Brains and Eggs

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Jill Stein's Texas tour, in pics and video

El Paso, last Friday:

Lots and lots and LOTS of coverage from El Paso media, en Espanol y Ingles. And these following are from Houston's rally Saturday afternoon.

Courting voters in Houston! @GreenPartyUS @DrJillStein takes stage #KHOU11 #HouNews pic.twitter.com/7tanAeTshx
— Grace White (@GraceWhiteKHOU) October 15, 2016

More coming from San Antonio (today) and Austin (tomorrow).

Sunday Unshackled Funnies

You cannot change the Democratic Party from within

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

Join us https://t.co/Tj0nOMa49x #VoteGreen pic.twitter.com/wb8q2hFdv6
— Jason Call 🇵🇸 Green Party WA02 JillStein2024 CM (@CallForCongress) January 23, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

📍 Houston, Texas

🇵🇸🫶🏼🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/Kx1i36HDqV
— missfalasteenia (@missfalsteenia) 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

Raw Story

'Catalyst for a movement': Ex-GOP senators launch fight again 'radical' Trump populism - Three retired Republican senators are creating a resistance movement against former President Donald Trump and the MAGA populists they argue are usurping...
The Hill

Nearly 100 Red Lobsters marked 'closed' on restaurant site: See the full list - Red Lobster locations across the country started closing abruptly Monday, surprising residents and, at least in one case, a city official.
Political Wire

A Remarkable Moment In American Politics - “Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate ‘sham,’ becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Cohen declines to bite at combative questions from Trump’s man Todd - Todd Blanche seemed to be looking for a ‘gotcha’ – instead there was laughter in the viewing room and one irked judge “Mr Trump, is Todd doing a good job...
Techdirt.

Private Equity Is Using Copyright To Cannibalize The Past At The Expense Of The Future - Walled Culture has been warning about the financialization and securitization of music for two years now. Those obscure but important developments mean tha...
Futurism

People Are Selling AI Clones of Dead Relatives for Just $150 - Niche Interest In China, the AI cloning of dead relatives has become a thriving cottage industry, driving down prices and spurring technological advances...
Mondoweiss

Why the Israeli army is invading northern Gaza a second time - [image: Screenshot from video of battles between the Qassam Brigades and the Israeli army in Jabalia. (Photo: Social Media/X)]The Palestinian resistance fa...
memeorandum

The US aims to wrap up Gaza war. How does that square with its goal of toppling Hamas? (Jacob Magid/The Times of Israel) - Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel: *The US aims to wrap up Gaza war. How does that square with its goal of toppling Hamas?* — Biden officials envision...
The Verge

Android apps will soon let you use your face to control your cursor - [image: Google logo with colorful shapes] Illustration: The Verge Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming ‘mouse’ ...
Alternet

'One of the reasons we went': Tuberville admits bizarre reason for attending Trump trial - Former President Donald Trump may be seeking to circumvent Judge Juan Merchan's gag order by enlisting the help of willing surrogates, according to one o...
Mediaite

Trump Says Alan Dershowitz Ought to Have His ‘Head Examined’ For Being a Jewish Democrat - Trump has long made controversial comments regarding Jewish Democrats and what he sees as their necessary loyalty to Israel. The post Trump Says Alan Ders...
Slate

The Shadow Hanging Over the Drake-Kendrick Beef - Hip-hop legends are issuing warnings about the ugly, exhilarating feud. They may have a point.
Al Jazeera English

Evacuation orders issued as wildfire grows near Canada’s Alberta oil patch - Authorities say firefighters are facing a 'challenging day' as huge blaze nears Fort McMurray in the Alberta tar sands.
San Antonio Current

Busy highway stretch near downtown San Antonio to close for construction - Heading north from downtown San Antonio may be a source of headaches over coming weeks. On Tuesday, the Texas Department of Transportation began repairing...
CultureMap Houston

Innovative Italian art installation illuminates downtown Houston development - Experiencing art is no longer about just looking at paintings on a wall or sculptures on a stand. It's also about being immersed in the works, seeing them...
Daily Dot

