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

Consortium News

Acclaimed Australian Journalist Accused of ‘Anti-Semitism’ Awaits Zionist Federation’s Next Move - Mary Kostakidis has tried to end the dispute with the Zionist Federation by issuing a statement on X but it has led to a new round of contentiousness. By J...
Counterpunch

How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left and Right - Glenn Greenwald, Youtube screenshot. Glenn Greenwald, Youtube screenshot. Glenn Greenwald, Youtube screenshot. Glenn Greenwald, Youtube screenshot. Glenn...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

As the Taliban open their doors to tourism, they are closing windows on women | Catherine Bennett - Specialist travel companies are using euphemisms to avoid the gender apartheid Having denied Afghan women jobs, education and free movement, ordered them...
Daily Dot

‘I don’t actually work here’: Customer asks for help at Staples. Then a worker asks her to come behind the counter - [image: woman shares story shopping at staples(l), Staples office store front(r)] Be real, what would you do if a worker asked you to essentially clock i...
Al Jazeera English

Where I find hope amid the hurt and heartache - Amid the horror of watching genocide unfold day after day, the words of a Palestinian pastor gave me a reason to hope.
jobsanger

He Can Be Bought -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1309: The deHavilland DH-4 - Episode: 1309 The DH-4: a forgotten and terribly influential WW-I warplane. Today, America tries to get off the ground in WW-I.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

'Our county ignored Africa,' Jimmy Carter said. He didn't - Africa is where Carter's legacy remains most evident
The Week

Crossword: January 5, 2025 - The Week's daily crossword
Political Wire

Biden Plans Two Major Speeches in Final Days - “President Joe Biden plans to deliver two major speeches before leaving office as part of an effort to outline what he sees as key parts of his legacy from...
memeorandum

Austria's chancellor says will step down in 'coming days' (Amanda Previdelli/The Local Austria) - Amanda Previdelli / The Local Austria: *Austria's chancellor says will step down in ‘coming days’* — Austria's conservative chancellor Karl Nehammer sa...
Daily Cartoonist

Editorial Cartoonist Jon Russo Signs with Creators Syndicate - Creators Syndicate found a conservative political cartoonist to fill the empty left by Bob Gorrell’s retirement. Jon Russo signed with Creators last month/...
Informed Comment

Brazilian Judiciary orders Investigation of Israeli Soldier-Tourist for War Crimes in Gaza - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Junio Silva at the Brazilian newspaper Metrópoles , on December 31, Federal Judge Raquel Soares Charelli direct...
The Root

Ja Rule Rekindles 50 Cent Beef, Elliott Wilson Criticizes Cam'ron, Trae Tha Truth Reunited with Daughter, Joey Bada$$ Takes Shots at the West Coast and More Music News - 50 Cent’s much-anticipated Las Vegas residency that started last month has not been getting a lot of positive feedback. — Noah A. McGee Read more...
Mediagazer

President Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Anna Wintour, who has been serving as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988 (Ruth Comerford/BBC) - Ruth Comerford / BBC: *President Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Anna Wintour, who has been serving as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1...
Alternet

'Evilly and illegally treated': Trump ridiculed for self-pitying morning meltdown - A panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Weekend" was disrupted with laughter on Saturday morning after co-host Symone Sanders Townsend read a post that Donald...
The Hill

Trump announces additional senior White House officials - President-elect Trump has announced additional senior White House officials, further filling out his team ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. Trump pick...
Raw Story

How Mike Johnson helps Trump gaslight his base — with an assist from Fox News - When a radicalized US Army veteran mowed down 15 people in New Orleans, Donald Trump wasted no time pointing his finger, blaming immigrants and a non-exi...
Popular Resistance

Where Is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, And What Is Israel Doing To Him? - His white coat stands out in stark contrast to the gray ash and rubble surrounding the hospital he had been fighting tirelessly to defend for the past fe...
The Greanville Post

What is neoliberalism? How the ‘Washington consensus’ was imposed on the world - GEC—Neoliberalism is often misunderstood, but it is very important to understand this ideology that has dominated global economics and politics for decades...
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Rock on.
Salon.com

"Restaurants are magic": Chef Karen Akunowicz on "Top Chef," food waste and what keeps her cooking - Boston's "Queen of Pasta" talks about cutting down on expenses in the kitchen
Mediaite

