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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Sunday Funnies

BREAKING NEWS: With his campaign rapidly dying, Newt Gingrich chooses to divorce it. Sources say he had already begun seeing the Mitt Romney campaign on the side.

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

'About to get worse': Conservatives target Harvard in effort to 'reshape education' - A handful of Republican leaders — some nominated to assume positions in Donald Trump's Cabinet — are planning to use their newfound power in the coming m...
memeorandum

Bill Clinton admitted to hospital for 'testing and observation' after falling ill (Fox News) - Fox News: *Bill Clinton admitted to hospital for ‘testing and observation’ after falling ill* — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to a hospita...
Mediaite

Anthony Scaramucci Says Musk Is in ‘A Perilous Situation’ With Trump, Who ‘Doesn’t Like’ All the Attention Tesla CEO Gets - "If it didn't bother him, Wolf, he wouldn't be bringing it up." The post Anthony Scaramucci Says Musk Is in ‘A Perilous Situation’ With Trump, Who ‘Doesn’...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Holy Year about to start in Rome - Pope Francis formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving ancient church tradition encouraging faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security...
Slate

Rickey Henderson’s Baseball Legacy Will Live On - The GOAT died at age 65, but he won’t be forgotten.
The Daily Poster

Floods: An Impending Partisan Disaster - A new Fed study warns that most expected flood losses are uninsured — and the lack of protection is more acute among Republican locales.
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came - America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
Daily Dot

‘My guy coming back for them boxes’: Woman catches FedEx driver dumping Walmart, Chewy packages on the side of the road - [image: Packages on side of road(L), Woman talking(c), Fedex truck(r)] A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) worker’s TikTok video about abandoned FedEx packages ...
The Verge

Marriott and Starwood hotels will have to get better at data security - [image: Brand logo on a Marriott hotel] *A Marriott Hotel in Germany.* | Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commi...
Alternet

'Desynchronized rhythms': Michigan researchers reveal the best time to sleep - A new study conducted by the University of Michigan recently discovered the significant connection between sleep patterns and mood disorders. According t...
Portside

Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food - Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food jeannette Mon, 12/23/2024 - 18:41
Deadline Politics

Bill Clinton Hospitalized After Developing High Fever - Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized today after developing a high fever, an aide announced. “President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown Univer...
Mediagazer

In a letter to Bob Iger, incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr raised concerns about ABC's negotiations with its affiliated stations, public trust in media, and more (Brian Stelter/CNN) - Brian Stelter / CNN: *In a letter to Bob Iger, incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr raised concerns about ABC's negotiations with its affiliated stations, pub...
Axios

Trial delayed for man accused of Trump's second assassination attempt - A trial for the man accused of a second assassination attempt on President-elect Trump was delayed until next year by a federal judge in Florida on Monda...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Part of Santa Cruz wharf collapses and floats away amid major swell - Three people fell into water but survived with ‘minor injuries’ as swell expected to bring waves as high as 26ft Three people fell into the water, but su...
Progressive.org

“They Think We’re Robots”: Amazon Holiday Shopping Puts Workers at Risk - Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse explain how they bear the brunt of offloaded holiday stress.
Techdirt.

Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author - Copyright is built on a lie that most people seem to accept: artists can make a decent living from the current system of rewards that copyright provides. A...
The Root

Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky and Other Male Rappers Who Rock Designer Purses - From Kangol hats to Starter jackets to the freshest Air Force Ones, rappers have always been expected to show up in style. But while they’ve been known t...
nonsite.org

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

Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China’s Giant Infrastructure Project - EDITOR—Uyghur separatist group that helped to topple the government of Bashar al Assad has declared its intention to return to Xinjiang in order to conduct...
Rio Grande Guardian

Miller: Higher Ed is changing fast and TSC is at the forefront - An in-depth interview with the dean of business, engineering, architecture and technology at Texas Southmost College. The post Miller: Higher Ed is chang...
Vox

The latest chapter of It Ends With Us is an alleged Blake Lively smear campaign - The dramatic summer feud among the cast of It Ends With Us took a darker turn last week when Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni, the movie’s costar and di...
Reform Austin

Could The Texas House Start With No Speaker - The next Texas legislative session starts in less than a month, but no presumptive Speaker of the House has emerged yet? Will there be a bloody battle on...
Al Jazeera English

