Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Do Something Else" Funnies

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Sunday "Do Something Else" Funnies

Anything but that.

Because while you've been doing nothing, somebody's been busy.

And for those ignoring the crises outside of what affects them directly ...

More bloodshed in Gaza. Today's cartoon by @EmadHajjaj. More cartoons: https://t.co/EWPnFcEcaJ #Gaza #Netanyahu #Trump pic.twitter.com/id8F7xFiP6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) March 19, 2025

Civilization.#nature #environment #humanity pic.twitter.com/2iPC3eCGf1
— Tjeerd Royaards (@Royaards) March 19, 2025

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

‘We Won!’ Trump Brags He Golfed With Finland President Stubb, Fox’s Trey Gowdy and They Talked About, Ahem, Ice Breaker Ships - Trump said he and Stubb discussed a purchase of icebreaker ships a day after Vice President JD Vance went to Greenland – which Trump wants to buy from De...
memeorandum

Prime minister of Denmark to visit Greenland in wake of Vance's trip (Ali Bianco/Politico) - Ali Bianco / Politico: *Prime minister of Denmark to visit Greenland in wake of Vance's trip* — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will meet with ...
Al Jazeera English

Protesters in Tel Aviv say government responsible for captives’ fate - Angry demonstrators demand the Israeli government secure the release of captives held in Gaza.
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: March 23rd – 29th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the pandemic news continued. Some people were attempting to leverage it to call for longer patent terms, while we were ca...
The Root

Diddy's Recent Lawsuit Contains NSFW Details That Make It One of The Worst Yet - *Trigger warning: This article contains vivid descriptions of sexual assault.* Read more...
Raw Story

'I don't think she much cares': Lawyer says Pam Bondi is thumbing her nose at John Roberts - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts recently made a rare statement about not calling for the impeachment of judges who rule against you, but th...
Axios

The backstory: Trump considered firing Waltz - President Trump seriously considered firing national security adviser Mike Waltz over this week's humiliating Signal chat leak, but cooled down and talke...
Alternet

Here's why Trump is really targeting big DC law firms - Two months into his second presidency, Donald Trump is aggressively attacking both judges and law firms. Trump is calling for judges who are blocking his...
Political Wire

Carville Says His Prediction Came True - James Carville told CNN his bold prediction of the “massive collapse” inside the Trump administration happened quicker than he imagined.
The Hill

White House correspondents’ dinner to no longer feature comedian - The annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner will no longer feature a headline performance from comedian Amber Ruffin as tensions betwe...
Salon.com

"Misinformation and lies": FDA vaccine official Peter Marks slams RFK Jr. as he resigns - Marks, who oversaw the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, clashed with vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Keir Starmer urged to get tough with Trump as US tariff threat looms - PM told to be as robust as Canada with the US president as the UK stages last-ditch talks to strike trade deal Keir Starmer should fight back strongly ag...
Daily Dot

‘Stanley needs to sponsor you’: Woman gets into car crash. Then she notices the shocking way her Stanley Cup saved her life - [image: 2 panel image: a Stanley cup in a store and the interior if a crashed car.] Stanley water bottles are known for their durability. One woman says ...
Liberation News

Organized labor in Washington state speaks out against ICE detentions of union members and organizers - On March 27 labor rallied outside of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, demanding the immediate release of Lewelyn Dixon and Alfredo “Le...
Angry Bear

New Deal democrat Weekly Indicators March 24-28, 2025 - Weekly Indicators for March 24 – 28 at Seeking Alpha – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The most important news ...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Every macho guy needs a babysitter. The wife of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, attended two meetings with foreign defense officials during which ...
Mediagazer

After White House criticism, WHCA says comedian Amber Ruffin won't headline this year's annual dinner "to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *After White House criticism, WHCA says comedian Amber Ruffin won't headline this year's annual dinner “to ensure t...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #ChatGPTShadowLarceny - [image: Screen, heads, men] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #ChatGPTShadowLarceny originally appeared o...
Mother Jones

Trump Tells SCOTUS There’s a “Rigorous Process” for Deporting Venezuelan Migrants. Yeah, Right. - On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court ruling blocking the mass deportation of thousands of detained Venezuelan ...
Reform Austin

Scudder Will Be the Next Texas Democratic Party Chair - The Texas Democratic Party’s executive committee on Saturday elected Kendall Scudder as its next party chair. Scudder secured 65 votes in the first round...
Deadline Politics

