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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Ex-Trump DHS Honcho Lets Loose on ‘Unhinged’ Minneapolis Mayor Amid Deadly ICE Shooting Fallout - Chad Wolf let loose on Mayor Jacob Frey just minutes after Frey told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers operating in Minneapolis "get the f*ck ...
Vox

Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk - A Trump-appointed judge in Richmond, Virginia issued an unusual order on Tuesday that threatens one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile Departmen...
Courthouse News

ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis during DHS operation - The shooting comes a day after DHS began "the largest enforcement operation ever" in Minnesota.
The Verge

L’Oréal’s latest flat iron uses infrared light to make hair styling much faster - Hair gadgets have become increasingly popular over the last decade. Hair dryers, curlers, steamers - you name it, there's probably a TikTokker shilling for...
The Week

‘Space is one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement in Washington’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Eschaton

Meet The New Boss - It really wasn't a good idea to start all those statements saying it was good that Maduro was gone. There is no sign that the United States’ demands inclu...
CultureMap Houston

Virtual reality venue with Netflix-inspired games sets Houston opening date - Houston gamers looking for something a little more exciting than the couch can rejoice. *Sandbox VR* announced Monday that they will be opening their first...
Undernews

McDonald’s Launching New Menu Items In 2026 -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump says administration will ban big investors from buying single-family homes - Median sale price was at $410,800 last year, according to the Census Bureau, even as Trump campaigned on affordability Donald Trump said his administrati...
Houston Public Media

Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa faces steep financial challenge in bid to unseat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott - Hinojosa has a solid lead in polling for the Democratic primary for governor of Texas. But the Republican Abbott has over $86 million in his campaign to sp...
San Antonio Current

Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai to work from home following medical procedure - Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai will temporarily work from home after undergoing a medical procedure over the holidays, he said in a video posted Wednesd...
Techdirt.

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie - Over the past week, Reuters, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, CNBC, and a parade of other outlets published headlines claiming that Grok—Elon Musk’s LLM chatbot ...
Futurism

Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features - "They're not buying based on AI." The post Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features appeared first on Futurism.
Novara Media

US Seizes Russian Oil Tanker in Atlantic - Russian oil tanker seized by the US Plus: Trump says he’ll use force to take Greenland, and what does the future look like for Venezuela? With Michael Walk...
First Draft

Quote Of The Day: Caracas Caper Edition - The ego has landed. Oy, just oy.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: The Tangled OpenAI and Microsoft Alliance Frayed Under Pressure - Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership ignited the AI boom but frayed under pressure in 2025 as the halcyon early days came to an end.
Daily Dot

“Just insanity”: Sony’s “ghost player” patent sparks debate over AI-assisted gaming - [image: sony announces ghost controller] Sony recently filed a patent for AI technology that could play parts of video games for players that they get st...
ProPublica

“Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers - The post “Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers appeared first on ProP...
The Hill

Trump orders flags lowered to honor LaMalfa: 'Doug will be dearly missed' - President Trump on Wednesday ordered flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who died Tuesday at the age of 65. “...
Raw Story

'Get the F out of Minneapolis': Mayor tells ICE to leave immediately in obscene speech - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey did not mince words after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in her car on Wednesday. Frey warned the Department of Homeland...
The Greanville Post

Big Surprise: Legal Story Changes as Maduro Brought to Court - SIMPLICIUS—The Trump administration has dropped all pretenses of adhering to any laws, strictures, or moral codes: they have simply declared the US’s right...
memeorandum

RFK Jr. unveils new 'upside down' food pyramid (Joseph Choi/The Hill) - Joseph Choi / The Hill: *RFK Jr. unveils new ‘upside down’ food pyramid* — The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Political Wire

Trump to Ban Investors From Buying Homes - President Trump said his administration is moving to ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes in a bid to reduce home prices, a potential ...
The Conversation

Congress takes up health care again − and impatient voters shouldn’t hold their breath for a cure - Why does health care reform keep failing despite decades of attention and expanding costs? A scholar of Congress has some answers.
San Antonio Report

