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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Counterpunch

What’s Driving ‘Irregular’ Cuban Emigration to the United States? - In 2022, an unprecedented number of Cubans arrived in the United States through irregular, or ‘illegal’ channels. Historically the United States has enco...
Al Jazeera English

Will generative AI change how we live? - Generative AI is a new wave of artificial intelligence that supporters say could revolutionise our lives.
memeorandum

US, Philippines agree on larger American military presence (Jim Gomez/Associated Press) - Jim Gomez / Associated Press: *US, Philippines agree on larger American military presence* — The United States and the Philippines announced on Thursda...
Informed Comment

In 4th Quarter, for first time Hybrid and Electric Vehicles outsold Diesel and Gasoline Cars in the European Union - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the European Union in the fourth quarter of 2022, for the first time in history diesel- and gasoline-powered automobiles ...
The Grayzone

Suspicions of state security set-up in Germany’s far-right ‘coup’ - A massive police raid foiled extremist plans to topple Germany’s government. But the timing of the plot and its sheer absurdity raised questions about st...
Mediaite

‘She’s Doomed’: Greg Kelly Buries Nikki Haley, Shows Forgotten Video He Says Makes Her Challenge to Trump ‘D.O.A.’ - Newsmax host Greg Kelly slammed Nikki Haley’s plan to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination by saying her candidacy is “doomed” thanks to c...
Workers World

PDF of February 2 issue - [image: PDF of February 2 issue] Download the PDF. Justice for Tyre Nichols! Abolish the police! Protest condemns massacres by Israel Protests vs police br...
jobsanger

Plurality Now Says The South Is Most Dangerous Region - From the YouGov Poll.
Axios

Read: Hunter Biden's lawyers request criminal investigation - Hunter Biden's attorneys wrote to state and federal agencies on Wednesday requesting they open criminal investigations into former President Trump's alli...
Courthouse News

Nebraska lawmakers debate six-week abortion ban - The "heartbeat bill" would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, often around six weeks after fertilization.
The Verge

Amazon’s delivery drones served fewer than 10 houses in their first month - *Amazon’s hexagonal MK27-2 delivery drone.* | Image: Amazon It’s been nearly a decade since Amazon’s Jeff Bezos promised us delivery drones, but they are...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Shocking Decline of Senate Ticket-Splitting - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Senate races are increasingly converging with presidential partisanship, to the point where the huge overperformances that w...
The Week

Australia is erasing Britain's monarchy from its paper currency, sidelining King Charles III - Australia's national bank said Thursday that its new $5 bill, which currently features a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II, will not feature King C...
Antiwar.com

The Legacy of George W. Bush and His Torturers - In the days and months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating the attacks on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after bin Lad...
Texas Environmental News

New tax laws went into effect Jan. 1 - As tax season makes its way into 2023, so have a few tax laws that were originally passed in the [...] The post New tax laws went into effect Jan. 1 appe...
World Socialist Web Site

Caterpillar handed investors $6.7 billion in 2022, while demanding more concessions from workers in next contract - The company’s 2022 earnings report showed substantial sales increases and projected robust demand for 2023, despite growing economic headwinds.
Portside

It’s Black History Month. Here Are 3 Things To Know About the Annual Celebration - It’s Black History Month. Here Are 3 Things To Know About the Annual Celebration Mark Brody Wed, 02/01/2023 - 23:23
Mediagazer

SEC filing: Comcast sold 5,726,385 BuzzFeed shares from January 30 to February 1 as BuzzFeed's stock surged, leaving the company with 19.97% of BuzzFeed's stock (Emily Bary/MarketWatch) - Emily Bary / MarketWatch: *SEC filing: Comcast sold 5,726,385 BuzzFeed shares from January 30 to February 1 as BuzzFeed's stock surged, leaving the compa...
Ballot Access News

Congressional Bill to Increase U.S. House from 435 to 585 Members - On January 30, Congressmember Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) introduced HB 622, to increase the size of the U.S. House from 435 to 585 members, effective in 2031.
Trivial Knot

Origami: Ace and Arrow - It’s February, and in the US, the culturally dominant holiday for February is Valentine’s Day. A lot of people don’t like it though, for various reasons t...
Raw Story

Read: Police report details theft from Sen. Jerry Moran's campaign account - In January, Raw Story broke news that cyberthieves stole nearly $700,000 from the political campaign account of Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS). Moran's committ...
Techdirt.

