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

memeorandum

Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering 'authoritarian threat' (Brian Stelter/CNN) - Brian Stelter / CNN: *Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’* — New York CNN — Veter...
Undernews

FAMILIES - *The personal-finance website WalletHub* released its report on the Best & Worst States to Raise a Family in 2025, as well as expert commentary, to high...
Mediagazer

Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin leaves WaPo and partners with ex-White House ethics czar Norm Eisen to launch a Substack outlet called The Contrarian (Brian Stelter/CNN) - Brian Stelter / CNN: *Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin leaves WaPo and partners with ex-White House ethics czar Norm Eisen to launch a Substack o...
Mediaite

Marjorie Taylor Greene Cooks Up Harebrained Theory On How to Stop the Wildfires: ‘They Know How to Do it’ - In another foray into unorthodox weather-related commentary, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has again captured national attention—this time...
Political Wire

DOGE Won’t Even Be a Legal Entity - The “Department of Government Efficiency” run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy is “now unlikely to incorporate as an organized outside entity or nonprofit,...
Alternet

'No clue yet': 'Bitter' Trump Rust Belt voters slammed for supporting former president again - In the 2024 presidential election, Democratic strategists and Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign were hoping that their "Blue Wall" in the Rust Belt ...
Houston Public Media

Police officers shoot, injure man following hit-and-run crash in west Houston - Under a 2022 Houston Police Department policy and in an effort to maintain transparency with the public, the police department regularly releases body came...
The Week

Best new hotels and places to stay in 2025 - Featuring stylish five star resorts, country escapes and chances to reconnect with nature
Salon.com

Los Angeles wildfires could be the costliest in history - Early estimates put the damage and economic losses between $250 billion and $275 billion
The Guardian (U.S. news)

JD Vance walks back Trump’s pledge to pardon January 6 protesters on day one – US politics live - Incoming vice-president says people who ‘committed violence’ shouldn’t be pardoned as surveys suggest blanket pardons would be unpopular with Americans ...
Daily Dot

Ex-Trump official freaks over satirical post claiming L.A ‘fire people’ are prioritizing diversity over containment - [image: George Papadopoulos in front of california fire] George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel for President-elect Do...
Eschaton

Suckers - Remember when Amazon had its "competition" for their new headquarters, every medium->large city in the country (including Philadelphia) spent 6 months devo...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Who is Trump's pick to go after 'Big Tech'? - President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Trade Commission has vowed to continue the agency's drive to break up Big Tech monopolies while add...
First Draft

Ill Wind Blows Los Angeles No Good - "Blow ill wind, blow away. Let me rest today. You're blowin' me no good."
Raw Story

'Dangerous time to be a child': Leading pediatrician deals major warning over Trump plan - Paul Offit, a pediatrician who specializes in treating infectious diseases, has written an editorial in the New York Times hammering Trump Department of ...
Techdirt.

Telecoms Glom Onto ‘AI’ Hype Cycle In A Fruitless Bid To Make 5G Seem Interesting - We’ve noted for several years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mob...
The Verge

Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization - [image: Vector illustration showing different aspects of the Mastodon app.] Image: The Verge Decentralized social network Mastodon has announced plans to...
Al Jazeera English

Nigerian air raid targeting bandits mistakenly kills civilians - Nigerian air force launches investigation after reports say at least 15 people killed in air attack in Zamfara State.
Texas Observer

Trump’s Texas Tycoons - T exas may fancy itself the MAGA mega-state, the indispensable beacon of brash conservatism that provided the fuel and fodder—if not the decisive elector...
Vox

I plan to retire in 2025. Am I financially prepared? - On the Money is a monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you ...
The Hill

Goodbye, cancel culture; hello 'capitulation culture' under Trump - Capitulation is cowardice. It will take spines to save the Republic's soul.
Reform Austin

Abbott Seeks to Buy Houston Water for Permian Basin - Governor Greg Abbott is in talks with the city of Houston to provide water for the Permian Basin in West Texas, which is facing dangerously low levels th...
Common Dreams

Over 25,000 Scientists, Science Supporters and 28 Organizations that Support Scientific Integrity Implore Members of Congress to Defend Science, Facts and Transparency - Scientists are urging members of Congress to use their legislative power to defend science, fact-based policymaking and bedrock science-based policies th...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: How to Build the Sustainable Wardrobe of Your Dreams - Fast fashion summarizes everything wrong with fashion: from GHG emissions to slave labor, overproduction, cultural... The post Guest Idea: How to Build t...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Good Intentions and Other Funny Things - Alex provoked a split response. I just saw something on the news about young people applying to 50 or 60 jobs at a time, and my response was, as they say h...
WhoWhatWhy

