Brains and Eggs

Thursday, February 03, 2005

shakes head

The NYT used the word 'bold' in their online headline this morning describing Bush's agenda, as revealed in last night's SOTU.

I'm so tired of that.

This guy wouldn't know bold if it kicked him in the balls.

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We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 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

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 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

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

NPR's Health Shots

On super hot days, this insurance plan pays out cash for lost wages - It's called parametric insurance, it offers protection for climate-related wage losses and it's gaining ground in India.
Political Wire

Trump Begins to Lose the Manosphere - CNN: “After losing men under 50 by double digits in 2020, Trump’s campaign made a concerted push to reverse that trend. His outreach included appearances o...
Texas Standard

Mental health programs could bear the brunt of $600M federal cuts to Texas schools - Federal cuts and a lack of dedicated mental health funding from the state could erode programs to address chronic absenteeism, crises and more.
The Verge

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Bonddad

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Second Nexus

The Biggest Lies People Told In Order To Sleep With Someone - When you meet someone you're attracted to, your first inclination is to try to impress them. Sometimes, purely in hopes of getting them into bed. Of cou...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Watch classics at Plaza Film Fest, hear country hits at McKelligon Canyon - Plaza Classic Film Festival returns with iconic movies and guests, while Cool Canyon Nights brings country sounds to McKelligon Canyon. Here’s what else...
Salon.com

Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science - Billions of dollars in cuts to research are leaving lives at stake
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Summertime and the Reading is Easy - Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ord...
The Hill

UFC chief says White House event planned for South Lawn: 'Everyone wants to be on this card' - Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) chief Dana White said over the weekend that multiple fighters are in line to be on the list for a face off expected ne...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 181: “Trump Always Chickens Out to Kiev” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Program! Program! You can’t tell where Trump stands on Russia and Ukraine without a program! Here’s that prog...
Rewire

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First Draft

Been Caught Stealing - Meet Alex Mooney, my former House rep, who is now a lobbyist despite the rule against it.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, July 16 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Also, for those of ...
Mediagazer

CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert condemns parent company Paramount Global settling President Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes story as a "big fat bribe" (David Bauder/Associated Press) - David Bauder / Associated Press: *CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert condemns parent company Paramount Global settling President Trump's lawsuit over a 6...
Eschaton

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memeorandum

Roughly 6 in 10 Americans oppose Trump's megabill, CNN poll finds (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN) - Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN: *Roughly 6 in 10 Americans oppose Trump's megabill, CNN poll finds* — Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say they oppose the GOP domes...
Raw Story

Snub: GOP governor defies own party to veto multiple right-wing bills - New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven bills Tuesday, many of which were intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking the conservative wing of h...
The Week

Operation Rubific: the government's secret Afghan relocation scheme - Massive data leak a 'national embarrassment' that has ended up costing taxpayer billions
Techdirt.

California Proposed A Law Making Broadband Affordable For Poor People. Telecom Lobbyists Have Already Destroyed It. - Last January, Democratic California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner introduced the California Affordable Home Internet Act (AB 353), which mandated that large...
Mediaite

Trump Bible Study Ace Keeps Saying Jews ‘Executed’ Jesus - Pastor Ralph Drollinger has repeatedly said that Jews "executed" Jesus in lessons and on video for Trump cabinet members and other officials. The post Tr...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Summer camp scramble: US families need it, but it can cost as much as a month’s rent - Despite high costs, working parents of K-12 children face annual high stakes to find options and fight for camp spots Summer camp had already begun for T...
Daily Dot

“Krypto was the real MVP”: Director James Gunn reacts to reports that Superman movie is increating dog adoptions, calling it a “blessing” - [image: krypto in superman movie closeup] *James Gunn’s Superman* hasn’t just inspired fans with its message of hope; it may also be *boosting rescue dog...
Rio Grande Guardian

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Al Jazeera English

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Election Law Blog

Texas Democrats Consider Walkout, as Trump Presses for 5 New Republican Districts - NYT reports on the latest from Texas: National Democratic leaders are encouraging state Democrats in the Texas House to consider walking out of a special...
ArcaMax

