Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies (late edition)

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Grayzone

Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing - Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed force...
NPR's Health Shots

As America turns 250, one museum makes history possible to touch - Federal law requires most museums and other buildings to be accessible to people with disabilities. But access to what's actually inside is often still lim...
ProPublica

Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes - The post Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes appeared first on ProPublica.
Mediagazer

Several journalists on Substack say they feel safer working for themselves rather than for legacy outlets, but some say earning a living wage can be difficult (Mallary Tenore Tarpley/Poynter) - Mallary Tenore Tarpley / Poynter: *Several journalists on Substack say they feel safer working for themselves rather than for legacy outlets, but some sa...
Al Jazeera English

Why do AI models struggle with online hate speech detection? - As the UN marks International Day for Countering Hate Speech, Al Jazeera examines how AI handles it - and falls short.
The Week

Unproven, experimental stem cell treatments for autistic children are on the rise - Desperate parents are putting their faith in untested hands
jobsanger

Americans Are Stressed About The Economy - And Trump Doesn't Seem To Care -
Portside

This New Party Wants To Write a New Future for Israel - This New Party Wants To Write a New Future for Israel Mark Brody Thu, 06/18/2026 - 00:49
Ian Welsh

Text of the Iran/US MOU - From Dropsite: Paragraph 1: (end military ops including in Lebanon: this is the one that may blow it up.) The United States of America and the Islamic Repu...
Informed Comment

Can the US-Iran Negotiations after the MOU Succeed? (Juan Cole & Asieh Namdar) - Iran is in a much better position now than before - it has demonstrated that it can implement its threats to close the Strait of Hormuz
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. Insists Scientific Journal Explain Retraction Of Anti-Vaxx Article He Liked - We were just talking about how angry RFK Jr. was at a report that he’s been out to lunch on most of what HHS’ work entails, choosing instead to focus his t...
El Paso Matters

Socorro ISD approves balanced budget, state conservator delays departure over special education data reporting - Socorro ISD approved a balanced budget with a small surplus as state oversight may continue and district leaders plan to rebuild depleted reserves. The...
Mediaite

Senator Argues Trump Is ‘Making a Terrorist Attack More Likely’ by Appointing ‘Thug’ as Head of Intel - Appearing on Wednesday night's edition of MS NOW's The Briefing With Jen Psaki, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) argued that President Donald Trump is "making a te...
The Hill

Most believe civil liberties under threat: Survey - Most Americans believe that some rights including the right to vote are facing some level of threat, according to a new poll. In the AP-NORC Center poll, 6...
World Socialist Web Site

Railroad workers at CPKC reject nine-year contract by 2-to-1 margin across 11 states - CPKC locomotive engineers voted down a nine-year concessionary contract by a 2-to-1 margin, the latest in a wave of rank-and-file revolts against the union...
memeorandum

Trump's Frustration Grows as Senate GOP Leader Keeps Saying 'No' (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Trump's Frustration Grows as Senate GOP Leader Keeps Saying ‘No’* — John Thune repeatedly delivers unwelcome news to president on...
Brad Blog

The Trouble With Trillionaires (and Billionaires): ‘BradCast’ 6/17/2026 - We are all over the map on today’s BradCast, . Literally. [Audio for today’s show follows this summary.] FIRST UP… The terms of what appears to be little s...
Raw Story

Ex-MAGA insider warns Trump headed for 'five-stage denialism' after his biggest flop yet - A former top MAGA White House aide warned that Trump is headed for "five-stage denialism" after his biggest flop yet. Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former ...
Courthouse News

Appeals court upholds injunction against oil pipeline repairs — even though repairs are complete - The oil has been flowing for months off the coast of Santa Barbara. So has the litigation.
Claytoonz

Memorandum Of Capitulation - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Daily Cartoonist

The Big Nate Replacement Thread - I remain astonished at the lack of notices from newspapers about the weekday Big Nate ending and what is replacing the daily comic strip in the 200 (give o...
Antiwar.com

