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

Eschaton

Policy Failures - Watching the coverage of the fires, and one obvious policy failure is that an evacuation plan that involves hundreds of thousands of people getting in pr...
The Week

Fast-spreading Los Angeles wildfires spark panic - About 30,000 people were under an evacuation order as the inferno spread
memeorandum

Trump asks Supreme Court to halt Friday sentencing in hush money case (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Trump asks Supreme Court to halt Friday sentencing in hush money case* — The petition is the latest effort by President-elect Donald ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

From the sidelines, some Christians in US strive to be peacemakers as Israel-Hamas war continues - *Friends,This hopeful piece authored by Marc Ramirez in USA Today on how some churches are addressing the war in Gaza and its impact on the relationshi...
Mediaite

Explosion Interrupts MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff Reporting from ‘Catastrophic’ Pacific Palisades Fire - MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff had the challenging assignment of reporting on the catastrophic fires ravaging the neighborhood he grew up in — Pacific Palisades....
Mediagazer

Internal 2023 docs: Meta exempted some top advertisers from its usual content moderation process amid concerns that its systems mistakenly penalised top brands (Financial Times) - Financial Times: *Internal 2023 docs: Meta exempted some top advertisers from its usual content moderation process amid concerns that its systems mistaken...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Justice Department says it plans to release only part of Trump report for now - Information on Trump's election interference case would be released, but not the report on document hoarding
Slate

Mark Zuckerberg’s Fact-Checking Announcement Is Worse Than You Think - Meta’s return to political content, looser moderation rules, and Trump-friendly policies look a lot like Musk’s vision for X.
Salon.com

Emergency declared as "apocalyptic" fire engulfs wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood - A brush fire spread by intense winds has forced at least 30,000 residents to evacuate their homes
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, Jan. 8 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, Jan. 8]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s ...
The Verge

Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind - [image: A man in a chair with a glowing wearable on his temple.] *Seriously: would you wear something like this on your face if it could really read your ...
American Prospect

The CIA Director Received Cooler Gifts Than the Secretary of State. Here’s Why. - Bill Burns was America’s best diplomatic asset in the Biden years. He was also the nation’s spy chief.
Axios

Garland plans to release Jack Smith's Jan. 6 report over Trump's objections - Attorney General Merrick Garland in a court filing on Wednesday said the Justice Department plans to release publicly special counsel Jack Smith's findin...
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...
Al Jazeera English

Trump asks US Supreme Court to halt sentencing in New York hush-money case - US president-elect set to be sentenced in New York criminal case 10 days before beginning second term.
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...
Political Wire

Michael Madigan Takes the Stand In His Corruption Trial - In a stunning and risky move, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D), once the state’s most powerful politician, took the witness stand in his c...
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...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Iran hostages reflect on a crisis that defined Jimmy Carter’s presidency: ‘A fine man that did his best’ - When revolutionary students seized the US embassy in Tehran they initiated a 444-day ordeal that had a huge impact on Carter in both political and human ...
Houston Public Media

The Full Menu: Where to get crawfish and other Cajun and Creole food in Houston - In this month's installment of The Full Menu, local foodies discuss some of their favorite places to get crawfish and other Cajun and Creole cuisine in Gre...
Futurism

Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Making Out, Without Their Consent - Ads for sleazy AI services that allow users to generate realistic, though entirely fake, video clips of real people kissing are flooding social media — t...
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...
Alternet

'Unprecedented intervention': SCOTUS responds to Trump 'hush money' sentencing delay bid - The U.S. Supreme Court swiftly responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s formal request early Wednesday morning to delay sentencing in his 34-count felo...
Raw Story

Most 'bizarre' and 'menacing' quotes from Trump's presser dissected by rhetorician - The New Republic's Greg Sargent on Wednesday spoke with Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of rhetoric and communication at Texas A&M University, to break do...
Undernews

