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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Jury selection to begin in trial over killing of Ahmaud Arbery - Three white men face trial for chasing and fatally shooting Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in the US state of Georgia.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s week in photos, Oct. 11-17 - [image: A single-file line of migrant teens is escorted by Endeavors employees at a migrant youth detention center in Pecos on Tuesday.]Images from CityFes...
The Verge

How to watch Apple’s October ‘Unleashed’ event - Apple Apple is hosting its next big hardware event at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. The event is titled “Unleashed,” and while we’re not totally sure what Apple will...
Dos Centavos

Tomas Q. Morin’s Machete - While I am awaiting the arrival of my copy of Tomas Q. Morin’s latest book of poetry, Machete, the Texas Standard provides us an interview with the accompl...
VICE

Fried Avocado Recipe - Perfectly ripe avocados do double duty as a crispy fried snack and a bright and creamy dipping sauce in this simple and satisfying recipe.
naked capitalism

Links 10/18/2021 -
memeorandum

The last days inside Trailer 83 (Hannah Dreier/Washington Post) - Hannah Dreier / Washington Post: *The last days inside Trailer 83* … CHICO, Calif. — Mike Erickson had been living in the trailer park for 341 days when ...
Grist

European activists want to ban fossil fuel ads. Why can’t we do that here? - In the U.S., ad restrictions could risk “running afoul of the Constitution.”
Political Wire

Steele Defends His Dossier - “Former British spy Christopher Steele is stepping out of the shadows to ‘set the record straight’ about his bombshell dossier for the first time since his...
Mediaite

‘Alarming’: 9% of Georgia Republicans Would Consider Sitting Out 2022 Election Unless 2020 is Audited - A stunning New York Times report reveals an “alarming” possibility that nearly 10 percent of Georgia Republican voters could sit out the 2022 election un...
Skeptophilia

Remembrance of stress past - About eighteen years ago, my wife and I went on a vacation to Hawaii. The trip was awesome, and we had a fantastic time in Kauai, appreciating the beaut...
The Hill

The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Uber - Build Back Better items on chopping block - Presented by Uber...
Off The Kuff

30 day campaign finance reports: HCC - […]
The Week

6 books that inspired Elizabeth Strout - The Pulitzer Prize–winning author recommends works by John Updike, Ira Byock, and more
Mother Jones

Food Packaging Chemicals May Contribute to 100,000 US Deaths Per Year, Study Finds - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The group of chemicals called phthala...
Morning Consult

Virginia Governor’s Race Tests Whether Trump’s Toxicity Can Overcome a Biden Decline - The post Virginia Governor’s Race Tests Whether Trump’s Toxicity Can Overcome a Biden Decline appeared first on Morning Consult.
Houston Public Media

The pandemic’s effect on Latinx youth, & the health of Galveston Bay (Oct. 18, 2021) - On Monday's show: How COVID-19 has affected Latinx/Hispanic youth, the health of Galveston Bay, and an update on sports.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Scientists see a La Niña coming. What does that mean for the dry American south-west? - The weather system could intensify the drought much of the region is already in, including higher wildfire risks and water shortages The wet winter the A...
Salon.com

Fascism or freedom? America is stuck in an ugly and dangerous in-between - We are caught between a dying world — which we cannot save — and a new one being born. We must face that choice
Progressives Chat

‘Why has [“Squid Game”] resonated with a global audience?’ - Link: *Why has *Squid Game *resonated with a global audience?*
Slate

The Pathetic Details at the Heart of the Suburban Couple Spy Case - A desire for money, stunning naivete, and lines ripped straight from the movies.
Eschaton

Morning Thread - The morninging.
Texas Environmental News

West Dallas Neighborhood Worries Yet Another Concrete Plant Could Make Pollution Even Worse - Another concrete batch plant wants to move into West Dallas. A hearing in front of the Texas Commission on Environmental [...] The post West Dallas Neigh...
American Prospect

Build Back Better’s Housing Investments at Risk - The housing part of the reconciliation bill is transformative. All factions of the party support it. Will it survive the cut-down?
Earth 911

How To Start a Regenerative Garden in Your Backyard - We garden for a lot of reasons, don’t we? The fresh air, exercise, and the... The post How To Start a Regenerative Garden in Your Backyard appeared first...
Novara Media

Why Owning Stuff Is Better Than Working - Is there such a thing as a good landlord? Britain is being held hostage by a class of people whose only talent is owning stuff, and extracting money from p...
NPR's Health Shots

News brief:Haiti kidnappings, China's economy slows, COVID boosters - A group of U.S.-based aid workers and their families are kidnapped in Haiti. The growth rate for China's economy has slowed. More big moves on COVID-19 vac...
Nina Illingworth

Barbarism Starts at Home on Can’t You Read - Nina review's Spencer Ackerman's "Reign of Terror" and finds a good book, that could have been so much more. Check out the new Bookish Bits on Can't You ...
Axios

The living room becomes a digital hub - Internet companies are leaning into new services that add a social component to the otherwise isolated experience of staying home in front of a screen. ...
Counterpunch

