Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

And so they did https://t.co/u40rGSacVy
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) November 6, 2024

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

CNN Reports on How Trump’s Incoming Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and ‘Tightly Coordinated Operation’ Will Stop the MAGA ‘Clown Car’ - CNN's Dana Bash discussed the appointment of Susie Wiles as President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff on Friday. The post CNN Reports on How Trump’s I...
Eschaton

I Didn’t Do It - As I said yesterday or the day before, people with access and microphones are going to do their best to convince friendly journalists that it was everybody...
Reform Austin

Texas Secessionists Declare Victory After 10 Independence-Backed Republicans Win House Seats - Texas secessionists have claimed victory and celebrated a “revolution in Texas politics,” after 10 Republican candidates that supported Texas seeking ind...
The Hill

Armed teen stopped from entering Wisconsin elementary school: Police - An armed 13-year-old student was arrested hours after being stopped from entering an elementary school in Kenosha, Wisc. on Thursday, according to police r...
CultureMap Houston

Luxurious California-based Pilates studio opening soon in Houston - An innovative, luxurious Pilates studio is set to open in West University in December. It helps clients increase flexibility and strength through high-cal...
The Week

Usha Vance: a political spouse with a 'conspicuous resume' - The new second lady plays a behind-the-scenes role
Slate

Looks Like Trump Got Away With It - Here’s what will become of the Trump trials now.
The Root

This New Badass, Female Member of Rihanna's Entourage Has Everyone Talking - While Rihanna and her stylish, rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky are used to being in the news for their fabulous fashions, adorable parenting moments and more...
Salon.com

In our hour of need, Calm gave us puppies on election night - A Calm spokesperson discusses political anxiety, its silent ad, that Tom Hardy as Venom Sleep Story and more
Daily Dot

‘Final boss of democracy’: TikTok memes dream of Trump abolishing term limits—and Obama coming back to wax him - [image: Obama 2028 on TikTok] Democrats on TikTok are fantasizing about the return of former President Barack Obama to the White House in 2028—despite th...
Texas Standard

Could John Cornyn take the role of Senate majority leader? - Mitch McConnell will step down from the position after almost a decade.
Futurism

If You Voted, Now Your Address and Party Registration Are Publicly Available Online - Broker Fee One data-hoovering website is making it easier than ever to not only find out a person's party affiliation and whether or not they voted, but ...
Political Wire

New Media Is Leaving the Old Guard Behind - Wall Street Journal: “TV news remains a massive draw for Americans in the biggest moments. But younger audiences have fled, and there were signs even on el...
The Conversation

What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter? - Historical examples abound of American news consumers being presented with verified facts about controversial figures or events, only to have the excellent...
Al Jazeera English

What could Donald Trump’s return to the White House mean for Europe? - There is anxiety among European leaders over trade, the future of NATO, and Russia's war in Ukraine.
Houston Public Media

Texas A&M regents overrule faculty, cut 52 ‘low-producing’ programs including LGBTQ+ studies minor - After conservative criticism over the LGBTQ+ minor, university officials started looking at all its programs. Faculty say they were excluded from the process.
Vox

Germany’s political upheaval, explained - Germany appears headed toward an unexpected election — and complete political upheaval — after its deeply unpopular ruling coalition collapsed this week. U...
World Socialist Web Site

Demands grow for UK Labour government to massively increase military spending - With the election of US President Donald Trump, a chorus is growing that all delays to raising military spending must end and that it is hiked higher than ...
Raw Story

'Not answering the question': CNN host confronts ex-Trump adviser over separated families - Marc Lotter, the former Trump 2020 director of strategic communications, was confronted by CNN's Pamela Brown for not answering her questions on immigran...
Axios

Judge grants Jack Smith's request to pause Trump's federal Jan. 6 case - The judge overseeing President-elect Trump's federal Jan. 6 case granted special counsel Jack Smith's request Friday to pause proceedings in the case. *...
Novara Media

