Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Dead woman found in Utah 'appears' to be Gabby Petito: police - Police announced at a Sunday briefing that the body they discovered in Grand Teton National Park matches the description of Gabby Petito. The police off...
Slate

Fox News Poll: Most Americans Back Vaccine and Mask Mandates - Almost three-quarters of registered voters, or 74 percent, say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the pandemic.
Democracy Chronicles

Aukus pact delivers France some hard truths - AUKUS is a new strategic alliance to counter the Chinese threat. France is not happy but will have to learn some hard truths from it.
Salon.com

Trump actively recruiting senators to 'depose' Mitch McConnell as the GOP leader: report - Trump's relationship with the powerful Senate leader has been on the rocks for some time
Mediaite

BREAKING: Body Found in National Forest in Wyoming Where Authorities Were Searching for Gabby Petito - Investigators have found a body in a national forest in Wyoming where searches were underway for 22-year-old Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, who went missing d...
Vox

Not much happened at the “Justice for J6” rally. But the far right’s focus is elsewhere. - [image: A man carrying a sign and wearing a shirt and hat with American flag print faces the US Capitol.] Supporters of those charged in the January 6 att...
memeorandum

Democrats lean into vaccine mandates ahead of midterms (Max Greenwood/The Hill) - Max Greenwood / The Hill: *Democrats lean into vaccine mandates ahead of midterms* — Democrats are feeling increasingly confident that strict COVID-19 ...
NPR's Health Shots

A Texas Doctor Says He Defied The Abortion Law, Risking Lawsuits - Dr. Alan Braid said that his decision to perform an abortion past the six-week mark earlier this month was a matter of duty.
Al Jazeera English

Wider approval of COVID booster jabs expected, US officials say - FDA advisory body this week recommended coronavirus booster shots for people over age 65 and those at high risk.
Talking Points Memo

Ex-Joint Chiefs Chair Defends Milley’s Efforts To Keep Trump From Dragging US Into War With China - Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Mike Mullen on Sunday defended the reported conversations Gen. Mark Milley had with his...
VICE

Daily Horoscope: September 20, 2021 - There's a full moon in Pisces today.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Tagovailoa among starting quarterbacks mauled on day of injuries in NFL - - Miami quarterback leaves with rib injury during loss to Bills - Jets rookie Wilson throws four picks in Patriots victory Josh Allen threw two t...
Daily Dot

‘Please leave me alone’: TikToker posts viral video of her stalker, says police were slow to help - [image: TikTok Stalker Police] A TikToker has been getting attention for filming her stalker of four years, detailing the incidents with him, and explain...
Mother Jones

FDA Panel Decision on COVID Boosters “Not the End of the Story,” Fauci Says - On Friday, an independent advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration voted against recommending a Pfizer booster shot for the general public. It d...
The Verge

Ikea’s $39.99 pad adds built-in wireless charging to almost any table - [image: The iPhone 12 (left) and the iPhone 12 mini (right). The mini only loses a couple lines of text compared to the bigger screen, but feels less imme...
Axios

Manchin wants to pause voting on Biden’s social-spending package until 2022 - Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is privately saying he thinks Congress should take a “strategic pause” until 2022 before voting on President Biden’s $3.5 tril...
The Hill

Aides try to keep Biden away from unscripted events or long interviews, book claims - President Biden's top aides have allegedly created a "wall" to avoid having him speak at unscripted events or sitting down for long interviews in an effort...
Election Law Blog

“New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines” - AP: When voters in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelist...
Political Wire

The Days of Full Covid Coverage Are Over - Washington Post: “In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatmen...
Daily Cartoonist

Stuff and Nonsense - What could be more nonsensical than a MAD parody of a non-existant TV western? How about a second MAD parody of that same non-existant TV show. Tom Ric...
Downwinders at Risk

Downwinder Marsha Jackson - Marsha 2.0
Strategic Culture Foundation

Iran has joined the SCO, now it needs to turbo-boost its economy - With Iran's full accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) complete, Tehran now needs to wrangle big trade deals with its new regional frien...
Due Dissidence

Class Collaboration with AOC: You Can’t Wear a Movement - by Birrion Sondahl (originally published on An Appeal to Reason) Class collaboration occurs when a member of one class is given special benefits by another...
Reform Austin

Beto O’Rourke’s Political Strategists Say He Plans to Run for Governor of Texas - The race for Texas Governor is starting to get interesting on the democrats’ side. Beto O’Rourke’s political advisors say he’s planning to run for Texas ...
Dandelion Salad

John Pilger: The US Military is a Killing Machine - Dandelion Salad with John Pilger goingundergroundRT on Sep 8, 2021 On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker Joh...
Ballot Access News

Texas Files Brief in Lawsuit Over Whether Special Sessions of Legislature May Redistrict - On September 15, the state of Texas filed this brief in Gutierrez v Abbott, w.d., 1:21cv-769. This is the case over whether a special session of the Texas ...
Rallblog

California Recalls to SCOTUS Hacks to General Miley. This new podcast has it all! - It’s an ADD episode where Ted and Scott discuss everything from SCOTUS political hacks to Covid-19 booster shots to outlawing drones. Also we ask the que...
Eschaton

