Brains and Eggs: Sunday Kill or Be Killed 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

Raw Story

Americans gird for Christmas U.S. government shutdown - U.S. lawmakers were racing Friday to prevent a government shutdown due to bite within hours, after Donald Trump and Elon Musk sabotaged a bipartisan agre...
Vox

The perfect humidifier doesn’t exist - It’s winter, which means it’s humidifier season. If you struggle with dry skin, allergies, or you’re currently dealing with a cold, you might be leaving yo...
Mediaite

Trump Warns No Deal Until Congress Ends Or Extends ‘Ridiculous Debt Ceiling’ In Spending Bill Ultimatum - President-elect Donald Trump demanded that Congress either abolish the government’s legal borrowing limit or push its expiration date to as far as 2029 i...
The Smirking Chimp

GOP’s Latest ‘Intraparty Warfare’ Puts Loyalty to Trump in Question: Report -
memeorandum

Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state - it's time we reined him in (Alexander Hurst/The Guardian) - Alexander Hurst / The Guardian: *Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state - it's time we reined him in* — He has bankrolled elections, stoked riots ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia hands 16-year prison term to east Ukraine resident for 'treason' - Moscow regularly hands heavy sentences to people it accuses of spying for Ukraine and has also consistently imprisoned Ukrainians in Russia and occupied re...
The Week

Mulled Gin Punch recipe - This punch is perfect to warm the soul this winter
ProPublica

“I Thought He Was Helping Me”: Patient Endured 9 Years of Chemotherapy for Cancer He Never Had - by J. David McSwane ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publ...
Eschaton

Morning - Freaky Friday.
Daily Dot

‘I used to take my frustration out on the sour cream bag’: Shopper shares how to get Chipotle sour cream at home. All it takes is Daisy and a little trick - [image: Chipotle sign(l), Woman talking(c), Sour Cream(r)] If you've ever taken the time to appreciate the smoothness of sour cream at Chipotle, turns ou...
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Politics Director? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Off The Kuff

Expanding Metro’s micro-transit - Okay fine, but show me the numbers. Metro will expand on-demand rides of its micro-transit to include services in Second Ward, Third Ward and downtown Hous...
Salon.com

Politics, discos, private islands: Billionaires spent big in 2024 - The wealth of the world's richest jumped to $14 trillion over the past year. Here's what they splurged on
The Daily Poster

How Marvel Helped Sell Us Forever Wars - Can a comic book icon of military power be used to challenge war propaganda?
Al Jazeera English

Who are the 51 men in Gisele Pelicot rape case; will old cases be reopened? - Investigators in France have reopened old cases, investigating Dominique Pelicot for rape and murder in the 1990s.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Unrwa may be forced to stop saving lives in Gaza. Will the world let that happen? | Philippe Lazzarini - Outrage over Israel’s attempt to dismantle our UN agency has largely petered out. The stakes are very high now - Philippe Lazzarini is commissioner-ge...
American Prospect

Elon Musk Declares Himself President, Shuts Down Government - And Donald Trump, for now, is fine with it.
Mediagazer

ProPublica details its efforts to bolster local investigative journalism, including launching an initiative with The Texas Tribune to cover major state issues (Charles Ornstein/ProPublica) - Charles Ornstein / ProPublica: *ProPublica details its efforts to bolster local investigative journalism, including launching an initiative with The Texa...
Grist

A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state - More than 170 years later, the Yakama are still trying to get their land back.
The AltWorld

Interpreting Putin’s Remarks On Syria, Israel, And Turkiye - His pragmatic hedging preserves Russia’s national interests and even stands a chance at advancing them in the […] The post Interpreting Putin’s Remarks O...
NPR's Health Shots

'Bill of the Month': The series that dissects and slashes medical bills - Since 2018, readers and listeners sent KFF Health News-NPR's "Bill of the Month" thousands of questionable bills. Our crowdsourced investigation paved the ...
High Country News

Tribes sue after massive wind farm in Washington gets green light - The Yakama Nation contends that the project, which threatens ceremonial sites and wildlife habitat, is unlawful. The post Tribes sue after massive wind ...
Consortium News

