Brains and Eggs: Sunday 'Not Forgetting' 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

Scheerpost.com

Jonathan Cook: The Guardian’s Antisemitism Is Clearly on Show. So Why Is Everyone Fine With It? - The media constantly deploy an antisemitic trope: that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington. They get away with it because this trope is...
American Prospect

Information Corrosion - The destructive threat of AI search
Alternet

'Offensive': Senators object to Trump plan to usher in scandalous nominee - WASHINGTON — Some Republicans are trying to slow the rush to appoint President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks — particularly "Fox & Friends Weekend" ...
OpEd News

ChatGPT, the NSA, and Ethical Concerns - Here is a podcast I did for Future Tech and Foresght regarding recent changes at OpenAI and their new association with Synchron's BCI.
ProPublica

Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women - by Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Ziva Branstetter ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign u...
Slate

Princess Treatment, the 4B Movement, and “Women in Male Fields” - Vox’s Rebecca Jennings helps us decipher whether we’re in the midst of an online gender war.
Salon.com

Possible bird flu infection reported in California child, health department reports - Child had no known exposures to farm animals, raising concerns over potential for human-to-human spread
Grist

The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem - Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

More rescued victims of insurgency handed over to Borno state government - Northeast Nigeria is witnessing renewed stability after decades of insurgency
The Reality-Based Community

Sát thủ 16 tuổi được Amorim chuẩn bị cho ra mắt Man United - Ruben Amorim: “Tạo nên một ngôi sao mới tại Old Trafford” Kể từ khi chính thức nắm quyền tại Manchester United, HLV Ruben Amorim đã nhanh chóng tạo ra nh...
NPR's Health Shots

New study on teens and screentime finds both quality and quantity are important - The American Psychological Association is out with a study on how much time teens spend watching videos and what parents need to watch out for. Quality and...
Daily Dot

‘No Keurig’: Expert says you should use Celtic Sea Salt for an ‘amazing’ cup of coffee at home. You just need a Mr. Coffee - [image: Man talking(l), Coffee being made(c), Hand holding bag of celtic sea salt and text that says "how to make amazing coffee"(r)] America runs on cof...
Al Jazeera English

Retiring Rafael Nadal’s career ends as Spain is ousted at Davis Cup - Nadal's superlative career was celebrated in front of his home crowd after Netherlands upset Spain in the Davis Cup.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Nominates Linda McMahon For Education Secretary After Pledging To Shut Department Down - Donald Trump’s leftfield cabinet choices have continued with the nomination of WWE co-founder Linda McMahon for Education Secretary. Trump announced the pi...
memeorandum

Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy* — The move comes as Russia's advances in eastern Ukraine thre...
Mediagazer

A profile of The Green Line, a Toronto-based local news site that combines traditional reporting, community events, and solutions and action (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab) - Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab: *A profile of The Green Line, a Toronto-based local news site that combines traditional reporting, community events, and s...
Counterpunch

The Democratic War Party and Its Loss of Legitimacy - When a political party loses its legitimacy, its traditional priorities and moral compass, its candidates lose elections. Opting not to hold an open conv...
Rallblog

End of the Affair - One of the more puzzling decisions of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign was to make numerous appearances with Liz Cheney, the far right neoconserva...
The Week

Women are getting their own baseball league again - The league is on track to debut in 2026
Axios

West Coast faces bomb cyclone with heavy rain, high winds - The West Coast is facing a long-lasting heavy rain event from a bomb cyclone that is taking shape in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, which could lead to ...
The Grayzone

Leaked files expose high-level UK military plot to destroy The Grayzone - In their bid to “keep Ukraine fighting,” a covert cell of British military strategists and spooks plotted to destroy “media outriders” that threatened th...
jobsanger

Russian Leaders Think Trump Will Destroy The United States -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1983: Inventing the Newspaper - Episode: 1983 Inventing the newspaper in seventeenth-century England. Today, our guest, historian Cathy Patterson reports on the invention of the newspaper.
Crooked Media

1,000 Days of War In Ukraine - The post 1,000 Days of War In Ukraine appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Mother of Rust cinematographer fatally shot by Alec Baldwin refuses to attend film’s world premiere - Three years after Halyna Hutchins was killed on set, Olga Solovey says there has been ‘no justice for my daughter’ and claims Baldwin has not apologised ...
World Socialist Web Site