‘I kept mine up for 2 weeks cause I was so scared’: Tint installer tells customer not to roll down windows for 3 days. They roll them down while leaving the lot - [image: Blue car(l), Man talking(c), Car window rolled down(r)] Trigger warning for professional window tinters: watching Darrion Strickland's (@Isa_papi...
Progressive.org

The Possibility of Justice for Terrence Heard - Two bills, currently under consideration in Tennessee, could change sentencing rules that keep many inside prisons for too long.
Daily Cartoonist

Nick Seluk’s The Awkward Yeti Story; or, Heart and Brain Turn Failure to Success - From Nick Seluk: Growing up, I had two passions: drawing silly comics, and not doing what anyone told me to do. I drew comics all the time. I even drew com...
Courthouse News

Albuquerque policing - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, have asked for a federal court to approve the termination of po...
Rio Grande Guardian

Carrera: COSTEP’s two recent site selector visits to the RGV were a great success - Some of the site selectors have companies in mind that they would like to bring to the Rio Grande Valley, says Rick Carrera of the Council for South Texa...
Mother Jones

Under Cross-Examination, Michael Cohen Spills About His Past With Trump - Donald Trump’s criminal trial for engineering a hush money scheme—to save his 2016 campaign from a slew of stories about his infidelities—entered its drama...
Vox

How to prepare for another season of wildfire smoke - [image: Canadian wildfire smoke and haze over Minneapolis, Minn.] Due to the affects of Canadian wildfires, it was a hazy morning in the Twin Cities on Th...
Mediagazer

Q&A with NPR's David Folkenflik and Floodlight's Miranda Green on uncovering how The Richmond Standard, a local newspaper, was set up as Chevron's mouthpiece (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab) - Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab: *Q&A with NPR's David Folkenflik and Floodlight's Miranda Green on uncovering how The Richmond Standard, a local newspaper, w...
Salon.com

Everything we know about rapper Childish Gambino's new album and tour - Get in while it's good before Childish Gambino retires (for real this time)
The Texas Signal

Pressure Grows For Mike Miles To Resign - Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles was already feeling the heat from teachers, school workers, and community members over a myriad of issues at the st...
Axios

Trump surrogates push the line on his gag order - Former President Trump's latest gag order workaround may be to just let his surrogates do the talking. *Why it matters: *Trump loyalists have flocked to ...
The Grayzone

Israel astroturfed Eurovision vote but lost anyway, government admits - Israeli officials hyped their country’s 5th place Eurovision finish as proof of quiet global grassroots support for their assault on Gaza. Now, they admi...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Are We The Baddies? - Scott Lively says that by changing its name to Scouting America, the Boy Scouts have reached “that openly grooming stage after a decade of increasing deg...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Max Boot quoting Petraeus in the Washigton Post. It's Groundhog Day, again!
Second Nexus

Whoopi Goldberg Hilariously Fires Back At Trump After He Shares Petty 'Moving To Canada' Meme - On Monday's episode of *The View*, host Whoopi Goldberg addressed one of former Republican President Donald Trump’s latest social media tirades. That mo...
The Root

Uh-Oh! Here's What Just Happened to Wendy Williams' $4.5M New York City Condo - Going, going gone! That was the sentiment that ultimately rang true over the weekend for buyers who cashed in on Wendy Williams’ lavish New York City con...
Houston Public Media

Katy ISD teacher arrested, charged for allegedly possessing child pornography - James Stone, 53, allegedly admitted to taking several of the images on school grounds, at beaches and local swimming pools around Katy. He was arrested Mon...
Claytoonz

Melania Gets Stormy - I’ll write about the problems with Michael Cohen’s credibility tomorrow (maybe) but for now, let’s focus on some of the things he said, especially regardin...
NPR's Health Shots

The first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig has died - Rick Slayman, who in March became the first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died. One of his doctors talks about wha...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two "zero-day" vulnerabilities i...
Texas Monthly

How ‘Hit Man’ Star Austin Amelio Brings Texas Swagger to Film Sets Around the Globe - The actor-artist-skateboarder always wears a cowboy-coded scent, for one.
Wolf Street