Putin Thinks Al-Qaeda in Syria Is Reformed Too - The Russian president has said Russia actually won in Syria because the jihadist threat is apparently ended, which was Moscow’s goal all along. But he igno...
Crooked Media

The Pundies: Worst Takes of 2024 - The post The Pundies: Worst Takes of 2024 appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Work Inside Our System - Defenders of the health insurance industry reacted to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York by saying that murder and violence a...
Counterpunch

US China Policy: Too Late, Too Little to Offer - Biden and his national security team believe they can “contain” China; they can’t. The U.S.-China relationship is important in all policy areas: politic...
Southeast Texas Record

Isabel Juarez Cantu alleges Fiesta Mart L.L.C.'s negligence led to injury - A woman sues Fiesta Mart for injuries sustained after slipping on an unmarked wet floor at one of its stores in Houston. Read more…
naked capitalism

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts Expire Soon − Study Shows They Made Income Inequality Worse and Especially Hurt Black Americans - The first-term Trump tax cuts, increased inequality. So why does there seem to be so much complacency about their renewal?
World Socialist Web Site

The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship - The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 e...
Informed Comment

Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS) gave an ...
jobsanger

The Mad King Will Always Want More -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1300: Daniel Fahrenheit - Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale. Today, we invent the thermometer.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Behind Green Eyes - Meow from Perry Mason.
ArcaMax

A Santa by Any Other Name - What I've got is an "LED Santa Blow Mold With Warm White Light & Light Skin." He stands a little over 2 feet tall. So, what is it I've got? It's one of tho...
Antiwar.com

Israel, Not the ‘Liberators’ of Damascus, Will Decide Syria’s Fate - There has been a flurry of “What next for Syria?” articles in the wake of dictator Bashar al-Assad’s hurried exit from Syria and the takeover of much of ...
OpEd News

Christmas 2024 Poem - Merry Christmas, Say it, Sat it! But don't spray it.
Wolf Street

Census Bureau Massively Revises Up Population Growth: +8 Million in 3 Years, +3.3 Million Last Year, Largely due to Immigration. US Population Surges to 340 Million - Total Employment to be substantially revised higher early 2025 when the BLS incorporates these up-revisions into its household survey employment data.
Political Wire

Troops Won’t Get Paid Over Holidays if There’s a Shutdown - “Republicans’ decision to abandon a congressional spending plan will cost troops their paychecks over the holidays unless some agreement is reached before ...
Ballot Access News

Minor Party and Independent Candidates for U.S. Senate Received 3.1% of Total Vote Cast for U.S. Senate - On November 5, minor party and independent candidates for U.S. Senate received 3.1% of the total vote cast for U.S. Senate. This does not include write-in ...
Techdirt.

KFC Abrubptly Drops ‘Original Recipe’ Tradeamark Suit Against Church’s Chicken - I’ll preface this post by saying a part of me hates writing posts like this. We recently talked about a trademark lawsuit brought by KFC against Church’s C...
The Hill

FAA temporarily bans drones in parts of New York - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has temporarily banned drones over some of New York's "critical infrastructure sites." "This action is purely pre...
Deadline Politics

Dan Abrams To End His Primetime NewsNation Show, But Will Remain At Network - Dan Abrams said that he will end his weeknight primetime show for NewsNation in February, citing his demanding schedule, although he indicated that he will...
Portside

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost. - Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost. jay Thu, 12/19/2024 - 22:03
Workers World

Health care for people, not for profit! - [image: Health care for people, not for profit!] The United Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” has 30 articles delineating what “everyone has...
Brad Blog

Trump Gets Trumped in Our Musky End-of-Year Roundtable: 'BradCast' 12/19/2024 - Today, on our last new BradCast of 2024: It's beginning to look a lot like failure, everywhere you look in D.C. It's already getting pathetic before either...
The Greanville Post

Prof. Mohammad Marandi: Iran Ready for the Worst-Case Scenario in Dealing with Israel - EDITOR—Prof Marandi clarifies the situation confronting Iran in the wake of Syria's fall, the accumulating clouds of war and a probable "decapitating" assa...
Alternet

GOP’s latest 'intraparty warfare' puts loyalty to Trump in question: report - While House Republicans feud over the massive government spending bill that failed to pass on Thursday, another group of Republicans are facing a differe...
WhoWhatWhy

