Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies (early 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

Futurism

Australia Turns Into Bright-Red Vision of Hell - "No, that's not a filter!" The post Australia Turns Into Bright-Red Vision of Hell appeared first on Futurism.
memeorandum

Iran could emerge from the war stronger and more dangerous (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times) - Gideon Rachman / Financial Times: *Iran could emerge from the war stronger and more dangerous* — The Islamic republic aims to set up a toll booth on th...
The Verge

A new manufacturing process uses lasers to seal paper packaging instead of glue - Although paper is a more environmentally friendly packaging material than plastic, it's often contaminated with additives, such as adhesives used to create...
San Antonio Report

Meet housing activist Maureen Galindo, who rode a shoestring campaign to a high-profile congressional runoff - National Democrats want a moderate for redrawn TX35, but this progressive is headed to the primary runoff after spending just $1,500. ----------------------...
Counterpunch

Trump’s Looming War With China…Ain’t Gonna Happen - The post Trump’s Looming War With China…Ain’t Gonna Happen appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Raw Story

Conservatives flag 'five-alarm fire' as support for president collapses: 'Reverse course!' - A new poll released Monday showed President Donald Trump’s approval rating had fallen to what appears to be its *lowest level on record*, prompting a num...
Mediaite

LEAKED AUDIO: Michigan Progressive Warns His Voters Might Be ‘Sad’ Khamenei Killed by US - El-Sayed also strategized on how he would dodge questions on the killing of Khamenei, whose regime had massacred thousands of protesters in the weeks pri...
Eschaton

Never Heard Of Her - Trump respects crooks, but he also hates not being included in the scam. Investigators searched the office of a Federal Emergency Management Agency contra...
Mother Jones

You Can’t Judge the Iran War by Its Stats - Last week, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens penned an article that captured the rah-rah-ness of the pro-war crowd and was breathtaking in its short-s...
The Week

U.S., Iran clash over Trump’s claims of peace talks - Iran calls Trump's claims of peace talks ‘fake news’
Slate

You Probably Took This Old-School Ingredient for Granted. But Trust Me, You’re Going to Miss It Now That It’s Going Away. - Make some room in your freezer.
Bonddad

Oil shocks and real aggregate nonsupervisory payrolls - * - by New Deal democrat* As readers know well, one of my favorite “real life” indicators is real aggregate nonsupervisory payrolls, which measures h...
naked capitalism

Drillers See Triple-Digit Crude and Hit the Brakes - Why drillers won't be sucker punched by increasing production in response to a very large price increase that may be short-lived.
Election Law Blog

Important UCLA Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar Tuesday March 31 with Foley, Green, and Muller on “Myths and Facts About Contesting the 2026 Midterms Elections” - Join us for this key conversation (free registration required): Myths and Facts About Contesting the 2026 Midterms Elections Tuesday, March 31,12:15pm – ...
Novara Media

Labour Just Hounded a Blind Amputee Out of Office - [image: A woman with shoulder-length brown hair and a red beret holds a cane in her right hand. Her left arm is amputated. She stands in a yellow living ro...
Courthouse News

Israel renews strikes on Beirut suburbs, kills Lebanese soldier - An Indonesian soldier with the U.N.'s peacekeeping force in Lebanon was also killed when a projectile exploded close to the border, with other peacekeepers...
The Hill

Dozens arrested after 'No Kings’ rally in Los Angeles - More than 70 people were arrested at a “No Kings” protest near a federal detention center in Los Angeles on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. The L...
Mediagazer

CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Free Press reporter Gabe Kaminsky (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap) - Corbin Bolies / The Wrap: *CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and...
Al Jazeera English

Rubio tells Al Jazeera Strait of Hormuz will reopen ‘one way or another’ - This is a breaking news story.
Scheerpost.com

War, Oil, and Blowback: Why Critics Say Trump’s Iran Offensive Is Reshaping the Global Economy - ScheerPost Staff What began as another military escalation in the Middle East is now being framed by some economists and geopolitical analysts as something...
The Socialist

John K. Delaney Net Worth 2026: The $98.6M Volatile Fortune - Table of Contents The Post-Congressional Surge: John K. Delaney’s $98.6 Million Net Worth in 2026 Building Forbright Bank: A Cornerstone of Delaney’s Capit...
San Antonio Current

‘Don’t take me to the hospital’: Undocumented immigrants in Texas are delaying medical care - [image: A 54-year-old woman from Edinburg holds her hands as she poses for a photo at her home in the Rio Grande Valley on March 18, 2026. After suffering ...
Deadline Politics

