Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Biden Signs" Funnies

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Sunday "Biden Signs" Funnies

Please read this essay by Jack Reilly about the slow demise of political cartooning. And support the craft if you can.

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Hungary's far-right PM Viktor Orbán has made "some smart decisions," Sen. J.D. Vance says (Kaia Hubbard/CBS News) - Kaia Hubbard / CBS News: *Hungary's far-right PM Viktor Orbán has made “some smart decisions,” Sen. J.D. Vance says* — Washington — Republican Sen. J.D...
Axios

Iranian president, other officials involved in helicopter crash - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and several other officials crashed Sunday in the country's East Azerbaijan Province, according to ...
Futurism

Google's Top Autocomplete Suggestion for "How to Edge" Is Wild - It is our somber duty to report, dear reader, that if you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the words "in class" are recommended as the top autoc...
The Hill

Bezos's Blue Origin sends first crew to edge of space since 2022 - Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, sent its first crew into space in nearly two years, after a failed uncrewed test flight in 2022 temporarily groun...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli army steps up attacks across Gaza as top US official visits Israel - Air and ground attacks kill dozens across besieged enclave as US adviser Jake Sullivan holds talks with Israeli leaders.
Eschaton

Things I Know Nothing About - Internal Iranian politics.
Raw Story

Judge Cannon says she's 'disappointed' in Special Counsel Jack Smith in new Trump filing - Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed documents in Florida, has some harsh words for the prosecutors in th...
Slate

What’s Happening With the Women on Fox News? - Legs are still everywhere. Blond reigns supreme. But small changes are afoot.
World Socialist Web Site

A quarter of a million march in London to oppose Gaza genocide and mark Palestinian Nakba - Leading the demonstration were Palestinians holding keys as a symbol of intent to return to their stolen land. The protest included a large contingent of s...
The Verge

Sonos is teasing its ‘most requested product ever’ on Tuesday - [image: An illustration of the Sonos logo.] Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sonos is teasing, both in emails and on social media, that its “most ...
Mondoweiss

Strengthening our movement in times of crisis: a historic task of the Palestinian liberation movement - [image: Upwards of 400,000 Pro-Palestine protestors take the streets in a national march in Washington DC to show support for Palestinians and call for a c...
Daily Dot

‘Honda gives you a notification’: Mechanic speaks out on whether you should actually change your transmission fluid - [image: Mechanic speaks out on whether you should actually change your transmission fluid] Ancient wisdom says you should change your transmission fluid ...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for May 19 - Meet Tonja Stelly, the mother of the only NBA-NHL brother tandem in history. “For centuries, people have thought of parasites as nature’s villains. They of...
Salon.com

Helicopter carrying Iran’s president weathered a “hard landing,” and is unable to be found - Amongst conflicting reports of the incident, Iranian media reports urge the public to pray for Raisi
Wolf Street

Dear Readers, Please Donate to WOLF STREET: Spring 2024 Reminder - Thanks to your generous support, WOLF STREET has been free and open to all, not hidden behind a paywall.
Ian Welsh

no title - [image: no title] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 19 2024 by Tony Wikrent *Strategic Political Economy* *You Can’t Run Industrial Policy OR A Wa...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Dignity, joy, a raised fist: Biden renews pitch to Black voters at Morehouse commencement - Gaza protesters wore keffiyehs as Biden tried to assure the crowd: ‘Your voices should be heard, I promise you I hear them’ It was, in the end, an artful...
Mediaite

Margaret Brennan Grills J.D. Vance For Praising Foreign Autocrat In Bed With China: ‘You Want to Mimic Him?!’ - "I'm not endorsing every single thing that Viktor Orban has ever done. I don't know everything he's ever done." The post Margaret Brennan Grills J.D. Vanc...
El Paso Matters

State rep candidates Vincent Perez, Norma Chávez call out each other’s records - Norma Chávez and Vincent Perez take jabs at each other’s records as they vie to represent a large swath of El Paso on the Texas House of Representatives...
Alternet

