Brains and Eggs: Biden Drops Out

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

It took me many years of trying to finally come to that conclusion

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— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

Lunch break inside the astrodome while under construction pic.twitter.com/tTB4iVE68g
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Hill

JD Vance: John McCain probably wouldn't back Harris because of border - Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance claimed that the late Sen. John McCain probably would not support Vice President Harris's presidential camp...
Mediaite

Dana Bash Getting Harassed By Pro-Palestinian Protestors is Flat Out Anti-Semitism - Only Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, who both identify as Jewish Americans, have been harrassed by pro-Palestinan protestors over their coverage. I wonder why...
Alternet

'Traitor' Trump trashed for response to DOJ Kremlin cash and Russia disinfo indictments - Donald Trump’s latest attack on American rule of law and the U.S. Dept. of Justice is facing condemnation. The GOP presidential nominee and convicted fel...
CultureMap Houston

Famous South African chicken chain flies into new Montrose development - A South African restaurant known for its spicy grilled chicken is coming to Montrose. Nando's Peri-Peri will open its third Houston-area location in the f...
Mediagazer

The decline of local news has made it harder for political campaigns to connect to locals and forced them to run on national issues to get cable news attention (Jake Lahut/Columbia Journalism Review) - Jake Lahut / Columbia Journalism Review: *The decline of local news has made it harder for political campaigns to connect to locals and forced them to ru...
El Paso Matters

Hunt School of Dental Medicine welcomes its fourth inaugural class - 52% of the Class of 2024 come from West Texas and the Texas border region. The post Hunt School of Dental Medicine welcomes its fourth inaugural class a...
Raw Story

'Bacon. Wind. Marco Rubio': New York Times Trump coverage spurs laughter from critics - Bitter laughter rippled across social media Friday over the New York Times coverage of former President Donald Trump's confusing answer to a recent polic...
The Verge

Roblox will start sharing more revenue with creators - [image: Illustration of the Roblox wordmark logo in green] Illustration: The Verge As Roblox marches toward its ultimate goal of 1 billion users, the com...
Eschaton

But Those Are My Sources - Good for NPR, but the title is my theory for the relative lack of interest by other news outlets in this event. One of two staffers involved in the alterc...
Futurism

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots - Faker's Ball An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create an insane number of fake bands and fake music to go with it, ...
Axios

Judge delays Trump's sentencing date in hush money case until after election - Former President Trump was delivered a win Friday when a judge granted his request to delay his Sept. 18 sentencing in his hush money case. *Why it matte...
Salon.com

"He created his own legend": "The Goldman Case" reshoots famed trial with a "very seductive" suspect - Director Cédric Kahn discusses recreating the trial of a man who "had a relationship to truth that was very blurry"
The Week

Boeing's Starliner to come home empty - Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore will return on a SpaceX spacecraft in February
Texas Monthly

Watch the Official Trailer for ‘Landman,’ a New Taylor Sheridan Series Based on Texas Monthly’s ‘Boomtown’ - The Paramount+ series, which stars Hollywood heavyweights Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, and Demi Moore, premieres on November 17.
memeorandum

Start of mail-in voting delayed in NC, as RFK Jr.'s lawsuit leads to court-ordered pause (Will Doran/WRAL-TV) - Will Doran / WRAL-TV: *Start of mail-in voting delayed in NC, as RFK Jr.'s lawsuit leads to court-ordered pause* — Kennedy lost in trial Thursday, but ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Georgia teacher was trying to protect his students when he was killed, witnesses say - Students say that Richard Aspinwall left his classroom after the shooting started to try protect them Richard Aspinwall, the mathematics teacher and foot...
Wolf Street

The Fed Has Room to Cut, Rates Are High Relative to Inflation, and Job Growth Could Use some Juicing Up - Job growth bounces back some, hourly earnings jump, unemployment dips, but job growth is too slow to absorb the massive influx of immigrants.
Election Law Blog

Courts Order RFK Jr. Off the Ballot in Michigan and North Carolina - Michigan North Carolina There may be further appeals. The post Courts Order RFK Jr. Off the Ballot in Michigan and North Carolina appeared first on Ele...
Second Nexus

Michigan's Hilariously Epic New 'I Voted' Sticker Designed By Middle Schooler Goes Viral - Those little "I voted" stickers we all get at every election have been a tradition in our democracy for ages. So when the state of Michigan held a contes...
Techdirt.