MS NOW Confirms Peter Alexander Will Join Network - Peter Alexander will join MS NOW as anchor of its 11 a.m. ET hour, the network confirmed, following his departure from NBC News. Alexander, who has been NB...
Undernews

Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities - *Wallet Hub - *With more than 7 in 10 U.S. adults being overweight and health care costs rising, the personal-finance company WalletHub today released its ...
SCOTUSblog

The dissent that questioned certain jury trials - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. By the time George Jarkesy reac...
Daily Howler

HEALTH: We're launching a search for the president's health! - *MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2026* *And for what that familiar term means:* Last Thursday afternoon, the sitting president convened one of his televised "cabinet m...
Houston Public Media

Houston-based Sysco expands into high-margin restaurant segment with $29 billion deal - Sysco serves more than 700,000 restaurants, hospitals, schools and hotels, supplying them with everything from butter and eggs to napkins.
Glasstire

People Can Say We Were Here: A Conversation with Lola Flash - Spanning four decades, the career of photographer Lola Flash has focused largely on their community — queer, Black, and decidedly activist in outlook. Bo...
Political Wire

Crowded Field in California Opens the Door for Republicans - California’s gubernatorial primary is setting up a scenario that would have seemed implausible not long ago: two Republicans advancing to the general elect...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Recent $167m lottery winner arrested for allegedly stealing $12,000 in Kentucky - Burglary arrest was James Farthing’s latest run-in with the law after winning the Powerball jackpot last year - Sign up for the Breaking News ...
WhoWhatWhy

Planning for Life After Trump, However We Manage to Get There - [image: Russ Baker, Michael Cohen, NYC] Trump will leave behind the equivalent of a toxic dump site. How to clean it up? As for how to deal with Trump now,...
El Paso Matters

ICE mega detention center in far East El Paso County faces water infrastructure limits - The Department of Homeland Security’s project may run up against the reality of a water system that’s unprepared to serve a new water-guzzling facility ...
Democracy Now!

"The Institutions Have Not Collapsed": Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran's Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War - As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key expo...
The Progressive Wing

3/30 News Roundup & Open Thread - Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, recently paid an effective tax rate of less than 3.3%. That is less than the average truck driver, nurse and teacher...
The Conversation

We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations - Researchers are using machine learning models to identify gentrification in imagery. Community insights help keep the models on track
First Draft

The United States Of Trump? - The Insult Comedian is on a rebranding bender. The Trump buck is the best reason imaginable to go cashless.
Techdirt.

Dems Urge Probe Of Saudi, Chinese Money Backing The Ellisons’ Warner Bros Acquisition - Republicans spent three years suffering an embolism over Chinese influence over TikTok, but have suddenly gone mysteriously quiet now that $25 billion in S...
Axios

Trump threatens to "obliterate" Iran's energy and water infrastructure - President Trump threatened on Monday that if a deal with Iran "is not shortly reached" and if the Hormuz Strait isn't open "immediately," the U.S. will "...
Rallblog

Going to Ground | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Vox

The secret to successful conversations with strangers - You may generally disregard unfamiliar faces as background characters in the movie that is your life, but almost everyone you care about was once a strange...
Common Dreams

New Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks - The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high ris...
Space City Weather

After weeks of no rain, are we really going to get a soggy Easter Sunday? - In brief: In today’s forecast we note that Houston’s last measurable rainfall occurred nearly three weeks ago for most of the region. That almost certainly...
The Root

Take a Peek Inside Tracee Ellis Ross’ Gorgeous PATTERN Beauty Offices - We love PATTERN Beauty, so we couldn't wait to check out the inside of the West Hollywood office space where Tracee Ellis Ross' products are made! Read m...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: TikTok TechTalk - Can’t steal the pun without crediting the punster, and it’s also worth pointing out that Dan Thompson had to have drawn this before the court decision came...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Schneider Electric’s Steve Wilhite Maps the Renewable Energy Transition - The global energy system is changing in two big ways: it is moving from centralized... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Schneider Electric’s Steve Wi...
Dorf on Law

Broccoli, Birthright Citzenship, and How to Confront Terrible Constitutional Arguments - In the Spring of 2012, the most publicly discussed constitutional law question of the day was whether the Supreme Court would strike down the Affordable ...
Salon.com

Why MAGA fears human teachers - Melania Trump’s robot stunt opens a new front in the GOP's war on education
Skeptophilia

Writing's on the wall - I was chatting with my friend, author and all-around cool person K. D. McCrite, a couple of days ago about superstitions. It probably won't come as any sur...
The Smirking Chimp

