Brains and Eggs

And so they did https://t.co/u40rGSacVy
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) November 6, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

Lunch break inside the astrodome while under construction pic.twitter.com/tTB4iVE68g
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) January 28, 2024

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Trump put on notice he's on edge of finding out 'how fast this can fall apart' - Donald Trump was warned on Saturday that, if he keeps catering to the "Mar-a-Lago crowd," he's going to learn how quickly things will fall apart for him ...
Mediaite

Jasmine Crockett Slams Dems Being ‘Stuck’ in ‘Old Ways’ With ‘Seniority’: ‘Shake It Up’ Like GOP! - Jasmine Crockett called out Democrats for being "stuck in our old ways" Alexandria Ocasio Cortez losing a bid to lead the House Oversight Committee. The p...
Al Jazeera English

How serious are the implications of South Korea’s political crisis? - Two presidents have been impeached in a month and their replacement is under pressure.
memeorandum

White House: Russia, North Korea treating troops as 'expendable' in conflict with Ukraine (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill) - Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: *White House: Russia, North Korea treating troops as ‘expendable’ in conflict with Ukraine* — White House National Security...
OpEd News

2024; The Year In Wore Out - A depressing look back at the heyday before it all went away, and the robots started bumping into people then narrowed their eyes, muttering "Soon. Soon."
Alternet

Senator warns of 'the rule of the super-rich' in scathing Fox News editorial - Senator Bernie Sanders has a message for *Fox News* readers: The United States is increasingly a country of have and have nots, and it will "move rapidly...
Political Wire

Trump Supports Immigration Visas Backed by Elon Musk - President-elect Donald Trump told the New York Post he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roili...
The Root

"The Cosby Show's" Star Shares Stunning Update After Quitting Trader Joe's Job - Geoffrey Owens is keeping it real when it comes to his financial situation. Years after gracing our screens as Elvin on “The Cosby Show,” Owens revealed ...
The Hill

Trump applauds blocked sale of Texas border wall materials - President-elect Trump celebrated the blocked sale of border wall materials following a Friday ruling from a federal judge in Texas. The incoming president,...
Ballot Access News

California Requests More Time to Respond to Lawsuit on Top-Two - A federal lawsuit is pending against the California top-two system. Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-8308. The state’s response had been due Jan...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The Observer view on Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary: Once more unto the breeches | Editorial - Plots and sprigged muslin aside, the author’s enduring legacy also lies in her relevance as a foil for modern mores For some, it will be enough merely to...
First Draft

Caturday: Pink Cat - With apologies to Nick Drake.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Afghan forces target Pakistan in retaliation for deadly airstrikes - Pakistan last week launched an operation to destroy a training facility and kill insurgents in Afghanistan
Eschaton

Ah, Well, Nevertheless - Lefty shitposters were right again. In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complai...
The Verge

The US proposes rules to make healthcare data more secure - [image: Art rendering of transparent laptop in front of a wall of surveilling eyes.] Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US Department of Hea...
Axios

Colorado man facing bias-motivated charges after attacking TV reporter - A Colorado man who allegedly attacked an AAPI TV reporter and demanded to know whether the journalist was a U.S. citizen, saying, "This is Trump's Americ...
Second Nexus

Mom Sparks Debate With Her Negative Reaction To Daughter's New Hair Color - There's nothing quite like a mother's love...or her bluntly honest criticism. Ready for a fresh start and a new look, TikToker Abby Cogan went to the h...
Futurism

"Brain Rot" Is Poisoning Our Minds - It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. A...
Angry Bear

Exploring Trump’s Wants and Desires - This can be either interesting or puzzling to anyone who perhaps has a few thoughts on Trump’s mindless wandering. We are sitting here with an economy wh...
Rio Grande Guardian

Escobar: Roma International Bridge has seen a tenfold increase in truck crossings since 2018 - The City of Roma leadership is focusing heavily on industrial development, as exemplified by Las Americas Roma Logistics & Industrial Park, says Mayor Ja...
CultureMap Houston

Car registration changes in Houston lead our top 5 stories this week - Editor's note: It's time to look back at the hottest Houston headlines of the week. We begin with a big change to car registration in 2025, followed by tw...
Daily Dot

