Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies (early edition)

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Sunday Funnies (early edition)

Story related to above: Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana allegedly asked the prostitutes he procured to swaddle him in diapers.

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memeorandum

RNC's 'election integrity' lawyer charged with election crimes (Steve Benen/MSNBC) - Steve Benen / MSNBC: *RNC's ‘election integrity’ lawyer charged with election crimes* — Christina Bobb is the lawyer overseeing the RNC's “election int...
Mediaite

Biden White House Blasts Columbia Student Protest Leader Saying ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ - “These dangerous, appalling statements turn the stomach and should serve as a wakeup call. It is hideous to advocate for the murder of Jews." The post Bid...
Raw Story

'Sir': Trump supporter goes silent when confronted by CNN about 'God' in the Constitution - CNN's Donie O'Sullivan clashed with Julian Lightfoot, a Donald Trump supporter who was stunned to learn that "God" does not appear anywhere in the Consti...
The Verge

Eken fixes ‘terrible’ video doorbell issue that could let someone spy on you - Image: Eken A company that manufactures video doorbells found by *Consumer Reports* to contain serious security vulnerabilities has issued a fix, the con...
El Paso Matters

Fort Bliss soldier missing since 2020 declared dead - Richard Halliday, 21, was last seen in July 2020. He had faced legal and personal problems in the months before he disappeared. The post Fort Bliss sold...
Axios

Utah man who filmed Ashli Babbitt's shooting sentenced over Jan. 6 riot - A Utah man who claimed he was acting as a citizen journalist when he joined Jan. 6 rioters and filmed scenes inside the U.S. Capitol, including the fatal...
Mediagazer

Survey of 3,600 US adults: 73% say a free press is very important, while 84% say media is at least somewhat influenced by corporations and financial interests (Kirsten Eddy/Pew Research Center) - Kirsten Eddy / Pew Research Center: *Survey of 3,600 US adults: 73% say a free press is very important, while 84% say media is at least somewhat influenc...
Daily Howler

Gutfeld returns to the Gutfeld! show! - *FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024* *There he goes again: *Why was Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison? We'll explore that question over the weekend. ...
CultureMap Houston

Meet the Uchi-trained chefs opening award-winning Japanese restaurants in Houston - On this week’s episode of “What’s Eric Eating,” chefs Daniel Lee and Patrick Pham join CultureMap editor Eric Sandler to discuss Duckstache Hospitality. T...
Salon.com

Mars probe spots "spider" shapes in Martian Inca City - The European Space Agency's Mars Express spotted carbon dioxide ice producing spider-like plumes
Al Jazeera English

Generation gap: What student protests say about US politics, Israel support - Experts say growing protest movement on university campuses could help shift US policy on Israel in the long term.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Minneapolis backs $150,000 settlement for George Floyd witness’s PTSD lawsuit - Minneapolis city council approves payment to Donald Williams, who tried to intervene to stop police killing in 2020 The Minneapolis city council approved...
Alternet

Trump being stuck in court during peak campaign season is 'a major disaster': experts - Former President Donald Trump is not only having to spend significant sums of money to defend himself in court, but he's also losing valuable time that c...
San Antonio Report

Landlords push back as San Antonio weighs banning source of income discrimination for veterans - [image: Some landlords are speaking out against the proposed protection for veterans saying that implementing a policy would force them to accept vouchers....
Reform Austin

Even Most Born Again Christians Oppose School Vouchers, Survey Says - According to a new survey from the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation, voters in the state overwhelmingly oppose school vouchers across almost all demograp...
NPR's Health Shots

Biden administration abandons plan to ban menthol cigarettes, citing 'feedback' - An anti-smoking advocate says the decision to leave menthol cigarettes on the market "prioritizes politics over lives, especially Black lives."
Courthouse News

Jerry Seinfeld’s commitment to the bit - For Seinfeld, who has resolutely stuck to stand-up since “Seinfeld" ended in 1998, "Unfrosted" is a rare post-sitcom project.
World Socialist Web Site

