Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

memeorandum

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say (Tim Reid/Reuters) - Tim Reid / Reuters: *Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say* — Aides to Elon Musk charged with...
Eschaton

Team Pritzker - A useful corrective to all the officials who are handing over their lunch money. Well, your lunch money. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is blocking those who...
Daily Dot

‘Not even enough to buy a Costco hot dog’: Costco announces raises for employees. Then the backlash starts - [image: 2 panel image on the left is the exterior of a Costco store and on the right is a tweet from a Costco employee.] Costco announced wage increases ...
The Week

Magazine solutions - February 7, 2025 - Issue - February 7, 2025
Mediaite

Ex-Trump Adviser Larry Kudlow Admits Tariffs Could Bring ‘Price Increases’ For Americans - Fox Business host Larry Kudlow excitedly endorsed President Donald Trump's tariffs plan, insisting "one-off price increases" will only be "temporary." The...
Salon.com

"I wouldn't trust that newspaper": Author accuses Los Angeles Times of "distorting" RFK Jr. critique - Eric Reinhart said the Los Angeles Times changed his piece to make it look like he backs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Alternet

'People will die': Trump admin claims it lifted ban on humanitarian aid — but that’s not true - On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make:...
The Root

Roc Nation CEO Breaks Silence on Decision to Choose Kendrick Lamar Over Lil Wayne For Super Bowl Show - Desiree Perez, CEO of Roc Nation, is clearing up why Kendrick Lamar was chosen as the headliner for the Super Bowl Halftime show. Despite claims that it ...
The NM Political Report

Legislation would add New Mexico to a growing list of states restricting PFAS - By Hannah Grover New Mexico could follow the lead of approximately a dozen other states and restrict the sale or manufacturing of various household prod...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Plan to Delete Congress - On our live show, David and Luke look at the Trump political project to grab executive power.
Raw Story

Rat populations surge as cities heat up - Rats are in many ways better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their up...
Techdirt.

LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed Into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda - Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, has been promising to restore trust in media over the last few months. Instead, he has launched an escalating c...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New York doctor indicted in Louisiana over alleged abortion pill prescription - Dr Margaret Carpenter faces felony charges in state that has had near-total abortion ban since fall of Roe v Wade A New York doctor was indicted by a Lou...
Al Jazeera English

What’s happening in Myanmar? | Start Here - Myanmar’s military regime is under pressure, four years after it seized back power in a coup.
The Hill

PETA issues swap deal: Punxsutawney Phil for a vegan cake - PETA is urging Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to remove Punxsutawney Phil from his Groundhog Day duties.
Texas Monthly

The Capitol’s Ultimate Insider Has Had Enough - Harvey Kronberg has covered Texas state politics for four decades. He thinks it’s worse than it’s ever been.
Courthouse News

LA County man admits to flying drone over Palisades Fire that crashed into firefighting plane - As part of his plea deal, the Culver City resident will pay about $65,000 for the damage his drone caused to the Super Scooper provided by the Quebec gover...
Slate

The Second Trump Presidency Will Be a Golden Age of Involuntary Civics Education - This reminds me of homeownership. Not in a good way!
NPR's Health Shots

Conflicting signals from Trump could disrupt HIV meds. What's the impact? - A series of orders from the Trump administration have the potential to disrupt the delivery of life-saving medications to HIV positive people. Here's what ...
Mediagazer

Eric Reinhart, who wrote an op-ed for the LAT, says his lines highly critical of RFK Jr. were deleted and a misleading headline was added supporting RFK Jr. (Sharon Knolle/The Wrap) - Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: *Eric Reinhart, who wrote an op-ed for the LAT, says his lines highly critical of RFK Jr. were deleted and a misleading headlin...
Futurism

DeepSeek's AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population - China's DeepSeek, which threw Silicon Valley into chaos this week, makes no qualms about sending all of your sensitive data straight to the Chinese gover...
CultureMap Houston

