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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
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“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

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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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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

NBA Investigating After Brother of Denver Nuggets Star Nikola Jokic Punches Fan In the Face at Playoff Game - The NBA is looking an incident at Monday's Denver Nuggets game after a video was posted online showing Nikola Jokic's brother punching a fan. The post NBA...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court to hear emergency abortion dispute out of Idaho - [image: Supreme Court to hear emergency abortion dispute out of Idaho]Less than a month after the justices heard oral arguments in a case seeking to roll...
Daily Cartoonist

NCS at C2E2 on 4/26-28/2024 - The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28. If you are in Chicago this weekend visit NC...
Futurism

Cops Using AI That Automatically Generates Police Reports From Body Cam Footage - Taser maker and police industrial complex contractor Axon has announced a new product called "Draft One," an AI that can generate police reports from b...
memeorandum

FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (Federal Trade Commission) - Federal Trade Commission: *FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes* — FTC's final rule will generate over 8,500 new businesses each year, raise worker w...
Houston Public Media

Texas, AG Ken Paxton ‘trying to bully Harris County’ over guaranteed income program, Lina Hidalgo says - The Texas Supreme Court blocked Harris County's guaranteed income program on Tuesday, as the first round of checks were being sent out to low-income famili...
Progressive.org

Why Farmers Are Standing Up Against Free Trade - Farmers around the world are going to the streets to call for decent incomes that would help their families and local economies.
Mondoweiss

Three days under fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem describe the ‘most violent’ Israeli raid in years - [image: Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinian men killed in an Israeli raid in the Nur Shams camp during their funeral procession in the occupied West B...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New US rule would ban employers from using ‘noncompete’ agreements - FTC votes to ban measures which bar workers from jumping to or starting competing companies for a prescribed period of time US companies would no longer ...
Salon.com

Trump discussed hush payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal with David Pecker, jurors hear - Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that Trump was initially hesitant to pay her off
The Verge

Tesla’s profits sink as the company struggles with cooling demand - [image: Tesla Cybertruck Makes Appearance In Wuhan] Photo by VCG / VCG via Getty Images Tesla reported its first quarter earnings during an incredibly sh...
Ballot Access News

Federal Election Commission Has a New Version of its Directory of State Election Officials - The Federal Election Commission compiles a book every year that gives the contact information for each state’s elections office. It is the “Combined Federa...
Axios

Trump put at center of "catch and kill" scheme by Ex-National Enquirer publisher - Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker told jurors Tuesday how he would suppress stories critical of former President Trump and encourage storie...
Raw Story

'Who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?' Conservative media sours on far-right rep - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is making herself almost as universally reviled by her fellow Republicans as she is by Democrats. Conservative publica...
The Hill

Murphy, Cox target nation's happiness deficit - Story at a glance A Senate Democrat and a Republican governor are teaming up to tackle the U.S. happiness deficit, one conversation at a time. Sen. Chris ...
Eschaton

Google's Worst Executive - Prabhakar Raghavan.
World Socialist Web Site

UK Tory government passes fascistic Bill on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda - null
Daily Howler

AFTERNOON: What Lisa Rubin said to Willie! - *TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2024* *Old ways disappear:* Journalistically speaking, we'd call it a moment that was. Yesterday, opening statements were delivered ...
Al Jazeera English

‘Attacks on UNRWA have nothing to do with neutrality,’ Lazzarini says - UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini said that attacks on his agency are aimed at stripping Palestinians of refugee status.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China’s global lending lures countries into a debt trap - At least two countries have declared bankruptcy due to an inability to repay foreign interest payments, primarily to China.
Courthouse News

Foster care in W.Va. - CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal court in West Virginia denied a class of former foster care children’s motion for sanctions against the West Virginia Departm...
Texas Monthly

It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market - Pullman Market, at San Antonio’s the Pearl, offers restaurants, a mezcal bar, and grocery items that celebrate the state’s culinary bounty.
Techdirt.

