Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Vox

Why Kenya is sending police officers into Haiti - [image: Police with guns and helmets walk down a street.] The UN authorized a multilateral intervention in Haiti to help train and support the island nati...
Political Wire

The Rudderless GOP Careens Towards 2024 - “There’s no House speaker, Republicans are tearing each other to shreds over Kevin McCarthy’s ouster and another shutdown deadline is less than six weeks a...
naked capitalism

McCarthy Ouster, Senate Republican Opposition Bode Ill for 2023 Ukraine Funding - Ukraine funding, a big focus of the row over McCarthy's speakership, is not getting any easier.
Salon.com

Hey, progressives: Don't follow RFK Jr. down the rabbit hole — he's just not that into you - What does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. really stand for? If he runs as a third-party spoiler, the answer is clear
The Week

Otiumberg: sustainable jewellery beyond the hype - Launched by two sisters, this London-based brand has gone from strength to strength
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Have Committed £41 Million to UK Universities Since 2022 - Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Many of these commitments have been...
Axios

Trump's words turn violent as pressure on him builds - Former President Trump's violent rhetoric — a staple of his political brand dating back to 2015 — has grown more extreme as the walls have begun to close...
ProPublica

How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits - by Anna Maria Barry-Jester ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’...
Slate

Is The Golden Bachelor Bachelor Gold? - The franchise reboot offers plenty of charm, but it also brings back some unsavory aspects of the original show.
The Hill

Biden's latest moves on student loan forgiveness leave borrowers unimpressed - President Biden is in murky water with student loan borrowers and advocates after revealing his next avenues for relief may not be available for everyone t...
Al Jazeera English

Tunisia detains Abir Moussi, prominent opponent of president: Lawyers - The arrest is the latest in a crackdown against President Kais Saied's opponents.
Dissident Voice

The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State - When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it an...
Grist

Across the Midwest, communities grapple with the idea of a future without coal - The fossil fuel defined economies and local traditions. What happens when it goes away?
High Country News

As DACA falls again, what does it mean to be American? - Tony Valdovinos was brought to the U.S. at the age of 2. The challenges of not having citizenship haven’t stopped his success.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 4 October 2023 - If something's hard to read, click to enlarge. (For the previous post, click here. For the link round-up, click here.) Whine, whine, whine......
Mediagazer

A profile of Michael Lewis, as he talks about his new book, Going Infinite, why he considers SBF to be essentially genuine, The Blind Side controversy, and more (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian) - Samanth Subramanian / The Guardian: *A profile of Michael Lewis, as he talks about his new book, Going Infinite, why he considers SBF to be essentially g...
Rallblog

#9 Democrat Takes on #1 Republican - Democrats make a strong argument that Donald Trump has authoritarian tendencies and might even want to replace our democratic republic with a dictatorshi...
memeorandum

September shattered global heat record - and by a record margin (Scott Dance/Washington Post) - Scott Dance / Washington Post: *September shattered global heat record — and by a record margin* — Temperatures around the world last month were at lev...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

In Slovakia, we share the fear of all Ukraine’s neighbours. So why are we turning back to Russia? | Monika Kompaníková - The election of the pro-Kremlin nationalist Robert Fico reveals a country in crisis – and one that young people like my sons will leave When the Polish w...
Counterpunch

AI Goes to War: Will the Pentagon’s Techno-Fantasies Pave the Way for War with China? - On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Asso...
Informed Comment

Frankenstein’s Monster of a Climate Emergency: Dangerous Global September Heat Spike - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The data from scientific institutions around the world is pouring in here in the beginning of October, regarding September, ...
Crooked Media

Kevin Knows I’m Miserable Now - The post Kevin Knows I’m Miserable Now appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Electrocution Every Single Time: Guy Who Keeps Going To Court Keeps Making Less Sense - The wheels of justice grind on, the awful guy keeps babbling. In New York, Trump spewed rage, hate, lies on the first day of a fraud trial that, thanks t...
The Verge

Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April - [image: An image showing the bottom screen on a Nintendo 3DS] Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Next spring, Nintendo will shut down the online services be...
jobsanger

House Has No Speaker After Dumping McCarthy -
World Socialist Web Site

Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo González still in “Polish Guantanamo” 18 months after arrest - González’s arrest on baseless espionage allegations is an assault of freedom of the press, aiming to intimidate journalists and silence reporting on the NA...
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2782: Group Decision Making - Episode: 2782 Decision Making in Animal and Human Groups. Today, let’s talk about how groups make decisions.
The Intercept

