Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

jobsanger

Trump Tells Ridiculous Lie To Justify His Golf Trips - Donald Trump seems to be upset about media coverage of his golfing trips. So much so that he has now tweeted an outrageous lie. He says that President Ob...
Informed Comment

A Nation of Trolls: Is it Even Worthwhile to Discuss with Trumpies Anymore? - “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain Should we find ourselves in the compa...
Eschaton

Overnight Thread - Enjoy
The Week

Ohio boy tracks down family to return dog tag lost decades ago - When Kolton Conrad found a dog tag in the Hocking River, the 12-year-old knew he had to track down its owner. The Lancaster, Ohio, resident was kayaking ...
Getaka

USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious navy ship on fire, 21 taken to Hospital - *USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious navy ship on fire, 21 taken to Hospital.* On Sunday, one of America’s 10 big-deck amphibious assault ships, a major ...
Ballot Access News

Twelve Republican Congressional Candidates Say they Believe in QAnon Conspiracy - This Axios article says eleven Republican congressional candidates, plus one person who may become a Republican congressional nominee (depending on how the...
Antiwar.com

Iraq Daily Roundup: Protesters among 34 Killed - In Baghdad, security personnel killed and wounded a number of protesters. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: Protesters among 34 Killed appeared first o...
Crooked Media

What Happens in Vegas… (the Suzy Favor Hamilton story) - The post What Happens in Vegas… (the Suzy Favor Hamilton story) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Down With Tyranny!

Going Big-- In Biden World - Summarizing a Jonathan Martin piece about Democrats wanting Biden to go big in Saturday's *NY Times*, *This Week*'s Tim O'Donnell noted that conservative...
memeorandum

Redskins to retire team name Monday; new name to be revealed later (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Redskins to retire team name Monday; new name to be revealed later* — The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday morning that th...
Claytoonz

A Mousey Reopening - Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday. There are multiple theories as to why D...
Mediagazer

While many news orgs have celebrated the discomfort of Facebook, many haven't joined the ad boycott as few have the scale to forgo Facebook's distribution power (Emily Bell/Columbia Journalism Review) - Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review: *While many news orgs have celebrated the discomfort of Facebook, many haven't joined the ad boycott as few have...
OpEd News

School Board Candidate Silent as Charter Schools Double Dip at the Public Trough - Marilyn Koziatek will not answer questions about Granada Hills Charter taking over $8 million from the Paycheck Protection Program.
Election Law Blog

“Texas voter registration surges to 16.4 million, despite the pandemic” - San Antonio Express News reports. … Continue reading →
Crooks and Liars

Oscar Hammerstein's 125th Birthday - Youtube: "In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, 300 people from 15 different countries came together to participate in a virtual rendition of the beauti...
TXElects (Texas Election Source)

More Than 1M Texans Voted Early, So Far, and Other News for July 12 - This week: The primary runoff and special elections are Tuesday. We will have live coverage here and on our Twitter feed beginning at 7 p.m. CT. The follow...
Raw Story

Here is how the 99% can force the 1% to defeat COVID-19 - The government’s response to the pandemic has further enriched the wealthy, while everyday people, especially Black and Brown workers, face sickness, death...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

USS Bonhomme Richard fire: US warship rocked by explosion in San Diego – video - More than 20 people suffered minor injuries on Sunday after an explosion and fire on board a ship at a naval base in San Diego, military officials said. ...
Progressives Everywhere

Eviction Prevention Fundraisers: 28 Million Americans are at risk of eviction this summer. We’ve got to help now. - As new cases of COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket across the countries, many cities and states are beginning to roll back re-opening plans and re-issu...
Mediaite

BREAKING: Washington Redskins Expected to Announce Retirement of Team Name on Monday - The Washington Redskins plan to announce on Monday that they are officially retiring their team nickname, according to a report by Sports Business Journal.
Al Jazeera English

Explosion, fire on US navy ship at base in San Diego: 21 injured - Origin of explosion on Sunday morning unknown, but Navy says all crew accounted for and situation under control.
Salon.com

"The rats are leaving the sinking ship": Lindsey Graham agrees to let Robert Mueller testify - Mueller published an op-ed in The Washington Post expressing displeasure with Donald Trump commuting Roger Stone
Dorf on Law

In Memory of Stanley Dorf (1931-2020) - *By **Laura Dorf Queller & **Michael C. Dorf* Stanley Allen Dorf was born in 1931 on the Lower East Side to our grandparents Irving and Sally Dorf. It was ...
Political Wire

Christie Wouldn’t Have Commuted Stone’s Sentence - Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told ABC News that he wouldn’t have commuted President Trump associate Roger Stone. Said Christie: “Well, I would...
Dissident Voice

Spiteful Authority: Malaysia Goes for the Journalists - Malaysia’s record on letting journalists be is a blotted one. This month, authorities have been kept busy intimidating the independent news outlet Malaysi...
The Hill

Meadows trying to root out suspected White House leakers by feeding them info: Axios - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is reportedly engaged in an effort to track down the sources behind recent leaks to the media, putting many staff m...
Rivard Report

Nirenberg Warns Against Social Gatherings as Bexar County Tallies 9 More COVID-19 Deaths - The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus in Bexar County rose to 184 on Sunday, while 1,265 people were in the hospital for COVID-19. The post Ni...
Portside

Texas Teachers Union May Strike Over COVID-19 Precautions - Texas Teachers Union May Strike Over COVID-19 Precautions Marti Sun, 07/12/2020 - 20:30
Digby's Hullabaloo

Sunday Night soother - All you duffers out there (and maybe some pre-duffers) will enjoy watching these kids hear songs you know that they’ve never heard before. A delightful res...
Vox

Robert Mueller: Roger Stone “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.” - [image: Mueller, lit by flashes, walks down a hallway lined with uniformed police officers.] Former special counsel Robert Mueller prepares to testify befo...
Progrexas

