Brains and Eggs

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Sunday "Finish the Job" Toons

Really would prefer they not.

Is it 1994 all over again? I thought we were reliving 2016.

Sean Delonas, https://t.co/jBpDzOYQMJ pic.twitter.com/RCI5nZOBtM
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 12, 2024

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— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) April 10, 2024

Etta Hulme, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1997) #OJ pic.twitter.com/tXE2nFnKbP
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 12, 2024

I saw lots of toons with OJ Simpson at the gates of heaven. A concept that for this atheist seems quite a bit more misplaced than usual.

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— Bill Bramhall (@BillBramhall) April 11, 2024

Sunday, April 07, 2024

Total Eclipse Toons

Miss Medusa: a twisted Texas comic

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

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— 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

Alina Habba: Trump 'concerned about going to jail' but 'he will be like Nelson Mandela' - Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, said her client's concerns about jail would not stop him from potentially violating a judge's gag order. Duri...
Church and State

Trump Offers Us So Many Options To Vote On! - With so many vital issues to vote about, one wonders what Trump's MAGA voters will find most appealing.
Mediaite

Judge Scolds Trump’s Lawyers After Trump Muttered and Gestured at Potential Juror: ‘I Will Not Have Any Jurors Intimidated’ - Judge Juan Merchan issued a warning to former President Donald Trump's lawyers during jury selection, after the ex-president was reportedly audibly mutte...
The Root

Why Was The Relationship Between Black Americans and the O.J. Simpson Verdict So Complicated? - In October 1995, the studio audience of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” strained their necks to get a better view of the screen. Read more...
Al Jazeera English

Venezuela shuts diplomatic office in Ecuador to protest Mexico embassy raid - Speaking at a summit of regional states, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounces raid as an 'act of barbarism'.
Alternet

'Keep confessing': Trump appears to corroborate allegations against him in impromptu remarks - Former President Donald Trump may have just accidentally admitted to the allegations against him in his Manhattan criminal trial during off-the-cuff rema...
Futurism

OJ Simpson’s Family Refuses to Let Scientists Examine His Brain for CTE - OJ Simpson's family has one answer for those who want to study the freshly-dead footballer and accused killer's brain for injuries: "Hard no." In an inte...
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers Spark Debate With Tough Vaping Penalties In Schools - If you are caught vaping on school grounds in Texas you will be removed from class and sent to a disciplinary alternative school, according to a new stat...
memeorandum

Romney open to voting with Democrats to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment (Axios) - Axios: *Romney open to voting with Democrats to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment* … But at the same time, I think the Senate should give a chance for debate,...
Texas Standard

From San Antonio to HBO: Comedian Jeff Hiller reflects on comedy career - The comic is back in Texas for Austin’s Moontower Comedy Festival.
Courthouse News

25 state attorneys general to tackle airline complaints with Department of Transportation - Consumer complaints against airlines took off during the Covid-19 pandemic, with state attorney generals and the U.S. Department of Transportation fielding...
The Verge

Humane AI Pin launch: the reviews are in, and they’re not good - [image: A photo of a person tapping on a Humane AI Pin.] Photo by Amelia Holoway Krales / The Verge At the least the only way to go from here is up... ri...
San Antonio Current

Protesting got way harder in Texas because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision - Due to the action — or, more accurately, the inaction — of the U.S. Supreme Court, organizers of mass protests in Texas and two other states now could be ...
CultureMap Houston

Celebrate 4/20 with 50% off Texas’ leading medical marijuana dispensary - With 4/20 just days away, many Texans may be wondering what is legal in the Lone Star State. While recreational cannabis is illegal in Texas, Texans can a...
Techdirt.

