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You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

It took me many years of trying to finally come to that conclusion

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The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

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The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

McKinsey Is Under Criminal Investigation for Its Opioid Work (New York Times) - New York Times: *McKinsey Is Under Criminal Investigation for Its Opioid Work* — Federal prosecutors are examining the consulting company's role in hel...
Raw Story

Trump lawyer no longer representing ex-president's aide after clients became 'adversarial' - A key member of Donald Trump's legal defense team has reportedly dropped one of the former president's associates, Boris Epshteyn, as a client as it beca...
Mediaite

Israeli Government Minister Endorses Trump on Day Biden Signs Aid Package for Israel: ‘Vote for Trump and Republicans’ - “If I were an American citizen with the right to vote, I’d vote for Trump and Republicans.” The post Israeli Government Minister Endorses Trump on Day Bid...
Al Jazeera English

US far-right outlet Gateway Pundit declares bankruptcy - Website announces bankruptcy amid multiple defamation lawsuits related to 2020 presidential election.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Netanyahu labels US student protests ‘antisemitic’ and calls for them to end - Israeli prime minister terms pro-ceasefire rallies ‘horrific’ as students demand universities divest from weapons makers The Israeli prime minister Benja...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
The Hill

Columbia must send the pro-Hamas protestors a clear message - A lack of true consequences and inconsistent enforcement of policies will only continue to embolden anti-Israel students to harass their Jewish classmates ...
Popular Resistance

Russians Advisors Arrive In Niger; Masses Demand Immediate Withdrawal Of Pentagon Troops - On Saturday April 13, thousands of people gathered in Niamey, the capital of the West African state of Niger, demanding the dismantling of the United Sta...
Salon.com

Trump's sons will head up the transition team's effort to find loyal government officials - Don Jr.'s goal "is to keep the John Boltons of the world outside a second Trump administration"
Daily Dot

‘I brought my own knife set’: Food service worker says she was fired before she even started training - [image: woman speaking in car (l) worker cooking burger on grill (c) woman speaking in car ( (r)] Hunting for a new job can be miserable even under the b...
The Week

Cicada-geddon: the fungus that controls insects like 'zombies' - Expert says bugs will develop 'hypersexualisation' despite their genitals falling off
Ballot Access News

National Association of Secretaries of State Revises its Compilation of Ballot Access Laws for President - The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) has a compilation of ballot access laws that affect presidential elections. It was revised recently...
World Socialist Web Site

Inhumane conditions in Tegel arrival centre, Germany’s largest refugee camp - Conditions in Berlin’s so-called “Ukraine Arrival Centre TXL” are intolerable. In early March, one of the large tents being used even stood in flames.
Mother Jones

Mike Johnson’s Visit to Columbia Wasn’t a Hit - When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) emerged onto the steps of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon, he was greeted with a ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Spreading lies about 2020 election leads to bankruptcy for anti-LGBTQ site The Gateway Pundit - Jim Hoft Far be it from me to celebrate in someone's misfortune, but when an anti-LGBTQ publication is having serious problems, it's party time. From ...
Courthouse News

Biden and Trump both unpopular with voters: Pew - A new Pew Research survey shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in the presidential race by a hair's breadth, but voters have little confidence in either.
Alternet

Trump allies indicted in Arizona: report - Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and ex-Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani are among a group of 18 individuals indicted Wednesday by an Ariz...
The Daily Poster

SIROTA’S SIGNALS: Trump Could Get New Powers — With Dems’ Help - If bipartisan legislation passes and Trump wins, he’ll have new power to punish nonprofits he deems to be “terrorist supporting.”
Axios

Tester's campaign against his own party - Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), in the fight for his political life, is leaning on bucking his own party and President Biden to keep his Senate seat. *Why it ...
Election Law Blog

“Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case” - As a follow-up to my previous post on this development, the N.Y. Times is now reporting that Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those indicted: “They we...
The Verge

Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI - [image: An image of the Meta logo.] Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don’t expect it to create pro...
Mediagazer

Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX, and other assets to a new company, Uproxx Studios, formed by Jarret Myer, Rich Antoniello, and will.i.am (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide) - Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: *Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX, and other assets to a new company, Uproxx Studios, formed by Jarre...
Political Wire

