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

Vox

6 standout housing policy ideas from 2024 - Journalists are drawn to covering problems, and when it comes to housing, we know there are plenty. Earlier this month, I published a review essay on three...
Raw Story

'Has MAGA been duped?' Trump fans freak out over new plan from unelected 'DOGE twins' - An online civil war between hardcore Donald Trump "America First" partisans and the men whom the president-elect chose to head up his Department of Gover...
Mediaite

Scott Jennings Mocks Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘Jock’ And ‘Prom Queen’ Digs: ‘Someone Got Stuffed In A Locker!’ - CNN panelist Scott Jennings mocked Vivek Ramaswamy’s jock and prom queen digs in his online screed by suggesting that perhaps the politician’s remarks mi...
Al Jazeera English

Did a Russian ‘shadow ship’ cut the Finland-Estonia undersea Baltic cable? - Finnish authorities have boarded a ship in the Baltic Sea that the West suspects is linked to Russia.
naked capitalism

Links 12/27/2024 -
Political Wire

Razor-Thin House Majority Creates Headaches for GOP - Wall Street Journal: “Republicans held on to control of the House of Representatives in November by one of the thinnest margins in the country’s history—ev...
The Smirking Chimp

The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, and How We Get Out of It. -
Daily Dot

‘This may shock you guys’: Farmer reveals the truth about store-bought apples - [image: Person Holding Apple(l) Woman comparing apples(c) Basket of Apples(r)] A Northwestern farmer is going viral on TikTok after revealing why store-...
Alternet

Lauren Boebert's replacement in her old district vows to be different — but not by much - U.S. Rep.-elect Jeff Hurd will soon take over representing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District after four years of representation by U.S. Rep. Lauren B...
Salon.com

Morning briefing - Donald Trump is back at it again
The Hill

Morning report — Norms shift on aging members of Congress - The revelation that Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) has been living in assisted-living facility is fueling scrutiny of aging public officials and conversations ...
Off The Kuff

The YouTube judge - Very interesting. Defendants accused of low-level crimes could soon be handed cautionary fliers warning what they say and do in Harris County Judge David F...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

My daughter will be an only child – and I’m not going to feel guilty about it | Arwa Mahdawi - My wife and I are ‘one and done’ on kids. We’re also ‘one and done’ with unsolicited advice about our decision For a few years now, I’ve kept a few vials...
San Antonio Report

The San Antonio Report’s 2024 year in photos - San Antonio Report photographers captured the moments that mattered most in 2024. Here's a look back at our favorite frames from this year. ----------------...
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...
Mother Jones

Faith Organizations Can Have a Complicated Relationship With Disaster Relief - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the second weekend after Hurricane Helene...
Eschaton

Morning - Funky Friday.
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Executive Editor? Find Out With This End-of-Year News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this year’s big stories.
American Prospect

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

Black Money, Black Flags: How USAID Paved the Way for Syria’s Militant Takeover - New evidence reveals how U.S.-backed NGOs provided funds and legitimacy to a terrorist-led administration in Syria. Was this negligence—or deliberate policy?
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Estonia's navy to protect Baltic Sea power link after cable damage - Estonia deploys patrol ship, seeks NATO support for protection
Axios

Window closing for Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal before Trump takes office - Israeli and U.S. officials involved in the negotiations for a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal tell Axios they are concerned that the odds of an agreement...
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...
Mediagazer

Survey of 1,251 US adults: 65% feel the need to limit news consumption about politics and government due to fatigue and information overload (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Survey of 1,251 US adults: 65% feel the need to limit news consumption about politics and government due to fatigue and information ov...
NPR's Health Shots

For homeless seniors, finding stable housing takes a village — and a lot of luck - The number of unhoused seniors is expected to triple by 2030. As rents rise, it becomes tougher to find affordable housing that's accessible for those with...
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...
The Week

Ukraine hints at end to 'hot war' with Russia in 2025 - Could the new year see an end to the worst European violence of the 21st Century?
Rallblog

Final Attraction - Weeks and months after she lost her presidential campaign, which ended with her millions of dollars in debt despite raising billions of dollars, vice pre...
Counterpunch

Civil Discourse in a Time of Genocide - Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end convers...
Southeast Texas Record

Allyn Lowell Selected for WE LEAD Program - Thompson Coburn counsel Allyn Lowell has been selected for the Dallas Bar Association’s Women Empowered to Lead (WE LEAD) program. Read more…
ArcaMax

In the Pocket - Yeah. It was a hell of a Christmas. Elon Musk was in the manger, nursing greedily at Mary's exhausted body. One of the Wise Men was a crooked New York City...
memeorandum

South Korean Lawmakers Vote to Impeach Acting President as Crisis Deepens (Jin Yu Young/New York Times) - Jin Yu Young / New York Times: *South Korean Lawmakers Vote to Impeach Acting President as Crisis Deepens* — The vote was the second major impeachment ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump’s “border czar” promises incoming administration will build “family facilities” to hasten mass deportations, including of US citizens - Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, said the new administration would construct large interment camps, euphemistically dubbed “family facilities” to...
jobsanger

All The Things Trump Said He Would Do On His First Day In Office -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1304: Learning What Makes Musical Tones - Episode: 1304 In which we learn how musical pitches are formed. Today, we learn what makes a musical tone.
First Draft

Gingerbread House Cat - Meow from Claire Trevor.
Informed Comment

Israel Brings its Doctrine of Total War to Yemen - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Air Force on Thursday extended its total war on its neighbors to Yemen for a fourth time. The Air Force has gain...
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...
Techdirt.