Fires, Trump, Musk, Climate Denial & Reality: Notes From the End of the World - [image: Palisades Fire, Los Angeles] A wake up call; time to suit up. Fires, Trump, Musk, Climate Denial & Reality: Notes From the End of the World origi...
Southeast Texas Record

Houston Partner Julianne Jaquith to Speak at the 13th Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration - Julianne Jaquith, a Partner at Quinn Emanuel based in the Houston office, will be a featured speaker at the 13th Joint Conference on International Energy...
Angry Bear

True Costs of Employee Healthcare - Maggie Mahar would cite Phillip Longman and his book the Best Care Anywhere when she was on her own blog and also at Angry Bear afterwards. Mr. Longman h...
naked capitalism

Links 1/13/2025 -
OpEd News

Tomgram: Stan Cox, Washington Doubles Down on Arming Israel - In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Cong...
The Smirking Chimp

Will Trump Get Credit for Biden’s Successes? -
Skeptophilia

Mirror, mirror, on the wall - Sometimes my mental processes are like a giant exercise in free association. I've always been this way. My personal motto could be, "Oh, look, something s...
Crooked Media

Is TikTok’s Time Up? - The post Is TikTok’s Time Up? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Precinct analysis: County races 2024 part 1 - PREVIOUSLY: President Senate Railroad Commissioner I’m going to break up the countywide race analyses into two posts, to make my life a little easier. I’m ...
Axios

DNC launches new rapid response social media ahead of Trump's return to office - The Democratic National Committee is tapping veterans of the wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team for a new rapid response push ahead of Donald Tru...
Progressives Chat

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

Restaurant owner gives up plans to remodel historic Main Plaza building, lists it for sale - One of the oldest buildings in San Antonio, located in the literal and figurative heart of downtown, is up for sale. ------------------------------ Restaur...
ProPublica

On a Mission From God: Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools - by Alec MacGillis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publis...
Slate

I Asked My Sister-in-Law to Change Her Home for My Daughter’s Safety. Everyone Lost It. - Are we really so out of line?
Scheerpost.com

Juan Cole: CBS’ 60 Minutes Exposes the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide, Interviews the Whistleblowers - By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The amazingly brave Cecilia Vega at CBS’ 60 Minutes did a groundbreaking segment on Sunday i...
Space City Weather

A mild week ahead, followed by a likely return of freezing temperatures early next week - In brief: Houston will see a warming trend this week, with high temperatures eventually pushing near 70 degrees by Friday or so. We’ll also see plenty of c...
American Prospect

Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns - SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.
NPR's Health Shots

Is one drink a day OK? Here's what to consider - On the heels of the Surgeon General's warning about the cancer risks of alcohol, there's growing consensus that less is better. But how much is enough? Her...
Grist

A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants - Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.
The Reality-Based Community

Maguire đã chơi siêu đỉnh như thế nào trước Arsenal ? - Manchester United đã vượt qua Arsenal trong trận đấu kịch tính tại vòng 3 FA Cup với chiến thắng 5-3 trên loạt sút luân lưu sau khi hòa 1-1 trong thời gi...
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 ...
High Country News

The EXPLORE Act is a blueprint for bipartisan conservation legislation - Bipartisan support for the act highlights the outdoor industry’s growing political clout, but questions remain about its cultural and environmental impa...
Rallblog

Operation Greenlander Freedom - President-Elect Donald Trump has threatened to use military force to invade and annex Greenland, which is currently a Danish colony, because he says the ...
Counterpunch

Pre-Inauguration Perceptions on Eve of Trump 2.0 - What’s possible with Trump 2.0? As pie in the sky as it might seem or appear (and chances that admittedly approach zero), the incoming Trump 2.0 Administ...
World Socialist Web Site

Official death toll for Los Angeles fires climbs to 24, as rising winds threaten further devastation - FEMA has not increased its limit on the grants for those who have lost their homes, which is capped at $87,970.
jobsanger

Now Is The Time Of Monsters -
Portside

Sunday Science: How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars - Sunday Science: How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars Ira Mon, 01/13/2025 - 00:37
Informed Comment

Crime of the Century: CBS’ 60 Minutes Exposes the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide, Interviews the Whistleblowers - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The amazingly brave Cecilia Vega at CBS’ 60 Minutes did a groundbreaking segment on Sunday in which she interviewed US gover...
The AltWorld

Lithuania’s Provocative Remark About Kaliningrad Doesn’t Equate To A Territorial Claim - Referring to places by the names that a certain group once used doesn’t automatically imply territorial claims, […] The post Lithuania’s Provocative Rema...
Antiwar.com

