Brains and Eggs: Sunday Climate Covfefe Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 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

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Verge

Microsoft’s miniature Windows 365 Link PC is available to buy now - Microsoft’s business-oriented “Link” mini-desktop PC, which connects directly to the company’s Windows 365 cloud service, is now available to buy for $349....
The Root

Malik Yoba Tries To Explain His 'I'm No longer a Black Man' Rant - Just last week we reported on Malik Yoba’s viral social media post where he said that he’s no longer identifying as a Black man but a “non-white man.” Th...
Political Wire

Major Nationwide Protest Planned for This Weekend - A nationwide anti-President Trump movement on Saturday is expected to be the largest single-day protest since he entered office, Axios reports. More than 1...
Mediaite

BREAKING: Stock Market NOSEDIVES at Opening Following Trump Tariff ‘Liberation Day’ - The Dow Jones Industrial Average nosedived Thursday morning as markets opened, following Trump's "Liberation Day" of announcing massive tariffs. The post ...
Axios

This is why you can't have nice things in a trade war - America is a large, rich country with a sweet tooth. Madagascar is a small, poor country with an abundance of vanilla. There's therefore a natural trade ...
Alternet

'Neofascist revolutionary project': How MAGA is ramping up its propaganda 'machine' - President Donald Trump, close ally Elon Musk and the Republican National Committee (RNC) were bitterly disappointed when, on April 1, liberal Judge Susan...
Mediagazer

AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwrite...
The Week

Warfare: an 'honest' account of brutal engagement in Iraq - Alex Garland's film focuses on the 'overwhelming, sensory journey' of conflict
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue tame - *- by New Deal democrat* This week initial jobless claims declined -6,000 to 219,000. The four week moving average declined -1,250 to 223,000. With ...
Raw Story

'Picking your pockets': Observers accuse Trump of 'take job' amid record employment cuts - New data published by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Thursday revealed that more than 275,000 jobs were cut in the American eco...
memeorandum

'Nowhere on Earth is safe': Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica (The Guardian) - The Guardian: *‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica* — Australian prime minister surprised after ex...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 110: “Unabomber Arrest Anniversary with CIA’s Larry Johnson” - LIVE 10 am Eastern time & Streaming anytime thereafter: In this episode of The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan tackle the legacy of Ted Kaczynsk...
Daily Dot

‘Fill up quality gas only cmon’: Dodge Charger driver is about to fill up at Food 4 Less. Then a man tells him to go to Shell instead - [image: 2 split image. Man at gas station with overlayed text that reads: "Saved this guy from doing this with his Charger at the gas station (gas emoji)...
Eschaton

Vulgar Mercantalism - The stated goal of the White House is to have zero trade balance with all trading partners. Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessar...
The Hill

Ontario premier ‘cautiously optimistic’ amid Trump tariffs - “Make no mistake about it, Canadians love Americans. They love the U.S., and I do, too,” Doug Ford said.
Second Nexus

Boebert Dragged After Confusing Director Oliver Stone With Roger Stone At JFK Hearing - Colorado Republican Representative Lauren Boebert hit a new low after she attempted to grill director Oliver Stone—the director of the classic 1991 polit...
Texas Observer

The Lawless Border Wall - In February, bulldozers carved long straight lines, uprooting trees and scraping the earth bare, near the South Texas communities of Salineño and Roma, t...
First Draft

Assholery Is Not Strength - John Wayne meets Donald Trump.
Techdirt.

Trump’s FCC ‘Investigates’ Disney For Not Being Racist And Sexist Enough - Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr isn’t really interested in doing his actual job as head of the FCC. He’s not interested in protecting consumers or markets from...
Space City Weather

Windy and warm, as Houston’s weather turns a little more unsettled through Saturday - In brief: Houston is continuing to see exceptionally warm weather this week, and we’ll also experience ongoing windy conditions. There will be a very sligh...
Rio Grande Guardian

Perryman: Uncertainty - Going forward, overall economic prospects will improve when uncertainty is reduced and rational policy options are clearly articulated, writes economist ...
ArcaMax

