Brains and Eggs: С Новым Годом (pronounced "S novim godom"; Happy New Year in Russian)

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

Raw Story

'Tremendous shortage': Border Patrol shrunk drastically during Trump's first term - WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump has promised to hire 10,000 more Border Patrol agents as part of a crackdown on immigration. That may be a tall...
Mediaite

JUST IN: Judge Delays Trump Hush Money Sentencing As Lawyers Seek To Get Case Thrown Out - Donald Trump was scheduled to be sentenced next week for dozens of convictions, but Judge Juan Merchan granted a delay. The post JUST IN: Judge Delays Tru...
Dissident Voice

Hands Off Haiti - Uncaptured Media founder Dan Cohen spoke at a Nov. 20 UN Security Council meeting on a U.S. proposal for a UN military intervention in Haiti. The post Han...
memeorandum

Greene to chair 'DOGE' House subcommittee in conjunction with Musk, Ramaswamy (Emily Brooks/The Hill) - Emily Brooks / The Hill: *Greene to chair ‘DOGE’ House subcommittee in conjunction with Musk, Ramaswamy* — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will cha...
Al Jazeera English

Is it really a ‘natural’ disaster? | All Hail - Human factors contribute to how devastating the impact of weather events is.
Second Nexus

Dem Rep. Expertly Pinpoints Why Republicans Are Dismantling DEI Programs In Mic Drop Rant - Speaking during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Summer Lee expertly pinpointed why diversity, equity, and inc...
Salon.com

House passes bill that could allow Trump to go after "terrorist supporting" nonprofits - Critics say the bill would allow the president to crack down on any nonprofit he disagrees with politically
Eschaton

Jurisdiction - Sure it's a genocide, but our focus now is on technicalities that will let the defendants go free. The White House says it is working with Israel on a res...
Political Wire

Texas Offers Land for Staging Mass Deportations - “Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect ...
Undernews

BLACK FRIDAY - *WalletHub -* With 31% of American consumers planning to spend less during the 2024 holiday season relative to 2023, the personal-finance website WalletH...
SCOTUSblog

Nondelegation doctrine, abortion clinic protest, and transgender student athletes - [image: Nondelegation doctrine, abortion clinic protest, and transgender student athletes]The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Suprem...
Futurism

COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil - While attending the United Nations' latest climate summit in Azerbaijan, a New York Times reporter decided to engage in the time-honored local custom of ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

How millions of US children would be hurt by Trump’s mass deportation plan: ‘Deep harm is intentional’ - When Trump executes his sweeping agenda, 4 million children who are US citizens may have their lives upended Donald Trump confirmed on Monday his intenti...
San Antonio Report

Vote for your favorite local band in KLRN’s City Showdown - [image: KLRN City Showdown contestants. Top row: District 1: DELENDA, District 2: 34K, District 3: Los Juanos. Middle Row: District 4: Vinny Tovar, Distric...
The Verge

The newest Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite are on sale for the first time - [image: A matcha Kindle next to a black Paperwhite.] *The new Paperwhite is bigger, and the base Kindle comes in a new color.* | Photo: David Pierce / The...
Axios

What to know about Pam Bondi, Trump's second AG pick - President-elect Trump tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general after former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration ...
naked capitalism

Fueling the Flames: How the West’s Military Emissions Undermine Climate Action - World leaders criticized COP29 host Azerbaijan for its oil-dependent economy while ignoring the massive climate bootprint of their militaries.
The Root

Denzel Washington Recalls Praying to See God's Face. What He Saw Will Shock You - Denzel Washington’s press run in promotion of “Gladiator II” has granted us special gems of moments from the actor’s life over the course of his career. ...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s genocide Day 412: Two-day Israeli raid in Jenin kills nine Palestinians - [image: Israeli army vehicles are seen during a military raid in the Jenin camp, in the occupied West Bank, on November 19, 2024. Violence in the West Bank...
Mediagazer

The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021 (The New York Times Company) - The New York Times Company: *The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and ...
Bonddad

October existing home sales: a pause, or possibly reversal, in the rebalancing trend - * - by New Deal democrat* Yesterday’s report on existing home sales indicated, at least for one month, a pause or even reversal in the previous trend...
The Hill

