Brains and Eggs

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Some photos of Jill Stein's Texas Tour (so far)

From yesterday's East End Street Fest...

From Thursday in Dallas, the conference on addressing police brutality.

Dr. Stein with Ballet Folklorico Azteca

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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

Raw Story

LA mayor a ‘communist’ alleges Fox News host with ties to Trump nominee - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a six-term Democratic former U.S. Representative, is being branded a "solid communist" and a "communist sympathizer" by a F...
Mediagazer

DirecTV launches MySports, a sports streamer featuring games from NFL and other major leagues, and access to 40 channels, in 24 US metro areas for $70/month (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg) - Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: *DirecTV launches MySports, a sports streamer featuring games from NFL and other major leagues, and access to 40 channels, in ...
Mediaite

Pete Hegseth Ex-Wife At Time Of Sexual Assault Allegation Rebuffed By FBI In Week Before Confirmation Hearing: Report - Senate Democrats are raising alarms over critical gaps in the FBI’s background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s Pentagon pick after ...
Earth 911

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

A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it harder to get screened for cancer - The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Becerra v. Braidwood Management, the latest in a long line of lawsuits seeking to undermine the Aff...
The Hill

Why Trump should abandon his imperial ambitions - Empires are costly and inefficient, and imperialism is costly and counterproductive, with both combining to generate the very forces that eventually bring ...
naked capitalism

Links 1/14/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

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

Hegseth’s FBI Background Check Lacks Key Interviews - “The FBI background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, does not include interviews with Hegseth’s ex-wives o...
Alternet

DC hotel bookings way down for Trump inauguration as even protesters decide to skip - Hotel bookings are way down ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration next week, and applications for protest permits are also off pace compared to the last t...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN: More than one million people internally displaced in Haiti - The United Nations' International Organization for Migration said its latest data "reveals that 1,041,000 people, many displaced multiple times, are strugg...
Al Jazeera English

Los Angeles wildfires day 8: What’s the latest, what’s next as winds rage? - As authorities continue battling dangerous blazes, we explore what lies ahead this Tuesday.
Off The Kuff

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

"There will be no rebuilding": Bracing America for the implementation of Project 2025 - Donald Trump's return to power further undermines America's self-image of greatness
Slate

Help! My Sister-in-Law Wants Me to Pretend Her Ex-Husband Doesn’t Exist. Not Happening. - It's too much.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio prepares for its annual MLK March, one of the ‘largest in the country’ - [image: Thousands of people participate in the 36th march honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday.]The MLK March, known as one of the largest...
Mother Jones

The Los Angeles Fire Chief at the Center of the Storm - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Kristin Crowley was appointed Los Ang...
Eschaton

Morning - Go
The Week

Maha Kumbh Mela: world's largest religious festival gets under way in India - Politics of Hindu nationalism has cast a shadow over event touted as biggest ever gathering of humanity
The Verge

Samsung announces more flexible trade-in program, no purchase required - [image: Samsung S23 in cream, S23 Plus in lavender, and S23 Ultra in green side by side on a table with back facing up.] *The Galaxy S23 phones are the mo...
American Prospect

Pam Bondi and the Pay-to-Play Justice System - The entire history of the attorney general nominee reveals a comfort with basing prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president.
Axios

Meta, Google stand to win ad share from TikTok ban - Data: eMarketer; Note: "Other social" include Snapchat, Linkedin, Pinterest, Reddit and X. "Other channels" include display, search and retail ads. "Connec...
Scheerpost.com

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

Breanna Stewart has won everything. What does she do next? - The Olympic, NCAA and WNBA champion is one of the greatest of all time. Now she has helped found a league she hopes can transform the sport she loves Whe...
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr. faces a complicated confirmation with some opposition on both sides of the aisle - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines and abortion rights are raising alarms across the political spectrum, as he's one of the more controversial picks...
ProPublica

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

Man United đã chuẩn bị xóa sổ Garnacho - Manchester United đang đứng trước quyết định đầy khó khăn khi cân nhắc bán Alejandro Garnacho – một trong những tài năng trẻ sáng giá nhất của đội bóng. ...
Grist

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

Justice Dept. sends Congress Jack Smith's report on Trump's effort to overturn 2020 election (NBC News) - NBC News: *Justice Dept. sends Congress Jack Smith's report on Trump's effort to overturn 2020 election* — The special counsel's report calls Trump's ...
Infidel753

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

Wildfires are too much for municipal water systems. In Los Angeles, firefighters tried anyway. - When wind-driven embers sent flames ripping through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, firefighters and residents began noticing less water pressure in the...
Daily Dot

‘Gave up my BMW and came over’: Woman says this new Buick with a $380 car payment is the new ‘it car’ for girls. Then she shows this feature - [image: Buick Steering Wheel(l) Buick Dealer Sign(c) Woman smiling showing off her nails(r)] A woman is going viral on TikTok after sharing that she rece...
Crooked Media

