Brains and Eggs: More 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

Courthouse News

2 Renoir paintings stolen from a French museum have been found, 6 arrested - The whole operation took less than three minutes an d targeted the most valuable works in the Renoir Museum.
Political Wire

Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ad Bombs in Focus Group - Sarah Longwell: “Since the ads began to air, it’s become pretty clear that people hate the idea of the government using taxpayer money to broadcast them. A...
Raw Story

Trump 'should be worried' by what Democrat keeps hearing in deep-red district: report - An Army veteran running as a Democrat in a deep-red Texas district says she keeps meeting Donald Trump voters who feel “betrayed” by the president’s war ...
Al Jazeera English

Thousands rally for anti-austerity protest in Brussels amid clashes - Belgian police respond to 'troublemakers' on sidelines of main rally with tear gas, water cannon and baton charges.
Sludge

Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines - Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of million in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 millio...
The Hill

To strengthen child welfare and keep families together, we need structural change - A new framework from United Family Advocates argues that federal child welfare financing requires significant reform to prioritize community-based support ...
Mediaite

MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle Pleads for Trump to ‘Reconsider’ Public Execution of Fort Hood Shooter: ‘What in the World Is Going On Here?’ - Stephanie Ruhle took a moment on her show Friday to plead for President Donald Trump to "reconsider" the plan to make the Fort Hood shooter's execution p...
Mediagazer

Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes) - Katharine Schwab / Forbes: *Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last f...
memeorandum

Mullin says ICE didn't know 5-year-old boy was in car when officer fired (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Mullin says ICE didn't know 5-year-old boy was in car when officer fired* — Federal authorities said Oscar Belgal used his car to ram...
Consortium News

The Prosecutor’s Dilemma - The prosecutor’s job is to investigate and evaluate, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano. That’s why in the high-profile Cornell rape case, the process must be ...
Futurism

Well, This Is the First Time America Has Livestreamed an Execution by Firing Squad - "It will be livestreamed." The post Well, This Is the First Time America Has Livestreamed an Execution by Firing Squad appeared first on Futurism.
Salon.com

Leave the Greenland sharks alone - A bounty on 1,000 fish hearts is as barbaric as it sounds
SCOTUSblog

The Constitution’s structure should decide Suncor - *Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its s...
Scheerpost.com

‘Why Would You Need Courage to Speak the Truth?’: Navi Pillay, Who Led UN Report on Gaza Genocide, Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Jon Queally Common Dreams “Thank you so much,” said the international jurist in a moment of jest. “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize wi...
naked capitalism

The UN at the Breaking Point and What Could Come Next - The UN is a dead man walking, yet BRICS members unrealistically hope for reform. What organizations could be models for moving forward?
Bonddad

The US economy right now: AI vs. everything else - * - by New Deal democrat* Let’s wrap up this week of limited economic data by looking at perhaps the most prevalent theme about the state of the US e...
Texas Standard

‘Coding Kids’ looks at big tech and AI’s impact on remaking public education - Author Natasha Singer delves into how schools became entangled with the industry — and how recent shifts in technology may have left some students behind.
IVN

Pennsylvania's Open Primary Fight Could Come Down to a Handful of Senate Seats - With control of the state Senate at stake in November, a handful of competitive races could determine the future of legislation allowing more than 1.5 mill...
Duck of Minerva

Don’t Hold Your Breath on AI-Driven Wargaming - Even if you did have a LLM that could mirror human actions and decision-making processes in a wargame, it wouldn't actually be sufficient to model how weir...
Mother Jones

My Weird Book Interview on Michael Cohen’s Podcast - When I began the publicity push for How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America, a friend who until recently worked for a major...
World Socialist Web Site

High school protests against austerity, repression and war spread to Belgium - The movement is part of a wave of social and class struggles against austerity, neo-fascism and war with high school protests in France, housing protests i...
First Draft

I Agree With Pete Hegseth - And he should be impeached immediately.
Rallblog

What Is the Death Penalty For? - Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee’s would-be prison executioners, who have rep...
Democracy Now!

