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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
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“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

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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

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

After All I've Done For You - Sadly I expect this is mostly kayfabe. Ben-Gvir is the psycho Minister of National Security.
Mediagazer

OpenAI's pitch deck to news publishers promises priority placement to partners in chat conversations and payment contingent on "display success" (Mark Stenberg/Adweek) - Mark Stenberg / Adweek: *OpenAI's pitch deck to news publishers promises priority placement to partners in chat conversations and payment contingent on “...
Mediaite

Fox News Hosts Agree With Trump That American Left is Greater Threat Than ‘Any Foreign Adversary’ - Fox News hosts stood firmly behind Trump's assertion that ideologues on the left are a bigger danger to the U.S. than foreign adversaries like China or R...
The Root

Man's Alleged Rampage Killed a Black Teenage 'Scholar' as He Walked to School, But For What?? - Some incidents pull at the heartstrings of even the hardest people. Just look at this example involving 14-year-old Black boy and “true scholar” Daniel A...
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 5/9/24- Biden Puts Foot Down on Bomb Deliveries to Israel - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss top news from around the world, including the latest out of Gaza amid Israe...
memeorandum

'Failing act of political theater': Greene ostracized after Johnson ouster push (Politico) - Politico: *‘Failing act of political theater’: Greene ostracized after Johnson ouster push* — Centrists have regarded the Georgia firebrand with a degr...
Counterpunch

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt & Hanin Siam - Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, sitting in for Eric Draitser on CounterPunch Radio, talks with Hanin Siam, a Palestinian organizer based in Tokyo, Japan. They...
San Antonio Report

Fan of a fan, artful ellipses and conjunto dancing in this weekend’s ‘Go Do That!’ - This weekend in San Antonio, check out the Tejano Conjunto Festival, jazz at River Sun and lots of local art at Space C7. ------------------------------ Fan...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New York sees first US faculty-led Gaza protest encampment at the New School - Academic staff occupy lobby of Greenwich Village campus building in support of students’ demands for divestment from Israel The first faculty-led Gaza so...
Futurism

NASA Contractor Warns That Boeing Launch Must Be Stopped "Before Something Catastrophic Happens" - Shut It Down A NASA contractor is urging the space agency to suspend the upcoming Boeing Starliner launch over major safety concerns with the aerospace c...
Alternet

'Master at denial and delay': Experts say Trump evading justice is due to lawyers and luck - It looks increasingly likely that former President Donald Trump's only criminal trial prior to Election Day will be the one currently underway in Manhatt...
Raw Story

Alina Habba 'smiling ear to ear' as Stormy Daniels explains she needs security: reporter - Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney and spokesperson, was seen "smiling ear to ear" as adult film actress Stormy Daniels explained why she needed privat...
NPR's Health Shots

Their first baby came with medical debt. These Illinois parents won't have another. - Millions of new parents in the U.S. are swamped by medical debt during and after pregnancy, forcing many to cut back on food, clothing, and other essentials.
Texas Standard

New mounting options for your flat screen TV - Whether you mount the set on the ceiling or on the living room wall, there are many ways to get the viewing experience you want.
Salon.com

Panera says it will finally stop serving its Charged Lemonade following wrongful death lawsuits - The nationwide discontinuation comes after a “recent menu transformation,” per a Panera spokesperson
Political Wire

Few Call on Henry Cuellar to Resign - “Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) is facing charges of bribery, money laundering and working on behalf of a foreign government. He is the third lawmaker in Congre...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend could see minor flooding as Navasota River overflows into the Brazos River - Other parts of the greater Houston area have seen significant flooding recently. Now, that overflow is making its way downstream.
Techdirt.