Will the GOP Hold Disaster Relief Hostage? - The post Will the GOP Hold Disaster Relief Hostage? appeared first on Crooked Media.
LareDOS

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

Felicia Jones Alleges Negligence Against Healthcare Facilities Over Mother's Death - In a recent lawsuit filed in Harris County by Felicia Jones against several healthcare facilities including CHI St. Luke’s Health Baylor College of Medic...
Counterpunch

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

LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas - LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas Mark Brody Tue, 01/14/2025 - 01:48
jobsanger

It's A Dangerous Time To Be A Child In The U.S. -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of our Ingenuity 2544: Face Recognition - Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.
Election Law Blog

Read the Special Counsel’s Report on Trump’s Attempted Election Subversion in 2020 (My Analysis to Come in the Morning) - You can read the report at this link. The post Read the Special Counsel’s Report on Trump’s Attempted Election Subversion in 2020 (My Analysis to Come in...
World Socialist Web Site

BNSF cuts time-off allocations for US railroaders after 2024 days go “unused” - The move comes as the rail unions are attempting to push through another round of sellout contracts which are even worse than the deal imposed by Congress ...
Informed Comment

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

Jon Stewart Blasts Right-Wing “Cruelty” In Wanting To Attach Strings To Wildfire Aid, Makes Satirical GoFundMe Ad Called “GoF—You” - Jon Stewart is blasting the GOP’s response to Southern California’s wildfire disaster, denouncing right-wing leaders’ urge to attach strings to relief fund...
Antiwar.com

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

Hunter Biden Special Counsel Rips President Over Criticism of Son’s Prosecution - [image: Joe Biden, Jill Biden, and Hunter Biden] The special counsel whose investigation led to Hunter Biden being convicted of separate federal crimes hit...
Techdirt.

Appeals Court: Yes, Suing The Family Of People You Killed In A Car Crash For Defamation Is A SLAPP Suit - This one is from a couple months ago, but I finally had a chance to catch up on some older stories. In late 2023, we wrote about one of the most egregious ...
Workers World

LA fires show that disaster response in U.S. has collapsed - [image: LA fires show that disaster response in U.S. has collapsed] Cuyama Valley, California Jan. 13. Multiple fires erupted across Los Angeles on Jan. 7 ...
Daily Cartoonist

An Ann Telnaes/WaPo Update - We’ll start at Open Windows, the Ann Telnaes Substack. My colleagues in print Ann reproduces Jill Abramson’s Boston Globe report on The Washington Post and...
ArcaMax

ATTENTION "RIGHTS & RESISTANCE WITH THE ACLU" EDITORS: IN THE 5TH PARAGRAPH AND THE TAGLINE AT THE END, PLEASE PLACE AN ACUTE ACCENT OVER THE "e" IN "Darien Gap." THANK YOU. -- CREATORS - ======== *ATTENTION "RIGHTS & RESISTANCE WITH THE ACLU" EDITORS: IN THE 5TH PARAGRAPH AND THE TAGLINE AT THE END, PLEASE PLACE AN ACUTE ACCENT OVER THE "e"...
Ian Welsh

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

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

Outgoing CIA Director Says ‘No Sign’ Iran Developing Nuclear Weapons - Outgoing CIA director William Burns stated in an interview on 10 January that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, following a decision it made ...
Trivial Knot

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

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

Arms: Julian Alvarez has provided an unwavering commitment to promoting STEM education - Jason Arms, executive director of FIRST in Texas, says workforce development specialist Julian Alvarez has been a "powerful force for advancing STEM educ...
Futurism

Manufacturers Giving Robot Vacuums Arms, to Better Attack Humans During the Machine Uprising - Robotics companies have found a new and creative way to get consumers to shell out for a new robot vacuum — by equipping them with a robotic arm that c...
OpEd News

Film Review: A Real Pain (2024) - A review of the film A Real Pain, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. A holocaust comedy. Who'd a thunk it?
The Greanville Post

GARLAND NIXON Dispatches: DR TONY MONTEIRO – THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE FED UP – FROM UKRAINE TO GAZA AND PHILLY - EDITOR—Garland and Dr Tony Monteiro, easily one of the most astute political analysts in the US, sort out the treacherous currents of contemporary American...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court declines to step into Maryland gun licensing and Hawaii climate change suits - [image: Supreme Court declines to step into Maryland gun licensing and Hawaii climate change suits]The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challen...
El Paso Matters

El Paso has few pediatric endocrinologists to keep up with growing need - After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an El Paso pediatrician, families express concern over how this could impact their health care. The post El...
Progressive.org

Is Porn-Making Prof a Free Speech Hero? - The free speech case of Joe Gow, former tenured professor and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, may find itself in front of the Supreme ...
CultureMap Houston

New technology aids low-vision visitors to Houston Museum of Natural Science - The Houston Museum of Natural Science is introducing another innovation of accessibility on campus, assistive tech by ReBokeh for low-vision visitors.
Second Nexus

