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

Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Al Jazeera English

Spirit Airlines begins ‘wind-down’, cancels all flights over fuel crisis - The collapse of the US-based budget carrier due to a doubling in jet fuel prices will cost thousands of jobs.
Countercurrents

Gaza Flotilla Activists “Brutalized” by Israeli Forces in Greek Waters - Greek Waters (QNN)- Pro-Palestine activists abducted by Israeli forces after boarding and intercepting the Gaza-bound aid vessels of the Global Sumud Floti...
The Week

Amlou cinnamon knots recipe - Sweet and sticky, these pastries are stuffed with a Nutella-like paste
World Socialist Web Site

Australian inflation soars as economic effects of Iran war bite - The official cost-of-living index rose 4.6 percent in the 12 months to March, up sharply from 3.7 percent in February.
ArcaMax

The Maine Senate Race - It was the 78 year-old two-term Governor against a 41-year-old oyster farmer who has never held office. Chuck Schumer convinced the Governor, Janet Mills, ...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Bluebird - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The king went to Washington to save Britain’s bacon. He may also have shown the US how to save itself | Simon Tisdall - Charles III’s subtle, much needed history lesson delivered the US some tough love. But will Trump get the message? Of the many jokes cracked by King Char...
Informed Comment

Hormuz Crisis: France declares Energy Sovereignty - On April 23, the French government put forward a 22-point plan for accelerating the country's move away from dependence on fossil fuels.
San Antonio Current

South Texas residents suing SpaceX over alleged home damage - [image: The SpaceX Starship is seen on its launch pad from the shore of Boca Chica Beach ahead of its 10th flight test on the morning of Aug. 24, 2025.] ...
Mediaite

‘My God, These Are Bad’: CNN’s Harry Enten Can’t Believe How ‘Horribly Unpopular’ Trump’s War Is - The war on Iran that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran on Feb. 28 is broadly unpopular with American voters, and on Friday, CNN data analyst Harry Ent...
The Socialist

Jeff Yass Net Worth 2026: $67.4 Billion from Trading & TikTok - Table of Contents Jeff Yass’s $67,400,000,000 Financial Foundation Jeff Yass’s Early Ventures and SIG’s Ascendance Jeff Yass’s Diverse $67,400,000,000 Inve...
The Hill

Alabama, Tennessee GOP governors call special sessions after Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision - Republican governors in two southern states are calling state lawmakers back for special sessions next week to consider new congressional maps following a ...
memeorandum

Appeals court blocks access to abortion pills via telehealth and mail nationwide (Aria Bendix/NBC News) - Aria Bendix / NBC News: *Appeals court blocks access to abortion pills via telehealth and mail nationwide* — The ruling is a blow for abortion rights a...
Courthouse News

Fifth Circuit blocks mailing of abortion pill nationwide - The FDA is currently conducting a review of mifepristone, one of the most commonly prescribed forms of medication abortion, especially via telehealth.
Techdirt.

Trump’s Surgeon General Search: Casey Means Out, Casey Means In Groucho Glasses & Mustache In! - A quick reminder: America has not had a confirmed Surgeon General at the federal level since January of 2025. Yes, that’s over a year ago. How we got here ...
Political Wire

Two More Southern States to Redraw Maps - “Two more Republican-controlled states took steps Friday to redraw their congressional maps as party leaders try to capitalize on the Supreme Court’s decis...
Election Law Blog

“Voters Sue Over Louisiana Governor’s Move to Delay Primary” - NYT: Voters and key voting rights groups filed multiple lawsuits against Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana on Friday over his order to suspend the state’s H...
Mother Jones

A Right-Wing Court Just Moved to Choke Off Abortion by Mail - A federal appeals court packed with conservatives has handed abortion opponents a major victory against the US Food and Drug Administration, effectively re...
Wolf Street

Gap between Single-Family Rents & Multifamily Rents Widens to Record as Multifamily under Pressure - The big divergence of asking rents in 14 big metropolitan areas by single-family rentals and multifamily units.
Mediagazer

"Podslop" is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: *“Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39%...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
NPR's Health Shots