The Embarrassment of Riches - The rich have always flaunted their wealth. It was rarely good enough to enjoy financial success, you had to be conspicuous about it. They build enormous...
Mediagazer

How Rolling Stone, which started turning a profit in 2019 and reaches 60M readers/month online, is trying to reestablish itself as "the Bible for young people" (Margaret Sullivan/Washington Post) - Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: *How Rolling Stone, which started turning a profit in 2019 and reaches 60M readers/month online, is trying to reesta...
High Country News

Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust - Wary of local authorities, a community forms an ad-hoc firefighting force to defend its property.
Countercurrents

Global Debt Leaps to $226 Trillion, reports IMF - The global debt has jumped to a new high of $226 trillion, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on October 13, 2021. As reason of this leap in global...
Church and State

China’s Premier Chi Implies With COVID His System Works Better Than Our Democracy - If asked before our democratic system elected Donald Trump, a majority of Americans would undoubtedly have said we do better than China.
Rallblog

Employment Angst in the Time of Covid - American employers spent decades treating employees like crap. They slashed salaries, eliminated training, disrespected them, increased their working hou...
The NM Political Report

Commission votes to send proposed redistricting maps to Legislature - [image: Commission votes to send proposed redistricting maps to Legislature] The newly formed New Mexico Citizen Redistricting Committee, tasked with prese...
Informed Comment

Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill? - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain the su...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: I’ve Tried Everything To Find New Workers - If you like my cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon. I have to admit, this cartoon would have been more current back in May. But on ...
World Socialist Web Site

Republican campaign rally in Virginia draws Trump, Bannon and fascist supporters - In the gubernatorial election, Republican hedge fund executive Glenn Youngkin is running a close race against Democratic former Governor Terry McAuliffe.
jobsanger

Shirley Nailed It! -
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Rational Risk Assessment and Fuel Prices - Jack wrote this in September, 2005: America’s had a fetish with avoiding risk-taking for a couple of generations now. They don’t want to take any, no matte...
Crooked Media

Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Begins - The post Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Begins appeared first on Crooked Media.
Portside

Dark Energy Might Be Neither Particle nor Field - Dark Energy Might Be Neither Particle nor Field Ira Mon, 10/18/2021 - 00:52
Antiwar.com

As Iran Forges Ahead With Its Nuclear Program the Trump Administration’s Criminal Incompetence Does Not Justify War - Hardline Islamists have taken control in Iran, nuclear negotiations with Tehran have stalled, the Saudis and Israelis are restless, and talk of military ...
The Grayzone

Behind the ‘Uyghur Tribunal’, US govt-backed separatist theater to escalate conflict with China - US-backed activists and regime-change operatives convened the Uyghur Tribunal to ramp up conflict with China, but wound up exposing major inconsistencies...
Wolf Street

THE WOLF STREET REPORT: China’s Model of Dictated Economic Growth Blew Up - What’s left of the debt-fueled property speculation that drove growth is a huge explosive mess and an enormous amount of debt.
Raw Story

Trump, the Big Lie and Jan 6 is now being mainstreamed by the GOP and interest groups that support them: columnist - In a column by Fred Hiatt, the *Washington Post* writer explained that Trumpism and all that it entitles is now being mainstreamed by not just the GOP bu...
Tribune of the People

Brazil: 3,000 Soldiers Mobilized to Massacre Peasants at Camp Tiago dos Santos - Photo: Screenshot of video showing thousands of Brazilian Military Police readying operations to attack peasants By Nélida Tello On Saturday, Marcos Rocha,...
OpEd News

What will anti-colonial socialist revolution look like? - Assessing what Land Back means for Marxist-Leninists. ------.
Daily Dot

The ‘Succession’ season 3 premiere skewers the insecurity of the super-rich - [image: succession season 3 episode 1] *This post includes spoilers for Succession season 3 episode 1, "Secession."* If you've ever asked yourself, "Why...
Reform Austin

Texas congressional map heads into last-minute negotiations as Democrats decry shortage of Hispanic representation - Though people of color drove nearly all of Texas’ population gains in the last decade, the proposed map gives white voters control of both of the two new...
Election Law Blog

Video: CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown – CNN’s Pamela Brown interview w/ Ece Temelkuran & Richard Hasen on Election Subversion Risk in the US. - Watch here:
TXElects

Congressional Redistricting Heads to Conference Committee - The House approved an amended Senate Bill 6 by Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston), on a nearly party-line, 79-56 vote yesterday (Saturday). Reps. Harold Dutto...
Chicken Fried Politics

Black U.S. Senate candidates in the South piling up impressive amounts of campaign cash - U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock and Tim Scott have raised more money than any other Senate candidates nationwide ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com e...
TalkLeft

More Capitol Riot Defendants are Foregoing Lawyers - We've always known that most non-millionaire Donald Trump supporters are marginalized and under-informed. (Just a nicer term for under-educated and/or stup...
Caitlin Johnstone

Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The billionaire CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that recently purchased the news media outlet Politico ha...
Courthouse News

Texas lawmakers send bill restricting transgender youth in sports to the governor - On their fourth attempt, Texas lawmakers have passed a bill to ban transgender youth from participating in public school sports teams that align with their...
Angry Bear

