Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alternet

Director Christopher Nolan tears apart 'irrelevant’ MAGA critics - Director Christopher Nolan has responded to the MAGA “*meltdown*” over his upcoming film adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, slapping down criticisms from...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Why Graham Platner wasn’t the answer to the Democrats’ man problem – Stateside with Kai and Carter - Earlier this week, Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, was accused by a former partner of sexual assault. Platner denies the al...
The Hill

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged theft of trade secrets - Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing the major AI firm and industry partner of attempting to access and steal confidential information about their tools, proces...
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
Futurism

FanDuel Is Using Personal Messages From Sports Stars to Keep Gambling Addicts Hooked - Philadelphia Phillies star player Bryce Harper wanted to make sure an addict had an "extra special Thanksgiving." The post FanDuel Is Using Personal Mess...
memeorandum

GOP senators dread pre-election shutdown fight (Stef W. Kight/Axios) - Stef W. Kight / Axios: *GOP senators dread pre-election shutdown fight* — Senate Republicans are anxious to avoid giving Democrats another opening to f...
The Verge

ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting - Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigra...
Al Jazeera English

What happened at France v Morocco - France faced Morocco in a rematch of the 2022 World Cup semi-final.
IVN

Former DNC Chair Ridicules Independents — Calls Them a 'Schtick' - In wake of Graham Platner's exit in Maine, former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison and Paul Rieckhoff get in a heated debate over the future of the Democratic Part...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: More on American Science, Thomas Jefferson and AI, and Natural History for the Ages - Part the First: Beware of Resting on the Shoulders of Atlas. Dr. Scott Atlas is a radiologist who is now ensconced in the Hoover Institution on War, Revol...
San Antonio Current

Houston ICE shooting witnesses claim driver didn’t try to ram agents, report says - The three men with the 52-year-old Houston man who was fatally shot by an immigration agent earlier this week disputed the federal government’s narrativ...
Eschaton

"AI Agents" - I really think the only people who could imagine the computer assistants would work well are the people who have actual assistants do everything for them...
Slate

Graham Platner’s Tattoo Was the Alarm Bell - It warned us of a very common, very human failing that reared its head again this week.
World Socialist Web Site

SWP Marxism Festival 2026: a demoralised gathering of political bankrupts - Despite Corbyn expelling three SWP national committee members from Your Party last November, the SWP welcomed him onto the main stage on Saturday. Nielsen ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas’ Long Struggle Over Civil Rights—and Why It Still Matters, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. July 10, 2026 - *Texas’ Long Struggle Over Civil Rights—and Why It Still Matters* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *July 10, 2026* *I came across this pamphlet I picked...
CultureMap Houston

How vintage finds shaped the look of Houston’s nostalgic new steakhouse - Houston is not a city short on steakhouses. From old guard icons to sparkling new concepts, there has always been something for *nearly* every vibe. The ad...
Consortium News

UN Panel Reaffirms Israel Commits Genocide; Calls for Palestinian Doctor’s Release - A U.N. commission has called on Israeli authorities to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, provide him with medical care and free all other arbitrarily detained Pa...
Independent Political Report

Pirate Party Captain Mitch Davilo to Run for Midlothian Village Board in Illinois - “Jolly” Mitch Davilo, chair of the Pirate National Committee, will seek a seat on the Midlothian Village Board in Illinois for the 2027 election cycle, b...
Socialist Alternative

What They Didn’t Tell You About The American Revolution - This short article was produced for the July/August issue of Socialist Alternative’s newspaper from a longer, more in-depth article on the history of the F...
Novara Media

Ecosystem Collapse Threatens UK National Security, Spy Chiefs Warn - Britain faces a national security crisis within just a few years due to the impending collapse of global ecosystems, spy chiefs have warned, but the govern...
OpEd News

War abolisher couple, Ecology of Disposession, and more - The horrors facing our people and all of humanity are beyond description. Every day we see he ongoing genocide and etnic cleansing, the ecocide, the cultur...
The Week

ICE didn’t film Texas killing, wasn’t seeking slain man - ICE has provided no evidence to support its claim that Salgado Araujo was shot by an agent in ‘self-defense’
Undernews

ICE - *Thom Hartmann - *Tuesday morning in Houston, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo did what he’d done nearly every morning for 35 years. He woke at 5 a.m., kissed h...
El Paso Matters

Back to school: First-day dates, calendars and events for El Paso students - Find first-day dates, calendars, registration links, back-to-school events, tax-free weekend details and college schedules for students across the El Pa...
Election Law Blog

