Brains and Eggs: 2014's Final Funnies

Sunday, December 28, 2014

2014's Final Funnies

"Of the many things I'm grateful for this year, I feel truly blessed that ISIS never got around to invading us from Mexico and spreading Ebola everywhere." -- Andy Borowitz

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Ex-judge puts Trump on notice that he is 'dancing on the line' with recent jury comments - How many strikes will New York Judge Juan Merchan permit until he turns the screws on defendant Donald Trump's suspected violation of a gag order? Ret. ...
Al Jazeera English

11,000 evacuated in northern Indonesia as Ruang volcano erupts - Authorities further extend exclusion zone after volcano sends ash and smoke more than two kilometres into the sky.
Mediaite

Lawrence O’Donnell Nukes Trump for ‘Juror Intimidation,’ Says Ex-President Is Telling Jury, ‘You Will Be Attacked’ - MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell opened Wednesday's edition of The Last Word by going hard at Donald Trump for what he said was the former president's intimida...
Political Wire

Biden Jabs Trump Over ‘Hush Money’ Trial - “With the slightest of jabs Wednesday, President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged former President Donald Trump’s ongoing criminal trial in New York for the...
The Hill

Israel ambassador to US says Israel 'will respond' to Iran strikes - The Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. said Wednesday that Israel must respond to Iranian strikes on the country, brushing off warnings from American leaders a...
Daily Dot

‘I paid $3.20 more than I should have’: Walmart customer blasts company for falsely advertising pack of chicken - [image: Walmart sign(l), Woman talking(c), Chicken label(r)] Rising grocery bills as a result of inflation have changed the way consumers shop. Customers...
Mediagazer

How Oscar winner RRR's success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix's US catalog, about 50% of which is now made up of non-English content (Russell Brandom/Rest of World) - Russell Brandom / Rest of World: *How Oscar winner RRR's success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix's US catalog, about 50% of which is ...
Popular Resistance

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 194: Palestinians Mark ‘Prisoners’ Day’ - The Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry announced that 56 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, while 89 others were ...
Ballot Access News

Catoosa County Republican Party Files Federal Lawsuit to Exclude Candidates from Primary Ballot - On April 5, the Catoosa County (Georgia) filed a federal lawsuit to keep certain candidates off the Republican primary ballot for County Commission. Catoos...
memeorandum

Trump gripes he can't reject 'unlimited' jurors in New York hush money trial (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC) - Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: *Trump gripes he can't reject ‘unlimited’ jurors in New York hush money trial* … Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to th...
World Socialist Web Site

Global pandemic agreement undermined by corporate interests - The proposed agreement has been repeatedly watered down based on considerations of corporate profit and national interests.
Alternet

'Working hard for Russia': MTG mocked over proposing US reps backing Ukraine aid fight in the war - US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is working hard against passing the bipartisan foreign aid package in support of Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggr...
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Suddenly Concerned About Over-Criminalization ... for J6 Insurrectionists: 'BradCast' 4/17/2024 - On today's BradCast: If only the corrupted U.S. Supreme Court cared as much about the exact words in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (the "Insurrectionist ...
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...
Salon.com

"Succession" star Brian Cox blasts Joaquin Phoenix’s “truly terrible” "Napoleon" - “I would have played it a lot better," Cox says
Courthouse News

Salmon advocates sue to defund hatcheries in the Lower Columbia River Basin - Conservationists say salmon hatcheries on the Columbia River are harming wild fish populations and the species that need them for food.
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 ...
The Week

Why au pairs might become a thing of the past - Brexit and wage ruling are threatening the 'mutually beneficial arrangement'
The Verge

Coding bootcamp Lambda School — now BloomTech — is finally getting punished - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2020, we wrote how coding bootcamp Lambda School seemed like a bit of a bait-and-switch. Four years later and ...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - The world’s best female golfers are in The Woodlands this weekend, competing for the LPGA’s Chevron Championship. On the concert front, New Wave legend Ad...
The Intercept

Columbia Suspended Two Students for Assault on Gaza Rally, School Says in Antisemitism Hearing - In congressional testimony, school administrators also said they are investigating pro-Israel and pro-Palestine professors. The post Columbia Suspended T...
Axios