‘So Many Words I’d Like to Call Liz Cheney’: Newsmax Host Dismayed Network Has ‘Strict Policy’ on Name-Calling ‘Which Sucks!’ - Newsmax host Wendy Bell said the network does not allow her to insult former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) because of a "strict policy" on name-calling. The pos...
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...
Portside

Unions Get Bigger in Texas - Unions Get Bigger in Texas Dave Sat, 01/04/2025 - 18:43
Texas Standard

‘This act has no place in Islam’: Houston Muslims worry about Islamophobia after New Orleans attack - The FBI says the man responsible for the attack that killed 14 people was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Houston. He was killed in an ...
NPR's Health Shots

Thousands of people experience cardiac arrest each year. CPR can be life-saving. - In 2025 why not learn CPR? NPR's Life Kit has tips for how to help someone in cardiac arrest.
Rio Grande Guardian

Reyna: Imagining the RGV with prosperity rates on par with Texas - The Rio Grande Valley and RioPlex have the people, resources, and strategic location to thrive. Now, we must come together to seize the opportunities bef...
Angry Bear

Avoiding DOJ Referral Evoking the George Costanza Defense - When is enough, enough??? Clarence Thomas self-indulgence in gift giving is ignored claiming ignorance of such practices. A while back, a long while . . ...
Axios

Biden pressed to pardon influential Black leader Marcus Garvey posthumously - President Biden is being pressured to grant a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey — a Black nationalist who was influential to Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela ...
ArcaMax

Did Musk Abuse Visa Program -- And US Workers? - Elon Musk's aggressive defense of the H-1B visa program -- which permits his companies Tesla and SpaceX to bring engineers and other workers from overseas ...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: December 29th – January 4th - Five Years Ago This week at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, a new study shed light on just how racially biased facial recognition algorithms are, wh...
OpEd News

The Military is the Extremism - According to a headline in The Hill newspaper, which takes a position typical of U.S. corporate media, "New Year's attacks fuel fears of extremism in milit...
San Antonio Report

Cryptocurrency mining firm moves headquarters from Canada to San Antonio - HIVE Digital, a publicly traded cryptocurrency mining firm, announced this week that it will relocate its headquarters from Vancouver to San Antonio, citin...
Deadline Politics

Joe Biden Awards Medal Of Freedom: Denzel Washington Gives POTUS A Hug, Hillary Clinton Gets A Standing Ovation And Bono Delivers A Quip - Joe Biden awarded his final Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to a group of 18 recipients including Denzel Washington, Hi...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #TheBiggerQuantumThreat - [image: Future, Quantum, Computing] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #TheBiggerQuantumThreat originally ...
The AltWorld

2025, Iran is back in the U.S. crosshairs for regime change - A new American president and a new Middle East configuration have brought Iran back into the crosshairs […] The post 2025, Iran is back in the U.S. cross...
Slate

The Haunted New Twist in the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Scandal - This isn’t going to end anytime soon.
First Draft

Caturday: Here’s Looking At You, Kid - Meow from Finn.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A New Year's Reflection on Cecilia Ballí's NYTimes story on "Charro Days" and what "This Glorious Celebration Shows What Border Communities Can Be" - *Friends:* *Instead of the hideous, iron-gated wall along the U.S.-Mexico border championed by Trump and Texas' Governor Abbott—marked by violence, death, ...
Second Nexus

Woman Sparks Debate After TikToker Claims She Stood In Aisle For Entire Seven-Hour Flight - It's always important to remember that we cannot know what someone else is going through unless we've at least asked them or somehow lived their life in ...
Dissident Voice

Dissident Voice Update - Due to the unfortunate bouts of ill health that longtime DV senior editor Angie Tibbs suffered the last few years, especially November to December 2024, ...
The Verge

Twelve South’s travel-friendly Bluetooth dongle is on sale for its best price yet - *The AirFly SE might not be the only way to enjoy in-flight entertainment with your own headphones, but it’s one of the most reliable.* | Image: Twelve So...
Claytoonz

Bezo’s Sacrifice - 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...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: We humans do have our higher pursuits! - S*ATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2025* *Gödel, Escher and Bosh: *"What Can I Do For You?" Once again, it was one of Dylan's questions, during his Christian period. ...
CultureMap Houston

Star chef's sudden resignation leads Houston's 5 most popular stories - Editor's note: It's time to look back at the hottest Houston headlines of the week. We begin with the unexpected closure of one of the Houston area's most...
Ballot Access News

