Brains and Eggs: In case anyone has been unable to locate their PMA

And so they did https://t.co/u40rGSacVy
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) November 6, 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

Lunch break inside the astrodome while under construction pic.twitter.com/tTB4iVE68g
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Counterpunch

The West Bank’s Men of the CIA – Why is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin? - Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The PA se...
Southeast Texas Record

Office of the Attorney General Files Motion for a Protective Order Preventing Convicted Child Murderer from Testifying in Show Hearing at Texas Capitol - The Office of the Attorney General filed a motion for a protective order to prevent a procedurally deficient and overly burdensome subpoena from enabling...
The Week

The Christmas quiz 2024 - Test your grasp of current affairs and general knowledge with our quiz
Daily Dot

‘I order from Target a lot now’: Amazon member cancels her Prime membership for 6 months. Then she has an A-Ha moment - [image: Woman talking(l), Amazon prime package(r)] Amazon Prime lost a member. Now she is warning others that the service may simply not be worth it. E...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Sweeping Vietnam internet law comes into force - Under "Decree 147," all tech giants operating in Vietnam are required to verify users' accounts via their phone numbers or Vietnamese identification number...
jobsanger

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! - *Whether you celebrate it as a religious or secular one, I wish all my readers a very happy and joyous solstice season holiday. And I hope it's filled...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3304: An American Encyclopedia - Episode: 3304 Thomas Dobson publishes a multi-volume encyclopedia in the newly independent United States. Today, an encyclopedia and a new nation.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

I had strict rules to keep my British and Italian lives separate. Then I learned the joy of being both | Silvia Saunders - I would elbow my mum when she spoke Italian in England, until I realised each part of my identity is more than just a ‘half’ - In our end of year seri...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry Gets Oldie of the Year Award - The Mail on Sunday’s peerless cartoonist Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry has been chosen as an Oldie of the Year. Praised for ‘making news pages brighter by putting in...
ArcaMax

"Christ Is Still In The Rubble": No Silent Nights In Gaza This Christmas - Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is...
Al Jazeera English

‘I’m broken’: The women enduring domestic violence amid Israeli war on Gaza - As Israel continues its relentless bombardment of Gaza, cases of domestic violence have rocketed.
Informed Comment

For Christmas: The Persian Poet Nezami’s Story of Jesus and the Dead Dog - On Christmas Day, I like to recall the significance of Jesus and the nativity for Muslims. I’ve talked about Rumi, Attar, and other mystics. Today it is Ne...
slacktivist

Merry Christmas Eve - All people means all people. Always.
memeorandum

The Walmart Effect - New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates ... (Rogé Karma/The Atlantic) - Rogé Karma / The Atlantic: *The Walmart Effect* — New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into a...
Ballot Access News

Which Region of the U.S. Gave the Most Support to “Other” Presidential Candidates? - I have divided the United States into five regions, and calculated the percentage of the vote that each minor party and independent candidate received in e...
The Hill

Russian ship sinks in Mediterranean after explosion - A Russian cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday leaving two of the 16 crew members unaccounted for according to the country’s authorities. Fou...
Raw Story

‘All braggadocio’: Ex-Trump official ‘very worried’ of risk in next term - Donald Trump’s former national security adviser delivered a dark forecast for the incoming president’s second term in a stark Christmas Eve assessment wh...
OpEd News

Ode to Luigi - Heroes come in all kindss of flavors and some are not heroes at all. Luigi has the right idea, but murder is not cool.
Undernews

HOLIDAY - * First Christmas card's mixed reaction*
Consortium News

Deception & Politics From Washington to Tel Aviv - U.S.-Israeli supremacist intentions, papered over and buried for decades, are now clear for all to see, writes M. Reza Behnam. By M. Reza Behnam Z-Network ...
Wolf Street

Who Bought and Holds the Recklessly Ballooning US National Debt, even as the Fed is Unloading its Treasury Securities? - A hot question for an iffy situation. So here are the holders as of Q3.
The Root

