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You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

It took me many years of trying to finally come to that conclusion

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— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 2024

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

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

📍 Houston, Texas

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Exceptions - Was a crazy extreme nonsense to suggest that health/life exceptions as envisioned by all the centrist dipshits were unworkable in practice. Treating pregna...
Axios

Person sets themself on fire outside Trump courtroom - A person set themself on fire outside the Manhattan court house where a full jury was announced in a criminal case against former President Trump, multip...
Mediaite

‘Get a Fire Extinguisher!’ Fox Correspondent Pleads For Help As Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside Trump Trial - Fox News reporter Eric Shawn could be heard yelling for a fire extinguisher after seeing what was happening. The post ‘Get a Fire Extinguisher!’ Fox Corre...
Slate

I Am a Skeptical Swiftie. Taylor Deserves More of Us. - I need only the art—not the entire Swiftie world.
Mondoweiss

After Iran’s retaliation - [image: Iranian military conducts nationwide drills in 2022. (Photo: Salampix/Abaca via ZUMA Press/APA Images)]Israel's apparently limited response to Iran...
Angry Bear

The bifurcation of the new vs. existing home markets continues - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog The bifurcation of the new vs. existing home markets continued in March, per the report on existing home sales a...
Futurism

Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Anti-Immigrant Space Lasers - Not a Joke Remember when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) came under fire for talking about her insane and anti-semitic conspiracy theory that Jewish ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court to hear case on criminal penalties for homelessness - [image: Supreme Court to hear case on criminal penalties for homelessness]The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Monday in a case that one legal ex...
Raw Story

Trump jury and alternates officially selected - Donald Trump's jury has officially been selected, including the necessary six alternate jurors. At lunchtime Friday, seven men and five women had been s...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Person apparently sets self on fire outside Trump trial in New York - Images of person in flames shown on television and social media amid ex-president’s hush-money trial A person has apparently set themselves on fire outsi...
Deadline Politics

Full Jury Selected In Donald Trump Hush Money Trial - UPDATE: A full jury of 12 and six alternates in has been selected in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. The remaining alternates were sworn in, keying up the...
San Antonio Report

Piñatas and paddles: Pickleball breaks into San Antonio’s Fiesta scene - [image: Vistors and gym-goers play pickleball on the new courts at the Thousand Oaks Family YMCA.]As the fastest-growing sport in America, it only makes se...
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: Anthony Sonnenberg at Rockport Center for the Arts - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits and artist-run ...
Salon.com

The Golden Divorce, "Alice & Jack" and why disconnected romances are our new modern love stories - Finding love is harder than ever, despite having tools to make it simpler. These shows and films explore that gap
memeorandum

Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, ABC News reports (Reuters) - Reuters: *Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, ABC News reports* — Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israe...
Courthouse News

11th Circuit scrutinizes Florida’s restriction on Chinese immigrants buying property - A three-judge panel heard arguments from a group of Chinese immigrants living in Florida who want to buy homes. They claim the law unconstitutionally discr...
Al Jazeera English

What we know so far about drone attack on Iran - Iranian anti-aircraft systems have shot down suspected drones near a military base in Isfahan.
Eater Houston

Houston’s Best Spots for Great Passover Food - [image: An image of matzo ball soup with a matzo ball, carrots, noodles, and broth, and a sprinkle of dill.] Many Jewish families enjoy matzo ball soup du...
Mediagazer

Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more (Ruth La Ferla/New York Times) - Ruth La Ferla / New York Times: *Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Ma...
Election Law Blog

“Justice Department Launches Updated Voting Rights and Elections Website” - Here’s a link to the site itself, and here’s the DOJ release explaining it. As the release discusses, the website includes two new and five updated guida...
The Hill

Biden tries to appeal to union workers by bashing Trump for inheriting his wealth - President Biden on Friday worked to appeal to union workers by bashing former President Trump for inheriting his wealth. The president painted a picture of...
WhoWhatWhy

Cops Can Force Suspects to Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Antiwar.com

Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal of Americans on Behalf of the War Party - Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of ...
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 ...
Reform Austin

Shady Podcast Money? Cruz’s Campaign Extension Draws Scrutiny - Republican Senator Ted Cruz has been granted an extension by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to delay filing his required personal financial statem...
CultureMap Houston

New Orleans-based brewery suddenly shutters Sawyer Yards taproom - Another Houston brewery has poured its last pint. Urban South Brewery has closed its taproom in Sawyer Yards.
The Root

