Brains and Eggs: С Новым Годом (pronounced "S novim godom"; Happy New Year in Russian)

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

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— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 2024

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

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

📍 Houston, Texas

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— missfalasteenia (@missfalsteenia) January 12, 2024

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

Lunch break inside the astrodome while under construction pic.twitter.com/tTB4iVE68g
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

House GOP has 'willingly castrated its own power': Axios - A new report from Axios highlights the unprecedented implosion of Republicans in the House of Representatives. The report begins by contending that "neve...
Political Wire

Trump Will Fight Gag Order in Hush Money Trial - “Manhattan prosecutors are poised to push their case against Donald Trump into a critical new phase on Tuesday, as they prepare to question a key witness a...
Mother Jones

Ben & Jerry’s Parent Backpedals on Social and Environmental Vows - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Unilever is to scale back its environ...
Salon.com

Trump's humiliation deepens: In court, he can't hide from his tabloid roots - If there was a hell, Trump's punishment would be a trial where people tell the truth about him all day
Vox

Compassion is making a comeback in America - [image: The hand of a young supportive man consoling someone with post-traumatic syndrome caused by a dramatic life event.] A new study found that empathy...
Slate

Help! I Nursed My Girlfriend Back to Health. Now I Want to Leave Her. - All I feel is a dull obligation.
Eschaton

Morning - I'm starting to suspect that many people in power are just bad, stupid people.
The Week

What are Lucy Letby's grounds of appeal? - Convicted former nurse's legal team claims judge at original trial wrongly refused her applications
Scheerpost.com

The War on Protest - Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Mediaite

BBC Host Spars With Flustered Tory Minister After Admission Torture Victims Can Be Deported To Rwanda - Illegal migration minister Michael Tomlinson’s car crash press round on Tuesday morning continued after he let slip that that even victims of torture and...
American Prospect

MAGA 2.0 - Can J.D. Vance keep it alive after Trump?
Mediagazer

Penguin vs. DOJ transcripts: top publishing houses spend most of their money on book advances for big celebrities like Britney Spears and franchise authors (Elle Griffin/The Elysian) - Elle Griffin / The Elysian: *Penguin vs. DOJ transcripts: top publishing houses spend most of their money on book advances for big celebrities like Britn...
NPR's Health Shots

The U.S. has a new heat warning system called HeatRisk - About 1,200 people die from extreme heat each year. As temperatures soar, the CDC is unveiling plans to help people deal with potentially record summer heat.
Infidel753

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

What is Project Nimbus, and why are Google workers protesting Israel deal? - Tech workers are protesting against use of AI and other cloud technologies by Israel in its war on Gaza.
The Verge

Adobe’s new Firefly model makes it easier to use Photoshop’s AI tools - [image: An image showing an example of Photoshop's new Generate Image feature.] *Unlike other Firefly-powered tools that generate sections of an image, Ph...
Axios

When your company's newest board member is an AI - AI is forcing corporate boards to change how they operate, with the most aggressive companies appointing AI bots as observers to their boards and putting...
ProPublica

The Family Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a Black Community - by Logan Jaffe ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing aro...
The Hill

Biden to speak on abortion in first Florida visit since state Supreme Court ruling - President Biden will deliver a speech in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday focused on reproductive rights, taking center stage on abortion about one week ahead of th...
Daily Dot

‘That’s like $1,000 in frozen pizza’: Walmart shopper catches fellow customer buying all the Great Value frozen pizzas, reselling them per slice across the street - [image: Walmart shopper catches fellow customer buying all the frozen pizzas, reselling them per slice across the street] Imagine you’re in line at Walma...
Grist

Indigenous advocates at the UN say the green transition is neither clean nor just - Their message isn't new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers | Belinda Barnet - The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives - Get our...
naked capitalism

James Galbraith: Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One - Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn't lucrative enough for the right people.
High Country News

Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizona wind project - The SunZia transmission line will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest. The post Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizo...
The Daily Poster