CFL Decides To Shut Down Cool YouTube Channel Promoting Its Product For Free - For sports fans in general, one of the great benefits of social media sites, particularly Twitter, has been the way highlights are shared across those plat...
El Paso Matters

Former DA associate no longer Vinton municipal judge - Roger Rodriguez is no longer a judge in Vinton, population 2,700 The post Former DA associate no longer Vinton municipal judge appeared first on El Paso...
The Hill

Powerball: Winning numbers for estimated $653M jackpot drawn - Check your tickets - the winning numbers have been drawn for the $653 million Powerball jackpot.
The NM Political Report

Effort to change bail system one step closer to the ballot - [image: Effort to change bail system one step closer to the ballot] The House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee heard House Joint Resoluti...
The Mind Unleashed

A Bright ‘Green’ Comet Will Pass By Earth Tonight For The First Time in 50,000 Years, Here’s How To See It - On Wednesday, a comet that originated in the outer reaches of the solar system will come close to Earth. Observers will have the opportunity to get a glimp...
VICE

She Left Home to Work 5,000 Miles Away, But Was Killed and Abandoned in a Desert - Authorities are moving to investigate a rise in Filipino workers’ abuses in Kuwait, after the chilling murder of a domestic worker by her employer’s 17-yea...
Dissident Voice

Palestine is My Cause - The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situa...
Political Wire

George Santos’ Transformation from Anthony Devolder - “The transformation of George Santos began in 2019, the year he went from Anthony Devolder, just another New Yorker sharing political musings on social med...
Caitlin Johnstone

We’re Ruled By Assholes Because We Have Asshole Systems: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ It’s funny to think about how all our abusive, oppressive systems are only there because the people who benefit from...
San Antonio Report

City rolls out violent crime reduction plan - [image: City adopts three year $3.7 million plan to increase police presence in 28 violent crime "hotspots" around the city in an effort to reduce crime.]T...
Daily Dot

‘Are they golden eggs???’: Customer receipts show 4x increase in egg prices from 2022 to 2023 - [image: finger pointing to egg price on receipt 5 dozen eggs for $9.59 (l) eggs in carton in front of white background (c) finger pointing to egg price o...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Wolf Street

What Powell Actually Said - “The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy. We will stay the course until the job is done,” but it’s not done, Powell sa...
Brad Blog

Could Biden Just Ignore the Dumb Debt Limit if Repubs Refuse to Raise It?: 'BradCast' 2/1/2023 - Today on The BradCast: The so-called investigations of the Biden Administration by GOP-led Congressional committees are virtually guaranteed to crash and b...
Election Law Blog

ELB Podcast Episode 4:5: Rachel Maddow: What “Ultra” Can Teach Us About Threats to Democracy Today - New ELB Podcast: Can an attempt an election subversion in the 1940s teach us how to handle current threats to American democracy? Do failed attempts to ...
NORML

Virginia: House Republicans Reject Retail Cannabis Sales Plan - [image: woman no marijuana][image: woman no marijuana]NORML Development Director JM Pedini, said that Tuesday’s vote represented "another stunning failur...
Daily Cartoonist

R.F.D. Ends - Rural Free Delivery continues for those of you in the hinterlands, but the R.F.D. comic strip by Mike Marland has delivered its last new comic strip this w...
Ian Welsh

Britain Stops Making Vaccine Available (But the Rich Will Still Get It) - [image: Britain Stops Making Vaccine Available (But the Rich Will Still Get It)] So, here we go: UK Booster jabs will no longer be available to healthy ...
Common Dreams

Advocates Cheer Revival of Bill to 'Restore Critical Protections' to Arctic Refuge - Indigenous, climate, and conservation advocates on Wednesday welcomed the reintroduction of congressional legislation to restore protections and prevent ...
Alternet

Hunter Biden calls for investigation into leaks of his personal information - After years of being the right wing’s punching bag, Hunter Biden is fighting back. The 52-year-old attorney, investor, lobbyist, father of five, and Navy...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video - Fox News claims of 'woke mind virus' nothing more than sneaky way to be racist, homophobic - "Wokeism" is the latest word used by conservatives and those on the right to voice to smear anything modern or progressive in the world, particularly a...
CultureMap Houston

Thriving drive-thru salad restaurant freshens up Houston with first outpost and more on the way - A restaurant that sells salads via drive-thru has arrived in Houston. Salad and Go will open its first Houston-area location in Katy (5200 FM 1463) this F...
The Root

What We Lose If We Don't Talk About Black History! - The way we’re often taught to think about history as children is a linear progression. Bad things happen in the past and then we move on. Read more...
The Intercept

13,000 People From the Niger Delta Just Sued Shell for Years of Oil Spills - “As we speak, oil is spilling in my community every day, people are dying.” The post 13,000 People From the Niger Delta Just Sued Shell for Years of Oil ...
Futurism

The Best Mini Fridges of 2023 - A mini fridge — or compact refrigerator — makes a useful addition to many homes and workspaces. With so many options on the market, however, choosing one...
Vox

Why the FBI searched President Biden’s beach house - [image: Joe Biden seen with a White House image projected in the background.] President Joe Biden waits to deliver remarks at a union event at the White H...
SCOTUSblog

