Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Conservatives attack drag queens while ignoring report that almost 2,000 kids suffered sexual abuse from Catholic clergy - *Editor's note - I am not trying to disrespect anyone's religion but fair is fair. Why are legislators and so many others pointing accusing fingers at...
Raw Story

Low-wage workers made huge gains over two years — but there are fears it's coming to an end - An analysis in Politico using data from the U.S. Labor Department revealed that low-wage workers scored a huge boost between 2020 and 2022. That's ending...
memeorandum

China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs meeting in Singapore (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) - Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: *China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs meeting in Singapore* — Pentagon had requested the encounter ...
Popular Resistance

The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion Of Matt Taibbi - On Dec. 24, 2022 Matt Taibbi was in a room at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco poring through reports sent to Twitter from an entity called the Foreign...
El Paso Matters

El Paso’s Joe Moody will help prosecute Paxton impeachment trial in Texas Senate - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached by the House of Representatives on Saturday and now faces trial in the Senate. The post El Paso’s Joe Mo...
Alternet

Texas GOP passes bills allowing Abbott appointee to take over Democratic county’s elections - Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Sunday warned that Republican state legislators had made a "shameless power grab" by passing a pair of bills aimed at...
Slate

Is Student Debt Forgiveness Happening, or What? - The bottom line: The president’s forgiveness plan is still on the table.
Portside

The First Decoration Day - The First Decoration Day Mark Brody Mon, 05/29/2023 - 18:55
Eschaton

Must Be Just Right - Weirdos on BOTH SIDES are criticizing the "compromise."
The Hill

The bipartisan bill that could heal the mental health effects of climate change - Climate change affects every aspect of our lives. From heat waves that put our health at risk, to severe storms that damage our infrastructure and homes. F...
Texas Standard

What comes next after Paxton’s impeachment? - The Texas House has never impeached an attorney general before. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán of the Texas Newsroom and University of Houston politics professor ...
Mediaite

CNN’s Jim Sciutto Wants No Part of Story About Onlookers Kissing Nun Who’s Been Dead for Four Years: ‘Not Touching That Story’ - While the town of Gower, Missouri had thousands of onlookers hoping to see the remains of a dead nun, CNN's Jim Sciutto was not sharing in the excitement...
Political Wire

Uganda Imposes Death Penalty for Homosexuality - Uganda’s president signed into law a wide-ranging anti-LGBTQ bill that imposes life imprisonment for same-sex activity and the death penalty in some cases,...
Deadline Politics

Disney Rejects Ron DeSantis’ Desire To Toss Judge For “Woke” Bias; Trump Rips Both GOP Rival & “Disgusting” Mouse House - Having seen his 2024 White House bid embarrassingly misfire on the launch pad last week, Ron DeSantis is once again being mocked by both the Walt Disney Co...
The Verge

League of Legends esports players voted ‘overwhelmingly’ for a walkout - [image: Robert “Blaber” Huang of League of Legends team Cloud9.] Photo by Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games Players in the North American *League of Legends...
Axios

"The Little Mermaid" makes a splash at Memorial Day weekend box office - Disney's live action remake of "The Little Mermaid" brought in $117.5 million domestically over the four-day weekend, representing the 5th highest Memori...
Ian Welsh

Rising Ideologies Need People Inside; Stagnant Hegemonies Want People Out - [image: Rising Ideologies Need People Inside; Stagnant Hegemonies Want People Out] When a new system is on the rise, it needs more people to join. Maybe i...
The AltWorld

The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties - The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as […] The post The Grayzone deba...
The Root

Former BET CEO Debra Lee On Failures & Breaking the Glass Ceiling | Securing the Bag: Part 3 - Read more...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Death is Part of Life - The image is exemplary for its calmness and domesticity when death is so often distanced and ostracized in modern culture. The post Chatting The Pictures...
Al Jazeera English

As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’ - While some of US Congress's most conservative members are not happy with the deal, business groups gave it a thumbs up.
Workers World

G7 in Hiroshima: a War summit - [image: G7 in Hiroshima: a War summit] Published May 25 in Avante!, weekly newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. Translation by John Catalinotto. Li...
World Socialist Web Site

US Supreme Court guts wetlands protections - The far-reaching ruling by the ultra-right majority seeks to dismantle 50 years of environmental regulations
Reform Austin

