Equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism worked for a while. but the horrors inflicted on the Palestinians cannot be ignored by everyone forever. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Regime change, should it happen, would be great, but don't count on it. The Case for Striking Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect this to end well. And it won't distract attention, for long, from the fact of Trump's place in the Epstein crime spree. Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

If America survives the destructive disaster that is Trump and his MAGA Republican criminal mob, it will need to rebuild. Let's hope it does a better job this time. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Skipped the mobster president's SOTU address and watched a movie on Netflix. From this account, it was a good for my blood pressure. Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

The demand for vouchers may exceed the $billion appropriated to fund for-profit "schools." But it's enough to makes for-profit "schools" profitable. More than 100K students have applied to Texas' voucher program. A lottery determines who gets a spot. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

The barbarians are burning the libraries. They don't value pursuit of the unknown because in their ignorance they think they already know all the answers. What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Little kids in for-profit prisons. Crimes against humanity! Worms in the porridge, despair in their eyes: Why are we still detaining kids at Dilley? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Of course, Gov. Abbott's school voucher program is a thinly vailed scam to divert Texas tax money to the support of religous schools. But only Christian, not Muslem. Texas could be sued for blocking Islamic schools from vouchers, Democrats say www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Will Trump defy the Supreme Court? He probably would if he thought he could get away with it. But his political capital is depleting rapidly, so the Republic will probably survive. wapo.st/46RDvWd

So, Epstein's just the tip of the iceberg? What Trafficked Girls Think of Jeffrey Epstein and His Pals www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Did the mean old justices take little Donnies' favorite toy away? Shocker! SCOTUS Schools POTUS www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

The start of the fall of the house of Trump? wapo.st/3MxMFQX

Is his hubris Trump's ultimate weakness? This Is How an Autocrat Goes to War www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

The White House Economic Advisor wants to fire the truth teller for telling the obvious truth? wapo.st/4bXQSHX

We humans are a single species. Science tells us we started in one place, spread out and populated the world. In early isolation we evolved into differing "races" and "cultures." Still, we are a family, that needs to lean to get along. wapo.st/3OxHC3n

So it goes. The Texas Constitution calls "the establishment of a university of the first class." The University keeps trying. The politicians keep interfearing. After anti-liberal pressure, University of Texas to consolidate gender and ethnic studies www.houstonchronicle.com/news/educati...

A system that profit-motivates the caging of human beings has no place in civilized society. www.salon.com/2026/01/28/p...

Another way for privateers to profit off Gov. Abbott's school voucher plan. And another reason to vote against Republicans. Houston-area school districts ramp up marketing, hire firms to win back students www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

I think John Lennon made more sense when he challenged us to Imagine there's no Heaven ... Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

A sense of privilege among the elitists What Ro Khanna Learned From the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Gov. Abbott, who called out the National Guard 'cause Biden wasn't keepin' the "Mescans" south of the Rio Grand is upset 'cause the kids protest deporting their friends and family. Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants to Punish Their Schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

I see Hegseth is missing a NATO meeting. Is Trump doing his pal, Putin, a favor?

Trump Igors science and commits humanity's future hope of survival on his own willful ignorance. Trump kills major climate regulations triggered under Obama. Will it increase Texas pollution? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

But it doesn't burn fossils so pollitically, forget about it. wapo.st/46EaJZ3

"Stupid is as the Luddite does." We won't beat China by subsidize obsolete industry. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Typical Texas Tomfoolery. It'll be a cold day in hell before Texas Muslims out number Joel Osteen's followers. Rep. Chip Roy calls out growth of Islam in Texas during Sharia law hearing www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Trump may be a criminal. But it's his accomplices, on the Supreme Court and in the House and Senate, that make his crime spree possible. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

Trump can deny, but he can't repeal the truth. If greenhouse gasses are warming the planet, they are warming the planet whatever Trump's EPA "finds." apnews.com/article/trum... EPA set to repeal scientific finding that serves as basis for US climate change policy

Enjoyed it tho I don't speak or understand much Spanish. Trump Criticizes Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Just one more way the spiteful, ignorant, petty little man can hurt the America he hates for growing greater than the "greatness" he fantasizes that he remembers. Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Texas Republican State Government has been with holding Extended Medicaid from poor Texas families since Congress passed Obamacare. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured kids in the U.S., as more than 1 million lack coverage www.houstonchronicle.com/health/artic...

Good point. It's not fair to judge people of the past by our "modern," and "superior" standards of "morality." And that does not justify "whitewashing" their failings. Robert E. Lee was just another slave owner in the 1860s But he chose to commit treason against his country. wapo.st/4klpcyGGood

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering. https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

Have just watched Trump's full video. Yes, it insulted the Obamas using an old racist trope. What's more it reveals in Trump a suppressed self-awareness of his own gross inadequacy. He's so dangerous, because he's such a sad little man! This Is Just Who Trump Is www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

First, we must excise the Trumpian cancer from the American body politic. Then, and only then, can we earn back the respect we had. Even then we will likely never again be the essential, north-star nation we were. The Globalization of Canadian Rage www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

To Trump and too many Republicans, there are the real Americans, and all the other people living in their country. Common Ground Is for Suckers www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

The man who would be king? ‘Neoroyalism’ and What It Says About Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Trump wants the Republicans to control all federal elections. Wonder why? Trump Repeats Call to ‘Nationalize’ Elections, as White House Walks It Back www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

So, my phone is spying on me? Not surprised, just hope they it doesn't consider me important. ICE Is Watching You www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

Protecting the perverts, while exposing the victims? The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Good. The Court- especially the "conservative" majority of the Roberts Court needs maximum transparency. Why The Times Is Expanding Its Supreme Court Coverage www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

When the U. S. was founded by white settler-colonist it was already populated by brown and black, as well as white, people. It's time we whites accept the fact that all, we Americans, are in the same boat. If it sinks, we all go down. www.salon.com/2026/02/01/a...

Good to see that the courts are doing what they are supposed to do, and that the Trump Mob is not so bold as to defy them. Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

ICE is in Houston and it's not popular. And the politicians are learning it the hard way. Houston City Council meeting turns raucous after anti-ICE protesters shut out from speaking www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Springsteen's contribution. The Resistance needs music to march to. www.salon.com/2026/01/28/b...

Viewpoint of a Russian expat who lived through what's happening here, now, when it happened over there. State Terror Has Arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

This will not end well. Having lived through the unrest of the '60s I fear its's only a matter of time. And thinks to the gun nut mentality, Americans are well armed. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Understand: If your skin is brown you are, to Trump, what a Jew was to Hitler. The Public Face of ICE Is Bad Enough www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

"We are now seen as sinister, selfish, unruly and at everybody’s throats." The Un-American President www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...