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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

Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term (CNN) - CNN: *Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term* — When President-elect Donald Trump mused about b...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction - Species threatened by compounding risks from pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture and more
The Mind Unleashed

If You See Cardinals Often, This Is What It Means - Seeing a flash of vibrant red darting through the trees or perched delicately on a branch can feel like a magical moment. Cardinals, with their brilliant f...
Earth 911

Planning Your Raised Garden - With seed catalogs arriving in the mail, it’s time to look ahead to Spring planting.... The post Planning Your Raised Garden appeared first on Earth911.
Portside

Firms That Donated to Republican Party Avoided Tariffs in Trump First Term – Study - Firms That Donated to Republican Party Avoided Tariffs in Trump First Term – Study Mark Brody Thu, 01/09/2025 - 03:10
Crooked Media

How to Save the Environment from Trump and Project 2025 - The post How to Save the Environment from Trump and Project 2025 appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Elon Musk’s rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants something. I think I know what it is | Emma Brockes - The billionaire appears to have a David Brent-like desire to be seen as an entertainer. Please let him get back to conquering Mars What, as they say, is ...
Al Jazeera English

Syrians mark a month since al-Assad’s overthrow with concert in capital - Thousands attend the concert in Damascus to mark the end of al-Assad family rule and almost 14 years of civil war.
The Week

Kidney stones are affecting children far more than they once did - Salt may be to blame
Counterpunch

Was Carter’s Flawed Presidency, the Best the US Can Expect? - Jimmy Carter’s body has been interned after a century of energetic engagement on the earth’s surface. But his legacy remains debated as observed in legio...
Daily Dot

‘It’s physically impossible’: Dairy Queen customer orders new Blizzard. Then the worker hands it to her - [image: Dairy Queen makes unflippable Blizzard] A Dairy Queen customer complained when her Blizzard wasn't flipped upside down like she wanted. Viewers h...
ArcaMax

The Routine of the Rule of Law - This year, Jan. 6 was a routine day. Congress certified the election of Donald Trump. They did it in 30 minutes, instead of the overnight session in the wa...
Axios

Newly ignited L.A. fire triggers evacuation orders for over 100,000 in Hollywood - A fresh Los Angeles wildfire that ignited in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night is threatening homes and iconic L.A. landmarks, and it's prompted aut...
Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiff Alleges Negligence Against Property Managers After Apartment Fire - A resident sues multiple companies over negligence after an apartment fire leaves her homeless and without possessions. Read more…
jobsanger

The Threat To Democracy Will Soon Live In The White House -
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 ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2406: The Pigeonhole Principle - Episode: 2406 The Pigeonhole Principle. Today, pigeons and pigeonholes.
World Socialist Web Site

The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism - The extent of the devastation–much of which has yet to be accounted for–is yet another criminal indictment of the capitalist ruling elite, which is fueling...
Informed Comment

Yes, Human-Caused Climate Change Contributed to the Burning of Los Angeles - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Los Angeles wildfires destroyed over 1,000 buildings, forced thousands from their homes, and left at least five dead as ...
Raw Story

'Inexplicable decision': Critics blast LA mayor over Ghana trip as wildfires ignited - The mayor of Las Angeles is facing intense backlash as internet critics question her glaring absence as raging infernos have killed at least five people ...
Antiwar.com

US Always Knew NATO Expansion Led to War - The present severed from the past is easily misunderstood. In discussions of the Russia-Ukraine war, not enough is made of the historical facts that, at th...
WhoWhatWhy

An Amicable Nomination Process for Trump’s Picks Is Off to a Bad Start - [image: Doug Burgum, RJC Summit, Las Vegas, NV] Will Republicans try to push through some of Donald Trump's nominees without providing Democrats with the r...
Alternet

SD congressman drafts bill to authorize Trump’s potential purchase of Panama Canal - U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, said Wednesday he will introduce legislation that would authorize President-elect Donald Trump to purchase the P...
Mediaite

Fox’s Leo Terrell Blames Californians for Fires They’re Suffering Through in Unhinged Rant: ‘I Blame the Voters!’ - Fox News contributor Leo Terrell blamed a host of culprits for the outbreak of wildfires in southern California – including Californians themselves. The p...
The Hill

Newsom hits back at Trump wildfire comments, says Biden did not 'play politics' - California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President-elect Trump for recent comments he made about ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area....
The Reality-Based Community

Sir Jim Ratcliffe đã sẵn sàng bán cả đội hình nếu M.U vẫn bết bát - Manchester United, sau một khởi đầu đáng quên trong mùa giải 2024/25, đang chuẩn bị thực hiện một cuộc cải tổ mạnh mẽ. Đội bóng chủ sân Old Trafford, từn...
Mediagazer

Podcast publisher iHeartMedia and the NFL extend their partnership, with plans to debut new original podcasts and NFL Club shows each year as part of the deal (Ray Schultz/MediaPost) - Ray Schultz / MediaPost: *Podcast publisher iHeartMedia and the NFL extend their partnership, with plans to debut new original podcasts and NFL Club show...
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.
Techdirt.

