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

Infidel753

Link round-up for 11 January 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o People show off their skill at doing things. This jump was a very bad ide...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

California fires live: progress made against some LA blazes but thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’ - Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for Monday - Full report: 1...
Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiffs Allege Restaurant Negligence After Severe Food Poisoning Incident - Two women have filed a lawsuit against a Houston restaurant after suffering severe food poisoning allegedly caused by contaminated meals served on its pr...
The Week

Pistachio and cardamom cake recipe - Perfect for afternoon tea, this cake is moist and flavoursome
memeorandum

Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan's face (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge) - Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: *Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan's face* … I'll spare you the experience of listening to one of...
ArcaMax

Fire! - What was Donald Trump's reaction to the deadly and devastating wildfires literally burning down a county that didn't vote for him? This is what he wrote on...
Al Jazeera English

Dozens killed in Myanmar military air attack in Rakhine State, UN says - Attack on village of Kyauk Ni Maw, in Ramree island township, kills more than 40 people and destroys about 500 homes.
Daily Dot

‘Count your days’: Woman’s boyfriend buys Oura ring. Then she notices something suspicious - [image: 3-panel image, on the left a screen shot of a person wearing a smart ring, in the middle a smart ring, and on the right a person looking suspicio...
Wolf Street

Treasury Yield Curve Steepens, as Long-Term Yields Coddle Up to 5% while Short-Term Yields Stay Put, Not Seeing Any Rate Cuts. Mortgage Rates Rise to 7.24% - 30-year Treasury bonds sold at auction on Friday at highest yield in at least 16 years despite Fed's 100 basis points in rate cuts.
World Socialist Web Site

The Los Angeles fires: What must be done - The Socialist Equality Party insists that one principle—human need—must in all circumstances take precedence over the wealth and profits of the super-rich.
jobsanger

The U.S. Needs The Immigrants It Has - And More! -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1311: The Cistercians - Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let’s talk about monks and waterwheels.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Silver Spoon - "Where are the bodies for dinner?"
Polygraph (global fact-check)

January 11, 2024 - 0600 UTC -
The Root

Inside Nick Cannon’s Kid-Friendly Mansion, Rappers' Shocking Weight Loss Transformations, Charlamagne Tha God Shares Stunning Wendy Williams Update, Black Celebs Who Are Still Alive And Kicking And More - Fatherhood is extremely important to actor and TV show host Nick Cannon. So, when it came time for him to give the world a sneak peak into his mansion, t...
Informed Comment

Palestinian Deaths from Military attacks in Gaza 69% Higher than Estimated, 60% Women, Children, Elderly - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Yale has published a study in The Lancet fin...
WhoWhatWhy

Biden’s Jobs Record Sets a High Bar for Trump - [image: Donald Trump, AmericaFest, Microphone] Donald Trump will once again benefit from inheriting a fairly robust economy. Now the question is what he is...
Raw Story

'Fox in the hen house': Journalist sounds the alarm on Trump’s 'under-the-radar' IRS pick - President-elect Donald Trump’s selection to lead the Internal Revenue Service is the cabinet pick that is so far flying undetected as he coasts toward hi...
The Hill

Which other countries should be on Trump’s shopping list? - Trump and his eye for successful business deals are now trained on countries instead of buildings and hotels. When he looks at certain troubled countries, ...
Workers World

Ukraine: Trump seeks profits, not ‘peace’/WW commentary - [image: Ukraine: Trump seeks profits, not ‘peace’/WW commentary] Before the U.S. elections, incoming President Donald Trump claimed he wanted to see an end...
Angry Bear

A First World Problem - An archetypal first word problem is that we sites have (all?) decided to add two factor authentification (as the earlier first world problem of requiring...
Political Wire

Pete Hegseth’s FBI Background Check Given to Senators - “An FBI background check for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was transmitted late Friday to the leadin...
Mediaite

Fox’s Jesse Watters Calls for ‘Full Federal Takeover’ of Los Angeles, Complete With ‘Martial Law’ - Fox News host Jesse Watters blasted California Democrats for their handling of this week’s wildfires and said “martial law” might have to be declared in ...
Techdirt.

Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas - Early last year, streaming company Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery after the three companies decided to ...
Alternet

'Joke appointment': Experts alarmed over this Trump pick who has 'flown under the radar' - One of President-elect Donald Trump's appointments has so far escaped the level of intense scrutiny applied to some of his more controversial high-profil...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: January 2025 - This month, I wrote a history of color symbology in ace and aro flags. Atheist group faces backlash after publishing, then removing, anti-trans article | F...
Idavox

The Woman Missouri Who Burned Down a Bar, Other Businesses, In Puerto Rico Is Still a Free Woman - Bad enough media outlets aren’t exactly jumping on this story and the we all have... The post The Woman Missouri Who Burned Down a Bar, Other Businesses,...
The Greanville Post

Luigi Mangione Case DELAYED, Doctor WARNS United Healthcare is “Out of Control” - JORDAN CHARITON—Jordan Chariton is LIVE with Peter Hager as they discuss the news of United Health shareholders now coming out to demand a review of the cl...
The Verge

Intel still dreams of modular PCs — it brought a tablet laptop gaming handheld to CES - [image: A handheld gaming controls set in a metal bar that spans a tablet screen which is lifted to show connectors on the underside.] Photo by Sean Holli...
Eschaton

Friday Night - Rock on.
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | January 10, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | January 10, 2025 barry Fri, 01/10/2025 - 21:20
Mediagazer

Disney commits $15M to various relief efforts following the fires in Los Angeles, and Paramount Global says it will donate $1M to relief organizations (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter) - Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: *Disney commits $15M to various relief efforts following the fires in Los Angeles, and Paramount Global says it wil...
SCOTUSblog

Court adds three new cases - [image: Court adds three new cases]The Supreme Court on Friday evening added three new cases to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The cases, which involve...
Salon.com

"I didn't do anything wrong": Biden says he has "no contemplation" of pardoning himself - Biden seemed bewildered by a reporter's ask on Friday
Deadline Politics

“Shameful”: Joe Biden Slams Meta & Mark Zuckerberg For Dropping Fact Checking In What Could Be Outgoing POTUS’ Last Press Conference - The outgoing POTUS took to the bully pulpit Friday while the CEO of Meta went on Joe Rogan today with different takes on facts and the truth. “Telling the ...
The Daily Poster

The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation - Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.
Popular Resistance

Dr Victor Frankenstein Disavows His Monster - Very few humans have had the good fortune to descend into the depths of the world’s oceans. The deepest such place – 11 kilometres below sea level at its...
Axios

Tulsa Race Massacre: Barbaric but not prosecutable, DOJ finds - The Justice Department in a report released Friday concluded "no avenue for prosecution exists" for the crimes carried out during the 1921 Tulsa Race Mas...
Consortium News

The Limits of AI - Artificial Intelligence seems destined to change the world. But it needs to get its act together first or there may be hell to pay, writes one of two Joe L...
Election Law Blog

“In North Carolina, Republicans Try to Reverse a Supreme Court Election Loss” - NYT: Judge Griffin’s protest includes two arguments against counting a few thousand ballots cast by overseas voters that one Republican justice said thi...
CultureMap Houston

Cafe's closure provides a new home for Houston's beloved 'Bagel Bob' - Ben Berg is moving on from his most casual restaurant, but the imminent closure of NoPo Café, Market & Bar will pave the way for the growth of a beloved H...
High Country News

What do the deadly Los Angeles fires mean for the city’s wildlife? - [image: A family of deer gather around burned trees from the Palisades Fire at Will Rogers State Park on January 9, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborh...
Ballot Access News

Indiana Bill to Convert from an Open Primary State to a Closed Primary State - On January 8, three Indiana representatives introduced HB 1029, which would change Indiana primaries from open to closed. Indiana has always been an open p...
Slate

It’s One of the Year’s Best Movies. Why Is It Getting Shut Out of All of the Awards? - Secrets & Lies was nominated for five Oscars. Why is the team’s new movie getting blanked?
San Antonio Report

Colorful new art honoring MLK welcomes residents to the East Side - Designs chosen through an art competition offer a modern take on the 1997 artwork that honored Martin Luther King, Jr. ------------------------------ Colorf...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico regulators may change aspects of community solar program - By Hannah Grover The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission clarified how community solar bill credits are calculated this week following concerns expr...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS annual Heroes With Heart 5K walk/run - STHS promotes the importance of a heart-healthy lifestyle with its annual Heroes With Heart 5K walk/run. The post STHS annual Heroes With Heart 5K walk/r...
Futurism

