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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

San Antonio Current

SA filmmaker and Star Wars fan Alejandro Cabrera discusses franchise for May the Fourth - San Antonio filmmaker Alejandro Cabrera may have made the documentary In the Lone Star Wars State about Texas' thriving Star Wars fandom, but how big of a...
Eschaton

It's Always 5 Years Away - I'd missed that that chtatbot grifter Sam Altman is also pushing fusion, and of course bundling them together. Backed by renowned entrepreneur Sam Altman,...
Raw Story

Revealed: Kristi Noem just met with with Louisianna governor's cabinet - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who’s in the midst of a controversy over admitting to killing her dog, was in Baton Rouge to meet with Gov. Jeff Landry’s ...
Mediaite

‘It Is Just Absolutely a Crucifixion’: Fox & Friends Diner Compares Trump Criminal Trials Persecution of Jesus - Chip Hawkins appeared on a Fox & Friends diner segment and proceeded to compare Trump's criminal trials to the persecution of Jesus Christ. The post ‘It I...
Political Wire

A Few Thoughts for the End of the Week - As things stand today, the biggest threat to President Biden’s re-election is not the economy. It’s not Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent bid. It’s not t...
The Week

Xi comes to Europe: what's on the agenda? - China's president visits for first time since 2019, with spotlight on support for Russia over Ukraine and trade tensions with EU
Scheerpost.com

US Traffic of Guns Turns Productive Mexicans Into Desperate Refugees - Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble The crisis on the U.S. southern border continues to be a mainstay on the Am...
Techdirt.

Court Supports NY State’s Quest To Require $15 Broadband For Poor People, Much To Big Telecom’s Horror - When the Trump administration killed net neutrality, telecom industry giants convinced them to push their luck and declared that not only would federal reg...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Directions and Misdirections - Joy of Tech comments on the decline of the Internet, and they’re not alone, though this detailed takedown of Facebook’s flurry of AI spam requires free reg...
Al Jazeera English

Police remove pro-Palestinian students from Paris’s Sciences Po university - Students staging sit-in and hunger strike at the French university leave campus without incident.
memeorandum

Denmark to allow girls between 15 and 17 years old to have abortions without parental consent (Washington Examiner) - Washington Examiner: *Denmark to allow girls between 15 and 17 years old to have abortions without parental consent* — . — Denmark announced signific...
Alternet

'No way': Foreign policy experts question Noem’s 'dubious' account of meeting North Korean dictator - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's hopes of becoming presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate may have been destroyed by the puppy s...
Mediagazer

The Guardian outlines plans for a "small number of voluntary redundancies", says it is 60% funded by readers, and had a £39m loss in the year to March 2024 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette) - Bron Maher / Press Gazette: *The Guardian outlines plans for a “small number of voluntary redundancies”, says it is 60% funded by readers, and had a £39m...
Vox

No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care. - [image: Two black-feathered chickens with red crests are in close-up, one in the foreground with its head turned and one eye looking at the viewer, the ot...
The Hill

The ICC is flirting with disaster with threatened warrants against Israel - The U.S., and indeed all western allies, cannot stand idly by now as the court is dragged into irredeemable disrepute.
Angry Bear

A Teaser for you . . . Trickle Down Economics - Ever since Reagan and Thatcher first tried them, trickle-down policies have exploded budget deficits and widened inequality. At best, they’ve temporarily...
Dos Centavos

Thoughts on Viernes – 05032024 - Special Election Saturday Remember to vote in the Special and Uniform election on Saturday, May 4. Vote at any voting center. Vote the Stace Slate. Vote fo...
Space City Weather

Another round of hefty rain impacting Montgomery, northern Harris, and Liberty Counties this morning - In brief: Flash flood warnings are in effect for Montgomery, far northern Harris, and Liberty Counties this morning, as an additional 1 to 4 inches of rain...
The Smirking Chimp

What’s Really Motivating the Protests? -
Axios

Elon Musk says he'll reinstate the X account of white nationalist Nick Fuentes - Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will reinstate the suspended account of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust-denying broadcaster. *Why it ...
Rio Grande Guardian

UTRGV to open a satellite office in Elsa - Small business owners and entrepreneurs in the Delta area will have access to all the resources provided by UT-Rio Grande Valley's Office of Workforce an...
WhoWhatWhy

