We should only fear artificial intelligence (AI) if it is allowed to exist under current capitalist rules. Democracy would make AI a utopia for America and the rest of the world.
General News
Give “We’re all gonna die” Sen Joni Ernst a break. It’s a smokescreen, taking our eyes off the ball.
The media decided to make Sen. Joni Ernst the poster person for the millions who will lose healthcare. Why did they give the real villains a pass over the years?
Michael Steele nails the naivete of journalists covering the Trump-Musk saga.
Journalists are missing the real story on Musk’s failed DOGE project. Michael Steele points out it’s about the servers stealing your data and Musk’s contracts.
Jasmine Crockett paraphrases Sen. Joni Ernst perfectly: You elected me to help you dig your grave.
Jasmine Crockett paraphrased Sen. Joni Ernst as saying she helped dig the graves of her constituents. Red States have already killed many by not accepting the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Professor nails how tariffs are likely to cost Americans using the washing machine tariff history.
Economics professor Justin Wolfers exposes Trump’s claims about who pays for tariffs by examining the process of tariffs on washing machines.
The Hartmann Report
“Free Trade” Has Put America & Democracy At the Mercy of China
Bringing our manufacturing back from overseas will reverse the 40-year-long slide of the American middle class and rebuild our nation’s security & economy. China is threatening the United States: this could get very ugly, very quickly. Here’s what’s happening. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning a trip to Taiwan, the first for a Speaker in […]
How Will Trump’s Deadly Sabotage Of America End?
use he has not been held to account, Trumpism has spread across the US landscape like metastasized cancer, with GOP politicians who aspire to corrupt strongman status emulating him in every state
The Abortion Firestorm is also a White Freak-out About the Browning of America
America is no longer all-white or all-under-white-control and white supremacists on the Court are bound and determined to do something about it
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Guest Bloggers
The End of the Frontier means the end of America as we know it
Over a hundred years ago, a German professor stated that socialism failed on American shores because of a surplus roast beef, apple pie, and free real estate on the American western frontier.
On the Eve of World War III: Middle East Edition
One Tuesday afternoon, my grandfather picked up my sister and me from high school. He remarked that today marked nothing less than the beginning of World War Three.
League of Independent Voters of Texas
Imperial Governance and Constitutional Wreckage • LIV News, July 29, 2021
Are imperial governance and the related constitutional wreckage taking Texans down a dangerous path to a constitutional crisis?
The elephant in the Texas voting booth that neither party wants to talk about.
The elephant in the Texas voting booth that neither party wants to talk about is the suppression of a plurality of Texas voters. Surprise! There are more non-aligned and independent Texans than Democrats or Republicans.
Egberto Mentioned In Media
Kingwood Area Democrats to host fundraiser, collect donations for veterans–The Tribune 2012-01-23
KADS to host fundraiser, collect donations for veterans Monday, January 23, 2012 – Trilla Cook Democrats, independents and disenchanted Republicans, from around the Kingwood-Atascocita-Humble area are invited to attend and support Democratic efforts in Northeast Harris County. The Kingwood Area Democrats (KAD) will host a fundraising brunch and 2012 Democratic candidate meet and greet […]
Quoted at This Just In CNN.com Blogs – Supreme Court mulls health care law
I have been watching tweets and getting emails on my thoughts on whether the Affordable Care Act will be struck down. After reading excerpts of the transcripts I thought it would be upheld 6/3 as it seemed that Kennedy and Roberts were looking for a reason to back it. After listening to Toobin on CNN […]
Egberto On TV
Egberto on CNN on Troops in Afghanistan
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my FOXaustin 7 Coverage of War On Women Rally
I was in Austin for the War On Women Rally with the Kingwood Area Democrats and other organizations including the Coffee Party. I got an email yesterday saying I was on Fox 7 and then went to their website to check it out. WOW, I got a whole five seconds of coverage. I was busy […]
Egberto’s Published Articles
Is Net Neutrality Really Necessary? You’re Damn Right!
by Egberto Willies and Keyan Bliss (Originally Published at Common Dreams) Three weeks after Christmas, the American judiciary gave telecommunications corporations a huge present. On January 14 a federal appeals court decided to weaken the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Internet Neutrality policy by striking down the rules it adopted in 2010 to regulate Internet service […]
Egberto Willies: Wendy Davis’ life story provides empathy necessary to be governor – Kingwood Observer
It seems like I chose just about the right time to write an article on Wendy Davis. She finds herself under attack not only by the entire Right Wing establishment, but from the traditional media as well. She happens to be the story to balance the myriad of bad acts by Republicans. There is a […]
Battleground Texas
Support continues to build for Judge William ‘Bill’ McLeod
Judge McLeod turned around his office in two months. McLeod and his staff accomplished more in 2 months than his predecessor did in two years.
