Brains and Eggs: War. What's it good for?

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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Daily Howler

WHAT WAS "MENTAL ILLNESS?" Is the sitting president "mentally ill?" - *TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2025* *The dumbness of the cetacean: *We've spoken, again and again, about the apparent change in the preferred language. (We've ...
Futurism

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating - Must be hard. The post AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating appeared first on Futurism.
Al Jazeera English

UK announces independent probe into foreign interference in politics - Minister says probe in response to case of ex-Reform UK lawmaker Nathan Gill, jailed for taking pro-Russia bribes.
Mediaite

Mark Halperin Reports That College Republicans VP May Have Been ‘Target’ of Brown University Shooting - Mark Halperin suggested that Ella Cook, one of the two students killed during a shooting at Brown University, may have been "the target" of the attack. ...
naked capitalism

Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour - It appears Wes Streeting has channeled his inner Trump and is trying to bully NHS doctors when he does not hold good cards.
Bonddad

Combined October and November jobs report: a hairs-breadth from recessionary, at best - - *by New Deal democrat* At Last this morning we got some up to date labor data from the federal government, but only partially. The Establishment Su...
Election Law Blog

The Impact of Associational Party Building on the Democratic Party - A key element of associational party-building is recruiting a pipeline of candidates who are more representative of their constituencies. In an early def...
Raw Story

JD Vance 'status' problem in White House is sinking presidential ambitions: analysis - JD Vance must tackle a huge "status" problem if he has any hope of succeeding Donald Trump, a political scientist has said. Though the Vice President ma...
Daily Dot

“This is too funny”: Melissa Joan Hart clowned after falling for a $35 AI-looking dress - [image: Left: AI-generated image of a woman in a red and green Christmas-themed ball gown. Right: Actress Melissa Joan Hart holding up a polyester v-neck...
memeorandum

Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol* — Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a w...
SCOTUSblog

Bush v. Gore in retrospect - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Krebs on Security

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content - Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast ...
Scheerpost.com

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza - Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, fue...
Democracy Chronicles

The Enduring Echoes: Totem Politics in Zimbabwe and Across Africa - Growing up in Zimbabwe, I have seen firsthand the significance of totems in shaping our identity, politics, and social dynamics. In this article, I will ex...
El Paso Matters

Ysleta ISD loses 1,400 students amid enrollment decline, financial struggles - Ysleta ISD lost more students than expected this year, raising alarms about long-term demographic shifts and budget pressures that leaders say require s...
The Verge

Avatar: Fire and Ash is a gorgeous spectacle of titanic proportions - In the almost 20 years since James Cameron first introduced us to the alien world of Pandora, 20th Century Studios has repeatedly tried to parlay the Avata...
First Draft

They’ll Be Gone For Christmas - For the second time in as many chances, a Republican president has invaded the wrong country. Consider the abused National Guard this season.
Eschaton

The Ice Princess - I am just old enough to remember Luke and Laura and the "freezing Port Charles with the superweapon" storyline in General Hospital that managed to briefly ...
The Hill

Live updates: House, Senate attempt to move ahead on health plans with deadline looming - Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday are scrambling to hammer out plans to address rising insurance premium costs before their holiday recess, as the expirat...
Democracy Now!

From "Alligator Alcatraz" to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump - At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsin...
Mediagazer

Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show was about to be canceled (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show w...
Techdirt.

Nobody (Including Advertisers) Cared About Bari Weiss’ New CBS ‘Town Hall’ - We’ve already explored at length how Bari Weiss was hired by the billionaire Ellison family to make CBS even more friendly to billionaires and authoritaria...
Political Wire

Kathy Hochul Maintains Big Lead - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) holds double-digit leads over both Rep. Elise Stefanik (R), 49% to 30% and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R), 50% t...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is matter of national security - Court filing was response to lawsuit asking judge to halt project until it goes through independent reviews and wins approval from Congress - ...
San Antonio Current

La Panadería to open fifth San Antonio location on Wednesday - [image: La Panadería owners José and David Cáceres get a hug from their business' new mascot, Don Lino, at its new Stone Oak store.] The 6,600-square-foot...
Crooked Media

Through the Fire w/ Bench Ansfield - The post Through the Fire w/ Bench Ansfield appeared first on Crooked Media.
Houston Public Media

Ticketing the homeless (Dec. 16, 2025) - On Tuesday's show: We discuss the city's approach to homelessness and its practice of giving tickets to homeless people who can’t possibly pay them.
Vox

Please don’t make airports healthy again. Just make them more efficient. - This month, a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. popped up on my feed. Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, the bronzed, tin-voiced secretary of the US Departme...
ArcaMax

Split Screen: Another Weekend of Murder, Here and Abroad - Historians considering the state of American depravity will doubtless pause to reflect on the remarkable support in certain quarters for accused killer Lui...
The Week

