Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Rabies on Capitol Hill" Funnies

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Sunday "Rabies on Capitol Hill" Funnies

"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty". -- Joseph Goebbels, paraphrased

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Raw Story

Trump taps Musk and Ramaswamy to lead 'DOGE' — a symbolic agency with massive ambitions - President-elect Donald Trump made clear Tuesday what he wants billionaire loyalists Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to do in his next administration: lead ...
Mediaite

Jeffrey Toobin Predicts Trump’s New ‘Department’ Run by Musk and Ramaswamy Is ‘Gonna Drive Them Crazy’ - President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of what he called the “Department of Government Efficiency” on Tuesday, and said it will be run by El...
The Hill

House swears in successors for Jackson Lee, Gallagher - The House swore in new members who will serve in place of former Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) on Tuesday. Erica Lee Carte...
ArcaMax

We've Seen 105 Years and 19 Presidents. Trump's Gotta Get Past All of Us. - The results of the election are in: Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States. Trump's win comes after a campaign in which he consistent...
Political Wire

Musk, Ramaswamy to Lead ‘Government Efficiency’ Push - President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second admin...
Alternet

Why Trump voters should be held accountable for their choice - For now, I’m not getting involved in the debate over what Kamala Harris did wrong. For one thing, whatever conclusions are drawn now will almost certainl...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Lawyers Help Remind Nation That Their Client Is a Convicted Felon - [image: Donald Trump, Rally, Glendale, AZ] On Tuesday, Judge Juan Merchan agreed to a one-week stay in Trump's New York hush-money case. Trump’s Lawyers...
memeorandum

Durbin: Replacing Sotomayor before new Congress not 'realistic' (Anthony Adragna/Politico) - Anthony Adragna / Politico: *Durbin: Replacing Sotomayor before new Congress not ‘realistic’* — Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesda...
The Verge

Amazon is shutting down Freevee - Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s content has already been mi...
Popular Resistance

Israel’s Genocide Day 401: Israel Continues Gaza Ethnic Cleansing - Accusations of Israel committing ethnic cleansing have increased after an Israeli army general admitted that Israeli forces have “evacuated” most of the ...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Taps Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy To Lead ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ - Donald Trump said that he has tapped Elon Musk, working along with Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency — or DOGE...
The Week

The magician who secretly smashed the Magic Circle's glass ceiling - Sophie Lloyd lurked in the all-male society by posing as a teenage boy for nearly two years, but was expelled after revealing her true identity
Mediagazer

President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defense (Jack Forrest/CNN) - Jack Forrest / CNN: *President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defens...
Portside

What Trump’s Reelection Means for Union Workers, According to Experts - What Trump’s Reelection Means for Union Workers, According to Experts Greg Tue, 11/12/2024 - 19:36
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride pushes back against those scapegoating trans people for election loss - Newly elected Congresswoman Sarah McBride People in the midst of their sorrow about last week's election are forgetting something very important. The firs...
El Paso Matters

Blanca Trout resigns after being reelected despite dropping out of Canutillo ISD board race - The Canutillo ISD school board will have to decide whether to appoint a new member or hold a special election. The post Blanca Trout resigns after being...
Salon.com

Trump picks John Ratcliffe for CIA director role - "He will be a fearless fighter for the Constitutional Rights of all Americans," Trump said of Ratcliffe
Houston Public Media

Astrodome Conservancy to unveil new idea for famed Houston stadium - Opening in 1965, the Astrodome was the world's first domed and air-conditioned stadium.
San Antonio Report

Brackenridge Park celebrates 125th year with Concert in the Park - SPONSORED: Christopher Cross will perform with the San Antonio Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Peter Bay at Sunken Garden Theater. -----------------------...
Daily Dot

‘I always go to Publix, they have the best’: Subway worker shows what really happens behind the scenes when they prepare your steak sandwich - [image: Subway(l), Person talking(c), Steak Sandwich(r)] How beloved fast-food items are prepared can come as a shock for customers. Earlier in the year,...
Second Nexus

Trump Supporter Kid Rock Gives Surprising Advice To MAGA Fans After Election In Viral Video - MAGA singer Kid Rock had social media users scratching their heads after he appeared to give surprising advice to President-elect Donald Trump's supporte...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Backlash as San Francisco votes to transform stretch of highway into park - Opponents say closing Great Highway to cars will increase traffic as supporters argue it will mitigate coastal erosion Californians have voted to close p...
Consortium News

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

Trump’s First Picks Are War Hawks - A few weeks ago, Vice President-elect JD Vance dubbed Donald Trump “the candidate of peace” during a blitz of Sunday morning show appearances. Vance was ta...
Techdirt.

