Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

BREAKING: Trump Nominates Ex-Florida Attorney General and Fox News Regular Pam Bondi as AG - President-elect Donald Trump nominated Fox News regular Pam Bondi for U.S. attorney general on Thursday after Matt Gaetz dropped out of the nomination. Th...
Raw Story

GOP says good riddance to Gaetz — with most refusing to even say his name - WASHINGTON – Republicans on Capitol Hill are privately celebrating after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) withdrew his nomination for attorney general. Publ...
memeorandum

South Dakota Republican introduces bill to eliminate Department of Education (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill) - Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill: *South Dakota Republican introduces bill to eliminate Department of Education* — Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced le...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Bob Casey Concedes in U.S. Senate Race in Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Capital-Star: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) on Thursday dropped his bid for reelection, conceding to GOP challenger Dave McCormick, putting an...
The Verge

FCC passes auto safety spectrum rules - [image: Vehicle-to-everything communication] Image: Department of Transportation The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to finalize new s...
CultureMap Houston

Houston designer Christy Lynn celebrates 5 years with River Oaks pop-up - Houston designer Christy Lynn Lee has had a whirlwind five years and is celebrating with a pop-up store in River Oaks District and a new Resort 2025 Colle...
Vox

International arrest warrants are out for Netanyahu and Gallant. What happens next? - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has formally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Y...
Daily Dot

‘I sold it and bought a Toyota’: Woman issues warning to Hyundai drivers after adding anti-theft technology - [image: Three panel design with a woman looking upset with text reading "Attention Hyundai Drivers" in panel one, a Hyundai sign in panel 2, and a Anti-T...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip & Editorial Cartoonist News - For you youngsters out there there was a time when editorial cartoonists and book publishing had a wonderful bond. Books of editorial cartoons with were re...
Counterpunch

Acción Palestina Chiapas: From Resistance to Revolution - In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with members of Acción Palestina Chiapas, grassroots organizers in southern Méxic...
Slate

Famous Supreme Court Lawyer: No Man Is Above the Law, Except Donald Trump, Actually - As the saying goes, when you’re the president, they let you do it.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

International court issues arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas of...
Texas Monthly

November 2024 Pit Perks - Available exclusively to TM BBQ Club members.
The Hill

McConnell announces new roles in next Congress - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday announced plans to shift into two key roles in the next Congress as he prepares to hand over the...
San Antonio Report

The city of Saint Anthony provides the backdrop for new feature film Say a Little Prayer - [image: "Despacito" singer, Luis Fonsi performs a song he penned for "Say A Little Prayer" at Jaime's Place on the West Side.]"Say a Little Prayer," a roma...
Futurism

Henry Kissinger Issues AI Warning From Beyond the Grave - Midas Touch It's been nearly a year since Nobel peace laureate and war criminal Henry Kissinger died — but he's somehow still offering policy suggestions...
Al Jazeera English

All to know about Man Utd’s manager Ruben Amorim before first EPL match - Al Jazeera takes a closer look at Portuguese coach as he takes charge of his first Manchester United match on Sunday.
Rio Grande Guardian

Cortez: I have good news about the new Hidalgo County Courthouse - Speaking at a McAllen Citizens League luncheon, Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez gave an update on the long-delayed county courthouse project. The pos...
Houston Public Media

Mayor John Whitmire wants to ‘end homelessness’ in Houston, says ‘It’s not rocket science’ - The plan calls for increased local funding and more collaboration between the city and county. Whitmire also wants to make it illegal to sleep in public sp...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get Happy
The Daily Poster

GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups - Democrats are helping give Trump the power to wipe out enemy nonprofits — and there’s already a road map on how to defund clean energy groups.
Alternet

Trump’s Defense secretary nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian nationalists - Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church that aims to...
Texas Standard

Should Austin get a WNBA expansion team? Longhorn legend Fran Harris is making the case - “Austin has a built-in sports fan base for women’s basketball. That’s what differentiates it from the other applicants looking to bring teams to their citi...
Mother Jones

The Long, Slow Defeat of Pennsylvania’s Sen. Bob Casey - Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a stalwart moderate who rose to power on the heels of his late father’s political legacy, seems likely to lose his reelection ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Those who try to emulate Teflon Trump often come unstuck – just ask Gaetz - The fall of the Florida congressman who was accused of sexual misconduct proves there is one rule for Trump and another for everyone else When he ran for...
Salon.com

