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

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

naked capitalism

The Point of No Return for the Warm Water Atlantic Current Is Coming Up Fast - Just the way objects in your rear view mirror are closer than you think, so too are tipping points like the slowdown of the Gulf Stream.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Netflix becomes frontrunner in Warner Bros Discovery streaming and studio sale - Steaming service now in exclusive talks over deal that would change film and TV landscape Warner Bros Discovery has entered exclusive talks to sell its s...
Countercurrents

US State Department Travel Warning on Venezuela: What Washington Fears Most - Following his earlier threat that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered, US President Donald Trump announced on social media he was closi...
Crooked Media

Two Strikes. Is Hegseth Out? - The post Two Strikes. Is Hegseth Out? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Raw Story

'They were right': Trump could improve economy but it means praising Democrats - A political commentator has suggested Donald Trump could improve the economy somewhat by deploying a strategy the Democrats had previously floated. But...
Al Jazeera English

Putin increasingly belligerent as truce talks flounder, Ukraine war rages - As peace efforts fail to bear fruit, the Russian leader threatens Odesa and Mykolaiv - and warns of wider war on Europe.
Rallblog

Relying on The Other - As we’ve seen in other examples of mass disruption, there’s a general assumption by employers who fire workers en masse to replace them with automation t...
Counterpunch

Operation ‘Just Cause’ Redux? Trump’s Attempt at Regime Change in Venezuela - The similarities between what is happening now in Venezuela and what happened in the lead-up to Operation Just Cause are noteworthy. But the differences ...
Portside

Sabrina Carpenter and the Cruel Authoritarianism of Trump - Sabrina Carpenter and the Cruel Authoritarianism of Trump jay Fri, 12/05/2025 - 01:21
jobsanger

Our Somnolent, Gibbering, Incoherent, Deeply Corrupt President -
The Week

Sudoku hard: December 5, 2025 - The daily hard sudoku puzzle from The Week
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1481: Photography: The Salad Days - Episode: 1481 A revealing view of photography’s early days. Today, where was photography headed in 1854?
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Are You Kidding Me? - Meow from Perry Mason.
ArcaMax

The Smell of Maple and Light in the Darkness - "You're a columnist," the wing-tipped, gray-haired inner voice bellows. "Write about politics. Write about impending disaster. The Federal Reserve Bank. Gu...
memeorandum

Jake Tapper Misidentifies D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect as a '30-Year-Old White Man' (Paul Bois/Breitbart) - Paul Bois / Breitbart: *Jake Tapper Misidentifies D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect as a ‘30-Year-Old White Man’* — CNN host Jake Tapper misidentified Washington,...
OpEd News

On being not fit to be president - The beauty of America is that absolutely anyone can become president. But with money playing such a role in the decision, it is also the curse of America.
Informed Comment

Cracks in the MAGA – Likud Collusion to Hasten End Times Reality - It looks like the perverse romance between MAGA and Israel’s Likud Party is becoming frayed at the edges.
World Socialist Web Site

West Contra Costa California educators and classified workers launch joint strike - The strike by 3,000 educators and support staff has shut down normal operations in one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest school districts.
Mediaite

Wild Speakers Lineup at Doha Event Includes Hillary Clinton, Don Jr., Tucker Carlson, and Bill Gates - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Bill Gates, CNN, and Breitbart will all take to the stage at a conference in...
Courthouse News

State Department blocked from impending layoffs, for now - Federal employees set to be fired Friday morning won a reprieve, with the judge finding the firings would likely violate a law prohibiting shutdown-related...
Workers World

March for Mumia press conference in Reading, Pennsylvania - [image: March for Mumia press conference in Reading, Pennsylvania] Philadelphia An energetic rally and press conference outside the Berks Couny Courthouse ...
Techdirt.

