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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

CultureMap Houston

From tasty Texas festivals to must-see museums, Edinburg has it all - Head due south and you'll encounter the city of Edinburg in the Rio Grande Valley, where annual events and attractions bring in locals and visitors alike ...
Mediaite

Texas Sheriff Pleads with Biden for Help After 50 Dead Migrants Found in Trailer: ‘It Makes Me Bristle With Anger’ - Texas Sheriff Javier Salazar blasted the "complete absence" from Joe Biden's administration on the border crisis following the death of 50 migrants. The ...
Election Law Blog

‘Take me up to the Capitol now’: How close Trump came to joining rioters - WashPo: Toward the end of 2020, then-President Donald Trump began raising a new idea with aides: that he would personally lead a march to the Capitol on th...
San Antonio Current

Texas board rejects proposal from group to call slavery 'involuntary relocation' in public schools - As the Texas State Board of Educators works to revamp its social studies curriculum, a group of nine educators proposed changing how slavery is discussed ...
Popular Resistance

National strike in Ecuador completes 15 days, struggle continues - Monday, June 27 marked 15 days since the beginning of the national strike in Ecuador against the right-wing government of President Guillermo Lasso and h...
Eater Houston

Houston’s La Table Will Be Split Into Two Restaurants — One French, One Italian - [image: Benjamin Berg and Valerio Lombardozzi, the general manager of La Table.] Benjamin Berg, the restaurateur behind Berg Hospitality establishments li...
Angry Bear

An abortion polling Rorschach test - What does this make you think? Option 1: This is a moral outrage! Option 2: We need to figure out how to win elections! Politics is not a morality play...
Alternet

Conservative identifies and compartmentalizes '11 types of Donald Trump enablers’ - Millions of Americans believe that Donald Trump was the most corrupt, irrational and nakedly authoritarian president in United States history. Watergate ...
The Week

Stranger Things season 4: The biggest burning questions after Vol. 2 - *After a stunning — and stunningly long — finale, *Stranger Things*' **fourth season is over, and there's a lot to chew on ahead of season five. Here are ...
Eschaton

Lunch Thread - HUNGER
The Root

Clarence Thomas Quotes False Vaccine Conspiracy Theory In Dissent - Until yesterday, it was hard to imagine how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas could have made the Court’s term any worse. Thomas is considered the id...
The Hill

The Hill’s 12:30 Report — Florida schools roll out ‘Don’t Say Gay’ policies - To view past editions of The Hill's 12:30 Report, click here: https://bit.ly/30ARS1U To receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox, please sign up here:...
Undernews

Clarence Thomas wrongly suggests ‘aborted children’ cells were used to make Covid vaccines - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/clarence-thomas-covid-vaccine-abortion-b2113505.html
Axios

Supreme Court's next term could be just as contentious - The most recent Supreme Court term ended with its conservative majority getting rid of major precedents — most notably Roe v. Wade — and setting new ones...
Techdirt.

Kentucky Supreme Court Says Warrants Are Needed For Real-Time Cell Location Pings - In 2018, the Supreme Court declared warrantless access to historical cell site location information unconstitutional, given the privacy implications of bei...
Al Jazeera English

WikiLeaks’ Assange lodges UK appeal against extradition to US - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, 50, has lodged appeal to prevent his extradition to the US to face criminal charges.
Common Dreams

NARAL Pro-Choice Endorses Fetterman—Who Vows to End Senate Filibuster to Protect Abortion Rights - "We know we can count on him to boldly fight for abortion rights and access," said the head of one of the nation's largest reproductive rights advocacy gro...
Daily Dot

‘He works at CVS, not CBS’: Woman says she picked up date from work thinking he was employed at CBS, sparking debate - [image: woman speaking in car with small image of CBS logo on building (l) CVS pharmacy building with sign (c) woman laughing in car (r)] A TikToker went...
Buzzflash

Dan Froomkin: "Massive Media Fail: Abortion Decision Coverage Ignores Misogyny, Theocracy, and So Much More" - Press Watch
Futurism

Former Employee Accuses Zuckerberg of Brandishing Ninja Sword When He Was Angry With Programmers - Aye, Aye, Metamatey! Extremely chill, totally okay behavior alert! In a viral TikTok, a former Facebook coder has alleged that Facebook-turned-Meta CEO M...
VICE

A Review of 'Swoveralls,' the Overall Sweatpants I Can't Help But Love - These seemingly goofy adult-onesies are actually the answer to being comfy and cute while traveling.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'The GOP is terrorizing LGBTQ youth. But the kids are fighting back' & other Fri midday news briefs - *The GOP Is Terrorizing LGBTQ+ Youth, But the Kids Are Fighting Back* - *I love these kids. They got more gumption and discipline than some of us older ...
Raw Story

'Shadowy' GOP-linked group in Houston knocking on doors in mostly Black neighborhood seeking sensitive voter info - A Houston resident said two men wearing Texas Election Network badges came to her door asking her to sign an affidavit verifying her voter address "under...
Slate

How Bush v. Gore Paved the Way for the End of Roe - The Supreme Court intervention in the 2000 election changed the course of history.
Texas Standard

