer sell ice cream in the occupied territories comes as Israel continues to lose the support of a group of Americans who on...
The Smirking Chimp

Nancy Pelosi Loses Her Patience over Kevin McCarthy's Anti-masker Claims: 'He's Such a Moron' -
Southeast Texas Record

Justices reverse Houston’s summary judgment win in pay parity dispute with fire fighters - HOUSTON – Today the 14th Court of Appeals reversed a final judgment win in favor of the city of Houston in a dispute with the Houston Professional Fire F...
Dos Centavos

This Week in Anti-Immigrant News - Greg Abbott continues his bigoted assault on migrants. We already know about his GoFundMe wall and his Gitmo-styled concentration camp for misdemeanor tres...
The Intercept

CIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump - Records released by the Department of Justice provide new details about Trump’s campaign against whistleblowers and leakers. The post CIA Drove Spike in ...
Grist

A Florida city wanted to move away from fossil fuels. The state just made sure it couldn’t. - The story behind Florida’s new laws that strip cities of their ability to fight climate change.
Ian Welsh

Who Goes To Prison For America’s Crimes? The Whistleblowers. - [image: Story 459546561] There’s a joke about the CIA and torture, in that the only person who went to prison for torturing people was the guy who reveale...
Skeptophilia

The cost of personal courage - I have been following, from some distance, the hue-and-cry over Simone Biles's removing herself from competition on the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team. Bi...
Off The Kuff

Jake Ellzey wins CD06 special election runoff - […]
Mother Jones

GOP Could Retake the House in 2022 Just by Gerrymandering Four Southern States - Before Georgia voted for Joe Biden, the biggest upset in recent state politics came when Democrat Lucy McBath became the first Black person to represent Ne...
FiveThirtyEight.com

How An Olympic Climber Uses Color Breathing To Get In The Zone - Sport climbers have a lot to worry about during competition: the difficulty of the climb, the risk of falling, the distractions from spectators and the spe...
Counterpunch

Medicare For All, the Squad and the DSA: Who Controls Whom? - For the past six years, the liberal-progressives who persist in trying to change the Democratic Party “from the inside” after almost 50 years of resoundi...
ProPublica

The Women on the Other End of the Phone - by Brooke Stephenson ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrong...
High Country News

Rewilding is a two-way street - A letter from your neighborhood deer.
See You In 2020

The Freedomless, Heavily Surveilled Hellscape The U.S. Plans To Bring To Its Own People - [image: The Gaza border, where Israel enforces the lethal no-go zones that U.S. domestic security is modeling its own surveillance apparatus off of] The ...
Democracy Chronicles

Native Americans Are Targets Of Voter Suppression Too - Efforts to erode Native American voting rights endure, accelerated with the slew of country-wide GOP legislation to limit voter access.
Crooked Media

“Masking for Trouble” (with Sen. Tammy Duckworth) - The post “Masking for Trouble” (with Sen. Tammy Duckworth) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Portside

'America is Not Racist' Becomes a 2024 GOP Mantra - 'America is Not Racist' Becomes a 2024 GOP Mantra Mark Brody Thu, 07/29/2021 - 02:55
Informed Comment

It is Time to Call Republican Rejection of Vaccines and Masks what it is: Selfish - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post reports that the rate of coronavirus infections is twice as high in Trump-voting counties as in Biden-vo...
jobsanger

Legendary Bass Player of ZZ Top Has Dies -
World Socialist Web Site

Trump-backed candidate loses in Texas special election - Jake Ellzey, a Texas House representative, won a special congressional election against Susan Wright, who had the support of former President Trump.
Workers World

PDF of July 29 issue - [image: PDF of July 29 issue] Download the PDF. Life expectancy drop exposes racism, class bias SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA International support; Haiti/Cuba acti...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Redistricting in America, Part Two: The Dark Red Greater South - Dear Readers: This is the second part of our multi-part series on congressional redistricting. Part One provided a national overview. We will cover additio...
Liberation News

Breaking: David Wade prison guards violently retaliate against hunger strikers - Families report that brutal retaliation has escalated against hunger strikers
Pages of Victory