Blue States Need Washington Less - "Move it back to the states," Donald Trump says about education, about FEMA and, as will probably happen, about Medicaid. What that would mean to Americans...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Lawsuit claims Gore-Tex poisoned drinking water near Maryland facilities - Firm makes product used to waterproof clothing and allegedly polluted water with some kinds of Pfas The makers of Gore-Tex, a popular product commonly us...
Houston Public Media

Clashing over the city’s overtime expenses (April 3, 2025) - On Thursday's show: Houston leaders are clashing after an explosive report on overtime expenditures by the police, fire, and solid waste departments. We fi...
Southeast Texas Record

Reed Smith represents RedCloud Holdings in $20 million initial public offering - Global law firm Reed Smith advised the underwriters of RedCloud Holdings plc (RedCloud) in the closing of its initial public offering of 4,444,445 of its...
Al Jazeera English

Which countries have kept their promises on Gaza? - A look at what different countries said should be done in Gaza — and what they actually did.
Angry Bear

manufacturing and construction are almost right at the juncture between expansion and contraction - February construction spending: nominal vs. real makes all the difference – by New Deal democrat Since the turn of the Millennium, a downturn in manufac...
DeSmogBlog

Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election - Right-wing media owner Paul Marshall bought a large stake in Elon Musk’s company Tesla prior to the U.S. presidential election, DeSmog can reveal. At the...
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr. wants to stop people using SNAP benefits to buy soda. Will it help? - Nutritionists agree reducing the amount of sugar people consume would be good for the Nation's health. But the plan to block people from using food assista...
Dorf on Law

How to Break a Judiciary, Part 1: Choosing Your Judges - *Guest Essay by Alyssa King* A month ago, Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way published an insightful argument that the US is veering towards a competitive ...
Slate

My Son Is Exhibiting Some Pretty Weird Behavior Toward His Little Sister. I Think This Needs to Stop. - Is this normal?
naked capitalism

Links 4/3/2025 -
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Impoverishing Tariffs - The rest of the world isn’t ripping off the U.S. The American trade deficit is the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for ...
The Smirking Chimp

Elon Musk’s Wisconsin Invasion: Democracy’s Turning Point or the Next Step Toward Autocracy? -
Deadline Politics

How Donald Trump’s Trade Tariffs Will Hit The International Film & TV Biz - The world is reeling from Donald Trump’s grand tariff announcement, which was positioned by the POTUS as “liberation day.” Virtually no nation (bar notable...
Skeptophilia

Woof - I was discussing the alleged phenomenon of hauntings with a friend of mine, and he said, "There's one thing I've always wondered. Some people believe that...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Sad Sack of Different Things - Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. ICYMI, our president actually said “An old fashioned term that we use — groceries — I used it on the campaign. I...
Crooked Media

Jon’s Twitter Fight with JD Vance and Elon’s Scheme to Buy Votes - The post Jon’s Twitter Fight with JD Vance and Elon’s Scheme to Buy Votes appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Another lawsuit threatened for CD18 - File away, I say. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday that House Democrats will “very likely” sue if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to hold of...
Vox

The life of a dairy cow - At Vox, I specialize in writing and editing all sorts of stories about animal agriculture and the future of food, from the strange ritual of eating turkeys...
Mother Jones

City Projects That Improve Biking and Walking Are on Trump’s Latest Hit List - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Department of Transportation has ordered...
ProPublica

Utah Ex-Therapist Scott Owen Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Abusing Patients - by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribun...
Salon.com

The Trump-MAGA experience machine goes into overdrive - As the president's victory march comes to a slow, MAGA's parallel universe of propaganda ramps up
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Liberation Day: This Boy Could Fuck Up Boiling Water - [image: Trump’s Liberation Day: This Boy Could Fuck Up Boiling Water] So, Trump’s tariffs are out. He claims they’re half of what each country tariffs the...
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

How Republicans Are Flouting the Rules of the Congressional Review Act - Republicans want to expand the CRA into much of what the executive branch does. They may live to regret that.
Scheerpost.com

Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Absurd Trade Policies Will Impoverish Americans and Harm the World - America’s trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget defici...
Dissident Voice