Court declines to block execution of Texas man who argued that jurors engaged in anti-Hispanic bias - [image: Court declines to block execution of Texas man who argued that jurors engaged in anti-Hispanic bias]The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to bl...
See You In 2020

The lesson from the Donbass: U.S. imperialism can only be defeated through the sacrifices war entails - Above: the Prizrak Brigade, the Donbass volunteer fighting group When the DPRK diplomat Kim Yo-jong recently stated that “We will always stand in the s...
Houston Public Media

Maintaining a Healthy Heart and Minimizing the Risk of Heart Disease; Plus, What You Need to Know About Microchipping Your Pets - A cardiologist shares advice for the best ways to stay healthy and prevent heart-related complications.
NPR's Health Shots

A Trump-appointed Texas judge could force a major abortion pill off the market - A decision is expected soon in a case challenging the FDA's approval of mifepristone, a drug commonly used to induce abortions.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Outrage as US government advances $8bn Alaska oil drilling plan - Interior department report recommends scaled-back version of Conoco Phillips’ Willow project despite Biden campaign pledge The Biden administration has a...
Popular Resistance

Black University, White Power: HBCU Covers For US Imperialism - The crisis of identity-reductionism has led to the overwhelming placement of Africans in positions to serve empire and double down on patriotism. Most re...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dallas County Now Under Ice Storm Warning as Day 3 of Wintry Weather Settles In - Last Updated, 2/1, 5 p.m. It’s still cold, and it looks like that won’t change anytime soon, which means that you are probably still looking out at a sol...
Latino Rebels

In Search of Puerto Rico’s Solar Energy Future - As Puerto Rico moves toward its stated goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, there are still gigantic leaps that need to be taken if it plans to ...
Reform Austin

Nearly 200,000 Without Power In Austin, Despite ERCOT, PUC Assurances - Thousands lost power early Wednesday morning in Austin as the winter storm barreling through Texas caused tree limbs, heavy with frozen precipitation, to...
Liberation News

Tyre Nichols protests renew focus on multiple Memphis cop crimes - Hundreds marched in Memphis on Friday and Saturday demanding justice for 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, beaten so brutally by Memphis police on January 7 that h...
Slate

The Biggest Lie in Netflix’s Hit New Docuseries - The story of “the world’s richest dog” knocks itself out adding twists to a story that doesn’t need more of them.
Lowering the Bar

Judge: F-Word No Longer Has Sufficient “Shock Value” to Be a Problem at Work - Not a decision you should rely upon.
Discourse

2024's Mario and Wario Are At it Again - Ron DeSantis versus Gavin Newsom could be the most annoying matchup possible.
Salon.com

3 biggest mistakes to avoid when cooking mushrooms - Flimsy, weak mushrooms no more!
OpEd News

Russian companies announced a reward for each destroyed American tank M1 Abrams - Russian companies have announced a reward for every knocked-out or captured American M1 Abrams tank. Main battle tank of the US Army was estimated at 10 mi...
Texas Standard

Texas files motion to stop DACA immigration program - The decade-long program has benefited hundreds of thousands of people. But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other GOP-led states argue it should be ha...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Life in Hell - Michael Edison Hayden and Megan Squire @ Hatewatch: Infowars’ Alex Jones Says He Lives ‘in Hell,’ Texts Show. Travis Gettys @ Raw Story: Proud Boys plott...
Project Censored

Germany’s Dirty Push for More Coal Mining and the Recent Murder of Forest Defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran - This week, Eleanor Goldfield addresses two radical frontline fights thousands of miles apart but deeply connected through their visions and struggles for...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio's economy projected to grow faster than most cities' in 2023, report says - Despite recession concerns, San Antonio's economy is projected to outperform that of most cities in 2023, according to a new forecast by a North Carolina-...
Mother Jones

“All I Want Is My Baby Brother Back” - Three weeks after his death at the hands of Memphis police, Tyre Nichols is finally being laid to rest. On Wednesday, friends and family gathered to celebr...
Grist

Exxon reports record profits, doubles down on fossil fuels - The White House responds with renewed calls to boost production.
slacktivist

St. ELIZA, pray for us - Do Robot Pastors Dream of Electric Sheep?
The AltWorld

Blinken peddles the same old lies - Bribing Palestinians into submitting to occupation is an overused failed ploy First, we need to be clear […] The post Blinken peddles the same old lies a...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: The Pathology of Ukrainian Nationalism - By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What kind of people are these? I asked as I considered, in my previous commentary, the bottomless corruption...
Daily Howler

When are we shown death at the hands of police? - *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023* *Race can be very hard: *All around the world, interaction between different racial / ethnic / religious / cultural groups ...
Church and State

Roe Had Super-Stare Decisis Status Says Conservative Judge Luttig - In 2000, Former Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig said that Roe had achieved the status of "super-stare decisis".
Infidel753

