Brains and Eggs: Super Bowl Bests

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

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

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

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

📍 Houston, Texas

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— missfalasteenia (@missfalsteenia) January 12, 2024

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Vote Blue No Matter Who - Sure why not.
Raw Story

Trump Defense Secretary describes when he rejected then-president's unlawful order - Donald Trump's former defense secretary, Mark Esper, rejects the idea of absolute immunity for a president, which was the argument before the Supreme Cou...
memeorandum

A day all about Trump: Mostly out of sight, but still ubiquitous (Dan Balz/Washington Post) - Dan Balz / Washington Post: *A day all about Trump: Mostly out of sight, but still ubiquitous* — From the Supreme Court to a Manhattan courtroom, Thurs...
Vox

The wild past 24 hours of Trump legal news, explained - Former US President Donald Trump exits his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 25, 2024, in ...
Mediaite

Israel-Palestine Barely Registers as an Issue For Young Americans In Shock Harvard Poll - Harvard Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics recently released its Spring 2024 poll of young voters 18 to 29 years old and offered some surprising findi...
Al Jazeera English

Blocks from the White House, US students stand steadfast with Gaza - Palestine solidarity encampment springs up at George Washington University despite crackdown and arrests across US.
SCOTUSblog

On presidential immunity, a riveting national civics lesson - [image: On presidential immunity, a riveting national civics lesson]Today is the last day of argument for the 2023-24 term, and – as everyone in the cour...
Alternet

'Success for the prosecution': Legal expert points to 'direct proof of Trump’s state of mind' - Several legal experts have praised Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team's decision to select former American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker as the...
Election Law Blog

“Video offers rare glimpse of police enforcing Arizona’s election laws” - Interesting Washington Post report on the front lines of the “voting wars”–in particular, the practice in Arizona of observers watching drop boxes and th...
WhoWhatWhy

Economic Growth in US Slows as Inflation Is on the Rise Again - An economic slowdown will make it tougher for President Joe Biden to make the case that "Bidenomics" works.
Slate

Some Badly Needed Clarifications About That “TikTok Ban” Biden Signed - There’s a lot of confusion about this. Here’s what’s really going on.
Ballot Access News

Georgia Governor Signs Bill Eliminating Public Service Commission Elections in 2024 - On April 18, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed HB 1312. Among other things, it says there will be no Public Service Commission elections this year. The st...
Texas Monthly

“This Would Have Been a Peaceful Gathering”: Behind the Scenes of the UT Protest - Students protesting Israel's war in Gaza say they were demonstrating peacefully at the University of Texas at Austin when police tackled and arrested them.
Sludge

Hochul Raised Big Bucks From Real Estate Moguls Before Housing Deal - A Sludge analysis found that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has received at least $1.5 million from real estate industry donors since the start of 2023.
Axios

Trump: Charlottesville rally was a "little peanut" compared to pro-Palestinian protests - Former President Trump on Thursday doubled down on his claim that the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was a "peanut" compared to the curre...
The Hill

The return of net neutrality - Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story FCC revives Obama-era net neutrality rules The Federal Communicat...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

USC cancels main commencement ceremony amid Gaza protests - Move made after more than 90 demonstrators arrested on campus and university cancels pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s speech The University of Southern Ca...
Mediagazer

A look at the competition for NBA live sports media rights after the 2024-25 season, involving Amazon's Prime Video, YouTube, NBCUniversal, Disney, and WBD (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *A look at the competition for NBA live sports media rights after the 2024-25 season, involving Amazon's Prime Video, YouTube, NBCUn...
Futurism

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars - Never Forget Where were you when NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust? For nearly 70 years, NASA — often with help from international friends ...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio Philharmonic’s third season includes concerts at the Majestic Theatre - Music director Jeffrey Kahane announced the San Antonio Philharmonic's third season, which includes concerts at the Majestic Theatre featuring the music of...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Tough - Sean Feucht says that “we are living in the last days”: “These are the end times … we’re living in the midst of it.” Mark Meckler of Convention of States...
The Conversation

Trump’s immunity arguments at Supreme Court highlight dangers − while prosecutors stress larger danger of removing legal accountability - The case argued before the Supreme Court has profound implications for Donald Trump − but also for the country.
Common Dreams

Major Brazilian Mobilization Demands Indigenous Land Rights in the Face of Mounting Threats - Thousands of Indigenous leaders and representatives and their allies converged on Brazil’s capital this week for the 20th Free Land Camp (*Acampamento Te...
The Week