Does Trump Want To Resolve the Iran Crisis or Redesign the Middle East? - In diplomacy, negotiations sometimes fail not because solutions are lacking, but because objectives become too numerous. A negotiating table established to...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Enjoins Ballot-Qualified Libertarian Party of New Mexico from Calling Itself “Libertarian” - On June 17, U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Strickland enjoined the ballot-qualified Libertarian Party from calling itself the Libertarian Party. Libert...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 16 things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend, people will either be celebrating Juneteenth, or hanging out with their dads. There will also be those who will use the opportunity to do bot...
Deadline Politics

Death Of Late Night: Jay Leno On What Went Wrong At 11:30, Why Joe Rogan Is The New Johnny Carson & How John Oliver Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About - A lot’s changed in late night, in the media and in America in the 12 years since Jay Leno stopped being the host of The Tonight Show. “I mean, podcasts rea...
San Antonio Current

Blind standup who hit big on Kill Tony talks comedy ahead of San Antonio show - “Fuck, I hope this is real!” stand-up comedian Chris Silio exclaimed when he stepped up to the microphone during a live taping of stand-up comedy variet...
Election Law Blog

What the Redistricting Wars Tell Us About the National Popular Vote Compact - I favor replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote. But I have been critical of the National Popular Vote Compact (NPV), which is a cir...
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable”. ~John Kenneth Galbraith The post Quote of the day appeared first on An...
Houston Public Media

Houston bayous spared from significant flooding amid bouts of heavy rain, tropical storm - After several days of rainy weather, the Houston region will be under a heat advisory on Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
Slate

*Disclosure Day*’s Climactic Scene Is Stolen by an Unknown Actor. She Had No Idea This Was Coming. - Steven Spielberg never told newcomer Courtney Grace, who plays “NBC Anchor,” that she was filming the movie’s big finale.
Popular Resistance

The Hidden History Of Juneteenth - One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army took possession of Galveston Island, a barrier island just off the Texas coast that guards the entrance to Gal...
Vox

Why Trump is sabotaging his own nominee - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Alas, a Blog

Fox Goggles - It took me a few tries to write this strip. It’s the most vexing question of the Trump era, for me: How can so many people support Trump? I’ve known a bunc...
IVN

California’s Top-Two Primary Has a Plurality Problem—And It's Easy to Fix - The good news is that the fix does not require a constitutional amendment but instead by a simple statute.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Defends Iran Deal and Criticizes Israel at the G7 - [image: Donald Trump, Board of Peace, Meeting] There was a lot to like for Iran when Donald Trump addressed reporters at the conclusion of the G7 summit. T...
Mother Jones

DOJ’s New ICE Protest Indictment Is Its Most Absurd Yet - In the latest installment of Trump’s campaign against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Justice has charged 15 Minneapolis-area residents for allegedl...
The Verge

VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription - VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, th...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (6.17.26) - Please take a moment to listen to Wyatt Reynolds, Jamelle Bouie, Scot Nakagawa, Pema Levy, Nesrine Malik, George Orwell, and Richard Beck.
Rallblog

Proportionality Matters - Every person who has either participated in or witnessed a fight understands the doctrine of “he started it.” The fight begins with a provocation followe...
Church and State

This Is No Ordinary Time in History Circa 2026 - As human numbers increase to extremes around the planet: countries fight for water, energy, arable land, resources and turf.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT is becoming the face of Texas’ higher education failures. That must change. The Daily Texan Editorial Board October 11, 2024 - *Friends,* *I want to call attention to this important Daily Texan editorial, “UT is becoming the face of Texas’ higher education failures. That must cha...
SCOTUSblog

Roy Moore files emergency application with Supreme Court on $8.2 million jury award - Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, came to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to block a ruling by the...
Wolf Street

“Regime Change” at the Fed: Fed Chair Warsh Makes the First Moves - Everything is up for review. “There’s a taskforce for that,” he said. Dot plot, possibly the last one, turns hawkish.
Novara Media

