Brains and Eggs

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

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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

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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

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

GOP lawmaker blows up Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'absurd' rejection of antisemitism act - A Republican lawmaker erupted in anger during a live CNN segment Wednesday over his colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's "absurd" reason for refusing ...
Slate

Yikes! A Sketch Artist Explains What Happened Here. - Is it the “bangs”? The jaw line? The space between the nose and mouth?
memeorandum

Exclusive: DOJ civil rights leader says she was a victim of abuse in extraordinary statement (Hannah Rabinowitz/CNN) - Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: *Exclusive: DOJ civil rights leader says she was a victim of abuse in extraordinary statement* — The leader of the Justice Dep...
Futurism

Pricey AI "Device" Turns Out to Just Be an Android App With Extra Steps - App in Rabbit's Clothing Secretive wearables startup Humane disappointed with its AI Pin, quickly becoming one of the worst-reviewed tech products of all...
Daily Cartoonist

Alexandra Bowman Recipient of Inaugural John Locher Memorial Fellowship - The John Locher Memorial Award has evolved into the John Locher Memorial Fellowship and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced tha...
Salon.com

New York Dem. Kennedy wins special House election, shrinking GOP majority - Tim Kennedy's win leaves Johnson with just a three seat hold, as his far-right colleagues prep another vacate vote
The Daily Poster

LEVER TIME: Congress Wants To Make Sure Flying Still Sucks - In this episode of Lever Time, Lever reporter Katya Schwenk unpacks how a small line in a massive bill could quietly kill a consumer protection rule that w...
Vox

The history of Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban - A protester holds a sign reading “My body my choice” at a Women’s March rally where Arizona Secretary of State and then-Democratic gubernatorial candidate...
Houston Public Media

Former Houston Mayor Annise Parker may run for Harris County Judge in 2026 - The prospect of a Democratic primary challenge to Judge Lina Hidalgo comes amid speculation that Hidalgo may leave to seek higher office.
Alternet

MAGA state superintendent backs chaplains in public schools – but not from all religions - Visitors to Oklahoma’s State Schools Superintendent’s personal social media page will notice a post vowing to “ban Critical Race Theory, protect women’s ...
Mediaite

‘I Do Not Say That Lightly’: CNN’s Dana Bash Warns Rising Anti-Semitism Is ‘Hearkening Back to the 1930s in Europe’ - “Again, what you just saw is 2024, in Los Angeles, hearkening back to the 1930s in Europe. And I do not say that lightly." The post ‘I Do Not Say That Lig...
NPR's Health Shots

How Florida's six-week abortion ban will impact people in and around the state - NPR's Juana Summers talks with economics professor Caitlin Myers, who has been tracking travel distances to abortion facilities, about the impact of Florid...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Daily Dot

‘Barbers and tattoo artists are getting wayyyy too out of hand’: Barber says he expects a 40% tip from customers - [image: Man talking(l), Barber cutting hair(c), Second man talking(r)] The practice of tipping and what the appropriate amount should be for different se...
Political Wire

Justice Dept Official Admits She Lied During Confirmation - The leader of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Kristen Clarke, said in an extraordinary personal statement that she was a victim of years-lo...
Al Jazeera English

US increases pressure on Israel over Gaza aid as truce talks continue - Top US diplomat says efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza must be accelerated and sustained as famine looms.
Courthouse News

California bill targeting voter ID heads to Senate floor - The bill is in response to a ballot measure Huntington Beach residents passed on March 5, which could require people to show voter ID in municipal elections.
San Antonio Current

Boerne High School marching band wins $15,000 in instruments from Metallica - Who knew the Boerne High School Marching Band was also a metal militia? Metallica recently gifted $15,000 in musical instruments to the Greyhounds' marchi...
The Root

Natural Causes or Hate Crime? Public React's to Black Teen’s Suspicious Cause of Death - The verdict is in for the official cause of death of 16-year-old Justin Johnson. Though the medical examiner concluded he died of natural causes, rumors ...
Techdirt.

