Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Off to Beantown

Posting will be sporadic to non-existent through the holiday weekend as the lovely Mrs. Diddie and I take some vacation time in Bahstin.

Try to get by without me.

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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

“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

memeorandum

Live Updates: Trump to Be Sentenced in N.Y. Criminal Case (New York Times) - New York Times: *Live Updates: Trump to Be Sentenced in N.Y. Criminal Case* — The proceedings are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. in Manhattan. Though the ...
Eschaton

Rest In Pie, Anita Bryant - Who knew she was still alive? Anyway, related to this, "we" all agreed she was bad, and still do, but also her current imitators are good! Very confusing....
Mediaite

Daily Show Roasts Obama Chumming It Up With Trump at Carter Funeral: ‘Weird’ To Go From ‘This Guy Is Future Hitler’ to ‘Cool Story, Future Hitler!’ - The Daily Show's Desi Lydic jabbed former Barack Obama for having the most "chemistry" with Donald Trump at late Jimmy Carter's funeral. The post Daily Sh...
The Week

Is South Korea's young democracy under threat? - Attempts to arrest the impeached President Yoon have shown the 'erosion of the rule of law'
Mediagazer

Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have "collectively agreed to discontinue the Venu Sports joint venture", will focus on existing products and distribution channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have “collectively agreed to discontinue the Venu Sports joint venture”, will focus ...
The Verge

Drone takes out Super Scooper fighting Los Angeles wildfires - [image: fire in palisades] *A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire.* | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircra...
The Hill

Mel Gibson: Loss of Malibu home in LA fires 'devastating' - Gibson says he was recording the Joe Rogan podcast in Texas when he learned his neighborhood was on fire.
The Mind Unleashed

Wealthy L.A. investor blasted for seeking paid firefighters: ‘Will pay any amount’ - As wildfires raged across Los Angeles, consuming homes and leaving communities in turmoil, a single social media post ignited a firestorm of its own. A pro...
Alternet

'Fascist ideology': Veteran actor slams 'orange idiot' Trump for 'nonsense' claims about LA wildfires - In Los Angeles County, at least 10 people have died as the result of wildfires that have been inflicting destruction everywhere from Pacific Palisades to...
Raw Story

How — and why — Britain is 'triggering' Trump - This weekend, January 11-12, U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be visiting Mainland China. The Labour government, which came to power thanks to an electi...
ArcaMax

In Divisive Times, Science Brings Us Together - We're living in divisive times. It's something said so often that it's become cliche. But collaboration across divides still happens, and the International...
Axios

Trump says he will meet with Putin to discuss end of Russia-Ukraine war - President-elect Trump said late Thursday that a meeting is in the works with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the Kremlin's invasion of...
Houston Public Media

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico, and the Ted Cruz Curse: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week’s news - The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
The Root

Lupe Fiasco Will Be The First Rapper To Become A University Professor...Ever! ? Now, Guess Where - For anyone pursuing their dreams in the music industry, you now have a new professor to learn from! Lupe Fiasco dominated the rap game for years, and now...
Political Wire

How Greenland Can Benefit from Trump - “Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland has put the world’s largest island in an unexpected position of power,” Bloomberg reports. “While Trump’s 2019 bid...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

First Thing: Death toll expected to rise in Los Angeles as another fire erupts - At least 20 arrests have been made over looting, with Santa Monica declaring a curfew. Plus, the arguments for and against banning TikTok Good morning. ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UK Treasury chief heading to China to revive suspended economic, financial talks - Annual bilateral have been suspended since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and deteriorating relations in recent years
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Catching Up With the Comedy - Baby Blues (AMS) offers a last New Year’s gag as we start to settle into 2025, and once more raises the question I’ve asked before: Do people still get bon...
WhoWhatWhy

