Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies, justice edition

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

Rio Grande Guardian

STHS honors employee with STHS Veteran of the Year award - [image: |||] For the next installment of its monthly Let’s Talk Mental Health webinar series, STHS Behavioral will provide education to help the Rio Grande...
Raw Story

'Really bad and disturbing': Trump appointee's police report stuns shellshocked nation - News that a California woman told police she was trapped in a hotel room and sexually assaulted by a President-elect Donald Trump Cabinet pick has stunne...
Mediaite

Gaetz Privately Vowed to Not Target MSNBC, Fauci, Cheney in Effort to Convince GOP Senators to Confirm Him: Report - Matt Gaetz has promised Senate Republicans in closed door meetings that he not use his power as attorney general to target Donald Trump's political oppon...
San Antonio Report

Plans for downtown San Antonio entertainment district, new Spurs arena finally unveiled - The proposal calls for a new hotel, an improved Alamodome, retail and residential development and a land bridge spanning Interstate 37. --------------------...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - I've seen a lot of "don't worry your silly heads, Putin won't launch a nuke" but not much "and this will achieve...". KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Biden admin...
Deadline Politics

“100% Not True”: Jeff Bezos Responds To Elon Musk’s Gossipy Claim That He Predicted Trump Loss And Urged Sale Of Tesla And SpaceX Stock - Jeff Bezos pushed back on Elon Musk’s claim that the Amazon founder predicted a Trump loss in the 2024 election and that shareholders should sell their Tes...
The Hill

Whooping cough cases have quintupled. These states have it worst - Pertussis – a disease commonly referred to as whooping cough – is spreading quickly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. The U.S. has see...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, Nov. 21 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, Nov. 21]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s ...
Salon.com

Police report details sexual assault allegations against Trump nominee Pete Hegseth - In 2017, a woman accused the Fox News anchor of sexually assaulting her at a conference in Monterey, California
OpEd News

Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, One Last Thing, America! - My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement).----My Instagram feed is full of anger and "the arc of the moral universe bends slow but------My Facebook br...
The Week

Her Lotus Year: Paul French's new biography sets lurid rumours straight - Wallis Simpson's year in China is less scandalous, but 'more interesting' than previously thought
Election Law Blog

Attacks on Press Begin … - NY Times reports, “Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House.” Democracy is not possible without a free press. A...
Daily Dot

‘Pretty accurate’: Elon Musk’s response to Q drop reignites conspiratorial fever - [image: Elon Musk with Q that has american flag design] Billionaire Elon Musk has conspiracy theorists celebrating once again after responding on Wednesd...
Political Wire

Antiabortion Groups Plan New Crackdowns - “Antiabortion advocates are moving aggressively in the wake of the election to devise new measures to punish people and organizations that help women get a...
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...
The Verge

Threads tweaks its algorithm to focus on people you follow - [image: Illustration of the Threads app logo] Illustration: The Verge Meta is making a big change to Threads to show you more things from people you foll...
Dissident Voice

Moral Suicide - Western societies are committing moral suicide in Palestine. Collective suicide always is an ugly business to observe – especially when it’s your own cou...
memeorandum

Congresswoman McBride Announces She Will Comply With Rules Declaring Her a Man (Erin Reed/Erin In The Morning) - Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning: *Congresswoman McBride Announces She Will Comply With Rules Declaring Her a Man* — The decision comes after Mike Johns...
The Root

The Family of Black Man Killed in His Own Home Just Got the Payback of a Lifetime - The life of Botham Jean’s family was changed forever after the 26-year-old was gunned down in his own home in 2018. Jean’s killer, Amber Guyger, is curre...
Mediagazer

Ad software company Mediaocean buys Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20 (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal) - Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: *Ad software company Mediaocean buys Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap ...
Daily Howler

BAYOUS: Why would anyone have voted for Trump? - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024* *The possible reasons go on and on:* Just for the record, the madness has always been general. The madness is bred in the b...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Duct-taped banana goes for $6.2 million in Sotheby's art auction - It will be the buyer's responsibility to replace the banana as it rots, according to Artnet.com
Futurism

Photos Show Kim Kardashian Holding Hands With Tesla Robot - International celebrity Kim Kardashian has shared a strange series of pictures showing her hanging out with a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot sitting insi...
Sludge