State Sen. Angela Paxton Must Recuse Herself From Her Husband’s Potential Impeachment Trial - The post State Sen. Angela Paxton Must Recuse Herself From Her Husband’s Potential Impeachment Trial appeared first on Reform Austin.
NPR's Health Shots

Why one expert says America's Fentanyl crisis has geopolitical roots - NPR's Juana Summers talks with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the geopolitics of fentanyl and the opioid crisis at...
Independent Political Report

Outsider Media Foundation Gains 501(c)(3) Status - Independent Political Report has been advised by Jordan Willow Evans that a letter has been received from the IRS. The Outsider Media Foundation official...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US political leaders push for lawmakers’ support on debt ceiling deal - Some members of Congress question if they received enough concessions in Biden and McCarthy’s agreement US political leaders appeared bullish on Monday t...
Daily Dot

Walmart shopper finds ‘trout, whitefish, and clams’ in box of Great Value mashed potatoes - [image: Walmart shopper finds random ingredients in Great Value products] A woman has discovered unique ingredients in a box of Walmart Great Value mashe...
Mediagazer

A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to crack down on dangerous and misleading videos (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal) - Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: *A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to cr...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Norms in a Post-Hegemonic World Order - Multistakeholder partnerships are characterized by institutional elements such as informality, voluntarism, and corporate partnerships which some comment...
Salon.com

Poor unfortunate souls: False feminism and criticism of Disney’s "Little Mermaid" - "She gives up her voice for a man" isn't a valid critique of Disney's Ariel in the year 2023 – and it never was
San Antonio Report

Project-based learning can keep students motivated after the pandemic - [image: Nicanora Martinez, principal of Ogden Elementary school, helps a student with their work on Wednesday.]Commentary: Project-based learning allows st...
Project Censored

Censorship and Book Banning in Texas…and Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey - In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey speaks with three students campaigning against censorship in Texas, including Banned Books Week’s Youth Honor...
CultureMap Houston

Julia Louis-Dreyfus navigates marriage pitfalls in You Hurt My Feelings - Anybody who’s been married or in a long-term relationship knows that it’s almost impossible to be completely honest with his or her partner. There are alw...
Claytoonz

Ken Paxton - Happy Memorial Day. Sorry, I did not draw a Memorial Day cartoon this year. Most of my clients also subscribe to other cartoon services that’ll give them t...
Church and State

A safer approach to gene editing - Researchers used virus proteins to deliver the CRISPR system into cells for faster and safer gene editing.
Ballot Access News

May 2023 Ballot Access News Print Edition - Ballot Access News May 2023 – Volume 38, Number 12 This issue was printed on white paper. Table of Contents MONTANA BALLOT ACCESS SAVED ARKANSAS BALLOT ACC...
Novara Media

Sunak Mulls Food Price Caps, Met Police to Stop Answering Mental Health - Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to introduce price caps for basic foods. We speak to James Meadway about what this means. Plus: the Met police h...
The Mind Unleashed

Jeff Bridges Says His Tumor Has Shrunk “To The Size Of A Marble” - Jeff Bridges is a true fighter and a survivor. To this point, the actor has been successful in overcoming both an advanced stage of cancer and a severe cas...
Scheerpost.com

A NOTE TO OUR READERS: Expanding our Communities - ScheerPost is now on Facebook Groups and Twitter Communities. The post A NOTE TO OUR READERS: Expanding our Communities appeared first on scheerpost.com.
First Draft

Spoiler Alert! The End Of Succession - Farewell to a brilliant show about how the wealthy often are not the stable geniuses they are portrayed to be.
The Texas Signal

Op-Ed: Put Texas Kids First - This year’s report is an alarming wake-up call for policymakers and our community: we are not meeting our children’s needs.
Angry Bear

The debt limit denouement - The deal is much better than I expected for Democrats, and much worse for Republicans (preliminary summaries by Dayen and Stein). Of course, the whole t...
Common Dreams

Debt Ceiling Bill Spells Disaster for People and the Planet - Congress has released its debt ceiling agreement, which includes a slew of problematic provisions. In addition to attacking bedrock environmental laws li...
The Conversation

What Erdoğan's reelection means for Turkey's political system, economy and foreign policy - Long-term Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was reelected with 52% of the vote. Will he push the country further down an autocratic, anti-West path?
Rio Grande Guardian

Video: CSLAP enters its tenth year - PHARR, Texas – The College Scholarship Leadership Access Program (CSLAP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (PSJA) No...
Mondoweiss