Enjoy a romantic getaway with these 10 Texas hotel deals in February - February is a month for celebrating love, and there's nothing more romantic than surprising your partner with a much-needed spa day, an exciting weekend v...
Houston Public Media

University of Houston rescinding policy allowing hybrid work schedules for staff - The move comes two weeks after Houston Mayor John Whitmire said most city employees will be required to work in the office full-time starting in February.
Grist

Oh, great: Rat populations are surging as cities heat up - Hotter weather makes it easier for rodents to feed and breed. Washington, D.C. saw a 390 percent increase in rats over the last decade.
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2025 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics ~
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: The Life Expectancy of Palestinians - Palestinians, who have lost at least 11.5 years of their lives as a result of this horror, deserve much more than this threadbare ceasefire. They will cont...
WhoWhatWhy

The Far Right-Wing Propaganda Machine: From Fringe to Mainstream - [image: Right Wing Propaganda, Donald Trump, Project 2025, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Tucker_Carlson, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Laura Ingraham] A decentra...
Vox

Get ready: Your city’s rat problem is likely going to get a lot worse - If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up their u...
Second Nexus

2013 Video Of RuPaul Predicting Our Current Political Shift Resurfaces—And Fans Are Nodding Hard - Drag superstar RuPaul has struck a nerve with people after a viral video reminded them of comments he made to the late comedian Joan Rivers in 2013 about...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “He’s a unique individual, but he’s a great asset to our caucus. We need voices like that.” — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), quoted by Punchb...
Krebs on Security

FBI, Dutch Police Disrupt ‘Manipulaters’ Phishing Gang - The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized a number of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service ope...
Claytoonz

Blended - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Signed prints: Each signed print is just $40.00. Every cart...
Texas Standard

Gov. Greg Abbott will announce Texas’ agenda under Trump on Sunday. Here’s what to know. - The governor’s State of the State address is key because it’s where he’ll declare his “emergency items” for the ongoing 2025 Texas legislative session. In ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DRUNK DRIVER NATION EDITION. - *Seven years ago, can you believe it?* Like Henry James said: I find it such a mistake to have lived on -- when like other saner and safer persons, I m...
Reform Austin

Lawmaker Backs “Gulf of America” Switch in Texas Constitution - On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso County Coliseum bond proposal may head back to voters in May - While coliseum upgrades may be up for vote, county leaders are eyeing millions more in new debt that doesn’t require voter approval for public works pro...
World Socialist Web Site

Princes Food threatens to withdraw pay offer in UK dispute and shift production overseas - Princes’ threat to impose a de facto pay cut or transfer production is a confirmation of the warnings made by the World Socialist Web Site. Workers should ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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Ballot Access News

Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Making it a Felony for Any Local Government Official to Vote in Favor of Creating a Sanctuary Policy - On January 30, the Tennessee Senate passed SB 6002. See section six of the bill, which makes it a felony for “any official who, in their capacity as a memb...
ProPublica

ICE Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Unaccompanied Migrant Children Office, Triggering Alarms - by Annie Waldman and Mica Rosenberg ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon...
Axios

Think the skies are crowded now? Just wait - This week's midair collision between a commercial plane and an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., underscores the complexity of the National Airspace S...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s AI Moonshot Leads To Saudi Arabia - Trump’s economic projects involve billions from the Saudi Arabian government — and the committee overseeing the deals is stacked with Saudi-connected offic...
Undernews

Ranked choice voting is working in Utah and voters like it - *Fair Vote - *In late 2024, the Herbert Institute at Utah Valley University released two reports on Utah’s ranked choice voting (RCV) pilot program... ...
Church and State

Trump told voters his intentions, but too many didn’t listen! - It has almost become impossible to sort out the implications of what Trump intends to pursue in dismantling our federal government.
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS has a newly launched STHS Limb Salvage & Amputation Prevention Program - “Through awareness and education initiatives, early detection and timely treatment, the STHS Limb Salvage & Amputation Prevention Program at STHS Edinbur...
OpEd News