Laphonza Butler’s EMILY’s List Spends Millions on Kamala Harris While Laying Off Grassroots Staff - Two months before the layoffs, EMILY’s List announced a 2024 plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to back Kamala Harris, a Butler ally. The post Lap...
Courthouse News

Oakland leaders take heat over civil grand jury report criticizing emergency staffing crisis - City leaders in Oakland, California, responded to a civil grand jury report finding the area's emergency call center is understaffed and overworked amid sk...
Antiwar.com

Artificial Intelligence Goes to War - Uh… gulp… you thought it was bad when that experienced pilot ejected from one of the Air Force’s hottest “new” planes, the F-35 combat fighter, near — no...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Comfortably Numb Live At PULSE 1994 -
Raw Story

'Radical left Marxists': Trump launches attack hours after judge imposes gag order - Just hours after New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron imposed a limited gag order and directed Donald Trump to remove his social media post targ...
Capital & Main

Poised to Strike, Kaiser Workers Say They Want The Old Kaiser Back - Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs. The ...
Mediaite

Former House Republican Calls Gaetz and Allies ‘Full Of It’ – Adds, ‘You Wouldn’t Want Them Near Your Children’ - Former Rep. Barbara Comstock had some pointed words for Rep. Matt Gaetz and the seven other Republicans who voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the ...
Popular Resistance

No ‘End Of History’ In Ukraine - “What we are witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or a passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that...
Techdirt.

Court Dismisses Medieval Times’ Trademark Suit Against Its Own Employee’s Union - Roughly a year ago, we discussed one of a few instances of a company filing a trademark infringement lawsuit against its own employees as a retaliation tac...
Daily Dot

Server shares tips for ‘rookie’ waitresses and reveals that if the manager says their computer crashed it’s a lie - [image: server speaking with caption "ROOKIE SERVER TIPS i WISH SOMEBODY TOLD ME" (l) server speaking with caption "ROOKIE SERVER TIPS i WISH SOMEBODY TO...
Wolf Street

20-Year Treasury Yield Spikes to 5.13%. Yield Curve Gets Ready to Uninvert. Juicy Yields Tempt, but Bloodbath May Not Be Over - “Fed hikes till something breaks.” But honey, the biggest thing has already broken: price stability. And the Fed is trying to fix it.
The AltWorld

When Even The Nazis Aren’t Nazis: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): In what Matt Taibbi has described as “the […] The post When Even The Nazis Aren’t Nazis: Note...
Alternet

'Play the game Matt Gaetz played': Ex-rep urges GOP to 'quit letting the legislative terrorists' win - During a conversation with CNN's Anderson Cooper Tuesday night, former United States Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) shared his thoughts on what he ...
See You In 2020

Why is the media not covering the Uhuru case? Because that would require defending an indefensible persecution campaign. - If the psyop agents behind the major media outlets were managing the Uhuru case the same way they’ve managed the Russiagate narrative; or managed the n...
Brad Blog

MCCARTHY OUSTED, GOP HOUSE IN CHAOS: 'BradCast' 10/3/2023 - Breaking just before air on today's BradCast: Yup. More GOP chaos in Congress. But I'm sure, by week's end, it'll all be the Democrats' fault somehow. [Aud...
Election Law Blog

“Trump Ordered Not to Comment on Judge’s Staff in Fraud Case” - NYT: The New York judge presiding over Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud trial ordered the former president Tuesday not to attack or even comment on court s...
Workers World

Indigenous leaders, allies honor Orange Shirt Day - [image: Indigenous leaders, allies honor Orange Shirt Day] United American Indians of New England (UAINE), the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAIC...
Texas Environmental News

In Texas Power Pricing Fight Finale, Law May Not Trump All - SECOND EDITING — The Texas Supreme Court will have to weigh both the legal and practical consequences of its attempt [...] The post In Texas Power Pricin...
WhoWhatWhy

House in Disarray — Republicans Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine - On Tuesday, a small band of renegade right-wing lawmakers led by Rep. Matt Gaetz forced Rep. Kevin McCarthy's ouster, and, for once, all of that GOP chaos ...
OpEd News

What banned books have you read? - Fueled by the MAGAmania fear promoted by Donald Trump and those wishing to supplant him as leader of the Republican cult, efforts to control what books tea...
Stinque

And Baby Makes Three - The post And Baby Makes Three appeared first on Stinque.
Undernews