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

Texas Hold Me (Live from Austin!) - The post Texas Hold Me (Live from Austin!) appeared first on Crooked Media.
memeorandum

Trump Calls for More Protests Outside Trial: 'Rally Behind MAGA' (New York Times) - New York Times: *Trump Calls for More Protests Outside Trial: ‘Rally Behind MAGA’* — With support from demonstrators in Lower Manhattan spotty so far, ...
Counterpunch

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza? - The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanb...
Liberation News

Spokane, WA: Sacred Heart med center workers strike against “disrespectful” conditions - The strikers cited below-market pay, eroding medical and dental benefits, as well as perpetual under-staffing and overtime, as key drivers of their struggle.
jobsanger

The New Governing Coalition -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall - Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.
World Socialist Web Site

Poll shows deepening crisis of Australian Labor government amid social distress - More than 50 percent of all respondents said they would struggle to cope with any unexpected expense, under conditions where costs for housing and other ba...
Informed Comment

Israeli Squatter-Settlers in Palestinian West Bank Expanding at Fastest Rate in History, as they attack Indigenous Towns - Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – While the world’s eyes have been on Gaza, Palestinian villages in the West Bank have been subjected to sav...
Antiwar.com

What Can We Learn From Our Forever War in Ukraine? - It has been a while since the United States won a war. It looks as though we are about to lose yet another one – the war in Ukraine. This is a proxy wa...
Alternet

The agony of the gasbag - *Editor’s note*: The following first appeared in *Political Junkie*, Claire’s newsletter. I didn’t expect to learn much from week one of *People of the ...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29 - This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 04/22/2024 - 23:19
Techdirt.

More Open Access Training For Academics Would Lead To More Open Access - Open access publishing, which allows people to read academic papers without a subscription, seems such a good idea. It means that anyone, anywhere in the w...
ArcaMax

The Stunning Rebirth of the American Labor Movement - On Friday, Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union. This is a truly big deal. The mainst...
Courthouse News

Prosecutors make closing arguments in San Diego antifa conspiracy case - Prosecutors claim Jeremy White and Brian Lightfoot were involved in a "antifa" conspiracy to stop right-wing protesters from rallying by attacking them.
OpEd News

The Earth Day Sonnet (for Taylor Swift) - It's Earth Day. I feel so in ove with the world again. I had a lover's quarrel going, like Robert Frost said. But now we're good again. I love you Earth.
Daily Cartoonist

Bob Lynch – RIP - Editorial cartoonist Bob Lynch has passed away. Robert Emery (Bob) Lynch April 1933 – April 6, 2024 From the obituary: He was eventually deployed to Korea ...
Brad Blog

'First Domino Falls' With TN Win in Landmark UAW Effort to Unionize the South: 'BradCast' 4/22/2024 - Nothing but huge news --- all of several different sorts --- on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] FIRST UP: After mon...
Popular Resistance

War And Genocide On Earth Day - On Earth Day Monday, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the plane...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent Content - The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy. While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics at the platf...
Workers World

At Kent State University hundreds protest speech by fascist killer Rittenhouse - [image: At Kent State University hundreds protest speech by fascist killer Rittenhouse] When the right-wing organization Turning Point USA announced it was...
The AltWorld

‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A Threat to Humanity - Rania Khalek addressed the World Gathering for a Social Alternative in Caracas, Venezuela on why Israel is […] The post ‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t ...
Angry Bear

Real median wage and income growth through March continued the recent increasing trend - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog This is an update of some information I last posted several months ago. Real median household income is one of t...
See You In 2020

Beaten by imperialism’s foes, U.S. elites intensify their war on Americans’ liberties & economic wellbeing - To keep waging war against the Palestinians and the Russians, our government needs to keep intensifying its economic attacks on the people of the USA. ...
San Antonio Report

Geekdom and the Greater San Antonio Chamber: business and Fiesta do mix! - [image: Geekdom, along with the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, will host "Small Business Fiesta" event Tuesday.]Small-business owners, entreprene...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

