Brains and Eggs: Sunday 'Slow Bern' Funnies

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Sunday 'Slow Bern' Funnies

Chuck Todd: 'I don't understand how Bernie is considered a front-runner'

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Bonddad

Housing construction looks even more recessionary - - *by New Deal democrat* Because no data will be released tomorrow due to the Federal holiday, I am going to defer a deeper look at the very importa...
Salon.com

Trump has become an easy mark — and so has America - The president's erratic behavior has left him — and us — open to manipulation from allies and enemies alike
Election Law Blog

New Montana Initiative Seeks to Use Corporate Law to Restrain Corporate Political Spending - Veteran election leaders today unveiled “The Montana Plan,” a ballot initiative that seeks to eliminate corporate and dark money from Montana politics wi...
The Hill

Watch live: Hegseth, Joint Chiefs chair testify before Senate on Pentagon budget - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will testify Wednesday morning on the Pentagon's fiscal 2026 budget request before...
Mediaite

John Podhoretz Tears Into Jedediah Bila for Iran War Opposition: ‘No One Asked You, You Piece of S**t’ - Conservative writer John Podhoretz took aim at Jedediah Bila in a vulgar tweet over Bila declaring she does not want to send her child to fight a war wit...
ArcaMax

Political Violence All the Rage - Scene 1: There I sat in the Senate chamber, waiting for a Republican to decry the use of force against one of their own. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California De...
First Draft

We’re Looking For The Guy Who Did This - This is a rant about Dollar Store Gilead.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump cuts leave hurricane-hit North Carolina town’s rebuilding plans adrift – in pictures - After Hurricane Helene’s flood waters slammed into Lake Lure’s century-old dam last September, the resort town was spurred on to seek federal funding for...
Daily Dot

The hot new lip liner brand on TikTok is just a Sharpie: “I’m doing this, no questions asked” - [image: sharpie lip liner trend] The TikTok ladies started trying an interesting lip liner substitute this month, and you don't need to go to Sephora to ...
Eschaton

Derisking - It is the hot new term in politics. It means "privatize the profits and socialize the losses" as insane lefties who don't understand economics have been ac...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, June 18 - We’re expecting one or more opinions from the court at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Each weekday, we select a short lis...
memeorandum

Republicans Trust Whatever Trump Decides on Farmworker Raids (NOTUS) - NOTUS: *Republicans Trust Whatever Trump Decides on Farmworker Raids* — The administration said it would continue to conduct immigration raids at farms...
Mediagazer

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool,...
Raw Story

Iran's leader 'signed his own death warrant' with new speech: ex-Obama official - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made himself an even bigger target with a defiant speech, according to a foreign policy expert. President Do...
Texas Standard

US immigration policy is stunting the budding genre of regional Mexican - Why millions of fans north of the the border are unlikely to see their favorite acts anytime soon.
Vox

The one thing the Trump administration got very right - If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), it...
Techdirt.

Surprise: Minnesota Killer Used Data Brokers To Target And Murder Politicians - For years we’ve noted how this country’s corrupt inability to protect consumer security, regulate data brokers, or pass even a baseline privacy law was goi...
The Week

Is the G7 still relevant? - Donald Trump's early departure cast a shadow over this week's meeting of the world's major democracies
Al Jazeera English

Israel tried to break Iran – but it may have actually helped unite it - Instead of deepening divisions, Israel’s assault appears to be reinforcing national unity across political lines.
The Verge

Why is the President selling me phone service now? - Blame Ryan Reynolds. With a new wireless brand from the hosts of SmartLess emerging last week, and the debut of Trump Mobile this week, it sure seems like ...
Angry Bear

Can Israel win without boots on the ground? - In its latest attack on Iran, Israel has resorted to bombing and assassination to convince Iran to capitulate on its nuclear program*. What’s the track r...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is set to speak at an event today organised by a pro-Trump think tank and held in the home of the UK’s main climate science...
Houston Public Media

Houston Astros expanding Spanish-language TV broadcasts on Space City Home Network - Starting June 24, a total of 26 Astros home games will be televised in Spanish. There were 15 such broadcasts in 2023 and 17 in 2024.
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Uncle Sam needs your help again - I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheer...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-06-18 -
Political Wire

Tourists Scramble to Get Home from Israel - Wall Street Journal: “This is the first time Israel’s airspace has been closed this long in its 76-year history, and it remains unclear when it will reopen...
naked capitalism

Links 6/18/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Vindictive President’: Senator Tackled by Trump’s FBI Calls Him Out in Blistering Speech -
Off The Kuff

