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

The Verge

Squid Game season 2 is a brutal remix of Netflix’s biggest show - [image: A photo of Lee Jung-jae in season 2 of Squid Game on Netflix.] Image: Netflix After years of brand tie-ins and ill-conceived spinoffs, the series...
The Week

How does the House Ethics Committee work? - And what does that mean for Matt Gaetz?
Southeast Texas Record

Foley Names Jen Cafferty Patton as Chief Operating Officer to Further Drive Strategic Growth and Business Performance - Foley & Lardner LLP is pleased to announce Jen Cafferty Patton has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) to bolster the firm’s administrative le...
Daily Dot

‘Nah girl’: Sephora worker calls out customers for this common shopping practice - [image: Two panel design with a woman looking frustrated at the camera in one, next to an image of a Sephora store] To be a savvy shopper, it's important...
Counterpunch

The FCC Under Trump - President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will replace the current FCC Chair, Jessica Rosenworcel, with Commissioned Brendan Carr as the next agency...
Al Jazeera English

How George Soros became ‘Enemy Number 1’ for India’s Modi - The BJP has accused the billionaire of funding initiatives critical of Modi, aimed at destabilising India.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Israeli strike kills 5 journalists, Palestinian channel says - Israel said it struck Islamic Jihad militants 
jobsanger

Is Trump Serious About His Expansionist Threats? -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2401: The World at Our Fingertips - Episode: 2401 The World At Our Fingertips: From Books to the World Wide Web. Today, the world at our fingertips.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Young people’s shrinking attention spans are nothing to worry about. Here’s why | Marion Thain - Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world. Young people may well be discovering new ways of paying attention - Marion Thain is profe...
Informed Comment

In 2024, did the US Demand for Israeli Impunity Fatally Undermine International Law? - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 2024 was a pivotal year for international humanitarian law. On the one hand, the International Court of Justice and the Inte...
memeorandum

A Reflective Biden Harbors Some Regrets as His Term Winds Down (Katie Rogers/New York Times) - Katie Rogers / New York Times: *A Reflective Biden Harbors Some Regrets as His Term Winds Down* — President Biden will seek solace and “relief” during ...
Ballot Access News

Constitution Party Polled More Votes for U.S. House This Year Than Ever Before - Last month, Constitution Party nominees for U.S. House received 225,303 votes. This is the highest the party has ever received for U.S. House in its entire...
Political Wire

A Reflective Biden Harbors Some Regrets - “President Biden has less than a month to go until his one-term presidency ends, and he is feeling reflective,” the New York Times reports. “He is voicing ...
The Greanville Post

SNL Host SHAMES Audience For Cheering Luigi Mangione! - EDITOR—Jimmy and the crew discuss how the SNL host Colin Jost tried to shame the SNL audience after they came up with the "wrong" message (cheering Mangion...
Daily Cartoonist

The True Meaning of the Seasonal “A Charlie Brown Christmas” - Schulz, the man who birthed the lovably hard-luck Charlie Brown, was known to have wrestled with self-doubt. Yet when it came to taking the reins of “A Cha...
Raw Story

Accused Trump assassin’s request to push trial date not an ‘unreasonable delay’: judge - The trial for the man accused of plotting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida earlier this year ha...
Election Law Blog

“How prosecutors’ evidence mistakes could let Menendez walk away from corruption charges” - Politico: Five months after a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez of corruption-related charges that ended his political career, federal prosecutors have ad...
The Hill

Biden condemns Russia's 'outrageous' Christmas attack on Ukraine - President Biden on Wednesday denounced Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, declaring the wave of missiles and drones “outrageous.” "The purpose of this outr...
Axios

In photos: Beyoncé brings "Cowboy Carter" to Christmas NFL halftime show on Netflix - Beyoncé performed a medley of hits from her record-breaking "Cowboy Carter" album during Netflix's first-ever NFL Christmas Gameday halftime show on Wedn...
Popular Resistance

