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You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

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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

📍 Houston, Texas

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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

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— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Fake electors find out in Arizona (Lisa Needham/Public Notice) - Lisa Needham / Public Notice: *Fake electors find out in Arizona* — These are not very bright people, and things got out of hand. — ∙ Paid … On Wedne...
Al Jazeera English

Gaza emergency officials present evidence of mass grave killings - Gaza emergency officials have presented evidence of mass grave killings they say were by Israeli forces at two hospitals
Political Wire

A Few Thoughts for the End of the Week - One rule of of the internet is that everything is eventually spammed. We’ve seen it in our email inboxes, text messages and even Google search results. And...
Techdirt.

People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them - Last month the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill published a major story on how GM collects driver behavior data then sells access (through LexisNexis) to insur...
Mediaite

Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump Team ‘Feeling Very Good About’ Immunity Hearing Where Assassination Theory Was Raised - Maggie Haberman revealed Trump’s team is "feeling very good" about the Supreme Court immunity hearing — where a shocking assassination theory was raised....
The Smirking Chimp

The Supreme Court’s Farce and Ruse -
Houston Public Media

Three revelations from The Takeover, an upcoming podcast about power, public education and Houston ISD - Houston Public Media is launching a new podcast about power and public education. The first season of The Takeover includes multiple previously unreported ...
Election Law Blog

Society for the Rule of Law video on SCOTUS immunity argument - Watch here for a discussion among Richard Bernstein, George Conway, and Peter Keisler. (For more information on the Society for the Rule of Law, formerly...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Four students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza: ‘Injustice should not be accepted’ - Students demonstrating and hunger-striking face arrests and hospitalization – but they think they can make a difference - Student protesters are deman...
Vox

How JoJo Siwa’s “rebrand” got so messy - [image: JoJo Siwa holding a half-mic stand while performing at Miami Beach Pride Festival 2024. She wears a sparkly silver bodysuit and silver face-paint ...
Angry Bear

Governor Katie Hobbs Announces $500K in FAFSA Initiatives to Assist Arizona Families Afford College - According to The Hill the New FAFSA forms were supposed to be easier and shorter. Shorter yes, nut not so easy. There is a list of 2024-24 FAFSA issues w...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Original adaptations - In case you hadn’t noticed, when I feature a syndicated cartoon here, I add the name of the syndicate with it. For instance, I would label this one Barney ...
Raw Story

Records show deceased West Virginia girl found emaciated was being homeschooled - A Boone County mother charged with child neglect linked to the death of her daughter had pulled the girl from public school for homeschooling, according ...
The Hill

Blinken meets with China's Xi as differences grow - Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s President Xi Jinping and other Beijing officials as differences between the two nations grow on a number...
ArcaMax

Ultraprocessed Foods Are Everywhere, and the Corporate Manufacturers Do Not Care About Your Health - In my quest to eat healthier as an adult, I've encountered a lot of meat and dairy alternatives along with low-fat and sugar-free treat options that claim ...
Mediagazer

GB News co-owner Paul Marshall steps down from the board of GB News after three year, amid reports he is considering a new rival bid to buy the Telegraph (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *GB News co-owner Paul Marshall steps down from the board of GB News after three year, amid reports he is considering a...
Axios

Hospitals forced to revamp business models or risk losing patients - Hospitals' business models are being upended by fundamental changes within the health care system, including one that presents a pretty existential chall...
The Week

Tall tales: Penny Mordaunt offers to open rural Aldi with a sword - The Week's round-up of the latest odd news
WhoWhatWhy

Rewiring Our Brains: The Alarming Neurological Consequences of Climate Change - A neuroscientist exposes the shocking mental health toll of a warming world.
slacktivist

LBCF: Buck deplanes - Imagine it's the End of the World. People vanish. Every child on Earth is gone. Planes fall from the sky. So how would you get your checked baggage?
San Antonio Report