Calling Trump ‘fascist’ displays historical ignorance - While Trump’s rhetoric and some policies may be authoritarian and nationalistic, they lack the full structure and ideological underpinnings of classic fasc...
El Paso Matters

City OK’s pay increases for police, fire retirees; EPISD approves $500 employee stipends; UTEP expands Paydirt Promise - This week’s news roundup looks at payment increases for police and fire retirees, EPISD employee stipends, UTEP’s sensory-friendly theater, and updates ...
Rallblog

Today on TMI: AUA! - This morning at 10 am Eastern (and streaming later) “The TMI Show” with Ted Rall and Manila Chan gives you Too Much Information about: you! “Ted and Mani...
The Mind Unleashed

20 Early Signs Your Body is Fighting Cancer - The human body is an extraordinary machine, constantly working to maintain balance and protect itself from harm. However, when something as serious as canc...
The Week

How much of a blow is ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu? - Action by Hague court damages Israel's narrative that Gaza conflict is a war between 'good and evil'
MintPress News

Six Months of Lies and Pressure: How US and Israeli Interference Stalled Netanyahu’s ICC Arrest Warrant - The ICC finally issued Netanyahu’s warrant, but only after surviving a barrage of threats, legal sabotage, and coordinated smears from Washington and Tel...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Over 2 million children in South Sudan at risk of acute malnutrition - The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report shows that nearly 8 million of South Sudan’s 12 million people will face acute food insecur...
Houston Public Media

Texas is taking a final vote on allowing Bible-infused lessons in public schools - The board has heard emotional testimony from parents, teachers and advocates for and against the lesson plans earlier this week. If approved, Texas would b...
Daily Dot

‘They owe me money money’: Expert says you may be being bamboozled if you buy Canada Dry, Schweppes ginger ale - [image: two panel design with a woman smiling at the camera in one, and a Canada Dry ginger ale can sitting laying on ice.] Ginger ale may not be as natu...
Election Law Blog

New Interactive Data Base from the Center for Political Accountability - The Center for Political Accountability today announced the launch of The Barbara and Morris Pearl 527 Interactive Database, a user-friendly interactive ...
ArcaMax

Americans Don't Do the First Thanksgiving Story Any Justice - We've all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth colony in the new world. How they ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Castillo: Mission and the RGV are moving at a pace that is unstoppable - Land developer Luis Rodrigo Castillo is building a 145-acre industrial park close to Anzalduas International Bridge. He says it could house warehousing, ...
Democracy Now!

Who Is Pam Bondi? Trump Loyalist Tapped for AG Dropped Probe into Trump University After His $25K Donation - Donald Trump has tapped a new loyalist to head the Department of Justice, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who served on his defense team during ...
Alternet

'Barely shows up': AOC rips 'unplugged controller' MTG over House government agency gig - President-elect Donald Trump is proposing a new federal government agency: the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which would be headed by ...
The Conversation

Presidents often claim mandates − especially when they want to expand their power or are on the defensive - Donald Trump claims the 2024 election gave him a mandate. Scholars who study the presidency are skeptical about the entire concept of a mandate. That hasn’...
Techdirt.

Oh Look, It Was Trivial To Buy Troop And Intelligence Officer Location Data From Dodgy, Unregulated Data Brokers - There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lo...
Daily Howler

BAYOUS: The reasons go on and on and on! - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2024* *The problem is frequently Us: *Even if only apocryphally, Diogenes wandered through classical Athens, looking for one honest...
Church and State

As Planet Heads Toward 2.7°C Rise, Tracker Warns Global Climate Action Has ‘Flatlined’ - Existing policies taken by world governments put the world on track for a median estimate of 2.7°C of warming by the end of the century.
Texas Observer

To the CEO of Centerpoint Energy, Who Smirks Next to a Thermostat that Reads 70 Degrees - I am here on the cold tiled floor with my son who is stripped who is down to his diaper.He is learning how to crawl, how to movein this great big world. ...
Novara Media

The New Space Race Is an Arms Race - In October 2024, SpaceX caught a rocket. An astonishing feat of engineering, it took humanity one giant leap closer to the era of everyday space travel – a...
Space City Weather

