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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Biden to hold solo news conference after Putin summit - By Steve Holland CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a solo news conference after meeting his Russian counterpart Vladimir ...
The Verge

Watch the first trailer for Ubisoft’s gorgeous Avatar game - Ubisoft capped off its E3 keynote with a big surprise: a first look at *Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora*. The next-gen take on James Cameron’s world looks ...
memeorandum

New book suggests Birx wanted Trump to lose presidential election (Kaitlan Collins/CNN) - Kaitlan Collins / CNN: *New book suggests Birx wanted Trump to lose presidential election* — (CNN)A new book written by one of President Joe Biden's to...
Al Jazeera English

Will Algeria’s election make a difference? - The government in Algiers says Saturday's vote will build a 'new Algeria'.
Democracy Chronicles

Consolidating Indonesia’s Deteriorating Democracy - There are fears Indonesia's democracy will deteriorate further, following a global trend of regimes restricting freedoms during the pandemic.
Talking Points Memo

Johnson Gets One-Week Suspension From YouTube After Boosting COVID Misinfo In Video - YouTube has suspended Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) from uploading videos for one week after a clip shared from his account showed the Wisconsin Republican tou...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Zahid Quaraishi confirmed as first America’s Muslim federal judge - - Appointment draws mixed emotions from Muslim community - Quarashi worked for Ice and served with US army in Iraq The United States has appointe...
Eschaton

Wingnut Evolution - People are mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene for not believing in evolution, but this was pretty standard among "respectable wingnuts" not long ago. With the ...
Futurism

Researchers Sent Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm to Space to Study Radiation - 200-Year-Old Sperm Sure, Elon Musk sending his Tesla up to space is cool — but that’s nothing compared to *checks notes* scientists launching freeze-drie...
Political Wire

Deborah Birx Wanted Trump to Lose Election - “A new book written by one of President Joe Biden’s top coronavirus advisers suggests Dr. Deborah Birx hoped former President Donald Trump would lose the 2...
Daily Dot

‘B*tch, you think you’re slick?’: TikToker accuses car wash of damaging his Tesla, destroying dashcam footage - A TikToker is blasting a car wash and detailing shop in Orlando, Florida that he says damaged his Tesla and tried to destroy the evidence. Creator @brya...
Common Dreams

Wall Street’s $3 Billion Bargain Basement Purchase of the US Political Process - The For the People Act would loosen the financial industry’s grip over our political system.
Mediaite

Blue Origin Auction Winner Beats 7,000 Bids from 159 Countries to Join Jeff Bezos in Space for $28 Million - Watch the winning bid in the auction to join billionaire Jeff Bezos on the edge of space. The post Blue Origin Auction Winner Beats 7,000 Bids from 159 Co...
The Week

Deborah Birx reportedly called fighting the pandemic and Scott Atlas 'together' the 'hardest thing I've had to do' - Deborah Birx reportedly called fighting the pandemic and Scott Atlas 'together' the 'hardest thing I've had to do'
Axios

Axios AM Deep Dive: What's Next - *Axios What's Next*, our new weekday newsletter will be your guide to the waves of change in how we work, play and get around. This Axios AM Deep Dive gi...
Salon.com

Revisiting the ethics of cult favorite "Kids" 26 years later through a new documentary - Eddie Martin spoke to Salon about making his doc "The Kids" about young skaters whose lives changed after "Kids"
Alternet

Texas man facing hate crime charge for assaulting an Asian family after their kids petted his dog - A Texas man is now facing a hate crime charge following his alleged assault of an Asian family while vacationing in the Florida panhandle. According to ...
The AltWorld

Another Guterres Tenure Means Exploitation of the Palestinian Cause - For Guterres, who will most probably lead the UN for another five years, the two-state compromise remains […] The post Another Guterres Tenure Means Expl...
The Hill

Biden marks anniversary of Pulse nightclub shooting: 'There is more we must do' - President Biden marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday, acknowledging the nation mus...
Slate

Danish Soccer Star Christian Eriksen Stabilized After Collapsing on Field During Match - Players on both teams looked visibly distressed as medics assisted the 29-year-old Inter Milan midfielder.
Second Nexus

Leaked IRS Filings Show Just How Little of Their Income Billionaires Actually Pay in Taxes - From 2014 to 2018, the 25 wealthiest Americans paid an average of 15.8 percent, or $13.6 billion, in personal federal income taxes. This despite the fact...
The Root

$4 Billion in Federal Relief for Black Farmers on Hold After White Farmers Cry Discrimination - About $4 billion in federal stimulus money designated to forgive loans for Black and minority farmers remains in limbo because white farmers claim that t...
Texas Environmental News

Grants go to electric vehicle chargers in 7 Alabama counties - Money from a legal settlement will be used to provide funding to add charging stations for electric vehicles at 18 [...] The post Grants go to electric v...
naked capitalism

Musical Interlude: “Know Your Rights” by The Clash - An incandescent concert in Harvard Square, and lyrics for today.
Mother Jones

Biden Administration Shutters Trump Pet Project Linking Immigrants and Crime - During his first week in office, Donald Trump stamped his repeated efforts to frame immigrants as criminals by creating an office to support so-called “ang...
Mediagazer