"Entire System of Cornell University Failed Her": Jane Doe Gang Rape Case Enrages Campus Community - University students across the United States held a national day of action in solidarity with “Jane Doe,” the anonymous former student whose lawsuit allegi...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: DoD Help Us - I like the fact that Wuerker has given this clown a 10-gallon hat and a six-shooter, because the sort of clown who serves as a distraction, the way this on...
Debunking Christianity

How Science and Seminary Sabotaged My Belief in God - *I was well on my way there before I got to seminary* I have often pointed out that by the time I had finished my PhD in Biblical Studies at Boston Univ...
Space City Weather

Space City Weather declares Fall Day 2026 has arrived in Houston! If only for a day - In brief: Today marks Houston’s first morning of autumn with a low temperature of 65 degrees, so we declare it to be Fall Day 2026! Enjoy the comfortable m...
Novara Media

Police Spent £320k on Face ID Tech That Achieved Nothing - British Transport Police (BTP) have spent more than £320k and almost 100 hours of officers’ time on a six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech...
The Root

Body-Cam Footage of Fatal Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Teen Raises Urgent Questions - Newly released body cam footage has caused Saveion McConnell’s family to question why one officer used a gun instead of a Taser. Read more...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter prompts fierce political backlash – US politics live - Lawmakers branded the move as ‘disturbing’ and compared it to the actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments Hello and welcome to the US po...
Rewire

How to Talk to Your Kids About Consent and the Cornell Rape Case - Untangling rape culture is complicated. Teaching kids that you need permission to touch someone else’s body is not. The Cornell University rape case has sp...
Vox

Antarctica’s penguins are sending us a distress signal - This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s largest penguin colony ha...
The Smirking Chimp

Would Another 9/11 Be Trump’s Ultimate October Surprise? -
Off The Kuff

TSU polls Fort Bend County - Solid, very solid. The Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center at Texas Southern University conducted a representative survey of 1,200 regi...
Eschaton

Morning - Fuckin' Friday
Slate

Slate SoundBites for October 9, 2026 - Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!
San Antonio Report

A century of dioramas, dinosaurs and discoveries: Witte Museum turns 100 with millions of years on exhibit - The Witte Museum is turning 100 years old this year with thousands of pieces of art, artifacts and specimens in its collection and millions of years of sci...
ProPublica

Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. - The post Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

MAGA’s Big Fat Greek Scandal - The post MAGA’s Big Fat Greek Scandal appeared first on Crooked Media.
Axios

Navi Pillay, advocate for international law, wins Nobel Peace Prize - Navi Pillay, an outspoken supporter of international law who has served as a judge on multiple global courts and as the UN's top human rights official, w...
The Verge

OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers - OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a ...
The Daily Poster

Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise. - A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics ...
NPR's Health Shots

Why we remember: One student's journey into memory - Why one teen can't let go of the time he ate fries with his great-grandpa.
Two Party Opera

Cruel Or Unusual - Read More
Grist

The Louisiana wind industry’s plan for survival: Outlast Trump - Trump brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies plan to "wait for the clock to run out" in 2029.
ArcaMax

Big Menu - Politics, restaurant menus and porn are the quickest ways to learn that someone likes things you find disgusting. Good examples of that are Donald Trump, e...
High Country News

Meet the flower whose evolution is outpacing climate change - This common perennial blossom, beloved by hummingbirds and biologists, offers key insight on which plants might save themselves from climate stress. Th...
The Week

The Week Unwrapped: Is there such a thing as ‘ethical’ gold mining? - Plus, what does a new start-up tell us about the state of AI? And why are K-pop acts boycotting the Grammys?
jobsanger

Republican Corruption Is Out Of Control -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1639: Flying to the Edge of Air - Episode: 1639 Helios, NASA’s high-flying almost-satellite. Today, let us ride Helios’ golden chariot.
Portside

“We Need To Tell the Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect on Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom To Read - “We Need To Tell the Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect on Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom To Read jay Fri, 10/09/2026 - 00:31
Informed Comment

Why Doesn’t Iran Concede under US Pressure? The Limits of Coercion - For Tehran, an agreement can be politically acceptable when it is presented as an exchange between two sovereign states
Techdirt.

