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

Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: Exeunt, the Man from Scranton - When a president has failed as miserably as Joe Biden, you have to change the subject. You have to distract the public. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost I h...
Counterpunch

Contrasting Reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners - The release of three Israeli women held captive in Gaza on Sunday attracted significant global media attention. However, there was comparatively limited ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White - Germany’s capital was known for its affordable rents. Now ‘furnished temporary’ flats risk destroying the heart of the city From London and other overpri...
The Week

Foreigners in Spain facing a 100% tax on homes as the country battles a housing crisis - The goal is to provide 'more housing, better regulation and greater aid,' said Spain's prime minister
Daily Dot

‘This is insane’: Big Lots shopper sees $24.99 price label. Then they peel the sticker back - [image: 3 panel image: on the sides a person is peeling a label, in the middle is the exterior of a Big Lots! store.] A Big Lots shopper was in for a sur...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

TikTok's US survival hinges on President Trump - Millions of U.S. TikTok users are looking to newly sworn-in President Donald Trump, who has given the app’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, 75 days to strike a ...
memeorandum

Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave* — President Donald Trump 's administ...
Al Jazeera English

Turkiye’s Victory Party leader Umit Ozdag faces trial for ‘inciting hatred’ - Turkish court orders Umit Ozdag's custody over accusations of public incitement and anti-Syrian refugee riots.
jobsanger

The Oligarch Inauguration -
Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiff Alleges Negligence Against Dog Owner Following Vicious Attack - A Harris County resident has taken legal action against another local individual following an unprovoked dog attack at Woodwind Lake park. Read more…
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2553: Complexity and Emergence - Episode: 2553 Emergence and complexity in virtual and living systems. Today, let’s talks about emergence.
Crooked Media

Trump Targets Immigrants - The post Trump Targets Immigrants appeared first on Crooked Media.
Axios

At least 10 deaths reported as rare winter storm sweeps southern U.S. - A rare winter storm that's slamming the southern U.S. with "dangerously cold temperatures," historic snow and icy conditions has been linked to at least ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump pardons all January 6 far-right foot soldiers and commutes sentences of high-level fascist militia leaders - Those who had their sentences commuted include the former leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and former Proud Boys Chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio...
Informed Comment

Trumpocalypse: What Turbocharged Carbon Will Do to Our Children - I am reprinting my column this week from Tomdispatch.com . Check in over there for the essential introduction of the invaluable Tom Engelhardt. My name isn...
Antiwar.com

How the US Uses and Abuses Latin America - On January 10, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) posted a $25 million reward (up from a paltry $15 million) for information leading to the arrest of...
The Hill

Trump orders FAA to terminate DEI hiring efforts - President Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order directing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to "return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiri...
Rio Grande Guardian

Silva: Data Centers Are a Win for Texas and the Rio Grande Valley - A guest column from the president and CEO of the Rio Grande Valley Partnership. The post Silva: Data Centers Are a Win for Texas and the Rio Grande Valle...
Techdirt.

Get Ready To Hear About The NBA’s Pat Riley If The NFL’s Chiefs Go To The Super Bowl - For those of you who are not football fans, we’re coming up on Super Bowl season. And, yes, that will surely mean that we will eventually do some posting o...
Mediaite

AOC Hammers Elon Musk Over Salute: ‘In This Country, We Hate Nazis’ - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped Elon Musk after the billionaire made a gesture that sparked a furor on Monday. The post AOC Hammers Elon Musk Over Sa...
Political Wire

Pentagon Plans for Bigger U.S. Troop Role at Border - “Pentagon officials are planning options for using federal troops to secure the U.S.-Mexico border against drug traffickers, human smugglers and migrants, ...
Raw Story

Jim Jordan signals prolonged probes into Biden family and debunked Jan. 6 conspiracies - House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) signaled Tuesday that he may not be done just yet with investigations revolving around former President...
Mediagazer

ITV's Hell's Kitchen game, based on the popular show and ITV's first-ever Roblox experience, reaches 20M+ visits and has 450k daily active users (Victoria Kennedy/Eurogamer.net) - Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net: *ITV's Hell's Kitchen game, based on the popular show and ITV's first-ever Roblox experience, reaches 20M+ visits and h...
Brad Blog

Trump's Day 1 Assault on America: 'BradCast' 1/21/2025 - On Day 2 of the second corrupt Trump Presidency, we catch up on today's BradCast with the destruction he wrought (or attempted to) on Day 1, just hours aft...
Popular Resistance

