Brains and Eggs: Even more Funnies (Last jeers from the Grammstand, etc.)

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

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

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

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

📍 Houston, Texas

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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

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— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Texas Standard

The DEA is reportedly considering reclassifying marijuana on the federal drug schedule - It would become a Schedule III drug, which are considered to have “moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.”
Common Dreams

House Republicans Establish Dangerous Farm Bill Priorities - Under fire for unreasonable delay, House Republicans and Senate Democrats released Farm Bill priorities today, teeing up lengthy debate on the seminal fo...
Mediaite

Fox’s Bret Baier Thanks Supporters After His Teenage Son’s Emergency Heart Surgery: ‘A Lot Can Change In a Matter of Five Hours’ - Fox News anchor Bret Baier has been away from the news desk while his teenage son underwent emergency open-heart surgery last week. The post Fox’s Bret Ba...
Salon.com

It’s now illegal to sell (some) raw chicken products with Salmonella - And Big Chicken isn't happy
The Verge

Microsoft’s billion-dollar OpenAI investment was trigged by Google fears, emails reveal - [image: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stands in front of Microsoft and OpenAI logos] Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Microsoft invested $1 billion ...
Futurism

Mystery Deepens as Super Powerful AI Appears, Then Disappears - In and Out AI circles were abuzz over the weekend after users discovered a mysterious new AI model on the website LMSYS Chatbot Arena that seems to rival...
ProPublica

EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables - by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Eschaton

Lunch - eat
Mondoweiss

NYPD clears Columbia student occupation, arrests hundreds across the city - [image: NYPD prepare to raid Palestine protesters encamped in Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, which had been renaimed "Hind's Hall" in honor of Hind R...
Texas Monthly

Would Sam Houston Be A Texans Fan? A Texas Monthly Investigation - The towering Huntsville statue of the first president of the Republic of Texas was dressed in an NFL jersey, and some locals are upset.
memeorandum

RFK Jr. is all over conservative media. Trump's camp is concerned. (Politico) - Politico: *RFK Jr. is all over conservative media. Trump's camp is concerned.* — The independent presidential candidate is quickly becoming a thorn in...
Slate

The Six-Week Abortion Ban in Florida Is Only the Beginning - The history of these bans suggests they’re far from the anti-abortion movement’s endgame.
Ballot Access News

The Bulwark Carries Analysis of Legal Angles if Republicans Party Nominates Marco Rubio for Vice-President - The Bulwark has this interesting analysis of legal complexities of the Republican Party nominates two residents of Florida for national office. Thanks to ...
The Week

Try 6 free issues of The Week Junior - Spark your child's curiosity with The Week Junior - the award-winning current affairs magazine for 8-14s.
Raw Story

'Major national impact': Dozens of federal judges didn’t disclose free luxury trips - In recent years, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has been in hot water over his failure to disclose luxury junkets paid for by far-right ...
Courthouse News

Trump immunity plea sets up test for Supreme Court on judicial restraint - The Supreme Court’s search for a ruling of the ages over presidential immunity could leave the justices attempting to square a circle.
Eater Houston

Houston Astros Pitcher Brings Maven Coffee and Cocktails to Thompson Hotel - [image: An image of the espresso martini and carajillo on a book.] The espresso martini and carajillo are among the shop’s most popular beverages. | Becca...
Mediagazer

Substack now lets writers paywall their Chat discussion spaces and says active Chat participants are 12% more likely to retain their subscriptions (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: *Substack now lets writers paywall their Chat discussion spaces and says active Chat participants are 12% more likely to retain...
The Hill

UNRWA is hurting the Palestinian cause it was designed to help — it’s time for change - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is deeply flawed.
Vox

Vox Welcomes Naureen Khan as Senior Editor, Culture and Features - Courtesy of Naureen Khan Khan joins from Cosmopolitan, will shape and edit culture features Today, Vox announced that Naureen Khan has joined the team as...
Election Law Blog

May 3 Conference: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times” - I’m looking forward to attending and speaking at this Knight First Amendment Institute conference on Friday (live and online). I’ll be presenting my pap...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli demonstrators attack flour shipment bound for Gaza - An Israeli group dedicated to blocking Jordanian aid from reaching Gaza recorded itself attacking an aid convoy.
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas A&M in talks with Starr County about how to provide transportation for students - Discussions start at a Starr County Industrial Foundation event that focused on higher education. The post Texas A&M in talks with Starr County about ho...
OpEd News

Art Critics and Historians Have Tragically Missed the Meaning of Jesus, Jews, and the Cross in Renaissance Art - Although the cross is a devotional Christian object today, in the time of Jesus it was a hated and feared symbol. It stood for persecution, torture, and de...
The Conversation