Afternoon Thread - Having some tech hell. Always fun!
Claytoonz

A Righteous Failure - As I posted on social media, I’ll let other cartoonists draw General Mark Milley on a pedestal. General Milley got between Donald Trump and his nuke button...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, all four of our winning comments come from our post about a ridiculous column arguing that fact checking is an assault on free speech. In firs...
Common Dreams

Nabisco Strike Ends After Union Members Approve New Contract - "Congratulations to these brave workers on their wins," said one labor writer. "May their determination and grit be an inspiration for workers everywhere."
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for September 19 - […]
alicublog

NO, MR. MAGA, I EXPECT YOU TO DIE. - I mean: *Nolte: Howard Stern Proves Democrats Want Unvaccinated Trump Voters Dead* Do you want to know why I think Howard Stern is going full-monster wit...
Deadline Politics

Anti-Vaccination Protests Go Worldwide, As Backlash To Mandates Grows - Anti-vaccination protests took place in major cities across the world on Saturday, as a backlash to the rising tide of mandates for inoculation hits the st...
Rio Grande Guardian

Proposed new state Senate map makes changes to South Texas districts - AUSTIN, Texas – The first new state Senate map drawn to take into account population shifts identified under the 2020 Census has been published. The auth...
Undernews

The world’s tallest populace is shrinking, and scientists want to know why - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/19/netherlands-average-height-shrinking-tallest/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newslet...
Duck of Minerva

National identity and nuclear submarines in Australia - Australia's attempt to balance against China using nuclear submarines is not just a material decision. It's one shaped by over a century of deep fear about...
Futurism

Empty Liquor Bottles Found Inside In-Development Air Force One - Getting Sauced It’s not unusual to head to happy hour after work to kick back with a few drinks — but your boss probably wouldn’t like it if you were kic...
Stinque

Freedom Isn’t Free - Let us begin by stipulating that our healthcare system sucks in this country. We’ve socialized our police and fire departments, most of our education, ev...
The Week

Fauci not disappointed by FDA advisory panel's COVID-19 booster recommendation - Fauci not disappointed by FDA advisory panel's COVID-19 booster recommendation
Mediagazer

New leadership at Paramount Pictures signals ViacomCBS's hard pivot to streaming, potentially setting it up to face the same fights with talent as Disney (Kim Masters/Hollywood Reporter) - Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter: *New leadership at Paramount Pictures signals ViacomCBS's hard pivot to streaming, potentially setting it up to face th...
The AltWorld

FAIR’s Jim Naureckas On 35 Years Of Media Criticism - Fairness in Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a media watchdog group that formed as a response to […] The post FAIR’s Jim Naureckas On 35 Years Of Media Cr...
Popular Resistance

Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance - Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8....
The Root

North Carolina Judges Block Voter ID Law From Taking Effect, Saying It Discriminates Against Black Voters - An attempt by Republican lawmakers in North Carolina to enact a statewide voter identification law was blocked by members of the state’s court of appeals...
San Antonio Report

‘Come and Take It’: A symbol of defiance reinterpreted by UTSA students and alumni - [image: Fans wave "Come and take it" flags at the USTA home opener against Lamar Saturday.]Commentary: UTSA is bowing to the demands of the few and overloo...
Trivial Knot

Conference notes from QGCon 2020 - QGCon is a queer games criticism conference that I attended in 2013 and 2014, because it was next door, and it made a pretty big impression at the time. No...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 19, 2021 - [image: Story 480526873] In memorium, Ronald Anthony Wikrent August 8, 1963 – September 16, 2021 *Please excuse me for putting this at the top, but I wan...
First Draft

Today on Tommy T’s Random Ruminations – “Witch bitch” edition - I’m not going to be watching “Wicked”, even if you tie me into a chair Alex-from-Clockwork-Orange-style and pry my eyes open. Why? Because I HATE adaptatio...
Alternet

'I had a duty of care': Texas doctor praised for violating new abortion ban - *"I provided an abortion* to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state's new limit. I acted because I had a duty of care to ...
OpEd News

Jake Tapper completely destroys Mississippi Gov: With all due respect Governor, your way's failing. - CNN's Jake Tapper did his journalistic job demolishing Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves for his COVID failure.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - Explaining Humans to Aliens Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian BobbyK for ek hornbeck
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Western Imperialism, Globalization and The real reason why critical race theory is under attack - *Thoughtful piece by University of Milwaukee Wisconsin Associate Professor Dr. Javier Tapia who places the current attack on CRT against the backdrop of gl...
Buzzflash

Can Beto O'Rourke Beat Gregg Abbott? Lord Hopes So. Abbott Does the Devil's Work. - Axios
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Marseillan - Marseillan, this afternoon.
Second Nexus

Leaked Emails Show Trump Officials Privately Discussing Trump's 'Critical Mistakes' in Handling Pandemic - One of the most cataclysmic developments of former President Donald Trump's time in office was his handling of the pandemic that's killed over 650 thousa...
Field Negro

Testiclesgate. - America has a huge testicles problem, and I mean this in the most respectful way possible. You know that you have regressed as a society and a cultur...
Eclectablog