Ex-staffers say HiStudios' CEO encouraged drug use and bad behavior at a hype house; the studio was spun out of podcast startup Himalaya, funded by Ximalaya (Ashley Carman/The Verge) - Ashley Carman / The Verge: *Ex-staffers say HiStudios' CEO encouraged drug use and bad behavior at a hype house; the studio was spun out of podcast start...
OpEd News

What's a 'fair share'? Here's one answer. - Everyone talks about paying a 'fair share', but the talks break down when we're forced to define it. Here's one possible answer.
Moon of Alabama

Why Is There A Biden-Putin Summit And What Is It Supposed To Achieve? - On June 16 the Presidents of Russia and the United States will hold talks: Biden ends the trip Wednesday with summit in Geneva with Russia’s Vladimir Putin...
WhoWhatWhy

Alternative Treatments for COVID-19: A Non-Medical Review - Reading Time: 5 minutes This Week in Pandemic: An overview of low-cost and (maybe) low-risk treatments for the coronavirus The post Alternative Treatment...
CultureMap Houston

New Heights all-day breakfast restaurant heats up week's top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Fresh new restaurant serving all-day breakfast and more opens in ...
Buzzflash

The Southern Baptist Church Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket - New York Magazine
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Roger Waters and Randy Credico: Stand With Assange - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges The People’s Forum NYC on Jun 10, 2021 The Shiptons are arriving in the US from Australia to conduct a month long, countr...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Modern Marvels: The Construction of the Panama Canal TMC for ek hornbeck
Strategic Culture Foundation

U.S. Reclaims Turkey for the Western Alliance - Biden’s meetings in Brussels and Geneva are, arguably, the most consequential “bilaterals” he’ll be having in this entire eight-day trip to Europe. The two...
Houston Public Media

At Least 14 Injured After Overnight Shooting On Sixth Street; Austin Police Seek Suspect - Police are reviewing surveillance footage and smartphone video in an attempt to identify who is responsible for wounding 14 people early Saturday in the he...
Undernews

AG Garland: I’ll Double Number of DOJ Attorneys Working on Voter Rights -
Claytoonz

No Prize For You - Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prizes announced the winners for what they perceived to be the best journalism from print and digital news outlets in 2020. This is...
Glasstire

Fort Worth Art Council and AURORA Dallas to Present ‘New Stories: New Futures’ In August - Fort Worth Public Art’s upcoming video installations on Pioneer Tower at Will Rogers Coliseum will now be accompanied by a new exhibition at the base of ...
San Antonio Report

In a period of conflicts and crises, Gov. Greg Abbott goes all in on the border - Abbott's announcement that Texas would build its own border wall was his boldest move yet in an intensifying focus on the region.
Bracing Views

Never Again War - W.J. Astore In the early 1990s, my wife and I had the pleasure of visiting friends in a newly unified Berlin, where we were introduced to the work of Käthe...
INSIDER - politics news

Photos show the Queen with the 13 US presidents she's met in her lifetime - [image: The Queen met 13 sitting US presidents] Summary List PlacementThe Queen met President Harry Truman when she was still a princess on October 31, 1...
ArcaMax

What You Do After Work Shouldn't Cost You Your Job - The "Central Park Karen" is suing her former employer for firing her. I hope she wins. Karening is gross. But it's not your boss's business. Amy Cooper bec...
Duck of Minerva

Elite-Public Gaps and Deadlock on the Iran Deal - While campaigning for the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden promised Americans that he would reenter the nuclear deal with Iran, officially known as th...
San Antonio Current

Everybody we saw at the 80th birthday party of Mike Casey, the 'Mayor of Southtown' -
The Intercept

Bolsonaro Ramps Up Crackdown on Dissent With Tough Brazil Election Looming - From a dictatorship-era law to his campaign against the press, Brazil’s far-right president is ready to use his whole arsenal. The post Bolsonaro Ramps U...
Ballot Access News

New York Legislature Passes Bill to Give Parties More Control Over Their Own Nominations - On June 10, the New York legislature passed S7191/A7761. It says that if two candidates qualify for the primary ballot for district or local office, but on...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: Julian Assange And The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law - A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice. This why we are here tonight. Yes, all of us who k...
The Grayzone

Cómo medios financiados por EEUU incitaron un golpe de estado en Nicaragua - Los periodistas Max Blumenthal y Benjamin Norton investigan como Estados Unidos financiaron a grupos violentos de la extrema derecha y medios de comunica...
Texas Monthly

What Webb County’s Medical Examiner Has Learned From the Dead - Along the border, forensic experts such as Corinne Stern have dealt with a surge in migrant deaths during the Biden administration. The post What Webb Co...
Eclectablog

This is going to dominate in 2022 – with special guest Prof. Ian Haney-López - Ian Haney-López on Twitter: @IanHaneyLopez Ian Haney-López's website: IanHaneyLopez.com Purchase Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and ...
The Militant

Book on Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution out in Greek - ATHENS, Greece — Publisher Diethnes Vima publicly launched its newly released Greek-language edition of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Th...
Vox