Here’s What Trump Is Turning the U.S. Economy Into -
Off The Kuff

Another voter purge lawsuit filed - Hard to keep track of them all. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and other sued Thursday to stop a purge of Texas’ voter rolls that the...
Countercurrents

In FT interview, Trump announces intention to launch ground invasion of Iran - In an interview published Sunday in the Financial Times, US President Donald Trump announced his “preference” to “take the oil” from Iran—a massive expansi...
NPR's Health Shots

How much protein do you need? Here's how to personalize your optimal intake - The Dietary Guidelines released this year recommend higher levels of this essential nutrient. But protein needs are personal. Here's how to assess yours.
ProPublica

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. - The post A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash - A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
Infidel753

An urgent appeal for help - The daughter of fellow blogger Mary Kirkland, whose photos I've sometimes used here, is suffering a serious medical crisis and is in need of help with medi...
High Country News

New nuclear safety rules reduce protections for workers, the public - ‘They’re pulling away from what’s kept us safe all these years.’ The post New nuclear safety rules reduce protections for workers, the public appeared f...
Portside

Sunday Science: How We’re Trying To Detect Dark Matter Particles, With Katherine Freese - Sunday Science: How We’re Trying To Detect Dark Matter Particles, With Katherine Freese Ira Mon, 03/30/2026 - 03:55
Crooked Media

Will SCOTUS Join the GOP War on Mail-in Ballots? - The post Will SCOTUS Join the GOP War on Mail-in Ballots? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Daily Poster

THE KINGMAKERS, Ep. 3: President Rambo - Before Trump’s war in Iran and invasion of Venezuela, there was Reagan’s Iran-Contra scheme.
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
jobsanger

Trump's War Has An Erratic, Make-It-Up-As-It-Goes Feel -
The AltWorld

Lukashenko Is Acting Suspiciously Again - He promised to attend the next Peace Board meeting despite the US humiliating him by refusing to […] The post Lukashenko Is Acting Suspiciously Again app...
Informed Comment

Sec. of War Crimes Hegseth’s Christian Death Cult & Iran - A Former Fox News weekend host who gained notoriety for defending war crimes, Hegseth has become the hateful, scowling face of Trump‘s war
Crooked Timber

Ravens and robots - As I approach formal retirement from my academic job, I’m still thinking about ideas in my main theoretical field of decision theory. But I’ve largely lost...
DeSmogBlog

As the Oil Majors Retreat on Climate Promises, Industry Insiders Are Asking: Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Under cover of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra and “shock and awe” style of government, major fossil fuel companies are taking the opportunity to rol...
World Socialist Web Site

In FT interview, Trump announces intention to launch ground invasion of Iran - In an interview published Sunday in the *Financial Times*, US President Donald Trump announced his “preference” to “take the oil” from Iran—a massive expan...
Popular Resistance

The War On Iran Is Transforming The Global Economy - The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest o...
Antiwar.com

Does the Tail Wag the Dog? How Both Sides Are Missing the Bigger Picture - The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is...
Ballot Access News

One Minor Party Member is Virtually Certain to Qualify for California General Election - Only two candidates filed to be on the California primary ballot for Assembly, 59th district. One is the incumbent Republican, Phillip Chen. The other is G...
OpEd News

Palm Sunday: Jesus and the Politics of Empire - PALM SUNDAY HOMILY: Jesus was not killed because he preached kindness or interior spirituality. Rome crucified him because his message and actions threaten...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 29, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 29, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our-Precincts Model Law. Now. Josh Marshall, Marc...
Alternet

Trump is crushing California farmers as $1.7 million shipment is diverted by war - President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is hurting farm workers who are already vulnerable because of his tariffs — and a new report sketches out the detail...
Angry Bear

Moving Student Loans to the Treasury Department - While living in Michigan I was invited to a Garden Party featuring Senator Debbie Stabenow. Being the person, I am I asked on behalf of student having su...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Thoughtful Introduction to my book, Subtractive Schooling—Through Becky Morales’ Lens, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - A Thoughtful Introduction to my book, *Subtractive Schooling*—Through Becky Morales’ Lens, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. *Every now and then, someone comes ...
The Texas Signal

No Kings Protests Return To Texas - Thousands of Texans took part in No Kings protests in all corners of the state
Mondoweiss

Gaming the Iran war and the Gaza Genocide Syndrome - [image: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to L3Harris employees as part of his Arsenal of Freedom Tour, Camden, Ark., Feb. 27, 2026. (DoW phot...
Bracing Views