The Ingredient Nestlé Adds To Baby Formula in Black and Brown Countries Will Infuriate You - When it comes to baby food, international consumer goods boss Nestlé has the game on lock with parents around the world depending on the brand for their ...
Second Nexus

Omarosa Breaks Down How Trump Staffers Would Keep Trump Awake During Long Events - After critics laid into former President Donald Trump for appearing to fall asleep during jury selection on day one of his hush money trial, his former W...
The Verge

AirPlay turns the Delta emulator into a full-on retro console - [image: Artwork showing the Delta icon and the Apple App Store logo, with screenshots from the emulator.] Image: Riley Testut The launch of the Delta emu...
Liberation News

How the US helped Israel promote the ‘Hamas mass rape’ lie to justify mass murder in Gaza - This exploits women's oppression for imperialist ends and hides the fact that Palestinian liberation is a feminist issue.
Techdirt.

Congressional Testimony On Section 230 Was So Wrong That It Should Be Struck From The Record - A few months ago, we wondered if Wired had fired its entire fact-checking staff because it published what appeared to be a facts-optional article co-author...
Political Wire

Trial Is Already Wreaking Havoc on Trump’s Campaign - “The hush money trial was never going to be good for Trump, but the first week in court proved just how disruptive and damaging it will be for his 2024 […]
Texas Standard

Texas Republicans criticize Mayorkas impeachment dismissal - The US Senate tossed impeachment articles against the Homeland Security Secretary on Wednesday.
Popular Resistance

US Veterans To President Biden: Arming Israel Violates The Law - In a letter today to President Biden and top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace cited existing federal law that gives the President “…no d...
Right Wing Watch

Holy War Breaks Out Over The Future Of Speaker Mike Johnson - When Rep. Mike Johnson became Speaker of the House last year, Christian nationalists were “literally in tears” knowing that one of their own was in contr...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Petition for Party Status in Nebraska is Valid - On April 17, the Nebraska Secretary of State announced that the petition for party status for the No Labels Party is valid. The signatures had been submitt...
Texas Monthly

Can Strength in Numbers Send the Dallas Stars to the Stanley Cup? - Dallas won the NHL Western Conference regular-season crown with balanced scoring and time on ice. How will the Stars fare in the playoffs?
Alternet

Biden amps up field offices — Trump to mobilize thousands of lawyers to monitor vote counts - With less than seven months before Election Day the Biden campaign and the Trump campaign are taking shape, and like their politics they could not be mor...
Vox

Taylor Swift seems sick of being everyone’s best friend - [image: Taylor Swift sits at the center of a dark stage with her legs crossed, gazing out toward the camera.] Taylor Swift performs during the Eras tour a...
Progressive.org

When Kyle Rittenhouse Came to Kent State - The young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy.
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...
Rio Grande Guardian

Lueders: State Highway 4 is crucial to SpaceX’s Starbase facility - Starbase's general manager gives an overview of development of SpaceX's rocket launching facility at Boca Chica. The post Lueders: State Highway 4 is cru...
Houston Public Media

Is Mike Johnson’s job in jeopardy? - Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina delve into the latest news in national and local politics.
The Week

'Republicans want to silence Israel's opponents' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Daily Howler

CLAN: "What would you give in exchange for your soul?" - *FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024* *The Wreck of The Old #4:* Friends, how well are you served by the works of your clan? The issue arose yesterday at the start o...
Discourse

FOWL HYSTERIA 2024: THE WINNER - The moment has arrived.
Capital & Main

Los Angeles’ Black Churches Join National Effort to Support Dementia Patients and Their Families - *South L.A. churches craft dementia-friendly services aimed at providing solace to a community disproportionately affected by the disease.* The post Los ...
Daily Dot

Newsletter: Trump wasn’t happy listening to memes mocking him in court - [image: web_crawlr: Trump wasn't happy listening to memes mocking him in court] Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. *Welcome to today's edition of w...
NORML

Polls: Most Americans Endorse Legalization, Say Cannabis Is Safer Than Either Alcohol Or Tobacco - [image: Majority Support][image: Majority Support]“As more states have adopted legalization, public support for this policy has risen dramatically among ...
San Antonio Current

Mexico says it will give legal help to those swept up by Texas' 'show me your papers law' - During an El Paso appearance, Mexico's foreign minister said her country will provide legal assistance for people swept up in Texas' Senate Bill 4, a cont...
The Conversation

TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age - If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.
Environment Texas

Statement: New rule will aid PFAS clean-ups - EPA lists two toxic PFAS chemicals under Superfund law The post Statement: New rule will aid PFAS clean-ups appeared first on Environment Texas.
Rallblog