Starmer Makes DESPERATE Last Ditch Offer to Burnham - Starmer “intends to fight” any potential leadership challenge, could he bribe his way out of it instead? Plus: A holidaying English couple are startled by ...
Texas Standard

Big Boys documentary celebrates Austin skate punk pioneers — but Tim Kerr is still looking ahead - The musician, artist and lifelong DIY evangelist says the best creative moment might still be waiting.
Futurism

Snap’s Stock Plunges the Moment It Reveals Its Comically Gigantic AR Glasses - "Who the hell designed this monstrosity?" The post Snap’s Stock Plunges the Moment It Reveals Its Comically Gigantic AR Glasses appeared first on Futurism.
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: Building a New Asia - Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia; a platform for coordination is vital to safeguard the region against imperialism and neoco...
MintPress News

Hezbollah Forces Israeli Withdrawal as Trump Scrambles for Iran Agreement - As Hezbollah ambushes Israeli convoys and downs advanced drones in southern Lebanon, Washington and Tehran move toward a surprise agreement after months ...
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: Have Super PACs Met Their Match? - A plan that would make it illegal for corporations to spend on elections will appear on Montana’s ballot this November.
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg Cable Network earns 2026 Silver Telly Award for holiday video “The City of Edinburg Catches the Grinch,” reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - Christmas 2025 memories came flashing back in May 2026 when South Texans learned that the Edinburg Cable Network was named a 2026 Silver Telly Winner by th...
Liberation News

Is Social Security under attack – yet again? - Is there a new round of attacks on Social Security coming? The decisive factor of active opposition by older people and the solidarity of all workers stand...
Workers World

FIFA reinforces ICE repression while targeting Iran, Haiti and Africa - [image: FIFA reinforces ICE repression while targeting Iran, Haiti and Africa] Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights holds news conference, ...
Independent Political Report

Iowa State Objections Panel Takes Libertarian Candidates Off November Ballot - *This article was originally published by Iowa Capital Dispatch on June 15, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expre...
The Root

What Netflix’s New Film ‘Color Book’ Gets Right About Black Fathers - Just in time for Father's Day comes a new film on Netflix, 'Color Book,' that's sure to tug on heartstrings and make you appreciate the Black dads in you...
Mondoweiss

Netanyahu faces revolt at home as Israel defies U.S.-Iran ceasefire terms - [image: Yair Lapid meets with Benjamin Netanyahu at Israeli military HQ in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2023. (Photo: Israeli Government Press Office)]Benjamin Net...
Capital & Main

California Rideshare Drivers Join Massachusetts Counterparts in Unionizing - Uber and Lyft drivers in both states say low pay, rising gas prices and a lack of transparency in how they're compensated have fueled organizing efforts....
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Senate committee passes bipartisan bill to invest in national parks - America the Beautiful Act reauthorizes a popular fund for park maintenance The post STATEMENT: Senate committee passes bipartisan bill to invest in natio...
Ecosophia

A Game of Musical Chairs - Some turning points in history are impossible to miss. They involve battle-cries and the clash of weapons, gatherings making decisions that can never be un...
Undernews

Word -
NORML

Colorado: Cannabis Use by Teens Continues Decade-Long Decline - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]“These findings are consistent with those from other adult-use legal states, which show s...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Downsides of "Deterrence" - Surveillance Boosters Tout the Benefits of Deterrence, But There’s a Big Problem With That
naked capitalism

Many College Students Already Have Well‑Formed Cheating Habits – That, Not AI, Is the Real Problem - Cheating by students seems to have risen over time. Is that due to greater ease, falling values, or perceived competitive pressure?
Daily Howler

MAPS OF OUR MINDS: On the latest YouGov poll... - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2026* *...Dems are just two points ahead:* On June 29, 1982, new language entered the world. Some of this language was perhaps a b...
Scheerpost.com

Over 160 Years After Abolition, Racism Still Structures US Economy - C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout. An analysis of the formation of US anti-Black racism. More than 400 years have passed since the first white colonists arrived ...
Glasstire

