Brains and Eggs: Super Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Courthouse News

European court faults Italy’s rules for prosecuting Mafia outsiders - Italy violated a businessman’s rights by convicting him under unclear Mafia rules, the court found, over dissenters’ objections that he could have known hi...
Al Jazeera English

European Central Bank President Lagarde to step down early - Christine Lagarde will leave the post in February, nine months before the end of her eight-year term.
Raw Story

Trump's DOJ fights against Judge Cannon's Epstein move in court: 'Not appropriate' - President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is fighting an effort to combine two lawsuits from Jeffrey Epstein survivors who say the FBI failed them. The...
IVN

The Working-Class Independent Is Popular in Polls. Winning Takes Two More Things - Voters say they want working-class independent candidates, but that support often doesn't translate to actual votes. A new analysis identifies two other fa...
Futurism

RFK Jr Opens the Floodgates on Experimental Peptides, Alarming Scientists - "It does undermine the idea that you would test drugs for safety and effectiveness before they were widely made available." The post RFK Jr Opens the Flo...
Political Wire

Jamie Raskin Warns Oil Firms On Russian Diesel - “Oil companies will ‘be held accountable’ if they import any barrels of Russian diesel fuel under the deal that President Donald Trump struck with the Krem...
Eschaton

A Party With A Racism Problem - Not just the Republicans. For the second straight year, center-left Democrats have spent much of the campaign cycle attacking and undermining a compellin...
SCOTUSblog

Court to hear argument in religious discrimination challenge brought by Catholic preschools in Colorado - The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Nov. 3 in a challenge brought by Catholic preschools in Colorado, which argue that their exclusion from Colo...
Daily Howler

EMERGENCE: Spirits are using us as Tuesday nears! - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026* *Voices of outreach emerge:* "Spirits are using me," Stephen Stills wrote. "Larger voices calling." In the famous song i...
Novara Media

France Sends Arms to Israel Despite Claiming Not To, Report Finds - The French government has launched an investigation after it was accused of breaching its own pledge not to sell arms to Israel. The revelations, first rep...
Bonddad

A somewhat negative personal income and spending report for September - - *by New Deal democrat* As promised, let’s take a look at the second of this morning’s three significant data updates. As I typically note, along ...
naked capitalism

How the Law Protecting Americans from Surprise Medical Bills Is Driving Up Healthcare Costs - Provider chicanery is producing the perverse outcome that curbing surprise billing is blowing out healthcare charges elsewhere.
Dissent Magazine

Hammers and Pins - A reply to Eric Blanc, Michael Kazin, and Lissy Romanow on the future of DSA.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Southwestern Welcomes Civil Rights Legend Dolores Huerta to Campus [Video] - *Friends:* *As I continue to reflect on the passing of the extraordinary Dolores Huerta, I find myself returning to a beautiful memory from eight years a...
Election Law Blog

“Trump has railed against mail-in voting. Millions are still doing it.” - WaPo: More than 19 million voters have returned mail ballots for next week’s midterm elections, even as President Donald Trump continues to disparage ma...
Houston Public Media

Texas’ next comptroller will control $1 billion school voucher fund – and it could double - Called the state's "chief financial officer," the Texas comptroller will oversee, among other things, the $1 billion Texas Education Freedom Accounts progr...
Deadline Politics

Paula Reid Joins MS NOW As Chief White House Reporter - MS NOW confirmed on Thursday that Paula Reid has joined the network, nearly four months after her exit from CNN. Reid will serve as the news outlet’s chief...
CultureMap Houston

Houston shines as top-10 hottest winter travel destination of 2026 - Houston's sunny disposition and affordable holiday happenings make it a hotspot for a winter getaway, and Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land has just been de...
Scheerpost.com

The WNBA’s Championship Deserves Better Than the NBA’s Leftover Hours - By Joshua Scheer Moving a potentially decisive Finals game to a weekday morning tells fans exactly where women’s basketball stands in the pecking order. Th...
Crooked Timber

