Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies (brunch edition)

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Sunday Funnies (brunch edition)

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

'It's much worse': Yale historian says SCOTUS is flirting with making Trump more than king - Some say Donald Trump is seeking the status of a "king" as he fights for complete and total criminal immunity, but it's actually much worse than that, ac...
World Socialist Web Site

Amid anti-genocide protests, Spain’s Revolutionary Left group covers up its ties to PSOE-Sumar government - Mobilizing the working class internationally to halt the genocide requires breaking with the nationalist outlook of pseudo-left groups that subordinate wor...
Scheerpost.com

Playing President w/ Ray McGovern (Ep. 1) - By Robert Scheer and Ray McGovern / Original to ScheerPost In the late 1930s, two boys were born in the Bronx, N.Y, and later went on to receive modest but...
memeorandum

Texans wide receiver among 10 hit in mass shooting (Jenny Goldsberry/Washington Examiner) - Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner: *Texans wide receiver among 10 hit in mass shooting* — Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell is out of the hos...
Mediaite

Fox’s Shannon Bream Confronts JD Vance About Brutal NY Times Op-ed Accusing Him of ‘Political Degradation’ in Service of Trump - Fox anchor Shannon Bream pressed Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) about his prior criticism of former President Donald Trump before supporting him. The post Fox’s Sha...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Bemoans “Really Bad” WHCD, Biden & Colin Jost After All Mock Much Indicted Ex-POTUS - Donald Trump’s reaction to last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner shows the much-indicted ex-POTUS still sucks at being the butt of a joke. Hours a...
The Hill

Russia arrests more journalists on 'extremism' charges - Three Russian journalists were arrested Friday and Saturday and detained, as Russia continues a crackdown on media inside the country. Konstantin Gabov and...
The Verge

Phone cooler makers need to chill with all the ice - [image: A picture of what looks like an iPhone 11 Pro with a dual-turbine fan attached using clips that hold the sides of the phone, which is covered in i...
Daily Cartoonist

2023 NCS Divisional Award Nominees for the 78th Annual NCS Reuben Awards! - The National Cartoonists Society has announced the finalists for their 2023 Reuben Divisional Awards. The nominees in the 12 categories are… Variety Entert...
Eschaton

Shorter Me - If you think the pro-Palestine movement has some unsavory elements, wait until you learn something about some of the prominent people in the anti-Palestine...
Daily Dot

‘I’d be so embarrassed’: CVS shopper has to push button to get worker to unlock ice cream, says it’s ‘degrading’ - [image: CVS shopper has to push button to unlock ice cream, says it's 'degrading'] One CVS customer is calling out their local store for putting him in t...
Mother Jones

Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History” - Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate...
Mediagazer

Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) - Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: *Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platfo...
Axios

Sen. John Cornyn flexes fundraising muscle in Mitch McConnell succession race - Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) has raised a whopping $18.3 million this election cycle to help GOP incumbents and candidates — putting him ahead of his leader...
Salon.com

Bernie Sanders blasts Netanyahu for “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza - "Displacing 80 percent of the population in Gaza — is ethnic cleansing," Sanders says
Political Wire

Trump Allies Under Indictment in Majority of Swing States - “At least four of the seven swing states expected to decide the 2024 presidential election have active criminal cases against pro-Trump fake electors,” Axi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘Cricket had shown aggressive behavior’ - South Dakota governor says she ‘understands why some people are upset’ about story of shooting family puppy but points to state law Kristi Noem, the Sout...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about link taxes: It seems to me that the best way to expose the link tax ...
The Root

Movie Sequels We’re Still Waiting For - Look, we know not every movie needs to be a franchise. However, some stories are so fun, we absolutely want to spend more time with those characters. Whi...
Angry Bear

An economic analysis of presidential immunity - At Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s immunity claim, Justice Alito worried that prosecuting former presidents would create an incentive for inc...
Claytoonz

Trump/Cruella 2024 - “If Cruella doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will” is sung in the Disney tune Cruella DeVille. And if South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem doesn’t disgust and...
Church and State

Will Trump’s Pecker Trigger His Conviction? Will It Matter? - We can save America if the majority of voters make the choice of an honorable if not fully popular choice over a felonious fascist aspirant.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Passive Revolution and Armed Struggle in Colombia - In my recent article in Small Wars & Insurgencies, Uncovering the sources of revolutionary violence: the case of Colombia’s National Front (1958-1964), I...
Al Jazeera English

Ukraine pulls back from three villages in east as Russia claims gains - Update by Ukraine's top commander comes as outgunned Kyiv waits for new delivery of US weapons.
Ballot Access News

Vermont Green Mountain Peace & Justice Party Nominates Cornel West - On April 28, the ballot-qualified Vermont Green Mountain Peace & Justice Party nominated Cornel West for President. The party in the past was the Liberty ...
Election Law Blog