Democrats actually ousted McCarthy - *Sa**m Smith - * Contrary to most of the news coverage, it was actually Democrats who voted McCarthy out of his speakership. Only 8 Republicans voted to...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video - Anti-drag queen hysteria comes to SC's Myrtle Beach - I guess this video is way of saying that the anti-drag queen hysteria sweeping other parts of the country will be coming to South Carolina. It's exasper...
Portside

The Old Oak Review – Ken Loach’s Fierce Final Call for Compassion and Solidarity - The Old Oak Review – Ken Loach’s Fierce Final Call for Compassion and Solidarity natalie Tue, 10/03/2023 - 19:10
Reform Austin

McCarthy - The post McCarthy appeared first on Reform Austin.
San Antonio Report

Despite harsher punishment for vaping in schools, slight change seen in infractions - [image: North East Independent School District leaders have credited a slight decrease in vaping infractions to a widespread public awareness campaign and ...
Texas Standard

Former Texas Memorial Museum reopens with new name, new exhibits - The newly designated Texas Science and Natural History Museum reopened in September after being closed for over a year.
San Antonio Current

Aerosmith postpones San Antonio concert after lead singer fractures larynx - San Antonio music fans hoping to catch Aerosmith next month on the band's Farewell Tour will have to "Dream On." Aerosmith revealed Tuesday that it's post...
SCOTUSblog

Civil rights tester case heads to high court - [image: Civil rights tester case heads to high court]Deborah Laufer is a self-appointed civil rights tester. From her home in Florida, Laufer – who has m...
Ballot Access News

Eight Republican Members of the U.S. House Vote to Replace Speaker Kevin McCarthy - On October 3, the House voted to replace Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy lost his position because eight Republicans voted against him. The eight include ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Phony Plaintiffs - Isaac Schorr @ Mediaite: Kevin McCarthy Ejected as House Speaker in Historic Defeat, Sending House Into Utter Chaos. Sarah Lipton-Lubet @ Slate: The Supr...
The NM Political Report

McCarthy loses his gavel in unprecedented vote - [image: McCarthy loses his gavel in unprecedented vote] The U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as Speaker of th...
CultureMap Houston

6 things to know in Houston food right now: Openings, closings, and a sizzling Pappasito's deal - Editor’s note: Houston’s restaurant scene moves pretty fast. In order to prevent CultureMap readers from missing anything, let’s stop to look around at al...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - To absent friends (bye Kev)
Deadline Politics

L.A. Political Scandal: City Council Member John Lee Accused Of Accepting Excess Gifts From Developer During Vegas Trip - Los Angeles City Councilman John Lee is facing accusations today from the city Ethics Commission of violating governmental ethics laws by accepting and fai...
Discourse

The Gaetz of Hell - What is Matt Gaetz's freakin' deal??? ALSO: Did a congressman say 'betting on the cum'?
Mother Jones

Kevin McCarthy Ousted as House Speaker - In January, a small faction of right-wing House Republicans relented in their efforts to sink Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker. Their supp...
First Draft

Pretty Vacant: KMac Loses - Matt Gaetz is a punk.
Angry Bear

August JOLTS report: a pause in deceleration, but the trend remains intact - August JOLTS report: a pause in deceleration, but the trend remains intact – by New Deal democrat Last month I concluded my post on the July JOLTS repor...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

State Fair Photo of the Day, 10/3: Step Right Up - Meet Melissa Adams. She’s one of the hundreds—thousands?—of employees who are manning the games, dunking the corny dogs, flipping the burgers, pressing t...
NPR's Health Shots

A 'dream' come true: Now there are 2 vaccines to slash the frightful toll of malaria - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.Tedros, says he used to "dream of the day when we would have a ... vaccine against ma...
The Root

Jacksonville Sheriff Releases New Details Behind Brutal Beating - Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters released the body camera footage from the viral arrest of Le’Keian Woods, arguing the brutal beating was justified. Howe...
Rio Grande Guardian

League of Women Voters of Texas publishes its 2023 Constitutional Amendment Election Voters Guide - Each of the 14 proposed amendments is explained in clear language, along with arguments for and against each. The post League of Women Voters of Texas...
Eater Houston

This New Houston Wine Bar Will Transport You to the Streets of Barcelona - [image: A table filled with a cheese board, a charcuterie board, and glasses of wine.] Barcelona Wine Bar channels the best parts of the Spanish city it’s...
Claytoonz

Republican-On-Republican - I’m going to be honest with you. I have zero sadness over House Republicans fighting with each other. I have no empathy for Kevin McCarthy in this situatio...
Futurism

Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission - Ad Age Amid the still-ongoing Screen Actors' Guild strike, celebs are fighting back against AI being used to replicate them without their consent — and n...
Environment Texas

Marine protected areas are the best hope for the ocean – but only if the protections are real - With the health of the ocean under threat more than ever before, the need for action has never been greater. Marine protected areas must be a key part of...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Fake Recruitment Leaflets Promise US Students Debt Relief for Joining Ukraine’s Defense - The images, first shared by a sanctioned Russian war propagandist, fit into a disinformation pattern tying poverty in the U.S. to the war in Ukraine.  
Texas Monthly

Why Are So Many Tortoises on the Loose in Texas? - They’re hard-shelled escape artists—and faster than you think.
Independent Political Report

Foundational Debate - At different times, political parties have been locked in debate as to the correct strategy to use. After 2000, the Green Party debated whether or not i...
Mondoweiss

Nathan Thrall has written a masterpiece about Israel’s occupation - [image: Israeli forces close an entrance of the Palestinian town of Anata and Shuafat refugee camp on October 11, 2022. (Photo: Saeed Qaq/APA Images)]"A Da...
The Grayzone

British govt funded plan for censorship of factual NATO criticism - Leaked documents reveal a British intel contractor singled out The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for online censorship, and seeks to redefine factual critici...
Progressive.org

Texas's Anti-Migrant Buoys Make Border Security Even More Inhumane - Four people have already died as a result of the buoys, which can trap people underwater, force migrants into deeper channels, and impair river rescues.
Second Nexus

Trump Shares Bizarre Courtroom Sketch Of Himself Sitting Next To Jesus—Because Of Course He Did - The first day of the civil fraud trial of former Republican President Donald Trump and his two eldest sons and top executives of the Trump Organization b...
Novara Media

CPC23: Braverman Gives Sinister Migration Speech in Bid to Be Next Tory Leader - Suella Braverman has used her Tory conference speech to ramp up fears about immigration. Plus: Nigel Farage’s changing relationship with the Tory party; an...
American Prospect

Newsom’s Choice - Today on TAP: In California (not to mention America), the racial and ethnic politics of representation are inescapable.
Ian Welsh

The Pointlessness Of Continuing The Ukraine War (And Its Future) - [image: The Pointlessness Of Continuing The Ukraine War (And Its Future)] So, this map tells you about half of what you need to know about the war in Ukra...
Project Censored

More Draconian Than You Thought: A Look at Georgia RICO Then and Now - If two people sit down for a cup of coffee in Georgia, they might leave with RICO charges. That’s how our first guest this week, Ellen Barfield explains ...
Scheerpost.com

Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor Before World War I - By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Canandaigua, New Yor...
Texas Observer

Advocates Request Clemency for Jewish Man on Death Row - Jedidiah Murphy doesn’t claim to be innocent. He confessed to police shortly after killing 79-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in Dalla...
Southeast Texas Record

Rebekah Miller and Anna Jennings Win Baylor Law’s 2023 Dawson & Sodd Moot Court Competition - Finalists in Baylor Law’s annual Dawson & Sodd PLLC Moot Court Competition demonstrated their appellate advocacy skills before a distinguished panel of j...
Daily Howler

Rep. Bowman sets off an alarm! - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2023* *Who is Harris Faulkner?* Everyone agrees on the one basic fact: For whatever reason, Rep. Jamaal Bowman set off a fire alarm ...
Idavox

Minneapolis City Council Rejects MPD Sergeant’s Workers’ Comp Settlement - Minneapolis, MN — In what appears to be a first in city politics, the Minneapolis...
The Conversation

Death of the Armenian dream in Nagorno-Karabakh was predictable but not inevitable - The collapse of the self-proclaimed republic ushers in a new reality in the South Caucasus. For Armenia, the first concern is how to accommodate the needs ...
Bracing Views

War as an “Investment” - W.J. Astore The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing Did you know the Russia-Ukraine War is a great “investment” for the United States? A terrific opport...
Ring of Fire

Saudi Arabia Makes Another Online Critic Disappear - A teenager in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for criticizing the Saudi Arabian government on social media. These arrests are becom...
Daily Cartoonist

Star Tribune Eliminates Staff Editoonist - The Star Tribune is moving on without an editorial cartoonist, following an announcement Monday that Mike Thompson would be moved from a full-time role t...
Bonddad