How cryptocurrency is changing politics - From electoral campaigns to government investments, crypto is everywhere and looks like it’s here to stay
Mother Jones

Gazans Face “Not Just a Humanitarian Catastrophe but an Ecological Collapse” - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wa...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Things Said And Left Unsaid - There are a lot of Rob Reiner/Pearly Gates cartoons out there, but you won’t see them here. I’m sorry he and his wife are dead, but the best I can do is re...
WhoWhatWhy

Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play - [image: front porch, home, burned, Marshall Fire] Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits — part of a...
San Antonio Report

Listen: The rise of Jamaican food and a Michelin-recognized chef in San Antonio - On the bigcitysmalltown podcast, Chef Nicola Blaque discusses the rise of Jamaican food in San Antonio and the evolution of The Jerk Shack. ----------------...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Response to the Deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner Says It All -
Salon.com

Will Doug Jones pull off another Alabama miracle in 2026? - The former senator announced his candidacy for governor — against Tommy Tuberville
Skeptophilia

Real mythology - Being in the midst of the holiday season, I'm seeing a lot of people posting about various traditions and rituals and celebrations. But inevitably, this...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 16 December 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the video on European self-defense, click here....
Off The Kuff

The Congressional situation in Texas - I’m always happy to see stories like this. The main group working to elect Democrats to the U.S. House announced Wednesday it sees a path to victory in a d...
Slate

Help! We Hung My Wife’s Painting Over the Mantel. I’m Mortified by What It Resembles. - I can't stare at this for the rest of my life.
The Daily Poster

The Housing Crisis Is A Democracy Crisis - This country was founded on the idea of being rooted to where you live — but the corporate state has flipped the script.
ProPublica

Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse. - The post Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse. appeared first on ProPublica .
Deadline Politics

Trump Doesn’t TACO For Once; POTUS Actually Sues BBC For $5 Billion Over “Brazen” Edit Of Jan. 6 Documentary - UPDATED 10.28 a.m. GMT (02.28 a.m. PT): The BBC is not backing down in the face of Donald Trump’s $10BN lawsuit over the now infamous spliced Panorama edit...
Axios

Scoop: Elon Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP - Elon Musk has begun funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms — an indication his relationship with President Trump has thawed s...
Consortium News

UK Drops ‘Terror’ Case vs Journalist on Gaza - British authorities are no longer pursuing British journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act for his reporting on Gaza, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe...
Grist

The country’s biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who’s going to clean up the $100M mess? - US Magnesium, on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, left a legacy of environmental problems.
The Root

Who is NYC’s Black Heiress and Lifestyle Influencer, Hannah Bronfman? - DJ, socialite, angel investor and mom, Hannah Bronfman is living her best life as a lifestyle influencer. Now, she's getting ready to star in a Prime Vid...
NPR's Health Shots

How to spot signs of holiday heart trouble - There's lots of data to show cardiac troubles spike during holidays amid the mix of merrymaking, travel and stress. But there are ways to spot the signs of...
High Country News

Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show - As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to to stop development projects. The...
Countercurrents

ICC Rejects Israeli Bid to Halt Gaza War Crimes Probe, Maintains Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant - The Hague (QNN)- Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected on Monday one of Israel’s legal challenges seeking to block an investiga...
Earth 911

How to Recycle Makeup - Makeup is making the planet ugly. The beauty industry generates approximately 120 billion packaging items... The post How to Recycle Makeup appeared firs...
Common Dreams

Good vs. Evil: A Matter of Conscience - So much darkness. Along with all the rest, in quick succession, the shootings at Brown and Bondi Beach, the murder of director and activist Rob Reiner an...
Counterpunch

To End the Genocide, We Must Hold Weapons Manufacturers Accountable (or Shut Them Down) - Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank just passed its 800th day (and 77th year): at least 70,000 have been confirmed dead, includin...
jobsanger

Republicans Think The U.S. Should Be Ruled By The Rich -
Courthouse News

Federal court examines noncitizens’ Second Amendment rights - A Sixth Circuit panel said the fact that the Second Amendment encompasses all U.S. citizens does not mean it automatically excludes those who are not.
Informed Comment

Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians - They made a trip to the Philippines in November and Sajid Akram used an Indian passport, while Naveed used his Australian travel document.
World Socialist Web Site

Workers and youth in Australia and New Zealand urge the use of Socialism AI - “I encourage workers to try Socialism AI…because it connects to what is happening in the broader sense—to understand why it is happening, what to do about ...
Ballot Access News

President Trump Sues BBC; Case is Filed in Florida - On December 15, President Trump sued the BBC for slander and libel. The case is filed in U.S. District Court in Florida. Trump v BBC, s.d., 1:25cv-25894. N...
Socialist Alternative

