Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, October 02, 2019

"Sorry to disappoint..."

Sorry to disappoint billionaire Trump adviser Steve Schwarzman — but @BernieSanders still exists and is doing just fine after a routine medical procedure: https://t.co/pz6SJA8a1G https://t.co/pf2LPrAPK3
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 2, 2019

we can rebuild him

we have the technology pic.twitter.com/uo1Pjdj5XN
— 🌐IPM 🎃🕷️🦇💀👹👻 (@IPM_HQ) October 2, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

2024: the year of the X-odus - How a year of controversy turned social media juggernaut X into 2024's hottest platform to leave
Raw Story

Laura Loomer escalates MAGA feud: Elon Musk using Trump to 'establish a monarchy' - Right-wing agitator Laura Loomer warned her MAGA followers that billionaire Elon Musk was using President-elect Donald Trump to "establish a monarchy" in...
Eschaton

Lunch - eat
The Hill

Senate Intel report critical of CIA response to 'Havana syndrome' - A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee offers a critical look at the CIA's handling of cases of unexplained health incidents, determining its appr...
Mediaite

Laura Loomer Goes OFF on Elon Musk Advising Trump — Calls Out His ‘Off the Books’ Meetings With Iranian and Chinese Officials - Laura Loomer has entered the fray in the MAGA Civil War that has pitted Trump's most loyal and nationalist following against Elon Musk. The post Laura Loo...
Al Jazeera English

Kenya police fire tear gas at protest against alleged government abductions - Several, including politician, reportedly among those detained by police in Nairobi at site of antigov't protests.
Salon.com

"Bull": Republican called out over claim that Elon Musk is too "rich" to have conflicts of interest - "He doesn’t need the dollars,” claimed Gov. Chris Sununu despite Musk's billions in government contracts
Crooked Timber

Sunday (delayed) photoblogging: West Kirby - [image: West Kirkby]
Slate

Help! My Husband’s Dog Will Die Soon. I’m Not Going to Have the Appropriate Reaction. - I know how this sounds.
Alternet

Revealed: The secret Republican plot to disenfranchise millions of voters - For over a century, most states used biometrics to verify voter identity. Signatures done in front of a witness are nearly impossible to fake (unlike IDs...
memeorandum

President Biden marks Jan. 9 as national day of mourning after Jimmy Carter's death (Gabe Hauari/USA Today) - Gabe Hauari / USA Today: *President Biden marks Jan. 9 as national day of mourning after Jimmy Carter's death* — President Joe Biden announced that Thu...
The Root

WATCH: Snoop Dogg Stuns Daughter With Shockingly Generous Wedding Gift, But Not Without This Strong Advice - Wedding gifts can be a tricky tightrope to navigate, especially for parents. They’re probably already paying for all or most of the ceremony, so they may...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Monday, Dec. 30 - [image: The morning read for Monday, Dec. 30]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s th...
Political Wire

Greg Abbott Offered Condolences to Carter’s Dead Wife - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) mistakenly offered his condolences to former President Jimmy Carter’s dead wife shortly after the Democratic former president di...
Mediagazer

A federal appeals court upholds a $5M judgment against Trump after a jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News) - Dareh Gregorian / NBC News: *A federal appeals court upholds a $5M judgment against Trump after a jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing an...
Texas Monthly

A Texas High Schooler’s Rare Rise From Six-Man Football to Big-Time College Ball - Grayson Rigdon, a three-time state player of the year in six-man football, will continue his career at the University of Wyoming.
CultureMap Houston

New horror film Nosferatu pays homage to the cult-classic original - The original Nosferatu from 1922 is one loved by cinephiles, a silent German Expressionist film that is regarded by many as the most influential horror fi...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Judge upholds racial considerations in US Naval Academy admissions - Although the U.S. Supreme Court last year decided that civilian colleges and universities could not consider race or ethnicity in admissions, a judge ruled...
The Verge

A two-pack of refurbished Blink Outdoor 4 cameras is more than half off right now - [image: Blink outdoor 4 mounted on wooden fence] *You can use the battery-powered Blink Outdoor 4 indoors, too.* | Image: Amazon As we head into 2025, th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

At least four dead after dozens of tornadoes tear across US south - Severe storm system led to at least 45 reports of damage in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia Multiple tornadoes that began spawning acr...
Election Law Blog

Remembering Jimmy Carter and His Legacy for Election Law - President Jimmy Carter died at 100. He was a moral, decent man, committed to the cause of justice. One of his passions was for democracy. His work with t...
The Mind Unleashed

Researchers discover groundbreaking way to revert cancer cells into normal cells - Imagine a world where cancer isn’t fought with harsh treatments that attack the body, but rather with a groundbreaking method that reprograms the disease a...
Axios