The other redistricting matter - Here’s a story from the Fort Worth Report on the redistricting trial going on in El Paso, with a focus on the effect in Tarrant County. Federal judges in E...
Slate

Help! My Ex-Wife Insists on Coddling Our Daughter. It’s Led to Dire Consequences. - We're already having summer camp struggles.
Mother Jones

“Madness”: A Retired Brig. General Slams Trump’s Military Power Grab - Retired Brigadier General Greg Smith spent 35 years in the Army National Guard. He’s seen riots. He’s protected political conventions. He led the military’...
San Antonio Report

A celebration at the rainbow: Pride District to be recognized this Friday - Years of research went into a report making the case for a Pride Cultural Heritage District in San Antonio, set to be celebrated on June 20. --------------...
Axios

The immigrants caring for the elderly are losing their jobs - The White House immigration crackdown is hitting the long-term healthcare industry, as nursing homes and care providers lose foreign-born employees and s...
American Prospect

Senate Bill Gives Giant Tax Break to Big Oil - A provision inserted by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) would exempt many domestic oil and gas drillers from having to pay any corporate taxes.
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s War on Iran Is the Frontline of a US War on Multipolarity - Israel’s US-backed brazen violations of Iranian sovereignty mark a dangerous escalation in Washington’s long war on independent states, exposing the impote...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump administration actions contradict MAHA rhetoric on toxic chemicals - Trump says he backs the MAHA agenda which includes eliminating toxins linked to human health problems. But his administration continues to cuts funds, gran...
ProPublica

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs - by Katherine Dailey and Jessie Nguyen, Medill Investigative Lab We are still reporting. *If you are a current or former FDA employee or someone in the i...
Grist

Canada’s wildfire crisis is displacing First Nations at alarming rates - With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
OpEd News

The Magic Solution to the Conflict in Ukraine - The probability of establishing a military dictatorship in Ukraine has increased significantly. The main reason for this is that a military dictatorship su...
High Country News

Trump quits deal with Northwest tribes to restore salmon - [image: An aerial view of the lower granite dam on the Snake River.] The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks th...
Common Dreams

Lame: Pissed Soldiers, Squeaky Tanks, Fake Deals 'R Us - Of course the long-coveted, savagely panned parade for a man-child who would be king was a bust, "a pathetic event for a pathetic president," notably in ...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: The UK’s Genocide Spectre - Last week at the U.N. General Assembly, before Israel attacked Iran, the U.K. ambassador’s written explanation of her vote on a Gaza ceasefire suggested St...
Crooked Media

Will Trump Drag Us Into War With Iran? - The post Will Trump Drag Us Into War With Iran? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Shutting Down Government Agencies - Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is the latest conservative push to eliminate federal departments and agencies deemed inefficient. However, the criticism of i...
Counterpunch

For June Dairy Month, Trump Should Celebrate the Canadian System Not Denounce - Uncertainty is nothing new for farmers. Freak weather changes and fluctuations in the market make planning for the future a gamble, never a sure thing. ...
World Socialist Web Site

Victorian Socialists expand across Australia: A political trap to corral mounting anti-capitalist sentiment - The attempt to claim the mantle of “the Socialist Party” and to describe itself as “the socialists” is a fraud being perpetrated by the pseudo-left Sociali...
jobsanger

Israeli Government Murders Gaza Residents Trying To get Food Aid -
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Columbia Funding Cutoff Update and Reprise - I continue to be on break, so today I'm running another "classic" column from my "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series--my first foray into the Trump a...
Informed Comment

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous ...
Antiwar.com

Putting a Human Face on the Innocent Victims of Israel’s Unprovoked War Against Iran - Israel began an unprovoked and illegal war with Iran on 13 June 2025. This was while Iran and the United States were negotiating a new nuclear deal and wer...
The Greanville Post

WW3 Chronicles: Iran vs Israel Who wins? - J. MACFARLANE—It is obvious that Iran has been preparing for war with Israel for a long time. While the Israelis hacked their electronic communications sys...
The AltWorld

Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged Armageddon Cultist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - President Trump has shared a text message that was sent to him by Mike Huckabee, the deranged Christian Zionist […] The post Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged ...
The Texas Signal

Documentary Reveals Houston’s Unsung Blues Legacy - 'When Houston Had the Blues' is a deeply fascinating documentary that explores the rise and fall of the genre in the city’s historic Third and Fifth Wards
Alternet

'Potentially really bad': GOP senators and lobbyists say Trump's big bill 'cannot pass' - Senate Republicans are increasingly convinced that their sweeping legislative package simply cannot pass under current conditions, casting serious doubt ...
Popular Resistance

