Brains and Eggs: Sunday Morning Funnies

And so they did https://t.co/u40rGSacVy
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) November 6, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

Lunch break inside the astrodome while under construction pic.twitter.com/tTB4iVE68g
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Daily Dot

‘I put everything down my garbage disposal’: Expert says you should never put this common food item down your garbage disposal - [image: Fixing underneath sink while wearing orange gloves(l) Man Fixing Garbage Disposal(r)] A clogged kitchen sink is a problem most homeowners dread, ...
The Verge

Two new tech documentaries you really need to see - [image: Photos of headphones, apps, music gear, and more on an Installer illustration.] Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to *Installe...
Vox

Health care costs could spike for millions of families - With the GOP regaining control of Congress, Republicans are looking to slash health care spending, specifically eyeing Medicaid cuts and work requirements....
Raw Story

Concerns raised about J.D. Vance after Gaetz lobbying flop: report - The failure of ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to make it to a Senate hearing on his nomination to be Donald Trump's next attorney general has led to concerns ...
Al Jazeera English

Canada’s gov’t condemns protests against NATO’s ‘complicity’ with Israel - Canada’s government has condemned anti-NATO protests in Montreal that turned violent on Friday as ‘anti-Semitic’.
The Hill

Thanksgiving meal deals: Here's what grocery stores are offering - Major grocers like Walmart and Target are offering "inflation-free" Thanksgiving meal deals. Here's what you can buy.
Political Wire

The Resistance Goes Quiet - Axios: “While President-elect Trump’s 2016 win sparked shock, outrage and massive protests, the response to his 2024 victory has been more muted.” “2016 bi...
memeorandum

Biden's Chief Economist Processes the Election With 'Confusion, Guilt' (Talmon Joseph Smith/New York Times) - Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times: *Biden's Chief Economist Processes the Election With ‘Confusion, Guilt’* — Jared Bernstein, the chair of the Whit...
WhoWhatWhy

Hey Migrants, You’d Better Start Packin’ Now! Homan’s on the Hunt. - [image: Donald Trump, Thomas Homan, immigration, Zero Tolerance.] Trump's favorite family-separation specialist, Thomas Homan, has zero tolerance for toler...
Futurism

Research Finds Conservatives Vastly More Likely to Share Inaccurate Articles Without Even Reading Them - Link in Bio A team of researchers led by Penn State determined that US conservatives on Facebook are substantially more likely to share article links con...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Bill Clinton grapples with his past in memoir – too much, too little, too late - The 42nd president’s latest book is a prolonged stroll down memory lane that never quite reaches a desired destination In 1992, Bill Clinton defeated Geo...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
naked capitalism

Links 11/24/2024 -
The Daily Poster

The Democrat Who Tried To Warn Us With Rep. Dean Phillips - In this bonus Lever Time episode, Rep. Dean Phillips talks with David Sirota and Arjun Singh about how Democrats’ self-sabotage handed Trump the presidency.
The Smirking Chimp

Resistance Is Not Futile: Matt Gaetz’s Implosion Shows How MAGA’s Chaos Can Be Turned Against Trump -
Axios

AI's scientific path to trust - LONDON — Top researchers this week said scientific discoveries using AI, like new drugs or better disaster forecasting, offer a way to win people's trust...
Crooked Media

Do Libs Need a Social Media Safe Space? Did Misinfo Hurt Kamala? How Much Should the Left Influence Democrats? - The post Do Libs Need a Social Media Safe Space? Did Misinfo Hurt Kamala? How Much Should the Left Influence Democrats? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Miles’ record on the HISD budget - A closer look from the Houston Landing. In his first year, Houston ISD’s state-appointed superintendent, Mike Miles, ushered in several changes that sparke...
San Antonio Report

Q&A: Journalist Ashley Alvarado takes helm of Texas Public Radio - Journalist Ashley Alvarado will take over the helm of San Antonio-based Texas Public Radio starting in December. ------------------------------ Q&A: Journal...
Mother Jones

The Peach That Traveled the Trail of Tears, and the Tribal Elders Working to Save It - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s November and it’s unseasonably warm as ...
Eschaton

Morning - Sunday funday.
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 24, 2024 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Iran to hold nuclear talks with 3 European powers in Geneva on Friday, Kyodo reports - Move comes days after the UN atomic watchdog passed resolution against Tehran
Salon.com