Why More Environmental Justice Organizations Must Join the Call for a Militarism-Free Future - As the world braces for another Earth Day, the environmental justice movement is at a critical juncture. While much of the climate conversation continues...
Grist

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate and health funding - Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
High Country News

The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts - [image: Workers adorn Leatherman the mule with a Forest Service beanie.] Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in t...
Earth 911

How To Cut Your Summer Energy Bills - Do you dread opening your summer electric bills? If you’re like many U.S. residents and... The post How To Cut Your Summer Energy Bills appeared first on...
WhoWhatWhy

Donald Trump Liberates the US Economy From Growth - [image: President, Donald Trump, announcing, tariff Liberation Day] To avoid whiplash, do not look at stock prices when the markets open in the US on Thurs...
Portside

After Months of Surrender, the Democrats Have Finally Stood Up to Trump – Thank You, Cory Booker - After Months of Surrender, the Democrats Have Finally Stood Up to Trump – Thank You, Cory Booker Mark Brody Thu, 04/03/2025 - 02:13
Counterpunch

Musk’s Social Security Administration Cuts: Longer Wait Times, More People Will Die Waiting for Disability Benefits - Minority Staff Report, United States Senate, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, PENSIONS, AND FAMILY POLICY, Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member, March 26, 2025...
Glasstire

Top Five: April 3, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. José Villalobos: The Same Air We Breathe El Paso Museum...
Workers World

PDF of April 3 issue - [image: PDF of April 3 issue] Download the PDF. Download B&W version. Don’t buy cars from Nazis Tesla ‘smells like fascism’ at Boston Takedown MAGA and Sen...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” escalate economic war against the world - The tariff on a large range of countries is not determined by the tariffs they actually levy, but is calculated to include the effect of a range of interna...
jobsanger

Pain And Gain -
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid: The Ideological Foundations of White Working Class Republicanism - While the state of the economy was likely an important factor in the 2024 presidential election and other recent contests, discontent over economic condi...
Informed Comment

Trump’s Lawless Deportation Machine Disappears Immigrants into Blacksite Hellhole - Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Trump kidnapped hundreds of Venezuelan men on March 15, spiriting them away to a black site hellhole outsi...
Antiwar.com

NATO, More Militarism No Defense Against US Expansionists - Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. If you believe Donald Trump might invade you should be calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO. The alliance won’t d...
The Daily Poster

The Lost History of Trump’s Tariff War - Trump’s costly trade policy is the culmination of a long-simmering backlash — but will tariffs hurt more than they help?
Popular Resistance

We Have To Mobilize In Even Greater Numbers Than Ever Before - As the Trump administration escalates attacks on the pro-Palestine student movement and Israel continues the genocide in Gaza in full force, thousands ar...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Live Conversation With Sarah Kendzior - Sarah Kendzior and I discuss her new book The Last American Road Trip, the state of America, and what we must fight for.
Brad Blog

Dems Step Up: Crawford Landslide in WI; Booker Makes History in U.S. Senate: 'BradCast' 4/2/2025 - Tuesday was a very good day for Democrats. For a change. At ballot boxes in both Wisconsin and Florida, and in the U.S. Senate. We enjoy while we can on to...
Election Law Blog

“Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote'” - Daniel Bice for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Just how nervous is billionaire Elon Musk about allegations that he may be violating the state’s bribery ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Even when times are rough, sometimes you gotta forget about all that and have a laugh or two. Thankfully, you’ll have several chances to do that this weeke...
Wolf Street

After Spiking by 2,600% or Whatever, Newsmax Stock Plunges 80%, Straight into our Imploded Stocks, All in 3 Days - For humans and AI trading the stock, it’s just a spectacularly fun video game. For observers, it proves this market is dangerously nuts.
Ballot Access News

Florida Congressional District Special Elections Results - First Congressional District Sixth Congressional District … Continue reading →
San Antonio Report

Community makes a difference when it comes to child abuse - SPONSORED: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and you can make a difference by volunteering through Child Advocates San Antonio. -----------------------...
The Greanville Post

