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Raw Story

Ron DeSantis positioning to run for president on 'competent Trumpism' in 2024: report - Controversial Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis "elbowed his way to the front of the line of 2024 Republican hopefuls" according to a new report in *The New York...
Salon.com

Trump continues to profit off the GOP: RNC pays Mar-a-Lago handsomely to host his Saturday speech - Since 2016, the Republican Party has poured more than a million into Trump's private club in Florida
Courthouse News

Mother Arrested After 3 Children Found Slain in Los Angeles - The mother of three children — all under the age of 5 — found slain inside a Los Angeles apartment Saturday morning has been arrested, police said.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Hideki Matsuyama surges to four-shot lead in weather-hit Masters - - 65 moves Japanese to 11 under, with four tied for second - Justin Rose among quartet after battling his way to a 72 Moving day? Matsuyama’s day...
Slate

Prince Harry to Attend Philip’s Funeral That Will Be Closed to the Public - The April 17 funeral will be a decidedly low-key affair to stay in line with current public health guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mediaite

Harry Reid Chats With CNN’s Jim Acosta About GOP’s Embrace of Trump, Filibuster Reforms, And Expanding Supreme Court - Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) offered a blunt assessment of several reforms being considered in Washington, telling CNN’s Jim Acosta th...
Axios

Biden eyes Russia adviser criticized as soft on Kremlin - President Biden is considering appointing Matthew Rojansky, head of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, as Russia director on the National Security Cou...
Buzzflash

Congresswoman Virginia Escobar (D-TX) Says Trump Cruel Advisor Stephen Miller "Committed Heinous Crimes" and "Should Be Behind Bars." Lock Him Up. - BuzzFlash
memeorandum

Mississippi Elections Chief Says He Regrets Word Choice About 'Woke' Young Voters (Ashton Pittman/Mississippi Free Press) - Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press: *Mississippi Elections Chief Says He Regrets Word Choice About ‘Woke’ Young Voters* — After drawing national h...
The Hill

Aide to Rep. Grijalva found dead in Death Valley National Park - An aide to Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was found dead on Friday after he and his girlfriend went missing in Death Valley National Park in California.T...
Deadline Politics

‘The Crown’ Actors Who Played Prince Philip Send Condolences To Royal Family - Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies, who both played Prince Philip in Netflix’s The Crown, have reacted to his death on Friday. In a statement to Today, Matt Smi...
Ring of Fire

Corporate Politicians Are Pushing Back On Biden’s Much Needed Infrastructure Plan - Via America’s Lawyer: Republicans are uniting against President Biden’s proposed “American Jobs Plan.” Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Tra...
Liberation News

Bessemer Amazon union vote: The class struggle will continue - The fight isn’t over. As long as there is struggle for better conditions and dignity there is hope for change.
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges and Richard D. Wolff: American Economic Illusions - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Apr 10, 2021 On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the nearly $5 trillion being allocated by the Bi...
Dissident Voice

The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day: we only notice when a royal dies - A few lessons to be learned from the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death in the British media: 1. There is absolutely no commercial reason for...
Reading the Pictures

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

Gonna Have To Shut Down Yale Law School - Because we know what's going on. I was asked to share this message by one of the students who came forward to Yale Law School about Prof. Amy Chua's recen...
Al Jazeera English

At least two dead as strong winds and rain hit southern US - Several US states hit by storms that toppled trees and power lines, and damaged vehicles, homes and other buildings.
Vox

Michigan’s governor emphasizes voluntary efforts to curb the most severe coronavirus outbreak in the US - [image: Covid-19 Cases Surge In Michigan] Covid-19 cases are surging in Michigan, the latest epicenter of the virus in the US. | Getty Images Gov. Gretch...
Daily Dot

‘I would cry’: TikToker records the misogynistic comments she receives while gaming - A female gamer is uploading TikTok videos revealing the misogyny she experiences when playing *Call of Duty*. In a six-video series to her account, the g...
WhatWouldJackDo

Free speech for me, nay for thee…. - Yes yes, business interests, famously never involved in politics. Was there a rimshot after this? https://t.co/fr6Vkc6t8q pic.twitter.com/oy2XWn0twy — The ...
Second Nexus

The Senate Parliamentarian Just Delivered Schumer a Huge Unexpected Win—Here's What that Means for Biden's Agenda - Senate Democrats were accustomed to Republican Leader Mitch McConnell using the power of his majority to press forward his agenda while stymying their ow...
Daily Howler