Contract for 7,300 Daimler Truck workers in US set to expire tonight as UAW maneuvers to block all out fight - As the April 26 midnight strike deadline for 7,300 Daimler Truck workers approaches, the UAW apparatus headed by President Shawn Fain is maneuvering to blo...
The Hill

Handcuffed Black man told police, ‘I can’t breathe,’ before he died - Ohio authorities have released body camera footage of the arrest of a 53-year-old Black man who died after repeatedly telling police officers “I can’t brea...
Deadline Politics

Weekend Update DC: How To Watch The White House Correspondents’ Dinner With POTUS & Colin Jost - President Joe Biden wasn’t tossing out too many laugh lines Friday during his live appearance on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show, but maybe he was saving them...
Houston Public Media

Houston is set to have two Pride parades this year. City Council is encouraging them to come together. - Pride Houston 365 says it felt blindsided by the emergence of Houston’s New Faces of Pride and its Pride parade, which is scheduled just a week before Prid...
First Draft

Hypnotized - Cheers to Bob Welch.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Angels In The Courthouse - MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn held an impromptu prayer session in his car yesterday to ask God to send angels into the Supreme Court to give former President ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: A Rare Good Week for Workers - On our live show, David and Harold talk about all of the federal regulations passed this month.
Daily Dot

‘You got the golden ticket!’: Smith’s customer discovers something shocking hidden in graduation cake - [image: Smith’s customer discovers something shocking hidden in birthday cake] A Smith's customer discovers something shocking hidden inside a graduation...
Futurism

Venture Capital Firms Are Actually Considering Giving Elon Musk $6 Billion For xAI - Check, Please At least one big Silicon Valley venture capital firm is considering a $6 billion cash infusion for Elon Musk's xAI startup and its chatbot,...
The Root

What the Hell!? Why Is Ne-Yo's Ex-Girlfriend Calling Him 'Diddy Jr.?' - In news that can only be described as “I’m sorry, what?”—singer Ne-Yo’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of his two children Sade Bagnerise is spewing some s...
Mother Jones

Oklahoma Is Finally Trying to Cut Prison Time for Abused Moms - A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that...
DeSmogBlog

The Allure of Flight - Ten years ago, when DeSmog journalist Joe Fassler began writing a novel, he never imagined it would have anything to do with climate or the environment. ...
Techdirt.

Florida Appeals Court Says The Right To Record Extends To Phone Calls With Cops - Well, this ought to prompt another round of police-protecting legislation in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed two bills into law — one that c...
Political Wire

Bill Posey Won’t Run Again - “Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) abruptly announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection, after initially planning to run for another term,” Politico reports.
Glasstire

Glad That You’re Here: Recent Exhibitions in Dallas - Shawn Mayer: Customizable CONTENTment at Liliana Bloch Gallery, March 2 – May 4, 2024 Shawn Mayer’s latest exhibition at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Customiza...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests - Dear College and University Presidents: We write in response to the recent protests that have spread across our nation’s university and college campuses,...
Rallblog

Hi From the Columbia University Pro-Palestine Encampment - The only danger to Jewish students, or anyone else, is sunburn on a beautiful sunny day. Media reports that suggest the presence of anti-Semites at the F...
Texas Monthly

Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. - The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.
The AltWorld

‘Hello, My Enemies!’: Why Israel Is So Afraid of Hezbollah w/ Journalist Ali Mortada - Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance forces, have been fiercely confronting the Israeli army along its southern border in […] The post ‘Hello, My Enemies!’...
Mondoweiss

Rice Univesity: Let students vote on divesting from Israeli apartheid - [image: The main entrance of Rice University (Photo: Katie Haugland Bowen/Wikimedia)]Alumni of Rice University Students for Justice in Palestine are condem...
San Antonio Current

Police detective from San Antonio suburb dismissed after domestic abuse charge - A detective with the Somerset Police Department has lost his job over accusations he injured a woman last week during a domestic dispute, KSAT reports. Be...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (4.25.24) - Take time to listen to Raffi, Rabbi Danya Rutenberg, Dahlie Lithwick & Mark Joseph Stern, Andrea Dworkin, and Raffi. Yes, Raffi.
Slate