It rivals the New Deal – with special guest David Dayen - David Dayen on Twitter: @DDayen The American Prospect on Twitter: @TheProspect David Dayen at The American Prospect: Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s S...
Dissident Voice

The Anglo Unilateralists Strike - When President Joe Biden won the White House, he promised, with a facility of unceasing boredom, that diplomacy was back. “Diplomacy is back at the cent...
San Antonio Current

Federal government announces funding for emergency contraception for Texans impacted by near-total abortion ban - The federal government announced Friday it is providing additional funding to Austin nonprofit Every Body Texas to address a potential increase in clients...
Lawfare

Thinking Long Term About the Future of Afghanistan - Taliban negotiators meet with representatives of the U.S. government in Doha, Qatar, on Nov. 21, 2020. Photo credit: Ron Przysucha/U.S. State Department ...
naked capitalism

Global Coral Coverage Down by Half Since the 1950s - Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution.
The Daily Poster

WEEKEND READER: The Great Bacon Panic Of 2021 - Claims of a coming “bacon apocalypse” miss what’s really going on in the nation’s factory farms.
Brad Blog

Sunday 'End of the Roe' Toons - Please support the work of editorial cartoonists here. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange br...
Angry Bear

CPI Rose .3% on Prices for Food, Energy, New Vehicles - CPI Rose 0.3% in August on Higher Prices for Food, Energy, New Vehicles, Furniture and Appliances; Commenter and Blogger RJS at MarketWatch 666 The consu...
Scheerpost.com

Wendy Brown on Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism - On the latest episode of “On Contact,” Chris Hedges discusses the work of political philosopher Sheldon Wolin with Professor Wendy Brown, University of Cal...
The Smirking Chimp

The Great Silencing -
Caitlin Johnstone

The Frogs Are Dropping Dead In Australia - Listen to a reading of this poem: ❖ The frogs are dropping dead in Australia, and no one knows why. They get sick from some strange new frog pandemic and c...
Glasstire

Space Over Time: Helen Frankenthaler (and Company) at the Blanton - Print is a complex social media, and has been for millennia. From early movable type to lithography to photocopying, humankind has long experimented with...
Debunking Christianity

What Would Debates About Christianity Look Like If We Cut to the Chase? - My call for ending the philosophy of religion mirrors the late great Dr. Hector Avalos's call to end biblical studies as we know them. It was greatly influ...
Dos Centavos

Tacho’s Playlist - Time to add a few more tunes to your playlist. Here are a few awesome finds. Los Texmaniacs – El Rancho Grande – Recently, a new compilation paying tribute...
WhoWhatWhy

Unraveling the American Myth - Americans are increasingly being forced to come to terms with the inconsistencies in their vision of themselves and history.
The Intercept

Public Pensions Are Financing Refresco’s Anti-Union Campaign in New Jersey - Refresco is a subsidiary of PAI Partners, a private equity firm that counts several public pension funds among its investors. The post Public Pensions Ar...
Texas Environmental News

SAWS closer to controlling where treated wastewater it discharges goes - If the TCEQ grants the GBRA’s request for a contested case hearing, it will be sent to the State Office [...] The post SAWS closer to controlling where t...
Counterpunch

Tesla and the Anthropocene - Photo credits: Sung Wang (via Unsplash) and Leijurv, CC by-sa 4.0 int’l. Tesla’s going to produce $25K cars. Welcome news for many working folks who have...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 19 September 2021 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Time for some doggies. Here are some new words for modern life. Even mon...
jobsanger

Legislating Religious Belief - Isn't that a violation of religious freedom?
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2109: The Hoosac Tunnel - Episode: 2109 The Hoosac Tunnel: shipping goods under the Berkshires. Today, a tunnel in the woods.
Informed Comment

US admits that Hellfire Strike on Kabul, killing 10, was a “Mistake” – But US often does not know Whom it is Droning - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Associated Press reports that the survivors of family members killed in a U.S. hellfire missile strike on a civilian veh...
ArcaMax

Managing a Mentally Unbalanced President - What do you do when a president is crazy? That’s essentially the question Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced in the twilight da...
Liberation News

In Memoriam: Maia Leonardo - Maia Leonardo, a member of the New Haven branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, passed away on August 30.
See You In 2020

Capital reacts to its decline with militarism & engineered chaos - [image: A bombing in the Saudi coalition’s war against Yemen] A bombing in the Saudi coalition’s war against Yemen What does capitalism do when faced wit...
Wolf Street

World Runs Out of Weirdest Stuff: The WOLF STREET Beer Mug Shortage - “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line,” except supply chains.
Countercurrents

Climate Injustice in the United States - by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Capitalism will not lead the way out of climate catastrophe (Markus Spiske) A few days ago, President Biden was urging cl...
Courthouse News

California wildfires make run toward giant sequoia groves - Two lightning-sparked wildfires in California merged and made a run to the edge of a grove of ancient sequoias, momentarily driving away firefighters as th...
Portside

Architect of Texas Abortion Ban Takes Aim at LGBTQ+ Rights While Urging Reversal of Roe - Architect of Texas Abortion Ban Takes Aim at LGBTQ+ Rights While Urging Reversal of Roe Dave Sat, 09/18/2021 - 18:49
The Progressive Wing