Attacks on Roger Waters make a mockery of the fight against antisemitism - [image: Roger Waters performing the Pink Floyd album "The Wall" in 2011. As part of that performance he routinely dressed in fascist attire as part of the ...
Undernews

Democrats have to reach rural and working class voters better - * Nation 2022 - *According to the AP/NORC VoteCast Survey, Democratic support among rural and working-class voters continued to fall in 2022, the latter...
OpEd News

An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (Book Review) - Review of An Orfgy of Thieves which recoundts the ongoing neoliberalism years scrutinized and critiqued in commentaries appearing inCounterpunch magazine, ...
Texas Environmental News

How the environment fared at the Texas Legislature (88th regular session) - The post How the environment fared at the Texas Legislature (88th regular session) appeared first on Environment Texas. …Read Full [...] The post How the...
Environment Texas

How the environment fared at the Texas Legislature (88th regular session) - Historic progress on state parks, setbacks for climate action The post How the environment fared at the Texas Legislature (88th regular session) appeared...
Texas Freedom Network

Voucher Proposal Seeking to Steal Taxpayer Dollars From Students at Texas Public Schools Dies After Missing Crucial Deadline, Texas Freedom Network Responds - HB 100, which would’ve created a voucher program to give parents who opt out of the public school system up to $8,000 in taxpayer money per student each ...
The Week

China plans to land astronaut on the moon by 2030, official says - China plans to place astronauts on the moon by 2030 and expand its orbiting space station, government officials announced Monday. The announcement is the...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Canales says after reviewing evidence against now-impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton, “I sat and listened to it. And I began to count the felonies. I ran out of fingers and toes.” - FEATURED: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, said on Saturday, May 27, 2023, that he was one of 121 state representatives to vote to impeach Texas Attorney Ge...
The Grayzone

The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties - The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our hi...
Election Law Blog

Democracies in the Age of Fragmentation: Spain’s Coalitional Government Collapses - As many readers of this blog know, I have been writing for some time now about the forces that are making democratic politics throughout the West more fr...
Liberation News

DeSantis’ latest attacks against the LGBT community and why all workers must reject them - Needed r now is working class unity and organization. We make up the majority, and our collective potential is what the ruling elite fears the most.
Dissident Voice

“Free Trade” as Revealed in the China-United States Paradigm - Free trade is much ballyhooed by the US and the capitalist world, but critics have been skeptical as to whether such trade freely takes place. Investopedia...
Space City Weather

Memorial Day Weekend will end with some scattered downpours - Good morning! Memorial Day is starting off with some downpours south and east of Houston, and that will become more common as the day wears on. Some of the...
Glasstire

Kent Ullberg Named 2023 Rockport Art Festival Master Artist - Last week, the Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA) announced wildlife sculptor Kent Ullberg as the 31st Rockport Art Festival Master Artist. Now in its 5...
Bonddad

Memorial Day 2023 - * - by New Deal democrat* Memorial Day is that most somber of national observances, in which we remember all of those who gave their lives so that th...
Houston Public Media

Managing Seasonal Allergies - It's easier than you think.
Socialist Alternative

The Rise Of The Woman-Haters - On balance, the deterioration of women’s social position in the US over the last year alone is mind-numbing. This is a far cry from back when the reverbera...
Texas Monthly

In Wichita Falls, Airport Officials Are Waging War on Egrets - It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a bird crashing into a plane!
Daily Howler

RESUMING TOMORROW: The Undiscussed! - *MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023* *Does anyone care about black kids?* Has a miracle occurred in the public schools of Mississippi? Has something *resembling *a mi...
Grist

Meet the women working to grow local food systems on U.S. island territories - On island territories, where most food is imported, achieving a level of food sovereignty is becoming more urgent due to climate change.
Courthouse News

Catching up on the news - The Writers Guild strike has deprived us of our most important source of news. Fortunately, I'm here to fill in.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Memento Mori - Frazz (AMS) got it right, amid a flood of more traditional Memorial Day cartoons. We aren’t required to mourn throughout the full three days, and, as Caulf...
The Smirking Chimp

"Happy" Memorial Day? Really? -
Democracy Now!

Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal - Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky joined others earli...
Vox

Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, is unsettling, vital viewing - [image: A close-up of the face of a young white woman who looks frightened.] Sydney Sweeney as whistleblower Reality Winner in *Reality*. | HBO The HBO ...
WhoWhatWhy

The Best Way to Commemorate Memorial Day: Talk to a Veteran - You can’t erase the trauma and grief many veterans experience, but simply having a conversation with them can make a real difference.
naked capitalism

Links 5/29/2023 -
Capital & Main

Excavating the Future: Stopping AAPI Hate - *Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, talks about the surge in anti-Asian harassment and violence during the pandemic and the communities tha...
Skeptophilia

Going up - Well, it's happened again; a reader has sent me a weird superstition (this one almost amounts to an urban legend) that I'd never heard of before. You've al...
The Daily Poster

🎧 LEVER TIME PREMIUM: No Politics But Class Politics - On this week’s Lever Time Premium, David Sirota sits down with political theorist Adolph Reed Jr. to discuss his new book.
Crooked Media

A Wrecking Ball to Environmental Law - The post A Wrecking Ball to Environmental Law appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mother Jones

Plastics Recycling Is Far Worse Than We Thought - This story was originally published by the Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The plastics industry has long hyped rec...
Progressives Chat

Memorial Week - Monday, May 29, 2023 is Memorial Day. There will be no blog topic specific for the week. May the day be one that is pleasant.
Off The Kuff

Post-impeachment pre-trial roundup - […]
American Prospect

Stirrings of a Conservative Christian Rule of Law - The court case involving the FDA approval of mifepristone revealed a little too much about the conservative movement’s aims.
Infidel753

The debt ceiling deal - Well, that wasn't as bad as it could have been. From what I've seen in the reporting so far, the deal does not raise the debt ceiling by a dollar amount, ...
Rallblog

Maybe DeSantis Can Torture His Way to the White House - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will tout his military experience in his race for President. But his experience at Guantanamo torture camp includes highly ...
See You In 2020

PSL’s Brian Becker promotes the flawed argument that reinforcing key liberal ideas is a worthwhile compromise - The task of illustrating why Brian Becker and PSL’s practice isn’t right for the communist movement is different from the one of illustrating why Joe S...
Counterpunch

A Plea to My Western Progressive Friends: Stop Helping Putin with Your Conciliatory and Ambiguous Statements - A long-retired Russian military man was discussing current events by phone with a former colleague living in Ukraine. Both resented the war between the t...
Informed Comment

On Memorial Day, We’re Finally not in a Shooting War, but if We’re not Careful We could Fall into One - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Memorial Day, the United States is not in a significant shooting war. It seems to me that the best way to honor our more ...
jobsanger

We Have To Pay The Ransom That's Been Negotiated -
Antiwar.com

Drones Over the Kremlin: Is Ukraine Trying To Assassinate Putin? - On May 3, two slow moving drones flew over the Kremlin and then exploded in flames when the Russian military forced them down. Whether the drone attack w...
Debunking Christianity

Double Standards and Hypocrisy!! - Christian apologists aspire to be experts at excusing their god from ineptitude, ignorance and incompetence, when they would never consider doing the sam...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why Fascists Never Think They’re Fascists—But Victims and Heroes - *I like this piece by Umair Haque as it works well with my earlier post on the Allure of Fascism. Of course fascists never think they are what they actua...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is TKnarr with a comment about Elon Musk’s troublesome demands of Twitter employees, and those emp...
San Antonio Current

Paxton is Burning: Has accountability finally come to Texas? Don't hold your breath. - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on...
Dandelion Salad

U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1, by David Swanson - by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy Originally posted May 26, 2019 May 29, 2023 The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and...
Texas Observer

Paxton Is Burning - Was yesterday’s performance by the Texas House of Representatives intended to restore public faith in the body’s commitment to the rule of law? Separate ...
Trivial Knot

Bros movie review - cn: This review makes no attempt to avoid spoilers Bros is a 2022 gay romcom described as the first movie of its kind to be made by a major studio. It is m...
Lawfare

Jan. 6 and Beyond: Why the U.S. Should Pass Domestic Terrorism Legislation - Supporters of former President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. (Tyler Merbler, https://flic.kr/p/2kq7Bd4; CC BY 2.0, htt...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Wrecked' Toons - The Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives lanced a boil yesterday, but as a longtime watcher, I'm still doubting that their MAGA fever has brok...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies - Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick ...
Caitlin Johnstone

Most Propaganda Looks Nothing Like This - Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word “propaganda”, they tend to think...
The Intercept

