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

Mediaite

Elon Musk Asks Followers If America Should ‘Liberate’ Britain, Gets Slapped Down By Community Note In Attack On PM - The post Musk shared was quickly slapped with a community note from his own platform, which noted , “The quote is made up" The post Elon Musk Asks Followe...
Texas Standard

The polar vortex is causing energy prices to spike - Meanwhile, consumer gasoline prices are expected to remain steady, energy analyst says.
NPR's Health Shots

The Epicenter of the COVID Outbreak Five Years Later - We go to the city were there the COVID-19 global pandemic started five years ago, Wuhan, China. We find that security is still tight and trauma is still pe...
memeorandum

Residents in this Bay Area city are begging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to send in CHP to combat crime (Louis Casiano/Fox News) - Louis Casiano / Fox News: *Residents in this Bay Area city are begging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to send in CHP to combat crime* — A Vallejo residen...
Salon.com

Zendaya and Tom Holland are the "Spiderman" couple made to last - Zendaya flashing a massive rock on her finger during the Golden Globes lit up the internet with excitement
The Root

What Do Denzel Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Magic Johnson Now All Have in Common? - While Denzel Washington, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and the late Fannie Lou Hamer may all be legends in their own respective industries, the trio were among ...
Debunking Christianity

Michael Maletin on "My Atheist Journey: 10 Years Later. Why I Remain Atheist." - This video above by Michael Maletin is awesome! Be sure to watch it all. At the 24:25 mark my work on horrendous suffering is recommended. Very very cool...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Schumer refuses to speculate! - *MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2024* *Sanders-Townsend jumps in: *The very fact that the question could have been asked helps define the shape of this potentially d...
Political Wire

Biden and Pence - Jonathan Last: “You won’t find a bigger admirer of Joe Biden anywhere outside his immediate family. I’ve written favorably about him over and over (and ove...
Ballot Access News

How Presidential Write-ins for District of Columbia Were Revealed - Earlier BAN had a post saying that Joseph Bishop-Henchman had obtained a tally of the write-in votes for president in the District of Columbia, in the Nove...
Techdirt.

Jeff Bezos’ Latest Gambit To Bring Back Trust In Media: Silence Editorial Cartoonists Who Call Out Your Sniveling Compliance - Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants you to believe he’s on a noble mission to restore trust in media. His solution? Muzzling his own paper by blocking i...
Raw Story

Right-wing pastor: God will kill Joe Biden for giving Medal of Freedom to George Soros - Right-wing pastor Kent Christmas predicted God would kill President Joe Biden because he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to liberal billionaire...
Al Jazeera English

US envoy says Israeli army will withdraw completely from south Lebanon - As Israel pulls out of western sector, Amos Hochstein promises full Israeli withdrawal with 60-day deadline looming.
The Greanville Post

United Healthcare Made Disabled Woman’s Life HELL – Now She’s Fighting Back - EDITOR—Jordan Chariton sat down with Jenn Coffey, a healthcare advocate who suffers from CRPS, one of the most painful health issues in modern medicine. Sh...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Four years after mob violence, Kamala Harris hands power – peacefully – to Trump - The outgoing vice-president presided over a January 6 without rancour as she formally certified the vote she lost She had warned America that he is a fas...
Alternet

'My harvest would be lost': Visa program for farm workers facing uncertain future under Trump - President-elect Donald Trump hasn't backed down from his promise to carry out mass deportations after returning to the White House on Monday, January 20....
Common Dreams

Latest Arms Package Caps Failed Administration Policy Towards Gaza War - *Win Without War Executive Director Sara Haghdoosti released the following statement responding to reports of $8 billion more in sales to the Israeli gov...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strips 2025 – Week One - I liked Shoe‘s rephrasing of the various end of year holiday greetings that had just past. And, naturally, it is always a pleasure to see David Reddick use...
The Verge

US designates Tencent and CATL as Chinese military companies - [image: A photo showing Tencent Headquarters in Shenzhen] Image: Getty The US Department of Defense has added tech giant Tencent and lithium-ion battery ...
San Antonio Report

Game time in Bexar County: 2 sports venues compete for funding - A new $1B-plus basketball arena for the Spurs and a $160M baseball stadium for the Missions are both competing for county money this week. -----------------...
Workers World