What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case - Pundits decried the Supreme Court justices for not focusing on Donald Trump’s conduct when they heard oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case. But a legal ...
Daily Dot

‘Smash the likes’: Michael Cohen vows to continue using TikTok live to discuss Trump trial despite interference concerns - [image: Michael Cohen tiktok live (three split)] Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer who is set to testify against Trump in his New ...
Grist

This spring, DC-area students are planting native flowers — and activating ‘the solarpunk imagination’ - A new initiative invited student groups to design and plant gardens that will promote wildlife, and cultivate their visions for the future.
Capital & Main

U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are the Industry’s Donations to Its GOP Allies - *Not Donald Trump. Not Ted Cruz. But a little known Republican from West Texas ranks as the top recipient of fossil fuel money.* The post U.S. Oil and Ga...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Arizona Democrats to make final push to repeal near-total abortion ban - Fourteen Democrats in state senate hoping to get at least two Republican votes to win final approval for bill repealing ban Democrats in the Arizona legi...
Political Wire

Progressive PAC Targets 8 Key House Races in California - New York Times: “The super PAC, Battleground California, says it aims to spend $15 million this year on eight competitive House races, seven with Republica...
The Root

What Did Trump Say to Piss Off Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View?' - You know it’s a good day when Donald Trump gets read the riot act (no pun intended) on national television. That’s exactly what happened Tuesday, thanks ...
Houston Public Media

Hip-hop, a live DJ, and a rotating stage give Shakespeare a fresh rhythm - Houston Matters visits a rehearsal for “Othello: The Remix” at Stages Houston.
Unlimited Hangout

The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin - The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin.
Southeast Texas Record

Phuong T. Pham sues Keith Gartner for car accident resulting in personal injury - In the District Court of Harris County, Texas, plaintiff Phuong T. Pham has filed a lawsuit against defendants Keith Gartner and ST Construction. Read mo...
Axios

House Democrats laugh off Marjorie Taylor Greene's "crazy" vote to oust Mike Johnson - House Democrats met Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) plan to force a vote on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with dismissal and derision. *Why ...
Undernews

Word - [image: May be an image of 3 people, signboard, road, grass and text that says 'SPEED LIMIT 111/4'] Via Sign Appreciation Society
Bonddad

Manufacturing treads water in April, while real construction spending turned down in March (UPDATE: and heavy truck sales weren’t so great either) - *- by New Deal democrat* *A preliminary programming note:* In addition to the manufacturing and construction reports, today we also get the JOLTS r...
San Antonio Current

War of Words: Did UTSA violate pro-Palestinian protesters' First Amendment rights? - The University of Texas at San Antonio has been the site pro-Palestinian protests over recent weeks as student activists demand the administration divest ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Trump’s Contingent-cy Plan - GOP remains highly favored if no presidential candidate gets 270 electoral votes and the House decides the presidency The post Trump’s Contingent-cy Plan...
Daily Howler

CONCERNS: New York Times merges with Enquirer! - *WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024* *Agamemnon will have to wait:* As it turns out, the rage of Achilles—along with the rage of Agamemnon himself—is going to have t...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, May 1 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, May 1]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to th...
CultureMap Houston

From vision to reality, Hermann Park fundraiser salutes remarkable change - It’s been quite a year for the Hermann Park Conservancy. Some might even say transformational. And it’s with this perspective of grace and recognition tha...
naked capitalism

TaxCast #142: Blockchain Havens - How blockchain/crypto tax havens are displacing traditional tax havens.
NPR's Health Shots

Why is a 6-week abortion ban nearly a total ban? It's about how we date a pregnancy - The time a person has to decide whether to have an abortion in Florida and other states with six-week abortion bans is at most two weeks. Why? It's has to ...
ArcaMax

Table Talk in Troubled Times - The Luncheon Society intrigued me by its very name. My grandmother attended women's society "luncheons." So how could I refuse a Zoom invitation ("you migh...
Field Negro

Cricket deserved better. - Every now and then a member of the MAGA crowd shows you who they really are. Take the governor of South Dakota, *Kristi Noem*, for instance. It recent...
Liberation News

PSL Editorial – The meaning of May Day: We need a revolution! - May Day is a time to take to the streets and say that it is the working class that should have the power. Our labor makes every aspect of society run. So w...
Angry Bear

Eric Segall tells us what he really thinks about the Roberts court - Law professor Eric Segall is a leading critic of the Supreme Court. In a blog post today, he doesn’t pull any punches: The disaster that wasthe Trump v....
WhoWhatWhy