Lies, Panic, And Politics: The Targeted Takedown Of Backpage - The case against Backpage was built on lies, innuendo, and a willful misunderstanding of how the internet works. But that didn’t stop the government from d...
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...
World Socialist Web Site

Meeting of postal workers demands rank-and-file control over contract struggle at Canada Post - A resolution adopted by a large majority called for the building of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at every Canada Post location in opposition ...
Al Jazeera English

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison - Prosecutors sought 17 years imprisonment for Teixeira's 'significant' violations of the Espionage Act.
Slate

The Democrats’ Most Truly Mind-Boggling Response to Losing the Presidential Election - What even is the Harris Fight Fund!
Texas Observer

The Deep Roots of Deportation - Editor’s Note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with palabra. An unrelenting sun drenches its light on the huge ...
Axios

Trump selects former intelligence director John Ratcliffe to lead CIA - President-elect Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA during his second a...
CultureMap Houston

Houston airport's massive new art installation celebrates Texas flowers - Holiday travel in Houston just got brighter. A gargantuan new art installation will welcome flyers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH).
Texas Monthly

We’ve Gotta Ask Michelin: Where’s the Love for Tex-Mex? - After name-checking the cuisine in its initial press release, the French tire company seemingly overlooked the variety of tacos, enchiladas, and more widel...
Wolf Street

American Risk Services is Looking for a Data Scientist. WOLF STREET Readers with this Background Take a Look - If you, or someone you know, live in that world beyond spreadsheets, work in high level business analytics, understand basic data science, predictive model...
Futurism

Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open - Horrific End Four people were killed in Toronto after the Tesla they were riding in crashed into a pillar and burst into flames. A fifth rider, an uniden...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - go
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. November's patch batch includes fi...
The Root

Mike Tyson Smokes Toad Venom — And That's Just the Beginning - Boxing legend Mike Tyson is no stranger to saying or doing something strange—and his latest admission about what exactly helped him come back out of reti...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (11.12.24) - Take time to listen to Charles M. Schulz, Lucy Sixsmith, Dahlia Lithwick, Richard Hofstadter, Malcolm Foley, and Noah Berlatsky.
Reform Austin

U.S. And Mexico Amend Water Treaty To Aid South Texas Farmers Amid Drought - The U.S. and Mexico have agreed to amend a water treaty, a move that would alleviate water shortage in South Texas. The amended water treaty will provide...
Discourse

It's Don Jr.'s World Now - He's not just the First Large Adult Son. He's the unrestrained id of the re-empowered MAGA movement.
DeSmogBlog

Canada’s Fossil Fuel Export Emissions Set New Record in 2023 - Greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian fossil fuel exports ballooned to record levels in 2023, according to data uncovered by Ecojustice and Environmenta...
OpEd News

Politics and War By Other Means - U.S. presidents are not servants of Russia. They are servants of the Israel lobby, of weapons dealers, of banks, of corporations, of media outlets, of thos...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist’s Cartoonist: Influences of Ann Telnaes - For our re-boot of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I was excited that Ann Telnaes agreed to provide us a list of her 10 cartoonists who influenced or inspire...
Common Dreams

People For Statement on Senate’s Lame Duck Session: Confirm Biden’s Remaining Judicial Nominees Now - As the Senate returns for its post-election lame duck session, People For the American Way President Svante Myrick released the following statement: “Th...
Church and State

Messages Received from an Old Friend - I finally figured out that I had completely misjudged the intensity of voter wishes to close our borders.
Daily Howler

It was a (maybe) six-point shift! - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024* *Not an unknown phenomenon: *Back in the day, presidential election outcomes could really jump around. In 1960, Kennedy won...
Mondoweiss

After bearing witness to crimes against humanity, I could not vote for the starvation and killing of Palestinians - [image: Palestinians check the damage following Israeli strikes in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on November 07, 2024. (Photo: Saed Abu ...
Scheerpost.com

Mr President: As Gazans Starve, Recall Your Granddad Fled the Great Hunger in Ireland - By Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer / Original to ScheerPost In this week’s episode of “Playing President,” Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA veteran and briefer of ...
Ring of Fire

Republicans Failed To Tank Positive Approval Of “Everyman” Tim Walz - Tim Walz was the only candidate on the presidential ticket that had a positive approval rating. The mountain of attacks the right wing leveled at him jus...
Texas Standard

