Brains and Eggs: I'm a big fan

Friday, August 05, 2005

I'm a big fan

of "Operation Yellow Elelphant", the satire conceived by the General to encourage Young Republicans to enlist.

Maybe he can work on those DLC keyboard warriors also.

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A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
Texas Freedom Network

Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, A Faith Leader Built, Sustained, and Guided by Community - Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, the Co-Lead Minister at one of Just Texas’ Reproductive Freedom Congregations, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of ...
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
Robert Reich

Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?It’s a paradox. Inflation... - *Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?* It’s a paradox. Inflation is dropping but prices aren’t coming down. How can this be? Because corporations hav...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: April 2024 - Lots of articles to share this month. Health in the Ace Community (2021 Survey) | Ace Community Survey – Full disclosure: I’m sharing this because I’m a di...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? - Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I was a si...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2024 - Walmart had at least another sixteen shootings in March of 2024, including at least six causing one death each, and a total of at least seven more injur...
Media Lens

‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media - A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up t...
GreenSource DFW

Eclipse watch parties pop up across DFW - *NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC....
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
The Disorder Of Things

Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair - A guest post from Nico Edwards. Nico is the author of the new World Peace Foundation report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Ec...
TalkLeft

State of the Union: Will Biden Resonate? - Americans have been dealt a hand with two candidates, neither of whom they particularly think should be President. Nonetheless, barring Trump being crimi...
Equality Texas

Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region - Title: Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region Organization: Equality Texas and Equality Texas Foundation Position Type: Full Tim...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas District Attorney, CCA races and the future of Texas criminal-justice reform - The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction ...
Land Destroyer

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It - *March 5, 2024* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are raising the alarm over Ukraine’s military manpower shortage and the ...
Moron Majority

The Only Book Donald Trump Has Ever Read -
Green Pages News

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Why Houston Floods, According to Flood Control - It Rains a Lot! What Can Flood Control Do? March 3, 2024 For years the Harris County Flood Control District has been giving public presentations that inclu...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Texas Watch

In the News: USAA members injured in car wrecks battling San Antonio insurer over medical payments - Texas Watch Executive Director Ware Wendell was quoted in *San Antonio Express-News* staff writer Patrick Danner's recent article on the struggle for US...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson - Dandelion Salad February 19, 2024 with Chris Hedges “Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he ...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West, w/ MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace - Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of t...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Stinque

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Border/Lines

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Two Party Opera

Drums of War - I live-streamed the process of making this comic, here is part 1: And part 2, the thrilling conclusion:
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
CT's short stories and novelettes

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Bayou Brief

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Modern Democracy

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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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...
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 - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
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...
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...
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 "...
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."
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 Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Truthout

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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