You say "subdual," he says "subdural!" - * SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021* *Let's call this gong-show off:* In Saturday morning's New York Times, Tim Arango did a decent job reporting the Derek Chauvi...
Mahablog

Michael Reinoehl: More Justice Denied - Last summer in Portland, by several accounts, a self-identified antifa activist named Michael Forest Reinoehl shot and killed Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a me...
The Verge

China fines Alibaba $2.8 billion after antitrust investigation - [image: Alibaba Nanjing Headquarters] Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images China has hit Alibaba, one of the country’s biggest online retailers, wit...
Latino Rebels

During His Bill Maher Interview Friday Night, Here’s What Sen. Alex Padilla Said About the Use of LATINX - Yes, it's complicated. It always has been.
Undernews

VIRUS STATS UPDATE - Blue - Getting better. Red - Getting worse Black - Unchanged In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is better in every month sinc...
NPR's Health Shots

Writer Discusses 'The Futility Of Vaccine Passports' - NPR's Michel Martin speaks with *Atlantic *staff writer Yasmeen Serhan about her recent piece.
San Antonio Report

Southtown gallery Presa House engages Bexar County DA, Planned Parenthood for upcoming events - [image: Presa House gallery]Southtown gallery Presa House will host two events that engage a broader cross-section of the city than the typical art world c...
VICE

Daily Horoscope: April 11, 2021 - The moon is in A
Talking Points Memo

AP: Pence Pleaded For Military To ‘Clear The Capitol’ During Jan. 6 Attack - As a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, then Vice President Mike Pence made an urgent phone call to Christopher M...
Texas Monthly

Dining Guide: Highlights From Our May 2021 Issue - What to order for takeout at restaurants around the state, plus some pro tips. The post Dining Guide: Highlights From Our May 2021 Issue appeared first o...
The Root

LA County Works to Return Manhattan Beach Property to Descendants of Black Couple White Supremacy Stole it From - When we talk about systemic racism in America, one aspect tends to get left out of the discussion: Black people are disproportionately poor because, hist...
INSIDER - politics news

Capitol riot 'bullhorn lady' appeared in a video to wear a useless mesh mask after a judge ordered her to wear one as a part of her release - [image: Capitol Siege] Summary List Placement Rachel Powell, the Pennsylvania woman known as "bullhorn lady" for using a megaphone during her admitted p...
Strategic Culture Foundation

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Trivial Knot

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

Risk of Being Killed by Police Varies by Your Ethnicity - A Healthcare Issue Derek Chauvin trial live: Paramedic who responded to George Floyd told partner. ‘I think he’s dead.’ When paramedics arrived, Bravinde...
Futurism

Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel - New Level Of Appalling A team of researchers in Dubai made a startling discovery: around 2,000 plastic bags in the stomach area of a camel. Marcus Eriks...
Workers World

Ecuador’s presidential election: What’s at stake? - [image: Ecuador’s presidential election: What’s at stake?] Ibarra, Ecuador April 9 — The latest polls before the April 11 runoff presidential election here...
The Week

GE aims to develop a microchip that can detect coronaviruses - There could one day be a COVID-19 equivalent to a carbon monoxide detector. General Electric is developing a new sensor which could potentially detect th...
Portside

The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing - The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing Dave Sat, 04/10/2021 - 15:19
Daily Cartoonist

Mark Trail at 75 is Next Gen - In the Spring of 1946 that Ed Dodd introduced the world to the “handsome hero and outdoor man.” Mark Trail was a nature-loving he-man of the old school, an...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: April 4th - 10th - *Five Years Ago* This week in 2016, broadband providers were either fighting against privacy protections or trying to charge a premium for them (not unl...
Election Law Blog

Honored to be Appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States - President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court includes several academic figures with ties to the election-law field, including Guy-Uriel Charles, Micha...
Mediagazer

A look at WSJ's internal study, The Content Review, which recommended ways for WSJ to attract new readers, specifically, women, POC, and younger professionals (Edmund Lee/New York Times) - Edmund Lee / New York Times: *A look at WSJ's internal study, The Content Review, which recommended ways for WSJ to attract new readers, specifically, wo...
Popular Resistance

How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred And Exploitation - If you’ve been paying even a modicum of attention to the world at large, you’ve noticed that white supremacists constitute a bit of a problem in America....
Common Dreams

Rejecting Biden's $715 Billion Proposal, Jayapal Says Congress Must Slash the 'Bloated Pentagon Budget' - Jake Johnson, staff writer "Don't increase defense spending. Cut it," said the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. [image: Pentagon logo is seen ...
Alternet