Trump says he disagreed with privately funded border wall. The builder got $1.7 billion in wall contracts from his administration. - President Donald Trump now claims this privately funded border wall in the Rio Grande Valley — touted as the “Lamborghini” of fences — was built to “make...
ProPublica

Trump Says He “Disagreed” With Privately Funded Border Wall, So Why Did His Administration Award the Builder $1.7 Billion in Contracts to Erect More Walls? - by Perla Trevizo and Jeremy Schwartz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soo...
Axios

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows lays traps to find suspected leakers - President Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has told several White House staffers he's fed specific nuggets of information to suspected leakers to se...
Louis Proyect

Pecksniff and the Harper’s Open Letter - Although I have run into very few supporters of the Harper’s Open Letter on Facebook and even less on Marxmail, I was still trying to figure out why there ...
Daily Cartoonist

Duane McKenna – RIP - Art director and cartoonist Duane McKenna has passed away. Duane Alton McKenna August 20, 1922 – July 1, 2020 From the obituary: Born 97 years ago in Sioux...
The NM Political Report

COVID-19 cases continue to grow around the state - [image: COVID-19 cases continue to grow around the state] For 11 straight days, New Mexico health officials have reported more than 200 cases of COVID-19. ...
Slate

White House Moves to Discredit Fauci as Disagreements With Trump Become Evident - The White House is distributing a list that details comments Fauci made in the early days of the pandemic that were later proven to be wrong.
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Trump Mt. Rushmore; Gun Waving St. Louis Couple; Racial Protest Self Portrait - This webcast looks at the Trump July 4th Mt. Rushmore rally, that St. Louis couple that threatened demonstrators with weapons, and a racial justice self-...
Popular Resistance

COVID19 Corruption: Wealthy And Well Connected Get Rich While People Suffer - While corrupt elected officials and elites feed at the public trough, the economic collapse is hitting people in the United States hard. According to the...
Greg Palast

This is it, folks…A personal request - This morning, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, "Buy Greg Palast’s book now—we need to put it on the New York Times bestseller list as we did with The Best Democrac...
The Greanville Post

How Democrats Are Deceived - ERIC ZUESSE—That Democratic Party site (The Daily Beast) considers Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, etc., to be enemies of America; and it considers Israel,...
OffGuardian

WATCH: The Gates Foundation and the Subversion of Public Health Policy in India - Colin Todhunter Some might ask why India is in complete lockstep with global lockdown despite the very low COVID19-related mortality figures for 1.3 billio...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Are You Haunted By Ghosts of Relationships Past? - Do you or your partner get triggered when an old flame pops up on social media? Does it upset you that your partner has souvenirs from past relationship?...
Talking Points Memo

Local Officials Aren’t Itching To Reopen Schools Even After Trump’s Threat To Do So - [image: ANNAPOLIS, MD - MAY 13: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan holds a press conference announcing Stage One of the Maryland roadmap to Recovery in the Go...
Courthouse News

Chatham Announces Plan to Buy Newspaper Publisher McClatchy - Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management plans to buy newspaper publisher McClatchy out of bankruptcy, ending 163 years of family control. The post Chatham An...
Daily Dot

Streamers came down with COVID-19 symptoms at Disney, returned the next day - Two streamers are facing scrutiny online after they came down with COVID-19 symptoms and continued their vacation at Disney World. One woman got sick to ...
NPR's Health Shots

Florida Shatters U.S. Record In Largest Single-Day Increase In COVID-19 Cases - Florida reported the largest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases of any state, with more than 15,000 people testing positive.
Angry Bear

No, it is not “erasing history” - Infidel 753 writes at his own site of the same name. From time to time in the past he has put up several of Angry Bear’s posts on Crooks and Liars. This po...
Common Dreams

Adding Insult to the 'Injury of Colonialism,' Trump Suggested Selling Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, Former Advisor Says - Julia Conley, staff writer According to a New York Times interview with Elaine Duke, who served as Homeland Security Secretary from 2017 to 2018, the presid...
Mahablog

We Are Trump’s Hostages - Sorry I’ve been scarce. I gave a Zoom talk this morning to some zennies and had to prepare something. But now it’s done. We’re being held hostage by a viru...
The Verge

The 4 biggest announcements from Ubisoft Forward - Ubisoft, like many other video game companies, was unable to host its typical in-person press conference at E3 in June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ins...
Dandelion Salad

The Horrors of U.S. Imperialism are Coming to Afflict Americans, by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist July 12, 2020 Throughout its era as the “world police” that overthrows gove...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

French Energy Giant Total Declares War on Texas Toddlers - This true story is filled with enough hubris, greed, unchecked power, a plague, and questionable relationships to fill a Greek tragedy. French energy gia...
VICE

Press X to Dismantle Surveillance Capitalism in 'Watch Dogs: Legion' - A gripping idea for a cyberpunk stealth game face the realities of franchise formula.
Texas Environmental News

Chicago air is dirtier this July than smog-choked Los Angeles. More bad air is forecast - After missing out on cleaner air during the coronavirus lockdown, the Chicago area just suffered its longest streak of high-pollution [...] The post Chic...
Rallblog

10 Reasons I Won’t Vote for Biden - My vote is a personal endorsement. It says, “I, citizen Ted Rall, approve of Joe Biden’s career in public office.” I do not. Voting for Biden would be a re...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The Vet Conundrum and America's Wars - If you still follow the mainstream media, you're probably part of the 38% of registered voters who knew something about the op-ed Senator Tom Cotton (R-A...
Latino Rebels

Puerto Rico Questions Spain’s Legacy as Statues Tumble in US - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Statues, street names, plazas and even the body of conquistador Juan Ponce de León himself: Spain left a nearly indelible lega...
Independent Political Report

New Chairman Elected For Libertarian National Committee - A new chairman has been elected to the Libertarian National Committee at the 2020 National Convention. Joseph Bishop-Henchman, who served as an at-large ...
Field Negro