I’d rather drop the balls myself - Last week, my partner and I performed a familiar ritual of modern co-parenting: I told him that I felt overburdened by mental labor, and we made a plan to ...
Salon.com

The GOP’s midterm plan: Make America hate Muslims again - As the midterms slip away, Republicans are relying on anti-Muslim bigotry to turn out their base
ArcaMax

The Grumpy, Trumpy Turkey on the Table - Pick a Thanksgiving table, any Thanksgiving table in America, and it's sure to have a turkey and a grumpy uncle. Sometimes they are one and the same, stuff...
Independent Political Report

Mises Caucus Launches American Liberty Party, Seeks to Draft Thomas Massie for President - The Libertarian Party’s Mises Caucus has launched a political organization called the American Liberty Party, with one of the new group’s first objective...
El Paso Matters

Immigrant legal aid groups sue Trump administration over ICE policy concealing detainee locations - Immigrant legal aid groups are challenging a Trump administration policy that conceals the locations of thousands of ICE detainees, arguing it prevents ...
The NM Political Report

“I’m in Deb’s corner”: Boxer Danny Romero endorses Haaland - [image: Danny Romero, Boxer] By Danny Romero, Jr. , Albuquerque — Here in New Mexico, we know what it means to be resilient. We know what it takes to make...
Mondoweiss

Bulldozers, glyphosate, white phosphorus: Israel’s destruction of South Lebanon’s olive groves - Lebanese farmers are losing their livelihood as Israeli forces uproot centuries-old trees, destroy olive groves, and demolish entire towns and villages, re...
Mother Jones

The Supreme Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act is Mobilizing Black Voters. Look at Alabama - Twelve days before the midterm elections, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former Montana Senator Jon Tester traveled down to Alabama to campaign in one ...
memeorandum

U.S. economy races ahead with 3.4% growth in third quarter (Courtenay Brown/Axios) - Courtenay Brown / Axios: *U.S. economy races ahead with 3.4% growth in third quarter* — The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.4% in the thir...
Axios

Exclusive: How the permitting bill could change the energy landscape - Data: Resources for the Future; Note: Central RFF scenario ; Chart: Ben Geman/Axios The Senate permitting plan would cut emissions from power plants in the...
Glasstire

Top Five: October 29, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. ELEVATE THE SPIRIT: Haitian Vodou Flags & the paintings...
Texas Observer

‘I’m Feeling Some Trepidation’: Will Talarico Pull Off a Generational Upset over Paxton? - Texas hasn’t sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1988, yet with Election Day closing in, the state is looking at the closest thing to a toss-up race...
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: Roger Marshall - Doctor Senator Roger Marshall is a loan shark with a stethoscope. The MAHA malakatude burns.
The Conversation

Political information increasingly comes from pop culture, outside of partisan silos but where male creators – and sometimes misogyny – dominate - Younger Americans’ pop culture favorites have multipartisan appeal, but male creators dominate the list of top influencers, podcasters and comedians.
Techdirt.

Tech, Telecom Scholars Tell Gavin Newsom To Find His Spine - I recently noted how California’s being told by the Trump administration that it can’t enforce any of its own telecom consumer protection laws if it wants ...
WhoWhatWhy

After Trump’s Rants, Governor Orders Probe of Democrats’ Dirty Trick in Alaska - [image: Mary Peltola, commemorate the 22nd anniversary, terrorist attacks of 9/11] A new report detailing the efforts of Alaska Democrats to get a second D...
NORML

Marijuana Midterms Alert: Double Your Impact Before Election Day - [image: four raised fists of varying skin tones display round "VOTE" stickers against a background of legal cannabis plants][image: four raised fists of ...
Vox

The fix for America’s terrible internet is hiding in Tennessee - Most Americans hate their cable companies. But not the 200,000-odd residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a city nestled in the Appalachian foothills. For m...
The Verge

DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion - DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in on...
Space City Weather