How the West Destroyed Syria - Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following th...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, Dec 2024: In 21 of the 33 Metros, Prices Have Now Dropped Below 2022 Peaks - State of housing markets in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, M...
Rio Grande Guardian

Raise Your Hand Texas gears up for 89th legislative session - The group set up in 2006 by Charles Butt and other business leaders says the future of Texas lies in its public schools. The post Raise Your Hand Texas g...
The Greanville Post

The Trump Era: The Making of a New Global Order? - OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—But, there are two big problems. One is the hundreds of years of Western anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda in support of a Weste...
Popular Resistance

Despite Repression, Campus Movement For Palestine Remains Strong - This December and January, 50 protestors are facing arraignment for their May 15, 2024 arrests at a University of California Irvine (UCI) protest opposin...
Claytoonz

Turn Left At Greenland - 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...
Deadline Politics

Kim Kardashian Urges Higher Wages For Incarcerated Firefighters: “I See Them As Heroes” - Kim Kardashian is calling attention to the many incarcerated firefighters who are battling the flames that have overtaken Los Angeles, praising those on th...
Mother Jones

Insurrectionists Melt Down After Vance Says Trump Shouldn’t Pardon Violent J6ers - JD Vance is learning what it’s like to be a target of Trump supporters. Chaos in MAGA world ensued after the Vice President-elect told Fox News Sunday host...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: The dumbest person who ever lived... - * SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2025* *...is helped by our lack of language*: The dumbest person who ever lived has succumbed to his latest brainstorm: *Trump Ca...
Liberation News

Bird flu: Another capitalist crisis - Recently, a Louisiana patient became the first person in the United States to die of the bird flu
Election Law Blog

“Republicans Saved Democracy Once. Will They Do It Again?” - Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz in POLITICO Magazine: n the coming weeks and months, after Donald Trump takes the oath of office fo...
Texas Monthly

‘Landman’ Season Finale Recap: The One With Torture and a Strip Show - There’s something for everyone in this eighty-minute season closer.
The Root

Who Is The 25-year-old Louisiana Mayor Allegedly Caught Up In Drug Trafficking Ring? - Scandal is sweeping one small Louisiana city after its own mayor was arrested on serious offenses. Tyrin Truong was elected mayor of Bogalusa, La. in 202...
Second Nexus

Guy Sparks Debate With 'Red Flag' Reaction To Girlfriend Surprising Him At New Year's Eve Party - We've all experienced that feeling of caring more about someone than they care about us. But goodness, is it hard to watch other people go through it. ...
alicublog

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

Need to pay your property taxes? Here’s how to navigate the system. - Property taxes are due Jan. 31. Here’s how and where to pay your bill, request an extension or payment arrangement, and more. The post Need to pay your ...
Debunking Christianity

Evidence? What Evidence? - What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed. But then there's this Bible Study book. What explains the so-called evidence asserted here?
Mondoweiss

‘Rain doesn’t last forever, habibi’: A long winter night in a tent in Gaza - [image: A Palestinian child peers out of his family's tent at a camp for displaced people in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah. Pools of rainwat...
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...
Futurism

If Even 0.001 Percent of an AI's Training Data Is Misinformation, the Whole Thing Becomes Compromised, Scientists Find - It's no secret that large language models (LLMs) like the ones that power popular chatbots like ChatGPT are far from infallible. They have a nagging an...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'City of Angels' Toons - NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered specie...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud."
The Daily Poster

How To End This Disaster Movie - We get to decide whether the L.A. fires are a wake-up call or a funeral pyre.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Sion Road (house reflections) - [image: Sion Road]
See You In 2020

Our government wants to crush the orgs that are helping disaster victims. But the people won’t stand for this. - Above: members of the American Communist Party provide aid to the people of Los Angeles during the city’s unprecedented fires; images shared by ACP Cali...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - [image: Open Thread] Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Ballot Access News

Federal Lawsuit Over New York’s Ban of the Word “Independence” in a Political Party’s Name Moves Ahead - All the briefs will have been filed by February 7, 2025, in the lawsuit Jim Walden v Kosinski, e.d., 1:25cv-72. This is the case filed by an independent ca...
Dissident Voice

How the West Destroyed Syria - Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following ...
LareDOS

Impermanence is part of nature’s story - A hard rain’s a-gonna’ fall to reclaim those river lands, washing them free of Abbot’s alien Machiavellian iron metal cage
CultureMap Houston

Houston chef breaks silence on resignation in our 5 most popular stories - Editor's note: It's time to look back at the 5 hottest Houston headlines of the week. The first full week of 2025 was full of major restaurant news, from ...
The Conversation