Tucker Carlson sparks controversy with his latest defense of the racist 'white replacement theory' - Fox News' Tucker Carlson is facing stark criticism for his latest attempt to defend the notion of the "white supremacy replacement" theory. According to...
Mother Jones

Video: Cops Draw Guns on a Black Army Officer, Pepper Spray Him, Force Him to the Ground - Caron Nazario, a Black and Latino second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was coming home from work when he was stopped by two police officers in...
San Antonio Current

Study: passage of Texas' voter-restriction bills would bring billions in damage to state's economy - How much are Texas' GOP lawmakers willing to sacrifice to ensure their unpopular and widely decried voter-restriction bills become law?…
CultureMap Houston

Buzzy NOLA seafood house cracks open in Houston, plus more top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Legendary New Orleans seafood restaurant opens this weekend in Mo...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - The Establishment covers Matt Gaetz’s underage sex scandal The Establishment dives into Biden’s new infrastructure bill, the underage sex allegations again...
Mondoweiss

‘Change’ politicians seeking to oust Netanyahu will side with religious right over Palestinian parties - Israeli centrist Yair Lapid will forswear an alliance with Palestinian political parties if he gets the nod to form the next government. Instead he will co...
Glasstire

Art Meccas Vs. Texas: An Interview With David-Jeremiah - Note: This interview is a follow-up with the Dallas-based artist following his solo exhibition in Dallas and its attendant press in the summer/fall of 20...
Claytoonz

Giggity Island - Congressman Matt Gaetz spoke at an event Friday night in Florida where he attacked the “lying media,” and “decried” the smears against him, the “wild consp...
The Progressive Wing

4/10-11 Weekend News Roundup & OT - Let’s sget started with an interview with Stephanie Kelton on MSNBC last Night: Speaking of, Prof Kelton is on Barron’s Top 100 Women in US Finance list. “...
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Pyramid of Power Is ALMOST HERE! - Friends, I hope everyone is doing well. I am working hard to complete the first season of the Pyramid of Power documentary series. The first 4 episodes w...
Moon of Alabama

After The Bear Showed Its Teeth The Ukraine Filed For Peace? - First the Ukraine said it would use force to recover the renegade Donbass region as well as Crimea. It then moved heavy troops towards the contact lines. T...
Eclectablog

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

Yemen Is a Public Health Catastrophe - The war in Yemen—the Arab world’s poorest country—has reached new heights of sickness and death by the spreading of the coronavirus pandemic in a vulnera...
The Militant

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

My Predictions for Biden's Probably Truncated Presidency - Beginning in March 2016, I repeatedly and almost famously warned overconfident Democrats -- who ridiculed me for saying so -- that Donald Trump would proba...
Democracy Chronicles

China Takes Aim At Overseas Uighurs And Academics - Beijing’s propaganda campaign, including 11 media briefings, has repeatedly included efforts to discredit overseas Uighurs who speak to media.
Texas Environmental News

Iran launches advanced centrifuges at nuclear plant - Iran doubled down on its uranium enrichment program while unveiling a slate of advanced centrifuges at an underground nuclear plant [...] The post Iran l...
Louis Proyect

Exterminate All The Brutes Q&A - Film at Lincoln Center The past has a future we never expect. Exterminate All the Brutes is a four-part HBO documentary series from filmmaker Raoul Peck th...
Grits for Breakfast

Ridding South Texas of DPS part of forgotten populist agenda for the region - Many Democrats were surprised in November when their candidates lost ground in Texas border regions, but Grits was not: The party has no substantive agenda...
OpEd News

Anti-Chinese propaganda is about fortifying a U.S. empire in crisis and preparing for war - Assessing the parallels between modern America and the leadup to Nazi Germany.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 5 - 9 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big news continues to be bifurcation between the currently unfolding ...
Political Wire

McConnell Calls Biden Commission an ‘Assault’ on Judiciary - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tore into President Biden’s new commission studying potential changes to the Supreme Court, Fox News reports. McConn...
The Smirking Chimp

Newly-revealed Trump Administration Emails Show Depravity and Conspiracy Against the Country -
Duffel Blog

Radio Shack manager refuses to give National Guard general time off for drill - Gen. Williams couldn't find anyone to cover him.
WhoWhatWhy

Autobiography of a Sock Puppet: The Mike Pence Story - Reading Time: < 1 minute Simon & Schuster promises a “revelatory” memoir by the former VP. The post Autobiography of a Sock Puppet: The Mike Pence Story ...
The Intercept