Algorithms and Empathy: The Human Cost of Innovation - [image: This is your Brain on Ai, digital future] Is technology helping us thrive or tearing us apart? Explore how rethinking innovation could lead to a mo...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Play A Long Game - Nature took about 14 billion years to produce humans, and we are still learning how... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Play A Long Game appeared first on ...
Vox

Onscreen age gaps have never been more pathetic - Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an old, ugly man you are interested in him because he’ll neve...
ProPublica

“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois - by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, and Julia Rendleman for ProPublica, photography by Julia Rendleman for ProPublica This article was produced for ...
Daily Dot

QAnon cheers Los Angeles fire, except for James Woods - This week, a *series of fires erupted in Los Angeles* and swept through parts of the city, the infernos *setting some of its wealthiest neighborhoods ali...
naked capitalism

Links 1/10/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

The Rise of Trump’s Thugs? -
Skeptophilia

Defanging the basilisk - The science fiction trope of a sentient AI turning on the humans, either through some sort of misguided interpretation of its own programming or from a s...
Salon.com

"DEI is deadly": Fox News spin on California wildfires exposes MAGA's total incoherence - Jesse Watters implied women are too stupid to run fire departments — most LA fire department leaders are men
San Antonio Report

Neighboring county is among the fastest growing in the U.S. - [image: Comal county is one of the fastest growing counties in the country.]The population of Comal County, just north of Bexar County, is the fourth-faste...
Mother Jones

Locals Reflect on the Palisades Inferno - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The sun glared red as it sank into th...
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Head of Communications? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Off The Kuff

HISD’s message about the forthcoming weapons detection systems - I got this in my inbox on Wednesday. Dear High School Families, The most important thing HISD does each day is keep your student safe while they are at sch...
Scheerpost.com

China Is Not Our Enemy - “Something [people] don't talk about enough, in my opinion, is how China managed to eradicate extreme poverty. And that's not just a minimum income level, ...
Media Lens

Manufacturing Consent For Regime Change In Syria - Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years – week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity o...
American Prospect

Opening the DNC’s Black Box - Why we’re publishing a previously undisclosed list of all 448 members of the Democratic National Committee
Al Jazeera English

Israeli settlers commit arson and vandalism in spate of West Bank attacks - Settlers burn Palestinian farm shed and spray racist slogans in Hebrew on the outskirts of Khirbet Abu Falah.
The Reality-Based Community

Man United chính thức gia hạn thành công với Amad Diallo - Manchester United vừa chính thức xác nhận việc gia hạn hợp đồng với Amad Diallo, giữ chân tài năng trẻ người Bờ Biển Ngà ở lại Old Trafford đến tháng 6 n...
NPR's Health Shots

Hey, meat eaters. Your gut health can rival a vegan's. Here's how - Our guts are home to trillions of microbes that influence our health. A new study finds the key to a healthy microbiome is the variety of plant-based food ...
Grist

The climate benefits of NYC’s hard-won congestion pricing plan - Driving into lower Manhattan is now more expensive, but the toll promises cleaner air, safer streets, and improved subways.
Crooked Timber

Reasons for pessimism in Europe - Those of us who live in Europe have reason to be very pessimistic about the next four years. The state that Europeans have relied upon as their security gu...
High Country News

Outgoing Bureau of Land Management director optimistic about public lands: ‘When we save nature, we save ourselves’ - Tracy Stone-Manning discusses the BLM’s achievements and talks about the future as we enter a new political era. The post Outgoing Bureau of Land Manage...
Southeast Texas Record

Attorney General Ken Paxton Appoints New Government Relations Director - Attorney General Ken Paxton appointed George Lane as Director of Government Relations. Read more…
Crooked Media

As LA Burns, Trump Plays Politics - The post As LA Burns, Trump Plays Politics appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Peak Stupidity - TikTok and knockoff reels on platforms like Facebook inexplicably highlight these giant subtitles of people talking. Remember when subtitles were for tra...
Workers World

The hypocrisy of climate change deniers - [image: The hypocrisy of climate change deniers] Where there is the potential for profit, even the most ardent climate change deniers will seize the opport...
Counterpunch

