Brains and Eggs: Too funny to wait until Sunday

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

It took me many years of trying to finally come to that conclusion

Join us https://t.co/Tj0nOMa49x #VoteGreen pic.twitter.com/wb8q2hFdv6
— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 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

Eschaton

JESUS IS ME - An issue with Christianity is many people take to it for the same reason kids love stories about heroes they can project themselves into. Harry Potter f...
The Week

'People shouldn't have to share the road with impaired drivers' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Election Law Blog

“Trump Claims ‘Illegal Alien’ Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.” - Andy Kroll for ProPublica: Unfounded claims about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and noncitizens in the 2024 election. Away from th...
Mediaite

Tucker Carlson Claims Voting Machines Only Exist So Dems Can ‘Subvert’ Elections: ‘Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise’ - Tucker Carlson claimed electronic voting machines serve no purpose other than to assist Democrats in stealing elections Monday during an interview with S...
WhoWhatWhy

Shrinks Who Dare to Label Trumpism as a Mental-Health Issue - [image: Donald Trump, shakes hands, Mark Milley] A sobering article by Forbes investigative journalist Richard Behar — summarized. Shrinks Who Dare to La...
Slate

The One Reason a Second Trump Presidency Would Be So Much Worse - He is the state, but he is also the law.
Mondoweiss

UAW members push their union to divest from Israeli genocide - [image: UAW President Shawn Fain poses for a photo with members of UAWL4P shortly after saying he will vote for divestment, October 7, 2024.]Rank-and-file ...
memeorandum

Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices on U.S.-Bound Planes (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices on U.S.-Bound Planes* — Two devices that ignited in Europe, officials say...
The Hill

Trump says he’ll put ex-NFL player in charge of US missile shield - Former President Trump told supporters Sunday that he wants to put former NFL player and failed GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker in charge of a new mis...
The Verge

Can Philadelphia’s ballot counters outrun election lies? - [image: Philadelphia City Commissioners chair Omar Sabir answers press questions on voting system scanners at the Philadelphia election warehouse.] The m...
The Mind Unleashed

The Most Controversial Tech Breakthroughs of the Last Decade and Their Impact on Society - The past decade has seen a rapid surge of technological breakthroughs, transforming how we live, work, and connect with the world around us. From advances ...
Texas Monthly

8 Texas Cocktails to Get You Through Whatever - If current events seem particularly stressful—whether you’re inundated with election chatter or coordinating family gatherings—take the edge off with a fun...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Latest Lawsuit Against CBS Proves He’s No Free Speech Champion - As we head into the election tomorrow, there has been some general talk about how many people think that Donald Trump is somehow better on things like free...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 12: Your Voter Guide for Tomorrow’s Election - On the TMI Show for November 4th, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan err on the side of bringing you more information than you ever thought you needed. Th...
naked capitalism

Politicians on Corporate Boards and the Cost of Public Procurement - Ties between political parties and boards of government contractors lead to overpriced contracts without any corresponding gains in quality for citizens an...
Daily Dot

Newsletter: 🦷 A nightmare trip to the dentist - [image: Woman talking(l), Dentist holding up fake teeth to mouth(r) web_crawlr logo over it] ------------------------------ *Internet culture is chaotic...
Deadline Politics

Politico Names Annie Allen As Executive Producer Of Events - Politico has named Annie Allen as executive producer of events, overseeing the media outlet’s team in North America. Allen has been a television and docume...
Salon.com

"We won't hold our breath": Trump rallies leave over a dozen cities with unpaid bills - The former president has failed to repay cities for the public safety costs of his rallies, ABC News reported
Political Wire

Final Poll Shows Harris with National Lead - The final Marist Poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 51% to 47%. Interesting: 55% of likely voters report they ha...
Houston Public Media

Houston nonprofit offers $15,000 microgrants for EV infrastructure programs - Electric transportation nonprofit Evolve Houston, with backing from General Motors and bp America, is offering microgrants for electric vehicle-related ini...
Al Jazeera English

Any Trump deal to end Gaza would likely be “tenuous” - Akbar Shahid Ahmed talks about how Trump, if re-elected, might try for a quick deal to end Israel’s war on Gaza.
Vox