Wesley Hunt holds edge over Duncan Klussmann in contest for Texas’ new 38th congressional district - CD 38 was designed as a safe Republican seat for Hunt, leaving some voters concerned Hunt won’t be as responsive to constituents as their current member of...
Courthouse News

Metaverse years from being global phenomenon, says pioneer - The crypto ecosystem is largely unregulated, has gaping security flaws and little in the way of insurance, leaving users open to fraud and scams.
The Verge

Vergecast: EVs are a mess, Starlink is confusing, and WFH monitors are here - Image: Hyundai Every Friday, *The Verge* publishes our flagship podcast, *The Vergecast*, where *Verge* editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large Davi...
Texas Environmental News

How Will the SCOTUS Decision Affect State and Local Climate Efforts? - In a political landscape already divided over climate action, the ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA effectively leaves state and [...] The post How Will th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Nearly 44,000 unvaccinated US national guard troops could be penalized - The branch has the military’s lowest vaccination rate but official says ‘we’re not giving up on anybody’ About 43,600 national guard members face possibl...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: The Power of Images - How the mainstream media uses images to define truth.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

My View from the Frontlines of Abortion Access - Last week, the Supreme Court overturned *Roe v. Wade*, upending 50 years of legal precedent and sparking protests across the country. It’s easy to think ...
Houston Public Media

Russian prosecutors call first witnesses in case against Brittney Griner - Griner, 31, is "a bit worried" because of the trial and the potential of a prison sentence, her lawyer tells NPR, "but she's a tough lady and I think she w...
Salon.com

Jan. 6 panel members: Trump pal who disputed Hutchinson testimony has major "credibility problems" - "Tony Ornato likes to lie," Rep. Adam Kinzinger tweeted as committee raises doubts about his previous testimony
Texas Monthly

Martin House Brewing Is At It Again With a Barbecue Sauce–Flavored Beer - The Fort Worth–based company has come out with another unusual, savory beer, this time in collaboration with Weatherford’s T&D Barbecue.
Ballot Access News

People’s Party Asks U.S. District Court Judge to Reconsider Denial of Ballot Access Injunction - On June 30, the People’s Party of Florida asked for reconsideration in its ballot access case, People’s Party of Florida v Florida Department of State, m.d...
MintPress News

How AIPAC Is Leading Efforts to Dismantle the UN Inquiry on Palestine - As a UN probe finds that the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine is the root cause of decades-long conflict in the region, AIPAC, the Israeli lobby p...
Reform Austin

“Nobody’s Giving Us Any Answers”: Uvalde Families Demand Details Of Shooting Investigation At City Council Meeting - UVALDE — At an emotional City Council meeting Thursday, families of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims demanded the mayor release details from t...
Mediagazer

Google shared user data with Russian ad company RuTarget for months after it was sanctioned; the data may have included Ukrainian users' sensitive info (Craig Silverman/ProPublica) - Craig Silverman / ProPublica: *Google shared user data with Russian ad company RuTarget for months after it was sanctioned; the data may have included Uk...
Bud Kennedy

Over age 65? You don’t have to pay your property taxes. (But it’s better if you do.) - If you’re sick of paying taxes, Texas has a deal for you. If you’re age 65 or older or fit one of several other categories, you don’t ever have to … Click ...
memeorandum

'It's Scary': Students Fear Going to College in Red States After Roe (Neda Toloui-Semnani/VICE) - Neda Toloui-Semnani / VICE: *'It's Scary': Students Fear Going to College in Red States After Roe* — “Location has never before been more important to ...
slacktivist

7/1 Flashback: Health class - One factor in many of our nation's problems is that grown men -- husbands, fathers, executives -- still don't know much about how sex works.
Discourse

This Fight Did Not Begin With Us And It Will Not End With Us - We know the right to abortion can be won because it has been won before. Now it’s up to us to win it again.
Political Wire

Trump’s Political Position Will Only Get Worse - David Rothkopf: “Mark it on your calendars. This was the week the meteoric political career of Donald Trump did what meteors often do and collided with pla...
Liberation News

Roe reversed: How we got here, how to fight and win! - For the last 50 years the right wing has been steadily organizing and strategizing for this moment.
American Prospect

Supreme Court Stages a Coup Against Government Regulation - And they endanger the planet in the process.
Bonddad

Manufacturing and construction start out the second half of 2022 with more bad news - * - by New Deal democrat* Let’s take a look at the new month’s first data, on manufacturing and construction. The ISM manufacturing index, and especi...
OpEd News

What Would a Real Opposition Party of the People Do? - I encourage readers to send in other good proposals for a real People's Democratic Party Wish List.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 1, 2022 - Black Agenda Radio July 1, 2022 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/01/2022 - 19:58 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
Mother Jones

This Is the Republican Roadmap for Eradicating Reproductive Rights - Emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decision demolishing the constitutional right to an abortion, Republicans have signaled that they plan to take further ac...
Glasstire

Review: “Uncovered Spaces” at the International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen - Uncovered Spaces is an exhibition that flexes the institutional muscles of the Rio Grande Valley. A collaboration between the University of Texas Rio Gra...
First Draft

