Brains and Eggs: Merry Christmas from a nonbeliever

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas from a nonbeliever

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Will Cain Fawns Over Pete Hegseth Press Conference Which Included Attack On His Fox News Colleague - Fox News host Will Cain gushed over a White House press conference which saw Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attack his network colleague Jennifer Grif...
Raw Story

NYC elites hatch plan to stop 'Trojan Horse' Zohran Mamdani as mayor - Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's mayoral primary sent shockwaves through the city's business community. Now, multiple business titans are scra...
Progressive.org

The Fight for Fair Funding in New Hampshire - Andru Volinsky’s book ‘The Last Bake Sale’ details the far-from-over struggle for equitable school funding in New Hampshire.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio lawmakers at the center of Trump’s redistricting plan are gearing up for a fight - Reps. Josey Garcia and Barbara Gervin-Hawkins see potential to make the maps more fair, but don't know what to expect from GOP colleagues. -----------------...
Daily Dot

New “Golden Bachelor” repels fans by saying he only wants women aged 45-60: “If they’re 60 or over, I’m cutting them” - [image: golden bachelor mel owens] This season's star of *The Golden Bachelor* is catching heat for saying he'll cut any women over age 60 in a recent in...
The Week

Magazine solutions - July 4, 2025 / July 11, 2025 - Issue - July 4, 2025 / July 11, 2025
ArcaMax

Time To Unmask Trump's Detention And Deportation Squads - With each passing day, the violence wielded by ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, grows more intense and widespread. One grotesquely emblematic...
memeorandum

Supreme Court set to issue final rulings, as birthright citizenship and other cases remain (Jordan Rubin/MSNBC) - Jordan Rubin / MSNBC: *Supreme Court set to issue final rulings, as birthright citizenship and other cases remain* — The last six cases of the term inc...
The Militant

SWP holds int’l conference as conflicts, wars sharpen -
Houston Public Media

Parents sue Houston ISD in federal court for allegedly using their child’s preferred pronouns - While HISD does not have any policies related directly to gender identity and preferred pronoun use, several Houston-area school districts — Fort Bend ISD,...
Courthouse News

Georgia becomes latest state to block law restricting social media for children - Similar laws have been overturned by federal judges in Arkansas and Ohio and temporarily blocked in Utah and Florida.
Wolf Street

The Corporate-Profit Explosion Stalls in Q1, on the Eve of the New Tariffs - In some industries, profits surged. In others, profits sagged. By major industry.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
The Hill

Public land sales pose passage problems - {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Public land provisions cause GOP discord Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke said Thursday ...
Al Jazeera English

‘We wanted to eliminate Khamenei’: Israel’s Defence Minister Katz - Katz says Israel has 'green light' from US to attack Iran again if Tehran makes 'progress' with its nuclear programme.
Slate

This Is Samuel Alito’s Ugliest Dissent in Some Time - Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.
Daily Cartoonist

A Magical and Mysterious Tour Through the Comic Strip World - The Strange Case of Merlin’s World of Marvels This week saw Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) drop Merlin’s World of Marvels from their lineup. There is an ...
SCOTUSblog

Additional opinions from Thursday, June 26 - On Thursday, June 26, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Hewitt v. United States, the justices considered whether the First Ste...
Futurism

WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family - AI Busy Bee WhatsApp is now offering AI summaries of text threads for those too lazy to read through their messages themselves. In a press release, the M...
NPR's Health Shots

Autism rates have exploded. Could the definition be partly to blame? - Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to autism. Do...
CultureMap Houston

A magnetic Brad Pitt goes full throttle in new film F1: The Movie - The sport of auto racing has been tackled in a variety of ways over the years by filmmakers, with the intoxicating ability of the cars to go super-fast oft...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Bill Moyers, Lyndon Johnson press chief and celebrated broadcaster, dies at 91 - Moyers, who served as Johnson’s press secretary for two years, became one of television’s most revered journalists Bill Moyers, the former White House pr...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
The Verge

Apple overhauls EU App Store rules following penalty - Apple has introduced new App Store changes in the EU in an attempt to avoid being further penalized under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). O...
Crooked Media

SCOTUS Deals Massive Blow to Health Care Access - The post SCOTUS Deals Massive Blow to Health Care Access appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mother Jones

