Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

San Antonio Current

FBI, San Antonio police, fire to conduct joint training session at Alamodome Tuesday - The local division of the FBI and the San Antonio police and fire departments will hold a joint training session at the Alamodome this Tuesday. As part o...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - March 21, 2023 - IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.N. Scientists warn the window to avoid dangerous, irreversible warming is rapidly closing; California hit with 12th major winter...
Texas Monthly

A Republican Lawmaker Wants (Certain) Texans to Have a Lot More Babies - Taking a cue from authoritarian leaders, state representative Bryan Slaton has proposed property-tax relief for some large families. White, straight, prope...
Raw Story

Judge slaps down Trump's efforts to delay NY AG's fraud lawsuit - Former President Donald Trump has lost in court yet again. Law and Crime News reported Tuesday that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron brushe...
The Root

Telfar's New Pricing Strategy Puts Customers in Control - If you’re a bargain hunter like me, you ferociously stalk the clothes and shoes you want, hoping your size will still be in stock when they eventually go...
Scheerpost.com

DeSantis Privately Called for Google to Be ‘Broken Up’ - In previously unreported videos from a closed-door Teneo Network conference, Florida's Republican governor takes his anti-big tech rhetoric beyond what h...
Techdirt.

Silicon Valley School District Files Laughable, Vexatious RICO Claims Against Big Social Media… But Not Facebook Or Instagram - Back in January, we wrote about the Seattle public school district filing an absolutely laughable lawsuit against basically all of big social media, based ...
Mediaite

Bill Maher Suggests Focus on Covid Protocols May Have Contributed to Rust Shooting: More Worried About ‘Germs on Their Set’ Than ‘Bullets in the Gun’ - Bill Maher theorized that the mismanagement behind the 'Rust' set shooting was overzealous covid protocols. The post Bill Maher Suggests Focus on Covid Pr...
Latino Rebels

Venezuela’s Oil Czar Resigns Amid Corruption Investigations - The man responsible for running Venezuela's oil industry —which pays for virtually everything in the troubled country, from subsidized food to ridiculous...
memeorandum

Fox News producer alleges network coerced her into giving misleading testimony on Dominion (NBC News) - NBC News: *Fox News producer alleges network coerced her into giving misleading testimony on Dominion* — A Fox News producer on Monday filed lawsuits ...
Mondoweiss

Golda Meir agreed with Bezalel Smotrich that Palestinians don’t exist. So why are House members pushing to honor her? - [image: Golda Meir poses with a picture with the children of Kibbutz Shefaim, July 24, 1950 (Photo: Wikimedia)]Like Bezalel Smotrich, former Israeli Prime ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Calling out the elephant (or the "Bevo") in the room: UT's Budget and Where the Money Comes From? - *Students, Friends and Colleagues:* *Give this a close read, compliments of the Texas Exes. * *Government officials want to have ever more control over w...
Common Dreams

British Head of Deep Sea Authority Accused of Pushing for 'Reckless' Mining - As delegates from 36 countries convene in Kingston, Jamaica for a summit on the deep sea, a number of diplomats are accusing the administrative head of t...
SCOTUSblog

Court rules for deaf student in education-law case - [image: Court rules for deaf student in education-law case]The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a deaf student’s lawsuit against a Michigan school distri...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Proud Boys left bloodied in clash outside NYC Drag Story Hour' & other Tue midday news briefs - *Proud Boys left bloodied in clash outside NYC Drag Story Hour* - *Folks do NOT play games in New York.* *Georgia County Pays $1.2 Million to Fight Gen...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Biden to designate national monuments in Nevada and Texas - President to designate Avi Kwa Ame, a desert mountain in Nevada, Castner Range in Texas, and a marine sanctuary in the Pacific Joe Biden is establishing ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

How Meadows Is Diversifying Crisis Response in Texas - Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is helping other cities launch teams that can respond to mental health crises and divert individuals experiencing ...
Bonddad

February existing home sales confirm prices have declined, but bottom in sales and construction may be in - *- by New Deal democrat* There were only two noteworthy takeaways from the February existing home sales report: (1) like mortgage applications, per...
Futurism

Officials Say It's Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River - Keep Calm Oxygen levels are so dangerously low in an Australian river that millions of fish have turned up on its shores — but don't worry, officials say...
Daily Dot

Columnist says conservative site fired him for anti-DeSantis memes, deepfake - [image: Ron DeSantis speaking in front of purple to blue vertical gradient background with Tweet by Preston Parra to his left "WATCH: Ron-Ball DeSpaghett...
Ballot Access News