Anatomy of an Election Meltdown: The Looming Threats to the 2024 Election - A RAND report’s chilling predictions for the 2024 election — infrastructure hacks, AI disinfo, a lack of voting machine security — show the risks are worse...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Florida sees thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds - Florida wildlife corridor will spearhead climate resilience if allowed to evolve and essential preparatory work done, study says Climate predictions in F...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio fundraising for a new Asian community center to open in Stone Oak in 2027 - [image: A Chinese dragon-themed performance dances through Alamo Plaza during the 2024 Battle of Flowers Parade.]The nonprofit Asian Resource Center of San...
naked capitalism

Links 5/3/2024 -
Off The Kuff

The SD15 effect on the HCAD elections - We have had two elections going on these past weeks. I’ve done my best to bring attention to the three HCAD elections, but they have gone on alongside the ...
Mother Jones

Democratic Lawmakers Blast Fossil Fuel Industry’s “Denial” and “Duplicity” - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The fossil fuel industry spent decade...
Salon.com

Donald Trump is using campus protests to stoke right-wing violence for the election - Disinformation about leftist "violence" is used by MAGA to justify their own, very real crimes
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Novara Media

The Tories Are Fast-Tracking Misery While They Still Can - According to all polls, the Conservatives are facing electoral armageddon in the next general election. In this week’s locals, the picture isn’t much rosie...
American Prospect

Incrementalizing Cannabis - What America gets when Congress and the executive branch slow-roll progress
NPR's Health Shots

Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discrimination - The bill which was previously passed in the House in 2019 and 2022, but blocked in the Senate, aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and wo...
Deadline Politics

Joe Biden To Present Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Phil Donahue, Michelle Yeoh Among Media And Entertainment Recipients - Phil Donahue and Michelle Yeoh are among the media and entertainment recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Joe Biden will present at the W...
ProPublica

More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children - by Eli Hager ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing aroun...
The Intercept

AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman - The Israel lobby is expected to start a $20 million ad blitz backing its handpicked candidate against the incumbent Squad member. The post AIPAC’s Next T...
Daily Dot

‘Designed by a man’: Woman slams feature that automatically unlocks her Honda when she parks - [image: Cars in the lot(l), Woman at steering wheel(c), Car lock(r)] Many car features have become commonplace in our society. But it doesn’t mean that s...
Grist

The country’s first new aluminum smelter in 45 years could cut production emissions by 75% - Century Aluminum Co. hopes half a billion dollars in federal funding will help it revive a dying industry while making it less polluting.
DeSmogBlog

Pro-Trump Platform Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe - The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of tim...
High Country News

An environmental justice coalition for all - How has Biden’s record on conservation served communities of color? The post An environmental justice coalition for all appeared first on High Country ...
Courthouse News

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Infidel753

Video of the day -- bland perfection - I don't normally watch videos as long as this, but I found this one mesmerizing. Part of why so much popular music of today sounds bland and "over-produc...
Crooked Media

A Front Row Seat to Trump’s Trial - The post A Front Row Seat to Trump’s Trial appeared first on Crooked Media.
LareDOS

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

Roaming Charges: Tin Cops and Biden Coming… - As America's liberal elites declare open warfare on their own kids, it's easy to see why they've shown no empathy at all for the murdered, maimed and orp...
See You In 2020

Zionists are working to divide the pro-Palestine struggle, & the Syria psyop showed how they would do this - During the social media age, the most effective form of narrative manipulation Zionists have used has not been to deny that they’re committing a genoci...
Informed Comment

Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Going back to the late nineteenth century, Zionism has had a complex and storied history, and there have been many strains o...
Ian Welsh

America Flails, Resorting To Ineffective Sanctions Over and Over - [image: America Flails, Resorting To Ineffective Sanctions Over and Over] This has been a theme, but let’s keep nailing it shut. My favorite recent news w...
World Socialist Web Site

Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak - During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican ...
jobsanger

Trump Speaks To Get An Emotional Reaction From His Base -
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1166: Josquin Des Prez - Episode: 1166 Searching for the historical Josquin Desprez. Today, academic detectives look for the real Josquin.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Cross Claire - Meow from Claire Trevor.
Antiwar.com

Congress Passes Mega-Billions More For Ukraine - Last week, Congress voted to send $95 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The largest portion was to Ukraine – $61 billion – after t...
Popular Resistance

Flood The Gates: Escalate - It has been 208 days since this most recent and most horrific chapter of the 75-year U.S.-zionist genocide in Gaza began. Over 40,000 Palestinians have b...
Election Law Blog

ELB 5:7: Rick Pildes: The Two Ricks Discuss the Trump Immunity and Hush Money Cases - New ELB Podcast: How should we understand the Supreme Court’s questions in the Trump immunity case? Will the Court let Donald Trump go to trial for 202...
The AltWorld

The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): So glad Trump lost in 2020 […] The post The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier: Notes Fr...
Wolf Street