Household Debt, Delinquencies, Collections, and Bankruptcies: The Free-Money Era Is Over for our Not So Drunken Sailors - Everything got more expensive over the years, the population grew, so debts rose, but income rose too.
ProPublica

Minnesota AG Sues Contract-for-Deed Seller Who Allegedly Targeted Muslim Community - by Jessica Lussenhop ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoi...
Daily Howler

UNKNOWNS: We don't need no stinkin' "new ideas!" - *TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024* *It started with Candidate Hart:* Way back in 1987, excitement was building about former senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado) and his "...
Grist

America’s grid isn’t ready for a renewable future. A new federal rule could change that. - The regulation requires grid operators to develop plans to build out the transmission needed to deliver on Biden’s climate agenda.
Reform Austin

Republicans Cut Property Taxes, But Folks Still Struggle - When Texas had a $32.7 billion budget surplus in 2023, Republicans made it clear that they would prioritize a property tax cut. The House and the Senate ...
Socialist Alternative

Seize The Moment: Organize The South! - On April 19, hundreds of autoworkers gathered in Chattanooga, Tennessee for a watch party of Volkswagen’s union election. This was the first vote to be hel...
World Socialist Web Site

CWU tells Parcelforce workers they must accept company’s “bottom line” and compete with gig-economy - The Communication Workers Union’s message amounted to a demand that Parcelforce workers knuckle down and compete against DPD for improved market share.
El Paso Matters

SISD anticipates $41 million deficit, no pay raises next school year - The Socorro Independent School District may forgo pay raises for its employees, reduce its contributions to employee health insurance and close its aqua...
American Prospect

Swing Voters Prefer Democrats. Just Not Joe Biden. - Today on TAP: The party’s message wins strong support. Not so its top messenger.
Discourse

It's OK to Boo Jerry Seinfeld Actually - He's gonna be fine. All the commencement speakers are gonna be just fine.
The NM Political Report

NM Political Report to host panel discussion on election administration - On Thursday, May 23, we will hold a News and Brews event discussing how elections work ahead of primary election day with an expert panel. The event will...
Common Dreams

IRS Should Make Direct File Permanent, Available Nationwide, More Than 250 Groups Said - The IRS should make Direct File permanent and available nationwide in the years ahead, said 256 groups — including many members of the Coalition for Free...
Southeast Texas Record

Slip & fall suit alleges Whole Foods security guard was beating homeless man, pushed man who tried to stop him - HOUSTON - A man is alleging he slipped and fell near a Whole Foods salad bar after a security guard who was allegedly beating a homeless man pushed him f...
Deadline Politics

Michael Cohen Tells Jury “I Violated My Moral Compass” In Working For Donald Trump — Update - UPDATE: Michael Cohen finished his direct testimony this afternoon in the hush money trial of Donald Trump with an expression of remorse. “I regret doing ...
Free & Equal

Free & Equal Presidential Debate to be Held at FreedomFest in Las Vegas July 11th - LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, May 14, 2024 – The Free & Equal Elections Foundation announces its third presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, hosted at Fr...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Michael Cohen's "legal services." ~
Dissident Voice

Aryan Idols and the Search for Indo-Europeans - Orientation Purpose of this article Almost 2 years ago I wrote an article called Aryan Right-Wing Mythology for the New Age based on the work of Robert E...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - May 14, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Canada's fire season erupts, forcing evacuations, as wil...
Ballot Access News

Articles on the Ongoing Biden Ballot Access Situation in Ohio - Still no resolution to the problem of the Democratic National Convention being held after the Ohio presidential candidate filing deadline of August 7, whic...
First Draft

Vote Against The Crook, It’s Important - Does Trump think Hannibal Lecter is real, not reel?
Counterpunch

- The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
WhoWhatWhy

The Cicadas Are Here - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Sludge

Trump-Nominated FEC Commissioner Wants to Help Political Donors Conceal Their Identities - The proposal from Allen Dickerson has been placed on the Federal Election Commission's agenda for May 16.
The Week

'The hard reality of an aging society' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Ring of Fire

