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

Former Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush won't attend Trump's inaugural lunch (NBC News) - NBC News: *Former Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush won't attend Trump's inaugural lunch* — The three former presidents will attend the swearing-in ce...
Informed Comment

The Fatal Effort to Dismantle the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees - Over the past 15 months, the international community has failed to prevent genocidal atrocities in Gaza. Dismantling the UN refugee agency would perfect th...
World Socialist Web Site

Pam Bondi refuses to rule out prosecution of Trump’s opponents if confirmed as attorney general - Pamela Bondi, former Florida attorney general, personal lawyer for Donald Trump during his first impeachment and present nominee to run the Justice Departm...
Antiwar.com

Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘for Generations To Come’ and the World Stayed Silent - The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 201...
Al Jazeera English

Biden’s role in Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal overshadowed by nemesis Trump - As Biden seeks foreign policy win in his final days, his biggest political rival is seeking to steal the limelight.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

In farewell address, Biden warns of concentration of power and wealth - US president caps his decades-long political career and a 4-year term bookended by Donald Trump
Axios

Hundreds of Washington Post staffers urge Jeff Bezos in letter to meet with newsroom leaders - Hundreds of staffers at The Washington Post sent a letter to the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, on Wednesday urging him to meet with newsroom leaders ami...
Techdirt.

Justin Baldoni Streisand’s Accusations Against Him By Sending Legal Threat Over ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ - There have been very few times I’ve encountered something in life that feels like it was absolutely made specifically for me. The Deadpool movie series is ...
Raw Story

'A real contradiction': Ex-prosecutor flags Trump nominee's curious answers to avoid 'lie' - Pam Bondi’s refusal on Wednesday to admit under oath that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election is a double-edged sword that could signal future trouble fo...
Portside

Embodying MLK’s Dream Today - Embodying MLK’s Dream Today Mark Brody Wed, 01/15/2025 - 23:01
Mediaite

What The…? Trump Adviser Says Kash Patel Will Take ‘Democrats To Pound Town’ - Jason Miller deployed an interesting choice of words to describe the upcoming confirmation hearing for FBI director nominee Kash Patel. The post What The…...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Jasmine Crockett calls out Nancy Mace as a clout-chaser who needs money - My guess is that Rep Nancy Mace thought she was doing something special when she tried to orchestrate a media incident against another House representat...
Scheerpost.com

The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Academic Gulag (w/MIT Student Activists) - “What this ultimately means is that MIT's research can enable a genocide and in fact is enabling the ongoing genocide against Palestinians."
The Hill

Democratic senator says he is currently a no on Bondi: ‘I am trying to be fair’ - Democratic Senator Chris Coons (Del.) said after Wednesday’s hearing on President-elect Trump’s attorney general pick Pam Bondi he will currently vote no, ...
Daily Cartoonist

Political Cartooning in The Age of Trump and The Oligarchs - “cartoonists are, quite simply, beneath his notice” – ya think? Zach Rabiroff for The Comics Journal investigates the state of political cartooning as the ...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, Dec. 2024 by Metro: Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Edmonton, Winnipeg - Toronto single-family -19% from Feb 2022 peak, condos hit 3-year low. Vancouver eases further. Calgary condos sag. New highs in some markets.
Mediagazer

Sources: Blackstone hires advisers to explore the sale of song rights, including from Bob Dylan, Adele, and Ariana Grande, that it expects to fetch $3B or more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: *Sources: Blackstone hires advisers to explore the sale of song rights, including from Bob Dylan, Adele, and Ariana Grande, that ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Biden bids farewell with dark warning for America – the oligarchs are coming | David Smith - The president did not air grievances or dwell on the past, but sounded an alarm call about the future under Trump There was a sting in the tail. Joe Bide...
Daily Dot

‘Adds days to your delivery’: UPS driver reveals the real reason your package might arrive late - [image: UPS truck(l), Man talking(c), Box being scanned(r)] UPS recently ended its SurePost service, which previously relied on the United States Postal ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Mayor Cowen unveils Brownsville’s legislative agenda - The City of Brownsville's first "Coffee with the Mayor" event of 2025 was held at the eBridge Center for Business & Commercialization. The post Mayor Cow...
Political Wire

Johnson Dumps His House Intelligence Chair - Speaker Mike Johnson has decided to remove Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, a major shakeup of one of the most pri...
Alternet

Why this Trump nominee is 'a pleasant surprise' for Dems - Democrats, unsurprisingly, are not the biggest fans of the Donald Trump nominees awaiting confirmation as he prepares to take the White House next week, ...
Brad Blog