"May save Johnson": Trump throws GOP speaker a lifeline with 11th-hour endorsement - President-elect Trump on Monday endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to keep his gavel when the House meets to elect a speaker on Jan. 3. *Why it ...
Project Censored

Digital Settler Colonialism, Gaza, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation - In the first half of the show, Mickey sits down with Omar Zahzah, a Lebanese/Palestinian organizer, writer, poet, freelance journalist and assistant prof...
Deadline Politics

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Sexual Abuse And Defamation Verdict Against Donald Trump In E. Jean Carroll Case - A federal appeals court has affirmed a jury’s $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the president-elect’s effort f...
Houston Public Media

Houston to receive new area code in 2025 - The original Houston area code, 713, was first introduced to Houston in 1947. This will be the first new area code introduced since 346 in 2013.
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 30, 2024: Our top music stories for the year - Queue up some jams for your New Years Eve party with this roundup of some of our favorite music segments from 2024.
Undernews

ENVIRONMENT - *Reuters - *New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a ...
Daily Dot

‘I don’t think I’ve ever been this mad’—Mom flips out when husband lets kids open Christmas presents without her - [image: Wrapping paper strewn around a floor in the background. Text over: Kids opened their presents without me!] One of the biggest joys of giving gift...
El Paso Matters

Rebuilding understaffed prosecution office is top priority for new DA James Montoya - DA-elect James Montoya said prosecuting violent crimes and DWI cases will be a key focus when he takes office Jan. 1. The post Rebuilding understaffed p...
MintPress News

BBC Exposé: Israeli Lobby and Government Collaborate in Free Speech Crackdown - BBC findings show pro-Palestinian content is being suppressed as Israeli-linked organizations work with governments and tech giants. The post BBC Exposé:...
NORML

DEA Fails to Release Annual Report Highlighting Marijuana Seizures, Arrest Totals - [image: Marijuana Plant Seizures][image: Marijuana Plant Seizures]"At a time when voters and their elected officials nationwide are re-evaluating state a...
First Draft

Farewell To A Decent Man - So long to Jimmy Carter...
Texas Observer

Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas Letters - Winding up your year by the fire (or by the pool) as the temperature rises and dips? Or just taking off on a long holiday drive? In any of these scenario...
Eater Houston

Houston Restaurant Closings to Know Right Now, December 2024 - [image: A table filled with pizza, crudo dishes, and a Caesar salad from Elro.] Some of the last restaurant closings of the year. | Julie Soefer December...
Mondoweiss

When Democrats and liberals smeared Jimmy Carter for criticizing Israel - Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, was attacked for telling the truth about Israel. Many Democrats joined the smear campaign.
OpEd News

Where is the poet? - Where is the food? / It's swimming away in the shape of a fish / It's running amuck in the supermarket / --Trying to get out of the store.
Democracy Now!

Jimmy Carter Dead at 100: Fmr. Pres. Urged "Peace Not Apartheid" in 2007 DN! Interview on Palestine - Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. The 39th president served a single, tumultuous term in the Whit...
Daily Howler

VOTERS: When the Washington Post quoted four voters... - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2024* *...other voters attacked: *Based on Tim Craig's report in the Washington Post, life for Lori Mosura, age 55, "ain't been no ...
Angry Bear

Republicans want to defund the (tax) police - Under Biden, the IRS budget was significantly increased a couple years ago. Part of that increase was to fund the policing of tax returns, especially amo...
Consortium News

2 Days Left to Make 2004 Tax Deductible Donation - Time is running out to deduct a donation to Consortium News on your 2024 taxes. Please do so today. If you would like a tax deduction on this year’s tax r...
Techdirt.

FTC Orders ‘Gun Detection’ Tech Maker Evolv To Stop Overstating Effectiveness Of Its Glorified Metal Detectors - Evolv might be new to the game but it’s already made a name for itself. And not a good one. It was an integral part of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ ongo...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Not a Carpenter, But He Followed One - Dave Granlund Marc Murphy I’m okaying Granlund and Murphy for the hardhats because, while their cartoons salute his post-presidency Habitat for Humanity wo...
Space City Weather

So is a hard freeze coming to Houston next week, or not? - In brief: This morning’s update discusses the tornado outbreak on Saturday, and looks ahead to milder weather this week. We also discuss the increasing pot...
WhoWhatWhy

Jimmy Carter: A Case Study in the Judgment of History - [image: Jimmy Carter, LBJ Presidential Library, Civil Rights Summit] He slowly won me over, as he struggled with various crises and perfect storms that wou...
Earth 911

How to Recycle Christmas String Lights - The holidays are a time for joy but also generate lots of waste. String lights... The post How to Recycle Christmas String Lights appeared first on Earth...
Vox

The 14 predictions that came true in 2024 — and the 10 that didn’t - Making predictions is a tricky business, and here at Future Perfect, we don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. But we do think there’s real epistemic value ...
ProPublica