From welfare to warfare: military Keynesianism - MICHAEL ROBERTS—Keynes was wrong. It does matter. Keynesianism advocates digging holes and filling them up to create jobs. Military Keynesianism advocates ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court hears dispute over South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood - [image: Supreme Court hears dispute over South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood] [image: Supreme Court hears dispute over South Carolina’s bid t...
Progressive.org

Still Recovering From Hurricane Helene, Western North Carolina Braces for Federal Cuts - State Democrats held a town hall in Asheville to discuss the grim impacts of potential federal funding cuts in the region.
Futurism

Tesla Stock Is Soaring for the Funniest Possible Reason - For the first time in forever, Tesla stock is on the rise — and it seems mighty coincidental that it happened the exact same day that news broke of Elon ...
The NM Political Report

Governor, others call Trump tariffs ‘a massive tax increase’ - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and others said President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs and ongoing trade war will hurt the economy and American consu...
Discourse

Elon Musk Eats Shit in Wisconsin - All the money in the world couldn't make voters like him.
Reform Austin

Revised School Bills Would Mandate Citizenship For Vouchers - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The proposed committee versions of a pair of bills dealing with vouchers and teacher pay would ...
Undernews

Trump announces 10 percent tariffs on all imports, additional taxes for some 60 countries - * Washington Post - *President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods along with an additional pu...
Texas Standard

New children’s book ‘Mistaco’ gives families ‘a fun way to share their mistakes together’ - “You just want to have a really fun story. But bringing in mistakes – it’s like folding it into the taco.”
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: We thought M. Gessen made a nice choice... - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025* *...with respect to that one key word:* We thought M. Gessen made a good observation with respect to a small bit of language. ...
slacktivist

Honk and holler as we go - The tariffs are coming and, along with them, the exemptions and exceptions made possible by kickbacks, bribes, and payoffs to the administration.
Rewire

Introducing… Executive Dysfunction! - Meet *Rewire News Group*’s antidote to the current mess in Washington, D.C. The post Introducing… Executive Dysfunction! appeared first on Rewire News Gr...
LareDOS

TAMIU’s Harmony Across Borders performance features Dr. Fritz Gechter, Dr. Yu-Mei Huang, and Dr. Xiaohu Zhou - April 5 concert free and open to the public; 3 p.m. at Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall
Sludge

Trump-Tied Lobbying Firms Rake in Hundreds of New Clients - Since the 2024 election, firms founded by Trump campaign bundlers, like Ballard Partners and Miller Strategies, are seeing a rush of new corporate clients.
Church and State

For $1,000 a MAGA preacher says God will be “an enemy to your enemies” + you get 6 more blessings - Send Paula White, who is a friend of Trump, $1,000 and the Lord will shower you with seven must-have “supernatural blessings”.
Mondoweiss

Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law - [image: Palestinians try to go about their daily lives amid the rubble of buildings or their makeshift tents during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, in Jabalia, in...
Texas Monthly

Roar of the Crowd: April 2025 - Reader letters published in Texas Monthly’s April 2025 issue.
Claytoonz

Cheesehead - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Capital & Main

L.A. Can Rein in Illegal Short-Term Rentals, Says Longtime Airbnb Watcher - With the Olympics approaching and housing in short supply after recent fires, the city is moving to crack down on illegal rentals. The post L.A. Can Rein...
Ecosophia

Parsifal: The Solution Assessed - As we saw two weeks ago, Richard Wagner’s last opera Parsifal makes use of most of the same symbols as The Ring of the Nibelung, and thus provides a mordan...
Eater Houston

Here Are Houston’s 2025 James Beard Award Finalists - [image: A cityscape has the James Beard Award medal imposed on it, and a travel brochure.] Illustration by Lillie Allen Houston lands four nods this year...
NORML

Maryland: Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Tax Hike in Budget Bill - [image: Maryland marijuana legalization][image: Maryland marijuana legalization]"Marylanders already pay a premium tax on retail cannabis products. Raisi...
Common Dreams

Hearing Watch: Senators Consider Trump’s Latest Big Oil Shilling Choice to Oversee America’s Public Lands, Katharine MacGregor - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold its confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Science Festival, Borderland BeerFest, Big El Paso Fair - From hands-on science exhibits to craft beer and carnival rides, here are family-friendly events happening this week. The post El Paso events: Science F...
Democracy Now!

Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison as Mass Deportations Expand - Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has expelled hundreds of immigrants and asylum seekers to El Salvador without due process to be detained...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
The Disorder Of Things

Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology - This second contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Nicole George at the University of Queensland. Nicole is Associate Pro...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Jagged Bomb - I’m going to the East Bay Origami Convention this weekend! I’ll be teaching this model. I specifically designed the model in order to teach it. Normally,...
Infidel753

Crawford wins! - Susan Crawford, a liberal candidate known for her support of abortion rights and net neutrality, has won a ten-year term on the Wisconsin supreme court, b...
Liberation News

Exxon, Essequibo and imperialism - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Fox News pundit mocks co-host for criticizing illegal deportation of 'gay barber'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Fox News pundit Jesse Watters *Jesse Watters Mocks Co-Host For Criticizing Deportation of Innocent Man: ‘You’ve Been Talking About This Gay Barber For We...
See You In 2020

This is just the start of the crackdown. How we respond now will determine how ready we’ll be for what’s coming. - Art by Debashish Chakrabarty What do you do when your government has shown it only intends to keep attacking the people more viciously as time goes on? ...
The Texas Signal

Global Reproductive Experts React To Texas Arrests - While the news of the first criminal charges against the Texas abortion ban sent shockwaves around the state and country, many global reproductive rights e...
The AltWorld

Wasting time has never been deadlier for Palestinians - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has found it pertinent to reiterate that, “We are negotiating under fire.” […] The post Wasting time has never ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Danza Mexica Ceremony on April 8, 2025 at 12 Noon in the Outdoor Rotunda, Texas State Capitol - ****PLEASE SHARE WIDELY**** *Friends,* *Next Tuesday, April 8th at noon, please join Texas State Rep. Christina Morales (Houston, Dist. 145) in celebrat...
Idavox

Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A White Supremacist, to Shoot ‘N—–’ After Incident At Free Concert - All they told her was that she could not be in a certain part of... The post Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A Wh...
The Conversation

Why a presidential term limit got written into the Constitution – the story of the 22nd Amendment - No president is supposed to serve more than two full terms. That rule became part of the US Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
Dissent Magazine

Will Federal Workers Rediscover Their Militancy? - Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.
The Grayzone

British intel sought to silence West’s top Russia academic, leaks reveal - Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war ef...
Duck of Minerva

Big Man, Big Heart - This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and...
Bracing Views

Surprise! Institute of Peace in Shutdown - W.J. Astore Meanwhile, Institute of War Is Going Full Throttle Surprise! America’s Institute of Peace (USIP), admittedly a think tank that is neither that ...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap: Iowa - Official state motto: We Squat Atop Missouri.
Project Censored

Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History - In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to talk...
Crooked Timber

Property, recognition, and the temporalities of life. Reading Kopenawa and Albert’s The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman from the perspective of economic philosophy - What is it that people desire when they desire riches? It may seem strange that once all basic needs are fulfilled, individuals would continue to strive fo...
Earthworks

A String of Tailings Dam Failures Shows the Urgency of Putting Safety First - The past two months have seen catastrophic failures at mine waste storage facilities on three continents. The post A String of Tailings Dam Failures Show...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Tejano singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16,...
Krebs on Security

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack - In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
Debunking Christianity

An Interesting Documentary on Northern-Irish Monarchism - R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) is a Presbyterian Philosopher whom I like to listen to. He mentions the German word for: Enlightenment, which is: ‘Aufklärung’. ...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31-4.4 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Weil vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wor...
Bud Kennedy

From 2000: In Fort Worth tornado, Cowtown’s good luck finally runs out | Opinion - (From columns published March 29, 2000 and April 4, 2000.) This is the column I prayed I would never have to write. When I was 5, I saw a tornado … Click t...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
The Socialist

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Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
Border/Lines

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

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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Sunday, June 04, 2017

Sunday Climate Covfefe Funnies

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