Brains and Eggs: Sunday Night Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

naked capitalism

Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later - Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
Countercurrents

Tel Aviv hit after Israel destroys Gaza buildings - Israel deliberately destroyed a residential tower in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday despite warnings from Palestinian resistance groups not to target civilian...
The Week

An anti-vax conspiracy theory is apparently making anti-maskers consider masking up, social distancing - "A conspiracy ripping through the anti-vax world may finally drive some anti-maskers to do the unthinkable: wear a mask and keep their distance," *Vice N...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli bombardment escalates as Gaza death toll rises: Live news - Israeli army bombs police and security buildings; Gaza authorities say 35 Palestinians killed, including three children.
Mediagazer

Advocates at nonprofits that aid the poor say media too often seeks help finding people with specific profiles of suffering, rather than building relationships (Ko Bragg/Columbia Journalism Review) - Ko Bragg / Columbia Journalism Review: *Advocates at nonprofits that aid the poor say media too often seeks help finding people with specific profiles of...
VICE

Here’s How Rich Indians Are Able To Take Vaccines From the Poor - “Well-off people like us are getting access to vaccines... but there are people who don’t know how to access the vaccine when they need it the most.”
Rallblog

FDR and Biden Are Exactly the Same - Democrats and their media allies are currently comparing the legislative agenda of Joe Biden to the sweeping ambition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Liz Cheney castigates Republican colleagues for backing Trump – video - The US representative Liz Cheney, speaking in the House a day before her expected ouster from a Republican leadership post, chastised her party colleague...
Raw Story

Red MAGA hats and a ticked off Trump will be making its way back to center stage in a city near you - Former President Donald Trump has plans to begin holding his signature political "Make America Great Again" rallies across the country, yet again, ahead ...
Courthouse News

Suit: Workers Lured From India Paid $1.20 Per Hour for Years - FBI agents were at a large Hindu temple in New Jersey on Tuesday as a new lawsuit claimed it was built by workers from marginalized communities in India wh...
Axios

Several states declare emergency over Colonial Pipeline shutdown amid fuel shortages - Reports of fuel shortages across the U.S. emerged on Tuesday as the national average for gasoline prices soared to its highest level since 2014 amid a ke...
Informed Comment

Colonial Pipeline Failure Shows Electric Cars and Solar Panels are Key to US Security; How Petroleum Uncertainty Fueled World Wars - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Colonial pipeline hack has interrupted gasoline supplies brought from Texas to the Southeast. People are hoarding, and l...
Dissident Voice

Second Stage Terror Wars - We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. – William Casey, CIA Director, February. 1981 It...
memeorandum

Biden administration ignored warnings about potential crisis in Jerusalem for weeks (Joyce Karam/The National) - Joyce Karam / The National: *Biden administration ignored warnings about potential crisis in Jerusalem for weeks* — Diplomatic sources tell ‘The Nation...
Earth 911

Considering a CSA? How To Pick One That Works for You - For the past decade, our household has been buying much of its food from subscription-oriented... The post Considering a CSA? How To Pick One That Works ...
jobsanger

NRA: No Bankruptcy Protection - Must Pay For Its Misdeeds -
Liberation News

How will anti-racist movement remember Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms? - Keisha Lance Bottoms' tenure as mayor can defined by her allegiance to the police and her contempt for the 2020 mass movement against racism.
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2710: Thomas Selfridge - Episode: 2710 The First Fatality in Powered Flight Awakens the World to the Dangers of Aviation. Today, the first powered aviation fatality.
First Draft

Album Cover Art Wednesday: Mimi Benzell & Felix Knight Sing Cole Porter’s Can Can Kiss Me Kate - Since it’s Cole Porter month at the Friday Cocktail Hour, I decided to make it Cole Porter week here. I think it’s also the longest album title ever to tur...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Ask Old Jules: Caring what people think, Not caring about money, Intellectual decline of the US, Philosophical questions, How to repay someone who saved your life - Old Jules, would you say its human nature to care what others think? Many people try to not care but, it is really hard to not care. Why is this? I don’t ...
World Socialist Web Site

SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold online meeting on COVID-19 catastrophe in India - The online meeting will discuss the necessity for the political intervention of the working class to combat the criminal response of the Indian ruling clas...
Wolf Street

The Most Hyped Corners of the Stock Market Come Unglued - SPACs, EV SPACs in particular, IPOs, stocks in the ARK ETF, such as Tesla...
The Verge

Amazon is suing to stop SMS raffle scams - Photo by Natt Garun / The Verge Ever get a text message informing you that you’ve won a prize — from Amazon itself? I certainly have, and I’ve even known...
Morning Consult

Many Vaccinated Americans Are Still Uncomfortable Returning to Public Activities. The U.S. Economy Needs Them - The post Many Vaccinated Americans Are Still Uncomfortable Returning to Public Activities. The U.S. Economy Needs Them appeared first on Morning Consult.
Antiwar.com

Why the Pentagon Budget Never Goes Down - Originally posted at TomDispatch. Strange, isn’t it? Our secretary of state emphatically claims that China has been acting “more aggressively abroad” and...
Mediaite

Jim Jordan Accuses Liz Cheney of Pushing ‘Democrat Talking Points’ in Speech Calling Out Election Big Lie - Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) attacked Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on The Ingraham Angle, saying she was pushing “Democrat talking points.” Cheney gave a speech on t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

All Out War on Palestine - Ongoing Israeli airstrikes have reportedly killed 30 people so far in Gaza, ten of them children. So far, three Israeli citizen has been killed by Hamas ro...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Gov. Abbott’s actions cost Texas an extra House seat, by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. & Rogelio Sáenz - *It's really sad that Texas will not be getting either what should have been *$493.5 million* annually due to the U.S. Census undercount, or a third cong...
Techdirt.