Bacteria found on asteroid was actually Earthly contamination, scientists report - A new study of samples from Ryugu found that microorganisms can avoid even stringent contamination controls
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Slovan Bratislava vs AC Milan lúc 00h45 ngày 27/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Cúp C1, tại vòng thứ 5, một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn đang tạo ra sự chú ý của người xem là trận so tài giữa Slovan Bratislava...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: The ICC Warrants and the World They Announce - By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost LONDON—There is an old, often-told story about a front-page article one of the big dailies here once ran as se...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Handy Mini-Market - [image: Handy Mini Market]
Infidel753

Link round-up for 24 November 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o This wheel ain't big enough for the two of us. He made the best of a sudd...
Alternet

Why do you feel better when I wake myself up instead of relying on an alarm? - We’ve all experienced this: You’re in the middle of a lovely dream. Perhaps you’re flying. As you’re soaring through the air, you meet an eagle. The eagl...
The Week

The Spanish cop, 20 million euros and 13 tonnes of cocaine - Óscar Sánchez Gil, Chief Inspector of Spain's Economic and Tax Crimes Unit, has been arrested for drug trafficking
Counterpunch

Amnesia in Trump Country - Twice, when Donald Trump has won the presidency, Democratic politicians, liberal media, and ‘progressive’ academics have rediscovered – momentarily and r...
jobsanger

Trump's Corruption Will Exceed That Of His First Term -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1286: The Prehistory of Motorcycles - Episode: 1286 A steam-powered motorcycle, invented well before its time. Today, the motorcycle rides out of the Civil War.
First Draft

Marvin Gaye Does The Midnight Special - Set the Wayback Machine to 9/6/1974.
Mediagazer

Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times) - Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times: *Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronti...
Informed Comment

What will Trump’s Second Term mean for the Middle East? - Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The U.S. presidential elections are among the most consequential for the Middle East, second only ...
OpEd News

Every Day is Mama's Day (poem) - Love apples. Mama's were the best. I remember Mama well. O the sauce.
Popular Resistance

Biden Leaves Office But Risks War with Russia - While every Donald Trump utterance is given great attention and dissected for proof of nefarious intent, dangerous actions taken by Joe Biden are minimiz...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT is becoming the face of Texas’ higher education failures. That must change, The Daily Texan Editorial Board - *Friends:* *I am glad that the Daily Texan Editorial Board is weighing in on findings from a recent survey conducted by the American Association of Univers...
Daily Cartoonist

Prince Valiant and Flamberge Reunited - After nearly a year Prince Valiant has once again gained possession of Flamberge, The Singing Sword! Or is it the other way around and Flamberge is once mo...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Evo Morales speaks to The Grayzone, blames U.S. for assassination attempt - After an attempt on his life, former President Evo Morales, who leads the polls for the upcoming presidential elections, accuses the Bolivian State and t...
The AltWorld

Only A Truth-Based Relationship With Reality Can Satisfy - What we all want, deep down, is a truth-based relationship with reality. We might not be aware […] The post Only A Truth-Based Relationship With Reality ...
Ballot Access News

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Placed Third in Every Jurisdiction in Which He Was on Ballot, Except for Four States - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was on the ballot in 31 jurisdictions. In 27 of them he placed third. The only ones in which he did not place third were four state...
Mediaite

‘Not a Good Look’: Erick Erickson Blasts Trump Transition Team Blocking Anti-Abortion HHS Deputy Pick As ‘Too Controversial’ - Popular conservative radio host Erick Erickson blasted the Trump transition team for reportedly blocking a pro-life activist from a prominent role inside...
Portside

For Black Americans, Post-Election Spam Messages Signal Mounting Threat - For Black Americans, Post-Election Spam Messages Signal Mounting Threat Kurt Stand Sat, 11/23/2024 - 18:09
Reform Austin

Paxton Loses Immigration Cases: Here’s Why That’s Bad - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s may have lost his battles against President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, but it’s possible he actually won the w...
Wolf Street

Operating Losses and “Unrealized” Losses of the Federal Reserve in Q3 2024 - QE was a huge gravy train for taxpayers. But then came the hangover.
Claytoonz

Trump Guitars - Read the blog at my Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through PayPal. I...
Undernews

HISTORY - [image: May be a black-and-white image of 1 person, phone, parking meter, car and text] Man using a drive-in telephone in 1959 *Via **Yesterday in America*
Dissident Voice