Politicians Scapegoat Social Media While Ignoring Real Solutions - Holding social media companies solely responsible for the mental health challenges faced by today’s youth is not only misguided—it’s dangerous. Misdiagnosi...
The Verge

Lego’s new Retro Radio is just for looks - [image: lego mint green radio with antenna, handle, and tuner with two knobs] Photo: Lego Lego is releasing a new Retro Radio build that emulates a class...
CultureMap Houston

Forbes hails Houston's Rice University as one of 20 'New Ivies' - Rice University has hit Ivy League status — at least according to Forbes.
San Antonio Current

Maeve's Many Faces: Government Hill cocktail spot packs plenty of ambition into its small menu - To access San Antonio cocktail spot Maeve, ignore the door facing the street at the top of some unwelcome stairs. Instead, take the crushed-stone path to ...
Daily Dot

‘I did this…I am now an RN’: Woman says you can become a certified nursing assistant without taking any classes - [image: Woman says you can become a certified nursing assistant without taking any classes] A healthcare worker's discovery about how workers can get int...
Al Jazeera English

Russia could open new front as Ukraine remains weapons-poor, say officials - Ukrainian experts believe up to 50,000 troops are poised to try and take Sumy and Kharkiv.
Duck of Minerva

Israel protesters may be missing their best opportunity to help Gaza - Even though the school year is ending, protests against Israel–most prominent on college campuses–will likely continue. Beginning at Columbia University, t...
Socialist Alternative

What Next For Gaza Solidarity Movement? - The radical campus protest movement against the Israeli state’s genocidal war on the people of Gaza has spread like wildfire from the original encampment a...
Ballot Access News

Kennedy Reportedly Has 100,000 Signatures on His New York Petition - Third Party Watch says that the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., New York petition has 100,000 signatures. See here. The requirement is 45,000. … Continue reading →
Capital & Main

Biden’s Obamacare Expansion for DACA Immigrants Is Big. California’s Need Is Bigger. - *While 40,000 Dreamers are likely to gain coverage, nearly half a million undocumented immigrants still cannot afford health insurance.* The post Biden’s...
The Week

Kristi Noem and the politics of puppy killing - Revelations in Republican's upcoming memoir may have doomed her political career
Alas, a Blog

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

Clinton thought she would 'throw up' listening to Supreme Court emergency abortion arguments - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she thought she would "throw up" while listening to the recent oral arguments in the Supreme Court ...
Vox

Why does this forest look like a fingerprint? - We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up discovering something much bigger. Deep in the geographic cen...
Novara Media

Palestine and Climate Activists Are Joining Forces at UK University Encampments - Students are staging ongoing encampments at British universities demanding they end their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Inspired by encampments...
Southeast Texas Record

Houston attorney can’t escape lawsuit lender’s suit over $2M debt - HOUSTON - The First Court of Appeals today affirmed a ruling denying an attorney’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a lawsuit lender. Read more…
Undernews

Anniversary - [image: Image] AP
WhoWhatWhy

Environmental Change, Written in the DNA of Birds - Two studies of California bird populations show how shifting environments can rewrite animals’ genomes — for better or worse.
Slate

Why Is A24 Burying Its Jan. 6 Documentary? - The movie itself suggests a surprising reason.
American Prospect

Judge Hearing Noncompete Cases Holds Stock in Companies That Use Noncompetes - Judge J. Campbell Barker’s stock portfolio is a spreadsheet full of conflicts of interest.
Courthouse News

Truck owners argue to reinstate claims against GM for lying about ‘clean diesel’ engines - A class of consumers says deceptive marketing duped them into buying Duramax diesel trucks, which emitted higher amounts of pollutants than their gas-burni...
nonsite.org

Protected: The Problem of Cézanne the Person in Relation to His Work - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Mother Jones

A Gay Couple Is Suing New York City Over IVF Denial - The city of New York is discriminating against its gay male employees by denying them the same health care benefits as women and straight men, a new lawsui...
Election Law Blog

Campaign Finance and “Real” Corruption - I just posted this book chapter, forthcoming in a volume on the fiftieth anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo edited by Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone. Here...
Glasstire