Democrats Have Only Themselves to Blame - [image: A woman puts her hands on her chest]One way to process a traumatic event is to tell yourself things couldn’t have been any other way. When Hillary ...
Church and State

Trump Win Fulfills Oligarchy’s 50-Year Plan for Right-Wing Takeover - We just watched the final fulfillment of a 50 year plan. Louis Powell laid it out in 1971, and every step along the way Republicans have follow it.
Election Law Blog

“Special counsel Jack Smith calls for a halt in Trump prosecution” - Politico: Special counsel Jack Smith has moved to cancel a series of deadlines in his Washington, D.C. criminal case against Donald Trump for seeking to ...
memeorandum

This Democratic defeat - and the rise of Trump 2.0 - was a decade in the making (Chuck Todd/NBC News) - Chuck Todd / NBC News: *This Democratic defeat — and the rise of Trump 2.0 — was a decade in the making* — Analysis: Biden's age and inability to sell ...
Alternet

Raging Trump demands investigation over 'probably illegal rumors' about his upcoming plans - Donald Trump reverted back to form on Friday morning, just days after he won re-election, by running to his Truth Social platform and raging about rumors...
Discourse

The Democratic Party Doesn't Work - The party has been rotting for years and years. Now we're all paying the price.
Techdirt.

Embarrassed By Its Own Wiretap Scandal, Mauritius Gov’t Hits Citizens With A Social Media Ban - It’s the sort of thing we see a lot of: a government gets caught doing something wrong and decides it’s the public that needs to suffer for the government’...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win - FBI investigating after people report texts saying they were selected to pick cotton and go to nearest plantation Just hours after Donald Trump’s electio...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Making sense of the election’s nonsense - The Nov. 5 election will have dark consequences for our nation, a retired colonel predicts. The post Opinion: Making sense of the election’s nonsense ap...
The Verge

What a second Trump presidency means for tech - [image: An image showing Donald Trump on a red and green background] Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Donald Trump’s second term means significant change...
Political Garbage Chute

How Many Hours Will My 90 Year Old Grandma Need to Work to Pay for Eggs and Milk? - …the incoming president’s advisers would like women to first be put to work as birthing cows, but my grandma hasn’t been of child-bearing age for a few d...
Eater Houston

D.C.’s Steak Frites-Only Chain Brings $31 Meal (With Free Seconds) to Houston - [image: A plate of steak frites divided by a line of secret sauce at Medium Rare.] Medium Rare offers an unbeatable deal on steak frites. | Alex Staniloff...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Calls For Investigation Of Those Who Spread Rumors He Plans To Sell Off Truth Social Shares - Donald Trump is calling for an investigation of those who spread “fake rumors or statements” that he plans to sell shares in Truth Social, his social media...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 16: Wounded Democrats Scramble to Regroup - On today’s TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan are joined by former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers to discuss the fallou...
Undernews

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American Prospect

The Triumphant Return of Corruption - A look at the biggest stock gainers since Trump’s election shows that paying tribute to the next president will have its benefits.
Crooked Timber

For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage - One of my favorite metasciences lines is: “Does anyone look around and say…things are going great, I just think we need MORE PAPERS?” Obviously, we all wan...
Second Nexus

Don Jr. Reveals Alarmingly Telling Criteria For Trump's Cabinet Picks—And We're So Doomed - Donald Trump Jr. was criticized after he told Fox News what criteria he has for his father's Cabinet picks—revealing that in a second Trump administratio...
Ballot Access News

Libertarian Nominees for U.S. Senate Polled 950,000 Votes, Even Though Party Only Had 13 Candidates - Libertarian nominees for U.S. Senate this year polled approximately 950,000 votes, although an exact count is several weeks away and it may be somewhat hig...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Revenge of Trumpenstein - So, it’s déjà vu all over again. That’s right, he’s back! Trumpenstein the Monster! Literal Russian-Agent Hitler! The Ayatollah of Orange Shinola! And this...
Consortium News

