Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

A war is being waged against academic freedom in Britain - The accusations of anti-Semitism against David Miller aim to silence pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses.
Countercurrents

Most Important Changes the World Cannot Postpone Any more - A significant number of people in world are working hard for making improvements in several aspects of life at several levels. They all help to cr...
Mediaite

WATCH: SNL Sketch About The Awkwardness of Post-Pandemic Dating Gets Upstaged by Tiny Meowing Kitten - Saturday Night Live’s final sketch of the evening addressed the expected awkwardness of post-pandemic dating, but the actors’ jokes were upstaged by an a...
LareDOS

Donate now! Fundraising blitz will help repair broken residential water pipes - Council member and nonprofits establish PlumbFix initiative to restore water to homes
jobsanger

The Republicans Lost Their Civil War - Trump Won It -
First Draft

Sunday Morning Video: Count Basie At Carnegie Hall - Celebrating Bill Basie.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

CPAC: Trump to make first post-White House speech at rightwing summit - Conference seeks to shore up Trump’s position as Republican standard bearer even after he lost the presidency and Congress Donald Trump returns to the po...
San Antonio Report

Warning: Playing politics with the pandemic puts recovery at risk - Opinion: The coronavirus pandemic is an emergency, and the need for strong, unwavering leadership is an urgent need.
ArcaMax

Listen to Y Before it’s Too Late - You’re not reading this on a smartphone or tablet, are you? I hope not, for your sake. They say the government can use imperceptible fluctuations in the li...
The Intercept

Por que grandes jornais topam publicar mentiras sobre a covid-19 em forma de anúncio? - Uma peça publicitária, que defende tratamento precoce ineficaz e potencialmente fatal, foi estampada em oito jornais do país. Eles se tornaram coatores d...
Informed Comment

The Clearest Example of Israeli Apartheid Yet – Juan Cole Interviewed by Robert Scheer - Via ScheerPost — which is always essential reading, I was interviewed by the legendary journalist Robert Scheer. In a storied career, he covered the Vietna...
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Riffs On Vaccine Confusion With Anthony Fauci-Hosted Game Show - UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live opened tonight with an Anthony Fauci-hosted game show, So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine, a riff on the confusio...
Raw Story

Ted Cruz appears on SNL's game show competition to see who gets a vaccine - NBC's Saturday Night Live's cold open skit featured Dr. Anthony Fauci hosting a game-show titled, "So You Think You Can Get The Vaccine." "Getting the va...
Anti-Media

“Biden is Not Obama”: Israel Very Pleased With Biden’s Decision to Bomb Syria - Israel is highly pleased with President Biden’s decision to bomb Shia militia targets in eastern Syria.
Political Wire

McCarthy Bets House On Majority After 2022 - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Saturday declared a Republican takeover of the House majority a sure bet in 2022, the Washington Times repor...
Salon.com

Second former staffer accuses Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment – NYT report - Cuomo had allegedly asked the aide numerous times about her sex life including if she ever had sex with older men
Getaka

Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male - Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male Skip to main content Skip to footer site map Magazine The Agenda PRO ...
The Hill

NY billboard calls for Cuomo's impeachment amid controversies - A new highway billboard in Albany is calling for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) impeachment amid a series of controversies surrounding the elected offici...
memeorandum

The Khashoggi Passion Play (Caroline Glick) - Caroline Glick: *The Khashoggi Passion Play* — It's only fair to share... The Biden administration's decision to publish the intel report on Jamal Kha...
OpEd News

The American Farce Unravels: Shreds of January 6th - The storming of the Capitol on January 6th was an acceleration in the unraveling of the American political regime and the fantastic ideology that sustains ...
Wolf Street

Treasury Market Had a Cow, Mortgage Rates Jumped, Wall Street Crybabies Clamored for Help, But the Fed Smiled Satisfied Upon its Creation - Junk bonds still in la-la-land as investors chase yield – risks be damned.
Liberation News

Amazon union struggle takes hold in Southern state with radical labor history - It should be no surprise that a place like Bessemer, Alabama is exactly where Amazon’s first union in the United States is likely to form--given its radica...
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Rock on.
Field Negro

Caption Saturday. - Give me a caption for this picture.
Caitlin Johnstone

Bullshit Spoken In An Assertive Tone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Watching the slow, silent realization creep over online Democrats that Biden really isn’t going to do anything for them. ❖ Americans: $2000 checks please G...
Mediagazer

US State Dept. announces "Khashoggi Ban", limiting visas for state-sponsored foreign actors who threaten or harm journalists, activists; 76 Saudis on first list (Los Angeles Times) - Los Angeles Times: *US State Dept. announces “Khashoggi Ban”, limiting visas for state-sponsored foreign actors who threaten or harm journalists, activis...
Digby's Hullabaloo

Dare to struggle: Judas and the Black Messiah (***) - Kay: You know how naïve you sound? Presidents and Senators don’t have men killed. Michael: Oh. Who’s being naïve, Kay? — from The Godfather While it is bas...
The Ghion Journal

Cancel Culture Run Amok: Snowflakes and Fascists are Running the Show - I knew something was amiss when I found myself agreeing with Bill Maher last night as he teed off on culture of cancel that has The post Cancel Culture R...
Courthouse News

Virginia Set for Legal Marijuana Possession, Retail by 2024 - With compromises made on both sides, Virginia is on track to become the first state in the South to legalize marijuana.
Slate

CPAC Organizer Vehemently Denies Stage Was Designed to Look Like Nazi Symbol - Matt Schlapp spoke up after many on social media said the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference had an eerie resemblance to the Odal rune.
NORML

Virginia: Legislature Gives Final Approval of Legalization Measure - The advancement of this legislation is another historic step for cannabis justice in Virginia. The bills now head to the Governor. The post Virginia: Leg...
Axios

Biden explains justification for Syria strike in letter to congressional leadership - President Biden told congressional leadership in a letter Saturday that this week's airstrike against facilities tied to Iranian-backed militia groups in...
Land Destroyer

