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— 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

Al Jazeera English

Life Before Land - Distant weather warnings are now full-on alerts in Bangladesh as it faces the brutal effect of climate change.
memeorandum

Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine (CNN) - CNN: *Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine* — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law an aid package...
Mediagazer

President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) - Lauren Feiner / The Verge: *President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed...
Eschaton

Lunch - eat
The Hill

Princeton students plan pro-Palestinian encampment: Report - Students at Princeton University are preparing to set up a pro-Palestine encampment, mimicking other schools across the country, according to records obtai...
Vox

What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about - [image: Pro-Palestinian protesters holding a sign that says “Liberated Zone” in New York.] Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images The Columbia protests and...
Mediaite

Ex-Trump Lawyer Says ‘Compelling’ Pecker Doing ‘Very Good Job’ Setting Table For Trump Hush Money Trial - Tim Parlatore told CNN that former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker has done a "very good job" setting the table with his testimony against Trump...
Political Wire

Trump Is Co-Conspirator in Michigan Fake Electors Plot - “Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming...
Axios

How tight labor markets fuel a productivity surge - One of the most important questions for the economy in 2024 is whether the surge in worker productivity that occurred in 2023 will prove to be both real a...
Futurism

NASA Releases Incredible Video of Reflective Lava Lake on Jupiter's Hellish Moon - Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io...
Daily Dot

‘Let’s talk raises. Let’s talk more bonuses’: Tech company’s all-hands meeting goes great. Then 85% of staffers get laid off - [image: young woman with captions "so today has been fun" (l) "85 to 90% of my company has been laid off" (c) "it's a fun time to be in tech" (r)] A tech...
Daily Howler

ELECTION: Is the case against Trump "an historic embarrassment?" - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024* *Or is it extremely strong?* Incomparably, your Daily Howler keeps churning out results. She appeared today at 6:03 a.m. Her...
Houston Public Media

Political Roundup: Supreme Court considers presidential immunity - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday regarding whether former Pres. Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution related to ...
The Root

What?? Kanye West Looking to Launch His Own Porn Brand With The Help of One Infamous Adult Star - No one could have predicted Kanye West possibly starting his own porn brand in 2024, but these are the cards we have been dealt. TMZ has reported that th...
Election Law Blog

“A secret pact at Trump Tower helped kill bad stories in 2016” - This Washington Post summary of yesterday’s testimony highlights how the prosecution is attempting to turn a potential federal campaign finance violation...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake? | Adrian Chiles - Just because we find a political leader ludicrous, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous There’s something I heard that I can’t get out of my mind. It’...
The Week

DOJ settles with Nassar victims for $138M - The settlement includes 139 sexual abuse victims of the former USA Gymnastics doctor
Raw Story

‘I’m kind of shocked’: Amy Coney Barrett backs up Sonia Sotomayor in abortion case - Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett appeared to briefly take the side of liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor on abortion rights Wednesday. ...
Alternet

Ex-prosecutor: SCOTUS delay in deciding Trump immunity is 'corrosive' to democracy - The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is due to hear oral arguments on former President Donald Trump's claims of absolute broad presidential im...
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
Right Wing Watch

MAGA Challenger Backed by Christian Nationalist Tim Barton Fails to Unseat Leading Pennsylvania Republican - Right Wing Watch reported last month that Tim Barton, a national religious-right figure who follows in his father’s footsteps as a dispenser of false Chr...
Texas Standard

‘Absentee’ apartment owners, red light runners top Arlington City Council candidates’ platforms - Arlington voters will decide four city council seats, with two focused on north and southwest Arlington, during early voting April 22-30 and election day M...
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...
The Verge

Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it - [image: Photo collage of the TikTok logo over a photograph of the US Capitol building.] Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images President Joe...
WhoWhatWhy

Monitoring a ‘Sea of Trucks’ in Chicago - Activists found more than 5,000 trucks and buses passing through a single neighborhood in a day.
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 ...
Courthouse News

With public education under threat, Argentines flood streets in historic march - Ultra-right libertarian President Javier Milei's steep budget cuts led public university officials to predict they can only keep operating for two or three...
Salon.com

Trump falsely claims police are preventing "thousands" of people from protesting his trial - Donald Trump claimed that police turned away "thousands" of supporters, even though the street is open to traffic
Mondoweiss