White House Correspondents’ Association Scraps Plans For Comedian Amber Ruffin At Upcoming Dinner - The White House Correspondents’ Association has dropped plans to feature a comedian at its April 26 dinner. Amber Ruffin had been announced as the featured...
Undernews

Great thoughts of the Trump gang - We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys.- *Jesse Watters, Fox News*
San Antonio Report

Cuts to research into inequality, disparities and other DEIA topics harm science - Commentary: Translation services for the hearing impaired, parental leave for mothers and fathers, pay equity, time off for religious holidays and lactatio...
Futurism

A Man Stitched Together a Zombie Tesla From Dead Husks and We Must Say: Yikes! - Cybering Instead of cruising around in a regular old Cybertruck, a Tesla fanboy decided to mash it up with a Model 3 — and reader, it's pretty cringe. Un...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Wells vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wo...
Crooked Timber

Trump’s war on immigrants is the cancellation of free society - One of the things that’s becoming clear is the determination of the Trump administration to divide humans living in the United States into two groups (to w...
CultureMap Houston

Closure of favorite Montrose restaurant tops week's most-read stories - *Editor's note: It was a week of big restaurant news, with the announcement of a favorite Montrose restaurant's closure and the opening of some exciting ne...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: The Cabalgata Binaciónal Villista - Columnist Morgan Smith writes about the Binational Villa Cavalcade, an annual event that commemorates the March 9, 1916, attack by Pancho Villa's troops ...
Dissident Voice

Nemesis - The convulsions wracking the American body politic inescapably impact the nation’s foreign relations. For the United States today is in a condition that ...
Glasstire

Glasstire Contributor Interview: Megan Wilson Krznarich - Megan Wilson Krznarich is an impressive woman. She is a single parent to two children, has carved her own path within the museum world, and even course-c...
Election Law Blog

“Trump’s Not-So-Subtle Purpose in Fighting Big Law Firms” - NYT: Regardless, Mr. Trump’s moves have the potential — and perhaps the goal — to undermine people’s ability to challenge their government. “It is the p...
Slate

My Favorite Boy Band Took Over a Giant Mall. It Wasn’t What I or Anybody Had Expected. - The Jonas Brothers successfully sold nostalgia—and their own merch—at JonasCon, an event that filled the American Dream with JoBros devotees.
The Week

Today's political cartoons - March 29, 2025 - Saturday's cartoons - my way or Norway, running orders, and more
Counterpunch

Bombing the Bombed, Displacing the Displaced, Starving the Starved - Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian...
Daily Cartoonist

Licensing Models: Snoopy and Garfield vs. Calvin and Hobbes - The way most people interact with their favorite newspaper comics isn’t by sitting down with the funny pages or with a comic app. In fact, it’s not even wi...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for March 24 - 28 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The most important news in high frequency data was that we now have 4 o...
The Verge

Assassin’s Creed Shadows lives up to the series’ name - I realized quite late in Assassinâ€™s Creed Shadows that being this version of a shinobi is hard â€” but it was precisely the precision the game demanded t...
Mondoweiss

Why are Palestinians not allowed to survive? - [image: Bodies of Palestinians are brought to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital by their relatives for funeral procedures following Israeli attacks on apartment...
Bracing Views

Only We Can Bomb It - W.J. Astore The U.S. Empire, Thrashing and Lashing Out as It Declines President Donald Trump has promised to bomb Yemen for a “long time.” Trump is a real ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Who the heck is Hotep Jesus? - S*ATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2025* *We finally decided to check:* Last night, it was the same old thing on the primetime "cable news" propaganda show, *Gutfeld!....
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Fighting The Oligarchs - Thousands fight the oligarchy, states give credit where credit’s due, a free-press challenge gets crushed, and state death penalties meet their fate.
Idavox

Mai Ziadeh (1886–1941) - This Palestinian-Lebanese writer and poet championed the women of liberation in the Arab world –... The post Mai Ziadeh (1886–1941) appeared first on Ida...
Grist

Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education - Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state.
The Conversation

How is classified information typically shared and can officials declassify secrets whenever they want? A national security expert explains - Government officials with classified information clearance typically have a range of secure ways they can view or discuss classified information.
ArcaMax