Some (non-libertarian) sense on vaccine hesitancy and mandates from Zeynep Tufekci - Vaccine hesitancy is a serious problem. It is killing people and prolonging the social and economic costs of the pandemic. One possible policy response...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

I Love New York - Here’s one in solidarity with our comrades and neighbors in the UK, where PM Boris Johnson is basically engaged in the same kind of slow genocide currently...
SCOTUSblog

Biden court-reform commissioners remain divided - [image: Biden court-reform commissioners remain divided]Disjunction and disagreement dominated the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court’s day-lon...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Article said bills banning trans athletes was based on lies and misrepresentations. The media ignored it. - *Editor's note - If it hasn't already, Texas will be passing a bill banning trans students from playing school sports. That in itself is depressing to ...
Equality Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EQUALITY TEXAS STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF ANTI-TRANSGENDER SPORTS BAN, HB 25, TARGETING INNOCENT CHILDREN - Contact: Angela Hale | angela.hale@equalitytexas.org Kara Watkins-Chow | kara.watkinschow@berlinrosen.com EQUALITY TEXAS STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF ANTI-TRA...
Daily Cartoonist

8 Pages of Iridescent Polychromous Effulgence - 125 years ago Hearst’s New York Journal promoted the first issue of the American Humorist – “8 full pages of color that make the kaleidoscope pale with env...
Second Nexus

NSFW Video From NJ Democrats Throws GOP Gov Nominee's Support for Swearing Ban Back in His Face - Conservative politicians frequently slam Democrats for supposed efforts to limit free speech, but a new ad from the New Jersey Democratic State Committee...
Dissident Voice

The Age of Chatham House and the British Roots of NATO - With the expulsion of half of Russian’s diplomatic delegation to NATO, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitry Peskov stated that “NATO is not an inst...
Vox

What to know about the latest fight over Trump’s executive privilege claims - [image: Steve Bannon and two others exit the Manhattan Federal Court on August 20, 2020.] Former White House strategist Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan F...
Talking Points Memo

Twitter Users Torch RonJohn After He Quips That He ‘Prays For’ Dem ‘Gridlock’ On Reconciliation - Bipartisanship, who? As Democrats continue negotiations on their sweeping reconciliation package that centrist senators are putting up a fight over,...
The Progressive Wing

10.17-18 Open Thread - Well, as the old saying goes: better late than never. 😊 The Nest is Open and ready for the Night Owls to get crackin’. 🦉☮️👍
The AltWorld

Does the Anglo-US AUKUS Alliance Seriously Challenge China? - All recent wargaming simulations show that the US – with or without AUKUS – would lose a […] The post Does the Anglo-US AUKUS Alliance Seriously Challeng...
Due Dissidence

Why the Capitalist Class Got Caught Off Guard by The Current Wave of Labor Strikes - by Keaton Weiss “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Washington or Moscow: Decision-Time for Erdogan in Northern Syria - Continued US support for Kurdish militants is taking its toll on US-Turkish relations. Turkey's President Erdogan may finally have to choose between an Ame...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is PaulT with a response to a complaint about vaccinations: You're free to avoid doing somethin...
Latino Rebels

Analysis: Sympathy for Indians Stuck in Visa Backlog - A community of Indian immigrants is living in something akin to immigration purgatory due to a visa backlog. This group of over a million is not undocument...
Dandelion Salad

The Council of All Beings, by Rivera Sun - by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad October 17, 2021 Winds of Change is the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy by Rivera Sun. It’s a wild tale of resis...
Futurism

Scientists Use AI, 3D Printing to Uncover Hidden Picasso Painting - Fine Art(ificial Intelligence) Despite dying 48 years ago, Pablo Picasso is still dropping new art. Such is the case with a “new” painting scientists dis...
Claytoonz

Tucker Loves The Fetus, Hates The Child - Forget seeing Jon Gruden’s emails for a minute. I want to Tucker Carlson’s emails. I mean, if this guy is flagrantly exhibiting his hate and homophobia to ...
Alternet

School board candidate’s unrepentant antisemitism seems to be a plus for Idaho Republicans - Most of us are old enough to remember when Republicans eager to court the evangelical Christian vote would recoil in (not entirely genuine) horror at any...
Ballot Access News

Maine Libertarian State Representative Op-Ed on the Libertarian Approach to Mandatory Vaccine Rules - Maine Representative John Andrews, who switched from the Republican Party to the Libertarian Party in December 2020, has this op-ed explaining the Libertar...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 17, 2021 - [image: Story 493379740] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 17, 2021 *Strategic Political Economy* “You lost. Stop acting like you won” [Wh...
Democracy Chronicles

Benefits of Diversity: experiences from teaching - "I’ve seen through my work with students from many walks of life, how quickly stalemates dissolve when new voices enter the conversation".
Reading the Pictures

The Taliban, A Pair of Skis, and Seeing What We Think We Know - Seen as wildly provocative on social media, photos of Taliban fighters in the Norwegian Embassy after the fall of Kabul say as much about visual bias. Th...
Undernews