‘Nobody gets paid enough for that’: McDonald’s worker shares the real reason your sweet tea may taste sour - [image: image showing a person sipping McDonald's drink, text over: "When your sweet tea tastes sour..."] Attention to all McDonald's sweet tea fans, thi...
Mother Jones

Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Save TikTok - Weeks before the Supreme Court’s emergency session that could determine the fate of TikTok in the United States, Donald Trump on Friday issued a legal fili...
Debunking Christianity

Rick O'Sheikh On the Problem of Holy Scriptures - By Rick O'Sheikh: I have said it before, the problem with the Bible and the Koran is that they do not just contain some problematic parts, they contain no...
Mediagazer

The commentary editor of Germany's Welt am Sonntag resigns after the Axel Springer group paper published a piece by Elon Musk in support of far-right AfD party (The Guardian) - The Guardian: *The commentary editor of Germany's Welt am Sonntag resigns after the Axel Springer group paper published a piece by Elon Musk in support o...
Slate

One of the Biggest Movies of the Year Failed at One of the Basic Duties of Cinema - The ending of Gladiator II will not be remembered, in this life or the next.
Space City Weather

Round 3 of severe weather risk in Houston today because why not? - In brief: The chances of severe weather today in Houston have increased a bit, although it still appears locations to north and east of the city will be at...
NPR's Health Shots

How to fight ageism in the world around you — and in yourself - Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and fighting it not only helps make...
Mondoweiss

Mapping the genocide in Gaza - [image: A map showing patterns of Israeli forced displacement in Gaza in October 2023. (Image: Forensic Architecture)]Forensic Architecture’s latest report...
Reform Austin

Rep. Granger’s Assisted Living Revelation Highlights Aging Leadership - America’s elected leadership is getting older, and it’s becoming a prime concern for voters. Earlier this year, The Dallas Express reported that Texas Re...
Undernews

POVERTY - AP - U.S. homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many. The federally-administered tally finds an almost 40% increase in fam...
The Daily Poster

The Year Of The Master Plan - The results are in, and they’ve exceeded our wildest hopes.
Progressive.org

Israel Expands Its Occupation in Syria - How should the world respond to Israel’s systematic violations of international law?
ArcaMax

Matt Gaetz's Legacy - What a Christmas present! In its report released last Monday, the bipartisan House Ethics Committee cited "substantial evidence" that from 2017 to 2020, fo...
WhoWhatWhy

WhoWhatWhy’s Best Ted Rall Cartoons of 2024 - [image: Ted Rall, best of, 2024 cartoons] Ted Rall pulls no punches. He’s a patented political pugilist, landing haymaker after haymaker, week after week. ...
naked capitalism

Links 12/28/2024 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Must Be Removed From the Republican Party’: Elon Musk Blasts MAGA As ‘Contemptible Fools’ -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Building an Artificial World - Let’s start with this depressing cartoon from Jonesy. It might be funny if it were some kind of exaggeration, but it functions as an editorial cartoon that...
Skeptophilia

Face forward - Life with prosopagnosia is peculiar sometimes. Better known as "face blindness," it's a partial or complete inability to recognize people's faces. I'm n...
Off The Kuff

HCDE declines to censure Eric Dick - Puzzling. The Harris County Department of Education board of trustees reversed course on censuring trustee Eric Dick Wednesday, one month after voting to p...
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: 2024 in review - [image: Benjamin Godina and his wife Amanda Godina prepare for a family BBQ at their house in Alamo Ranch Friday.]As we ring in 2025, here's a look back at...
Vox

9 stories that prove not all hope is lost for climate progress - There’s no getting around the fact that it’s been a dire year for the planet. This year is likely to be the hottest year humans have ever experienced, wit...
The Mind Unleashed

Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years - Imagine spotting a pod of orcas gliding through the ocean, sleek and majestic—only to realize some of them are sporting headwear made of dead salmon. It so...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 28 December 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Nice car, but how does the driver get in? Some narrow escapes here. Feli...
Scheerpost.com

‘A Policy Choice’: US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year - "Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain s...
Consortium News