Sakai, Nirenberg to face off in Democratic primary debate for Bexar County judge - The two Democrats will face off at Stable Hall on Feb. 10, just before the start of early voting for the March primary. ------------------------------ Sakai...
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr.'s new food pyramid puts meat, cheese and vegetables at the top - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new dietary guidelines for Americans focused on promoting whole foods, healthy proteins and fats. And ...
Mother Jones

Tony Dokoupil Lavishes Praise on Marco Rubio in Lauding CBS Segment - Reporting from Miami on Tuesday, newly minted CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil dedicated a lauding segment to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Dokoupil...
Salon.com

“Brazen attack on our children”: Trump admin freezes billions in funding for blue states - Five Democratic-led states lose access to essential childcare funds following Minnesota welfare fraud scandal
World Socialist Web Site

Eighteen months of Labour government leaves Britons poorer than they were in 2019 - After previously occurring only twice in 60 years, that disposable incomes have now fallen for three consecutive quarters no less than three times in a sin...
Mediagazer

Apptopia and Similarweb: Conservative news apps have seen little to no growth in downloads and web traffic over the past two years, as infighting splinters MAGA (Sara Fischer/Axios) - Sara Fischer / Axios: *Apptopia and Similarweb: Conservative news apps have seen little to no growth in downloads and web traffic over the past two years...
Al Jazeera English

Warner Bros again rejects latest hostile bid from Paramount - WBD board says the offer 'remains inadequate' as some investors push back.
Slate

We Finally Paid Off Our Last Piece of Debt. I Didn’t Expect It to Backfire Like This. - I'm furious!
Second Nexus

Laura Loomer Demands Comment From White House Over Tucker Carlson's Bonkers 'Globo Homo' Theory About Venezuela - The United States military, working on orders from the administration of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, sank the first alleged drug-carrying ves...
Texas Standard

Venezuelan-Texan author reflects on Maduro ouster: ‘We don’t know where we’re gonna land’ - “Freedom is a Feast” author Alejandro Puyana reached out to the Talk of Texas to share his thoughts about the complex emotions many Venezuelans are dealing...
Texas Observer

Could This State Senate Runoff be a Tipping Point for Tarrant County? - Even some of his most passionate supporters were surprised by the number of votes Democrat Taylor Rehmet received in the November special election for Te...
Popular Resistance

How A Legal Group’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies Took Root In School Districts - The West Shore school board policy committee meeting came to a halt almost as soon as it began. As a board member started going over the agenda on July 1...
The AltWorld

Maduro on Trial & Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ - From the courtroom to the newsroom, Nicolás Maduro’s trial exposes how U.S. force is laundered through media […] The post Maduro on Trial & Trump’s ‘Donr...
The Daily Poster

Medicaid’s Chief Got A Pass On Health-Tech Investments - The government’s top administrator of Medicaid and CHIP funds has no prior experience in public office — but he did run a health care technology firm.
Glasstire

Cine Las Americas Seeks Poster Designs for its 2026 International Film Festival in Austin - Cine Las Americas, an Austin-based nonprofit that supports Latine/x and Indigenous filmmakers, has announced an open call for a poster design for its 28t...
Axios

Rubio to meet Danish counterpart next week on Greenland crisis - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that he will meet with his Danish counterpart next week in Washington to discuss the crisis over Greenland....
Project Censored

Alarming Statistics Reveal High Rates of Illiteracy Among US Adults - In 2024, the National Literacy Institute found that 79 percent of US adults were literate, but only 46 percent could read above a sixth-grade level. Lite...
Crooked Timber

Changing beliefs, moving house – suggestion for a change of metaphor - In political epistemology, there is a lot of criticism of the metaphor of the “marketplace of ideas,” the thought that people somehow “trade” in arguments ...
Capital & Main

Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Benefits from Policy Changes That Raise Worker Safety Concerns - Meatpacking giant JBS gave $5 million; industry soon celebrated a decision to make those on the assembly line work faster. The post Trump’s Biggest Inaug...
High Country News

Americans generally like wolves − except when reminded of politics - [image: Gray wolf] Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when people's political identies were activated. The post Amer...
MintPress News

Maduro on Trial & Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ - From the courtroom to the newsroom, Nicolás Maduro’s trial exposes how U.S. force is laundered through media language and legal theater, reviving an old ...
NORML