‘Fake Electors’ Charged with State Crimes in Arizona - “A state grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday indicted so-called ‘fake electors’ who backed then-President Donald Trump in 2020, following a sprawling invest...
El Paso Matters

Meet the Democratic candidates for constable in Precinct 1 in Primary Runoff - Frank Almada and Andre “Andi” Baca face off in the March 5 Democratic Primary Runoff Election. The post Meet the Democratic candidates for constable in ...
San Antonio Report

Students allege free speech violations at UTSA march for Palestine - [image: Pro-Palestinian protestors calling for a ceasefire in Gaza march through the outdoor corridors of the University of Texas at San Antonio on Wednesd...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Kremlin deploys propaganda outlets to whitewash Wagner’s footprints in the Sahel - The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russi...
Reform Austin

Texas Grid Will Face Unprecedented Demand By 2030, Is ERCOT Ready? - The Texas power grid will face unprecedented demand for electricity by 2030, thanks to a growing number of industrial energy users in the state. This cou...
NPR's Health Shots

What consumers should know about the milk testing positive for bird flu - Federal officials and scientific experts say the virus detected in retail milk samples may be inactive and unable to cause an infection.
Crooked Media

Scranton Joe vs. Park Ave Trump - The post Scranton Joe vs. Park Ave Trump appeared first on Crooked Media.
Houston Public Media

Rice University students take part in nationwide Pro-Palestinian protests - Protestors at both universities are taking part in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for boycotts against companies that s...
Techdirt.

Universal Music’s Copyright Claim: 99 Problems And Fair Use Ain’t One - Welp, sometimes you gotta read Techdirt fast, or you just might miss something. And sometimes it’s because Universal Music is acting to silence creativity ...
Texas Monthly

The Story: Reporting on the Rise and Fall of Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ - Writer Sarah Hepola spent eighteen months on this story and discusses how Navarro cheer coach Monica Aldama has been “pushed beyond reason.”
Slate

Tom Cotton’s Bloodthirsty Call to Arms Against Protesters - There are no illusions left about what the senator really wants.
San Antonio Current

Protesters say UTSA restricted their speech at march calling for Gaza ceasefire - During a Wednesday afternoon protest at the University of Texas at San Antonio calling for a Gaza ceasefire, organizers were forced to halt chants several...
Futurism

Three Top Tesla Execs Have Resigned Over the Past Few Weeks - Bye Bye Baby Over the course of less than two weeks, three of Tesla's top executives have resigned — and one announced his exit during an earnings call. ...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
Second Nexus

Evangelical Pastor Shames Congregation Over Trump's 'Blasphemous' Bible In Angry Rant - At least one Evangelical Christian pastor has had enough of Christian nationalism and the church of Trump. Pastor Loran Livingston—senior pastor of the ...
Capital & Main

An Author Reflects on the Effort to Rebuild L.A. After the ‘Violent Spring’ of 1992 -
The Root

Cardi B Just Gave A Very Hot Take on Gay People and Homosexuality. Does She Have a Point? - *Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and rape.* Read more...
slacktivist

You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above - Why political disputes between Good Hearted evangelicals get so nasty and personal. Plus: A semi-pro story, and what to do if you're ever in Ocean Grove, NJ.
WhoWhatWhy

Pennsylvania Primary Spells Trouble for Trump - In the Pennsylvania primary, suburban Republicans voted in droves for Nikki Haley, who suspended her campaign seven weeks ago. That could foreshadow a real...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Easiest Job In The World - Rep. Tracey Mann is the latest member of Congress to appear on Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht’s podcast. Speaking of Feucht, TPUSA’s Al...
Wolf Street

Biggest Landlords Pile into “Build-to-Rent” Single-Family Houses, but Sell Older Houses into this Overpriced Market - American Homes 4 Rent and Invitation Homes sold over 3,000 older single-family houses in 2023.
ProPublica

Atlanta Movie Studio Executive Apologizes After Sending Racist, Antisemitic Texts - by Nicole Carr, ProPublica, and Mike Jordan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign...
Antiwar.com

Killing the Constitution - In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement of the nation’s repor...
SCOTUSblog

Richard Bernstein on the impact of Jan. 6 at the court - [image: Richard Bernstein on the impact of Jan. 6 at the court]In this video, Nate Mowry interviews attorney Richard Bernstein. Bernstein filed “friend o...
OpEd News

