Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Electoral Distancing" Funnies

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Sunday "Electoral Distancing" Funnies

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The Hill

Bannon on Gaetz' AG withdrawal: 'We took a casualty’ - Political strategist Steve Bannon said former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) withdrawal from the attorney general nomination was a “casualty” for the party on ...
The Root

17 Dishes That Should Be Banned from Black Thanksgiving - Every Black Thanksgiving has a set menu that rarely changes from year to year. With all of the essentials such as mac’ n cheese or collard greens, there ...
OpEd News

Why Was This School Board Race So Close? - Scott Schmerelson's reaction to the latest Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) scandal exemplifies why many were conflicted about supporting his re...
Mediaite

Florida Sets Special Election to Replace Matt Gaetz for April Fools’ Day - The election to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who resigned from Congress before dropping his bid to be Attorney General, has been set for April ...
San Antonio Report

Council approves plan for big-rig dealership next to Eastside neighborhood - Doggett Freightliner got the rezoning and annexation needed to build a large, new dealership adjacent to a San Antonio neighborhood. -----------------------...
Slate

North Carolina Republicans Are At It Again - The North Carolina GOP got crushed, so it's trying to dismantle the election results.
Raw Story

'Wait and see': NY Times finds tactic Senate Dems hope will cause GOP to tear self apart - Senate Democrats are under massive pressure to fight Donald Trump as he prepares for his second term — and they are coalescing around a strategy to do so...
Vox

The not-so-subtle message of Trump’s disturbing Cabinet picks - On Thursday, former Rep. Matt Gaetz announced he would be withdrawing his candidacy to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general after facin...
The Texas Signal

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas - *Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on **Deceleration** and was coproduced with **Truthout**, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to pro...
The Verge

You can easily disassemble this repairable smartwatch using just a Phillips screwdriver - [image: A close-up of the Pocuter Spectra smartwatch with a brown leather strap attached.] *The Spectra smartwatch is now available for preorder through a...
memeorandum

Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools* — Texas' education board voted Friday to al...
Al Jazeera English

What do the ICC arrest warrants mean for Israel and its allies? - Fury in US and Israel. EU says it will uphold ICC's request.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Genius: Weaponize Real Coverups (JFK etc) to Build Distrust - [image: Deep State, applause] Because Media failed to tell the truth sometimes, Trump claimed they lie all the time Trump’s Genius: Weaponize Real Coveru...
Election Law Blog

“Trump’s hush money sentencing is delayed yet again” - Politico: “In a one-page decision, Justice Juan Merchan postponed the sentencing, which had been set for Nov. 26, in order to weigh Trump’s bid to dismi...
Salon.com

“Categorically unacceptable”: Advocates say Dems letting Trump appoint "radical extremist" judges - "Retreating in advance is a dangerous precedent to set," former Sen. Russ Feingold told Salon
Futurism

Donald Trump Is Already Ignoring Elon Musk's Suggestions - Writing on the Wall These days, it feels like everyone's trying to figure out how long Elon Musk and Donald Trump's new bromance could possibly last, and...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza: UTRGV Football is going to have a big impact on the Edinburg economy - EDINBURG, Texas – Having a football program at UT-Rio Grande Valley is not only good for entertainment and excitement. It is also good for the economy. T...
The AltWorld

A Week from Hell - The United States attacks Russia and is complicit in Israeli war crimes Unfortunately, a machine has not […] The post A Week from Hell appeared first on ...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Trump’s Cabinet Picks - On our live show, David and Emma discuss the latest cabinet nominations—and early misfires.
Axios

House Democrats prepare to make Mike Johnson's life hell - House Democrats are gearing up to put maximum pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) agonizingly small House majority. *Why it matters: *Just a...
CultureMap Houston

Shop the Rice Village gift guide to sleigh your holiday giving - Share your great taste in gift-giving with family and friends this holiday season with gifts from Rice Village. This walkable shopping haven has everythin...
Daily Dot