Nice weather through Saturday gives way to near-record warm in Houston Monday - In brief: Houston gets another day or two of nice weather before a big warm up Sunday and especially Monday (near record highs). A strong front with detail...
DeSmogBlog

Q&A: Cold War Foes Made Treaties to Limit the Spread of Nukes. Could a Similar Approach Wind Down Fossil Fuels? - To watch a video version of this interview, please register for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with D...
Vox

The myth that could cost Democrats the next election - Whenever Democrats lose an election, a debate inevitably ensues over whether they were done in by an unenthused base or an alienated swing electorate. No ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: What’s Logic Got To Do With It? - Probably should have run this Jen Sorensen piece yesterday with Bob Englehart’s commentary on silos, but her point is more nuanced, because she addresses t...
WhoWhatWhy

How to Hope in a Near-Hopeless Time - [image: woman, despair, losing hope] Thoughts on our horrendous loss, the long days since, and the days to come. How to Hope in a Near-Hopeless Time origin...
Angry Bear

The Pick to Be the “Champions of Public Health?” - An Update by Merrill Goozner on Public Health and what this administration has in mind. It appears Trump has his eye on Medicaid and the ACA. Maybe gutti...
The Smirking Chimp

GM, Corporate Greed, and the Reason the Democrats Lost the Election -
Skeptophilia

Curses! Foiled again! - *Never* say "How much weirder can things get?" Ordinarily I'm the least superstitious person in the room, but I make an exception in this case. When you s...
Southeast Texas Record

Gemma Descoteaux Named to “Dallas 500” 2025 List - For the sixth consecutive year, partner Gemma Descoteaux has been named to D CEO Magazine’s annual list of the 500 most influential business leaders in t...
Off The Kuff

Paxton sues Dallas over its marijuana decriminalization law - As expected. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the city of Dallas over the newly approved Proposition R — which decriminalizes up to four ounces o...
Mother Jones

Enjoy Your Air Travel This Thanksgiving. Next Year Will Likely Be Much, Much Worse. - Flying during the Thanksgiving holiday is likely to be terrible—as usual. The lobbying group Airlines for America anticipates a record 31 million people wi...
ProPublica

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s - by Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that...
Ian Welsh

What Does Ukraine Look Like Post War If Russia Imposes The Peace? - [image: What Does Ukraine Look Like Post War If Russia Imposes The Peace?] If you want to demilitarize a country you can do it by treaty, or you can do it...
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Supervising Producer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Scheerpost.com

Juan Cole: The Antidote to Israeli Propaganda - "What's been done to the Palestinians is considered extremely unfair by almost everybody in the world, outside of Western Europe and the United States."
American Prospect

Frontline Democrats Won With Progressive Populist Messages - Longtime Democratic moderates who attacked big business and monopolies outpaced Harris in swing districts.
The Reality-Based Community

Ruben Amorim đến ngay lập tức Zirkzee muốn đi - Zirkzee bất mãn, rục rịch rời Old Trafford Tương lai của tiền đạo trẻ Joshua Zirkzee tại Manchester United đang trở nên mờ mịt. Theo nguồn tin từ Calcio ...
Grist

Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene - Dozens of rural water systems were knocked out by the hurricane. Full recovery may take years.
OpEd News

5 African Haiku - The Burning Giraffe by Daki seems almost prophetic now. Of course, he was crazy. What was with that mustache! He was once on What's My Line? Did you know t...
High Country News

Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again - What are the consequences for the land if the incoming president shrinks the national monument? The post Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again appeared...
The AltWorld

Putin Is Finally Climbing The Escalation Ladder - He wants to deter the even greater provocations that the West might now be plotting, such as […] The post Putin Is Finally Climbing The Escalation Ladder...
Common Dreams

Creepy Butthead Pulls Out - So much for First Lady Elmo Musk's proud boast of "our Hammer of Justice." In mere days, a "fraction of a Scaramucci," icky, scandal-plagued, Neanderthal...
Crooked Media

Gaetz Goes Down - The post Gaetz Goes Down appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The Threats Ahead - Well, our Annual Fund Fall Fund Drive isn’t over yet. As you have probably noticed, it is not going as well as we hoped. We still have about $5,000 to go...
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Suitcase Boy - Meow from Perry.
jobsanger

