Brains and Eggs

And so they did https://t.co/u40rGSacVy
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) November 6, 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

Mediaite

Harris Faulkner Claims ‘Criminal’ Migrants Are Creating ‘Extra Footwork For NYPD’ Amid Healthcare CEO Killing - Harris Faulkner claimed that "criminal" migrants are creating "extra footwork" for the NYPD following the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. The post...
The Week

Magazine solutions - December 6, 2024 - Issue - December 6, 2024
Wolf Street

Cut the Price and They Will Come: New-Vehicle Sales Jump amid Big Discounts and Incentives, as Inventory Balloons - But prices are still way too high, and automakers are not cutting them nearly enough.
Eschaton

Which I Will Giggle About At My Dubiously Funded NoShow "Think Tank" Job - He will miss it, no doubt. Asked how Israel's conduct might reflect on his legacy as the top U.S. diplomat, Blinken said his legacy was for people to jud...
Futurism

ChatGPT Outperforms Human Doctors At Accurately Diagnosing Patients - Could a chatbot be your doctor someday? It's looking more and more likely to happen than you'd think. In a recently published study, fifty doctors were a...
Raw Story

Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in two months - Cash-strapped Cuba was plunged into darkness on Wednesday for the third time in two months after the power grid failed. The blackout dealt another blow t...
Alternet

'Our brand sucks': Dem reveals how party became 'a shell of itself' — and how to fix it - The Democratic Party not only lost control of the White House and the U.S. Senate in 2024, but also saw its advantage in traditional Democratic stronghol...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in Midtown Manhattan; DNC race begins ; UAW cuts off pay from st...
Political Wire

Trump Changes His Mind About White House Counsel - “Donald Trump has changed his mind about his White House’s top lawyer, elevating David Warrington to the role of White House counsel just three weeks after...
Salon.com

Paul Atkins tapped as crypto-friendly SEC chair - Atkins would succeed Gary Gensler, who cracked down on the industry
The Verge

Trump picks two nominees who could decide the fate of Big Tech and crypto - [image: An image showing Donald Trump on a red and green background] Image: Laura Normand / The Verge President-elect Donald Trump made two nominations W...
CultureMap Houston

Woodlands favorites fire up a fresh new restaurant in River Oaks - One of The Woodlands’ most successful hospitality groups will soon make its inner loop debut. Fielding’s River Oaks will open this Sunday, December 8.
The Root

Grambling State University Fall 2024 Grads Will Get Words of Wisdom From a No Limit NOLA Legend - Forget boring speeches from CEOs and faculty members. Grambling State University’s Fall 2024 commencement ceremony is going to be one of the hottest tick...
memeorandum

Trump Replaces His White House Counsel Before He Even Started the Job (Maggie Haberman/New York Times) - Maggie Haberman / New York Times: *Trump Replaces His White House Counsel Before He Even Started the Job* — The shake-up is a sign that the new adminis...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: police release images of suspect as manhunt continues after ‘targeted attack’ – latest updates - New York police searching for masked gunman after Brian Thompson, 50, was shot outside Hilton Hotel in the city just after 6.45am ET - UnitedHealthcar...
NPR's Health Shots

Longer careers in ice hockey are linked to a greater risk of CTE, a new study finds - A new Boston University study of 77 deceased male ice hockey players found that their chances of developing the degenerative brain disease known as CTE inc...
Houston Public Media

METRO police arrest man who fired pistol inside bus in southwest Houston Wednesday - It wasn't immediately clear if the man was involved in a physical or verbal altercation before firing the weapon.
Eater Houston

The Best Houston Holiday Pop-Ups and Events - [image: A lineup of holiday-themed cocktails photographed in front of Christmas lights and decorations.] Holiday season in Houston is never dull. | We Lov...
Al Jazeera English

Namibia elects its first female president - Namibia has elected Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the country’s first female president.
Texas Standard

North Texas has some of the harshest sentences for meth crimes. Why is that? - The Dallas Morning News explored this question in a three-part series.
World Socialist Web Site

Namibia elections see declining support for ruling SWAPO - SWAPO’s decline and that of other anti-colonial national movements have exposed the organic incapacity of Africa’s bourgeois nationalists to realise the as...
The Hill

