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

Eschaton

Lunch - Spare me your criticism.
memeorandum

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal to halt war in Lebanon expected within hours (CBS News) - CBS News: *Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal to halt war in Lebanon expected within hours* — Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group appear set to hal...
The Verge

Apple’s latest AirPods Pro are cheaper than the AirPods 4 right now - [image: Apple’s second-gen AirPods Pro buds in front of the charging case against a dark background.] *Deals this good rarely stick around.* Black Friday...
The Week

Khan supporters converge on Islamabad - Protesters clashing with Pakistani authorities are demanding the release of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan
Texas Monthly

The Top 25 Texas Gifts of 2024 - From American Dirt coffee to Waco Surf lessons, our state’s artisans, designers, and small retailers have holiday offerings for every type of Texan.
Futurism

NASA Says You Will Have to Ask the Russian Space Program About the Horrid Smell on the Space Station - Silent but Deadly Astronauts on the International Space Station this weekend noticed a rancid stink when Russia's Progress cargo ship docked with it, an...
Political Wire

Will Kamala Harris Run Again? - Jonathan Bernstein: “Of course normal people want nothing to do with the 2028 election, and won’t until a long time from now. Even most primary voters, who...
Daily Dot

‘Seeing this the day my arm almost fell off’: Person shows a better way to grate cheese - [image: Two panel design with a woman looking frustrated in one and a pile of grated cheese in the other] Mac and cheese is a staple for the upcoming hol...
Dissident Voice

Dilemmas - We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure. Some states are implacably...
Mediagazer

Norah O'Donnell plans her last CBS Evening News broadcast as anchor for January 24, 2025 (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek) - Mark Mwachiro / Adweek: *Norah O'Donnell plans her last CBS Evening News broadcast as anchor for January 24, 2025* — The third place newscast is underg...
Mediaite

Diddy Cites Trump Defense In Attempt To Thwart Bid To Keep Him In Pre-Trial Detention - Sean “Diddy” Combs is borrowing from the playbook of President-elect Donald Trump in his latest attempt to secure bail, citing First Amendment protection...
Slate

Everybody Secretly Hates Pumpkin Pie. This Ethereal Upgrade Fixes All Its Problems. - Try this silky, airy take on the dubious Thanksgiving "classic," and you’ll never go back.
Raw Story

'By and for the ultra-wealthy': The billionaires set to run Trump's administration - Since winning the presidential election earlier this month, Donald Trump has wasted no time working to fill his incoming administration with billionaires...
The Root

Diddy's Latest Attempt at Bail, His Proposed Bail Package and $50M Bond, Why Prosecutors Think Diddy's "Too Dangerous" to Be Released and More Diddy News - Sean “Diddy” Combs walked into a New York City court room Friday, Nov. 22 hoping a judge will grant him an early release on bail. With this marking the t...
Common Dreams

Maine Sues Big Oil for Climate Deception - The State of Maine today sued ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute to make them pay for lying to the public for d...
Salon.com

Trump aide Boris Epshteyn accused of seeking monthly bribes to recommend Cabinet picks - Trump reportedly discovered Ephsteyn was shaking down potential Cabinet picks like Scott Bessent and Eric Greitens
Reform Austin

Texas Bill Proposes Pepper Spray-Armed Drones For School Security - A controversial bill filed in the Texas Legislature aims to enhance school security by allowing districts to use drones armed with pepper spray or Tasers...
Daily Cartoonist

Scott Underwood, Locked Onto a Sly Fox - Scott Underwood has been living his childhood dream. He contributes the art and colour for the Sunday pages of Slylock Fox, a comic strip aimed at kids. Fo...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 26 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 26]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s t...
Election Law Blog

New NCSL Resource on State Voting Rights Acts - This looks like it will be very useful: Eight states have enacted their own Voting Rights Acts: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, O...
Axios

Medicare and Medicaid would cover Ozempic, Wegovy under new Biden rule - The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed requiring Medicare and Medicaid to cover anti-obesity drugs. *Why it matters: *The rule would expand access ...
Undernews

DONALD TRUMP - *Robert B Hubbell - *Garland failed to bring Trump to justice in four years after a coup and insurrection that were not only televised but announced befo...
Al Jazeera English