Kentucky Police Kill Innocent Man While Serving Warrant At Wrong Address - Is it too much to ask for cops to be better? When other government employees get the address wrong, it may mean mail delivery delays or incorrect property ...
The Verge

Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers - [image: An illustration of the Apple logo.] Illustration: The Verge Apple is refuting rumors that it ever let advertisers target users based on Siri reco...
San Antonio Report

USAA announces Juan C. Andrade as next president, CEO - The USAA Board of Directors announced Wednesday that Juan C. Andrade will be the company’s next president and CEO. Andrade, who has served on USAA’s board ...
Popular Resistance

Genocide: The New Normal - Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This ...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Deadline Politics

CNN Defamation Trial: Security Consultant Testifies On His Texts Telling Reporter “No Afghan Is Expected To Pay For Evacuation Costs” - A security consultant testified in the second day of his defamation trial against CNN, as his attorney ran through a series of text messages with the netwo...
Brad Blog

'A Tidal Wave of Fire' in L.A.: 'BradCast' 1/8/2025 - From the heart of climate-changed wind and inferno country, apparently, it's today's special edition of The BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this...
Political Wire

Allies Say Trump Is Serious About Buying Greenland - “When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea ‘ab...
Salon.com

"We did not discuss that": Trump spoke to Alito before asking SCOTUS to intervene in hush money case - Justice Alito admits he spoke to Trump before the filing, but denies they discussed Supreme Court business
Mother Jones

As Los Angeles Burns, We’re Seeing a Conflagration of Lies and Disinformation - This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The firestorms that have been ravaging Los A...
Daily Cartoonist

Whatnot Wednesday Evening - A collection of comic strip and cartoon adjacent news items. John Wagner, A Life in Comics John Wagner is the creator of the infamous British comic charact...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Fox News gun rights supporting pundit bothered by LGBTQ+ people buying guns' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Jesse Watters *Jesse Watters calls LGBTQ+ people 'nuts' for buying guns ahead of Trump's second term* - *Some folks have a fetish for collecting guns and ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Winter has officially come for us, as Houston weather has finally realized, “Oh yeah – it’s supposed to be cold this time of year.”
Workers World

The lynching of Robert Brooks and the expanding police state - [image: The lynching of Robert Brooks and the expanding police state] Robert Brooks Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man imprisoned at Marcy Correctional...
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...
Vox

Are North Carolina Republicans trying to steal a state Supreme Court seat? - North Carolina’s Supreme Court has temporarily prohibited the state’s Board of Elections from certifying the election of sitting Democratic Justice Allison...
Consortium News

NYT Rejects Quakers’ Ad Calling Gaza a ‘Genocide’ - “An outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth” — that’s how an American Friends Service Committee spokesperson responded to the paper’s refusal to run paid ...
Scheerpost.com

Craig Murray: Twisting the Terrorism Narrative - Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very s...
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...
The Greanville Post

New Year’s Attacks by Green Beret & Army Veteran: Does U.S. Militarism Abroad Fuel Violence at Home? - DEMOCRACY NOW—We look at what we know about two deadly incidents that unfolded in the United States on New Year's Day: a truck attack in New Orleans in whi...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS donates $5,000 for surgical tech and vocational nursing program - STHS supports Texas State Technical College's Harlingen Campus' Surgical Tech & Vocational Nursing Program. The post STHS donates $5,000 for surgical tec...
Slate

The California Wildfires Just Revealed This Very Grim Truth - When the smoke clears, the lies remain.
Grist

Why Los Angeles is burning in January - Powerful winds and extra-dry vegetation have fueled what may become the costliest wildfires on record.
Progressive.org

How Venture Capital Flattens Neighborhoods - A new level of super-gentrification is rapidly remaking your favorite places.
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...
Futurism

Crypto Platforms Like Polymarket Now Taking Bets on Los Angeles Fire Devastation - As Los Angeles burns, users of the crypto-based platform Polymarket are gleefully placing bets on the devastation caused by the raging wildfire, which ha...
NPR's Health Shots