Fed Balance Sheet QT: -$1.60 Trillion from Peak, to $7.36 Trillion, Lowest since December 2020 - Quantitative Tightening has removed 38% of Treasury securities and 27% of MBS that pandemic QE had added.
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...
Portside

Will They Crush the Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam? - Will They Crush the Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam? jay Thu, 05/02/2024 - 21:46
Workers World

Denver university launches tent city for Palestine - [image: Denver university launches tent city for Palestine] Denver Students set up a tent city on April 26 on the Auraria campus of Metropolitan State Univ...
Liberation News

Haiti: Transitional Council has direct ties to imperialist forces wreaking havoc in Haiti - The “transitional council” is packed with elites from the traditional establishment.
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...
Brad Blog

Pro-Palestine Protests, Proportionality, and Political Perspective: 'BradCast' 5/2/2024 - Today's BradCast is perhaps better listened to than explained. But here's a quick summary and some links for more details. [Audio link to full program foll...
Reform Austin

Soft Landing? - The post Soft Landing? appeared first on Reform Austin.
Common Dreams

A War Against Humanity Itself - As the unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza persists at the hands of Israel's "voracious death machine," its leaders openly vow "total...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on April 26: Midland Credit Management, Inc. vs Kayla G. Bennett - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by David E. Kirkendall and Midland Credit Management, Inc. against Kayl...
The Rag Blog

JONAH RASKIN | STUDENT PROTEST | Columbia protests now and in 1968 - Demonstration on University of Texas campus, April 27, 2024. Creative Commons image. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 3, 2024 This article was original...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Arizona Republicans furious about Drag Queen Story Hour event in which no children were in attendance - The lies that Drag Queen Story Hour and drag queens in general are integral in some plot to "sexualize" or "trans" kids is a lie. We all knew this from t...
The Verge

Microsoft says it did a lot for responsible AI in inaugural transparency report - [image: Microsoft logo] Illustration: The Verge A new report from Microsoft outlines the steps the company took to release responsible AI platforms last ...
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...
Mondoweiss

‘We want the university to cut any ties to Israel’: a Cal Poly Humboldt student on the protests gripping the school - [image: Photo of one of the campus buildings students occupied at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, California. (Photo: @NationalSJP/Twitter)]A Palestinian memb...
Dissident Voice

The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus - photo by Jeanne Lemlin To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It was a common form of execution in the ancient world. It is gener...
The Texas Signal

Texas Sues To Stop Gun Safety Legislation - Last month the Biden Administration announced new gun safety legislation that would require any individual who sells firearms outside of sporting or gun ...
El Paso Matters

Growing SNAP applications backlog leaves El Paso families waiting on food stamps - Texas is still struggling to keep up with the SNAP benefits backlog as the number of delayed applications grows. In El Paso, the food bank is helping fa...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: Be Very Afraid - Kate Riga @ Mediaite: Fearing Blowback, A Couple Arizona Senate Republicans Join Democrats To Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban A couple Arizona Senate Republican...
slacktivist

Our God Is Red Hot — Your God Ain’t Doodley Squat - What all worship songs start to sound like after a while. Plus: the closest we came to dancing at my church, and tacos so good you'll hope the good Lord ta...
Futurism

Economist Slams Elon Musk for Making Tesla a "Tech-Bubble" Meme Stock - Despite posting disastrous quarterly earnings, Tesla is still worth more than Toyota, Porsche, Mercesdes, and Hyundai combined. And experts are becomin...
Second Nexus

Trump Dragged For Bonkers Claim That 'Democrats Wanted' Roe V. Wade Overturned - The internet was gobsmacked after former Republican President Donald Trump recently made the bizarre claim that Democrats and liberals actually wanted *Ro...
Ballot Access News

Rhode Island House Passes Bill on Independent Voters - Current Rhode Island lets independent voters vote in a partisan primary, but if an independent chooses a party primary ballot at the polls, he or she is co...
Progressive.org

Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Speech Is the New McCarthyism - The crackdowns on pro-Palestine protesters recast protected speech as harassment, and have little to do with protecting Jewish students from antisemitic th...
Bracing Views

“Order Must Prevail” - W.J. Astore Biden denounces violence, destruction, and hate, but only in America President Biden read a short statement today in which he stated “order mus...
The Root

Whoa…HOW Did This Ex-Cop Who Shot a Black Man in The Head Walk Free?? - A Black Georgia family is outraged that a court granted bond to the indicted former Woodstock, Ga., police officer who fatally shot their son in the head...
Socialist Alternative