Regulations For Generative AI Should Be Based On Reality, Not Hallucinations. - In a haste to do something about the growing threat of AI-fueled disinformation, harassment, and fraud, lawmakers risk introducing bills that ignore some f...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about dangers of fossil fuels, experts say - Report published Tuesday shows sector’s shift from climate denial to strategy of ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’ The fossil fuel industry spe...
The Verge

Crunchyroll is about to get a little more expensive, just like all the other streamers - [image: A manga-like illustration of a redheaded girl with a long ponytail wearing a short-sleeved, kimono-like dress.] Image: Crunchyroll While Crunchyr...
Axios

Arizona Senate repeals the state's pre-Roe abortion ban - The Arizona Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's pre-Roe ban on nearly all abortions, the final step before it goes to Gov. Katie Hobbs, who h...
The AltWorld

BRIC-o-rama: on the road in Brazil, with an eye on Russia-China - Pepe Escobar writes about the major takeaways of his recent tour to Brazil. I have just been […] The post BRIC-o-rama: on the road in Brazil, with an eye...
Common Dreams

Friends of the Earth Statement on House Republican and Senate Democrat Farm Bill Proposals - After months of delay, House Republicans and Senate Democrats unveiled dueling Farm Bill priorities today. The House’s bill slashes nutrition programs an...
The Intercept

I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. - When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York. The post I’ve Covered Viol...
Counterpunch

Donald Trump’s Empty Promises on Jobs - In mid-2015, announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, Donald Trump declared that he would “be the greatest jobs president that God e...
Mediagazer

Columbia University's student radio station WKCR deftly covered live news late on April 30 as police entered the campus, amplified via Instagram Live and Twitch (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider) - Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: *Columbia University's student radio station WKCR deftly covered live news late on April 30 as police entered the ca...
Mother Jones

Donald Trump Will Speak at the Libertarian Convention. It’s Not as Weird as It Sounds. - On Wednesday, the Libertarian Party revealed a special guest speaker at its convention in late May. Surprise! It’s former President Donald Trump. “This mom...
Texas Standard

Has the American economy pulled off a ‘soft landing’? - One economist says it’s hard to see how it’s going to get any better.
Election Law Blog

Idaho Voters Likely to Vote This Fall on Shifting to Top 5 Primaries, with Instant Runoff Voting in the General Election - This story reports that proponents of this ballot measure appear to have gained enough signatures to get the measured qualified for the ballot this fall....
The Hill

DOJ, Google to present closing arguments in antitrust trial - The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Google will present closing arguments Thursday and Friday in the governments’ case that alleges the tech giant has ille...
Daily Howler

O'Donnell praises the NYPD! - *WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024* *O'Donnell gets it right: *Lawrence O'Donnell remembers. He also broke out of a type of box with some comments he made last nigh...
Mondoweiss

Flood the Gates: Escalate - [image: A demonstrator breaks the windows of the front door of Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, which protesters renamed "Hind's Hall" in honor of Hind...
Claytoonz

Preferential Contempt - Donald Trump and his minions cry that he’s being treated unfairly by the justice system. Canadian conspiracy theorist cartoonist, Cameron Cardow who poses ...
OpEd News

A Call for Unity: Navigating the Divide - It is crucial to understand that unity does not demand conformity.
Second Nexus

Trump Mocked Over New Bonkers Theory For College Protests—And Yeah, That Tracks - Former President Donald Trump was criticized after baselessly suggesting that nationwide college protests against Israel's deadly campaign in Palestine w...
American Prospect

Mayday Alert - Today on TAP: Can Democrats avoid a repeat of Chicago 1968?
Novara Media

I Would Have Voted for George Galloway, but Then He Said Gay People Aren’t ‘Normal’ - On Monday evening, I interviewed MP for Rochdale, and leader of the Workers Party of Britain, George Galloway. That same day, Galloway announced that his n...
Wolf Street

Fed Holds Rates at 5.50% Top of Range, QT Slowdown Starts in June, Acknowledged Inflation is a Problem Again - New language: “In recent months, there has been a lack of further progress toward the Committee's 2 percent inflation objective.”
Angry Bear