Serving The Oligarchs: A Look Back At Biden And Forward At Trump - As the Biden presidency ends, Clearing the FOG takes another look at Biden's legacy. This time the focus is on his economic and foreign policies. Margare...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Alternet

'Three big factors' that make Trump's second presidency different from the first: report - Only one day into Donald Trump's second term, The Atlantic's David A. Graham is able to pinpoint the biggest factors that make this time around so "diffe...
Workers World

Trump inaugurates anti-migrant, anti-trans agenda - [image: Trump inaugurates anti-migrant, anti-trans agenda] Today, January 20, a vicious, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, antis...
The Greanville Post

Col. Larry Wilkerson: Is the US Rethinking Its Global Strategy? - EDITOR—Col. Wilkerson tries to sort out the truth, lies, and direction of Trump's policies in his statements, but admits it is not easy, as Trump himself a...
Undernews

DONALD TRUMP - Huffington Post - Current and former police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from President Donald Trump’s mob on Jan. 6, 2021, were outraged Monday ...
Space City Weather

Hard freeze tonight as Houston’s roads turn icy again - In brief: This evening’s update celebrates Houston’s first snow day in a long time, when nearly everyone did the right thing and stayed home. With a very c...
The Verge

Here’s what Bambu will — and won’t — promise after its controversial 3D printer update - *Using the non-touch screen on an older Bambu P1P 3D printer.* | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Bambu Lab, the company behind my favorite 3D printer...
Portside

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire - There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire Judy Tue, 01/21/2025 - 20:03
Ballot Access News

President Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht - On January 21, President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, and credited the Libertarian Movement for influencing him to do this. His statement on Truth ...
ArcaMax

Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Explained - The American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants' rights advocates sued the Trump administration on its first day in office after President Donald Trump s...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s First Orders Parrot Project 2025 Manifesto He Disavowed - After distancing himself from the corporate policy agenda during his campaign, President Donald Trump is issuing executive orders torn straight from its pa...
Slate

The Buckeyes Remember How to Win - Glory returns to Columbus with a championship win.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Touts Tech Investment Of Up To $500 Billion In AI Infrastructure - Donald Trump appeared with three prominent tech executives to unveil a private sector initiative to build AI infrastructure in the United States, with an o...
Reform Austin

Are 3,000 Centerpoint Energy Workers Good Enough For A Snowstorm? - Due to the significant winter storm that reached the Houston area, the CenterPoint Energy company has activated its emergency response plan, deploying ar...
Vox

The Logoff: Trump attacks birthright citizenship - This story first ran in The Logoff. Sign up here to get stories like this delivered to your inbox every weekday. Good evening, and welcome to the first edi...
El Paso Matters

Trump lifts protections against immigration enforcement at schools, churches, hospitals and other sensitive areas - Limits on immigration enforcement actions in or near sensitive areas that have been in place more than a decade, including in the first Trump administra...
The NM Political Report

Crime, child welfare, behavioral health among Lujan Grisham’s legislative priorities - By Susan Morée Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signaled in her State of the State speech on Tuesday that she intends to pick up the fight over public safety...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County replaces purchasing agent who hung on despite complaints, staff controversy - Despite complaints, Bexar County Purchasing Agent Patricia Torres wound up in the final round of applicants before a newcomer got the job. -----------------...
The Root

What a Mess! Here's The Tea on Claressa Shields and Laila Ali's Beef - Though Claressa Shields may be a beast inside the ring, it seems she’s no chump outside of it either—especially when it comes to her apparently longstand...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

MAGAs furious after bishop publicly confronts Trump on his policies from the pulpit - Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors...may I ask you to have mercy Mr. P...
Futurism

Trump Set to Approve $500 Billion Deal to Build Huge AI Datacenters - Private Playground Returning president Donald Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-developed AI infrastructure, ac...
High Country News

‘This is about power’: Indigenous immigrants face a second Trump administration - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to Indigenous people. The post ‘Th...
Progressive.org

Trump Will Bulldoze the Separation of Church and State - We can expect Trump to continue to exploit religion and pander to his base of white evangelicals.
NPR's Health Shots

FDA allows standalone use of nasal spray antidepressant Spravato (esketamine) - The FDA says esketamine, an antidepressant derived from the anesthetic and party drug ketamine, can now be prescribed on its own. It was approved in 2019 t...
OpEd News