NYPD Brutally Cracks Down On Gaza Solidarity Encampments - On Tuesday night, members of the New York City branch of Socialist Alternative hit the streets as campus police and the NYPD appeared by the hundreds at th...
Daily Howler

Kilmeade wants to see everyone's face! - *WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2024* *Please remove their protective gear! *Watching cable news was especially painful this morning. On Morning Joe, the message was...
Texas Standard

Nine dead, more than 75 affected as Austin overdose surge begins to slow - Preliminary toxicology reports for the nine people who died show that fentanyl was present in their systems.
MintPress News

Inside Job? Ominous New Questions Surround Navalny’s Death - Kit Klarenberg explores the sudden vanishing act of Western media and political attention after new intelligence challenges the narrative surrounding Ale...
Texas Monthly

Country Singer Parker McCollum Doesn’t Believe in Forcing It - The Conroe-born musician is "in a rut 90 percent of the time," but you'd never know it by the many milestones he has on the horizon.
Claytoonz

A Militarized Response - You would think a place where history would be remembered is a place that teaches it. Some universities trying to stop the pro-Palestinian protests are cal...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Major Escalation: Tucker, Dugin, and the Normalization of New Fascism - I've been studying the Right Wing's normalization of authoritarianism for years, and even I was surprised when I saw this
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Burkinabe junta’s denial of atrocities fails verification - Witnesses and survivor accounts, photographs, and videos as well as satellite images place Burkina Faso troops at the scene of the attack reported by Human...
Sludge

Here Are the Top Recipients of AIPAC Money - The most complete, up-to-date view of AIPAC PAC contributions to congressional candidates.
The Daily Poster

SIROTA’S SIGNALS: We’ll Have To Wait Until 2065 — Unless This Changes - Plus, Boeing drops incriminating evidence on an attorney, gambling takes over old-fashioned arcade games, and that time Nixon almost fought climate change.
Capital & Main

For Health System Reform, Even With Majority Will, There Is No Way - *Most Californians say they want single-payer care, but in the Legislature the health care industry has been unstoppable.* The post For Health System Ref...
Eater Houston

“Euro-Tex” Restaurant Cooks Up Schnitzel and Texas Paella in the Heights - [image: An image of a person squeezing citrus juice over pan-fried schnitzel] Blue Tuba bridges Eastern European cuisine and Southern hospitality through ...
Rallblog

Palestine Freedom Movement Should Mock Pro-Israel Bullies - There are more Democrats than Republicans, more liberals than conservatives, more progressives than MAGAs. But you’d never know that from loo...
Texas Freedom Network

This National Day of Prayer, Protect the Religious Freedom of All Texans - Together, our country celebrates May 2 as the National Day of Prayer, a time when many folks across faiths come together to pray. However, it’s also a vi...
Undernews

Alternative sex and gender - *The Hill *- More than 1 in 10 LGBTQ youth said they have attempted suicide in the past year, according to a new survey. The survey from The Trevor Proje...
SCOTUSblog

Canadian formerly held at Guantanamo seeks to erase terrorism conviction - [image: Canadian formerly held at Guantanamo seeks to erase terrorism conviction]The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petition...
Project Censored

The Press Freedom Clock is TikToking - By Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon As we write for World Press Freedom Day, declared May 3, 1993, by the United Nations, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks languis...
NORML

Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Announced - [image: Federal Cannabis Action Fund][image: Federal Cannabis Action Fund]Perhaps most tellingly, our political opponents are also touting its significanc...
Glasstire

Top Five: May 2, 2024 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collag...
Rewire

Texas Lawmakers Won’t Stop Harassing LGBTQ+ Kids - It’s a terrible end to a school year where conservative legislative hate campaigns have targeted trans kids in particular. The post Texas Lawmakers Won’t...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invitation: Educación con Corazón: Una Plática Comunitaria/ Education with Heart: A Community Conversation—May 4, 2024, 10am - 3pm - *Friends,* *It's such a vast juxtaposition to be sharing with you our upcoming event, "Education with Heart: A Community Conversation," taking place this...
Democracy Chronicles

DafaBet – Convenience at Its Best - DafaBet - Convenience at Its Best
ArcaMax

Banning Menthol Cigarettes Was Always a Bad Idea - The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellent arguments for why they are dangerous were overcome by...
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
Discourse

CNN's Disgraceful Propaganda - This segment from Dana Bash on the Palestine protest movement is one of the most shameful things I have ever seen on cable news.
Bonddad

The snooze-a-than in jobless claims continues; what I am looking for in tomorrow’s jobs report - * - by New Deal democrat* The snooze-a-thon in jobless claims continues, as both initial and continuing claims are well-behaved within the narrow rang...
Democracy Now!