Hard Chargers, Yes–Deep Thinkers, No - Kakistocracy at the Department of War BILL ASTORE MAR 27, 2026 I was reading an article today about Pete Hegseth, self-styled Secretary of War, and his dec...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Fog of Limited Military Operation' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "you have to understand, / that no one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land"
Consortium News

WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Diplomacy By Other Means’ - Donald Trump has broken every diplomatic rule in the book in his disastrous unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. Now he’s trying to suck in European ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Should We Ridicule Alien Technology Claims? Are They Related to Wars? - "Wait for the weekend to go off the deep end." Many or most people may have been indoctrinated to believe that UFOs or aliens are a fringe belief that ...
Claytoonz

Mr. Johnson No Johnson - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Liberation News

Women’s History Month: Women’s leadership in educators’ unions leads labor’s revival - Organizing and demanding better for themselves and their students, women-led teacher unions inspire.
The Grayzone

Who’s behind the mysterious ‘Iran-backed terror cell’ haunting Europe? - Claims that an Iran-backed group is carrying out attacks in European cities raise questions about why they’re not targeting countries directly involved i...
CultureMap Houston

Longtime Upper Kirby steakhouse to shutter and more top Houston news - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including two high-profile closures that are happening soon. Plus, we introduce...
ArcaMax

What If Trump Cancels the Election? - I could be wrong. I hope I am. When it comes to political predictions, my pattern recognition skills usually win. I predicted America's defeat in Afghanist...
Wolf Street

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Drops to 31-Year Low as Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies & Gold - The spike of the “non-traditional reserve currencies.”
Workers World

Despite the unjust conviction of the Prairieland Nine, the struggle continues - [image: Despite the unjust conviction of the Prairieland Nine, the struggle continues] On March 14, a Fort Worth, Texas, jury found nine activists guilty o...
See You In 2020

Iran is fighting a war to save the world, & it will be fully won when Americans defeat their Epstein dictatorship - Iran’s heroic example in defying the Satanic Epstein regime’s aggression is something that can inspire Americans to fight back themselves. To recognize ...
Progressive.org

Music, Violence, and the Ritual That AI Cannot Replace - Strip-mining our culture and selling it back to us to the detriment of all.
Texas Standard

CPAC draws conservatives to Texas amid Iran war, Republican battle for U.S. Senate nomination - The influential Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, is underway in Grapevine. While the annual event draws attendees and speakers from all o...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: PHONEY WAR EDITION. - *He looks like a high school science teacher but sometimesMichael Franks gets into Wesley Willis territory.* One good thing about everything getting stu...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2026 - Censored Press News Allison T. Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, has had a number of articles...
MintPress News

Trump’s Iran Gamble Is Spiraling Out of Control: From Shock & Awe to Strategic Failure - In this week’s episode of the MintCast podcast hosted by MintPress director Mnar Adley, we are joined by Iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh to talk a...
Duck of Minerva

Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility - When I was in graduate school, my training included the methods and theories of international relations but also some of the epistemology and philosophy of...
The Militant

End US war in Mideast! Bring troops home now! - “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives” and ending the fighting, President Donald Trump claimed March 20, but then ordered another 2,500 Mari...
NORML

Voters Gave Ohio Legal Cannabis. Then Lawmakers Took Away the Part That Helped Me. - [image: topical cannabis cream][image: topical cannabis cream]NORML Winter '25/Spring '26 Intern Tobey MacCachran shares how Ohio lawmakers' repeal of le...
Capital & Main

The Social Care Company Trying to Undermine the U.S. Labor Board - Findhelp is a public benefit corporation that wants the structure of the National Labor Relations Board held unconstitutional. Critics say those things d...
Dissent Magazine

A New Non-Aligned Movement? - The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
Texas Observer

Dolores Huerta Feared Speaking About Her Abuse for Years. The Farmworkers She Advocates for Understand. - Editor’s Note: This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th and is republished with permission. Read more of her reporting here on g...
Rewire

Government to Investigate States That Require Insurers to Cover Abortion Care - Plus: Olympics ban trans women from women's events, requires genetic testing; and Colorado pioneers a creative legal strategy to protect abortion. The p...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Won't Vote Our Way Out of Fascism - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Church and State

When will the GOP Congress members finally call Trump for his crimes? - Is there no Senator in the GOP, like Barry Goldwater, who has the courage, integrity, or willingness to risk their career for the sake of our democracy?
The NM Political Report