DeSantis Announces ‘Freedom Summer’ in Florida — Just Not for Pregnant Women - If you are looking to buy sales tax-free recreational equipment in Florida this summer, Ron DeSantis has great news for you. But if you need an abortion, y...
Scheerpost.com

How Israel Violates International Law in Gaza: Expert Report - An independent expert report lays out how Israel systematically violated U.S. and International Law in Gaza, concluding that Israel launched indiscriminate...
Alternet

Law firm asks to leave major Trump case: 'Breakdown in attorney-client relationship' - Facing four criminal indictments and a variety of civil lawsuits, former President Donald Trump is employing a long list of attorneys in multiple states....
CPI's Danger in the Air

Law helps vulnerable heirs’ property owners — but only if they can afford it - [image: Image shows a miniature house sitting on several bills of money, next to a gavel] The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a...
First Draft

The Next WV Governor Will Hate Trans Kids - I hate this WV political cycle.
Texas Observer

Bordering on Cowardice - In an otherwise strong State of the Union address this March, President Joe Biden breathed new life into a term the immigrant rights movement has spent y...
El Paso Matters

Holocaust commemoration, Mighty Mujer Triathlon among upcoming events - The Week Ahead: Here’s a roundup of some culture and civic events in the borderland in the coming week. Holocaust Days of Remembrance Commemoration The ...
Right Wing Watch

Heritage Foundation’s Snarky and Revealing Defense of Project 2025 - Commentary Project 2025, a scheme led by the Heritage Foundation to “take the reins of government” after former President Donald Trump or another MAGA Re...
Democracy Now!

Reed Brody: U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can't Prosecute Israel for War Crimes - The Biden administration is claiming the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction to charge Israeli officials for war crimes. This comes after rumo...
Ecosophia

Lenocracy in Extremis: The Case of Publishing - I really did mean to go on to a different subject this week, rather than talking further about the system of political economy I’ve labeled lenocracy (from...
Techdirt.

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile Finally Fined $192 Million For Abuse Of User Location Data - For several decades, major wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile collected vast troves of sensitive user location and movement data, then sold acce...
Ian Welsh

The Retard Parade of Western Politics Exemplified By Trump and Biden - [image: The Retard Parade of Western Politics Exemplified By Trump and Biden] We had a joke back in the Bush Jr. administration. “Evil or stupid? Why not...
Space City Weather

More showers and thunderstorms are likely later today and tonight, with additional flooding possible - In brief: The overall forecast looks more ominous, with atmospheric conditions favoring another round of strong showers and thunderstorms later today and t...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Such Low Energy’: Trump Relentlessly Mocked for Once Again Falling Asleep During Trial -
Novara Media

‘Jobs or the Environment’ Is a False Choice Deployed by the Right - [image: Striking workers at Grangemouth oil refinery in 2008. REUTERS/David Moir]Hurray hurray, the first of May, the holiday that comes from below. The fe...
Dissident Voice

“Medicalization”: Profit and Behavior-Control - Thanks to the credulity and docility of the majority of Americans, Big Pharma has largely succeeded in medicalizing virtually every deviation from corpor...
The Progressive Wing

5/1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - Happy May Day!
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy opens applications for its rebranded public input committee - [image: A CPS crew addresses a power outage near Balcones Heights.]Applications to be a member of the CPS Energy Community Input Committee (CIC) are offici...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: More Humpday Humor - Not feeling all that political today, but I got a laff out of Tommy Siegel‘s piece because it coincides with a sudden deluge of similarly dismissive editor...
Off The Kuff

Final May 2024 special election early voting: The usual pattern holds - We come to the end of the early voting period for this weird and not really wanted May special election – okay, not wanted for HCAD, the SD15 special was f...
Mother Jones

This Majority-Black City Has a Water Crisis That Privatization Won’t Fix - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damage...
The Intercept

Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide - The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians. The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Al...
American Prospect

The Supreme Court Is Ready to Look Past the January 6th Attack - The conservative justices in the Trump immunity case declined to consider the actual charges against him.
High Country News

Bozeman’s boom depends on immigrants but struggles to support them - [image: New homes in Bozeman's Valley West.] One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic ...
The Daily Poster

The Homeowners’ Rebellion - Wall Street landlords face a heartland backlash that could set off a revolution.
Crooked Media

Tucker Carlson Interviews “Putin’s Brain” - The post Tucker Carlson Interviews “Putin’s Brain” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Informed Comment

“Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A key feature of American bigotry toward people from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and toward Muslims more genera...
The NM Political Report