Redefinir la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos: Obras de la “Bienal Fronteriza 2024” - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés ...
Mondoweiss

The real reason Israel is invading Rafah - [image: Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on the Jneina and Salam neighborhoods in Rafah, May 8, 2024. (Photo: © Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa via ZUMA Pres...
Claytoonz

RFK Worms - Robert F. Kennedy Jr says doctors found a dead worm in his brain. RFK Jr says he was suffering from severe memory loss and mental fogginess in 2010. Doctor...
El Paso Matters

Arizona school district rescinds Nate Carman’s superintendent contract - The Arizona job offer was rescinded after the SISD Board of Trustees placed former superintendent Nate Carman on administrative leave. The post Arizona ...
Axios

Vice Media partners with Savage Ventures to relaunch digital brands - Vice Media said Thursday it will create a joint venture with Nashville-based Savage Ventures to relaunch its digital properties, including Vice.com, Munc...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

How Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder - How trade liberalization cut Africa's modest production capacities, industry and food security.
DeSmogBlog

Net Zero Ministers Met Oil and Gas Representatives Twice a Week in 2023 - Ministers in charge of the UK’s climate policies met with fossil fuel companies and lobbyists over 100 times last year, four times as much as they did ex...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, May 9 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, May 9]We’ll be live this morning at 9:45 a.m. EDT, as the court issues one or more opinion from the current term. ...
Deadline Politics

Judge Ends Daily Photo Spray Of Donald Trump In Courtroom During Hush Money Trial - Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumes today with one of his chief antagonists, Stormy Daniels, returning to the stand and court observers wondering if th...
Daily Howler

ACHAEANS: Walk Like an Egyptian, the Bangles said! - *THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2024* *Reasoning like an Achaean: *Truth be told, it didn't take much to snap the Achaeans back into line. We return to the late Bronz...
Daily Cartoonist

Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame - Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. As is...
ArcaMax

We Are Entering a New World of Caregiving - Is it fair to ask teenagers to give up sports and parties to care for parents or other older relatives? That's an important question these days, because so...
Bonddad

Initial claims jolted awake from snooze-fest by highest number in almost nine months - * - by New Deal democrat* After several months of snoozing at almost identical weekly levels, initial jobless claims awoke with a bit of a jolt this ...
The Conversation

Polarization may phase out of American politics as younger generations shift into power - Younger generations today agree more on key national issues than older generations do. A time of intense polarization may be ending.
Second Nexus

GOP Rep.'s Hot Take On RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm Is So Vile Even Republicans Are Crying Foul - Georgia Republican Representative Mike Collins faced criticism from his own party after making a disturbing joke about members of the Kennedy family afte...
Rewire

Under Brazil’s Abortion Ban, ‘Lack of Information Kills’ - Abortion stigma stemming from Brazilian law creates misinformation and delays in legal care, and retraumatizes survivors of sexual violence. The post Und...
Texas Observer

Distillers Want to Decriminalize Making Booze at Home - In 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the 21st Amendment ending 13 years of Prohibition, he was not primarily motivated by the hysteria aro...
Rio Grande Guardian

Stakeholders write to Biden, AMLO, about ‘economic pain’ being experienced along border region - The pain is caused by inadequacies in border security, and it negatively impacts cross border trade, a large coalition of private and public stakeholders...
Democracy Now!