2nd Amendment Group Says Feds Should Restore Gun Ownership Rights To State-Authorized Cannabis Consumers Following Rescheduling Order - [image: legal marijuana leaves][image: legal marijuana leaves]“Neither past nor current cannabis use should automatically preclude someone from legal pro...
Election Law Blog

“Ex-Turning Point Leader Gets Probation After Forging Voters’ Names” - NYT: A former leader of the pro-Trump group Turning Point Action was sentenced on Tuesday to two years of probation and barred from running for office fo...
Dissident Voice

Day 9 of Protests in Iran - DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) on the 9th day of protests in Iran to discuss the evolving situation. The post Day 9 of Pro...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Already Ran the Voucher Experiment—And the Results Should Alarm Us, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Texas Already Ran the Voucher Experiment—And the Results Should Alarm Us *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 7, 2026* *Governor Greg Abbott’s successf...
Bonddad

ISM services report for December powerful evidence that the services providing sector of the US economy remains in solid expansion - - *by New Deal democrat* As I indicated yesterday and earlier today, we got some stale data on factory orders this morning, as well as a JOLTS repor...
Deadline Politics

Cinema United Warns House Committee Of Negative Impact Of Netflix Or Paramount Acquisition Of Warner Bros. Discovery On Movie Theaters - The trade association representing theater owners warned a congressional committee that the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by either Netflix or Para...
SCOTUSblog

January’s criminal law arguments – and is “party presentation” morphing into a court-controlling rule? - ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. After the month-long “winter break”...
Mondoweiss

How the banning of 37 international aid organizations in Gaza is being felt by Palestinians - The majority of Gaza's population now relies on foreign aid to secure food, water, and every other basic necessity. The Israeli government's banning of 37 ...
Scheerpost.com

Fears of Wider War Over Venezuela Oil as US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker - “That is a confrontation of Cold War proportions,” warned one observer.
Daily Howler

UNDISGUISED: Madness is as madness does! - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2026* *Is this what madness looks like? *No one has ever said that former ambassador Michael McFaul isn't thoroughly sharp. The le...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday – Comic Strips (and an Editoon) - The Phantom is 90, Modesty Blaise is 63, Hugo Hercules is 123. and the 100 year old cartoons of Billy Bornes. The Man Who Cannot Die is Born Next month is ...
Countercurrents

Instead of being pressurised by the USA, India should exercise its sovereign right in choosing the source of crude imports, consistent with its national interest - To Dr Neeraj Mittal Secretary Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas Govt of India Dear Dr. Neeraj Mittal, I find that the US administration has been exerting...
El Paso Matters

Discover Jewel Box Series as UTEP tips off 2026 at home - The Jewel Box Series returns and UTEP men’s basketball opens 2026 at home, with hikes, arts events and performances filling the week’s culture and commu...
The Root

How New Jersey Cops Accused of Racism Collected *Millions* in Pay for Years After Suspension…Until Now - After spewing racial slurs, these three New Jersey officers got entangled in a bribery and racism scheme that is finally coming to an end. Read more...
Democracy Now!

"Firestorm": MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & "America's New Age of Disaster" - We speak with journalist Jacob Soboroff about his new book and ongoing reporting about the Los Angeles fires one year ago, when destructive infernos razed ...
ArcaMax

The Dark Day Democracy Almost Died - Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump's followers broke into the Capito...
Rallblog

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

Rain chances perk up a little bit with Friday night’s front - In brief: In today’s post we note Tuesday’s record high temperature, and the potential for more today. We also discuss the possibility of thunderstorms on ...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: America the Rogue State - Iraqis, a million of whom were killed during the U.S. war and occupation, know what comes next for Venezuela. The reigning gangsters will use the threat of...
Angry Bear

Real wages and consumer spending have been crucial positives; here is the most updated look - – New Deal democrat We are still suffering the aftereffects of the government shutdown, with no data today, but a helping of mainly stale government dat...
WhoWhatWhy

Bad to the Bone — The Real Trump Doctrine - [image: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, monitors, US military operations, Venezuela] It is no longer possible to pretend that the United States is one of the “...
Earth 911