Magazine interactive crossword - May 3, 2024 - Issue - May 3, 2024
Political Wire

USC Cancels Commencement Ceremony - “The University of Southern California canceled its main stage graduation ceremony Thursday as college officials across the U.S. worried that ongoing campu...
The Verge

Baltimore coach accused of using AI voice cloning to try to get a high school principal fired - [image: Photo illustration of a brain made of data points.] Image: The Verge A former athletic director of a Baltimore high school has been arrested and ...
The Root

Thanks Bey, We Now Got the Secrets to Long, Healthy Black Hair - If you think long, healthy hair is something that only exists in your dreams, you couldn’t be more wrong. With the right products, styling techniques and...
Deadline Politics

USC Cancels Main Commencement Ceremony, Citing Safety Concerns, Will Hold Smaller Events - Citing safety concerns following escalating protests, USC announced today it has canceled the “main stage” commencement ceremony that had been planned for ...
San Antonio Current

Faculty petition to hold no-confidence vote in UT-Austin president after protest response - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Fallout from police crackdown...
Techdirt.

French Collection Society Wants A Tax On Generative AI, Payable To Collection Societies - Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid t...
NPR's Health Shots

Emergency flights for pregnant patients up sharply in Idaho under strict abortion law - The number of people needing flights out of Idaho for emergency abortions is up sharply since the state's abortion ban took effect.
The Daily Poster

The Great Unknown About Conflicts Of Interest In Arizona’s Abortion Ban - As state supreme courts consolidate power and corporate money, shoddy oversight allows justices to hide their financial conflicts of interest from the public.
Courthouse News

Forever-chemical butter - CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal court in New York preserved the false-advertising class action brought against the makers of Kerrygold Irish Butter, which ...
Mondoweiss

20 Pomona College students were arrested over a Gaza sit-in, but it hasn’t slowed their campaign - [image: Hundreds of Claremont Colleges Students Rally for divestment after student arrests at Pomona College (Pomona Divest from Apartheid)]"We are organiz...
Progressive.org

Workers Shouldn’t Have to Risk Heat Stroke - Too many workers have already died from laboring in extreme heat due to climate change.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

In Kansas, the ACLU Is Challenging Anti-Trans Laws in Court, and by Building Community - In 2023, Kansas enacted a law attempting to define “transgender” out of existence by restricting the definition of a “woman” to the biological function o...
Texas Observer

Did Texas Police Violate First Amendment Rights of Pro-Palestine Protesters? - On Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested and charged 57 people, including one journalist, with criminal trespassing on the Univ...
Dissident Voice

“Deadliest days” in the West Bank - Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa, the leader of the Tulkarem Brigade militia in Nur Shams refugee camp, emerges among mourners after rumors of his kil...
Mother Jones

Trump Denies the Affairs at the Heart of the Hush-Money Case. Almost No One Believes Him. - Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan facing 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election. ...
Salon.com

"How's our girl doing?" Pecker says Trump was worried about election "impact" of alleged affairs - The former National Enquirer publisher testified that Trump thanked him for keeping his alleged affairs private
Daily Dot

‘Them gossip sessions are fire I bet’: Man gets job at AutoZone to work with other guys. It backfires - [image: workers with caption "POV: you applied @ autozone to work with guys" (l) Autozone (c) worker with caption "POV: you applied @ autozone to work wi...
Socialist Alternative

You’re Not Crazy; The Economy Still Sucks - You’re wheeling your grocery cart through the aisles, picking up what you need for another week of feeding yourself and your family. You’re clutching a Pos...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims continue their snooze-fest - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog [Note: I’ll put up a post discussing Q1 GDP later today.] Initial and continuing claims continued their snooze-f...
OpEd News

Shortage of Direct Care professionals a national concern - On April 16, 2024, Chairman Bob Casey of the U.S. Special Committee on Aging (D-PA) touted his new legislative proposal, S. 4120, that would ensure that di...
Houston Public Media

Former Fort Bend ISD employee isn’t to blame for bond shortfalls, report says - Administrators blamed a former employee for failing to share updated cost estimates. But a new report found that their failure to account for inflation led...
Earthworks

Biden Admin Takes Action to Protect Alaska Communities, Caribou, & Clean Water from Proposed Ambler Road - Tribes and Conservation Groups Applaud Decision with Ads in State and National Media Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Land … The post Biden Admin Takes A...
Discourse

This Is Incredible - Across the nation, college students are standing up against America aiding and abetting a genocide in Gaza.
Unlimited Hangout