Fetterman jokes he'd consider confirming DeSantis if he admits to lifts - Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joked on Wednesday that he’d consider confirming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as a Defense secretary if he admits to the use o...
Axios

Trump picks crypto advocate Paul Atkins for SEC chairman - President-elect Trump on Wednesday said he would nominate former SEC commissioner Paul Atkins to be chairman of the regulator. *Why it matters: *Atkins i...
Undernews

DONALD TRUMP - * Independent, UK - * President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is bringing a convicted criminal who helped plan his futile attempt to overturn t...
Daily Dot

‘They saw my rich face’: Goodwill customer goes to check out. Then the worker changes the price on her - [image: Two panel design with a woman looking at the camera and seemingly upset, next to an image of a Goodwill sign.] An Arizona-based Goodwill customer...
Deadline Politics

Bill Clinton On Joe Biden’s Hunter Pardon — “I Wish He Hadn’t Said He Wouldn’t Do It” - Bill Clinton says he understands why President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter and that “you can’t take the politics out of pardons.” The sitting preside...
Second Nexus

Ariana Grande Reacts To Video Of 'Holding Space' Reporter Poking Fun At Her Viral Interview - Pop star Ariana Grande responded to a journalist who poked fun at the singer's sweet gesture seen during the viral "holding space" interview. LGBTQ+ jour...
Ballot Access News

Detroit Mayor Will Run for Governor of Michigan as an Independent in 2026 - On December 4, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said he will run as an independent candidate for Governor Michigan in 2026. He has been a Democrat, but Detroit ha...
Southeast Texas Record

Tobacco lawyers sent back to trial against each other - HOUSTON - The fight among two law firms and a litigation-funder for tobacco money is not over yet, even after the sides agreed their fee-sharing agreemen...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: The Valkyrie 2 - Let’s take a moment to review our story so far. In mythic terms, it’s a straightforward fairy tale: the gold from the bottom of the Rhine, stolen by the d...
Techdirt.

Elon Musk Should Be Shouting About The Florida And Texas Social Media Laws (But Are You Surprised That He’s Not?) - In May 2022 Thierry Breton, at the time a prominent European Commissioner, went to Texas and dropped in on Elon Musk, who was then on his way to buying Twi...
Mediagazer

BARB: GB News overtook Sky News for live TV viewing in the UK across one month for the first time in November, averaging 70,430 live viewers, above Sky's 67,670 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *BARB: GB News overtook Sky News for live TV viewing in the UK across one month for the first time in November, averagi...
Texas Monthly

The Sequel to ‘Hoop Dreams’ Is Happening in South Texas - Three decades after 'Hoop Dreams' wrote his name into basketball lore, William Gates has found a home in San Antonio.
Capital & Main

Historian Sees Trump’s Triumph As a New Chapter in America’s Long Tradition of Illiberalism - Says Steven Hahn, "the groundwork for Trump was laid much earlier in our history." The post Historian Sees Trump’s Triumph As a New Chapter in America’s ...
Mondoweiss

What does Trump’s return mean for the Middle East? - [image: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US President Donald Trump (Photo: Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Court)]Mouin Rabbani discusses wh...
Consortium News

Low-Lying Nations Take Climate Case to World Court - A coalition of countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change are demanding that larger polluting nations be held to account under internatio...
El Paso Matters

Desert bighorn sheep return to native Franklin Mountains in El Paso - Why El Paso is key to the survival of desert bighorn sheep in Texas. The post Desert bighorn sheep return to native Franklin Mountains in El Paso appear...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Notre Dame reopens amid French political turmoil - It has taken five years, 2,000 workers and hundreds of millions of dollars to restore the medieval Gothic masterpiece
Slate

The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2024 - Plus a few recently unearthed treasures from the archives.
ProPublica

If Trump Makes Cuts to Medicaid, Texas Officials Could Seize the Opportunity to Further Slash the Program - by Lomi Kriel and Jessica Priest ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as...
San Antonio Report

Melissa Cabello Havrda launches mayoral bid - [image: District 6 Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda during City Council B Session.]Nearly a year after publicly floating her potential candidacy, Counci...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 31: Can Putin Save Syria? An Exclusive from Inside Aleppo - Scarcely noticed by most of the world, the Civil War in Syria has been grinding on for more than a decade. A proxy war, with the central government of Ba...
Grist

