Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Sunday Funnies

Sorry kids, no Easter bunnies or eggs this year. Budget cuts, you know.

This next one is dedicated to Big Jolly (news item, Tweet, response) ...

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

House progressives release an agenda for 2025, with ideas for Biden to excite the base (Sahil Kapur/NBC News) - Sahil Kapur / NBC News: *House progressives release an agenda for 2025, with ideas for Biden to excite the base* — The agenda is heavy on economics and...
Vox

Why USC canceled its pro-Palestinian valedictorian - Asna Tabassum, a graduating senior at the University of Southern California majoring in biomedical engineering, is at the center of the latest firestorm o...
Mediaite

Trump Emerges From Courtroom and Cites Fox News Pundits Slamming His Prosecution: ‘A Whopping Outrage’ - "Jonathan Turley. Gregg Jarrett. Andrew McCarthy. Every one of them saying, they call it a zombie case, meaning it is no case." The post Trump Emerges Fro...
Mother Jones

Watch Our New Short Film About a Mother’s Search for Answers on the Crow Reservation - A high-speed police chase. A 17-year-old Crow boy, dead. The police report? Nowhere to be found. The entire police department? Vanished. The excruciating q...
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 ...
The Hill

TikTok ban bill wins key Senate supporter - Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Cantwell backs updated bill that could ban TikTok Senate Commerce ...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump's anti-abortion stance helped him win in 2016. Will it hurt him in 2024? - Back in 1999 when Donald Trump was flirting with a presidential run, he was pro-abortion rights. In an interview on Meet the Press with NBC's Tim Russert, ...
Axios

U.S. vetoes Palestinian bid for full UN membership - The U.S. on Thursday voted no and vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution to accept Palestine as a full member of the UN. *Why it matters: *T...
The Week

Magazine interactive crossword - April 26, 2024 - Issue - April 26, 2024
Raw Story

Trump declares Atlantic Ocean diminishes importance of 'Ukrainian survival' to the U.S. - Donald Trump took a break from his criminal hush money trial Thursday to share his views on Ukraine funding and Europe's fair share of that bill in a biz...
Daily Dot

‘KEEP A COPY OF THE RECEIPT’: Landlord claims he lost tenant’s rent check. She catches him in a lie - [image: Landlord claims he lost tenant’s rent check. She catches him in a lie] It's not uncommon for social media platforms to become a battleground for ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

A silent Trump glowers and stares during third day of criminal trial - This was not Donald Trump the business mogul or Donald Trump the 45th president – it was Donald Trump the defendant With Donald Trump just a few feet awa...
Salon.com

"You can watch on the TV ... at Rikers": Jimmy Kimmel may host next Oscars to spite Trump - The late-night host shared that he was invited to host the awards show again, ostensibly to Trump's chagrin
Political Wire

Jury of 12 Is Seated in Trump Criminal Trial - “Twelve New Yorkers have been selected to decide Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, the first for a former American president and a crucial challe...
Courthouse News

Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users - Meta and its competitors have been churning out new AI language models and hoping to persuade customers they've got the best chatbots.
El Paso Matters

TEA appoints 2 conservators to help oversee Socorro ISD - Michael Hinojosa, a former Dallas ISD superintendent who has worked previously in El Paso, will be the lead conservator. The post TEA appoints 2 conserv...
Houston Public Media

Is it already feeling like summertime? Houston seeing warmer temperatures this April - Here in Houston, the temperatures have reached the mid and upper 80s in recent days, which begs the question: Is summer already here?
Futurism

Gay Furry Hackers Attack Right-Wing News Outlet - When Furries Attack A group of self-described "gay furries" has hacked into a far-right media outlet over its transphobic rhetoric. As The Daily Dot repo...
The Verge

Netflix is all about the money, not the members - [image: The Netflix logo] Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results rel...
Al Jazeera English

How do Muslims in India feel about the general election? - Muslims in India tell Al Jazeera why they are concerned about another term under Narendra Modi’s BJP government.
Angry Bear