Caption Sunday. - [image: Image result for trump with mask images] I need a caption for this picture. Example: *Tell me why are we wearing the black and not the white mask...
The AltWorld

Unlikability: a Trait That Plagues Right-Wing Leaders - Achieving popularity requires empathy and rationality, elements that politicians of the right-wing, many of whom believe they […] The post Unlikability: ...
Ring of Fire

Class Action Lawsuits Take On Police Brutality Across The Nation - Via America’s Lawyer: Protesters file lawsuits against police departments nationwide alleging police brutality, the very issue that demonstrators were ra...
EgbertoWillies.com

Chuck Todd knocks admiral on COVID-19 response; “Results, sir. Look at Europe. & look at us.” - [image: Chuck Todd knocks admiral on COVID-19 response; "Results, sir. Look at Europe. & look at us."] Chuck Todd knocks Assistant Secretary for Health Adm...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Mueller Speaks - Which he never does. Weak Tea if you ask me. Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so By Robert S. Mueller III, Washington Post July 11, 2020 ...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative lobby contract by McGuireWoods Consulting, LLC of Austin up again on Monday, July 13 before McAllen City Commission - The McAllen City Commission on Monday, July 13, 2020, is again scheduled to consider a proposed one-year, $60,000 annual contract renewal with McGuireWoods...
The Progressive Wing

7/12 Weekend News Roundup & OT, Part 2 - 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 https://t.co/1KxmBtQ4A4 — Larry Wilmore (@larrywilmore) July 12, 2020 Trump had to wait for his special order mask to don one. Notice the POTU...
Alternet

Research shows US COVID-19 testing rate just a fraction of level needed - President Donald Trump has claimed that testing in the United States for the coronavirus is “the best in the world” and has even suggested there is too muc...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Undercover Patriots - It was June 20th and we antiwar vets had traveled all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the midst of a pandemic to protest President Trump’s latest folly, an ...
Reform Austin

UT Changes Policy on Sex Discrimination, Violence, Harassment - The University of Texas at Austin will have revised policies on sex discrimination in effect before the fall semester begins. Interim President Jay Hartz...
Mother Jones

White House Goes on the Attack Against Anthony Fauci - Whatever happened to Anthony Fauci? We don’t see much of him anymore. It turns out that President Trump got tired of Fauci’s pessimism about COVID-19 and h...
Stinque

Sorry, Charlie - We think it was Carlin’s. Or it might have been Robert Klein’s. Or maybe it was just low-hanging fruit, waiting to be plucked. The premise of Charlie the T...
SCOTUSblog

This week at the court - [image: This week at the court]The justices are on their summer recess. The post This week at the court appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 12, 2020 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 12, 2020 by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy Supreme Court Rules That About Half Of Oklahoma Is Native Ame...
21st Century Wire

SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Suffer No Fools’ (2014) - *SUNDAY SCREENING* | The story of one of America's great heterodox intellectuals and cultural commentators.
DeSmogBlog

Return of the Bomb Trains - Read time: 7 mins On July 6th Reuters published an article on the potential for a resurgence of moving crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota ac...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on July 10: Jefferson Capital Systems LLC vs Tekeyah Dorsey - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Jefferson Capital Systems LLC against Tekeyah Dorsey on July 10: 'Or...
Mondoweiss

Peter Beinart’s defection is a desperate crisis for liberal Zionists - It would be fair to say that a major earthquake has been happening in the Zionist camp this past week, with Peter Beinart's essay that he no longer believe...
Daily Howler

Cooper, Weir discuss deaths in the U.S., Brazil! - *SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2020Lack of elementary journalistic/analytical skill:* In yesterday's post, we should have mentioned the difference between the dueling...
Lawfare

Wuhan, From the Cultural Revolution to COVID-19 - Members of China's Cultural Revolution Group in 1967. Photo credit: Wikimedia *Editor’s Note: Wuhan is now known as ground zero for the coronavirus, but ...
San Antonio Current

Joaquin Castro and Hispanic Caucus Ask to Meet With CEOs Running Immigrant Detention Sites - Two dozen members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have requested a virtual meeting with the CEOs of CoreCivic and GEO Group, private prison groups th...
naked capitalism

Federal Judge Nixes Part of Glyphosate Settlement That Would Allow a Panel of Scientific “Experts”, Rather Than Juries, to Decide Whether the Chemical is Carcinogenic for Future Claims - Judge skeptical over Bayer's proposal to replace a jury decision on whether glyphosate causes cancer with that of a scientific panel.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road Burial Ground - [image: Hebron Road burial ground]
Bonddad

The 2020 Presidential election nowcasts and forecast: growing evidence for a likely Biden blowout - * - by New Deal democrat* For the past three weeks I have posted a projection of the Electoral College vote based solely on State rather than national po...
International Badass Activists

📢 Call – To – Action !!! 🎸🎶 Alert Germany to Kerri Rivera ! | The Autistic Avenger – Home - The Autistic Avenger 📢 Call – To – Action !!! 🎸🎶 Alert Germany to Kerri Rivera ! A media outlet called Brisant posted the story about the big Genesis...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Testing ...Testing' Toons - Trump Keeps Boasting He Passed Cognitive Impairment Test * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange ...
Caitlin Johnstone

Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Propaganda is so advanced that rank-and-file members of the public will openly cheerlead their government’s imprisonment of Assange so that their governmen...
First Draft

No Good Choices - If we wanted the schools to be open, we should have left everything else closed: I want schools to open. I’ve got a five year old and a fifteen year old i...
The Intercept

A Bail Reform Tool Intended to Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases in the Criminal Justice System - Kentucky was an early adopter of risk assessments in an effort to release more people without bail. But the algorithms are reproducing systemic inequitie...
Wolf Street

What Happens If Most Businesses & Consumers Tighten Their Belts at the Same Time? - Europe may be about to find out. 128 days with my Mother-in-Law.
WhoWhatWhy

