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Sunday, August 08, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Infidel753

Link round-up for 21 December 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Santa must escape the Grinch to get his job done. Always put your truck i...
Salon.com

Why ABC settled a case with Donald Trump they knew they would win - ABC News vs. The Lincoln Project is a First Amendment study in contrasts
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Only 35% of Americans trust the US judicial system. This is catastrophic | David Daley - American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying – if not surprising The US supreme court has been hijacked by...
Eschaton

Morning - Slacker Saturday
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Dec. 21, 2024 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Scheerpost.com

Amazon Workers Launch Largest Strike Yet: ‘It Doesn’t Feel Like a Job That Should Be Legal’ - The Teamsters set Amazon an ultimatum: recognize the unions and agree to bargaining by December 15, or face strikes. Amazon hasn’t moved.
naked capitalism

The Demand and Supply of Hate - A new study looks at amplification of hateful content on social media platforms and points to remedies. But is BlueSky really any better?
The Week

The best books of 2024 to give this Christmas - From Percival Everett to Rachel Clarke these are the critics' favourite books from 2024
Daily Dot

‘They can’t even sell them right now’: Expert warns car market is crashing. Then he goes to Ford dealership - [image: Man talking(l), Ford sign(r)] Though cars are roughly $10,000 more expensive than before the pandemic, a drop in price point may be coming soon. ...
Consortium News

Israel, Not the ‘Liberators,’ Will Decide Syria’s Fate - Syria’s future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only, writes Jonathan Cook. Either submit and collude like the West Bank, or end up wr...
The Mind Unleashed

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Been Released in the US - Imagine a future where humans can rewrite the very fabric of life, tinkering with nature to solve some of the world’s deadliest problems. That future isn’t...
Raw Story

Why ABC settled a case they knew they would win — and why the Lincoln Project didn't - Since 2012, the U.S. Dept. of Justice has defined rape as bodily “penetration, no matter how slight… *with any body part or object*… without the consent ...
Al Jazeera English

US State Dept gives nod to $5bn in potential arms sales for Egypt - Huge sale likely to go through despite ongoing concerns over Egyptian government’s human rights breaches,
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Germans mourn attack on Christmas market with no answers about why - Officials say Saudi doctor intentionally drove car into a Christmas market, killing at least 2 people and injuring at least 60 others
memeorandum

Elon Musk Boosting German Fascists, What Could Possibly Go Wrong (Gary Legum/Wonkette) - Gary Legum / Wonkette: *Elon Musk Boosting German Fascists, What Could Possibly Go Wrong* — His politics are so mysterious! — Stop us if you've heard...
Crooked Media

Lovett or Leave It: For Good - The post Lovett or Leave It: For Good appeared first on Crooked Media.
Southeast Texas Record

Tenant Alleges Negligence Against Apartment Owners After Fire Incident - In a recent legal filing dated December 12th in Harris County District Court, tenant Jose Adin Reyes Cruz has accused Ashford Santa Cruz LLC and HK Capit...
Wolf Street

After Fed Trims ON RRP Rate by 5 Basis Points on Top of Rate Cut, ON RRPs Plunge to $98 Billion, Lowest since April 2021, -$2.3 Trillion from Peak, on the Way to Zero - QT has only drained ON RRPs so far, but not Reserves, which are still where they’d been when QT started in July 2022. QT has a long way to go.
World Socialist Web Site

Israel targets Gaza refugee camps and kills more than 100 in 2 days - Israel Defense Forces launched multiple air strikes against residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and the Jabalya refugee camp...
jobsanger

A Return To Trump Chaos And Dysfunction -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1301: The Boy Mechanic - Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger. Today, a boy’s world, a century ago.
First Draft

Saturday Odd & Sods: Four Seasons In One Day - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
ArcaMax

When Elon Speaks ... - Something very scary happened in Washington this week. The world's richest man flexed his political muscle. And the House collapsed. All in a day. Republic...
The Hill

Senate sends spending deal to Biden's desk, averting shutdown - The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a stopgap funding package, avoiding a government shutdown that would have furloughed hundreds of thousands...
Informed Comment

Gaza’s Afflictions: A Proem - Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Empathy will never be exhausted as gaza schools and hospitals are torn asunder by pilots in fighter ...
The Verge

Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps - [image: Photo illustration of Google logo in front of the US Court House] Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice’s list of s...
Political Wire

Biden May Commute Sentences of Death Row Inmates - “President Biden is considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government’s death row, a move that would frustra...
Workers World

Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’ - [image: Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’] Over 100 people rallied at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall next to the Liberty Bell on D...
The Root

Everyone Who Messed Around And Found Out In 2024 - In 2024, there were numerous celebrities, politicians and Karens who decided to mess around and find out. Here is a list of folks who ultimately had to d...
Deadline Politics

Barack Obama Lists His Top 10 Movies Of 2024 - With another year in the books, Barack Obama has some new recommendations for his fellow cinephiles. On Friday, the former president of the United States s...
alicublog

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

Bad Sign: Pocketpair Updates ‘Palworld’ By Nixxing Pal Spheres - We’re still waiting for the lawsuit in Japan between Nintendo, The Pokémon Co., and Pocketpair to get rolling, but that doesn’t keep the dispute out of the...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | December 20, 2024 - Friday Nite Videos | December 20, 2024 barry Fri, 12/20/2024 - 22:37
Eater Houston

Where to Drink Like Beyoncé and Watch the Texans Halftime Show on Christmas Day in Houston - [image: Beyoncé poses with Maya Magarita at the SirDavis American Whisky launch party in Paris.] Cheers to Beyoncé this Christmas. | Kevin Mazur In honor...
Mediaite

Republican Brags About Defying Trump After GOP Ignored President-Elect’s Demand: He ‘Said Jump, and We Didn’t Jump’ - Rep. Thomas Massie boasted that House Republicans defied Donald Trump on Friday night after the GOP conference did not accede to the president-elect's de...
Daily Cartoonist

Merrily Harpur – RIP - British cartoonist Merrily Harpur has passed away. Merrily Harpur April 3 1948 – December 4 2024 From The Telegraph obituary: Merrily Harpur, who has died ...
Alternet

'Pitiful embarrassment': PR agent who fired Nancy Mace scorches her in several viral posts - One public relations professional in South Carolina is now airing Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-S.C.) dirty laundry on social media, blasting the far-right congre...
Angry Bear

I told you (and Ezra Klein) so - Many people including Richard S. Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. and Ezra Klein predicted that the Affordable Care Act’s effort...
Ballot Access News

New Jersey Bill to Increase Petition Requirements Passes Assembly and Also Passes State Senate Committee - Identical bills have been introduced in the New Jersey legislature to increase the petition requirements for both primary and general elections. SB 3994 an...
The Greanville Post

Susan Abulhawa Gives EPIC Speech Against Israel, Lily Greenberg Call & Harrison Mann On RESIGNING - KATIE HALPER—Palestinian writer ("Mornings in Jenin") and activist Susan Abulhawa discusses Israel's latest crimes as well as the Oxford Union debate in wh...
WhoWhatWhy

Democrats Bail Out Johnson; Musk More Effective than Trump - [image: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mike Johnson] Thanks to House Democrats, Congress is poised to avert a government shutdown by the midnight deadline. Elon ...
Popular Resistance

How To Understand The Change Of Government In Syria - Just over a decade ago, Assad’s government remained in power largely because of support from Iran and Russia, but also because of the involvement – to a ...
Mediagazer

The US Senate gives final approval to a bill loosening restrictions on commercial filming and photography in national parks; Biden is expected to sign it (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter) - Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: *The US Senate gives final approval to a bill loosening restrictions on commercial filming and photography in natio...
San Antonio Report

Family of missing child believes she’s still alive, but say enough isn’t being done to bring her home - Desperate for answers, Sardar Khil on Friday increased the reward for information that could lead to finding his daughter by $30,000, bringing the grand to...
Election Law Blog

Ninth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Holds Unconstitutional Campaign Contribution Limits in Oxnard, California Elections - The majority and dissent agreed to apply the Supreme Court’s Randall framework, but disagree on application. Perhaps the Ninth Circuit will take up this ...
OpEd News

Thanks For the Transplant, Pig! Xenotransplantation in the News - Is the pig kidney transplant announced this week a medical breakthrough or more of the clandestine GMO animal movement that largely operates under the publ...
Axios