For the ant that drowned - When I went to finish the last few Brussel sprouts / I saw the ant struggling
Rewire

Will the Supreme Court Slam the Door Shut on Pregnant ER Patients? - The conservative justices unsurprisingly seem like they will. The post Will the Supreme Court Slam the Door Shut on Pregnant ER Patients? appeared first ...
Novara Media

The U.N. & E.U. Demand Inquiry Into Gaza Mass Graves - Following the discovery of new mass graves in Gaza since the start of April, The U.N. human rights commissioner has now called for a full investigation. Pl...
Environment Texas

EPA report says pesticides endanger wildlife - An EPA report found that commonly used pesticides are threatening 80% of the country’s endangered species. The post EPA report says pesticides endanger w...
Texas Standard

Smokehouse Creek wildfire victims line up lawsuits against utility - Xcel Energy is facing multiple class action lawsuits due to fire damage.
Vox

Challengers forces us to ask: Is tennis sexy? - [image: Three people sitting on the edge of a bed talking.] Mike Faist, Zendaya, and Josh O’Connor in *Challengers*. | Challengers/Amazon MGM Studios An...
Portside

The UAW’s Victory Can Serve as a Model - The UAW’s Victory Can Serve as a Model Ray Wed, 04/24/2024 - 15:17
Ring of Fire

Dems Refuse To Remove Corrupt Bob Menendez & New Book Slams Rural Voters As Threat To Democracy - Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was hit with even more indictments for his corruption, but Democrats in the Senate don’t think it’s a good idea to kick h...
First Draft

David’s Peckermony Top Ten List - David Pecker took the day off. Adrastos did not.
Daily Howler

AFTERNOON: The silliest, stupidest, smuttiest child! - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024* *But also, Fox & Friends conquers Wisconsin:* It's very, very hard to believe the culture change which has been engineered un...
Mondoweiss

Morehouse College, get on the right side of history, rescind your invitation to President Biden - [image: Joe Biden speaking in 2019. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)]Faculty members are calling on Morehouse College to rescind its invitation to Joe Biden t...
Angry Bear

In addition to housing, manufacturing is range-bound as well - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog First off, let me reiterate that my focus this year is on manufacturing and construction. That’s because these a...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/24/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler ~
Grist

The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute - A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident.
The Intercept

“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias - The Department of Education is probing claims that the school discriminated against Palestinian and Arab students amid Israel’s war on Gaza. The post “Ki...
Church and State

Are Religious Dictatorships a Good Idea? - The addiction to religious fantasy and delusion in Catholicism – which erupt in worship and ritual – is alarming.
The AltWorld

Justice (sic) Department Conspired with Biden, FBI, National Archives, and NY Times to Concoct a “Documents Case” against Trump - The absence of integrity in the US Department of Justice (sic) is one of the many unremarked […] The post Justice (sic) Department Conspired with Biden, ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

White Nationalist Conference To Host Immigration News Aggregator With Ties to Mainstream Conservatives - An immigration news aggregator website making inroads with mainstream conservative outlets for its reporting on border issues is pushing bigoted conspiracy...
DeSmogBlog

Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret - DeSmog writer Justin Nobel’s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden radioactive waste. The post Big Oil’s Dang...
Claytoonz

MAGA Enquirer - There have been a lot of pecker jokes going around with David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, testifying in the Trump hush-money trial. ...
Glasstire

¿Por qué no hay artistas de Texas en la Bienal del Whitney este año? - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés ...
MintPress News

Shockwaves to Shattered Defenses: The Myth of Israeli Supremacy Crumbles - By attacking the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Netanyahu sought to escape the inevitable reality of a bitter military failure and to restore Israel’s il...
American Prospect

Plaintiff Trying to Reverse Noncompete Ban Is Trump’s Tax Adviser - G. Brint Ryan has advised Trump on tax policy. His company is dedicated to ‘liberating our clients from the burden of being overtaxed.’
Southeast Texas Record

Daspit Law Firm sues former client seeking fees from plant explosion suit - HOUSTON - A Houston law firm has filed suit against a former client seeking fees from litigation brought over a plant explosion. Read more…
LareDOS

La India Packing Company celebrates 100-year milestone on Sat., April 27 - Public invited to open air market, music, sampling from Tasting Room Café’s menu
Political Garbage Chute

