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You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

It took me many years of trying to finally come to that conclusion

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— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 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

📍 Houston, Texas

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— missfalasteenia (@missfalsteenia) 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

Informed Comment

Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Sunday condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to ban the Al Jazeera news network i...
The Week

Crossword: May 6, 2024 - The Week's daily crossword
jobsanger

Defunding Public Media Would Be A Mistake -
Portside

The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators - The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators Ira Mon, 05/06/2024 - 00:44
Al Jazeera English

Bodies of murdered Australian, US surfers identified in Mexico - The three men were killed during a camping and surfing trip along Mexico's Pacific coast.
Axios

White House hits back at Trump "Gestapo" remarks, accuses him of echoing fascists - The White House denounced former President Trump Sunday over reports that he compared President Biden's administration to the Gestapo, the Nazi-era secre...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian government, media downplay reports of Indian spy ring - If the purported spy ring was Chinese, there would have been hysterical front-page coverage for days.
Antiwar.com

What the Nord Stream Insurers Refusal To Pay Reveals About the Explosions - Lloyd’s of London and Bermuda-based Arch Insurance deny the €400 million claim by Nord Stream AG, arguing their policies do not provide coverage for the ...
Mediagazer

Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal control of his business (Max Tani/Semafor) - Max Tani / Semafor: *Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal...
memeorandum

Three soldiers killed in Hamas rocket barrage toward Kerem Shalom, aid crossing closed (Jerusalem Post) - Jerusalem Post: *Three soldiers killed in Hamas rocket barrage toward Kerem Shalom, aid crossing closed* — The rockets were reportedly launched from th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘I freaking love it’: Lando Norris proud to silence the critics with first F1 win at Miami Grand Prix - - McLaren driver beat Max Verstappen to take out Miami GP - Briton used doubters and family as motivation for maiden F1 victory Lando Norris has ...
Crooked Media

Trump’s VP Wannabes - The post Trump’s VP Wannabes appeared first on Crooked Media.
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: Thank You For Support Following Cancellation Of My Show - I have received hundreds of messages of support, including over 400 on Substack alone, since my show was canceled by The Real News. More than 100 of you ...
Daily Dot

The ‘Blackbeard Writing’ meme from ‘One Piece,’ explained - [image: blackbeard writing meme] People are getting ready to put on their writer hats. In this case, it’s more like busting out their quills, channeling ...
The Hill

Jeffries: Democrats 'effectively' in majority due to GOP 'chaos, dysfunction' - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said “chaos” and “dysfunction” in the House GOP has “effectively” given Democrats the majority, lending cred...
Raw Story

Trump threatens Biden with 'very big price' over DOJ's indictment of 'respected Democrat' - Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Joe Biden while blaming the current president for the recent indictment of a Democratic lawmaker who is accused of "par...
Dissident Voice

Nesting in Australia: Indian Spy Rings Take Root - In his 2021 annual threat assessment, the director-general of ASIO, the Australian domestic intelligence service, pointed to an active spy ring operating...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance wonders how a university president could ever think that inviting cops to a peaceful protest is a good idea as it brings you...
Claytoonz

Ice Cream Joe - Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion Newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday Since this cartoon was chosen kinda earl...
Mediaite

Embattled ABC News Chief Kim Godwin Out at Network: ‘I Leave With My Head Held High’ - Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin stepped down on Sunday evening following a corporate restructuring that limited her control of the network. The ...
Deadline Politics

Kim Godwin Exits As President Of ABC News - After weeks of speculation, Kim Godwin is leaving her post as president of ABC News. Debra OConnell, who added ABC News to her portfolio in February, will ...
Wolf Street

The Reasons the Fed’s Bowman is “Willing” to Hike Rates if “Data Indicate Progress on Inflation Has Stalled or Reversed” - She nails it with her list of inflation-fueling factors. It parallels what Powell said more softly at the press conference.
Liberation News