The Room Where It Happened - I know what it is to know what you know and must decide if and when to say it, but while I can get away with not naming names, Cassidy Hutchinson had to ma...
Texas Observer

Immigrant Moms Get Rare Win in Long-fought Family Detention Case - Seven years ago, a group of formerly detained immigrant mothers, an Austin-based nonprofit, and a daycare owner teamed up to fight Texas’ handling of fed...
San Antonio Report

Human smuggling tragedy a painful reminder that we need immigration reform - [image: Carlos Reyes wipes tears from his face on Wednesday at a memorial marking the site where dozens of people died in a tractor-trailer.]Commentary: Th...
FiveThirtyEight.com

The Toronto Blue Jays’ Stars Haven’t Delivered — But An Unsung Hero Is Picking Up The Slack - All throughout last season and into this spring, we raved about the Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series potential — and their marquee names were a big reason w...
naked capitalism

How to Get Rid of Medical Debt — Or Avoid It in the First Place - A primer on how to deal with an American affliction, medical debt.
Church and State

Will Trump’s GOP Flee Him? Of Course! - The elected Trump's GOP "faithful" will likely as silently as possible be trying to separate themselves from Trump and his inner circle cabal.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, July 1 - [image: The morning read for Friday, July 1]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the ...
Ian Welsh

Norway and Finland Sell Their Souls For NATO Membership - [image: Norway and Finland Sell Their Souls For NATO Membership] I live (for at least a little longer) in a house full of Turks. I’ve heard the refugee st...
Vox

Who overturning Roe hurts most, explained in 7 charts - Pro-abortion rights demonstrators hold signs outside the US Supreme Court on June 24, when *Roe v. Wade* was overturned. | Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via...
The Progressive Wing

7/1-4 July 4th Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - Enjoy the long weekend. A respite after the dreadful Supreme Court rulings from the last few weeks.
The Smirking Chimp

We Need Your Help! Our Summer Fund Drive Starts Today. Here's Why It's Important We Get off to a Good Start. -
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonists in the News - Cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq Honors The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) and the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will highlight the ...
Crooked Timber

Ousmane Sembène, Les Bouts de bois de Dieu - More than forty years ago, before I went to university, I was living in Paris and became an “organized sympathiser”, a candidate for membership, of the Tro...
Rewire

When ‘Roe’ Fell: A Rewire News Group Short Documentary - *Rewire News Group* has been on the ground outside the Supreme Court to capture this pivotal moment in history. The post When ‘Roe’ Fell: A Rewire News G...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (A Random Act) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out w...
El Paso Matters

The Week Ahead: Where to see fireworks this weekend - This is your Friday update, which takes a quick look at the week ahead and some developments that we’re following. The post The Week Ahead: Where to see...
Capital & Main

Firings, Evictions, Broken Promises: How Yellowstone Tour Guides Are Building Momentum for Change - *A giant federal contractor’s failure to abide by a settlement is building pressure for Biden to take action.* The post Firings, Evictions, Broken Promis...
Countercurrents

NATO prepares for “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors” - At the conclusion of this week’s NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, the members of NATO, including most European states as well as the United States and Canada,...
Democracy Now!

Meet the Dutch Doctor Helping Expand Abortion Access by Mailing Safe & Legal Pills Worldwide - As activists across the U.S. are mobilizing to defend reproductive rights, we speak to the Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, who has dedicated her life...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Leading Off (7/1/22) - Booming Collin County Is Expensive. The monthly cost of owning a home in Collin County jumped $971 at the end of the second quarter of 2022. It’s now $2,...
Dissent Magazine

A Cold Drink of Objectivity - In many accounts of the New York intellectuals, the prolific critic Harold Rosenberg seemed to fall through the cracks. Debra Bricker Balken’s biography ...
Daily Howler

HOW WE GOT HERE: It seemed like a very unusual profile! - *FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2022* *Who killed Roe v. Wade: *On Tuesday afternoon, a new arrival on the front knocked Dobbs out of the news. The previous Friday, th...
Novara Media

The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation - As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the po...
The Conversation

Many anti-abortion activists before Roe were liberals who were inspired by 20th-century Catholic social teaching - A historian explains why the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement was filled with liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War and supported the expansion of th...
ArcaMax

Who Will Help the Women? - The first thing I did when Roe v. Wade was overturned was apologize to my daughters. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision will affect ...
Duffel Blog

Cyber Commander stands up task force on how to open this PDF - China's fingerprints are all over this.
Space City Weather

Recapping Houston and Galveston’s hottest June on record, as rain chances dwindle after today - Good morning. It’s pretty evident that the heaviest rain will fall to our east today. That said, there are still storms and heavy ones at that in the area....
CPI's Danger in the Air

Reparations for racist laws? Idea gaining traction at state, local level - Georgia state Sen. Kim Jackson has pretty much given up on the idea that Black Georgians might some day receive reparations for past injustices. “In Ge...
Earth 911

Earth Action: Cut Paper With Electronic Billing - This year, Earth911 is honoring Earth Day’s 52 years of inspiring action with 52 Actions... The post Earth Action: Cut Paper With Electronic Billing appe...
The Intercept