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Second Nexus

Biden Posts Blunt PSA Four Years After Trump Suggested 'Injecting' Bleach To Cure Covid - Democratic President Joe Biden's campaign issued a stark warning for American voters as the President marked the fourth anniversary of former Republican ...
American Prospect

‘Son of Bush v. Gore’ Day at the Supreme Court - Today on TAP: Which henceforth must be referred to as the ‘Supreme Court (R)’
Daily Howler

Why Michael Cohen was sentenced to prison! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024* *As opposed to what you might hear: *Actually yes, we know what we said. Yesterday afternoon, we said we'd walk you thrown an ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Struggle: How We Take Back Power - The Stakes Part IV: Rebuilding Democratic Power and Curbing the Threat of Authoritarianism
Debunking Christianity

A New Printing of My Book! - I just received a copy of my massive refutation of Christianity with 536 pages to it. The book to the right was too small. The middle one was okay as it g...
Texas Standard

More frequent – and worsening – extreme weather events are ahead for Texas - A report from a state climatologist and the nonprofit Texas 2036 finds that severe weather events are accelerating
World Socialist Web Site

Israel escalates war with Lebanon, plans Rafah invasion, as Nasser hospital atrocities details emerge - An official Israel Defense Forces statement explained that the strikes on Lebanon were not carried out in response to any specific attack but as “part of t...
Undernews

The Supreme Court doesn’t define our democracy - *Sam Smith – *Listening to the Supreme Court and its witnesses discuss powers of a defeated president, I was struck by how the discussion was limited to ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/25/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, anti-Trump legal cabal revealed, sudden emergence of the Molineux Rule as an issue for Bragg's prosecution, do...
The AltWorld

Abu-Obeida’s multi-layered message - Gaza’s resistance could be transformative for the Arab World Millions of people around the world eagerly await […] The post Abu-Obeida’s multi-layered me...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 25, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: National Weather Service warns Summer 2024 will be hotte...
The Intercept

“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree - Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years. The post...
First Draft

Absolutely Bonkers - Instant analysis and MELOB of Trump v. United States.
Claytoonz

Freed Rapists Club - A lot of rape victims never report their rapes because most men, and a lot of women, won’t believe them. They often face persecution, especialy if the perp...
Capital & Main

California Often Leads Change, but Not for Single-Payer Health Care - *Supporters say pushing yearly in Sacramento, even if unsuccessful, is vital to keep leaders from ducking the issue.* The post California Often Leads Cha...
Texas Freedom Network

What Does a School Board Do? - Learn about the role of school boards and how you can show up for the education and rights of students in your district. [...] Read More... The post Wha...
Wolf Street

Our Drunken Sailors Splurge on Services, Fixed Investment Surges. But Much-Worse Imports Drag Bigly on GDP. And there’s a Blip in Government Spending - Re-accelerating inflation in Q1 hit “real” GDP growth. “Current-dollar” GDP growth only a hair slower than in Q4.
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2024 - Latest Validated Independent News Stories As we prepare the April newsletter, Project Censored faculty, students, and judges are reviewing the Validated ...
Crooked Media

Nish dismantles Sunak’s attack on disabled people and Coco meets Caroline Lucas - The post Nish dismantles Sunak’s attack on disabled people and Coco meets Caroline Lucas appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 4/25/24 – Gaza War Protests Spread Across Country, Texas Cracks Down on Students - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss hot topics from around the globe and nationwide, including the growing prot...
Reform Austin

Beaumont Could Lose A Lot If Phelan Fails Runoff - Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is in the fight of his political life thanks to a Trump-backed primary challenger. If he fails to win, Beaumont could als...
Bonddad

Leading indicators in the Q1 GDP report are mixed - - by New Deal democrat Most of the commentary you will read about Q1 GDP that was released this morning will be about the core coincident components...
Southeast Texas Record

TLRPAC endorses John McQueeney in Republican primary for HD 97 - AUSTIN—Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC today endorsed John McQueeney for election in the Republican Primary runoff for House District 97, which covers part...
El Paso Matters

Migrant apprehensions are down at the Texas border. Have state policies had an impact? - Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border. The post Migrant apprehensions are down ...
Glasstire

Top Five: April 25, 2024 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Jose Villalobos: groomed Artpace (San Antonio) March 28...
Rio Grande Guardian

Esterly: New air traffic control tower is a significant milestone for Valley International Airport - Valley International Airport is getting a new air traffic control tower. VIA Aviation Director Marv Esterly explains its importance. The post Esterly: N...
Robert Reich