Election Law Academics Update - Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades: Tabatha Abu El-Haj was named Associate Dean of Faculty Deve...
Bonddad

This is what entrenched economic power looks like - * - by New Deal democrat* As we come to the end of the week after the payrolls report, when typically almost nothing is reported, I wanted to follow ...
Raw Story

'Leave us the hell alone!' Dem bigwigs warned of catastrophe if they swarm into Maine - WASHINGTON — Progressives in Maine may be feeling duped as the state’s Democratic Party scrambles to replace former U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner,...
The Progressive Wing

7/10 News Roundup and Open Thread - Looks like a long spell of dry sunny weather coming up here in the Northeast.
SCOTUSblog

The limits of the Second Amendment - In previous articles, I explored two of the biggest unanswered questions in the Second Amendment space: Who are “the people,” and what constitutes “Arms”...
Mother Jones

Lawsuit Accuses ICE and Private Prison Contractors of Abusing a Disabled Detainee - On Monday, Ulises Peña López, represented by Disability Law United and Pangea Legal Services, sued the US government and private prison contractors GeoGro...
Glasstire

Las historias circulares de Francisco Moreno, y sus capas - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2026 - This month, the ace journal club talked about Lord of the Rings. The case for an asexual Frodo is more compelling than I thought. We also talk about seve...
Mediagazer

Report: Letterboxd's owners have held early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and PE giant TPG (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Report: Letterboxd's owners have held early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and PE gi...
Texas Standard

Houston congresswoman says man killed by ICE wasn’t intended target of agents, who weren’t wearing body cams - Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston resident originally from Mexico, was fatally shot Tuesday morning during what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ha...
Dorf on Law

Flawed Country, Inconsiderate Guests: What Being "Pro-Working People" Truly Means - Not having been brought up on soccer/football, I have only in the last twenty years or so learned anything at all about the World Cup. This year is the ...
Deadline Politics

Music Industry Introduces Labels For Works That Use AI In Sound Recordings - A coalition of music industry and artists’ organizations introduced labels for works that use AI in sound recordings. The labels are simple icons that dist...
Scheerpost.com

Can DSA Really Win Red America? - Les Leopold “I think a democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across the country for any position.” — Zohran Mamdani, June 28, 2026 These are heady ...
Democracy Now!

FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov't Blocking More Documents Than Ever - This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, the landmark government transparency law that has helped reveal and publicize crit...
Debunking Christianity

The Problem of Bayes in a Nutshell - In a nutshell what's wrong with using Bayes Theorem: Using it to determine the probabilities of miracles in the ancient pre-scientific world. The problem ...
The Conversation

Republicans have beef with Texas Rep. James Talarico – why does meat matter in US politics? - Two communication scholars explain how what Americans eat became shorthand for who they are.
Space City Weather

Coverage of Houston’s daily summer thunderstorms will slowly pick up this weekend - In brief: Hit or miss showers will continue across Houston into the weekend, with coverage slowly increasing each day. A more concentrated heavy rain/storm...
NPR's Health Shots

Taliban declares war on smartphones - A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare and educational facilities. Ord...
Earth 911

Barcodes Aim to Unlock EPR Packaging Reporting - The idea behind extended producer responsibility for packaging is simple: companies that design and sell... The post Barcodes Aim to Unlock EPR Packaging...
Texas Monthly

Does Portland Still Have the Best Texas-Style Barbecue Outside of Texas? - I made this claim back in 2019, so I went back to Oregon to check in on how the scene is doing today.
ProPublica

He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him. - The post He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him. appeared first on ProPublica.
The Root

Republicans Ask WNBA to Protect Caitlin Clark From ‘Racially-Motivated’ Attacks On the Court - A group of House Republicans wants the WNBA to investigate what they call racially motivated attacks against Caitlin Clark, while critics argue the effor...
The Smirking Chimp

MAGA Man Arrested for ‘Lewd Acts’ at a Trump Rally Blames Antifa — to a Puppet -
Off The Kuff

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo roundup - For 35 years, a Mexican father built homes in Houston. Then a morning drive ended in tragedy. For the last 35 years, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s day began the...
Progressives Chat

July 2026: Not a Good Start - July 2026 was not a good start. Not for me. I am not alone. My area Detroit, Michigan closed out June and began July 2026 with near-100 degrees in tem...
San Antonio Report

Esquire has a new owner, a former bartender who loved the bar ‘from the moment I walked through the front door’ - The historic Esquire Tavern, the oldest bar on the San Antonio River Walk and well-known for its cocktails, announced it is changing hands. ---------------...
Crooked Timber