Federal agencies release operating plans for Rio Grande and Pecos River - The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers say that Elephant Butte Reservoir likely reached its peak elevation for the year in Februa...
Counterpunch

Boston Area Students Against Genocide: Report from the Weekend of April 26 - When I strolled into Harvard Yard around 6:00 pm on Friday, a Shabbat service was taking place in the student encampment for Palestine. Dozens of young p...
Crooked Timber

Machines and tools - It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So, it’s a g...
jobsanger

Workers Not Adequately Represented In State Legislatures -
World Socialist Web Site

Biden promotes Fain’s sellout at Daimler Truck as another “historic” win - The miserable tentative contract agreement at Daimler Truck has been hailed by Biden and leading Democrats as another supposed “historics” win for workers
Antiwar.com

The Ideological Coup: How Disciples of Kahane Became the New Face of Israel - Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actua...
Popular Resistance

Recent Settler Violence In The West Bank, Explained - Violent Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank have skyrocketed ever since October 7. Before that, 2022 and 2023 were already sett...
Black Agenda Report

Iran just Scored HUGE Victory over Israel and the IDF will be Destroyed - Iran just Scored HUGE Victory over Israel and the IDF will be Destroyed bareditors Wed, 05/01/2024 - 07:43 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Sen...
Brad Blog

A Few Hits of Dopamine for Your Listening Pleasure: 'BradCast' 4/30/2024 - We've got quite a few good news items amidst all the madness on today's BradCast. You may enjoy a few hits of dopamine along the way. Your welcome. Please ...
Workers World

Campus revolts inspire anti-imperialist solidarity - [image: Campus revolts inspire anti-imperialist solidarity] Faced with the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in occupied Gaza that has claimed the lives...
Deadline Politics

Fox News Tops April Ratings; CNN And MSNBC See Some Boost From Trump Trial, But It’s Hardly A Blockbuster - Fox News continued its dominance in the April ratings, while network coverage of Donald Trump’s hush money trial has failed to produce blockbuster viewersh...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Kansas lawmakers fail to override veto of bill banning healthcare for trans kids, two anti-trans bills fail in Mississippi - It was a good Monday and Tuesday for the transgender community. Yesterday an hour after I posted about the victory in federal court, news came down that...
Portside

Lessons From Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15 - Lessons From Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15 Greg Tue, 04/30/2024 - 19:27
Dispatches from the Underclass

‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A Threat to Humanity -
DeSmogBlog

Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes - In a landmark hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legal experts and campaigners argued that businesses, such as the fossil fuel and agri...
Bracing Views

For the U.S. Establishment, Violence Is the Answer - W.J. Astore Meandering Thoughts on Campus Protests against Genocide and Police Responses College and university campuses across the USA are increasingly th...
Progressive.org

Middle America: A Millionaire’s Bankrupt Senate Run - It seems like Eric Hovde doesn't know why he's running for a U.S. Senate seat. His incoherent political message in a state he is out of touch with is a gli...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America amid the Now-Fizzled Rate-Cut Mania & Erstwhile Plunge in Mortgage Rates - Rate-Cut Mania died, mortgage rates re-jumped to 7.5%, but here’s what home prices did during Rate-Cut Mania.
Reform Austin

Campus Speech - The post Campus Speech appeared first on Reform Austin.
Discourse

Kristi Noem Isn't *Just* a Puppy Killer - The South Dakota governor's pooch-murdering bravado might be a carefully crafted piece of voter-focused sociopathy.
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Efficient water heaters will cut pollution, save money, save lives - Updated energy efficiency standards for water heaters are expected to save Americans $124 billion on energy bills The post STATEMENT: Efficient water hea...
slacktivist

Tactical vested interests - A police officer in riot gear looks as reasonable and cool as a guy walking down the sidewalk in a wet-suit and football helmet. Plus: Two botched predicti...
Second Nexus

Joe Biden Slams Trump For Saying States Should 'Monitor' Women's Pregnancies - Democratic President Joe Biden responded online after former Republican President Donald Trump pandered to his pro-forced birth base in a recent *TIME* m...
The Texas Signal

A Texas Tussle Over Title IX - After the Biden Administration announced new guidelines about Title IX, the landmark 1972 legislation that bans discrimination based on sex in education,...
The AltWorld

Como los de Berlín, en 1936, los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024, están al servicio de un imposible sueño imperial - La afirmación puede parecer chocante, pero lo cierto es que la organización de los próximos Juegos Olímpicos […] The post Como los de Berlín, en 1936, lo...
NORML

