Brains and Eggs

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Sunday Funnies (early edition)

Thursday, September 27, 2007

965 and $123,520

That's as of a few minutes ago.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed, on behalf of Rick Noriega as well as all of us in the Tex-blogosphere who took on this challenge. You exceeded our expectations.

Now let's bring our troops home:

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

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

The Week

The problems with the current social care system - The question of how to pay for adult social care is perhaps the greatest unresolved policy issue of our time
Al Jazeera English

TikTok goes dark for US users ahead of Trump’s inauguration - The ban follows months of legal battles and heightened scrutiny over the popular app's Chinese ownership.
The Verge

Apple says it’s following the law by removing TikTok from the App Store - [image: Illustration of the App Store logo in front of a background of gavels.] Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge With TikTok, CapCut, and Marvel Snap shu...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

From GDP to trade, how well equipped is China’s economy for Trump 2.0? | Amy Hawkins - Beijing has prepared for increased tariffs but its actions will not be enough to offset falling demand from the US When Donald Trump enters the White Hou...
Mediagazer

The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be (Nitish Pahwa/Slate) - Nitish Pahwa / Slate: *The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspec...
Counterpunch

As the U.S. Looks Back to the 17th Century, Mexico Moves Forward into the 21st - Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds of mi...
Alternet

David Lynch exposed the rot at the heart of American culture - “There’s a sort of evil out there,” says Sheriff Truman in an episode of David Lynch’s iconic TV series, “Twin Peaks.” That line gets to the heart of the...
Wolf Street

The Big Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Houses or Condos from their Peaks: From -9% to -21% - Austin, Oakland, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York City, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Tampa.
jobsanger

Uncertainty Abounds -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1316: Parachutes - Episode: 1316 Parachutes: for fun or for survival? Today, let’s fall safely out of the sky.
First Draft

Steve Winwood North Sea Jazz Festival Live - Winwood rocks Rotterdam.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

January 19, 2025 - 0600 UTC -
Raw Story

The first victims of Trump's hit list - *It may seem counter-intuitive, given that most people think of dictators as bad guys themselves, but the simple reality is that without proclaiming enem...
memeorandum

As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnell (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times) - Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times: *As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnell* — There are an estimated 300,000 polio...
Informed Comment

UK Parliamentary Committee to British Gov’t: Recognize Palestinian State for Sustainable Peace - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The British Parliament has the longest history of any parliament, since it was the first, so it has had time to make a lot o...
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Features Donald Trump Talking About TikTok Ban, And A Reminder That Media Can’t Resist His Craziest Rhetoric - The Saturday Night Live cold open saw James Austin Johnson returning as Donald Trump, two days before the inauguration, this time talking about the TikTok ...
Daily Dot

‘Most vets will sell you expensive, medicated shampoos’: Vet says pet shampoos are a ‘scam’ solution. He says do this instead for your dog - [image: Man talking with text "the vet industry is a total scam"(l), Dog getting shampooed(r)] A checkup for a dog can range from $50 to $250. However, t...
WhoWhatWhy

TikTok Creates a Scenario that Allows Trump to Be the Hero - [image: TikTok] In the end, things are working out great for ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, and Donald Trump, who threatened to ban the app when h...
The Root

Cam Newton Gets Surprisingly Candid About Parenting With His Post-NFL Finances - Cam Newton was once one of the most popular and exciting players in the NFL. His exploits on the field were so incredible that many called him “Superman....
OpEd News

The Rise and Influence of American Oligarch - Donald Trump's Administration now includes at least 13 billionaires
Axios

TikTok goes dark and disappears from app stores - TIkTok's 170 million users started receiving a "services temporarily unavailable" notice late Saturday night and the app was no longer available in Googl...
Mediaite

TikTok Goes Dark In US As App Tells Users Trump Is Their Only Hope - TikTok ceased working in the US at 10:29 p.m. ET Saturday night, 91 minutes before a bipartisan law banning the app was slated to go into effect. The pla...
The Hill

TikTok no longer accessible in US - TikTok blocked access to American users late Saturday night, just hours before a law banning the popular video-sharing platform was set to go into effect. ...
Political Wire

TikTok Starts Going Dark in the U.S. - “Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect, the social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer ac...
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Rock on.
ArcaMax

Welcome to the Grifters Ball - Legalized bribery is still bribery -- and there is no other way to describe the celebration that marks the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump...
The Greanville Post

