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

Eschaton

Our Great Journalistic Institutions - Always funny to remember that brief period when journalists were absolutely obsessed with possible conflicts of interests for bloggers (along with trying t...
Mediaite

Trump Rakes In $25 BILLION Overnight Launching Meme Coin Just Two Days Before Taking Office - Trump cashed in big overnight when the value of the meme increased in value by 600 percent with coins trading at $32 a piece by Saturday morning. The post...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

With DEI on Texas Legislature's agenda, here's what's proposed for higher education, by Lily Kepner, Jan. 13,2025 - *Dear Fellow Texans, I urge you to give Lily Kepner’s piece your close attention, as the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the...
Political Wire

Musk and MAGA Make For An Uncomfortable Fit - Wall Street Journal: “Elon Musk, a close ally to President-elect Donald Trump, has taken broadsides from MAGA movement leader Steve Bannon on two continent...
Al Jazeera English

Liverpool leave it late as Nunez brace downs Brentford - Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez scores twice in injury time at Brentford as Reds' extend lead at top to seven points.
memeorandum

Trump says he will 'most likely' give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban (NBC News) - NBC News: *Trump says he will ‘most likely’ give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban* — Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive ph...
The Verge

EV startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy - [image: With the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background, the three specially designed, fully electric, environmentally friendly crew transportation v...
Axios

These are 2025's best-performing cities - Data: Milken Institute; Table: Jacque Schrag/Axios. *Editor's note: This chart has been corrected to reflect that the rankings include metro areas with at ...
Raw Story

'Half the country still dislikes him': Trump warned he could 'find himself in trouble' - Donald Trump is being warned he needs to tap the brakes on some of his most prominent initiatives lest he find himself alienating voters who gave him the...
Mediagazer

Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on Sunday (Wes Davis/The Verge) - Wes Davis / The Verge: *Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on...
Salon.com

Nixon paved the way for Trump’s "new standard" of inaugural fundraising - Both share the same brazen approach to financing the presidency, experts say
Futurism

Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve - Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant. As the Financial Times reports, the tech giant still has to...
San Antonio Report

State employees suspected of stealing from low-income Texans’ public assistance accounts - Seven human services employees were fired after a string of fraud and theft — and the largest data breach in agency history. ------------------------------ ...
The Hill

Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons: Here’s what to know about potential clemencies - President-elect Trump is expected to make good on his promises to pardon at least some Jan. 6 rioters on Monday once he assumes the presidency and kicks of...
Mother Jones

“The Most Horrific Experience of Our Lives”: Grappling with Fallujah 20 Years On - It’s been two decades since the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the global war on terror, during the Iraq War—a disaster we now know was based ...
Idavox

Terrorgram Collective Designation as Terrorist Group - This crew that was about promoting infrastructure attacks and violence. Yeah, a few of their... The post Terrorgram Collective Designation as Terrorist G...
Alternet

'Wake him up early and keep him up late': How Dems can 'nail Trump to the wall' in 2nd term - On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump will be officially sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, with a compliant Republican-controlled Co...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Stop Accepting Symbolic Victories: Audio From A Collapsing State - The wealth class has taken over by teaching us that symbolic victories and gestures that don't mean anything are all we can get.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Gaza ceasefire to begin Sunday morning as Israel continues strikes - The Israeli Cabinet approved the much-anticipated ceasefire agreement early Saturday
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office - Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreak During Donald Trump’s first ...
Slate

Every American Should Learn How to Help Out During a Disaster - When a town’s in trouble, neighbors will come out with kayaks, trucks, and hoses.
The Week

Today's political cartoons - January 18, 2025 - Saturday's cartoons - Bondi on the Bible, climate change, and more
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: We've been thinking about a certain "fair lady!" - *SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025* *One way we Blues have lost votes:* In the face of our failing nation's ongoing "American carnage," we've been thinking—and ...
Angry Bear

High Marginal Tax Rates - Markg asked a question which I had thought about in the past, had it answered by someone else, moved on to something different, and quickly forgot the an...
Daily Dot

‘Now the folks across the street can see you put $2 in’: Man demands answers after seeing the new gas pumps at Shell - [image: 3 panel image: on the left a person explaining, in the middle the Shell gas station logo, and on the right a gas pump touch screen.] A Shell cust...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Roda vs Cambuur lúc 02h00 ngày 21/01/2025 - Đến với giải Hạng Nhì Hà Lan, tại vòng 22, thi đấu với phong độ tốt, khi ra sân, Roda và cambuur sẽ đem đến cho người xem nhiều cung bậc cảm xúc. The pos...
Undernews