Why the 'inversion of the flag remains a problem' despite Alito’s 'explanation': columnist - Following a New York Times report earlier this week reporting that US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside down American flag outside of his...
Ballot Access News

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Pokes Fun at CNN Debate Criteria - On May 19, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appearing on television, pointed out that neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump are officially o...
Political Wire

The Law May Give Prosecutors the Edge in Trump’s Trial - Michael Cohen’s “testimony that Mr. Trump ‘approved’ the plan could give prosecutors what they need,” the New York Times reports. “It might not matter that...
Mother Jones

Biden Celebrates Black Leadership While Navigating Gaza Crisis Tensions at HBCU Commencement - For weeks preceding President Biden’s commencement speech on Sunday at Morehouse College—a historically Black men’s college in Atlanta—students and faculty...
The Root

Diddy has apologized, and Black Twitter has lots to say - Sean “Diddy” Combs has apologized for the horrific video that surfaced this weekend of him physically assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie, but in the minds o...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: “Problemista”: Magical Realism in the Art World - William Sarradet and Gabriel Martinez discuss the Julio Torres film Problemista and its depiction of the difficulties of succeeding in the contemporary a...
Houston Public Media

More than 300,000 Houston-area Centerpoint customers still without power days after fatal storm - Centerpoint predicts energy will be restored to 80 percent of the thousands of Houston-area customers affected by recent power outages by Sunday evening.
WhoWhatWhy

How a NYC Courtroom Became the Mecca for Members of the MAGA Cult - With Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City wrapping up, his acolytes have only limited opportunities left to prove their reverence.
Undernews

Biden - *Biden has installed the most non-White judges of any president. *Additionally, 6 in 10 Biden judges are women, data show.
nonsite.org

Protected: Berthe Morisot, Early Impressionist Criticism, and the Aesthetics of the Plein-air Interior - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Mediagazer

The CAA partners with Veritone to build a storage system for A-list artists to store their digital assets and get compensated for the use of their AI likeness (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) - Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: *The CAA partners with Veritone to build a storage system for A-list artists to store their digital assets and get compens...
OpEd News

U.S. Divide and Rule Strategy vs. China's Unifying Belt and Road Initiative - PENTECOST SUNDAY HOMILY: Last week's summit between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin was absolutely "pentecostal" in its contradiction of Washington's "divide...
The Week

Today's political cartoons - May 19, 2024 - Sunday's cartoons - 2024 votes, AI woes, and more
Southeast Texas Record

Man sues Memorial Hermann Health Systems for negligence leading to severe injuries - A man has filed a lawsuit against Memorial Hermann Health Systems for alleged negligence resulting in severe injuries to Carol Ann Safier. The case seeks...
Daily Cartoonist

Dana, Phoebe, Her Unicorn and Nickelodeon - Deadline reports: EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Nickelodeon has won the rights in a competitive situation to Dana Simpson’s comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn, a...
Novara Media

The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar Meets William Costello - The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that is true...
Reform Austin

Houston’s Miniature Poodle Sage Steals The Show At Westminster Kennel Club! - Sage, a miniature poodle hailing from Houston, clinched the top prize at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Under the expert guidance of s...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'I Scream Cohen' Toons - As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered species, please consider s...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: They’re Coming For Your Home - Corporate landlords are buying up homes and terrorizing tenants with junk fees and negligent maintenance, and other news from The Lever this week.
Grist

Oil companies contaminated a family farm. The courts and regulators let the drillers walk away. - The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more t...
Election Law Blog

“‘We’ll See You at Your House:’ How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics” - NY Times. From Jamie Raskin to Chief Justice Roberts to a variety of election officials you have never heard of, these few quotes say it all. “Public off...
First Draft

Dark Passage - Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, and Agnes Moorehead. Written and directed by Delmer Daves.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 19 May 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Do not try to fight that which is beyond your understanding. The Death St...
NPR's Health Shots