Six-week abortion ban takes effect in Florida; in Arizona, total ban repealed; in both states, organizers put abortion rights on the ballot - Ultimately, it will be neither the Democrats nor the Republicans that defend our bodily autonomy, our healthcare, or our basic right to an abortion.
Slate

Of Course Donald Trump’s Defense Is to Pin Everything on the Woman - That woman is Stormy Daniels.
The Verge

Randy Travis gets his voice back in a new Warner AI music experiment - [image: Randy Travis singing at Cheyenne Frontier Days] *Randy Travis in 1987.* | Photo: Mark Junge / Getty Images For the first time since a 2013 stroke...
Eschaton

Sunday Happy Hour - Enjoy
Salon.com

Trump VP contender unbothered by him comparing Biden administration to the "Gestapo" - Before answering to Trump's "Gestapo" comment, Doug Burgum praised him for speaking sans teleprompter
Mother Jones

Kristi Noem’s Book Includes a Fake Story About Her Meeting Kim Jong Un - After it emerged recently that Gov. Kristi Noem recounts a graphic, disturbing story in her forthcoming book about killing her puppy with a gun, the Republ...
Rallblog

Now Available for Pre-Order: “2024: Revisited” Graphic Novel - Twenty-four years ago, I wrote and published my “Nineteen Eighty-Four” update/parody “2024,” a graphic novel about a dystopian future of our own making. ...
naked capitalism

Could WHO’s Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through the Air” Already Be Obsolete, Two Weeks After Its Release? - WHO's terminology and WHO's science are both questionable.
Mondoweiss

The mainstream media distorted our anti-Vietnam War protests 50 years ago. They’re following the same strategy today - [image: Screenshot from a May 1, 2024 report from CNN's Dana Bash on the Gaza protests on campuses around the U.S.]Fifty years ago, I joined in protests ag...
Election Law Blog

“Henry Cuellar Indicted Over Bribery Scheme” - Missed this story (and the Illinois one Derek flags) while traveling: Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat in a crucial swing district, and his...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Inisightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the lawsuit between cops that resulted more than $23 million ...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for May 5 - Whatever happened to Charlotte Braun, the least popular Peanuts character? “This article attempts to answer the question of why the polls show good numbers...
WhoWhatWhy

Blinken Suggests Actual Gaza Footage Makes Israel’s Narrative More Difficult - Blinken suggests social media posts showing atrocities in Gaza are turning public opinion in favor of the Palestinians.
Political Wire

The Wolves Of K Street - Just published: The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government by Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins. An excerpt from Pol...
Rio Grande Guardian

Protected: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. appeared first on Rio ...
Ballot Access News

Illinois Governor Signs Bill Harming Ballot Access for Qualified Parties - On May 3, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzger signed SB 2412, which eliminates the ability of qualified parties to nominate someone after the primary is over....
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 5 2024 - [image: Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 5 2024] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 5 2024 by Tony Wikrent *Disrupting mainstream economic...
The AltWorld

Georgia Accuses Washington of trying to overthrow the country in order to open a second front against Russia - It is just as I said, and Putin’s inability to recognize reality and endlessly prolonging the conflict […] The post Georgia Accuses Washington of trying ...
Undernews

The absence of hate doesn't create positive diversity - *Sam Smith - *The recent debates about college protests brings to mind something that is largely ignored in our supposed search for ethnic diversity: Th...
The Root

The Most Scathing Diss Lines in Beef History - The best rap beefs? Been there. The most memorable diss tracks? We’ve done that. Read more...
Alternet

The love affair with Ayn Rand ties conservatism to one of the most disturbing killers - There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs throug...
Angry Bear

Western “Values” - Western “Values” … | Homeless on the High Desert Dog named Cricket got a raw deal from an owner who could not train it, so took the easy way out. And she...
Daily Cartoonist

25 Years of National Cartoonists Days - It’s the Silver Anniversary of National Cartoonists Day! As News18 tells it: During World War II in 1943, cartoonists including Gus Edson, Otto Soglow, Cla...
Houston Public Media