Studying ‘mini hearts’ in space helps scientists understand how microgravity affects astronauts - The synthetic tissue structures simulate several kinds of cells found in the human heart. Researchers can check in on their experiment from right here on E...
American Prospect

What Senate Democrats Can Still Do to Promote the General Welfare - Today on TAP: Until December 31st, they can still confirm some Biden nominees to crucial regulatory and judicial posts.
Undernews

WORD - [image: May be an image of text that says 'IN 2022, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTED $97 BILLION IN TAXES WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY DIRECT BENEFITS IN RETUR...
The Daily Poster

We Were Built For This Moment - Here’s how The Lever’s team will be holding the powerful accountable in this new era of corruption — and what you can do to help.
Eater Houston

This Is What Houston Chefs Are Saying About Texas’s Inaugural Michelin Guide - [image: Texas chefs celebrate on stage with the Michelin man at the inaugural Texas Michelin Guide Ceremony.] Many chefs agree that Houston fared pretty w...
Novara Media

Starmer Sets Out Climate Goals at COP29 - Keir Starmer has set out a new climate goal for the UK at COP29. Plus: The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned; and Trump starts choosing his cabinet. Wi...
SCOTUSblog

Court considers dispute over disclosure of NVIDIA sales to crypto miners - [image: Court considers dispute over disclosure of NVIDIA sales to crypto miners]NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company, sells computer graphics proce...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

226 / 312: An Exercise in Self-Destruction - It's infuriating watching the Democratic Party learn all the wrong lessons from the election. What we do next depends on whether this gets fixed.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/12/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Deploy the Blame Cannons! Boeing avoids liability for Ethiopian MCAS crash in settlement, restarts production ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - November 12, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump selects anti-environment former congressman to lea...
Election Law Blog

Vladeck: “Nor, assuming he abides by the 22nd Amendment limiting a president to two terms, does Mr. Trump have to worry about running for re-election.” - Quite the aside from Steve Vladeck today in the NYT! The post Vladeck: “Nor, assuming he abides by the 22nd Amendment limiting a president to two terms, ...
NPR's Health Shots

Chronic itch is miserable. Scientists are just scratching the surface - Journalist Annie Lowrey has a rare disease that causes a near-constant itch that doesn't respond to most treatments. She likens the itchiness to a car alar...
First Draft

Hold That Clownfish - Jeff Landry: Tiger bait.
Angry Bear

Incomes, immigration, and the election - Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – by New Deal democrat On Friday I wrote about how the Fed likely contributed, via hurting aspiring homeowners, to the outco...
The AltWorld

Have It Out With Galloway (Episode 30) Trump – End Wars or Fuel Them? - In this episode of Have It Out with Galloway, George Galloway examines the impact of the U.S. […] The post Have It Out With Galloway (Episode 30) Trump –...
Moron Majority

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Political Garbage Chute

Lorena Bobbitt Just Filed Paperwork to Trademark “Your Body, My Choice” - While on a multi state speaking tour in Longmont, Colorado, Lorena Bobbitt has said she fully intends to trademark the “Your Body, My Choice” movement. “...
NORML

Marijuana Consumers Frequently Report Substituting Cannabis for Alcohol, Other Substances - [image: cannabis over alcohol][image: cannabis over alcohol]"This survey's findings are an important addition to the growing body of literature suggestin...
Capital & Main

Philadelphia Workers Are Readying a Bill With a Basic Demand: Just Enforce the Law - Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules. The post Philadelphi...
Ballot Access News

Finally, a New York General News Source Reports that New York Was the Only State With Only Two Presidential Candidates on the Ballot - New York was the only state with two presidential candidates on the ballot, a shocking fact that the New York mainstream news media have ignored for severa...
Dissident Voice

India and China Push Gold to Record Highs, then Pull from Western Vaults after Russia Sanctions - Gold prices are at historic highs, buoyed by India and China central bank buying in OTC markets. Further, all-time high levels of gold repatriation are u...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 18: New Jersey Is Burning - “I’m On Fire” by the Garden State’s favorite son Bruce Springsteen could be the soundtrack to a bizarre wildfire season—wild because it’s happening in Ne...
Grist

‘We may have less to offer’: US negotiators confront diminished standing at COP29 - The Biden administration tried to project confidence in the early days of the U.N. climate conference, but all signs point to a reduced U.S. role.
Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiff Alleges Negligence Against Uber Technologies Following Collision Incident - Brandi Moyler has taken legal action against Uber Technologies after sustaining injuries in an accident involving an Uber vehicle earlier this year. Read...
Claytoonz