“Former lawmakers have ideas on fixing Congress. Will anyone listen?” - Very interesting report from Paul Kane of the Washington Post of a day-long meeting of 7 former Republican and six former Democratic members of Congress:...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for April 28 - “Americans Throw Away Up to $68 Million in Coins a Year. Here Is Where It All Ends Up.” “Performing in the U.S. for international artists just got a lot mo...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 28 2024 - [image: Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 28 2024] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 28 2024 by Tony Wikrent *Global power shift* *Ukrai...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast #145: Mass Graves in Gaza, Imperial Presidency, Menthol Madness - Political cartoonists Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) debate the week in news and culture as friendly adversaries to bring yo...
Dissident Voice

Fighting Dragons - I love Naomi Klein. Strong, courageous, principled. In her latest, Doppelganger: a trip into the mirror world (2023), willing to open her life for us to ...
Daily Howler

SUNDAY: Why was Cohen sentenced to prison? - *SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024* *The novelization of news: *Back in August 2018, Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison. Cohen had been D...
Alternet

'Why don’t you sit this one out': Trump skewered over White House correspondents’ dinner criticism - Former President Donald Trump had much to say about Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner that he did not attend. President Joe Biden took aim a...
Popular Resistance

Will Prosecutors Charge Pro-Palestinian College Protestors? - According to a nationwide review by The Appeal, students and their allies have built protest encampments or staged sit-ins on at least 53 college campuse...
El Paso Matters

An amphitheater is planned for Northeast El Paso. What does that mean for the Downtown arena? - The planned Cohen Entertainment District venue comes after the City Council delayed voting on a site for the Downtown arena – last pitched as an amphith...
Mondoweiss

In the University of Manchester, ‘social responsibility’ means collaborating in genocide - [image: Demonstration supporting the student occupation at the University of Manchester, April 2024. (Photo courtesy of the author)]The University of Manch...
Glasstire

Houston Endowment Announces 2024 Jones Artist Award Recipients - Houston Endowment (HEI), a private foundation that supports the city’s arts, public parks, civic engagement, and pre-K through 12th-grade public educatio...
Slate

I’m Crushing on a Hot Dad in My Baby’s Swim Class. It’s Having a Strange Effect on My Marriage. - I want my husband to do the things I fantasize about this man doing to me.
Undernews

Workers - * AP News - *During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had a second o...
San Antonio Current

Campuses across Texas had pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Why did only UT-Austin crack down? - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When the wave of protests rel...
OpEd News

Book Review: Knife by Salman Rushdie - I review Salman Rushdie's newly released memoir, Knife.
Workers World

In honor of International Workers Day: Hamas calls for week of global solidarity - [image: In honor of International Workers Day: Hamas calls for week of global solidarity] We call upon the workers of the world to a week of solidarity eve...
Bonddad

Coronavirus dashboard, 4 years into the pandemic: all-time low in hospitalizations, deaths likely to follow - *- by New Deal democrat* On Friday the CDC updated its COVID death statistics through March 31, which means that we now have 4 full years of data. I...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pézenas]
Novara Media

How Austerity Harms Britain’s Most Vulnerable Children | Teresa Thornhill Talks to Aaron Bastani - Teresa Thornhill is an author and former child protection lawyer. Throughout her long career, working for both local authorities and advocating on behalf o...
The Week

Today's political cartoons - April 28, 2024 - Sunday's cartoons - airline safety, teleprompter gaffs, and more
Reform Austin

Oracle Is Moving Its Headquarters From Austin To Nashville - Technology giant Oracle is moving its global headquarters from Austin to Nashville, just three years after relocating to Texas. Oracle Executive Chairman...
Southeast Texas Record

Blanca Lopez sues CZ Construction for negligence causing physical harm and emotional distress - In the District Court of Harris County, Texas, plaintiff Blanca Lopez has filed a lawsuit against CZ Construction, LLC. Read more…
Bracing Views

It’s Morning Again in America - W.J. Astore Mass Arrests and Mainstream Media Headlines Work to Deny a Genocide in Progress Took a jaunt over to NBC News online for my fair share of abuse...
Space City Weather

Storms are possible later today, and especially tonight, but there is a lot of forecast uncertainty - In brief: The good news is that the worst of the wind is over. We will still see strongish south-southeasterly winds today, but the gusts will be lower tha...
San Antonio Report

The faces of Fiesta 2024 - The San Antonio Report presents a sample of the people who make Fiesta and their thoughts about the 10-day party. ------------------------------ The faces o...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Above the Law' Toons - As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered species, please consider s...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Pentagon Grifts And Zombie Pipelines - From insurance meltdowns and zombie pipelines to Pentagon grifts, here’s all the news from The Lever this week.
First Draft

Vintage First Draft: The Fly On The White House Wall - Set the Wayback Machine to July 31, 2017.
Grist

A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues - The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."
Rio Grande Guardian