Two Visions of America - Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s Trump’s vision — not that of the protesters — that threatens American democracy. The post Two Visions of America appeared fi...
Duffel Blog

New stealth bomber completely undetectable by budget oversight - [image: New stealth bomber completely undetectable by budget oversight] THE PENTAGON – The Air Force’s next generation stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, is...
Duck of Minerva

The networks and hidden procedures that keep discrimination alive in academia - This is the third post in our series on Race&IR. This is a guest post from Carla Norrlöf and Cheng Xu. Carla Norrlöf is an associate professor at the Unive...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

ECHO . . . ECHO. . . ECHO. . . - The real reason they cancelled the NH rally at an empty airplane hanger -- they were worried about low attendance (again)https://twitter.com/dandrezner/sta...
Progressives Chat

‘Unapologetic’ with ‘Skepticism’ for ‘Good Progressives’ - Two wonderful videos were published to YouTube, on June 25 and July 1, 2020, by *Unapologetic*. They appear above. This general-election period—well, ...
Grist

Global warming. Inequality. COVID-19. And Al Gore is … optimistic? - As vice president, he looked for big policy answers to hard global problems. Now he says all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions.
See You In 2020

The Horrors Of U.S. Imperialism Are Coming To Afflict The American People - Throughout its era as the “world police” that overthrows governments for the benefit of corporate interests, the U.S. has perfected a strategy for destroy...
The Disorder Of Things

The Power of Speaking Macaronic - Native of Sarajevo, Amila Buturović is Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests span the...
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1906: Cats in Ancient Cyprus - Episode: 1906 A cat in Cyprus — five thousand years too soon. Today, a cat in Cyprus.
The Mind Unleashed

Captive Orca Suffers Near-Complete Tooth Loss, Constant Pain While Confined in Aquarium - A captive Orca named Inouk has been kept in such reprehensible conditions that his teeth have almost entirely been lost due to him gnawing at his enclosure.
Chicken Fried Politics

U.S. Senate runoffs top Tuesday’s primary ballots in Alabama, Texas - Jeff Sessions tries to survive Trump headwinds in Alabama, while Texas Democrats pick a foe for U.S. Senator John Cornyn ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPoli...
Seeing the Forest

I Love This So Much - Krishna Das – Maa Durga
DBC Green

It's Official: Hawkins/Walker 2020 - Screenshot of the final delegate tally from the Presidential Nominating Convention, complete with misspelled names. Howie Hawkins received 210 votes, neede...
Bud Kennedy

Pass this city mask law. It helps enforce Greg Abbott’s order and slows COVID-19. - Let me say this as clearly as I can. It is up to you to keep yourself and your family safe. Your city, county and state are not checking whether … Click to...
Liberation News

How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective - [image: Abolish the police graffiti mural]The Party for Socialism and Liberation stands for the overthrow, dismantling and complete replacement of the core...
Grits for Breakfast

Cowtown gets a 'defund police' vote - The folks at the Fort Worth Crime Control and Prevention District must be kicking themselves at the timing of the voters' *re-up of their taxing authority*...
BillMoyers.com

Bill T. Jones Talks With Bill Moyers about Race and Revolution, George Floyd and A Cabin Boy Named Pip - Bill Moyers talks with Bill T. Jones, the artistic giant who revolutionized modern dance. The son of migrant farm workers in the South – the 10th of 12 c...
Bracing Views

Staying Sane in the Age of Trump - Richard Sahn As a social scientist living through horrific political, economic, and public health crises, I should be embracing with all my might philosoph...
The Grayzone

Calling out NYT “unprofessional” reporting on ‘Bountygate’ - Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with investigative journalist Gareth Porter about his latest report “How the Pentagon failed to… The post Calling out...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Minorities - *This finding is rather stunning: "The median age for White non-Hispanics rose to 43.7 years — more than a decade older than the median Hispanic of any rac...
Land Destroyer

Reading Stabbings: Deliberate Product of UK Foreign Policy - *July 12, 2020 *(Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - It should surprise no one paying attention that the suspect in the recent stabbing spree in Reading, UK was not o...
ROAR Magazine

A call for solidarity from the streets of Serbia - The Serbian government is violently cracking down on protests against its handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
INSIDER - politics news

As coronavirus cases climb, Trump says states with an uptick in cases are 'going to be fine' and will be back to normal 'very quickly' - - Coronavirus death rates are on the rise amid a recent uptick of cases in states including California, Arizona, Florida, and Texas. - In respo...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: With tax filing deadline approaching, TRLA provides advice - HARLINGEN, Texas – In his latest podcast with The Rio Grande Guardian, Rev Torres reminds taxpayers that this year’s filing deadline is July 15. Torres i...
Moon of Alabama

The MoA Week In Review - Open Thread 2020-55 - Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: July 6 - Choices Related: Trump accuses Biden of plagiarizing his economic proposals - Politico July 7 - The Latest '...
Web of Debt

Two video interviews — on RT America and Kim Iverson -
The Militant

Bath shipyard workers’ strike gains solidarity - BATH, Maine — Some 350 striking shipbuilders, family members and supporters took part in a July 3 “Solidarity Pig Roast” at the Machinists Local S6 union h...
Shadowproof

Dissenter Weekly: Leak Prosecutions Against BLM Protesters, Police Whistleblower In Illinois - On this edition of the “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola provides an update on NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who is inca...
Democracy Chronicles

The Cybersecurity 202: These are the top things officials say they need to run November’s elections - State and local election officials want more money, better and earlier planning from political leaders as they prepare for November elections
Countercurrents

Online Exams and the Presumption of Privilege in a Pandemic - Delhi University seems to have been changing its stance every day in the High Court as petitions challenging the Online Open Book Exams are being heard. ...
Texas Monthly

