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A Brief Primer On Texas’ F*CKED Up Politics & Why It Matters To You

December 15, 2016 By Eleanor Goldfield 1 Comment

A conservative radio host that once claimed migrants bring leprosy and polio to our country and that God is speaking through “Duck Dynasty” now holds the most powerful office in Texas. And he wants to use that power to make the lives of struggling people like students, the transgendered, and undocumented immigrants even more miserable. He is Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and he’s this week’s Low Life Scum.

Whenever you talk about terrible things happening in Texas, people start to tune out. You’re thinking, of course it’s fucking awful, it’s Texas. Why don’t we let them secede already?

It’s true, Texas politics seem like what happens when you apply dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” as an instruction manual BUT everything that happens there is a test balloon. The University of Texas at Austin motto is “what starts here changes the world.” And with most states and the U.S. Congress united behind that shit stain Trump, you can bet we’ll all be eating the same shit-filled Texas chili soon enough.

The Texas government is full of low-life scum, but due to the peculiar whims of Texas politics, the Lt. Governor is a scumbag who stands above all the rest. The Lt. Governor is not just president of the state senate, but also sets the agenda for the entire legislative session.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: abortion, inequality, LGBT, Texas, TXlege, undocumented

Obama’s Reactionary Doctrine For American Exceptionalism

February 20, 2015 By Burkely Hermann 6 Comments

In his recent State of the Union, Obama made many bold statements which people have said were “progressive” and hopeful. These include: his support for paid sick leave for American workers, a pathetic increase of the minimum wage to $10.10, meant to hurt the ‘Fight for $15’ movement; a promise to veto legislation that overturns deficient Wall Street “reform;” support for “affordable” quality childcare; minimal raises in taxes for the wealthy, which isn’t nearly enough; sorta free community college [1]; supposedly protecting “a free and open Internet,” and so on.

Obama also made a number of ‘firsts’ by mentioning transgender and lesbian people in his State of the Union, claiming that the United States government protects them (oh really), which seems great but ignores the fact that not only is Obama “a born again” evangelical Christian, but he has, during his presidency, allowed federal money to fund groups that supported the anti-gay bill in Uganda and “conservative faith-based groups affiliated with the Family Research Council, anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers and an entire network of evangelical abstinence-only educators,” according to an exhaustive investigation in The Nation.

It is important to focus on other parts of the speech, often missed by other analysis, which emphasize American exceptionalism [3], including a section where he hypocritically criticizes Russia for actions that the US has done in the past:

Filed Under: Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, abortion, Affordable Care Act, Afghanistan, Africa, Alaska, alternative energy, American Conservative, American exceptionalism, American imperialism, Anonymous, anti-war, ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Barack Obama, Black Agenda Report, Brookings Institution, Canada, capitalism, Center for American Progress, childcare, class war, Climate change, Congress, Consortium News, Corporate America, CounterPunch, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, Daniel Larso, David Mizner, Democratic Party, economy, education, endless war, energy, Enrique Peña Nieto, Europe, Family Research Council, Fight For 15, fossil fuel, free trade, Gallup, gas, Glen Ford, hacktivism, Hillary Clinton, imperialism, inequality, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Jacobin, James Carden, James Risen, John F. Kennedy, John Podesta, Keystone XL North, KeystoneXL, Kshama Sawant, labor, LGBTQ, Martin Luther King Jr., MENA, Merryl Wyn Davies, Mexico, Michael Winship, Middle East, military contractors, minimum wage, mining, MLK, Mother Jones, NAFTA, National Petroleum Reserve, National Security Strategy, NATO, neoliberalism, Net Neutrality, nuclear, Obama, oceans, oil, Oliver Stone, Pentagon, poverty, Ralph Nader, Republican Party, Responsibility to Protect Principle, Rob Urie, Robert Perry, Russia, sanctions, Seattle, sick leave, Socialist Alternative, space, State Of The Union, Stephen Harper, Susan Rice, Syria, TAFTA, Taliban, taxes, terrorism, The Nation, The Untold History of the United States, Tim Shorrock, TISA, TPP, trade, trade deals, Trans Pacific Partnership, trans*, transgender, TTIP, Ukraine, unemployment, Vietnam War, Wall Street, War, Washington Post, weapons of mass destruction, Why Do People Hate America, WMDs, Xi Jinping, Ziauddin Sardar, Zoe Carpenter

Wendy Davis & The Politics of Abortion In Texas

October 13, 2014 By Kit O'Connell 2 Comments

Though state Sen. and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis recently went public with her own abortion story, some have accused her campaign of avoiding the issue which brought the Democrat to prominence. On her website, her platform emphasizes health care but doesn’t mention abortion.

Katie Klabusich, a journalist and activist, shared her thoughts on the politics of abortion: “What I’ve taken a lot of hope in over the last six months is the people leading the chapters of national organizations like NARAL Pro-Choice Texas.”

“They’ll go on air and say the word abortion like it’s breathing. It’s because they’re a younger leadership. “

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Health & Lifestyle Tagged With: abortion, Dallas, election 2014, feminism, FightBackTX, HB2, Katie Klabusich, LGBT, LGBTQ, Manny Duran, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, Oak Lawn, pro-choice, reproductive justice, Texas, Texas Omnibus Abortion Law, Wendy Davis

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