'There is no respect anymore' as ambulances come under attack in South Africa - That's what one paramedic says of the targeting of ambulance crews. Criminals are after phones and wallets along with medical equipment and drugs. We ride ...
Angry Bear

US Affordable Rental Housing, Makes Sense? Or Not Working as Intended - This report dropped into my email box a day or so ago. It hits upon a topic which has plagued big cities since before I was a child. Early-on in Chicago,...
Democracy Chronicles

Mostbet: Курметтi ойындар керсету -
Vox

The known unknowns about Ozempic, explained - [image: Ozempic in a cardboard box with Polish-language packaging.] Ozempic in a pharmacy in Krakow, Poland, in December 2023. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto v...
The Smirking Chimp

Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -
Scheerpost.com

Antony Blinken Dines at Nazi Restaurant in Ukraine - Secretary of State Antony Blinken was caught dining at a pizzeria in Ukraine with ties to neo-Nazi groups in the country. Alex Rubinstein takes a look at s...
San Antonio Report

Incoming North East ISD board to grapple with budget shortfall, book bans - Five trustees, including four new faces, were sworn into office for the North East Independent School District Board of Trustees this week — a changing of ...
naked capitalism

Links 5/19/2024 -
Crooked Media

AI’s Flirty Upgrade, Facebook’s Zombie Internet, and Why We May Be Doing Mental Health Wrong - The post AI’s Flirty Upgrade, Facebook’s Zombie Internet, and Why We May Be Doing Mental Health Wrong appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rio Grande Guardian

Hinojosa: New monument pays tribute to all who served in Vietnam - Dedication held for the new Vietnam Monument built at the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery in Mission. The post Hinojosa: New monument pays tri...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pézenas]
Informed Comment

Top 3 Climate Catastrophes Menacing Florida, as DeSantis Erases Climate Change From Web Sites - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When we think about Florida, we may think about flamingos. But in the Rod DeSantis regime, the state bird ought to be the os...
jobsanger

Cowards And Hucksters Can Do Great Damage -
Counterpunch

A Package Deal Full of Holes - The Biden administration has been working on a package deal with Saudi Arabia that would guarantee a path to a Palestinian state in return for a permanen...
Deadline Politics

Hannibal Lecter Rolled Out As Potential Trump VP Choice In Short & Sharp ‘SNL’ Season-Finale Cold Open - “I’m not afraid to testify at all, I’m just not going to out of fear,” said James Austin Johnson ‘s Donald Trump from the hall of a Manhattan courthouse in...
Popular Resistance

Columbia Students Vs The State - Hundreds of college student encampments across the country against the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza have now spread to Europe, South America and the wor...
ExChristian.Net

Why I left Christianity -
LareDOS

14-count Federal indictment of Henry and Imelda Cuellar: shocking allegations of legislative favors, bribery, sham contracts, and shell companies - Accusations of Congressman Cuellar’s use of his office for bribes collides with the image of beneficence of the trusted hometown public servant working for...
Texas Monthly

Dabney Coleman, Hollywood’s Funniest Mean Boss, Never Lost His Texas Drawl - The ’9 to 5‘ star was a struggling law student at the University of Texas when he met Zachary Scott and became “smitten with becoming an actor.”
Claytoonz

Bleach Blonde Bad-Built Butch Body - Where do I even start with this one? I don’t like to explain my cartoons and if a cartoon has to be explained, then it doesn’t work. I’ve been accused by c...
Portside

Inside the Student Movement That Forced Ireland’s Trinity College To Divest From Israel - Inside the Student Movement That Forced Ireland’s Trinity College To Divest From Israel Kurt Stand Sat, 05/18/2024 - 17:01
Dissident Voice