Burn, Hollywood, Burn? - As I sit at my desk to write, the light shining through my office window is a distinct orange, and the sky outside is a murky, polluted shade of brown. T...
jobsanger

Will The Supreme Court OK This Ban On Free Speech? -
First Draft

Blast From The Past: PD’s Purple Pose - Meow from the late great Paul Drake.
World Socialist Web Site

Demonstrations across Australia oppose attack on Gaza Hospital, demand release of health workers - In Brisbane, Dr Zewlan Moor said she was speaking as a socialist, condemned the complicity of the Australian government in the genocide and called for an i...
Informed Comment

The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf - Review of Allen James Fromherz, The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present (Berkeley: University of Ca...
Consortium News

It Is Happening, While It’s Happening - The words of playwright Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech speak volumes about outlets like Consortium News and the anti-disinformation ind...
Antiwar.com

The War Criminal ‘Victim’: Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate - Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about 35 years...
Portside

Democrats Are About To Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way on Laken Riley Immigration Deportation Bill - Democrats Are About To Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way on Laken Riley Immigration Deportation Bill jay Thu, 01/09/2025 - 23:45
Techdirt.

Court Denies Molson Coors’ Appeal To Lower Damages, Get New Trial In Stone Brewing Ruling - Well, I’ll give the Ninth Circuit this much: at least when the court is wrong, it is wrong fast. It was just a few weeks back that we discussed Molson Coor...
OpEd News

Is a Bird Flu Pandemic Next? - A speculative piece on whether bird flu will erupt and how Trump and RFK Jr will handle it or mishandle it.
Brad Blog

Ordered to Evacuate, But We're Now Home Safe: 'BradCast' 1/9/2025 - It's been a rough 24 hours or so. But we are among the lucky ones, as detailed at the top of today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summar...
Deadline Politics

Joe Biden Says Federal Government Will Cover 100% Of Cost Of Disaster Assistance For Los Angeles Fires - President Joe Biden said that the federal government will cover 100% of the cost of disaster assistance, on things like debris removal, temporary shelters ...
Idavox

Swastika Flag Waving Stunt Exposes Pittsburgh Patriot Front Members - By OPP Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA- Meet Noah Samuel Cron and Aidan Andrew Harding. On September 27,... The post Swastika Flag Waving Stunt Exposes Pittsbu...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows Trump’s New York criminal sentencing to go forward - [image: Supreme Court allows Trump’s New York criminal sentencing to go forward]A divided Supreme Court on Thursday evening cleared the way for President...
CultureMap Houston

RodeoHouston taps Post Malone, Bun B, Reba McEntire, and more for 2025 concerts - RodeoHouston is back in the saddle again and is bringing major star power to the star-shaped stage for its 2025 lineup.
Election Law Blog

Supreme Court, on 5-4 Vote, Will Not Stop Sentencing of Donald Trump Tomorrow (on Charges for Which the Judge Will Not Impose Jail Time) - Here is the order in full: 24A666 TRUMP, DONALD J. V. NEW YORK, ET AL. The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anita Bryant Dead. The LGBTQ community outlives another one. - Anita Bryant The LGBTQ community has outlasted another one who sought to strip us of our rights to safety, health, and self-determination. And this is ...
See You In 2020

Juche means being patriotic, & upholding all the revolutionary achievements from one’s own country - Juche is a universal part of communist theory, because its practices aren’t just applicable in its origin country of Korea; Juche can be practiced anywh...
Progressive.org

Creating an Era of Truth-Telling - An interview with Bryan Stevenson.
The Texas Signal

A Dangerous New Immigration Bill - Earlier this week, the U.S. Congress passed its first bill of the new session, which is known as the Laken Riley Act. The sweeping immigration bill would...
The NM Political Report

NM hospital ‘wins’ Shkreli Award - By Susan Morée Remember “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli? Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces might wish you didn’t. The Lown Institute, a nonprofit based ...
The Greanville Post