Senators Reject Resolutions on Blocking Weapons Sales to Israel - The upper chamber rejected three resolutions disapproving of U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Israel.
NPR's Health Shots

Are you a caregiver for an adult? How has it changed you? - Many who care for family members and loved ones at home say it can be very stressful but also rich in meaning. Share your story and insights.
Al Jazeera English

World reacts to ICC arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant - ICC said it had found 'reasonable grounds' to believe that Israeli officials were responsible for starvation in Gaza.
Common Dreams

COP29 must deliver more than “threadbare promises”: Oxfam - In response to the latest climate finance draft text at COP29, Oxfam International's Climate Justice Lead, Safa’ Al Jayoussi, said: “COP29 must do more ...
Houston Public Media

Texas hospitals are now required to ask for patients’ citizenship. Here’s what you should know. - The requirement is part of an executive order Gov. Greg Abbott issued this summer.
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: WNBA expansion sparks hopes for Austin franchise - With the WNBA set to add teams in San Francisco, Portland and Toronto, there’s speculation about a 16th team. Could Austin be next?
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Dear America: My immigrant mother 'stole' American jobs: A 'confession' from a child of Mexican immigrants - *Friends:* *I appreciate Dr. Alvaro Huerta's "confession" and it should provide a helpful perspective on how his mother never stole an American job. Henc...
Texas Monthly

Let’s Remember Some Guys From the Texas–Texas A&M Rivalry - Casual football fans might not recall names like Madame Hipple and Ja’Mar Toombs. Aggies and Longhorns will never forget them.
naked capitalism

International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant - After a long delay, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against the open genociders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
Mother Jones

DNC Let Go of Staff With No Severance, Says Union - Last Thursday, workers with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were told they would be laid off without severance and with little notice, according to...
MintPress News

Why Did the FBI Show Up at Alison Weir’s Door? Critics of Israel Say They Know the Answer - Journalists and activists are reporting alarming encounters with federal agents, suggesting a coordinated effort to silence American voices critical of I...
Alternet

NC legislature approves Republican 'power grab' bill - Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approved wide-ranging legislation Wednesday that was billed as another round of hurricane relief, but instead prim...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pete Hegseth to visit Capitol as details from 2017 sexual assault report emerge – live - Trump’s nominee for defense secretary under scrutiny after report alleges he sexually assaulted a woman in California seven years ago - Police report ...
ArcaMax

Recalling the Jihad Against Martha Stewart - I like Martha Stewart. Always have. Two recent documentaries, "Martha" on Netflix and the CNN series "The Many Lives of Martha Stewart," follow the Greek d...
Discourse

Bury the #Resistance Once and For All - It had a bad run, and now it’s over.
Rewire

What’s Next in Skrmetti? - *United States v. Skrmetti* could determine the future of trans kids' rights. The post What’s Next in Skrmetti? appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Second Nexus

People Imagine The Most Unhinged Things They'd Do If They Were Uber Wealthy - How many people dream of winning the lotto, and then immediately dream of how they will spend their millions, if not billions, of dollars? Of course, com...
Bonddad

Initial claims are positive, while hurricane-adjusted continued claims are neutral - * - by New Deal democrat* This week’s jobless claims reflect a little more complex scenario than usual, because the hurricane effects have disappeare...
DeSmogBlog

Why Alberta Shouldn’t Be Celebrating Trump’s Election Win - Some on the political right in Canada have been quick to gloat over the re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pla...
Slate

My Husband Uses the Family Dog as a Discipline Tool Against Our Kids. It’s Sickening. - He thinks it gets “instant results.” I think it’s cruel.
Democracy Now!

Defund Genocide: Activists at COP29 Link Climate Fight to Militarism, Gaza, Lebanon & Sudan - At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, civil society members held a People’s Plenary called “Pay Up, Stand Up: Finance Climate Action, Not Genocide” outside negotia...
Techdirt.

