Brains and Eggs: Photos from today's SDEC

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

Mediaite

Trump Posts Picture Thanking Himself for Saving ‘Country That Doesn’t Appreciate’ Him - President Trump shared a picture of himself to Truth Social that thanked him for working hard to "save a Country that doesn't appreciate his sacrifice!" ...
The Hill

Harris pressed in BBC interview about raising concerns over Biden - Former Vice President Harris was pressed in a BBC interview about why she didn’t raise concerns about former President Biden’s health before he decided to ...
Raw Story

'Complete insanity': Observers slam Trump's latest 'stark raving mad' Truth Social post - President Donald Trump issued a strange statement on his Truth Social platform during his trip in Asia on Sunday, one that observers claimed was "complet...
memeorandum

Scott Bessent Claims He Feels Soybean Farmers' Pain. He's Worth $500 Million (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone) - Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: *Scott Bessent Claims He Feels Soybean Farmers' Pain. He's Worth $500 Million* — China's boycott of American soy has farme...
Eschaton

FALL FUNDRAISER DAY 5 - Venmo! Or Paypal! Or Patreon! Thanks to all!
Al Jazeera English

Unexploded Israeli bombs threaten lives as Gaza clears debris, finds bodies - Israel restricts heavy machinery but allows Red Cross and Egyptian teams to enter Gaza to search for captives' remains.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour - Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’ British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedl...
Axios

Government shutdown leaves the economy in uncharted territory - Data went dark this month. The government shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop pr...
Political Wire

Scott Bessent Claims He Feels Soybean Farmers’ Pain - “Thanks to Trump’s tariff wars, China has essentially stopped buying American soybeans, dealing a significant financial blow to American farmers. China use...
Popular Resistance

Ground Zero In Conservative Quest For Patriotic And Christian Public Schools - The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play...
Salon.com

“Rigged and stolen”: Trump calls for ban on mail-in, early voting ahead of midterms - The president urged his party to put an end to mail-in ballots and early voting before the midterms
OpEd News

Trump just imposed new sanctions on Russia's oil sector creating additional havoc in the world - President Trump just imposed new sanctions on two of the largest oil companies in Russia, Rosneft and Lukoil. This comes a day after Trump cancelled a prop...
Daily Cartoonist

A Gorey Halloween - Cartoonist Beth Wolfensberger Singer‘s comic strip for The Boston Globe today reminds me that there are a few Edward Gorey items waiting in the queue to be...
The Greanville Post

No Kings! YES! Of course! - JOHN RACHEL—Let me get this right. We’re supposed to call the AIPAC-funded, MIC forever war politicians, the folks that haven’t raised the minimum wage sin...
Daily Dot

“I love the cleaning stuff there”: Are Home Depot cleaning supplies cheaper than Dollar Tree? - [image: home depot cleaning supplies cheaper than dollar tree] A woman decides to check out Home Depot's cleaning supplies to score a deal. Then she real...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for October 26 - “The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making”. “The lesson for me, from the early blogosphere, is that quality of speech matters, to...
Courthouse News

Shooting at a historically Black university’s homecoming fest in Pennsylvania kills 1 and wounds 6 - Lincoln University Police Chief Marc Partee said the shooting devastated the school's community on what was supposed to be a joyous day focused on the scho...
San Antonio Report

There are more bilingual students in San Antonio schools, but not enough certified teachers - Even as student enrollment declines in San Antonio's largest school districts, emergent bilingual populations grow. ------------------------------ There ar...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is danderbandit with a comment about Trump’s assertions regarding the Insurrection Act: 50%? I don...
Undernews

Word - “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Tur...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 26, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 26, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trum...
World Socialist Web Site

“Soldier F” found not guilty as Bloody Sunday whitewash maintained - Soldier F, the only member of the British Army to stand trial for the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972, was found not guilty last week in an extraordinarily...
Ballot Access News

Third Circuit Narrowly Votes Not to Rehear Case on Pennsylvania Absentee Ballots - On October 24, the Third Circuit voted 8-6 not to rehear Eakin v Adams County Board of Elections, 25-1644. This is the case over Pennsylvania postal absent...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Humongous Ballroom Is Designed To Be a Fundraising Bonanza - [image: Donald Trump, Billionaires, Ballroom, East Wing, White House] In order to drain the swamp’s pockets to enrich Trump Inc., a thousand-seat ballroom ...
Mother Jones