PAM BONDI - *Occupy Democrats - * While serving as Florida attorney general [Pam Bondi] was on the state clemency board where she abused her position and “used unfe...
The Root

It's Time for Dems to Finally ‘Go Low’ Against Mean MAGA Republicans. Here's How - On Friday evening, TikTok livestreamer and former CNN anchor Don Lemon brought up an idea that a lot of us are discussing among ourselves: That Dems need...
Mondoweiss

Biden could have delivered this ceasefire agreement last year - [image: President of the United States of America Joe Biden is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport ne...
Reform Austin

Texas Republicans Poised For Christian Nationalism Ahead Of New Session - Shortly before State Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) clinched the race for Speaker of the Texas House, a group of Republican lawmakers and Christian nati...
OpEd News

Getting something off my chest: Why we can't stop war-mongering and being control-freaks, reason #2 - (1969) I remember when brother Dave and I were walking down the hall of our high school together. It was the last day of school, (for me), a half day, and ...
The Daily Poster

The Big Court Rejects Big Oil’s Accountability Dodge - Climate killers head to trial, an oasis forms in an abortion desert, students score another payday, and the Golden State gets golden laws.
Progressive.org

Joe Biden’s Tragic Failure to Learn from the Past - The departing President, like Reagan, leaves a bloodstained foreign policy legacy.
Grist

Global economy could shrink 50% between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries - A report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for January 13 - 17 at Seeking Alpha (plus a bonus good CPI graph) - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big news this week was the continued surge in commodity prices, no...
Space City Weather

Winter storm still on track to arrive in Houston Monday night: Major transportation impacts likely - In brief: A front is pushing into the Houston metro area this morning, and it will begin a week-long period of much colder weather, with hard freezes likel...
NPR's Health Shots

5 years since its first COVID-19 case, how prepared is the U.S. for the next pandemic? - Five years after the start of the COVID crisis - is the U.S. more prepared to handle another pandemic?
Vox

What the Air Quality Index doesn’t tell us about the air - The Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have destroyed over 10,000 structures — homes, businesses, and everything inside from bathroom cleaner to elec...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Truth hurts. You should probably laugh. - I know the feeling, Miles. Today’s Crabgrass (AMS) is not an issue of being intelligent, but, rather, an issue of paying attention, being reasonably skepti...
ArcaMax

Most Former Felons Don't Get the Second Chance That Trump Is Getting - Does America value second chances? Looking at presidential election results, you'd think yes. Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying ...
naked capitalism

Links 1/18/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Not As Easy’: Trump Faces Significant Obstacles in Dismantling These Biden Policies -
Rio Grande Guardian

Data report: Latest sales tax revenue figures for the Upper RGV cities - A detailed look at sales tax revenue receipts for the municipalities in Hidalgo and Starr counties during the first 11 months of 2024. The post Data repo...
ProPublica

How Segregated Are Your Local Private Schools? We Made a Tool to Help You Find Out. - by Jennifer Berry Hawes ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrong...
Off The Kuff

HISD approves those previously unapproved expenses - Cleanup on Aisle 3! Houston ISD’s Board of Managers voted Thursday to retroactively approve up to $870 million in purchasing agreements after the state’s l...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 18 January 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Cats hide, with varying degrees of success. This penguin is bad at pengui...
Scheerpost.com

Journalist Sam Husseini Manhandled For Asking Blinken Questions - Jordanian-Palestinian Journalist Sam Husseini reacts to being physically assaulted for daring to ask Secretary of State Antony Blinken questions.
Crooked Media

DEI Didn’t Start The Fire - The post DEI Didn’t Start The Fire appeared first on Crooked Media.
jobsanger

Supreme Court Expands Government Power To Censor Free Speech -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1315: Algae Burgers - Episode: 1315 Chlorella: the day we decided not to eat algae burgers. Today, we try to create a new food.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Hold The Line - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Counterpunch

It’s All Mine, Now! - The post It’s All Mine, Now! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Informed Comment

Biden Reveals Netanyahu’s Determination to Turn Gaza into Hiroshima, and his own Complicity - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden’s interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell demonstrates that the project of right-wing Zionism, led by ...
World Socialist Web Site

Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism! - The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war a...
Ian Welsh

The Tik-Tok Ban Is Hypocritical Nonsense - [image: The Tik-Tok Ban Is Hypocritical Nonsense] The justification for the TikTok ban is that it supposedly collects a ton of data. TikTok’s data collec...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | January 17, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | January 17, 2025 barry Fri, 01/17/2025 - 23:05
Techdirt.