Protect the peacocks? City request seeks additional safeguards for wild peafowl - [image: Racquel Gonzales feeds a male peacock outside of her home near the Medical Center.]Wild peafowl and exotic birds may soon come under new protection...
Daily Dot

Deplatformed: Inside Truth Social’s ‘authentic’ Mexican cuisine group - [image: Donald Trump with Taco Bowl in front of Truth social graphics] *Deplatformed** is a weekly column that looks into the **nether reaches of the int...
naked capitalism

Links 4/26/2024 -
Alternet

These southerners aren't listening to Donald Trump anymore - The UAW’s successful unionization effort last week at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee — the first successful unionization effort at a car fa...
Salon.com

Genetics studies have a diversity problem that researchers struggle to fix - Lack of diversity in genetics research has real health care implications
Off The Kuff

Ogg brings in Paxton on Hidalgo aides case - Really? I mean, really? Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Thursday she is handing the pending criminal cases against three of County Judge ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Schwebel: I thank God every day that I live and work in Laredo, Texas - IBC's executive vice president comments on his bank being ranked No. 3 on Forbes' America’s Best Banks list. The post Schwebel: I thank God every day tha...
Mother Jones

G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should...
The Intercept

“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza - Dr. Mohammed Khaleel recounts his experience serving patients, mostly children and young adults with blasts injuries and bullet wounds. The post “Tell th...
Eschaton

Morning - Go go go.
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Crooked Timber

Going Meta on Culture Wars - Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all...
Infidel753

The NPVIC is not the answer - The Electoral College is a chronic flaw in American democracy. In 2000 and 2016 -- that is, two of the last six presidential elections -- it awarded the ...
American Prospect

Flint’s Never-Ending Water Crisis and ‘Punishment Nightmare’ - Corporate executives meet in Paris, Washington delays restitution, and the city dithers over pipe replacements.
Grist

A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization - Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis.
High Country News

Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine - The Oregon activists call attention to ongoing clearcuts in old-growth forests. The post Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine appeared fi...
Crooked Media

Will the Supreme Court Grant Trump Immunity? - The post Will the Supreme Court Grant Trump Immunity? appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

10 years after Flint, the fight to replace lead pipes across U.S. continues - Ten years ago, Flint, Mich. switched water sources to the Flint River. The lack of corrosion control in the pipes caused lead to leach into the water suppl...
Southeast Texas Record

Sheppard Mullin Expands In Houston With Prominent Labor And Employment Litigator Angeles Garcia Cassin - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Angeles Garcia Cassin has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Labor ...
Rallblog

No Assholes, No Cops - Police departments are having trouble recruiting new cops. There may be an explanation. The post No Assholes, No Cops first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.
The NM Political Report

Nuclear Watch New Mexico calls for comprehensive plutonium cleanup at LANL - A group of anti-nuclear activists used data from Los Alamos National Laboratory to map places where plutonium contamination has been found in areas near ...
Counterpunch

Poisoning the American Mind: Higher Education in the Age of the New McCarthyism - No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are ...
jobsanger

Presidents Should Not Be immune To Criminal Law -
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Fancy Limey - Meow from Perry Mason.
Informed Comment

Zionism’s Expired Shelf-Life: Why Naomi Klein is right that it has become Pharaoh - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Previously I’ve argued that Zionism has run its course as a political movement, and accomplished its ...
World Socialist Web Site

May Day 2024: Build a socialist movement of workers and youth to stop World War III, fascism and dictatorship! - On Saturday, May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International will hold an online rally to celebrate May Day. This year's rally is of excepti...
Courthouse News

Red states sue employment commission over abortion accommodations - The states claim the employment commission added abortion-related requirements that were never part of the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
Antiwar.com

Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the US War on Iraq - “To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib – it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu G...
OpEd News

Tour/ book signing tour: Australia/New Zealand - Perth (aboriginal name Boorloo), Adelaide (Tarntanya wam), Sydney (Gaadi), and Woolongong. In ten days I spoke to over 1500 people. I explain Australia's c...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 26, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 26, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/26/2024 - 08:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Dissident Voice

Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival - Orientation Who are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies...
Progressive.org

Could a Single Word Save the January 6 Insurrectionists and Donald Trump? - Prosecuting either may rest on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the word 'otherwise.'
The Conversation

Trump trial reveals details about how the former president thinks about, and exploits, the media - Both scholars stressed they are working very hard to be ‘vigorously neutral’ about Trump himself, while noting that the trial is drawing attention to a bro...
The Root

P. Diddy’s Alleged Drug Mule Faces Serious Charges Following Arrest During Last Month’s Raids - It seems that yet another domino has fallen in the federal P. Diddy sex trafficking investigation. Read more...
Workers World

Hands off the heroic student uprising in solidarity with Gaza! To resist police repression is justified! - [image: Hands off the heroic student uprising in solidarity with Gaza! To resist police repression is justified!] Workers World is in full support of the h...
Brad Blog

Trump's Ridiculous 'Immunity' Case Finally Heard by His Corrupted SCOTUS: 'BradCast' 4/25/2024 - On today's BradCast: Honestly, I tried. But it was really hard to find any part of the case heard by the corrupted U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that wasn...
Popular Resistance

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 202: Hundreds Of New Bodies In Mass Graves - The Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry announced that 208 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday, while 313 others were wounde...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'UK right wing actor has to pay $225,000 for calling Drag Race contestant and LGBTQ activists 'pedophiles'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *UK Right Wing Actor Must Pay $225,000 For Calling Drag Race Contestant And LGBTQ Activist “Pedophiles” *-* It would have been lovely for this to have ...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities - University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.
The Grayzone

Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor - Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, D...
Deadline Politics

White House Correspondents’ Association President Kelly O’Donnell On Why Press Access To Joe Biden Matters & What To Expect At This Year’s Dinner: Q&A - As this year’s president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, NBC News senior White House Kelly O’Donnell will preside over one of the biggest e...
Reform Austin

Charges Against Most Students Arrested In Pro-Palestinian Protest At UT Austin Dismissed - Charges have been dropped against 46 of the 57 people arrested at Wednesday’s pro-Palestine protest at UT-Austin. Those arrested were charged with crimin...
The Verge

Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is back in stock at multiple retailers - [image: A picture of somebody holding the PlayStation Portal] *It’s not the Vita comeback we were hoping for, but the Sony’s portable remote player is sti...
SCOTUSblog

On presidential immunity, a riveting national civics lesson - [image: On presidential immunity, a riveting national civics lesson]Today is the last day of argument for the 2023-24 term, and – as everyone in the cour...
Ballot Access News

Georgia Governor Signs Bill Eliminating Public Service Commission Elections in 2024 - On April 18, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed HB 1312. Among other things, it says there will be no Public Service Commission elections this year. The st...
Texas Monthly

“This Would Have Been a Peaceful Gathering”: Behind the Scenes of the UT Protest - Students protesting Israel's war in Gaza say they were demonstrating peacefully at the University of Texas at Austin when police tackled and arrested them.
Sludge

Hochul Raised Big Bucks From Real Estate Moguls Before Housing Deal - A Sludge analysis found that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has received at least $1.5 million from real estate industry donors since the start of 2023.
ProPublica

Texas Appeals Court Throws Out Defamation Lawsuit Against ProPublica, Houston Chronicle - by Jeremy Schwartz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publi...
San Antonio Current

Critics lash out at Gov. Greg Abbott for journalist's arrest at UT protest - Texas progressive groups and a San Antonio U.S. Congressman lashed out at Gov. Greg Abbott Thursday for the arrest of a journalist during a pro-Palestinia...
Futurism

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars - Never Forget Where were you when NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust? For nearly 70 years, NASA — often with help from international friends ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Tough - Sean Feucht says that “we are living in the last days”: “These are the end times … we’re living in the midst of it.” Mark Meckler of Convention of States...
Common Dreams