March JOLTS report: declines in everything, fortunately including layoffs - – by New Deal democrat After almost half a year of general stabilization, or very slow deceleration, the JOLTS report for March featured multi-year lows...
World Socialist Web Site

UK students set up Gaza protest encampments - Students in the UK have taken action in solidarity with those in the US facing down fierce police repression and fascist violence to protest the imperialis...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! - The last week has been kind of a bummer for me, workwise – I pulled a muscle in my thumb. (Who even knew that was a thing?) Afraid of making it worse, I de...
Southeast Texas Record

States sue Biden Administration over ban on private firearms sales - AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton is heading a multi-state coalition to sue the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for allegedly atte...
First Draft

Recipe For Trumpalaya - You can’t get anything you want at Clownfish Restaurant
Deadline Politics

Studios Warn Of First Amendment Implications For SAG-AFTRA-Backed AI Bill To Require Consent For Digital Voice And Likeness - As SAG-AFTRA and other artists’ groups sound the alarm over the proliferation of AI deepfakes, studios are warning that too sweeping a proposed solution wo...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Trump's plans, Biden's polling, jobs numbers ~
Undernews

Transgender - *United Methodists *repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding them from being orda...
CPI's Danger in the Air

After a years-long fight, EPA broadens ban on deadly chemical - [image: Paint strippers are displayed on a shelf in a hardware store.] It can kill on the spot or years after prolonged exposure. When methylene chloride...
Bonddad

March JOLTS report: declines in everything, fortunately including layoffs - * - by New Deal democrat* After almost half a year of general stabilization, or very slow deceleration, the JOLTS report for March featured multi-yea...
WhoWhatWhy

Eight US Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Dandelion Salad

The Brief Origins of May Day, by Eric Chase - Dandelion Salad Originally published May 1, 2015 Republished with permission from IWW by Eric Chase IWW, 1993 May 1, 2024 Most people living in the United ...
Dissident Voice

Mayday Mayday Mayday - Fifty four years ago today this writer was getting ready to hitchhike to classes at Brooklyn College. It was a sunny, blue sky, early Spring day, and the...
LareDOS

“Just papers; nothing important,” I told the clerk at the Post Office, knowing in fact that the box held the weight of dreams, a desire for redemption, and the wish to be remembered in another way - When he came to my office two days before he took his life, his former elegance was in full display, even now as a thin, old man with a voice still attache...
The Week

'Making a police state out of the liberal university' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Brad Blog

Third-Party Myopia v. Democracy's Survival - At a moment when, as President Joe Biden has aptly warned, both "democracy" and "freedom" will be on the ballot in November, third-party myopia poses a cle...
The Conversation

Mexico emerges as a destination for Americans seeking reproductive health services – not for the first time - In Mexico, more states are legalizing abortion at the same time US states like Florida are imposing more restrictions.
ProPublica

EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables - by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Texas Monthly

Would Sam Houston Be A Texans Fan? A Texas Monthly Investigation - The towering Huntsville statue of the first president of the Republic of Texas was dressed in an NFL jersey, and some locals are upset.
Ballot Access News

The Bulwark Carries Analysis of Legal Angles if Republicans Party Nominates Marco Rubio for Vice-President - The Bulwark has this interesting analysis of legal complexities of the Republican Party nominates two residents of Florida for national office. Thanks to ...
Ring of Fire

Reform School Victims FINALLY Compensated In Fl & Dysfunctional Congress Causes Multiple Retirements - For decades, teenagers were abused and sometimes even killed at a reform school in a small Florida town. Mike Papantonio is joined by attorney Troy Raffe...
Eater Houston

Houston Astros Pitcher Brings Maven Coffee and Cocktails to Thompson Hotel - [image: An image of the espresso martini and carajillo on a book.] The espresso martini and carajillo are among the shop’s most popular beverages. | Becca...
Environment Texas

Efficient water heaters will cut pollution, save money, save lives - Many households will save more than $170 each year in energy costs thanks to new water heater efficiency standards. The post Efficient water heaters will...
Discourse

Fuck The Cops. Fuck This System. Free Palestine. - What happened on Tuesday night was terrifying. But it’s also a sign that this is working.
Glasstire