Judge Rejects Yet Another Attempt By Texas To Police Online Speech - Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the legislature’s willingness to pass laws that clearly violate the First Amendment rights of websites. In the last...
Undernews

Seniors - *Newsweek - *Retirees could face thousands of dollars in cuts to their Social Security benefits if the fund becomes insolvent, the Committee for a Respon...
Political Wire

North Carolina Mail-In Voting Delayed - “Mail-in voting in North Carolina will be delayed by at least a few days — and possibly weeks — due to a court ruling Friday in the lawsuit over whether […]
Vox

The original Beetlejuice was diabolical magic - There’s a mad, intoxicating hope embedded in this weekend’s release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It sees the return of old stars Winona Ryder, Michael Keato...
Daily Dot

Newsletter: 🧸 😵 This Walmart toy gives off ‘creepy’ vibes - [image: A toy, a Walmart sign, and a woman looking at the camera. The Daily Dot newsletter web_crawlr logo is in the bottom right corner.] Hello fellow w...
Houston Public Media

METRO draft budget includes changes to Inner Katy bus rapid transit line - The METRO transit authority is walking back plans for a transit-only lane for a rapid bus line along the I-10 Inner Katy corridor. The changes follow the s...
Texas Standard

New project from Texas State Poet Laureate uplifts underrepresented voices - The project will commission poets from around the state to write poems about everyday Texans.
Capital & Main

Texas Is the King of Greenhouse Emissions. It’s Also in the Path of the Climate Change Storm. - From hurricanes to wildfires to droughts, every region of Texas is threatened by man-made climate change, vulnerability index shows. The post Texas Is th...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GET ME REWRITE (FOR TRUMP) EDITION. - *My local coffee shop plays a lot of neo-soul.* I missed ‘Round-the-Horn last week, sorry! I was on an extended Labor Day break, during which I visited N...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli forces kill American-Turkish activist in the occupied West Bank - Twenty-six-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi is shot in the head during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements.
NPR's Health Shots

Drugmakers say obesity medicine shortages are easing, but patients struggle to fill prescriptions - The drug companies behind blockbuster weight loss and diabetes treatments have signaled that supply problems could soon be over, but many patients still ha...
Courthouse News

RFK suit against Idaho continues - BOISE, Idaho — A federal court in Idaho did not totally dismiss Robert F. Kennedy’s allegations that the state’s election rules, which require independent ...
The Root

The Surprising Reason It Took More Than 30 Years to Arrest a Black Missouri Man For an Alleged Rape and Murder - An Indiana father went looking for his 19-year-old daughter after she didn’t show up for work. What he didn’t know was when he walked into her Illinois a...
Common Dreams

Met Police Back Down - Palestine March to Go Ahead As Planned - *In a victory for the movement, the police have withdrawn all the major restrictions on tomorrow's march. The coalition that organise the national demons...
naked capitalism

Rob Urie: When Markets Crash and Wars Rage, Naked Capitalism is Here to Inform - How Naked Capitalism keeps your back in ever more turbulent times.
Slate

The Scariest Threat of a Second Trump Term - Trump has a plan to perpetrate more political violence.
Dissident Voice

Holding the Press and White House Accountable: Solomon’s Afterword on the Gaza War - In Norman Solomon’s new Afterword in the paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, the ...
BEYONDbones

September Partial Eclipse | 2024 Sky Happenings - Look for a small ‘bite’ taken out of the Moon. The post September Partial Eclipse | 2024 Sky Happenings first appeared on BEYONDbones.
San Antonio Current