Ongoing Expulsion - On May 15, we will commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Nakba amid another catastrophe. Since 1948, Palestinians have suffered a profound and enduring...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: May 12th – 18th - Five Years Ago This week in 2019, the government hit whistleblower David Hale with espionage charges. All four major wireless carriers were hit with lawsui...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Conned by the con men at Fox & Friends! - *SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024* *Minnesota's new flag to follow: *Yesterday, President Biden journeyed to the National Museum of African American History and Cu...
CultureMap Houston

Beloved weatherman's imminent retirement leads Houston's 5 most-read stories - Editor's note: It's time to recap the top stories on CultureMap from this past week.
Eater Houston

What’s Open and What’s Closed in Houston After Severe Storms - [image: Debris is scattered across a slicked roadway with a view of downtown Houston high-rises in the background.] Debris spreads across the roads near I...
Workers World

Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, ¡presente! - [image: Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, ¡presente!] This edited statement was first published May 18, 2017, on workers.org. May 19 is also the birthday of long-ti...
Space City Weather

Power remains out for a quarter of Houston as we begin to assess carnage from Thursday’s storms - In brief: Ironically, Thursday was “National Love a Tree Day.” Instead of loving trees, however, a line of storms ripped through the heart of Houston and t...
San Antonio Current

Disney’s Frozen musical coming to San Antonio's Majestic Theatre - The wintry woods and ice castles of Disney’s Frozen will come to life at San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre from Wednesday, May 22, through Sunday, June 2. Ba...
The Militant

Fruit meets Quebec rail workers, discusses contract fight - MONTREAL — On May 8 six rail workers in the Teamsters union in Montreal met with Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. They ...
Bracing Views

The Dishonesty of Western Media on Gaza - W.J. Astore Genocide? What Genocide? A fascinating interview, well worth watching. Suella Braverman is a Tory MP in Britain. Here she debates a student abo...
Progressive.org

Panama’s New President Says He Will “Close” the Darién Gap - The Panamanian president’s announcement comes as the Biden Administration is once again making accessing asylum more difficult.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for May 13 - 17 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Several of the monthly reports for April - retail sales, residential co...
ArcaMax

Age. Race. Sexual Orientation. Should Political Expression Be a Protected Class, Too? - Your boss can't fire you because of the color of your skin. He can't get rid of you because he doesn't like your religion. Federal law protects you against...
Skeptophilia

The trove - If you ever think we've discovered just about everything there is out there to discover, consider the story I found out about from my eagle-eyed writer f...
Greg Palast

John Barrow busts Brian Kemp’s self-made man myth - How Brian Kemp always ended up with a golden shovel, as explained by former Congressman John Barrow, who's facing off against the Kemp appointed justice An...
ProPublica

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. - by Jennifer Berry Hawes This story contains a racial slur. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches...
The NM Political Report

A rare NM lizard is now listed as endangered - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the dunes sagebrush lizard to the list of endangered species on Friday and is expected to designate critical hab...
Common Dreams

Ungaggable: Costumed Clowns and Lickspittle Surrogates 'R Us - This week saw a seedy, craven parade of MAGA stooges trooping into court to pay fealty to their two-bit mob-boss on trial for cooking the books to hide h...
Courthouse News

Virginia governor ends legislative cycle with more vetoes - With another year left in his term, Governor Glenn Youngkin has vetoed more bills than any other governor in Virginia’s history.
See You In 2020

The USA’s two big parties are closer than ever to collapse, & the workers are closer than ever to victory - One of the most important things I’ve learned from living through the last ten years of political upheavals in the United States, and from studying the...
Lowering the Bar

Guess Who’s Decided to Represent Himself? - Start popping the popcorn now. You only have until June.
slacktivist

LBCF: Pagan babies - Our heroes watch the Rapture on television while our narrator assures us that all fetuses go to Heaven.
Texas Standard

‘We’re the voice now’: Veronica and Jerry Mata tell Tess’s story through activism - The parents of one of the 19 children killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary in 2022 say the constant push for change takes a toll on them – but...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: A Red Flag - Jodi Kantor @ The New York Times: At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contest...
DeSmogBlog