A Billionaire-Funded Website With Ties to the Far Right Is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors - Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country. The post A Billionaire-Funded W...
Progrexas

Technical difficulties hampered the STAAR test. One Austin teacher called it a sign. - Patty Young teaches seventh grade language arts at Murchison Middle School in Austin. Credit: Courtesy Patty Young (Audio unavailable. Click here to list...
naked capitalism

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Church and State

Elon Musk Showcases Monkey Playing Pong With its Mind Using Neuralink Brain Implants – Video - The footage shows a nine-year-old macaque with a Neuralink chip inserted in each side of his brain interacting with a computer.
Grist

Clean energy bonanza: Biden’s budget tries to undo Trump’s damage - The 'skinny budget' asks Congress for $14 billion to address the climate crisis.
Dallas Observer

Ex-Cop Bryan Riser Says Dallas Police Took His Livelihood - He didn’t discuss the case in any detail, but Bryan Riser has maintained his innocence from the beginning and insists he spent 34 days behind bars for some...
See You In 2020

Anti-Chinese Propaganda Is About Fortifying A U.S. Empire In Crisis & Preparing For War - In his *work* Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union, Mario Sousa wrote: The conquest of the Ukraine and other areas of the Soviet Union would ...
Crooked Media

Is Pepsi OK? - The post Is Pepsi OK? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The NM Political Report

Youth activists plan protest as oil and gas industry group presents award to Lujan Grisham - [image: Youth activists plan protest as oil and gas industry group presents award to Lujan Grisham] A group of activists is planning a protest for Saturday...
Informed Comment

Tucker Carlson touts ‘Replacement’ Conspiracy Theory; but his own Ancestor could have been Lynched - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Grand Dragon Tucker Carlson went on another Fox News show to push his streaming program, and while there was struck with dia...
SCOTUSblog

Divided court blocks California’s COVID-related restrictions on in-home religious gatherings - [image: Divided court blocks California’s COVID-related restrictions on in-home religious gatherings]A divided Supreme Court on Friday night granted a re...
jobsanger

Toast -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: A Hard Day’s Night - It’s that day again.
World Socialist Web Site

Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama defeat UMWA sellout, continue strike - Coal miners in central Alabama delivered a massive blow to the United Mine Workers, rejecting its pro-company deal by a vote of 1,006 to 45.
Bud Kennedy

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

Open Thread - Use comments to this post to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Antiwar.com

Hunting in Yemen: The War Must End - Since March 29th, in Washington, D.C., Iman Saleh, age 26, has been on a hunger strike to demand an end to the war in Yemen. She is joined by five others...
Wolf Street

How the “Affordability Crisis” Migrated from High-Income Rental Markets, as Manhattan & San Francisco, to Lower Income Markets, as Detroit & Fresno - The distortions caused by the shift to working from anywhere are hitting households that can least afford it.
The AltWorld

Reducing US Military Spending Always Meets With Resistance; Increasing It Never Does - Last year Senator Bernie Sanders led a public push to reduce the insanely bloated US military budget by a […] The post Reducing US Military Spending Alwa...
Caitlin Johnstone

Reducing US Military Spending Always Meets With Resistance; Increasing It Never Does - Last year Senator Bernie Sanders led a public push to reduce the insanely bloated US military budget by a paltry ten percent. His push splatted headfirst a...
Land Destroyer

West’s Propaganda War vs. China Continues - *April 10, 2021 *(Brian Berletic - LD) - The West continues a malicious propaganda war against China, but China is pushing back. In the latest row, th...
Brad Blog

GOP 'Legislative' Agenda Now Being Carried Out by Activist Supreme Court: 'BradCast' 4/9/2021 - On today's BradCast: Maybe we've been too quick to say that Republicans no longer have any governing philosophy or legislative agenda. They do. And it's be...
The Mind Unleashed

Video Showing UFOs Swarming Navy Warship is Real, Pentagon Confirms - Late last month, reports emerged that a number of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers sailing off the coast near Los Angeles encountered a swarm of strange...
Liberal America

Biden Takes Aim at Gun Violence With Executive Orders (Video) - Nine days into the month of April, the United States has experienced another 14 mass shootings. On Thursday, hours after former NFL player Phillip Adams ...
Pages of Victory

DMX - DMX was scheduled to fight George Zimmerman in a boxing match in 2014 but Zimmerman cancelled after DMX gave this quote to TMZ. I stole this post off ...
Reform Austin