Molly Cook defeats State Rep. Jarvis Johnson in special election for Senate District 15 - Cook’s 14-point victory sets her up as the heavy favorite to win both the Democratic primary runoff on May 28 and the general election to fill SD 15 in the...
El Paso Matters

UTEP tenure policies a major sore point, faculty survey shows - A survey of full-time faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso shows a general unhappiness among the majority of those who participated, especially...
Reform Austin

How Will DEA’s Historic Move On Medical Marijuana Impact Texas - The post How Will DEA’s Historic Move On Medical Marijuana Impact Texas appeared first on Reform Austin.
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Staffing Changes, New Museums & Other Recent News - Leslie Moody Castro and Jessica Fuentes discuss new art organizations, the appeal of non-urban spaces, and the many changes occurring at institutions acr...
Southeast Texas Record

Steven Clement sues Fernando De Leon for rear-end collision resulting in personal injury - Steven Clement has filed a lawsuit against Fernando De Leon and Purvis Industries, LLC in the District Court of Harris County, Texas under the case ID 20...
San Antonio Report

The Trailist: A low-speed appreciation of Bamberger Nature Park’s dirt trails - [image: Bamberger Nature Park includes more than 2 miles of dirt singletrack trails, mostly used by mountain bikers.]Opinion: Hobbled by knee pain, I embra...
Daily Howler

SUNDAY: How many outsiders were arrested? - *SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024* *The New York Times doesn't seem sure:* For starters, we strongly agree with Nia Prater concerning one basic point. Last week, Pra...
Space City Weather

Heavy thunderstorms will traverse much of the Houston area this morning with street flooding likely in spots - In brief: Morning rain has thus far been manageable, but repeated rounds of thunderstorms along and on either side of I-10 will likely cause ponding and st...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Self Reflecting' Toons - As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered species, please consider s...
San Antonio Current

With indictment, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s deep South Texas ties will again be tested - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. McALLEN — When federal agents...
First Draft

Born To Kill - Starring Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, and Elisha Cook Jr. Directed by Robert Wise.
Grist

How the Miccosukee Tribe plans to stop oil drilling in the Everglades once and for all - The proposal comes amid continued interest in expanding oil production within the Big Cypress National Preserve, an Everglades wilderness the tribe conside...
NPR's Health Shots

Mammograms should start at age 40, hormone therapy for menopause is safe, studies find - Mammograms should start at age 40, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Taskforce. And a new study finds hormone therapy for menopause symptoms is safe.
Novara Media

George Galloway’s Plan to Destroy the Labour Party | Downstream - George Galloway has been elected as a member of parliament for four separate constituencies – with only Winston Churchill beating him. Perhaps more remarka...
Vox

How lip gloss became the answer to Gen Z’s problems - [image: An illustration of a variety of colored lipgloss moving in an upward trend. Three of the colors are being applied to 8-bit lips.] Paige Vickers/Vo...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 5 May 2024 - I've had a policy here of not including any links to paywalled sites, or to sites that require a login, on the grounds that most readers wouldn't be able ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘God Help Us’: 2024 Electoral College Could Be Decided by This Lone Congressional District -
Scheerpost.com

Glenn Greenwald: 2024 or 2004? The War on Terror Mindset Returns - By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: pink salt lake at Gruissan - [image: Gruissan]
The Daily Poster

Airlines Want To Keep The Money They Owe You - Hundreds of millions of dollars are potentially at stake in the fight over airline refunds.
Counterpunch

Green Colonialism in the Empire State - In November of last year, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) over its illegal approval of a wastewater disposal ...
See You In 2020

The pro-Palestine cause depends on embracing multipolarity, & building a united front against empire - There’s a broader context behind the acts of fascist violence that the Zionist movement is unleashing upon the Gaza protesters: in the last twenty year...
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...
CultureMap Houston

Memorial's new BBQ joint and Bludorn's bistro lead week's top stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.
Futurism

