Brains and Eggs

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Al Jazeera English

Explosions and gunfire reported in Turkish capital - Blast was reported in Ankara near parliament building, according to Turkish media reports.
The NM Political Report

Trump supporter shoots someone attending peaceful rally - [image: Trump supporter shoots someone attending peaceful rally] *by Megan Gleason, Source New Mexico* *Editor’s note: This article depicts gun violence* ...
The Week

Speed limits: is 20 plenty? - Many Welsh drivers are 'furious' at new limit, but pedestrians are 'far less likely to be killed'
Counterpunch

It’s a Capitalist World - [image: Image of a worker protest.] Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to j...
Informed Comment

Devastating Earthquake showed Resiliency of Morocco’s Solar and Wind Farms, as it Meets its Paris Commitments - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One advantage of solar and wind as renewable sources of energy is that they appear to be especially resilient in the face of...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Music: ZHU, partywithray – Came For The Low -
Wolf Street

THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Stocks, Bonds & CRE Face QT - Fundamentals for markets have boiled down to QE or QT since 2009. Now there’s QT, a lot of QT, globally, to battle the worst inflation in decades.
jobsanger

Labor Unions Are Good For The Country -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2932: Snopes, Monopoly, and POWs - Episode: 2932 Monopoly games for POWs and the creation of myths. Today, Monopoly games and mythology.
San Antonio Report

School vouchers: Gov. Greg Abbott’s unsavory quid pro quo - [image: Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about his plan to push school choice legislation during a talk to enlist re-election support at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic ...
First Draft

The Jayhawks Live In Spain - The Jayhawks rock Valencia.
Mediagazer

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes a WGA- and SAG-AFTRA-backed bill aimed at giving unemployment benefits to striking actors, writers, and other workers (Carly Thomas/The Hollywood Reporter) - Carly Thomas / The Hollywood Reporter: *California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes a WGA- and SAG-AFTRA-backed bill aimed at giving unemployment benefits to...
Dissident Voice

Veering from the Slipstream: Vonnegut - I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one...
memeorandum

Statement from President Joe Biden on Passage of the Bipartisan Bill to Keep the Government Open (The White House) - The White House: *Statement from President Joe Biden on Passage of the Bipartisan Bill to Keep the Government Open* — Tonight, bipartisan majorities in ...
Political Wire

McCarthy Led a House Into Chaos - Punchbowl News: “McCarthy had a brutal few weeks. Twenty-one Republicans voted against his proposed CR on Friday, which included border-security provisions...
The Hill

Biden signs bill to keep government funded and avoid shutdown - President Biden on Saturday night signed a stopgap funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown right before the midnight deadline. The continuing resoluti...
Deadline Politics

Gavin Newsom Vetoes WGA And SAG-AFTRA Backed-Bill To Provide Unemployment Benefits To Striking Workers - California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have made striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits. WGA and SAG-AFTRA backed the legis...
Daily Dot

‘Why do I have to buy supplies for the classroom?’: Parent says her son got bad grade for not bringing supplies for the whole class - [image: Table filled with classroom supplies; Parent says her son got bad grade for not bringing supplies for the whole class] School supplies are a comm...
Texas Environmental News

Technology, Policy And Markets Are Driving The EV Revolution, EDTA Says - At the recent MOVE: Mobility Reimagined 2023 conference in Austin, Texas this week, Cullen said that three forces are moving [...] The post Technology, P...
Raw Story

'McCarthy has really played them': Dems hail speaker for defying 'MAGA cult' - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy bucked the MAGA cult when he funded the government for another 45 days, according to lawmakers. The U.S. Congress on Saturda...
See You In 2020

Finance capital wants a new big war. To get one, it’s going to have to crush all the anti-liberal forces. - It’s long been obvious that the biggest and most powerful wing of capital, that being finance capital, wants a massive new war; a war of proportions th...
Popular Resistance

Before His Assassination, JFK Sought Peace With The Soviet Union - We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy’s assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could hav...
Mediaite

Biden Praises Congress for Avoiding Shutdown but Blasts ‘Extreme House Republicans’ for ‘Manufactured Crisis’ - President Joe Biden issued a statement after Congress passed a 45-day stopgap spending bill, barely three hours before a midnight deadline that would hav...
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Rock on.
Vox

Congress avoided a shutdown. What happens now? - [image: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy points emphatically while speaking.] Kevin McCarthy teamed with Democrats to keep the government open. Will he keep h...
Axios