‘If it doesn’t pass this first test automatically, I’m outta there’: Man shows how he spots lemons when inspecting used cars. Then he does it to a Mercedes - [image: Man at wheel(l), Mercedes Logo(c), Man pointing to dashboard(r)] Usually, you wouldn't want your check engine light to pop up on your dashboard, ...
Claytoonz

Quack - 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...
Eschaton

America's Worst Humans - Tom Goldstein
Alternet

Ex-GOP White House staffer reveals 3 'all-important successes' that led Trump to victory - Despite his unpopularity among the American electorate, dozens of felony convictions and a failed coup attempt, Donald Trump still managed to not only wi...
The Week

4 ways to give back this holiday season - If your budget is feeling squeezed, remember that money is not the only way you can be generous around the holidays
Political Wire

A Few Thoughts for the End of the Week - If the last two weeks have highlighted anything, it’s that President-elect Donald Trump has picked up right where he left off. Here’s what I’m talking abou...
slacktivist

LBCF: Funny you should ask - The instantaneous disintegration of every child on planet earth has ace reporter Buck Williams curious. There might be a news story here.
Texas Freedom Network

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Eater Houston

Where to Eat at William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) - [image: An image of a plane flying out of Houston Hobby Airport] When flying via Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport, there are plenty of dining options to...
Novara Media

Would the UK Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu? - With an arrest warrant issued for Benjamin Netanyahu, the government say they would uphold international law but stop short of saying they would arrest the...
Mediagazer

A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new "click-to-cancel" rule (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) - Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: *A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but ab...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Ice could add 600 beds to New Jersey detention center, documents show - ACLU obtains documents showing agency’s effort to expand state’s detention capacity for undocumented immigrants US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I...
Techdirt.

City Of Los Angeles Says Fuck It: No Cops Were Harmed When We Released Their Names And Photos - This is just what I needed to read after a post-election hell week or two. The city of Los Angeles has gone past exhaustion to vindictive irritation after ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

COP29 climate summit enters overtime as $250 billion deal stalls - The talks have been marked by division between wealthy governments resisting a costly outcome and developing nations pushing for more
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: Swimming in Mud in 5th Circle of Hell - Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the “far right of a special type” — a right that is intimately tied to liberalism — cultivates a politics ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/22/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; - Trump border czar beats chest; Resistance 2.0 funders and NGOs; Mathematical thinking ~
Reform Austin

UT System Expands Free Tuition And Fees To All Undergraduates Whose Families Make $100,000 Or Less - The University of Texas System is expanding its free tuition program so undergraduate students whose families make $100,000 or less will receive free tui...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz Out, Fogle In? - Upon hearing the news from his fellow inmates at Englewood Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colorado that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) dropp...
World Socialist Web Site

Turkey: Workers occupy mines against privatisation as reaction to trade union sell-out contracts grows - As a result of privatisation, workers face the same risks of dismissal, wage cuts, loss of social rights and even increased risk of death and injury in pre...
Houston Public Media

Texas approves Bible-infused curriculum for public schools - Schools will not be required to use Bluebonnet Learning materials, but the state will offer financial incentives to districts that do.
SCOTUSblog

Justices dismiss Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach dispute - [image: Justices dismiss Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach dispute]This morning the justices dismissed Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank as “improviden...
Texas Standard

Texas approves Bible-infused curriculum for public schools - The Texas State Board of Education gave final approval Friday to controversial new K-5 curriculum that weaves in Christian references.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Right-Wingification of UT: Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools by Brant Bingamon, Nov. 22, 2024 - *Friends,* *Today's piece by Brant Bingamon of the Austin Chronicle is a gem. At the heart of the critique of how the attack on DEI and curriculum are play...
Second Nexus