Top-Two Supporters Will Try to Qualify a South Dakota Initiative - Joe Kirby of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has filed a proposed initiative that will soon start to circulate. It would provide for a top-two system for South ...
Mediagazer

With a trial looming, some experts expect Fox News to settle the Dominion lawsuit as it weighs "how much risk" it wants to take and the money it has on hand (Ashley Cullins/The Hollywood Reporter) - Ashley Cullins / The Hollywood Reporter: *With a trial looming, some experts expect Fox News to settle the Dominion lawsuit as it weighs “how much risk” ...
Bud Kennedy

Rebel flag groups booted from Fort Worth Stockyards parades after St. Patrick’s show - Nothing will ruin the Fort Worth Stockyards’ global success faster than a Confederate invasion. So activists waving Rebel battle flags had absolutely no bu...
Eater Houston

Famed Austin Restaurant Chi’Lantro BBQ is Opening its First Outpost in Houston - [image: A spread of curated bowls from Chi’Lantro BBQ.] Chi’Lantro BBQ’s Heights location will be the restaurant’s first outside of Austin. | Chi’Lantro B...
Houston Public Media

There aren’t enough homes in Texas, and lawmakers want to do something about it - A number of bills in Austin are designed to address housing supply and affordability. Will they work?
Rallblog

Democrats and Republicans Agree: Better to Lose Than to Shut Up - “When you surround an army,” Sun Tzu counseled in The Art of War, “leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” Partisans on both sides...
Eschaton

They're Bad People - It's very rude in DC to point out that people are lying for money, because almost everyone is as it's part of their job, and it's incredibly rude to point ...
Alternet

Watch: Trump’s lawyer in Stormy Daniels case back in 2018 called hush money payoff 'illegal' - *Joe Tacopina*, billed as a “powerhouse attorney” and “one of the country’s top trial attorneys” when *Donald Trump* hired him in January to sue a former...
The Daily Poster

🎧MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Brazil (w/ Melanie Vesey) - On this week’s MVC, the team digs into Terry Gilliam’s dystopian black comedy.
The Week

LA school district in turmoil after 30,000 employees go on strike - Thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) began a three-day strike on Tuesday that has shut down the nation's second-larges...
Reform Austin

Texas GOP Pushes To Strictly Limit The Power Of Cities - New GOP proposed legislation would push to limit city ordinances more aggressively than ever. The “Texas Regulatory Consistency Act” would prohibit citi...
Texas Standard

‘He has a battle rifle’: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15 - In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-styl...
The Hill

If the government cut Medicare fraud, it wouldn’t have to cut Medicare - If the federal government were better at preventing Medicare and Medicaid fraud, the programs could save perhaps $100 billion a year or more.
Rio Grande Guardian

EDC leaders reassure site selectors that it’s safe to visit Reynosa - MCALLEN, Texas – The shooting death of two men from South Carolina in Matamoros had a temporary impact on the Rio Grande Valley’s economic development pr...
Vox

Why the dyslexic brain is misunderstood - Dyslexia is a differently organized brain. The brain isn’t naturally wired to read. It’s a task that requires explicit instruction for our brains to act...
The Verge

Ford introduces an all-electric Explorer SUV, but it’s only for Europe - [image: Ford Explorer EV] Image: Ford Ford’s third-ever all-electric vehicle is a Europe-only crossover SUV with one of the automaker’s most popular name...
Al Jazeera English

My plagiarised work was used to justify the war on Iraq - The chaos I feared a US-led invasion would unleash has destroyed the country I hail from.
Daily Cartoonist

Rarity: Great Disasters in American History - October and November of 1936 saw dozens of newspapers print six daily format comic strips relating some catastrophes of the past in America and how the Red...
Ian Welsh

The First Great Environmental Crisis Will Be - [image: The First Great Environmental Crisis Will Be] Water. As I’ve said for many years. The world is facing an imminent water crisis, with demand expect...
Political Garbage Chute

How Dare They Arrest Trump Like They’d Arrest Everyone Else They Believe Broke the Law? - The following editorial was written by Dustin Pewpsin, a right-wing commentator and Trump 2020 Deputy Campaign Spokesman. The views and opinions expresse...
Texas Environmental News

Statement: Castner Range National Monument means more nature for Texas - The post Statement: Castner Range National Monument means more nature for Texas appeared first on Environment Texas. …Read Full Article [...] The post St...
Environment Texas

Statement: Castner Range National Monument means more nature for Texas - Biden administration’s designation will safeguard habitat, history and provide more outdoor opportunities to Texans The post Statement: Castner Range Nat...
WhoWhatWhy