One Developer Gets GTA3 And Vice City Source Code Un-DMCAd On GitHub - The strange flip-flop by Rockstar Games on being open and cool with its fans continues. By way of context and a bit of throat clearing, recall that Rocks...
Political Wire

GOP Lawmaker Wants to Register and Fine Fact Checkers - Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock (R), who’s been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election, introduced a bill that would require “fact checker...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist Files - His work space is a challenge — the ledge is about three feet deep and three feet high, so he has to kneel or lay on his side to paint. “I take a lot of br...
Election Law Blog

“Senate Panel Deadlocks on Voting Rights as Bill Faces Major Obstacles” - NYT: A key Senate committee deadlocked on Tuesday over Democrats’ sweeping proposed elections overhaul, previewing a partisan showdown on the Senate floor ...
ArcaMax

Is Chris Christie Pathetic, Shrewd, or Pathetically Shrewd? - The Republican party has devolved into a motley mix of goose stepping fanatics like Marjorie Taylor Greene and sniveling cowards like Kevin McCarthy. But w...
TXElects

U.S. House Republicans Poised to Cancel Cheney as Roy Objects to Likely Successor - On the eve of an expected vote to remove U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from her leadership post, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Austin) cautioned that U.S. Rep. E...
The Hill

Michelle Obama on coping with low-grade depression: 'Nobody rides life on a high' - Former first lady Michelle Obama in a new interview discussed her experiences dealing with depression amid the events of the past year. During an appearanc...
Alternet

Republicans block amendment that would make it illegal to ban giving water to voters in line - All nine Republicans on the U.S. Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday killed an amendment by Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff that would make it illegal for st...
Latino Rebels

#LatinoRebels10: From 2015, When a Puerto Rican Won the Powerball - Ignorance is everywhere but in February of 2015, it felt like it was solely focused on the Puerto Rican who was a Powerball winner.
Common Dreams

The Dauntless Girl With the Constitution: Nothing You Do Will Surprise Me - Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Rio Grande Guardian

Craig Hall to share his insights on small business and revitalizing the economy - DALLAS, Texas – New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur Craig Hall will share his insights on small business and revitalizing the economy in a...
See You In 2020

Colombia’s Massacres Of Dissenters Will One Day Be Replicated In the U.S. - The recent developments within Colombia fulfill all of one’s darkest fears of how bad modern state repression can get. Colombian police are tracking down...
Progrexas

Twitter’s lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tossed by federal judge - Attorney General Ken Paxton during the 2014 Red State Gathering in Fort Worth. A judge threw out a lawsuit Twitter filed against the attorney general ove...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Brad Blog

Ransomware Rising: 'BradCast' 5/11/2021 - Today on The BradCast, we slide down the slippery, oil-soaked slope of increasingly dangerous ransomware attacks with, as our guest warns today, "nothing" ...
Texas Environmental News

Texas River Authority Gets Venue Win In Harvey Flooding Suit - Four Montgomery County homeowners shouldn’t have been joined to an ongoing lawsuit in Harris County with claims that the San [...] The post Texas River A...
OpEd News

Russian intelligence services can't hold a candle to their Chinese counterparts - Recently, information has appeared in the media about the expulsion of Russian diplomats with ties to intelligence services. The reasons for this varied be...
Workers World

Colombia: State terror won’t stop the struggle - [image: Colombia: State terror won’t stop the struggle] Since April 28, workers in Colombia have been waging a general strike. The strike was provoked by t...
Deadline Politics

Liz Cheney Calls Out GOP As She Faces Ouster For Criticizing Donald Trump: “Remaining Silent And Ignoring The Lie Emboldens The Liar” - Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) gave a speech on the House floor Tuesday on the eve of her expected ouster from House Republican leadership, as she vowed to continu...
Daily Dot

‘Hope he spat in your food’: Viewers upset after TikToker challenges food deliverer to bring order quickly in exchange for candy - [image: Images from a TikTok video] A popular TikTok user is facing backlash online after filming herself bribing a food delivery driver to show up at he...
Debunking Christianity

Once Again On Childhood Indoctrination - Childhood religious indoctrination should be rejected by all honest parents who believe their religion is shown to be true by the objective evidence, and i...
San Antonio Report

Texas colleges get $2 billion in federal stimulus money. Half must go to struggling students. - [image: The Austin Community College Riverside campus on Feb. 27, 2019.]The federal government also announced undocumented and international students can r...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

LGBTQ Americans proven right about Roger Severino. We told you he was a dishonest snake. - Former Trump appointee Roger Severino is no longer hiding his distaste and bigotry of the transgender community. When it comes to former Trump appointee ...
The Intercept

Andrew Yang Can't Explain When Asked Why He Supports Israel Bombing Gaza - Aides for the New York mayoral hopeful tried to shut down voters in Queens who were outraged by his support for Israeli airstrikes that killed dozens of ...
Reform Austin

Texas Legislature Prepares for Power Fight Over the Next Pandemic - [image: abbott] The COVID crisis isn’t even over yet, and already there is a big fight brewing over who will get to drive the wagon the next time a deadl...
Portside

Union Nurses in Massachusetts Are Waging the Longest Current Strike in the US - Union Nurses in Massachusetts Are Waging the Longest Current Strike in the US Judy Tue, 05/11/2021 - 19:09
Socialist Alternative

Defend Feminists in China - Right wing nationalist and state attacks attempt to silence growing feminist wave — millions express solidarity Declaration by Solidarity Against Repressio...
Buzzflash

First Women Editor of Washington Post Appointed to Replace Marty Barron, Sally Buzbee - Axios
Louis Proyect

Paris Calligrammes - Now showing as virtual cinema at the Film Forum in New York, “Paris Calligrammes” is a self-portrait of Ulrike Ottinger, a 78-year old German filmmaker who...
Slate

Will Voting Rights Die in the Senate? - Democrats start moving For the People Act, but it's on a collision course with a brick wall.
The Root