What the final polls show about the 2024 presidential election - If you were hoping the final polls before Election Day would give a clearer picture of the presidential contest, you were hoping in vain. Pretty much any t...
Mediagazer

A look at MSNBC's "Avengers" format of bringing together top anchors for big moments, which Rashida Jones says elevates "the seriousness of the news" (Brian Steinberg/Variety) - Brian Steinberg / Variety: *A look at MSNBC's “Avengers” format of bringing together top anchors for big moments, which Rashida Jones says elevates “the ...
The Root

WATCH: Drake and Demar DeRozan Get Petty With Each Other During NBA Game, Thanks to Kendrick Lamar - For what might be the first time this year, Drake has publicly encountered a person he thought was a good friend but was, in actuality, a close ally to t...
Futurism

OpenAI Appears to Have Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address - Domain Exploit The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 reportedly leaked on Friday — only for the company to shut it down a mere two hours...
Raw Story

'Can't say I didn't warn him': Analyst points to factor that could finally sink Trump - The Washington Monthly's Bill Scher has for months been raising red flags about former President Donald Trump's get-out-the-vote operation in key swing s...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Oklahoma: more tornado warnings issued a day after 11 killed in twisters - Residents warned of ‘potentially life-threatening conditions’ including tornadoes and severe thunderstorms A day after tornadoes injured at least 11 peop...
Alternet

Trump spokesman launches unhinged attack on Harris campaign official - Spokesman Steven Cheung has maintained a snarky, combative tone throughout Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. And he aimed an insult at Patrick D...
Daily Howler

What explains the way Iowa votes? - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2024* *Also, Semafor tattles: *How does the state of Iowa vote in presidential elections? In recent years, the state's pattern has ...
Axios

NYT tech workers strike ahead of Election Day - Members of The New York Times Tech Guild, which represents more than 600 tech workers at the outlet, walked off the job Monday morning in protest of stal...
Reform Austin

Bygones - The post Bygones appeared first on Reform Austin.
Mother Jones

Arizona’s Election Deniers Say to Trust the Process—For Now - When Tim Stringham arrived at a “Veterans for Harris” canvassing launch on Sunday in a Phoenix shopping center alongside Sen. Mark Kelly and Rep. Ted Lieu ...
Novara Media

Western Politicians Hate Francesca Albanese for Good Reason – She’s Making Them Look Terrible - [image: A woman with grey hair and glasses smiles at an audience]As Israel pursues a relentless campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Is...
Texas Standard

Are Californians moving to Texas and turning it blue? The numbers say not really. - Before you say “Don’t California my Texas,” read this.
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting - [image: Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting]The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year i...
Dissident Voice

The Numbing Election - Before radio waves vibrated in Calvin Coolidge’s 1924 campaign, voters had scarce knowledge of candidates in presidential elections. Despite the limited ...
LareDOS

Consider this - Why invest in falsehoods rather than truth and in cruelty rather than compassion? Why willingly deny ourselves and others our individual autonomy? And why ...
Rewire

Op-Ed: From Texas to Maryland, Cities Are Fighting Abortion Bans - "As Latinas and women in positions where we are able to promote and protect our constituents’ interests, we are united in our belief that abortion should...
Consortium News

Rights Groups: Stop Pro-Palestine College Crackdown - Instead of resorting to excessive policing, three rights groups say universities need to do more to protect student speech from violence and intimidation. ...
Second Nexus

People Reveal The Dumbest Reasons Why Someone Got Mad At Them - Patience is a virtue. A virtue that, sadly, far too few people are blessed with. Indeed, some people's anger threshold is virtually non-existent, and eve...
El Paso Matters

When will Texas election results come in? Here’s how the process unfolds. - By state law, Election Day totals must be submitted to the state within 24 hours after polls close. Meeting that deadline requires careful but quick wor...
Undernews

Democracy or dictatorship - *Sam Smith – *The choice in tomorrow’s election goes well beyond Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris. It is also a choice between continuing America as a con...
The AltWorld

Netanyahu’s “imaginary war narrative” strategy: “If it works, fine; if not, no big deal. We’ll try something else” - Of course, a victory narrative was too valuable to be foregone. Yet nonetheless, unexplained events matter. On […] The post Netanyahu’s “imaginary war na...
Angry Bear