Trump Once Said Congress Should “Always” Approve Military Strikes - At nearly 8 p.m ET Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered shocking news that would quickly rouse global angst about the threat of nuclear war. He did s...
Rallblog

NYC to DNC: Drop Dead - The people have a message for the establishment: we hate you. We really, really hate you. The upset victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York’s Democratic ma...
Mediagazer

Bill Moyers, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and an influential broadcast journalist for 40+ years, dies at age 91 from prostate cancer (Fred A. Bernstein/Washington Post) - Fred A. Bernstein / Washington Post: *Bill Moyers, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and an influential broadcast journalist for 40+ ...
San Antonio Current

Sixth Bexar County Jail inmate dies while in custody this year - A 36-year-old woman in custody of the Bexar County Jail has become its sixth inmate to die this year, KSAT reports. Joanna Ginez, who was initially booked...
Deadline Politics

Bill Moyers Dies: Influential Public Media Journalist And Commentator And Former White House Press Secretary Was 91 - Bill Moyers, who followed a tenure as a young top aide to Lyndon Johnson with a long career as a much-acclaimed journalist and commentator on public broadc...
Techdirt.

We Have All Become Too Comfortable With Corruption - For years, we’ve written about the concept of “soft corruption,” which is the idea that there are certain actions that may not mean the full definition of ...
Reform Austin

Ft. Worth Republican Files for Newly Vacant Senate Seat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Fort Worth Republican Rep. Nate Schatzline on Wednesday announced that he is running to fill a ...
Dissident Voice

Depopulation - What and who is depopulation all about? The post Depopulation first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Political Wire

Republicans Call on Trump to Deport Mamdani - Some Republicans are calling on President Trump’s administration to revoke Zohran Mamdani’s citizenship and deport him from the country, The Independent re...
Second Nexus

Fox Host Slams Dem For Dropping An F-Bomb After Praising Trump For The Same Thing Just Minutes Earlier - Fox News host Emily Compagno was criticized after she praised Donald Trump's use of the "f-bomb" earlier this week before condemning Texas Democratic Rep...
Church and State

Will Trump’s Iran attack give him renewed power? - At this point, it would seem that Trump’s taking the action he did would greatly enhance his political status.
Rewire

TransMissives - Since 2022, more than 2,400 bills attempting to chip away at trans rights have been introduced across the United States, in both state capitols and in Wa...
Claytoonz

TACO Daddy - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Discourse

Zohran Mamdani's Win is Dividing His Enemies - The pragmatists will always play ball, while the ideologues pay the bills.
Texas Observer

Moonlighting Midland Prosecutor Means Freedom for Samuel Sanchez - Samuel Junior Sanchez had served around 15 years of a 75-year sentence for a violent road-rage incident and had seemingly exhausted all appeals when his ...
Liberation News

The sordid history of US intervention in Iran - Iran is seen by the U.S not as a country with people who have rights, but as a prize to be snatched.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico sues Air Force over PFAS contamination at Cannon AFB - [image: Firefighters with the 27th Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron test hose water pressure before an exercise Aug. 14, 2015, at Cannon Air Fo...
World Socialist Web Site

As the toll of police killings of Gen-Z protesters mounts, Kenyan Interior Minister says “job well done” - The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pret...
Ian Welsh

Does Zohran Mamdani Matter? - [image: Does Zohran Mamdani Matter?] So, Democratic Socialist (ie. has politics a 70s liberal would have agreed with, but is less racist) Zohran Mamdani h...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP - Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working f...
American Prospect

When the Capitals of Capitalism Go Socialist - Today On TAP: When Wall Street gazillionaires take over a city, that city may rise up against them.
Popular Resistance

Panamanian Government Declares State Of Emergency In Bocas Del Toro - The declaration of a state of emergency in the banana-producing region comes in the context of a series of mass protests as part of a national strike tha...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow to Trans Rights. Here's How to Take Action - Last week, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to trans youth, their families and the communities that support them. In a 6-3 decision, the Suprem...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Voters hate the bill when they know what's in it! - *THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025* *Also, they don't know what's in it: *The zone is flooded every day—and the day of reckoning for the budget bill continues to d...
Alternet