Texas Man Shakes Up 2024 Election With Official Name Change - A man in Texas has legally changed his name to “Literally Anybody Else” in order to run for President. He said that he made the change to highlight the f...
Capital & Main

New Mexico Loophole May Allow Record Methane Releases - *Despite efforts to rein in emissions, state is unlikely to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, group says.* The post New Mexico Loophole May Allow Reco...
Texas Standard

How a Denton divorce could imperil IVF access in Texas - The Texas Supreme Court is considering taking up the question of whether frozen embryos should be treated as people, not property, in a divorce case.
DeSmogBlog

GB News Owner Hires Tory Kingpin’s Oil and Gas Linked Lobbying Firm - One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. The UK regi...
Bracing Views

War of the Words - W.J. Astore Language as a Weapon When Barack Obama took over as president in 2009, the global war on terror, or GWOT, just didn’t seem to fit the tenor of ...
Undernews

Alternative sex and gender - *Newsweek *- Femme seems, from the outset, just like any other suburban Massachusetts watering hole. There's TVs, a row of barstools, a long bar and plen...
Space City Weather

After three years of owning a whole-home generator, here’s how things have gone - In brief: In this sponsored post with longtime partner Reliant, Eric writes about his experiences with owning a whole-home generator, including during rece...
Election Law Blog

Candidate-Centered Top-Two Non-Partisan Primary Vulnerable to Manipulation - This obscure but fascinating story from the Seattle Times reveals the vulnerability of top-two non-partisan primaries to partisan manipulation. Democrati...
Glasstire

SMU DataArts Announces Leadership Changes - SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research, a project of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, has an...
Bonddad

April producer prices reflect some building pressure from a strong economy with full employment - *- by New Deal democrat* Tomorrow and Thursday a plethora of data will be released, on consumer inflation and spending, production, housing, and job...
ArcaMax

American Gold: At Age 100, Lieutenant Benjamin Inspires Still - If 100 can be said to be the new 70, Lieutenant Alfred D. Benjamin of the Army Air Corps' 384th Bomb Group has to be the expression's poster boy. Ramrod-st...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, May 14 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, May 14]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the...
Texas Observer

The State Says Shelby Park Is Open. Some Locals Beg to Differ. - In a January 13 filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other attorneys from his office stated that Shelby Park, the cent...
NORML

The Value of a NORML Internship - [image: NORML internship][image: NORML internship]"I was so happy with the internship that I did it twice! It has been so inspiring and educational to be...
The AltWorld

I Criticize The US Power Alliance Because It’s The Most Destructive Force On Earth: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): A federal judge in Canberra has sentenced […] The post I Criticize The US Power Alliance Beca...
Democracy Now!

"Unbuild Walls": Detention Watch's Silky Shah on Debunking Immigration Myths & Embracing Abolition - Amid an intensifying crackdown on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, we speak to the author of the new book *Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Ne...
Scheerpost.com

US Army Officer Resigns Over ‘Unqualified’ Support for Israeli Slaughter in Gaza - Maj. Harrison Mann was working at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The Conversation

Confusion over how pregnancy dates are measured is widespread – and makes for uninformed debate over abortion limits - Most Americans surveyed did not know how pregnancies are dated or how long a trimester is – but this is especially true among some groups, like people who ...
The Progressive Wing

5/14-5/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Almost 450,000 people have fled Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip following Israeli evacuation orders earlier this month, according to the U.N. agency for P...
The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump’s Obsession With Control Is Backfiring on His Lawyers in Court -
The Daily Poster

Landlords Are Charging You Junk Fees For Services That Screw You - Tenants are paying fees to have their credit scores lowered, among other dubious services.
Earth 911

Using and Recycling CO2 Canisters from Home Soda Machines: What You Need to Know - Readers have asked many times about the sustainability of home soda dispensers. More households are... The post Using and Recycling CO2 Canisters from Ho...
San Antonio Report

Listen: How San Antonio is innovating on workforce development and city services - [image: JCB, a British-based manufacturer of industrial equipment, plans to build a manufacturing facility on San Antonio's South Side, one of the signific...
Skeptophilia

