Brains and Eggs: A True Tale from Texas

Sunday, September 26, 2010

A True Tale from Texas

The Texas State Board of Education is a laughingstock. Rebecca Bell Metereau and Judy Jennings, along with Michael Soto, will change that.

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Mediaite

Rand Paul Warns the Mayor of Denver Could Be Removed from Office if He Blocks Trump’s Mass Deportations - Rand Paul claimed the mayor of Denver could be removed from office and face potential prosecution for attempting to block mass deportations. The post Rand...
memeorandum

Sanctuary states, cities should explain to DOGE why they deserve federal money: MTG (Stephen Sorace/Fox News) - Stephen Sorace / Fox News: *Sanctuary states, cities should explain to DOGE why they deserve federal money: MTG* — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says sub...
The Verge

Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbook - [image: US President Donald Trump (r) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak to the press during a tour of the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where App...
The Root

Oh Word? Shyne Finally Address His 12-Year-Old Harsh Criticism of Kendrick Lamar - Shyne Barrow just can’t leave the news cycle these days.Not only has he been speaking up on his past relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs, but also his p...
Raw Story

Ex-Republican puts GOP on notice that Party may 'become an instrument of its decline' - Donald Trump will force Republican lawmakers to pave the way to their own demise, according to a conservative writer. New York Times columnist David Fren...
Daily Dot

‘Thank God I was wearing this shirt’: Woman issues warning after revealing something shocking about Ring doorbell cameras - [image: Woman sharing her Ring Door Bell Experience on TikTok(c) Ring DoorBell(r)] Since its release in 2014, Ring doorbells have become a staple in most...
Salon.com

"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR - She accused the public radio network of doing "nothing for the American people."
See You In 2020

The Palestinian people’s fight to stay on their own land, and how it will break the entire colonial order - Above: an occupier tank being blown up by resistance forces in north Gaza, image by Islamic Republic News Agency For this extermination effort to succee...
Al Jazeera English

Israel sanctions Haaretz due to articles that ‘hurt’ Israeli state - The Haaretz news outlet called the decision 'another step in Netanyahu's journey to dismantle Israeli democracy'.
Election Law Blog

“A Lesson From Poland: Reversing Populist Policies Is Tough” - NYT: He promised salvation for a country “in ruins” — an end to immigration, a civil service stripped of entrenched left-wing opponents, a judiciary pur...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for November 24 - I’ve actually been on BlueSky for awhile, but I don’t use it that much. Maybe that will change as I feel the need to return to a higher level of news engag...
Texas Monthly

‘Landman’ Episode Three Recap: Nothing in the Patch Is Certain Except Death and Rattlesnakes - This week, a city slicker lawyer gets an induction into West Texas critters and the dirty business of "clean energy." There are also many, many poolside ma...
Field Negro

Transition train wreck. - The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this ...
Alternet

'Hope of dictators': Legal expert pushes back on MTG’s aim to defund NPR - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday floated the idea that Republicans want to eliminate national public broadcasting systems like the National P...
Eschaton

Sunday Afternoon - Lazy Sunday.
Political Wire

Trump Adviser Agrees About ‘Our Adversaries’ - “Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said Sunday that he has met with President Joe Biden’s National Security adviser Jake Sullivan — and that the two administration...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 24, 2024 - [image: Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 24, 2024] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 24, 2024 By Tony Wikrent q *Strategic Politi...
Mother Jones

Sarah McBride Just Showed Nancy Mace How to Act Like a Member of Congress - Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) is not taking Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) bait. In her first interview after Mace’s weeklong, social media–fueled campaign...
The Hill

Turning Israel’s military achievements into the next administration's diplomatic victories - Israel has dismantled Hamas' military infrastructure and weakened Hezbollah, but the U.S. must provide support to Israel to achieve victory in the region b...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Trump ‘incredibly concerned’ about escalation of munitions in Russia-Ukraine conflict, aide says - Incoming national security adviser says eastern Ukraine fighting akin to ‘World War I trench warfare’
World Socialist Web Site

Stellantis workers speak on threatened plant closures in the UK: “This is an international problem and therefore the struggle itself is global” - The Luton plant 30 miles north of London and the other Stellantis plant in Ellesmere Port, north-west England producing electric vans have a closure threat...
The AltWorld

Can Armageddon Be Avoided? - Is the West, Lost in its Own Lies, Trapped in the Pending Disaster Washington Has Brewed? December […] The post Can Armageddon Be Avoided? appeared first...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: 35 to 40 percent of Edinburg’s workforce is involved in healthcare - Raudel Garza, executive director of Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, gave an update on his city's population growth during a recent Edinburg Co...
Crooked Timber

