Brains and Eggs: Stephen Colbert hearts Joementum

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

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

Daily Dot

‘YALL are lying’: Jimmy John’s customer tries to add mayo, ham to her Picklewich. It backfires - [image: Jimmy John's sign(l), Woman holding up Jimmy John's bag(c), Pickle spears(r)] There are no subs at Jimmy John's. At least not when it comes to th...
memeorandum

The MAGA Propaganda Machine Has Successfully Censored Voices Calling Out its Lies (Renee DiResta/The UnPopulist) - Renee DiResta / The UnPopulist: *The MAGA Propaganda Machine Has Successfully Censored Voices Calling Out its Lies* — We are going into this election i...
Election Law Blog

“In Pennsylvania, a race to keep voters from having their ballots thrown away” - WaPo: Republicans have sued to prevent voters like King from getting a do-over. But the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for voters who make ...
Raw Story

Harris' campaign just discovered door-knocking message that 'seems to be sticking': Expert - CNN political commentator Van Jones said Monday that the one “breakthrough message” that’s working with young, Black men in crucial battleground states l...
The Hill

Harris goes door-knocking in Pennsylvania on night before election - Vice President Harris went door-knocking in Pennsylvania one day before this year's presidential election. Harris was in Reading, Pa., and stopped in a res...
Antiwar.com

Iraq Weekly Roundup: 192 Killed in October - Another 50 people, including U.S. soldiers were wounded. The post Iraq Weekly Roundup: 192 Killed in October appeared first on Antiwar.com.
Mediaite

Chris Cuomo Refuses Directive To Cut to Megyn Kelly’s Trump Rally Speech: ‘It’s Just Opportunism’ - NewsNation host Chris Cuomo refused to cut back to Megyn Kelly's speech, ignoring a producer who told him, "They would like us to go back to her." The pos...
Idavox

Health & Wellness Organization Shows Predator the Door - Meet Daniel Hallgren, a guy who used his position in Punk Rock Saves Lives to... The post Health & Wellness Organization Shows Predator the Door appeared...
Salon.com

Joe Rogan officially endorses Trump following sit down with Elon Musk - "He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear," Rogan said of Musk before cosigning
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 984 - As the war enters its 984th day, these are the main developments.
Greg Palast

Will Vigilantes or Voters Choose our President? - Here’s the number that should scare you: In 2020 there were 88 vigilante votes challengers, almost all in Georgia. But the group that provided the hit list...
Political Wire

Joe Rogan Endorses Trump on Eve of Election Day - “Joe Rogan endorsed former President Trump for president on Monday evening,” Axios reports. “The podcaster’s endorsement of the GOP presidential nominee on...
Brad Blog

'Closing Arguments' from Callers to Undecided and Third-Party Voters: 'BradCast' 11/4/2024 - It's now or never. It's our final BradCast before Election Day 2024 and our last chance to open our phone lines to callers to have their say. [Audio link t...
OpEd News

Taking Care of the Caregivers - As changing demographics challenge the world, we need to realize that caregivers are a special group of people, usually women, but also men, who deserve to...
Axios

JD Vance calls for loving fellow Americans before labeling Harris "trash" - Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) criticized Vice President Harris for disrespecting Americans moments before calling her "trash." *The bi...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Nov 6–12 - This Week in People’s History, Nov 6–12 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 11/04/2024 - 21:05
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on.
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: The Americas - Workers continue to press actions against the far right Milei administration while a strike by 2,000 San Francisco hotel workers saw the arrest of workers ...
Alternet

'Three circles of MAGA' that keep Trump going: analysis - Ahead of Election Day, The Atlantic's Adam Serwer has laid out his recent discovery of the "three circles of MAGA" that support Donald Trump's presidenti...
Mediagazer

As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to The NYT to help ensure election coverage is available (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch) - Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: *As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to The NYT to help e...
Workers World

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for boycott of U.S. elections - [image: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for boycott of U.S. elections] The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US elections 2024: 10 key House races to watch - Democrats only need to flip a handful of seats to get back control of the lower chamber – here’s what to keep an eye on Much attention has been paid to t...
Vox