Trump’s Impeachment Drove Pete Sessions to Run for Congress Again. Then He Got Tangled Up in the Inquiry. - Republican primary runoff candidate Renee Swann has circled around her opponent’s implication in the Ukraine scandal, perhaps worried that any attacks mi...
emptywheel

Reggie Walton Seems Interested Revealing Some of Mueller’s Referrals - When DOJ reprocessed the Mueller Report last month, they continued to redact at least one referral as an ongoing investigation that had already been made...
Church and State

The Booming Space Economy - The next decade is going to be an important one, with declining costs and advanced technology propelling the space economy to new highs.
The Root

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

Hong Kong’s Aggressive Use of Security Law - Lam minimized the potential impact of Hong Kong’s new Chinese-written security law before it took effect. Once it did, arrests and charges under the law we...
Reveal

American Rehab Chapter Three: A Venomous Snake - After building a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult. The post American Rehab Chapter Three: A...
Terlingua Dreams

Heat Wave / Power Outage - It has been incredibly hot lately. Thank goodness for the breeze and wind gusts. If I am not outside by* 8:00 a.m. *it gets too hot to water all the trees....
World Socialist Web Site

North American autoworkers expand fight against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 nightmare - Fiat Chrysler Toledo Assembly workers in Ohio have decided to launch a rank-and-file safety committee, after similar committees were set up last month at t...
The Appeal

Coronavirus In Jails And Prisons - *Weeks before the first reported cases of COVID-19 in prisons and jails, correctional healthcare experts warned that all the worst aspects of the U.S. cr...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Q&A: Sarah Glover on the big “B” in newsrooms - Each week, we feature journalists who have affected powerful change. This week it’s Sarah Glover, immediate past president of the National Association of...
Workers World

Students and workers remove ‘Confederate General’ name from school - [image: Students and workers remove ‘Confederate General’ name from school] Charleston, W.Va. In a huge victory for the growing movement against racism and...
The Texas Signal

Texans are fed up with Abbott’s pandemic response, new poll finds - The opinion Texans have of Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID-19 response has plummeted since April, the latest 50-state poll by the COVID-19 Consortium shows. The...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

For North Texas Colleges, Reopening During a Pandemic Means Different Things - The fall semester is arriving fast and North Texas colleges are navigating whether in-person classes during a pandemic is the safest path for students. P...
Novara Media

Cancel Culture, Cancelled? - Are censorious lefties on twitter undermining free speech, and putting at risk the foundations of a liberal society. Or – are wealthy celebrities annoyed t...
Progressive.org

Vindman's Ukraine - With Democrats increasing the impeachment pressure, of course President Trump and his supporters would go after a decorated combat veteran who was a refugee.
Project Censored

Episode 97 – Monuments and Rape culture with Jen Marshall of the Bay Area Women Against Rape: BAWAR - On today’s episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore the debates surrounding monuments and rape culture with ...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Confidence Interval: Could Trump Win If He Replaces Pence? - Welcome to another episode of Confidence Interval, where we make a persuasive case for a hot take … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Supreme Court Correctly Rules that Trump is Not Above the Law - Donald Trump, who often behaves as though he has never read the Constitution, received an important civics lesson from the Supreme Court yesterday when i...
MintPress News

Mexico State Oil Company Files $22 Billion Debt Swap amid IMF Threats and White House Visit - Mexico's economy is put in the crosshairs by the IMF as the “new NAFTA” takes effect and AMLO is forced to make concessions to avoid an even deeper reces...
Texas Standard

‘Inmate #1’ Chronicles Danny Trejo’s Journey From Prison To The Big Screen - Known for his role as Uncle Machete in the “Spy Kids” movies, Trejo refers to himself as “everybody’s Uncle Machete” and uses his platform to give hope to ...
Morning Consult

Voters Increasingly Place Biden Closer to the Ideological Extreme - The post Voters Increasingly Place Biden Closer to the Ideological Extreme appeared first on Morning Consult.
Counterpunch

The Struggle for Police-Free Schools and an Equitable, Safe Re-Opening - The post The Struggle for Police-Free Schools and an Equitable, Safe Re-Opening appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Pages of Victory

Cancel Culture - Evergreen Review From our editor-in-chief. Geez, doesn't he have enough enemies!? Dale Peck July 8 at 2:40 PM I'm not going to link to it because that's pr...
The Contributor

Despite Trump Claim, Research Shows US Covid-19 Testing Rate Just 39% of Level Needed - News Image: The U.S. would have to double its daily testing rate in order to control the coronavirus, and even more testing would be needed to suppress th...
Latino Decisions

Latino Decisions Announces Release of New Survey Results in Six Battleground States - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2020 CONTACT: Stephen Nuño-Perez, stephen.nuno@latinodecisions.com (909) 489-2955 Seattle, WA – In partnership with Voter...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Trump ‘Aced’ His Cognitive Test - Justin Baragona @ The Daily Beast: Trump: Doctors Were ‘Very Surprised’ I ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test. John Fea: Thursday night court evangelical roundup. KJ Ede...
In These Times

Barr’s New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters - On June 26, Attorney General William Barr announced the creation of a new task force on “violent anti-government extremists.” Made up of representatives ...
Rewire

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Rights Win Might Not Help Providers Like Me - As a Black abortion provider in Arizona, I am no stranger to abortion restrictions—or the vitriol and racism that comes with it. The post The Supreme Cou...
NORML

Missouri: Kansas City Council Eliminates Local Penalties for Marijuana Possession Offenses - City council members in Kansas City, Missouri approved a municipal ordinance repealing all local penalties specific to activities involving the personal ...
Freethought Now

The Supreme Court, the pandemic, abortion rights and profound questions - Between the Supreme Court and the pandemic, we at FFRF had scarcely a moment’s respite over the past week.
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: July 2020 - Only two links this month, I guess I just didn’t spend as much time collecting them. Bo Ruberg | Keywords in Play (Podcast, 22 min) – An interview with Bo ...
Living Blue in Texas