US NED 2021 - Thailand: More Money, More Sedition - *February 28, 2021* (Brian Berletic - LD) - The US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has updated its list for programs, organizations, and companies t...
Rio Grande Guardian

Perez: It’s imperative we invest in future of our community - Good evening, everyone. My name is Victor Perez and I am the founding board president of the Pharr EDC Foundation, and executive director of the Pharr Ec...
The Week

FDA grants emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine - The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, which means there will soon b...
Progrexas

Texas expects to receive more than 200,000 initial doses of newly-approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine - The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday approved Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine for public use. Texas expects to get more than 200,000 dose...
Common Dreams

Charity Won't End Vaccine Apartheid—Only Challenging Big Pharma's Patents and Profits Will - Nick Dearden It is time to put an end to an international patent system that has wreaked havoc on the world's ability to deal with health emergencies and pu...
The Verge

FDA authorizes one-dose COVID-19 vaccine - [image: In this photo illustration a Johnson & Johnson logo is seen...] Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ...
NPR's Health Shots

FDA Authorizes Johnson & Johnson's One-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine - The Food and Drug Administration gave Johnson & Johnson's vaccine the green light for emergency use Saturday, a day after a panel of advisers to the agency...
Second Nexus

New Poll Sheds Disturbing Light on Why So Many Republicans Love Trump So Much - A recent poll by Economist/YouGov contained a telling and troubling piece of data. The poll asked respondents to consider, "Which comes closest to your v...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Realities of War - Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Feb 27, 2021 On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the realities of war, its appeal for young men a...
Texas Environmental News

Ice berg size of NYC breaks off in Antarctica near British outpost - An iceberg the size of New York City broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica on Friday, about 10 [...] The post Ice berg size of NYC breaks off in Anta...
San Antonio Current

A beautifully restored home for sale in San Antonio's Monte Vista area has a breathtaking front balcony -
Angry Bear

January personal income and spending show how important government stimulus has been to keeping the economy afloat - January personal income and spending show how important government stimulus has been to keeping the economy afloat This morning’s report on January perso...
FiveThirtyEight.com

How White House Economists Are Thinking About COVID-19 Relief - In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, host Galen Druke speaks with Heather Boushey, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, on the...
Futurism

Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?) - [image: Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.]...
Mother Jones

Watch This Number Closely to See How Seriously Biden Will Tackle Climate Pollution - Many of President Joe Biden’s promises for tackling unchecked climate pollution come down to nailing down one obscure economic metric. It’s called the soci...
Vox

Kevin McCarthy’s CPAC panel shows how the GOP has devolved into a Trump personality cult - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks at CPAC on Saturday. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images McCarthy contorts himself to praise Trump, as Trump reportedly...
Mahablog

The Latest on the $15 an Hour Minimum Wage Increase - I’ve been torn between writing about CPAC or the covid relief bill. I decided to let the covid bill win. It’s a shame about the $15 an hour minimum wage....
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Video: Texas Froze, Abbott Failed—LonestarProject.Net - *For Immediate Release* Contact*:* Lisa Turner 817-797-6659 lisa@lonestarproject.net *Sign this petition to tell Gover...
VICE

Daily Horoscope: February 28, 2021 - The moon enters Libra today.
Progress Pond

Biden May Regret Going Easy on Saudi Arabia’s Murderous Crown Prince - He promised there would be serious repercussions for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but now he's changed his mind. The post Biden May Regret Going Easy o...
Daily Dot

People are comparing the CPAC stage to a Nazi symbol - [image: mike pompeo speaking at cpac 2021] The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been taking place in Maryland over the past several da...
Louis Proyect

Solidarity with Amazon workers in Alabama -
The Stars Hollow Gazette

Late Night Today - Late Night Today is for our readers who can’t stay awake to watch the shows. Everyone deserves a good laugh. The Amber Ruffin Show Reasoning With Parents W...
The Root

Why Does LeBron James Have to Keep Telling White People He Will Not Shut Up and Dribble? This Time, It's a Fellow Athlete - It’s been more than three years since Fox News white supremacy-wench Laura Ingraham went full KKK-Karen on her show and told NBA superstar LeBron James t...
Robert Reich

The Only Way Democrats Will Get Anything DoneMitch McConnell may... - *The Only Way Democrats Will Get Anything Done* Mitch McConnell may no longer be Senate Majority Leader, but Republicans can still block legislation supp...
Moon of Alabama

Covid-19 - Surfing The Third Wave - The second wave of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has receded and the people have had enough of restrictions. There is immense pressure to end the lockdowns...
Portside

Major Victory for London Uber Drivers - Major Victory for London Uber Drivers Dave Sat, 02/27/2021 - 15:15
Techdirt.

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Art Apart and There Are No Eyes Here - So far, we've featured *~THE GREAT GATSBY~* and *The Great Gatsby Tabletop Roleplaying Game* in this series of posts about the winners of our public doma...
Texas Monthly

Texas’s Independence Didn’t Cause the Power Crisis - There’s plenty that needs fixing to avoid another electricity disaster, but our isolated grid isn’t the problem. The post Texas’s Independence Didn’t Cau...
Democracy Chronicles

Study: Human Rights Laws Are Best Way To Protect The Amazon - The Amazon is world’s most important ecosystem. Among the different strategies adopted to save it human rights laws are crucial.
Duffel Blog

How you can be a Duffel Blog writer - We're now accepting applications.
Alternet

Texas doctor defends himself after being fired for giving away expiring COVID vaccine doses - A fired Texas doctor now facing charges for stealing coronavirus vaccines is speaking out and defending his decision not to allow doses of the vaccine to...
Latino Rebels

Processing of Asylum Seekers Expands at US-Mexico Border - MEXICO CITY (AP) — The processing of asylum seekers waiting to enter the United States expanded to a third border crossing Friday, even as nongovernmental ...
WhatWouldJackDo