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WhoWhatWhy

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Vox

The Trump administration’s fundamental misunderstanding about deportations - The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations. US Agriculture Se...
Dorf on Law

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naked capitalism

Links 7/16/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Doesn’t Realize Why MAGA Needs the Epstein Files -
Skeptophilia

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Off The Kuff

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The Daily Poster

How Google Ruined Your Phone - Google has sabotaged its phones’ open-source technology in order to stamp out its competitors and intensify surveillance of its customers.
Slate

Help! My Friends Have Had the Same Complaint for Years. If Only They Knew What I Think About It. - They chose this life.
Mother Jones

The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods - David Sirota can be a hard one to pin down. He’s a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders. A onetime radio host. A co-writer of the Oscar-nominated “Don’t ...
San Antonio Report

Trump’s redistricting plan could move seats out from under San Antonio’s long-safe congressmen - San Antonio's three Democrats and two Republicans are used to little political opposition, but that could change before the 2026 midterm. ------------------...
ProPublica

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American Prospect

Texas Redistricting Maneuver May Harm Republicans More Than It Helps - The map may produce a ‘dummymander’ that threatens more GOP incumbents than Democratic ones.
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-07-16 -
Scheerpost.com

Renowned Genocide Scholar Says ‘I Know It When I See It’—And He Sees It in Israel’s Assault on Gaza - "My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
Progressive Army

ARCA informa un E-MAIL para brindar asistencia operativa aduanera para destinaciones en Terminales Buenos Aires - Tal cual fue anticipada en la Reunión Cumbre Operativa que tuvo lugar en nuestra Institución, el día de hoy (15/07/2025), ARCA nos confirmó la creación del...
Futurism

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Axios

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Grist

How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions - New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
High Country News

Two hotshots, two memoirs - A Q+A with outliers in fire. The post Two hotshots, two memoirs appeared first on High Country News.
Crooked Media

Was Jeffrey Epstein an Israeli Asset? - The post Was Jeffrey Epstein an Israeli Asset? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win - In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. ...
Consortium News

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jobsanger

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Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2809: A Goblin Book - Episode: 2809 Laurence Housman designs an edition of Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market. Today, Goblins, sisterly love, and a masterpiece of book design.
World Socialist Web Site

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Informed Comment

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Wolf Street

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Workers World

On the 25th anniversary of his execution: Shaka Sankofa ¡presente! - [image: On the 25th anniversary of his execution: Shaka Sankofa ¡presente!] Houston — Passion, admiration, love, and a bit of sadness filled the venue of t...
Popular Resistance

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Brad Blog

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Deadline Politics

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Alternet

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Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Chip and Joanna Gaines trigger conservative Christian rage by showing that religious freedom about gays go both ways - By casting a same-sex couple in their docuseries Back to the Frontier, HGTV personalities Chip and Joanna Gaines enrage conservative evangelicals and puts...
The NM Political Report

Haaland warns of rural healthcare crisis, opposes federal healthcare legislation - Deb Haaland, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, held a press conference outside a hospital in Española on Tuesday to criti...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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Antiwar.com

Trump’s Tariffs Threats Against the Global South, ASEAN and the Philippines - In early April, the Philippines responded with “guarded optimism” to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, saying higher rates placed on its neighb...
Portside

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The Greanville Post

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Sludge

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Claytoonz

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CultureMap Houston

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Dissident Voice

The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You - Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian cont...
Ballot Access News

America Party Has Not Yet Filed to Have its California Name Protected - On July 4, Elon Musk first mentioned his intent to form the America Party. But as of July 15, the America Party has not filed to be a political body in Ca...
The AltWorld

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The Root

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slacktivist

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San Antonio Current

SAISD strikes out on demands in land deal for new San Antonio Missions ballpark - San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) swung for the fences when local developer Weston Urban and the minor league San Antonio Missions baseball ...
Church and State