What’s wrong with HD126 Rep Sam Harless? - Is he intellectually impaired or has he just listened to one too many Alex Jones... The post What’s wrong with HD126 Rep Sam Harless? appeared first on L...
Sludge

Justin ‘No Bailouts’ Amash’s Company Received Up To $2 Million in Coronavirus Bailout Funds - When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March, only a handful of representatives spoke out against it. The bi...
Debunking Christianity

Suppose They Found PROOF Jesus Existed - What difference would it make? Most laypeople are probably stumped at the claim that there is no proof that Jesus existed. How can that be? If you get yours...
Houston Press

Former Houston Police Chief C. O. "Brad" Bradford Has a Few Things to Say About Policing Reform - Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Houston Police Department like many around the country, took several steps away from community education and a...
Texas Observer

Amid a National Reckoning Over Racial Injustice, Royce West Seeks to Upset MJ Hegar—and the DSCC - Texas Democratic Senate candidate Royce West was fed up. In the final days of early voting for the runoff election, frontrunner MJ Hegar put out a new ad...
Space City Weather

Summer’s sizzle slogs along for Houston - Thursday was officially the hottest day of 2020 so far. We topped off at 98º yesterday at Bush Intercontinental Airport and 96º (good for second hottest) a...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #135 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: we're still pretending to be a democracy for now, some poorly chosen tattoos, I mention a toad-venom case I forgot to men...
Democracy Now!

"Most Important Indian Law Case in Half a Century": Supreme Court Upholds Tribal Sovereignty in OK - In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that much of eastern Oklahoma, constituting nearly half the state, is Native American land, recognizing...
The Conversation

Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow federal law - Land in what is now eastern Oklahoma, which was granted to the Creek Nation by Congress in 1833, is still under tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court ruled.
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 7/10/2020 - Top legal news includes: Judge deals legal setback to Texas GOP in fight over convention (Chron subsc); Justice, masked or unmasked: COVID-19 risks bring a...
Dallas Observer

North Texas Suburban Police Departments Have Millions of Dollars' Worth of Military Equipment - On the night of April 19, 2017, 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was in a car driving away from police officers when he was shot in the back of the head. Officer...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ask Old Jules: God Speaks, End of World, Is Life Cheap, Racism/Bigotry - Old Jules, do you believe that GOD speaks through others? If so, God speaks through too many others to allow any sense to be made of it. Old Jules, what wo...
Liberal America

ICE Threatens to Deport International Students Taking Online Courses (Video) - It is unknown what post-COVID education will look like in America. Yet in a month colleges and universities are expected to begin their fall semesters. H...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Ralph Reed explains why conservative evangelicals don't care about Trump's COVID-19 incompetence - Via a tweet, conservative evangelical leader Ralph Reed tells why the religious right will continue to support Trump no matter what he does. Let's be hones...
slacktivist

‘Canceled’ = ‘disgraced’ - “I Believe I Can Fly” is a really good song. The lyrics may be a bit shallow, but their aspirational vagueness lets listeners take the general idea to hear...
TalkLeft

Michael Cohen Jailed For Rejecting Terms of Home Confinement - Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was blindsided today by the U.S. Marshals and taken into custody, to await return to a federal prison. Cohen w...
Socialist Alternative

Amazon TAXED! Lessons of the Tax Amazon Victory in Seattle - The Tax Amazon movement and Seattle’s working class won a historic victory on Monday, July 6. Following a three year struggle against the richest man in th...
Rude Pundit

Hey, Where the Fuck Are You? - I'm taking the full week off because I'm in Louisiana visiting family. Gotta tell you: It's weird to go into a restaurant and eat a meal like a real person...
The Rag Blog

Allen Young : BOOKS | Genealogy effort leads to book about people becoming Americans - This impressive new volume is the work of Carla Barringer Rabinowitz. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | July 9, 2020 ROYALSTON, Mass. — Borderers: Becoming A...
epic.org

Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Robocall Ban - Just days after upholding the federal robocall ban against a First Amendment challenge, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the scope of the ban in...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Capitalism/Socialism - If you like these cartoons, help me make more at my Patreon! Lots of $1 or $2 pledges means I can make a living. Today’s comic is written by me and drawn b...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

TRS Radio Network Member Arrested in Virginia for Stickers Linking to Hate Site - Police in Norfolk, Virginia, have arrested a man affiliated with The Right Stuff (TRS) podcast network, a white nationalist hate group and propaganda organ.
nonsite.org

To End Police Violence Fund Public Goods and Raise Wages - All of this is to say that we cannot solve the problem of police violence by avoiding the problem of poverty. Yet this is exactly what the “defund” solutio...
Eater Houston

11 Houston Cocktail Bars Serving Top-Notch Mixed Drinks To-Go - [image: four plastic juice pouches filled with cocktails that are yellow, orange, dark orange and red] 8th Wonder Distillery’s pre-batched to-go cocktails....
Innocence Project

Innocence Project Calls for Policy Reforms in Wake of Landmark Report on 25 Wrongful Convictions in Brooklyn - Today, the Kings County (Brooklyn, NY) District Attorney’s Office released a landmark report examining how and why the KCDA’s Conviction Review Unit agre...
Two Party Opera

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Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

States of Play: Georgia - Dear Readers: In the next installment of our States of Play series — in which we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the key states that will decide the presi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's always the living that are haunting my nights - *The Onion*, "Nancy Pelosi Calls Jamaal Bowman To Scold Him For Winning Primary: WASHINGTON—Following the progressive challenger's victory over 16-term i...
LareDOS

Zapata County, Zapata property owners file federal suit against Trump and acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf - Compelling accounts in EXHIBITS 2, 3, 4 about hateful, racist, misogynistic “I’m 10-15” Facebook page
Dissent Magazine

