Brains and Eggs: 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

Raw Story

JD Vance blindsided at NC rally by Epstein heckler standing right behind him - A protester standing directly behind Vice President JD Vance confronted him at a North Carolina rally, shouting, “Release the Epstein files!” Vance was s...
Slate

I Faced Huge Hurdles to Get Veteran Benefits. The Supreme Court Has a Chance to Make Things Better. - While stationed in Cold War–era Germany, Army infantryman Floyd Johnson experienced a training exercise that turned deadly.
ArcaMax

Big money vs. the people - America makes its choice two weeks from tomorrow. It’s not really a choice between two parties. After all, a record 45%t of American voters now call themse...
Political Wire

Trump Says He’d Meet with Putin and Xi - “President Donald Trump said Monday that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss how to end the Ukr...
Mediaite

Trump Calls for New Mexico to Be Renamed ‘New America’ in Bizarre Rant - Trump again called for New Mexico to change its name to “New America," claiming it would boost home values, raise incomes, and end the state’s “crooked e...
San Antonio Current

Investigation finds Gov. Greg Abbott’s data center ‘pause’ on data centers isn’t a pause at all - In late September, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to “halt all permits sought by data centers.” However...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Alternet - *One of the many ways that President Donald Trump has been able to dodge paying his taxes is by using an "environmental easement" for his Tr...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Sitting president confronts crazed lunatic! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2026* *The problem we all face: *Yes, it's an actual post. Even worse, it's an actual *Truth Social* post, from the sitting presid...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (October 19, 2026) - Today: We break down this year’s race for Texas Railroad Commissioner, learn about a new program aimed at addressing domestic violence, and discuss the imp...
Alas, a Blog

The Implications Have Become The Monster - This is just an in-joke for me (and for you folks), but I’m pleased by the store sign in panel one, which is blocked by both a telephone pole and a word ba...
Futurism

Truth Social Stock Hits All-Time Low as Its Userbase Craters on Trump’s Social Network - Truth Social is in deep trouble. The post Truth Social Stock Hits All-Time Low as Its Userbase Craters on Trump’s Social Network appeared first on Futuri...
Popular Resistance

Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Act - The Trump administration is rolling out changes to the Endangered Species Act that critics argue will make the law borderline useless in protecting vulne...
Al Jazeera English

Indian court extends detention of ‘Cockroach’ leaders - The extension of the custody of the CJP activists comes amid a crackdown on near daily protests against the government.
Glasstire

Dallas Civil Rights Museum Announces Open Call for Public Programming Proposals - The Juanita J. Craft House and Museum (JJCHM) in Dallas has announced an open call, seeking proposals for public programming based on the civil rights le...
Project Censored

Tradwives: The Far Right’s Answer to the Girlboss - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with writer and journalist Madeline Peltz to talk about tradwives – the fa...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I - From whence come the industrious people? Why spend months reading Marx’s so-called ‘notebooks’ in Theories of Surplus Value, Part 1 (TSVI) when you coul...
The Hill

Mahmoud Khalil takes legal fight to Supreme Court - Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University demonstrator who became a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian foreign students, a...
IVN

Progressive-Backed Cofer and Establishment Favorite Guerra Face off for Sacramento County Supervisor - With no party label on the ballot, the open District 1 seat becomes a test of which Democratic wing can deliver votes in November
Novara Media

Riots Stun France - French prime minister Sebastien Lecornu has called for curfews after hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country took to the streets, with incid...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump DoJ announces arrests of 28 green card holders in California on noncitizen voting related charges – live - Latest action on alleged voter fraud comes as administration escalates its fight with state as midterms loom - Sign up for US Breaking News em...
Election Law Blog

US Government Pre-Dawn Raid to Arrest Purported Non-Citizen Registering to Vote is Meant to Obscure the Small Number of Noncitizen Voters that DOJ His Found in California - The dramatic picture accompanying the Los Angeles Times article of Homeland Security officials doing a pre-dawn arrest of a man accused of illegally regi...
Angry Bear

Consumer spending, income, and wealth - – by New Deal democrat For awhile now I have been writing about how the wealth effect has been powering sales among upper income households. Earlier th...
World Socialist Web Site