TRUMP REGIME - * National Memo - *As the Senate GOP seeks to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration in less th...
Second Nexus

The Craziest Reasons Students Ever Got Suspended From School - Unruly students can drive a teacher insane, and there's only so much discipline they can dole out before they lose their cool in front of the rest of the...
The Hill

The loyalty both Biden and Trump demand is costing America dearly - Pardoning those he called “patriots” and “political prisoners” would send a message — that loyalty to Trump comes with benefits.
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Legislative Panel, ‘Yeehaw’ at WinterFest, UMC turns 110 - Meet El Paso’s legislative delegation, take in WinterFest's finale, watch UTEP basketball, and more El Paso events this week. The post El Paso events: L...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Asks Supreme Court To Stop Sentencing For Hush Money Case Conviction - Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his scheduled sentencing on Friday for his criminal conviction related to hush money payments made to...
First Draft

Meet Riley Moore, My New GOP House Rep - The latest Dollar Store Gilead dynast.
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...
Daily Dot

‘Bath & Body Works candles too’: Woman says Glade, Air Wick plug-ins made her sick in just an hour. She’s not alone - [image: Two panel design with a woman looking odd to the side, next to an image of a shelf with Glade Plugin products] A woman is going viral on TikTok a...
Daily Howler

BLUE RUIN: Did we lose some votes this way? - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025* *Was the public lied to?* Did we lose some votes this way? Also, was the public lied to? We'll guess that the answer to the...
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...
Vox

How meditation deconstructs your mind - We’re laying out the latest science of what meditation does to your mind. The better we understand the common mechanisms across how different meditation pr...
Techdirt.

Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification - Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately d...
Rio Grande Guardian

Redefining Communities, Securing Futures: The Open EB5 Vision - An advertorial from a new company starting up in the Rio Grande Valley: Open EB5. The post Redefining Communities, Securing Futures: The Open EB5 Vision ...
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...
NPR's Health Shots

After Helene's floods, North Carolina tries to tame trauma's lasting damage - Mental health professionals warn that the quality and level of mental health care people in western North Carolina receive in the coming months will be cri...
ArcaMax

Pardons Turn the Truth Around -- Then and Now - Yes, I was there on Jan. 6, 2021, in the sacred temple of democracy when a mob's deadly rampage darkened democracy and injured 140 police officers in a pre...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: What is Truth, and Does Anybody Care? - This is one of those “Where do we begin?” moments. The torrent of horrifying, dishonest, ridiculous nonsense that has poured out over the past 48 hours or ...
slacktivist

Lost in the flood - A 3,000-year-old tablet reveals that people who claim to believe in a "literal Noah's ark" have literally never read that story.
naked capitalism

Links 1/8/2025 -
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...
San Antonio Report

County leaders approve $5M in funding for JCB to extend proposed Kelly Parkway - [image: A rezoning application indicates a 400-acre property on the South Side is the planned site of heavy machinery manufacturer JCB's future San Antonio...
Scheerpost.com

American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza - By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now! The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose...
ProPublica

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight - by Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up t...
Grist

The promises and challenges of the Philippines’ new climate-resilient city - New Clark City is being built from scratch to withstand extreme weather. Will it be a beacon of hope or a greenwashed illusion?
Angry Bear

Genetically Modified Mostquitoes in Djibouti - Last year genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Djibouti. The technology is new and the biology is interesting, but I am most interested in th...
Southeast Texas Record

Construction Worker Alleges Negligence Against Frankel Homes Following Scaffold Collapse - A construction worker has filed a lawsuit against Frankel Homes for negligence after sustaining severe injuries from a scaffold collapse at a Houston job...
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...
Crooked Media

Golden Globes with Marianne Jean-Baptiste - The post Golden Globes with Marianne Jean-Baptiste appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

All We Need Is Hate - Democrats and Republicans may be polarized along tribal lines. But they share common ground on their feelings about the media, big business and the gover...
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.
jobsanger