No One Can Own The Law—So Why Is Congress Advancing A Bill To Extend Copyright To It? - Last week, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to advance the Protecting and Enhancing Public Access to Codes Act, or the Pro Codes A...
Mediagazer

Andrew Neil tells Parliament that GB News will never be profitable, hedge funds shouldn't be allowed to own papers, and Spectator is more profitable than ever (Bron Maher/Press Gazette) - Bron Maher / Press Gazette: *Andrew Neil tells Parliament that GB News will never be profitable, hedge funds shouldn't be allowed to own papers, and Spec...
Daily Dot

‘I just found this out yesterday’: Woman issues warning for people who use Target Circle - [image: woman speaking with caption "so this is for anybody and everybody that uses the Target circle app for like" (l) Target app on phone (c) woman spe...
The Root

See What This Grown Man Allegedly Did to Hospitalize a 15-Year Old Black McDonald's Employee - St. Louis police placed a man in custody after he was seen on video weeks ago in a World-Star-worthy brawl at a McDonald’s, leading an employee to be hos...
San Antonio Report

Historians discover Mission San José was a stop on the Underground Railroad - [image: Through a partnership with San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum, the National Park Service reveals new evidence showing that t...
Eater Houston

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

“Cash-strapped election offices have fewer resources after bans on private grants” - Matt Vasilogambros for Stateline: “This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donatio...
Novara Media

Sunak Says Rwanda Policy “Compassionate” After Five Die in Channel - In the wake of the Rwanda bill passing its final parliamentary hurdle, five people have tragically died whilst crossing the channel. Plus: Pro-Palestinian ...
Slate

Zendaya’s Instant-Classic New Tennis Movie Will Make You Sweat As Much As Its Stars - In Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, the star plays doubles with two exceptionally driven horndogs.
Second Nexus

Eric Trump Gets Brutal Fact-Check After He Offers Blatantly False Defense Of Trump's 'Hush Money' Payments - Former President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump got a brutal fact-check after he got the timeline of his father's corrupt scheme to influence the 2016 ele...
Claytoonz

Nom Nom Politics - If you’re going to dine on Trump, the finest chefs recommend marinating for 24 hours in ketchup and covfefe. While some may enjoy Trump with some fava bean...
San Antonio Current

Live Music in San Antonio This Week: La Semana Alegre, Swans, loolowningen and more - Fiesta may be going full swing, but there's no letup in San Antonio's live music scene. This week, fans will be able to check out the resurrection of the ...
Alternet

'Who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?' Conservative media sours on far-right rep - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is making herself almost as universally reviled by her fellow Republicans as she is by Democrats. Conservative pu...
Right Wing Watch

From Tears Of Joy To A Loss Of Faith: Rick Green Turns Against Speaker Mike Johnson - When Rep. Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House last year, Christian nationalist religious-right activist Rick Green was “literally in tears” bec...
OpEd News

2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' book, "The 15% Solution," Chapter 4 - This column presents Chapter 4/Section 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Contr...
Wolf Street

Prices of New Houses v. Existing Houses: Why New-House Sales Held Up as Existing-House Sales Plunged - Here's why: New house prices -18% from peak, back to Nov 2021, further sweetened by mortgage-rate buydowns.
Sludge

Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban - A new disclosure reveals Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor...
Robert Reich

The Case Against RFK Jr.RFK Junior is not who you think he is.It... - *The Case Against RFK Jr.* RFK Junior is not who you think he is. It pains me to say it, but he is a dangerous nutcase. He claims to want to heal Americ...
Political Wire

National Enquirer Publisher Details How He Helped Trump - “David Pecker, a former publisher of The National Enquirer, on Tuesday testified about the mutually beneficial relationship between Donald Trump and the su...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Open thread ~
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 23, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Europe is the fastest-warming continent on the planet, n...
El Paso Matters

Can you purchase over the counter birth control pills in El Paso? - Access to women’s reproductive health care continues to change, creating new challenges. The post Can you purchase over the counter birth control pills ...
Southeast Texas Record

Paxton turns to Supreme Court to stop Harris County’s ‘guaranteed income’ program - HOUSTON - The Texas Supreme Court has granted an administrative stay today, temporarily blocking Harris County’s “guaranteed income” program after Attorn...
Deadline Politics

Former National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker Tells Jurors Of Scheme To Assist Trump’s Campaign With Positive Stories — And Negative Pieces On Rivals - David Pecker, the former CEO of National Enquirer parent company American Media, told jurors today how the tabloid assisted Donald Trump’s 2016 presidentia...
WhoWhatWhy