Tooth-Fairy Politics - Trump or Harris, the outcome of this election was never going to make a meaningful difference to the victims of the U.S. empire, whatever we were told, wri...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County Democratic Party Chair resigns after Tuesday’s losses - Bexar County Democratic Party Chair Monica Ramirez Alcántara resigns after Election Day losses. ------------------------------ Bexar County Democratic Party...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, Nov. 8 - [image: The morning read for Friday, Nov. 8]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the...
Space City Weather

Winter outlook for 2024-2025: We’re having a winter, right? - In brief: This post offers a look back at our very warm fall, and asks whether this warmer pattern is likely to carry over into the winter. Spoiler: the an...
OpEd News

Excerpt from BBC World, "Gaza's top Islamic scholar issues fatwa criticizing 7 October attack" followed by reflection - I don't think the United States has the capacity or desire to look within or to see itself in the commission of another nation's sins and atrocities. Maybe...
DeSmogBlog

Meet Teneo: The Global PR Firm Promoting COP29 Host Azerbaijan as a Climate Champion - A secret recording. Damaging headlines. Allegations of “treason.” For Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 climate talks opening in the capital Baku on Monday,...
The AltWorld

Are Trump and MAGA America Sufficiently Realistic to Survive and Restore Our Nation? - Dear Readers: Without doubt here is the best and most comprehensive election report available: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/election-aftermath-...
Rio Grande Guardian

Judge Cortez: It’s time to re-evaluate our approach to economic development - Business leaders have an important and integral role to play in the success of the region's economic development plans, says Hidalgo County Judge Richard...
naked capitalism

DNC Doubles Down on Failure, Rejecting Sanders’ Calling Out Party for Abandoning Workers and Economic Justice - Quelle surprise! Some Democratic party leaders double down, denying Sanders was right and kicking workers and the poors is not a good strategy
The Grayzone

‘House of horrors’: Israeli journalist-turned-intel officer confirms widescale torture of Palestinians - Horrifying testimony of scenes in a detention center for Palestinians appear to constitute an unprecedented public admission of torture by Israeli forces...
Dissident Voice

A Silent Cry in the Fog of War - War never changes. The circumstances, participants, causes and locations may vary, but the essence remains unchanged: war is always a tragedy, since it i...
Mediagazer

In a note to staff, Roula Khalaf says US editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is leaving the FT for Semafor and will be replaced by Derek Brower from December 1 (Ben Smith/@semaforben) - Ben Smith / @semaforben: *In a note to staff, Roula Khalaf says US editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is leaving the FT for Semafor and will be replaced by ...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Fiorentina vs Verona lúc 21h00 ngày 10/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Serie A, tại vòng 12, thi đấu trong khi có đội hình thi đấu hiệu quả hơn cùng lợi thế sân đấu, Fiorentina sẽ có cơ hội nâng điểm ...
Liberation News

Trump gana mientras el Partido Demócrata se mueve más a la derecha - La incapacidad del Partido Demócrata para responder a las necesidades de la clase trabajadora condujo a la victoria de Donald Trump en las elecciones de 2024.
Bonddad

How the Fed helped Doom the Democrats - * - by New Deal democrat* This is not a formal post about Tuesday’s election. But with the benefit of “revealed preference” a/k/a 20/20 hindsight, it...
Texas Monthly

Collecting 100,000 Cicada Shells Ain’t Easy - Diego Miró-Rivera climbed hundreds of trees during the “cicada apocalypse” to gather exoskeletons, which he turned into a series of collages on display now...
MintPress News

How Did Israeli Forces Slip Through? Officials in Lebanon Question German Role in Kidnapping Raid - The kidnapping of Lebanese sea captain Imad Amhaz by Israeli forces has prompted Beirut to seek answers, with questions mounting over whether Germany qui...
Daily Howler