My Husband’s Inheritance Could Change Our Family’s Life. But He Won’t Even Consider Using It. - This could pay off our mortgage and then some—I’m furious!
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Novara Media

Israel’s Biggest Backer Accuses China of Funding Wars - US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has has accused China of funding wars, despite their ongoing financial support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Plus: ahead o...
Daily Cartoonist

Getting Down by Rounding Up - A hodgepodge of recent comic related items. HarperCollins Publishers has announced the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and wri...
The Texas Signal

Rosewood Enchantikal Cottage: A Space for Art and Fairies - There has been a mini renaissance of paganism in Houston over the last decade, a movement accelerated by the trauma of COVID and political unrest. Walkin...
Progressive.org

Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won’t End Homelessness - If the Supreme Court rules against the right of people to sleep outdoors, it would only make homelessness harder to prevent.
Scheerpost.com

Princeton U. Police Stop Chris Hedges’ Speech on Gaza - The former New York Times Middle East bureau chief was speaking to a protest at Princeton University on Thursday when campus police came to lead him away.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics ~
Ballot Access News

Ohio Secretary of State Rejected No Labels’ Petition for Party Status Late Last Year - In late 2023, the Ohio Secretary of State determined that the No Labels petition for party status did not have enough valid signatures, even though No Labe...
Political Garbage Chute

I Have a Wish List of Things Dark Brandon Should Do With His Presidential Immunity - Some people might really think that if the Supreme Court says presidents have immunity from prosecution — even for attempting coups — that we’re headed ...
Claytoonz

Roughs, Volume 228 - I had a tough Friday last week coming up with a cartoon idea for CNN. It was so tough that it rolled into a tough Saturday. I drew this last week, on Wedne...
Election Law Blog

If Nebraska changes to winner-take-all, so might Maine - That’s the message of the majority leader in Maine’s House of Representatives. For more, Newsweek has a story. So do several Maine media outlets (availab...
Common Dreams

Win Without War Condemns Militarized Response to Protests - *Win Without War Executive Director Sara Haghdoosti released the following statement responding to scenes of police violence at university protests:* “Th...
NORML

JAMA Psychiatry: “No Evidence” That Marijuana Legalization Laws Encourage Youth Use - [image: Teen Marijuana Use][image: Teen Marijuana Use]Consistent with prior analyses, researchers determined, “There was no evidence that RML [recreation...
WhoWhatWhy

Coal and New Gas Power Plants Will Have To Meet Climate Pollution Limits - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Second Nexus

Mitch McConnell Breaks With Trump Over Presidential Immunity—But People Aren't Having It - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell broke with former President Donald Trump's claim over absolute presidential immunity but was criticized by people ...
Dissident Voice

How Africa’s National Liberation Struggles Brought Democracy to Europe - Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Portugal), A Poesia Está Na Rua I [Poetry Is out on the Street I], 1974. Fifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, the people of P...
SCOTUSblog

RICO injury, federal jurisdiction, and giving veterans the benefit of the doubt - [image: RICO injury, federal jurisdiction, and giving veterans the benefit of the doubt]The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme ...
Wolf Street

Fed’s Wait-and-See on Rate Cuts Further Supported by Extra-Hot “Core Services” PCE Inflation & Hot “Core” PCE Inflation - Housing inflation refuses to cool for eighth month, and five of the remaining seven core services accelerated further. This is not good.
Grits for Breakfast

Most 'contraband' found at Texas traffic stops results in no arrest; nearly 50k arrests for Class C misdemeanors in 2023 - I had cause this morning to dig around in Texas' 2023 traffic-stop data, so decided to post a few high/lowlights. This data, published annually in a cumber...
The Week

'Horror stories of women having to carry nonviable fetuses' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Capital & Main

