Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Sunday Funnies

82% of Democrats believe "Russia-backed" content on social media affected 2016 election outcome; Clinton campaign and DNC helped pay for Steele dossier

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Vox

A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide - [image: Workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, celebrate after winning the vote to join the United Auto Workers.] On April 18...
memeorandum

Trump's New Legal Bills Are Hiding an $8 Million Mystery (Roger Sollenberger/The Daily Beast) - Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast: *Trump's New Legal Bills Are Hiding an $8 Million Mystery* — CONCEALED CARRY — Trump is using a GOP compliance ...
Raw Story

They stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021 - now they want to serve there - Three years ago, Derrick Evans was taking part in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, joining hundreds of other Donald Trump supporters who r...
ArcaMax

A Light in the House: Farewell to a Senate Friend - "Every single member (will) vote their conscience." Conscience, did you say? House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) words cut cleanly through the House of Re...
The Week

Netherlands split on WFH for sex workers - Councils concerned over 'nuisance' of at-home sex work, but others say changes will curb underground sex trade
Mediagazer

The UK's Channel 4 commits to make more shows outside England, after calls to increase its quota to make 9% of shows in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (Max Goldbart/Deadline) - Max Goldbart / Deadline: *The UK's Channel 4 commits to make more shows outside England, after calls to increase its quota to make 9% of shows in Scotlan...
The Smirking Chimp

Senate Republicans Finally Forced To Do the Right Thing on Ukraine Aid -
Salon.com

FTC chief says tech advancements risk health care price fixing - Khan is regarded as one of the most aggressive antitrust regulators in recent U.S. history
The Guardian (U.S. news)

First Thing: Congress passes $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan - Long-stalled bill reaches Joe Biden’s desk. Plus, Donald Trump’s criminal trial hears testimony from David Pecker - *Don’t already get First Thing in ...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli protesters call for PM’s resignation over captives - Families of Israelis held in Gaza staged a protest to mark 200 days since their relatives were taken.
The Hill

Are you still earning enough to be middle class? Check these new tables - Depending on where you live, the salary needed to be middle class can vary greatly.
Earth 911

Ecoolair: Two High Schoolers Trying To Make A Difference - Ewaste remains a massive problem. We’re two high school students who launched Ecoolair, a solar-powered... The post Ecoolair: Two High Schoolers Trying T...
San Antonio Report

Major home repair can net city tax breaks for San Antonio’s historic property owners - [image: Scott and Hoda Cummings at a house they restored in the King Williams neighborhood.]A city program that encourages the rehabilitation of homes in m...
Slate

*Shōgun*’s Creators on That Ambiguous, Audacious Ending - Toranaga and Blackthorne turn toward a new life—and a new world.
Daily Dot

‘Absolutely horrifying’: Tennessee bill punishing adults who give minors gender-affirming care faces backlash - [image: Tennessee senate anti-trans bill] *In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Tuesdays our Senior Reporter Tr...
Political Wire

Democrats Stand Ready to Save Mike Johnson’s Job - “Democrats are increasingly open to the idea of voting to protect Speaker Mike Johnson against an ouster attempt, putting him in a stronger than expected p...
naked capitalism

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The Verge

Adobe’s impressive AI upscaling project makes blurry videos look HD - [image: A screenshot taken from Adobe Research’s introduction for VideoGigaGAN] *Adobe claims its new VideoGigaGAN generative AI model can upscale video c...
Angry Bear

It’s a start - In many capitalist European countries, college students do not have to pay tuition fees out of their own pockets. Here in America, most students have to ...
Mediaite

Sadiq Khan Brands Tory Rival Susan Hall ‘Most Dangerous Candidate’ He’s Faced - Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan branded rival Tory candidate Susan Hall as the “most dangerous candidate” he has come up against after LBC host Tom Swar...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday Humor - If you haven’t been reading Crabgrass (AMS), you should start now, and begin here because today’s would be too much of a spoiler to start with, plus you ne...
Mother Jones