You Can’t Call Me an “Incel” If I Fuck My Cybertruck - The following editorial was written and submitted by right-wing author and 2020 Trump Campaign spokesperson Dustin Pewpsin, who also served as Elon Musk’...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: April 24, 2024 - A rating change in Pennsylvania's House races, and some uncertain signals from the finalized California House top-two primary results The post Notes on t...
Undernews

Cars - *EcoWatch*- In its new Global EV Outlook 2024, the International Energy Agency said electric vehicle sales will reach 17 million this year — up from 14 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Roundtable discussion at Anzalduas Bridge about transportation infrastructure – Part One - Key stakeholders met at Anzalduas International Bridge to discuss the movement of truck traffic in Hidalgo County. Here are video interviews with state S...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Feds Must Change ‘Discriminatory’ Marijuana Testing Policies To Address Trucking Industry Labor Shortage - [image: thc drug testing][image: thc drug testing]More than 150,000 licensed drivers have left the profession in recent years because of these zero-toler...
Common Dreams

Supreme Court to Determine Whether Politicians Can Deny Emergency Medical Care to Pregnant People - The Supreme Court will hear oral argument later today in *Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States*, a case brought by extreme politicians seeking to dis...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: Comic Stamps and Funny Money - A couple Sundays ago we noted Bob Weber, Jr.’s use of Lucky Bucks and crediting Paul Fung. We also linked to Mark Johnson’s thoughts on the origins of such...
Dissident Voice

The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News - It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make...
Democracy Chronicles

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Bonddad

In addition to housing, manufacturing is range-bound as well - -* by New Deal democrat* First off, let me reiterate that my focus this year is on manufacturing and construction. That’s because these are the two ...
The Conversation

When the Supreme Court said it’s important to move quickly in key presidential cases like Trump’s immunity claim - In 1974, the Supreme Court accepted, heard and decided a case within two months because the justices understood its importance to the public.
Texas Observer

An Unwinnable Drug War - I was born and raised in Mexico and lived at the Texas-Mexico border for eight years. As a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, now the U...
Ecosophia

April 2024 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Now!

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of "Destroying Cuban Economy" Drives Migration - We speak with Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, about high-level U.S.-Cuban migration talks held last week in Washingt...
Space City Weather

Houston to warm up, and taking a deeper look at this weekend’s winds and rain for the MS 150 bike ride - In brief: Houston will see continued warm weather, with windy conditions beginning Thursday and persisting through the weekend. Starting Sunday we’ll start...
The Smirking Chimp

Uncharted Territory: Trump’s Secret Service Detail May Follow Him to Prison if Convicted -
ArcaMax

A Light in the House: Farewell to a Senate Friend - "Every single member (will) vote their conscience." Conscience, did you say? House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) words cut cleanly through the House of Re...
Earth 911

Ecoolair: Two High Schoolers Trying To Make A Difference - Ewaste remains a massive problem. We’re two high school students who launched Ecoolair, a solar-powered... The post Ecoolair: Two High Schoolers Trying T...
Off The Kuff

Supreme Court puts temporary pause on Uplift Harris - Welp. The Supreme Court of Texas has temporarily blocked Harris County’s new guaranteed income program, Uplift Harris, after two lower courts denied Attorn...
Scheerpost.com

Edward Said Warned Against Anti-Palestinian McCarthyism - Said’s legacy reads today as a scathing condemnation of the hypocrisy of U.S. liberal institutions, their moral corruption, and the hollowness of the very ...
High Country News

Are the Great Salt Lake scientists alright? - A Q&A with Great Salt Lake Institute Director Bonnie Baxter on studying a dying lake. The post Are the Great Salt Lake scientists alright? appeared firs...
See You In 2020

Zionists show their desperation by using leftist cancel culture tactics, which render an ideology isolated - Many are pointing to the hypocrisy of how the Zionists, despite their movement being led by the right wing, have been utilizing the same cancellation r...
Rallblog

Silent Spring Has Arrived - Numerous studies are now documenting how natural soundscapes are changing, being disrupted and falling silent. A 2021 study in the journal Nature of 200,...
The NM Political Report

Progressives going after incumbents in hot Democratic primaries - By Justin Horwath, NM In Depth It’s a safe bet Democrats will barrel into 2025 with their supremacy intact at the New Mexico Legislature. Barring an unex...
Ian Welsh