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the ‘liquidation of all untruths’ - [image: Screenshot from video of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at Jerusalem District Court. (Photo: Ahmad Darawsheh X Account)]Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio-raised Jorgeous competing on new season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars - San Antonio-raised drag performer Jorgeous is among the eight queens competing on Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, according to details released ...
Mother Jones

The GOP’s Grand Plan: Minority Rule - It’s been said so often it’s almost become a cliché: Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy. But his authoritarian impulses and hate-encouraging...
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...
Southeast Texas Record

Daniela Albelo sues Isidro Mario Lopez for personal injuries due to alleged negligent driving - Daniela Albelo has filed a lawsuit against Isidro Mario Lopez in the District Court of Harris County, Texas. Read more…
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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SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, April 24 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, April 24]At 10 a.m. EDT, the justices will hear oral argument in Moyle v. U.S. Each weekday, we select a short li...
San Antonio Report

Zero-emission transportation has a bright future in Texas - [image: A Mustang Mach-E, one of Ford's electric vehicles charges at the only Electrify America station in Bexar County as the demand for high-speed charge...
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 ...
American Prospect

A Fix for Tesla’s Troubles? Paying Elon a Cool $56 Billion, Of Course. - Today on TAP: You were thinking they’d invest in better, more affordable cars?
naked capitalism

Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover - How the World Bank's IFC and others development banks supported KFC's world conquest by backing its factory farms.
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.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

The death of ‘Texas': What Russian media silence says about self-censorship - Russian media silence about the murky circumstances of Russell Bentley’s death exemplifies the effect of the Kremlin’s gag on criticizing the army. Russian...
Reform Austin

Will Texas Public Education Survive Greg Abbott? - Texas has a prolonged history with alternatives to public education. In the past, the push toward vouchers was because of racial segregation, but this ti...
El Paso Matters

Chamber letter prompts talks with TxDOT over state road funding for El Paso - “‘What is the one thing that the El Paso community needs?’ Let's go from there.” The post Chamber letter prompts talks with TxDOT over state road fundin...
First Draft

Republicans Don’t See Women - They just see harlots or baby incubators.
NPR's Health Shots

A woman with failing kidneys receives genetically modified pig organs - Surgeons transplanted a kidney and thymus gland from a gene-edited pig into a 54-year-old woman in an attempt to extend her life. It's the latest experimen...
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...
Texas Monthly

What the Bleep Is Going On With Texas Home Insurance? - We’re already dealing with high prices, high mortgage rates, and high property taxes. Now the state faces a new crisis.
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...
Rewire

I’m an ER Doctor. If the Supreme Court Upends EMTALA, Patients Will Die. - Thanks to EMTALA, emergency room doctors are trained to treat life-threatening pregnancy-related emergencies. That treatment needs to include an abortion...
World Socialist Web Site

Mobilize workers against the French police state’s ban on opposition to the Gaza genocide! - The Parti de l’égalité socialiste condemns police prosecutions of union officials and members of the France Unbowed party over their statements in solidari...
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...
Techdirt.

Grindr Hit By UK Lawsuit For Reckless Sale Of Sensitive User Data - We’ve noted repeatedly how the mass hyperventilation about TikTok is a giant distraction from the country’s broader failures on consumer privacy; namely ou...
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...
Slate

*Shōgun*’s Ambiguous Ending, Explained by Its Creators - Toranaga and Blackthorne turn toward a new life—and a new world.
Angry Bear

Manipulating Supply Chains and Manufacturing, for Corporate Influence and Profit . . . Redux - It is getting serious now. Kroger is willing to sell off more stores in order to consolidate with Albertsons. The one thing we keep on seeing is the mani...
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...
The Intercept

Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives Is Sending the Middle East Into the Abyss - The U.S. dedication to Israel’s war of annihilation has created a tornado of instability and danger. The post Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives I...
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 ...
DeSmogBlog

UK Accused of ‘Helping Russia’ as Refined Oil Imports From ‘Laundering’ Countries Remain at Record High - The UK has been accused of “helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine” by continuing to import record amounts of refined oil from countries processing Kr...
ProPublica

10 Times as Much of This Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your Tomatoes and Celery Under a New EPA Proposal - by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Grist

As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive - “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
The AltWorld