Emergency Abortion Care Is Before the Supreme Court—and Blue States Should Be Very Worried - Jaelyn was 19 weeks and five days into a much-wanted pregnancy when the cramping began—slowly at first, then in an insistent rhythm that signaled she was i...
The Intercept

Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives Is Sending the Middle East Into the Abyss - The U.S. dedication to Israel’s war of annihilation has created a tornado of instability and danger. The post Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives I...
Scheerpost.com

Edward Said Warned Against Anti-Palestinian McCarthyism - Said’s legacy reads today as a scathing condemnation of the hypocrisy of U.S. liberal institutions, their moral corruption, and the hollowness of the very ...
Eschaton

Morning - Wacky Wednesday.
Off The Kuff

Zombie ReBuild lawsuit returns with a vengeance - Unbelievable. Houston City Hall will have to use significantly more tax money to fight flooding with street and drainage projects, after an appeals court s...
Alternet

How the Free Speech Movement was born — and how it helped Reagan into the White House - In September 1964, university officials at Berkeley banned students from using the campus for political causes. The officials had been under pressure fro...
Axios

New ban on noncompetes could have big impact on health care - The Federal Trade Commission's vote on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements could be a big deal for the health care workforce. *Why it matters: *While t...
American Prospect

Challenge to Fashion Merger Shows a New Antitrust Philosophy in Action - The bid to block a tie-up between two fashion conglomerates goes beyond consumer prices, and looks at market competition and labor harms.
DeSmogBlog

UK Accused of ‘Helping Russia’ as Refined Oil Imports From ‘Laundering’ Countries Remain at Record High - The UK has been accused of “helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine” by continuing to import record amounts of refined oil from countries processing Kr...
NPR's Health Shots

130 million Americans routinely breathe unhealthy air, report finds - Climate change is making it harder to meet clean air goals, says the 25th annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association.
ProPublica

10 Times as Much of This Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your Tomatoes and Celery Under a New EPA Proposal - by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Grist

As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive - “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
High Country News

Are the Great Salt Lake scientists alright? - A Q&A with Great Salt Lake Institute Director Bonnie Baxter on studying a dying lake. The post Are the Great Salt Lake scientists alright? appeared firs...
See You In 2020

Zionists show their desperation by using leftist cancel culture tactics, which render an ideology isolated - Many are pointing to the hypocrisy of how the Zionists, despite their movement being led by the right wing, have been utilizing the same cancellation r...
Crooked Media

Gaza Protests Roil College Campuses - The post Gaza Protests Roil College Campuses appeared first on Crooked Media .
Rallblog

Silent Spring Has Arrived - Numerous studies are now documenting how natural soundscapes are changing, being disrupted and falling silent. A 2021 study in the journal Nature of 200,...
The NM Political Report

Progressives going after incumbents in hot Democratic primaries - By Justin Horwath, NM In Depth It’s a safe bet Democrats will barrel into 2025 with their supremacy intact at the New Mexico Legislature. Barring an unex...
Southeast Texas Record

Department of Justice announces Carjacking Task Force targeting violent crime in the Eastern District of Texas - The Justice Department established the formation of carjacking task forces in 11 targeted districts across the United States, including the Eastern Distr...
Counterpunch

Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine - Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in...
Wolf Street

How It’ll Take Years to Clean Up the Office CRE Mess, with Losses Spread Far and Wide - The Manhattan office tower Blackstone had bought for $605 million in 2014 and walked away from 2 years ago finally changed hands for $200 million, which pa...
Ian Welsh

French Troops Have Been Forced To Withdraw From Three African Sahel Countries In the Last Two Years - [image: French Troops Have Been Forced To Withdraw From Three African Sahel Countries In the Last Two Years] France has been forced to withdraw its troops...
World Socialist Web Site

Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line - An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
jobsanger

