Brains and Eggs

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

See you from Seattle

... but perhaps not until Friday. Tomorrow's travel day and our anniversary dinner in the evening; Thursday's an all-day outing to Mt. Rainier.

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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

Polygraph (global fact-check)

The latest on the New Orleans terrorist attack - The suspect in the New Year’s Day terror attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans was inspired by the Islamic State terror group and appears to have act...
Raw Story

GOP House majority leader suggests DEI to blame for New Orleans attack - House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) created another explanation for why authorities were unable to thwart the New Year’s Day carnage in New Orlean...
Mediaite

Thomas Massie Says He Won’t Vote for Mike Johnson No Matter What: ‘You Can Pull All My Fingernails Out’ and ‘Shove Bamboo Up in Them’ - Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said he would not vote for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) under any circumstances, even if his fingernails were pulled out. ...
memeorandum

The New Orleans attack shows that ISIS hasn't gone away. It's changed. (Joshua Keating/Vox) - Joshua Keating / Vox: *The New Orleans attack shows that ISIS hasn't gone away. It's changed.* — The “caliphate” is history. But ISIS is still a thre...
Salon.com

"Don't do what McCarthy did": Moderate GOP members urge Johnson not to deal with party's far-right - The GOP isn't yet united on Johnson for speaker and some party members are asking him not to negotiate with MAGA
Axios

FBI shares new details on person suspected of planting pipe bombs in D.C. on Jan. 6 eve - Nearly four years after pipe bombs were planted outside the Democratic and Republican Parties' headquarters in Washington, D.C., the FBI on Thursday rele...
WhoWhatWhy

New Orleans Attack Highlights Need for Rigorous Vetting of Trump’s Nominees - [image: Kash Patel, 2022 AmericaFest] Republicans are using the New Orleans terrorist attack to make the case that Donald Trump's national security nominee...
The Hill

Johnson on homeland security: Biden admin didn't prioritize 'the right things' - Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) criticized President Biden's administration's handling of homeland security following the deadly New Orleans truck attack, arg...
Daily Cartoonist

Everyone’s Got An Opinion - My opinion is to stand foursquare behind Michael Cavna, who closed out 2024 with a five part Warped statement, starts here, on the dangers we face without ...
Alternet

'Don’t do what McCarthy did': GOP reps issue warning to Johnson - As Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces the possibility of an ouster from the speakership Friday if he doesn't receive enough votes, some Republican lawmake...
Political Wire

House GOP Moderates Warn Mike Johnson - “House Republicans’ mainstream wing is warning Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) not to repeat his predecessor’s mistake of giving away the store to his right-wi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Notre Dame see off Georgia to join CFP semi-finals with Penn State, Ohio State and Texas - - Fighting Irish quiet Bulldogs 23-10 to reach CFP last four - Sugar Bowl was postponed one day due to terror attack Riley Leonard passed for a t...
Popular Resistance

Ukraine On The Verge Of Defeat - In 2023 the situation in Ukraine had developed into what looked like a stalemate. But 2024 proved that bigger things had been in the making. In 2024, aft...
The Verge

The latest RTX 50 leak comes from Nvidia - [image: A screenshot of Nvidia’s mysterious prize PC.] Image: Nvidia It seems like Nvidia might be about to reveal its RTX 50 series GPUs, and now Nvidia...
Ballot Access News

Tennessee Libertarian Party Files Reply Brief in Ballot Access Case in Sixth Circuit - On December 31, 2024, the Tennessee Libertarian Party filed this Reply brief in Darnell v Hargett, 24-5856, in the Sixth Circuit. This is the case that cha...
slacktivist

Posting from my phone - Comcast xFinity is now saying our internet service will be restored by tomorrow at 10 pm. This amends their earlier reassurance that service would be resto...
Al Jazeera English

South Korea authorities seek to arrest Yoon at suspended leader’s residence - Yoon faces becoming the first sitting president to be detained in country's history.
ArcaMax

