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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Sunday "Electoral Distancing" Funnies

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jobsanger

Most People Oppose Pardoning The January 6th Attackers - The chart above reflects the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between November 9th and 12th of a nationwide sample of 1,743 adults (incl...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2384: Sway - Episode: 2384 Swaying wooden roller coasters. Today, we sway.
memeorandum

Republicans Ran a Dysfunctional House. Voters Shrugged and Re-elected Them. (Annie Karni/New York Times) - Annie Karni / New York Times: *Republicans Ran a Dysfunctional House. Voters Shrugged and Re-elected Them.* — The success of the G.O.P. push to keep t...
Al Jazeera English

Police arrest US man for allegedly scratching letters into Japanese shrine - Tourist allegedly told police he defaced Shinto shrine as a 'prank'.
Informed Comment

Israel’s War on Palestinian Health - Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since the beginning of Israel’s latest offensive against the Palestinian people in Gaza in October of last...
Antiwar.com

Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars? - When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

I’ve been to more than 100 Trump rallies since 2016. This is why I think he won | Oliver Laughland - Travelling many miles across multiple states, I saw Republicans united in their disdain for facts – and a Democratic party far too relaxed about challeng...
The Week

Best TV shows coming in 2025 - From Wild Cherry to The Bear, next year's most anticipated new and returning watches
Wolf Street

Household Debt, Delinquencies, Collections, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies: Our Drunken Sailors and their Debts in Q3 2024 - As a growing population financed more costly purchases, total debt rose. But income rose even faster in recent quarters.
World Socialist Web Site

Strike by nearly 40,000 University of California healthcare workers set for next week - The UC system, which will see the first major strike since the US presidential election, has emerged as a major political and social battleground.
The Hill

Gabbard is 'honored' and 'eager to get to work' after director of national intelligence nomination - Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said she was "honored" and "eager to get to work" after President-elect Trump tapped her to be his next director of nation...
Raw Story

Republican catches self after saying trust in GOP 'proof' Americans 'don't pay attention' - A Republican lawmaker corrected himself after telling the New York Times that the fact his part earned the trust and support of voters this year is “proo...
Alternet

Here’s how Trump could confirm his whole Cabinet without one single confirmation vote - Donald Trump announced on social media earlier this week that "Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate...
Political Wire

Tulsi Gabbard Accused of Parroting Russian Propaganda - “President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard, has been accused of amplifying Russia...
Daily Dot

‘It is a scam’: Woman issues warning after buying Aldi’s ‘knockoff’ Capri-Suns. Here’s why - This is one of those instances where saving a few bucks just isn't worth it. Especially when you're dealing with little kids. Capri-Sun is a childhood st...
Techdirt.

2 Gamers Seek Class Action Suit Against Ubisoft For Delisting, Breaking ‘The Crew’ - The whole “You don’t actually own what you’ve bought” mantra we have here at Techdirt is really, really frustrating. It’s become such a regular topic that,...
Axios

GOP holds House majority in full D.C. sweep for Trump - Data: Associated Press; Map: Axios Visuals Republicans will hang on to their narrow House majority, AP projects — a win for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-L...
Mediaite

‘Where Do You Think I Lost My Legs?’ Senator Tammy Duckworth Hits Back at Trump’s SecDef Nominee for Saying Women Shouldn’t Serve in Combat - Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) took exception to comments from President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of Defense. The post ‘Where Do You Think ...
Mediagazer

CEOs at Nexstar, Sinclair, and Tegna, plus some analysts, say they expect deregulation and consolidation in the broadcast TV industry under Trump's FCC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *CEOs at Nexstar, Sinclair, and Tegna, plus some analysts, say they expect deregulation and consolidation in the br...
Brad Blog

Trump Criminal Cases Fade After Election and as GOP 'Does Not Believe in Rule of Law Anymore': 'BradCast' 11/13/2024 - It's going to get much darker and more ridiculous, before it begins to get better. But it is not "The End", despite a suggestion of same here and there thr...
Deadline Politics

Dick Van Dyke Is Glad He “Won’t Be Around” For Trump Presidency - At 98, Dick Van Dyke has at least one positive takeaway from knowing his time is limited. The 6x Emmy winner had a blunt reaction when asked how he feels a...
Salon.com

"There would be a backlash": Harris reportedly skipped Rogan podcast over staff's fears of reaction - An adviser to Doug Emhoff said Harris skipped Rogan's show due to fears from her staff
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Peru vs Chile lúc 08h30 ngày 16/11/2024 - Tại vòng loại World Cup khu vực Nam Mỹ, mặc dù không nổi bật trong giải đấu, nhưng với phong độ tương đương, đội tuyển Peru và Chile sẽ có những cuộc cạn...
Portside

Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women - Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women Geoffrey Wed, 11/13/2024 - 21:04
Counterpunch

Donald Trump: Round Two - Surprise, Surprise? Just how surprised should we be with Donald Trump’s distressing second election victory? Perhaps not too surprised. Prior to the elec...
Ballot Access News

New York Had 102,231 Write-ins for President - The New York State Board of Elections website shows 102,231 write-ins were cast for President last week. The State Board still hasn’t got the number of wri...
WhoWhatWhy

Bring in the DOGEsters: Will Vivek and Musk Clean Up Trump’s Grifting? - If Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are serious about stopping government fraud, they can start by preventing Donald Trump from pocketing taxpayer money by ...
Daily Cartoonist

In Other Comic News - Mark Parisi and Kim Tomsic, Rockwell Kent, Sarah Anderson, Barbara Shermund, Dick Brooks, Stevan Dohanas, and Jef Mallett and the class of 2002. above: The...
Claytoonz

Cylinders Of Elon - 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...
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 15 things to do in Houston this weekend - Since we’re officially in the holiday season (or “Mariah season,” as we like to call it), several seasonal, holiday-themed events will be popping off this...
Popular Resistance

Unprincipled, Unstrategic, And Unsustainable: E(U)Logy For The US Climate “Movement” - In 1991, Strong Island trio, De La Soul dropped their second album on wax, “De La Soul is Dead.” Writer, Jeffery Harvey characterized the group’s sophomo...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'More Democrats rebuke scapegoating trans people after election loss' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *Several Democratic Senators Rebuke Scapegoating Trans People After Election* - *Y'all really need to be reading Erin Reed's substack. She keeps up wit...
Vox

Matt Gaetz, Trump’s uniquely unqualified pick for attorney general, explained - Donald Trump announced that he intends to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to serve as his attorney general. Gaetz is a longtime Trump loyalist, who will l...
Progressive.org

Plant a Seed, Change the World - Waking up the morning of November 6, I felt like nothing would ever matter again. But as an ecologist, I know that systems that seem dead may simply be in ...
See You In 2020

The empire will expand the genocide into new frontiers, then provoke counter-attacks that send the United States reeling - Our government is going to expand its extermination campaign into new frontiers, and thereby provoke its enemies in a way that it can’t handle. And as t...
Common Dreams

Common Cause Statement on Matt Gaetz's Nomination as Attorney General - Today, President-elect Donald J. Trump announced his intention to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General. *Statement of Common Cause President...
Mother Jones

Pete Hegseth Is Ready to Bring the Culture War to the Pentagon - Some of the nation’s legendary “great men”—leaders like George Marshall and Clark Clifford—have served the country as defense secretary. President-elect Do...
The Verge

Apple updates Logic Pro with new sounds and search features - [image: laptop with Logic Pro and the new audio plug-in enabled] Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today anno...
Slate

Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard Are Bananas Cabinet Picks. But Don’t Overlook Trump’s Horrifying Choice for the CIA. - He’s entrusting national security to crackpots.
Crooked Media

Ezra Klein on Where Democrats Go From Here - The post Ezra Klein on Where Democrats Go From Here appeared first on Crooked Media.
Workers World

Peoplehood draws hundreds in Philly - [image: Peoplehood draws hundreds in Philly] The 24th annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant. Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 2024. Philadelphia The 24th annual People...
San Antonio Report

SAISD demands new campus, affordable housing in exchange for Missions baseball parcel - The district wants the Missions ownership to fund the construction of a new building for its Advanced Learning Academy, plus family housing. ---------------...
Scheerpost.com

Meet the Pro-Israel Hawks Donald Trump Has Tapped for His New Administration - Donald Trump is filling his incoming administration with pro-Israel war hawks. The moves indicate he will embrace a hawkish foreign policy in the Middle Ea...
Futurism

Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump's Climate Plan - It's a sad state of affairs when the CEO of multinational oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil calls on president-elect Donald Trump to stop withdrawing...
The Root

Everything You Need to Know About Marvel Studios’ 2025 Releases - The massive success of “Deadpool & Wolverine” has audiences once again obsessed with what’s next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’re still waiting f...
Consortium News

Trump Doesn’t Hide Plan to Use Military Against Protestors & Immigrants - The recent Supreme Court decision granting presidents nearly absolute immunity for official acts leaves fewer guardrails to prevent Trump from abusing his ...
Discourse