9/18-19 Weekend Open Thread - Anyone else still #FeelTheBern? pic.twitter.com/mPTwmPpfa3 — 📸 Bryan Giardinelli (@BreatheNewWinds) September 18, 2021 More news, tweets, etc in the comme...
Greg Palast

Few Show Up For “Justice” at Rally in Support of Jan 6 Rioters - [Sept 18, 2021: Washington, D.C.] It was a spectacular fizzle. While Washington’s Capitol Police had prepared for a massive, potentially violent gathering...
CultureMap Houston

2 hot Houston chefs' sudden exits heat up this week's top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week. 1\. 2 hot Houston chefs suddenly depart from acclaimed restaurants. B...
Bud Kennedy

Lincoln Project slams Greg Abbott as ‘Trumpist,’ but he’s on track for re-election - Gov. Greg Abbott is starting his 30th year of a perpetually charmed political career. He remains as calm as any former civil court judge. Meanwhile, his Re...
Daily Howler

The ways we reason in our own blue towns! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021* *No Crazy Claim Left Behind: *Jason Johnson is a "cable news" professor serving our own blue tribe. He also has his own p...
Latino Rebels

Hamlet Lavastida: To Be or Not To Be? (OPINION) - This concerns you, wherever you are.
Bracing Views

AOC’s “Radical” Gown - W.J. Astore AOC got a lot of attention wearing a gown to the Met Gala that read, “tax the rich.” Here’s a fetching image: Of course, this is hardly a radic...
Media Myth Alert

Once-prominent E&P tells media myths about Murrow, Watergate - The trade journal Editor & Publisher once was something of a must-read periodical in the news business. It was never much of a crusading magazine, but its ...
The Militant

Back locked-out oil workers standing up to ExxonMobil - BEAUMONT, Texas — Over 650 oil workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243, have been locked out at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 13 - 17 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. Despite the fact that Delta has been almost as bad as last winter’s wave o...
Progressive.org

New Muhammad Ali Docuseries Chronicles the Life of ‘The Greatest’ Athlete and Activist - The legendary boxer’s Black nationalist and antiwar stands take center ring in the latest masterpiece from Ken Burns.
DeSmogBlog

Critics Question the Climate Crisis Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining - By Marta Montojo and Ian Urbina Few people have ever heard of the tiny country of Nauru. Even fewer ever think about what happens at the bottom of the wo...
Texas Monthly

The Biden Administration Says It’s Repairing Levees. Some South Texans Say It’s Building a Border Wall. - Barriers reminiscent of the Trump era are sprouting up in Hidalgo County. The post The Biden Administration Says It’s Repairing Levees. Some South Texans...
Duffel Blog

Taliban fighters launch hit YouTube series unpacking seized U.S. equipment - Let's unpack some fun!
Skeptophilia

The reawakening of Merlin - A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about a site in Hertfordshire, England called "Arthur's Seat" that has long been associated with the famous (but pos...
ROAR Magazine

Marcela’s Story: Planting Autonomy, Resisting Patriarchy - Marcela, an indigenous healer and organizer reflects on the role of traditional knowledge and medicine in her personal and collective struggles for liberat...
Novara Media

Western Elites Aren’t Mourning the Loss of Afghan Life, but of Their Own Power - [image: Joe Biden walks in front of an American flag that occupies the entire background]The United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan last month, and the...
Crooked Media

Balls Swell that Ends Well - The post Balls Swell that Ends Well appeared first on Crooked Media.
Church and State

Did Bob Woodard Strike Again? - A new book says General Mark Milley took steps during the Trump administration to prevent a war between the US and China.
Living Blue in Texas

Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On Killing You? - Unfortunately, as much as it sounds like satire, it isn’t. Are you on Tik Tok? If you aren’t or aren’t The post Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On...
World Socialist Web Site

US military basing to expand in Australia, directed against China - The Washington communiqué commits Australia to hosting US troops, bombers, fighter aircraft and warships and acting as a logistics base for a military conf...
Antiwar.com

Washington’s Wars: The Killing of Zemari Ahmadi - The United States government has no idea who it killed in Kabul last month. Or perhaps they do, and the administration is content with playing ignorant u...
Workers World

Palestinian prisoners recaptured: ‘This is not the time to despair’ - [image: Palestinian prisoners recaptured: ‘This is not the time to despair’ ] On Sept. 6, millions around the world celebrated as news spread that six Pal...
The Texas Signal

Thousand of migrants seeking asylum wait at the border in Del Rio - Thousands of migrants seeking asylum are in Del Rio, Texas waiting to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. According to reports, over 10,000...
The NM Political Report

Federal judge denies injunction for NM public health order - [image: Federal judge denies injunction for NM public health order] A federal judge ruled earlier this week that two women who filed a lawsuit against Gov....
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Please Take Me Back - Josh Israel @ The American Independent: Youngkin says strict abortion ban would be ‘appropriate’ for Virginia. David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Moveme...
slacktivist

And in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth - This is inevitable whenever a group of Christians whose culture-bound faith and practice is unexplored sends out members to work "cross-culturally."
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Work to Turn Concrete at Fair Park Into a Community Park Is on Schedule - The nonprofit management group in charge of Fair Park’s operations is ahead of schedule on fundraising and on track to deliver a new community park by sp...
El Paso Matters