Republicans Must Relearn What Honor Means -
World Socialist Web Site

Does Ukraine face a “Syrian scenario?” - This report on the disastrous state of the Ukrainian military was submitted to the WSWS by underground journalists from the assembly.org.ua website.
Consortium News

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...
Informed Comment

Ireland to Int’l Court of Justice: Gaza War is no Excuse for Israel Genociding Palestinian Civilians - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland has filed a declaration with the International Court of Justice of its intention to intervene in South Africa’s geno...
Counterpunch

The Gulf of Trump: a Glyph - The post The Gulf of Trump: a Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Antiwar.com

D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center! - In the book Crisis and Leviathan, libertarian thinker Robert Higgs pointed out that the state uses crises to ratchet up its power and control over citizens...
The Root

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss Widow Allison Holker Shares the Shocking Discovery Hours Before Funeral - Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of suicide and drugs. Read more...
Progressive.org

Biden Has More Veterans to Pardon Before Leaving Office - The President should make history by wiping the slate clean for the 300,000 former soldiers who served at home and broad after 9/11 but received less than ...
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 ...
Popular Resistance

US System Of Prison Injustice - I wrote in October that Joe Biden, in his four years as president, did literally nothing to improve the situation in prisons and jails across the country...
Brad Blog

Trouble in Trumpland? Broligarchs v. MAGA!: 'BradCast' 1/7/2025 - I suspect it's gonna get much uglier before it's all said and done. And we're here for it! A "MAGA Civil War"? Count us in on The BradCast! [Audio link to ...
Ballot Access News

Constitution Party Re-Files as a Political Body in California - The Constitution Party has re-filed as a “Political Body” in California. This means elections officials will continue to tally how many registered voters i...
Workers World

Boston First Night: Honor the resistance in Palestine! - [image: Boston First Night: Honor the resistance in Palestine!] Boston Hundreds of people answered the call of the Boston Coalition for Palestine (BCFP) to...
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...
Portside

The Richest Have Never Been Richer As Trump Arrives To Make Them Richer Still - The Richest Have Never Been Richer As Trump Arrives To Make Them Richer Still Judy Tue, 01/07/2025 - 20:07
CultureMap Houston

Luxurious Houston steak and sushi restaurant suddenly shutters - An inner loop restaurant known for its steak and sushi has served its last nigiri. Roka Akor’s Houston location has closed its doors.
The NM Political Report

Lawmakers hope the fifth time’s the charm for green amendment despite no increased support - By Susan Morée New Mexico lawmakers are making a fifth attempt to pass a New Mexico green amendment to protect the environment despite little change fro...
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 Mind Unleashed

Man Who Didn’t Sleep For Record 264 Hours Suffered From Horrifying Effects For Years After - In 1964, two high school students from San Diego, California, embarked on a bold experiment that would test the limits of human endurance. Randy Gardner, 1...
OpEd News

Debunking Donald Trump's Imperialist Impulses and Tendencies - No. President-elect Donald Trump cannot unilaterally rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."
Mother Jones

Trump Escaped Consequences. Now He’s Running From the Truth. - Donald Trump has won. He is set to be inaugurated on January 20, and he has convinced many Americans not only that his attempt four years ago to carry out ...
Texas Standard

New book traces the eventful life of Bill Hobby - The longtime Texas lieutenant governor, and member of a publishing dynasty, was known for his skill at wielding power at the Capitol and his love of govern...
Reform Austin

As Texas Porn Law Heads to Supreme Court, TN Judge Blocks Similar Measure - A federal judge last week temporarily blocked a Tennessee law that would have required pornographic sites to verify that visitors are at least 18 years o...
Discourse

I Honestly Forgot How Dumb This Is Going to Be - Cruel reminders of our stupid, stupid Trump world.
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...
Wolf Street

