Brains and Eggs

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

It took me many years of trying to finally come to that conclusion

Join us https://t.co/Tj0nOMa49x #VoteGreen pic.twitter.com/wb8q2hFdv6
— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 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

Mediaite

Anderson Cooper’s CNN Panel Laughs Out Loud At JD Vance Claim Kids Are Going Trans to Get Into Harvard and Yale - Senator JD Vance recently suggested that high school kids are transitioning genders to help them get into exclusive colleges like Harvard and Yale. The po...
memeorandum

Harris keeps bringing in new money as Trump struggles to grow his donor base (Jessica Piper/Politico) - Jessica Piper / Politico: *Harris keeps bringing in new money as Trump struggles to grow his donor base* — Kamala Harris' fundraising operation has bee...
Mediagazer

BBC World Service secures a 25% increase in its government grant for 2025/26; sources: £27M has been agreed, on top of baseline funding of £104M this year (Financial Times) - Financial Times: *BBC World Service secures a 25% increase in its government grant for 2025/26; sources: £27M has been agreed, on top of baseline funding...
The Smirking Chimp

New Gallup Poll Suggests Dems’ Election Results Could Mirror Obama’s 2008 Victory -
Raw Story

Rescuers race to find those washed away by Spain's floods - Letur (Espagne) (AFP) - Divers plunged into the river while high-mountain police hot-footed through the rubble in a rush to find five residents of the ha...
Political Wire

Expect a Late Night Tuesday - Milwaukee officials said they’ll likely be counting votes until 2 or 3 a.m. on election night, WITI reports.
naked capitalism

Argentine President Javier Milei Fires His Foreign Minister for Voting Against US’ 62-Year Blockade of Cuba - This year, like last year, the only two countries that voted against lifting the blockade were the US and Israel. But Argentina was meant to stand with them.
Vox

5 mysteries that might determine the 2024 election - The 2024 election cycle has produced some stunning and sometimes counterintuitive narratives about how demographic subgroups might end up voting. We may ju...
Al Jazeera English

Botswana president concedes election, ending his party’s 58-year rule - Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has conceded election defeat, ending the party's 58-year rule.
The Week

Langdale Chase Hotel: a cosy nook in the Lake District - This Victorian villa has breathtaking views and expansive gardens
Off The Kuff

November 2024 early voting Day Eleven: One more day - Hard to believe, it seems like this election has been going on since the late 90s, but we have one day of early voting to go. Your early voting results thr...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

I visited a deeply divided Pennsylvania – and found Republicans repeating an enormous lie - The US election is fast approaching and residents of this battleground state appear disillusioned with both parties and with democracy itself In the hous...
Salon.com

Donald Trump's plan to "protect" women in action: Two dead, another arrested for miscarriage - Trump's abortion bans keep proving that by "protect," MAGA means they will punish and control
Mother Jones

When Trump Told the Russians He Didn’t Care That They’d Attacked a US Election - On May 10, 2017, President Donald Trump hosted two special guests in the Oval Office: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador to the ...
ProPublica

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms - by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soo...
Eschaton

Morning - Gotta get down on Friday.
Daily Dot

‘This explains why my packages are always delayed’: Amazon driver slams Amazon GPS for route it forces her to go - An Amazon driver expressed frustration with a route that took her to one house in a neighborhood, down a separate street ... and then back to the house n...
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Communications Manager? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
American Prospect

On Health Care, the Choice Is Progress or Indescribable Nightmare - Kamala Harris would make things better. Donald Trump would lay waste to health insurance and hospitals, and bring back measles and polio.
DeSmogBlog

Majority of PR and Ad Sector Clients Obstruct Climate Action: Report - The world’s largest advertising and public relations firms continue to get the majority of their work from major polluters, a new report has found. Known...
NPR's Health Shots

Why a doctor had to figure out a way to prescribe electricity - Patients who use electricity for a medical device or a health condition, sometimes struggle to pay higher utility bills. In Boston, solar panels and a pres...
Grist

How climate voters could swing the presidential election - In battleground states like Georgia, tens of thousands of climate-conscious voters who didn't show up in 2020 have already cast their ballots.
Axios