Major Brazilian Mobilization Demands Indigenous Land Rights in the Face of Mounting Threats - Thousands of Indigenous leaders and representatives and their allies converged on Brazil’s capital this week for the 20th Free Land Camp (*Acampamento Te...
The Daily Poster

The Great Unknown About Conflicts Of Interest In Arizona’s Abortion Ban - As state supreme courts consolidate power and corporate money, shoddy oversight allows justices to hide their financial conflicts of interest from the public.
Mondoweiss

20 Pomona College students were arrested over a Gaza sit-in, but it hasn’t slowed their campaign - [image: Hundreds of Claremont Colleges Students Rally for divestment after student arrests at Pomona College (Pomona Divest from Apartheid)]"We are organiz...
Portside

Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder - Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder Dave Thu, 04/25/2024 - 16:22
Speak Freely (ACLU)

In Kansas, the ACLU Is Challenging Anti-Trans Laws in Court, and by Building Community - In 2023, Kansas enacted a law attempting to define “transgender” out of existence by restricting the definition of a “woman” to the biological function o...
Texas Observer

Did Texas Police Violate First Amendment Rights of Pro-Palestine Protesters? - On Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested and charged 57 people, including one journalist, with criminal trespassing on the Univ...
The AltWorld

Ukraine is FINISHED After Making This Move and NATO is Terrified - Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector, discusses how the US-NATO axis […] The post Ukraine is FINISHED After...
Socialist Alternative

You’re Not Crazy; The Economy Still Sucks - You’re wheeling your grocery cart through the aisles, picking up what you need for another week of feeding yourself and your family. You’re clutching a Pos...
Earthworks

Biden Admin Takes Action to Protect Alaska Communities, Caribou, & Clean Water from Proposed Ambler Road - Tribes and Conservation Groups Applaud Decision with Ads in State and National Media Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Land … The post Biden Admin Takes A...
Discourse

This Is Incredible - Across the nation, college students are standing up against America aiding and abetting a genocide in Gaza.
Unlimited Hangout

Redacted - Redacted.
Second Nexus

Biden Posts Blunt PSA Four Years After Trump Suggested 'Injecting' Bleach To Cure Covid - Democratic President Joe Biden's campaign issued a stark warning for American voters as the President marked the fourth anniversary of former Republican ...
Daily Howler

Why Michael Cohen was sentenced to prison! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024* *As opposed to what you might hear: *Actually yes, we know what we said. Yesterday afternoon, we said we'd walk you thrown an ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Struggle: How We Take Back Power - The Stakes Part IV: Rebuilding Democratic Power and Curbing the Threat of Authoritarianism
Debunking Christianity

A New Printing of My Book! - I just received a copy of my massive refutation of Christianity with 536 pages to it. The book to the right was too small. The middle one was okay as it g...
Texas Standard

More frequent – and worsening – extreme weather events are ahead for Texas - A report from a state climatologist and the nonprofit Texas 2036 finds that severe weather events are accelerating
Undernews

The Supreme Court doesn’t define our democracy - *Sam Smith – *Listening to the Supreme Court and its witnesses discuss powers of a defeated president, I was struck by how the discussion was limited to ...
Claytoonz

Freed Rapists Club - A lot of rape victims never report their rapes because most men, and a lot of women, won’t believe them. They often face persecution, especialy if the perp...
Capital & Main

California Often Leads Change, but Not for Single-Payer Health Care - *Supporters say pushing yearly in Sacramento, even if unsuccessful, is vital to keep leaders from ducking the issue.* The post California Often Leads Cha...
Texas Freedom Network

What Does a School Board Do? - Learn about the role of school boards and how you can show up for the education and rights of students in your district. [...] Read More... The post Wha...
Wolf Street

