Brains and Eggs: War. What's it good for?

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Techdirt.

Indiana Court: Finding Drugs On One Person Means Everyone On A Bus Can Be Searched - A whole new level of constitutional wtf-ness has emerged from the Indiana state Appeals Court. Here’s how John Wesley Hall sums it up on FourthAmendment.co...
memeorandum

Democrat kicks off marathon Senate floor speech to protest Trump administration actions (CNN) - CNN: *Democrat kicks off marathon Senate floor speech to protest Trump administration actions* — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has kicked off what is ex...
Mediaite

‘We Are NOT Doing That’: Abby Phillip Shuts Down Election Denier - Viewers of Monday's CNN NewsNight received a dose of election denialism when one guest claimed the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump. ...
The Hill

Trump administration cutting some funds to Planned Parenthood - The Trump administration will withhold some federal funding from Planned Parenthood beginning Tuesday, potentially making it harder for Americans to access...
Raw Story

'Grave sign': Yale scholar delivers 'warning' before fleeing 'fascist dictatorship' - Jason Stanley, a Yale University professor and author known for his expertise on the history of fascism, recently made a bombshell announcement: He is le...
Daily Dot

‘I’ve never been able to clean it successfully’: Woman tries to clean her air fryer toaster oven with just a lemon and baking soda. Then she shows the result - [image: box of baking soda(l) woman shares best way to clean an oven(c) sliced lemon(r)] Cleaning hacks are all over TikTok—and for good reason. When it ...
Axios

Elon Musk visited the CIA to discuss DOGE measures - Elon Musk visited the CIA headquarters on Monday for talks on government efficiency, the spy agency director of public affairs Liz Lyons told Axios. *Wh...
Mediagazer

The Daily Wire's communications chief, Alyssa Cordova, departs as the company frames co-CEO Jeremy Boreing's demotion as his own choice and lays off some staff (Oliver Darcy/Status) - Oliver Darcy / Status: *The Daily Wire's communications chief, Alyssa Cordova, departs as the company frames co-CEO Jeremy Boreing's demotion as his own ...
Salon.com

"I'd love that": Trump welcomes a showdown with Obama to take third-term - The president admitted he "hasn't looked into" a possible third term but would welcome a campaign against Obama
Political Wire

Cory Booker Begins Marathon Speech - Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Monday evening took to the Senate floor to speak as long as he is “physically able” in protest of actions taken by President T...
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on.
Brad Blog

Bad Court and Election News for Trump is Good News for America: 'BradCast' 3/31/2025 - The amount of news we need to catch up with today before getting to some callers at the back end of the show is ridiculous, even by BradCast standards! [Au...
Portside

Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies To Save the Postal Service - Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies To Save the Postal Service Stephanie Mon, 03/31/2025 - 21:21
Courthouse News

Bob Lee’s family files wrongful death suit against killer and his family - In the lawsuit, Lee's family claims Nima Momeni and his family tried to destroy and hide evidence of his crime.
The NM Political Report

Wolf that left experimental population area found dead - By Hannah Grover The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the cause of death of a Mexican gray wolf who left the experimental population area ...
Popular Resistance

From Global Anti-Imperialism To The Dandelion Fighters - China is probably one of few states which flipped its diplomatic stance on the “Palestinian-Israeli conflict” in the most dramatic manner from the 1950s ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump joined by Kid Rock as he signs order to crack down on ticket scalpers - President backs ‘commonsense reforms’ to stop soaring resale prices as singer urges Congress to pass legislation Donald Trump signed an executive order o...
Scheerpost.com

Backlash to Transgender Health Care Isn’t New − but the Faulty Science Used to Justify It Has Changed to Meet the Times - Editors Note: Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Presently, transgender rights are under political attack throughout the United States w...
Futurism

Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes - The CEO of Perplexity AI insists that his company is doing just fine, thank you very much. Responding to a user theory suggesting that the company is suf...
World Socialist Web Site

Chicago Teachers Union backs shutdown of Acero charter schools and layoffs of CTU members - Cruz K-12 and Paz Elementary will shut down at the end of the year while CTU works to prevent any opposition to the winding down of operations.
Election Law Blog