With all the outdoor activities this weekend in Houston, what’s the outlook for rain? - In brief: Houston will see slightly lower humidity today before atmospheric moisture ramps up on Friday and Saturday. Will this turn into showers and thund...
Rewire

How Missouri’s Amendment 3 Could Ban Abortion—Again - Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive rights into the state constitution in 2024. This year, they’ll be asked if they want to repeal that measure.
Alternet

The crack in MAGA's armor —and why Americans are turning on Trump - Trump’s Maka America Great Again movement has stood as a bulwark against flubs, scandal, mishaps, stagnant paychecks and sky-high inflation. But now, som...
Mediagazer

TelevisaUnivision reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $1.4B, Mexico revenue up 51% driven by the FIFA World Cup, US down 24%, and subscription and licensing up 30% (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter) - Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: *TelevisaUnivision reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $1.4B, Mexico revenue up 51% driven by the FIFA World Cup, US d...
Mediaite

Hegseth Ousts US Army’s Chief Planner Amid Threat of Additional Strikes: Report - Hegseth has once again fired a top general as the Army is preparing for renewed hostilities in Iran. No reason was given for Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia's firi...
Dorf on Law

Twenty Years On, It's Still About Sentience - Yearly on this blog, Professor Buchanan writes a "Veganniversary" essay, the portmanteau of his own creation marking another year since he became a vegan...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Some Halloweeneeneen Humor - There are plenty of politically based “What did you get?” cartoons floating around, but Prickly City managed to be specific, which is one of the benefits o...
The Smirking Chimp

The Republicans’ Closing Argument -
Off The Kuff

November 2026 Day Ten EV totals: Hitting new heights - Here’s a check-in on Dallas. Dallasites are turning out in record numbers after county officials added voting centers and expanded polling hours. But is it...
The Daily Poster

He Helped Make Karen Bass Mayor. Now He’s Funding Her Defeat. - A longtime establishment power broker is backing socialist Nithya Raman over Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — a sign that some in the donor class are followi...
Crooked Media

Big Ass Week w. Ali Vitali - The post Big Ass Week w. Ali Vitali appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

I Told My Co-Worker My Baby’s Soon-to-Be Name. I Was Not Expecting That Reaction. - Now I'm really worried.
ProPublica

Detroit Could Block Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant From Further Neighborhood Expansion - The post Detroit Could Block Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant From Further Neighborhood Expansion appeared first on ProPublica.
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Same Old but Worse in Israel - If there is one nation in the world that needs more than any other to find a new direction it is “the Jewish state.” But if there is one more committed to ...
Grist

In eastern Montana, a new oil pipeline comes with perils and a potential payday - The Bridger pipeline promises landowners money, but the tar sands oil it would carry has tribal leaders worried about a spill.
NPR's Health Shots

Eleven states cut Medicaid coverage for refugees who are pregnant or children - When Congress cut Medicaid benefits for refugees who are in the U.S. legally, most states allowed them to continue for children and pregnant women. Arizona...
High Country News

Permitting reform would de-fang bedrock environmental laws - Proposed bipartisan legislation would eviscerate laws meant to prevent irreversible environmental destruction. The post Permitting reform would de-fang ...
Infidel753

A few last election thoughts - The feeling of confidence in a "blue wave" that I'm seeing all over the left political internet is giving me really strong flashbacks to 2024. Don't forg...
Wolf Street

THANK YOU 💖 for Your Wonderful Support of WOLF STREET!!! If You Missed the Fall Reminder: Please Donate - AI has changed the Internet, and WOLF STREET needs you more than ever. Thank you!!
Workers World

PDF of October 29 issue - [image: PDF of October 29 issue] Download the PDF WW Commentary: The bonafide aggressors of war Editorial: Who are the thieves and real perpetrators of vio...
jobsanger

DOJ Lawyers Should Be Sanctioned For Their Misconduct -
Portside

Are Israeli Opposition Parties ‘Brave Enough’ To Join Forces and End ‘Blood-Soaked’ Netanyahu Government? - Are Israeli Opposition Parties ‘Brave Enough’ To Join Forces and End ‘Blood-Soaked’ Netanyahu Government? Mark Brody Thu, 10/29/2026 - 00:40
Informed Comment