Net Neutrality Is Dead As A Doornail Under Trump 2.0 - While the concept has been endlessly demonized by right wing media (working hand in moist hand with shitty companies like AT&T and Comcast), net neutrality...
The Reality-Based Community

M.U lên kế hoạch tái ký với Angel Gomes - Quỷ đỏ rục rịch đón lại ngôi sao cũ Angel Gomes. Trong một diễn biến bất ngờ, Manchester United đang ráo riết lên kế hoạch đưa tiền vệ tài năng Angel Gom...
The Conversation

Americans agree more than they might think − not knowing this jeopardizes the nation’s shared values - Most Americans actually agree on key issues, including reproductive rights, firearms laws and climate change.
First Draft

Horseshoe People - Let me introduce you to my MAGA Yippie friend.
Space City Weather

Lows fall to just above freezing for some areas north of Houston, and are chilly across the region - In brief: Houston is experiencing its coldest night of the fall season so far, with temperatures dropping into the mid-30s in some inland locations. We’ll ...
Vox

Vox Releases 2024 Future Perfect 50 List Celebrating Inspiring Changemakers - Vox today released the 2024 Future Perfect 50 list, its third annual celebration of the thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the ...
Axios

ICC issues arrest warrants for Israel's Netanyahu, Gallant - A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former...
Texas Observer

Seeing the Unseen - Since the publication of his 1985 chapbook of stories, Winners on the Pass Line, Dagoberto Gilb has been altering the literary landscape by offering his ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: And Now The News, More or Less - I suspect Biden’s decision to let Ukraine fire US-supplied missiles over its border, and his decision to supply the Ukrainians with anti-personnel mines, w...
Infidel753

Biden -- and Ukraine -- confront a risky future - During his remaining time in office, Biden is taking steps to mitigate the most dangerous aspect of Trump's impending return to power -- the unpredictabil...
The Smirking Chimp

The Musk Rat -
WhoWhatWhy

The Advancing MAGA Mob is Not a Monolith - [image: Donald Trump, meeting, capos] Waiting for the great schism. The Advancing MAGA Mob is Not a Monolith originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Angry Bear

How Can the Loan Interest Become Greater than the Principal? - I have written about and posted on Student Loan debt forever and usually about Alan Collinge. This is never ending debt where the interest can be greater...
Bud Kennedy

Before the JFK assassination, Secret Service agents partied until 6 a.m. in Fort Worth | Opinion - We always say the story of Nov. 22, 1963 begins and ends in Fort Worth, from a presidential breakfast visit to the burial two days later of his accused ass...
Crooked Media

How to avoid World War 3 + why won’t Elon Musk Leave the UK alone? W/ Jamie Bartlett & Stephen Bush - The post How to avoid World War 3 + why won’t Elon Musk Leave the UK alone? W/ Jamie Bartlett & Stephen Bush appeared first on Crooked Media.
Skeptophilia

Tying God's hands - Today, for the umpteenth time, I saw the following image posted on social media: The people who posted it apparently think that it's entirely appropriate ...
Southeast Texas Record

Reed Smith's Alaniz again named INvolve LGBTQ+ Outstanding Executive Role Model - Reed Smith announced that Dallas Office Managing Partner Omar Alaniz is among the 2024 100 LGBTQ+ Executives selected by INvolve, the diversity, equity a...
Off The Kuff

SBOE to support “Bible-infused curriculum” - What could possibly go wrong? A majority of the Texas State Board of Education signaled their support Tuesday for a state-authored curriculum under intense...
ProPublica

Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back. - by Nicole Santa Cruz, Asia Fields and Ruth Talbot ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsle...
Scheerpost.com

In 14-1 UN Security Council Vote, Lone US Veto Kills Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution - The U.S. government, said one human rights lawyer, "proves once again to the world that it is fully committed to the continuation of the genocide in Palest...
American Prospect

America’s Judicial Divisions Take New Shape Under Trump - The Fifth Circuit has been the legal center of gravity for years. That’s probably going to change soon.
Grist

Can Lula still save the Amazon? - The power imbalance in Brazil's government that keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat.
Consortium News

Biden’s Lust for War - The U.S. is waging war on Russia without a congressional declaration and in violation of treaty that requires the consent of the United Nations, writes And...
Portside

Senate Rejects Sanders’ Bid To Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Atrocities - Senate Rejects Sanders’ Bid To Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Atrocities Mark Brody Thu, 11/21/2024 - 01:45
Workers World

PDF of November 21 print issue - [image: PDF of November 21 print issue] Download the PDF Resistance grows as West Asia war widens Resistance grows as West Asia war widens Solidarity with ...
jobsanger