Congress delays government shutdown deadline until November - The Senate on Saturday passed a House bill to delay a government shutdown for the next month and a half. *Why it matters:* Congress started the weekend o...
Slate

How Congress Averted a Government Shutdown at the Last Minute - Kevin McCarthy had no other option. The damage to his speakership? Yet to be seen.
Daily Cartoonist

Scott Adams Wanted to Retire (or not) - On Friday cartoonist Scott Adams appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss his infamous comments made early this year on his podcasts. When asked about...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

California official who opposed #MeToo movement accused of killing fiancee - Maga darling Joseph C Roberts arrested after Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner’s remains found on San Francisco Bay shoreline A former San Francisco Republi...
Avedon's Sideshow

And all fell before the bull - Thanks to Jay Scheckley, who brought this to our attention: "THE OFFICE AT NIGHT is a 2012 acrylic cityscape by living UK artist Phil Lockwood. Every windo...
OpEd News

(16) How Libertarianism is a Poison that's Crept into America (Part 1) - Now that Robert Kennedy Jr. says, "I've always been aligned with libertarians on most issues" let's look at how libertarianism would work out in America, a...
Claytoonz

Roughs, Volume 199 - Most of these were drawn Friday, March 23. This one became a real cartoon. I think I drew this last Thursday. I gave this one serious consideration to beco...
The Verge

LG is dropping ATSC 3.0 from its TVs next year - [image: A picture of two wall-mounted LG TVs taken during CES 2022.] *A picture of two LG TVs at CES 2022.* | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge LG told th...
Portside

2023, the US Finally Destroyed Its Chemical Weapons - 2023, the US Finally Destroyed Its Chemical Weapons Dave Sat, 09/30/2023 - 17:04
The Root

Elon Musk Is in Hot Water And This Time It Has Nothing To Do With Twitter - Elon Musk is at the center of yet another racism controversy, only this time, we’re not talking about his social media platform. On Thursday, the U.S. Eq...
Mother Jones

The House Voted to Avert a Government Shutdown—For 45 Days - On Saturday afternoon, after weeks of GOP squabbling in the House of Representatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) led his chamber in passing a ...
Salon.com

Government shutdown held at bay after House passes 45-day funding bill - From here, the bill will go to the Senate for a vote
Krebs on Security

A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group - Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang's ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 25 - 29 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. Interest rates continued to head higher, with mortgage rates briefly goin...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 24th – 30th - Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a district court ignored the real issues when it dismissed the EFF’s constitutional challenge to FOSTA, while we looked a...
Discourse

All You Need to Do to Understand Dianne Feinstein Is Watch This 30-Second Video - It's all there.
Angry Bear

Mosquitoes in Sao Tome, Principe & the New York Times - I really don’t have much to add to this excellent article on mosquitoes in Sao Tome and Principe. It includes an explanation of how to make mosquitoes re...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - [image: Open Thread] Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Undernews

Extreme weather raises insurance rates - * Axios - **About 12 million properties* may see premium hikes because of the risk of flooding ... nearly 24 million because of potential wind damage .....
Common Dreams

Let's Get Real: On Spurious Clowns, Sad-Sack Theater and National Secrets In the Shitter - Hours before a likely, senseless government shutdown, the goons and sycophants of a GOP House Dysfunction Caucus lurched through a fact-free Biden impeac...
Liberation News

Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers set to strike - More than 60,000 California healthcare workers have authorized a strike at Kaiser Permanente – signaling the possibility of the largest healthcare strike i...
Independent Political Report

Libertarians Mourn the Loss of LNC Region 7 Representative Donavan Pantke - Donavan Pantke, the Libertarian National Committee Representative for Region 7, passed suddenly, according to news disclosed on the Libertarian National ...
Innocence Project

LISTEN: Dennis Lee Allen Reflects on the 15 Years He Spent Wrongly Incarcerated - The post LISTEN: Dennis Lee Allen Reflects on the 15 Years He Spent Wrongly Incarcerated appeared first on Innocence Project.
El Paso Matters

Looking for things to do this fall? Mazes, pumpkin patches, haunted houses, Halloween, Día de los Muertos events abound - Here’s a list of things to do this fall as Halloween and Día de Los Muertos activities abound across the borderland – from corn mazes to haunted houses ...
CultureMap Houston

Charming Houston town's top rank in nation for families leads week's hottest headlines - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.
Bracing Views