Obama and Trump square off over masculinity - Barack Obama and Donald Trump are going mano-a-mano. - The two ex-presidents have reignited their long-running feud in the 2024 campaign's final we...
Dissident Voice

Iran and the Axis of Resistance - Two years ago, Western media and academics reported that Iran was about to begin a new revolution in order to abolish the current political system, a leg...
High Country News

Resource production or preservation? Election puts Alaska lands on the line - From oil in the Arctic to the Ambler Road, Alaska's resource and conservation battles await a new administration’s fate, affecting communities, ecosyste...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Halloween Costume - The post Trump’s Halloween Costume appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Triumph of the Swill: A Night at the Garden with Trump and MAGA - Trumpism is capacious. It contains contradictions and absurdities. It borrows from the left and the right. An explosive mix of love and hate propels it. ...
jobsanger

The System Will Hold -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1270: Wallace’s Line - Episode: 1270 Wallace’s line and the evolution of modern humans. Today, we cross Wallace’s line.
Deadline Politics

Jennifer Lopez, At Kamala Harris Rally, Says Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden Event Offended “Humanity And Anyone Of Decent Character” - Jennifer Lopez made a passionate case for Kamala Harris at a Las Vegas rally tonight, while chiding Donald Trump for bringing a parade of speakers to a Mad...
World Socialist Web Site

Bill Clinton defends mass murder of civilians in Gaza genocide - Speaking in Michigan on Monday, Bill Clinton justified the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly advocating the targeting of civilians and collective punishm...
Informed Comment

The Super-Rich have a long history of Backing Fascism and Buying the White House: It is Happening Again - Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Hopping around the rally stage like a drunken monkey, Elon Musk — the world’s most awkward man — demonstra...
The Hill

Harris has slight leads in ‘blue wall’ states: Marist polls - Vice President Harris has a slight lead in each of the key “blue wall” states that could be critical to her path to the presidency, a new poll found. The M...
Antiwar.com

Biden’s Destructive Legacy - As President Biden’s term approaches its end, the US and several parts of the rest of the world are significantly worse off than they were when he took o...
Techdirt.

Norfolk, Virginia Residents Sue City Over Its Network Of 172 Flock Cameras - This lawsuit could not be more impeccably timed. Whether or not this timing is more fortuitous than impeccable remains to be seen, but there’s no denying t...
The Root

Lashana Lynch Hops in the Executive Producer Chair to Make the Limited Series ‘The Day of the Jackal' - Read more...
Alternet

Report lays out list of contenders for second Trump administration’s 'most pivotal' role - The person Donald Trump selects to step into the role of attorney general — if he wins the White House — will be crucial, considering the ex-president's ...
Brad Blog

The GOP 'Voter Fraud' Before the Storm: 'BradCast' 10/31/2024 - On today's BradCast we're hoping to help you get acclimated to the tsunami of "fraud" claims --- both real and fake, and what they mean and don't --- that ...
Daily Cartoonist

About Those Non-Endorsing Newspapers - I was going to let Mike Peterson handle all this foofarah over newspapers not endorsing Presidential candidates, but I’ve got too many links and it’s eithe...
Wolf Street

Super Micro Computer Becomes the First AI-Mania Highflyer in our Imploded Stocks - -42% in two days, -76% from peak-AI-mania in March 2024. There is some dark humor in those kinds of charts.
Popular Resistance

Demanding More In The Struggle For Collective Liberation - This is the second and final part of of a two-part interview series coming from a conversation that I had with Nick in April as part of my recently compl...
Lowering the Bar

House Advertised as “Not Haunted” - You can't prove it is! (Or that it isn't.)
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Puts Shiva Ayyadurai Case on November 15 Conference - On November 15, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Ayyadurai v New Jersey Democratic State Committee, 24-342. This is the case involving ...
Greg Palast

Savannah Vigilante Attack on Phd Thousands of Black Voters Face Ballot Block - Carry Smith wrote her PhD thesis on the Voting Rights Act and challenges to the right to vote in Georgia. Now dig this: Smith, the expert on challenges to ...
SCOTUSblog

