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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Shutting Down Again Funnies

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Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (June 23, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
CultureMap Houston

Rock painting and ninja runs charm guests at Houston hospital's benefit - *What:* Ambassadors for Texas Children’s Hospital Family Fun Day
Raw Story

'What a clown': MAGA mocks Tucker Carlson for dramatic reaction to Iran missiles - Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson had a dramatic reaction upon learning of Iran's retaliatory missile shots at the U.S. military base in Qatar. The Ira...
Mediaite

Zohran Mamdani Surges in NYC Mayor Betting Market After Shock Poll Shows Him Beating Cuomo - Online gamblers took a shine to New York City mayoral candidate and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani after a recent poll showed him surging just past former Ne...
Courthouse News

Walgreens real estate flip scheme - CHICAGO — Walgreens will face racketeering, tortious interference and deceptive trade practices counterclaims brought by the commercial landlord of a Walgr...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Chelsea training cut short due to ‘impossible’ heat in Philadelphia - - Maresca complains of 41C heat at Club World Cup - Fifa has no new measures to deal with hot conditions Enzo Maresca said tha...
The Verge

New York’s getting a new nuclear power plant - New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans today to develop a new nuclear power plant, the first to be built in the state in decades. It’s the latest ...
Common Dreams

Progressive Democrats of America Condemns Trump’s Bombing of Iran - Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) today issued the following statement: Progressive Democrats of America condemns Trump’s unconstitutional bombing o...
Mediagazer

Disney names Jilly Pearce as head of unscripted programming for ABC and Hulu; Pearce was previously the president of Objective Media Group America (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter) - Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: *Disney names Jilly Pearce as head of unscripted programming for ABC and Hulu; Pearce was previously the president ...
The Hill

UN nuclear agency chief: Fordow likely sustained 'very significant damage' - The U.S. military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, including Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, have caused significant damage, but the IAEA is waiting for a...
Eschaton

Do We Think Members of Congress Have Great OPSEC? - Amazing. WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' (META.O), opens new tab WhatsApp messaging service has been banned from all U.S. House of Repres...
memeorandum

Media Matters files suit in federal court to block retaliatory FTC investigation and protect its First Amendment rights (Media Matters for America) - Media Matters for America: *Media Matters files suit in federal court to block retaliatory FTC investigation and protect its First Amendment rights* — ...
Al Jazeera English

Kyiv man survives ‘massive’ Russian air strike - Resident Valeriy Mankuta survived a Russian missile strike by climbing down a lightning rod to escape his damaged home.
The Week

The downsides of a 'forgotten' 401(k) and how to find it - Don't leave your old retirement plan behind
Undernews

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Daily Cartoonist

2025 AAEC Convention Registration Now Open - The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has set up hotel booking and registration for their 2025 Convention being held at Bethseda Marylan...
Political Wire

Ron Johnson Called to the White House - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-TX), still opposed to Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” is heading to the White House Monday to discuss the legislation with the pr...
Techdirt.

While District Court Judge Questions Trump’s Military Deployment; Appeals Court Shrugs - The normalization of authoritarianism is happening in real time in federal courtrooms. While district court judges try to apply actual legal standards to T...
Second Nexus

George Clooney Shares Son's Hilariously Shady Reaction To Learning His Dad Played Batman - It looks like George Clooney’s own son didn’t even recognize him… as the Batman. While attending the 78th Annual Tony Awards, the 64-year-old actor told ...
Axios

Millions at risk amid widespread heat wave - Nearly 190 million Americans are under some form of heat advisory or warning as of Monday afternoon amid an early summer heat wave. *Why it matters: *The...
Sludge

GOP Flip-Floppers Back Trump’s Unauthorized Iran Attacks - The same lawmakers slammed Biden last year for bombing the Houthis in Yemen without seeking prior authorization from Congress.
Texas Observer

Can Economic Populism Win Back the Rio Grande Valley? - As a rainstorm rolled in last Friday evening, hundreds of people eagerly filed through metal detectors at an 1,800-seat performing arts center in McAllen...
Daily Dot