SV Bank and the Only Choice We Have - The super-rich will not walk away from power. How do we make them leave?
Political Wire

GOP Candidates Haven’t Given Up on Fox News - NBC News: “In conversations with voters, strategists and advisers to GOP presidential candidates and potential candidates, NBC News found that the details ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: William Astore, America Hangs from a Cross of Iron - In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gav...
Courthouse News

Deaf student denied school interpreter prevails at high court - The school failed to sway the justices that money damages were off the table since it had already settled with the family on some claims.
Slate

We Need to Argue With Each Other - … even if nobody’s going to change their mind.
Dissent Magazine

Liberal Commitments - An interview with Michael Walzer on *The Struggle for a Decent Politics*.
jobsanger

Time Is Running Out To Adequately Address Climate Change -
Election Law Blog

“Six people affiliated with the Oath Keepers convicted in Capitol riot” - WaPo: Six people described by authorities as being affiliated with the right-wing extremist group the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of numerous fede...
Dissident Voice

Always Wanting More - “Always wanting more” is an operational definition of “hedonism.” This brief article is my “mea culpa.” Inexplicably, I overlooked hedonism per se as a t...
MintPress News

Indonesia’s Betrayal of Palestine: Hosting Israel in Under-20 World Cup - Israeli human rights activist Miko Peled argues that by recognizing Israel, Muslim countries are betraying the Palestinian cause. The post Indonesia’s Be...
CultureMap Houston

Booming Houston 'burb named best place to buy a home and raise a family in America - Texas homebuyers and families searching for their next place to call home should be looking at this Houston suburb, which was just named one of the best c...
Bracing Views

Dwight Eisenhower on the Cost of Permanent War - W.J. Astore Ike’s Cross of Iron Speech, 70 Years Later If Dwight Eisenhower could somehow give his 1953 “Cross of Iron” address and his 1961 warning about ...
Daily Howler

HACKS LIKE US: In our view, this was ugly stuff! - *TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023* *It's peddled by Hacks Like Ours: *Rachel Maddow spilled out of the clowncar at 9 o'clock last night. It would be hard to crea...
Grist

Consumers looking to reduce e-waste have new options - CircleIT’s groundbreaking recycling solutions are part of the global movement to keep more devices out of landfills.
Progressive.org

‘Today, Seattle; Tomorrow, the Nation’—Inside the Movement to Ban Caste Discrimination - Socialist city councilmember Kshama Sawant, along with thousands of activists, made Seattle the first U.S. city to outlaw this underreported form of bias.
Southeast Texas Record

Suit: Overseas shipping company failed to deliver vehicles - HOUSTON — A Harris County man alleges an oversees shipping company has failed to deliver his vehicles after paying them more than $10,000. Read more…
naked capitalism

Secession Is Here: States, Cities and the Wealthy Are Already Withdrawing from America - Alienation and separatism can go a long long way before getting to outright secession, and they still have real consequences.
Glasstire

Historical Figures, Food, and Feminism - Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to see third-year Texas Christian University MFA student Sheryl Anaya’s thesis exhibition, Let Things Taste of ...
First Draft

Peter Baker, Ben Barnes & The October Surprise Story - Revising revisionist history.
Salon.com

“Dumb, stupid move”: Legal experts say Trump witness’ “foolish” testimony may backfire on Trump - Robert Costello says he sought to undermine Michael Cohen. Ex-prosecutor thinks he opened Trump up to more charges
The Smirking Chimp

America has Ignored GOP Crimes to Seize the White House Long Enough — It’s Time to Put this One in Prison -
Democracy Now!

War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq - As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at how the corporate U.S. media helped pave the way for war by uncritical...
The Conversation

A string of assassinations in Afghanistan point to ISIS-K resurgence – and US officials warn of possible attacks on American interests in next 6 months - ISIS-K’s recent killings of Taliban brass are part of the extremist group’s long-term strategy. Will Taliban leaders contain the resurgence of violence?
Caitlin Johnstone

John Bolton’s Prominence In The Media Proves Our Entire Society Is Diseased - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In order to narrative-manage the public conversation about the Iraq War on the 20th anniversary of the invasion, tho...
Lawfare

How Jan. 6 Committee Staffers Have Filled in the Blanks - A January 6th Committee hearing on Oct. 13th, 2022. (United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, https://tinyurl.com/42tvp76d; Public D...
Discourse