House GOP Strips Its Dignity and Integrity From Continuing Resolution - [image: Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk] House Republicans have gotten themselves into a mess and once again embarrassed and humiliated themselves in the proces...
Popular Resistance

The Fenzel Plan: How The US Engineered The PA’s West Bank Crackdown - The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has initiated an armed crackdown against its own people in the occupied West Bank, a campaign reportedly ba...
Election Law Blog

“Online Ad Spending in the 2024 Election Topped $1.35 Billion” - New from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, OpenSecrets, and the Wesleyan Media Project. Key findings: Between January 1, 2023, and November 5,...
Axios

MAGA rebels kill Johnson and Trump's Plan B - *There's only one upside *after Thursday night's spectacular failure for House Speaker Mike Johnson, President-elect Trump and Elon Musk: They now have a...
Daily Cartoonist

TBD Is Not To Be Determined - In Comics Kingdom TBD now stands for TBD (Toons By Dan), that’s Dan Mosdea. From the TBD (Toons By Dan) “about” page: TBD (Toons by Dan) is a curated colle...
The Verge

Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notifications area - [image: Vector illustration of the Bluesky logo.] Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Bluesky now has a specific tab for mentions in your notifications as p...
San Antonio Report

CAST Schools empower youth voice, redefining education and student experience - SPONSORED: As a key contributor to the community-wide strategic plan Future Ready Bexar County, CAST Schools joins more than 100 cross-sector institutional...
Progressive.org

Just How Bad Is the ‘Educational Choice’ Bill in Congress that Trump Is Expected to Support? - A federal voucher bill is closer to making it to the finish line than any that have come before it.
The Root

Don't Embarrass Yourself And Bring These Foods to a Black Christmas Party - Christmas parties aren’t like other get-togethers. You have to offer delicious food, while also providing holiday flavors. Typically, there’s a lot more ...
Mother Jones

Why Is Congress Leaving Abused Women and Children in The Lurch? - Something is missing from the new Trump-backed year-end spending bill that Congress has to pass by midnight on Friday to prevent a government shutdown: Sup...
Avedon's Sideshow

From now on our troubles will be out of sight - I don't care if he's doing it for the wrong reason. If Trump gets rid of the debt ceiling, it will be good, because, as Dday says, "The Debt Limit Shoul...
Second Nexus

Elon Musk Told X Users To 'Stop Using Hashtags'—And Got Instantly Blasted With Hashtags - Elon Musk has made lots of changes to what used to be known as Twitter since he bought it—including the app's name itself. But the newest change he's tr...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Health Museum's new exhibit shines a light on dyslexia - No, "The Reading Brain" isn't the title of a B-horror film from the 1960s. It's a brand new installation at the Houston Health Museum that explores dyslexia.
Futurism

"Lock Her Up": Trump’s Team Is Now Doing the Exact Thing They Screamed About Hillary Clinton Doing - Private E Remember when Donald Trump called on Hillary Clinton to be "locked up" for using a private email server to conduct government business? As it t...
Texas Standard

Texas’ latest effort to deter migrants is a billboard campaign in Mexico, Central America - Gov. Greg Abbott announced the new strategy, which will cost an estimated $100,000, during a press conference in Eagle Pass.
Reform Austin

Gov. Greg Abbott Announces More Than $500 Million In Public Safety Grants - Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday over $500 million in grants for public safety programs throughout the state, including assistance for victims of cri...
Texas Observer

Brownsville Elected Officials Are Doing PR for Embattled LNG Megaproject - Local elected officials in the border city of Brownsville are receiving talking points and media strategy from the company developing Rio Grande LNG—the ...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (12.19.24) - Smartness from Scott M. Coley, Danya Ruttenberg, Kat Abughazaleh, Robert Allen Warrior, Betty Cracker, and Olufemi O. Taiwo.
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Echo Echo Echo, Fox Fox Fox - There’s a timelapse video of the making of this cartoon – which shows how I began by drawing an entirely different cartoon (which I was really struggling w...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: What are the cable news ratings like? - *THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2024* *Sacred Troy overrun: *Perhaps you're wondering what the nation's "cable news" ratings look like now that the year is over....
Discourse