I’m grateful for a lot of things. But not Thanksgiving. - The holiday masks an unsavory reality. But "Un-Thanksgiving" offers something more satisfying.
WhoWhatWhy

Everything Is Awful, But You Can Do One Small Thing - [image: No Loitering, making change] Tiny acts make a big difference, but when so much is wrong in the world, where do we even start? Just pick one small, ...
American Prospect

Some Guardrails Hold - Today on TAP: More Trump screwball nominations are going down, and he belatedly agrees to let the FBI vet nominees—meaning that still more will fall.
Bonddad

ISM non-manufacturing shows that services continue to power the economy forward. Are they inflationary? - * - by New Deal democrat* Because services are roughly 3/4’s of the economy, I now pay a lot of attention to the economically weighted average of the...
Claytoonz

Dinky Dong Don - Read the blog at my Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through PayPal. I...
Political Garbage Chute

My Town’s Local Rapist Has Big Dreams to Serve the President One Day - “…as a rapist, you’re always worried that your reputation for raping people would prevent you from getting anywhere in life.” – Billy The Rapist In towns...
Daily Howler

A BLUE LAGOON: Stephens has fears about President Trump! - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2024* *But he also has fears about Us:* Way back when, right there in our native Middlesex County, sacred Thoreau went to the woo...
MintPress News

How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive - The recent fall of Aleppo to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham highlights a troubling truth: Washington and Tel Aviv’s shadowy support for extremist groups continues....
Unlimited Hangout

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Annecy vs Clermont lúc 02h00 ngày 07/12/2024 - Tại giải Hạng Nhì Pháp, khi đến với vòng 15, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Annecy và Clermont thời gian g...
OpEd News

The GOP: the Party of Xenophobia from its Beginnings, and the Party of Racism since Nixon - Is TrumpXenophobia something new for the Republican Party? Well, in its current, mass-expulsionist version it is, but ordinary, garden-variety xenophobia h...
Rewire

A Note From Our New Executive Director - Mallory Johns will join *Rewire News Group* as its next executive director. The post A Note From Our New Executive Director appeared first on Rewire News...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, Dec. 4 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, Dec. 4]The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this morning in what could be one of the most significant cases...
Krebs on Security

U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia - In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as "Wazawaka," a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in the formation and...
The Mind Unleashed

The Ojibwa Tribe Combined These 4 Herbs To Make ‘Essiac Tea’, Which Kills Bodily Cancer Cells & Purifies Your Blood Naturally - Deep within the traditions of the Ojibwa tribe lies a remarkable secret—a blend of four humble herbs that has intrigued natural healers and sparked curiosi...
First Draft

Can’t Buy Me Love - The GOP can't stand that Joe Biden and his family love each other.
The Conversation

America’s counties are less purple than they used to be - Showing just red and blue states doesn’t paint an accurate picture of national politics.
Democracy Now!

A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film "Surveilled" - We look at the world of high-tech surveillance with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O’Neill about their new HBO docume...
Space City Weather

Rain showers likely today as a rainy pattern sets in through the weekend - In brief: Our overall pattern is definitely changing, with rainfall likely today and tonight, and then again this weekend. Although precipitation will be p...
ArcaMax

Three Januarys: All Ye Need to Know - My father and I, discouraged at the election over the holiday, opened a book of poetry I brought along to the house. Somewhere we traveled was back in time...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Truth and Humor and Sometimes Both - The timing of this morning’s Carpe Diem (KFS) got a laugh, because its commentary on computer security came hard on the heels of an article in Forbes, whic...
Texas Observer

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts - Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. A recent headli...
Workers World

Emergency action Wednesday, Dec. 4: Demonstrate at South Korean Consulate - [image: Emergency action Wednesday, Dec. 4: Demonstrate at South Korean Consulate] Workers World received this appeal from Nodutdol calling for a demonstr...
The Smirking Chimp

What Does Agenda 47 Spell for America’s Future? -
Earth 911

How to Recycle Electric Toothbrush Heads - Electric toothbrush heads might be small, but they can make a big impact on our... The post How to Recycle Electric Toothbrush Heads appeared first on Ea...
Skeptophilia