Is that a pencil in your shorts…or are you just glad to see me?? - Walmart Wanker™ busted https://t.co/lXCCyby7mu Evidence was staring cops right in the face pic.twitter.com/IUw0z05Cem — The Smoking Gun (@tsgnews) February...
Right Wing Watch

Rep. Paul Gosar and Former Rep. Steve King Address White Nationalist, Christian Nationalist AFPAC - Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and former Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spoke at the America First Political Action Conference Friday night, where they shared the ...
The Conscious Resistance Network

Immunity Passports Are a Reality – What Are You Doing to Prepare? - Friends, My latest article for The Last American Vagabond is titled As Predicted: Immunity Passports Are No Longer a Fantasy, and is extremely important!...
Dissident Voice

The Working Class Backbone of Hi Tech - In his comprehensive and educational book, Coders (2019 Penguin Press), tech writer Clive Thompson tells the story of computer programmers, a workforce t...
Eclectablog

Voting Rights for President! – with special guest Anat Shenker-Osorio - Anat Shenker-Osorio on Twitter: @anatosaurus Anat's website: ASOcommunications.com Anat's podcast: Words to Win By We Make the Future's new website: WeMake...
Strategic Culture Foundation

Putting Artemi Panarin’s Situation in a Proper Perspective - In the U.S., sports-related bigotry has been condemned. Why should there be an exception to anti-Russian hatred?
WhoWhatWhy

This Week in Pandemic: Cheats & Good Neighbors - Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to WhoWhatWhy’s weekly COVID-19 roundup. There’s a lot of virus coverage out there, so this feature will give you a dose ...
The AltWorld

Russia’s Policy of Peace Is Encouraging War - On February 25 the election thief ordered a US air attack on Syria that killed 17 Iranians. […] The post Russia’s Policy of Peace Is Encouraging War appe...
Popular Resistance

Ecuador’s Elections Are Being Undermined By Foreign And Domestic Interference - Before the votes were fully counted in Ecuador's latest elections, one candidate received a phone call from the US embassy assuring him that he would be ...
INSIDER - politics news

Jill and Joe Biden have a phone-free dinner date every night at the White House - [image: jill and joe biden] Summary List Placement President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden make room in their schedules every night for a dinner d...
Claytoonz

Murderer MBS - One of my biggest problems with Donald Trump is that the leader of the free world is supposed to set an example for the rest of the world to follow and be ...
Due Dissidence

Will Democratic Voters Make Harris Pay for Caving on the Minimum Wage? Don’t Count On It - by Keaton Weiss When Barack Obama took the lead in the 2008 primaries, many of us who supported him at the time were surprised to learn of people called su...
Mondoweiss

Biden’s air strike plays into the hands of Iran’s hardliners, Israel, and Saudi Arabia - The New York Times says the American missile strike in Syria targets a "network of militias that are backed by Iran and committed to subverting the interes...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Bill to Put Presidential Elector Law Into State Constitution - Missouri Representative John Simmons (R-Krakow) has introduced HJR 52. It would amend the state constitution to provide that the current law on how Missour...
BillMoyers.com

Insurrection Timeline: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. McConnell – Truth or Consequences? - Mitchell McConnell has signed a Devil's Bargain between Trump and the truth.. He’s trapped between the truth and its consequences, and it shows in his wi...
Buzzflash

The Lie-Filled and Allegations of Sexual Harrasment Rise of Forever-Trumpster Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) (Subscription Needed) - The Washington Post
The Militant

Amazon workers fighting for union in Alabama need solidarity! - Some 80 unionists and others turned out in Philadelphia Feb. 20 for a solidarity action with workers fighting for a union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessem...
Election Law Blog

“How Trump upended the race to control the House through 2030” - Politico: Days after the 2020 election, House Democrats convened to address some of the party’s most surprising losses, and Democratic Congressional Campai...
Daily Howler

The guild regroups at the New York Times! - *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2021* *Goldberg [HEART] critical theory: *Just this once, we're going to let you ask us about our business. We've been heartened...
No More Mister Nice Blog

WINNING, RETROACTIVELY? - Jonathan Chait tries to understand why Republicans continue to embrace a loser: Trump’s appeal to his party was rooted in his reality-television-corrobor...
Bracing Views

Yet Another Wartime President - W.J. Astore Who was the last U.S. president with a reputation for peace? By bombing Syria this week, Joe Biden has become yet another “wartime” president. ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use comments to discuss topic unrelated to recent posts.
Pages of Victory

Concert Concert - Jimmy Driftwood - The Battle of New Orleans Johnny Cash - Ballad of Ira Hayes Odetta - Battle Hymn of the Republic Hair - Full album - original B...
The Progressive Wing

2.27 Open Thread - Greetings, fellow Nesters and Birdies. I have just swept our Nest. It’s open and ready. Everyone continue to stay well and take care! 🙂
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for February 22 - 26 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. After months of virtually no changes in any of the time frames, suddenly ...
Rewire

Taxpayer Funding for Lying: The Crisis Pregnancy Center Story - Crisis pregnancy centers are fake abortion clinics set up by anti-abortion extremists to deceive people seeking an abortion into not having them. The pos...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Weekend Wrapup - Over in the Economist, Kal Kallaugher wonders if Europe will ever trust us again, given that she’s got reasons not to. I’m leading with it because yesterda...
The Smirking Chimp

Biden Must Act More Boldly Or Risk Failure -
naked capitalism

Links 2/27/2021 -
Grist

Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather - Too often, power companies get exactly what they want.
Dallas Observer

‘Ready to Die’: Dallas Actor Charged Over Alleged Involvement in U.S. Capitol Riot - Luke Coffee, 41, is one of at least 13 North Texans arrested in relation to the Jan. 6 riot by pro-Trump demonstrators at the U.S. Capitol.
Reveal