Secretary of defense must perform a ‘delicate dance’ between the president, Congress and the public - Leading the US Defense Department is a massive job, broadly affecting Americans’ security at home and abroad and overseeing huge numbers of people and imme...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for January 6 - 10 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big changes this week were the sharp increases in long term interes...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

Stoking Division Amid Disaster, Trump and His Minions Betray America - The solidarity of American communities in the face of catastrophe, whether natural or manmade, is an aspect of our national character that most of us cheri...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 11 January 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o People show off their skill at doing things. This jump was a very bad ide...
Workers World

Ukraine: Trump seeks profits, not ‘peace’ - [image: Ukraine: Trump seeks profits, not ‘peace’] Before the U.S. elections, incoming President Donald Trump claimed he wanted to see an end to the war in...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: January 2025 - This month, I wrote a history of color symbology in ace and aro flags. Atheist group faces backlash after publishing, then removing, anti-trans article | F...
Idavox

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

Court adds three new cases - [image: Court adds three new cases]The Supreme Court on Friday evening added three new cases to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The cases, which involve...
Consortium News

The Limits of AI - Artificial Intelligence seems destined to change the world. But it needs to get its act together first or there may be hell to pay, writes one of two Joe L...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico regulators may change aspects of community solar program - By Hannah Grover The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission clarified how community solar bill credits are calculated this week following concerns expr...
TalkLeft

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

Gov. Abbott floats idea of buying water from Houston, sending it to West Texas - Houston Mayor John Whitmire said the exchange could help fund fixes to the city’s water system.
The Militant

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

Secret DNC Member List Revealed in New Report - At least a half-dozen DNC members who will be voting on the next party chair work in corporate influence roles, a Sludge review of a newly-leaked list finds.
Discourse

Help the Survivors of the LA Fires - Two big lists of places you can give.
Progressive.org

How New Haven is Preparing to Defend Immigrants Against Trump’s Deportation Threats - Government officials, nonprofits, and activists in Connecticut are developing strategies to fight Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
Lowering the Bar

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

The Most Iconic Restaurants in Houston - [image: Sizzling steak fajitas with tortillas and a side of sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.] With Houston being the U.S. birthplace of fajitas, ...
Political Garbage Chute

White House Announces Felon Work-Release Program - “Convicted felons will also be allowed in the Oval Office…because the Constitution didn’t adequately protect us from fart-napping rapists being put back ...
Church and State

A population-related wish list for 2025 - In a staggering display of cognitive dissonance, political and economic leaders around the world still set growth as a primary objective.
The Progressive Wing

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

How Climate Change Fueled Deadly Los Angeles Fires - A whipsaw swing from very wet to very dry weather exposed millions to flames, smoke and pollutants. The post How Climate Change Fueled Deadly Los Angeles...
The Texas Signal

When An Autopsy Doesn't Tell The Whole Story - Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure t...
NORML

Florida: Canine Alert Doesn’t Constitute Probable Cause for a Motor Vehicle Search, Appellate Court Rules - [image: police dog marijuana][image: police dog marijuana]"The incremental legalization of certain types of cannabis at both the federal and state level ...
Bracing Views

The LA Fires Look Like a Nuclear Apocalypse - W.J. Astore Except a Nuclear Apocalypse Would Be Unimaginably Worse The wildfires in LA are horrific. People are losing everything. Thousands of structures...
Rewire

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

Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Ravi Ragbir, Who Could Soon Be Deported - Immigrant rights activists are urging the Biden administration to pardon longtime activist Ravi Ragbir, who has been targeted by Immigration and Customs En...
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anita Bryant Dead. The LGBTQ community outlives another one. - Anita Bryant The LGBTQ community has outlasted another one who sought to strip us of our rights to safety, health, and self-determination. And this is ...
DeSmogBlog

The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is Unpopular - The slow-motion resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally official. After months of plunging polls, lost by-elections and an accelerating ...
Bud Kennedy

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

Pro-ISIS Accounts Surge on Meta After Assad’s Ouster - Following years of aggressive content removal, Meta’s platforms now host a growing wave of ISIS-linked posts in the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow. The p...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

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

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

2025: Another ‘Unprecedented’ Year Calls for Staying the Course - By Mischa Geracoulis “The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the me...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Malthusian-Transhumanist Riders of the Pale Horse - Why did the celebrated futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard call for the culling of one-fourth of the human population? John Klyczek tracked down Hubbard's infa...
Krebs on Security

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew - Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to user...
The Grayzone

Leaked emails expose ‘collaborative efforts’ between Israeli govt and Center for Countering Digital Hate - Emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal how leading “anti-hate” campaigner Imran Ahmed collaborated with Israeli embassy officials to censor pro-Palestine...
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Novel Reading in 2024 - So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “no...
Land Destroyer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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