It Is Very Easy to Define 'Woke' If You're Not an Idiot - When asked on camera to explain a word I'd written an entire book denigrating, I would simply do that.
El Paso Matters

Biden to declare Castner Range a national monument - The former Army training site is one of two new national monuments being established by President Joe Biden The post Biden to declare Castner Range a na...
The AltWorld

Iraq war: Twenty years on, the US has learned nothing - By invading Iraq in 2003, the US had ambitions to reshape the Middle East. Two decades later, […] The post Iraq war: Twenty years on, the US has learned ...
Two Party Opera

A Madison For All Seasons - Happy first veto of the Joe Biden administration! ↓ TranscriptJames Madison is looking his best self, frolicking outside the White House.. Madison: "The ...
ProPublica

DeSantis Privately Called for Google to Be “Broken Up” - by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our bigg...
Space City Weather

Is that it for cold air during the Winter of 2022-2023? - Houston’s first nighttime temperature below 50 degrees this winter occurred back on October 19, about five months ago. With Houston now getting deeper into...
Democracy Chronicles

Democracy Is In The Streets - Muck around with the belief of citizens in a democracy that their governments are actually democratic, and you’re asking for trouble.
ArcaMax

Arresting Developments: Donald Trump Prepares to Face the Music - Sir Walter Scott's famous line about what a tangled web it is that we weave when first we practice to deceive was written in 1808, but the poet might as we...
Angry Bear

Medicare Advantage uses Algorithms to block care for Seniors - Kip Sullivan has been writing about the issues with Medicare Advantage. I have joined with Kip in bringing the issues of Medicare Advantage to the forefr...
Skeptophilia

The strangest star in the galaxy - Ever heard of Eta Carinae? If there was a contest for the weirdest known astronomical object in the Milky Way, Eta Carinae would certainly be in the top te...
Novara Media

Does Jeremy Hunt Hate Children? - [image: a man with short grey hair, a white shirt and light blue tie sits at a table with children drawing. He looks worried]I woke up one morning last wee...
Off The Kuff

The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2023 School Board Elections - […]
Mother Jones

Two New Films Tackle Christianity and Sex - Despite the paintings of shirtless saints and Jesus statues with abs, sex and Christianity are not known to mix. When they do, it’s either because someone ...
The Intercept

The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes - In the summer of 2020, federal law enforcement launched a broad, and until now, secret strategy to infiltrate racial justice groups. The post The FBI Use...
San Antonio Report

Giving guns back to abusers: New ruling risks the lives of domestic violence victims - [image: Debra Guevara was shot three times by her husband in 2007.]Opinion: When the 5th Circuit ruled that a federal gun ban for domestic abusers violates...
FiveThirtyEight.com

Which Nation Has The Most Baseball Fans? - For the past two weeks, the passion of the World Baseball Classic has been on full display. There was the indefatigable cheer squad for Chinese Taipei; Joe...
Axios

Treatment-resistant fungal infections spread during pandemic - An emerging fungal infection that can prove fatal in communal health settings spread further and became more drug-resistant during the pandemic, a Center...
American Prospect

The Fed’s Silicon Valley Bank Cover-Up Won’t Work - Supervisors are trying to claim that they warned the bank about its riskiness. But the central bank willingly weakened its supervisory operation.
NPR's Health Shots

Ceylon House, Maryland's first cannabis lounge, operates in legal limbo - Maryland voted to legalize recreational marijuana in November, but the marketplace won't open until July. The state's first cannabis lounge, however, opera...
Morning Consult

Consumer Spending Momentum Retreated in February (Report Preview) - The post Consumer Spending Momentum Retreated in February (Report Preview) appeared first on Morning Consult.
Unlimited Hangout

Crypto & the SVB Banking Crisis with Marty Bent & Michael Krieger - Crypto & the SVB Banking Crisis with Marty Bent & Michael Krieger.
Capital & Main

In Los Angeles, a Friendship Grows Out of Housing Strife - *Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial executive now count on each other as renters battling corporate landlords. They ar...
The NM Political Report

Only a couple of proposed constitutional amendments make it to voters - [image: Only a couple of proposed constitutional amendments make it to voters] Legislators sought to start the process to change the state constitution wi...
Counterpunch

China’s Foreign Policy: Lessons for the United States - China’s orchestration of the renewal of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia should be a wakeup call to the Biden administration’s national...
High Country News

The natural gas pushback - Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
World Socialist Web Site

Video: Workers speak out against war and inequality in NSW election - One worker said: “The average person in China, or in America, or here, doesn’t want a war. I’m glad this party is talking about it. Nobody else is.”
Crooked Media