Our Year in Visual Journalism - by ProPublica’s Visual Storytelling Department ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stor...
naked capitalism

Links 12/30/2024 -
The Smirking Chimp

How About if Canada Annexes Blue America? -
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...
Skeptophilia

Root and branch - Linguists estimate that there are a little over seven thousand languages spoken in the world, sorted into around four hundred language families (including ...
Scheerpost.com

Syrian Minorities Under Threat as Security Forces Carry out Raids Against ‘Remnants of Assad Militias’ - Reports of sectarian killings and ethnic cleansing of Alawites and Christians continue to emerge as Ahmad al-Sharaa's new government seeks to exert control...
Southeast Texas Record

Melvina Fae Smith alleges Kroger Texas grocery store negligence leading to injury - A customer has taken legal action against Kroger Texas following an alleged slip-and-fall incident at one of their Houston locations that resulted in sev...
Off The Kuff

Precinct analysis: President 2024 - I know you’ve been waiting for this, and now here it is, the 2024 precinct data for Harris County. We’ll start at the top, with the Presidential race. Dist...
DeSmogBlog

Developers Eye Louisiana, Texas Coasts for Offshore Carbon Storage - This article by Floodlight is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The fishers in Gulf of Mexico waters of...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s downtown road construction projects continue into 2025, ahead of Final Four - [image: Business leaders attend the Business Community PAC kickoff Thursday evening at Hola! Tapas restaurant on South Alamo, where construction continues ...
Mother Jones

The Climate Crisis Exposed People to Six More Weeks of Dangerous Heat in 2024 - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The climate crisis caused an addition...
American Prospect

2024 in Review: Gabrielle Gurley - Senior Editor Gabrielle Gurley unpacks the year’s trials and tribulations.
NPR's Health Shots

For seniors with hoarding disorder, a support group helps with stigma and isolation - Concern is growing about the prevalence of hoarding disorder among seniors, and the lack of access to effective treatments. Some have found coping strategi...
High Country News

Culture that impacted our sense of the West - Some books, happenings and other cultural endeavors that helped expand our sense of place in 2024. The post Culture that impacted our sense of the West ...
Rallblog

It’s Officially Confirmed: Biden Was Always Senile - The Wall Street Journal has confirmed in a blockbuster investigation that President Biden has been mentally diminished throughout his first term in offic...
ArcaMax

Behind the “Lie of the Year,” Some Bitter Truths - As it has been doing yearly since 2009, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact has chosen the Lie of the Year. There was an abundance of nominees. And, ...
Counterpunch

A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, Resistance and Unanswered Questions - The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of th...
jobsanger

Trump Is Already Starting To Break His Promises -
Common Dreams

He Practised the Good - We pay homage to Jimmy Carter, a profoundly decent man, devout peacemaker, and unwavering rights advocate who "redefined what a post-presidency could be"...
Informed Comment

Jimmy Carter’s Victory against the Guinea Worm, with only 7 Cases this Year Worldwide, down from Millions - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the occasion of former President Jimmy Carter’s death, I am reprinting this column with some updates. The guinea worm may...
World Socialist Web Site

Homelessness in US has doubled under Biden - The latest report shows an 18 percent rise in 2024, with only a trickle of federal aid compared to the hundreds of billions wasted on war.
Claytoonz

Jimmy - 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...
The Greanville Post

NEOCON/NEOLIBERAL RECKONING – THE HOLISTIC CRASH OF THE POLITICS OF REGIME CHANGE LIES & CORRUPTION - EDITOR—Garland sorts out the many structural (and incurable) contradictions that make the "neoliberal" economic model unsustainable, as it seeks to maximis...
Antiwar.com

Trump Should Pattern Presidency After Eisenhower - “God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his trust...
Popular Resistance

Remembering The Wounded Knee Massacre - Today, we remember the one hundred and thirty-three winters ago, on December 29, 1890, when innocent Lakota men, women, and children were massacred by th...
Rio Grande Guardian

Tributes pour in for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter - Flags on federal buildings and grounds in the U.S. and its territories, as well as all naval vessels, will fly at half-staff for the next 30 days. The po...
Portside

Sunday Science: The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds - Sunday Science: The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds Ira Sun, 12/29/2024 - 19:19
Krebs on Security

Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity! - KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today! Maybe it's indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog that mostly publishes bad news, but happ...
Ballot Access News

Sixth Circuit Says Lawsuit Over Ohio Statewide Initiative Process is Moot, Relative to Injunctive Relief - On November 21, 2024, the Sixth Circuit issued this opinion in Brown v Yost, 24-3354. The issue was the Ohio initiative process for statewide initiatives. ...
The AltWorld