Pro-COVID Parents Are Fighting School Mask Mandates With White Tears - I don’t like wearing masks. Read more...
Talking Points Memo

GOP Rep Knocks Idea Of Stefanik Replacing Cheney To Lead Conference - [image: UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 18: Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, attends a news conference on the gun control debate and to support of the Second Amendment ...
Mahablog

Tucker Carlson Gets Worse - I want to call your attention to an actually headline on the Fox News website today. This is a sceen shot; I am not going to link to this crap. I found t...
FiveThirtyEight.com

There’s No Easy Goodbyes In Baseball - First, we talk about Albert Pujols’s release from the Los Angeles Angels, with just one year remaining on his 10-year deal. It’s the kind of contract for a...
CultureMap Houston

Houston cocktail bar's pop-up shop stocks everything for great drinks - Two of the city's best cocktail minds have teamed up to help Houstonians drink better. Alba Huerta and Luis Villegas have opened Ready to Drink Cocktail M...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert An Exclusiv...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas Hospitals Are Among the Most Overused in the Country - According to research from the Lown Institute Hospitals Index, Texas is the fourth-worst U.S. state for avoiding overuse in hospitals. Dallas ranked 256 ...
Salon.com

Why Anna Duggar stays: "There's a huge martyr's mentality," a woman who left Quiverfull says - “The women, they get into it for the kids,” says one wife who escaped. "But that’s also why they get out.”
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Smacked Down - Zachary Petrizzo @ Salon: Mike Lindell’s South Dakota rally: Proud Boys, Joe Piscopo and a can’t-miss investment. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: GOP La...
Futurism

Pay What You Want To Learn JavaScript And Discover How Websites Are Built - In schools and offices alike, it’s becoming clear that learning to code is going to be a cornerstone of life and work going forward. And one of the most ...
Mother Jones

Judge Says NRA Isn’t Bankrupt and Can’t Move Out of New York to Avoid Lawsuit - The National Rifle Association is not bankrupt, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The decision is a major blow to the nation’s oldest gun rights organizati...
Ballot Access News

South Dakota Supreme Court Says Referendum Can’t be Used to Block Measure Increasing Vote for Initiatives to 60% - Earlier this year, the South Dakota legislature passed a proposed constitutional amendment, saying that some types of initiative can’t pass unless they rec...
Mondoweiss

In photos: 24 hours in Gaza - Photos from the last day in Gaza, where 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes.
Innocence Project

Why We Must Stop Using This Misleading Phrase in Courtrooms - Last month, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three charges for the murder of George Floyd. During the three-week-long ...
Discourse

The White House’s Israel Response Could Hardly Be More Pathetic - The Biden administration can barely be bothered with an escalating human rights crisis. The post The White House’s Israel Response Could Hardly Be More P...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio's ‘The Last Parade’ mural honors indigenous cultures, underground artists - “The Last Parade” by muralist Rudy Herrera is the latest downtown public art project to be completed as part of Centro San Antonio’s “Art Everywhere” init...
Daily Howler

Kevin Drum hits it out of the park! - *TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021* *Kevin Drum gets it right: *We may discuss Kevin Drum's new post in more detail at some point, but we especially recommend this o...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2021 Edition - Microsoft today released fixes to plug at least 55 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. Four of these weaknesses can be expl...
NPR's Health Shots

How Much Will Hesitancy Among Parents Affect Vaccine Rollout To Children? - Children as young as 12 can now get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, but it may be hard to convince some parents to let them. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and pediatr...
Washington Babylon

11 Minutes With Tana Ganeva on Criminal Justice, Joe Biden’s Wretched Immigration Policies and The Intercept - [image: 11 Minutes With Tana Ganeva on Criminal Justice, Joe Biden’s Wretched Immigration Policies and The Intercept] This is the inaugural edition of a ne...
Second Nexus

Judge Slams 'Students for Trump' Founder as a 'Cold-Blooded Fraudster' Before Sentencing Him to a Year in Prison - John Lambert is one of the founders of Students for Trump, a youth political organization founded in 2015 with the mission of getting former President Do...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Frank Thorp’s Portrait of Dion 100 Days after the Capitol Riot - This portrait photograph of Dion Montague is part of an NBC News feature, "After the Riot," marking 100 days since the Capitol attack. The post Chatting ...
The Contributor

Some Truth-Telling From Paul Krugman About Those April Jobless Numbers - News Image: No doubt you’re aware that the media have been mindless repeating the phony Republican talking point about April's jobless numbers. Category: ...
Undernews

VIRUS STATUS UPDATE - Blue indicates better trend. Red indicates worse trend. In the US, the peak weekly average of new cases per capita is better than in every other month s...
Texas Standard

Report Shows Texas COVID Cases, Deaths Rose After School Reopenings - Schools that reopened when there was high community spread of COVID-19 substantially perpetuated the rise in cases and deaths.
Dorf on Law

Blaming the Victims of Rigged Elections in 2022 and 2024 - *by Neil H. Buchanan* Will Democrats pass major bills at the federal level to protect voting rights? The answer to that question depends ultimately on t...
slacktivist

Pretty sure I heard this one before - "Historically speaking, the evangelical church understands it wasn’t a willing participant in the obliteration of slavery or the segregation-style Jim Crow...
Texas Monthly

Annette Gordon-Reed Explores the Tangled Meaning of Juneteenth - In her new book ‘On Juneteenth,’ the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes on the Texas holiday that has gone national. The post Annette Gordon-Reed Exp...
Ring of Fire

Ilhan Omar And Bernie Sanders Push To End Student Lunch Debt And Make Meals Free For Students - Representative Ilhan Omar in the House and Bernie Sanders in the Senate are pushing for legislation that would not only end the cycle of student lunch de...
The Texas Signal

The picture book that prompted a school censorship bill in the Texas House - In the wee hours this morning, Texas Republicans voted for preliminary approval of House Bill 3979. The legislation, recorded as “relating to the social ...
Robert Reich