The Maldives’ “Political Revolution” Proves That The Population Is No Longer Indian-Friendly - Despite being half a supercontinent apart and having completely different internal characteristics, the Maldives’ festering hatred towards […] The post T...
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...
Crooked Media

Gaza Protests Roil College Campuses - The post Gaza Protests Roil College Campuses appeared first on Crooked Media .
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...
Wolf Street

How It’ll Take Years to Clean Up the Office CRE Mess, with Losses Spread Far and Wide - The Manhattan office tower Blackstone had bought for $605 million in 2014 and walked away from 2 years ago finally changed hands for $200 million, which pa...
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...
Antiwar.com

The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point - The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Out of the fog of these war...
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 ...
Popular Resistance

Iran’s Strategic Patience Is Spent - By all accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t U.S. ‘shock and awe’ but it was massive, sophisticated and dazzlingly th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Blacks for Trump' make a rap video and it's the most bullsh!tiest bullsh!t of any bullsh!t you've ever seen. - Nothing says respect to Black voters like a half- naked female gyrating during a music video. At least in the eyes of Donald Trump supporters. A while bac...
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...
Portside

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime? - Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime? Judy Tue, 04/23/2024 - 19:39
slacktivist

The ‘progressive evangelical’ two-step - "Progressive" evangelicals have a less-than-noble history of "seeking common ground" by throwing other people under the bus.
Ballot Access News

Arizona Bill Limiting Petition Period for New Parties to Two Years, is Signed Into Law - O April 10, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed HB 2474, which says petitions to recognize a new party must be completed within two years.
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Accidentally Tells The Truth About Trump's Election Interference Crime—And People Are Cackling - With apologists like Jesse Watters, who needs accusers? That's a question former Republican President Donald Trump might need to ask after Watters explai...
OpEd News

Seriously Supreme Court-January 6th Not Obstruction? When Blocked Most Serious U.S. Proceeding, Verifying the President? - How can one contend that January 6 was not obstruction, when insurrectionists blocked the most serious official U.S proceeding, verifying the presidential ...
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...
Novara Media

Sunak Says Rwanda Policy “Compassionate” After Five Die in Channel - In the wake of the Rwanda bill passing its final parliamentary hurdle, five people have tragically died whilst crossing the channel. Plus: Pro-Palestinian ...
Claytoonz

Nom Nom Politics - If you’re going to dine on Trump, the finest chefs recommend marinating for 24 hours in ketchup and covfefe. While some may enjoy Trump with some fava bean...
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...
Church and State

Returning to Draconian Abortion Bans Doesn’t Make America Great - “When exactly was America great?”. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer: 1864.
Capital & Main

A Whole-Person Approach to Combating Homelessness - *An ambitious pilot program provides a myriad of resources to help participants achieve financial independence through stable employment.* The post A Who...
Ring of Fire

Lawmakers Invoke Communist China To Justify TikTok Ban & Arizona’s Governor Has A Spending Problem - Legislation is working its way through Congress that could result in the popular social media app TikTok being BANNED in the United States. Also, Arkansa...
Glasstire

Review: John Forse’s Exploration of Rough-and-Tumble Houston - Avoid Highways, the lovely and well-conceived show of paintings on view now at the West Loop HCC gallery, is in part described by its artist, John Forse,...
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...
Environment Texas

Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water - Biden initiative would protect many wetlands and rivers from pollution The post Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water appeare...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Everything Is Not OK in Oklahoma Public Schools - Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, faces national backlash as he continues to inject his extremist ideology into public school ...
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...
The Daily Poster

The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle - For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.
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 ...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged de Armas Fans Get Nothing in Misleading-Trailer Lawsuit - They also dodged an order requiring them to pay Universal's legal fees, unfortunately.
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...
MintPress News

A Tale of Two Genocides: Namibia’s Stand Against Israeli Aggression - Namibia's solidarity with Palestine underscores a broader shift in global politics, where shared histories pave the way for meaningful alliances against ...
The Grayzone

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Edinburg Politics

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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.
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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 ...
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Campaign for America's Future

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Web of Debt

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Reading the Pictures

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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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....
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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

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Equality Texas

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Land Destroyer

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Countercurrents

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nonsite.org

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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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.
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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.
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Eclectablog

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VICE

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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...
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BillMoyers.com

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The Contributor

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Liberal America

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Modern Democracy

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Popehat

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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...
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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."
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Brains and Eggs

Monday, November 05, 2007

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