TRB’s Scaief and IBC’s Schwebel discuss financial services and nearshoring at AEM summit - The Dallas chapter of the Asociación de Empresarios Mexicanos hosted the Texas-Mexico Business Forum in Dallas. The post TRB’s Scaief and IBC’s Schwebel ...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance fervently hopes everyone on that jury in Manhattan can stay safe and anonymous as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the...
NPR's Health Shots

Scientists found a way to restore brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder - Researchers have been able to reverse the effects of a syndrome that affects brain development in a brain organoid. *(This story first aired on All Things ...
Vox

How anxiety became a catchall for every unpleasant emotion - [image: An illustration of a woman with her eyes closed and her hair pooled around her. Storm clouds surround her face.] Getty Images Here’s how to under...
The Smirking Chimp

The Disgraceful Supremes: Wankers, Hairsplitters, and Angels on Pins -
naked capitalism

Links 4/28/2024 -
Crooked Media

The Biden Campaign’s Plan to Beat Trump Online - The post The Biden Campaign’s Plan to Beat Trump Online appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 28 April 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Cats are a type of hair-trigger kinetic weapon. A rookie journalist condu...
The AltWorld

What’s in Washington’s Newest Ukraine Arms Package? - Update on the conflict in Ukraine for April 28, 2024… – US announces that it has secretly […] The post What’s in Washington’s Newest Ukraine Arms Package...
See You In 2020

The imminent threat of pro-Palestine work being criminalized, & how we can make our orgs survive the purge attempt - When I say the pro-Palestine movement is in danger of becoming illegalized, I’m referring to a category of repression that’s distinct from the one we’r...
The NM Political Report

Vasquez hears concerns from Tribal leaders - U.S. Rep. Gabriel “Gabe” Vasquez pledged his support for Native people and their issues during a listening session Friday at the Indian Pueblo Cultural ...
Counterpunch

The Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections - Image by stefan moertl. One of the two major-party candidates for the presidency of the United States has allowed an decades-long ethnic cleansing to mor...
Informed Comment

Are Netanyahu & Co. about to face Arrest Warrants from the Int’l Criminal Court for Gaza War Crimes? - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply worried that the International Criminal Court in the Hague may be on the...
jobsanger

GOP Seems To Want Another Tragedy Like Kent State -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1164: Things Bite Back - Episode: 1164 Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge Effect. Today, nature takes revenge.
Wolf Street

Money Market Funds, T-Bills, Large CDs, Small CDs: Americans Learn to Arbitrage the Higher-for-Longer Interest Rates - There’s no need to still pay a “loyalty tax” to the banks.
Trivial Knot

I don’t have a games backlog - In video games, there is the concept of a “backlog”—a list of games that you want to play, but haven’t gotten around to playing. This is commonly discussed...
Progressive.org

The First 100 Days of Arévalo’s Progressive Government in Guatemala - While Bernardo Arévalo had strong campaign promises, his first 100 days have left much to be desired.
Portside

Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins - Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins Kurt Stand Sat, 04/27/2024 - 14:48
CultureMap Houston

Highly rated Houston schools lead this week's top 5 stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.
American Prospect

The Fascist Attack on Gaza Protests - Emory professors get beaten and arrested for exercising their free speech, while Donald Trump can threaten the witnesses in his fraud trial with impunity.
WhoWhatWhy

Where Angels Fear to Commute - The flying car future continues to be conveniently out of reach.
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand t...
Futurism

To Experience Pure Anxiety, Watch This Video of a Self-Driving Car Navigating India's Chaotic Traffic - Vishnu Take the Wheel We're willing to bet that you've never seen anything quite as anxiety-inducing as a recent video shared by Indian startup Swaayatt ...
The Progressive Wing

4/27-30 News Roundup and Open Thread - Let them sleep on the lawn!
ArcaMax

This Is a Golden Age of Censorship - It's too bad we can't monetize censorship, because we truly live in a golden age of speech suppression. In this deeply polarized society, the one thing we ...
The Intercept

QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com - For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate. The post QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad M...
Two Party Opera

Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Joe Biden and Richard Nixon are talking near some anti-war protestors. Biden: "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming." Nixon: "Four Dead in ...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2024-04-27 - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras a sem augue. Nam dapibus, erat id interdum ornare, dolor eros facilisis sem, ut ultrices nisl...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Facing damning reports, China denies aiding Russia’s war in Ukraine - There is significant evidence documenting how China has gone beyond “normal trade” to supply military equipment and components to Russia. In addition, Chin...
Socialist Alternative

Southwest Flight Attendants Win 33% Raises – More Is Needed! - There are a quarter of a million active-duty flight attendants in America. Together they handle 5% of US GDP – of every $20 exchanged in all commerce, a fl...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Tech Bro Dystopia - Travis Gettys @ Raw Story: ‘I hated that dog’: Kristi Noem recalls gunning down family’s ‘worthless’ pup South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a frontrunner to ...
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. ...
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,...
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.
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.
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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