Scoop: Jeffries' plan to kill the debt ceiling forever - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has privately floated embracing the wholesale elimination of the debt limit next year rather than simply r...
CultureMap Houston

More than 20 Houston restaurants that will be open on Christmas Day - On December 25, families all over Houston will gather for home-cooked Christmas Day feasts. We wish all of them a Merry Christmas.
Vox

The people who deliver your Amazon packages are striking. Here’s why. - Delivery workers continued to picket Amazon facilities in New York City, Illinois, California, and Atlanta after launching a strike on Thursday, following ...
NPR's Health Shots

Bird flu is declared a State of Emergency in California - On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency to streamline the state's response to avian flu. More than half of the human cases...
Futurism

Elon Musk Endorses Nazi-Linked German Party, Even Though It Opposed Tesla’s Gigafactory - Germany First In an incredible mask-off moment, Elon Musk has endorsed Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD, per its German initials) — even ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

25th Anniversary of "Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Friends,* *Before the end of 2024, I want to highlight that this year marks the 25th anniversary of my award-winning book, Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-M...
slacktivist

LBCF: Tin men - Sometimes it can be accidentally entertaining in a Plan 9 From Outer Space way, but usually, like most Bad Writing, it's just boring.
Rio Grande Guardian

Valley Partnership seeks sponsors for 24th Legislative Tour - The tour takes place Jan. 23-26, 2025, with state lawmakers and their staff visiting Hidalgo and Starr counties. The post Valley Partnership seeks spons...
See You In 2020

The effort to memory-hole Zionism’s crimes, & how the pro-Palestine movement can overcome this - Above: the Israeli Offense Force dropping its “earthquake bomb” on the Syrian coast as part of its ongoing invasion of the country Expand the genocide, ...
The Daily Poster

2024 Year-End Live Event Replay - The year behind; the year ahead.
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: The darkest evening of the year... - *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2024* *Arrival of the solstice:* Tonight is a special night, NPR reports: *Saturday is the winter solstice. Make the most of the sh...
Mother Jones

Elon Musk Applauds the German Neo-Nazi Party - Elon Musk appears to be leaning even further into a full neo-Nazi embrace. Following his social media assault to block a congressional spending bill meant ...
Claytoonz

Unelected Bureaucrat In The Box - 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...
Progressive.org

We Can Fight Chronic Disease with Universal Care - It’s time for the United States to join other high-income nations in providing comprehensive health coverage to all its citizens.
Texas Standard

San Benito’s conjunto museum traces the genre’s past as a new generation takes root - A family carries on the task of maintaining the space, where historical icons and the living legends of today mingle.
American Prospect

An Odor of Musk - Today on TAP: Can the Trump-Musk bromance possibly end well?
Capital & Main

Waffle House Workers Say Owners Pocket Millions Through Wage Theft - Servers say the chain forces them to do janitorial work, dishwashing for lower tipped wages and robs them of up to $46.8 million. The post Waffle House W...
Texas Monthly

Liz Lambert’s Six Essential Christmas Gifts - Respected nationwide for her trendsetting sensibilities, the renowned Austin hotelier only buys presents she would use herself.
Bracing Views

“Invest” in New Nuclear Weapons? No Thanks - It’s always the right time to stop building more weapons of mass destruction William Astore and Matthew Hoh [Note to readers: Back in early September, Con...
Second Nexus

'Wheel Of Fortune' Contestant Roasted By Viewers For His Christmas-Themed Puzzle Fail - *Wheel of Fortune* is one of those game shows that is so beloved specifically because it gets you thinking just enough to be fun, while it maintains a fu...
Mondoweiss

Are the Gaza ceasefire rumors finally real this time? - [image: Palestinian inspect buildings that sustained damage after an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on December 13, 2024. (...
Sludge

Top Pharma Cash Recipient Takes Key Industry Oversight Job - The pharmaceutical industry has a chance to call the shots as it works to undermine drug pricing negotiations with its favorite, Kentucky Republican Brett ...
Discourse

'Scrooged' Is the Perfect Documentary For Our Time - This isn’t a story about redemption, it’s an account of exactly how impossible it is to get people with money and power to act like human beings.
Reform Austin