European governments back use of US missiles to bomb Russia - As they escalate their war with Russia in Ukraine in defiance of mass popular opposition, the European NATO countries are risking total war between the maj...
El Paso Matters

El Paso ISD to close 8 elementary schools amid enrollment declines - Following an emotional meeting Tuesday, a sharply divided El Paso ISD school board voted to close eight elementary schools over the next two years in re...
Informed Comment

Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down - Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty...
The Hill

Ukrainians’ opinions of U.S. leadership falling: Gallup - Ukrainians' opinions of the U.S. government leadership have fallen to pre-war levels after reaching a high point in 2022, according to a new Gallup poll re...
Antiwar.com

Gitmo Continues To Haunt - Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first time in modern history. The s...
Political Wire

Trump Ignores Transition Rules - “A thousand miles from the austere buildings where Washington runs, Donald Trump’s transition team in his Mar-a-Lago resort has begun what a close ally cal...
Raw Story

'Recognize the urgency': Watchdog demands immediate release of FBI summaries in Gaetz case - A nonpartisan watchdog is seeking a preliminary injunction in its ongoing lawsuit seeking interview records from the federal investigation of former Rep....
Claytoonz

Turkey 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...
Mediaite

There’s Already a ‘Cold War Brewing’ Between Trump and Senate Republicans, NBC News Reports - "He seems to be pushing Senate Republicans to see how far he can push them before they push back." The post There’s Already a ‘Cold War Brewing’ Between T...
Techdirt.

Federal Court Says Qualified Immunity Can’t Shield Cop Who Tased Suicidal Man Soaked In Gasoline - If this sounds familiar, sadly, it is. Three years ago, the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court somehow arrived at the conclusion that tasing someone soaked in gas...
Daily Cartoonist

Miss Cellany Reads & Watches Comics News - A Visit to Planet Koren – a photo comic Paul Karasik joined James Sturm and Glynnis Fawkes who all paid a visit to Curtis Koren and the Ed Koren archives a...
Liberation News

Only a working-class, socialist movement can win trans liberation - Wednesday, Nov. 20, marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we mourn the trans victims of deadly and bigoted violence.
Ballot Access News

Connecticut Finishes Write-in Tally for President - The Connecticut Secretary of State has released write-in totals for the declared presidential candidates. For those candidates who were on the ballot in at...
Brad Blog

'Bullet Ballot' Claims and Other Arguments for Hand-Counting 2024 Battleground State Votes: 'BradCast' 11/19/2024 - Okay. The best way to take in today's BradCast is simply to listen to it. That is almost always the case, but especially today. The stuff you are tuning in...
Consortium News

Ukraine Fires US Missiles at Russia Risking Wider War - The Pentagon refuses to say whether Joe Biden even informed it of his reckless decision to allow the strikes, which the DoD has strenuously opposed, report...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
The Verge

Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps - [image: Two simulated screenshots of the Strava app showing the flyover and heat map features] Image: Strava Strava recently informed its users and partn...
Popular Resistance

US Tries To Pound Lebanon Into Submission - Israel has intensified its air strikes on Lebanon and in particular on Beirut, ahead of a visit on Tuesday or Wednesday by U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, at ...
Krebs on Security

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach - The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecur...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Targeting of trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride is latest stunt of publicity-hungry Nancy Mace - Publicity-hungry Congresswoman Nancy Mace's newest stunt is targeting trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride. When Sarah McBride was elected as the first trans...
Avedon's Sideshow

One little miracle a day is all I need - I feel worse than I thought I would if this happened, even though I probably expected it more than a lot of lefties and Democrats did. The whole Cheney ...
Portside

Billionaires Take Center Stage After US Elections - Billionaires Take Center Stage After US Elections Judy Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:25
San Antonio Report

Ballet San Antonio’s The Nutcracker returns to the Tobin Center - SPONSORED: Ballet San Antonio’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Christmas classic reflects San Antonio’s vibrant culture and diversity. ------------------------...
Trivial Knot

A better masculinity, for those who don’t want it - A few months ago, I went to an ace unconference–an unconference being an event where attendees create sessions on the spot, rather than planning sessions i...
The Root

Social Media Reacts to NBA Star LaMelo Ball’s $100,000 Fine for Using an Anti-Gay Slur - Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball is in his fourth season in the NBA, which means he should know how to properly conduct himself with the media. On Satu...
WhoWhatWhy

The Comer Con – GOP Lawmaker Cashes in on Biden Witch Hunt - [image: James Comer, Compassion Shining] Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) investigation into the "Biden crime family" yielded no tangible results, so the chairman...
Futurism