Timing rules for reviewing deportation decisions concerning persecution or torture risk - [image: Timing rules for reviewing deportation decisions concerning persecution or torture risk]The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the ...
The AltWorld

The roadblocks ahead for the Sovereign Harmonious Multi-Nodal World - The Kazan lab has laid out several geoeconomic road maps, and is seriously taking the inevitable roadblocks […] The post The roadblocks ahead for the Sov...
The Militant

Fruit discusses road forward with workers in Charleroi -
Portside

California’s Undocumented Residents Make Significant Tax Contributions - California’s Undocumented Residents Make Significant Tax Contributions jay Thu, 10/31/2024 - 19:40
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Portents of Chaos - At this moment it is hard to locate the limit of what either of the two main political parties in the U.S. will do to avoid losing. By Patrick Lawrence Spe...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims, with hurricane effects abating, claims return to normal - – by New Deal democrat It appears that, as I suspected earlier this month, the big YoY jump in initial jobless claims was largely due to the effects of ...
Progressive.org

Football as a Tool for Good? - By seizing traditionally masculine tropes like sports, Harris and Walz can claim the mantle of patriotism and Americana.
The Verge

The iPhone 17 might use Apple’s own Wi-Fi chips - [image: Vector illustration of the Apple logo.] Hardware is hard. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple’s journey to making its own wireless chips has...
El Paso Matters

Building a stronger financial future - How smart strategies and personalized support can help you grow and protect your wealth. The post Building a stronger financial future appeared first on...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'J.D. Vance claims 'normal gay men' support Trump. Gay men say 'wanna bet?'' & other Thur /Fri news briefs - J.D. Vance *J.D. Vance claims 'normal gay guy' backs Trump after being chased from 'homophobic' Dems *- *Apparently Vance thinks the definition of a "nor...
San Antonio Report

With fewer firefighters at the polls and less money, fire union faces well-funded pro-Prop C camp - [image: Business leaders from across San Antonio hold a press conference in support of the proposed charter amendments facing voters on the November ballot...
Capital & Main

Arizona’s Deadly Heat Is Exhibit A as Activists Mount Final Push for Climate and Harris - The state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate just twice in more than 70 years. Armies of canvassers hope climate will change that. The pos...
OpEd News

New Diet Drugs Will Make Trains Run on Time and Your Adolescent Love You - Not since the debut of statins has a drug class been so hyped for Wall Street. Every day this reporter receives "news" of how glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-...
Claytoonz

Taking Out The Bannon - Read the blog at my brand new Substack. Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon at Claytoonz is available. You can pay through...
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 ...
Election Law Blog

“Dems say they will certify a Trump victory — even though some see him as ineligible for office” - Politico: Democrats in Congress for years have labeled Donald Trump an “insurrectionist,” impeached him for stoking violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and suggest...
Reform Austin

Republican Voting Challengers “Undermine Election Outcomes” Say Experts - Whether there is a clear winner in the 2024 Presidential Election on Tuesday or not, Republicans will claim voter fraud. In fact, they’ve already started...
Futurism

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop - Instead of stemming the tide of a massive tidal wave of dystopian AI slop, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI-generated content on Faceboo...
Rallblog

Why Can’t Kamala Talk Dude? - One of the most persistent challenges faced by Kamala Harris’ abbreviated presidential campaign is a vexingly wide gender gap. Men just aren’t...
The Daily Poster

JPMorgan Chase CEO Vows “Knife Fight” To Keep Consumers Trapped - A top financial executive and potential Treasury secretary declares war on federal consumer watchdogs to ensure consumers can’t easily switch banks for bet...
First Draft

Boo From The Insult Comedian - They know they're losing.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was Theodor Herzl A Prophet? If So, What Does it Mean? - Theodor Herzl is widely considered the founder of the modern Zionist movement, and by some, he's considered a prophet, and others, both now and when he was...
Second Nexus

Harris Fires Back After Trump Says He Wants To 'Protect' Women Whether They 'Like It Or Not' - Democratic candidate Kamala Harris said that the "remarks about women" made recently by her Republican rival Donald Trump were "very offensive." At a cam...
Eater Houston

