Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Pre-and Post-Call" Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

China tries to bury deadly car attack - An SUV drove into a crowd of people in Zhuhai, killing and injuring dozens — but news of the attack has been censored
Infidel753

The Democrats were doomed by demographics -- a hypothesis - In my previous posts on the election (see here, here, here, and the last part of this), I discussed various contributing factors to the election defeat. ...
Futurism

Twitter Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed as Users Flee to Rivals Run by People Who Haven't Lost Their Minds - Bluer Skies Twitter alternative Bluesky is absolutely buzzing these days. The platform, which was originally backed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sa...
Salon.com

Cruise line offers 4-year escape from Trump, if you can afford it - Here's how much it costs to join Villa Vie Residences on its "skip forward" journey
ProPublica

State Regulators Know Health Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It. - by Max Blau ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ...
Mondoweiss

Activists call on Irish government and EU to denounce Germany’s role in Gaza genocide - [image: (Photo: Irish Bloc Berlin)]Activists in Ireland are calling on the Irish government and EU to publicly denounce Germany's repeated contraventions o...
Raw Story

'Maybe now I have to worry': Wall Street execs freaked out over Trump announcement - During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," CNBC "Squawk Box" host Andrew Ross Sorkin claimed that President-elect is causing some Wall Street execs t...
The Verge

Mythic Quest is getting a spinoff anthology series - [image: A woman in a red shirt flanked by another woman in a black dress and a man wearing a sweater over a blur shirt.] Apple TV Plus *Mythic Quest*’s u...
Axios

What to know about Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for national intelligence director - President-elect Trump has nominated former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as his director of national intelligence. *Why it matters: *If confirmed, the ex-...
Political Garbage Chute

Musk’s Apparently Convinced Trump to Replace Air Force One With Epstein Air 69 - Well, that didn’t take long, and maybe I owe Elon Musk an apology. I just didn’t think that his Department of Government Efficiency would do much more th...
Slate

Elon Musk Wants the Government to Stop Wasting Money on Wacky Science. That’s a Terrible Idea. - Science is inefficient. That’s a good thing.
SCOTUSblog

Justices debate particularity of complaint in NVIDIA securities fraud suit - [image: Justices debate particularity of complaint in NVIDIA securities fraud suit]The justices closed the November session on Wednesday with NVIDIA Cor...
The Root

The Root 100: Everything You Didn't Know About Whoopi Goldberg - Very few people in the entertainment world can match resumes with Whoopi Goldberg. Her career stretches across comedy, genre, films, TV, stage, stand up ...
naked capitalism

The BRICS, a Geopolitical Challenge Overlooked by the European Union - A discussion of what BRICS might be when it grows up and what that could mean for the EU
Political Wire

Jail Trump for One Week - Timothy Noah: “The people have spoken; Donald Trump will be our next president. But the people also spoke last May when Trump was convicted on 34 felony co...
Houston Public Media

The Onion buys Infowars at Alex Jones’ bankruptcy auction. No, seriously. - The satirical publication partnered with families affected by the Sandy Hook massacre to buy Jones' media empire. Jones said he would challenge the purchas...
Texas Observer

Announcing the Texas Observer’s Editor-in-Chief - Dear friends, I’ve been struggling to put into words my feelings from the last week: anger, immense sadness, fear, revulsion, all backed by a faint numbn...
Mediaite

Trump Critic Eva Longoria Reveals She Has Fled ‘Dystopian’ United States: ‘I’m Privileged. I Get To Escape’ - Actress and producer Eva Longoria revealed she fled the United States with her family in part because of President-elect Donald Trump. The post Trump Crit...
memeorandum

McCarthy says Gaetz won't get confirmed: 'Everyone knows that' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill) - Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: *McCarthy says Gaetz won't get confirmed: ‘Everyone knows that’* — Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) predicted Wedne...
Eschaton

It Was The Wokes Wot Did It - Jen Palmieri - Clintonworld fixture - tried to blame campaign decisions on unnamed YOUNG WOKE STAFFERS, the people who run things every time something go...
Second Nexus

Comedian Explains Why He Apologizes 'To Absolutely Nobody' Over Puerto Rico 'Garbage' Joke - Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage" during President-elect Donald Trump's rally at New York City's Madison S...
Consortium News

RAY McGOVERN: Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’? - The next director of national intelligence needs courage, political smarts and strong presidential backing to fulfill her duty to oversee and provide advic...
Counterpunch

The Choices That Australia Makes - A few days before I arrived in Canberra, an aboriginal senator, Lidia Thorpe, interrupted the celebration of King Charles III to say, “You are not my kin...
Bracing Views

Purge at the Pentagon! - W.J. Astore It’s OK to Lose Wars, Not OK to be “Woke” Purge at the Pentagon! Reuters reports that the incoming Trump administration is drawing up a list of...
Alternet

Former RNC staffer reveals 'the main reason' Trump picked Rubio for secretary of state - If Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's next secretary of state, it could open the door for Trump's family to get an ...
Election Law Blog