What We’re Reading and Watching - Book recommendations and more from Intercept staffers. The post What We’re Reading and Watching appeared first on The Intercept.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Girona - [image: Girona]
The NM Political Report

NMED secretary: PFAS drinking water standards are a start, but not a silver bullet for addressing the contamination - [image: NMED secretary: PFAS drinking water standards are a start, but not a silver bullet for addressing the contamination] New Mexico Environment Departm...
Wolf Street

Americans’ Ability to Pay for Emergency Expenses or Three-Month Job Loss with Cash/Cash Equivalent, by Selling Assets, by Borrowing, or Not at All - 54% have three months of expenses set aside in their account. But 13% can’t pay for a $400 emergency expense.
Bracing Views

Memorial Day Weekend - W.J. Astore The best way to honor sacrifice is to seek an end to war and militarism I was asked for a few words about Memorial Day. Here’s what I came up w...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Party of Small Government - This cartoon is drawn by Becky Hawkins. Each month brings new horrifying news of GOP-controlled state governments banning books and health care they don’t ...
Southeast Texas Record

AG Paxton secures $340 million for Texas in opioid settlement with Walgreens - AUSTIN – Attorney General Paxton announced a $5.7 billion settlement with Walgreens, with over $340 million designated for Texas, for their role in the n...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ask Old Jules: Questions and Answers from the Hermit of the Hill Country - Available here: https://tinyurl.com/twd887du I’m pleased with how it turned out. There are 214 pages with 8 subject headings. Thanks to everyone who encour...
Idavox

Patriot Front Member that Tried to Crash Pride Event in Idaho Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of a Child - [image: June 11, 2022 mugshot of Jared Michael Boyce in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho]Patriot Front said they were trying to protect children. They failed miserab...
The Militant

Rail workers send solidarity to residents in East Palestine - PITTSBURGH — “By speaking out and supporting efforts to hold the nation’s rail carriers accountable,” SMART-TD, the rail conductors’ union, proclaimed in i...
ArcaMax

Ron DeSantis, Torturer and Future President - Hello. I'm Ron DeSantis and I approve of the following message. As you may have heard, I'm running for president of the United States. You could only have ...
Futurism

Get Buried in a $1,000 Organic, Biodegradable Mushroom Coffin - Farm to Table? For the eco-conscious, a Dutch startup has literally grown a mushroom coffin that will biodegrade in less than two months, putting a new s...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: MEMORIAL DAY 2023 EDITION. - *He had no one to fall on but me.* What was once a somber tribute of our fallen men is now, whee, a three-day holiday weekend! This strange dichotomy pla...
Progressive.org

Negotiating with the Reborglicans - According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, we’ll pass the debt ceiling deadline on June 1. Once the United States stops paying its bills and is in defau...
NORML

Study: No Correlation Between THC Detection and Driving Impairment - [image: Female Driving simulation][image: Female Driving simulation]"In the largest trial to date involving experienced users smoking cannabis, there was...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Faces Difficult Choices As It Continues To Navigate Active Ransomware Attack - It’s been more than three weeks since a ransomware attack forced the city of Dallas’ information and technology services department to take servers offli...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Almost Impossible - Matt Dixon and Jonathan Allen @ NBC News: Ron DeSantis administration officials solicit campaign cash from lobbyists. Sarah Posner @ MSNBC: Ron DeSantis ...
ProPublica

Colorado Becomes the First State to Limit Court Use of Family Reunification Camps - by Hannah Dreyfus ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing ...
Unlimited Hangout

Bitcoin and the Plot to Destroy Financial Privacy - Bitcoin and the Plot to Destroy Financial Privacy.
BEYONDbones

Stinky Meg | Corpse Flower to Bloom - The Cockrell Butterfly Center has a plant that’s about to make a big stink! Her name is Meg, named after the prehistoric Megalodon shark featured at the ...
Krebs on Security

Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom - The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networki...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Economic Coercion is a Key Part of China’s Foreign Policy Toolkit -
Ring of Fire

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Highlights Rampant Elderly Abuse In The U.S. - The death of a disabled, elderly man last summer has raised serious questions about the care given to disabled individuals all over the country. And a tr...
Eater Houston

Lady M Brings Its Delicate, Multi-Layered Mille Crepe Cakes to Houston’s Galleria - [image: Chocolate layered mille crepe cakes with chocolate frosting, set in front of flowers.] Brittany Noe/Lady M Head to Texas’s first Lady M location,...
Second Nexus