Why Trump forced Israel to accept Gaza ceasefire, with Ali Abunimah - ELECTRONIC INTIFADA—The prime minister of Qatar announced late Wednesday that a phased deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas to end more than 460 ...
Ballot Access News

Cornel West North Carolina Ballot Access is Still Alive - In August 2024, a U.S. District Court issued an injunction, requiring North Carolina to put Cornel West and his party on the ballot. Ortiz v North Carolina...
Portside

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat - Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat Dave Sat, 01/18/2025 - 19:17
Popular Resistance

Over 80 US Cities To Hold Protests On Trump’s Inauguration Day - Conveners of the demonstrations have spoken to the variety of Trump’s promised attacks on working people. “Trump is planning to wage war on immigrant fam...
Dissident Voice

Can the Internet Wage Peace? Amidst a Push for War, Chinese and American Citizens Connect Online - With the Tiktok ban just days away, American youth have started flooding the Chinese social media app RedNote, pushing it into #1 position on the app sto...
The Grayzone

‘Why Aren’t You in The Hague?’: Sam Husseini and Max Blumenthal confront Tony Blinken - The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal confronted Blinken, asking why he continued to “keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May” and whether he was “compr...
Election Law Blog

“Minnesota Supreme Court voids House Jan. 28 special election, rules Gov. Walz called it too soon” - CBS News: he Minnesota Supreme Court on Friday canceled the special election for a metro House race later this month, finding Gov. Tim Walz set the date ...
Space City Weather

Saturday afternoon update: Snow, sleet, and freezing rain still in the mix. And will the power hold? - In brief: It is the final hours before the Arctic freeze sets in, and we’ve got the latest information on what to expect in terms of cold and wintry precip...
Undernews

WEATHER - *Accuweather - *The relentless and bitterly cold air is on track to return in earnest across a wide swath of the nation this week. Residents from the no...
The Progressive Wing

January 18-23 News Roundup and Open Thread -
Mother Jones

Trump’s Latest, and Most Questionable, Crypto Launch, Explained - On Friday night, just days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump took to X to celebrate…the launch of his new meme coin. “It’s time to cele...
Claytoonz

Trump Dogg - 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...
Salon.com

Los Angeles wildfires delay resentencing hearing for Menendez brothers - Erik and Lyle Menendez were initially slated for a resentencing hearing on Jan. 30
Futurism

FDA Working to Remove the Stuff in Cigarettes That Feels Good - Smoking cigarettes is extremely deadly. Each year, it kills 480,000 Americans. But it makes you feel good near-instantly, washing you over with a calming...
Daily Cartoonist

Mike Luckovich and Trump 2.0 - Mike Luckovich hasn’t felt the need to pull any punches during his three decades of drawing political cartoons for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But th...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came - America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
Slate

I’ve Survived War in Gaza for 15 Months. I Know What I’m Looking Forward to Now. - This moment is overwhelming—and it’s not what I expected.
NPR's Health Shots

U.S. pays $590 million to Moderna to speed up development of bird flu vaccine - The public health risk remains low, but bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top priority for the federal governm...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s homeless response workers brace for winter freeze - [image: Someone sleeps on the steps of Grace Lutheran Church. This church opens it’s doors daily for harm reduction resources, hot meals, day shelter and o...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: January 12th – 18th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, an excellent piece in the New York Times looked how years of copyright maximalism were killing pop music. AG William Barr...
Angry Bear

U.S. Colleges Face an Enrollment Drop - This is not a recent issue. It is one that has been on the horizon and actually arrived a few years back. A greater impact is starting to be felt now. In...
ProPublica

North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted. - by Doug Bock Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing...
The AltWorld

Trump became Arabs’ “idol” overnight.. Did his threats and pledges prompt Netanyahu’s Gaza ceasefire? - Donald Trump, the new American president, abruptly changed from the “evil” man who wants to “fatten” the […] The post Trump became Arabs’ “idol” overnigh...
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...
CultureMap Houston

Bagel Bob's new home tops Houston's 5 most popular stories of the week - Editor's note: It's time to look back at the hottest Houston news of the week. This week is full of exciting restaurant news, from a new home for "Bagel B...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Valley 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...
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...
Crooked Media

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

Jimmy Carter passes away: Imperialism loses respected spokesman - Carter’s legacy is perhaps best defined by his inability, as either President, or post-Presidency, to arrest the rightward political drift of the US Empire...
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...
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...
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

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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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 ...

Show All