Luigi Mangione & the Dangers of Terrorism Charges - The indictment of the alleged assassin comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block “critical infrastructure,” Schuyler Mitchell...
The Week

Nine best TV shows of 2024 to binge this Christmas - From Baby Reindeer and Slow Horses to Rivals and Shogun, here are the critics' favourites
jobsanger

It Was A Year Of War And The World Did Nothing To Stop It -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1305: A = 440 - Episode: 1305 Setting concert pitch — the elusive 440 A. Today, we set the pitch of a concert A.
Informed Comment

Shamash! Crude Strikes - Panel #26 Previous panels : >
World Socialist Web Site

At least 38 dead as Azeri jetliner bound for Russia crashes in Kazakhstan - Ukraine is now waging drone warfare across Russia, and there is growing speculation that Russian air defenses may have mistaken the jetliner as a drone and...
Techdirt.

Thatchers, Aldi Back In Court On Appeal Of ‘Cloudy Cider’ Trademark Ruling - Earlier this year, we talked about a fairly silly trademark dispute in the UK between beverage company Thatchers and German grocer Aldi. At issue was compe...
Wolf Street

10-Year Treasury Yield Rose 100 Basis Points since September as the Fed Cut 100 Basis Points. Why the Historic Divergence? - Treasury Yield Curve Steepens. Bond Market a Wee Bit Nervous?
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Asks Supreme Court To Put A Pause On Looming TikTok Ban - Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to pause a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok so his incoming administration can pursue a “negotiated resoluti...
The AltWorld

Humanity Must Awaken From The Dream Of Separation - We suffer because we erroneously believe we are separate. It’s why humans suffer as individuals, and it’s […] The post Humanity Must Awaken From The Drea...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | December 27, 2024 - Friday Nite Videos | December 27, 2024 barry Fri, 12/27/2024 - 19:47
The Greanville Post

DUE DISSIDENCE’S MUST SEE: GOP Senators THREATEN ICC, Israel Orders Rafah EVACUATION, Lee Fang Dissident Dialogues Interview - EDITOR—On this edition (2 videos) On this stream: 12 Republican Senators sign disturbing "warning" letter to ICC officials - Israel orders evacuation of Ra...
Workers World

Portland: Workers fight Sizzle Pie’s union-busting tactics - [image: Portland: Workers fight Sizzle Pie’s union-busting tactics] On December 21, following months of struggle and firings of pro-union employees, a grou...
Claytoonz

Death Becomes Him - 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...
Popular Resistance

Resist, My People, Resist - Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts ...
Rallblog

Theory of the Non-Voter - Non-voters are the biggest (potential) voting bloc in American politics. In midterm, state and local elections, more eligible voters choose no...
See You In 2020

Capital is waging war on civilization. Ansarallah’s collective fighting will shows how to overcome this. - The primary ideological conflict that’s happening right now is one between the forces of collectivism, and the forces of individualism, with the latter ...
Capital & Main

Aging Out of Home in Los Angeles - For millions of older Americans who will rely on Social Security without adequate retirement savings, the cost of living in cities like Los Angeles will ...
Sludge

Top Dem Bundler Lobbies Against Worker Protections for Amazon - Steve Elmendorf, a major DCCC bundler, is lobbying for Amazon on the Warehouse Worker Protection Act that is championed by the Teamsters union representing...
slacktivist

LBCF: Everybody loves Rayford - If it's all about you, then it doesn't really matter what else or who else God loves. God doesn't even really matter that much, except insofar as you get h...
Salon.com

Why the thrilling, yet frustrating "Squid Game 2" finale puts the series back at square one - It's hard to shake the feeling that Season 2 of Netflix's hit drama was mere table setting for the final act
Election Law Blog

Sixth Circuit finds no standing for Michigan legislators to challenge ballot initiative under Elections Clause - Opinion in Lindsey v. Whitmer by Chief Judge Sutton, joined by Judges Bush and Murphy (excerpts lightly revised): In 2022, voters passed Proposal 2, whic...
MintPress News