At Occidental College, Upcoming Vote Reflects Rise in Undergraduate Labor Organizing - *The organizing effort at the private liberal arts campus is part of a broader “societal shift” in favor of labor unions.* The post At Occidental College...
Vox

You need $500. How should you get it? - The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense. A 2023 Federal Reserve survey found that a third of Americans say they don’t have the cash ...
The Daily Poster

LEVER TIME: Amazon Is Eating The Economy - In a landmark lawsuit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission, the government accuses Amazon of long being engaged in illegal market behavior.
Southeast Texas Record

Maria Dolores Gutierrez sues Glenda Listet Lainez for a car accident causing serious and permanent injuries - In the Harris County Civil Court at Law, plaintiff Maria Dolores Gutierrez has filed a lawsuit against defendant Glenda Listet Lainez. Read more…
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Kenyan first lady tries hushing fake fertilizer scandal by claiming prayers are best fertilizers - Uganda has been using fertilizers since World War II. The first lady's comments came amid a fake fertilizer scandal unfolding in Kenya's presidential admin...
Undernews

Libraries - *Everyday superheroes: How librarians are making a difference in their communities*
Discourse

ALERT ALERT: WE NEED MORE BIRDS! - Send us your birds please!
Bud Kennedy

These GOP runoff contenders aren’t just from the right. They’re from another universe | Opinion - I spent an hour in another universe this week. In the faraway brains of some Republicans I heard Wednesday, the Texas Legislature is full of leftists, ther...
Duck of Minerva

Susan Sell: The Power of Mentorship and Example - This is the fifth in our series of remembrances on the late Susan Sell. There was a terrific gathering at ISA 2024 where friends and colleagues gathered to...
ProPublica

The Louisiana Town Where a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another - by Lee Zurik, Samantha Sunne and Dannah Sauer, WVUE-TV, data analysis by Joel Jacobs, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Report...
MintPress News

How Jewish Extremists Became the New Face of Israel - If Meir Kahane were still alive, he would have been proud of his followers. The ideology of the once marginalized and loathed extremist rabbi is now the ...
Bonddad

Another strong personal income and spending report, but beware the uptick in inflation - *- by New Deal democrat* Personal income and spending has become one of the two most important monthly reports I follow. This is in large part becau...
Debunking Christianity

Three Big Items the Clergy Don’t Want the Faithful to Think About - *It’s just far too dangerous* *ONE: What is humanity’s place/status in the cosmos?* It was in 1950 that Pope Pius XII declared the dogma of the Virgin Ma...
Texas Observer

70 Years of Skewering - In its first issue, on December 13, 1954, the Texas Observer ran a political cartoon by Don Bartlett taking a swipe at the Republican-leaning tendencies ...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS: Let’s Talk Mental Health - Kevin Trussell, MSN, RN, is director of nursing at South Texas Health Center Behavioral. He will lead an interactive discussion on mental health on May 2...
Dos Centavos

Thoughts on Viernes – 04262024 - Ogg Keeps Ogg’n In her usual vindictive way, the local DA gave the case in which she is railroading some county staffers to someone even more vindictive, T...
Democracy Now!

"The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule": Author Ari Berman on America's Undemocratic System - We speak with journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, *Minority Rule*, which details how the United States has since its founding privileged t...
Rewire

What You Need to Know About Florida’s Abortion Access Mess - Florida’s six-week ban is going to effect on Wednesday, but voters will eventually have the final say in the November elections. The post What You Need t...
The Conversation

Philadelphia has a lot more deadly shootings than expected for a big city − and NYC is much safer, new study says - Philadelphia has a high rate of gun homicides despite having relatively few gun owners and gun stores compared with other US cities.
Church and State

Want to Die Young? Bathe Yourself in Right-Wing Media & Vote Republican - We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up.
The Smirking Chimp

The Supreme Court’s Farce and Ruse -
Angry Bear

Governor Katie Hobbs Announces $500K in FAFSA Initiatives to Assist Arizona Families Afford College - According to The Hill the New FAFSA forms were supposed to be easier and shorter. Shorter yes, nut not so easy. There is a list of 2024-24 FAFSA issues w...
Space City Weather