Good Bill Hunting: New Texas Legislation To Provide Job Training for Veterans - Good Bill Hunting is a weekly series during the legislative session where RA News will look at a bill or piece of legislation that will have a huge impac...
Equality Texas

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

Writer Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises, headlines Casa de Misericordia’s April 22 virtual fundraiser - Domestic abuse shelter marks 23 years of offering hope through holistic services; silent auction bids begin online April 12
Houston Public Media

Party Politics: The GOP vs. Corporate America - Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina delve into the latest news in national and local politics.
Ballot Access News

Montana Ballot Access Bill Advances - On April 9, the Montana House passed SB 350 on second reading, 67-33. It makes three improvements to the procedure for qualifying a new or previously unqua...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: How Not to Cover One’s Tracks - Jose Pagliery and Roger Sollenberger @ The Daily Beast: Gaetz Paid Accused Sex Trafficker, Who Then Venmo’d Teen. Ryan Grenoble @ HuffPost: Florida GOP W...
Socialist Alternative

Amazon Cheats in Bessemer – Key Lessons for the Fight to #UnionizeAmazon - Socialist Alternative has been on the ground in Bessemer for a number of weeks helping build the BAmazon struggle. The below article is based on our observ...
NORML

Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/9/21 - Welcome to the latest edition of NORML's Weekly Legislative Rooundup, on the blog every Friday! The post Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/9/21 appeared first...
Progressive.org

The Union Campaign at Amazon Was Just the Beginning - Though the organizing effort at the Alabama facility lost, the company’s workers have shown that workplace representation is essential and attainable.
Dissent Magazine

Belabored: Black Against Amazon, with Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley - Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
Discourse

Bessemer Was Not the Beginning or the End - Amazon successfully crushed the union drive in Bessemer, AL, but this is neither the beginning or the end of the fight for worker justice. The post Besse...
Freethought Now

Our success in getting the freethought word out - We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation believe in using every medium (plural media) to make the freethought message heard, and this week we had tremend...
Houston Press

Rusty Hardin On Going to Trial With Watson Plaintiffs: "Oh, Absolutely!" - Since the Deshaun Watson civil lawsuit parade began back in the middle of March, Friday has been a tentpole day each week. Tony Buzbee has used Friday afte...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China Sidesteps WHO Chief on Coronavirus Origins with Anti-US Disinfo -
Skeptical Raptor

European Court of Human Rights upholds compulsory vaccination laws - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. This article the European Court of Human Rights upholding compulsory vaccination law...
Unlimited Hangout

WEF Warns of Cyberattack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System - A report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence ag...
MintPress News

How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press - For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, includin...
Texas Standard

‘A Lot Like Singing:’ Billy Henry Likens Hosting ‘StarDate’ To The Way He Makes Music - The sounds of Texas.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *Whattaya think? Kinda Young Marble Giants meet Pylon, right?* I know, Rod Dreher's an easy layup, but I'm feeling lazy. Here's a post availing Dreher's...
American Prospect

RIP OMB? - Today on TAP: how the absence of a confirmed OMB director affects policy
DeSmogBlog

Indigenous Communities March For Justice A Year On From Devastating Amazon Oil Spill - Hundreds of Indigenous activists took to the streets in Ecuador this week to demand justice on the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst oil spill ...
El Paso Matters

Study finds EPCC and UTEP among top degree-awarding institutions for Latinos - Both El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso are among the nation’s top institutions for granting degrees to Latinos according t...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Latino Voters Aren’t A Monolith, But The GOP Made Gains With Them Just About Everywhere In 2020 - In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with Stephanie Valencia and Carlos Odio, founders of the political research...
Tribune of the People

Texas: Prysmian Group Workers in Scottsville Go On Strike - By Brian Martel A year after contract negotiations began, workers at the Prysmian Group plant in Scottsville, Texas have gone on strike. The demands of the...
Rude Pundit

Conservatives Finally Just Say, "Fuck Your Right to Vote" - As a slew of new voter laws slime their way through the legislatures of mostly Republican states where Democrats have a chance of winning, almost all bas...
Rewire

Ohio’s Abortion Ban Never Took Effect. People Think Abortion Is Illegal Anyway. - This is not by accident. Ohio lawmakers want you to think abortion is illegal and, at a minimum, want to make it virtually impossible for you to get one....
Washington Babylon