A New Dawn at the Laredo Center for the Arts after a Recent Shakeup - In the final days of 2023, downtown Laredo was frantic with paisanos en route to and from Mexico, buying armfuls of a variety of gifts: Dora the Explorer...
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas A&M in talks with Starr County about how to provide transportation for students - Discussions start at a Starr County Industrial Foundation event that focused on higher education. The post Texas A&M in talks with Starr County about ho...
Political Garbage Chute

Florida’s Abortion Ban Has This Incel Considering a Move to Florida to Start a New Rape Family - “…Big Feminazi has poisoned the women in my life against me just because I think a woman is programmed by God himself to be my willing sex and food prepa...
Grist

This spring, DC-area students are planting native flowers — and activating ‘the solarpunk imagination’ - A new initiative invited student groups to design and plant gardens that will promote wildlife, and cultivate their visions for the future.
Capital & Main

U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are the Industry’s Donations to Its GOP Allies - *Not Donald Trump. Not Ted Cruz. But a little known Republican from West Texas ranks as the top recipient of fossil fuel money.* The post U.S. Oil and Ga...
Unlimited Hangout

The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin - The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Trump’s Contingent-cy Plan - GOP remains highly favored if no presidential candidate gets 270 electoral votes and the House decides the presidency The post Trump’s Contingent-cy Plan...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, May 1 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, May 1]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to th...
CultureMap Houston

From vision to reality, Hermann Park fundraiser salutes remarkable change - It’s been quite a year for the Hermann Park Conservancy. Some might even say transformational. And it’s with this perspective of grace and recognition tha...
ArcaMax

Table Talk in Troubled Times - The Luncheon Society intrigued me by its very name. My grandmother attended women's society "luncheons." So how could I refuse a Zoom invitation ("you migh...
Field Negro

Cricket deserved better. - Every now and then a member of the MAGA crowd shows you who they really are. Take the governor of South Dakota, *Kristi Noem*, for instance. It recent...
Liberation News

PSL Editorial – The meaning of May Day: We need a revolution! - May Day is a time to take to the streets and say that it is the working class that should have the power. Our labor makes every aspect of society run. So w...
Scheerpost.com

How Israel Violates International Law in Gaza: Expert Report - An independent expert report lays out how Israel systematically violated U.S. and International Law in Gaza, concluding that Israel launched indiscriminate...
Texas Observer

Bordering on Cowardice - In an otherwise strong State of the Union address this March, President Joe Biden breathed new life into a term the immigrant rights movement has spent y...
El Paso Matters

Holocaust commemoration, Mighty Mujer Triathlon among upcoming events - The Week Ahead: Here’s a roundup of some culture and civic events in the borderland in the coming week. Holocaust Days of Remembrance Commemoration The ...
Right Wing Watch

Heritage Foundation’s Snarky and Revealing Defense of Project 2025 - Commentary Project 2025, a scheme led by the Heritage Foundation to “take the reins of government” after former President Donald Trump or another MAGA Re...
Democracy Now!

Reed Brody: U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can't Prosecute Israel for War Crimes - The Biden administration is claiming the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction to charge Israeli officials for war crimes. This comes after rumo...
Ecosophia

Lenocracy in Extremis: The Case of Publishing - I really did mean to go on to a different subject this week, rather than talking further about the system of political economy I’ve labeled lenocracy (from...
Ian Welsh

The Retard Parade of Western Politics Exemplified By Trump and Biden - [image: The Retard Parade of Western Politics Exemplified By Trump and Biden] We had a joke back in the Bush Jr. administration. “Evil or stupid? Why not...
Space City Weather

More showers and thunderstorms are likely later today and tonight, with additional flooding possible - In brief: The overall forecast looks more ominous, with atmospheric conditions favoring another round of strong showers and thunderstorms later today and t...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Such Low Energy’: Trump Relentlessly Mocked for Once Again Falling Asleep During Trial -
The Progressive Wing

5/1-5 News Roundup and Open Thread - Happy May Day!
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy opens applications for its rebranded public input committee - [image: A CPS crew addresses a power outage near Balcones Heights.]Applications to be a member of the CPS Energy Community Input Committee (CIC) are offici...
Off The Kuff