The interstellar lighthouse - It's funny the questions you don't think to ask. You find out something, accept it without any objections, and only later -- sometimes much later -- you s...
Scheerpost.com

South Korea’s 6-Hour Martial Law - Yoon does not want to lose power, writes Kiji Noh, but more importantly the U.S. cannot allow Yoon to lose power. He is key to the Asian force posture agai...
Media Lens

‘Burn In Hell’ Henry Kissinger – Social Media Warrior Mode And The Case For Compassion - Left-progressives writhe in agony when the usual suspects to the right of the ‘mainstream’ media ‘spectrum’ continue to pour bile and abuse on the likes of...
Off The Kuff

The I-45 project is officially underway - Brace yourselves. Houston drivers are facing more than a dozen years of work on freeways in and around the central business district — at a cost that could...
Vox

¿Por qué miles de personas viajan a un país para ver sus aves? - Click here to read this story in English. VALLE DEL CAUCA, Colombia — Desde el costado de una carretera antigua que atraviesa las estribaciones de los Ande...
Mother Jones

Watching the Media Reckoning Unfold in a Now-Shuttered Broadcast Newsroom - In about two weeks, nearly everyone in this Atlanta conference room will be out of a job. But tonight, on November 5, the Scripps News team has an election...
Angry Bear

The Hegseth dysfunction - It seems that Hegseth may be forced to end his bid for Secretary of Defense due to his alcoholism and history of sexual abuse and mismanagement of nonpro...
Crooked Media

South Korean President Declares Martial Law - The post South Korean President Declares Martial Law appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The Trumpist Bureau of Investigation? - I want the FBI to be disbanded. Forever. I’ve wanted this to happen since 1970. When the Senate hearings led by Franck Church revealed the extent of th...
Election Law Blog

2024 BPC Elections Summit - Looks like a spectacular packed roster for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s 2024 Elections Summit — academics, nonprofits, election officials, legislators,...
jobsanger

A Weaponized FBI Can Do Serious Damage To People's Lives -
See You In 2020

The Axis of Resistance is winning the economic war, meaning it will triumph like Russia & China have - Above: Axis of Resistance supporters in Khiam, Lebanon celebrating the recent ceasefire, which signaled weakness for “Israel” even though it soon broke ...
Informed Comment

Shiite Iraqi PM to Türkiye: Baghdad will not be a Mere Spectator as Sunni Radicals take Syria - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia’ al-Sudani called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday and read him the riot...
Antiwar.com

Neocons Try Again in Syria - This originally appeared at Consortium News. A day after Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon last week the long dormant war in Syria reignited as jih...
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...
Brad Blog

In Defense of Democracy from S. Korea to N. Carolina (and Beyond): 'BradCast' 12/3/2024 - Democracy is under attack again today. And not just in D.C. We're here to do our part in defending it wherever possible on today's BradCast. [Audio link to...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Banana, Banana, Banana, Banana no.2 - “By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that he made repeatedly before and after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The p...
Portside

The Court Where the Rule of Law Still Lives—for Now - The Court Where the Rule of Law Still Lives—for Now Judy Tue, 12/03/2024 - 19:26
Popular Resistance

From Venezuela To Palestine, US-Imposed Sanctions Are A Crime - December 10 is the anniversary of the signing of the United Nations' Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Organizers with the Americas Without Sanction...
Reform Austin

Houston Will Be Hit Hard By Trump Tariffs - President-elect Donald Trump plans to institute a 25 percent tariff on imported goods. Economists have consistently said this will lead to higher prices ...
Progressive.org

The Democrats Must Educate ‘Low-Information' Voters - The Democratic establishment must give way to new ideas on how to educate working-class and low-information voters.
Common Dreams

CFPB Proposes Crackdown on Data Brokers That Sell Sensitive Personal Information - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today proposed a rule to regulate data brokers that sell sensitive personal and financial informatio...
DeSmogBlog

CAPP President Abandons ‘Net Zero’ Message at Exclusive Industry Event - Have you ever wondered what Canada’s oil patch says behind closed doors? DeSmog had an opportunity to attend an energy and natural resource forum hosted ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