Colombia’s protests are a product of its post-peace-deal reality - Demonstrators in Cali, Colombia, shout anti-government slogans as they continue a blockade at the Sameco sector during a protest amid a national strike on...
Caitlin Johnstone

Media Flipping 180° On UFOs At Pentagon’s Directive Says More About Media Than UFOs - Listen to a reading of this article: After the January 6 riot at the US Capitol Building, the mass media immediately seized the opportunity to call for mor...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: I’ve been thrown out of classier joints - Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee...
Countercurrents

Lack of human sensitivity in treatment and transparency in the process of dissemination of information on the patients in the COVID hospitals - To The Chief Minister of Odisha Bhubaneswar, Odisha Sub-Lack of human sensitivity in treatment and transparency in the process of dissemination of inform...
Progressive.org

Waiting for Justice in Immigration Court - Rescinding Trump-era restrictions would only be a start toward radical reform.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for June 7 - 11 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. Despite the spike in consumer prices in May, long term interest rates like...
The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump Must Be Prosecuted for His Crimes -
NPR's Health Shots

A DC Chef Finds New Ways To Feed Customers During The Pandemic - Charlie Chen served authentic Chinese food at the cafe in DC's World Bank before offices shut down last year. He shifted to feeding his regular customers t...
Duffel Blog

Army veteran, poet laureate, reflects on dicks undrawn - This is powerful stuff.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Renowned Marxist Economist Prabhat Patnaik: Capitalism Cannot Exist without Imperialism - What is imperialism? Is it a stage of capitalism, as Lenin described it, or was it always essential to capitalism? Can capitalism exist without imperialism...
Bud Kennedy

‘People need to see a good movie’: Behind Fort Worth’s love for ’12 Mighty Orphans’ - It’s Fort Worth’s little art-house film with big dreams. But the first thing you have to remember about “12 Mighty Orphans” is that it’s only a movie. If y...
Church and State

Fighting malevolent AI: artificial intelligence, meet cybersecurity - More worrying is the potential that a superintelligence may be capable of inventing dangers we are not capable of predicting.
Grist

How returning lands to Native tribes is helping protect nature - From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation.
ROAR Magazine

Inside the struggle for water sovereignty in Brazil - Brazil’s Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens has been fighting for decades against the privatization of water and for popular control over natural resour...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use the comments to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Southeast Texas Record

Jefferson County District Court: Actions Taken on June 4 - The Jefferson County District Court reported the following activity on June 4 in the suits below: Read more..
Dallas Observer

Wichita Falls Militia Supporter Pleads Guilty to Plot to Blow Up Amazon Data Center - North Texan Seth Aaron Pendley, who participated in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, pleaded guilty to planning to blow up an Amazon data center earlier this ...
Counterpunch

It’s All about Racism: White reaction to the ‘Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act’ - Facts Matter There appears to be a lot of outrage and faux victimhood coming from some White farmers and their political allies concerning the ‘Emergency...
DeSmogBlog

The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy - By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY–SA 3.0 US. A new report published Wednesday, June 9, by a trio of prog...
Crooked Media

Pride Plus Some Wrath (200th episode!) - The post Pride Plus Some Wrath (200th episode!) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Angry Bear

JOLTS - I am wondering about Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data. The reason is that I am interested in the extremely record high job vacancy rat...
See You In 2020

The Zionist State Is Doomed, And So Is The U.S. Settler-Colonial State - Colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism create their own crises, especially when it comes to military conflict. They deprive vast swaths of the global p...
Informed Comment

Like an Arab Dictator faced with Massive Protests, Israel’s Netanyahu offers to Resign if his Likud Party can remain in ruling coalition - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghribi of the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Friday, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister made a last-ditch at...
jobsanger

Darnella Frazier Awarded Honorary Pulitzer Prize -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: To The Island - It’s that day again.
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | June 11, 2021 - Friday Nite Videos | June 11, 2021 barry Sat, 06/12/2021 - 00:32
Antiwar.com

Bombs in Paradise: Missiles and Munitions Headed to Ewa Beach, Hawaii - The United States Army plans to build an enormous weapons facility storing stockpiles of conventional warheads and explosives right next to the residenti...
Deadline Politics

Late Night TV Hosts And Even The Queen Herself Poke Fun At Oddly-Posed Photos Of World Leaders At G7 - While the leaders of the world’s seven largest so-called “advanced economies” convened in the U.K. to discuss substantive issues like the pandemic, health ...
LareDOS

STREAM INTO THE RIVER: RGISC’s 27th Annual Meeting, Sat., June 12, 11 a.m. - Register at bit.ly/RGISCAnnualMeeting; become a member at bit.ly/RGISCmembership
Techdirt.