Gavin Newsom Reshares Musk Interview With L.A. Firefighter To Expose His Wildfire 'Lies' - The County of Los Angeles, California—the most populous county in the United States with over 9.5 million residents located in cities like Malibu, Palisa...
Reform Austin

Abbott Orders Texas Firefighters to CA - Responding to a request from California, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday announced that he will deploy Texas firefighters and first responders to help...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Hegseth was working for weekend rates! - *MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2025* *Also, a touch of the labyrinthitis: *As it turns out, Pete Hegseth was a team player at the Fox News Channel. As it turns out...
The NM Political Report

Alcon dies of liver cancer - [image: Rep. Alcon] By Nicole Maxwell Recently retired state Rep. Eliseo “Lee” Alcon, D-Milan, died Monday following a battle with liver cancer, he was 74...
Eater Houston

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

Some Basics about U.S. Tariffs, and What Trump’s New Economic Team Said about Tariffs - “In the real world, we have a one-sided free-trade policy in which America isn't nearly as protectionist as other countries.”
The Root

What This Black Man Lost to the LA Fires Will Break ...Your...Heart - To the question of what he loved and lost to the raging Los Angeles wildfires, 83-year-old Walt Butler had one response: “Everything.” He is only one of ...
The Conversation

US secretary of state has an expansive job that could make or break peace deals and key foreign alliances - Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, will begin his confirmation hearing on Jan. 15.
Texas Standard

Advocates for Texans with disabilities seek changes in education and attendant care - Increased funding for public special education, expanded access to childcare and pre-K, and increases to attendant wages are all on activists’ legislative ...
The Grayzone

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

Drug Commercials Aren’t Just Annoying — They’re Costing You Money - While proponents claim direct-to-consumer drug ads educate consumers, critics say that mass-market misinformation is costing patients and taxpayers alike.
Claytoonz

Orange Ya Glad She’s Not In Heaven? - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Ever...
Texas Monthly

Opinion: Where Are the Believable Female Characters in ‘Landman’? - Where are the believable Texan female characters in this West Texas drama?
Sludge

Astroturf Against RFK - News media fails to report on the Democratic dark money behind physician group whose anti-RFK letter they covered.
Unlimited Hangout

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

The Cruelty Continues To Be The Point - As LA burns, America's right wing continues to demonstrate a total lack of humanity.
Consortium News

Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics - Acclimatizing the U.S. to the Gaza genocide was most crucially abetted by Biden and his loyalists, who pretended he wasn’t doing what he was really doing, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

The unknown fate of Palestinian journalist Haitham Abd Elwahed - [image: Haitham Abd Elwahed attending a friend's wedding before the war (Photo courtesy of the Abd Elwahed family)]For more than a year, Israeli authoritie...
Political Garbage Chute

If They Can’t Share the Social Media Landscape, Can Elon and Mark Share Trump’s Taint? - For many Americans, since the election’s results were called back in November, they’ve woken up each day to more and more evidence the country’s richest ...
Undernews

KASH PATEL - *ACLU - *[Kash] Patel has made extensive comments on the record that raise significant concerns on crucial civil rights and civil liberties issues, inclu...
Ballot Access News

New Hampshire Bill to Let Each U.S. House District Elect its Own Presidential Elector - New Hampshire Senator Bill Gannon has introduced SB 11, to let each U.S. House district elect its own presidential elector. Gannon is chair of the Senate J...
Angry Bear

Past 4 Years, 17 million Jobs Created - Scenes from the last employment report of Joe Biden’s Presidency – by New Deal democrat Friday’s jobs report was an excellent one for Joe Biden’s Presi...
Common Dreams

Public Citizen Co-Presidents Request to Join DOGE - Today, Public Citizen co-presidents Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert sent a letter to Trump transition co-chairs Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon request...
Discourse

The World We Once Knew Is Gone - I thought my neighborhood in Los Angeles was a haven. Last week obliterated that illusion.
Project Censored

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

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

Could Trump’s History Finally Combine With Current Events To Bring His Downfall? - Trump becoming the first President to enter office as a convicted felon won’t necessarily be that one small thing that triggers his demise.
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 ...
Capital & Main

As Los Angeles Burns, Immigrants Mobilize - Fearing little help from FEMA, they are clearing downed trees and marshaling support for their community. The post As Los Angeles Burns, Immigrants Mobil...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 55: “CEOs in the Crosshairs” - Rather than be followed by the expressions of sympathy and shock one might usually expect, the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York...
Bonddad

Scenes from the last employment report of Joe Biden’s Presidency - * - by New Deal democrat* Friday’s jobs report was an excellent one for Joe Biden’s Presidential term to end on. In the past 4 years, 17 million job...
Democracy Now!

"Seeking Justice": How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes - Belgian Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah, the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, discusses how the organization seeks to hold Israeli soldiers account...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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."
Crooked Timber

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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