Brains and Eggs: Dueling styles

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Dueling styles

The incomparable Nick Anderson at the Houston Chronicle.

Another funny found on Facebook: Farouk Shami for Hair Care Commissioner.

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Spectator Writer Faces Backlash Over ‘Grotesque’ Article As Named Lecturer Speaks Out - The Spectator’s theatre critic Lloyd Evans is unapologetic after he sparked backlash online for an article in which he admitted to visiting a brothel fol...
Futurism

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles - Old Dog, New Tricks A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom. Per Nieman Labs...
Courthouse News

A curious incident on the subway - Ever been in a situation where you knew you were right and everyone else was wrong? It happened to me once, and I ain’t ashamed. Except maybe about the bel...
Rewire

Will SCOTUS Force ER Doctors to Abandon Patients Who Need Abortions? - With EMTALA before the Supreme Court, emergency abortion care is at stake. Here's what you need to know. The post Will SCOTUS Force ER Doctors to Abandon...
Vox

Are there really more things going wrong on airplanes? - [image: An orange metal platform stands in front of a plastic-covered hole in the side of a plane.] Plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area ...
Eschaton

Is That Good - How is the Kushner-Netanyahu-Biden-McGurk peace plan going? Israel has attacked Iran, US official tells CNN I am really hung up on Israeli officials runni...
The Texas Signal

The Art of Hurricane and Climate Change Trauma - There is something unsettlingly medical about Deborah Jack’s exhibition at the Houston Center of Photography. *Intertidal Imaginaries: The Resistant Geog...
The Verge

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - [image: Tesla Cybertruck outside] *Tesla isn’t aware of any collisions, injuries, or fatalities attributed to the defective pedals.* | Image: Parker Ortol...
The Week

Taylor Swift's surprise double album: an event of 'world-shaking proportions' - Fans are 'reeling' after The Tortured Poets Department is followed by The Anthology – 15 additional tracks
Salon.com

Trump is an "isolationist" who likes Russia and war crimes. What could go wrong? - Trump supporters like to claim he's a peacenik. He's a vicious reactionary who pals around with violent despots
Undernews

Record global warming - *Washington Post - *Fueled by decades of uncontrolled fossil fuel burning and an El Niño climate pattern that emerged last June, the planet this year bre...
Raw Story

Hospitals 'so scared' of GOP abortion laws that they're turning away pregnant patients - Emergency rooms have been turning away pregnant women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, despite federal mandates requiring a standard ...
memeorandum

Trump's Trial Is Already Wreaking Havoc on His Campaign (Jake Lahut/The Daily Beast) - Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast: *Trump's Trial Is Already Wreaking Havoc on His Campaign* — THE DEFENSE IS RESTLESS — The hush money trial was never go...
Political Wire

A Few Thoughts for the End of the Week - Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders. As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare: Join now to continue reading. Me...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Friday Frivolities - This Far Side sure seemed funny in 1984, but that was 40 years ago and times change. Also, it’s based on a janitor’s innocent error, not on the irresponsib...
Alternet

'It was painful': GOP senator pins blame on Trump for stymieing border fix - Centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) has been highly critical of MAGA Republicans in Congress who shot down a bipartisan border security deal that sh...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Afraid and Intimidated’: Trump Trial Juror Targeted by Fox News Dismissed -
Houston Public Media

Super Bowl ring lost in a pool of chili: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week - The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Rio Grande Guardian

Alvarez: We need to pay more attention to the border region’s transportation needs - Don't just look at the Texas Triangle and the big metro areas, argues TxDOT's Pharr District engineer. The post Alvarez: We need to pay more attention t...
The Daily Poster

LEVER TIME: Democrats Will Not Tolerate Dissent - As part of a revamped and expanded weekly podcast series, David Sirota explores how the DNC crushed 2024 primary challengers — and might have hurt Biden’s ...
Southeast Texas Record

STCL Houston’s Advocacy Program Ranks 6th in Nation, Moving Up Three Places for 2024-25 - South Texas College of Law Houston’s perennial powerhouse Advocacy Program ranked 6th in the nation among law schools, moving up three places in the 2024...
The Hill

Earth Day 2024: The clock is ticking as the planet takes a licking - The news of the day doesn’t make existential problems go away. We can spend the moral and financial capital now to save the environment or our children and...
Angry Bear

America’s Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just Too Bright - by Katherine Bindley Wall Street Journal AB: I have a partial subscription to WSJ which I keep on forgetting. This article popped up. I agree with the au...
Al Jazeera English

Ukraine says it shot down Russian strategic bomber after strike kills nine - Russian officials says the plane crashed over the southern Stavropol region due to a technical malfunction.
Novara Media