How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars - Exclusive documents and interviews reveal the sweeping scope of classified 127e operations. The post How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Pr...
Skeptophilia

The smell of friendship - A topic I covered in my intro to biology classes was the phenomenon of *pheromones*. A pheromone is a chemical secreted by one individual that causes a ...
NORML

Virginia: Changes to Marijuana Laws Take Effect July 1 - Today, marks the one year anniversary of legalization in Virginia, and multiple changes to marijuana laws will take effect. The post Virginia: Changes t...
Grist

California passes nation’s toughest plastic reduction bill - Experts say the bill could prevent 23 million tons of plastic pollution by 2032.
Off The Kuff

How are Texas businesses going to react to the forthcoming criminalization of abortion? - […]
Debunking Christianity

A Day God Overslept - *There have been thousands of such days* One of the major chores of professional Christian apologists—and they’ve been at it for hundreds of years—is to ...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Stephen Fry - A classic exchange, from an interview on RTÉ (Irish TV) in 2015. Fry definitely speaks for me here.
NPR's Health Shots

Black lab technicians at Johns Hopkins remember the man who changed their lives - Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember Vivien Thomas, who in the '60s ran a research lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital, helping invent surgical techniques — ev...
ProPublica

Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months - by Craig Silverman ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publi...
Counterpunch

Letter From Crimea: the De-Nazification of Stalingrad - This is the seventh in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. I enjoyed my first evening b...
High Country News

Letters to the editor, July 2022 - Comments from readers.
Crooked Media

Supremely F$%#ed - The post Supremely F$%#ed appeared first on Crooked Media.
LareDOS

Gods, Guns, and the GOP - The GOP platform: Its 275 talking points seem to have been authored by Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and Rush Limbaugh, with help from Goebbels and Mussolini
Rallblog

Anything Different Would Be Crazy - A two-party political system isn’t a democracy. It’s a flail machine. Voters keep voting against the party in charge in order to send a message. Eventual...
The NM Political Report

U.S. Supreme Court says Biden has authority to end anti-immigration policy - [image: U.S. Supreme Court says Biden has authority to end anti-immigration policy] The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Joe Biden has t...
World Socialist Web Site

Frustration builds among West Coast dockworkers as ILWU keeps them on the job past contract expiration - Twenty-two thousand West Coast dockworkers are being kept on the job after their contract expired at midnight Friday morning without a new deal.
Dissident Voice

Open Letter to the BBC: Please Stop Your Disinformation Campaign on Nicaragua - The June 23 BBC article by Bernd Debusmann, “US Immigration: They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” confirms that the corporate media consistently ...
jobsanger

A Wall Of Separation Is Essential -
Workers World

War, sexual freedom and fascism in Germany – Lavender and Red 4 & 5 - [image: War, sexual freedom and fascism in Germany – Lavender and Red 4 & 5] In addition to the legislative attacks on women, gender-nonconforming people a...
Informed Comment

Türkiye gets its Way on Kurdish Groups, agrees to Swedish, Finnish NATO Bids, as Biden weighs F-16 Sales to Ankara - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Türkiye (formerly Turkey) spent this spring vowing that Sweden and Finland would not be adm...
Antiwar.com

‘Not a Justification but a Provocation’: Chomsky on the Root Causes of the Russia Ukraine War - One of the reasons that Russian media has been completely blocked in the West, along with the unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war n...
Wolf Street

Every S&P 500 Sector Fell in First Half, Except Energy. But in June Even Energy Let Go. Bonds Got Crushed. I’m Not Even Going to Mention Cryptos & DeFi - But cryptos and DeFi created a big mess as hidden leverage is blowing up, and the mess spread to stocks.
The Mind Unleashed

People Think Elon Musk is Missing - Where is Elon Musk?
Environment Texas

The place no oil companies want to drill - Thursday, June 30, 2022 The Arctic Refuge has been abandoned, for now, by oil companies. Will Congress act to protect it before they return?
See You In 2020

Are we able to face the reality of American fascism? - In front of us, something is unfolding that we don’t want to properly see, but that we subconsciously recognize. The warning signs for a fascist crackd...
The AltWorld

Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a lot going on in America and the […] The post Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: N...
Caitlin Johnstone

Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - There’s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don’t worry, there’s nothing the US government won’t do to make ...
Brad Blog

Radical, Activist SCOTUS Torches EPA's 'Clean Air Act' Mandate to Regulate Deadly Carbon Pollution: 'BradCast' 6/30/2022 - On today's BradCast: It was the grand finale at the end of a U.S. Supreme Court term like no other. Now that its packed with rightwing extremists, the unle...
Portside

Cassidy Hutchinson Shows Trump’s Complicity in the Attack on the Capitol - Cassidy Hutchinson Shows Trump’s Complicity in the Attack on the Capitol jay Thu, 06/30/2022 - 20:17
In These Times

"We Just Broke a Thick-Ass Glass Ceiling": Progressive Candidates Rack Up Some Big Wins - In Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, left-wing challengers in Illinois made history, while in New York, progressive incumbents held onto their seats.
Green Pages News