Winds whip, as more unsettled weather begins to arrive in the Houston area - In brief: The word for the weekend is windy. We’ll see 30 to 40 mph wind gusts at times through Saturday, before things calm a bit by early next week. The ...
ArcaMax

Ultraprocessed Foods Are Everywhere, and the Corporate Manufacturers Do Not Care About Your Health - In my quest to eat healthier as an adult, I've encountered a lot of meat and dairy alternatives along with low-fat and sugar-free treat options that claim ...
Off The Kuff

Ogg brings in Paxton on Hidalgo aides case - Really? I mean, really? Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Thursday she is handing the pending criminal cases against three of County Judge ...
The Intercept

“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza - Dr. Mohammed Khaleel recounts his experience serving patients, mostly children and young adults with blasts injuries and bullet wounds. The post “Tell th...
Crooked Timber

Going Meta on Culture Wars - Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all...
Infidel753

The NPVIC is not the answer - The Electoral College is a chronic flaw in American democracy. In 2000 and 2016 -- that is, two of the last six presidential elections -- it awarded the ...
Grist

A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization - Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis.
High Country News

Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine - The Oregon activists call attention to ongoing clearcuts in old-growth forests. The post Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine appeared fi...
Crooked Media

Will the Supreme Court Grant Trump Immunity? - The post Will the Supreme Court Grant Trump Immunity? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The NM Political Report

Nuclear Watch New Mexico calls for comprehensive plutonium cleanup at LANL - A group of anti-nuclear activists used data from Los Alamos National Laboratory to map places where plutonium contamination has been found in areas near ...
Counterpunch

On the Road with Sasquatch - In the summer of 1983 Ted Kaczynski was feeling hemmed in even in remote Lincoln, Montana. “There were too many people around my cabin,” he later wrote, ...
jobsanger

Presidents Should Not Be immune To Criminal Law -
Informed Comment

Zionism’s Expired Shelf-Life: Why Naomi Klein is right that it has become Pharaoh - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Previously I’ve argued that Zionism has run its course as a political movement, and accomplished its ...
Antiwar.com

Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the US War on Iraq - “To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib – it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu G...
OpEd News

Tour/ book signing tour: Australia/New Zealand - Perth (aboriginal name Boorloo), Adelaide (Tarntanya wam), Sydney (Gaadi), and Woolongong. In ten days I spoke to over 1500 people. I explain Australia's c...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 26, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 26, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/26/2024 - 08:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Workers World

Hands off the heroic student uprising in solidarity with Gaza! To resist police repression is justified! - [image: Hands off the heroic student uprising in solidarity with Gaza! To resist police repression is justified!] Workers World is in full support of the h...
Brad Blog

Trump's Ridiculous 'Immunity' Case Finally Heard by His Corrupted SCOTUS: 'BradCast' 4/25/2024 - On today's BradCast: Honestly, I tried. But it was really hard to find any part of the case heard by the corrupted U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that wasn...
Popular Resistance

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 202: Hundreds Of New Bodies In Mass Graves - The Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry announced that 208 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday, while 313 others were wounde...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'UK right wing actor has to pay $225,000 for calling Drag Race contestant and LGBTQ activists 'pedophiles'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *UK Right Wing Actor Must Pay $225,000 For Calling Drag Race Contestant And LGBTQ Activist “Pedophiles” *-* It would have been lovely for this to have ...
The Grayzone

Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor - Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, D...
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.
Portside

Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder - Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder Dave Thu, 04/25/2024 - 16:22
Ring of Fire

The Geriatric Election Of 2024 - Congress passed fewer bills last year than at any other point in American history, and they could be on track to pass even fewer bills this year. Multipl...
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...
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...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
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
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...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: TPUSA employees admit guilt, Nazi flag, sovereign citizen murder conviction - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
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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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...
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 22-26 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...
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...
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 ...
Texas Standard

Typewriter: Grackle - Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
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 ...
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...
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...
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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