Oatly Sues PureOaty For Trademark And Trade Dress Infringement - Maybe it's something about being in a beverage industry that makes people treat trademark law as though it were something it most definitely is not. For ...
Courthouse News

Bullying - In a case involving allegations of bullying and sexual harassment at an elementary school, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiff can br...
Progrexas

State Rep. James White, an East Texas Republican, won’t seek another term in Texas House - White, chairman of the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee, has served in the lower chamber since 2011. The post State Rep. James White, ...
Rio Grande Guardian

GOP group seeks to flip six state House seats in South Texas - AUSTIN, Texas – Six House of Representatives seats in South Texas currently held by Democrats are being targeted for flipping by a Republican group in 20...
TXElects

White Retiring, Possibly Eying Statewide Office - Rep. James White (R-Hillister) announced he would not seek re-election. White, who is serving his sixth term, was first elected in 2010. “I’m a term limi...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law - Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brothe...
Brad Blog

America's Billionaire Tax Code Welfare Queens: 'BradCast' 6/11/2021 - The volume of incoming huge news stories these days is getting to be as overwhelming as it was during the Trump years. But it's also a reminder to anyone w...
Workers World

U.S.-led ‘African Lion 21’ hunts for new prey - [image: U.S.-led ‘African Lion 21’ hunts for new prey] Published June 8 in Il Manifesto; translation by John Catalinotto. The African Lion, the largest mil...
FiveThirtyEight.com

How Same-Sex Marriage Broke Through Partisan Politics - During the span of 25 years, same-sex marriage went from being an unimaginable idea to settled law. During a shorter period — just about a decade — it went...
Dissident Voice

News on China | No. 54 - The post News on China | No. 54 first appeared on Dissident Voice.
World Socialist Web Site

One week in: Where does the Volvo strike stand? - The first week of the second strike by nearly 3,000 autoworkers against the transnational Volvo corporation has come to an end, and it is time for workers ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Auditioning for QAnon - This time last year, it was Tom Cotton, Steve Bannon and those doorknobs at the Epoch Fail — uh, sorry, Epoch Times — pushing the 100% evidence-free “Wuhan...
slacktivist

‘Our American Cousin’ - Sure, on the one hand, Graham balked and choked and his moral compass failed him spectacularly on the most momentous moral question of his ministry, but on...
The Rag Blog

THORNE DREYER : REMEMBRANCE | Texas film and theater icon Gary Chason passes at 78 - Events celebrating Gary’s life are planned for Austin and Houston. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | June 11, 2021 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s August 17, 201...
The Texas Signal

Houston lawmakers hold inquiry over snubbing of Harvey relief funds - Members of Congress from Houston hosted a public inquiry with local leaders in Bayou City on Friday to address why Houston and Harris County were both aw...
Latino Rebels

Biden to Return Diverted Border Wall Money, Spend Down Rest - WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall project would lose much of its funding as well as the fast-track status that enable...
Independent Political Report

@PrinBlandingVA to be the only 3rd Party Candidate for Virginia Governor - [image: Princess Blanding, Sister of Marcus-David Peters, Announces Campaign for Governor | RVA Mag][image: Stickers- Princess Blanding For Governor | Pr...
SCOTUSblog

Less travel, plenty of royalties for justices in 2020 - [image: Less travel, plenty of royalties for justices in 2020]The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were reflected in an unusual source: the justices’ 202...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Terrorizing Election Workers - Linda So @ Reuters: Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Even now, Trump trusts Putin over leadi...
VICE

Daily Horoscope: June 12, 2021 - The moon is in Cancer today.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

No More Spying on Journalists - The trove of revealing data held by phone and email providers is proving too great a temptation for the Justice Department, even when the government’s sp...
Daily Howler

On the one hand, we apologize! - *FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021* *Then too, afternoon delight:* On the one hand, we apologize on this rainy afternoon. Michele Norris' modest proposal raised so ...
Living Blue in Texas

We Have To Stop History From Repeating Itself And We Must End Texas’ White Supremacist Culture - Despite what Republicans think, Texas is our state, too. Help us stop Republicans from erasing history and pushing white supremacy in education. If you w...
Texas Standard

Tasing Reveals Police Role In Disciplining Youth At Migrant Shelters - An investigation from the nonprofit news organization Reveal uncovered video footage of a 16-year-old asylum-seeker being tased for 35 seconds.
The Ghion Journal

Nightmare Scenario: Vaccinated Children Developing Myocarditis, a Debilitating Form of Heart Inflammation, at Alarming Rates - In a stunning new development, the CDC announced this morning that they will convene an “emergency meeting” on June 18th after an alarming number of The ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *I'm so past & out of it I didn't even know this was briefly popular, sort of.Well, I *still* like it! * • I only unleashed one *Roy Edroso Breaks It D...
The NM Political Report

Stansbury to resign from state House, be sworn into U.S. House - [image: Stansbury to resign from state House, be sworn into U.S. House] New Mexico state Representative Melanie Stansbury announced her resignation from th...
Houston Press

Harris County Approves Free Parking, Coffee and Lunch for Jurors as Planning for Pay Raise Continues - Folks who get called up for jury duty in Harris County can expect a few extra perks coming their way in the weeks ahead, as the county Commissioners Court ...
Wolf Street

Surging Inflation No Problem, Junk Bond Yields Drop to Record Low, Dish out Negative “Real” Yields to Fed-Whacked Investors - The market is broken. “Raging mania” rules.
Election Law Blog