National Day Of Protest June 18: No War On Iran! - Trump may be about to drag the United States directly into a devastating regional war in the Middle East with an attack on Iran. In these critical days a...
Brad Blog

Trump Calls for 'Remigration', a Far-Right Code-Word for 'Ethnic Cleansing': 'BradCast' 6/17/2025 - Too much going on. So today we try to focus on at least one thing on today's BradCast that is disturbingly under-reported by the corporate media. Something...
Dissident Voice

Trump (Like Biden) is Simply Evil - On June 17, Trump demanded the unconditional surrender of Ayatollah Khamenei, and said “Our patience is wearing thin.” On June 16, Trump posted to his Tr...
The Conversation

US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel’s strikes on Tehran - Some of the major events in US-Iran relations highlight the differences between the countries’ views, but others presented real opportunities for reconcili...
See You In 2020

The pro-resistance stance on Palestine has been vindicated, & this must translate into support for Iran - The developments we’ve seen since October 7 have provided us all with tremendous lessons in what it means to wage a liberation struggle. In which pract...
Claytoonz

The Peace Grifter - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Workers World

Millions across the U.S. protest Trump’s attacks on workers and oppressed people - [image: Millions across the U.S. protest Trump’s attacks on workers and oppressed people] Democratic Party-affiliated groups, including Indivisible and 505...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration hit with two major court losses in attacks against trans community and DEI' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Judge blocks Trump anti-trans passport policy* - *The trans community gets a major win in court against the Trump Administration.* *Judge deems Trump'...
Trivial Knot

How I Made an EP - I have finally released a new EP titled Unrelenting Introspection. You can listen for free on Bandcamp. It’s only 14 minutes long. It’s xenharmonic dark a...
Ballot Access News

Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, Says He Will Sue to be Able to Have Two Ballot Lines - Mayor Eric Adams, who is running for re-election in November 2025, says he will soon sue to overturn the state law that says he can only appear on the Nove...
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about those Retail Sales - Looking at the nuts and bolts, we see that the spending goes on, even if the mood is ultra-sour.
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Guaranteed income Is safe in Texas — for now - The Texas Senate passed a bill that would have banned local governments from using public funds for direct cash benefits for residents, but the House di...
CultureMap Houston

Vivaldi and vino charm Houstonians at enchanted garden soirée - In a West University garden scented with jasmine and strung with twinkling lights, *Prelude Music Foundation* hosted its “Vivaldi in the Garden” soirée, tr...
Environment Texas

Texas pollinator protections mostly a blank slate - The post Texas pollinator protections mostly a blank slate appeared first on Environment Texas.
Mondoweiss

Zionism is the root of violence from Palestine to Iran - [image: Aerial view of Tehran, the capital of Iran. (Photo credit: Bornamir/iStock by Getty Images)]Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the...
Portside

Most Americans Believe Misinformation Is a Problem — Federal Research Cuts Will Only Make the Problem Worse - Most Americans Believe Misinformation Is a Problem — Federal Research Cuts Will Only Make the Problem Worse Judy Tue, 06/17/2025 - 17:50
Independent Political Report

Green Party of Hawai’i to Meet Remotely for Annual Convention - The Green Party of Hawai’i will hold its annual convention remotely on Saturday, June 21. A local watch party will also take place in Pa’auilo on the Big...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty - The Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty to the FCC, a move that gives Donald Trump and Republicans a 2-1 majority on the commission. The Senate voted 53-45 to c...
Sludge

Companies Back GOP Bill Slashing Food Aid While Touting Hunger Relief - The Trump White House is showcasing more than a dozen large companies endorsing the "megabill" that takes away food assistance from millions of low-income ...
MintPress News

Mohammad Marandi: This War Was Supposed to Break Iran. It’s Breaking Israel Instead - As the bombs fall, Tehran isn’t collapsing—it’s galvanizing. Marandi reveals how Israel’s war effort is failing on every front. The post Mohammad Marandi...
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas Lyceum director: There is still time to co-sponsor our upcoming conference in Mexico City - Among the co-sponsors from the Rio Grande Valley are Titan Fuel, UT-Rio Grande Valley, the Council for South Texas Economic Progress, Mission EDC, Harlin...
Discourse

Brad Lander Showed Democrats What to Do - Dems have been sitting on their most effective tool to fight fascism this whole time: their own bodies.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio man arrested for threatening to kill protesters at last weekend's 'No Kings' march - A San Antonio man is in police custody over accusations he threatened to kill protesters at Saturday’s downtown “No Kings” rally and other anti-Trump demo...
Futurism

Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He's in Love With ChatGPT - Public declarations of emotion are one thing — but going on national television to declare that you're in love with your AI girlfriend is another entirel...
Liberation News