Indian PM Narendra Modi Runs on "Hatred and Demonization" of Muslims in World's Largest Election - Millions of voters in India are casting their ballots in the third of seven phases in the country’s mammoth general election. The election pits Prime Minis...
First Draft

The Gestapo Speech - Projection thy name is Donald.
Space City Weather

A few thunderstorms are possible tonight, with better rain chances on Sunday and Monday - In brief: There are several things to watch for in the forecast, including hot temperatures today, some isolated thunderstorms tonight, and the potential f...
Angry Bear

Continuous trump Trials, May 7th Notes, “Stormy” - “The Trial, Ho Hum” – Digby’s Hullabaloo, digbysblog.net If you haven’t been following the trial and Stormy Daniels testimony, you can catch it at Digsby...
The Smirking Chimp

Why America Needs to Know about Trump Getting Spanked in Silk Pajamas -
The Daily Poster

SIROTA’S SIGNALS: Why Hasn’t Biden Closed This Tax Loophole? - Plus, the real cost of Trump’s tax cuts, a Big Tech ad that’s a little too on the nose, and the Fed admits economic inequality is dangerous.
Earth 911

How To Make Elegant DIY Test Tube Vases With Live Edge Stands - Ditch the ordinary, embrace the extraordinary! Made with live-edge, natural wood and cradling delicate plants... The post How To Make Elegant DIY Test Tu...
Off The Kuff

HPD Chief Finner retires - This came suddenly. Troy Finner has stepped down as chief of the Houston Police Department, Mayor John Whitmire announced in a late-night, four-paragraph e...
Crooked Media

Eye of the Stormy w. Lauren Simmons - The post Eye of the Stormy w. Lauren Simmons appeared first on Crooked Media .
Scheerpost.com

Israeli Forces Hit the Main Fertility Clinic in Gaza. Legal Experts Ask, Is It Genocide? - By Dawn Clancy / PassBlue For more than a decade, Mohammad Ajjour helped Palestinian couples in Gaza facing infertility to achieve their dreams of parentho...
ProPublica

Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. - by Sergio Hernandez ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Why are hate crimes so hard to convict in court? - [image: Three people stand outdoors, wearing face masks to protect against COVID, and holding signs. The signs say: "Organize to STOP Asian hate!" and "Jus...
Grist

The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil. - TK
The NM Political Report

Correa Hemphill to step down from legislature - State Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill, a Democrat from Silver City, won’t seek reelection in the general election in November, leaving SD 28, a swing district,...
Portside

Biden ‘Moving the Goal Post’ With Threat To Withhold Bombs From Israel - Biden ‘Moving the Goal Post’ With Threat To Withhold Bombs From Israel Mark Brody Thu, 05/09/2024 - 01:57
World Socialist Web Site

Roger Waters calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk - .In recent days, the campaign for the release of the Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) on April ...
jobsanger

The Crackdown On Campus Protests Has Gone Too Far -
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Districts of Change, Part Two: Looking Beyond the Straight-Party Districts - The vast majority of congressional districts have voted "straight-party" in presidential elections since 2008. There are 56 districs that have voted for ...
Informed Comment

Juan Cole: Israel and Campus Protests (Sea Change Radio) - Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part I on Sea Change Radio with Alex Wise. Transcript below. Or listen here: Pro-Palestinian student protests ...
Dissident Voice

Will a Gaza ceasefire be as successful as the two-state solution? - Who proposed a two-state solution? Not the Palestinians. Not Israel. It was conceived in the young United Nations, and proclaimed there in November, 1947...
Antiwar.com

US Is Losing In Ukraine. Blame China, Says Blinken. - At the close of his recent trip to China, on April 26 while still in Beijing, Sec. of State, Anthony Blinken, made an extremely bellicose statement to th...
Workers World

PDF of May 9 issue - [image: PDF of May 9 issue] Download the PDF. Student Intifada Editorial: Outside agitation? More PDF back-issues here. Continue reading PDF of May 9 issu...
The Rag Blog

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

A Parent’s Revolt - A few years after graduating from USC, I proudly worked on campus in the office of university advancement, external relations and the USC Viterbi School ...
Brad Blog

Trump Trial Ketchup: Stormy Takes the Stand: 'BradCast' 5/8/2024 - Once again, on today's BradCast, we've got a mid-week "ketchup" for you, with everything you need to know about the disgraced former President's still-ongo...
slacktivist

