Brains and Eggs

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

Mediaite

Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson Take Turns Trashing Newsom Amid Fires: ‘All Our Tax Dollars Probably Went To Gavin’s Hair Gel’ - Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson are not terribly impressed with the leadership of Gavin Newsom amid raging wildfires which have claimed thousands of homes. The p...
Salon.com

Olive oil is healthy. Turns out olive leaf extract may be good for us too - "If you have high blood pressure, diabetes or raised blood lipids you may see some benefit . . ."
The Root

Trump and Obama Seen Laughing Together At Jimmy Carter's Funeral, and the Internet is More Than Confused About it - During the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, it seems many prominent political figures like Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of ...
Slate

Mom’s the Favorite. Dad’s Mad. - Plus: women in hip-hop, Dumas, and snowsen Rosens.
American Prospect

The L.A. Apocalypse Was Entirely Predictable - Today on TAP: The hills above my hometown regularly catch fire, and developers regularly build there nonetheless.
Second Nexus

The Cast Of 'School Of Rock' Just Reunited For The Wedding Of Two Of The Film's Young Stars - Weddings: one of the places where folks from your backgrounds can get together, meet one another, catch up with family, and....sing a song in tribute to ...
Houston Public Media

Buzbee law firm files more than $1 million lawsuit in deadly Deer Park Pemex facility gas leak - Plaintiffs John Phares, Josue Garcia, Billy Ortiz and Rodolfo Perez witnessed workers collapsing and passing out from a lack of oxygen as they were running...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 9, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Extreme wildfire crisis now the most destructive in Los ...
Daily Howler

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

Thousands protest as Austria's far-right-led coalition talks set to begin - Various nongovernmental organizations that deal with human rights, refugees and the environment called Thursday's protest
The Verge

We tried to hold Acer’s giant new Nitro Blaze 11 handheld - [image: A hand stretching to hold an Acer Nitro Blaze 11 gaming handheld.] *I can juuuust stretch my fingers far enough to grasp this wide boy.* The PC h...
Raw Story

'Breach of ethics': Jamie Raskin pushes Alito to recuse over 'startling' Trump phone call - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) demanded that Justice Samuel Alito recuse himself from a case involving Donald Trump after a "startling ex parte private phone c...
Mediagazer

Sources: Amazon is exploring news show concepts, probably tied to events, such as Brian Williams' election special on Prime Video that drew ~4M viewers (Brian Steinberg/Variety) - Brian Steinberg / Variety: *Sources: Amazon is exploring news show concepts, probably tied to events, such as Brian Williams' election special on Prime V...
The Greanville Post

The Ongoing Collapse of the Western Car Industry: Q1 2025, Part 1 - ROGER BOYD—What happens in Asia+Australasia will decide the fate of the major car manufacturers. In 2024, the Chinese EV market represented more than two t...
Liberation News

LA wildfires are due to criminal capitalist negligence, not ‘natural disaster’ - The mass destruction of people's livelihoods that we are currently witnessing in Los Angeles is not a natural disaster. It is the result of criminal neglig...
memeorandum

New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in his hush money case (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in his hush money case* — New York's highest court on Thursday...
Angry Bear

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

What are the long-term effects of alcohol? - It's not just cancer
Vox

An explosive Fox Sports lawsuit has turned into a salacious, sexist mess - Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports, marquee commentator Skip Bayless, and network e...
Eschaton

America's Worst Foreign Policy Guy - Joe Biden.
Al Jazeera English

US presidents gather for state funeral of Jimmy Carter - Former US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump sat next to each at the state funeral service for Jimmy Carter.
Futurism

A Boeing Jet's Nose Was Caught on Video Suddenly Collapsing to the Ground - Nasal Passage In Belgium, a Boeing 737 jetliner quite literally fell flat on its nose — and the airline behind it is stumped as to what happened. As a tr...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

State of emergency declared as several fires rage through Los Angeles – video - More than 170,000 people have been evacuated as firefighters battle flames across five areas of the Californian city. The largest fire, in Pacific Palisa...
DeSmogBlog