Report: Anti-Abortion Leaders Helped Tank Trump’s Promise of Free IVF - Anti-abortion advocates haven’t just played key roles in rolling back abortion rights in recent years. They also helped tank President Donald Trump’s campa...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Deadline Politics

Laugh Factory Chicago Manager Arrested By Feds For Interfering With Immigration Operation - Laugh Factory Chicago is crowdsourcing to assist night manager Nathan Griffin with legal funds after he was arrested Friday morning outside the comedy club...
Angry Bear

RFK Jr’s pernicious campaign against ultra processed foods - The current attack on ultra processed foods by RFK Jr is just a simpleminded binary. He’s treating food as medicine and then vilifying certain ingredient...
Futurism

Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit - "We are developing this Orbital Magazine technology on our own dime and moving incredibly fast." The post Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into ...
San Antonio Current

After more than a decade, Paul McCartney finally got back to San Antonio — and maybe we’re amazed - The three-hour set spanned material from all eras of the Beatle's storied career. The post After more than a decade, Paul McCartney finally got back to ...
Alternet

Deep-red state suffering 'death by a thousand paper cuts' — thanks to Trump policies: report - President Donald Trump's recent economic policies are causing significant hardship for farmers and workers in the deep red Iowa, which has traditionally ...
The Verge

You need to listen to the brutally oppressive I’ve Seen All I Need to See - There are only a handful of albums that I think qualify as genuinely scary. You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters, and Swans To Be Kind both immediately...
Slate

My Boyfriend Is Hung Like a Horse. He Refuses to Let Me Take a Ride. - He had one bad experience. Now I'm paying the price.
The Root

Social Media’s On Fire Over Tamar’s Awkward Verzuz Interaction With Brother-In-Law Birdman, and She Responds! - Fans were vibing to the nostalgic hits from Cash Money and No Limit until they found themselves saying, “Toni, come get your sister Tamar.” Read more...
Dissident Voice

From Illusion to Real Peace: Trump’s Test in Gaza and Ukraine - United States President Donald Trump styles himself as a peacemaker. In his rhetoric, he claims credit for his efforts to end the wars in Gaza and Ukrain...
NPR's Health Shots

Why the ACA needs young people — and the looming 'death spiral' for health insurance - Young and healthy people who get Affordable Care Act health insurance are thinking about dropping coverage next year, as the government remains shutdown ov...
Reform Austin

Fat Squirrel Week: “Meet some of the stoutest squirrels in the state” - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has declared this week “Fat Squirrel Week”, inviting Te...
Election Law Blog

Thanks to Rick Hasen & the ELB Community - Today is my final day managing the Election Law Blog after two weeks at the helm. It’s been a privilege to highlight developments and perspectives during...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov2 News roundup& OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments blow.
El Paso Matters

As El Paso Electric rate increase looms, some say utility is seeking to make too much profit - If the rate increase is approved as is, El Paso Electric has said the average residential customers’ monthly bill will increase to $118 on average compa...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Cartoonists Dilemma' Toons - ...MEANWHILE, IN CONGRESS... ...AND OVER AT THE HIGH COURT... ...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa ...
Glasstire

Review: Raychael Stine’s Chimerical Colors - Raychael Stine’s paintings are full of pleasurable deceptions. The first is a subtle but present tsk-tsk against the perceived easiness of abstraction. T...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Revolving Robo-Door - A self-driving car ally takes the wheel in D.C., the master planners face new foes, and more from The Lever this week.
Grist

Trump targets federal employees working on conservation and environmental protection - A new round of furlough notices were issued to EPA employees last week, while the Interior Department disclosed plans to cut positions affecting national p...
Mediagazer

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it (Will Oremus/Washington Post) - Will Oremus / Washington Post: *A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are f...
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Selected Scary Movies - Boo from Adrastos.
Vox

Why Taylor Swift made herself the villain - Even with 38 ways to buy it, Taylor Swift’s fans aren’t living for The Life of a Showgirl. When Swift dropped her 12th studio album earlier this month, pe...
naked capitalism

Links 10/26/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: We’re Winning -
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas bunting - [image: Pe?zenas]
Scheerpost.com

Chainalysis Crypto Adoption Index Accidentally Debunks Terror Financing, Sanctions Evasion Narrative - Lawmakers around the world are lobbying to regulate non-custodial services to combat terror financing and sanctions evasion. But non-sanctioned jurisdictio...
The Week

Why Britain is struggling to stop the ransomware cyberattacks - New business models have greatly lowered barriers to entry for criminal hackers
Counterpunch