Fatal Mid-Air Collision Comes on the Heels of Executive Changes - The recent mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., has raised significant concerns about air traffic control staffing levels.
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist’s Cartoonists: Influences of Matt Golding - Today’s Cartoonist’s Cartoonists is Matt Golding. Matt is an Australian editorial cartoonist whose work appears in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. H...
Mother Jones

Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People - In August 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law that allowed the development of state-level programs to help disabled people live outsi...
Eater Houston

Houston, We Have a Bojangles - [image: Plates of Bojangles fried chicken and biscuits and cups of lemonade sit on a table.] The Charlotte, North Carolina-based fried chicken chain is fi...
Wolf Street

Inflation Festers in Core Services, No Progress in 12 Months. PCE Price Index Accelerates for 3rd Month: Justifies Fed’s Pivot to Wait-and-See - In a broader sense, there has been no progress at all on inflation in eight months.
Space City Weather

The SCW Q&A: Dripping faucets, storm or no?, I-10 divider, inconsistent apps, whither La Niña? - By the skin of our teeth, we’ve got the January SCW Q&A out the door. Many of the questions we got this month were – no surprise – inspired by our recent s...
Liberation News

Trump, white supremacy and capitalism: The enemies of Black liberation - The entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better.
Glasstire

Artist Resources at Texas Public Libraries: Workstations in the Metro Areas - Texas public libraries are stepping up as vital resource hubs for artists, offering far more than books. Across Dallas, Houston, and Austin, libraries ho...
Sludge

On the Bernie/RFK Pharma Money Spat - A closer look at the pharmaceutical industry money that Kennedy claims Sanders has taken.
Election Law Blog

“How Trump Could Defy the Constitution — or Find a Loophole — and Seize a Third Term” - Politico: But it can’t happen, right? After all, the Constitution imposes an explicit two-term limit on the presidency — even if those two terms, like Tr...
Counterpunch

cabinet of wonders - The post cabinet of wonders appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Deadline Politics

Chuck Todd To Exit NBC News After Almost 18 Years - Chuck Todd, the chief political analyst for NBC News and former Meet the Press moderator, announced today that he is leaving the network today after almost...
Southeast Texas Record

Child raped on school bus, but Aldine ISD avoids liability - HOUSTON - A mother who wanted compensation from the Aldine Independent School District for the alleged sexual assault of her child on a school bus has ag...
First Draft

Blame Black People Is Now White House Policy - This is what America chose.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, Jan. 31 - [image: The morning read for Friday, Jan. 31]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s th...
Ian Welsh

Musk’s In A Lot of Trouble And Won’t Be the World’s Richest Man Much Longer - [image: Musk’s In A Lot of Trouble And Won’t Be the World’s Richest Man Much Longer] I’ve discussed this before, so we’ll keep it brief. Much of Musk’s we...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 69: Video Games Are Good For You - Live at 10 am Eastern/9 am Central time, and Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Video games have long been considered a waste of time and even a pernicious influ...
Earthworks

Recommitting to Defense on All Fronts in Texas - Here at Earthworks, we are no strangers to playing defense. In fact, it’s what we do best. Over the past … The post Recommitting to Defense on All Front...
Bonddad

Personal income and spending for December: more “steady as she goes” but with late cycle characteristics - * - by New Deal democrat* The December personal income and spending report showed that for the huge consumption sector of the economy, “steady as she...
Mondoweiss

Disease and illness are a hidden toll of the Gaza genocide - From hepatitis to scabies and food poisoning, the war has caused countless ailments with devastating and deadly consequences for the fragile health of Pale...
Daily Howler

WORK SONGS: Achilles was singing his favorite songs! - *FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2025* *So was Campos-Duffy: *On page A1 of today's print editions, Elisabeth Bumiller gets it right in the New York Times. Bumiller...
The Conversation

Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents - New restrictions on how children and teens can spend time online remain concentrated at the state level.
Democracy Now!