Owner of San Antonio's Aztec Theatre opening Amorino gelato franchise - Amorino, a French chain of boutiques selling Italian-style gelato and artisanal ice creams, will make its San Antonio debut later this year, state documen...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, Sept. 6 - [image: The morning read for Friday, Sept. 6]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the...
Sludge

FEC Guts Anti-Corruption Law That Separates Super PACs and Candidates - Super PACs are supposed to be completely independent from candidates, but the FEC just approved a plan to let them collaborate on joint fundraising committ...
ProPublica

School District With Highest Student Arrest Rate in the Nation Agrees to Reform How It Disciplines Disabled Students - by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter ...
Daily Howler

CHALLENGED: He'd never seen a nominee like Trump! - *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2024* *Or a journalist like Levin:* As a nation, we've come a *very* long way, baby, from the journalistic landscape described by T...
First Draft

Where JD Gets His Weird Ideas - The dark side of Silicon Valley that produced J.D. Vance.
Southeast Texas Record

Consumer Sues Car Manufacturer Over Alleged Lemon Vehicle Defects - Luis Valdovinos has taken legal action against Kia Motors America over persistent defects in his newly purchased vehicle under California's lemon law pro...
Deadline Politics

CNN’s Dana Bash Talks ‘America’s Deadliest Election,’ Scoring VP Interview, & Advice For Next Week’s POTUS Debate On ElectionLine Podcast - Running until the final election results come in for the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 20...
Rio Grande Guardian

Duncan Wood to speak in Harlingen on Sept. 12 - Event hosted by the Rio Grande Valley Partnership and Texas Regional Bank. The post Duncan Wood to speak in Harlingen on Sept. 12 appeared first on Rio G...
Discourse

Enough of the Lies, Barack Obama - No, I do not believe the former president loves Charli XCX. This has to stop.
Angry Bear

Exploring Voter Turnout by Income - A brief introduction by an Econofact News Letter exploring the impact of income on voting turnout. I did not include the explanation link information in ...
Bonddad

August jobs report: for the first time, including revisions, more consistent with a hard landing - * - by New Deal democrat* My focus continues to be on whether jobs gains are most consistent with a “soft landing,” i.e., no further deterioration, o...
Debunking Christianity

Why Religion Is Being Held Strictly, Bluntly Accountable - *Critical thinking skills have kicked in * There is perhaps nothing more stunning, more shocking, than clergy who have realized that their religion is fal...
Scheerpost.com

ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him Over Israel Arrest Warrants - The International Criminal Court judges have yet to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister four months after prosecutor ...
Texas Observer

The Woman Who Died in the Heat on a San Antonio Sidewalk Was My Friend - This article was originally published on August 24 by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal producing news and analysis at the intersection of environ...
Democracy Now!

Fred Trump III Denounces His Uncle Donald Trump for Saying Disabled People "Should Just Die" - *Democracy Now!* is joined by the nephew of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has endorsed Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kama...
The Conversation

Trump campaign violated rules in Arlington National Cemetery visit, cemetery legal expert explains - Cemeteries can set their own rules, and Arlington’s are the most restrictive in the nation, meant to protect what it calls ‘our nation’s most sacred shrine.’
MintPress News

UK Halts Arms Exports to Israel but Targets Pro-Palestine Voices at Home - While suspending arms licenses to Israel, the UK government pursues legal actions against outspoken critics of its foreign policy, including journalists ...
Space City Weather

Cold front weekend is here in Houston! Then, more rain chances next week - In brief: Our first real legitimate autumn cold front will arrive on Saturday, and it should usher in an utterly spectacular fall day on Sunday. This will ...
The Smirking Chimp

Cold Dead Hearts, Amoral Minds, and Bloody Hands -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Getting It/Not Getting It - How on earth, someone asked me yesterday, can the polls could be so close? My response was to ask who answers polls anymore, and everyone there admitted th...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Montana Senate Race Moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican - The Montana Senate race moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican. This moves means that a majority of Senate seats, 51, now are rated Safe, Likely, or Lean...
ArcaMax