Cassandra Martineau, Candidate for Lt. Governer in Connecticut Speaks To The Masses - To Green Party Members and Supporters, Near and Far: In these difficult times, I hope this message finds you well. I am Cassandra Martineau, a Co-Chair of ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Not Beholden to Jews - David Mack @ BuzzFeed: Ketanji Brown Jackson Was Sworn In As The First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice. Hemant Mehta @ OnlySky: Supreme Court rejects C...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia’s Debt Default Is More Serious Than Moscow Claims - Analysts say the Eurobond default, a result of sanctions, will hurt Russia's credit ratings, market access, financing costs and the ruble for years to come.
Latino Rebels

Immigrant Rights Advocates Cheer End of ‘Remain in Mexico,’ Demand More Relief - Pleased by the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday that sided with President Biden's move to end the "Remain in Mexico" policy, immigrant advocacy groups ...
Ring of Fire

America’s Lawyer: Clarence Thomas Trashing The Constitution - America’s Lawyer E11: Juul e-cigarettes have been banned in the United States after it was revealed that the company lied to regulators about their produ...
Progressive.org

Banning ‘Concealed-Carry’ Laws Is a Disaster - Guns are the most common cause of death among Americans under the age of 25.
Strategic Culture Foundation

Joe Biden’s Rating and the Price of Gas - There is likely a link between oil prices and presidential approval ratings, but it may not be as large as many assume it to be, writes Rob Lucas for the M...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Educational Prevention Of Shootings Is Better Than Militaization - We now have a standard routine that we follow after every mass shooting that gets national media attention, without actually discussing the vast majorit...
Second Nexus

Kamala Harris Throws Shade At Collins And Manchin Over Claims Justices Lied To Them About Roe - In an interview with CNN, Vice President Kamala Harris said she never believed the Supreme Court Justices appointed by former Republican President Donald...
The Texas Signal

Supreme Court Declares War on Environment - To cap off what is possibly the most right-wing judicial term in over a century, the highest court in the land has dealt yet another massive blow to the pr...
Living Blue in Texas

Living Blue In Texas Endorses Kim Olson For TX Democratic Party Chair - We are currently staring down the barrel of authoritarianism. The status quo isn’t good enough. That’s why we’re endorsing Kim The post Living Blue In Te...
Mondoweiss

Tom Friedman normalizes apartheid in the ‘New York Times’ - [image: Thomas Friedman. Photo: Charles Haynes.]NYT columnist Tom Friedman painted the past year in Israel—the first Netanyahu-free year since 2008—as an i...
TXElects

SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Potentially Landmark Election Case - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a North Carolina case questioning whether state courts have the power to nullify legislative actions to regulat...
Dandelion Salad

What Must Be Done To End The Pandemic - Dandelion Salad World Socialist Web Site on Jun 28, 2022 In this video, WSWS writer Evan Blake describes the current surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the im...
Independent Political Report

Matthew Hoh denied ballot access - [image: Matthew Hoh for Senate – For A Future Beyond War and Wall Street] The NC State Board Of Elections voted 3-2 to deny Green Party Candidate for Sen...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

THE HEART OF THE MATTER - The Supreme Court's undermining of the EPA's ability to fight climate change brings the terms and stakes of the current crisis into blinding focus
Campaign for America's Future

Para defender los derechos, hay que defender nuestra democracia - Miles de manifestantes han salido a las calles tras la decisión de la Corte Suprema de poner fin a la libertad reproductiva. Como madre de tres hijas, comp...
Morning Consult

New Methodology for Benchmarking U.S. Consumer Spending Data - The post New Methodology for Benchmarking U.S. Consumer Spending Data appeared first on Morning Consult.
Lawfare

It’s Time to Designate Wagner Group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization - Russian soldiers (Vitaly V. Kuzmin, https://tinyurl.com/3w2wy7bn; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) International san...
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas Border Coalition responds to tractor-trailer migrant deaths - BROWNSVILLE, Texas – The Texas Border Coalition, which represents communities from Brownsville to El Paso, has commented on the deaths of more than 50 mi...
Deadline Politics

Joe Biden Says He Would Support Changing Filibuster Rules To Codify Abortion Rights - Joe Biden said that he would support altering the rules of the filibuster as a way to codify abortion and privacy rights into law. “I believe we have to co...
Claytoonz

Anticipation - At least 874 people have been charged by the Department of Justice in connection to the attack on our Capitol building by Donald Trump’s white nationalist ...
Edinburg Politics

Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories studied on social, global landscapes by the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - “The platform of the Internet continues to fuel conspiracy theories, misinformation and disinformation across the globe. To counter this surge of engineere...
Democracy Chronicles

US State Institutions and Democratic Opportunity - State-level institutions offer democratic opportunity than federal ones. They readily give majorities a chance to rule on equal terms.
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Blind-sided by self awareness - Jack wrote this in August, 2006: Interesting, the ways we discover things about ourselves reading forums on the Internet. Things we know already but maybe ...
DeSmogBlog

Will Reforms to Carbon Markets Better Protect the Climate? - To advocates, scaling up the markets where companies go to offset their greenhouse gas emissions will unlock billions of dollars to plant forests, restor...
Project Censored