Baby Visit - 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...
Rio Grande Guardian

Correa-Cabrera: Our drugs policy has failed and our immigration and asylum systems are broken - Renowned author and researcher Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera spoke at South Texas College before the result of the US presidential election was known. She sai...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Australia vs Saudi Arabia lúc 16h10 ngày 14/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với vòng loại World Cup tại bảng C, thi đấu trong khi có sự chuẩn bị khá tốt về mọi mặt, đội tuyển Australia và Saudi Arabia sẽ có những cuộc cạ...
Bonddad

Incomes, immigration, and the election - *- by New Deal democrat* On Friday I wrote about how the Fed likely contributed, via hurting aspiring homeowners, to the outcome of the Election la...
The Conversation

3 reasons why a Trump White House might not be a disaster for Ukraine − in fact, it might tighten the screws on Russia - Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to Ukraine. But talk of a ‘deal’ has led to questions over Trump’s commitment to Kyiv.
Democracy Now!

"American Coup: Wilmington 1898": PBS Film Examines Massacre When Racists Overthrew Multiracial Gov't - *American Coup: Wilmington 1898* premieres tonight on PBS and investigates the only successful insurrection conducted against a U.S. government, when self-...
Bracing Views

Blaming the Voters - W.J. Astore Democrats Return to What They Do Best The Democratic Party is returning to what they do best: blaming the voters for their defeat. Why did Kama...
Ian Welsh

Fundraising Update #2: New Tier Hit, Close To The Next One - [image: Fundraising Update #2: New Tier Hit, Close To The Next One] This blog has been around since 2009. I had just stepped down as managing editor of Fi...
MintPress News

Revealed: The Israel Lobbyists Writing America’s News - A bombshell investigation reveals hundreds of former pro-Israel lobbyists working in America’s top newsrooms. How neutral is our media when it comes to I...
Space City Weather

Second half of this week will be more fall-like before a warmer weekend - In brief: Today’s update discusses a decent front in the cards for Wednesday which will bring a nice cooldown, and then looks at a warmer setup for this we...
Vox

How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all - It’s a truism that everything’s bigger in America — just look at the cars and houses. But perhaps nowhere is the virtue of bigger is better more bizarrely ...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: Plant Your Diet For Change - If you make just one change to help prevent climate change, choose adopting a plant-based... The post We Earthlings: Plant Your Diet For Change appeared ...
The Smirking Chimp

The Future is Ours. We Won't Like It, But It's Ours. -
Skeptophilia

Bubbles, dimensions, and black holes - One of the weirder claims of modern physics, which I first ran into when I was reading about string theory a few years ago, is that the universe could have...
Off The Kuff

Three local marijuana decriminalization referenda passed last week - Forgive me if my enthusiasm is modest. This General Election, Texans voted to decriminalize marijuana on ballot measures in Lockhart, Bastrop, and Dallas. ...
ProPublica

Despite Biden’s Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down - by April Ehrlich, Oregon Public Broadcasting, McKenzie Funk, ProPublica, and Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting This article was produced by ProPub...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 12 November 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Seriously -- no political comments on this post, pl...
Counterpunch

The Amsterdam Attacks: The Politics of Collective Violence - Introduction This article contains and curates Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson’s collection of Mouin Rabbani’s tweets on the 2024 Amsterdam footb...
jobsanger

Watch Trump Try To Take Credit For Biden Accomplishments -
Informed Comment

As COP 29 convenes, Human-Caused Climate Change Menaces the Middle East Across Borders - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Centre for Development Policy Management has issued a new report on the threats of human-caused climate change ...
Antiwar.com

What’s Really Going On In the South China Sea Between the Philippines and China - Maritime clashes between the Philippines and China had been mostly over the Philippines’ military outpost, BRP (BRP – Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas, wh...
Workers World

Amsterdam free from Zionism! For a total boycott – globalize the intifada! - [image: Amsterdam free from Zionism! For a total boycott – globalize the intifada!] The following statement was issued by Samidoun Nederland on Nov. 8, 202...
Democracy Chronicles

The Last Moments of Sinwar - He'll never know his actions personally destroyed the possibility, hoped for by peacenik Israelis and too comfortable and too secular Europeans and America...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard C. Miller Joins Our Manifesto - [In light of Dr. Miller stating on Facebook that he's taking a break due to the horrible way he's been treated for his research and scholarship, I'm repo...
See You In 2020