Labor Market Dynamics Retighten, Job Openings Jump Again. Fed Faces Scenario of Solid Job Market, Re-accelerating Inflation - In light of this scenario, the Fed has been backpedaling on rate-cut expectations for two months.
Claytoonz

Je Suis Censorship - 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...
Texas Monthly

Post Malone’s $20,000 Tip Is More Proof He’s Actually a Great Guy - In town for the Beyoncé Bowl, the superstar made one server’s Christmas Eve dreams come true.
The Daily Poster

The Lost Memos That Predicted This Era - Plus, the secret documents Biden must release, new data on how much we subsidize factory farms, and how AI data centers could destroy your home
Election Law Blog

“Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Special Counsel’s Final Report on Trump Documents Investigation” - NYT: The federal judge who handled President-elect Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case temporarily barred the special counsel, Jack Smith, on Tu...
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.
Church and State

How far the Vatican is willing to go to ensure its survival - It is survival of the Catholic institution and Papal power that is the issue, not the "lives of the unborn" or anything else.
Sludge

The 119th Congress, Brought to You by AIPAC - I analyzed the numbers on AIPAC's unprecedented campaign spending to the members of the new Congress.
WhoWhatWhy

Buckle Up - [image: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, driverless government] Elon's algorithm for government: what could possibly go wrong? Buckle Up originally appeared on Who...
The Greanville Post

Is Gaza REALLY Gone? Norman Finkelstein Answers. - EDITOR—In this eye-opening video, Norman Finkelstein shares his unique perspective on IS GAZA REALLY GONE? Norman's take on war, genocide, and the Israeli-...
Common Dreams

Coming Soon: Another Dropoff in Corporate Crime Enforcement - Public Citizen launched a tracker today to watchdog federal investigations and cases against alleged corporate criminals – cases that are at risk of bein...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo PAOK vs AEK Athens lúc 00h30 ngày 10/01/2025 - Tiếp tục với vòng bán kết lượt về thuộc Cúp Quốc Gia Hy Lạp, với phong độ thi đấu có sự tương đương, PAOK và AEK Athens sẽ đem đến cho người xem nhiều cu...
The Conversation

Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows - State-level immigration policies can have surprising ripple effects.
Earth 911

We Earthlings: Compost Your Food Waste - Food waste in factories, the home, and at restaurants results in the loss of about... The post We Earthlings: Compost Your Food Waste appeared first on E...
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Social media mockingly reminds Donald Trump that it's Elon Musk who is in charge - Due to the fact that either Americans have short memories or are incredibly sadomasochistic, we are now again saddled with Donald Trump in the White House....
Capital & Main

‘I Have So Much Fear That They’re Going to Torture Me’ - The U.S. keeps deporting people back to El Salvador, where they're likely to be imprisoned and tortured. The post ‘I Have So Much Fear That They’re Going...
Mondoweiss

The US is manufacturing doubt about Gaza’s famine - [image: Palestinians struggling with hunger wait in line to receive meals distributed by charities in Khan Younis, on January 01 , 2025. (Photo: Abdullah A...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

The Jimmy Dore Show - The Jimmy Dore Show.
Project Censored

Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines - In the first half of the program Eleanonr Goldfield speaks with Shrouq Aila, an investigative journalist, producer and researcher in Gaza. Shrouq describ...
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...
The AltWorld

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Book Author(s):Andreas Malm Published Date:2025 Publisher:Verso Books ISBN-13:9781836740070 Referring to Frantz Fanon in the preface to The Destruction [...
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...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 2 - As we saw two weeks ago, the action of The Nibelung’s Ring is rising toward crisis in this third opera of the cycle. Siegfried, the child born of the inces...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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Two Party Opera

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

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Dissent Magazine

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

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

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Courthouse News

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

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

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
Black Agenda Report

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

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

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
The Socialist

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

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
The Rag Blog

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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.
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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...
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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...
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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

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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...
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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

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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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