Canada Applauds a Waffen-SS Soldier - W.J. Astore The Good Nazi? In 1985, President Ronald Reagan was attacked for visiting a German military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, because that cem...
Mondoweiss

I was harassed by Zionists and fired for it — twice: Inside the culture of fear that runs Jewish institutional life - [image: Hebrew Union College campus in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo: Wikimedia)]Anna Rajagopal was fired from her position with Hebrew Union College's Jewish L...
nonsite.org

Two Poems from Diorama 1871 - I began to suspect the town wasn’t full of settler women at all
Reform Austin

Texas Coach Spent Over $5,000 In Strip Club With School Credit Card - A Texas soccer coach took the term “fundraising” to a whole new level, instead of bake sales or car washes, he decided to charge over $5,000 on a school ...
The Militant

UK forum discusses prospects to build the Communist League - LONDON — The end of a decadeslong retreat of the labor movement presents new opportunities for the Communist League, Jonathan Silberman told 40 people at a...
Alternet

How monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism - 'Buy land – they aren't making it any more,' quipped Mark Twain. It's a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling ...
Glasstire

“En El Frente”: Exploring Chicano Independent Publications at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - Years before they co-curated En El Frente, Alexandria Canchola and Joshua Duttweiler independently sought ways to make sense of the chaos and overwhelmin...
Daily Howler

Pressley insists that the border's secure! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023* *Ways to lose next year's election: *Yesterday, we said we'd show you something that was said on that day's Morning Joe. ...
San Antonio Current

Gov. Greg Abbott says special lawmaking session will begin on Oct. 9, likely on school vouchers - Gov. Greg Abbott has notified the Texas Legislature that a third special session will begin on Oct. 9. A Sept. 26 letter signed by Abbott and addressed to...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Baristas Win Back Pay - Hollywood writers make a deal, nurses back public power, and children keep their health care.
Grist

A warming planet is creating a booming, and dangerous, disaster-restoration industry - Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.
The Smirking Chimp

America's Full-Grown Spoiled Brats: Could This Be Our Problem? -
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Terrifying Words and Numbers - “I alone can fix it” doesn’t work unless you can get massive buy-in to the idea that it’s terribly broken.
NPR's Health Shots

A 'modern masterpiece' paints pandemic chaos on cloth made of fig-tree bark - Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted *Curfew* after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic c...
Southeast Texas Record

Statement from Attorney General Ken Paxton Upon Reinstatement as Attorney General of Texas - It is my great honor to be back to work. Read more…
Futurism

ChatGPT Could Put People Who Write Essays for Cheating Students Out of Business - Outcheat the Cheat ChatGPT has become the go-to cheating tool for lousy students. And that potentially means trouble for the essay ghostwriters that cash...
Scheerpost.com

A Major Win Against Factory Farming Points to a Powerful New Direction for the Climate Movement - Small farmers in Oregon, backed by a coalition of animal rights and climate activists, secured a big legislative victory over industrial factory farms, pro...
ArcaMax

What the Biden Impeachment Inquiry Has Proved - So far, the Republican drive to impeach President Joe Biden has illustrated a crucial aspect of political life in America. It has nothing to do with the pr...
The Intercept

George W. Bush Is Building a Memorial to the War on Terror. He Wants Your Feedback. - Over 4.5 million people will not be submitting comments because they are dead. The post George W. Bush Is Building a Memorial to the War on Terror. He W...
naked capitalism

Links 9/30/2023 -
Skeptophilia

Weirdness maps - Seems like everyone you meet has a tale of some weird experience or another. Ghosts, cryptids, time slips, UFOs, precognitive dreams -- taken as a group, t...
Off The Kuff

SCOTx rules whistleblowers’ lawsuit can proceed - Good. The Texas Supreme Court has sided with former top deputies of Attorney General Ken Paxton and cleared the way for their whistleblower lawsuit to move...
Infidel753

Blasphemy Day - September 30 is Blasphemy Day International, the date having been chosen in 2009 to commemorate the original publication of the Danish Muhammad cartoons i...
Crooked Media

Hot for Teacher’s Union - The post Hot for Teacher’s Union appeared first on Crooked Media.
Courthouse News

Double voting - HELENA, Mo. — A new Montana law prohibiting double voting unfairly criminalizes voters, particularly college students, for having two open voter registrati...
World Socialist Web Site

The ruling class, the CIA and the pseudo-left mourn Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein - The over three-decade long Senator from California was an enormously wealthy and faithful steward of US imperialism, which is why she is being hailed by th...
The AltWorld

