Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Slate

Officers From the SCORPION Unit Killed Tyre Nichols. What Is the SCORPION Unit? - The special department was meant to be a policing solution.
Mediaite

‘She Can’t Talk Like a Human Being’: The Five Savages ‘Embarrassing’ Karine Jean-Pierre - Co-hosts of The Five ripped White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday after she twice told Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy to direct hi...
Second Nexus

Bad Men Acting Badly—and Getting Caught - It’s Friday, and while there is lots of serious news to consider, there’s also George Santos, who is deeply unserious and yet seriously messed up. There’...
San Antonio Report

Texas heat-related deaths reached a two-decade high in 2022 amid extreme temperatures - [image: Law enforcement officers investigate the area in Southwest San Antonio in June where 53 people who had been traveling in a tractor-trailer died.]A ...
Common Dreams

At Least 7 Killed in Jerusalem Synagogue Attack After Israeli Troops Kill 10 Palestinians - Human rights defenders condemned a Friday attack outside a synagogue in an illegal Israeli settlement by a Palestinian gunman who murdered at least seven...
The Hill

House lawmakers introduce Holocaust education bill on Holocaust Remembrance Day - A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill on Friday that would order a study on Holocaust education in U.S. public schools to help ensure tha...
The Root

Review: Carol's Daughter Born To Repair Hair Care Products - Read more...
Raw Story

Federal Election Commission zeroes in on George Santos - With the increasing amount of attention the campaign of Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is now receiving, his incessant deceit and lies — ranging from his famil...
VICE

Give Your Girlfriend What She Wants for V-Day: A Screaming Orgasm - Failing to bring the train fully into the station? Sad, but maybe Promescent’s delay spray and arousal gel can help.
The Verge

Jonathan Majors is a bodybuilder yearning to be truly seen in Magazine Dreams - [image: A profile shot of an oiled-up, muscular man in a posing strap looking downwards.] Jonathan Majors as Killian Maddox in Magazine Dreams. | Tall Str...
memeorandum

Facebook was a cash cow for Trump. It could end up being a 'bronze goose.' (Zach Montellaro/Politico) - Zach Montellaro / Politico: *Facebook was a cash cow for Trump. It could end up being a ‘bronze goose.’* — Facebook was the financial engine of Donald...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

'My son was calling my name': Tyre Nichols's mother calls for justice – video - Tyre Nichols's mother, RowVaughn Wells, has called for justice after her son's death prompted murder charges against police officers in the latest instan...
Al Jazeera English

Judge: Colorado supermarket shooting suspect unfit to stand trial - The 23-year-old alleged attacker is charged with killing 10 people in a Colorado supermarket in March 2021.
Texas Monthly

Houston’s Hobbit Cafe: From Hippie-dippie to Double-decker - Founder Raymond Edmonds reflects on his Tolkien-inspired vegetarian cafe, which has expanded over fifty years and earned the love of even cheeseburger conn...
Church and State

How the Bible Narative Misled 19th Century Palaeontologists - It was not until science ignored the Bible, that it began to make any real progress in finding out the truth about the world.
Political Wire

Wisconsin Judge Opening Gun Range That Serves Alcohol - Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Jennifer Dorow, and her husband Brian, are developing an indoor gun range that would not only host weddings and other eve...
The Daily Poster

Billionaire Funded Judges Who Could Decide His Speech-Crushing Beto Case - Following the money behind a Texas lawsuit against Beto O’Rourke that could pave the way for punishing political candidates who criticize wealthy donors.
Mediagazer

Analysis: Truth Social's ads sell diet pills, gun accessories, and Trump-themed trinkets, showing the difficulty far-right platforms have in luring major brands (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times) - Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: *Analysis: Truth Social's ads sell diet pills, gun accessories, and Trump-themed trinkets, showing the difficulty fa...
Morning Consult

Morning Consult IQ, Jan. 29, 2023 - The post Morning Consult IQ, Jan. 29, 2023 appeared first on Morning Consult .
Eschaton

Friday Happy Hour - Get happy
Deadline Politics

BET And CBS News To Debut ‘America In Black’ Newsmagazine Series - BET and CBS News will debut a primetime newsmagazine series next month, America In Black, that will feature segments with Gayle King and other news figures...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Justice for Tyre Nichols – Take to the streets! - The police continue to kill with impunity all over the country. We need to turn the tide with massive mobilizations.
Courthouse News

Judge declines to block drop box patrolling for ‘ballot mules’ - Despite no evidence of election fraud, Clean Elections USA deployed armed men in tactical gear and masks to ballot drop boxes across the Arizona to deter p...
Techdirt.