When Governments Fail, We Sail: Massive Aid Flotilla Prepares to Head for Gaza - [image: an activist holds a palestine flag against the railings of a ship]In Istanbul, a flotilla of ships is preparing to depart with 5,500 tonnes of aid ...
Axios

Why Jamie Dimon defends DEI when so many CEOs have gone silent - In his shareholder letter last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon actually talked about his bank's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, thoug...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘This is a violent attack against women’: Florida Senate candidate seeks to channel abortion outrage - Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is challenging incumbent Rick Scott and highlighting his ‘unapologetic and proud’ support for the state’s six-week ban A...
NPR's Health Shots

Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study - A new study finds that in news stories about scientific research, U.S. media were less likely to mention a scientist if they had an East Asian or African n...
WhoWhatWhy

Innovation Interrupted: ‘Technocapitalism’ and the Fight for Tech’s Soul - Tech has been hijacked by a select few, abandoning the common good for "Technocapitalism."
San Antonio Report

Where to get in on the Fiesta fun for free - [image: People kayak on the San Antonio River during the Mission Reach Flotilla Fiesta on Saturday.]Fiesta San Antonio — happening April 18-28 — brings tog...
The Intercept

Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens - The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban. The post Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court...
Daily Dot

Deplatformed: Biden’s mask off moment - [image: Back of Joe Biden's head(l+r), Front of Joe Biden(c)] *Deplatformed** is a weekly column that looks into the **nether reaches of the internet—**o...
naked capitalism

Links 4/19/2024 -
Environment Texas

Why Alaska’s NPR-A, site of the Willow Project, deserves protection - There’s a lot of important wildlife habitat in the area where the Willow project is located. In April, 2024 President Biden acted to protect it. The post...
The AltWorld

‘Israel Was Defeated’: The Collapse of its AI Algorithm-led Wonder-Weapon - Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham, has written a detailed, multiple-sourced detailing how the Israeli forces have marked tens […] The post ‘Israel Was De...
Skeptophilia

The titan - One thing science teaches us is that just about everything is interesting if you look at it carefully enough. Still, there's an ingrained human tendency...
Off The Kuff

Is Ted Cruz ever going to feel some pressure about abortion? - News item #1: Whatever happens in Arizona in November, we got a preview of the difficulty Republican candidates will have in states where high-stakes ballo...
Mother Jones

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Would End Trading in Water Futures - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With private investors poised to prof...
ProPublica

Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the Army - by Vianna Davila and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Davis Winkie, Military Times ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investig...
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than Mark Joseph Stern? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Scheerpost.com

Joseph Massad Responds to Fabrications and Lies About Him in Congress - By Ali Abunimah / The Electronic Intifada On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Educat...
American Prospect

Judges Are Letting Trump Run Amok In and Around Court - Here’s how they can stop him.
Mediagazer

A look at LinkedIn's Collaborative Articles, a collection of over 10M work-related Q&A articles, as many users claim the tips are low-quality and AI-generated (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) - Sharon Goldman / Fortune: *A look at LinkedIn's Collaborative Articles, a collection of over 10M work-related Q&A articles, as many users claim the tips ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick. - Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natur...
Grist

Taking Big Oil to court for ‘climate homicide’ isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds - Are fossil fuel companies guilty of actual murder?
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover - With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. But ...
The Root

14 Mothers Accused of Doing The Unthinkable to Their Children - Unfortunately, mothers committing crimes involving the neglect or murder of their children isn’t an oddity in the United States. Read more...
High Country News

These Washington nurses want their hospital to be more like Oregon - Nurses at PeaceHealth Southwest, in Vancouver, Washington, protest unsafe staffing and pay. The post These Washington nurses want their hospital to be m...
Crooked Media

So You Think You Can Be a Trump Juror? - The post So You Think You Can Be a Trump Juror? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Goldilocks Meets Civilian Death Toll - What causes a tipping point? At what point did Israel go too far in its wildly brutal bombing campaign against the civilian population of Gaza? Somewhere...
LareDOS

FAA hiring event at TAMIU Friday - Administration seeking to hire future air traffic controllers
Counterpunch

Wall Street Don Deals More Liar’s Poker - When last we checked in on Trump’s new media company, which has the full name of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and trades on Nasdaq under the mon...
See You In 2020

New “Israeli” attack on Iran will accelerate the U.S. empire’s demise, & further empower the globe’s illiberal forces - At the time that I’m writing this updated version of my latest essay, the “Israeli” settler state has just responded to Iran’s retaliatory strikes by c...
World Socialist Web Site

Biden administration tells Supreme Court: Providing immigrants with explanations about a visa denial is a threat to national security - The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in *State Department v. Muñoz*, one of the most important immigration cases in the recent period.
jobsanger

VP Harris Is The Administration's Voice On Abortion -
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Morning Tableau - Meow from Claire and Perry.
Workers World

Coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine ties up traffic in multiple cities - [image: Coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine ties up traffic in multiple cities] After over six months of a horrific U.S.-armed genocide in Gaza...
Informed Comment

Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire - Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long wanted war with Iran and has all along been tr...
Antiwar.com

Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution - “Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference… The Thought Police would get him just the same… the...
Techdirt.