In Vietnam, Farmers Cut Methane Emissions by Changing How They Grow Rice - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Church and State

Returning to Draconian Abortion Bans Doesn’t Make America Great - “When exactly was America great?”. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer: 1864.
The AltWorld

Las complejas relaciones entre Israel e Irán - Si bien la retórica de los ayatollahs es claramente antisraelí, las relaciones entre Israel e Irán son […] The post Las complejas relaciones entre Israel...
NORML

Maine: Governor Signs Legislation Providing Pathway For Marijuana-related Expungements - [image: marijuana record expungement][image: marijuana record expungement]Maine is the 25th state to enact legislation explicitly facilitating the expung...
Capital & Main

A Whole-Person Approach to Combating Homelessness - *An ambitious pilot program provides a myriad of resources to help participants achieve financial independence through stable employment.* The post A Who...
NPR's Health Shots

What's at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies - The Supreme Court will consider the question: Should doctors treating pregnancy complications follow state or federal law if the laws conflict? Here's how ...
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 4/23/24 – Flames of Dissent: Campus Unrest Amid Gaza War - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss a wide array of hot topics around the globe and nationally, including the c...
The Week

'Make legal immigration a more plausible option' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
First Draft

Pecker Brings The Wood - Notes on the second week of the Trump porn star hush money election interference trial.
Ring of Fire

Lawmakers Invoke Communist China To Justify TikTok Ban & Arizona’s Governor Has A Spending Problem - Legislation is working its way through Congress that could result in the popular social media app TikTok being BANNED in the United States. Also, Arkansa...
Undernews

Health - *MedicalXpress - *Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China recently carried out a study investigating the potential link bet...
Texas Standard

New Navy ships are years behind schedule, because manufacturers can’t find workers to build them - Shipbuilders are pursuing a variety of measures to find more workers, including a marketing partnership with Major League Baseball.
Reform Austin

Tony Gonzales Openly Blasts Fellow Republicans As “Scumbags” And Klansmen - WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, ripped into his party’s right flank for voting against billions in foreign aid for U.S. allies last ...
Glasstire

Review: John Forse’s Exploration of Rough-and-Tumble Houston - Avoid Highways, the lovely and well-conceived show of paintings on view now at the West Loop HCC gallery, is in part described by its artist, John Forse,...
Earthworks

Bolivian Government Must Respect the Autonomy of Indigenous Communities - Disponible en español a continuación The Bolivian government has promised that its mining industry will operate with transparency, credibility, and … Th...
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...
Environment Texas

Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water - Biden initiative would protect many wetlands and rivers from pollution The post Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water appeare...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Everything Is Not OK in Oklahoma Public Schools - Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, faces national backlash as he continues to inject his extremist ideology into public school ...
Moron Majority

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Bonddad

The range-bound new home sales market continues - - *by New Deal democrat* As per my usual caveat, while new home sales are the most leading of the housing construction metrics, they are noisy and h...
ProPublica

New Legislation Would Expand Access to Disaster Relief, Provide Help With Titles for Large Number of Black Landowners - by Lizzie Presser ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publis...
Scheerpost.com

Columbia Faculty Walk Out Over Student Suspensions, Arrest for Gaza Protests - While expressing gratitude for solidarity actions, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—whose daughter was suspended—said that "this about the genocide in Gaza and the...
Dissident Voice

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza? - The flotilla waits to sail from Istanbul. Photo credit: Medea Benjamin The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza...
ArcaMax

The Government Denies People Access to Asylum Because of Language Barriers - Every year, thousands of asylum seekers from diverse corners of the world seek refuge in the United States. Many -- such as Indigenous people from Latin Am...
The Texas Signal

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

The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway - Whenever SpaceX rockets blast off from the sandy property that Elon Musk controls near Brownsville, the road to Boca Chica Beach—including Boca Chica Sta...
Democracy Now!

Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW's Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer - *Democracy Now!* speaks with the great labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tenne...
The Conversation

Can states prevent doctors from giving emergency abortions, even if federal law requires them to do so? The Supreme Court will decide - EMTALA requires hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to all patients – but Idaho is arguing that its abortion ban means it doesn’t have to allow the ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Gardella: Nobody will lose their job from collapse of GBIC and BCIC - The executive director of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation discusses the possible creation of a municipal development district. The post Ga...
Space City Weather

Is this Houston’s last night in the 50s for at least five months? - In brief: Houston may be experiencing its last truly chilly night until next fall. (That was painful to type). After this we’ll be transitioning to warmer ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Driving Him Crazy’: Trump Rages As Security Keeps ‘A Few Dozen’ Supporters From Courthouse -
Angry Bear

Open Thread April 23 2024 Homeowners face a $25 tn bill from climate change - https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/04/11/homeowners-face-a-25trn-bill-from-climate-change The post Open Thread April 23 2024 Homeowners face a $25 tn...
Vox

Can Canada stave off populism? - [image: A mass of people wearing red and holding signs and Canadian flags flood a city street.] Hundreds of “Freedom Convoy” supporters march in downtown ...
Crooked Media

Heroes v. Villains - The post Heroes v. Villains appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

May 2024 special election early voting, Day One: Why are we doing this again? - The Houston Landing has another look at the HCAD elections and just how weird this all is. The county Democratic and Republican parties have endorsed and a...
Mother Jones

Ben & Jerry’s Parent Backpedals on Social and Environmental Vows - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Unilever is to scale back its environ...
American Prospect

MAGA 2.0 - Can J.D. Vance keep it alive after Trump?
Infidel753

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

Indigenous advocates at the UN say the green transition is neither clean nor just - Their message isn't new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.
High Country News

Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizona wind project - The SunZia transmission line will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest. The post Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizo...
The Daily Poster

The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle - For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.
The NM Political Report

NM receives $156M to boost access to solar - New Mexico will receive millions in federal money to increase access to solar power. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced recipients of the...
Counterpunch

On Cordillera Day, Defend the Land, Defend the Land Defenders - April 24 is Cordillera Day, when many remember and honor Macliing Dulag, a key Pangat tribal elder in Kalinga whom Philippine government soldiers murdere...
Liberation News

Spokane, WA: Sacred Heart med center workers strike against “disrespectful” conditions - The strikers cited below-market pay, eroding medical and dental benefits, as well as perpetual under-staffing and overtime, as key drivers of their struggle.
jobsanger

The New Governing Coalition -
Informed Comment

Israeli Squatter-Settlers in Palestinian West Bank Expanding at Fastest Rate in History, as they attack Indigenous Towns - Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – While the world’s eyes have been on Gaza, Palestinian villages in the West Bank have been subjected to sav...
Antiwar.com

What Can We Learn From Our Forever War in Ukraine? - It has been a while since the United States won a war. It looks as though we are about to lose yet another one – the war in Ukraine. This is a proxy wa...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29 - This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 04/22/2024 - 23:19
Popular Resistance

War And Genocide On Earth Day - On Earth Day Monday, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the plane...
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 ...
Workers World

At Kent State University hundreds protest speech by fascist killer Rittenhouse - [image: At Kent State University hundreds protest speech by fascist killer Rittenhouse] When the right-wing organization Turning Point USA announced it was...
See You In 2020

Beaten by imperialism’s foes, U.S. elites intensify their war on Americans’ liberties & economic wellbeing - To keep waging war against the Palestinians and the Russians, our government needs to keep intensifying its economic attacks on the people of the USA. ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

20 anti-LGBTQ bills fail as Iowa legislative session adjourns - The LGBTQ community received a wonderful bit of good news in Iowa and LGBTQ activists and journalists are hoping that it is the sign of a new trend. Fro...
slacktivist

Seeing things I’ve never saw - Orwell and Lewis, the gospel according to Paul (and Philip), and stories from 10 years in other peoples' basements.
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...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court Declined a Protestors' Rights Case. Here's What You Need to Know. - The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case, *Mckesson v. Doe*, that could have affirmed that the First Amendment protects protest organizers from...
CultureMap Houston

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

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

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

Alleged de Armas Fans Get Nothing in Misleading-Trailer Lawsuit - They also dodged an order requiring them to pay Universal's legal fees, unfortunately.
The Intercept

A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed. - If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened. The post A Prosecutor Asked Te...
Ian Welsh