James Webb Detects Weather on Exoplanet From 280 Light Years Away - Cloudy With a Chance of Molten Iron The scientific instruments on board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are so sensitive, they can tell the weather on ...
The Militant

Shifts in world politics boost interest in Pathfinder books - LOS ANGELES — “Books by revolutionary working-class leaders” read the banner over the Pathfinder Books booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books hel...
The Conversation

Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance - Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 29 - May 3 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Very little change this week in any of the indicators, but what there w...
ArcaMax

Pro-Palestiners Should Fight Back Against Right-Wing Bullies - There are more Democrats than Republicans, more liberals than conservatives, more progressives than MAGAs. But you'd never know that from looking at our po...
ProPublica

Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger - by Anna Clark and Sarahbeth Maney, Photography by Sarahbeth Maney ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Disp...
Courthouse News

Arizona students denied relief from suspensions for pro-Palestine protests - Twenty students arrested while protesting the Israel-Hamas war Saturday night were denied an emergency motion let them finish their finals and complete the...
Progressive.org

Work Won't Love You Back: Coming Apart at the Seams - Politicians like Nikki Haley will proudly bust unions. But the latest events at Boeing are a clear example of what happens when corporations don't listen t...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China focuses on student protests to paint US 'empire,' deflect from domestic antisemitism - China uses its control over news and social media to ally itself with the pro-Palestinian cause, omitting and distorting facts to portray itself as a bette...
Workers World

Three U.S. wars threaten World War Three: $95 billion targets Palestine, Iran, Russia and China - [image: Three U.S. wars threaten World War Three: $95 billion targets Palestine, Iran, Russia and China] Anyone who thinks that the U.S. policy of continue...
slacktivist

LBCF: ‘Scream’ morality - In which the "heroes" of Left Behind establish their heroism by threading their way past injured crash victims, heroically avoiding helping any of them.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Prayers To Demons - Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin says that if Nick Fuentes is going to have his Twitter account reinstated, then Anglin should have his account reinstated too beca...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Hedge Funds First, Universities Second - Fighting unchecked corporate power in the courts and on university campuses
Texas Monthly

Recognition for Four Texas Monthly Editors - José Ralat, Dan Solomon, Mimi Swartz, and Forrest Wilder were all recognized for their impactful storytelling.
Texas Standard

‘I wrote the book of my heart’: Texas YA author’s debut novel weaves magical narrative of hope - “The Last Refuge,” from Christina Bacilieri, follows the story of Kiera as she crosses borders to new lands, new powers, and new dangers.
DeSmogBlog

BP Was Warned Gas-Driven Climate Change Could Cause ‘Unprecedented Famine’ - BP was warned by Princeton University researchers in 2016 that climate change accelerated in part by new global supplies of shale gas could lead to catas...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2024 - Walmart had at least seven more shootings in April 2024, with four of them fatal, and three of those deaths caused by cops shooting suspects, although o...
Eater Houston

Astros Star Alex Bregman and Bun B Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Trill Taco Collaboration - [image: An image of the Trill smash taco.] The Trill smash taco features Trill Burgers’ crispy beef smash burger patty with American cheese smashed onto a...
Socialist Alternative

ON THE GROUND: Boston Gaza Solidarity Encampments - In the past few weeks, college students across the country have set up encampments at more than 50 universities in solidarity with the Palestinian people u...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Steller's Jay - A brilliant reader entry!
Environment Texas

Groups to Congress: oppose attacks on energy efficiency - Partisan bills that aim to block common-sense energy efficiency standards would raise utility costs for consumers, harm our health and the environment. ...
MintPress News

Exclusive: Yemen Braces For Impending Massive US-Led Air and Ground Campaign - Insider reports reveal ominous preparations for a massive military operation in Yemen, with US and UK forces backed by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE ...
Second Nexus

Trump Dragged After Getting Name Of NYC's Fire Department Wrong In Now Deleted Posts - Former President Donald Trump was ridiculed after mistakenly referring to the New York City Fire Department as "NYFD" instead of the correct acronym, FDN...
Capital & Main

