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You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Undernews

Polling update: Too close to call - *The poll averages are too close to call, both in the national results and in key states. *The poll averages reflect past turn out. Changes such as more...
memeorandum

Georgia Poll Worker Arrested for Making Bomb Threat to Election Workers (US Department of Justice) - US Department of Justice: *Georgia Poll Worker Arrested for Making Bomb Threat to Election Workers* — For Immediate Release — A Georgia poll worker wa...
Mediaite

Jarring CNN Supercut Jumps From Trump Assassination Attempt Right To Praising Golfer’s Enormous Penis - CNN put together a jarring campaign supercut that jumped from an assassination attempt on Trump straight to his phallic admiration of Arnold Palmer. The ...
Alternet

'Herds of Republicans' may flock to Harris in hopes of saving party: Georgia Republican - Georgia's former lieutenant governor predicted that "herds of Republicans" would back Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. Geoff Duncan, a lifelong Republic...
Texas Standard

Abortion, the economy, immigration and transgender rights: Voters across Texas explain their vote - Texans from across the state went to the polls early with plenty on their mind. The Texas Tribune partnered with other news organizations to hear from a di...
Raw Story

Trump is doing 'just the opposite' of what made him win in 2016: Morning Joe - A panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday argued that former President Donald Trump has thrown out the playbook that made him successful in the closing...
Scheerpost.com

Universities in Dark Times: Beyond the Plague of Neoliberal Fascism - Neoliberal ideology, marked by the irrational belief in the ability of markets to solve all problems, has deeply infiltrated public life, depoliticized cri...
Houston Public Media

Election Day in Houston (Nov. 5, 2024) - On Tuesday's show: We mark Election Day in Greater Houston by visiting some polling places around the city. And are there lessons professional athletes lea...
The Root

Essential Quincy Jones-Produced Songs to Add to Your Playlist - To say the least, the passing of Quincy Jones has shocked the Black community. During his prime, Jones helped write, compose, and arrange some of the gre...
Al Jazeera English

Why have five been arrested over leaked Hamas documents in Israel? - PM Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman among those suspected of altering and leaking documents.
Axios

Why prediction markets swung heavily against Trump as the election neared - Data: Polymarket; Chart: Axios Visuals Former President Trump's chances of recapturing the White House fell sharply over the weekend across prediction mark...
The Hill

Harris, Trump split vote in tiny Dixville Notch - Vice President Harris and former President Trump are tied in Dixville Notch, N.H., as the township's six votes resulted in a split for the presidential nom...
The Week

Incendiary device plot: Russia's 'rehearsals' for attacks on transatlantic flights - Security officials warn of widespread Moscow-backed 'sabotage campaign' in retaliation for continued Western support for Ukraine
Political Wire

Newspapers Rapidly Kill Off the Political Endorsement - “The vast majority of America’s largest newspapers by circulation aren’t endorsing a presidential candidate this year, marking a stark departure from previ...
Mediagazer

UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via "industrial-scale copyright infringement" (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide) - Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide: *UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its busine...
The Smirking Chimp

Why This Nevada Elections Expert Predicts a Harris Victory in His State -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘I feel very powerful and very scared’: Pennsylvanians face pressure of voting in key swing state - The state has 19 electoral votes and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held a blitz of rallies on eve of election To celebrate his anniversary this year, Ph...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: When Your Actions Matter Most - The examples we set for our family, community, and the world make an important difference... The post We Earthlings: When Your Actions Matter Most appear...
Vox

5 reasons to expect a Harris win — and 4 to expect a Trump victory - The 2024 presidential race is the closest on record. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are separated by 1 percentage point or less both nationally and in the ...
Daily Dot

Jill Biden’s panda costume sends QAnon crowd into Halloween fervor - First Lady *Jill Biden* has *conspiracy theorists* losing their minds after *wearing a panda costume* at the White House on Wednesday. Jill wore the cost...
naked capitalism

Links 11/5/2024 -
The Mind Unleashed

5 Groundbreaking Projects Changing Urban Living Forever - As climate change casts a long shadow over our planet, cities find themselves at a crossroads. Home to more than half of the world’s population, urban area...
Bracing Views

It’s Election Day! - W.J. Astore Vote for me! It’s Election Day in America and I really hope you get out and vote—or that you’ve voted already. Sure, most of us wish the candid...
OpEd News

One Final Set Of Answers, Part 2 - As election day quickly approaches, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) BD5 candidate Karla Griego takes the time to give her views on various issu...
Off The Kuff

Today is Election Day - From the inbox. Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth announced that more than 1,170,000 voters cast their ballots in person during the 12-day early voting...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio officials brace for a busy Election Day - Bexar County voters could be in for a wild Election Day on Tuesday — with local election officials projecting more than triple the number of in-person ball...
Mother Jones

What the “Most Anti-LGBTQ” Election in Decades Means for Trans People - In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, GOP consultants were fighting over strategy: Would going all-in on anti-trans messaging deliver then-Pres...
ProPublica

What ProPublica Reporters Will Be Watching on Election Day - by ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
Slate