Beyoncé Endorsed Frenchy’s Fried Chicken During Her Most Recent Visit to Houston - [image: Recording artist Beyoncé wave to the crowd during a Houston campaign rally with Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris...
Texas Standard

Atkinson Candy Co. has been handcrafting classic treats in Lufkin for 92 years - “Our goal is to take the classic into a new direction,” says CEO Eric Atkinson.
Ring of Fire

FBI Targets Corrupt Texas Courts - America’s Lawyer E121: The DOJ recently announced a $3 billion fine against the tenth largest bank in the country after they pleaded guilty to laundering...
Daily Howler

This is what we've been talking about! - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2024* *Atlantic writer muses:* In a new essay at the *Atlantic*, Megan Garber muses about what Candidate Trump said. We invite yo...
Novara Media

Rachel Reeves Defends Budget, Interview With Jeremy Corbyn - Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski give Novara Media their takes on what Rachel Reeves got wrong in the budget. Plus: Kamala Harris deploys Bill Clinton to wi...
Earthworks

Notes from the Field: The Gulf of Mexico at a Crossroads - From August 26-30, 2024, Earthworks accompanied Mexican not-for-profit organizations CEMDA (Mexican Environmental Law Center) and Conexiones Climáticas o...
The Conversation

Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our estimate − but the true figure could be far higher - The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, any l...
Rio Grande Guardian

Canales urges neighboring cities to oppose Edinburg’s preferred choice for the SH 68/US 281 interchange - PHARR, Texas – State Rep. Terry Canales of Edinburg is urging cities in Hidalgo County that have international bridges to oppose the preferred choice of ...
Texas Monthly

A Snowmass Family Adventure - Explore the legendary slopes of Snowmass, where spectacular skiing and scenery come together to create unforgettable family moments and mountain memories.
Ian Welsh

The Loss Of American Leadership Competence Viewed From WWII - [image: The Loss Of American Leadership Competence Viewed From WWII] *This is an elevated comment, from Stewart M.* *By StewartM* What strikes me is our ...
Scheerpost.com

The Chris Hedges Report: Do Not Vote for Those Who Support Genocide (w/ Kshama Sawant) - “If genocide is not a red line, then there is no red line."
Texas Observer

‘Fuck You Greg Abbott’—the Musical - Some theater experiences are dignified and serious, exploring the depths of human emotion with gravitas and solemnity. On the other hand, there’s “Young ...
Project Censored

Resilience Rising: Community, Care, and the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Appalachia - Now that the cameras have long since left Hurricane Helene’s trail of devastation, what is the situation on the ground? And what was it about Appalachia ...
Undernews

Trains - *Smart Cities Dive - I*n just four years, trains traveling nearly 200 mph could whoosh passengers between the entertainment capital of Las Vegas and the ...
WhoWhatWhy

5 Climate Change Facts to Scare You Into Action This Halloween - [image: climate crisis, global warming, bone-chilling facts, Halloween] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our ...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s Genocide Day 391: Israel kills 200 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day - [image: Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza are brought al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, October 31, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)]The...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chain Of Command: How Facebook’s Libra, Bank Regulators, and PayPal Built A New World Currency - Two companies closely tied to Peter Thiel – PayPal and Facebook – have embarked on apparently unsuccessful efforts to create a “new world currency.” Yet,...
Common Dreams

FEC Snoozes Through the Election While Allegedly Illegal Coinbase Spending Reaches $50M - Yesterday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pledged another $25 million to the crypto super PAC Fairshake, bringing the company’s total spending in the 2024 ...
Southeast Texas Record

Worker injured when sander turned into saw wins $25K - HOUSTON - A makeshift saw and no defense has cost a Houston-area construction company close to $25,000. Read more…
Political Garbage Chute

Who’s the Fastest Filly: Coulter or Greene? A Race at Churchill Downs Will Finally Settle It. - For years, many have wondered which equine-featured fascist filly is the fastest: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA), or author and commentator Ann Coult...
Bud Kennedy

Donald Trump wants a do-over. But is that really what America wants? | Opinion - Donald Trump has now been running for president since before some of his voters were born. It’s been 25 years since Trump first told CNN’s Larry King he wo...
MintPress News