NEW NORMALS: What explains the outcome of the campaign? - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2024* *Great American Novels gone wild: *When it comes to the nationwide popular vote, how large will Candidate Trump's victory margin ...
Debunking Christianity

How Much Horrendous Suffering Can Christian Theology Tolerate? - *The survival of the church depends on the devout not noticing* During my recent stay in London, I visited *The Wiener Holocaust Library*, which is an eas...
Scheerpost.com

It’s Time To Stop Buying Into Tooth-Fairy Politics - Trump or Harris, a further slide towards authoritarianism and repression was on the cards. A corrupt, failed system won’t admit its mistakes. It will find ...
The Progressive Wing

11/8-10 News Roundup and Open Thread - And the post mortems continue.
First Draft

How Dems Could Handle Media Moving Forward - Too much of the media failed us during the campaign. Will they fail us in a dark Trump future?
NPR's Health Shots

Getting more light in the day and less at night is good for your health. Here's why - Diet, exercise and sleep are fundamental to our health, but so it our relationship to light. A massive, new study suggests light-driven disruption can take...
Democracy Now!

End the Arms: Humanitarian Chief Jan Egeland Urges U.S. to Stop Arming Israel Before Trump Takes Office - Top U.N. officials are again warning that the entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is “at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence.”...
ArcaMax

Be the Light That Trump's Hate Is Forced To Face - Too many American voters thought Donald Trump was the better choice for president. By doing so, voters put their name on their values and showed the world ...
The Smirking Chimp

How Garland’s ‘Truly Historic Legal Missteps’ Let Trump Dodge Accountability -
WhoWhatWhy

Women Voters and the Firewall That Wasn’t - [image: Lady Liberty, feminist voter, protester in costume] What happened to women voters as Harris drew fewer of them than Biden in 2020? Even in pro-choi...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Election Returns - Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it...
Skeptophilia

A botanical chameleon - One of the things I love most about science is its capacity to astonish us. You can be really knowledgeable in a field, and then the natural world slings a...
Seeing the Forest

How Dem Betrayal Brought Us Trump - Of all people, David Brooks, in a confession, does a good job or explaining Trumpism in Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? Read it all, but this about mo...
Off The Kuff

Mike Miles is disappointed in us - So sorry. Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles called voters’ rejection of the district’s proposed $4.4 billion school bond — the largest school bond in T...
Mother Jones

Five Christian Nationalist Action Items for Trump’s Next Term - Over the last few months leading up to the election, I’ve been writing about an ascendant fundamentalist religious movement whose leaders believe that the ...
ProPublica

Courts Appoint Special Counsel to Oversee Reform of New York’s Troubled Guardianship System - by Jake Pearson ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Grist

Here are the 5 issues to watch at COP29 - With U.S. climate commitments in question, the United Nations is forging ahead at this year’s COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Infidel753

A last few election notes - The most frustrating thing about this is that I had seriously thought we would get a Democratic trifecta and start to move the country forward in a big wa...
Crooked Media

Bonus Episode: The Fall of Eric Adams - The post Bonus Episode: The Fall of Eric Adams appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

Key Senate and House races remain uncalled across the West - A dramatic shift by Latino voters toward Trump helped create a red wave. The post Key Senate and House races remain uncalled across the West appeared fi...
Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiff Alleges Negligence Against Grocery Chain Following Slip-and-Fall Incident - Alexander Kidonakis has taken legal action against H-E-B following a slip-and-fall incident at one of their stores which resulted in severe injuries. Rea...
Counterpunch

“America Against America” or The Night of the Living Dead Democracy - “Don’t expect civilization here… This is a brutal place… It may be that the centers of government were always this way and now we’ve merely pulled off th...
jobsanger

Voters Don't Mind Some People Being Above The Law -
Informed Comment

Netanyahu, Delirious at Trump’s Return, Dumps his Defense Minister to Pursue Complete Occupation of Gaza - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It was no coincidence that Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu chose the US Election Day to fire his...
Antiwar.com

Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel Is Delegitimizing the United Nations - On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) f...
Brad Blog