Washington’s doomed plan to militarily destroy China, & the domestic U.S. war that it will precipitate - The logical conclusion of Washington’s suicidal campaign to assail China is a scenario where the U.S. government, out of sheer desperation, launches a w...
nonsite.org

Going Forward from the Edge of the Abyss - Trump has no new coalition; he can’t because those “groups” aren’t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like c...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: A.I. is Coming and Will Change EVERYTHING! - Another comic strip wonderfully rendered by Nadine Scholtes! I mean, who knows? Maybe years from now, A.I. really will be all that. But for now, it feels l...
Progressive.org

Want to Leave the Country? Consider This - I left the United States for New Zealand in 2023. Just a year later, I moved back—and am now looking forward to building a life, not running away from an o...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Labour law and the reign of neoliberal legality - Eugene Schofield-Georgeson synthesises, amongst other things, a juridification of social relationships, the centrality of contract as a means of repatter...
Crooked Media

Brit Barron on Navigating Complicated Relationships - The post Brit Barron on Navigating Complicated Relationships appeared first on Crooked Media.
Crooked Timber

Occasional Paper: Four Hidden Species of Portuguese man-o’-war - There’s been a a certain amount of negativity floating around lately. So, let’s talk about a toxic, venomous freak of nature and the parasite that afflicts...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #555 - TFTC #555.
The Mind Unleashed

Top 10 Mental Health Myths You Need to Stop Believing - In a world where mental health awareness is on the rise, myths and misunderstandings still linger, shaping perceptions in ways that can be harmful and misl...
The Progressive Wing

11/11-11/12 News Roundup & Open Thread - More News, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Media Lens

Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future - In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are tryin...
Progressives Chat

A Post-Election 2024 Reaction of Satisfaction - In time for my deadline (so to speak) of Monday, November 11, 2024, there are still some election races not called. The electoral map, for Election 2024...
The Grayzone

Viral video reveals Israeli hooligans attacked Dutch police while instigating Amsterdam unrest - Footage by a teenage YouTuber shows Tel Aviv Maccabi hooligans attacking Dutch police while pelting private homes with stones and hunting victims with me...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2024 - Walmart had another six shootings, with two of them fatal in October of 2024, including one officer involved shooting after an automobile crash, and ano...
Field Negro

Post- Mortem - *~Paraphrasing Ali Velshi~ The most powerful person in America is not Donald J. Trump, it's you.* These are tough times for progressives and democrat...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2024 - This link roundup does not include any discussion of the US elections, and I do not have plans to write about it in the immediate future. My thought about...
Land Destroyer

Israeli Strikes Demonstrates Limits of Western Military Might - *November 5, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Israel’s most recent missile strikes on Iran reveal the limits to conventional Western military power in the Mi...
Liberation News

Abortion rights landslide at the polls - Pro-choice voters are sick of seeing women and others suffer and die needlessly because they cannot access a simple procedure that had been legally availab...
The Militant

2024 US election reflects blows of capitalist crisis on working class - The 2024 U.S. presidential election and its outcome reflected the growing dissatisfaction of tens of millions of working people with the economic and socia...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #165 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: stuff.
Texas Freedom Network

Elections are not the beginning or end - If I may: stretch out of the fetal position. Take a deep breath. Put on whatever jacket makes you feel confident, and strike a power pose. My therapist m...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: PEOPLE JUST GET UGLIER AND I HAVE NO SENSE OF TIME EDITION. - *What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong.* Hard week to feel good about! After a campaign in which the Republican candidate daily demons...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Revenge of Trumpenstein - So, it’s déjà vu all over again. That’s right, he’s back! Trumpenstein the Monster! Literal Russian-Agent Hitler! The Ayatollah of Orange Shinola! And this...
Seeing the Forest

How Dem Betrayal Brought Us Trump - Of all people, David Brooks, in a confession, does a good job or explaining Trumpism in Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? Read it all, but this about mo...
High Country News

Key Senate and House races remain uncalled across the West - A dramatic shift by Latino voters toward Trump helped create a red wave. The post Key Senate and House races remain uncalled across the West appeared fi...
Sludge

Trump Selects Corporate Lobbyist Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff - Wiles is co-chair at lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs and has represented clients in the tobacco, junk food, insurance, and coal industries.
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—November 2024 - Statement on the 2024 Presidential Election With the election of Donald Trump to a second presidential term, Project Censored reaffirms its longstanding ...
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...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: The Valkyrie 1 - Yes, I know we had a presidential election here in the US yesterday. The remarkable thing about it, after a campaign season so packed with improbabilities ...
Rewire

