Brains and Eggs

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

India’s disappearing camels: How a law to save them is wiping them out - As global camel population rises, it's on drastic decline in India. Experts say law passed in Rajasthan is main reason.
memeorandum

In Greenland, a cold shoulder for Trump, but curiosity about U.S. ties (William Booth/Washington Post) - William Booth / Washington Post: *In Greenland, a cold shoulder for Trump, but curiosity about U.S. ties* — Greenland residents spoke to The Washington...
Mediaite

The ‘StopAntisemitism’ Account Loses It Over Airport Worker’s Keffiyeh: ‘This Poses a Safety Concern’ - The StopAntiSemitism X account – with its 330,000 followers – fired off a menacing tweet on Tuesday purporting to show an airport employee seemingly doin...
Axios

Growing number of military veterans committing extremist crimes, research shows - Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's pick for Defense secretary, on Tuesday called the problem of extremism in the military "fake," but researchers warn...
The Hill

Here are the confirmed attendees at Trump’s inauguration - President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day is less than a week away and he’s begun to plan who will attend various events in Washington to mark his return to...
Raw Story

'Concerning': GOP senator grilled by CNN anchor over curious defense of Cabinet nominee - A CNN anchor grilled a Republican senator over his defense of an embattled Cabinet nominee for President-elect Donald Trump; Kaitlan Collins, host of "T...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

US SEC sues Elon Musk over late disclosure of Twitter stake - The agency said the world's richest person violated federal securities law by waiting too long to disclose his initial purchase of 5% of the social media p...
Portside

East Coast Longshore Settle Contract - East Coast Longshore Settle Contract Dave Tue, 01/14/2025 - 22:07
Daily Dot

‘The next day it won’t be flat’: Woman says put this in your Coca-Cola can and leave it in the fridge overnight to keep it fresh. Does it work? - [image: 3 panel image: in the middle is a bubbly, fizzy soda, and on the sides a person explains.] Late at night, when the itch for a cold Coca-Cola or s...
Daily Cartoonist

“Comic Books” – Distribution and Tariffs - So I hit the local comic book shop once a month to pick up anything that may have shown up and put in an order for stuff that intrigued me (other than my r...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Alternet

'Attention seeking loser': Crockett takes aim at Mace after challenge to fight in committee hearing - Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) challenged her Democratic colleague, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, (TX) to a fight during a House Oversight Committee organizational meet...
Rio Grande Guardian

Guadarrama: Becoming Bilingual: What Schools Finally Got Right - A guest column from Dr. Irma N. Guadarrama, a former UT-Rio Grande Valley professor who now works at UT-Austin. The post Guadarrama: Becoming Bilingual: ...
Political Wire

When Norms Lead You Astray - Seth Masket: “Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report states for the record what has been clear to political observers for some time now: Trump running f...
Brad Blog

Hegseth Faces Democratic Fire in Contentious, Constrained Senate SecDef Nomination Hearing: 'BradCast' 1/14/2025 - Today on The BradCast: The first of what will likely be a series of contentious U.S. Senate advice and consent hearings for key cabinet nominees tapped for...
Workers World

Recent strikes revive Dr. King’s legacy - [image: Recent strikes revive Dr. King’s legacy] What do you give the person who has everything? Well, if you’re an Amazon or Starbucks worker and that per...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Jacobtran, LLC vs Recs Signs, LLC on Jan. 7 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jacobtran, LLC and Katherine Taylor Mize against Recs Signs, LLC o...
Consortium News

AS`AD AbuKHALIL: A History of Foreign Intrigue in Lebanon - The U.S. took advantage of a changing regional and domestic environment to make a favorable arrangement for itself this time. But the notion that it can dr...
DeSmogBlog

Pierre Poilievre Met With Denier-Backed UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch - Conservative leader and presumptive prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre hasn’t articulated specific policies so much as rhyming slogans like “axe ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump's attack on birthright citizenship: Anatomy of an anti-democratic conspiracy - Abolishing birthright citizenship would mark a qualitative new step in a legal counterrevolution and would fundamentally undermine a democratic principle c...
Mother Jones

One Week In, LA’s Fires Are Still Spreading - It has been a week since Los Angeles’ devastating wildfires began, driven by powerful winds that have made the blazes highly difficult to fight. More than ...
Mediagazer

Nielsen: Prime Video's NFL Wild Card game averaged 22.07M viewers, the best average audience so far for NFL on Prime, but below 2024's Wild Card game on Peacock (Katie Campione/Deadline) - Katie Campione / Deadline: *Nielsen: Prime Video's NFL Wild Card game averaged 22.07M viewers, the best average audience so far for NFL on Prime, but bel...
SCOTUSblog