Tremble In Fear of the Dumbest Cabinet We Have Ever Seen - Our saving grace may be that none of these morons actually know what they're doing.
Reform Austin

Congressman Troy Nehls Pledges Full Support as Trump Jokes About a Third Term - Congressman Troy Nehls reiterated Monday that he’ll do anything Donald Trump asks, just as the president-elect joked about running for a third term. Acco...
The Progressive Wing

11.14-15 Open Threads - We’re getting up to 200 posts, so I’m opening a new thread. We have one more storm mess to monitor down here. Man, climate change is exactly as the weather...
Ring of Fire

Harris Abandoned Supporters At Howard University On Election Night - On election night, Howard University was flooded with individuals who worked their butts off the help get Kamala Harris elected, but the VP never showed ...
DeSmogBlog

Havas Warns of Reputational Risks Over Fossil Fuel Clients Following Shell Backlash - Paris-based advertising giant Havas has warned investors of the reputational risks associated with its work for fossil fuel companies in the latest fall-...
NORML

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Has Long History of Opposing Marijuana Policy Reforms - [image: Senator John Thune][image: Senator John Thune]Senator Thune received an “F” grade from NORML in its 2024 voter guide. The post Incoming Senate Ma...
Project Censored

Empowering Students To Examine How Historical Redlining Impacts Contemporary Communities - Redlining continues to weave profound injustices, in the form of neighborhood and school segregation, into the fabric of contemporary American society. “...
slacktivist

Take back the web: The algorithms are not your friend - Get yourself an RSS reader. If you're not using this tool, then some corporate algorithm is probably using you as its tool.
Second Nexus

Ryan Reynolds Celebrates 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Coming To Disney+ With Hilariously NSFW Video - *Deadpool & Wolverine* is finally coming to Disney+ after dominating the worldwide box office earlier this summer. To celebrate, the MCU film's star, Ry...
OpEd News

Israeli visitors anger pro-Palestinian residents in Amsterdam - This article talks about the latest developments between Israel and the Palestinians in Amsterdam and the violence that happened between them
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 177: Interview with Ben Sargent - As President-Elect Donald Trump fills out his cabinet and key White House positions, including creating a new government-efficiency office for Elon Musk,...
Eschaton

Derailed - Sorry this day got away from me. Life intervenes sometimes.
Texas Standard

Lawmakers started filing bills this week for the 2025 legislative session - Immigration and school vouchers seem high on the priority list.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

College of Education alters 78 courses to comply with Senate Bill 17 and protect faculty from public backlash following Lieutenant Governor’s memo - * Friends,* *Higher Education in Texas is in trouble. * *Read this piece, along with the earlier North Texas Daily publication titled, "Guidance on rese...
Daily Howler

Pete Hegseth wouldn't say that word! - *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2024* *Not even when he was reading:* Over the past year, we've mentioned Pete Hegseth fairly often at this site. During that t...
American Prospect

Trump’s Worst Enemy - Today on TAP: His clumsy attempts at autocracy are already backfiring as Senate Republicans refuse to name Trump’s choice, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, as majo...
Novara Media

Elon Musk Secures Trump Cabinet Position - Elon Musk is poised to take a wrecking ball to US government spending as ‘government efficiency’ tsar. Plus: Wes Streeting announces new NHS reforms; and w...
Angry Bear

Difference in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Care - The Government made it possible for people to choose between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage for their care at 65. An alternative was provide...
Election Law Blog

Read PA State Court Opinion Concluding Elon Musk Did Not Engage in an Illegal Lottery with His $1 Million Giveaway to a Registered Voter (Opinion Does Not Discuss Legality Under Federal Anti-Vote Buying Law) - You can read it at this link. The post Read PA State Court Opinion Concluding Elon Musk Did Not Engage in an Illegal Lottery with His $1 Million Giveaway...
Rio Grande Guardian

Groundbreaking ceremony held for DHR Health’s eagerly anticipated behavioral hospital - Following an appropriation by the Texas Legislature last session, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is providing a $85 million dollar grant ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/13/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics ~
The AltWorld

Hassan Nasrallah: A Life and Legacy That Refuses to Die - MintPressNews– Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the general secretary of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, was assassinated by Israel […] The post Hassan N...
Texas Monthly

Meet David Zychek, the Greatest Guitar Player You’ve Never Heard Of - The Waco-bred rock and roller, who Ted Nugent compared to Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen, gets a posthumous moment in the spotlight in a new documentary.
Mondoweiss