Jets Owner Woody Johnson Reportedly Made Personnel Decisions Based On Madden Ratings - I have to thread the needle a bit on this one. On the one hand, I have very much evangelized how much sports video games has done to educate lots of people...
The Greanville Post

Latin America: inter-oceanic canals and railway lines (aka, Trump wants the Panama Canal back) - AMARYNTH—Because the steady increase in world shipping may make it an economically viable project, speculation on a new shipping route has continued. In Ju...
Popular Resistance

Trump’s Christmas Message Is One Of Chaos, Turbulence And Retaliation - Letting no holiday opportunity go without stirring up chaos, turbulence and retaliation, by mid-morning on Christmas Day, President-elect Trump posted a ...
Portside

Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men - Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men jay Thu, 12/26/2024 - 20:51
Wolf Street

San Francisco House Prices Drop Back to 2019, Condo Prices to 2015, as Tech Jobs in the City & Silicon Valley Evaporate after Drunken Hiring Binge - Housing Bust 2 reverses part of the “Housing Crisis” when people with good incomes could no longer afford to live in the City.
Daily Cartoonist

Kenya Cartoonist Kibet Bull Abducted - Gideon Kibet (aka Kibet Bull), a university student, social media influencer and cartoonist who’s work has been critical of Kenyan President William Ruto, ...
Undernews

NOTE - Service over the next three days is unpredictable what with your editor’s sons, wives and grandchildren being on the scene until Sunday.
The Verge

Here’s how many people tuned into Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL games - [image: A photo showing an NFL game between Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers] Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Netflix says it had a big audie...
Reform Austin

Texas Republicans Lose Key Leadership Roles In Congress - Texas will probably feel a shift in power at Capitol Hill. Despite Republican control of the White House and both chambers of Congress come January, the ...
CultureMap Houston

New streetwear-inspired coffee shop and lounge sneaks into Midtown - Eddie Massa, Pouya Alavi, and Ash Tadghighi have a simple goal in mind for Sneaks, their new sneaker-themed coffee shop and “sneakeasy” cocktail lounge.
Ballot Access News

Michigan Legislature Adjourns Without Passing Several Election Law Bills - The Michigan legislature adjourned on December 19. Several election law bills that had advanced quite far did not pass. HB 5791 would have allowed primary ...
OpEd News

Part One of "Vile Trump: The Decomposed Detritus of Dehumanized Christian White Supremacy" - This is Part One of a multipart article that examines the European origins of Christian White supremacy and its penetration of the Americans and subsequent...
slacktivist

Some people say bowling alleys got big lanes - What do we do about the large number of anti-social young American men sucked into a world of misogyny and authoritarian politics? Take the skinheads bowli...
The Root

How Can You Be Mad at Michael Vick While Supporting Luigi Mangione? - Once upon a time, former NFL quarterback Michael Vick was one of the most dynamic, entertaining players in the game. But a highly publicized dogfighting ...
Claytoonz

Trump Anschluss - 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...
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 ...
Space City Weather

Early Thursday afternoon update: Strong thunderstorms arriving in Houston metro area soon - In brief: This short update is to inform you that potentially severe thunderstorms are on Houston’s doorstep, and will be impacting the region this afterno...
Angry Bear

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 typical one ...
Election Law Blog

“The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected; Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world.” - Wired reports: Earlier this year, WIRED launched the AI Elections Project to track instances of AI in elections around the world. An analysis of the WIRE...
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.
Texas Monthly

The Stories We Wish We’d Published This Year - Fifteen staffers selected their favorite stories about our state that outlets other than Texas Monthly published in 2024.
Consortium News

WATCH: Craig Murray — The Bank Israel Bombed - Here’s why the Zionist cause tried to obliterate Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association, a savings and loan institution in Lebanon. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org....
Democracy Chronicles

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

The morning read for Thursday, Dec. 26 - [image: The morning read for Thursday, Dec. 26]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s ...
Progressive.org

In Between the Marches - The system we call capitalism does not necessarily require police murders or prisons. But it does require death making.
Capital & Main

Tiny Homes Could Be a Big Help for California’s Unhoused - A new law is meant to help local governments speed up the building and placement of small, portable houses. The post Tiny Homes Could Be a Big Help for ...
Daily Howler