Voters Need To Redirect Their Attention to What Really Matters This Election - The cheap shots are everywhere now that we're in the thick of election season, and it matters. It's everywhere. It's on social media and even on television...
WhoWhatWhy

The 9/11 Generation: How Past Trauma Shapes Today’s Young Voters - [image: child, The National September 11 Memorial] From 9/11 chaos to the 2024 ballot box: How the 9/11 aftermath still echoes in young voters’ minds. The...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Jane Goodall’s Got Good News - Today’s poster features a quote from world-renowned ethologist and environmental activist Jane Goodall, which comes... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Jan...
Skeptophilia

The forest primeval - New from the "I Thought I'd Heard Everything" department, we have: a warning that you should look out for a specific kind of tree, because if you see one...
The Daily Poster

Will The Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? (Part 1) - Kamala Harris has branded herself as a crusader against corporate greed — but does her background support the claim?
Novara Media

When Will There Be Justice for Grenfell Survivors? - [image: Grenfell survivors hold a press conference as the inquiry publishes its second report on the 2017 fire. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy]This week, the long-await...
DeSmogBlog

Massive CP2 LNG Export Facility Faces New Legal Hurdle Over FERC Approval - Environmental advocates, landowners, and fishers filed two petitions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday, challenging the Fe...
Off The Kuff

And then there were three Speaker challengers - I know nothing about this guy. Mansfield Republican David Cook said Tuesday he intends to run for Texas House Speaker, becoming the third person to challen...
San Antonio Report

You have microplastics inside you. A San Antonio professor is researching what that means for your health. - [image: David Mares, a full time research assistant at Jennifer Harr’s lab in St. Mary’s University, fills petri dishes with nematode growth media where Ca...
Mother Jones

Fossil-Fuel Funding of Colleges Is Hurting Clean Energy Transition, New Study Says - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fossil fuel companies’ funding of uni...
Crooked Timber

Action list to protect universities from budget cuts - In response to my previous post on the imminent threat to Dutch universities to have their budgets cut with up to 1 billion euros a year, I received a few ...
American Prospect

Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case - Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
Grist

How Big Oil’s big money influences climate research - A new study offers the first comprehensive look at the ties between fossil fuel companies and universities.
Infidel753

Portland-area strike update - The Fred Meyer strike (background here) has ended, but negotiations have not yet yielded a satisfactory contract for the workers. The union is requesting ...
The AltWorld

BRICS Membership Or Lack Thereof Isn’t Actually That Big Of A Deal - BRICS can be compared to a Zoom conference: members actively participate in talks on financial multipolarity, partners […] The post BRICS Membership Or L...
Crooked Media

Kamala Harris: Still the Underdog - The post Kamala Harris: Still the Underdog appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

The Gaza War Is a Pass-Fail Course - As much as politicians like Kamala Harris would like it, it’s not possible to compromise on an issue as dramatic as Israel’s war against Gaza. Either you...
Counterpunch

Two and a Half Hours Alone with Nixon, the Anti-Trump - No one would be more repelled by let-it-rip Trump than anal Nixon. Nixon, shrewd and sweaty, imploded behind closed doors. Trump, crude and swaggering, i...
jobsanger

Liz Cheney Says She Will Vote For Kamala Harris -
World Socialist Web Site

With contract expiring soon for East Coast dockworkers, ILA make radical-sounding statements to head off rank-and-file anger - The ILA bureaucra ts are drawing from the playbook of the Teamstersand the UAW, at the Detroit 3 automakers by using radical-sounding talk to ease the pass...
Informed Comment

In Six Years, Australia has doubled its Renewable Energy, and 36% of Households have Rooftop Solar - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australia’s Climate Council has issued a new report on clean energy in the country’s states. Winter is ending in Australia, ...
Antiwar.com

Who Wants To Kill and Die for the American Empire? - The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination requi...
Lowering the Bar

Bubble-Blower Charged With “Littering Prohibited Fluids” - This aggression will not stand, man.
Popular Resistance