How Peanut the Squirrel became an unlikely right-wing celebrity - It’s the Monday right before the 2024 presidential election and Republicans cannot stop talking about the state-sanctioned euthanizing of a squirrel named ...
Ballot Access News

2024 is First Presidential Election in History in Which Ballot-Listed Candidates Can’t Have Votes Tallied - This year, Georgia and Ohio ballots have presidential candidates on them, for whom votes will not be counted. This has never happened before in any state i...
Mother Jones

Oakland’s Merchant of Bad Vibes - I was doom-scrolling on X a few months ago when a video about Oakland, California, caught my eye: “Do you know your recaller?” it asked, before an image of...
WhoWhatWhy

A Key Democratic Ally on Election Day: Secret Ballots - [image: League of Women Voters supporters, marching.] Democrats hope that women who are placating their Trump-supporting significant others will pull the l...
Two Party Opera

Undecided in 2024 - VOTE VOTE VOTE ↓ TranscriptSeven panel comic. First panel is a title panel, and the following six panels each have a different president. Panel 1: Captio...
Slate

Why the Dodgers are the true evil empire - Deep pockets and a deep roster have made the Dodgers inevitable world beaters.
Scheerpost.com

Glenn Greenwald: Media Outright Lies About Trump Calling For Liz Cheney’s Execution - By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Ian Welsh

Kamala Seems Likely To Win - [image: Kamala Seems Likely To Win] Back in 2022 almost everyone expected the midterms to go Republican. They didn’t. The Supremes won it for Democrats, ...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio hospitals start asking patients: Are you a U.S. citizen? - [image: The postoperative room at new Westover Hills Baptist Hospital to open later in the summer on the far west side.]Texas hospitals must now ask about ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner Of The 2024 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The prize committee is pleased to announce that Elliot Dolan-Evans’ article, titled ‘Pipes, profits and peace: toward a feminist political economy of gas...
NPR's Health Shots

If Trump wins, vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. could play a role in health policy - RFK Jr. has embraced fringe health care ideas for decades. If Trump wins, he will likely be able to influence promotion and funding for these things.
Deadline Politics

Dick Van Dyke Endorses Kamala Harris; Entertainer Reads Message He Delivered At 1964 Martin Luther King Event - Dick Van Dyke posted his endorsement of Kamala Harris for president today, marking the occasion by reading a speech he delivered at a 1964 civil rights eve...
Consortium News

Report: Trump Plans UK-Style Attack on Israel Criticism - Joe Lauria says the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther,” as covered by Drop Site News, replicates the U.K.’s use of a terrorism law to criminalize pro-P...
Wolf Street

Social Security Update Fiscal 2024: Trust Fund, Income, Outgo, and Deficit - Contributions rose by 5.6%, but benefit payments rose by 8.5%. The Trust Fund paid for the deficit, so its balance declined further, to $2.6 trillion.
Techdirt.

Editor-In-Chief Of RT, Russia’s Main Propaganda Network, Says Many Of Its Presenters Are AI-Generated – If You Can Believe Her - RT, formerly Russia Today, has appeared a few times here on Techdirt. As the long article about RT on Wikipedia explains, the TV channel has morphed from a...
Houston Public Media

Harris County GOP, Democrats response to possibility of DOJ election monitors - The DOJ announced that poll monitors would be in Harris County for election night, but the Texas Secretary of State's Office said it would go against state...
Futurism

Group of Waymos Get Confused, Clog Up San Francisco Street - Touch-and-Go In San Francisco, Waymo's driverless taxis are once again causing way-mo problems than expected. In a video posted to TikTok, a bemused onlo...
The Verge

Judge declines to block Musk’s $1 million voter giveaways - [image: A photo illustration of Elon Musk making a thumbs-up gesture against a background of arrows pointing up.] Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Ver...
Mondoweiss

Is Israel using depleted uranium to bomb Lebanon? - [image: An Israel Air Force F-35, nicknamed Adir, rehearses for a flyover above Jerusalem, April 19, 2023. (Photo: Nir Alon/ZUMA Press Wire/APA Images)]Isr...
Ring of Fire