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone - A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.
The Verge

Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off - Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo ...
Axios

Appeals court limits abortion pill access - A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily froze federal rules allowing the teleprescribing and mailing of abortion drugs, which now account for more ...
WhoWhatWhy

The Casuistry of Callais: Racism, Power Politics Rolled Into One Cynical Ruling - [image: John Roberts, racist, Jim Crow, Supreme Court,] Thank you, Sam Alito, for this reminder of why I quit the practice of law. The Casuistry of Callais...
San Antonio Report

68 workers to lose jobs as Eastside clothing factory announces closure - Ohio-based National Safety Apparel LLC will close its Eastside factory this summer, laying off dozens of sewing machine operators. -------------------------...
Daily Cartoonist

Nicole Hollander -RIP - Feminist cartoonist Nicole Hollander has passed away. Nicole Hollander (née Garrison) April 25, 1939 – April 23, 2026 It is being creditably reported on so...
Raw Story

Trump mocks elderly MAGA crowd to their faces: 'Look at you old guys' - President Donald Trump bragged that he is "young" and "vibrant" compared to the residents of The Villages retirement community in Florida on Friday. "I d...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
CultureMap Houston

Adam Scott explores creepy Irish hotel in moody horror movie Hokum - There are relatively few actors who can switch back and forth between comedy and drama easily, but Adam Scott is the rare exception. He’s equally as well k...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Common Dreams

Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different Name - President Trump signed off on a key permit to construct the Bridger Pipeline Expansion project, often referred to as “Keystone Light” because it would pu...
OpEd News

Tomgram: William deBuys, The Border Wall Thrives, The Borderlands Don't - A leading preoccupation of the first Trump administration has all but slipped from view. Except when ostensible conservatives speak out against it, the maj...
The Root

See All the Fabulous Fashions Fans Are Popping Out With to See ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ - Fans are showing up and showing all the way out to go see 'The Devil Wears Prada 2!'. But if you don’t have your fit together, don’t worry—we got you! Re...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: As heard on Gutfeld! and The Five! - *FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2026* *Emily Compagno speaks:* Has the Southern Poverty Law Center committed some sort of criminal act? We have no way of answering th...
Popular Resistance

Day Of The Internationalist Hero Announced In Nicaragua - Under the shade tent in the schoolyard, staring solemnly ahead, stands a line of children wearing t-shirts with the image of the most famous North Americ...
Glasstire

Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month - May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, sometimes referred to as Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month or Asian American, Native Hawaiia...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Bylaws Committee Soliciting Input on Proposals Ahead of National Convention - The Libertarian Party’s Bylaws Committee is soliciting feedback on 22 proposed changes to the party’s governing documents ahead of its national conventio...
Futurism

Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot - "I thought I'd lie among the trees and that would be it." The post Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot appeared fir...
Vox

The Department of Holy War - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has a longstanding fascination with the Crusades. That’s right, the Crusades: the series of late 11th to 13th century med...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: The promise and risks of AI use in El Paso schools - El Paso Matters education reporter Claudia Lorena Silva discusses the different approaches to AI across El Paso school districts and what the upsides an...
ProPublica

“A Huge Setback”: New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations - The post “A Huge Setback”: New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations appeared first on ProPublica.
Angry Bear

When a Senator Makes Ignorant remarks - If this is a true statement by esteemed Senator Sununu, he must be in his last term in office. Personally, I believe all Senators and Representatives sho...
Portside

Rallies Under Way As Workers Gather for International Labour Day - Rallies Under Way As Workers Gather for International Labour Day Maureen Fri, 05/01/2026 - 14:52
Space City Weather

Widespread showers and thunderstorms will exit this evening - In brief: The current storms across the region are behaving more or less as expected, and much of the Houston region is getting a good soaking with no majo...
Novara Media

Met Police Chief Condemns Zack Polanski After North London Knife Attack - Zack Polanski has apologised to the Metropolitan Police for a retweet he made in response to the horrific knife attack on two Jewish men in North London. P...
LareDOS