Brief thoughts on aircon - Well, that was interesting. Some quick thoughts below the cut. So I’ve recently become much more aware of the Discourse about air conditioning that is comm...
Grist

Workers are risking dangerous heat to keep the World Cup running - A patchwork of government protections and company policies have left them more vulnerable.
Rallblog

Smear Me, Please! - As recent polls show socialism viewed more favorably than capitalism among younger Americans and key demographics, and democratic socialists continue to ...
Counterpunch

Stealing Democracy: Trump’s Assault on Birthright Citizenship - The assault on birthright citizenship is an attempt to steal one of Reconstruction's greatest democratic achievements. As constitutional scholar Sherrily...
Houston Public Media

‘They haven’t made it easy’: Family of Houston man fatally shot by ICE says they’re unable to claim his body - Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three, was on his way to work when he encountered federal immigration officers in Houston’s East End.
jobsanger

Trump Was Incoherent At The NATO Meeting -
Informed Comment

Renewed Gulf Hostilities, Elevated Regional and Global Uncertainty - As economic risks accumulate alongside humanitarian pressures, the space for negotiated political settlements narrows
Mediaite

Trump Fires Members of Bipartisan Election Commission - President Donald Trump ousted the three remaining commissioners on a bipartisan federal elections board that assists states and municipalities in holding...
Ballot Access News

North Dakota Likely to Elect an Independent Candidate to the State Legislature This Year - According to this story, the Democratic Party has been left without a nominee in one of the legislative districts in Fargo, North Dakota. And the district ...
Popular Resistance

Patriot Front And What Once Was Chocolate City - The story behind the now iconic photos of Black and brown Washington, DC, commuters who were forced to travel with Patriot Front white supremacists on th...
Daily Cartoonist

Adam Zyglis Wins 2025 Sygma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning - The Society of Professional Journalists announced the Sigma Delta Chi Awards for work done in 2025 Thursday night July 9, 2026. For Editorial Cartooning th...
The Greanville Post

The Ukraine war’s big lie - TF—The latest alleged game-changer is Ukraine’s drone-strike campaign inside Russia. But this is a lie, no less than previous propaganda drives. Yes, Kyiv’...
Courthouse News

Judge says health inspectors must be admitted into Washington ICE lockup - A federal judge, whose previous ruling in favor of GEO Group was vacated by the Ninth Circuit, concluded that the state's health and safety requirements do...
Axios

OpenAI's No. 2 executive steps down over health issues - Fidji Simo is stepping down after taking medical leave because of a worsening chronic illness. *The big picture: *Simo's departure removes one of OpenAI'...
Antiwar.com

Eight Contradictions Behind NATO’s Summit of ‘Love’ - “I just want to say there was tremendous love in that room,” President Trump declared as he wrapped up the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara. But anyone looking b...
The NM Political Report

Democrats’ four-day vote to pick Lt. Governor nominee opens July 25 - [image: Democrats rally around Deb Haaland during the party's Pre-Primary Convention Mar. 2026 (DPNM)] By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — New Mexico Democra...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report July 10, 2026 - Black Agenda Report July 10, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/10/2026 - 05:03 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
The AltWorld

How Khamenei’s last act is defeating NATOstan - We interrupt this program to announce that the MoU cat has left its coma – and has […] The post How Khamenei’s last act is defeating NATOstan appeared fi...
Vox

A new speech shows how Israel lost the Democratic party - This week, Rahm Emanuel — a chief of staff in the Obama White House and widely rumored 2028 candidate — went to Tel Aviv to deliver a stern message to the ...
Common Dreams

First Wrongful Death Climate Case Against Big Oil Wins Major Rulings, Moves Toward Trial - The first-ever U.S. lawsuit seeking to hold Big Oil companies accountable for the death of a family member in a climate disaster will proceed toward disc...
The Daily Poster

Trump quiere los expedientes de los abogados sobre los niños migrantes. - A medida que los tribunales de inmigración aceleran los procedimientos de deportación, la administración Trump retiene fondos y, al mismo tiempo, presiona ...
Crooked Media

Mitch McConnell and Our Very Old Congress - The post Mitch McConnell and Our Very Old Congress appeared first on Crooked Media.
Claytoonz

Weekend at Mitch’s - 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...
Church and State

Remove Barriers to Family Planning - Most of us in wealthy countries know where we can go to find good family planning care.
The Texas Signal