Into the COVID ICU - Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated in the middle of the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor through her first months working on the front lines. The po...
Church and State

Could life have emerged multiple times on Earth, in the universe? - If abiogenesis happened once on Earth, indeed, if it happened here and on neighboring worlds, there’s no telling how many times it could have happened.
The NM Political Report

House passes cannabis legalization effort, sends it to the Senate - [image: House passes cannabis legalization effort, sends it to the Senate] A House proposal to legalize and regulate cannabis passed the chamber on a 39-31...
Crooked Media

Won’t someone think of the tater tots?? - The post Won’t someone think of the tater tots?? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Bud Kennedy

Cold, dark and without drinking water: It can happen again if Texas leaders don’t act - If there was ever a time for Texans to stand up and scream, this is it. We nearly lost it all. Our state was within minutes of a power blackout … Click to ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso federal judge Philip Martinez dies - U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez, a jurist who presided over several major cases, died suddenly Friday night, friends and associates said. He was 63. ...
Antiwar.com

Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised - The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administratio...
World Socialist Web Site

Biden drops minimum wage hike from COVID-19 relief bill - Biden seized on a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian as the pretext to abandon an increase in the federal minimum wage.
Workers World

‘Rubin never lost a case’ – Rubin Kanowitz, 1931-2021 - [image: ‘Rubin never lost a case’ – Rubin Kanowitz, 1931-2021] Some younger Workers World Party members met Rubin Kanowitz for the first time when he was a...
Trivial Knot

Computational complexity of jigsaw puzzles - During the pandemic, I started doing more jigsaw puzzles. Not real puzzles mind you—I found a jigsaw simulator on Steam that was fairly authentic to the re...
SCOTUSblog

Court clears way for indoor worship services in northern California - In the latest of a line of challenges to restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court ordered a California county to allow churches...
Unlimited Hangout

Stopping the Surveillance State with Derrick Broze - Journalist and activist Derrick Broze joins the show to discuss the growth of the national security surveillance state under Trump, how those efforts are...
Shadowproof

Dissenter Weekly: Whistleblowers In Arizona Expose ‘Software Bug’ Keeping Incarcerated Past Release Dates - In this edition of “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola covers a report on a "software bug" exposed by whistleblowers, which re...
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Could Soon Kill the Voting Rights Act: 'BradCast' 2/26/2021 - I'm sorry to end the week on such a scary note, but I don't make the news, I just report it. It's NICOLE SANDLER again, guest hosting another edition of th...
Houston Public Media

Energy Secretary Granholm: Texas Outages Show Need For Changes To U.S. Power Systems - In her first interview with NPR since taking office, Jennifer Granholm made the case for sweeping reforms in order to meet President Biden's pledge to make...
DeSmogBlog

Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments - [image: ExxonMobil] Read time: 8 mins Last August, ExxonMobil warned that it may need to remove 20 percent of its oil and gas proved reserves from its book...
OffGuardian

Discuss: The US Bombs Syria. Again. - America committed a war crime last night. Another one. We’re so used to it happening that we’ve installed a special filter – one reaction for when America ...
Texas Observer

The Lege This Week: Adventures in Circular Finger Pointing - Welcome to the 87th Legislative Session. Since the last session came to a close in June 2019, Texas has been hit by an unrestrained pandemic and a crippl...
Scheerpost.com

All Risk, No Reward: The Perils and Absurdity of Iraq War 4.0 - The muddled US military mission and ongoing troop presence creates nearly all the conditions for the latest crisis.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Fair Park’s Hall of State Suffered Millions in Damage After the Storm - Fair Park’s historic Hall of State suffered about $3 million worth of damages after a pipe burst, flooding prominent rooms that contained historical arch...
Freethought Now

An unconstitutional tie-up, a lively debate, a Black skeptic, and 90 years of progress - Even in a comparatively light week, we had a lot going on at the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Progressive.org

It’s the Windmills’ Fault - Make no mistake, people freezing to death in Texas was fossil fuel related.
Discourse

This Week In ‘What Now’: Eli Valley, Biden vs. Godzilla, Sheep, Baldness, and Much More - Hey heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey! It’s our weekly roundup of our subscriber-only newsletter, What Now! This week our Steward tier members got: —An interview with...
MintPress News

Microchips and the Macro World: Semiconductor Shortage Ushers in East-West Tech War - If Taiwan were no longer the center of the semiconductor manufacturing universe, would the U.S. relinquish its influence over the island or would it cont...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Organizer LaTosha Brown on Building the New South - In November and January, voters across the country watched as the people of Georgia helped deliver both the presidency and the Senate to the Democrats th...
The Appeal

30 Years of Power Outages and Campaign Donations in Texas - In a rare televised address Wednesday evening, Texas Governor Greg Abbott stared directly into a camera and did his best to reassure his constituents tha...
Texas Standard

FEMA Storm Relief Is Available In Almost Half Of Texas Counties, But If You Have Insurance, It’s A ‘Last Resort’ - Federal officials say you should file insurance claims before seeking FEMA aid: you’ll get more help, and it will arrive quicker.
Sludge

Astroturf Campaign Attacks Discount Drug Program for the Poor - Each year, thousands of patients at medical facilities that serve the poor are given free or discounted medications through an obscure federal program that...
Rude Pundit

Don't Let Republicans Off the Hook on COVID Relief and the Minimum Wage - In Pennsylvania, 62% of voters in 2019 supported raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. That was consistent with polls from previous years. A poll this...
Political Garbage Chute

Matt Gaetz Tells CPAC He Won’t Let Trump ‘Pull Out Until He Finishes’ - A visibly evident and olfactorily confirmed drunk Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) slurred and stammered his way through a long-winded speech today during the 2021...
Frontloading HQ