Review: “Words Matter” at Arthouse, Marble Falls - “I feel real when you hold me” “Protect me from what I want” “the field” “Breath as a Boundary” All these phrases appear in Words Matter, the inaugural e...
Bonddad

Even adjusting for gas prices, consumers went on a (wealth effect- generated?) spending spree in May - - *by New Deal democrat* Consumer spending is about 70% of the economy, and retail sales is our first wide measure of that spending. And since consu...
The Progressive Wing

6/17 News Roundup and Open Thread - Big night progressives in DC
Salon.com

The Knicks’ win was a Trump exorcism - New York City’s irrepressible celebrations showed the power of people united in joy
First Draft

He Knows We Hate Him - It’s the other war he will never win.
Democracy Now!

"Journacide: The War on Truth." New Film Investigates Israel's Killing of Reporters in Lebanon - Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza and 28 in Lebanon since October 7, 2023. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel’s...
The Conversation

Colorado criminal cases are dismissed at a higher rate when prosecutors face heavier workloads - When prosecutors’ caseloads increase, so do dismissal rates.
Space City Weather

Tropical system will pass by Houston today, lashing parts of the region with rain before moving on - In brief: Central and southern parts of Houston are seeing rain from an approaching tropical system this morning, which should pass near Galveston Island l...
Political Wire

MAGA Hawks’ Iran Mutiny Deepens Trump’s Isolation - “President Trump’s Iran deal has opened an explosive second front in MAGA’s civil war, waged by hawkish allies who view U.S. concessions as an existential ...
Rewire

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says - A new documentary examines how abortion care has been portrayed on screen over the years. “We’ve all seen so many abortion storylines at various points—a...
The Smirking Chimp

Republican Gloats Over Trump’s Snowballing List of Failures -
Axios

Sewer socialism is flowing through America's cities - America's cities are seeing a socialism surge, but it's not the post-Cold War boogeyman that schoolchildren were warned about. *The big picture:* It's c...
Alternet

Trump-backed candidate goes down in flames in key swing state - An expensive slugfest between two Republican candidates for governor fighting for the party’s nomination came to an end Tuesday night. The Associated Pre...
Crooked Media

Full Disclosure Day with Matt Rogers and Kyle Buchanan - The post Full Disclosure Day with Matt Rogers and Kyle Buchanan appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

Bazillions of bunnies, Montecito’s ‘hog heaven,’ and pride will always prevail - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Bazillions of bunnies, Montecito’s ‘hog heaven,’ and pride will always prevail appeared first on Hig...
Infidel753

Blogging note - It appears there may be an outbreak of censorship on Blogspot at the moment. In the last couple of weeks two political blogs have been removed, apparentl...
Earth 911

Why You Should Ditch Antiperspirant: 6 Natural Deodorants That Work - Deodorant or antiperspirant is something most of us apply daily, often without a second thought... The post Why You Should Ditch Antiperspirant: 6 Natura...
Crooked Timber

On The Governance of LLMs, and The University (of Chicago) - Sometimes people that know and like each other, and that would never employ snark with each other, can still talk entirely past each other online. Carlo Lu...
Counterpunch

The Trillion-Dollar Alarm Bell - Last week’s SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, despite the fact that the company has lost tens of billions of dollars since it was...
Common Dreams

White Trash Losers 'R Us - Oof, so many fails. An abject purge from the Kennedy Center, a tatty Iran deal, a brackish Reflecting Pool. And at the People's House, pay-per-view blood...
Black Agenda Report

The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for a Boycott of the World Cup - The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for a Boycott of the World Cup bareditors Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:56 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Co...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US midterm primaries 2026 live: Mike Collins projected to win Republican nomination for US Senate in Georgia - Self-described ‘Maga warrior’ will face Jon Ossoff in November; polls close is Alabama, Oklahoma and Washington DC With 55% of the vote counted in Georgi...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Michelle Obama appreciation posts and messages flood Twitter after UFC nonsense - The first portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama together was unveiled recently at the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library. Unless you have been u...
San Antonio Report