August JOLTS report: a pause in deceleration, but the trend remains intact - * - by New Deal democrat* Last month I concluded my post on the July JOLTS report’s sharp declines by noting that “None of these statistics move in a...
Unlimited Hangout

SDG16: Part 2 — Enforcing Digital Identity - The United Nations claims that the purpose of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to provide acces...
Rewire

Will Conservatives Use the ‘Crisis Pregnancy Center’ Playbook to Attack Trans People? - The anti-abortion and anti-trans movements share many core beliefs and goals, leading us to some ideas about what their next moves may be. The post Will ...
MintPress News

Why China’s Rapid Rise is Terrifying the United States, with John Ross - While many in the West take a very dim view of China, China expert John Ross is far more positive, telling MintCast that China has seen the highest susta...
Democracy Now!

Police Killings of Black & Brown People May Be Double Previous Estimates: La Raza Database Project - The newly released Raza Database Project reveals the number of Brown and Black people killed by police in the United States may be more than double the amo...
The Smirking Chimp

Arizona AG’s Office Investigates Trump’s Alleged Election Interference Well After Biden’s Inauguration -
Web of Debt

“The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All - “’You’ll own nothing and be happy’? David Webb has gone through the 50-year history of all the legal constructs that have been put in place to technically ...
Space City Weather

Rain likely for the next three days, ahead of a robust fall cold front - Good morning. Houston will see a significant pattern change over the next few days, as a weakening ridge of high pressure allows for the influx of tropical...
Dos Centavos

Richard Cantu for COH At-Large #3 - When Richard Cantu announced his run for Houston City Council, he was one of those candidates who brought to mind one word: Qualified. Richard has devoted ...
The Daily Poster

LEFT WONDERING: Is Oil Extraction Tilting The Earth? - Plus, how to consider the next generation without despair.
ArcaMax

Flop House: The GOP's 'Impeachment Inquiry' Lays an Egg - The tip-off that House Republicans' cobbled-together opening of their "impeachment inquiry" into President Joe Biden was going to flop came last Wednesday,...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: Time to Weatherize - The seasons are changing, and with them the weather. Heating and cooling account for nearly... The post We Earthlings: Time to Weatherize appeared first ...
Skeptophilia

What's in a name? - In the way that viral nonsense always goes, every few months I see a resurgence of a post (actually a collection of similar posts) which takes your first...
Liberation News

50 detained, over 100 homes raided in sweeping crackdown on press freedom in India - The homes of over 100 journalists, contractors, and former employees associated with the progressive news outlets Newsclick and Peoples Dispatch, as well a...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Fair for Houston, which is now Yes on Prop B - I trust you are familiar by now with Fair for Houston, for which there was a successful petition drive to put an item on the Houston ballot this November. ...
Duck of Minerva

Judging a book by its cover II - Part I here if you are interested On the day of German reunification anniversary I bring you the sequel to the post on the new Russian history book. Only, ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

‘Black farmers and ranchers, it’s a dying deal.’ - [image: Nate dressed in a cowboy hat, blue hat and pants sits on a horse. His large farm with tall trees is in the background.] The morning sun hugs the h...
Crooked Timber

Lucy and the football - It’s a movie we’ve seen over and over again in US politics. Centrists engage in respectful discussion with a thoughtful conservative[1], only to discover t...
Church and State

The key to messaging is repetition. These are the messages Democrats should repeat relentlessly. - Republicans, from Congress to city councils, sound the same: freedom, the Constitution, family and Christian values.
Sludge

ALEC Gala to Face Protest From Pro-Democracy Groups - The industry-funded group is celebrating 50 years with a gala in D.C.
Glasstire

Art Institutes Across Texas Close Permanently - On September 30, 2023, the Art Institutes (AI) system of private for-profit art schools, including campuses in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

UPSWELL Journal - The Political Economy Society at the University of Sydney are putting out a call for interest on their upcoming student led ‘UPSWELL’ journal. If you hav...
slacktivist

He always said that Heaven was just a Dallas ‘modeling agency’ - The saga of the anti-gay MAGA mayoral hopeful Gabrielle Hanson is the gift that keeps on giving.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

O, Kanada! (or, Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Fascist) - Between the unanimous standing O’s in the Canadian Parliament for former Waffen SS thug Yaroslav Hunka, Trudeau’s weak-ass mea culpas and their tippety-top...
El Paso Matters

Peter Pacillas to serve as El Paso’s new police chief - City Manager Cary Westin appointed interim police chief Peter Pacillas to lead the EPPD after a national search. The new chief replaces Greg Allen. The ...
Socialist Alternative