Debt Ceiling Drama: Trump Slams GOP’s Chip Roy As Shutdown Looms - President-elect Donald Trump has taken aim at Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), urging Republicans in Texas to mount a primary challenge against the congressman. ...
ProPublica

Billy Long, Trump’s Nominee to Lead the IRS, Touts a Credential That Tax Experts Say Is Dubious - by Jeremy Kohler and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon...
El Paso Matters

Expansion of Rojas Drive in East El Paso completed after delays - The contract for the project was originally awarded to J.A.R. Construction, the company tied to the long-delayed Pellicano Drive expansion. The post Exp...
Church and State

With Trump and Musk, the Oligarchs Are Inside the House - The lines between corporate power, billionaire interests, government authority and foreign influence have not just blurred - they’re vanishing.
Undernews

JOE BIDEN - *Daily Mail, UK - *The Biden administration canceled an additional $4.28 billion in student loan debt as the end of the term ends in just one month.The l...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 43: “Trump vs. Fiscal Hawks” - Trump 2.0 is still a month away and he’s causing chaos in Washington. After negotiating a budget deal with the Democrats, DOGE master Elon Musk (either a...
Grist

Your gadgets are actually carbon sinks — for now - New research finds billions of tons of carbon get trapped in the "technosphere".
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 ...
Bonddad

Personal income and spending continue their positive trend in November, but looking late cycle-ish - -* by New Deal democrat* Adjusted for inflation, both personal income and spending came in positive once again in November. But under the hood, the ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, Dec. 20 - [image: The morning read for Friday, Dec. 20]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s th...
Debunking Christianity

The New Testament: Brought to You by Writers with Creative, Delusional Imaginations - *Champions of theology, not history and fact* I have this fantasy: that (1) suddenly all devout churchgoers will become obsessed with studying the Bibl...
Democracy Now!

"Do Not Obey in Advance": Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump - We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelecti...
Ian Welsh

Elon Musk Threatens Congress Successfully - [image: Elon Musk Threatens Congress Successfully] This is some amazing shit: Congress was about to vote on a bill called a “Continuing Resolution”, whic...
Texas Observer

Monopoly Tycoons in a Game of Jenga: The Censorship of Bodies, Protest, and Speech at UT-Austin - As a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin, each day feels like a precarious game of Jenga, with the iconic tower of our institution at con...
The Conversation

Climate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant - Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or abused – and...
Space City Weather

If you want to feel like it’s Christmas outside, soak up this weekend’s weather - In brief: Houston will experience three more days of cooler weather before a warmer pattern sets in, and likely will prevail for nearly all of the remainde...
Crooked Timber

On “Privilege” - A post I wrote last week sparked a lively debate, and one strand of that debate was whether it is appropriate to use the term “privilege” (“cis privilege” ...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: House On Fire - Time is running out to stop and reverse climate change, and the evidence is clear... The post Earth911 Inspiration: House On Fire appeared first on Earth...
The Smirking Chimp

The American Oligarchy Is Back, and It’s out of Control -
Skeptophilia

Eye of the storm - Ever heard of *Wolf-Rayet stars*? They deserve more notice than they get, as one of the most violently energetic phenomena in the universe. The fact that...
Off The Kuff

The coming push to require proof of citizenship to register to vote - This is a complete non-problem, but “solving” things that aren’t problems and in doing so creating real problems that then need to be solved is very on bra...
High Country News

Tribes sue after massive wind farm in Washington gets green light - The Yakama Nation contends that the project, which threatens ceremonial sites and wildlife habitat, is unlawful. The post Tribes sue after massive wind ...
Counterpunch

Poetry and Revolution: Audre Lorde’s Prayers to the World - Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem. I don’t remember the poem, but do remember h...
Antiwar.com

Israel, Not the ‘Liberators’ of Damascus, Will Decide Syria’s Fate - There has been a flurry of “What next for Syria?” articles in the wake of dictator Bashar al-Assad’s hurried exit from Syria and the takeover of much of ...
Brad Blog

Trump Gets Trumped in Our Musky End-of-Year Roundtable: 'BradCast' 12/19/2024 - Today, on our last new BradCast of 2024: It's beginning to look a lot like failure, everywhere you look in D.C. It's already getting pathetic before either...
The AltWorld