Election Disinformation Campaigns are Targeting Latinos. Fact Checkers are Fighting Back. - *As the November election nears, journalists work to counter false and misleading information aimed at Spanish-speaking voters.* The post Election Disinf...
Political Garbage Chute

Nothing Says Understanding American Freedom Like Cheering for Teenagers to Get Beaten by Cops - “…one thing I have now learned is that fascism and freedom of speech are pretty much the same thing. I mean, if they weren’t, wouldn’t all the conservati...
Seeing the Forest

Kings Rounding Up Gold (video) - Kings Rounding up gold to pay for mercenaries is no basis for an economic system! PS this post is about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Ring of Fire

Trump Spews Incoherent Rants Over Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - A new poll has found that Bobby Kennedy, Junior is taking a significant chunk of support away from Donald Trump, and Trump has now gone completely mental...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: JUST GOT BACK FROM LOST WAGES EDITION. - *I stopped paying attention to this guy early. That was a mistake.* I skipped last week’s “’Round-the-Horn” because I was rushing into a much-needed holi...
Bud Kennedy

Is 2024 a rerun of 1968? Protests helped Richard Nixon win on ‘law and order’ | Opinion - I am old enough to remember 1968. And how that year of protests did not end well for Democrats. True, America in 1968 was more turbulent than in 2024. Assa...
BEYONDbones

Summer is Near | May 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: Summer is on the horizon and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is explaining the signs in the stars above Houston’s skyline. Mars and Saturn ar...
Debunking Christianity

A Handy Concise Guide, Part 2: Why the New Testament Is a Disaster - *Two major things it got really wrong* By *really wrong* I mean that these New Testament errors have caused unspeakable horrors, so much suffering and d...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, May 3 - [image: The morning read for Friday, May 3]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the S...
Texas Observer

Surviving Baptistland - Christa Brown, a former Texas appellate attorney, is revered as perhaps the best-known of the brave women (and men) who blew the whistle on abusive clerg...
Democracy Now!

"Dead on Arrival": Doctors Back from Gaza Describe Horrific Hospital Scenes, Decimated Health System - Nearly seven months of constant bombardment, siege and obstruction of aid deliveries have annihilated the healthcare system in Gaza. Last week, the Palesti...
Church and State

What If The Anti-Man Wins! - Trump intents to dismantle our democracy into the authoritarian regime which many of us have already predicted.
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Give Nature A Chance - Take a moment to give nature a chance, and see what happens. This week’s quote... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Give Nature A Chance appeared first on ...
High Country News

An environmental justice coalition for all - How has Biden’s record on conservation served communities of color? The post An environmental justice coalition for all appeared first on High Country ...
LareDOS

TAMIU holds record Spring Commencement Exercises Thursday, May 9 at Sames Auto Arena - Former Laredoan William "Willie" Hornberger, J.D., Spring Commencement speaker
The NM Political Report

Advocates to recognize day for Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons this Sunday - Events happening this Sunday, which is National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, will commemorate and raise awareness about the cris...
TalkLeft

Open Thread for College Campus Protests - I am not writing about the Israel-Hamas war, or as of yet, the protests on college campuses. But I know everyone has strong feelings about the protests. ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 3, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio May 3, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/03/2024 - 07:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Rad...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Dear U.S. Left: Stop Asking Me To Vote - Dear US Left: With all due respect — I really do love ya, we’ve worked together and hit the barricades and been ride-or-die n’all that, but — you’ve just g...
Common Dreams

A War Against Humanity Itself - As the unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza persists at the hands of Israel's "voracious death machine," its leaders openly vow "total...
The Rag Blog

JONAH RASKIN | STUDENT PROTEST | Columbia protests now and in 1968 - Demonstration on University of Texas campus, April 27, 2024. Creative Commons image. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 3, 2024 This article was original...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Arizona Republicans furious about Drag Queen Story Hour event in which no children were in attendance - The lies that Drag Queen Story Hour and drag queens in general are integral in some plot to "sexualize" or "trans" kids is a lie. We all knew this from t...
OpEd News