There Is No Essential Work Without Child Care - Home-based day-care providers struggle to stay afloat while keeping other essential workers going.
Ecosophia

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Law of Action and Reaction - This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philos...
BEYONDbones

Comet Watch and the Stars of Summer: Sky Happenings July 2020 - In something of a surprise, we have a naked eye comet this month, comet NEOWISE! Astronomers discovered this comet on March 27, 2020 using the NEOWISE sate...
News Junkie

COVID-19: Confirmed Wuhan Man-Made Coronavirus Chimera Enters Vaccine Design - In any scientific field, censorship sooner or later must yield to the truth, because without it there can be no scientific progress. As it happens, a June ...
Dos Centavos

The TMAs COVID-19 Risk Assessment Chart - A chart has been floating around the facebooks and it is quite interesting. What activities pose the most risk for contracting the coronavirus? It’s not to...
Washington Babylon

Editorial: Our New Publication Schedule & Podcast. Plus: Trump Has To Go - [image: Editorial: Our New Publication Schedule & Podcast. Plus: Trump Has To Go] Hey there. Long time, no speak. We’re halfway through the most catastro...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Signs of life in an age of COVID-19 and revolution - Sign posted outside of an American bar, I presume. No indication of any complaints from any customers. (Comment said the sign was found in Beech Grove, Ind...
Echidne of the Snakes

Getting Back In The Saddle. Or Writing After Illness. - I have never ridden a horse though I have sat in a sled pulled by a horse, called Lotta.* Okay. That's the entirety my post title produced inside my feeb...
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
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is New Research Showing Fringe Alien Hybrids Are Possible? - The claim that there are alien hybrids have always been science fiction, or if UFO researchers made such a claim, even some with PhDs, then they always ...
Robert Reich

Monopoly Mayhem: Corporations Win, Workers LoseWhy do big... - *Monopoly Mayhem: Corporations Win, Workers Lose*Why do big corporations continue to win while workers get shafted? It all comes down to power: who has i...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Current ABNORMAL With an IMPROVED NORMAL - We need a new and BETTER NORMAL that not only re-establishes what we’ve lost since the mid twentieth century, but includes FDR’s Second Bill of Rights (6...
The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia

Carolina KAaron Paz - Sorry, been a little busy and haven't had a chance to blog much, but if you haven't seen it yet - go to Javier Aaron Paz's Facebook page and watch him go ...
ExChristian.Net

Why Religious Traditions Suck - *By Carl S. ~ * For more than a dozen years, I've followed the testimonies and comments on this site. The most responses ensue whenever a troll comes in t...
Eclectablog

A conversation with prison abolitionist Miriame Kaba - The original podcast where this interview was aired is HERE. Mariame Kaba's personal website: MariameKaba.com Mariame Kaba on Twitter: @PrisonCulture Maria...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Covid Brunch - Here in Washington, DC, we’re in Phase II of Pretending It’s All Over And Everything’s OK — that is, “reopening the economy”. Right about now, some restaur...
The Reality-Based Community

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Krebs on Security

E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort - One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called "Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory," which tried to impress upon readers the imp...
Popehat

The Fourth of July [rerun] - [I've re-posted this many times, because it's fundamental to what it means to me to be an American.] In the hot summer of 1992, I was working for Judge Ron...
Media Lens

Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police - Frightening numbers of people still believe that profit-maximising corporate media merely disseminate something called ‘news’. In reality, ‘mainstream’ ‘ne...
Bayou Brief

WATCH: Power, Politics, and Protests: A Conversation with James Carville - Presented by the Bayou Brief, with host Frederick D. Bell.
Frontloading HQ

The Electoral College Map (7/2/20) - Update for July 2. *Changes (July 2)* StateBeforeAfter Montana Lean Trump Strong Trump A handful of polls did not quite make it in under the wire before ...
Earthworks

Earthworks Supports the Black Lives Matter Movement - Earthworks is committed to climate justice and environmental justice in order to improve the health, safety and well-being of all communities. Yet the cr...
Political Garbage Chute

Barr Says Presidents Can Ignore Election Results They Don’t Agree With - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General William Barr, in an interview with Slimebag Fascist Enabling Toady Fucksticks Quarterly, intimated that he believes h...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez Discusses Politics and Policy with Senator Chris Van Hollen - In an interview with Senator Chris Van Hollen we discussed the likelihood of Democrats winning the Senate in 2020, whether President Trump will hold China ...
Bad Attitudes

Cock Brought from a Distance - From Henry Georgeâ€™s *Protection or Free Trade*, published in 1940. Ten years earlier â€œPresidentâ€ Trumpâ€™s mother had immigrated from Scotland. His ...
Texas Freedom Network

Dan ‘I Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Science’ Patrick Is Going to Get More People Killed - The Texas lieutenant governor’s disdain for science and experts in the fight against the rapidly worsening COVID-19 pandemic would be a joke if not for t...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Texas Equity PAC Endorses Democrat Eddie Rodriguez for Special Election to Replace Kirk Watson for Senate District 14 - For Immediate Release Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas angela@equalitytexas.org Texas Equity PAC Endorses Democrat Eddie Rodriguez for Special Electi...
Campaign for America's Future

An Open Letter to LeBron James: Don't Dribble, Organize for Voting Rights - “Don’t Mourn, Organize.” - Union organizer Joe Hill, before his unjust execution in Utah in 1915 “Shut up and dribble.” - Laura Ingraham to LeBron Jame...
Environment Texas

Which electric company pays the most for your solar power? - Luke Metzger Executive Director (512) 479-0388 Contact person by email - Read more about Luke Metzger Monday, June 29, 2020 With solar panels becom...
Downwinders at Risk

Does Dallas have an Air Monitoring Policy? Yes, It’s called “CYA.” - In March the City of Dallas invited a speaker to its Climate Symposium to advise them about air pollution monitoring for environmental justice. By June, th...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Yemen: The forgotten war - 10 million in Yemen on the brink of starvation and… crickets Why? Bc the US and its allies are responsible for the majority of the suffering. It benefits w...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism - It was always going to come to this … mobs of hysterical, hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from th...
Our Finite World