'Chilling effect': Faith groups slam GOP investigation as 'invasion of religious liberty' - Religious organizations are slamming a Republican House probe, calling it a violation of their liberty, reports Religion News Service. “It’s an invasion ...
Dorf on Law

US Global Insanity, Preceded by Some Thoughts About Some Irish Icons - In my *Dorf on Law* column earlier this week announcing my very recent move to Ireland, I wrote: "Settling in will of course take some more time, but I w...
Axios

Hundreds of heat records set across U.S. this week - Data: NCEI; Note: For stations that reported multiple record high temperatures, the highest is shown; Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Heat records were broke...
naked capitalism

The Israel–Iran Conflict Tests “America First” and Redefines ‘Auctoritas’ - Trump’s attack on Iran tests the limits of “America First” and reveals a deeper MAGA divide over who holds legitimate authority—auctoritas
Project Censored

The Problem with AI War Games - Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions. Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-...
First Draft

Rural GOP Voters Are About To Find Out - They are going to lose their Medicaid coverage. And they voted for it.
Mondoweiss

Mask off Maersk campaign pressures shipping giant to drop Israeli settlements - [image: A Maersk container being loaded to the Sealand New York container ship at the Port of Seattle on June 8, 2009. (Photo: Flickr/Bari Bookout)]In a wa...
Consortium News

Three Blows Against Zionism in a Single Day - A court ruling in Australia, an election result in New York and a military setback for Israel, all coming on Tuesday this week, signaled a serious turn of ...
OpEd News

Could The US Draft Return? - To sell drugs, drugmakers floated the factoid more than ten years ago that one in four Americans is "mentally ill" and mass media, mainstream medicine and ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - June 26, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Heat dome shatters records, with a side of worsening air...
Vox

The Supreme Court’s disastrous new abortion decision, explained - Federal law says that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” from a state Medicaid program may obtain that care “from any institution, agency, co...
The Daily Poster

Iran Regime Change, Brought To You By Dark Money - Neocon think tanks demanding that Trump overthrow Iran’s government — no matter the risks — are funded by anti-Muslim billionaires and fossil fuel fortunes.
The Root

Vogue’s Anna Wintour Exits Vogue While A Black Editor Awaits The Call - Black Editors Are Rising — Will Vogue Catch Up? Read more...
Texas Standard

City of Sugar Land buys historic district - Plans call for the redevelopment of the property once owned by Imperial Sugar, including the historic Char House.
Capital & Main

A Fear Pandemic Grips Safety Net Hospitals and Their Patients - With immigration raids on the rise, many in need of health care are choosing to remain at home. The post A Fear Pandemic Grips Safety Net Hospitals and T...
Sludge

Walmart, Nike, and Starbucks Say They’re Green, But Fund the Fight Against Climate Laws - The companies and others are helping powerful lobbying groups fight lawmakers' efforts to address climate change.
Ballot Access News

North Carolina Legislature Passes Bill Forcing Monroe to have Partisan Elections for City Office - On June 24, the North Carolina legislature passed HB 3, which switches elections for city office for various cities from non-partisan to partisan elections...
Environment Texas

Should you be worried about the ‘Insect Apocalypse’? - Insects are vanishing fast. Here’s why we should care and what we can do about it. The post Should you be worried about the ‘Insect Apocalypse’? appeared...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso’s future takes vision and collaboration - A unique collaboration of public and private partners is coming together to make the Deck Plaza a reality. The post Opinion: El Paso’s future takes visi...
Rio Grande Guardian

McAllen Mayor: Bridge crossings are down 25 percent - Mayor Javier Villalobos says the City of McAllen relies heavily on sales tax revenues. He says a reduction is going to have implications for the city's n...
Undernews

Word - * California is the fourth-largest economy, *the most diverse state in the most diverse democracy, and a leader in technology and innovation because of i...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging into a New 2024 Postmortem: Findings from Pew’s Validated Voter Study - Pew's validated voter study of 2024 just published -- what does it tell us, and how does it compare to other 2024 analyses? The post Digging into a New 2...
Bonddad

Jobless claims indicate employment market continues to weaken, but still not recessionary - -* by New Deal democrat* Jobless claims continue to tell us two things: (1) the jobs market continues to slowly weaken, but (2) it is not recessiona...
Glasstire

Top Five: June 26, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Roll the Windows Down Galleri Urbane (Dallas) June 21 –...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Supporters Prioritize Teacher Pay in Latest Education Survey - The Forward Party surveyed its supporters this week on where they believe the government should invest in the education system, with a majority of respon...
Democracy Now!