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's Pick for National Intel Director, Refuses to Call Edward Snowden a Traitor - President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congressmember from Hawaii, is facing major qualms from...
DeSmogBlog

Peter Mandelson’s Consultancy Lobbied New Government on Behalf of Shell - Labour’s top diplomat to Donald Trump’s United States leads a public affairs firm that has attempted to influence the new UK government on behalf of the ...
ArcaMax

Newspapers Then and Now: Why Good Columns Stand the Test of Time - When Bob Hill was writing newspaper columns, it was a different era. But after our conversation, I realized some things are still very much the same. Bob i...
The AltWorld

They Don’t Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train Us HOW To Think - It’s not just that they tell us what to think, it’s that they train us how to think. From […] The post They Don’t Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train ...
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Send In the Clowns - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Sen...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Earth Will Not Be Silent - The Dalai Lama warned of the coming consequences of climate change and humanity’s abuse of... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Earth Will Not Be Silent...
San Antonio Report

The state of San Antonio startups: Geekdom reflects on 2024 as a year of growth - Local startup leaders at the State of Geekdom luncheon Thursday said San Antonio’s startup scene is back on track. ------------------------------ The state ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Puts Us in Limbo’: All Air Traffic Controllers Resign at ‘Hugely Important’ Airport -
Skeptophilia

Unleashing the tsunami - Today I have for you two news stories that are interesting primarily in juxtaposition. The first is a press release about a study out of Stanford Univers...
Off The Kuff

Houston Progressive Caucus - From the inbox: On January 30th, the birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in the wake of the attempt to suspend funding of Medicaid and thousands of othe...
Scheerpost.com

Jonathan Cook: Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back to Haunt Us - The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nouris...
High Country News

Many renters are struggling after fleeing LA County wildfires - For many in the county, recovery requires a new lease, a new landlord, new schools and possibly a new state. The post Many renters are struggling after ...
Crooked Media

Trump Heals Grieving Nation - The post Trump Heals Grieving Nation appeared first on Crooked Media.
Crooked Timber

Will big data lift the veil of ignorance? - (Hi all, wonderful to become part of this great blog! But now, directly on to some content!) Imagine that you have a toothache, and a visit at the dentist ...
Capital & Main

Defensores de derechos de los inmigrantes abren línea telefónica de apoyo a detenidos que enfrentan posible deportación - En el nuevo número de teléfono se podrán denunciar detenciones y enlazar a familiares de los afectados con abogados. The post Defensores de derechos de l...
jobsanger

Trump Wants The Final Say On All Spending -
Informed Comment

The Israelis Left behind in 50 mn. Tons of Bomb-Infested Rubble in Gaza, as Hundreds of Thousands Stream Home - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli systemic destruction of civilian building infrastructure in Gaza generated over 50 million tons of debris by 1 D...
Antiwar.com

Dear World: This Is What Palestinian Unity Looks Like - Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history must h...
Workers World

‘Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners!’ - [image: ‘Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners!’] The slightly edited talk was given by George Qarmout, a Palestinian activist educating and mob...
Popular Resistance

Whether Biden Or Trump, US’ Latin American Policy Will Be Contemptible - With Donald Trump as the new US president, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. In this article, we look at so...
Brad Blog

Trump/Musk Deferred Resignation E-Mails to Fed Workers an 'Unlawful, Barely Veiled Threat': 'BradCast' 1/30/2025 - It's one disaster after another on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Last night, 67 people were killed when an Army Helicop...
Unlimited Hangout

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The Greanville Post

PETER KOENIG IN PERU AND JEFF J. BROWN IN CHINA SIT DOWN TO DISCUSS THE GLOBAL ZEITGEIST: TRUMP, NATO, PALESTINE, EU, RUSSIA/UKRAINE AND ASIA. - EDITORS—Jeff and Peter discussed the ongoing situation in the Middle East, now referred to as West Asia. Peter speculated that a ceasefire agreement, possi...
Progressive.org

The Danger of MAGA History - With Donald Trump back in the White House, the rewriting of the past has already begun.
Greg Palast

Election Theft in the Context of RacismPalast's documentary "opens our souls" - *Vigilantes Inc.* is about far more than the 2024 election. America’s present-moment racism is put under the harsh, glaring light of its own past — its pos...
The Texas Signal