Final May 2024 special election early voting: The usual pattern holds - We come to the end of the early voting period for this weird and not really wanted May special election – okay, not wanted for HCAD, the SD15 special was f...
High Country News

Bozeman’s boom depends on immigrants but struggles to support them - [image: New homes in Bozeman's Valley West.] One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic ...
Crooked Media

Tucker Carlson Interviews “Putin’s Brain” - The post Tucker Carlson Interviews “Putin’s Brain” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Informed Comment

“Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A key feature of American bigotry toward people from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and toward Muslims more genera...
The NM Political Report

Federal agencies release operating plans for Rio Grande and Pecos River - The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers say that Elephant Butte Reservoir likely reached its peak elevation for the year in Februa...
Crooked Timber

Machines and tools - It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So, it’s a g...
Church and State

Other states, like Arizona, could resurrect laws on abortion that have been lying dormant for more than 100 years - Under Arizona's 1864 abortion law, anyone who helps perform an abortion could be sent to jail for up to five years.
jobsanger

Workers Not Adequately Represented In State Legislatures -
Antiwar.com

The Ideological Coup: How Disciples of Kahane Became the New Face of Israel - Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actua...
Popular Resistance

Recent Settler Violence In The West Bank, Explained - Violent Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank have skyrocketed ever since October 7. Before that, 2022 and 2023 were already sett...
Black Agenda Report

Iran just Scored HUGE Victory over Israel and the IDF will be Destroyed - Iran just Scored HUGE Victory over Israel and the IDF will be Destroyed bareditors Wed, 05/01/2024 - 07:43 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Sen...
Workers World

Campus revolts inspire anti-imperialist solidarity - [image: Campus revolts inspire anti-imperialist solidarity] Faced with the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in occupied Gaza that has claimed the lives...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Kansas lawmakers fail to override veto of bill banning healthcare for trans kids, two anti-trans bills fail in Mississippi - It was a good Monday and Tuesday for the transgender community. Yesterday an hour after I posted about the victory in federal court, news came down that...
Portside

Lessons From Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15 - Lessons From Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15 Greg Tue, 04/30/2024 - 19:27
Dispatches from the Underclass

‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A Threat to Humanity -
DeSmogBlog

Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes - In a landmark hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legal experts and campaigners argued that businesses, such as the fossil fuel and agri...
Bracing Views

For the U.S. Establishment, Violence Is the Answer - W.J. Astore Meandering Thoughts on Campus Protests against Genocide and Police Responses College and university campuses across the USA are increasingly th...
Progressive.org

Middle America: A Millionaire’s Bankrupt Senate Run - It seems like Eric Hovde doesn't know why he's running for a U.S. Senate seat. His incoherent political message in a state he is out of touch with is a gli...
Reform Austin

Campus Speech - The post Campus Speech appeared first on Reform Austin.
slacktivist

Tactical vested interests - A police officer in riot gear looks as reasonable and cool as a guy walking down the sidewalk in a wet-suit and football helmet. Plus: Two botched predicti...
The Texas Signal

A Texas Tussle Over Title IX - After the Biden Administration announced new guidelines about Title IX, the landmark 1972 legislation that bans discrimination based on sex in education,...
NORML

DEA Accepts Health Agency’s Recommendation to Reclassify Cannabis - [image: legal cannabis plants][image: legal cannabis plants]“It is significant for these federal agencies, and the DEA and FDA in particular, to acknowle...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Unraveling Education: Houston, we have a Problem! & his name is AJ Crabill [Storytime], Feb 21, 2024 - *Friends,* *April has been a busy travel month. I'll soon post on what's happening right now with the protests at UT Austin. I've definitely kept up thr...
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 4/30/24 – Trump’s Hush Money Trial Heats up as He Receives Fines for Violating Gag Order - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss a wide array of topics, including Trump’s hush money trial. Mitch Roschell...
Krebs on Security

Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years - A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leakin...
Infidel753