The Ukraine War after the Penny Has Dropped Make that the Oreshnik - President Vladimir Putin has announced that serial production of the new Oreshnik hypersonic, intermediate range, 36-warhead missile has commenced. He ma...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle - On Governing Magazine’s website, Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love and Tahir Duckett wrote: Criminalizing homelessness is bad financially and bad for public safet...
Election Law Blog

New Article: “The Brave New World of Judicial Elections: What We Know and What We Don’t” - Charles Gardner Geyh (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) has posted this new article on judicial elections on SSRN: In this essay, I begin with a d...
The Root

Black Twitter Responds to Singer Khalid's Super-Messy Outing, Coming Out as Gay - Khalid has come out of the closet. The “Location” singer recently took to social media with a post addressing his sexuality. Except this isn’t your garde...
Techdirt.

Back Our Kickstarter For One Billion Users, The Social Media Card Game - This week, we launched the crowdfunding campaign for our new card game, One Billion Users, where players compete to build the biggest and best social media...
Second Nexus

Longtime Teacher Explains How Teaching Has Gotten Harder Since The '90s In Eye-Opening TikTok - It's no secret that the educational system in the United States needs some work, and with teachers' turnover rate being higher than ever before, it's har...
Angry Bear

Population Growth Outcomes - In 2006 Joel Garreau wrote “300 Million and Counting” in the Smithsonian. It was then we were at a replacement rate of 2.01. The nation was barely replac...
CultureMap Houston

Award-winning chef's new Heights eatery leads Houston's top 5 stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.
NPR's Health Shots

Infant dies and 10 others sick in latest listeria outbreak tied to ready-to-eat meat - The cases appeared in California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York between July 31 and Oct. 24, the CDC said. Nine out of the 11 infected individuals were...
Bracing Views

Playing Russian Roulette–With Russia - W.J. Astore Reckless and Stupid What is the point of playing Russian roulette—with Russia? As the Biden administration fades into oblivion, among its last ...
Mondoweiss

Solange’s ‘Eldorado Ballroom’ offered a transcendent soundtrack for the grief of a year of genocide - [image: Zoie Reams performs at Eldorado Ballroom / On Dissonance, in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on October 10, 2024. (Photo: ©Timothy Norr...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Why did "America" vote for Trump? - *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024 * *Plus, the 700 pages: *Why did Candidate Harris (narrowly) lose this year's election after her (remarkably truncated) thre...
The Militant

The working class put its stamp on the 2024 elections - LOS ANGELES — “Given the events over the last couple days, it is necessary to begin this forum by describing the virulent attack on Jews in Amsterdam Nov. ...
ArcaMax

The Transgender War - She has yet to even be sworn in. But the hateful Republican women in the House of Representatives have already declared war on the first openly transgender...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - [image: Open Thread] Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Idavox

Video: Daryle Lamont Jenkins at Burning Books - DLJ travels over to this Buffalo independent bookstore to discuss things with those that came... The post Video: Daryle Lamont Jenkins at Burning Books a...
Grist

Mississippi River towns pilot new insurance model to help with disaster response - The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.
Skeptophilia

Deus in machina - Inevitably when I post something to the effect of "ha-ha, isn't this the weirdest thing you've ever heard?", my readers take this as some kind of challen...
Consortium News

Chris Hedges Report: Surveillance Education - Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon discuss the “ed-tech” systems eroding minors’ privacy rights and discriminating against students of color. By Chris Hedges ...
World Socialist Web Site

US threats against the International Criminal Court and the normalization of genocide - Netanyahu's guilt is imperialism's guilt. The entire American political establishment, from the Biden administration and the Democratic Party to the Republ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: AN AGE OF CLODS AND MONSTERS EDITION. - *I have never heard a bad Desmond Dekker record.* Not gonna push it too hard here as this is only Friday 'Round-the-Horn technically -- it's after midnig...
Capital & Main

How Biden Could Restrict Fossil Fuel Financing and Make It Trump-Proof - But the election is likely to blow up a long-delayed EPA response to oil and gas pollution in New Mexico. The post How Biden Could Restrict Fossil Fuel F...
See You In 2020

The utopian Trump-Musk promise, our genocidal reality, & the evils that our government will import - Our ruling class wants to make it so that the negation to liberalism is something which sets our civilization backwards, rather than bringing us to the ...
Workers World

Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures - [image: Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures] U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time nominating potential cabinet members and other members...
Lowering the Bar

