Brains and Eggs: Early Sunday Funnies

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

Political Wire

Woman Accuses Graham Platner of Removing Condoms - “An ex-girlfriend of embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner said that he repeatedly removed protection without her consent when they were having sex,” t...
Al Jazeera English

US says strikes launched as explosions heard in southern Iran - This is a breaking news story.
The Hill

IOC lifts suspension on Russian teams ahead of 2028 Olympics - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday announced it is lifting the suspension of Russia’s Olympic teams, allowing them to compete at the 2028...
Houston Public Media

ICE agent fatally shoots man in Houston during ‘targeted enforcement operation’ - A spokesperson for the federal agency alleged that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, whom ICE identified as a Mexican man without legal status in the U.S., attempted...
memeorandum

Trump weighed in on Cabinet squabble over ride for July Fourth flyover (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post) - Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post: *Trump weighed in on Cabinet squabble over ride for July Fourth flyover* — The president encouraged acting attorney g...
Raw Story

JD Vance sued by cat lady troll after Secret Service blocked her from attending event - A woman who has frequently trolled Vice President JD Vance using a satirical cat lady Instagram account filed a lawsuit against him after he blocked her ...
Crooked Media

Trump Brings The Drama To NATO - The post Trump Brings The Drama To NATO appeared first on Crooked Media.
Futurism

Freak Tornado Sucks Man Out of 12-Floor Apartment - It even ripped his cabinets out of his walls. The post Freak Tornado Sucks Man Out of 12-Floor Apartment appeared first on Futurism.
Eschaton

Seems Bad - I have no larger point here. On Tuesday, a safety manager reported that a steel beam was compromised on the 21st floor, according to Buildings Department...
Undernews

Trump still wants Greenland - *CNBC* - President Donald Trump on Tuesday resurrected his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, and suggested the U.S. could pull all of its armed serv...
Election Law Blog

Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Privacy of Voter Eligibility Forms for People in Guardianship Proceedings - You can find the 5-2 opinion in Wisconsin Voter Alliance v. Secord here. From the introduction to the majority opinion by Justice Protasiewicz: The Wisc...
Alternet

Fox News can't hide their contempt for Trump's 'vile' plot: report - The wider American voting public does not care for President Donald Trump's "vile" birthright citizenship arguments, and as New Republic noted in a new r...
Wolf Street

Consumer “Inflation Expectations” Throw the Fed another Curveball - The Fed watches inflation expectations closely. It wants them to remain “anchored.” But consumer inflation expectations have become unanchored.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Prosecutors present video of Charlie Kirk’s killing on second day of hearing - Utah county attorney’s office says evidence against suspect Tyler James Robinson is sufficient for case to move to trial - Sign up for the Bre...
Dorf on Law

The Mess in the Maine Senate Race Was Easily Forseeable and Avoidable - Maya Angelou's famous warning is in serious danger of becoming stale: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." I risk adding ...
Texas Observer

Inside Houston’s 1970 School Strike - Editor’s Note: Lupe Mendez, poetry editor of the Texas Observer, is author of the new book We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School Verses (Arte Público Pr...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – From Spy Satellites to Peace Satellites - Military reconnaissance satellites have become indispensable instruments of national security, yet they remain overwhelmingly dedicated to advancing compet...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: Weaponizing ‘Civil Death’ to Crush Dissent - Hüseyin Dogru, a German citizen who founded Red. Media, discusses the sanctions the E.U. has imposed on him, what his case means for journalism and the pre...
Techdirt.

The Courts’ Solution To Overpriced Court Records: Make Them More Expensive - For many, many years on Techdirt we’ve bemoaned the fact that federal court documents are not available for free as they should be. Instead, we have PACER,...
ProPublica

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. - The post Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. appeared first on ProPublica.
ArcaMax

Call of the Vile: Mayor Pete Gets Swatted, and So Does America - Everything about President Donald Trump's Independence Day-eve speech at Mt. Rushmore was a much-unneeded reminder that the personification of crude, self-...
Rallblog

Can Iran Replace Israel? - Under the dictatorship of the Shah, Iran was a close U.S. ally. There are tantalizing indications that American policymakers are looking to recreate that...
Project Censored

Colonial Distortion of Palestine’s History - This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian, and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A...
Novara Media

People Who Use AI More Also Dislike It Most, Study Reveals - Young people in the US use AI more than any other demographic in the country – but they’re also the most likely to think its effects on society will be det...
Mondoweiss

UAW becomes the first major U.S. union to vote to divest from Israel Bonds - [image: UAWD Constitutional Convention 2026 (UAW)]UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel Bonds, making it the first major U....
Bonddad