The Era of the Wuss - American popular culture, ever promoting the myth that we live in the land of the free and the brave, wants us to believe that we stand up to bullying. Eve...
NPR's Health Shots

March Madness is a season for betting, but help for problem gambling is hard to find - For people with gambling disorder, the proliferation of gambling opportunities makes it difficult to fight their addiction. Investment in treatment lags be...
Vox

The most important number in the world - I was an English major in college, and my favorite poet was the first-generation Romantic William Wordsworth. For one thing, there’s the name, the best exa...
ProPublica

“A Wholly Inaccurate Picture”: Reality Cop Show “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man - by Jessica Lussenhop, photography by Sarahbeth Maney ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a new...
naked capitalism

Links 3/29/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

America Has Hit the MAGA Tipping Point -
Bud Kennedy

From 2000: In Fort Worth tornado, Cowtown’s good luck finally runs out | Opinion - (From columns published March 29, 2000 and April 4, 2000.) This is the column I prayed I would never have to write. When I was 5, I saw a tornado … Click t...
Skeptophilia

The letter and the labyrinth - A year and a half or so ago I wrote a piece about some of the biblical apocrypha -- books and epistles and letters and whatnot that didn't make the cut t...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: Hello, Ohio - Put another state on the board, Johnny. A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has “a possible link” to outbreaks in Texa...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 29 March 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o These dogs are going places. These cats are staying put. What an ugly sh...
Scheerpost.com

Explainer: The Lawsuits Aiming To Stop Trump’s Assault on Free Speech and Palestine Activism - Here is a rundown of all of the lawsuits that have been filed aimed at halting the Trump administration's draconian crackdown on constitutional rights when...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-03-29 -
Crooked Media

Freaks and Leaks - The post Freaks and Leaks appeared first on Crooked Media.
jobsanger

We Have A National Emergency - Created By Trump And Musk -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1343: Forgotten Lore - Episode: 1343 Forgotten lore: How much should we trouble to remember. Today, the past fades away.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: No Time - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Trump, Vance double down on threats to annex Greenland, rail against European powers - US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance doubled down Thursday and Friday on their threats to annex Greenland, which Trump previously threat...
Informed Comment

Amid Gaza Protests: – Top 5 Ways Israeli PM Netanyahu kept Hamas in Power - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The London-based, Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat [The Middle East], reports that demonstrations against Hamas...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | March 28, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | March 28, 2025 barry Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:12
Popular Resistance

Rodolfo Walsh Would Demand We Write In His Place - On an evening in September 2024, Argentina’s President Javier Milei stood before a large crowd in Parque Lezama in Buenos Aires. He wore his signature da...
Progressive.org

The Real Outrage in Yemen - As Democrats decry the Trump Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign.
Workers World

Boston demands: ‘Free Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk!’ - [image: Boston demands: ‘Free Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk!’] Thousands of people converged on Tufts University on March 26 to demand that U.S. Immigration...
The Greanville Post

Bernie and AOC Sheepdog for the Democrats - MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The late Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report co-founder and Managing Editor, is credited with coining the term “sheepdog” to describe Vermo...
The AltWorld

The Word “Bombing” Means Different Things Depending On Where It Happened - The word “bombing” is interesting, because it becomes a different word depending on what part of the […] The post The Word “Bombing” Means Different Thin...
Ian Welsh

AOC Is Bernie’s Heir Because She Was Loyal When It Mattered - [image: AOC Is Bernie’s Heir Because She Was Loyal When It Mattered] Bernie and AOC are on a tour which is drawing large crowds based on a left-wing popul...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court considers Catholic charity group’s bid for tax exemption - [image: Supreme Court considers Catholic charity group’s bid for tax exemption] [image: Supreme Court considers Catholic charity group’s bid for tax exempt...
Claytoonz

No Regerts - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Eater Houston

Where to Get Your Matcha Fix in Houston - Enso A busy Houston pop-up dishing out hand-crafted matcha on the spot, a Michelin-recognized ramen restaurant with an unlikely pairing, and a matcha ma...
Texas Standard

Remembering Carole Keeton, political trailblazer - She scored many “firsts” in her long political career, including being the first woman mayor of Austin and first woman to serve as state comptroller.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Signalgate and Norway’s Tesla Problem - On our live show, David and Ryan Cooper discuss Signalgate, which blue states are making the most of their power, and why Norway’s sovereign wealth fund sh...
Church and State