“How Joe Manchin could escape the trap he set for himself” - Ned Foley WaPo column: Manchin’s message leaves a nagging question: what happens if he brokers a deal with all seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trum...
American Prospect

A Green Transition for California - Today on TAP: The Prospect’s Bob Kuttner speaks with study author Robert Pollin
Freethought Now

Sports, hospitals, movies and music - We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation were batting for the Constitution this week — with quite a satisfactory score.
Discourse

Seriously, Just Keep Giving Us the Money, Again and Always!!! - It's been 15 months and we're still begging Congress for basic COVID relief funds. The post Seriously, Just Keep Giving Us the Money, Again and Always!!...
Due Dissidence

Podcast: Kamala Goes to Guatemala, TYT Goes Full Russiagate, Lab Leak Theory Goes Mainstream - We discuss the news of the week, including Kamala Harris’ message to Guatemalan refugees, TYT jumping the shark, and the increasingly probable “lab leak” c...
Environment Texas

A Texas bill would have punished wind and solar for the blackout they didn't cause. We helped fix it. - Jake Taber Content Creator Contact person by email - Read more about Jake Taber Friday, June 11, 2021
Mahablog

Missouri: The Screw Me State - After years of Reaganist propaganda that government bleeps everything up, I guess the voters here just expect government to bleep everything up and are n...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Everyone has a spark of goodness - By Rabbi Levi Greenberg For the first time in recent history, the entire world experienced a common crisis for an extended period of time. Even as we gra...
Reform Austin

What Will the Effects of Permitless Carry Be? - One of the most controversial laws to pass in the Texas legislature this session was the one that did away with the need for people to be licensed to pub...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

The Mustang of many - The story of this 1965 Mustang pretty much started around March 20, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska for $2715.00. My mom still has the original invoice from whe...
Lawfare

Fighting Insider Abuse After Van Buren - US Supreme Court, Washington DC (dog97209, https://flic.kr/p/A3YAfj; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) The U.S. Supreme Court’s de...
NORML

Ohio: Regulators Expand the Pool of Patients Eligible for Medical Cannabis - Patients diagnosed with either Huntington's disease, spasticity or severe muscle spasms, or a terminal illness are now eligible to receive authorizations...
The Conversation

What's the G-7? An international economist explains - The G-7 nations, which include the US and UK, form the foundation of the modern global economy.
Mondoweiss

Blinken lied through his teeth about Israeli and U.S. accountability to victims– that’s the real scandal - It never crossed the minds of most pundits or politicians or Democrats to be critical of Blinken’s pathologically dishonest response to Rep. Ilhan Omar abo...
BEYONDbones

Exploring the Night Sky with Astrophotography - At the risk of sounding overly cliché, astrophotography is a hobby that is effortless to start and virtually impossible to master. Smartphones are so pow...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

American Way, R.I.P. - USA Today brings us the news that the in-flight magazine American Way will cease publication with its June issue. This sucks. And it was inevitable. I go...
Liberation News

IRS leak: The real tax rate for the ultra rich? 3.4 percent - ProPublica released a damning report this week, based on information leaked from the IRS, detailing how the ultra-rich in the United States have managed to...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pride Month giving the religious right the 'vapors'' & other Fri midday news briefs - *Pride Month and Prejudice* - *The religious right is angry about Pride Month. And I think it's wonderful. * *Pulse Site to Be Designated a National Memo...
Ring of Fire

Local Economies Look To Lose BILLIONS As GOP Governors Cancel Unemployment Aid - Via America’s Lawyer: Republican governors prepare to terminate unemployment benefits for those who suffered job losses during the pandemic. Yet millions...
Dissent Magazine

Jerusalem: City or Symbol? - What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah lies at the heart of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Political Garbage Chute

Local Crybaby Moron Still Thinks He’s Going to be President in August - MAR-A-LAGO, FLORIDA — A local resident of the area is, according to the handful of people who still consider themselves friends or family to him, has bee...
Tribune of the People

Kansas City: Video Shows Police Murder of Malcolm Johnson, Community Members Demand Justice - Cover Photo: Still from security camera footage of police attacking Malcolm Johnson By Serran Soledad Last week, new cell phone and security camera footage...
Novara Media

Ignore the Naysayers: Anti-Imperialism Will Be Central to the Socialism of the 2020s - [image: Two activists stand opposite 10 Downing Street in protest at the UK's involvement in Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen, June 2018. Alistair Hickson/Flick...
Texas Observer

For the First Time, ‘Redeemed’ Texas Parents May Get a Second Chance - Maggie Luna tried to fit all of the love she had for her three children onto a tri-fold poster board a week before her court date. Each section of the pl...
Dorf on Law

Judge Katzmann was a terrific judge and an even more terrific person. - *by Michael C. Dorf* This week, Robert Katzmann, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, died. I didn't know Judge Katzm...
Debunking Christianity

Christian Belief: “How Weird It All Was” - *An ex-vangelical star on TikTok* For a while, after my book was published in 2016, its Facebook page attracted attention—and elicited comments—from Chri...
Washington Babylon

The Ten Worst Sheriffs in America - [image: The Ten Worst Sheriffs in America] [*Editor’s note, from Ken Silverstein: A version of this story was originally published in the June 2021 issue o...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law - Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother,...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Dems consider bold ways to create a path to citizenship - President Joe Biden sent Vice President Kamala Harris to Central America this week with a mission: Begin a new era of U.S.-supported programs to try to d...
Democracy Now!