Can businesses flourish in a world with a cap on personal wealth? - by Rutger Claassen and Ingrid Robeyns Let’s establish an upper limit on the personal wealth any individual can possess. This is the core principle behind ‘...
Second Nexus

Teacher Stuns Students After Revealing How Little She's Paid For Leading Extracurricular Group - It's no secret that teachers in the United States are underpaid. But the public clearly needs a reality check of what "underpaid" actually means. To pro...
Mediagazer

Israel approves a proposal that government bodies refrain from engaging with Haaretz or placing ads in the paper, after controversial remarks from its publisher (Eliav Breuer/Jerusalem Post) - Eliav Breuer / Jerusalem Post: *Israel approves a proposal that government bodies refrain from engaging with Haaretz or placing ads in the paper, after c...
Axios

Trump should fire DOJ workers involved with his cases, GOP senator says - Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), once on the shortlist to be attorney general under the incoming Trump administration, suggested Sunday that Justice Department...
Consortium News

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Escalation’ - Tension is soaring in the two insanely dangerous wars in Ukraine and the Mideast. We pick the brains of Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter and Ted Postol at 8pm ES...
Undernews

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Slate

My Wife Has Never Seen Me Fully Naked. I’m Ashamed of the Reason Why. - I just can't handle the shrinkage.
El Paso Matters

‘Running out of time’: El Paso wildlife rescue prepares new generation of rehabilitators - The Second Chance Wildlife Rescue is helping prepare a new generation of rehabilitators while dealing with an unusually long and busy season. The post ‘...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for November 18 - 22 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. With the hurricane-induced weakness past, the short term forecast has ...
The Week

Today's political cartoons - November 24, 2024 - Sunday's cartoons - taped bananas, flying monkeys, and more
Futurism

Godfather of AI Warns of Powerful People Who Want Humans "Replaced by Machines" - Fringe Theory One of the world's leading AI pioneers is warning not only that the increasingly powerful technology could harm the world, but that the peo...
Popular Resistance

F**k You Al, I Am Resigning; Say The same To Blinken!!! - In the November 21, 2024 Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training’s (ADST) weekly newsletter, the editors included a 1995 oral history interview w...
Novara Media

Trains Are Better Than Cars. Here’s Why - While the first modern trains were built in the early 19th century – more people travel by rail today than ever before. Not only have passenger numbers ris...
San Antonio Report

10 Texas travel destinations for your next road trip - Looking to get away from the big city this holiday season? Take a road trip to one of these Texas towns. ------------------------------ 10 Texas travel dest...
Mondoweiss

Book Review: The answer to what comes after Zionism may lie in what came before it - [image: A found colonial photo album. Note that the caption “Jewish types” has been corrected to “Arab types.”]What comes after the supremacism and aparthe...
Space City Weather

The forecast for Thanksgiving is finally coming into better focus - In brief: We’re increasingly confident that a fairly robust cold front will arrive on Thanksgiving Day in Houston, bringing colder and much more seasonable...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'No Such Agreement' Toons - Where'd ya get that idea? We have no such agreement here at Sunday Toons! Please proceed... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie al...
Claytoonz

Stafford Gobblers - Read the blog at my Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through PayPal. I...
First Draft

Vintage First Draft: The Oswald Enigma - It was 61 years ago today.
Grist

How a dwindling helium supply is impacting public land management - A new BLM plan for western Colorado makes a priority of helium production, worrying environmentalists.
Reform Austin

Grimes Opens Up About Custody Battle With Elon Musk Following Texas Settlement - Elon Musk and Grime’s custody battle in Texas has been settled, with the latter saying she was “going bankrupt” for fighting for her three children. Musk...
NPR's Health Shots

Fold paper. Insert lens. This $2 microscope changes how kids see the world - The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units,...
Vox

Health care costs could spike for millions of families - With the GOP regaining control of Congress, Republicans are looking to slash health care spending, specifically eyeing Medicaid cuts and work requirements....
The Mind Unleashed

Highly Intelligent and Possibly Invincible ‘Super Pigs’ Are Invading America - Something strange is stirring in America’s northern plains. Farmers, wildlife experts, and even ecologists are sounding the alarm about an unexpected invad...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Funday Sunnies - I’m not in the mood for politics today, which is to say that I’m feeling pretty positive about life and don’t want to spoil it. However, for those who insi...
WhoWhatWhy