Still No Lawsuit Against the Fake Colombian Basketball Team - [image: picture of the alleged fake colombian team]I have mixed emotions about this.
SCOTUSblog

Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine - [image: Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine]The justices on Friday created the prospect of another major ruling on the rol...
Progressive.org

Who Won the Latinx Vote in 2024? It’s More Complicated Than That. - Latinx people are not a monolithic voting bloc. We need to stop analyzing them as such.
Rallblog

No Flat Taxes. More Progressive Taxes! - As we have seen previously when a Republican has won a presidential election, the progressive individual income tax—in which the more you earn,...
Texas Standard

How Trump’s government efficiency initiative could affect federal jobs in Texas and around the US - Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy say they can save the government billions of dollars by slashing government agencies.
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Brian Kennedy is a danger to El Paso. Vote Renard Johnson for mayor - Unsuccessful mayoral candidate Cassandra Hernandez is supporting Renard Johnson in the Dec. 14 runoff The post Opinion: Brian Kennedy is a danger to El ...
The Texas Signal

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas - *Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on **Deceleration** and was coproduced with **Truthout**, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to pro...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: UTRGV Football is going to have a big impact on the Edinburg economy - EDINBURG, Texas – Having a football program at UT-Rio Grande Valley is not only good for entertainment and excitement. It is also good for the economy. T...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Trump’s Cabinet Picks - On our live show, David and Emma discuss the latest cabinet nominations—and early misfires.
Texas Freedom Network

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Novara Media

Would the UK Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu? - With an arrest warrant issued for Benjamin Netanyahu, the government say they would uphold international law but stop short of saying they would arrest the...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz Out, Fogle In? - Upon hearing the news from his fellow inmates at Englewood Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colorado that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) dropp...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What It Will Take to Defeat Authoritarianism: Audio From A Collapsing State - It's time for radical acceptance and a dose of clarity. We've got work to do if we're going to mitigate the damage of authoritarianism and build something ...
Earthworks

Communities Set Up Camps to Protest Barrick Gold’s Renewed Attempts to Build a Second Tailings Dam in the Dominican Republic - Guest blog by María Alejandra Torres García After nearly a year of no news regarding Barrick Gold’s proposed expansion project … The post Communities Se...
Bud Kennedy

The untold story: When TCU canceled JFK’s honorary degree—’He’s a Catholic, you know’ - Gov. John B. Connally asked trustees to honor Kennedy with a Ph.D., but some trustees balked. … Click to Continue »
Texas Monthly

Expect Creative Specials at This Houston-Area BBQ Truck - Space City BBQ, in Baytown, excels at dishes such as pork belly tossed with a blackberry-infused whiskey sauce and a smoked burger with bacon-and-onion jam.
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Great Blue Heron - Glorious.
Bonddad

October existing home sales: a pause, or possibly reversal, in the rebalancing trend - * - by New Deal democrat* Yesterday’s report on existing home sales indicated, at least for one month, a pause or even reversal in the previous trend...
Debunking Christianity

The Oblivious Devout Keep Christianity Chugging Along - *But its god, like thousands of others, will end up on the scrapheap of history* Many years ago I was the pastor of a small church in a small town in Mas...
The Mind Unleashed

20 Early Signs Your Body is Fighting Cancer - The human body is an extraordinary machine, constantly working to maintain balance and protect itself from harm. However, when something as serious as canc...
MintPress News

Six Months of Lies and Pressure: How US and Israeli Interference Stalled Netanyahu’s ICC Arrest Warrant - The ICC finally issued Netanyahu’s warrant, but only after surviving a barrage of threats, legal sabotage, and coordinated smears from Washington and Tel...
Southeast Texas Record

Harris County Civil Court: Actions Taken on Nov. 15 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Nov. 15 in the suits below: Read more…
Democracy Now!