Initial jobless claim Zzzzzzzzzz . . . . - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog For the last 8 months, initial and continuing claims have been remarkably consistent. Initial claims have varied...
Rio Grande Guardian

HHSC’s proposed Medicaid procurement changes anger South Texas healthcare leaders, lawmakers - Texas Health & Human Services Commission plans to move STAR and CHIP managed care services from Driscoll Health Plan to for-profit national plans. The p...
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 ...
CultureMap Houston

Guy Ritchie brings humor to history in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - The recent filmography of writer/director Guy Ritchie defies any kind of logic. He helmed the live-action remake of Aladdin in 2019, followed by a return ...
Slate

Donald Trump Faces His First Criminal Trial -
Progressive.org

The Freedom Flotilla’s Voyage to Break Israel’s Siege - Peace activists aim to sail through the military blockade of Gaza.
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.
DeSmogBlog

Pathways Alliance Paid Google to Advertise on ‘Greenwashing’ Searches - A major Canadian oil sands group has been running advertisements on Google that target people seeking information about oil industry “greenwashing,” the ...
Alternet

'Republicans are in deep trouble': Ex-GOP rep says Dems will retake House by large margin - A longtime former Republican member of the House of Representatives is predicting that his party will suffer significant losses in the November election ...
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...
Right Wing Watch

Mike Johnson Tells Tony Perkins the ‘Republic Is Imperiled’ If Republicans Don’t Win - Tony Perkins, leader of the anti-choice, anti-equality Family Research Council, launched a new talk show and podcast on the Salem Radio Network this week...
Techdirt.

Sextortion Is A Real & Serious Criminal Issue; Blaming Section 230 For It Is Not - Let’s say I told you a harrowing story about a crime. Criminals from halfway around the world used fraudulent means and social engineering to scam a teenag...
The Root

Sen. Tim Scott Is Trying to Court Black Voters, Isn't It a Little Late for That? - Despite being Black, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)isn’t exactly a popular figure in Black America. And up until recently, he didn’t appear eager to appeal to ...
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...
Mediagazer

The judge in Trump's NY criminal trial ordered reporters on April 18 to not disclose jurors' job info and warned against sharing jurors' physical descriptions (New York Times) - New York Times: *The judge in Trump's NY criminal trial ordered reporters on April 18 to not disclose jurors' job info and warned against sharing jurors'...
The Intercept

Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators - The university suspended three students out of hundreds participating in an on-campus encampment to protest the Israeli government. The post Columbia Sus...
The Daily Poster

CEOs Got Raises As They Cut Workers’ Pay - New data show the corporate pay gap is widening — now lawmakers are proposing a crackdown.
San Antonio Current

Hell's Kitchen alum Mary Lou Davis returning to San Antonio for Asian fusion pop-up - Hell’s Kitchen runner-up Mary Lou Davis will hold a Tuesday, April 23 pop-up at San Antonio restaurant Best Quality Daughter to serve her take on Asian fu...
San Antonio Report

Officials say they have a plan to mitigate Fiesta traffic in construction-torn downtown - [image: Construction across downtown will affect traffic as downtown will host tens of thousands of visitors for the annual multi-day event.]Orange traffic...
American Prospect

A House Party Divided Against Itself - Today on TAP: That’s the House of Representatives and the Republicans, in case you were wondering.
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.
Daily Cartoonist

Paper Gets Sour Grapes from Tim Jones - Tim Jones, who lives in Smithfield with his wife, Kathy, daughters, Eily and Jillian, and large dog, Ezzy, has spent the past decade developing and refinin...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - One-day general strike in Greece against pay 20 percent lower than 15 years ago and 10 percent unemployment; autoworkers and other sectors in one-day strik...
First Draft

Lindsey Graham Was Right - Trump is completely destroying the GOP. And I'm here for it.
Church and State

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

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/18/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics ~
Environment Texas

Ditch plastic packaging: Shop at your local refillery - A wave of new retail businesses are eliminating single-use plastic packaging entirely, showing us what a future with dramatically less plastic could look...
Dissident Voice