Exclusive: Why Would Congressman Matt Gaetz, Under Investigation for Having Sex With a Teen, Have Collaborated With Florida Dark Money Pros Who Specialize in Hiding Campaign Cash? - [image: Exclusive: Why Would Congressman Matt Gaetz, Under Investigation for Having Sex With a Teen, Have Collaborated With Florida Dark Money Pros Who Spe...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Riding Bikes and Thinking Deep Thoughts - Harry Jones is my kind of guy. About a year ago, he emailed out of the blue. I didn’t know him, though his email signature identified him as a lawyer wor...
ROAR Magazine

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Golden Age of Post-War Capital - A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.
In These Times

The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing - The union’s loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale. - On April 9, the National Labor Relations Board announced the results of a mail ballot certification election that concluded on March 29 for workers at th...
Lawfare

The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How. - President Biden and Vice President Harris in the Oval Office of the White House. (White House Photo by Adam Schultz). After the 2015 hack of the U.S. Of...
epic.org

Virginia to Ban Local Police from Using Facial Recognition - A bill passed in Virginia will ban local law-enforcement agencies from using facial recognition technology without prior legislative approval starting July...
Shadowproof

Dissenter Weekly: Amazon and Google’s Retaliation Against Whistleblowers - In this edition of “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola highlights the turmoil at Google, which inspired a shareholder to deman...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bipartisan Injustice: Racist Border Crisis & Police Killings -
Novara Media

Northern Ireland Sees Riots From Loyalists - After a week of violence in Northern Ireland, we speak to Amanda Ferguson about the events that led to unrest among loyalist communities, and whether the p...
The Appeal

San Antonio’s Response to Homelessness Is Broken. It’s Time to Put Housing First - When I drive up to my field office each morning at 8:00 a.m., I often see over a dozen people who have taken refuge in the back parking lot to safely sle...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz: “Every Fetus Deserves a Fighting Chance to Become My Sex Object In 17 Years” - While the scandal surrounding him may not be showing any signs of subsiding just yet, Congressman Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) has shown no signs of pulling back fr...
Southeast Texas Record

George Foreman alleges Nationwide not on his side, sues insurer for failing to cover classic car collection - HOUSTON – For decades, George Foreman and his wife paid “exorbitant insurance premiums” only to find out their classic car collection wasn’t covered afte...
Debunking Christianity

Who Would WANT the Christian God Anyway? - *He makes too many big mistakes* If we could pose this question to folks coming out of their weekly worship services: Do they really want the God they wo...
Rio Grande Guardian

Podcast: USDA reopens Starr County office - RIO GRANDE CITY – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is to fully reopen its Starr County office, says the agency’s area district for rural development. ...
Texas Observer

The Lege This Week: Stimmy for Schools? - Welcome to the 87th Legislative Session. Since the last session came to a close in June 2019, Texas has been hit by an unrestrained pandemic and a crippl...
Eater Houston

One of Houston’s ‘Top Chef’ Contestants Packed Their Knives and Went Home Last Night - David Moir/Bravo Things are heating up on the Bravo cooking competition show On last night’s episode of *Top Chef: Portland*, one of the two chef conten...
The Conversation

Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth – to fuel a more equitable economy, countries need to measure the well-being of people, too - GDP only measures economic growth – not inequality, poverty or unpaid work like elder care. So researchers in the Netherlands developed a new way for gover...
Democracy Now!

Biden Calls U.S. Gun Violence an "International Embarrassment." Will Congress Finally Act? - President Joe Biden has ordered a series of executive actions on gun control in the wake of mass shootings in Georgia, Colorado and elsewhere, calling gun ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Advocates wary Biden’s infrastructure plan won’t right past wrongs - After President Joe Biden revealed his $2 trillion infrastructure plan last month, advocates and historians began to worry how the money would be distrib...
Space City Weather

First look at the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season - Good morning. The most reputable hurricane season forecasting service, led by Phil Klotzbach at Colorado State University, has released its first outlook f...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 4/9/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush "seriously considering" run for attorney general, lays out case against Ken Paxton; Texans ...
Lowering the Bar

Man Charged With Driving Stolen Car Appears for Zoom Hearing From Inside Another Stolen Car - He has another Zoom hearing next week, so maybe he will keep the streak alive. Related Stories - Zoom Hearing Ends When Defendant Turns Out to...
Scheerpost.com

Oliver Hermanus: “Moffie” Links White Supremacy and Homophobia as Macho Perversions - The South African writer-director discusses his new film and the complex history of his native country on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”
Dorf on Law