STORIES: A "Christmas film" tells a political tale! - *THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2024* *Why Fox News [HEART] Die Hard:* We haven't seen *A Complete Unknown*, but we can answer a question about the new film. Th...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 26, 2024: Diving into Texas history - Through the years, countless Texans have made history, though some are far less remembered or memorialized. We’re bringing some of those stories to light t...
Mondoweiss

Canada ‘aids’ Palestine by training PA police to repress resistance - [image: Palestinian security forces gather at the site of a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occup...
El Paso Matters

Holiday Reads: 2024 El Paso Matters Book Club featured books - Missed any of our El Paso Matters Book Club picks in 2024? Here’s a roundup to help you catch up during the holiday break, plus how to join the club and...
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...
Eater Houston

The Year Houston Restaurants Played With Fire - In 2024, Houston restaurants toyed with live-fire cooking, and many chefs say it’s here to stay *Texas has always loved to play with fire.* The Lone Sta...
WhoWhatWhy

WhoWhatWhy’s Best Jon Richards Cartoons of 2024 - [image: Jon Richards, best of, 2024 cartoons] Whether he’s skewering Republicans or Democrats, Jon Richards always has a sharp eye for the political hypocr...
Democracy Now!

3,100+ Indigenous Students Died at U.S. "Boarding Schools": WaPo Native American Journalist Dana Hedgpeth - More than 3,100 Indigenous students died at boarding schools in the United States between 1828 and 1970 — three times the number of deaths reported earlier...
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...
The Mind Unleashed

IHOP worker fired for feeding a homeless man gets offered her job back - When one act of kindness leads to unexpected consequences, it challenges us to rethink the balance between corporate rules and human compassion. A Florida ...
The Daily Poster

The Human Face Of The Corporate Takeover - While The Lever team is on holiday break, here’s a selection of our best reporting this year.
MintPress News

Black Money, Black Flags: How USAID Paved the Way for Syria’s Militant Takeover - New evidence reveals how U.S.-backed NGOs provided funds and legitimacy to a terrorist-led administration in Syria. Was this negligence—or deliberate pol...
Skeptophilia

No guardrails - Ever since Donald Trump came on the political scene, bragging that he could shoot someone in full view on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single supporter, I...
The AltWorld

Will Russia Collapse in 2025? - Is Putin’s Government Trying to Be a 19th century liberal government in the brutal evil world of […] The post Will Russia Collapse in 2025? appeared firs...
Crooked Media

2024: Great Music, Terrible Vibes - The post 2024: Great Music, Terrible Vibes appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Some brief observations on ghosts - This post was inspired by a discussion I had months ago with a person who asserted that ghosts -- in the sense of some kind of non-physical, disembodied c...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS celebrates the birth of four babies born on Christmas Day - STHS has four babies born Christmas Day including a set of twins. The post STHS celebrates the birth of four babies born on Christmas Day appeared first ...
See You In 2020

Degrowth, the plot to collapse our society, & the world war that will become a class war - The workers in the empire’s core are experiencing a backlash from our ruling class, one that’s going to last indefinitely and is accelerating our societ...
Ian Welsh

Merry Christmas - [image: Merry Christmas] Hope you’re having a good one. If not, hope it isn’t too awful. Use as an open thread for nice things if you wish.
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 ...
Debunking Christianity

Hail Mary! Was Virgin Mary Truly the Mother of God’s Son? - *Hail Mary! Was Virgin Mary Truly the Mother of God’s Son?* -- By John W. Loftus Catholic Christians pray the rosary, which is a string of beads repre...
Earth 911

How Sanitary Landfills Work - Humans create a lot of waste, but when you throw something away, how much do... The post How Sanitary Landfills Work appeared first on Earth911.
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...
Workers World

Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks - [image: Nationwide holiday strikes hit Starbucks] Seattle Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) opened up a series of “rolling strikes” across the country on Dec...
Second Nexus

Billie Eilish Teaches First Grade Class How To Write A Hit Song—And We're Singing Along - Anyone who's ever followed celebrity news might have asked themselves at some point what it's really like to be a celebrity, and if celebrity life is eas...
Futurism

Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots - Typo Hazard It sure sounds like some of the industry's smartest leading AI models are gullible suckers. As 404 Media reports, new research from Claude ch...
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...
Deadline Politics

Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Sends Letter To Disney’s Bob Iger Referencing ABC’s Donald Trump Settlement And Low Media Trust - The incoming chairman of the FCC has fired off a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger referencing ABC’s recent settlement of a defamation lawsuit filed b...
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...
Sludge

DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex - While some progressives in Congress are pushing DOGE to cut the Pentagon budget, its ties to the defense contractor lobby are growing deeper.
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.
NORML

Analysis: Over 35,000 Scientific Papers Published About Cannabis During the Past Decade - [image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil][image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil]"It is time for politicians and others ...
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

12.22-28 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

Becoming United & Thankful - After a tough, divisive, and historic presidential election, Kelly Wright focuses on how Americans are seeking to become more united. Christina Tobin dis...
Novara Media

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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...
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Stinque

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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...
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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
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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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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

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

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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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