What’s Left 10: Police Who Help People - It may come as a surprise, especially to conservatives, that the Left believes in law and order. Of course we do. Without it, you can’t have m...
Mother Jones

Newt Gingrich Perfectly Describes How Everything Is His Fault - With Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson struggling to hold onto the gavel in the face of eternal rebellion from some of his party’s most intransi...
Sludge

AIPAC-Funded Senator Pushes Antisemitism Definition That Could Silence Critics of Israel - After taking more than $1 million from AIPAC, Sen. Jacky Rosen is pushing the government to apply a definition of antisemitism that human rights groups say...
Undernews

Books - *Independent - *Several big publishing houses have joined Penguin Random House along with renowned authors in a federal lawsuit suing Iowa over a state l...
First Draft

The Stakes And The Race - The stakes of the 2024 election is more important than the horserace. Media should report on it that way.
naked capitalism

US Firms Have Little Financial Incentive to Comply with the Minimum Wage - More on "American hates the poors": companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Debunking Christianity

A Handy Concise Guide: Why the New Testament Is a Disaster - *The church and clergy are masters at covering this up* Since my retirement ten years ago, I have made several trips to England, France, and Italy. Upon ...
Southeast Texas Record

Cristian Moreno sues HEB Grocery Co for negligence and premises liability - In the County Civil Court at Law No. 1 of Harris County, Texas, Cristian Moreno has filed a lawsuit against HEB Grocery Co, LP d/b/a Mi Tienda and HEBCO ...
El Paso Matters

La Nube children’s museum to open in August; depositions set for Annunciation House, Texas AG - This week’s news roundup includes an opening date for La Nube children’s museum; the latest in the Texas Attorney General’s efforts to shut down Annunci...
Bonddad

The bifurcation of the new vs. existing home markets continues - *- by New Deal democrat* The bifurcation of the new vs. existing home markets continued in March, per the report on existing home sales and prices y...
ArcaMax

Happiness Is a Home To Tinker With - My husband and I have never bought a home we didn't tinker with. And by "tinker," I don't mean a coat of fresh paint and new shelving. I mean the knock out...
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...
Daily Cartoonist

April 20 TCM Alert: Back From The Ink - A program of nine restorations, titled Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts, will premiere at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival on Saturday, April ...
Texas Observer

Poem: elegy for the [insert school shooting] children’s f— - To submit a poem, please send an email, with the poem as an attachment, to poetry@texasobserver.org. We are looking for previously unpublished works of n...
The Texas Signal

The Art of Hurricane and Climate Change Trauma - There is something unsettlingly medical about Deborah Jack’s exhibition at the Houston Center of Photography. *Intertidal Imaginaries: The Resistant Geog...
Democracy Now!

U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists - The Gaza Collective Photo Essay project, organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), collected work from 14...
Dos Centavos

Thoughts on 19 Years, Harris County, and SD15 - A Short Break Every now and then the reality of politics, whether it’s international, national, state, or local, just gets to me and I take a break from wr...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Afraid and Intimidated’: Trump Trial Juror Targeted by Fox News Dismissed -
Space City Weather

Pleasant weather is in sight for a couple days, but first Houston must deal with some rain and storms this weekend - Summary: Cooler weather is in sight as we head later into the weekend. Before that, it will be warm to hot and humid, and there will likely be heavy rain a...
The Daily Poster

LEVER TIME: Democrats Will Not Tolerate Dissent - As part of a revamped and expanded weekly podcast series, David Sirota explores how the DNC crushed 2024 primary challengers — and might have hurt Biden’s ...
Novara Media

When Governments Fail, We Sail: Massive Aid Flotilla Prepares to Head for Gaza - [image: an activist holds a palestine flag against the railings of a ship]In Istanbul, a flotilla of ships is preparing to depart with 5,500 tonnes of aid ...
NPR's Health Shots

Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study - A new study finds that in news stories about scientific research, U.S. media were less likely to mention a scientist if they had an East Asian or African n...
The Intercept

Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens - The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban. The post Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court...
Earth 911

Guest Opinion: Planting Trees Can Save the Planet - In the face of escalating environmental challenges, we can’t sit idly by. It’s up to... The post Guest Opinion: Planting Trees Can Save the Planet appear...
The AltWorld

Escalation With Iran Seemingly Over; Now We Have To Worry About Rafah - Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The imperial media are reporting that Israel launched […] The post Escalation With Iran Seemi...
Skeptophilia