ACIP Meets To Decide If More Newborns Need To Catch Hepatitis B - ACIP is meeting this week, which means we all get to clench our sphincters as we await whatever small, medium, or large sized horrors will come out of this...
Mediagazer

Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the de...
The Hill

Library grants restored after court order - The Trump administration on Wednesday restored library grants after a judge determined attempts to defund and dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library...
Popular Resistance

First International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures - In June of 2025, the United Nations General Assembly designated December 4 as the annual International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, urging S...
Political Wire

Mike Johnson Scrambles to Pass Pentagon Bill - “House Republicans spent this week venting about Mike Johnson, questioning the speaker’s hold on his tenuous House majority. Next week, he has to prove he’...
Claytoonz

Dozing Don - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Greanville Post

MUST WATCH DISCUSSION: TPUSA HITS BACK at Candace, Rogan Beckons AI JESUS, Hillary at UNHINGED Israel Hayom Conference - DD—The video transcript presents a wide-ranging and highly critical commentary on contemporary political and social issues, focusing primarily on U.S. poli...
Brad Blog

The Political Landscape as Dems Seek to Avoid the GOP's Massive, Year-End Health Care Cliff: 'BradCast' 12/4/2025 - Yikes. Quite a news day. We do our best to keep up on today's BradCast. But our conversation about the political fight to avoid falling over the GOP's mass...
Wolf Street

Fed Balance Sheet QT: -$37 Billion in November, -$2.43 Trillion from Peak, to $6.54 Trillion - Standing Repo Facility at zero, after doing its job calming the repo market at month-end. QT ended on December 1, but in November, QT continued.
WhoWhatWhy

Hegseth Does Not Know the Meaning of the Word ‘Exoneration’ - [image: Pete Hegseth, hosts, drone demonstration, Pentagon] Former Fox News morning show host Pete Hegseth claims that an investigation into whether he sha...
The Root

For Black Folks, the Duchess of Sussex’s Holiday Netflix Special is Just the Kind of Self-Care We Need Right Now - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has a special holiday episode of her lifestyle show and her Black fans are here it. Spoiler alert: Prince Harry loves gumbo! R...
Futurism

JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat: “This Chat’s Kind of Dead. Anything Going On?” - There was, in fact, something going on. The post JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat: “This Chat’s Kind of Dead. Anything Going O...
Axios

Exclusive: Some AI dangers are already real, DeepMind's Hassabis says - Some of the biggest dangers of AI, like attacks on infrastructure, are already real and need to be guarded against, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis sa...
Texas Standard

Texas Republicans claim victory in Supreme Court ruling allowing congressional map to go into effect - The state’s top Republicans swiftly praised the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to use its controversial congressional map for the 2026 midterms. T...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - enjoy
Salon.com

“We are a higher court, but not a better one”: Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps - The justice lambasted the court's conservatives for allowing redrawn Texas congressional maps to take effect
Progressive.org

Trump’s War on ‘Narcoterrorism’ Is a Smokescreen - The Trump Administration’s recent bombings off the coast of Venezuela signal a return to Cold War-era military aggression.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lesbian educator wins $700,000 settlement after being called a 'witch' in an 'LGBTQ coven'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Lesbian educator wins $700K after she was allegedly called a ‘witch’ in an ‘LGBTQ coven’ *- *Our community needs reminders like this. When you fight h...
The Texas Signal

Texan Joins Major Reproductive Rights Group - The new Executive Director of one of the largest reproductive advocacy nonprofits in the country has a strong connection to Texas
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Lets Texas Use New U.S. House Maps - Late on December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court let Texas use its new U.S. House district maps. The vote was 6-3. See the order here. … Continue reading →
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/05/2025 - 05:53 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Consortium News

CN Launches Winter Fund Appeal - Consortium News today launches its end-of year, tax-deductible, Winter Fund Drive as it celebrates 30 years of unmatched independent journalism. Please don...
The NM Political Report

The race isn’t over yet: Close calls force 34 recounts in local New Mexico elections - Who says every vote doesn’t count? 34 races that were on the ballot on Nov. 3 that do not yet have clear winners and must undergo a statewide automatic ...
San Antonio Current

Supreme Court lets Texas keep new congressional map while legal battle continues - [image: State Sen. Kevin Sparks, R-Midland, looks over a proposed congressional map during a redistricting hearing at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Aug. 6...
Antiwar.com

Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival) - Despite widespread rejection and ridicule in Western media of Donald Trump’s peace proposal on Ukraine being “dead on arrival” in Moscow, there was Trump’s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT takes disciplinary action against students after Tower sit-in, The Daily Texan, Nov. 18, 2025 - *UT-Austin is investigating students for a peaceful sit-in meant to deliver a letter about the Trump Compact and the University’s proposed departmental c...
San Antonio Report

The gift that gives back: supporting local nonprofits this season - Sponsored by: Between the rush for the perfect present and the scramble for holiday deals, it’s worth pausing to remember that some of the most meaningful ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows Texas to use redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory - The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to Texas’ efforts to be able to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans in the 2026 elect...
Slate