Student Activists Vow To Continue Pro-Palestine Protests Despite Crackdowns - Marie Adele Grosso joined the Columbia University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) two years ago when she started at Columbia’s Barnard...
Ballot Access News

Washington Post Story Says Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Now Asks that Voters in All States Not Vote for Him - This Washington Post story says that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., now encourages people in every state to vote for Donald Trump rather than Kennedy himself. It ...
Trivial Knot

Review: Umineko When they Cry - Umineko When they Cry is a 2007 Japanese kinetic visual novel with about a million words in it, making it the length of a series of books. I spent the las...
Black Agenda Report

Curbfest for Political Prisoners - Curbfest for Political Prisoners Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/06/2024 - 07:07 Black Agenda Radio · Curbfest for P...
Brad Blog

From Russia With Money: 'BradCast' 9/5/2024 - We're all over the place on today's BradCast, as things seem to be speeding up exponentially as Election Day draws near. [Audio link to full show follows t...
Workers World

On 8th anniversary of La Junta, demonstrators demand: ‘Free Puerto Rico!’ - [image: On 8th anniversary of La Junta, demonstrators demand: ‘Free Puerto Rico!’] Credit: Richie Merio On the 8th anniversary of the implementation of t...
LareDOS

Caminarte, Laredo’s first-Friday art walk, just got a new ride courtesy of La Posada Hotel - Longtime supporter of the arts, La Posada, begins shuttles with Fri., Sept. 6 Caminarte
Reform Austin

Highlights From Day 1 Of The Texas Tribune Festival - The Texas Tribune Festival, running from September 5-7, brings together more than 300 speakers for three days of insightful discussions on politics, cult...
The Militant

25, 50 and 75 years ago - September 20, 1999 CHICAGO — Eleven Puerto Rican political prisoners, most of whom have spent two decades in U.S. prisons because of their pro-independence...
Portside

Rattled by Global Rebuke, Netanyahu Scrambles To Fend Off Charges of Sabotaging Hostage Deal - Rattled by Global Rebuke, Netanyahu Scrambles To Fend Off Charges of Sabotaging Hostage Deal jay Thu, 09/05/2024 - 18:33
Ring of Fire

Texas Judges Gone Crazy For Big Oil - America’s Lawyer E113: In less than 9 weeks, this presidential election cycle will be over, but we are about to be overloaded by both candidates as they ...
Progressive.org

How to Make a ‘War Reserve’ Nuclear Bomb - The dark art of crafting nuclear ‘pits’ was almost lost. Now it’s ramped up into a multibillion dollar industry.
slacktivist

What about Breakfast at Tiffany’s? - The singer is technically correct in his pedantic objection to his ex-girlfriend's language. But he's still getting dumped, and he deserves it.
Mondoweiss

Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ - [image: Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress on July 24, 2024. (Photo: Laura Albast)]H...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Under Attack By The Matrix - John Amanchukwu claims that “if you are pro-abortion, you are also pro-racism” and that “white liberals have always sought to destroy Blacks.” Ali Alexan...
Environment Texas

Biden administration approves nation’s 10th offshore wind farm - An offshore wind farm approved off the Maryland coast marks the half-way point for reaching the president’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy ...
OpEd News

the dogs of wah (poem) - Kennelheads are emerging from the steamy quagmire. don't strand around in circles. misconstrued. loamy loam everywhere these days.
Bracing Views

From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide - W.J. Astore Time to Make America Sane–Again? I started blogging in 2007 for TomDispatch.com. Tom Engelhardt, the mastermind of that indispensable site, saw...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Abortion Rhetoric on 4chan Stretches Beyond Single-Issue Extremism - Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including racist, antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic slurs, as well as references to sexual ...
The Texas Signal

Something’s Off With Ted Cruz’s Spanish Language Ads - In July Ted Cruz’s re-election campaign launched a major ad blitz focused on Hispanic voters in Texas. Axios reported the buy would include both broadcas...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Care, Explained. - Since 2021, 24 states have banned hormone therapy for transgender youth with gender dysphoria. Leading medical experts and organizations — such as the Am...
Claytoonz