Pakistan’s Champions Trophy fate to be decided by ICC on November 29 - The ICC will decide next steps for the Pakistan-hosted tournament after India refused to travel to the country.
Vox

The Democrat who won in Trump country - The Democratic Party struggled in the 2024 elections, losing control of the Senate and the presidency, and failing to regain the House. The party is still ...
Texas Standard

Blue dots in a red sea: How some Texas Democrats survived a GOP onslaught - Texas House Democratic incumbents managed to prevail in the 2024 election despite the state’s red wave. Gerrymandering and being an incumbent helped.
Second Nexus

Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump's Cabinet Picks With Their Own 'Full House'-Inspired Spinoff - Late night host Jimmy Kimmel skewered President-elect Donald Trump's most recent picks for his administration with a hilarious opening title sequence he ...
Church and State

I am so ashamed for my country!! - Trump’s continuance came despite his flawed leadership, utter lack of integrity or care for the American people!
OpEd News

Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, With Trump's Return, Truth Is in Deadly Danger - During this year's presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling -- and the spectacular lack of i...
The Hill

Carville: Democratic Party trailing on understanding media consumption - Veteran political strategist James Carville suggested early Tuesday that the Democratic Party needs to do a deep dive into where people get their informati...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Netanyahu’s boycott of Haaretz won’t stop us reporting the grim truth about Israel’s wars | Aluf Benn - Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us - Aluf Benn is the edito...
Alternet

Trump dodging federal cases has 'implications for the future of American democracy': author - On Election Night 2024, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate in United States history to win an election despite having faced four crimin...
naked capitalism

Taxpayers Spend 22% More Per Patient to Support Medicare Advantage – The Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised to Cost Less - How Medicare Advantage, with less coverage than traditional Medicare via gatekeeping and thin networks, is a bad deal for taxpayers too.
Crooked Timber

TikTok in Romania - Ownership and control of social media platforms is a first-order concern for both domestic politics and international conflict. The most important battlegr...
Houston Public Media

Houston’s BARC animal shelter to reduce adoption fees in December - The capacity of the BARC animal shelter is in critical condition. During the shelter's 2024 fiscal year, more than 20,000 animals were brought in, includin...
MintPress News

Legislating Silence: How Congress Plans to Target Critics of Israel - Hailed by neoconservatives as a tool to combat antisemitism, new bills championed by AIPAC allies could strip nonprofits of protections, paving the way f...
Novara Media

No, the Kids Aren’t Alt-Right - Among the shocks of the recent US presidential election, one statistic stood out. Exit polls appeared to show a momentous political shift among young men, ...
CultureMap Houston

Women of Substance luncheon honors Houston’s leading ladies of giving - Philanthropy took a bow at the Eighth Annual Women of Substance Luncheon, where Houston’s most dynamic do-gooders gathered at the Post Oak Hotel on Novemb...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Human rights groups collect evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine - As of November 2024, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has documented more than 150,000 alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, ...
El Paso Matters

District 7 runoff matches former city representative against Ysleta school board member - The East Side-Lower Valley seat is one of five City Council runoff elections to be decided Dec. 14. The post District 7 runoff matches former city repre...
Bracing Views

Reflections on the COVID Response - W.J. Astore Overconfidence and Profiteering Trumped Humility and Public Service Here are a few thoughts on America’s response to Covid that I hope are usef...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Snacks, Scents, and Rays in the Bay - The post Strangest State: Snacks, Scents, and Rays in the Bay appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Rio Grande Guardian

Covarrubias: The US-Mexico Border’s Maritime Gateway - A guest column about the importance of the Port of Brownsville is authored by Daniel Covarrubias, director of Texas A&M International University’s A.R. S...
The Mind Unleashed

He’s been in foster care for most of his life. At 13, all Tim wants is a chance to be someone’s son. - At just 13 years old, Tim has already lived a lifetime of uncertainty. Shuffled between foster homes for most of his childhood, he’s grown used to packing ...
Democracy Now!

"I Am Ready, Warden": New Film on TX Death Row Prisoner John Ramirez Examines Redemption & Vengeance - We speak with journalist Keri Blakinger about a new documentary, *I Am Ready, Warden*, based partly on her reporting about death row prisoner John Henry Ra...
The Conversation

Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less - Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting...
Techdirt.