It's Not All Bad: Abortion Rights Won Big (Almost) Everywhere on Tuesday: 'BradCast' 11/7/2024 - We do our best to avoid being Pollyanna-ish on The BradCast. But not everything that happened on Tuesday (or since) has been terrible. Just a lot of it. Bu...
See You In 2020

Mike Pompeo: the deep state agent who will make sure Trump works to purge anti-imperialists - Mike Pompeo’s success at gaining a place within Trump’s new inner circle is a highly ominous development. A development that ought to make everyone with...
Workers World

The testament and last will of Yahya Sinwar - [image: The testament and last will of Yahya Sinwar] The leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, was martyred by Israeli forces on Oct. 16, 2024. The images showing...
Sludge

Trump Selects Corporate Lobbyist Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff - Wiles is co-chair at lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs and has represented clients in the tobacco, junk food, insurance, and coal industries.
Progressive.org

Beyond the Streets: Redefining Family Homelessness in America - A new book and the three women who inspired it call for more resources for families experiencing homelessness.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

I was going to step down from Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, but . . . - If Kamala Harris had won Tuesday's election, I would have announced I was stepping down from Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters and closing shop. I'm sur...
Portside

Election Analysis – What Happens, Why, What Next? - Election Analysis – What Happens, Why, What Next? jay Thu, 11/07/2024 - 19:18
Popular Resistance

What Led To Trump’s Win? - Former president, TV personality, and businessman Donald Trump was elected on November 5 to serve a second term as president of the United States. While ...
Wolf Street

Fed’s Balance Sheet Drops Below $7 Trillion. QT: -$53 Billion in Oct., -$1.97 Trillion from Peak, to $6.99 Trillion, Back to May 2020 - Quantitative Tightening has shed 41% of the assets that the Fed had added during pandemic QE.
Texas Observer

For Texas Democrats, a Lost Decade - There is a room with three doors. Each bears a label: “Latino Vote,” “Purpling Suburbs,” and “Big City Turnout.” This November, Texas Democrats opened th...
slacktivist

Back to basics - The simplest, most basic lesson Mister Rogers taught us -- almost every day, in almost every show -- had two parts to it. Most of our problems come from fo...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s Genocide Day 398: Israel admits it is depopulating north Gaza, says it will expand offensive to Beit Lahia - [image: Displaced Palestinians ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate the northern part of Gaza flee amid an Israeli military operation in Jabalia, Oc...
Angry Bear

Six thoughts about the election and democracy - The Trump problem is not – and never has been – the electoral college The problem is that Donald Trump is a competitive presidential candidate in the Uni...
Claytoonz

Know Your Place - Read the blog at my Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through PayPal. I...
Unlimited Hangout

Get Ready for the Republican Carbon Market - Despite Republican rhetoric and Trump’s past policy on the Paris agreement, the incoming Trump administration is being heavily influenced by figures tied...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—November 2024 - Statement on the 2024 Presidential Election With the election of Donald Trump to a second presidential term, Project Censored reaffirms its longstanding ...
Moron Majority

We Did It! - Congrats fellow Americans, we did it again! After a nail-biting election, President Trump is here to save us all! Forget the naysayers and pundits—we the p...
Common Dreams

Incendiary Weapons: New Use Calls for Immediate Action - Countries concerned by the severe physical, psychological, socioeconomic, and environmental harm caused by incendiary weapons should work to strengthen t...
The Mind Unleashed

Top 5 Unsolved Mysteries in the Scientific Community - Science has brought us extraordinary insights, from the intricate design of DNA to the vast cosmos beyond our solar system. Yet, even with these strides, s...
The Daily Poster

What’s To Come Under Trump 2.0 - What we’ve already uncovered about the next Trump administration.
Ian Welsh

It’s The Economy, Stupid (AKA Economists) - [image: It’s The Economy, Stupid (AKA Economists)] Over ninety-nine percent of economists did not predict the 2008 financial crisis. The vast majority of...
Capital & Main