2025: Working-class solidarity will determine the struggle. - [image: 2025: Working-class solidarity will determine the struggle.] By A.A. Ware The new year on the Gregorian calendar has just begun, and many can feel ...
The Week

Palestinians and pro-Palestine allies brace for Trump - After a year of protests, crackdowns, and 'Uncommitted' electoral activism, Palestinian activists are rethinking their tactics ahead of another Trump admin...
OpEd News

Ok, it's time again for Dry January - Given a myth-busting report that concludes that "no amount of alcohol" is ever good for your health, going dry or easing up on alcohol for a month sounds l...
ArcaMax

Advice and consent or total submission? - The cast of characters Trump has chosen to populate his second term is a Star Wars cantina of fanatics, extremists, conspiracy theorists, sexual harassers,...
Mother Jones

Trump Gets the Peaceful Transfer of Power His Supporters Violently Refused Four Years Ago - Four years to the day that Donald Trump incited a violent attack on the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the 2020 election results, Congress certified...
Futurism

Kids Are Huffing Galaxy Gas Until They Get Tremors, Limps and Losing Bowel Control - Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to hit America's youth — and folks are developing crippling addictions and startling side effects to it. As New...
Vox

Biden’s DOJ just asked the Supreme Court to do a huge favor for Donald Trump - In what is likely to be one of her final actions as the federal government’s top Supreme Court litigator, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the ju...
Daily Dot

How ‘Chris Paul Hits A Huge Three’ became the epitaph of humiliated teams - [image: chris paul hits a huge three meme - chris paul on an NBA court after hitting a huge three to cut the lead to 42.] *Chris Paul Hits A Huge Three T...
Slate

The Golden Globes Upset That Made Me Scream at My Television - Nobody Wanted This.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Syrian rebels vow to dismantle Assad’s drug empire - The illegal drug Captagon was a major moneymaker for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Axios

CIA releases docs on Latino civil rights-era surveillance - The CIA monitored Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights activists fighting for equal education and to honor the late Martin Luther King, Jr., — ...
Mediagazer

TiVo plans to launch TiVo OS in the US with a new Sharp TV, arriving as soon as February 2025, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google TV, and Amazon's Fire TV (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Emma Roth / The Verge: *TiVo plans to launch TiVo OS in the US with a new Sharp TV, arriving as soon as February 2025, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google...
Eschaton

Congestion Pricing - It begins today in NYC - $9 bucks to drive into lower Manhattan during the day, basically (one charge per day). If I were a congestion pricing hater (I am ...
The Hill

Watch live: Harris speaks after Trump election win certification - Vice President Harris is expected to speak Monday afternoon after Congress certified President-elect Trump’s electoral victory. The certification officiall...
First Draft

My Wife Was Right On Jan. 6, 2021 - We let an insurrectionist have the chance to become president again. That is indefensible.
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds - The U.S. imperium is effectively spoiling for decisive confrontations with any power that threatens its crumbling primacy. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/6/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Second Nexus

Millie Bobby Brown Bluntly Rips Trolls After New Selfie Is Met With Looks-Shaming Comments - Newsflash: Millie Bobby Brown is not a child anymore! and she The *Stranger Things* and *Enola Holmes* star, who is now 20, refuses to apologize to peop...
Election Law Blog

“Congress certifies Donald Trump’s election win four years after he inspired a riot” - NBC News: Congress on Monday formally certified President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, exactly four years after he stirred up a mob that attacked t...
Houston Public Media

City of Houston doesn’t open warming centers despite freezing temperatures. Here’s open shelters - The city only opens warming centers when temperatures dip to 24 degrees for at least two hours. Instead, the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland h...
Mondoweiss

Biden administration plans one last $8 billion arms sale to Israel - With less than two weeks left in his administration, the Biden White House has notified Congress of a new $8 billion arms deal with Israel. The sale comes ...
Deadline Politics

With Kamala Harris Presiding, Congress Certifies Donald Trump As Winner Of 2024 Election - Four years after attempting to overturn the results of the election, leading to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump was certified as the winn...
CultureMap Houston

Post Malone shocks Houston bartender with 'life-changing' $20,000 tip - Music superstar Post Malone helped one Houston hospitality worker have a very Merry Christmas when he left a $20,000 tip during a visit to The Railyard, a...
Project Censored

Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines - In the first half of the program Eleanonr Goldfield speaks with Shrouq Aila, an investigative journalist, producer and researcher in Gaza. Shrouq describ...
Church and State

Biden took strong action in curbing the death penalty, so why not now confirm the long pending ERA as our 28th Amendment to our Constitution? - The effect of having this ERA approved would be that the Supreme Court decision to kill Roe Casey with the Dobbs case could be reversed.
World Socialist Web Site

Taiwan’s former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je charged with bribery - Ko is the second major politician to face anti-graft investigations and charges since President Lai Ching-te took power in May 2024. Both have shown an int...
El Paso Matters

DPS jeopardizes El Paso safety with high-speed chases, county attorney says - The Texas Department of Public Safety has averaged more than one high-speed pursuit a day in El Paso County over the past two years, the County Attorney...
Liberation News

Myth vs. fact: Is nuclear power really a climate solution? - Reliant on government subsidies to survive, the nuclear industry lobby is strong and has a history of glossing over the risks and inefficiencies of nuclea...
WhoWhatWhy

The Cries that Bind - [image: Unified by Hate] Underneath all the partisan bickering is a deep well of agreement. The Cries that Bind originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Texas Monthly

January 2025 Pit Perks - Available exclusively to TM BBQ Club members.
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...
alicublog

DAY OF WRECKONING - I could call this Friday-‘Round-the-Horn-Except-on-Monday, as I did last week, but I’m mainly here to tell you today’s *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* is ab...
The Texas Signal

A Timeline Of Texas Republicans And January 6th - *This article originally appeared on **Texas Signal** three years ago, before we transitioned to a nonprofit newsroom. Four years after the deadly attack...
The Conversation

Americans’ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage – the author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ points to 3 reforms that could help - It’s time to move from rage to regulation, an insurance expert argues.
Angry Bear

A rather Late November US Unemployment Report - Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 227,000 in November 2024, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Stat...
SCOTUSblog

Gun-rights advocates bring twin challenges to Maryland gun-control law - [image: Gun-rights advocates bring twin challenges to Maryland gun-control law]The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions rec...
Political Garbage Chute

Elon Told Me He Invented the Presidency - After I changed my cell phone number this morning, it occurred to me that someone out there might be interested to know why. I had to change it because s...
Capital & Main

How Trump Administration Cuts Could Hurt Medi-Cal - Federal funds cover more than 60% of California’s low-income health insurance plan. Losing even part of that money could result in cutbacks on care for k...
Undernews

COURTS - *ACLU - *More than 98 percent of court cases filed in the United States are in state courts, and state courts play an outsized role in certain areas of ...
Southeast Texas Record

Company wants $580K from Texas for stripping AG of power - AUSTIN - While state Attorney General Ken Paxton appeals a ruling that blocks him from using longstanding investigative powers, the company he's fighting...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 50: “How H1Bs Are Screwing India Too” - We’ve been talking about the H1B visa controversy and how it may be affecting tech workers in the US, where the H1B program has prompted a 5% decline in ...
Dissident Voice

Ending Yoon Sok-yeol’s Legacy of Betrayal and Dismantlement of Korea’s Sovereignty - For more than 44 hours Koreans have braved freezing snowstorms to demand the arrest of the elusive Yoon Seok Yoel, who has barricaded himself inside his ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe - *Friends:Lots of takeaways regarding Estonia becoming an educational powerhouse. For starters, kindergarten is subsidized and equitable so that children ...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Omonia Nicosia vs Anorthosis lúc 02h30 ngày 08/01/2025 - Tại vòng 17 thuộc giải Hạng Nhất Síp, với phong độ thi đấu nổi bật cùng lợi thế sân đấu, Omonia Nicosia sẽ có cơ hội tiếp tục nâng cao điểm số khi đón ti...
The Mind Unleashed

Do You Know The Truth Behind The Small Scar On The Upper Left Arm And It’s Real Meaning! - Imagine a scar that tells the story of humanity’s triumph over one of history’s deadliest enemies. For millions of people, the small, circular mark on thei...
Discourse

We'll Never Bend the Knee - And four other reasons to support Discourse Blog in 2025.
Bonddad

2024 year end Coronavirus dashboard: the year COVID-19 turned into the flu - -* by New Deal democrat* A year ago I said that I would only update information about the state of COVID-19 if there was something significant to r...
Democracy Now!

Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics - Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk’s latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently ...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2025 Issue - Texas Observer readers, Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered at Sch...
Space City Weather

It’s been 350 days since it has been this cold in Houston. Also, north Texas faces a major winter storm this week - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the city’s first freeze in nearly a year, and how long this cold weather will last. We also dig into the chances for s...
Earth 911

EPS Foam Packaging & Products Bans Expand to Oregon, California, and Three Other States - As 2025 dawned, several U.S. states, including Oregon, California, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Hawaii, launched... The post EPS Foam Packaging & Products...
slacktivist

Epiphanies - May your year be filled with epiphanies large and small, and may all your Fridays be freaky.
The Smirking Chimp

A Day That Shall Live in Infamy, As Should Donald J. Trump -
Skeptophilia

Gender bender - Sex is a pretty cool phenomenon, and it's not just because it's kinda fun. How exactly sexual reproduction first evolved isn't well understood, but its a...
Scheerpost.com

Robert Scheer Shreds Clinton: ‘Wall Street’s Wet Dream’ - By Katie Halper / The Katie Halper Show
Crooked Media

The Promise and Perils of Presidential Power - The post The Promise and Perils of Presidential Power appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Precinct analysis 2024: Railroad Commissioner - PREVIOUSLY: President Senate Dist Craddick Culbert Lib Grn ========================================= CD02 99,112 65,117 3,921 3,996 CD07 66,167 95,853 3,75...
DeSmogBlog

How Big Meat Worked to Rebrand in 2024 — Using Disinformation - This article by Sentient is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The meat industry and its proponents work...
ProPublica

“BadAss Grandmas” Pushed for an Ethics Commission. Then the North Dakota Legislature Limited Its Power. - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. ...
American Prospect

Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists. - Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.
Grist

The business case for saving coral reefs - A growing body of research shows the nation’s coral reefs protect $1.8 billion in economic assets each year and should be protected for our sake and their ...
High Country News

Montana’s ag tax slashes bills for thousands of million-dollar homes - Properties classified ‘agricultural’ get a tax break despite bona fide operations. Can lawmakers new proposals tighten qualifications? The post Montana’...
See You In 2020

H-1B is about hurting unions amid growing worker revolts. We need a united front against this monopolist scheme. - Above: members of the International Longshoremen’s Association union striking in October 2024, photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The United States is h...
Counterpunch

We Must Keep Up Our Courage: Ending Yoon Suk Yeol’s Legacy of Betrayal and Dismantlement of Korea’s Sovereignty - For more than 44 hours Koreans have braved freezing snowstorms to demand the arrest of the elusive Yoon Suk Yeol, who has barricaded himself inside his o...
jobsanger

"Bothsiding" Is Not Fairness - It's Lying -
Portside

Sunday Science: Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst out of Africa - Sunday Science: Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst out of Africa Ira Mon, 01/06/2025 - 00:51
The AltWorld

Lavrov Elaborated On Russia’s Approach To The Global Systemic Transition - It envisages helping developing countries rebalance their relations with the West while avoiding the neocolonial pitfalls for […] The post Lavrov Elabora...
Informed Comment

After Syrian opposition’s Victory, is Türkiye on Verge of Dominating the Middle East? - Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Türkiye aims to capitalize on the Syrian...
Antiwar.com

How the Foreign Agents Law Is Used To Silence American Dissidents - Democrats speak of the fight against “Russian disinformation,” while the Republicans pledge to combat “fake news” about Israel. Whatever you choose to call...
Popular Resistance

Brazilian Court Orders Police Probe Into Vacationing Israeli Soldier - A Brazilian federal court has ordered police to open an immediate investigation into an Israeli soldier accused of committing war crimes in Gaza who is c...
Wolf Street

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Hits 30-Year Low as Central Banks Pile on Other Currencies & Gold - If the rate of decline over the past 10 years continues, the dollar’s share will sink below 50% by 2034.
Rio Grande Guardian

Dallas Fed: Nearshoring to Mexico has yet to fully materialize - New foreign direct investment inflows have not surged, as might be expected with more nearshoring activity, but have actually declined since 2022, accord...
Claytoonz