Modern Empire Apologia Is Mostly Just Westerners Arguing With Reality - Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s funny how much empire apologia […] The post Modern Empire Apologia Is Mostly Just Wester...
Ballot Access News

California Will Have Two U.S. Senate Elections in 2024 - The California ballot for 2024 will have two U.S. Senate races. Because of the September 29 death of incumbent Dianne Feinstein, whose term was running out...
The Grayzone

As conservatives ramp up opposition to Ukraine war, Dems dodge The Grayzone - As a budget showdown looms in Congress, MAGA Republicans are alone in challenging the vast quantities of American weapons and cash being funneled to Kiev...
Progressive.org

Farm Aid 2023: Jamming Out for Family Farms and Sustainable Agriculture - The Indiana concert, headlined by Willie Nelson and Neil Young, with a surprise appearance by Bob Dylan, offers real solutions to our harmful food system.
ProPublica

Justice Department Charges Ex-IRS Consultant With Leaking Tax Information to News Organizations - by Paul Kiel ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ...
Workers World

Cuatro ‘Cumbres borrascosas’ - [image: Cuatro ‘Cumbres borrascosas’] El autor es consultor y analista internacional venezolano, y fue Director de Relaciones Internacionales de la Preside...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

As Strangeways Closes, Fitzhugh Avenue Changes Face Once Again - About 20 years ago, two business partners were counting bricks of drugs and money in an empty bar on Fitzhugh Avenue. Two officers from the Texas Alcohol...
SCOTUSblog

Section 8 vouchers take center stage in dispute between landlord and disabled tenant - [image: Section 8 vouchers take center stage in dispute between landlord and disabled tenant]The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of c...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: ‘We’re Gonna Put Kids in Cages’ - Robert D. McFadden @ The New York Times: Dianne Feinstein, 90, Dies; Oldest Sitting Senator and Fixture of California Politics. Deena Winter @ AlterNet: ...
Eater Houston

These Houston Nigerian Chefs Are Bringing West African Cuisine Mainstream - Houston restaurateurs and chefs like Ope Amosu, Kavachi Ukegbu, and Tobi Smith are making fufu and soup, jollof rice, and rice and stew more accessible ...
slacktivist

‘To every generation’: Child abuse at Cornerstone Church - "Welcome to kindergarten: The world is ending and you have no future."
Rio Grande Guardian

Rodriguez: STC Foundation raises almost $1 million - South Texas College Vice President Dr. Rodney H. Rodriguez previews the STC Foundation's Inaugural Gala. The post Rodriguez: STC Foundation raises almost...
Texas Standard

Why more diverse populations are choosing to homeschool their kids at higher rates - Previously, people have mainly homeschooled for religious reasons. But parents are now citing a variety of reasons for taking kids out of traditional class...
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 9/29/23 – Senator Dianne Feinstein Passes Away; Biden Delivers Speech on Democracy - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss top news such as Former Senator Dianne Feinstein passing away, and an immin...
Earthworks

Letter from Civil Society on Proposed Industry Mining Standard - There comes a time in every industry’s history when introspection is encouraged and necessary. With its profound impact on communities, … The post Lette...
Election Law Blog

“5th Circuit May Have Sidelined Supreme Court In Social Media Case” - Law.com: Not even the federal government is exactly sure what is going on. On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court was expected to announce its dec...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Venezuelan Maduro Baselessly Accuses Guyana’s Ali of Violating the Treaty of Geneva - Guyana is adhering to the Geneva Agreement of 1966 in trying to resolve the dispute over Essequibo through the United Nations International Court of Justice.
American Prospect

Does Jay Powell Want to Elect Trump? - Today on TAP: Most of the sources of inflation are either the result of the Fed’s own policy, or have nothing to do with domestic demand, such as the risin...
Novara Media

Rishi Sunak’s Bizarre Car Culture War, GB News in Civil War - Rishi Sunak’s first conference speech as Tory Party leader will reportedly be a big pitch to motorists. Plus: GB News descends into civil war; and Suella B...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE GREAT BOT-AND-SCROLL SWINDLE EDITION. - *Nothing in this post is to be taken as a knock on Kraftwerk.* Oh boy, have I got *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down *freebies for you! Yes, I bring *Roy Edroso ...
Environment Texas

Statement: Five more years of offshore drilling - Smallest oil leasing program ever starts to acknowledge new reality: No need to risk oceans for more oil The post Statement: Five more years of offshore ...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - It's time for a new open thread. In non-Trump news: - Sen. Diane Feinstein has died at age 91. - El Chapo's youngest son, Ovidio Guzman, has been e...
The Conversation