While AI Causes Climate Change, Nvidia Scientist Proposes AI-Powered Firefighting Robots - While California burns, a scientist from the world's biggest artificial intelligence chipmaker is suggesting that AI could help fight the wildfires — eve...
Vox

What to know about TikTok’s fate in the US - TikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has...
Mother Jones

The Supreme Court May Let TikTok Go Dark - The Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments on the future of TikTok—whether to let the platform go dark on January 19 according to a bipartisan law pa...
NPR's Health Shots

L.A. FIRE SMOKE ISSUES - Air quality in Los Angeles has been poor, posing breathing challenges for people with certain health conditions.
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...
Texas Standard

Gov. Abbott floats idea of buying water from Houston, sending it to West Texas - Houston Mayor John Whitmire said the exchange could help fund fixes to the city’s water system.
Common Dreams

In Deciding TikTok's Fate, the U.S. Supreme Court Must Prioritize Users' First Amendment Rights - The Supreme Court on Friday heard arguments over the fate of TikTok, a popular online platform that half the people in the United States use. The case wa...
The Militant

Ongoing high prices eat away at the lives of working people - Despite claims by the outgoing Joseph Biden government and liberal big-business media that inflation is now at “acceptable” levels, working people continue...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: Comandante Elon comes down by half! - *FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025* *World's richest nutcase relents: *Just for the sake of preserving the record, here's the heart of the news report from CNN: ...
Reform Austin

Cornyn Advocates For Concealed Carry Rights With Nationwide Legislation - Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act on Thursday, aiming to standardize concealed carry law...
slacktivist

LBCF: The Antichrist Checklist - A few chapters in, the authors and their characters are bored with the Rapture. So now this isn't a Rapture story anymore. It's an Antichrist-rising story....
Claytoonz

First Felon - 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...
OpEd News

Some Further Reflections about Cory Chase and about Donald Trump (REVIEW ESSAY) - As far as I know, there is no connection between the exhibitionistic pornstar Cory Chase (born on February 25, 1981) and the misogynistic Donald Trump (bor...
Sludge

Secret DNC Member List Revealed in New Report - At least a half-dozen DNC members who will be voting on the next party chair work in corporate influence roles, a Sludge review of a newly-leaked list finds.
Discourse

Help the Survivors of the LA Fires - Two big lists of places you can give.
Progressive.org

How New Haven is Preparing to Defend Immigrants Against Trump’s Deportation Threats - Government officials, nonprofits, and activists in Connecticut are developing strategies to fight Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: California Burning - On our live show, David and Harold talk about their common experiences on the Westside of Los Angeles, epicenter of the terrible wildfires raging across So...
El Paso Matters

Sold! Boeing 727 long abandoned at El Paso airport sells for $10K at auction - Deemed “not airworthy,” the plane had been parked at the airport for nearly 20 years after the death of its owner. The post Sold! Boeing 727 long abando...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #166 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: other ways not to flee from police, some stuff about monkeys, and a few other time-wasters.
Mondoweiss

What will Trump’s Iran policy look like? - Michael Arria speaks with expert Sina Toossi about the influence neoconservatives will hold in the new Trump administration and what this could mean for po...
Eater Houston

The Most Iconic Restaurants in Houston - [image: Sizzling steak fajitas with tortillas and a side of sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.] With Houston being the U.S. birthplace of fajitas, ...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; New Covid data, Covid and mortality; LA Fires: misinformation; SEIU joins AFL-CIO ~
Second Nexus

Greenland Official Rips Don Jr.'s 'Staged' Visit, Says Trump Was Flipped Off By Locals - Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen, a member of Greenland's parliament, called out the "staged" nature of Donald Trump Jr.'s visit to the island territory, even rep...
Undernews

BUSINESS - *CBS News - *Macy's is closing 66 store locations that it has said are underperforming. The closures are part of the storied retailer's turnaround stra...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 54: “City of Angels or Hell on Earth?” - Like many Americans, TMI Show co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan have deep ties to Los Angeles. Manila grew up in metro LA and still considers herself a C...
Political Garbage Chute

White House Announces Felon Work-Release Program - “Convicted felons will also be allowed in the Oval Office…because the Constitution didn’t adequately protect us from fart-napping rapists being put back ...
The Mind Unleashed

Man sees deadly brain tumour shrink by half thanks to new treatment - Glioblastoma, an aggressive and often fatal form of brain cancer, has long posed a formidable challenge to doctors and patients alike. Yet, a groundbreakin...
Church and State