How a Secluded 1984 Conference Forged Israel’s Unprecedented Influence Over US Media - Kit Klarenberg explores the 1984 conference that fortified Israel's narrative control, highlighting the troubling dynamics between media, politics, and p...
Bonddad

September personal income and spending: another positive report across the board - * - by New Deal democrat* The monthly personal income and spending report is now the most important report of all, except for jobs. That’s becuase i...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Dortmund vs Leipzig lúc 00h30 ngày 03/11/2024 - Tiếp tục với giải VĐQG Đức, tại vòng 9, thi đấu với phong độ gần đây không tốt, Dortmund sẽ có nguy cơ thất bại khi đối thủ là Leipzig đang thể hiện khả ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Cheap Groceries - On top of this CNN Town Hall shartage, my regular “Random 15″ from MSNBC included Kay-Kay speaking at a rally where she makes the big buildup to the workin...
Discourse

Why Is Elderly Racist Bill Clinton Speaking In Public? - Which genius in the Harris campaign asked him to talk out loud?
Rewire

Andrea Grimes Is So Back - The anti-democracy and anti-abortion movements are intertwined. The post Andrea Grimes Is So Back appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Space City Weather

Is Houston’s Halloween forecast a trick or a treat? - In brief: After a long dry spell Houston has finally undergone a pattern change, and we’re now in a period in which there will be a healthy chance of rain ...
Democracy Now!

"The Racism of MAGA Is as American as Apple Pie": Nina Turner on Trump & 2024 Election - We speak with former Ohio state senator and Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffer Nina Turner about how the 2024 election has left her and many vote...
ArcaMax

Donald Trump Is a Foreign Influence - I recently spent time flying to various regions of this country and was struck by how nice almost everyone was. Whether boarding to New York, Chicago or Al...
Crooked Timber

What happens if Americans claim asylum from a Trump regime? - Donald Trump has made very public threats to persecute his political opponents should he be re-elected and statements by him and by other leading Republica...
Infidel753

Samhain - Halloween is a fun holiday, with its classic decorations, its vast treasury of images and traditions, and its socially-acceptable candy binges. But for ...
Skeptophilia

Pearlin Jean - Appropriate to the day, I thought I'd tell you about an interesting (and quite cordial) exchange about ghosts I got into with a loyal reader of *Skeptophil...
Church and State

What is AI superintelligence? Could it destroy humanity? And is it really almost here? - Like many in the AI research community, I believe safe superintelligence is feasible. However, building it will be a complex task.
See You In 2020

Socialism with American Characteristics is coming, and the path to it only keeps getting clearer - We in the United States are on the trajectory towards building a communist organizational force that wins. We know we’re going in the right direction b...
Workers World

PDF of October 31 issue - [image: PDF of October 31 issue] Download the color version. Download the black & white version. NYC: End the U.S. blockade of Cuba The Global South, the B...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread: Respect for Puerto Rico - Reggaeton music artist Nicky Jam has rescinded his endorsement of Donald Trump as a result of the racist and degrading comments delivered by a comedian w...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Election disinformation harms communities and democracy - Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election.
slacktivist

Say their names: Savita. Josseli. - Josseli Barnica's death echoes that of Savita Halappanavar. Same medical cause. Same legal cause. Same obtusely immoral "morality."
Border/Lines

We're back (not a moment too soon) - Immigration news, in context.
Sludge

Harris and Trump Keep Bundler Names Secret - The campaigns are relying on elite fundraisers to help them raise millions of dollars, but in a break from tradition they are not revealing their names.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where We Find Ourselves: Thoughts on the 2024 Election - On the eve of voting, it's time to look this thing square in the face
LareDOS

How Trump’s mass deportations would ‘devastate’ Texas - The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas ...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre At Fifty - It’s 1974, and in Round Rock, Texas, the devil is about to die a gruesome death. *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre** released in theaters, and horror has nev...
Ecosophia

The Man with the Moustache - One of the lasting traditions on this blog is that whenever a month has five Wednesdays in it, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject fo...
The Mind Unleashed

Airline to allow cats and dogs to fly in cabins alongside owners - Imagine boarding a plane, settling into your seat, and feeling a comforting presence beside you – but this time, it’s your cherished pet gazing up with fam...
Reveal