Hey Migrants, You’d Better Start Packin’ Now! Homan’s on the Hunt. - [image: Donald Trump, Thomas Homan, immigration, Zero Tolerance.] Trump's favorite family-separation specialist, Thomas Homan, has zero tolerance for toler...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
naked capitalism

Links 11/24/2024 -
The Daily Poster

The Democrat Who Tried To Warn Us With Rep. Dean Phillips - In this bonus Lever Time episode, Rep. Dean Phillips talks with David Sirota and Arjun Singh about how Democrats’ self-sabotage handed Trump the presidency.
The Smirking Chimp

Resistance Is Not Futile: Matt Gaetz’s Implosion Shows How MAGA’s Chaos Can Be Turned Against Trump -
Crooked Media

Do Libs Need a Social Media Safe Space? Did Misinfo Hurt Kamala? How Much Should the Left Influence Democrats? - The post Do Libs Need a Social Media Safe Space? Did Misinfo Hurt Kamala? How Much Should the Left Influence Democrats? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Slovan Bratislava vs AC Milan lúc 00h45 ngày 27/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Cúp C1, tại vòng thứ 5, một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn đang tạo ra sự chú ý của người xem là trận so tài giữa Slovan Bratislava...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: The ICC Warrants and the World They Announce - By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost LONDON—There is an old, often-told story about a front-page article one of the big dailies here once ran as se...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 24 November 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o This wheel ain't big enough for the two of us. He made the best of a sudd...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Without the EU, the joke is on us if Trump gets his tariffs | William Keegan - Stronger ties with the single market is the only way to stop the president-elect from having the last laugh ‘As democracy is perfected, the office of pre...
Counterpunch

Amnesia in Trump Country - Twice, when Donald Trump has won the presidency, Democratic politicians, liberal media, and ‘progressive’ academics have rediscovered – momentarily and r...
jobsanger

Trump's Corruption Will Exceed That Of His First Term -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1286: The Prehistory of Motorcycles - Episode: 1286 A steam-powered motorcycle, invented well before its time. Today, the motorcycle rides out of the Civil War.
Informed Comment

What will Trump’s Second Term mean for the Middle East? - Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The U.S. presidential elections are among the most consequential for the Middle East, second only ...
OpEd News

Every Day is Mama's Day (poem) - Love apples. Mama's were the best. I remember Mama well. O the sauce.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT is becoming the face of Texas’ higher education failures. That must change, The Daily Texan Editorial Board - *Friends:* *I am glad that the Daily Texan Editorial Board is weighing in on findings from a recent survey conducted by the American Association of Univers...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Evo Morales speaks to The Grayzone, blames U.S. for assassination attempt - After an attempt on his life, former President Evo Morales, who leads the polls for the upcoming presidential elections, accuses the Bolivian State and t...
Ballot Access News

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Placed Third in Every Jurisdiction in Which He Was on Ballot, Except for Four States - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was on the ballot in 31 jurisdictions. In 27 of them he placed third. The only ones in which he did not place third were four state...
Portside

For Black Americans, Post-Election Spam Messages Signal Mounting Threat - For Black Americans, Post-Election Spam Messages Signal Mounting Threat Kurt Stand Sat, 11/23/2024 - 18:09
Wolf Street

Operating Losses and “Unrealized” Losses of the Federal Reserve in Q3 2024 - QE was a huge gravy train for taxpayers. But then came the hangover.
Dissident Voice

The Ukraine War after the Penny Has Dropped Make that the Oreshnik - President Vladimir Putin has announced that serial production of the new Oreshnik hypersonic, intermediate range, 36-warhead missile has commenced. He ma...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle - On Governing Magazine’s website, Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love and Tahir Duckett wrote: Criminalizing homelessness is bad financially and bad for public safet...
Techdirt.