- *Students Complete Eurotrip in Solar-Powered Van They Built and Designed* *[image: Stella Vita, a solar-powered recreational vehicle.] *
Stinque

Ten Happy Things to Think About Instead of Everything Else - 1. Candy corn! 2. Piles of leaves! 3. That toy you loved that nobody remembers because they weren’t kids between 1966-1975! 4. Airplane jammies! 5. Free ...
First Draft

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with Random Ruminations – Hot Mix in the Summertime edition - One more dip into Wacoville, I think Before I left for Dallas, my day job (for the City Of Waco Street Department) was driving/operating 20-ton dump trucks...
The Daily Poster

Call Their Bluff Right Now - It’s time for Democratic leaders to make Manchin, Sinena and every other senator vote — and not on some gutted half measure, but on a real $3.5 trillion bill.
The Root

Cellphone Video Captured a Louisiana Sheriff's Deputy Violently Slamming a Black Woman's Head Against Pavement - A sheriff’s deputy in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana was caught on video as he held a Black woman by her hair and slammed her to the ground multiple times. ...
Popular Resistance

Venezuelan Government Envoy Alex Saab Extradited To The United States - Venezuelan government envoy Alex Saab has been extradited to the United States from Cape Verde, where he had been imprisoned since 2020. The extradition ...
Buzzflash

Critical Race Fury: The School Board Wars Are Getting Nasty in Texas - Texas Monthly
Ring of Fire

Papantonio Spotlights The Horrid Business Of Human Trafficking In New Book - Click here to order Mike Papantonio’s new book, “Inhuman Trafficking.” The post Papantonio Spotlights The Horrid Business Of Human Trafficking In New Boo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

State Fair Photo of the Day: 10/17, That’s All Folks - Today, October 17, is the final day of the State Fair of Texas. You’re going to want to get out there and experience and Jason Janik’s photo of the lit-u...
Unlimited Hangout

COVID-19 and Central Bank Digital Slavery with John Titus - Episode page for COVID-19 and Central Bank Digital Slavery with John Titus.
Common Dreams

Mondaire Jones Warns Against Watering Down Human Infrastructure Proposals - The New York Democrat is advocating universal programs, not means-tested ones, for programs in the Build Back Better plan.
Glasstire

Glasstire and Christina Rees to Part Ways - Today Glasstire is announcing that the publication and its longtime Editor-in-Chief, Christina Rees, have parted ways. Rees was a freelance writer for Gl...
Lawfare

Why Right-Wing Extremists Love the Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski's off-grid cabin near Lincoln, Montana, is cordoned off by the FBI after his arrest in April 1996. Photo credit: FBI/Public Domain Editor’s...
Texas Monthly

Meanwhile, in Texas: A Tyler Man Places in the USA Mullet Championships - Plus, a man sues a restaurant for allowing him to get “too drunk.” The post Meanwhile, in Texas: A Tyler Man Places in the USA Mullet Championships appea...
Scheerpost.com

How to Save the World From a Climate Armageddon - If Beijing and Washington can’t reach some kind of serious agreement, we, our children, and our grandchildren are in trouble deep. We face a future all-too...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Democracy's Boundaries' Toons - Please support the work of editorial cartoonists here. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange br...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump's ‘Big Lie’ Is on the Ballot by Way of Delusional GOP Candidates Anxious for His Endorsement -
The Intercept

The John Deere Strike Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop - The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide. The post The John Deere Strike Shows the T...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Saint Guilhem-le-Désert - [image: Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert]
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - “Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers” Awards Dinner Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian BobbyK for ek hornbeck
San Antonio Current

All the people we saw having spooky fun at San Antonio's Burton Ball -
Infidel753

Link round-up for 17 October 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Can you unscramble the words? Oh. Many typos escape correction. Make th...
See You In 2020

What will anti-colonial socialist revolution look like? - To find what an anti-colonial socialist revolution will look like on the continent the colonists have named “North America,” one first has to ask what it...
ArcaMax

A Zen Koan on Columbus Day - It’s too easy, right? Too simple — shoving Christopher Columbus off the historical honor roll, pulling down his statues, yanking his “day” away from him an...
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Riffs On NFL Fallout From Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden’s Resignation - Saturday Night Live opened with a riff on Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s resignation following the disclosure of homophobic, misogynistic and racist emails, us...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"A Century Ago, One Lawmaker Went After the Most Powerful Cops in Texas. Then They Went After Him," by Tim Murphy MOTHER JONES - *This is one of two pieces that I'm posting today on the ignominious Texas Rangers that Hollywood and popular culture have glorified despite a history of...
Bracing Views

Support Our Troops — But How? - W.J. Astore Today I saw a “support our troops” magnetic ribbon on a pickup truck. I used to see more of them, especially in the Bush/Cheney years of the A...
Seeing the Forest

Lies vs Democracy - This post first appeared at Imagine Democracy. Well-funded lies are very effective. The tobacco companies proved that with well-funded propaganda lies (a.k...
CultureMap Houston

Massive new Vegas-styled EaDo nightclub towers over week's top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. Massive new nightclub splashes into EaDo for Halloween weekend. T...
The Militant