Dan Patrick Unveils Texas Senate Priorities - Outside of school choice, other priorities for Patrick include several rightwing culture war goals like “placing the ten commandments in school” and “stopp...
Discourse

The DC Air Disaster Is Only the Beginning - Trump and his crew will peddle bullshit and evade responsibility every time something bad happens on their watch.
Angry Bear

Yglesias on Biden - Matt Yglesias has a critical piece up on Biden. I am largely in agreement with Yglesias’ take, although I tend to see his failings as due to longstandin...
Common Dreams

Over 100,000 People Urge Congress to Begin Impeachment Investigation Against President Trump - Impeach Trump Again, a nonpartisan campaign led by Free Speech For People, has garnered over 100,000 petition signatures, signaling widespread support fo...
MintPress News

Jerusalem Post Targets MintPress After Exposé on Israeli Spies in US Media - MintPress News’ investigations uncovering networks of former Israeli spies and lobbyists working in America’s newsrooms have gone viral, triggering a hit...
ExChristian.Net

Screwed Up, Beyond Belief-Chapter 12 - *Chapter 12 - Beginnings* *By Ex-Pastor Dan ~ * Then Sings my Soul, my Savior God, to Thee... How Great Thou Art... How Great Thou Art! Then Sings my Soul....
Project Censored

Selective Outrage and the Palestine Exception - By Mireille Rebeiz The Hamas attacks of October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza showed serious cracks in higher education in the United States and ...
NORML

Ohio: GOP Lawmakers Move To Roll Back State’s Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Law - [image: Ohio marijuana][image: Ohio marijuana]Changes proposed by SB 36 include raising taxes on the retail sale of cannabis products, imposing new restr...
Political Garbage Chute

I Voted For Jesus Fascism and All I Got Was My Welfare Frozen! - It was one thing when I was confident the next four years would see a return to a time when I could bully a trans kid, in their elementary school classro...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's not like me to pretend - John Atkinson Grimshaw's famous The Old Hall Under Moonlight is just one of innumerable atmospheric oils by this master of moonlight, and I was just in tha...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Why Trump's latest EO is a disturbing attempt to silence Black and LGBTQ students as well as teachers and schools - Anti-LGBTQ group Libs of TikTok hopes that Trump's latest executive order will ban any LGBTQ mention in classrooms. Another day, another ridiculous *exec...
See You In 2020

As the balance of forces keeps tipping in China’s favor, Trumpian neocons struggle to find the right strategy - What happens when a White House that’s fanatically invested in anti-China ideology sees the globe’s balance of forces keep changing in China’s favor? So...
nonsite.org

The Wrong Durée: The Politics of Cedric J. Robinson’s Racial Capitalism - Instead, a race-essentialist understanding of epistemology lies at the heart of both Robinson’s notions of racial capitalism and the black radical traditio...
Dissident Voice

trstt - 1The post trstt first appeared on Dissident Voice. 1 test
Ecosophia

Carl Jung, Occultist - A longstanding tradition on this blog has it that whenever a month has five Wednesdays, the readers get to propose topics for the fifth Wednesday post, and...
Rewire

SCOTUS Takes Major Church-State Separation Challenge - The conservative justices could force religion into public education nationwide. The post SCOTUS Takes Major Church-State Separation Challenge appeared ...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about “Race, Shaming, and International Human Rights” - Can human-rights organizations avoid accusations of racism when they criticize certain governments? Can they avoid fueling racism? Zoltán I. Búzás and Lote...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Nurnberg vs Darmstadt lúc 00h30 ngày 01/02/2025 - Tại vòng 20 thuộc giải Hạng Nhì Đức, thi đấu khi có phong độ tương đương, Nurnberg và Darmstadt khi ra sân sẽ cống hiến cho người xem những pha bóng đầy ...
Infidel753

A political rant from a not-very-political Democrat - The political site Democracy Docket recently posted a ten-point action plan of "things we can all do to protect democracy". It seems to have struck a ner...
Lowering the Bar