CORRECTED LINK to FILING: Breaking: Republicans File Lawsuit Directly in Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Asking Court to Issue Order Today Directing All 67 PA Counties Not to Count Undated/Misdated But Timely Absentee Ballots (Relevant to McCormick-Casey Senate Race) - See this filing. (Corrected link to filing) Whatever one can say of the merits of the counting of such ballots and of this lawsuit (which makes a bizarre...
Undernews

HEALTH - *Guardian - *The number of people with diabetes has doubled over the past 30 years to more than 800 million worldwide, according to a groundbreaking inte...
Dissident Voice

Why Trump? It Was About Saying “Fuck You” to the Establishment - I have no blindingly insightful analysis to offer about Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party and the establishment portion of the Rep...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US states urged to find new ways to block Trump’s mass deportation plan - California and other states must mount aggressive, multipronged response to defend immigrants, advocates warn California, home to the largest immigrant p...
Daily Dot

‘It looks like Boomira hijacked the Home Depot ad’: Woman warns against buying 7-foot-tall Christmas tree from this popular online retailer - Tis the season for savings... and scams, unfortunately. Some people are taking advantage of people's desire to add holiday cheer to their homes by pullin...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The First Amendment in the Age of Trump - I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspok...
Mediagazer

Echoing TikTok's gifting, YouTube is rolling out "jewels" that users can buy to support creators during livestreams, for those in the YouTube Partner Program (Umar Shakir/The Verge) - Umar Shakir / The Verge: *Echoing TikTok's gifting, YouTube is rolling out “jewels” that users can buy to support creators during livestreams, for those ...
Al Jazeera English

Meta fined 798 million euros ($846m) for breaking EU antitrust rules - EU says Meta automatically ties its ad service - Facebook Marketplace - to Facebook, creating an unfair advantage.
Bud Kennedy

Trump, RFK Jr. promised to reveal more about Kennedy assassination. Can they deliver? | Opinion - Sixty-plus years later, we still don’t know everything the U.S. government knows about President John F. Kennedy’s death on Elm Street. But we do have a fl...
Mother Jones

Infowars Acquired by The Onion, Will Become a Parody of Itself - Conspiracy mega-site Infowars, whose founder and main host Alex Jones has become the face of monetized suspicion in America, has been acquired at a bankrup...
The Hill

Gaetz couldn't get hired by FBI: McCabe - Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Thursday that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s nominee for attorney general, couldn’t...
CultureMap Houston

Michelin Guide removes shuttered Houston Vietnamese restaurant - Make that 30 — not 31 — Houston restaurants listed in the Michelin Guide. In a press release issued Thursday, November 14, the Guide announced that it had...
San Antonio Report

As Port SA refines its ambitious vision for a world-class innovation campus, a new award adds validation - [image: A rendering shows what Port San Antonio's Defense Industrial Research Campus could look like.]As Port San Antonio unveils detailed renderings of it...
Texas Monthly

A Dallas Taqueria Settles Into Life After Viral Fame - Mami Coco topped a list of best tacos in the city on Yelp two years ago. It has since opened a second location and continues to serve excellent tacos, flau...
Texas Standard

President-elect Trump names former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe as his pick for CIA director - Ratcliffe previously served as the director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, where he oversaw all 18 of the nation’s intelligence agencies.
Rewire

Not This Sh*t Again - Buckle up, folks. The post Not This Sh*t Again appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Daily Howler

EARNED OUR WAY OUT: Hegseth and Gabbard and Gaetz oh my! - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2024* *The wages of tribal denial:* We'll start with a statistical update concerning the ongoing "rout." And yes! It was in tha...
Deadline Politics

Satirical Site The Onion Wins Bidding For Alex Jones’ InfoWars Assets - The satirical news site The Onion has won the bidding for the assets of Alex Jones’ InfoWars, which he has been forced to sell off after a defamation judgm...
World Socialist Web Site

Pro-Palestinian TikToker Guy Christensen speaks out on Zionist harassment and FBI investigation - In this interview, anti-war activist Guy Christensen shares his experiences, including being harassed by Zionists and targeted by the FBI for educating mil...
El Paso Matters

WinterFest, Lights on the Lake, Fred Loya Christmas Lights lead 2024 El Paso holiday events - Here’s where to watch holiday lights in the Paso region: WinterFest, Ascarate Park Lights on the Lake – and the return of the Fred Loya Christmas Lights...
ArcaMax

Trump Won a Sweep, Hardly a Landslide - Yes, Donald Trump took all seven battleground states and the electoral votes to go with them. This time he also won the popular vote, unlike in 2016. But l...
Bonddad

Jobless claims complete their reversion to pre-hurricane-disruptions trend - - *by New Deal democrat* Initial claims have now completely reverted to trend after their recent hurricane-induced blip. Initial claims rose 3,000 ...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Eibar vs Racing Club Ferrol lúc 20h00 ngày 16/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Tây Ban Nha, khi đến với vòng 14, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Eibar và Racin...
Democracy Now!