Back To Cruel - Read the blog at Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through PayPal. If y...
Earthworks

The International Council on Mining and Metals’ New Indigenous Peoples and Mining Position Statement Risks Doing More Harm Than Good - A new mining trade association statement on mining and Indigenous Peoples fails to advance Indigenous rights and creates unnecessary confusion, … The po...
Greg Palast

“He put a gun to my head”Trump’s vigilantes choose bullets over ballots - “He said, ‘Help me! Help me!’ and he stuck his hand inside his coat. When I tried to help him, he pulls out a gun. That’s when he told me to get on the gro...
Glasstire

Top Five: September 5, 2024 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. To see our fall picks of upcoming Texas exhibitions, please go here. 1. Sculpture School: Concret...
Project Censored

The Power of News Frames - Project Censored introduces a new guide to frame-checking. Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Emily Dickinson Curren...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Ukraine vs Albania lúc 01h45 ngày 08/9/2024 - Tại bảng B thuộc giải Vô địch châu u, thi đấu khi gặp lại đối thủ đã từng thất bại dưới tay mình là Albania thì Ukraine sẽ có cơ hội nâng cao điểm số. Th...
Ian Welsh

Why The Left Taking Over The Republican Party Is Even Harder Than Taking Over The Democratic Party - [image: Why The Left Taking Over The Republican Party Is Even Harder Than Taking Over The Democratic Party] *By Swamp Yankee* *(Ian–this is another eleva...
Land Destroyer

US Seeks “Super Weapons” to Reign as Sole Superpower - *September 3, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US openly declares that it seeks to maintain a monopoly over shaping the “*international order” *followin...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Moms for Liberty founder admits that Trump lied about schools performing surgeries on trans kids but still defends the lie. - Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice (left) dances with Donald Trump after a town hall conversation in which Trump said that schools are performing...
See You In 2020

Global capital sees the United States as expendable, and it’s about to show this by creating more January 6 events - The thing the USA’s people can learn from January 6 and the Trump assassination attempt is that the dominant wing of our ruling class views us as expen...
Eater Houston

The 10 Most Anticipated Houston Restaurant and Bar Openings, Fall 2024 - [image: A food spread at the Traveler’s Cart, which featuring dips, skewers, a bowl of noodles, dumplings, flatbread, fried chicken wings, and more.] Fall...
Liberation News

What you need to know about the Kroger-Albertsons merger - The pending $25 billion merger of the Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains threatens to continue the trend of monopolistic price-gouging while leading the ...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: The Early Philosophy - One of the constant themes of middle class thought in modern times is the insistence that it’s possible to have one’s cake and eat it too. It’s for this re...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: DEA’s Marijuana Hearing Is a Good Opportunity for Advocates To Make the Case for Rescheduling - [image: cannabis cbd oil][image: cannabis cbd oil]Nearly 40 years ago, advocates made the case to the DEA’s own judge that cannabis did not meet the defi...
Rewire

How Columbia’s Gentrification Impacts Reproductive Justice in West Harlem - The gap in access to reproductive health care caused by the closing of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital has not yet been filled in West Harlem. The post How...
Church and State

Global population growth is now slowing. Will a falling population be better for the environment? - It’s very much an open question whether falling populations will reduce pressure on the natural world.
Socialist Alternative

Fight Back Against the Israeli Assault on the West Bank - Only weeks ago the Israeli state’s genocidal war upon Gaza crossed the horrifying threshold of 40 thousand killed. Now they have opened a new chapter in th...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2024 - Walmart had at least ten or eleven shootings in August 2024, including at least four fatal shootings, and one of these fatal shootings wasn't widely rep...
The Grayzone

Canadian journalist outs himself as Canadian, Ukrainian intelligence collaborator - Canada’s National Post is refusing to comment after one of its columnists revealed himself to be a collaborator with Western-aligned intelligence agencie...
Robert Reich