Israel ignores Biden ‘ultimatum’ over Gaza aid, but U.S. will continue sending weapons regardless - [image: Tony Blinken on CNN, Dec. 10, 2023. Photo by CNN.]A Biden administration ultimatum that Israel increase humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing a...
El Paso Matters

Read excerpt from murder mystery ‘Swallow the Ghost’ by Eugenie Montague - Jesse struggles to transition into his mother’s caretaker after she was diagnosed with dementia – bumping into memories at every turn in his childhood h...
Sludge

The Democratic Consultants Getting Rich off the Harris Campaign - Here are the top recipients of the campaign's billion dollars of spending.
Grist

Trump picked Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. What will that mean for environmental policy? - What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.
The Daily Poster

Political Betting Hits The Jackpot With Trump - Booming political gambling markets are poised to win big under a Trump administration, despite mounting concerns about the dangers of wagering on American ...
Undernews

Confessions of an 86 year old - *Sam Smith - * I’ve discovered that being in your 80s is like being a teenager. You don’t know how to do it, nobody shows you how to do it, and nobody li...
MintPress News

The Nasrallah Phenomenon: A Life and Legacy That Refuses to Die - From guerrilla fighter to revered leader, Hassan Nasrallah’s journey has left an indelible mark on Lebanon and the wider world, a legacy only strengthene...
Southeast Texas Record

Judge touts public interest in refusing to seal FLSA settlement - GALVESTON - A Texas judge won't keep secret a settlement between a man and Professional Sprinklers LLC in a case that alleges labor code violations. Read ...
Political Garbage Chute

Musk’s D.O.G.E. Will Work Closely With His C.U.N.T. - “…with my CUNT right beside it, DOGE will be able to accomplish our mission.” – Elon Musk, Head of DOGE The people who wrote the Constitution were most w...
Dissident Voice

The End of Liberalism - Newsweek forecasted Donald Trump’s eventual victory. Its Nov 05, 2024 at 12:06 PM EST headline, “Kamala Harris Predicted to Win By Nearly Every Major For...
Eater Houston

A Starry Inside Look at Texas’s First-Ever Michelin Guide Ceremony - Annie Mulligan / Eater Texas chefs and restaurateurs from around the country gathered in Houston for one of the biggest culinary celebrations to date. He...
Rewire

The Only Way Out Is Through - Abortion funds and storytelling offer a light through these next years. The post The Only Way Out Is Through appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Bonddad

October consumer inflation firms, driven - as usual - by shelter - * - by New Deal democrat* Today’s CPI report for October generally showed stable monthly increases, but slight increases in YoY comparisons. But as...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 13 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 13]The world’s most valuable company is before the justices today for oral arguments in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. O...
ArcaMax

Four Horsemen Rode in on Election Day - The biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thundered in on Election Day. Almost as if they conspired to make now-President-elect Donald Trump win, two ar...
Bracing Views

Trump and the Warmongers - W.J. Astore More Bombs for Bibi to Kill Babies Trump and the war hawks. Or war sluts. Or war pigs. I thought about all three of these. Then I thought: Why ...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 18 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Ian Welsh

What is Woke? Depends on Who You Are Asking - [image: What is Woke? Depends on Who You Are Asking] Simple question for you, what is woke? To liberals woke equates with the advencement of and/or equali...
First Draft

What Ever Happened To The GOP Weirdos I Wrote About? - Let's find out.
NPR's Health Shots

Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical - Permanent tent cities are another idea Trump has for dealing with people who are unhoused. Sequestering people with mental illness or substance abuse in on...
Democracy Now!

Head of U.N. Climate Summit in Azerbaijan Caught on Tape Pushing Oil & Gas Deals - The U.N. climate summit known as COP29 is underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, where negotiators are trying to make progress on reducing emissions and preventing ...
The Conversation

One election victory does not make a new era in American politics − here’s what history shows - The Democrats’ loss of the White House has provoked major soul-searching among party members. A scholar recommends a review of history to avoid catastrophi...
Texas Observer

She Fled Mexico as a Child. Now, She Teaches Migrant Kids in Tamaulipas. - Under various and ever-shifting policies curtailing access to asylum, dating back to the Trump administration and continuing through that of Biden, Unite...
Space City Weather

Big update: Strong front arrives next week. A Caribbean hurricane? And our annual fundraiser launches today - In brief: Today’s post discusses the strong cold front in the cards less than a week from today, as well as what to expect before then. We also take a peek...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Victory Was Slim and Not the ‘Historic Mandate’ Republicans Claim, Analysis Shows -
Skeptophilia