Nothing about us without us: youth solutions now - SPONSORED: 20 youth leaders identified the issues shaping San Antonio communities and developed real, actionable solutions. ------------------------------ N...
The NM Political Report

State Senate’s Democratic Leader Peter Wirth won’t seek leadership, re-election - [image: Sen. Maj. Leader Peter Wirth] By Joshua Bowling, Source New Mexico — New Mexico state Sen. Peter Wirth (D-Santa Fe) announced on Tuesday he won’t ...
Progressive.org

Celebrate Juneteenth with Tax Justice for All - The holiday should be a time to confront continuing inequities for Black Americans.
Sludge

Trump's White House Cage Fight Doubled as an Ad for His Businesses - The president's crypto venture and social media company advertised themselves at his UFC event, while allied companies like Anduril and Polymarket bought a...
The Texas Signal

Witnessing A World Cup - While the atmosphere around the World Cup in Texas has been exuberant, for many there’s an underlying anxiety given the recent immigration crackdowns in th...
ArcaMax

Politician Names on Public Works Is Free Advertising - When workers scraped Donald Trump's name off the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They should have tak...
Trivial Knot

I went gluten-free and it worked - Late last year, I was having some gastrointestinal issues, and someone suggested I should go gluten-free, as an experiment. I tried it for a few weeks, and...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Joyless Spectacle: A Conversation with David Roth - A conversation about gladiator fights at the White House, billionaires stealing and commodifying joy, and the feeling that things are about to change
Texas Observer

Texas’ Fight Against the Screwworm Will Be Nasty and Brutish - After spending four decades in exile south of the Rio Grande, the New World screwworm has finally wriggled its way back into Texas. The return of the par...
Dorf on Law

Did a Super-Conservative Trump Lawyer Overstate the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants? - Yesterday's *New York Times *revealed that in April 2025, White House Secretary Will Scharf--described in the article as such a conservative lawyer that ...
Off The Kuff

Abbie Kamin sworn in as Harris County Attorney - With a repeat performance in January, one hopes. Dozens of elected officials and hundreds of residents, staff members and supporters gathered downtown Mond...
Progressives Chat

Mamdani. Platner. El–Sayed. - In the Democratic Party, three men have been greeted with opposition. From Democrats. But also from the supposed mainstream. One of these men, beginning...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Rise of the New Normal Reich (Redux) - So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I’ll give you that news in just a minute, but, first, I need to do a recap for any readers just now tuning in...
Grist

The ‘super El Niño’ is here. What happens next could upend food systems worldwide. - How the cyclical weather pattern interacts with climate change could spark hunger around the world.
Socialist Alternative

Justice For Cyrus Carmack-Belton - A South Carolina jury found gas station owner Rick Chow not guilty in the murder of a 14-year-old Black teenager, Cyrus Carmack-Belton. Chow suspected Cyru...
The Greanville Post

How The Western Financial System Got Here - RB—Mainstream economics did its usual job by providing a supporting BS theory of the relationship between government debt and growth (Bernhart & Rogoff 201...
The AltWorld

Post-Iran war: The end of an era, not to decline, but as a trigger to abrupt change - Trump’s chokehold on oil, tariffs, and tech backfired – forging a new era of self-sufficient economies and […] The post Post-Iran war: The end of an era,...
The Rag Blog

SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / CULTURE / Down on the Drag: Austin Music History - By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / June 15, 2026 I love learning about the place, people and history of where I live. I often wonder about the people w...
Bracing Views

It’s a Most Confusing Time to be in the U.S. Military - Who knows why we fight? BILL ASTORE JUN 14, 2026 It’s a most confusing time to be in the U.S. military. Who knows why we fight? At the top, there’s a lack ...
Project Censored

Big Tech’s Campus Takeover, ICE’s Expanding Reach - First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into big tech's hold on higher ed - namely, their aims to surveil, extract,...
Earthworks