NY Mayor Blames Indictment On Biden Criticism & Julian Assange Pleads Guilty To Journalism - Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City, has now been indicted on multiple counts of bribery, fraud, and corruption. Plus, Julian Assange is a ...
Space City Weather

Tropical Storm Rafael is headed toward the Gulf of Mexico: Here’s what to expect - In brief: Tropical Storm Rafael formed in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, and it could well become a hurricane before moving into the Gulf of Mexico later thi...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: I remain bullish about Mexico - Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza discussed in-depth US-Mexico relations when he appeared on a webinar hosted by the RGV Hispanic Chamber of...
First Draft

Bobby Junior: Born Again Bircher - Bobby Junior dishonors the Kennedy family legacy yet again.
Reform Austin

Trump’s Social Media Platform Under Fire For Outsourcing Jobs To Mexico - Donald Trump’s social media company has been outsourcing jobs to Mexico, despite the former president’s threats to punish companies that do the same, acc...
Project Censored

Unsolved Text Campaign Targets Female Law Faculty and Students - Since January 2024, female law school professors, deans, and students across the country have been subjected to anonymous online harassment based on thei...
The Root

Internet: Gayle King's Question About Megan Thee Stallion's Sex Life Was Old Fashion, Crossed the Line - As audiences continue to partake in Megan Thee Stallion’s new documentary, “Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words” on Prime Video, a particular tidbit involv...
Claytoonz

Candidate NucketFutz - Read the blog at my brand new Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Preston vs Sunderland lúc 03h00 ngày 07/11/2024 - Trở lại với giải Vô địch Anh, tại vòng 14, với phong độ thi đấu kém hơn, dù là đội chủ nhà thì Preston cũng sẽ gặp khó khăn khi Sunderland đang có thành ...
Crooked Media

A Strong Close—And an Iowa Poll Shocker - The post A Strong Close—And an Iowa Poll Shocker appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Georgia Supreme Court Overturns Relief for Cobb County Voters - This afternoon, the Georgia Supreme Court denied relief for Cobb County voters who requested absentee ballots on time but did not receive them on time du...
Texas Monthly

If Texas Ended Daylight Saving Time, We’d Still Get Cranky Twice a Year - As Sid Miller lamented this weekend, the twice-annual time switch is annoying. But ending it on the state level could be even worse.
The Daily Poster

The Dark Money Kingpin Behind Election-Day Chaos - Through dubious lawsuits, conspiracy theories, and voter intimidation efforts, conservative power player Leonard Leo helped lay the groundwork for distrust...
Border/Lines

Special Edition — On the election and the paths forward - Immigration news, in context.
Texas Standard

Why can’t Texans bypass the Legislature and put a referendum on the ballot? - Though Texas does go to voters for constitutional amendment referendums, these issues have to be put on the ballot by state lawmakers – not citizens gather...
Second Nexus

Ryan Reynolds Hilariously Responds After Neighbor Martha Stewart Surprisingly Disses Him - What's the old saying? Something about how a person can hide a lot behind a smile or a sense of humor? In the case of *Deadpool*'s Ryan Reynolds, apparen...
Southeast Texas Record

Abortion groups can't sue private Texans who thought about suing - AUSTIN - Private individuals who have the authority to enforce Texas' anti-abortion laws can't be sued by pro-choice groups, a federal judge has ruled. R...
ArcaMax

We the People Will Succeed - These are the most stressful and nerve-racking days I can recall. I vacillate between optimism and fear, hope and dread. You? I don’t recall an election in...
Popular Resistance

The Case For Abandoning The Burning House - Currently, the staunchest of Black liberals are demanding their community and its allies disregard the interests of Palestinians by way of voting for the...
The Texas Signal

The Toll Of An Abortion Ban - Last night on *60 Minutes*, the long running news program aired a segment about the grim ramifications of being in a state with a near-total abortion ban...
SCOTUSblog

Securities disclosure over Cambridge Analytica data breach comes before court - [image: Securities disclosure over Cambridge Analytica data breach comes before court]The justices will return to securities law on Wednesday with argume...
Sludge