WCHF recipient of two Texas Association of Museums awards - Recoognition for excellence in museum communications and design
Consortium News

The US Supreme Court, Race & the Right to Vote - Marjorie Cohn on the Roberts’ Court’s demolition of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the law that brought an end to Jim Crow system of post-Civil War legalized ...
Seeing the Forest

The Old Enemies Of Peace – Welcome Their Hatred - This post first appeared at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. In 1932 FDR campaigned asking for hel...
Salon.com

SCOTUS just unleashed a gerrymandering dragon - The Court's 6-3 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act will reshape the nation's political map in dramatic fashion
Slate

Trump’s Vengeance Tour Is Opening the Door to Something More Terrible - Several straightforward reforms would curb these abuses.
The Daily Poster

Who Broke Into the Treasury? - Test your knowledge of American spies, the Iran war, and other issues that really matter.
Texas Standard

Court order allows smokable hemp to stay on shelves in Texas - A Travis County judge issued a temporary injunction allowed the sale of hemp flower and concentrates and blocking sharply higher state fees charged to busi...
Undernews

Money - *Punch Up *A private prison giant that runs a sprawling network of ICE jails has sparked allegations of “corruption” after it funneled $1 million to a Don...
The Militant

Chicago school lunchroom workers rally for a contract - CHICAGO — Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers and their supporters rallied downtown here April 23 protesting the lack of progress toward a...
Bonddad

April ISM manufacturing: how long can the AI manufacturing Boom keep exploding prices from creating a consumer implosion? - - *by New Deal democrat* April data started out as usual with the ISM manufacturing index. There was some good news, but mainly bad news. The good ...
Mondoweiss

Exclusive: Inside Hamas’s fight against the armed militias that Israel is using to sow chaos in Gaza - [image: The National Gathering of Palestinian Tribes, Clans, and Families organized a demonstration in Gaza protesting the Israeli army's ongoing targeting...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Christian Nationalism as Heresy and Threat: A Conversation with Rev. Angela Denker - I was so happy to welcome Rev. Angela Denker of I'm Listening to Dispatches From A Collapsing State. Here, Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus, and ...
naked capitalism

US Judge Calls Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement a “Filthy” Deal - Bayer got a blistering dressing-down from a Federal judge over a proposed sneaky settlement but it is not clear what happens next.
Rewire

Judge Pauses Wyoming Abortion Ban - Plus, the Supreme Court guts voting Civil Rights-era protections for Black voters, and trans Idahoans fight back. The post Judge Pauses Wyoming Abortion ...
The NM Political Report

U.S. House passes Farm Bill with 9 bills for ranchers, farmers from N.M.’s Rep. Vasquez - [image: Rep. Gabe Vasquez visited Adams Produce in Hatch in September, where Scott and Terry Adams run a family farm growing everything from chile and onio...
Earthworks

Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’ve Witnessed in 2026 So Far - The Air is Shared What happens at an oil and gas site doesn’t stay there. It moves. Out here there … The post Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’...
SCOTUSblog

State and federal courts jockey for power in the Roundup case and other mass public harms - *Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state.* The Supreme Court on Monday ...
Liberation News

Working people can defeat Trump! - Millions of people across the country are marking International Workers Day in the true tradition of the holiday that was born right here in the United Sta...
Progressive.org

In Chile, Latin America’s Latest Far-Right Leader Takes the Stage - José Antonio Kast, a once-marginal figure who rode fearmongering on crime and migration to Chile’s presidency, is taking pointers from far-right leaders in...
Democracy Now!