In Colorado, Polluting Just Got More Expensive - The headlines are inescapable: In Washington D.C., generations-long environmental rules are currently under assault. Industry-friendly officials and lawm...
Debunking Christianity

An Interview on Atheist Morality - > > Dear Dr. Loftus, >> >> I am a secondary school student currently researching the historical >> change in morality and its link to the rise in secular...
Greg Palast

Trump’s Cage Fight GeniusHow ‘bout a cage rematch? Don “The Bovine” Trump v. Sen. Jon Ossoff? - Just when the Democrats thought they had it clinched because of high gas prices from the “little excursion” in Iran, Trump pulls off one of the most brilli...
Seeing the Forest

The First AI War - This could be the first AI war. My experience with AI is it’s a confirmation bias machine. This isn’t about being right, it’s about seeing responses that s...
Idavox

HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! - We have dealing with this event for a number of years now. Looks like the... The post HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! appeared...
See You In 2020

Nazi terror, mind control programs, & the human weapons in America’s coming civil war - By the beginning of 2026, when the Justice Department released its selective series of Epstein files, our ruling class had reached a new phase in its in...
Web of Debt

AI ABUNDANCE, PART 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED - Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificia...
Field Negro

I need caption for this picture. - I will pick the winner after the first fifty comments. Go!
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SILVER LININGS PAYBACK EDITION. - *Nice cover, lovely sentiment. * Sorry for the day of delay -- still healing up from the knee thing, and carrying a full load work-wise. But I have been ...
TalkLeft

Moving Day and Open Thread - Today is TalkLeft's 23rd Birthday! I wish I had time to celebrate it. I am moving apartments today, same building, same size unit, great mountain view, but...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: The Race for the Majority is Not a Toss-up, But the Races That Will Decide It Are - We are making three Senate rating changes this week, all in favor of Democrats. North Carolina moves to Leans Democratic, and Alaska and Ohio are now Tos...
Two Party Opera

After Game 4 - Read More
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Peak Liberal no. 3 - 13 x 14″ high-res color .jpg image, 1.3mb Dear Liberal Amerika: SHUT the HELL UP about the 2024 election. Just shut the goddamn hell up RIGHT THE FUCK NOW....
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leo Strauss’s *Natural Right and History* - Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss’s 1953 book, *Natural Right and History*.
Krebs on Security

Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ - A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hack...
Discourse

The Two-Letter Difference Between 'Ha Ha' and 'Uh Oh' (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Trump at the Knicks game, Scott Pelley's dramatic NYT interview, the endless Graham Platner saga, and the CA primaries
Texas Freedom Network

Five Ways Education Vouchers are Already Harming Texans - By Andrew Freeman Governor Abbott and his far-right cronies pushed for vouchers for more than a decade. It took millions of dollars, countless special se...
Lowering the Bar

It Was Only a Matter of Time: *Both* Sides’ Lawyers Sanctioned for Using AI - None of the four lawyers involved will be seeing the inside of this courtroom again for a while.
LareDOS

My American history - The current brand of patriotism is product and prod, exclusionary, self-serving and narrow-minded, fear-mongering
Duck of Minerva

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega - Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2026 - Walmart had another thirteen more shootings in May of 2026, with at least five of them killing one person and one of those killing two for a total of si...
Media Lens

Invitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate Denial - We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestra hora de defender la democracia - Nos están arrebatando el derecho a votar. Es nuestro deber restaurar la salud de nuestra democracia, mientras aún podemos. En una democracia sana, tenemos ...
The Militant

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba! - The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Avedon's Sideshow

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Skeptophilia

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DeSmogBlog

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The Socialist

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Downwinders at Risk

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Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Bud Kennedy

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ROAR Magazine

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Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

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CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
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...
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...
Shadowproof

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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
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...
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...
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...
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

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

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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

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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

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Due Dissidence

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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

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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

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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...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

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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...
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...
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...
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

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Texas Rural Voices

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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...
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

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
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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Sunday, August 26, 2007

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