Why Big Money Supports Trump Fascism backed by Big Money is one... - *Why Big Money Supports Trump * Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances. We saw it in 1930s Germany, when in...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Political Fictions - Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel *Great Expectations*, political theater, and Barack Obama.
Krebs on Security

Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home - An old but persistent email scam known as "sextortion" has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of ...
The Progressive Wing

9/3-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - Feels very autumn like here in the Catskills but it’s still summer in the garden
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Launch of Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state - Launch of Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state Speakers: Phillip Toner and Michael Rafferty Thursday 5 September 2024, 1:30-2:30 ...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

Mostbet: Begin Your Adventure Today -
Nina Illingworth

Recommended Reading: Daylight Ambush - Given the available evidence, it's probably not a question of will Trump try a second coup if he loses the 2024 election, but what form will that coup ta...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Festering Symptom: Trump Lays Bare America's Worsening Problems - After all this time, Donald Trump and what he represents is still not fully understood. And that's terrible for us.
Progressives Chat

September 2024: Break Week #01 - I will be taking a two-week break from blog topics. Next week’s blog topic, also a “Break Week,” will publish Sunday, September 8, 2024. A new topic wi...
High Country News

The fatal flaw in the Border Patrol’s rescue program - [image: The early morning sun shines through the Sonoran Desert landscape near the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Arizona. According to the International O...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Student threatened with suspension sues University of Texas for 'unlawful retaliation': ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FACULTY VOICE AND GOVERNANCE - *Friends:This is an evolving story at UT. One notes the importance of faculty voice and governance for due process and democracy as this student'...
Green Pages News

Upon the passing of Phil Donahue: Phil Donahue, Ralph Nader and the Green Party - By Mike Feinstein. Advisor, Green Pages Editorial Board Phil Donahue – an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of Th...
Bud Kennedy

Donald Trump isn’t so sure about abortion. Will religious Republicans vote for him? | Opinion - Donald Trump’s grip on faith-and-values Christian voters is suddenly shaky. Some of his true believers now seem stunned, particularly after he said the oth...
The NM Political Report

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

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Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Objective New York Times - On August 8th, after about three weeks of the mainstream press, led by the New York Times, complaining repeatedly that Kamala Harris hasn’t been taking que...
ExChristian.Net

A Discussion on Faith with My Religious Relative - *By Carl S ~ * I've known my relative and his family for over 25 years now. I decided to share something with him in an email: "I woke up at 5 a.m. wit...
Texas Freedom Network

Public Schools Are NOT Sunday Schools - Public schools are not Sunday schools! We’ve been telling the religious right in Texas this for almost 30 years. [...] Read More... The post Public Scho...
Save Buffalo Bayou

State Flood Plan Moves Forward - Thousands of Projects, Billions of Dollars Also: Corps of Engineers Seeking Comments on Dams Master Plan August 27, 2024 Incorporating changes suggested by...
TalkLeft

Donald Trump Re-Indicted in January 6 Case - Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a new Indictment against Donald Trump in the January 6 case in the District of Columbia. (available here). The charg...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Elections Foundation Announces Coalition to Promote Open and Inclusive Debates - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, August 27, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Free & Equal Elections Foundation has created a coalition to advocate for an open ...
Idavox

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Consent Factory, Inc.

The Global Crackdown on Dissent - There are a lot of theories going around about the global crackdown on dissent. Most of these theories are, essentially, bullshit. Some of them are innocen...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

I’M speaking! - That kind of lean-in feminist schtick might go over well on a clod like Mike Pence, but when you pull it on a bunch of citizens who your party has gone out...
Unlimited Hangout

The Solari Report - The Solari Report.
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What to Do About Clausewitz: Saving Strategic Studies From Itself - “A specter is haunting strategic studies—the specter of peace.” These bizarre words are from Richard Betts, who provocatively presented peace itself as a p...
Campaign for America's Future

La visión comienza con nosotros - “El poder no concede nada sin demandas”. Estas palabras de Frederick Douglass fueron una de las primeras lecciones que aprendí cuando era una joven organiz...
Texas Watch