Universal injunctions and election law - The conversation about “nationwide injunctions” has been about, well, nationwide injunctions, often targeting presidential action. But back in 2024, Prof...
Alternet

'They could pull this stunt': George Conway says Trump’s 'insane' 3rd term talk is serious - Less than three months into his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump has begun floating the idea of running for the presidency a third ...
The Greanville Post

US Bullying in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) - KIM PERTERSEN—United States vice president JD Vance traveled to Kalaallit Nunaat (colonial designation: Greenland) to join his wife. He issued a statement ...
Duck of Minerva

Big Man, Big Heart - This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and...
Slate

Inside The Battle That’s Reshaping Golf - Saudi money has altered the sport, and Trump could expand their reach even further.
The Week

Gaza is running out of cash - Palestinians pay the price as black market springs up around banknotes and coins
Al Jazeera English

Trump administration reviews billions in Harvard contracts and grants - Harvard is the latest Ivy League institution in Trump's sights, after Columbia University agreed to comply with demands.
The Verge

OpenAI just raised another $40 billion round led by SoftBank - OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank, vaulting the company to a $300 billion valuation. It’s the largest funding round f...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Video - The Trump/Putin 'Spicegirls' duet you didn't know you needed' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *One of the main things which will get us through this turbulent period is comedy. And satire. Viciously on-point satire. This above video hits all of th...
CultureMap Houston

A Houston brewery's beastly new hot dog and 5 more can't-miss glizzys - The hot dog is one of humanity's greatest creations, and Houston has some very delicious options. Should someone find themselves craving a glizzy, consider...
Reform Austin

Paxton Announces New Requirements To Target “Rogue” DAs - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced a new reporting requirement for district ...
Deadline Politics

Kid Rock Appears With Donald Trump In Oval Office As POTUS Signs Executive Order On Concert Ticket Reselling - Kid Rock appeared with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday evening for what has become a daily ritual for the president: the signing of an executive ...
Houston Public Media

Houston-based Pappas Restaurants making bid for bankrupt On The Border franchise - Bankruptcy court documents show that an affiliate of Pappas Restaurants provided millions in financing to On The Border and is a stalking-horse bidder, mea...
Rio Grande Guardian

Ask the Expert: Take Charge: Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer - Ask the Expert, Dr. Juan Sanchez explains the importance of getting screened for colorectal cancer. The post Ask the Expert: Take Charge: Get Screened fo...
Dissident Voice

Struggling to Provide and Survive during the Ramadan Genocide - A food kitchen prepared 1,000 meals for Iftar — before it had to close due to the Israeli blockade. Photo: Farida Algoul In Gaza, where the threads of li...
Vox

Yes, your allergies are getting worse - The warming spring air is a welcome relief from the bitterly cold winter across much of the US, but millions of seasonal allergy sufferers are getting buri...
NPR's Health Shots

A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.' - With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers...
Mother Jones

France Cracked Down on Far-Right Corruption—And Team Trump Is Triggered - After a French court found far-right leader and former presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement on Monday—a conviction that will bar h...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s mayor likely won’t be decided on Election Day. Here’s what to expect in a runoff. - [image: People queue to vote on Election Day at Brook Hollow Library polling site on Nov. 5, 2024.]In such a packed mayor's race with 27 candidates, it is ...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: When is a "deportation" something else? - *MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2025* *Uninquiring minds may not want to know:* According to a new report in *Mediaite*, there she went again. "Shame on you," the yo...
Daily Cartoonist

GoComics, What to Expect April 1 - Chris Waldron, Chief Digital Officer at Andrews McMeel Universal, was kind enough to answer a few questions we sent him regarding the new GoComics rolling ...
Bracing Views

Surprise! Institute of Peace in Shutdown - W.J. Astore Meanwhile, Institute of War Is Going Full Throttle Surprise! America’s Institute of Peace (USIP), admittedly a think tank that is neither that ...
Sludge

Crypto Industry Spends Millions to Hold GOP House Seats - In a closer-than-expected Florida special election, a top crypto industry super PAC is shelling out for Republican Randy Fine, who has been out-raised by D...
Eater Houston

The Most Memorable Dishes Eater Houston Ate This March - [image: A sushi roll topped with A5 wagyu, caviar, and gold leaf, and served with a crab butter candle.] Haii Keii’s murimake sushi roll with a crab butte...
Progressive.org