Even in Florida, Voters Love Abortion Rights - Women are not without electoral or political power. The post Even in Florida, Voters Love Abortion Rights appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Bud Kennedy

How did Donald Trump win? Kamala Harris couldn’t keep Dems’ car from going off cliff | Opinion - Four years ago, Joe Biden said only he could beat Donald Trump. Maybe he was right. Trump is on his way to being America’s president-elect, and nobody shou...
Stinque

Hanging by a Thread - We forget who laid it out for us a lifetime ago, but civilization is inherently fragile, and can collapse in an instant. Everything is handed off from on...
Two Party Opera

Election Day Comedy Hour - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Trump and Harris are dressed as vaudevillian/barbershop-quartet-ish comedy duo, with hats, canes, and pin striped vests. Trump says ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

How community leaders and officials in two states took on election deniers - This is the final piece in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are affecting the election process.
Web of Debt

Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene - Buncombe County North Carolina – damage after Hurricane Helene floods. NCDOTcommunications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wiki...
TalkLeft

Election Day Jitters - I have them. I'm sure any rational person does, when considering the possibility, however slight, that Donald Trump, the most unfit person to run for Pre...
Idavox

Health & Wellness Organization Shows Predator the Door - Meet Daniel Hallgren, a guy who used his position in Punk Rock Saves Lives to... The post Health & Wellness Organization Shows Predator the Door appeared...
Border/Lines

Special Edition — On the election and the paths forward - Immigration news, in context.
LareDOS

Consider this - Why invest in falsehoods rather than truth and in cruelty rather than compassion? Why willingly deny ourselves and others our individual autonomy? And why ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Sabemos lo que hay que hacer! - Estamos listos para construyir un futuro mejor después de las elecciones. Estamos a horas de la elección más importante- y quizás la decisión más important...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Last Night's DEI Dream: Art and a Change of Heart Will Save the World* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 2, 2024* *Perhaps inspired by the Day...
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 ...
Earthworks

Another Conspiracy Theory Adds to Western North Carolina’s Trauma - In the wake of Hurricane Helene, a string of wild conspiracy theories have circulated across social media, made up by … The post Another Conspiracy Theo...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Reveal

A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist Behind Bars - Abused by her adoptive father, she was victimized again by the police charged with protecting her. A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist B...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] Market Failure: The Climate Crisis and the Limits of Capitalism - Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze in conversation, moderated by Kate Aronoff.
New Progressive Alliance

After the Election - I have friends on both sides and miss the days when we could tease each other instead of believing that we had to be mortal enemies. Those who advocate t...
ExChristian.Net

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus - *The following is a short interview with Bill Burkland, the author of a soon to be released book entitled "The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named J...
Duck of Minerva

Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara? - On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PK...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Every Israeli Accusation Is A Confession, from Lebanon to Palestine, w/ As’ad Abukhalil -
Avedon's Sideshow

Scarlet billows start to spread - Thanks to the late Taral Wayne for once having used this APOD photo by David Lane of the Milky Way over Devil's Tower as his October profile pic. (Original ...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
GreenSource DFW

New native plant group hoping to take root in DFW - *Organizers are seeking new members to help get Wild Ones DFW off the ground. Photo courtesy of Wild Ones.* Oct. 17, 2024 A new native plant group has s...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
Texas Watch

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Courthouse News

Federal judge unseals Jack Smith immunity filing in Trump’s Jan. 6 case - Jack Smith's immunity brief argues that Trump can still be criminally tried over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's sw...
Glasstire

Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes” - Contemplating the art of Arielle Masson is a cosmic journey that spirals through deep inner space into the vastness of the universe — moving through the ...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
Black Agenda Report

Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean - Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean bareditors Wed, 10/02/2024 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Connection Between Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday and Tonight’s VP Debate - Former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday coinciding with the vice presidential debate today is fitting, given the important role Carter played in e...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Inside the scramble to stop the displacement of thousands of California foster children - For years, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California had been the primary insurer for the state’s foster family agencies, which house some of the m...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
The Socialist

International Relations: Tensions in Eastern Europe - Tensions in Eastern Europe have escalated recently, with geopolitical implications that resonate globally. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine ...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
The NM Political Report

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
The Rag Blog

MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966 - By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval c...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Cambodian authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted - Dozens of rights groups say activists were prosecuted for award-winning environmental work, while authorities denied defendants due process or right to a f...
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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