Does Trump's Sentencing as a Felon Matter?: 'BradCast' 1/15/2025 - Buckle up for yet another busy day on The BradCast. It's gonna be this way for a long while, I suspect. At least we've got some apparently good news today ...
Claytoonz

Mama Hegseth - 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...
Salon.com

"It threatens our entire democracy”: Biden takes aim at tech oligarchs like Musk in farewell address - Biden warned of the "dangerous concentration of power" among the wealthy in a speech that also took shots at Trump
The Verge

LG Display announces its brightest, most striking OLED TV panel yet - [image: A marketing image of LG Display’s fourth-generation OLED TV panel.] Image: LG Display LG Display didn’t have its usual exhibit of flashy, breakth...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Queen Laquita Cooper vs National Core Countryside Village Apartments on Jan. 8 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Pro Se and Queen Laquita Cooper against Amanda Pellegrin, Countrys...
The Daily Poster

Biden Boosts AI Despite Energy Dept. Warning - Just before the president’s executive order, his own administration sounded the alarm about data centers’ energy consumption, water use, and emissions.
Deadline Politics

Joe Biden Warns Of “Tech Industrial Complex” In Farewell Speech: “Americans Are Being Buried Under An Avalanche Of Misinformation And Disinformation” - President Joe Biden devoted a great deal of his farewell address warning of the concentration of power and wealth, particularly when it comes to what he du...
The Conversation

Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal: Why now and what next? - Three-phased deal will start with the release of 33 hostages held by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. If fully implemented, the agreement will see the withdrawal ...
Consortium News

‘National Scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza Cover-Up - Britain’s “public service broadcaster” has kept the public in the dark about U.K. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark Curtis ...
See You In 2020

The U.S. workers movement is headed for great victories, & our ruling class is looking for how to destroy it - Above: Teamsters striking in NYC in December 2024 In his 1947 book American Trade Unionism, William Foster identified two major factors that could hinde...
The Week

The challenge facing Syria's Alawites - Minority sect that was favoured under Assad now fears for its future
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend, there will be events celebrating two beloved, American icons: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dolly Parton. A swing concert and a rap c...
Workers World

At inauguration, President Maduro promises to maximize people’s role - [image: At inauguration, President Maduro promises to maximize people’s role] Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated for his third term as president of Venezuela ...
Discourse

Never Again - On 15 months of genocide.
Angry Bear

Latest Jack Smith Report Volume 1 - Joyce is giving a good take down of the Trump story. The not-so-funny thing about this, I do not hear or see any commotion by people in general. Trump do...
The Greanville Post

THE DEMOCRATS’ WAR PROBLEM IS ABOUT TO GET WORSE - Print this article The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and…
Eschaton

Your Moment Of Zen -
Texas Standard

Meet Dustin Burrows, Texas’ new House speaker and one of the most powerful people in the state - Here’s everything you need to know about the Lubbock Republican.
The NM Political Report

ABQ man arrested for threatening posts toward Trump, Musk, others - By Nicole Maxwell An Albuquerque man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk and others on social media. ...
Houston Public Media

Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas A&M president’s job over claim that university broke DEI ban - Abbott's comments came after A&M invited staffers and students to attend a conference that a conservative activist said broke the state’s ban on diversity,...
Futurism

Apple's AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users - Apple came under intense scrutiny for rolling out an extremely underbaked and consistently malfunctioning artificial intelligence-powered feature that su...
OpEd News

Pres. Joe, Save Women's Lives Before You Leave - Publication of the already-ratified Equal Rights Amendment will save women's lives, especially in the face of the upcoming administration. President Biden ...
DeSmogBlog

New Study Shows How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create a Climate Denial Echo Chamber on Social Media - From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social me...
El Paso Matters

Canutillo ISD begins designing new schools, reveals cost of land purchases - The district is holding a community meeting to present design plans and gather input from residents on projects under the 2024 bond. The post Canutillo ...
Slate

I’m a Marine. I Can’t Get One Part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head. - It’s time to prepare for the worst-case scenario under Trump.
NPR's Health Shots

Can't find an air filter amid the California fires? Here's how to build your own - Air quality in Southern California is dangerously bad because of the fires. Our reporter set out to build an air filter -- in a style the EPA praised, usin...
slacktivist

From Hastert to Hegseth - Shamelessness is not a superpower, it only puts off the inevitable.
Reform Austin

Darth Burrows - The post Darth Burrows appeared first on Reform Austin.
Second Nexus

GOP Senator Accidentally Tells The Truth About Pete Hegseth's 'Qualifications' In Freudian Slip For The Ages - Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin was mocked online after he accidentally called President-elect Donald Trump's Defense Secretary pick Pete He...
The Root