Nearly 200 arrested as Belgian youth defy crackdown on education protests - Defence Minister Theo Francken is accelerating plans for a military-trained police force with a remit to crush social disorder.
Texas Standard

Candidates for Texas agriculture commissioner spar over eligibility for office - The legal qualifications for agriculture commissioner — and whether either candidate meets them — have taken a front seat in the race between Republican Na...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

$100 Million ICE “Intelligence” Program is a Domestic Secret Police Agency in the Making - Administration that has ordered agencies to target activists and nonprofits would hire “intelligence” agents within ICE to identify “threats” and investiga...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Government Seeks Court Order to Impound Approximately 20,000 Ballots from California - On October 15, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleging that it has a list of 20,000 registered California voter...
Mother Jones

These State Races Could Be the Sleeper Issue of the Midterms - So much attention is understandably focused on whether Democrats can take back control of Congress this year. But little-noticed state legislative races co...
Mondoweiss

Can AIPAC stop an El-Sayed victory in Michigan? - [image: The AIPAC logo is seen on the left, and Mike Rogers is seen at the right, speaking at a rally with Donald Trump.]AIPAC recently spent $100,000 on m...
Independent Political Report

MAGA Candidate Elaine Pelino Backs Independent Ken Block for Rhode Island Governor - *This article was originally published by* *Rhode Island Current on October 14, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views e...
Capital & Main

Why So Many Pet Owners Can’t Afford a Veterinarian - Private equity and corporate ownership are driving up prices and forcing people to make awful choices about their animal companions. The post Why So Many...
Consortium News

The UK Green Party’s Historic Anti-Zionist Motion - The party’s grassroots have crossed into political territory that was supposed to remain untouchable, writes Ramzy Baroud. By Ramzy Baroud Z Network The Gr...
The Verge

Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week - Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to a...
The Week

What happened to Trump’s short-lived press secretary, Katie Zacharia? - There are also conflicting reports about Zacharia’s legal experience
Axios

Could you soon make your own moonshine? SCOTUS takes up 160-year-old ban - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Reconstruction-era ban on distilling alcohol in private homes. *Why it matters: *Americans ...
Deadline Politics

Jon Ossoff Makes L.A. Fundraising Swing In Midterm Final Stretch - Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) will be in Los Angeles on Monday for a fundraising swing, expected to be his final one through a prime Democratic donor based with t...
Texas Observer

Is Brandon Gill the Future of MAGA in Texas? - An inflatable eagle swayed outside the Parq Social event center in Cedar Park in late September, welcoming people to the ninth annual Texas Faith Fest. I...
Eschaton

Born Every Minute - We all (even me) get things wrong, but a reasonable take on the last few decades would be to see it as an era of elites being suckered by scammers over a...
Liberation News

Report shows sexualized violence against Palestinians is embedded in Israeli settler colonialism - Justice for Palestinian victims of sexualized violence requires full self determination.
Courthouse News

Marine set to keep custody of Afghan war orphan after Supreme Court denial - The girl's Afghan relatives believed they were entitled to due process before a court permanently removed the child from their care in a controversial inte...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso Animal Services makes progress, but work remains - Deputy City Manager Richard Bristol outlines changes following an independent assessment of El Paso Animal Services and says continued reviews will guid...
CultureMap Houston

UH breaks ground on $77 million research facility at medical school campus - The University of Houston broke ground on a brand new $77.5 million Medical Research Building last week that will host clinical trials and a virtual realit...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court agrees to consider federal ban on home distilleries - The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of an 1868 federal law that imposes a tax on distilled spirits but also bans home disti...
Bonddad

Consumer spending, income and wealth - * - by New Deal democrat* For awhile now I have been writing about how the wealth effect has been powering sales among upper income households. Earl...
Scheerpost.com

The Normality of Evil: Reflections on the “NAZA” Documentary - Yakov M. Rabkin Informed Comment Hannah Arendt’s characterization of Eichmann as representing “The Banality of Evil,” the subtitle of her book Eichmann in ...
Krebs on Security

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site - U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two...
Ian Welsh

2026 Annual Fundraiser - This blog runs on reader subscriptions and donations. Reading it is free, and always will be, but it does take money to run the site and keep myself fed an...
Alternet

Trump's 'whisker shy of obese' status challenged by old government records - President Donald *Trump's* reported weight has been called into question after a comparison of his latest White House physical that puts him just shy of ...
San Antonio Report