Help! I Uprooted My Life to Build a Future With a Man. Then He Told My Daughter and Me That We “Need to Leave.” - I might've missed the warning signs.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Brake in the Action - Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address the election today, because I’m burned out on it and th...
Eschaton

Morning - Not much going on.
Salon.com

MAGA's last stand: A duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in diametrically opposite Americas - Two presidential campaigns and the dueling symbols of American power
American Prospect

Garbagegate, With a Twist - The media’s penchant to balance the two parties and control the narrative didn’t quite work when it came to a Trump insult comic’s comments about Puerto Rico.
Grist

This California congressman is betting the farm on water - Republican David Valadao has held down his blue district by fighting for thirsty farms. But with control of Congress on the line, his luck may be running out.
NPR's Health Shots

Here’s a bipartisan sentiment: The election has Americans of both parties stressed - Around 80% of people from both parties say they are very stressed about the future of the nation. When does worry become toxic, and what can we do?
Southeast Texas Record

Divetech sues pool plaster companies over negligent resurfacing causing major facility damage - In a dramatic legal battle unfolding in Harris County's District Court, Divetech LLC has filed a lawsuit against two pool plaster companies over allegati...
Infidel753

Election day - Well, here we are at last. If you haven't already, vote now or forever hold your peace. It looks more and more to me like my assessment of two weeks ago ...
The Daily Poster

Project 2025 Is Even More Radical Than You Think - Project 2025, the conservative agenda for the next Trump administration, would allow him to govern through fear.
Portside

Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees. - Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees. Mark Brody Tue, 11/05/2024 - 02:35
Counterpunch

The Wolf at Our Door - CounterPunch went online 30 years ago, just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated, our transit to the World Wide Web was re...
World Socialist Web Site

IAM bureaucracy runs roughshod over rank and file to force through sellout contract at Boeing - The fact that the vote passed by such a slim margin shows how much opposition remains in the rank and file. Workers were not convinced to support the deal ...
jobsanger

It's Time! -
Crooked Media

The Final Countdown - The post The Final Countdown appeared first on Crooked Media.
First Draft

Vote Against The Crook, It’s Important: Election Day Edition - If it’s Tuesday, it must be the final installment in the series inspired by the 1991 Duke-Edwards Gret Stet governor’s race. It was the most intense electo...
Deadline Politics

Kamala Harris Tells Celebrity-Filled, Final 2024 Campaign Rally That “This Could Be One Of The Closest Races In History” - Kamala Harris predicted victory in Tuesday’s presidential election, but told a celebrity-filled, final 2024 campaign rally in Philadelphia this evening tha...
Informed Comment

Trump would be an “Extinction-Level Event” for the Planet, Turbocharging Climate Change. Vote Accordingly. - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dism...
Antiwar.com

‘Gaza Is Ours, Forever’ – Israel’s Extremists Have a Plan for the Day after the Genocide - Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza ...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Here at Last! - Election Day—and, afterward, Election Night—has arrived. Election 2024 is the 60th quadrennial presidential election in the history of the United State...
Popular Resistance

There’s An Abundance Of Housing; Let’s Organize To Take It Over - The Poor People's Army, formerly the Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign, has been leading efforts across the country to place individuals a...
Techdirt.

Nintendo Releases App For Game Music And The Reactions Are Priceless - For half a decade now, we have followed along with the war that Nintendo decided to wage on its own fans’ celebration of what is admittedly great music com...
Election Law Blog

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

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

How The Supreme Court Could Shape The 2024 Election - Dahlia Lithwick has covered the Supreme Court since the landmark *Bush v. Gore *decision in 2000.
Greg Palast

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

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

PFLP calls for boycott of U.S. elections - [image: PFLP calls for boycott of U.S. elections] The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media issued the following statement on Nov. 4,...
Ballot Access News

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

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

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

Kamala Seems Likely To Win - [image: Kamala Seems Likely To Win] Back in 2022 almost everyone expected the midterms to go Republican. They didn’t. The Supremes won it for Democrats, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Annual home price growth cooled for the seventh consecutive month” - ICE Mortgage Monitor: “Annual home price growth cooled for the seventh consecutive month” – by Bill McBride Calculated Risk Newsletter Here is the ICE No...
The Texas Signal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israel Is Not Interested in Peace - At the time of writing, war is spreading throughout West Asia. Of course, this is widely understood as an outgrowth of Israeli expansion and the ongoing ge...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Still One Of The Best - Betty Boop, Minnie the Moocher
ExChristian.Net

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heights Kroger unveils extensive renovations — more cheese, please - After five months of construction and renovation, the Kroger store at the intersection of North Shepherd Drive and 11th Street in the Heights has unveiled...
Nina Illingworth

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

New native plant group hoping to take root in DFW - *Organizers are seeking new members to help get Wild Ones DFW off the ground. Photo courtesy of Wild Ones.* Oct. 17, 2024 A new native plant group has s...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Texas Freedom Network

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966 - By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval c...
Moron Majority

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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. ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

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

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

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

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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...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

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