20 anti-LGBTQ bills fail as Iowa legislative session adjourns - The LGBTQ community received a wonderful bit of good news in Iowa and LGBTQ activists and journalists are hoping that it is the sign of a new trend. Fro...
Glasstire

Review: “THIS SIDE UP” at the Houston Center For Contemporary Craft - THIS SIDE UP, curated by Sarah Darro at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, illuminates the often invisible practice of art handling. The exhibiti...
slacktivist

Seeing things I’ve never saw - Orwell and Lewis, the gospel according to Paul (and Philip), and stories from 10 years in other peoples' basements.
Futurism

Instagram Is Profiting Off Disgusting Apps That Undress People Without Their Consent - Dressed Down AI image generators that claim the ability to "undress" celebrities and random girls are nothing new — but now, they've been spotted in mone...
SCOTUSblog

Justices take up “ghost guns” case for next term - [image: Justices take up “ghost guns” case for next term]Though still far behind the number of cases granted for the next term this time last year, the c...
Election Law Blog

“An appeals court dismisses charges against a Michigan election worker who downloaded a voter list” - AP reports: “The court’s conclusion: James Holkeboer’s conduct was improper but not a crime. He was charged with election fraud. But Holkeboer’s lawyer...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Democrats, Republican vote against sending additional aid to Israel and Ukraine - Over the weekend, three members of San Antonio's congressional delegation voted against the U.S. House's $95 billion foreign aid bill, which will help fun...
The Conversation

Opening statements are the most important part of a trial – as lawyers in Trump’s hush money case know well - What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hear...
Capital & Main

Regional U.S. Banks Sharply Expand Lending to Oil and Gas Projects - *How a semantic twist gave a major bank a loophole to keep financing fracking.* The post Regional U.S. Banks Sharply Expand Lending to Oil and Gas Projec...
Reform Austin

Mike Johnson - The post Mike Johnson appeared first on Reform Austin.
Wolf Street

Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Fells Express. Simon Property & Brookfield, to Avert Vacant Stores and Bad Leases at their Malls, to Buy the Brands and 435 Stores out of Bankruptcy - This Has Been Years in the Making.
The Rag Blog

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

BREAKING: There is no trial but the one true trial! - *MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024* *Excitement running high: *There is no trial but the one true trial. All other news topics fail. We missed the start of Deadli...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

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

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Very, Very Good Man - Dave Hayes, who repeatedly predicted that the military would take over the country and put former President Donald Trump back in office, is now warning t...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian disinformation against Ukraine heightens ahead of EU parliamentary elections - With European parliamentary elections set for June, Russia is ramping up its disinformation and propaganda tactics to sway public opinion against Ukraine a...
Second Nexus

Hillary Clinton Calls Out Trump Over Disturbing Story About Pregnant Women Being Refused Care In The ER - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called out former President Donald Trump, attributing the worsening emergency room situation for pregnant women...
CultureMap Houston

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

Hundreds Mobilize to Demand Global Action on Plastics Before Treaty Negotiations - Today marks the 54th Earth Day and one day until countries begin negotiations on the Global Plastics Treaty at INC-4. … The post Hundreds Mobilize to De...
Krebs on Security

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

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

Lower Valley water utility asks voters approve $35 million bond to provide first-time sewer service - The Lower Valley Water District is asking voters within its boundaries to approve $35 million in debt to build sewer lines in five neighborhoods. The po...
The Root

Kanye's $57 Million Malibu Home Is Completely Abandoned, And Looks Like a Parking Lot? - Malibu is known for its pristine beaches and pricey mansions. But one home situated along the picturesque coastline stands out against the rest: controve...
Mondoweiss

Bakeries finally reopen in northern Gaza as Palestinians continue to fight famine - [image: Palestinians gather to buy bread from a bakery which went back into service after being shut down for several months due to the lack of flour and e...
Eater Houston