Johnson Is Lying About Immigrants To Support Trump's Massive Deportation Plan -
World Socialist Web Site

Japan’s prime minister preparing pro-war, economic stimulus package - While the government’s proposed policies are presented as a means to assist workers, the true agenda is the preparation for war and to slash jobs to boost ...
Counterpunch

Possible Justice Department Conversation: a Glyph - The post Possible Justice Department Conversation: a Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Informed Comment

Pope Francis Calls for Painstaking Investigation into Whether Israeli War on Gaza is a Genocide - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Pope Francis has a new book, Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world. The English version is not out yet, bu...
Antiwar.com

PRC Espionage: Are Chinese Americans Their Top Recruitment Targets? - On November 1, 2018 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the launch of the “China Initiative” – a whole-of-government effort ostensibly designed...
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...
Brad Blog

Former Federal Prosecutor: Trump Must Be Sentenced in NY Before Taking Office Again: 'BradCast' 11/20/2024 - Will he ever face any punishment for his many crimes? That is among the many issues covered on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summ...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion - New York - I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan. I am holding a bound, hand-...
Mondoweiss

Senate rejects effort to block arms sales to Israel - 18 lawmakers joined Bernie Sanders' effort to block arms sales to Israel, but the vast majority of the Senate voted against the measure.
El Paso Matters

El Paso mayoral candidates talk immigration, arena, first-year goals - The winner of the Dec. 14 mayoral runoff will have to manage the impact of Trump’s immigration initiatives, including mass deportations, while addressin...
slacktivist

RIP Tony Campolo (1935-2024) - It's Friday, but Sunday's coming.
Reform Austin

Alex Jones Seeks To Block Infowars Sale To The Onion And Sandy Hook Families - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for a restraining order attempting to block the sale of his Infowars media platform after The Onion, backed by f...
Progressive.org

State Takeovers Are About Control and Corruption, Not ‘Results’ - State takeovers of public schools take control of education away from communities.
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Asks New York to Respond in Lawsuit Over Discriminatory Campaign Finance Limits - On November 20, the U.S. Supreme Court asked New York state to respond to the cert petition Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, 24-503. This is the lawsuit that...
See You In 2020

When the left abandoned Uhuru, CPI stood by it. We must take example from this as repression intensifies. - Above: Caleb Maupin with two members of the African People’s Socialist Party The Center for Political Innovation has done something that everyone involv...
Claytoonz

The Trumpy Trumpy Shake - 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...
The AltWorld

Escalation From Biden - Allowing Ukraine to use missiles to strike deep into Russian territory could have unprecedented consequences. On November […] The post Escalation From Bi...
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...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 180: Trump’s Concentration Camps - Trump recently reconfirmed that he plans to carry out his campaign pledge to enforce mass deportations of many of the 10 million migrants with varying st...
The Daily Poster

Trump Gives Airlines Their Deregulator - Sean Duffy, a former representative-turned-airline industry lobbyist and reality TV star, could now oversee the industry he wants to deregulate.
Novara Media

Ukraine Fires British Storm Shadow Missiles Inside Russia for First Time - Ukraine has fired British-made long range missiles into Russian territory. Plus: Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to suspend U.S. military support for ...
Wolf Street

ECB’s Own Measure of Wage Increases Blows Fuse, Sets Off Alarms about Stubbornly Hot Services Inflation - Meanwhile, the ECB’s QT marches on, balance sheet has shed €2.45 trillion since the peak, or 59% of its pandemic QE.
Idavox

Social Demonstrators Prepare to Sue State of Tennessee for Violation of Constitutional Rights - It’s about damned time! This in regards to last weekend’s American Renaissance Conference and folks... The post Social Demonstrators Prepare to Sue State...
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...
Capital & Main

There’s a Reason Oil Well Sales Are Collapsing In California: Cleanup Costs - Faced with putting up hefty bonds to clean up their mess, operators are instead taking a pass on selling off dying wells. The post There’s a Reason Oil W...
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...
Undernews

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES - *Boston U Suspends Admissions to Humanities and Social Science Ph.D. Programs*
The Mind Unleashed