A Cowardly Attack on Disabled Students - The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.
SCOTUSblog

Justices validate IRS’s right to retain fraudulent pre-bankruptcy tax payments - [image: Justices validate IRS’s right to retain fraudulent pre-bankruptcy tax payments] [image: Justices validate IRS’s right to retain fraudulent pre-bank...
Texas Standard

This Texas county’s ‘dysfunctional’ court system puts people behind bars for months without criminal charges - Maverick County is one of the poorest in the state. Small-town politics and lack of outside interest has meant the known problem has continued.
slacktivist

Recent reads (03.31.25) - None of these stories directly involve the Man of Lawlessness and the King Who Exalts Himself.
Texas Monthly

Y’all Street Is Open for Business - The first Texas-based stock exchange is up and running. Another could soon follow.
The Root

The Irony! You Won't Believe What Happened to Jim Jones Right In the Middle of His Livestream - This is why you can’t take just anyone to the hood! Rapper Jim Jones might be far removed from the hardships of growing up in New York City, but recently...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Undernews

Polling - *Newsweek - *Musk's favorability is plummeting amid growing DOGE backlash, according to a new poll conducted by the Harvard Center for American Political...
Church and State

Trump and Elon Musk with the MAGA GOP are the new Nazis! - American citizens still have the legislative tools to stop this Nazi style takeover of our democratic government.
Second Nexus

'SNL' Writer Mocks Morgan Wallen's Conservative Instagram Post After He Walked Off Set Before Show's End - An *SNL* writer trolled country star Morgan Wallen for bolting from the *SNL* studio stage at the end of the show while cameras were still rolling. The "...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso photo group opens unique collaborative gallery - A new gallery offers exhibit space for El Paso photographers, and a place to buy local art. The post Opinion: El Paso photo group opens unique collabora...
Dorf on Law

Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Upcoming Debt Ceiling and Government Funding Crises - Last week, I teased yet another column about the Democrats' internal battles in the aftermath of Senator Chuck Schumer's wise refusal to give the Musk-Tr...
ArcaMax

Why Trump opponents can’t find a lawyer - Last week I wrote about Trump’s crackdown on the pillars of civil society — the universities, the scientific community, the media, the legal profession, an...
The Conversation

US earthquake safety relies on federal employees’ expertise - The US experiences violent earthquakes, but the damage and death toll is much lower than in many countries because of the work of federal seismologists and...
Southeast Texas Record

Former EPA Regional Counsel James McGuire Joins Holland & Knight in Dallas - Holland & Knight welcomes James McGuire as a partner in the Firm's Public Policy & Regulation Group in Dallas. Read more…
American Prospect

Harvard Between Courage and Disgrace - Today on TAP: Its law school faculty shames the university’s general strategy of appeasement.
Wolf Street

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies and Gold - The surge of the “nontraditional reserve currencies.”
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Has Every Reason to Keep Wrongfully Detained Venezuelans Rotting in Prison - [image: ICE arrest] A hair-raising internal document that shows how the Trump administration is identifying alleged Venezuelan gang members makes it clear ...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap: Iowa - Official state motto: We Squat Atop Missouri.
Texas Observer

Texas’ AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails. - Editor’s Note: This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Over the past several years, the Texas Depart...
First Draft

Trump Unsettles Settled Things - Suddenly and because of Trump, we are arguing over things that were figured out long ago.
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: A Journalism of Defiance - As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorsh...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Across the Pond and the Online Safety Act - The UK is attempting to set the rules for what and how information is served across the whole internet through the Online Safety Act.
Idavox

The Latest – and Damned Satisfying on the Neo-Fascist Chopping Block: Marine LePen - Le Pen was so pissed she stormed out of the courtroom before hearing the sentence! ... The post The Latest – and Damned Satisfying on the Neo-Fascist Cho...
Glasstire

The Order of Time: An Interview with Andrew Schneider - I met Andrew Schneider in 2024 when we were in residence at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was working on new work in the studio next door, and I g...
Claytoonz

April Fools 2025 - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Project Censored

Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History - In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to talk...
Mondoweiss