Global Warning - The post Global Warning appeared first on Crooked Media.
Informed Comment

Juan Cole: The Meaning of Historic China-Brokered Deal Between Saudi Arabia and Iran (Robert Scheer Interview) - Transcript of Interview from Scheerpost , where you can also find the audio if you want to listen to the interview. Host: Robert Scheer | Producer: Joshua ...
Antiwar.com

Learning Little from the Iraq War - Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Military invasions don’t produce democracies – who knew? Whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, someh...
Buzzflash

Thom Hartmann on BuzzFlash: America Has Ignored GOP Crimes to Seize the White House Long Enough - It’s Time to Put This One in Prison - BuzzFlash
Popular Resistance

Twentieth Anniversary Of The Invasion Of Iraq: Witness To The Horrors Of War - The twentieth anniversary of the US/NATO invasion and occupation of Iraq was March 19th. The day before that, thousands of people in the United States ra...
Deadline Politics

Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling, Gladys Knight, More To Receive National Medals Of Arts Tuesday - The White House said President Joe Biden will present the 2021 National Medals of Arts in conjunction with the 2021 National Humanities Medals on Tuesday d...
Liberation News

Thousands march in Washington, D.C. to launch new movement against U.S. empire - Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House.
Portside

America Pays a Price When Schools Fail To Teach About Slavery - America Pays a Price When Schools Fail To Teach About Slavery Mark Brody Mon, 03/20/2023 - 21:01
Socialist Alternative

Workers Strike Back: On the Ground of a Historic Moment for LA Schools - By Hannah Swoboda, Workers Strike Back Last Wednesday, Workers Strike Back joined tens of thousands of unionized Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD...
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Angela McArdle on Timcast IRL: “Look into German New Medicine” - On Friday evening, Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle appeared on Timcast IRL, a culture and news podcast hosted by Tim Pool. Very soon ...
Workers World

Cyclone Freddy underscores inequalities – reparations for Africa! - [image: Cyclone Freddy underscores inequalities – reparations for Africa!] The United States has 5% of the world’s population but is responsible for 28% of...
Church and State

Demanding Swift Action, UN Chief Calls IPCC Report a ‘Survival Guide for Humanity’ - "We must move into warp-speed climate action now. We don't have a moment to lose," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Blame Jesus - Tess Owen @ Vice News: The Far-Right Is Scared Trump’s Call to Protest Is a Trap. David Edwards @ Raw Story: ‘Not acceptable’: Steve Bannon attacks ‘weas...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament – Second Round of 32 – Day 2 - This is the last of the women’s madness. Their Sweet Sixteen begins on Friday March 25. Time Network Seed School Record Score Seed School Record Score Regi...
Greg Palast

Reagan’s treason: October Surprise and the $23 million payoff - Now we have the confession, proving the “October Surprise,” that Ronald Reagan’s campaign secretly cut a deal with the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran to hold A...
Rewire

The Latest Sneak Attack in Texas Over Abortion Pills - What kind of guy believes he is entitled to his wife's body? This guy. The post The Latest Sneak Attack in Texas Over Abortion Pills appeared first on Re...
Texas Observer

Houston ISD Takeover Is a Trojan Horse for Privatization - Donnie Walker, U.S. history teacher at Wheatley High School in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), has a family legacy at the school. His gra...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China Misleads on Why North Korea’s Denuclearization Failed - The agreement collapsed because of North Korea’s secret enrichment of uranium for its nuclear weapons program, in violation of the Agreed Framework.
LareDOS

LTGI’s Ann: tough as nails, funny as hell - One woman show, two-week run at LC’s Shoebox Theater
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

William I. Robinson, Can Global Capitalism Endure? - Capitalism has its capacity to reinvent itself and not only survive the many crises it has caused but transform itself into more aggressive forms over th...
Wolf Street

Total Wipeout of $17 billion in Credit Suisse AT1 CoCo Bonds Shocked Because No One Reads Clauses Anymore? - We’re not even getting peanuts? EU regulators came out and said, no, no, no, that’s just in Switzerland, not in the EU.
Claytoonz

Cakes For War Crimes - One of my proofreaders isn’t entirely comfortable with this cartoon. While she’s not a fan of Bush, Cheney, and the war in Iraq, she disagreed with calling...
The Grayzone

I am the “US-based Kremlin intermediary” that tried to help Tucker Carlson book an interview with Putin - Tucker Carlson accused the NSA of spying on his personal communications when he tried to schedule an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I c...
slacktivist

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.20.23) - "Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is."
Undernews