Another new hotel is going up in the South Texas Medical Center - Nearly half of the hotel rooms currently under construction in San Antonio are marketed as extended-stay hotels. ------------------------------ Another new ...
Crooked Timber

What Makes Modern Online Casinos So Popular - What Makes Modern Online Casinos So Popular Online casino sites have become one of the most vibrant corners of the digital home entertainment globe. Their...
Church and State

AI godbots: religious leaders warn of ‘alarming consequences’ when machines speak in the name of God - The phenomenon of religious AI chatbots – also known as “godbots” – is a recent development.
Rewire

Surviving Breast Cancer is Hard. Providers Are Working to Improve Post-Treatment Care. - Surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy can take a toll on physical and mental health. Survivors want their doctors to get it—and treat them accordingly.
Democracy Now!

Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa: Prominent Anti-Corruption Lawyer in Guatemala Assassinated - The prominent Guatemalan anti-corruption lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was fatally shot along with another man on Saturday at a sports center in Gu...
Mediagazer

CBS's chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford deletes an X post praising a man who questioned Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about Muslim Brotherhood (Maya Yang/The Guardian) - Maya Yang / The Guardian: *CBS's chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford deletes an X post praising a man who questioned Democratic Senate candidate Abdul...
The Conversation

How candidates are (quietly) talking about climate change – 3 election strategies you’ll see across the US - Voters have a lot of weighty issues on their minds, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worried about climate change.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Coffee Break’s Over - The Big Story, of course, is Donald Trump’s decision to quit dodging, denying and lying about his affection for and loyalty to Vladimir Putin. At least it ...
Space City Weather

With fall-like temperatures finally arriving in Houston, when might we get some rain? - In brief: Fall arrived this weekend, and our weather was certainly gorgeous. Now that we’ve taken the sting out of summer, is there anything to be done abo...
WhoWhatWhy

Ads That Could Sink Trump and Trumpism - [image: Before Trump, After Trump] The ads that should be running now: America needs to hear and see the horror, again and again. Ads That Could Sink Trum...
The Root

Rep. Justin J. Pearson Sues Memphis in Explosive Free Speech Showdown Over xAI Data Centers - Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson alleges Memphis violated his First Amendment rights after banning him from council meetings amid data center protests...
Rallblog

Battle of France | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime • France erupts in its biggest riots in years as education and living-cost protes...
Debunking Christianity

Edward Babinski's Foreword To "Why I Became An Atheist" - I've decided to publish whole chapters from my books. I may eventually publish them all, certainly a bunch of them. The goal will be to publish one chapter...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
Vox

Trump is coming for your credit card rewards. That’s good. - Wall Street is sending the public a dire warning: President Donald Trump has become a threat to the very foundation of American freedom — your frequent fli...
Dorf on Law

Trump Russia Capitulation: Stupid, Corrupt, or Vindictive? Why Not All of the Above? - Are you struggling to make sense of President Trump's series of moves to lift sanctions on and import diesel fuel from Russia? The reported reason for the ...
naked capitalism

Links 10/19/2026 -
Salon.com

Abdul El-Sayed’s fighting style terrifies MAGA - Republicans don't know how to handle this Michigan Democrat
The Smirking Chimp

The Tragic Death of the Republican Party -
Off The Kuff

Interview with County Commissioner Lesley Briones - Our final planned interview for the 2026 cycle is with one of the most prominent local candidates. Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones is running for he...
ProPublica

He Tried to Set Limits on His State’s School Vouchers. Billionaires Helped Bankroll a Campaign to Unseat Him. - The post He Tried to Set Limits on His State’s School Vouchers. Billionaires Helped Bankroll a Campaign to Unseat Him. appeared first on ProPublica.
Two Party Opera

Denaturalization - Read More
The Progressive Wing

10/19 News Roundup and Open Thread - AOC and Mamdani are in this special by MS NOW. Good weekend of campaigning this weekend. More news after the jump.
Grist

The world is crumbling in ‘The History of Concrete’ - John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.
Common Dreams

Whoosh And They're Gone - Well that was fun. In last week's welcome bit of comic relief, we got the vapid rise and rapid fall - despite requisite blonde hair, faux smile and passi...
High Country News