‘It’s not the time to be afraid anymore’ Columbia students fight back against deportation threats - [image: Columbia University students protest the arrest of nine students at a pro-Palestine sit-in at Barnard College on March 6, 2025. (Photo: Tamara Turk...
The Daily Poster

Elon Musk’s Master Plan For State Courts - A Wisconsin judicial election could become a huge payoff for Tesla and a disaster for the courts.
Crooked Timber

Property, recognition, and the temporalities of life. Reading Kopenawa and Albert’s The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman from the perspective of economic philosophy - What is it that people desire when they desire riches? It may seem strange that once all basic needs are fulfilled, individuals would continue to strive fo...
Common Dreams

1,900 Leading Scientists Sound Alarm on Trump Administration’s Attacks on Science and Public Health - Speaking as individuals, about 1,900 elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (The National Academies) released a...
Capital & Main

Residents Say Van Nuys Airport Is Making Them Sick - Despite residents’ health complaints and community pushback, the airport’s operations continue to expand, intensifying concerns about its health effects....
ProPublica

How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse - by Stephen Engelberg ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoi...
Earthworks

A String of Tailings Dam Failures Shows the Urgency of Putting Safety First - The past two months have seen catastrophic failures at mine waste storage facilities on three continents. The post A String of Tailings Dam Failures Show...
Discourse

The Fascists Are Having a Ball - They're not just terrorizing people—they're getting off on it.
Bonddad

Why I am not concerned by the February increase in core PCE inflation - -* by New Deal democrat* The deluge of new monthly data starts tomorrow. Today there’s no significant data, so let me follow up on a point from Frid...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 107: “Banned For NonViolence” - In this episode of The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan dive into a controversial topic shaking up social media and the political sphere. Peter C...
Rewire

Anti-Abortion Advocacy Is Rising on College Campuses - In the years since the Supreme Court overturned *Roe v. Wade*, anti-abortion groups are growing their presence at universities. The post Anti-Abortion Ad...
Democracy Now!

Remembering Robert McChesney, Prescient Critic of Media Consolidation & Big Tech - We remember media scholar Robert McChesney, the co-founder of the advocacy group Free Press, who died on March 25 at age 72. McChesney was a professor at t...
The AltWorld

Liberals Believe In Nothing And Remember Even Less - The other day I shared a short post about a video that was going around showing a father in […] The post Liberals Believe In Nothing And Remember Even Le...
Space City Weather

It will be rather warm this week, but spring is not yet over in Houston - In brief: March has been fairly warm, and this coming week will bring us some of our hottest weather of the year so far. But that does not necessarily mean...
High Country News

After losing everything in the Eaton fire, a family holds onto joy - Navigating grief displacement and the small moments makes recovery possible for one Black family. The post After losing everything in the Eaton fire, a ...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Accelerating Adoption of Low-Carbon Concrete with Eco Material Technologies’ Grant Quasha - As trade dynamics shift and tariffs reshape supply chains, construction companies must rethink how they... The post Earth911 Podcast: Accelerating Adopti...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term: ‘There Are Methods Which You Could Do It’ -
Skeptophilia

Taking the plunge - When I was in my twenties, I lived near Seattle, Washington. It's a lovely part of the country -- absolutely a gardener's paradise, and I was only a few...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing - [image: Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing] If you want to call it negotiating. Iran refuses to even talk, unless America removes sanctions first. Putin will ...
Crooked Media

Can Elon Musk Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race? (With Jon Lovett) - The post Can Elon Musk Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race? (With Jon Lovett) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Allred considering 2026 Senate run - Fine by me. On a night when he urged a group of erstwhile Republicans to stay in the fight, former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred said he’s “seriously considering”...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Tejano singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16,...
Grist

Why Indigenous nations are walking away from pipeline talks in Michigan - Experts say tribes are protesting federal agencies as Trump fast tracks oil and gas projects.
The Disorder Of Things

Why We Wrote Governing The Feminist Peace - This is the first post in a new book symposium, on Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace, which was published in 2024 by Columbia...
jobsanger

AOC Says Democrats Need Candidates Who Know Voters Problems -
Informed Comment

Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that...
Counterpunch

Presidential Moments of Heartbreak Hotel: a Glyph - The post Presidential Moments of Heartbreak Hotel: a Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Antiwar.com