'wicked,' 'the Wizard Of Oz,' And The Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg - People around the globe have been watching the blockbuster musical film "Wicked" this holiday season. Based on the Broadway musical, it serves as a backsto...
Consortium News

Office Pool 2025 - Andrew P. Napolitano offers 20 multiple-choice predictions concerning the Trump team, the U.S. government, the Supreme Court, popular culture, an array of ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - We’re now officially in 2025, and the first weekend of the new year brings plenty to do: Marcie Chapa and Stefanie Pepping will perform live. From the Ash...
World Socialist Web Site

Holiday season highlights deepening inequality in New Zealand - In 2024 New Zealand’s financial and political elite vastly increased their wealth while the level of need for many people over Christmas was the worst it h...
Mediagazer

The Gannett-Reuters deal aims to supplant The Associated Press, which has resisted journalism's financialization through its longstanding cooperative model (Matt Pearce) - Matt Pearce: *The Gannett-Reuters deal aims to supplant The Associated Press, which has resisted journalism's financialization through its longstanding c...
San Antonio Report

Mental health advocates ask Texas lawmakers to replace expiring COVID-19 relief funding - As ARPA funding ends, Texas lawmakers must now determine how to replace it, while sustaining funding for existing initiatives. -----------------------------...
Progressive.org

Jimmy Carter Warned Us About Israeli Apartheid - The late President wrote in a controversial 2006 book that Israel was on its way to apartheid towards Palestinians.
Portside

Trump Voters Are In for a Rude Awakening - Trump Voters Are In for a Rude Awakening jay Thu, 01/02/2025 - 18:52
Eater Houston

Houston Area Restaurant Tris Shutters After Chef Resigns - [image: Chef Austin Simmons, center, and his culinary team at Tris.] Chef Austin Simmons is reportedly leaving restaurant Tris to spend more time with fam...
Techdirt.

There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud - When Apple unveiled its AR/VR Vision Pro headset early last year the product was met with just an absolute ocean of tech press hype. You couldn’t spend thi...
Daily Dot

‘Is it not free for to-go box?’: Waffle House worker warns against asking for a to-go box if you’re going to do this - [image: Waffle House worker(l), Waffle house sign(r)] A Waffle House server proposes a creative—and controversial—way to encourage tipping in a now-viral...
The Conversation

New Orleans attacker’s apparent loyalty to Islamic State group highlights persistent threat of lone wolf terrorism - The suspect in a truck assault that left at least 15 dead had previously pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group, authorities say.
Vox

Republicans are once again staring down House speaker drama. Here’s what’s at stake. - House Republicans could soon experience some serious déjà vu. On Friday, January 3, the newly elected Congress will convene for the first time and vote fo...
The Texas Signal

The Abortion Wars Enter A New Front - As many were celebrating the holidays, Attorney General Ken Paxton was amping up another round of abortion-related lawsuits in the state. Last month his ...
Houston Public Media

What is Turo? Car rental app comments on New Orleans attack, Las Vegas explosion - Turo confirmed via a statement that the vehicles used in the two incidents were rented using their app.
Reform Austin

The Islamic State - The post The Islamic State appeared first on Reform Austin.
Texas Standard

New ‘little blue bee’ species discovered in Texas and Oklahoma - “It is only by going out and documenting these new species can we have a better and more comprehensive understanding of how nature works to sustain all the...
Second Nexus

Trump Slammed After Falsely Insinuating That New Orleans Attack Suspect Was An Immigrant - President-elect Donald Trump was harshly criticized after he used the deadly attack on New Year's Eve in New Orleans to call out Democrats and the media ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Futurism

Babies Being Found in Dumpsters After Texas Abortion Ban - Two years on, the Texas abortion ban has brought consequences almost too grim to contemplate — but what many critics would argue were entirely predictabl...
Common Dreams

Why We Need Major Reforms in the H-1B Program - *Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), current Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released the following sta...
Claytoonz

Burn, Baby, Burn - 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...
Sludge