Trump finally gets Putin right and may avoid impeachment now, but the GOP should pay dearly! - The uncertainty of world peace and stability is now so completely uncertain thanks to what the Trump administration has perpetrated.
Discourse

These Demons Deserve to Argue About Jeffrey Epstein Forever - The diminishing returns of a sex abuse scandal is all they've got left.
Daily Howler

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DeSmogBlog

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Undernews

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OpEd News

Matriarchy, Witchery and the Great Goddess: A Neopagan Marxist Analysis and Synthesis - Roughly 130 years Engels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. In it he relied on the theories of matriarchies. More recent Marxi...
The Conversation

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Progressive.org

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Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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Reform Austin

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Common Dreams

House Committee Votes on Bill to Sidestep Fish and Wildlife Service and Delist Grizzly Bears - The House Natural Resources Committee will today vote on Rep. Harriet Hageman’s Grizzly Bear State Management Act, which seeks to reissue a 2017 Fish and...
Mondoweiss

Israel isn’t just killing Palestinians seeking food aid. It’s killing people waiting in line for water, too. - [image: Palestinians carry the bodies of relatives who were killed in Israeli strikes targeting a water filling station, at the Al-Awda hospital, in Nuseir...
The Texas Signal

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Independent Political Report

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Bracing Views

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NORML

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Texas Observer

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Angry Bear

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Democracy Now!

"Purge Palantir": Day of Action Protests Firm's Role in Gov't Surveillance, ICE & Genocide in Gaza - Protesters across the United States targeted Palantir Monday in a day of action focused on the technology company’s work with ICE, facilitating President T...
Glasstire

Challenging America’s Stories: “Readymade Remix” at the San Antonio Museum of Art - In 1917, French artist Marcel Duchamp submitted an upside-down porcelain urinal as a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists in New York under th...
Socialist Alternative

U.S. Patriotism Was Never Ours to Reclaim - On June 14, Flag Day, 5-10 million people took to the streets to say no to Trump’s authoritarian administration in the biggest single day of protests in US...
Space City Weather

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Progressives Chat

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Ian Welsh

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Infidel753

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Earth 911

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See You In 2020

The mass will to defeat monopoly capital is there. The question is whether we'll rebuild the workers movement. - One of the biggest challenges which U.S. communists and their allies are about to confront is that of bringing Americans away from apathy. Burnout and l...
Nina Illingworth

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Krebs on Security

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI - Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. So...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Alas, a Blog

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Capital & Main

Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers Least Able to Pay - With wage garnishments expected later this summer, low-income Americans brace for impact. The post Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers L...
Earthworks

Flaring in Plain Sight - A ‘solution’ of governments and industry to the common practice of burning off methane pollution and other air pollutants at … The post Flaring in Plain...
Media Lens

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Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
Democracy Chronicles

Camp LeJeune Justice Act Litigation - Congress had to waste time passing a new law because DOJ and Navy JAG won when Congress didn’t want them to win.
Reading the Pictures

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Liberation News

The latest billionaire attacks on public education and how to fight them - Students need full funding of public schools, not privitization.
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION. - *I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not,but also because he catches me up on acts like this.* On the one hand, the outrages never cease; on the...
Texas Monthly

A Young Magician Has Been Secretly Perfecting His Act for Years. Now He’s Ready to Make History. - Eric Chien plans to perform a new form of magic at a secretive competition in Italy.
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
MintPress News

Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence - This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli s...
Bud Kennedy

It’s not evil to ask why Texas flood warnings failed Kerrville | Opinion - We’re all heartbroken. It’s our job to write about why. It isn’t wrong or evil to write about how officials failed to anticipate the Kerrville flooding, or...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Nebraska Senate, Upcoming Special Elections - In Nebraska, independent Dan Osborn's entrance into the Senate race makes it more of a contest; given their recent overperformances, an upcoming special ...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
ROAR Magazine

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Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

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Two Party Opera

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The Disorder Of Things

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The Metaphor Project

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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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Thursday, February 03, 2005

*shakes head*

shakes head