Writers Beat Studios, Win Major Concessions - After 148 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) forced the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) back to the negotiat...
Lowering the Bar

I Was in Spain - But now I'm not.
The Progressive Wing

10.2-4 Open Threads - Greetings you all. 🙂 Well, Governor Gavin Newsom of CA chose Laphonza Butler to replace the late Senator Dianne Feinstein. Butler is Black, Gay, and has L...
Earthworks

People’s Climate Hearing Testimony - Melissa Ostroff participated in the People’s Climate Convergence in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 2 October 2023 delivering the following testimony about …...
Innocence Project

LISTEN: How A Family Came Together to Reverse Timothy Cole’s Wrongful Conviction - The post LISTEN: How A Family Came Together to Reverse Timothy Cole’s Wrongful Conviction appeared first on Innocence Project.
Krebs on Security

Don’t Let Zombie Zoom Links Drag You Down - Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a va...
Debunking Christianity

On the Incompatibility of Answered Prayers and Science by Daniel Mocsny - By Daniel Mocsny: If outside influences like prayer or meddling gods cannot be excluded, then science cannot proceed - it won't work. The same experiment w...
Democracy Chronicles

I Hereby Censure the Censure - It’s time that we censure the whole idea of censure. It’s consuming the precious time and money of our local governments.
Progressives Chat

… Polls - A recent poll from *ABC News*/*Washington Post* reports former U.S. president Donald Trump (R–Florida) nationally leads current U.S. president Joe Biden ...
LareDOS

27th Annual Domestic Violence Coalition conference set for Thursday, Oct. 5 at TAMIU - Conference offers platform of dialogue, education, and awareness of resources
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: A Portrait that Dares to Expose Musk’s Madness - We do a deep dive into a daring photo that reflects Elon Musk as a supervillain and potentially mentally disturbed. The post Chatting the Pictures: A Por...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The GloboCap Nazi Follies - Here’s a story destined for urgent dispatch down the Memory Hole. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear it being sucked down through the duc...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Water drops - For quite some time, I had been complaining about lack of origami books about curved crease techniques. But now we have one! Curved Origami by Ekaterina ...
Avedon's Sideshow

And all fell before the bull - Thanks to Jay Sheckley, who brought this to our attention: "THE OFFICE AT NIGHT is a 2012 acrylic cityscape by living UK artist Phil Lockwood. Every window...
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...
nonsite.org

Two Poems from Diorama 1871 - I began to suspect the town wasn’t full of settler women at all
The Militant

UK forum discusses prospects to build the Communist League - LONDON — The end of a decadeslong retreat of the labor movement presents new opportunities for the Communist League, Jonathan Silberman told 40 people at a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE GREAT BOT-AND-SCROLL SWINDLE EDITION. - *Nothing in this post is to be taken as a knock on Kraftwerk.* Oh boy, have I got *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down *freebies for you! Yes, I bring *Roy Edroso ...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - It's time for a new open thread. In non-Trump news: - Sen. Diane Feinstein has died at age 91. - El Chapo's youngest son, Ovidio Guzman, has been e...
Bud Kennedy

Yes, Republicans see Donald Trump as a man of faith. But there’s more to the story | Opinion - It was one of those jarring, did-you-hear-this headlines, like “Space Alien Gives Feng Shui Tips” or “Are Giant Gators On Your Street?” But it was true. It...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 29, 2023 - Black Agenda Radio September 29, 2023 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/29/2023 - 08:02 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
NORML

Ohio: Ballot Initiative Legalizing Marijuana for Adults Favored in Multiple Polls - [image: legalization vote yes][image: legalization vote yes]"Ohioans have seen similar legalization laws adopted in neighboring states and they know that...
Dissent Magazine

Inconsistent Populists: Sohrab Ahmari and the Anti-Neoliberal Right - *Tyranny, Inc.* aims to build a working-class coalition between the left and right. But Ahmari cannot get around the GOP populists’ dismal record on labor.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

You Don't Need A Weatherman: Biden, Trump, and the Prevailing Forces - Politicians are subject to pressures and changing times. We're getting a good look at where things are heading.
Media Lens

The Ego’s Circle Of Mirrors – Part 2 - The ego’s difficulty with the happiness of others is relentlessly communicated to children. Adults stoically tolerate youthful exuberance for a while – the...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