Koch Super PAC Shatters Its Election Spending Record - The Americans for Prosperity Action super PAC, bankrolled by billionaire Charles Koch, has spent more than $157 million to influence voters in federal elec...
The Week

The history of Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories - How the 2024 Republican nominee has consistently stoked baseless fears of a stolen election
El Paso Matters

What you need to know about Election Day voting in El Paso - Election officials, law enforcement work for safe, secure Election Day voting The post What you need to know about Election Day voting in El Paso appea...
American Prospect

A Very Long Election Night - Today on TAP: If you are planning to be at a watch party, expect to stay until at least Friday.
The AltWorld

Arab American Voters: Don’t Blame Us If Trump Gets Elected | Focus Group Pt 1 - BT’s Rania Khalek conducted a focus group with Arab American voters in Michigan. All are outraged about […] The post Arab American Voters: Don’t Blame Us...
Daily Cartoonist

Tim Jackson – RIP - Cartoonist and comics historian Tim Jackson has passed away. Timothy Lee (Tim) Jackson January 16, 1958 – November 3, 2024 Social media was sharing the sad...
Novara Media

Starmer Hits Students With Tuition Fees Hike - The government has announced hikes to tuition fees; Keir Starmer has dialled up his anti-immigration rhetoric. Plus: we speak to Max Geller from Palestine ...
The Conversation

What poll watchers can − and can’t − do on Election Day - Political parties sign up volunteers to observe what happens at polling places – which can improve transparency or cause problems.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/4/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Today's RCP polling: Kamala closing; Dueling Op-Eds on Kamala v. Trump; Boeing vote today; News Guild tech wor...
NORML

Gallup: Public Support for Legalizing Marijuana Remains Near Historic High - [image: legalization vote yes][image: legalization vote yes]"An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose marijuana prohibition, and this has been the ca...
ProPublica

A Georgia Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results - by Doug Bock Clark and Heather Vogell ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that sp...
The Progressive Wing

Protests in Serbia - I don’t want to go into the open thread with this because there is such a nice flow going with the elections. However, I thought that there might be some i...
The Mind Unleashed

The Most Controversial Tech Breakthroughs of the Last Decade and Their Impact on Society - The past decade has seen a rapid surge of technological breakthroughs, transforming how we live, work, and connect with the world around us. From advances ...
Angry Bear

Open Thread Should Abortion be Allowed in the US? - Or is it even a decision the United States should be making for a woman? People keep popping up on AB threads talking about such when it is not a topic o...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 12: Your Voter Guide for Tomorrow’s Election - On the TMI Show for November 4th, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan err on the side of bringing you more information than you ever thought you needed. Th...
Dissident Voice

Kamala is the In-Girl - IMAGE/Monthly Review The criteria for winning a presidential debate is very simple: the candidate who fumbles less, makes less mistakes, avoids too many ...
Daily Howler

What explains the way Iowa votes? - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2024* *Also, Semafor tattles: *How does the state of Iowa vote in presidential elections? In recent years, the state's pattern has ...
LareDOS

Consider this - Why invest in falsehoods rather than truth and in cruelty rather than compassion? Why willingly deny ourselves and others our individual autonomy? And why ...
Rewire

Opinion: From Texas to Maryland, Cities Are Fighting Abortion Bans - "As Latinas and women in positions where we are able to promote and protect our constituents’ interests, we are united in our belief that abortion should...
Undernews

Democracy or dictatorship - *Sam Smith – *The choice in tomorrow’s election goes well beyond Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris. It is also a choice between continuing America as a con...
Discourse

The 60 Biggest Villains of the 2024 Election - Saluting the people who made this year so, so very terrible.
Liberation News

The workers who power up Cuba: Inside Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant - Eyewitness visit to Cuban powerplant where the hard work and sacrifice of workers brought the island back online in record time.
Democracy Now!