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

Schumer to Vote to Advance GOP Immigration Bill - “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced he will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, teeing up debate on the bill,” Politico reports. “...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/9/2025 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am now going to take a nap. Enjoy! Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Theodore Roosevelt National Par...
Consortium News

Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters - Gerry Condon recalls the years of determined resistance and organizing that led the late president to pardon draft resisters. By Gerry Condon The passing o...
El Paso Matters

El Paso households to see monthly water bill rise starting in March as utility’s budget soars - Water bills have escalated significantly over the last decade to pay for multi-billion dollar renovation of the city’s water and sewer systems, and stor...
First Draft

Don’t Fall For The Distraction - Pay attention to the people behind the curtain.
Texas Monthly

A San Antonio Teenager’s Nonprofit Assists Doctors a World Away - Moved by what she saw on a family trip to Africa, Ariana Chaudhary now helps save lives one email at a time.
The Hill

7 notable moments between VIPs at Carter’s funeral - Former President Carter’s funeral service at Washington National Cathedral brought together all five living presidents and current and former officials for...
San Antonio Report

New gallery revisits Nelson Wolff’s 51-year political career - [image: Nelson Wolff shares stories with a guest on Wednesday about some of the items on display inside of a new gallery dedicated to his life and politica...
Southeast Texas Record

Australian's Qatar injury claims against Oxy fail in Texas - HOUSTON - Occidental Petroleum and its Qatar wing have defeated a globe-spanning lawsuit in Texas concerning on-the-job injuries sustained by an Australi...
Alternet

Watch: George W. Bush declines to shake Donald Trump’s hand at Jimmy Carter’s funeral - Former President George W. Bush declined to shake the hand of President-elect Donald Trump at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral. As the former pre...
Axios

Fani Willis appeals disqualification from Trump's election interference case - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reverse her disqualification in the election interference case against...
SCOTUSblog

Justices to consider ability to renew lawsuit after voluntary dismissal - [image: Justices to consider ability to renew lawsuit after voluntary dismissal]Next week, when they return from their long holiday break, the justices w...
WhoWhatWhy

Refreshing News: Scientists Uncover How the Brain ‘Washes’ Itself During Sleep - [image: science, biology, medicine, brain, sleep discovery] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers beca...
Scheerpost.com

‘Deadly Exchange’: Us Sends Hundreds of Law Enforcement to Israel to Learn ‘Worst Practices’ From IDF - Through police exchange programs, local and federal officials travel to Israel for training that advocates say further militarizes the police and exacerbat...
Daily Dot

‘Now I’m out the computer and the money’: Best Buy customer orders $1,500 computer for pickup. Then the store gives it away to another customer - [image: Two panel design with customers inline at a Best Buy, next to an image of a Best Buy sign] Ever since COVID, curbside pickup has become a standar...
World Socialist Web Site

UK retail chains begin cull with more than 200,000 job losses predicted in 2025 - The Centre for Retail Research estimate around 170,000 jobs were lost in the UK’s retail sector in 2024. This was the highest number since the 200,000 lost...
OpEd News

Tomgram: William Astore, The American Military Under Trump and the DOGE - As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take America back (again!) to greatness, there's been much talk of Elon Musk's new DOGE, or Department of Gover...
Techdirt.

Meta’s Moderation Modifications Mean Anti-LGBTQ Speech Is Welcome, While Pro-LGBTQ Speech Is Not - On Monday, Taylor Lorenz posted a telling story about how Meta has been suppressing access to LGBTQ content across its platforms, labeling it as “sensitive...
Grist

Biden administration axes controversial climate plan for old growth forests - Forest advocates said the National Old Growth Amendment allowed too much logging, while the timber industry called it too restrictive.
Undernews

JUSTICE - *Community justice steps in 2024*
Capital & Main

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

British pop sensation goes ape in wild musical biopic Better Man - English pop star Robbie Williams has been massive in his native United Kingdom for over 30 years, first as a member of the boy band Take That, and then as...
The Mind Unleashed