Are Presidents Above the Law? Donald Trump thinks presidents... - *Are Presidents Above the Law? * Donald Trump thinks presidents should be allowed to commit crimes. Rubbish. Trump claims that quote, “A PRESIDENT OF THE...
Novara Media

Read Some Effing Jameson! - The exhortation to “read some effing Orwell!” is an old chestnut of the online left, whether ironic or sincere, or somewhere in between. But if we’re looki...
Bracing Views

Breathing New Life Into Mass Death - W.J. Astore $95 Billion “Supplemental” for More Weapons and War Who knew mass death was such a growth industry? And by “death” I mean not only of humans bu...
Rewire

Do We Have a Constitutional Crisis on Our Hands—Again? - Yesterday’s oral arguments over EMTALA show how deep the post-'Roe' constitutional conundrum really runs. The post Do We Have a Constitutional Crisis on ...
Scheerpost.com

Texas State Troopers in Riot Gear Crack Down on UT Students’ Gaza Protest - "Why do we even have these institutions of higher learning if we won't let students speak their conscience and protest?" said one University of Texas profe...
Ian Welsh

Canadian Housing Market Craziness - [image: Canadian Housing Market Craziness] So, the CBC is the the national broadcaster in Canada, similar to the BBC in Europe. They’re pretty stodgy, the...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Seven More Days in May - “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen Dedalus As Doonesbury concluded back in 1971, putting Kent State into the memory hole a...
Democracy Now!

Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies - Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent protests...
Space City Weather

Warm and windy weather begins today, with gusts peaking on Saturday near 40 mph - In brief: Houston is beginning the first of four days of warm and windy weather, with Saturday looking especially gusty. Rain chances start to increase on ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Allies Indicted in Arizona -
Church and State

Patriarchy and Overpopulation - Let’s wreck patriarchy together, for all the women and girls, for our global population, for the 8 billion people who call this planet home.
ArcaMax

The People Have a Right to Enjoy Their Parks - Public parks belong to the public, right? A billionaire can't cordon off an acre of Golden Gate Park for his private party. But can a poor person -- or any...
Two Party Opera

Human, Right? - ↓ TranscriptA five panel comic with Joe Biden standing on the South lawn of the White House. Joe Biden rants, "Do I believe in human rights? C'mon man. S...
Environment Texas

Statement: EPA tells power plants to clean up their act - New rules will slash toxic pollution, improve health The post Statement: EPA tells power plants to clean up their act appeared first on Environment Texas.
Earth 911

DIY Tealight Candle Holder Made from Pallet Wood - Looking for sustainable home decor that adds a touch of rustic elegance to any room?... The post DIY Tealight Candle Holder Made from Pallet Wood appeare...
Off The Kuff

May 2024 special election early voting, Day Three: Still slow going - Here’s your Day Three early voting report from the May 2024 special election. As of the third day, a total of 16,078 ballots have been cast, with 4,399 in ...
ProPublica

Texas School Districts Violated a Law Intended to Add Transparency to Local Elections - by Lexi Churchill and Jessica Priest ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soo...
Grist

Republican attorneys general mount a new attack on the EPA’s use of civil rights law - 23 states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice.
Media Lens

The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support - Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes...
High Country News

Is Biden a public-lands protector? - The administration makes the biggest land-management moves in a half century. The post Is Biden a public-lands protector? appeared first on High Countr...
The NM Political Report

Latest SCOTUS abortion case uncertain and could impact New Mexico - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday on an abortion-related case, this time over whether an Idaho anti-abortion law preempts a federa...
Counterpunch

Alliance for the Wild Rockies Stops 100 Miles of Roads and 5,000 Acres of Clearcuts on Montana Public Lands - The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and its co-Plaintiff, Native Ecosystems Council, have prevailed in stopping the Middleman project in Montana’s Big Belt...
jobsanger

Like The Poo-Flinging Chaos Monkeys They Are -
Portside

Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation - Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation Geoffrey Thu, 04/25/2024 - 00:29
Workers World

PDF of April 25 print issue - [image: PDF of April 25 print issue] Download the PDF. U.S. student encampments demand Divest from Israeli apartheid! UAW wins historic victory at Volkswag...
Informed Comment

German Far Right Leader on Trial for Nazi Slogan: “X” Marks the Spot - Halle an der Saale, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– On the morning of April 18, in front of the district court in Halle, it became eviden...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Where Biden’s Primary Showing Was (And Wasn’t) Especially Strong - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE —As with our recent examination of the Republican primary, President Biden—like former President Trump—has won most of his c...
Antiwar.com