Building The Fight For Socialism In Baltimore City - In September, a new branch of Socialist Alternative was launched in Baltimore City. Baltimore, a city often stereotyped as dangerous or unsalvageable, is h...
The Greanville Post

Debunking the Myth: Communism Killed 100 Million People - ESHA KRISHNASWAMY—While the USSR and Eastern European sections at least provide documentation of who was prosecuted—revealing most “victims” were Nazi coll...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Dec 17–23, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Dec 17–23, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 12/15/2025 - 21:29
Brad Blog

'This One Goes to 11': A Weekend of Horrible Violence and the Tragic Murder of Rob Reiner: 'BradCast' 12/15/2025 - Today's BradCast was not the show I had hoped to do today. But, after a weekend of gut-wrenching violence around the globe and back here at home, including...
Popular Resistance

Lifting The Veil On International Human Rights Day - The notion that the “West,” responsible for the most horrific crimes in the annals of human history, could somehow be associated with the defense of some...
The NM Political Report

Republican cannabis owner Duke Rodriguez joins crowded New Mexico governor’s race - Duke Rodriguez, a longtime New Mexico entrepreneur and former cabinet secretary, has announced his candidacy for governor of New Mexico. Running as a Rep...
The AltWorld

Australians Being Massacred Shouldn’t Bother Us More Than Palestinians Being Massacred - On March 16 of this year, Reuters published an article titled “Israeli strikes kill 15 people in […] The post Australians Being Massacred Shouldn’t Bothe...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

In memory of Rob and Anthony - the gay episode of 'All in the Family' which infuriated President Nixon - Anthony Geary (right), Rob Reiner (center), and Carroll O'Connor (left) We lost two good ones last weekend. Director and actor Rob Reiner and longtime so...
Workers World

Progressive forces denounce the ‘electoral coup’ in Honduras - [image: Progressive forces denounce the ‘electoral coup’ in Honduras] Voters in Honduras went to the polls in a national election on Nov. 30; as of this wr...
Antiwar.com

The Palmer Raids: A Precedent for Today’s Immigration Policy Abuses? - Americans who value civil liberties are justifiably outraged at reports about some of the enforcement tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
CultureMap Houston

New Houston cocktail bar serves up a house party fueled by music and martinis - It hasn’t taken long for Houston cocktail fans to discover *Donna’s*. Ever since it opened Thanksgiving weekend, the *new cocktail bar* in the Heights has ...
Progressive.org

Crackdown on the Unhoused Violates U.N. Declaration, Activists Say - If housing is a right, locking up people for having no place to live is just plain wrong.
See You In 2020

Trump’s betrayal of MAGA, the rural “youth drain,” & the class battle for America’s hinterland - The only path forward for the class struggle is one where we confront the war that finance capital is waging against our social structures, especially t...
slacktivist

The end of 20th-century white evangelicalism - "I continue to be struck, as a social scientist, that it has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too ha...
The Texas Signal

UT Austin Handed Out Drink With ‘Opioid-like’ Ingredient As Poison Calls Climbed - Despite warnings, Feel Free gained mainstream traction across Texas—including on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where the drink was distr...
The Conversation

Epstein’s victims deserve more attention than his ‘client list’ - Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred...
Second Nexus

Rob Reiner's Thoughts About Charlie Kirk's Killing Resurface After He And His Wife Are Found Murdered - As the internet continues to react to *the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife*, Michele Singer Reiner, many have returned to one of the filmmaker’s final ...
Church and State

Trump graduates to an even more Nazi level ordering an FBI search for “domestic terrorists” in the US! - Since the failure on January 6, 2021 to take decisive action to punish Trump places of blame fully on the failure of the GOP.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to Host 2026 Convention in Manchester - The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire will host its 2026 state convention in Manchester, with its members set to gather on March 14. As part of the conv...
The Progressive Wing

12/15-12/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Warming trend happening, but floods to follow in parts of the Northwest. It will be a temporary reprieve, but welcomed. Meantime, news below the jump and y...
Alternet

'Asinine stupidity': Trump White House fumes at GOP senator for reviving losing issue - Sources within the Trump White House are furious over GOP Sen. Josh Hawley's new anti-abortion political spending operation, according to a new report fr...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reform Austin

Houston City College Elects Renee Jefferson Patterson to District II Trustee Role - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Renee Jefferson Patterson won the runoff election for Houston City College’s District II truste...
OpEd News

My Chatbot is My Best Friend - My chatbot was offended when I told him what a bad reputation AI chats are getting.
Texas Standard

‘What’s the point of a library?’: This town found an answer in adult literacy programs - The library in Caldwell, Texas, runs adult ed classes with a small budget. It could be a model for more communities in the future.
Undernews