DEA Accepts Health Agency’s Recommendation to Reclassify Cannabis - [image: legal cannabis plants][image: legal cannabis plants]“It is significant for these federal agencies, and the DEA and FDA in particular, to acknowle...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Unraveling Education: Houston, we have a Problem! & his name is AJ Crabill [Storytime], Feb 21, 2024 - *Friends,* *April has been a busy travel month. I'll soon post on what's happening right now with the protests at UT Austin. I've definitely kept up thr...
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 4/30/24 – Trump’s Hush Money Trial Heats up as He Receives Fines for Violating Gag Order - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss a wide array of topics, including Trump’s hush money trial. Mitch Roschell...
Ring of Fire

60 Has Become The New “Young Blood” In Washington - Most Americans agree that our politicians are too old, with the average age of lawmakers in the Senate being 64 – that’s one year away from retirement ag...
Glasstire

Changes are Coming to the MFAH’s Core Residency Program - The Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is currently hiring new leadership and has paused applications for the 2024-25 term...
Krebs on Security

Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years - A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leakin...
Church and State

Climate Crisis to Cost Global Economy $38 Trillion a Year by 2050 - The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years compared to what it would have been without global heating.
Infidel753

Image round-up for Walpurgisnacht 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click for full size. (For the link round-up, click here.) I was getting real *Phantasm* vibes from this for a ...
See You In 2020

To defeat Zionism, we must broaden the pro-Palestine struggle beyond left-liberal circles - A generation of young people have come to confront the vile reality of what the Democratic Party is. If you’re college-aged right now, it’s overwhelmin...
Claytoonz

Dreamy Juror - During jury selection of his hush-money trial, Donald Trump shared a post from Fox News’ Jesse Watters claiming that liberal Trump haters were attempting t...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop - During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal t...
Equality Texas

Texans Speak Out Against Paxton’s Lawsuit, Abbott’s Order - Monday, April 29, 2024 For Immediate Release Texans Speak Out Against Paxton’s Lawsuit, Abbott’s Order Texas Governor & AG move to undercut updated feder...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Israel's Roots in Terror & Neo-Colonialism - For decades our government and mainstream media has portrayed Israel is a victim and the only defender of Democracy in the Middle East; however, they ra...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia targets South Africa with disinformation to discredit US aid to Ukraine - The U.S. helps Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. Washington is also actively assisting Kyiv’s efforts in developing democratic governance ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Comics Can Spark Conversations About Race and History in the Classroom - Right now, efforts to censor college protestors, to ban diverse materials in schools and to silence students and staff threaten our right to free speech ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman - Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, *Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair*.
Project Censored

World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi - This week on the Project Censored Show, in advance of World Press Freedom Day, Mickey talks to media scholar Andrew Kennis about his recent book, Digital...
LareDOS

LLT announces return of Children’s Summer Musical Productions with Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR. - Auditions on Sat., May 4; play runs July 18 - July 21; July 25 - July 28.
Save Buffalo Bayou

What’s that Munching Sound? - Spring on that Bend in the Bayou April 28, 2024 We were standing on that high bank in the woods of Memorial Park looking up and down at Buffalo Bayou flowi...
MintPress News

“Military and Moral Failures”: How Iran’s Israel Strike Reshaped the Region Forever - Tel Aviv’s claim to “defense” and security primacy, upon which much of its exports were successfully marketed for decades, has been amply demonstrated to...
Campaign for America's Future

Sick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at United's HQ - “What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of Unite...
Rewire

At Catholic Universities, Students Fight an Uphill Battle for Reproductive Justice - Students are working to fill the reproductive health-care gaps left by their Catholic colleges and universities. The post At Catholic Universities, Stude...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism” - Does Whataboutism work? A new article has answers.
Debunking Christianity

Published: Don McIntosh's Article In Response to Mine On "God and Horrendous Suffering." - Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2024) of the *Trinity Journal of Natural & Philosophical Theology* has just been published. Included is the response by Editor-...
Earth 911

Which Companies Have Paid the Biggest Greenwashing Fines - As consumers become more aware of how their purchases are impacting the planet, businesses are... The post Which Companies Have Paid the Biggest Greenwas...
Progressives Chat

‘Joe Rogan’s Unbridled Enthusiasm…’ - Is Joe Rogan giving us something to consider? Encouragement, yes. But, when explaining why, there is something else. Technology can be a pain.
Democracy Chronicles

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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Lowering the Bar

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

Donald Trump Gets Whooped by Jean Carroll Jury - Forget the $5 million the first Jean Carroll jury ordered Donald Trump to pay for defaming her. That's bupkis compared to Friday's verdict by jury # two wh...
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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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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Brains and Eggs

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Even more Funnies (Last jeers from the Grammstand, etc.)

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