The world of the trickster - Sometimes I run across a piece of research that is just so charming I have to tell you about it. This particular one comes from the European University o...
Off The Kuff

Texas and Oklahoma peacefully settle their border dispute - Well, at least one thing went well this past week. Texas just altered its border with Oklahoma. Well, a small sliver of it, anyway. And, no, Texas didn’t b...
ProPublica

How Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw - by Peter Elkind ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
High Country News

Washington voters stand up for climate action - The state’s landmark climate law survived a repeal effort — and has raised billions of dollars. Here’s where that money is going. The post Washington vo...
Trivial Knot

Two kinds of LLM hallucinations - After writing about LLM error rates, I wanted to talk about a specific kind of error: the hallucination. I am aware that there is a lot of research into th...
Crooked Timber

Moving to Canada (not) - After Trump’s second election victory, lots of Americans are talking about emigrating, most commonly to Canada. This happens with every rightwing election ...
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...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. November's patch batch includes fi...
Church and State

Messages Received from an Old Friend - I finally figured out that I had completely misjudged the intensity of voter wishes to close our borders.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

226 / 312: An Exercise in Self-Destruction - It's infuriating watching the Democratic Party learn all the wrong lessons from the election. What we do next depends on whether this gets fixed.
Moron Majority

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Capital & Main

Philadelphia Workers Are Readying a Bill With a Basic Demand: Just Enforce the Law - Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules. The post Philadelphi...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: Plant Your Diet For Change - If you make just one change to help prevent climate change, choose adopting a plant-based... The post We Earthlings: Plant Your Diet For Change appeared ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 12 November 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Seriously -- no political comments on this post, pl...
Democracy Chronicles

The Last Moments of Sinwar - He'll never know his actions personally destroyed the possibility, hoped for by peacenik Israelis and too comfortable and too secular Europeans and America...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard C. Miller Joins Our Manifesto - [In light of Dr. Miller stating on Facebook that he's taking a break due to the horrible way he's been treated for his research and scholarship, I'm repo...
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...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: A.I. is Coming and Will Change EVERYTHING! - Another comic strip wonderfully rendered by Nadine Scholtes! I mean, who knows? Maybe years from now, A.I. really will be all that. But for now, it feels l...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Labour law and the reign of neoliberal legality - Eugene Schofield-Georgeson synthesises, amongst other things, a juridification of social relationships, the centrality of contract as a means of repatter...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #555 - TFTC #555.
The Mind Unleashed

Top 10 Mental Health Myths You Need to Stop Believing - In a world where mental health awareness is on the rise, myths and misunderstandings still linger, shaping perceptions in ways that can be harmful and misl...
Media Lens

Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future - In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are tryin...
Progressives Chat

A Post-Election 2024 Reaction of Satisfaction - In time for my deadline (so to speak) of Monday, November 11, 2024, there are still some election races not called. The electoral map, for Election 2024...
The Grayzone

Viral video reveals Israeli hooligans attacked Dutch police while instigating Amsterdam unrest - Footage by a teenage YouTuber shows Tel Aviv Maccabi hooligans attacking Dutch police while pelting private homes with stones and hunting victims with me...
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...
Land Destroyer

Israeli Strikes Demonstrates Limits of Western Military Might - *November 5, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Israel’s most recent missile strikes on Iran reveal the limits to conventional Western military power in the Mi...
The Militant

2024 US election reflects blows of capitalist crisis on working class - The 2024 U.S. presidential election and its outcome reflected the growing dissatisfaction of tens of millions of working people with the economic and socia...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #165 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: stuff.
Texas Freedom Network

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

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: PEOPLE JUST GET UGLIER AND I HAVE NO SENSE OF TIME EDITION. - *What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong.* Hard week to feel good about! After a campaign in which the Republican candidate daily demons...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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

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

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

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...
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consider this - Why invest in falsehoods rather than truth and in cruelty rather than compassion? Why willingly deny ourselves and others our individual autonomy? And why ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Sabemos lo que hay que hacer! - Estamos listos para construyir un futuro mejor después de las elecciones. Estamos a horas de la elección más importante- y quizás la decisión más important...
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...
Liberation News

Las y Los trabajadores que mantienen el sistema eléctrico de Cuba: A interior de la Central Termoeléctrica Antonio Guiteras - Elizabeth Farías, secretaria de la unidad de plantas del Partido Comunista de Cuba, resumió este espíritu: "Con lo que no cuenta el enemigo es precisamente...
BEYONDbones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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