Israel’s Jim Crow creates Gridlock, Far-Right Extremism - And the UK Green Party was attacked for passing a resolution noting that Zionism is racist.
Idavox

Next on the – Ahem – ‘Far Right’ James O’Keefe & Cam Higby - We really not big on using the “far right” moniker in this case, and prefer... The post Next on the – Ahem – ‘Far Right’ James O’Keefe & Cam Higby appea...
World Socialist Web Site

Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti - Michael and Susan Pretti condemned the Justice Department’s stonewalling and demanded accountability for the federal agents who killed their son in Minneap...
The Hill

Hochul says Trump rallies are 'poisoning' Nicki Minaj's mind - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) criticized rapper Nicki Minaj on Wednesday, saying President Trump's rallies were “poisoning” the artist’s mind. “Mayb...
Claytoonz

Let Them Eat Cheesecake - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 6 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, plea...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff - Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor Barack Obama, speaking at a Wednesday camp...
Popular Resistance

Lula’s Reelection In Brazil Is Win For BRICS And Palestine - The historic re-election of President Lula da Silva in Brazil is a victory for BRICS, Palestine, the Brazilian working class, the project of Latin Americ...
Brad Blog

‘It’s the Corruption, Stupid’: Our Last Roundtable with Digby and Driftglass Before Election Day: ‘BradCast’ 10/28/2026 - ‘It really is a part of the Marie Antoinette-ization of the GOP, which is killing them in the polls,” Digby explains on today’s BradCast while discussing w...
The Greanville Post

Delcy Rodriguez is under coercive pressure to turn over the Venezuelan oil to Trump – Russia owns some of the oil under a contract signed prior to the Capture of Maduro - DH--The Pentagon “owns” some of the Venezulean oil but that ownership was claimed after Trump invaded and captured Maduro —absolutely illegally. The proble...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Won’t Issue a Temporary Restraining Order in Lawsuit Over Federal Government Request to Block Some California Ballots - On October 28, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, a Clinton employee, refused the federal government’s request to force California to separate out ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video - LGBTQ children exist. Deal with it. - Today, I saw a video in which some guy calling in to a talk show complained that gays are "influencing" kids. It was the standard junk that we've heard ...
See You In 2020

Amid MAGA’s death, Marxism will rise up to defeat the Soros wing’s schemes - MAGA truly died years ago, with a critical point in its demise being when Trump ran on a platform of increasing NATO funding in 2024. It was already obv...
The Week

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Ian Welsh

Don’t Talk Human Welfare With Elites, Talk Money (Hospital Edition) - Once a year I do a fundraiser. The blog has always been free to read. Nothing is behind a subscription wall. But the blog is also not viable without reader...
Antiwar.com

The Two Faces of Gadi Eisenkot, Who Could Be Israel’s PM - As expected, the early Israeli exit polls indicate that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his prime adversary former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot face deadlock....
San Antonio Current

San Antonio city officials scale back components of Project Marvel, citing economic woes - Talks with the Spurs won't finish until next year, the Alamodome won't get a $1 billion reno and there's no date set for the start of arena construction...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Mbappé, Real Madrid forced to apologize over 'dictator' comment about China's Mao Zedong - France and Real Madrid soccer star Kylian Mbappé is facing a backlash in China after commercial sponsors cut ties with him over comments he made about Chin...
Liberation News

If Democrats lose Ohio and the Senate, they have only themselves to blame - Every time the Democrats lose, they find someone to blame other than themselves.
slacktivist

On the aesthetics of Saddam Hussein - What's up with all the gold? We've seen it before. We all know the answer.
Duck of Minerva

Israel’s Dead End - I was supposed to attend a conference for American academics to debrief on the recent Israeli elections. American Airlines did not cooperate and what was s...
Earthworks