The New Version of *Kill Bill* Is Both More Satisfying and More Disturbing - The Whole Bloody Affair changed the way I saw Tarantino’s epic revenge film—and so did the reporting about its making.
Ian Welsh

The Four Steps Guide To Learning - Sometimes it seems like half my life was spent learning something new. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve thought about how to learn, and I’m going to di...
Independent Political Report

Lawsuit Filed to Reverse Arizona Independent Party Name Change - The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission has filed a lawsuit against Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, arguing that the recent name cha...
Vox

Trump’s war crimes scandal, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Scheerpost.com

Aaron Maté on Liberalism’s Contradictions: Russia, Israel, and U.S. Hegemony - In this incisive interview from December 2, 2025 with The Institute of Art and Ideas, independent journalist Aaron Maté examines the contradictions within ...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Supreme Court on 6-3 Party Line Vote, Allows Texas to Use Its Re-redistricting Maps for 2026 Congressional Elections - You can find the order. a concurrence, and a dissent at this link. [This post is in progress] The post Breaking: Supreme Court on 6-3 Party Line Vote, A...
CultureMap Houston

Houston chef's hip new Italian restaurant now open in Heights hotel - A new Italian restaurant is now open in the Heights. Located within the newly opened *Hotel Daphne*, *Hypsi* marks chef Terrence Gallivan’s return to profe...
Krebs on Security

SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers - China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in...
Alas, a Blog

Reasons To Support Trump - I’m generally against “bothsidesism,” but one thing I believe conservatives and liberals have in common in the U.S.: We both find the other side’s choices ...
slacktivist

The Inner Ring (C.S. Lewis on the Epstein lists) - "To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colors."
Second Nexus

RFK Jr.'s HHS Blasted As CDC Panel Considers Dropping Life-Saving Hepatitis B Vaccine For Newborns - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), met Thursday for the fi...
The Verge

Apple announces even more major executive turnover - Following the recent retirement of former COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, and the departure of head of design Alan Dye for Meta...
Daily Dot

What orange juice does to your immune cells—and why scientists think it could help your heart - [image: Orange slices and ice cubes with sparkling juice, fresh fruit lemonade with sparkling water and ice cubes, summer lemonade orange drink backgroun...
Reform Austin

Texas Eyes Potential New Interstate Connecting DFW to Amarillo - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas may soon see its newest Interstate if US 287 is upgraded, potentially providing a more di...
El Paso Matters

CRRUA water, sewer rates to increase 40% in Sunland Park, Santa Teresa - Water and sewer bills for residents in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, will increase by 40% starting in 2026. The post CRRUA water, sewer ra...
Alternet

'Throwing Americans aside': Trump ripped for focus on ballroom while cost of living spikes - The White House reportedly will be submitting plans for President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom to a federal planning commission later this month,...
The Conversation

Pete Hegseth could be investigated for illegal orders by 5 different bodies – but none are likely to lead to charges - Allegations are swirling around a US military strike on an alleged drug boat that resulted in 2 civilian deaths. A military law scholar outlines how facts ...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: We're living in Alice's wonderland now! - *THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025* *Our press corps won't tell you about it: *We correct ourselves for the second time concerning Jen Psaki's program. Last e...
Church and State

Trump: Ukrainian NATO membership blocked because Putin owns him! - Our NATO allies in Europe understand a sellout deal in Ukraine would expose NATO members to almost certain Putin invasions.
Angry Bear

Not So Hidden Danger of Pickups - Not so sure why this has been called hidden. It is painfully obvious in accidents. These are made so people can ride around in larger-than-life vehicles....
NPR's Health Shots

CDC advisers delay planned vote on hepatitis B vaccine for infants - After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the language of proposed changes longsta...
Deadline Politics

New MS NOW Direct-To-Consumer Offering Will Have 24/7 Access To Linear Channel, But Will Not Be “Your Typical Streaming Service” - The new direct-to-consumer offering from MS NOW is being pitched as different from other subscription digital offerings, but it will include 24/7 access to...
Undernews

- [image: Three Americans own more wealth than the bottom 50% (graph)]
The Daily Poster

Trump Is Poised To Privatize Legal Aid For Migrant Children - Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit I...
Daily Cartoonist