Pierre Poilievre Voted Against Environment and Climate 400 Times, Records Show - Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has voted against the environment and climate nearly 400 times during his 20-year career as a Member of Parl...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Chinese Tariffs and CFPB Success - On our weekly live show, David Dayen and Bob Kuttner discuss new efforts to boost the domestic electric-vehicle industry.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: HATE RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG EDITION. - *No, actually, I like cheeseball electropop.* Another exhausting week but at least I’ve managed to do a proper Friday ‘Round-the-Horn! Or I will have whe...
Texas Observer

Two Years Later, I’ll Never Stop Fighting for Lexi - Twice, my daughters have confronted the stark reality of guns in Uvalde schools. First, my youngest daughter, Lexi, faced a deranged 18-year-old armed w...
Environment Texas

Austin city council approves light rail-boosting development plan - Council reduced minimum lot sizes and compatibility standards and allowed for greater development along Project Connect light rail line The post Austin c...
Capital & Main

Abandoned Wells, Methane-Emission Loopholes and Underground Toxic Waste Dumps All Raise Concerns - *Here are the world’s top banks financing fossil fuels — is yours on the list?* The post Abandoned Wells, Methane-Emission Loopholes and Underground Toxi...
Texas Freedom Network

The Ruling Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Reminds Us to Reject Voucher Schemes - Marking Brown v. Board's 70th anniversary, we examine the racist origins of vouchers and modern voucher schemes to defund public education. [...] Read Mo...
Second Nexus

GOP Official Accuses Kansas City Of Doxxing Chiefs Kicker After Now Deleted X Post - Andrew Bailey, Missouri's GOP Attorney General, has accused Kansas City officials of doxxing Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker after his divisive commencemen...
NORML

Poll: Registered Voters’ Support Legalizing Marijuana By a Margin of More Than Two-To-One - [image: Majority Support][image: Majority Support] “As more states have adopted legalization, public support for this policy has risen dramatically. That...
Ring of Fire

FBI Ignored Nassar’s Abuse On Gymnasts For Years & FISA Expansion Gives Government More Spying Power - The Department of Justice has reached a $139 million dollar settlement with the victims of Doctor Larry Nassar. Plus, President Biden has signed an expan...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farias III of McAllen, Chairman, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, awarded UTRGV President Medal of Honor during the Spring 2024 Commencement - Dr. Fred Farías III of McAllen, Chairman, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and President and CEO of 20/20 Vision Care, has been awarded the Univer...
Political Garbage Chute

Surely, We Don’t Expect Republicans to Suck Their Cult Leader Off All The Way from D.C.? - “Does anyone know how hard it is to have a long-distance relationship, much less a long-distance relationship with your cult leader’s dick?” A lot of fol...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

An Authoritarian Cult: The GOP and the Next Stage of Democratic Destruction - We're watching things devolve in real time. And it's more than just a spectacle.
Debunking Christianity

The Cherished So-Called Evidence for God Hits Brick Walls - *This is not hard to figure out* But you do have to think about what is *claimed* as evidence for god(s). Does the evidence hold up to careful, critical a...
Discourse

What's J.K. Rowling Been Up To Lately? - Hint: some of the wildest TERF tweets in the history of society.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, May 17 - [image: The morning read for Friday, May 17]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the ...
The Conversation

Attempted assassination of Slovak prime minister follows country’s slide into political polarization - The shooting of Robert Fico was ‘politically motivated,’ authorities say.
Church and State

Is SCOTUS in on the Coup and Trying to End American Democracy? - The simple reality is that conservatives throughout modern history have viewed democracy with a jaundiced eye.
Democracy Now!