Alba Huerta and ‘Top Chef’ Pitmaster Michelle Wallace Team Up At Julep’s Annual Kentucky Derby Party - [image: An image of a person holding a Mint Julep and a cigar.] Julep will host its annual Kentucky Derby party in May. | Marco Torres Plus, the Saint Ar...
WhoWhatWhy

‘Should Be a Global Wake-Up Call’: Coral Reefs Suffer Fourth Mass Bleaching - “The announcement of the fourth global bleaching event is an urgent call to do two things: reduce greenhouse gas emissions and work together to prioritize ...
First Draft

Columbia Is Doing The Right’s Bidding - The greasy fingerprints of the American far-right are all over the Columbia protest crackdown.
Novara Media

Sunak’s Last Ditch Bid to Save His Premiership - Rishi Sunak is trying to rescue his premiership by reviving his favourite dead end policy – stopping small boats. Plus: the truth is revealed about Gideon ...
Rio Grande Guardian

After 22 years, city commissioner JJ Zamora gets to fly directly from McAllen to Austin - Delta Air Lines has started its nonstop McAllen-to-Austin service, offering three flights a day in the week and two times a day on Saturdays. The post A...
Lowering the Bar

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

A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed. - If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened. The post A Prosecutor Asked Te...
NORML

Kentucky: Governor Signs Legislation Expediting Medical Cannabis Licensing, But Also Adding New Restrictions Upon Patients’ Access - [image: Kentucky marijuana laws][image: Kentucky marijuana laws]"While expediting timelines may seem advantageous, the potential negatives embedded withi...
Claytoonz

Moscow Marge - Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom you may remember from such fantastic conspiracy theories like Jewish Space Lasers, Gazpacho Police, and...
Ian Welsh

EU Delusion on Sanctions and Europe’s Future - [image: EU Delusion on Sanctions and Europe’s Future] While the EU was considering more sanctions against Iran because it attacked Israel in retaliation f...
Ring of Fire

Democrats Secretly Use Centrist Group To Defeat Regulations - House Democrats have given more than a million dollars to a dark money group that has been actively fighting against lowering prescription drug prices. T...
Deadline Politics

White House Correspondents’ Dinner Preview: POTUS, Politics Media & Showbiz Converge For D.C.’s Party-Palooza - This year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will likely see an uptick in the celebrity quotient. The starpower could come as a function of t...
Bracing Views

Earth Day and Nukes - W.J. Astore Stop the Madness and Save the Planet Today is Earth Day: a good day to commit ourselves to saving the earth from the ravages of nuclear war. Gl...
Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly Art Department Recognized in the Society of Publication Designers’ Annual Competition - Earlier this month, the Texas Monthly art department was named a finalist in seven categories by the Society of Publication Designers—one of them being bra...
Texas Observer

‘There Have to Be Limits’: Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down - Last June, Bernhardt Tiede suffered a likely stroke while living in a prison cell that regularly got up to around 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The 65-year-old...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Texas Voting Rights Case on Preference for Older Voters - Texas permits voters age 65 and over to vote absentee for any reason, but younger voters can’t vote absentee without good cause. On April 22, the U.S. Supr...
Church and State

No, It’s Not the Anthropocene; Try ‘The Great Burning’ - A committee of researchers has decided that the Anthropocene will not become an official epoch in Earth’s geological timeline.
Southeast Texas Record

Harris County Civil Court: Actions Taken on April 15 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on April 15 in the suits below: Read more…
The Progressive Wing

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

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

Real median wage and income growth through March continued the recent increasing trend - -* by New Deal democrat* This is an update of some information I last posted several months ago. Real median household income is one of the best mea...
Texas Standard

Exploring the future of jobs and the economy in Texas - How will the jobs of tomorrow look different? We’re taking a look at some of Texas’ most prominent industries and providing a glimpse at where they’re headed.
Discourse

Zionism Is In Its Flop Era - The hysterical reaction to the Columbia protests is proof.
Undernews

Workers - * Newsweek- *The concept of the four-day working week is simple: employees work a day less than the standard five, which works out as 32 work hours inste...
Democracy Now!