US and Israel weaponize starvation and humanitarian aid in Gaza genocide - Disgusted with their governments, activists are organizing to break the siege of Gaza themselves.
Second Nexus

MAGA Furious After Rand Paul Blasts Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Military Parade - During an appearance on NBC News' *Meet the Press* on Sunday, Kentucky Republican Rand Paul again criticized MAGA Republican President Donald Trump’s mil...
slacktivist

Killing in the name of (again. still.) - Rudolph, Hill, Roeder, Boelter. Recalling the political violence that forced me to understand that none of my mentors believed what they were saying.
Church and State

Overpopulation: A New Survey Confirms the Cause of the Planet’s Environmental Crises - The world is on track to reach 10.2 billion people by the 2080s. The associated environmental damages are often irreversible.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Budget bill, war with Iran poll poorly! - *TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025* *We'd call it a dangerous time: *On the one hand, it could look like a piece of encouraging news. At *Mediaite*, Joe DePaulo rep...
Reform Austin

Love to Eat and Live in a Well-built City? Meatpackers, Farms, and Builders are Reeling from Immigration Raids - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Recent immigration enforcement actions are highlighting a long-running tension between Presiden...
WhoWhatWhy

Ukraine Is Still Waiting for Donald Trump To Deliver - [image: Ukrainian soldier, Ukrainian flag, emotional about loss of life, Russian attacks] Sending US Marines to fight protesters in Los Angeles is one thin...
Progressive.org

From Celebration to Cancellation: How Juneteenth Became a Casualty of America’s Reactionary Turn - The holiday’s public recognition has fallen victim to‘anti-woke’ backlash, leading to a quiet retreat from public memory.
Black Agenda Report

US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire - US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire bareditors Wed, 06/18/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Garland Nixon
Lowering the Bar

Drunken Mule-Rider Accused of Assault With Deadly Raccoon - [image: raccoon sticking out his tongue]Even in Kentucky the assault charge isn't going to stick.
Rewire

The Supreme Court Just Saved Your Right to Sue for Disability Accommodations - The justices unanimously rebuffed an effort to blunt disability protections in *A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools*. But don’t expect a consensus on this term’...
Capital & Main

A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ Health - Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. The post A Coal...
The Daily Poster

How Trump Launched His Own War In The Middle East - As the president pressed for an Iran nuclear deal, he approved Israel’s new war. Will America’s own military soon be directly involved?
NORML

Study: Daily Cannabis Consumers Exhibit Few Changes in Simulated Driving Performance Compared To Controls - [image: marijuana driving simulation][image: marijuana driving simulation]Daily consumers demonstrated improvements in SDLP (standard deviation in lateral...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
Undernews

Trump accelerates push to reward loyalty in federal workforce - * Washington Post *
The Root

Marquise Jackson Drags 50 Cent on Father’s Day — 50 Seemingly Shoots Back “Power” Style - Let’s just say 50 was not happy with his comedic gesture… Read more...
Texas Observer

A Caucus, if You Can Keep It - In the leadup to Texas’ 89th legislative session, the Republican leadership apparatus was under siege and the party in open warfare as the sitting House ...
Democracy Now!

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump's Deportations, Israel's War on Iran & Gaza - We speak with Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, about the Trump administration’s tightening restrictions on the country. Since re...
The Progressive Wing

6.17-20 Open Threads - Hello you all. 🙂 Well, expect the worse and hope for the best. Looks like Israel is picking a fight with Iran. Endless stupid war. Will it ever stop? The ...
Space City Weather

Houston’s forecast for the rest of the week: Mostly sunny, warm, and a few showers - In brief: Overall our forecast is consistent for the rest of the week. We are going to see fairly normal weather for June, which is to say warm temperature...
Skeptophilia

The view from the fringe - We've dealt with a lot of conspiracy theories here at *Skeptophilia*. Amongst the more notable: - COVID-19 was a bioterrorism agent sent into the We...
Infidel753

The true global conflict - In many ways World War II looked like two separate wars happening coincidentally at the same time. Germany and Japan were allies, but did almost nothing ...
Glasstire

Ether - Editor’s note: This essay was written by Frances Colpitt for a 2008 collaborative exhibition with artist Terri Thornton at testsite in Austin. In 2025, i...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Earthworks

The Tip of the Iceberg - Last year, we celebrated the coordinated efforts of Larimer County and Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) to hold … The post The ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

No Kings Has to be the Beginning - Saturday was the start of something, not the end.
Project Censored

Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space - Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as ...
Ian Welsh