Image round-up for Walpurgisnacht 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click for full size. (For the link round-up, click here.) I was getting real *Phantasm* vibes from this for a ...
See You In 2020

To defeat Zionism, we must broaden the pro-Palestine struggle beyond left-liberal circles - A generation of young people have come to confront the vile reality of what the Democratic Party is. If you’re college-aged right now, it’s overwhelmin...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop - During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal t...
Equality Texas

Texans Speak Out Against Paxton’s Lawsuit, Abbott’s Order - Monday, April 29, 2024 For Immediate Release Texans Speak Out Against Paxton’s Lawsuit, Abbott’s Order Texas Governor & AG move to undercut updated feder...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Israel's Roots in Terror & Neo-Colonialism - For decades our government and mainstream media has portrayed Israel is a victim and the only defender of Democracy in the Middle East; however, they ra...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia targets South Africa with disinformation to discredit US aid to Ukraine - The U.S. helps Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. Washington is also actively assisting Kyiv’s efforts in developing democratic governance ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

How Comics Can Spark Conversations About Race and History in the Classroom - Right now, efforts to censor college protestors, to ban diverse materials in schools and to silence students and staff threaten our right to free speech ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman - Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, *Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair*.
Project Censored

World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi - This week on the Project Censored Show, in advance of World Press Freedom Day, Mickey talks to media scholar Andrew Kennis about his recent book, Digital...
Save Buffalo Bayou

What’s that Munching Sound? - Spring on that Bend in the Bayou April 28, 2024 We were standing on that high bank in the woods of Memorial Park looking up and down at Buffalo Bayou flowi...
MintPress News

“Military and Moral Failures”: How Iran’s Israel Strike Reshaped the Region Forever - Tel Aviv’s claim to “defense” and security primacy, upon which much of its exports were successfully marketed for decades, has been amply demonstrated to...
Campaign for America's Future

Sick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at United's HQ - “What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of Unite...
Rewire

At Catholic Universities, Students Fight an Uphill Battle for Reproductive Justice - Students are working to fill the reproductive health-care gaps left by their Catholic colleges and universities. The post At Catholic Universities, Stude...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism” - Does Whataboutism work? A new article has answers.
Debunking Christianity

Published: Don McIntosh's Article In Response to Mine On "God and Horrendous Suffering." - Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2024) of the *Trinity Journal of Natural & Philosophical Theology* has just been published. Included is the response by Editor-...
Earth 911

Which Companies Have Paid the Biggest Greenwashing Fines - As consumers become more aware of how their purchases are impacting the planet, businesses are... The post Which Companies Have Paid the Biggest Greenwas...
Progressives Chat

‘Joe Rogan’s Unbridled Enthusiasm…’ - Is Joe Rogan giving us something to consider? Encouragement, yes. But, when explaining why, there is something else. Technology can be a pain.
Democracy Chronicles

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Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance fervently hopes everyone on that jury in Manhattan can stay safe and anonymous as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the...
Trivial Knot

I don’t have a games backlog - In video games, there is the concept of a “backlog”—a list of games that you want to play, but haven’t gotten around to playing. This is commonly discussed...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand t...
Two Party Opera

Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Joe Biden and Richard Nixon are talking near some anti-war protestors. Biden: "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming." Nixon: "Four Dead in ...
Socialist Alternative

Southwest Flight Attendants Win 33% Raises – More Is Needed! - There are a quarter of a million active-duty flight attendants in America. Together they handle 5% of US GDP – of every $20 exchanged in all commerce, a fl...
Grits for Breakfast

Most 'contraband' found at Texas traffic stops results in no arrest; nearly 50k arrests for Class C misdemeanors in 2023 - I had cause this morning to dig around in Texas' 2023 traffic-stop data, so decided to post a few high/lowlights. This data, published annually in a cumber...
Bud Kennedy

These GOP runoff contenders aren’t just from the right. They’re from another universe | Opinion - I spent an hour in another universe this week. In the faraway brains of some Republicans I heard Wednesday, the Texas Legislature is full of leftists, ther...
The Grayzone

Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor - Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, D...
Sludge