"Resist the Normalization of Evil": Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism - Our guest is the *Haaretz* correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the We...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Sustainability Is An Opportunity - The turn to sustainability is an opportunity — economic, social, and environmental, according to author... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Sustainability ...
Bud Kennedy

‘I can’t breathe!’ Disturbing echoes of George Floyd in Tarrant County jail death video | Opinion - FW Jail Deaths blurb for top of stories “I can’t breathe!” Anthony Johnson Jr. shouted. Now, we are all holding our breath. Johnson’s death in the Tarrant ...
The Reality-Based Community

Arsenal dẫn đầu cuộc đua giành chữ ký của Benjamin Sesko - Theo thông tin từ The Telegraph, Arsenal đang nắm trong tay nhiều lợi thế để sở hữu chữ ký của tiền đạo Benjamin Sesko thuộc RB Leipzig trong kỳ chuyển n...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Pennsylvania bill could prevent schools from barring homeless students - [image: An illustration that has several faces looking sad and contemplative. There are also desks and houses representing homeless students on the illustr...
Rallblog

No Place for Violence - Even as he funnels tens of billions of dollars in weapons to Israel to help it bomb the Gaza Strip, President Biden lectures college students about being...
Antiwar.com

Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World - By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth. Eve...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 17, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio May 17, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/17/2024 - 06:49 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Don't come home until your d!@k is wet.' Sex scandal involving Moms for Liberty founder heats up again. - According to a report, Moms for Liberty founder Bridget Ziegler would get her husband to go in search of women they could engage in threesomes with. Her i...
Trivial Knot

The information theory of Mysterium - A question that keeps me up at night is “What is the theoretical best you can do in Mysterium?” I’m exaggerating a bit, but it is a pointless question abou...
Dispatches from the Underclass

How the US privatized WAR - The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico ...
Dissent Magazine

Adults in the Room: A Response to Jeffrey C. Isaac - To insist that a movement remake itself in one’s image is not a plea for solidarity; it is a demand for obedience.
Rewire

There’s Movement On a Comstock Act Repeal - Advocates press members of Congress in a new memo highlighting Comstock's threats. The post There’s Movement On a Comstock Act Repeal appeared first on R...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Deepening Manufactured Crisis in Texas public Education: 70% of Texas Teachers Consider Quitting Due to Lack of Funding - *Friends,* *This is a deepening manufactured crisis in Texas public education. Despitesurpluses in state dollars, our governor refuses to finance our scho...
Reveal

Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun - [image: Candace Leslie holds a framed portrait of son Cameron Brown.] Our investigation found that more than 52,000 police guns have been involved in crim...
High Country News

Denver’s new immigration plan, explained - The new program caps shelter stays for all new immigrants but expands services for 800 asylum seekers. The post Denver’s new immigration plan, explaine...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The State Supreme Court Skirmishes - State supreme court elections are often ignored by the public and the media, but they can have a dramatic impact on public policy, especially in the post...
Liberation News

UAW 4811 authorizes strike across UC campuses defending right to protest for Palestine - On May 15, 2024 — the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — UAW 4811 members across the University of California took the historic step to authorize a strike in ...
Project Censored

Free People Read Freely - By Nancy Kranich People have challenged books for centuries. But following the pandemic, newly formed parents groups such as Moms for Liberty grew to inc...
Socialist Alternative

Where’s Our Contract? Embattled NALC Leadership Lashes Out Against Open Bargaining - Tyler Vasseur is an elected shop steward in NALC Branch 9, writing in personal capacity. Letter carriers at USPS have been working for a year without a new...
Sludge

AIPAC Places $1.9 Million Ad Buy to Oust Bowman - The pro-Israel group's ads are booked to begin airing tomorrow in the Democratic primary race between incumbent Jamaal Bowman and challenger George Latimer.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Nigerian journalist misleads millions on X, accusing US of colonial behavior in the Sahel - China, France, and Spain are the largest extractors of uranium in Niger. China is also the single largest harvester of Nigeria’s lithium. A Nigerian subsid...
MintPress News