Who Is Pam Bondi? Trump Loyalist Tapped for AG Dropped Probe into Trump University After His $25K Donation - Donald Trump has tapped a new loyalist to head the Department of Justice, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who served on his defense team during ...
The Conversation

Presidents often claim mandates − especially when they want to expand their power or are on the defensive - Donald Trump claims the 2024 election gave him a mandate. Scholars who study the presidency are skeptical about the entire concept of a mandate. That hasn’...
Church and State

As Planet Heads Toward 2.7°C Rise, Tracker Warns Global Climate Action Has ‘Flatlined’ - Existing policies taken by world governments put the world on track for a median estimate of 2.7°C of warming by the end of the century.
Texas Observer

To the CEO of Centerpoint Energy, Who Smirks Next to a Thermostat that Reads 70 Degrees - I am here on the cold tiled floor with my son who is stripped who is down to his diaper.He is learning how to crawl, how to movein this great big world. ...
Space City Weather

Nice weather through Saturday gives way to near-record warm in Houston Monday - In brief: Houston gets another day or two of nice weather before a big warm up Sunday and especially Monday (near record highs). A strong front with detail...
DeSmogBlog

Q&A: Cold War Foes Made Treaties to Limit the Spread of Nukes. Could a Similar Approach Wind Down Fossil Fuels? - To watch a video version of this interview, please register for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with D...
ProPublica

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s - by Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that...
High Country News

Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again - What are the consequences for the land if the incoming president shrinks the national monument? The post Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again appeared...
Common Dreams

Creepy Butthead Pulls Out - So much for First Lady Elmo Musk's proud boast of "our Hammer of Justice." In mere days, a "fraction of a Scaramucci," icky, scandal-plagued, Neanderthal...
Antiwar.com

Winds of Change Blow Through Ukraine - The winds of change are blowing through Ukraine. The most obvious change – and the only one much discussed in the mainstream media – is Donald Trump. Fro...
Sludge

Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Lobbied for Amazon, Uber, and Qatar - Bondi is a partner at the lobbying firm of Trump bundler Brian Ballard, where she lobbied alongside incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Brad Blog

How (and Why!) to 'Extend an Olive Branch' to MAGA Family Members Over the Holidays: 'BradCast' 11/21/2024 - It's a jam-packed show today, as we try to fit as much in as we can for our last BradCast until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Yes, we're taking a much-ne...
Deadline Politics

Trump Goes Back To Sunshine State For New AG Nominee; Florida’s Pam Bondi Selected After Matt Gaetz Drops Out - Just hours after scandal-ridden ex-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took himself out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s attorney general, the former and future p...
Krebs on Security

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of ...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
Rewire

Analysis: The Limits of a Tragic Story - Savita Halappanavar's death is widely seen as a catalyst for Ireland's abortion reform, but the truth is more nuanced—and offers important lessons for th...
Reveal

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle - [image: Taylor Cadle, a young woman with dark hair and wearing a black sweater and jeans ripped above the knee, looks directly into the camera with an unfl...
Project Censored

News Literacy for Activists - By Eleanor Goldfield I could hit you with a garden shovel, but I wouldn’t call it gardening. Likewise, I wouldn’t call it journalism when the corporate m...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace gets angry at reporter for interrupting her transphobic publicity wave with questions about Boeing layoffs in South Carolina - South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace has been riding the anti-trans train over the last 24 hours, doubling down on her targeting of trans Congresswoma...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Biden Can Act Now to Limit Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda - President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his political platform. Trump’s cabinet nominees are repo...
Ecosophia

The Century of the Other - As a rule, no American election means as much as the shouting immediately afterward might lead you to think. Every four years, with a regularity that clock...
NORML

Analysis: Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Associated With Elevated Risk of Hypertension - [image: marijuana blood pressure][image: marijuana blood pressure]"Taken together, these studies suggest that regular cannabis use is not associated with...
Liberation News

Only a working-class, socialist movement can win trans liberation - Wednesday, Nov. 20, marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we mourn the trans victims of deadly and bigoted violence.
Avedon's Sideshow

One little miracle a day is all I need - I feel worse than I thought I would if this happened, even though I probably expected it more than a lot of lefties and Democrats did. The whole Cheney ...
Trivial Knot

A better masculinity, for those who don’t want it - A few months ago, I went to an ace unconference–an unconference being an event where attendees create sessions on the spot, rather than planning sessions i...
Ring of Fire

Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block - The post Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Eater Houston

The Best Chinese Restaurants in Houston - [image: Saucy angus rib-eye with peppers and onions at Duck N Bao.] Fill up on some of the best Chinese food Houston can offer. | Jenn Duncan Find bone-w...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Inside the Beehive - An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple contro...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

A Second Twenty Years’ Crisis? - How is E.H. Carr representative of mid-twentieth century intellectuals who tried to understand not so much the political irruptions of their time, but ra...
The Progressive Wing