French Troops Have Been Forced To Withdraw From Three African Sahel Countries In the Last Two Years - [image: French Troops Have Been Forced To Withdraw From Three African Sahel Countries In the Last Two Years] France has been forced to withdraw its troops...
jobsanger

Trial Making Trump Smaller, More Decrepit, And Pathetic -
Informed Comment

No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American campuses are being roiled by student and faculty protests against the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which the...
Counterpunch

BREAKING: In Win for Community, Forest Defenders Stop Old Growth Logging After Three Week Blockade - BREAKING: In win for community, forest defenders stop old growth logging after a three-week blockade WOLF CREEK, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management (BL...
Brad Blog

'Election Fraud, Pure and Simple': 'BradCast' 4/23/2024 - During opening statements in the disgraced former President's ongoing criminal trial, prosecutors argued the scheme surrounding his hush-money payments to ...
Discourse

Fighting Genocide Through Needlework - An interview with Lina Barkawi, a Palestinian embroidery artist, on opposing the war on Gaza and challenging the world's biggest embroidery company.
Workers World

U.S. student encampments demand: Divest from Israeli apartheid! - [image: U.S. student encampments demand: Divest from Israeli apartheid!] April 22 – The global struggle in solidarity with the Palestinians against the hor...
Liberation News

Two, three, many Gaza encampments: Veteran of 1968 Columbia strike speaks out - [image: Demonstration in defense of the Columbia strike, 1968. (Image released under CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28812092)] Th...
Project Censored

The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda - In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the decli...
Deadline Politics

FTC Passes Ban On Non-Compete Clauses In Employee Contracts - A sweeping new Federal Trade Commission rule will prohibit companies nation from including non-compete agreements in contracts with employees. The new rule...
Progressive.org

Why Farmers Are Standing Up Against Free Trade - Farmers around the world are going to the streets to call for decent incomes that would help their families and local economies.
Bracing Views

Enabling Genocide Is OK, Hush Money Not OK - W.J. Astore What a country! I’m already drowning in mainstream media coverage of Trump’s trial for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and hiding it under ...
Eater Houston

Turkey Leg Hut Co-Founder Lyndell Price Charged in Connection With Bar Fight - [image: An image of Lynn Price with HPD officers] Lyndell “Lynn” Price was charged with misdemeanor assault in connection to a February bar fight | Turkey...
Sludge

Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban - A new disclosure reveals Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor...
Robert Reich

The Case Against RFK Jr.RFK Junior is not who you think he is.It... - *The Case Against RFK Jr.* RFK Junior is not who you think he is. It pains me to say it, but he is a dangerous nutcase. He claims to want to heal Americ...
Earthworks

Bolivian Government Must Respect the Autonomy of Indigenous Communities - Disponible en español a continuación The Bolivian government has promised that its mining industry will operate with transparency, credibility, and … Th...
Texas Watch

In the News: Texas car insurance premiums are soaring. Here's what's behind the spike — and what you can do - Madison Iszler, staff writer for the *San Antonio-Express News*, recently investigated the sky-high increase in auto insurance premiums in Texas. Accordi...
Moron Majority

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The Texas Signal

The Supreme Court Will Determine What Is Emergency Care For Pregnant Patients - Last week the Associated Press detailed several shocking examples of pregnant patients being turned away from emergency centers in states with abortion b...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 23 April 2024 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. (For the link round-up, click here.) I found these two images together in an image round...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well I knew there was gonna' be trouble, when I heard that callin' - I've just discovered the art of Laurent Parcelier and I love to look at it. "The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Building Bridges Amid Book Bans Capitol Summit by Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) on April 21-22, 2024 [video] - *Friends,* *View here.* *So happy to share this Instagram video by youth organization, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) headed by Cameron Samuels...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | First, they came for abortion, now they’ve come for in vitro fertilization - Alabama Supreme Court. Photo by Jeffrey Reed / Creative Commons By Michael Meeropol | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2024 The following is an expanded version of...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court Declined a Protestors' Rights Case. Here's What You Need to Know. - The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case, *Mckesson v. Doe*, that could have affirmed that the First Amendment protects protest organizers from...
CultureMap Houston

Houston dazzles as No. 1 most diverse large city in U.S., report says - Living in a multicultural city comes with many benefits. Diverse communities bring new perspectives, greater versatility, and economic boosts, to name a f...
Krebs on Security