UN raises death toll for recent Cite Soleil massacre in Haiti’s capital - The UN now says 207 people were killed in a slum neighbourhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince, earlier this month.
The Hill

Bill Clinton admitted to hospital with fever - Former President Clinton was admitted to a Washington hospital Monday with a fever, his spokesperson said on social media. “President Clinton was admitted ...
naked capitalism

CDC’s Research Program on Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) Minimizes Airborne Transmission - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. This post originated in a valiant but doomed effort to determine whether modes of transmission (airborne, fomite, etc.) co...
slacktivist

Heavenly hosts & UFOs - My mother told us that boredom was a sin. If we were bored on a rainy Saturday, that was our choice and our fault.
Wolf Street

Glut of New Completed Single-Family Houses for Sale Spikes to Highest since 2007, Prices Drop to Lowest since 2021 But Are Still Way too High - Lennar shocked the market by saying it’ll address this situation with further price cuts; its average price to drop by 16% from the peak in 2022.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Holiday week schedule.
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 186: Happy Festivus! Ted and Scott Air Their Grievances - The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) celebrate the December 23rd holiday of Festivus with the traditional Ai...
Political Wire

Get Ready for Turf Battles Among Trump’s Many Envoys - “President-elect Donald Trump has tapped multiple people for overlapping foreign affairs posts. Get ready for turf battles and confusion over who’s in char...
Futurism

Touchy Trump Insists That He's Not Taking Orders From Elon Musk - Pecking Order Donald Trump is starting to sound a little testy about people insinuating that his "First Buddy" Elon Musk is the real one running the show...
Houston Public Media

Report: Harris County has significantly increased substance-involved deaths and healthcare visits - The report states increasingly easier methods of purchasing substances that look like prescription pills through social media have been linked to the incre...
World Socialist Web Site

Rallies in Paris, Berlin and Cologne show growing opposition to the war in Ukraine - It is necessary to focus this opposition on the working class and to arm it with an international socialist perspective, independent of the imperialist pow...
ArcaMax

We the People Will Prevail - The holidays provide an apt time to pause and assess where we are. You have every reason to be worried about what happens after Jan. 20. Many people could ...
Second Nexus

Colin Jost Read Some NSFW Jokes On 'SNL' About Wife Scarlett Johansson—While She Watched - Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" with co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che continued their annual year-end tradition of reading each other's jokes...
Ballot Access News

Presidential Vote Totals Almost Entirely Complete - David Peip of the Election Atlas here posts the latest presidential vote totals. They are complete, except that Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island stil...
Popular Resistance

United States’ Role In The Coup Attempt And Effort To Reignite The Korean War - On December 3, President Yoon Suk-Yeol attempted to impose martial law in South Korea as part of an effort to take more power and reignite the Korean War...
WhoWhatWhy

‘All the Best People’ – What the Gaetz Report Says About Trump’s Nominees - [image: Matt Gaetz] While the media focuses on the juiciest details of the Ethics Committee report on the misdeeds of Matt Gaetz, the real story is somethi...
The AltWorld

Against Defeatism: Israel Is Not Sustainable and Will Not Win, w/ Susan Abulhawa - The year 2024 has seen so much loss from Gaza to Lebanon, it can be easy to […] The post Against Defeatism: Israel Is Not Sustainable and Will Not Win, w...
CultureMap Houston

Renovated Tudor-style home in West U. hits market for $5.5 million - In the heart of West University Place sits 6426 Sewanee Avenue. The gracious Tudor home, originally built in 2011, has been thoughtfully renovated. It’s o...
OpEd News

Thousands of prisoners are freed in Syria - This article talks about the latest developments and situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime.
The Week

'Solitude has become a notable, and worrisome, trend of our times' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Brad Blog

Silent Nights - As noted on Thursday's rollicking year-end BradCast and occasionally hopeful Green News Report, we will be standing down this week and next over the holida...
Mondoweiss

‘October 7 proved the importance of the struggle to the world’: an interview with Palestinian icon Leila Khaled - [image: Leila Khaled sits for an interview with Mondoweiss in her apartment in Amman, Jordan. (Photo: Bayan Abu Ta’ema)]Leila Khaled reflects on her lifeti...
Claytoonz