Scar, Elphaba and Other Black 'Villains' Who Were Misunderstood - A lot of actors say they have more fun playing the bad guy. But what happens when the bad guy they’re portraying actually has a point and their actions a...
Popular Resistance

How Fascism Came - President-elect Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism. He heralds the collapse of the veneer that masked the corruption within the ruling cl...
Axios

Bald eagle officially U.S. national bird after Biden signs bill into law - The bald eagle is now officially the national bird of the U.S. after President Biden signed into law legislation amending a code to formally recognize th...
Election Law Blog

“Rep. Granger’s Hill absence, revelation of ‘dementia issues’ reignite age debate” - WaPo reports. The post “Rep. Granger’s Hill absence, revelation of ‘dementia issues’ reignite age debate” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 18 things to do in Houston during Christmas weekend - Welcome to a super-sized edition of CultureMap’s weekend event planner!
Angry Bear

Merry Christmas! - I am hoping this Christmas finds Angry Bear readers and commenters happy, of good health, and with family. There were years when I was away from family. ...
The Greanville Post

The Indispensable John Helmer— THE INCITATUS PRECEDENT IN US STRATEGY, THE CALIGULA CURE IN RUSSIAN STRATEGY - JOHN HELMER—There has never been a transition between US presidential administrations which has been so replete with new Washington-directed violence acros...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Beginning of the End of the Public University, by Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña, Ph.D. - *This historical perspective reflecting on the student movement of the 1960s and early 70s by Dr. Rudy Acuña is helpful as we deconstruct the political mom...
Eschaton

Tuesday Evening - I hope Santa can dodge all the drones.
Mediagazer

A Canadian appeals court freezes big streaming companies' payments designed to help fund Canadian content until the court hears a full appeal of a CRTC ruling (Anja Karadeglija/The Canadian Press) - Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press: *A Canadian appeals court freezes big streaming companies' payments designed to help fund Canadian content until t...
Mondoweiss

The Politics of Betrayal: Jenin, Abbas, and the hellscape of Gaza - [image: Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas surrounded by a crowd of security personnel and fellow PA and Fatah officials as he addresses a crowd...
Alternet

'Gone too far': Congress reacts to GOP rep running district from assisted living facility - This weekend, a Dallas-based conservative activist discovered that Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) was representing her constituents from an assisted-living f...
Salon.com

NASA spacecraft touches Sun’s atmosphere, breaking record - On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest ever approach to the Sun
Mediaite

Teamsters Boss Blasts Kamala Harris in Tucker Carlson Interview: ‘Who Does This F*cking Lady Think She Is?’ - Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told Tucker Carlson in a Monday interview that Vice President Kamala Harris was arrogant and took support from organized...
Claytoonz

Giggity Entendre - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Ever...
Workers World

Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks - [image: Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks] Seattle Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) opened up a series of “rolling strikes” across the country on Dec...
Church and State

The Catholic Church and Social Justice Issues - True democracy is very threatening to the Church. As long as it can control the lawmakers, the Church has no problem with democracy.
The AltWorld

The Greatest Gift of All - Dear readers, I appreciate your support of this website over the years since you called me out […] The post The Greatest Gift of All appeared first on Th...
Portside

Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium - Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium Judy Tue, 12/24/2024 - 15:14
Second Nexus

Billie Eilish Teaches First Grade Class How To Write A Hit Song—And We're Singing Along - Anyone who's ever followed celebrity news might have asked themselves at some point what it's really like to be a celebrity, and if celebrity life is eas...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler Christmas Eve 2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Christmas Eve open thread ~
Scheerpost.com

Biden Commutes the Sentences of All but Three on Federal Death Row - While Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on federal death row, advocates remain concerned about the three people he left behind.
WhoWhatWhy

Why CEOs and the Very Rich Should Receive Enhanced Protection - [image: Elon Musk, mother, Maye, Met Gala] Because truth in advertising Why CEOs and the Very Rich Should Receive Enhanced Protection originally appeared ...
Political Wire

GOP Senators Prepare to Move Trump’s Agenda - “Senate Republicans are preparing over the break to launch a quick party-line border funding bill in the new Congress,” Semafor reports. “Everything is flu...
The Mind Unleashed