A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist Behind Bars - Abused by her adoptive father, she was victimized again by the police charged with protecting her. A Florida Teen’s Remarkable Fight to Put Her Rapist B...
Krebs on Security

Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans - Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a ...
Earth 911

Reducing the Carbon Impact of American Diets With Plant-Based Choices - A plant-based diet can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our food systems. With... The post Reducing the Carbon Impact of American...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Could Trump’s Controversial Remarks Cost Him 2024 Election? Latino Experts Weigh In! - *Friends,I really liked this Sunday, October 27th interview on Buelna News involving Drs. Alvarao Huerta and Fernando Guerra. It's cool to have a level...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: We Could Let In More Immigrants - Immigration is great for the U.S.. It’s great for the economy. It’s great for our culture. Compared to those of us born here, immigrants are disproportiona...
The Progressive Wing

10/29-31 News Roundup and Open Thread - One week to the election and here comes Halloween
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How to Assess Anarchist Movements? Five Key Socio-economic Dimensions - An assessment of how anarchist movements are grounded in the principles of non-capitalist structures, decentralisation, anti-patriarchy, and non-hierarch...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Debate Founder Responds to Singer Loomis’ National Anthem - Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2024 – Singer Loomis is making headlines after she performed the national anthem during the Free & Equal Elections Presiden...
Dissent Magazine

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

No One Wants To Give Your Kids Free Marijuana Edibles - [image: child wearing a costume and holding a jack-o-lantern bucket trick-or-treating on Halloween][image: child wearing a costume and holding a jack-o-l...
Progressives Chat

Election 2024 Prediction: Trump … Vance … Republican Trifecta - Next week is the 2024 United States presidential election … along with other races and ballot issues. “Election Day 2024” will publish Tuesday, Novembe...
Trivial Knot

2024 Election positions - As usual, when I write about election positions, my purpose is not primarily to persuade readers, but rather to normalize the research & voting process. I ...
New Progressive Alliance

After the Election - I have friends on both sides and miss the days when we could tease each other instead of believing that we had to be mortal enemies. Those who advocate t...
Seeing the Forest

Still One Of The Best - Betty Boop, Minnie the Moocher
Bracing Views

Multicultural Militarism - W.J. Astore The Bombs Land Softer When a Latina Lesbian Drops Them Listening to Chris Hedges and Cornel West the other day, I heard them use the term “mult...
Democracy Chronicles

New Vision for Hollywood: Community-Driven Path to Sustainable Growth and Local Empowerment - To empower Hollywood, Eduardo proposes community investment and sustainable development for long-term, locally driven growth.
Idavox

2500 Voter Applications Show Up In Penn. County Scott Presler Has Been Canvassing and Law Enforcement Has Questions - Just a few weeks after that WTF of an event in Bucks County that Presler... The post 2500 Voter Applications Show Up In Penn. County Scott Presler Has Be...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: JEFF BEZOS IS A PARASITIC PIECE OF SHIT WHO SHOULD BE TAXED INTO OBLIVION EDITION. - *I love Jill Scott and this song but had never before heard this live stretch-out. Nice!* It’s just barely Friday, still, but I’m coming in under the wir...
ExChristian.Net

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus - *The following is a short interview with Bill Burkland, the author of a soon to be released book entitled "The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named J...
Debunking Christianity

Breaking the Grip of Indoctrination - *Brainwashing is a disaster * It is a common feature of religions that their devout followers are confident that they’ve “got it right.” Because, of c...
The Grayzone

How the Israel lobby fueled the rise of Britain’s top anti-Muslim chaos agent - The riots that gripped the UK this August were heavily inspired by anti-Muslim agitator Tommy Robinson. His rise to prominence is largely the product of ...
Duck of Minerva

Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara? - On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PK...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Every Israeli Accusation Is A Confession, from Lebanon to Palestine, w/ As’ad Abukhalil -
Avedon's Sideshow

Scarlet billows start to spread - Thanks to the late Taral Wayne for once having used this APOD photo by David Lane of the Milky Way over Devil's Tower as his October profile pic. (Original ...
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...
Land Destroyer