How climate change is messing with the West’s weather - Record fires, floods and weather whiplash makes for a region of extremes. The post How climate change is messing with the West’s weather appeared first ...
Crooked Media

Sex Trafficking Lawsuits, Privacy Rights, and a Court That Can’t Keep Up - The post Sex Trafficking Lawsuits, Privacy Rights, and a Court That Can’t Keep Up appeared first on Crooked Media.
Portside

Sunday Science: The Evolution of the Human Brain Set It Up for Failure - Sunday Science: The Evolution of the Human Brain Set It Up for Failure Ira Mon, 10/19/2026 - 02:52
jobsanger

NO POSTING TODAY - No posting today! Will resume posting tomorrow.
memeorandum

Trump Hits Campaign Trail as White House Turmoil Weighs on GOP Midterm Prospects (Tyler Pager/New York Times) - Tyler Pager / New York Times: *Trump Hits Campaign Trail as White House Turmoil Weighs on GOP Midterm Prospects* — As Trump held rallies around the nat...
Informed Comment

The Normality of Evil: Reflections on the “NAZA” Documentary - IDF specialists and snipers admit feeling like gods capable of killing people practically at will.
OpEd News

Trump's Persian Gulf Trap: Two Blockades, One Economic War, and No Clear Victory - As Washington blockades Iranian oil exports and Tehran disrupts Persian Gulf shipping, both sides face mounting economic consequences. This article examine...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Threats to Annihilate Iran - Of all of the things that Donald Trump has said publicly since returning to the White House, his threats to annihilate Iran are arguably the worst. This is...
The Greanville Post

Yemen Goes for the (Saudi) Jugular - The House of Saud has received a stunning warning from Ansarallah and the Yemeni Armed Forces: if you continue to attack us, you will lose your oil infrast...
Claytoonz

Sue You Blues - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 16 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, ple...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Pictures: Famously Hot South Carolina Pride hosts successful festival in downtown Columbia - On October 17, Famously Hot SC Pride hosted its annual festival in downtown Columbia SC where LGBTQ folks and our allies enjoyed a day of fun, fellowship...
Socialist Alternative

New Haven Students & Workers Walk Out: Justice for Jane Doe & All Survivors - On October 15, New Haven Socialist Alternative helped organize a 150-strong walkout of New Haven high schoolers, Yale students, and workers from local unio...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida’s age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addicti...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

While We Fight the Culture Wars, Who’s Picking Our Pockets? A Political Reckoning in South Texas, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - While We Fight the Culture Wars, Who’s Picking Our Pockets? A Political Reckoning in South Texasby Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. *Happy Sunday morning.* *Gaige...
Field Negro

"The Art of The Steal. " - The following is from the website of Representative Laura DeLauro who represents the3rd District of Connecticut. "Pay to Play: Trump’s Record of Corrup...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘Axis of Diesel’ Toons - …Friendly Reminder… …Weather Outlook… …Someday… …NEXT WEEK!… …November 4th?… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded u...
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: Wall Street Wants You Quiet - The wealth tax, assault rifles, shareholder antics, and more from The Lever this week.
The AltWorld

All Our Problems Are Caused By Believed Narrative - All our problems basically come down to narrative control. People are manipulated into believing the story that […] The post All Our Problems Are Caused ...
Wolf Street

Long-Term Treasury Yields Buffeted by Hot Inflation and Cracks in AI Mania - The magic 5%-line for the 10-year Treasury yield seems to be the new floor, after being the ceiling it couldn't break through for three years.
Sludge

Prop 4 Would Let California Cities Curb Big Money With Small Donations - The California ballot measure would let cities, counties, and the state match small donations with public funds. Backers led by the League of Women Voters ...
See You In 2020

Tech upheaval, AI hallucinations, & the new reality that will emerge from today’s chaos - In response to imperial anxieties over China’s rise, the U.S. government is now determined to speed up AI’s development. And for the nucleus of the new A...
MintPress News

Iran’s Covert Missile Strikes Revealed, US Threatens MOAB Attack & The Arab-Israeli Plot Exposed - Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to u...
NPR's Health Shots