Surveillance Tech Firm Sued By Meta For Using Thousands Of Bogus Accounts To Scrape Data - About a half-decade ago, major social media companies finally did something to prevent their platforms from being used to engage in mass surveillance. Prom...
Wolf Street

Consumer Spending on Services Keeps up with Raging Inflation in Services. Spending on Goods Falls as Prices Drop, Demand Fizzles after Pandemic Binge - Raging inflation is a tough nut to crack for income.
NPR's Health Shots

Videos like the Tyre Nichols footage can be traumatic. An expert shares ways to cope - People can experience symptoms of PTSD after being exposed to videos with violence and death. Those symptoms can show up immediately or weeks later.
Axios

Treasury Secretary Yellen taunts Russia over U.S.-led sanctions: "They are scavenging" - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen taunted Moscow that U.S.-led sanctions have impaired Russia's “ability to conduct war” and claimed their military is now ...
Houston Public Media

Houston experts agree annual COVID-19 shot best way to keep people protected - Nationally, only around 15% of people report having gotten the most recent bivalent booster. In Harris County, numbers are even lower.
Texas Standard

Tell us what you want to know about property taxes in Texas - This legislative session, public radio stations across Texas want to answer your wonkiest, weirdest and wildest questions about property taxes in the state.
Futurism

Scientists Name "Funky Worm" Amphibian After a Weird 70s Funk Song - Funky Little Monkey A new ancient amphibian just dropped, and this one is named for a really bizarre 1970s funk song. Named Funcusvermis gilmorei or "fu...
Workers World

Capitalist system cause of wealth inequality - [image: Capitalist system cause of wealth inequality] In a study titled “Survival of the Richest,” published Jan. 16 to coincide with the start of the Worl...
San Antonio Current

Vibras, Girl Scout Cookies: San Antonio's biggest food stories of the week - Bar openings clearly grabbed readers' attention this week. Two prominent launches were among the Current's most-visited food stories. Vibras took over a l...
Latino Rebels

Tear-Jerker ‘Radical’ a Sundance Favorite (INTERVIEW) - Latino Rebels speaks with actor and producer Eugenio Derbez, who opened this year’s Sundance Film Festival with 'Radical,' which stars Derbez as a middle...
The Week

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel beats back challengers to win 4th term - Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel successfully beat back one of the most serious threats to her leadership to date after decisively...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

Oil Refineries Release Lots of Water Pollution Near Communities of Color, Data Shows - “We have made great progress in environmental stewardship under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and many other [...] The post Oil Refineries Relea...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Secretary Bird - Excuse me while I scream in fear and delight.
First Draft

Johnny B. Goode - Cheers to Chuck Berry.
Salon.com

Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration - The technologies unlocked by Mars could place us on a much more sustainable trajectory on Earth
World Socialist Web Site

Nurses at major Montreal hospital threaten to resign en masse over chronic understaffing - Although Quebec’s nurses have been complaining bitterly about forced overtime and inhumane working conditions for years, the province's premier tried to pr...
Novara Media

Jeremy Hunt Takes on “Doomerism”, Tories Lose the Boomer Crooner Vote - Jeremy Hunt has begged businesses and journalists to cheer up about the British economy. Can a positive attitude really save us all from 13 years of Tory-i...
naked capitalism

Contesting The Ultimate Lockdown: Non-Vax Covid Prophylactic Home Remedies (Plus Bharat’s Nasal Vaccine) - Let's save some lives!
El Paso Matters

Photos: El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen memorial service - Hundreds of El Pasoans gathered Thursday to pay tribute to El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen at the Judson F. Williams Convention Center on Thursday, Jan....
OpEd News

Toxic Conversational Bubbles - The platform, and not any person or community, finds this extremely profitable. But the people who were once related are now merely linked by some trivial ...
Environment Texas

Does Texas have net metering? - Thirty-eight states require utilities to offer net-metering, but Texas is not one of them. The post Does Texas have net metering? appeared first on Envir...
The AltWorld