Trophy Hunter Fatally Gored In Groin By Herd Mate Of Buffalo He’d Just Killed - The wild has always been a place of danger and unpredictability, yet it also draws those seeking the thrill of conquering its fiercest inhabitants. Trophy ...
Debunking Christianity

Christian Scholarship Led me to Reject Christianity - [First Published in Nov. 2006] One of the reasons I have rejected Christianity is that I studied the Bible. That's right. I studied the Bible. As I did s...
Ian Welsh

Labor Membership & Power Requires Elite and Mass Support - [image: Labor Membership & Power Requires Elite and Mass Support] The Great Depression was cause by a demand problem: there wasn’t enough demand for goods...
Church and State

Why the Vatican attacks contraception - The Vatican’s public attack on contraception has centered on the morality of contraception.
High Country News

My family experienced Indian boarding schools – and genocide - Why Biden’s apology didn’t go far enough. The post My family experienced Indian boarding schools – and genocide appeared first on High Country News.
The Grayzone

Leaked files expose high-level UK military plot to destroy The Grayzone - In their bid to “keep Ukraine fighting,” a covert cell of British military strategists and spooks plotted to destroy “media outriders” that threatened th...
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.
Krebs on Security

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach - The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecur...
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

10 Houston Restaurant Closings to Know Right Now, November 2024 - [image: Kim Son’s dim sum spread of steamed dumplings and fried morsels.] Another Kim Son location is set to shutter. | Mai Pham Say farewell. Kim Son’s ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Profiles in Cowardice: Morning Joe and Capitulation Among Liberals in the Trump Era - Morning Joe was just the first chapter in what is sure to be a long, destructive, and frustrating collapse during the Trump Era
Political Garbage Chute

Leaked Email: Trump Will Make Musk U.S. Ambassador to Epstein Island - Presumably, there have to be some perks to buying the favor and attention of the President of the United States of America. Why else would financiers lik...
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...
Bracing Views

Yet Another Smear Piece on Tulsi Gabbard - W.J. Astore Where else but the New York Times In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard: How Tulsi Gabbard Became ...
Crooked Timber

Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli - A few weeks ago, I drew up a flowchart to estimate the probability that Trump would establish a dictatorship in the US, which looked, at the time, like an ...
Earthworks

Refinery Pollution Threatens Montana’s Yellowstone River - The television show “Yellowstone” has put a spotlight on Montana and the iconic Yellowstone River, renowned for its spectacular beauty … The post Refine...
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

11/18-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - And the crapalooza continues
Unlimited Hangout

Breaking (Down) The Chain: An Investigation Post-mortem - A concise post-mortem on The Chain series, a deep dive on the creation of the Bitcoin-Dollar system which names the names and explains the technology uph...
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.
The Militant

UAW holds first strike ever at Georgia automotive parts plant - LITHONIA, Ga. — “We’re striking for better pay and benefits and against unfair treatment by supervisors,” Myra Williams, a union representative for United ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BRINGIN' IT ALL BACK HOME EDITION. - *Never out of fashion.* Another week into the over-the-cliff phase of the death of democracy! The appointments Tubby’s trying to push through the lame du...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Insurer Thinks Bear Shown in Video Trashing Car Looks a Lot Like a Guy in a Bear Suit - So did the California Department of Insurance.
Alas, a Blog

Ohio Passes School and College Trans Bathroom Ban - My alma mater Oberlin, and all schools and colleges in Ohio (private schools and colleges included) is going to be forced to ban trans students from using ...
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.
CultureMap Houston

Michelin Guide removes shuttered Houston Vietnamese restaurant - Make that 30 — not 31 — Houston restaurants listed in the Michelin Guide. In a press release issued Thursday, November 14, the Guide announced that it had...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

Elections are not the beginning or end - If I may: stretch out of the fetal position. Take a deep breath. Put on whatever jacket makes you feel confident, and strike a power pose. My therapist m...
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...
The Texas Signal

A Very Red Texas - Yesterday’s election was a bitter disappointment for Texas Democrats. While there was some optimism that the state could potentially elect a statewide De...
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 ...
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 ...
Reveal

A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist Behind Bars - Abused by her adoptive father, she was victimized again by the police charged with protecting her. A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist B...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
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

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

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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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
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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Sunday, May 03, 2015

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