As Climate Catastrophe Looms, New York City Declares Drought Warning - The Sky Is Falling New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the long list of portentous climate-related events that hav...
Election Law Blog

Want a Jump Start to Follow the Election Law Community on Bluesky? Josh Douglas Has Created an “Election Law Starter Pack” - Follow everyone there, or whomever you choose, with just one click. Thanks Josh! The post Want a Jump Start to Follow the Election Law Community on Blues...
Texas Observer

How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration - In 1926, the Galveston League of Women Voters wrote to their U.S. senator to express concern over the “dreadful conditions which exist in regard to the d...
slacktivist

Postcards from America (11.19.24) - "We cannot be free until they are free." -- James Baldwin
The Daily Poster

Trump Picks Oz, Champion Of Medicare Privatization - Trump says he will nominate the TV doctor, who has been paid to push Medicare privatization while investing in health care giants.
Mondoweiss

The massacres that tore my life apart - [image: Palestinians check the damage following Israeli strikes in Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 17, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy...
Daily Howler

What the heck is in a word? - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2024* *Ezra sticks with "unhinged:"* Ezra Klein has published a fascinating interview with Anne Applebaum. Before the actual trans...
Reform Austin

Houston Attorney Tony Buzbee Faces Extortion Allegations In California Lawsuit Amid Diddy Case - Tony Buzbee, the high-profile Houston lawyer currently representing over 100 clients in a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been accused of extorti...
Vox

Biden is letting Ukraine use a powerful new weapon. What happens next? - Nearly three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, the Biden administration gave Ukraine the green light to strike deeper into Russia using...
Second Nexus

Sarah Palin Mocked After Responding To Trump Snubbing Her For Cabinet Post - As Trump administration 2.0 takes shape, one name is missing from the laundry list of MAGA minions who clung to president-elect Donald Trump since his el...
Dissident Voice

Zionism: In the Words of the Leading Zionists and their Allies - Nearly all of these quotes are gathered from the chapter epigraphs in the book, M. Shahid Alam, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionis...
Texas Standard

Who might Trump appoint to the Supreme Court? Two Texas judges might be on the list - Trump will only get to make appointments to the high court if justices retire from it during his term.
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Eater Houston

10 Houston Restaurant Closings to Know Right Now, November 2024 - [image: Kim Son’s dim sum spread of steamed dumplings and fried morsels.] Another Kim Son location is set to shutter. | Mai Pham Say farewell. Kim Son’s ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Profiles in Cowardice: Morning Joe and Capitulation Among Liberals in the Trump Era - Morning Joe was just the first chapter in what is sure to be a long, destructive, and frustrating collapse during the Trump Era
Discourse

Joe and Mika Are Braver Than the Troops - Access journalism? More like ASS-ess journalism.
Angry Bear

What was Experienced in 1970 and 2020 in almost the Same Area - Kenneth Ackerman commenting on his experience in May 1970 in Washington DC. While he was there, I was out -of – country during that time period. When I ...
Common Dreams

New Tracker Keeps Tabs on Trump Appointees’ Conflicts of Interest - Today, Public Citizen launched a new tracker to expose Trump administration appointees’ many corporate conflicts of interest. The tracker will be updated...
The Conversation

Trump’s agenda will face hurdles in Congress, despite the Republican ‘trifecta’ of winning the House, Senate and White House - Gridlock can still happen under unified government, and for reasons that are likely to be on full display in the 119th Congress, where the GOP controls bot...
Novara Media

Ana Kasparian on Trump’s Second Presidency - Michael Walker speaks to Ana Kasparian about Donald Trump’s return to the White House and where the Democrats went wrong. Plus: Ash Sarkar reports from the...
Wolf Street

Credit Card Delinquency Rates, Balances, Burden, and Available Credit in Q3 2024 - Americans far from “tapped out.” Credit card delinquency rate dips to 3.2% (Fed), "prime" delinquency rate 0.99% (Fitch), "subprime" gets over free-money h...
First Draft

Vintage First Draft: Mark Twain On The First Gilded Age - Sam Clemens meets Donald Trump.
DeSmogBlog

Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg a ‘Friend’ - The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has called the concept of carbon poll...
Capital & Main

Dismissive Doctors, Crowded Clinics and Memory Loss - South Los Angeles pastor is demanding better for herself and others with dementia. The post Dismissive Doctors, Crowded Clinics and Memory Loss appeared...
The AltWorld