Manufacturing Consent For War With Venezuela - It is no secret that Donald J. Trump, head of the American Empire, desperately wanted the Nobel Peace Prize. For months, he had been lobbying for it, pre...
jobsanger

Trump And The GOP Only Care About The Rich -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1464: Learning Curve - Episode: 1464 Trying to teach technologies that were novel for us, but not our students. Today, a thought about technological change and learning.
See You In 2020

Socialist China got this far by testing political practice, & this is how the workers will win everywhere else - In the face of the momentary defeats the anti-imperialist struggle has seen in Syria, Nepal, and Bolivia, we need to study the ideas that have let our c...
Informed Comment

First Circuit Judges Strike down Israel Lobby Suit against MIT for Permitting Gaza Protests - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Erik Uebelacker at Courthouse News Service reports that a three-judge appeals panel of the US Court of Appeals, First Circui...
Portside

Authoritarian Strategy: Criminalizing Dissent and Protest - Authoritarian Strategy: Criminalizing Dissent and Protest jay Sat, 10/25/2025 - 21:03
Trivial Knot

2025 California Special Election position - California has a special election this year, and I’m following my routine of discussing my choices, with the intent of normalizing the voting process. It ...
Space City Weather

A second round of storms will likely pass through Houston tonight, but we have some questions - In brief: After Saturday morning’s storms the atmosphere needed some time to recharge. It appears that is now happening, raising the possibility of more st...
Mondoweiss

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ traps Gaza in limbo - [image: President Donald Trump is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others after disembarking Air Force One at Ben Gurion Internatio...
The AltWorld

And the Chinese Five-Year caravan strolls on - In the global chessboard, Beijing will keep stressing the power of the “multilateral trading system.” As in […] The post And the Chinese Five-Year carava...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The very strange state the nation is in! - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025* *Yesterday's report:* The world isn't going to come to an end because the East Wing is no longer standing. It's also possib...
CultureMap Houston

Pat Green's restaurant reveals new Houston home and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a new home for The Rustic. Plus, an Astros legend's ranch hits t...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 20 - 24 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. This is a good time for a reminder that very little of the high freque...
ArcaMax

Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He's Winning? - Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opp...
Skeptophilia

A voice from the static - There's a fallacy out there that is a little on the tricky side, even more so because it appears so straightforward at first. It's called the *single-cau...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Voices of Many Jews - This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition. By Patr...
Crooked Media

Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention - The post Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 25 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. *Note*: There will be no image round-up post this coming week. o o o o o These cat...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Common Dreams

Pity the Nation/ Whose Shepherds Mislead Them - Amidst plunging polls and righteous rage at his Epstein Memorial Ballroom, the inept man child is facing growing resistance, sublime to ridiculous, to hi...
Wolf Street

Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy - CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020. Food prices are nothing to be trifled with.
Workers World

China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games - [image: China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games] by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A First: 100,000 Page Views in Seven Days, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - A First: 100,000 Page Views in Seven Days Friends, This week, *Texas Ed Equity* crossed a threshold I never expected: more than 100,000 page views in ju...
Liberation News

‘We’re not giving up our freedom — not without a fight’: In memory of Black trans revolutionary Miss Major - Miss Major was a revolutionary, a visionary, a mother, and a mentor to generations of LGBTQ people who dream of a better world.
Progressive.org

‘The Librarians’ Centers the Educators Fighting Book Bans - A new documentary centers the voices of librarians resisting censorship.
Rallblog

Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He’s Winning? - Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general o...
The NM Political Report

USDA: Emergency funds will not be used for SNAP during shutdown - [image: shutdown] [image: shutdown] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says emergency funds won’t be used to provide SNAP payments to states if ...
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
The Militant

SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
Texas Standard

Indoor farms were a hot investment, but they keep shutting down - Eden Green Technology in Cleburne is the latest one to close.
Independent Political Report

No Labels Party of Arizona Rebrands as Arizona Independent Party - The No Labels Party of Arizona has officially changed its name to the Arizona Independent Party, following approval by the Arizona Secretary of State’s o...
slacktivist

LBCF: When the Pawn … - Wherein the authors -- and characters -- abandon the conspiracy-thriller subplot with which they have grown bored and turn, instead, to their fantasy of th...
Church and State

Trump: does he ever honor a promised deal? Examples? - We have passed the point about what the vast majority of American people stand about Trump who is acting in a dangerous manner.
SCOTUSblog