Drowsing toward fascism - In John Neufeld's novel *Sleep, Two, Three, Four!,* the United States has become a fascist dictatorship, run by President Wagenson, who had at first been...
Off The Kuff

My interviews and Q&As for the runoffs - Early voting begins Monday, May 20, for the primary runoffs. Yes, I know, we just finished voting for the HCAD/SD15 special elections, but here we are agai...
Crooked Media

Run (2020) - The post Run (2020) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 14 May 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click for full size. (For the link round-up, click here.) I wasn't planning to Queen Eliza...
Portside

When Bad Cops Become Private Security Guards - When Bad Cops Become Private Security Guards Mark Brody Tue, 05/14/2024 - 02:17
jobsanger

Modern Conservative Thinking Has Not Been Good For U.S. -
Church and State

The Possibility of Living Past 100 Years - The possibility of living past 100 years old is no longer a distant dream but a tangible goal supported by advancements in science and medicine.
Informed Comment

Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity - Hamburg, NY (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Carl Schmitt wrote in Political Theology (1922) “sovereign is he who decides on the state of the excep...
Antiwar.com

NATO’s New Burden-Sharing Objectives - From its founding in 1949 until the start of NATO’s proxy war against Russia in 2022, the principal troublesome issue for the Alliance was Washington’s r...
Popular Resistance

Ann Wright On The Gaza Freedom Flotilla And Upcoming NATO Protests - This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with Ann Wright, a retired Colonel, former State Department official and prominent peace activist. Wright, who resigne...
Liberation News

Tyson Foods is poisoning our water - [image: The Tyson Foods Jefferson Plant in Wisconsin in 2013. Photo credit: Corey Coyle (CC BY 3.0 DEED)]A recent report published by the Union of Concerne...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Expansion of Alabama 'Don't Say Gay' bill dies in on final day of legislative session - Alabama legislators pushing an expansion of a statewide 'Don't Say Gay' bill nearly brought it closer to being a law. But they stumbled at the finish li...
Workers World

Chinese leader Xi remembers bomb victims on visit to Belgrade, Serbia - [image: Chinese leader Xi remembers bomb victims on visit to Belgrade, Serbia] This article by Jörg Kronauer was published in the German daily newspaper, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The University Accord: Plus ça change… - Higher education is at the core of the political challenges confronting the Albanese government, principally of boosting capital accumulation whilst safe...
See You In 2020

Our most powerful institutions admit they feel existentially threatened by anti-imperialist narrative warfare - The resistance to the Gaza genocide, and the reactions from our ruling institutions that it’s provoked, have given us an unprecedented piece of insight...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas’ DEI ban almost ended cultural graduations. Latina students at UT-Austin fought to keep theirs. - *I'm still savoring the sweetest of 5 graduation ceremonies I attended last week—and they were all so wonderful. The point is that Latina/o/x Spanish-spe...
Project Censored

The Threat to Press Freedom in Congress and Beyond - Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, and Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, join Mickey on the Pr...
Duck of Minerva

Eurovision suggests both sides on Israel-Palestine need to invest in some public diplomacy - Last year I was on a sabbatical in Edinburgh, and my family and I watched Eurovision for the first time. We loved the out-there electro-pop versions of loc...
Angry Bear

Overall and core Consumer Price Index (CPI) both increased by 0.4 percent in March - It appears rent, transportation, and medical care services are the culprits holding up a decrease in inflation. Medicare does not surprise me at all. Har...
Novara Media

Labour Finally Come Out Against Israeli Arms Sales - Labour have finally said they now oppose arms sales to Israel. Plus: Rishi Sunak has used a keynote speech to say the country would not be safe under Keir ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia’s US ambassador misuses statistics to deflect blame for state hacking - Antonov manipulated statistical data omitting key distinctions that point to Russia as the world’s largest sponsor of political cybercrime.
Rallblog

The Final Countdown – 5/13/24 – Michael Cohen Takes the Stand as Trump’s Hush Money Trial Intensifies - On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall discuss hot topics from around the globe, including the latest developments out of ...
Earthworks