Justin Baldoni Sues Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds, Streisanding All Of This Into A Mega-Story - I suppose this was probably inevitable, but boy do I wonder if it’s smart. We were just talking about the celebrity drama du jour between Blake Lively, Rya...
Deadline Politics

“Bullsh*t!” Rick Caruso Says To Bill Maher Of Potential Federal Conditions On L.A. Wildfire Aid; Ex-Mayoral Candidate Teases Another Run - “We have political leaders who don’t prioritize the safety and livability of our cities,” said Rick Caruso without saying L.A. Mayor Karen Bass’ name of th...
Consortium News

Starmer’s Support for Gaza Ceasefire Riddled With Lies - Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. How is a “sovereign and viable Palestinian state,” or a “better future,” go...
Popular Resistance

All Wars End In Negotiations; So Will The War In Ukraine - Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet. He, like other secretary generals of NATO, is ...
The AltWorld

You Are Not Powerless, Because You Don’t Stand Alone - You are not powerless to change things. You are MOSTLY powerless, but you are not powerless. This […] The post You Are Not Powerless, Because You Don’t S...
Workers World

Cypriots protest visit from Israeli president - [image: Cypriots protest visit from Israeli president] People rallied at Cyprus Central Airport Jan. 11 to express outrage at the visit from Israeli Presid...
The Greanville Post

The U.S. Establishment’s Intense Commitment to Exterminating Palestinians - ERIC ZUESSE±That 58-minute video starts out with an excellent four-minute introduction by Hedges, and then proceeds to his interviewing each of these two y...
El Paso Matters

Animal rescuer drops plans for Bob the Goat memorial in El Paso after backlash - Texas Parks and Wildlife gave the skull and horns of Bob the Goat to an El Paso animal rescue advocate. The post Animal rescuer drops plans for Bob the ...
Wolf Street

Bring on the Supply: Single-Family Construction Starts in 2024 Rose to 2nd Highest in 17 Years amid Budding Glut. Multifamily Starts Plunge from Boom amid Oversupply & CRE Depression - But small multifamily buildings with 2-4 units dodge to CRE depression.
Rallblog

Sympathy for Our Devils - One of my editorial cartoonist colleagues got arrested for child pornography (or CSAM, for “child sexual abuse material” as it is also called)...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Will Decide Case On Validity of Postal Ballots with Missing or Incorrect Dates - On January 17, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to hear Baxter v Philadelphia Board of Elections, 395 EAL 2024. This is the case over the validity of ...
See You In 2020

The Trump team wants to put maximum pressure on Russia, & the Gaza “peace” deal is about making this doable - There is a wing of the U.S. foreign policy establishment that believes Russia can be brought back into the U.S. sphere of influence, and since the elect...
CultureMap Houston

Significant snowfall and hard freeze predicted for Houston - The Bayou City is no stranger to chilly temperatures, but actual snowfall is pretty rare. Still, that is exactly what's on tap for the evening of Monday, ...
Election Law Blog

Pennsylvania Supreme Court to (Finally) Decide Constitutionality of Rule Barring the Counting of Undated or Misdated but Timely Mail-In Ballots - The PA Supreme Court repeatedly refused to consider this issue during the runup to the 2024 elections (which was probably wise, given the uncertainty tha...
Texas Standard

Texas sues Allstate, alleging insurance company illegally collects driver’s data - Attorney General Ken Paxton is filing the lawsuit under the state’s new Data Privacy and Security Act.
The Militant

Why Trump wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal - President-elect Donald Trump has announced he intends to pursue gaining control over Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal, to advance the interests of th...
The Conversation

Texas is already policing the Mexican border − and will play an outsize role in any Trump plan to crack down on immigration - Enforcing immigration law at the border is the federal government’s role. But in Texas, that job has increasingly been taken on by the state. That shift ma...
SCOTUSblog