US Government Behind Campaign Violating North Korean Airspace - *October 23, 2024* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - North Korea has recently warned against the use of drones over its sovereign airspace to spread subversive prop...
Two Party Opera

Seventh Crisis - Nixon would joke that writing the book was his seventh crisis, but it would have actually been this. ↓ TranscriptThree panel comicin the north lawn of th...
CultureMap Houston

Heights Kroger unveils extensive renovations — more cheese, please - After five months of construction and renovation, the Kroger store at the intersection of North Shepherd Drive and 11th Street in the Heights has unveiled...
Liberation News

Declaración del PSL: El bloqueo de EE. UU. sumerge a Cuba en la oscuridad - ¡Depende de las personas de conciencia en el corazón del imperio aumentar la presión sobre la administración Biden para revertir las 243 medidas de la era ...
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 ...
Texas Freedom Network

“All People Are Beloved by God”: How Progressive Faith Communities Fought for Full LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Within the United Methodist Church - Learn about the United Methodist Church split and why faith values in our Just Texas community demand we fight for inclusion and justice. [...] Read More...
Media Lens

Expanding Beyond Earth – The Illusions Of ‘Progress’ - In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefite...
BEYONDbones

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS | October Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS can be spotted with the naked-eye this month. HMNS Astronomer James Wooten explains. Saturn is now an evening obje...
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...
Field Negro

Thirty One days! - Oh chile! There has been a lot going on in these *Divided States of America* since my last post. I guess you all saw the Vice Presidential debate. The...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Fear and Loathing in New Normal Germany - The first rule of New Normal Germany is, you do not compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany. If you do that, New Normal Germany will punish you. It will...
Texas Watch

Written Testimony Submitted to the Texas Legislature on Insurance Reform - The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the *Senate Business and Commerc...
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
Campaign for America's Future

¿Cuál es el poder de su voto? - En People's Action, creemos que la gente como tu y yo podemos tomar las decisiones correctas para nuestras vidas y la de nuestro país. Por eso estamos pasa...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Permission Granted: Texas oil and gas regulators on track to allow more flaring waste than ever - A new investigative report reveals how the state oil and gas agency, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is on track to authorize venting or flari...
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...
nonsite.org

Challenging the New Deal’s “Contemptible Neglect”: The CIO’s Campaign to Organize Agricultural Laborers - That disaster followed in 1947 when Republicans, who won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1946 election, passed the Taft-Hartley amendment to t...
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 ...
Web of Debt

The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech - Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly th...
Reading the Pictures

The 13 Most Telling Photographs of the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate - Harris outmaneuvered Trump using psychological tactics to expose his weaknesses potentially reshaping the 2024 election narrative. The post The 13 Most T...
Stinque

A Kind of Hash - The post A Kind of Hash appeared first on Stinque.
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 NM Political Report

Indigenous advocates want to take push for RECA expansion to D.C. - Indigenous advocates who have been impacted by radiation exposure are ramping up the pressure they’re putting on U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson t...
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...
Moron Majority

Republicans Sound The Alarm: Harris Administration Could Threaten to Pass Laws Most Americans Actually Want - WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican Party has entered full-blown panic mode amid growing fears that a Kamala Harris administration might attempt to pass legi...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Jim Schutze doesn’t dig Tim Walz. - The former D Magazine and Dallas Observer columnist now writes almost exclusively on his Substack, called Shoots, about the mess that is Houston ISD. But...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Cambodian authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted - Dozens of rights groups say activists were prosecuted for award-winning environmental work, while authorities denied defendants due process or right to a f...
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?”...
GreenSource DFW

Boardwalk reopens at Fort Worth Nature Center - *A ribbon cutting was held for the Marty Leonard Lotus Marsh Boardwalk on Earth Day, April 22. Photo by Michael Smith.* May 16, 2024 One of the most pop...
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....
Bayou Brief

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
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...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
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...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
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

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

I Am One of Aimee Stephens’s Lawyers, and I Heard Yesterday’s Argument Firsthand - Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument on whether it is legal to fire people for being transgender or for being gay. I represent Aimee Stephens, th...
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...
Truthout

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
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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