The titan - One thing science teaches us is that just about everything is interesting if you look at it carefully enough. Still, there's an ingrained human tendency...
The Reality-Based Community

Rời Man United, Amrabat sẽ tiếp tục ở lại NHA - Tiền vệ người Maroc Sofyan Amrabat sẽ rời Manchester United vào mùa hè này sau khi không gây ấn tượng được với Erik ten Hag và sẽ gia nhập Fulham với mức...
Off The Kuff

Is Ted Cruz ever going to feel some pressure about abortion? - News item #1: Whatever happens in Arizona in November, we got a preview of the difficulty Republican candidates will have in states where high-stakes ballo...
ProPublica

Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the Army - by Vianna Davila and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Davis Winkie, Military Times ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investig...
Scheerpost.com

Joseph Massad Responds to Fabrications and Lies About Him in Congress - By Ali Abunimah / The Electronic Intifada On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Educat...
American Prospect

Judges Are Letting Trump Run Amok In and Around Court - Here’s how they can stop him.
CPI's Danger in the Air

They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick. - Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natur...
Grist

Taking Big Oil to court for ‘climate homicide’ isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds - Are fossil fuel companies guilty of actual murder?
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover - With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. But ...
High Country News

These Washington nurses want their hospital to be more like Oregon - Nurses at PeaceHealth Southwest, in Vancouver, Washington, protest unsafe staffing and pay. The post These Washington nurses want their hospital to be m...
Crooked Media

So You Think You Can Be a Trump Juror? - The post So You Think You Can Be a Trump Juror? appeared first on Crooked Media.
LareDOS

FAA hiring event at TAMIU Friday - Administration seeking to hire future air traffic controllers
The NM Political Report

BLM finalizes controversial public lands rule - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management finalized its controversial public lands rule on Thursday. This rule is controversial because it allows for conservati...
Counterpunch

- Sounding Out O.J. O.J. hovered over the end of my bed. His white turf shoes were inches above the Astroturf and he’d never return to earth, even if, para...
See You In 2020

New “Israeli” attack on Iran will accelerate the U.S. empire’s demise, & further empower the globe’s illiberal forces - At the time that I’m writing this updated version of my latest essay, the “Israeli” settler state has just responded to Iran’s retaliatory strikes by c...
World Socialist Web Site

Biden administration tells Supreme Court: Providing immigrants with explanations about a visa denial is a threat to national security - The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in *State Department v. Muñoz*, one of the most important immigration cases in the recent period.
jobsanger

VP Harris Is The Administration's Voice On Abortion -
Workers World

Coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine ties up traffic in multiple cities - [image: Coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine ties up traffic in multiple cities] After over six months of a horrific U.S.-armed genocide in Gaza...
Informed Comment

Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire - Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long wanted war with Iran and has all along been tr...
Brad Blog

Bad Climate News for Home and Car Owners; Good Labor News for Workers in the South: 'BradCast' 4/18/2024 - You may be happy to know we don't begin today's BradCast with news about the disgraced former President. But you may be less happy about what we do lead wi...
Dissident Voice

The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend! - The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant. No...
Portside

Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian - Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian jay Thu, 04/18/2024 - 18:54
slacktivist

Rural white MAGAs and what ‘Woke C.S. Lewis’ got wrong - We resent those we have wronged. We resent those we have harmed. We resent those we are harming.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Government Denies People Access to Asylum Because of Language Barriers. We're Fighting Back. - Every year, thousands of asylum seekers from diverse corners of the world seek refuge in the United States. Many — like Indigenous people from Latin Amer...
Claytoonz

Sea Speaker Sink - I don’t get why Marjorie Taylor Greene has so much power in the House. It’s not like she’s a negotiator. She doesn’t sponsor significant legislation. She d...
Wolf Street

Home Sales Clobbered by Mortgage Rates. New Listings & Active Listings Surge. Most Price Reductions for any March in Years - Price reductions of existing homes jump to 31.7% of active listings, highest since 2017.
Ring of Fire

Dark Money Dems Fight Against Lowering Drug Prices - America’s Lawyer E94: Democrats in the House have given tons of money to a group that is fighting AGAINST their own agenda – we’ll explain why this is ha...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How It Should Be Done: Normalized Violence and Abuse and The World As It Is - Tom Cotton and others like him are now saying the quiet part loud.
Church and State

What causes overconsumption & overshoot? - Earth’s overshoot, overpopulation, and overconsumption are deeply rooted in human behavior.
Socialist Alternative

Everyone Watches Women’s Basketball - It’s been a historic winter for women’s basketball. The NCAA Women’s National Championship basketball game between South Carolina and Iowa was viewed by ov...
Project Censored