Hearing Spotlights Human Rights Failures of Canadian Mining throughout Latin America and the Caribbean - For years, these communities have fought to have their human rights and right to a healthy environment upheld both in their home countries and in Canada....
Undernews

Antarctic Sea Ice Decline Is Triggering Global Ocean Changes - Inside Climate News - The rapid decline of Antarctic sea ice since 2016 has triggered a dramatic shift in a crucial part of Earth’s climate system, scient...
Texas Standard

From Ann Richards to Gina Hinojosa: What has — and hasn’t — changed for women in Texas politics - Only two women have been elected governor of the Lone Star State. Could that be about to change?
Environment Texas

Environment Texas endorses Austin Proposition A to protect parks, pools and trails - $260 million bond measure would improve Austin’s parks, pools, trails and recreational facilities. The post Environment Texas endorses Austin Proposition...
Angry Bear

New home sales and repeat home prices may both have sung their ‘swan song’ for recent trends last month - – by New Deal democrat Last month I closed with “a reminder that the Fed’s interest rate hike and the similar increase in mortgage rates suggests that t...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County says it won’t release early results until everyone in line has voted - With an exciting U.S. Senate and governor's race on the ballot, it could be late before results roll in from Texas' 4th largest county. --------------------...
OpEd News

Industry Battles Free Drug and Alcohol Recovery Programs - Unethical drugmakers and health insurers have monetized addiction recovery into a $42 billion a year industry' -some luring patients with kickbacks, fabric...
Capital & Main

Casting Ballots: 10 Films for This Midterm Election - As Americans prepare to vote — and President Trump casts doubt on the process — we revisit some of the best films about elections. The post Casting Ballo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

They Don’t Even Hide It Now: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
The Texas Signal

A Fight For The Next Texas Legislature - Statewide races may be generating the most headlines in the lone star state, but there are also pivotal races for the state house and senate on the ballot
The Root

Iyanla Vanzant Gets Brutally Honest About Oprah, Her Daughter’s Funeral, and Tamar Braxton in Explosive New Interview - During her appearance on 'The Jason Lee Show,' Iyanla Vanzant gets real about her fallout with Oprah, her viral interaction with Tamar Braxton, R. Kelly ...
Ecosophia

October 2026 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...
Rallblog

Government Ghosts Family of ICE Murder Victim | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime • Alex Pretti’s parents slam the US government for staying silent and misleading ...
Sludge

House Dems’ Super PAC Attacks Republicans Over Data Center Money While Taking Millions From the Industry - The group’s campaign strategy casts data center developers as a “reviled villain,” even as their executives and investors help finance its bid for a Democr...
Progressive.org

Ending Isolation - In Oregon, incarcerated residents are suing to stop the use of solitary confinement.
Bracing Views

America’s Unipolar Fantasy - Thinking It Doesn’t Make It So BILL ASTORE 22 HOURS AGO Yesterday, I was on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano to discuss America’s state of permanent...
Democracy Now!

Israeli Elections to Global Movements: Tariq Ali, Rashid Khalidi on New Book "The Neck and the Sword" - We get analysis of the Israeli elections, the upcoming U.S. midterms, the pro-Palestine movement and more from Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi ...
The Progressive Wing

10/28 News Roundup and Open Thread - Six days away
Church and State

Keith Parsons: The Bible! - I would put it like this: If you read scripture the same way you read science, you turn it into pseudoscience.
Seeing the Forest

Always The Rich And Powerful vs The Rest Of Us - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. On Drudge Report this morning: The ...
Black Agenda Report

Trump ABANDONS Gulf States! Iran Base HIT! - Trump ABANDONS Gulf States! Iran Base HIT! bareditors Wed, 10/28/2026 - 04:17 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Sabby Sabs
Socialist Alternative

The Mass Movement Brought Down Vučić—Historic Election In Serbia - Sunday’s election in Serbia resulted in a victory for the movement and a crushing defeat for Aleksandar Vučić and his authoritarian, corrupt regime. The el...
Greg Palast