AOC Calls Out Exactly What Nancy Mace's 'Gross' Anti-Trans Bathroom Crusade Is Actually About - Speaking to reporters, New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace, for pr...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What It Will Take to Defeat Authoritarianism: Audio From A Collapsing State - It's time for radical acceptance and a dose of clarity. We've got work to do if we're going to mitigate the damage of authoritarianism and build something ...
Undernews

ELECTION - * Trump Gained 95,000 Votes in New York City. Democrats Lost Half a Million.*
Ballot Access News

Three California Minor Parties File Federal Lawsuit Against Top-Two System - On November 21, three California minor parties filed a federal lawsuit against the California top-two system, a system which has been in existence since 20...
El Paso Matters

District 3 council candidates differ on property taxes, city manager’s role, fundraising support - El Paso City council candidates Jose Rodriguez and Deanna Maldonado-Rocha captured the most votes in the November general election. District 3 voters wi...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Walk Among Us - This cartoon was cartooned by Becky Hawkins. One oddity about the internet age is that there are famous people with tremendous audiences who most of us hav...
NPR's Health Shots

Trans health care under Trump may follow the abortion playbook and its Hyde amendment - Republicans spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ advertising in the campaign. Various policy initiatives are on the incoming administration's to-do l...
Capital & Main

Challenging the Myth of a Trump Takeover of the Union Vote - Labor strategist Steve Rosenthal says Kamala Harris fared better with union voters than headlines suggest — and outlines the labor movement’s path forwar...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 26: “Ted and Manila Say: Ask Us Anything” - It’s Friday or, as Manila calls it, Fri-Yay! Which means it’s time for something different and something fun: we’re answering questions from you, our lis...
Dissident Voice

Anti-Palestinian Racism - What is it? Who is affected? Where does it occur? What are its effects? The post Anti-Palestinian Racism first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Earthworks

Communities Set Up Camps to Protest Barrick Gold’s Renewed Attempts to Build a Second Tailings Dam in the Dominican Republic - Guest blog by María Alejandra Torres García After nearly a year of no news regarding Barrick Gold’s proposed expansion project … The post Communities Se...
Southeast Texas Record

Devon Energy not 'at home' in Texas, can't be sued there for New Mexico accident - HOUSTON - An Oklahoma company can't be sued in Texas for injuries to a Louisiana man working in New Mexico, a Texas appeals court has found. Read more…
The Daily Poster

The Secret Recordings Netanyahu Wants Censored - A new documentary exposes never-before-seen video of the Israeli leader — and argues he’s prolonged the Gaza War to evade corruption charges.
Mondoweiss

Israel kills nine Palestinians in 48-hour raid on Jenin - [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...
Bud Kennedy

The untold story: When TCU canceled JFK’s honorary degree—’He’s a Catholic, you know’ - Gov. John B. Connally asked trustees to honor Kennedy with a Ph.D., but some trustees balked. … Click to Continue »
First Draft

Election Mythbusting - The mythology of the 2024 election and the harms inherent.
Texas Monthly

Expect Creative Specials at This Houston-Area BBQ Truck - Space City BBQ, in Baytown, excels at dishes such as pork belly tossed with a blackberry-infused whiskey sauce and a smoked burger with bacon-and-onion jam.
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Great Blue Heron - Glorious.
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...
Debunking Christianity

The Oblivious Devout Keep Christianity Chugging Along - *But its god, like thousands of others, will end up on the scrapheap of history* Many years ago I was the pastor of a small church in a small town in Mas...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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’...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."
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.
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...
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 Song Remains the Same: Detuning the Democratic Defeat - Released only the day before the election, will.i.am’s sonic squib, “Yes She Can,” was the final political misfire of the musical campaign, the cannon’s ...
jobsanger

Exhibits A And B -
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...
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
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

Election Day Comedy Hour - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Trump and Harris are dressed as vaudevillian/barbershop-quartet-ish comedy duo, with hats, canes, and pin striped vests. Trump says ...
Web of Debt

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

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

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

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

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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