COVID-19 and the economy: Where do we go from here? - The COVID-19 story keeps developing. At first, everyone listened to epidemiologists telling us that a great deal of social distancing, and even the closing...
Texas Watch

Press Release: New Data Suggests Coronavirus Windfall for Texas Auto Insurance Companies - *For Immediate Release: June 23, 2020 * *New Data Suggests Coronavirus Windfall for Texas Auto Insurance Companies* *Texas Department of Insurance Must...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Ask the County Runoff Candidates: Environmental Forum June 24 - Democratic Runoff for Harris County Precinct 3 Takes Place July 14 June 20, 2020 Harris County Precinct 3 is of particular interest to residents concerned ...
Moron Majority

Unable To Stop Bolton Book, Trump Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Buys It - He’s at it again. Now that a judge has ruled John Bolton can publish his tell-all book, the man who elevated the filing of frivolous lawsuits into an art f...
Anti-Media

Young Activist Found Hanging From Tree Near City Hall, Cops Claim It Was Suicide - Many people believe it was a hate crime.
The Ghion Journal

A Reflection in a Time of Turmoil - It’s been more than six months since I last wrote an article, a hiatus that was induced by the continued social stratification of America and the ethnic ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Racists Ain’t Safe in the Dirty South T-Shirts Now Available. - These T-Shirts are now available for online pre-purchase at our shop website here: http://screwstonafc.org/product/racists-aint-safe-in-the-dirty-south-shi...
LawFlog

New FOIA lawsuit seeks FBI records about Seth Rich - This morning I filed a federal lawsuit in Sherman, Texas to force the FBI to release records about murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Ric...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Sarah Eckhardt - I have one more interview to present for the July 14 special election in SD14. As noted, there are six candidates running to succeed Kirk Watson, but reall...
The Texas CBD Blog

TEXAS HEMP RULES – VIDEO AND TEXT: HOW TO COMMENT (DUE JUNE 8, 2020) - This is a quick video on how to comment on the Texas Hemp Rules. The state of Texas is trying to ban the manufacture, processing, distribution, or retail s...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

Harry's Top Ten albums 2000-2018 - I have written before about Harry's lists like his Top Ten albums lists that he would send out to us all at the end of each year. From the days of listenin...
Political Dig

Biden Opens Up 5-Point Lead Over Trump In Minnesota: Poll - Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a five-point lead over President Donald Trump in Minnesota, according to a new Star Tribune-MPR News-KARE 11 ...
Better Texas Blog

It’s Time to Rebuild Child Care in Texas - As a working mother in Austin, I navigated child care waitlists (sometimes years long), paid 20% of my net salary towards daycare tuition (for 7 years), ...
News Taco

Understanding why Latinos are so hard hit by Covid-19 - (CNN) — Two months into the coronavirus crisis, with many Americans clamoring for a return to business as usual, Latinos are still mourning the terrible ...
PERRspectives

You Can't Put a Mask on My Liberty - Today I took a short break from my home Coronavirus lockdown to restock at a nearby grocery store. Heeding the advice of friends, I first made sure I was p...
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...
TDMS Research

MISSOURI 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY - Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares As in 11 of the 17 state primaries elections prior to March 17, the discrepancies between...
Truthdig

Imagining A New World on the Other Side of the Pandemic - At the Nation, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian has a provocative piece that imagines how future historians may come to write the story of the Covid-19. The specul...
Free & Equal

Earth Day Celebration – United We Stand Tour - Earth Day Celebration 2020 – United We Stand Tour Event Description⬇⬇⬇ On April 25th The Stewards of Heartland and co-host The Free and Equal Elections Fou...
Think Progress

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Texas Rural Voices

Jeff Veazey’s Blue Pledge - —a thoughtful list to remind us of what is at stake in 2020. I have had a heck of a time deciding on a candidate to support but the idea of MY candidate ...
Green Papers

Dammed good question about the Green New Deal - By Don Fitz November 5, 2019 Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with...
The Metaphor Project

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts - For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Gre...
New Progressive Alliance

Trump says “War!” The World says “Peace!” - Jeff and Rose Roby are Florida activists who also publish in the Saint Petersburg Independents and in The Green Party of Florida.
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...
Green Pages News

Joanna Herlihy – 1934 – 2019 - Joanna Herlihy of Cambridge, Massachusetts, died in her home on November 29, 2019. She was born on March 9, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to Frank and Betty ...
Splinter

Don't Dream, It's Over - There is no real origin story for Splinter.
Texas Moratorium Network

Rodrick Reed, Brother of Rodney Reed Nov 9, 2019 -
The Concourse

A Bear Friday For The Road - I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the se...
Washington's Blog

Has California Lost The Mandate of Heaven? - In Chinese history, natural disasters were viewed as portents that the The Mandate of Heaven (tianming or “Heaven’s will”) had been withdrawn from the ru...
Texans For Public Justice

Who Does John Cornyn Work For? - The Texas Observer's Justin Miller takes a deep dive into Senator John Cornyn. Read Miller's article at the Texas Observer.
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...
The Socialist

North Korea Shows How a Society Can Heal After Suffering Through Imperialist Violence - Disclaimer: The SPUSA is a multi-tendency organization, the following article may or may not reflect the views of individual party
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
Texas Vox: Public Citizen

86th Texas Legislature Punts on Houston Chemical Fires - If you’re wondering what the Texas Legislature did to help prevent dangerous and persistent fires in the petrochemical corridor near Houston this year, t...
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 ...
GreenSource DFW

Skies clear for fifth annual Run for Environment - *Green Source DFW director Wendel Withrow, left, congratulates first place winner Alberto Trevino at the fifth annual Green Source DFW Run for the Enviro...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.

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