Suitcases of Qatari Cash: Unpacking Israel’s Role in ‘Funding Hamas’ - Robert Inlalkesh takes a deep dive into Israel’s role in facilitating aid to Gaza and whether it served to bolster Hamas’s power. The post Suitcases of Q...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on Dec. 20: IPFS Corporation vs Husky Logistics, LLC - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by IPFS Corporation and Richard Castillo against Husky Logistics, LLC o...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: What county government accomplished in 2024 - County Commissioner David Stout outlines accomplishments of county government this year. The post Opinion: What county government accomplished in 2024 a...
Texas Monthly

Never Mind the Playoff. It’s College Football Bowl Week. - Forget the College Football Playoff for now. ’Tis the season of weird bowl matchups and weirder brand sponsorships.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, Dec. 27 - [image: The morning read for Friday, Dec. 27]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s th...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 27, 2024: A year of travel across Texas - Every corner of Texas holds a certain kind of unique magic. We’re hitting the road, exploring hidden history and checking out plans for some new trails.
Eater Houston

Whataburger Is Sponsoring One Couple’s Burger-Themed Dream Wedding in Las Vegas - [image: A Whatawedding Just Married sign.] Winners will receive a wedding planned by Whataburger. | Whataburger If you met the love of your life in a Wha...
NORML

I Interned at NORML To Help End the War on Cannabis, and You Should Too - [image: Marijuana Leaf][image: Marijuana Leaf]NORML Fall ’24 Legal Intern Ty Buffington shares his experience with the NORML Legal Internship program. ...
Daily Howler

STORIES: These Women Today With Their Maiden Names! - *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2024* *Plus, our own tribe's Angry Blue Males: *Judging from the historical record, isn't easy being one of These Angry Male Comedi...
Democracy Now!

Big Tech Backs Trump to Cut Taxes, Boost Crypto, Replace Workers with AI: Tech Investor Roger McNamee - Silicon Valley and tech billionaires are lining up to support the incoming Trump administration. With the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, as one of Trump’s...
Ian Welsh

The Fall Of Europe - [image: The Fall Of Europe] Even before election, Trump is roaring. Screams of taking over the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. Promises of tariffs on,...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Save Nature First - Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said during the introduction... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Sav...
DeSmogBlog

Photos: 2024 Was the LNG Export Boom’s Wild Year - As the year began, the climate movement had its sights set on reining in the sprawling liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry that’s been transformi...
American Prospect

Twelve From Twenty-Four - Editor at Large Harold Meyerson on the year in politics and policy
ProPublica

What I Learned Reporting in Cities That Take Belongings From Homeless People - by Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re pub...
High Country News

What we learned about wildfire smoke in 2024 - The list of wildfire smoke's long-term health risks continues to grow. The post What we learned about wildfire smoke in 2024 appeared first on High Coun...
Counterpunch

There are No Palestinians: a Poem - Human kind cannot bear very much reality. (T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, 1941). There is no rubble. There are no more fumes. There has been no trouble. Ther...
Antiwar.com

The World Owes Palestine This Much – Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices - Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship, with cons...
The Grayzone

Leaked files show secret UK Syria project boosted Jolani’s HTS - In the name of building a “moderate opposition,” London established a social service and media network in areas controlled by HTS, benefitting the group ...
Church and State

Religious And Secular Beliefs Come In Many Forms - I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten? We don’t need that many.
Democracy Chronicles

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

Initial jobless claims continue neutral trend, while continuing claims make a 3 year high - * - by New Deal democrat* This Christmas week initial claims declined -1,000 to 219,000. The four week average rose 1,000 to 226,500. With the typica...
The Conversation

5 elections to watch in 2025 - Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballo...
Texas Observer

Our Most-Read Stories of 2024 - Web traffic is a fickle thing, somewhat subject to the whims of tech overlords. And an overemphasis on traffic is also a path to sacrificing journalism’s...
Crooked Media

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

December 2024 Open Post - Yes, it’s Christmas, and most of you have better things to do today than read the internet. That said, this week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Beginning of the End of the Public University, by Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña, Ph.D. - *This historical perspective reflecting on the student movement of the 1960s and early 70s by Dr. Rudy Acuña is helpful as we deconstruct the political mom...
Common Dreams