"A People's History of Invisible India": Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights - On International Workers’ Day, we take a look at the state of workers’ rights and freedoms in India, where pressure on fuel supplies from the U.S.-Israeli ...
Debunking Christianity

Why I Abandoned Christianity, Part 1 - *Two compelling reasons that are hard to refute* *1. **The Arrogance of Theology* I grew up on the very flat prairie of northern Indiana: the land w...
The Progressive Wing

5/1 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments below.
Rallblog

Epstein’s Swan Song | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
slacktivist

LBCF: Sexiest Man Alive - I can imagine a successful joke that involved the Antichrist being named People magazine's "Sexist Man Alive." The joke attempted here in Left Behind is no...
Earth 911

5 Places to Mail In Your Old Clothes and Earn Rewards - Every year, Americans toss out about 17 million tons of textiles, and most items left... The post 5 Places to Mail In Your Old Clothes and Earn Rewards a...
Dorf on Law

The Alien Tort Statute's Translation Problem - The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) was enacted by the first Congress as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 and, with the exception of references to particular f...
Scheerpost.com

I Served My Country, But It’s Leaving Me High and Dry - The social safety net is frayed and full of red tape. But we learned during the pandemic that it doesn’t have to be. James Lee OtherWords Take it from a ve...
Skeptophilia

Tense situation - In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to. One of the first thi...
The Smirking Chimp

‘God Hates You’: MAGA Infighting Soars to a ‘Vicious’ New Level -
Off The Kuff

Texas Politics Project poll: Talarico leads again - It’s becoming a trend. Democrat James Talarico leads both Republicans vying to face him in the November U.S. Senate contest, according to a new poll releas...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Eschaton

Morning - Get a life!
Crooked Media

Did Trump’s Supreme Court Rig the Midterms? - The post Did Trump’s Supreme Court Rig the Midterms? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Grist

Two months in, the Iran war has changed the global energy system forever - The conflict may be the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dominance. Here’s which energy sources stand to win and lose.
High Country News

The dark legacy of the atomic age is still playing out in New Mexico - [image: Family photographs hang on the wall in Andrea Carrillo’s mother’s home in Tularosa, New Mexico. Carrillo’s sister died of cancer a few years ago, a...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
Counterpunch

New Worlds Still to Conquer: Caesar Storms Berlin - He came, he saw, he conquered. Then he went—first to the New World, before returning to the Old. His victories began in England: this invincible hero of ...
jobsanger

Supreme Court Decision Guts Voting Rights Act - Hurts Minority Representation -
Alternet

Pushing MAGA conspiracies kills your date game: study - President Donald Trump encourages his followers to believe in discredited conspiracy theories, from opposing COVID-19 vaccines to claiming former Preside...
Workers World

Protesters target ICE ‘hold site’ - [image: Protesters target ICE ‘hold site’] Centennial, Colorado Over 100 people protested on April 25 at the Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...
Brad Blog

‘86 47’ or ‘Weekend at Donnie’s’: ‘BradCast’ 4/30/2026 - It’s that time of the month on The BradCast! Our monthly-ish roundtable with two of our favorite guests. [Audio link to full show follows summary.] Before ...
Houston Public Media

James Broadnax executed by lethal injection for 2008 Dallas County robbery, double murder - The U.S. Supreme Court had denied Broadnax's final appeal to temporarily stop his execution and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not grant a last minute reprieve.
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Governor Formally Cancels May 16 Congressional Primary - On April 30, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry formally cancelled the May 16 primaries for U.S. House. The proclamation leaves it up to the legislature to dra...
Deadline Politics

GOP Governor Hopeful Steve Hilton Lays Out Plan To Revive California Film & TV industry - Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Thursday released his five-point plan to revive California’s sagging film and television industry, notin...
Antiwar.com

Soon Comes The Mother of All Supply Shocks - It’s getting pretty hard to tell who is more delusional: The Donald or the noisy boy band of school-yard incompetents that surround him. Either way, it’s n...
Black Agenda Report

Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran - Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran Authors Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist bareditors Fri, 05/0...
Claytoonz

Hack - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pro family' advocate to the LGBTQ community - We are going to eliminate your marriages - Anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust wants to eliminate our legal right to marry. Just in case you need a reminder, long-time anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust an...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
The Texas Signal

Voting Rights And Texas - While the Supreme Court’s decision did not fully strike down a pivotal section of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Elena Kagan (in a dissent) wrote that this...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is There An "Obedience to Authority" Experiment Going On In Washington? - There's no doubt that current events are providing an opportunity to study how blindly people follow orders, even illegal or unethical orders, like they...
Church and State