Ariana Grande's health: A timeline of the obsession surrounding her body image - With "Wicked" in theaters, the focus on the singer's weight has been revived once again
Mondoweiss

Israel steps up attacks on displaced Palestinians living in tents - [image: Palestinians inspect damage following an Israeli airstrike that hit a tent for displaced people, wounding six Palestinians including children in De...
The Root

Keke Palmer is a True Comedian...These Are Her Funniest Moments - From “Barbershop 2" all the way to her first Emmy award, Keke Palmer is known for her extensive career spanning decades and most importantly, her effortl...
Techdirt.

Will The ‘Right To Repair’ Movement Survive Trumpism 2.0? - U.S. consumer protection has been beaten to a pulp over the last few decades. Consumer protection regulators are routinely on the ropes, left understaffed,...
Claytoonz

Giggity Gone - 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...
Consortium News

Israel: Beginning of the End - Like every guerrilla war from Algeria to Vietnam, the Palestinians will win the political struggle for liberation as Israel implodes from within, writes St...
See You In 2020

As the imperialists threaten all of humanity, we must learn from the Russian people’s determination to fight back - This is a moment of unfathomable peril, maybe more dangerous than any other time in history; but it provides us with a crucial lesson. It shows that if ...
Second Nexus

Florence Pugh Shares 'Mind-Boggling' Health Diagnosis In Powerful Reminder To Women - 27-year-old actress Florence Pugh reminded fans this week of the importance of performing regular health checks, especially when your body seems to be te...
OpEd News

Post-Election Reflections - This is a somewhat belated, collection of observations, analyses of the Presidential election. A few major points are: as the votes keep coming in, it is c...
Political Wire

At Least Five GOP Senators Would Not Vote for Matt Gaetz - NBC News: “At least five Senate Republicans — Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Markwayne Mullin of Okla...
Angry Bear

Just Some Manufacturing Data - I ran across this data while looking for Economic Stats on the United States manufacturing ability, Perfect for presentation as it has both detail and ch...
Mediagazer

Reach's audience director says Google's Discover feed has become Reach's single largest traffic referral source, mostly promoting "soft-lens" content (Bron Maher/Press Gazette) - Bron Maher / Press Gazette: *Reach's audience director says Google's Discover feed has become Reach's single largest traffic referral source, mostly prom...
Reform Austin

Abbott Orders Texas Agencies To Cut Ties With China-Linked Investments - Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to Texas state agencies, directing them to fully divest from investments originated from China. In the letter, Abbott ...
El Paso Matters

4 years ago, Donald Trump lost Horizon City by more than 30 points. This year, he carried the growing town. - Trump’s strongest performance in El Paso County came in communities like Horizon City, the rural and suburban parts of the county outside the El Paso ci...
Deadline Politics

Eddy Grant And Donald Trump Settle Copyright Lawsuit Over Use Of ‘Electric Avenue’ In Campaign Video - Eddy Grant and Donald Trump have reached a settlement in the singer’s copyright infringement lawsuit over the Trump campaign’s use of “Electric Avenue” in ...
Southeast Texas Record

Six-figure verdict after toddler shot out of ambulance - HOUSTON - It's a $300,000 verdict for a father who sued City Ambulance after his 21-month-old daughter was sent flying onto the highway while being trans...
Progressive.org

‘Lead and Copper’ Shows How Water Poisoning Runs Downhill - A new documentary about the Flint water crisis draws out the complexities of the problem.
Krebs on Security

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

Why did some "normal" people vote for Trump? - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024* *Bret and Gail opine: *We were struck by what Gail Collins said midway through this week's Conversation with Bret Stephens....
WhoWhatWhy

Inside the Secret World of McKinsey, the Firm Hooked On Fossil Fuels - [image: climate crisis, fossil fuel, Saudi Arabia, oil, McKinsey & Company] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by ...
Novara Media

Arrest Warrants Issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant - The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. With Steven Methven, @NoJusticeMTG & Francesca...
American Prospect