Justices debate right to renew lawsuit after voluntary dismissal - [image: Justices debate right to renew lawsuit after voluntary dismissal]Tuesday’s argument in Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services was brief and relaxe...
Reform Austin

Burrows Clinches Texas House Speaker, But GOP Divisions Take Center Stage - The Texas House of Representatives has concluded its vote for the Speaker, selecting Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock), as the leader for the 89th Legislat...
Election Law Blog

My Review of “The ‘Stench’ of Politics: Polarization and Worldview on the Supreme Court” - I have written this book review for Political Science Quarterly, reviewing The “Stench” of Politics: Polarization and Worldview on the Supreme Court by J...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Volkswagen van that survived Palisades fire in Los Angeles is a ‘beacon of hope’ - ‘There is magic in that van,’ former owner Preston Martin tells AP. ‘It should have been toasted, but here we are’ Preston Martin figured the retro blue ...
The Verge

Elon Musk is being sued by the feds over the way he bought Twitter - [image: Elon Musk in front of the Twitter logo.] Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has resulted...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s Culinaria Restaurant Week is back — and this time it’s expanding into Fredericksburg - For the first time since it launched in 2010, Culinaria's Restaurant Week will extend into nearby Fredericksburg. ------------------------------ San Antonio...
The Greanville Post

Is India the world’s next economic superpower? - EDITOR—India has the world's largest population, but can it be the next global economic superpower? Or will extreme poverty, inequality, unemployment, and ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Nancy Mace challenges Jasmine Crockett to a fight after disagreement over anti-trans bill' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - What Nancy Mace would have looked like afterwards if Jasmine Crockett had taken her up on her offer to "step aside." *Editor's note - it's a joke, folks....
Capital & Main

ICE and Immigrant Advocates Debunk Reports of Los Angeles Raids Linked to Fires - ICE affirms it does not conduct enforcement at evacuation or assistance sites. The post ICE and Immigrant Advocates Debunk Reports of Los Angeles Raids ...
CultureMap Houston

Modern home on historic Texas ranch hits market for $3.3 million - Walk in the footsteps of Texas history at 2740 Flewellen Road. Located 10 miles from Brenham, Rocking C Ranch, also known as Forever View Ranch, sits on n...
Sludge

Biden Admin Scraps Climate Disclosure Rule for Contractors - The proposal faced lobbying opposition from the fossil fuel industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Futurism

The Hawk Tuah Girl Hasn’t Posted a New Podcast Since Her Crypto Project Imploded - It's now been six weeks since Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch launched her disastrous and allegedly fraudulent meme coin — and consequently, it's been exactly t...
Slate

Pete Hegseth’s Go-To Dodge in His Confirmation Hearing - He found a familiar scapegoat.
Progressive.org

No Longer a National Pastime - Throughout its history, baseball has attempted to play the role of a national uniter. Those who want to preserve the union are weaker due to baseball’s ina...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend health department to partner with Sam Houston State University on internship program - The county will take on a student intern each semester to work with its environmental health team.
El Paso Matters

El Paso House delegation backs Speaker-elect Dustin Burrows in election - Backing the winning speaker candidate could enhance El Paso’s influence in Texas House of Representatives. The post El Paso House delegation backs Speak...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft: Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates - Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three "zero-day" weaknesses th...
Ballot Access News

New York Ballot Access Bill Introduced - On January 14, New York State Senator Mark Walczyk (R-Watertown) introduced S 1870, to ease the definition of a political party and to ease the number of s...
OpEd News

Zionists and the California Drought? Actions and more - We must intenify our efforts to halt the genocide, ecocide, the land grab, destruction, ethnic cleansing, improsonment and torture. We must increase our ef...
NPR's Health Shots

The FDA calls for at-a-glance nutrition labels on the front of packaged foods - The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels o...
The Week

Unprepared for a pandemic - What happens if bird flu evolves to spread among humans?
slacktivist

Resentment vs. gratitude: from parking spaces to ASL - Put in that work, do the training, and practice hard every day and, eventually, you too can be an ungrateful jerk who resents deaf people just for existing.
The NM Political Report

Lawmakers announce bills to address health care worker shortage - By Susan Morée A group of legislators Tuesday announced a slate of bills aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in the face of private equity owne...
Salon.com

Trump: Tariffs to be collected by "External Revenue Service" - The president-elect's latest proclamation on Truth Social lacked details but appeared to reinforce his tariff plan
Second Nexus