Republicans: Helping Poor People And Minorities Afford Broadband Is Illegal Now, Sorry - We’ve noted more than once that the 2021 infrastructure bill is poised to deliver $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies to the states. A lot of that money w...
First Draft

Flooding The Zone With Shit Worked - You say spin. I say propaganda. Let's call the whole thing off.
Southeast Texas Record

Houston Businessman Alleges Defamation by International Media Outlets - Muhammad Tahir Javed has filed a lawsuit against several international media outlets alleging defamation through false news stories about criminal activi...
Space City Weather

Front one arrived last night, front two comes on Thanksgiving to finish the job - In brief: A Monday night front brought a cool-down to the area, but it will be briefly lived. A second front on Thanksgiving morning will provide a more lo...
Bonddad

On the Road - * - by New Deal democrat* I’m traveling this week, so light posting. There was no significant economic news yesterday. I’ll take a look at today’s...
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Tuesday, 26 November 2024 -
ArcaMax

Compromising Position: Making Gabbard Director of National Intelligence Really Isn't Smart - The furor about the real risk to American national security posed by President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of Nationa...
NPR's Health Shots

After a break from strength training, muscle memory may help you bounce back - If the season or an injury has derailed your gym routine, don't sweat it. New research shows your muscles can regain lost strength faster than you might th...
San Antonio Report

Listen: Witte Museum tells untold stories of Black cowboys in Texas - [image: Ron Davis, a PhD candidate of the University of Texas is a co-curator of Black Cowboys: An American Story exhibition at the Witte Museum.]Ronald Da...
Angry Bear

How Units of Account “Came About” - – by Steve Roth Originally posted at Wealth Economics This post is in response to a very brief Bluesky exchange I had with Dan Rohde and DT Cochrane abou...
The Daily Poster

Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants - The private prison lobby has been quietly pushing a drastic expansion of ICE’s surveillance apparatus. Trump’s reelection may be the final step.
Skeptophilia

Genetic walkabouts - Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department. I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice from *23 & Me* that ...
Off The Kuff

Eric Dick keeps on Eric Dicking - The man is a model of consistency, I’ll give him that much. Fresh off running unopposed for re-election to the Harris County Department of Education’s boar...
The AltWorld

The Outcome Of Romania’s Presidential Election Could Spoil The US’ Potential Escalation Plans - The populist conservative-nationalist frontrunner might refuse to allow NATO troops to transit through Romania as part of […] The post The Outcome Of Rom...
Mother Jones

Carnival Corp’s Fleet Emits More CO2 Than Scotland’s Biggest City - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s largest cruise line compa...
ProPublica

How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress - by Molly Redden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
The Reality-Based Community

Amorim quyết tâm mua cây săn bàn số 1 Châu Âu vì M.U - Man Utd sẵn sàng phá kỷ lục chuyển nhượng vì “con át chủ bài” của Amorim Trận hòa trước Ipswich Town đã phơi bày rõ những hạn chế trong hàng công của Man...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s ‘Samson Option’ - It wasn’t hard to foresee that those planning and executing U.S. foreign policy, lacking all imagination and anything remotely resembling courage, would pr...
American Prospect

The Crypto Plot Against America’s Gold Reserves - National Treasure: Bitcoin Edition
Daily Howler

BREAKING: We won't post until this afternoon! - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2024* *It's one of those alternate Tuesdays:* Sure enough, it's one of those alternate Tuesdays. For that reason, we won't be pos...
Consortium News

JOE LAURIA: A History of Humiliation - After a history of U.S. bullying and humiliation — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — it can’t be assumed Moscow is bluffing w...
Grist

How to take climate change out of the culture wars - What if the resistance to climate science is not really about science at all?
Infidel753

Image round-up for 26 November 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] World's largest ice maze,...
High Country News

Why did Nevada vote to ban slavery, when California didn’t? - Both states require incarcerated people to work — often for critical and dangerous jobs. The post Why did Nevada vote to ban slavery, when California di...
Crooked Media

Exclusive: The Harris Campaign On What Went Wrong - The post Exclusive: The Harris Campaign On What Went Wrong appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

A Reformist Program on Immigration (Or What Harris Might Have Said) - The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and soci...
Portside