The Long March of the Koalas revisited - How did all the marsupials walk from Turkey to Australia? They didn't. Even though you're not allowed to say that at some evangelical colleges.
Web of Debt

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

The Global Right - A preview of our Spring 2024 issue.
Progressive.org

With Regard to Gaza, the Genocide Convention Has Been ‘Bent to the Will of Powerful States’ - An interview with human rights activist Maung Zarni.
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Ripe And Fertile - Annie Grayer @ CNN: GOP lawmaker claims KKK is ‘the military wing of the Democratic Party’ in closed door meeting ahead of antisemitism hearing GOP Rep. ...
Reform Austin

Republican Policies Make Texas Less Attractive to Young Talent - According to the latest CNBC and Generation Youth Lab survey of young adults in America, Republican policies in Texas make the state far less attractive ...
Bracing Views

It’s Not “Radical” to Oppose Genocide - W.J. Astore Student Protest and the White Rose Movement in Nazi Germany Apologists for the Israeli government and its genocidal policies are now warning us...
See You In 2020

The police state will lose if the pro-Palestine struggle broadens beyond “the movement,” & into the larger masses - We should not be intimidated by the police state, because its success at crushing the pro-Palestine struggle depends on a particular set of criteria: f...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #161 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: disputes involving Road House and the Muppets; some U.S. campaign news; legislative updates; and why threatening to kill ...
Texas Freedom Network

The Groundbreaking Texas Rising HBCU Empowerment Summit: Uplifting Black Organizing and Building Progressive Power - The Texas Rising HBCU Empowerment Summit was held to uplift Black organizing, build progressive power, and create community. [...] Read More... The post...
The AltWorld

A tale of Two Sovereigns, a Lackey and a Nanny - The NATOstan lackeys will remain dazed and confused. So what; lackeys lack strategic depth, they just wallow […] The post A tale of Two Sovereigns, a Lac...
Discourse

Brain Worm Watch: RFK Brain Worms Confirmed - Brain worms! Actual brain worms!
Wolf Street

Ad-Tech Outfit DoubleVerify Plunges 40% Today, -62% from Peak, 3 Years after IPO. Nabs WOLF STREET Downgrade to “Should Have Never Bought” - We have a special place in our heart for DoubleVerify because it blacklists WOLF STREET in the “brand safety” services it touts to advertisers.
Texas Monthly

Del Rio’s William Beckmann Proves That Even Twentysomethings Can Be Cowboy Crooners - The rising country singer melds the likes of Elvis and Vicente Fernández for a style that's all his own.
Debunking Christianity

Revised Edition of God & Horrendus Suffering - We're working on the chapters to this book now. To read about it click here!
Liberation News

The economy needs radical change - In a system based on labor exploitation, a “good” economy does not automatically mean better conditions for workers in either an absolute or relative sense.
Political Garbage Chute

Who Hasn’t Told a Woman She Reminds Us of Our Child Right Before We Put Our Penis In Her? - “Turns out, most of us don’t think about our kids before we fuck someone. That might sound odd to we Americans who have been told all our lives that pres...
Church and State

Trump Says He Would Let States Prosecute Women for Violating Abortion Bans - Trump has said that if reelected he would allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute anyone who violates an abortion ban.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Power of the Purse: Contributions of Hispanic Americans in Texas, by the New American Economy Research Fund - *As I look at these 2021 figures and consider yesterday's post on how the Latinx —along with the Black, Asian, and Lavender—graduation ceremony was recen...
Democracy Chronicles

Voices of Protest: A Call for Justice and Fairness - Amidst a rigged system, marginalized voices cry for justice, advocating for fairness and dignity. Let democracy prevail in action.
Unlimited Hangout

The Jimmy Dore Show - The Jimmy Dore Show.
NORML

South Dakota: Activists Turn in Signatures To Place Adult-Use Legalization Measure on November’s Ballot - [image: Vote Marijuana Ballot][image: Vote Marijuana Ballot]If certified for the ballot, it will be the third time since 2020 that South Dakotans have we...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Decline and Destruction as Product and Entertainment - The spectacle of Trump in court is appealing theater for those who want to avoid the harder questions
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 12 - 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...
MintPress News