How to Recycle Foam Mattress Pads and Toppers - Egg crate mattress pads, memory foam toppers, and other foam bedding shouldn’t go in your... The post How to Recycle Foam Mattress Pads and Toppers appea...
Dorf on Law

Trump Doesn't Merely Violate the Law. He Aims to Destroy it. - In yet another example of how each of Donald Trump's outrageous acts distracts attention from the previous outrageous act, yesterday, which ought to have...
The Smirking Chimp

After Venezuela, Who’s Next? -
Skeptophilia

The printer's demon - Two days ago, I finished the draft of my historical novel *Nightingale*. I checked the document to see when I created it -- October 21, 2025. Ten weeks...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Leticia Gutierrez - There are six candidates running in the new CD09 but a couple of them don’t have any online presence, so in the interest of making this easier and more val...
Grist

Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks - Public Health Watch chronicles a fossil fuel infrastructure boom that could worsen air pollution in some areas and exacerbate climate change.
Crooked Media

Where Will Trump Invade Next? - The post Where Will Trump Invade Next? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Gobsmacking Fabulists 'R Us - On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power concocted a deranged, revis...
Counterpunch

Trump and Pump: Another Oil Quagmire - Kleptocracy, crony capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, carbon politics or Kissinger-style politics. Call it what you wish. But the Trump semi coup in V...
jobsanger

The World Doesn't Work That Way -
Informed Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus - An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses
Trivial Knot

Experience with AI coding - In the past year, myself and many other people who program for a living started using AI coding assistance. I’m just going to plainly discuss my experience...
Wolf Street

Ugly Charts of US Auto Sales, 2025: Stellantis, Nissan Flirt with Catastrophe. GM, Ford, Honda Sales Rise but far below Peaks. Toyota & Hyundai-Kia Set Records - New-vehicle sales in 2025 rise barely above 1986: Four decades of structural stagnation, plunges, and partial recoveries.
See You In 2020

Popular struggle is what gives a fighting chance to Venezuela, and to the entire global working class - No nation will tolerate interference in its internal affairs and infringement upon its honour. Not only the socialist countries but also the newly indep...
Workers World

No to U.S. intervention in Iran and elsewhere - [image: No to U.S. intervention in Iran and elsewhere] If there was ever one iota of doubt that Donald Trump is all about regime change against any governm...
Brad Blog

Jack Smith's Testimony on Trump's Jan. 6 Crimes and DOJ Weaponization: 'BradCast' 1/6/2026 - It's five years to the day since January 6, 2021, when the then President of the United States got away with one of the most audacious crimes ever attempte...
Claytoonz

Crappy MAGAts - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Portside

Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign - Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign Judy Tue, 01/06/2026 - 20:32
Progressive.org

The Case of Free Speech v. Trump - The courts, American institutions, and the public can still reject the lawlessness of the Trump Administration.
Antiwar.com

U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan Risk Accelerating China’s Timeline for Unification - President Donald Trump’s administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $11 billion that cover eight items, inc...
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers Split Over U.S. Capture of Venezuelan President Maduro - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas politicians are voicing strong reactions after U.S. forces executed a military operation ...
Ballot Access News

Cleveland Plain Dealer Reports on Libertarian Party of Ohio candidates for 2026 - The Libertarian Party is the only minor party currently recognized by the State of Ohio and, accordingly, must nominate its 2026 General Election candidate...
Environment Texas

These companies could have a big impact on protecting bees - To protect bees, we need to get bee-killing pesticides off store shelves. That’s why we’re encouraging three major companies to lead the way. The post Th...
Church and State

Trump has now crossed the red line which demands his indictment ASAP - The prospect of encouraging the oil companies to go in there before the government is stabilized is highly problematical.
Black Agenda Report

U.S. Aggression Against Venezuela - U.S. Aggression Against Venezuela bareditors Wed, 01/07/2026 - 02:46 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Larry Johnson
Ian Welsh

How To Defeat The US Militarily As A Weaker Power - Willingness to fight and to absorb damage is the most important thing. The Yemenis lost leaders, civilians and port facilities. They just kept going until ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
LareDOS