New report shows “deeply troubling failures” by Border Patrol in boy’s death, key congressional leader says - A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, inc...
ProPublica

New Report Shows “Deeply Troubling Failures” by Border Patrol in Boy’s Death, Key Congressional Leader Says - by Robert Moore, El Paso Matters ] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon...
Grist

LA County moves to ban oil and gas drilling - A unanimous vote from the county’s supervisors means L.A. County could become first in the nation to phase out existing oil wells.
Texas Standard

Federal Government Starts To Return RGV Properties Seized For Border Wall - But for most landowners, the status of their property is still in limbo.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Red Yemen: From Socialist State to Bombed-Out Neoliberal Ruin - The Saudis, backed by the Americans, have been waging a war against Yemen since 2015, causing massive civilian casualties as well as famine and a cholera e...
SCOTUSblog

Military jurisdiction and two cases on arbitration and wage disputes - [image: Military jurisdiction and two cases on arbitration and wage disputes]This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider...
American Prospect

Vaccine Update: Pfizer Sticks It to Uncle Sam - Today on TAP: The drug industry and global vaccine needs
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Toucan Barbet - I am continually astonished at the wonders that the world creates, and the toucan barbet is one of them. The post Bird of the Week: Toucan Barbet appeare...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Public Trust in Artificial Intelligence Starts With Institutional Reform - Gaining the public’s trust in artificial intelligence (AI) will take more than just setting technical standards. It will require that institutions using ...
Capital & Main

The California Republican Party Is Broken. The Newsom Recall Just Proved It. - *Here's why the state's traditional conservatives and moderates have exited a party that once dominated in California.* The post The California Republica...
Mondoweiss

After Israeli snipers killed 40 Palestinians in 3 months, army chief said, ‘This is not right, relax’ - After Israeli soldiers killed more than 40 Palestinians 'easily' in 2 months, the army chief of staff said, "This is not right" and ordered snipers to "rel...
DBC Green

Right of Way: a Non-Review - Cover photo of Angie Schmitt's "Right of Way" from IslandPress This October 2019 article from Houston Public Media distills the message of Angie Schmitt's ...
Sludge

Blue Dog-Affiliated Website Blurs Line Between Newsroom and Political Advertiser - Campaigns and PACs spend billions each election year to run political advertisements on TV, radio, the internet, and to send printed matter to voters’ mail...
Political Garbage Chute

Ivanka Confirms No Change in Her Dad’s Balls Since Getting COVID-19 Vaccine - NEPOTISM LAKE, FLORIDUH — It’s probably the most frequently asked question at every American dinner table this week: Will getting a COVID-19 vaccine shot...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

With False Pretext, Hong Kong Limits Democracy to ’Patriots’ - Loyalty to a ruling party and a top-down system to vet the “patriotic” bona fides of legislative candidates are not a feature of
CT's short stories and novelettes

THE RECONSTITUTED MAN - Clausen blinked his eyes repeatedly before the unexpected brightness. He was suddenly here when his memory held him elsewhere. He remembered a ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Center for Politics Welcomes Bouie, Krebs, Ramadan, and Setmayer as Resident Scholars for 2021-2022 Academic Year - The University of Virginia Center for Politics is excited to name four resident scholars for the 2021-2022 academic year. They are acclaimed journalist Jam...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Ending stigma through sexual health' & other Fri midday news briefs - *Ending stigma through sex education* - *I am all for supporting this.* *Biden’s Border Policy Is Trapping LGBTQ Asylum-Seekers In Dangerous Conditions I...
The Contributor

Jared Kushner's Family Firm Set to Unleash Eviction Wave Amid Pandemic - News Image: "Kushner is the poster child for ultra-rich landlords clamoring to boost their bottom line by kicking families to the curb, even if it comes a...
Chicken Fried Politics

Candidates for Virginia governor square off in first debate - Posted September 19 (From WUSA via YouTube)
Ring of Fire

Regulators Are STILL Allowing Toxic Baby Foods To Be Sold - Via America’s Lawyer: More than half a year since Congress released a report detailing alarming levels of heavy metals in baby foods, Beech-Nut finally d...
FiveThirtyEight.com

An Older, Wiser Pac-12 Is No Longer A College Football Laughingstock - The transition to the College Football Playoff era has not been a pleasant one for the Pac-12 Conference. With just two appearances in eight seasons and ze...
Dissent Magazine

A New Political Identity - Occupy Wall Street was the critical event in the formation of a novel anticapitalist intellectual milieu.
Tribune of the People

A Nova Democracia: Dr. Ruben Manuel Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, Chairman Gonzalo, Dies - Editor’s Note: The following is an unofficial translation of the article “Morre o Dr. Ruben Manuel Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, o Presidente Gonzalo” from revol...
Rewire

Fighting for More Than Access: Why the Quality of Your Abortion Matters - Being an abortion counselor has taught me the importance of having more candid conversations about abortion that center bodies and lived experiences. Th...
Texas Observer

Forgetful City - The Freedman’s Memorial Cemetery is empty on a sweltering weekday in June, the gated park tucked between Lemmon Avenue and Calvary Street contained by th...
The Conversation

Directed energy weapons shoot painful but non-lethal beams – are similar weapons behind the Havana syndrome? - Electromagnetic beams of the right power and wavelength can cause pain and zap electronics. Could they also be used to disrupt a person’s nervous system?
Democracy Now!