FranceInfo Releases Finalists for Graphic Journalism Prize - FranceInfo has announced their 10 finalists for their Prix de la bande dessinée d’actualité et de reportage (award for current affairs and reportage comics...
Mondoweiss

Gaza gang leader and Israeli collaborator Yasser Abu Shabab has been killed, reports say - [image: Yasser Abu Shabab. (Photo: Social Media)]Yasser Abu Shabab had become an infamous figure in Gaza over the past two years for his role in collaborat...
Sludge

House GOP Advances Clean Energy Rollbacks - Gas hookup bans, showerhead water limits, and mobile home energy efficiency requirements were among the measures targeted by Energy and Commerce Committee ...
The AltWorld

Tensions SPIKE between Trump and Netanyahu | Ep.136 - Tensions SPIKE between Trump and Netanyahu | Ep.136 The post Tensions SPIKE between Trump and Netanyahu | Ep.136 appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Capital & Main

Can California Claw Back Some Medi-Cal Care? - Trump's “Beautiful Bill” is set to drive millions of Americans from Medicaid. The Golden State’s leaders are trying to lessen the damage. The post Can Ca...
Dissident Voice

The Great Revolutionary Divide - Europe, mid-1800s: Two men stood at the center of a storm that would shape socialism’s future. Karl Marx, a German-born philosopher, believed in seizing ...
Project Censored

AI Cyber Spy: Gilman Louie - As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was fragmenting in the late 1980s, a moonlighting Russian software engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, coded a spellbin...
Glasstire

Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art Lawsuit Results in Default Judgment; Artists Owed $50,000+ - A lawsuit brought by artists against Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art (NLFA), LLC and Nancy Littlejohn individually has resulted in a default judgment. The judg...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN J. MURRAY / REMEMBRANCE / Larry Caroline disarmed critics without demeaning them - By Martin J. Murray / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2025 Martin J. Murray is the author of Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar ...
Rewire

Texas Ups the Ante on Its Fight Against Abortion Pills (Podcast) - What you need to know about who the legislation targets, and what it could mean for the future of abortion access nationwide. The post Texas Ups the Ant...
Bonddad

Jobless claims: Holiday seasonality enters in a big way - - *by New Deal democrat* The good news is, we are back to the normal weekly jobless claims releases. The really good news is that this week’s number...
Common Dreams

CDC’s Out of Touch Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Poised to Undermine Childhood Vaccination Schedule - The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is meeting today and Friday to discuss an...
Democracy Now!

West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen - Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, *Democracy Now*’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum...
Space City Weather

Cold, and somewhat wet weather will prevail until the weekend as winter descends into Houston - In brief: Houston will be cold, gray, and intermittently rainy until Saturday, when we should see some sunnier skies for awhile. We may hit 70 degrees by S...
Texas Observer

Remembering David Richards, 1933-2025 - On November 13, surrounded by family and listening to Guy Clark songs in the capital of the state on which he left such an enormous mark, David Richards ...
Mother Jones

Zillow Nixes Feature That Helped Home Buyers Assess Climate Risks - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Zillow, the US’s largest real estate ...
Dorf on Law

Costco's Lawsuit Raises the Remedial Stakes in the SCOTUS Tariffs Cases - Last week, Costco filed a lawsuit in the Court of International Trade (CIT) against U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), its Commissioner, and the Uni...
The Smirking Chimp

The Clearest Symptom Yet of Trump’s Mental Decline -
Skeptophilia

Descent into chaos - There's an interesting concept called *sensitive dependence on initial conditions*. Here's a simple example. If you take a deep bowl, and drop a marble in...
Off The Kuff

The SOS still can’t figure out citizenship - Same song, different verse. County election officials investigating the eligibility of 2,724 Texas voters flagged as potential noncitizens have so far foun...
ProPublica

Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct - The post Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales - The site removed the feature after real estate agents and some homeowners alleged that the scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales.
High Country News

National parks aren’t just for tourists. They’re an essential home for wildlife. - Pick up this new book on Yosemite for the photos but stay for the captivating animal stories. The post National parks aren’t just for tourists. They’re ...
Trivial Knot

On Steam AI disclosures - The Steam game store has a policy that games with AI-generated content are required to say so. The CEO of Epic Games (which owns a competing game store) re...
See You In 2020