Corporate Cannibalism: Giants Clash Over Their Profits - Has anyone wondered what the GLP-1 agonist fat drugs are doing to Big Food profits? After all, the major reason Americans are gigantic is Big Food ingredie...
Election Law Blog

“Beneath a veneer of calm, Trump’s inauguration holds warning signs for US democracy” - Nick Riccardi for AP: All the living former presidents were there and the outgoing president amicably greeted his successor, who gave a speech about the ...
Salon.com

"Please try not to use it again": Jon Stewart on Elon Musk's "awkward" hand gesture at inauguration - "The Daily Show" host also called the inauguration a "historic vibe shift of a day."
Texas Standard

Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections - The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created “protected areas” consisting of places where “children gather, disaster or emergency relief...
Second Nexus

Bishop Urges Trump To 'Have Mercy' In Powerful Plea During Inauguration Prayer Service - As part of the inauguration of Donald Trump, the newly sworn-in President and Vice President attended a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washi...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Repulsive Regime: Thoughts From a Disgusting Inaugural - I watched every minute of this debacle. It was worse than I even expected.
CultureMap Houston

Insecure creator Issa Rae charms Houston at sold-out appearance - A rambunctious, sold-out crowd greeted actress/rising TV mogul Issa Rae during an appearance in Houston on Saturday, January 18.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: U.S. Board on Names, come on down! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025* *Also, secrets leak out on The Five: *We know! This morning, in a burst of temporary madness, we promised to share the histor...
Claytoonz

Elon’s Salute - 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...
Mondoweiss

I was suspended from Emory over my Palestine activism. I will not let it stop me. - When I applied to Medical School at Emory University, I was open about my dedication to Palestine activism, and was told it would never impact my studies. ...
Mother Jones

The Anti-Trump Resistance Is Alive at This Historic Black DC Church - When Donald Trump first took office, the streets of Washington, DC, and cities around the country, erupted in protest and resistance. The 2017 Women’s Marc...
Discourse

It's Time to Trust Our Own Eyes - They want us to doubt what is plainly obvious. We can't let them.
Rallblog

Trump Grabs at a Presidency of Intentionality - There are two kinds of leaders: managers and revolutionists. Most American presidents are managers. Managers have small ambitions, often so sma...
Crooked Timber

On Institutional Voice and witnessing Truth; On the Yale Report - Recently I learned that at Yale University a “Report of the Committee on Institutional Voice” was published a few months ago. The committee was chaired by ...
Church and State

Inauguration Day Arrives As Trump and MLK Share Days of Remembrance and Potential Disaster! - Trump's ideologically packed Supreme Court’s immunity decision gives him virtually unlimited power to act even inappropriately!
Bracing Views

Space Food Sticks, Tang, War, Genocide - W.J. Astore You can sell anything to Americans When I was a kid, at the height of the U.S. space program and the Apollo missions to the moon, I was an avid...
Eater Houston

How a Longtime Houston Restaurateur Opened Two Revamped Restaurants in the Same Month - [image: A banana pudding bunelo topped with banana ice cream at Maximo.] Mexican restaurant Maximo has been completely revamped to include some of the mos...
First Draft

New Orleans Snow Day - Make it stop.
The AltWorld

Biden Pardons His Crime Family and Trump Pardons Its Victims - Remember the influence-peddling accusations against Biden’s brother James that could go nowhere because of the Garland Justice […] The post Biden Pardons...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/21/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; January 6 pardons; DOGE Executive order; Improving surgical masks (many methods) ~
WhoWhatWhy

Far Out: Meteorite Strike Captured on Canadian Couple’s Doorbell Camera - [image: science, space, meteorite, Canada, doorbell camera capture] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our read...
Daily Cartoonist

Jules Feiffer – RIP - Cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer has passed away. Jules Ralph Feiffer January 20, 1929 – January 17, 2025 The Washington Post is reporting the death...
Capital & Main

With Union Rights Uncertain Under Trump, Higher Ed Workers Seek to Speed Up Bargaining - Newly unionized Caltech, Occidental workers got union rights under Biden. Trump’s inauguration has them seeking quick contracts. The post With Union Righ...
Texas Monthly

Anti-Immigration Hard-Liners in the Texas GOP Are Putting on a Show - Trump’s followers in our state talk tough when it comes to border enforcement and mass deportations. A close read tells a different story.
MintPress News