"Another World Is Possible": How Occupy Wall Street Reshaped Politics & Kicked Off New Era of Protest - On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we examine the legacy of the historic protests with three veterans of the movement: Nelini Stamp, now the di...
Space City Weather

Warmer weather returning, but the odds of Houston’s first true fall front increase for next week - We continue to enjoy fairly quiet weather across the region in the wake of Hurricane Nicholas. Today will be no exception, though things get a bit more uns...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Biden’s racial equity efforts for farmers of color hit legal roadblocks - On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order putting racial equity at the center of policy, programs and funding, a response...
Earth 911

Fix-It Guy: Washer Won’t Spin — Easy Fixes - Over 30 years as an appliance repair technician, the repair I’ve seen the most is... The post Fix-It Guy: Washer Won’t Spin — Easy Fixes appeared first o...
High Country News

A monsoon summer in the Southwest - How residents across the region are engaging with the yearly weather phenomenon.
TalkLeft

Congratulations to CO Governor Jared Polis - Mazel Tov, Congratulations and Muchas felicidades to Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Colorado First Gentleman Marlon Reis, partners of 18 years. They got...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ask Old Jules: Love during war, Why God created us, Born loony, What is freedom, Proud to be an American - Old Jules, how can love help you through war? Hitler had Eva Braun. Assuming they loved one another she probably provided him solace during the retreat in ...
The Rag Blog

MIKE GIGLIO : POLITICAL OPINION | Blowback: The forever wars are coming home - I see a desire for violence as catharsis in many protesters on the Left and Right today. By Mike Giglio | The Rag Blog | Sept. 16, 2021 This article was fi...
TXElects

Freedom Caucus Co-founder Krause to Challenge Paxton - To access this post you need a TX Elects Subscription. *SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR IMMEDIATE ACCESS NEWS & ANALYSIS* FOR JUST *$19.99 A MONTH* OR *$199.99 A YEA...
Krebs on Security

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss - A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online servi...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Hurricane Ida, Chemical Plants Flare Louisiana Gulf - We know the levees held and the electric grid didn’t. But the other impact of Hurricane Ida, as the photo telegraphs, came from the chemical plants on “C...
BEYONDbones

Remembering the Past: 13 August 1521 - Every year, from September 15 through October 15, people celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. Let us remember that this year, 2021, ma...
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...
Earthworks

It’s Time for the Feds to Update Mining Regs - Today Earthworks, along with Indigenous allies and other environmental organizations, submitted a petition to the Department of the Interior asking the B...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge DHS to End Broad, Unwarranted Surveillance Programs - In a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, EPIC and a Coalition of privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties organizations demanded the Department...
Eater Houston

It Looks Like Massive Downtown Food Hall POST Houston Will Arrive This November - [image: the interior of a building with in interesting, X-shaped stairwell] According to numerous reports, Post HTX will open on Saturday, November 13. | ...
Liberal America

The Greatest Threat to Public Health is Not COVID–It’s Climate Change - What is the greatest threat to global public health? Many will argue it’s COVID-19. That’s a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645...
In These Times

Talking to Bourbon Workers on the Picket Line - A conversation with Matt Aubrey, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D. - Around 400 union distillery workers in Bardstown, Kentucky, hit the picket line September 13 after rejecting a contract offer from Heaven Hill Distilleri...
Morning Consult

National Scrutiny Over New Abortion, Voting Laws Hasn’t Changed Texans’ Perceptions of Greg Abbott - The post National Scrutiny Over New Abortion, Voting Laws Hasn’t Changed Texans’ Perceptions of Greg Abbott appeared first on Morning Consult.
Lowering the Bar

Realtor Claims Home Not Sold Due to Compromising Paraphernalia of Sundry Sorts - If you're using the word "sundry" today, you might as well use that weird S, too. Related Stories - Third Planet v. Crowne Plaza: Infinity War...
MintPress News

How US Media Misrepresent the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Laboratories and Safety Protocols - Even if we were to accept all the accusations against the WIV regarding their alleged subpar safety standards, none of it has any relevance to the Covid-...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Space, Place and Capitalism: A Roundtable - The year 2021 represents an important milestone in Australian literary history – the fiftieth anniversary of David Ireland’s Miles Franklin Prize-winning...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Another Life Goes By’ By Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram - On Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram's latest album, “662,” he recorded a track written about young Black Americans killed as a result of hatred and policing t...
NORML

Virginia: Botanical Medical Cannabis Sales Begin - Long awaited sales of cannabis flower in Virginia began this month when medical dispensaries received the final product approvals from the state's regula...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Founding Father Wisdom, Featuring Thomas Jefferson - If you like these cartoons, please support them on Patreon This cartoon is drawn by the awesome Leah S. Metters! Leah describes herself as “an illustrator ...
Socialist Alternative