Here on the river’s edge as the water, like time, slips past. Here is the promise of the long view and the close look. - Here, where quiet drowns out the distant rancor of fearmongers, we might, instead, be good neighbors.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico fills gap after Congress lets ACA tax credits expire - [image: New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State speech to kick off the 2025 Legislature in Santa Fe. The state is using $17.3...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Lays Out 2026 Strategy, Including Ballot Access Focus and New National Initiative - The Constitution Party has published a list of priorities for the new year, including plans to expand state ballot access and establish new state committ...
Alternet

Kansas GOP senator rejects Trump’s plot to invade Greenland - President Donald Trump has sparked global outrage after suggesting once again that the United States military could invade the island of Greenland and ma...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

With Walz Exiting but Klobuchar Potentially Entering, Minnesota’s Gubernatorial Race Remains Likely Democratic - With Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) dropping his bid for a third term, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is reportedly taking a serious look at running for governor. For n...
slacktivist

Epiphany (One of us) - Every year here, on January 6, we talk about Jesus, Job, and Jodie Foster.
Rewire

BDSM: A Beginner’s Guide to Consensual Erotic Violence - How to get kinky in 2026. The post BDSM: A Beginner’s Guide to Consensual Erotic Violence appeared first on Rewire News Group.
The Grayzone

Behind the DOJ’s politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created ‘network’ and coerced star witness - The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony fro...
Idavox

U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan President: Imperialism Without the Mask - No, this is not liberation. It’s kidnapping. It’s an illegal attack on a sovereign nation... The post U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan President: Imperialism With...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Former New York Times editor claims that paper's anti-trans slant was deliberate and came from management - Some of us suspected the following. It looks like we were right. I guess that can be seen as *some* comfort. From THEM: Former *New York Times* editor ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Duck of Minerva

Trump, US foreign policy and Venezuela: Aberration or Honesty? - In my international relations classes, I encourage my students to not just express their (mostly negative) views of Trump’s foreign policy. I also ask them...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
Dissent Magazine

The Trump Doctrine - For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is t...
The Progressive Wing

1/5-12 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on Venezuela and other stuff,
Discourse

The Word For This Is 'Coup' - Call what Donald Trump just did in Venezuela by its proper name.
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 5 January 2026 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] "Bad" sources meaning "factually wrong", *not* "ideologic...
The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! - SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT Statement Issued January 3, 2026 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party The Socialis...
Liberation News

Why everyone should oppose the kidnapping of Venezuela’s president - Trump wants us to think that the kidnapping and trial of Venezuela’s president is a “law enforcement” action. In reality, it is an illegal kidnapping and a...
Land Destroyer

New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues - *January 3, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Democracy Chronicles

The Capture of Venezuela’s President and the Crisis of Democratic Norms - Even when a leader is accused of serious crimes, international law does not permit a foreign power to act as police, prosecutor, and jailer simultaneously.
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s New War For Regime Change—Hands Off Venezuela! - Read in Spanish below For mass struggle against imperialist plunder, bullying and war Trump has begun a new US imperialist war for regime change in Latin A...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier On Why There Is No Free-Will - Edouard Tahmizian had an interesting discussion with Richard Carrier about the metaphysical impossibility of libertarian free will. Our actions are aimed a...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Krebs on Security

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network - The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been explo...
TalkLeft

Happy New Year and Open Thread - Happy New Year to all! Photos of the celebrations around the world are pretty awesome. Still, the world is not a happy place today. America has watched ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - With all the jigging and *cooning *in America of late, I find myself having to once again call out the sellouts and slave catchers among us. I have ...
Sludge

House Dems Gave Millions in ‘Dark Money’ to AIPAC-Linked 314 Action - 314 Action is one of the groups that AIPAC diverted its PAC money through in 2024.
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Accuses St. Vincent of Negligent Stage-Diving - The artist allegedly "had to be removed from him by security guards," a detail that is never explained.
The Texas Signal

How Wiess Park Changed Into A Houston Outdoor Art Garden - Thanks to some recent investments from the Houston Parks Board, Wiess Park is now also an open-air sculpture garden for seven Texas artists
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

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