Occupy Movement
5 Conservative Economic Myths Occupy Wall St. Is Helping Bust | | AlterNet
5 Conservative Economic Myths Occupy Wall St. Is Helping Bust AlterNet / By Dave Johnson October 10, 2011 | For decades the corporate media has force-fed “conventional wisdom” free-market economic nonsense to the American public. We have been told that it’s good to give more and more to the wealthy few, that it’s good to […]
Netroots Nation
Netroots Nation 2012: Paul Krugman Analysis The Current State Of Economy
Paul Krugman provides analysis on the current state of the economy. LIKE My Facebook Page – Visit My Blog: EgbertoWillies.com Follow @EgbertoWillies
Coffee Party Posts
Coffee Party USA Board of Directors 2016 Meeting in Blue Ridge, Georgia
The Coffee Party USA board of directors coalesced around a strong voter education and turnout strategy that we will be releasing in the forthcoming weeks.
Columnists
How Charter Schools Promote ‘Development Off the Backs of Children’
Marta Bulaich didn’t notice the charter school that abutted her rental property in Watsonville, California, until she saw children scaling the 12-foot fence surrounding her backyard to retrieve
As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
As global populations transition into what has been called the “longevity society,” caring for the aging and dying has prompted the emergence of an unusual self-care movement promising improved
How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The cloud
Alongside China’s, Which Social Credit Systems Are Developing?
By the late 2010s, China’s “social credit system” (SCS) was increasingly viewed as a notorious government effort to monitor personal behavior, shape public conduct, and control access to services.
Park your plane, President Mulligan; FAA cratering
I’m curious about the fire sale we've witnessed on the White House lawn.They’re offering public lands and federal buildings for cheap. They’re mowing down civil servants like roadside weeds. They’re
Cruel hoax: the political economy of anti-immigration
The deep contradictions of anti-immigration are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like ‘America First’ Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if
A Few Takes
Original Sin? Or Original Choice?
I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. I don’t always get around to reading them daily, just like I am sure many cannot read every one of my “Egberto Off The Record” newsletters. After all, I send out 1 to 5 every day, depending on the day’s news. I served on the Coffee Party USA […]
Joy-Ann Reid did the best job of covering the real TikTok narrative, the hidden billionaires.
Joy-Ann Reid and Robert Reich provided the best coverage of the insane TikTok fiasco. Unlike the shallow coverage elsewhere, they hit the real issues.
Maddow Blog: Stefanik picks the wrong fight, asks whether we were better off in 2020
But the idea that conditions in the United States got worse after Trump left the White House is demonstrably ridiculous.
People Making a difference
Ashley Mosley, staying in her community to make a difference
Our communities would do well having more people like Ashley Mosley. She stayed in community where many have left intentionally.
Angeliina Lawson, a progressive on a conservative board ensuring transparency to her constituents
Angeliina Lawson is the sole progressive on the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees trying to be fiscally accountable and transparent.
Local News
Houston Chronicle Endorses State Senator Molly Cook for reelection to SD-15.
Congratulations to State Senator Molly Cook (@MollyforTexas) for earning the endorsement of the Houston Chronicle for reelection to Senate District 15.
Why DA Kim Ogg must be expelled from the Democratic Party for her Ted Cruz endorsement.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg can’t endorse Ted Cruz under the law and order moniker. Ted Cruz was a participant in the attempted coup on America via his support for Donald Trump.
Harris County’s Guaranteed Income Program (Uplift Harris) is in Danger
Last April, Harris County passed a historic guaranteed income program. One of more than sixty pilot programs across the country,
Kingwood Texas Floods Again, May 2024.
Once again, the Kingwood, Texas, area is experiencing a significant flood. It is becoming a way of life that engineering can solve, but our political and economic system proves incapable of mitigating.
Entertainment
Chris Rock used his new Netflix skit Selective Outrage to slam Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
I watched Chris Rock on Netflix this morning. It was clear that the Will Smith slap at the Oscars has affected Chris Rock’s comedy.
The movie “Honk For Jesus” brought back memories of a CNN iReport I did on Bishop Eddie Long.
Just got back from the movie “Honk for Jesus.” It felt familiar. A woman told my wife, “That’s the Eddie Long story.” Yes, it is similar to the iReport I did in 2010.
Message To Garth Brooks: Took this superfan lots of money & attempts to finally see you in Houston.
Garth Brooks super fan Debra Willey finally got to see you in Houston, TX, after several attempts and several thousand dollars — a shoutout maybe to her?
Environment
Are there ways living organisms can be used to fix pollution?
Pollution remains one of the most significant environmental challenges, contaminating air, water and soil and posing risks to human health. Traditional cleanup methods, like chemical treatments and mechanical removal, often come at a high cost and sometimes harm the environment further
Which companies and industry sectors stand to profit the most from global warming?
According to a report by Swiss Re, a global insurance provider, climate change could erode a total of $23 trillion of global gross domestic product by 2050.
Sports
Texans Win. But why do it the hard way?
The Texans vs Bills game was exciting but it should have ended in regulation. Bill O’Brien is lucky to have stellar players.
Simone Biles named female athlete of the year | khou.com
Simone Biles continues to make Houston proud as she wins female athlete of the year. Congratulations! COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Gymnastics powerhouse Simone Biles has been named the 2019 Team USA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year after another record-setting performance in competition this year. Biles topped a list of award-winners of the honors presented […]
Move To Amend
Move to Amend’s Daniel Lee: Transcending political parties at the People’s Convention (VIDEO)
Many grassroots organizations have converged on Philadelphia, PA using the Democratic National Convention as the catalyst to organize for a better America.