The Real Enemy Within - Roughly half the country, the majority of it white, has opted out of the multiracial democratic experiment. The post The Real Enemy Within appeared firs...
The Texas Signal

A Very Red Texas - Yesterday’s election was a bitter disappointment for Texas Democrats. While there was some optimism that the state could potentially elect a statewide De...
Ring of Fire

TikTok Battles US Government In Court & Classrooms Already Teaching Project 2025 Propaganda - TikTok is currently facing off against the federal government in court as they fight to keep their platform operational after the Biden administration fo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Here’s What We Do NowA Personal Note - Being right never felt so horrid. Before the election, I wrote, “How Trump Won.” And on Election night I waited for the returns to make a fool of me. Inste...
Alas, a Blog

Well this sucks - “Instructions on Living in a Broken World lean into community seek out love applaud the good you see keep paying attention talk to your neighbors dance to ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Hard, Necessary Talk: Thoughts on the 2024 Election - It's a morning to grieve. It's a morning to process. It's a morning to recover. And it's a morning to heal.
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: The Valkyrie 1 - Yes, I know we had a presidential election here in the US yesterday. The remarkable thing about it, after a campaign season so packed with improbabilities ...
Rewire

Even in Florida, Voters Love Abortion Rights - Women are not without electoral or political power. The post Even in Florida, Voters Love Abortion Rights appeared first on Rewire News Group.
NORML

Public Support for Legalization Remains Strong, Despite Election Night Setbacks - [image: us flag cannabis][image: us flag cannabis]Public support for legalizing marijuana remains near its all-time high and momentum in favor of reformi...
Bracing Views

Donald Trump Wins Again - W.J. Astore An unsurprising election result I woke to the news that Donald Trump is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential election. What that means...
Bud Kennedy

How did Donald Trump win? Kamala Harris couldn’t keep Dems’ car from going off cliff | Opinion - Four years ago, Joe Biden said only he could beat Donald Trump. Maybe he was right. Trump is on his way to being America’s president-elect, and nobody shou...
Stinque

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

Election Day Comedy Hour - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Trump and Harris are dressed as vaudevillian/barbershop-quartet-ish comedy duo, with hats, canes, and pin striped vests. Trump says ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

How community leaders and officials in two states took on election deniers - This is the final piece in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are affecting the election process.
Lowering the Bar

November Surprise! State Finally Releases RFK Jr.’s Falconry Records - And they are bogus.
Web of Debt

Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene - Buncombe County North Carolina – damage after Hurricane Helene floods. NCDOTcommunications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wiki...
TalkLeft

Election Day Jitters - I have them. I'm sure any rational person does, when considering the possibility, however slight, that Donald Trump, the most unfit person to run for Pre...
Krebs on Security

Canadian Man Arrested in Snowflake Data Extortions - A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data serv...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: When Your Actions Matter Most - The examples we set for our family, community, and the world make an important difference... The post We Earthlings: When Your Actions Matter Most appear...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Here at Last! - Election Day—and, afterward, Election Night—has arrived. Election 2024 is the 60th quadrennial presidential election in the history of the United State...
Idavox

Health & Wellness Organization Shows Predator the Door - Meet Daniel Hallgren, a guy who used his position in Punk Rock Saves Lives to... The post Health & Wellness Organization Shows Predator the Door appeared...
Democracy Chronicles

How The Supreme Court Could Shape The 2024 Election - Dahlia Lithwick has covered the Supreme Court since the landmark *Bush v. Gore *decision in 2000.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner Of The 2024 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The prize committee is pleased to announce that Elliot Dolan-Evans’ article, titled ‘Pipes, profits and peace: toward a feminist political economy of gas...
Border/Lines

Special Edition — On the election and the paths forward - Immigration news, in context.
LareDOS