Houston Lawmakers Demand Investigation After ICE Killing - Harris County community and political leaders are calling for a thorough and independent investigation into the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Flight Restrictions Threaten to Smother Drone Journalism - Democratized aerial journalism needs to be preserved as the authorities seek security against drone attacks
Capital & Main

Boyle Heights Warehouse Fire Exposes the Dangers of the Cold Storage Industry - Health impacts from the Lineage Inc. warehouse blaze could be severe and long-lasting, experts say. The company has a history of violations. The post Boy...
Mondoweiss

A new important book shows why the ADL has never been a civil rights organization - [image: Anti-Defamation League joins the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City, June 2017. (Photo: nynj.adl.org)]In her new book, "The Anti-Defamation L...
Texas Observer

What Is (and Isn’t) Happening with the Border Wall in Big Bend - You’ve probably heard about the Trump administration’s plans for a border wall through Big Bend. Or its plans not to build a wall at all, but instead to ...
Dissent Magazine

The Court vs. Democracy - An interview with Julie C. Suk, author of the forthcoming book *The Shadow Court*, on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions and the kind of reforms that w...
Ian Welsh

Platner Folds - A while back I wrote that the way Democrats get taken out, especially but not only the left, is usually a sex scandal. for whatever reason, Americans take ...
WhoWhatWhy

As Platner Suspends Campaign, Challenges Lurk and Opportunity Looms for Dems - [image: Graham Platner, Interview, Lauren Egan] With Graham Platner suspending the campaign, the race is on to find a replacement for him by July 27. Who t...
Bracing Views

Nuclear Mass Death - Dyin’ Ain’t Much of a Living BILL ASTORE JUL 08, 2026 Mark Twain was right when he said history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Consider Americ...
Texas Environmental News

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High Country News

Canelo Hills ladies’-tresses grow only in the Southwest’s vanishing ciénegas. Can they be rooted there again? - [image: Researchers Andrew Salywon, Luis Romero, Hope Brooks and Steve Blackwell and a volunteer plant orchids at Arizona’s Canelo Hills Cienega Preserve i...
Infidel753

Some straight talking from Pat Condell - Among my readers there are probably some, poor deprived souls that they are, who are not familiar with YouTuber Pat Condell. I've been watching his videos...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Decade-Plus Winning Streaks Could be at Risk in the 2026 Midterms - The 2026 elections could test several long-running partisan streaks in Senate and gubernatorial races. The post Decade-Plus Winning Streaks Could be at R...
Portside

Commies EVERYWHERE! - Commies EVERYWHERE! Mark Brody Thu, 07/09/2026 - 01:04
Alas, a Blog

Wishing Immigrants Away - I’m always amazipalled (portmanteau between “amazed” and “appalled” that I don’t expect to catch on) at how willing MAGA is to demolish the US’s future pro...
Workers World

PDF of July 9 issue - [image: PDF of July 9 issue] Download the PDF Answer to 250-year propagandafest Military veterans drive anti-gov’t protest Editorial: When history repeats ...
Political Wire

GOP Megadonor Chooses Rubio Over Vance - “Republican megadonor Ken Griffin said at a private conference Wednesday that he’d support Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vice President JD Vance in a...
Salon.com

“It can’t be me”: Platner drops out of Maine Senate race following assault allegation - The candidate suspended his campaign while maintaining assault allegations against him were "not real"
Brad Blog

John Roberts and his Corrupt Republican SCOTUS Majority Winning the Long Game: ‘BradCast’ 7/8/2026 - We’ve got a rollicking — if occasionally maddening — BradCast for you today, with one of our longtime favorite guests! [Audio to full show follows this sum...
Progressive.org

The GOP’s Relentless Drive to Dilute the Americans with Disabilities Act - The ADA became law almost four decades ago. How much more notice is enough?
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Video - Gay Trump supporter realizes he doesn't know what he's talking about' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - View this post on Instagram A post shared by @waltermasterson *WATCH: Gay Tr*mp supporter realizes he doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about in real time*...
Angry Bear

Yes, wars have consequences, and the war with Iran seems to have been a serious mistake. - Tyler Cowen has a post up about recent developments in the U.S./Iran war. His post contains criticism of some not-so-smart and confused but unnamed other...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

WEDNESDAY: How well are America's schoolkids doing? - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026* *There's no single way to tell: *How well are America's children doing? Our 9-year-old students, let's say. There's no easy ...
MintPress News

The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children - PragerU is now an official education partner in at least ten states, pushing right-wing American exceptionalism and pro-Israel political content into Ame...
Democracy Chronicles

An Inspiring Africa-Middle East Story: Somaliland - Despite limited recognition, Somaliland is forging bold alliances and leveraging its strategic position in the Horn of Africa defy isolation.
Wolf Street