New York Conservative Party Polls 49.12% of the Vote in 48th Assembly District - On November 5, 2024, the Conservative Party polled 49.12% of the vote for Assemblymember, 48th district. This is in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brookl...
Undernews

WORD - [image: May be an image of text] Neil deGrasse Tyson
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...
Mother Jones

This Week’s Episode of Reveal: The Fight for Refugees in Greece - In 2015, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and repression were trying to reach safe havens in Europe. From his home in Norway, Tommy Olsen decide...
Mondoweiss

Open Letter: Germany must stop supporting the annihilation of Palestinians - [image: A photo of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin lit up with the Israeli flag that was shared by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Twitter/X with the capti...
Bonddad

Year end Weekly Indicators at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Both the long leading and short leading indicators have weakened in the...
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.
Grist

As states line up to battle Trump over climate, Pennsylvania could be on the sidelines - Incoming Attorney General Dave Sunday didn’t mention climate change on the campaign trail, but fossil fuel donations tell a different story.
Reform Austin

How Next Week’s Cold Front Will Impact Houston - A wave of arctic air is expected to hit much of the United States next week, bringing freezing temperatures to areas from the Rockies and Plains to the G...
naked capitalism

Links 1/4/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Judge Merchan Denies Trump’s Motion To Dismiss and Orders Him To Appear for Sentencing Next Week -
Skeptophilia

Health for profit - Ever since the fatal shooting of United Health CEO Brian Thompson, the whole issue of the ridiculous unaffordability of health care and the capricious, c...
Scheerpost.com

Katie Halper and Robert Scheer on the Legacy of Jimmy Carter - By Katie Halper / Katie Halper Show
Off The Kuff

Teare recuses his office from the Hidalgo aides’ cases - As he said he would. Recently-elected Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare filed a motion on Thursday to recuse the Harris County Attorney’s Office f...
Vox

Trump and Musk actually made a good point on immigration - On New Year’s Eve, America’s most prominent nativist declared that the nation needs more immigrants. “We need competent people, we need smart people comin...
ProPublica

The Militia and the Mole - by Joshua Kaplan ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 4 January 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Have some "AI"-generated Hanukkah illustrations. This is called being a b...
See You In 2020

As Syria’s fall accelerates the genocide, Juche shows the path to victory against imperialism - This is a moment in history when Juche’s practical applications for the global anti-imperialist struggle have become highly apparent. We’ve come to a po...
World Socialist Web Site

German media promotes fascist oligarch Musk and the far-right Alternative for Germany - German politicians and the media have reacted to Donald Trump’s election victory in the US by aggressively normalizing fascism.
Wolf Street

Ugly Charts of US Auto Sales, 2024: Stellantis Spirals into Catastrophe, GM, Toyota, Ford, Honda Rise but far Below Peaks. Hyundai-Kia Sets Record. EV Sales +10% despite Tesla’s Dip - New Vehicle sales rise but still below 1986. GM, Ford, Hyundai-Kia book huge EV-sales gains.
Workers World

Remembering Lydia Bayoneta and Gene Clancy - [image: Remembering Lydia Bayoneta and Gene Clancy] Buffalo, New York We have lost two inspiring leaders and steadfast lifelong revolutionaries this past y...
SCOTUSblog

Parties file final briefs before Supreme Court hears TikTok case - [image: Parties file final briefs before Supreme Court hears TikTok case]One week ahead of oral arguments in its challenge to a federal law that would re...
Election Law Blog

“Roberts Calls Court’s Relationship With Congress ‘Strained.’ Who’s to Blame?” - Jimmy Hoover for the NLJ. I offered some thoughts in this one: Many commentators say that a similar dynamic is responsible for today’s partisan rancor i...
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...
Southeast Texas Record

Botched lawsuit leads to possible trouble for Houston plaintiffs firm - EL PASO - A Houston plaintiffs firm finds itself facing a legal malpractice claim from a woman who tried to sue the U.S. Postal Service for race and age ...
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...
American Prospect

Johnson Wins Speaker Battle; War Goes On - An extended first ballot shows the tenuous hold Johnson has on the House Republican caucus.
Common Dreams

Net Neutrality Ruling an Ominous Giveaway to Big Telecom - On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down Net Neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from degrading or...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 187: Interview with Cartoonist David Fitzsimmons - The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) are joined by David Fitzsimmons, Cartoonist and Columnist for the Arizo...
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...
Texas Monthly