GOP House speaker tenures shrink as caucus fractures - Data: house.gov; Chart: Rahul Mukherjee/Axios Mike Johnson's (R-La.) speakership is on the verge of becoming another casualty of bitter division within the...
Daily Cartoonist

Mini Morsels (More Midweek Miscellanea) - Signe Wilkinson, Anne Morse Hambrock, Zach Hansen, NCS Reubens, AAEC/ACC Conference, George, John, and Peter – the Gallaghers of Bergen County Signe Wilkin...
Futurism

NASA Admits Space Station Junk Crashed Through Man's Roof - Last month, a mysterious, 2-pound object crashed through the roof of Alexandro Otero's home in Naples, Florida, narrowly missing his son, who was sleep...
Southeast Texas Record

April 10: Harris County Civil Court docket for "other injury or damage" cases - The following cases categorized as "other injury or damage" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on April 10. All case details are allegat...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Los Angeles police officer who killed girl, 14, in department store will not face charges - Officer shot and killed both a man who was attacking customers and Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was hiding in a dressing room A Los Angeles police off...
Workers World

Hamas on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: A call for ‘liberation from occupation’s prisons’ - [image: Hamas on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: A call for ‘liberation from occupation’s prisons’] In recognition of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, April 17, 202...
San Antonio Report

Celebrating National Lineman Appreciation Day: Honoring our electric power heroes - SPONSORED: A special group of employees at CPS Energy ensures electricity flows seamlessly into every home and business, day in and day out. ---------------...
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...
Election Law Blog

“Federal appeals court upholds order barring county-line ballots” [updated] - New Jersey Monitor reports. Also the New Jersey Globe. And NorthJersey.com (If I have any comments on the opinion that I think worth blogging, I will upd...
Houston Public Media

Humble ISD superintendent up for job in Nevada in wake of Title IX investigation into her husband - Elizabeth Fagen, who has led the Houston-area school district since 2016, is among the finalists for a superintendent role in Reno, Nevada. Her husband, Tr...
Crooked Media

Black Voters’ Views on Biden - The post Black Voters’ Views on Biden appeared first on Crooked Media.
Techdirt.

Kansas Reflector Mostly Admits That Meta’s Blocking Of Their Site Wasn’t Deliberate - Not every bad mistake is evil. Not every poor decision is deliberate. Especially in these more automated times. Sometimes, machines just make mistakes, and...
Slate

The NBA Just Banned a Player for Life. It Had No Choice. - He did things worse than anything Pete Rose ever got up to.
slacktivist

Six weeks - My wife's surgery has been rescheduled for six weeks from now. We just have to make it through the next six weeks.
San Antonio Current

WTF Food News: Crocs releases ugly AF Pringles-inspired footwear line - Potato chip conglomerate Pringles has partnered with casual footwear company Crocs for a line of ugly-as-sin shoes that are — inexplicably — already selli...
Vox

The very short Mayorkas impeachment trial, explained - [image: Mayorkas, wearing a suit and tie, looks up at committee members out of frame.] Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before ...
Discourse

Bari Weiss Helps Liberate Prestigious Editor From His Job at NPR - Blaming wokeness, and using Weiss' website to do it, has become so incredibly expected.
Reform Austin

Patrick Protects Communities From Pollution As Long As They’re Rural and White - Texans can count on Lt. Governor Dan Patrick to have their backs against factories that want to pollute their communities, provided those communities are...
Dissident Voice

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...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: My Baby Said The N-Word - Scott Lively is livid about former Vice President Mike Pence becoming a fellow at Grove City College: “If I were a parent of college-bound teens, I’d cro...
Texas Standard

Denver city employees visit El Paso to talk immigration - Although it’s often called a “sanctuary city,” the Colorado capitol is hoping to cut spending on migrant services.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
The Root

Take A Peek: This McMansion Is Bougie Enough To Appear on 'The Gates!' - Earlier this week, CBS announced the debut of The Gates, a daytime soap opera centered around a wealthy Black family in an upscale gated community. Read ...
Deadline Politics

Senate Rejects Impeachment Charges Against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas - The Senate rejected impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, quickly dispatching the the case after trial proceedings th...
The Conversation