Trial Making Trump Smaller, More Decrepit, And Pathetic -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3001: Archimedes To the Rescue - Episode: 3001 Archimedes to the Rescue. Today, Archimedes to the rescue.
Dissident Voice

Nicaragua: The Good Shepherd - Yesterday I attended mass. Instead of a priest, the mass was celebrated by Nicaraguan children – 10 fourth and fifth grade students. The kids led the con...
Informed Comment

No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American campuses are being roiled by student and faculty protests against the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which the...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio tapas spot Toro tapped by Spanish Trade Commission for interactive dinner May 8 - San Antonio tapas spot Toro Kitchen & Bar will collaborate with the Trade Commission of Spain and California wine bar Canela to present an interactive din...
Antiwar.com

The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point - The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Out of the fog of these war...
Courthouse News

District attorney, former state auditor to face off in race for Pennsylvania attorney general seat - York County District Attorney Dave Sunday, a Republican, will face Democratic former state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale in the general election.
El Paso Matters

El Paso DA Bill Hicks indicts migrants accused of ‘rioting’ near border wall; public defender calls move ‘horrific’ - The indictments of 140 migrants come after an El Paso county court judge ruled the state didn’t show probable cause. The post El Paso DA Bill Hicks indi...
Techdirt.

David Chang Issues C&Ds Over ‘Chile Crunch’ Products, Then Apologizes And Promises To Stop - While it doesn’t happen nearly as often as I’d like, it is quite satisfying when a trademark bully is forced to walk back their bullying ways as a result o...
Brad Blog

'Election Fraud, Pure and Simple': 'BradCast' 4/23/2024 - During opening statements in the disgraced former President's ongoing criminal trial, prosecutors argued the scheme surrounding his hush-money payments to ...
Mondoweiss

The student protests for Palestine are awe-inspiring. But we must not get distracted from Gaza. - [image: People walk past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024 (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]I cannot help but...
Common Dreams

Making Clorox Great Again: Sounds Interesting, Right? - Happy Disinfectant Injection Day to the survivors who four years ago ignored the "stratospherically insane" advice, even for him, of a demented buffoon b...
Popular Resistance

Iran’s Strategic Patience Is Spent - By all accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t U.S. ‘shock and awe’ but it was massive, sophisticated and dazzlingly th...
Rio Grande Guardian

EDC leader reassures visiting site selectors that the Valley is safe - The Council for South Texas Economic Progress brought a group of site selectors to the Rio Grande Valley. In addition to economic data they also heard ab...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Blacks for Trump' make a rap video and it's the most bullsh!tiest bullsh!t of any bullsh!t you've ever seen. - Nothing says respect to Black voters like a half- naked female gyrating during a music video. At least in the eyes of Donald Trump supporters. A while bac...
Discourse

Fighting Genocide Through Needlework - An interview with Lina Barkawi, a Palestinian embroidery artist, on opposing the war on Gaza and challenging the world's biggest embroidery company.
Workers World

U.S. student encampments demand: Divest from Israeli apartheid! - [image: U.S. student encampments demand: Divest from Israeli apartheid!] April 22 – The global struggle in solidarity with the Palestinians against the hor...
Liberation News

Two, three, many Gaza encampments: Veteran of 1968 Columbia strike speaks out - [image: Demonstration in defense of the Columbia strike, 1968. (Image released under CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28812092)] Th...
Portside

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime? - Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime? Judy Tue, 04/23/2024 - 19:39
Futurism

Dentist Alarmed to Spot Human Jawbone in Parents’ Tile Floor - Tile Shocked A dentist was in for a huge shock when he looked down at his parents' new tile floor and saw what appeared to be the fossil of a human mandi...
Reform Austin

In Contempt - The post In Contempt appeared first on Reform Austin.
Election Law Blog

“Ted Cruz could be liable for taxes on payments from his iHeartMedia podcast, experts say” - That’s the headline of this Houston Chronicle article, but the body of the article (which is behind a paywall) notes that there is a disagreement among e...
slacktivist