Back Our Kickstarter For One Billion Users, The Social Media Card Game - This week, we launched the crowdfunding campaign for our new card game, One Billion Users, where players compete to build the biggest and best social media...
Angry Bear

Population Growth Outcomes - In 2006 Joel Garreau wrote “300 Million and Counting” in the Smithsonian. It was then we were at a replacement rate of 2.01. The nation was barely replac...
CultureMap Houston

Award-winning chef's new Heights eatery leads Houston's top 5 stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.
Bracing Views

Playing Russian Roulette–With Russia - W.J. Astore Reckless and Stupid What is the point of playing Russian roulette—with Russia? As the Biden administration fades into oblivion, among its last ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Why did "America" vote for Trump? - *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024 * *Plus, the 700 pages: *Why did Candidate Harris (narrowly) lose this year's election after her (remarkably truncated) thre...
The Militant

The working class put its stamp on the 2024 elections - LOS ANGELES — “Given the events over the last couple days, it is necessary to begin this forum by describing the virulent attack on Jews in Amsterdam Nov. ...
ArcaMax

The Transgender War - She has yet to even be sworn in. But the hateful Republican women in the House of Representatives have already declared war on the first openly transgender...
Idavox

Video: Daryle Lamont Jenkins at Burning Books - DLJ travels over to this Buffalo independent bookstore to discuss things with those that came... The post Video: Daryle Lamont Jenkins at Burning Books a...
Skeptophilia

Deus in machina - Inevitably when I post something to the effect of "ha-ha, isn't this the weirdest thing you've ever heard?", my readers take this as some kind of challen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: AN AGE OF CLODS AND MONSTERS EDITION. - *I have never heard a bad Desmond Dekker record.* Not gonna push it too hard here as this is only Friday 'Round-the-Horn technically -- it's after midnig...
Capital & Main

How Biden Could Restrict Fossil Fuel Financing and Make It Trump-Proof - But the election is likely to blow up a long-delayed EPA response to oil and gas pollution in New Mexico. The post How Biden Could Restrict Fossil Fuel F...
Workers World

Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures - [image: Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures] U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time nominating potential cabinet members and other members...
Lowering the Bar

Still No Lawsuit Against the Fake Colombian Basketball Team - [image: picture of the alleged fake colombian team]I have mixed emotions about this.
SCOTUSblog

Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine - [image: Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine]The justices on Friday created the prospect of another major ruling on the rol...
Progressive.org

Who Won the Latinx Vote in 2024? It’s More Complicated Than That. - Latinx people are not a monolithic voting bloc. We need to stop analyzing them as such.
Rallblog

No Flat Taxes. More Progressive Taxes! - As we have seen previously when a Republican has won a presidential election, the progressive individual income tax—in which the more you earn,...
Texas Standard

How Trump’s government efficiency initiative could affect federal jobs in Texas and around the US - Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy say they can save the government billions of dollars by slashing government agencies.
The Texas Signal

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas - *Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on **Deceleration** and was coproduced with **Truthout**, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to pro...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Trump’s Cabinet Picks - On our live show, David and Emma discuss the latest cabinet nominations—and early misfires.
Texas Freedom Network

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz Out, Fogle In? - Upon hearing the news from his fellow inmates at Englewood Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colorado that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) dropp...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What It Will Take to Defeat Authoritarianism: Audio From A Collapsing State - It's time for radical acceptance and a dose of clarity. We've got work to do if we're going to mitigate the damage of authoritarianism and build something ...
Earthworks

Communities Set Up Camps to Protest Barrick Gold’s Renewed Attempts to Build a Second Tailings Dam in the Dominican Republic - Guest blog by María Alejandra Torres García After nearly a year of no news regarding Barrick Gold’s proposed expansion project … The post Communities Se...
Bud Kennedy

The untold story: When TCU canceled JFK’s honorary degree—’He’s a Catholic, you know’ - Gov. John B. Connally asked trustees to honor Kennedy with a Ph.D., but some trustees balked. … Click to Continue »
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Great Blue Heron - Glorious.
Debunking Christianity

The Oblivious Devout Keep Christianity Chugging Along - *But its god, like thousands of others, will end up on the scrapheap of history* Many years ago I was the pastor of a small church in a small town in Mas...
MintPress News

Six Months of Lies and Pressure: How US and Israeli Interference Stalled Netanyahu’s ICC Arrest Warrant - The ICC finally issued Netanyahu’s warrant, but only after surviving a barrage of threats, legal sabotage, and coordinated smears from Washington and Tel...
Southeast Texas Record

Harris County Civil Court: Actions Taken on Nov. 15 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Nov. 15 in the suits below: Read more…
Democracy Now!