The Genocide in Gaza persists - We mourn all humanity and distance ourselves from the “non-Palestinian” authority that stormed Jenin camp and killed […] The post The Genocide in Gaza pe...
Ian Welsh

no title - [image: no title] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 29, 2024 By Tony Wikrent *Strategic Political Economy* *A Newly Declassified Memo Shed...
Infidel753

The two most important stories of 2024 - I had intended to post about the most important story of the year, but when trying to decide what that was, I found it impossible to choose between the tw...
Second Nexus

'Elf Doctor' Uncle 'Heals' Sobbing Niece's Elf On The Shelf After Little Sister Touched It - Folks with children in their lives who believe in the Elf on the Shelf might want their children to avert their eyes for this one—and start taking some n...
Bracing Views

Trust the Government! - W.J. Astore Well, Maybe Not One of my favorite bumper stickers has this message: If you think you can trust the government, ask an Indian (Native American)...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?' Toons - Seriously. No matter how bad it gets. Don't forget the fun. Or the terrorists win. See ya soon... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDid...
The Daily Poster

In 2024, Our Work Had Impact - Accountability journalism delivers results.
Reform Austin

Matthew McConaughey On Why Texas Will Always Be Home - Matthew McConaughey is reflecting on his decision to leave Hollywood behind and embrace life in Texas, a state he’s always considered home. Speaking on t...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "God defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing."
Progressives Chat

Happy New Year’s 2025! - 2024 is ending and, come Wednesday, January 1, 2025, we will enter a new year. May it be a good one for all. *Happy New Year!*
LareDOS

Laredo College scholarship fund to honor mother-daughter nursing duo, Elinor K. Smith and Geraldine Smith-Haley - Both had long lasting impact on South Texas communities
See You In 2020

Trump & Musk share the pro-imperialist left’s goals. Class struggle is how to defeat this liberal alliance. - Trump and Musk have revealed their compatibility with the liberal order; this is exemplified by their support for the H-1B high-income immigration work ...
Futurism

"Brain Rot" Is Poisoning Our Minds - It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. A...
Debunking Christianity

Rick O'Sheikh On the Problem of Holy Scriptures - By Rick O'Sheikh: I have said it before, the problem with the Bible and the Koran is that they do not just contain some problematic parts, they contain no...
Progressive.org

Israel Expands Its Occupation in Syria - How should the world respond to Israel’s systematic violations of international law?
Wolf Street

10-Year Treasury Yield Rose 100 Basis Points since September as the Fed Cut 100 Basis Points. Why the Historic Divergence? - Treasury Yield Curve Steepens. Bond Market a Wee Bit Nervous?
Workers World

Portland: Workers fight Sizzle Pie’s union-busting tactics - [image: Portland: Workers fight Sizzle Pie’s union-busting tactics] On December 21, following months of struggle and firings of pro-union employees, a grou...
Capital & Main

Aging Out of Home in Los Angeles - For millions of older Americans who will rely on Social Security without adequate retirement savings, the cost of living in cities like Los Angeles will ...
Sludge

Top Dem Bundler Lobbies Against Worker Protections for Amazon - Steve Elmendorf, a major DCCC bundler, is lobbying for Amazon on the Warehouse Worker Protection Act that is championed by the Teamsters union representing...
The Grayzone

Leaked files show secret UK Syria project boosted Jolani’s HTS - In the name of building a “moderate opposition,” London established a social service and media network in areas controlled by HTS, benefitting the group ...
Church and State

Religious And Secular Beliefs Come In Many Forms - I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten? We don’t need that many.
Democracy Chronicles

Society On The Brink - The system feels rigged against many, crumbling under inequities while serving only the privileged few.
Bonddad

Initial jobless claims continue neutral trend, while continuing claims make a 3 year high - * - by New Deal democrat* This Christmas week initial claims declined -1,000 to 219,000. The four week average rose 1,000 to 226,500. With the typica...
The Conversation

5 elections to watch in 2025 - Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballo...
Crooked Media

2024: Great Music, Terrible Vibes - The post 2024: Great Music, Terrible Vibes appeared first on Crooked Media.
Ecosophia

December 2024 Open Post - Yes, it’s Christmas, and most of you have better things to do today than read the internet. That said, this week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Beginning of the End of the Public University, by Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña, Ph.D. - *This historical perspective reflecting on the student movement of the 1960s and early 70s by Dr. Rudy Acuña is helpful as we deconstruct the political mom...
nonsite.org

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

Hindu Supremacy: Biju Mathew and Karthikeyan Shanmugam - In 2024, Southern Poverty Law Center staff interviewed eight experts and advocates working in the human rights space to explore the topic of Hindu supremac...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

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

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

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

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

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

12.22-31 Happy Holiday (FWIW) Threads - Happy Holidays you all. These are wide open Holiday threads. Fill them with your favorite Christmas tunes. To me, getting together with loved ones and list...
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...
Alas, a Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Corbett Report - The Corbett Report.
Free & Equal

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

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

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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