The Implications of Ida – How We Got Here and Where We Go Next - Imagine it’s 90 degrees outside, your wall-to-wall carpet is fully soaked in flood water and it’s starting to mold. Your power is out so you have no air co...
Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford Memorial Gathering - Glen Ford Memorial Gathering bareditors Wed, 09/15/2021 - 22:02 Black Agenda Report
Ecosophia

The Negative-Sum Economy - There are tides and seasons in the comments I field for posts here on my blog, certain questions that get asked at regular intervals, certain saliva-flecke...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Sick and Beleaguered Institution: The American Presidency - The Trump Presidency only highlighted long-simmering and tragic problems within our most respected institutions
Edinburg Politics

Gov. Abbott signs into law two new Texas government transparency measures – led by Sen. Zaffirini, Rep. Canales, respectively – which addressed public records problems that arose as a result of COVID-19, reports Omar Ochoa - Two new Texas transparency laws – one by Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County and another one by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg – which addressed p...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Met Gala - It’s a story as old as time — or at least as old as the Democratic Party: discover a groundswell of pro-worker, progressive sentiment; find yourselves a fr...
Project Censored

Ray McGinnis and Ken Jenkins - As the nation marks 20 years since the September 11 attacks, Mickey interviews Ray McGinnis, the author of a new book that looks at numerous questions th...
ExChristian.Net

Before and After - *By Carl S ~ * One man made a very astute observation. He said before the ten commandments came to be, there were tribes. Mankind, therefore, already had...
LareDOS

El Grito kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month at TAMIU on Sept. 16 - On tap: TAMIU's first-ever "Diverse Cultures, Diverse Humanities" Lecture Series
Land Destroyer

North Korea’s New Cruise Missile: Built to Threaten or Because of Threats? - *September 14, 2021* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - North Korea’s recent demonstration of an indigenously developed cruise missile has provided another opportu...
Robert Reich

The $3.5 Trillion Bill Corporate America is Terrified OfRight... - *The $3.5 Trillion Bill Corporate America is Terrified Of*Right now, Democrats are working to pass a $3.5 trillion package that will provide long overdue...
Freethought Now

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

The US is turning oil-rich Nigeria into a proxy for its Africa wars - Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a prox...
Progressives Chat

‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Turns 25 - September 13, 1996 marked the debut of one of the best comedy series in television history. *Everybody Loves Raymond*, from David Letterman’s World Wide P...
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Just to let readers of Lou’s Blog know: Lou made arrangements for WordPress to host this site as a Premium blog up till May 2022. After that time, Unrepent...
The Reality-Based Community

Why Alfred Molina argued with peter for quantum showdown? - Any property that is based around a Spider-Man-related character is bound to have rumors of Peter Parker himself showing up at some point in the narrative....
Reveal

The Writing Was on the Wall in Afghanistan Years Ago - [image: An illustration in shades of blue shows a woman in a hijab looking sadly over a city from a rooftop as fighter jets fly over. In the corner, a yell...
Unlimited Hangout

9/11 and the Politics of Fear and Self-Preservation - We will either be remembered as a country that took freedom and liberty for all seriously or we will be remembered as a nation of cowards who, driven by fe...
Equality Texas

Special Session 3, Week 0 Update - Before the 3rd Special Session of the Lege gavels in, you can help. Earlier this week we shared that Governor Abbott added anti-transgender youth legislati...
Border/Lines

Relief on the horizon for diversity visa lottery winners in limbo—09-10-21 - Immigration news, in context
Innocence Project

From Memphis to Martha’s Vineyard, Powerful Photos of This Week’s Pervis Payne Rallies - More than 750,000 million people have used their voices to support Pervis Payne’s fight for justice over the past year, but on the evening of Sept. 8, Mr...
Environment Texas

Texas wildlife corridors - Luke Metzger Executive Director (512) 479-0388 Contact person by email - Read more about Luke Metzger Friday, September 10, 2021 Infrastructure bil...
Washington Babylon

The Empire Falls Back: When China Supported bin Laden - [image: The Empire Falls Back: When China Supported bin Laden] Since the Taliban retook Kabul last month, geopolitical analysts have speculated about the r...
Independent Political Report

POLITICO: Andrew Yang Plans to Launch New Third Party - Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is plotting the launch of a new third party next month, POLITICO reports today. Yang, who lost a bid...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Mystery Donor Backing Pro-Trump Disinfo Troll With Bitcoin - Days after far-right figures issued a call to support a white nationalist charged with orchestrating a voter misinformation campaign, someone donated nearl...
Seeing the Forest

Is Our Economy Fair? - Little known fact: Seeing the Forest’s slogan is “Who is our economy FOR, anyway?” Take on Wall Street has a new microsite: Is Our Economy Fair? Check it out.
Nina Illingworth

Podcast: Galea International Episode 1 – Graveyard of Empires - Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan and the War Machine howled "but what about the girls?" Should you take them seriously? Find out on Galea Internati...
The Socialist

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Aims For Achieving Systematic Social Change Through Several Initiatives - The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation will now focus its energies towards achieving systemic and social change through Education. Other programs will continue as Dev...
Avedon's Sideshow