Top US scientist on melting glaciers: ‘I’ve gone from being an ecologist to a coroner’ - “Life doesn’t just deal with this. When I went up Glacier with my students a few weeks ago, the flowers were curling up. At some of the lower elevations...
TXElects

Wray Eying Comeback and Other Candidate News for July 28 - *HD10 open: *Former Rep. John Wray (R-Waxahachie) is expected to announce his candidacy as soon as tomorrow (Thursday), and former HD10 candidate Ryan Pi...
Wolf Street

My Thoughts on the Fed’s Back-to-the-Future “Standing Repo Facilities” Announced Today - Repos are different from QE; they’re in-and-out transactions that don’t endlessly pile up, unlike QE.
One People's Project

TANYA M. BRAHIMI - NAME: Tanya M. Brahimi (Esposito) AKA: Tatiania Ibrahim Hard to mention the attacks against CRT without mentioning a name that has emerged from the small t...
Angry Bear

Medicare4All Rallies Shows Big Support for Universal Health Care - Dan sent this article to me and I scan-read it as it is done in generalities. This not a criticism of the content as much as my pointing out it is done i...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman - An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: All That and a Bag of Chips - Aaron Rupar @ Vox: The first January 6 hearing was a harrowing indictment of the GOP. Justin Baragona @ The Daily Beast: Tucker Scoffs at D.C. Cop Scarre...
Freethought Now

Human progress has been due to progressives - Human society has been enormously improved since The Enlightenment, chiefly because crusading liberals have overcome conservative resistance — time after t...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Review of Anne Applebaum, ‘Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism’ - I suppose that many people throughout the world were, whether they realized it at the time or not, Fukuyamaists in roughly the first decade following the...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #146 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: how not to make a great impression on the jury, more sovereign-citizen nonsense, a ruling involving the outer continental...
Robert Reich

Covid is Resurging. So is Trumpian Politics. - Despair is worse after a brief period of hope. I don’t know about you, but I was elated earlier this...
Daily Howler

A SIMPLE CONCEPT: There's "no better description of relativity!" - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021* *What Galileo said: * As we noted last week, several parts of Einstein's universe are easy to describe. In that sense, and to ...
DBC Green

Bye Georgia! GP Disaffiliation Trend Continues - Congratulations are due to Georgia's Green Party, which has become the second state GP organization to get itself disaffiliated from the Green Party of the...
The Grayzone

La contrarrevolución cultural cubana: raperos y artistas apoyados por el gobierno de EE.UU. ganan fama como “catalizadores de las protestas” - El Movimiento de San Isidro, que se presenta como un colectivo popular de artistas que luchan por la libertad de expresión, se ha convertido en un arma c...
NORML

Revised for 2021 — NORML Report Highlights Over 450 Studies Assessing the Therapeutic Efficacy of Cannabis and Cannabinoids - This updated edition reviews over 450 peer-reviewed studies assessing the safety and efficacy of either whole-plant cannabis or cannabinoids for 23 diffe...
Grits for Breakfast

What if any changes to police deployment patterns might reduce violent crime? Hotspot policing vs. ↑ resources for detectives - A friend emailed to ask my opinion of "hotspot" policing tactics being promoted by Houston PD. Here's how I responded: There are SO many studies on this t...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Photo of an Exhausted California Firefighter - We focus on mood and body language as this viral photo bluntly reflects on another early and overwhelming California fire season. The post Chatting the P...
The Progressive Wing

Eugene Beginning to Change Policing and OT 07/28-29/2021 - Happy to see at least a written plan that is meeting with approval. Other cities are looking to our Cahoots program, as well—-mental health first responder...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

‘Erased From The History Books’: Why Asian American History Is Missing In Texas Schools, by Elizabeth Myong - *Yes, Asian Americans are omitted from U.S. History books, not unlike most other groups, including women. Read this post, to learn of the recent struggle...
Ecosophia

July 2021 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standa...
MintPress News

Exclusive: Haitians Reject Calls For US Military Intervention - U.S. media has called for a U.S. military intervention in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. MintPress News spoke to Haitians ...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Reckoning With A Coup - January 6th was a violent coup attempt that has left Americans in shock and denial while a new class of political grifters attempt to cash in on the attack
Rewire