Oral argument live blog for Wednesday, November 5 - On Wednesday, November 5, we will be live blogging as the court hears oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. The post Oral argument live bl...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: a 22-Year-Old Widow and Her Children - Help Noor and her kids out.
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Second Nexus

Former White House Historian Offers Dire Warning After Entire East Wing Is Demolished - Fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, Congress was already arguing about how much money to spend on what was then called the “*President’s H...
LareDOS

Opening reception for Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Bloom exhibition opens Oct. 24 at TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts - Exhibit open to the public
The Texas Signal

A Dallas Church Paints A Rainbow - Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas is responding to a government decree by painting a staircase the colors of the rainbow
Capital & Main

‘We’re the Resistance’ - A refugee and immigrant advocate reflects on how to cope with the ICE raids in Los Angeles. Amid the trauma, she says, there is also reason for hope. The...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Dorf on Law

Two Questions About Political Questions - In my essay on this blog on Monday, I criticized Justice Alito's statement during the oral argument in *Louisiana v. Callais* characterizing *Rucho v. Co...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
NORML

Older Adults Increasingly Identify as Cannabis Consumers - [image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling into a joint][image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling ...
Rewire

Don’t Let Heteronormative Playacting Ruin Your Cuffing Season - How queer folks can find “chemical comfort in cuddling” without all the Hallmark trappings. The post Don’t Let Heteronormative Playacting Ruin Your Cuffi...
Democracy Now!

"Criminal Justice Is Criminal": New Film Is "Musical Indictment" of Cash Bail & Deadly Houston Jail - The new short film *Criminal* highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill....
The Conversation

Influencers could learn a thing or two from traditional journalism about disclosing who’s funding their political coverage - Creators who conceal financial support while weighing in on matters of interest to their funders are falsely presenting themselves as independent voices.
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
ProPublica

Meet ProPublica’s 2025 Class of Emerging Reporters - by Talia Buford ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
High Country News

Inventing habitats - [image: The endangered Gila topminnow is now thriving in a section of the Santa Cruz River near downtown Tucson that was dry until just a few years ago.] ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/24/2025 - 07:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Antiwar.com

The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela - When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small boat off Ve...
Environment Texas

Diverse interests unite to protect Texas waterways from plastic pollution - Fishermen, oyster harvesters, and tourism advocates join Environment Texas in urging new state standards to curb plastic pellet pollution and protect coa...
Duck of Minerva

Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*) - After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced and…those calling for the ceasefire are upset about it. There are some val...
Texas Observer

Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints - Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft by their employers—and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been...
Project Censored

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0 - This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United ...
Sludge

Corporate PACs Fund ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ Rep. Randy Fine - Comcast, CVS, Boeing, and other major corporations have made PAC donations to the Florida Republican despite his repeated calls for violence against Muslim...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race - MN-SEN moves to Likely Democratic, and a look at how many voters skip the down-ballot VA statewide races The post Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Globalize Intifada - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb C’mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration, second paragraph: “throw off”. Yeah, that...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Oops! Inaccurate birth certificate proves how anti-trans policies can harm student athletes - Some of us told folks that these anti-trans policies would have unintended consequences. From *LGBTQNation: * In Arizona last week, a cisgender male ...
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Worth in the Age of Fascism: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A new episode of The Check-In
MintPress News

Nobel “Peace” Prize of Shame & the UK/Israeli Crackdown, with Tadhg Hickey - Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey joins Mnar Adley to expose Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel “Peace” Prize farce and the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestine voices. ...
Krebs on Security

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M - Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian crypto...
Ecosophia

October 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the No Kings Rally in Chicago - We should take personal account of our lives from time to time and the way we treat others. We are holding our leaders to this same evaluation.
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
Earth 911

Green Living Tips for Fall - As the brilliant colors of early fall fade in the northern U.S. states, many of... The post Green Living Tips for Fall appeared first on Earth911.
DeSmogBlog

The Methane Hunters of Melendugno - This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For centuries, farmers in Melendugno, a town located at the tip of southern Italy’s b...
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 ...
Socialist Alternative

American State Terror: Charlie Kirk & A New Red Scare - In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Trump and a whole gallery of figures across the right made it crystal clear it was not just Kirk’s killer wh...
Earthworks

In West Texas, Residents Face Drought, Proposals for More Pipelines - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post In West Texas, Residen...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Daily Mail deems this cheesy new Chili’s dish “disgusting” - I’m sorry to link a Daily Mail article in the sophisticated forum that is Frontburner, but only the DM would be deranged enough to write the headline: “C...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

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