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud on Refusing Meeting with Trump, Not Endorsing Harris - All eyes are on Michigan as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battle over undecided voters in the crucial swing state, including many of the state’s 200,000 A...
Texas Observer

Is Rep Nate Schatzline Misusing Nonprofit to Play Partisan Politics? - On August 20, state Representative Nate Schatzline took the stage inside a black box-style room at the Mercy Culture Church campus in Fort Worth, where h...
Bracing Views

Blame - W.J. Astore When candidates lose an election, they are primarily responsible If Kamala Harris loses this election, can we please not blame Jill Stein, Sus...
The Smirking Chimp

We the People Will Succeed -
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander’s 2024 Sea Level Rise Update - Sustainability In Your Ear welcomes back oceanographer and author John Englander, who last visited with... The post Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John ...
Skeptophilia

A wolf, a disk, and a lighthouse - Because here in the United States, many Americans are looking at tomorrow's election the way a man walking in a railway tunnel sees the headlights of an ...
DeSmogBlog

Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch’s Views on Climate Change - The Conservative Party has elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader, who describes herself as a “net zero sceptic” and has received funding from the head ...
Off The Kuff

No observers allowed here - Texas Tribune: Texas tells U.S. Justice Department that federal election monitors aren’t allowed in polling places. Texas’ top elections official told the ...
slacktivist

Pro-lifers keep killing women and their children - Nevaeh Crain began bleeding and vomiting the day of her baby shower. She died because of Texas' anti-abortion laws.
Grist

The race for clean energy is local - A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots.
jobsanger

Kamala's Odd Coalition -
Counterpunch

Larry Hogan and Race: It Ain’t Pretty - Maybe it’s a small thing but I still can’t get over a line from Larry Hogan’s 2020 memoir. It’s about the first covid death to occur on Hogan’s watch as ...
Informed Comment

How did the Mideast become a Nuclear Flashpoint? - Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The state of world politics since the end of the Cold War has been marked by more conflicts and war...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Garbage no.2 (…garbage out) - So, that was the “October Surprise” this time around, huh? That was really it? Old Uncle Joe, movin’ kinda’ slow, suddenly decides to pipe up about some of...
Church and State

‘Terrifying’ Ad Shows Deadly Impact of GOP Abortion Bans - “MAGA abortion bans are killing our wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters,” said nonprofit progressive advocacy group DemCast.
alicublog

SUNDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: CHAMPAGNE OR HEMLOCK EDITION. - *I'm old and I was old then too but how did I miss this?* The title comes from not-yet-governor-elect Mario Cuomo on election night 1982. And I doubt he ...
See You In 2020

Multipolarity, Iran’s coming retaliation, & how these next escalations will impact the class struggle - Photo by Vahid Salemi of AP The era of multipolarity has come; there’s no undoing this, that’s simply the historical stage we’ve entered into. And the ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Pre-Election Special Bourbon Talk Q&A TONIGHT at 8pm Eastern - Hey everyone.
Trivial Knot

Origami: Stick Figure - This design is made by someone I know, a teenager that I see in the local origami space. For him, this is a very simple design, something he can teach oth...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Sabemos lo que hay que hacer! - Estamos listos para construyir un futuro mejor después de las elecciones. Estamos a horas de la elección más importante- y quizás la decisión más important...
Political Garbage Chute

NRA Spokesman on School Shooting Victims: “Fuck ‘Em, Man” - “Fuck ’em. Like, seriously, man. Fuck ’em.” – Cache Gazette, NRA Junior Deputy Media Liaison For generations, parents have worried about keeping their ch...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 3 November 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Socrates had no reason to fear death. Do not abuse the power of the hole....
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Nîmes, the Maison Carée - [image: Nîmes - Maison carrée]
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 2, 2024* *Perhaps inspired by the Day...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Field Negro

Three days and counting. - *" I live in a crazy time" ~Anne Frank~ * Just three days to go, and Americans are bracing for the election of a lifetime. It's hard to believe that D...
The Militant

Vote SWP! The working class needs to take political power! - Back the working-class alternative to capitalist exploitation, oppression WASHINGTON, D.C. — “As conditions of life for the working class in the U.S. deter...
Progressive.org

Thirty Years Without Erwin Knoll - Why we are all the poorer for it.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 28 - November 1 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There’s always some noise in the high frequency data, and this week tha...
Capital & Main