Barrick Gold’s Lack of Transparency Disappoints but Doesn’t Surprise - This piece was co-authored by Viviana Herrera of MiningWatch Canada Disponible en español a continuación Representatives of communities impacted by … T...
MintPress News

IDF Rafah Assault Doomed to Fail: Analysis by Former US Special Operations’ Greg Stoker - Greg Stoker, a former US Army Ranger and intelligence collector, explains Israel's untenable military action in Rafah for MintPress News The post IDF Raf...
Ian Welsh

You Can’t Run Industrial Policy OR A War Economy Under Neoliberalism - [image: You Can’t Run Industrial Policy OR A War Economy Under Neoliberalism] Washington spent 7.5 billion dollars on charging stations. The result? Seve...
slacktivist

‘Life in the Negative World’ - I didn't realize the first two items here were connected until I read the third one.
alicublog

SUNDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: TWO DAYS LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT EDITION. - * Albini RIP.* UGGGH guys, I know, I’ve blown another deadline but you have to understand I was just on a (far too brief!) vacation back in the homeland, ...
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates Sen.-elect Molly Cook as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff looks at former Houston Mayor Annise ...
Democracy Chronicles

Avalon78 Casino -
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Real Madrid vs Alaves lúc 02h30 ngày 15/5/2024 - Real Madrid có thành tích rất tốt trên sân nhà. Họ cũng là cơn ác mộng với Alaves trong những lần đối đầu gần đây. Cục diện của trận đấu này không khó đo...
Progressives Chat

‘Compton Jay Out at [“RBN”]’ - *Revolutionary Blackout* had a livestream this past Saturday, May 11, 2024 with announcement that Compton Jay is out. There had been problems, behind...
Crooked Timber

Originalism For Realists: Two Obvious Thoughts - Looks like I haven’t posted for a couple years. Probably time to fix that! This one kicks off from a tweet I fired off, off-handedly, that led somewhere us...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 years ago - May 24, 1999 The U.S.-organized NATO forces bombed the central market and a hospital in Nis, Yugoslavia, in midday May 7, killing 14 civilians. They blaste...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: May 2024 - This month, the Ace Community Survey published a report on sexual violence. The real story of Gamergate 2 (conspiracy theories, crybullying, and a consumer...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The ‘Other Shoe’ - A friend and I were discussing the events of 1989 and ‘90 recently, and we agreed that even at the time, we knew it was only the first shoe dropping. So, d...
Political Garbage Chute

I Interviewed the Condom Donald Trump Didn’t Use When He Ivanka’d Stormy Daniels - “Prophylactic Americans have senses just like everyone else. And would YOU want to ever be just a few microns away from Donald Trump’s penile flesh?” Som...
Lowering the Bar

This AI Garbage Bot Claimed It Was Thinking of Me the Other Day - So I got this email purporting to be from Gale Kal, VP of Regional AI Sales for a company called KwikTrust: Hi Kevin, As I woke up to the morning news abou...
Texas Freedom Network

Reproductive Freedom Helps Everyone Thrive - For those who observe it, Mother's Day can be a wonderful way to celebrate and uplift parents, parental figures, caregivers, and the many diverse, loving...
Bud Kennedy

Bill Waybourn, your deputies need you. Show the video in Tarrant County jail death | Opinion - Cameras are a law officer’s best friend. They tell us more about who was right and wrong. They show us who hit who, and who might have been responsible. Th...
nonsite.org

Protected: Style and Subjectivity, a Parable - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Debunking Christianity

The Desperate Desire to Know What Jesus Actually Taught - *But we can’t get there from here* Most of the devout would have no clue what I’m talking about, i.e., that we have no way of knowing what Jesus actuall...
Rewire

What the Hell Is Abortion Trafficking Anyway? - Idaho, settle down please. You're doing too much. The post What the Hell Is Abortion Trafficking Anyway? appeared first on Rewire News Group.
CPI's Danger in the Air

Cut off from our past, Chinese American adoptees seek belonging - [image: Lian is looking down at the notepad in her lap, holding a pencil] China’s one-child policy was implemented in 1980, restricting families to one ch...
High Country News