Iraqis Tortured at Abu Ghraib Win $42 Million Judgment Against U.S. Military Contractor CACI - A federal jury in Virginia has ordered the U.S. military contractor CACI Premier Technology to pay a total of $42 million to three Iraqi men who were tortu...
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...
The Conversation

Indonesia president’s diplomatic dash takes in China and US − but a Trump presidency may see the aspiring regional powerhouse tilt more toward Beijing - Southeast Asia’s most populous nation is seeking a role as a regional leader − it may look more to Beijing than Washington to help that happen.
First Draft

Moscow On The Potomac - It's the oligarchy, stupid.
NPR's Health Shots

These matchmakers connect teens and elders. The friendships benefit both sides - Groups that connect elders and teens — both in real life and online — have a new sense of urgency in the loneliness epidemic.
Techdirt.

Supreme Court Helps AT&T, Verizon Avoid Accountability For Spying On Your Every Movement - We’ve noted for years how wireless companies were at the forefront of over-collecting your sensitive daily movement data, then selling access to any nitwit...
Rio Grande Guardian

San Antonio mayoral candidate proposes creation of the South Texas Triangle Economic Alliance - Beto Altamirano hails from Mission, Texas. He visited the city recently for a campaign event. We have a video recording of his speech. The post San Anto...
WhoWhatWhy

Ukrainian Troops in the Donbas Reckon With US Election Amid Russian Push - [image: Mikhaïl, 47, commander, tank, 68th Brigade, Pokrovsk] Soldiers in Ukraine are fighting to stop the Russian advance while waiting to learn how aid w...
Southeast Texas Record

Nationally Recognized Employee Benefits and Tax Partner Joins Dinsmore in Texas - Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce that Scott C. Sanders has joined the Firm’s Houston office, expanding its service offerings to include employ...
Vox

These apps promise to help you make new friends. Could it work for me? - On a Wednesday morning in September, I was partaking in a sacred tradition known to millennials everywhere: trying to write the perfect Bumble bio. Somethi...
Reform Austin

Trump Election Threatens Texas Electrical Grid - The post Trump Election Threatens Texas Electrical Grid appeared first on Reform Austin.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Pause in the Despair - Harry Bliss (Tribune) arrives in the nick of time and we’re gonna take a break from the apocalyptically insane political goings. I need the comic relief an...
The Smirking Chimp

Here’s Why Trump’s Agenda Is ‘Unlikely To Pass Congress’ Despite Trifecta -
Space City Weather

Houston will actually feel like late autumn by next week - In brief: Houston will see pleasant weather through Saturday before humidity surges back with a breeze on Sunday. A narrow line of thunderstorms accompanie...
Novara Media

People Won’t Care About Democracy If Democracy Doesn’t Care About Them - [image: A car with a picture of Donald Trump in the window and a sign that says 'Trump low prices, Kamala high prices']In the summer of 1989, the American ...
Skeptophilia

History by proxy - In a study from *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*, we learn something simultaneously fascinating and alarming; humanity's fingerprint on th...
Crooked Media

How is Trump already infecting UK politics? W/ Beth Rigby + the university crisis - The post How is Trump already infecting UK politics? W/ Beth Rigby + the university crisis appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Republicans performed more or less at 2020 levels in Harris County - Obviously, the Republicans did well in Harris County this year, better than I expected for sure. They won some judicial races – they’re probably kicking th...
American Prospect

The Cabinet Doesn’t Matter - The second Trump administration will have a Potemkin cabinet and centralized power among the czars in the White House.
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: Zionists in Amsterdam - What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Western powers blessed it, and Wester...
Grist

Can you solve the world’s trillion-dollar climate finance puzzle? - As countries deadlock at COP29, take Grist’s quiz to find out whose side you’re on.
High Country News

Western voters reject ranked-choice voting - The alternative electoral system has many benefits, but public opinion remains mixed. The post Western voters reject ranked-choice voting appeared first...
Portside

Resistance 2.0 - Resistance 2.0 Mark Brody Thu, 11/14/2024 - 03:24
jobsanger

Loyalty Is More Important Than Competence For Trump -
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...
DeSmogBlog

‘Give Trees a Hand’ — Ad Agencies Line Up to Sell Sketchy Climate Solutions - The video opens on an anonymous industrial site, where a woman stands under a clear blue sky. She’s wearing a white hard hat and a grey utility shirt wit...
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...
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.
Workers World

PDF of November 14 issue - [image: PDF of November 14 issue] Download the color version. Download the black & white version. Don’t mourn, ORGANIZE! WW Commentary: Capitalism: biggest...
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...
Ian Welsh

What It Means To Be Left Wing - [image: What It Means To Be Left Wing] We discussed Communism recently, which is one type of left wing belief. I would suggest that the left’s core belief...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The AltWorld

Did US Deep State Allow Trump to Win? - This question raised by Mike Whitney and others has caught the attention of the astute Russian journalist […] The post Did US Deep State Allow Trump to W...
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.
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 ...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
Sludge

The Democratic Consultants Getting Rich off the Harris Campaign - Here are the top recipients of the campaign's billion dollars of spending.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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Sunday, November 08, 2020

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