Kellogg strike is in the interest of all workers! - MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just after midnight Oct. 4 nearly 300 members of Local 252G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Perryman: (Somewhat) Friendlier Skies - Air travel was one of the hardest hit industries when the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shutdowns occurred in the spring of 2020. Things are lookin...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Crisis In Ethiopia: Breaking Through the Propaganda, w/ Eugene Puryear - The U.S. and EU have accused Ethiopia of every atrocity imaginable and now they’re preparing sanctions. The Ethiopian government insists that it’s legitima...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well, I was born to have adventure - "Two and Autumn" is from the Colors Fall collection. I can't keep up with Manchin and Sinema's current reasons for what to do with reconciliation. Atrios:...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 11 - 15 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. There are a couple of signs that the inflationary surge may be at or just...
Progressive.org

COVID-19 Is Leading to Higher Global Maternal Mortality Rates - Coronavirus-related deaths are increasing among unvaccinated pregnant people and it’s likely due to misinformation and a lack of access to health care serv...
ROAR Magazine

Countering the UK’s counter-terror industrial complex - Connecting counter-terror policing and surveillance to the question of policing at large is a vital step in advancing struggles against police and state vi...
Duffel Blog

Point/Counterpoint: Here’s a list of resources for your military family vs don’t have a family, it’s a huge pain in our ass - Seems like a pretty even argument.
Daily Howler

New York City meets Lake Wobegon! - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021* *With Anchorage, Alaska thrown in:* In fairness to Garrison Keillor, he meant it as a joke. It was a joke he created for a ...
ProPublica

Three Children Attacked a Black Woman. A Sheriff’s Deputy Arrived — and Beat Her More. - by Richard A. Webster, WRKF and WWNO ] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WRKF and WWNO, and it was...
Bud Kennedy

A Texas Republican tells all, blames Dan Patrick, money group for push to far right - The mild-mannered Tarrant County judge is speaking out again, this time about what has gone so very wrong for both Republicans and Texas. And he’s naming n...
epic.org

EPIC Urges Canadian Privacy Commissioner to Ban Facial Recognition - In comments on the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, EPIC urged the Commissioner to ban police use of facial recognition. EPIC's comments respo...
El Paso Matters

Despite efforts by El Paso lawmakers, anti-trans bill moves closer to becoming Texas law - Legislation barring transgender children from participating in K-12 public school sports on teams that align with their gender identity passed Friday eve...
Liberal America

It’s True: 45 Q Anon Supporters Are Running for Congress Next Year (Video) - There are some people out there who actually believe Democrats, the media, and government agencies are either inter-dimensional demons or psychic vampire...
Sludge

Manchin Got $400k From Fossil Fuel Industry in the Three Months Before Axing Clean Energy Program - Sen. Joe Manchin told the White House that he is strongly opposed to the Clean Electricity Performance Program, a major climate initiative of the reconcili...
Liberation News

Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID - After a serious rise in Cuba of illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 during the summer, there are encouraging developments with a steady recovery and downwar...
Workers World

Netflix: STOP promoting transphobia! - [image: Netflix: STOP promoting transphobia!] By Martha Grevatt and Monica Moorehead Oct. 15 – Dave Chappelle has been rightfully criticized for transphobi...
One People's Project

BOB GRANT (DECEASED) - NAME Robert Ciro Gigante A/K/A Bob Grant DOB 3/14/1929 DOD 12/21/2013 HOME BASE New Jersey AUDIO FILES Bob Grant and Angel Action Gear Bob Grant and Wolfpa...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Teach the Controversy - Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Tucker Carlson Mocks Pete Buttigieg’s Paternity Leave, Says He’s ‘Trying to Figure Out How to Breastfeed.’ David Neiwert @ Da...
The Texas Signal

Outspoken Republican Lyle Larson says he’s leaving Texas House - Throughout 2021, State Rep. Lyle Larson has done what he does best: Speak his mind. Known for bucking the Texas GOP’s top brass throughout the past several...
Texas Standard

This Texas pollster’s work impacted politics and media - Today, public opinion polls seem to be everywhere. But one of the early pollsters started off in the late 1930s at UT-Austin.
NORML

Virginia: Officials Seal Over 64,000 Misdemeanor Marijuana Distribution Convictions - 333,886 simple marijuana possession conviction records were previously sealed after the state enacted a measure in 2020 to decriminalize low-level mariju...
Mondoweiss

Palestinian workers in Israel to lose ‘Green Pass’ status - While Israel is expecting a six-month recoil in coronavirus cases after administering a third, or booster, COVID-19 vaccine that has plummeted new infectio...
Border/Lines

Administration moves to restart MPP and ends expanded expedited removal—10-15-21 - Immigration news, in context
Eater Houston

Where to Watch the Houston Astros Take On the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS - [image: A spread of chili dogs, a bucket of canned beers, and some colorful layered shots on a table inside a sports bar.] Monkey’s Tail and other Houston...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Mastercard’s New Policy Violates Sex Workers’ Rights - Mastercard’s new policy regulating adult content sellers goes into effect today. This is bad news for many sex workers, whose safety and livelihoods depe...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Myanmar’s False Claim of Cooperation Toward Peace - Myanmar’s junta has only backtracked on support for a regional plan to end bloodshed and avert a humanitarian crisis.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *Pure charm.* *• *Maybe sometime I’ll see that new Dave Chappelle special but the last one he did in 2019, as I wrote at the time, was more interesting...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Australian Raven - Congrats to the people of Australia on this top-notch corvid. The post Bird of the Week: Australian Raven appeared first on Discourse Blog .
Capital & Main