E-Verify and undocumented workers in America - When alcoholic beverages were illegal in America, drinking didn’t stop. Alcohol smuggling just became lucrative for criminal gangs. Drugs like cocaine an...
Discourse

The 60 Biggest Villains of the 2024 Election - Saluting the people who made this year so, so very terrible.
Liberation News

The workers who power up Cuba: Inside Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant - Eyewitness visit to Cuban powerplant where the hard work and sacrifice of workers brought the island back online in record time.
San Antonio Report

Yes, you can choose any polling location on Election Day to vote in Bexar County - Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at more than 300 polling locations on Nov. 5 — all of which are available to any Bexar County voter. --------------...
Democracy Now!

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud on Refusing Meeting with Trump, Not Endorsing Harris - All eyes are on Michigan as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battle over undecided voters in the crucial swing state, including many of the state’s 200,000 A...
The Conversation

I’m a Muslim immigrant and a psychiatrist living in Michigan – I haven’t decided how to vote yet - Naturalized citizens like the author are an important voting bloc, representing 5% of eligible voters in Michigan.
Claytoonz

Is This Thing On? - Read the blog at my brand new Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: One Day More - Even Edison Lee (KFS), though far too young to vote, understands what’s at stake tomorrow. I remember the anticipation and sense of helplessness in 1968, w...
Space City Weather

Stormy setup tonight and early Tuesday as a weak front arrives, and what’s that in the tropics? - In brief: There’s a lot going on in today’s forecast, with the possibility of some storms tonight and Tuesday morning ahead of our region’s next front. The...
First Draft

Something’s Happening - It’s reproductive rights and democracy, stupid.
Texas Observer

Is Rep Nate Schatzline Misusing Nonprofit to Play Partisan Politics? - On August 20, state Representative Nate Schatzline took the stage inside a black box-style room at the Mercy Culture Church campus in Fort Worth, where h...
Bracing Views

Blame - W.J. Astore When candidates lose an election, they are primarily responsible If Kamala Harris loses this election, can we please not blame Jill Stein, Sus...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: From the RGV to the White House: Empowering Students and the Community Through Work-Based Learning - Eloy Garza, founder and CEO of Rio Grande Valley-based Bridge-Career, writes about a recent visit to the White House. The post Garza: From the RGV to the...
The Smirking Chimp

We the People Will Succeed -
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander’s 2024 Sea Level Rise Update - Sustainability In Your Ear welcomes back oceanographer and author John Englander, who last visited with... The post Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John ...
Scheerpost.com

Israel Killed Over 50 Children in Jabalia in 48 Hours: UN - By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com Israeli strikes in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killed over 50 children in just 48 hours, the UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, sai...
Church and State

Trump Faults Are Clear: Anti-choice, No Integrity and His Big Attack on Democracy! But the Abortion Choice/Personal Freedom Issue Will Bring Him Down - The overwhelming list of reasons to not elect Trump on November 5th are having too little effect on his faithful voters.
Skeptophilia

A wolf, a disk, and a lighthouse - Because here in the United States, many Americans are looking at tomorrow's election the way a man walking in a railway tunnel sees the headlights of an ...
DeSmogBlog

Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch’s Views on Climate Change - The Conservative Party has elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader, who describes herself as a “net zero sceptic” and has received funding from the head ...
Crooked Media

Election Anxiety: How the Outcome Could Affect SCOTUS’s Docket - The post Election Anxiety: How the Outcome Could Affect SCOTUS’s Docket appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

No observers allowed here - Texas Tribune: Texas tells U.S. Justice Department that federal election monitors aren’t allowed in polling places. Texas’ top elections official told the ...
slacktivist

Pro-lifers keep killing women and their children - Nevaeh Crain began bleeding and vomiting the day of her baby shower. She died because of Texas' anti-abortion laws.
NPR's Health Shots

Why dark nights and bright days are good for health - Too much light at night and not enough daylight is taking years off our lives, according to a new study. The research adds to the evidence that light expos...
ProPublica