Borrell’s symbolic parting gesture is mired in hypocrisy - Diplomats and parting gestures are nothing new. As the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell […] The post Borrell’s symbolic parting...
Mother Jones

Nancy Mace Is Already Harassing Her New Co-Worker With Transphobia - Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has proven time and time again that she will do nearly anything to make headlines. But on Monday, she reached a new low, introduci...
Church and State

No sustainable paradigm is attainable without gradual population reduction - This system generates gross worldwide inequality, producing tremendous social injustice by exploiting and destroying communities and their habitats.
Texas Monthly

Very Well, I Shall Play the Coach in the ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot - Fans of the 2006 series will despise whoever follows Kyle Chandler's turn as Coach. For that reason, I volunteer to take one for the team.
Undernews

HEALTH - *NBC News - * Violent crime in hospitals is up, according to a 2023 report by a nonprofit organization that works to improve U.S. health care by accredit...
Political Garbage Chute

Leaked Email: Trump Will Make Musk U.S. Ambassador to Epstein Island - Presumably, there have to be some perks to buying the favor and attention of the President of the United States of America. Why else would financiers lik...
Southeast Texas Record

Harris County Civil Court: Actions Taken on Nov. 12 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Nov. 12 in the suits below: Read more…
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Inside the Beehive - An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple contro...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Anti-DEI Movement Exposed as an Agenda for "White Reparations" - *Friends:* *With an important exception, this post is similar to the following related ones from last week:* - *Guidance on research and teaching aimed...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 19 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 19]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s t...
Sludge

Trump's Latest Crypto Play - The President-elect's media company is in advanced talks to buy a cryptocurrency exchange company, deepening his conflicts of interest before he enters off...
Bonddad

Leading housing construction data stabilizes, while units under construction continue free-fall. With a continued hurricane asterisk - *- by New Deal democrat* Housing data for October, like that for September, has to be viewed with an asterisk, due to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. ...
Bracing Views

Yet Another Smear Piece on Tulsi Gabbard - W.J. Astore Where else but the New York Times In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard: How Tulsi Gabbard Became ...
MintPress News

Escalation Flashpoint: Biden Approves Ukrainian Strikes Inside Russian Heartland - In this episode of State of Play: Russia, Ukraine, NATO and the US, cloak and dagger drama - leaked intelligence, NATO stay-behind operations, nuclear br...
Ian Welsh

The Most Important Issues Facing Humanity - [image: The Most Important Issues Facing Humanity] There’s been a lot of attention, much of it apocalyptic, paid to Trump’s election, but Trump is just a ...
Democracy Now!

Nuclear Revival? Diné Activist Warns Against New Uranium Mining as AI, Bitcoin Energy Needs Soar - The search for an energy alternative to fossil fuels has renewed interest in nuclear power production across the globe. Despite nuclear boosters’ promotion...
Rio Grande Guardian

Report: Texas has the second-highest rate of food insecurity in the nation at 16.9 percent - Feeding Texas CEO Celia Cole points out that this is a 1.4 percent increase compared to last year’s food insecurity rate. This means that in Texas, one i...
Space City Weather

Early look at a Thanksgiving forecast; also guess who was just named Houstonian of the year? - In brief: In the wake of Monday’s front, Houston’s weather will now be sunny and cooler for the rest of the week, before a warmup this weekend. Today’s pos...
ArcaMax

Exactly as Warned: Trump's AG Pick Is the Bottom of the Barrel - In just two weeks since being elected to return to the White House, Donald Trump has given those accused of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome ample...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Preps a New Red Scare -
naked capitalism

Requiem for an Empire - While historian Alfred McCoy made an early and accurate call on the erosion of the US empire, his current readings are a mixed bag.
Skeptophilia

Paradoxes and pointlessness - In his 1967 short story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," writer R. A. Lafferty took one of the first looks at something that since has become a standard ...
Off The Kuff

Can HISD pass the next bond? - It depends. After Houston ISD’s historic bond failure in November, several parents, teachers and community members are wondering if or when the state’s lar...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 19 November 2024 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. My hope for these posts is that they will provoke *thinking*, not mere agreement or disagreement. If...
High Country News

Where horses roam, sage grouse struggle - A new study shows the imperiled bird declines as free-roaming horses exceed the land’s capacity. The post Where horses roam, sage grouse struggle appear...
Workers World