SCOTUS Trans Rights Case is About Human Right to Autonomy - From a young age, I enjoyed playing around with gender roles, but it wasn’t until later in my adolescence that I started to have more complex thoughts ab...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Why Democrats Lost - It’s another timelapse drawing video! See me change my mind about the final figure’s pose! See me make a last minute decision to add in a kicker panel! See...
The AltWorld

Georgia: A Second Front for Putin - President Putin faces the possibility of a second Ukraine, a second war front that could result from […] The post Georgia: A Second Front for Putin appea...
Ian Welsh

The South Korean Coup - [image: The South Korean Coup] The President of South Korea has declared martial law. The legislature voted 190 to 0 to end the martial law, which is thei...
Discourse

Censored By Prisons, Censored By TedX - An interview with incarcerated journalist Lyle C. May about a very special event tonight.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Americans Should Learn From South Koreans: Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State - The events in South Korea should be a wake-up call for Americans looking to oppose authoritarianism.
Project Censored

Philadelphia Gun Violence Driving Higher Enrollment in Cyber-Charter Schools - Motivated by fears of increasingly frequent youth gun violence, Philadelphia families are enrolling their children in online charter schools. Nearly 15,0...
Sludge

Big Oil’s Cybermercenary Lobbyists Exposed - The Exxon Mobil lobbyist facing a federal investigation for a hacking scheme, DCI Group, also works for the telecom industry and a pro-Democrat dark money ...
Trivial Knot

Anti-trans “advice” defies sense - Okay, I’ll talk a bit about the election. In November, many people speculated on why Democrats lost the election. This has largely been an exercise in conf...
Church and State

Liberal Catholics – Protectors of the Conservative Papacy - As long as liberal Catholics remain in the Church, they serve the interests of the conservatives by deflecting and confusing forthright criticism of the Pa...
Liberation News

6 myths on immigration debunked - [image: Milwaukee protest in Dec. 2019. Liberation photo.]U.S.-born workers have far more in common with the undocumented population than with the tiny cli...
Dissident Voice

Warring in Syria: New Phases, Old Lies - A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria, as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land. Silly terms such as “moderate” a...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS offers safety tips for parents to ensure their child’s safety - STHS offers toy safety tips on how to make smart choices for shopping for gifts for kids. The post STHS offers safety tips for parents to ensure their ch...
slacktivist

Take back the web (what’s in your RSS feed?) - Corporate social media is designed to keep you on corporate social media. Their algorithms are not your friend.
NORML

Join the Marijuana Movement This Giving Tuesday - [image: hand holding a cannabis leaf][image: hand holding a cannabis leaf]Your support is more than just a donation; it's a commitment to a future where ...
High Country News

The Biden administration weighs in on Colorado River management - Amid mounting drought, changing federal leadership and stalled state negotiations, new federal proposals aim to chart a forward path. The post The Biden...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 3 December 2024 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here. For my post on the Hunter Biden pardon, click here.] ...
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...
The Daily Poster

It’s Dark Money-Giving Tuesday - A new study reveals that charitable giving will soon be dominated by Wall Street dark-money funds that enrich the wealthy and never have to give to working...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Village People singer defends Trump's use of 'Y.M.C.A' by claiming song isn't a gay anthem' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Village People singer defends Trump’s use of ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ says song isn’t a ‘gay anthem’ *- “Y.M.C.A.” singer and co-writer Victor Willis of the band Vi...
The Texas Signal

The Potential New Laws Of Texas - The Texas Legislature is set to reconvene on January 14. And when that new session arrives, Texans can expect even more rightward shifts on several issue...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Beyond intersectional political economy - Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature in the constitution and reproduction of capitalism, and is discrimination based on race also an in-...
Democracy Chronicles

Medical Students’ Suicide in Iran - The high rates of suicide attempts and ideation among medical students in Iran are deeply concerning, yet the causes are often inadequately explained.
Bracing Views

How About A Winnable Nuclear Exchange, America? - W.J. Astore Sure, we might get our hair mussed … Like too many people, I sometimes make the mistake of talking about nuclear war, when it’s really annihila...
The Progressive Wing

December 1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - December has arrived with a blast of cold in the Northeast
Greg Palast

Elon Musk: Batteries Not IncludedHow to put Welfare Queen Elon Musk out of Business - There’s only one cure that can remove this parasite from of of our body politic—put Elon Musk out of business. Getting rid of this whiny Afrikaner fascist,...
The Greanville Post