A population-related wish list for 2025 - In a staggering display of cognitive dissonance, political and economic leaders around the world still set growth as a primary objective.
The Progressive Wing

January 10 thru 12 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...
Capital & Main

How Climate Change Fueled Deadly Los Angeles Fires - A whipsaw swing from very wet to very dry weather exposed millions to flames, smoke and pollutants. The post How Climate Change Fueled Deadly Los Angeles...
The AltWorld

US takes charge in Lebanon - The installation of a new president is part of a wider scheme for the region The awarding […] The post US takes charge in Lebanon appeared first on TheAl...
The Texas Signal

When An Autopsy Doesn't Tell The Whole Story - Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure t...
NORML

Florida: Canine Alert Doesn’t Constitute Probable Cause for a Motor Vehicle Search, Appellate Court Rules - [image: police dog marijuana][image: police dog marijuana]"The incremental legalization of certain types of cannabis at both the federal and state level ...
Texas Monthly

How My Road Trip Debacle Led to an Impromptu BBQ Tour of Cincinnati - After I was stranded in Ohio when my car’s wheel popped off, my break from barbecue ended. I decided to lean into the Queen City’s smoked meat scene.
Bracing Views

The LA Fires Look Like a Nuclear Apocalypse - W.J. Astore Except a Nuclear Apocalypse Would Be Unimaginably Worse The wildfires in LA are horrific. People are losing everything. Thousands of structures...
Rewire

What Will Happen to Trans Health Care Under Trump? - Health-care providers and patients are bracing for restrictions likely to follow the anti-abortion playbook. The post What Will Happen to Trans Health Ca...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Augsburg vs Stuttgart lúc 23h30 ngày 12/01/2025 - Trở lại với giải VĐQG Đức, tại vòng 16, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Augsburg và Stuttgart được đánh giá...
Bonddad

December jobs report: ho ho ho, Santa brought a gift - but with a couple of lumps of coal mixed in - * - by New Deal democrat* My theme for the past several years as to employment has been “deceleration,” as in a gradual cooldown from white hot to r...
Daily Cartoonist

Editoonist Bob Castle Retires - In his 30-year career as an editorial cartoonist for the Comox Valley Record, Bob Castle has drawn them all: politicians from all levels of government, dis...
Debunking Christianity

A Traumatic, Dramatic Escape from Fundamentalism - *Constant reminders of the damage done by religion* “Please don’t ask me, expect me, to think about it.” Whenever a religion has succeeded in embedding t...
Space City Weather

After a widespread soaking in the Houston area, cool, calm weather takes hold - In brief: After a solid 1 to 4 inch rainstorm in the Houston and Galveston areas last night, we aim for calmer conditions today. Saturday should be a lovel...
Democracy Now!

Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Ravi Ragbir, Who Could Soon Be Deported - Immigrant rights activists are urging the Biden administration to pardon longtime activist Ravi Ragbir, who has been targeted by Immigration and Customs En...
Texas Observer

From Houston to Lebanon, Seeking Truth and Music - Filmmaker, journalist, podcast producer, record collector, and DJ Jackson Allers has lived an eclectic life. The native Houstonian has trotted the globe,...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Play A Long Game - Nature took about 14 billion years to produce humans, and we are still learning how... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Play A Long Game appeared first on ...
ProPublica

“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois - by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, and Julia Rendleman for ProPublica, photography by Julia Rendleman for ProPublica This article was produced for ...
The Smirking Chimp

The Rise of Trump’s Thugs? -
Skeptophilia

Defanging the basilisk - The science fiction trope of a sentient AI turning on the humans, either through some sort of misguided interpretation of its own programming or from a s...
Off The Kuff

HISD’s message about the forthcoming weapons detection systems - I got this in my inbox on Wednesday. Dear High School Families, The most important thing HISD does each day is keep your student safe while they are at sch...
Scheerpost.com

China Is Not Our Enemy - “Something [people] don't talk about enough, in my opinion, is how China managed to eradicate extreme poverty. And that's not just a minimum income level, ...
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...
Grist

The climate benefits of NYC’s hard-won congestion pricing plan - Driving into lower Manhattan is now more expensive, but the toll promises cleaner air, safer streets, and improved subways.
Crooked Timber

Reasons for pessimism in Europe - Those of us who live in Europe have reason to be very pessimistic about the next four years. The state that Europeans have relied upon as their security gu...
Crooked Media