These Black American Billionaires Could Save TikTok - By Sunday, January 19, TikTok will likely be banned in the U.S. Although the app will still be available for users who have it downloaded on their mobile...
Popular Resistance

US Pet Now President Of Lebanon - Last week I did two short video reports from outside the Lebanese Parliament — inside a military cordon that totally sealed off downtown Beirut — on the ...
Web of Debt

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

What’s in the Gaza ceasefire deal? And can it last? - A ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza. Long-running negotiations among Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, Qataris, and Egyptians yielded an agreement o...
Mother Jones

Pam Bondi Is “Not Familiar With That Statement” - At her confirmation hearing Wednesday, Pam Bondi probably assured she will become attorney general. She did that, however, by pretending to be an idiot. Th...
ProPublica

A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza - by Brett Murphy ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Mondoweiss

The Gaza ceasefire will not cure the wounds of genocide - [image: Relatives of the Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks perform funeral prayer after their beloved ones are brought to the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: How will President Biden be remembered? - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2025* *Also, how did we earn our way out?* Even as we've "moved on" with our subject matter this week, we haven't abandoned this ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court divided on Texas age-verification law for porn sites - [image: Supreme Court divided on Texas age-verification law for porn sites]The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that...
Earthworks

Undermining Environmental Justice Protections - Late last year, the Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) adopted a new set of rules intended to reduce emissions from … The post Undermining Environmen...
Texas Monthly

He’s on Death Row for Killing a Pastor. Christians Are Divided Over Whether He Should Die. - On February 5, the 37-year-old newlywed will be put to death for the gruesome murder of an Arlington pastor. His spiritual adviser is urging forgiveness.
Sludge

Mark Zuckerberg Is Hosting an Inauguration Party for Trump - Co-hosts include Miriam Adelson and other Republican billionaires.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/15/2025 - By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Parc de la Survivance, Les Maskoutains, Quebec, Canada. * * * In Case You Might Miss…...
Ballot Access News

Three Independent Candidates Polled Over 40% of Vote for Utah Legislature - At the November 2024 election, three independent candidates polled over 40% of the vote for Utah legislature. No one other than Republican or Democratic no...
Capital & Main

El ICE y grupos pro inmigrantes desmienten rumores sobre redadas durante los incendios en Los Ángeles - La oficina federal de inmigración aclaró que no realiza operativos en zonas de evacuación o emergencia. The post El ICE y grupos pro inmigrantes desmien...
WhoWhatWhy

Big Oil Pushed To Kill Bill That Would Have Made Them Pay for Wildfire Disasters - [image: big oil, climate disasters, legislation, polluter pay bill, Los Angeles wildfires] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or ...
Election Law Blog

“Nonprofit Founded by Stacey Abrams Admits Secretly Aiding Her 2018 Campaign” - NYT: A nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat, admitted on Wednesday that it had violated state law by concealing the fact that it had c...
Common Dreams

FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3, Citing Cancer Risk - Today, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) granted a 2022 petition by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food & Water Watch, and 22 addition...
Eater Houston

The Best of Houston’s 2025 Crawfish Season Is Still to Come - [image: A bowl of crawfish, corn, potatoes, and a hard-boiled egg covered in seasoning.] When it comes to crawfish, patience is a virtue. | Crawfish Cafe ...
American Prospect

It Ain’t Me, Babe - Today on TAP: When biopics get it wrong—and occasionally get it just right
Dissident Voice

They All Are Lord of the Flies Children at Heart - forty hard years of lobotomizing, dumbdowning, infantilizing, and deploying this multilayered PSYOPS of direct and covert operations have been brought to...
Undernews

PUERTO RICO - *Newsweek - * Puerto Rico's governor has called on President-elect Donald Trump to respond after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called for an invas...
MintPress News

The Burning Questions: LA Fire Cuts vs. Billions for Israel and Ukraine - Amid devastating wildfires, Many Angelenos are questioning the wisdom of slashing local emergency budgets while billions are allocated to Israel and Ukra...
Grist

Fiction to reality: Will the U.S. ever embrace insect cuisine? - Western culture has long painted eating bugs as backward and gross. But learned disgust can be overcome — if the conditions are right.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Back Into the Breach: Thoughts on the Second Trump Presidency - We shouldn't have to deal with this. But, unfortunately, we're going to.
Political Garbage Chute

Stephen Miller Wants Trump to Buy Greenland, But Only If It’s Renamed “Whiteland” - “It has a super-cool ring to it, doesn’t it? And it’s very aspirational for MAGA voters.” – Stephen Miller, White House Adviser & Bald Nazi Cunt I really...
San Antonio Report