Your Health Insurance Nightmares Left Us Sick With Rage - First-person accounts on the frustrations of healthcare coverage, from all sides of this American nightmare.
Lowering the Bar

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Rio Grande Guardian

TXDOT wins praise from border representatives - Ivan Morua, assistant city manager of Eagle Pass, and Ron Whitlock of The Shepherd Group, spoke at a meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission, held...
Capital & Main

2023 Rise in Los Angeles County Hate Crime Reports More Than 20 Times Larger Than Reported National Increase - That disparity is partly due to the county’s community-centered reporting system, LA vs Hate. The post 2023 Rise in Los Angeles County Hate Crime Reports...
Church and State

As World’s Worst Tragedies Mount Are Present Human Numbers Like A Pestilence? - The world is running out of time to wake up to the fact that growth of invasive power has led us to the brink of disaster.
El Paso Matters

El Paso DA’s Office altered court record in appeal of migrant riot case dismissals, judge rules - For the second time this month, a judge rules that El Paso prosecutors acted improperly in criminal cases. The post El Paso DA’s Office altered court re...
The Conversation

3D-printed guns, like the one allegedly used to kill a health care CEO, are a growing threat in the US and around the world - The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will continue to have trouble r...
Crooked Timber

Questions on the Future of Feminism from my Book Tour - I knew when my most recent book was assigned an end-of-October publication date that I would spend much of my book tour processing the election and its aft...
Krebs on Security

Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm - Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vu...
The Mind Unleashed

Dinosaur Legs Grown On Genetically Modified Chicken Embryos In World First - Imagine holding a tiny, chirping creature in your hands, knowing it carries the echoes of a 66-million-year-old predator. Modern birds, from backyard sparr...
Sludge

Trump’s Lobbyist Buddies Cash In - Several advisers to the President-elect have been padding their lobbying client rosters since the election.
Texas Monthly

TM Audio Exclusive: Paula Mejía on the Enduring Influence of Johnny Canales - The author of Texas Monthly’s recent feature on Johnny Canales explains how the golden age of tejano set the stage for today’s música mexicana boom.
MintPress News

Staged Again? CNN’s Syrian Prisoner Story Adds to Its History of Fabrications - A fact-check exposes the latest in a series of misleading CNN reports, revealing how the netwrok's dramatic inaccuracies repeatedly align with US governm...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s Genocide Day 440: New reports of mass killings in Gaza surface - [image: Palestinians grieve loved ones killed by Israeli attacks at the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on on December 19, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/A...
Undernews

WORD - [image: Image]
Bud Kennedy

A church without Christmas? For some faiths, it’s off-limits. They just say no to Noel | Opinion - I grew up in a church with no Christmas. There was no nativity scene. No Christmas Eve service. No baby Jesus. In the strictly literal reading of the Bible...
Common Dreams

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza - Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in th...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Bayer Leverkusen vs Freiburg lúc 00h30 ngày 22/12/2024 - Tại vòng 15 thuộc đấu trường Bundesliga, thi đấu trong khi đang có phong độ tốt, Bayer Leverkusen và Freiburg sẽ đem đến cho người xem nhiều cung bậc cảm...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, Dec. 19 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, Dec. 19]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Authoritarianism as Clarity: Audio From A Collapsing State - Living in times like these shows us who we are and who the people around us are. Pay attention. Close attention.
Bonddad

Jobless claims: with a dash of seasonality salt, trending towards weakness - * - by New Deal democrat* As expected, jobless claims declined from one week ago, as the delayed Thanksgiving week seasonality moved out of the numbe...
Ian Welsh

Batshit Delusional Canadian Conservatives - [image: Batshit Delusional Canadian Conservatives] I want to highlight some tweets, because they’re representational of a lot of what modern Canadian cons...
Democracy Now!

Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones' Disappearances Under Assad Regime - “We were not prepared for what we were going to see,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin, who recently visited one mass execution site turned ...
Space City Weather

A crisp end of the week in Houston before a Christmas week warm-up - In brief: Cool air is settling back into the Houston area this morning, and a secondary push of it arrives Friday night. Look for increasing sunshine today...
Angry Bear

December Bureau of Labor Statistics - November 2024 Labor Stats as you can read for yourself. I am interested in seeing how the BLS screwed up on earlier employment reports over a period of t...
Skeptophilia

*ding* You've got mail! - It's inevitable that as *Skeptophilia* has grown in popularity, it's also attracted some attention of the less-positive sort. Let me say up front that I ...
Scheerpost.com

‘Slap in the Face to Working-Class Families’: Senate Sends Biden $895 Billion Military Bill - "We do not need to spend almost a trillion dollars on the military, while half a million Americans are homeless and children go hungry," said Sen. Bernie S...
Infidel753

Trumpocalypse? Maybe not - Many seem to expect that Trump's second term will bring about the Apocalypse. There's no doubt that it's going to be very bad for the country, as his fir...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

The Daily Show gives 'No 1 book banner' wide room to make a fool of himself. - This took place earlier this month. I don't know how I missed it. From *Crooks and Liars:* The Daily Show's Michael Kosta . . . interviewed the "No. 1...
See You In 2020

Africa is getting closer to full liberation, & the imperialists are preparing for this by destroying West Asia - The offensive that the imperialists are going on is a direct reaction to the gains which the globe’s liberation forces have made. The genocide against t...
Duck of Minerva

The Classroom and the Magic Circle - I wrote a chapter for a newly published edited volume, Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors. The volume itse...
Eater Houston

Eater Houston Is Looking For Writers and Contributors - [image: A shot of EaDo Houston with the “We Love Houston” sign and the skyline in back.] A job fit for writers who especially love Houston’s dining scene....
Claytoonz

Butthurt Christmas - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Ever...
NORML

Manhattan Institute Poll: Adults Overwhelmingly Oppose Marijuana Criminalization - [image: Marijuana Poll][image: Marijuana Poll]"At a time when voters and politicians are largely divided, there is one issue that Americans largely agree...
Liberation News

Trump, tariffs and trade: ‘Protectionism’ won’t save workers - Trump’s tariff policy, from a worker’s perspective, is classic divide and conquer.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Tracking the Spread of Hateful Anti-Haitian Rhetoric - Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Reader discretion is advised.
Earthworks

Common Sense in the Commonwealth: How Shapiro Can Protect Pennsylvania - With the incoming Trump administration planning rollbacks on climate progress, political leadership in heavy oil and gas-producing states like Pennsylvan...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 1 - Before we go on with the third of the operas in Wagner’s vast tetralogy The Nibelung’s Ring, I’d like to take a moment to talk a little about my trolls. Ye...
Rewire

2024 Was a Crazy Ride—and We’re In For More of a Fight - What a year it’s been. The post 2024 Was a Crazy Ride—and We’re In For More of a Fight appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Dissident Voice

Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence - The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a temporary buffer zone from which tactical a...
Earth 911

GAO Offers a Path To a National Textiles Strategy - The United States faces a growing textile waste crisis fueled by the rise of fast... The post GAO Offers a Path To a National Textiles Strategy appeared ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Year of the Zealot - It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of faith, it was a year of inc...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Announcing a new JAPE - Seen for a political economic perspective, there’s always lots of topics needing analysis. This is evident in the array of articles in the new issue of A...
Project Censored

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press - What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironic...
The Progressive Wing

12/16-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - More December news starting with Biden’s DOJ letting McKinsey off with a slap on the wrist for its role in promoting OxyContin.
The Grayzone

Scandal deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene - Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, ...
Idavox

Alex Stokes Stands His Ground In Appeal Bid - In a few weeks we will learn if the New York State Supreme Court if... The post Alex Stokes Stands His Ground In Appeal Bid appeared first on Idavox.
Bracing Views

In America, Health Care Is Wealth Care - W.J. Astore Private health insurers make money denying care–not providing it Luigi Mangione, the young man who shot and killed a senior health insurance ex...
nonsite.org

The Inauthenticity of our Class Discourse: or, Publishing Respects your Foodbank Usage - The issue, therefore, is not that we need to stop representation from benefiting elite minorities—that’s just representation in its most indefensible form—...
Democracy Chronicles