Our Drunken Sailors Splurge on Services, Fixed Investment Surges. But Much-Worse Imports Drag Bigly on GDP. And there’s a Blip in Government Spending - Re-accelerating inflation in Q1 hit “real” GDP growth. “Current-dollar” GDP growth only a hair slower than in Q4.
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2024 - Latest Validated Independent News Stories As we prepare the April newsletter, Project Censored faculty, students, and judges are reviewing the Validated ...
Bonddad

Leading indicators in the Q1 GDP report are mixed - - by New Deal democrat Most of the commentary you will read about Q1 GDP that was released this morning will be about the core coincident components...
El Paso Matters

Migrant apprehensions are down at the Texas border. Have state policies had an impact? - Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border. The post Migrant apprehensions are down ...
Glasstire

Top Five: April 25, 2024 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Jose Villalobos: groomed Artpace (San Antonio) March 28...
Robert Reich

Are Presidents Above the Law? Donald Trump thinks presidents... - *Are Presidents Above the Law? * Donald Trump thinks presidents should be allowed to commit crimes. Rubbish. Trump claims that quote, “A PRESIDENT OF THE...
Novara Media

Read Some Effing Jameson! - The exhortation to “read some effing Orwell!” is an old chestnut of the online left, whether ironic or sincere, or somewhere in between. But if we’re looki...
Bracing Views

Breathing New Life Into Mass Death - W.J. Astore $95 Billion “Supplemental” for More Weapons and War Who knew mass death was such a growth industry? And by “death” I mean not only of humans bu...
Rewire

Do We Have a Constitutional Crisis on Our Hands—Again? - Yesterday’s oral arguments over EMTALA show how deep the post-'Roe' constitutional conundrum really runs. The post Do We Have a Constitutional Crisis on ...
Ian Welsh

Canadian Housing Market Craziness - [image: Canadian Housing Market Craziness] So, the CBC is the the national broadcaster in Canada, similar to the BBC in Europe. They’re pretty stodgy, the...
Democracy Now!

Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies - Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent protests...
Space City Weather

Warm and windy weather begins today, with gusts peaking on Saturday near 40 mph - In brief: Houston is beginning the first of four days of warm and windy weather, with Saturday looking especially gusty. Rain chances start to increase on ...
Church and State

Patriarchy and Overpopulation - Let’s wreck patriarchy together, for all the women and girls, for our global population, for the 8 billion people who call this planet home.
Two Party Opera

Human, Right? - ↓ TranscriptA five panel comic with Joe Biden standing on the South lawn of the White House. Joe Biden rants, "Do I believe in human rights? C'mon man. S...
Environment Texas

Statement: EPA tells power plants to clean up their act - New rules will slash toxic pollution, improve health The post Statement: EPA tells power plants to clean up their act appeared first on Environment Texas.
Earth 911

DIY Tealight Candle Holder Made from Pallet Wood - Looking for sustainable home decor that adds a touch of rustic elegance to any room?... The post DIY Tealight Candle Holder Made from Pallet Wood appeare...
Media Lens

The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support - Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Where Biden’s Primary Showing Was (And Wasn’t) Especially Strong - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE —As with our recent examination of the Republican primary, President Biden—like former President Trump—has won most of his c...
Trivial Knot

Crazy about cat men - In one of those meatspace conversations, we were talking about crazy cat ladies, each of us trying to do cursory research on our phones. Why are crazy cat ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Kremlin deploys propaganda outlets to whitewash Wagner’s footprints in the Sahel - The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russi...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
Ring of Fire

Dems Refuse To Remove Corrupt Bob Menendez & New Book Slams Rural Voters As Threat To Democracy - Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was hit with even more indictments for his corruption, but Democrats in the Senate don’t think it’s a good idea to kick h...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

White Nationalist Conference To Host Immigration News Aggregator With Ties to Mainstream Conservatives - An immigration news aggregator website making inroads with mainstream conservative outlets for its reporting on border issues is pushing bigoted conspiracy...
DeSmogBlog

Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret - DeSmog writer Justin Nobel’s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden radioactive waste. The post Big Oil’s Dang...
MintPress News

Shockwaves to Shattered Defenses: The Myth of Israeli Supremacy Crumbles - By attacking the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Netanyahu sought to escape the inevitable reality of a bitter military failure and to restore Israel’s il...
LareDOS

La India Packing Company celebrates 100-year milestone on Sat., April 27 - Public invited to open air market, music, sampling from Tasting Room Café’s menu
Political Garbage Chute

You Can’t Call Me an “Incel” If I Fuck My Cybertruck - The following editorial was written and submitted by right-wing author and 2020 Trump Campaign spokesperson Dustin Pewpsin, who also served as Elon Musk’...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Feds Must Change ‘Discriminatory’ Marijuana Testing Policies To Address Trucking Industry Labor Shortage - [image: thc drug testing][image: thc drug testing]More than 150,000 licensed drivers have left the profession in recent years because of these zero-toler...
Democracy Chronicles

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Ecosophia

April 2024 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
See You In 2020

Zionists show their desperation by using leftist cancel culture tactics, which render an ideology isolated - Many are pointing to the hypocrisy of how the Zionists, despite their movement being led by the right wing, have been utilizing the same cancellation r...
Eater Houston

Turkey Leg Hut Co-Founder Lyndell Price Charged in Connection With Bar Fight - [image: An image of Lynn Price with HPD officers] Lyndell “Lynn” Price was charged with misdemeanor assault in connection to a February bar fight | Turkey...
Texas Watch

In the News: Texas car insurance premiums are soaring. Here's what's behind the spike — and what you can do - Madison Iszler, staff writer for the *San Antonio-Express News*, recently investigated the sky-high increase in auto insurance premiums in Texas. Accordi...
Moron Majority

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The Texas Signal

The Supreme Court Will Determine What Is Emergency Care For Pregnant Patients - Last week the Associated Press detailed several shocking examples of pregnant patients being turned away from emergency centers in states with abortion b...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well I knew there was gonna' be trouble, when I heard that callin' - I've just discovered the art of Laurent Parcelier and I love to look at it. "The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Building Bridges Amid Book Bans Capitol Summit by Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) on April 21-22, 2024 [video] - *Friends,* *View here.* *So happy to share this Instagram video by youth organization, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) headed by Cameron Samuels...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | First, they came for abortion, now they’ve come for in vitro fertilization - Alabama Supreme Court. Photo by Jeffrey Reed / Creative Commons By Michael Meeropol | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2024 The following is an expanded version of...
CultureMap Houston

Houston dazzles as No. 1 most diverse large city in U.S., report says - Living in a multicultural city comes with many benefits. Diverse communities bring new perspectives, greater versatility, and economic boosts, to name a f...
Krebs on Security

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme - The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for ac...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Value Par Excellence: Money versus Real Values - The Past & Present Reading Group is discussing, in the first half of 2024, Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. This work is often considered a crucial read to grasp ...
The Progressive Wing

April 22-25 News Roundup and Open Threads - Let’s get the ball rolling for this week. Here in the Hudson Valley, we are passing from daffodil time to tulip time and from magnolia time to dogwood time...
Dos Centavos

Early Voting Begins for May 4 Election - In case you didn’t know, we have two elections in May. While the Democratic Primary run-offs will be decided later this month, today is the first day of EA...
Progressives Chat

Harry Belafonte Was Correct - Calypso singer, actor, and civil rights activist *Harry Belafonte* (March 1, 1927–April 25, 2023) died one year ago this week. He was 96. I retrieved ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

How to protect your community from the toxic lead lurking in soil - [image: Ruben, 2, plays hide and seek in his front yard. He is surrounded by dirt on the ground and trash bins.] Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

#DemocratsDeliver - Been out of town for a while, been sick for a while, finally getting my tired old ass to the drawing table again. So, I’d been noticing this #DemocratsDeli...
The Reality-Based Community