Iowa Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Protect Iowans from Shark Bites in Iowa - [image: cornfield]Can't be too careful.
Trivial Knot

It’s the economy - When playing the blame game for the 2024 presidential election, a lot of people point towards social issues. Not to dispute the importance of white identit...
slacktivist

Eyes are watching, ears are listening … - When someone uses the phrase "identity politics" unironically, they're saying "I don't need to listen to other people's stories." Oh, and TIL that Michael ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Backlash is Coming: A Key Moment in the Fight Against Authoritarianism - There's an energy building against the authoritarians. We need to seize it.
Democracy Chronicles

Sainte-Lague For Unbiased Proportional-Representation - There’s been emphasis on single-winner voting-systems because the 1787 Constitution's requirements, make a joke of any attempt at national equal-representa...
Idavox

Pardoned Indiana J20 Insurrectionist Shot, Killed By Sheriff Deputy - There’s a bit of irony with the fact that this dude was from Mike Pence’s... The post Pardoned Indiana J20 Insurrectionist Shot, Killed By Sheriff Deputy ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Heil to the Chief - Guess what time it is, boys and girls. Did you guess it? I’m pretty sure you did. That’s right, it’s time for the Big Switcheroo! It’s Morning in America A...
The Grayzone

Swiss official who jailed journalist Ali Abunimah is fanatical pro-Israel activist - Mario Fehr, the Swiss security official who ordered the arrest of Ali Abunimah, is a rabidly pro-Zionist politician who falsely branded the Palestinian A...
The Verge

Google Maps in the US will change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley - [image: Vector illustration of the Google Maps logo.] Illustration: The Verge Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President ...
Bracing Views

Thermonuclear Crack - W.J. Astore The Death Wish of the “Elites” Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”? Shouldn’t we fight to achieve peace through nuclear...
The Progressive Wing

1/27-31 News Roundup and Open Thread - Let’s finish up January.
Progressives Chat

Marital Status for Former First Couple - Recent questions concern the marital status of *Barack* and *Michelle Obama* . Married since 1992, and with their daughters Malia (born in 1998) and Sash...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Fashionably Fashy - “Not a single Roman work of art — sculpture, coinage, or painting — displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and related ideologies…...
The Militant

Evidence grows government to blame in LA fire catastrophe - LOS ANGELES — The heavy smell of smoke, darkened skies in the daytime and spreading ash have receded in many neighborhoods here, though the closer you are ...
Debunking Christianity

A life Dedicated to Serving Others, with God Finally Left Behind - *Testimony to the high moral standards of many non-believers* One of the surprising developments of our time—or maybe it’s not so surprising—is the mar...
Reveal

How Some Christian Group Homes Avoid Florida’s Standards - In place of the state, a nonprofit association has regulatory authority over about two dozen of the facilities. How Some Christian Group Homes Avoid Flo...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 24, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio January 24, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/24/2025 - 09:14 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / ESSAY / Resist the illegitimate administration: Why this happened and the climate change connection. - By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / January 23, 2025 SUMMARY: Americans did not change their views causing the Big Lie to be elected. Their views were bastard...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
LareDOS

Vermeer: the girl - Too often we overlook the specificity of beauty in our daily lives: the clamor of synthetic busyness, interminable torrents of online information and rumor...
TalkLeft

Trump's Inauguration: Open Thread - Trump 2 begins today. Elon Musk is so excited. He spoke to Trump supporters about optimism and how much they are going to accomplish. Melania is hiding h...
Seeing the Forest

On The Word ‘Genocide’ By ‘The Left’ To Describe Israel’s Actions In Gaza - My mother’s parents were Orthodox Jews, coming from Ukrainians who emigrated to the US (in a hurry) during prior eras of persecution. I also lost family me...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them. - I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them. LeeRossi Tue, 12/31/2024 - 12:57
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...
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.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Need to Know More About State Supreme Court Cases -
BEYONDbones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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