Toxic smoke from the L.A. fires is blanketing the region - Wildfires raging around Los Angeles mean air quality has plummeted. What's the risk for everyone breathing that air -- and how can people protect themselves?
The Root

You Won't Guess the Unbelievable Story This Florida Principal Told Police to Try to Get Out of a Traffic Stop - The career of a Florida principal is up in the air after a simple traffic stop resulted in him in hand cuffs. It all started on Tuesday, Jan. 7 when a st...
Texas Standard

‘We’re ready to go’: Texas leaders confident about preparations, power grid ahead of winter storm - Texas officials on Wednesday outlined preparations for the winter storm set to hit much of the state this week.
Daily Howler

As much of the city of angels burns.... - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025* *...he does what such people do:* At *Raw Story*, Brad Reed reports the anger being directed at Donald J. Trump. The incomi...
Texas Monthly

She Wants Criminal Justice Reform. Her Plan: A Hill Country Refuge for January 6 Rioters - Outside Luckenbach, a woman sentenced for her role in the 2020 U.S. Capitol riot is building a sanctuary for other “J6ers.” She hopes to have housing ready...
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...
Second Nexus

Gavin Newsom Throws Major Shade At Trump With Message Thanking Biden For Fire Assistance - California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom praised President Joe Biden for quickly responding to his request for FMAG (Fire Management Assistance Grants...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Environment Department wants Cannon AFB to justify its permit to operate after PFAS leak - By Susan Morée The New Mexico Environment Department is demanding Cannon Air Force Base pay civil fines and justify its permit to operate within the sta...
Wolf Street

Why Used-Vehicle Prices May Put Upward Pressure on CPI, after Having Been a Powerful Contributor to Cooling Inflation - The new-vehicle shortages of 2021-2022 now mean lower supply to the used-vehicle market, amid solid demand.
Undernews

LOS ANGELES WILDIFRE - Palisades and Eaton wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles
Election Law Blog

“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Halt His Sentencing in N.Y. Criminal Case” - NYT: Days away from his criminal sentencing in New York, President-elect Donald J. Trump is seeking a late-stage rescue from the U.S. Supreme Court that ...
Angry Bear

First Look at Several Early Reporting Local Housing Markets in December - 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December – by Bill McBride Calculated Risk Newsletter NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed ...
Mondoweiss

Tensions rise in the West Bank as PA ‘siege’ on Jenin continues - [image: Palestinian security forces gather at the site of a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occup...
Sludge

The Known Trump Inaugural Donors - Here are the crypto companies, financial firms, and Big Tech CEOs shelling out a million dollars to Trump's inauguration.
OpEd News

Hear About the Lass Who'll Sleep with 1000 Guys? - The model Lily Phillips will attempt to have sex with 1000 men in 24 hours, the sad harbinger of things to come.
slacktivist

All this time the river flows - Henry Farrell and Dietrich Bonhoeffer help me think through my decades-long one-sided argument with Sting. (This is about Elon and Zuck and "disinformation...
American Prospect

The Conflagration in L.A. - Today on TAP: My adopted city is in flames, and we’re collectively to blame.
SCOTUSblog

Heir to Chicago political dynasty brings his “false statement” charges to Supreme Court - [image: Heir to Chicago political dynasty brings his “false statement” charges to Supreme Court]The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the case of a form...
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers Seek Solutions To Protect Minors From Social Media Harms - Texas lawmakers are intensifying efforts to hold social media companies accountable for exposing minors to harmful content, convening a hearing on Tuesda...
ProPublica

North Carolina Supreme Court Blocked Certification of a Justice’s Win. Activists Fear It’s “Dangerous for Democracy.” - by Doug Bock Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing...
LareDOS

Ramon Chavez appointed new Assistant City Manager - CM Neeb: Chavez’s extensive experience brings a wealth of leadership, technical expertise
Claytoonz

Fact-Check B-A-A-A-A-AN - 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...
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...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 52: “Food Fight! RFK’s MAHA vs. Fat-Fluencers” - Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with food. We eat too much of it, and not the best kind; as high as 75% of Americans are considered ob...
First Draft

Album Cover Art: Grateful Dead Meets Toto Too - What do The Dead and Toto have in common? The cover art of Philip Garris, that's what.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/8/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; LA Palisades Fire: This is fine; Trump's pivotto the Northern Hemisphere; More weirdness with the Vegas Tesla ...
Church and State

How Trump Transforms Democracy to Dictatorship: A Warning America Can’t Afford to Ignore - It’s impossible to disentangle democracy-ending authoritarianism from billionaire corruption of government. They require each other.
Ballot Access News