Internet Child Safety Laws Will Lead To Helpful Sites Being Blocked; Just Look At Schools - Various states and the federal government are proposing and passing a wide variety of “kid safety” laws. Almost all of them pretend that they’re about cond...
Daily Dot

‘Perfectly chilled for the drive home’: Total Wine & More under fire for offering ‘Free Chilling’ service - [image: Total Wine and more(l), Woman talking(c), Bottle in cooler(r)] A customer new to Total Wine & More was excited about the "free chilling" station ...
Political Wire

Romney May Vote to Dismiss Mayorkas Impeachment - Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) “is willing to vote to dismiss impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as long as time is given...
Axios

Civil war hits House GOP over foreign aid - House Speaker Mike Johnson suddenly faces the most dangerous threat to his job of his six-month tenure. *Why it matters:* Johnson risks a weakened speake...
Deadline Politics

New York Mayor Eric Adams Visits Scene Outside Donald Trump’s Trial, Says “Our City Is A Fair City” - New York Mayor Eric Adams visited the scene outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse, where media outlets and reporters have stationed themselves as Donal...
Salon.com

“We’re screwed”: Congressional Republicans could oust Speaker Mike Johnson over Ukraine funding - Far-right Republicans are unhappy with the speaker after he proposed holding a vote on military aid for Ukraine
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia’s spy agency baselessly claims DEA and FBI enlist Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to fight for Ukraine - Contrary to Russia’s well-documented state-backed campaign to enlist criminals and foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Russian foreign intelligence provided no...
Eschaton

TURN THE MACHINES BACK ON - Donald's company is not doing so well.
Progressive.org

A Further Reckoning for Abu Ghraib - Trial seeks to hold corporate contractors accountable for ‘outsourced’ abuses committed in Iraqi prison.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US man who deflected hockey puck flying directly at boy, 4, hailed as hero - Mother of Nasir Davis calls Andrew Podolak, 33, who averted a potential tragedy in Cleveland, Ohio, ‘a really special person’ An Ohio man who used his ar...
Earthworks

Third Annual Prayer Horse Ride Travels Northern Nevada to Protect Peehee Mu’huh - Nevada is at the frontlines of a national rush to mine lithium. As we work to mitigate climate impacts that … The post Third Annual Prayer Horse Ride Tr...
Mediagazer

Spotify says 25% of paid users in the US, UK, and Australia have started an audiobook as part of their subscriptions; 57% are between 18 and 34 years old (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: *Spotify says 25% of paid users in the US, UK, and Australia have started an audiobook as part of their subscriptions; 57% are...
The Hill

Employers must provide accommodations for abortions, contraception under new rule - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) implemented a final rule on Monday requiring most employers to provide “reasonable accommodations" for w...
naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/16/2024 - ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, now would be a good time to sell gold, Kennedy on the ballot in Iowa, pilots cite "problematic trends" ~
Vox

Caitlin Clark’s staggeringly low starting salary, briefly explained - [image: Clark (left) and Engelbert (right) pose in front of a purple backdrop, holding up a black jersey with the number 1 printed on it in yellow, on Apr...
Mondoweiss

Where pa’lante meets sumud: Puerto Ricans organize in solidarity with Palestine - [image: Educator Natalie Santana sits beside her sisters and comrades at a solidarity march in Viejo San Juan, PR on Nov. 12 2023.]Since October 7, activis...
Houston Public Media

Harris County officials are expecting an influx in mosquito-borne diseases - Harris County Public Health’s Mosquito Control division is expecting a higher number of cases involving mosquito-borne diseases over the next few months.
slacktivist

Just listen, just slow down - I am not an expert in finance and investment, but I don't recommend buying stock in Trump Media.
Daily Howler

CLAN: Did Maddow read the New York Times? - *TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2024* *Pretty Boy Floyd nods off: *We're guessing that Rachel Maddow read yesterday's New York Times, though then again possibly not....
World Socialist Web Site

Tories denounce BBC’s Nick Robinson for referring to “murders of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians” - Official discourse on the war in Gaza, especially in the media, is a thoroughly state-managed affair, down to the last word. It is designed to create a fan...
Slate

Should Sonia Sotomayor Retire? Is It Sexist to Ask Her To? - These kinds of calls always seem to end up at women’s feet.
Second Nexus

Jon Stewart Had The Perfect Response After Trump Appeared To Fall Asleep In Court On Monday - Comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart had social media users cackling after he laid into former President Donald Trump for appearing to fall asl...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: It’s All About Caring, Fatsos - This is one of those “I’m almost transcribing, but people will think I’m making it up” cartoons. I have a bad habit of searching social media to see what p...
Capital & Main