What the Financial Press Tells Elites That Mainstream Media Won’t - The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg cater to business leaders, offering unvarnished insights into the harsh realities of capitalism and US imperialism....
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, Jan. 21 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, Jan. 21]The Supreme Court is meeting for oral arguments this morning in Food and Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynol...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Qarabag vs FCSB lúc 00h45 ngày 24/01/2025 - Tại vòng 7 thuộc giải UEFA Europa, thi đấu khi có những điểm tựa tốt, Qarabag và FCSB khi ra sân sẽ cống hiến cho người xem những pha bóng hấp dẫn. The ...
American Prospect

Executive Action Reaction: Day 1 - Explaining what Donald Trump is up to
Bonddad

The economic reasons why the Democrats lost in 2024 - *- by New Deal democrat* There is no significant economic news until Thursday. In the meantime, today and tomorrow let me discuss a couple of issue...
Rewire

Cecile Richards’ Death Marks the End of an Era - We’re living in a vastly different political reality. The post Cecile Richards’ Death Marks the End of an Era appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Political Garbage Chute

Putin Expresses Concern About Incoming American Dictatorship - Moscovia, Kievan Rus’ — Following Donald Trump’s inauguration, Vladimir Putin, pictured above shitting his pants at the mention of President Zelenskyy, t...
Ian Welsh

Drill, Baby, Drill; Screw Immigrants; End the 14th Amendment; Climate Change Ho! Trump’s Day One Actions - [image: Drill, Baby, Drill; Screw Immigrants; End the 14th Amendment; Climate Change Ho! Trump’s Day One Actions] What can I say, it’s an old picture, but...
ProPublica

Five Big Obstacles to Opening Child Care Facilities in Rural Illinois - by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. Sig...
Democracy Now!

Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: "A Day of Victory for Indigenous People" - Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier is coming home after nearly half a century behind bars. Just minutes before leaving office, former President ...
The Conversation

Lessons from ‘stop and frisk’ can help Philly police use drones to improve safety without compromising civil liberties - The Philadelphia Police Department plans to expand its use of drones, including as first responders.
Sludge

Trump Rewards Fossil Fuel Donors on Day One - With an executive order, Trump lifted the moratorium on new liquid natural gas exports, a top priority for the executives whom he asked to raise $1 billion...
DeSmogBlog

Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network - As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for clima...
Earth 911

We Earthlings: Wake Up, Climate Change Is Here! - 2024 was the warmest year in recorded history, according to the World Meteorological Association, and... The post We Earthlings: Wake Up, Climate Change ...
Angry Bear

Healthcare, Groceries, Jobs, and Earnings . . . the Economy - We are amazingly ignorant of what is going on economically in the United States. But for groceries, the nation had a good economy. The right president wa...
The Smirking Chimp

The Day of the Locusts: Just Another Monday in America -
Off The Kuff

Precinct analysis: County races 2024 part 2 - PREVIOUSLY: President Senate Railroad Commissioner District Attorney and County Attorney Last time we looked at the low-performing countywide races for Dem...
Scheerpost.com

On the Eve of Trump, Iran and Russia Launch Historical Deal - In a detailed strategic partnership agreement signed last week in Moscow, Eurasian powers Russia and Iran issued a challenge to the US-led global order and...
Grist

The 8 talking points fossil fuel companies use to obstruct climate action - New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 21 January 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] This tortoise is exactly three ...
Common Dreams

The Hurting Part: A 'Wait' That Almost Always Means 'Never' - On Monday we mourned and honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., preacher, radical, orator, warrior and leader of America's civil rights movement; ...
Wolf Street

“Locked-in” Homeowners Nevertheless Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: their Share of All Mortgages Outstanding Drops to 55%, Lowest since Q1 2021 - Big changes in life, corporate switcheroos from working-remotely-forever to return-to-the-office, job changes, natural disasters, etc., force their hand.
LareDOS

Vermeer: the girl - Too often we overlook the specificity of beauty in our daily lives: the clamor of synthetic busyness, interminable torrents of online information and rumor...
The Texas Signal

Remembering Cecile Richards - On Monday, the family of Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, announced that she had died. Richards is now being remembered by ma...
slacktivist

XIV – Penn Medicine Delays My Wife’s Surgery Again. Why? - Life is complicated. The Fourteenth Amendment is not.
TalkLeft

Trump's Inauguration: Open Thread - Trump 2 begins today. Elon Musk is so excited. He spoke to Trump supporters about optimism and how much they are going to accomplish. Melania is hiding h...
Texas Observer

Cecile Richards Isn’t Giving Up the Fight - Editor’s Note: This interview, which first appeared in our January/February 2025 print issue, was originally scheduled to publish online later this month...
Project Censored