Exhibits A And B -
World Socialist Web Site

1,500 Australian Woolworths workers begin indefinite strike - To defeat a line-up that includes Woolworths, the media and the Labor government, the strike must be urgently expanded.
Informed Comment

What could go Wrong? Some wealthy Jewish Americans risk alliance with Trump’s White Christian Nationalism - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A small coterie of wealthy Jewish Americans are perversely giddy and glowing over convicted criminal ...
Antiwar.com

Winds of Change Blow Through Ukraine - The winds of change are blowing through Ukraine. The most obvious change – and the only one much discussed in the mainstream media – is Donald Trump. Fro...
Sludge

Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Lobbied for Amazon, Uber, and Qatar - Bondi is a partner at the lobbying firm of Trump bundler Brian Ballard, where she lobbied alongside incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Workers World

Zionist conference protested in Dallas - [image: Zionist conference protested in Dallas] Dallas Palestinians and other Arab peoples, Muslims, Palestine supporters and progressive activists of all...
Popular Resistance

No Child Should Be A Target - The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, along with its international counterparts, is now launching an international campaign to demand that world go...
Brad Blog

How (and Why!) to 'Extend an Olive Branch' to MAGA Family Members Over the Holidays: 'BradCast' 11/21/2024 - It's a jam-packed show today, as we try to fit as much in as we can for our last BradCast until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Yes, we're taking a much-ne...
The Daily Poster

Trump AG Pick Linked To Musk’s Fraud Lawyer - If confirmed, Pam Bondi could shut down a Justice Department probe of Musk’s company, which was represented by her brother.
Ballot Access News

38 Greens and Libertarians Win Nonpartisan Office - On November 5, 20 Green Party members, and 18 Libertarian Party members, who non-partisan elections. Green in Arizona: Haryaksha Gregor Knauer, Joint Techn...
Consortium News

Netanyahu’s Arrest Warrant Also Indicts US Policy - U.S. neocons’ teamwork with the Israel Lobby has marked one of the greatest global calamities of the 21st century, writes Jeffrey Sachs. By Jeffrey D. Sa...
Deadline Politics

Trump Goes Back To Sunshine State For New AG Nominee; Florida’s Pam Bondi Selected After Matt Gaetz Drops Out - Just hours after scandal-ridden ex-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took himself out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s attorney general, the former and future p...
Portside

ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant - ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant jay Thu, 11/21/2024 - 18:46
slacktivist

You’ve got your mother in a whirl - A look at Trump's cabinet picks (they're Very Bad), and a statement on Gaza from American rabbis (it's Pretty Good).
CultureMap Houston

Houston designer Christy Lynn celebrates 5 years with River Oaks pop-up - Houston designer Christy Lynn Lee has had a whirlwind five years and is celebrating with a pop-up store in River Oaks District and a new Resort 2025 Colle...
Texas Monthly

November 2024 Pit Perks - Available exclusively to TM BBQ Club members.
Claytoonz

Giggity Gone - 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...
See You In 2020

As the imperialists threaten all of humanity, we must learn from the Russian people’s determination to fight back - This is a moment of unfathomable peril, maybe more dangerous than any other time in history; but it provides us with a crucial lesson. It shows that if ...
Reform Austin

Abbott Orders Texas Agencies To Cut Ties With China-Linked Investments - Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to Texas state agencies, directing them to fully divest from investments originated from China. In the letter, Abbott ...
Progressive.org

‘Lead and Copper’ Shows How Water Poisoning Runs Downhill - A new documentary about the Flint water crisis draws out the complexities of the problem.
Krebs on Security

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of ...
Wolf Street

Demand Destruction for Existing Homes: Sales in 2024 Track Lowest since 1995 amid Highest Supply for October in 6 Years - Too-high home prices cause demand destruction on an epic scale. Buyers’ strike continues in November and December.
Capital & Main

‘It Felt Like an Uphill Battle All Year,’ Says Arizona Grassroots Leader - Despite wins on abortion and Senate race, a progressive group backing Harris faced voter apathy and backlash over immigration. The post ‘It Felt Like an ...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
Rewire