Whistleblowers - This week’s program focuses on whistleblowers — their contributions to society, the retaliation they often endure, and the legal protections they need. M...
Avedon's Sideshow

The clerk has woken up from sleep, his eyes are droopy - This cottage in Knaresborough was photographed by Cliff Ounsley. Covid finally got us, as careful as we've been. He only goes out — masked and gloved — to...
Lowering the Bar

Does It Violate the Ethics Rules to Cheat on an Ethics Test? - The answer to this puzzler can be found here. Related Stories - Judge Censured for Cane-Flinging Incident
Bracing Views

We Live in A Sick Society - W.J. Astore I have a brother who’s mentally ill. When you deal with mental illness in your family, you come to realize that local, state, and federal reso...
Socialist Alternative

Gaslit by the Party in Power - The economy is thriving, COVID is entirely under control, and our basic rights are being safeguarded. This is reality according to the Democrats who have r...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of the Primaries: June 29, 2022 - Dear Readers: Last night saw primaries and runoffs in several states across the country, as well as a special election in Nebraska. This was the last big p...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Patriot Front Propaganda Stunt Ends in Failure, Arrests - A propaganda banner hung by members of white nationalist group Patriot Front burst into flames and fell into traffic lanes on Interstate 35 near Sanger, Te...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Pence Jan. 6 Photos and the Hero Narrative - Far from heroic, the newly-released Jan. 6 photos of Mike Pence largely document his inability to defy Trump until the last minute. The post Chatting the...
Ecosophia

The Subnatural Realm: A Speculation - One of the great ironies of the history of ideas is the way that cultures and civilizations go out of their way not to follow up on their greatest intellec...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘We Won’t Go Back’ By MILCK - MILCK's latest protest anthem was the result of attending a pro-choice rally on the steps of the Supreme Court in DC, just prior to the court overturning ...
The Daily Poster

LEVER TIME: The Man Who Bought The Supreme Court - On this week’s Lever Time: David goes deep into SCOTUS, including exposing the dark money network that has been bankrolling conservative judicial nominees.
Dos Centavos

Vigil in Remembrance of Migrant Deaths Held - At FIEL HQ in Southwest Houston, a vigil was held to honor the 51 migrants who perished in a tractor trailer in San Antonio on Monday attempting to escape ...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Ecuador’s uprising escalates despite violent gov’t repression - The Grayzone interviews leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous-led revolt against the neoliberal policies of billionaire banker and President Guillermo Lasso, d...
Pages of Victory

Inflation Class War -
Krebs on Security

The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet - On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has...
Unlimited Hangout

The Revenge of the Malthusians and the Science of Limits - What are the roots of the technocratic and transhumanist policies currently being pushed onto society? In this essay, Matthew Ehret traces two centuries ...
Robert Reich

4 Myths About Raising the Minimum WageThe federal minimum wage... - *4 Myths About Raising the Minimum Wage* The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not been raised since 2009. That’s the longest period without an i...
Innocence Project

‘Bite Marks,’ Homophobia, and Bias: How Two Women Were Wrongly Convicted Because They Loved Each Other - Tami Vance will never forget the moment her trial judge told her and her co-defendant Leigh Stubbs that because they loved each other — because they were...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What is it about our contemporary world that still makes NGOs necessary? - My monograph with Cambridge University Press, Against NGOs: A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development, explores how the figure ...
alicublog

FAKE IT 'TIL YOU BREAK IT. - New, available to gen pop *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* item out today, about the *Dobbs* defenders who pretend taking away reproductive rights is an act of...
Progressives Chat

‘Since 1912’ - Since 1912, every time the presidency of the United States switched to the Democratic Party, that Democratic presidential pickup winner started his presi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

That’s right, kiddies! It’s PUTIN’S… - Gropin’ Joe has made it abundantly clear at the AFL-CIO convention a week or so back that he plans to beat that “Putin’s Price Hike” horse until it’s eithe...
Stinque

American Denialism - We’re seeing a lot of pushback to the idea that the Roe reversal is a domino — that despite Clarence Thomas putting gay marriage, contraceptives, and hom...
Duck of Minerva

Was anarchy always what states made of it? - Like a lot of academics, I love Google n-grams, but not as much as the digitized archive Google uses to produce it. It’s a great warren of rabbit holes – e...
TalkLeft

Saturday Night Open Thread - Happy 80th Birthday to Paul McCartney. He gave a concert last week at New Jersey's Metro Life stadium and who showed up to lead the audience in singing Hap...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE : ABORTION RIGHTS | Austin and Roe v. Wade’s backstory - This fight didn’t start in a courtroom and it will not end there. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 25, 2022 AUSTIN — The Supreme Court decision was te...
Sludge

Hochul’s Stadium Swindle - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) recently orchestrated one of the biggest taxpayer stadium subsidy deals of all time—using tribal funds to finance the pact, ...
The Militant

South Korea truckers strike wins rate hikes tied to inflation - After eight days on strike thousands of owner-operator truck drivers returned to work at major ports and container depots across South Korea June 15. Fight...
Land Destroyer