Sad story of how Jim Carrey ‘lost 300 million fortune’ and was forced to come out of retirement - Imagine building an empire so vast that it feels untouchable, only to watch it crumble before your eyes. Jim Carrey, the man whose elastic face and electri...
The Verge

There’s a reason Metaphor: ReFantanzio’s battle music sounds as cool as it does - [image: Key art from Metaphor: ReFantanzio featuring a blue haired boy wearing a white coat sitting on a throne behind the text “Metaphor: ReFantanzio” wi...
Slate

My Boyfriend Says There’s Just One Sex Act He Wishes He Could Do Postcollege. I’m Not Cut Out for It. - I want to try, though.
Off The Kuff

Christmas Eve video break: Revisiting my manifesto - I often have occasion to revisit something I wrote years ago on this site, and I’m happy to say that more often than not, the archived post still holds up....
Futurism

Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots - Typo Hazard It sure sounds like some of the industry's smartest leading AI models are gullible suckers. As 404 Media reports, new research from Claude ch...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Here’s one way President Biden could help El Paso before leaving office - The Biden Justice Department has refused to explain why it didn’t seek the death penalty in the Walmart mass shooting. The post Opinion: Here’s one way ...
Eater Houston

Houston Restaurant Openings to Know Right Now, December 2024 - [image: Prawns, dumplings, cocktails, and Thai street food from Osha Thai Kitchen.] The restaurant openings in Houston can’t stop, won’t stop. | Becca Wri...
Rio Grande Guardian

Peña: A Holiday Message from BCIC - The president and CEO of Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation says her group is proud to work alongside area businesses in order to create a str...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 24 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 24]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s t...
Daily Howler

STORIES: Matthew and Luke left different stories! - *TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2024* *So too with our tribunes today:* Different chroniclers of the first Christmas have left different stories behind. Wisely an...
Texas Monthly

Nora and Johnny Canales’s Love Story Began With a Grito - Thirty years after she met the tejano icon at a Corpus Christi nightclub, Johnny Canales’s widow reflects on the couple’s marriage, their show, and how Joh...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 24, 2024: Tour the Texas Museum Map - This year we kicked off the Texas Museum Map, exploring and highlighting museums big and small, traditional and weird.
Reform Austin

Texas House Decks The Halls With Massive Tree And Unique Ornaments! - Every December, the Texas House continues its beloved holiday tradition of decorating a Christmas tree on the chamber floor, creating a festive atmospher...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came - Hedges unravels the toxic brew of deindustrialization, corporate greed, and authoritarian religion fueling America’s descent into fascism. The post Chris...
First Draft

All About Christmas Eve - More fruitcake for the eyes.
Progressive.org

A Proposed Labor Rule Would End Subminimum Wages for Disabled Workers - But the fate of what could be a win for workers with disabilities lies in the hands of the incoming Trump Administration.
Democracy Now!

Kurds Under Threat in Syria as Turkey Launches Attacks and Kills Journalists After Assad Regime Falls - As foreign powers look to shape Syria’s political landscape after the toppling of the Assad regime, the country’s Kurdish population is in the spotlight. T...
Ian Welsh

The Game Theory of Giving Up Private Justice or Ending The State Monopoly On Violence - [image: The Game Theory of Giving Up Private Justice or Ending The State Monopoly On Violence] In the state of nature, if someone does you wrong, it’s up ...
Space City Weather

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, yet along with St. Nick there may be thunder in the air - In brief: Showers and a few thunderstorms return to the forecast today in Houston. A stronger line of storms will move through the area tonight, likely wit...
NPR's Health Shots

An Indian movie, loved abroad, is snubbed at home for Oscar submission - *All We Imagine as Light* explores the lives of working-class women in Mumbai and won the Grand Prix at Cannes. But it was deemed not Indian enough to subm...
The Daily Poster

When News Broke In 2024, We Were There - While The Lever team is on holiday break, we’re offering subscribers a selection of our best reporting this year.
The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump’s Threats Against Foreign Nations Are Not About Revenge -
Earth 911