Feinstein's death raises the question: How are vacant Senate seats filled? - One US senator has died, another is facing criminal charges and one more is dealing with health problems. Who replaces a senator who is no longer in the seat?
Second Nexus

Dem Rep Explains One Thing Biden Is Guilty Of In Epic Impeachment Inquiry Takedown - Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett did not mince words during the House GOP-led impeachment hearing on Thursday as she expressed her frustr...
Crooked Timber

French Laïcité, Free Speech, and Unreasonable Views - A few weeks ago, Cyril Hédoin responded insightfully and constructively (here) to an essay I recently published @Liberal Currents. Subsequently, he did a ...
Ring of Fire

Bob Menendez Plays Victim Card Following Second Indictment - Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is refusing to step down after he was indicted for a massive bribery and political corruption scheme. The Senator is accu...
Bud Kennedy

Yes, Republicans see Donald Trump as a man of faith. But there’s more to the story | Opinion - It was one of those jarring, did-you-hear-this headlines, like “Space Alien Gives Feng Shui Tips” or “Are Giant Gators On Your Street?” But it was true. It...
Texas Observer

Poem: West Texas Sage - Heading into the desert sun,I tail an enthusiastic storm.Tires zing on sizzling pavement,slash through puddleson the rain-darkened highway, Like a guardi...
Capital & Main

Some States Are Fighting Rising Child Poverty With Tax Credits - *New Mexico is one of 10 states that have created or expanded child tax credits after Congress let a federal program expire.* The post Some States Are Fi...
High Country News

Public-land recreation management near Moab gets an overhaul - BLM releases new high-profile travel plan for Labyrinth Canyon area.
Texas Monthly

Sayin’ Howdy to Big Tex - The State Fair kicks off today. We celebrated by checking in with the big man himself.
Rewire

Brace Yourselves—SCOTUS Is Coming Back - And they’re making Jess and Imani do math. The post Brace Yourselves—SCOTUS Is Coming Back appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Debunking Christianity

Things the Clergy Won’t Tell You - *To protect thousands of different, conflicting Christian brands * Let’s look at four forbidden topics. *ONE* Each Christian denomination—there ...
Democracy Now!

Top Cuban Diplomat Seeks Probe of D.C. Embassy Attack & End to "Unbearable" U.S. Sanctions - Cuba has released footage showing an individual throwing two Molotov cocktails inside the Cuban Embassy compound in Washington, D.C., last Sunday, condemni...
DeSmogBlog

Major Polluters In ‘Ludicrous’ Push For Carbon Capture at Party Conferences - A trade group for contested carbon capture with close ties to major oil and gas companies is sponsoring over a dozen events at the Conservative and Labou...
Dos Centavos

Thoughts on Viernes – 09282023 - The COVID Report Trying to decipher the dashboard regarding COVID-19 in the wastewater seems to be getting easier for me. The last measure reported was for...
MintPress News

Mahmoud Abbas at the UN: A Global Betrayal of Palestine’s Struggle for Justice - Mahmoud Abbas has not only betrayed the Palestinian cause for his own gain, he has paved the way for Israel's legitimacy in the Arab world, argues Israel...
Space City Weather

In about a week, Houston should finally get its first true taste of autumn - We have two problems to solve right now in Houston. There’s the abnormally hot weather (September is on pace to obliterate the previous warmest September o...
Democracy Chronicles

What Have We Become? - The big fish who orchestrated the Jan 6th riot are again launching a preemptive strike against those who can get in the way of their desired outcome.
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Simen Saetre on Making Salmon a New, Domesticated Fish - Farmed salmon has been touted as a solution to food scarcity as the world turns... The post Earth911 Podcast: Simen Saetre on Making Salmon a New, Domes...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Time for young migrants to ‘take the mic’ in U.S. immigration debate - In the past decade, more than half a million immigrant children have made the journey to the U.S. alone in search of their loved ones, refuge and a shot...
The Progressive Wing

9/29-10/1 News Roundup and Open Thread - Faiz Shakir’s group, More Perfect Union, was instrumental in getting Biden to the UAW picket line.
Church and State

Judging the Religious Record - The lesson for religious apologists is this: You cannot expunge the bad stuff about your religion.
Antiwar.com

Volodymyr Zelensky, Between a Rock and a Hard Place - A year and a half into the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may be finding himself back in the same dilemma he was confronted with at the begi...
Idavox