Who Is Pam Bondi? Trump Loyalist Tapped for AG Dropped Probe into Trump University After His $25K Donation - Donald Trump has tapped a new loyalist to head the Department of Justice, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who served on his defense team during ...
The Conversation

Presidents often claim mandates − especially when they want to expand their power or are on the defensive - Donald Trump claims the 2024 election gave him a mandate. Scholars who study the presidency are skeptical about the entire concept of a mandate. That hasn’...
Church and State

As Planet Heads Toward 2.7°C Rise, Tracker Warns Global Climate Action Has ‘Flatlined’ - Existing policies taken by world governments put the world on track for a median estimate of 2.7°C of warming by the end of the century.
Texas Observer

To the CEO of Centerpoint Energy, Who Smirks Next to a Thermostat that Reads 70 Degrees - I am here on the cold tiled floor with my son who is stripped who is down to his diaper.He is learning how to crawl, how to movein this great big world. ...
DeSmogBlog

Q&A: Cold War Foes Made Treaties to Limit the Spread of Nukes. Could a Similar Approach Wind Down Fossil Fuels? - To watch a video version of this interview, please register for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with D...
ProPublica

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s - by Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that...
High Country News

Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again - What are the consequences for the land if the incoming president shrinks the national monument? The post Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again appeared...
Common Dreams

Creepy Butthead Pulls Out - So much for First Lady Elmo Musk's proud boast of "our Hammer of Justice." In mere days, a "fraction of a Scaramucci," icky, scandal-plagued, Neanderthal...
Antiwar.com

Winds of Change Blow Through Ukraine - The winds of change are blowing through Ukraine. The most obvious change – and the only one much discussed in the mainstream media – is Donald Trump. Fro...
Sludge

Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Lobbied for Amazon, Uber, and Qatar - Bondi is a partner at the lobbying firm of Trump bundler Brian Ballard, where she lobbied alongside incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Deadline Politics

Trump Goes Back To Sunshine State For New AG Nominee; Florida’s Pam Bondi Selected After Matt Gaetz Drops Out - Just hours after scandal-ridden ex-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took himself out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s attorney general, the former and future p...
Krebs on Security

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of ...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
Rewire

Analysis: The Limits of a Tragic Story - Savita Halappanavar's death is widely seen as a catalyst for Ireland's abortion reform, but the truth is more nuanced—and offers important lessons for th...
Reveal

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle - [image: Taylor Cadle, a young woman with dark hair and wearing a black sweater and jeans ripped above the knee, looks directly into the camera with an unfl...
Project Censored

News Literacy for Activists - By Eleanor Goldfield I could hit you with a garden shovel, but I wouldn’t call it gardening. Likewise, I wouldn’t call it journalism when the corporate m...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace gets angry at reporter for interrupting her transphobic publicity wave with questions about Boeing layoffs in South Carolina - South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace has been riding the anti-trans train over the last 24 hours, doubling down on her targeting of trans Congresswoma...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Biden Can Act Now to Limit Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda - President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his political platform. Trump’s cabinet nominees are repo...
Ecosophia

The Century of the Other - As a rule, no American election means as much as the shouting immediately afterward might lead you to think. Every four years, with a regularity that clock...
NORML

Analysis: Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Associated With Elevated Risk of Hypertension - [image: marijuana blood pressure][image: marijuana blood pressure]"Taken together, these studies suggest that regular cannabis use is not associated with...
Liberation News

Only a working-class, socialist movement can win trans liberation - Wednesday, Nov. 20, marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we mourn the trans victims of deadly and bigoted violence.
Avedon's Sideshow

One little miracle a day is all I need - I feel worse than I thought I would if this happened, even though I probably expected it more than a lot of lefties and Democrats did. The whole Cheney ...
Trivial Knot

A better masculinity, for those who don’t want it - A few months ago, I went to an ace unconference–an unconference being an event where attendees create sessions on the spot, rather than planning sessions i...
Ring of Fire

Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block - The post Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Border/Lines

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

The Best Chinese Restaurants in Houston - [image: Saucy angus rib-eye with peppers and onions at Duck N Bao.] Fill up on some of the best Chinese food Houston can offer. | Jenn Duncan Find bone-w...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Inside the Beehive - An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple contro...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

A Second Twenty Years’ Crisis? - How is E.H. Carr representative of mid-twentieth century intellectuals who tried to understand not so much the political irruptions of their time, but ra...
The Progressive Wing

11/18-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - And the crapalooza continues
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemical Impacts Transparent With TCO Development’s Stephen Fuller - Being a consumer in an advanced economy—or any economy these days—is challenging because you cannot... The post Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemi...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Highlights - *Progressives Chat* will soon conclude covering outcomes for Election 2024. I will wrap-up with such related blog topics next week. In fact, next week wi...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Jamaal Bowman: How AIPAC Drove Me Out of Congress & My Views on Palestine Changed - Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
Democracy Chronicles