#InvisiblePrimary: Visible -- CPAC 2021 - Typically, FHQ does not put much stock in Conservative Political Action Conference, as it is one of the more visible mile markers during any invisible prim...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What’s In A Name? - “Meet the new boss, you’ll be amazed at the similarities between him and the old boss.” —Eoin Higgins on Twitter, 02.23.2021 What’s in a name? I mean, what...
Duck of Minerva

Actorless Threats - This is a guest post from Morgan D. Bazilian, Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines; Andreas Goldthau, Franz Haniel Professor at the Wi...
Reform Austin

Texas Judge Rules Federal Eviction Moratorium Unconstitutional. Lawyers and Advocates Disagree on What That Means for Tenants - The federal moratorium on evictions is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Texas ruled Thursday, siding with property owners in the state who have argue...
Lawfare

The Oversight Board Moment You Should’ve Been Waiting For: Facebook Responds to the First Set of Decisions - The Facebook logo on a keyboard. (Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/service/license/) The most important determinant of whether the Facebook Oversight Board ...
Edinburg Politics

Women’s health, telehealth, and mental health among medical care issues that may see action by the Texas Legislature, announces DHR Health - While COVID-19 and Medicaid expansion are sure to receive major attention during the ongoing 87th Texas Legislature, other key issues dealing with state he...
Earthworks

No time to waste in the New Mexico legislature to safeguard health and the environment - Right now, New Mexico lawmakers have a golden opportunity to demonstrate how even simple actions can make a big difference in safeguarding health and the...
Novara Media

Shamima Begum Can’t Come Home - The Supreme Court have ruled Shamima Begum has no right to return to Britain to appeal the removal of her citizenship. Is the UK abdicating responsibility?
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - *I had heard Carla Bruni had been a songwriter and singer* *before she married Sarkozy, but I didn't know she was good.* • Let's start with some free is...
The Contributor

An Unelected Parliamentarian 'Doesn't Get to Deprive 32 Million Americans the Raise They Deserve' - News Image: Sen. Bernie Sanders also denounced the guidance, lamenting that "archaic and undemocratic rules of the Senate" are now standing in the way of ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian UN Official Calls Ukraine Aggression a ‘Fairy Tale,’ But It’s Non-Fiction - Russia’s incitement of aggression in Eastern Ukraine and involvement in the ongoing conflict are based on abundant evidence.
Socialist Alternative

Why I’m Joining Democratic Socialists of America - By Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Councilmember The reemergence of a socialist movement in the United States, and rapid growth of organizations like Democrati...
Debunking Christianity

The Fueling of Christian Hate - *Arrogant and aggressive ignorance* When I gave up my ordination and left the ministry in 1977, I managed a successful transition to a business career. ...
Tribune of the People

Workers Correspondence: Walmart Carries Out Mass Layoffs, Doesn’t Enforce Covid Protocol - Photo Credit: Etienne Laurent/EPA/Shutter Stock By Julian Oddo Management at Walmart in Charlotte, North Carolina has failed to enforce COVID-19 safety mea...
American Prospect

Big Finance, BigLaw, and Biden’s Big Choices - Today on TAP: Corporate influence in a Democratic administration
Dissent Magazine

The “Make Me Do It” Myth - Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
In These Times

God's Work: Labor in the Church - Rev. Lindsey Joyce of the Institute for Christian Socialism reflects on what it means to serve her community. - In this episode, we talk to Rev. Lindsey Joyce of the United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago and the Institute for Christian Socialism. We discuss Pasto...
ROAR Magazine

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: China’s Economic Rise - A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.
Living Blue in Texas

Trump Train Plan On Attacking/Harassing Biden Entourage In Houston - It’s unlikely the Secret Service will let the Trump Train get close to Biden, but Houston Democrats and people of color need to be vigilant today, as we ...
Dorf on Law

Rawls at 100: Three Critiques - *by Michael C. Dorf* In an important essay earlier this week, Prof Lawrence Solum marked the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of J...
Democracy Now!

"We Want the Truth Uncovered": Malcolm X's Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz Backs New Probe into Assassination - The family of Malcolm X is demanding a new investigation into his 1965 assassination in light of the deathbed confession of a former New York police office...
The Conversation

A less Trumpy version of Trumpism might be the future of the Republican Party - Donald Trump's ticket to the White House was a coarse version of populism. Will his successors in the GOP be different – or simply present a more polished ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Merrick Garland promises to prosecute hate crimes against Asian Americans. Here’s why that matters. - Senators grilled Judge Merrick Garland this week about white supremacy and domestic extremism during his confirmation hearing for the role of U.S. Attorn...
Houston Legal

Houston Legal Links 2/26/3021 - Top legal news includes:Catastrophic Texas power outages prompt finger pointing and blame shifting at legislative hearings; Family of inmate who died after...
Space City Weather

Dreary for Houston the next few days, but warm - After the misery of last week, I think we can all agree that boring isn’t necessarily a bad thing, right? Well, the weather will be just that over the next...
Houston Press

What To Watch For At The 78th Golden Globes - This Sunday, the Golden Globe Awards will return once again to squat like a drunken Pia Zadora on our TV screens. The 78th iteration of the Hollywood Forei...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Meet Dorie Morales, Publisher of Green Living Magazine Arizona - Listen to “Earth911 Podcast: Meet Dorie Morales, Publisher of Green ... The post Earth911 Podcast: Meet Dorie Morales, Publisher of Green Living Magazine...
ProPublica

Lawsuit Reveals New Allegations Against PG&E Contractor Accused of Fraud - by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories a...
High Country News

Wildfires may have unexpected climate impacts - Wyoming researchers find current models may underestimate how smoke blocks sunlight and cools the planet.
Counterpunch

Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised - The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administratio...
See You In 2020

The Climate Crisis Is Speeding Up The Process Towards A New Wave Of Socialist Revolutions - Unless you’re wealthy, and have the luxury survivalism plans that the rich are *figuring out*, you must come to terms with the fact that the climate cris...
Rallblog