QT plus Rate Hikes: ECB Sheds €149 billion of QE Assets in Q2, -52% since mid-2022, Marks Gold Down by €160 Billion - The Fed’s anti-QT faction needs to take a look: The ECB has shed €3.70 trillion ($4.22 trillion) of its QE assets, nearly double the Fed’s QT, and nothing ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Screwed Blue And Tattooed - 14.3 x 12 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb As I post this, we’re still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-...
Duck of Minerva

Unmanageable ally? Ceasefire breakdown reveals deeper tensions in US-Israel relationship - On June 19, 2026, as American and Iranian negotiators were set to meet in Switzerland to work through the terms of a fragile memorandum of understanding, I...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel, Concluded - The last six posts in this sequence have set out all but one of the twenty-eight phases of the Great Wheel, the grand mandala of Yeats’s system. The remain...
Discourse

Graham Platner Is Why You Should Never Stan a Politician - Plus: Mitch McConnell, Trump jinxing the U.S. soccer team, and a recap of Taylor and Travis' MSG wedding
First Draft

The X-Communication Files - The Pope and The Dopes 3: This Time He Means It.
Liberation News

The roots of Trumpism extend throughout the history of the United States - A closer examination shows that the U.S. political and social system organically produces the far right ideology that animates the far-right sector of the ...
Krebs on Security

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup - A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspir...
NORML

A Significant Step Forward for Georgia’s Medical Cannabis Program - [image: A postage stamp featuring an image of trees and peaches in front of a plantation-style house reads "Greetings from Georgia," is set against a bac...
ArcaMax

The Pursuit of Happiness, Spiked - WASHINGTON -- The Trump whirling dervish has come and gone to Turkey -- to demand NATO hand over Greenland! -- leaving a city exhausted by his wild Fourth ...
See You In 2020

“Humanitarian” terror ops, our revolutionary retreat, & the next opening for a blow against the empire - The imperial hegemon’s regime change strategy for the new cold war era is proving more effective than many had anticipated. In Venezuela, Washington has...
slacktivist

A national emergency - How many? Too many. How often? Too often.
Sludge

Chemical Lobbyist-Packed EPA Boosts PFAS Pesticides - The EPA has approved new PFAS pesticides for nationwide use after its pesticide office adopted industry-friendly language excluding certain fluorinated che...
Project Censored

Colonial Distortion of Palestine’s History - This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian, and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A...
Greg Palast

Platner: Face Down in the Oyster Pond - Heather Cox Richardson had it right about Graham Platner. What the hell were Democrats doing running this guy for the United States Senate? We have a Presi...
Rewire

States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court - Plus, how Illinois is protecting abortion patients and abortion pill restrictions go into effect in trio of states. The post States May Exclude Trans Ki...
Two Party Opera

So What Do We Do With the Next 250 Years? - Read More
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WATERING THE TREE OF LIBERTY EDITION. - I guess you’ve heard that, on top of his destruction of the Reflecting Pool (which he says is in great shape) and the debacle of the Great American State...
Idavox

How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Nazi Show Promoter Mad After Having to Take Their Canceled Festival Down the Road - Vengeance is our sayeth the Antifa! “I started having problems once President Obama was elected,”... The post How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Naz...
The Militant

Ohio nurses rally in fight to win a union at children’s hospital - COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some 100 nurses and their supporters rallied outside Nationwide Children’s Hospital here June 24 to build support for their fight to win u...
LareDOS

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sets informational public meeting regarding New World Screwworm July 8 - Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at LC’s Yeary Library
Equality Texas

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

The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1 - Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and represe...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Earthworks

“We Have to Do Whatever We Can” - Indigenous land and water defenders strategized to defend the Guatemalan people. Here's how. The post “We Have to Do Whatever We Can” appeared first on E...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. Imagine a government run to do g...
Lowering the Bar

Nicholas Rossi Finally Extradited From Earth - It took a lot longer to get him out of Scotland.
The Grayzone

Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys - Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which...
The Socialist

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

Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy - On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. ...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Environment Texas

What to do about data centers - Gov. Abbott’s call for data center reform is a good start—Texas lawmakers should go further to protect air, water and communities. The post What to do ab...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Edinburg Politics

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Consent Factory, Inc.

The Rise of the New Normal Reich (Redux) - So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I’ll give you that news in just a minute, but, first, I need to do a recap for any readers just now tuning in...
Stinque

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

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

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

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

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

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
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 ...
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...
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...
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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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