Four Reps Cleared of Ethics Charges Over Misused Campaign Funds - Watchdogs say the move effectively legalizes House members using campaign funds for personal purposes.
Election Law Blog

Biden DOJ Asks SCOTUS for Chance to Give Up Defense of Laws Limiting Political Parties from Becoming Conduits for Large Campaign Contributions; Trump DOJ Will File Instead - See this letter from the Solicitor General requesting an extension of time into the Trump Administration to file a response to the cert. petition in the ...
Slate

My Neighbors’ Kid Is Being Increasingly Unsettling Around Our House. I Feel Trapped. - I do not want this kid coming around anymore.
The Root

Some of the Most Stylish Black Players in the NFL - These days being a professional athlete is as much about your style as your performance on the field. From the NBA to the NFL, the tunnel walk is just as...
The AltWorld

A Roaring Multipolarity - It is not the first year that people have been talking about the decline of unipolar hegemony […] The post A Roaring Multipolarity appeared first on TheA...
Church and State

Jimmy Carter’s Whole Life So Contrasted With Trump’s Slimy Behavior! - Carter's presidency accomplished much and much to acknowledge in his post presidency, even more about this remarkable human being.
Ian Welsh

Tracking the Signs of Decline in America - [image: Tracking the Signs of Decline in America] If you want to be a decent analyst, let alone a forecaster, you need to know how to find real informatio...
Wolf Street

What Should Tesla’s Stock Be Worth? Automaker, Stagnating Vehicle Sales like GM & Ford, Getting Overtaken by Competitors, Losing Share in the Booming EV Market? - Tesla is now just another mid-size automaker amid EV competition that is eating its lunch.
Deadline Politics

As Donald Trump Prepares To Take Office, Meta Names New Public Policy Chief As Nick Clegg Departs - Nick Clegg, who has led global affairs at Meta since 2018, is stepping down, to be succeeded by his deputy, Joel Kaplan. The changes in Meta’s public polic...
The Week

What are annuities and how do they work? - They are commonly associated with retirement planning due to their ability to provide reliable payments over time
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/2/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Mangione judge, defense fund; WSWS on managing disease through allowing infection; Populism and the Wizard of ...
First Draft

So Yeah, 2025 - A different kind of New Year's resolution.
The Greanville Post

Can An Astute President-to-Be Donald Trump Get Away Maintaining a Blind Eye to the Genocide in Gaza? - JAY JANSON—by international law, an occupying power is responsible for the well-being of its militarily occupied population. United Nations Secretary-Gener...
The Mind Unleashed

The Simpsons ‘predictions for 2025’ are more extremely bad news for the world - For over three decades, The Simpsons has been more than just a TV show—it’s been a cultural touchstone, a comedic mirror reflecting society’s quirks, and, ...
Southeast Texas Record

Paxton praises dismissal of case against First Assistant AG Webster - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is praising the state Supreme Court’s dismissal of an attempt to discipline his first assistant AG. Read more…
El Paso Matters

Opinion: In Duranguito, city should prioritizing ending longstanding neglect of the neighborhood - The city government has been unfocused and plodding on plans to preserve the historic Duranguito neighborhood, a community group says. The post Opinion:...
Angry Bear

The business of AI: where’s the intelligence? - The two editors-in-chief, the emeritus editors, and all associate editors but one for the Elsevier scientific periodical Journal of Human Evolution have ...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 48: “Mean Streets: Can Anyone Clean Them Up?” - A driver runs down and kills 15 pedestrians on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. A man pushes a commuter in front of a New York subway train days after a mi...
American Prospect

President Musk Declares War on American Workers - MAGA voters thought they elected an America First government. Tech billionaires think they are running the show.
OpEd News

Green buildings in cities -- Sustainable Architecture - Ecological paving solutions for all areas that need to remain permeable.
Rio Grande Guardian

DHR Health Women’s Hospital Celebrates First Baby Born on New Year’s Day - New Year's Day baby born at DHR Health Women's Hospital. The post DHR Health Women’s Hospital Celebrates First Baby Born on New Year’s Day appeared first...
Mondoweiss