On the Chopping Block: California’s Climate Program for Low-Income Housing - *California will pilot a program to reduce climate emissions from buildings without displacing tenants. Facing a deficit, Gov. Newsom proposes slashing i...
Claytoonz

Sleepy Don - If this was a nation where the president used the legal system to go after his political opponents, as Donald Trump so often claims, then he would have fle...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 16, 2024 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Record ocean heat is bleaching coral reefs around the wo...
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: Chris Sununu - Granite State Governor grovels to the Indicted Impeached Insult Comedian.
Texas Monthly

This Spot Has Found a Way to Legally Cook Traditional Lamb Barbacoa in Texas - Restaurants that cook Hidalgo-style barbacoa de borrego often have challenges adhering to health department regulations. But El Grandpa Mexican BBQ, in Geo...
The Daily Poster

Handing Taxpayers The Climate Cleanup Bill - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul’s fossil fuel donors pay for their pollut...
Ring of Fire

Medical Device Used In Heart Surgery Now Linked To Multiple Deaths - A popular heart pump used on cardiovascular patients has now been linked to dozens of deaths and possibly hundreds of injuries – but the FDA refuses to p...
OpEd News

Thomas J. Farrell's Personal History of the 1960s (REVIEW ESSAY) - Doris Kearns Goodwin's new 2024 book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History (Simon and Schuster) triggered a response in me to write my own personal ...
WhoWhatWhy

Tesla To Lay Off More Than 10% of Its Global Workforce - PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening,...
Southeast Texas Record

Ferguson Law settles Orange County crash case for $2.1M - BEAUMONT - The Ferguson Law Firm has resolved a personal injury case on behalf of an Orange County woman for $2.1 million, a press release states. Read m...
The Week

'Good riddance to the televised presidential debate' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
DeSmogBlog

‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group - A gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal. The National Cons...
The AltWorld

El crimen contra la paz cometido por Angela Merkel y Francois Hollande - Mis análisis sobre la responsabilidad personal de la ex canciller alemana Angela Merkel y del ex presidente […] The post El crimen contra la paz cometido...
Ballot Access News

New York Six-Week Window Opens for Petitioning for Independent Candidates and the Nominees of Unqualified Parties - Tuesday, April 16, is the first day in which petitioning in New York is permitted for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties. Here ...
Texas Observer

In Travis County, a Fight over Bail Hearings Has Big Stakes for Criminal Defendants - In Travis County, the magistration process—the initial bail hearing after someone is arrested—isn’t cinematic. Arrestees are either led to a small room w...
El Paso Matters

Can Texans register to vote without an ID? - El Paso Matters is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs. The post Can Texans register to vote without an ID? appeared first on El Paso Matters.
Wolf Street

Yen Drops to 155 against USD. Currency Collapse at Work, -32% against USD since 2021, -50% since 2012 - Turns out, collapse of the currency is the price Japan is now paying for years of crazed monetary policies.
Undernews

Tales from the Attic: My first political lessons - *From our overstocked archives* *Sam Smith, 2011*- For some four decades I argued for an elected district attorney and comptroller in my hometown of Wash...
Glasstire

Marfa Invitational Announces Details of 2024 Event - Marfa Invitational has announced dates and events for its 2024 iteration in the West Texas town of Marfa. The Marfa Invitational Foundation is a contempo...
SCOTUSblog

Justices limit securities liability for omission of material facts - [image: Justices limit securities liability for omission of material facts]As securities cases go, Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners is a s...
Bonddad

Industrial production for March is positive, but the overall trend remains flat - *- by New Deal democrat* Industrial production, one of the premier series the NBER has historically used to declare recessions vs. expansions, has f...
NPR's Health Shots

Finally! Tough new safety rules on silica dust are out to protect miners' lungs - Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say stricter new rules to limit miners' exposure to silica dust are expected to fina...
The Progressive Wing

April 16-19 Open Threads - Hey everyone! 🙂 Well, if the mediocre, for-profit MSM can be believed, we’re dodging that infamous nuke conflagration known as WWIII. At least for now, b...
Democracy Now!