"Enormous Expansion of the Law": James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing - President Biden has signed legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act despite years of protest from rights groups ...
Space City Weather

Today will be one of the very nicest days of the year. And after that? Well… - In brief: Monday will yield an absolutely splendid day of weather in Houston. Like, it will be one of the top 10 nicest days of the year. Tuesday will also...
Debunking Christianity

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

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

The Stunning Rebirth of the American Labor Movement -
Earth 911

Can You Meet the 60×40 Plastic Reduction Target? - Earth Day is the one day each year when everyone stops to think about the... The post Can You Meet the 60×40 Plastic Reduction Target? appeared first on ...
Off The Kuff

A brief history of May elections in Harris County - As previously noted, early voting begins today for the special HCAD and SD15 elections. I have said before that we are not used to voting in May in Harris ...
Progressives Chat

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

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

Pro-Rape From A to Z - The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed an 1864 law that bans abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. State legislators then blocked a Democratic atte...
The NM Political Report

Two PFAS chemicals designated hazardous substances under Superfund law - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a final rule Friday to designate two types of PFAS chemicals as hazardous substances. Those two chemica...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

#DemocratsDeliver - Been out of town for a while, been sick for a while, finally getting my tired old ass to the drawing table again. So, I’d been noticing this #DemocratsDeli...
Democracy Chronicles

Temporal Orientations in Politics and Ideology - Temporal orientations in politics shape narratives; forward-thinking perspectives offer societal progress, while backward views hinder development.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

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

Sunday photoblogging: crossroads - [image: Pézenas cross]
Sludge

AIPAC Makes Record High Contributions as Its Super PAC Fights Progressives - New disclosures covering March show that AIPAC's PAC made $4.1 million in contributions to federal candidates, while its super PAC raised another $1.8 mill...
The Militant

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

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

Central America Faces Intense Wildfire Season - Limited governmental capacity to address natural disasters leaves Indigenous communities to fend for themselves.
Skeptophilia

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

Earth Week 2024: How we can keep fighting to protect our planet this year - The post Earth Week 2024: How we can keep fighting to protect our planet this year appeared first on Environment Texas.
alicublog

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

A Bald Eagle Protecting an American Flag Reminded Me Holocaust Denier JK Rowling Can’t Sue Me - Author JK Rowling is not a fan of transgender people, that much is true. At least, she’s not a fan of transgender women. For some reason, which only the ...
Black Agenda Report

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

Indiana Now Has a Religious Right to Abortion - How the conservative win from the 2014 *Hobby Lobby* decision was used to protect pro-abortion religious beliefs in Indiana. The post Indiana Now Has a R...
The Texas Signal

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

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

FAA hiring event at TAMIU Friday - Administration seeking to hire future air traffic controllers
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...
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 ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

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

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

TFTC #499 - TFTC #499.
Dissent Magazine

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

Extremism Headlines: God's Misfits, sovereign citizen trial, far-right fighter - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
Texas Freedom Network

Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, A Faith Leader Built, Sustained, and Guided by Community - Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, the Co-Lead Minister at one of Just Texas’ Reproductive Freedom Congregations, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of ...
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? - Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I was a si...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2024 - Walmart had at least another sixteen shootings in March of 2024, including at least six causing one death each, and a total of at least seven more injur...
Media Lens

‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media - A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up t...
GreenSource DFW

Eclipse watch parties pop up across DFW - *NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC....
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West, w/ MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace - Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of t...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Stinque

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Border/Lines

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Two Party Opera

Drums of War - I live-streamed the process of making this comic, here is part 1: And part 2, the thrilling conclusion:
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
CT's short stories and novelettes

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Bayou Brief

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Modern Democracy

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Truthout

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, January 01, 2020

С Новым Годом (pronounced "S novim godom"; Happy New Year in Russian)

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