The Aftermath of The Huntington Beach Oil Spill - *Video by Christian Monterrosa shows the massive job cleanup crews have on the Southern California shoreline.* The post The Aftermath of The Huntington B...
Duck of Minerva

Are we misinterpreting UAE foreign policy? - Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic advisor to the UAE, recently spoke to an international conference on the UAE’s desire to smooth over tensions with Turkey and I...
In These Times

The People the Left Lost to the Anti-Abortion Movement - After Roe, the Church and the Right outmaneuvered us for the moral high ground. - Writing in 1976, three years after the landmark* Roe v. Wade* decision, ITT columnist Roberta Lynch covered the anti-abortion movement as it ballooned in...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Local News Is Vanishing. What Does That Mean For American Politics? - Elaine Godfrey, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast to discuss her recent article about what happened when a local p...
Trivial Knot

Logic puzzles, overexplained - By “logic puzzle”, I don’t just mean puzzles involving logic, but rather a specific genre of puzzles, whose most famous types are Sudoku and Picross. There...
Edinburg Politics

Former McAllen Mayor Jim Darling and DHR Health Vice President Roberto Haddad at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 18, 2021 – through Futuro RGV Facebook – to provide legislative analyses of the eight proposed Texas constitutional amendments - Texas voters have approved 507 amendments to the state Constitution since its adoption in 1876, according to the Legislative Reference Library, according t...
The Contributor

Corporate Greed the 'Real Culprit Behind Rising Prices,' Researchers Say - News Image: "The more sway mega-corporations have over our economy, the more power they have to gouge customers, squeeze Main Street, and exploit workers....
Rewire

Abortion Access One Month After Texas Ban Goes Into Effect - Since Texas SB 8 went into effect on September 1, abortion access has been in chaos for Texans—and for patients and providers in surrounding states. The...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Underreporting undermines accountability about police and schools - Public Integrity’s recent report, “When schools call police on kids,” showed that nearly 230,000 students were referred to law enforcement across the cou...
Democracy Now!

"Long March for Justice" Underway Across New Jersey to Demand Police Reform, Reparations - We get an update from New Jersey, where the People's Organization for Progress is leading a 67-mile march to demand the state Legislature pass legislation ...
Space City Weather

Strong front on tap for later today, with a breezy influx of drier air to follow - Good morning. A strong cold front remains on track for Houston later this afternoon and evening, which will bring a few sunny days and much drier and coole...
The Conversation

Tsarnaev Supreme Court appeal: Do unbiased jurors exist in an age of social media? - Is it possible to find an unbiased juror in the age of ubiquitous social media and internet use? That’s the question for the Supreme Court in an appeal by ...
DeSmogBlog

Tory Climate Policies are ‘Socialist’ Says New Head of Policy at Influential Westminster Think Tank - An influential think tank with close ties to MPs has hired a head of policy who called the government’s climate policies “socialist” and likened proposed...
Debunking Christianity

Accidental Scripture, Inferior Preaching - *The dubious choice of a crazy person as apostle* Come on now, be honest, if your neighbor announced that he is heading off on a business trip “because ...
Lowering the Bar

Hopefully There Will Be No Winners in Lawsuit Against Psychic - If you want a joke about "predicting the outcome," you will have to write your own. Related Stories - Dead People Still Having Trouble Proving...
Land Destroyer

US Marines on Taiwan: Major Provocation, But Not News - *October 15, 2021 *(Brian Berletic - NEO) - When the Wall Street Journal reported recently that US special forces and Marines have been secretly based in...
slacktivist

How come I can’t see you in my mirror? - Notes on Tonio K., Bruce Cockburn, Amy Grant, and the Devil's music.
Living Blue in Texas

Chase West, Candidate For The Texas House, On Redistricting - The post Chase West, Candidate For The Texas House, On Redistricting appeared first on Living Blue In Texas.
Texas Observer

Border Patrol Ignored Migrants’ Pleas for Medical Help - This story was produced in collaboration with Public Health Watch. The names of migrants in this story have been changed to protect their identities. Af...
MintPress News

How Feminists Can Support Afghan Women Living Under the Taliban - When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations...
Krebs on Security

Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability - On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education we...
LareDOS

City hosts ribbon cutting for Estela Quintanilla Crime Prevention Center - She was a leader and an advocate for many in need
Environment Texas

Electrify UPS: A zero emission shipping strategy - Morgan Folger Director, Destination: Zero Carbon (203) 343-1736 Contact person by email - Read more about Morgan Folger Thursday, October 14, 2021 ...
Political Garbage Chute