Don Jr. Tried To Rip DeSantis But Slammed His Dad Instead In Freudian Slip For The Ages - Donald Trump Jr. attempted to criticize Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for a presidential campaign rollout on Twitter that was marred by glitch...
Latino Rebels

Hollywood Now Renewing Latino Shows After Canceling Others (OPINION) - As loud as we rightfully get when Hollywood execs cancel a Latino show, we should be just as vocal when our shows get renewed. So let’s take a moment to ...
SCOTUSblog

Israeli citizen challenges U.S. wire-fraud conviction for foreign financial scheme - [image: Israeli citizen challenges U.S. wire-fraud conviction for foreign financial scheme]The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cer...
Bud Kennedy

Drag queens, Dumpster fires: If you’re not watching Texas politics, you’re missing out | Opinion - Texas politics has reached peak reality show. Just the last few days, the current season of the Legislature has included drag and burlesque performers, oth...
Discourse

Interview With the Sneakerhead - A chat with a Discourse Blog spouse about his decade of collecting sneakers.
FiveThirtyEight.com

Can You Game The Currency Exchange? - Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presen...
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: 1 in 3 GB News Hosts Spread Climate Denial On Air in 2022 - A majority of GB News hosts attacked climate action on the channel in 2022, while one in three spread climate science denial, a DeSmog analysis can revea...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Grocery taxes face the chopping block in South Dakota - [image: A person wearing a bucket hat, jacket, and neon green gloves places a cardboard box into the trunk of a red car. Behind them, two women wearing blu...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Universe Is a Unity - Today’s quote is from John Toland, 18th-century Irish philosopher and author: “The universe is a... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Universe Is a Unit...
High Country News

Supreme Court shrinks definition of the Clean Water Act - In a ruling siding with an Idaho couple, justices removed protections from waters they said were non-navigable, like wetlands.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 26, 2023 - Black Agenda Radio May 26, 2023 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/26/2023 - 06:38 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
slacktivist

Brief interludes with hideous men (part 2) - “Why would anyone choose to live like that?” That was the question we raised, but didn’t answer, when discussing John Piper’s weirdly fraught prescription ...
The Progressive Wing

Open Threads 5.25-28 - Hola everyone. Hubster got a text earlier this am from an old friend whose son works in finance in NYC. A deal has been struck re: default. That’s all I kn...
Dissent Magazine

Barcelona’s Experiment in Radical Government - The activists who took over City Hall have made lasting gains while also confronting the limits of their power in office.
Sludge

Oakland Community Groups Call to Fund ‘Democracy Dollars’ Program - In November of last year, Oakland voters approved an innovative public campaign financing program known as “Democracy Dollars” for city elections. The prog...
Duck of Minerva

All hail International Relations’ lack of discipline! - When I was in grad school, my Department’s grad student organization made shirts that read, “Political Science: Four sub-fields, no discipline.” Behind thi...
MintPress News

“Not On Our Dime”: Why Democrats Are Finally Challenging Israel - The United States' supposed 'unbreakable bond' with Tel Aviv is faltering, though more in language than in deeds. The post “Not On Our Dime”: Why Democra...
Rewire

Trans Youth Prom Centers Defiant Joy - Trans kids from across the country gathered by the Capitol to celebrate themselves and their potential amid a wave of anti-trans legislation. The post Tr...
TalkLeft

R.I.P. Tina Turner and Open Thread - Legendary singer and performer Tina Turner died this week at age 83. If you haven't seen the movie "Tina", I highly recommend it. It's available on streami...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Leaning Into State Trends: The West Coast - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The West Coast states have all been Democratic-leaning in nearly every recent presidential election. — One exception was Ore...
Innocence Project

Four Wrongly Convicted Asian Americans You Should Know - The post Four Wrongly Convicted Asian Americans You Should Know appeared first on Innocence Project.
Ecosophia

May 2023 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standa...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘La Banda Más Chingón en Wyoming’ By No-No Boy Featuring Mariachi Los Broncos - No-No Boy is a multimedia project formed by Julian Saporiti & Erin Aoyama while pursuing their doctorates at Brown University. The post Protest Song Of ...
Greg Palast