As LA Burns, Trump Plays Politics - The post As LA Burns, Trump Plays Politics appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

To Desegregate, Ride the Bus - Rosa Parks took a seat to take a stand. These days, prejudice pushes people into bus seats, not out of them. The descendants of Europeans wouldn’t even t...
Antiwar.com

The War Criminal ‘Victim’: Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate - Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about 35 years...
Brad Blog

Ordered to Evacuate, But We're Now Home Safe: 'BradCast' 1/9/2025 - It's been a rough 24 hours or so. But we are among the lucky ones, as detailed at the top of today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summar...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anita Bryant Dead. The LGBTQ community outlives another one. - Anita Bryant The LGBTQ community has outlasted another one who sought to strip us of our rights to safety, health, and self-determination. And this is ...
See You In 2020

Juche means being patriotic, & upholding all the revolutionary achievements from one’s own country - Juche is a universal part of communist theory, because its practices aren’t just applicable in its origin country of Korea; Juche can be practiced anywh...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Respect Venezuela’s independence and democracy – U.S. hands off of Venezuela! - The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns the ongoing U.S. campaign to undermine Venezuela’s democracy and independence.
DeSmogBlog

The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is Unpopular - The slow-motion resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally official. After months of plunging polls, lost by-elections and an accelerating ...
Bud Kennedy

In the Texas Legislature, it’s Republican vs. Republican for speaker of the House | Opinion - Texas is about to choose a speaker of the House, and from there it gets weird. For the last 16 years, the Texas House’s small but stubborn faction of hard-...
MintPress News

Pro-ISIS Accounts Surge on Meta After Assad’s Ouster - Following years of aggressive content removal, Meta’s platforms now host a growing wave of ISIS-linked posts in the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow. The p...
LareDOS

Time to stop strapping decrepit hospital eyesore onto the backs of Laredo taxpayers - Future of this private property should be condemnation, implosion, and leaving the land to the city for planning and improvement
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...
Duck of Minerva

Jimmy Carter’s legacy: a challenge to recognize and act on religion’s significance - US President Jimmy Carter’s funeral is being held today in Washington, DC at the National Cathedral. Since he passed away shortly after Christmas, tributes...
Project Censored

2025: Another ‘Unprecedented’ Year Calls for Staying the Course - By Mischa Geracoulis “The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the me...
Ian Welsh

Canada 101 For Would Be American Annexers - [image: Canada 101 For Would Be American Annexers] So, reading various Americans who think annexing Canada would be a good idea, it’s clear most of them k...
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...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Life is Full of Ironies: University of Texas president Jay Hartzell departing for SMU - *Friends:* *Life is full of ironies. Fortunate for President Jay Hartzell, he will, in effect, not only be shielded from anti-DEI politics in his new role...
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...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 20 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Unlimited Hangout

Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Malthusian-Transhumanist Riders of the Pale Horse - Why did the celebrated futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard call for the culling of one-fourth of the human population? John Klyczek tracked down Hubbard's infa...
Dissident Voice

Only Force Will Stop Genocide - We have long passed the point of mobilizing world opinion against Israel’s shameless and wanton slaughter of countless defenseless civilian Palestinian m...
Krebs on Security

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew - Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to user...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What They Always Wanted: Zuckerberg, Trump, and the New Normal - They're not "obeying in advance." They're relieved. They're all-in.
The Conversation

Unlikely bedfellows: How platform companies shortchange porn performers and ride-hailing drivers alike - The porn and ride-hailing industries both attract workers seeking autonomy. Neither fully delivers.
The Grayzone

Leaked emails expose ‘collaborative efforts’ between Israeli govt and Center for Countering Digital Hate - Emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal how leading “anti-hate” campaigner Imran Ahmed collaborated with Israeli embassy officials to censor pro-Palestine...
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday cheer. - *Happy Holidays field hands!* Let's see what happens in the new year with this Elon Musk presidency. It should be very interesting. If you voted again...
Earthworks

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

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

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ExChristian.Net

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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...
Texas Freedom Network

What You Need to Know about the Texas State Board of Education’s Bible Curriculum Decision - Your November 2024 SBOE Rundown On Nov. 22, 2024, the State Board of Education (SBOE) met to take its final vote on whether to approve Bluebonnet Learnin...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the ar...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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