Deception And Politics From Washington To Tel Aviv - In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the final resistance we have again...
Mediaite

Bill O’Reilly Condemns Politics at the Dinner Table: ‘That’s Not Happening in My House’ - Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly explained his tactics for avoiding politics at Christmas dinner table on Newsmax, Wednesday. The post Bill O’Reilly Con...
Mediagazer

Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches (Richard Deitsch/New York Times) - Richard Deitsch / New York Times: *Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight ...
The Root

Black Women Showed Up At The Polls, So Don't Expect Us To Show Up To Your Trump Protests - Earlier this month, MSNBC host Joy Reid stated that Black women have “resigned” from efforts to “save America” after Donald Trump defeated Vice President...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Issues Holiday Reminder That He Is Nuts - [image: MAGA, ornament] In one absolutely insane Christmas message, Donald Trump manages to threaten three countries (including two NATO members). Trump ...
NPR's Health Shots

Feeling stuffed after a big holiday meal? Try taking a walk - During the holidays, you may want to roll from the table to the TV. Research shows even a short walk after a meal can be a big boost for health.
See You In 2020

Degrowth, the plot to collapse our society, & the world war that will become a class war - The workers in the empire’s core are experiencing a backlash from our ruling class, one that’s going to last indefinitely and is accelerating our societ...
Mondoweiss

‘We will leave when the last Palestinian leaves’: The defiant last stand of the doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital - [image: Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Husam Abu Safiyeh (middle), holds up his hands during the Israeli invasion of the hospital, October 26, 2024. (Ph...
OpEd News

Wishing you the best - here are brief highlights for 2024: 24 publications, thousands of children benefited, several new grants received (now ten projects ongoing), trips coverin...
Claytoonz

KryptoWho Let The Flying Dogs Out?Krypto - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Ever...
Salon.com

"Great tragedy": Deadly plane crash in Kazakhstan sparks conspiracy theories Russia did it - Out of 67 passengers, 38 people died when an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed Wednesday
The Mind Unleashed

Squirrels in California have become carnivorous for the first time ever, experts say - Squirrels are a familiar sight in parks and backyards, charming us with their acrobatic leaps and nut-stashing antics. But what if these seemingly harmless...
The AltWorld

Living on the Edge: The Most Dangerous Time in History | Scott Ritter & Larry C. Johnson - Living on the Edge: The Most Dangerous Time in History | Scott Ritter & Larry C. Johnson The post Living on the Edge: The Most Dangerous Time in History ...
San Antonio Report

Stadium rumors and a solar eclipse: A look back at our top stories of 2024 - Remember the Hemisfair curfew crackdown, the solar eclipse or when Mixtli got its Michelin star? The San Antonio Report covered it all. --------------------...
Ian Welsh

Merry Christmas - [image: Merry Christmas] Hope you’re having a good one. If not, hope it isn’t too awful. Use as an open thread for nice things if you wish.
Eschaton

Xmas Afternoon - burp
Undernews

WORD - [image: May be an image of 1 person and text that says '"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absenc...
El Paso Matters

‘Viva! El Paso’ creator Hector Serrano dies at 83 - The El Paso cultural icon died while on a Caribbean cruise. The post ‘Viva! El Paso’ creator Hector Serrano dies at 83 appeared first on El Paso Matters.
Ecosophia

December 2024 Open Post - Yes, it’s Christmas, and most of you have better things to do today than read the internet. That said, this week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open ...
Slate

I’ve Never Gotten a Woman Off With This Basic Technique. I’ve Failed as a Man. - Obviously, I'm doing something wrong.
Alternet

'Throwing in the towel': NYT columnist slammed for urging Trump critics to 'wish new admin well' - Veteran New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens has often described himself as a "Never Trump conservative," vehemently criticizing President-elec...
Space City Weather