Playing the Ref at Nextdoor - Experience has taught me that the editors at Democracy Chronicles probably won't call this article an example of disrespect or public shaming.
Progressives Chat

Bonnie Raitt: Just In ‘Time’ - Singer and songwriter *Bonnie Raitt* turned 75 on November 8, 2024. Raitt is one of the honorees at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. CBS will broadcas...
Debunking Christianity

Here's some major essays on this holiday season! - LINK Enjoy! Comment! Share!
Trivial Knot

Popularity is (almost) scale-free - We live in an ecosystem, where everyone is pressured to be a content creator of some sort. Suppose you want to interact with your friends on the internet. ...
Texas Watch

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

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: IRON LUNG REVIVAL EDITION. - *I'm an old crank but you know what? This is Xmas music I can get with.* To paraphrase the old Chinese, we are now Living In Interesting Times every godd...
The Militant

Fall of Assad shakes Mideast, US-led imperialist world order - The overthrow of the 50-year bloody dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and his father is a consequence of the world-shaking impact of the resistance to Hamas’...
The NM Political Report

NM Political Report transitions to new ownership - [image: New Mexico Political Report] NM Political Report, the state’s daily nonprofit newsroom covering state government and politics, has joined the nonp...
TalkLeft

Pardons and Open Thread - I'm sorry I am so late with this new open thread. I had to get a few stitches in my eyebrow (don't ask!). Anyway, I haven't seen the news other than a he...
The Texas Signal

How Krampus Conquered Christmas in Texas - A generation ago, most Americans would not have been able to tell you who Krampus was. Now, the horned figure has become almost as much a part of Christm...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
LareDOS

City and KLB invite community to Celebrate Keep Laredo Beautiful Day - Tree planting begins at 8 a.m.
Reveal

Arizona Sues Saudi-Owned Farm Draining Groundwater in the Desert - [image: Rows of open-sided buildings hold bales of hay.] The company is “taking advantage of Arizona’s failure to protect its precious groundwater resourc...
Political Garbage Chute

Jesus Told Me He’d Prefer If MAGA Kept the Him Out of Christmas - “What do they even need with me, when they have that sausage-fingered rapist they clearly worship more than me anyway?” – Jesus Hubert Christ Don’t ask m...
Web of Debt

How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap - The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is not y...
ExChristian.Net

Why We Are Still Religious - We're running Modern Applications on a Caveman Operating System *By James Aames ~ * In order to understand why humans have a seemingly instinctual inclina...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
Media Lens

Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report - Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia w...
Land Destroyer

Washington’s War in Ukraine: Narrowing Options, Growing Consequences - *November 21, 2024 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russia’s use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in eastern Ukraine represents an unprecedent...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

God Bless Us, Every One - When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting, I didn’t hear it all — just “United Healthcare CEO” and “shot in NYC”, and that was about i...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2024 - Walmart had another fifteen shootings in November 2024, including five fatal shootings killing one person each. This also includes two fatal shootings i...
Seeing the Forest

Jack Gets Up - One of my favorites. Everyday in the morning when you get up and you crawl out of bed And you crawl out of bed and you crawl out of bed Everyday in the mor...
Greg Palast

Trump’s “2000 Mules” Maker Confesses Dropbox Charges Were Phony - Back in May 2022, we warned you that Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules would help elect Donald Trump in 2024. Thanks, in part, to the anti-dropbox hysteria ...
DeSmogBlog

North Carolina Town Sues Duke Energy for Climate ‘Deception’ - This article by Floodlight is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. A small town in North Carolina has take...
BEYONDbones

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

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
Free & Equal

Becoming United & Thankful - After a tough, divisive, and historic presidential election, Kelly Wright focuses on how Americans are seeking to become more united. Christina Tobin dis...
Novara Media

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

Transition train wreck. - The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this ...
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...
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...
Border/Lines

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

Can you recycle campaign signs? Here's where to take them in DFW - *Some municipal recycling centers and private recycling facilities will accept them. Photo by Harriet Blake.* Nov. 7, 2024 The election is over. No more...
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...
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 ...
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...
Save Buffalo Bayou

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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Rag Blog

MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966 - By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval c...
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.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the ar...
IVN

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

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

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

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

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

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