The Biden Administration Takes on the Big Issues - Joe Biden takes over the presidency facing a number of pressing challenges about very important, long neglected issues, yet Democrats continue to obsess ...
Morning Consult

Streaming Services Are Highlighting Black Stories. But There’s Still Lots of Room for Improvement in Elevating Black Voices - The post Streaming Services Are Highlighting Black Stories. But There’s Still Lots of Room for Improvement in Elevating Black Voices appeared first on Mo...
TXElects

Wright Releases Endorsements and Some Poetry News - *CD6 special: *The Susan Wright (R) campaign released a list of endorsements demonstrating a wide level of support among elected officials and Republican...
Independent Political Report

Legal Marijuana Now Party founds MAGA Patriots Party of Nebraska - Mark G. Elworth: marijuana activist and perennial candidate has announced his intentions to create a second political party in his home state of Nebraska...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Rand Paul's attack on HHS nominee Rachel Levine exposes how the religious right needs anti-LGBTQ junk science - Attacks on HHS nominee Rachel Levine reveal how the religious right distorts science against LGBTQ people. Senator Rand Paul thought he was being cute du...
slacktivist

Fundamentalist diversity disproves fundamentalism - What I accidentally learned from the pragmatic detente between charismatic and anti-charismatic Christians at my private fundamentalist school.
Krebs on Security

How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates - The U.S. Labor Department's inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to cri...
The Mind Unleashed

FBI ‘Aware Of’ Alleged Spotting of UFO by American Airlines Pilot Over New Mexico - New Mexico has long been considered the mecca for people interested in UFO incidents, with the southwestern state attracting tens of thousands of annual vi...
Ring of Fire

Ted Cruz’s Approval Rating Drops 20 Points Following Cancun Trip - Ted Cruz is going to be fighting an uphill battle for the time being, as his recent little jaunt to Cancun has caused his approval rating to drop by 20 p...
Equality Texas

For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Releases Statement from CEO Ricardo Martinez on the Passage of the Equality Act Through the United States House of Representatives - The top national priority for Equality Texas is to pass the Equality Act through the U.S. Congress and have President Biden sign it into law, and our top s...
Our Finite World

Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away - Collapse doesn't happen instantaneously; it happens many years after an economy first begins outgrowing its resource base. In fact, the resource base likel...
Innocence Project

Thurgood Marshall’s Pursuit of Justice Lives on at the Innocence Project - This Black History Month, I find myself reflecting on the connections between the work of the Innocence Project and the work of attorneys at the forefron...
The Rag Blog

ALLEN YOUNG : ANALYSIS | Varied evolutionary pathways of 1960s activists - People active in the New Left and the anti-war movement evolved after the 1960s in many ways. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | February 25, 2021 ROYALSTON, ...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Call on Biden Administration to Abandon "Virtual Border Wall," Invest in Migrant Communities - In letter to the Biden administration, EPIC and a coalition of 40 privacy, immigration, and civil liberties organizations urged the administration to aband...
Eater Houston

14 Vibrant Caribbean Restaurants in Houston - [image: a pile of fried conch fritters on a wafffle, topped with shaved radishes and microgreens] Conch fritters and waffles at 700 Isles Cafe | 700 Isles...
Reading the Pictures

What’s Distinguishing and What’s Familiar in the Post-Coup Protest Pictures from Myanmar - A former aid worker and a visual scholar help explain key media and Facebook photos after Myanmar’s military coup. The post What’s Distinguishing and Wha...
Undernews

Japanese prime minister appoints 'minister of loneliness' to Cabinet -
The Disorder Of Things

Judith Butler Goes to Norway - A guest post from Ida Roland Birkvad. Ida is a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her t...
Texans For Public Justice

ERCOT's Board Gave Heavily to House Members - As the Texas House investigates the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), *Lobby Watch* finds that powerful energy interests seated on ERCOT’s b...
Lowering the Bar

Dispute Resolved With Power Saw Will Be Re-Resolved in Court - Well, it was *temporarily* resolved with the power saw, at least. Related Stories - Court Invalidates Result of Rock-Paper-Scissors Match
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Robert Green vs Geico Insurance Agency Inc. on Feb. 23 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Robert Green against American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Attuning cats to Reiki - Jack wrote this on an energy healing forum in response to a question about attuning an animal to Reiki. For those not familiar, Reiki is an energy transfer...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Assessing the Impact of Absentee Voting on Turnout and Democratic Vote Margin in 2020 - Dear Readers: Tomorrow at noon, the McIntire School of Commerce will be hosting a virtual event featuring Sonja Hoel Perkins, a UVA alumna. A preeminent ve...
Save Buffalo Bayou

That Bend in Winter: A Hidden Landscape - Waiting for the Return Feb. 24, 2021 We are quite a bit late posting a winter photograph for our ongoing series documenting the same bend in Buffalo Bayou ...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes that everyone has food, water, and power again as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff worries that Republi...
Liberal America

After Texas, Republicans Admit They Could Use a Little Socialism (Video) - Two years ago, Donald Trump proclaimed during his State of the Union Address, “The United States will never be a Socialist country.” During Trump’s four ...
Avedon's Sideshow

I want to shake your hand - Debbie Heyer's "Alien Eggs" (New Mexico Badlands) is one of those featured in "The Best Milky Way Photographers of the Year Show the Beauty of Our Galaxy."...
Crooked Timber

Why the Texas electricity market failed - Some thoughts on the failure of the Texas electricity market to deal with unexpected cold weather, published at Inside Story. Focus on implications for Aus...
Ecosophia

February 2021 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the stan...
Idavox

The Idavox Report 23 Feb 20201 - Tonight we meet Beth Foster of the education organization Dangerous Ideals Collective, and we talk about their work as well as the upcoming American Rena...
Grits for Breakfast

#Txlege should use savings from closed prison units to fund needed treatment services - The *Texas Legislative Budge Board has* "Recommended funding maintains correctional security operations, with a decrease totaling $148 million, primarily r...
Moron Majority