We've both been sound asleep - Cornish apple orchard by Adrian Paul Allinson (British, 1890-1959) "Supreme Court Allows Extreme Texas Abortion Ban To Go Into Effect: *S.B. 8 offers priv...
Grits for Breakfast

Politics explains oddities and strange bedfellows in Harris County bail debate - Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg issued a *56-page report* disputing the findings of federal bail monitors overseeing the settlement agreement betwe...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2021 - Walmart had at least a dozen more shootings in August of 2021 with at least four of them fatal, and at least eleven more injuries. One of the fatal shoo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Covidian Cult (Part III) - In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” Since I published ...
The Mind Unleashed

Dolphin Swims Through Louisiana Neighborhood in Aftermath of Hurricane Ida - In video footage filmed by a shocked local, the marine mammal’s dorsal fin can be seen popping in and out of the water.
Idavox

Anti-Muslim Activist Loses Another NJ Venue - Scott Presler will still come to New Jersey to spread his filth, but not in... The post Anti-Muslim Activist Loses Another NJ Venue appeared first on Id...
Pages of Victory

I am suspending - political posting here. I can be located on Twitter as @MitchelCCharles I am about to turn 79 and I have no power, no base, no opinions not better expre...
Free & Equal

A Good American Livestream Symposium; Moderated by Christina Tobin and Sean Stone (Feat. William Binney) - The post A Good American Livestream Symposium; Moderated by Christina Tobin and Sean Stone (Feat. William Binney) appeared first on Free & Equal.
Bayou Brief

Book Review: Backrooms and Bayous by Robert Mann - Is Bob Mann the Zelig or Forrest Gump of Louisiana politics? Find out in Peter Athas' review of Mann's memoirs.
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting and Scraping, Pounding Sheet Pile: Update on Bank Work at Bayou Bend - And a Word About the Bank “Stabilization” Plans in Memorial Park Aug. 26, 2021 We’ve been meaning to update you on the “restoration” work on the south bank...
WAWG Blog

The Darkness of Plagues – Dawn of Better Societies - Now we are in a forth plague that could “bend the arch of history” and “upend core economy structures." We can do better than capitalism. Continue readin...
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...
nonsite.org

The Whole Country is the Reichstag - A crucial characteristic of the current situation is that the antagonism between the pragmatic and the visionary that liberals have often used as a cudgel ...
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...
Green Pages News

Lisa Savage Campaign Shows How Ranked-Choice Voting Changes the Landscape for Greens - By Dave Schwab, Communications Director for Lisa Savage for US Senate 2020 Overall, 2020 was perhaps the toughest year for US Greens yet. After four years ...
Web of Debt

Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us From the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure - Hemp fuel and other biofuels could reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech clima...
One People's Project

TANYA M. BRAHIMI - NAME: Tanya M. Brahimi (Esposito) AKA: Tatiania Ibrahim Hard to mention the attacks against CRT without mentioning a name that has emerged from the small t...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

First We Celebrate, Then We Fight - July 15th is a day every American should celebrate. That’s when families began to receive direct payments of as much as $300 per child, payments they’ll no...
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 "...
Texas Freedom Network

The 2021 Legislature and Winning the Future - A special session of the Texas Legislature got underway on July 8. Why Gov. Abbott felt the need to call for a special session has a lot to do with what ...
Progressives Everywhere

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

A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying - As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning e...
Moron Majority

Giuliani Prepares For New Role As MyPillow Pitchman - Now that his New York law license has been suspended, and facing likely disbarment, Rudy Giuliani can rest easy at night … the “My Pillow Guy,” Mike Lindel...
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."
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Points of Unity - 1) Police and the State Police forces uphold white supremacy and class hierarchy accross the globe. From their historical beginnings as slave patrols and u...
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...
GreenSource DFW

Urban storm water poses threat to creeks, rivers - *The Tarrant Regional Water District’s Fort Worth campus demonstrates eight major green stormwater mitigation methods, including a bioswale, a raingarden...
The Disorder Of Things

GCRF’d - Twenty-four hours before universities closed for the Easter break, the heads of twelve international research projects received a letter from the funding s...
Texas Moratorium Network

Law of Parties Bill Sent to Senate Jurisprudence Committee - The Law of Parties death penalty reform bill HB 1340 by Rep Jeff Leach, Rep Harold Dutton and 8 other co-authors and that passed the House on an overwhel...
New Progressive Alliance

Enter the Debt Jubilee - This is not a troubling long term trend that will not end well. Jeff Roby is a Florida activist who also publishes in the The Green Party of Florida.
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...
BillMoyers.com

Juneteenth: America’s Other Independence Day - (Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019) Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. Abraham Lincoln had issued the...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 3/29/21 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
Texans For Public Justice

ERCOT's Board Gave Heavily to House Members - As the Texas House investigates the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), *Lobby Watch* finds that powerful energy interests seated on ERCOT’s b...
Two Party Opera

When Texas Freezes Over -
Modern Democracy

“The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1” - Very excited to have a piece up on the Harvard Law Review Blog diving into H.R. 1’s redistricting reforms. The post examines some surprising shortcomings i...
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...
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
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...
Popehat

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
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 - [image: The darkened sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil is picture on August 19, 2019. Residents reported black rain, while studies by two universities confirmed tha...
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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