U.N. Climate Summit Ends With a “Bad Deal” As Rich, Polluting Nations Refuse $1 Trillion Finance Plan - U.N. Climate Summit Ends With a “Bad Deal” As Rich, Polluting Nations Refuse $1 Trillion Finance Plan Mark Brody Tue, 11/26/2024 - 01:42
jobsanger

It's Hard To Accept The Blithe Assurances -
World Socialist Web Site

Trump deportation operation could target over 13 million people, including millions of “mixed-status” families - A major report last month by the American Immigration Council detailed the human and economic costs of implementing the largest police removal operation in...
Informed Comment

Israeli total War Continues, with “No end in sight” for Palestinians in Gaza — Cold, Drenched, Homeless and Hungry - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Muhannad Hadi, the special UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, addressed the ambassadors of ...
Antiwar.com

Omnicide Joe? - President Biden has never wavered from approving huge arms shipments to Israel during more than 13 months of mass murder and deliberate starvation of Pal...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Study Universal Basic Income at the University of Sydney - Introducing SSPS6008 – Universal Basic Income In 2025, the the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney will offer the ...
Debunking Christianity

The Blasphemy of Heliocentrism - The Pareto distribution of bible verse citations If you’ve listened to many church sermons, you may have noticed that they often cite verses from the chu...
The Grayzone

Sebastian Gorka: British intelligence asset? - Sebastian Gorka’s involvement with British intelligence cost him a security clearance in Hungary. His longtime mentor is a UK spook currently engaged in ...
Popular Resistance

People Are Creating The Green New Deal At The Grassroots Level - The federal government, whether under Democratic or Republican leadership, has failed to address the climate crisis, instead investing in greater product...
See You In 2020

Fewer Americans are accepting liberal demonization of the MAGA base, bringing us closer to workers unity - A future where the USA’s people unite against our monopolist system, and build a new society that works for the collective, is becoming easier to see. D...
Workers World

Tenth anniversary of racist killing of Tamir Rice - [image: Tenth anniversary of racist killing of Tamir Rice] Cleveland Nov. 22 marked the 10th anniversary of the racist murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by ...
Ballot Access News

Second Florida Special U.S. House Election Will Be on April 1 - On November 25, Florida Congressmember Michael Waltz said he will resign from the U.S. House next month. The Governor then called a special election for hi...
Liberation News

At COP29, Western imperialists once again skirt responsibility as climate crisis deepens - Absent in the COP negotiations is acknowledgement of capitalism and imperialism as the cause of the climate crisis and the barrier to the solution.
Wolf Street

Americans Buy Ever Bigger, More Powerful, More Fuel-Efficient Trucks, SUVs & Cars. EVs Escalate the Horsepower War - “The roughly linear increase in specific power” of ICE vehicles over the past 50 years “does not appear to be slowing”: EPA.
WhoWhatWhy

Musk Admits to Throttling Links in Broadside Against Actual News - [image: Elon Musk, SpaceX Falcon 9, Demo-2] In furtherance of his goal of making his social media site, X, the world's top source of "news," Elon Musk ackn...
Claytoonz

Above The Law - Read the blog at my Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through PayPal. I...
Project Censored

Connecting the Dots: The War on Workers Is The War Abroad - What does the genocide in Gaza have to do with the working class here at home? Well, quite a lot. Imperialism is a home game and the same corporations an...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need - [image: Palestinians, navigating winter conditions struggle with the strong winds, heavy rain and floods affecting the region amid Israeli attacks on Novem...
Sludge

Trump Is Building a Crypto Swamp - Trump's top adviser on personnel and nominee for Commerce secretary is deeply involved in controversial stablecoin project Tether.
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Things Were So Much Better Then - This cartoon is drawn by Jenn Lee, who added so many great 1970s details! Jenn and I sometimes work sharing a table at a coffee shop, and she’d sometimes l...
Democracy Chronicles

Will Someone Clear the Air? - Chances are, people reading this will agree that it's impossible to run a successful political campaign without money.
Progressive.org

Israel’s UNRWA Ban Will Have Dire Consequences - The Knesset’s ban on UNRWA puts humanitarian aid for Palestinians in jeopardy.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Declares “Major Victory” As January 6 & Classified Documents Cases Dropped By Special Counsel - Just less than two months before Donald Trump returns to the White House, the former and future president saw two of his most treacherous legal battles end...
The Texas Signal