Democrats are Running Out of TimeThe political window of... - *Democrats are Running Out of Time*The political window of opportunity for Joe Biden and Democrats to deliver on their promises to the American people an...
INSIDER - politics news

A judge called Students for Trump founder John Lambert a 'cold-blooded fraudster' for posing as a lawyer and scamming clients - [image: Students look on as US President Donald Trump speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Cente...
American Prospect

California’s Taxes: The Only Ones Suited for the 21st Century - Today on TAP: The Golden State continues to levy the most progressive taxes in the nation
Living Blue in Texas

Texas Republicans Are Bragging About Running Our State Into The Ground - Press Release from the Texas Democratic Party Texans Are The Casualty As GOP Celebrates ‘Most Conservative Texas Legislature’ AUSTIN, Texas — After Texas...
Dandelion Salad

Attention Feedburner Email Subscribers, by Lo - by Lo Editor, Dandelion Salad May 11, 2021 Please use the Follow button to sign up for the WordPress email subscription as Feedburner is shutting down its ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

RT Levels Bogus Charge of ‘Covid Apartheid’ Against Michigan’s Whitmer - A wild conspiracy theory fits nicely with Russia’s campaign to sow doubt about vaccinations and COVID-19 in the West.
Earthworks

U.S. Bureau of Land Management Puts Hold on Alaska Public Lands Give-Away - Alaska Tribes, Community Members and Conservation Groups Share Their Appreciation In the last two weeks of the Trump Administration, the Interior Departm...
Eater Houston

Chef Justin Yu Goes Rattlesnake Hunting With Gordon Ramsay In NatGeo’s ‘Uncharted’ - [image: Shop Wear Care In Aid Of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity] Chef Gordon Ramsay | Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images ...
Idavox

Next on a Really Crappy White Power Chopping Block: Nicholas Adam Newhart - Neo-Nazi throws his colostomy bag at two cops outside Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk... The post Next on a Really Crappy White Power Chopping Block: Nicho...
epic.org

Lawmakers Call on Facebook to Reverse WhatsApp Terms of Service Update - Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) led a group of fellow Congressional Hispanic Caucus members in writing a letter calling on Facebook Chairman and C...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Why Biden’s Vaccine IP Waiver is Political Theatre - The US pharmaceutical industry and congressional Republicans have already gone on the offensive blasting Biden’s announcement saying it undermines incentiv...
El Paso Matters

What you need to know about the fight over the Newman 6 power plant - El Paso Electric’s goal of building a natural gas power plant on the city’s Northeast side is facing several hurdles that could delay or even derail the...
Novara Media

How Labour Wins Back the Red Wall | Downstream - While Labour lost council seats across the North and Midlands, it held firm in Preston. Can only municipal socialism and the ‘Preston Model’ now save the p...
Moon of Alabama

More Hacks, More Baseless Accusations Against Russia - In January police in various countries took down the Emotet bot-network that was at that time the basic platform for some 25% of all cybercrimes. Based on ...
The AltWorld

Angelo Giuliano & Brian Berletic: The US Hijacking of Myanmar - In this discussion we talk about how deeply the US infiltrated Myanmar’s socio-political landscape – about the […] The post Angelo Giuliano & Brian Berle...
Progressive.org

India Brought COVID-19 Crisis on Itself - The country's vaccination drive lost steam due to governmental mismanagement and complacency.
Shadowproof

Whistleblower Craig Murray Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison Over His Reporting On Former Scottish First Minister’s Trial - The following was originally published as part of The Dissenter Newsletter. Former UK diplomat-turned whistleblower Craig Murray was sentenced to eight m...
Counterpunch

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Houston Press

Mayor Turner Unveils Proposed 2022 City Budget That He Says He'll Already Be Amending Next Week - Mayor Sylvester Turner at a Tuesday morning press conference revealed details of his proposed $5.1 billion city budget for the 2022 fiscal year that begins...
WhoWhatWhy

Cybersecurity Researchers Build a Better Trap, Using AI to Generate Fake Documents - Reading Time: 3 minutes After a Decade Without Executions, SC's Solution: Bring Out the Firing Squad ; Syrian Refugees Fear for Future Without Asylum ; a...
Glasstire

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Launches NFT Project - In collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH), a new site-specific augmented reality series created by artist Nancy Baker Cahill will ...
Vox

Your least favorite gross viral food videos are all connected to this guy - [image: Alphabet pasta spelling out “Gross”] Molly Ford/Shutterstock Whether it’s Spaghetti-Os pie or table-top nachos, everything can be traced back to ...
Popular Resistance

We Can Defeat The Corporate Media’s War On Independent Journalism - I wanted to use this opportunity to talk about my experiences over the past two decades working with new technology as an independent freelance journalis...
Political Garbage Chute

Boebert Demands Update from Biden White House on Windmill Cancer Vaccine - WASHINGTON, D.C. — During an interview on NewsmaxTV, Rep. Lauren Boebert (Q-CO) demanded that the White House provide an “immediate and urgent update” on...
Crooked Timber

Half the Earth ? - When I read fiction, it’s mostly either the 19th century classics or speculative fiction – what was and what might be, as opposed to what is. I live in the...
Lawfare

Is It Really 85 Percent? - A Colonial Pipeline petroleum farm in North Carolina in 2006 (J.B./https://flic.kr/p/s4BCU/CC BY-ND 2.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/) ...
Bonddad

March JOLTS report confirms that month’s strong jobs report - *- by New Deal democrat* This morning’s JOLTS report for March confirmed that month’s stellar jobs report. Job openings made a new series high, while...
Claytoonz

Foxitus - The white nationalist Trump terrorists who attacked our nation’s Capitol building to violate a democratically-held election and to re-install Donald Trump ...
Scheerpost.com