Guest Opinion: Hope For Right Whales - “Hope is a survival trait, and without it, we perish.” Jane Goodall describes hope as... The post Guest Opinion: Hope For Right Whales appeared first on ...
San Antonio Report

Listen: Bexar County economic leader on successful past and hopeful future - [image: Bexar County Executive Director of Economic Development David Marquez introduces Leila Afas to the stage.]As a leader in economic development for B...
Vox

The adorable reason why all of Amy Sedaris’s stuff has holes in it - Amy Sedaris has a lovely apartment in the desirable Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, though she has often described it as a hutch. A rabbit...
Skeptophilia

Mad world - Given my dual fascination with history and botany, it's a bit surprising that yesterday I ran into a story I'd never heard before that involves both. I ...
American Prospect

King David - ‘Billionaires I have known’: The final installment
ProPublica

Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk - by Heather Vogell ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publis...
High Country News

2024 set the stage for clean energy on public lands - Thanks to Biden administration policies, the momentum behind the energy transition could be hard to stall. The post 2024 set the stage for clean energy ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 24 December 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Pisa, ...
Common Dreams

President Musk Will See You Now (If You're Bearing Money or Power) - In this so-called holiday season, welcome to America's "Mump regime," governance of, by and for the oligarchs in which an erratic unelected white suprema...
World Socialist Web Site

Report to New York City-area rally exposes role of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Gaza genocide - The rally offered valuable information on the role played by the Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk in the genocide in Gaza, but proposed no policies to m...
Crooked Timber

Plutocrats and Authoritarian Leaders: Like Flies to Flypaper - Curtis Yarvin, darling authoritarian ideologue of many tech billionaires, is back in the news, along with his deep links to J.D. Vance, via Peter Thiel. It...
Antiwar.com

Wishing for A Christmas Truce in Ukraine - On December 11, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that, as one of the last things he would do at the end of his term as the European Union’s rot...
Techdirt.

Lane Kiffin Defeats Keith Bell In ‘Winning Isn’t Normal’ Copyright Case - Funny enough, it was only a few weeks back that we last discussed Dr. Keith Bell and the slew of lawsuits he has filed over depictions and/or retweets on s...
Debunking Christianity

The Spirit of Atheist Christmas Giving - In the spirit of atheist Christmas giving I’d like to make a shameless plug for donations to this blog, Debunking Christianity, the brainchild of John W...
Deadline Politics

Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Sends Letter To Disney’s Bob Iger Referencing ABC’s Donald Trump Settlement And Low Media Trust - The incoming chairman of the FCC has fired off a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger referencing ABC’s recent settlement of a defamation lawsuit filed b...
nonsite.org

The Painter: 5 Prose Poems in Memory of Joseph Marioni - Joseph Marioni emails to say that he has finally resolved his large green painting. The last Archetype has fallen -- not fallen, exactly, rather it has yie...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 186: Happy Festivus! Ted and Scott Air Their Grievances - The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) celebrate the December 23rd holiday of Festivus with the traditional Ai...
Brad Blog

Silent Nights - As noted on Thursday's rollicking year-end BradCast and occasionally hopeful Green News Report, we will be standing down this week and next over the holida...
Mother Jones

Biden Pulled Off a $370 Billion Miracle for the Climate. Where Did the Money Go? - This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act stands as...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Hindu Supremacy: Biju Mathew and Karthikeyan Shanmugam - In 2024, Southern Poverty Law Center staff interviewed eight experts and advocates working in the human rights space to explore the topic of Hindu supremac...
Bonddad

Sales of new and existing homes increased in November; declining price trend continues for the former, but pressures increase in the latter - -* by New Deal democrat* Ive been looking at new and existing home sales more in tandem recently, as we are looking for a rebalancing of the market,...
Capital & Main

Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live - Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving housing market and little or n...
Sludge

DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex - While some progressives in Congress are pushing DOGE to cut the Pentagon budget, its ties to the defense contractor lobby are growing deeper.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fostering Hope in Hard Times: Audio From A Collapsing State - In a time like this, hope is a revolutionary thing. Let's fight to foster as much of it as we can.
Discourse

Bird of the Year: Kākāpō - We might need to create a “Bird of the Decade” award for this unrivaled specimen.
NORML

Analysis: Over 35,000 Scientific Papers Published About Cannabis During the Past Decade - [image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil][image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil]"It is time for politicians and others ...
Rewire

Legislators Are Targeting Sex Education Post-‘Roe.’ Advocates Say It Will Worsen Children’s Health Outcomes. - Children are receiving sex education at lower rates than 20 years ago—even though it has proven physical and mental health benefits. The post Legislators...
Duck of Minerva

Another terrorful Christmas, this time for complex reasons - As someone who studies terrorism and religion, I approach each Christmas with dread due to the possibility of terrorist attacks around the holiday. A strin...
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2024 - Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concocti...
Crooked Media

Our Favorite Things, 2024 - The post Our Favorite Things, 2024 appeared first on Crooked Media.
DeSmogBlog

Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network - A whistleblowing Pennsylvania oil and gas worker, together with the state’s former lead environmental regulator, are ringing the alarm bell on an unregul...
Grist

Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief - Church volunteers feel called by Christ to help those impacted by Helene. For some, that means fulfilling a mandate to alleviate suffering. For others, it ...
See You In 2020

The communists who can adapt to multipolarity’s rise will be able to win this era’s great conflicts - There is a clear contrast between how the communist parties which hold actual power have responded to the recent geopolitical shifts; and how the compro...
Idavox

Of COURSE Nazi Rally Against One People’s Project, Did Not Go Exactly As Planned! - Any time you try to sneak around to do anything, it only takes catching you... The post Of COURSE Nazi Rally Against One People’s Project, Did Not Go Ex...
The Progressive Wing

12.22-28 Happy Holiday (FWIW) Threads - Happy Holidays you all. These are wide open Holiday threads. Fill them with your favorite Christmas tunes. To me, getting together with loved ones and list...
Bracing Views

Superman - W.J. Astore Truth, Justice, and the American Way The new “Superman” movie trailer has dropped, and it hit me in the feels. I grew up watching reruns of tho...
Campaign for America's Future

Juntos lo haremos - En el año que viene, tendremos que tomar decisiones difíciles sobre quienes queremos ser en cada comunidad y como nación. Ha sido un año muy intenso. Desde...
Progressives Chat

Merry Christmas 2024! - I wish everyone, this Wednesday, December 25, 2024, a Merry Christmas!
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Immigration Deal - Political discourse in the U.S. has become difficult, if not impossible, because right-wing views are so completely untethered from reality. I’m not saying...
The Militant

Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny, Israel’s response, deepening showdown in the Middle East - The reactionary capitalist regime in Tehran and its ally Hamas believed the pogrom they launched against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, 2023, was a major victory a...
Field Negro

Holiday cheer. - *Happy Holidays field hands!* Let's see what happens in the new year with this Elon Musk presidency. It should be very interesting. If you voted again...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SITUATION NOT-NORMAL BUT STILL ALL F***ED UP - *For a long time I could only find a weird remix of this, so I stopped looking. But it's here!* It’s the last month without Tubby for a while – though i...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Atalanta vs Empoli lúc 00h00 ngày 23/12/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Serie A, khi bước vào vòng 17, thi đấu trong khi đang có thành tích kém hơn và sự bất lợi trên sân khách, Empoli sẽ gặp khó khăn ...
The Conversation

Climate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant - Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or abused – and...
Avedon's Sideshow

From now on our troubles will be out of sight - I don't care if he's doing it for the wrong reason. If Trump gets rid of the debt ceiling, it will be good, because, as Dday says, "The Debt Limit Shoul...
Lowering the Bar

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Krebs on Security

Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm - Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vu...
Bud Kennedy

A church without Christmas? For some faiths, it’s off-limits. They just say no to Noel | Opinion - I grew up in a church with no Christmas. There was no nativity scene. No Christmas Eve service. No baby Jesus. In the strictly literal reading of the Bible...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