How Trump, Paxton Can Overturn the MidtermsSeveral “legal” actions can reverse next week’s vote - The operation is in place to overturn the results of next Tuesday’s vote in the midterm elections. Trump has already put the wheels in motion for a “legal”...
The AltWorld

On Google Killing 400,000 Trees To Build Data Centers In Finland - That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project […] The post On Google Killing 400,000 Trees To Bui...
Common Dreams

Monsters 'R Us - Most of Planet Earth now knows cruelty is the point of Trump 2. But if anyone implausibly needs more evidence, meet Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a 79-year-old, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Want to Lower the Cost of Living? Unrig our Democracy. - Going into the midterms, voters are feeling the squeeze in their wallets and need relief. The answer lies in holding accountable politicians who prioritize...
Project Censored

Black Youth in the Media: Hearing About Them— Not From Them - Featuring Tianna Jameswhite
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia por de la Junta de Educación Estatal (SBOE) - Anuncio político pagado por Texas Freedom Network. Read in English Este otoño, los votantes desde South Padre hasta la Bahía de Matagorda tienen un super...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Heartfelt Apology to the German Authorities and Courts on the Occasion of My Sentencing for Heinous Tweet-Crimes - So I was sentenced for my tweet-crimes this morning. My sentencing hearing took place in Berlin District Court, where I was originally acquitted of the sam...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway - Jeff Schapiro on Virginia's 2026 elections The post Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway appeared first on Sabato...
Debunking Christianity

Introduction To Why I Became an Atheist, by John W. Loftus - *As I announced earlier I've decided to publish whole chapters from my books. I may eventually publish them all, certainly a bunch of them. The goal will ...
Land Destroyer

US Project Meridian” - A Symptom of American Decline, Not a Solution - *October 12, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently announced the creation of the 120 day task force, “Project Meri...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Democratic economic planning and ecological transition - This seminar considers the ecological and systemic arrangements for a postcapitalist political economy. The post Democratic economic planning and ecologi...
Campaign for America's Future

Will You Save Democracy? - Everyone who has the right to vote must vote. We must send a clear message to authoritarians that we reject their plan, and reject division. We stand toget...
MintPress News

Iran Threatens “War Without Limits” On Israel, Unveils “Shocking” Weapons, As Casualties Mount - Iran’s Army has revealed a new drone that carries a warhead twice the weight of the previous generation, as Tehran threatens a war without limits in reta...
The Militant

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Lowering the Bar

Flamingo Stealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty - [image: flamingo and idiots in hotel hallway]Happily, Peachy the Flamingo has fully recovered from the ordeal.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DADDY ISSUES EDITION. - *I forgot they were good right to the end.* Getting close to zero hour, so Tubby and his goons are trying to fuck with the election. For example, he was ...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
The Grayzone

Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack - The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located o...
Alas, a Blog

Nobody In Israel Said That! - Sources for all quotes used in the cartoon are at the end of this post. In a TV appearance in April 2024, Israeli-American journalist and pundit Emily Schr...
Two Party Opera

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Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

EU Flag, Revised, no. 2 - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb …Governments do not launch wars simply because they confront domestic unrest. The fundamental causes of imper...
DeSmogBlog

In Pictures: ‘Armageddon’ at Europe’s Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution - A version of this article was published in Euronews and Climatica Across Brittany, tractors can be seen trundling onto beaches to remove truckloads of fo...
Discourse

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Endgame (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: A vibe check from the Texas early voting frontlines, Bari Weiss (reportedly!) going after Abdul El-Sayed, and against spoilers!!!
Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today - Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix ...
Trivial Knot

We’re back - FTB was down for about a week. Bluehost seems to have issues getting its database in order, and every so often convinces itself that FTB’s true owner is t...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterms: Two Weeks Out - Effective with this topic’s publishing date…we are two weeks out from the general election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here are some of my t...
Earth 911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

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

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Chicken Fried Politics

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

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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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