Scenes from the June jobs report: a weak but improving economy - - *by New Deal democrat* There’s no important new economic news today, so let’s take a somewhat deeper dive into last Thursday’s employment report f...
Liberation News

Elon Musk’s trillion: built on the blood of Texas - Behind the mask of futuristic “innovation,” Musk’s wealth is built on destroyed communities, stolen wages, unearned tax breaks, and polluted waters. His co...
Greg Palast

Platner: Face Down in the Oyster Pond - Heather Cox Richardson had it right about Graham Platner. What the hell were Democrats doing running this guy for the United States Senate? We have a Presi...
Glasstire

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum to Open Satellite Location in Amarillo in 2027 - The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) has found a temporary location in downtown Amarillo for public display of artworks in its collection. The ...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s disturbing approach to federal spending - Last week, the Supreme Court finished handing down its opinions in argued cases this term. In light of its decisions on birthright citizenship and the ad...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Lincoln at Gettysburg - Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, *Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America*.
Mediagazer

Nigeria's competition regulator will investigate tech companies over news content use and alleged anti-competitive practices, after complaints by media groups (Tife Owolabi/Reuters) - Tife Owolabi / Reuters: *Nigeria's competition regulator will investigate tech companies over news content use and alleged anti-competitive practices, af...
Ian Welsh

Unintended Consequences: Germany Sick Leave Edition - So, Merz has announced that German workers will need a note from a doctor day one of calling in sick, and they must get that note in person: phone calls ar...
Democracy Now!

Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Israeli Attacks: Amjad Iraqi - As part of the U.S.-backed “Board of Peace” 20-point plan to end Israel’s military assault on Gaza, Hamas is dissolving its civilian governing body in the ...
NPR's Health Shots

There's no treatment designed for the Ebola strain ravaging DRC. But now there's hope - The strain of the virus that's responsible for the current outbreak has no specific treatments or preventive measures. Three new clinical trials could prov...
Salon.com

Trump resurrects oldest GOP scare tactic over democratic socialist wins - Recent wins by democratic socialists have Trump reviving Cold War-era fears
The Progressive Wing

7/7 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on the fallout from the Maine Senate race.
Vox

How soccer players train for chaos - Soccer might be one of the hardest sports to train for. Players need endurance to run for 90 minutes, with only one 15-minute break. And in the World Cup k...
Mother Jones

Trump’s “Personal Vendetta” Against Wind Is Messing With American Livelihoods - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump has blamed everything—fr...
Scheerpost.com

Independence Day Drag - I spent the Fourth of July with some of the few sane people left in the United States: Drag queens. Chris Hedges ScheerPost FIRE ISLAND, New York – I am on...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Red Menace(s) - First, here’s the Red Card Menace:Just when you think Dear Leader has run out of ways to make everyone in the world hate us, he pulls this. They all laughe...
Mediaite

Mika Brzezinski Grills Politico Reporter Behind Platner Bombshell for ‘Concrete’ Rape ‘Evidence’: ‘What’s the Throughline?’ - Wren's Politico report described an account of the alleged sexual encounter in Platner entered a woman's home “uninvited” and drunk which was “not consen...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Construction Sites Burn Fuel While Equipment Idles for Hours Every Day - Have you ever noticed how often construction sites have engines idling, even when no work... The post Guest Idea: Construction Sites Burn Fuel While Equi...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Childhood Best Friend Has a Plan To Rig the 2026 Midterm Elections -
San Antonio Report

Alamo Colleges District launches one-stop hub for workforce training programs - The Alamo Technical Institute is an effort to streamline access to advising, career coaching and enrollment into short-term credential programs. ----------...
Portside

Fossil Fascism and Glacial Indifference - Fossil Fascism and Glacial Indifference Kurt Stand Tue, 07/07/2026 - 05:52
Infidel753

Some problems I don't have - My Saturday link round-ups usually include a few "PSA"-type links warning people about various problems, often related to computers or other such devices,...
Grist

The plan to make climate science harder to erase - As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere.
Common Dreams

All the Feelings: Nothing Is Fixed In Its Place - Hoo boy. Many of us slogged through a July 4 more vigil - "act of purposeful wakefulness" - than celebration as hostages of a dark timeline wherein histo...
Counterpunch

The Plot to Ruin America - Nothing encapsulates the decline of the American project quite like the optics of its 250th anniversary. While four hundred masked neo-fascists marched t...
jobsanger

Ken Burns: The Founders Would Be Shocked To See Congress Give Up Much Of Its Power -
Informed Comment