Hacer América Odiar Otra Vez: Supremacistas blancos en la Administración de Trump - Durante la presidencia de Donald Trump, al menos una docena de funcionarios y asesores vinculados a grupos o ideologías de supremacía blanca tuvieron fun...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video: Donald Trump simulates graphic sex acts during Wisconsin campaign speech - This is exactly what it looks like. You can see the video below. During a campaign speech in Wisconsin, I guess Trump was expressing a displeasure with ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Cottage Industry of Conspiracy Theorists Peddles Mistrust of Elections - Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election process.
Krebs on Security

Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations - A number of cybercriminal innovations are making it easier for scammers to cash in on your upcoming travel plans. This story examines a recent spear-phishi...
Eater Houston

There’s Still Time to Score Houston’s Viral Pumpkin Spice-Filled Conchas - [image: An image of La Hacienda Bakery’s viral pumpkin-spice filled conchas.] Kirk Sides The staff at La Hacienda Bakery are still working around the clo...
Debunking Christianity

David Fitzgerald’s Toolkit for Dismantling Christianity - *Religions Thrive on Fantasy, Deceit, and the Failure of Curiosity * One of the biggest examples of deceit is this practice of Bible editors: printing the...
MintPress News

From Promise to Peril: Israel’s Ground Invasion of Lebanon is Unraveling - As the Israeli military grapples with fierce resistance and internal discord, the ambitions of the invasion remain unfulfilled. The post From Promise to ...
Earthworks

Another Conspiracy Theory Adds to Western North Carolina’s Trauma - In the wake of Hurricane Helene, a string of wild conspiracy theories have circulated across social media, made up by … The post Another Conspiracy Theo...
High Country News

Resource production or preservation? Election puts Alaska lands on the line - From oil in the Arctic to the Ambler Road, Alaska's resource and conservation battles await a new administration’s fate, affecting communities, ecosyste...
Lowering the Bar

House Advertised as “Not Haunted” - You can't prove it is! (Or that it isn't.)
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was Theodor Herzl A Prophet? If So, What Does it Mean? - Theodor Herzl is widely considered the founder of the modern Zionist movement, and by some, he's considered a prophet, and others, both now and when he was...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chain Of Command: How Facebook’s Libra, Bank Regulators, and PayPal Built A New World Currency - Two companies closely tied to Peter Thiel – PayPal and Facebook – have embarked on apparently unsuccessful efforts to create a “new world currency.” Yet,...
Bud Kennedy

Donald Trump wants a do-over. But is that really what America wants? | Opinion - Donald Trump has now been running for president since before some of his voters were born. It’s been 25 years since Trump first told CNN’s Larry King he wo...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread: Respect for Puerto Rico - Reggaeton music artist Nicky Jam has rescinded his endorsement of Donald Trump as a result of the racist and degrading comments delivered by a comedian w...
Ecosophia

The Man with the Moustache - One of the lasting traditions on this blog is that whenever a month has five Wednesdays in it, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject fo...
Reveal

A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist Behind Bars - Abused by her adoptive father, she was victimized again by the police charged with protecting her. A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist B...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: We Could Let In More Immigrants - Immigration is great for the U.S.. It’s great for the economy. It’s great for our culture. Compared to those of us born here, immigrants are disproportiona...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] Market Failure: The Climate Crisis and the Limits of Capitalism - Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze in conversation, moderated by Kate Aronoff.
Progressives Chat

Election 2024 Prediction: Trump … Vance … Republican Trifecta - Next week is the 2024 United States presidential election … along with other races and ballot issues. “Election Day 2024” will publish Tuesday, Novembe...
New Progressive Alliance

After the Election - I have friends on both sides and miss the days when we could tease each other instead of believing that we had to be mortal enemies. Those who advocate t...
Seeing the Forest

Still One Of The Best - Betty Boop, Minnie the Moocher
Democracy Chronicles

New Vision for Hollywood: Community-Driven Path to Sustainable Growth and Local Empowerment - To empower Hollywood, Eduardo proposes community investment and sustainable development for long-term, locally driven growth.
ExChristian.Net