Merry Christmas! After storms last right, expect another round on Thursday - In brief: Good morning on this fine Christmas Day. Santa sure brought the thunder last night, didn’t he? We are interrupting your holiday with a short upda...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 25, 2024: Some of our favorite stories of the year - The Texas Standard staff rounded up a few of our favorite feel-good segments of the year.
Debunking Christianity

Hail Mary! Was Virgin Mary Truly the Mother of God’s Son? - *Hail Mary! Was Virgin Mary Truly the Mother of God’s Son?* -- By John W. Loftus Catholic Christians pray the rosary, which is a string of beads repre...
Bonddad

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate! - * - by New Deal democrat* Last night we celebrated with the traditional Christmas Eve pastime of viewing “Die Hard.” Regular economic blogging will ...
Reform Austin

Texas Cities Among “Grinchiest” In The Nation For Holiday Cheer, Report Finds - This might come as a surprise but not everybody loves the holidays! A recent analysis by financial data outlet FinanceBuzz ranked U.S. cities based on ho...
First Draft

Yielding Sweetness Again - The log that poops candy is still an useful metaphor in 2024.
Progressive.org

From Minnesota to Manhattan to Newport: Biopic About Balladeer Bob Dylan’s Odyssey is Positively Electrifying - Folk music heroes Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Joan Baez also loom large in ‘A Complete Unknown.’
Daily Howler

STORIES: Fox News reports major revelation! - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2024* *The New York Times serves a kibosh: *Right here, on this very morning, we the people are being offered our choice of stor...
Democracy Now!

A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz - His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harb...
The Smirking Chimp

Elon Musk Can Easily Use Donald Trump’s Greatest Advantage Against Him -
Vox

A Bob Dylan mega-fan detangles the Timothée Chalamet biopic for us - While he may be known for being an iconoclast, Bob Dylan has a public persona — aloof, remote, borderline misanthropic — that doesn’t exactly lend itself t...
Skeptophilia

Adventures in solid geometry - I've always been a bit in awe at people who are true math-adepts. Now, I'm hardly a math-phobe myself; having majored in physics, I took a great many math ...
naked capitalism

Democracy Dies in the EU: Romania Edition - Is the cancelling of the Romanian election a harbinger of what’s to come in Western “democracies”?
Off The Kuff

Say goodbye to 2024, Mel Torme - Good riddance, too, but we’ll put that aside for today only. Here again I present to you my favorite Christmas story, which Mark Evanier has taken to rerun...
Scheerpost.com

John Kiriakou: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts - We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electroni...
American Prospect

Socialism, Propaganda, and Crypto Scams - Our managing editor lays out his best work of 2024.
High Country News

How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community - Thirty-five years ago, Helper was nearly a ghost town. Now, art and tourism are providing new paths forward. The post How Utah’s Christmas Festival has ...
Earth 911

How Sanitary Landfills Work - Humans create a lot of waste, but when you throw something away, how much do... The post How Sanitary Landfills Work appeared first on Earth911.
Rallblog

Born To Kill - Cities have been hollowed out in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of working at home. As office buildings emptied out, urban dwellers ...
ArcaMax

"Christ Is Still In The Rubble": No Silent Nights In Gaza This Christmas - Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is...
slacktivist

Merry Christmas Eve - All people means all people. Always.
Portside

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism - A Soundtrack of Irrationalism Geoffrey Tue, 12/24/2024 - 23:10
Consortium News

Deception & Politics From Washington to Tel Aviv - U.S.-Israeli supremacist intentions, papered over and buried for decades, are now clear for all to see, writes M. Reza Behnam. By M. Reza Behnam Z-Network ...
Wolf Street

Who Bought and Holds the Recklessly Ballooning US National Debt, even as the Fed is Unloading its Treasury Securities? - A hot question for an iffy situation. So here are the holders as of Q3.
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 18 things to do in Houston during Christmas weekend - Welcome to a super-sized edition of CultureMap’s weekend event planner!
Angry Bear