EU Delusion on Sanctions and Europe’s Future - [image: EU Delusion on Sanctions and Europe’s Future] While the EU was considering more sanctions against Iran because it attacked Israel in retaliation f...
Bracing Views

Earth Day and Nukes - W.J. Astore Stop the Madness and Save the Planet Today is Earth Day: a good day to commit ourselves to saving the earth from the ravages of nuclear war. Gl...
The Progressive Wing

April 21-24 News Roundup and Open Threads - Let’s get the ball rolling for this week. Here in the Hudson Valley, we are passing from daffodil time to tulip time and from magnolia time to dogwood time...
Socialist Alternative

Despite Dire Warnings, Environment Is Secondary To Profit Under Capitalism - Every day the news cycle is flush with grim warnings from renowned scientists telling us that we urgently need to change course to avoid the most deadly im...
Discourse

Zionism Is In Its Flop Era - The hysterical reaction to the Columbia protests is proof.
Debunking Christianity

David Hume's Argument against Miracles Cannot Be Disputed. I Prove It Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt! - The title to this post echoes the certainty of David Hume, known as the greatest English speaking philosopher. He said: I flatter myself, that I have dis...
Dos Centavos

Early Voting Begins for May 4 Election - In case you didn’t know, we have two elections in May. While the Democratic Primary run-offs will be decided later this month, today is the first day of EA...
Earth 911

Can You Meet the 60×40 Plastic Reduction Target? - Earth Day is the one day each year when everyone stops to think about the... The post Can You Meet the 60×40 Plastic Reduction Target? appeared first on ...
Progressives Chat

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

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

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

Temporal Orientations in Politics and Ideology - Temporal orientations in politics shape narratives; forward-thinking perspectives offer societal progress, while backward views hinder development.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Bourbon Talk Political Q&A Livestream TONIGHT at 8pm Eastern - Hey everyone, just a head’s up: I’m doing a livestream tonight at 8pm Eastern here: April 21st, 2024 Bourbon Talk Livestream. I’ve been getting a lot of me...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Bald Eagle Protecting an American Flag Reminded Me Holocaust Denier JK Rowling Can’t Sue Me - Author JK Rowling is not a fan of transgender people, that much is true. At least, she’s not a fan of transgender women. For some reason, which only the ...
Black Agenda Report

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

Indiana Now Has a Religious Right to Abortion - How the conservative win from the 2014 *Hobby Lobby* decision was used to protect pro-abortion religious beliefs in Indiana. The post Indiana Now Has a R...
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover - With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. But ...
LareDOS

FAA hiring event at TAMIU Friday - Administration seeking to hire future air traffic controllers
Project Censored

Ed-Tech’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Deficit: The Galactic Gulf Between Rhetoric and Action - “University of Florida Eliminates all DEI-Related Positions,” read a March 2, 2024, New York Times headline. The article documented how Florida’s decisio...
MintPress News

A Tale of Two Genocides: Namibia’s Stand Against Israeli Aggression - Namibia's solidarity with Palestine underscores a broader shift in global politics, where shared histories pave the way for meaningful alliances against ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Where Trump’s Primary Showing Was (And Wasn’t) Especially Strong - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE —Though former President Donald Trump easily won most GOP primaries this year, some areas stood out to us. —By comparing how...
Common Dreams

Free Press Action Praises House Passage of Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act - On Wednesday, the House voted to advance the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (FANFSA), legislation that would restrict law enforcement and intellige...
The Grayzone

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

TFTC #499 - TFTC #499.
Dissent Magazine

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

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

The Secret of the Sages - Two weeks ago we talked about the way that life throughout the modern industrial world has fallen into the grip of lenocracy—that is, a system in which pim...
Alas, a Blog

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

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, A Faith Leader Built, Sustained, and Guided by Community - Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, the Co-Lead Minister at one of Just Texas’ Reproductive Freedom Congregations, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of ...
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...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: April 2024 - Lots of articles to share this month. Health in the Ace Community (2021 Survey) | Ace Community Survey – Full disclosure: I’m sharing this because I’m a di...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

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

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

‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media - A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up t...
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Two Party Opera

Drums of War - I live-streamed the process of making this comic, here is part 1: And part 2, the thrilling conclusion:
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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