Ed-Tech’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Deficit: The Galactic Gulf Between Rhetoric and Action - “University of Florida Eliminates all DEI-Related Positions,” read a March 2, 2024, New York Times headline. The article documented how Florida’s decisio...
Ian Welsh

Why I Rarely Care About The Events Of the Day - [image: Why I Rarely Care About The Events Of the Day] There are two forces in history. The first is weight. Or mass. Or trajectory. The unstoppable force...
Bracing Views

In Praise of TomDispatch - W.J. Astore Tom Engelhardt Is the Post-9/11 Generation’s I.F. Stone Today’s post has a simple goal: to praise TomDispatch, a regular, reliable, and highly ...
Earthworks

The Cradle-to-Grave Impacts of Plastic on Human Health and the Environment Must be Considered in the Plastic Treaty Negotiations - Written by Jill Hunkler, who has witnessed the devastating impacts of the petrochemical industry in the Ohio River Valley, including … The post The Crad...
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 ...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the Martians attack - A short well-done animated tribute to HG Wells's novel *War of the Worlds*, shown partly from the Martian viewpoint.
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...
Common Dreams

Free Press Action Praises House Passage of Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act - On Wednesday, the House voted to advance the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (FANFSA), legislation that would restrict law enforcement and intellige...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Pro-Russia governor of Gagauzia falsely claims Moldovans don’t want to join EU - Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union.
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Told you so' moment regarding book ban is latest embarrassment for 'culture warrior' Ron DeSantis - Florida Gov Ron DeSantis While many eyes are on Donald Trump's trial, former presidential candidate FL Gov Ron DeSantis is facing another embarrassment ...
Crooked Timber

Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people - In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is generall...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

My Blog Is Ranked Number 5 Among The Top Education Blogs In Texas: Showing "My Flex" on this day of April 17, 2024 - * Friends,* *As you can view **for yourselves** here, I am very pleased to announce that my blog is ranked number 5 among the top education blogs in Texa...
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*.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: God's Misfits, sovereign citizen trial, far-right fighter - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
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...
OpEd News

Nuclear Arms Bros - "I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling
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
The Progressive Wing

April 16-19 Open Threads - Hey everyone! 🙂 Well, if the mediocre, for-profit MSM can be believed, we’re dodging that infamous nuke conflagration known as WWIII. At least for now, b...
Krebs on Security

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina? - For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking in...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Marxist Viewing of Dune: Part Two - The latest movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune, Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve, has set truly intergalactic box office re...
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...
Progressives Chat

More War! - This coming Saturday [April 20, 2024] marks the 25-year anniversary of the mass shootings and murders at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. It w...
Avedon's Sideshow

She fills her drawing book with line - All I know is it was identified as "Bobilo art" and I liked it. My favorite video from this eclipse is not of the sun itself, but of the pinhole camera ...
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...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albania...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTI-CHOICE WITH A (REALLY BAD) EXPLANATION EDITION. - *Friend of mine alerted me. This is the kind of goofy shit I love.* Yeah, I missed last week’s edition. I offer no apologies. It’s been a long time betwe...
Lowering the Bar

O.J. Simpson Embarks on Long, Slow Bronco Ride Into Eternity - Although that's probably not where it will end up.
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...
Robert Reich

Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?It’s a paradox. Inflation... - *Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?* It’s a paradox. Inflation is dropping but prices aren’t coming down. How can this be? Because corporations hav...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

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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 Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS | POLICE AUDITORS | How police deny us our rights: A view from YouTube - By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2023 In 40 years as an attorney, I have encountered the police in many contexts. I have received three warning...
Greg Palast

Before Scorsese’s film, before Grann’s book, there was a poemElise Paschen reads Wi’-gi-e, the inspiration for Killers of the Flower Moon - Osage poet Elise Paschen reads "Wi’-gi-e", the poem which gave the title to the film and book, *Killers of the Flower Moon*. We filmed her special reading ...
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 ...
Moron Majority

The Only Book Donald Trump Has Ever Read -
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...
Texas Watch

In the News: USAA members injured in car wrecks battling San Antonio insurer over medical payments - Texas Watch Executive Director Ware Wendell was quoted in *San Antonio Express-News* staff writer Patrick Danner's recent article on the struggle for US...
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 ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Ve Vill Bury You! - Da, komrade, and then ve are takink kare of Moose and Sqvirrel! Oh, f’crissake, are they shittin’ us with this mess? Are they really that desperate to take...
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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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