Greene Vows to ‘Never Rest’ Until She Finds Who Dropped a House On Her Sister’s Head - WASHINGTON, D.C. — This morning, freshman Congresshorse Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) received some heartbreaking news. Her sister was killed last night ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Honoring a Longtime Conservationist - Sierra Club Recognizes Save Buffalo Bayou Founding President Awards Dinner Saturday, Oct. 16, in Austin Oct. 13, 2021 The Lone Star Chapter of The Sierra C...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Five Questions About Virginia’s Tight Gubernatorial Race - Dear Readers: Join us next Tuesday at 4 p.m. eastern for “Moon Rovers, Boots on Mars, and Exploring the Cosmos: A Conversation on the Politics of Space” wi...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

A detoxed heterodox praxis to lead authentic diversification and decolonisation of economics - The mission of D-Econ (Diversifying and Decolonising Economics) is to promote inclusivity within the content and institutions of the economics discipline...
Ecosophia

The Doctrine of High Magic: Chapter 5 - 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...
Robert Reich

[For more analysis and commentary, please join me at... - *[For more analysis and commentary, please join me at robertreich.substack.com]* The General Strike of 2021 On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported th...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘No Jesus Piece’ By Snotty Nose Rez Kids - The following was originally published at Ongoing History of Protest Music. The Canadian Indigenous hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids recently released “N...
Dissent Magazine

Free Abortion Across Borders - Following Mexico’s Supreme Court ruling to decriminalize abortion, feminists in the country continue to help people access care. Their work can serve as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How An Attempted Coup Becomes A Successful Coup - Like all things Trump, the former president’s video was equal parts absurd and disturbing. On what should have been veteran Ashli Babbitt’s thirty-sixth bi...
Black Agenda Report

U.S. Imperialism in Africa with Abayomi Azikiwe - U.S. Imperialism in Africa with Abayomi Azikiwe bareditors Wed, 10/13/2021 - 09:50 Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
Socialist Alternative

Nabisco Strike Shows Potential for Rank-and-File Militancy - Chicago Socialist Alternative members joined BCTGM strikers on the picket line at Nabisco/Mondelez South side bakery throughout their grueling month-long s...
Project Censored

Anti-Social Media: Can Our Already Volatile Political Culture Transcend a Facebook World? - In the aftermath of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress, Mickey and his guests look at the ongoing issues of social media’s soc...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Among Active-Duty Military and Veterans Remains a Clear and Present Danger - An Oct. 13 congressional hearing by the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on “Violent Domestic Extremist Groups and the Recruitment of Veterans” will highligh...
Texans For Public Justice

TPJ & Commission Shift Release 2nd 'Captive Agency' Report - The second in a series of reports called Captive Agency exposes deep conflicts among Texas Railroad Commissioners. The latest report reveals that two th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Great New Normal Purge - So, the Great New Normal Purge has begun … right on cue, right by the numbers. As we “paranoid conspiracy theorists” have been warning would happen for the...
Bayou Brief

Corpus Precori: The Peculiar Custom of Petitioning the Dead - What do a 12-year-old leukemia victim from rural Cajun country and an 80-year-old urban socialite from New Orleans, born nearly 150 years apart, have in co...
Idavox

‘World’s Darkest White Supremacist’ Michelle Malkin to Speak at American Renaissance Conference - Y’know, we have been calling Michelle Malkin the Worlds Darkest White Supremacist for almost twenty... The post ‘World’s Darkest White Supremacist’ Miche...
Truthdig

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Media Myth Alert

‘Such was Cronkite’s influence’ - The Boston Herald published an odd commentary the other day, one that scoffed at core elements of the media myth of the “Cronkite Moment” of 1968 while rep...
Pages of Victory

No Leaders of Power - We of the left have no leaders of power. Our push for social and political change has been cordoned off. The ones who could have made it work sold us ou...
Field Negro

"Catastrophic failure" in Rutherford County, Tennessee. - For those of you wondering why it's important to teach critical race theory in higher institutions of learning (notice I wrote in *higher institutions o...
Reveal

Help Us Investigate Domestic Violence Shootings - [image: An illustration shows a detail of a gun. In the trigger, a man and a woman are arguing.] We’re trying to get a more accurate picture of how many p...
Washington Babylon

What a Shocker! Once Praised Government Officials and Cronies in Afghanistan Turned Out to Be Money Sponges - [image: What a Shocker! Once Praised Government Officials and Cronies in Afghanistan Turned Out to Be Money Sponges] *Yahoo News* has a great story this mo...
Greg Palast

Roger Waters: Hey, Judge, Leave Donziger Alone - Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame attended the trial and persecution of Steven Donziger, the human rights lawyer who defended the Cofan indigenous people of ...
Independent Political Report

Henry Wallace: The Original #DemExit-er - [image: Black-and-white image of the head and shoulders of man about fifty with upswept hair, wearing a gray suit and a dark tie] On this day 133 years a...
Free & Equal

Christina Tobin Discusses Overcoming the Two Party Duopoly on Ground Zero W/ Clyde Lewis - The post Christina Tobin Discusses Overcoming the Two Party Duopoly on Ground Zero W/ Clyde Lewis appeared first on Free & Equal.
ExChristian.Net