Merry Gassy Christmas - 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...
Eater Houston

The Saddest Houston Restaurant Closings of 2024 - [image: An outside view of Damian’s Cucina Italiana on its final day.] Restaurant closings are a part of the business, but it doesn’t get any easier. | Br...
First Draft

That Guy Really Loved His Pottersville/Bedford Falls Tree - A fan's observations of the holiday classic, including the real moral of the story.
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Healing, growth, and a brighter future for El Paso ISD - El Paso ISD superintendent Diana Sayavedra acknowledges pain of closing schools, but says it will pave the way to a more successful education system. T...
Consortium News

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts - We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electroni...
Church and State

Did Trump Lose His Mandate On Friday 12/20/24? - In one week, the supposedly indestructible, unconvictable Trump now faces huge challenges to his authoritarian rule as he takes office.
Angry Bear

End of the road for Sesame Street? - When I was in the target demographic, Sesame Street didn’t exist. I did watch Captain Kangaroo a few times, but that’s not the same thing. My daughter di...
SCOTUSblog

Chicago man asks justices to clarify when officers can search your cellphone at the border - [image: Chicago man asks justices to clarify when officers can search your cellphone at the border]The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of th...
Mother Jones

Biden Pulled Off a $370 Billion Miracle for the Climate. Where Did the Money Go? - This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act stands as...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Hindu Supremacy: Biju Mathew and Karthikeyan Shanmugam - In 2024, Southern Poverty Law Center staff interviewed eight experts and advocates working in the human rights space to explore the topic of Hindu supremac...
Bonddad

Sales of new and existing homes increased in November; declining price trend continues for the former, but pressures increase in the latter - -* by New Deal democrat* Ive been looking at new and existing home sales more in tandem recently, as we are looking for a rebalancing of the market,...
Election Law Blog

California: “Orange County GOP pushes back on ‘false claims of voter fraud'” - LAT: The Republican Party of Orange County has forcefully swatted down unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2024 election, debunking allegations that w...
Capital & Main

Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live - Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving housing market and little or n...
ProPublica

A North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate’s Bid to Overturn His Loss Is Based on Theory Election Deniers Deemed Extreme - by Doug Bock Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing...
Sludge

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

Christmas Eve Asteroid Alert: 120-Foot Space Rock Racing Toward Earth - As Christmas Eve approaches, the sky above promises more than twinkling stars and festive cheer. A massive celestial visitor, known as the “Christmas Eve a...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip Quickies - Saturday’s Alley Oop held out the promise of an actual adventure. Monday’s Alley Oop hasn’t disabused me of that hope. We’ll see. I could very well be wron...
Space City Weather

The SCW Q&A: MMP clouds, weather career, sideways storms, DST forever, an app mystery - Yeah, we know, we know. There was no Q&A in November. We really have no excuse, other than inertia and maybe a food coma late in the month. Yeah, that’s it...
Undernews

IMMIGRATION - *What's News - * Private prisons and detention companies are preparing to profit from what the president-elect says will be America's “largest domestic d...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

Texas Standard for Dec. 23, 2024: The best of The Texas Newsroom - We’re taking a look back at some of our favorite stories of the year from our reporting partners across the state.
San Antonio Report

Cartels turn to social media to lure Americans into human smuggling as Texas enforces stricter laws - Justin Persinger was broke and sleeping on a friend’s couch in San Antonio. He is now among thousands charged with human smuggling under Operation Lone Sta...
Texas Monthly

The Best Celebrity Cowboy Looks of 2024 - This year, all y’all wanted to look Texan—but maybe none so much as National Cutting Horse Association Rookie of the Year Bella Hadid.
MintPress News

Worthy Victims: Why the New York Times Deleted Israeli Fan Rampage Video - The New York Times deleted a video of violence in Amsterdam it published, once it realized that the perpetrators were Israelis, and not an anti-Semitic m...
Discourse

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

STORIES: Paul from Cornwall repeated a story! - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2024* *So had the pitiful Musk:* Some of the western world's most treasured stories are told at this time of the year. We humans a...
NORML