“Please don’t disrespect my Danny”: Rachel Zegler praised after “gentle parenting” fan who was rude to her bodyguard - Actress *Rachel Zegler* went viral after "gentle parenting" a disgruntled fan who claimed her bodyguard was doing "too much." Why did Rachel Zegler defen...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio H-E-B physician arrested on charges he tried to record co-workers in bathroom - A San Antonio H-E-B physician is out on bond after being accused of placing a hidden camera in a store bathroom with the intention of watching his colleag...
Deadline Politics

CBS Calls Donald Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit A “Meritless” Attempt To “Evade Bedrock First Amendment Principles” In Latest Filing - As settlement talks continue between the legal teams of Paramount Global and Donald Trump, CBS once again characterized the president’s lawsuit against the...
Slate

Iran’s Missing Uranium Stockpile Is a Big Problem for Trump - It seems that the U.S. strikes have hardly “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Mondoweiss

Republicans, AIPAC Dems unite in support of Trump’s war - The vast majority of the Republican party and a number of hawkish Democrats are rallying around Trump’s war on Iran.
Futurism

Tesla Robotaxi Terrifyingly Jerks Wheel Back and Forth While Carrying Passenger - Tesla's Robotaxi service is finally, actually here. And for the most part, the launch, which took place this weekend, has been pretty uneventful. A spate...
Progressive.org

Embracing the Darkness While Minding the Light - Reflections on Wen Stephenson’s latest book.
Scheerpost.com

Iran Fires Missiles at US Base in Qatar - Qatar's Foreign Ministry said the missiles were intercepted and that there were no casualties.
Salon.com

"Reoccupying the Kennedy Center": Democrats host LGBTQ+ Pride event to protest Trump takeover - Five Democratic lawmakers will stage an invite-only protest concert, put on by "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Nihilists at Google Wrecking Existing Business to Chase AI Growth - Nihilism on the part of Alphabet's CEO explains Google's willingness to risk its search business and the open web itself to chase OpenAI.
Alternet

'Peace through strength': Karoline Leavitt stuns with claim Trump came up with famous phrase - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed President Donald Trump was the creator of the phrase “peace through strength,” despite it being orig...
Rio Grande Guardian

Rose Benavidez announces her candidacy for Starr County Judge - The STC board trustee and Starr County Industrial Foundation president said her campaign will be "for every person who still believes that public service...
Reform Austin

Competitive Primary Fights Shape Up for Texas GOP - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Republicans are gearing up for what is shaping up to be their most contentious primary cy...
Vox

Trump wants to take out Iran’s nuclear program. His attacks may backfire. - Over the weekend, the United States bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran. Iran has been considered a political risk to America since the 1979 revolution...
San Antonio Report

Gov. Greg Abbott orders special legislative session after vetoing 26 bills - Abbott will call lawmakers back to Austin to tackle Senate Bill 3, a proposed ban on THC products that he vetoed, as well as five others from his veto list...
NPR's Health Shots

From the pandemic to porn, here's how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z - Journalist Carter Sherman says that members of Gen Z are having less sex than previous generations — due in part to the political and social climate. Her n...
See You In 2020

The Steve Witkoff “peace deal” psyop was what got us war with Iran. The antiwar movement must learn from this. - To understand how our government was able to start this war with Iran, we have to look at how the Trump White House sold a false promise of “peace.” An...
First Draft

Asbestos Is Back, Baby - The weird, wild world of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).
WhoWhatWhy

Orcas Seen Grooming Each Other With Kelp In First For Marine Tool Use - [image: science, nature, marine life, Pacific Ocean, orca whales, bull kelp, grooming tool] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or...
The Grayzone

Meet the Israeli fanatic running Ted Cruz’s office - After Ted Cruz’s humiliation by Tucker Carlson, attention has focused on a top staffer of the self-proclaimed “leading defender of Israel in the United S...
The Daily Poster

Cuomo’s Allies Spread Tax Flight Myth - Critics say mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich would cause the wealthy to flee NYC — but research suggests otherwise.
SCOTUSblog