Portland, OR: Industrial Timber Conference Disrupted by Protesters; Windows Busted Out - In so-called Portland, Oregon, protesters mobilized this week to disrupt the “Who Will Own the...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 29, 2023 - Black Agenda Radio September 29, 2023 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/29/2023 - 08:02 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Brad Blog

Our Dumb Special Coverage of the GOP's Stupid 2024 'Presidential Primary Debate' in CA: 'BradCast' 9/28/2023 - Woah, Nelly! Today's BradCast may arguably be both the dumbest and most fun ever! [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] The subject material --- ...
NORML

Ohio: Ballot Initiative Legalizing Marijuana for Adults Favored in Multiple Polls - [image: legalization vote yes][image: legalization vote yes]"Ohioans have seen similar legalization laws adopted in neighboring states and they know that...
Dissent Magazine

Inconsistent Populists: Sohrab Ahmari and the Anti-Neoliberal Right - *Tyranny, Inc.* aims to build a working-class coalition between the left and right. But Ahmari cannot get around the GOP populists’ dismal record on labor.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

You Don't Need A Weatherman: Biden, Trump, and the Prevailing Forces - Politicians are subject to pressures and changing times. We're getting a good look at where things are heading.
Media Lens

The Ego’s Circle Of Mirrors – Part 2 - The ego’s difficulty with the happiness of others is relentlessly communicated to children. Adults stoically tolerate youthful exuberance for a while – the...
Project Censored

The Rising Political Battle Over Censorship: - Da’Taeveyon Daniels, Youth Honorary Chair, Banned Books Week, 2023 Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics In the la...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

MSM Doesn't Promote Books Exposing Wall Street - There are six for profit corporations controlling over 90% of national media, and most of the remaining media is also controlled by for profit corporati...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ mayoral candidate once encouraged husband to attend Pride event clad in Speedo - Franklin, Tenn alderman, mayoral candidate, and MAGA Republican Gabrielle Hanson this year tried to block a Pride festival because she felt it was danger...
Socialist Alternative

After An Example-Setting Strike, WGA Wins A Landmark Agreement - After a five-month long strike, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has won a tentative agreement (TA) that will be put to a membership vote in October. The...
Ecosophia

September 2023 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standa...
Duck of Minerva

Jarrod Hayes - Professor Jarrod Hayes joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Jarrod was born in Colorado, but moved to Utah at a young age and grew up there for a bit before ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Sept. 26, 2023 - Dear Readers: This is the latest edition of Notes on the State of Politics, which features short updates on elections and politics. — The Editors New Jerse...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Class War - As part of the 2023 Festival of Urbanism at the City Road Podcast organised by Dallas Rogers, Adam David Morton talks with Mark Steven in the podcast, be...
Trivial Knot

Capital in board games - In economic strategy board games, it’s very common to have an arc of growth over the course of the game. You start out with few resources, and then you inv...
Reading the Pictures

Nolan Trowe’s Wheelchair Perspective Highlights Disability Activism - Wendy Kozol looks at how Nolan Trowe's images from a wheelchair provide a unique vantage of disabled activists in the halls of Congress. The post Nolan T...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Texas SBOE is Considering PragerU’s "Avoidance Curriculum": It's a Whitewashing of an Already Whitewashed Curriculum - *PragerU is neither a certified, nor university- or research-based curriculum, much less a university. It's an organization founded by Dennis Prager, a con...
Progressives Chat

‘Progressives Chat’ Turns Six - *Progressives Chat* launched on September 25, 2017. The calendar in 2017 was also the same as here in 2023. September 25, 2017 was, as is it here in 202...
Reveal

‘If the Police Don’t Believe You, They Might Prosecute You’: How Officers Turn Victims of Sexual Assault Into Suspects - [image: Illustration of oversized men in law enforcement uniforms peering down at a small woman, who is talking.] Research shows the debilitating effects ...
Alas, a Blog

Diets Don’t Work Therefore You Must Diet - This cartoon, drawn by Becky Hawkins, is a straightforward adaptation of a Michael Hobbes tweet (with Michael’s kind permission). Michael, for those who do...
LareDOS

TAMIU hosts tribute to iconic Laredo journalist and suffragist Jovita Idar Friday, Sept. 29 - Tribute includes lectures and performance of TAMIU Ballet Folklorico
Sludge