Houston Airports Take Art Very Seriously - Saba Razvi likes to write in airports, which is good because she flies out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) or William P. Hobby Airport (HOU...
Eater Houston

The Best Italian Restaurants in Houston - [image: A slice of 100-layer lasagna sits on a sauced plate at Milton’s.] Some of the best pasta awaits. | Julie Soefer Wood-fired pizzas, saucy meatball...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What the Hell is Going On: An Explainer in these Strange Times - A jumping off point for those looking to understand how we got here, where we're going, and what we can do
DeSmogBlog

Alberta Conservatives Are Making Up Their Own Climate Facts - Alberta has some serious challenges to deal with. The world economy is decarbonizing, billions of dollars in unfunded oil and gas liabilities have been a...
LareDOS

LTGI in production for Steve Martin’s absurdist comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Opening night: Jan. 16 at LC’s Shoebox Theater
Capital & Main

University of California Workers Say They Are Being Squeezed As Contract Talks Stall - The UC system says it is offering healthy raises for nearly 40,000 staffers, but workers say the system is playing a shell game by also raising their hea...
Rallblog

The TMI Show Ep 27: “Ted Hates Thanksgiving” - It’s very close to being un-American to admit to not liking Thanksgiving. You’re supposed to like the food, even though if it was popular, why don’t we e...
Earthworks

There’s A Big Plastics Treaty in S. Korea. What You Need to Know! - What is happening: This month, environmental justice advocates will join world leaders in Busan, South Korea. From November 25 – … The post There’s A Bi...
Rewire

This LSU Group Combats Louisiana’s Reproductive Health Crisis - Feminists in Action provides emergency contraception and resources to students at Louisiana State University. The post This LSU Group Combats Louisiana’s...
Ian Welsh

Why Assisted Suicide Bills Will Pass & Deaths Will Increase - [image: Why Assisted Suicide Bills Will Pass & Deaths Will Increase] Nothing saves money on people who are old, disabled and unable to work like just kill...
Discourse

Until Next Week - Gobble gobble.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Incarceration Should Not be a Death Sentence for Individuals Who Use Opioids - The opioid epidemic has gripped communities for more than 20 years. From 1999 to 2022, nearly 722,000 people died from an overdose involving prescription...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (11.25.24) - Take time to listen to Victoria Barnett, Jacob Randolph, Katelyn Beaty, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Holly Berkeley Fletcher, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
The Progressive Wing

11.25-27 Pre-Thanksgiving Open Threads - Hola everyone! 🙂 It’s official: The 2024 Hurricane/Storm Season is ending. YEAH and how! Talk about climate change crisis!?! Anywho, these are wide Open T...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Alter Eco Foods CEO Keith Bearden Is All-In On Regenerative Chocolate Farming - Food production is one of the most impactful forces shaping our environment, responsible for approximately... The post Earth911 Podcast: Alter Eco Foods ...
Progressives Chat

Happy Thanksgiving! - This week is Thanksgiving…with the holiday Thursday, November 28, 2024. I wish everyone a *Happy Thanksgiving*! Beginning next week, blog topics will b...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trust Sarah McBride - Sarah McBride Before she has even been sworn in as the first trans Congresswoman in American history, Sarah McBride finds herself in bad territory. On on...
Field Negro

Transition train wreck. - The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'No Such Agreement' Toons - Where'd ya get that idea? We have no such agreement here at Sunday Toons! Please proceed... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie al...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT is becoming the face of Texas’ higher education failures. That must change, The Daily Texan Editorial Board - *Friends:* *I am glad that the Daily Texan Editorial Board is weighing in on findings from a recent survey conducted by the American Association of Univers...
The Militant

The working class put its stamp on the 2024 elections - LOS ANGELES — “Given the events over the last couple days, it is necessary to begin this forum by describing the virulent attack on Jews in Amsterdam Nov. ...
Idavox

Video: Daryle Lamont Jenkins at Burning Books - DLJ travels over to this Buffalo independent bookstore to discuss things with those that came... The post Video: Daryle Lamont Jenkins at Burning Books a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: AN AGE OF CLODS AND MONSTERS EDITION. - *I have never heard a bad Desmond Dekker record.* Not gonna push it too hard here as this is only Friday 'Round-the-Horn technically -- it's after midnig...
Lowering the Bar