Why Second-Degree Murder is the Maximum Charge for Derek Chauvin--and Some Thoughts on the Broader Issue of Gaps Between the Law and Public Understandings - *by Michael C. Dorf* Someone who is not a lawyer (but is super smart and very well educated) recently asked me why Derek Chauvin wasn't charged with fir...
Counterpunch

The Trumpet Shall Sound - —Ithaca, New York I live between a gorge and a graveyard. The gorge just to the south began forming some ten thousand years ago at the end of last Ice Ag...
High Country News

Can a wildlife refuge help a community’s fight for environmental justice? - In Albuquerque’s South Valley, activists are happy for more green space but worry about gentrification.
TalkLeft

Matt Gaetz Keeps Talking as More Chips Fall - Matt Gaetz was a lawyer before he ran for Congress. I have no idea why he believes he can talk his way to innocence in a pending criminal investigation inv...
The Grayzone

Anti-war activist visited by police after posting embarrassing AOC video - An anti-war activist said he was visited by California Highway Patrol officers after posting video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bumbling comments o...
Rallblog

Economic Greed Migrant - As the Biden Administration claims to be looking into the root causes of mass migration from Central America to the southern U.S. border with Mexico, per...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Vaccines Are For Cucks - I’m just going to leave this here… “it’s crazy to watch all my California and NYC friends scramble for vaccine appointments meanwhile in Texas I get a text...
TXElects

Bush Floats Paxton Challenge as Senate Ponders Delaying Primaries - The Senate approved legislation that would move this year’s filing period and next year’s primary and primary runoff elections based on when a redistrict...
Field Negro

"Everybody got guns" - *"I gotta a gun, he gotta gun, he gotta gun. Everybody got guns." ~Gyp Rosetti, Boardwalk Empire~* There were two more high profile mass shootings agai...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

Repost - Sterilization, irreversible surgeries and chemical castrations - How religious right lies corrupts the conversation about trans children - *Editor's note - Probably a first for this blog. I am going to re-run a post I published on Wednesday. The post, Sterilization, irreversible surgeries an...
Living Blue in Texas

Briscoe Cain And Other Republicans Just Passed Jim Crow Bill, HB6 - HB 6 is a racist voter suppression bill that will put up barriers between Texans and their right to vote. After listening to 22 hours of testimony from h...
The Ghion Journal

BREAKING! MSNBC and CNN Legal Analyst Midwin Charles Shot Dead with Covid-19 “Vaccine”, Her Employers Bury the Lead - Two days ago, Midwin Charles, a renowned defense attorney and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN and a host of other cable news stations, passed away The post ...
Sludge

Military Equipment Transfers to Police Have Picked Back Up - After dipping in the back three quarters of 2020 amid a nationwide focus on policing, the transfer of military weapons and equipment to civilian police has...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas House Committee Advances Sweeping Voter Suppression Bill Targeting Texans of Color - It’s becoming clearer that too many legislators are determined to see Jim Crow ride again in Texas. Today the House Elections Committee advanced a sweepi...
Bracing Views

The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded - In my latest for TomDispatch.com, I tackle the Pentagon’s latest proclivity for “near-peer” conflicts, the near-peers being China and Russia, which conveni...
The Contributor

'Why the US Senate Is So Broken': Manchin Vow to Preserve Filibuster Imperils Voting Rights and Much More - News Image: "Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California and 92% white, yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-...
Infidel753

The blood cult - Christianity has a bizarre obsession with blood. A common metaphor for being "saved" is being "washed in the blood" of Jesus, often stated as "washed in ...
Morning Consult

Voting Law Strengthens Brian Kemp’s Standing With Georgia Republicans. Is It Enough to Stop a Divisive Primary? - The post Voting Law Strengthens Brian Kemp’s Standing With Georgia Republicans. Is It Enough to Stop a Divisive Primary? appeared first on Morning Consult.
Earth 911

Restore Our Earth With Reforestation - Americans don’t pay much attention to trees. Sometimes we are reminded that tropical rainforests are... The post Restore Our Earth With Reforestation app...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Morning gratitude affirmations - Jack wrote this in April, 2005: Hokay. I try to think of five particularly communistic things going on in my life every morning, every evening, during the...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Did Scandal Cost North Carolina Democrats a Senate Seat? - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — In North Carolina’s hotly contested Senate race last year, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) narrowly won reelection against a scandal...
Project Censored

Shahid Buttar and Dan Kovalik - Mickey’s first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospec...
slacktivist

White evangelical ‘vaccine skepticism’ doesn’t not come from the pulpit - Drive an hour west, get the shot. That’s how it worked for my family. The Slacktivixen and I scored our first Moderna shots last week out past Reading, whi...
Earthworks