How Best to Utilize Tulsi Gabbard’s Unique Talents - Today on TAP: Why just director of America’s intelligence agencies? Why not Russia’s, too?
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Dortmund vs Freiburg lúc 21h30 ngày 23/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Bundesliga, tại vòng 11, với phong độ thi đấu đang thể hiện có sự tương đương, Dortmund và Freiburg sẽ có những cuộc cạnh tranh n...
The Week

7 beautiful towns to visit in Switzerland during the holidays - Find bliss in these charming Swiss locales that blend the traditional with the modern
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - Healthcare, social services, education and other public sector workers join national demonstration in Belgium against cuts in public spending; ongoing prot...
Wolf Street

Demand Destruction for Existing Homes: Sales in 2024 Track Lowest since 1995 amid Highest Supply for October in 6 Years - Too-high home prices cause demand destruction on an epic scale. Buyers’ strike continues in November and December.
Capital & Main

‘It Felt Like an Uphill Battle All Year,’ Says Arizona Grassroots Leader - Despite wins on abortion and Senate race, a progressive group backing Harris faced voter apathy and backlash over immigration. The post ‘It Felt Like an ...
Grist

As a COP29 deal on fossil fuels falters, the blame game begins - With U.N. talks coming to a close, some are accusing oil-producing states of weakening the world’s commitment to the green transition.
The AltWorld

US Foreign Policy vs. China Continues Under Trump - The incoming Trump administration is poised to pick up where the Biden administration has left off on […] The post US Foreign Policy vs. China Continues ...
First Draft

Much Ado Over Nothing That Matters - Just be prepared for all the guardrails to fail at first.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/21/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Gaetz: Exit, stage right; Ortberg: "The beatings will continue until morale improves"; How the Democrats aband...
Undernews

POVERTY - * States with the highest child poverty rates*
Axios

Congress breathes sigh of relief as Matt Gaetz withdraws attorney general bid - Matt Gaetz's former congressional colleagues, in both parties, raised a collective cheer Thursday as the onetime Florida congressman withdrew his nominat...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - November 21, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Back-to-back major storms slam the Pacific Northwest; Cl...
The Conversation

ICC arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Hamas leader doesn’t mean those accused will face trial anytime soon - Prosecuting leaders indicted for war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.
Scheerpost.com

Wanted for War Crimes: ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant Over Gaza - The Biden administration, as Netanyahu’s “ultimate enabler,” is visibly “totally alone” in its refusal to recognize Israel’s crossing of “red lines."
Common Dreams

Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Mishandling Child Sexual Abuse While Poised to Overhaul Title IX - Today, Accountable.US issued a sharp rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education. McMahon, who is bei...
SCOTUSblog

Western Apache group calls on court to block approval of copper mine on sacred site - [image: Western Apache group calls on court to block approval of copper mine on sacred site]The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert ...
Dissident Voice

US-backed Venezuelan Opposition Never Tried to Win the Presidency - “On the campaign trail, she [María Corina Machado] was received almost as a religious figure, often wearing white, promising to restore democracy and reu...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
NPR's Health Shots

He was stuck in a hospital for 8 months. How states can fail people with disabilities - In Georgia and other states, the federal government oversees the treatment of people with mental illness and developmental disabilities, because the states...
Rewire

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

US-backed Venezuelan Opposition Never Tried To Win The Presidency - “On the campaign trail, she [María Corina Machado] was received almost as a religious figure, often wearing white, promising to restore democracy and reu...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 25: “Trump’s #1 Pick Is a NeoCon” - Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio has flown under the radar as the media spotlight shines a light on controversial cabinet picks like Matt Gaetz a...
Reveal

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

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

Fish Farming Industry is Using ‘Misleading’ Figures to Downplay its Role in Overfishing, New Research Finds - Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector – one that proponents have long argued can help conserve wild fisheries. The argument goes that fa...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Ian Welsh

What Should Now Be Obvious To Everyone About the Ukraine War - [image: What Should Now Be Obvious To Everyone About the Ukraine War] As I said, day one, Russia was going to win this war if it wanted it enough. Russia’...
The Smirking Chimp

The Musk Rat -
Church and State

Biden Should Resign to Make Our First Woman President - The publicity Trump is generating with his appointments gives Biden a unique moment for resigning giving America its first female President!
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...
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 ...
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...
Crooked Media

So, Are We Buying Guns Now? - The post So, Are We Buying Guns Now? appeared first on Crooked Media.
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...
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 -
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...
slacktivist

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