Pete Hegseth Pretends Pentagon’s New ‘Religious Affairs’ Office Isn’t Christian Nationalism - There’s a certain segment of the American population that likes to really bang on about the importance of the First Amendment to our rights to free speech ...
Wolf Street

Status of the Commercial Real Estate Debt and Who Owns it in 2026 - The government is the most aggressive CRE lender. But even CMBS balances are surging again, water under bridge?
Alternet

‘Rattled’ MAGA rep laughed at during forum —and told to ‘calm down’ - Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) had an awkward moment during a debate on Thursday, trying to leave after being asked a tough question before the moderator instru...
See You In 2020

Automation, mass lumpenization, & the journey out of America’s coming dark age - The Trump wing has decided what path it wants: the unrestrained acceleration of AI, and thereby the lumpenization of what remains of the working class. ...
The Greanville Post

Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar: BREAKING: Pakistan Confirms Troops Are Already Deployed in Saudi Arabia - DW—This video features Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar discussing the ongoing conflict in Yemen and the broader regional tensions involving the United States, Ira...
Popular Resistance

The Rise And Fall Of The Artificial State - As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more ubiquitous by the day, its alleged dangers are being increasingly discussed by the dominant players of Silic...
Antiwar.com

Three Years of Gaza as a Ghetto of Genocidal Extermination - Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. Israel is lost. Every day for the last three years, the decent people of the world — in our untold millions — ha...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/09/2026 - 05:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich-backed permitting reform bill unites Big Oil, clean energy and labor for major overhaul to speed up federal projects - [image: US Sen Martin Heinrich, D-NM (speaking), and others introduce the American Affordability and Jobs Act (Courtesy Photo, Oct 2026)] A bipartisan per...
Deadline Politics

Ben Affleck Campaigned For Mayor In L.A. As ‘Animals’ Character: “Do Not Vote For Me!” - As Angelenos fill out their ballots, Ben Affleck is making it clear that he should not be anyone’s write-in vote, despite playing a politician onscreen. Th...
Ballot Access News

Republican and No Labels Party Arizona Gubernatorial Candidates Debate Each Other - On Octoer 6, the Republican and No Labels Party nominees for Arizona Governor debated each other. The debate was televised. See this story. … Continue read...
Election Law Blog

“A Black community in Louisiana faces a future without a champion in Congress after redistricting” - LA Times: If you cross the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long-O.K. Allen Bridge, pass the Exxon Refinery, then head north for a few minutes, you’ll fi...
Progressive.org

How School Choice Opens the Door for Private Equity - Charter school projects and a new federal voucher program make K-12 schools the next public service target of private investors.
San Antonio Current

Ken Paxton laughs while he proposes defunding Social Security in latest leaked audio clip - [image: There once was performative schmuck named Paxton...] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign seems to have a hot mic problem. On Thursday, an...
El Paso Matters

EPWater invites customers to community meetings on FY 2027-28 Budget priorities - Customers can learn about budget scenarios and weigh in on how EPWater balances affordability, reliability and future infrastructure needs. The post EPW...
slacktivist

Scandalous - The shortcomings of evangelicalism should not be ignored. But the critics who discuss those shortcomings should be, I guess.
CultureMap Houston

The Social Reckoning takes a swipe at Facebook in the modern era - The 2010 film *The Social Network* — about the early years of Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg created the social media site — was a landmark movie in many w...
Lowering the Bar

Court Holds AI-Generated “Victim Statement” Not Reliable - [image: still from Chris Pelkey video]Like almost everything else AI generates.
The Grayzone

British chemical warfare commentator’s MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails - Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer w...
Mondoweiss