Polls - *The Hill - *Overall, 44 percent approve of the job Trump is doing, according to RealClearPolitics’ average. However, individual polls show lower numbers....
Angry Bear

House GOP unveils health care bill without ObamaCare subsidies extension - by R.J. Sigmund House GOP unveils health care bill without ObamaCare subsidies extension. House Republicans on Friday unveiled a health care bill they wi...
Claytoonz

When Rob met Saint Peter - 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...
MintPress News

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza - Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, f...
Ian Welsh

Higher US Profits Are WHY The US Can’t Compete (American won’t re-industrialize) - A couple weeks ago we discussed why money still flows into America: returns are higher. Generally US assets are highly valued and money tends to flow into ...
Project Censored

A Viscous Morass: SLAPP Suits, Secrecy, and Complicit Courts - This week, a special roundtable discussion with your Project Censored cohosts and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Director of Advocacy Seth Stern an...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #08: Birds & the Cosmos - Katherine is back to chat Trump's bad brain, somehow another update on N*zz*, and the billionaires playing Monopoly with Warner Bros.
Capital & Main

I Wanted the Holidays to Drown Out Trump. Then He Spewed His Racism Again. - We have to call out the increasingly blatant bigotry of the right — like President Trump’s calling Somali Americans “garbage” — or risk accepting it as t...
Dissident Voice

Where is it Leading? - Note: This article was being completed just before the attack on a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. A previous article ─ T...
Mondoweiss

What are Israel Bonds, and why have they become a target for the BDS movement? - [image: Protest against Israel Bonds in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo: JVP-Philly)]In recent weeks, activists have achieved major victories in getting states to...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging Deeper into Virginia, New Jersey Returns: Missing Nonwhite Trump Voters? Changing Coalitions in New Jersey, and More - Turnout and swing patterns in VA suggested some "missing" pro-Trump minority voters this year; "Central Jersey" gets bluer; how Govs.-elect Spanberger (D...
Glasstire

What’s Another Word for Fat? Reflecting on Jenny Saville at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - Big boned. Husky. Sturdy. Curvy. Stout. Large. Over my lifetime in a fat body, I have claimed a million euphemisms and absorbed countless mean-spirited s...
Texas Observer

Mirando hacia el futuro: Los combustibles fósiles en el Valle del Río Grande - Nota del editor: esta serie fue apoyada por la Beca de Periodismo de Investigación de la Sociedad Ida B. Wells y el Centro Pulitzer. (Read in English her...
Rewire

Abortion Patients Most Often Rely On Independent Clinics, But More Closed in 2025, Report Shows - "We were all scrambling to figure out what we needed to do and how we were going to accept all patients." The post Abortion Patients Most Often Rely On I...
Sludge

Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies - As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.
Rallblog

Bloody Weekend | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

Houston records its first freeze since February as region receives glancing blow from an Arctic blast - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the city’s first freeze in 10 months, and how our region narrowly missed out on an Arctic blast. Our attention then tu...
Dorf on Law

The Vaporware Presidency - In the tech world, the term *vaporware *is used to describe a product that does not yet and may never exist but that a company hypes for any number of re...
Wolf Street

Treasury Yield Curve Steepens Sharply, Yields from 2 Years to 30 Years Have Risen as the Fed Cut Three Times this Year - The bond market faces the duo of Inflation and Supply.
Liberation News

Trump intensifies racist attacks on Somali community in Minnesota - The attacks on Somali communities in Minnesota are part of a long history of racist immigration policy in the United States.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Southville houses - [image: Southviille houses]
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...
Environment Texas

Tips for wasting less this holiday season - Waste less and celebrate more during the holidays. The post Tips for wasting less this holiday season appeared first on Environment Texas.
DeSmogBlog

Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States - Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new rep...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: KICKING THE PRICK EDITION. - *Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool.* It’s not like I’m gonna get very optimistic about the State of the Nation but there have been some go...
The Militant

Protests oppose gov’t threats against Somalis in Minnesota - MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is ...
NORML

Media Reports: White House Decision on Marijuana Rescheduling May Be Imminent - [image: marijuana rescheduling][image: marijuana rescheduling]"While such a move potentially provides some benefits to patients, and veterans especially,...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/12/2025 - 05:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Dying Puppet: Trump as an Oligarchical Figurehead - We're living in the Mad King era
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
The Grayzone

US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mo...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One - With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invited Testimony of Dr. Angela Valenzuela Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech, December 9, 2025 - *Friends,* *Yesterday I had the honor of testifying before the Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech. Because of time constraints,...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit h...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another - Matt and Sam are joined by *Know Your Enemy*’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film *One Battle After Another*.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.

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Brains and Eggs

Thursday, December 03, 2009

War. What's it good for?

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