Fires, Frontlines, and Surveillance: Looking into Environmental and Civil Rights Crises - In the first half of the program, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of California ...
Progressives Chat

Donald Trump—Once Again—Is President of the United States! - Following his first term as the 45th president of the United States, *Donald Trump* begins his second non-consecutive term as the nation’s 47th president...
See You In 2020

All the ruling class ideologies keep failing. Only the revolutionary forces are in place to rise. - At this moment, the U.S. ruling class and its allies are using a myriad of tricks to derail the anti-imperialist struggle. These psyops are both small a...
Seeing the Forest

On The Word ‘Genocide’ By ‘The Left’ To Describe Israel’s Actions In Gaza - My mother’s parents were Orthodox Jews, coming from Ukrainians who emigrated to the US (in a hurry) during prior eras of persecution. I also lost family me...
Dissident Voice

Can the Internet Wage Peace? Amidst a Push for War, Chinese and American Citizens Connect Online - With the Tiktok ban just days away, American youth have started flooding the Chinese social media app RedNote, pushing it into #1 position on the app sto...
The Grayzone

‘Why Aren’t You in The Hague?’: Sam Husseini and Max Blumenthal confront Tony Blinken - The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal confronted Blinken, asking why he continued to “keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May” and whether he was “compr...
The Progressive Wing

January 18-23 News Roundup and Open Thread -
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

With DEI on Texas Legislature's agenda, here's what's proposed for higher education, by Lily Kepner, Jan. 13, 2025 - *Dear Fellow Texans, I urge you to give Lily Kepner’s piece your close attention, as the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the...
Idavox

Terrorgram Collective Designation as Terrorist Group - This crew that was about promoting infrastructure attacks and violence. Yeah, a few of their... The post Terrorgram Collective Designation as Terrorist G...
The Militant

Why Trump wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal - President-elect Donald Trump has announced he intends to pursue gaining control over Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal, to advance the interests of th...
Earthworks

Ted Cruz Wrongly Accuses Biden Administration of ‘Slow Walking’ LNG Project Application Review - At this week’s Transportation Secretary hearing, Senator Ted Cruz accused the Biden Administration of “thoughtlessly and needlessly” forcing the Delfin …...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH FORWARD EDITION. - *Have we done this one before? Hell with it, it's nice.* Just a few words on David Lynch: Aside from the statements his films make, it may be his bigges...
Debunking Christianity

It’s Not Hard to Figure Out What’s Wrong with Christianity - *Study, research, and critical thinking are the key* A long time ago I heard it said of someone, “He’s got a mind like concrete: all mixed up and firmly ...
Duck of Minerva

Grabbing the world by the norms - With the news avalanche that is Trump, it’s hard to keep track of all the outrageous things he says and does. With his recent very vocal attempts at land g...
NORML

Biden Administration Announces Commutations for Nearly 2,500 Non-Violent Drug Offenders - [image: Joe Biden and Marijuana][image: Joe Biden and Marijuana]"This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing ...
Bud Kennedy

From 1997, Benbrook: When school district separatists were thinking small. Or not at all | Opinion - (Published March 6, 1997.) Benbrook’s children learn in some of Texas’ finest big-city schools. The problem is, some townfolk no longer want fine big-city ...
Liberation News

Jimmy Carter passes away: Imperialism loses respected spokesman - Carter’s legacy is perhaps best defined by his inability, as either President, or post-Presidency, to arrest the rightward political drift of the US Empire...
Krebs on Security

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS - Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients...
Unlimited Hangout

The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker - While often mythologized as having been created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its most popular companies were directly birthed out ...
Web of Debt

Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model - North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state bo...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: The Twilight of the Gods 1 - As the orchestra warms up for the final opera of the Ring cycle, the great conflict in Richard Wagner’s mind has been settled at last. Gone is the giddy ut...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Hooray for Gazawood! - I was peeping the news from L.A. along with Kathleen Wallace’s recent Substack column about Boss Media hand-wringing over the fate of film and TV stars who...
Skeptophilia

Strange attractors - Dear Readers, I am going to be taking a short break from *Skeptophilia*, so this will be my last post for a week and a half. Lord willin' an' the creek do...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Orders Lawyers to Have Lunch Together and Discuss “How They Can Act Professionally” - [image: A 1795 satirical drawing of a vestry dinner]The lunch report they filed suggests all went well.
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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What is the relationship between economic 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -
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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