Israel cannot lose a ‘humanity’ it never had - [image: A Palestinian man overlooks the Jaramana Refugee Camp in Damascus, Syria in 1948. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)]A recent Haaretz editorial claimed, "I...
Texas Monthly

Meet the Golden Globes Grandma, an 85-Year-Old Who’s Been Attending the Show for Three Decades - She’s traveled from Fort Worth to the Beverly Hills Hilton since 1991, rubbing shoulders with—but never asking for autographs from—celebs.
Undernews

MONEY - *David Doney* [image: Image] [image: Image] [image: Image][image: Image]
MintPress News

Systemic Rape Allegations Against Israel Meet a Deafening Silence - As harrowing new accounts of systemic sexual abuse by Israeli soldiers come to light, the media shifts its focus to amplify Israel's latest claims agains...
Bonddad

More worrisome signs as construction spending, especially for residential construction, declines with negative revisions - * - by New Deal democrat* Last month I started by report on construction spending by writing “ Construction spending for October also came in general...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Thursday, Jan. 2 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, Jan. 2]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s t...
Daily Howler

VOTERS: Incoming president does it again! - *THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2024* *This is the discourse we've chosen: *"Th[is] darkest evening of the year?" These "darkest evenings" are rather common at thi...
The Progressive Wing

January 1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - A little late but let’s get the 2025 ball rolling.
Space City Weather

Winter is coming: Houston to undergo a significant pattern change a prolonged cold spell looms - In brief: So far this winter in Houston has been abnormally warm, with December feeling more like late fall than winter. But that’s about to change as an A...
Democracy Now!

"Dead Calm": BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown - As we move into 2025, we look at how the world is cracking down on migrants and asylum seekers, and the dangers they face when trying to flee their countri...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: American-Century Fight - “American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run.
Debunking Christianity

America Is in Decline. Trump Will Not Reverse It. We Should Adopt a New World Order or Face Serious Consequences! - This is almost all new and important information to me! If you know something about world politics and economics take a look. Then let me know what you thi...
The Smirking Chimp

Friendships With Trumpers: A Bridge Too Far -
Bud Kennedy

The office is open: Craig Goldman heads to Washington as Fort Worth’s new congressman | Opinion - U.S. Rep. Craig Goldman started in the mailroom, sorting letters sent 35 years ago from Texas to then-new U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm. Goldman is now back in Wash...
Skeptophilia

Water worlds - Water is one of those things that seems ordinary until you start looking into it. The subject always puts me in mind of the deeply poignant *Doctor Who* e...
Off The Kuff

The Kansas experience with requiring proof of citizenship to vote - Also not good. Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in t...
DeSmogBlog

Midwest Wins Funding for a New Hydrogen Hub. Not Everyone Is Convinced It’s ‘Clean.’ - This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and is publi...
Mother Jones

Trump Won’t Confront the Climate Crisis. He’ll Feast Off It. - With the election of Donald Trump, we’re in for a climate catastrophe. We know because we’re in that crisis now, already. We just don’t talk about it all t...
The Daily Poster

The Rise Of Big Potato - Allegations of price collusions among the potato cartel reveal the new, sophisticated methods food corporations are using to keep prices high.
ProPublica

Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them. - by Nicole Foy ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
Grist

Chicago keeps its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100% clean power - To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi.
Earth 911

You Can’t Eat Silica Gel, But You Can Reuse It - There are lots of ways to reuse to products like plastic bottles, wine corks, and... The post You Can’t Eat Silica Gel, But You Can Reuse It appeared fir...
See You In 2020

Cop City, Palestine, & the prospect that dissident organizations will need to go underground - Above: a 2023 protest against Atlanta's massive “Cop City” police training center, photo by Megan Varner/Reuters Last month, our government’s effort to ...
Counterpunch