Oman serves as a crucial back channel between Iran and the US as tensions flare in the Middle East - The small Gulf state has hosted high-level Western and Iranian delegations, passing messages between them.
Undernews

Word - [image: May be an image of text that says 'Dogs are welcome in this hotel. We never had a dog that smoked in bed and set fire to the blankets. We never ha...
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas A&M-McAllen students host mental health awareness fair in Little Mexico - [image: Texas A&M-McAllen students are pictured with Adela Arellano, administrative coordinator for Texas A&M University’s Colonias Program, and Caly Ferna...
Progressive.org

The Kind of World We Want to See - An interview with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
ProPublica

Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes - by Brett Murphy ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
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...
Wolf Street

Mortgage Rates over 7% and Heading Higher, Housing Market Still Frozen, Lots of Buyers on Strike as Prices Still Too High - All that makes sense, but why are there still any cash-out refis when people could take cash out via HELOCs, without losing a 3% mortgage?
Second Nexus

Republican Couple Rips Trump's 'Terrible' Moral Character Before Making A Stunning Admission - Former President Donald Trump's "terrible" moral character was criticized by a Texas couple, who told CNN they both voted for him in 2016 and 2020—and ye...
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...
El Paso Matters

El Paso police, fire bond projects advance as cost concerns loom - While several projects in the $413 million public safety bond approved by El Paso voters in 2019 are taking shape, others are estimated to cost millions...
American Prospect

Steel in His Spine - Today on TAP: Biden’s latest actions on behalf of a domestic steel and shipbuilding industry
Claytoonz

Bibi’s Aim - President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States will not participate in a strike against Iran. But I wouldn’t stop th...
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...
Portside

‘Victories Would Be Nothing Less Than an Earthquake’: Can UAW Win in the South? - ‘Victories Would Be Nothing Less Than an Earthquake’: Can UAW Win in the South? Ray Wed, 04/17/2024 - 14:48
Novara Media

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Make “Own Decision” After Visit From David Cameron - Netanyahu has said Israel will make it’s “own decision” after restraint was urged by British foreign secretary David Cameron. Plus: Gordon Ramsay’s restaur...
The Texas Signal

A Geothermal Project Kicks Off New Wave Of Energy Sources In Texas - Earlier today, Bedrock Energy announced the completion of a new geothermal project at Penn Field in Austin. The energy company worked with the developer ...
Mother Jones

A New Police Force Chased a 17-Year-Old Boy to His Death. Then It Vanished. - Cruising south down a two-lane highway in Montana, Braven Glenn looked out onto the open road, the evening sky chilly and dark. It was November 24, 2020—ha...
Daily Howler

Alicia doesn't agree with Uri! - * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024* *Except when she constantly does:* Uri Berliner has been suspended, for a week, from his job at NPR. There's no obvious rea...
Mondoweiss

How the UK media devalues Palestinian lives - [image: Palestinians inspect the damaged vehicles of the World Central Kitchen after the Israeli attack that killed seven of its workers in Deir al-Balah, ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/17/2024 - ~Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Mayorkas impeachment, Tesla stops delivery of those stupid-looking trucks, wastewater testing expands its scope ~
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...
Texas Monthly

Hunting for Texas’s Prettiest Purple Mushroom - The wood blewit has a lovely lavender hue and, oddly enough, is said to smell like frozen orange juice. It also tastes great in a breakfast taco.
First Draft

Bob Menendez: Jersey Cad - The Menendez family film noir gets even more sordid.
Grist

A new federal rule aims to protect miners from black lung disease - Miners say the "overdue" regulation's success will depend upon upon effective enforcement.
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #499 - TFTC #499.
Socialist Alternative

UAW’s April 19 Vote At Volkswagen In Chattanooga Will Set Tone For Unions In 2024 - Across the nation, workers are talking about the United Autoworkers Union (UAW), its contract victory, and the approach of its new militant leadership. Tha...
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*.
Texas Observer

The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview - Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from the Sierra Club magazine. On February 26, a tiny flame sparked a mile north of the ranching...
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 ...
NPR's Health Shots

Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end - Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her m...
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 4/17/24 – Massie Backs Ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson as Congress Clashes Over Ukraine and Israel Funding - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss the latest political developments domestically and abroad, including U.S. C...
Environment Texas

Lobby day secures bipartisan support for the Plastic Pellet Free Water Act - We spoke up in Washington, D.C. for microplastic free waters. The post Lobby day secures bipartisan support for the Plastic Pellet Free Water Act appeare...
Ring of Fire

Report Reveals Dick Cheney’s “Deep State” Takeover Of The White House - A new report has found that the intelligence community regularly distorts their own findings to fit in the with policies of the administration in power –...
Capital & Main

Despite Promises of Transparency, California Justice Department Keeps Probe into L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Under Wraps - *Civilian oversight board is excluded from reviewing report on civil rights violations.* The post Despite Promises of Transparency, California Justice De...
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...
MintPress News

Revealed: Israel’s Hidden History Of Attacks On Iran - Robert Inlakesh breaks down the hidden history of Israel's decades-long campaign of assassinations, attacks and sabotage against Iran that the media igno...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, April 17 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, April 17]The court expects to issue one or more opinions this morning in argued cases from the current term. Foll...
Scheerpost.com

Sen. Wyden Says Spying Bill Would Force Americans to Become an ‘Agent for Big Brother’ - "If you have access to any communications, the government can force you to help it spy," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China again ignores Hague’s 2016 South China Sea ruling, blames Philippines for growing tensions. -
Democracy Now!

Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape - On Wednesday, 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, begin voting in a closely watched election on whether to organize with the United Auto Wo...
The AltWorld

Iran’s ‘New Equation’ Reaches Way Beyond West Asia - A Holy of the Holies was shattered in the Holy Land as Iran staged a quite measured, […] The post Iran’s ‘New Equation’ Reaches Way Beyond West Asia appe...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Keep Confessing’: Trump Appears To Corroborate Allegations Against Him in Impromptu Remarks -
Space City Weather

Houston flirting with record warm nights as a humid pattern continues into the weekend - Summary: Our warm pattern continues, with humid days and sultry nights heading into the weekend. Then, with the approach of a front, we’ll see widespread s...
ArcaMax

Trump's Luck and Mojo Run Low - At last, former President Donald Trump is on trial, a criminal defendant for election interference, in silencing a sordid brush with Stormy Daniels. The ju...
Angry Bear

Industrial production for March is positive, but the overall trend remains flat - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog Industrial production, one of the premier series the NBER has historically used to declare recessions vs. expans...
Skeptophilia

The sound of thunder - Last Sunday (April 14) we had a series of thunderstorms roll through the region, kind of unusual for upstate New York at this time of year. We're not pa...
The Reality-Based Community

Marcel Sabitzer liệu có phải canh bạc sai lầm của Man United ? - Marcel Sabitzer đang tỏa sáng rực rỡ tại Borussia Dortmund sau khi bị Manchester United từ chối mua đứt vào mùa hè năm ngoái, khiến nhiều người hâm mộ Qu...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Kathy Blueford-Daniels - We come to the end of my interviews with candidates for the HCAD positions. I might have tried to broaden the field under some other circumstances, but in ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating Changes: Arizona Senate and AZ-6 - We’re making a couple of rating changes today, both in Arizona. The state’s open-seat Senate race goes from Toss-up to Leans Democratic, and Rep. Juan Ci...
High Country News

Nevada tribes push for a monument to commemorate historic massacres - The proposed designation of Bahsahwahbee National Monument would protect a religious site known for its juniper groves. The post Nevada tribes push for ...
The Daily Poster

Universities Are Making Billions Gatekeeping Your Meds - The University of California has raked in a previously undisclosed $1.6 billion from Xtandi sales, and now doesn’t want the government lowering exorbitant ...
Counterpunch

Property and Debt in Ancient Rome - Traditional societies usually had restrictions to prevent self-support land from being alienated outside of the family or clan. By holding that the essen...
Ian Welsh

China Builds A Temporary Bridge In Seven Days: Baltimore Will Take Years To Rebuild Theirs - [image: China Builds A Temporary Bridge In Seven Days: Baltimore Will Take Years To Rebuild Theirs] I know I’m a broken record on this, but it’s important...
jobsanger