'The View' Host Calls Out Jesse Watters For 'Racist' L.A. Wildfire Misinformation - Conservatives and the MAGA crowd have been spreading easily disproven conspiracy theories and right-wing bigoted rhetoric in the wake of every natural di...
The Root

Baby, These Are Keke Palmer's Best Fashion Moments - Keke Palmer is starting off 2025 strong with a brand new movie— “One of Them Days”—and a brand new cover for The Cut. Read more...
Texas Standard

Dallas lawmaker pops the question on the first day of the 2025 legislative session - State Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas, proposed to his partner, Gregory Scott Jr., on the Texas House floor. He said yes!
Discourse

You Are Not Actually Required to Watch the Inauguration - Just because a Lincoln Project scold has a tantrum doesn't mean you need to commit psychic self-harm.
Techdirt.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 408: Copyright vs AI – Hollywood & Creators - Support us on Patreon » We’ve got another cross-post episode this week! Recently, Mike appeared on The Dynamist podcast from the Foundation for American In...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Did Trump conspire (or hope) for a riot? - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025* *Jack Smith wouldn't quite say yes: *Within the past week, we asked a basic question about the events of January 6, 2021: *O...
Vox

How factory farming built America - Future Perfect, Vox’s section dedicated to solving the world’s most important yet neglected problems, obsessively covers how the way we eat affects our liv...
NORML

DEA Judge Stays Marijuana Scheduling Proceedings - [image: marijuana rescheduling][image: marijuana rescheduling]The judges's decision cancels the previously scheduled hearing, set to begin next week, dur...
The Daily Poster

We Will All Be Paying For L.A.’s Wildfires - Los Angeles’ wildfires and an industry-tied insurance regulator may prove a tipping point for the country’s faltering financial safety net.
American Prospect

If Republicans Deny Disaster Aid on Political Grounds … - Today on TAP: How will the next Democratic House respond to the inevitable Florida hurricane?
Wolf Street

PPI Inflation Accelerates to +3.3%, Driven by “Core Services,” +4.0%, both the Worst Readings in Nearly 2 Years - 2024, the year of sharp acceleration. Services, accounting for two-thirds of PPI, are where inflation continues to fester.
Texas Monthly

Debunking Matthew McConaughey’s Uber Eats Conspiracy Theory - The misinformation in the Hollywood star’s ubiquitous food delivery–app commercial cannot be permitted to spread.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/14/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump transition confirmation process; DOGE as procurement capture?; Tiktok users flee to RedNote; Boeing deli...
The Conversation

How the CIA director helps the US navigate a world of spies, threats and geopolitical turbulence - The director of the CIA is responsible for overseeing the agency’s clandestine operations and advising the president on national security matters.
Political Garbage Chute

Pete Hegseth Told Me “Whiskey Dick” is His Best Defense Against Rape Allegations - “…honestly I was too blacked out to remember what happened that day anyway…” A lot of people seem worried that former Fox News host Pete Hegseth might be...
Unlimited Hangout

Before Skool - Before Skool.
Texas Observer

Texas Foresees Strong Revenue, Full Rainy Day Fund. Who Will Benefit? - With the 89th legislative session kicking off this week, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar delivered a cautious—yet optimistic—revenue estimate for the next ...
WhoWhatWhy

‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Growing at an Alarming Rate: Report - [image: tech, cyber scams, gray market, virtual illicit marketplace, $24B in transactions, report] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our edi...
Space City Weather

How Space City Weather will, and will not, use artificial intelligence - In brief: The initial release of ChatGPT in November 2022 sparked a widespread recognition of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. We’ve been ...
Deadline Politics

Michelle Obama Will Not Attend Donald Trump’s Inauguration - Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, although former President Barack Obama will be there along with his...
Debunking Christianity

Maha Kumbh 2025: The Story of Kumbh and Prayagraj - One of the world’s greatest religious spectacles is underway and the numbers are staggering! 400 million people are expected to be there! That's more than ...
Popular Resistance

Fire Weather - The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would...
Undernews

WORD - *Liz Cheney: *“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dish...
Mondoweiss

Genocide has rendered Gaza a space-time exception - [image: A supermoon is pictured at the beginning of a total lunar eclipse above Deir Al Balah in the center of Gaza strip, on September 28, 2015. (Photo: A...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 56: “Cultural Sensitivity for Marginalized Groups and Persons” - Everyone needs access to high-quality health services, but health inequities persist. Societal attitudes among healthcare workers, advocates say, foster ...
The AltWorld