New Maine Registration Data - On December 27, 2024, the Maine Secretary of State posted new registration data. See it here. Percentages are: Democratic 34.41%; Republican 29.90%; Green ...
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...
El Paso Matters

‘I follow the law:’ El Paso doctor responds to Texas AG lawsuit over alleged transgender care - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued El Paso pediatrician Dr. Hector Granados. We hear from the doctor for the first time. The post ‘I follow the law:...
Capital & Main

These Teachers Will Have to Cross Party Lines to Get a Union - Can educators in California’s largest nonunion public school district — in a county that flipped to Trump — upend a 65-year tradition? The post These Te...
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...
MintPress News

From Genocide Joe to Trump’s Israel First: What’s Next for Palestine?” - Pro-Palestine activists brace for an onslaught of anti-BDS policies, escalating military support for Israel, and a repressive domestic crackdown as Donal...
Rewire

During the Next Administration, We Save Ourselves - Community is the antidote to fascism in the Trump administration. The post During the Next Administration, We Save Ourselves appeared first on Rewire New...
Discourse

Look At This Loser - Mark Zuckerberg's kowtowing to Trump is noxious and ugly. But most of all, it's pathetic.
Bonddad

Truck sales sound a warning - * - by New Deal democrat* Twenty years ago Prof. Edward Leamer made a big splash with a speech to the Fed in which he proclaimed that “Housing IS th...
Texas Observer

This Aspiring Social Worker Should Not Be Blacklisted - Families in crisis trust Katherin Youniacutt, a grandmother who lives a quiet life with her husband in Lubbock. Besides a graduate degree in social work,...
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...
Democracy Now!

11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of "Extreme Deprivation." Will Biden Close Guantánamo for Good? - Eleven Yemeni men imprisoned without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention center for more than two decades have just been released to Oman to re...
Space City Weather

Houston’s focus now shifts to a threat of heavy rainfall late Thursday and Friday near the coast - In brief: Houston is not done with the colder weather, but our low temperatures will now moderate slightly for the next couple of days. As a coastal low pr...
The Smirking Chimp

What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet? -
Skeptophilia

Hands, skulls, and colours - In H. P. Lovecraft's terrifying and atmospheric 1927 short story "The Colour Out of Space," a meteorite strikes near a farmhouse in a rural area "west of...
Off The Kuff

HISD’s progress on special education - This is a big part of the takeover mandate, so making progress on fixing the identified issues with special education is a must. Houston ISD’s state-appoin...
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...
See You In 2020

The Palestinian people’s destruction, the effort to crush anti-Zionist organizing, & our struggle’s new stage - Above: Gaza City in October 2023, at the start of the ongoing siege; photo by Hassan Eslaiah/AP. The Palestinian genocide represents a critical point in...
Lowering the Bar

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

France Celebrates as Jean-Marie le Pen Rot in Hell! - When someone as Jean-Marie Le Pen begins the journey to the stokes the fires of... The post France Celebrates as Jean-Marie le Pen Rot in Hell! appeared ...
Ian Welsh

Smart CEOs Suck Up To Trump - [image: Smart CEOs Suck Up To Trump] So, a very partial list of donors to Trump’s second inauguration includes: - Apple’s Tim Cook. - Ken Griffon o...
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...
Liberation News

Trump and Project 2025 will wage an assault on LGBTQ rights. But we can fight back! - Until now, the far-right had been forced to wage its anti-LGBTQ campaign at the state level, but Trump’s election has elevated that program to the nationa...
The AltWorld

Después de Irak, Libia, Gaza, Líbano y Siria, el Pentágono ataca Yemen - El Pentágono está enfrascado en una carrera contra el tiempo antes de que Donald Trump inicie su […] The post Después de Irak, Libia, Gaza, Líbano y Siri...
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

Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows - State-level immigration policies can have surprising ripple effects.
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...
The Texas Signal

A Timeline Of Texas Republicans And January 6th - *This article originally appeared on **Texas Signal** three years ago, before we transitioned to a nonprofit newsroom. Four years after the deadly attack...
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...
DeSmogBlog

How Big Meat Worked to Rebrand in 2024 — Using Disinformation - This article by Sentient is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The meat industry and its proponents work...
High Country News

Montana’s ag tax slashes bills for thousands of million-dollar homes - Properties classified ‘agricultural’ get a tax break despite bona fide operations. Can lawmakers new proposals tighten qualifications? The post Montana’...
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...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Ravenna in Droitwich - A curious one, this. We were looking through some old postcards (from the 1930s) and came across one with a picture of this church interior. Where’s that? ...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 -
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 ...
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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