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BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE & POLITICS / The dumbest climate plan in history
By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2025 The title of this article is not solely meant to highlight the level of knowledge of this current administration, but to draw attention to the strongly conservative Wall Street Journal article,“The Dumbest Trade War … Continue reading
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MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICS OF MEDICINE / They are trying to hide the future cuts to Medicaid
This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted by DonkeyHotey from a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Michael Vadon’s Flickr photostream. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered … Continue reading
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MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985
Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following story on Substack. It is a timely reminder of what can be achieved … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE / APPEAL / Help Mariann Garner-Wizard Vasquez Heal
By Alice Embree/ The Rag Blog / March 12, 2025 Mariann Garner-Wizard Vasquez has been living in Central America for several years. I’ve known Mariann for sixty years. She was part of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), fighting segregation … Continue reading
ALLEN YOUNG / BOOKS / ‘A Prince of a Boy: How One Gay Catholic Helped Change the World’
By Allen Young / The Rag Blog / February 20, 2025 As I sat down to write a review of Brian McNaught’s memoir — knowing Iwould praise and recommend the book — I wondered what some of my friendsmight think. … Continue reading
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ALICE EMBREE / THE RAG AND THE RETROGRADE / History Repeats Itself
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2025 This article was originally posted to Alice Embree’s Substack. “UT-Dallas students launch alternative newspaper after class with administration,” was the headline above a Texas Tribune article on February 7, … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / POLICE ABUSE / How the police deny us our constitutional rights
BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / February 13, 2025 [Lamar Hankins discusses this subject on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Friday, February 14, at 2 p.m. on KOOP at 91.7-FM in Austin or streamed at KOOP.org.] While I … Continue reading
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BRUCE MELTON / ESSAY / Resist the illegitimate administration: Why this happened and the climate change connection.
By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / January 23, 2025 SUMMARY: Americans did not change their views causing the Big Lie to be elected. Their views were bastardized by the unprecedented number of lies and the Fascist oligarchy dictator … Continue reading
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MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966
By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval cadets came for ROTC training at the Naval Air … Continue reading
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CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS AMERICA / SCIENCE / Bruce Melton
East Coast Filming 2024 Forest kill from salt water intrusion, Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 26, 2024 [Listen to Bruce Melton discuss the issues raised in this article on … Continue reading
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THORNE DREYER / REMEMBRANCE / Kinky Friedman 1944 – 2024
Kinky Friedman. Image from Wikipedia. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 4, 2024 Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | Second anniversary of Dobbs
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | July 2, 2024 This article originally appeared in Alice Embree’s Substack and was cross-posted to The Rag Blog. AUSTIN — It was 8:30 a.m., June 24, at the Texas Capitol when the … Continue reading
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