Camp Started For Kids With HIV/AIDS Being Sold Because There’s Not Enough Sick Kids Who Need it Anymore - In the 1990s, a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was often a sentence to a life of fear and isolation, particularly for children who faced stigma from a world that st...
Texas Standard

Snow arrives in North Texas as state braces for winter storm - Here’s what to expect throughout the day and into Friday.
Mondoweiss

The Biden administration’s shameful weaponization of food aid - [image: Starving and angry Palestinians line up to receive free meals during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, o...
Rio Grande Guardian

Fuentes: We have some very exciting and innovative projects in the works - Hidalgo County Commissioner David Fuentes tells Texas County Progress about some big water, drainage, and transportation projects he and his team are wor...
ProPublica

The Neverending Case: How 10 Years of Delays Have Prevented a “Horrendous” Sexual Assault Allegation From Going to Trial - by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News; Graphics by Lucas Waldron and Zisiga Mukulu, ProPublica This story describes an alleged sexual assault and seriou...
Space City Weather

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

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

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

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

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

TMI Show Ep 53: “Facebook: Now with 40% Less Censorship” - LIVE at 10 am Eastern time today and STREAMING whenever: Never embarrassed to be seen blowing with the political winds, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spen...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Norwich City vs Brighton lúc 22h00 ngày 11/01/2025 - Tại vòng 1/32 thuộc giải Cúp FA, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu có nhiều kịch tính diễn ra giữa Norwich và Brighton đã thể hiện...
MintPress News

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

Young Men Who Don't Leave Home? Is Mama a Reason? - Young men are not launching -- that is, growing up as traditionally holds -- at the same rate as young women. Among Americans ages 25 to 34, about 20% of t...
Church and State

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

Time to stop strapping decrepit hospital eyesore onto the backs of Laredo taxpayers - Future of this private property should be condemnation, implosion, and leaving the land to the city for planning and improvement
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
Bonddad

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

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

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

Germany and US have long been allies - that could change with Trump - Trump’s incoming administration could create certain risks for Germany, including putting more pressure on its weak economy.
Reform Austin

Affordable Housing to be Hot Topic for State Lawmakers - Affordable housing is likely to be a big topic of discussion when the Legislature meets for its 89th session on Tuesday. A changed legal landscape will a...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Thank Goodness for a Warm Memory - Bliss (Tribune) comes to my rescue. It’s been extremely cold here, but it’s also been extremely necessary to get out with the dog and away from the idiots,...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Minions Are Laying the Groundwork for Military Action -
Earth 911

Staples Adds Single-Use Batteries and Schools Supplies Recycling Services - Staples has expanded its in-store, drop-off recycling program to include alkaline, lithium-ion, and other single-use... The post Staples Adds Single-Use ...
NPR's Health Shots

Looking to have fun without alcohol? This guy has ideas that may help - If you're looking for inspiration to stick with Dry January, or you're worried about the cancer risk linked to alcohol, you may want to check out booze-fre...
Skeptophilia

Guest post from Andrew Butters: Devil's in the details - Before we start, what are your thoughts on calling certain people *O*verzealous *G*rammar *R*eporting *E*nthusiasts instead of Grammar Na*is? OGREs. I th...
Off The Kuff

Who wants to sell Houston’s water to West Texas? - I have questions. Gov. Greg Abbott is said to be exploring a plan to buy water from Houston and send it to West Texas — a potentially contentious idea that...
Crooked Media

It Ends With Us Legal Fight Begins - The post It Ends With Us Legal Fight Begins appeared first on Crooked Media.
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...
Crooked Timber

Trump and Greenland: What’s Going On? - Commentators in Europe are understandably agog about Trump’s rumblings that the US might somehow, possibly, annex Greenland at some point in the future. On...
Workers World

PDF of January 9 issue - [image: PDF of January 9 issue] Download the color version. Download the black & white version. IN THIS ISSUE Sick-out for Gaza health care workers Honorin...
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
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

My best postings of 2024 - Far-left political activism often does more harm than good to the cause it wants to advance (this seems more relevant than I ever wanted it to be, given t...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Reveal

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

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

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

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
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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