The French show us how it's done - In January, France's president Macron and his ruling party proposed a "pension reform" which includes raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. 80% of th...
Texas Monthly

Three New, True Stories From the Texas-Mexico Border - The El Paso–born wrestler Cassandro, Edinburg High School mariachis, and a Matamoros teacher all shone at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Ashley Clarke recognized among ‘25 Under 35’ journalism leaders - [image: Ashley Clarke smiles.] Center for Public Integrity Audience Engagement Editor Ashley Clarke has been named to Editor and Publisher magazine’s “25 ...
Novara Media

Half a Million on Strike, Tory Wearing Rolex Says No Pay Rises - 500,000 public sector workers have taken part in the biggest strike action in a decade. Michael Walker speaks to Daniel Kebede from the NEU on why teachers...
naked capitalism

Biden to End Orders Declaring Covid a National Emergency on May 11, Because Why Not? - The pandemic is over when we say it's over.
American Prospect

Can Medicare Advantage Be Contained? - Today on TAP: The Biden administration is increasing audits of abuses—a good start, but not enough.
The Conversation

What international law says about Israel's planned destruction of Palestinian assailants' homes - A decision to bulldoze the home belonging to the family of a man accused of killing seven people outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem has sparked question...
Claytoonz

Aborting Bare Arms - Why do Republicans have a hang-up about women exposing their arms and shoulders? Unless it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene or sexy Green M&M, they don’t like wome...
Living Blue in Texas

Arlington, TX – The Emergence of a Liberal Stronghold - Texas’ 7th largest city, Arlington, is now blue and isn’t going back. What makes a city liberal or progressive? This The post Arlington, TX – The Emergen...
Mondoweiss

The Palestinian struggle at the crossroads between barbarism and hope - The past month has been nothing less than traumatic for the Palestinian people. The massacre in Jenin, ongoing invasions, arrests, home demolitions; 36 pe...
Environment Texas

Federal clean energy funding opportunities - The post Federal clean energy funding opportunities appeared first on Environment Texas.
Southeast Texas Record

Bill seeks to address suits against rideshare providers - AUSTIN - A recently filed house bill is seeking to address litigation brought against transportation network companies, such as rideshare providers for e...
First Draft

I Was In The House When The House Burned Down - Of dreams, political payback, Republican wishful thinking, Krewe du Vieux, Mayor Teedy, and Sean Payton.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

We live in a time of ‘late capitalism’. But what does that mean? - The term “late capitalism” seems to be everywhere as a trending meme – often used as a kind of shorthand to illustrate the absurdities of certain free ma...
Independent Political Report

Former National Libertarian Chair banned from participation at NH state convention - *Manchester, NH* – The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire’s annual convention was held at Backyard Brewery in Manchester on Saturday, January 28, 2023. T...
Deadline Politics

DOJ Search Of Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach Home Turns Up No Classified Documents, Attorney Says - A Justice Department search of Joe Biden’s Reboboth Beach home did not turn up any documents with classified markings, according to the president’s persona...
alicublog

THE GREAT UNLEARNING. - Here, have a rare mid-week free issue of *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down*; this one’s a scene from a future AP African-American Studies class. Pushing the nee...
Ring of Fire

Arizona AG Given Free Rein To Spy On Financial Records - A possibly illegal database of financial transactions has been kept for years by the Arizona state government. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss m...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Pleaded the Fifth When Asked By NY AG If He Was Ivanka’s Lover, Father, or Employer - Recently, it was revealed that when he was deposed by the New York Attorney General in a case involving his family business, former one-term, twice perma...
Lawfare

It Was Smart for an AI - The Headquarters of OpenAI in San Francisco. (HaeB, https://tinyurl.com/2p9bsy2f; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) It’s no...
Duck of Minerva

Episode 27: Everything is Relational - It’s a nostalgia episode for our two hosts, Patrick and Dan. They tackle Mustafa Emirbayer’s 1997 article in the American Journal of Sociology, “Manifesto...
Dandelion Salad

Finian Cunningham and Pepe Escobar: Ukraine War is Desperate Bid by US to Preserve Hegemony and Prevent Multipolar World - by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad Ireland February 1, 2023 Finian Cunningham on Jan 28, 2023 The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Ru...
Eclectablog

Governing in the majority – wsg Rep. Natalie Price and Sen. Erika Geiss - Natalie Price on Twitter: @VoteNPrice Natalie Price at the Michigan House Democrats' website: HouseDems.com/Natalie-Price Erika Geiss on Twitter: @SenErika...
Undernews

A different approach to religion - *Sam Smith – **As a cynical, skeptical and sardonic journalist I try not to discuss religion to avoid annoying others or having to explain my somewhat ...
ProPublica