As Denver Mobilized to Support Arriving Migrants, the City’s Unhoused Population Has Grappled With Feeling Left Behind - by Anjeanette Damon, photography by Zaydee Sanchez for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to recei...
Grist

The race for clean energy is local - A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots.
The Daily Poster

This Election, Health Care Is On Life Support - In the heart of the state that could decide the election, people are grappling with a crisis largely ignored by both Trump and Harris.
ArcaMax

Campaign Season Ends on Cruel Notes - It seems to me that Tony Hinchcliffe, the podcast host and alleged "roast comedian" who warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump's recent campaign rally at Madi...
OpEd News

TV Series Review: Franklin - A review of the TV series Franklin, available on Apple+. It stars Michael Douglas. Timely, entertaining/
Counterpunch

America’s First World Problem: A Crisis of Democracy - America has its very own first-world problem — struggling to keep democracy and a Constitutional Republic on life support, while the nation faces a most ...
jobsanger

Kamala's Odd Coalition -
Wolf Street

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to 9.4%, Highest Since Worst Months after the Financial Crisis - “Survive till 2025” is the motto in CRE now, but that might not work either.
Informed Comment

How did the Mideast become a Nuclear Flashpoint? - Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The state of world politics since the end of the Cold War has been marked by more conflicts and war...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Garbage no.2 (…garbage out) - So, that was the “October Surprise” this time around, huh? That was really it? Old Uncle Joe, movin’ kinda’ slow, suddenly decides to pipe up about some of...
World Socialist Web Site

UNICEF head warns everyone in Northern Gaza “is at imminent risk of dying” - Nearly one month ago, Israel began an assault on Northern Gaza to implement the so-called “general’s plan” of ethnically cleansing the entirety of Northern...
Antiwar.com

It’s Time to Find a Way To End the War in Ukraine - For over two and a half years, a semi-proxy war has been raging in Ukraine. In a proxy war, two powers avoid direct conflict by fighting through weaker i...
Portside

Sunday Science: High School Students Who Came Up With ‘Impossible’ Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to the Problem - Sunday Science: High School Students Who Came Up With ‘Impossible’ Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to the Problem Ira Sun, 11/03/202...
Popular Resistance

The Life And Times Of A ‘Russian Propagandist’ - For the last 5 years, I hosted Fault Lines, the flagship show of radio Sputnik in Washington DC, 105.5FM. Monday through Friday, from 7am to 10am, as Ame...
alicublog

SUNDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: CHAMPAGNE OR HEMLOCK EDITION. - *I'm old and I was old then too but how did I miss this?* The title comes from not-yet-governor-elect Mario Cuomo on election night 1982. And I doubt he ...
Workers World

Palestinian feminists expose Democrats’ attempt to hijack reproductive justice in New York - [image: Palestinian feminists expose Democrats’ attempt to hijack reproductive justice in New York] The following report was issued on the Palestinian Femi...
Greg Palast

How Trump “Won”—A Warning - [Nov 3, 2024: Atlanta, GA] No, I don’t have a crystal ball. But I do have 25 years’ experience investigating voting trickery. And what I see here in Georgi...
Ballot Access News

New York Working Families Party Makes Fewer Nominations This Year Than at Any Time Since It was a Qualified Party - The New York Working Families Party has made fewer nominations for Congress and state legislature this year than ever since it first became a qualified par...
See You In 2020

Multipolarity, Iran’s coming retaliation, & how these next escalations will impact the class struggle - Photo by Vahid Salemi of AP The era of multipolarity has come; there’s no undoing this, that’s simply the historical stage we’ve entered into. And the ...
Ring of Fire

Hillary Forgets Husband Created Media Protections As She Calls For Censorship - Hillary Clinton is back in the news, this time for calling for stronger regulation of the media – especially social media. But what she isn’t mentioning ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Pre-Election Special Bourbon Talk Q&A TONIGHT at 8pm Eastern - Hey everyone.
Sludge

We broke these Big Money stories this year - From massive cryptocurrency industry spending in 2024 to rising fossil fuel industry donations and billionaire investors bankrolling super PACs, here are s...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Stick Figure - This design is made by someone I know, a teenager that I see in the local origami space. For him, this is a very simple design, something he can teach oth...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Sabemos lo que hay que hacer! - Estamos listos para construyir un futuro mejor después de las elecciones. Estamos a horas de la elección más importante- y quizás la decisión más important...
Political Garbage Chute