Brian Berletic on RT - Brian Berletic on RT giving his opinions of the recent tank acquisition in the Ukraine. The post Brian Berletic on RT appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Alternet

Economists are praying these House Republicans will 'save' America from the 'fiscal abyss': report - Countless economists have warned that if the United States were to default on its debt obligations, a major financial crisis could result — one with inte...
American Prospect

Who Will Head the National Economic Council? - Today on TAP: Fed governor Lael Brainard’s name has been leaked. It’s more important to keep her at the Fed.
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Criticism is Friday’s Filing - I wonder how he did it. How did Brian Crane, creator of the comic strip “Pickles,” sneak into our house and set up listening devices to capture the convers...
Daily Dot

‘I def do it for the love of surgery bc the money is not good’: Doctor claiming to make $12/hr performing surgeries reacts to scrub tech making $80/hr - [image: woman working setting up tools and supplies for surgeries with caption "Making $80/hr setting up surgeries" (l) surgeon in car with caption "Maki...
Daily Howler

GROUPS V. GROUPS: Are the nation's critics a siloed group? - *FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023* *E pluribus, more of the same: *About a third of the way through the feature film *Tár*, a beautiful human moment occurs. The...
The Mind Unleashed

A 52-Foot-Long ‘Book Of The Dead’ From Ancient Egypt Was Just Discovered At Saqqara - Just wow.
Scheerpost.com

The Chris Hedges Report: Will Julian Assange Ever Be Free? - Chris Hedges speaks with film producer and brother of Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, on his new film about his family’s journey to get Julian free. Th...
Mother Jones

The FDA Just Made It Easier for Gay Men to Donate Blood - For years, gay and bisexual men have fought back against what they consider to be outdated restrictions on who can give blood. On Friday, the Food and Drug...
Election Law Blog

“Facebook was a cash cow for Trump. It could end up being a ‘bronze goose.'” - Zach Montellaro for Politico. The post “Facebook was a cash cow for Trump. It could end up being a ‘bronze goose.'” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Vox

Mexico’s top cop is on trial along with the war on drugs - [image: Mexican President Felipe Calderon (R) and the Secretary of the Mexican Federal Police Genaro Garcia Luna (L) prepare to inaugurate the Mexican Fed...
Progressive.org

Politicizing Black Lives in Florida - When it comes to learning history in schools, Florida’s state government is afraid knowledge will lead to power.
Dissent Magazine

Paul Goodman Replies - I don’t want to answer Mike Walzer in any detail, since much of what he says by way of criticism I also strongly affirm in my book—he is not a close read...
CultureMap Houston

Meet the talented team behind Upper Kirby's inventive 'new Japanese' restaurant, plus hottest food news - On this week's episode of "What's Eric Eating," Money Cat chef-owner Sherman Yeung and chef de cuisine Jio Dingayan join CultureMap food editor Eric Sandl...
Ring of Fire

Billionaire Elites In Davos Think You’re Stupid - The World Economic Forum took place in Davos, Switzerland last week, where the Ultra Rich and Powerful met and agreed to do nothing to make your life bet...
Glasstire

The 20th Annual Clay Expo is Coming To Rockport - Over the weekend of February 4 and 5, the Gulf Coast town of Rockport will play host to its 20th annual Clay Expo. The two-day event will be held for… Th...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What To Watch For In The NFL’s Conference Championship Games - If this weekend’s conference championship games feel as if they were predestined, it’s no accident. In fact, many prognosticators projected a version of th...
jobsanger

A Day For Remembering -
Reform Austin

Texas Environmentalists Push The EPA To Crack Down On Methane Emissions, Saying State Agencies Have “Failed Us” - The Environmental Protection Agency got an earful from Texans this month. In a marathon three-day public hearing, close to 300 people across the country ...
Mondoweiss

Biden administration refuses to say Palestinians are ‘occupied’ - Yesterday in a shocking exchange at the State Department, the spokesman for Biden's foreign policy team refused to describe Palestinians in Jenin and other...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges and Gabriel Shipton: Will Julian Assange Ever Be Free? - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges TheRealNews on Jan 27, 2023 Chris Hedges speaks with film producer and brother of Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, on his...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: 1/27/23. - *The Dean put these Ukrainian guys at #1 on his 2022 List --Not sure about that, but this one's a kick.* * • *Today’s *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* – ava...
MintPress News