The ‘progressive evangelical’ two-step - "Progressive" evangelicals have a less-than-noble history of "seeking common ground" by throwing other people under the bus.
SCOTUSblog

Justices dubious about dismissing suits while waiting for arbitration - [image: Justices dubious about dismissing suits while waiting for arbitration]Monday’s argument in Smith v. Spizziri was this month’s case under the Fede...
Ballot Access News

Arizona Bill Limiting Petition Period for New Parties to Two Years, is Signed Into Law - O April 10, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed HB 2474, which says petitions to recognize a new party must be completed within two years.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: All Alone In His Time Of Need - Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Nate Schweber @ The New York Times: The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn’t Arrived With support from demonst...
The AltWorld

The Real Debt Problem - Someone sent me an article from something called Patriot Alerts, “Morgan Stanley Sounds Alarm On ‘Death Of […] The post The Real Debt Problem appeared fi...
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Accidentally Tells The Truth About Trump's Election Interference Crime—And People Are Cackling - With apologists like Jesse Watters, who needs accusers? That's a question former Republican President Donald Trump might need to ask after Watters explai...
The Root

Sheetz Gas Station Is About to Be Infamous, And It Sure Ain't For Gas - Popular gas station convenience store chain, Sheetz is in hot water after federal officials slapped them with a racial discriminationlawsuit, and the det...
Texas Standard

Mariachi music, young love and grief weave together for South Texas teen in ‘Canto Contigo’ - YA author Jonny Garza Villa says the book examines learning to deal family legacy, youthful romance and loss through the competitive world of high school m...
OpEd News

Seriously Supreme Court-January 6th Not Obstruction? When Blocked Most Serious U.S. Proceeding, Verifying the President? - How can one contend that January 6 was not obstruction, when insurrectionists blocked the most serious official U.S proceeding, verifying the presidential ...
Project Censored

The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda - In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the decli...
Deadline Politics

FTC Passes Ban On Non-Compete Clauses In Employee Contracts - A sweeping new Federal Trade Commission rule will prohibit companies nation from including non-compete agreements in contracts with employees. The new rule...
Progressive.org

Why Farmers Are Standing Up Against Free Trade - Farmers around the world are going to the streets to call for decent incomes that would help their families and local economies.
Daily Howler

AFTERNOON: What Lisa Rubin said to Willie! - *TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2024* *Old ways disappear:* Journalistically speaking, we'd call it a moment that was. Yesterday, opening statements were delivered ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China’s global lending lures countries into a debt trap - At least two countries have declared bankruptcy due to an inability to repay foreign interest payments, primarily to China.
Bracing Views

Enabling Genocide Is OK, Hush Money Not OK - W.J. Astore What a country! I’m already drowning in mainstream media coverage of Trump’s trial for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and hiding it under ...
Texas Monthly

It Doesn’t Get More Texas Than This New Food Hall and Market - Pullman Market, at San Antonio’s the Pearl, offers restaurants, a mezcal bar, and grocery items that celebrate the state’s culinary bounty.
Eater Houston

Turkey Leg Hut Co-Founder Lyndell Price Charged in Connection With Bar Fight - [image: An image of Lynn Price with HPD officers] Lyndell “Lynn” Price was charged with misdemeanor assault in connection to a February bar fight | Turkey...
Novara Media

Sunak Says Rwanda Policy “Compassionate” After Five Die in Channel - In the wake of the Rwanda bill passing its final parliamentary hurdle, five people have tragically died whilst crossing the channel. Plus: Pro-Palestinian ...
Claytoonz

Nom Nom Politics - If you’re going to dine on Trump, the finest chefs recommend marinating for 24 hours in ketchup and covfefe. While some may enjoy Trump with some fava bean...
Sludge

Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban - A new disclosure reveals Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor...
Robert Reich

The Case Against RFK Jr.RFK Junior is not who you think he is.It... - *The Case Against RFK Jr.* RFK Junior is not who you think he is. It pains me to say it, but he is a dangerous nutcase. He claims to want to heal Americ...
WhoWhatWhy