11/18-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - And the crapalooza continues
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemical Impacts Transparent With TCO Development’s Stephen Fuller - Being a consumer in an advanced economy—or any economy these days—is challenging because you cannot... The post Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemi...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Highlights - *Progressives Chat* will soon conclude covering outcomes for Election 2024. I will wrap-up with such related blog topics next week. In fact, next week wi...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Jamaal Bowman: How AIPAC Drove Me Out of Congress & My Views on Palestine Changed - Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
Democracy Chronicles

Why Pursuing Peace with Iran is Critical for Global Stability - Fostering peace with Iran could prevent devastating global consequences from a broader Middle East conflict.
Media Lens

Buried Out Of Sight: Deliberate Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Children Becomes ‘Local News’ On The BBC - Imagine an experienced Ukrainian surgeon breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately target...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Tale of Two PSYOPS - Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominat...
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
LareDOS

Jorge Alberto Uribe May 27, 1939 – November 10, 2024 - Rancher Jorge Alberto Uribe of Lytle, and formerly of San Ygnacio, passed away November 10.
Land Destroyer

The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks - *November 13, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, Americans and many around the world invested hop...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Hair Of The Dog - Yeah, yeah, I know… but the only way to properly express the mood of this piece was to set it in a dark, grim mid-20th dive, with a permanently-circulating...
nonsite.org

Going Forward from the Edge of the Abyss - Trump has no new coalition; he can’t because those “groups” aren’t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like c...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2024 - Walmart had another six shootings, with two of them fatal in October of 2024, including one officer involved shooting after an automobile crash, and ano...
Field Negro

Post- Mortem - *~Paraphrasing Ali Velshi~ The most powerful person in America is not Donald J. Trump, it's you.* These are tough times for progressives and democrat...
Seeing the Forest

How Dem Betrayal Brought Us Trump - Of all people, David Brooks, in a confession, does a good job or explaining Trumpism in Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? Read it all, but this about mo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Here’s What We Do NowA Personal Note - Being right never felt so horrid. Before the election, I wrote, “How Trump Won.” And on Election night I waited for the returns to make a fool of me. Inste...
Stinque

Hanging by a Thread - We forget who laid it out for us a lifetime ago, but civilization is inherently fragile, and can collapse in an instant. Everything is handed off from on...
Two Party Opera

Election Day Comedy Hour - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Trump and Harris are dressed as vaudevillian/barbershop-quartet-ish comedy duo, with hats, canes, and pin striped vests. Trump says ...
Web of Debt

Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene - Buncombe County North Carolina – damage after Hurricane Helene floods. NCDOTcommunications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wiki...
TalkLeft

Election Day Jitters - I have them. I'm sure any rational person does, when considering the possibility, however slight, that Donald Trump, the most unfit person to run for Pre...
Reading the Pictures

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

Daylight Savings Time | November Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: HMNS Astronomer James Wooten reminds us to adjust our clocks as Daylight Savings Time ends this month. Saturn is an evening object. Look ...
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No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Free & Equal

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Dissent Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
GreenSource DFW

New native plant group hoping to take root in DFW - *Organizers are seeking new members to help get Wild Ones DFW off the ground. Photo courtesy of Wild Ones.* Oct. 17, 2024 A new native plant group has s...
Robert Reich

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

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
Texas Watch

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
Grits for Breakfast

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

Federal judge unseals Jack Smith immunity filing in Trump’s Jan. 6 case - Jack Smith's immunity brief argues that Trump can still be criminally tried over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's sw...
Glasstire

Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes” - Contemplating the art of Arielle Masson is a cosmic journey that spirals through deep inner space into the vastness of the universe — moving through the ...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
Black Agenda Report

Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean - Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean bareditors Wed, 10/02/2024 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Connection Between Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday and Tonight’s VP Debate - Former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday coinciding with the vice presidential debate today is fitting, given the important role Carter played in e...
Right Wing Watch

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

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Inside the scramble to stop the displacement of thousands of California foster children - For years, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California had been the primary insurer for the state’s foster family agencies, which house some of the m...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
The Socialist

International Relations: Tensions in Eastern Europe - Tensions in Eastern Europe have escalated recently, with geopolitical implications that resonate globally. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine ...
Dos Centavos

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

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
The Rag Blog

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Morning Consult

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

Remembering Sheila Jackson Lee - Today, we reflect on the profound legacy of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a tireless advocate for equality and justice. Her passing leaves a void in ...
TXElects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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