The Two-state Solution Lives Only in the Delusions and Cynicism of Western Politicians and Diplomats - My wife is currently cancer free, but her chemotherapy caused her to gain a lot of weight, which she wants to lose. She says that she doesn’t have the wi...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: Becoming Who We Are - By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The following is an edited, amended, and condensed version of a speech I delivered in Zurich’s environs earlie...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 18, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Astonishing, historic deluge inundates Dubai; Climate im...
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...
Grist

UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders - Indigenous peoples around the world are harassed and killed at alarming rates. Will the world act?
WhoWhatWhy

As Gun Violence Looms Over Pennsylvania Youth, Local Groups Offer Safe Spaces - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Ballot Access News

Alabama Legislative Committees in Both Houses Pass Bill for a Later Presidential Certification and Petition Deadline - On April 17, Alabama legislative committees in both houses passed bills to move the certification deadline for presidential nominees from August 15 to Augu...
Texas Monthly

How to Get Lost at the Galleria - Getting lost at the Galleria, for the very first time.
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...
Crooked Media

Jess Phillips on Angela Rayner tax story: scandal or smear? - The post Jess Phillips on Angela Rayner tax story: scandal or smear? appeared first on Crooked Media.
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 ...
High Country News

At UN, Interior says it’s starting to include consent in tribal policy - The Indigenous-led department is a "shining star" when it comes to tribal consultation, but it still has a long ways to go. The post At UN, Interior say...
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 ...
Southeast Texas Record

McKool Smith secures $142M verdict against Samsung in patent damage retrial - PLANO - McKool Smith, along with Irell & Manella, has secured a $142 Million patent damages verdict on behalf of G+ Communications against Samsung, a pre...
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,...
Rewire

Fetal ‘Personhood’ Is at Stake at SCOTUS - Next week’s emergency abortion care case before the Court could redefine who doctors treat as patients and push fetal "personhood." The post Fetal ‘Perso...
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 ...
Novara Media

London’s Endless Appetite - London is a foodie metropolis: undoubtedly one of the best places to eat in the world. But eating in London is also, like everything else in the city, shap...
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...
The Smirking Chimp

The Party’s Over -
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...
Skeptophilia

Flat space, Hawking radiation, and warm spots - Ever wonder if the universe is flat? No, I haven't taken Wingnut Pills and decided that the Flat Earthers make sense. This is an honest-to-Einstein proble...
Off The Kuff

Good luck finding any info about those county appraisal board elections - As you know, I’ve written a bunch about the HCAD Board elections, including doing interviews with four of the candidates, so that you my readers and anyone...
ProPublica

A Powerful Atlanta Movie Executive Praised for His Diversity Efforts Shared Racist, Antisemitic Sentiments in Texts - by Nicole Carr, ProPublica, and Mike Jordan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign...
Workers World

PDF of April 18 issue - [image: PDF of April 18 issue] Download the PDF. Editorial: No U.S.-Israel war on Iran! Iran on military action against Israel Philadelphia: Workers unite ...
Counterpunch

Faulty Assurances: the Judicial Torture of Assange Continues - On April 16, Assange’s supporters received confirmation that the extradition battle, far from ending, would continue in its tormenting grind. Not wishin...
Informed Comment

In Fit of anti-Palestinian Hatred, Congress tries to Outlaw “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chanting of the phrase “From the river to the s...
jobsanger

MAGA GOP Compromises The Security Of Israel, Ukraine, U.S. -
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...
Portside

Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities off the Map’ in the West Bank - Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities off the Map’ in the West Bank Mark Brody Thu, 04/18/2024 - 00:13
Antiwar.com

This Past Weekend, Iran Changed Everything - On April 13, Iran responded to Israel’s attack on its embassy compound in Damascus that killed seven Iranian officers, including a very senior military o...
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.
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 ...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 –...
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...
The AltWorld

Ordre en échange d’uranium - Le président français Emmanuel Macron s’est rendu au Brésil le 26 mars. Dans le contexte de déclarations […] The post Ordre en échange d’uranium appeared...
Undernews

Books - * School book bans reach new peak*
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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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