Senate Republicans agree to Dem demands funding DHS without ICE ops; House approval uncertain - [image: United States Capitol] The United States Senate voted by unanimous consent overnight to break the impasse and fund the Department of Homeland Secu...
Debunking Christianity

Leaving the Church: A Welcome Relief or Trauma? - *It can be a mixture of both* By the time I finished my PhD in Biblical Studies in 1975 (Boston University), I had become an atheist. Primarily because...
Independent Political Report

Bodnar Announces Independent Campaign for U.S. Senate - *This article by Micah Drew was originally published by the Daily Montanan on March 4, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY‑NC‑ND 4.0 license.*…
Greg Palast

1931 is here again. We hope. - It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath. Today, we’re ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/27/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Earthworks

Methane gas is different: How Trump’s Attack on EPA Power Does NOT Effect #CutMethane Rules - Oil and methane gas is different. In February, the Trump administration announced an unprecedented attack to sabotage the Environmental Protection … Th...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: 11 Rating Changes in Democratic-Held Seats; Non-Presidential Party Typically Doesn’t Lose Many of Their Own Seats in Midterms - Because the presidential party usually loses ground in the House in midterms, it is also the case that they typically flip only a handful of seats from t...
The Mind Unleashed

Rahasia Menang dan Pola Terbaru yang Wajib Dicoba - Rahasia Menang dan Pola Terbaru yang Wajib Dicoba 2026 Dalam dunia permainan online, banyak pemain mencari cara untuk meningkatkan peluang kemenangan. Arti...
Seeing the Forest

A Progressive Populist Agenda - Here’s a first stab at some ideas for a post-Trump agenda that would actually be popular with the public. Democratic “We the People” Government is based on...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter : What Awaits US Ground Troops - JUDGE NAP—The chapter examines claims of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran: President Trump’s assertion that his envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkof...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Visual reminder - homophobia and transphobia are two heads on the same beast - I have a visual reminder for everyone, particularly the relatively small number but nonetheless extremely annoying and ignorant LGB people in my communit...
Sludge

DCCC Sets Lobbyist Cash Record as Dems Campaign on Affordability - The campaign arm pulled in $4.1 million from lobbyist bundlers in February, including firms representing pharmaceutical, insurance, and corporate landlords.
Ecosophia

March 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Alas, a Blog

Parents’ Rights - The right-wing (plus some alleged liberals cough Singal cough) assault on trans kids is genuinely horrifying. Literally hundreds of anti-trans bills – most...
LareDOS

April 1 at Casa Ortiz: Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and art exhibit of Bethany House residents - The Laredo Cultural District’s (LCD) upcoming Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and the art exhibit of Bethany House residents is set...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #19: Iran Updates, ICE at the Airport, the State of Magazine Covers, and Chappell Roan vs. Jude Law's Daughter - Official War Correspondent Cros is back to tell us what to think about the war.
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Socialist Alternative

How Cincinnati Is Building an Anti-ICE, Strike-Ready Fightback - Donald Trump’s war and deportation machine has kicked into overdrive, tearing apart communities at home while expanding violence abroad. But across the cou...
Edinburg Politics

Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, with more than 20 years experience in the Texas Legislature, higher education, and economic development, selected Executive Director, Rio Grande Valley LEAD (Linking Economic and Academic Development) - Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, whose extensive public service credentials also include more than 20 years of professional experience in the Texas Legis...
Unlimited Hangout

Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland - Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "...
Krebs on Security

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran - A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secu...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / FOREIGN POLICY / Trump’s War of Choice - Caricature by DonkeyHotey SPECIAL TO THE RAG BLOG By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2026 People in the media have been scrambling in an attemp...
Trivial Knot

Four reviews of musical sequels - In my family, I have a reputation for hating movies. To some extent this is humorous exaggeration, but it has been a noticeable pattern since my teenage ye...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
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...
Field Negro

No bottom. - *"Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Invades Lebanon Again: The Greater Israel Project That Keeps Failing - Israel has expanded its war across the region, bombing Lebanon and Iran while preparing a potential ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Israeli official...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Lowering the Bar

FEMA Official: Teleporting to Waffle House Was an “Incredible Adventure” - "Incredible" is the operative word there.
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
Environment Texas

Sued for plastic pollution, Dow asks Texas regulators for permission to discharge pellets - Dow argues the “trace amounts” limit on plastic discharges – the basis of Texas’ lawsuit – is “vague” and unnecessarily stringent. The post Sued for plas...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
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...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
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

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
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

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
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...
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...
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
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

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....
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...
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

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...
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

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...
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...
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...
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, September 30, 2007

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