Still No Lawsuit Against the Fake Colombian Basketball Team - [image: picture of the alleged fake colombian team]I have mixed emotions about this.
Texas Freedom Network

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Political Garbage Chute

Gaetz Out, Fogle In? - Upon hearing the news from his fellow inmates at Englewood Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colorado that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) dropp...
Bud Kennedy

The untold story: When TCU canceled JFK’s honorary degree—’He’s a Catholic, you know’ - Gov. John B. Connally asked trustees to honor Kennedy with a Ph.D., but some trustees balked. … Click to Continue »
Krebs on Security

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of ...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
Reveal

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle - [image: Taylor Cadle, a young woman with dark hair and wearing a black sweater and jeans ripped above the knee, looks directly into the camera with an unfl...
Ecosophia

The Century of the Other - As a rule, no American election means as much as the shouting immediately afterward might lead you to think. Every four years, with a regularity that clock...
NORML

Analysis: Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Associated With Elevated Risk of Hypertension - [image: marijuana blood pressure][image: marijuana blood pressure]"Taken together, these studies suggest that regular cannabis use is not associated with...
Avedon's Sideshow

One little miracle a day is all I need - I feel worse than I thought I would if this happened, even though I probably expected it more than a lot of lefties and Democrats did. The whole Cheney ...
Trivial Knot

A better masculinity, for those who don’t want it - A few months ago, I went to an ace unconference–an unconference being an event where attendees create sessions on the spot, rather than planning sessions i...
Ring of Fire

Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block - The post Federal Employees Freak Out As Government Jobs Are Put On The Chopping Block appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Inside the Beehive - An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple contro...
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, ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
Media Lens

Buried Out Of Sight: Deliberate Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Children Becomes ‘Local News’ On The BBC - Imagine an experienced Ukrainian surgeon breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately target...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Tale of Two PSYOPS - Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominat...
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...
Land Destroyer

The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks - *November 13, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, Americans and many around the world invested hop...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Hair Of The Dog - Yeah, yeah, I know… but the only way to properly express the mood of this piece was to set it in a dark, grim mid-20th dive, with a permanently-circulating...
nonsite.org

Going Forward from the Edge of the Abyss - Trump has no new coalition; he can’t because those “groups” aren’t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like c...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2024 - Walmart had another six shootings, with two of them fatal in October of 2024, including one officer involved shooting after an automobile crash, and ano...
Seeing the Forest

How Dem Betrayal Brought Us Trump - Of all people, David Brooks, in a confession, does a good job or explaining Trumpism in Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? Read it all, but this about mo...
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...
Greg Palast

Here’s What We Do NowA Personal Note - Being right never felt so horrid. Before the election, I wrote, “How Trump Won.” And on Election night I waited for the returns to make a fool of me. Inste...
Stinque

Hanging by a Thread - We forget who laid it out for us a lifetime ago, but civilization is inherently fragile, and can collapse in an instant. Everything is handed off from on...
Two Party Opera

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

Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene - Buncombe County North Carolina – damage after Hurricane Helene floods. NCDOTcommunications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wiki...
TalkLeft

Election Day Jitters - I have them. I'm sure any rational person does, when considering the possibility, however slight, that Donald Trump, the most unfit person to run for Pre...
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...
BEYONDbones

Daylight Savings Time | November Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: HMNS Astronomer James Wooten reminds us to adjust our clocks as Daylight Savings Time ends this month. Saturn is an evening object. Look ...
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 ...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
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...
ExChristian.Net

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus - *The following is a short interview with Bill Burkland, the author of a soon to be released book entitled "The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named J...
Duck of Minerva

Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara? - On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PK...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New native plant group hoping to take root in DFW - *Organizers are seeking new members to help get Wild Ones DFW off the ground. Photo courtesy of Wild Ones.* Oct. 17, 2024 A new native plant group has s...
Robert Reich

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

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

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
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 NM Political Report

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
The Rag Blog

MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966 - By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval c...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Equality Texas

Remembering Sheila Jackson Lee - Today, we reflect on the profound legacy of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a tireless advocate for equality and justice. Her passing leaves a void in ...
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
The Disorder Of Things

Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair - A guest post from Nico Edwards. Nico is the author of the new World Peace Foundation report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Ec...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Bayou Brief

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Modern Democracy

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
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...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
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...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
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

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
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...
Truthout

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
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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