Oreshnik’s Warhead – ‘Volcano Maker’ - MIKE MIHAJLOVIC—Physically, the Oreshnik warhead (assuming it is 100+ kg) may penetrate ~40 m (depending on the soil composition). A hypersonic shockwave i...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS commemorates 10 year history with Weslaco - STHS celebrates the 10th anniversary of STHS ER Weslaco. The post STHS commemorates 10 year history with Weslaco appeared first on Rio Grande Guardian.
Futurism

Trump Blames California Wildfires on "Worthless Fish" - Smelt It, Delta It President-elect Donald Trump has found the real culprit behind Los Angeles' massive and devastating wildfires: the Delta smelt fish. I...
Undernews

ENERGY - *EcoWatch - *enewables are now making up a majority of the net public electricity generation in Germany, according to a new report by the Fraunhofer Ins...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Respect Venezuela’s independence and democracy – U.S. hands off of Venezuela! - The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns the ongoing U.S. campaign to undermine Venezuela’s democracy and independence.
El Paso Matters

The power of policy: Promoting health and preventing disease in the Paso del Norte region - This legislative session will be important to our community as we work to support key policies at the state level. The post The power of policy: Promoti...
Popular Resistance

Israel Blocks UN Probe On ‘Hamas Rape’ Claims - Israeli officials have obstructed a UN investigation into alleged sexual crimes committed by Hamas fighters during the 7 October 2023 Operation Al-Aqsa F...
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers’ Crusade Against Planned Parenthood Claims Another Target - A senior official at the Texas Medical Board resigned following intense pressure from far-right state lawmakers. As the year came to a close, State Reps....
slacktivist

But in Canada, they have waiting lists - A week from Monday, if all goes according to plan, my wife will be having the surgery that will restore her to full health. Please, Lord, let this for once...
Ballot Access News

Oklahoma Top-Two Supporters Will Try to Qualify an Initiative for 2026 - Oklahoma residents who favor a top-two system will try to get their initiative on the ballot for 2026. See this story. They contradict established word usa...
Mondoweiss

‘We all became ghosts’: survivors recount Israel’s deadly siege of Jabalia refugee camp - [image: A crowd of Palestinians holding up their ID cards are forced to pass through an Israeli army checkpoint near Jabalia at gunpoint. (Photo: Social Me...
Second Nexus

Meghan Markle Pays Poignant Tribute To Her 'Sweet' Rescue Dog After His Death - Meghan Markle is grieving the loss of her beloved beagle named Guy, saying she's cried "too many tears to count" in a poignant tribute on her reactivated...
Texas Standard

College Football Playoff semifinals: Ohio State is favored, but can Texas pull off an upset? - Despite a winter storm, the Cotton Bowl is still set to go ahead in Arlington.
Discourse

You're Not Going to Find Someone to Blame - The fires in LA are a bill come due after decades of misdeeds.
Texas Monthly

Ken Paxton Takes Time Off Work to Help Take Over the Texas House - The Texas attorney general was on the road this week, speaking to adoring crowds about the importance of defeating their mutual enemies.
Wolf Street

“Bond Market Rout” in the UK (like in the US) Only Pushes the 10-Year Yield into Low End of Old Normal after Many Years of Interest Rate Repression - A normal cost of capital is a form of much-needed discipline for governments and investors, after years of free money turned their brains to mush.
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Fire can destroy a city! - *THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2025* *Cultures can be destroyed too:* It's worth recalling that cities used to burn down fairly often. We were a high school stude...
Claytoonz

Raker-in-Chief - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Ever...
Angry Bear

Initial Jobless Claims Declined - Jobless claims still rocked by seasonality; native born unemployment rate of under 4% forecast – by New Deal democrat Due to today’ official Day of Mour...
DeSmogBlog

The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is Unpopular - The slow-motion resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally official. After months of plunging polls, lost by-elections and an accelerating ...
Capital & Main