NRA Spokesman on School Shooting Victims: “Fuck ‘Em, Man” - “Fuck ’em. Like, seriously, man. Fuck ’em.” – Cache Gazette, NRA Junior Deputy Media Liaison For generations, parents have worried about keeping their ch...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Your Choice' Toons - * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered species, please cons...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 3 November 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Socrates had no reason to fear death. Do not abuse the power of the hole....
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo PSV vs Girona lúc 00h45 ngày 06/11/2024 - Tại đấu trường Cúp C1, khi bước vào vòng 4, trận đấu giữa PSV và Girona dự kiến sẽ diễn ra hấp dẫn khi những kết quả có được vừa qua đã thể hiện có sự tư...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Nîmes, the Maison Carée - [image: Nîmes - Maison carrée]
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 2, 2024* *Perhaps inspired by the Day...
Reading the Pictures

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

Three days and counting. - *" I live in a crazy time" ~Anne Frank~ * Just three days to go, and Americans are bracing for the election of a lifetime. It's hard to believe that D...
The Militant

Vote SWP! The working class needs to take political power! - Back the working-class alternative to capitalist exploitation, oppression WASHINGTON, D.C. — “As conditions of life for the working class in the U.S. deter...
Progressive.org

Thirty Years Without Erwin Knoll - Why we are all the poorer for it.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 28 - November 1 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There’s always some noise in the high frequency data, and this week tha...
Capital & Main

Hacer América Odiar Otra Vez: Supremacistas blancos en la Administración de Trump - Durante la presidencia de Donald Trump, al menos una docena de funcionarios y asesores vinculados a grupos o ideologías de supremacía blanca tuvieron fun...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video: Donald Trump simulates graphic sex acts during Wisconsin campaign speech - This is exactly what it looks like. You can see the video below. During a campaign speech in Wisconsin, I guess Trump was expressing a displeasure with ...
Ian Welsh

When Labour Opposes Rapid Technological Change - [image: When Labour Opposes Rapid Technological Change] So, I recently saw this: our obsession with jobs might trap us – everything could look like healt...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Cottage Industry of Conspiracy Theorists Peddles Mistrust of Elections - Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election process.
Krebs on Security

Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations - A number of cybercriminal innovations are making it easier for scammers to cash in on your upcoming travel plans. This story examines a recent spear-phishi...
Eater Houston

There’s Still Time to Score Houston’s Viral Pumpkin Spice-Filled Conchas - [image: An image of La Hacienda Bakery’s viral pumpkin-spice filled conchas.] Kirk Sides The staff at La Hacienda Bakery are still working around the clo...
The Texas Signal

Ted Cruz’s Final Pitch - With the Election just days away, Ted Cruz is making his final pitch to voters. As part of his last appeal Cruz is banking on bigotry and transphobia. Hi...
Debunking Christianity

David Fitzgerald’s Toolkit for Dismantling Christianity - *Religions Thrive on Fantasy, Deceit, and the Failure of Curiosity * One of the biggest examples of deceit is this practice of Bible editors: printing the...
American Prospect

What’s Downballot in 2024? - Daniel Nichanian explains the stakes.
NORML

DEA Judge Pushes Back Timeline for In-Person Testimony in Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing - [image: marijuana rescheduling][image: marijuana rescheduling]NORML's Deputy Director Paul Armentano said that he was disappointed but hardly surprised b...
The Progressive Wing

Friday 11/01-04 Open Thread - – Ms. jbob and I moved from NY to Oregon recently. So far we’ve been enjoying living there in a suburb West of Portland. Voting in Oregon was super EZ. All...
MintPress News

From Promise to Peril: Israel’s Ground Invasion of Lebanon is Unraveling - As the Israeli military grapples with fierce resistance and internal discord, the ambitions of the invasion remain unfulfilled. The post From Promise to ...
Earthworks

Another Conspiracy Theory Adds to Western North Carolina’s Trauma - In the wake of Hurricane Helene, a string of wild conspiracy theories have circulated across social media, made up by … The post Another Conspiracy Theo...
High Country News