Man United ra giá ‘trên trời’ để bán Marcus Rashford - Manchester United đang gây bất ngờ cho giới mộ điệu khi quyết định niêm yết mức giá 100 triệu Bảng cho Marcus Rashford, tiền đạo đang có phong độ thất th...
The Militant

SWP campaigns to win ballot status in New Jersey - BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself as a refuge for Jews, and the importance to the working class everywhere of the fight again...
Greg Palast

When Kyle Rittenhouse Came to Kent StateThe young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy. - [April 16, 2024: Kent, OH] Kyle Rittenhouse, spoke on April 16 at an event sponsored by the right wing organization Turning Points USA (TPUSA) held at ... ...
Skeptophilia

In the dark - Dear Readers: After today's post, I'm going to be taking a long-overdue break from *Skeptophilia*. My intent -- lord willin' an' the creek don't rise, as ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOU-PROBLEM EDITION. - *Went down a K hole the other night.* I have said more than once that the *New York Post* is Rupert Murdoch’s primary stateside lie-diffuser – more than ...
Liberation News

Cómo Estados Unidos ayudó a Israel a promover la mentira de la ‘violación en masa por parte de Hamás’ para justificar el asesinato masivo en Gaza - La violación es un crimen terrible. Nunca se puede justificar ni defender. La inclinación natural es aborrecer la violación y a quienes la cometen. Sin em...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg - Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book *Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals*.
Edinburg Politics

Border security, stopping use of deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence by child predators, further cutting property taxes, and broadband infrastructure among legislative issues to be examined by Sen. Hinojosa and other state senators in the coming weeks and months - Improving border security, stopping child predators from using deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence to harm or exploit minors, further cutting ...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: It’s All About Caring, Fatsos - This is one of those “I’m almost transcribing, but people will think I’m making it up” cartoons. I have a bad habit of searching social media to see what p...
Seeing the Forest

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come - [image: A photo illustration overlays a map of Israel and Gaza with images from the region, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] Research on World Wa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
Idavox

A Change in Tactics? - The Black Bloc has been seen en masse at protests across the United States for...
Bud Kennedy

Texas Republicans want to punish abortion like baby-killing. Prison for women, or death | Opinion - Does Texas’ 2021 abortion law need to be “straightened out”? Then why would Donald Trump say that about Arizona’s law? Texas’ staunchly anti-abortion Repub...
Duck of Minerva

Sebastian Kaempf - Professor Sebastian Kaempf of the University of Queensland joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast this week. Seb grew up in Germany, with the fall of the Berlin...
Free & Equal

A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? - Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I was a si...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2024 - Walmart had at least another sixteen shootings in March of 2024, including at least six causing one death each, and a total of at least seven more injur...
GreenSource DFW

Eclipse watch parties pop up across DFW - *NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC....
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

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

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

State of the Union: Will Biden Resonate? - Americans have been dealt a hand with two candidates, neither of whom they particularly think should be President. Nonetheless, barring Trump being crimi...
Equality Texas

Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region - Title: Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region Organization: Equality Texas and Equality Texas Foundation Position Type: Full Tim...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas District Attorney, CCA races and the future of Texas criminal-justice reform - The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction ...
Land Destroyer

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It - *March 5, 2024* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are raising the alarm over Ukraine’s military manpower shortage and the ...
Green Pages News

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Why Houston Floods, According to Flood Control - It Rains a Lot! What Can Flood Control Do? March 3, 2024 For years the Harris County Flood Control District has been giving public presentations that inclu...
Texas Environmental News

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

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

Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson - Dandelion Salad February 19, 2024 with Chris Hedges “Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he ...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West, w/ MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace - Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of t...
Independent Political Report

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

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
Shadowproof

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
FiveThirtyEight.com

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

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
Tribune of the People

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

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

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

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

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Bayou Brief

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Modern Democracy

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

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

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Malady

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

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

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
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...
IVN

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

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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