UK Prosecutors Apologize For Pursuing BS Charges Against A Photographer - Cops hate being watched, no matter where they’re located. In the United States, we’ve seen several arrests and prosecutions of journalists and citizens for...
Brad Blog

Bad Climate News for Home and Car Owners; Good Labor News for Workers in the South: 'BradCast' 4/18/2024 - You may be happy to know we don't begin today's BradCast with news about the disgraced former President. But you may be less happy about what we do lead wi...
Popular Resistance

Resist Congressional Efforts To Silence Free Speech On Palestine - U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter on March 27 to officials at Rutger...
Dissident Voice

The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend! - The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant. No...
Progressive.org

Comment: Get Out the Vote, and Get to Work - The 2024 presidential election will determine the fate of American democracy. Voting is the bare minimum progressives can do.
El Paso Matters

EPISD investigation rejects claims of wage theft - An independent investigation found El Paso ISD gave speech language pathologists in the district the correct raises. The post EPISD investigation reject...
Portside

Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian - Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian jay Thu, 04/18/2024 - 18:54
slacktivist

Rural white MAGAs and what ‘Woke C.S. Lewis’ got wrong - We resent those we have wronged. We resent those we have harmed. We resent those we are harming.
San Antonio Current

Advocacy group takes out billboards critical of San Antonio's animal-welfare record - An animal-advocacy group critical of the City of San Antonio's Animal Care Services leased out two billboards this week urging Alamo City residents to spe...
CultureMap Houston

Houston airports soar with first-class awards in international rankings - Houston may be known for its museums, but that’s not the only place to enjoy works of art. Turns out anyone passing through one of the city’s airports sho...
Reform Austin

Johnson Vs. Cook: Houston’s Political Arena Heats Up - In a dramatic turn of events in the recent political debates of Houston, State Rep. Jarvis Johnson and emergency room nurse Molly Cook took center stage ...
Texas Monthly

The Story: The Mom Who Kidnapped a Kilgore Rangerette - Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Especially in the case of the dance-team mom who kidnapped a Kilgore Rangerette.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Delete Your Account - Chris Lehmann @ The Nation: The Trump Revival To a growing contingent of right-wing evangelical Christians, Donald Trump isn’t just an aspiring two-term ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Government Denies People Access to Asylum Because of Language Barriers. We're Fighting Back. - Every year, thousands of asylum seekers from diverse corners of the world seek refuge in the United States. Many — like Indigenous people from Latin Amer...
Texas Standard

Pesticides and produce: What fruits and vegetables to switch out or eat less of - Consumer Reports looked at seven years of data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the level of risk types of produce have from pesticide ...
Claytoonz

Sea Speaker Sink - I don’t get why Marjorie Taylor Greene has so much power in the House. It’s not like she’s a negotiator. She doesn’t sponsor significant legislation. She d...
Wolf Street

Home Sales Clobbered by Mortgage Rates. New Listings & Active Listings Surge. Most Price Reductions for any March in Years - Price reductions of existing homes jump to 31.7% of active listings, highest since 2017.
Second Nexus

Biden Campaign Keeps Trolling Trump For Falling Asleep In Court—And It's Everything - A campaign spokesperson for Democratic President Joe Biden mocked his challenger, former Republican President Donald Trump, and told him to "wake up" aft...
Ring of Fire

Dark Money Dems Fight Against Lowering Drug Prices - America’s Lawyer E94: Democrats in the House have given tons of money to a group that is fighting AGAINST their own agenda – we’ll explain why this is ha...
Daily Howler

Charlie Sykes has been using his words! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2024* *What humans are able to do: *He started out as a Democrat, then became a high-level conservative talk radio host. At this po...
Ballot Access News

Natural Law Party of Michigan Nominates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for President - On April 17, the Natural Law Party of Michigan, which is ballot-qualified, nominated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for president. The party has a tradition of no...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How It Should Be Done: Normalized Violence and Abuse and The World As It Is - Tom Cotton and others like him are now saying the quiet part loud.
Church and State