Documentary | Automated Apartheid: Walking Through Hebron Smart City - Mnar Adley takes us along her journey as she crosses through the most heavily armed and surveilled checkpoints in the world where Israel has set up an au...
Crooked Timber

Why has global biodiversity governance failed so badly? - 8th May is World Biodiversity Day, in which we celebrate the remarkable contributions that biodiversity makes to the resilience and productivity of the ear...
Common Dreams

They Walk Among Us: Mississippi Goddamn, Still - As the dystopian movie *Civil War* sets records portraying the "colorful horrors of the American future" on its current riven trajectory, we just saw the...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Judge throws out lawsuit against school by mother who claimed it encouraged and hid her teen's gender expression - From *The Associated Press:* A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender e...
Ian Welsh

Israel Is Killing A Lot Of Civilians, But Is It Winning The War? - [image: Israel Is Killing A Lot Of Civilians, But Is It Winning The War?] I’m going to quote retired Israeli general Yitzhak Brit at length: Netanyahu kno...
The Texas Signal

Houston Community College Brings Couture to Comicpalooza - The line between a superhero costume and a fashion statement is razor thin and, at Houston’s Comicpalooza, it will disappear entirely thanks to a joint v...
Krebs on Security

U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group - The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leade...
Edinburg Politics

$135.5 million Student Housing and Dining project, $9 million renovations of college football stadium, and optometry program in Edinburg among major projects to be considered by UT System Board of Regents on May 8 and May 9, 2024, reports Dr. Luis “Louie” G. Alamia, PT, DPT - Edinburg could see more advancements in construction, sports and medicine when the UT System Board of Regents meets in Austin on Wednesday, May 8 and Thurs...
Ring of Fire

Boeing Whistleblower Is Found Dead In Truck & Public Officials Try To Block Users On Social Media - A whistleblower against Boeing allegedly took his own life after testifying against the company recently, but his friends and family don’t believe this s...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

North Korea, supplier of long-range missiles Russia used to kill Ukrainian civilians, accuses US of ‘escalation’. -
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 7 May 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. If I can get you t...
High Country News

Desert Subdivision: The paradox of naming a development after Edward Abbey - A Moab housing development named for the author of ‘Desert Solitaire’ sparks debate over Abbey’s legacy and growth in a delicate ecosystem. The post De...
Environment Texas

Partisanship and gridlock are for the birds - With great speed, the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act became law The post Partisanship and gridlock are for the birds appea...
Sludge

Super PACs With Alleged AIPAC Ties Intervene in Oregon Dem Primary - The two PACs have spent nearly $1 million on the race in recent weeks.
Project Censored

Echoes of Rebellion: Student Protests, State Violence, and Spatial Power - In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with author and history professor Dr. Gerald Horne to discuss the ongoing and growing student protests a...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Climate, Class & Empire: Towards an Ecology of Revolution - Interview with Jason W. Moore by Gennaro Avallone on Oltre la giustizia climatica: Verso un’ecologia della rivoluzione [Beyond Climate Justice: Towards a...
The Progressive Wing

5/6-9 News Roundup and Open Thread - It looks like Israel is beginning its assault on Rafah.
Progressives Chat

Election 2024: Six Months Out - This blog topic is six months from the scheduled general election of Tuesday, November 5, 2024. It will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election in...
Dos Centavos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Kennedy in name only - This apple has fallen far from the family tree. So far, in fact, that every member of his family has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president and encourag...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Holocaust Education: A Mixed Bag in U.S. Schools - The Holocaust stands as an indelible chapter in human history, characterized by unimaginable suffering, persecution and the systematic extermination of mil...
The Grayzone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
The Mind Unleashed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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