First Look: Albert Hotel, in Downtown Fredericksburg - The long-awaited boutique hotel by Austin’s New Waterloo brings upscale touches—including a full-service spa and cabana-bordered pool—to Main Street while ...
Capital & Main

How Sanctuary Laws Could Throw a Wrench Into Trump’s Deportation Plans - Advocates see these laws as a critical shield for immigrant communities, but Trump’s team is devising ways to bypass them. The post How Sanctuary Laws Co...
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.
Bracing Views

Endless War Fosters and Favors Extremism - W.J. Astore War Isn’t Healthy “Peace” is a word rarely heard in American discourse. No matter the year, there are wars and rumors of war for America. This ...
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...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Electric proposes solar farm; Walmart shooting case order blocked; how to recycle your live holiday tree - El Paso Electric is proposing a $328 million solar farm in Northeast; city employees to see minimum wage increase; plus, holiday trash collection and re...
Debunking Christianity

We Survived Yet Another Season of Christmas Irrelevance - *Addressing irrelevance with reality and ridicule* We know nothing—*absolutely nothing*—about how and when Jesus was born. The birth narratives in Mathe...
Democracy Now!

U.S./Israeli Yemen Strikes Won't End Houthi Resistance. Ending Gaza Genocide Will: Shireen Al-Adeimi - The Pentagon announced this week it launched a wave of airstrikes on Sana’a and other parts of Yemen on Tuesday. U.S. Central Command said it targeted comm...
The Conversation

Mainstream media faces a credibility crisis – my journalism research shows how the news can still serve the public - Legacy newsrooms have lost their audiences. Could a radical transformation in how they practice journalism make the industry relevant again?
Space City Weather

Expect warmer days before a much colder air mass arrives Sunday: A freeze is likely and wintry precipitation is possible - In brief: Houston will experience milder conditions until a robust front arrives on Sunday, with the possibility of some severe weather to the northeast of...
High Country News

Jimmy Carter’s mixed environmental record - The former president emphasized conservation, protection — and coal mining. The post Jimmy Carter’s mixed environmental record appeared first on High Co...
Antiwar.com

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 the ...
Church and State

UN Chief’s Message to the World as Blistering 2024 Ends: ‘We Must Exit This Road to Ruin’ - “Today, I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat,” Guterres said in a video message posted to social media.
slacktivist

Posting from my phone - Comcast xFinity is now saying our internet service will be restored by tomorrow at 10 pm. This amends their earlier reassurance that service would be resto...
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 Texas Signal

The Abortion Wars Enter A New Front - As many were celebrating the holidays, Attorney General Ken Paxton was amping up another round of abortion-related lawsuits in the state. Last month his ...
Futurism

Babies Being Found in Dumpsters After Texas Abortion Ban - Two years on, the Texas abortion ban has brought consequences almost too grim to contemplate — but what many critics would argue were entirely predictabl...
Ian Welsh

Tracking the Signs of Decline in America - [image: Tracking the Signs of Decline in America] If you want to be a decent analyst, let alone a forecaster, you need to know how to find real informatio...
The Mind Unleashed

The Simpsons ‘predictions for 2025’ are more extremely bad news for the world - For over three decades, The Simpsons has been more than just a TV show—it’s been a cultural touchstone, a comedic mirror reflecting society’s quirks, and, ...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Midwest Wins Funding for a New Hydrogen Hub. Not Everyone Is Convinced It’s ‘Clean.’ - This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and is publi...
Earth 911

You Can’t Eat Silica Gel, But You Can Reuse It - There are lots of ways to reuse to products like plastic bottles, wine corks, and... The post You Can’t Eat Silica Gel, But You Can Reuse It appeared fir...
Crooked Timber

In 2025, let’s make resistance more effective - Here’s a virtual toast to your flourishing in 2025. But more so than any other year, our wishes should not just be from person to person, but rather wishes...
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...
alicublog

MONDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BETWEEN A REICH AND A HARD PLACE EDITION. - *Let's have a little soothing jangle-bell rock.* Yeah, it’s normally Friday ‘Round-the-Horn – but I am told on social media that the period between Chri...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

¿Cómo están reaccionando Estados Unidos e Israel ante los acontecimientos en Siria? - La ocupación militar de Siria por parte de los EE. UU. debe terminar de inmediato. Todas las bases de los EE. UU. deben ser desmanteladas, y todas las trop...
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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