New Pentagon Rules Keep Many Military Court Records Secret - by Megan Rose ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
Ecosophia

Against Enchantment 2: Owen Barfield - Last month’s exploration of the history of enchantment began with a look at the other side of the equation—the disenchantment of the world mapped out by Ma...
Bonddad

January manufacturing at recessionary levels; December construction spending also declines - * - by New Deal democrat* The first data for the month of January is in, and with one exception, it is pretty bad. The ISM manufacturing index decli...
DeSmogBlog

UK Minister Steve Baker Receives £10k from Chair of Tufton St. Climate Denial Group - A minister in Rishi Sunak’s government who has been a fierce opponent of climate action received £10,000 from the chair of the UK’s main climate science ...
Second Nexus

These Parody Bob Woodward Tweets Savagely Mocking Trump For Suing Him Are Pure Gold - The Twitter account @FaithRubPol had users of the social media platform in stitches after posting screenshots of fake tweets from famed journalist Bob Wo...
Glasstire

Food, Fabric, and History: David Alekhuogie at Assembly, Houston - Highlighting a new body of work from Los Angeles-based artist David Alekhuogie, I made this for you at Assembly is rich with layers of physical and visua...
Debunking Christianity

Quote of the Day On Bayes Theorem by josephpalazzo - josephpalazzo replied in Debunking Christianity: Here's Bayes Theorem: In the denominator P(B) must refer to actual data, not some possibility. This also ...
Buzzflash

Kroger Workers Charge Massive Wage Theft:“I’m tired of having to beg." - Popular Information
The Daily Poster

🎧 LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Chokepoint Capitalism (w/ Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow) - On this week’s Lever Time Premium: David is joined by Russell Brand to discuss his evolution from comedian to political content creator, and we interview t...
Angry Bear

The Prince of Providence - The Prince of Providence was Vincent “Buddy” Cianci. Cianci grew up in Rhode Island. His father was a physician (a proctologist), so he grew up in privil...
Socialist Alternative

Why the Black Freedom Movement Needs Socialist Leadership - By Eric Jenkins and Ryan Watson, Socialist Alternative Black Caucus. Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have t...
Shadowproof

Should The Left Embrace Preparedness Culture? - What do we do if the lights go out in our community? Margaret Killjoy says the answer is simple. The Left must embrace preparedness culture. The post Sho...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Syria Again in Denial as OPCW Blames it for Deadly 2018 Chlorine Strike - Despite years of denials and distortions from Syria and its ally, Russia, the chemical weapons watchdog offers overwhelming evidence Syrian government forc...
ArcaMax

Blood on Many Memphis Hands: To Be Black at a Traffic Stop - A 21st-century policing pattern has emerged from Freddie Gray in Baltimore, George Floyd in Minneapolis and now the death of a young man, Tyre Nichols in M...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

An Appetite For Demagogues: A Conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Watch now (59 min) | If you haven’t already, subscribe to DISPATCHES FROM A COLLAPSING STATE. This independent media venture is growing, but it needs your ...
The Smirking Chimp

New Details on Fani Willis’ Potential Indictment of Donald Trump Revealed -
Democracy Now!

Standoff at NYC Hotel: Asylum Seekers Protest Relocation & Demand Their Right to Shelter in City - Since last spring, nearly 42,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City, many sent to the state on buses against their will. The city says it has ope...
Rio Grande Guardian

McAllen ISD juniors to study at famous Spanish university - MCALLEN, Texas – Some McAllen ISD students will get chance to participate in a study abroad program at Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. The university...
The Progressive Wing

2.1-2 Open Threads - Well, February comes in with a nasty, icy bang(!). Hope any affected Nesters and lurkers are staying safe and off the roads. These are Open Threads so post...
Space City Weather

February is starting out rather cold in Houston. What about the rest of the month? - February is coming in with a chill, as highs today may only top out in the low 40s. And conditions will be cold for the rest of the week, with a light free...
Earth 911

Tips for Living Sustainably With Celiac Disease - For some, adopting a gluten-free lifestyle is a choice. For others, like those living with... The post Tips for Living Sustainably With Celiac Disease ap...
Progressive.org

The Long Road to #StoptheShock - For two decades, a Massachusetts school has been under fire for torturing disabled students with shock devices. Now, activist efforts to end the practice m...
Skeptophilia

Signals of interest - Usually, when people think about finding extraterrestrial intelligence, they think of radio transmissions -- a trope that has been the basis of dozens of...
Media Lens

Tree-Climbing GOATS – Who Is The Greatest Writer Of All Time? - Who is unquestionably the greatest writer of all time? And which was obviously the greatest popular music band of all time? Sorry, but you’re wrong on both...
Crooked Media

What Happened To My Ambition? with Rainesford Stauffer - The post What Happened To My Ambition? with Rainesford Stauffer appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