Hochul Raised Big Bucks From Real Estate Moguls Before Housing Deal - A Sludge analysis found that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has received at least $1.5 million from real estate industry donors since the start of 2023.
Earthworks

Biden Admin Takes Action to Protect Alaska Communities, Caribou, & Clean Water from Proposed Ambler Road - Tribes and Conservation Groups Applaud Decision with Ads in State and National Media Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Land … The post Biden Admin Takes A...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Struggle: How We Take Back Power - The Stakes Part IV: Rebuilding Democratic Power and Curbing the Threat of Authoritarianism
Texas Freedom Network

What Does a School Board Do? - Learn about the role of school boards and how you can show up for the education and rights of students in your district. [...] Read More... The post Wha...
Robert Reich

Are Presidents Above the Law? Donald Trump thinks presidents... - *Are Presidents Above the Law? * Donald Trump thinks presidents should be allowed to commit crimes. Rubbish. Trump claims that quote, “A PRESIDENT OF THE...
Media Lens

The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support - Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes...
Lowering the Bar

“LOL, no.” - A terrific response to a bogus takedown letter.
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: TPUSA employees admit guilt, Nazi flag, sovereign citizen murder conviction - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
Texas Watch

In the News: Texas car insurance premiums are soaring. Here's what's behind the spike — and what you can do - Madison Iszler, staff writer for the *San Antonio-Express News*, recently investigated the sky-high increase in auto insurance premiums in Texas. Accordi...
Moron Majority

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Avedon's Sideshow

Well I knew there was gonna' be trouble, when I heard that callin' - I've just discovered the art of Laurent Parcelier and I love to look at it. "The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | First, they came for abortion, now they’ve come for in vitro fertilization - Alabama Supreme Court. Photo by Jeffrey Reed / Creative Commons By Michael Meeropol | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2024 The following is an expanded version of...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

#DemocratsDeliver - Been out of town for a while, been sick for a while, finally getting my tired old ass to the drawing table again. So, I’d been noticing this #DemocratsDeli...
The Reality-Based Community

Man United ra giá ‘trên trời’ để bán Marcus Rashford - Manchester United đang gây bất ngờ cho giới mộ điệu khi quyết định niêm yết mức giá 100 triệu Bảng cho Marcus Rashford, tiền đạo đang có phong độ thất th...
Greg Palast

When Kyle Rittenhouse Came to Kent StateThe young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy. - [April 16, 2024: Kent, OH] Kyle Rittenhouse, spoke on April 16 at an event sponsored by the right wing organization Turning Points USA (TPUSA) held at ... ...
Skeptophilia

In the dark - Dear Readers: After today's post, I'm going to be taking a long-overdue break from *Skeptophilia*. My intent -- lord willin' an' the creek don't rise, as ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOU-PROBLEM EDITION. - *Went down a K hole the other night.* I have said more than once that the *New York Post* is Rupert Murdoch’s primary stateside lie-diffuser – more than ...
Edinburg Politics

Border security, stopping use of deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence by child predators, further cutting property taxes, and broadband infrastructure among legislative issues to be examined by Sen. Hinojosa and other state senators in the coming weeks and months - Improving border security, stopping child predators from using deepfakes technology and artificial intelligence to harm or exploit minors, further cutting ...
Seeing the Forest

Helpless - Mully Tuttle
Reveal

How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come - [image: A photo illustration overlays a map of Israel and Gaza with images from the region, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] Research on World Wa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
Idavox

A Change in Tactics? - The Black Bloc has been seen en masse at protests across the United States for...
Free & Equal

A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
GreenSource DFW

Eclipse watch parties pop up across DFW - *NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC....
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
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...
Land Destroyer

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It - *March 5, 2024* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are raising the alarm over Ukraine’s military manpower shortage and the ...
Green Pages News

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
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...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
TalkLeft

Donald Trump Gets Whooped by Jean Carroll Jury - Forget the $5 million the first Jean Carroll jury ordered Donald Trump to pay for defaming her. That's bupkis compared to Friday's verdict by jury # two wh...
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...
Stinque

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
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. ...
Border/Lines

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
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...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
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...
CT's short stories and novelettes

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
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...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
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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