In the News: Many insurance companies are raising their homeowners’ deductibles from 1% to 2% - Texas Watch Executive Director Ware Wendell was recently in Dave Lieber's *story* about rising deductibles in the homeowner's insurance market. Mr. Wend...
New Progressive Alliance

Democrats Weaponize Government Agencies Against Musk - Our honored guest writer is Alexandra Merz, also known as TeslaBoomerMama.on X. She has has a world wide reputation in economics and disruptive technolo...
Moron Majority

Republicans Sound The Alarm: Harris Administration Could Threaten to Pass Laws Most Americans Actually Want - WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican Party has entered full-blown panic mode amid growing fears that a Kamala Harris administration might attempt to pass legi...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. LaMantia announces $1 million pledge by LaMantia family to initiate programs at south and west Texas universities, including the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, to increase number of advanced skilled mental health professionals - In an effort to address the growing need for mental health professionals in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas Sen. Morgan LaMantia on Thursday, August 1, 2024, ...
Field Negro

The switch. - One of my favorite songs of all time is Copacabana by Barry Manilow. (Don't judge) Yes, I love Barry Manilow. Anywhoo, there is a verse in that song ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Jim Schutze doesn’t dig Tim Walz. - The former D Magazine and Dallas Observer columnist now writes almost exclusively on his Substack, called Shoots, about the mess that is Houston ISD. But...
Web of Debt

How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed - “It was not the highly visible acts of Congress but the seemingly mundane and often nontransparent actions of regulatory agencies that empowered the great ...
Two Party Opera

Now Let Him Enforce It - I kinda did these comics out of order, but this event would have been just a few months before the Nullification Proclamation (see comic 970), when Jacks...
Morning Consult

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

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

Harris-Kelly ’24 - The post Harris-Kelly ’24 appeared first on Stinque.
Media Lens

‘Aligned With Israel’s Propaganda Strategy’: BBC Correspondent Challenges the BBC Director General - Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, by Rami Ruha...
Equality Texas

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

Panic Over Biden - I have taken positions on every side of this issue. That will likely continue. I understand everyone on every side of this. Trump is literally an existenti...
Political Garbage Chute

Jesus Told Me Only “Fascist Incel Dorks” Don’t Like Separation of Church and State - “We told them to pay Caesar what’s due to Caesar for a reason. Me-stianity and politics don’t mix.” Jesus Hubert Christ is not a fan of Project 2025, or ...
GreenSource DFW

Texas nature writer gives lessons in 'mindfulness' - *'Mindfulness in Texas Nature' by Arlington author Michael Smith publishes July 6 by Texas A&M University Press. Above, looking south from the Lost Mine ...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

Sleeping on the job - Semini Kwsta's "Il Nostro Inconto" is from the South American Painters collection. I don't know how much more of this I can face. The only solution I ca...
Reading the Pictures

The Most Cringeworthy Media Visuals After Biden’s Nightmare Debate - Nobody wants to revisit what happened on stage, so we focus on the media fallout and the visual framing of the first 2024 presidential debate. The post T...
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...
Reveal

New Connecticut Law Aims to Support Victims of Sexual Assault – and Prevent Them From Being Treated Like Suspects - A model policy could set a high bar for how sex crimes are investigated statewide. New Connecticut Law Aims to Support Victims of Sexual Assault – and P...
nonsite.org

The Problem of Cézanne the Person in Relation to His Art - Cézanne eradicates any attribute that could facilitate an intellectual or emotional grasp of the objects represented in his pictorial world. Atmospheric co...
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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?”...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Pennsylvania bill could prevent schools from barring homeless students - [image: An illustration that has several faces looking sad and contemplative. There are also desks and houses representing homeless students on the illustr...
Dispatches from the Underclass

How the US privatized WAR - The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico ...
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...
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...
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...
Texas Environmental News

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

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

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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. ...
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Shadowproof

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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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

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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

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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...
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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

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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

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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...
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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

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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...
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Progressive Army

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Austin 360

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Think 3 Institute

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Consortium News

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

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Sunday, July 21, 2024

Biden Drops Out

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