Trump Vows To Appeal Supreme Court Decision On Taxes - The United States Supreme Court issued a devasting decision yesterday when it refused to block the release of Trump’s tax returns to the Manhattan District...
The Grayzone

Hidden Russiagate docs expose more misconduct, evidentiary holes: ex-investigator - Exclusive: Kash Patel, a former Russiagate investigator on the House Intel Committee and senior White House official, says US intelligence leaders blocke...
Bayou Brief

The 14th Month Of 2020 - 13th Ward Ramblings on Carnival past and present, Stephen Perry and the New Orleans tourism cabal.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Vaccine (Dis)Information War - So, good news, folks! It appears that GloboCap’s Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid! It’s an absolutely safe, non-e...
Media Lens

20 Years Of Media Lens: A Selection Of Remarkable Replies From Journalists - Introduction – The Insiders The Insiders In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name ...
Progressives Chat

Time for Cruz and Cuomo to Go - Two of the most despicable elected officials—Texas U.S. senator *Ted Cruz* and New York governor *Andrew Cuomo*—should be driven out of office for their ...
TalkLeft

500k Corona Deaths in U.S.: Open Thread - The United States has now endured 28 million cases of COVID-19 and 500,000 covid-related deaths. And it sure is not over. I got my second Moderna shot on S...
New Progressive Alliance

Nobody’s feet are going to be held to the fire - This is an excellent article which takes a hard deep look at basic economic assumptions, war, and the Democratic Party. Jeff Roby is a Florida activist w...
Stinque

Baby It’s Scolds Outside - A famous American radio personality died last week. And we rejoiced. We didn’t just rejoice. We had fun with his death. We fantasized about it. We added ...
Nina Illingworth

Facebook Update: Alive, Antifascist, and Irritable - A brief update on how I'm doing, what I'm reading, and why your friends online are kind of trash. The post Facebook Update: Alive, Antifascist, and Irrita...
Seeing the Forest

Would This Band Be Big Today? - Serious question, if you saw this band for the first time today would you think they were great? I think so, but I can’t be objective.
Environment Texas

Will my electric bill go up? - Anna Farrell-Sherman Clean Water Associate Contact person by email Anna works hard to protect the clean water of Texas, advocating for nature-based infra...
Greg Palast

Texas Gets Lay’d: How the Bush Family turned off the lights - Maybe because Texas gave us that wet-lipped huckster Ted Cruz, you think the state deserves to freeze in the dark. I get that, but it’s not their fault, a ...
CT's short stories and novelettes

DANCE INTO THE SEA - Some love science Some love gods I love to dance with the arthropods Ready? All hands waving free Silhouetted by the sea Heady Click and shuffle to the side...
Texas Watch

The Blue Tarp Bill Applies to Snowstorms, Too - In 2017, the insurance lobby pushed a bill through the Texas Legislature that lessens penalties if insurers slow pay claims and puts hurdles in front of ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Texas Catastrophe Is A Result Of Neoliberal Rot -
Chicken Fried Politics

Veteran Arkansas State Senator Jim Hendren leaves Republican Party to become independent - Decision by Hendren, nephew of Governor Asa Hutchinson, sparks speculation about 2022 bid for governor ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com LITTLE RO...
DBC Green

Dallying with Delilah - The current Delilah for Texas campaign logo features a red rose, not a yellow one, putting the socialism right out front. Is Texas ready for a governor wit...
Two Party Opera

When Texas Freezes Over -
Project Censored

Scholar John K. Wilson - Mickey’s guest for the hour is scholar John K. Wilson, author of a recent report for the University of California about freedom of the press on US colleg...
Campaign for America's Future

The Union Bond - Dave Dell Isola, the son and grandson of union members, grew up grateful for the family-sustaining wages and benefits that organized labor won for working ...
BEYONDbones

Artifacts from the Historic POMPEII Eruption have Arrived in Houston - For centuries, the story of what happened to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has captivated the world. The city lost and buried by the ash and volcanic...
Alas, a Blog

Open Thread and Link Farm, I Always Feel Like Clown Eggs Are Watching Me edition - Butch lesbian opens up about ‘increasing harassment’ she faces when she uses public toilets “This hostility towards butch lesbians is believed to be borne ...
News Taco

Climate Change Expected to Increase Displacement, Migration - HOUSTON — The Biden administration has said it wants to prevent worst-case scenarios due to climate change, and Texas has several risks that need to be a...
Web of Debt

The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots - Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fig...
Malady

Surrendering to Hopelessness: Catharsis for the Modern Communist - *“How does it help...to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" – Seneca* There is a propensity amongst those on the left to discuss revolution in the co...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Sen. Bill Hagerty Hires Adviser Known for Racist Writing - Republican Bill Hagerty, who began representing Tennessee as a senator this year, quietly brought in an adviser named Julia Hahn, a former Trump official k...
Progressives Everywhere

Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court to Save Democracy - The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be...
ExChristian.Net

I Was Free Born -- My Story - *By Rational Logic ~ * Religious History I was a Christian from birth for 32 1/2 years of my life. When I was born my parents were in a non denominationa...
Downwinders at Risk

Support a Dallas Climate Committee AND Restoring the Environmental Health Commission - In the next seven days you can help us change the way Dallas City Hall looks at “environmental issues.” One of the most important lessons of the Shingle Mo...
The Socialist

Four Quick Fixes For a Better Congress – An Excerpt From A Better Congress by Joseph Gibson - "I love these members that get up and say, 'Read the bill!' Well, what good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and tw...
Modern Democracy

“The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1” - Very excited to have a piece up on the Harvard Law Review Blog diving into H.R. 1’s redistricting reforms. The post examines some surprising shortcomings i...
Texas Freedom Network

Translating Gov. Abbott’s State of the State - Last night, Gov. Greg Abbott delivered his latest State of State Address. The reality of the crisis, a pandemic, was clear from the get-go as Abbott deli...
nonsite.org