MSM Doesn't Promote Books Exposing Wall Street - There are six for profit corporations controlling over 90% of national media, and most of the remaining media is also controlled by for profit corporati...
Ecosophia

September 2023 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standa...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Sept. 26, 2023 - Dear Readers: This is the latest edition of Notes on the State of Politics, which features short updates on elections and politics. — The Editors New Jerse...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Texas SBOE is Considering PragerU’s "Avoidance Curriculum": It's a Whitewashing of an Already Whitewashed Curriculum - *PragerU is neither a certified, nor university- or research-based curriculum, much less a university. It's an organization founded by Dennis Prager, a con...
Reveal

‘If the Police Don’t Believe You, They Might Prosecute You’: How Officers Turn Victims of Sexual Assault Into Suspects - [image: Illustration of oversized men in law enforcement uniforms peering down at a small woman, who is talking.] Research shows the debilitating effects ...
Alas, a Blog

Diets Don’t Work Therefore You Must Diet - This cartoon, drawn by Becky Hawkins, is a straightforward adaptation of a Michael Hobbes tweet (with Michael’s kind permission). Michael, for those who do...
Edinburg Politics

House Research Organization provides online, unbiased, easy-to-understand explanations on the upcoming November 2023 state constitutional amendments, reports Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra - With 14 state constitutional amendments to face Texas voters later this autumn, the nonpartisan House Research Organization has published an easy-to-unders...
Green Pages News

How Artis Burney Stands Out Among This Year’s Green Candidates - What would happen if an African-American environmental justice activist ran against a far-right white incumbent in the Deep South? This November, ...
Shadowproof

From Behind Enemy Lines, Prison Journalists Report On Conditions At Their Own Risk - Practicing journalism in prison is necessary, but incarcerated reporters face enormous risks and aggressive retaliation. The post From Behind Enemy Lines...
Robert Reich

Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas Don’t get scared.... - *Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas * Don’t get scared. I’m going to talk about something that’s caused a lot of fear mongering. You see, advanced coun...
Campaign for America's Future

How Deep Canvass Conversations Can Transform America - Here at People’s Action Institute, we feel the way Jill Murphy, a Michigan schoolteacher who is now a full-time organizer for one of our affiliates, felt w...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Pro-Kremlin Propagandist Ties to White Nationalist Movement Deeper Than Previously Known - Hatewatch reviewed new materials indicating that Charles Bausman, the pro-Kremlin propagandist who disappeared to Moscow in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 20...
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...
BEYONDbones

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Land Destroyer

Washington’s Expanding Military Footprint on China’s Doorsteps - *September 13, 2023* (Brian Berletic - New Eastern Outlook) - A series of announcements by the US reflect its large and still growing military presence a...
Seeing the Forest

Call It “National Money” Not “National Debt” - I propose renaming the “National Debt” as the “National Money.” Here is why. Once upon a time, governments had to round up gold to “pay for” things. Kings ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Courting Destruction in Fascist America - Nina examines a story by antifascist Shane Burley that proves losing his lawsuit against "Antifa" doesn't mean Andy Ngo and his fascist allies aren't win...
Greg Palast

Until They Killed Them…100 Crucial Seconds of A Story Buried - The Osage of Oklahoma were the richest people on the planet. Until they killed them. For their oil. *Long Knife* is an investigation I have worked on quiet...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE | LATIN AMERICA | The First 9/11: Fiftieth anniversary of the coup in Chile - September 11, 2023, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Chile. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2023 The Austin Commi...
Dandelion Salad

Paul Jay: The Lies of 9/11 - Dandelion Salad Originally posted May 12, 2022 September 11, 2023 theAnalysis-news on May 6, 2022 Paul Jay was a guest on Law and Disorder hosted by Michae...
Texans For Public Justice

REPORT: Top Texas Officials Pocket $6.3 Million From Blackout Profiteers - Donors tied to 36 companies that private lawsuits allege manipulated natural gas markets to improperly profit from 2021’s deadly Winter Storm Uri contri...
Field Negro

One of "us". - I just saw a report that most republicans believe that the January 6th insurrection was a democratic inside job to make their dear leader, Donald tr...
ExChristian.Net

ACTS OF GOD - * By David Andrew Dugle ~ * Settle down now children, here's the story from the Book of David called The Parable of the Bent Cross. In the land Southea...
Texas Freedom Network