US Foreign Policy: ‘No Daylight’ Is Where Peace Dies In Darkness - “Absent a directed, sustained, and articulated policy of no daylight between the United States and Israel,” Matthew Continetti wrote in the Washington Fr...
Trivial Knot

Crazy about cat men - In one of those meatspace conversations, we were talking about crazy cat ladies, each of us trying to do cursory research on our phones. Why are crazy cat ...
Popular Resistance

Columbia University Threatens To Deploy National Guard On Students - Columbia University students who are part of the Gaza solidarity encampment have raised the alarm that during negotiations, the university administration...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Spreading lies about 2020 election leads to bankruptcy for anti-LGBTQ site The Gateway Pundit - Jim Hoft Far be it from me to celebrate in someone's misfortune, but when an anti-LGBTQ publication is having serious problems, it's party time. From ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Kremlin deploys propaganda outlets to whitewash Wagner’s footprints in the Sahel - The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russi...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
slacktivist

You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above - Why political disputes between Good Hearted evangelicals get so nasty and personal. Plus: A semi-pro story, and what to do if you're ever in Ocean Grove, NJ.
Ring of Fire

Dems Refuse To Remove Corrupt Bob Menendez & New Book Slams Rural Voters As Threat To Democracy - Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was hit with even more indictments for his corruption, but Democrats in the Senate don’t think it’s a good idea to kick h...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

White Nationalist Conference To Host Immigration News Aggregator With Ties to Mainstream Conservatives - An immigration news aggregator website making inroads with mainstream conservative outlets for its reporting on border issues is pushing bigoted conspiracy...
DeSmogBlog

Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret - DeSmog writer Justin Nobel’s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden radioactive waste. The post Big Oil’s Dang...
MintPress News

Shockwaves to Shattered Defenses: The Myth of Israeli Supremacy Crumbles - By attacking the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Netanyahu sought to escape the inevitable reality of a bitter military failure and to restore Israel’s il...
LareDOS

La India Packing Company celebrates 100-year milestone on Sat., April 27 - Public invited to open air market, music, sampling from Tasting Room Café’s menu
Political Garbage Chute

You Can’t Call Me an “Incel” If I Fuck My Cybertruck - The following editorial was written and submitted by right-wing author and 2020 Trump Campaign spokesperson Dustin Pewpsin, who also served as Elon Musk’...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Feds Must Change ‘Discriminatory’ Marijuana Testing Policies To Address Trucking Industry Labor Shortage - [image: thc drug testing][image: thc drug testing]More than 150,000 licensed drivers have left the profession in recent years because of these zero-toler...
Democracy Chronicles

Pin up Az kumarhanesini keşfedin. -
Ecosophia

April 2024 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
See You In 2020

Zionists show their desperation by using leftist cancel culture tactics, which render an ideology isolated - Many are pointing to the hypocrisy of how the Zionists, despite their movement being led by the right wing, have been utilizing the same cancellation r...
Eater Houston

Turkey Leg Hut Co-Founder Lyndell Price Charged in Connection With Bar Fight - [image: An image of Lynn Price with HPD officers] Lyndell “Lynn” Price was charged with misdemeanor assault in connection to a February bar fight | Turkey...
Texas Watch

In the News: Texas car insurance premiums are soaring. Here's what's behind the spike — and what you can do - Madison Iszler, staff writer for the *San Antonio-Express News*, recently investigated the sky-high increase in auto insurance premiums in Texas. Accordi...
Moron Majority

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The Texas Signal

The Supreme Court Will Determine What Is Emergency Care For Pregnant Patients - Last week the Associated Press detailed several shocking examples of pregnant patients being turned away from emergency centers in states with abortion b...
Infidel753

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 22-25 News Roundup and Open Threads - Let’s get the ball rolling for this week. Here in the Hudson Valley, we are passing from daffodil time to tulip time and from magnolia time to dogwood time...
Dos Centavos

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday photoblogging: crossroads - [image: Pézenas cross]
The Militant

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cómo Estados Unidos ayudó a Israel a promover la mentira de la ‘violación en masa por parte de Hamás’ para justificar el asesinato masivo en Gaza - La violación es un crimen terrible. Nunca se puede justificar ni defender. La inclinación natural es aborrecer la violación y a quienes la cometen. Sin em...
Dissent Magazine

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

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

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

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Why Houston Floods, According to Flood Control - It Rains a Lot! What Can Flood Control Do? March 3, 2024 For years the Harris County Flood Control District has been giving public presentations that inclu...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson - Dandelion Salad February 19, 2024 with Chris Hedges “Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he ...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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