“Buy More U.S. Weapons”: "Daddy" Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries - President Donald Trump has returned to Washington after a NATO summit where leaders agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, more t...
The Conversation

Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds - Users on TikTok gravitate to networks of like-minded people, but right-leaning users tend to be in more tightly sealed echo chambers.
Space City Weather

Rain chances continue, and we may have finally fixed the app notification bug - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the ongoing rain chances for today and through the weekend, as well as the arrival of a new round of Saharan dust. We ...
Angry Bear

Wishful Thinking - What the US thinks It is Number 1 in and its actual rankings . . . June 21, 2025, “Occupy Democrats,” Facebook One could only wish! Various comments on t...
The Smirking Chimp

Evangelicals Push Trump Into Conflict With Iran -
WhoWhatWhy

Donald, You Can’t Just Make It All Up — Reality Always Gets the Last Word - [image: Into the Jaws of Death, Normandy, D-Day, World War II] Karl Rove was wrong: Creating your own reality is not just dangerous; it’s ultimately futile...
ProPublica

Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica” - by Eric Umansky and Vernal Coleman ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon ...
Skeptophilia

The feral child - A point I've made before, but one I think is absolutely critical to skeptics, is that sometimes we simply don't have answers -- and are forced to admit t...
Off The Kuff

A look at the Tesla robotaxi rollout - Because I have an unhealthy obsession with this cursed topic, here’s a brief roundup of news stories about how the first day of Tesla’s long-expected robot...
Grist

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades. - The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
Scheerpost.com

Cuckoo for Cuomo: Ex-Governor’s Name Dominated Coverage of NYC Mayoral Race - A FAIR analysis of New York mayoral primary coverage found that Andrew Cuomo’s name appeared in headlines seven times more often than Zohran Mamdani’s.
High Country News

MAGA and the developers are coming for your public lands - Sen. Mike Lee slips federal land privatization provision into Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.” The post MAGA and the developers are coming for your public...
Earth 911

3 Simple Earth-Friendly Summer Recipes - One of my favorite things about summer is the recipes it inspires with the bounty... The post 3 Simple Earth-Friendly Summer Recipes appeared first on Ea...
Workers World

PDF of June 26 issue - [image: PDF of June 26 issue] Download the PDF STAY ALERT! Be ready to fight against war in West Asia Shifting gears on Iran – U.S. war continues Why Worke...
Portside

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to ‘Billionaire-Backed Status Quo’ in NYC - Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to ‘Billionaire-Backed Status Quo’ in NYC Mark Brody Thu, 06/26/2025 - 01:31
Election Law Blog

“Justice Department sues Orange County registrar for access to noncitizen voting records” - The L.A. Times and O.C. Register have coverage of the latest from the Civil Rights Division, in a very odd (but also comparatively low-impact?) lawsuit. ...
jobsanger

Did Trump's Bombing Of Iran Have The Desired Result? -
Counterpunch

Don’t Mess with the Zohran - He knows He’s a socialist He knows the newest media He froze his ass off at Coney Island just so you could feel secure in your rent-stabilized unit, he k...
Informed Comment

A Middle East without Nukes - “You can’t bomb away the knowledge” -John Kerry Marg bar means death to… It was chanted after the hostage crisis. Marg bar America. Death to America. Y...
The Greanville Post

Hard of Hearing: Tens of Millions of Americans Still Don’t Get It—Capitalism and Health Care Don’t Mix - CBS—The great majority of patients requiring kidney dialysis in the U.S. are treated in outpatient clinics almost all run by for-profit corporations which,...
See You In 2020

Kash Patel’s war on dissent, & the “dissident” media figures who’ve sold him as an anti-establishment hero - The Kash Patel psyop has cost our social movements many months of extremely precious time in the fight against repression. It’s created hubris where the...
Antiwar.com

Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers - Originally published at TomDispatch. At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that lo...
Salon.com

“An interesting situation”: Cuomo considers independent run against Mamdani in NYC mayoral race - After conceding the Democratic primary to socialist Zohran Mamdani, the former governor is weighing options
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Debunking Cannabis Potency Myths - [image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower][image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower]Unlike alcohol (which is readily ...
slacktivist

Stop asking the wrong question. Be a neighbor. - "The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor. ... Are you prepared to see them treated this way?"
Common Dreams

60+ Organizations Urge Senate to Vote No on Budget Bill that Would Raise Costs for Americans, Increase Transportation Pollution - Today, dozens of environmental, consumer, labor, and community organizations representing millions of members sent a letter to the Senate urging lawmaker...
Texas Freedom Network

The Twenty-Two-Hour Hearing That Couldn’t Break Us: Texan Volunteers Fight for Democratic Process - By: Elva Mendoza and Erika Slaymaker Excitement and inspiration gave way to frustration, disappointment, anger, and aggravation. Calculations were made: ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Can Have Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The Mamdani victory is a moment of joy and a roadmap to the future
Socialist Alternative

Zohran Mamdani Stuns The Establishment In NYC Mayoral Primary - This is an initial statement by Socialist Alternative on the New York City mayoral election. We will publish a fuller analysis in the coming days. In a dra...
Ecosophia

June 2025 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...
alicublog

YOU SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE BEYOND YOUR COMMAND. - Regular readers know I lived most of my life in New York and love it in the bittersweet way of exile. So the mayoral primary victory of Zohran Mamdani ...
The AltWorld

Iran Shows Us Why The US And Israel Should Not Be Allowed To Have Nukes - Well it’s been a crazy couple of days. Trump bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy facilities in an attack that CNN […] The post Iran Shows Us Why The US...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From my archives - How They See Us: Unmasking The Religious Right War on Gay America - The place card for 'How They See Us.' In 2013, with the help of a few wonderful friends, I published the online booklet *How They See Us: Unmasking The Re...
ROAR Magazine

Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal - Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal Table of Contents O que é a proteção jurídica para apostadores desportivos...
Earthworks

By Rewriting LNG Rules, Trump Could Further Endanger the Health and Safety of Americans - People who live with liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) plants and pipelines in their communities face significant risks to their health … The post By Rewrit...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism - Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism bareditors Wed, 06/25/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Charisse Burden-Stelly, ...
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Bracing Views

The 12-Day War? - Israel, Iran, and the U.S. Theater of Death BILL ASTORE JUN 24, 2025 Last night, President Trump declared the so-called 12-Day War between Israel and Iran ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
Crooked Timber

Peaceful Terrorism? - The UK government has signalled its intention to “proscribe” the protest group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation. This will place it in the...
Infidel753

The Israel-Iran war - Twelve days into the current hot war between Israel and Iran, a clearer picture is emerging, although the ultimate outcome remains murky. Israel's priorit...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
The Grayzone

Meet the Israeli fanatic running Ted Cruz’s office - After Ted Cruz’s humiliation by Tucker Carlson, attention has focused on a top staffer of the self-proclaimed “leading defender of Israel in the United S...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-26 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Trivial Knot

Coming out as political action - Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it referred to young women coming of age ...
Lowering the Bar

Man Forced to Concede His Lawyer Is “Not a Real Person” - [image: you tube video of man's AI trying to argue appeal]Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.
Debunking Christianity

Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? - *Theological humility would be admitting profound ignorance about god(s)* When I was in seminary, Boston University School of Theology, during the 1960...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Paola Ramos explores her book 'Defectors' about right-wing Latino voters | Horizonte - *Friends:* *Paola Ramos—journalist, MSNBC correspondent, and daughter of Univision anchor Jorge Ramos—offers a timely and provocative reflection on Latin...
Bud Kennedy

Were the Minnesota killings ‘spiritual warfare’? Dallas school tied to extremism | Opinion - The trail of violent religious extremism has led to Texas again, raising questions about a small Dallas school for missionaries. Christ For The Nations Ins...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
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...
Robert Reich

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

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

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

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

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

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

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

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

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

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
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...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
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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