January 2023 campaign finance reports: Harris County - […]
Morning Consult

Voters Are Slightly More Likely Than Not to Back Meta’s Move to Reinstate Trump’s Accounts - The post Voters Are Slightly More Likely Than Not to Back Meta’s Move to Reinstate Trump’s Accounts appeared first on Morning Consult.
FiveThirtyEight.com

Which Stars Are Going To Blow Up In Super Bowl LVII? - The teams are set for Super Bowl LVII, and now it’s time for the longest two weeks in sports — the wait between the NFL’s conference championships and the ...
Democracy Chronicles

Courts off the deep end, again - Closing the courts, shutting down dissent, and violating the rights of whistleblowers. These are not the actions of an open, free society.
Two Party Opera

Guano Islands Act - From the Guano Islands Act of 1856: Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the la...
High Country News

Glen Canyon revealed - What comes next for Lake Powell?
Rallblog

We Have Ways of Making You Die - Canada is moving close to establishing a legal right to suicide on demand. But how exactly will they carry it out? The post We Have Ways of Making You Die...
Sludge

Natural Resources Chairman Hires Oil Lobbyist as Chief of Staff - Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. Click here to support Truthout. A new report unveils that a significant number of Republicans on the Ho...
Texas Freedom Network

El Paso GRACE Act Testimony: Ivonne Diaz - My name is Ivonne Diaz, and I’m a Regional Organizer with Texas Rising in El Paso. I’m in favor of item 31. Last year when this item was introduced, I sh...
Crooked Timber

Digital hoarding - Yesterday, I dug into the deepest nest of folders on my MacBook Pro to find an article I wrote on a 512K Mac in 1987, for a magazine that no longer exists ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: Jan. 25 on DeSantis' banning of AP African American Studies - *Beginning at 1:38 on the meter of this youtube video, MSNBC host Alex Wagner addresses Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' book banning, policing curriculum, ...
Texas Observer

A Tree Grows in Texas - When Dagoberto Gilb came to serve as writer-in-residence at the University of Houston-Victoria and found a literary center, he was assured he’d only have...
ExChristian.Net

The Very, Very Large Conspiracy - *By Carl S ~ * The American Psychological Association site features an interview with Karen Douglas, PhD. on "Why people believe in conspiracy theories."...
Unlimited Hangout

AM Wake Up - AM Wake Up.
Earthworks

Victory at Last! EPA Employs Clean Water Act to Protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay from the Destructive Pebble Mine - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency used its Clean Water Act authority to put protections in place for Alaska’s Bristol Bay … The post Victory at...
Capital & Main

Aim for the Stomach - *Why the threat to food supplies — and industrial agriculture's role in global warming — is central to the discourse on climate change.* The post Aim for...
Bracing Views

Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed? - W.J. Astore Cutting the Pentagon Budget in Half Would Finally Force the Generals to Think (Also at TomDispatch.com) My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-c...
The Texas Signal

The Texas GOP’s darling: Jeff Younger - Jeff Younger is not a household name for most Texans, but he has been a dominant figure in Texas Republican politics over the last three years. He has buil...
MintPress News

Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization - 55 journalists have been killed and hundreds more injured or detained by Israel since 2000. Yet for many Palestinian, the physical harm they face pales i...
Rewire

What’s With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills? - Once and for all: It's safe and effective. The post What’s With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills? appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Eater Houston

Benjamin Berg Will Open a New Rooftop Bar and an Upscale Chinese Restaurant on Washington Ave. - [image: Benjamin Berg standing outdoors in front of the Downtown skyline on a clear and sunny day.] Benjamin Berg’s new Canopy Social will offer clear, un...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Infowars’ Alex Jones Says He Lives ‘in Hell,’ Texts Show - Alex Jones described himself as living “in hell,” being part of “a sick joke,” and sinking down into a “black hole” in previously private text messages giv...
Consent Factory, Inc.

How to Memory-Hole a PSYOP - There comes a time near the end of every PSYOP when the PSYOP has achieved its objective, or as much of its objective as it is going to achieve, and is bec...
Dissent Magazine

Sex and the State - Paisley Currah’s *Sex Is as Sex Does* raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Sen. Zaffirini begin work on developing Senate version of Texas state budget - The legislative influence of Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, will be in full force during the next few mon...
Progressives Chat

Employee of the Month - Last week, an employee from a major pharmaceutical manufacturer and corporation had plenty to say about his employer’s intentions. (I appreciate it.)
Alas, a Blog

Recent Comments - So the WordPress plug-in we’ve been using for years for the “Recent Comments” function on the sidebar… no longer works. There’s a conflict between the serv...
Idavox

Who is Brian P. Moore? - We have to give a heads-up about a rather dubious individual coursing through antifascist crowds.... The post Who is Brian P. Moore? appeared first on Id...
New Progressive Alliance