New Keystone report reveals catalog of errors led to biggest spill in pipeline’s historyOperators TC Energy ignored defects and failed to inspect pipeline after modifications were made - Keystone operators were aware of structural problems a decade before the pipeline ruptured in December 2022. The resulting spill was worse than all prior s...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Experts: VDARE’s Real Estate Deals May Cost Group Nonprofit Status - White nationalist hate group VDARE could lose its nonprofit status over real estate agreements surrounding a historic castle the group purchased in Berkele...
LareDOS

Laredo Little Theatre presents Incognito - Four actors play 22 roles
Media Lens

Head-Trapped – Descartes, Dawkins, Hobbes, Marx, Mill, Darwin, And The Myth Of Western Civilisation - Descartes famously declared: ‘Cogito ergo sum’, or, ‘I think therefore I am.’ But a thought has no awareness; it is a mere packet of information. ‘It’s hot...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

When The Machine Needs Fed: The Duopoly, Late Neoliberalism, and the Passion Plays of Power - Or, What Happens When The System Works As Designed
The Disorder Of Things

The Ideal International Institution: A Response - The concluding post from the author herself, drawing our symposium on The Ideal River to a close. Dr Joanne Yao is Senior Lecturer in International Relatio...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Honoring the Past, Paving the Future: Enhancing Voter Registration - Last week marks the 30th anniversary of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), a landmark piece of legislation that has expanded access to the ballo...
Lowering the Bar

Bouncy-Castle King Gets 11 Years for Bouncy-Castle Arson - A light sentence, considering.
Save Buffalo Bayou

In Praise of Open Ditches - More Effective, Cheaper, Easier to Maintain, Better for the Environment than Buried Stormwater Pipes May 22, 2023 For several years a controversy over open...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Cake Was Not A Lie - Yeah, I know the Florida Legislature Dancing And Cake Story broke nearly 2 weeks ago, but at the time, I was busy finishing the job of “Finishing The Job”....
Avedon's Sideshow

You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train - This photo of the aurora in Suomi, Finland is from Juuso Hamalainen. (There are some other pretty auroras and other things in his gallery.) Just making a ...
Web of Debt

Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling? - This post is for subscribers Type your email… Subscribe
Democracy Chronicles

Heartbreak and Yearning on the Streets of East Oakland - "Nightcrawling" by Leila Mottley is a bestselling novel that explores the hardships of life in Oakland's struggling streets.
Equality Texas

SB 12: Still Bad For Texans - A statement from the All In For Equality Coalition (ACLU of Texas, Equality Texas, Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, Texas Freedom Network, Transgende...
Border/Lines

Special Edition—Title 42 is dead. Long live Title 42—05-13-23 - Immigration news, in context
The Rag Blog

ALLEN YOUNG | HISTORY | Mixing the tequila of Cinco de Mayo with the blood of Kent State: A quirky history essay - We look back at two days in May. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | May 17, 2023 Sí, mis amigos, Cinco de Mayo is a well-known date (that’s May 5 in English),...
Robert Reich

Why Child Labor in America is SkyrocketingCorporations are... - *Why Child Labor in America is Skyrocketing* Corporations are bringing back child labor in America. And some Republicans want to make it easier for them ...
Seeing the Forest

Biden Needs A Primary Opponent - There’s a lot of indication/speculation that Biden is negotiating over the debt ceiling after all. Biden wouldn’t do this if he had a primary opponent. By ...
Stinque

Other Useful Exposure Notifications - You have been exposed to someone who bought a bluecheck on Twitter You have been exposed to someone who will spend precious moments chatting with the cas...
Moron Majority

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Earthworks

Communities Call for Respect, Barrick Responds with Aggression - Coauthors:Jan Morrill, EarthworksCatherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada From Alaska to Papua New Guinea, communities were paying close attention to Barric...
Reveal

After History of Discrimination, These Federal Contractors Fought to Hide Diversity Data - [image: People are walking in front of a display booth that reads DELL Technologies.] The government has found workforce inequality at more than a dozen f...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2023 - Walmart had at least another fourteen shootings last month, including one fatal one by someone committing suicide, and there were another three shooting...
Field Negro

Google has a problem. - Just a note to you field hands. I tried posting an article a few days ago and it was shot down by the gatekeepers at *Google. *Why? Because they thoug...
Political Garbage Chute

I Live in Arkansas. Can My 10 Year Old Work as a Bouncer at a Drag Bar? - I moved to Arkansas before I was a father, so I can’t say that I’d even be thinking about this topic ten years ago, that’s for certain. Recently, though,...
Two Party Opera