Why Pursuing Peace with Iran is Critical for Global Stability - Fostering peace with Iran could prevent devastating global consequences from a broader Middle East conflict.
Media Lens

Buried Out Of Sight: Deliberate Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Children Becomes ‘Local News’ On The BBC - Imagine an experienced Ukrainian surgeon breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately target...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Tale of Two PSYOPS - Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominat...
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...
LareDOS

Jorge Alberto Uribe May 27, 1939 – November 10, 2024 - Rancher Jorge Alberto Uribe of Lytle, and formerly of San Ygnacio, passed away November 10.
Land Destroyer

The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks - *November 13, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, Americans and many around the world invested hop...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Hair Of The Dog - Yeah, yeah, I know… but the only way to properly express the mood of this piece was to set it in a dark, grim mid-20th dive, with a permanently-circulating...
nonsite.org

Going Forward from the Edge of the Abyss - Trump has no new coalition; he can’t because those “groups” aren’t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like c...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2024 - Walmart had another six shootings, with two of them fatal in October of 2024, including one officer involved shooting after an automobile crash, and ano...
Seeing the Forest

How Dem Betrayal Brought Us Trump - Of all people, David Brooks, in a confession, does a good job or explaining Trumpism in Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? Read it all, but this about mo...
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...
Greg Palast

Here’s What We Do NowA Personal Note - Being right never felt so horrid. Before the election, I wrote, “How Trump Won.” And on Election night I waited for the returns to make a fool of me. Inste...
Stinque

Hanging by a Thread - We forget who laid it out for us a lifetime ago, but civilization is inherently fragile, and can collapse in an instant. Everything is handed off from on...
Two Party Opera

Election Day Comedy Hour - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Trump and Harris are dressed as vaudevillian/barbershop-quartet-ish comedy duo, with hats, canes, and pin striped vests. Trump says ...
Web of Debt

Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene - Buncombe County North Carolina – damage after Hurricane Helene floods. NCDOTcommunications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wiki...
TalkLeft

Election Day Jitters - I have them. I'm sure any rational person does, when considering the possibility, however slight, that Donald Trump, the most unfit person to run for Pre...
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...
BEYONDbones

Daylight Savings Time | November Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: HMNS Astronomer James Wooten reminds us to adjust our clocks as Daylight Savings Time ends this month. Saturn is an evening object. Look ...
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 ...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] Market Failure: The Climate Crisis and the Limits of Capitalism - Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze in conversation, moderated by Kate Aronoff.
New Progressive Alliance

After the Election - I have friends on both sides and miss the days when we could tease each other instead of believing that we had to be mortal enemies. Those who advocate t...
ExChristian.Net

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus - *The following is a short interview with Bill Burkland, the author of a soon to be released book entitled "The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named J...
Duck of Minerva

Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara? - On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PK...
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...
Nina Illingworth

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...
GreenSource DFW

New native plant group hoping to take root in DFW - *Organizers are seeking new members to help get Wild Ones DFW off the ground. Photo courtesy of Wild Ones.* Oct. 17, 2024 A new native plant group has s...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
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...
Texas Watch

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Courthouse News

Federal judge unseals Jack Smith immunity filing in Trump’s Jan. 6 case - Jack Smith's immunity brief argues that Trump can still be criminally tried over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's sw...
Glasstire

Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes” - Contemplating the art of Arielle Masson is a cosmic journey that spirals through deep inner space into the vastness of the universe — moving through the ...
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 ...
Black Agenda Report

Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean - Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean bareditors Wed, 10/02/2024 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Connection Between Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday and Tonight’s VP Debate - Former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday coinciding with the vice presidential debate today is fitting, given the important role Carter played in e...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Inside the scramble to stop the displacement of thousands of California foster children - For years, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California had been the primary insurer for the state’s foster family agencies, which house some of the m...
Edinburg Politics

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...
The Socialist

International Relations: Tensions in Eastern Europe - Tensions in Eastern Europe have escalated recently, with geopolitical implications that resonate globally. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine ...
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...
The NM Political Report

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
The Rag Blog

MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966 - By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval c...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Equality Texas

Remembering Sheila Jackson Lee - Today, we reflect on the profound legacy of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a tireless advocate for equality and justice. Her passing leaves a void in ...
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair - A guest post from Nico Edwards. Nico is the author of the new World Peace Foundation report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Ec...
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

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
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

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
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.
Innocence Project

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.
Latino Rebels

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...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
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)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
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

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

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

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

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

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

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?
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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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