Justices take up Maryland parents’ challenge to LGBTQ books in schools - [image: Justices take up Maryland parents’ challenge to LGBTQ books in schools]The Supreme Court will decide whether a group of Maryland parents can opt ...
The NM Political Report

Public access victory for state - By Susan Morée New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced a victory for public access on Thursday when a federal district court judge dismissed a...
Claytoonz

Trolling Liar - 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...
Capital & Main

‘We’ve Never Seen This in American History Before’ - Historian Sean Wilentz warns Trump’s second term could mark an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of a reactionary movement. The post ‘We’...
Earthworks

Ted Cruz Wrongly Accuses Biden Administration of ‘Slow Walking’ LNG Project Application Review - At this week’s Transportation Secretary hearing, Senator Ted Cruz accused the Biden Administration of “thoughtlessly and needlessly” forcing the Delfin …...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Equal Rights for All, 1,458 Days Late - On our live show, David and Ryan talk about the uneven end to the Biden era and the ominous Trump presidency looming in the distance.
WhoWhatWhy

IMF: Trump Inherits Robust Economy but Could Mess It Up With Disruptive Policies - [image: Economy, Capitol Hill, Dollar, Bill] The US economy is in good shape and outpacing its peers, the IMF said Friday, but it faces some threats from t...
Common Dreams

With Gaza Ceasefire Near, Sanders Statement on What U.S. Must Learn from Its Role in the Horrific Tragedy - * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement ahead of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which is poised to begin ...
Discourse

No Hell Is Hot Enough for Joe Biden - I hope he’s faced with the horror he’s wrought when judgment comes to meet him.
Second Nexus

Greenland's Leader Shuts Down Trump's Plan To Purchase Greenland In Blunt Fox Interview - Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede shut down President-elect Donald Trump's stated goal of purchasing the island territory, telling Fox News' Brett Ba...
LareDOS

Martin Luther King and Immigrants - We celebrate his continuous version of hope with the ugly realism of today
Eater Houston

After Four Decades, a Houston Mainstay Is Now Closed — Plus 7 Other Restaurant Closings to Know Right Now - [image: Backstreet Cafe’s outdoor patio area is surrounded by greenery.] Backstreet Cafe closed earlier this year and will be torn down. Its new location ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH FORWARD EDITION. - *Have we done this one before? Hell with it, it's nice.* Just a few words on David Lynch: Aside from the statements his films make, it may be his bigges...
Texas Monthly

H-E-B Has Finally Announced Its First Dallas Store. A Brief History of How We Got Here. - It’s been a long time coming, but Dallas residents can finally get in on the obsession.
Southeast Texas Record

5 new cases to know: Power-struggle in Houston, chaos at La Joya schools and more - A missing finger, a fascist school board and an abuse of power are among the allegations in five new lawsuits filed in Southeast Texas. Read more…
Sludge

Bondi Paid in Trump Media Shares for SPAC Merger Consulting, Pledges to Divest - The AG nominee was paid nearly $3 million in Trump Media & Technology Group for her consulting work.
Dissident Voice

Jewish Supremacy is a Bigger Problem than Antisemitism - Fifteen months into Israel’s holocaust some leftists continue to uphold Jewish supremacy. Many supposedly on the side of humanity continue to boost an id...
Political Garbage Chute

Wow! Biden Just Resigned and Kamala Pardoned Trump! - “It gives me great pleasure, Donald, to tell you that.” – President Kamala Harris It’s not the first time a former president has been pardoned by someone...
Debunking Christianity

It’s Not Hard to Figure Out What’s Wrong with Christianity - *Study, research, and critical thinking are the key* A long time ago I heard it said of someone, “He’s got a mind like concrete: all mixed up and firmly ...
Duck of Minerva

Grabbing the world by the norms - With the news avalanche that is Trump, it’s hard to keep track of all the outrageous things he says and does. With his recent very vocal attempts at land g...
NORML

Biden Administration Announces Commutations for Nearly 2,500 Non-Violent Drug Offenders - [image: Joe Biden and Marijuana][image: Joe Biden and Marijuana]"This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing ...
Texas Observer

Is Mexico Prepared for Mass Deportations? - Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs will operate in 2025 with 700 million fewer pesos than in 2024, a budget cut that will affect consular services for ...
Church and State

Biden’s Presidency Will Surely Gain Growing Appreciation Over Time! - Let us hope that our justifiable fear of what Trump will do to this country over the next four years does not come to fruition!
Democracy Now!

Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, "Don't Let Him Die in Prison" - After commuting the sentences of over 2,500 people imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses, Joe Biden has set a record for most pardons and commutations by...
DeSmogBlog

Cifra récord de empresarios en la Cumbre de Biodiversidad de la ONU - De acuerdo con DeSmog, los representantes de grupos industriales y empresariales han duplicado su presencia en la última cumbre de la ONU sobre biodiver...
High Country News

EPA takes unprecedented step to remove uranium waste from the Navajo Nation - The decision opens the door for new ways to manage uranium pollution on tribal land. The post EPA takes unprecedented step to remove uranium waste from ...
Earth 911

How Commercial Composting Works - Humans create a lot of waste, but when you throw something away, how much do... The post How Commercial Composting Works appeared first on Earth911.
Antiwar.com

Tulsi Gabbard: A Switch in Time? - When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. Sh...
Brad Blog

Fires, Liars and Oligarchs Rising as Biden Takes Final Bow, Issues Warning: 'BradCast' 1/16/2025 - This is our final BradCast of the Biden Era. We've got a lot of mixed emotions on today's program, as you'll discover when you tune in. [Audio link to full...
Crooked Timber

Should economists know their own history - There’s been a recent fuss in various media arising from a tweet from economist Ben Golub regarding astonishment that economists haven’t “worked through” S...
Bud Kennedy

From 1997, Benbrook: When school district separatists were thinking small. Or not at all | Opinion - (Published March 6, 1997.) Benbrook’s children learn in some of Texas’ finest big-city schools. The problem is, some townfolk no longer want fine big-city ...
slacktivist

Trap streets, mountweazels, and made-up words - Wherein I learn about a made-up word that became a real word for made-up words and we all get to see some books that don't exist.
Liberation News

The White House wants to reshape the Middle East. The Palestinian people have reshaped the world. - The ceasefire marks one achievement in the long, international struggle against the grip of US imperial domination; the task now is to continue marching fo...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2025 - Censored Press News As we at Project Censored turned our calendars from 2024 to 2025 and hurtled into the new year, State of the Free Press 2025 has been...
Krebs on Security

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS - Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients...
MintPress News

The Resistance Is Not Dead, With Ghadi Francis - The journalist and author returns to MintCast to assess Syria’s new pro-Western leadership, Türkiye’s regional ambitions, and the enduring resistance mov...
The Texas Signal

‘Drill baby, drill’? Not So Fast - Simple economics may complicate Trump’s plans to expand fracking and other oil and gas production.
Rewire

EXCLUSIVE: National Network of Abortion Funds Removes Executive Director - The tenure of Oriaku Njoku, who led abortion fund network through the first chaotic post-*Dobbs* years, will end February 6. The post EXCLUSIVE: National...
Bracing Views

America’s Merchants of Death Are Making a Killing - W.J. Astore The U.S. Version of “War & Peace” Is Simply “War” Yesterday, the Merchants of Death Tribunal concluded with a verdict of “guilty” for all those...
Unlimited Hangout

The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker - While often mythologized as having been created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its most popular companies were directly birthed out ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

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

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

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

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

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

What does it mean that AI is “remixing existing work”? - Marcus reminded me of the common claim: “AI is just remixing existing works”. Or the more colorful version, “AI just regurgitates existing art”. This is in...
The Grayzone

Skripal poisoning victim disputed UK narrative, official inquiry reveals - An official inquiry into a notorious 2018 Novichok poisoning case has found the victim briefly emerged from a coma, revealing information which wholly un...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles Fires: "Apocalyptic Destruction" - Los Angeles continues to burn. (WSJ, free link). I hope the insurance companies have enough money to pay all the homeowner and commercial claims. The dam...
The Progressive Wing

January 10th thru 17th Open Thread - Hello my friends, Well it seems it will be official on Jan 20 America actually will put a Felon in office, Even the corrupt USSC shot him down with a 5-4 v...
Media Lens

Manufacturing Consent For Regime Change In Syria - Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years – week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity o...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

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

Walmart Crime Report December 2024 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in December 2024, with three of them fatal and one of those killing two people, for a total of four dead from sho...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Juntos lo haremos - En el año que viene, tendremos que tomar decisiones difíciles sobre quienes queremos ser en cada comunidad y como nación. Ha sido un año muy intenso. Desde...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
Seeing the Forest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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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