The Teamsters’ Amazon “Strikes”: a Critical Assessment - Screen shot from the Teamsters Facebook page. The Teamsters’ five day long strike against Amazon ended inconclusively, but the union hinted at future act...
Workers World

PDF of January 2 issue - [image: PDF of January 2 issue] Download the color version. Download the black & white version. IN THIS ISSUE Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks Expo...
jobsanger

The Immigration System Is Broken -
Informed Comment

NOLA Attacker was a Vet who fought the War on Terror against Extremists before Breakdown - Ann Arbor – (Informed Comment) – I love New Orleans, and have been known to hit the jazz clubs on Bourbon Street into the wee hours myself. So what happene...
Antiwar.com

Why Does the Canadian Military Help Bomb Yemen? - Israeli and US aggression against Yemen is escalating. And Canada is participating in this effort to insulate Israel from pressure to stop killing Palestin...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

On the Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics: The philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on the academy, the elite, and the future of politics. - *Friends:* *Happy New Year! Wishing all a peaceful and blessed 2025. I'm happy to introduce you to philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, author of Elite Capture: ...
NPR's Health Shots

Advice on how to make it through the month of January alcohol-free - Every year, more and more Americans embark on Dry January – a whole month of giving up alcohol. NPR's "Life Kit" brings us tips for staying sober in 2025.
TalkLeft

Utopias: A Successful Investment Plan for Cities' Poorest Hoods - Starting the New Year off with an inspirational article in the Guardian about Mexico City's mayor, Clara Brugada, and her successful strategy of building...
Liberation News

PSL statement: We stand with the Cuban Revolution! - Since Day One of the Cuban revolution, U.S. imperialism has waged a non-stop war designed to crush the aspirations of the Cuban people to be free and self-...
Crooked Timber

In 2025, let’s make resistance more effective - Here’s a virtual toast to your flourishing in 2025. But more so than any other year, our wishes should not just be from person to person, but rather wishes...
The Grayzone

Will the Cuban revolution survive the storm of 2025? - Danny Shaw has been traveling to Cuba since 1995 in support of the country’s socialist revolution. Unsatisfied with the official proclamations and guided...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 2 - As we saw two weeks ago, the action of The Nibelung’s Ring is rising toward crisis in this third opera of the cycle. Siegfried, the child born of the inces...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Preparing for the Storm: A Brief Guide to Getting Ready for What's Coming - We're close to the inauguration and the beginning of something very dangerous. It's time to get ready.
Bracing Views

Moving Rightwards in America - W.J. Astore Ratcheting Up America’s Problems On Twitter/X, I stumbled across this useful image that visually captures the U.S. political scene: The modific...
Infidel753

Dawning class awareness on the right - The new eruption of class consciousness and anti-oligarch fervor that followed the UHC CEO assassination last month cannot be subsumed into the tired old ...
High Country News

Why the West needs prairie dogs - [image: Prairie dogs emerge from their burrow in a colony on American Prairie in Montana. Prairie dogs, once one of the most abundant animals on the prairi...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Apocalypse Now? What Other Explanation For Cult Control? - There's no doubt that a lot of people think there's an Apocalypse, of some sort coming, even if the God they worship can't possibly be real, although th...
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...
Duck of Minerva

My Best Classroom Reads of the Year - Amid the annual deluge of end-of-year lists, I started to think about what readings generated the best classroom discussions I have overseen in the past ca...
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 ...
Krebs on Security

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions - Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and...
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...
alicublog

MONDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BETWEEN A REICH AND A HARD PLACE EDITION. - *Let's have a little soothing jangle-bell rock.* Yeah, it’s normally Friday ‘Round-the-Horn – but I am told on social media that the period between Chri...
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...
Capital & Main

2024 Year in Photos - Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles. The post 2024 Year in Photos appeared first on .
Project Censored

Digital Settler Colonialism, Gaza, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation - In the first half of the show, Mickey sits down with Omar Zahzah, a Lebanese/Palestinian organizer, writer, poet, freelance journalist and assistant prof...
Texas Observer

Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas Letters - Winding up your year by the fire (or by the pool) as the temperature rises and dips? Or just taking off on a long holiday drive? In any of these scenario...
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...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?' Toons - Seriously. No matter how bad it gets. Don't forget the fun. Or the terrorists win. See ya soon... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDid...
Progressives Chat

Happy New Year’s 2025! - 2024 is ending and, come Wednesday, January 1, 2025, we will enter a new year. May it be a good one for all. *Happy New Year!*
LareDOS

Laredo College scholarship fund to honor mother-daughter nursing duo, Elinor K. Smith and Geraldine Smith-Haley - Both had long lasting impact on South Texas communities
Democracy Chronicles

Society On The Brink - The system feels rigged against many, crumbling under inequities while serving only the privileged few.
Crooked Media

2024: Great Music, Terrible Vibes - The post 2024: Great Music, Terrible Vibes appeared first on Crooked Media.
nonsite.org

The Painter: 5 Prose Poems in Memory of Joseph Marioni - Joseph Marioni emails to say that he has finally resolved his large green painting. The last Archetype has fallen -- not fallen, exactly, rather it has yie...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Hindu Supremacy: Biju Mathew and Karthikeyan Shanmugam - In 2024, Southern Poverty Law Center staff interviewed eight experts and advocates working in the human rights space to explore the topic of Hindu supremac...
Discourse

Bird of the Year: Kākāpō - We might need to create a “Bird of the Decade” award for this unrivaled specimen.
Rewire

Legislators Are Targeting Sex Education Post-‘Roe.’ Advocates Say It Will Worsen Children’s Health Outcomes. - Children are receiving sex education at lower rates than 20 years ago—even though it has proven physical and mental health benefits. The post Legislators...
Idavox

Of COURSE Nazi Rally Against One People’s Project, Did Not Go Exactly As Planned! - Any time you try to sneak around to do anything, it only takes catching you... The post Of COURSE Nazi Rally Against One People’s Project, Did Not Go Ex...
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...
The Militant

Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny, Israel’s response, deepening showdown in the Middle East - The reactionary capitalist regime in Tehran and its ally Hamas believed the pogrom they launched against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, 2023, was a major victory a...
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...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Atalanta vs Empoli lúc 00h00 ngày 23/12/2024 - Tiếp tục với đấu trường Serie A, khi bước vào vòng 17, thi đấu trong khi đang có thành tích kém hơn và sự bất lợi trên sân khách, Empoli sẽ gặp khó khăn ...
Avedon's Sideshow

From now on our troubles will be out of sight - I don't care if he's doing it for the wrong reason. If Trump gets rid of the debt ceiling, it will be good, because, as Dday says, "The Debt Limit Shoul...
Lowering the Bar

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

The Daily Show gives 'No 1 book banner' wide room to make a fool of himself. - This took place earlier this month. I don't know how I missed it. From *Crooks and Liars:* The Daily Show's Michael Kosta . . . interviewed the "No. 1...
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...
Dissident Voice

Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence - The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a temporary buffer zone from which tactical a...
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...
Trivial Knot

Popularity is (almost) scale-free - We live in an ecosystem, where everyone is pressured to be a content creator of some sort. Suppose you want to interact with your friends on the internet. ...
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...
The NM Political Report

NM Political Report transitions to new ownership - [image: New Mexico Political Report] NM Political Report, the state’s daily nonprofit newsroom covering state government and politics, has joined the nonp...
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...
Political Garbage Chute

Jesus Told Me He’d Prefer If MAGA Kept the Him Out of Christmas - “What do they even need with me, when they have that sausage-fingered rapist they clearly worship more than me anyway?” – Jesus Hubert Christ Don’t ask m...
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 -
Media Lens

Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report - Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia w...
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 ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
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.
New Progressive Alliance

After the Election - I have friends on both sides and miss the days when we could tease each other instead of believing that we had to be mortal enemies. Those who advocate t...
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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