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus - *The following is a short interview with Bill Burkland, the author of a soon to be released book entitled "The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named J...
The Grayzone

How the Israel lobby fueled the rise of Britain’s top anti-Muslim chaos agent - The riots that gripped the UK this August were heavily inspired by anti-Muslim agitator Tommy Robinson. His rise to prominence is largely the product of ...
Duck of Minerva

Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara? - On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PK...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Every Israeli Accusation Is A Confession, from Lebanon to Palestine, w/ As’ad Abukhalil -
Avedon's Sideshow

Scarlet billows start to spread - Thanks to the late Taral Wayne for once having used this APOD photo by David Lane of the Milky Way over Devil's Tower as his October profile pic. (Original ...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Land Destroyer

US Government Behind Campaign Violating North Korean Airspace - *October 23, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - North Korea has recently warned against the use of drones over its sovereign airspace to spread subversive prop...
CultureMap Houston

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Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
GreenSource DFW

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Robert Reich

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Texas Freedom Network

“All People Are Beloved by God”: How Progressive Faith Communities Fought for Full LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Within the United Methodist Church - Learn about the United Methodist Church split and why faith values in our Just Texas community demand we fight for inclusion and justice. [...] Read More...
Media Lens

Expanding Beyond Earth – The Illusions Of ‘Progress’ - In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefite...
BEYONDbones

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS | October Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS can be spotted with the naked-eye this month. HMNS Astronomer James Wooten explains. Saturn is now an evening obje...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Fear and Loathing in New Normal Germany - The first rule of New Normal Germany is, you do not compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany. If you do that, New Normal Germany will punish you. It will...
Texas Watch

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Courthouse News

Federal judge unseals Jack Smith immunity filing in Trump’s Jan. 6 case - Jack Smith's immunity brief argues that Trump can still be criminally tried over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's sw...
Glasstire

Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes” - Contemplating the art of Arielle Masson is a cosmic journey that spirals through deep inner space into the vastness of the universe — moving through the ...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
Black Agenda Report

Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean - Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean bareditors Wed, 10/02/2024 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Connection Between Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday and Tonight’s VP Debate - Former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday coinciding with the vice presidential debate today is fitting, given the important role Carter played in e...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Inside the scramble to stop the displacement of thousands of California foster children - For years, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California had been the primary insurer for the state’s foster family agencies, which house some of the m...
nonsite.org

Challenging the New Deal’s “Contemptible Neglect”: The CIO’s Campaign to Organize Agricultural Laborers - That disaster followed in 1947 when Republicans, who won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1946 election, passed the Taft-Hartley amendment to t...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
The Socialist

International Relations: Tensions in Eastern Europe - Tensions in Eastern Europe have escalated recently, with geopolitical implications that resonate globally. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine ...
Web of Debt

The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech - Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly th...
Stinque

A Kind of Hash - The post A Kind of Hash appeared first on Stinque.
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
The NM Political Report

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
The Rag Blog

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Moron Majority

Republicans Sound The Alarm: Harris Administration Could Threaten to Pass Laws Most Americans Actually Want - WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican Party has entered full-blown panic mode amid growing fears that a Kamala Harris administration might attempt to pass legi...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Jim Schutze doesn’t dig Tim Walz. - The former D Magazine and Dallas Observer columnist now writes almost exclusively on his Substack, called Shoots, about the mess that is Houston ISD. But...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Cambodian authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted - Dozens of rights groups say activists were prosecuted for award-winning environmental work, while authorities denied defendants due process or right to a f...
Equality Texas

Remembering Sheila Jackson Lee - Today, we reflect on the profound legacy of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a tireless advocate for equality and justice. Her passing leaves a void in ...
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
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...
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...
Independent Political Report

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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...
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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...
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

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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...
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Due Dissidence

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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

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

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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.
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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...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

I Am One of Aimee Stephens’s Lawyers, and I Heard Yesterday’s Argument Firsthand - Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument on whether it is legal to fire people for being transgender or for being gay. I represent Aimee Stephens, th...
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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Friday, July 14, 2006

Stephen Colbert hearts Joementum

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