Iran-Israeli War Update - [image: Iran-Israeli War Update] Let’s take this in steps. *Air Defense* Iranian air defense was not active for the first attack wave. They were online f...
Bracing Views

Demonizing the Opposition - The Abyss Beckons BILL ASTORE JUN 15, 2025 Demonizing the opposition is a conduit to murderous crimes. There is no excuse for it. I remember hearing Judge ...
Texas Freedom Network

Reimagining Justice: What We Learned at Texas Rising’s First Houston Criminal Justice Summit - During Texas Rising Houston’s Criminal Justice Summit, students and leaders came together to ask: What would it take to build a justice system that actua...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A "Rare Bird" in the Academy: Why We Need Better Data on Faculty Diversity - *Friends: I’ve always told my students that I am a “rare bird” in the academy. By this I mean that there are still so few Latina or Latino professors tea...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: B-SIDES Founder Yousuf Ahmed Introduces the Upcycled Crunch Puffs Snacks Strategy - What if the ingredients discarded daily in food production could become the foundation of a... The post Earth911 Podcast: B-SIDES Founder Yousuf Ahmed In...
Media Lens

The ‘Selfie Yacht’ – Greta Thunberg And The Merchants Of Smear - If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – prot...
Progressives Chat

Latest Developments… - *Over the last few days:* *• Israel struck Iran and Iran struck Israel.* Naturally, there are tweets on X weighing in. And there are defenders of Israel ...
Idavox

NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, Suprise! - Sigh … Atlantic Nationalist Club it’s trying something stupid again. The fact that we know... The post NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: The Pork Reich Eyes an Army - As the Trumpenreich tries to occupy LA, the Pentagon is considering a proposal to give the Gestapo a standing army to prosecute the regime's fascist agen...
Debunking Christianity

New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil - Inside the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" will be the first ever full chapter on "The Emotional Problem of Evil."
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Strasbourg cathedral - [image: Strasbourg cathedral]
LareDOS

City investigates taste, odor in municipal water supply - Public assured it is safe to drink: “an aesthetic issue, not a health hazard”
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Authoritarianism On Parade - On June 14, Donald Trump will finally get his wish—a military parade to call his own. Trump will puff his chest, stick out what old age has left of his chi...
Dissent Magazine

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles - The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be ne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IF THE JACKBOOT FITS, WEAR IT EDITION. - *I mean.* Used to worry on Friday the 13th but we’re not feeling too lucky anyhow; every week it seems Tubby’s mob pushes a little harder against the fo...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Bud Kennedy

Could GOP Texas redistricting wipe out a Democrat in Fort Worth? Never say never | Opinion - Could Texas and local Republicans draw Democrats completely out of state or local office? Of course they could. Would Republicans want to? Absolutely. That...
Edinburg Politics

Seven UTRGV professors release book detailing the history of Valley politics: Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider’s Perspective to Regional Politics - Scholars from around the world are fascinated with the Rio Grande Valley, a region whose political beliefs often are covered by newscasts and newspapers, b...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Grayzone

Secret British plans to ‘defeat entire Russian Black Fleet’ revealed in leaks - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone expose the covert war waged by British intelligence against Russia in the Black Sea, outlining Ukrainian “honey tra...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Set, Texas Redistricting? - It's Sherrill vs. Ciattarelli in the NJ governor race, and the prospect of a new House map in Texas is a hugely important story to watch The post Notes o...
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
The NM Political Report

80 years after Trinity, Tularosa Basin continues fight for compensation - Tina Cordova has spent about two decades fighting to bring government compensation to the generations of people in the Tularosa Basin who have suffered t...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistencia California - In solidarity with our freedom fighters in the Battle Of Los Angeles. Time to support OUR troops. 15.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 900kb
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Just a reminder to my readers that this blog will be on hiatus until June 18. I’ll continue to put comments through on the previous open post when I have t...
Field Negro

Caption needed. - I need a caption for this pic. I'll start: *Thanks for giving sixty of my fellow Afrikaners refugee status Mr. President. * *No problem, Elon. Than...
The Militant

Protest killing of Israeli Embassy staffers in DC! Fight against Jew-hatred! - SWP candidates speak out against shootings in DC The following is based on a statement sent to Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco o...
Avedon's Sideshow

Arise, ye prisoners of want! - "The Old Church by the River" is by Frits Thaulow (1847-1906). You can find more of his work here. "Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the B...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
GreenSource DFW

Volunteers pick up trash for the love of it - *The Hagens in Arlington have made a game of picking up trash with their grandchildren. Photo by Jim Domke.* May 22, 2025 By July 4, the yearly spring G...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
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...
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...
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....
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...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
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...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
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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