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

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

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

"Christ Is Still in the Rubble": Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide - Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second year in a row in response to Isra...
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2024 - Yes, I am aware that the world today runs largely on TikTok, YouTube, some combination of X and Bluesky, Netflix, and surely some other internet concocti...
Ian Welsh

Some Countries Need Less Population - [image: Some Countries Need Less Population] There is a genre of population decline doomerism. An example: Three terrifying charts about Japan’s demograph...
Southeast Texas Record

Law Students Argue at 5th Circuit - On March 6, 2024, a pair of Texas Law students stepped out of a pleasant New Orleans morning and into the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more…
NPR's Health Shots

For young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. It can shape you for life - Caregiving responsibilities can cut young people off from peers and interrupt their emerging life story. And there's been little research or support direct...
The Smirking Chimp

We the People Will Prevail -
Skeptophilia

Not easy being green - After recent posts dealing with politics, culture, the hazards of AI, and important scientific discoveries, I'm sure what you're all thinking is: yes, Go...
Off The Kuff

On Rep. Kay Granger - On Saturday I was perusing Bluesky, and posts like this were all over the place: US Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, hasn’t voted since July. The Dallas Express ...
Crooked Media

Our Favorite Things, 2024 - The post Our Favorite Things, 2024 appeared first on Crooked Media.
DeSmogBlog

Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network - A whistleblowing Pennsylvania oil and gas worker, together with the state’s former lead environmental regulator, are ringing the alarm bell on an unregul...
Grist

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

Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers - A mine just reopened in eastern Utah, but the industry has changed. The post Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers appeared first on High Country ...
Counterpunch

Political Economy Contradictions as We Lurch Into 2025 - The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and to sto...
See You In 2020

The communists who can adapt to multipolarity’s rise will be able to win this era’s great conflicts - There is a clear contrast between how the communist parties which hold actual power have responded to the recent geopolitical shifts; and how the compro...
jobsanger

Our Supreme Court Has Huge Ethical Problems -
Informed Comment

Pope Francis: “I Think of Gaza, of so much Cruelty, of the Children Machine-Gunned” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” according to ...
Antiwar.com

Israel to Annex the West Bank – Why Now? And What are the Likely Scenarios? - Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian freedom and ...
Idavox

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

12.22-28 Happy Holiday (FWIW) Threads - Happy Holidays you all. These are wide open Holiday threads. Fill them with your favorite Christmas tunes. To me, getting together with loved ones and list...
Bracing Views

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

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

Merry Christmas 2024! - I wish everyone, this Wednesday, December 25, 2024, a Merry Christmas!
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: squirrel - [image: Royal Fort Gardens - squirrel]
Alas, a Blog

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

How Musk Outmaneuvered Trump - Musk got the only thing that he wanted. Does Trump realize it?
Salon.com

Psychedelics rejected, Captagon factories and "pink cocaine": The drugs that defined 2024 - Psychedelic industry faced setbacks, cannabis was almost rescheduled and overdose deaths dropped — but not for all
The Militant

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

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

A Major Discussion of the Virgin Birth of Jesus! - This was a good discussion. Enjoy! Billing: "Father Ivanoff of Eastern Orthodox apologetics fame joins us with master historian and apologist Subdeacon Dan...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 21 December 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Santa must escape the Grinch to get his job done. Always put your truck i...
Workers World

Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’ - [image: Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’] Over 100 people rallied at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall next to the Liberty Bell on D...
alicublog

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

25th Anniversary of "Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Friends,* *Before the end of 2024, I want to highlight that this year marks the 25th anniversary of my award-winning book, Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-M...
The Reality-Based Community

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

Climate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant - Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or abused – and...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: House On Fire - Time is running out to stop and reverse climate change, and the evidence is clear... The post Earth911 Inspiration: House On Fire appeared first on Earth...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza - Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

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

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

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 1 - Before we go on with the third of the operas in Wagner’s vast tetralogy The Nibelung’s Ring, I’d like to take a moment to talk a little about my trolls. Ye...
Dissident Voice

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

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

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

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

Scandal deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene - Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, ...
Democracy Chronicles

Playing the Ref at Nextdoor - Experience has taught me that the editors at Democracy Chronicles probably won't call this article an example of disrespect or public shaming.
Trivial Knot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
Free & Equal

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

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...
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...
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.
New Progressive Alliance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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