Court to decide whether government officials can be held personally liable for violating inmate’s religious liberty - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether an inmate can sue a government official in his individual capacity – that is, seeking to hold an off...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-26 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Mother Jones

The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year. - When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much ri...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’ - The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Tow...
Dissident Voice

Distraction Wrestling - Is it as simple as the Left versus the Right? The post Distraction Wrestling first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Capital & Main

Sanewashing the President - Since his return, newsrooms have downplayed Trump’s decline, helping normalize a presidency defined by incoherence, paranoia, and cruelty. The post Sanew...
Dorf on Law

The Shift Toward non-US Universities is Upon Us. (Oh, and I'm now in Ireland) - I took last week off from posting content here on *Dorf on Law*. Why? Because I have accepted an appointment as Visiting Full Professor at the Sutherlan...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Engelhardt, King Trump - How strange. I've been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American w...
Angry Bear

“Economic expansions don’t die of old age; they are murdered” - “Economic expansions don’t die of old age; they are murdered” usually by domestic or geopolitical exogenous shocks – by New Deal democrat There is an ol...
Space City Weather

Surviving Houston’s heat and houmidity, according to you - Last week Eric offered a tip for Houston-area newbies for surviving Houston’s fearsome heat and houmidity. (And no, that’s not a typo.) That inspired many ...
Bonddad

May existing home sales show prices stabilizing, inventory continuing to increase towards its historical range - - *by New Deal democrat* The first part of this week is all about more housing data. This morning started out with existing home sales, which alth...
The Root

Dreaming of NYSE? Adopt an Entrepreneurial Mindset First! - Loren Douglass breaks down the first steps to building wealth — from mastering financial statements to understanding the power players. Read more...
Election Law Blog

A Few Points about the Structure of NYC’s Democratic Primary for Mayor - Proponents of ranked-choice voting often say the system will lead to more moderate candidates being elected. I don’t think that’s correct or the right wa...
Texas Standard

Republicans might redraw House maps in Texas to protect majority from the midterm curse - Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, Republicans are considering aggressively gerrymandering congressional districts in Te...
Daily Howler

THE PLAYERS: "It's a story without an ending!" - *MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025* *The Bulgarian woman's tale:* On Saturday, we closed our post with this remark: *Within two weeks, one of the people we've menti...
American Prospect

What If Trump’s Iran Gamble Pays Off? - Today on TAP: Which is more dangerous—Trump miscalculating and setting off a wider war? Or Trump succeeding militarily and politically?
Discourse

The Biggest Lies We're Being Told About the Iran War - Warning: there are a lot of them.
The AltWorld

World War is on the Horizon - Have you noticed how the Trump-hating media is praising Trump to the high heavens for his gratuitous, […] The post World War is on the Horizon appeared f...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 165: “US At War With Iran” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Today on “The TMI Show,” Ted Rall and Manila Chan burrow deep into the escalating Middle East crisis as Iran ...
El Paso Matters

Baylor professor, radiologist named Texas Tech Health El Paso medical school dean - Texas Tech Health El Paso tapped Dr. Eric M. Rohren as its next dean of the Foster School of Medicine. He’ll replace Richard Lange, who serves concurren...
Bracing Views

I’ll Slug You, and If You Resist, I’ll Slug You Harder - U.S. Strategy in Iran BILL ASTORE JUN 22, 2025 U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attac...
Rewire

Opinion: How Pharmacists Could Save the Lives of Pregnant People With Opioid Use Disorder - Getting naloxone to the pregnant and postpartum people who need it is hard. Pharmacists can help. The post Opinion: How Pharmacists Could Save the Lives...
Democracy Now!

Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University - *Democracy Now!* was there when Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his family over the weekend after being released on bail by a federal jud...
The Conversation

How the end of carbon capture could spark a new industrial revolution - The Trump administration is pulling back billions of dollars in industrial development money for carbon capture and storage projects. That may force indust...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Terviva’s Marc Diaz Introduces the Pongomia, a Tree for the Climate Crisis - As climate change accelerates and traditional crops face mounting pressures from drought, extreme weather, and... The post Earth911 Podcast: Terviva’s Ma...
The Smirking Chimp

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Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 23 June 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Yes. Dead. Made by Pliny. Made by Rad....
Skeptophilia

Fictional friendships - I learned a new term yesterday: *parasocial relationship*. It means "a strong, one-sided social bond with a fictional character or celebrity." I've never ...
Crooked Media

Ketanji Brown Jackson Sounds the Alarm - The post Ketanji Brown Jackson Sounds the Alarm appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Tesla launches its robotaxi service in Austin - Not quite as they wanted, but it is going. After driverless Tesla Model Ys were spotted traversing Austin, Texas streets on Sunday morning, CEO Elon Musk p...
Progressives Chat

U.S. Bombs Iran - As reported by *USA Today*, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, “President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced American warplanes dropped bombs on three nu...
ProPublica

Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs - by Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose, Brandon Roberts and Irena Hwang ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive...
Grist

Firefighting foams contain toxic PFAS. Could soybeans be the answer? - The surprising "win-win" for farmers and fire departments.
High Country News

When we harm wolves, we harm ourselves - [image: A collared Mexican wolf on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.] Anger over these wild creatures shows a lack of perspective. The ...
ArcaMax

Did You Miss a Holiday, Mr. President? - Juneteenth came and went Thursday, but curiously something seemed to be missing from the annual celebration: a cordial salute from the president of the Uni...
Counterpunch

Why America is at War With Iran - The Neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, ...
Portside

Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye - Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye Ira Mon, 06/23/2025 - 01:16
jobsanger

The Threat Of An Oligarchy Is Not New In The United States -
World Socialist Web Site

As Democrats back war drive against Iran, Sanders seeks to contain mass anti-war sentiment on “Fighting Oligarchy” tour - Speaking in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday, Bernie Sanders did not call for strikes or mass action to stop the long-planned US-led imperialist war against Ira...
Informed Comment

The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Lea...
Antiwar.com

Trump Never Has Been a Sincere Advocate of Realism and Restraint - Expectations for a restrained foreign policy by a Trump administration were naïve. We now have strong evidence. Even before President Donald Trump ordered ...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
Claytoonz

Eat Mor Sundays - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Popular Resistance

The Only Weapons Of Mass Destruction In The Middle East Are Zionism, Israel’s Nukes And US/Western Imperialism - The zionist ethnostate has been spoiling for a war with Iran for decades. Who can forget the comedic, cartoonish, yet dark presentation of Benjamin Netan...
Crooked Timber

The symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. - Thursday afternoon I belatedly fulfilled a promise to post a book to Wilcannia. The school day was just finishing and as I left the Post Office I overheard...
Wolf Street

The 10 Big Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-8% to -22%) from Peak through May - Austin, Oakland, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Denver, Portland, Phoenix, Fort Worth, San Antonio.
The Greanville Post

JEREMY KUZMAROV COVERT ACTION EXPERT – TRUMP PALANTIR CONNECTION – CIA FUNDED JAPANESE KILLERS - GARLAND NIXON—An in-depth discussion of America's criminal intel agencies record, and the US Empire's sordid operations in all continents in pursuit of heg...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hetero Awesome Festival' flops hard, attracting only dozens - Hetero Awesome Festival, an Idaho event created to pushback against June being designated as LGBTQ Pride Month, took place on Friday and Saturday of last...
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Ian Welsh

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Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Ballot Access News

American Solidarity Party is Having a National Convention This Weekend - According to Everett DePangher of ASP, major items on the agenda include a decision on whether to change the presidential nomination from a membership popu...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Trump’s unprovoked war against Iran is based on lies - In the coming days, people will be taking to the streets across the country and around the world to say: “No war on Iran!”
NORML

Texas Expands Patients’ Access to Medical Cannabis - [image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary][image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary]The new law opens the Texas Compassionate Use Program to include those sufferin...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Peacemaker' Toons - (From 2018...) ...FACT CHECK!... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooni...
Glasstire

Review: “Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River” at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa - Although Donald Judd was active in ecological preservation and the mission of The Chinati Foundation is multilayered and contains political elements, mos...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Socialist Alternative