What causes overconsumption & overshoot? - Earth’s overshoot, overpopulation, and overconsumption are deeply rooted in human behavior.
Deadline Politics

Kennedy Family Members Endorse Joe Biden As Campaign Tries To Counter RFK Jr.’s Independent Bid - Joe Biden was joined by members of the Kennedy family in Philadelphia today to promote their endorsement of the president, a conspicuous rebuke of the inde...
Socialist Alternative

Everyone Watches Women’s Basketball - It’s been a historic winter for women’s basketball. The NCAA Women’s National Championship basketball game between South Carolina and Iowa was viewed by ov...
Project Censored

Ed-Tech’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Deficit: The Galactic Gulf Between Rhetoric and Action - “University of Florida Eliminates all DEI-Related Positions,” read a March 2, 2024, New York Times headline. The article documented how Florida’s decisio...
Mondoweiss

Appeal from Gaza journalists: Boycott the White House Correspondents’ dinner and stand with your colleagues in Gaza - [image: Palestinian journalists protest Israeli crimes against journalists in Gaza, in Deir al-Balah on February 26, 2024. (Photo: Ali Hamad/APA Images)]Pa...
Capital & Main

Critical Audit of California’s Efforts to Reduce Homelessness Has Silver Linings - *Despite transparency concerns, the state auditor’s report says two programs focusing on housing and preventing homelessness are cost-effective.* The po...
Election Law Blog

More tentative thoughts on the NJ case - Nick, following up on my initial post on this important new case, adds his own helpful analysis. My views continue to be very preliminary and tentative (...
Ian Welsh

Why I Rarely Care About The Events Of the Day - [image: Why I Rarely Care About The Events Of the Day] There are two forces in history. The first is weight. Or mass. Or trajectory. The unstoppable force...
Bracing Views

In Praise of TomDispatch - W.J. Astore Tom Engelhardt Is the Post-9/11 Generation’s I.F. Stone Today’s post has a simple goal: to praise TomDispatch, a regular, reliable, and highly ...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: State-level Marijuana Legalization Has Been A Stunning Success - [image: legalized marijuana signs][image: legalized marijuana signs]After a century of failed policies and “canna-bigotry,” the verdict is in. Legalizati...
Earthworks

The Cradle-to-Grave Impacts of Plastic on Human Health and the Environment Must be Considered in the Plastic Treaty Negotiations - Written by Jill Hunkler, who has witnessed the devastating impacts of the petrochemical industry in the Ohio River Valley, including … The post The Crad...
Glasstire

Is it Time for San Antonio’s Fiesta to Secede from San Jacinto? Part II - In Part 1 of this op ed, published in 2021 (and augmented in 2023), I argue that Fiesta, San Antonio’s largest public festival, should be decoupled from ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, April 18 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, April 18]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to ...
Bonddad

Initial jobless claimZzzzzzzzzz . . . . - * - by New Deal democrat* For the last 8 months, initial and continuing claims have been remarkably consistent. Initial claims have varied between 194,...
Discourse

Has Joe Biden Had a Facelift? - We want to know what you think.
Texas Observer

‘Forever Chemicals,’ Religion, and Family Tragedy in Texas - Editor’s Note: This excerpt is adapted from Loose of Earth: A Memoir (April 2024) with permission from University of Texas Press. The Environmental Prote...
Democracy Now!

Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power - New reporting indicates that the Biden administration has approved Israel’s plan to attack Rafah in exchange for Israel not launching counterstrikes on Ira...
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 Conversation

AI chatbots refuse to produce ‘controversial’ output − why that’s a free speech problem - AI chatbot makers’ restrictive use policies hinder people’s access to information.
Space City Weather

Showers likely this weekend, with heavy rain possible north of Houston - Summary: Houston faces a few more warm days before we get a brief reprieve from the heat and humidity starting on Sunday. We’re also watching for the poten...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the Martians attack - A short well-done animated tribute to HG Wells's novel *War of the Worlds*, shown partly from the Martian viewpoint.
ArcaMax

Did Legalized Abortion Lead to Lower Crime Rates? - Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that the legalizati...
Earth 911

Land and Sea Change for Earth Day, Expanding the Climate Change Narrative - Have you ever considered how our perspective of climate change might shift if we focused... The post Land and Sea Change for Earth Day, Expanding the Cli...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Where Trump’s Primary Showing Was (And Wasn’t) Especially Strong - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE —Though former President Donald Trump easily won most GOP primaries this year, some areas stood out to us. —By comparing how...
Common Dreams

