Brains and Eggs: We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet Toons

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

Eschaton

Late Night - Rock on.
The Hill

Auchincloss: Trump nominated Hegseth because 'he wants yes men around him' - Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said Fox News's Pete Hegseth was only selected to serve as the Secretary of Defense because President-elect Trump wants “ye...
Scheerpost.com

“Actually Innocent”: Judge Recommends Overturning Death Row Inmate Melissa Lucio’s Conviction, Sending Case to Texas High Court - The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court documents.
memeorandum

Rand Paul has plans to kneecap the nation's cyber agency (Maggie Miller/Politico) - Maggie Miller / Politico: *Rand Paul has plans to kneecap the nation's cyber agency* — The incoming chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee has...
Raw Story

Dem governor quickly walks back statement that he's 'excited' by Trump nominee - A Democratic governor quickly walked back his seeming excitement over Donald Trump's announcement Thursday of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run Health and Hum...
Mediagazer

Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for "complicity in disseminating false information", after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo (Liam Scott/Voice of America) - Liam Scott / Voice of America: *Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a...
Mediaite

Meghan McCain Blames Liberals for Trump Nominating RFK Jr. As HHS Secretary: ‘Direct Result of Democrats’ - Conservative commentator Meghan McCain blamed Democrats for President-elect Donald Trump's HHS secretary nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Thursday. The...
World Socialist Web Site

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping meet at APEC summit in Peru amid nationwide strikes and deployment of US troops - The APEC summit in Lima Peru takes place under the shadow of the growing conflict between the United States and China, which has become the main economic p...
Axios

Meet the GOP's Senate resistance - Next year's outlandish confirmation fights could thrust incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) between his Republican conference and his pre...
Futurism

CEO of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Slams AI Hype in Gaming Industry - I Want to Play a Game Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick demystifies AI in video games as the industry gets besieged by cruel layoffs and stilted, ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Democrat Janelle Bynum flips seat to become Oregon’s first Black member of Congress - Bynum says ‘we believed in a vision’ and victory is boost for party after longtime Democratic seat turned red in 2022 Janelle Bynum will serve as Oregon’...
The Week

Why India's medical schools are running low on bodies - A shortage of cadavers to train on is forcing institutions to go digital
Ballot Access News

Arkansas Libertarian Party Won Two Partisan Elections Last Week - The Arkansas Libertarian Party elected two partisan candidates last week. Besides the race in Little Rock, already mentioned on this blog, the party also e...
The Verge

The world’s biggest battery maker says Elon Musk’s 4680 cell ‘is going to fail’ - [image: Tesla robot holding a 4860 battery cell] Image: Tesla Robin Zeng, the founder of the world’s largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk...
Portside

Authoritarians Like Trump Love Fear, Defeatism, Surrender. Do Not Give Them What They Want - Authoritarians Like Trump Love Fear, Defeatism, Surrender. Do Not Give Them What They Want jay Thu, 11/14/2024 - 19:25
Lowering the Bar

Insurer Thinks Bear Shown in Video Trashing Car Looks a Lot Like a Guy in a Bear Suit - So did the California Department of Insurance.
Salon.com

"I would love to serve": Lara Trump beams over possible appointment to Senate seat - The president-elect's daughter-in-law is a contender to replace Marco Rubio should he become Secretary of State
Popular Resistance

Top Israeli Court Rejects Netanyahu’s Request To Delay Criminal Trial - The Jerusalem District Court rejected on 13 November a request made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to delay his testimony in his corruption...
Daily Dot

‘Wait so what do we do to prevent this?!’: Man accepts iCloud’s new terms of service. Now all his notes are deleted - [image: Man sharing his iCloud experience on TikTok(l) iCloud on iPhone display(c) Note app(r)] iPhone users are reporting that their notes in their Note...
Workers World

Hamas calls on people of the world to mobilize - [image: Hamas calls on people of the world to mobilize] The following statement from Hamas, entitled “A call for global public mobilization against the Zio...
Consortium News

SCOTT RITTER: Tulsi Gabbard & the Trump Revolution - Gabbard is well positioned to become the most influential advisor to President Trump regarding the critical foreign policy and national security problems t...
Alternet

Biden’s push to confirm final spate of federal judges gets huge boost from key senator - One of the biggest priorities for President Joe Biden during his lame duck period is the confirmation of several dozen federal judges still awaiting a vo...
Vox

Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does - In the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, the platform has become crowded with deceptive ads and unchecked misinformation. Now,...
Techdirt.