"Workers Have Power": Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity with Palestine - Workers around the world rallied Wednesday to mark May Day, with many calling on the labor movement to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. In N...
Earth 911

Recycling Mystery: Automobile Floor Mats - Recycling your automobile floor mats, made from a recyclable thermoelastic polymer (TPE), is challenging due... The post Recycling Mystery: Automobile Fl...
Church and State

Population and Economics - No nation has made much progress in the transition from “developing” to “developed” until it first brought its population growth under control.
The NM Political Report

Biden administration rolls back Title IX restrictions put in place by Trump - The White House finalized a new rule under Title IX that expands protections for students who experience sexual violence as well as expands protections f...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Districts of Change, Part One: How All 435 Congressional Districts Voted from 2008-2020 - Thanks to Dave's Redistricting App, a tool which we use often at the Crystal Ball, we are able to easily compare congressional district data across the f...
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...
Edinburg Politics

Cancer prevention, health insurance, and nursing-related postsecondary education and scholarships to be reviewed Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at the Texas Capitol by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, reports DHR Health - Cancer prevention, health insurance, and nursing-related postsecondary education and scholarships will be reviewed during a public hearing in Austin on Tue...
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...
The Conversation

Why universities turn to the police to end student protests − and why that can spiral out of control - While most colleges and universities have their own police units, some schools, like Columbia University, have only private security − and then can call in...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! - The last week has been kind of a bummer for me, workwise – I pulled a muscle in my thumb. (Who even knew that was a thing?) Afraid of making it worse, I de...
CPI's Danger in the Air

After a years-long fight, EPA broadens ban on deadly chemical - [image: Paint strippers are displayed on a shelf in a hardware store.] It can kill on the spot or years after prolonged exposure. When methylene chloride...
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 ...
Ring of Fire

Reform School Victims FINALLY Compensated In Fl & Dysfunctional Congress Causes Multiple Retirements - For decades, teenagers were abused and sometimes even killed at a reform school in a small Florida town. Mike Papantonio is joined by attorney Troy Raffe...
Environment Texas

Efficient water heaters will cut pollution, save money, save lives - Many households will save more than $170 each year in energy costs thanks to new water heater efficiency standards. The post Efficient water heaters will...
Political Garbage Chute

Florida’s Abortion Ban Has This Incel Considering a Move to Florida to Start a New Rape Family - “…Big Feminazi has poisoned the women in my life against me just because I think a woman is programmed by God himself to be my willing sex and food prepa...
Unlimited Hangout

The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin - The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin.
CultureMap Houston

From vision to reality, Hermann Park fundraiser salutes remarkable change - It’s been quite a year for the Hermann Park Conservancy. Some might even say transformational. And it’s with this perspective of grace and recognition tha...
Texas Observer

Standing Up for All Texans’ Stories - Nearly 150 members of the new Texas Alliance for History, including university professors and students, community historians, and staff members of histor...
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...
Ecosophia

Lenocracy in Extremis: The Case of Publishing - I really did mean to go on to a different subject this week, rather than talking further about the system of political economy I’ve labeled lenocracy (from...
The Progressive Wing

5/1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - Happy May Day!
Crooked Timber

Machines and tools - It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So, it’s a g...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years - A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leakin...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop - During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal t...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Israel's Roots in Terror & Neo-Colonialism - For decades our government and mainstream media has portrayed Israel is a victim and the only defender of Democracy in the Middle East; however, they ra...
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 ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman - Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, *Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair*.
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...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism” - Does Whataboutism work? A new article has answers.
Debunking Christianity

Published: Don McIntosh's Article In Response to Mine On "God and Horrendous Suffering." - Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2024) of the *Trinity Journal of Natural & Philosophical Theology* has just been published. Included is the response by Editor-...
Progressives Chat

‘Joe Rogan’s Unbridled Enthusiasm…’ - Is Joe Rogan giving us something to consider? Encouragement, yes. But, when explaining why, there is something else. Technology can be a pain.
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand t...
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...
Bud Kennedy

These GOP runoff contenders aren’t just from the right. They’re from another universe | Opinion - I spent an hour in another universe this week. In the faraway brains of some Republicans I heard Wednesday, the Texas Legislature is full of leftists, ther...
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...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: TPUSA employees admit guilt, Nazi flag, sovereign citizen murder conviction - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
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 ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOU-PROBLEM EDITION. - *Went down a K hole the other night.* I have said more than once that the *New York Post* is Rupert Murdoch’s primary stateside lie-diffuser – more than ...
Seeing the Forest

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
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...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
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...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
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...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
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...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
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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