President Musk Will See You Now (If You're Bearing Money or Power) - In this so-called holiday season, welcome to America's "Mump regime," governance of, by and for the oligarchs in which an erratic unelected white suprema...
Crooked Timber

Plutocrats and Authoritarian Leaders: Like Flies to Flypaper - Curtis Yarvin, darling authoritarian ideologue of many tech billionaires, is back in the news, along with his deep links to J.D. Vance, via Peter Thiel. It...
nonsite.org

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

Silent Nights - As noted on Thursday's rollicking year-end BradCast and occasionally hopeful Green News Report, we will be standing down this week and next over the holida...
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...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fostering Hope in Hard Times: Audio From A Collapsing State - In a time like this, hope is a revolutionary thing. Let's fight to foster as much of it as we can.
Discourse

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

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

Another terrorful Christmas, this time for complex reasons - As someone who studies terrorism and religion, I approach each Christmas with dread due to the possibility of terrorist attacks around the holiday. A strin...
Grist

Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief - Church volunteers feel called by Christ to help those impacted by Helene. For some, that means fulfilling a mandate to alleviate suffering. For others, it ...
Idavox

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

12.22-29 Happy Holiday (FWIW) Threads - Happy Holidays you all. These are wide open Holiday threads. Fill them with your favorite Christmas tunes. To me, getting together with loved ones and list...
Bracing Views

Superman - W.J. Astore Truth, Justice, and the American Way The new “Superman” movie trailer has dropped, and it hit me in the feels. I grew up watching reruns of tho...
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...
Progressives Chat

Merry Christmas 2024! - I wish everyone, this Wednesday, December 25, 2024, a Merry Christmas!
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Immigration Deal - Political discourse in the U.S. has become difficult, if not impossible, because right-wing views are so completely untethered from reality. I’m not saying...
The Militant

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

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

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SITUATION NOT-NORMAL BUT STILL ALL F***ED UP - *For a long time I could only find a weird remix of this, so I stopped looking. But it's here!* It’s the last month without Tubby for a while – though i...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Krebs on Security

Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm - Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vu...
Bud Kennedy

A church without Christmas? For some faiths, it’s off-limits. They just say no to Noel | Opinion - I grew up in a church with no Christmas. There was no nativity scene. No Christmas Eve service. No baby Jesus. In the strictly literal reading of the Bible...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

Trump, tariffs and trade: ‘Protectionism’ won’t save workers - Trump’s tariff policy, from a worker’s perspective, is classic divide and conquer.
Earthworks

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

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

The Year of the Zealot - It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of faith, it was a year of inc...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Announcing a new JAPE - Seen for a political economic perspective, there’s always lots of topics needing analysis. This is evident in the array of articles in the new issue of A...
Project Censored

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press - What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironic...
Trivial Knot

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

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

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

Pardons and Open Thread - I'm sorry I am so late with this new open thread. I had to get a few stitches in my eyebrow (don't ask!). Anyway, I haven't seen the news other than a he...
The Texas Signal

How Krampus Conquered Christmas in Texas - A generation ago, most Americans would not have been able to tell you who Krampus was. Now, the horned figure has become almost as much a part of Christm...
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.
LareDOS

City and KLB invite community to Celebrate Keep Laredo Beautiful Day - Tree planting begins at 8 a.m.
Reveal

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

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

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

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

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
Media Lens

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

Washington’s War in Ukraine: Narrowing Options, Growing Consequences - *November 21, 2024 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russia’s use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in eastern Ukraine represents an unprecedent...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

God Bless Us, Every One - When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting, I didn’t hear it all — just “United Healthcare CEO” and “shot in NYC”, and that was about i...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2024 - Walmart had another fifteen shootings in November 2024, including five fatal shootings killing one person each. This also includes two fatal shootings i...
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...
Greg Palast

Trump’s “2000 Mules” Maker Confesses Dropbox Charges Were Phony - Back in May 2022, we warned you that Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules would help elect Donald Trump in 2024. Thanks, in part, to the anti-dropbox hysteria ...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
Free & Equal

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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...
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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

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

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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

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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...
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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

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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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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 ...
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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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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

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Due Dissidence

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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

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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

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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

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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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