Killing one owl to save another - Is it ever the right thing to do? Two ethicists weigh in. The post Killing one owl to save another appeared first on High Country News .
Idavox

NJ Hate Watch: Zionists Ebrahim and Mathew Yehounatan of Flushing, NY - Threatening comments with racial slurs. And it turns out one of them threatened a woman...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 10, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio May 10, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/10/2024 - 04:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
Environment Texas

Exxon calls it a recycling collaboration. But it’s not real recycling. - The post Exxon calls it a recycling collaboration. But it’s not real recycling. appeared first on Environment Texas.
Dissent Magazine

A Makeshift Alliance - A professor’s critical support for the student protests.
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Free Speech on Campus - In the first draft of this cartoon, the first panel went out of its way to make fun of Emma Camp’s New York Times article about students being afraid to sa...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Anti-Zionist Inquisition - Nobody expects The Anti-Zionist Inquisition! Like their befuddled medieval Catholic progenitors in the classic Monty Python skit, they descend upon you wit...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Districts of Change, Part Two: Looking Beyond the Straight-Party Districts - The vast majority of congressional districts have voted "straight-party" in presidential elections since 2008. There are 56 districs that have voted for ...
The Rag Blog

ROBERT COTTRELL | ALTERNATIVE MEDIA | Looking Back at ‘The Village Voice’: ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write’ - By Robert Cottrell | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2024 [Robert Cottrell will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, May 10, 2-3 p.m. on KOOP-FM 91.7-FM in...
Web of Debt

Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank? - In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: Sovereign Citizen shooting, Energy Substation Attacks and Holocaust Education - 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...
Unlimited Hangout

The Jimmy Dore Show - The Jimmy Dore Show.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Decline and Destruction as Product and Entertainment - The spectacle of Trump in court is appealing theater for those who want to avoid the harder questions
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 12 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Edinburg Politics

$135.5 million Student Housing and Dining project, $9 million renovations of college football stadium, and optometry program in Edinburg among major projects to be considered by UT System Board of Regents on May 8 and May 9, 2024, reports Dr. Luis “Louie” G. Alamia, PT, DPT - Edinburg could see more advancements in construction, sports and medicine when the UT System Board of Regents meets in Austin on Wednesday, May 8 and Thurs...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2024 - Walmart had at least seven more shootings in April 2024, with four of them fatal, and three of those deaths caused by cops shooting suspects, although o...
Eater Houston

Astros Star Alex Bregman and Bun B Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Trill Taco Collaboration - [image: An image of the Trill smash taco.] The Trill smash taco features Trill Burgers’ crispy beef smash burger patty with American cheese smashed onto a...
Seeing the Forest

Kings Rounding Up Gold (video) - Kings Rounding up gold to pay for mercenaries is no basis for an economic system! PS this post is about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
BEYONDbones

Summer is Near | May 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: Summer is on the horizon and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is explaining the signs in the stars above Houston’s skyline. Mars and Saturn ar...
LareDOS

TAMIU holds record Spring Commencement Exercises Thursday, May 9 at Sames Auto Arena - Former Laredoan William "Willie" Hornberger, J.D., Spring Commencement speaker
TalkLeft

Open Thread for College Campus Protests - I am not writing about the Israel-Hamas war, or as of yet, the protests on college campuses. But I know everyone has strong feelings about the protests. ...
OpEd News

A Kennedy in name only - This apple has fallen far from the family tree. So far, in fact, that every member of his family has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president and encourag...
Greg Palast

On the Line: The Osage Nation v. The Koch BrothersAn upcoming documentary details how Charles and David Koch made billions off of the Osage people's oil money. - No one becomes a billionaire without victims. Charles and David Koch were no... READ MORE
Robert Reich

Should Billionaires Exist? Do billionaires have a right to... - *Should Billionaires Exist? * Do billionaires have a right to exist? America has driven more than 650 species to extinction. And it should do the same t...
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 ...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

2024 Oak Cliff Earth Day in photos - *The sun came out and so did the crowds for Oak Cliff Earth Day on Sunday. Photo by Jim Domke.* April 24, 2024 On Saturday, Oak Cliff Earth Day organize...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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