Why asylum seekers are choosing Canada in record numbers - *BBC - * Last year, nearly 40,000 migrants crossed into Canada at an unofficial border crossing at the end of a remote rural road in upstate New York -...
Dandelion Salad

Society’s Collapse Has Already Begun, by Rainer Shea - by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer’s Newsletter, Mar. 10, 2023 March 20, 2023 American workers are stuck in a prison, a prison that they’re kept...
The Texas Signal

Is Donald Trump channeling David Koresh? - Disgraced former President Donald Trump and his nascent campaign to reclaim the office he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020 made a series of announcement...
Krebs on Security

Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider - A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of infor...
The Progressive Wing

3/20-21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Happy Spring – or it will be at 5:25 ET this afternoon! News, commentary, and posts from social media below the jump. Come join us!
Infidel753

Video of the day -- no national divorce - Even aside from the many practical impossibilities involved in dividing the country, huge numbers of people don't fit neatly into one side or the other of...
Earth 911

The Rise of Biodegradable Plastics & New Recycling Technology - Biodegradable plastics have emerged as a potential solution to the severe environmental problem caused by... The post The Rise of Biodegradable Plastics ...
Progressives Chat

Voter Guide - If you are like me, and am one of the many millions of United States citizens who has been a voter for a good 30 (or more) years, I am certain you w...
Crooked Timber

The hierarchy of excuses - I’ve lived through quite a few financial crises, some local to Australia, and others global. Invariably, the first failures are those of obvious shonks (Au...
TalkLeft

Trump Says He Will Be Arrested Tuesday - Last week, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified twice before the state grand jury (free link) and Stormy Daniels, the former adult film star, met ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The White Supremacist / Christian Nationalism Connection, World War III, and more - When I started DISPATCHES FROM A COLLAPSING STATE in February of 2021 it was for a reason. In the lead-up to the 2016 Election I spent the months prior try...
See You In 2020

With the Ukraine proxy war’s failure, the elites can only respond by intensifying their war on working people - When you learn that the present Ukraine situation started with an operation to loot the country in the same ways the IMF loots other places, everything ...
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...
Seeing the Forest

A Way To Understand What Went Wrong With The US - Society wants cars/antibiotics/furniture/houses/etc but doesn’t want to make them ourselves through our government. In order to accomplish functions like t...
Second Nexus

Trans TikToker Expertly Tracks Arrests For Sex Crimes Against Kids—And The Trend Is Clear - Conservatives love to insist all drag artists are sex offenders targeting children in order to pass anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, but the evidence indicates t...
The Militant

Defend Ukraine independence! Back fight to defeat Putin’s war - As Moscow attempts to crush the Ukrainian people, sending wave after wave of Russian conscripts to their deaths in the assault on the city of Bakhmut, the ...
The Rag Blog

The Orange Show Presents ‘Old Weird Houston’ - Events include presentation by ‘Rag Blog’ editor Thorne Dreyer. By Pete Gershon | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2023 HOUSTON — Houston at mid-century was a plac...
NORML

Pennsylvania: Appellate Court Rules That Medical Cannabis Costs Should Be Reimbursed by Workers’ Compensation Insurance Plans - [image: Marijuana Expungement Laws][image: Marijuana Expungement Laws]“For millions of patients, cannabis is a legitimate therapeutic option. More and mo...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity reporters’ work honored among best data journalism in world - Investigative reporting by Center for Public Integrity journalists about student homelessness and the legacy of pollution in communities of color was re...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: 3/17/23. - * Fun, city.* Got a couple of *Roy Edroso Break It Down* freebies for you. One takes off from the “woke” gibberish that’s sweeping conservative intellectu...
Ring of Fire

Pharma Giant Exposed In Insulin Price PR Stunt - After a public pressure campaign that has now spanned years, drug maker Eli Lilly announced that they would be capping the price of insulin at just $35 p...
Edinburg Politics

Janiece Longoria, a daughter of former Sen. Raúl Longoria, D-Pharr, reappointed by Gov. Abbott to the University of Texas System Board of Regents - Janiece Longoria of Houston, who has deep roots in the Rio Grande Valley, on Thursday, March 16, 2023 was reappointed by Gov. Greg Abbot to the University ...
Debunking Christianity

The Massive Damage Done by Sunday School and Catechism - *Indoctrination is not education* A careful reading of the New Testament reveals how much early Christians disagreed with each other, but even so it’s ...
Dos Centavos