"I'm Jewish, and I've Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them": Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza - We speak with veteran journalist Peter Maass about the Israeli war on Gaza and his new opinion piece for *The Washington Post* headlined “I’m Jewish, and I...
ArcaMax

Mindless or Spineless: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Elizabeth Warren - The 350 missiles fired at Israelis last weekend were fired by Iran, which has consistently pledged to annihilate Israel. This, of course, is a pledge to co...
The Conversation

Supreme Court to consider whether local governments can make it a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available - Legal precedents hold that criminalizing someone for their status, such as being homeless, is cruel and unusual punishment. But what if that status leads t...
The Smirking Chimp

The Big Picture: Trump’s Ongoing Attempted Coup -
The Reality-Based Community

Soi kèo U23 Việt Nam vs U23 Kuwait lúc 22h30 ngày 17/4/2024 - Trận mở màn của U23 Việt Nam tại vòng bảng AFC Asian Cup U23 2024 sẽ là một cuộc đọ sức quan trọng với U23 Kuwait. Đây là cơ hội tốt để đánh giá khả năng...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Funny, with a chance of politics - Rabbits Against Magic is swimming upstream against a rapid current, because whatever idiotic thing Elon Musk says today, he’s bound to exceed tomorrow. His...
Rio Grande Guardian

A Q&A with Mike Hernandez, a regent with Texas A&M University System - A discussion about economic development and workforce training in the Rio Grande Valley. The post A Q&A with Mike Hernandez, a regent with Texas A&M Univ...
Space City Weather

Warmer weather continues, with the potential for some rain this weekend - Summary: Houston faces several warm and humid days before a front arrives this weekend to cool us down for a bit. The front is likely to bring some rain sh...
Election Law Blog

“Democracy Dies in Primaries” - Must-read commentary by Nick Troiano, who is a leader of the effort to replace partisan primaries with the kind of all-candidates first-round elections t...
Angry Bear

On student loans - Most students who attend medical school in the US do so with student loans. Yes, some have military scholarships and some have wealthy parents, but most ...
Krebs on Security

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina? - For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking in...
Earth 911

Earth Day for Seniors: Six Activities for Connection and Well-being - Earth Day is a wonderful occasion for seniors to connect with nature and their community... The post Earth Day for Seniors: Six Activities for Connection...
San Antonio Report

Listen: How rural Texas finally got electricity — and why it took so long - In the 1880s, electricity began making its way into Texas cities like San Antonio, bringing lights, refrigeration and other conveniences of modern life. No...
Skeptophilia

Dream songs - Last night I dreamed that our local mall had been converted into a giant used book store. (Something I would entirely approve of.) We were going to to ...
Crooked Media

The Other Side of Oppenheimer - The post The Other Side of Oppenheimer appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Some Tarrant Appraisal District drama - Of interest. A candidate for the Tarrant Appraisal District board alleges County Judge Tim O’Hare tried to pressure him into dropping out of the race. Coll...
Mother Jones

Indiana Will Test a Highway That Can Charge Moving Vehicles - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Blake Dollier spoke excitedly ...
Dissident Voice

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” aga...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: Could the Russians Seize Congress? - The Russian have been coming, off and on, for seven-plus decades. While these conjured imaginings may be laughable, the consequences of a culture of Cold W...
American Prospect

Schumer Carries Water for Crypto - When it comes to backdoor schemes to help the financial industry, the frequently progressive Senate majority leader is still the senator from Wall Street.
ProPublica

EPA Finalizes New Standards for Cancer-Causing Chemicals - by Ava Kofman ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
Infidel753

Image round-up for 16 April 2024 - More pictures from my collection -- click for full size. (For the link round-up, click here.) I still listen to that song Obviously a Lov...
Grist

FEMA is making an example of this Florida boomtown. Locals call it ‘revenge politics.’ - The Biden administration is trying to punish Lee County for rebuilding flood-prone homes. The state’s Republican politicians are fighting back.
Portside

‘Catastrophic’: Biden Admin Approves Largest Offshore Oil Export Terminal - ‘Catastrophic’: Biden Admin Approves Largest Offshore Oil Export Terminal Mark Brody Tue, 04/16/2024 - 02:30
Informed Comment