The tactics of Zionism’s “Bronze Age Pervert” psyop, & how working-class politics can defeat it - I’ve made it such a priority to combat the ideas of “Bronze Age Pervert” because these ideas are pivotal tools in the ruling-class scheme to perpetuate ...
Socialist Alternative

Students & Workers Unite to Fight Trump & ICE: How & Why We’re Building Students Rise Up - Micaela is co-president of GEO Local 6297 (writing in personal capacity), Sammy is a student at Yale University, and Sophia is a student at University of W...
Discourse

Quid Pro Quo Is the Only Law That Matters - Donald Trump's corruption-first economic agenda is thriving—if you're rich.
The Grayzone

Former Israeli spies now overseeing US government cybersecurity - The Pentagon, Treasury Department, DHS, and a variety of other US government agencies have begun relying on a firm launched by former Israeli military in...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Pressures of Collapse: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes Following TN-7 Special, Plus Updates on Indiana Redistricting and the Overall House Map - Notes on the TN-7 special, North Carolina ratings changes, a proposed Indiana Republican gerrymander, and the overall House map The post House Rating Cha...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Road from Raswashingsputin - Two weeks ago, in our ongoing exploration of the ideas of the Situationist International and their application to the ongoing crisis of industrial society,...
NORML

Analysis: NIH Database Now Includes Over 53,000 Cannabis-Related Studies - [image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil][image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil]"It is time for politicians and others ...
Earth 911

Sustainable Holiday Gifts for the Men in Your Life - The holiday season is a time for giving and renewal, and you can help the... The post Sustainable Holiday Gifts for the Men in Your Life appeared first o...
Green Pages News

Lessons From Leftist Pandemic Disinterest Toward Rebuilding Public Health - Author’s Note: This is a lightly edited and updated version of an essay originally published in New Green Horizons on October 13, 2025. In 2022-2023, the...
Crooked Timber

The Pub at the End of the University - I heard a rumour that London IT professionals have selected the pub where they will meet when the internet goes down. It is apocalyptic thinking, perhaps, ...
Bracing Views

Apocalypse Soon? - Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain BILL ASTORE DEC 02, 2025 Hello Everyone: In 2007, I was fed up with the lies of the Bush/Cheney administration ...
Greg Palast

Got Democracy? Give to Save 2026This Giving Tuesday, Help Protect the American Vote - You can make a difference and already have. Atlanta Public Radio reported that without Greg Palast’s investigation, Raphael Warnock would not have been ele...
Media Lens

The Magic Begging Bowl, Part 1 – The Failure Of Success - ‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary begg...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 2 December 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the *Wizard of Oz* remix video, click here.] ...
Liberation News

Ohio nurses attacked on job, union demands accountability from hospital - What is happening at OSU Wexner Medical Center is commonplace at all hospitals, and more broadly, is reflective of what is happening at work sites across a...
The Progressive Wing

December 1-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Welcome to December. We’re expecting 6 inches of snow here tomorrow.
Environment Texas

This Giving Tuesday, help save the bees from a “death spiral” - Your support will help protect bees from die-offs. The post This Giving Tuesday, help save the bees from a “death spiral” appeared first on Environment T...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Do Zionists Believe Their Own Obvious Lies? - I don't know if you noticed, but Zionists are totally out of touch with reality, and they often create a heavily censored and false version of history a...
Debunking Christianity

Should We Really Pay Attention to the Latest Research? - Well it depends. When evangelical apologists/theologians claim liberals, agnostics, and atheists should pay attention to their latest research, they really...
Democracy Chronicles

On Business and Power - The government is the only entity big enough to stop business from having all the control and economic sway, yet the United States is failing at this.
LareDOS

Remember the Laredo Film Society on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2 - Help keep the projectors rolling and the community growing
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: POST-THANKSGIVING INGRATITUDE EDITION. - *Drive that pile.* Hope your Thanksgiving was good! Mine was fine and now that I’ve had my gratitude I’m ready to move back into my usual ingratitude mo...
The Militant

Fight to defend unions, political rights in Quebec - MONTREAL — Quebec’s four main union federations and five other unions are organizing to bring thousands of unionists to a mass united rally in Montreal Nov...
DeSmogBlog

Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture - An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are ...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
MintPress News

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons - The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS to Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Alan MacLeod charts how t...
Dissent Magazine

Partyism Without the Party - Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Lord Of The Files - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb With a big ol’ School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you poor-ass marks who showed out for thi...
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...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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American Prospect

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

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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