Merry Christmas! - I am hoping this Christmas finds Angry Bear readers and commenters happy, of good health, and with family. There were years when I was away from family. ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Beginning of the End of the Public University, by Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña, Ph.D. - *This historical perspective reflecting on the student movement of the 1960s and early 70s by Dr. Rudy Acuña is helpful as we deconstruct the political mom...
Workers World

Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks - [image: Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks] Seattle Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) opened up a series of “rolling strikes” across the country on Dec...
Church and State

The Catholic Church and Social Justice Issues - True democracy is very threatening to the Church. As long as it can control the lawmakers, the Church has no problem with democracy.
Second Nexus

Billie Eilish Teaches First Grade Class How To Write A Hit Song—And We're Singing Along - Anyone who's ever followed celebrity news might have asked themselves at some point what it's really like to be a celebrity, and if celebrity life is eas...
Futurism

Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots - Typo Hazard It sure sounds like some of the industry's smartest leading AI models are gullible suckers. As 404 Media reports, new research from Claude ch...
Eater Houston

Houston Restaurant Openings to Know Right Now, December 2024 - [image: Prawns, dumplings, cocktails, and Thai street food from Osha Thai Kitchen.] The restaurant openings in Houston can’t stop, won’t stop. | Becca Wri...
Rio Grande Guardian

Peña: A Holiday Message from BCIC - The president and CEO of Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation says her group is proud to work alongside area businesses in order to create a str...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 24 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 24]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s t...
Texas Monthly

Nora and Johnny Canales’s Love Story Began With a Grito - Thirty years after she met the tejano icon at a Corpus Christi nightclub, Johnny Canales’s widow reflects on the couple’s marriage, their show, and how Joh...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came - Hedges unravels the toxic brew of deindustrialization, corporate greed, and authoritarian religion fueling America’s descent into fascism. The post Chris...
The Daily Poster

When News Broke In 2024, We Were There - While The Lever team is on holiday break, we’re offering subscribers a selection of our best reporting this year.
ProPublica

Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk - by Heather Vogell ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publis...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 24 December 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Pisa, ...
Common Dreams

President Musk Will See You Now (If You're Bearing Money or Power) - In this so-called holiday season, welcome to America's "Mump regime," governance of, by and for the oligarchs in which an erratic unelected white suprema...
World Socialist Web Site

Report to New York City-area rally exposes role of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Gaza genocide - The rally offered valuable information on the role played by the Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk in the genocide in Gaza, but proposed no policies to m...
Crooked Timber

Plutocrats and Authoritarian Leaders: Like Flies to Flypaper - Curtis Yarvin, darling authoritarian ideologue of many tech billionaires, is back in the news, along with his deep links to J.D. Vance, via Peter Thiel. It...
Antiwar.com

Wishing for A Christmas Truce in Ukraine - On December 11, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that, as one of the last things he would do at the end of his term as the European Union’s rot...
Techdirt.

Lane Kiffin Defeats Keith Bell In ‘Winning Isn’t Normal’ Copyright Case - Funny enough, it was only a few weeks back that we last discussed Dr. Keith Bell and the slew of lawsuits he has filed over depictions and/or retweets on s...
Deadline Politics

Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Sends Letter To Disney’s Bob Iger Referencing ABC’s Donald Trump Settlement And Low Media Trust - The incoming chairman of the FCC has fired off a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger referencing ABC’s recent settlement of a defamation lawsuit filed b...
nonsite.org

The Painter: 5 Prose Poems in Memory of Joseph Marioni - Joseph Marioni emails to say that he has finally resolved his large green painting. The last Archetype has fallen -- not fallen, exactly, rather it has yie...
Brad Blog

Silent Nights - As noted on Thursday's rollicking year-end BradCast and occasionally hopeful Green News Report, we will be standing down this week and next over the holida...
Mother Jones

Biden Pulled Off a $370 Billion Miracle for the Climate. Where Did the Money Go? - This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act stands as...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Hindu Supremacy: Biju Mathew and Karthikeyan Shanmugam - In 2024, Southern Poverty Law Center staff interviewed eight experts and advocates working in the human rights space to explore the topic of Hindu supremac...
Capital & Main

Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live - Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving housing market and little or n...
Sludge

DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex - While some progressives in Congress are pushing DOGE to cut the Pentagon budget, its ties to the defense contractor lobby are growing deeper.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fostering Hope in Hard Times: Audio From A Collapsing State - In a time like this, hope is a revolutionary thing. Let's fight to foster as much of it as we can.
Discourse

Bird of the Year: Kākāpō - We might need to create a “Bird of the Decade” award for this unrivaled specimen.
NORML

Analysis: Over 35,000 Scientific Papers Published About Cannabis During the Past Decade - [image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil][image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil]"It is time for politicians and others ...
Rewire

Legislators Are Targeting Sex Education Post-‘Roe.’ Advocates Say It Will Worsen Children’s Health Outcomes. - Children are receiving sex education at lower rates than 20 years ago—even though it has proven physical and mental health benefits. The post Legislators...
Duck of Minerva

Another terrorful Christmas, this time for complex reasons - As someone who studies terrorism and religion, I approach each Christmas with dread due to the possibility of terrorist attacks around the holiday. A strin...
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2024 - Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concocti...
Crooked Media

Our Favorite Things, 2024 - The post Our Favorite Things, 2024 appeared first on Crooked Media.
DeSmogBlog

Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network - A whistleblowing Pennsylvania oil and gas worker, together with the state’s former lead environmental regulator, are ringing the alarm bell on an unregul...
Grist

Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief - Church volunteers feel called by Christ to help those impacted by Helene. For some, that means fulfilling a mandate to alleviate suffering. For others, it ...
Idavox

Of COURSE Nazi Rally Against One People’s Project, Did Not Go Exactly As Planned! - Any time you try to sneak around to do anything, it only takes catching you... The post Of COURSE Nazi Rally Against One People’s Project, Did Not Go Ex...
The Progressive Wing

12.22-28 Happy Holiday (FWIW) Threads - Happy Holidays you all. These are wide open Holiday threads. Fill them with your favorite Christmas tunes. To me, getting together with loved ones and list...
Bracing Views

Superman - W.J. Astore Truth, Justice, and the American Way The new “Superman” movie trailer has dropped, and it hit me in the feels. I grew up watching reruns of tho...
Campaign for America's Future

Juntos lo haremos - En el año que viene, tendremos que tomar decisiones difíciles sobre quienes queremos ser en cada comunidad y como nación. Ha sido un año muy intenso. Desde...
Progressives Chat

Merry Christmas 2024! - I wish everyone, this Wednesday, December 25, 2024, a Merry Christmas!
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Immigration Deal - Political discourse in the U.S. has become difficult, if not impossible, because right-wing views are so completely untethered from reality. I’m not saying...
The Militant

Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny, Israel’s response, deepening showdown in the Middle East - The reactionary capitalist regime in Tehran and its ally Hamas believed the pogrom they launched against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, 2023, was a major victory a...
Field Negro

Holiday cheer. - *Happy Holidays field hands!* Let's see what happens in the new year with this Elon Musk presidency. It should be very interesting. If you voted again...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SITUATION NOT-NORMAL BUT STILL ALL F***ED UP - *For a long time I could only find a weird remix of this, so I stopped looking. But it's here!* It’s the last month without Tubby for a while – though i...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Atalanta vs Empoli lúc 00h00 ngày 23/12/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Serie A, khi bước vào vòng 17, thi đấu trong khi đang có thành tích kém hơn và sự bất lợi trên sân khách, Empoli sẽ gặp khó khăn ...
The Conversation

Climate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant - Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or abused – and...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Krebs on Security

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

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

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

Trump, tariffs and trade: ‘Protectionism’ won’t save workers - Trump’s tariff policy, from a worker’s perspective, is classic divide and conquer.
Earthworks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
Free & Equal

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Dissent Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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