Facebook’s Jordana Cutler Appointed Head of Controversial Israeli Ministry, Sparking Censorship Fears - Facebook's Jordana Cutler has been named director general of Israel's controversial Ministry of Strategic Affairs, drawing concern from experts over to h...
TalkLeft

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

Santos Honors All 6 Million of His Mothers Who Died at Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day - Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a day in which solemn tributes to the victims of Adolf Hitler’s genocidal rampage during World War II are made a...
NORML

Tens of Thousands of Commercial Truckers Leaving the Workforce Over Outdated Marijuana Testing Requirements - [image: No Drug Testing][image: No Drug Testing]“The Transportation Department’s reliance on this outdated technology and upon these discriminatory polic...
Debunking Christianity

“Oh, You Know, God. Everyone Knows Who God Is” - *Misled by supposed certainties about god * The title of this article comes from one of my favorite Carl Sagan quotes. He was often asked, when he was...
SCOTUSblog

Arthrex seeks second Supreme Court intervention in patent clash - [image: Arthrex seeks second Supreme Court intervention in patent clash]The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recentl...
Dissident Voice

Ignorance - How is it that the people who unskeptically believe their government and engage in name calling have any credibility? The people who refuse to be vaxxed ...
Claytoonz

Prowling With Tucker - Perhaps the worst thing that will come of Mars Wrigley replacing their “woke” spokes candies for M&M is that now Tucker Carlson will start drooling over Ma...
The Texas Signal

Musings: ambition kills - Welcome back to Musings. We’ve missed you, dear readers. It’s long been said that the United States Senate is populated with people who steadfastly believe...
Socialist Alternative

New Momentum for Amazon Tax in Chicago - The luxury housing market in Chicago was “red hot” last year, with over 60 property sales valued at five million dollars or more. But in the up-is-down, bl...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Lavrov's Hollow Denials of Russian Meddling in ‘Internal Affairs’ - The Kremlin’s activities across Africa remain largely in the shadows, but Russia’s record of foreign interference is undeniable.
Bonddad

Good news and bad news on personal income and spending - * - by New Deal democrat* December personal income and spending had some material for both optimists and pessimists. Let’s look at the good news fir...
Buzzflash

Nearly Three-Quarters of American Think the New GOP Congress Is Headed in the Wrong Direction - CNN
Texas Observer

From Austin with Zombies - When actor Gabriel Luna first picked up a Playstation controller and played The Last Of Us all the way back in 2013, he surprisingly felt a pang of pride...
ProPublica

Judge Orders Washington State Private Special Education School to Turn Over Records - by Lulu Ramadan, The Seattle Times This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Sign up for...
Undernews

Meanwhile. . . - *The murder rates in Trump-voting states* from 2020 have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000 *Tucker Carlson *called for the U....
The Smirking Chimp

‘Deranged Hobo’ and a ‘Loser’: Conservative Writer Torches Trump in Blistering Op-Ed -
The Intercept

Classified Documents Scandals Point to Larger Culture of Impunity - The snowballing investigations into Trump, Biden, Pence, and others over their mishandling of classified documents present us with a unique opportunity. ...
Democracy Now!

Tyre Nichols' Parents Remember Son as "Beautiful Soul" & Describe Video of Beating by Memphis Police - A day after prosecutors charged five former Memphis police officers with murder over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, we speak with his parents, RowVaugh...
The Progressive Wing

1/27-29 Weekend News & Open Thread - Just found out I’ve been selected to serve on the powerful Oversight Committee w/ @OversightDems! Make no mistake, I’m here to go toe to toe with extremi...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Leading Off (1/27/23) - Dallas Police Arrest Bar Owner in Shooting. The owner of Player’s Bar in Oak Cliff has been arrested in the December shooting death of Xavier Ramon Herna...
The Conversation

Independent voters can be decisive in elections – but they're pretty unpredictable, not 'shadow partisans' - Pollsters, pundits and politicians all get it wrong when it comes to independent voters, who have become a crucial – and sometimes decisive – group in Amer...
Lawfare

How Can a ‘Digital Emblem’ Help Protect Medical Facilities Against Cyber Operations? - Emblems of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Crescent in Mozambique. (Babakh Fakhamzadeh, https://flic.kr/p/DPnMt; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://...
Rio Grande Guardian