Another Iranian Funeral – Feminist Icon dies in Exile - Shahrnoush Parsipour invited readers into the everyday emotional and psychological worlds of her female characters
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Launches Largest Ever Midterm Electoral Program - We are spending millions across nine states to educate voters on critical races and ballot measures affecting abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting, fair courts, ...
Popular Resistance

Violence Derailed Independence Movement; Created US Empire - As people in the United States mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, stories of the Founding Fathers abound but much of th...
Brad Blog

Maine U.S. Senate Race Rocked by Sexual Assault Claim; Callers Want Platner to Stay In: ‘BradCast’ 7/6/2026 - It wasn’t The BradCast we planned for our first show back after the July 4th holiday. But, given the potential consequences — for the nation — of the news ...
Courthouse News

Wyoming urges court to sever latest sage grouse litigation - The state wants two cases challenging amended sage grouse resource plans to be transferred, but conservationists disagree.
Antiwar.com

US-Israel Military Merger Delayed: Here’s Why and How You Can Stop It - Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. The U.S.-Israel military merger has not become law – yet. Not because Congress rejected it, but because...
Claytoonz

Freaking FIFA - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Workers World

Joyce Kanowitz, rest in power! - [image: Joyce Kanowitz, rest in power!] Brooklyn, New York Joyce Diana Leach Kanowitz, a longtime, beloved member of Workers World Party (WWP), died from ...
Progressive.org

Restore Voting Rights for Former Prisoners - The American promise of liberty and justice for all is not being realized by the four million people with felonies who are unable to vote.
Texas Environmental News

MKMP-656 Konatsu Kashiwagi สาวน้อยที่อ่อนไหวต่อเรื่องเพศถูกกระตุ้นอารมณ์จนถึงจุดสุดยอด -
The AltWorld

MoU stacked in holding pattern as U.S. pivots to Plan ‘B’ - With Hormuz still squeezed and White House factions at war, who’s really playing whom? Plan ‘A’ was […] The post MoU stacked in holding pattern as U.S. p...
San Antonio Current

White supremacist group from Texas marched on Washington, D.C., during July Fourth holiday - Hundreds of masked members of the Texas-based white supremacist group Patriot Front marched in formation through Washington, D.C., on Independence Day, ...
The Verge

Hoto’s PixelDrive screwdriver is down to $60, matching its best price - If your Prime Day purchases included a new desk, TV stand, bookshelf, or other furniture you still haven’t assembled, Hoto’s PixelDrive cordless screwdrive...
Church and State

Celebrate our 250 year anniversary by reading CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson! - Many critics argue that policies and actions taken during the Trump administration disproportionately harmed Black communities.
slacktivist

How Pentecost thrives - The Flushing Remonstrance lives on as "super diversity." Plus: Religious forgeries, David Barton's lies, and a footnote on footnotes.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"America’s entrepreneurial boom begins long before venture capital," by Anthony Hernandez, Ph.D. - *Friends, Dr. Anthony Hernandez’ just-published piece in Fortune, “America’s Entrepreneurial Boom Begins Long Before Venture Capital,” makes a p...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: As you probably may have guessed... - * MONDAY, JULY 6, 2026* With the exception of this morning's report, the Fourth of July continues. *Tomorrow:* Who is Jeffrey Rosen?
Alas, a Blog

What Will Future Archeologists Say? - Thanks to R. E. Ryan for his wonderful sci-fi art on this one! I originally posted this on Patreon in 2024, but apparently I spaced out on posting it on Al...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico town, detention center face water shortage - [image: Town of Estancia] This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy...
The Root

Author Tomi Adeyemi Reveals She Won’t Be Watching “Children of Blood Bone” Film - Tomi Ayedemi is not too happy with the film adaptation of her beloved book, Children of Blood and Bone.' Here's what you need to know! Read more...
Capital & Main

Dry New Mexico Actually Has Lots of Water. Unfortunately, It’s Toxic — So Far. - The glut of wastewater is so massive industry execs fear it will soon throttle production in the nation's largest oil field. The post Dry New Mexico Actu...
Ballot Access News

Spokane Daily Newspaper Sponsors U.S. House Debate that Includes Ten Candidates - On July 5, the Spokane Spokesman-Review sponsored a U.S. House debate, and invited all twelve candidates who are running in the Fifth district. The incumbe...
Independent Political Report

Greg Ballard Secures Ballot Spot in Indiana Secretary of State Race Under Lincoln Party Label - *This article was originally published by Indiana Capital Chronicle on July 2, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views ex...
Rewire

States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court - Plus, how Illinois is protecting abortion patients and abortion pill restrictions go into effect in trio of states. The post States May Exclude Trans Ki...
Duck of Minerva