Thoughts on Viernes – 03172023 - Clarifying The Undemocratic Takeover So, when TEA takes over Houston ISD in June, they will replace all of the elected trustees and give power to a board o...
Avedon's Sideshow

Don't let it slip away - This complete rainbow was photographed at 30,000 feet by Lloyd J. Ferraro. "The 'Private Sector' Is Government 'Contracting Out' Its Functions: We live in...
Sludge

Wisconsin Groups Keep It Local Amid Record Ad Blitz in Supreme Court Race - The April 4 election for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is on track to break spending records nationwide for a campaign of its type. With fo...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

I’m up to page 62 of about 228 pages…. - Just thought I’d give you a preview. I miss the interaction over here so thought I’d just post a bit of what I’ve done so far. I’m editing these Ask Old Ju...
DeSmogBlog

US Justice Department Tells Supreme Court to Reject Big Oil Petition in Colorado Climate Lawsuit - Communities in the United States suing major fossil fuel producers over climate-related harms got a boost in court on Thursday. At the request of the U.S...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 17, 2023 - Black Agenda Radio March 17, 2023 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/17/2023 - 06:37 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Project Censored

Seymour Hersh Alleges US Role in Nord Stream Pipeline Blast - The United States and its Norwegian allies are responsible for attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline, according to a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journ...
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...
Trivial Knot

Silicon Valley Bank collapse - Last week, two major banks collapsed: Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature. These were the second and third largest bank collapses in US history—the lar...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A First Look at 2024 State Supreme Court Contests - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The fate of Wisconsin’s state supreme court will be decided next month. — About two-thirds of the states will have supreme c...
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘We Were Here’ By Aysanabee - The song is about reclamation in the face of "fading memories," "fleeting stories," and "disappearing words." Even though there may be efforts to whitewa...
Ecosophia

The Destiny of Disenchantment - The last three posts in our ongoing discussion of the history of enchantment have examined the work of three influential writers on the history of consciou...
Texas Freedom Network

Op-ed by Val Benavidez: We’re Fighting for Religious Freedom While the Far Right Weaponizes It - As executive director of the Texas Freedom Network, I know fighting for a Texas that’s truly for all demands that I reserve a deep well of hope. Yet, I f...
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Alleges “Boneless Wings” Are Really Mislabeled Nuggets - That is, made from breast meat like nuggets, not from the chicken's actual nuggets.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Idaho Lawmaker Tammy Nichols Pals With Extremists - Third-term Idaho state Sen. Tammy Nichols has associated publicly with several extremists in recent weeks, first posting a photo of herself at a GOP fundra...
Stinque

Software Update of the Year - Always read the fine print. The post Software Update of the Year appeared first on Stinque.
Duck of Minerva

Odesa and World Heritage Politics - The Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage (“The World Heritage Convention”) entered into force in 1975. The world he...
Web of Debt

The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami - On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its ban...
BEYONDbones

Indigenous Cowboys: The Living History of Native Americans in Rodeo - Editor’s Note: Anna Dean, Collections Technician, highlights the Indigenous influences found in a cultural phenomenon known as the rodeo. It’s Rodeo seas...
Idavox

Has Anyone Seen ‘Tyler WA’? Patriot Fart Member on the Lam - “Tyler VA” is the fake name of Patriot Front Member James Julius Johnson, a gun... The post Has Anyone Seen ‘Tyler WA’? Patriot Fart Member on the Lam a...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Being Foxy About Vaccines - ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ This cartoon is a collaboration with Becky Hawkins. ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ Nearly all Fox staffers vaccinated for Covid even as hosts cast doubt on va...
Innocence Project

New Colorado Law Makes It Easier for Wrongly Convicted People to Prove Innocence Using DNA Evidence - (Denver, CO — March 10, 2023) Today, Governor Jared Polis signed into law legislation that fixes Colorado’s post-conviction DNA testing statute to help e...
Campaign for America's Future

Leveraging Federal Funds: There's Money To Fix That Problem - Ever since the passage into law of the American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act, here’s what I say...
Robert Reich

Think Grocery Prices Are High Now? Just Wait.Think your grocery... - *Think Grocery Prices Are High Now? Just Wait.* Think your grocery bill is high now? Just wait. A massive corporate merger could send skyrocketing food p...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Censorship Industrial Complex - I think something is seriously wrong with my brain. Yesterday, I hallucinated that Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a subcommittee of...
Texas Watch

IN THE NEWS: Texas Watch digs into undervalued repairs & TLs, 3rd party appraisals 40% higher than carrier offer - Editorial Content Director Lurah Lowery wrote about Texas Watch's latest report, *Impact of Auto Appraisal, *in Repairer Driven News. Lowery wrote, "As ...
Earthworks