Reflections from the Permian - Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Permian Basin with Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto for the first time. Unfortunately, being out in the field...
Innocence Project

New Mexico Is the Second State to Ban Qualified Immunity - New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act — also known as House Bill 4 — advancing fair and equal treatment under...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party of California: Contract with California 2021 - *Dr. Don Grundmann, chairman of the Constitution Party of California, sent the following “Contract with California” to IPR, opening with a statement abou...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Promise of Systemic Equality Starts at Home - For more than a century, the ACLU has been on the frontlines advancing civil liberties and civil rights. This has meant not only defending rights for all ...
Ecosophia

A Sense of Déjà Vu - Déjà vu—the sudden insistent feeling that you’ve encountered the present moment before—can be one of the oddest of human experiences. Sometimes, though, ...
Duck of Minerva

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

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

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

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

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

The Idavox Report: 6 April 2021 - We are back, and with our return we give you Serbian antifascist Tanja Vasic. We talked to her on Monday and provides a lot of information for us, includ...
Chicken Fried Politics

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

What we need are more Alcee Hastings(September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) - What we need are more Alcee Hastings. In 2016, Congressman Hastings called me. He'd given Attorney General Loretta Lynch a copy of my *Rolling Stone* expos...
Krebs on Security

Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked? - Ne'er-do-wells leaked personal data -- including phone numbers -- for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected befor...
Robert Reich

How Corporations Crush the Working ClassThe most dramatic change... - *How Corporations Crush the Working Class* *The most dramatic change in the system over the last half-century has been the emergence of corporate giants ...
Reveal

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

Contribute To The Ride to End Alzheimer’s - Some of you may not know that I’ve recently taken up trike riding. That’s right, 3 wheels a-rollin’! Late last year, I broke down and decided to invest in ...
ExChristian.Net

What is our Anger About? - *By Yak ~ * I want to talk about anger. Just a short spin through these forums reveals a constant undercurrent of strong anger. I don't believe that our an...
Progressives Chat

Graham Elwood On the China–Iran Deal and Smedley Butler - The above videos were published March 31 and April 3, 2021 to YouTube by *Graham Elwood*. The first is titled “China Makes Iran Deal While US Pushes ...
Stinque

When You’ve Lost Brands, You’ve Lost America - Let us pause to consider what an extraordinary moment we’re in. If you’re of a certain age — ours or older, at this point — you’ll recall what a slog Sou...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: flag - [image: Flag]
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

For Anti-Fascists, Liberals Seem Awfully Eager to Throw the Book at Their Opponents - by Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular We on the Left had always assumed that the defense of free speech and freedom of expression were core principles of Lef...
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: Digging Up Roots on Media Madness - Our Film Sessions feature is back; Nina looks at the concept of "whiteness" with a little help from What the Theory's Tom Nicholas, over on Media Madness...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Teaching Cops To Be Healers - This cartoon is a collaboration with Kevin Moore. Help me make more of these cartoons (and to pay collaborators like Kevin and Becky!) by supporting my Pat...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

Rio Grande Valley School of Law plan unanimously approved by House Committee on Higher Education, awaiting date for vote by full House of Representatives - A proposed Rio Grande Valley School of Law, authored by Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, on Thursday, April 1, 2021, was unanimously approved by t...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Wake Up America: Biden’s plan with China and COVID-19 - Mustafa Tameez joins a panel on Wake Up America to discuss President Biden’s successes with the COVID-19 response and how he is handling China.
The Rag Blog

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

Celebration: Earth | April is all about our Earth at HMNS - Although Earth Day is officially set worldwide for Thursday, April 22, 2021, the Houston Museum of Natural Science is celebrating our planetary home thro...
Environment Texas

Falling Short - Thursday, April 1, 2021 Procter & Gamble’s new forest policies demonstrate a disappointing lack of commitment
The Socialist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senate Dems Are Complicit In These Shootings - More shootings, nothing happens. Decades of shootings nothing happens. Millions of guns on our streets is hundreds of millions of gun manufacturer corporat...
CT's short stories and novelettes

The Cask of Merlot - “Think if Poe had written “The Cask of Merlot,” cracked this girl with a puckish smile. Already I was in love. I watched her tiny fi...
Frontloading HQ

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

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

Headed for a Collapsing Debt Bubble - The economy runs on energy, far more than it operates on growing debt. Our energy problems don't appear to be fixable in the near term, such as six months ...
WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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