Reynolds: Structure of schools must help kids manage and improve their mental health - Over the past three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has seen a serious mental health crisis deepen among its youth. Many proposed solut...
Unlimited Hangout

Black Hand: The London Night Club Trap - How a slew of dead and missing women preceded the take over of elite London night clubs by intelligence-linked gangsters. Black Hand: The London Night Cl...
Space City Weather

A gray Saturday and a soggy Sunday morning for Houston - Before we get into the forecast today, we just want to go over some of the news from the National Weather Service office in League City from the last coupl...
ArcaMax

To Foster a Love of Reading, We Have to Give Children the Freedom of Choice - It was during my son's kindergarten readiness screening that his teacher discovered his love of reading. He left her classroom that summer day with the fir...
Caitlin Johnstone

The Mass Media Used To Publish Perspectives On Ukraine That They Would Never Publish Today - Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The other day I stumbled across a 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian titled “It’s not Russia that’s pushed Ukraine t...
CPI's Danger in the Air

How will a divided government affect taxes? - [image: An up-close photo of the Internal Revenue Service sign on the headquarters.] The 118th Congress that convened this month marked the end of one-par...
Angry Bear

Durable goods orders come in mixed; only employment indicators are short term positives for the economy - Durable goods orders come in mixed; leaving only employment indicators as short term positives for the economy – by New Deal democrat Manufacturers’ dur...
Ian Welsh

Know Thine Enemy - [image: Know Thine Enemy] I want you to ask yourself this question: what makes someone your enemy? Really think about it for a bit before continuing. Have...
Skeptophilia

The swamps of Canada - Ellesmere Island would be high on the list of the Earth's most inhospitable places. It's huge, only slightly smaller in area than Britain, and is part of...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Newday Impact Investing’s Anne Popkin on the Politicization of ESG Investing - Newday Impact Investing's president and COO, Anne Popkin, discusses the politicization and continuing momentum of Environmental, Social and Governance, o...
Grist

Documents show how 19 ‘Cop City’ activists got charged with terrorism - Georgia police are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against activists accused of little more than trespassing.
Off The Kuff

The next round of voter suppression bills are coming - […]
Two Party Opera

Personal Stockpile -
High Country News

This Washington experiment could rebuild eroding coastlines - In 2016, David Cottrell dropped $400 worth of rock on Washaway Beach to see what would happen. Now engineers are watching, too.
Crooked Media

Who Let the Dobbs Out - The post Who Let the Dobbs Out appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

George Santos, International Man of Mystery - Nothing about Congressman George Santos is what he purported it to be: his work history, educational background, wealth, family. Now it turns out he was ...
The NM Political Report

Senate Conservation Committee discussion focuses on electric grid - [image: Senate Conservation Committee discussion focuses on electric grid] Three bills focused on the transition to clean energy cleared the Senate Conserv...
Southeast Texas Record

Greenberg Traurig Attorneys Recognized in Lawdragon’s ‘500 Leading Lawyers in America’ - Five shareholders at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Johnine P. Barnes, Lori G. Cohen, Ernest LaMont Greer, Karen M. Kennard, and A. Michael Prat...
Counterpunch

Making (No) Sense of the Ukraine War - The following is a review of the new book War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies. Several years ago, I...
Informed Comment

Netanyahu’s Folly: High Tech Investors pull out of Unstable Israel, as Palestine Authority cuts off Security Cooperation - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new government of Israel under the leadership of Binyamin Netanyahu, which includes the fascist Religious Zionism and Je...
Antiwar.com

Warmongers 101 – Who Is the Institute for the Study of War? - Attention Students! Before we begin, that’s not a typographical error in the title. Whenever one investigates a "think tank," "study group," "not-for-pro...
Brad Blog

NJ County Discovers Loser Actually Won After 2022 Computer Mistally: 'BradCast' 1/26/2023 - There's a reason I always warn, when reporting election results on The BradCast, that they have only been tallied by computers to date, and that errors in ...
Independent Political Report

Utah State LP Convention - All Libertarian 2024 Presidential candidates are invited. The Utah LP writes: The Utah Libertarian Party convention will be held April 14-15 in Layton,...
Popular Resistance

CELAC 2023-Latin American Integration Includes The Voices Of The People - Founded in 2011, CELAC, or the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, is a multilateral group of 33 countries from across the Western Hemisphe...
See You In 2020