In Vietnam, Farmers Cut Methane Emissions by Changing How They Grow Rice - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Church and State

Returning to Draconian Abortion Bans Doesn’t Make America Great - “When exactly was America great?”. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer: 1864.
NORML

Maine: Governor Signs Legislation Providing Pathway For Marijuana-related Expungements - [image: marijuana record expungement][image: marijuana record expungement]Maine is the 25th state to enact legislation explicitly facilitating the expung...
Capital & Main

A Whole-Person Approach to Combating Homelessness - *An ambitious pilot program provides a myriad of resources to help participants achieve financial independence through stable employment.* The post A Who...
First Draft

Pecker Brings The Wood - Notes on the second week of the Trump porn star hush money election interference trial.
Ring of Fire

Lawmakers Invoke Communist China To Justify TikTok Ban & Arizona’s Governor Has A Spending Problem - Legislation is working its way through Congress that could result in the popular social media app TikTok being BANNED in the United States. Also, Arkansa...
Undernews

Health - *MedicalXpress - *Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China recently carried out a study investigating the potential link bet...
Glasstire

Review: John Forse’s Exploration of Rough-and-Tumble Houston - Avoid Highways, the lovely and well-conceived show of paintings on view now at the West Loop HCC gallery, is in part described by its artist, John Forse,...
Earthworks

Bolivian Government Must Respect the Autonomy of Indigenous Communities - Disponible en español a continuación The Bolivian government has promised that its mining industry will operate with transparency, credibility, and … Th...
Texas Watch

In the News: Texas car insurance premiums are soaring. Here's what's behind the spike — and what you can do - Madison Iszler, staff writer for the *San Antonio-Express News*, recently investigated the sky-high increase in auto insurance premiums in Texas. Accordi...
Environment Texas

Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water - Biden initiative would protect many wetlands and rivers from pollution The post Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water appeare...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Everything Is Not OK in Oklahoma Public Schools - Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, faces national backlash as he continues to inject his extremist ideology into public school ...
Moron Majority

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Bonddad

The range-bound new home sales market continues - - *by New Deal democrat* As per my usual caveat, while new home sales are the most leading of the housing construction metrics, they are noisy and h...
The Texas Signal

The Supreme Court Will Determine What Is Emergency Care For Pregnant Patients - Last week the Associated Press detailed several shocking examples of pregnant patients being turned away from emergency centers in states with abortion b...
Texas Observer

The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway - Whenever SpaceX rockets blast off from the sandy property that Elon Musk controls near Brownsville, the road to Boca Chica Beach—including Boca Chica Sta...
Democracy Now!

Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW's Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer - *Democracy Now!* speaks with the great labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tenne...
The Conversation

Can states prevent doctors from giving emergency abortions, even if federal law requires them to do so? The Supreme Court will decide - EMTALA requires hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to all patients – but Idaho is arguing that its abortion ban means it doesn’t have to allow the ...
Space City Weather

Is this Houston’s last night in the 50s for at least five months? - In brief: Houston may be experiencing its last truly chilly night until next fall. (That was painful to type). After this we’ll be transitioning to warmer ...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 23 April 2024 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. (For the link round-up, click here.) I found these two images together in an image round...
The Daily Poster

The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle - For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.
Avedon's Sideshow

Well I knew there was gonna' be trouble, when I heard that callin' - I've just discovered the art of Laurent Parcelier and I love to look at it. "The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Building Bridges Amid Book Bans Capitol Summit by Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) on April 21-22, 2024 [video] - *Friends,* *View here.* *So happy to share this Instagram video by youth organization, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) headed by Cameron Samuels...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | First, they came for abortion, now they’ve come for in vitro fertilization - Alabama Supreme Court. Photo by Jeffrey Reed / Creative Commons By Michael Meeropol | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2024 The following is an expanded version of...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court Declined a Protestors' Rights Case. Here's What You Need to Know. - The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case, *Mckesson v. Doe*, that could have affirmed that the First Amendment protects protest organizers from...
CultureMap Houston