Sidewalk sleepers: They have nowhere else to stay while a loved one is in the hospital - Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for overnight accommodations, familie...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 17 October 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Two weeks to Halloween! o o o o o He sees..... a rival! Cats wreak havoc. Behold ...
Workers World

Why does #47’s vendetta vs. Rep. Ilhan Omar continue? - [image: Why does #47’s vendetta vs. Rep. Ilhan Omar continue?] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN special rapporteur warns North Korea’s human rights situation has worsened - United Nations Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón has issued a stark warning regarding the worsening human rights situation in North Korea, highlighting a...
Progressive.org

The Film Israeli Officials Don’t Want You to See - Israeli-made documentary NAZA details the deliberate mass killing of Palestinians —and prompts political backlash from all sides.
Lowering the Bar

Again I Warn Thee: Fleeth Not by Water - [image: suspect stepping into water]Because this somehow still seems to be necessary.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: COMMIES AND MUSLIMS, WHO CARES, OH MY EDITION. - *A melody you can play with* Hate to be optimistic but the midterms are looking good. Here’s a glimpse of what the opposition is offering, courtesy of th...
The Militant

Meetings worldwide protest spread of Jew-hatred, attacks - It’s been three years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Gaza-based Hamas thugs — trained, financed and armed by Tehran — swarmed into Israel and carried out the wor...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/16/2026 - 21:46 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
The Texas Signal

The Sculptures Reframing Women’s History In Austin - On October 27, artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain will be unveiling her latest work in Austin (just in time before the midterm election)
Seeing the Forest

AI Rabbit Hole - I have gone down the rabbit hole looking into AI. I have been fascinated by the idea of encountering alien minds, so I’ve been using them and reading about...
The NM Political Report

Rep. Reeb resigns from state house after court rules against her double-dipping as legislator, prosecutor - [image: State Rep. Andrea Reeb] A high-profile state representative on the investigative committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein resigned from the New Mex...
Duck of Minerva

Episode 2: Being and Insecurity - Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, Nina Krickel-Choi, Jennifer Mitzen, and Brent Steele join Dan and Patri...
slacktivist

The purpose-driven labor priest - A labor activist reads Rick Warren and it gets me wondering about "evangelicalism" in the age of Bryan.
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Dissent Magazine

What’s at Stake in the Ilhan Omar Case - Trump’s investigation of Omar strikes at elementary assumptions of a free and republican government: that political opposition is legitimate, that the ex...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The War We Must Never Let Happen: The New World War and the Fall of American Empire - We’re sitting on a tinderbox unlike any before and we have choices
Bracing Views

The Conceit of Total Dominance - And the Sheer Expense of It All BILL ASTORE 18 HOURS AGO A strange conceit of American exceptionalism is the naked ambition of full-spectrum dominance. The...
NORML

The Next Attack on Legalization Targets Voters - [image: An illustration of hands placing marijuana votes into a ballot box containing a wastebasket representing ignoring the election results][image: An...
Discourse

Is James Talarico Winning or Is Ken Paxton Just Losing? (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Trump talking about Jon Husted’s ass, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s firing, and the Kelly Clarkson animatronic bird scandal
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Environment Texas

Energy efficiency is our secret weapon - Amid Iran oil shocks, there’s wisdom in efficient energy use The post Energy efficiency is our secret weapon appeared first on Environment Texas.
The Grayzone

US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’ - US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s governme...
Earthworks

Air Aware 101: Common Threats to Our Air Quality - By anaïs With increasing wildfire smoke and deregulation of dangerous industries, our air is becoming ever more toxic. However, we … The post Air Aware ...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 3 - Last month’s passage through the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision focused on the most abstruse and difficult part of the entire system, the relation between...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
First Draft

GOP DEI: Katie Zacharia - The new Press Secretary has an IQ problem, an EQ problem, and a QAnon problem. Oh, and she lied about being an attorney.
Trivial Knot

California 2026 election - In contrast to the clown show of politics, actually filling out a ballot is very tedious. I believe in filling out the entire ballot, but I also believe in...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Try to Avoid a Crossover District Shutout; Four House Rating Changes - Even in wave midterm years, the presidential party has retained a few "crossover" seats. Will Republicans this year? The post Republicans Try to Avoid a ...
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...
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...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
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...
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.
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save AM 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...
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 -
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

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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 ...
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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