Why Germany's Apology for Its 1904-1908 Genocide in Namibia Does Not Go Far Enough - Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West...
The Progressive Wing

6/11 News Roundup and Open Thread - Were Biden’s first 100 days a mirage?
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #145 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: everyone makes mistakes; the Ninth Circuit hates Star Wars; Kim Kardashian fails the bar; and a man is blamed for saving ...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 6/11/2021 - Top legal news includes: Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas will build a border wall, but doesn’t yet give details on cost or location; Harris County Virtual Voir...
Space City Weather

Rain chances slowly return to Houston’s forecast by later in the weekend - This week has been a good week to dry out a bit. And we have needed that badly. Today should be our fourth or fifth straight mostly dry day, something we h...
Sludge

Dems Pass on Using Key Power to Kill Trump Rules -
High Country News

Why I changed my mind about Bears Ears - The benefits of a national monument in San Juan County outweigh the costs.
Rallblog

Can’t Vote/Why Vote? - Republicans are obsessively trying to prevent Democrats, particularly blacks, from voting. Meanwhile, Democrats collect those votes but don’t work hard t...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Putin Falsely Labels Ukrainian Indigenous Peoples Law ‘Nazi’ - A proposed Ukraine law would grant official status for three indigenous minority groups in Ukraine.
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

John Wayne sums up - Jack wrote this in September, 2006: A brief summary: I don’t harbor any illusions that anyone’s going to read that entire article (previously posted long a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Pushes to Obscure the State’s History of Slavery and Racism - *Here's another piece on Anglo supremacy in Texas that appeared recently in the New York Times. It's informative in terms of the intersecting pieces of l...
Rude Pundit

Conservatives Believe That Critical Race Theory Will Eat Our Children (Part 1) - Today, Thursday, in Florida (motto: "America's laboratory of backwards ass fucknuttery"), the state Board of Education voted that, when it comes to Ameri...
Progressives Everywhere

Wealth Taxes on the March... But to Where? - And the unknowable man living in my head
Land Destroyer

US in Afghanistan: A War By Any Other Name... - *June 11, 2021 *(Brian Berletic - NEO) - If the promise of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan has been met by extreme skepticism by not only the American p...
Socialist Alternative

Biden and the Filibuster: What’s Actually Stopping Dems from Delivering? - The Democrats, in making their case for Joe Biden during the 2020 election cycle, insisted to American voters that a Biden White House would bring much-nee...
Louis Proyect

Report from Colombia #1 - (Written on June 1 by Anthony, a long-time resident of Bogota) On Sunday, the national strike committee decided that it would work to remove road blocks th...
Reveal

Texas deputy who tased migrant child placed on administrative leave - The move comes a day after a Reveal investigation, and as the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office continues to fight the disclosure of public records. Texas d...
Earthworks

On dragonflies, injustice, an oil pipeline, and President Biden - What sticks with me the most from the Treaty People Gathering at the Headwaters of the Mississippi River are the dragonflies. Not long after my son died,...
Grits for Breakfast

Expungements for old weapons charges under Texas' new unlicensed-carry law could be widespread, but likely initially limited - Much have been made of the public-safety implications of Texas passing unlicensed-open-carry legislation (HB 1927) in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso...
In These Times

"We Do This For The Water": Indigenous Organizers Defend Menominee River - Indigenous water protectors confront massive mining companies, building community on the way. - The Menominee River forms Wisconsin’s Northeastern border with Michigan, winding for about 120 miles and opening into Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. About th...
epic.org

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Finds RCMP Use of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Violated Canada's Privacy Act - In a report to Parliament the Canadian Privacy Commissioner concluded that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RMCP) violated the Canadian Privacy Act by us...
The Mind Unleashed

Golden Retriever Filmed Giving Woodchuck Ride Across Massachusetts Lake - “We were flabbergasted. It was unbelievable. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” said the dog's owner.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: June 2021 - This month, I’m doing a little mini-series where I journal about Google Alerts that I get on asexuality. Not sure that interests anyone, but for me it’s s...
Pages of Victory

Obsessed with Trump - STILL - There are people making their living off this Trump obsession, feeding into the billions in free publicity he has gotten ever since the Hillary machine ...
The Contributor

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Tells Pregnant Women: 'It's Not Your Body Anymore' - News Image: The comment was one of a number of offensive remarks Republican official Mark Robinson made at his state party convention. Category: Civil Ri...
Rewire

The Abortion Rights Fight Just Got Bigger in Texas - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that provides a mechanism for anyone to sue any individual who assists someone else in getting an abortion. The post...
Earth 911

The Wide World of Sustainable Wine - Even casual wine drinkers know there is no such thing as a typical bottle of... The post The Wide World of Sustainable Wine appeared first on Earth911.
ProPublica