Solidarity with Samidoun and Charlotte Kates! - [image: Solidarity with Samidoun and Charlotte Kates!] Workers World Party urges unwavering support for Samidoun Political Prisoners Network and denounces ...
Crooked Timber

Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli - A few weeks ago, I drew up a flowchart to estimate the probability that Trump would establish a dictatorship in the US, which looked, at the time, like an ...
See You In 2020

Empire seeks to use anti-woke psyop to purge Palestine supporters, advance genocide & world war - Donald Trump was elected because of a mass desire to combat the liberal establishment; now that establishment seeks to partner with Trump in suppressing...
Project Censored

Northern California School District Adds Resources for Students of Color - During the 2024–2025 school year, the Tamalpais Union High School District in Northern California will fund four new positions to provide support and res...
Earthworks

Refinery Pollution Threatens Montana’s Yellowstone River - The television show “Yellowstone” has put a spotlight on Montana and the iconic Yellowstone River, renowned for its spectacular beauty … The post Refine...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

A Second Twenty Years’ Crisis? - How is E.H. Carr representative of mid-twentieth century intellectuals who tried to understand not so much the political irruptions of their time, but ra...
Progressive.org

Voters Across the Political Spectrum Gave Public Education Important Wins in the 2024 Election - People around the country split their tickets to support public schools and vote for Trump.
The Progressive Wing

11/18-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - And the crapalooza continues
Unlimited Hangout

Breaking (Down) The Chain: An Investigation Post-mortem - A concise post-mortem on The Chain series, a deep dive on the creation of the Bitcoin-Dollar system which names the names and explains the technology uph...
The Mind Unleashed

One Zodiac Sign Is More Emotionally Intelligent Than The Rest - Emotions drive much of what makes us human—our connections, decisions, and the way we experience the world. But while everyone has the capacity for emotion...
Rewire

Opinion: Adequate Information Can Help Unlock Youth Birth Control Access - Power to Decide's new survey suggests people need more knowledge to determine the best birth control for them. The post Opinion: Adequate Information Can...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemical Impacts Transparent With TCO Development’s Stephen Fuller - Being a consumer in an advanced economy—or any economy these days—is challenging because you cannot... The post Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemi...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Highlights - *Progressives Chat* will soon conclude covering outcomes for Election 2024. I will wrap-up with such related blog topics next week. In fact, next week wi...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Jamaal Bowman: How AIPAC Drove Me Out of Congress & My Views on Palestine Changed - Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, ...
Ring of Fire

Kamala Made Huge Mistake Getting Cozy With War Criminals - The post Kamala Made Huge Mistake Getting Cozy With War Criminals appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
Democracy Chronicles

Why Pursuing Peace with Iran is Critical for Global Stability - Fostering peace with Iran could prevent devastating global consequences from a broader Middle East conflict.
The Militant

UAW holds first strike ever at Georgia automotive parts plant - LITHONIA, Ga. — “We’re striking for better pay and benefits and against unfair treatment by supervisors,” Myra Williams, a union representative for United ...
Idavox

Grooming Hippies to be Fascists: Libertystock and the Crunchie to Far Right Pipeline in Vermont - This is an article written last year about a fascist-in-progressive-clothing festival in Vermont called ‘Libertystock’.... The post Grooming Hippies to ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BRINGIN' IT ALL BACK HOME EDITION. - *Never out of fashion.* Another week into the over-the-cliff phase of the death of democracy! The appointments Tubby’s trying to push through the lame du...
Media Lens

Buried Out Of Sight: Deliberate Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Children Becomes ‘Local News’ On The BBC - Imagine an experienced Ukrainian surgeon breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately target...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Tale of Two PSYOPS - Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominat...
NORML

Study: Cannabis Use Not Associated With Later IQ Decline - [image: Marijuana Brain][image: Marijuana Brain]Researchers determined that participants with a history of cannabis use experienced "significantly less c...
Debunking Christianity

The Role of the Bible in Damaging Christian Faith - *Maybe that’s why the devout avoid reading it* Mark Twain once stated the dilemma: “It is not the things which I do not understand in the *Bible* which tr...
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
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.
Alas, a Blog

Ohio Passes School and College Trans Bathroom Ban - My alma mater Oberlin, and all schools and colleges in Ohio (private schools and colleges included) is going to be forced to ban trans students from using ...
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.
Bud Kennedy

Can Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell us more about the JFK assassination? | 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Sunday 'Not Forgetting' Toons

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