The Daily Show gives 'No 1 book banner' wide room to make a fool of himself. - This took place earlier this month. I don't know how I missed it. From *Crooks and Liars:* The Daily Show's Michael Kosta . . . interviewed the "No. 1...
Liberation News

Trump, tariffs and trade: ‘Protectionism’ won’t save workers - Trump’s tariff policy, from a worker’s perspective, is classic divide and conquer.
Earthworks

Common Sense in the Commonwealth: How Shapiro Can Protect Pennsylvania - With the incoming Trump administration planning rollbacks on climate progress, political leadership in heavy oil and gas-producing states like Pennsylvan...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 1 - Before we go on with the third of the operas in Wagner’s vast tetralogy The Nibelung’s Ring, I’d like to take a moment to talk a little about my trolls. Ye...
Dissident Voice

Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence - The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a temporary buffer zone from which tactical a...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Year of the Zealot - It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of faith, it was a year of inc...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Announcing a new JAPE - Seen for a political economic perspective, there’s always lots of topics needing analysis. This is evident in the array of articles in the new issue of A...
Project Censored

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press - What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironic...
The Grayzone

Scandal deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene - Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, ...
Democracy Chronicles

Playing the Ref at Nextdoor - Experience has taught me that the editors at Democracy Chronicles probably won't call this article an example of disrespect or public shaming.
Trivial Knot

Popularity is (almost) scale-free - We live in an ecosystem, where everyone is pressured to be a content creator of some sort. Suppose you want to interact with your friends on the internet. ...
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...
The NM Political Report

NM Political Report transitions to new ownership - [image: New Mexico Political Report] NM Political Report, the state’s daily nonprofit newsroom covering state government and politics, has joined the nonp...
TalkLeft

Pardons and Open Thread - I'm sorry I am so late with this new open thread. I had to get a few stitches in my eyebrow (don't ask!). Anyway, I haven't seen the news other than a he...
The Texas Signal

How Krampus Conquered Christmas in Texas - A generation ago, most Americans would not have been able to tell you who Krampus was. Now, the horned figure has become almost as much a part of Christm...
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.
LareDOS

City and KLB invite community to Celebrate Keep Laredo Beautiful Day - Tree planting begins at 8 a.m.
Reveal

Arizona Sues Saudi-Owned Farm Draining Groundwater in the Desert - [image: Rows of open-sided buildings hold bales of hay.] The company is “taking advantage of Arizona’s failure to protect its precious groundwater resourc...
Political Garbage Chute

Jesus Told Me He’d Prefer If MAGA Kept the Him Out of Christmas - “What do they even need with me, when they have that sausage-fingered rapist they clearly worship more than me anyway?” – Jesus Hubert Christ Don’t ask m...
Web of Debt

How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap - The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is not y...
ExChristian.Net

Why We Are Still Religious - We're running Modern Applications on a Caveman Operating System *By James Aames ~ * In order to understand why humans have a seemingly instinctual inclina...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
Media Lens

Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report - Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia w...
Land Destroyer

Washington’s War in Ukraine: Narrowing Options, Growing Consequences - *November 21, 2024 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russia’s use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in eastern Ukraine represents an unprecedent...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

God Bless Us, Every One - When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting, I didn’t hear it all — just “United Healthcare CEO” and “shot in NYC”, and that was about i...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2024 - Walmart had another fifteen shootings in November 2024, including five fatal shootings killing one person each. This also includes two fatal shootings i...
Seeing the Forest

Jack Gets Up - One of my favorites. Everyday in the morning when you get up and you crawl out of bed And you crawl out of bed and you crawl out of bed Everyday in the mor...
Greg Palast

Trump’s “2000 Mules” Maker Confesses Dropbox Charges Were Phony - Back in May 2022, we warned you that Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules would help elect Donald Trump in 2024. Thanks, in part, to the anti-dropbox hysteria ...
BEYONDbones

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Thursday, November 04, 2010

In case anyone has been unable to locate their PMA

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