“I Finally Got to the Mountaintop and I Failed” - by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sig...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- food for survival - Eating properly for just two weeks can hugely boost the cancer-fighting power of your blood. What do the longest-living human populations on Earth eat?
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Forecasting the 2022 Midterm Election with the Generic Ballot - Dear Readers: Later today, University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato will hold a Crystal Ball webinar from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. easte...
Morning Consult

Western Countries View COVID-19 and the Spread of Infectious Diseases as Major Threats - The post Western Countries View COVID-19 and the Spread of Infectious Diseases as Major Threats appeared first on Morning Consult.
Project Censored

Aviva Chomsky - Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture on April 29, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio. The occasion was the release of ...
Skeptical Raptor

Why can’t we get a cancer vaccine as fast as one for COVID-19? - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I keep reading memes and other nonsense that if scientists are so smart why can’t we...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: White People (But With Subtitles) - Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! (Patrons got to see this cartoon over two months ago!) I started work on this cartoon on November 28, ...
Bad Attitudes

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

7 Lessons We Need to Learn From Covid-19Maybe it’s wishful... - *7 Lessons We Need to Learn From Covid-19* Maybe it’s wishful thinking to declare the pandemic over in the US, and presumptuous to conclude what lessons ...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Houston Methodist Nurses Rally As They Lose Their Jobs For Refusing CO VID Shots - On Monday June 7, 2021, hundreds of nurses and supporters gathered at the Baytown Methodist campus east of Houston, Texas to protest the hospitals firing...
Eater Houston

Restaurant Mogul Tilman Fertitta Heads to The Woodlands With a Ritzy New Seafood Restaurant - [image: a small quiche on a white plate next to a salad and a fork, with e piece cut out of it] The breakfast quiche at NoPo Market, Bar & Cafe | Kirsten ...
Anti-Media

Houston Nurses Protest After Losing Their Jobs for Refusing COVID-19 Shots - More than a hundred hospital employees and supporters gathered in protest of the firing of employees who reject COVID-19 shots.
Ecosophia

The Doctrine of High Magic: Chapter 1 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Seeing the Forest

Is Biden Another Carter? - The Carter admin was a short interim between bad and much worse, and enabled the much worse to get into power. I am fearing Biden is failing to see the urg...
Field Negro

Pantsgate. - I have a confession to make: I am somewhat of a fashion snob. I believe in the old adage that *"clothes make the man"*, and that one's appearance is ...
Greg Palast

Is it time we made Manchin a verb? - Who would have ever thought that it would be one lone Democratic Senator that would finally put an end our democratic voting system? The one person, one vo...
Chicken Fried Politics

Terry McAuliffe wins Democratic nomination for Virginia governor - Attorney General Mark Herring survives primary challenge; Hala Ayala’s victory sets up all-female contest for lieutenant governor ♦By Rich Shumate, Chicken...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: A Singular Picture of George Floyd’s Daughter Entering the White House - On the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, his family was invited to the White House. This photo of Floyd’s daughter Gianna, walking alone, sta...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes - Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that...
Liberal America

Is Joe Biden Finished Channeling FDR? Dems Are Already Caving to GOP - The clock is ticking. There are four weeks left in the congressional calendar, which means when federal lawmakers return to Washington in September, it w...
nonsite.org

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity - Undoubtedly, economic inequality is an enormous problem in a democratic society where citizens claim to value egalitarian norms. But this puzzling juxtapos...
Idavox

NJ Calls on American Legion to Not Host Event by Anti-Muslim Activist & QAnon-Associated Supporter - Scott Presler, formerly of the Islamophobic hate group ACT For America, and Darius Mayfield, a... The post NJ Calls on American Legion to Not Host Event ...
Progressives Chat

‘Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar’ - I am adding to “Recommendations” the brand-new *Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar*. It premieres on the very date of this blog topic. We will find...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Oath Breaker: How a Serving National Guardsman Helped The Base Plan a White Power Army - In February 2019, on an encrypted chat platform, members of the white power accelerationist group The Base had a long discussion on a topic that had recent...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Albert Dock/Tate, Liverpool - [image: Liverpool: Albert Dock/Tate]
Stinque

An Extremely Strained Metaphor for Our Times - See, the waitress is Joe Manchin insisting how the filibuster works, and Jack Nicholson is America asking if we can just have democracy, and, uh, that’s ...
The Socialist

Get Acquainted With Political News - A common man has been excluded from the sphere of politics. The main emphasis in general and on the public. This entity of the system has been addressed by...
Equality Texas

Legislative Session Wrap-Up: Our community mobilized with strength and heart - This session we faced almost insurmountable odds but our community partners joined together virtually and in-person to create real power that held back an ...
The Appeal

Los Angeles County Homeless Residents Say Sheriff’s Department Is Targeting Them - In March, Echo Park, a gentrified neighborhood in Los Angeles, made national headlines after police swept the area and removed about 200 people at a park...
Edinburg Politics

Lawmakers pass key government transparency bills, including measures featuring Rep. Canales and Sen. Zaffirini, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, who also serves as Chair, House Committee on Transportation, reviews one of his legislative measures on Thursday,...
TalkLeft