The Great Grab Bag: Religious Diversity and Its Implications - *By Barrett Evans ~ * There’s no subject on which there is more difference of opinion among both the learned and the ignorant. But in this medley of conf...
The Mind Unleashed

3 Ways Consumerism and Social Media Are Killing the Value of Friendship - Most of us are aware of the adverse effects that consumerism and social media have on our lives. Distorted self-image, an unhealthy need for social accepta...
Innocence Project

20 Recent Justice Reform Measures to Celebrate - Last weekend marked the eighth International Wrongful Conviction Day. This year, the occasion, organized by the Innocence Network, was centered on the th...
BEYONDbones

Autumn Intermission | October 2021 Sky Happenings - Venus remains in the evening sky this month. Venus outshines everything except the Sun and the Moon, so it is unmistakably low in the southwest at dusk. ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2021 - Walmart had another eight shootings in the month of September 2021, which is tied for the lowest they've had all year; however, this is still higher tha...
The Socialist

Democracy And Nation Building - Rajiv Gandhi : "We have cherished our democracy. Democracy is our strength. We have no illusions that all problems have been resolved. But the democratic w...
Web of Debt

A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past - Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage. Lack of fresh water is now a global cr...
GreenSource DFW

Afghan immigrant family in Plano gets help going solar - *Abdullah Abed, center, and his family in Plano received a free solar installation with help from Plano Solar Co-Op and Habitat for Humanity. Photo court...
The Rag Blog

Alice Embree : IN MEMORIAM | Recent passages: JoAnn Mulert, Pat Cramer, Gregg Barrios, and Steve Russell - Sometimes they happen in quick succession. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 30, 2021 Sometimes the passages happen in such quick succession. This...
Earthworks

Governor Wolf has an oil and gas problem. - One need look no further than the fifth iteration of Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Plan released last week to find proof of Governor Wolf’s dangerous rel...
The Reality-Based Community

How Jason presumably approach protagonist creature - It was no easy feat for 2018’s Halloween to fix the series, with the movie undoing the lore established by a string of sequels and retconning everything th...
New Progressive Alliance

Fair Winds and Following Seas… - Jeff Roby recently passed away. He wrote and maintained the Green Party of Florida website and wrote many insightful articles over the years giving the b...
Moron Majority

Cyber Ninjas Hires Bill Barr To Summarize Arizona Audit Report - In an effort to stem the confusion surrounding the release of its Arizona audit report, Cyber Ninjas has hired former Trump Attorney General, William Barr,...
Grits for Breakfast

More police won't help with Austin's biggest public-safety threats - Let's talk for a moment about public safety in Austin. The argument for Prop A - the GOP-backed initiative to force the city of Austin to hire 500+ more po...
WhoWhatWhy

Is Canada Becoming More Like Its Neighbor to the South? - Canadian Conservatives showed US conservatives how to accept defeat, but there was something familiar about this week's election.
Media Lens

Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media - During last week’s Tory Cabinet reshuffle, ITV political editor Robert Peston inadvertently summed up the primary function of political journalists: ‘I sim...
CT's short stories and novelettes

THE BALLAD OF BILLY BONES - He called himself Billy Bones. He said it was after a character in a movie. Because he felt like a marooned pirate in the jungle camps, same a...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinder Marsha Jackson - Marsha 2.0
Eclectablog

It rivals the New Deal – with special guest David Dayen - David Dayen on Twitter: @DDayen The American Prospect on Twitter: @TheProspect David Dayen at The American Prospect: Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s S...
DBC Green

Right of Way: a Non-Review - Cover photo of Angie Schmitt's "Right of Way" from IslandPress This October 2019 article from Houston Public Media distills the message of Angie Schmitt's ...
Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Southeast Texas Record

Judge Gallagher shocked the defendant, literally - A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a tri...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Just to let readers of Lou’s Blog know: Lou made arrangements for WordPress to host this site as a Premium blog up till May 2022. After that time, Unrepent...
WAWG Blog

The Darkness of Plagues – Dawn of Better Societies - Now we are in a forth plague that could “bend the arch of history” and “upend core economy structures." We can do better than capitalism. Continue readin...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
nonsite.org

The Whole Country is the Reichstag - A crucial characteristic of the current situation is that the antagonism between the pragmatic and the visionary that liberals have often used as a cudgel ...
News Junkie

Forget Wars on Covid and Terror: War on Climate Collapse Is the Only War of Necessity for Human Survival - Mythology of humans’ natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, fina...
Green Pages News

Lisa Savage Campaign Shows How Ranked-Choice Voting Changes the Landscape for Greens - By Dave Schwab, Communications Director for Lisa Savage for US Senate 2020 Overall, 2020 was perhaps the toughest year for US Greens yet. After four years ...
Dorf on Law

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

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Campaign for America's Future

First We Celebrate, Then We Fight - July 15th is a day every American should celebrate. That’s when families began to receive direct payments of as much as $300 per child, payments they’ll no...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Texas Freedom Network

The 2021 Legislature and Winning the Future - A special session of the Texas Legislature got underway on July 8. Why Gov. Abbott felt the need to call for a special session has a lot to do with what ...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Texas Freezes Over -
Modern Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

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

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

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

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

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