What makes NATO so evil: it exploits the same crises it creates - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization represents the stage of capitalism where the imperialists, after making nuclear annihilation a possibility, have...
Capital & Main

Even After Floods Hit State, California Plans Cuts To Climate Investments - *Lawmakers will have to resist inertia and oil and gas influence as the climate crisis worsens.* The post Even After Floods Hit State, California Plans C...
Black Agenda Report

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

An Amazing Number of States Have Lawsuits Pending Over Redistricting - This CNN article explains that many states’ 2020 census redistricting laws are still in court. For U.S. House districts alone, the boundaries could be chan...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Horror story' about naked trans woman in women's locker room turns out to be hot air, lies, and basic transphobic fearmongering - There is a controversy brewing in Santee, CA involving a young girl who claimed she got scared because she saw a naked trans woman at a local YMCA. Thi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Backlash grows against DeSantis decision to block AP African American studies class #StopTheBlackAttack - *DeSantis' decision to disallow the teaching of AP African American Studies in Florida schools takes me back to when John Huppenthal did this to Mexican Am...
Right Wing Watch

Stalked by a Groyper: Nick Fuentes Follower Elected GOP Precinct Delegate Despite Credible Allegations - Though racism may serve as the calling card for the white nationalist America First movement led by Nick Fuentes, you might say misogyny is its cornersto...
DeSmogBlog

Why Gas Stoves Matter to the Climate – and the Gas Industry - By Daniel Cohan, Rice University Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of the greenhouse gas...
Innocence Project

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

Who Determines U.S. Foreign Policy? - W.J. Astore The Golden Rule Applies Who determines U.S. foreign policy? The question seems simple enough. According to my go-to source, the AI chatbot Ch...
Portside

Kyrsten Sinema May Not Be Called “Senator” for Long - Kyrsten Sinema May Not Be Called “Senator” for Long jay Thu, 01/26/2023 - 12:57
Media Lens

‘End Stage Capitalism’: Collapsing Britain And The Climate Crisis - People in power get nervous when the population’s trust in national institutions plummets. It has often been a precursor of significant social unrest, even...
Democracy Chronicles

How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy - Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT already poses a threat to how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays, etc.
Lowering the Bar

Canadian Democracy Survives Cinnamon-Bun Scandal - Reason for hope? Probably not. Related Stories - Partisan Split in Montana Over Which District Gets to Be “District One”
Robert Reich

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

Tim LaHaye had a Dream - LaHaye wrote this letter in 1968. In a sense, he never stopped writing this letter.
Krebs on Security

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

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

Graffiti Raw Is Now Open in Montrose - [image: A festive table scape with a plate of octopus in the center, and guests holding their phones to snap a photo.] Graffiti Raw offers a diverse menu ...
Ecosophia

January 2023 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standa...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A World To Buy And Sell - Corruption, betrayal, and authoritarianism are natural side-effects of a world where the only thing that matters is power and wealth
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg school board trustee Dr. Luis “Louie” G. Alamia, PT, DPT, and Rio Grande Valley state lawmakers praise positive impact of $26 million UTRGV Edinburg CISD Collegiate High School - The Edinburg school district’s four state lawmakers – Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Rep. Terry Canales, Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, and Rep. Óscar Longoria – along wit...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations from here and there - If something's hard to read, click to biggify..... Background here Made by Pliny
LareDOS

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

“Forever Chemicals” in Rainwater a Global Threat to Human Health - Environmental scientists have found hazardous levels of manufactured chemicals in rainwater, leading to the dramatic conclusion that rainwater is “no lon...
BEYONDbones

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

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

Senate Gerrymandering Hearings Begin Tomorrow - All testimony will be virtual. Sign up now to make sure your voice is heard. Republicans are again planning on The post Senate Gerrymandering Hearings Be...
Bud Kennedy

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

Gallego Opposes Progressives on Cutting Pentagon Budget - Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego announced on Monday that he is running for Senate in 2024, possibly against centrist Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. In an ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Initial Senate Ratings: Democrats Have a Lot of Defending to Do - Dear Readers: Please join us this week for a pair of special Center for Politics forums, both of which are free and open to the public and will also be liv...
Crooked Timber

Mitigated disaster - Over the past past few years we’ve had to deal with all sorts of new or resurgent evils, including climate catastrophe, Covid and the global assault on dem...
Earthworks