California Just Banned Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings in Workplaces. Business Groups Have Sued to Stop the New Law. - Chamber of Commerce, Restaurant Association claim the law, which labor unions say is meant to prevent coercion, violates free speech. The post California...
Space City Weather

Hey Apple users: Your long national notification nightmare is (hopefully) over. Do this. - For quite a while now, a growing number of people who have the Space City Weather app on their iPhones, iPads and Macs have stopped getting notifications. ...
Bud Kennedy

In the Texas Legislature, it’s Republican vs. Republican for speaker of the House | Opinion - Texas is about to choose a speaker of the House, and from there it gets weird. For the last 16 years, the Texas House’s small but stubborn faction of hard-...
Sludge

House GOP Rushes to Protect Netanyahu - The bill was fast-tracked by the Republicans' House rules package following AIPAC's record campaign contributions.
Texas Observer

Texas Gave $1 Million in Expert Contracts to Defend Border Buoys in Court - The full cost of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass is greater than previously revealed. Between Febru...
Rewire

John Roberts Stop Complaining Challenge - Chief Justice John Roberts is now just a reply guy. The post John Roberts Stop Complaining Challenge appeared first on Rewire News Group.
MintPress News

Pro-ISIS Accounts Surge on Meta After Assad’s Ouster - Following years of aggressive content removal, Meta’s platforms now host a growing wave of ISIS-linked posts in the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow. The p...
Church and State

‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles - The emergence of extreme wintertime wildfires in California presents one of those classic ‘this is climate change’ moments.
LareDOS

Time to stop strapping decrepit hospital eyesore onto the backs of Laredo taxpayers - Future of this private property should be condemnation, implosion, and leaving the land to the city for planning and improvement
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...
Bonddad

Jobless claims still rocked by seasonality; native born unemployment rate of under 4% forecast - * - by New Deal democrat* Due to today’ official Day of Mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter, initial and continuing claims were released yes...
Duck of Minerva

Jimmy Carter’s legacy: a challenge to recognize and act on religion’s significance - US President Jimmy Carter’s funeral is being held today in Washington, DC at the National Cathedral. Since he passed away shortly after Christmas, tributes...
Democracy Now!

L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained "Apocalypse" - Raging wildfires continue to scorch communities across the Los Angeles area, killing at least five people, displacing about 100,000 more and destroying tho...
Project Censored

2025: Another ‘Unprecedented’ Year Calls for Staying the Course - By Mischa Geracoulis “The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the me...
Common Dreams

Drip, Drip, Drip: Manifest Lunatic Gaslighting Destiny Looms - Though we got distracted by the confederacy of fascists hoping to run and burn down the government, we were just rudely reminded their Cantaloupe Leader ...
The Daily Poster

How Big Oil Hindered The Fight Against L.A.’s Wildfires - California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been used to fight the inferno.
Ian Welsh

Canada 101 For Would Be American Annexers - [image: Canada 101 For Would Be American Annexers] So, reading various Americans who think annexing Canada would be a good idea, it’s clear most of them k...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2024 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in December 2024, with three of them fatal and one of those killing two people, for a total of four dead from sho...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Life is Full of Ironies: University of Texas president Jay Hartzell departing for SMU - *Friends:* *Life is full of ironies. Fortunate for President Jay Hartzell, he will, in effect, not only be shielded from anti-DEI politics in his new role...
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...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 20 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Unlimited Hangout

Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Malthusian-Transhumanist Riders of the Pale Horse - Why did the celebrated futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard call for the culling of one-fourth of the human population? John Klyczek tracked down Hubbard's infa...
Dissident Voice

Only Force Will Stop Genocide - We have long passed the point of mobilizing world opinion against Israel’s shameless and wanton slaughter of countless defenseless civilian Palestinian m...
Eater Houston