The Uncanny Effects of the UK Court of Appeal’s ruling on the Proscription of Palestine Action - In July 2025, the UK government designated Palestine Action as a proscribed terrorist under the Terrorism Act 2000, making it a criminal offence to be a me...
Angry Bear

“taking payment in yuan and using those yuan to buy Chinese goods” - Sounds like a strategy to me. Been to China multiple times. Interesting place to go. We would fly in Beijing. The plant manager’s vehicle along with two ...
First Draft

Gret Stet Shit Show - Adrastos on the tawdry tussle between Louisiana AG Liz Murrill and an Orleans Parish grand jury. You say clusterfuck; I say shit show. Let’s call the whole...
NORML

Cannabis Law Reform Is a Civil Rights Issue and Must Be Treated as Such - [image: marijuana, handcuffs and a judge's gavel][image: marijuana, handcuffs and a judge's gavel]NORML Summer ‘26 Mitchell Floch shares his perspective ...
Space City Weather

Houston is about to enter its warmest period of the year—you have been warned - In brief: Houston will see slight chance of showers and thunderstorms for the start of this week, followed by hot and sunny weather for the remainder of th...
WhoWhatWhy

Astronomers May Have Caught Early Galaxy Dying - [image: science, astronomy, galaxy cluster, star-forming gas, decline observation] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommen...
Two Party Opera

So What Do We Do With the Next 250 Years? - Read More
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Worker injured at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks as pattern of dangerous incidents continues - The series of incidents involving falling objects highlights the ongoing risk to BlueScope workers after the tragic death of 24-year-old worker Jack McGrat...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
See You In 2020

Post-Epstein apathy, Islam’s war of resistance, and our battle against normalization - Above: Iranians burn Baal, the child sacrifice god that Epstein’s operation was centered around. For a way forward in the post-Epstein era, we must take...
The Greanville Post

Is Trump Truly Harebrained or is He Implementing Elite Policy? - BB—Trump tells his oligarch vassals that if they appreciate and value this system that the US maintains and guarantees through a system of violently impose...
The Daily Poster

How To Scare Democrats Into Delivering - Replacing complacent Democrats with populist Democrats in blue districts can scare every other incumbent into action – or face the threat of being fired.
OpEd News

Letter from Tehran, censored news, and path to peace - "Yesterday, I attended the massive, multi-million-person funeral procession for Iran's leader and his family with my daughters and two of my grandchildren....
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 325: Jul. 5, 2026 - Oops! The Pear machine done broke!
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
El Paso Matters

Exhibit celebrates El Paso, Juárez sign painters’ overlooked artistry - A new El Paso Museum of History exhibit and upcoming book spotlight the hand-painted signs, stories and cultural legacy of Borderland artists whose work...
Off The Kuff

The Kerrville floods, one year later - This is a hard read, and it leads off with the story of three of the flood’s victims, so skip on by if that’s not how you want to start your day. But it’s ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Palais des Papes, Avignon - [image: Avignon]
The Week

High style on the roof of the world - Plus a food-focused cycling trip in Italy and lovely Penzance with fresh polish
Debunking Christianity

David Hume's "Of Miracles" Succeeds Despite Bayes' Theorem - Earlier I was waiting on some late fireworks. While I waited I worked on a paper in my head, titled: David Hume's "Of Miracles" Succeeds Despite Bayes' T...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump, In America 250 Speech, Salutes Veterans And Astronauts — And Attacks Communism - UPDATE: After the delayed start, Donald Trump spoke for about 40 minutes Saturday at the Salute to America celebration on the National Mall in Washington, ...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Trivial Knot

Designing a “balanced” strategy game - I’m going to talk about game balance specifically in the context of a video game that I made. You can play this game for free in browser, or pay for an exp...
Axios

Exclusive: Trump says Netanyahu "knows who the boss is" ahead of possible WH visit - President Trump told Axios Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked him for a meeting at the White House, and that it could take pla...
CultureMap Houston

Celebrated Houston chef opens Midtown restaurant and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from exciting restaurant openings to the best places to work. Read on for our mo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Notes on the Revolution: Reflections on the U.S. at 250 - The American mythology is evaporating. What's left is necessary reality.
Bracing Views

Declaring America’s Independence From the Tyranny of Militarism and War - Beware the Termites of War BILL ASTORE JUL 03, 2026 In July 1776, courageous colonists came together to declare their independence from the perceived tyra...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WATERING THE TREE OF LIBERTY EDITION. - I guess you’ve heard that, on top of his destruction of the Reflecting Pool (which he says is in great shape) and the debacle of the Great American State...
Idavox