One Palestinian killed, dozens injured during Israeli settler attacks on West Bank olive harvest - Settler attacks in the West Bank are ongoing with the enthusiastic approval of the Israeli army, as Palestinians are barred from accessing their own land, ...
Ian Welsh

Buy, Borrow, Die—Another Way the Rich Avoid Taxes - One of the long term themes of my writing is that the rich have engineered a system in the West which insures they will continue to get richer, generally i...
Earthworks

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Is Left Behind in the Rush to Mine the Seafloor - The International Seabed Authority is writing policies to govern mining in the deep sea. Those policies cut right to some of the biggest questions that d...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today - In "Let the Record Show," the ACLU's newest podcast, we discuss how office politics gave courts the power to decide if political decisions are constitution...
Common Dreams

Trump Administration Seeks to Exempt Oil and Gas Exploration in the Western Arctic from Environmental Review and Public Comment - As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to illegally expand oil and gas drilling into long-protected Arctic public lands in Alaska, the Depart...
Church and State

Trump: Worth impeaching after the midterms? - Another major problem which requires legislative action is the practice of gerrymandering.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"The Political Transformation of UT Austin: 2020 - 2026 developed by the Austin chapter of AAUP-Texas AFT" [Timeline] - *Friends,Here is a timeline onThe Political Transformation of UT Austin: 2020 - 2026 developed by the Austin chapter of AAUP-Texas AFT—which is the sa...
Angry Bear

New jobless claims continue near historical lows; plus the “quick and dirty” forecast, and an important comparison vs. long term unemployment - – by New Deal democrat Let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims. Plus, this week I want to make a statement about jobless claims vs. long te...
OpEd News

The United Front for the Restoration of U.S. Constitutional Democracy: A Message for the Democrats: Part I - Very briefly, this column is the first of a 3-part series in which I set the stage for and then describe a proposal for an over-arching electoral strategy ...
Socialist Alternative

Giant Wave Of Youth & Student Protest Surges In France - Since mid-September, a so far unstoppable wave of student protests has swept across France, led by angry high school students demanding an end to cutbacks ...
Daily Howler

VALUES: Did he say the same thing all over again? - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026* *There's no known cure for this: *Yesterday, the sitting president said it again--or did he? To see what he said, you can...
Undernews

Judge extends temporary limit on Trump's media ban - *The Hill - *A federal judge on Thursday briefly extended an order lifting a ban implemented by the White House last month on three new outlets President...
Capital & Main

San Gabriel Valley Residents Fighting Data Centers Hit a 12-Mile-Long Snag - Community groups opposed to the projects face a tough adversary in the City of Industry, an economic powerhouse seemingly unaccountable to surrounding re...
The AltWorld

Trump demands Gulf countries to pay “bills” for his and Israel’s battle with Iran - What is his justification? And will these countries respond to his blackmail? And why would they refuse? […] The post Trump demands Gulf countries to pay...
Workers World

PDF of October 8 issue - [image: PDF of October 8 issue] Download the PDF WW Commentaries: Abolish the death penalty now! October 7: Three years of resistance, genocide and solidar...
WhoWhatWhy

A Rare Mamdani Misstep - [image: Zohran Mamdani, meeting, Gustavo Petro] There was no reason for Zohran Mamdani to wade into a controversy on the anniversary of the October 7 terro...
Dorf on Law

"Innocent" Sanewashing, the Gish Gallop, and Bad-Faith Arguments from Republicans - "Where do I even begin?" I feel confident that almost everyone reading this column will have uttered that rhetorical question at least once, because we ...
Dissent Magazine

Is This Play About Us? - Like the *Mission: Impossible* series, *Digger* delights in its own theatricality. But the film takes so much pleasure in autocritique it borders on auto...
Glasstire

Top Five: October 8, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Chinati Weekend 2026Chinati Foundation (Marfa)October 9...
Independent Political Report