Banks should not finance environmental destruction - Banks are massively financing fossil fuels.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

The Breakfast Club (sugar cravings) - Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for January 29th President George W. Bush warns terrorists still threaten United States;bomb rocks an ...
Land Destroyer

US to Send Abrams Tanks to Ukraine: Will it make any Difference? - *January 29, 2023* (Brian Berletic - New Eastern Outlook) - The recent announcement that the United States will be sending at least 31 M1 Abrams tanks al...
Field Negro

Memphis Blues, and the slave-catcher mentality. - If you have been paying attention over the past few days, you know by now that the most popular news story coming out of Memphis, Tennessee, is not the s...
The Militant

103 years since ‘Palmer Raids’ unleashed FBI against workers - “This Day in History” on Fox News retold the story about the Jan. 2, 1920, “Palmer Raids,” carried out by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Attorney Gen...
Avedon's Sideshow

You can not do that, it breaks all the rules - "'Soul', Feathers, Wings, Angel, Gold Leaf, Sky, White, Gray, (2021)" by Valeriya Avtukhova is from the Silver Color Paintings selection. Worst news of th...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Winter in the Woods - They Will Rise Again Jan. 26, 2023 Step on and over the massive pile of sawn oak trunks. Step on and over the beaten-down wire fencing. And into the people...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Which Alternative Ukrainian Reality Is Real? - From the beginning of the Russian invasion, if not years sooner during the 2014 coup, or even before that there have been several versions of the histor...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Time for a new open thread. Is anyone besides me following the Genaro Garcia Luna trial in Brooklyn? Or the capture of Ovidio Guzman in Mexico? Or watchi...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 27, 2023 - Black Agenda Radio January 27, 2023 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/27/2023 - 07:01 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Innocence Project

‘Tough-on-Crime’ Policies Are at Odds With the Presumption of Innocence - Dear Friend, We launch into 2023, with big, ambitious plans for the coming year, buoyed by last year’s successes — including six exonerations, two vacated...
Robert Reich

The One Thing That Would Make Elections Better For Everyone Are... - *The One Thing That Would Make Elections Better For Everyone * Are you sick of the onslaught of negative political ads that air on your TV every election...
Krebs on Security

Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days - On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its securi...
Greg Palast

The Words That Could Convict Trump - “It’s in front of him” may be the words that finally send Donald Trump to the hoosegow. The focus of Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis’ Grand Ju...
LareDOS

Unbelievable in so many respects! Home in Regency has 20 junk cars in its side yard, six in the driveway, old toilet on the pool side of the house - Tires, auto parts, patches of oil; pool and hot tub water the color of pond scum – Dengue heaven!
BEYONDbones

Look Up | Comet ZTF Nears Earth - As January ends and February begins, a comet enters the northern evening sky, and it may become bright enough to see with the unaided eye! The comet is C...
The Rag Blog

THORNE DREYER | REMEMBRANCE | Daniel Jay Schacht, July 4, 1945 – December 22, 2022 - Danny was involved in a precedent-setting landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | January 24, 2023 With tributes fro...
Bud Kennedy

When the Kansas City Chiefs played a home game in Fort Worth: Tickets were $1.50 - Back in 1964, the Kansas City Chiefs played a home pro football game here. The site: Farrington Field. Instead of 80,000, the crowd was 19,400. Two years a...
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...
Border/Lines

Special edition—How Eric Adams is right, and wrong, about asylum seeker arrivals—01-20-23 - Immigration news, in context
Web of Debt

Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way - Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today. On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote ...
Seeing the Forest

Why Minting the Coin Is A Threat To The Established Order - I really think the upcoming Debt Ceiling fight is going to be a turning point of some kind. The right intends to let the country default to stop “governmen...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

the Vasectomy Kid - “In 2020, U.S. Congress imposed secondary sanctions on banks that processed transactions related to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines and on ship insurers ...
Nina Illingworth

Scurvy’s Selection: Crackdown Podcast - In today's Selection, our host Scurvy brings us the straight dope about the war on drugs by highlighting first person accounts on the amazing Crackdown P...
Campaign for America's Future

This Is One of the Best Times in History to Be an Organizer - As a community organizer, I often imagine what it would have been like to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and win the Voting Rights Act. I always fi...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Exclusive Interview w/ Hezbollah’s Second-In-Command Sheikh Naim Qassem - BT’s Rania Khalek sat down with Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy secretary-general of Hezbollah, in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah began as a resistance movement aga...
Texas Watch

OPIC Recommendations Include Right to Invoke Appraisal In Auto Policies - The Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC) released its *Report to the 88th Texas Legislature: Recommendations Report*, which advocates for a consume...
Reveal