Taft and Forward - " Taft and Forward " on Two Party Opera May 3, 2023 ↓ Transcript Panel 1: Taft: "I never wanted to be president." Roosevelt: “Really, Taft? Who forced...
CT's short stories and novelettes

My new blog - My new blog showcases what I consider my best work. It's still building but there is lots to see already. The name MitchelCCharles was a mistake made by...
ExChristian.Net

Prophecy Strikes Out - *By Merle Hertzler ~ * *Jeremiah steps to the plate. Here’s the pitch. Jeremiah swings–“After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, ...
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 ...
Dos Centavos

Tacho’s Sabado Playlist - New music has dropped these last couple of weeks. Good music. So, add it on to your playlists for the weekend. Enjoy! Jay Perez – El Patron – The Voice is ...
Morning Consult

How Brand Health Tracking Can Improve Reputation Management - The post How Brand Health Tracking Can Improve Reputation Management appeared first on Morning Consult.
New Progressive Alliance

The Origin of the War in Ukraine - The guest writer is Kim Swift who said, “The stark reality of the possibility of nuclear war has motivated me to write the following.”
Texas Watch

Consumers share stories about the need for #FairAppraisal and #SafeRepairs - Over 1,000 Texans have contacted their lawmakers in support of legislation for #FairAppraisal and #SafeRepairs. Texas Watch is in strong support of HB 1...
Dispatches from the Underclass

China’s Saudi-Iran Peace Deal Is a Major Setback for US Empire, w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi - Become a Patron to watch the full 90-minute interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-video-saudi-81663975 The historic deal brokered by China for a Sa...
GreenSource DFW

EarthX returns to Fair Park this weekend - *The giant environmental expo will be held Friday through Sunday at Fair Park. Courtesy of EarthX.* April 20, 2023 Looking for a way to spend Earth Day ...
DBC Green

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

Experience, Criteria, Action, Art - While much has since been written about the relation of mental happenings to outward criteria, that work tends to follow the problem into various kinds of ...
Grits for Breakfast

Near race war in 1868 Houston led to ban on carrying firearms for self-protection - I.C. Lord was the City Marshal in Houston following the Civil War who is credited with turning the Houston Police Department into a modern police agency, w...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament – Championship - The madness finally ends tonight with the Men’s Championship game. I doubt anyone would have had #5 San Diego State facing off with #4 UConn. Tip off is at...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Campaign for America's Future

The Genius of Stop-Sign Organizing - I am so excited about what it means to organize right now. Not only are there unprecedented federal resources on the table to spark transformational change...
In These Times

There Is Power in a Pantry - Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history.
Land Destroyer

US Meddling in Thai Elections: Seeking to Create an Anti-China Proxy - *March 20, 2023* (Brian Berletic - New Eastern Outlook) - The Southeast Asian Kingdom of Thailand is slated to hold general elections in May of this year...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialist Caucus has chosen Global Young Greens Delegation to South Korea 2023 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2023 Contact: Aléjandro Ortega-Morales (they/them), Cassiday Moriarity, (she/her); gpusyouth@gmail.com The Young Ecosocial...
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 The post ...
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...
Nina Illingworth

Scurvy’s Selection: Crackdown Podcast - In today's Selection, our host Scurvy brings us the straight dope about the war on drugs by highlighting first person accounts on the amazing Crackdown P...
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...
TXElects

Texas Election Source Ending Its 10-year Run - Ten years ago, I set out to make my readers the smartest people in their political crowd. My approach was to combine comprehensive election data, campaig...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Two-thirds of board members overseeing Texas public universities are Abbott donors. -- Texas Tribune - Texas Tribune analysis found that more than 70% of Abbott's appointees to Texas university boards have donated to his gubernatorial campaign fund. About...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Houston and Katy Defend Church Drag Bingo Against Fascists - From queers and their accomplices in the Screwston Anti-Fascist Committee and the Space City Anarchist Organization Summary On September 24th, Saturday af...
Duffel Blog

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

Big picture of disengagement in Ladakh - The Ministry of External Affairs has done the right thing by explaining its taciturn press release on September 8 Thursday in a single sentence regarding t...
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?
WAWG Blog

Preserving Our Democracy – Allegiance To a Nation OR Serving a More Perfect Union - On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the other, a citizenship oa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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