Houston’s Drag Kings Are Suiting Up for Their Moment in the Spotlight - [image: A collage of drag kings performing in Houston.] Lille Allen Houston’s drag kings are fighting for their percentage of the stage in a wider indust...
Infidel753

My best postings of 2024 - Far-left political activism often does more harm than good to the cause it wants to advance (this seems more relevant than I ever wanted it to be, given t...
Lowering the Bar

Dictator Reportedly Bans “Treasonous” Hot Dogs - [image: hot dog and chips]May be holding show trials in food court.
Krebs on Security

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew - Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to user...
The AltWorld

The Social Media Posts That Could Land Israeli Soldiers in Jail | Ep. 59 - The Social Media Posts That Could Land Israeli Soldiers in Jail | Ep. 59 The post The Social Media Posts That Could Land Israeli Soldiers in Jail | Ep. 5...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What They Always Wanted: Zuckerberg, Trump, and the New Normal - They're not "obeying in advance." They're relieved. They're all-in.
The Conversation

Unlikely bedfellows: How platform companies shortchange porn performers and ride-hailing drivers alike - The porn and ride-hailing industries both attract workers seeking autonomy. Neither fully delivers.
Trivial Knot

Origami: Three-headed Crane - Happy new year!
The Grayzone

Leaked emails expose ‘collaborative efforts’ between Israeli govt and Center for Countering Digital Hate - Emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal how leading “anti-hate” campaigner Imran Ahmed collaborated with Israeli embassy officials to censor pro-Palestine...
Debunking Christianity

Michael Maletin on "My Atheist Journey: 10 Years Later. Why I Remain Atheist." - This video above by Michael Maletin is awesome! Be sure to watch it all. At the 24:25 mark my work on horrendous suffering is recommended. Very very cool...
Democracy Chronicles

Webster’s Method – Definition & Demonstration of Unbias - The House of Representatives apportionment allocation-rule is of timely importance, because we’re hearing in the news that the Democrats’ & Republicans’ nu...
alicublog

DAY OF WRECKONING - I could call this Friday-‘Round-the-Horn-Except-on-Monday, as I did last week, but I’m mainly here to tell you today’s *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* is ab...
Political Garbage Chute

Elon Told Me He Invented the Presidency - After I changed my cell phone number this morning, it occurred to me that someone out there might be interested to know why. I had to change it because s...
Bracing Views

Cap Guns versus Bazookas - W.J. Astore The “War” between Hamas and Israel If one side is armed with cap guns and the other with bazookas, would we call that a “war” between roughly e...
Progressives Chat

Welcome, 2025! - It is a new year: 2025. Nice, rounded number. The last such nicely rounded number of a year: 2020. That was not a good year. May 2025 be a good year fo...
Avedon's Sideshow

And folks dressed up like Eskimos - I don't seem to have the sense of timing I used to have, so let's do this before the last night of Christmas on the 6th. Here we are with the traditiona...
The Militant

Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny opens space for working people - The overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria has left in tatters much of the “axis of resistance” organized by Iran’s capitalist rulers to ex...
TalkLeft

Mike Johnson Re-elected House Speaker (By a Hair) - By a vote of 218 to 215, Republican Mike Johnson beat Democrat Hakim Jeffries for House Speaker. There was some drama as it took a phone call from Donald...
nonsite.org

Framing the Working Class: Ray’s a Laugh, 28 Years On - Billingham’s desire to make something aesthetically rather than socially or politically moving can be understood not just as a form of complicity with indi...
The Progressive Wing

January 1-8 News Roundup and Open Thread - A little late but let’s get the 2025 ball rolling.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Can You Hear Us NOW? (Happy New Year ’25) - “…the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest compa...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Why I Have Hope - This seemed like a good one to close the year out with. Happy New Year, Alas readers! I don’t have a cartoon syndicate and I’m not in newspapers. But I get...
NORML

Study: Patients Less Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts Following Medical Cannabis Use - [image: Smoke wafts from a green glass Sherlock pipe rating on a white table next to an open prescription-style bottle of medical cannabis][image: Smoke ...
Greg Palast