Mining Industry Still Falls Short on Tailings Safety - Guest Author: Yvonne Orengo, Director of the Andrew Lees Trust This week, investors, insurers, mining companies, representatives of the United … The pos...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Four Oath Keepers Convicted in Second Seditious Conspiracy Trial - A 12-person Washington, D.C. jury convicted four members of the antigovernment Oath Keepers group of seditious conspiracy on Monday over their role in the ...
Duck of Minerva

Election Observation as an Exercise in African Agency - Election observation is at a turning point. Roughly 80-85% of elections around the world are subject to election observation. The majority of these are in ...
Rewire

What Happens Post-‘Roe’? - Happy New Year! Now you have fewer rights. The post What Happens Post-‘Roe’? appeared first on Rewire News Group.
The Grayzone

US Africa Leaders Summit promises more exploitation for Africa, record profits for US mining firms - Recent deals between US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and African heads of state promise eye-popping profits for US mining multinationals and fewer pro...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Why sanctions may backfire - Immediately after Russian troops attacked Ukraine in February 2022, a group of Western countries – including the U.S., EU states, Australia, Great Britai...
Progressives Chat

Flashback: January 1973 - Last year, I wrote and published several blog topics marking some milestone anniversaries. (Numerous occurred during the year 1972.) It turns out, here i...
Field Negro

Caption Sunday. - I need a caption for this pic. I have one: *POS in boots. *
Shadowproof

Kevin Gosztola On ‘The Chris Hedges Report’ - Chris Hedges, longtime journalist and host of “The Chris Hedges Report,” had Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola on his show to discuss his book, Guilty of...
Idavox

Neo-Nazi Nationalist Social Club Leaders and Members Prosecuted for Civil Rights Violations - The New Hampshire Attorney General’s lawsuits have the potential to become a template for community... The post Neo-Nazi Nationalist Social Club Leaders ...
The Militant

Defend Ukraine independence! Moscow troops get out now! - Moscow’s larger and better armed military continues to fail to make any substantial gains against determined and motivated Ukrainian workers and soldiers d...
Texas Moratorium Network

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

Special edition—How Eric Adams is right, and wrong, about asylum seeker arrivals—01-20-23 - Immigration news, in context
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Cartnoon - TMC for ek hornbeck
Web of Debt

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

Pomp. Circumstance. Hypocrisy. Another Abbott Inauguration. - We endured a third inauguration for Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday, and the run-of-show was nothing new: Pomp. Circumstance. Hypocrisy. Blatant disregar...
Seeing the Forest

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

Atheists who can’t even talk to theists - A Recurring Character Among my many years participating in university atheist student groups, there was often someone who played the role of the asshole. A...
Land Destroyer

The Trouble with Western Tanks in Ukraine - *January 18, 2023* (Brian Berletic - New Eastern Outlook) - Western nations have begun pledging a variety of Western armored vehicles to Ukraine includin...
Eclectablog

Feeding ourselves without destroying the climate – wsg journalist and author Michael Grunwald - Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald Listen to the Climavores podcast HERE. Buy Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal in paperback HERE and for Kindl...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mother of All Limited Hangouts - The Mother of All Limited Hangouts has begun. Yes, I’m talking about the “Covid Twitter Files,” which are finally being released to the public, in almost t...
ExChristian.Net

How the Church Manipulated the Original Bible - *By G.M. Gates ~ * What if Christianity is lying about the Bible? What if the original Bible in Hebrew was manipulated by the Church? What if the Old T...
Equality Texas

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

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

Cartoon: Might As Well Face It, We’re Addicted To Fear - If you like these cartoons, you can help me make more by supporting the Patreon. The marketplace is a terrible way to produce news. Because it the end, bei...
Green Pages News

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

Twelfthnight - Another installment in my continuing effort to make the season start at Advent and last through Twelfthnight, so here's the traditional Christmas links: ...
In These Times

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

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

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

Flood Planning Update - Are Flood Planners Ignoring Legal Requirement To Consider Environmental Impact? Stormwater Tunnel Inlets: No Environmental Impact On Streams, Says Flood C...
New Progressive Alliance

2022 Annual Report - *2022 Annual Report*
TXElects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
One People's Project

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

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WhoWhatWhy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
Truthout

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

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

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

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