Top Five Weapons Companies Set to Get $140 Billion From Pentagon Next Year - A Sludge analysis estimates that more than half of the fiscal year 2024 Pentagon budget will go to private contractors, with the five largest companies rak...
Unlimited Hangout

The False Self with Ryan Cristian - The False Self with Ryan Cristian.
Edinburg Politics

House Research Organization provides online, unbiased, easy-to-understand explanations on the upcoming November 2023 state constitutional amendments, reports Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra - With 14 state constitutional amendments to face Texas voters later this autumn, the nonpartisan House Research Organization has published an easy-to-unders...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio, or: How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement - So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. It’s my own fault. I was sowing dissension. I engaged in harmful...
Latino Rebels

A Message From Futuro Media - As you may know, Futuro Media has been dealing with significant financial challenges recently. As a result, we’ve decided to pause Latino Rebels and take...
Shadowproof

From Behind Enemy Lines, Prison Journalists Report On Conditions At Their Own Risk - Practicing journalism in prison is necessary, but incarcerated reporters face enormous risks and aggressive retaliation. The post From Behind Enemy Lines...
Robert Reich

Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas Don’t get scared.... - *Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas * Don’t get scared. I’m going to talk about something that’s caused a lot of fear mongering. You see, advanced coun...
Campaign for America's Future

How Deep Canvass Conversations Can Transform America - Here at People’s Action Institute, we feel the way Jill Murphy, a Michigan schoolteacher who is now a full-time organizer for one of our affiliates, felt w...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Pro-Kremlin Propagandist Ties to White Nationalist Movement Deeper Than Previously Known - Hatewatch reviewed new materials indicating that Charles Bausman, the pro-Kremlin propagandist who disappeared to Moscow in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 20...
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...
BEYONDbones

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Land Destroyer

Washington’s Expanding Military Footprint on China’s Doorsteps - *September 13, 2023* (Brian Berletic - New Eastern Outlook) - A series of announcements by the US reflect its large and still growing military presence a...
Seeing the Forest

Call It “National Money” Not “National Debt” - I propose renaming the “National Debt” as the “National Money.” Here is why. Once upon a time, governments had to round up gold to “pay for” things. Kings ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Courting Destruction in Fascist America - Nina examines a story by antifascist Shane Burley that proves losing his lawsuit against "Antifa" doesn't mean Andy Ngo and his fascist allies aren't win...
Greg Palast

Until They Killed Them…100 Crucial Seconds of A Story Buried - The Osage of Oklahoma were the richest people on the planet. Until they killed them. For their oil. *Long Knife* is an investigation I have worked on quiet...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE | LATIN AMERICA | The First 9/11: Fiftieth anniversary of the coup in Chile - September 11, 2023, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Chile. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2023 The Austin Commi...
Dandelion Salad

Paul Jay: The Lies of 9/11 - Dandelion Salad Originally posted May 12, 2022 September 11, 2023 theAnalysis-news on May 6, 2022 Paul Jay was a guest on Law and Disorder hosted by Michae...
Lowering the Bar

Coast Guard Arrests Guy Just Trying to Walk to London in a Floating Hamster Wheel - Not a water-escape attempt, in my view, but still not a great idea. Related Stories - Can You Claim a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy as a Gu...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité - Holy crap, but Monseiur Macron and Le Uncle Sam sure have taken a crème brulée pasting in the past month, huh? Between France being chased out of Niger, on...
Texans For Public Justice

REPORT: Top Texas Officials Pocket $6.3 Million From Blackout Profiteers - Donors tied to 36 companies that private lawsuits allege manipulated natural gas markets to improperly profit from 2021’s deadly Winter Storm Uri contri...
Field Negro

One of "us". - I just saw a report that most republicans believe that the January 6th insurrection was a democratic inside job to make their dear leader, Donald tr...
ExChristian.Net

ACTS OF GOD - * By David Andrew Dugle ~ * Settle down now children, here's the story from the Book of David called The Parable of the Bent Cross. In the land Southea...
Texas Freedom Network

Conservative Education Program, PragerU, Sets Eyes on Texas. - What it Means for Texans and Their Families. At the center of that controversy is board member Julie Pickren – yes, the same Julie Pickren who participat...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Mayor Appoints New Public Parks Board - An Unusual Reliance on Private Funding for City Parks Public meeting Thursday, Sept. 7, 9:30 a.m. at United Way, 50 Waugh Drive. Notice and Agenda. Sign up...
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...
Web of Debt

More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota - U.S. banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three others on negative outlook. This follow...
TXElects