Houston dazzles as No. 1 most diverse large city in U.S., report says - Living in a multicultural city comes with many benefits. Diverse communities bring new perspectives, greater versatility, and economic boosts, to name a f...
Krebs on Security

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme - The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for ac...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Value Par Excellence: Money versus Real Values - The Past & Present Reading Group is discussing, in the first half of 2024, Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. This work is often considered a crucial read to grasp ...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged de Armas Fans Get Nothing in Misleading-Trailer Lawsuit - They also dodged an order requiring them to pay Universal's legal fees, unfortunately.
The Progressive Wing

April 21-24 News Roundup and Open Threads - Let’s get the ball rolling for this week. Here in the Hudson Valley, we are passing from daffodil time to tulip time and from magnolia time to dogwood time...
Socialist Alternative

Despite Dire Warnings, Environment Is Secondary To Profit Under Capitalism - Every day the news cycle is flush with grim warnings from renowned scientists telling us that we urgently need to change course to avoid the most deadly im...
Debunking Christianity

David Hume's Argument against Miracles Cannot Be Disputed. I Prove It Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt! - The title to this post echoes the certainty of David Hume, known as the greatest English speaking philosopher. He said: I flatter myself, that I have dis...
Dos Centavos

Early Voting Begins for May 4 Election - In case you didn’t know, we have two elections in May. While the Democratic Primary run-offs will be decided later this month, today is the first day of EA...
Progressives Chat

Harry Belafonte Was Correct - Calypso singer, actor, and civil rights activist *Harry Belafonte* (March 1, 1927–April 25, 2023) died one year ago this week. He was 96. I retrieved ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

How to protect your community from the toxic lead lurking in soil - [image: Ruben, 2, plays hide and seek in his front yard. He is surrounded by dirt on the ground and trash bins.] Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

#DemocratsDeliver - Been out of town for a while, been sick for a while, finally getting my tired old ass to the drawing table again. So, I’d been noticing this #DemocratsDeli...
Democracy Chronicles

Temporal Orientations in Politics and Ideology - Temporal orientations in politics shape narratives; forward-thinking perspectives offer societal progress, while backward views hinder development.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Bourbon Talk Political Q&A Livestream TONIGHT at 8pm Eastern - Hey everyone, just a head’s up: I’m doing a livestream tonight at 8pm Eastern here: April 21st, 2024 Bourbon Talk Livestream. I’ve been getting a lot of me...
The Reality-Based Community

Man United ra giá ‘trên trời’ để bán Marcus Rashford - Manchester United đang gây bất ngờ cho giới mộ điệu khi quyết định niêm yết mức giá 100 triệu Bảng cho Marcus Rashford, tiền đạo đang có phong độ thất th...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: crossroads - [image: Pézenas cross]
The Militant

SWP campaigns to win ballot status in New Jersey - BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself as a refuge for Jews, and the importance to the working class everywhere of the fight again...
Greg Palast

When Kyle Rittenhouse Came to Kent StateThe young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy. - [April 16, 2024: Kent, OH] Kyle Rittenhouse, spoke on April 16 at an event sponsored by the right wing organization Turning Points USA (TPUSA) held at ... ...
Skeptophilia

In the dark - Dear Readers: After today's post, I'm going to be taking a long-overdue break from *Skeptophilia*. My intent -- lord willin' an' the creek don't rise, as ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOU-PROBLEM EDITION. - *Went down a K hole the other night.* I have said more than once that the *New York Post* is Rupert Murdoch’s primary stateside lie-diffuser – more than ...
Political Garbage Chute

A Bald Eagle Protecting an American Flag Reminded Me Holocaust Denier JK Rowling Can’t Sue Me - Author JK Rowling is not a fan of transgender people, that much is true. At least, she’s not a fan of transgender women. For some reason, which only the ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 - 21:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Rewire