Carter, The Kochs and The Donald - I couldn’t stomach Jimmy Carter — until my view of him turned around 180 degrees just four years ago. Like most Democrats who supported Ted Kennedy’s run a...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Novel Reading in 2024 - So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “no...
Land Destroyer

Washington’s Unstoppable Superweapon - *Editor's Note: The original article published on NEO had a significant editing mistake where several paragraphs were accidentally moved out of order and...
Campaign for America's Future

Juntos lo haremos - En el año que viene, tendremos que tomar decisiones difíciles sobre quienes queremos ser en cada comunidad y como nación. Ha sido un año muy intenso. Desde...
Field Negro

Holiday cheer. - *Happy Holidays field hands!* Let's see what happens in the new year with this Elon Musk presidency. It should be very interesting. If you voted again...
Earthworks

Common Sense in the Commonwealth: How Shapiro Can Protect Pennsylvania - With the incoming Trump administration planning rollbacks on climate progress, political leadership in heavy oil and gas-producing states like Pennsylvan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Year of the Zealot - It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of faith, it was a year of inc...
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.
Reveal

Arizona Sues Saudi-Owned Farm Draining Groundwater in the Desert - [image: Rows of open-sided buildings hold bales of hay.] The company is “taking advantage of Arizona’s failure to protect its precious groundwater resourc...
Web of Debt

How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap - The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is not y...
ExChristian.Net

Why We Are Still Religious - We're running Modern Applications on a Caveman Operating System *By James Aames ~ * In order to understand why humans have a seemingly instinctual inclina...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
Seeing the Forest

Jack Gets Up - One of my favorites. Everyday in the morning when you get up and you crawl out of bed And you crawl out of bed and you crawl out of bed Everyday in the mor...
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 ...
Free & Equal

Becoming United & Thankful - After a tough, divisive, and historic presidential election, Kelly Wright focuses on how Americans are seeking to become more united. Christina Tobin dis...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Jamaal Bowman: How AIPAC Drove Me Out of Congress & My Views on Palestine Changed - Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, ...
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...
GreenSource DFW

Can you recycle campaign signs? Here's where to take them in DFW - *Some municipal recycling centers and private recycling facilities will accept them. Photo by Harriet Blake.* Nov. 7, 2024 The election is over. No more...
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...
Stinque

Hanging by a Thread - We forget who laid it out for us a lifetime ago, but civilization is inherently fragile, and can collapse in an instant. Everything is handed off from on...
Two Party Opera

Election Day Comedy Hour - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Trump and Harris are dressed as vaudevillian/barbershop-quartet-ish comedy duo, with hats, canes, and pin striped vests. Trump says ...
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 ...
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] Market Failure: The Climate Crisis and the Limits of Capitalism - Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze in conversation, moderated by Kate Aronoff.
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...
Courthouse News

Federal judge unseals Jack Smith immunity filing in Trump’s Jan. 6 case - Jack Smith's immunity brief argues that Trump can still be criminally tried over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's sw...
Glasstire

Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes” - Contemplating the art of Arielle Masson is a cosmic journey that spirals through deep inner space into the vastness of the universe — moving through the ...
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 ...
Black Agenda Report

Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean - Haiti and the Crisis of Imperialism in the Caribbean bareditors Wed, 10/02/2024 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Connection Between Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday and Tonight’s VP Debate - Former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday coinciding with the vice presidential debate today is fitting, given the important role Carter played in e...
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...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Inside the scramble to stop the displacement of thousands of California foster children - For years, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California had been the primary insurer for the state’s foster family agencies, which house some of the m...
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...
The Socialist

International Relations: Tensions in Eastern Europe - Tensions in Eastern Europe have escalated recently, with geopolitical implications that resonate globally. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine ...
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...
The Rag Blog

MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966 - By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval c...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the ar...
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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