Trump Is Trying to be King, and It’s Past Time to Stop Him! - Trump isn’t just breaking norms, he’s running a live experiment on the limits of American power. Each move is a test.
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Responds to SCOTUS VRA Ruling - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday opened the path for Texas and other states to redraw their...
Sludge

A New Web of Secret Money Is Shaping Democratic Races Across the Country - A seven-month-old nonprofit with ties to the Democratic “dark money” machine has helped fund a little-known hybrid PAC that is funneling money into key races.
Bracing Views

The Rule of Aging Corporate-Friendly Lawyers - The Color that Matters in America is Green BILL ASTORE APR 30, 2026 How representative of the people is the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court? If you’re ...
The Conversation

Gerrymandering is unpopular with Florida voters – my recent survey shows why DeSantis pushed it through anyway - Florida voters don’t like Gov. DeSantis’ redistricting plans, but it doesn’t tend to be a vote-determining issue.
Capital & Main

Don’t Call It Upward Mobility If People Still Can’t Afford to Live - A living wage analyst challenges rosy claims about rising standard of living, and shows that for millions of Americans, their pay doesn’t cover the basic...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When the Center Shifts: Bad Bunny and the Politics of Cultural Power, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. April 30, 2026 - *When the Center Shifts: Bad Bunny and the Politics of Cultural Power* *byAngela Valenzuela, Ph.D.April 30, 2026Bad Bunny’s Apple Music Super Bowl L...
Project Censored

Innovative Apprenticeships Address Shortages in Childcare and Early Ed - Apprenticeship programs for aspiring educators provide “classes and training alongside paid work experience to help hopeful teachers earn required creden...
Dissent Magazine

A Constitutional Moment in Hungary? - The defeat of Viktor Orbán wasn’t primarily driven by anger over the dismantling of liberal democracy. But the new government could serve as a positive e...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our May/June 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Thus, it ends as it began as it begins as it ended. Or something like that. The state, and to some extent the nation, waits to se...
Krebs on Security

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs - A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for ...
Infidel753

Walpurgisnacht - Today and tonight make up a traditional companion festival to Samhain (Halloween). April 30 is the point on the Earth's orbit exactly opposite to October...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redistricting Check-in at the Dawn of the Callais Era - What the Callais decision may mean, and how the national House map has already changed, or not changed, so far The post A Redistricting Check-in at the D...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law - City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
Ecosophia

War In Heaven? - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, the topic of the fifth Wednesday post here gets decided by the readership via...
The Grayzone

UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-up - Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equ...
See You In 2020

People’s Forum hosts neocons & Democrats, revealing a consolidation of the pro-reformist forces - There is evidence that the “red liberal” tendency within left politics is now being directly assimilated into the Democratic Party itself. We have reaso...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s First 100 Days: Where Does NYC Stand With A Socialist Mayor In Office? - It’s been nearly four months since Zohran Mamdani officially became mayor of New York City. When running for mayor, Zohran was focused intensely on an affo...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
NORML

Maryland: Governor Signs Bill Into Law Providing Employment Protections for Firefighters’ Off-Duty Use of Medical Cannabis - [image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint]"This legislation set...
Environment Texas

Ten ways bees are smarter than you think - These pollinators may be small, but their intelligence is both surprising and incredible. The post Ten ways bees are smarter than you think appeared firs...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
The AltWorld

The US and Iran: Between Stalemate and Checkmate - The US and its allies started a war with Iran that they did not win. For nearly […] The post The US and Iran: Between Stalemate and Checkmate appeared fi...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Blue Angels, Devil Hands - That’s the actual name of the paper. Isn’t that great? Here’s a prologue: a post I wrote a while back about the Portuguese Man-o’-War. (It’s kind of long ...
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
The Greanville Post

Post 39— Paths of Glory - Paths of Glory Lead But to the Grave This was always about civilization. “A…
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Trivial Knot

Trolleyology bad - In my last post, I offhandedly disparaged the Trolley Problem as a serious thought experiment. Let me elaborate. Any philosophical thought experiment conta...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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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:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
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...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
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.
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...
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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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...
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 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
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....
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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