United States Pirate Party Selects Representatives to All Hands Coalition Council - The United States Pirate Party has selected Captain Jolly Mitch Davilo and Young Pirates USA co-captain Lily Boyt to represent the organization on the go...
The Conversation

Why the assault weapons debate is a culture debate - The Supreme Court’s decision to hear two assault weapons cases caps a multi-decade dispute over restricting assault weapons that extends far beyond legal a...
Infidel753

The importance of ballot initiatives - Voting for political candidates or parties is increasingly a weary exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils. As I've discussed before, the Republican...
Claytoonz

Trump Cooties - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 27 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
The Texas Signal

The Shockingly Close Race For Texas Governor - Greg Abbott, despite being an entrenched incumbent, faces the stiffest challenge of his career from Gina Hinojosa, a five-term representative and former Au...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Equality Forum's LGBTQ History Month icons are varied and controversial - October is LGBTQ History Month and on an annual basis, Equality Forum spotlights 31 iconic figures of LGBTQ history. This year is no different, but I thi...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN says committed to work with Pakistan for voluntary returns of Afghan refugees - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations will work with Pakistan to “uphold protection principles and ensure that returns of Afghans...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Escaping Boutique Realities: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Discourse

What Is ‘The Project of Journalism’??? (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Jeremy O. Harris in Vanity Fair, a ROSIE SPOTTING, and David Ellison’s acting ‘career’
Liberation News

Palestine has irrevocably transformed global politics and consciousness - As U.S. imperialism threatens further escalation, in the region and around the world, it is our responsibility to continue to build a fighting movement tha...
Ecosophia

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting Revisited - Our review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first months of m...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Texas Observer

A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State’s Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms - Already facing backlash for its decision to forgo reviewing critical post-Roe v. Wade pregnancy-related deaths, the state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbid...
Krebs on Security

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests - A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating...
The Progressive Wing

10/7 – 10/8 News Roundup & Open Thread - Senator Susan Collins and Troy Jackson face off in the CBS13/FOX23 U.S. Senate debate. More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
Crooked Timber

How Money Matters - Having alighted from the bus in an industrial area I’d never been before, I found the right building and descended the stairs. As instructed by email, I ra...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Expert advice includes simple solutions alongside larger home investments; Oct. 7 is national Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help...
LareDOS

Solaz y solidaridad: Contra-ICE launches in downtown LA with compilation album featuring artists, musicians, comedians, and performers - Album is a fundraiser for National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Unión del Barrio, non-profits that serve immigrants and protect their human rights
Brad Blog

Good, Bad and Ugly News, Four Weeks from Midterm Election Day: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2026 - We’ve got mostly encouraging news about the 2026 midterms on today’s BradCast, though there are plenty of caveats and reasons for the pro-democracy forces ...
Trivial Knot

Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time - The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time isn’t really a remake, nor an RPG. It’s a puzzle game with a metafictional narrative. You get plopped...
MintPress News

Yemen’s Ansarallah Unveil Strategic Weapons As Israeli-US Backed Offensive Backfires - Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensi...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
NORML

Massachusetts: Lawmakers Publicly Urge ‘No’ Vote on Marijuana Repeal Initiative (Question 8) - [image: Vote for Marijuana][image: Vote for Marijuana]"Repealing legal adult use would have devastating impacts on the livelihoods of those who have inve...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GOOD FOR WHAT AI'S YA EDITION. - *These guys are local!* This week has been, as is now customary under Tubby II, a cavalcade of horrors, and perhaps the most illustrative horror was the ...
The Militant

Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle - HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at ...
Bracing Views

We’re #1! - At Needless Wars, Weapons Exports, and Threatening Annihilation BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2026 Americans like to think we live in the best country in the world. ...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
Project Censored

Academic Freedom And Constitutional Rights in a Time of Crisis - Geoffrey Stone and Valerie C. Johnson led this livestream discussion on the state of Academic Freedom and the Importance of the First Amendment, recorded 9...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
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 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...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

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

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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

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

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

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

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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

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

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....
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

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

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...
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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