Serbia’s Top General Hinted At Carrying Out A Pro-Western Military Pivot Under Sanctions Duress - This could easily lead to a more profound pivot that undoes decades of strategic ties with Russia […] The post Serbia’s Top General Hinted At Carrying Ou...
First Draft

Quick & Dirty Thoughts On The Smith Report - Jack Smith's parting shot.
Common Dreams

New Report Exposes Toyota’s Years-Long Effort to Fund Climate Deniers and Block Climate Action - By the end of the 2024 election cycle, Toyota Motor Corp. had donated to over four times as many climate change denying members of Congress as Ford Motor...
MintPress News

Sarah Adams and the Return of the Iraq War Playbook - Former spooks are back on the airwaves, using old tactics to justify new conflicts in the Middle East . The post Sarah Adams and the Return of the Iraq W...
Bracing Views

Military Service Parochialism - W.J. Astore All the services always want more Yesterday, I posted the following comment to a fine article that addressed America’s nuclear triad and the re...
Angry Bear

Why is religion in decline? Bad branding. - When I was in first grade, we had daily bible readings. Each child was allowed a turn to read a verse or two from their bible. This was in a public schoo...
Bonddad

Producer prices join the parade of yellow flags - * - by New Deal democrat* I generally don’t pay too much attention to producer prices, but there are a couple of exceptions. One exception is that so...
ArcaMax

Gullibles' Travels: Trump Routs America. Americans Yawn - The Supreme Court's narrow vote to permit a New York state judge to formally pronounce a practically meaningless sentence on Donald Trump pursuant to a jur...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo WS Wanderers vs Central Coast Mariners lúc 15h35 ngày 17/01/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải VĐQG Úc, tại vòng 13, một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn đang tạo ra sự chú ý của nhiều người hâm mộ là trận so tài giữa WS Wanderers và ...
Democracy Now!

Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day - Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a thousand of the firefighters dep...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: Microplastics In Your Tea? - Research from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona revealed that brewing tea with plastic tea bags... The post We Earthlings: Microplastics In Your Tea?...
The Smirking Chimp

Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party -
Skeptophilia

Life out of round - All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem to have been born with...
Off The Kuff

SCOTx hears Paxton’s appeal of the Annunciation House case - A big one. The Texas Attorney General’s Office told sometimes skeptical Texas Supreme Court justices Monday that El Paso’s Annunciation House migrant shelt...
Scheerpost.com

The CDC, Palantir and the AI-Healthcare Revolution - The CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) has partnered with the CIA-linked Palantir to cement the public-private model of invasive sur...
ProPublica

How Many Cars Have Connecticut Towing Companies Sold? The DMV Can’t Tell Us. - by Dave Altimari, The Connecticut Mirror This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror a...
Grist

Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last. - As they rebuild, residents of the middle-class enclave could face steep price hikes.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 14 January 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Made by Pliny. I don't th...
High Country News

Wildfires are too much for municipal water systems. In Los Angeles, firefighters tried anyway. - Water systems aren’t designed for unlimited demands during wildland-urban interface fires. The post Wildfires are too much for municipal water systems. ...
LareDOS

Opening night Thursday., January 16 for LTGI’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile at LC’s Shoebox Theater - Written by actor Steve Martin, directed by Vernon Carroll, produced by Henry Mejia
Counterpunch

The Dangers of Biden’s Legacy and Trump’s Inheritance - A key measure of any U.S. president’s success is the ability or good fortune to leave his successor with a better international situation than the one he...
jobsanger

It's A Dangerous Time To Be A Child In The U.S. -
Informed Comment

Representative, it is Shameful that you Voted to Sanction the Justices of the Int’l Criminal Court for Netanyahu Arrest Warrant - Letter to Representative Jared Golden (D-ME) Dear Representative Jared Golden: Your decision to vote in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Cou...
Antiwar.com

You Can’t Make Peace if No One is Talking - During the Cold War, American and Russian officials and diplomats were in constant communication. The Cuban missile crisis was resolved, not by isolating e...
Church and State

Catholics for Trump - Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York Timothy Dolan will lead the opening prayer for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Ian Welsh

Gaza Ceasefire Proves Biden Wanted Genocide - [image: Gaza Ceasefire Proves Biden Wanted Genocide] Trump famously said that he wanted the hostages released by January 20th or there’d be hell to pay. ...
Liberation News

L.A. fires: Politicians deny accountability as disaster capitalism fuels fightback - While Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass desperately tries to stifle public outrage about inadequate wildfire response, fire personnel emphasize the dire lack of...
Trivial Knot