VIDEO: Russian Ops in Ukraine for June 24, 2022 - * June 25, 2022 *(The New Atlas) - Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for June 24, 2022 - Russian forces encircle, kill, capture, or ...
Reveal

Abortion Providers Ask for Protection as They Prepare for Post-Roe Harassment and Violence - [image: Kelly Flynn sits in the waiting room of the Florida abortion clinic she owns, A Woman’s Choice of Jacksonville.] As a wave of bans on the procedur...
Texas Moratorium Network

23rd Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Oct 22, 2022 in Austin Texas - The 23rd Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin, Texas on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 2pm at the Texas Capitol.
Moron Majority

It Only Took 28 Years For The Moving Guy’s Prediction To Come True -
Texas Freedom Network

Statement: Post-Roe, Our Communities Will Continue to Build Power and Support Abortion Access for All - AUSTIN, Texas - The Supreme Court of the United States today released a ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Within 30 days, abortion care will be banned in t...
Field Negro

More guns. - As the *Supremes* continue to take America closer to being a *Christofascist *state, it is important to read articles like the following from *Tom Nicho...
ExChristian.Net

One God, Many Gods, or no Gods? What Does the Bible Have to Say? - *By WizenedSage (Galen Rose) ~ * The believer insists that the universe requires a maker, a god. I would ask him, "How do you know there is only one god?...
Dispatches from the Underclass

US & Europe Are Victims Of Their Own Sanctions On Russia & China, w/ Arnaud Bertrand - Rania Khalek was joined by Arnaud Bertrand, a commentator on economics and geopolitics based in Shanghai, to discuss the sanctions blowback on the West, th...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Senators reach bipartisan compromise on gun violence bill backed by Texas Sen. John Cornyn - *This is something to track since at least some progress may occur, potentially saving lives (see earlier post on gun-related deaths and suicides in the ...
WAWG Blog

WAR, Civil or World, Enables Hunting Humans - This is about the need for a national effort to stop enabling haters (individuals and political parties) from optimizing their hunting of human 'game,' l...
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...
Eclectablog

Defending democracy in Michigan and across America is a full time job – with special guest Erica Peresman - Erica Peresman, Voter Protection Director for the Michigan Democratic Party, on Twitter: @Erica_Peresman Learn more about Erica Peresman and her advocacy H...
Trivial Knot

Is queerness wholesome now? - A couple weeks ago, I was following the Summer Games Fest and other video game presentations. And because I’m so interested in queer media, I asked myself,...
Media Lens

Don’t Extradite Assange - Last Friday’s decision by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorise the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States is both deeply shameful and uns...
Due Dissidence

Neoliberalism Toppled Chesa Boudin - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted from office last week in a recall election. The vote wasn’t close: 60-40 against Boudin. And while ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Federal Republic of New Normal Germany - So, the government of New Normal Germany is contemplating forcing everyone to wear medical-looking masks in public from October to Easter on a permanent ba...
Idavox

Transphobes, led by Terry Beck, Attack Pride Event in Red Bank, NJ - New Jersey doesn’t really give right wingers room to breathe, but as you go further... The post Transphobes, led by Terry Beck, Attack Pride Event in Red...
Media Myth Alert

Watergate at 50: Why the ‘heroic-journalist’ myth still defines the scandal - It’s small wonder that the heroic-journalist myth defines popular understanding of Watergate. Other than Woodward and Bernstein, no personalities prominent...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Taking Census - There was no weather. Just a vast sameness around the whole planet, of dirt and rock. Even the oceans had fled. Jareed doggedly circled this third planet...
Alas, a Blog

My January Fifteenth Author’s Note - January Fifteenth debuts tomorrow! This is my last post before it heads out into the world. (ICYMI, check out some of my earlier posts about January Fiftee...
Web of Debt

The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard - While the global food systems we depend on come under increasing strain, there’s a solution to the growing crisis that most Americans can find in their own...
BEYONDbones

Feisty ‘Sea Lions’ Get Some Giant-Screen Love in the Newest Film to Debut at HMNS - It’s fitting that as director Paul Phelan speaks to us from the windswept, idyllic west coast of Ireland, decompressing with his family between film proj...
Chicken Fried Politics

2 Mississippi Republican U.S. House members forced into runoffs after weak primary showings - Michael Guest narrowly trails challenger in 3rd District; Steven Palazzo clears just 32% in 4th District ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor ...
Greg Palast

Proud Boys indicted for Seditious Conspiracy - Five members of the leadership of the violent Proud Boys hate gang, which helped plan the January 6th insurrection in 2021, have now been indicted for sedi...
GreenSource DFW

Still time to catch ‘Big Bugs’ - *A 10-foot high daddy longlegs, made from tree limbs and other forest material, towers over the walkway at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Photo by Julie ...
Border/Lines

U.S. seeking resettlement commitments from Spain, Canada—06-03-22 - Immigration news, in context
Equality Texas

Queer Texas Crisis Fund Announcement - Contact: Johnathan Gooch | johnathan.gooch@equalitytexas.org DALLAS, TX – May 31, 2022 – Texas Pride Impact Funds (TPIF) in p...
Texans For Public Justice