In Texas, Christian right grows confident and assertive - Lawmakers and bill supporters frequently say that church-state separation is a myth meant to obscure America’s true, Christian roots. The post In Texas, ...
slacktivist

LBCF: This is London - Apart from the persecution-complex paranoia and the desperate need for vicarious thrills to give drab life the illusion of meaning, this chapter has little...
Rewire

A Leaked Group Chat, ICE Detaining International Students, and More - I can’t believe we’re less than three months in. The post A Leaked Group Chat, ICE Detaining International Students, and More appeared first on Rewire Ne...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
The NM Political Report

Mexican wolf heads toward Mount Taylor - By Hannah Grover A female Mexican gray wolf is wandering toward Mount Taylor. This wolf, who was given the name Ella by school children and is identifie...
Wolf Street

Inflation Galore Now: Fed Started Rate Cuts at the Low Point 6 Months Ago, just as Inflation Began to Resurge - Core PCE price index jumps MoM by most in 13 months on Non-Housing Services. Recreational Services blow out. Durable Goods continue 6-month trip out of def...
Ballot Access News

Texas Bill SB2197 Would Allow Minor Parties’ Candidates to Pay Their Filing Fees to Their Party Instead of the State - SB2197 allows convention-nominated candidates to pay their filing fees to their political party instead of the State of Texas, which is the case with prima...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on March 21: Velocity Investments, LLC vs Allison Horton - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Olsen-Zhang, Jessica and Velocity Investments, LLC against Allison H...
Consortium News

A Brief History of ‘The’ Freedom of Speech - The government’s respect for speech is often at its lowest ebb in wartime, when it is also most important and timely, writes Andrew P. Napolitano, By Andre...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
Discourse

FOWL HYSTERIA 2025: FINAL FOUR - We weren't expecting THIS.
Sludge

Trump Has Already Let 100 Companies Off the Hook - Wacthdogs worry the dropped enforcement actions will encourage more corporate abuse.
Second Nexus

Kansas Babysitter Finds Man Hiding Under Child's Bed While Checking For 'Monsters' - Many horror movies with plots involving children would be *much shorter* if movie parents listened when the kid complained about something under the bed....
Dorf on Law

No One Knows Whether Social Security is Safe from Musk and Trump, But There Are Some Reasons for Guarded Optimism - Social Security happens to be one of my primary areas of academic expertise, and it unfortunately has become a focus of attention in the Musk-Trump Admin...
El Paso Matters

Change Makers: Women’s History Month event honored El Paso women in health - An El Paso native who’s worked around the world, Nirma Bustamante was the keynote speaker at this week’s Change Makers: Borderland Women in Health lunch...
Earthworks

Multiple Dams Fail at Indonesian Nickel-Mining Facilities - Multiple tailings dam failures at Indonesia’s IMIP nickel-mining complex have killed three workers and exposed hundreds to toxic waste. Advocates warn of...
Common Dreams

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Casar Slams Late-Night Assault on American Workers - Congressional Progressive Caucus *Chair Greg Casar (TX-35)* issued the below statement following a late-night executive order issued by President Trump a...
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...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Capital & Main

USDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’ - More than $1 billion in assistance has been cut; millions of families could be affected. The post USDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is J...
Texas Monthly

Jesus Is Performing a Miracle for the Texas Filmmaking Industry - A visit to the Midlothian set of "The Chosen" sheds light on why the biblical drama has millions of fans around the world—state political leaders among them.
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 106: “Coalition of the Willing Proxy Warriors” - Live at 10 am Eastern/9 am Central time, and Streaming 24-7 Thereafter The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan dives into the French summit on the “Co...
Debunking Christianity

Precise Reasons Why Prayer Is a Fantasy Exercise - *No matter how much the devout want it to be real * It is not commonly grasped that Christianity is soundly falsified by a few verses in Acts 1 that desc...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Democracy Now!