The NYT’s Palestinian-Israeli Lexicon: Special Edition of the Ghoul’s Glossary - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American humorist and, oddly, horror author, Ambrose Bierce (d. 1913), produced a serial, staccato, newspaper column consist...
Counterpunch

Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian - I am honored to have been selected as USC Class of 2024 Valedictorian. Although this should have been a time of celebration for my family, friends, profe...
jobsanger

Trump Is Becoming More Vulnerable -
Antiwar.com

Biden’s Irresponsible War Doctrine Led to Iran’s Attack on Israel - The Biden administration seems to be consistently adopting a policy of attempting to satisfy its foreign policy objectives by nurturing wars being fought...
Ian Welsh

The Standard Conditions Peaceful Or Violent Revolution, Collapse and Coups - [image: The Standard Conditions Peaceful Or Violent Revolution, Collapse and Coups] We’ve discussed this before: 1. fiscal inability; 2. an elite ...
Popular Resistance

After 40 Years, Indigenous Genocide Survivors In Guatemala Seek Justice - In Guatemala, during the government of Fernando Romeo Lucas García from 1978 to 1982, genocidal acts, sexual violence and other crimes against humanity w...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

INVITATION: Student-led SEAT24 Summit @ Book People on Sat. April 20 & at the Texas State Capitol on Sun. April 21, 2024 - *Friends,* *I'm thrilled to announce that Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) is here in Austin, Texas on Friday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21st...
Socialist Alternative

Mass Movement Needed To End The Slaughter In Gaza - Working people around the world have been appalled, enraged, and disgusted at Israel’s actions in Gaza. Public pressure against all governments with any k...
Liberation News

Will Israel start a regional war? - There is only one way to remove the threat of a regional war breaking out: End the genocide in Gaza.
Workers World

Arizona’s abortion ban: ‘Control and upholding white supremacy’ - [image: Arizona’s abortion ban: ‘Control and upholding white supremacy’] The following statement was made by Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSo...
See You In 2020

Russia’s Ukraine action, Oct 7, & now Iran’s retaliation have weakened U.S. hegemony, imperiling the deep state - Above: the new mural in Tehran that reads “The next slap will be harsher” Following the blowback from the War on Terror, and an unprecedented decline i...
Sludge

AIPAC-Tied DMFI Raises More From Private Equity Execs - Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) super PAC brought in $418,000 in a new FEC filing, most of it given by a handful of private equity executives and inv...
The Intercept

U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles - American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran’s retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus. The post U.S., Not Israel, Shot...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: The Trumpiest Trial - Robert Downen @ The Texas Tribune: Far-right activist Jonathan Stickland starts new group, months after white supremacist scandal The former lawmaker reg...
The Texas Signal

A Primer On The Comstock Act - As abortion continues to play a major role in Texas and national politics, a law from the nineteenth century keeps getting mentioned: the Comstock Act of...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Our New 4/20 Merch and Ongoing Fight for Legalization - For decades, the ACLU has fought against the war on drugs. The criminalization of cannabis has led to far too many unjust incarcerations, which waste cri...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Marxist Viewing of Dune: Part Two - The latest movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune, Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve, has set truly intergalactic box office re...
NORML

JAMA Pediatrics: Legalization Laws Linked With Fewer Teens Using Marijuana, Other Intoxicants - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]“Together, results found no net increases in cannabis or, through spillover effects, alco...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Mixed Martial Arts Fighter in Montana Has Ties to the Far Right - A mixed martial arts fighter in Missoula, Montana, who appears to have three neo-Nazi tattoos on his chest and possible ties to a racist hate group, is spo...
Novara Media

Israeli War Cabinet Discuss Response to Iran’s Retaliatory Attack - The Israeli war cabinet are considering how to respond after Iran conducted a retaliatory attack on Israel with hundreds of drone missiles. We speak to Bei...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Nicaragua takes on Germany over Gaza genocide- an interview with Carlos Argüello Gómez - Nicaraguan lawyer and diplomat Carlos Argüello Gómez speaks to The Grayzone about his case against the German government for its facilitation of Israel’s...
Environment Texas