Report highlights RRC progress on designating critical energy infrastructure. - A new report from Commission Shift and Texans for Public Justice finds that most facilities on the natural gas supply chain have been designated critical...
The Disorder Of Things

Philosemite and Jew; Or, How I Got Cancelled - A guest post from Clive Gabay – who has visited with us before – on his recent experience of academic freedom. In October 2020 I was informed that an artic...
Seeing the Forest

Inflation and Modern Monetary Theory- MMT - How many of you have heard about “MMT” – Modern Monetary Theory? MMT says federal budgeting should look ahead to whether spending will cause inflation inst...
Bayou Brief

A Fight Worth Having - How Louisianians can organize to stop the hellish domino effect of the Alito draft decision
nonsite.org

Cézanne’s Sensations - Author’s Note: Writing this text on Paul Cézanne in 1979 led me to a singular historical and anthropological discovery: the universal, age-old belief that ...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Bayou City Sitrep: What’s Been Happening - It’s All About Flooding Open House public meetings, May 24, 26, and 31. Tell your flood stories to the San Jacinto Regional Flood Planning Group List of co...
Political Garbage Chute

Tennessee Man Cleans Up Quickly After Spanking It to Avoid Charges of Attempted Murder - It’s not that he would lie around, languishing in the self-extracted afterglow. But now that it seems like the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is p...
The Socialist

The British Minister Wanted to Know The Real Strength of India - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi while addressing an election rally at Latehar said that this election too is an election between two ideologies sim...
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...
BillMoyers.com

Trump-Russia-Ukraine Timeline - Explore the Trump-Russia-Ukraine Timeline Interactive Timeline: Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump The post Trump-Russia-Ukraine Timel...
Nina Illingworth

TMS: Organizing to Win the Impossible Fight - Fresh off the most stunning labor victory in a generation, Nina takes a look at why the fight against corporate power can help us win a revolution. The po...
Earthworks

Exporting More Oil and Gas Hurts Communities and the Climate - Last week, alarm spread throughout communities across the U.S. impacted by extractive industries when President Biden and European Commission President U...
Grits for Breakfast

Custodians of History: Old prosecutor files include marginalized voices usually excluded from public media and discourse - Conversations about crime data and police and prosecutor files most frequently pertain to the news of the moment: Did bail reform cause crime to increase? ...
Downwinders at Risk

Stay Inside. Plant Trees. An Annotated Guide to City of Dallas Air Quality Monitoring - Over the last couple of weeks, the staff responsible for the Air Quality Department at Dallas City Hall’s Office of Environmental Quality have been making ...
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...
Tribune of the People

Germany: Statement from the Red Women’s Committee on the Imperialist War in Ukraine - The following is a statement from the Red Women’s Committee in Hamburg, Germany on recent developments in Ukraine, minor edits have been made to improve re...
DBC Green

On Primary-Season "Civic Duty" Nonsense - Voting in a major-party primary IS NOT a civic duty. Working to smash the Duopoly is.— David B. Collins, Not Running for Anything Now□☮ (@dbcgreentx) Febru...
Two Party Opera

So What Did I Miss? -
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...
New Progressive Alliance

2021 Annual Report -
The Reality-Based Community

Watch ‘Encanto’ free Disney’s online: Where to stream and watch from anywhere - Animated Movie’s!! Is Encanto available to stream? Here are options for downloading or watching Encanto streaming the full movie online for free on 123movi...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Anti-Fascists Disrupt White Lives Matter Houston Rally - About the Event In the past few months we’ve seen an uptick of attempts to attack Jewish establishments by white supremacists in Texas. Recently, a synagog...
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...
Free & Equal

Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s - The post Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s appeared first on Free and Equal.
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...
One People's Project

BOB GRANT (DECEASED) - NAME Robert Ciro Gigante A/K/A Bob Grant DOB 3/14/1929 DOD 12/21/2013 HOME BASE New Jersey AUDIO FILES Bob Grant and Angel Action Gear Bob Grant and Wolfpa...
Truthdig

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WhoWhatWhy

Is Canada Becoming More Like Its Neighbor to the South? - Canadian Conservatives showed US conservatives how to accept defeat, but there was something familiar about this week's election.
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...
Southeast Texas Record

Judge Gallagher shocked the defendant, literally - A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a tri...
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...
News Junkie

Forget Wars on Covid and Terror: War on Climate Collapse Is the Only War of Necessity for Human Survival - Mythology of humans’ natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, fina...
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...
Texas Watch

Texas Needs Safe Roads, Not Dangerous Trucking Legislation - *By: Ware Wendell* We have a *safety crisis* on Texas roads. Texas has *led the nation* in the number of large truck crashes for years. Commercial truck...
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...
Echidne of the Snakes

The Debate. And Other Equally Weird Incidents. - 1. I tried to watch the Biden-Trump debate last night but instead my television gave me a show where two kindergarten children were having temper tantru...
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...
Splinter

Google's Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming - Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some ...
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...
Truthout

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - Jair Bolsonaro has worked at breakneck speed to eliminate environmental regulations.
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...

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009's Final Funnies

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