Candidates swarm first hour of filing for San Antonio’s 2025 City Council races - Before the filing period had even opened at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, candidates were already arriving at City Hall to get their names on the ballot for th...
Duck of Minerva

O Canada/Ô Canada: A defense of Canada in international affairs - Things have been rough for Canada. It’s engulfed in political turmoil, as Justin Trudeau steps down from leadership and the country braces for a contentiou...
Ecosophia

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

TMI Show Ep 57: “North Korea Has Entered the Chat” - The Russo-Ukrainian War has entered a new phase, in which Ukraine’s Western allies are finally acknowledging that Russia, which controls 35% of Ukrainian...
Rewire

Can the ACA Survive SCOTUS Once Again? - A new challenge to HIV drugs at SCOTUS poses an existential threat to preventive care coverage in the ACA. The post Can the ACA Survive SCOTUS Once Again...
Bonddad

December CPI: rebounds in gas and car prices outpace deceleration in shelter and insurance laggards - *- by New Deal democrat* December consumer prices indicate that we are leaving the immediate post-covid era and seeing a rebalancing of sectors, as ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

Nhận định soi kèo Hatayspor vs Galatasaray lúc 00h00 ngày 18/01/2025 - Tại vòng 19 thuộc giải VĐQG Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, một trong những trận đấu đang tạo ra sự chú ý của người xem là trận đụng độ giữa Hatayspor và Galatasaray. The po...
ArcaMax

Heartbreak Cities in the New Year - 2025 is a full year so far. If you grew up in the beautiful (but parlous) land of Los Angeles and live in Washington D.C., the moment feels like paradise l...
First Draft

Musical Interlude: Eye Tunes - Yes, eye went there.
Democracy Now!

Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A Young Man's "Race Against Time" as Israel Blocks Medication - We speak with journalists Steven Thrasher and Afeef Nessouli about their new report for *The Intercept*, which examines how queer, HIV-positive Palestinian...
Space City Weather

Colder weather arrives on Sunday, with the possibility of snow early next week - In brief: Today’s post delves into the uncertainty around the potential for snow early next week, as well as just how cold things will get. The reality is,...
Texas Observer

Lost in Transit: Russian Dissenters’ Perilous Path to America - My second semester at Texas State University began last January. I remember the morning of January 24 not because of my new classes but because of the fr...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Felony Conviction Appeal Will Show How Fully He’s Above the Law -
Ian Welsh

The Competency Crisis Is Not About DEI - [image: The Competency Crisis Is Not About DEI] That DEI (women and brown people) are responsible is a constant right wing cry. The competency crisis is ...
Skeptophilia

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

Burrows elected Speaker - Gotta admit, I’m a little surprised. Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was voted speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, elevating him to one of the most powe...
High Country News

How luxury real estate benefits from Montana’s agricultural tax code - Key takeaways from our investigation revealing how expensive properties use a system meant to help farmers and ranchers. The post How luxury real estate...
Earth 911

Precycling Helps Shoppers Save - Resolving to be a better recycler is a great New Year’s resolution. But there’s an... The post Precycling Helps Shoppers Save appeared first on Earth911.
Crooked Media

Biden’s Foreign Policy Farewell - The post Biden’s Foreign Policy Farewell appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Biden: Clemency for Charles Littlejohn Now - Outgoing President Joe Biden has issued some questionable pardons and commutations. He controversially pardoned his own son, Hunter Biden, a move he had ...
jobsanger

Get Rid Of The Federal Debt Limit -
Lowering the Bar

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

The impact of immigration policy on future U.S. population size - Americans and America's major political parties have sharply diverging views regarding proper immigration levels.
Progressive.org

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

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

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

Trump y Musk, Canadá, Panamá y Groenlandia, una vieja historia - El presidente reelecto de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, hizo declaraciones sobre la anexión hipotética del Canal de […] The post Trump y Musk, Canadá, Pa...
Unlimited Hangout

Before Skool - Before Skool.
Debunking Christianity

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

Military Service Parochialism - W.J. Astore All the services always want more Yesterday, I posted the following comment to a fine article that addressed America’s nuclear triad and the re...
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...
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
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...
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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday photoblogging: Sion Road (house reflections) - [image: Sion Road]
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...
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...
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...
Liberation News

Los incendios forestales en Los Ángeles se deben a negligencia criminal de la clase capitalista, no a un ‘desastre natural’ - La destrucción masiva de los medios de subsistencia de las personas que estamos presenciando actualmente en Los Ángeles no es un desastre natural. Es el re...
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
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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