A Kennedy in name only - This apple has fallen far from the family tree. So far, in fact, that every member of his family has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president and encourag...
The Texas Signal

Texas Sues To Stop Gun Safety Legislation - Last month the Biden Administration announced new gun safety legislation that would require any individual who sells firearms outside of sporting or gun ...
Bracing Views

“Order Must Prevail” - W.J. Astore Biden denounces violence, destruction, and hate, but only in America President Biden read a short statement today in which he stated “order mus...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Holocaust Education: A Mixed Bag in U.S. Schools - The Holocaust stands as an indelible chapter in human history, characterized by unimaginable suffering, persecution and the systematic extermination of mil...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Major Escalation: Tucker, Dugin, and the Normalization of New Fascism - I've been studying the Right Wing's normalization of authoritarianism for years, and even I was surprised when I saw this
Sludge

Here Are the Top Recipients of AIPAC Money - The most complete, up-to-date view of AIPAC PAC contributions to congressional candidates.
Texas Freedom Network

This National Day of Prayer, Protect the Religious Freedom of All Texans - Together, our country celebrates May 2 as the National Day of Prayer, a time when many folks across faiths come together to pray. However, it’s also a vi...
Project Censored

The Press Freedom Clock is TikToking - By Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon As we write for World Press Freedom Day, declared May 3, 1993, by the United Nations, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks languis...
NORML

Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Announced - [image: Federal Cannabis Action Fund][image: Federal Cannabis Action Fund]Perhaps most tellingly, our political opponents are also touting its significanc...
Rewire

Texas Lawmakers Won’t Stop Harassing LGBTQ+ Kids - It’s a terrible end to a school year where conservative legislative hate campaigns have targeted trans kids in particular. The post Texas Lawmakers Won’t...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invitation: Educación con Corazón: Una Plática Comunitaria/ Education with Heart: A Community Conversation—May 4, 2024, 10am - 3pm - *Friends,* *It's such a vast juxtaposition to be sharing with you our upcoming event, "Education with Heart: A Community Conversation," taking place this...
Democracy Chronicles

DafaBet – Convenience at Its Best - DafaBet - Convenience at Its Best
The Grayzone

Columbia crackdown led by university prof doubling as NYPD spook - Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide...
Greg Palast

On the Line: The Osage Nation v. The Koch BrothersAn upcoming documentary details how Charles and David Koch made billions off of the Osage people's oil money. - No one becomes a billionaire without victims. Charles and David Koch were no... READ MORE
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Districts of Change, Part One: How All 435 Congressional Districts Voted from 2008-2020 - Thanks to Dave's Redistricting App, a tool which we use often at the Crystal Ball, we are able to easily compare congressional district data across the f...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Coffee - A lot of origami paper is colored on the front, and white on the back, so you can make patterns by carefully exposing the front and back. I’m vaguely awar...
Edinburg Politics

Cancer prevention, health insurance, and nursing-related postsecondary education and scholarships to be reviewed Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at the Texas Capitol by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, reports DHR Health - Cancer prevention, health insurance, and nursing-related postsecondary education and scholarships will be reviewed during a public hearing in Austin on Tue...
Robert Reich

Should Billionaires Exist? Do billionaires have a right to... - *Should Billionaires Exist? * Do billionaires have a right to exist? America has driven more than 650 species to extinction. And it should do the same t...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! - The last week has been kind of a bummer for me, workwise – I pulled a muscle in my thumb. (Who even knew that was a thing?) Afraid of making it worse, I de...
CPI's Danger in the Air

After a years-long fight, EPA broadens ban on deadly chemical - [image: Paint strippers are displayed on a shelf in a hardware store.] It can kill on the spot or years after prolonged exposure. When methylene chloride...
Dandelion Salad

The Brief Origins of May Day, by Eric Chase - Dandelion Salad Originally published May 1, 2015 Republished with permission from IWW by Eric Chase IWW, 1993 May 1, 2024 Most people living in the United ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin - The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin.
Field Negro