Indiana Now Has a Religious Right to Abortion - How the conservative win from the 2014 *Hobby Lobby* decision was used to protect pro-abortion religious beliefs in Indiana. The post Indiana Now Has a R...
LareDOS

FAA hiring event at TAMIU Friday - Administration seeking to hire future air traffic controllers
MintPress News

A Tale of Two Genocides: Namibia’s Stand Against Israeli Aggression - Namibia's solidarity with Palestine underscores a broader shift in global politics, where shared histories pave the way for meaningful alliances against ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Where Trump’s Primary Showing Was (And Wasn’t) Especially Strong - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE —Though former President Donald Trump easily won most GOP primaries this year, some areas stood out to us. —By comparing how...
The Grayzone

UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed - The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inf...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #499 - TFTC #499.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg - Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book *Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals*.
Edinburg Politics

Border security, stopping use of deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence by child predators, further cutting property taxes, and broadband infrastructure among legislative issues to be examined by Sen. Hinojosa and other state senators in the coming weeks and months - Improving border security, stopping child predators from using deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence to harm or exploit minors, further cutting ...
Ecosophia

The Secret of the Sages - Two weeks ago we talked about the way that life throughout the modern industrial world has fallen into the grip of lenocracy—that is, a system in which pim...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: It’s All About Caring, Fatsos - This is one of those “I’m almost transcribing, but people will think I’m making it up” cartoons. I have a bad habit of searching social media to see what p...
Seeing the Forest

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come - [image: A photo illustration overlays a map of Israel and Gaza with images from the region, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] Research on World Wa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
Idavox

A Change in Tactics? - The Black Bloc has been seen en masse at protests across the United States for...
Bud Kennedy

Texas Republicans want to punish abortion like baby-killing. Prison for women, or death | Opinion - Does Texas’ 2021 abortion law need to be “straightened out”? Then why would Donald Trump say that about Arizona’s law? Texas’ staunchly anti-abortion Repub...
Duck of Minerva

Sebastian Kaempf - Professor Sebastian Kaempf of the University of Queensland joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast this week. Seb grew up in Germany, with the fall of the Berlin...
Free & Equal

A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
Texas Freedom Network

Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, A Faith Leader Built, Sustained, and Guided by Community - Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, the Co-Lead Minister at one of Just Texas’ Reproductive Freedom Congregations, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of ...
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: April 2024 - Lots of articles to share this month. Health in the Ace Community (2021 Survey) | Ace Community Survey – Full disclosure: I’m sharing this because I’m a di...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? - Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I was a si...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2024 - Walmart had at least another sixteen shootings in March of 2024, including at least six causing one death each, and a total of at least seven more injur...
Media Lens

‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media - A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up t...
GreenSource DFW

Eclipse watch parties pop up across DFW - *NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC....
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
The Stars Hollow Gazette

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

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

State of the Union: Will Biden Resonate? - Americans have been dealt a hand with two candidates, neither of whom they particularly think should be President. Nonetheless, barring Trump being crimi...
Equality Texas

Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region - Title: Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region Organization: Equality Texas and Equality Texas Foundation Position Type: Full Tim...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas District Attorney, CCA races and the future of Texas criminal-justice reform - The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction ...
Land Destroyer

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It - *March 5, 2024* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are raising the alarm over Ukraine’s military manpower shortage and the ...
Green Pages News

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Why Houston Floods, According to Flood Control - It Rains a Lot! What Can Flood Control Do? March 3, 2024 For years the Harris County Flood Control District has been giving public presentations that inclu...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson - Dandelion Salad February 19, 2024 with Chris Hedges “Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he ...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West, w/ MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace - Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of t...
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...
Stinque

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
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. ...
Border/Lines

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
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.
Two Party Opera

Drums of War - I live-streamed the process of making this comic, here is part 1: And part 2, the thrilling conclusion:
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
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...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
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...
CT's short stories and novelettes

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
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...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
Splinter

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

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