Analysis: The Limits of a Tragic Story - Savita Halappanavar's death is widely seen as a catalyst for Ireland's abortion reform, but the truth is more nuanced—and offers important lessons for th...
Reveal

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle - [image: Taylor Cadle, a young woman with dark hair and wearing a black sweater and jeans ripped above the knee, looks directly into the camera with an unfl...
Project Censored

News Literacy for Activists - By Eleanor Goldfield I could hit you with a garden shovel, but I wouldn’t call it gardening. Likewise, I wouldn’t call it journalism when the corporate m...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Dear America: My immigrant mother 'stole' American jobs: A 'confession' from a child of Mexican immigrants - *Friends:* *I appreciate Dr. Alvaro Huerta's "confession" and it should provide a helpful perspective on how his mother never stole an American job. Henc...
Discourse

Bury the #Resistance Once and For All - It had a bad run, and now it’s over.
Infidel753

Biden -- and Ukraine -- confront a risky future - During his remaining time in office, Biden is taking steps to mitigate the most dangerous aspect of Trump's impending return to power -- the unpredictabil...
Bud Kennedy

Before the JFK assassination, Secret Service agents partied until 6 a.m. in Fort Worth | Opinion - We always say the story of Nov. 22, 1963 begins and ends in Fort Worth, from a presidential breakfast visit to the burial two days later of his accused ass...
Texas Standard

An insect expert’s top 7 bugs to look for around Texas - Yes, there are two cockroaches on the list. But they are not the ones you’re likely used to seeing.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace gets angry at reporter for interrupting her transphobic publicity wave with questions about Boeing layoffs in South Carolina - South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace has been riding the anti-trans train over the last 24 hours, doubling down on her targeting of trans Congresswoma...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Biden Can Act Now to Limit Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda - President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his political platform. Trump’s cabinet nominees are repo...
Idavox

Social Demonstrators Prepare to Sue State of Tennessee for Violation of Constitutional Rights - It’s about damned time! This in regards to last weekend’s American Renaissance Conference and folks... The post Social Demonstrators Prepare to Sue State...
Ecosophia

The Century of the Other - As a rule, no American election means as much as the shouting immediately afterward might lead you to think. Every four years, with a regularity that clock...
NORML

Analysis: Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Associated With Elevated Risk of Hypertension - [image: marijuana blood pressure][image: marijuana blood pressure]"Taken together, these studies suggest that regular cannabis use is not associated with...
Debunking Christianity

Christian Scholarship Led me to Reject Christianity - [First Published in Nov. 2006] One of the reasons I have rejected Christianity is that I studied the Bible. That's right. I studied the Bible. As I did s...
The Grayzone

Leaked files expose high-level UK military plot to destroy The Grayzone - In their bid to “keep Ukraine fighting,” a covert cell of British military strategists and spooks plotted to destroy “media outriders” that threatened th...
Liberation News

Only a working-class, socialist movement can win trans liberation - Wednesday, Nov. 20, marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we mourn the trans victims of deadly and bigoted violence.
Avedon's Sideshow

One little miracle a day is all I need - I feel worse than I thought I would if this happened, even though I probably expected it more than a lot of lefties and Democrats did. The whole Cheney ...
Trivial Knot

A better masculinity, for those who don’t want it - A few months ago, I went to an ace unconference–an unconference being an event where attendees create sessions on the spot, rather than planning sessions i...
Ring of Fire

Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block - The post Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Border/Lines

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

10 Houston Restaurant Closings to Know Right Now, November 2024 - [image: Kim Son’s dim sum spread of steamed dumplings and fried morsels.] Another Kim Son location is set to shutter. | Mai Pham Say farewell. Kim Son’s ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Profiles in Cowardice: Morning Joe and Capitulation Among Liberals in the Trump Era - Morning Joe was just the first chapter in what is sure to be a long, destructive, and frustrating collapse during the Trump Era
Political Garbage Chute

Leaked Email: Trump Will Make Musk U.S. Ambassador to Epstein Island - Presumably, there have to be some perks to buying the favor and attention of the President of the United States of America. Why else would financiers lik...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Inside the Beehive - An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple contro...
Bracing Views