Trump Would Make Inflation Worse -
Informed Comment

Playing Russian Roulette with our Only Planet: Middle East Gets Failing Grades on Climate Action - This is my latest column for Tomdispatch.com. Do check in over there for Tom Engelhardt’s essential introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Last September witn...
Antiwar.com

The War in Ukraine and Judeo-Christian Values - Mixing religion with politics is generally not a good idea. Still, it looks like it is one of the few remaining options to avoid what then-Senator Sam Nu...
WhoWhatWhy

We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bible - The (first) Trump trial begins, and we're already at an impasse.
Church and State

Trump Offers Us So Many Options To Vote On! - With so many vital issues to vote about, one wonders what Trump's MAGA voters will find most appealing.
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...
Earthworks

Third Annual Prayer Horse Ride Travels Northern Nevada to Protect Peehee Mu’huh - Nevada is at the frontlines of a national rush to mine lithium. As we work to mitigate climate impacts that … The post Third Annual Prayer Horse Ride Tr...
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...
DeSmogBlog

‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group - A gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal. The National Cons...
Seeing the Forest

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Glasstire

Marfa Invitational Announces Details of 2024 Event - Marfa Invitational has announced dates and events for its 2024 iteration in the West Texas town of Marfa. The Marfa Invitational Foundation is a contempo...
Bonddad

Industrial production for March is positive, but the overall trend remains flat - *- by New Deal democrat* Industrial production, one of the premier series the NBER has historically used to declare recessions vs. expansions, has f...
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...
Earth 911

Earth Day for Seniors: Six Activities for Connection and Well-being - Earth Day is a wonderful occasion for seniors to connect with nature and their community... The post Earth Day for Seniors: Six Activities for Connection...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 16 April 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click for full size. (For the link round-up, click here.) I still listen to that song Obviously a Lov...
See You In 2020

Russia’s Ukraine action, Oct 7, & now Iran’s retaliation have weakened U.S. hegemony, imperiling the deep state - Above: the new mural in Tehran that reads “The next slap will be harsher” Following the blowback from the War on Terror, and an unprecedented decline i...
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...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Our New 4/20 Merch and Ongoing Fight for Legalization - For decades, the ACLU has fought against the war on drugs. The criminalization of cannabis has led to far too many unjust incarcerations, which waste cri...
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...
NORML

JAMA Pediatrics: Legalization Laws Linked With Fewer Teens Using Marijuana, Other Intoxicants - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]“Together, results found no net increases in cannabis or, through spillover effects, alco...
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...
Project Censored

From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help - From East Palestine to Palestine, people need help. In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with East Palestine, OH residents Zsuzsa Gyenes and ...
Rewire

How Abortion Rights and Birth Justice Are ‘Inextricably Linked’ - Birth justice advocates say state ballot initiatives protecting abortion rights must also advance the rights of people who give birth. The post How Abort...
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...
LareDOS

Convoy of electric vehicles stops in Laredo, Tues., Apr. 23 - Featured EVs include Teslas, Kia EV-9 and a Blue Bird schoolbus
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 ...
Common Dreams

First They Came For My Appliances: We Are Here For the Refrigerator Freedom Act - Okay all you naysayers whining shambolic House GOPers aren't doing their job just 'cause they're blocking border solutions, ignoring infrastructure, enab...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: What's Next For Iran/Israel, The Historical Present, Anxiety, and More - We've got a full, full mailbag this time. Much to discuss.
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 ...
Bracing Views

There Is Only One Spaceship Earth - W.J. Astore Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide Also at TomDispatch.com When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (o...
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

Azur Casino Bonus 100% Jusquà 500 + 20 Tours Gratuits -
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 ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Covering clashes on campus as academic freedom challenges mount - Academic freedom in higher education is facing increased scrutiny at colleges and universities nationwide. It’s a story about campuses big and small, pu...
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...
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.
GreenSource DFW

Irving home featured on National Solar Tour - *This state-of-the-art energy efficient home at 1025 Lane St in Irving will be open to the public Friday and Sunday.* Oct. 6, 2023 There are only two ho...
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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