Cricket deserved better. - Every now and then a member of the MAGA crowd shows you who they really are. Take the governor of South Dakota, *Kristi Noem*, for instance. It recent...
Ecosophia

Lenocracy in Extremis: The Case of Publishing - I really did mean to go on to a different subject this week, rather than talking further about the system of political economy I’ve labeled lenocracy (from...
The Progressive Wing

5/1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - Happy May Day!
Dispatches from the Underclass

‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A Threat to Humanity -
Krebs on Security

Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years - A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leakin...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop - During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal t...
Equality Texas

Texans Speak Out Against Paxton’s Lawsuit, Abbott’s Order - Monday, April 29, 2024 For Immediate Release Texans Speak Out Against Paxton’s Lawsuit, Abbott’s Order Texas Governor & AG move to undercut updated feder...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Comics Can Spark Conversations About Race and History in the Classroom - Right now, efforts to censor college protestors, to ban diverse materials in schools and to silence students and staff threaten our right to free speech ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman - Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, *Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair*.
Save Buffalo Bayou

What’s that Munching Sound? - Spring on that Bend in the Bayou April 28, 2024 We were standing on that high bank in the woods of Memorial Park looking up and down at Buffalo Bayou flowi...
Campaign for America's Future

Sick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at United's HQ - “What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of Unite...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism” - Does Whataboutism work? A new article has answers.
Progressives Chat

‘Joe Rogan’s Unbridled Enthusiasm…’ - Is Joe Rogan giving us something to consider? Encouragement, yes. But, when explaining why, there is something else. Technology can be a pain.
Two Party Opera

Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Joe Biden and Richard Nixon are talking near some anti-war protestors. Biden: "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming." Nixon: "Four Dead in ...
Grits for Breakfast

Most 'contraband' found at Texas traffic stops results in no arrest; nearly 50k arrests for Class C misdemeanors in 2023 - I had cause this morning to dig around in Texas' 2023 traffic-stop data, so decided to post a few high/lowlights. This data, published annually in a cumber...
Earthworks

Biden Admin Takes Action to Protect Alaska Communities, Caribou, & Clean Water from Proposed Ambler Road - Tribes and Conservation Groups Applaud Decision with Ads in State and National Media Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Land … The post Biden Admin Takes A...
Media Lens

The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support - Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
Texas Watch

In the News: Texas car insurance premiums are soaring. Here's what's behind the spike — and what you can do - Madison Iszler, staff writer for the *San Antonio-Express News*, recently investigated the sky-high increase in auto insurance premiums in Texas. Accordi...
Moron Majority

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Avedon's Sideshow

Well I knew there was gonna' be trouble, when I heard that callin' - I've just discovered the art of Laurent Parcelier and I love to look at it. "The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three ...
The Reality-Based Community

Man United ra giá ‘trên trời’ để bán Marcus Rashford - Manchester United đang gây bất ngờ cho giới mộ điệu khi quyết định niêm yết mức giá 100 triệu Bảng cho Marcus Rashford, tiền đạo đang có phong độ thất th...
Skeptophilia

In the dark - Dear Readers: After today's post, I'm going to be taking a long-overdue break from *Skeptophilia*. My intent -- lord willin' an' the creek don't rise, as ...
Reveal

How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come - [image: A photo illustration overlays a map of Israel and Gaza with images from the region, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] Research on World Wa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
Idavox

A Change in Tactics? - The Black Bloc has been seen en masse at protests across the United States for...
Free & Equal

A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
GreenSource DFW

Eclipse watch parties pop up across DFW - *NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC....
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
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...
Land Destroyer

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It - *March 5, 2024* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are raising the alarm over Ukraine’s military manpower shortage and the ...
Green Pages News

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
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...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
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...
Stinque

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
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. ...
Border/Lines

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
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...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
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...
CT's short stories and novelettes

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
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...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
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

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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...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
IVN

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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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