Resource production or preservation? Election puts Alaska lands on the line - From oil in the Arctic to the Ambler Road, Alaska's resource and conservation battles await a new administration’s fate, affecting communities, ecosyste...
Lowering the Bar

House Advertised as “Not Haunted” - You can't prove it is! (Or that it isn't.)
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was Theodor Herzl A Prophet? If So, What Does it Mean? - Theodor Herzl is widely considered the founder of the modern Zionist movement, and by some, he's considered a prophet, and others, both now and when he was...
Project Censored

Resilience Rising: Community, Care, and the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Appalachia - Now that the cameras have long since left Hurricane Helene’s trail of devastation, what is the situation on the ground? And what was it about Appalachia ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chain Of Command: How Facebook’s Libra, Bank Regulators, and PayPal Built A New World Currency - Two companies closely tied to Peter Thiel – PayPal and Facebook – have embarked on apparently unsuccessful efforts to create a “new world currency.” Yet,...
Common Dreams

FEC Snoozes Through the Election While Allegedly Illegal Coinbase Spending Reaches $50M - Yesterday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pledged another $25 million to the crypto super PAC Fairshake, bringing the company’s total spending in the 2024 ...
Bud Kennedy

Donald Trump wants a do-over. But is that really what America wants? | Opinion - Donald Trump has now been running for president since before some of his voters were born. It’s been 25 years since Trump first told CNN’s Larry King he wo...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread: Respect for Puerto Rico - Reggaeton music artist Nicky Jam has rescinded his endorsement of Donald Trump as a result of the racist and degrading comments delivered by a comedian w...
Border/Lines

We're back (not a moment too soon) - Immigration news, in context.
Southeast Texas Record

Harris County Civil Court: Actions Taken on Oct. 23 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Oct. 23 in the suits below: Read more…
Ecosophia

The Man with the Moustache - One of the lasting traditions on this blog is that whenever a month has five Wednesdays in it, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject fo...
Reveal

A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist Behind Bars - Abused by her adoptive father, she was victimized again by the police charged with protecting her. A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist B...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: We Could Let In More Immigrants - Immigration is great for the U.S.. It’s great for the economy. It’s great for our culture. Compared to those of us born here, immigrants are disproportiona...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How to Assess Anarchist Movements? Five Key Socio-economic Dimensions - An assessment of how anarchist movements are grounded in the principles of non-capitalist structures, decentralisation, anti-patriarchy, and non-hierarch...
Free & Equal

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

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

Election 2024 Prediction: Trump … Vance … Republican Trifecta - Next week is the 2024 United States presidential election … along with other races and ballot issues. “Election Day 2024” will publish Tuesday, Novembe...
New Progressive Alliance

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

Still One Of The Best - Betty Boop, Minnie the Moocher
Democracy Chronicles

New Vision for Hollywood: Community-Driven Path to Sustainable Growth and Local Empowerment - To empower Hollywood, Eduardo proposes community investment and sustainable development for long-term, locally driven growth.
Idavox

2500 Voter Applications Show Up In Penn. County Scott Presler Has Been Canvassing and Law Enforcement Has Questions - Just a few weeks after that WTF of an event in Bucks County that Presler... The post 2500 Voter Applications Show Up In Penn. County Scott Presler Has Be...
ExChristian.Net

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

How the Israel lobby fueled the rise of Britain’s top anti-Muslim chaos agent - The riots that gripped the UK this August were heavily inspired by anti-Muslim agitator Tommy Robinson. His rise to prominence is largely the product of ...
Duck of Minerva

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

Every Israeli Accusation Is A Confession, from Lebanon to Palestine, w/ As’ad Abukhalil -
Avedon's Sideshow

Scarlet billows start to spread - Thanks to the late Taral Wayne for once having used this APOD photo by David Lane of the Milky Way over Devil's Tower as his October profile pic. (Original ...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Land Destroyer

US Government Behind Campaign Violating North Korean Airspace - *October 23, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - North Korea has recently warned against the use of drones over its sovereign airspace to spread subversive prop...
Two Party Opera

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Brains and Eggs

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Too funny to wait until Sunday

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