Good News: Canada Passes Major New ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms - The world might be going to hell, but at least activists’ efforts to protect consumers’ rights to affordable and easy tech repair continue to gain steam. M...
Texas Monthly

Area Man’s Website Purchased by Satirical Newspaper - After ‘The Onion’ bought Jones’s Infowars, the Austin-based conspiracy theorist plotted his next move—and live streamed through it.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Taps Todd Blanche And Emil Bove, Lawyers Who Defended Him In Hush Money Case, For Top Justice Department Roles - Donald Trump has selected two attorneys who defended him in his New York hush money trial to top roles in the Justice Department. Todd Blanche has been nom...
San Antonio Report

State begins seeking board applicants for possible South San ISD takeover - [image: Dr. Abe Saavedra shares his observations after about a month and a half of being appointed by the TEA to monitor the South San board members. He sa...
Discourse

So I Guess We're All Gonna Die - Which old-timey disease do YOU think RFK Jr. will bring back???
Political Wire

Trump Tests Deference of GOP Senators - “President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to stock his cabinet with combative loyalists is creating the first major test for the new Senate Republican majority, ...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s Genocide Day 404: Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, says Human Rights Watch - [image: Palestinians mourn the death of 9-year-old Mira Khreis, who succumbed to her injuries following an Israeli airstrike on displaced persons' tents in...
Rio Grande Guardian

Majestic Realty is set to build the biggest warehouse and distribution facility south of San Antonio - California-based Majestic is developing 600 acres of farmland on the corner of Veterans Boulevard and Military Highway south of Pharr. With a one million...
Progressive.org

Trump and the Dictators’ Playbook - How the former and next President could borrow from the example of others to sideline democracy.
Slate

Donald Trump Fills His Cabinet - Will Senate Republicans get in the way?
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmaker Fills Bill To Recall U.S. Senators Going Rogue - State Rep. Brian Harrison filed a bill that would allow the Texas Legislature to recall either of the two U.S. Senators representing the state if “they g...
El Paso Matters

Eastside’s long-stalled Pellicano Drive expansion still hung up in courts - A hearing on Wednesday did not result in an immediate ruling that may determine whether construction of the roadway expansion can resume. The post Easts...
Second Nexus

Jasmine Crockett Perfectly Calls Out Trump Over Unqualified Cabinet Picks - Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett exposed the glaring hypocrisy behind President-elect Donald Trump choosing unqualified cabinet members for the...
Sludge

Big Oil Sends Trump Its Wish List - Oil and gas trade group the American Petroleum Institute released a policy roadmap that will drill, frack, and flare.
Texas Standard

Would you like to be able to hike across Texas? - The organizers of the xTx Trail plan a route that stretches from Houston to the Big Bend, where those who walk, bike or ride a horse would have a unique...
Election Law Blog

Pennsylvania: “Dave McCormick once fought to have undated mail ballots counted. Now, in tight race with Bob Casey, he’s suing to block them.” - Philly Inquirer: As vote counting continues this week in Pennsylvania’s tight Senate race, attention is once again shifting toward the largest and most h...
The Root

50 Cent's 5 Most Business-Savvy Moves in 2024 - The Root 100 honoree Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson saw a monkey wrench thrown in his burgeoning film empire in Shreveport, La. The Louisiana House of Represen...
Alas, a Blog

Ohio Passes College Trans Bathroom Ban - My alma mater Oberlin, and all colleges in Ohio (private colleges included) is going to be forced to ban trans students from using bathrooms aligned with t...
Houston Public Media

Nearly half of Houstonians considered leaving, new poll finds, mainly due to weather - The survey, conducted in Fall 2024, found that 48% of people considered moving out of the Houston area. Of that, 70% said weather is a reason. Pollsters be...
The Daily Poster

The Populist Paradox Of Matt Gaetz - Monopoly expert Matt Stoller unpacks the surprising antitrust record of Trump’s controversial attorney general pick.
NPR's Health Shots

Trump picks RFK Jr. to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a former presidential candidate who has a history of spreading conspiracy theories, including about vaccines — is poised to have a ...
Capital & Main

The EPA Stalled and Then a Fix for New Mexico Oil and Gas Pollution Evaporated - Trump election likely marks the end of a federal response to worsening air pollution in the Permian Basin. The post The EPA Stalled and Then a Fix for Ne...
First Draft

One Hand Doesn’t Wash The Other - Unfit man nominates unqualified creep as Defense Secretary. Pete Who?
Wolf Street

After More Up-Revisions, “Core” PPI & “Core Services” PPI Inflation Get Much Worse, Accelerating All Year - But goods prices are relatively tame. Energy prices plunge.
OpEd News

New Realities, New Directions: American Political Dynamics - Identifying our new political realities and suggesting a means of responding effectively.
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (11.14.24) - Take time to listen to James Baldwin. And to Sarah Gailey, Rebecca Solnit, Duncan Black, and Ken White. But especially James Baldwin.
See You In 2020