Texas Election Source Is Returning with New Partners - AUSTIN, Texas – [August 31, 2023] – Texas Election Source is returning under new ownership. Laura Carr and Eric Davis have partnered with Jeff Blaylock, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Meet Mary Wood, a Teacher Resisting Censorship - In the past year, Mary Wood has gone through an ordeal that’s increasingly familiar to teachers, librarians, and school administrators across the country...
New Progressive Alliance

No SPOILERS - Gary Swing is the resident expert for the New Progressive Alliance on the need for election reform and wrote the below article. He has run as a third par...
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...
Stinque

Morning in America - The post Morning in America appeared first on Stinque.
GreenSource DFW

Summertime blues? North Texans struggle to cope with extreme heat - *In prolonged heat and drought, prickly pear cactus can become stressed and shriveled or even die. Photo by Michael Smith.* Aug. 17, 2023 On a recent da...
Political Garbage Chute

Donald Trump Finding Out - Well…shit. How did this end up happening, anyway? Doesn’t everyone indicting him understand the rules have never, and never will apply to him? Think of t...
The Texas Signal

Latino Victory Fund Announces Houston City Council Endorsement - Today Latino Victory Fund, a political action committee that backs progressive Latino candidates running for office, announced they were endorsing Mario Ca...
Border/Lines

Judge strikes down transit ban 2.0, Ninth Circuit stays the order—08-09-23 - Immigration news, in context
The Disorder Of Things

Support the Troops: A Response - Rounding off this week’s symposium on Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, Katharine Millar responds to ...
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...
Grits for Breakfast

Congressman headlining Grits' zine launch event - For folks in Austin, please come to Grits' zine launch Sunday, July 23rd, from 2-4 p.m.. We're going to record interviews w/ me and others by Congressman...
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, ...
Equality Texas

All in for Equality Coalition Supports Litigation Against Anti-Trans Legislation - Press Contacts: Equality Texas, Johnathan Gooch, press@equalitytexas.org, (737) 308-2331 Texas Freedom Network, Emily Witt, emily@tfn.org, 512-538-5692 A...
Moron Majority

Pence Super PAC Unfortunately Launches Poorly Thought-Out Campaign Ad - With his presidential campaign failing to gain traction, some advisors are recommending Mike Pence drop out of the 2024 race. Some polls have Pence at the ...
One People's Project

Visit our shop on Facebook! - As we try to put things together here, some of you might be wondering where can you purchase our assorted merch. Currently our Facebook store is the best p...
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 ...
Morning Consult

How to Build Brand Awareness With Survey Research - The post How to Build Brand Awareness With Survey Research appeared first on Morning Consult.
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.
Two Party Opera

Taft and Forward - " Taft and Forward " on Two Party Opera May 3, 2023 ↓ Transcript Panel 1: Taft: "I never wanted to be president." Roosevelt: “Really, Taft? Who forced...
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 ...
Texas Watch

Consumers share stories about the need for #FairAppraisal and #SafeRepairs - Over 1,000 Texans have contacted their lawmakers in support of legislation for #FairAppraisal and #SafeRepairs. Texas Watch is in strong support of HB 1...
Dispatches from the Underclass

China’s Saudi-Iran Peace Deal Is a Major Setback for US Empire, w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi - Become a Patron to watch the full 90-minute interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-video-saudi-81663975 The historic deal brokered by China for a Sa...
DBC Green

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

Green incumbent Ed Williamson re-elected to County Health Department Board in Texas County, Missouri - “Health care is a right, not a privilege.” That principle, enshrined in the Green Party of the United States platform, guided Missouri Green Ed Williamson ...
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.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Statement on Houston Emanu El Synagogue Vandalism - We live in a period of time where the hallmark of our existence is our profound alienation from each other. In this isolated environment, we are divided an...
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.
Countercurrents

Big picture of disengagement in Ladakh - The Ministry of External Affairs has done the right thing by explaining its taciturn press release on September 8 Thursday in a single sentence regarding t...
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?
WAWG Blog

Preserving Our Democracy – Allegiance To a Nation OR Serving a More Perfect Union - On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the other, a citizenship oa...
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

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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...
The Reality-Based Community

Watch ‘Encanto’ free Disney’s online: Where to stream and watch from anywhere - Animated Movie’s!! Is Encanto available to stream? Here are options for downloading or watching Encanto streaming the full movie online for free on 123movi...
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...
Free & Equal

Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s - The post Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s appeared first on Free and Equal.
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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