What does it mean that AI is “remixing existing work”? - Marcus reminded me of the common claim: “AI is just remixing existing works”. Or the more colorful version, “AI just regurgitates existing art”. This is in...
See You In 2020

In Ukraine, Russia has defeated Nazism again, & this time the Hitlerites won’t be able to recover - It’s fitting how the Biden White House, this era’s great experiment in liberal fascism, is now ending with the failure of its final attempt to rescue Uk...
Eater Houston

The Most Anticipated Houston Restaurant Openings, Winter 2025 - [image: Bowls of pho and plates of banh mi at Pho Prime.] Houston restaurants are ready to give diners new experiences in 2025. | Christine Nguyen The H...
The Grayzone

Skripal poisoning victim disputed UK narrative, official inquiry reveals - An official inquiry into a notorious 2018 Novichok poisoning case has found the victim briefly emerged from a coma, revealing information which wholly un...
Crooked Media

Make Government Boring Again - The post Make Government Boring Again appeared first on Crooked Media.
Claytoonz

Orange Ya Glad She’s Not In Heaven? - 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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What is the relationship between growth and the environment? A degrowth critique of the ‘contingent’ position - This is a brief response to Tim Thornton’s recent article for JAPE (94, Summer 2024/2025), ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosti...
Project Censored

Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom - This week we swing into the new year, 2025, with Mickey engaging media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss the incoming administration, Trump 2.0, the fai...
The Texas Signal

Queer Pro Wrestling Is Growing In Texas - Pro wrestling is starting to see much greater LGBTQ+ representation, especially in Texas.
Texas Freedom Network

What to Expect During the 89th Texas Legislative Session - Despite the 88th Session ending only what feels like two seconds ago, a new round of the Texas Legislature is upon us. [...] Read More... The post What ...
Progressives Chat

How was your vacation? - After taking a six-week break—like a vacation—from writing and publishing blog topics, *Progressives* *Chat* returns to normal schedule. The break was nece...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NEW FRONTIERS IN SANEWASHING EDITION. - *Another one from the neo-soul coffee shop.* I keep filing these weekly dispatches late, due to my absurdly crowded work schedule; if you come across any...
Field Negro

The Misinformation Machine. - The level of insanity going on this country right now is mind blowing. On one side you have a cult spreading disinformation, lies, and wallowing in h...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Sion Road (house reflections) - [image: Sion Road]
Dissident Voice

How the West Destroyed Syria - Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

You Deserve Better: Audio From A Collapsing State - Don't let the authoritarians have control over you. We deserve better. So much better.
Idavox

The Missouri Woman Who Burned Down a Bar, Other Businesses, In Puerto Rico is Still a Free Woman - Bad enough media outlets aren’t exactly jumping on this story and that we all have... The post The Missouri Woman Who Burned Down a Bar, Other Businesses...
TalkLeft

Los Angeles Fires: "Apocalyptic Destruction" - Los Angeles continues to burn. (WSJ, free link). I hope the insurance companies have enough money to pay all the homeowner and commercial claims. The dam...
The Militant

Ongoing high prices eat away at the lives of working people - Despite claims by the outgoing Joseph Biden government and liberal big-business media that inflation is now at “acceptable” levels, working people continue...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #166 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: other ways not to flee from police, some stuff about monkeys, and a few other time-wasters.
The Progressive Wing

January 10th thru 17th Open Thread - Hello my friends, Well it seems it will be official on Jan 20 America actually will put a Felon in office, Even the corrupt USSC shot him down with a 5-4 v...
Rewire

What Will Happen to Trans Health Care Under Trump? - Health-care providers and patients are bracing for restrictions likely to follow the anti-abortion playbook. The post What Will Happen to Trans Health Ca...
Media Lens

Manufacturing Consent For Regime Change In Syria - Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years – week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity o...
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 20 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Democracy Chronicles

Webster’s Method – Definition & Demonstration of Unbias - The House of Representatives apportionment allocation-rule is of timely importance, because we’re hearing in the news that the Democrats’ & Republicans’ nu...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
Seeing the Forest

Jack Gets Up - One of my favorites. Everyday in the morning when you get up and you crawl out of bed And you crawl out of bed and you crawl out of bed Everyday in the mor...
BEYONDbones

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Jamaal Bowman: How AIPAC Drove Me Out of Congress & My Views on Palestine Changed - Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, ...
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
GreenSource DFW

Can you recycle campaign signs? Here's where to take them in DFW - *Some municipal recycling centers and private recycling facilities will accept them. Photo by Harriet Blake.* Nov. 7, 2024 The election is over. No more...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Stinque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

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

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

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

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

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the ar...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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