Texas Republicans Look to Usurp Power of Local Prosecutors Who Don’t Pursue Their Voter Fraud Agenda - [image: Ken Paxton waves to a crowd. A large banner behind him reads, “Save America!”] The Texas Legislature is considering at least nine bills that would...
Equality Texas

All in for Equality Coalition Defiant in the Face of Record Number of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills - Press Contact: Johnathan Gooch, Equality Texas, (512) 922-4040, johnathan.gooch@equalitytexas.org. January 10, 2023 This year, we have already seen more an...
nonsite.org

Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein - Abbas sees this musical Brecht as offering a fuller means of accessing the nature of fascism, an account that necessarily draws together “war, capital, and...
Green Pages News

Alternative Solutions Towards a New System for People Powered Politics: Social Ecology - In the Bluegrass State of Kentucky many working people have experienced worsening economic conditions, job losses, and degraded communities, threatening ou...
In These Times

If You Can Borrow a Book, Then Why Not a Chainsaw? The Rise of Tool Lending Libraries - Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store th...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

“Jeeze, what a life…” a final blog post from Jeanne - “Jeeze, what a life. What a ride this has been. What a phony, sexy, drug-induced hallucination.” -Old Jules Well, folks, it’s time to end the blog posts. I...
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...
TXElects

Texas Election Source Ending Its 10-year Run - Ten years ago, I set out to make my readers the smartest people in their political crowd. My approach was to combine comprehensive election data, campaig...
Stinque

An Earworm for Elon - We’ll say this much, Twitter is The Greatest Show on Earth right now. The post An Earworm for Elon appeared first on Stinque.
CT's short stories and novelettes

WIP - 1 Conceived by me in the ‘60s, The Moloch Eaters magazine would be an antidote against the minions of Moloch, “eater of children.” Figurativ...
Dos Centavos

DC’s Top 10 Posts of 2022 - Well, during a year which saw some activity for myself which then died down as family and self took precedence over the news of the day, I’m still impresse...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Child Welfare System Needs an Overhaul - *This article was originally published by The Progressive Magazine.* When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New Y...
Moron Majority

Walker Or Warnock … A Difficult Choice For Georgia - With two eminently qualified candidates, it is easy to see why, with just a few days before Georgia’s runoff election, the U.S. Senate race between Hersche...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Two-thirds of board members overseeing Texas public universities are Abbott donors. -- Texas Tribune - Texas Tribune analysis found that more than 70% of Abbott's appointees to Texas university boards have donated to his gubernatorial campaign fund. About...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas prison baseball league was shockingly well-developed - While I've been away from the blog recently, much of my time has been spent on a side project researching negro-league baseball in Texas, exhuming the Aust...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Ukraine’s Army of Exhumation - We explore the stunning portraiture, the powerful geometry, and how unique and devastating the investigation is for taking place this soon. The post Chat...
GreenSource DFW

North Texan makes top 10 list on popular naturalist app - *Sam Kieschnick, urban wildlife biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, has recorded more than 100,000 observations on iNaturalist.org, a plat...
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?
The Disorder Of Things

Batman, White Saviourism and International Politics: A Colloquium - In this post we welcome a discussion by guest authors on the recent volume Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development, by ...
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...
News Junkie

Qu’est donc la memoire? - Qu’est donc la mémoire Si ce n’est des couches de souvenirs innombrables Stratifications invisibles et furtives De l’empreinte magique du temps Souvenirs f...
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...
The Socialist

The British Minister Wanted to Know The Real Strength of India - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi while addressing an election rally at Latehar said that this election too is an election between two ideologies sim...
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...
Tribune of the People

Germany: Statement from the Red Women’s Committee on the Imperialist War in Ukraine - The following is a statement from the Red Women’s Committee in Hamburg, Germany on recent developments in Ukraine, minor edits have been made to improve re...
DBC Green

On Primary-Season "Civic Duty" Nonsense - Voting in a major-party primary IS NOT a civic duty. Working to smash the Duopoly is.— David B. Collins, Not Running for Anything Now□☮ (@dbcgreentx) Febru...
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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Anti-Fascists Disrupt White Lives Matter Houston Rally - About the Event In the past few months we’ve seen an uptick of attempts to attack Jewish establishments by white supremacists in Texas. Recently, a synagog...
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...
One People's Project

BOB GRANT (DECEASED) - NAME Robert Ciro Gigante A/K/A Bob Grant DOB 3/14/1929 DOD 12/21/2013 HOME BASE New Jersey AUDIO FILES Bob Grant and Angel Action Gear Bob Grant and Wolfpa...
Truthdig

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WhoWhatWhy

Is Canada Becoming More Like Its Neighbor to the South? - Canadian Conservatives showed US conservatives how to accept defeat, but there was something familiar about this week's election.
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...
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - Jair Bolsonaro has worked at breakneck speed to eliminate environmental regulations.
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...
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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