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme - The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for ac...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Value Par Excellence: Money versus Real Values - The Past & Present Reading Group is discussing, in the first half of 2024, Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. This work is often considered a crucial read to grasp ...
The Progressive Wing

April 21-24 News Roundup and Open Threads - Let’s get the ball rolling for this week. Here in the Hudson Valley, we are passing from daffodil time to tulip time and from magnolia time to dogwood time...
Socialist Alternative

Despite Dire Warnings, Environment Is Secondary To Profit Under Capitalism - Every day the news cycle is flush with grim warnings from renowned scientists telling us that we urgently need to change course to avoid the most deadly im...
Debunking Christianity

David Hume's Argument against Miracles Cannot Be Disputed. I Prove It Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt! - The title to this post echoes the certainty of David Hume, known as the greatest English speaking philosopher. He said: I flatter myself, that I have dis...
Dos Centavos

Early Voting Begins for May 4 Election - In case you didn’t know, we have two elections in May. While the Democratic Primary run-offs will be decided later this month, today is the first day of EA...
Progressives Chat

Harry Belafonte Was Correct - Calypso singer, actor, and civil rights activist *Harry Belafonte* (March 1, 1927–April 25, 2023) died one year ago this week. He was 96. I retrieved ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

How to protect your community from the toxic lead lurking in soil - [image: Ruben, 2, plays hide and seek in his front yard. He is surrounded by dirt on the ground and trash bins.] Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

#DemocratsDeliver - Been out of town for a while, been sick for a while, finally getting my tired old ass to the drawing table again. So, I’d been noticing this #DemocratsDeli...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Bourbon Talk Political Q&A Livestream TONIGHT at 8pm Eastern - Hey everyone, just a head’s up: I’m doing a livestream tonight at 8pm Eastern here: April 21st, 2024 Bourbon Talk Livestream. I’ve been getting a lot of me...
The Reality-Based Community

Man United ra giá ‘trên trời’ để bán Marcus Rashford - Manchester United đang gây bất ngờ cho giới mộ điệu khi quyết định niêm yết mức giá 100 triệu Bảng cho Marcus Rashford, tiền đạo đang có phong độ thất th...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: crossroads - [image: Pézenas cross]
The Militant

SWP campaigns to win ballot status in New Jersey - BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself as a refuge for Jews, and the importance to the working class everywhere of the fight again...
Greg Palast

When Kyle Rittenhouse Came to Kent StateThe young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy. - [April 16, 2024: Kent, OH] Kyle Rittenhouse, spoke on April 16 at an event sponsored by the right wing organization Turning Points USA (TPUSA) held at ... ...
Skeptophilia

In the dark - Dear Readers: After today's post, I'm going to be taking a long-overdue break from *Skeptophilia*. My intent -- lord willin' an' the creek don't rise, as ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOU-PROBLEM EDITION. - *Went down a K hole the other night.* I have said more than once that the *New York Post* is Rupert Murdoch’s primary stateside lie-diffuser – more than ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 - 21:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
The Grayzone

UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed - The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inf...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #499 - TFTC #499.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg - Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book *Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals*.
Edinburg Politics

Border security, stopping use of deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence by child predators, further cutting property taxes, and broadband infrastructure among legislative issues to be examined by Sen. Hinojosa and other state senators in the coming weeks and months - Improving border security, stopping child predators from using deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence to harm or exploit minors, further cutting ...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: It’s All About Caring, Fatsos - This is one of those “I’m almost transcribing, but people will think I’m making it up” cartoons. I have a bad habit of searching social media to see what p...
Seeing the Forest

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come - [image: A photo illustration overlays a map of Israel and Gaza with images from the region, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] Research on World Wa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
Idavox

A Change in Tactics? - The Black Bloc has been seen en masse at protests across the United States for...
Bud Kennedy

Texas Republicans want to punish abortion like baby-killing. Prison for women, or death | Opinion - Does Texas’ 2021 abortion law need to be “straightened out”? Then why would Donald Trump say that about Arizona’s law? Texas’ staunchly anti-abortion Repub...
Duck of Minerva

Sebastian Kaempf - Professor Sebastian Kaempf of the University of Queensland joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast this week. Seb grew up in Germany, with the fall of the Berlin...
Free & Equal

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...
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 ...
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...
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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