Governor Shapiro’s budget address shows strong foundation – and opportunity for more industry accountability - With Governor Shapiro’s first budget address in the books, Pennsylvanians got a chance to hear our new governor’s plans for … The post Governor Shapiro’...
Media Lens

Arguments Against Despair - Eliot Jacobson is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science who regularly appears on our Twitter feed discussing the climate crisis. He sends...
Reveal

DeSantis’ Election Police Have Largely Flopped in Florida Voter Prosecutions. A New Law Aims to Change That. - [image: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stands behind a lectern with a sign that reads, “Election Integrity.”] A new analysis by Reveal shows the push to target...
Field Negro

Musings about the news. - I have some observations about some of the stories in the news over the past few days. First, if republicans ever want to make inroads with black folks ...
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 ...
Grits for Breakfast

Jeff Blackburn Memorial Comments - *On Saturday, per his request, I spoke at Jeff Blackburn's memorial service about our work together in the aftermath of the Tulia drug stings and at the In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2023 - Walmart had at least fourteen more shootings in February 2023, with four of them fatal, including one officer involved shooting where a suspect was kill...
CT's short stories and novelettes

HOUSTON - lyrics department - HOUSTON Houston is a land of dreams The future of my plans and schemes The secret of the town I love I will tell you people what I’m singing of Houston your...
Save Buffalo Bayou

A Celebration of Concrete - Or How to Create Ill Will March 3, 2023 For those who don’t get enough experience of concrete in the city of Houston, there is now plenty more concrete for...
Equality Texas

Legislative Updates Affecting LGBTQ+ Texans: Week of February 27th - General Legislative Updates and Process Week of February 27th through March 3rd How Many Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Are There This Week? Now that it’s March, we’r...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Bombshell w/ Seymour Hersh: US Blowing Up Nord Stream Was ‘Act of War’ - Award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joined Rania Khalek on Dispatches to discuss his latest bombshell on how the Biden administration dest...
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...
Border/Lines

Administration unveils transit ban 2.0, completing shift to restrictionism as default—02-25-23 - Immigration news, in context
nonsite.org

Four Poems - :: your message is of ordinary length :: so you may be assured of its delivery within the year :: providing we have not so bad a mud season as may depress ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Balloonacy (don’t panic!) - JEEEEEEzus christ, man, wotta goddamn shitshow, huh? Not that anyone with two synapses to rub together could tell you that the US boss media were pulling i...
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.
The Mind Unleashed

Ohio Residents Report Seeing Dead Fish And Chickens Following Toxic Chemical Spill After Train Derailment - Following a railway disaster earlier this month that discharged poisonous chemicals, residents of East Palestine, Ohio have been permitted to return to the...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

What to Know About the Abortion Case that Could Ban Mifepristone - Access to abortion has been decimated in the United States since June when the Supreme Court overturned *Roe v. Wade *and took away our right to control ...
ExChristian.Net

The Very, Very Large Conspiracy - *By Carl S ~ * The American Psychological Association site features an interview with Karen Douglas, PhD. on "Why people believe in conspiracy theories."...
New Progressive Alliance

Banks should not finance environmental destruction - Banks are massively financing fossil fuels.
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...
GreenSource DFW

Oak Cliff Earth Day to be held April 16 - *Oak Cliff Earth Day will be held April 16, 2023 at Lake Cliff Park in Dallas. Vendors and nonprofits can registration for a reduced fee until April 1.* ...
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...
In These Times

If You Can Borrow a Book, Then Why Not a Chainsaw? The Rise of Tool Lending Libraries - Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store th...
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...
Moron Majority

Walker Or Warnock … A Difficult Choice For Georgia - With two eminently qualified candidates, it is easy to see why, with just a few days before Georgia’s runoff election, the U.S. Senate race between Hersche...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Ukraine’s Army of Exhumation - We explore the stunning portraiture, the powerful geometry, and how unique and devastating the investigation is for taking place this soon. The post Chat...
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?
The Disorder Of Things

Batman, White Saviourism and International Politics: A Colloquium - In this post we welcome a discussion by guest authors on the recent volume Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development, by ...
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...
News Junkie

Qu’est donc la memoire? - Qu’est donc la mémoire Si ce n’est des couches de souvenirs innombrables Stratifications invisibles et furtives De l’empreinte magique du temps Souvenirs f...
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...
DBC Green

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

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

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

Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s - The post Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s appeared first on Free and Equal.
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
One People's Project

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

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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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