Happy Insurrection Day - 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...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 05, 2025 - [image: Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 05, 2025] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 05, 2025 By Tony Wikrent *Guide for the perp...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the internet vs real life - This one is really old, dating back to the early days of the internet -- but it remains strikingly accurate today, especially the part about debating poli...
Bracing Views

Cap Guns versus Bazookas - W.J. Astore The “War” between Hamas and Israel If one side is armed with cap guns and the other with bazookas, would we call that a “war” between roughly e...
Brad Blog

Sunday '2025 Terror, Trump and Tesla' Toons - [ED NOTE: See below this week's collection for a bit of troubling Tooning News that broke on Friday night... --BF] I'm late to the game...But so was he... ...
Reform Austin

Tesla Targets Austin For Self-Driving Expansion - Tesla has initiated discussions with Austin city officials regarding its autonomous vehicle technology, according to a Reuters report citing Bloomberg Ne...
Progressives Chat

Welcome, 2025! - It is a new year: 2025. Nice, rounded number. The last such nicely rounded number of a year: 2020. That was not a good year. May 2025 be a good year fo...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Ravenna in Droitwich - A curious one, this. We were looking through some old postcards (from the 1930s) and came across one with a picture of this church interior. Where’s that? ...
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...
The Militant

Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny opens space for working people - The overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria has left in tatters much of the “axis of resistance” organized by Iran’s capitalist rulers to ex...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Understanding the Enemy: Audio From A Collapsing State - If we're going to win this fight we first have to understand the nature of the struggle and what it is that we're facing
The Daily Poster

In With The Good Energy, Out With The Bad - California looks to the renewable future, while New York probes the polluted past.
Lowering the Bar

Goodbye, 2024 - [image: LTB logo]You sucked.
TalkLeft

Mike Johnson Re-elected House Speaker (By a Hair) - By a vote of 218 to 215, Republican Mike Johnson beat Democrat Hakim Jeffries for House Speaker. There was some drama as it took a phone call from Donald...
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...
MintPress News

Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East Editor Exposed as CIA, Mossad Collaborator - Raffi Berg, now at the center of a media scandal over the BBC’s Israel coverage, once worked for a known CIA front and collaborated with Mossad officials...
Sludge

Harris Super PAC Leaders Profited From Spending Splurge - A company owned by Future Forward's treasurer was paid handsomely by the super PAC in the final stretch of the campaign.
Eater Houston

Where to Drink the Best Mocktails in Houston - [image: A lineup of drinks from Fish Company Taco garnished with fruit and herbs.] Dry January is upon us, and these Houston restaurants are ready to serv...
Progressive.org

Jimmy Carter Warned Us About Israeli Apartheid - The late President wrote in a controversial 2006 book that Israel was on its way to apartheid towards Palestinians.
The Progressive Wing

January 1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - A little late but let’s get the 2025 ball rolling.
Bud Kennedy

The office is open: Craig Goldman heads to Washington as Fort Worth’s new congressman | Opinion - U.S. Rep. Craig Goldman started in the mailroom, sorting letters sent 35 years ago from Texas to then-new U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm. Goldman is now back in Wash...
The Grayzone

Will the Cuban revolution survive the storm of 2025? - Danny Shaw has been traveling to Cuba since 1995 in support of the country’s socialist revolution. Unsatisfied with the official proclamations and guided...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 2 - As we saw two weeks ago, the action of The Nibelung’s Ring is rising toward crisis in this third opera of the cycle. Siegfried, the child born of the inces...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

Apocalypse Now? What Other Explanation For Cult Control? - There's no doubt that a lot of people think there's an Apocalypse, of some sort coming, even if the God they worship can't possibly be real, although th...
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...
Duck of Minerva

My Best Classroom Reads of the Year - Amid the annual deluge of end-of-year lists, I started to think about what readings generated the best classroom discussions I have overseen in the past ca...
NORML

Study: Patients Less Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts Following Medical Cannabis Use - [image: Smoke wafts from a green glass Sherlock pipe rating on a white table next to an open prescription-style bottle of medical cannabis][image: Smoke ...
Krebs on Security

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions - Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and...
Greg Palast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
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...
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 ...
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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