Security state seeks to use Tulsi Gabbard for advancing the crackdown against Palestine supporters - In this last week, where Trump has filled his cabinet with either open neocons or Zionists who share key neocon positions, it’s become apparent which ro...
Al Jazeera English

Trump’s transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit in US: Report - Ending tax credit would gravely affect electric vehicle transition in US even as it would help Tesla beat competitors.
American Prospect

Stop Equating Trump With Hitler! This Week, He’s More Like Stalin. - Today on TAP: Purging generals, putting intelligence in the hands of a Putin-phile, turning Justice over to an alleged predator—we’re almost back in the USSR!
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Oligarchical Order: A Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State - The United States has been co-opted by oligarchs hellbent on destroying democracy, lowering our standard of living, and delivering a new world order
LareDOS

Jorge Alberto Uribe May 27, 1939 – November 10, 2024 - Rancher Jorge Alberto Uribe of Lytle, and formerly of San Ygnacio, passed away November 10.
Novara Media

Donald Trump’s Cabinet Picks Get Even Worse - Donald Trump’s cabinet gets even weirder with the appointment of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard. Plus: The US trade war with China; and how the media failed ...
Dissident Voice

This Day in Anarchist History: The Assassination of Colonel Falcón - On this day in Anarchist History, November 14 1909, we remember young Simón Radowitzky and his assassination of Colonol Falcón, the head of the federal p...
Daily Howler

Love hurts, but Storyline can destroy! - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2024* *Let's take one more look at the record:* Love hurts—or at least, that's what songwriter Boudleaux Bryant alleged in his hi...
Eater Houston

The Michelin Guide Gave a Closed Houston Restaurant a Bib Gourmand. Here’s What Happened Next. - [image: A table of different dishes at Kau Ba Saigon Kitchen & Bar in Montrose] Kau Ba no longer has a bib. | Annie Mulligan Viet-Cajun restaurant Kâ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - November 14, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New York and New Jersey grapple with record drought and ...
Claytoonz

Enemy At The Gaetz - 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...
Ian Welsh

DOGE Will Wind Up Costing the Government More Money - [image: DOGE Will Wind Up Costing the Government More Money] Elon Musk will be in charge of the effort by Trump to cut government waste. Problem is, most ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/14/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics ~
The Mind Unleashed

Father and Son Build 50,000 New Beehive Colonies Around the World - In a quiet corner of rural Australia, a father and son have sparked a global movement to help save one of the world’s most vital yet vulnerable creatures—t...
DeSmogBlog

Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge - Governments around the world must take “immediate and decisive action” to tackle climate disinformation, scientists and campaign groups have urged as tal...
Undernews

AL SHARPTON - *Daily Mail, UK - *Conservatives slammed MSNBC after host Rev. Al Sharpton accepted $500,000 from Kamala Harris' campaign weeks before a gushing interview...
Angry Bear

A Tale of Two Economies - Anterevolution, France was pre-industrial, feudal, and broke. Broke because its wealth (wealth that had been derived from the labor of serfs at home and...
WhoWhatWhy

World’s Largest Known Coral Discovered in Solomon Islands - [image: science, biodiversity, marine life, Solomon Islands, world's largest coral] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recomme...
Daily Cartoonist

More Comic News – Editoon Edition - Bonnie Lord is a junior from Alma, Michigan and is an environmental science major at Albion College. She is driven by community, justice and sustainability...
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. ...
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. ...
Project Censored

Unplugging the News (and History) in San Francisco - By Peter Byrne Reporters are tasked with wading into the maelstroms of current events—fires, hurricanes, battle spaces, crime scenes, accidents, politica...
Southeast Texas Record

Woman's lawsuit over tiny bump in Walmart parking lot tossed - HOUSTON - Walmart has defeated a trip-and-fall lawsuit brought against it in Houston, as a federal judge there has found small irregularities in parking ...
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...
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...
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...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 20: “Haiti Spirals Out of Control” - On the TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan dive into one of the most vexing problems in the Western Hemisphere: a failed state in the Caribbean l...
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...
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...
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...
Rewire

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

The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks - Despite US voters hoping the incoming Trump administration will end America’s wars abroad, citing apparent interest in […] The post The Trump Administrat...
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.
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...
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...
Church and State

Trump’s win spells disaster for abortion rights - Trump is heading back to the White House and the consequences for reproductive health in both the USA and globally are catastrophic.
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...
Crooked Media

Should We Unfriend Trump Voters? - The post Should We Unfriend Trump Voters? appeared first on Crooked Media.
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...
Counterpunch

Medicare “Advantage” By the Numbers - The quasi-privatized system called “Medicare Advantage,” otherwise known as Part C, was created in 2003 as a means of expanding the role of private secto...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Moron Majority

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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...
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.
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...
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.
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

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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...
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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Thursday, December 31, 2020

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