"The Encampments": New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests - The new documentary *The Encampments*, produced by Watermelon Pictures and BreakThrough News, is an insider’s look at the student protest movement to deman...
Space City Weather

One more day of rain chances before a mostly quiet weekend in Houston - In brief: Scattered showers and storms will pop up in the Houston area through the day today, leading to locally heavy rain, especially east of I-45. A cou...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Coke, Chops, Cheats, and Corporate Resurrections - The post Strangest State: Coke, Chops, Cheats, and Corporate Resurrections appeared first on The Texas Observer.
High Country News

A return to the fight against Alaska’s Ambler Road - Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harve...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Adopt the Pace of Nature - Today’s quote is from American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Adopt the pace... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Adopt the Pace of N...
DeSmogBlog

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro Discuss Canada Electing ‘Solid Allies’ to Trump at Florida Event - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and conservative influencer Ben Shapiro discussed how to help Canada elect “solid allies” to the Trump administration duri...
Antiwar.com

The Signal Scandal, Carelessness, Revelations, and Hypocrisy - In an act of astonishing, and possibly illegal, carelessness, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inexplicably invited to join an op...
Brad Blog

Veterans Push Back Against Trump, Musk Plan to Slash Health Care, Benefits, 80,000 V.A. Jobs: 'BradCast' 3/27/2025 - On today's BradCast: The Trump Administration may have chosen the wrong group of Americans to launch a "war" against, including taking jobs, benefits and h...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
See You In 2020

Jackson Hinkle has surpassed alt media, proving communism is essential to the anti-imperialist movement - When I say that Jackson Hinkle has surpassed alt media, I mean he’s been able to connect with a kind of global mass energy that very few other commentat...
The Texas Signal

Potential Legal Challenges To Abortion Shield Laws - A clerk in New York refused to file a judgment against a doctor for violating Texas abortion laws, however the threat to shield laws still looms
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Off-Year Elections: Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania - Wisconsin will hold a state Supreme Court election next week, where liberals are defending their 4-3 majority. Florida will also have two special electio...
LareDOS

LFS Film Club Friday features films of Marcela Morán on Friday, March 28 - Isaac Garza’s team-building workshop set for Saturday, March 29
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas senators propose faculty senate limits, curricula reviews. Professors want answers by Lily Kepner of the Austin American-Statesman - *UT Mexican American and Latino Studies professor and UT AAUP member, Dr. Karma Chavez, said SB 37's curricular provision banning ideology would negatively...
Krebs on Security

When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger - Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russi...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a bigoted fool of herself during PBS, NPR hearing - Marjorie Taylor Greene On Wednesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a public hearing in which she tried to put forth the argument that PBS and ...
ExChristian.Net

A Three-Day Death Sentence: The Absurdity of the Jesus Story in Modern Times - Imagine, for a moment, that someone told you today that a man was executed, stayed dead for three days, then got up, dusted himself off, and walked out o...
Ecosophia

March 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
Trivial Knot

My academic career finally ended - I didn’t talk about it much, but until recently I was technically still involved in academia. I participated in Project Recognize, a research grant to impr...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where We Stand: The Building Backlash and the Ongoing Coup - We're two months into the crisis and the battle lines are being drawn
Project Censored

Stargate Fiasco - Recently, Trump announced the private-public partnership, Stargate. It builds on Biden’s executive order to make DOD military bases and irreplaceable ele...
The Grayzone

Why did Jeffrey Goldberg leave the ‘bomb Yemen’ Signal chat? - With momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was apparently summoned to move the neocon message. And he wound up wi...
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...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two - In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Vetoes Adult-Use Marijuana Retail, Guts Medical Access Legislation - [image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization][image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization]"Once again, Governor Youngkin has prioritized his personal politics over...
Duck of Minerva

The Folly of Trying to Trade Russia for “Europe” - I published an article yesterday in Real Clear Defense. The title is “The Road to Securing European Cooperation on China Runs Through Ukraine”, but I supp...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Progressives Chat

The Scam Operation’s Latest Con - Numerous content creators, who I normally follow and are among recommendations, have covered the latest from Team Blue as to what kind of moves they may ...
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 ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
Lowering the Bar

President Threatened With Witchcraft - This one really is a "witch hunt."
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
Reveal

Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns - The shift comes after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting linked former police guns to crime...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
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
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2025 - Walmart had at least fifteen more shootings related to their business, with most of them on their property, but at least three were nearby and either th...
Field Negro

"State of the Union causes State of Confusion" - The state of this fragile American union is not good. It's not good because the leader is intentionally trying to divide us and destroy it. I am not ...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
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...
nonsite.org

Painter: Making A Modern Painting - With generous permission from the filmmaker’s estate, we are honored to share this extraordinary short documentary, completed in 2017 by Joseph De Francesc...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
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...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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