Free Press Action Praises House Passage of Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act - On Wednesday, the House voted to advance the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (FANFSA), legislation that would restrict law enforcement and intellige...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Pro-Russia governor of Gagauzia falsely claims Moldovans don’t want to join EU - Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union.
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Told you so' moment regarding book ban is latest embarrassment for 'culture warrior' Ron DeSantis - Florida Gov Ron DeSantis While many eyes are on Donald Trump's trial, former presidential candidate FL Gov Ron DeSantis is facing another embarrassment ...
Crooked Timber

Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people - In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is generall...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

My Blog Is Ranked Number 5 Among The Top Education Blogs In Texas: Showing "My Flex" on this day of April 17, 2024 - * Friends,* *As you can view **for yourselves** here, I am very pleased to announce that my blog is ranked number 5 among the top education blogs in Texa...
Liberation News

The CIA overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the struggle against neo-colonialism in West Africa today - We can look to the case of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and prime minister, to understand some of the ways U.S. imperialism may potentially respo...
Eater Houston

Nixtamalization Takes Center Stage At West University’s Maximo - [image: An image of two tacos with various fillings.] Find barbacoa, fish, and sweet potato tempura tacos at Maximo in West University. | Julie Soefer Th...
Political Garbage Chute

Hillary Clinton Told Me She Has the Free Time to Be a Juror for Trump’s Trials - “…nothing would make me happier than to help make sure Donald Trump got the due process and trial he’s deserved his entire life.” Life is funny sometimes...
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 ...
Ecosophia

The Secret of the Sages - Two weeks ago we talked about the way that life throughout the modern industrial world has fallen into the grip of lenocracy—that is, a system in which pim...
OpEd News

Nuclear Arms Bros - "I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Kentucky Politician Clarifies ‘White Genocide’ Comments - Kentucky politician TJ Roberts said he planned to endorse a white nationalist’s political platform, according to newly obtained text from a 2017 conversati...
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
The Progressive Wing

April 16-19 Open Threads - Hey everyone! 🙂 Well, if the mediocre, for-profit MSM can be believed, we’re dodging that infamous nuke conflagration known as WWIII. At least for now, b...
Krebs on Security

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina? - For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking in...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Roma vs Milan lúc 02h00 ngày 19/4/2024 - Roma đang có thành tích rất tốt trên sân nhà. Họ hoàn toàn có đủ sự lì lợm để giành vé đi tiếp vào thắng kèo châu Á trước Milan. The post Nhận định soi k...
Sludge

AIPAC-Tied DMFI Raises More From Private Equity Execs - Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) super PAC brought in $418,000 in a new FEC filing, most of it given by a handful of private equity executives and inv...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Marxist Viewing of Dune: Part Two - The latest movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune, Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve, has set truly intergalactic box office re...
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...
Progressives Chat

More War! - This coming Saturday [April 20, 2024] marks the 25-year anniversary of the mass shootings and murders at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. It w...
Avedon's Sideshow

She fills her drawing book with line - All I know is it was identified as "Bobilo art" and I liked it. My favorite video from this eclipse is not of the sun itself, but of the pinhole camera ...
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...
Debunking Christianity

Has Counter-Apologetics Peaked? By Robert Conner - Everyone old enough to remember that day knows where they were and what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001, the day of madness that ma...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albania...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTI-CHOICE WITH A (REALLY BAD) EXPLANATION EDITION. - *Friend of mine alerted me. This is the kind of goofy shit I love.* Yeah, I missed last week’s edition. I offer no apologies. It’s been a long time betwe...
Lowering the Bar

O.J. Simpson Embarks on Long, Slow Bronco Ride Into Eternity - Although that's probably not where it will end up.
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 - 06:05 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
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...
Robert Reich

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

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

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The NM Political Report

Could business rooftops increase access to solar energy in low-income neighborhoods? - Amid the energy transition, researchers are looking for ways to ensure low-income communities are not left behind. Researchers from Stanford University ...
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.
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance would like for just one of the cases against the Former Guy to get a firm court date and stick with it as it brings you this...
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 Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS | POLICE AUDITORS | How police deny us our rights: A view from YouTube - By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2023 In 40 years as an attorney, I have encountered the police in many contexts. I have received three warning...
Greg Palast

Before Scorsese’s film, before Grann’s book, there was a poemElise Paschen reads Wi’-gi-e, the inspiration for Killers of the Flower Moon - Osage poet Elise Paschen reads "Wi’-gi-e", the poem which gave the title to the film and book, *Killers of the Flower Moon*. We filmed her special reading ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ve Vill Bury You! - Da, komrade, and then ve are takink kare of Moose and Sqvirrel! Oh, f’crissake, are they shittin’ us with this mess? Are they really that desperate to take...
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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