Fight The Rich, Not Their Wars: NO War With Iran - On June 21, US warplanes dropped its “bunker buster” bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, including one heavily fortified site, Fordo, that is critical to...
Workers World

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Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

NO WAR: Avoiding Disaster at the End of Empire - We must avoid this unnecessary and cruel war.
The NM Political Report

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Trivial Knot

Coming out as political action - Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it referred to young women coming of age ...
Church and State

Trump’s many failures are unchallenged by all who should! - Deporting undocumented aliens who are working in farming and hotels has now been authorized by Trump.
Lowering the Bar

Man Forced to Concede His Lawyer Is “Not a Real Person” - [image: you tube video of man's AI trying to argue appeal]Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Nekhaila Debates Foreign Policy With Bill O’Reilly on No Spin News - Libertarian National Committee Chair Stephen Nekhaila appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News this week to discuss the Libertarian response to U.S. invo...
alicublog

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIFE-RAFTS IN THE FLOOD EDITION. - *The Spanish guys working on the building down the street played this.They know what's good.* I'll be less attentive to the collapse of the Republic ove...
The Texas Signal

Tabulating The Texas Legislature - In 140 days, the legislature once again did what they do best to millions of Texans: ban, bully and burn.
DeSmogBlog

Alberta Is Making It Even Harder to Develop Renewable Energy - Close observers of Alberta politics might be forgiven for wondering if official announcements are actual attempts at public policy, or performative troll...
Debunking Christianity

Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? - *Theological humility would be admitting profound ignorance about god(s)* When I was in seminary, Boston University School of Theology, during the 1960...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/20/2025 - 06:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
slacktivist

‘Code Adam’ - With abductions and attempted abductions on the rise at retail locations throughout America, it's good to review most retailers' official policy on abducti...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Paola Ramos explores her book 'Defectors' about right-wing Latino voters | Horizonte - *Friends:* *Paola Ramos—journalist, MSNBC correspondent, and daughter of Univision anchor Jorge Ramos—offers a timely and provocative reflection on Latin...
Project Censored

Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex - Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partne...
Earthworks

Ammonia 101: What is Blue Ammonia and Why You Should Care - Author: anaïs peterson The oil and gas industry is constantly shifting and creating new ways to justify its existence and … The post Ammonia 101: What i...
Environment Texas

Drilling threatens Chaco Canyon, one of America’s oldest monuments - Although Chaco Cultural National Historical Park has incalculable ecological and historical value, it is once again threatened by expanded oil and gas dr...
Bud Kennedy

Were the Minnesota killings ‘spiritual warfare’? Dallas school tied to extremism | Opinion - The trail of violent religious extremism has led to Texas again, raising questions about a small Dallas school for missionaries. Christ For The Nations Ins...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“Iron” Dome - Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people weeping for lost an...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Ecosophia

A Brief Guide to Status Panic - Yes, I know I said I was going to return to the theme of climate change as soon as I got back from my working trip to England. Regular readers will know th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Texas Freedom Network

Reimagining Justice: What We Learned at Texas Rising’s First Houston Criminal Justice Summit - During Texas Rising Houston’s Criminal Justice Summit, students and leaders came together to ask: What would it take to build a justice system that actua...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Media Lens

The ‘Selfie Yacht’ – Greta Thunberg And The Merchants Of Smear - If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – prot...
Dissent Magazine

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles - The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be ne...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Edinburg Politics

Seven UTRGV professors release book detailing the history of Valley politics: Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider’s Perspective to Regional Politics - Scholars from around the world are fascinated with the Rio Grande Valley, a region whose political beliefs often are covered by newscasts and newspapers, b...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
The Militant

Protest killing of Israeli Embassy staffers in DC! Fight against Jew-hatred! - SWP candidates speak out against shootings in DC The following is based on a statement sent to Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco o...
Avedon's Sideshow

Arise, ye prisoners of want! - "The Old Church by the River" is by Frits Thaulow (1847-1906). You can find more of his work here. "Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the B...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
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...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
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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