Leaked Docs Reveal British Intelligence’s Secret Exploitation of Palestinian Refugees - A network of British intelligence operatives and cutouts, including firms like InCoStrat and ARK, have been actively involved in psychological warfare ca...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: Pelosi attacker, Atomwaffen plot, far-right university lecturer - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
Earthworks

Compromise at Global Plastics Negotiations Results in Failure to Sufficiently Advance Treaty - What You Need to Know: Last week a team of Earthworkers, along with other NGOs and people living on the … The post Compromise at Global Plastics Negotia...
Ecosophia

Walking Away From The Marketplace - The recent sequence of posts here on lenocracy (from Latin leno, a pimp)—that is, the form of political economy in which productive economic activity gets ...
The Texas Signal

Pressure Grows For Mike Miles To Resign - Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles was already feeling the heat from teachers, school workers, and community members over a myriad of issues at the st...
The Grayzone

Israel astroturfed Eurovision vote but lost anyway, govt admits - Israeli officials hyped their country’s 5th place Eurovision finish as proof of quiet global grassroots support for their assault on Gaza. Now, they admi...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two "zero-day" vulnerabilities i...
The AltWorld

Elections to the European Parliament: a costly masquerade - The European elections serve to show that the European Union is democratic, since it organizes elections. Of […] The post Elections to the European Parli...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Presidential Debate to be Held at FreedomFest in Las Vegas July 11th - LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, May 14, 2024 – The Free & Equal Elections Foundation announces its third presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, hosted at Fr...
The Progressive Wing

5/14-5/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - LIVE: Congratulations to the students at University of New England on your graduation today — a momentous day. https://t.co/j1nm5W8U8R — Bernie Sanders (@S...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The University Accord: Plus ça change… - Higher education is at the core of the political challenges confronting the Albanese government, principally of boosting capital accumulation whilst safe...
Duck of Minerva

Eurovision suggests both sides on Israel-Palestine need to invest in some public diplomacy - Last year I was on a sabbatical in Edinburgh, and my family and I watched Eurovision for the first time. We loved the out-there electro-pop versions of loc...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates Sen.-elect Molly Cook as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff looks at former Houston Mayor Annise ...
Progressives Chat

‘Compton Jay Out at [“RBN”]’ - *Revolutionary Blackout* had a livestream this past Saturday, May 11, 2024 with announcement that Compton Jay is out. There had been problems, behind...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The ‘Other Shoe’ - A friend and I were discussing the events of 1989 and ‘90 recently, and we agreed that even at the time, we knew it was only the first shoe dropping. So, d...
Idavox

NJ Hate Watch: Zionists Ebrahim and Mathew Yehounatan of Flushing, NY - Threatening comments with racial slurs. And it turns out one of them threatened a woman...
Reading the Pictures

Racism, Symbolism, Story: More Notable Images from the Campus “Free Palestine” Movement - In our second "free Palestine" campus protest post, we focus on the institutional divide and more scenes that challenge the media narrative. The post Rac...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Free Speech on Campus - In the first draft of this cartoon, the first panel went out of its way to make fun of Emma Camp’s New York Times article about students being afraid to sa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Anti-Zionist Inquisition - Nobody expects The Anti-Zionist Inquisition! Like their befuddled medieval Catholic progenitors in the classic Monty Python skit, they descend upon you wit...
The Rag Blog

ROBERT COTTRELL | ALTERNATIVE MEDIA | Looking Back at ‘The Village Voice’: ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write’ - By Robert Cottrell | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2024 [Robert Cottrell will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, May 10, 2-3 p.m. on KOOP-FM 91.7-FM in...
Web of Debt

Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank? - In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Jimmy Dore Show - The Jimmy Dore Show.
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...
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...
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).
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
GreenSource DFW

2024 Oak Cliff Earth Day in photos - *The sun came out and so did the crowds for Oak Cliff Earth Day on Sunday. Photo by Jim Domke.* April 24, 2024 On Saturday, Oak Cliff Earth Day organize...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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