New grants can make our roadsides bee-friendly - Bees need more habitat. Our highways can help. The post New grants can make our roadsides bee-friendly appeared first on Environment Texas.
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...
Project Censored

From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help - From East Palestine to Palestine, people need help. In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with East Palestine, OH residents Zsuzsa Gyenes and ...
Discourse

What Is Wrong With You Psychos - No, we should not bomb Iran right now!!!!
MintPress News

Amal Clooney’s Silence on Gaza Shows the Limits Of Liberalism - Amal Clooney's conspicuous silence on Israel's actions in Palestine and Lebanon contrasts sharply with her vocal condemnation of human rights abuses else...
Rewire

How Abortion Rights and Birth Justice Are ‘Inextricably Linked’ - Birth justice advocates say state ballot initiatives protecting abortion rights must also advance the rights of people who give birth. The post How Abort...
Progressives Chat

More War! - This coming Saturday [April 20, 2024] marks the 25-year anniversary of the mass shootings and murders at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. It w...
High Country News

Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lot more - Long-awaited Interior Department policy will raise financial assurance and royalty rates. The post Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lo...
Rallblog

What Will Be Left of Gaza for Trump To Make Worse? - Democrats argue that Trump, who was very in favor of Israel during his presidency, would be even worse for the people of Gaza than Biden, who has totally...
LareDOS

Convoy of electric vehicles stops in Laredo, Tues., Apr. 23 - Featured EVs include Teslas, Kia EV-9 and a Blue Bird schoolbus
Avedon's Sideshow

She fills her drawing book with line - All I know is it was identified as "Bobilo art" and I liked it. My favorite video from this eclipse is not of the sun itself, but of the pinhole camera ...
Common Dreams

First They Came For My Appliances: We Are Here For the Refrigerator Freedom Act - Okay all you naysayers whining shambolic House GOPers aren't doing their job just 'cause they're blocking border solutions, ignoring infrastructure, enab...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: What's Next For Iran/Israel, The Historical Present, Anxiety, and More - We've got a full, full mailbag this time. Much to discuss.
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...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canal Saint-Martin, Paris (3) - [image: Canal Saint-Martin, Paris]
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Franklin Graham decries Nazi concentration camp, gets reminded about his anti-LGBTQ comments and support of Donald Trump - Folks who follow this blog know how much I despise Franklin Graham. From his vile comments about the LGBTQ community to his basic hypocrisy in supportin...
Idavox

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

Has Counter-Apologetics Peaked? By Robert Conner - Everyone old enough to remember that day knows where they were and what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001, the day of madness that ma...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albania...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTI-CHOICE WITH A (REALLY BAD) EXPLANATION EDITION. - *Friend of mine alerted me. This is the kind of goofy shit I love.* Yeah, I missed last week’s edition. I offer no apologies. It’s been a long time betwe...
Lowering the Bar

O.J. Simpson Embarks on Long, Slow Bronco Ride Into Eternity - Although that's probably not where it will end up.
Dissent Magazine

The War on Health in Gaza - The Israeli government is restricting access to food in Gaza at the same time as it is destroying healthcare infrastructure. Each process intensifies the...
Eater Houston

Food Festival Celebrating Houston’s Diversity Comes to Sugar Land - [image: An image of noodles and meat] There will be plenty of dishes from all over the world at Sugar Land’s first Bazaar Food and Wine festival. | Courte...
Political Garbage Chute

The State of Arizona Just Sent Me the Pink Slip for My Wife’s Uterus - “…my wife and I weren’t planning any excursions through Arizona to begin with. However, now that I’m going to be bogged down with extra paperwork if I do...
Bud Kennedy

Texas Republicans want to punish abortion like baby-killing. Prison for women, or death | Opinion - Does Texas’ 2021 abortion law need to be “straightened out”? Then why would Donald Trump say that about Arizona’s law? Texas’ staunchly anti-abortion Repub...
Duck of Minerva

Sebastian Kaempf - Professor Sebastian Kaempf of the University of Queensland joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast this week. Seb grew up in Germany, with the fall of the Berlin...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 - 06:05 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
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.
Texas Freedom Network

Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, A Faith Leader Built, Sustained, and Guided by Community - Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, the Co-Lead Minister at one of Just Texas’ Reproductive Freedom Congregations, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of ...
Bracing Views

There Is Only One Spaceship Earth - W.J. Astore Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide Also at TomDispatch.com When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (o...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

An Electoral College Time Capsule - The six presidential elections held during the 25-year history of the Center for Politics were often close, although most states voted predictably. As pa...
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...
Robert Reich

Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?It’s a paradox. Inflation... - *Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?* It’s a paradox. Inflation is dropping but prices aren’t coming down. How can this be? Because corporations hav...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: April 2024 - Lots of articles to share this month. Health in the Ace Community (2021 Survey) | Ace Community Survey – Full disclosure: I’m sharing this because I’m a di...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 11 - 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...
Democracy Chronicles

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Edinburg Politics

Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa, champion of open government, to leave position in order to focus more on his successful private legal practice - Longtime Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa, who has used his extensive legal expertise to provide ongoing reports to the public about state laws and polici...
The NM Political Report

Could business rooftops increase access to solar energy in low-income neighborhoods? - Amid the energy transition, researchers are looking for ways to ensure low-income communities are not left behind. Researchers from Stanford University ...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Covering clashes on campus as academic freedom challenges mount - Academic freedom in higher education is facing increased scrutiny at colleges and universities nationwide. It’s a story about campuses big and small, pu...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? - Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I was a si...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2024 - Walmart had at least another sixteen shootings in March of 2024, including at least six causing one death each, and a total of at least seven more injur...
Media Lens

‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media - A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up t...
Unlimited Hangout

Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup - Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations – enforced by the satellites of a US intellige...
Seeing the Forest

Easier Than Governing - This post originally appeared at Government Cheese: Chronicling the collapse of democracy Modern society is complex, vast, complicated. Governing modern so...
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 ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
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.
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance would like for just one of the cases against the Former Guy to get a firm court date and stick with it as it brings you this...
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 Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS | POLICE AUDITORS | How police deny us our rights: A view from YouTube - By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2023 In 40 years as an attorney, I have encountered the police in many contexts. I have received three warning...
Greg Palast

Before Scorsese’s film, before Grann’s book, there was a poemElise Paschen reads Wi’-gi-e, the inspiration for Killers of the Flower Moon - Osage poet Elise Paschen reads "Wi’-gi-e", the poem which gave the title to the film and book, *Killers of the Flower Moon*. We filmed her special reading ...
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...
TalkLeft

State of the Union: Will Biden Resonate? - Americans have been dealt a hand with two candidates, neither of whom they particularly think should be President. Nonetheless, barring Trump being crimi...
Equality Texas

Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region - Title: Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region Organization: Equality Texas and Equality Texas Foundation Position Type: Full Tim...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas District Attorney, CCA races and the future of Texas criminal-justice reform - The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction ...
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 ...
Moron Majority

The Only Book Donald Trump Has Ever Read -
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...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Why Houston Floods, According to Flood Control - It Rains a Lot! What Can Flood Control Do? March 3, 2024 For years the Harris County Flood Control District has been giving public presentations that inclu...
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...
Texas Watch

In the News: USAA members injured in car wrecks battling San Antonio insurer over medical payments - Texas Watch Executive Director Ware Wendell was quoted in *San Antonio Express-News* staff writer Patrick Danner's recent article on the struggle for US...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson - Dandelion Salad February 19, 2024 with Chris Hedges “Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Ve Vill Bury You! - Da, komrade, and then ve are takink kare of Moose and Sqvirrel! Oh, f’crissake, are they shittin’ us with this mess? Are they really that desperate to take...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West, w/ MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace - Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of t...
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.
Two Party Opera

Drums of War - I live-streamed the process of making this comic, here is part 1: And part 2, the thrilling conclusion:
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.
GreenSource DFW

Irving home featured on National Solar Tour - *This state-of-the-art energy efficient home at 1025 Lane St in Irving will be open to the public Friday and Sunday.* Oct. 6, 2023 There are only two ho...
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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