Yet Another Smear Piece on Tulsi Gabbard - W.J. Astore Where else but the New York Times In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard: How Tulsi Gabbard Became ...
NPR's Health Shots

PHOTOS: We're flush with pictures of toilets. They're what the world needs now! - Yes, it's time to talk about toilets. Billions of people do not have access to a safe and effective latrine. Let's plumb the depths, so to speak.
Crooked Timber

Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli - A few weeks ago, I drew up a flowchart to estimate the probability that Trump would establish a dictatorship in the US, which looked, at the time, like an ...
Earthworks

Refinery Pollution Threatens Montana’s Yellowstone River - The television show “Yellowstone” has put a spotlight on Montana and the iconic Yellowstone River, renowned for its spectacular beauty … The post Refine...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

A Second Twenty Years’ Crisis? - How is E.H. Carr representative of mid-twentieth century intellectuals who tried to understand not so much the political irruptions of their time, but ra...
The Progressive Wing

11/18-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - And the crapalooza continues
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemical Impacts Transparent With TCO Development’s Stephen Fuller - Being a consumer in an advanced economy—or any economy these days—is challenging because you cannot... The post Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemi...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Highlights - *Progressives Chat* will soon conclude covering outcomes for Election 2024. I will wrap-up with such related blog topics next week. In fact, next week wi...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Jamaal Bowman: How AIPAC Drove Me Out of Congress & My Views on Palestine Changed - Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
Democracy Chronicles

Why Pursuing Peace with Iran is Critical for Global Stability - Fostering peace with Iran could prevent devastating global consequences from a broader Middle East conflict.
The Militant

UAW holds first strike ever at Georgia automotive parts plant - LITHONIA, Ga. — “We’re striking for better pay and benefits and against unfair treatment by supervisors,” Myra Williams, a union representative for United ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BRINGIN' IT ALL BACK HOME EDITION. - *Never out of fashion.* Another week into the over-the-cliff phase of the death of democracy! The appointments Tubby’s trying to push through the lame du...
Media Lens

Buried Out Of Sight: Deliberate Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Children Becomes ‘Local News’ On The BBC - Imagine an experienced Ukrainian surgeon breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately target...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Tale of Two PSYOPS - Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominat...
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
Lowering the Bar

Insurer Thinks Bear Shown in Video Trashing Car Looks a Lot Like a Guy in a Bear Suit - So did the California Department of Insurance.
Alas, a Blog

Ohio Passes School and College Trans Bathroom Ban - My alma mater Oberlin, and all schools and colleges in Ohio (private schools and colleges included) is going to be forced to ban trans students from using ...
LareDOS

Jorge Alberto Uribe May 27, 1939 – November 10, 2024 - Rancher Jorge Alberto Uribe of Lytle, and formerly of San Ygnacio, passed away November 10.
Land Destroyer

The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks - *November 13, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, Americans and many around the world invested hop...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Hair Of The Dog - Yeah, yeah, I know… but the only way to properly express the mood of this piece was to set it in a dark, grim mid-20th dive, with a permanently-circulating...
nonsite.org

Going Forward from the Edge of the Abyss - Trump has no new coalition; he can’t because those “groups” aren’t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like c...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2024 - Walmart had another six shootings, with two of them fatal in October of 2024, including one officer involved shooting after an automobile crash, and ano...
Field Negro

Post- Mortem - *~Paraphrasing Ali Velshi~ The most powerful person in America is not Donald J. Trump, it's you.* These are tough times for progressives and democrat...
Texas Freedom Network

Elections are not the beginning or end - If I may: stretch out of the fetal position. Take a deep breath. Put on whatever jacket makes you feel confident, and strike a power pose. My therapist m...
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...
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...
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

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Web of Debt

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

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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...
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...
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Robert Reich

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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

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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

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Socialist Alternative

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Black Agenda Report

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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

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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...
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Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Equality Texas

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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...
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The Disorder Of Things

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Countercurrents

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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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

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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...
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Dorf on Law

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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

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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."
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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...
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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, January 01, 2020

С Новым Годом (pronounced "S novim godom"; Happy New Year in Russian)

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