How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Nazi Show Promoter Mad After Having to Take Their Canceled Festival Down the Road - Vengeance is our sayeth the Antifa! “I started having problems once President Obama was elected,”... The post How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Naz...
Black Agenda Report

“The Farce of You Lie”: Gerald Horne Discusses the Founding of the United States - “The Farce of You Lie”: Gerald Horne Discusses the Founding of the United States bareditors Fri, 07/03/2026 - 23:26 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Edito...
The Militant

Ohio nurses rally in fight to win a union at children’s hospital - COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some 100 nurses and their supporters rallied outside Nationwide Children’s Hospital here June 24 to build support for their fight to win u...
IVN

Millions of Americans Declare Their Independence on America's 250th Birthday - As America celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, millions of independent voters are raising their voices to declare that the ...
Discourse

AI Theodore Roosevelt, Baby Hitler, and the Stories That Made Us Say, 'Man, What the Hell?' This Month - MWTH Commissioner Rafi returns to show us the horrors of June
Texas Standard

One year after Hill Country floods, report details ‘cascading failures’ at Camp Mystic - Investigator Michael Massengale weighs in on the report he co-authored about what went wrong last July 4.
High Country News

Let’s go in on the American dream, together - Samantha Paige Rosen’s anthology offers communal living as affordability solution. The post Let’s go in on the American dream, together appeared first o...
Socialist Alternative

Prairieland Convictions: A Warning To The Movement & A Call To Action - In the last two weeks, a federal court in Texas sentenced nine anti-ICE protesters to incredibly draconian sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years. This wa...
Krebs on Security

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling resi...
LareDOS

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sets informational public meeting regarding New World Screwworm July 8 - Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at LC’s Yeary Library
Sludge

The Billionaire Money Behind New Centrist Pledge - Promise to America won't disclose who is funding its new anti-socialist pledge. But the group is closely tied to the Welcome Party, whose affiliated PAC ha...
The Conversation

How health insurers get a free pass to deny coverage from a 52-year-old law meant to protect worker pensions - A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Presidential Approval on the Path to the Midterm: The Pattern is That There is No Pattern - There is not a consistent pattern for postwar presidential approval from July 1 to the midterm, and in recent years a president’s approval hasn’t changed...
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Texas Signal

TPS And Texas: By The Numbers - TPS holders in Texas generated $4.3 billion in state GDP in 2023. Their work is concentrated where Texas is already short of labor.
Environment Texas

RELEASE: Online gallery celebrates 250 years of ‘America the beautiful’ - From state parks to private gardens, more than 250 photos show success in preserving natural spaces. The post RELEASE: Online gallery celebrates 250 year...
Ecosophia

Peak Oil: Specter and Substance - It’s been a long time now since peak oil dropped off the radar screens of public consciousness. Mention it these days and the reaction you’ll get from the ...
Texas Monthly

Meet Our Newest Landmark - The Rabbit Ears aren’t technically in Texas. Let’s adopt them anyway.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Online conservatives declare war on SCOTUS judge and her adopted children in aftermath of birthright citizenship ruling - And we are again at the time of year which finds the LGBTQ community tired, weary, battered and bruised but still standing. It is the end of yet another ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1 - Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and represe...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Earthworks

“We Have to Do Whatever We Can” - Indigenous land and water defenders strategized to defend the Guatemalan people. Here's how. The post “We Have to Do Whatever We Can” appeared first on E...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. Imagine a government run to do g...
Lowering the Bar

Nicholas Rossi Finally Extradited From Earth - It took a lot longer to get him out of Scotland.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

There’s No “P” In Our Ool - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first peeped that aerial shot on Reuters, it wouldn’t leave my mind. On the one hand, it’s another bucke...
The Grayzone

Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys - Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which...
MintPress News

Hezbollah Hunts Down Hind Rajab’s Killers & Crushes Israeli Offensive - More than two years after six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside her rescuers in Gaza, Hezbollah is systematically targeting commanders linked to t...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Media Lens

Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy - On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. ...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
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...
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...
Stinque

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Free & Equal

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Countercurrents

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Skeptophilia

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DeSmogBlog

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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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

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Reading the Pictures

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WAWG Blog

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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

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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

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Reveal

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ExChristian.Net

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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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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

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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...
Eater Houston

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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

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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
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

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BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

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Robert Reich

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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

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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

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Tribune of the People

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Caitlin Johnstone

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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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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Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Chicken Fried Politics

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Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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Bayou Brief

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Washington Babylon

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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

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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

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Latino Decisions

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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

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Defend our Movements

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Better Texas Blog

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Texas Rural Voices

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PERRspectives

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Austin 360

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Think 3 Institute

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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, November 11, 2007

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