Conservative Education Program, PragerU, Sets Eyes on Texas. - What it Means for Texans and Their Families. At the center of that controversy is board member Julie Pickren – yes, the same Julie Pickren who participat...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Mayor Appoints New Public Parks Board - An Unusual Reliance on Private Funding for City Parks Public meeting Thursday, Sept. 7, 9:30 a.m. at United Way, 50 Waugh Drive. Notice and Agenda. Sign up...
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...
TXElects

Texas Election Source Is Returning with New Partners - AUSTIN, Texas – [August 31, 2023] – Texas Election Source is returning under new ownership. Laura Carr and Eric Davis have partnered with Jeff Blaylock, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Meet Mary Wood, a Teacher Resisting Censorship - In the past year, Mary Wood has gone through an ordeal that’s increasingly familiar to teachers, librarians, and school administrators across the country...
New Progressive Alliance

No SPOILERS - Gary Swing is the resident expert for the New Progressive Alliance on the need for election reform and wrote the below article. He has run as a third par...
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...
GreenSource DFW

Summertime blues? North Texans struggle to cope with extreme heat - *In prolonged heat and drought, prickly pear cactus can become stressed and shriveled or even die. Photo by Michael Smith.* Aug. 17, 2023 On a recent da...
Political Garbage Chute

Donald Trump Finding Out - Well…shit. How did this end up happening, anyway? Doesn’t everyone indicting him understand the rules have never, and never will apply to him? Think of t...
The Texas Signal

Latino Victory Fund Announces Houston City Council Endorsement - Today Latino Victory Fund, a political action committee that backs progressive Latino candidates running for office, announced they were endorsing Mario Ca...
Border/Lines

Judge strikes down transit ban 2.0, Ninth Circuit stays the order—08-09-23 - Immigration news, in context
The Disorder Of Things

Support the Troops: A Response - Rounding off this week’s symposium on Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, Katharine Millar responds to ...
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...
Grits for Breakfast

Congressman headlining Grits' zine launch event - For folks in Austin, please come to Grits' zine launch Sunday, July 23rd, from 2-4 p.m.. We're going to record interviews w/ me and others by Congressman...
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, ...
Equality Texas

All in for Equality Coalition Supports Litigation Against Anti-Trans Legislation - Press Contacts: Equality Texas, Johnathan Gooch, press@equalitytexas.org, (737) 308-2331 Texas Freedom Network, Emily Witt, emily@tfn.org, 512-538-5692 A...
Moron Majority

Pence Super PAC Unfortunately Launches Poorly Thought-Out Campaign Ad - With his presidential campaign failing to gain traction, some advisors are recommending Mike Pence drop out of the 2024 race. Some polls have Pence at the ...
One People's Project

Visit our shop on Facebook! - As we try to put things together here, some of you might be wondering where can you purchase our assorted merch. Currently our Facebook store is the best p...
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 ...
Morning Consult

How to Build Brand Awareness With Survey Research - The post How to Build Brand Awareness With Survey Research appeared first on Morning Consult.
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.
Two Party Opera

Taft and Forward - " Taft and Forward " on Two Party Opera May 3, 2023 ↓ Transcript Panel 1: Taft: "I never wanted to be president." Roosevelt: “Really, Taft? Who forced...
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 ...
Texas Watch

Consumers share stories about the need for #FairAppraisal and #SafeRepairs - Over 1,000 Texans have contacted their lawmakers in support of legislation for #FairAppraisal and #SafeRepairs. Texas Watch is in strong support of HB 1...
Dispatches from the Underclass

China’s Saudi-Iran Peace Deal Is a Major Setback for US Empire, w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi - Become a Patron to watch the full 90-minute interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-video-saudi-81663975 The historic deal brokered by China for a Sa...
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.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Statement on Houston Emanu El Synagogue Vandalism - We live in a period of time where the hallmark of our existence is our profound alienation from each other. In this isolated environment, we are divided an...
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.
Countercurrents

Big picture of disengagement in Ladakh - The Ministry of External Affairs has done the right thing by explaining its taciturn press release on September 8 Thursday in a single sentence regarding t...
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?
WAWG Blog

Preserving Our Democracy – Allegiance To a Nation OR Serving a More Perfect Union - On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the other, a citizenship oa...
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...
The Reality-Based Community

Watch ‘Encanto’ free Disney’s online: Where to stream and watch from anywhere - Animated Movie’s!! Is Encanto available to stream? Here are options for downloading or watching Encanto streaming the full movie online for free on 123movi...
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...
Free & Equal

Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s - The post Leading Election Foundation Launching Blockchain App with NFT’s appeared first on Free and Equal.
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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