Deneocolonize Your Syllabus - It hardly needs saying that the term “decolonize” once meant something wholly different than it does now. To put it not a little too bluntly, in the heyday...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2021 - Walmart had at least fourteen shootings, in January 2021, with at least one fatality and seven more injuries. The fatality was an off-duty security guar...
Green Papers

Two principles of racial equity that outrage liberals - The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police ov...
GreenSource DFW

EarthxTV partners with 'Now This' news brand - *The 'Now This Earth' series kicked off this week on the web-based platform.* Jan. 27, 2021 EarthxTV is adding a new series it hopes will appeal to Mill...
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-...
In The Loop (Mustafa Tameez)

Mustafa Tameez on Fox & Friends: Biden Inherits an Immigration Mess from Trump Upon Inauguration -
LawFlog

CIA refuses to say whether it framed Russia for leaked DNC emails; FBI apparently ignored Seth Rich’s laptop - The Central Intelligence Agency will neither confirm nor deny that it fabricated the Russian “fingerprints” in Democratic National Committee emails publish...
News Junkie

Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy When Populism Became Fascism - Trumpism has defined, in the past four years, the quintessence of populism. On January 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob, instigated by their cult leader himse...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Friendswood Highschool Coach Attended D.C. ‘Storm the Capital’ Trump Protest - **UPDATE** It appears this man is also listed as the High School Principal for Chireno ISD High School. https://www.chirenoisd.org/o/chireno-isd/staff If y...
WAWG Blog

Survival of Our Democratic Republic – Expanding Human Rights … - Contriving to limit rights is about control and power over others. It’s about arrogance and imaginary supremacy over others. It’s about maximizing inequa...
One People's Project

CHESTER DOLES - NAME: Chester Doles HOME BASE: Winters Mtn. Rd. Dahlonega, GA 30533 706-867-6696 (As of 2004) Drives black van, license plate number Georgia 838GMF RELATED...
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...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Featured on IVN Podcast “Deconstructed” - Independent Voter Podcast · Presidential Debates: Ineffective or Informative? Free & Equal founder Christina Tobin joined Open the Debates founder Eli Beck...
Texas Sharon's Bluedaze

Update: Chris Faulkner > IT Guy > Frack Master > Felon - ORDER SETTING REARRAIGNMENT HEARING VIA VIDEO TELECONFERENCE as to Christopher Aundre Faulkner: The court finds in this case that the felony plea cannot ...
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: ...
Down With Tyranny!

WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
Green Pages News

S. Michael DeRosa 1945 – 2020 - S. Michael DeRosa, 75 years of age (January 4, 1945 – October 16, 2020) of Wethersfield, CT died October 16, 2020 at Hartford Hospital due to exacerbation ...
The Rise and Fall of Harry Hamid* (RIP)

New post at my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flights of Fancy" - For those that have any interest, curiosity or just have a good need for self punishment, I have made a new post on my "Assorted Noises, Sounds and Flig...
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...
Texas Moratorium Network

State Rep. Harold Dutton at 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty - State Rep. Harold Dutton, Jr. spoke at the 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 10, 2020 (online only this year because of the pande...
Off the Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - I knew I wanted to talk to freshman Rep. Lizzie Fletcher this cycle, because there’s just so much to talk about. You know her story from 2018 – the crowded...
The Texas CBD Blog

TEXAS CBD BLOG – STORIES AND MORE! -
Truthdig

Test Article “Fail” -
Talking Points Memo

Hydroxychloroquine Advocates Are Pissed Trump’s Not Taking It For COVID - President Donald Trump spent months earlier this year playing up the promise of the old anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in the...
Washington Babylon

Judge Barrett’s Religion is Off Limits, Opus Dei’s Agenda Is Not - [image: Judge Barrett’s Religion is Off Limits, Opus Dei’s Agenda Is Not] Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo, board member of O...
Echidne of the Snakes

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

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

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

Nothing New Under the Sun - From the *New York Times* of October 30, 2002: Remember all that fuss a couple of years back over Floridaâ€™s Banana-republic voting procedures? And then...
Popehat

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
The Reality-Based Community

[J!nx-Movie] UNHINGED (2020) HD Watch online Full Or Free - Watch UNHINGED Online, free, trial, access!! WATCH HERE > https://comicbook.com/film/unhinged DOWNLOAD HERE > UNHINGED is a movie starring Tom Hanks, Elisa...
Splinter

Google's Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming - Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some ...
The Greanville Post

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

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

Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed - The country’s most prominent media owner-editor is detained and incarcerated. The image-conscious prime minister ignores a letter from United Nations
Political Dig

Biden Opens Up 5-Point Lead Over Trump In Minnesota: Poll - Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a five-point lead over President Donald Trump in Minnesota, according to a new Star Tribune-MPR News-KARE 11 ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

We have a world to win! Capitalism, coronavirus and the struggle for the new normal - As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival t...
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...
t.e.j.a.s.

Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute - Statement About Trump’s EPA Giving Companies a Pass to Pollute For Immediate Release: April 3, 2020 Public Statement: To Communities Across the Nation As v...
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The Metaphor Project

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts - For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Gre...
True Tales: a Reporter's Blog

Las Vegas’ Downtown Project & Tony Hsieh - I admire rich people who do something creative with their money instead of just buying more stuff. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappo, lives in Las Vegas and broug...
Think 3 Institute

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

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

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames - [image: The darkened sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil is picture on August 19, 2019. Residents reported black rain, while studies by two universities confirmed tha...
Media Matters (Tumblr)

in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH... - in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH this past weekend, right-wing media are looking to blame anything but easy acce...
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...
OffCite

Contour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon - Chitembe handscrafted bowl. Courtesy Contour Functional Art. A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted ...
The Electronic Intifada

Khalida Jarrar leaves Israeli jail with "messages of freedom" - Gaza Palestinians abducted in Egypt four years ago return home.

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