“Gaza Is NO MORE” Norman Finkelstein vs Fleur Hassan | Israel Showdown - EDITOR—A heated debate on paramount topics about Palestine and war in the Middle East, marred by the biases clearly exhibited by the host, and one of the g...
Ring of Fire

Dems Look To Pencil Neck For Leadership - The post Dems Look To Pencil Neck For Leadership appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: the beach at Porth Selau - From back when I was shooting film sometimes:
ExChristian.Net

How Can I Say This Nicely? Why Christian Churches are Bad for Society - *By James Aames ~ * It’s considered bad form to condemn all versions of Christianity, so most leading voices in religious journalism will only speak nega...
Progressives Chat

My Six-Week Break Begins - I will be taking a break from posting political-related topics for six weeks. *Progressives Chat* will publish on Sundays, December 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29,...
The Militant

Buffalo Milk-Bone workers stand tall in strike for wages, health care - Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G have been on strike at J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone dog treat factory in ...
Land Destroyer

US Foreign Policy vs. China Continues Under Trump - *November 21, 2024 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The incoming Trump administration is poised to pick up where the Biden administration has left off on the de...
LareDOS

Bad News: Veritable river of shit in excess of 100,000 gallons flows from broken sewage collection line in South Laredo into the Río Grande - Good news: Spill is downriver from water treatment plant intake for municipal water supply
Debunking Christianity

Robert Conner Shared THIS! - LINK. It's pretty depressing for reasonable people in the U.S. as many readers will probably agree. For my part, I'm considering living in a different coun...
Seeing the Forest

Campaign Donations Should Be ‘Secret Santa’ - Campaign “donations” to fund politics are necessarily and obviously corrupting. Massive amounts are “donated” with the clear expectation of receiving somet...
Bud Kennedy

Sermons and the ‘Last Supper’: How Texas’ Greg Abbott ramrodded the Bible into schools | Opinion - Texas wrote the Golden Rule into kindergarten lessons. But our state officials don’t follow it. They broke it the other day in the most blatant of ways: wi...
Idavox

Hulk Hogan Flexes His Poor Judgement, Strikes a Pose with Neo-Nazi - The crazy thing is this is the second time (that we know of) where he... The post Hulk Hogan Flexes His Poor Judgement, Strikes a Pose with Neo-Nazi appe...
The Grayzone

Sebastian Gorka: British intelligence asset? - Sebastian Gorka’s involvement with British intelligence cost him a security clearance in Hungary. His longtime mentor is a UK spook currently engaged in ...
Earthworks

There’s A Big Plastics Treaty in S. Korea. What You Need to Know! - What is happening: This month, environmental justice advocates will join world leaders in Busan, South Korea. From November 25 – … The post There’s A Bi...
Field Negro

Transition train wreck. - The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT is becoming the face of Texas’ higher education failures. That must change, The Daily Texan Editorial Board - *Friends:* *I am glad that the Daily Texan Editorial Board is weighing in on findings from a recent survey conducted by the American Association of Univers...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: AN AGE OF CLODS AND MONSTERS EDITION. - *I have never heard a bad Desmond Dekker record.* Not gonna push it too hard here as this is only Friday 'Round-the-Horn technically -- it's after midnig...
Lowering the Bar

Still No Lawsuit Against the Fake Colombian Basketball Team - [image: picture of the alleged fake colombian team]I have mixed emotions about this.
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...
Reveal

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle - [image: Taylor Cadle, a young woman with dark hair and wearing a black sweater and jeans ripped above the knee, looks directly into the camera with an unfl...
Avedon's Sideshow

One little miracle a day is all I need - I feel worse than I thought I would if this happened, even though I probably expected it more than a lot of lefties and Democrats did. The whole Cheney ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Inside the Beehive - An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple contro...
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, ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Tale of Two PSYOPS - Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominat...
Moron Majority

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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...
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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...
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Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Modern Democracy

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epic.org

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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...
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Houston Press

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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."
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The Metaphor Project

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Think 3 Institute

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IVN

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Truthout

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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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Sunday, September 11, 2005

What is Tom DeLay doing NOW?

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