Joe Biden’s First 100 Days Were a Pentagon Prize - The saddest story of the Biden moment is that, amid proposed domestic advances, the Pentagon is still going to be funded and fed in the all-too-usual, wild...
In These Times

We Need to Build a Strong Peace Movement. The Anti-Apartheid Movement Can Show Us How. - In 1986, activists convinced Congress to pass sanctions on South Africa over the veto of President Ronald Reagan. Their victory holds six key lessons today. - Amid the mass death of the coronavirus pandemic, it's easy to forget how close we came to war with Iran in 2020. Former President Donald Trump ordered th...
MintPress News

Andrew Yang [kee]: Champion of Memes, Math and Murder - While known for his outside-the-box ideas, Yang’s foreign policy views are very much within the realm of the swamp. The post Andrew Yang [kee]: Champion ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: May 11, 2021 - Dear Readers: This is the latest edition of the Crystal Ball’s “Notes on the State of Politics,” which features short updates on elections and politics. — ...
The Progressive Wing

5/11 News Roundup & OT - Bonjour! Let’s star the thread with an op-ed by Pramila Jayapal and Bernie Sanders Concerning Medicare We must fix the gaping holes in Medicare More than 5...
Texas Observer

Armed With Lessons From a Dallas Serial Killer, Families Push for Reforms in Texas Law - Shannon Gleason Dion often holds a gold necklace with a guardian angel medallion when she testifies before the Texas Legislature. Her mother, Doris Gleas...
Southeast Texas Record

Patent trolls invade Waco, bombard Austin tech companies with lawsuits - WACO – Pick a day, go online and scope out Judge Alan Albright’s docket – there’s a good chance nothing but patent infringement cases will fill the scree...
The Conversation

Robert Owen, born 250 years ago, tried to use his wealth to perfect humanity in a radically equal society - The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, May 11 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, May 11]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the...
Democracy Now!

"Harm Is Still Being Done": 36 Years After MOVE Bombing, Misuse of Children's Remains Reopens Wounds - This week marks the 36th anniversary of the day the city of Philadelphia bombed its own citizens. On May 13, 1985, police surrounded the home of MOVE, a ra...
Rewire

Mobile Health Clinics Could Revolutionize Reproductive Care in the South - Plan A is bringing health care directly to Mississippians—and at a time when access continues to be threatened. The post Mobile Health Clinics Could Revo...
Space City Weather

Two wet days will precede a drier pattern for Houston - Storms have pulsed up overnight north of the Houston area, particularly in the Lake Livingston area, close to where a stationary front is located over Texa...
Angry Bear

Coronavirus dashboard for May 10: stay the course! - Coronavirus dashboard for May 10: stay the course! The story in the US continues to be that vaccinations work!As of today, the 7 day moving average of ne...
Caitlin Johnstone

The Israel Narrative Is Crumbling Because Of Phone Cameras And The Internet - Listen to this article: “Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes,” reads a new report f...
Church and State

Washington Post’s Population Growth Crisis Story Ignores Surfeit of People - Instead of fostering a benign voluntary global family planning program, we humans engage in endless wars and human conflict.
The Smirking Chimp

"Stop the Steal" Is Becoming the GOP's Permanent Rallying Cry -
Duffel Blog

Lockheed unveils '6th-Generation Fighter for the Middle Class' - Finally an aircraft for the Average Joe.
Media Lens

Feeling The Truth – 20 Years Of Media Lens: An Appeal For Support - 9 July will mark 20 years since we sent our first media alert – a 500-word piece on the West’s crimes against humanity. Since then, our media alert and cog...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 5/11/2021 - Top legal news includes: Texas governor’s emergency powers during pandemics would be curbed under bill advanced in House; Owner started in driver's seat in...
Duck of Minerva

Is bullying baked into academia? - Recently, David Edelstein and Jim Goldgeier circulated an open letter for signature to address bullying in the profession. The open letter can be found her...
Grist

What do voting restrictions and anti-protest laws have in common? - Both have sponsors funded by fossil fuel companies.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Tight deadline, savvy pitch: How one red state expanded access to the ballot - On the afternoon of January 21, a group of public officials gathered in Kentucky’s Capitol in Frankfort for a delicate conversation about changing how th...
Ian Welsh

The Inflation Spike: What It Will Do & How To Take Advantage - So, many people have noticed there’s been a lot of inflation. Timber is up about 3x. There is an international chip shortage (thank you Crypto). The price ...
Dallas Observer

Here Are the Dallas City Council Runoffs You Should Know About - City Council seats in these six districts are still up for grabs.
High Country News

Is California’s carbon offset program actually helping the environment? - How a nonprofit cashed in on carbon credit exchanges without reducing emissions.
ROAR Magazine

The “Zapatista invasion” has begun! - After months of preparations, a delegation of the Zapatistas has set sail from Mexico towards Europe. The “reversed conquest” has well and truly started.
Crooked Media

From the bedside to the bullhorn for Black Lives w/ Rep. Cori Bush - The post From the bedside to the bullhorn for Black Lives w/ Rep. Cori Bush appeared first on Crooked Media.
The NM Political Report

Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest - [image: Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest] Early this year, five of Gallup, New Mexico’s 16 water wells stopped producing w...
LareDOS

Dining under seven flags: Laredo Restaurant Week underway - First-ever culinary celebration marks founding of Laredo
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Won’t Somebody Think Of The Shareholders? - No doubt that day last week will go down as “Black Wednesday” for all the death’n'misery profiteers out there: the day the US Trade Representative’s office...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- partisan paradigm shift - There is a distinction I must insist on here -- in the case of Trump and Franken specifically, the issue was not unconventional sexual behavior but sexual...
Liberal America

The Biden Administration Stands Up to Big Pharma for Vaccines (Video) - After Democratic backlash ensued regarding the Biden administration’s decision to maintain the Trump-era cap on refugees permitted to enter the United St...
Skeptical Raptor