Thursday Night Open Thread - I have been adjusting to life outside of my bubbled apartment. After more than a year indoors, I can't help but avoid the computer. I will be back though! ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Flood Planning Meetings, Comments - Flooding Begins on the Land June 2, 2021 The technical and executive committees of the San Jacinto Regional Flood Planning Group are meeting Thursday morni...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2021 - Walmart had at least nineteen shootings in May of 2021, including one nearby where the victim headed to Walmart, which is one shy of the record. The onl...
Downwinders at Risk

City Hall’s New Exploding Cigar is Why These Former Plan Commissioners Must Win On Saturday - Dallas City Hall Staff has once again lit an exploding cigar. You know the ones you see in cartoons? An unsuspecting fellow strikes a match to what looks l...
DBC Green

The Usual Big June Doings - These are presented in chronological order, not in order of importance. They are two of the biggest activities on my calendar in any typical year, although...
Media Lens

Two Centuries Of ‘The Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’ - In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this yea...
Nina Illingworth

A Heritage, of Hate by Chris Walker - IWW organizer Chris Walker returns to talk about how the fight to change school names in Florida is a continuation of our larger battle against white sup...
Free & Equal

FREE & EQUAL PRESENTS: UNITED WE STAND – CAMBRIA -
Innocence Project

Maryland Just Enacted a Historic Law Preventing the Misuse of Genetic Information - On Friday, Maryland enacted a law to regulate the use of forensic genetic genealogy — a technique used by law enforcement to identify suspects by analyzi...
Unlimited Hangout

From UNESCO Study 11 to UNESCO 2050: Project BEST and the Forty-Year Plan to Reimagine Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - For over forty years, coalitions of academics, governments, corporations, and world governance bodies have colluded to build a global ed-tech schooling s...
Avedon's Sideshow

When you believe in things that you don't understand - Kilnsey Crag, Wharfedale, was photographed by Cliff Ounsley (that's Simon's dad). What you didn't hear about the pipeline hack was that it wasn't the pip...
Bayou Brief

The Valarie Hodges Show - Not long after Louisiana state Rep. Valarie Hodges joined the legislature in 2012, she began tweeting from a new account, presumably in an effort to distin...
Our Finite World

Don’t expect the world economy to resume its prior growth pattern after COVID-19 - Most people seem to think that the world economy is going through a temporary disruption, caused by a novel coronavirus. As soon as COVID-19 goes away, the...
Malady

Reform, Revolution, and the Inevitable Collapse (A Response to Franklin V.H.’s ‘An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Question’) - *“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.” – Ted Kaczynski* The relentless and impressive dialectician Franklin V...
Shadowproof

The Aftermath of War In Gaza - To Asma Alkhaldi, the “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip is welcome, but the trauma of days of bombing remains. The post The Aftermath of War In Gaza appeared...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Greetings from “New Normal” Germany! - On April 1, 1933, shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis staged a boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Members of the Storm Troopers ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

We Must Act Now To End Vaccine Apartheid - Even as COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the United States, there is no end in sight to the pandemic for the vast majority of people in the world. Many in Cen...
Web of Debt

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

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

CIA calls Kash Patel a liar - Back in February, former Trump Administration official Kash Patel told Aaron Mate at RealClearInvestigations that the CIA was sitting on damning informatio...
Green Pages News

Remembering Nikeeta Slade - By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker Nikeeta Slade was one of our favorite people. She died suddenly on May 7 from a heart attack. She was only 32. The Green...
Moron Majority

After Cheney Ouster, House Reps Propose New Oath Of Office - During colonial times, when the United States were colonies of Great Britain, officials swore allegiance to the king. Following the Revolution, the founder...
Dos Centavos

May 22: SAs Tejano Conjunto Fest Goes Virtual - We’ll I don’t expect to go to live concerts any time soon, so, mil thank yous to The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s Tejano Conjunto Festival for going vi...
New Progressive Alliance

Enter the Debt Jubilee - This is not a troubling long term trend that will not end well. Jeff Roby is a Florida activist who also publishes in the The Green Party of Florida.
CT's short stories and novelettes

MEXICAN RED AND THE BANKER - 1 A lone rider from the west slowly trotted his pony in anticipation of finding water at Weber’s spring. The spring sometimes went dry, but he...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Action Releases Statement on New Census Data Allocating Two Additional Congressional Districts to Texas - Texas gained two new seats given new Census information. Find Texas Rising Action’s statement below: Austin, TX — In response to the announcement this af...
Texas Watch

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

The antidote to QAnon is proving that truly “all men are created equal.” - It was another one of those online videos, the kind the world has come to expect with weary repugnance. The video starts with ominous looking centaurs flas...
BillMoyers.com

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

“[Y]ou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”…hopefully, I did it well for 20 years - (credit to Stephen King for the quote) I have always had the illusion it was more important or as important to be a good man as to be a great... Read more »
ExChristian.Net

Freedom and Peace - *By Blackfreethought ~ * It is such a relief to know my actions do not have eternal consequences. My mistakes will not condemn me to damnation and my good...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Modern Democracy

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

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Brains and Eggs

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Happy Valentine's Day from Your President

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