Biden Says the US Will No Longer Detain Pregnant Migrants. Don’t Be Fooled. - Without a plan to transform the immigration system, the Biden administration's policy change mostly serves as a cover for ongoing family separation. The...
Duffel Blog

Coast Guardsman enlists to protect and defend Cheddar Bay - Some things are worth protecting at all costs.
Crooked Timber

Repubs retreat from antivaxerism - A funny thing happened in the culture wars the other day. After taking steadily more extreme anti-vaccination positions over many months, leading rightwing...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - The Fermi Paradox With Neil deGrasse Tyson – Where Are All The Aliens? Since the birth of philosophy, we’ve never stopped wondering about the answer to the...
Infidel753

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Church and State

Wall Street Journal Page One Article Pushes Global Disaster - These pro-growth WSJ authors must not read the news about the worldwide human turmoil appearing daily in their own paper and in all responsible media.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Was There a Coup in Tunisia? Expert Fadil Aliriza Breaks it Down - Tunisia is where the Arab uprisings erupted in December 2010, spreading east and ushering in 10 years of change, chaos, and wars. It’s also the only “Arab ...
Rallblog

From the Same People Who Brought You WMDs - The White House has been pressuring Fox News in public and through back channel communications to stop spreading misinformation about the effectiveness o...
Green Pages News

Lesser-evil dynamic tramples Green presidential campaign - Hawkins and Walker reflect on the 2020 election Editorial by Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker – Green Party President and Vice President Candidates 2020 was...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Tangled webs and Gypsy goodtimes - Jack posted this in August, 2005: Late 1964, Rex Labor and I were part of a group of Peace Corps trainees on the island of Hilo, Hawaii, whom the Peace Cor...
Chicken Fried Politics

Texas State Rep. Jake Ellzey wins U.S. House runoff, defeats Trump-backed Susan Wright - Ellzey will replace the late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who died from COVID-19 in February ARLINGTON, Texas (CFP) — State Rep. Jake Ellzey claimed Texas’s 6th U...
Field Negro

The Jan 6th Hearings were needed, but nothing will change, and the real culprit will not be be held accountable. - Today, after listening to some of the testimony from some of those Capitol police officers during the Jan 6th Commission hearings, I realized that Ameri...
The Contributor

Far-Right Lawmakers Back Bill That Could Ban Teaching Basic Constitutional History - News Image: The House Freedom Caucus backs a bill that would cut off federal funding to anyone teaching about the full contents of America's founding docu...
Avedon's Sideshow

The world keeps revolving - "Sweet Peas From My Garden", photograph by Hazel Ashworth. "On the Political Marriage of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders: *Progressives cannot and should not...
slacktivist

What if life wasn’t just a zero-sum game? - Politico exacerbates the problem of misplaced hyperpartisanship even while doing an otherwise excellent job of describing its harmful effects.
Duck of Minerva

6+1 QUESTIONS ABOUT Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric Since 1945 - What if how presidents talk about ending wars contributes to the cycle of U.S. military intervention? Stephen J. Heidt answers 6+1 questions about his new ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Maine’s Facial Recognition Law Shows Bipartisan Support for Protecting Privacy - *This piece was first published in TechCrunch.* Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased su...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson faces prison in Arizona - Just spoke with Barbara Arnwine who was arrested along with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, and more than 30 others attempting a peacefu...
Bracing Views

Why Can’t American Troops Just Leave Iraq? - W.J. Astore The Biden administration says it wants to remove U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Hooray! Mission finally accomplished, right? It may be 18 years ...
ROAR Magazine

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation - Anti-Roma racism remains pervasive across Europe. It is time to develop a common political agenda for the unification and collective liberation of the Roma.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Kansas City lessons on supporting Black businesses that can work anywhere - Long before they were threatened by the economic shutdown associated with COVID-19, Dr. Karen Curls says that Black-owned small businesses were held back...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Update - *The Constitution Party today sent the following update to its email subscribers.* National Committee meeting in Michigan The Semi-Annual National Commi...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tribune of the People

Corresponsales obreros: Condiciones inseguras en una vieja fábrica de negro de carbón - Por Michael Nolan y un obrero de negro de carbón Los trabajadores de la central eléctrica de carbón llamada Tokai en Borger, Texas, laboran por largas hora...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 "...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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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