Pfizer COVID vaccine authorized for use in 12-15-year-olds - The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. The FDA has expanded the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer COVID-19 v...
Chicken Fried Politics

Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia GOP’s nomination for governor - Political newcomer bests 6 rivals to set up likely fall race against Democrat Terry McAuliffe ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor RICHMOND (C...
Project Censored

Excerpts From “The Long Sili-CON: Power and Censorship in the Digital Era” - This week’s program presents excerpts from “The Long Sili-CON: Power and Censorship in the Digital Era,” a live online discussion co-produced by Project ...
Alas, a Blog

Check Out “Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse” in Uncanny Magazine - One: My lipstick. The shade is Heart’s Blood. Morbid, if you ask me. I wanted to know if it was really the color of heart’s blood so I bought beef heart an...
The Ghion Journal

Doctors Have a Long and Checkered History of Siding with Big Pharma and Biotech Corporations at the Cost of their Patients - If a doctor went on national TV today to recommend cigarettes and promote the health benefits of smoking, that doctor would have his medical license The ...
DeSmogBlog

Climate and Indigenous Protesters Across 4 Continents Pressure Banks to #DefundLine3 - By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. From fake oil spills in Washington, D.C. and New York City to ...
Bayou Brief

Does A Proposed Change to Louisiana’s State Motto Honor the Union, Promote Justice, and Inspire Confidence? - Louisiana state Rep. Richard Nelson's proposal to adopt a new state motto offers an important reminder of the hazards of borrowing from the history of a pl...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: May 2021 - Pie That’ll Kill Ya: The Problem with Fandom Statistics | Franzeska Dickson (video, 5 min) – On the subject of fandoms, a lot of our intuition is informed ...
Grits for Breakfast

Austin PD failed to define 'resistance' that justifies use of force, made up 'unique' category of force vs. suspects who're 'fixing to' resist - In 2008, Austin PD changed its "use of force" policy to a "response to resistance" policy, enacting a "Dynamic Resistance Response Model" (DRRM) developed...
Dissent Magazine

People in Havana Talk - Raúl Castro has relinquished his post as General Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. The government speaks of continuity, and only continuity.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

International Accountability is Critical to Dismantling Systemic Racism and Police Brutality Domestically - This month marks a year since George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police, which outraged the world and sparked unprecedented domestic and global protes...
nonsite.org

Lukács/Fried - But what is surprising about “Marxism and Criticism” is not what Fried regards as bad Marxist criticism, but what he regards as good Marxist criticism: spe...
Democracy Chronicles

What The Coup Means For Gender Equality In Myanmar - Myanmar's women have been at the helm of protests against the coup that led to the removal of Aung San Suu Kyi's government.
NORML

Georgia: Governor Signs Legislation into Law Expanding Access to Low-THC Medical Cannabis - State regulators are expected in the coming months to award licenses to eligible applicants to begin cultivating cannabis and manufacturing oil extract p...
Bracing Views

America Is Programmed for War - W.J. Astore In my latest article for TomDispatch, I write that America is programmed for war. It’s a feature of our polity and our politics and our culture...
Progressives Chat

No Sympathy for Liz Cheney - Former U.S. president Donald Trump is orchestrating *Liz Cheney*’s downfall in Congress. The No. 3-ranking Republican—from the single At-Large congressi...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Houston Mobilizes to Defend George Floyd’s Grave from Nazi Threats - This Saturday on May 8th, 2021 a national group of white supremacists known as White Lives Matter planned their second wave of actions in various cities ac...
Stinque

Apocalypse Predictions, Rated - The Omega Man Prediction: The last man on Earth defends himself against all the other last men on Earth. Rating: 8/10. Yeah, the Night People are a bitch...
Unlimited Hangout

AI and the War on Agriculture with Christian Westbrook - The post AI and the War on Agriculture with Christian Westbrook appeared first on unlimitedhangout.com.
Land Destroyer

US Encirclement of China: A Progress Report - *May 9, 2021* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely the recent results of former US President Donald Trump's ti...
Bud Kennedy

50 years later, Fort Worth native with front-row seat remembered JFK visit - In a book and a new TV documentary, author Julian Read has stories to tell. … Click to Continue »
The Conscious Resistance Network

The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 1 – Big Education - The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 1 – Big Education The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power, a ...
Field Negro

Caption Saturday. - Please give me a caption for this picture.
Rude Pundit

How a Story From a Middle Tennessee College Is Really About Our American Apocalypse (Part 1) - This isn't a hard story, but the hardest part about telling this story is where to begin. There are so many pieces, so much history, so many still-moving...
The Appeal

Brooklyn Center Mayor Unveils Plan To Decrease Police Traffic Enforcement Powers - Less than a month after a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mayor Mike Elliott is proposing a measure to remove...
The Militant

Locked-out Marathon workers mark 100 days on picket line - ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Some 200 members of Teamsters Local 120 locked-out by Marathon Petroleum here marked their 100th day on the picket line April 30. Th...
Due Dissidence

Weak Jobs Numbers and a Crying Capitalist Class: Is This a De Facto General Strike? - by Keaton Weiss In the days and weeks after the coronavirus lockdowns began, many on the Left called for a general strike. What better time than now, we th...
The Grayzone

White Helmets corruption scandal deepens: Dutch gov’t investigated parent org for fraud, but covered it up - The Netherlands investigated fraud by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, which funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120 million in Western government co...
Seeing the Forest

Innocence - Arkansas really wanted someone dead, their supply of death drugs was running out. I was hiking in Muir Woods this week, ran into a guy with an Innocence Pr...
Eclectablog

No more F-35s – with special guest Dan Grazier from the Project on Government Oversight - Dan Grazier on Twitter: @Dan_Grazier Project on Government Oversight on Twitter: @POGOwatchdog Project on Government Oversight's website: POGO.org Will Bun...
Equality Texas