Will Hezbollah Rebound After Nasrallah and War? A Look to Its Origins - Seismic shifts accross the middle east over the last year, from the genocide in Gaza, to the […] The post Will Hezbollah Rebound After Nasrallah and War?...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

Cartoon: Echo Echo Echo, Fox Fox Fox - There’s a timelapse video of the making of this cartoon – which shows how I began by drawing an entirely different cartoon (which I was really struggling w...
Lowering the Bar

Now Go Away or He Will Taunt You a Second Time - Do not mess with him.
Krebs on Security

Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm - Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vu...
MintPress News

Staged Again? CNN’s Syrian Prisoner Story Adds to Its History of Fabrications - A fact-check exposes the latest in a series of misleading CNN reports, revealing how the netwrok's dramatic inaccuracies repeatedly align with US governm...
Bud Kennedy

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

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza - Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in th...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Authoritarianism as Clarity: Audio From A Collapsing State - Living in times like these shows us who we are and who the people around us are. Pay attention. Close attention.
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...
Duck of Minerva

The Classroom and the Magic Circle - I wrote a chapter for a newly published edited volume, Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors. The volume itse...
NORML

Manhattan Institute Poll: Adults Overwhelmingly Oppose Marijuana Criminalization - [image: Marijuana Poll][image: Marijuana Poll]"At a time when voters and politicians are largely divided, there is one issue that Americans largely agree...
Liberation News

Trump, tariffs and trade: ‘Protectionism’ won’t save workers - Trump’s tariff policy, from a worker’s perspective, is classic divide and conquer.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Tracking the Spread of Hateful Anti-Haitian Rhetoric - Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Reader discretion is advised.
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...
Ecosophia

The Nibelung’s Ring: Siegfried 1 - Before we go on with the third of the operas in Wagner’s vast tetralogy The Nibelung’s Ring, I’d like to take a moment to talk a little about my trolls. Ye...
Rewire

2024 Was a Crazy Ride—and We’re In For More of a Fight - What a year it’s been. The post 2024 Was a Crazy Ride—and We’re In For More of a Fight appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Dissident Voice

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

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

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

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press - What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironic...
The Progressive Wing

12/16-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - More December news starting with Biden’s DOJ letting McKinsey off with a slap on the wrist for its role in promoting OxyContin.
The Grayzone

Scandal deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene - Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, ...
Idavox

Alex Stokes Stands His Ground In Appeal Bid - In a few weeks we will learn if the New York State Supreme Court if... The post Alex Stokes Stands His Ground In Appeal Bid appeared first on Idavox.
nonsite.org

The Inauthenticity of our Class Discourse: or, Publishing Respects your Foodbank Usage - The issue, therefore, is not that we need to stop representation from benefiting elite minorities—that’s just representation in its most indefensible form—...
Democracy Chronicles

Playing the Ref at Nextdoor - Experience has taught me that the editors at Democracy Chronicles probably won't call this article an example of disrespect or public shaming.
Progressives Chat

Bonnie Raitt: Just In ‘Time’ - Singer and songwriter *Bonnie Raitt* turned 75 on November 8, 2024. Raitt is one of the honorees at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. CBS will broadcas...
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 Militant

Fall of Assad shakes Mideast, US-led imperialist world order - The overthrow of the 50-year bloody dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and his father is a consequence of the world-shaking impact of the resistance to Hamas’...
The NM Political Report

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

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

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

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

City and KLB invite community to Celebrate Keep Laredo Beautiful Day - Tree planting begins at 8 a.m.
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...
Land Destroyer

Washington’s War in Ukraine: Narrowing Options, Growing Consequences - *November 21, 2024 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russia’s use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in eastern Ukraine represents an unprecedent...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

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

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

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

North Carolina Town Sues Duke Energy for Climate ‘Deception’ - This article by Floodlight is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. A small town in North Carolina has take...
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...
Field Negro

Transition train wreck. - The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this ...
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, ...
Campaign for America's Future

¡Si, ganamos! - En victorias desde la Carolinia del Norte hacia el Estado de Washington y Maine, encontramos la evidencia que cuando nos organizamos, ganamos. Siempre encu...
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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