Consider this - Why invest in falsehoods rather than truth and in cruelty rather than compassion? Why willingly deny ourselves and others our individual autonomy? And why ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Garbage no.2 (…garbage out) - So, that was the “October Surprise” this time around, huh? That was really it? Old Uncle Joe, movin’ kinda’ slow, suddenly decides to pipe up about some of...
alicublog

SUNDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: CHAMPAGNE OR HEMLOCK EDITION. - *I'm old and I was old then too but how did I miss this?* The title comes from not-yet-governor-elect Mario Cuomo on election night 1982. And I doubt he ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Stick Figure - This design is made by someone I know, a teenager that I see in the local origami space. For him, this is a very simple design, something he can teach oth...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Sabemos lo que hay que hacer! - Estamos listos para construyir un futuro mejor después de las elecciones. Estamos a horas de la elección más importante- y quizás la decisión más important...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 2, 2024* *Perhaps inspired by the Day...
Reading the Pictures

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

Three days and counting. - *" I live in a crazy time" ~Anne Frank~ * Just three days to go, and Americans are bracing for the election of a lifetime. It's hard to believe that D...
The Militant

Vote SWP! The working class needs to take political power! - Back the working-class alternative to capitalist exploitation, oppression WASHINGTON, D.C. — “As conditions of life for the working class in the U.S. deter...
BEYONDbones

Daylight Savings Time | November Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: HMNS Astronomer James Wooten reminds us to adjust our clocks as Daylight Savings Time ends this month. Saturn is an evening object. Look ...
Earthworks

Another Conspiracy Theory Adds to Western North Carolina’s Trauma - In the wake of Hurricane Helene, a string of wild conspiracy theories have circulated across social media, made up by … The post Another Conspiracy Theo...
Save Buffalo Bayou

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

Was Theodor Herzl A Prophet? If So, What Does it Mean? - Theodor Herzl is widely considered the founder of the modern Zionist movement, and by some, he's considered a prophet, and others, both now and when he was...
Reveal

A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist Behind Bars - Abused by her adoptive father, she was victimized again by the police charged with protecting her. A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist B...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
Dissent Magazine

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

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

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus - *The following is a short interview with Bill Burkland, the author of a soon to be released book entitled "The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named J...
Duck of Minerva

Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara? - On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PK...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Every Israeli Accusation Is A Confession, from Lebanon to Palestine, w/ As’ad Abukhalil -
Avedon's Sideshow

Scarlet billows start to spread - Thanks to the late Taral Wayne for once having used this APOD photo by David Lane of the Milky Way over Devil's Tower as his October profile pic. (Original ...
Green Pages News

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

US Government Behind Campaign Violating North Korean Airspace - *October 23, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - North Korea has recently warned against the use of drones over its sovereign airspace to spread subversive prop...
Nina Illingworth

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

New native plant group hoping to take root in DFW - *Organizers are seeking new members to help get Wild Ones DFW off the ground. Photo courtesy of Wild Ones.* Oct. 17, 2024 A new native plant group has s...
Robert Reich

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

“All People Are Beloved by God”: How Progressive Faith Communities Fought for Full LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Within the United Methodist Church - Learn about the United Methodist Church split and why faith values in our Just Texas community demand we fight for inclusion and justice. [...] Read More...
Media Lens

Expanding Beyond Earth – The Illusions Of ‘Progress’ - In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefite...
San Antonio Current

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

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
Grits for Breakfast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

Challenging the New Deal’s “Contemptible Neglect”: The CIO’s Campaign to Organize Agricultural Laborers - That disaster followed in 1947 when Republicans, who won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1946 election, passed the Taft-Hartley amendment to t...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
The Rag Blog

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

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Cambodian authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted - Dozens of rights groups say activists were prosecuted for award-winning environmental work, while authorities denied defendants due process or right to a f...
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Am One of Aimee Stephens’s Lawyers, and I Heard Yesterday’s Argument Firsthand - Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument on whether it is legal to fire people for being transgender or for being gay. I represent Aimee Stephens, th...
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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