Sometimes, Appeasement Is the Best Option - Appeasement was a bad idea in 1938, but it’s often a good idea. Ukraine would be wise to appease Russia. Ukraine’s supporters in the United States and Euro...
Angry Bear

Arctic sea ice makes new record low annual max - “Arctic sea ice makes new record low annual max,” National Snow and Ice Data Center – by New Deal democrat On Sunday I occasionally post about topics of...
Krebs on Security

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack - In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
The Texas Signal

Thousands Attend Immigration March In Dallas - The Mega Marcha, billed as the largest rally for immigration reform thus far into the year, ended at City Hall Plaza, where a diverse lineup of speakers fr...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why A ‘Lay Low’ DEI Strategy Is Especially Bad Right Now, by Dr. Shaun Harper - *Friends:* *In total agreement with Dr. Shaun Harper. It's very clear to me that our leaders within our institutions and corporations need to speak up. Thi...
Debunking Christianity

An Interesting Documentary on Northern-Irish Monarchism - R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) is a Presbyterian Philosopher whom I like to listen to. He mentions the German word for: Enlightenment, which is: ‘Aufklärung’. ...
See You In 2020

“Truth to power” is no longer enough. We must mobilize the masses to overthrow their criminal dictatorship. - Above: Homeland Security agent in February 2025, photo by RJ Sangosti We’ve reached a point where it’s no longer enough to expose power, because power h...
Infidel753

The Day of Action - Tesla Takedown's "Day of Action" yesterday seems to have been fairly successful, with more than two hundred events at Tesla showrooms, within the US and g...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
Liberation News

Undemocratic St. Louis police bill will hurt working class, immigrants - [image: Feature photo: Governor Mike Kehoe after being sworn into the Missouri Senate in 2011. Photo credit: Missouri News Horizon (CC BY 2.0)]The solution...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dual Existence During a Coup: Audio From A Collapsing State - Navigating this moment can be maddening. But we must acknowledge the threats and problems while seeing the places for hope
Ballot Access News

March 2025 Ballot Access News Print Edition - WYOMING ALMOST CERTAIN TO SEVERELY INJURE BALLOT ACCESS On February 19, the Wyoming Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee passed HB ...
Trivial Knot

On artificial romance - I just watched a video by Daryl Talks Games titled “What Artificial Romance Does to People“. Although crushes/romance/relationships with artificial charact...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Wells vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wo...
Bud Kennedy

From 2000: In Fort Worth tornado, Cowtown’s good luck finally runs out | Opinion - (From columns published March 29, 2000 and April 4, 2000.) This is the column I prayed I would never have to write. When I was 5, I saw a tornado … Click t...
Workers World

Boston demands: ‘Free Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk!’ - [image: Boston demands: ‘Free Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk!’] Thousands of people converged on Tufts University on March 26 to demand that U.S. Immigration...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
DeSmogBlog

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro Discuss Canada Electing ‘Solid Allies’ to Trump at Florida Event - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and conservative influencer Ben Shapiro discussed how to help Canada elect “solid allies” to the Trump administration duri...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Off-Year Elections: Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania - Wisconsin will hold a state Supreme Court election next week, where liberals are defending their 4-3 majority. Florida will also have two special electio...
LareDOS

LFS Film Club Friday features films of Marcela Morán on Friday, March 28 - Isaac Garza’s team-building workshop set for Saturday, March 29
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Ecosophia

March 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
The Grayzone

Why did Jeffrey Goldberg leave the ‘bomb Yemen’ Signal chat? - With momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was apparently summoned to move the neocon message. And he wound up wi...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two - In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Vetoes Adult-Use Marijuana Retail, Guts Medical Access Legislation - [image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization][image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization]"Once again, Governor Youngkin has prioritized his personal politics over...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

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Reveal

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Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
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Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
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Seeing the Forest

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People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
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Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
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41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
Robert Reich

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San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
Grits for Breakfast

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Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
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Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
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Dandelion Salad

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The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

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

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

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

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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One People's Project

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
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Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

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

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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

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

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

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

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

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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

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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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The Contributor

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Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
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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...
Popehat

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epic.org

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

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Malady

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

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

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

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Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
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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Brains and Eggs

Thursday, December 03, 2009

War. What's it good for?

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