Lege Week 17 Wrap-up: Pettiness and retribution bring harm to trans youth - In the #txlege, nothing is truly “dead” until Sine Die. We saw that clearly this week. This past Tuesday SB 29 (Perry), the bill that would ban transgende...
Sludge

Biden’s Likely Ambassador to China Is Entangled In Tech and Defense - The American Prospect is a nonprofit, independent magazine covering public policy and politics. Sludge is re-publishing this article. China will affect eve...
Freethought Now

A Lone Star victory, a Day of Reason, Robin Morgan & Sasha Sagan - There are some court victories we really love to savor. This week had one — in which we triumphed over the Texas governor, no less.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *James Chance plays James Brown.* * • *There are a few unlocked *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* stories on the site, but I warn you, I'll be scaling way bac...
Edinburg Politics

Trade Agricultural Inspection Grant by Rep. Guerra, Rep. Guillén, and Rep. Muñoz – which helps speed up safe, efficient entry of majority of Mexican farming products into U.S. through the Pharr International Bridge – approved for continuation by the House of Representatives - The Trade Agricultural Inspection Grant Program, authored by Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, which helps speed up the safe and efficient entry of Mexi...
Environment Texas

25 days to go for Texas Legislature - Luke Metzger Executive Director (512) 479-0388 Contact person by email - Read more about Luke Metzger Friday, May 7, 2021 Which environmental bills...
Tribune of the People

Worcester: Nurses Hold May Day Rally to Mark Two Months of Strike - By Vincent Cross This International Workers’ Day nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester held a rally to commemorate both May Day and their nearly tw...
Pages of Victory

Chris Hedges Says - *D*on’t be fooled by Joe Biden. He knows his infrastructure and education bills have as much chance at becoming law as the $15-dollar minimum wage or th...
BEYONDbones

Evenings with Mercury | May 2021 Sky Happenings - Mars continues to fade a little bit each night now that Earth has overtaken it and is pulling away. However, it fades out gradually; Mars remains almost ...
Reveal

The Ferguson movement is on the cusp of revolutionizing political power in St. Louis - [image: Portrait of Kayla Reed] After a group of young Black activists saw police reform efforts fail, they came up with a new plan. The Ferguson movemen...
Dos Centavos

May 22: SAs Tejano Conjunto Fest Goes Virtual - We’ll I don’t expect to go to live concerts any time soon, so, mil thank yous to The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s Tejano Conjunto Festival for going vi...
Ecosophia

Conversation as Commons - A little while back I fielded yet another attempt to bully me into censoring my comments pages. It was the same schtick as always. One of my commenters ha...
Lowering the Bar

Barge Captains Caught After What You Might Call “Chases” - I wouldn't call them that, but you might. Related Stories - Houston Water Escape: Another Exception That Proves the Rule? - Woman Charged Wi...
Texas Moratorium Network

Rep Jeff Leach Speaks to Texas House in Favor of His Bill Addressing the Imposition of the Death Penalty in Law of Parties Cases - The bill by Representative Jeff Leach would prohibit the imposition of the death penalty in law of parties cases in which the person charged under the la...
Avedon's Sideshow

You're playing with fire - This acrylic by Claire Morand is one of the pretty pictures in this year's collection for spring. Proposed: All members of Congress should be required to ...
Our Finite World

How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden - We now live in a strange world filled with half-truths, not too different from the world of the 1930s. US newspapers leave out the many stories that could ...
New Progressive Alliance

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

Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce - Bill and Melinda Gates have announced they are getting a divorce. Both their twitter feeds have the same message. They say they will continue their work to...
Anti-Media

Algorithm Manipulation is the Only Thing Keeping Mainstream Media Alive - If not for algorithm manipulation, the mainstream media would have been replaced by independent media years ago.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-AAPI Hate: A Conversation With Dr. Jennifer Lee - The rise in anti-AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) hate incidents and hate crimes has finally started a national conversation on the history of an...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Criminalization of Dissent - One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but ...
The Mind Unleashed

WATCH: Video Shows Bullets Fly as Armored Car Crew Narrowly Escapes Brutal Heist - Dramatic dash cam footage from Pretoria, South Africa, shows the moment that the crew of an armored car narrowly escaped an attempt by armed robes to stage...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2021 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in April of 2021, including at least two that were fatal, one from road rage, another from a small child who fou...
The Socialist

How to Make The Political Arrangements For Reviewing in Kaoyan - The application phase should be scheduled fromNovember to early December. Its goal is to consolidate the contents through the practice. The summary stage s...
CT's short stories and novelettes

MEXICAN RED AND THE BANKER - 1 A lone rider from the west slowly trotted his pony in anticipation of finding water at Weber’s spring. The spring sometimes went dry, but he...
Nina Illingworth

Film Sessions: Who Weeps for the Hate Nerd? - In this offsite essay we're looking at a video by Thought Slime that helps explain why you shouldn't defend Nick Fuentes from the consequences of his act...
ProPublica

Counties at Highest Risk for COVID Harm Often Have Lowest Vaccination Rates - by Ryan Gabrielson ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publi...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Action Releases Statement on New Census Data Allocating Two Additional Congressional Districts to Texas - Texas gained two new seats given new Census information. Find Texas Rising Action’s statement below: Austin, TX — In response to the announcement this af...
Texas Watch

Texas Needs Safe Roads, Not Dangerous Trucking Legislation - *By: Ware Wendell* We have a *safety crisis* on Texas roads. Texas has *led the nation* in the number of large truck crashes for years. Commercial truck...
Independent Political Report

Alliance Party April 2021 Newsletter - *The Alliance Party sent out the following newsletter earlier this week updating email subscribers on the latest party news for this month:* *“Own Your Fu...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Spring on the Bayou Bend - Temporary Photo While We Wait for the Pro April 23, 2021 Well, spring has sprung, and we were getting impatient looking at a bare, wintry photo of that Ben...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

The antidote to QAnon is proving that truly “all men are created equal.” - It was another one of those online videos, the kind the world has come to expect with weary repugnance. The video starts with ominous looking centaurs flas...
LawFlog

FBI releases records about murdered DNC employee Seth Rich - This afternoon the FBI finally released records about murdered DNC employee Seth Rich and the 2016 theft of Democratic National Committee emails that were ...
The Rag Blog

Lamar W. Hankins : WAR | My military ambivalence - I thought it was wrong to fight in the Vietnam War, and there has not been one since that I found compelling. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 22...
Downwinders at Risk

Earth Day 2021: Our New Archive of Local Frontline Environmental Justice Fights - It’s Earth Day 2021. Board members Cindy Hua and Evelyn Mayo built this great archival tool to explore the history of EJ frontline fights in Dallas County...
BillMoyers.com

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

Deepwater Horizon: The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic - Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-...
WhatWouldJackDo

“[Y]ou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”…hopefully, I did it well for 20 years - (credit to Stephen King for the quote) I have always had the illusion it was more important or as important to be a good man as to be a great... Read more »
ExChristian.Net

Freedom and Peace - *By Blackfreethought ~ * It is such a relief to know my actions do not have eternal consequences. My mistakes will not condemn me to damnation and my good...
DBC Green

Moxie: Flawed But Worthy - Dang, I meant to re-post this sorta review here about a month ago.In a nutshell, I don't particularly care for the what the Amy Poehler and the Hollywood M...
The Metaphor Project

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

FHQ Turns 14 - Today marks the beginning of FHQ's 15th year. Like any other period of time, it has been a span that has seen both ups and downs, none more challenging tha...
WAWG Blog

What Socialism Is, Has Changed - Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue ...
GreenSource DFW

Downtown Fort Worth to dim lights to help migrating birds - *Lights Out Texas encourages businesses and residents to turn off lights from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. through June 15. Photo courtesy of Storyblocks.* March 1...
Moron Majority

Where’s Jared? - Since leaving his position, in January, as White House senior advisor, Jared Kushner seems to be missing in action. During Donald Trump’s appearance at las...
Campaign for America's Future

It's Time for an Organizing Revival - The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form an...
Web of Debt

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment? - Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facili...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show - The post Free & Equal Founder Christina Tobin Joins Apolla’s Odyssey Live Show appeared first on Free & Equal.
News Taco

Legal Machinations of SAWS Trustees and CEO Raise Serious Ethical Concerns - In late January, SAWS and the City of San Antonio dropped their legal action against the SAWS Act PAC citizens’ coalition that is seeking changes at the ...
The Disorder Of Things

Judith Butler Goes to Norway - A guest post from Ida Roland Birkvad. Ida is a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her t...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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Malady

Surrendering to Hopelessness: Catharsis for the Modern Communist - *“How does it help...to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" – Seneca* There is a propensity amongst those on the left to discuss revolution in the co...
Progressives Everywhere

Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court to Save Democracy - The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be...
Modern Democracy

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

Two principles of racial equity that outrage liberals - The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police ov...
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-...
News Junkie

Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy When Populism Became Fascism - Trumpism has defined, in the past four years, the quintessence of populism. On January 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob, instigated by their cult leader himse...
One People's Project

CHESTER DOLES - NAME: Chester Doles HOME BASE: Winters Mtn. Rd. Dahlonega, GA 30533 706-867-6696 (As of 2004) Drives black van, license plate number Georgia 838GMF RELATED...
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...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Update: Chris Faulkner > IT Guy > Frack Master > Felon - ORDER SETTING REARRAIGNMENT HEARING VIA VIDEO TELECONFERENCE as to Christopher Aundre Faulkner: The court finds in this case that the felony plea cannot ...
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: ...
Down With Tyranny!

WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
Green Pages News

S. Michael DeRosa 1945 – 2020 - S. Michael DeRosa, 75 years of age (January 4, 1945 – October 16, 2020) of Wethersfield, CT died October 16, 2020 at Hartford Hospital due to exacerbation ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

New post at my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flights of Fancy" - For those that have any interest, curiosity or just have a good need for self punishment, I have made a new post on my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flig...
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...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - I knew I wanted to talk to freshman Rep. Lizzie Fletcher this cycle, because there’s just so much to talk about. You know her story from 2018 – the crowded...
The Texas CBD Blog

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Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Echidne of the Snakes

The Debate. And Other Equally Weird Incidents. - 1. I tried to watch the Biden-Trump debate last night but instead my television gave me a show where two kindergarten children were having temper tantru...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
Bad Attitudes

Nothing New Under the Sun - From the *New York Times* of October 30, 2002: Remember all that fuss a couple of years back over Floridaâ€™s Banana-republic voting procedures? And then...
Popehat

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
The Reality-Based Community

[J!nx-Movie] UNHINGED (2020) HD Watch online Full Or Free - Watch UNHINGED Online, free, trial, access!! WATCH HERE > https://comicbook.com/film/unhinged DOWNLOAD HERE > UNHINGED is a movie starring Tom Hanks, Elisa...
Splinter

Google's Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming - Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some ...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Editor & Publisher

Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed - The country’s most prominent media owner-editor is detained and incarcerated. The image-conscious prime minister ignores a letter from United Nations
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

We have a world to win! Capitalism, coronavirus and the struggle for the new normal - As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival t...
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...
t.e.j.a.s.

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
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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...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Las Vegas’ Downtown Project & Tony Hsieh - I admire rich people who do something creative with their money instead of just buying more stuff. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappo, lives in Las Vegas and broug...
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...
The Blofaiz

hair loss| hair fall | hair fall treatment - hair loss treatment Why do hair loss ? Hair fall has increasingly become a very common problem in men and women. There are many factors that lead to ha...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
Truthout

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - [image: The darkened sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil is picture on August 19, 2019. Residents reported black rain, while studies by two universities confirmed tha...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...

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Sunday, December 05, 2010

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